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Esuriat posted...

I would be willing to bet that if people regularly had their blood oxygen saturation checked that these people would largely get flagged by mild decreases in SpO2 to the low 90s.

This is the thing that surprised me. When I had it my SpO2 level never dropped below 97% and I was taking readings every hour. It was practically always at 99% with maybe 1-2 reading a day giving 97 or 98.

I actually get more 97-98 readings now than when I had it.

Corrik7 posted...

Are you going to live life as you would normally now that you have immunity?

No, I've been following the guidelines still.

Priest is just miserable to play against. It's not fun at all even if my win rate is positive. I'd happily not have to play another priest again even if it meant a lower overall win rate.

I would imagine that people who are asymptomatic probably won't have lasting issues. Everyone else who gets symptoms, if there is lasting effects then it will probably vary on how severe they got it and their other conditions.

Someone like me who has had five pneumothoraxes and had pleurodesis performed on both lungs is probably at a significantly higher risk of having long term health issues from having it.

I just don't think it's factually accurate to say we're all fucked for something that the vast majority of people are either going to fully recover from or not even realize they had it in the first place.

I've personally had it and it was shitty. I also think the number of reported cases is way lower than whatever is out there because getting tested in most places is miserable which again I know first hand from how many attempts and how much time I had to waste trying to get a test. It honestly wouldn't surprise me if the number of cases is 10x higher than what is reported.

I don't want people to get it and I follow all the correct guidelines but I also think that statements like 'We're all fucked' just isn't the reality. There is an extreme minority of people who it is going to be incredibly bad for and there is the going to be the extreme majority where it will have little to no effect.

Mr Lasastryke posted...

what the fuck makes you say this?

Because the death rate does not show anything close to us all being fucked.

Leafeon13N posted...

I'm a realist. That is exactly what is going on right now.

It certainly isn't good but saying we're all fucked isn't anywhere close to the reality.

Thanks for running yet another great season KCF. We all know you put a ton of time and effort into this project and it's greatly appreciated. Doubly so this season where I know you had some rough periods in your personal life with your beloved cats passing away.

I am also in for sure next season

If you go to view/sell and the other/misc (I forget what it's called) section you probably have a ton of gold bags to sell.

Also, the game doesn't make it obvious but the cost to upgrade weapons is per item used rather than an exp gained and the cost depends on the current level of the item. So you always want to throw as much as you can at an item when it's lower level to keep costs down and you do not want to be using B swords on higher level equipment. Money crunch becomes a very real thing. I'm at the point where I only use B swords on lower level gear, even if I'm not using it now, because the exp/cost ratio to use them on higher level gear is not remotely worth it. They give like 200 exp and on high level stuff it costs 7-8k per sword used. So I only use S swords on high level gear now.

_stingers_ posted...

Quite the distinguished reader!

My answer would have been no as little as 3 days ago.

The new Jim Jeffries stand-up on Netflix mentions the Queen drinking 4 cocktails a day so we googled it when watching to see if he was talking shit given the Queen's age. He was not.

I'm the only yes so far so guess I'll spoiler this

It's the cocktail that the Queen drinks

SmartMuffin posted...

Since last week, New Jersey's deaths per million increased by 23. Mass increased by 14. Texas increased by 14. FL by 16.

Not only are the evil horrible no good very bad red states still nowhere even remotely near catching the Northeast in terms of death, they're barely even gaining ground at all. At this rate, if current trends continue (i.e. FL gains about 20 deaths per capita per week), even if all deaths in the Northeast stopped today and there were no more ever, it would take Florida 74 weeks (around November of 2021) to catch up to New York.

I think the bulk of the deaths are in the Miami area too.

Like they have made a big deal about Florida being the new hotspot and the NBA still heading there but in Orange County deaths have gone from 41 after the initial wave to 63 now. In Osceola deaths are at 30. Those are total numbers not per million although I think those 2 counties have a combined population of a little under 2 million. Those are the 2 counties Disney is in where the NBA playoffs will be.

I would say don't give up on the game too early. Because of how easy it is to start it seems boring but the further you get in, the more interesting the battle system becomes. It's not super complicated or anything but the early part certainly isn't indicative of the game as a whole.

I'd say it picks up around the 30k power score mark.

