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rapid bough
she was probably my favorite character of the rinascita portion of the story until we got to septimont which had lupa, my beloved
glossy latch
Confirmed early 20s yeah
glossy latch
she was probably my favorite character of the rinascita portion of the story unt...
Love to see Lupa appreciation
First character I pulled entirely on the strength of her story alone
rapid bough
i said this a few weeks ago but i think i've found myself in a "started for aemeath, stayed for lupa" situation lol
tho i do really like aemeath (and 3.1 story only reinforced that)
lupa, aemeath, and galbrena are probably my top 3 favorites atm, quite convenient that i can pull all of them
rapid bough
took me like 3-4 hours
rapid bough
lupa, aemeath, and galbrena are probably my top 3 favorites atm, quite convenien...
shoutout to qiuyuan as a sleeper pick here though, i am just a sucker for his archetype of character + design
if i didn't have so many waifus to pull i'd probably pick him up on his rerun next patch
glossy latch
took me like 3-4 hours
Gotcha
Also yeah admittedly
Qiuyuan has so much love put into his animations
Bro aurafarms so much
rapid bough
yep lmao
kuro understood the assignment when designing his fx and animations
that character archetype should mercilessly aura farm
nothing less will do
runic ether
aemeath also made me consider picking up wuwa again. if it wasnt for endfield i'd have considered it too
rapid bough
as someone who picked up wuwa for her, no regrets
glossy latch
Will say, Luuks animations are more subtle but his gameplay looks fun
... after him I'll not have any pull targets for a bit tho
runic ether
if it wasnt for how much wuwa burned me at the beginning i would have
glossy latch
Maybe the Cyberpunk collab characters? Idk
I didn't watch Edgerunners and idk if I like either character design that much
Though Lucy fighting with wires is fun 
rapid bough
i haven't watched edgerunners but my collector brain will force me to pull the collab characters
rapid bough
if it wasnt for how much wuwa burned me at the beginning i would have
they are genuinely cooking on a consistent basis these days
so far only one of the post-1.0 story chapters didn't sit right with me (iuno's), all the others have been good to great
slow raft
#technologysweep
https://x.com/Rodion999999/status/2026332290213949554
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rapid bough
not without flaws ofc, for instance i will never forgive them for leaving lupa out of augusta's story chapter
but 1.0 story compared to 1.1 and beyond is like two different games tbh
3.x especially has been very impressive so far
lynae and aemeath's stories were both really good
mornye's was just fine
glossy latch
I have heard good things about 3.1, so I still need to play through it
... again, tomorrow probably
rapid bough
rapid bough
so far only one of the post-1.0 story chapters didn't sit right with me (iuno's)...
i'll say shorekeeper's chapter was also on the weaker end imo, mostly as a result of feeling very rushed rather than any fundamental issue with what it was trying to do though
pastel bear
LAPP LOVE
old galleon
takina has 2 weeks to come home before i'm forced to use mileage on her
got spooked today, but at least it was a decent one
(el rey)
(la rey? she does call herself king)
(as opposed to queen, o la reina)
anyway, crown is one off of mlb now, somehow
rapid bough
takina has 2 weeks to come home before i'm forced to use mileage on her
damn did c7 rapi bankrupt you that bad
old galleon
no, bc i do have enough mileage
rapid bough
right i just mean are you left pulling with scraps, like singles at a time
rapid bough
just realized i can do solo raid museum to get a bunch of extra FI mats to get privaty to phase 3
and i still need to do the current solo raid
guess i'm gonna be doing a lot of solo raiding today
old galleon
did the mother whale one a few days ago and had a rapi team single-handedly clear the score threshold
so that was fun
rapid bough
yeah my cindy team just 2x'd the first place on its own lol
and thank fuck since my other teams are completely helpless against this shit
mother whale proving all over again why it is the second worst boss in the game
(nothing can be worse than mirror container)
rapid bough
just realized i can do solo raid museum to get a bunch of extra FI mats to get p...
ez
OLing privaty's gear now too and it gave me 4 max ammo lines lmao come on game
wispy goblet
I thought about farming for extra FI mats
rapid bough
i never get these lines and now you give it to me on one of the few characters it actively nerfs
wispy goblet
But I didn't want to do another solo raid to farm for the monthly event
rapid bough
tbf it's easy enough to clear museum on your first 1-2 attempts then just quit the next few
so it's not as tedious
that's especially what i did for mother whale, fuck that boss
oh right, titles
forgot about that since i haven't done moran's bond story for her title after i got her to level 30 and OLed her gear
old galleon
oh right, titles
read this as "titties" at first
rapid bough
not strictly an incorrect way of reading it
old galleon
would require the l to be silent or to read it as a capital i
rapid bough
more referring to the concept's relevance to nikke 
old galleon
fair enough
rapid bough
something occurred to me when i was going through the privaty FI story
wispy goblet
...Titties?
rapid bough
nikke 44 ||the commander/burningum confrontation made it clear that the commander can't just forget/forgive what burningum tried to do to marian
well, triangle (with privaty in the lead) was burningum's attack dog during that whole affair. privaty's FI story even talks about her "pride" when that was a major point of contention in their fight during the marian saga--the idea that triangle was not just following orders, but proud to be doing so. makes you wonder why commander has seemed to move on from privaty's direct involvement in traumatizing him but not burningum's||
||fear not commander, i see past the devs' privaty propaganda. i still haven't forgiven her||
wispy goblet
||titties||
rapid bough
||correct||
||for real though, it does bother me that they've left triangle's role in the saga that basically made the commander who he is right now unaddressed and just turned privaty right back into mega-tsundere waifu||
old galleon
nikke 44 ||the commander/burningum confrontation made it clear that the commande...
||privaty is a cute girl with big boobs, twin tails, and frequently wears a maid outfit that i'm sure also flatters her behind||
||meanwhile burningum is middle-aged man||
wispy goblet
||for real though, it does bother me that they've left triangle's role in the sa...
||Triangle-focus next set of chapters for sure||
rapid bough
||to my knowledge, the most they've done with it is during a side quest in chapter 23 or 24 (one of the ark invasion chapters) where the counters get sent in as a relief force for triangle to evacuate some civilians, since triangle (as an internal CG police squad) isn't kitted out for a drawn out fight against raptures
there's some dialog during that side quest where privaty is surprised the counters seem willing to help her, and the commander basically says "now's not the time to argue about what's in the past, we've got people to save"||
||which is a chadmander move by him but still remains as the only instance i'm aware of in or adjacent to the main story where the triangle/counter animosity is even mentioned||
wispy goblet
||To be fair, have they brought up Marian with any of the other Nikkes involved, like Perilous Siege?||
rapid bough
||not to my knowledge, though perilous siege got a much more neutral treatment for a while if we put the D:KW alt off to one side. i don't recall commander immediately hitting it off with D or K during their bond stories or respective events, in fact there was mutual distrust between then for a fair bit of time, unlike with privaty||
||but i wouldn't argue with them bringing up perilous siege's role in that either. it just bothers me more with triangle because the devs use privaty as one of the game's premiere waifu bait characters since everyone loves tsunderes (i refuse to be converted)||
old galleon
https://x.com/i/status/2026422353048011235
liz love?
