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[old galleon]

honestly, and i don't think this is necessarily the devs' fault or intentional, but collab units feel like a scam

[summer hornet]

If she doesn’t, I’ll keep saving (particularly because a rumor on one of the AK reddits is that the next anniversary unit will be ||Exusiai Alter||??)

[old galleon]

you can't use them in manufacturer towers and their overall power levels are relatively low

[rapid bough]

she is good in theory but before you're full endgame and have OL rolls + dolls on everything, healing is actually quite important for optimizing raid runs and her not having healing is stinky

[old galleon]

i say "relatively" tho some of them are very good

but it's hard to find a real place for them when you have shit like

crown
liter or rapi
sbs
red hood

dominating a lot of team setups

[slow raft]

apparently the next alter ||is a penguin logistics unit||

[old galleon]

hell, mari released and then not 2 months later we got grave

[slow raft]

its easy to find a place for them if you still dont have crown

[old galleon]

you know what? fair

even so, i still haven't used mari despite my status as a crownlet

like my used b2s are what

[slow raft]

i used her in the most recent solo raid

[old galleon]

naga
grave
mast/anchor
blanc

theoretically that leaves room for mari as a fifth, but it never happened

(i have marciana and centi who can play filler b2)

[summer hornet]

||PENGUIN LOGISTICS|| MY BELOVED, BE STILL MY BEATING HEART

(Kazimierz is still first, but they’re a close second)

[old galleon]

||pl crew up in the streets and your crew is a no-show||

[slow raft]

||people were saying either mostima or exu but apparently mostima gets a skin this event so||

[mortal iron]

im learning alot of MSV and manga suits

who knew kamille being a 17 year old boy making the zeta on a floppy disk, basically influenced a whole series of suit engineering

theres like 50 zetas/based on zetas

[summer hornet]

Newtype teenager things

[mortal iron]

says he's not a newtype repeatedly until the very end

makes a suit that works with newtypes really well

alright kamille

https://tenor.com/view/mobile-suit-gundam-gundam-zeta-zeta-gundam-drinking-gif-6272387697162049950

[summer hornet]

Also the whole biosystem thing

Like we do have psychoframes, and that one girl whose soul was permanently locked in the Phenex in NT. but still.

[mortal iron]

it is funny how they can just not make insanely soul sucking machines and be fine

but they keep making them anyways

like alex, zeta, ZZ systems works fine even without it, it'll make the suit performance reach maximum if they are with Newtypes but still

[summer hornet]

If only people didn’t want power lol

And if only they could stop letting kids onto the battlefield

[mortal iron]

it took what, until G gundam to get like an actual adult to pilot one (for a main series that arent OVAs)

then like...uh...never again?

[summer hornet]

Setsuna makes it up to 21 by the end of 00 season 2

I can’t think of anyone else (at least protagonists) above 20 lol

[idle grove]

do we count cca as a main series show

also hathaway is in his 20s in HF

[mortal iron]

well what i qualify is "the first time they start going and shooting" is what i count and not later iterations or later works/seasons/time skip

also hathaway was a team killing son of a bitch (movie)
or a lalah momento (novel)

[summer hornet]

If we counted the amount of times Newtypes are emotionally influenced by Newtypes of the opposite gender to do irrational, absurd, or downright stupid things

[rapid bough]

full savings entering anni, i also have 97 standard vouchers lol

gonna cruise to the finish line

also saving up for one of my patented dopamine hits

also this tia dupe was MLB which i didn't realize

another burst ani for my collection (even though i'm kinda whatever about hers)

but now both naga and tia are MLB'd, perfectly balanced as all things should be

[mortal iron]

zeta is just that constantly

[old galleon]

my tia is either 1 or 2 lb, don't immediately remember which

woudl be nice to balance mine too

[mortal iron]

cough cough reccoa being pissed off at char and kamille for being late on her gassing a colony cough cough

[old galleon]

tho naga will forever be at the top of the synchro device while tia will have to occupy a regular slot

[summer hornet]

Hathaway, Quess, Bannagher, Gyunei, Haman(?), Katz, Emma, Reccoa, Sarah, Kamille, Amuro, Char

[rapid bough]

i still think that MLBing a nikke after 200 should just remove them from the synchro device and make them permanently sync'd

alas that'll never happen

[mortal iron]

i think the only one who didnt like get influenced is like...judau probably

he mostly got weirded out by haman's advances

and he did not want to deal with ple

[summer hornet]

No wonder he managed to survive to over 100

[rapid bough]

also god dammit my crown / liter / SBS / helm / alice team is like 10-15% away from stage 7 kraken

[old galleon]

do you need the cover repair?

[mortal iron]

https://tenor.com/view/judau-newtype-gundam-gundam-zz-power-up-gif-25427112

judau's the GOAT of UC

[rapid bough]

from liter? no, she's just a better buffer for treasure helm

well she's a better buffer in general tbh, it's just that rapihood has significantly more personal damage

rapihood vs liter basically evens out in my experience, at least in this comp

[mortal iron]

it is funny how younger side of UC protags are more normal than the older UC protag
uso and judau are 13 and 14 respectively and arent total weirdos
amuro, 15, is just a weirdo who spends days on engineering stuff
and kamille 17, is kamille punch punch kick kick throw a guy in crutches down a mountain

this doesnt work if we count the movies and ovas, coz then seabook is very normal and he's one of the oldest child soldiers (16)

[slow raft]

https://x.com/dankestsin/status/1914347347636830709

Ashy🔞 (@dankestsin) on X

Uncle Mlynar wanted to be emo in the Command Center
#アークナイツ #明日方舟 #Arknights

X · Apr 21, 2025, 3:55 PM

Just in time

[old galleon]

can we expect to get any of the new nikkes' kits tonight?

[rapid bough]

i personally expect to but idk if that's just cope

they've got 3 kits worth to share so

[long tree]

Restarted, where I'm at rn

About 50ish pulls into the current 5 stars banner

Verina is C1

[wispy goblet]

got a pretty depressing bank outside of the golden mileage

[old galleon]

if that's depressing, what's mine supposed to be

you're probably fine

[wispy goblet]

at least we have the upcoming bonus pulls

might just bank those during the event for the upcoming collab

[rapid bough]

you're sitting pretty brother lol

enough mileage to get both new units if you so choose and don't sack them off the free pulls

means you can just save all the advanced vouchers you'll be getting

which is quite literally 80 of them, i think

actually 70, but w/e

[rapid bough]

oh lord the upcoming azur lane event is introducing the dutch faction

as a half dutch man myself, i approve

and i especially approve because the l2d skin that one of the dutch ships is getting looks PEAK

[versed pawn]

there was a dude a few days ago on the sub that did a full clear in 12 days which was arround 48k asterite

so arround 300 pulls

[runic ether]

https://youtu.be/Mr2Uuba41nI?feature=shared

[idle grove]

https://x.com/DeltyThe73rd/status/1914213788762689794?t=cRbhNT2fgMu1eXeW-VnMcA&s=19

delty (@DeltyThe73rd) on X

Free 2x tickets for anyone who's playing Gundam Eternal

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Select promo code on top>log into your bandainamco id>insert promo code

#GundamEternal

X · Apr 21, 2025, 7:05 AM

[long tree]

We move

[glossy latch]

Blimey

Well, now you can just go pull for any DPS you like

Jinhsi and Phoebe are probably the standout ones next patch

Jinhsi has a decent f2p option in yuanwu, and Phoebe is super f2p friendly

Carlotta is also decent since you should have Yangyang

If you don't get Phoebe you can also run Havoc Rover as a DPS

[long tree]

Is the anniversary unit gonna be any good or so we not know?

