i was thinking second ascension at best
#Gacha Chat
slow raft
slow raft
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glossy latch
Pog, got an early standard 5* in WuWa
idle grove
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long tree
They hired another dragon ball fan artist to work on dokkan
old galleon
rapi, red hood, and snow white walk into a bar
the bar collapses from the sheer strength of the three
rapid bough
it dawns on me that i may have a team composition issue in wuwa for the foreseeable future
my 5* DPS characters are all fusion lol
every time i see enemies with fusion RES i know i'm in for a struggle
digital marlin
you can make do with Danjin and Havor Rover for anything you cant kill with Fusion although i think you could just probably push through on most things with Fusions
silver osprey
Ok Last Rite is cool to use but her team sounds really repetitive lol
Xaihi summon the cube then keep spamming final attacks
wispy goblet
When y'all finish ZZZ 2.5 lemme know
glossy latch
it dawns on me that i may have a team composition issue in wuwa for the foreseea...
The havoc rover/Danjin team works like Vale says
But also yeah, the mono-fusion team is kinda ridiculous
You can probably push through fusion res for anything but middle tower
digital marlin
yeah the real issue with Tower though is having enough units
Sanhua is another great unit to use but outside that the other 4*/free units get more niche/weaker
idle grove
might be time for me to go back to a tamamo profile pic
I just need to find a good one again
glossy latch
Sanhua is another great unit to use but outside that the other 4*/free units get...
Smh forgetting Mortefi
idle grove
digital marlin
Smh forgetting Mortefi
😭 your right how could i
astral drift
https://fixupx.com/i/status/2020430793668211029
Cuuute
mental acorn
we'll get a scene where wang says "answer me, ch'en hui-chieh. what does yan need?"
slow raft
mental acorn
oh and apparently Ju is an is6 boss so ig we're really hiring more feranmuts
silver osprey
we'll get a scene where wang says "answer me, ch'en hui-chieh. what does yan nee...
The event boss will be Sui and he'll be siccing the siblings at you 
slow raft
Speaking of sui, i love that they gave her those fuckass pants
https://x.com/sasa_ekakiman/status/2020429308993646995
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mental acorn
the leek
runic ether
baggy pants are cute
mental acorn
hey same
but then the subsequent boss fight kicked my ass so i'm doing side quests for a bit
silver osprey
I'm still learning to use the Last Rite team
So I've been getting my ass kicked as well
silver osprey
Why are they calling Super Freak fat
glossy latch
holy shit a literal hand-holding minigame for the iuno story
Youve been grinding the stories out, damn
rapid bough
peak game design
unfortunately not peak story
i was vibing with it until the ending which sort of soured me on the whole thing
i guess props to kuro for making the "we will forget about this character after their patch is over" process actually canon and doing it mid-patch
also the ending where ||iuno plays coy with revealing she's back (her tsun tendencies rearing their head in the worst and most frustrating way possible) and that she deadass just didn't tell rover this was all part of the plan for... some reason... tanked my enjoyment of her. idk if i'm crazy or missed something or what but i feel like the ending retroactively turned most of that plotline into a glorified prank on rover||
basically went into that story thinking "cute tsun priestess must protect" and came out thinking "if this is how i'm rewarded for caring, why bother"
so i take this back, i am not a fan of iuno's chapter, it commited the cardinal sin of a gacha story patch made to shill a new character: made me like the character less than when i started lol
shame since her design is very pretty
though kuro wasn't exactly subtle on making her the foot fetish character because of course there's always at least one of those
rapid bough
Youve been grinding the stories out, damn
been doing a chapter per day, sometimes two when i've got the time
i wanna catch up to the story first and then go back and do exploration and whatnot
so the story grinding is coming at the expense of doing most of the open world stuff for now
glossy latch
also the ending where ||iuno plays coy with revealing she's back (her tsun tende...
||I believe the implication is that she didn't know it was possible to come back||
||In general I liked it in the sense that it was a neat way to have her sacrifice have meaning without just writing her out of the plot for good, but it wasnt the strongest chapter tbh||
rapid bough
||I believe the implication is that she didn't know it was possible to come back...
||it seemed to me like the story couldn't make up its mind on this. she was definitely ready to just have her existence erased for good, but she also insisted rover "indulge her selfishness" and keep her bracelet and return it to her when they meet again, and to be the one to remember it when everyone else forgets||
||but even then, to be clear, i'm not diminishing her sacrifice or the struggle rover went through to save her. i'm just asking why the fuck she kept it secret. even if she didn't expect to come back, why leave rover to be blindsided by everyone forgetting her but him?||
glossy latch
||I dont know if she could tell him if she didnt know ahead of time but eh, its been a while since I played the chapter||
rapid bough
||her last lines about rover keeping the bracelet definitely imply (to me at least) that she knew the price that she had to pay||
rapid bough
||In general I liked it in the sense that it was a neat way to have her sacrific...
also, ||in a non-gacha game i'd maybe agree, but given the story certainly just moves on after her, it feels like the ending sort of cheapened her place in the world even more than the standard gacha model demands... now she's just a stranger to everyone except rover lol||
||it feels like they wanted to avoid the standard "happy ending, everything returns to normal" which is fair enough, but did it in such a way that almost breaks the fourth wall in making the story forget about her afterward, just like a gacha game typically does||
rapid bough
ok true
but with the super bowl tonight, that will probably be a task for tomorrow's me
glossy latch
Enjoy the superb owl
wispy goblet
who are you pulling for Khaios
rapid bough
i was nearly about to ask "in what game? ZZZ?" because this is gacha chat and pulling has a very specific meaning
rapid bough
correct
anyway, i don't really have a dog in the race since i'm not a fan of either team
but if i were to pick one, probably the seahawks. darnold getting a super bowl win would complete his awesome comeback story and that's neat
old galleon
anyway, i don't really have a dog in the race since i'm not a fan of either team
so you're on the go sports team
rapid bough
i just hope they all have fun out there
runic ether
anyone but the pats is the right answer
rapid bough
aw cmon it's been so long since the pats have had success
they've had to wait *checks notes* 8 years since their last super bowl appearance, true underdog franchise
wispy goblet
the return of the evil empire
first order-esque
runic ether
that was the chiefs
wispy goblet
also the new Inter-Knot posts are teasing SBilly
wispy goblet
that was the chiefs
did we all forget the Bellicheck-Brady era
rapid bough
god i hope sbilly doesn't catch on
runic ether
that was the evil empire
wispy goblet
are we all up on Brady now that we all agree he's the GOAT
runic ether
chiefs + andy is the first order
rapid bough
i read "sbilly" and just see "sbeve" and just can't take it seriously
wispy goblet
god i hope sbilly doesn't catch on
we can call him Silly instead
runic ether
also the new Inter-Knot posts are teasing SBilly
they're gonna sacrifice s-rank billy before the 3.0 big patch huh
rapid bough
i hope to god his title (whatever it is) doesn't start with S
sanby worked for me because she was also soldier 0, of silver squad
if billy's title uses a letter other than S, it's probably what i'm going to call him
wispy goblet
is CBilly any better?
