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KUROLizard said:
The only reason Jade Qi needs a stable body and no other requirements needed for the MC is because anon wrote it that way. I'm not arguing that it doesn't make sense (it's anon's world - he makes the rules in the first place), I'm saying that it's pretty boring compared to the other two methods of training. And then we literally have a single scene that vaguely describes us doing yoga and feng shui.

It's just incredibly underwhelming. Jade Qi now seems incredibly pedestrian, something that anyone could achieve if someone with it was willing to help create their foundation. There's no spiritual or mental component to "harmony" apparently, you just have to do these poses perfectly.
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Speedreading victim😂
 
bandaids said:
mind enlightening me about why merchant is the best followed by kurkoton style?
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Merchant is the best background due to ludicrously high amounts of money & commerce(Therefore more money in Nanhou). Money = Anything you can think, from direct power(AP) to techniques, seals, treasures...etc.
Kurokonton is, mechanic-wise, the strongest style cause;
Natural Stupidity said:
-It syncs with merchant background which is best if you are going for cycling.
-Picking Kunai as your weapon in chapter 5 let's you get +Stealth while other styles can only get persuasion increase if they forgo weapons.
- Let's you get a technique which gives +5AP every battle in chapter 5.
-Adds an event which gives like +70AP at the start of chapter 6.
-In chapter 6 in that town Guiren "quest" only gives you 80 shards and a poison so comparatively it getting removed doesn't lose you anything.
-Only style,as far as I am aware, to get a free skill increase(perception) when you advance your style for the second time.
-Decreases the skill check and increases the shards gained from pickpocketing in Nanhou.
-Gives you a technique which allows you to dual wield basically giving +AP every battle,+Skill,+element mastery and +Core for free.

Apparently also let's you get the Lightbringer Summoning technique.
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This already explains well.
PS: If you already have 4 Stealth when picking the Kunai in Ebikowa it increases Athletics instead.
PS²: Against Qing you can gain +1 Perception if you are Kurokonton & Darkness and has only 1 Innate Perception(Innate I mean disregarding techniques and seals).
 
Marthur said:
In contrast, Angelo is more crass in his lexicon and shows his youth (compared to the 6,000-year-old lady) in being subject to outbursts, not caring that much about the "honorable" thing to do, and taking his facade as a game to play with others (like how he likes when the Thunderfaller continues the bit during their meeting at the hot springs in Nanhou).
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That's the thing though. Eldra's first training scene involves her getting snippy at a servant and having to book it from the play because she was getting the guards called on her - which feels like a pretty dishonorable move. And then the scene following that shows Eldra joking about poisoning your family and then joking about the dramatic speech she gave to you - both jokes using her facade as the mysterious and wise Archon. So she does 2/3 things you described - and technically you can get her annoyed at you in the scene in the bath.

Instead of having random vignettes from side characters, I wish Eldra had actually given us training. Some sort of demonstration or lesson about what it means to be in Harmony. Just because our body needs to rest doesn't mean we couldn't have had a spiritual or mental based training.
 
Natural Stupidity said:
I don't ,but I was wondering if it even has any extra content?
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There is only the two methods of surpassing it (being the vessel of the wind spirit or choosing Eldra as your mentor) and being able to see and work with the limits of the new regions you visit, like Guarded Blossom. Aside from that, you do have the two achievements tied to it, Mortal Limits from just picking the difficulty and Unbound from breaking your limits.
 
KUROLizard said:
They both have very similar ways of interacting with people. They're both polite, affable people who pretend to be more authoritative and mysterious than their actual personalities and who are rather blase about admitting that fact to the MC.


No but she instead plays the "I am the millenia old dragon and the mysterious agent of the Empire" card just about as often. Her first two scenes in her training are literally her playing those two cards. She makes a whole speech about the bonds of your family and then literally says "Gotcha".

Also, Angelo only gambles to give your character an opportunity to teach gamblers a lesson. And nothing about Eldra's character indicates that she would be against drinking or gambling.