[versed pawn]

theres not a specific anniversary unit

just units that happen to run during the anniversary

its Zani and Ciaconna

[long tree]

Aren't people hype for zani?

[versed pawn]

they are

at least iam

what i was saving for

[long tree]

Do we know what she does?

[versed pawn]

well

she is someone that uses the spectro frazzel debuff do deal additional dmg

only rover and phoebe can currently apply it

[glossy latch]

She's a hypercarry DPS

The problem is ... yeah that

And Phoebe is a big upgrade for her

To the point where if you only pull one, I believe Phoebe is stronger?

She does have a cool pull animation though

[versed pawn]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MjfaSHlx0U here bit of gameplay from the live stream

[glossy latch]

In general her animations are great

As is her English VO

[long tree]

Me returning my ass to act 1 so that I may unlock spectro rover

(there was an event expiring in act 2)

[versed pawn]

usually dont play on english one of the rare instances i like to have customable Voicepacks

ah u start with specrover tho

its just unlocking the resonancnes

[long tree]

Oh I'm thinking of the other one then

[versed pawn]

phoebe is usually her best in slot teammate due her outro buff

but the bar to clear endgame content currently is pretty low so you get arround with specrover

[glossy latch]

That's Havoc

Fwiw Havoc is very good too

[long tree]

What is the best standard weapon to use my pulls on (I assume I don't want any of the other standard 5 stars)

[versed pawn]

sword usually

then gun

[digital marlin]

Emerald of Genesis I believe

[glossy latch]

Depends on who you want your DPS to be

But sword and gun are the obvious choices

[versed pawn]

mainly because these 2 have crit rate mainstats

[glossy latch]

Sword you always have Rover as an option, Gun has Carlotta if you aim for her

[versed pawn]

generally emphasize to use your standart pulls on weapon banner instead of generell pool

[glossy latch]

Ye

[versed pawn]

since its always guranteed

[glossy latch]

You can get the units from the limited banner on lost 50/50 too

While the weapon banner is guaranteed, so you can't get the weapons otherwise

[versed pawn]

new player currently has selector 40 pull banner then 80 pull choice banner so u probably have any standart 5* u need anyway

[glossy latch]

Wait was Carlotta really the first limited gun user?

[versed pawn]

ye

next one is cia

leaks allready has phrovola gameplay

and lupa

carthethiya is not shown yet

[glossy latch]

Wild

Sword is definitely the priority then

[mortal iron]

huh

(this isnt out yet)

[rapid bough]

mori kit details

the parts of her skill 2 that reference ally parts being destroyed are apparently mistranslated

should say when allies destroy parts

she seems pretty meh honestly, would work best with summer sakura/rosanna funnily enough

but she's the free unit so she's allowed to be meh. her design rocks so all is forgiven

more importantly, little mermaid kit

she has CDR, so i guess we know shift up's answer to that meta question lol

her buffs don't seem broken OP or anything, her interactions with squad ammo + damage procs seem cool

in the right team (e.g. all MGs lmao, which would actually work since she also gives huge burst gen occasionally) she'd be triggering her extra damage constantly, that could add up quick

[long tree]

I got to the new area in wuwa, rushed everything cause the rewards for doing the quests go away soon

[rapid bough]

i actually think they cooked with mermaid

don't think she projects to be utterly meta warping like crown was

but her squad ammo usage mechanics are a huge buff to otherwise somewhat underpowered weapon types (specifically MGs and ARs)

so she's still pretty damn good, but her skill synergies act as a buff to a subset of nikkes who kinda need a buff

[slow raft]

thats a funny looking mihara

[mortal iron]

damn how are people one unit solo'ing the red gundam event

my ass still cant get past 9.6k score for expert with 2 full teams

[rapid bough]

unfortunate thought: this will only widen the gap between 60 and 30 fps gamers

rip argor

[mortal iron]

what a beauty

KILL KILL KILL KILL KILL

[wispy goblet]

holy I love MG units

Now I really gotta get her

[rapid bough]

completely overlooked the continuous focus fire part of her skill 1, that's neat

means the whole team keeps firing at the cursor even when outside of full burst

well she's almost certainly the new meta B1 for kraken teams which is nice considering that's what i was working on optimizing recently lol

since little mermaid looks very good but not busted, this has got me wondering what mihara will be like

it'd be funny if she ends up being the OP unit of the anni when mermaid was obviously meant to be the focus

i really like the way they went with mermaid's buffs though, more "team synergy" buffs rather than "blanket OP numbers" buffs keeps powercreep in line and gives more teambuilding diversity which are definitely good things

[rapid bough]

lol i'll say up til now hoyo has gotten away with mostly just U N D E R T O N E S for plausible deniability on shipping agents with the proxy

but this is as obvious as it gets, they ain't even bothering to hide it

that said, vivian is very cute

we're reaching simp levels that shouldn't even be possible

i do look forward to learning why vivian is so enamored with phaethon

presumably they saved her either physically or emotionally in the past, and given dialogue with her so far i'm inclined to believe it was emotionally

but how and when? who knows

i'll also say that ||it might be just me, but parts of this PV give me death flags, especially near the end when the art style gets dark and vivian is walking around trying to find phaethon. i'm unsure if that's the intended vibe, but if it is, i wonder if the death flags are for phaethon (obvious) or for vivian. and if they're for vivian, i wonder if the whole theorized "one of the proxies dies" storyline might actually become "one of the proxies is about to die, but vivian sacrifices herself to save them". and then enter proxy rewind powers to save her life or something||

||vivian sacrificing herself would give a nice bit of closure to her background of seeing bad omens/prophecies and being unable to stop them||

[old galleon]

she doesn't need a 4 mg team or whatever; just one mg, or even two, should be enough for her purposes

[old galleon]

the burst gen on x ammo fired is cool, but the attack damage numbers seem really low to me?

and for w/e reason her burst atk buff (which is also low percentage) only affects herself

like she def replaces dorothy in my pilgrim/overspec comp

but if i were using rapi as my b1 instead of b3, she probably wouldn't get the nod there

(also i'm still missing crown)

[old galleon]

shift up fixing fps shit is and always has been cope, sadly

won't stop me from asking for it every chance i get, but still

[runic ether]

yeah fr ||im unsure if it means she is dying, or one of the proxies is but its def being set up.||

[timber sigil]

@rapid bough did u see that someone made a measurement chart from that 1 model size chart of the GFL2 models a while back

[old galleon]

woohoo, another bug patch for another eden

means minimum 40 minutes of updating

(this release was incredibly buggy so it's necessary, and some patches added more issues like the blanked out gacha banners earlier)

[summer hornet]

Danke o7

[rapid bough]

i assume her buffs are on par with or better than b1 RRH

she gives more attack damage but less ATK, but she also has the 5% damage taken which is pretty significant

TBD whether her personal damage is on par with RRH tho

would likely vary significantly by team, more MGs would increase her personal dps