Champion Billy? Calydon Billy?
rapid bough
anything that doesn't remind me of sbeve
rapid bough
they're gonna sacrifice s-rank billy before the 3.0 big patch huh
yep he'll be the male character sacrifice before our next waifu void hunter
glossy latch
i hope to god his title (whatever it is) doesn't start with S
I have bad news, good chance its gonna be Starlight Knight Billy 
rapid bough
slow raft
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rapid bough
i opened that screenshot and thought "isn't this FFXIV?" and then saw the account name, relieved i'm not going crazy
wispy goblet
tbh if it's SBilly
at the end of 2.8
I'll take it
If the 3.0 characters are who I think they are
I'll probably feel comfortable skipping them
rapid bough
level 14 bastion cube... only probably one more union raid until the long grind for 15 resilience and 15 bastion is over
then idek what i'm gonna level
astral drift
slow raft
roll for pogs weapon
second grand vision
suffering from success
oh fuck i gotta use all my boosters
silver osprey
mental acorn
timber sigil
probably for Lainie + AN94/AK15 event
rapid bough
lupa is so fucking cool man, i wasn't sure about pulling her just for mono fusion but her story sold me and her gameplay is straight fire too (pun intended)
her VA does a fantastic job for her combat voicelines, shit's hype
rapid bough
https://x.com/GFL2EXILIUM_EN/status/2020687409659421038
the 6 month roadmap reveal here is cool
hopefully it's in-depth on the event/doll release timeline so we can plan ahead
timber sigil
i feel it's pretty much saying we'll be caught up with CN by the end of the year
right
rapid bough
we're gonna have to speedrun through a lot of major events for that to be possible
not like CN is standing still during that time either
timber sigil
though tbf between major events there's not that many side banners to fill up time
which is why I think we'll be caught up by the end of the year
atm it's just Lainie, Basti and Liushih as side banners
the rest are major events
rapid bough
all i want in life is helen
timber sigil
same
rapid bough
i should have over 300 pulls banked just on vouchers/collapse pieces alone by the time she drops
and that's not counting my dorito stash of like 450 pulls
v6 helen will be mine
rapid bough
i say that but i'm honestly not sure i'll go for broke on her
i don't regret getting v6 springfield but that's because she's useful literally everywhere and carries me in basically all content
helen isn't that versatile
voymastina however...
wispy goblet
this rhythm game is kicking my ass
old galleon
one more for the road
this was probably the toughest one i've done
zilva definitely earned his keep here
wispy goblet
This AoD event is ||getting intense||
wispy goblet
ZZZ AOD EVENT SPOILERS
||okay maybe the shippers are onto something||
mental acorn
glossy latch
Oh Ashveil looks pretty sick
silver osprey
I need Specter in endfield
slow raft
i need Specter
rapid bough
just discovered lupa's EP
this shit slaps biblically hard
i think i'm rapidly progressing toward a "started for aemeath, stayed for lupa" outcome
TBD with aemeath's 3.1 story tho, i know it's been very well received
damn lupa's EP is even produced by grabbitz
he also was behind some absolute banger themes for valorant
shades of the riot games meme about being a music company that just so happens to make games to showcase their soundtracks
toxic cloud
i need Specter
I miss specter
silver osprey
I just finished the science park. Yvv is great
Yeah I liked her
Funny that ||this is like 150 years in the future of AK and she's still buying vynils lmao||
toxic cloud
Yeah I liked her
Why do I feel like half the shots are not postable here
But yeah she's very fun and weird
silver osprey
Idt you can guess her favourite right away
Bc then she tells you to go pick one from her box
toxic cloud
Yep I just finished the quest earlier. You pick 2 then you pick the one in her box
I have to investigate this mountain trail thing now, she has to stay in her lab
silver osprey
I reached the schizo episode for now
And will pause the story there since I unlocked a bunch of stuff
toxic cloud
silver osprey
The evil rock woman talked to me
toxic cloud
oh youre a bit ahead of me I think
slow raft
Btw wuick question for the people here whove completed valley 4: did any of you find the last boss challeneging? Personally it was so easy for me it felt a bit anticlimactic but i have an oomf whos been struggling with it for days and i just dont get it
silver osprey
||Triaggeloi?||
slow raft
||No the one after that||
silver osprey
Oh I didn't get there yet then
idle grove
||Triaggeloi?||
I struggled on this boss with the laev team and then as soon as I moved back to my electric team it was a breeze
silver osprey
I was using Last Rite but she attacks so damn slow she couldn't dodge in time
Then swapped to physical and Chen/Pog spam did it lmao
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summer hornet
Ahhh, classic
... Honestly I don't remember if I have 3 stages there myself
Also ngl
Babel NEEDS to be in side stories, if it isn't already
I had so many questions about the main story in Arknights but that event explained them all
digital marlin
i think i'm rapidly progressing toward a "started for aemeath, stayed for lupa" ...
Its like rabbit hole
You just need that one character to get you interested and then you end up tumbling down the hole
old galleon
absolutely free with current pledges
pledges change in about 9 hours, so i figured to just finish this now
idk if they've done fire/wind before (they're doing it now bc lovinia as)
but it's just so free for most of these
claude was hard bc i don't have a great roster for what he does, but otherwise most of these weren't that bad
basically any pledge combination that lets me use linaria/shigure es/aldo or hismena
fire/wind, sword/katana, either of those work
there are some im' not at all confident in doing with those, tho
mariel is magic-weak, lokido i believe is blunt or earth weak
slow raft
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versed pawn
bnuuy
versed pawn
https://x.com/Acppla/status/2020769941897846785
uma
toxic cloud
Yv is adorable holy
old galleon
Yv is adorable holy
liz?
mental acorn
https://x.com/Acppla/status/2020769941897846785
it continues... good
versed pawn
bnuuy
rapid bough
You just need that one character to get you interested and then you end up tumbl...
true, though i do still really really like aemeath
on the subject of VA voicelines, her little ult jingles also have free real estate in my head
"souls sing in harmony, to the savior's victory" and "blade cleaves the night, perils purged in light" popping up unprompted in my ear throughout the day
lupa's "with me, to victory!" also sticks with me, the delivery is so good
i've said before that i really really appreciate good combat voicelines, especially for impactful abilities like ults. adds so much to playing a character for me
lupa and aemeath both fit that bill very nicely, though in different ways (which makes sense since they're very different characters)
glossy latch
Honestly WuWa is pretty good at impactful ult lines that dont become grating
rapid bough
mornye stands out in a bad way in a team with aemeath/lupa lol, both of them are very showy and frenetic while she's pretty deadpan "stars hear my queries"
rapid bough
ZZZ is too, though it has a frequent case of one ult line being way better than the other two
rapid bough
lmao nice
aemeath sold short since her exostrider ult2 doesn't do that i don't think
her ult2 voiceline is also kind of lackluster which is a bummer
silver osprey
Level cap rn is 60 and I keep running out of combat records already 
rapid bough
https://youtu.be/PoXJ0UpX2tg?si=wqGAMOO3AWfrled4&t=30
her delivery is good and the animation (esp the impact frames) is sick but not a fan of whatever her weird ghost companion thing is (haven't seen her in story yet, judging from how recent chapters ended, she's next)
manic jayBOT
Tbh I like [REDACTED] but their animations are a little odd
Could not resolve English data for searches: redacted
runic ether
ZZZ is too, though it has a frequent case of one ult line being way better than ...
despite my dislike of ysg, her combat voicelines are good
both her ult voicelins are great
rapid bough
i think her entire VO is great but her ult lines definitely stand out
runic ether
it was a relief to hear due to seed not sounding great in combat much. her ult lines were the only good-ish lines to me. yidhari i also didnt like when she spoke in combat much
rapid bough
i'm biased but the hardest ult voiceline in ZZZ for me is still eve's "your journey ends with me", shame her other 2 lines are pretty lame tbh
all of hugo's ult voicelines are close though
dude is so goddamn extra
runic ether
eve's a good defense line is very... strange
i do agree with hugo having p much all bangers
rapid bough
eve's a good defense line is very... strange
yeah idk what they were going for there
runic ether
i think they needed to nail those for a character that'll spend 99% of time off field and bursting
wide bison
I need them to re-rerecord S11's ults
runic ether
lighter also sounds so good when busting
u know what
i missed the r
but
whatever
runic ether
I need them to re-rerecord S11's ults
yeah her new va isnt bad but
the lines she delivered are... not ideal
wide bison
yeah
I've grown to get used to the new VA but the ult lines are
they're not the worst?
