Board 8 > Tales of Crestoria Topic - Orwin? More like Orwhen

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Went to pity on Misella. Picked up another Misella in there so I'll be able to awaken her if I want. Also got S. Ludger (another choose a stone candidate) and W. Sorey to add to my water collection. It's funny, water is by far the element I have the most SSR's in but they're all spread out.

Been affinity farming so I actually still have around 18,000 gleams left. Undecided if I'll pull on Vicious or Yuna but for now gonna wait to see what other units will be coming out I think.

One more summer banner incoming with what appears to be Tear and Rokurou

https://twitter.com/to_crestoria_EN/status/1427170764982263808

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God fucking dammit

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yeah...this one is going to be hard for me to pass up. Sorry Yuna

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20k for this or Vicious. Or maybe an EX unit? Bleh!

You won't have another shot at Vicious until six months from now most likely. I'm finding his debuff skill to be quite useful in raids and for the arena. If you awaken him, he can do pretty silly amounts of damage himself.

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Yeah I'll definitely wait to see what kind of units Tear and Rokurou are first. Leaning toward Vicious right now though.

I have 0 gleams and I hate this game

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I don't think Rokurou or Tear fit that well for me. Halloween Estelle is a good enough healer and my earth team is pretty much set with Vicious, Aegis, Milla, and Forte. Probably won't go too hard on this one

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Wind and earth. =/

Meh I might pull. The appeal would be that the newer units are also in that pool as opposed to the Vicious banner. Though guaranteed SSR is nice and limited units. Hm hm hm!

A couple summons on the new banner got me Summer Colette. Not what I expected, but that works out well

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I spent $80 because I'm weak, and I got 2 summer rokurou and 0 summer tear :( I don't want to live anymore

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sorry :(

There's more gleams incoming with they new story chapter, tower reset, and Sorey quests. I hope it turns around

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Don't feel bad about spending thr money. I bought...two of the $80 packs during anniversary so I could get to pity on both the Colette/Reid Banner and Kanata's banner. Turns out I probably could have just affinity farmed more cause I hit pity on Misella's doing that and I'm 30k thanks to the the 6k from the update. Sorry you didn't get Tear though, that does suck.

Yeah I'll go affinity farm the new chapter I guess. I'm pretty far from pity but I've also barely affinity farmed and have a shit ton of gels so if I put some effort in maybe I can hit it

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What's the most ap efficient way, anyone know?

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Well the absolute most efficient is during the 1/2 AP times but since that's over it looks like...Side Story Eizen 1-1 Very Hard is best. I think anyway.

that didnt seem to be worth the gels so Ive just been doing the sorey quest. its a lot slower since you cant skip but at least im getting 10 gleams per round

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https://i.imgur.com/bEtX1OQ.png

This was the table I was looking at btw. Looks like they've updated it to include Chapter 9 8-4 as a possible farming spot. The VH bonus means you're getting 260 affinity every time you complete that stage. Anyway, it'll be a slower process and you'll have to use more gels since it's not 1/2 AP anymore but I can confirm that between the gleams you get from leveling characters affinity + the bonus gleams you get for getting a certain number of characters to affinity level 50 is significant. Just a matter of if you want to use the gels.

But yeah Sorey is a good alternative since you get the 10 gleams and it goes toward Awakening him too.

Took two full cycles of the Vicious banner before I got him. Might stop there as I'm 10k short of pith right now and don't know if I want to commit to it more.

This banner hasn't been as kind to me as Misella's was but I did pick up W. Milla who was a target! With that the characters I don't have from the choose a stone pool are Orwin, Eizen, the White Day units, Cheria, Guy, Rokurou, S. Farah, and S. Kanonno. Not sure if it would be better getting any of these guys or potentially awaking others. WD Yuri would probably be tops of these guys for his stone.

Nice! I ended up using my two tickets to get my first Reala and last WD Yuri. The last ticket pool units I don't have are V. Edna, Orwin, Eizen, Cheria, C. Arche, and S. Rutee.

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I can die in peace

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Well that's a relief.

And the next EX is Artorius

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Congrats!

And finally, a new unit that isn't wind, earth, or fire!

https://youtu.be/YtG2tfvz0n0

First instinct was "oh no they're scrapping and starting over with a new Tales gacha for the 4th time."

But I think the opening scrawl is more likely implying this is an actual mothership title for mobile.

