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Demonic MCs are gonna be fine
Hmm, I really should check the options better once I get junk ships, because I didn't know they could hunt beasts. Or does it occur in deep sea fishing?
I will never again doubt the GOAT Shakengara. I feel ashamed for even having considered the possibility.
Corrupt JDF can't exist, probably they already explained here. Based on discord corrupt JDF will receive some punishment soon considering its direct connection with the Heavens, which is too the source of its power. If not corrupt will just make JDF weaker at long term.
Anyway Normal/ML corrupt MC are going to be powerhouses indeed, corruption open three whole new paths, Blood Chi(Alive), Demonic Chi(Spiritual) and Death Chi(Self Explanatory). All this as sources of growth and power itself(Since we can genuinely control blood currently).
I just disagree with the "effort" part. Corrupt path at its very concept is about stealing power of life beings, spirits and the dead. Isn't additive to Thunderfall's current schizophrenic levels of hard-work.
Can't wait until we're sent diplomatically to New Yomi and meet with some Death-Lady...
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Death Lady please. Can't go wrong with more goth cultivators
Sun hana tells me these guys do olympic level dual cultivation
Kaitos training is the best for mortal limits MCs
Corrected.
Will be even better to teach us some life draining techniques, you know...
Eldra's training straight up breaks your limit though, pretty sure that's what he meant. And Kaito's -2 to all cores would suck so bad especially with increased difficulty lol.
Speaking of kaito, it says the weights increase your next check by 5, but it only does it by 3 in the stat menu. And the surged cores giving you additional ap isn't mentioned when you get that ability.
You guys are so horny smh
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Yeah but ML means you're going to have a lower AP and are more likely to fail checks which means it works well with Kaitos options. Plus even if you don't shatter ML you have become immortal so it no longer matters
When are demonic cultivator execution scenes coming? I want them to awkwardly cut my head 10 times because Kaito's flayed god foundation keeps reviving me.
By the way Kaito is my favourite of the mentors but I hate his abilities haha
By the way Kaito is my favourite of the mentors but I hate his abilities haha
I don't mind the punishment part, I only want for that to lead to something interesting rather than JUST 'your foundation is now crippled LMAO'. If it'll culminates into you being the first ever Hell-aligned Jade Dragon, then a temporary shattering of the JDF would be a-okay to me. Imagine if you'd become something new, like an Abyssal Dragon or something and get a foundation unique only to you, the Abyssal Dragon Foundation, wouldn't that be cool and interesting? Rather than a boring nerf that goes nowhere.
Eh, we just have different opinion on what counts as 'effort', it's cool. To me, the willingness and determination to do anything, even dirtying your own hands, to obtain power counts as 'effort'.
Also, it's more so the contrast between JDF who are naturally strong because their very nature and Demonic Cultivation who are willing to do anything to get every scrap of power they can get that I want to highlight.
It depends entirely on what types of ships you have, as well as whether or not you're willing to engage in piracy.
For a good MC, I like to start with transport ships and have them ferry people to/from Nanhou until I have enough prestige to get junk ships. After that, I have them salvage stuff because it pays decently well and has a chance of getting me even more ships.
For an evil MC, though, it's piracy all the way. Piracy is just lucrative, you get extra retainers AND extra ships. Start with combat ships and then upgrade to junks asap.
Not to judge but I feel like you've misunderstood demonic cultivation. It's just a shortcut for convenient/easy/quick power, it doesn't take some inspiring resolve or determination to resort to it.
A boring nerf sounds harsh. Some sort of punishment sounds fair and I feel would be earned in this case.
Wait, as an Aoyusumu I have precog. Do I even need Harmony?????
This matter of filling in the blanks of my abilities with the mentors is going to drive me crazy bros
This matter of filling in the blanks of my abilities with the mentors is going to drive me crazy bros
Fair. Personally I view it as obsession. Actually more like a byproduct of obsession. The willingness of doing everything due to your ambition of being free, your ambition of be stronger...etc
Of course corrupt path is a matter of effort too, mainly internal in my opinion, also linked with obsession. You need a mental fortress to proceed with this completely isolated, needing to hide and/or being hunted, to study what the corrupted path has to offer, to apply.
The willingness to survive and overcome such extreme situations requires internal effort indeed, though our Thunderfaller still hasn't to worry about it... Yet.
I just don't consider being it as hardworking as a pure ML, for example. Or someone on the path of the righteousness.
Depends on what you want to accomplish.
Herbalist and Merchant-Exclusive missions are mega profitable.
Piracy and Deep Sea Salvage lead to you adding ships to your fleet.
Patrol leads to an increase in rep with the local sect, the Waverunners.
Transport leads to prestige and the chance to recruit retainers.
Fishing leads to a chance for a weak soul treasure.
For me personally, I like to do:
- 4 ships for deep sea salvage(salvage a ship)
- 1 ship for piracy(capture a ship)
- 3 ships for fishing(weak soul treasure)
- Remaining ships to Merchant runs and Patrols(money + local rep)
While that's undoubtedly true, I would like to propose a question. This is a cultivation story, which means getting stronger is core to the theme. AC is also a setting where slavery is normal, so moral wise they're a lot more flexible than we are. Why then is everyone not a demonic cultivator if it's just a shortcut to power? Sacrificing people in a ritual shouldn't be THAT more depraved compared to subjecting them to lifelong slavery? But instead it's looked upon with scorn, as if it's a moral boundary that most people wouldn't cross.
The willingness and determination to cross that moral boundary is in part why I called it 'effort'. Like Jack said, you lack the drive to take things to the next level, you're not hungry enough.
And I agree! Like I've said, I have no qualms with the incoming heavenly punishment, let the JDF foundation be shattered for all I care. Demonic cultivation SHOULD comes with its cost so that the choice to dabble in it would mean something. Only that I want it to lead to something interesting down the line rather than it just staying as a nerf.
I thought people didnāt practice demonic cultivation simply because it corrupts your soul and ruins your natural potential in exchange for gaining power faster, right? Iāve always seen it as something more for people who were born without any talent and need shortcuts to gain power. More than effort, Iād say it takes a lot of desperation to choose a path that will bring you so many problems.
Iām not an expert in demonic cultivation either, but I donāt see how taking power from others represents more effort than what any other cultivator does by breaking their limits through their own strength.
I agree, it should lead to an interesting game over. I wonder what that scene will be like.
Not necessarily. Mostly because not everyone has a elite technique like Taio/Thunderfaller specifically designed to separate the Corrupted Chi from our own.
Corrupted Chi is a taint too, so if it's in contact with your "essence", or cores, you'll became a Fiend. As Taio explained in Nanhou and if I'm not mistaken Magistrate Khan too.
That's why the corrupt path is understood as a path of shortcuts and desperation at its lower level, because that's exactly what it's. Weak, unprepared and desperate people in Demonic Sects only lead towards becoming a Fiend.
But why Taio, the Blood-lord, is so strong? Why there's a entire Nation based on one of the its three main paths(New Yomi)?
At its high level the corrupt path isn't a potential cap or a desperate/shortcut path but rather a path to be studied and specialized in just like any other(Styled/Elements). Just look at Scholar/Original Taio's and their specialization in Blood Chi. At New Yomi, its Death-Lords and their specialization in Death Chi...etc.
However, if I'm not mistaken, Corrupt Path prevents you from ascending. You basically goes to a self pocket realm/One of the Hells instead. I just don't know how far they compare to the Heavenly Bureaucracy, but must be significantly below.