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Stagmar posted...

Azur Lane has announced a new collab.
https://twitter.com/AzurLane_EN/status/1368456381322252292

at first i thought that was something very different

not sure what a collab would entail though. Maybe putting the characters into cute animal-themed outfits? That's always welcome.

DeathVelvien posted...

I made my first money-fueled spark on Granblue yesterday, cementing my status as a failure of a human being.

oof, bad time to do that with roulettes coming up

was it at least someone good? Zeta prob?

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/762415090564988968/816948359289241620/Screenshot_20210304-030843.jpg

I liked the roguelike event in Arknights a lot, even though it was kinda broken

Got myself a Hu Tao in Genshin. She seems pretty good so far, definitely a bit awkward to play with the somewhat limited uptime on her skill and the need for regular healing, but I think I like her playstyle more than Ganyu's even if Ganyu does more damage.

Funkydog posted...

She probably is. Her files says she eats/drinks anything she finds so bound to be a fair amount of booze in that.

Also probably just the art style >.>

yep, she's homeless and not very smart

I'm tempted to roll for Keqing in Genshin. I could use another main DPS, ideally one who's relatively simple to play (unlike Ganyu and Hu Tao) and I like her design and character. The problem is Hu Tao's banner which is basically guaranteed to be right afterwards, I definitely want Hu Tao. By the time Hu Tao's banner ends I'll probably have around 153 rolls not counting any new rolls from events. That's more than enough to hit pity once, but it'd be difficult to hit it twice and actually guarantee Hu Tao without whaling at least a little.

I really want to, but on the other hand, I could potentially get Keqing from any banner as a spook, and she's not a particularly amazing character overall, and there are still plenty of other characters I wouldn't mind having.

but on the other other hand, apparently Electro might get buffed in the future?

idk

Leanaunfurled posted...

It's kind of nice having banner and event foresight, as compared to playing a gacha when it's worldwide synced and you're faced with the vast unknown.

i kinda like this about Arknights, but the localization team seems determined to screw with people's heads and do lots of stuff in the wrong order

and then Genshin has so many leaks that you have a good idea of what's happening anyways lol

YugiNoob posted...

And I cant be the only one who LOATHES this contingency contract stage in Arknights. 3 ground lanes and 5 fucking air lanes is bad enough without ballistas shooting down all the air lanes <_<

nah, I'm with you there, it's probably the most annoying stage. Drone stages in general are kind of annoying since your ways to deal with them are kind of limited. And also because I don't have Exusiai, I was hoping they'd introduce another 6* anti-air sniper who's more my style design-wise and they actually did in CN (Archetto) but apparently she's worse than Exusiai lol

LordFarquad1312 posted...

Whether or not I get Keqing I'm probably gonna stop playing until a major patch comes in.

And if Qiqi pity breaks me I'm uninstalling.

I'm still trying to get strong enough to beat the last stages of Abyss, but that's starting to scrape the bottom of the barrel as far as actual content is concerned. Though I'll probably still do events/commissions for rolls for awhile because I probably want to be able to get Ayaka or whoever.

3 more weeks until what is probably Hu Tao banner in Genshin...zzz. At least I can roll some on the Keqing banner.

also W definitely feels like she's been more helpful than Weedy in Arknights, even on stages that should be good for Weedy (ie the one with the frenzy guys)

paying thousands of dollars for jpgs is over

paying thousands of dollars for decent-quality 3D models is the future

probably not the genre that people are thinking of, but I enjoyed Zero no Kiseki

Meultima posted...

Haha nice. I managed to get a total of 4 stars myself; that aside I don't think I'll be revisiting that until I have a more elementally sufficient party

I think to improve Keqing they'd have to really buff her damage output, but you do already get a lot of damage from her element-buffed weapon when creating reactions so I dunno. I guess the thing that mainly sticks out is that her ult doesn't do as much damage as you'd expect from an ult really, though hers is also one of the more spammable ones with its lower cost and innate recharge rate. Still trying to farm a good Thundering Fury set so she can really go ham with the reactions though, current Gladiator's set doesn't do much for her actual elemental damage.

Looks like Yukana is voicing the new Arknights limited character, guess that's her first new role for 2021 lol. I hope Niyon's updates will be good, though it amuses me that the current event Proud boss is weak to Coma and allowed me to beat it blind lol

Electro reactions seem kind of weak on the whole, Superconduct usually doesn't do too much damage and the defense debuff only applies to physical for some strange reason, Overloaded does decent damage but the knockback is usually really annoying, and Electro-Charged seems like the best one but I don't think it can really be spammed like Melt/Vaporize since it's DoT. Keqing seems fine-ish otherwise but I don't have her so I dunno for sure. Still kind of vaguely hoping for an Electro buff like Geo is getting right now, but I doubt it. Maybe when we get the first limited Electro 5*.

I saw the new Arknights earlier, Saga and the new limited both seem interesting (though from using W, abilities that plop down summons can be kind of finicky if maps have a lot of undeployable tiles). I also like the fact that they finally seem to be moving more towards releasing multiple versions of characters, though Lava is probably one of my most disliked characters because she constantly shows up in Recruitment and waste your time with her obnoxiously long intro line.

Nio I haven't used in ages, Tiamat has replaced her in most teams now thanks to having FA heals (and I got a free C Seruel, so with his backline passive I get free Earth damage reduction). I haven't really touched Eternal 6*, still waiting to see what the full requirements are like. Though as of the latest notes I'm really glad I didn't since now you can reduce Silver Relic weapons into shards.

welp, after many tries I managed to get two stars on Spiral Abyss 9-1 and 9-2 in Genshin so I actually managed to get a big 50 Primogems before the rewards reset. Not ideal, but at least I got something for all the effort I put in lol.

And Bennett is actually rate-up on an upcoming banner, though it's not until the 17th, so I'll have to do at least one more rotation with my current crappy party. And the double Ley Line event isn't till the 26th, I could really use that now but oh well. Gotta wait for all the good stuff (and then more waiting for Hu Tao).

Kinda want to roll on Xiao's banner for a Diona dupe, but Bennett is more important (and I'd much rather have Keqing than Xiao, though I'll probably skip both of them unless I hit pity early). Was sort of hoping they'd announce a Keqing buff given that she's generally regarded as one of the worst 5-stars, but no such luck I guess.

Calwings posted...

Replace them with 5 Pecorines and then it's truly accurate.

i think you mean 5 Kyarus

Calwings posted...

Anyone who tried the game and likes the story but ends up dropping it for gameplay reasons should go watch the anime instead. For that matter, even people who still keep playing the game should go watch the anime anyways because it's just that fun.

agree, I got bored of the game pretty quickly but the anime is great

Mass incarceration always struck me as America's biggest civic issue. Though you also have lack of affordable healthcare, housing crisis and income inequality in general, mass circumcision, terrorism and extremist groups (coupled with loose gun control), etc.

