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Galbias posted...

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.

Well previously we only had Anre and Tweyen who weren't exactly meta until the uncap allowed for a new lease of life in some areas, though I'm kinda hoping for a general rework of Niyon before her 6* uncap, the actual transcendence process doesn't seem like something I'd be actively chasing considering I'm still putting off my FLB Seraphics lol. I haven't changed my wind frontline in a long while and am still running the 5* smol qt team, though I also haven't gotten anyone terribly interesting in terms of teamwide utility aside from uh Lecia, Rosetta and Kaede (Whom I actually brought to FaaH as a discount Yurius lol) Also Lumberjack already provides FA healing so I'm not exactly needing much on that front either lol

On another note SSR Drunken Fist Lamretta being able to no-sell boss autos up to Raid Bubs on basically permanent uptime in V2 is pretty wild, might be the first really good defensive non-seasonal earth SSR in awhile lol. I did my Bubs solo quest recently with standard spear magna fire and it's almost kind of weird how pedestrian the fight can get once you can settle down his initial auto barrage via buff/debuff stacking and most of the difficulty after just comes down to bad RNG lol so having something to manage his autos would definitely be helpful

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Galbias posted...

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).

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

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.

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

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Galbias posted...

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

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.

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Galbias posted...

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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Galbias posted...

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.

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

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.

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

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Galbias posted...

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.

Yeah I'm just waiting for a prototype bow to drop so I can make one lol

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.

Yeah after a certain point there starts to be a dearth of content outside of just dailies/farming lol
I guess the current 'totally-not-Contingency-Contract' event is meant to encourage that sort of grinding but most of the prizes are meh anyway aside from the one-time primogem prize
That being said the Level 90 domains do give guaranteed single 5* artifact drops so there's a bit of incentive to ascend to 90 I guess

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Galbias posted...

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)

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)

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/

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

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.

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)

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Galbias posted...

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)

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

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

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.

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.

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

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Galbias posted...

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?

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

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.

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 common lol, though my chump water grid only achieves that once in a blue moon (being when S.Cag is at full stacks for S1 lol)

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

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)

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Galbias posted...

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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Galbias posted...

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.

Getting her early would be nice though having some downtime to save for pulls would be good as well for me lol

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.

To be fair the tier lists do sorta seem to be in flux, there were moments where both Fischl and Keqing appeared in the top tiers. That aside a general rule of the top tiers also seem to be that they bring party support in general, i.e. Qiqi, though Diluc and Klee in particular get by on sheer Big Bomba DPS power. Though incidentally during the few times they let you try Diluc for free I ended up really hating his regular combos lol, he feels really slow and clunky (Plus I think he was underleveled compared to my party) On the other hand Klee was pretty fun if only on virtue of bringing an entire circus' worth of fireworks to the party.
Geo's always been a bit of an odd element, the upcoming updates seem to improve it in general but that won't be until 1.3 so yeah.
That said one thing that's nice about Electro is that it's probably the best general element for mob control in rain or watery areas in general too, which comes up fairly often enough to be a nice bonus (Cryo's freezing is nice too though)

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.

Yeah aside from that I use her for mining rocks lol, I did fight the Geo Hypo until I got enough mats to level her similarly to my party and maybe a second Geo user when I get one that piques my fancy, i.e. maybe Ningguang or something; though she's not exactly my favourite character I've seen some pretty nice feature videos on her ie:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FocxbVU9KXg&;
(Incidentally Dreamy also makes similarly in-depth Arknights operator guides so her channel's a nice resource for both games lol)

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.

I've actually been regularly using HalMal as a discount Belial lol, I managed to get them to 2* as well so it's a decent statstick and 5% DA *kinda* helps with some of the DATA problems teams can have. I do still use Lucifer basically everywhere since healing and charge bar gain is always good (especially with stamina teams), and while he's kinda out of vogue Bahamut's still nice for having what is the lowest cooldown among summons iirc so you get good uptime on his effects aside from still being one of the best summon statsticks in the game.

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Galbias posted...

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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Galbias posted...

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).

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)

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.

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).

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 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

Funkydog posted...

Double W roll on my 100th overall roll. Pretty decent getting to drop her DP cost, but guess no Weedy for me for the foreseeable future unless I get lucky on the free daily.

Well Weedy's in the regular pool after all, you might get randomly lucky later on lol
Got a decent stockpile of pulls but I'm waiting until the last day of the free daily pulls myself

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Galbias posted...

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).

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

PokeCris posted...

Those are my summons.

Of those Typhon would be considered really good, but only for certain endgame raids, so I wouldn't exactly say anything in your summon pools are particularly slam-keeps either

I did manage to get Predator from today's rolls which is nice, so that's one less suptix target off my wishlist. A bit unfortunate though that the spark pool for the current banner is kinda worthless (I even rolled M&R earlier) so that's 250 sparks kinda going to waste.

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Galbias posted...

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.

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

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.

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?

