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ennuigamer posted...

Given that YZ stated that all of the main character T-Dolls will receive an upgrade, that would mean she's next. Seriously, she's now the only one left.

SF Capture Mod :bigbrain:

Also I can't believe "SF Oath When" memes are dead


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ennuigamer posted...

Thank you! You're right, I couldn't. I did better score-wise but a little worse %-wise this time.

I gotta train up for Shattered Connexion's ranking map. That's going to be absolutely nutty, with the big doggos and archer combinations, more giant mechs, and giant FU! laser cannons. I'm hoping to get Top 1% or on the bottom of the leaderboard at least.

I did talk to one of the consistent top rankers today. He told me that getting an absolute top score is mostly up to luck and RNG. With that in mind, I need to put in more attempts next time, not make any big mistakes, and hope for a windfall of good events that lead to a great score.

lol, ganbare~*

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ennuigamer posted...

My score that I screencapped here earlier was initially Top 7% but got pushed down to Top 8% yesterday. It may not be major but I didn't want to be backstabbed out of my target bracket. I did some more research, made some adjustments to my teams and made one more run today:

I'm not Top 100 material yet but I'm feeling pretty good right now.

Nice, first 1m? I seem to recall you couldn't break that in CT

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ennuigamer posted...

Here's the result of my first ranking run. It's nowhere near good enough for Top 100 but I'm hoping to get into the Top 10% bracket and not get backstabbed out of it. I'm also hoping to accrue enough resources for a 2nd try before the event is over.

Best I've been managing is shy of 500k lol; it's 28% at the moment but I wasn't aiming super high anyway, plus the 10% bracket is in the 760ks now according to Ceia's spreadsheets
The brackets did shift quite fiercely into the last week or so though, which now that I think about it was pretty similar to previous ranking map brackets; my initial score would probably barely break 45% now

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ennuigamer posted...

Exu is pretty awesome. Arknights is my other major gacha game right now.

There's some occasional Arknights discussion on the CE gacha mobage topic: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/400-current-events/78882140
Though it looks like the actual Arknights game board has become more active then when the game first released

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Galbias posted...

I'm honestly going to be mildly salty no matter which way they go with Summer Anila. If she's a new character I'm going to be salted because Zodiacs are super-exclusive characters that you basically have to spark, if it's a skin I'm going to be salted because she's been badly needing a rebalance for awhile now and selling a skin without giving it to her is a lame move.

Yeah, I guess they could go with the tried-and-true SR unit route but given it's a summer skin it'd either be a skin or a new SSR unit

Or it'll be delayed until CyGames forgets about it and replaces it with an alternate seasonal rip summer scathacha

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Galbias posted...

there's the Nian banner. I already decided I was only spending 10 rolls at most, and got Spectre at 10, who could be useful I guess. Only two 4* too which is terrible luck, but at least one of them was a Myrtle dupe.

My first pull to test the waters was Hung lol
Against my better judgment I spent about 60-70 rolls, did end up with this on my last 10-pull though so I can't complain: https://s7.gifyu.com/images/NN3ae631b798298f89.png

I guess this is another one of those events where you just grind the same missions as normal and get extra stuff for doing so...eh. Was thinking there'd be new content.

There's the nine event missions with their corresponding challenge modes if you missed those

On an unrelated note this latest Granblue summer event manages to throw shade at all the other previous summer events which is certainly something else
Also new batch of incoming Summer skins, but Summer Pholia remains a distant dream


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Galbias posted...

I should be hype for Nian, but the more I think about her banner the dumber it is (a character being available on only limited banners is one thing, but creating a garbage 6* character that literally nobody wants on the same banner, just to make her harder to get is like...c'mon).

It's kinda funny that the next time they tried this Weedy ended up being more generally useful than the actual limited banner unit
That aside Nian should be returning in CN sometime too, hopefully her next banner is at least less obnoxious


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Shotgunnova posted...

At first, I was all "no way am I farming a map with only a single chance at the drop," but since I'm medal-poor, maybe I'll do it anyway. Got about ten days to rustle a few up.

I posted previously about the matter, there's actually 2 checks:

If you're referring to Ceia's guide, there's a check he missed for Normal; a new Rodel check spawns at the top of the roundabout after you start the map proper . It ends up being a full-auto map with 2 checks which isn't too bad. (The spawns don't have any X95 checks on EX unfortunately.)
Video reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Krq2FgQHSXk
You'd also probably want to add an extra node down to the pathing on the roundabout just to make sure you run into the last Rodel.