[wispy goblet]

now here's a thinker
RRH is an MG unit

[rapid bough]

mermaid/crown/rapihood/mihara teams gonna go nuts

ugh apparently kayli mills (rapi/alice VA) is embroiled in the latest VA controversy that started over in genshin (she voices keqing there) and now people are up in arms about recasting her in nikke

and she issues some public apology that's made people even more mad

idk what she's done or said but recasting rapi would break my heart, she has one of the best voiceovers in the game

side note, i don't play genshin but i do have a vague clue of how chinese pronunciation works... is keqing pronounced "kaching" like i think it is? is her personality money-focused? lol

[runic ether]

keh-ching

[runic ether]

its really not too complicated drama but a lot of the community has reacted like children over it

though the pot was stirred by corina, paimon's va over the recasting of another character

they have always been somewhat unhinged though it is due to mental disorders

[old galleon]

she posted criticism of the new kinich va, some people took that to be like "she's harassing this guy" and now it's a whole mob thing where a certain section of the community hates her guts and wants her gone

[runic ether]

*they

corina is non-binary

[old galleon]

i'm talking about kayli

i'm not too familiar with corina's role in it all

[old galleon]

and this is why public figures need to not apologize as much in these situations

it'll never appease the people they're trying to appease

[runic ether]

ah yeah

[runic ether]

yeah basically

the thing to note is that genuinely, a ton of the genshin fans, and a lot of gacha fans rn, are actual teens

who have no nuance of anything and are extremely uninformed

i wouldnt have offered an apology or issued one but companies thought it prudent

[old galleon]

granted that a ton of them are teens, but i'm sure there are adults involved in fanning the flames here

[runic ether]

anti-union adults 🤝 actual teens
standing against voice actors

[old galleon]

one of the names i see thrown around is mujin, checked their video and the title alone (referring to "entitled voice actors") reeks of shit stirring; i wouldn't think they're a teen

but ye

[old galleon]

absolutely lol

[runic ether]

its another part that its super unfortunate that its also just way too easy to farm engagement off people with clickbait titles

i wonder how many of them know that genshin impact hasnt been in talks with their boogeyman

[old galleon]

i saw people post the joe zieja video summarizing the whole thing and people used that as a way to dump on kayli even more

[runic ether]

joe is in support of her too i believe thats wrio's voice actor

[old galleon]

ye i'm not saying joe attacked her in it; just people in comments wanting to stir shit

[runic ether]

not surprising they'd miss the mark

[copper steppe]

oh that guy he also participated in the nijisanji wars then decided to branch to other stuff when the drama got cold

so yeah no suprise there

[old galleon]

ye

i will say that if she felt the need to apologize to the kinich va (jacob i think?), that her doing it privately was fine (her public apology mentions this)

but even then she's def not guilty of what some of these people say she is

[copper steppe]

this looks more like a case of a scapegoat if anything else

this situation could have been handled better though

reminds me of the sunday va in the previous year too

[patent swift]

What happened with the sunday VA

[copper steppe]

it was a situation about moze first va

[long tree]

Kristoberpher?

[summer hornet]

https://youtu.be/gx2aq6gh-f8?si=5Q-GUGp164JpibXj

Unexpected lore drop, in the most bizarre format possible

[glossy latch]

When does the ZZZ patch drop, usual daily reset?

[runic ether]

i think so

[rapid bough]

another understated part of her kit is the 30% mag refill. especially when you consider she's best paired with MGs, less reloading = more damage

regardless, i bet mermaid ends up a better b1 buffer than rapihood

still probably not as good as liter tho... it's so funny that a release b1 nikke put them in a design corner where anything that's clearly better must just be insanely OP

[slow raft]

Forgot to post yesterday but i did pick up a couple skins last minute

[long tree]

Right caught up on part 2 of the wuwa story quest and done all events that need doing there so back to part 1

(managed to get 15 extra pulls ya boi)

[glossy latch]

Bloody hell

Did you skip every cutscene?

[long tree]

that's what YouTube is for

[glossy latch]

Smh my head

[long tree]

From what I've seen though I like the blonde woman in the latest patch content more than the suit woman

[glossy latch]

... be more precise as to which blonde woman you mean

[long tree]

Horn

[glossy latch]

Oh Cartythia

Upcoming character, we dont know when though

Not next patch

[long tree]

Damn

[glossy latch]

Also Aero character that might require Aero rover

Or the aero support next patch (?)

Hard to say

Also smh, you dont like Zani leaning back and reading a book after finishing her ult animation?

[long tree]

Haven't seen her ult animation

It's mainly her accent in the dub, doesn't do it for me sadly

Also who's the character that has their resonance mark on their tongue

[glossy latch]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MjfaSHlx0U

End of the trailer

[glossy latch]

Weak

Uhh, lemme check

Oh Cantarella

... how is that the first thing you think of and not the whole jellyfish aesthetic? 🤨

[long tree]

Too many jellyfish aesthetics in gacha my mind blurs them out

[glossy latch]

But yeah she was banner 1 this patch

... so Im afraid you missed your chance to pull on her

On the bright side she is ... generally a lesser version of other supports

Unless you want to play Danjin DPS in which case, good luck

(Danjin drains her own hp, which Cantarella only exarcerbates, so you basically have to never get hit)

[long tree]

Where's her accent from anyway like real world wise

[glossy latch]

The VO is greek

[long tree]

Ah

[glossy latch]

Though she's trying to do a northern italian accent, which from what I have seen is accurate but only to a very specific part of northern italy (?)

[long tree]

I was about to say I felt like the va was going for Italian it just sounded a bit off

[glossy latch]

I can't judge myself, but I have seen a couple italian players say that she does just sound like people they know, and others say its very off

It might genuinely have ended up a very regional accent

[long tree]

I do like her design maybe it's just I've only heard voice lines where she sounds a bit off

[glossy latch]

Wow, shocker, Jot likes a tall, strong woman with eyeshadow and who is wearing a suit

[runic ether]

my yelan goblet search is fully over

[glossy latch]

Jesus

[mortal iron]

damn no bad subs either

yeeeeesh

everything useful

[runic ether]

i just need a great emblem helm and im done done

[late canopy]

God goblet oh my

Only way you could realistically make it better (Outside of high/low rolling) is HP% instead of HP

[runic ether]

yep literally

88:164 crit rate non-crit weapon

197 er

[glossy latch]

Meanwhile Im still looking for a decent Navia feather >.>

Speaking of

Why does like

No Navia go for 100% CR?

... oh because Im looking at a non-CR weapon

Oops

[long tree]

She's not tall enough for me to say tall enough for me but eh woman in suit good

Also spoiler for latest wuwa story but I want the one on the left not the right

It's not gonna happen but I can dream

[glossy latch]

Isn't she like close to 2 meters tall?

How tall do you like your women, damn

https://assets3.thrillist.com/v1/image/2809771/792x792/scale;webp=auto;jpeg_quality=60.jpg

Jotlicos ideal partner size apparently

[slow raft]

One of jots most known favourites:

[glossy latch]

A-ah

[runic ether]

jot took the giant woman song from steven universe seriously i see

[old galleon]

nasu, is that you?

[slow raft]

Twas indeed barghest fgo

Tho im cheating, as fairy knight gawain is actually rather small

[old galleon]

is jot a kingprotea fan?