old galleon
||but i wouldn't argue with them bringing up perilous siege's role in that eithe...
||has she even gotten further than rapi yet?||
rapid bough
||privaty's already lost the competition because the commander is self-aware enough to tease her about her obvious feelings for him, but not rapi. surely this means he doesn't take privaty's feelings seriously but does take rapi's seriously||
||being real though i don't actually know. i haven't done maid privaty's bond story which would be the one for things to happen. she'd have to beat the full blown date + ending hug (and controversial fade to black but you will never convince me they did the deed) RRH's bond story got||
idk why we're spoiling bond story stuff at this point lol
old galleon
spoiling bond story stuff
so how much sex does the commander have in bond stories
wispy goblet
dawg hugging doesn't hurt your legs
rapid bough
at this point i think the helm relationship is farthest along (officially dating + l word used + segs) because someone at shift up really likes helm (and what a king he is)
old galleon
at a minimum, the moran relationship is trending upward after her own story
rapid bough
dawg hugging doesn't hurt your legs
it says they stood there hugging for a while, you ever stood for a while?
i'll die on the hill that it's cope to treat the RRH bond story fade to black as them doing the deed
it would mesh so poorly with the entire rest of that bond story where they're nearly too shy to hold hands
rapid bough
at a minimum, the moran relationship is trending upward after her own story
moran FI story is very blessed but it doesn't go quite as far as helm's
but moran enjoyers are definitely feasting at the same level helm enjoyers were on her FI release
rapid bough
> spoiling bond story stuff
so how much sex does the commander have in bond stor...
varies widely by bond story but certainly a lot lol
and the number grows significantly if you also count stories that imply sexual acts but don't rise to the level of full sex
old galleon
the rosanna fi story has the potential to be, as the kids say, generational
or just plain horny, pick one
rapid bough
i actually thought it was a nice change of pace that s.rosanna's bond story was basically them going out on a boat and just relaxing and having fun (not in the sexy way)
old galleon
s rosanna's looks:
s rosanna's bond story:
rapid bough
actually builds the relationship as more than a physical one when they've previously only focused on the segs aspects with rosanna lol
rapid bough
s rosanna's looks:
s rosanna's bond story:
to be fair, near the end rosanna basically says "if only we had more time and more privacy we could end the night right"
old galleon
Is that the artist?
liz from fate series
yvonne looks a lot like her
much bigger chest than liz tho
versed pawn
Much bigger everything I say
old galleon
someone should do an edit of 5* liz final art that has yvonne somewhere in it
versed pawn
slow raft
idt they look that much alike aside from having the smae hair colour and horns tbh
runic ether
im not sure between alesh and estella...
i guess i'll level both up and swap between them as needed?
i didnt realize i had alesh at potential 5
so he probs wins out
versed pawn
Got my arclight and perlica to p5 now
Still waiting for next banner tried like 30 pull and see if I get lucky
I didn't 
runic ether
oh wait nevermind alesh may be based as fuck
slow raft
fishing goated, true
wispy goblet
dang dropped more than two percentage points already
rapid bough
i've been putting it off but time to actually learn this solo raid
rapid bough
dang dropped more than two percentage points already
hate to say it but my first try with crown team (mermaid/crown/rrh/eve/maid mast) mostly not knowing wtf was going on and missing mast burst on two different rotations nearly outscored you on its own
i'm sure this will be by far my best team tho
even aside from the fact it has my best units, it's also basically dummy easy autopilot to play
wispy goblet
okay but you actually have overloaded gear
also RRH is so good for this fight
makes killing the... halo-things a lot easier
wispy goblet
so you don't get stalled out in the invulnerability phase
rapid bough
one of these days i need to learn the pause tech i know high-end players do (where you pause the game and move your mouse to QTE locations/parts that need to die, then unpause, which saves time aiming)
just feels like such shit to do tho
now to try and do something with snow white team which i know is going to be hell on earth
shoulda started with this to actually learn the fight instead of just the hold LMB gameplay that crown team does lmao
honestly better than expected with summer helm dying like 2/3 of the way through and me fucking up an invuln phase
going into this solo raid after doing the museum fights is like night and day, it's wild how much better they are at boss design now
the challenge of old fights was just shittons of boss damage mandating having a healer in all your teams
fights now have much more avoidable damage with good timing, so much nicer to not need healers everywhere
healers are somewhat of a crutch now, you lose damage in favor of being able to navigate messy play without dying
which is fine imo, the option is there but you're not railroaded into it (which is especially nice for people with incomplete rosters)
^ snow white team actually ended up being my worst one lol
mocks
i am so bad at bunny milk it's not even funny
(and yet she still almost did more damage than red hood)
TIL i didn't have a doll on bunny ade 
i'm tempted to make a true damage team with chisato/takina since they're obviously made for this boss and all its DEF buffs
but i just don't have the blue rocks
rapid bough
definitely got lazy on the last two teams (milk and snow white) because i'm so bad at them lol
shotgun team being my second best is a fun twist, normally it's 4/5th
runic ether
summer hornet
Getting one gave me the currency to get me the other
That makes 4 limit broken SSR Nikkes, too - so I’m one away from breaching the 160 wall
old galleon
velvet
where can i learn this power
runic ether
finished catching up to endfield's main story so far
honestly could be a lot better
if im being honest, the problem is kind of a pacing issue as a whole so far... i'll let the wuling story finish of course since it is def a vast improvement over valley 4's
its hard to take the current cast super seriously due to how they are so reliant on endmin doing things/resolving situations
mi fu esapes this a bit
toxic cloud
its hard to take the current cast super seriously due to how they are so reliant...