Yeah, I used to have the legacy plan and cancelled it. I recently resubbed up as they offered me legacy pricing for 6 months . This is month 2 and I already regret it

For reference this is what my account looks like to give you an idea of what will be unlocked within 1-2 weeks of play. I have spent zero money and have 3372 gems remaining (I've done 8 pulls and spent probably 200-300 on stamina refreshes to upgrade gear)

Alice - Breaker / Cleric / Mage
Snow - Breaker / Cleric
Red - Crusher / Sorcerer
Cinderella - Breaker / Gunner / Sorcerer
Pinocchio - Crusher / Sorcerer
Gretel - Breaker
Sleeping - Crusher / Gunner / Sorcerer
Kaguya - Paladin / Sorcerer
Kaguya - Sorcerer
Little Mermaid - Breaker

Natural SR Weapons - 10 (plus 4 duplicates)
Natural S Weapons - 22 (plus 12 duplicates)

Off the initial reroll I stuck with Cinderella's SR with a dupe of it

I play as Cinderella Breaker but looking at my available weapons, I likely would be better off playing a rearguard job as I have significantly more rearguard weapons than vanguard weapons that as S+ rank. 3 SR + 11 S Vanguard weapons / 7 SR + 11 S Rearguard weapons.

So really the only class that you really need to unlock via the newbie reroll would be Gretel - Minstrel as Gretel is currently the only Minstrel in game. Everything else has either multiple characters with access to it or is freely available (I believe Alice is the only Mage available right now)

With that being said other characters will unlock Minstrel over time and at a quick glance, it seems that Red Riding Hoods Minstrel comes via event which will be free to obtain and not that far down the line (about 2 months depending on how the early Nier collab effects the schedule). Every other Minstrel looks to be Gacha only or way down the line.

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Ideally you want to unlock as many classes as possible regardless because as you upgrade classes (and you'll upgrade everything you get as it's not hard) they give two types of bonuses

Class - Only applies when you are using that character and class (I.e. Cinderalla Breaker Class bonus does not apply when using Alice Breaker)

Common - Applies to all classes at all times (These are typically just stat boosts)

I guess I can run through the list of what is available right now to give you an idea of whether you really 'need' something from the reroll pull.

The following are unlockable instantly via playing 1 stage of the characters story (I.e. virtually instantly)

Alice - Breaker
Snow White - Breaker
Red Riding Hood - Crusher
Cinderella - Gunner
Pinocchio - Crusher
Gretel - Breaker
Sleeping Beauty - Crusher
Kaguya - Paladin

The following are unlockable via Story / Login Rewards / Events / F2P shop currency / Missions

Alice - Paladin (This is the furthest job unlock available in story right now though)
Alice - Mage (Beginner missions. Takes a minimum of 4 days to get due to time restricted events)
Snow White - Cleric
Red Riding Hood - Sorcerer
Cinderella - Sorcerer
Pinocchio - Paladin (Will take a while if you save crystals for Nier though)
Sleeping Beauty - Sorcerer
Sleeping Beauty - Gunner
Kaguya - Sorcerer

The following are unlockable via Gacha only (or buying via pity Gacha coins - 4500 crystals total)

Alice - Cleric*
Cinderella - Breaker*
Pinocchio - Mage*
Gretel - Minstrel*
Kaguya - Cleric*
Snow White - Crusher
Little Mermaid - Breaker

*Available on initial rerollable pull

As for what the jobs do. Each job is basically separated into Vanguard / Rearguard.

Vanguard jobs can use Swords, Spears, Hammers, Bows
Rearguard jobs can use Books, Staffs, Orbs, Instruments

You will use 20 weapons at any given time so for the most part you will be using a mix of weapons. Each job gets a bonus type for a certain weapon type.

Vanguard Jobs

Breaker - Sword Bonus
Crusher - Hammer Bonus
Gunner - Bows Bonus
Paladin - Spear Bonus

Rearguard Jobs

Cleric - Staff Bonus
Mage - Orb Bonus
Minstrel - Instrument Bonus
Sorcerer - Book Bonus

For what it's worth you don't specifically need to roll Alice's weapon to play Alice. All the weapon does is unlock her cleric class (plus is an SR stat stick). If you wanted to play Alice as a Breaker or Mage you can do that without that weapon as they are unlocked via story/missions

She has has what looks like Paladin that is unlockable via story too but that's pretty deep in. I haven't unlocked it yet and I have a 55k power score which is probably on the higher end of the player base

Rates are 3% SR and 20% S for any individual pull. So not awful but certainly not good either. You're guaranteed

On the release banner it's 0.66% for a boosted SR character and 0.034% for non boosted. 3% for booster S character and 0.361% for non boosted S character.

That being said I don't think the initial roll uses the release banner as Nightmares are removed so the above rates are probably different and it seems you are always guaranteed an SR on your reroll pull which is not the case on a normal pull.