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I wanted one life, you wanted another; we couldn't have our cake, so we ate each other. - Roger McGough

Galbias posted...

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?

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...

if you think you can get another ~60 rolls on the Weedy banner since your last 6*, including the 14 daily free rolls, then 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.

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

Funkydog posted...

Weedy seems great as her t3 ability is true damage along with knockback, then can deploy her turret for SUPER pushback, making Shaw and FEater obsolete largely.

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

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I wanted one life, you wanted another; we couldn't have our cake, so we ate each other. - Roger McGough

Galbias posted...

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.

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

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.

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

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Galbias posted...

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 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)

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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I wanted one life, you wanted another; we couldn't have our cake, so we ate each other. - Roger McGough

Galbias posted...

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.

You could try using an anemo reaction to create a larger AoE in those instances but yeah her Goba can be finicky

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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
Galbias posted...

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)

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

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I wanted one life, you wanted another; we couldn't have our cake, so we ate each other. - Roger McGough

Galbias posted...

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.

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

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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

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I wanted one life, you wanted another; we couldn't have our cake, so we ate each other. - Roger McGough

Galbias posted...

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Galbias posted...

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.

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

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Galbias posted...

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EoqPkfsW4AMmcym?format=jpg&name=large

RIP pecoppai

To be fair that's pretty much just her existing modified art from her Shadowverse appearance back in 2019 which despite being a Cygames-run operation (outside of the chinese server anyway) is full of art touchups (Typically done when they port over their old Rage of Bahamut card art, but also done with GBF characters lol)

https://twitter.com/shadowverse_jp/status/1109042589611679745
https://shadowverse-portal.com/card/115241020?lang=en

\_()_/

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I wanted one life, you wanted another; we couldn't have our cake, so we ate each other. - Roger McGough

Galbias posted...

idk that I'll ever be able to pull for 5* artifacts, trying to get 5* characters and then constellations already seems like more stuff than I'll have Primogems for.

Well you don't primo pull for artifacts, they're in-game drops; aside from characters the other thing you can get from the primo gacha is weapons if that's what you were thinking of.

On that tangent for Xiangling and Fischl's case they also have the advantage of having ready access to the upper tier of the in-game forgeable 4* weapons (Crescent Pike, Compound Bow) so you don't have to add further gacha nonsense to get serviceable DPS, with the Crescent Pike basically being hands down the best physical DPS weapon a non-whale will likely have access to; Xiangling herself being among the rare spear users in a useful element (And you can get her for free currently)

But yeah, regarding artifacts, while they're drops, they also have some of the worst RNG nonsense in the game; 5* artifacts have a main stat (Usually random) and four sub stats (Always random). Not helped that Level 1 artifacts typically only show two or three substats so you might still have to level them up to see if the remaining stat rolls are any good.

As an aside chasing for high constellations is generally pretty unrealistic even for 4* characters yeah, the exception being the MC since you get MC constellation items in-game itself

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I wanted one life, you wanted another; we couldn't have our cake, so we ate each other. - Roger McGough

Galbias posted...

as someone who also does not play Azur Lane I also agree that Laffey is best

nothing much interesting going on, Arknights is still in rerun mode and Granblue's new mode is kind of lame

and I'm waiting till they add Ganyu before playing Genshin which is a decision I'm not totally sure about because they keep delaying her and releasing new banners with dudes instead of cute girls and that's terrible

To be fair Klee was a limited unit too but yeah
Keeping my fingers crossed for a Qiqi rateup sometime, until they release more content that's basically the only thing I'm interested in doing at all lol

Galbias posted...

yeah, idk what I'm gonna do since I don't like any of the main DPS chars that much (except maybe Keqing and she's the worst one apparently). I think you can make Mona into a decent main DPS though? idk

I could just wait for Ayaka but she's probably not going to be out until like February or something

Yeah my main DPS are Xiangling, Fischl and MC lol
I do actually have Mona as my sole gacha 5* (while pulling for Klee, rate up is a lie etc) but it doesn't feel like her damage output is all that impressive unless I hit her burst while the aforementioned characters actually have respectable physical DPS output from the weapons I give them (plus their element summons are no slouches either) though most of the time I just switch to MC for le wind burst explosion to end fights quick. I feel like 95% of the reason I even slot in Mona is for gas gas gas waterdrifting (fastest overworld sprint) though even that has its own issues because she seems to have a habit of getting stuck everybloodywhere
Practically I'd rather slot in Barbara for panic healing and the only reason I'm even phasing her out is just because I have a huge stockpile of healing foods at the moment. Things might change once I get more relevant 5* artifacts but having 90% of the artifact stats be yet more RNG is another car on the neverending train of Genshin gacha suffering.

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I wanted one life, you wanted another; we couldn't have our cake, so we ate each other. - Roger McGough

Galbias posted...

