Hello! I’ve very recently decided to prepare in advance to become a Correspondent. Never mind that I’m not a POSI I’ve currently have gotten to level 3 and am hoping to get to level 10. I’m currently grinding by making symphonies in the Empress’ Court and making a symphony of the Correspondence to do get 1 CP. However I’m aware that there might be other methods so if you have any can you please share it here for other people as well.
There is an option in Seeking Curios and Secrets in the Forgotten Quarter that sometimes appears (Airs 81-100). It gives 1 CP on a success up to 7 SotC. Past that, symphonies are definitely best to get to 10.
Although, if you have a certain fate-locked ocelot, there is an option on that card that raises it by 1 CP up to 10 as well.
[quote=Mimic]There is an option in Seeking Curios and Secrets in the Forgotten Quarter that sometimes appears (Airs 81-100). It gives 1 CP on a success up to 7 SotC. Past that, symphonies are definitely best to get to 10.
Although, if you have a certain fate-locked ocelot, there is an option on that card that raises it by 1 CP up to 10 as well.[/quote]
Purely out of curiosity, is there any way to get Scholar above 10?
Yeah, Shadowy Dealings at the University. It’s rather expensive, but it can get you up to 21. There’s a Watchful requirement that changes based on your SotC level, up to 300 to get to 21.
There is an action at Sackmas that can improve it up to 15. According to the wiki anyway, I missed it myself.
That’s true. However, it requires 6 SotC, and it’s an SotC challenge. Not to mention it’s up to how many pails of “snow” you can get. It’s nice, but it’s main use is in getting PtPT. The SotC CP is a bonus.
I found “somewhat challenging” Symphonies were the most reliable way, when I was doing it.
In the end, I stuck with The life of the mind + Composition: the high path. But use whichever method takes your fancy. I’d hate to railroad someone into following my footsteps rather than exploring the game for themselves. :-)
I got up to 7 in the Forgotten Quarter while looking for Eyeless Skulls anyway. I then planned to use a combination of Symphonies and doing actual research with Perhaps you can remember something useful at the University when I came across a Watchful Mood and could afford that.
As it happened I fell into a quantity of Fate when I was in the high 8s, and an ocelot and an owl rapidly accelerated my final progress.
Since we’re on personal stories. The Quarter was maddening, but it worked well in that it simultaneously pushed multiple things I wanted to be active on. As far as it went.
Out of curiosity, are their any benefits for raising your “Scholar of the correspondence” beyond 10?
For most people right now? Not really. However, if your ambition is Nemesis having it up higher than 10 will make a certain step less expensive. The higher up it is the less expensive that step will be.
A little unrelated but I’d like to note doing the Symphony by using “The Lead” is about 21 (including the action to finish it) and the symphong produces 30 echoes. Using a calculator the result is around 1.4 echoes per action which is quite good for grinding echoes.
There’s a Scholar of the Correspondence challenge that Correspondents get using pails of snow, it doesn’t really do much though, it increases your SotC up to 15 and gives you 60cp of watchful, both useless if you already have SotC 21 (which requires watchfull 200). And it’s still not straightforward at SotC 21.
200 Watchful + 100 more points from equipment. Definitely need the Ubergoat and a Watchful mood.
I don’t think that Ubergoat + watchful mood is enough.
200 base,
30 mood
10 smock
8 Glove
12 pot of ink / harpoon
3 stockings
30 ubergoat
1 Newspaper
2 telescope
1 spouse
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297 Watchful.
You need a watchful destiny or to be an extraordinary mind. Which is annoying, as I don’t want either.
The next Profession upgrade might be able to push it up to 300 without needing a Watchful destiny or an Extraordinary Mind. Failing that we will be able to change our POSI specializations at some point in the future, so once that’s possible we’ll be able to switch things around to accomplish certain things and change back once we’re done.
They’ve been hinting and teasing that we’ll be able to change our POSI specialisation for so long that it just isn’t worth factoring into any consideration. It’s another chunk of undeveloped content like the advanced pickpocket promenade and the case of the other waxwork.