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the Gods will give you 1 star guts sparks until you do
this would be super fucking funny to have in my room
yeah theyre like worthless
HORSES ARE NEVER WORTHLESS
wait till you see the 1/7 prices
Buying fancy figure of Bourbon (x)
Spending 3 times the money to make digital Bourbon strong (o)
look at how cheap they can be
proud dad
oh right that IS her dad
Dad comes equipped with endless supply of dad jokes
is kitasan this week???
it releases 16th yea
Wed n e s day
im more of a
wed g e n e s i s day
my carats are not ready
my two braincells
okay the anime didn't give off much sapphic vibes but
are these horses gay
When there can only be girls in your race...
Also wasn't Spe gushing over Suzuka in the anime too
i meaaaan...they played an insert song during this moment
I unlocked Bakushin Bakushin Bakushinshin
in the anime several times you see the crowd applauding the horse girls new outfit for example
often times only the female audience members blush
the guys dont alot of the times
finished gfl2 event part 2 story, ||it was all very good, though my best guess for the cliffhanger of part 1 was always that it was some fake shit happening in peri's head so it's a bit of a bummer that S-tier cliffhanger fell flat the way i thought it would||
||this may just be me, but when stories are told in a backwards way like this event (a bunch of shit happens at the start that makes no sense, and gaps are slowly filled in) it always kind of rubs me the wrong way||
||i get that it's a device meant to build mystery and keep the reader engaged by making them ask "wait what the fuck?", but it always has to play with fire by avoiding completely confusing the reader to the point of disinterest||
||there were a few times at the start, especially coming off the cliffhanger of part 1, where i was genuinely so lost i had to stop and reread just to make sure i hadn't missed something... and i hadn't, the story was just deliberately hiding things and expecting me to realize i wasn't expected to know what was going on, which was a bit frustrating||
||but it all lead to a very satisfying conclusion that felt to me like the game devs obviously saying "hey CN launch bros, we heard you hated the initial direction of the story with the commander as an exile, so this event starts the new chapters of the commander reuniting with everyone||
||it's also kind of funny how completely different the story direction was in part 2 vs part 1... p1 was borderline slice of life, feel-good stuff (with a cliffhanger that turned shit from 0 to 100), while p2 was "constant crisis" mode that honestly could've functioned on its own, without p1 at all. way different from the other two-parter events we've had (sojourners and aphelion), where both parts were much more connected, with a consistent overarching plot and tone||
had a few days to sit on it, senya as sa is clearly very good
issue is, he was already very good before stellar awakening and his sa itself is only good bc stellar burst access and start of battle stacks
his stellar skill is buttcheeks
it might actually be the worst stellar skill in teh game among non-gacha characters
Fire and Shade type attack of user +30% (4 turns)
Buff effect +6% per B Skill Stack.png Blade of Skill stacked (Max 5 stacks: +60%) Fire type slash attack on all enemies x2 (XXL, 4x) Skill multiplier increases based on stacked B Strength Stack.png Blade of Strength (Max 6x) Does not include skill which activate before attacking At the start of the next turn: Inflicts Stun on user and cannot be prevented aside from getting disabled by statuses. Consume all B Strength Stack.png Blade of Strength and B Skill Stack.png Blade of Skill When in Stellar Burst: Before attack, change to Silver Shroud (4 turns) and execute Fugen Itto-Ryu: Fuko and Fugen Itto-Ryu: Unryu
that's the entire effect, which looks great except the two blatant drawbacks on it that aren't removed even when using it in stellar burst
At the start of the next turn:
Inflicts Stun on user and cannot be prevented aside from getting disabled by statuses.
Consume all B Strength Stack.png Blade of Strength and B Skill Stack.png Blade of Skill
what an awful combination of effects
the stun is obviously bad in and of itself, but if it were just that, there would be ways to work around it, tho it'd be annoying
the kicker is removing his stacks
each stack of skill and strength buffs his two 5 star skills and also gives him various stat bonuses
and he starts the battle with 3 each (out of 5) due to his stellar passive
if those downsides were removed during stellar burst, this would be an incredible skill
you wouldn't be able to spam it but that's what unryu is for
but alas
i can't see a serious use case for this skill in its current state, which is sad
funny thing is if senya were a gacha character, the drawbacks wouldn't exist on the skill at all, its current sb effect would be part of its regular effect,a dn its new sb effect would be something like setting fire zone and radical awakening it for 3 turns (with no limit per battle)
but we can't have nice things : ^)
Man Uma with the split banner system kinda annoying
Why u not just ba
So cards seem to be more important overall
Stars are a multiplier tho for your endscore
With your aptitudes
Cards just trounce Umas cause you need a good deck while a score multi/exclusive inheretence traits are just nice to have
Eh its fine theyll be more and better speed cards to find
Well are they free tho 
No but if youre not pulling for kitisan black you get banisjed to the shadow realm anyway

This is true
@late canopy does the freebie cards get reran events
honestly kind of easy for a da
butcher was giving me fits (not to 20k, but to optimize)
oh yeah i noticed that butcher was kind of fat