Thank you gamer
oh wait I'm behind 
Yeah the story is kinda buns
silver osprey
I did Surtr's story yesterday and it was so much better than Valley IV
It took endfield for us to actually get lore of Surtr outside of IS
timber sigil
Lotta's side story is so adorable she's really grown on me quick
@rapid bough @idle grove
slow raft
mindlessly play mirror dungeon
see faith pop up in the shop
buy it on instinct
"oh right im playing charge, fuck, do i even want this"
silver osprey
Don and Rodya are never getting depressed
slow raft
wow, i forgot how many fascist bosses there are in the 4th floor packs
rapid bough
ah shit i'm at 2.96% on solo raid
i'm really gonna have to do this again and start getting close to optimal to preserve the top 3% placement
rapid bough
i'm really gonna have to do this again and start getting close to optimal to pre...
optimizing the snow white team took years off my life
but top 3% should be secured
old galleon
i was booted out of top 15% so i said fuck it and did another run, top 15% should be guaranteed now
fight is still annoying but whatever
had my liberalio team rely on liter for both the ele and long qtes and that was a pain
summer hornet
X
slow raft
wow, these new arknigths banners seem custom made to siphon regis currency
though i imagine you already have saber alter
runic ether
https://x.com/i/status/2026658534734311653
love jean wish she was a good character
as in gameplay
rapid bough
fight is still annoying but whatever
skill issue 
(yes i know it's a roster investment issue)
i was able to avoid any invulnerability phase across my final runs
though it was a damn close call a few times with snow white team
summer hornet
as in gameplay
attendre et espérer for Favonius Knights buffs or something like that
summer hornet
wow, these new arknigths banners seem custom made to siphon regis currency
See my crying above
slow raft
my condolences then
runic ether
attendre et espérer for Favonius Knights buffs or something like that
im afraid with how mid varka is, even a buffed knight of favonious will still be mid at best
old galleon
i was able to avoid any invulnerability phase across my final runs
what do you even need to do for that? kill the halos?
i found that very hard with some of my comps, tho at least the rapi one seemed to be fine
summer hornet
Is he like, release Dehya bad? Or just inferior to the current top end?
old galleon
skill issue <:okbuddy:1310294748505837659>
(yes i know it's a roster investmen...
both tbh; i'm still not very good at the game
slow raft
"Ots relevant to my interests" bro thinks hes sooo cute
https://x.com/fortayee/status/2026478448290464021
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runic ether
Is he like, release Dehya bad? Or just inferior to the current top end?
he barely cracks 100k with his best team and his best team is not using his best team its using ineffabina carry lol
rapid bough
what do you even need to do for that? kill the halos?
yeah kill the 8-10 ring parts around her fast enough when they come up
fwiw it's not 0 or 100, the invuln phase is shorter the more you kill (but you skip it entirely by killing them all)
runic ether
its like pulling phainon in hsr as main dps, but instead of being the dps, he's there to be wheelchaired by his supports which are doing the majority of the damage
summer hornet
runic ether
his supposed to be best team is varka/benny/durin/venti
and this team hits 95k~100k
ineffabina alone do that much give or take with any other dps leading and any other support hanging out
the average for a good dps in nod-krai ie:
flins, nefer, zibai is about 180~-210~
summer hornet
So he's inferior to the current top end, but not unusable
Though obviously I'm assuming a willingness to ignore endgame that's probably critical
And I don't even have Genshin downloaded rn
runic ether
yeah of course hes more than usable
ineffabina alone can carry most teams outside of dire stygian
glossy latch
Time to finally start the WuWa story quest
... though I have to do Mornyes first
@rapid bough next patch might give us Hyvatias tactical hologram
So enjoy that
old galleon
damn i let hard story go a while untouched or something bc i'm in chapter 16 and still in the blue
glossy latch
Also I am realising, they really do love their big motorcycle setpieces huh
wispy goblet
Weather knocked out my home internet since this morning
Might not be fixed for a couple days at this rate
Gonna have to do my dailies on my phone....
rapid bough
Also I am realising, they really do love their big motorcycle setpieces huh
they definitely do and it's funny to me because i find the handling of the motorcycle in-game to be quite shit
gets stuck on every little thing, so damn annoying
rapid bough
i definitely prefer flying around in rinascita/huanglong to motorcycle in lahai roi
and i have my complaints with flight too
namely that trying to start flying in an uphill direction is impossible
glossy latch
Also ... ||why do they need Lynnae as a mole if they just have Cristoforo anyway?||
rapid bough
Also ... ||why do they need Lynnae as a mole if they just have Cristoforo anyway...
||i was very confused by cristoforo's cameo in multiple ways and this is one of them||
glossy latch
||Well we knew it had to be him, since Anselm was copied by someone for Hyvatia||
||... I guess maybe Cristoforo can't maintain a disguise for that long?||
||It would make sense, he has never actually fully replaced someone himself, just taken their form for short periods||
rapid bough
||... I guess maybe Cristoforo can't maintain a disguise for that long?||
||the mechanics of his disguise was another source of confusion since it's the first time we've ever seen him use one. idk if it was a good old-fashioned physical disguise or a resonance ability doppelganger thing but it begs the question why he's never used one before now||
glossy latch
||He has||
rapid bough
||when||
rapid bough
||...when||
glossy latch
Once was when ||he recounted Augustas tale before her patch||
I'm not 100% if that was 2.6 or 2.5 though
rapid bough
||was the narrator of augusta's tale literally cristoforo or just someone made by him? he evaporates into paper afterward which made me think he was just a puppet cristoforo "wrote in"||
glossy latch
||I believe it was Cristoforo, he didn't have a major role like his puppet Avidius did, plus when Avidius died he didn't turn into paper cranes||
rapid bough
||well not having a major role could be why he just turned into paper cranes... he wasn't really part of the story cristoforo was writing, just an exposition dump lol. we've never seen cristoforo turn into paper either to my knowledge||
glossy latch
||You also see paper show up just before Avidius dies when Cristofor is suddenly there, it seems to be how he "teleports" as it were||
Also isn't he the guy in ||Qiuyuans story?||
rapid bough
||no, i got the impression that the guy in qiuyuan's story was one of the grand overseer's clones||
rapid bough
||You also see paper show up just before Avidius dies when Cristofor is suddenly...
