"Whoa, shiny rock! Can I touch?"
To me, soulstones are simply shortcuts to knowledge and thus power. Kinda like rare candies. So I tend to not use them, I prefer to get EVs. But I acknowledge the lore around them and if I wanted my character to quickly learn a skill that would require years generations of research and practice, I'd most likely develop a plot around the search of a soulstone.
When I think about it, they got quite a bit of joke potential, though. Imagine someone carved his bedroom successes into the stone instead of anything useful related to the job. And the aspiring (and mildly disturbed) scholar suddenly awakes the knowledge of ancient allagan positions.
The concept of soulstones is quite interesting IMO. They're just a pretty cheap way to quickly gain power, so they're best used in moderation.
To me, soulstones are simply shortcuts to knowledge and thus power. Kinda like rare candies. So I tend to not use them, I prefer to get EVs. But I acknowledge the lore around them and if I wanted my character to quickly learn a skill that would require years generations of research and practice, I'd most likely develop a plot around the search of a soulstone.
When I think about it, they got quite a bit of joke potential, though. Imagine someone carved his bedroom successes into the stone instead of anything useful related to the job. And the aspiring (and mildly disturbed) scholar suddenly awakes the knowledge of ancient allagan positions.
The concept of soulstones is quite interesting IMO. They're just a pretty cheap way to quickly gain power, so they're best used in moderation.