Meultima posted...

lol yeah I haven't really bothered with the limited floors yet until I get another fire DPS, I could train Amber but the amount of resources I'd have to sink into her just to get her level to the rest of my team before inevitably replacing her with another unit would be painful. I did try a Floor 9 run using Electro as my main DPS on one party but I ended up just getting wiped by the lawachurl on the last level lol

Xinyan seems to be fairly well-regarded from what I've seen, though she does seems to be more physically skewed as opposed to being a proper fire DPS. I do have the prototype claymore though which seems like a pretty decent fit for her.

Amber isn't leveled, I -think- what you can do is use any Pyro attack to break ice shields reasonably quickly regardless of level (Sucrose may help if I can get her skills to swirl fire, but the system seems to be a little inconsistent there). The "you need to be using the right element to break the right shield type or your attacks are going to deal like 10% damage" is one of the things I dislike about the battle system. And yeah, Xinyan doesn't look that much better for this purpose honestly, but I have a feeling Amber is going to be even worse.

Granted I might still get stuck on the Lawachurl, but the possibility of more rolls if I can clear the stage is tempting. Floors 11 and 12 actually have easier enemy types for the party I have too, though I'm sure their numbers are significantly higher.

either way I'll be starting the artifact grind soon too, so that's even more pain to look forward to

whew, made it to floor 9 of Spiral Abyss in Genshin

now just need to somehow clear the 2nd half of the chambers in the next 3 days, with Ganyu as my main DPS and Amber as my only Fire damage.

legitimately considering Xinyan for the free character thing next month, she seems pretty crappy but probably still a better option than Amber

Meultima posted...

Yeah I just switch to my Noelle sideparty in mining areas like Hulao, though if you can manage it, drop attacks with sword/spear characters actually do about the same damage to mining deposits as a single claymore strike so you don't need to switch your party members around for just the random one when wandering about

Aside from getting over 2k for the first one I haven't really bothered with chasing high scores for the latter Hypostases lol, although Noelle is actually one of my leveled characters so the Geo isn't a terribly bad fight for the most part (Aside from eating up tons of time because you need to bust the pillars) since her shield protects her from a lot of its attacks and her ult lets her finish the final DPS check in one go.

Barbara/Diona's healing is especially interesting since their fields can make reactions with fire which is a decent combo for added DPS. They do at least seem to be tuning the beta characters to a higher standard upon actual release (Aside from Zhong Li apparently lol) so she might end up being more reasonably practicable to use

hm, I'll try drop attacks if I ever need more Lapis, but now that I'm finished with Geoculus I probably won't unless I roll Keqing. I have like 100 rolls now but given that I could potentially need up to 180 for Hu Tao, I'm still not sure.

I've also been kind of looking at trying Abyss floor 9 before it resets and using Diona for that, something like:

Ganyu/Mona/Sucrose/?

Xiangling/Fischl/Diona/Xingqiu

unfortunately it turns out that floor 9 has tons of ice enemies for some reason, so Ganyu is significantly weaker than she would be otherwise

Meultima posted...

To be fair the weekly boss mats are only for like the last 4 levels, the gains are typically similar across all levels anyway so it's not a drastic leap in DPS (Most of my team's talents hover about level 5 atm lol)
Nectar though yeah, I basically had to put plant mob farming into my daily routine for a week since between Keqing/Mona/Ganyu they really need a ton of the things for ascensions and talents lol
At least for Lapis Mt. Hulao is a good bi-daily source which you can do quickly enough for a decent pile

I do want another cute girl fire user to balance my teams more for Abyss diving but unless they suddenly reveal that Hu Tao is yet another broken DPS she'll feel a bit redundant with Xiangling (Even if she's likely going to be better)
That aside I just unlocked my final ascension levels and I'm really feeling the EXP item bottleneck right now, building a new character from scratch is going to be painful lol, though fortunately seems they're both going to have an EXP item bonus event and putting resin into the battle pass which will help alleviate this issue

Pretty much yeah, it also slightly bothers me that it's on a fixed period sub where missing a few logins means losing that many primos but oh well

The Nectar I don't actually mind as much since Whopperflowers usually drop 3-4 t1 and 1 t2 material, so you can rack up some pretty quickly. Lapis are more annoying because with my Ganyu/Mona/Fischl/Xiangling party I don't have a good way to break them, Xiangling takes like 20 seconds of whacking. Sword characters do slightly better but really you want a Claymore, so I'd have to take one for manual farming. Might have to do that anyways because you need them for the Geoculus finders.

Incidentally, the Geo Hypostasis has the exact same problem, if you don't have a leveled Claymore character you're kind of boned (one of the event boss's attacks is just undodgable shockwaves until you break a rock, Xiangling barely damages it and elemental attacks do nothing). I ended up just settling for low scores on his stages of the event.

also I can't imagine Hutao will be anything but a main DPS. Given that she has to sacrifice her own HP to use her skill it'd honestly be really disappointing if she isn't good. I'm actually slightly concerned because I don't have Jean or Bennett which might make Hu Tao risky for Abyss, though I do have Barbara and Diona.

LordFarquad1312 posted...

I just bought the blessing of the welkin moon in preparation for Keqing's banner.

I really want Keqing, but idk if I can afford to roll for her with Hutao probably coming out soon after. And they made Keqing's upgrade material kind of annoying too, Nectar is the same thing that Mona/Ganyu want, she uses the same weekly boss material as Mona, and her gathered material is something you have to mine instead of it just being collectable like most other characters.

also I get the feeling that Welkin Moon is basically intended to be a membership fee. You can play without it, but you get so few rolls that you're going to have a hard time rolling who you want in the gacha.

Meultima posted...

Well apparently that chart's also in a vacuum so in general combat scenarios there'll be a lot more divergence from reactions (And thus Ningguang wouldn't shine as much either since Geo has almost no real damage reactions), but yeah probably best to check in about a week or two later for more data to pop up
I've heard a lot about Ningguang apparently being a really good DPS though, but I can't really say until I actually get her lol (She did seem decent enough when I tried her Trial Run at least, though she does seem to rely a lot on her ult for her burst damage output)

Yeah they're all AoE hits which is great when clumping since the icicles automatically drop on each enemy in range

Kinda wish there were more ways of getting prototypes though, the weekly bosses can be stingy/random with proto drops (and you only get three tries a week total)

yeah, I'm vaguely thinking of Ganyu and Xiangling as my two main DPS but Ningguang might be a good backup

using Prototype Crescent a bit I do think it seems better, %-based boost to attack is too good. Maybe the tornado effect of VH will be useful in Abyss or something but that's for later.

After having rushed ar 40 I'm now realizing that there's not a ton to do, I finished weapon upgrades almost immediately, can't really farm artifacts yet and you're gated by weekly boss drops for any further talent upgrades, so I guess the main thing to do is just character ascensions and AR farming.

