Really? Because so far, everytime smeone suggests to buy a charm then we decide to just leave it be for some reason or another.
If we really had other things to spend XP on then we would already have done so.
That's because the quest has been moving so slowly that we haven't talked about it in a while.
For starters, we need more Presence charms. We still haven't picked up
Hypnotic Tongue Technique, which leads into
Minds Yield to Glory (AKA "Solar therapist technique" AKA we can cure mental illnesses via social interaction) and
You Can Be More, which several people said they wanted during the last arc.
Since we're going to be dealing with politics soon it's time we started investing in Investigation, which has all kinds of fun stuff like
Judge's Ear Technique, which allows us to instantly know when someone is lying to us. For bonus points it's one of our caste skills so we get a time and experience discount for investing in it.
Occult has the new spell system from Mage or whatever it was and we could sink more points into that, or we could finish up the trials and purchase
Terrestrial Circle Sorcery, which opens up a whole new can of bullshit for us to play with. Sorcery gets us stuff like
Death of Obsidian Butterflies, which is tactical-scale magic that hits an area the size of a football field, or
Emerald Circle Countermagic, which is ideal for tearing down huge rituals like the one that gets used at the peace conference or the one that Kokabiel nearly destroyed Kuoh and the surrounding city with.
We also want to invest two more points and at least one charm in Integrity so we can purchase
Truth Shines Through, which is our one and only path to unravelling the Great Curse. We don't seem to have a huge issue with social combat though so we can more or less pass on it otherwise unless I'm forgetting something important.
We should also sink some points into Athletics and Awareness so we can pick up
Panoptic Fusion Discipline (the "you spend an entire scene in bullet time" charm) and
Surprise Anticipation Method (AKA "nothing takes you by surprise. Ever."). Athletics is more useful for general-purpose performance increases in things like jumping height and lifting weight, but there's also
Racing Hare Method which gives us an overland travel speed and turns us into the Road Runner on command, and
Graceful Crane Stance which lets us keep our balance on anything down to the size of a human hair.
Really there's lots of stuff to buy that's more important than getting up to par with a redundant combat style.