Angelo calmly admitting that he likely would have made up a rug-based analogy no matter which element we would have picked feels very similar to Eldra calmly admitting that she lied about having written the play you watch with her and that they need to book it because the guards are about to be called.

I understand that they are similar archetypes, but I feel like most people wouldn't be able to tell that their lines belonged to two different characters if I scrambled them up and presented them to someone who doesn't remember their lines.

I think it's pretty bad when the Kaido ripoff feels more distinct from Kaido compared to Angelo and Eldra.


The only reason Jade Qi needs a stable body and no other requirements needed for the MC is because anon wrote it that way. I'm not arguing that it doesn't make sense (it's anon's world - he makes the rules in the first place), I'm saying that it's pretty boring compared to the other two methods of training. And then we literally have a single scene that vaguely describes us doing yoga and feng shui.

It's just incredibly underwhelming even with the flashback.
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She literally tells us the mc that you need a yin and yang aligned element in both halves to use harmony which is you know basically stopping time. The whole concept of what it is is said word for word by her. Saying Harmony doesn't require anything in that capacity is false when using her ultimate ability has the caveat of having a yin and yang aligned element for you to eventually gain it later on in future.I don't what you expected her training to be. Kaito is about the physical aspect,Zhao Yang is all about mysticism and Eldra is about harmony and balance hence all the yoga and Feng shui she had us do even if it was in passing. I'm not critiquing your argument but I wanted to point out saying her training required nothing is not really the case and you're forgetting why she says Jade chi needs a stable body when she GIVES you a fraction of her foundation which already is perfection in of itself. That line didn't come out of nowhere
 
stardust9604 said:
She literally tells us the mc that you need a yin and yang aligned element in both halves to use harmony which is you know basically stopping time. The whole concept of what it is is said word for word by her. Saying Harmony doesn't require anything in that capacity is false when using her ultimate ability has the caveat of having a yin and yang aligned element for you to eventually gain it later on in future.I don't what you expected her training to be. Kaito is about the physical aspect,Zhao Yang is all about mysticism and Eldra is about harmony and balance hence all the yoga and Feng shui she had us do even if it was in passing. I'm not critiquing your argument but I wanted to point out saying her training required nothing is not really the case and you're forgetting why she says Jade chi needs a stable body when she GIVES you a fraction of her foundation which already is perfection in of itself. That line didn't come out of nowhere
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You can absolutely do more with harmony and balance and time stopping than yoga and feng shui as a training method.

I think you're misunderstanding my argument. My argument isn't that Eldra's foundation doesn't have amy requirements, my point was that the training felt lackluster and underwhelming because those requirements don't feel all that difficult to achieve.

You can argue that getting a yin and a yang alignment is ultimately based on your environment - but my point is that those requirements have nothing to do with who the MC is. There's no struggle involved, there's no trial to overcome (at least none that are elaborated for more than a page or two), there's no lesson to be learned so it just feels utterly empty.

If you do Zhao Yang you are travelling the empire and siphoning power from lost relics. If you are doing Kaito, you are literally dying over and over again. If you do Eldra, you're doing yoga and feng shui - and she's really, really strict about it.

One of the three is just less interesting. And it's not hard to tell.
 
Is there a power innate technique

Like the three you can get from the bar brawl/camp attack in chapter 4 do fortitide/soul/agility surge +1 is there one that also does power the same way?
 
Totenkopf said:
Merchant is the best background due to ludicrously high amounts of money & commerce(Therefore more money in Nanhou). Money = Anything you can think, from direct power(AP) to techniques, seals, treasures...etc.
Kurokonton is, mechanic-wise, the strongest style cause;

This already explains well.
PS: If you already have 4 Stealth when picking the Kunai in Ebikowa it increases Athletics instead.
PS²: Against Qing you can gain +1 Perception if you are Kurokonton & Darkness and has only 1 Innate Perception(Innate I mean disregarding techniques and seals).
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Wait it syncs with MERCHANT?