||he teleports out with a scar portal so idk. also i had to go and rewatch it myself but avidius does literally disintegrate, it just seems to be into flowers rather than paper (though paper is flying around, seems more likely that's just a cristoforo motif)||
glossy latch
Could also be that ||he doesn't disguise but just creates copies he controls, like his puppets||
rapid bough
||right, that's sort of what i was getting at with the dude at the start of augusta's story. if so, then that might be why they need lynae as opposed to just using one of his puppets. we don't really know a whole lot about cristoforo's power or its limitations, so it stands to reason his ability to create long-lasting puppets is limited, and someone like avidius takes a proportional amount of effort and time to craft||
glossy latch
||He also didn't actually control Avidius. Maybe the more longevity they have, the less he can control them||
rapid bough
||true, though that might be more related to his ability involving scripts/stories. maybe small insignificant "side character" puppets he can create at will, but the more relevance to the story, the more free will they actually have, which is why the subjects of his stories (lupa, avidius) can always seem to break free of their "fate" as it were||
||but i'll be real, all of the fractsidus overseer's abilities are kept purposely vague so they can do all manner of bullshit as necessary to drive the story, so i doubt we'll ever get something like that confirmed||
glossy latch
||Eh, Phrolovas we know pretty well and Scar is mostly just a battle junkie anyway||
rapid bough
||phrolova's was more explained than the others but because it veered into "rewriting reality" territory just like cristoforo's, i still think we haven't really seen the limit of what she can do. if you were to tell me she could actually disguise herself by "retuning her frequencies" or whatever i wouldn't even blink||
glossy latch
Granted while we know her ability that doesnt make it less bullshit lmao
Ironically we know thats the one thing she definitely cant do
||Her Forte locks her body perpetually in an unchanging state, any attempts to alter it, such as wounding her, just get fixed||
rapid bough
||when the hell do we learn that lol||
glossy latch
||Her forte report, its something you get when you pull for her and level her up or get her connection iirc||
rapid bough
||ok phew i thought i missed some major reveal during her storyline||
glossy latch
Nah
Tl;Dr: ||She doesn't age, minor wounds get fixed within a couple seconds, reconstructing organs takes a couple minutes||
rapid bough
glossy latch
||... and there appears to be no way for her to die that's known||
||She just has hax basically||
rapid bough
||that's seemingly true of all the fractsidus overseers. their resonance abilities are true bullshit lol||
glossy latch
||True, but hers are especially bullshit||
||The only "weakness" as it were is that its based on her state of mind, which explains why she doesn't just do the Fractsidus' job all on her own||
||She is not exactly mentally stable||
rapid bough
||tfw "rover can fix her" is the exact opposite of the truth since rover is the reason why she's completely off the rails ||
glossy latch
||Well not exactly||
rapid bough
shh let me slander in peace
glossy latch
||Yeah he did bungle his promise to her running trend that, but she was already off the rails before he ever met her||
rapid bough
where's the meme i saw
glossy latch
I think I know the one, sec
rapid bough
||Yeah he did bungle his promise to her ~~running trend that~~, but she was alre...
||right, i guess it would be better to say "rover could have fixed her but missed the opportunity already"||
glossy latch
rapid bough
not the meme i was thinking of but definitely still applicable
glossy latch
I am curious what they're cooking with it
rapid bough
also not what i was thinking of but i found it quickly and it still applies
glossy latch
I assume him resetting his memory happened under less than ideal circumstances
Oh yeah that one is good too
rapid bough
this is the one
digital marlin
also not what i was thinking of but i found it quickly and it still applies
oh nah not the Agenda piece memes
glossy latch
rapid bough
I assume him resetting his memory happened under less than ideal circumstances
3.1 ||i do think aemeath's story built on this is an interesting way (still incomplete tho). past rover was very homesick and now both luuk and aemeath can see after losing his memories it's like he's had a massive weight lifted off his shoulders||
glossy latch
Tomorrow Ill get to it
rapid bough
(he said, yesterday)
rapid bough
mornye's was aight but i liked lynae's and especially aemeath's more
felt like the last third of mornye's story went from 0 to 100 too fast
rapid bough
i'm very sad i joined too late to pull for her
glossy latch
Theres always reruns~
rapid bough
she'll be top of my pull prio on her future rerun
glossy latch
I am also curious about Sigrika now
rapid bough
helps that she's currently part of aemeath's BIS team
glossy latch
She apparently uses daggers ... and theyre kinda sick
rapid bough
though by lynae's next rerun i imagine aemeath will have more options
since they're still expanding on the tune break/fusion burst archetypes
glossy latch
Probably
Anyway, tomorrow I'm getting the doctor
And then his weapon
And then Ill consider saving for Sigrika
rapid bough
galbrena shall be mine
mystic python
GL on the banners, whenever they are for you
I got 2 hours until I can try get Galbrena
rapid bough
may the hunt (for galbrena) end well for you comrade
US plebs don't get to pull til tomorrow
mystic python
Imagine still being in a Wednesday
rapid bough
galbrena, cyberpunk collab unit(s), and lucilla in the next few patches
lots to pull for, and fewer pull sources to draw from as i grind every day
mystic python
Yea it's always a gauntlet at the start
After Galbrena I got nothing I particularly want besides maybe her weapon (which I don't expect to be able to get), will feel good to finally be out of the woods
rapid bough
luckily i see that the new standard pistols are really good for her, like 91% of her sig
so just gonna snag those instead of her sig
mystic python
Yea I've got enough for a standard pity to get it, thankfully
glossy latch
I'm aiming to get Luuk and his weapon, Sigrika and then maybe the collab unit(s)
After that, eh, who knows
mystic python
Then I've got 7 pulls for the weapon banner wahoo
glossy latch
Funny enough tho the only team that still needs work on my end is like
Exactly Havoc Phrolova
I dont have Cantarella
mystic python
Getting Ciaccona fixes Cartethyia for me, but besides that my other teams are complete (although they contest supports)
Iuno/Lynae, Camellya/Sanhua, Galbrena/Lupa
Then Jinhsi/Yinlin ig exist for side tower purposes
rapid bough
must be nice to have multiple teams
glossy latch
It is :)
I have, lets see
XL Lynae, Augusta Mortefi, Carlotta Zhezhi, mono-fusion, Phrolova Qiuyuan Mortefi, Zani Phoebe
And obviously Cartethyia, Aerover and Chisa
So like, I do have all elements covered
And Sigrika is almost certainly redundant
.... buuuuut I do like her knifes
mystic python
must be nice to have multiple teams
Dw I was in a spot like urs for a while; they released like 3 weekly bosses in a row that had Havoc res and I wanted to die
rapid bough
that's currently me any time i see something with fusion res
glossy latch
I mean good news is
Lupa is so insane you can probably push through fusion res anyway lmao
rapid bough
to some extent i can, though i do remember trying to do hologram inferno rider with mono fusion aemeath and that was hydrogen bomb vs coughing baby material
rapid bough
i noticed
i ended up cobbling together the jankiest, most undergeared and underleveled havoc rover/shorekeeper/sanhua team you ever did see and managed to clear level 3 for the starter missions
but it was extremely painful
mortal iron
Bit of an annoying abyss
Not hard but like, it was virtually impossible unless I swapped teams
glossy latch
8 more hours for Luuk 😔
mystic python
I got 2 hours until I can try get Galbrena
Wahoo
rapid bough
hmm your galbrena looks a bit weird
glossy latch
Hey at least he's good-ish now if you have Lynae and the new standard broadblade
toxic cloud
I did Surtr's story yesterday and it was so much better than Valley IV
Yeah agreed
Tutorial IV is kind of a meme
it's fine the characters are cute 
runic ether
i've been laying cables and pipes in wuling
mental acorn
oh the limbus ui updated
hmm I like having inventory always there but the bar feels way more cramped now
toxic cloud
Gonna finish some of the operator quests then finally head for wuling
runic ether
hmm I like having inventory always there but the bar feels way more cramped now
i think its neat but i may switch back
i like the look
of the broken down/worn down style we have
on the flipside... we updated dante's ipad
this is a signifcant buff to the sinners
s1 g corp greg obtained
time to uptie 3 him for the busted solo passive
i only have k corp hong lu to grab off the s2 ticket
and... bl fau
from s3
then the s1-6 ticket... pregor
runic ether
rapid bough
been doing rinascita 100% exploration bit by bit
i hate dream patrols so much
idk what possessed the devs to make these dogshit challenges that mostly require sitting around waiting for the braindead enemy AI to use specific attacks so you can dodge/counter
but they all need to be fired
mystic python
idk what possessed the devs to make these dogshit challenges that mostly require...
