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 ==== Progression ====
-Materials for elementals, libraries, foci, and any 'ware you might consider do get fairly expensive, so one of your early priorities should be to look for an instructor to raise your negotiation skill. Training up your charisma first will reduce the karma needed to increase negotiation and etiquette skills and will also let you keep a larger stable of elementals.
+Materials for elementals, libraries, foci, and any 'ware you might consider do get fairly expensive, so one of your early priorities should be to look for an instructor to raise your negotiation skill. A higher charisma will reduce the karma needed to increase negotiation and etiquette skills (as well as letting you keep a larger stable of elementals), so it may be worth raising your charisma before raising your negotiation skill. Note that, depending on what you're facing, raising other attributes for survivability may be a higher priority (though your quickness and willpower are already at your natural maximums).
 Keep in mind that implanting 'ware will also cost you magic, and lower essence in particular can make some magic (most notably the heal spell) more difficult to cast on yourself. You can make up for lost magic through (expensive) initiations, but there's no way to recover essence. That said, 'ware can be worth paying that cost.
-A rating 3 conjuring library is enough to let you re-task your armor sustaining focus to an increase attribute spell (ideally increase willpower),  which can't be sustained by any elemental. But it may be worth delaying for a rating 5 library (or higher) instead, since sustaining force 5 armor and combat sense is enough to match the armor and body bonuses from the full cyborg replacement of a late-game street samurai. Higher ratings are fine, though note that going from force 5 to force 6 elementals is a significant drop in nuyen efficiency, since on average that'll reduce your number of services per summon by half. You should probably delay using force 8 elementals until your income is firmly established.
+A rating 3 conjuring library is enough to let you re-task your armor sustaining focus to an increase attribute spell (ideally increase willpower), which can't be sustained by any elemental. But it may be worth delaying for a rating 5 library (or higher) instead, since sustaining force 5 armor and combat sense is enough to match the armor and body bonuses from the full cyborg replacement of a late-game street samurai. Higher ratings are fine, though note that going from force 5 to force 6 elementals is a significant drop in nuyen efficiency, since on average that'll reduce your number of services per summon by half. You should probably delay using force 8 elementals until your income is firmly established.
 A rating 6 (or higher) sorcery library is worth picking up even if you're only going to design lower force spells, since every 2 rating points above spell force will give you an extra die on your design roll. For higher force spells, you also want to pick up the spell design skill and increase your real magic rating through initiations, as these will reduce the TN you're rolling against.

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