Initially I was thinking that AR farming was going to be mostly timegated with commissions/resin especially since I'm mostly done with character stories and one-time dungeon quests, but there is a fair amount to do to squeeze out more (farming Amenoculus/Geoculus/Crimson Agate, the Adventurer Handbook achievements, Shrines of Depths) so I guess that'll be my main thing for awhile.

Meultima posted...

Yeah after hearing how broken she apparently is I went ahead and pulled her (had hard pity so yeah)
Initial calcs from CN seem to indicate she's got like double Diluc's DPS which is sorta nuts lol

I do play on PC at least so the bow system isn't the worst, but her taunt does give her a lot of breathing room to aim which is nice. But yeah, her charge attack is pretty stacked (Initial damage + good AoE), I've pretty much only got leftover equipment on her and she's putting out some nice numbers (On the other hand it's also the Wanderer's Troupe set so it's one of her best options too) Also her burst lasts freaking forever, seems like the longest among all field burst effects by a good margin
That aside as is her base damage output when she isn't using charge attacks or elemental spam is pretty piddly but dem's the breaks (Lowest attack on my frontline currently after all), one of my equipment is also Cryo-boosting which furthers the gap

Apparently the Prototype Crescent is one of her best 4-star options, but I'm out of prototypes to use unfortunately (Forged a Compound Bow which works pretty well with Fischl for basic attack spamming, doesn't seem as good for Ganyu) so I'm just using a Sacrificial Bow as a sort of filler for now; the Battle Pass and Paimon Shop bows also seem like good contenders though the latter is best when fighting mobs and won't activate its buffs in 1v1 situations so it can be a bit situational

Over half my elements do run other EX mainhands so there's a bit of dilution lol but yeah they're still pretty good slot-ins. I've bought all of them now at any rate.

Yeah I forgot the banner ended today lol, though I was already planning to save my remainder anyway

I saw https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/760519435076632678/798857750574268486/1610525609135.png but I'm taking that with a massive grain of salt, some of the rankings there are pretty weird (ie Ninguang being the highest pre-Ganyu DPS without any cons, and Xinyan being the 2nd highest with cons)

charged shot aside, her ult is apparently pretty good if you can group enemies close together too, would probably be great with Venti https://www.reddit.com/r/Genshin_Impact/comments/kw7v51/viridescent_hunt_ganyu_test/

I already got Viridescent Hunt from the BP, kinda wonder if I should do Prototype Crescent instead (it's supposedly the best f2p weapon on her even if you're not 360 noscoping headshots due to the attack bonus) but I guess I can always make it later, those bow prototypes aren't going anywhere.

Ganyu was nice and came to me almost as soon as I hit soft pity, so I still have a good stock of rolls saved for Hutao or whoever

also contrary to what I was expecting, she is actually good. Kind of clunky and awkward (please Mihoyo just let Bows use charged attacks like a normal weapon) and her taunt is a bit squirrely, but she can put out very high damage with her charged shots in a pretty decent AoE and I don't even have a proper attack weapon for her, I'm still using the Stringless that was supposed to be for Fischl.

Apparently with super-optimized setups and animation cancelling and whatnot she's the best DPS in the game, which is a pretty drastic departure from where I was initially expecting her to be (just above bottom tier)

Meultima posted...

Yeah might be awhile, though I've haven't really found the need for an actual Cryo user in battle yet (At most I use Kaeya as an icebot for doing puzzles or crossing oceans lol), feels like basic wind-fire-lightning-filler covers most bases in general for current content at least

Even with just FLB Dopus KFC's nigh indefinite buff does help cap for most general defence content and I can hit 790k-ish autos commonly enough, though I can't really remember what consists of High Defence content for water lol. Still it's kinda nuts how in like one year they made 700+k autos somewhat consistent in most setups lol, though my chump water grid only achieves that once in a blue moon (Only when the MC is superbuffed with S.Cag on S1 max stacks lol)

Still yet to get W lol, seeing my current savings technically I could buy a couple 10-rolls for the pity shop but I might just cut my losses and save for the Rosmontis/Mudrock banner tbh, not sure how fast I can save 200-300 rolls in the timeframe
There's also the sixtix but unfortunately in my case the only character I don't have is Hellagur lol so it's kinda bad value for me in general outside of potential-upping (Even though bankai hayami has some pretty cool niches, he's a dude thus low priority)

Yeah, if you can stack the right buffs then capping isn't too hard regardless (Astral very good for this).

the W banner ended before I was expecting, but I got everything I wanted so oh well. Between the chapter and freebies (and buying Blaze which comes with a free 10-roll) I have like 170 rolls for future banners too and not anything I massively want to use them on. Archetto looks cute and reasonably useful if slightly inferior to Exusiai, might go for her.

YugiNoob posted...

Not anymore; I bought the two 10 rolls lol. Although I did buy a W with the 300 summon/sparking thing. Thank God for that new pity system or Id be super pissed <_<

The new pity system is pretty weak imo (would prefer something like Genshin's, where every other max-rarity character is guaranteed to be the rateup) especially since it's only on limited banners, but I guess it's better than nothing

incidentally, I got W but I might replace her with Rosmontis, both have oddly similar-ish roles (AoE Sniper with high range and deployment cost, focusing on stuns) given that they're two of the three limited units released so far but Rosmontis is more my type lol

Meultima posted...

Keqing does have the benefit of being able to infuse her weapon with her element so she can go ham swinging in a burning field or under the rain at least.

The trial run for Ganyu should be starting soon enough, so we'll see how it goes. I'm most likely going to be saving my guaranteed pull for Ayaka though, since she seems more generally useful, and the banner is probably right after.

Mostly I was sorta considering it since I did get Caim recently and having more damage mods seems alright for highlander grids, but there are probably more beneficial ways of going about that (ie ULB Dopus). I have enough eggs at the moment, but I really need more exp cups lol

yeah. I do still want Keqing but until Mihoyo introduces some sort of way to reliably get non-limiteds, I'll just have to wait.

I might roll Ganyu anyways, because even if she's a crap main DPS she should hopefully be a decent nukebot with her flower and my only other Cryo options are Kaeya and Chongyun. That, and all the rumors I've seen on Ayaka suggest she's still way out there sadly. 1.3 seems to be relatively confirmed to be Xiao then Hu Tao, but the most common thing I've seen for 1.4 is that they'll just rerun Venti/Klee or something and Ayaka is likely to be 1.6?

5* Dopus is the thing that really makes Caim grids shine, though he might still be decent otherwise. And yeah, the blue cup cost to get stuff to 200 is bad enough that I only ever 5* stuff during Magfes.

YugiNoob posted...