dude is tanky as fuck
jane works super well for him though
jane/vivi
its kind of the "wants yuzuha" kind of boss
i tried jane/vivi and barely got 20k
miyabi/vivi/nicole ended u pbeing my best team
at like 28k or something
i forget, i reset it to see how well i could do with miyabi/yanagi/astra
i hit 22k before i stopped trying but idt i'd have gone above 24k if i kept playing
yuzuha probably gaps this
easy 30k
yeah i thought to myself "sure wish yuzu was out" when i was trying it lol
luckily it'll still be active when we get her
so i'll prolly retry once i get and gear her
i did have exactly one reset too because pompey got stuck out of bounds while i was wrecking him
and he decided to just fuck off into the void
i reset a lot for DAs because i like optimizing runs
so my first complete attempts are usually after several resets, often in the first 5-10 seconds of the fight to get a consistent opener
i reset my runs to experiment but i was like 41k on priest with yixuan/pan/fufu, 41k on pompey with eve/lighter/astra (which is funny since the boss buffs are anomaly focused lol), and then like 28k with miyabi/vivi/nicole on butcher
i mentioned this above but i did just recently notice my vivi's disks are booty cheeks tho
gonna have to go back to the melody mines after i get yuzu's disk set up and running
autopilot delete all my %DEF disks
go to find disks for Ben
why do you want disks for ben lol
well that's certainly one combination of messages i never expected to read
nah hes cooking
ben has good unit feel outside of
moving
but ppl play dps ben and have killed da bosses
i hate any unit that has insanely slow animations
ben and soukaku are borderline unplayable for me
I saw someone pair Ben with Lucy to get around his slow walkspeed
maybe I'll try it (way down the line after I build more meta characters)
i literally saw someone do solo dps astra and kill a DA boss
anything can be made to work in this game
whether it's good or worth your time is a different question entirely lol
yeah u generally need to move ben with other characters
his actual animations are fast and impactful
Zhu Yuan is going places
only two of her disks are maxed out, too
his only really slow animation is his string ender
no his animations are definitely super fucking slow too
which, to be fair
takes a year and a half to finish
u should give ben a try again recently
ben's attack strings are actually quite fast and come out quick
but his other attacks are fine for his archetype
his parry is responsive
i literally have, i used him in his short demo for free rewards on fufu's banner
still felt as shit as i remember
the game is mocking me
insanely good piece
Just got to hope those crits hit
now I really need to roll some crit rate...
update: the game continues to not give me crit rate
you should probably use a crit rate disc 4
at this point, yeah
tbh I'm within Zhu's recommended parameters on the guide
just would have been nice to have it a little more balanced
The events themselves will not get reruns but at a time I don't remember when we will get a system where we can use an item to pick and unlock corresponding missions that will give us any event welfare cards we might have missed
68.6% crit after EX, Chain, or Ult (so basically all the time as a burster) is fine
its fine until you miss a crit
and I've got one more disk to go
i think for zhu yuan, with your current account, you should def try and get a more consistent crit rate
getting a new crit rate disk would take me to about 55% base crit rate (my current D4 has some crit rate substat rolls) and 115% crit damage (assuming no extra crit damage substats)
how do I choose between ATK% and Ether% for D5
unrelatedly, rolled a very nice disc for Nicole
depends on your buffs
element% will be good if you have attack buffers or a lot of attack buffs in the support discs
or for example: astra
though with astra, she may overload a lot of attack and can make pen% better
and a 2pc pen set
like example
astra/nicole/zhu yuan
a team like this would heavily favor pen% and 2pc pen set
zhu yuan/anby/nicole
a more stock team
would have it be kind of interchangable between ether or atk
zhu yuan with qingyi and nicole may favor ether
I see
mhh the uma game needs like shard farming outside of those events
like BA has that where u can run a certain stage and get shards for characters u wanna raise up
Uma will get that but as a much later update, don't remember if it's 1st or 1.5 anni
of the free s rank w- engines you can get, which one is the reccomneded one? i already have cradel and hellfire so i doubt itd be a copy of eithe rof those but idk
also im finally continuing the story
wtf is an exaltist? they talk like thats a known favtion but idt theyve come up before
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it really is funny coz irl gold ship loved france
horse broke from the introduction track just to get applause from the audience
and closer to the cameras coz somehow, he knew what they do
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Calamity Jane looks nice
wait can you not pull Seiun Sky
SHE KEEPS WINNING EVERY RACE AGAINST MY HORSES
that's how they get you to pull for her : ^)
I wanted to pull her from the minute I finished the first episode of the anime
look at her :)
brimstone's probably the best one, it's generically very good on a lot of different attack agents

they definitely have lol
thwarting the exaltists was like the entire plot of 1.4 and the second half of the season 1 epilogue
currently they are the big bad faction
i am currently starting the season 1 epilouge
and i dont recall the name exalitst ever being metnioned
tho tbf i did skip through some of the side events
Everyone loves Sei-chan
That's not a horse, it's a cat pretending to be one
There's a main story outside of the events?