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Galbias posted...

For some reason Arknights had really good rewards in the daily mission yesterday, 2 Keton Colloids and 3 Orirock Concentration. But today it's just back to the normal slightly increased rewards (the usual stuff + a couple random chips).

I'm kind of bored with the game atm but the way that you can't really save up rolls from daily missions unless you complete a minimum of faffing around bugs me. With Granblue when I was bored I just logged in and that was it but in Arknights you're not getting any rolls to bring you closer to a new character if you do that (technically you do get 1 roll a month just from logging in...but that's nothing).

Yeah looks like just Day 5 and 12 have Tier 4 mats: https://gamepress.gg/arknights/event-banner-hub/half-year-anniversary-warm-event-page#topic-793431
Arknights is for better or worse built to be a side-game I guess, but to that end they really should cut down on the faffing about, I guess you could maybe stockpile rocks to generate Orundrum but yeah. OP should at least convert to a larger amount of Oruns too.

GBF being generous is a Cygames thing in general which is a nice thing to expect from whatever you play from them at least, though the ridiculously diluted draw pool does bring its own set of shenanigans
That being said the grind is also another can of fish that I've been mostly avoiding atm, which also kinda kills any desire I might have had to do higher-end HL stuff like Faasan, at least until I get a second Majestas or something (Which at the rate I'm going would require another Weapon Annitix, seriously why is TiaMal such a hysterically tripe raid)

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Kelystic posted...

what are the hidden achievement rewards?

All event Hidden Achievements since Singularity just give 5 cores, 1000 of each resource and Commander EXP; nothing super important

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ennuigamer posted...

That's good to know. I guess it's a good thing the competition isn't anywhere as stacked as the older servers. But I guess that's also a bad thing for me too.

Well you broke top 100 in CT, didn't you? Entry into that cool kids club starts at 710k here; I'd imagine it'd be up to at least 800k by the end

That aside this ranking map is a straight-up slugfest and doesn't really have a budget no-battle option like CT did; that probably influenced the comparitive number of participants to an extent

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To add, Faith of Blood II EX has a full-auto route if you decide to skip one check so it's not bad for mindless farming

Tmaster148 posted...

Whats a good map for farming medals? I looked at the UKM-2000 farming guide and I think it would be quicker to get the medals.

For Nova Medals, since you get 2 medals per check on EX that'll likely be your best bet depending on your choices. Shark and the Sea I EX which also drops UKM2k has 4 medals/2 checks in 3 battles that can be finished on the first turn itself.

ennuigamer posted...

Well, I have 5 copies of P22 for ranking events, so I'm good for the moment. I'm going to switch gears and move on to the ranking map. I hope I can make Top 10% or better on this one!

Coincidentally that's the same number of P22s I ended up with after buying the shop one lol

I was 12% with 349k for a few days from my first proper romp in the Normal map, dropped to 14% today, so you should have an easy go of hitting 10% unless things drastically change in the last week or so; I don't quite recall experiencing massive rank shifts in previous events.

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Gunslinger Girls trailer released: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njP6a7zZJG8

Looks like all five of the main first-gen girls are being featured, representing one of each weapon class except handguns


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They've also shown Henrietta,

Angelica's not really one of the highlighted protagonist GSG characters so she's not as memorable as the main 3 or so. Bit of an odd choice to feature her.

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Shotgunnova posted...

Is HS2000 good in MG/SG groups? Like, shielding when everyone reloads or something? I've been using Jill in my 3MG/1SG group, but that's mostly a buff tile thing.

Honestly not really, in most cases your shottie doll will be tanking all three rows for negligible damage anyway and her tile buffs are not conducive for such echelons since she buffs evasion and RoF; MGs prefer damage buffs for general purpose stuff, plus most MG setups do most of their damage before reloading anyway so the barrier buff will be mostly wasted. Ideally you'd use something like K5/M23 or P22.

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Shotgunnova posted...

Although in true "playing this game is pain" fashion, now I have nothing to buy with these stupid medals.

Spend it all on cake obv.
Probably'll be doing the same with my own pile of 300+ medals lol

Tmaster148 posted...

I'm trying to figure out which 5* I should grab with the Isomer box.

The ones I don't have a copy of are:
Gr MG36
PA-15
Gr MG4
Negev
Gr MG5

Negev is probably the most worthwhile of that batch since she's the rarest production MG plus she has a strong niche, that plus MGs are more expensive than the rest on that list.