Well fuck. Got 2 Weedys at once in an impulsive decision to whale with the $99.99 pack, but I got no Ws <_<

Although on a happy note, I just noticed that W has the highest attack in the game, overtaking the previous champion, Schwarz. And Ws trust is only at 52% while Schwarzs is at 200, so her attack is gonna go into quadruple digits lol.

That is a lot of rolls...on the bright side, you might have enough yellow certs to buy Royal Sniper tokens for her lol

Meultima posted...

Well Weight 7 has been completely unpushable even with Angelina, though it does interrupt their attack. That aside only Patriot is of this weight class even in CN lol

Yeah, Fischl's actually been very favourably rated since the game officially released; she's always a safe pick thanks to ranged homing attacks, strong talents and Oz being a super reliable summon for switching in and out for elemental combos (Even if her own Burst is used like 90% of the time just to reset her Skill lol), while Keqing requires a lot more active input but offers a more proactive playstyle with close-range teleporting and whatnot. But yeah it's not uncommon to see a lot of tier lists putting Fischl above Keqing.

Wouldn't really say Electro terribly needs a buff at this point personally, but a lot of the time I just vaguely mix elements into some concoction of explosions before switching to my DPS of choice lol, I'm not really sure what I'd buff either at this point tbh (Though there was that one point where they kinda screwed up the damage formula and having Oz on a burning field kept killing your party with elemental reactions, fortunately it was fixed like two days later lol)

As an aside my only Geo at the moment is Noelle, who's apparently really stupid strong at max constellation but that's gonna be ways away unless you're a whale anyway; in any case she's basically where you dump all your +Def% artifacts lol

Yeah it's mostly only for minmaxing tbh and it's only really good when FLB at all, though 40% unique stam modifier and 30% echoes is pretty strong. You'd still probably not bring it for soloing hard endgame stuff unless you're DJSalt or something lol. But yeah I wouldn't personally stone it myself either, would probably do Uriel first if anything. I'm also kinda short on sunstones at the moment after going on a mild Arcarum summon forging spree but dem's the breaks; Anniversary should at least bring one or two freebies anyway.

I've also actually managed to max out Freyr but it's a struggle finding a place for him in my summon slots these days; if anything he's just kinda a filler on my Wind lineup until I get a Raphael or something. It's neat that he gets Dispel Cancel on FLB though.

Yeah, I just spam elements on enemies willy-nilly most of the time, only really paying attention if they're immune to something. And yeah, Fischl only needs to be out on the field for a couple seconds to do her job, while Keqing has to hog time from potentially better characters. Speaking of which, if Ganyu needs to be out to use her charge shots since that's the big fancy part of her kit then I guess that makes her a main DPS, but I'm not sure she'll actually be able to do enough damage to justify it.

And yeah, Gorilla is technically good but I have like 1-2 summon slots in most elements and I don't have the Titan setup to use it for racing. Not that I do any racing anyways, I don't need that many gold bricks.

oh they reuploaded the English Ganyu trailer for whatever reason https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASO6t2zp_UI

YugiNoob posted...

What skill do you guys suggest for W? Ive always had a fondness of liking for land mines in games, but theyre so random. Like sometimes shell drop them directly to the right or left of her where enemies generally dont go :<

So Im leaning towards her first skill mainly because its faster and requires less energy or whatever than her last one. The delay once she plants the bombs from her S3 is kinda annoying.

I maxed out her landmine skill first even if it is a bit unreliable and has problems on maps without many deployable tiles

s3 seems to be the other widely used option since it's a really long stun and potentially very high damage too if you can stack all the enemies up, though s1 is a respectable stun with a much lower cooldown.

incidentally, I just finished chapter 7 and I'm surprised at how little focus the banner characters got. W at least had some screentime, Elysium got a bit too, but Weedy didn't appear at all. Rosmontis kinda hogged all of it, I just hope we're not going to have to wait another 6 months for her.

Meultima posted...

Well Weight 7 has been completely unpushable even with Angelina, though it does interrupt their attack. That aside only Patriot is of this weight class even in CN lol

Yeah, Fischl's actually been very favourably rated since the game officially released; she's always a safe pick thanks to ranged homing attacks, strong talents and Oz being a super reliable summon for switching in and out for elemental combos (Even if her own Burst is used like 90% of the time just to reset her Skill lol), while Keqing requires a lot more active input but offers a more proactive playstyle with close-range teleporting and whatnot. But yeah it's not uncommon to see a lot of tier lists putting Fischl above Keqing.

Wouldn't really say Electro terribly needs a buff at this point personally, but a lot of the time I just vaguely mix elements into some concoction of explosions before switching to my DPS of choice lol, I'm not really sure what I'd buff either at this point tbh (Though there was that one point where they kinda screwed up the damage formula and having Oz on a burning field kept killing your party with elemental reactions, fortunately it was fixed like two days later lol)

As an aside my only Geo at the moment is Noelle, who's apparently really stupid strong at max constellation but that's gonna be ways away unless you're a whale anyway; in any case she's basically where you dump all your +Def% artifacts lol

Yeah it's mostly only for minmaxing tbh and it's only really good when FLB at all, though 40% unique stam modifier and 30% echoes is pretty strong. You'd still probably not bring it for soloing hard endgame stuff unless you're DJSalt or something lol. But yeah I wouldn't personally stone it myself either, would probably do Uriel first if anything. I'm also kinda short on sunstones at the moment after going on a mild Arcarum summon forging spree but dem's the breaks; Anniversary should at least bring one or two freebies anyway.

I've also actually managed to max out Freyr but it's a struggle finding a place for him in my summon slots these days; if anything he's just kinda a filler on my Wind lineup until I get a Raphael or something. It's neat that he gets Dispel Cancel on FLB though.

Yep, that's exactly what I use Fischl's burst for lol (it helps that the cooldown on Oz is really long). On that and another tier list https://genshin.gg/tier-list there's no Electro character listed as top tier even though every other non-Dendro element is present. I think part of it might be that Electro's reactions are too weak or something? Pyro/Hydro/Cryo have Melt/Vaporize for big damage, Ameno is very useful for splashing damage onto multiple enemies, Geo...still doesn't seem that useful to me honestly but I dunno.

The only thing I've used Noelle for is the Geo Hypostasis boss since you basically need a Claymore user in order for the fight to not take forever. I only did the fight once for completing the Adventurer Handbook though.

And yeah, it's also hard to make room for miscellaneous gacha summons if you're at endgame since the Arcarum Seraphic summon, Belial, and Primarch will be auto-includes if you have them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91izL7-CCyQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWCKwcrkxpA

aah, Ganyu is so nice...only one more week

Meultima posted...

