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[Akura]

I did mention that. Also, my goal is to reduce Mental State with penalties to a point where the base increase is much faster than the high Mental State rate and float back up. To that point, I'm trying to stack as many Obsessions as I can; unfortunately, I've already locked out Giving Up, and both Hedonistic and Depression both require several hours of real time to build up. The good news is, Anxious still appears to be building up despite the fact she is at the highest cultivation state - the Shendao guide from the wiki states that Anxious can't build up at the highest state because there are no more breakthroughs, this appears not to be the case.

I hope that I can blow up to the limit for Wise and breakthrough without using my MS talismans and other boosts, so I can subsequently blow up to the final mental level using them. In the meantime, I'm just letting divine hatred build up, I'm not worried about the tribulation. Once I do all that, I can just turn on Divine Concealment and maybe Sharpsword or other battle talismans and wreck everything. She's already literally immune to any kind of damage that I've been able to expose her to, including having her engage half a dozen demon beasts, or a small squad of random GC/PS-level cultivators solo.

[Micro102]

I just remembered that the cultivation branch area gives a mental state boost too.... Could you assign a branch manager so bad it gives a negative modifier?

[Arcvasti]

I just remembered that the cultivation branch area gives a mental state boost too.... Could you assign a branch manager so bad it gives a negative modifier?

Probably not, but one thing you can do is assign your incredibly unqualified Shendao to be the leader of a large branch, which will give them an absolutely enormous mental state penalty from the stress. It takes some tight planning to turn this into a useful breakthrough, but it's not impossible. Just make sure to work out the math beforehand instead of just winging it.

[Akura]

Went through three detachment tribulations, but only got Mental State back from two of them. Is there any situation where something like that can legitimately happen or did it bug out? Because that really screwed over my breakthrough strategy.

[lemon10]

I've been getting back into the game and there is just so many things to do/remember every single time.

You have to find the favorites of all the sect leaders for gifts, you have to adventure to every major location like 50 times (bit less with talismans), you have to enter each map at least once, you have to remember all the basic secrets (eg, special locations). And a bunch of more minor stuff that you have to do as well.

Still, its not like time really matters in the game, so the fact that I didn't have anyone break through to golden core due to missing breakthrough times in year 1 won't matter in the slightest.
In other news:

Looks like one of my catboy cultivators has himself some big fans.

[Il Palazzo]

Still, its not like time really matters in the game

It doesn't, unless you want to complete the story line. But then again, why would anyone want to go through the pain. Better watch a summary on youtube or something.

[Akura]

Did some more testing, and it appears the Killing obsession does not return mental state when cleared. Is this normal?

[Akura]

Still trying to tweak a Shendao. I can't figure out how to promote a core follower into a guard. The follower does have 100% Extent of Belief and 5/5 Wishes Fulfilled(had it at 4, but I did another), but I can't find any option or button to convert them into a guard.

She's already irritating me with the fact that it's going to require 25 days to breakthrough to the final mental state level... after doing 25+ days of Mind Fasting because it also requires her to do indulgence to bring her Divinity down. And I basically have to use a cheat mod because more than once she's broken her Mind Fast(losing the buff) to complain about boredom. Yes, during a period where she's supposed to stop thinking she stops because she's bored. Restraining would stop her breaking her Fast, but that would ascend her. Also, fun fact, while set to indulgence, my Shendao eats more than my physical cultivator.

EDIT: Literally minutes after posting this, one of the walls to the library/leisure room became sentient.

[Micro102]

I'd ask the discord (https://discord.gg/jktEFNuX). The help section is very active. I haven't gotten to shendao guards.

[Arcvasti]

She's already irritating me with the fact that it's going to require 25 days to breakthrough to the final mental state level... after doing 25+ days of Mind Fasting because it also requires her to do indulgence to bring her Divinity down. And I basically have to use a cheat mod because more than once she's broken her Mind Fast(losing the buff) to complain about boredom. Yes, during a period where she's supposed to stop thinking she stops because she's bored. Restraining would stop her breaking her Fast, but that would ascend her. Also, fun fact, while set to indulgence, my Shendao eats more than my physical cultivator.

This is an intended part of the Shendao challenge unfortunately. The best solution is to use a high level talisman to reduce recreation(and another one for hunger/thirst) decay to almost nothing, so they can handle mind fasting in non-restrained mode for 25 days. You can also manually toggle between Restraint and normal mode, making sure not to ascend, but this is exactly as annoying as it sounds.

Hitting the final mental state breakthrough on a Shendao is really hard. Even a slightly scuffed Shendao is still pretty good though, and if you do ascend them(either by accident or just to make room) then they'll be usable as a Guard by later generations of Shendao.

[Akura]

Been working with a spell-based cultivator a bit. True Sun cultivator, boar Yaoguai with pretty mediocre stats all in all. Took as many spell power manuals and actual spells as I could: Innate Qi, Firestorm, Divine Bolt, Chaos Void, Vitality Chant, Reversa Cycle, and Spirit Shield. Tried to max out Spell, but only got Protect to 10. Equipped a Giant Turtle Shell, Flood Dragon Scale, and Taiyi Codex, ate a Shield Pill, and she's wearing Demon Hide clothing. Artifact is weak, total power 651 with 7k qi capacity.

She blew through 3 attainment tribulations pretty quickly with little difficulty. She probably could last almost indefinitely, especially if I get some bonuses to cooldown. One tribulation was difficult for my Grand Chariot and 7SS guys. But that's probably because tribulations have no protection value; they take full damage from everything. Against a PS-level cultivator with 60k qi but 20 Protect, Firestorm, stated to do over 128k qi damage, did less than a tenth of that and has a long cooldown. On the other hand, my best Grand Chariot fighter killed that enemy and his two buddies within seconds.


One thing I also discovered, Heaven's Breath, though very difficult to acquire, makes awesome artifacts. It's naturally T12, so you just need a really good Myriad Artifact Law user and to set the item in a qi array until it have at least 1500 qi.