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in other news, never thought i'd say this but thank god it's a dead week for AL
gives time for my coin and cube store to recover somewhat before musashi rerun
at least rerun events give a bunch of free build tickets
hmm that raises the question of whether i should finish MLB'ing shinano or MLB musashi immediately
i'll have enough bulins to do either one
think i'ma go with finishing shinano though
i do enjoy jjk quite a bit so i'm tempted to give this game a try but i've heard it's insanely predatory even for a gacha game
pretty par for the course for a gacha based on a popular IP i guess
True
irs like 84 in battle should it be higher?
sorry 89.3
60+ 13.9 from fu xuan + 12 from planetary + 4 from pioneer
thats already counted into your base total - fu xuan
she isnt counted
but your other pieces are already counted
oh whoops
New ssr mold, this one is actually a new ssr tho
Bazett~!
It's not good
Got blanc on the event banner
one bunny acquired, tho you'll likely still want noir or rouge to accompany her
I just realized that the relic sets in Mondstadt tell the story of the original Dandelion Knight and the oppressor who Venti rebelled against centuries ago
Or, not relics
Upgrade materials
Still
Emphasizes the scope of the devs' planning, and the scope of Teyvat's world
I didn't realize they'd literally already planned to the end of the game
watching a streamer play ZZZ
Prologue: The Outlander Who Caught the Wind
I: Farewell, Archaic Lord
II: Omnipresence Over Mortals
III. Truth Amongst the Pages of Purana
IV. Masquerade of the Guilty
V. Incandescent Ode of Resurrection
VI. Everwinter Without Mercy
Appearing Characters:
Mondstadt Chapter - Diluc
Liyue Chapter - Ningguang
Inazuma Chapter - Kamisato Ay...
will I be convinced to open lootboxes
Prepare yourselves, Chaldea Tam Lin Cup - The Next Generation's Triumphant Return is coming! Localization Producer Albert Kao and Assistant Localization Producer/Lead Editor Michael Casamento sit down to discuss the upcoming event for Chaldea Broadcasting Station U.S. Branch Lite Vol. 11!
For more information check out Fate/Grand Order online!
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starts about 3 hours for now, obv it'd introduce the new lotto event
the issue with this event is that it's running at the same time as both gw and nikke's anniversary event
so fuck me
she's decent, usable if you lack burst 1 CDR units
blessed, need noir/rouge to go with her but they make her one of the best supports in the game

smh just outing me like that
I regret nothing
based
man I haven't played an action game in ages
I do have d and volume, so idt so
Still, she is bazett-esque, as regi has noted, which means i will have to raise her
you'll also get liter at some point
even so, more options for solo raid when that drops later
he already avoided taking liter with pity because he doesn't like her design iirc lol
wait till u discover the ascencion gem item descriptions
HOW THE FUCK ARE WE STILL TOP 17K I'VE BEEN OFF GBF FOR THE LAST 6 HOURS
this gw is so fucking dead
anyway time to go farm more meat
and first run is golden tyrant so that's a great start
man nikke 2-6 ||red shoes really is the source of all suffering in the entire nikke story lol||
||wouldn't say all, but definitely a large chunk of it||
||red shoes on her way to being even more hated than crow at this rate||
||she 100% already is lol, however crow is still awful and she's also easier to hate because her actions hit closer to home by being directed at the MC/counters||
||idk if anyone here is into warhammer 40k but red shoes has real erebus energy here||
||just like "oh a bad thing happened? if you go back far enough you can probably blame red shoes"||
on second thought maybe its too easy
no people are just way too fucking good at this game lol
and have too much time on their hands
pretty sure i took longer to down floor 25 with a full party than this guy took with just billy on 100 lol
Nah march would totally score higher than the MCs
thats the 5
There's two fives though
also be fr the trailblazer knows way too much about finance due to the belobog museum and arrum alley events to prove they are smarter than march
I like to imagine they fall upwards
It's simple
Just don't get hit

If they wanted to make it hard they would need to increase dodge cooldown
zzz drips whenever the fuck they want
Wtf another anomaly
it was known she was gonna be anomaly
recently saw some discussion on the nikke subreddit that brought up something interesting about some more event tie-ins to the main story
back in chapter 6, ||alice introduces the party to the "sleeping princesses," two critically damaged nikkes that are suspended in solution and presumably being barely kept alive||
||she calls them princess blue hair and princess yellow eye||
||and in old tales, hansel/gretel have blue hair, and siren has yellow eyes||
||obviously those are super vague descriptions so there's no guarantee, but could be interesting setup from forever ago to allow bringing them back to relevance in the main story, in the same way cindy has been||
oh its like that huh
she just like me fr
she's ice
we're just waiting for test servers to go up
but she is ice
apparently the beta testers say her skills have stun options
tho some leakers say she probably doesnt just deal ice damage is the reason for the icon
point taken from lighter's passive
lighter buffing fire/ice at the same time
lmao
okay but it would be pretty funny if this was just it
it's all coming up lighter
it was literally that
lol
hsr news: welcome our new break overlords boothill and lingsha
newcomers to the cast: himeko
fugue hyperbuffing the shit out of these 3 is kind of wild
lingsha should be the most comfortable here for non-0 cycles
boothill is easily able to shred past cocolia's 40% phys res thanks to fugue
it is about an hour and a half before prelims end and top 36k is only at 27m honors
that is insanely low
like for i think it was light gw, this honor count i don't think was enough for top 36k
or maybe that was fire gw
either way, 27m is a ridiculously low benchmark
well i'm set for nm95
clicks more buttons than i'd like but i'll just have to deal with it

the fact this worked when i wasn't even actively trying for finals is funny
top 36k only needed a little over 34m honors
which i had in the first couple hours of gw
also my phone keeps yeeting me from fgo, which is making the lotto farm a lot more annoying than it needs to be
None of the above
It's SNK
shin negami kensei?