i can't remember exactly when they were first referred to as the exaltists by name but i'm nearly certain you just forgor or missed it if you don't recognize them by epilogue part 1
I've been in cygames slave territory nonstop since 2018
ok i looked through the text files and the first time they are mentioned by name is indeed in bury your tears with the past(A)

Always have at least been playing one cygames game
kinda weird that they just drop it like youre expected to know it but whatever
play granblue fantasy again, summer is imminent
you could beat her
thanks for the reminder
Doing her best bakushin impression
Proud of you roaster
it sounds almost exactly like a Gundam Seed Destiny ED song
it's funny that tachyon is scarlet's dad
but they dont ever pair them off even in the OVA where they do meet
Thats not even the right catchphrase for that pose!
they cant all be lord freeza
Team N are just a bunch of aura farmers
welp gotta wait to pull for cards i guess when i wanna make any notable advance
spark farming seems to much of a pain to do
Lupa is finally approaching being fully built
Just need to get lucky with a couple echoes rolling crit substats
Sparkle deserves to have a good DPS for her 
my first two star
bit of a jank team but i guess you don't really have a choice with a limited roster lol
i'd bet yixuan/fufu/nicole would do better though
not sure what zhu yuan does for your team
Misty stop the rng generator cannot handle this statistical anomoly
she has a fat ass
uhh her burst rotation is piss easy
(Yixuan's is too but my instincts are to spend her adrenaline way more aggressively and use defensive assists to build it back)
time stop is fun (even though I have no idea how to optimize it)
she has a fat ass
based
Wait no Panda?
yixuan's burst rotation (in its simplest form) is literally just pressing ult twice though so
doesn't have him leveled i assume
don't have him built
working on it slowly but he's taking a backseat to other units
We ne d to change that
speaking of yixuan burst rotation, i need to master the stun tech that lets you use her ult1 and trigger a chain attack simultaneously
some real big brain shit
I've been practicing doing parry + defensive assist and perfect dodge + defensive assist
someday I'm gonna reroll Yixuan's substats for more HP and crit rate
but for now she's basically done
with your account roster as incompete as it is, all your characters should be "done" as soon as they have a full disk set
no substat optimization will help you more than just leveling a new character
but rolling for substats is so much fun
that may be the most unhinged thing i've ever heard anyone say
you heard me compare Ben to Yixuan yesterday
still more unhinged
at least both of them have important parry mechanics so i can kinda see it if i squint
there is simply no justification for enjoying RNG gear though
It's a huge hassle and pain when you roll poorly, yes
But the gambling in the moment is a huge high
when you hear someone say "i love gambling, it is so much fun", do you not think they are unhinged
It's an activity literally designed to target dopamine
It's dangerous and addictive
But it's fun
i just want the character and to get out
i feel like that is just how it is for all gacha specfically
Also
"'Gambling is fun' is an unhinged take." - gacha player
Gambling is the most fun thing you can do, its also the most life ruining thing you can do thats legal

Worth
see, you think this is a contradiction
the reality is that it is just self-hatred
i'm too self aware to not realize the system that's captured me is basically as predatory as can be, and i would never encourage anyone to enter this hell on the pretense that it's "fun"
more importantly though, gambling on gacha and gambling for substats ain't the same
the most popular gacha games in the world are built explicitly on selling characters, that's what the central gacha is for
gear RNG is just a rat race many of them implement to keep people grinding
no one's logging on to ZZZ thinking "oh boy time to do my 3 routine cleanups for the day!"
um
seek help
it was just a minor phase
rolling for substats combines the twin dangerous addictive activities of "gambling" and "number go up"
also gambling for substats is way less likely to involve major monetary risk
this some pot kettle shit coming from anyone in here lol
HELLO
it's like y'all don't read
oh true
not reading is in the job description
i think you are conflating two crucial parts of the process
i know this well as a programmer
programming sucks, finishing programming is awesome
going 8 months through this game and not read a single core talent description 
I finished the first four tutorials of the game today
speaking of gambling, soon i will feast without regret
i'm pretty sure the new mold system they announced isn't even mold pity, it's just some other guaranteed mold you get from towers at a lower rate than the base molds, so i could probably open these right now without issue
but i'm holding out in case it matters
actually valid strat now that there's the fortune telling dog
does that actually change anything
if howl dont got me, a-shuo got me
it won't change your next roll on howl
im pro Howl here
can you back out of the scratch card, go to the turtle, and get a different reward?
but it can change your roll for that day from shit to good, if howl has a shit roll and shuo has a good roll
yes
fr?