This permanent stage in Arknights CC has destroyed me, idk why I'm having so much trouble with it besides the fact that it requires very tight skill timings which are slightly different depending on whether or not you do/don't have a given skill maxed. That and having to reselect a support unit every time (and the terrible event page music) has worn me down idk, ended up just settling with Risk 15 which still took a lot of retries somehow.

Well that's one thing but it's also a pretty ??? moment when the new Week 2 tags are actually worse than the Week 1 lol. I did manage to finish Week 1 R18 but still
At least apparently Op. Blade is one of the easier CC Perma Maps so there's that

Galbias posted...

I generally try to do the Challenge mission and Risk 8 at the same time, but since that wasn't possible today I did Challenge Mission and Risk 6 at the same time. Finishing at 6 instead of 8 is only 10 less CC currency which is nothing. Plus one agreement, which I think give you a random T3 item after the event is over?

Even bringing both S3M3 Eyja and Angelina I was having a bit of issue with R8ing this stage lol. Though I felt like including the challenge mission was the only combination that best worked for a R8 for me; which was the case for all the daily maps this CC thus far, come to think about it


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Galbias posted...

hm, for whatever reason I was thinking Angelina's M3 was basically a no-brainer when using her (since her skill is basically all you're using her for) but good to know it's not required since the only one on my support list is still skill 7 lol

Oh, for that particular guide I think Mastery 3 is needed at least since it gives you 4 extra SP to start her skill sooner; the deployment just before Crownslayer arrives is super tight. On testing I did manage to off her in time using my now-M2 Angelina and M1S2 Texas in place of Siege; this gives you a fair bit more leeway. But at any rate my Ange is gonna be S3 soon anyway so there's that I guess; will be putting her up for the rest of this CC.

and yeah, Crownslayer should be a lot more doable if you use both the stun blocks, but that requires rearranging your deployed characters on the fly to deal with the way that the enemies move, which I want to avoid if possible. CC4 seems to have Faust as the boss which I think I'll prefer, not that he doesn't come with his own challenges.

I only used the stun block near the Crownslayer exit so the enemies basically go straight into the Crownslayer killing zone then lol
Amusingly CC4 comes with Brawlers which means Liskarm abuse for SP supercharging is on the table lol

I like spending points on the infinite T3 sinks since they're the most efficient, in particular I remember thinking that 60 RMA was more than I'd ever use back during the first CC and then before this event started I was almost out.

That's fair, I guess now that CC currency doesn't disappear I'm don't feel immediately pressured to spend lol

Galbias posted...

I basically just used s2 Eyja + Siege + Medic on the top lane and Lappland + Medic on the bottom lane and that ended up working fine for Risk 8, surprisingly.

Funkydog posted...

Pretty similar to what I did, no idea why it kept failing as after getting an easy win I tried again a few times just cos and passed easily each time.

So I dunno.

RNG gonna RNG sometimes lol
I used Magallan for my own clear personally, always fun to use her on limited ops risks

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I wanted one life, you wanted another; we couldn't have our cake, so we ate each other. - Roger McGough

Galbias posted...

Yeah, after trying the permanent stage for a bit I definitely feel the lack of Angelina. I actually had a really hard time even getting a basic Risk 8 clear until I came across the brilliant strategy of putting a junk unit in front of Crownslayer to waste her first jump (I also tried placing Shaw back behind the area where she pops out near the end, but that doesn't seem to work for whatever reason).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79IZDO9hz_o something like this seems like a good strategy if I'm not going to try borrowing a support Angelina, I ended up upgrading Glaucus for this event (almost used her during the first CC so she'll probably get some used again at some point, 4.5 second AoE bind is nice).

Ended up following this video for my clear: https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1Sv411z77i
Timing for the skills are definitely a bit tight though I'm not sure how necessary a fully decked Angelina is lol, On testing Mastery3 for the extra starting SP and damage is pretty essential if only to finish Crownslayer in a timely manner, I haven't maxed out my Angelina's masteries yet so she didn't make the cut. Definitely feels less autopilot than my last CC's W1R18 at any rate.

The Challenge missions were pretty nasty mostly because Crownslayer and how she has extremely high RES with the challenge conditions, it took two rounds of Silverash + Warfarin + Texas + Glaucus + Red to kill her on the last challenge mission along with one of the stun blocks.

I did have a fair bit of trouble with the final Crownslayer challenge but I think it gets much more manageable once you resign yourself to having to dedicate two rounds to finishing off Crownslayer. Does still require an obnoxious amount of firepower (And stun) either way.

The rewards are also interesting since there are now the Royal Vanguard Tokens to consider, I have a pot 3 Siege and no Bagpipe so they aren't really useful at the moment, but I could roll Bagpipe in the future maybe and I do hope they introduce a 6* Utility Vanguard eventually.

Yeah I still have a few hundred event currency left and outside of the tokens the only limited stuff left is money, exp and furniture; the rest are just infinite sinks and those aren't too worthwhile unless there's nothing better to save for.