But it was a downgrade
glossy latch
lighter also sounds so good when busting
🤨
runic ether
But it was a downgrade
definitely
i'd honestly be fine if they just redid open fire!
rapid bough
lighter also sounds so good when busting
he do
wide bison
i'd honestly be fine if they *just* redid open fire!
Yeah
In my fire team the ult i dislike proccing the most is S11's as
Lighter is just Lighter
runic ether
its worse because of dyalin
wide bison
Oh you're running S11 with Dyalin?
runic ether
hearing it twice per 2 rotations is painful even if she switches it up
runic ether
Oh you're running S11 with Dyalin?
ye either as 2x stunner or dialyn + astra/zhao/lucy
runic ether
she's too good not to run for most characters tho i do often find her used in other teams too
wide bison
as that gives you a free enhanced basic
I'm just too used to Lighter, S11, and Orphie
runic ether
thats fair lighter is still better for 2x fire comps
wide bison
yeah
runic ether
but also i have a busted puffer
runic ether
for sure and dialyn is used in way too many teams to isolate her to 11 when she has other good teammates
granted others do have good options outside of her too
but it can sometimes end up in such a funny difference
wide bison
I love throwing so I use Dialyn with Manato as just
runic ether
this latest shiyu, i can either have harumasa hit 36k or i can have yixuan hit 37k
both clear at over 25k both hitting like 29k~30k but if i optimize them with dialyn they shoot up another 6-7k in points
runic ether
shes stupid busted
runic ether
I love throwing so I use Dialyn with Manato as just
nah this is good. manato is fun to play too
wide bison
Manato's voice actor fucking killed it
runic ether
i still need his m6 to have him up to speed and clear like my other dps characters tho
especially after 11's buffs and now harumasa's buffs
he feels the most behind to me
wide bison
I just wish Lucia felt better to play
wide bison
i'd rather swap to her and hit EX
but honestly i'd just rather use Astra
Best support ever as I only need to swap to her once a minute to ult
runic ether
idr i think so
old galleon
wide bison
yeah Aria and Yuzuha
old galleon
somehow ended up being even freer than thilly
rapid bough
It feels like it just wastes so much of my DPS
i only use it if a miasma shield is up since they take more damage from ults
rapid bough
often find even with yixuan her buff uptime is weird
lucia's buff always seems to run out literally right when i'm going into stun lol
rapid bough
Manato's voice actor fucking killed it
yeah easily one of the best performances in the game tbh
wide bison
I have problems with 2.3
None of them are with Manato aside from the fact that he should've been a 5 star
orS rank or whatever
versed pawn
old galleon
another one
roll lovinia banner
get iphi dupe
iphi has her own banner still up
why
old galleon
another nother one
mariel has absolutely massive physical resistance and multiple turn barriers, so her fight took longer, but still first try mostly blind so i ain't complaining
rapid bough
You just need that one character to get you interested and then you end up tumbl...
also i wanted to make this earlier as a response to this but i was at work, now i'm free
summer hornet
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glossy latch
Nevah again huh
digital marlin
well good news is that this one was neutered
slow raft
runic ether
eating hot chips in a suit is a mood
slow raft
#girlboss
astral drift
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rapid bough
maybe i shouldn't have done shunguang for my first run of this new hollow zero
she can just blithely ignore any and all mechanics lol
i don't feel like i learned anything or did any experimentation
oh well, next time
oh right i had hugo as an aux character and didn't use him once
wispy goblet
cool boss run event this week
but I think I'm gonna continue to grind Z-Merits in TFI
also Notorious Hunt gave me no puzzle pieces this week
again
rapid bough
yeah last week was the first time i paid attention and saw that wengine chips were not actually guaranteed
the 0-1 in the reward summary was not in fact a lie
old galleon
this was hell
easily the worst of the batch i've done this week, even including claude
ended up making me have to count pixels to make sure vares didn't die too soon before the final phase
runic ether
god gilberta makes the electric team feel so good avy getting to group the dorks before nuking them feels top tier gameplay ngl
summer hornet
https://x.com/mwam_1224gwgw/status/2020824244268290271?s=61
versed pawn
Yeah gilby helps a lot alone I farming because unlike antal who does his 1 skill every 60 seconds she actually has a useful ability to play with outside of bossing content
old galleon
pledges changed to water and pierce
so i was 100% correct to do everything before that bc jeeeesus my water and pierce options suck
runic ether
still dont like her design but she was solid in the story
summer hornet
X
runic ether
where lei heng
pastel bear
FUCK
FUCK
FUCK
I NEED TO PLAY LIMBUS AGAIN
I think I should just start a new account, I'm not really missing anything outside of anniversary stuff
WAIT
I SAW A QRT
Canto 9 spoilers ||WHAT DO YOU MEAN RIEN USES FURIOSO||
I gotta play canto 9 man
silver osprey
Canto 9 spoilers ||WHAT DO YOU MEAN RIEN USES FURIOSO||
He's a cosplayer
This is the closest we'll have to a ||Lolang ID for a while||
mortal iron
idle grove
https://vxtwitter.com/i/status/2021163258544005330
What is groza alter's lore or is it still le mystery
rapid bough
mystery to be revealed in the event i presume
they've been building the intrigue behind groza's past (especially given ||the appearance of her doppelganger in leva's event||) since the start, seems likely it'll come to a head in whatever this new CN event is considering she's getting an alter
nikke ||anis sprite update from the last time we saw her, fulfilling the prophecy that she would get updated post-reveal just like RRH did, though her updates are comparatively minor to RRH getting basically a full reskin||
||they fixed her scoliosis and got rid of the weird pouches, and looks like they restored her thiccness (as god intended). the fingers look very weird and spindly though||
runic ether
https://x.com/LimbusCompany_B/status/2021147136554053762
the first to crack the well
walp next
(probably)
rapid bough
it's months away, worry not
timber sigil
What is groza alter's lore or is it still le mystery
I'm assuming after she loses her frame to Darture and reboots in the new one the old one is experimented on and becomes Groza Alter
AR Team will be back together
Wew
old galleon
nikke ||anis sprite update from the last time we saw her, fulfilling the prophec...
looks quite a bit better, but still dont' know when they'll make her playable
runic ether
canto 6 spoiler (somewhat)
||https://vxtwitter.com/luoyerrrrr/status/2020881649089880144?t=bXChI7YyG6hOyp4jCIDe2w&s=19||
follow up to abovr
||https://vxtwitter.com/luoyerrrrr/status/2020918308774797410?t=bXChI7YyG6hOyp4jCIDe2w&s=19||
slow raft
tanya flashbacks
maybe i should replay ruina one more time
runic ether
me after watching my so play lob corp
slow raft
seeing kog in lob corp after what shes like in ruina first must b so funny
man, i love it when people are reheating umamusume discourse on twitter, you always get to see the most comical takes
saw someone say "Umamusume is unlike all other gachas becuase it doesnt sexualise its characters" and seemingly that was their genuine opinion
rapid bough
looks quite a bit better, but still dont' know when they'll make her playable
3.5 anni trust
(she'll perpetually be slated for release next anni event until she actually releases)
slow raft
X
silver osprey
X
late canopy
saw someone say "Umamusume is unlike all other gachas becuase it doesnt sexualis...