And then they give it a timer on top wahoo
rapid bough
yeah lol, just absolutely diabolical game design
glossy latch
Luuk plus weapon obtained
slow raft
X
copper steppe
silver osprey
toxic cloud
slow raft
digital marlin
idk what possessed the devs to make these dogshit challenges that mostly require...
Ah yes that. That's what held back before especially since I was still newish back then so I didn't even completly understand what they meant by some of the counters .
rapid bough
yeehaw won 50 (soft pity)
pastel bear
I also got saber
runic ether
nclair or hong tuah
hong tuah
runic ether
https://x.com/i/status/2026883718661464299
powerscaler daughter
mental acorn
arknights meme but it has canto 9 spoilers
silver osprey
The caster sheep soloes everyone there
pastel bear
going through my favorite intervallo rn so I can do the mirror dungeon
forgot how short canto 2 was
silver osprey
Canto 4 made up for it
runic ether
true
canto 1 and 2 kind of go by fast
even 3 to an extent
and then they drop canto 4 on you
silver osprey
20 stages of fighting against robots
runic ether
speaking of canto 3...
canto 9 ||love that a certain sinclair theme remixes parts of between two worlds. its so fucking peak. studio eim cooked hard asf for the music this canto||
pastel bear
I'm getting a psychic vision
the neco-arc equivalent meme for project moon will be ||from a place of love's first lyric pasted over hilarious and unfortunate scenarios||
rapid bough
if i had a nickel for every person in this chat that pulled for galbrena only to lose the 50 to calc...
digital marlin
70 rolls in and I got to hope for an early pull
runic ether
g corp greg is actually really good with a passive
heal on clash is goated if you can enable it
runic ether
i love u christmas rodya
shes actually really damn solid if u dont have knight of despair
shes just
worse than kodya
wait shit
walpipi soon
u can just get kodya
mental acorn
i got a fell bullet dupe from the decaextraction
mental acorn
runic ether
still the mde hard speedrun king
this n corp ego user got thousands of boxes off md and basically your just stupid
how?
click here to find out
pastel bear
starting with a new account in current limbus is awful I hate grinding MD's
runic ether
use your season 1-6 for fell bullet yi sang
craft fell bullet ego
hurray md grinding is no longer a problem!
pastel bear
when do I get that
mental acorn
like next week or smth
runic ether
the 1-6 tick is at the last week iirc?
this event even gives u the uptie 4 and upthread 4 on both the id and ego too..
pastel bear
hong tuah. bum gregor. saber ishmael. save me.
mental acorn
alternatively pull up The Evader Squad and thrill spam
runic ether
rental teams are not bad
p sure u have access to them tho im not sure if these rental teams can get u achievements...?
mental acorn
iirc it's just the team loadout achievements you can't get with rentals
runic ether
oh if u get renclair... hes also surprisingly a beast in md for soloing and he does it quick
cant truly winrate
but he can get by p fast
pastel bear
I'm just gonna farm for shards to get index sang
runic ether
index sang can also solo rather fast
pastel bear
at least I'll have a nice fraud to stare at
runic ether
broken ass finger
mental acorn
honestly quite incredible
pastel bear
I'll probably be getting the limbus pass too just to build my poise team since they're all seasonal
runic ether
forever iconic she can solo a certain fight in canto 8 by herself
pastel bear
replaying these cantos is giving me ||lollang|| level ptsd
I would not want to be a reception right now my combat pages would have the most embarrassing art
||MEMORIES OF: THAT ONE TIME YOU FARTED AND IT PICKED IT UP ON THE MIC||
runic ether
pastel bear
kata next steam sale you are not safe
mental acorn
am i ever safe
summer hornet
glossy latch
Time to do Aemeaths story I suppose
rapid bough
mortal iron
so varka is...certaintly a guy
glossy latch
https://tenor.com/h8ozYLXEgjp.gif
slow raft
Canto 9 spoiler
||https://vxtwitter.com/limbleedupdates/status/2026980240480755762||
||imagine you look into your prescript and that shit says "transition"||
runic ether
the prescripts know best!
glossy latch
How is Rover able to walk around in a region called "the frostlands" with the same fit as always
Also will say, do like the story a lot so far
Its very, hm
Human?
Im kinda realising thats probably WuWas biggest strength
Storytelling-wise that is
old galleon
gbf anni event is live
includes main story spoilers since it takes place after the events of the conclusion of the estalucia arc
summer hornet
Wait
They actually reached Estalucia??
The island at the end of the world? Where Papa Granblue went to?
old galleon
yes, that happened several months ago and they're on the next arc of the main story now
summer hornet
Wtf
Somehow that completely slipped through my (admittedly dwindling) sphere of GBF awareness
old galleon
also might be worth noting with the new arc, the main story crew has significantly changed
so if you play the event and see some new faces in main crew while not seeing some others, that'd be why
runic ether
now that im doing it
the gearing in endfield is a godsend in comparison to the hoyo gachas
holy shit
i was so ready to spend time wasting my time with ts
but it only requires factory uptime and thats passive
long tree
Wait till you get to weapon refining
runic ether
i see it but i also see all nodes around it surrounded by turret fire so
im guessing im grinding this passivelhy
long tree
You are not
runic ether
oh i mean in the sense that i'll click start and we'll just nuke the node
long tree
They're too strong to be reliably turreted down (turrets cap at like okay damage to lv40s)
And you have to buy resources from stock management for it
a lot of them
runic ether
And you have to buy resources from stock management for it
that aint too bad
im currently extremely positive on stocks
i was able to fully gear yvonne's full team + then some + i have leftover and i just started the factory stock grind
only thing i need to figure out on my wuling factory rn...
is figuring out how im gonna go positive on ferrium
im using reg transfer for it
but i feel like i can maybe find a way to overcome that...