Shin Nihon Kikaku
You know
The people who made the games where Terry Bogard is from
cindy damage lmao
Why is a cop and a member of a biker gang an intended team
Romeo and juliet type shit
more like local militia :x
in a good way
Well, time to see if I can actually get enough for her and Lighter
well you have all of this patch and all of 1.4 to get miyabi
since miyabi will be on rate-up for 6 weeks
wait not necessarily 6 weeks for miyabi
also its looking likely that it will be asaba as free
wait wut, didn't asaba get drip marketing? he's supposed to be S rank right?
correct
that doesnt mean hes immune to being free
for hsr, hoyo gave out one of the best single target dps characters for free in dr ratio
and its looking like asaba is going to be in that same boat
unknown if he'll be as good but
his kit sounds pretty good at least from what we could tell
interesting
but this will be our first free S rank yeah?
(if it does turn out he's free)
yea
it should be free
may be tied to the game awards
which means they likely already had voting concluded
and zzz is winning something
first S rank electric attacker being free would be blessed
especially since holy fuck we need some more S rank attackers in general
anomalies taking over lol
i remember when i first started i saw anomaly DPS as a category and was like "so this is the afterthought for damage just like defense is afterthought for support"
how the tables have turned on that
alternatively can do miyabi lighter piper
anomaly DPS is king and arguably the best character in the game is caesar
surely miyabi is too cool to be consigned to off field play
she isnt
she needs on-field play to enable her
but it isnt jane levels of on-field
honestly that alone is surprising to me lol
which works really well with lighter who has a lot of field time
but not as much as someone like qingyi
katana fox aesthetic should be king so i'd expect them to design her around on-field play
sorta in the same way yanagi has been, since her animations evoke that same sort of style
and it's cool af
she does work with yanagi
but i actually am not sure they are the best teammates
since yanagi wouldnt help lighter out and lighter is very clearly miyabi support
shredding ice and fire defenses
it's probably not a coincidence that nagi is the first one with a team skill that doesn't actually need people from her faction
we'll see if they change anything for lighter
since miyabi requires section 6 or anomaly
lighter needs sons of calydon or attacker iirc
which pushes burnice (or piper)
burnice just goes everywhere as the best off-field anomaly we have so far lol
and we'll have to see as both lighter releases
and as miyabi goes through beta
if they change her core passive or whatnot
but its looking like the void hunters are going to get the archon treatment that genshin has
or emanator treatment hsr has
where they are the defining character of their group/patch cycle
so doubt we see nerfs
rather i feel like they will probably "nerf" her off field
and buff her to be on-field
or adjust her passives
and such
while i do think her general aesthetic makes her a shoo-in on-fielder
having 3 on-field focused anomalies and only one that really works off-field (burnice) would be rough
so uhh how many life debts do mc and his squad owe andersen at this point
piper isn't bad off-field either since she's mostly an occasional swap-in for skills but still
oh i forgor that caesar should work on almost any miyabi team
feels like he always bails them out of stupid shit that should kill them
caesar works everywhere lol
piper's best case is being the on fielder
but yeah
i think i might grab nagi and play miyabi yanagi and rina
i know but she feels like she'd be weaker on-field than our limited S ranks that want field time too
so instead she becomes an EX special bot
i got lycaon so im actually been super set on stunners rn
but idk
even though miyabi is looking to be insane with lighter
if only i was pulling for lighter
i've spent my life savings on yanagi and still don't have her, no shot i get lighter
i have c2 koleda, qingyi, lycaon, and c4 anby
im so good on stunners
i use all of them too
i only have 7 level 60 agents: nicole, zhu yuan, qingyi, jane, seth, burnice, caesar
i like yanagi enough after her story
and zhu is the only character among them that really likes having a stunner
this will be 8 if/when i get nagi
you say you use all your stunners but tbh i have no idea how to fit in stunners to what i have
my on-field agents are either qingyi or jane
and nagi if/when i get her
how do i even find time to use a non-qingyi stunner
what is it with gachas and people named andersen being unfathomably based
first there's fgo, who has hans from ccc
(hans christian andersen)
and now we have nikke's andersen (who's probably an rl hans reference in his own right)
andersen is definitely named after the same person lol
what with all the fairy tale references strewn across the game
and the ||extremely strong implication that andersen is the legendary commander of the goddess squad||
goated if true
it's basically all but confirmed, hell before this anni event they actually had the same voice actor lol
and there are story beats later in the main campaign that you haven't gotten to yet that only reinforce this
where are you in the main campaign btw
i can think of one spot in particular near where i last remember you where andersen comes in clutch
middle of chapter 14, he just ||bailed them out of getting killed by burningum's goon squad||
yep that's what i was thinking of lol
40 pulls
my gacha luck is supreme

oh sorry it was 50
oh side note my squad is currently actually doing shit at an 8k deficit, which seems pretty good considering i'm still not leveling gear
cus i got the bp mission for it
what's the recommended power? deficit works on a % basis, so absolute values don't mean much
tho deficit base def is still a bitch
mine's around 35.1k, just did one at around 43k
so around 20-ish % lower
so almost a 20% deficit
yeah that's pretty significant, nice that you can still push through it
does it require you to manual or do you still get through on auto