It's a sliding scale for these kinds of games and uma is definitely on the lower end
slow raft
It's a sliding scale for these kinds of games and uma is definitely on the lower...
id probably agree its somewhat on the lower end of atleast the popular ones but cmon
late canopy
Like this is probably where it's worth giving people the benefit of the doubt and trying to realize what they might actually be saying even if they don't realize it
Are they saying
"There's literally none"
Or
mental acorn
https://x.com/pprikatsu/status/2021236390780915851
yooooooo
late canopy
"Ive been so desentisized to fanservice that this small amount is basically nothing to me"
slow raft
this was in the context of a discussion about the community guideline thing and someone said something to the extent of "its funny to say that fans arent allowed to sexualise the characters when the game itself does it" and they seemed to seriously want to say that theres none
slow raft
anyways its really funny to imagine a person who plays uma and thinks "wow, theres no sexualisation here at all, how wholesome"
late canopy
The original line on its own made it seem like (And this is what I also think of the game), is that its relatively light fanservice is to the benefit of the game
late canopy
anyways its really funny to imagine a person who plays uma and thinks "wow, ther...
But yes
We have umm
slow raft
relatively light fanservice to like nikke but its about on par with the hoyo likes tbh
late canopy
Yes
silver osprey
Oh didn't know about this song
slow raft
i was genuinely shocked when i first saw taiki shuttle after years of hearing how not nsfw the game is
late canopy
1.5 anni song
silver osprey
silver osprey
i was genuinely shocked when i first saw taiki shuttle after years of hearing ho...
Riiight, forgot about her
late canopy
Uma does a really good job at not making it distracting
slow raft
not to mention the super creek stuff
late canopy
I think that's also an important cutoff point on the sliding scale
If you asked me if Uma was a wholesome game I would without hesitiation say yes
If you asked me if it was 100% wholesome then...
silver osprey
Super creek is in a constant war of some people making mommy jokes and others complaining that she's wholesome or something
Then in comes her halloween alt's skill name
slow raft
im also not a big fan of all the horses that come on strong romantically but thats a differen thing
late canopy
I like how Uma for the most part never goes far with that
imo the best relationships in the story between the umas and the trainer are the clearly platonic ones
I don't need my self insert ship teases
silver osprey
Honestly the only one I like is Buena
late canopy
I wanna be their partner
silver osprey
Mostly because her story's great
late canopy
I'll read it in a another year
When she comes out on TW
It's already a forgone conclusion that I get her
I need Spe's whole family
late canopy
Where does she do that?
silver osprey
It's already a forgone conclusion that I get her
Everyone should 
late canopy
I read her career ages ago and I don't remember that subtext at all
silver osprey
Didn't Dia have a romantic subtext
silver osprey
Maybe I'm confusing her with someone else
late canopy
It's been years since I read
slow raft
good to see that im not the only one whos not a fan of the romantic undertones though, i thought it might just have been the aromantic in me
late canopy
Romance is good if it's done with clear intention and purpose
If it's primarily for self-insert indulgence...there is enjoyment to be had from that I'm ngl, but the value of strongly intentioned platonic relationships will beat that out any day
late canopy
I think a lot of the umas are like that in general
It's a fine line between romantic interest and strong comraderies
silver osprey
She's coming next month so I'll know by then anyway
Since I want to get her and Kita
late canopy
Dia's story is fantastic
I don't remember what it was about exactly anymore but I remember liking it a lot better than Kita's
And even thought Dia's story was a better Kita story than Kita's own story
silver osprey
Ig it's a Maya and Brian situation
Where I preferred Brian's character in Maya's story
late canopy
My honest opinion of Kita from both the game and the anime is that she's a fantastic character on the surface when you watch her doing surface level things
Her design is amazing
Her energy is amazing
Her personality is amazing
But
Every time they try adding depth to that and make her try carrying a story as MC
She usually falls short
silver osprey
It is mostly because of the design and personality that I want her yeah
late canopy
Yeah those make her memorable
silver osprey
She also shows up in MANT's events right
silver osprey
Nice
late canopy
silver osprey
late canopy
The 1st anni event story is also hella good
It's not exactly deep or emotional or anything like that
But it's REALLY fun and really well paced
Probably one of my favorite ones
slow raft
runic ether
slow raft
X
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lost the 50 on shorekeeper choice banner 
it was a good run of winning 50s to start the game
least standard weapon banner paid off
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lost the 50 on shorekeeper choice banner <:pensivecowboybread:737367263635570688...
in a way this sort of bails me out, i was throwing 10-pulls at it but honestly i should be solely dropping 1 pull at a time on this banner because pity doesn't carry over to any other banner
will only be doing singles from here on out to avoid wasting anything
i realized my mistake on the multi where i lost the 50 because literally the first pull was the 5* lol
it was verina (best char to lose the 50 to at least) but i would've wasted 9 pulls had it been shorekeeper
glossy latch
least standard weapon banner paid off
Nice
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nikke new boss story spoiler ||this was the heretic next to the queen in the newest cinematic. she's really out here with noah's shields and rapunzel's rosary... how dare you stand where they stood||
summer hornet
https://vxtwitter.com/Sciel12/status/2021127940134797344
I WILL be rolling for her
and none of you will stop me
mental acorn
i'm thankful that i should have enough pulls to go for the silverashes + cny
but in related mildly unnerving news the cn->global pipeline seems like it might be speeding up a bit since we got more event dates datamined with this patch
nvm digging into it more it looks like the shift from 6 months to 5 months happened with ch15 not really a new thing
uncomforting to notice!
summer hornet
that's both good news and mildly disconcerting, yes
the companies grow tired of Clairvoyance
mental acorn
anyways ch16 is march 19th so all mantra wanters can be mantra havers
runic ether
canto 9 ending spoiler
||https://vxtwitter.com/1RAb4HCgDrrfOXJ/status/2018701721162195150||
slow raft
X
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chisato skills
takina skills
and for what little they're worth, kurumi skills
looks pretty straightforward, true damage focus
chisato seems like just a simple true damage DPS, SMG with lots of self raw ATK buffs and sources of true damage
takina is noteworthy for being a b2 support with a huge teamwide true damage buff, seems like she's going to be mandatory for any future meta true damage team
what's weird about takina is that her big buffs are attached to her skill 2 which triggers every 15sec, except the buffs last 5 or 10 sec each
so her buff timings are doomed to be kinda awkward
silver osprey
But can Chisato dodge
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yes
silver osprey
Excellent
old galleon
chisato graduated from the piccolo school of guncraft
silver osprey
wispy goblet
heard about this
most of the leak discussion spaces in my ZZZ dickcords have been closed because of this
at least for now
allegedly there is a new beta coming this Friday so we'll see if they stay closed
or if anyone will be around to leak
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Saw this and was confused for a second but then i remembered that a truly staggering amount of people headcannon arher or shirou as transfem
https://x.com/fordemdolphins/status/2021234246157812162
I dont even know why, but something about his story must resonate with alot of transwomen
summer hornet
Literally never seen that before
slow raft
I know multiple accounts devoted to drawing fem shirou or archer and have heard people talk about it quite often even outside of that
Just last weak saw someone tweet "shirou emiya, theres no time to explain, you must take estrogen"
summer hornet
Fair enough
I've seen tons of genderbent Shirou tbf, so I guess this is the next logical step
old galleon
fem archer
so not just chloe?
