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[runic ether]

current best esco team is neuvillette

neuv/furina/citlali/esco

this is also now the best team in the game by quite a wide margin

esco also brings ayaka, ganyu, and wrio (mostly wrio and ayaka) to be close to arle and varesa

so our top dps list can look like:
neuvillette > mauvika > arlecchino > varesa > ayaka*

*furina, esco, shenhe wheelchairing her

[summer hornet]

So Furina/Esco is now the best support shell in the game?

[runic ether]

furina esco hydro/cryo specifically

if you arent enabling the 55%, you will want the 3rd so 15% shred still applies so that both furina and escoffier do a lot of damage on 15% shred

couple with the reaction you can grab

the last slot can be simple depending on element

if its a hydro or pyro: you add citlali to just demolish whatever it is, if not, you look for the next best off fielder which is often yelan/xingqiu in hydro, or rosaria/kaeya in cryo

the only thing escoffier doesnt do well is melt

but thats just moreso by her own uhh

lack of app

she applies mid cryo so

she needs 2x cryo to melt

and then also, atk/cryo/crit is how you build her

she loves fav lance

[versed pawn]

U fool u thought the gacha will not gacha

We pretty sure ciaccona is her best support

[summer hornet]

Wait Esco has a food generator????

[runic ether]

yeah lol

shes a chef

[summer hornet]

I mean I knew that, I saw the knife, but

I didn't expect the item drop lol

The fact that it has a weekly limit is breaking my brain

[runic ether]

yeah lol

[timber sigil]

Yeah Cheeta and Centaureissi have been clutch af this Gunsmoke for me

[summer hornet]

@runic ether @mystic python sorry for the ping, but are either of you able to hop on Genshin and help me farm the Esco boss mats rq? Hydro Cannon is kicking my butt

[runic ether]

yeah im available

[mystic python]

Stuck in a quest rn, but I can if something doesn't work out

[summer hornet]

I owe you my life, Misty

[summer hornet]

No worries, Novyx! Appreciate the thought all the same; is pretty last minute lol

[summer hornet]

Seriously thanks a billion Misty, I was dying to that boss over and over in a way I haven't died to a boss since I finished Inazuma

It was killing me

[runic ether]

yea np

i've been brute forcing things with arle so i forget that some bosses can cause trouble

[summer hornet]

None of my characters have higher than 7/7/7 skills rn, and the Natlan/Fontaine characters have less than that because I haven't finished those Archon quests yet

I've got matching relic sets, but I haven't done any minmaxing for stats yet

Aside from ER

[runic ether]

my arle is sitting at a pretty 90.8/192.5 crit rate with 2.6k atk on her sig

triple crowned talents

i dont think my ayaka had an artifct set thogh

p sure i have had her unequipped for a while

or on random pieces

though ik shes at least 250 cdmg

[summer hornet]

That makes sense, given the "death by a million cuts" we were doing

[runic ether]

thats just ayaka's playstyle

[summer hornet]

Oh lol

[runic ether]

her burst does a lot of damage but in small numbers done a lot of times

[summer hornet]

Well, in the words of that random guy from FOTNS, as long as it works

I'm gonna let you crash for now though, and do the same myself

[runic ether]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1302066498184941659/1303521001124007966/caption.gif

[slow raft]

https://x.com/Dryegen046/status/1920072788217561219

D'Ryegen || COMMS CLOSED (@Dryegen046) on X

Date with the crown

X · May 7, 2025, 11:06 AM

[long tree]

Looked at skirks animations and... idk if I like them, how floaty she moves takes away from any weight her attacks have, I get it's meant to be elegant and effortless but it just feels more so disjointed

Hopefully they'll improve from the leaks

[runic ether]

https://www.reddit.com/r/Genshin_Impact_Leaks/comments/1kguv9c/skirk_animations/

[mental acorn]

peak peak peak peak peak peak peak peak peak

[slow raft]

https://x.com/HoolheyaksGF/status/1918865854302658983

stingay… (@HoolheyaksGF) on X

theyre so pretty if a woman looked at me like this i would explode

X · May 4, 2025, 3:10 AM

[runic ether]

https://www.reddit.com/r/Genshin_Impact_Leaks/comments/1kgvzcp/dahlia_animations/

his kit is shit bc of the numbers but his animations are nice at least

https://www.reddit.com/r/Genshin_Impact_Leaks/comments/1kgvnbm/v1_skirk_kit_and_multiplers/

meanwhile...

her normal attack string is higher than ayato's whole kit

[astral drift]

[slow raft]

Her kit is sooooo boring holy fuck

[astral drift]

she speaks like a gyaru

is this just.. peak???

https://x.com/aabx315/status/1920093884182306904/photo/1

藻 (@aabx315) on X

最高だよ

X · May 7, 2025, 12:30 PM

i kneel

[old galleon]

make mash the third

the violent tension between them will kill enemies on its own

[astral drift]

I'll be between them when they fight

[summer hornet]

Morally obligated to you

https://x.com/EudaemonM/status/1919933523433050220?t=w1uiO0o6Gx8lQeEkaJeBHA&s=19

eudaemon (@EudaemonM) on X

X · May 7, 2025, 1:53 AM

[astral drift]

Gold berserker card

[old galleon]

almost malicious spook

[digital marlin]

Pretty much sisters

[astral drift]

That sq stash is gone but it's worth it

[old galleon]

based

also that's one you might want to spoiler before one of the 9 purples online smites it : ^)

[summer hornet]

Did we have a collaboration this April? My memory just completely crashed

[old galleon]

lilim harlot

it's pretty easy to forget but it's a collab with fate/grand order arcade

[summer hornet]

Oh no, I mean in JP

[astral drift]

https://x.com/ALEX16227423/status/1919934329100108254

SanderZz‼️💫 (@ALEX16227423) on X

En serio el grupo de Fate Grand Curi es el peak XD

X · May 7, 2025, 1:56 AM

no hablo espanol but i can tell this is hilarious

[summer hornet]

I think it’s fairly self-explanatory lol

HSR story vs FGO story

[long tree]

I think the Spanish one reads "master of chaldea gets trapped and betrayed in the nine circles of hell, with archangel metatron"

[idle grove]

I think it's just the

"main character's plot" vs "side characters subplot"

[long tree]

I meant the video title on the Spanish side

[idle grove]

oh lmao

[old galleon]

no collab in jp as far as i can tell

too busy with biblically accurate angels and professional mash haters : ^)

[runic ether]

left side:
the main plot of arturia and archer with the astral express members
right side:
the subplot of fujimaru ritsuka in the ordeal call
"chaldae's master judged and condemned to pass the 9 circles of hell by the archangel metatron"

what the fuck is happening over there

[slow raft]

Literally exactly what it says

Forgot to mention who the prosecutor was tho

[runic ether]

how fucked is ritsuka

[versed pawn]

https://x.com/kawamoriion/status/1920100237479485809?s=61

河守イオン🦇🐾 (@kawamoriion) on X

今汐ビームの過去最速を余裕で超える超光速ビーム見つけたかもしれないｗｗ
通常攻撃初撃開始から4秒、変奏から2秒で発射！

X · May 7, 2025, 12:55 PM

jinshi techi didnt knew about

[slow raft]

This is just an average tuesday at this point tbh im sure they are fine

[runic ether]

"suffering builds character" is def one of my favorite characterizations

[runic ether]

watching vergilus deal with the sinners i feel for him

[slow raft]

danteh get your shit together danteh

[runic ether]

i had just gotten past the part where don beat up that one gangster and then everyone else just immediately started itching for a fight messing up the 2 plan of those 2 dorks who very clearly remind me of the fodder from the last chapter thats when i know i understood why vergil sounds like he does

[slow raft]

i was was one of the most revered and powerful people in the city and made to babysit 13 bumbling fools and amateurs id also be a bit cranky at times

@rapid bough so, theoretically, if one were to have 65k union chips, which cube/s should this currency be invested in (hypothetically)