There's a decent chance I may have to postpone my wedding because of COVID. It's booked for December but because friends and family are traveling from England to attend, it's uncertain on if they will be able to come or not. So we likely have to make a decision well in advance about what we are doing.

Corrik7 posted...

Lol... Seriously? It's a lot farther than you think and it definitely puts drunk drivers on the road.

This. For sure.

Maybe it's because the Orlando area is so spread out but travelling 15+ miles to a bar is nothing even under normal circumstances. And I have access to multiple other counties within that same distance.

Sounds pretty similar to the original Florida bar shutdowns which didn't actually do anything whatsoever because restaurants were allowed to serve alcohol. So bars just offered an extremely limited food menu in order to get around it. Now they stipulated that no more than 50% of sales can come from on-site alcohol consumption so there's at least some prevention but again some are still getting around it by selling beer for off-site consumption with people drinking it in the bar anyway.

I'm convinced the number of people who are asymptomatic far outweighs those with symptoms. Or maybe that's already known?

Just speaking from when I had it and the number of people who would have been exposed to me before I knew I had it. Yet only one person showed symptoms and they were someone I interacted with for like 10 seconds from completely across the room so may not have even got it from me. Obviously I hoped I didn't pass it on to anyone but I'd bet that most of them were asymptomatic

I've had it

Right now I still have like 3800 crystals. I've used a few to refresh stamina too during the guerilla events since that's the quickest way to increasing power score

I ended up doing some 3 extra pulls because I needed to try get over 50k power score and I was hoping to get some S weapons to replace my A weapons.

Bad news. I did not get any usable S+ rank weapons for the main character I use. Good news. I got a dupe SR Cinderella Sword, the Alice SR Staff and the Pinocchio S Book. So in the space of 5 pulls total I got 3 class unlocks (technically I already had Cinderella's sword but the dupe is still useful). I ended up with 3 SR's across the 5 pulls (Cinderella, Alice and a non character SR)

From what I can tell you get a unique summon animation for SRs. Two of the times I got SR's the puppets cried about wanting more Rares and converted a normal book into a white book and the boy puppet gets messed up in the process. Not sure if this guarantees an SR or is merely giving you another S+ book

The other time I feel is more likely to be a guaranteed SR pull. The pull string fell off the roof to the floor when I pulled it and the boy puppets head rolls off when he drops down.

You get 1 SR and 4 S gears from them. All wind element.

I think it's worth buying one of each purely for the power boost. You could limit break them if you buy more but from what people have said, they get power crept pretty quick so not worth limit breaking them.

Another way of thinking about it is you're spending 300 for 2 SR and 8 S's. If you did a pull for 300 you're likely getting 0 SR and like 2-4 S. If you're lucky you might get 1 SR and a few S's. All the A gear is going to be worthless very quick so can be discounted

Not sure how long I had it before I started displaying symptoms but in terms of where I had likely contracted it I would say I started showing symptoms maybe 4-6 days after getting it.

New Cinderella event is up

Jill but I've only played the first three

KamikazePotato posted...

So is this fun

I'm enjoying it now but it's definitely a slow starter. Took a while for it to click for me.

WhiteLens posted...

Just a word of caution, Pokelabo, the developer of this game is shutting down the Symphogear mobile game only 5 months after it launched.

Granted, SINoAlice looks to have better marketing and has some recognition due to having Yoko Taro's name on it.

Wouldn't be surprised if it's because this released that the other game is shutting down

So if you are having difficulty clearing anything there's a way to be carried.

Go follow high power score accounts. Then change your co-op to selected friends and pick out those accounts. Whenever you do content after that, those are the people who will join you.

It pairing you with players of the same power score as you is both a blessing and a curse. Makes it hard to try accomplish some of the stage requirements on lower stages because everything dies so quick. I'm assuming it pairs based on main score / rank too as I'm using a lesser team right now (~25k) and it's pairing me with people at like 40k.

I ended up doing 2 pulls on the gacha and then bought 1 of each of the 150 packs. That gave me a pretty massive power score boost just from being able to field more weapons. I'm at like 31k now.

Also if the wall you hit is 4-10 Alice then 4-10 Alice is significantly harder than every other 4-10 boss. Like I was able to beat every other 4-10 boss at like 15-20k power score. For 4-10 Alice I manualed the fight at like 27k and still had people die.

Did anyone keep playing?

The guild colosseum is fun but the fact that it's once a day for 20 minutes only and required to complete dailies is kind of balls.

Probably directed at me.