Yeah that's fair
And yeah actually Angelina helps with the Weight 4 class enemies, otherwise they'll only move 4-5 squares at best (Though in the Shieldguard's case she also chunks like 40-50% of their HP and they take further 20% from the burn as they walk back, which is still fairly impressive considering Eyja needs like 75% of her M3Volcano casttime to kill those guys in my case)

Yeah it seems decent enough, though I've also splurged for the battlepass Black Sword which has a rare Crit Rate modifier which I'm using for Keqing in a crit-focused build at the moment. As an aside she does decent enough damage currently, though her attack stat is still notably on the lower side compared with the rest of my party so she's still got room for improvement; Xiangling's spear combos still mow things down quicker than she can though that's more a testament to her rapidfire attacks combining extremely well with damage modifiers, particularly the Crescent Pike in this case (Which actually deals the extra damage in the style of GBF echoes lol).

Yeah that's a bit unfortunate. I think summonwise the main thing I got was Gorilla, which is actually pretty solid for earth though I don't know if it's a sunstone priority where I'm at right now. That aside it also means I've essentially got all the Titan grid pieces except Ichigo now lol

oh huh, would've expected the blue light shield guys to be basically unpushable. Would be nice if they listed weight as a statistic on the enemy info page or something.

I'm kind of hoping they rebalance Electro at some point like they did for Geo. Maybe when a new Electro 5* comes out, but none of the announced ones are Electro so it'll probably be awhile. Also I like how this tier list https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1pYDZpKgnF-8aRdfKfD_pYRnKKAabgboO1WuxjPmcZO8/htmlview?pru=AAABdvQdJu0*iXHhfkdquhJEnJ7jXbd-gw# places Fischl (and Razor) above Keqing

Gorilla looks like kind of a goofy summon honestly, valid for some racing situations (ideally if you have one extra so you can maintain high banana uptime) but I wouldn't stone it if I had it. Then again, I have 8 Sunstones right now plus 3 buyable in various shops not including Valor, and I only vaguely have plans for Belial/Demi-Hades, so eh.

PokeCris posted...

Yeah, Im surprised I didnt get many summons. Lol.

Will we be getting more free summons? Might hold on to both till all that is done to make my final decision.

we'll get another round of roulettes but that's not until March. I think there are usually also some free rolls during May and August but nowhere near as many as roulettes.

Meultima posted...

Yeah they're weight 2 so in like 7-3 with S3M3 and her turret firing at the same time they'll fly straight to the enemy entrance while dying instantly lol, she can even do the same with the Shieldguard enemies that show up later who are Weight 4 enemies with super resist so that's nice too. She does need to have her cannon doubling down on her target for the highest level push power, which has led to this amusing glitch on the boss of Mansfield Break: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KE3D6moIf_A
(As an aside I find her holiday skin pretty great lol)

You can kinda emulate the CC strat with FEater, but Weedy's turret does make it much easier to reposition the brawlers to Liskarm; I guess you could bring along another pusher to do that but redeployment time can be a bit dicey. Weedy's True Damage also ignores a lot of the CC enemy defensive risks ensuring you're still able to keep the crowds to a reasonable level in a timely manner.

She does kinda combo with Sora if you have her, since Sora also brings AoE sleep, though this again kinda falls into random shenanigans territory lol

Well being able to refine the event sword is kinda nice, though it looks like it loses most of its power once the event goes away anyway. That aside with the number of sword users in the game having more 4*swords is always nice. Aside from that you get the final level-up talent mat and some farmable books, though I guess you don't have to burn resin to get the event ones.

I did forget about positioning the brawlers. She definitely does have niche uses but I guess I saw the fact that she was regarded as one of the best characters in the game and was expecting/hoping that she was someone I could slap into my general-use team, not a character for special occasions only. That is a good bug though, Weedy does have strong meme potential (though I don't have Angelina to maximize her yeet power).

The sword seems decent-ish if you're using it for more of a main DPS, which I probably only would if I rolled Keqing somehow (or I get Ayaka). But I refined it anyways, refining it fully gets you 30 primos at least.

My roulette rolls were pretty nice in some ways and yet disappointing in others (which is to say no new Primal/Primarch/Belial), I put them in the roulette topic over on the gbf board https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/194285-granblue-fantasy/79158466?page=4#241

Yeah, nothing super amazing on either, Kaguya summon on the 2nd account is rare but not exceptionally useful.

If you like Catura's design/voice I'd go for for the first account (Zodiac characters like her are never on rateup outside of their first banner and can only be reliably obtained by saving up 300 rolls, I know a guy who whaled a bit to get her) but otherwise I'd say the second one is a tiny bit better.

Any SSR summons?

I'd lean slightly towards the 2nd account, Catura on the first one is quite rare but not exceptionally strong, whereas the 2nd has more SSRs and also has Yurius who is super useful in a lot of lategame stuff (though you can buy him for $30 if you want)

Meultima posted...

Yeah she needs her M3 to reach her highest push level, though for the red junkman zombies she'll need her turret to do the job too. She also needs a long pathway for max damage (That or a pitfall works too). That said she and Liskarm basically broke Operation Blade in half so it'll be nice having her around when it arrives too

Saria and Blemishine do kinda bring different things to the table, Blemishine has more of a focus on damage as opposed to healing and can be a fair bit squishier compared to Saria (She has lower base defence and no self-buff talent) though she can use her sleep spam to make up for the difference. Though it feels like if you want a self-sufficient strong DPS defender Mudrock might be the way to go.

On another note I wasn't expecting the final event boss for the ongoing Genshin event to be one of the most unfun things I've ever had to do in Genshin, but here we are. Constant AoE and homing attacks, the weak point takes forever to whittle down, and for some reason they made it so the solo fight doesn't allow you to pause on the menu either so you have very few windows to open up the food menu to heal up before the thing just kills you (I basically also slotted Barbara back in just for extra emergency heals that get around this); I get why it would be the case for multiplayer but extending the same limitations to the solo fight seems needlessly cantankerous. I did finish the campaign missions solo anyway because the multiplayer fight is a complete clown fiesta. I guess you could use Amber to fire-snipe the weak spots during the storm phases, so that's a point in favour of Amber I guess?

I was thinking of the melee guys that lose HP constantly, Weedy knocked them back but not as far as I was expecting nor did she actually deal that much damage. I have seen the CC strats that you're referring to and they're pretty brutal lol, though I feel like Liskarm actually contributes more than Weedy (you could use FEater's s2 and do almost as well, the main thing she's missing is the cannon).

Blemishine sounds like she suffers from being too unfocused. I doubt she's going to be a good damage dealer (even if she's a better attacker than Saria) and I can just imagine her getting sniped by mages and dying with full healing charges because there's no enemy in melee range. Like I can't imagine her working as well as Saria on something like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-rPmqaEfPo (partly because Saria has bigger healing range with s2, that's another weakness of Blemishine's I guess). Sleep does sound like a neat-ish gimmick at least.

And yep, the boss for this Genshin event is pretty lame (I like how it's possible to respawn into the blizzard that does 1/3 of your health per second) but the rewards are good, I ended up finding a strong Klee carry and letting them do most of the work. At one point I had one that was strong enough to burst it down before the first blizzard even happened, so that was nice.