slow raft
onrush mentioned
https://vxtwitter.com/RBC_Shiio/status/2021163673071313048?s=20
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nikke favorite items datamined
centi (TL;DR: her shield is better, and she is a healer now too)
skill 1: start every fight with her shield active, and heals the whole team whenever her shield is destroyed
skill 2: shield becomes stronger, and more importantly its mechanics change to work like crown shield (so every ally gets a separate shield)
burst: now also increases her max HP (her shield and heal scale off her max HP so this indirectly buffs them too, pretty small buff tho)
zwei (TL;DR: more pierce, and crit buffs. seems very similar to treasure miranda but targeted toward pierce units)
skill 1: gain a stacking pierce damage buff for the team on every zwei attack during burst
skill 2: gain a stacking crit rate buff for the team on every zwei attack during burst
burst: her weapon switch has a lower charge time (so her new s1/2 buffs stack faster), and the pierce damage buff she gives the team is slightly better
moran (TL;DR: becomes a 20sec B1 with CDR in PvE content)
skill 1: reduces her burst CD to 20sec in PvE
skill 2: gives teamwide CDR (same level as RRH/mermaid) on burst
burst: gains unlimited ammo and buffs team ATK
privaty (TL;DR: massive personal damage buffs, especially against water weak, and significant boost to team buffs)
skill 1: gives a teamwide attack damage buff (on top of what it already gives)
skill 2: applies a damage taken debuff on last bullet, and the damage of her last bullet procs is tripled + her burst applies a debuff that skill 2 can now exploit on last bullet for huge damage
burst: massive self buff to her elemental damage, and burst itself hits 3x harder. also debuffs enemy ATK slightly for 10 sec but that's mostly for her s2 interaction
on a first read, seems to me like privaty is the next helm, with a FI that catapults her into meta relevance
especially against water weak content she may enable a last bullet team or just function well as a DPS without leaning into the last bullet gimmick. the buffs to her personal damage seem pretty bonkers
moran becomes an unkillable PvE juggernaut but frankly idk how relevant that is compared to other options since in nikke the best defense is a good offense and there are better B1s for offensive utility. that said, her FI is definitely fun and makes her actually quite good in a new niche she didn't have access to before
zwei seems like boneless treasure miranda... the fact her buffs need stacking is weird to me and railroads her into synergy with long charge time burst characters (both snow white forms). also makes her very manual play heavy
wispy goblet
having access to another B1 CDR option is nice for players who don't have the best options yet
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players who don't have the best options are probably new and should not be dumping doll mats into moran
centi FI seems quite weak, it's a buff no doubt and another B2 healer is nice but without more offensive buffs she's irrelevant in PvE, and she's still mostly a burst battery for PvP
the jury is gonna be out on zwei, i never saw treasure miranda's relevance coming so i might just not be tuned in to how pierce-focused teams are used
right now this reads like privaty >>>> moran > zwei > centi to me, though if zwei's buffs and synergy with pierce end up strong enough she might end up being a dark horse top FI candidate just like miranda was
oh something else about zwei is that she buffs the whole team, so you avoid miranda shenanigans of buffing only the highest ATK nikke which risks buffing the wrong unit. that's nice and less of a headache to use
all told this looks like a pretty damn good wave of favorite items, probably the most well-rounded group so far. significant buffs for every character and all seem usable in certain contexts
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will rise again
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i'm withholding judgment on zwei, esp since i don't have her
moran being a b1 cdr means i don't have to invest in volume as my backup tetra cdr
privaty probably looks good, which is totally unsurprising
centi...well, she's better in arena, which she was already decent at, so
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it occurs to me that the change in how her shield works + her new heal opens up a potentially busted interaction for PvP
since she provides 5 individual shields now, and heals the whole team for ~10% of her (defender) HP whenever a shield is broken
old galleon
for me it'll be privaty first, then moran, then centi
if i had zwei, it'd be zwei before centi
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if a big AoE kills all 5 shields at once she's healing the whole team for 50% of her HP
that's kinda wild
depending on the order of operations that might make her a crazy counter to the best PvP AoE nikkes like scarlet and cindy
also starting every PvP match with her shield active is pretty damn strong too
so her FI might be cracked for PvP on further consideration, but i won't act like i know shit about the PvP meta or how these interactions work
but she was already good as a burst battery, and as far as i can tell these changes just give her significantly more utility in PvP beyond that so it can only be a good thing
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20 pulls into it an i got yixuan wengine
i wasnt planning this
now i wonder if i should hyper invest into yixuan...
maybe getting her m1 and trying for m2
just so i dont ever worry about ether weak in the future
lmao 30 pulls
m1
might not push further but i dont think i want anyone else for quite a while
digital marlin
lmao 30 pulls
wispy goblet
fwiw I hear M2 is the real money mindscape for Yixuan
get that bonus stun extension on one of her ults
glossy latch
lmao 30 pulls
runic ether
fwiw I hear M2 is the real money mindscape for Yixuan
get that bonus stun extens...
ye
i probs will try this patch
wispy goblet
I could have my Jane ready to go in two-three days if I cash in all my generic materials
but there's no pressure so I'll keep farming
silver osprey
X
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lmao 30 pulls
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40
wispy goblet
I'm out rn
gonna plug in when I get home
also waiting to see who is playing Nikke 43 and 44 ASAP
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i gotta because otherwise spoilers will mog me
summer hornet
Oh the login screen is cute
Aw GDI that's right, Nikke stages their event banners
So I can't get Takina yet
LMAO Chisato's tap animation being her pulling a gun on you
Is so funny
And also deeply in character
…….wtf
I kid you not, first ten pull. I hadn’t even gotten to the gems yet!
Also got her from friend point pulls
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I kid you not, first ten pull. I hadn’t even gotten to the gems yet!
it was destined
summer hornet
Any advice for Chisato skill levels or team comps? Also, is Rumani any good?
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rumani is only good in PvP so probably don't worry about her
chisato is only several hours old so not much to say about her, though it's usually a safe bet (and cheap) to at least level the skills of anyone you might use to 4/4/4
as for teams... honestly no idea
she's a DPS geared toward true damage, so in theory nikkes who buff that, but there aren't many
takina will be one but she releases a week from now
the only other ones i can think of are emma and eunhwa's tactical upgrade alts
when used together they both give pretty big buffs to true damage (in addition to other benefits, e.g. emma heals and eunhwa's own damage even as a buffer is quite high)
but that might be forcing synergy, you probably can't go wrong with standard "strong" options like liter/mermaid as B1, crown/nayuta/b.ade as B2
fair warning chisato doesn't seem like she'll be very good for clearing wave content, she (and honestly most true damage nikkes) are geared toward single target boss damage
summer hornet
Just cause of how True Damage works, I imagine lol
I need to actually look up the explanation for that; my mind is defaulting to HSR which made it "add a percent of all damage in an attack"
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it's just damage that ignores DEF
summer hornet
Lmao
If mobs had super defense regularly that'd be a different problem
Also do you have any insights to how her Extrasensory works? How quickly it goes up, versus how quickly it goes down?