again, it only works once really
This is some wild optimization
since backing out of howl's scratch card and going to a-shuo doesn't change what howl's reward is
so you'll have to open it eventually
Tomorrow we pull for fox samurai
actually i think i misunderstood the "doesn't reroll the reward"
howl and a-shuo's rewards are split into two pools, one with the different denny tiers and a very small chance at polys, and the other with only varying poly rewards
you can only roll the second pool (polys) every few days of rolling on that vendor (howl/shuo), from what i'm seeing people found for howl, that is: day 3, 8, 15, 20, and 27. the counter resets at 30 days rolled, so basically the poly rewards are always 5-6 days of rolling apart
if you start scratching a howl card, see it's shit, and back out, it doesn't advance howl's roll counter so the pool from which your rewards are drawn won't change
however, your reward in that pool might if you come back the next day
for reference
the first 3 are part of the same pool (they add up to 100%), the last two are the pool you get on days 3, 8, etc
so if you start scratching a howl card and see a bone, you know the roll is shit and can try your luck at a-shuo. you can then come back the next day and the ticket might be the drumsticks instead, but they won't be dogs/golden poop (the game will never convince me that is ice cream)
and here i thought it was just completly random
i will say though that i haven't bothered with any of this
yeah i also thought that is just golden poo
not only is it annoying, i've been rolling on a-shuo since release so i can finish the 10 poly missions for unlocking fortunes
yeah this is ultimately a super minor optimization lmao
i'll do it once i get all of a-shuo's rewards
i will say though that one of a-shuo's "big reward" fortunes gives 3 purple disk mats for rolling at the music shop
which kinda blows chunks
i want polys lol
20k monies 10k support cards and 150 carats in total
Every day*
every day
LETS GO
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How do i do the hanshin daishoten
What horse are you using
Goldship can run it? I didnt see it as an option
you have to schedule it yourself
its in late march of the 3rd year
mayano top gun apparently does it as part of her career
third year
Oooooooh that migjt be why i suck ass at training long distance horses
Simply feed them swinging maestro
big brain concept i hope they do this in a future walp
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Can english I'ma musume fans explain a meme to me? What is the glue factory
oh no...
glue factory (real name: wing spear) is caeda's personal weapon in the ds remakes of the marth fire emblem games
you can deduce why it has that title
cavalry slayer?
I actually don't know past "the chinese version is way more generous"
speedrunning banners to catch up with original server without proper compensation to make up for it i hear
oh one of the things is uh
in global they dont add limiteds to the main banner after the banner ends
but in cn they do
that + there being a simultaneous release of a gacha that garnered way more hype
(and is more generous)
man if i weren't already playing enough gachas i'd probably dive into honse game myself
also idk if it affects it but i'm sure there's some p5 fatigue by now
https://x.com/Akitakipuromun/status/1944031511411384782
https://x.com/yuemiao0v0/status/1944406792471212174
has p5 done a collab with any gacha other than another eden and granblue fantasy where that gacha didn't eos shortly thereafter?
I don't think so
based actually
i don't have anything against it personally but i get the fatigue
my so absolutely hates that persona became popular and not smt its somewhat funny to see
i have no dogs in the race either
i haven't been able to get around to it, but i do have smt3 and 5 i eventually want to actually beat
but she has been absolutely redpilling me on smt
subway slammer is the only good thing p5 has produced
This whole gacha is mine for the eosing
I have just been critically overexposed to p5 without having actually played it and the style of the game itself just makes me roll my eyes now
everyone used the music for it everywhere, inspired graphics for things with it etc
yeah me too though i dont even mind that much and never did
until i started dating my so
It is kind of odd how the p5 style has subsumed the remake of p3
I still really like p5 and (some of) its characters
it'd be odd until you consider you get p5 players to play older persona games by just reskinning the game
And i would even take another persona 5 game
But not as a gacha
Might be bizzare coming from a guy who did dailies in 7 gachas today
But i dont want to play a persona gacha
this gacha is mine for the rolling
honestly
i feel like gachas of existing ips that arent their own games more closely always feel weird
ie: fire emblem heroes
ay FEH i felt find as it was gamepaly wise
it was until they decided to make every skill a dissertation
They alsways seem to end up being just a "hey, remember thing you liked? Give us money"
unfortunately I fall for it every time
yeah game balance plus their off constant new unit/skill release put powercreep in high speed
right but they did barely anything to justify its existence
like if feh had a really good story?
sure
back to ZZZ talk man do i hate the twin bosses. just did the training event that had me use the PubSec team against the dance twins and my god their revival speed was insane

FE in general has it bad when it comes to story
the key si definitely to try and kill both of them at similar times, i've never really had an issue with it but the pubsec team is quite bad since zhu yuan does so much focused damage
yep thats the big trick vs them
scuse me i mean that for current games.
Telluis and Judgral games had some good stories
burst them
three houses story was good
great depending on who u ask
Yesn't
u dont dominate discourse for a series with such a long history if your story was just mid
the overall story is okay but when you look into the actual events and what not there are alot of stuff that comes out as either not expanded enough and or not making sense
im talking specfically Edelgard and Rhea
agree on that for sure
but i dont think it truly detracts from the overall narrative
i was going that but the speed at which they revive each other made it way to hard to kill them in synch. they legit took 3 seconds to revive the other when one dies so there was an annoyingingly small kill window
to me i did especially considering they had full out routes for them
like Blue lions had a good story contained but then going into other stories and getting backstory for whats going on and it leaves you with more questions and plothles.
so who are the horses i need to race with for these special missions
Well I hope she locks in
Or else shes gonna lose on purpose coz she doesn't feel like it

Bro is lookin' at me. 
snowbreak anniversary... katya wife... i feel the void calling to me
well i reinstalled the game and played a mission and was immediately reminded why i couldn't stick with it
the fanservice aspect is all there, probably one of the best games out for that, and degenerate that i am that's why the void calls occasionally
but the gameplay legitimately puts me to sleep. i can't put my finger on but the gunplay is just so unsatisfying
i'm having a bit of a laugh at the jiggle physics too, they clearly have turned them up since the last time i played and now they put ZZZ even at its most ridiculous to shame
characters made of jello
Man was like 200 points away from a a rank Uma
Are these images unusually low quality or do my eyes decieve me?