[slow raft]

Jot strikes me as more of a kp alter fan

[long tree]

Their personalities are respective turn offs for me

[long tree]

With or without horns tho

[glossy latch]

I guess with, but they dont add much height

[mortal iron]

damn shuji's event got hands

https://tenor.com/view/gundam-gquuuuuux-red-gundam-vilesoup-gif-13372767011173195189

[slow raft]

https://x.com/Romulproduce/status/1914649229600919628

Dinho (Punished Venom Dinho) (@Romulproduce) on X

X · Apr 22, 2025, 11:55 AM

[mortal iron]

space oomfie kills me if i engage too close to it
and shuji's bits are super strong

[long tree]

She doesn’t really seem that tall to me though maybe just the games sense of scale

Is the rover like 6ft?

[glossy latch]

1.85 I believe

At least the male one

Ah, I see the issue now

I guess the scale I checked was off

I mean 1.85 meters is still tall

[long tree]

Ah apparently male rover also gets crunched down in height during cutscenes to match the female rover height

Probably to animation transfer

[glossy latch]

That I believe isnt right (?)

At least the Zani cutscenes I saw had FRover be smaller

But Im not 100% on that

The rerun banners for next patch btw

[long tree]

I do like the blonde girl here too

She was one of the ones you mentioned earlier

Iirc

[glossy latch]

If you mean the one with the hat, yeah

Thats Phoebe

One of the most f2p-friendly characters you can get

[long tree]

Oh and for future reference on what I consider tall, my partner is 6’3 or about 191cm

[glossy latch]

... blimey

[long tree]

I’m about 5’9-10

[glossy latch]

Only part that hurts with Phoebe a tiny bit is that her best f2p weapon was an event weapon, so youre gonna be a touch short of that

[long tree]

Eh I can deal with that

[glossy latch]

But theres a craftable alternative thats only like 5% worse

[long tree]

Oh right I need a flower to upgrade shorekeeper called nova and can’t find it anywhere

[glossy latch]

Big advantage is her team, its f2p and doesnt use either healer

Typically Sanhua is used, and you should get one for free

If its Shorekeeper its gonna be black shores

[long tree]

I’m assuming that’s not a location I can skip to

[glossy latch]

Yeah, Black Shores and the other location

Nope

Requires story progression

[rapid bough]

why do i have a ping in this chat 👁️

[glossy latch]

I think you can get some in the pharmacy?

'Nope

Also Black Shores exclusive

[glossy latch]

Nasa pinged you for something

[long tree]

Damn that’s annoying

[glossy latch]

Also now you have 2 >:)

I forgor to turn off the ping

[glossy latch]

Yep

But yeah Phoebe is a good pull

Youd run her, Spectro Rover and Sanhua

Maybe Mortefi if you need Sanhua elsewhere, or even Shorekeeper in that case

But usually its Sanhua

Think of Sanhua as the Benett of WuWa

[old galleon]

any particular reason liter isn't recovering cover against ultra

i've never seen her do it and it always results in me having nothing for its second nuke

[long tree]

Wondering if it’s worth doing more pulls in wuwa to get 4 star characters like the red hair guy

[digital marlin]

the 4 stars will come naturally

[long tree]

How many pulls I got rn

[glossy latch]

This banners 4* are sadly mixed

Sanhua is the best 4* in the game, Aalto the worst

Dont think we know the 4* on the anniversary banners tho

[long tree]

Thank you level 25 rewards

[versed pawn]

we expect transforming character actually

[long tree]

I will be there no matter what

[versed pawn]

close to 20

like 102 of of 20

[long tree]

So I get the gun with my level 45 reward right?

[versed pawn]

gun or sword whatever u like

[long tree]

I got sword

[glossy latch]

Depends on your characters

[long tree]

Cause my pulls are goated

[versed pawn]

ge gun is save

[glossy latch]

But Gun is generally quite good on its users

Makes Carlotta an option

[long tree]

I also think I now have every 4 star but the two really good ones

At least the best one is free

Pulls update

[rapid bough]

is your cover destroyed? liter can't heal completely destroyed cover

[slow raft]

That actually explains alot

[glossy latch]

Reading the unit explains the unit

... well unless its WuWa

[rapid bough]

nah that's definitely not true of nikke either lol

nikke skill descriptions are god awful

[slow raft]

^

[glossy latch]

Yeah WuWas arent great either

[old galleon]

yeah if reading liter's kit explained that interaction i wouldn't have asked it lol

text doesn't tell you that she doesn't repair destroyed cover

but bad skill descriptions in gachas is a fuckin epidemic

[long tree]

It's crazy how they don't trust you with detailed explanations so they're super vague

[patent swift]

the propaganda won I'm starting zzz this weekend

[old galleon]

or the descriptions are too long like in feh

[long tree]

That's more so feh being a game that should've been put out of its misery 5 years ago

[rapid bough]

got stage 7 kraken

idk how when i didn't play any different from the last few times but we take those

[old galleon]

i haven't even touched kraken yet, i'm still farming gear for people

and best i've done anywhere is stage 2 ultra

[rapid bough]

ultra was my stomping ground for a while when i was first starting anomaly intercept

also re: liter skill, in nikke's defense they do give you a note on her skill text (denoted by the portion in orange text you can click)

[old galleon]

😐

til that part of her text is clickable

[rapid bough]

all orange text in skill descriptions is

[old galleon]

then how the hell am i supposed to keep my cover up

[rapid bough]

you're not gonna like the answer

[old galleon]

and the answer better not be "use crown"

[rapid bough]

confirmed: you would not like the answer

i mean the technical answer is "use a nikke with a shield like crown"

i remember using centi and poli a lot on special intercept chatterbox for the same reason

(before i had crown, obviously)

[old galleon]

idk if i even have room for centi

[rapid bough]

tia might work too, i can't remember

[old galleon]

my current ultra comp is what you'd expect

[rapid bough]

shields are weird in nikke

some give you an HP/cover health gate, others don't

i forget how to tell the difference

[old galleon]

tia has never worked for me, but idk if her shield is even up at that point

comp is tia/liter/naga/rrh/rh

[rapid bough]

i wonder if the difference is "generates a shield" vs "creates a shield" lol

since that's the difference between tia and crown's text

[old galleon]

in ultra fight i tend to burst as fast as possible, but idk if the shield is up or not when it does that nuke; i'll try to time it specifically for the nuke and see what happens

[rapid bough]

centi and poli also use "creates", just like crown

[old galleon]

but that'll have to be later, i ain't getting on right now

[rapid bough]

the plot thickens

[rapid bough]

the shield lasts 10 sec, i.e. the duration of a normal full burst, so if it catches you outside of burst then uded

i have the game open, i'll test for the lulz

can confirm tia shield blocks the damage, but you have to be taking cover for it to work

so just tia burst -> press space right before the attack hits -> profit, no damage

[old galleon]

aight

[runic ether]

Changes the English voice actors for Agents Koleda, Grace, and Rina, and replaces the corresponding voice lines.

[rapid bough]

[runic ether]

i just need 11s new va to redo her combat lines

[rapid bough]

i never used grace and don't own rina so i'm not used to their voicelines

but if koleda's new VA doesn't nail "STAND STILL AND LET ME BEAT YOU INTO THE FOUNDATIONS" i riot

[runic ether]

thats how i felt when 11's new va didnt nail her flames, obey me line

[patent swift]

What is happening with the zzz vas

[runic ether]

nothing. sound cadence just has actual ai protections and such

so any va's replaced are probably on strike still on their own merit and not for anything specific against sound cadence or hoyo

simple as "i'm gonna hold out on the strike still for x, y or z reason" and sound cadence, being a properly protected studio, will just go ahead and move on given their contract with hoyo

11's va told us as much basically. she was able to return to work, but chose not to for she still wants to stand for the strike even knowing she could have been replaced.