[rapid bough]

resilience

most common recommendation i see is:

1. resilience to level 7
2. bastion to level 7
3. quantum to level 7 if you care about PvP at all
4. resilience to level 15

resilience is quite simply the best cube in general though

[wispy goblet]

Almost everyone wants Resilience or Bastion as their first choice
Frequently the other is number two

Bastion gets better if you roll a lot of bigger ammo capacity on your OL

[rapid bough]

resilience is the preferred first choice for more nikkes than bastion is

which is why it's recommended for more investment

resilience also synergizes with more buffs (e.g. crown, privaty) since stacking reload speed buffs is very useful

and because level 7 is the last one where the cubes' main buffs (reload speed, ammo refill) increase, it benefits you to get to 7 on both and then just supercharge one for the extra stats, slots, and especially the elemental damage buff which keeps going up

at max level, a cube's +element damage buff is basically like having one extra maxed out elemental damage OL roll line

which is quite significant when coupled with the stat buffs

tbh i think the only nikke i use bastion on at this point is cindy, and any MG unit that i'm not otherwise using in a crown team (which can hit 100% reload with resilience instead)

but i also have level 13 resilience, so the stat difference between it and l7 bastion justifies using it on as many nikkes as possible

[honest pawn]

good

boring-ass lore

single-target quick berserker oooooooof

[old galleon]

anti-lawful, good, anti-charm all on the np, 50% battery, a good set of offensive buffs, and a high percentage charm to trigger her anti-charm

only real downside is that she only has one buster card, but if you're mighty chaining, that's not a big deal

"boring but effective" has been the MO for both her and neetron

[slow raft]

yeah shes obviously a very good servant

but ehr kit just does nothing for me

[old galleon]

i would probably put her over kintoki in a vacuum, fwiw

s castoria > lilith > kintoki

[slow raft]

yeah that seems about right

[old galleon]

since the former 2 actually have shit they can do beyond "abuse koyan for a big np nuke"

but yeah, kit is fairly straightforward; maybe they'll do more complex gacha servant kits soon tho

idk what filler they'll do before anni/summer, but last year had s eresh

[astral drift]

i would not have invested into summer castoria if i knew lilith was ST lol

[old galleon]

nikke event spoilers ||epilogue did indeed have siren say that hansel and gretel are no longer on humanity's side||

||this is not elaborated upon||

||which i imagine is why the devs were asked about it in that interview they posted way too soon||

[wispy goblet]

||okay but when are they gonna re-release the interview||
||I only saw someone post a cliffnotes elsewhere; I want to watch it for myself||

[old galleon]

oh also bubble march hard mode is....actually pretty hard

people were bitching about easy and normal but those weren't that bad

hard 1 took me almost the entire time, with most of that struggling to get started bc it throws way too many enemies at you right away

[old galleon]

||https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oUuqt6Wzf0&t=852s||

||not officially rereleased but at least someone saved it and posted it themselves||

||timestamp is to the hansel and gretel question||

[runic ether]

wao

[slow raft]

damn, ringsang is huge

[runic ether]

i heard hes good for mirror dungeons so i guess i'll spend resources in him

i do like hong lu's character a lot so far which motivated the pull

[slow raft]

the best unit in the game by a wide margin

[runic ether]

damn

i also got w2 mersault p sure? do all the s ranks or max rarity come with an intro for the id?

oh im just stupid

they are gold bordered

[slow raft]

yea

the intro is for evrything new you get

[runic ether]

when you get an s rank this game removes that one from the summon pool right? so no worries about dupes?

[slow raft]

thats for egos

[runic ether]

ahh

ids just give shards then

[slow raft]

yeah

repeat 000 gives 50 shards

[runic ether]

not too bad

[slow raft]

you already have manager don and ring san so you might want to build a bleed team first btw

[runic ether]

figured. i'll worry about hong lu team later

what are some other good bleed focused id's to keep an eye out

[honest pawn]

oh boy

r corp hong lu is a pretty solid unit by himself tbh

[runic ether]

nice nice

[slow raft]

the other la manchaland units, ring outis, lobotomy ego ryoshu/hook office hong lu(locked to walpurgisnach banners so you cant shard them rn), r corp meursault are the common picks

Bis is 3-4 la mancahland (most people switch out outis for the ring version last i checked) ring yi sang and the lobotomy ego ryoshu

the n corp and kurokumo units really want certain synergies (only faust can function as its own unit when it comes to n corp and kurokumo really wants heath/ishmael)
the pequod and middle units are decent but only really shine in other contexts

[runic ether]

i see

so primarily other manchaland ids + some tech options i can see

[slow raft]

essentially

ego also matters

[runic ether]

right right

any ego to look out for with bleed?

[slow raft]

yearning mircalla for don and meursault are really good

sangunie desire for rodion is servicable but is a limited one so youd have to wait

[runic ether]

darn

[slow raft]

tho id definitley prioritise getting generally good ego first

[runic ether]

yeah fair also is it better to vertically invest in one specific character before moving to the next?

like maxing out manager don + her egos then going on to ring sang and doing the same?

or is it kind of irrelevant as to when to prioritize

[slow raft]

kind of irrelevant imo
at the start id personally prioritize getting your team to uptie 3 and an equal level
uptie 4 has some cases where its a huge powerjump but generally you may aswell raise up another thing first

[runic ether]

gotcha

[wispy goblet]

just had to channel a bit of my RTS instincts
econ econ econ

econ and macro

[rapid bough]

bd2 goblin slayer collab is live

don't really care in the slightest about the actual IP but i like the novelty of collabs and there's always an influx of free goodies which i won't argue with

[wispy goblet]

oh
solo raid started

[old galleon]

bd2 collab is live
solo raid is live
ae new update is live
fgo event is about to end

don't think there's enough shit going on tonight

[wispy goblet]

might start pulling for Siren just to have another B1 for my five teams

[old galleon]

is solo raid fire weak?

[wispy goblet]

ye

but my B1 pool is kinda tight in general

I also gotta optimize my teams

[old galleon]

siren should be great for solo raid regardless of element

was asking more just to plan out my offense

[copper steppe]

almost forgor to do the cq

[old galleon]

rrh, alice, asuka all for on element b3s i've somewhat invested in

haven't gotten mihara

[copper steppe]

only farmed 14 boxes got a bit lazy lol

[rapid bough]

hmmm

solo raid and mermaid banner end on the same day so i'll definitely at least have mermaid by then (either via free pulls or pity)

[wispy goblet]

oh right
I have the tickets

[rapid bough]

wonder if i should just take the plunge and get mihara too for the sake of the raid

[wispy goblet]

I can just buy her

apparently people think Mihara won't be good for the raid?

[old galleon]

if the boss has anti-debuff mechanics or can otherwise mitigate mihara's dots, then that could be true

[rapid bough]

she should be, the current controversy is that she's not good for anomaly intercept

[old galleon]

but idk what this boss does

[rapid bough]

because indivilia becomes immune to her DoT

i doubt gluttony does

[old galleon]

oh if this is gluttony then people were saying she's bad against it too

something about the interrupt circle mechanic

idk how that actually plays out in practice

[rapid bough]

no idea either

it'd be really funny if they released a new premiere fire nikke and she's garbage in the solo raid that releases alongside her and the long-term fire weak anomaly boss she'd be used in

[old galleon]

which, by at least some accounts, seems to be what they've done

also, as i'd expect since i actually found hard mode challenging this time, cue the people saying bubble march hard mode is hard

tho there are already videos on youtube for hard mode, so

[wispy goblet]

people found the golden strat, ye

[old galleon]

i've seen bomber strat and level 2 defender/ranger strat so far

[rapid bough]

spamming the defenders with occasional healers got me to hard mode just fine

but i got flattened on hard mode stage 1 using that

i ended up winning by spending my first 300 on hero cindy and then resuming defender spam