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I wanted one life, you wanted another; we couldn't have our cake, so we ate each other. - Roger McGough

Galbias posted...

this CC event music for Arknights is kind of terrible lol

not a fan of the first stage either, I always hate these stages with 5 different drone lanes to manage plus a ton of melee lanes

looking at the permanent stage, seems like every single risk 18 clear seems to be using Silverash/Eyja/Angelina with their big AoE nukes, guess it's finally time to level Volcano

Galbias posted...

I finally got a very janky risk 8 clear after sticking Myrtle in the back lane at the start, which gave me enough DP to deploy a Drone Jammer even with the minus DP regen condition.

The stage kinda makes me glad I finally have Eyja lol, just saving Volcano for the final drone rush (With jammer support) nailed it for me
But yeah this is basically High-Rise 2.0 and that stage seems to regularly have the worst risk tags in every past CC lol

I've seen a lot of W1 R18 clears without Masteries on a lot of the DPS but I guess if you don't have Angelina access you'll want to make up for some of the difference yeah

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I wanted one life, you wanted another; we couldn't have our cake, so we ate each other. - Roger McGough

Genwai posted...

I'm still struggling through the challenge stages myself, working on TW-EX-4 CM. I also still have to do TW-S-2 and TW-MO-1, though I might skip the last one and focus on finishing all the Challenge stages before the event ends tonight.

Magallan(w/ S1) and Gravel have been my MVPs for this event.

I pretty much just brute forced EX4CM lol. I do have Magallan as well but if I just need slow I typically just bring in Istina and/or Manticore. Not saying Magallan S1 isn't game-changing in certain maps of course.
That said I really should E2 Gravel sometime, if only because her stalling ability seems a bit compromised this event against the harakiri bombers. Still mostly did her job when needed, but having a bit more breathing room would be nice.

Galbias posted...

I squeezed out the two weekly potions today to use them on the event, so now I have 68 Grindstones and 74 Aketon (and 40-some alloy blocks but who cares, I've used exactly one operator that requires them so far). Hopefully that'll be enough for awhile.

I've only managed to really grind about 90ish aketon, got roughly 30 alloy blocks in anticipation of Weedy or something. Grindstones would've been immediately better but looks like the stage isn't terribly better than what we already have, even if my setup full-autos the stage reliably. I also wasted a bit of the event grinding random things to E2 Angelina though lol

also got my 3rd top operator (Saria), so now I've gotten both the 6* operators that I bought with Yellow Certs from Recruitment ;_;

Oof rip

Ethan is easily obtainable so that's not an issue, my problem was more capturing the side turrets fast enough, you need to have multiple low-cost operators and I don't like raising and building an entire special team for one challenge stage. I didn't think of using Myrtle for passive healing though, that's a really good idea.

I actually haven't E2'd Myrtle or used her much at all, in my experience she usually seems to get too slow of a start with DP generation which means that enemies can often get past her. That would be a lot less of a problem if I had Bagpipe (max potential on Myrtle would be nice too), but such is gacha life...

rip x2
I guess you could try using Texas's 2DP bonus for tight stages but yeah Bagpipe+MyrtleS1M3 is a high bar, I haven't really had to go back and train up cheaper operators, though I usually just bring Texas/Siege for really tight stages.


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I wanted one life, you wanted another; we couldn't have our cake, so we ate each other. - Roger McGough

Galbias posted...

the hardest actual stage was TW-EX-6 Challenge, but I didn't even bother completing that one lol

Yeah if you don't have Manticore/Ethan for the middle turret it's probably pretty painful haha, though each singular turret doesn't actually do that much damage to vanguards especially with Myrtle's passive so medics easily outheal the damage. I actually kinda found the CM map easier than expected.

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Galbias posted...

Took me awhile to find this topic, I think I assumed it had been deleted for being off-topic or something

This event in Arknights is simultaneously fun and a headache. I like the setup with the towers and Colossi where you're basically reliant on controlling the towers to take down the Colossi since they have absolutely absurd amounts of health, but the stages with Mudrock are pretty annoying since she's basically immortal if she's next to an enemy tower since they keep healing her, and of course the stages are designed to kind of cheese control away from you, especially with those stupid suicide bombers.

Nice that it actually has good rewards though, a lot of the events have felt kinda stingy but this one actually had rolls available in the shop (if only three) in addition to the usual OP for first-time clears.

Those blood magisters being suicidal and doing a ton of damage is one thing but being moderately hard to kill and being stupid fast also really bugs me (Also of *course* they're immune to silence, thanks Arknights). Honestly I don't even mind Mudrock that much after I learned timing Eyja's Volcano right as her shield drops is typically gg (though it's easiest breaking her shield with Gramaphones) but having to also micromanage for those stupid suicide bombers really suck. On the whole the CM EX maps feel like some of the toughest yet since I could typically brute force most maps but those enemies really throw a spanner in the works. Makes me almost regret not having E2 Nightingale lol, though she seems like a good investment for Chapter 8 so that's a good reason to level her later

That aside, Maaya Uchida for Mudrock is certainly something different lol, I guess she joins the list of Arknights serious-sounding Defenders voiced by the cutesey typecast seiyuu

Galbias posted...

https://twitter.com/ArknightsEN/status/1325740161892806657?s=09

calm down Arknights, you just finished the longest and most involved event yet, give me a couple days of break at least

I hear Angelina's pretty core for the first-week clear, though all that gets you is a shinier medal lol
Managed to get her from my first banner roll too, which is nice; might just convert those spare gold tix into draw tickets since I'm pretty sure I got every announced shop 6-star too at this point

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Galbias posted...