I mean sure some fights have gimmicks but I don't think any are overwhelming to the point where you have to use a specific set-up otherwise you're screwed. Nothing in normal mode requires a specific set-up and the entire game can be beaten blind without much challenge. Hellhouse is gimmicky but can be beaten even with a bad set-up (I personally entered Hellhouse with a terrible set-up).

Having to block an enemies most powerful attack in order to not die is not a gimmick imo, that's just utilizing core gameplay mechanics.

When you get to hard mode then yes you have less leeway with what will work but by hard mode you should be a lot more knowledgeable and it's hard mode so having to be more wary on what you take into a fight should be expected. For the most part you should also know the fights by then too.

EDIT: I guess the Phantom fight that was mentioned is the main culprit of shitty design but that seems more likely to be oversight for that 1 particular fight where they didn't realize a player may enter without any way of Aerith dealing damage. You would have also known the fight was coming given it's an Aerith combat sim too.

Ok so you mean the combat simulator version of the fight, my bad. You did specify that originally.

The answer is simply to block. Ultra High Voltage does 3k when blocked. If you got hit for 9k, you didn't block.

https://i.imgur.com/rqg8l32.jpg

The Moth fight isn't 1 on 1. It's Cloud and Barret?

That attack can be dodged/blocked and even if it hits, it's single target and the ability to revive exists. I know that I never came close to losing that fight and at best my mitigation would have been blocking and probably having barrier up (which I am assuming as I did that for most fights).

It's not like if you go in blind to that fight you are going to lose and have to retry. The fight is very winnable without any prior knowledge of what it does and even going in blind probably isn't in the Top 5 hardest fights in the game. I would think that blocking and using barrier materia should be common sense for most fights but even without it, just revive up after the attack.

Like if you wanted to talk one shot mechanics, then the tonberry is far worse for that.

Has to be well over a decade ago. I think the only time I've been moderated was when I actively asked to be because I was trying to lose more karma than I want to say, AKJ, at the time.

I'd say the game becomes a lot easier once you realize the AI heavily prioritizes targeting the actively controlled player. So a lot of the time deaths can be avoided simply by switching characters to recover.

Magnify with Haste or Manawall depending on your playstyle is also stupid OP.

Given that I didn't once use elemental in my armor outside the hard mode summon rush, I can tell you for sure that's not necessary.I actually had elemental-lightning on a weapon for basically the entire game which was an active hindrance at some points.

I played through blind and so didn't advance prepare for any bosses. Every boss is easier if you have prior knowledge and prepare for them but nothing in the game requires prior planning as it just isn't very difficult. There was actually comments in the original thread about how crazy it was seeing how vastly different every player played the game.

The only bosses I ever lost to weren't actually true bosses as both were optional. I lost to Shiva a few times which was entirely due to me being shit at blocking and dodging at that point. I also lost to the hedgehog king thing first try which due to me charging in and ignoring the adds. They were the only bosses I ever lost to.

Someone my missus knows told her today that even now a long time after she has recovered from COVID, she still has residual effects. She says she still gets chest pains, headaches and asthma like symptoms. Which does not fill me with confidence given I still get random chest pains (and have previously had double lung surgery / pleurodesis)

I can't think of any fight that absolutely requires a specific setup to win and puts you in an unwinnable scenario. The game is easy enough where you could probably beat it without using materia. Some fights like Hellhouse would be miserable but it's probably doable and has likely already been done.

Came across 2 Eevee and Snorlax tag team tins this morning. I'd never seen them before but after a quick Google search it seems they aren't worth anything (or at least not enough to warrant buying)

I know but there's workarounds for everything

I mean Gamestop is the king of shitty business practices so it would not remotely surprise me if they said they ran out when they didn't and then tried to sell it for a higher price at a later date or had someone buy it to resell elsewhere for more.

At least 1 Class Unlock SR (it makes it super obvious when you get one). I would personally say make sure you get 1-2 SR's too given how many times I was able to get that combination in an 11 minute period.

Rates are really bad on class unlocks so you definitely want to make sure you guarantee yourself one to start with.

From what I've read it doesn't matter which class unlock you get so that would be personal preference.

That probably explains why these shitty Walmart boxes with 'mystery' boosters in that have a 1 in 5 chance of containing vintage packs sell well. People are basically gambling on getting a vintage pack that is worth a lot more than the mystery box.

Yeah for the early stuff it's fine but it's going to have to change later on otherwise people won't keep playing. Right now you can just stick on auto and just keep hitting through everything without even paying attention.

Personal preference but I also don't like that you only get to use 1 character.