Quote Originally Posted by golentan View Post
So why is it that the order for best excellencies goes Solaroid>Dragonblood>Alchemical>Lunar>Sidereal/God?

Much as I love them, it seems wrong that Dragonbloods and Alchemicals (who are supposed to be the two lowest exalts in power structure) are more mundanely competent than celestials.
While it's certainly true that Dragonblood > Lunar is odd. Sidereals match DBs at Essence 4, and are on par with solaroids at Essence 5 and up.
Quote Originally Posted by MoeP: sidereals
The three basic Excellencies function for Sidereals much as they do for Solars. Essence Overwhelming and Essence Triumphant add dice or bonus successes (respectively). A Sidereal, however, cannot add more dice or bonus successes than her permanent Essence score.
They can't buy as many dice as anyone else, but they don't divide their limit by 2 for sux. Which is rather odd, but being better at assured competency than random chance is certainly in-theme for them.