MG5 is one of the best front-DPS MGs if you don't already have a solid MG team, but sounds like you already have the rest of the front-DPS MGs so she's less important then.

Note that the exchange lasts another 27 days so it might be worth putting it off until then if you're going to do more productions in the meantime.

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Tmaster148 posted...

It's really annoying that you can't auto hostage rescues. Would make grinding for P22 a bit smoother.

Haha, I just followed the EX map guide. I guess there are technically three checks if you bothered with the hostage but I didn't.


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Just managed to get UKM2k myself after something like 140 runs of all her drop stages lol


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Galbias posted...

from the couple videos I've seen of next CC, it looks like Saria is more important than Hoshi, but i dunno. I'm guessing Nian should also be before the next CC so I might wait to see if I can roll her before investing in Hoshi, though chances of actually getting her are slim

Yeah, the heavy mitigation tanks are just to make the last rush of elite rockbreakers less taxing. There's been E1-only runs of Risk 18 as well so it's not like your last line of defence needs to be super buff; in a pinch you could probably just keep dropping your leftover units lol

and looking at it on the wiki, seems like they nerfed the rewards too, rip. Only 2 copies of a tier 5 item, and only 5 copies of tier 4. At least there's infinitely buyable Aketon and Sugar.

That's a bit unfortunate. I guess the big prize is supposed to be Bibeak there, though seems that shop will persist across CCs

I know, it's just a weird, kind of inefficient combination. Though now that I think about it, Saria has a s3 with Healing + Slow too. And Shamare does look nice, but even slowing Supporters are difficult to fit in sometimes.

speaking of using her alongside Angelina, do multiple Supporter's slows stack?

From my brief tests the more Supporters I had firing on a single target the more they look like they've slowed to a crawl; they certainly cover much less distance at least.

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Galbias posted...

71 rolls on the Blaze banner and got Hoshiguma. That's 3 times in a row now I've gotten boned by a random non rateup 6*...Would've preferred nothing (so I could save the pity for Bagpipe) or even a dupe, getting enough yellow certs for Angelina might be iffy at this point (need 14 more, 10 days left)

I guess since I did lose my streak, probably fine to roll a couple more on random banners to get more Yellow Certs though

oof, well at least Hoshi is useful for next CC but yeah

also, looking at Suzuran's skillset again, I really don't understand why she has a SP buff for other Supporter operators when she covers both of the primary Supporter jobs (slowing and debuffing)

Well like Mostima's counterpart it should buff herself at least, after all her S2 does take a lot of SP and S3 isn't permanent either. Also kinda makes a decent case for using her alongside Angelina.
There's also the 5-star specialist Shamare who can give a 50% atk/def debuff for 15 seconds to a targeted area who seems quite useful, though they share similar talents so Weakening won't stack. (As an aside she's also got a pretty cute puffy tail)

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ennuigamer posted...

I got my first P22 from Faith of Blood II EX. I still haven't had any luck getting HS2k yet.

Went back to the P22 mines myself after getting my second X95 drop haha, after getting another 500 medals I figured it was a good place to stop lol.

Also that's pretty unfortunate on the HS2k since featured box items seem to be more common; ultimately it'll be plain luck whether you get more than one.

Kelystic posted...

got the 5* handgun.

it's annoying to farm the other 2.

If that's including X95 and you've been using the farming guide, here's a better option for 2 checks per run: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Krq2FgQHSXk


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ennuigamer posted...

Was Lawli supposed to be hard to beat this time around? I think I over-prepared for her and got some good RNG with her AoE stomp attack.

I didn't particularly prepare for her so I didn't meet the 58 armour threshold, which gave me a rough go the first few times. Managed to do it in one pass on my last try at least, and having a HOC also felt like it made a big difference for me than the times I tried without. In hindsight I should have saved some data resources to max out Lewis instead of burning it all on the other stuff I got lol, would have made it a bit easier at least.

ennuigamer posted...

That last stage had some tough fights from the SWAP units' damage and me messing up dodging that nuke attack from the boss when she's at critical health.

Yeah I had to throw another standby team at the boss when my first team wiped lol, fortunately they were then at critical health but then the boss *also* opened with that bloody nuke lol


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ennuigamer posted...

