upgraded stances

[Drive]

make them locked after 180 rpl and cost 10 rpps please.

makes no sense to have them locked after a mastery point tbh.

[Touc]

Instead of having an RPP/mastery point tax that you have to pay to get a stance, why not just give them a 180 RPL requirement and let people take one for free?

Stances are boring. No one wants to have to pay what they could spend on acquiring cool things like flashy spells to take the thing that'll actually let them win in fights.

Want to take a mastery spell plus a typical +15% AP mastery aura? Sorry, but Joe McMeta with Windwalker and Primordial Flame just smoked you because he's way speedier, is coating the battlefield in fire, and has a ton more AGI than you... and on top of that has 25% AP compared to your 15%.

Take two mastery spells and no aura or stance? He'll have all the above advantages and he'll outdamage you way more, even with that fancy magic of yours, so you're gonna get smoked again.

A lot of Mastery spells just aren't worth it compared to the good shit like stances and auras. For instance, Lion Fire Barrage is cool as hell, but why take it other than for fluff reasons when you can take the thing - a stance or (for instance) Primordial Flame - that will make everything else you use instantly stronger without even blowing a slot (or two) on your hotbar? The benefit that the Mastery gives has to be worth giving up an aura or stance, and I'm sorry to say that most of the Masteries are likely not worth that benefit without buffs.

[Malek]

iirc the plan is that the actually cool stances people acquire while playin are mostly signature spells. Things like flashsword or w/e, you need to specialize in that stance and be mentored into it/apply for it rather than it taking a slot.

The master stances being available for a mastery token as an option I think was there in case you happened to pick a tree with no mastery token spell, you could just pick up a stance early without needing to app for it/find a mentor.

Or at least i remember a convo like this happening

[VibeEntertainment]

Speaking of Mentor.. how do you even become one... there is no guide anywhere explaining HOW to get it aside from applying for it with no preset requirements anywhere known and so on.

But that aside, I think stances having a cost is fine for now in all honesty.

[Tautology]

In all honesty Stances may be boring but they do make a difference. They're, sometimes, just them, the flashy spell you'd need to win fights. I don't mind them costing a Mastery point at all because they, like every other mastery spell, represent a milestone of one's character combat capability. It's your fluff to Roleplay a Master Martial Artist, etc.