i'm still autoing, although i do have to switch to supports in some contexts
mainly base defense and some weirder regular fights
most of manual play when pushing through deficit is just getting to burst as fast as possible
so switching to your resident burst battery (centi for you) and attack spamming
i could push much farther in the campaign that i have right now but i've been lazy
with proper play you can get to like 30%+ deficit but it starts getting really tedious and painful and i just CBA
i don't plan on doing that much deficit if i can avoid it
new nikke promo material that hints at winter volume skin + maiden alt that i'm spoilering because wew volume
maiden alt would be blessed though
ofc maiden is one of many characters i don't have, but i'd be down with an alt
her base is only really relevant in PvP and even then not all that good
she deserves better since she's incredibly based as a character
actual gamer girl wife
tbf i could use more solid pvp units to put on defense, at least
i don't care super much about pushing it but would still be nice
Finished nikke event story
||i owe you an apology oswald, i was unfamiliar with your game||
||Also very funny that they did the "you really were my.... goddes of victory"||
||ingrid: y'all are in great danger, figure it out||
||everyone else: realizes the gravity of the situation||
||marian: i'm hungry||
never change
||its a bit sad that humanity will forever hold cindy responsible instead of the actual culprit but oh well||
||I was also really hyped when she broke through the corruption. That moment when the mirror shattered had me pogging out of my gourd||
if you liked this event's story btw, highly recommend using your film tokens to unlock overzone + red ash in the archive
those are the other anni events that surround this one
canon order is red ash -> old tales -> overzone (with some overlap)
The events story was a bit to tragic for my liking truth be told
all of them are very good
Tho i did like the end
lol nikke piled on the depression simulator too much huh
overzone is like that too, spoiler alert ig
red ash has aspects of it but also gets to be uplifting like the end to this event
red ash also has slightly more direct tie-ins to old tales
If i want depression simulator i can just read arknights
Btw, there doesnt seem to be a tutorial for solo raid as well as the coop thing or even the union game mode. Have i just missed them or do i need to look that up?
yeah to my knowledge there's no in-game tutorial on those
they are reasonably straightforward though
co-op is: queue up, get matched with 4 other people, choose your fighter (you are one of the 5 members of a standard nikke squad), then fight boss
you don't need to (and can't actually) beat the boss in co-op, you just need to do enough damage to it to complete all the stages to get essentially max rewards
typically so long as 1 of your 5 members has a highly invested DPS nikke, it'll be a cakewalk
solo raid is: fight the same boss at up to 8 levels of difficulty, with rewards along the way as you beat each level
you can field up to 5 squads to beat the boss, boss health is persistent across fights at the same level so if you don't kill the boss in one try you have 4 others starting at whatever health you left the boss at, but you can't re-use the same nikkes twice
union raid is basically the same as solo raid except you have 3 squads, not 5, and you cycle through 5 bosses of increasing difficulty rather than the same one. also you share boss HP with the rest of your union, who will be fighting/killing the boss too
I should probably put together more than one squad then 🤔
both raids are more focused on endgame so you won't be able to do much in either case
argor posted earlier he could beat the 2nd level of solo raid now but no further
you'll probably find something similar
Good enough for me
I still need some commander funkos
And thats one of the better sources for it
i beat 3rd level but it took three of my squads bc i'm an idiot
why idiot rather than just underleveled/geared lol
bc i fucked up its big trigger in the first fight and died sooner than i needed to
oh rip
then i somehow didn't have enough damage in the second fight
so the third one was just dorothy cleaning up what was left
if you're quick on the draw (i.e. realizing you failed) you can quickly hit escape and restart and not use up an attempt
yeah but i had already done around 36m damage so i didn't care that much
I am adept at doing that from countless hours of arknights and fgo
Having done the event fully... Damn do their outfits and camera angles absolutely ruin a lot of what they're going for. I get the type of game it is but chill. Also wasn't impressed by the cutscenes much but other than that, good ass story
is this about cinderella's ass?
I do agree that its kinda offputting sometimes
i swear one of the cg's i saw was straight out of bradamante's np
It's less that and more so the constant close ups on boobs ass and crotch
We have the game play for that we don't need it when the game is actually trying to tell a story
i can agree it's offputting but i think saying it ruins things is a bit extreme
at least i never thought to myself "damn this moment would hit much harder without the tiddies"
they're sorta just... there
It just completely knocks me out of the moment
Like a solemn last almost hopeless stand against an overwhelming foe... Time to show their crotch for 5 seconds
Bittersweet moment where cindy is crying? You gotta make sure her breasts are also in focus!
i don't think it's any worse than the rest of the non-CG moments where serious dialog is happening and cindy's sprite butt fangs are just there
I mean both are issues
they are, i agree, i just personally don't find that they take me out of things
Ig i can ignore it better when its just the sprite but the cg was specifically made for that scene
That's a valid perspective, I think it's just personal taste
Yea def
It also didn't help that the CG was... Not very well done
It is the most sluggish final confrontation I've ever seen, there's no desperation
PLOT TWIST
are you talking about the animation at the end?
