Umm, Arfur, the rite does exactly what it says it will do, add a permanent extraction time bounus to your digging. To that extent it is not broken in the least.
To those who are attempting to harvest very gently, running the time out, increased time inherently means that more focus will be used in harvesting. There is no way around it. If you are that type of digger you should not take this rite.
To those homins who kill the sources prematurely, the additional time is irrelevant.
I'm not sure how it will affect those who do two-step harvest. I suspect that it would simply be a matter of slightly adjusting their switch-over point.
Personally I think that it should be changed so that you gain an increased time stanza that is free (needs no counterpart) so that you can use it or not as the whim strikes you.
To those who are attempting to harvest very gently, running the time out, increased time inherently means that more focus will be used in harvesting. There is no way around it. If you are that type of digger you should not take this rite.
To those homins who kill the sources prematurely, the additional time is irrelevant.
I'm not sure how it will affect those who do two-step harvest. I suspect that it would simply be a matter of slightly adjusting their switch-over point.
Personally I think that it should be changed so that you gain an increased time stanza that is free (needs no counterpart) so that you can use it or not as the whim strikes you.
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Phaedreas Tears - 15 years old and first(*) of true neutral guilds in Atys.
(*) This statement is contested, but we are certainly the longest lasting.
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