[wispy goblet]

the strat I saw was put out the hero units first to buy time
then you can macro behind them

also have at least one point in their skills

[rapid bough]

so what i did

i am a genius

came up with it all on my own

[wispy goblet]

people are saying the sniper is best
because being able to attack from ranged is cracked

and once you hit a critical mass of healing and damage
you snowball the waves

I like the defenders most personally

[rapid bough]

defenders have carried my ass so they're my go-to

[old galleon]

defenders and gunners for me up to hm1, then hm1 i tried the same thing and failed the first couple tries before finally getting a run to work

probably gonna need to readjust my traits a bit

[wispy goblet]

I'm doing one level a day

to pace myself

[old galleon]

one level is technically best since you have daily missions anyway

[wispy goblet]

you gotta stay competitive in the unit levels
then you want bubble charge levels for your econ
then maybe summon cooldown and/or summon cost reduction depending on how you vibe

[rapid bough]

i always do this when we get level-based minigames

gives me an excuse to finish the dailies each day without forcing myself to play

i've invested all my upgrade currency into extra unit levels

literally all of it

[wispy goblet]

once you beat the last Hard Level you can buy all the traits

[old galleon]

which should make challenge 12 (for the tickets) a breeze since people hit that day 1 anyway

[versed pawn]

https://x.com/wuthering_waves/status/1920327804085813320?s=46

Wuthering Waves (@Wuthering_Waves) on X

Post-Lament Anthropocene: Stars Intertwined
"Just ignore the attention, Warrior. This victory is ours to savor!"—Lupa
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She will relentlessly pursue the

X · May 8, 2025, 4:00 AM

The saga continues

[old galleon]

during buffer mode, gluttony's damage taken is significantly reduced, except for interruption parts

if this affects her dot then lmao

[rapid bough]

i'm sure it does since the DoT doesn't hit the interruption part lol

but surely that'd be true of most bursts that aren't just "gun go brrrrrrrr"

so i feel like that mechanic is just a massive middle finger to a bunch of nikkes

[old galleon]

true, but it's both funny and sad that mihara is one of them

bad against indivilia, bad against gluttony

i'd almost say it's in character for our resident masochist, but still

[rapid bough]

i do kinda assume they'll fix her indivilia interaction, perma-immunity to her debuff seems unintentional

[old galleon]

i would hope so

but we'll see

hm

not having mihara or modernia to serve as a backup fire mg is a little tricky

i'm wanting to use siren with rapi

right now it's tia/naga/siren/rrh/asuka wille as the flex (using asuka and rei in their own separate comp)

but i'm also considering swapping tia and naga out for noir and blanc

since noir has her ammo reload skill

and blanc is just generally good

[rapid bough]

i think that's what i'd do, pretty sure they're better than tiga if there's no open core too

and idt gluttony has an open core

[old galleon]

so then it's siren/blanc/rapi/noir/flex

[rapid bough]

noir should be your flex, you're gonna want a better active b3 than noir

you have treasure helm right?

[old galleon]

if i'm using blanc too, then noir is kinda fixed since i'm running rouge elsewhere

the "flex" is obv another b3

[rapid bough]

i know, i'm saying noir is your off-burst b3 which is what i generally consider to be a "flex" spot

i guess in this context it's not flex as in flexible which is what you mean

[old galleon]

as for helm, right now i'm thinking of using her in the asuka/rei comp

i could move her over to the rapi one, but then idk who my fifth for that one is

[rapid bough]

tbh putting rei in this comp makes sense, so siren/blanc/rrh/rei/noir

she's an MG for siren and her burst is a huge buff for rapi too

[old galleon]

hm aight

but then who's the replacement in the asuka comp?

[rapid bough]

idk, but asuka is fine solo

could do something like liter/grave/asuka/t.helm/flex

grave comps usually lack healing but helm solves that

and grave has big buffs for asuka

man you're right not having mihara/modernia for fire weak flexes stinks

[old galleon]

https://i.imgur.com/1EBPiz6.png

obv not a great test, this was always gonna easily clear

but all i can do right now lol

rei has no overloads yet, i only just put her in the synchro machine about 20 mins ago

i can easily ol her gear if i need to

[rapid bough]

hmm

ideally you want to stack your strongest nikkes in a team rather than spread them out just for team comp purposes, so rei might be a big odd one out in that team since she's more of an afterthought

[old galleon]

if i were going for pure damage at the exclusion of all else it'd probably be siren/grave/rapi/alice/flex

alice is pretty reasonably invested (not quite optimally, but somewhat usable)

if i could get ammo rolls on asuka then she'd be up there too, but 20 ammo feels awful

[rapid bough]

yeah asuka needs max ammo rolls something awful

[old galleon]

https://i.imgur.com/ZrP65TW.jpeg
https://i.imgur.com/v1G0N8w.jpeg

there's all the currently leveled ones

i'm not screening everyone since that would be too many, just ask if you want to know if i have something specific

[rapid bough]

i know alice normally gets reserved for SBS but given this isn't wind weak i question how much that really matters here

and i think ideally you'll want to stack cindy + t.helm with whatever team you use liter on, because liter's burst ATK buff is huge for single nuke bursts

just to throw some ideas at the wall (these aren't squad orders, just burst order)

1. siren / blanc / rrh / ? / noir
2. tia / liter / naga / cinderella / t.helm
3. d:kw / grave / asuka / rei / ?
4. rouge / maid mast / maid anchor / SBS / alice
5. ??????????? lmao

team 3 would be perfect if you had mihara/modernia, rip

red hood isn't being used anywhere, she may be the best pick pick for your second active b3 in team 1 even if it's suboptimal

team 5 could be a last bullet comp with doro/privaty and some generically good nikkes like ein and QEQ, prolly with marciana as a healer so doro / marciana / ein / QEQ / privaty or something

or you could use the second wind eva duo with volume, marciana, and some off-burst like rapunzel in case marciana healing isn't enough idk, no clue how good that'll be outside of a wind weak fight tho

[old galleon]

i'll revisit this in 2 days when challenge stage drops

i'm expecting team 5 to be some hot ass

[rapid bough]

you'll have gotten mihara in a free pull by then trust

[old galleon]

realistically it's gonna be rapi comp and asuka comp that'll carry most of my damage

tho cindy neutral should be okay

[rapid bough]

i'll bet the team with cindy/helm will do some work as well

honestly may be better than asuka comp since you're lacking asuka's optimal OL rolls and a good off-burster for her team

speaking of, you may need rapunzel off-burst in that team for some healing. idk how much damage gluttony is gonna be putting out

that ideal comp has modernia off-burst so rei's burst just gives the whole team a shield every other burst which adds a lot of survivability, sometimes enough to get through without a dedicated healer (coupled with asuka and grave's nontrivial amount of self-healing)

[old galleon]

bd2 goblin lord fight seems to be bugged, idk what causes it but it caused a crash for me just now

and others are reporting it too

so we're off to a fine start : ^)

[summer hornet]

Holy schist

[honest pawn]

yeah I did some work

one grail quest complete

and another begins

finally got around to investing into her more

SIR YES SIR

[honest pawn]

https://youtu.be/d5MQzlqzDDk?si=Y6m9cFe-0mxuwImc

HUH

[idle grove]

https://x.com/Ceia___/status/1920439535047225830?t=2nG08SyijnKdPrjJWuNkbg&s=19

Ceia (@Ceia___) on X

The state of meta in GFL2 CN right now:

Keep in mind that some teams perform better than others due to hypercarry DPS being available in some teams.

In addition, this is just how I build my teams, you can build yours differently.

