Current Events > Gacha Game General Topic 14: ''Shilling harder than Todd Howard"

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This topic is for discussion of all the various games where you put in your time and money effort in hopes of recruiting the hero or waifu of your dreams... yes, welcome to the wonderful world of gacha games! Azur Lane, Arknights, Princess Connect ReDive, Guardian Tales, Dragalia Lost, and many, many more unique games are waiting for you to happily spend your money enjoy your time playing them. Note that Girls Frontline and Genshin Impact have their own separate general topics, so while you're welcome to talk about them here, you'll get more discussion for them in their respective topics.

Anyways, let's continue our discussion: what gacha games are you playing or looking forward to these days? Which do you spend the most time on, and which are you just collecting login bonuses in until you feel like actually playing them again? Feel free to name your favorite games, show off your heroes and teams, talk about games coming in the future that you're excited for, and just have fun. But remember: play responsibly!
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Is Dragalia Lost still played hugely? I miss Brave Frontier when it first came out. The game was addictive as fuck.

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Does anyone else play Destiny Child?

It is easily the most F2P friendly gacha I have ever played by a significant margin and has one of the better stories rivalling many actual games (imo anyway) Lots of busty waifu's as well. The cost for P2W do look pretty awful though, as a downside.

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Funkydog posted...

Does anyone else play Destiny Child?

It is easily the most F2P friendly gacha I have ever played by a significant margin and has one of the better stories rivalling many actual games (imo anyway) Lots of busty waifu's as well.

Gonna try it out.

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Veggeta X posted...

Is Dragalia Lost still played hugely? I miss Brave Frontier when it first came out. The game was addictive as fuck.

I dropped it a few months back but it's still pretty popular. They recently announced a Persona 5 Strikers collab.

Man, I'm in the same boat as you with BF. That was my first gacha and probably the one I went the hardest at (time and money spent). I tried it again recently and it's just not the same.

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Veggeta X posted...

Is Dragalia Lost still played hugely? I miss Brave Frontier when it first came out. The game was addictive as fuck.

There's still a decent population. I still play it and there's a persona 5 collab coming soon

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Damn and the Persona 5 collab in AFK Arena... P5 be whoring itself out lol

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Right now I'm playing Revue Starlight ReLIVE, Tales Of Crestoria, and the global soft-launch of Princess Connect ReDive. I had temporarily uninstalled Crestoria to make room on my phone for that "two account" experiment in PriConne that I mentioned last topic (I ended up keeping the first account btw) but now I have it back. I'm also looking forward to Birdie Crush, which I doubt anyone else in here will play or care about.
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I'm currently playing Azur Lane, Destiny Child, and Priconne soft-launch. AL is still my main. I agree with what Funkydog said about Destiny Child. I have 50 10-roll tickets I've never got around to using and 346k crystals (a 10-roll cost 3k) without spending a cent, but when you look at the store a lot of the packs start at $40.

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Downloading AL and Destiny Child now.

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I'm prolly gonna quit everything for the Diablo mobile game is it's any good

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Stagmar posted...

I'm currently playing Azur Lane, Destiny Child, and Priconne soft-launch. AL is still my main. I agree with what Funkydog said about Destiny Child. I have 50 10-roll tickets I've never got around to using and 346k crystals (a 10-roll cost 3k) without spending a cent, but when you look at the store a lot of the packs start at $40.

Definitely. It constantly gives out loads of crystals for banners, and then tickets of all varities for both waifus and equipment in steady amounts, then events come out regularly for even more. The PvP is really only one place with the arena and you get great rewards even as P2P. Some of the events where you are all doing damage against a boss/raid/whatever are still fine as well as can get great rewards even if not the top of the top where whales are.

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Speaking of Azur Lane, a new AL slice-of-life anime premiered on Crunchyroll today.

https://i.imgur.com/9gjOSxd.jpg
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Calwings posted...

Speaking of Azur Lane, a new AL slice-of-life anime premiered on Crunchyroll today.

https://i.imgur.com/9gjOSxd.jpg

I wonder if her nipples get pinched by crabs again. That was weird.

I got Yuudachi today from 6-4. Finally.

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Calwings posted...

Speaking of Azur Lane, a new AL slice-of-life anime premiered on Crunchyroll today.

https://i.imgur.com/9gjOSxd.jpg

No Unicorn no watch

...okay ill still watch. But ill be wanting more.

Only playing Fate Grand Order. And barely at that. Wake me up when Reines banner is up.
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YugiNoob posted...

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

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

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

Welp, I done fucked up bad in AFK Arena. I accidentally fed my max level Saveas to Brutus, and now my resonance crystal thing is level 140 and I didnt get a refund on his experience <_<

I wish it would give you a warning if youre gonna use leveled or promoted units.

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Pour one out for the homies. Why should lock your units though!

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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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Love Live SIFAS is a month away from its first anniversary. I've gotten at least one UR of everyone... except Niji's best girl

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Rina keeps evading me
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I'm a bit disappointed with Destiny Child's gameplay. I would love a F2P gacha, but I prefer games where you can see your characters during battles and where it's not just auto attacking :<

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Does anyone else play Destiny Child?

I think I put it on my wishlist some time ago but forgot to actually sit down and try it out. Might be for the best though, my playlist is kinda big already ...but then I remember I have other stuff pre-registered so I'm not sure how I'm going to manage that when they drop.

Anywho...

Ninja Maidens
Project QT
AFK Arena
Elune
King's Raid
Dragon Raja
Pokemon Masters EX
Digimon ReArise
Fire Emblem Heroes
Dragon Quest of the Stars
Shin Megami Tensei: Liberation
Marvel Future Fight
Legends of Runeterra
FFBE: War of the Visions
Elona Mobile

In other gacha news, a recent FEH event quest forced my hand to look for friends, which made me realize that:

1. I'm terrible at making/keeping my friends list in all these games properly upkept with active (or sometimes *any*) accounts.
2. I have never just asked people on GameFAQs before if they wanted to be added.
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Woohoo, after 20 trillion pulls I finally got Peter Strasser :D

Would these teams work?