Yep, Water is the element of suffering. I think it was good relative to the other elements at one point when Murgleis was first uncapped? But it's been at the bottom of the pack for awhile now. It says a lot when Dark has a straight-up better version of Water's best M2 weapon. Also, I'm done with the mess that is Astaroth farming for a long time and I've seen a decent mix of every element, except for Water. Nobody ever brings Water, I don't think I've even seen Varuna players.

As I understand, back in the day Stamina on Fimbul was on a 23% max mod with straight reduction scaling, making f2p Varuna straight up one of the best grids in general
Until they reworked nerfed stamina (15% max, heavier decay) because stam is so much easier to use than enmity apparently (In an era where Summer Zoi made Enmity Dark king)
Murg was still a good grid slot-in, but then they started giving every other element much stronger grid options (Including better stamina weapons because fimbul tax or something)

I do like that Arknight has two good Risa Tanedas (Meteorite being the other one besides Eyja), she isn't in enough stuff

Yeah looking back she doesn't really show up that much, shame

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Galbias posted...

i like how Water M2 was the worst already but they still gave it a crap new weapon. Hopefully Dog FLB is good at least, more than anything I'm hoping they take away her dependence on DATA buffers and/or Bonito.

Water seems forever cursed to getting stuff from other elements except worse in some way

and yeah pubbed LuciHL seems unlikely to succeed given that one screwup can tank the entire raid. There's always someone (I've had two UBHL hosts fail recently due to someone triggering Reason's Transcendence even).

Yeah pub LuciHLs seem more like a testing ground to get used to triggers more than anything, actually getting to the end of a raid is more of a side bonus that happens once in a blue moon.

For some reason I don't think I've had RT triggered lol, feels like UBHL dies too fast for that to happen these days even in pub raids

I still dunno what to expect for Arknights banner order now, apparently there was a 3 month gap between Bagpipe and Rosa banners on CN.

On another note, it is nice that they finally fixed Trading Posts so you don't have to click a billion times. Now, if only they'd do the same for daily missions...

Yeah the order's a bit out of whack now. Probably means the WW banner will be here sooner than later at least.
On the other hand looks like next shop 6* is Eyja, guess I can finally join the senpai club
Galbias posted...

I kinda want to roll 10 times just for the 5* but at the same time I might need to save, since the future banners are in a vague spot right now.

Rosa banner immediately gave me Leonhardt on my first pull which I took as a good spot to stop lol

In slightly unrelated news, been trying out some Genshin Impact. Looks like the female MC's voiced by Aoi Yuuki; I don't think I've played any other game where she voices the player character lol

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Galbias posted...

It feels like the art direction with the Primal summons was a bit different, most of them feel like they could belong in a Vanillaware game or something.

I want to go Varuna because Water has a couple of characters I really like (Pholia/Vajra), though it's never going to be a competitive racing element. But Water's Grands are just so bad atm that it feels like a waste of resources to invest in them. It's been something like 2 years since the last Water Grand though so hopefully they'll add a new one soon (granted the next one is probably going to be Progression + Majesty or something).

Grim Spoons are pretty close to Epic/Malice weapons as far as drop rate goes so it's definitely not an accessible HP weapon for Magna Wind. Not that Reunions or Vortexes are exactly accessible for Zeph either, but...Still not a single Spoon drop myself, at any rate, despite leeching aggressively this week (at 300+ total combined Grim Anima)

Yeah Varuna is easily the weakest opti atm but M2 water also feels like the weakest endgame grid as a whole so it's a bit of a catch-22
I'm pretty sure it puts out less overall damage than my M1 dark lol, the relatively strong ougis do little to make up for the mostly piddly autos (And my M2 earth can sometimes match its ougi damage thanks to chicken too). I guess I could look into Rising Force for something with a bit more oomph...

On another note: https://s1.gifyu.com/images/LuciULL.jpg
While I lucked into that on my second try twitter pub FaaH hosts obviously have a pretty bad success rate lol
That being said it's also actually pretty chill, whenever The End pops everyone just shares an 'otsukaresama' before peacing out. Granted you -only- need like ten eggs per Dopus but I think I've only managed to scrounge like 3 wins so far, though at least I also got three tidings now

Next Arknights event is the Kuma event, feels like just yesterday that it was released in CN. I guess that's the accelerated release schedule for ya, kuma.