Also, the CE numbers in my CN teams are much

X · May 8, 2025, 11:23 AM

[copper steppe]

we’re rich (soon to be poor again)

[old galleon]

oh right ordeal call starts today too

add one more to the list

good lord this resource dump is big

[rapid bough]

the real nikke survey is out

[old galleon]

inb4 they get flooded with complaints about the new nikkes

[rapid bough]

let the dissatisfaction from mihara's weakness for current bosses, her gacha costume, and mermaid/mihara's advice sessions and bond stories pour out

[old galleon]

mihara gameplay and skin are one thing, but the advice thing isn't really a problem for me

they likely couldn't engineer a decent way to have them meet the commander since that hasn't happened in story yet and these are both very main story relevant characters

[rapid bough]

the advice sessions not including the commander was an available choice in the "why are you dissatisfied" question so they definitely know it's coming

[old galleon]

of course they know it's coming

but that doesn't mean i think it's that big of a deal

gonna try to log into bd2 in a minute, hopefully they fixed that bug (they probably didn't)

[slow raft]

guy reportedly did not buy shrivel and sprout in first floor shop, asked to leave is

[old galleon]

they actually did, or at least i was able to clear goblin lord without the game dying this time

so i'll count it

[slow raft]

Decent start id say

[summer hornet]

What np level is that, mein gott

[astral drift]

18 from np5 Lilith

[summer hornet]

[slow raft]

time to speedrun lb 7

[old galleon]

overview is pinned if you want it

assuming they didn't change it any it should still be spoiler free

[slow raft]

i think ill rawdog it for now

[old galleon]

aight

[slow raft]

will consult once i run into a wall

[mental acorn]

2 for 2 on emulator crashes when I enter the ed4 face-off

epic

let's see if I can pull another faceoff on floor 5

if I can and it crashes then too then there is Definitely Something Going On

fuck this was floor 5

[rapid bough]

azur lane update
12 gb
wtf

[slow raft]

Yay

[rigid pilot]

https://tenor.com/view/vince-mcmahon-gif-26506627

This drop has gotten me now to just seven servants in my roster that are not at max level

[slow raft]

All my servants are already max level but i did get a few skill levels out of it

[old galleon]

i still have a ton of stragglers

but i did use some of the exp cards to take circe from 1 to 70

so that's one less straggler

[slow raft]

I have too many exp cards

[rapid bough]

not only that, it's downloading slow as shit, probably because everyone is updating at once

joy

[slow raft]

If it werent so damn expensice id be grailing a few more servants

[old galleon]

my box was so full bc i still haven't used my valentine's ce exp cards

so it was kinda hard to grab everything

and i still need to roll boxes lol

[rigid pilot]

Yeah. Real.

I have a select few Grail targets but I barely got back to 200 mil qp

And getting them further is just too damn pricey

[digital marlin]

Must be from all that thickness

[summer hornet]

I’m assuming you didn’t finish all of LB7 in half an hour

[slow raft]

nah this was before i started

[summer hornet]

Oh okay lmao

Oh right, I forgot that they give that out for free based on your servant leveling

[astral drift]

Free flame cups yippee

[rapid bough]

nearly 2.5 hours later the update is finally done

[old galleon]

oof

[astral drift]

Secret my room scene unlocked

[runic ether]

https://www.reddit.com/r/HonkaiStarRail_leaks/comments/1khv1ex/sp_dan_heng_crumbs_via_luna/

yet another 10 jing yuan buffs

[glossy latch]

Also apparently Phainon has a counter

Physical Destruction 5*s genuinely have exactly one design direction

[runic ether]

well

yes but also

he has a totally new mechanic in and of itself

[glossy latch]

So I've heard

[runic ether]

terrains

[glossy latch]

I just find it funny that he has a counter

[runic ether]

yeah lol

[glossy latch]

Im almost tempted to pull for him just to keep the counter squad going

[runic ether]

slap on phainon clara yunli

vs any aoe attacker

though apparently phainon may kill his teammates

also, ||if he really is irontomb, its gonna be interesting to see wtf happened because last we heard, irontomb was actually active not too long ago in the cosmos, and amphoreus doesnt seem that young.||

[slow raft]

new mechanic called "terrains" added at the same time as archer
curious!

[runic ether]

no yeah lol

fully expecting archer to get his domain expansion for his ult

[summer hornet]

Reality Marble gonna go so hard

[runic ether]

https://vxtwitter.com/__QeL__/status/1920120684837208081

QeL (@__QeL__)

🤔

vxTwitter / fixvx · May 7, 2025, 2:17 PM

[honest pawn]

who's the badass knight guy on the right

[slow raft]

archer from fsn

[summer hornet]

you mean the one stancing off against Saber Alter?

[honest pawn]

yes

[runic ether]

the flamereaver

he comes in to the amphoreus story in 3.1 and he immediately starts aura farming

even if we all know its phainon

[slow raft]

oh, hes is?

[runic ether]

yep

same va (with a filter)

flamereaver also attacks mydei in the exact spot mydei tells him to do so to kill him

[slow raft]

i assume that happens in a part of the story i havent played yet

[runic ether]

near the end of 3.1's story

[slow raft]

should perhaps spoiler tag that then

[runic ether]

yea probs lol though its kind of what they did with firefly's drip where they just outright showed sam in it

phainon's sword in the drip is the same as flamereaver's but unbroken

[slow raft]

||i mean the part about mydei dying also||

[runic ether]

oh

i wont say any more on that actually

least subtle hoyo drip marketing

[glossy latch]

Imagine if its subverted because of rewrites lmao

[runic ether]

yeah lol

||apparently, he was supposed to be sun devourer. so him being irontomb now would be a major rewrite||

[slow raft]

The spider has appeared

I think im gpmna read through the raid mechanics first

[honest pawn]

man

he's really cute

perhaps I will log onto HSR again

I hope we get to play as that cool knight someday

[summer hornet]

Set aside a couple hours; it's a doozy

I'd also say to keep track of when you're on the final battle, because it drops a HUGE amount of bond and QP

Have fun~!

[timber sigil]

Electric team is a pipedream at this point

We haven't even gotten Lenna or Jiangyu yet

[idle grove]

yeah sadly

I'm just chilling with fire

[old galleon]

rolling on nito alter banner mainly to finish np5 tlaloc, did that, got a liz dupe, and nito alter herself in the same 11 roll

and didn't even take that many resources

resuming saving now

[slow raft]

damn, the spider isnt evil

[summer hornet]

I mean it's definitely bad news

[slow raft]

that does increase the astrae np damage on its own tho

anyways, time to squash a bug

[old galleon]

oh right i also got the berserker cope grail

(they really should have made it 600/2400)

[astral drift]

i'd like to roll on that rate up but i have to save for summer

[old galleon]

good choice

bob, right?

[summer hornet]

And Suzaku, I imagine

[old galleon]

suzuka would also be in his wheelhouse, ye

[slow raft]

p sure len is also specifically after avenger chloe

[astral drift]

all in on chloe

probably will not any left for bob

maxing SR is pain

[slow raft]

tell me about it

[old galleon]

rip

[slow raft]

like 20 summer wu zetian and not a single avenger erice

[slow raft]

did not think that was the final battle

https://tenor.com/view/ehe-anime-gif-anime-girl-teehee-gif-27178660

[astral drift]

[old galleon]

i know at least one that says "it's your girl"

anyway, with some of my newfound resources, i've made an investment into a certain personification of an ancient city and grailed her to 90

also finally got taigong's battery to 10

[slow raft]

And thats time on the round

[old galleon]

can't overstate how much easier bazett makes that whole sequence

[slow raft]

yeah i felt that

[long tree]

I love that part of lostbelt 7 when ort says its orting time and orts all over the place

[old galleon]

oh right, with bleached earth shit up

idk who's doing the double douman strat but if you don't have that, nito and 2x koyan work

anyone gonna need my koyan with bella lisa in support?

(this is for that las vegas qp node)

i have teatime on her still but i can switch over if anyone plans to use a koyan strat for it

[digital marlin]

@versed pawn got a nother ten pull for the regular banners to use on weapons but not sure what weapon i should go for.
i already have 3 Emerald of Genesis and one Static mist.

