Editing Solar Exalted (section)

====Are You Experienced?==== 
Once you have experience, you are going to want to spend it. Early in your career as a Solar, where you sink your experience can make a big difference to the effectiveness of your character. As you start to reach middling experience levels, where you sink your points into matters less and less until you reach the point where no matter what you buy, you will be deadly in one way or another. So this experience guide is broken into three stages: New exalts, experienced exalts, and masters of the universe. This guide doesn?t really apply to dedicated marital artists or sorcerers, who will be covered separately 

''''New exalts (0-40 exp)'''': As a new exalt, there are two things you should be spending your experience on: Basic combos, especially defensive ones, and heading deeper into your favoured charm trees. 

''Combos'': Combos are what set competent exalted apart from their peers, and having a good range of basic combos sets you in good stead for later advancement. A powerful defensive combo, or a combo with an attack and a powerful defensive element are virtually essential, and are not expensive to build, most costing about the same as a new charm. 

''Charms'': Favoured charms are cheap, you should be able to afford one every other session, give or take. They are also very useful, heading partially into one or two trees is a good way to spend your experience, and it gives you a wide range of options for combos. Defensive charms are always a better choice than offensive ones, since a good defence is stronger than a good offence in Exalted. 

''''Experienced exalts (40-90 exp)'''': Experienced exalts have a few more options open to them, but one thing should dominate your exp spending, as it will make life as an exalt far easier: Persistent defences. That is defensive charms that last a full scene, and allow a free action to defend yourself. A good persistent defence frees you of using a defensive charm every turn, so you can act more effectively, using a wider variety of charms. It?s also worth noting that stacked persistent defences (that is more than one active at the same time) make you very very hard to hurt. 

Other things to spend exp on at this level are; improving your abilities, it?s cheap if they are favoured, and it makes your charms more effective. Solar social charms; this is the time to get a foothold on those social charm trees, as they are the most powerful charms the Solars have access to. If you picked some up before, now?s the time to get the more powerful ones. Essence: This is a prerequisite for persistent defences if you didn?t buy essence three at character creation, so you may want to pick this up. More combos. Wide ranges of combos are always good. Perfect effects: As you gain access to persistent effects, you also gain access to perfect defences. As the big strength of the Solars, picking these up is no bad thing. 

''''Masters of the Universe (90 exp plus)'''': Now it is time to either buy up the last few charms in your favourite tree, or make your own custom charms. Either that, or finish off the social trees. You can also up your essence to four or five, if you feel it necessary, or up some of your abilities. By now, you are powerful enough to pick and choose whatever you like to spend exp on.