Is the new bless system really working as intended?

[Welzi]

Hi mates!
So I have a Devi of Strength pretender which has F1S1N1. When I invest to F8S4 I cannot take unbearable splendor for instance despite the required F8S4 that I have due to lacking bless points. Starting magic paths do not create bless points and thus blesses are more expensive than the path requirement. Is this really working as designed? Would it not make sense that also the starting path(s) give bless points too ?
Cheers
PS: I (think I) understand that the new bless system is partly designed to nerf Rainbows. If this is the intention, it unfortunately nerves all pretenders and leads to far fewer blesses and thus eventually fun. Or what am I missing here? No offense intended. Cheers

[Sombre]

This is working as designed, but it's a fair point to say it feels bad to take F8S4 and not be able to afford unbearable splendor.

[Mormacil]

Nations also get bonus bless points so it rounds out at times. It's indeed WAD.

[Draken]

Yeah, if you aim direcly for a bless requirement path, you will not have enough bless points to actually take it.
You need either get one more path than required or get another path to level 2.

I also found it a bit weird.
I made a small mod that adresses that issue by giving every nation +3 bless points. So you have enough to get what you want and pick up an addition 2 point bless.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3141822574

[Welzi]

Thank you all for your swift replies and Draken for your nice mod! Much appreciated. Cheers

[Perro Grande]

Just take F8S4N2 ?

[Have Heart]

Bonus bless points sounds tasty. Thanks bro!

[Welzi]

Originally posted by High Stakes:

Just take F8S4N2 ?

No you need 2 additional bless points so i would need to take F8S4N3 with the three Nature going in no bless which is sad and furthermore I would need to trash a bit scales (and go imprisoned) which is even more sad for an incarnate bless.

I like the idea that you can stag more blesses of the same paths with bless points but overall there will be far more design points needed and thus less blesses in the game. Really not so much fun blesses as before. A pity. Seems the Bonus Bless Points mod is a must to avoid the downside of the vanilla bless system now. Cheers

[Perro Grande]

Originally posted by Welzi:

Originally posted by High Stakes:

Just take F8S4N2 ?

No you need 2 additional bless points so i would need to take F8S4N3 with the three Nature going in no bless which is sad and furthermore I would need to trash a bit scales (and go imprisoned) which is even more sad for an incarnate bless.

I like the idea that you can stag more blesses of the same paths with bless points but overall there will be far more design points needed and thus less blesses in the game. Really not so much fun blesses as before. A pity. Seems the Bonus Bless Points mod is a must to avoid the downside of the vanilla bless system now. Cheers

Oh true. It's a pretty strong bless in theory, haven't tried it myself yet, maybe it's worth it?