[patent swift]

Ahh

Makes sense

[summer hornet]

I thought I was tough stuff and then I saw how much HP Machu had

on the 90k power

medium difficulty was the first time I actually had a unit die

it was so bad

[mortal iron]

Fuck theatre and fuck this abyss, awful endgame cycles

[runic ether]

idk i thought both were fine

neither were favorites but they were fine

[mortal iron]

Theatre I kept getting the worst combo of units so I had to reset multiple times

They kept giving me the anemo supports

At the worst times

I already used the xiao, then i got wanderer super late

[slow raft]

https://x.com/nyxview/status/1914650130822914064

Nyxview (@nyxview) on X

UNEMPLOYED 🔥

X · Apr 22, 2025, 11:58 AM

[rapid bough]

ZZZ maintenance gonna make me cap battery charge smfh

never gonna financially recover from this

[runic ether]

even reserve??

wtf

[rapid bough]

no not reserve lol

but reserve builds slower, so i hate being at cap since it's inefficient

[runic ether]

fair enough

every day i bleed like 10 energy into reserve

[rapid bough]

i log on twice a day (once in the morning, once before i sleep) to make sure i don't cap

[runic ether]

im too busy. i just concede the 10 to reserve

except today i get to log in tonight

[runic ether]

game's up

vivian yanked

now to win jane

if i lose, im saving it for lighter tbh

oh

i got a 1st ten pull

11 m1

fuck

now i can just get jane i think

[patent swift]

Yall max out dailies???

[runic ether]

yeah just went ahead and got jane too

[digital marlin]

wait how much?

[runic ether]

i spent 20k pulls, got vivian, jane, and m1 soldier 11

errr

20k polychromes

lol

not pulls

[digital marlin]

around 125 pulls

[rapid bough]

can't wait to spend that amount and get nothing

here we goooooooo

well i guess i'll get whoever i lose the 50 to

[runic ether]

i still have another 23k polys so in theory, i could get lighter and hugo and be more than fine

[rapid bough]

it's that easy /s

wow

i actually got 2 robins from that one 10 pull

my first double S in ZZZ

[runic ether]

pog

[rapid bough]

phew won the 50

i think that was 80 pulls? idk i always lose count as i spam the 10s lol

[runic ether]

lol

i miscounted the boss mats and im 2 short

fuck

oh nvm i hadnt done the weekly bosses this week

[patent swift]

I hate when that happens

[runic ether]

i didnt grind jane in case i didnt get her though so thats on me im short on boss mats there

[rapid bough]

lmao i have the same exact scenario with vivian

[patent swift]

I only grind if I have guarentee

Or enough to guarentee

[runic ether]

clapping bringer in under 1 minute pog

vivi done

jane will be done next week

[patent swift]

Wait I thought downtime was still happening

[runic ether]

servers been up for almost an hour now

[patent swift]

Oh

[runic ether]

noice

my jane will need some work though

[rapid bough]

what wengine are you using for vivian

[runic ether]

lips

jane is on gemini, yanagi is also on lips

geez

[rapid bough]

what's a vivian disk build look like

[runic ether]

if there is one inconvenience between jane/vivi

its that jane will pop vivi's blooms super quick

this is a euphemism for lesbian sex and a gameplay thing too

[runic ether]

4 pc fanged and 2pc anom

[rapid bough]

...she doesn't use 4pc song?

phaethon's song that is

not blade&branch

oh it's phaethon's melody

idk why i had it as "phaethon's song" in my head

same shit

[runic ether]

phaeton's melody is on vivian

lol

i thought u said jane

my bad

[rapid bough]

i've had jane since her release kiddo

[runic ether]

4pc melody/2pc freedom

actually im on chaos but same difference

now, am i buying another bp for money

[rapid bough]

what about 4/5/6 rolls? AP 4, ether 5, AM 6?

[runic ether]

ap/ether/am yep

[rapid bough]

i've been farming melody/shadow for god knows how long and only have two AP disk 4s with shit rolls

god bless

[runic ether]

all my ap and am discs have shit rolls

i had nearly 6 million zennies

im about to lose all my money again

[rapid bough]

guess this'll do...

what secondaries does she care about, besides AP which i assume is her best

[runic ether]

better than mine

[runic ether]

atk and am

err

ap

and pen is great on her too

[rapid bough]

of course all my double crit secondary disks went to fucking melody instead of shadow

i legit have 3 AM disk 6 melodies with double crit rolls

https://tenor.com/basWK.gif

[runic ether]

me

did i ever post the 5 rolls into cdmg on melody

or was it 4

it was stupid as fuck though

[rapid bough]

not bad

[runic ether]

standard banner

god bles

okay so

grace sounds super close to her old voice

[rapid bough]

oh thanks for reminding me

[runic ether]

theres something off about koleda though

[rapid bough]

koleda sounds very different

[runic ether]

its just

off

idk

oh

i like rina's new va more

not a ton more, but she still has the rina vibes and kind of more rina idk

okay yeah grace's new va did a really good job of capturing the old va's energy though

i like it a lot

but she misses just a bit

[runic ether]

okay i can get used to koleda

she kind of sounds like iansan but idk if its cus i have been using her a lot in genshin

but she probs also needs one more take on the foundations line

its almost there i feel

[old galleon]

internet was having issues earlier but i did get another elzion run

so that's 3 in like a week

[icy flicker]

the prophesized 50 50 win

[runic ether]

based

https://www.reddit.com/r/Genshin_Impact_Leaks/comments/1k5q3zu/version_56_special_program_announcement/

lmfao they ditched natlan asap but holy fuck yes

genshin may be peak once more

[old galleon]

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

ez

[glossy latch]

50/50 lost, got S11 again 😔

Oh well, had to hit soft pity, but I got Vivian

... not sure I can get Hugo 😔

[runic ether]

rip

[glossy latch]

I mean I have all the patches pulls left to go but its gonna be a 50/50

Also shame that S11 was entirely replaced by Evelynn, I could get her M2 now

[summer hornet]

My interest in Genshin is rising again https://x.com/GenshinImpact/status/1914891985678192911?t=h5DG5LqZ6XQoqkKBQPOJYQ&s=19

Genshin Impact (@GenshinImpact) on X

Dear Traveler, it's announcement time! #GenshinImpact #GenshinSpecialProgram

The special program for Genshin Impact's new version will premiere on the official Twitch and YouTube channels on 4/25/2025 at 08:00 AM (UTC-4)!

This special program will feature juicy details about

X · Apr 23, 2025, 4:00 AM

Just the art alone

[runic ether]

yeah i posted it already but im really looking forward to 5.6 story

[summer hornet]

Are they going to have any explanation about Simulanka for the people who missed it, you think?