The big ass kits had to be compensated with lower resolution
i see we are continuing with the theme of unique chagre for lobotomy ego equipment
don has rupture and sinking but isnt really an id for either but rodya could possible be a sinking id
And she has a really good charge generation ego
I think she probably has better sinking application than Dieci Rodion
it looks like that, unless all the numbers are like
1
honestly looks like you want to keep rodyas sp in the negatives
effects just seem more favourable in that state, but ig its less reliable
Where did she get drugs
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dream is dead, 1% summer doro banner
looks like they're gonna keep doing these recruitment event paths for specifically pilgrim/1% banners
no doubt in an attempt to get people to burn tickets on them instead of just save golden tickets
but i guess it's also something nice for people who have to pull since they don't have mileage
Oh hey I rolled Dozle Zabi owo
JEEZUS DOZLE HAS HIGHER MELEE STATS THAN UR SETSUNA
Owait I miscalculate, it's almost
But still larger than general SSR character
Also if SSR chara isn't capped to lv 90, it definitely can surpass it
Cygames CEO dropped ~7mil USD on horses today. Global bros, this is where all your whaling money goes to.
hell yeah gambling
has to just be preload data
a 4th fire stunner would be insane
he's got the same energy as lighter too, inb4 physical+electric buffer or some headass shit
yay
ended up buying the monthly pass for $5 since anni has characters i want to pull for and it gives me incentive to login and play for a month
we'll see if i stick with it after
i didn't realize they added a 100% rate-up banner, last time i played they only had the standard 50/50 hoyoslop (with the same rates and currency -> pull conversion too)
so that's pretty blessed
the rate on the 100% banner is much lower for individual pulls (i think 0.1% vs 0.6%), but ofc you're guaranteed to get the character and pity is at 100 pulls (with hoyo soft pity starting before at ~85 i think as well) so it's a much more predictable 80-90 pulls to get characters
what is going on with seed
Probably just because that category has only had male characters so far
Also damn I swear the last echo always takes longer to build than all the others
Im almost tempted to just keep it even if it doesnt roll CR
Welp umamusume gave no maintence gems for scout being down 0/10 greediest game ever
mfw people in various communities bitching about 1% summer nikke when it was trending that way for the last several months
(quoted comment was from back in april)
like idk why so many people are surprised
the minute half anni had 2 pilgrim banners to reinforce what anni started last year, this is how it was always gonna end up going
if not summer, then some other seasonal, but summer doro is a money printer
yeah sadly 2% was always cope
think about it this way
if og doro was 1%, why would they not make doro in a swimsuit 1%
such is the nature of the beast
because og doro is permanently available and swimsuit won't be? idk i can definitely see why people are upset, doubling down on pilgrims' already relatively high rarity and difficulty to obtain for a seasonal unit kinda sucks
i don't see time limited status or permanence as being relevant to the point
i know that, ideally, it probably should be
evidently it's not to them
but shift up is trying to make money
but it sucks that it's not
i really don't buy the money argument
i mean it's obviously the reality
but i feel like it could be made for so many things in the game that they chose NOT to do
well sure, i don't necessarily think money is the only factor
like from the jump they have one of the most generous gacha systems in the business
yes, in the business
at the end of the day, the system is still predatory
yes
i'm not making any point about the overarching system (it sucks and we are all slaves to dopamine)
just that "well... money" ignores the reality that lower rates has obviously not been their MO to make money
would it have been great if they factored in time limited seasonal status and bumped up her rates to compensate? absolutely
and i'd be metaphorically singing their praises for doing it
not before, but consider the rebate system from half anni
which is apparently being reprised here
they seem to be signaling that they want people rolling on these banners specifically instead of just hoarding mileage
combined with the 2x pilgrims from anni and half anni
w/o spending, that mileage is gonna dry up a lot faster than it would have before, no?
like yeah, the gacha skins are clearly one of their main forms of monetization, along with the promise of materials to speed up progress
but i think it's a bit too forgiving to look at the trends from the last 9 or so months and not at least suspect that they're pursuing a more aggressive form of monetizing the gacha too
oh they absolutely have been, i mentioned that above too, here
all of which is to say "well...money" seems to me to have a bit more weight now than it would have before
Counterbalance
The limited-time vouchers do also give mileage
So we are obtaining mileage faster than previously too
though i do think it ignores the other ways they're being more generous
new 100% molds upcoming, pilgrim wishlist being the most obvious
the collab ones give mileage but they also replace the advanced tickets you'd be getting instead
well the limited vouchers are just in place of normal advance vouchers
there's no increase, it's just sustaining the previous rate of acquisition
you get the same amount of total pulls
They're running two events at once, though
Is that normal for them?