I would've assumed herbalist because of the poison thing
 
KUROLizard said:
You can absolutely do more with harmony and balance and time stopping than yoga and feng shui as a training method.

I think you're misunderstanding my argument. My argument isn't that Eldra's foundation doesn't have amy requirements, my point was that the training felt lackluster and underwhelming because those requirements don't feel all that difficult to achieve.

You can argue that getting a yin and a yang alignment is ultimately based on your environment - but my point is that those requirements have nothing to do with who the MC is. There's no struggle involved, there's no trial to overcome (at least none that are elaborated for more than a page or two), there's no lesson to be learned so it just feels utterly empty.

If you do Zhao Yang you are travelling the empire and siphoning power from lost relics. If you are doing Kaito, you are literally dying over and over again. If you do Eldra, you're doing yoga and feng shui - and she's really, really strict about it.

One of the three is just less interesting. And it's not hard to tell.
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I already addressed your argument. Kaito is what you get if you focus on the physical aspect and restoring the mc requires forging them in battle even if it means dying time and again, Zhao Yang is the mystic aspect so he has emphasis on runes and anything mystical in essence and finally Eldra is about perfection and efficiency. Her method of training requires nothing more than achieving balance in every sense and ofc giving you a moderated version of her jade chi which is to grow and "hatch" into the Jade Lotus you later get. Her training may have seemed lackluster to you but for what she offers its perfectly in line with what you will expect likewise with the other two. Her harmony training isn't meant to be physically demanding or have you blow up settlements but to be efficient and precise. She has you practice breathing and correcting your stances and on a minor scale perform Feng shui. The only thing we didn't get to see directly was sparring sessions with her. Some combat checks when fighting Sakura even account for her training. In general I have a feeling we'll still get more from each mentor as time goes on but you were never going to struggle in Eldra's route because that isn't what her path is about.The story even so much as mentions this when she's discussing how your cores will get restored to begin with.
 
Marthur said:
There is only the two methods of surpassing it (being the vessel of the wind spirit or choosing Eldra as your mentor) and being able to see and work with the limits of the new regions you visit, like Guarded Blossom. Aside from that, you do have the two achievements tied to it, Mortal Limits from just picking the difficulty and Unbound from breaking your limits.
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Well I was thinking about some story relevancy though I guess story wise mortal limits are common enough to not be that relevant anyways.

Still kinda weird to have extra content in the "easy" mode rather than the "hard" mode but having extra content in itself is a good thing I would say
 
stardust9604 said:
I already addressed your argument. Kaito is what you get if you focus on the physical aspect and restoring the mc requires forging them in battle even if it means dying time and again, Zhao Yang is the mystic aspect so he has emphasis on runes and anything mystical in essence and finally Eldra is about perfection and efficiency. Her method of training requires nothing more than achieving balance in every sense and ofc giving you a moderated version of her jade chi which is to grow and "hatch" into the Jade Lotus you later get. Her training may have seemed lackluster to you but for what she offers its perfectly in line with what you will expect likewise with the other two. Her harmony training isn't meant to be physically demanding or have you blow up settlements but to be efficient and precise. She has you practice breathing and correcting your stances and on a minor scale perform Feng shui. The only thing we didn't get to see directly was sparring sessions with her. Some combat checks when fighting Sakura even account for her training. In general I have a feeling we'll still get more from each mentor as time goes on but you were never going to struggle in Eldra's route because that isn't what her path is about.The story even so much as mentions this when she's discussing how your cores will get restored to begin with.
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Even though it may not be the most demanding but if you think about "perfection" in everything is quite the tall order.

It probably includes maintaining the perfect breathing rate, heart rate and blood flow while also having the perfect posture 24/7. Must also include chi flow control, making sure that every action you take is in accordance with the environment around you and some greater, heavenly will or whatever.

Would be neat to have some scenes of our mc having OCD, persuing perfection in everything.
 
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