I know her burst fills it to max automatically
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not a clue, though that does remind me to hop in to a sim room and find out
i remember being curious especially about when it decays since she becomes invulnerable for 2 sec at 100%, but nothing ever says it goes down except losing 1% every 2 sec... but if she just goes between 99 and 100 constantly then she's going to be invulnerable all the goddamn time lol
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ok so based on how i see her acting in-game, i think it's pretty simple and the tooltip sucks at explaining how it actually works (surprise, nikke tooltips suck)
basically she starts at 100% (so invuln for 2 sec immediately + all the other buffs) and loses 1% every 2 sec
she does not recharge any passively, but her burst skill sets her to 100% again
so she gets 2sec invuln on battle start + every time she bursts
with her highest buff threshold at 70% and losing 1%/2 sec, it takes a full minute to lose enough extrasensory% to start losing her buffs
because her burst charges it back to 100%, and you should ideally be bursting with her every ~30sec, it's basically impossible for her to lose enough extrasensory% to lose her full buffs
in other words - it only goes up on burst, but it goes down slow enough that you should never need to worry about maintaining all her buffs so long as you're bursting at normal intervals with her
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nikke story time
old galleon
i'm saving story for a bit bc i already had a ton to do after logging on
didn't get chisato but i did do both privaty and moran's favorite items
just need their mats now
wispy goblet
Not playing myself but watching a streamer
It's banging so far
old galleon
also is there a way to individualize favorite item wallpaper settings in the nikke's pages?
bc i want moran's wallpaper but don't want privaty's (bc i want her skin)
and i THOUGHT that's how it was supposed to work anyway, but it's clearly not
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wups
nikke ||glimpsing into neon's past, the one on the right (stall III) is neon based on VA alone, princess (left) is the one with the glasses tho||
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also is there a way to individualize favorite item wallpaper settings in the nik...
not that i know of
wispy goblet
nikke ||glimpsing into neon's past, the one on the right (stall III) is neon bas...
||I don't think I like those implications....||
old galleon
not that i know of
stupid minor inconveniences
moran favorite item ||another one where they are explicitly dating||
||shikikan is gonna get himself knifed in a dark alley one of these days||
||and then he'll shrug it off||
wispy goblet
Moran tangent
Her level up line "My heart always beats when I'm around you. Then again, I suppose that's what a heart's supposed to do," is so quintessential Moran and I love it
old galleon
this why i got pinged in gfl2 server just now
old galleon
Moran tangent
Her level up line "My heart always beats when I'm around you. Then...
moran is a lovable dork and we love her for it
timber sigil
Corposant next week
old galleon
honestly i'm almost debating doing moran's first, but i know i should do privaty's
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realized i was doing story mode when i should just do normal mode since i can quick battle everything lol
timber sigil
We ain't ever getting Lainie at this rate
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nikke ||glimpsing into neon's past, the one on the right (stall III) is neon bas...
||also princess was apparently left in the outer rim by a "priestess" with enough money to pay professionals to watch over her for 2 years... with those glasses, gotta wonder why...||
timber sigil
Oh Bathilde dropping as well neat
Like CN she's a platoon unit
Nikketa formal dress costume that I have to put under spoiler tag for reasons
timber sigil
Free SKK outfit too
There's something about attractive women in suits
Ooo perma banner that takes 8 tickets max and 50 rolls max for an elite
Oh 3 new attachment perks neat
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nikke ||yep she's neon||
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||also princess was apparently left in the outer rim by a "priestess" with enoug...
nikke ||some dialogue up to this point strongly hinted princess was very old and "chose to live as a human", now she meets VTC priestess who calls her "holiness" and talks about corporeal transference. goddamn VTC still up to no good||
||fortunately, andersen went full john wick on em||
old galleon
nikke ||some dialogue up to this point strongly hinted princess was very old and...
||is this gonna be the girl skk met before the story started||
wispy goblet
The streamer I'm watching is about to finish 43
so I'm a bit ahead of Khaios
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||is this gonna be the girl skk met before the story started||
||she's shown herself to be a kickass hacker throughout this chapter, and wants to topple the central government. my strong bet (not knowing if she randomly dies and how neon ends up with her glasses) is that she's the sixo of today||
old galleon
||inb4 neon is sixo, justified through some stupid plot contrivances||
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nikke ||VTC really be moving different||
old galleon
oh right, got distracted
need to honor my time-worn tradition of posting rhythm game shit
ez pfc
wispy goblet
time to start farming Moran favorite items
toxic cloud
old galleon
Endmin/Shikikan/Master/Shikikan/Shikikan/Doctor/Rover/Danchou...
runic ether
could not be my goat dante
old galleon
idk what limbus refers to its mc as, so dante escapes unscathed
runic ether
manager
executive manager
it is pretty refreshing to get a gacha mc where they are not riding on it
its just outis
and if you were not the executive manager, you'd be less than dirt to her
old galleon
lol supposedly centi favorite is actually bad in pvp for some reason
not gonna claim to be a pvp expert but i see people malding already
wispy goblet
apparently it has to do with her skill 2 activating ASAP or something
I don't really understand it myself
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nikke BIG c43 spoilers ||pursued by CG then betrayed by the VTC priestess, shot and killed, and in her last moments she gives her glasses to "neon" so she can be taken and made into a nikke. then E.H. kills the central government cronies who were taking neon's body back and calls in ingrid instead, and bob's your uncle. princess, i was unfamiliar with your game. also there goes my sixo theory||
wispy goblet
||it's a wild series of events to end the chapter||
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||i figured from the start that it wasn't a coincidence "neon" and princess looked pretty similar, but i can't say this is the end i saw coming from that observation||
nikke more big spoilers ||deep lore drop, once VTC nikkes at the heart of technological advancement, now destroyed and made prisoners, basically. i'm not sure what the "killing the symbol of the ark" means though, and with stuff like this i'm always uncertain whether i'm just missing a connection to something we already know||
wispy goblet
||hint: where else have we heard the phrase "expansive armament"||
||recently too||
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||ah, pretty||
wispy goblet
||also that explains why they were crawling||
||pretty gruesome||
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nikke ||i forgot to take screenshots but neon upgrade teased, princess made the blueprint of a new body for her and they're going to talk to deep to get it. overspec neon incoming||
||wouldn't it be funny if overspec neon got released before anis after they just speedran her entire backstory and connection with DEEP in basically a single chapter||
||first three lines of chapter 44 would've given me the clue i needed on the connection to pretty if your comment hadn't prompted it lmao||
nikke ||unhinged rapi will be living off this high for a long, long time||
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nikke not-really-spoiler ||her beauty never fades||
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not quite what I was going for
but first ten pull
blessed
wispy goblet
also not exactly what I was going for
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not nearly as blessed (quite cursed, in fact)
wispy goblet
60 pulls in
slightly worse than EV but more than fine
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nikke ||johan's VA continues to be the absolute goat||
runic ether
finally uptied lamp gregor
god after playing lob corp it just hits harder and makes so much more sense
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nikke ||johan's VA continues to be the absolute goat||
||snow white's VA is also fantastic||
nikke big spoilers ||saw this coming from a mile away but still was built up properly to hit hard. liberalio's VA really sold her complete adoration for the queen well||
wispy goblet
||you know what they say||
||as long as the head survives||
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||oh yeah i don't think for a moment that she's dead, i just knew she was as good as trash to the queen the moment she tried to say "talk with em, we can co-exist"||
nikke ||and so we begin the sixo arc in earnest||
nikke ||sixo lore nuke, she's basically enikk's dark side. also i assume the defected MMR researcher is cecil||
||new E.H. design is... weird. why she out here looking like a skater girl (with a bomb strapped to her chest)||
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nikke ||sixo lore nuke, she's basically enikk's dark side. also i assume the def...