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First, Crestoria IS the 4th gacha on smartphones. We just never got Tales of Asteria in English.

Im also hearing that its gonna be all original characters. So none of the cross-over stuff we typically see on mobile titles.

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I have no problem if this is an actual regular full price mobile game. We have an actual Tales game in 2 weeks, so don't know why I see people complaining! Just a lot of them assuming it's gacha.

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I'll have to wait and see about Luminaria. I don't have much faith in my ability to control a game like that adequately on a phone.

Guy and Elize are next. Not sure I need either, but they would be useful. Guy would be a perfect wind finisher

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I talked myself out of Guy/Elize and decided to do something dumb and did the full 50k on Artorius. Fortunately it worked out well. Reid is probably my new water finisher.

Meredy (new)
Water Rita
Water Asbel
Reala
Water Ludger
Water Reid (new)
Shigure x2 (new)
Sync
Artorius x2 (new)
Phoenix (new)
Edna
Eizen (new)
Anise (new)

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Dang! Jealous! Really want to work on my S. Reid and Colette units but I decided to also forego the Guy/Elise banner to finish up the Vicious banner. Was 9 pulls and did decent on it!

Water Sorey x2
Limited Vicious x 2
School Ludger
Water Rokurou
Wind Zelos (likely shard)

Will be able to awaken Vicious tomorrow or now if I just use my gold medals.

Has left me with about 9k in gleams that I'll probably use on Artorious and then I'll start saving again. Hopefully I get really lucky with some EX units and newer units that weren't in the step ups lol

That's really good also! Vicious is worth it

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So did 3 pulls on Artorius and somehow pulled 3 SSRs. 1 Dark Leon (4/5 now), 1 Fire Reid (3rd copy of him), and 1 X2 Milla. Getting two first but I do need an awakened dark unit other than Cronos so Leon is welcomed. As is X2 but Reid....meh. Never going to use him as a unit and his stone isn't great. So either shard later on or build it up as part of a sword grid I guess. Whatever the case, still no EX units for me!

I've been turning my Reids into rainbow shards. It's pretty low impact in a grid.

My dark team is pretty lacking also, and I'm hoping the Artorius battle won't require them.

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Hm well that's good to know. With less than 500 gleams I am officially poor lol. Time to start saving for the next must have banner or big event.

Yeah my dark team has Asbel, Ludger, Yuri, and Vicious at 3/5 with Leon now at 4 and Cronos awakened. It's fine for normal content but would definitely be lacking for transcendent or tower battles.

I'm probably better off using Kanata and Misella on my "dark" team. I have Cronos, Vicious, and Yuri awakened, but they won't cut it for a transcendent battle. We haven't really been incentivized to build light/dark teams, and there haven't been a lot of new units that fit them.

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I also think that Dark is my worst team. Maybe I will do better just running my broken Wind team in Light raids from now on

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yeah, I've been using my other teams for light/dark raids for a while now. Artorius will let me use someone on element again.

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I definitely didn't need to use any dark units to clear the Artorius battle. The anniversary units make it easy

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Really? I've been struggling with 8, even with my wind team :(

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But I beat 7 in 4 turns so that was fun

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The team I used was Wind Misella, Light Estelle, Earth Vicious, and Artorius. Vicious killed all the angels with his AoE after debuffing them. Artorius probably could have been someone else like Kanata, but I wanted to beat him with himself.

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Yeah I just made a team similar to that. My problem was I was trying to use my default wind team. But switching to a purpose built one did make it pretty trivial. Didn't even have someone die. Also set a new record in the process!



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Awesome, I'm glad it worked

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Haven't started it yet but this is good to hear!

The Natalia disrespect is truly terrible.

Abyss has been treated well outside of her. I wonder if she will beat SSR Magilou.

Last time we had a single character banner it was Rokurou followed by EX Shigure. Maybe the next EX will be Arietta?

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Oh for sure. It's kind of funny that all the Abyss characters now have two versions while Natalia only has a limited event to her name haha.

Would be a good guess. I thought Artorious was the September EX unit but that can't be right haha.

Jade only has the one SSR variant. I'd like a standard Jade as well.

Tales of Arise has been shipped. It should arrive on Friday

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Haha I was actually counting the SRs but totally forgot Anise had the gambler SSR already.

Patty and Hisui upcoming. I'm holding out for an Arise banner

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