glossy latch
@rapid bough I finished Aemeaths story
Holy shit
Easily the best gacha story quest I've experienced yet
old galleon
https://x.com/i/status/2027103934121193732
another eden mentioned
also, in teh same way, i think limbus mentioned?
slow raft
that aint too bad
(tbc, you dont need to use the thing you can buy with stock bills but it lets you narrow down the stats that will show up on the essences, so i wouldnt reccoment doing it without them)
runic ether
limbus mention
runic ether
(tbc, you dont need to use the thing you can buy with stock bills but it lets yo...
oh ez asf
slow raft
i personally am focusing on buying the time limited catalysts for wuling rn and the engraving things for valley IV
digital marlin
rapid bough
it's probably my favorite chapter in wuwa so far, and definitely up there for gacha stories, though i'd put some nikke chapters above it
it really ticks almost every box though
rapid bough
great characters, great lore and worldbuilding, great presentation...
runic ether
i personally am focusing on buying the time limited catalysts for wuling rn and ...
yeah fs
im gonna gear first since i've seen yvonne with only level 80 hit some pretty stupid good dps numbers
and lowkey
she has another teammate to optimize her
alesh is the current weak link
ik ppl are using last rites and estella and snowshine too
iirc flourite
but
rapid bough
||I am going to personally beat Aleph-1 to death||
runic ether
they are all at a point where theres another character that can come out and easily overshadow them
glossy latch
True!
slow raft
yeah im also prioritizing gear since its way less random
also ofc busiling my characters
rapid bough
||even though i did really like aemeath's portion of the story, i think above all else i enjoyed the direction they took rover's place in the world. before this chapter he was just the dude that blithely decided to forget everything and start fresh despite potential untold consequences for the solaris-3, and this is the first time they've dared to address why he might have done that and its effects on the people around him without making him seem like an impossibly irresponsible and selfish doofus||
glossy latch
||Yeah. It humanised him a lot||
||It's actually a very the doctor (from dr. who) style characterisation that I didn't expect||
rapid bough
||i haven't even watched dr who but just given what little i know about it, i got that vibe too||
glossy latch
||The main difference is that what eats away at the doctor, especially in his ninth and tenth iteration, is guilt in addition to loneliness||
||Rovers is more, hm. Well obviously loneliness, but in his case I'd say its doubt rather than guilt||
pastel bear
wow the rental team is kinda busted
rapid bough
||i also liked the ending a lot. the multiple happy ending fakeouts were a bit overwrought, but ultimately i think they nailed a bittersweet conclusion that still leaves room for a great and hopefully much happier climax down the road of 3.x||
glossy latch
Yeah
||There's also the angle of Aemeath being the only person so far who truly knows who Rover is beneath it all||
||Others have seen him as a saviour, a partner, a friend, someone who helped them in their time of need without ever asking for anything, but she knows all the burden he keeps hidden away||
rapid bough
||that also made her sacrifice hit that much harder, and drove home the "rover is a hypocrite" angle when he was trying to prevent her from doing what he has always been willing to do himself much better than when phrolova tried to call him out on it in her story lol||
glossy latch
||True||
||He's got a lot more depth now, far more than the other gacha protagonists I know||
||He still is a roving adventurer, still someone who explores and helps wherever the wind takes him, but there is more to his drive now||
rapid bough
||yeah the 3.1 story honestly solved the biggest issue with rover--that he had massive relevance to the world and was characterized by those around him as a savior fit to solve any problem, which was fine and standard for gacha protags, but fundamentally didn't jive with his decision to wipe his memories and start fresh. that disconnect was always hard to really get past for me until now||
runic ether
wow the rental team is kinda busted
what are they feeding idr what this week is
glossy latch
||yeah the 3.1 story honestly solved the biggest issue with rover--that he had m...
Agreed, and its an issue a lot of gacha protagonists have
Now it feels more grounded
||It's all he has left, he has sacrificed everything for it, and still this is something he chose, so he will keep going||
On an unrelated sidenote
God Luuk feels more husbando-coded than even the guy with a deep v-neck
rapid bough
i'm gonna do luuk's story in a bit but i actually called that back when i did early access 3.0 lol
sec lemme find my comment i made
rt
especially this part
glossy latch
True
But also he is just a bit flirtatious in general and hot
Like I see why people go feral for him
rapid bough
he can certainly get it
but honestly most of all he seems like an absolute ride or die
pastel bear
what are they feeding idr what this week is
index sang, index faust, index don, renclair
glossy latch
but honestly most of all he seems like an absolute ride or die
Judging by the twitter post for his banner, a lot of people are in the "ride" category
rapid bough
||it is pretty funny that in the same patch we got a new headline waifu but actually it was a fakeout and she's heavily daughter-coded, and then luuk the afterthought husbando ended up being the one with the rover-sexual undertones lol||
idle grove
is this profile pic too small to look good on discord
old galleon
is this profile pic too small to look good on discord
in memoriam of tamamo getting ignored for a buff again in favor of some other fate/extra servant?
idle grove
how about now
pastel bear
better
idle grove
in memoriam of tamamo getting ignored for a buff again in favor of some other fa...
nah I just don't think I play enough gfl2 to justify using it as a profile pic
also she wasn't even my favourite gfl2 character
also I just wanted to go back to my roots
summer hornet
digital marlin
im sure they will remember Tama when the Fate extra drops by giving Nero another costume
pastel bear
did you get any more?
long tree
im currently extremely positive on stocks
Its 400k a weapon core attempt
mortal iron
man i gotta save up g eternal anni is soon
considering how busted the 6 month anni units were
digital marlin
Just finished Luuks story and have to say is it did give us some good lore building
glossy latch
Yeah I just got through the workspace part
||Curious that almost all of them have greek names, except for Zashiki-Warashi||
mortal iron
X
toxic cloud
Uh so I didn't expect hypergryph to turn Yvonne into their mascot
runic ether
the fortnite models are legit uncanny
dont fix what isnt broken
glossy latch
Ok finished Luuks quest
Two thoughts
||I am going to shove an entire broadblade up the Grand Architects ass||
||And wow this is not even subtly romantic||
Also it actually fixes an issue I had with the Fractsidus I had
||I wasn't sure how their motivation really made sense, but with what we know about the GA now, I think a lot of it comes down to just "he's an immortal who has seen everything. He's bored and wants to be surprised"||
rapid bough
just did auto gunsmoke through the loop manager since we already maxed out the rewards but i want platoon XP and holy shit the teams it automatically picks are so bad lmao
gonna just manually go in with proper teams and auto them afterward in the future
long tree
steel parts at a deficit
Fuck it it'll do
Thankfully my factory doesn't rely on them
idle grove
rapid bough
done luuk's story
rapid bough
||I am going to shove an entire broadblade up the Grand Architects ass||
so unbelievably true bestie
||i was so hyped for the setup that luuk/rover lured the GA into an ambush (nivora being sus wasn't remotely subtle even during aemeath's story) and then this fucking game did its typical shtick of it not mattering and the fractsidus got what they wanted anyway. i am so tired of this shit||
||i'm choosing to cope on the theory that luuk figured that the GA would go after the pen and set it up to be "stolen" to play into some larger plan (e.g. track GA/fractsidus)||
||but unfortunately i think its actual purpose (to reveal GA was the space station researcher) has already run its course and we're back to our typical rat race where the fractsidus know everything and play us like fiddles the whole time and the only reason we ever win is because they tip their hand on purpose||
||i really can't overstate how much i hate the persistent overbearing "just according to keikaku" bullshit||
||the scenes between rover/luuk were good though. lots of interesting lore and continued humanization of rover; finally he was allowed to have the self-awareness to say "idk why past me chose to jettison my memories but it sure has seemed pretty shitty of him because now i've left people and issues abandoned"||
mortal iron
X
glossy latch
||i'm choosing to cope on the theory that luuk figured that the GA would go afte...