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Galbias posted...

it took 6 months but I finally got a top operator tag

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/597927224942788619/759458533430919218/Screenshot_20200926-111535.jpg

of course, by now I have all the Recruitment-able 6* characters except Exusuai, but I want those yellow certs for more rolls on Weedy

lol grats
I guess you could technically sit on that slot until Ch'en appears in the pool or something but eh (I'm actually slightly regreting E2ing Ch'en now since she's actually pretty niche)

I have 5/6 ULB Dopus now, though I got like half of my Luci eggs from in-crew runs and half from a cheese discord. I prefer the crew runs even if they fail half the time, the carry runs move at the speed of sound so you barely get to experience the fight. Getting to 30k HP is actually pretty easy nowadays though with Awakening and all the weapon/summon uncaps lately.

Though aside from the Luci clears and the giant stack of other materials (Astaroth Anima in particular suck), keep in mind you also need a lot of Blue Grails to actually level the weapon to lv 200, which is necessary to unlock the 3rd skill. I've only been uncapping them during Magfes because it takes so many, the Journey Drop boost is pretty essential.

Yeah HPwise I don't have to try too hard for Fire (Though feels like most fire HL content is cheesable with Draco Harp anyway so it's not a real priority) but it's more that for Water and Dark I'm still kinda waiting on transitioning to Primal and the prospect of farming Aubs/Stix just to toss most of them later is making me sit on that for now lol, plus yeah looking at all the extra mats needed is just uuugh
As an aside why is Varuna the only Optimus that's a gril (Aside from half of Zephyrus I guess) and everyone else is some fugly doodbag, that's like lowkey half the reason I'm willing to go Varuna lol
Speaking of Zephyrus it's kinda funny how Magna Wind has actually caught up to the HP advantage part of Zeph lately, although I guess usable 100k HP memes are still Zeph territory. On the other hand, I still don't even have a spoon (Or any of the Magna 2.5 weapons) even while hosting during the rate-ups so rip
Of course I've also basically hosted TiaMal every day for a couple months and have only one tree drop to show for it so I guess that's just standard drop rng for me

also my problem is that I don't have an immediate use for the Pride of the Ascendant rewards, though I could always ring Vikala I guess.

Yeah I'm really just after more sunstone, I still got like one ring I haven't used yet lol

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Galbias posted...

Yeah, the main reason I didn't choose LMD (besides poor Sanity ratio) is that most farming stages take 15-18 Sanity but the LMD mission takes 30. So farming LMD is less times you have to click the mission over and over.

In particular I also basically hit 1M again during the event so yeah lol, I ended up really not needing it

I liked the Tower of Babel event, good rewards and not too grindy. Some of the missions were a bit annoying but I managed to not get stuck for too long thankfully, looking forward to them adding more. And yeah, they really need to stick that UI in the game proper.

Yeah on the whole it wasn't a bad event

I'm also looking forward to March of the Valiant, it basically sounds like Guild Wars with all the crappy competitive grinding parts taken out. Though I do wonder what element it's going to be, I ULB'd 5/6 of my Dark Opuses as of this Magfes so I'm gonna be annoyed if it's the one element I haven't done (Water).

More ways to get sunlight stones etc would be nice. I should probably go do some of my Ascendant battles for a third Cloud.
I guess damagewise I really should get around to doing my ULB Dopuses, I get that there's discords with free carries and stuff (And you can just snipe failed solos on raidfinder), just need to find more motivation to do those lol (Not to mention I still need to pad HP for half my grids for the entry check rip)


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Galbias posted...

I almost have enough for the 6* Vanguard tokens from the Red Cert store (which I was hoping to use on Siege before CC started for reduced DP cost but oh well). Another set of tokens wouldn't really do much, increasing Siege's potential further doesn't give her any useful bonuses and the only other 6* Vanguard is Bagpipe, who...yeah...

Thus far I'm just using extra CC currency on T3 crafting materials, unlike the last run where I used most of the leftover currency for LMD. Mainly Orirock Cluster since that one tends to frequently be a gate and I still have a stockpile of Polyester from the last run. Technically Coagulating Gel is the best value, but I haven't used a single one of my 30+ thus far, and I think the only relevant operator I have who'd even use them is Ceobe (and she's a low priority to get skill upgrades for anyways).

rip
Yeah I'm sorta just sitting on my last pile of CC monies until I decide what to do with them lol, nothing seems immediately important (though I did buy the limited LMD which in hindsight is pretty blah value but oh well)

On another note, the latest GBF event has some nice UI which they should totes implement in the main game (muh spaghetti code tho), but some of the harder missions really felt like rngfests where I was mostly being gated by dumb luck lol. To an extent I guess that's just how it is if you don't have Burger/Sox or stuff to cheese things, but a few of the boss mechanics seem shoehorned in order for the party switch mechanic to be relevant at all (Read: Fodder parties)
Still got my first two Cloud Commendations from that clownhouse so I guess I can't complain


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Galbias posted...