I've actually been finding W surprisingly useful, those stuns with her s2 are huge even if she does less damage than Meteorite.

Genwai posted...

Well I used up the rest of my luck for this year. 44 pulls in, and I'm relatively set.
No Elysium though

you can get him guaranteed if you put 75 rolls on the banner, though honestly I think Myrtle is probably going to be fine for most people and Elysium is also not a cute girl which is bad

hopefully when they add a 6* Utility Vanguard it'll swing back around to cute girl territory

Meultima posted...

Congratulations.gif, you finally broke through the gacha misfortune lol
I did get Weedy on my fifth 10-roll, threw another 100ish at the banner only to get a Silverdud dupe (Who I never even trained lol), while I still have a good pile of Ori I might wait until the distinction shop resets before buying another set of draw tickets, but Weedy was my priority anyway so might just save for another banner /shrug
Speaking of extra rolls, or rather originium I also went and bought the Angelina and Lappland costumes, it's nice that you can get costumes in this game without having to explicitly spend money even if they don't have extra voice lines or stuff
Saria's got a pretty nice costume too but she's getting another costume per CN as well; decisions, decisions...

I mean, being able to instantly delete a full mob of the biggest units in the game in a second is pretty useful, she's kinda the only pusher specialist you can regularly bring to the frontline just because of that reason

On the GBF front I actually somehow got two Majestas in one day from being a TH bot lol, guess leeching is the way to go now that it's an 18-max raid
Also got Edgedalphone who breaks Earth balance in half but I'll probably never use him lol
Somewhat relatedly Shadowverse is having their Eternals-themed expansion now, it's kind of funny seeing animated voiced Eternals portraits happening first outside of the game they're actually from, this is the curse of GBF I guess lol

Well if you already have Shaw/FE's S1 mastered for a regular push job in a stage there's no need to really go out of your way to specialize Weedy's as well to be fair, you're largely bringing Weedy along for her S3 in most cases anyway

I've actually tried using s3 Weedy a bit on random stages and been underwhelmed so far, she didn't push the dying zombie guys back nearly as much as I was expecting, or do much damage. Granted she's not fully upgraded yet either.

I think the only costume I bought was Meteorite's, but she's been getting kind of displaced by W lol. Costume for Saria might not be bad but I might replace her with Blemishine? idk, I still have doubts about how well Blemishine will be able to perform. Speaking of healers, it's still kind of weird to me how even in CN I don't think they've released a single 6* Medic past the two that were there at the start of the game.

Incidentally, I like how the story is already hyping up Rosmontis even though she won't be playable for another 6 months in the CN release (hopefully less for international, it's been on a faster release schedule so they should catch up at some point).

YugiNoob posted...

I actually like Ambriel now because of her infinite range lol. Its just that at the time I was going for someone (I think Chen) so getting 5 of the same non-Chens was a kick in the nads :<

But I got this pull to make up for it :3

okay I didn't get quite anything on that level but I did get W, a W dupe, and Weedy all within 55 pulls

It's great to get what I wanted, but I almost feel let down by all the saving I did lol. what do I do with the extra 125 rolls I have now?

ShadowElite86 posted...

Relieved that I was able to pull her without having to reroll, especially considering I was able to get SilverAsh on my initial summon. Should I continue pulling for Weedy or pull on the Exclusive Headhunting Service banner?

if you think you can get another ~60 rolls on the Weedy banner since your last 6*, you have a chance at her. Weedy is kind of a weird unit, fairly stage-dependent, but seems to be very highly regarded (the English tier list has her as one of the six S+ units). I mostly wanted her cause she's really cute.

YugiNoob posted...

Thou hast cursed thyself and now you wont get either lol. The game will troll you like that one time I got 5 Ambriels in one pull :<

My luck in Arknights has been super cursed already what with missing both Blaze and Bagpipe despite rolling heavily on their banners as well as not getting any good Top Op until I was like 8-9 months in (at which point they were just dupes). Gacha games without a pity system that actually guarantees you the thing you're rolling for are bad, Genshin is very stingy with rolls but the pity system is actually pretty solid.

Actually, the W banner does have proper pity, but it requires so many rolls to hit that I think it's there specifically for whales lol.

also, what's wrong with 5 Ambriels?

YugiNoob posted...

Also since W-aifu is coming out in 3 days in Arknights I'm gonna put my base to farm Originium. All those days farming Devices and rocks will pay off lol

I'm still sitting on my stock, the game is pretty stingy with events that are good for farming Devices/Rocks so I don't want to run out (though I now have 90+ Loxic/Oriron/Sugar), and 166 rolls SHOULD be enough to get both W and Weedy. Though the event will also have a total of 24 free rolls, I think.

Meultima posted...

Seems Hu Tao is rumoured to have some enmity-style damage gimmick, which I guess makes her Genshin's honorary Gisla-chan, if not as precious lol
Ayaka kinda also strikes me as kinda plain looking though the sort-of samurai theme going on is kinda cool/cute, that being said both of these are characters that haven't actually appeared in the game outside of beta (Which I didn't play) so there's precious little to go off on lol

Yeah I was more speaking of the really difficult long content where you'd rather have more live summons to use for chaining important summons or if you were gonna use a single-use summon anyway you'd prefer a stack of Qilins as panic buttons but admittedly those are rather niche cases even in endgame
Of course like I mentioned before there's even the 5-Lucha room LuciH strat that bursts him down in 7 turns that does slot Belial lol

Yeah, the problem is I don't use any healers and Hu Tao apparently damages herself more than she heals. Her base attack is also really low so presumably she hits pretty weakly without her skill. Of course she hasn't even been officially revealed yet so very subject to change. Ayaka's design is nice (I like her little side hair things) and her animations are also really fast and stylish looking, and Saori Hayami is good, she's just a nice package all around.

...though they'll probably nerf her outfit by the time she's actually released. Apparently in beta she was the only character wearing regular underwear, but in-game all characters wear either stockings or hotpants or regular pants or such.

And yeah, you might not slot Belial in high-difficulty endgame raids if you need those slots for something else specifically, but if you have enough HP then he's actually a reasonable pick. Supplemental damage ignores defense so it can end up being a pretty significant damage boost in lategame content too.

I feel like she does have similar proportions, maybe a tiny bit taller. Though Genshin only really has 3 female body types. Maybe bigger boobs in fanart thanks to memes.

Oddly, the wiki calls her tall even though she's using the medium-short body.

Meultima posted...

I mean for whatever reason she doesn't strike me as especially cute or anything either lol, like I guess she's alright but I dunno (Though I guess she kinda looks like Ferry which we have a similar difference of opinion about lol)

It's admittedly a pretty nice area overall, though I feel like I've already explored most of what it has to offer which makes its size a bit more of a shame.