||That is my guess actually||
||Luuk kept it visible and easily accessible, when previously it was hidden away||
glossy latch
||That's too major a mistake for someone like him, especially after you could see his eyes track where the GA was looking||
glossy latch
||i was so hyped for the setup that luuk/rover lured the GA into an ambush (nivo...
||This doesn't bother me because I think it recontextualises the "why"||
||Its not so much that his plans always work out, its that when his plans fail, he is entertained, and clearly its boredom that drives him||
pastel bear
glossy latch
||It's not that he failed to accomplish what he wanted, which was killing Luuk, it's that failing it still was at least entertaining||
||It's just all a game to him, and he's betting against himself. If he succeeds, then that means humanity wasn't "worthy", and he just moves on, maybe try to go beyond the stars. But if he fails, then that proves that humanity can overcome it's destiny, and can still provide him with more entertainment||
rapid bough
||It's just all a game to him, and he's betting against himself. If he succeeds,...
||i get that this angle is what they want, the issue is that this is fundamentally not engaging to overcome from a narrative perspective, at least not to me
everything they do is "i play both sides so i always come out on top". even instances of superficially beating them is still playing into their hands somehow. it's incapable of tapping into the satisfaction of, as you say, "shoving an entire broadblade up [the antagonist]'s ass"||
||there's simply no opportunity for actual meaningful victory over the antagonists when they're set up this way. even shoving an entire broadblade up their ass is a victory for them and they'll probably be smiling and laughing the whole time instead of screaming in pain/anger like i goddamn well want a person to do when their plans of many years are foiled||
summer hornet
WELCOME TO FORTNITE RYUKI
rapid bough
||and that's not to even speak of how it undermines the agency of rover & co. they're just getting strung along repeatedly and even their victories are by courtesy of the fractsidus giving them a handicap because them holding all the cards is "boring". the main cast is a bunch of glorified pieces on a game board at that point||
||a huge part of the satisfaction of the protagonists winning in conflicts like these is that it comes with the knowledge that they stuck it to the bad guys and made them eat shit. that is literally not allowed to happen with how the fractsidus are portrayed, so that satisfaction is just not there||
glossy latch
I partially disagree tbh?
||Though it is true with the Grand Architect to some degree||
rapid bough
||like, i'm really glad you made the broadblade up the ass comment because it proves you engage with that sort of feeling the way i do. can you honestly say that with this whole "make my long life interesting" portrayal, you will ever get the satisfaction of causing the GA the pain you'd associate with shoving a broadblade up his ass? that he'll ever react in the way you want him to and that he deserves?||
glossy latch
Yeah thats unfortunately the issue with it
||It would only work if he is defeated once and for all, and we're just really far from that||
My only hope is that ||the "loose structure" of the Fractsidus means that we take him out of the picture for a long time in Lahai-Roi, though I can't imagine theyll kill him yet||
rapid bough
||but the issue is that even him being defeated once and for all would play into his hands. i can't see any outcome other than him being happy from getting stopped permanently||
glossy latch
||I dont think it would actually. Luuk mentions it when he talks about how he realised, the Grand Architect doesn't have a fear of death because he doesn't think about it||
||If he was actually defeated for good, it would be something that is entirely outside of what he considered even possible||
rapid bough
||maybe, but would he not have gotten what he wanted? if his entire goal is just to be entertained, surely being forced to reconsider his entire world view would be pretty interesting and a payoff for him in and of itself||
||though even that's a pipe dream because this game would have to run for 10 years to finally have the bravery to actually arrive at the point where we make the GA fuck off for good||
glossy latch
||Yes and no? It would mean the games end. Materially, is it any different from being bored for all eternity? Sure, its one instance of catharsis, but a lot of emptiness afterwards||
rapid bough
||so we're stuck in this permanent rat race where nothing we do matters to him and doesn't give us the satisfaction of beating him||
glossy latch
||though even that's a pipe dream because this game would have to run for 10 yea...
||That really depends on how they handle the Fractsidus||
||I don't think its impossible for them to kill him off, because the Fractsidus could continue to work without him||
rapid bough
||nothing i've seen in their handling of the fractsidus so far gives me any confidence||
||i have strong doubts we'd be neutralizing the GA permanently before going to the fractsidus home turf in the new federation anyway||
pastel bear
WELCOME TO FORTNITE RYUKI
I've been playing regi
glossy latch
||i have strong doubts we'd be neutralizing the GA permanently before going to t...