Yeah
yeah unfortunately the nikke animations are not that great
and completely agree it specifically has a problem with picking strange camera angles to emphasize T&A
I've done a complete 180 on graves design, I love it
i think the most questionable part of it all is that they don't quite pick a lane and stick to it
they have CGs completely devoid of fanservice, just character moments
Me when i see abs
but then they also have shit like the animation, or like what guy said earlier with the cindy crying over the soup scene
jumping back and forth between serious and fanservice is more jarring than just a constant balance of the two (or not having any fanservice at all in serious moments)
Btw, ive already seen theories ||that chatterbox is red shoes, which would be inredibly funny||
is that the theory? ||i've seen a lot more theories that she's a different heretic you haven't encountered yet, nihilister||
honestly though if there's one massive criticism of nikke's overall narrative that i have
it's that ||no one actually ever fucking dies||
||Somehow, palpatine returned||
there are exceptions but basically everyone ||just gets damaged and comes back later in some way||
||Praise be nimph||
you don't even know quite how bad it gets later in the story
with one character in particular it feels like ||we've had like 3 "final" goodbyes lol||
i get that in a gacha game it's especially hard to ||permanently kill off playable characters, including ones in NPC jail because then you lose the opportunity to make them playable in future||
but given the nature of nikke's story being pretty serious and post-apocalyptic it kinda detracts from the stakes/tone
just hit stage 8 and last hp bar on grave digger interception so i guess i'm really close to killing him now
nice but i think that last stage is the longest and hardest lol
does it really matter what i do in co-op?
like i assume the party grouping is all randomized unless you get a bunch of people to queue as a party
nah it doesn't really matter, but you generally want to let people with higher levels/better gear than you be the DPS
while you're underleveled it's best to just pick a support like liter and let everyone else do whatever they're gonna do
99% of the time you'll get one guy with insane DPS who just steamrolls to the last boss stage where rewards increase
at that point it's usually best to fail one of the red ring events and just let a party wipe happen to save time
you can technically get increased rewards for getting a top rank in damage done, but that requires a premade and highly leveled/geared party of 5. it's not worth chasing with randos
Yeah im not sure about these squads
i tried to do like
burst cd reduction + 2 buffers + 2 burst 3 dps
that is about what i'd expect out of a lobby of randoms
just people taking whatever their best burst 3 is bc they want to be the big dick dps
of these, the only one who should be doing that is the one with that big-ass modernia
but idk if it shows picks in real time or not
it does
anyway you and modernia player chose properly, and one of the others can stay burst 3, but the other two really should use their damn heads
i was switchign between d and a burst 2 to show that i was up to fill but
noone else seemed interested
got another gold mold ready, bless my pull
idt you want my blessing
lmao
well without your blessing i got folkvang
aka that one who was lifting the weight in the last event's image
(it's spelled folkwang but that has to be pronounced vang, right?)
i do love locking in a burn team for mirror dungeon and then just doing 3k damage on the last boss in the first turn thanks to glimpse of flames
i like how simple round 1 90++ is
probably gonna try to do most of my meaningful farming here
(if i can find time(
What setup
another banger set of skin art that hoyo will never release in-game for another restaurant collab
its like the curse of FGO CEs.
the standard buster system with np4 eresh
OH SHIT ITS FARMING TIME FOR FGO
...eh I'll do it tomorrow I'm eepy
you can still do the farming nodes without
I'm caught up 

oh also false red is handing my ass to me on a silver platter right now
first 1v1 in the minigame i've actually had trouble with
none of the boss fights have given me trouble but some of the random corridor enemy combos have absolutely ruined me
there's a long path to an easter egg area on the far right side of the map that legitimately took years off my life
yeah iirc stage 4 is a major difficulty spike, moreso than previous ones
alright the balans is done
now i have to start farming for the others
you have to clear adverse to unlock the H stages??????? fuck me
NP4 Summer Melt with non-MLB Black Grail consistently falls ~170k short of killing Super Orion on the 90++
I need that damage CE yesterday
And now I have Privaty, to accompany Privaty
resident tsundere queen has blessed you with her presence
lore-accurate

canon
oh my god lol
and here we go
Miyabi's kit in case people are too lazy to read it:
Do everything
That dumbass rizz
welp better expect a new item set in version 1.4 with a critchance increasing effect because otherwise have fun reaching 100% on miyabi
u need a casual +3 crit chance on 5 pieces to hit that
goes down to +2 with woodpecker and m2
love the finisher with her EX skill
finally reached 150 on raiden
didn't get one 
Selected for cognitive behavioural therapy
wtf lol these animations are insane
she really out here hitting half the arena with massive AoEs on like every attack
the unfinished harumasa anims have me weak
the fucking ult lmaoooooooo
Man's so lazy he doesn't even have animations
there are some finished
also pulchra is atm physical stun
she wont be out this patch
hope he's free his finished anims and his kit sound a ton of fun
finally got around to attempting to optimize my jane's disk set, went from like 130 AP to 320
idk how tf you get to 360 without an in-combat buff like from seth
and especially not 420
probably from rerolling a billion disks until you get lucky on the AP secondaries
miss me with that shit
actually nm i do know this, it's from having a wengine that gives AP
like jane's sig or the battle pass one
sadly my jane has weeping gemini, and burnice has my battle pass one
rainforest gourmet also has ap substat like the battlepass one
both 75
sig has 92
but generally with sig and 2p AP set u need like 18 AP on 5 pieces + slot 4 to reach 420 AP
which is overall actually really easy to archieve with sig
yeah but i don't have sig and probably never will
can't ever see myself rolling on a weapon banner in this game
um than u need 2 ap rolls more since its 17 diffence from gourment
so 3 disc with 18 AP and 2 discs with 27
ah so shes acheron like actually
anomaly is a formality
damn i have 2 18s and 2 27s and i don't want to reroll more lol
just saying u need 47 critchance if u got miyabi with sig
thats +3 crit rolls on 5 pieces to reach 100%
that shit makes stacking anomaly like a joke
if u use 2p woodpecker u loose like 2.5 rolls
and m2 is like another 5 rolls i think
so i guess there might be another critchance set in 1.4 so u have a easier time to archieve that 100 without m2
is that nanami again?
it is always nanami
"Oh boy I can't wait to see the teaser for the Rodion Dulcinea id!"