no i'm pretty sure this is the first time they've done that
hence the limited vouchers
this is their second experiment with collab rerun after eva
but eva 1 was added alongside eva 2
whereas nier doens't have a second equivalent right now
So ye
We are earning double vouchers (even if half of them are limited-time) and double mileage currently
but i owuldn't be surprised for this to be the precedent setter in case they ever rerun re zero or whatever
as for this, i don't think critiquing the way they're doing seasonal pilgrims or whatever ignores this in and of itself
yes but also triple the normal chars to pull for lol, and the increased pressure to burn mileage on collab units
speaking of, would not recommend using mileage on these ones unless you really like them
i managed to snipe a2 with just the collab tickets so i get to use her new swimsuit skin whenever i get to 21 ogins
but i wouldn't advocating using mileage on her just for that
gameplay-wise they seem outdated for most purposes, idek where i'd fit them in for solo raid
but imagine they rerun re:zero, where emilia seems to be pvp core
that's where mileage pressure might ramp up
for my part, i'm a collector so i would not allow a collab unit to escape my grasp even if it was worse than crow
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Just another swallow
team rocket theme intensifies
all i hear is Bakushin
very forward of u astra
she has weapon models but u know how i know she wont be playable? no visible armpits and her legs are covered
Im at 1.7
I want to pull to get statues to 3 star Maya... but at the same time, have to resist the urge
And someone didn't resist 
Oh shit i mean 17
do not say it
gao
censoring the word "slap"
Plap
maybe if cock mage gave her one : ^)
Was checking my folder to find fgo screens and was reminded that this exists lmao
Can't they remove late starts from career mode like what's the purpose of them other them draining your clocks
I mean it's okay in pvp to have a bit of rng so they skill may have a use there
Just think it's a terrible mechanic in career mode since it drains resources
Horse is a game of maximizing your chance at good rng but never being able to drop the chance of being screwed by the game to improbable levels and living with everything that entails
reminds me of kancolle
Positively horrid ADHD nightmare of a stage
tf? Why is this cat more realistic than the other one? 
for someone who's still playing arknights you're a lot farther behind in the main story than i thought you'd be
you should be able to get caught up relatively easily
i just did snowbreak's roguelike mode with one of the new anni characters and it was a microcosm of why this game puts me to sleep
this character has a minigun and their skill puts up a transparent wall that makes you do bonus damage if you shoot through it
for every boss fight, i literally sat in one place, put up the wall, and held LMB until the boss died
this ain't it chief
not all characters are that braindead but it's representative of the sort of combat experience this game gives
Yeah, IDK how it happened but before I knew it I was almost 10 chapters behind in the main story
I always have a blast in the event stories though, I canโt explain it
watching cerydra get jiaoqiu'd in real time
her mains sub is gonna crash out lmfao
and hysilens gets raw buffs
spent like three hours trying to do Level 30 of the limited-time tower
don't think I can close that gap
unfortunate
caesar is a huge crutch for tower content because it's where her defensive utility really shines
that content can be hella brutal without her
doable, but you need pretty optimized characters and even more optimal play
I've gotten semi-consistent at beating phase one
if I can dodge the sword I can make some progress into phase two
but I can't play that tight for that long
The use of Departed specifically is so absurd it's hilarious
well
now I'm hours late on my Nikke dailies
Phainon really is the 3.0 Acheron ig
As in made exclusively for one character?
she just got a buff that is so exclusive for phainon it may as well have just said "if phainon is this skill's target..."
Oh yeah I saw
E1 being Phainon only too is hilarious as well
Hysilens looks to be better in triple DoT at least
Guess I'm pulling for Hysilens
Maybe I get lucky and get Cerydra for Phainon as well
thanks for reminding me skipper, i stopped at floor 30 when this first released since it was the last with actual rewards i cared about
some of those later floors were royal pains in the ass
floor 45 is motorcycle pompey which is SO fucking annoying when all his damage is juiced like 1000%
he does damage when he hits you with his motorcycle while he's moving around
in any other setting it's minor damage, more meant to stagger you than anything
but in this mode it takes like fucking 3/4 of your HP
Zzzs new patch is tomorrow right?
yeah
Neat
think maintenance starts in around 15 hours (6pm for me) and lasts for ~5 hours after that
so it's sorta at the end of tomorrow but w/e, the day ends when i sleep, not at midnight lol
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Fellas kaisin black is tomorrow so be prepared and god have mercy

Im worried cuz I had ungodly luck in both BA and TW horse yesterday
I maxed the card I wanted in tw horse in 200 pulls
And also got 6 rateups in 200 pulls in BA
100 pulls in she was already 3lb

Frankly embarassing
just self DPS buffs
she is quite a selfish character :^)
i'm curious how this will fit into SG team though
bunny soda is currently necessary in all SG teams for extending burst to 15 sec (which synergizes with doro, her burst buffs last 15 sec after all)
so if the numbers are good enough (they look like they are), who's getting replaced? drake?
i think it's more likely they add healing to tove via FI and then the SG team can run three B3s, with drake off-burst since her buffs for the team are all still active even without bursting
Don't be too surprised if elegg does the same thing
Viper
Good morning agnes seventh tachyon fans
s doro got her kit revealed, so good morning dorothy fans i guess
she's an MG so even if she did do that, highly doubt she's used in SG team
imo either they give tove treasure CDR (unlikely), or they give her healing so running a support b2 is no longer necessary and you start running tove/leona/s.doro/bunny soda/drake
tbh i hope they don't give her CDR mostly because i think it's novel that a team can exist that isn't railroaded into needing CDR
Seeing archer hold a sword like that feels very weird im ngl
https://x.com/mashu_003/status/1945045749173297152
Fellas is kaisin black in like 7 hours or 31 hours idr
kitasan will be some time tomorrow
30 hours it seems
Speaking of things coming up
https://vxtwitter.com/ArknightsEN/status/1943505527146975472
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Limited headhunting so all arknights players who are inactive rember to get your free pulls
Yes but that would free her from sg team
i guess, but SG team is SG team because of the insane buffs so hard to imagine a new premium SG unit not making use of those buffs
My gssr.