I'm ironically on the other opposite end of the spectrum; had two Hades/Belial/Bahamut pulls but only a single Majestas drop ever (Though this is admittedly the better side of the first world problems to be on lol) To be fair Belial doesn't seem conducive for most long content but there are some whacky Lucha burst comps for LuciHard running around these days
I do have enough for a Sierotix but there's not really anything all that great to use it on for me now, I was initially saving it for Agni but unless I get a truckload of Gangsta Knives and Dierdre Claws soon there's not a whole lot of point going Agni over Magna either
Aside from that I am still missing a few key non-Gala Dark characters (Predator/Kolulu) but using S-tix on those would be a waste

Well that's fair, though Bubs is generally seen as a much easier fight to cheese than Luci from what I've seen especially since Tormentor no-sells a lot of his worst phases. That aside Majestas would still typically be a best-in-slot for that sort of difficult fight anyway, I've even seen solo raid runs with frontline Zooey for starting the Garrison cheese early lol

Yeah, Ganyu is basically just Ferry with horns and a somewhat modified outfit design-wise. It also helps that none of the other 5* in the game right now are really that interesting to me, 4/5 of the limited ones so far are dudes and there's no way to aim for the non-limited ones (though the only non-limiteds I really like are Keqing and Mona and I already have Mona. And technically Traveler but she's not a real 5*). I'd strongly consider rolling for Venti if they ever add a dress outfit though lol.

as far as future characters go, Hu Tao looks extremely bizarre gameplay-wise from the leaks but she's cute enough and I do really want Ayaka but who knows when she's coming.

Belial is great since the HP penalty is additive so in grids where you have a lot of HP bonuses, he barely reduces your HP at all. And the Supplemental damage can add a lot if you're working with decent multiattack/echo. I honestly think he's the most busted summon in the game, more valuable overall than Hades since he can be used in every element. Pretty good stat stick too. I'm salty I never got him on the NY banner last year even with a spark.

I'm actually not sure if I'd call Luci (assuming buncle cheese) or Bubs easier, they both require different things to succeed but neither is a cakewalk. Bubs definitely is less "your party must have X role" though which is nice. And yeah, I probably would slot a Majestas or two regardless if I was running Hades.

Agni does still have the very strong racing strat with Alanaan and S Mimlemel assuming you have enough Ixaba, but Colossus is actually pretty solid now with 5* and AES uncap so I don't feel the need to go Agni that much.

Meultima posted...

You could try using an anemo reaction to create a larger AoE in those instances but yeah her Goba can be finicky
To be fair it's also a fairly small area despite them hyping it as a new area but I guess it's just the right size for being the relevant location for a couple-week long event. It's also nice that the grinding for the first event currency doesn't need resin compared to the previous event and the general spawn area of the grind locations are fairly near to each other
Well AR mostly just gates some main story progression and domains so it's actually easy to see where to pace yourself; though to be fair I think aside from WR 4 there's not really anything you need to watch out for. Speaking of I really want to get a good Cryo on my team but I'm not really personally sold on Ganyu overall as opposed to Qiqi even though I played through the parts of the story she appears in, on the other hand a Qiqi rate-up banner seems kinda unlikely since she's not a limited, gacha is pain peko
I'm interested in Surtr just because she seems to enable a lot of fire-and-forget strategies thanks to being an obscenely overpowered helidrop operator haha, plus I think she looks fairly cool personally. I think the new ones I'm most interested in would be Weedy/Mudrock/Surtr/Rosmontis. Eunectes I'm mostly just amused at her big skill being summoning a tractor mech piloted by Rio lol

GBFwise I'm quite on my way to two sparks but I'm not really saving for anything in particular, just that there's not much incentive to pull before the roulettes lol
Honestly I feel like I'm just waiting for the 2021 weapon annitix to get a second FLB Majestas so I can go all in on Hades and just faceroll all the hard content with palmtree cheese because it feels like a lot of the content is super annoying in various ways these days, at least dragon/malice is kinda less dumb now being raised to 18 people raids but tiamal drop rates continue to be suffering nontheless

oh yeah, I guess that'd work. Ganyu's skillset seems kinda mediocre honestly (but hopefully still workable), I want her 90% cause she's cute and should fit reasonably well into my current team

I think Dragonspine is a neat area overall, I like the large underground areas in particular even if they're kind of impossible to read properly on the world map.

Tiamalice has actually been really generous with the Majestas for me, but I have the small problem of no Hades summon lol (though Demi-Hades is still available). Meanwhile I've been hosting Phronesis daily since Magfes started and not a single Dark Thrasher. I do almost have enough for a Sierotix but that's likely going towards Belial, hopefully I roll one of the two during roulettes though.

Incidentally, I'm not sure Majestas would be amazingly helpful in Beelzebub due to the nature of the fight. It's not going to let you tank Chaos Legion and he can still deal very high single-target damage if he decides to hit one character multiple times. Actually, I'm not sure if Garrison updates defense during the middle of multi-hit attacks, though I guess it should.

also i like how I've coincidentally ended up saving up for banners that are all happening in the next month in the 3 gacha games I'm playing

-Ganyu banner in Genshin
-Weedy/W banner in Arknights
-Granblue's New Years roulette banners (potentially both of them)

Meultima posted...

Yeah the area itself is pretty much the most hostile general area released in the game thus far so you'll probably have a rough go at it until you at least get a stronger fire DPS; also especially with the Abyss Mages since their shields take forever to whittle down outside of a series of strong elemental burst reactions (Water ones especially are still kinda a pain for me because I can't be bothered to build Kaeya lol). I did kinda just stumble into the trio of Abyss Mages around the Princess Box and took them out quickly enough but not before getting into frosbite status, though the actual periodic damage from frostbite doesn't seem too bad if you have a lot of healing at least, or maybe it's because my main party is already over L70

Keep in mind not to ascend too fast either, after a point there's a rather noticeable difficulty jump where enemies start to require better equipment loadouts to keep up; I'd say that point is around World Rank 4.

Well mostly you'd pair the cages with Specter S2 for max stall while you fire off your biggest burst DPS but even then it's definitely a bit tricky to pull off. It's also possible to put down two cages in advance but the first cage will be on low HP by the time the second drops.

rip, hopefully your luck gets better this time.
Probably the one really good thing I can say about Genshin's gacha is the banner guarantee for every second 5-star you pull on the seasonal banner lol
On that note I've also pulled Keqing as my second 5-star from the standard banner, but while she seems actually decently fun I really need a good set of artifacts for her to get her up to par with the rest of my main party, and I'm pretty much all out, which means more random Elite mob grinding
Artifact gating is suffering dayo

getting Xiangling helped in general, it's nice having a non-meme Pyro character though she's kind of terrible at lighting torches because her bear will sometimes just decide to face another direction. For whatever reason it seemed to get better after making this post, I haven't run into many more bosses away from torches and the ones that did had the decency to not magically regenerate all of their health. The area around the peak was pretty neat too.

also I'd kind of forgotten about food buffs when doing the time-limited fight, that made it a lot easier

The game did start giving out ways of helping with the cold, but they only really become accessible after you've been exploring for awhile (especially the one that requires 40 Agate) so it doesn't make much of a difference in practice.

