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Originally Posted by Legendary League
Also, I've been reading that feathers have been buffed. How good are they now? Mathwise, they seem poor choices for research compared to lanterns and mentors.
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They are indeed worse than lanterns on an RP per gem basis... but they come much earlier (they're research 0 in CBM), so the actual number of RPs you can milk out of one Owl Quill compared to one Lightless Lantern over the course of the game is comparable (to a point), and you can't really put a price on getting crucial research online earlier. Think of it like overtaxation: over an infinity of turns it's very wasteful, but in practice money NOW is much more valuable than money tomorrow (because with money NOW you can build an army to seize even more income). Same goes for RP.
They also have been buffed to reduce the encumbrance of the carrier, which can actually be better than providing reinvigoration for SCing purposes (e.g. on Quickened people) so when you're done using them for the RPs you can always stick them on something nasty.