[slow raft]

If they wanted this last fight to be a challenge, they shouldnt have made me fight a genji

[old galleon]

WOOOOOOO

i find it cute how they came up with several ruler fights in the lostbelts probably thinking they'd be challenging

then realize people rolled jalter or taira or any other halfway decent avenger who makes them totally free : ^)

[summer hornet]

Spishtar

[slow raft]

fwiw my taira is np 2 and they have max attack and hp investment

[summer hornet]

If you can put it on Castoria as well, it'd be handy

Currently using NP2 Muramasa for it

[old galleon]

does muramasa even work for that?

if you're not instakill cheesing it, it's an enormous damage check

which feels like a pain in the ass if you're trying to maximize qp drops

i like how i asked if anyone needed koyan to be holding bella lisa, then i logged back in and got a shitload of friend points from someone spamming my currently teatime holding koyan lmao

[slow raft]

Ort raid report:
rasputin did 80% of the first bar, sanzang did the rest
sakamoto did 80% of the second, voyager did the rest
kama did one the third (did not realize that ort is only immune to pigify until this point)
ishtar did the fourth
mhxx did 90% of the fifth but died to a crit, mash finished the fight
ozy did the sixth
vergil did the seventh
gogh did the 8th
rider liz did the 9th
Baobhan Sith did th 10th
misplayed the 11th one with tiamat so i only did 70% (mash cleanup)

threw astraea at the first ufo bar for a measly 30 percent(lmao) kiara mooncancer for another 30 and then sasaki to finish it (ironically sasaki did overkill with still like 2 turns in him lol)
emiya did 40% of the second bar, kagetora did the rest
hephaiston did 80% of the third, mash did the rest
zerk vlad did 70% of the fourth, summer hokusai did the rest
bazett did the sixth
bazett plus 2 skadis did the last raid battle
bazett plus 2 skadis did the type foreigner battle

[old galleon]

who's vergil

[slow raft]

saito

[old galleon]

oh

was gonna say shiki from tsukihime isn't in this game yet : ^)

[slow raft]

loved the part of the final raid battle where ort got hit by bazett and then decided to change its class to caster

[old galleon]

blessed counter bot

[summer hornet]

Oh wait the second image is the wrong thing

Still, Proto Merlin+ double Castoria on NP2 Black Grail Muramasa works

[slow raft]

anyways, now that ive beaten lb7 its time to level kukulcan

[old galleon]

time to channel your inner corn farmer

[summer hornet]

[old galleon]

what's the party setup?

[summer hornet]

Just edited it lol

He's also 2000/2000

[old galleon]

second image still shows the 12m qp thing

[slow raft]

ironically not the problem

i have 0 dragons reverse scale

[old galleon]

go summon about 100 saber alter and pluck her ahoge

also bring jalter as a meat shield

[slow raft]

if i could summon saber alter at will i wouldnt be bond farming for her rn

[old galleon]

when's the next sr ticket?

i think it's sometime this year

[summer hornet]

Ran the quest a second time

My first storm pod went to the Hawaiian Area, just to get a feel for Ordeal Call

[old galleon]

you didn't need to run it twice, you could have just screened your party formation so i could also see your ce selection

[summer hornet]

D'Arvit, there we go

[old galleon]

aight

so if that's your best way to deal with it, it's fine, but you are on 5ce instead of 6

[summer hornet]

Ohhhh, that’s what you mean

[old galleon]

ye, and that's ignoring that you have multiple pure bond ce in there instead of qp ce

idk what your plans are for storm pod farming tho

at 6ce, las vegas might be slightly better than extreme door node, but that's on small sample size

if you need other stuff from bleached earth nodes, then you'd obv not touch las vegas very often

[summer hornet]

I haven’t looked at Ordeal Call in any depth besides the basics. Mostly spent time understanding the Class System

Any chance you’ve got a spreadsheet or link?

[old galleon]

i don't have a spreadsheet

there are some explanatory videos on youtube but fino's original video forgets that las vegas coins are very susceptible to instant death

so he has a second video on that

[wispy goblet]

okay I'm gonna buy Little Mermaid
I need the extra B1

[old galleon]

enough to not wait on free draws?

[wispy goblet]

yeah I want her for solo mode

[old galleon]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgqni9HVCKY

quick khadroth video there too

[summer hornet]

I was not aware that Fino had made an edit on the Ordeal Call situation

[old galleon]

ye he posted a second video a little while ago

[wispy goblet]

wowee how did I do it

[old galleon]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jq7rkQbIW5E

his suggestions mainly revolve around douman but as i said above, nito is also viable

but you should need both skills 1 and 2 at level 10 for it

[wispy goblet]

okay
put Siren and Marian in my Tuner + Non-Tuner Machine

[old galleon]

and the output is...anchorage?

[slow raft]

p sure nito has high speed divine words as skill 2 so you should only need level 8

[old galleon]

that is correct, for regular use

[slow raft]

unless 120 charge is required

[old galleon]

you need it level 10 for the extra cooldown reduction

[slow raft]

i c

[old galleon]

or you can wait until append 5 and do something else : ^)

that's what i'm running in las vegas

the support is obv koyan, ideally with bella lisa

[astral drift]

[versed pawn]

Welp I am just duping the emerald of genesis tbh the other weapons don't looks as exciting on that banner personally so I'd rather just go for mist or emerald dupes

So technically have 2 emeralds and 2 mist and trying to dupe 1 of each up

[wispy goblet]

okay
4, 5, and 6 were relatively painless

[copper steppe]

ah yes the lilith loop

[old galleon]

||https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSY1jqbVCCo||

[rapid bough]

realized my rapihood OL lines were shit

decided to try and optimize them

ended up burning every single one of my locks and rocks and didn't even get close to optimal

the line RNG just pulled some astronomically unlikely bullshit and gave me no max ammo rolls in like 50 rerolls despite being like a 15% chance on any given roll

i hate gear RNG bullshit, it's the actual bane of my gacha existence

my luck pulling on gacha banners is actually acceptable as a whole but my gear stat luck is genuinely offensively awful across all the games i play

[digital marlin]

Alright thanks

[versed pawn]

https://vxtwitter.com/Wuthering_Waves/status/1920691447193628791

Wuthering Waves (@Wuthering_Waves)

"I'm joining your battle."

#WutheringWaves
#Lupa https://t.co/HMSxxW7fJj

▶ Play video

vxTwitter / fixvx · May 9, 2025, 4:05 AM

Gaow

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

[runic ether]

https://youtu.be/yWbFXxzHxk8?feature=shared

peak

also saw this comment

1.7 spoilers
||with hearing that hugo was working with the mayor for most of the 1.6-1.7 story, i dont exactly doubt that hugo was also hired to deliver this to a way that the proxies would get their hands on it given he knew phaethon. probs an easter egg, but who knows. the mayor is hella sus to me.||

[copper steppe]

https://x.com/TypeRamza/status/1920616949437903085

Ramza (@TypeRamza) on X

X · May 8, 2025, 11:08 PM

[runic ether]

https://vxtwitter.com/JulyDelic/status/1731297769477062659

july (@JulyDelic)

Neuvillette reads out the readers comments about him live.
~~
Charlotte DID NOT double check 💀
#Neuvillette
#Genshinfanart #GenshinImpact #HoYocreators https://t.co/vGPpud3tuG

vxTwitter / fixvx · Dec 3, 2023, 1:02 PM

[long tree]

Next episode: "neuvillette reads ao3 posts about himself"

[slow raft]

https://youtu.be/oTjnRyf289s?si=Qj2k0eeVMxMfUjaS

People are coping for an iori appearance
Its ike im back at the start of the game

[summer hornet]

[mortal iron]

i have seen that time sir ian mckellen read unlimited blade works

and nothing else

[slow raft]

https://x.com/HoolheyaksGF/status/1920564986608296313

stingay… (@HoolheyaksGF) on X

going to start insisting doctor is canonically female based exclusively on this line i think it would be a really funny bit to pull

X · May 8, 2025, 7:42 PM

[rapid bough]

man i keep seeing posts on the glf2 subreddit of people scoring 5500+ in gunsmoke with basically the same teams i'm using except i struggle to score like 42-300

what is the secret sauce that has them pushing out 1k extra points

[idle grove]

what CE is your team

[rapid bough]

my best offense dolls are 12-13k, support dolls are 10k, then the support klukai i always use is 15k

[timber sigil]

Maybe minmaxed attachments?