[runic ether]

idk

maybe

but maybe not

[summer hornet]

Cause if it does actually involve the D.D. Dragon then I feel like it's a little hard to gloss over completely

...then again Genshin has done that before, ig

[glossy latch]

I wonder what reason I could have to pick S11 even with Evelyn available

[versed pawn]

still on 4* wengine

[honest pawn]

where is that fsn collab

oh, right, Q3

[glossy latch]

Also I'll have to see how quickly I can build Vivian

I still don't have a disc 5

[versed pawn]

Ether atk or pen all should work

Been farming the set since last patch

[glossy latch]

Yeah I don't have those either

Only part I never got

[rapid bough]

mihara skills for which i manually cut out mihara's sprite because... yeah

this seems fairly bonkers

at full stacks her S1 DoT does ~500% ATK/sec, and her burst clones that with another DoT that does ~1000%/sec

along with her S2 giving her by far the biggest sustained damage buff i've seen, so in practice those numbers are significantly higher

but her burst does remove the 20 stack DoT so you have to restack it which is unfortunate

definitely hard to say from numbers alone whether she's broken, since i can't get an idea of her uptime of a high stack DoT just from the skill descriptions

no doubt she immediately becomes the best sustained damage nikke though

not a huge sample size ofc, but between her, bready, and s.sakura that at least means we have enough to make a reasonable sustained damage team

while i had ZZZ open i decided to take stock of my pull history

vivi is my first won 50 since burnice

and that includes three straight characters that took me to 2x soft pity

at least eve had mercy and blessed me 20 pulls after a lost 50

forgot that i got 2x grace from consecutive lost 50s lol

[long tree]

Another high damage burst type 3 unit say it ain't so

[rapid bough]

big if true

at least they're focusing b3 damage on specific niches more often

e.g. this one is DoT damage, which other nikkes can specifically buff

they're definitely focusing on specific damage mechanics more lately as opposed to just throwing big numbers on skills and calling it a day

makes teambuilding more interesting

[rapid bough]

BD2 collab on the way, apparently dataminers have already found goblin slayer-related assets in the files so that's likely what it is

[old galleon]

isn't there some dairy farmer girl in that series

[rapid bough]

i know nothing about it

[old galleon]

i'm aware of a priestess and a high elf archer, i think

if bd2 does collab welfares, i'd imagine it'd be goblin slayer himself

i should probably go actually read that sometime

[rapid bough]

pretty sure they confirmed recently they wouldn't be doing any more male characters but then again, collabs are a different beast (as is goblin slayer because he's only interested in one thing anyway lol)

[old galleon]

no more male characters
i know this would be a popular decision among the type of fanbase they're catering to

but i don't like it that much

this effectively says "we're leaving our currently existing males in the (brown) dust forever"

[rapid bough]

there's a reason they added the glupy diner mode which effectively gives "self-insert faceless MC" romance storylines with the alt universe versions of characters

i'm not sure whether their announcement (was during an anni livestream i think) was no more males at all, or no more new males (which would still leave the door open for new alts of existing males, lathel being an obvious one)

[glossy latch]

Nvm I had an ATK% disc 5 that rolled 4 into AP

[rapid bough]

the new VA isn't bad on this but i'm definitely missing the old one

[glossy latch]

I guess my Vivian is done now lmao

(I might eventually replace it)

Also 411 AP without an AP mainstat engine is not bad lmao

[rapid bough]

me with 387 using an AP wengine

how do you people do this shit

[glossy latch]

3 discs with AP 2, 2 discs with AP 4

I got decently lucky

[versed pawn]

i roll gear like im in a mental wards

[rapid bough]

must be nice to be lucky

would kill to be lucky sometimes

[glossy latch]

Nyehehehehehehe

Did lose the 50/50 on Vivian though 😔

[mortal iron]

https://x.com/Sidehiwinder/status/1914542157970727078

日羽工業 (@Sidehiwinder) on X

おお(おおじゃない)

X · Apr 22, 2025, 4:49 AM

[rapid bough]

i genuinely think any time i open up the disk screen i swap into some alternate universe from the rest of you where good stat rolls become impossible

[versed pawn]

im actually blessed in zzz

[mortal iron]

wait there's another red gundam that's not the red gundam gqx or the MSV red gundam

[versed pawn]

like i said i just roll a ton of gear im probably donw with building vivian by middle next week

then the remainder of the patch i do nothing else then farming and rolling gear

[glossy latch]

I mean Im not always so lucky

Ive been trying to get a good disc 6 for Miyabi for the last few weeks

Best one I have is crit rate crit damage with 1 roll each

[rapid bough]

what a coincidence, that is also my best one

difference being that's the best one i get at any time on any of my agents

[glossy latch]

Oh my best one is 2 rolls each

I have 2 of those on Miyabi

[versed pawn]

uh

[glossy latch]

Thats just my best disc 6

[versed pawn]

as i tip i can do

[glossy latch]

Not my best Miyabi disc

[versed pawn]

never do targeted discs actually

i always do 3:1

no exceptions

never 6:1

[rapid bough]

idk what that means

[versed pawn]

bardic needle

[glossy latch]

Mass rolls instead of individual rolls I presume

[rapid bough]

yeah i never do targeted rolls

[versed pawn]

my man if u tell me now u never where at the music store

[rapid bough]

except for calibrator rolls

[versed pawn]

i dont wanna use calibrators anymore

cope they bring something like in starrail so i stack them now

[glossy latch]

Oh I constantly do

Once I have 1 or 2 discs left I only do targeted rolls

[rapid bough]

i should probably do more rolls at the music shop than i actually do

but even routine cleanup 4-5 times a day for a month ended up with exactly 0 optimal disks (and only a few decent ones besides)

[slow raft]

Welcome to my world

[patent swift]

https://tenor.com/view/oh-my-god-its-robin-robin-honkai-star-rail-honkai-star-rail-hsr-robin-gif-13678726861841167331

[versed pawn]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/867718398208245761/1293821743189725184/IMG_8961.gif

[rapid bough]

[old galleon]

https://i.imgur.com/5yefdkS.png

ez

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

also ez

[mortal iron]

https://fixupx.com/DeltyThe73rd/status/1915068662287102018

delty (@DeltyThe73rd)

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[old galleon]

https://i.imgur.com/8iKTd2O.png

took me a minute to figure out the comp, but once i did, ez

milsha as somehow still being useful in 2025 is neat

[timber sigil]

https://vxtwitter.com/404_Griffin/status/1915031999112216611

Griffin (@[email protected])

Qiongjiu's name roughly translates to "Jade Beauty" and what do you know?
Before her tiger mom era she was pretty wild spirited and carefree, even used to often crack inappropriate jokes and collect cute accessories like her old trademark bunny ear beacons https://t.co/MpgMU7TpqA

vxTwitter / fixvx · Apr 23, 2025, 1:16 PM

[mortal iron]

ah finally i 3 star'd shuji's expert stage

[slow raft]

https://x.com/UnfamousRadish/status/1914847799084040682

UnfamousRadish (@UnfamousRadish) on X

X · Apr 23, 2025, 1:04 AM

[long tree]

You, me, fish station, what are we buying? Fish of course!

[runic ether]

shes just like me

[glossy latch]

Short?

[runic ether]

if 5'7" is short ig so

[glossy latch]

... 3 cm taller than me

https://tenor.com/view/warhammer-dwarf-dwarven-gif-12155330

[long tree]

That book is taller than you at this point

[glossy latch]

...

Thats a grudgin

https://tenor.com/view/warhammer-dwarf-dwarven-gif-12155330

[rapid bough]

warhammer total war sighting

[versed pawn]

Fleudelis gets a hologramm boss next patch tho

sounds cancer

[runic ether]

casually one-hit ko's a child

[runic ether]

im joining the jiaoqiu vs cipher war. on the side of both. im running sustainless.