||of all the options it could have been, enikk's evil twin wasn't on my bingo card||
wispy goblet
||all that speculation and Sixo isnt even a "someone"||
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nikke ||the pairing i didn't know i needed, i'm ready for the moran/jackal sitcom||
old galleon
||moran/skk is more wholesome||
||honestly one of my favorite nikke/skk pairings they've actually written so far||
||i enjoyed her fi story, in case that wasn't obvious||
nikke issue at home is persisting so i've sent help an email, not that i'm expecting it to do much, based on all accounts i'm aware of
tldr on my home wifi, on all devices i can play nikke on, it freezes at the world registry complete part of the loading bar and eventually gives me a system error before looping back to the start
this is only a problem on nikke; for all other purposes, my internet is working fine, and nikke itself works fine on other connections that aren't my home wifi
a lot of other people have reported similar issues in the past, but as yet i can't find an official response for it
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nikke ||we inch closer to playable hammering||
wispy goblet
old galleon
based
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nikke BIG spoilers ||so the sixo arc advanced far further in the c44 epilogue than i thought, sugar/moran take out her core hardware and she reacts by starting a bunch of crystal terrorist attacks which the counters get caught in, and then FUCKING OVERSPEC NEON ARRIVES WITH A STEEL CHAIR JUST PUNCHING THROUGH THE CRYSTALS||
old galleon
||we're really getting new neon before new anis at this rate||
||or we're getting both for half anni, which is arguably worse||
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nikke ||i christen thee neo-neon (watch her unit name be neon: neo-neon lmfao)||
old galleon
||neo-new neon||
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||also her power is apparently that her body is basically immune to everything, from corruption to e2 crystals to dark matter... vapaus TBD
seems a bit of an abstract and plot-convenient power but i'll let them cook until we know more since the whole point is this is VTC/DEEP technology that is beyond anyone's actual understanding||
old galleon
||anyway since neon doesn't seem altogether very pissed at jien, did she really not do anything particularly bad or did she just hide it||
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||anyway since neon doesn't seem altogether very pissed at jien, did she really ...
||right now the only apparent thing jien did was go through her memories, which was c43 with princess. there was narrative risk of frying her brain so jien was basically playing with fire, but it worked out. by the end of it, neon basically values having her memory back enough to look past it||
old galleon
||then how did she become neo-new neon||
wispy goblet
answer from new story chapters
||they must have gotten the DEEPs to decipher the blueprints so they could build her||
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||so this is how we end up with counter members from each manufacturer||
old galleon
||SAVIOR OF MISSILIS||
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answer from new story chapters
||they must have gotten the DEEPs to decipher the...
||this is correct, DEEP basically worships the holder of the "key" (glasses) so they went to go uh... figure things out with their help||
wispy goblet
||also we now know there's two more "keys" out there||
||so more plot points to chase||
old galleon
||one of them is red hood's core and the other is anis' star armament||
||you know, to throw the other counters into that mess||
||this will totally be true, i promise||
wispy goblet
||Jien said they were given to prominent figures||
||I imagine the Supreme Commander has at least one of them||
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||and so the new chapters end with eyeri bothering arcana about getting access to the library to investigate dorothy||
old galleon
||GIRLFRIEND MENTIONED||
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||that was an insanely long post-c44 epilogue, honestly think that was longer than either of the new chapters||
||and god damn were the chapters lore dense||
wispy goblet
||kinda talky at points, but that's fine||
||we had a bunch of action in the previous chapters so having some debrief was nice||
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||they got all parties caught up with events of goddess fall + c41+42, gave snow white and red hood their reunion (via rapi), confirmed the queen is active and producing new heretics and set up liberalio aligning against her, went through neon's past and set up her overspec form, advanced the sixo/mist plotline at light speed (still plenty to resolve there tho), explained a lot about burningum (he's honestly an awesome character) with his confrontations with doro and SKK... and a billion other little things and new lore threads to pull on||
wispy goblet
||they really could do a double Neon-Anis banner for an anni or half-anni||
||now that's a scary thought||
wispy goblet
||One part that surprised me is Andersen's health improving. They really are gonna send him up to the surface.||
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||i have a hard time believing they'll do that simply because the amount of future hype they stand to lose by doing so is significant||
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||One part that surprised me is Andersen's health improving. They really are gon...
||he's improving just as SKK's healing factor is going into overdrive... not a coincidence i'm sure||
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||they'll fuse mommy and daughter and make neo-new rapi: only one or something to begin the cycle anew||
rapid bough
||but yes he now knows the queen has stolen lilliweiss's body and is livid. they're 100% setting up a confrontation between them that involves andersen in the flesh, as they should||
||and i honestly expect andersen to die in that confrontation, but i'm sure he will go out in a blaze of glory or somehow cause lillweiss's body to start rejecting the queen||
old galleon
||andersen from the grave: show me what you've got||
rapid bough
old galleon
||poor man can't rest in peace, he's got pilgrim tower to run||
wispy goblet
||...Shit, he might not die. lamo||
rapid bough
it is time
got 9 SSRs from 180 pulls, so above rate
MLB'd a couple nikkes (bay and tove) along the way
at this point i'm setting my wishlist to slowly MLB every nikke
i could just ignore that and focus on getting small stat increases for meta nikkes but meh
old galleon
mlb boosts synchro level cap so seems fine to me
rapid bough
i mean sure but i am like 250 levels below the cap lol
nowhere remotely close to caring about the cap increase
i just want to collect lobby screens
and also getting at least 2LB across the board is a nice hedge against future favorite items
wispy goblet
notes about ||Neo-Neon||
||she has the DEEP earings and the cloak too I think?||
rapid bough
||yes, she borrows a lot of motifs from them. and dialogue basically outright says she has power over them/can command them if she wants||
||also, i find it hard to believe princess is just dead. it's basically confirmed she's not sixo obviously but are they really going to introduce a 200 y/o body-transferring head of VTC and kill her off permanently in the same chapter? surely we see her again in some form or another||
wispy goblet
||I dunno she's kinda like Neon's Red Hood. It'd defeat the point of her death a little if she came back.||
rapid bough
||think about that comparison a bit more and how many times they've brought back red hood lol||
wispy goblet
||Red Hood remains relevant because she's connected to multiple main characters, but Red Hood herself is still dead-dead.||
rapid bough
||i'm not disputing that, i'm saying they've used her in like five different "final goodbye" sequences by now. she's the least dead-dead character to have ever died||
wispy goblet
||this time for sure 
||
||I do think we'll probably see a pre-Princess incarnation of Her Holiness in a flashback||
unrelatedly
did y'all watch the Maid Mast gacha skin promo video they did?
runic ether
kjh went live for like 22 minutes to announce the announcement on feb 27th
also he got a haircut
and pulled renclair and lampgregor in like 40 pulls fuck this guy i cant
toxic cloud
I beat the ||trisaggeloi|| then got walled of by authority level again @silver osprey
Started the Laevatain narrative mission
||my gf does not like the way she dresses|| 
silver osprey
I'm at the bombing site but decided to stop there and continue the missions and putting relay towers everywhere
silver osprey
||my gf does not like the way she dresses|| <:NukGar:920896147470573599>
Has she met Last Rite yet
silver osprey
Oh youve met rossi right
Yep
rapid bough
lost the 50 on shorekeeper choice banner <:pensivecowboybread:737367263635570688...