[rapid bough]

i find it extremely unlikely that's 1k points worth of difference, especially since points are harder to get the more you earn (e.g. going from 1k-2k is way easier than 4k-5k)

i am seeing that ksenia is seeing more use than reissi for this fight

since her staggered cleanses work better + she can keep klukai buffed, unlike reissi

but i similarly find it hard to believe that's 1k worth of difference

wonder if it's just positioning and skill order, timing stab breaks, etc

[astral drift]

is this a new survey?

[runic ether]

this feels particularly mean lol

@rigid pilot get bent lol

[rigid pilot]

https://tenor.com/view/spider-man-norman-osborn-surprised-you-cant-do-this-to-me-gif-24182893

Looks like I am spending on this game.

Aglaea is so beautiful too... UGH

[slow raft]

This feels a bit overkill, but i need those completion marks

[runic ether]

they are targeting you specifically with this and the Fate collab lol

[rigid pilot]

Okay so are Lightcones actually worth it? Or is it just luxury upgrades?

[runic ether]

for some, they are pretty optional

like maybe knocking off 2-3 cycles from a clear

but for some characters, its a gross need

like the herta

doesnt really need her lc

there are a lot of good f2p erudition cones

but for castorice, her lc options are so limited

aglaea would be too

hyacine has a very nasty need of a lc

fortunately, saber is wind destruction

so

fall of an aeon is going to be good unless they somehow make her an hp scaler

in which case, they do have blade's lightcone in the shop

but that is also a money spending need

i have personally given up on cipher despite liking her character cus she wont improve my account and her nerfs were too big

plus her s1 is almost mandatory for the teams i'd play her in

shame

that being said, i may get my own therta eidolons...

[rigid pilot]

So Hyacine is asking for her lightcone, but Therta isn't. Honestly feels like every Rememberance character is begging for their lightcone.

[runic ether]

yeah

kinda poorly designed path with how they released it + the f2p options

[rigid pilot]

Still... I guess I'll see. I do have the spare income. But I'll try my luck first I guess.

[runic ether]

u can always just get lucky

https://tenor.com/view/aventurine-star-rail-i-love-gambling-roulette-gif-15600735931808948001

[old galleon]

finally got caster gil's battery to 10

was definitely one of the higher priority skill upgrades i hadn't gotten to finish yet

[slow raft]

Very tempting offer, as i want swire typhon and ines

🤔

[mental acorn]

ines should be in shop this summer

[slow raft]

<- chose emergency re corridor again award

[summer hornet]

for HSR, yeah- not for FGO, sorry XD

[summer hornet]

https://i.redd.it/ckcs7o39cw8a1.gif

I tried and failed on Aglaea before

and I keep going back and forth on Cipher

but Garcher and Phainon are both next patch

[runic ether]

i'll save you on cipher: she's the sidegrade to save all sidegrades

the most sidegrade sidegrade to ever sidegrade

and straight worse for things like pure fiction

wanted a feixaio teammate anyways? we have that. its called moze and march 7th the hunt

we dont talk about cipher in acheron

mini video essays have been done to document what the acheron mains reddit went through regarding her

that being said, if you have e0-e1 acheron

and you dont have jiaoqiu

she will be good for acheron

if you have specifically e2s1+ acheron, and need a specific character for single target like if you dont have sunday, tribbie, robin

she'll be good for acheron

like specifically vs hoolay and such

single target bosses

if i have the money, im grabbing her e0s1, just because i like a sustainless acheron team

and i need an excuse to use my goated speed boots

[summer hornet]

...well, I still don't have Acheron lol

[runic ether]

feixiao?

[summer hornet]

missed/skipped

[runic ether]

https://tenor.com/view/orange-cat-gets-flung-and-explodes-orange-cat-funny-cat-meme-explodes-gif-10706110874965244466

there goes your cipher

[summer hornet]

(in retrospect she would've been more worth it than Black Swan, but I wanted to believe in DoT)

[slow raft]

exactly my situation, nice

[runic ether]

yeah in that spot, without jq, she's miles ahead of other nihilities atm

(of course as we say this silver wolf is getting buffed in 3.4)

[runic ether]

silver wolf returns to kick pela out of the best f2p team

but still losing to cipher and jq

[long tree]

I hope kafka gets more buffs that what was shown

[runic ether]

dotcheron wont come back

its probably significantly worse than superbreakcheron

[long tree]

Cause DoT is currently dead in a ditch 0.5 feet deep cause no one could be bothered to bury it properly

[runic ether]

hysilens will save dot

[summer hornet]

dot crits with extra Crit Damage based on EHR

[digital marlin]

Man I wish they spaced this out better

Main plan was for Algaea Eidolons and lc but I've come to want THErta too

[copper steppe]

i will not be rolling

the saber funds will persist

[slow raft]

any tips on what class score is good to unlock first?

[astral drift]

berserkerrrrrr

[slow raft]

yes sir, glory to miyamoto musashi 🫡

[old galleon]

currently, top ranker in na server has 7b damage with rapi/mihara comp

(the others combine to 11b for 18b total)

it's on siren/crown/rapi/mihara/helm

so if you happen to have all 5 of those, then you get to have fun

if you don't, then...

me, without crown

[slow raft]

missing 3 units and i dont have helms favourite item yet

[old galleon]

if you have modernia you might be able to cope with her over mihara

but siren, crown, and rapi at a minimum should all be required

[slow raft]

"if you have modernia"

fwiw i will have siren and mihara im just waiting for the free pulls to end

[old galleon]

me, also without modernia

i'd still wait for freebies, ye

at our level, the difference between having mihara or not won't get us into like top 3% or whatever

[versed pawn]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1197402632441045042/1346228865646723133/rover_and_carte.gif

[slow raft]

My glorious single target dps

[old galleon]

so uhh

i have more rare prisms than i know what to do with

do i or do i not finally get and mlb the nightless rose ce?

the ce itself is awful

but ||that art|| it would count at least a little toward ce collection

[old galleon]

6ce caster liz node is very doable but sadly requires card rng

5ce with bg is absolutely free tho

this was 6ce, liz holding level 15 foumes

where "6ce" includes the 5 cost heroic spirit portrait

[summer hornet]

https://tenor.com/view/finally-sponge-bob-angry-gif-12413852

[old galleon]

how the fuck do you only have 60 free quests done

[summer hornet]

I have no idea! XD

Tbh if I have a down period in FGO I always spend it in the Chaldea Gate

Blue gem farming, ember runs, or, most frequently, QP farming

When I need mats (Kuku's corn, Ereshkigal's stakes, bones, Emiya hero proofs 6 years ago) I'll hunt down those nodes

But that's pretty rare

[old galleon]

well on the upside, you have a huge stash of free sq you can farm

every fq gives you quartz, every 10 gives you 10 more

anyway, aside from the las vegas coins being cheesable with instant death, so too are the oprichniks in russia

this min turns, although morgan may require face cards at only np1

she killed the smaller mob but i went buster np buster on the big one

np2 or higher should be absolutely free

nitocris absolutely requires append 2, but it only needs to be level 1

and for this one her battery needs to be level 10, for the extra charge this time : ^)

with this, you get to oc5 at 200%, making instant death on the wave 2 oprichniks guaranteed

(which also means, yes, you need her np2 or higher)

man it's almost certainly not optimal in any way but i'm considering making nito my caster grand when that releases

[old galleon]

oh right

guy beat lb7 earlier

did anyone else still need the overview pinned?