On another note, I feel kind of underwhelmed when looking at the rewards for this CC again. One daily mission is something like 140 CC Currency which exchanges to a bit less than 20k LMD, barely anything. That's less than 3 runs of the last money stage, which is 90 Sanity, and you get 100 extra Sanity a day during the event. The free Sanity is basically worth more than the event rewards. Of course, the limited rewards are a lot better, and the event itself is fun to play too (mostly).

Yeah the store stuff isn't currently much, but seems there's gonna be 6* vanguard tokens and stuff in the permanent store later on so you can actually start saving for those now at least

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Galbias posted...

I do kind of want to level FEater, but at the same time I already have Shaw E2'd and I definitely don't want to invest a bunch of resources into her on the offchance I roll Weedy later. In retrospect I probably should've just leveled FEater in the first place but oh well.

To be fair M3ing pushers not named Weedy is kinda niche, even in the current CC permanent stage it's just to get the final Rockbreaker to change paths with one push; non-M3 S1 will risk your blocker dying before it gets fully moved but Siege should at least be able to take a hit

I like the not-Kyaru but apparently the rates are absolute trash so I don't want to get too excited for a specific character.

I'm also kinda partial to the Maaya Uchida eyepatch chuuni
Though yeah looks like it's gonna be a steep entry for newcomers as well

And yeah, Mirror Image absolutely wrecks Wilnas. I run Runeslayer for my solo clears for that specific reason and it's a little slow but pretty safe even with no Euro/Lily.

In retrospect I could have just brought Tiamat Omega as well but yeah
Still need to do solo Wind/Light/Dark but I'm kinda lazy lol, plus there's little incentive to do the solo quests these days feels like
On the other hand the raids have a troubling tendency to either take forever or even just time out without anyone joining

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Galbias posted...

109 rolls in now and I got a Schwarz dupe, the untypeable Touma catchphrase never ends. Time to pack up and hope the Weedy banner treats me better, I guess

rip

and yeah, I do appreciate the variety of stages this time

On that note, I managed to get a week 1 R18 done based on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4ELPPy35FU
https://s8.gifyu.com/images/cc0w118.png
Had to borrow someone's souped-up Silverdad and run Nian instead of Hellagur
Team also actually had a lot of M3s so I don't know how feasible this actually is for the average player
Albeit there's no real prize for getting a week 1 18 run done anyway, think they'll have something minor for the next event though.

I think he's just there to remind you that the floor is on fire, honestly

It's also a bit of a running joke, there was a paratrooper in Anni3 who straight up lands in a chute too
There are quirky easter eggs in other maps too, like the two agents running away from the fire slug boss in the beach event

Galbias posted...

I'm kind of interested in Breath of the Waifu but it seems like it'd be crap on phone and has some terrible DRM on PC so I guess it'll be PS4 if anything

I wasn't terribly interested until the Yukarin jiangshi ice loli showed up haha
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qi_EZJ3vzKs

On another tangent, I actually tried fighting quest Wilnas with my lolhp party and actually won, NekoLily too stronk
Managing to borrow a 4* Princess Long Ji was also clutch Heat Ray tech though, the last 20% where his only ougi is Heat Ray was down to the wire especially since aside from Djeeta my party pretty much didn't have hp to tank one of those even under 70% cut lol


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Galbias posted...

make that 101 rolls on Bagpipe's banner without her, oof. Should probably be able to squeeze out enough rolls for another 6* before the banner ends, but...man.

Dang, truly Such Misfortune levels of unluck
Managed to get her on my third pull myself (I'm sorry)

Galbias posted...

Also, I'm not huge on how this CC apparently needs you to beat each daily stage several times to unlock all the options/rewards, instead of just being able to clear it all in one fell swoop like you could previously

Yeah I guess at least you can try out all the rotating stages before their daily slot but it's still a bit clunky
There's quite a few rotating stages this time though

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Galbias posted...

ok SA-6 was actually pretty easy somehow, even the Challenge.

also bought Saria and spent every last bit of Sanity from the event getting her E2'd and now I'm down to my last 20k LMD. Goodbye Nearl, it was nice knowing you.

Actually, why do both the top two Healing Defenders have moeblobby seiyuu (Sakura Ayane and Yuka Iguchi) doing tough military woman voices? It fits in context I guess but it's kind of a funny coincidence.

I guess it's appropriate that Yuka is also an absolute defense/healing unit in GBF as Lily, only with a voice on the other absolute end of the spectrum. Lily nanomachine is a hella drug, made worse that it's also still basically one of my few remaining grids with sub-15k hp lol

Also finally broke 1M LMD, capitalism ho

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I wanted one life, you wanted another; we couldn't have our cake, so we ate each other. - Roger McGough

Galbias posted...

this event in Arknights is rough, I think I need to E2 Shaw and/or Ifrit to clear SA-5 Challenge, and judging from what I've heard from other people, SA-6 is going to be even harder.