Yi sang at the start for some reason: https://t.co/cQ1pbUtg8N
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love that gfl2 let anyone sign up for closed beta and then when you get the invite it says that the UK is not a valid test region
good thing they don't have to know
Lotsa good arknighta screenshots this chapter
me
cute
unlimited nanabrainrot 
i love IS bullshittery
pmtwt treats kjh like an experiment in an enclosure. watching from behind the glass and pointing at every move he makes with awe
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had a purple door turn gold and give me an alice dupe on free cindy roll lmao

got my celestial sword to 4*, finally
so that's that done
next celestial project will be the staff
only downside is that doing that uses up fragments, so it delays the 5* eternal process a bit
but meh
i have more immediate use for the celestials and can just farm out a few more boxes for extra revenant weapons if i have to
(since each weapon takes 20 of the respective fragment to 4*, your fragment requirement increases from 50 to 70
grats
in gameplay or aesthetic?
Does 1 have similar gameplay?
not in the slightest
I see
the 3 current gfl gacha games are all different gameplay styles
^
MOTHERFUCKER
Rhodes Island elite operator, Logos, reporting in. I think this procedure calls for some formality, cumbersome as it may be- Doctor, you're not thinking of leaving early again, are you?
gfl 1 is just corpse drag your dolls around a 3x3 grid to brute force level them, and also drag them around to avoid damage
neural code is a roguelike iirc
gfl 2 is as described by aeri
blessed grave
many such cases
Here is the results of my last 3 ssr molds:

Ig you can stick her in a team that has charge dps
Like cindy or alice
finally finished lost sector 7, so in turn i finally have the bastion cube
nah she kinda bad in general
thigh game ridiculous tho
that's what really matters
I'm not sure I like the implications of that
okay
time to do some research over the next few days
I mean I make it sound like it's worse than it is but you can also understand why I say it like that
wish i got beta access
how's it run?
very smoothly
need this in fgo
wait for fgo2: edison vs tesla boogaloo
i think ive had enough of those two in my lifetime
gacha is temporary, but ac vs dc is eternal
I think the two gachas I'm between rn are Nikke and ZZZ
based
both are good but in different ways
nikke for more fanservice, better story (imo), more f2p friendly
zzz has better gameplay by miles and is generally higher quality in terms of design and content drops because hoyo has more money than god and they've perfected the gacha formula
i happily play both though, don't think you can go wrong with either
i will say that if you want to start nikke, if only to give it a shot, now is the time. it's doing its 2nd anni right now and is giving away tons of shit for free
no reason u cant play both too
that too
so that solo astaroth comp i ran back when i was farming her also apparently is my fastest option for nm100
which is pretty fucking funny
i guess it's worth noting this is with temptation chain, idk what the numbers look like if i have stamina pendulum instead
so far i'm at around 300m honors this run
i don't think i have the will to push 800m for the sand but we'll see
again, really shitty timing
having nikke 2nd anni, gw, and fgo lotto event all run simultaneously
just lmao
at least azur lane has a down week
hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh I cannot decide who to spark between mumu and specter
the urge to gacha until I see one is rising with every passing minute but then I run the risk of destroying my ulpian + narantuya fund (i have like almost 200 pulls)
Wizardry
The 1980s American dungeon crawler game that is a big part of rpg and jrpg history
Has a gacha game!?
the fuck
regi what the fuck

Also if this is true it means I have to pull for sunday
Glory be to our righteous leader Jing yuan
I haven't looked at leaks in like two weeks lol
Someone just sent this to me and I thought it was hilarious
nah Sunday would have my kid
did a few ill-advised impulse rolls (i still have more than enough resources so i'm fine on that front) and got spooked by some random pilgrim named red hood
so i guess i have a use for her skin now : ^)
good lord i am blessed tonight
considering the odds this is probably what it was like when i rolled that one ticket and got spooked by bubs
current squad for campaign is gonna be 4 pilgrims and a granny
not much sustain at all but fuck it
not tier 0 but sunday buffs all hyper carry characters to basically modern dps standards
regi why
lol you have easily the luckiest account i've basically ever seen
also, apparently they paused solo raid again
sir, another solo raid bug has hit nikke
wonder if we'll get a bunch of free rewards again lol
Including DHIL?