[rapid bough]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrY4HKe3zxI man i'm watching this gunsmoke boss kill and this guy's qiongjiu supports are literally doing double the damage mine are

same with everything klukai is doing lol

i did still push to ~4500 with burn team by using ksenia instead of reissi

[glossy latch]

Oh I have no idea how Zani actually works

... huh

[rapid bough]

i also was using sharkry instead of makiatto so my fight went way different from the video since i got different stab break timings and that matters quite a lot

but i need maki for my corrosion team so c'est la vie

still, the damage difference between his klukai/QJ and mine is insurmountable

i do know that platoon level 7 gives a huge ATK buff in gunsmoke and we don't have that so that's likely a big difference, though i doubt that translates to literally +100% damage

i also don't have vector or vepley's common keys yet, and both are quite good generic keys to put on your damage dolls, so that's another difference

the info core drought is real. i actually just bought the battle pass to get 6 cores lol

[wispy goblet]

okay
time for VII

[long tree]

Generate frazzle, swap in zani, her skill is a counter attack, once landed it turns frazzle into beeg charge, ult, keep attacking, generate final attack charges, she'll go back to using her shield but still be super saiyan for a bit so you can get a bit extra charge, use final attack

[glossy latch]

Ok I got the hang of her

I was trying to get Sentry Construct 6 beaten

Fleurdelys on the other hand is a bastard of a tactical hologram

Either way, Zani seems fun enough

Now I just have to try and get Changli

Also ngl Tactical Hologram-style endgame should be a thing

Its more fun than WhiWa

[rapid bough]

we cooking, this is the platoon record so far

[astral drift]

Lilith is occupying my twitter and I love it

[summer hornet]

https://tenor.com/view/old-man-gif-4679601

[runic ether]

https://www.reddit.com/r/Zenlesszonezeroleaks_/comments/1kj2hly/203_ju_fufu_changes/

ppl be talking about lighter here but its really trigger that has to be sweating a bit here

especially cus fufu doesnt need her wengine at all

[late canopy]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8PQexPl6Ns

Probably the coolest horse song they've ever made

Yuri probably would have loved it

[timber sigil]

swomy

[long tree]

carte confirmed aero
Fuuuuuuck now I gotta wait for the support unit to cycle for her

[digital marlin]

It was pretty much expected for awhile now

[old galleon]

freebie gave me priestess' staff

i also have her at +3 for the time being, so ironically considering her probable intended use, she'll probably be one of my better damage dealers for a while

[astral drift]

https://x.com/62onabe/status/1921185809912197464?t=mwNDds12mxYt-Me7UUSy6w&s=19

ムツメ (@62onabe) on X

リリスさんも、お料理する時はエプロン付けてるといいなーって思う

X · May 10, 2025, 12:49 PM

[old galleon]

also goblin slayer is +5 now

just have to wait a few more days for his weapon

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

[glossy latch]

Oh this MoC 12 is annoying

[timber sigil]

https://x.com/Ceia___/status/1921151526007173145

Ceia (@Ceia___) on X

GFL1 CN News:
Special Event [Roche Limit] will be live in GFL1 CN from 20th May, the same date where they are revived from the ashes.

HEAVY SPOILERS FOR GFL1. DO NOT PASS GO IF YOU DO NOT WANT TO BE SPOILED

The haze of gunpowder shrouded the long night in Frankfurt,

X · May 10, 2025, 10:33 AM

Oh wow GFL1 having an epilogue event

[runic ether]

https://www.reddit.com/r/Zenlesszonezeroleaks_/comments/1kjcjmh/leifas_clarification_on_hugolighter_new/

lighter m1 for hugo buffed

honestly shit

hugo is looking better and better with fufu on the horizon too

idk

its so conflicting

i like yu xuan's bird

her voice, + new class

but hugo is just so peak and his gameplay is going to be fun as fuck too

[old galleon]

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

slowly working on something resembling a magic comp

physical is pretty easy ofc

hm

i have kry in there bc his knockback is pretty neat but i wonder if lucrezia would be better here

[rapid bough]

i need data on how good ju fufu will be for evelyn compared to lighter ugh

[runic ether]

20% worse more or less

thats what i had seen, however, she has been getting buffed

but its not lighter in danger its trigger

[rapid bough]

assuming that remains true, then i'm likely going for lighter+wengine, skipping hugo and ju fufu, and getting yixuan

skipping hugo hurts since he is definitely peak

but i can't skip the next miyabi

[runic ether]

lighter is just tailor made for eve and hugo

[rapid bough]

both for meta and waifu reasons

[runic ether]

so it's going to be giga difficult to replace him

ju fufu is a generalist

she's a koleda upgrade but a strict lighter downgrade

[rapid bough]

makes sense, great jack of all trades but not going to outpace targeted synergies like lighter

[runic ether]

also since she is a generalist, she could very well get outshined in niches

[rapid bough]

do we know her wengine effect yet? i know trigger's wengine ended up being insane for her

[runic ether]

ye but i havent seen any changes to it

fufu's wengine is really solid but fufu's value is not needing it

unlike trigger

who really wants her wengine for her whole stick

[rapid bough]

well that's the case so far, iirc trigger's wengine through most of beta was worse than it ended up being and it released in the "must have to be optimal" state it's in now

[runic ether]

also p sure with this version her hugo/lighter team is almost as good as lighter/astra

maybe better

[runic ether]

yeah at least they learned for an off field stunner

[glossy latch]

Hoping I get Hugo once he releases

... whenever that is

[rapid bough]

a few days

[icy flicker]

net tuesday i think

is there amy point in getting Lighter if i dont have Eve or dont get Hugo luck

[runic ether]

hes hot i guess

also he thinks hes pretty cute too

[icy flicker]

[runic ether]

easily my favorite dialogue exchange in the game so far

i hope in season 2 we get astra and eve interacting with the sons of calydon more because astra and lighter are both dumbasses

[rapid bough]

the astra/lighter interaction was funny but astra/burnice interactions for the sheer dual coke hamster energy would be peak

[runic ether]

giving lucy and eve a headache speedrun any%

[rapid bough]

also my favorite dialogue exchange in the game so far was definitely one of the first events after chapter 5 where you went to talk with zhu yuan and she hit you with the "hi manager, did you need something or are you here to turn yourself in"

it was both funny and hurt at the same time

[runic ether]

oh that was good too

i am talking unvoiced btw cus otherwise, atm is probably hugo's... everything

he put his whole vladussy into the vocal performance

[rapid bough]

yeah hugo's VA really went sicko mode

easily the best voice performance in the game yet

[idle grove]

https://vxtwitter.com/droachillustra1/status/1920794975026991300?t=OxVfiJFCaGt1SEyEDQ1-5g&s=19

droach (COMMS OPEN) (@droachillustra1)

saber

vxTwitter / fixvx · May 9, 2025, 10:56 AM

[astral drift]

[old galleon]

Some of the more recent strengthening quests encourage fun shit like this

Was pretty neat

that one's from gramps second sq

(the wave 2 archer there is wild beast so cinderelly anti trait works in lieu of a lancer)

[icy jay]

any fate fans!!!

[old galleon]

the screen directly above this is from fate/grand order, so i would hope so : ^)

but seriously, yes, there are fate fans in here

[rapid bough]

i'd wager it's one of the most popular gachas among the people in this chat, up there with the usual suspects like genshin and HSR

[icy jay]

fgo onlys rnt fate fans!!! ^_^

[old galleon]

this is gacha chat

so fgo would be the primary focus among fate content in here

[icy jay]

notice how i specified "fgo onlys"!!! ^_^

like cmon

[old galleon]

i don't think anyone in here is an "fgo only"

but even if they were, no point in gatekeeping about it

[rapid bough]

it's actually prolly more likely that people in here have consumed other fate media but not played fgo than the reverse lol

[icy jay]

ur totally one

[rapid bough]

(i am one such person)

[icy jay]

thats kinda my point

ur free to prove otherwise

but id prefer it if youd stop talking 2 me!!!