That's because showing over the 60 you earn in a day is a glitch (and the results screen showing you getting more boxes than the game allows) and you don't really have those extra crates. When you restart, the display corrects itself with the right number. Hopefully, it will get fixed.

Well yeah it's a glitch no matter how you slice it haha.

That would be really something. She could solo a lot of maps that way for memes. But under normal circumstances, your damage dealers ideally shouldn't be taking any damage, (at least, not enough to lose a link), so I'm not sure how useful that passive would be in practical terms. It's still fun to imagine.

We do have a pseudo-healing mechanic in the form of the Reinforcement Fairy so it's not like it's entirely unprecedented lol. That said in general gameplay the newer party shield HGs are probably more practical; ain't no need to heal if you take no damage.

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Tmaster148 posted...

So you can only get 60 boxes a day, but apparently the game doesn't cut you off if you end the chapter and boxes that would put you over 60. So I ended up with 62 boxes today.

EDIT: You can get 72 boxes, do a map that drops 15 boxes 3 times, do a map that drops 12 boxes, then do another map that drops 15.

Yeah but if you actually try to open them you get kicked to the main screen and the extra boxes get deleted lol

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Galbias posted...

I don't have any characters I particularly want to promote right now, so I'm not in a huge hurry to get Loxic Kohl anyways. Though Angelina is in the yellow cert shop...actually really tempting if I can squeeze out 18 more certs in 12 days, though her inability to attack at all when she's not using s3 still bugs me a bit. Suzuran seems maybe a tiny bit better overall but she won't be for a long time anyways.

Yeah I'm about 40 short from Angelina myself.
The main thing to keep in mind about Ange though is that her S3 is on a ridiculously low 25SP cooldown (Faster than Exusiai even) compared to most other nuke options so it's not entirely outlandish to have it active during every peak mob hour especially with Ptilopsis around; as the skill lasts 25 seconds at M3 she'll actually have higher uptime than not that way. Sure Suzuran's S2 is permanent but it also takes 80SP at M3 to get going (plus it's still weaker in terms of range and units hit). Despite her damage debuff her main advantages over Angelina actually come from her defensive utility lol

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ennuigamer posted...

The Wolf and Owl II map for farming X95 is horrible (both normal and EX)! I think I'll either look into Above the Hubbub V or just farm medals for her.

If you're referring to Ceia's guide, there's a check he missed for Normal; a new Rodel check spawns at the top of the roundabout after you start the map proper . It ends up being a full-auto map with 2 checks which isn't too bad. (The spawns don't have any X95 checks on EX unfortunately.)
Video reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Krq2FgQHSXk
You'd also probably want to add an extra node down to the pathing on the roundabout just to make sure you run into the last Rodel.
(I did end up buying my first X95 with medals, but I kinda want a second so I'm using this route too)

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If you have a Parachute Fairy you can try what I posted before:
Meultima posted...

Farming IP III for crates can be a bit long, so here's one alternative on Beyond the Border II I found elsewhere which is faster and less clicky.
Caveat being this requires a max skill Parachute Fairy but is doable on EX with no battles needed. This means 18 FC a day assuming you aren't already getting crates elsewhere.
Turn 1: Pass go.
Turn 2: Chute to heliport next to Command Node.
Turn 3: Capture Comm Node after the Deathstack Hydra moves away.

Video reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykKCHgzFf0M&feature=youtu.be
As a bonus you don't actually need to do anything in the first two turns so you can go pick a couple fights with the nearby enemies before blasting off like Team Rocket.

Alternatively, Faith of Blood I can be completed in 1 turn by blasting the rubble with a HOC and rushing the Radar. It'll take about one volley on Normal depending on how strong your BGM is, and several times that on EX, so it can be a bit expensive.


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A shame the Il Teatrino anime was such a noticeable step down from the previous season; I quickly dropped it despite having looked forward to seeing one of my favourite arcs from the manga.

Additional P22 farming note, an alternative to HS2k on the EX route is Grape/Ceno, who can clear the Rodels instantly. By herself M4's targeting can also be random so she doesn't focus fire on the Rodels enough which may cause you to take more damage overall. Though, even with repairs it's still overall cheaper than fielding Ceno.

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Managed to get an early HS2K, so here's a video showing the sort of hilarious hijinks you can get up to with her (Read: Entirely negating the Doppel grenade spam attack, letting your echelon ram into 300K Doppels with impunity)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nDKWs24G8Y

Also spent way too much time getting my first P22 on normal. Using the HS2K + M4Mod3 method on EX might be faster since you get double droprate doing EX so if you have M4M3 it might be worth holding off farming until you get her from the boxes.