Also I went to throw 10 rolls on the Saria/Schwarz banner because I'd still like to get Saria and I was only at 10 pity for Bagpipe so I figured I may as well build up some more...and I got Schwarz on the 3rd roll. Not sure if I'll be able to find a use for her, but I guess she's nice to have.

I guess I'll probably buy Saria with Yellow Certs then, though I'm not looking forward to M2-ing both her first and 2nd skill...

For SA-5 if you have Manticore or similar it would help manage the top lane as well, actually having some slow supporters focusing fire at the top lane would be a decent tactic now that I think about it, especially when more than one of the berserkers start showing up and none of them are ranged so it's generally pretty safe there

SA-6C I found fairly difficult until I started using Gavel to bait the icetails and stagger the spiders abit, there's also some pitfalls so I ended up using S1M3 FEater to push the cleavers at my defence lane, though they still take like 2-3 pushes to get tossed. Would probably have been easier if I had just borrowed Angelina/Eyja, but yeah.

I did end up getting Schwarz myself, maxed her to S3M3 despite my better judgment, though it feels like for a 4-panel killzone Ifrit's generally better for most cases (especially since her range is permanent). I was thinking of S2M3 but that feels like an even less necessary niche since guards and defenders satisfy most close-range needs anyway

Saria's def. nice to M3 but probably not inherently necessary unless she's your sole source of healing and/or you want to really max out some CC risks for whatever reason. S1's more commonly used for CC scenarios at least. I do have both her S1 and S2 maxed out myself though.

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I wanted one life, you wanted another; we couldn't have our cake, so we ate each other. - Roger McGough

Galbias posted...

I kind of want the Summer Djeeta skin and at the same time not. Having all the voice lines be about summer is a little off, even if most other summer characters are the same...what I'd ideally really want is to have is in-character voiced lines for each class, but I'm not sure if that'll ever happen since it'd make it harder to sell voiced skins.

Astral weapon is pretty much a straight upgrade for all elements because the EX modifier is so huge, unless you're already using an EX mainhand and playing an element like Wind that has a very tight grid

unless you mean Ancestral weapon (ie the Lu Woh thing that gives you multiattack + Supplemental Damage), kind of an odd naming scheme given that you get both from 6 Dragons. Those are more niche, yeah. I do still kinda want the Fediel weapon for Chrysaor since it's basically a Dark Windhose but it's low priority.

Yeah I meant it as being some of the raid 6-Dragon weapons are decent side bonuses for the primary Astral farming. I guess it's mostly that while the Astral damage boost is always nice especially for those elements that can't reliably hit cap (Magna Fire/Water/Light/Non-Emnnity Dark lol) ultimately it's kinda just more damage unless you mainhand the weapons or ULB them for the supplemental effects, though to be fair some of them are pretty good mainhands so you don't have to go out of your way to ULB them
Of course the arms race these days has been accelerated quite a bit to the point where feels like random pubbed UBHLs clear pretty easily these days lol

https://twitter.com/ArknightsEN/status/1294185397094772738
Looks like CC#0 is confirmed for mid-September which should also bring gunlance Nino with it

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It's not complete until you have Swimsuit Djeeta lol

Did most of my Magna ULB uncaps but I've kinda not yet gone into Astral Weapon farming because I'm not actually sure which would be really needed for me at this point, I guess Lu Woh farming at least gives a nice DATA weapon which Magna Light seems to always need so there's that
But most importantly Lumi Omega *finally* gets guaranteed buff removal lol

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Yeah I'm just stocking up some things on the side before packing it up until the next big release (Bagpipe I guess), there's the ongoing achievement-based rewards event but that's about it

Skadi's incoming skin tho https://h.bilibili.com/86122021
Seeing her idle base animation hide most of her body with her hair feels like trolling lol but that plushie bash is pretty great

Last day of GBF Treasure Rush, most interesting thing I got throughout was an extra 3k crystals lol
I actually did get a Murg and Vortex dupe but yeaaah lol primal water/wind
Also two days where I got 1 chest of red bricks and blue centrums respectively

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I wanted one life, you wanted another; we couldn't have our cake, so we ate each other. - Roger McGough

Galbias posted...

decided to level Hellagur since he seems to be a strong choice for the second CC and suddenly half of the 950k LMD I'd saved up is gone. I look forward to the day when they finally fix Trading Posts.

oh well, time to stock up on Loxic Kohl/Grindstone and then sleep. I could get one of the skins but eh. Maybe they'll buff Swire someday...

Every time I E2 a 6-star it's a roller coaster of "bloody fudge I'm never gonna get over 1M LMD am I"
I want to get off Mr Wei's capitalist ride

So Summer Sheep ended up being a new SSR unit after all, but seeing Khumbi in Summer Anila's uncap art is some next tier trolling; Aoi Yuuki continues to exert dominance over Hocchan or something I guess
The first batch of free 10-rolls would allow me to spark on this banner, though I'm not entirely sold on this banner in particular, even if whimsicott queen is totes giga cute

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