(She got awful sparks)
Good job
Danke
22.8k now
wow the archer class is really made up of arch-
He's probably copying Muramasa tbh
That said.... As much as I love him, I dunno if this is a fight worth picking
albert: more!
ax really needs to give the fgo panels more time; 80 minutes is obviously not enough
that or if it's fgo people requesting the time duration, they need to do a better job of it
more!
which game is this for anyway?
don't immediately recognize the currency
font almost reminds me of ba but idr if you play that
im guessing uma musume
oh is that what its currency looks like?
its kinda shaped like a carrot
Carrots from umamusume
Ay
aight
farm for me jot 
Literally just train honses and check the race tab every day for races you havent got the trophy for that your honse can do
but i dont wanna
i will find and kill whoever was responsible for the relic systems
personally i blame Epic 7
iirc the first game with it was like dragon something
not dragon quest but idk
ah dragon collection
There's worse systems
Like the super old Korean ones
Where upgrading can fail
Or even destroy your weapon
wait in a Gacha game?
i just got my race stolen in broad daylight man... the heist of the century!
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Tho woundt know one used to play elsword back then I guess
On another note how many hours until the banner is up
For ZZZ it should be around 6 hours
Ah Uma
@rapid bough how good is sora? can i just afford to not pull her or is she really good
thank god
sora's probably got the worst kit on a gacha nikke in the entire time i've been playing (around 9 months)
super easy skip unless you like her character, and even then i'd say wait for wishlist
if doro compels you, go for her instead : ^)
Tomorrow is kitasan black, the day after that is walpurgisnacht and arknights anni, and the day after that is fgo summer.
What a packed fucking schedule
also nikke summer
Oh and new zzz patch
true apocalypse for people who play entirely too many gacha games
I could cut down the gachas i play by half and probably still be playing to many, realistically
i could cut down all but 1 and it'd still be too many
i've been thinking about making some cuts since i want to have time to play actual games (not to mention that, while i don't struggle for money, i'm definitely dumping more than i should into these god-forsaken games)
which i say and then of course i start up snowbreak again the other day to make it 6 gachas instead of 5
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Yeah im thinking ill probably be cutting nikke after summer and then put one of the hoyos on the backburner

nikke was my first and it will likely be the last i ever cut
in "most likely to cut to least likely" mine are probably snowbreak > brown dust 2 > azur lane > gfl2 > zzz > nikke
and yes i am gathering the infinity stones of horni
I mean lost origin is getting a western release if you want to go full degen
surprisingly i do not

For me its probablynsomething like
Nikke>Hsr>zzz>fgo>arknights>limbus company
Uma is to new for me to judge it accurately
Depends on how many copies i get of kitasan black, clearly
How do yall even have any free time
Beleive it or not
i actually have plenty, i just spend it all playing gacha games lol
These games dont take up a significant amount of my time
I can do dailies for them on my phone or in another window while im doing something productive
yeah tbh except for when major story patches release or i purposely go down some sort of optimization rabbit hole for raid/endgame content, most of my games are like 15 mins max per day
with the exception of azur lane since it requires more constant maintenance
Part of the reason why im unsure about uma since the dailies take so long if you want to do it seriously
My three gacha games right now are Nikke, ZZZ, and Master Duel
i've actually thought about getting back into master duel somewhat recently
but then i remember i hate playing digital YGO
the thought of playing YGO appeals to me more than actually playing it, especially digitally
I don't play regularly enough to grind gems
So I gotta open da walleta
Pulling for Master Duel alt arts was wildly more frustrating than anything I've experienced in Nikke or ZZZ
Grind is only bad in early game
yeah the worst part of playing a gacha game is starting a gacha game lmao
when there's content to catch up on + timegating
The issue is when you have too much free time and see another gacha that starts to interest you or and old one starts dragging you back in
yep, me with snowbreak literally just the other day
like, "oh i'm caught up and just in maintenance mode in all my other gachas, what do i now, oooh shiny"
then a week or two later when new content releases in several of your other gacha games simultaneously, you remember what a massive fuckup that decision was
I'm playing a lot of ZZZ right now
But I'm enjoying the combat
and need to grind mats
yeah you really speedran the story recently that was quite impressive lol
Speaking of speedrunning the story
I did both of the epilouge chapters and the season 2 content in the last 3 days and i gotta say
Kinda eh overall
i really really liked epilogue 1
i was kinda meh on epilogue 2
and i thought 2.0 story was fairly decent
I liked vivians part of it, im not that high on hugo and his part and yixuan i dont really have a solid opinion on
I liked the epilogue it was decent
2.0 was alright but nothing to noteworthy
2.0 did alot of introducing and not enough setup for the "payoff" to make me feel anything
Do like the aesthetics tho
Somewhat related but i also did gravity cinema and that i was really suprised by how much i could recognize miyabis va in that
Like more than usual
lab work is quick for me ngl
in general i think this is a massive frustration i have with ZZZ
entirely too much character-relevant content is only available outside of the game
and a lot of it functions as setup that the in-game story just assumes you know
i thought yixuan's arc in 2.0 hit the correct notes but i had also watched her like 8 minute backstory anime cinematic lol
yeah idk why they don't do that honestly
especially since they obviously put so much effort into them
why not show them off everywhere
grandfathered in from genshin and hi3rd
but zzz (like hsr) would benefit a lot from them
also zzz should add the eps in-client
Yeah im simply never gonna watch a video outside of the client
If its important they will tell me in game
even if she's a girl, please let us walk around like potemkin
giving props to jiaoqiu tho at least he pretends to care about dot
cerydra only cares about phainon
Was JQ meant to be for DoT?