people were exploiting a pause trick to skip one of its phases, so yeah that seemed inevitable
we will if they're based
oh right somewhere in that set of pulls and a mold i got in the process, i ended up getting liter and marciana dupes iirc
not in game to check right now but i think my liter is at 2* and marciana at 1

liter was one of my 5 first MLBs, very blessed
i've kept marciana on my wishlist because i want to eventually MLB her because her burst animation is peak
What are the odds 5.3 has a Wrio rerun
i hope eventually nikke supports more than just 5 lobby screens
it badly needs a feature like azur lane's random secretary list
they're not against improving the lobby screen setup, the ability to mix and match backgrounds + music per lobby screen is relatively new and that was a damn good addition (more games should do this)
but increasing (or otherwise entirely removing) the limit of 5 would be unfathomably based of them
hmm
did they pause solo raid? i don't see anything saying they did, just that they're investigating that pause exploit
i guess they didn't, i read their notice as them pausing solo raid but in reality it's that the issue was a pause exploit
liter / grave / red hood / cindy / flex is pretty winning for a general comp
grave can be swapped to marciana if healing is needed, and flex can be centi for quick burst gen or someone like privaty just for damage buffs
getting red hood also indirectly makes grave way stronger since red hood has perma-pierce which grave buffs massively
on that note, you prolly don't need centi anymore for quick burst gen because red hood can serve the same role
so tbh your best flex is prolly privaty at this point, free damage buffs
rn the flex is scarlet for more cp
ah that makes sense
i'm using cindy center bc i'm more used to controlling her than snipers
not sure if red hood is any different from handling other snipers tho
(yes i'm a bit lazy and just center whoever i want to use for the most part)
she isn't, and in fact she's easier for 2 reasons
- she buffs her own charge speed which makes spamming easy
- her burst turns her into more of a machine gun lol
i do the same lol, only thing that trumps this is if it messes with my auto-burst order
which, tbf, red hood will do a LOT
because she can be all 3 bursts
so if you're on auto, make sure she's to the right of your B1/B2 options
yeah i'm aware
but red hood is usually auto-locked to the center of my squads
she's easy to use and is a character you want to focus anyway, even on auto, for burst gen purposes
yep
hes better than sparkle for imbibitor lunae and jingliu and blade
jing yuan of course
seele technically too
somehow i'm already almost done with tactics academy
only 5 more nodes to go
which still represents over 5m credits i'll need, but still
ofc i also have to do a bit more story, which will probably take longer, since the last node calls for finishing chapter 18
and since i'm already getting pretty badly outscaled in only the middle of chapter 16...
gonna have to start using 2 support comps instead of 1 for pushing
which feels inefficient but probably necessary after a point
yeah a major criticism of nikke i will always have (unless they change it) is that they power gate the story heavily
seems really counterproductive for a story-focused game to do that, i genuinely wonder if that helps or hurts their player retention
i luckily didn't have to do this, but i can't imagine having to stop halfway through chapter 23 or 24 (best chapters in the story so far imo) because you hit a power wall
tbf hard story chapters are kind of a staple of the big gachas
fgo has a ton of notorious chokepoints, arknights too
azur lane chapters 13+ are significant power spikes compared to the rest
there are chokepoints in nikke too, i think the chapter 21 end boss is notorious for it
(i one-shot it lol, i think i was just overleveled compared to when people normally tackle it)
tons of people complain about mother whale, yeah
patriot when the doctuah borrows one typhon:
i'm sorta dreading it myself, no viable mgs
and not entirely sure if i'll have good options for it when i get there
but chokepoints created from a difficulty spike in the content are different from just artificially imposing a stop on progression because you need to wait a few days or weeks for resources to accumulate
AL sorta deserves a pass on this front because its main campaign story is not exactly its focus lol
ye i haven't played as many of those types
like i guess illusion connect counts but i dropped that a long while back
like, nikke has a few advantages some other games don't. notably, no stamina system
same way i suppose blue archive counts, but my device struggled to play that so much i just dropped it too lol
but it pays the price for that in other ways
it's not perfect but i like another eden's overall way of doing things
main story and side story stuff, none of that is stamina gated at all
there's only a key system for running dungeons
yeah that's ideal
and for a new player, you can steamroll most of the early story since new gacha characters wreck old content
ae also has permanent and pseudo-permanent collabs, tho you can thank square enix for the "pseudo-permanent" part
nikke almost has a pseudo-stamina gated story, because even without stamina it just requires waiting around for long periods of time to clear significant combat power walls
my main party is like 320k combat power and that's right around on par with chapter 30 stages
i could probably comfortably clear c30 with slight deficits near the end, and i'd bet i could get through at least c31 afterward under progressively larger but still reasonable deficits
but i think the newest chapter is c34? so i'm likely a fair bit away from that and i've been playing for 8 or so months
so the main story has a pretty significant time gate associated with it
just an unfortunate arrangement for a game where the story is arguably one of the highlights
ofc nikke has plenty to keep you occupied with regular events and whatnot, and there's something to be said for steady but slow and predictable progression so you can spread out your playtime
i like new content drops for my games as much as any guy but the sudden expanded checklist of things to do can really throw off the daily rhythm of playing your average gacha game lol
…it was Tighnari’s fault all along
cool stuff
ugh i wish i had sw e2
building er is annoying mg
ehr
i have her at a nice 168 speed with fleet
but only 70 ehr
and she needs like 97
finally went ahead and finished up all the collection items on the in the mirror map
kept easy mode on bc seriously, fuck some of those screens
would love to see what a non-easy mode speedrun of it looks like, but i'd probably hate myself if i had to do it
the least i can do for my king...
hmmm this wasn't the pilgrim i expected from my free cindy pull today
mfw ditzy ojou-sama spooks me on cindy banner
watch crown dodge me forever lol
anyway nice spook
blessed
log on azur lane for the first time in over a week
ibuki literally broke during the update
so now i'm sitting here trying to repair my game rip
only a little over a third of the way through checking and i've been here for like 10 mins
that's doro for me
only pilgrim i don't have yet iirc
hmm
How much longer is the Nikke anniversary event goingM
not on to check but like another week to 10 days, it started around halloween and should last 3 weeks
event ends at 4:59 am utc+9, november 21
convert accordingly for your time zone
for eastern standard time, that's 3 pm on the 20th
how many days do you need to get everything
define "everything"
it's gacha so it's all RNG ultimately
but the sooner you start the more daily login rewards/etc you'll pile up
the game frontloads a bunch of resources for you so you'll be able to pull a ton of times soon after starting
there's still time to do basically everything in the current anni event that gives rewards
with the sole exception of the daily login which needs 14 days total (and there's only 8 left rn)
but you'll only lose out on a few freebies and like 5 pulls by not being able to finish that, it's not the end of the world
people doing itm farming speedruns lol
based
yep
Any referral links or promo codes I should know about?
