A question about sowing dissent

[Fantalicious]

For me, its like the most unused function in the game.

Can you guys share some examples on how this thing is even beneficial?

 

[Robert II]

No there are no examples.

 

[Conan The Librarian]

You can use it to get powerful vassals of an enemy liege to join factions against them.

 

[Iron Chariots]

It's not particularly useful, but a handful of times I've gotten somebody who was pretty close to joining a plot to dislike their liege just enough that I could bribe them into it. Usually there are better options though.

 

[kviiri]

I agree, I very rarely have used it myself because I find fabricating claims and improving relations to be far more important most of the time.

Likewise, I very rarely use the Steward's construction option because money is the limiting factor far more often than build time.

 

[Cymsdale]

I have always thought it would work much better if you placed it on your target and it would sow content among THEIR vassals. That way you can use it within your own realm to muck up the works of powerful vassals under you. It would also be more straightforward (and useful) when used against foreign enemies. Right now you have to dig among their vassals, find one worth making discontent, and check it constantly to see if it's doing anything.

The current effect is pretty blegh. In the early days of CK2, it didn't even work at all!

EDIT: To answer the OP's question. The best case to us it is if you have a foreign enemy who has a powerful vassal who is borderline discontent. You place the chancellor on that vassal, wait for the negative relation modifier to kick in, and hope that modifier has a worthwhile effect.

One problem though is that it might fire on HIS vassal, thus weakening the pawn you were planning to use to carry out your schemes.

 

[Narvait]

I did not know how it works, so I put the guy in Golden Horde capital to do discontent thing.
Coincidence or not but when I looked for partners of crime I could find easily over 100% plot power and 2 khagans in a raw kissed the snake.

 

[Bernard95]

I know that it can be a thing that can lower a vassal's opinion, but in my experience it's near-useless- especially if it takes years for the event to fire and all you end up doing is making some random mayor slightly angry at his liege.

 

[gdj]

It´s borderline useless in it´s current state. Targeting enemy vassal kings may be the best option, to wekane a hostile empire, becuase it does not matter whether the king has problems with his vassals, or whether the emperor has problems with the king. But even then, it has very little use.

It could be made more useful with Conclave if the option existed to deliberately target the enemy´s council, making members of it "malcontent", or causing the council to become "discontent". Regrettably, nothing in this line is planned.

 

[KingKone]

I used it a few times, sometimes on land that I've lost in wars or if a non-aggressive refuses to be an ally.