JQ mentioned, dropping acheron mains depiction of him
Nah im not actually cause i dont like looking at him either
Why is she giving Shinjiro Aragaki
QRT: euphoriainmind
I want her masculine swag
Only if they allow them to use hammer fall
Mega fisto>>>>
Unfortunately that design is peak
no
but he has dot useage and his e2 is dot goated
very expected take from you but you are correct
So funny how she is goldship's sis
2 bums in the bloodline, a gambler and an oomfie
ogey im done with fate event
i'll be fully honest, i feel disapointed
it feels like a regular hsr event and i think thats problem
it doesn't feel like a collab event
Just because it's right doesn't mean you have to say it
look your gf isnt in this chat, someone has to call you out
where's unovven's gf
not in this chat
who could have guessed
shocker i know
truly mindblowing
That can always change 
Actually can an aro person be in a relationship?
I've never thought about it before
Yeah
yeah but im not going to for the forseeable future
Literal sociopaths that cannot feel any emotions can be in relationships too
You can be in a relationship for convienence, because you value the person but dont love them, etc. So long as the other person is made aware and is fine with it and has no illusions anything will change then its perfectly valid
Nyaruhodo
there are also benefits for being married specifically even if you dont love the other person romantically
Being married for tax purposes is a thing that happens sometimes
Yes I'm well aware of marriage fraud
unlike doofenschmirtz from the second dimension, who is divorced for various reasons
Also stops people nagging you about it
That may or may not have been the plan once
Also like to get a green card
Finally farmed enough bond om saber alter to get append 1
Yeah i mistyped
Because append 1 is the number 1 in my heart
Obvs i did np loading so i can loop at some point
ye mana loading is good civ
both of them firing projectiles at their enemies to the tune of some track by kalafina
If a party member faints in ZZZ, do the bonus passives still apply?
"bonus passive"?
wtf you're not rio
Your observation skills are on point
the bonus passive from core
like
if all my supports and NEPS units die, does Zhu Yuan still get bonus crit chance after her EX, chain, and ult?
no idea
i would guess the answer is yes since nothing in the wording implies the squad members still need to be alive
hmm
could probably fire up a simple test to find out for sure tho
do we know what attribute Alice (in ZZZ) is
physical anomaly
do what 
no damage 
this is the strat
we use Yuzuha to improve Ben's Fire build so we can proc the Inferno Metal disc bonus crit rate
And then we use Grace to enable Ben's and Yuzuha's bonus passives
surely if they'd replaced her they would've used that phrasing
so this means she still has her original VA

chat asking for a friend
do any of the Attack-class characters in ZZZ have good supporting kits
"good"? no not really
hugo is probably the closest and even he's not a support, he's just only on field during stun windows to do a shitton of burst, end stun, then leave
I figured
a hassle, to be sure, but expected
why ๐๏ธ
Ju Fufu needs an Attack or Rupture class to trigger her bonus passive
one of the few characters that doesn't get a bonus from shared attribute or faction
I could do Evelyn/Ben/Ju Fufu
but I don't have Evelyn
also that wouldn't really fit on-field Ben
stop trying to make ben work
or at least
stop trying to do it when you have like 4 limited chars and an equal number of level 60s
I'm about to pull for Miyabi and Yuzuha
relax
it's a long-term project sort of thing
i see ben/lighter/lucy from ben mains for sure
right my point isn't to give up on ben permanently
my point is that you're either rushing to get him working (don't do that)
or it's such a long-term thing that whatever team you could conjure up now won't ultimately be the team you use with him
nah this is just theorycrafting
lighter is objectively the best secondary squadmate to ben
as he is for basically all non-anomaly fire agents
and ice agents
after that just plug in a support of your choice tbh
beisdes miyabi tough if u could u would
considering pulling for Miyabi's wengine if I have pulls left over
if it's "left over" after miyabi and yuzuha, yes that's worth
don't prioritize it over getting the agents tho
ye ye
^
actually I will core 5 Miyabi's wengine then pull for Miyabi
based!
thats whale talk right htere
also
I didn't realize the double monochromes in the store were a one-time bonus
holy
immensely bad value
god help me if i ever feel compelled to pull for a weapon dupe
they reset at anni
i.e. they just reset a month ago
wow once per year
immense savings
i will be e6ing acheron in hsr but i will not get dupes of her lightcone