https://nikke.gg/cd-keys-guide/ here's a list of a bunch of redemption codes you can use as soon as you start
tons of free shit from these since a lot are from anni
nearly like 30 pulls or something
referral link... uhhh idek actually lol
i don't think there is
none that i can find unfortunately
no biggie
was just wondering if you could get a benefit for referrals
Nikke event 2-7 or so ||I knew Red Shoes was sus from the start (I initially thought the tea was the method she used to get the Corruption inside Cinderella), but MAN she was really a full on level 99 bastard. And one that I’m pretty sure is still alive in some shape or form, given how the Red Shoes escaped from Cindy’s judgement and her personality code was used as a basis for the Corruption||
Almost tempted to use gems just to finish catching up on the story
To add onto this ||I really like how they didn't have Cinderella hold back out of shock or whatever, she immediately went for the kill||
well, now they've formally announced it
they're shutting it down for 18 hours, starting in a few hours, and extending the duration by 2 days
||this cemented her as one of my favorite characters||
||asked questions, got her answers, then immediately took decisive action instead of spouting platitudes or whatever||
so uh the fact i can apparently do this on my first try is funny
at least one of these fucks is doable
:icant:
3 will be doable with more time, i can do 3 pretty consistently now
4 is still not happening tho
but yeah it should be fine just doing as high as you can
3 is my limit for steady clears rn
With 2+ teams I can push for 4, but I'm realizing that I'm still not super great with team comps in Nikke rn
you also probably don't have as many options to work with
idk what you do and don't have tho
More or less this, albeit with levels between 140 and 135 now
Liter/Cindy/S Anis/Mari/Rapunzel is my current main squad
Asuka and Rei can make the backbone for a second squad, and I can put Quency Alter in for the third, but figuring out who to pair with them is my issue
Since I think their preferred units kinda overlap
God, I hate farming Xueyis link rope
How is finding a break effect rope with CR/CD so impossible
Ye break is a rare mainstat relative to ATK/DEF/HP so it kinda sucks
Gotta resin for it
ranked from easiest to hardest, imo the 5 special intercepts go modernia > chatterbox > black smith >>> grave digger >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> alteisen
i was able to full clear the first 3 long before i got to clearing the last 2
but you have a better team comp than i did at the time, so maybe things will be smoother for you
team 1 - what you're already using, but switch rapunzel for privaty if you don't need healing (you probably do though)
team 2 - volume / naga / asuka / rei / privaty if you didn't use her in t1, otherwise prolly smol white
team 3 - rapunzel pure grace or N102 (rapunzel for shields, N102 for damage) / mast / quency escape queen / maxwell / smol white here if not used in t2
you can scrape together a t4/5 too but those will be super janky and probably just a matter of putting who you have left into a team without much real thought lol
but stage 3 is perfectly fine for your level
when i was at the 160 wall (so farther than you are right now) i think i barely managed stage 4 in some raids but no further than that
that said, i wouldn't be surprised if y'all with cindy manage to get further than i did back then. she seems like a boss cheat code because her burst does stupid amounts of damage
i was ||worried that she would, because she started asking questions once red shoes revealed herself and i was like "nooooo just KILL THIS BITCH" but then she actually did do that so that was a relief||
as an aside, it was known for quite a while (like a month or more in advance) that the focus of this anni was going to be cinderella
and tbh i remember thinking that cindy's design was kinda meh, especially relative to past anni units, and i wasn't really hype about her getting the spotlight
but the event story completely changed my tune, cindy is goated and her design is too (funny how liking a character more can make you appreciate their design too)
Is the train really that much of a bitch at this level?
the train is maximum bitch
everything it does one-shots you
it's so goddamn annoying
for a while i only got as far as i did with noah i-frame cheesing
Aight
again, ymmv with cindy dropping tactical nukes which i didn't have
but the first phase with the rockets + turrets is a brutal DPS check
so long as you clear to stage 7 on any given boss you're good tho
that's when they start having a chance to drop manufacturer gear
A good story can change a character in your life
Or something like that 
I don't know names but the part where you have to hit the targets on grave digger is making me want to claw my face
yep that's grave digger alright
Before Cinderella I'd just try to save my burst nukes for the target checks, because otherwise I'd take a massive spin drill to the face and lose my entire party 

Honestly even with Cindy I'm still sticking to auto more often than not lol; the AI manages to clutch it even if I disagree with their tactics sometimes
In comparison, Alteisen was never a threat to me
Just a nice, fun, giant hitbox to juggle till I won
we talking intercept level D alteisen or special intercept alteisen?