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Galbias posted...

also I know I said that I was considering saving green certs for rolls earlier, but that was before I tried farming Loxic Kohl manually. 4-4 is the best stage to do it and on top of being a terrible stage in general, it's like 30-50% longer on auto-deploy than most other stages.

Hahah, I've actually started farming that stage recently after having used up my Grani Event stockpile. I kinda like the stage itself actually as it's possible to approach as a sort of silly puzzle stage with just Shaw as your lone deployment for Crownslayer, though I end up just deploying normally for farming to make it faster. Fortunately looks like the next event (Ancient Forge) will have a good Kohl farming stage, probably the main mat to farm in the event.
But yeah HH tickets are pretty darn expensive greentix-wise, especially on Tier 2.


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Shotgunnova posted...

Yeah, I saw that now. I'm up to some other mission with zombies. Kinda pissed that they put the tokens as hard mode rewards when I can't kill these goddamn tanks that snipe you from afar. Pretty sure they're why I quit bothering with missions in Shattered Connexion or whatever event we had 2-3 events ago.

Yeah honestly I don't remember ever beating triple tanks in previous events and always fell back on methods to evade or lure them away. The triple tanks in BoB III EX have a weakness though, being that the lowermost tank is slightly forward so your DPS will focus on that and the trash mobs and then you can just retreat your top two lanes while the rest of your team just finish off the other two tanks. Machinegun echelons are probably best here for upfront DPS. You could also pre-stack most of your DPS on the bottom for insurance.

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Shotgunnova posted...

Beyond the Border III is trash. Gonna watch that video on how to beat it since it's always "use the enemy's AI that no one tells you about" stuff.

For future reference you can click hold on enemy units to check if they have preferred pathways, this is typically the case for stronger enemies.

YugiNoob posted...

Is there a setting to have the game go into sleep mode after a certain period of inactivity? I have a bad habit of falling asleep while playing games, and waking up next to a dead phone :<

Can't you use the sleep mode of your phone itself?

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Farming IP III for crates can be a bit long, so here's one alternative on Beyond the Border II I found elsewhere which is faster and less clicky.
Caveat being this requires a Parachute Fairy but is doable on EX with no battles needed. This means 18 FC a day assuming you aren't already getting crates elsewhere.
Turn 1: Pass go.
Turn 2: Chute to heliport next to Command Node.
Turn 3: Capture Comm Node after the Deathstack Hydra moves away.

As an aside, the Hard stages haven't actually been too bad thus far, though I suppose they'll ramp up towards the end.

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ennuigamer posted...

Given the post was made in 2018 I may just overlook them missing this important addition to her list of achievements:
Releasing her own heckin' single.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhsMR3nfKcA

As an aside the Isomer soundtrack has been giving me Deus Ex vibes. Appropriate, I suppose, that the upcoming Shattered Connexion's OST was composed in the region where most of Mankind Divided took place.

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Galbias posted...

Is there any particular reason you wouldn't use Weedy over Shaw/FEater?

Well what I meant is you'd (probably) rather use her for her other skills, just using her for her S1 that all Push specialists essentially share (A 5SP Strong push at M3) is almost a waste of what she can actually do since her S2 and S3 (And her deployable cannon) are what really sets her apart from Shaw/FEater.
(Of course sometimes you only have space to spare for one push specialist so since she's basically 2 units in 1 she'd likely be the best-in-slot)

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Galbias posted...

Yeah, Exusiai is probably better in this case. Curious, do you use s2 or s3 for general use? s2 always looked better to me but the friend support I have left it on s3.

Honestly I've never actually found a real need to go back to S2 after E2, for general use it feels like S3 is better for most content since her job is to eviscerate squishies and drones which it's better at and it's got a good enough uptime that I don't have to constantly click her, especially if I have Ptilopsis out it feels like basically 50% uptime.

the problem I have with the translation is less typos and more the fact that the dialogue is less outright errors and more it just being...bad. Lines that are awkward or don't make much sense happen constantly and it makes things a slog to read.