[old galleon]

you presume to know someone you just talked to for the first time is a "fgo only" based on...what exactly?

this is bait

[rapid bough]

bait for sure

[icy jay]

id much rather talk 2 real fate fans!!!

[runic ether]

you should probably chill out

[old galleon]

way to introduce yourself to the server, i guess

spam "any fate fans" in a bunch of chats
happen to hit the gacha chat
tell one of the guys in here who's actively engaged with the vns and other shit outside of fgo that he's an fgo only

i miss when bait was good

[runic ether]

muted for now

[old galleon]

yeah i saw

[runic ether]

we'll see

[honest pawn]

anyone like to vc and love music

[rapid bough]

i was gonna suggest that, on the off chance it's not bait, they head to #anime_and_manga to find people who are more likely to have engaged with other fate media if FGO alone is "fake"

[old galleon]

they sorta did?

[rapid bough]

turns out they already antagonized reginald there for talking about zero as an "anime only" lol

[old galleon]

they posted "any fate fans" in this channel, non yugioh, and anime/manga at least

[rapid bough]

sorry to say that unless you live, breathe, and shit fate, you are a fake fan

[old galleon]

regi didn't even engage with them and they quoted him with an old comment

[honest pawn]

we all do ngl

[old galleon]

i'd honestly just say ban

it's obvious what they're doing here

[rapid bough]

damn their discord profile is something else too lol

[runic ether]

true

[rapid bough]

yeah kill

nothing of value was lost

[old galleon]

animefeetlover1738
right up there with len's twitch account (except he's not actually a troll)

[summer hornet]

https://tenor.com/view/fighting-fight-trash-can-throw-push-gif-17305548

[mortal iron]

Wait fake fate fan as in an insult or the fate fake anime fan

[rapid bough]

former

[mortal iron]

Ahh

[honest pawn]

https://tenor.com/view/everybody-hates-chris-chrisgetsthrownoutofwindow-juliusthrowschris-gif-21703914

[old galleon]

just some moron who went into a bunch of chats and said stupid shit

[old galleon]

like lmao

[summer hornet]

seriously

and I have read the VN lmao

[old galleon]

was all just center of the earth level bait

[summer hornet]

doesn't change the fact that their initial premise is a load of horsecrap

[old galleon]

^

[summer hornet]

but still

[mortal iron]

Where do people read the VN

[old galleon]

nowadays you can get the remaster

[mortal iron]

Oh it's officially out

[old galleon]

before you could download it and use an english patch

[rapid bough]

now that they're banned i can safely admit that i've only watched zero and the ufotable UBW. really liked zero, UBW was mid

pretty sure this person would crucify me if they heard that

[old galleon]

fuck whatever they think

[mortal iron]

Ahhh

Is fate on steam

[old galleon]

like i said, there's no point in gatekeeping "real fate fans" or whatever

[old galleon]

i think so

idk for sure tho

if steam loads i can go check

[mortal iron]

Thanks

[rapid bough]

idk about the VN naming conventions but fate/stay night "remastered" is on steam for 30 dollarydoos

[summer hornet]

That's the one

[mortal iron]

Ooh 30 bucks...

[runic ether]

speaking of fate

[summer hornet]

it's been on sale before

[mortal iron]

I will wait for a sale

[runic ether]

when the fuck is the rest of strange fake coming out

[mortal iron]

Will ufotable go back to do the first route

[summer hornet]

😭

[mortal iron]

And make people shut up about the watch order

[summer hornet]

then we'll just have anime release order vs VN order

[honest pawn]

just read the 21-year-old VN

[old galleon]

you will watch deen stay night and you will like it : ^)

[honest pawn]

and maybe play hollow ataraxia

[old galleon]

(disclaimer: i haven't actually watched deen stay night)

[mortal iron]

I'm waiting it on sale

I'm not paying 30 bucks

[summer hornet]

I remember they released Fate route on the Japanese app store several years back

I don't remember if it was free or not

[mortal iron]

So what If when I get it I just do the first route for VN

Then watch the 2 other routes animes

[old galleon]

you probably miss some stuff from the vn routes but it should be fine

[honest pawn]

don't fucking do that

[old galleon]

i started with fate/zero and got to the vn later

[honest pawn]

the UBW anime cuts out all of Shirou's monologues and he ends up being a weaker character

and the HF movies are terrible

[old galleon]

different people will recommend different starting points (read the vn only, watch ubw before hf, watch all fate/stay night before zero, watch zero before stay night, etc)

i really don't think it matters as much as some people think

[honest pawn]

just read the VN first and then watch naruto shippuden but skip og naruto

then you'll have caught up

[mortal iron]

Got it, watch the 3 gundam movies, then watch the zeta new translation movies, skip ZZ, and then read the CCA novel

[old galleon]

watch kizumonogatari before bakemonogatari

[honest pawn]

read fate route and half of ubw but when it gets to the shirou and rin sex scene go read crossbone gundam and then finish ubw

[mortal iron]

I'm not ready to start the monogatari series

[honest pawn]

watch sayonara zetsubou sensei and then read the first day of hf, then read sayonara zetsubou sensei and then finish hf

then you wanna read The Stranger by Albert Camus and then you can read Hollow Ataraxia

[mortal iron]

From what I can tell, tomino loves writing about cucking people

So will fate have that

[honest pawn]

but if you wanna read the hot springs sex scene then you gotta go watch bleach's tybw arc

[summer hornet]

false, they cut it out of TYBW

[old galleon]

official fate media doesn't have cucking that i am aware of

[summer hornet]

you gotta read the manga

[honest pawn]

and then listen to all of r-906's discography

then you can watch A Miku Who Can't Sing

[mortal iron]

I'm suprised

Are any of the fate collabs canon to fate

[honest pawn]

only one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AC6OF7JuPgo

[summer hornet]

speaking personally, I went UBW -> Zero -> VN and had a fantastic time

[old galleon]

collabs within fate/grand order should be canon, just due to how the overarching franchise as a whole works

i don't think like the fate/shadowverse, battle cats, hsr, etc collabs would be considered canon, that i'm aware of

[summer hornet]

so I'd say I think watch order is a recommendation but not a doctrine

[mortal iron]

Oh yeah I've been wanting to ask
...what is fate grand order, like story wise

What is it

[honest pawn]

slop

[mortal iron]

Oh, so the dragon ball heroes of fate

[honest pawn]

yes

[summer hornet]

a slow start building up to peak

[mortal iron]

Just like dragon ball heroes fr fr

[old galleon]

right now the story of fate/grand order is in multiple parts

part 1: humanity is incinerated, it's up to you to go fix a bunch of singularities throughout various points in time
part 1.5: various fallout from part 1 and buildup to part 2
part 2: the earth is bleached, it's up to you to go prune a bunch of lostbelts throughout various locations on earth and fix things (we are still doing this)
part 2.5?: you've used extra classes too much and the earth is pissed for some reason, time to go resolve things before the final showdown

these are all oversimplifications ofc

if you ask people in general, i think a bunch of them would say the earliest story chapters are a bit lower quality; around the middle to later chapters of part 1 is where i think they'd say it starts getting "good"

[mortal iron]

Oh so it really is dragon ball heroes

I mean if it works

[honest pawn]

like I'll be honest

FGO kinda sucks

but there's good parts of it

[long tree]

Fgo does just need to be completely remade

It's suffering from "released 10 years ago" badly

[slow raft]

Its insane to me that you still have no way to re fight bosses except for some limited time events

[honest pawn]

the way the game works powercreep is particularly bad because there's only one real way to powercreep and that's through NP's

like for crit or face card builds there's teams for it but it's so inconvenient

[old galleon]

curry-senpai noises intensify

[long tree]

It's also not diving into how abysmal fgos gacha is

[honest pawn]

oh boy ciel being added to fgo makes me wanna build that team

but I need summer bb