because the difference is real coughing baby vs hydrogen bomb material
If you haven't cleared chapter 16, you haven't unlocked special interception yet
Lmao I'm still in chapter 11
Taking my time with it (and splitting time with HSR and Genshin)
when i first started i was neurotic af on getting as far as i could in the story
partly because i genuinely enjoyed it
but mainly because it's tied to your outpost level and i wanted more idle resource generation lol
and in particular once i accessed chapter 16 i wanted to clear it asap so i ended up skipping as many optional fights as i could, then ran special interception, got some gear, and went back and cleared the rest of chapter 16 and had an easier time doing it than i would have otherwise
i'm still on deficit but it's not unbearable
oh also they're giving us more stuff for solo raid
which i'm fine with, bc i need the extra mats
red hood's doll just won't give me a success
i think it's level 2 (blue) and i'm on 24% success rate or something
doll RNG sucks for how scarce the upgrade materials are, really only solo raid gives them in bulk and even then it's mostly the blue mats when you really want purple/gold for upgrading SR dolls
doesn't help that i used up all my luck on my red hood doll a few months back
put on a purple doll, then got super success on it 3 times in a row on my very first try at each stage
never gonna get that lucky again
lol
i felt lucky having cindy's purple doll give me one super success within like 6 or 7 attempts
(it's level 5 now)
i think i mentioned this before but the most material-efficient way to upgrade dolls is to use a blue doll first, use blue mats to get it to 15, then replace with a purple doll and use purple mats to level 10, then gold mats to 15
ofc this is doll-inefficient but dolls are easier to come by than the upgrade materials
yeah i realized that well after i had already given cindy her doll
but tbf cindy's doll did help with keeping up with recommend cp for a while
yeah the quick CP boost to push campaign more was probably worth it in that case
btw since you're through c16 you now have a glimpse of ||why crow is The Worst||
||she's the worst in terms of her deeds and whatnot, sure, but ||
||1. i probably think red shoes is worse||
- ||everyone else is a goddamn idiot, crow's playing absolutely everyone for fools||
- ||yes red shoes is definitely worse lol, my "crow is the worst" stance was before this recent event and now it's just a meme (she still sucks hardcore tho)||
- it is known
1 (cont) ||it's gonna be sorta hard to ever top red shoes on The Worst scale, she's basically the source of nearly everything bad that's happened post-rapture invasion||
that said, ||this may be obvious but it's not the last you'll see of crow, and some of the stuff she's yet to do will make the things she's done so far look minor in comparison||
||yeah i bet||
anyway a bunch of the artists i follow have crossed over into nikke art specifically for cinderella, so that's something
haven't seen as much grave by comparison, sadly
cindy is definitely more fanart-able for a multiude of reasons, not the least of which being that she's the primary focus of the event lol
it is tragic that grave won't get as much though, her design is so good
remember kids, if a horny nun invites you to the promised land, treat it with suspicion
https://x.com/twt_savadava/status/1653447009385476096 actually the average Ho'olheyak fan
My brain is rotting from a game I don't even play
wizardry gacha game has been interesting
still weird that wizardry got a gacha game to begin with but still lol
that's me fr
oh no. my wallet is in danger
which skins are you thinking about grabbing?
so horny, horny, and horny
(tbf i have two of those)
also probably one of the agir skins, but i can't decide whether maid or her lunar new year skin is better
decisions decisions
Chat, i have to many operators to raise
i think its gotta be
logos -> ascalon -> civillight eterna -> execalter -> ela
Dbh heroes new units are here
Maybe the last ones
Regardless I'm going to try my best to get them all
holy hell
new game + mobs are ridiculously bulky
takes me longer to kill a screen of mobs than it takes to kill a boss
alrighty, i've cleared out all challenges, bought all modules from shop, gotten all meaningful rewards
all that's left to do is upgrade cinderella's stats, but that doesn't really matter
so i'm effectively done with the minigame outside of dailies
chapter 17 "cleared", in teh sense that 17-33 is done, but much of the earlier fights got temporarily skipped
||we are 18 chapters in and syuen has still done absolutely nothing to make her a redeemable character||
||might actually be the worst human in the game to this point||
playing nikke on chapter 4 rn
i immediately notice you're leveling like all of your nikkes
don't do that, you only need to level 5
put the rest that you're gonna use in the synchro device (i think you should have it by now)
you can reset the ones you've leveled for 10 gems on their character screen
it'll refund all the materials you used, and you should funnel all of them into 5 nikkes
doesn't really matter which you choose to level at this very moment
that aside, very based of you to join the nikke craze
it's all the rage rn (anni events giving out shittons of free stuff will do that)
man
I really think gfl2 is what the original wanted to be
it just fits the game so well
that's good to hear, looking forward to when i get to try it out
idk if CBT invites are sent out in waves or if i'm cooked since i didn't get one initially
but i'll give it a shot on release regardless
I'm definitely going to be addicted to it when it comes out fully
although I'll be doing the big save for g36 cause apparently she's a must-have unit

almost home
we eat dinner
look at Foundations
then we dive into gambling

btw reginald, i just remembered that the last time you posted your nikke roster, there were two nikkes (maiden and D) that were sitting at level 40... i assume you leveled them early but forgot to reset them after getting the synchro device
Oh yeah, sorta lol
i'm just pointing it out in case you want to reset them and get some free mats back
rimuru's dark rip
was really hoping for water
not like we already have other 5* welfare dark characters
oh wait
well, being a more modern ssr than joker and lelouch (who got uncaps at the start of last year) should put him into at least decent playability
the precedent is luffy, who ended up being really good for what he was, so
and ofc we still don't know who the gacha characters are
i'd assume some combination of benimaru/milim/shion/hinata/chloe/diablo, depending on how far into the series they want to go
as a shuna fan, it'd be nice to see her, but it's probably not gonna happen
it'd be funny if they went deeper into the series and added testarossa or something, but that's even less likely'
all that said, i like the series, but i do kinda hope this event plays out such that they don't do this shit again
i fully expect them saying the gacha characters wouldn't be great is a total lie and they'll end up being core
bc i have no faith in them doing otherwise for the first gacha collab banner they've done in this game's lifespan
One day I get jeze to draw nanami without paying a cent 
Ey he said he likes lumi maybe makes something
solo raid's back up, nice
the voices won i'm going to pull another 200
nikke players, remember the rapunzel episode viewing in the advise window. last day to get a free recruit voucher before it switches to a new nikke
i bring this up because i myself just remembered it lol
ye i did that a while back
i have a bad habit of clicking on it early to get rid of the red notification dot, and then never coming back to actually do it