Oh yeah totally, don't mean to seem like I'm discounting all the other issues lol, fixing minor errors is a bandaid solution at best

Interesting, I'm definitely looking forward to more CC. I was actually thinking about investing in FEater awhile back because having a slow on top of the push would be nice but ultimately didn't, partly because I already have a sk 7 Shaw, and partly because I want Weedy though that won't be till after, I'm guessing. And Nearl and Liskarm are both ones I probably should E2 at some point, I do have way too many Defender Dualchips left over from E2-ing Ptilopsis.

I did prepare a S1M3 FEater for the last CC just for the avengers pretty much since she can cycle a couple base speed avengers indefinitely provided their positions aren't staggered, but S1L7 Shaw should be fine

As for Weedy she herself isn't really used for the S1 basic push role so she wouldn't directly compete with regular pushers

tbh I haven't actually gotten any skins either, it's kind of hard to justify them over rolls when the game is pretty stingy with rolls in the first place

To be fair 18 OP translates to just a bit over 5 pulls which isn't terrible but yeah

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Galbias posted...

finished ch6 in Arknights. I liked the freeze gimmick, though it was still pretty easy overall (Lappland helps a lot). With the one major exception of 6-16 which was a massive difficulty spike. It ultimately just boiled down to "hold the boss down so Silverash can do his thing" but that was a lot easier said than done.

It was a bit easier for me since I had Exusiai, she can delete most of the boss's HP with one volley from relative safety, though I haven't M3ed my S3 yet so it just stops short of getting the job done. The first time I did make the mistake of putting most of my team near the middle exit where she immediately appears and nukes most of my team, sticking to the middle of the map makes it much more manageable even on the challenge mode.

Story was still pretty w/e, though at least Blaze has more than one expression. The dialogue still tends to have a lot of awkward/nonsensical lines which I'm pretty sure is a result of sloppy translation (worst case being a character talking about their father and the protagonist responds with "so X is my father") but Frostnova's death scene was still kind of nice, I guess.

Yeah translation's still more than a bit spotty in places, at least they do go back and fix up typos and stuff given their patch notes.

I actually don't have much left to do, there are a couple more Challenge stages that I could do to squeeze out a few more attempts at Blaze. I guess I could E2 Ifrit and Nightingale, or Shining, but I don't feel like I particularly need them for anything at the moment...idk, I guess I'll find something to burn Sanity on. I do still want to buy out all copies of Breeze from the Red cert shop so there's that.

Well farming money's always a good sanity sink lol, fwiw the easier strategies for the next CC permanent map seem to involve having a good batch of defenders and maybe a pusher or two, could be worth keeping Nearl and Shaw in mind (Nearl's worth training even if you have Saria just because you can't actually deploy two Sarias lol)

on an unrelated note, the new China operator looks kind of interesting, 6* Slow Supporter but she also debuffs https://gamepress.gg/arknights/operator/suzuran

wonder if she'll powercreep Angelina, she's definitely powercreeping her in the fluffiness department

Angelina still has the advantage of actually doing pretty respectable AoE damage with her S3 (whereas Suzu just stops being a DPS) and it has nice synergy with Weedy's S3/push strats as well so it depends on what you need. It also seems that Suzu's S2 range isn't increased, which may make it awkward for some maps with limited spots. Overall she still looks really interesting though, that slow seems pretty strong. (Also she's maximum fuwafuwa which is most important). Honestly if I had to say you'd probably be using both of them in those maps that ban casters lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XH1Gv5wFa24&feature=emb_logo (longer promo video, the new skins for Nightmare/Mostima look great too)

I haven't really purchased any skins yet in the unlikely hope that they bring the KFC skins to EN lol, but that's a nice batch of skins yeah, along with the Bloodline of Combat batch for Saria/Angelina those are probably what I'm most interested in at the moment

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Galbias posted...

I do feel like characters only having their big damage up a small portion of the time is really limiting (still very worth using in some instances like Silverash, but his has massive range + AoE), though hers does look particularly strong with her archetype. Though unlike Wave Strike Skadi, it's only at 31/40 SP even in ideal circumstances so I can't see her as an ideal caster killer, unless you use her s2 maybe?