Fleet 1:
Vanguard

• Neptune
• Prinz Heinrich
• Nurnberg (looking for a replacement, but not too keen on Eugen)

Main

• Peter Strasser
• Essex (until Bismarck comes home)
• Unicorn (until Akashi comes home)

Fleet 2:
Vanguard

• Kasumi
• Marie Rose
• Helena

Main

• Illustrious
• Akagi
• Kaga

Also any suggestions if Victorious or Warspite could fit in somewhere?

Wait...was Bismarck available ONLY during that event?

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YugiNoob posted...

I'm a bit disappointed with Destiny Child's gameplay. I would love a F2P gacha, but I prefer games where you can see your characters during battles and where it's not just auto attacking :<

Fair criticism. You do see them in story/upgrading content but the combat isnt for everyone and not the best way to ser your waifu

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Damn I am loving Tales of Crestoria now. Didn't like it at first but it's pretty fun being easy and simple.

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I think Bismarck is event-only, unless they changed something recently. I know they added some other Ironblooders to construction at some point. As for your lineups, any ramshackle group can probably work if you're early in the story.

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Well the thing is that Im starting to come across enemies whose levels are in the 70s, and given how stupid the AI is, theyre cutting it close as to what I can auto :<

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Got Nari ! (^^)

No Sage Bead ()

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Looks like Kiara's PriConne first look stream is scheduled for tonight at 9PM EST, so that means January 20th (technically the night of the 19th) seems to be PriConne's official global launch day. Crunchyroll said Kiara's stream would be one week before the global launch.
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Probably gonna end up buying all of Future Princess' costumes. Ngl, I thought nothing would make me change the bunny girl one, but the hanbok one with that goddamn fucking smile is impossible to not get. If not for the drained color of her hair, it'd be interesting to think about how that would be how the current Princess would grow up to be without all the death and war

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I bought so many fucking costumes holy shit.

I got the Hanbok, Tinia, and Lahn new year costumes, I bought the vampire Plitvice that I regret missing a few months ago, and then FUCKING UNICORN EUGENE HOLY SHIT and I think I got some other ones.

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Oh yeah fuck I forgot to buy Unicorn Eugene I think

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4qr884715k

Kiara streaming Priconne.

EDIT: Beaten to the punch by 11 seconds
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Oh my god, Peco's eating Kiara!
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Kusotori can never not be anything less than 300% extra and I love it.

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Caelthus posted...

Kusotori can never not be anything less than 300% extra and I love it.

Her energy levels are absolutely through the fucking roof at all times, which is fantastic. Amelia is my favorite of the Hololive EN girls in terms of her character and her taste in games (she likes shooters) but Kiara's videos feel the most consistently fun to me.
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Crunchy sucks at promotions again, I see. Couldn't even prepare jewels for Kiara to roll with.

I already forgot how clunky the game prologue is compared to the anime. Yeah, Yuuki met and got to know 40 girls in a month, also Peco/Yui/Kyaru are just there just because, etc.

The interludes with Ameth work a bit better here than in the anime, but then the game has to have Kokkoro go, "is this another acquaintance of yours, Aruji-sama?" every five seconds and you just end up feeling bad for the poor girl.

Got Odin. Might as well go for Gascogne next since I can use the same fleets.


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

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

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

Meultima posted...

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

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

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

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

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

I reinstalled Brave Frontier LMAOOO

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Veggeta X posted...

I reinstalled Brave Frontier LMAOOO

I do that almost once a year. So many good memories. Powercreep was definitely real towards the end.

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For those interested, it seems the global version of Dragon Quest Tact will officially launch on the 27th of this month.

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Strider102 posted...

For those interested, it seems the global version of Dragon Quest Tact will officially launch on the 27th of this month.

Been looking forward to it. I only played the beta a short while but it was enjoyable.

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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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Meultima posted...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Okay. After my longest hiatus of not playing a gacha game since who knows how long, finally got into one. Guardian Tales. Managed to pull Future Princess with my pity but didn't get her unique weapon with the equip pity. Game is super fun so far but it frustrates me when I can't find hidden paths/objectives to 3 star a stage.

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Guardian Tales is so fucking good man. My only complaint is that once you do all the content there's nothing else to do but collect logins. It's so fucking fun while you're playing the new stuff.

Edit: PS if you're on world 2 come join the guild "Halidom"

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Tyranthraxus posted...

Guardian Tales is so fucking good man. My only complaint is that once you do all the content there's nothing else to do but collect logins. It's so fucking fun while you're playing the new stuff.

Edit: PS if you're on world 2 come join the guild "Halidom"

Yeah I can kinda see that. I'm just on world 3 and I'm already kinda slowing down progress wise tho lol. Find myself dying maybe once or twice on some bosses occasionally. IDK if it's my team comp or something but yeah. Any tips for best things to focus on for power boosts/progression would be dope.

I'm using Future Princess, Aisha, Hekate and Akiyuki. Is it because I'm missing a dedicated healer? Any suggestions with 2 star heroes would be dope. Just made the team based on reviews on the subreddit.

Also I joined a guild already and I'm kinda looking to be a bit more casual for now. If you don't mind that and me not really contributing too greatly in raids and stuff atm then yeah I might be inclined to jump.

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It's fine the guild is a casual guild. They must have just opened world 3 or something tho because it wasn't available when I checked a couple weeks ago. The guild hasn't gotten close to full membership since the last inactivity purge but you can come and conspire with lemur and the rest.

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