What're Bardic folks using your Ascension points on?
- Obviously boosting AURa (for CS with Disrupt).
- Rounding out not-100 stats (I put one into AGIlity, simply because I had a 97... this way I get that +24, instead of being stuck at only +23).
- Five (single-cost) into Manipulation, to untrain actual ranks--down to 70 (== 75 with Ascension, for Disrupt/1030)--to shift over to Telepathy (for longer Medley duration overall, and Tonis specifically).
- Four (single-cost) into Air, to untrain actual ranks--down to 70 (== 75 with Ascension, for Tonis/1035)--to shift over to Water (for that third "Moistening" [+10 mana/pulse] from Mana Focus/418). (So, "pay 18 mana now, to re-coup 30 mana [10 each over the next 3 pulses] == 60% RoI.")
- Mana Recovery (because "+1" here == "+7" to Max Mana OR "+10" to Mana Control).
- Stamina Recovery (because "+1" here == "plus a bunch" of Max Stamina points).

Eventually, sure, I'd like to get all of the first five (single-cost) +STATs added in, "just because" (STR/CON for encumbrance [CON also for stamina], AGI/DEX for CMans and Dodging, WIS/DIS for the other two Realms' warding [and DIS with LOG for experience stuffs], INF for medley duration/paying less mana per hour/more likely to Lullaby/1005 undead or demons), but that's in the sense of "pie in the sky bye & bye." No real urgency to it.

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What are other people concentrating on?

Interesting viewpoint.

I already have the, "Well, I advance slowly because I don't play much..." viewpoint, so I went ahead and set Ascension to 50%. So it looks slow... but then again, it's actually "just as fast" as me picking up those regular PTP/MTP for rounding out skills. <shrug> NET--including Ascension--I seem to have already passed cap-and-a-half (11.358M), but I'm still 1.1M away from 'actual' (PTP/MTP) experience of cap-and-a-half.
But those 33 Ascension points are kind of handy... :)

* Get 5 or more ranks of ResistImpact if you plan on running sonic armor
* Once sufficient Ascension points are accumulated, fixskill actual ML:Manip ranks from 75 to to 73. Then backfill with 5 Ascension ranks of ML:Manip to hit the 78th rank cusp on 1004
* Set actual ML:Telepathy ranks to 28. Add as much Ascension ML:Telepathy as you can reasonably justify

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Some lady softly says, "Naamit is over-rated."
You reply, speaking to the lady, "At least I have ratings."

Sonic Armor has some elemental bennies, but is vulnerable to Impact.

"Sonic Armor has some elemental bennies, but is vulnerable to Impact."

Seems like a great idea!

"* Get 5 or more ranks of ResistImpact if you plan on running sonic armor" -- Naamit

Sonic Armor is obviously a good reason to get Impact resistance.

CMan Headbutt--pretty much the bane of my spellcasting experience in Reim--appears to do Crush damage, so resistance there seems like a good choice.

And--see also my vituperative rants on "102 or 103 end results from spellcasting"--Unbalance resistance would be an easy sell, as well.

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I see a long road ahead of me, soaking up Ascension points....