I kinda want to get my AR high quickly since it seems to lock a lot of stuff but idk, I also don't want to play too much before I get Ganyu lol

And yeah, the lack of a consistent pity system is one thing I really dislike about Arknights. I think I ended up rolling 70-some times on Blaze and 100-some times on Bagpipe and failed to get either. At least I'm about as prepared as I can be for Weedy/W, I had about 150 rolls last time I checked.

Future banners are weird, Surtr/Thorns look pretty strong but I don't really want them from a character standpoint, Blemishine is cute but doesn't look that relevant, Eunuctus/Mountain are w/e, and Rosmontis/Mudrock look great and I definitely want them but I guess that's to be expected of limited banners.

re Genshin, I have mixed feelings on Dragonspire. The cold element is a pretty neat idea and adds an extra element to exploration...but it also has a nasty habit of placing bosses or minibosses away from heat sources, and then making them regenerate their entire health bar and shield when you go away to defrost yourself, this has happened a couple of times now. Some of the puzzles are really obtuse too, I got stuck on one only to realize that there was a wall you had to bomb with Amber. Also apparently I've barely made much progress on the actual event itself, despite spending like probably 4-5 hours in the area.

Still not sure how I'm supposed to get the Princess's Box, idk if I can burst through 3 Abyss Mages in 60 seconds while taking a bunch of cold damage.

Meultima posted...

I actually got Xiangling first from pulling on the first released banner lol, though i did use her a fair bit before actually getting her drop from Spiral. That being said getting up to where you can comfortably beat that Abyss level shouldn't take too long either.

Don't forget to also use her cage lures if you're going to trigger a few at once, they'll last pretty long under her S3
I think most of the time I ended up picking them off one at a time, including in the mini-annihilation map

Amusingly this event was supposed to be before Twilight, which was generally regarded as the hardest event released thus far
On the other hand from what I've seen the the events coming after are toned down a fair bit in terms of difficulty so there's that

Yeah it's kinda grindy for an action RPG lol, which is I guess fine if you want a main game but not being able to just autopilot the dailies has kinda made me ease up on playing aside from peeking in when a new event drops

yeah, I'm getting the uncaps to lv 50 done, just need a couple day-restricted items for weapons now, then I'll give Abyss another shot. Though I've heard she may be on Ganyu's banner so I have a decent chance of rolling her there.

Nightingale's cage lures sort of help, though the super mages hit two targets so at least one character is still getting hit. I've been using s2 since most of the stages are based on luring out the mages one at a time, using a burst skill like her s3 usually doesn't work (it won't save you from 4+ mages at once).

Mostly though I just want my Weedy/W banner already. I haven't pulled a new character worth using in quite literally months, I've just been building up a huge stockpile of most resources without being able to spend them on anything.

Noraneko_Vel posted...

Ring out the enemies in 3-2.
In the end you don't need any stars, you just have to beat 3-3.
Elemental reactions also make a huge difference if you spam them.

My current strategy is mostly spamming reactions, party is Mona/Fischl/Ameno Traveler/Kaeya. Mona and Fischl in particular can do a ton of damage together but only in a small AoE and the enemies tend to spread out, Fischl's cooldown on her skill is pretty long too.

Might have to try ringing out but I'm also trying to rush ar25 regardless. Though it seems like farming lv 50 Ascension materials is gonna be a challenge in its own right...I dunno, too many things to try and do.

finally Albedo banner in Genshin

which means only 3 more weeks to wait until I get to see how bad they made Ganyu whoo

also I've been trying to get Xiangling but the enemies on floor 3 of Spiral Abyss are super tanky to my lv 30-40 party with lv 40 weapons. Guess I need to grind more AR so I can upgrade them further.

YugiNoob posted...

Fucking hell that last EX stage for the Arknights event was a pain in the ass. Luckily the challenge mode was essentially the same since movement speed of those bosses played basically no role in how I dealt with the stage lol

yep, the mage dudes are pretty bonkers. I E2'd Nightingale since she's one of the few characters that helps against mages and it barely feels like it made a difference.

I'm slightly uncomfortable with how bad the last group of stages is no doubt going to be now lol

part 2 of this Arknights event is pretty brutal and just to rub it in, they made all the stages into Challenge (ie you only get half sanity back if you fail).

I actually feel like using Nightingale for the first time in awhile, the crazy mage guys in particular just shred through almost anything. And then after trying unsuccessfully to beat EX-6, I look up walkthroughs and it turns out that Blaze is basically required, and I beat regular mode with Meultima's then the game thought it would be funny to not give me one for 10 refreshes in a row zzz

Noraneko_Vel posted...

The "shunning all impurity" on Ganyu's backstep taunt skill description really makes it sound like she resets or transfers all her aggro to the ice lotus to me.

So it would work great combined with her sniping playstyle IMO.
Other than that, I'm sure they'll nerf it a bit, but her current almost 500% multiplier (frostflake + bloom) on a no cooldown AoE aimed shot is pretty sick.
Especially when you consider her 20% crit rate bonus on successive Frostflakes, 20% cryo bonus from her burst field, 20%-40% crit rate bonus from her artifact 4-set, melt reactions and afaik her high base ATK / cryo dmg. Then her constellations would raise that damage through the roof by dropping cryo resistance and unlocking 2 instant frostflake shots on 12sec cooldown each.

Ganyu sounds about as "disappointing" as Klee to me. Which would be incredibly powerful and highly desirable.

Kaeya and Chongyun are complete garbage compared to her IMO. Though Chongyun could allow some very interesting setups thanks to that new cryo artifact set.

Eh, aimed shots are annoying and a massive pita on mobile for reasons mentioned above (and still kind of annoying on PC/console). I'd really prefer if they at least let you charge an attack without forcing you to manually aim it, like you can with any other weapon type.

Tyranthraxus posted...

Oh I never do that I only ever use Aiming mode which forces manual aiming.

How do you aim on mobile then, out of curiosity?

Other charged attacks are fine, it's just bows that are annoying since instead of locking onto whatever enemy you're facing (like Catalyst charge attacks seem to), it takes you into 3rd person mode. But it doesn't automatically aim at an enemy and you've already got your right thumb on the attack button, so you have to either move your right thumb around which doesn't give you much room to aim, or you have to take your left thumb off the control stick area and move it to the center of the phone and then use it to aim which is very awkward.

It sort of works if you're aiming at a stationary target, but actually landing a charged shot in the middle of a fight is not fun.