Well maybe not as a caster killer per se but she can help shore up defenses from time to time, 9SP to prepare for an incoming rush is not too bad though it's of course best with enemy spawn timing knowledge lol, though her S2 does seem pretty usable at least so you could still use her decently like that
Still it seems to be a popular use for her in some videos I've seen where she seems to shift spots at least a couple times during runs

On another note looks like along with the W/eedy banner CN's also introducing the Arknights equivalent of a GBF suptix at a similar price, and similarly won't include limited banner ops: https://gamepress.gg/arknights/event-banner-hub/first-anniversary-celebration-part-1-cn-event-page#topic-766976; while I probably won't be buying that particular tix it's interesting to note that it's a thing lol, especially with the spark system also announced

Edit: Looks like I made a mistake previously, the Nian banner estimation per the datamine should be at the end of July so you've got a couple more weeks to save if you were gunning for her

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Galbias posted...

huh, really? Bagpipe seems good but not that good

in general her niche seems kind of awkward, she's probably the strongest Vanguard in the game but probably not as strong as proper Guards (even if she is cheaper) and she doesn't really generate DP like a proper Vanguard. I'm sure I could find uses for her, especially on reduced-DP maps, but she doesn't seem super core like Blaze would be.

Her S3 def. gives her damage output comparable to many top guards, it's a hefty attack/def buff that lets her attacks hit thrice and negates her base block flaw, plus her first talent gives her a chance to hit two enemies. It gives her an incredible DPS-to-DP cost ratio, plus she's basically free so you can use her like a duelist guard to redeploy wherever throughout a map.

DP-wise the big contributor is her second talent which at E2 gives all your Vanguards +6 SP just by having her on board. This allows silly things like Siege at S2M3 being able to immediately use her skill twice when you drop her in a mob, but yeah basically all your vanguards get to fire off their skills much faster.

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Galbias posted...

on the upside, the only upcoming 6* besides Nian that looks remotely appealing is Bagpipe, so if I don't get Blaze maybe I can save my 6* pity for her, and save the rest of my rolls for W/Weedy
(tbf Phantom looks like almost a straight upgrade of Red, but he's not cute)

Yeah it's a bit of (expected) powercreep that him and Bagpipe are pretty much straight upgrades of existing 4/5-stars (Bagpipe being outright considered one of the best units in the game, rip Vignette), though most of the other upcoming 6-stars do have pretty unique skillsets.

On another note, looks like the new mats introduced are the best use for green certs now, their drop rates are pretty bleh even among the T3 mat pools... Fortunately you shouldn't need -too- much of them since they're only used by newer units from Blaze onwards

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Galbias posted...

got my 6* pity ruined by a Nightingale dupe after 22 rolls, rip the Blaze dream

only have 21 rolls left so i definitely won't get any more pity 6* on this banner, probably just gonna save the rest to try for Nian in 2 weeks

also briefly watched a Youtube stream of a guy spending 150+ rolls and getting four 6* without Blaze, so that's good motivation to not roll more, I suppose

rip, I actually managed to get Blaze after 17 myself
At least the new chapter and a couple new material sidequests mean a decent amount of OP

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Galbias posted...

but anyways, Dark being overpowered has been kind of a meme for the past 6
-9 months or so in Granblue. The tier list https://imgur.com/a/lrQr3qa kind of shows it, though it's actually a lot more biased in favor of Dark than it looks since characters are rated in-tier only (ie a 10 rating in Dark is worth more than a 10 rating in other elements)

Well that's one thing but there's also the fact that like 90% of the top tiers for Dark on that list were also released (or buffed) in the past 9 months too lol

Even in Shadowverse, Shadowcraft is often a Tier 1 deck, Cygames sure loves dark

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Got bepsi but just mostly because I was doing cheap HG dailies, didn't even realize rate-up was live lol
Came home in my third or so pull

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Galbias posted...

huh, Arknights is having some mini-event soon where you have a chance of getting bonus resources every time you clear a mission...guess I'll save my sanity pots to use in a couple days.

still mostly farming OP from Challenge stages for Blaze/Nian, at 38 rolls now. I did end up rolling on the new banner today and got Pramanix in 4 rolls, which I guess is a positive result.

Yeah no idea if it's a flat rate or not though, if it's flat farming 1-7 would provide the best return lol
got executer dupe because of course, was hoping for fluffytail but oh well

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Galbias posted...

Yep, it sucks (I think Blaze should be 50% on her banner since she's the only rate-up 6*, which is another reason to favor her banner I guess). Kind of a dick move honestly, and part of the reason I got into Arknights was because that I liked the yellow cert system but they only ever seem to do that for characters that were in the game when it started, not for new ones, let alone limiteds...

Some later units like Ch'en and Skadi do eventually show up in the shop, but it does seem to take awhile. I dunno if limiteds will ever be in the shop given the upcoming bootleg spark system though.