[rapid bough]

overspec matis appearances were apparently datamined. probably part of the new chapter story

god, between them, absolute, and obviously eventual anis and neon overspecs... we have overspecs lined up for years in advance

[wispy goblet]

smh khaios just barging in and dropping the grenade
I saw them earlier too

[rapid bough]

i mean i didn't link the appearances lol

[wispy goblet]

did you see ||the alleged other idolmates of Anis||?

[rapid bough]

i did not

👀

[wispy goblet]

one of the yt channels I follow posted them

[summer hornet]

DM me please?

I'm not looking that up but I still want to know

[rapid bough]

in all seriousness, no idea how shift up is gonna handle this

i feel like we're gonna start getting overspecs outside of anni events or else we'll be waiting actual years to get them

[wispy goblet]

surely

[old galleon]

and then they'll eventually drop limited seasonal overspecs

want summer emma? watch, and be amazed as it's a summer overspec emma

fit for use in elysion, pilgrim, and the newly added seasonal tower playable every 3 months : ^)

[digital marlin]

Don't need Sustain when you kill them before they can kill you

[astral drift]

https://x.com/tagosaku12224/status/1914962247249744070?t=AB9GbseK-RjQc8T626eUrA&s=19

よた (@tagosaku12224) on X

曙　フォーマルドレスmode　PNG

気合い入りすぎてすごいなこれは

X · Apr 23, 2025, 8:39 AM

[long tree]

Wuwa update

[copper steppe]

im throwing dice with god if i can get jiaoqiu before he bites to dust

oh right and im done with the current story

and depending on how it goes i could be impressed or very dissapointed

but so far its pretty peak

[glossy latch]

I'd switch Rover to Havoc in this team tbh

[long tree]

Will do then

[glossy latch]

Spectro rover is mostly a support, and you already have two supports

Havoc Rover meanwhile is a DPS and can use Sanhua decently iirc

[slow raft]

https://x.com/ArknightsEN/status/1914917871827988926

Arknights_EN (@ArknightsEN) on X

【Test Collection - Diversity Oneness - Virtuosa】

A possibility derived from when Virtuosa connected to the Law: emotions link together the hearts of all. The performer who once plucked at their heartstrings is now no more than a voice in the chorus.

#Arknights #Yostar

X · Apr 23, 2025, 5:42 AM

[rapid bough]

holy shit this drake road to villain event gives an insane amount of rewards

blessed

[patent swift]

https://tenor.com/view/skinenr-gif-20761908

[old galleon]

threw some rolls at little mermaid bc i have the patience of a raging boar, apparently

my two spooks were frima dupe and rapi dupe

[rapid bough]

at least this time there's a justification for throwing pulls

because of those events that give rewards the more you pull

[old galleon]

yeah my justification is that apparently rapi is more common as an off-banner spook than her own banner

[rapid bough]

which btw don't count free pulls (not surprising they don't, in hindsight)

[rapid bough]

[old galleon]

anyway i'll wait and see what free rolls give me

[rapid bough]

that's what i'll be doing, though restraint is difficult

[wispy goblet]

it's a trap
you'll get 15 rolls for spending 20 rolls, for example

can't believe gacha gamers are falling for the oldest trick in the book
rebates

[old galleon]

i don't give a shit about the rebate system

i just want to reunite cindy and little mermaid

[rapid bough]

i mean yeah it's not pull neutral lol

was never really advertised to be

you get other upgrade mats along the way though

it's basically just something--anything--to encourage spending actual pulls during these events

since people now are keyed in to the cycle, everyone saves pity for the units now

[old galleon]

it changes nothing for me since i rolled for them anyway

check road to villain missions
one of them is playing co-op 3 times

me, who's never touched co-op

[wispy goblet]

me, who is unaware about co-op until two days later

[slow raft]

I severely misinterpreted that

Cause i did not know it counted for each step

So i thought to get all the rewards you ahd to do 100 rolls in total, not 600

[old galleon]

yep, that's the scam

aight so, worst case scenario, if i get neither with rolls and can only use mileage for one, i'm taking little mermaid

hopefully it won't come tot hat, but if it does, i'm going with my original plan of reuniting old tales

[wispy goblet]

hol' up

That's a real ass rebate scam

[old galleon]

ye, but it's exactly how i thought it'd be

20 for the first step, 40 for the next, a separate 40 for the one after that, and so on

no shot they were gonna give multiple steps for the same set of rolls

[wispy goblet]

I'll look at the reward list when I get home

[old galleon]

the second 40 tier has 10 advanced tickets, so you go neg 90 instead of neg 100

idk where the other thresholds are

[rapid bough]

btw remember you get 4 free pulls on each gacha costume (mermaid's and mihara's, when it releases)

cash em in even if you're not gonna buy the skins because they're a scam

[old galleon]

nikke event spoilers ||JIEN SIGHTED||

[rapid bough]

||i can fix her||

[old galleon]

||let's be real, you would make her worse||

[rapid bough]

||actually, if we're being real, whatever's already going on with her is way hotter||

[mortal iron]

Hilarious how she's one of the few characters who has a smiling png for character request yet her voice lines are angry

[patent swift]

Why did they make her smile she barely does that

[rapid bough]

WAIT

ARGOR

YOUR DREAM IS REAL

shift-up with a monumental W from the top rope

[wispy goblet]

Does this nerf MGs at higher framerates?

[rapid bough]

it only really offsets the L incurred by coupling MG fire rate to frame rate to begin with but still

[rapid bough]

just based on how it's worded, the setting just decouples it from frame rate

previously guns could only ever fire as fast as your frame rate, up to 60 per second

based on the phrasing here, this setting just removes the reliance on frame rate to determine fire rate

presumably they didn't make it baseline because, as it says, it may reduce FPS

but the option is there to no longer have your MGs gimped by playing on devices that couldn't hit 60fps

[old galleon]

LET'S FUCKING GO

[rapid bough]

unironically the highlight of anni patch

assuming it works as intended and doesn't nuke your fps in the process anyway

[old galleon]

well it does say enabling it can result in fps losses on lower spec devices

but unless it's particularly bad i probably won't care

i've already done everything i wanted to do today but now i have to go test this

gonna do that real fast

[rapid bough]

time to indulge in some anni pulling shenanigans

[old galleon]

sample size is one fight, but it's an enormous difference

god bless shift up

[rapid bough]

rewarded for waiting and wishlisting

[old galleon]

cultured and based

[rapid bough]

she was, however, the only SSR i pulled off 100 standard recruits

[old galleon]

yeah, two fights of sample size, it feels soooooo much better

[rapid bough]

which is kinda wildly unlucky but oh well

[old galleon]

it's christmas in april lmao

[rapid bough]

blessed skin acquired

i've wanted it ever since i started playing

i'm gonna hold off on the dolla skin for now and consider how bad i really want it

but the alice skin was an instabuy in my heart the moment i saw it was rerunning

[old galleon]

congrats on getting her default cn skin : ^)

[rapid bough]

they've got that and their mustang design on us

significant Ws to be sure but not enough

you know what, why not? i usually save these for weekly pulls but i'm in a pulling mood after my 100 standard recruits gave me 1 SSR total

also need some more body labels for gold molds, i want 500 for a 10-pull

[old galleon]

yeah i can confidently say this is an enormous w

[rapid bough]

i got 1 SSR total from these 100 social pulls too

(jackal dupe)

that said, the 20 social pulls i did at the start of this week gave me 2 SSRs, so it's more like 120 social pulls for 3 SSRs which is less offensive