~20 pulls later 
orchid elbow
In today's news, I pulled Gold City (the festival variant)
I have 35 trainees (some of whom are reskins)
toxic cloud
Ig Yvonne doesn't look that bad either
She doesn't mind Yvonne that much except for the tail placement
I asked her if she would dye her hair pink (she dyes her hair every now and then) and said yes 
silver osprey
She doesn't mind Yvonne that much except for the tail placement
Huh, I never noticed the placement ngl
mental acorn
and pulled renclair and lampgregor in like 40 pulls fuck this guy i cant
1300 apology lunacy
glossy latch
~20 pulls later <:letsfuckinggo:935741149916848218>
digital marlin
~20 pulls later <:letsfuckinggo:935741149916848218>
summer hornet
X
old galleon
i'm gonna be optimizing synchro wat later, so someone remind me
the game modes that scale your level are
anomaly interception, solo raid challenge, maybe union raid?
campaign ex stages
anything i'm missing?
aside from whale arena
rapid bough
only solo raid challenge and ex stages
anomaly intercept scales you down to 400 if you're above, but not up to 400 if below
old galleon
oh right
rapid bough
union raid doesn't scale at all
old galleon
aight thanks
trying to clean up my synchro device and finding that a lot of my nikkes currently in it, i was only using in stuff that scaled
rapid bough
yeah my current synchro lineup is only nikkes i use in PvP, towers, and campaign (large overlap between towers/campaign candidates tho)
i flex in & out for whichever anomaly intercept i'm farming and for union raid
old galleon
i have more than enough slots i'm not too worried about having to swap out as long as i keep solo raid nikkes out of it
rapid bough
yeah once your roster is far enough along that you can get to solo raid challenge with one team, there's no need to have any solo raid nikkes in your synchro device
old galleon
well, i do solo raid regular fights with elemental advantage (or try to, when i don't just get lazy and use rapi for everything)
but even at that, i only need a couple nikkes per element
rapid bough
across all the reasons to have nikkes in synchro, i find that i can always field at least 1 elemental advantage team to dumpster any given solo raid with
helps that RRH is goated for two different elements lol
old galleon
which makes sense, since there are (now) enough good nikkes in all elements that you'd use them in other content too
like, why worry about having phantom in there when i have snow
rapid bough
indeed
speaking of which, SWHA got me over the hump to full clearing stage 9 anomaly harvester
old galleon
made even worse for her specifically since privaty got dev favoritism
rapid bough
so that's 2/5 down, i sorta wish clearing stage 9 unlocked permanent sweep for the boss in question but weekly quick battle will have to do i guess
still nowhere close to stage 9 on indivilia/mirror container/ultra tho
all of them have insane DEF buffs that make optimizing damage a bitch
also i found the other day that velvet is actually part of optimal wind team now (siren/nayuta/SBS/liberalio/velvet) since her extra "bullets" count toward mermaid lol
old galleon
ye, velvet is good
and here's where i'd sing her graces
if i had her
coping for wishlist to deliver me from velvetless hell
it did give me bunny milk earlier today, so i guess there's always a chance
mental acorn
man I have got to stop reading about other umas
my carats are not going to be able to survive
wispy goblet
Nikke main story spoilers
It just occured to me
||Neon's subconscious ideal self has always been that "pretty lady" on Princess' computer||
digital marlin
4.0 is live in HSR
summer hornet
NGL I didn't check the banners properly lol
If Cerydra is first half I'll do some rolls for her
Otherwise I'll just do dailies and switch to Limbus
Currently about 75% done with Railway #1
digital marlin
If Cerydra is first half I'll do some rolls for her
She is 2nd half
digital marlin
more time to save
glossy latch
Well I have gotten fuck all from my rolls so far lmao
Wanna get Yao Guang for Sampo SP 
rapid bough
no, i don't buy figures
glossy latch
Welp, no luck with the rolls
Im not sure I hit soft pity yet though tbf
Also the new patch gives everyone 5 shots at a 1 in 10000 chance to get 100 pulls for free
Wild
Ive already failed 2/5, but surely threes the charm
wispy goblet
Just realized this about Anis
||D.E.E.P. killed Pretty and turned her body into an "expansive armament." Anis is wearing D.E.E.P. tech. She's gonna be 1%.||
runic ether
do i really have to relay from vally 4's starting area all the way to the park
glossy latch
I believe the park gets a sub aic in the bottom right corner
rapid bough
Just realized this about Anis
||D.E.E.P. killed Pretty and turned her body into ...
||told you they'd figure out a way to make anis overspec||
glossy latch
But it's still gonna be a hassle lmao
rapid bough
||also, rapi's unique characteristics that allowed her to absorb red hood were DEEP's handiwork. and now neon is in control of DEEP and has a fancy body only they knew how to make. all three of the counters are supercharged due to actions by DEEP lol||
on a non-spoiler nikke note, the valentine's day event was fun
felt like an april fool's event, just cute and funny
summer hornet
So Sparxie shows up halfway through Yao Guang's character trial, and you aren't allowed to play her directly at all
So she just invited herself into the team. Killed the boss. And ended the fight lmao
runic ether
I believe the park gets a sub aic in the bottom right corner
oh in the field with the quest
lol
thank fuck
glossy latch
oh in the field with the quest
Ye
Anyway gonna see if I don't try to catch up to WuWas story and keep up with HSRs story this time around
It being elation focused has piqued my interest a little
wispy goblet
also
rumors are Promeia is Ether Attack
runic ether
in a world with yixuan??
wispy goblet
allegedly
rapid bough
in a world with yixuan??
who is not ether attack
runic ether
true but u know what i meant in terms of their ultimate role
wispy goblet
they could do all sorts of funny things to discourage Yixuan usage
low DEF with high HP
unparryable attacks (they've been doing more of that with control skills)
maybe we'll get a boss with no attacks at all
combined with targeted push buffs
maybe we get another unstunnable boss
and Promeia does good out-of-stun damage
rapid bough
true but u know what i meant in terms of their ultimate role
i honestly don't
if the months rupture shilling proved anything, it's that attack and rupture agents do not tackle the same types of content with equal effectiveness
wispy goblet
both Attack and Rupture are crit damage-based, stun-centric DPS roles
so even if their damage outputs change based on damage formulas
they (allegedly) have very similar play patterns
Yixuan in particular as an intended overperformer should theoretically be able to handle even disadvantageous content just fine as long as it fits in the crit-stun DPS mold
rapid bough
this was a complaint about attack/rupture being too similar when they first released
i don't think it holds water anymore after months of rupture shilling proved they can make content specifically for rupture that mogs attackers and vice versa
wispy goblet
I think they demonstrated they can do it in one direction
we're starting to find out if they can do it in the other direction
rapid bough
yixuan specifically might just be an answer to everything because that's just the void hunter diff, but that's not novel
wispy goblet
Promeia (and to a lesser extent PU Zhu Yuan) will be of particular note because Yixuan is (theoretically) a designed overperformer like Miyabi
that they may want to start rotating out
rapid bough
i reject the notion that any character dips into the sort of harmful overperformance they care about avoiding other than miyabi
wispy goblet
although I think people underestimate how much of the anti-Miyabi design is due to disoder cycling being a play pattern the developers seem to believe is unhealthy, not just because Miyabi was a huge overperformer that they wanted to rotate
rapid bough
imo they simply didn't anticipate the freeze play pattern of miyabi teams basically completely breaking boss mechanics
wispy goblet
but Promeia's kit and ultimate performance level could end up being evidence in either direction
rapid bough
which is why everything's freeze-proof now
wispy goblet
true
but they've also made both 2.X anomaly bosses both Ice and Fire resistant
which seems weird to bury Burnice
until you remember Burnice's role as a disorder cycle specialist
rapid bough
or they just wanted to shill the new toys lol
yuzu, alice, vivi rerun
not coincidentally smack in the middle of those bosses
wispy goblet
and all their anomaly designs starting with Vivian have been much less about disorder cycling
and more about "cool thing happens when anomaly is applied"
Vivian's Ablooms
Alice's weird DoT Assaults and general Assault-synergy focus
Aria's Ablooms
...Grace's Ablooms