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Galbias posted...

oh, the other downside of Nian is that she's sharing her banner with some random 6* furry dude, so you have a significant chance of getting trolled hard. W's banner has the same thing but Weedy is cute and looks decently useful, if kinda niche.

Yeah the limited banners have a 70% rate of getting the featured 6-stars so your 6-star only has a 35% shot of being the one you want
Aside from being a top qt Weedy seems actually decently useful on regular maps, combined with Angelina and/or other pushers (She even brings another herself) her S3 becomes a bona fide instant damage nuke

I've had a spark saved for potential Pholia/Ferry alts for awhile now, though I did take advantage of spark discounts to fill out my Zodiac collection with Mahira and Anila recently (only one missing now is Pig). I only have about 390 rolls atm, hoping Summer is generous with the free crystals like it was last year. I want Pholia more but Ferry is a lot more popular so I dunno.

Yeah I'm also missing pig lol, I sparked rat last anni which fortunately also got me chicken

also huh, I hadn't realized today was the last day for CC. It was good while it lasted, guess it's back to lazy farming mode, or more likely working on Challenge Stages for more rolls to spend on the aforementioned banners.

There's still one more day for Map 1 but yeah it's winding down now, was nice that it didn't use sanity so you can still do other things (Though they really should rework the system)
It does seem to be pretty popular though, CN's already announced their fourth CC event, which features the return of katanabros lol (And Faust)

I also cleared Anni 3 a couple times without using any support units, but Autodeploy has been pretty inconsistent with it thus far, I think due to Red's stun being used.

Haven't actually gone back to Anni3 in awhile since Anni2 is generally faster, though I also usually have to top up with a partial run for the last 70+ Orunds

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Galbias posted...

And interesting, I think that's earlier than I was expecting for Nian. She's definitely the harder to get of the two and has a more appealing design imo, but she's ultimately "just" the best pure tank in the game, but Blaze looks stronger. Once her 2nd skill is charged she's basically a Ranged Guard with lower range but much better stats and the ability to hit 3 enemies at once. And she doesn't have to worry about losing her DPS like Lappland or Silverash either.

Yeah Blaze is much easier to shove into a team and do well with even if her skills aren't super flashy or anything outside of S3
I also seem to see her a lot more often but that might also just be 'cause not everyone has Nian

idk, it'll be a tough decision to make unless I get lucky and get Blaze on an early roll. Expecting similarly tough decisions once Granblue's Summer stuff gets going, hoping for Summer Pholia/Ferry this year finally

Summer Pholia is the dream, though I don't have a full spark yet after Anni lol

also today's stage wasn't too bad, holding the backline with just Vanguards/Specialists is reasonably doable but killing the air units was actually harder since some Bombtails managed to sneak through with the health bonus.

Last day of highrise wasn't too bad yeah, though for the tougher ones I either fell back on Magallan and/or Angelina, I really should get the latter when she comes back into the shop since she can basically be used everywhere, though I'm also tempted to stock up on tix for the July banners

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Galbias posted...

okay today's CC mission was admittedly kinda bs

Only managed to get 5 risk and that took quite a few tries. Basically all the conditions involve significantly buffing enemies so actually surviving the initial rush is extremely difficult, seems like Specter/Chen are almost required for higher risk levels.

Yeah I actually had to remember to space out my operators so they don't die in clumps from the casters, though for awhile now it felt like I was just creating a pattern of replacing operators as they go dead

I did actually try and see if I could do it without using Specter/Saria/Chen by using Gravel and Red as caster fodder while my snipers did their work, it actually worked well enough lol, looked something like this: https://s7.gifyu.com/images/D11.jpg
Attack speed +2, -Def +2, -CP +1, Damage Up +3
Started out with Myrtle into Exu (Needs to be able to kill the third dog) in Ifrit's spot into Siege, stalling the caster with Gravel while Exu went to town and I just went from there, Ptilopsis' spot is basically the top level caster fodder spot but she should survive the first run-in using her boost heal, after that you can just cycle with a random caster to buy time to drop Gravel/Red at the first entrance to draw more fire
Granted pretty much my entire team save the redeploy gang is at E2 so it might not work as well for you

On another note looks like datamining has determined that the Blaze and Nian banners are at the start and middle of July respectively. Blaze at least remains in headhunting so might be worth doing the majority of your pulls on the Nian banner instead, though a 35% rate to get Nian isn't hot either

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