[rapid bough]

pilgrim mold - snow white dupe
tetra - mihara
missilis - blue
2x elysion - neon and n102
10x purple molds - 10 purples
9x gold molds (couldn't get enough body labels to reach 500) - this

honestly an impressively dogshit round of molds

i lost four 50/50s, and 10x purple molds should have like a coin flip chance of at least 1 SSR but i didn't even get that

[old galleon]

oh right for anyone who cares, road to villain points ladder gives enough favorite item mats to complete it, so you won't need to do extra dispatches or whatever

(i only figured this out after setting my dispatches for the day so rip)

[rapid bough]

sure am glad i grinded out the items and gave drake her favorite item right on time for that to not be necessary

[old galleon]

idek which favorite item i'm going for next

i was doing diesel as filler before i got drake

i've finished helm (obviously) and have the mats for viper (these red flags can't stop me)

[rapid bough]

so to review my SSRs from my pulling frenzy today:

102 standard recruits (4% SSR rate) - bready. that is literally it
104 social recruits (2% rate) - jackal. that is literally it
5 manufacturer molds (50% rate) - snow white. that is literally it
10 purple molds (20% rate) - not a single SSR
9 gold molds (60% rate) - 5 SSRs, see above

that is hilariously awful rates on everything but the gold molds

[old galleon]

yeeeeeesh

shift up really said "have these qols but get fucked on rolls"

[rapid bough]

i guess the 102 standard recruits gave me alice too from the 100x redemption

but still

pain

[old galleon]

little mermaid kit is revealed
a bunch of people, including various content creators, doompost about how bad she looks

little mermaid is released
a bunch of people realize that, actually, she's as good as anyone with half a brain cell observed when her kit was revealed

the circle of life

nikke event spoilers ||people gonna jump on the jien hate train after all this lmao||

aight anyway, i'm done with nikke stuff for the night

now just gotta wait for tonight's update for another eden to go up

[old galleon]

https://i.redd.it/yogoalfgsowe1.png

[rapid bough]

i see people bitching about how they don't like her VA and i'm sitting here like "just say bubble one more time please"

she is very cute

[old galleon]

her va is totally fine

not everyone has to like the voice, but not everyone has correct opinions either : ^)

[rapid bough]

https://tenor.com/view/feel-that-thats-true-true-adachi-tohru-adachi-gif-7686386473571447384

[old galleon]

nikke main story spoilers ||apparently anis' old idol group has a name scheme involving herbs and spices||

||which makes sense, given (star) anis(e)||

||the others are mint and (pa)prika||

[rapid bough]

||just saw their designs. they cute, also prika is surprisingly tall lol||

[wispy goblet]

okay

bit late but
time to do dailies

[wispy goblet]

this is quite the list of collab suggestions

[old galleon]

there are wayyyy too many old-style fantasy rpgs on this list

like i love re:zero but would never have recommended it for a collab with nikke

same thing with a bunch of these

and why is stellar blade on the list when they're already doing a collab

....same for re:zero

ones on this list i think could be decent are like

[wispy goblet]

maybe they mean for a rerun or comeback?

[old galleon]

lycoris recoil
sao (polarizing nature of the series aside, gun gale is a thing and really not that bad)
madoka
maybe edgerunners? never seen it but the setting sorta fits
bayonetta
black lagoon

black lagoon being on the list is wild

imagine a world where we have revy and roberta shooting down mother whale

then a lot of these just don't fit

like wtf is oshi no ko doing here

monogatari?

bang dream?

like they're fine series but wtf

[wispy goblet]

yo the street fighter collab tho?

[old galleon]

street fighter makes no sense to me either but like

i could see them doing it anyway

[old galleon]

new astral archive challenges have clear thresholds of over 700m points

mimi should be easy, can bring any halfway competent slash team and do the job

the others are probably gonna suck

[versed pawn]

got the weapon

[digital marlin]

Something about how they specifically mention season 2 of JJK and final season of AoT feels weird to me

Also I feel like the Gundam feels like the best choice just cause they can always go to the extreme of having the Gundam added to the games. I know they won't but the thought is funny

[mortal iron]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mG0qaa4lXqY

another 10 million years of astray glazing and no proper anime adaptation

seems seed units give bonus points? to the astray event

i dunno my japanese is non existent im just parsing though context

A NEW SEED ANIMATION FOR THE GAME

SO THIS IS WHAT GUNDAM SEED RECOLLECTION IS

this is the bridge to destiny

@lusty egret @idle grove

[lusty egret]

Owo

[mortal iron]

another 10 million years of seed glazing

but this is really cool so i'll allow it coz the 2 years time gap is real weird coz on why the fuck lacus didnt do shit

live stream is still on so i cant time code it

so those leaked seed units will be animated

that strike with the dragoon system

maybe that's gonna explain why the akatsuki has 2 packs

oowashi and shiranui

no wait, this is by lacus it seems that kira pilots, so this explains strike freedom's development then

new summons

[slow raft]

is nikke fine with switching from phone to pc and back regularly?

[idle grove]

yeah

[lusty egret]

OwO Astray too

[mortal iron]

https://fixupx.com/ODpO9oaAoaPEBi0/status/1915380772753858582

かうがう【祝ガンブレ4‼️】 (@ODpO9oaAoaPEBi0)

わ〜…！頭部バルカン使ってんじゃん…！！
︀︀って思って、感動したけど
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︀︀待て待て待て待てwwwww
︀︀お前ドラグーンバリア以外にソードビット擬き出来たのかよwwwwwwww
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︀︀10数年以上になって続々と知らん機能増えて行くスーパードラグーンで爆笑しまくっているwwwwwwwww
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かうがう【祝ガンブレ4‼️】 (@ODpO9oaAoaPEBi0)

ストフリ(EX)も爆笑したけど
︀︀ジャスティス(EX)くんもかなり凄いな…ww
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[astral drift]

who got the link to 90++ setups

[old galleon]

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/0/d/1S3-xDpcnbH8u0GmCdndOegVREX2Fcf5diBOUY174RbU/htmlview

[old galleon]

^

[versed pawn]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/867718398208245761/1215704983245430823/nonomiburger-1.gif

[old galleon]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7erN2rQEFM

[summer hornet]

It just keeps going

[old galleon]

https://i.imgur.com/rigAwJh.jpeg

elzion, my beloved

this is my fourth trip in 8 days lmao

(that is very lucky)

[mortal iron]

kira "overkill them all" yamato

[mental acorn]

you've heard of lappland the unemployed
now get ready for crownslayer the unemployed

[summer hornet]

Wait WTF how did I not hear that this event gave Crownslayer as a welfare

(admittedly I don't remember the first chapters of Arknights terribly well anymore but) I thought she died!

Oh gods I'm cooked

She got pinned down by Project Red while Kal'Sit explained just how she'd been set up by Talulah

I really forgot everything didn't I

[mental acorn]

she showed up for like 3 seconds at the end of il siracusano

[summer hornet]

[copper steppe]

its been a while since played arknights

is mechanist playable

[mental acorn]

as a temp op in a temp game mode that we're probably getting next month? for a couple weeks