||I feel like Eris is set up to be the big enemy there||
rapid bough
||she is certainly set up to be one of them, but can you honestly say you don't expect "the fractsidus grand architect" to have no role in the story of the region where they hold the most power lol||
glossy latch
||No, but I'm also not sure he will have a role||
rapid bough
||well like i said, with the way they've done the fractsidus so far, i have zero confidence we'll get the sort of catharsis the story desperately needs from engaging with them any time soon||
glossy latch
I'm mixed on it, could go either way
I do like them still ||especially Cristoforo, but people are very mixed on him||
rapid bough
||setting the GA aside since he's a fucking muppet, i don't mind the fractsidus characters themselves. they're at least interesting, if pompous as fuck||
old galleon
gb event is reminding me that i need main story narmaya playable yesterday
rapid bough
||but they just don't work as antagonists for me||
||or, rather, they are the most frustrating sort of antagonists, and the devs seem to have a fundamentally different idea of what makes these sorts of high-stakes, "clear good vs evil" conflicts engaging||
glossy latch
Fair
I don't fully agree but I do think they're the weakest link in the storytelling right now
rapid bough
||the sad part is that they don't need to be. i'm telling you, just giving them the ability to lose and express frustration over it would solve my entire problem with them||
glossy latch
||They primarily exist because the Threnodians can't have full agency by themselves||
rapid bough
||i breathed my biggest sigh of relief in the game so far when the end of mornye's story had not!cristoforo scientist dude seem to actually be mad at how shitty a job their lackeys did||
||then the fractsidus were mercifully absent from aemeath's story which is an understated reason it was so good btw||
glossy latch
||I wonder now if maybe that wasn't the GA actually||
rapid bough
||and now luuk's story has brought us back to this bullshit limbo||
rapid bough
||I wonder now if maybe that wasn't the GA actually||
||it's definitely possible, he's being set up to be the cristoforo of lahai roi, i.e. the main "playcaller" so to speak. but i could've sworn it was cristoforo's VA||
glossy latch
||Well he does mimic peoples voices||
But yeah I dont fully agree with your criticisms but I do agree with some of them
||Also god this story was not so subtly homoromantic lmao||
rapid bough
||all i can say is that when the GA finally goes down, if he isn't giving a "wait, i just realized i don't want to die" or "none of this was worth it, i didn't get to see what was beyond the stars" so we can look him in the eyes and say "tough shit chucklefuck" as we shove an entire broadblade up his ass, the story will have passed up one of its best opportunities for catharsis yet||
glossy latch
True!
||I think if we do take him down for good, he needs to be pathetically whimpering||
rapid bough
||even if i were confident the devs would bestow upon us such a beautiful sight, and i'm not, i'm not sure that will happen within my lifetime unfortunately||
||i'll say even if they do give us that experience, and even give it to us sooner than expected (e.g., end of lahai roi), it still won't absolve the writers of stringing us along this whole time without giving intermediate small doses of relief/satisfaction of foiling his plans along the way||
||like i said, i pogged big time when luuk/rover ambushed GA this chapter. it just didn't fucking matter since it, at best, made for a fun sideshow to GA, and he still got what he wanted (the pen). this can be redeemed somewhat in retrospect if getting the pen into GA's hands was luuk's plan all along, and i'm hopeful that's the case since he was so brazen with putting it on display, but it still lacked the satisfaction of beating his ass that i think should've been there. luuk straight domed the mofo and he was just like "how rude!"||
long tree
Fixed the steel parts deficit
old galleon
an interaction i never knew i needed until just now
glossy latch
||like i said, i pogged big time when luuk/rover ambushed GA this chapter. it ju...
I do have confidence ||that the pen was a setup||
rapid bough
||i really want to believe that it is because holy shit if it's not, take everything i just said and multiply my frustration by 100||
old galleon
playable walfrid in event story, implying he could be in the next gala banner
(walfrid being the former blue knight)
then again (main story spoilers) ||danchou daddy was playable in main story but afaik didn't become playable||
also got green knight (not armored) reveal
anyway, among other reasons to play granblue during anni event, clearing event story up to interlude 1 gives 12 sublimity rings
which is ... actually kind of a lot
(sublimity rings being the upgraded version of intricacy rings)
digital marlin
all 100%
glossy latch
Bloody hell
summer hornet
rapid bough
i've been dueling with this other guy on my nikke server for the #1 tribe tower rank
we're now both at floor 729... 730 is mother whale
think we'll stay tied for a while lol
mortal iron
Must look away...1st anni is in april
Must resist cool ass robot that does something unique
slow raft
They need to cut his mic man what is he doing
https://x.com/them_failure/status/2027354254222983561
X
vernal snow
HES COMING
FINALLY
BAMBOO HATTED HIM
Also i would do unspeakable things for that binah announcer
silver osprey
Everything got resolved, ||his apprentice lost both her arms||, and now he decides to show up
silver osprey
They need to cut his mic man what is he *doing*
https://x.com/them_failure/statu...
Oh, yeah the rant took like 20 minutes iirc
vernal snow
Everything got resolved, ||his apprentice lost both her arms||, and *now* he dec...
My goat making a dramatic entrance
They do say heroes are always fashionably late
silver osprey
He was fucking PISSED at everyone criticizing him for not hiring more employees
mental acorn
YEAHHHHHHHHHH
silver osprey
Yeah the rant summed up was basically that
summer hornet
https://fixupx.com/MayB_Art/status/2027337381251281031
I was hoping for a focused UR Double Bullet but it looks like they're tossing all the (anime) alt forms of AGE-1 and AGE-2 into these single URs a la Impulse Gundam
Age-1 having both Titus and Spallow
Mildly disappointing but not unreasonable
Given how much ground they have to cover across the franchise
Course the question is, do I go all in on age-2 now? Or do I gamble on them being exchangeable during anniversary?
mental acorn
rapid bough
wuwa 3.1 |||i was thinking a bit more about how/whether they'll manage to make the grand architect's defeat cathartic for the players and forgot a new reveal that i think (or at least really hope) is a point in favor of them setting him up for a big and satisfying downfall
he was, apparently, the cause of aleph 1's attempted invasion of lahai roi 10 years ago and therefore the reason aemeath died to stop it. rover was quite clearly furious at hearing this and it makes his conflict with the fractsidus more personal than it's ever been now. i might be losing confidence in the writer's willingness to give players that narrative satisfaction/payoff, but to deny rover the MC the opportunity to shove an entire broadblade up GA's ass when he clearly wants to do so more than ever before now? that'd just be a diabolical storytelling fumble||
vernal snow
https://fxtwitter.com/hanabiburuu/status/2027357438501154899
Death
slow raft
runic ether
effloresed ego: project moon
this pv is crazy asf but canto 9 big spoilers
https://youtu.be/NtvbDGnRT-g?si=BchHNgN9yu9xE2I-
slow raft
biggest pjm news today: binah announcer soon™
vernal snow
i would commit atrocities for her
silver osprey
By soon it's in like July
silver osprey
Not as bad ||Ryoshu seeing Yi Sang turn into Rien||
runic ether
||hong lu hears bina's voice and instantly ptsd's from that day meanwhile yi sang pops his nursefather id and she flips out||
slow raft
silver osprey
1300 free lunashi in limbus btw
slow raft
yo, lunashihide
mental acorn
zamb I have like 190 rolls for walp now
runic ether
that basically guarantees 2/3 from the new banner surely
mental acorn
surely
runic ether
i just need ryoshu cus i saw sinking effects (and tremor sounds) from her
her first sinking id... surely
meursault has unique status effects is my guess based on hornet doing bleed/burn
so hes a charge unit is my guess
runic ether
im glad i saved the last walp so i could clean out the event store from prior ids
so now im just keeping up on walp
slow raft
X
mental acorn
that's what they meant by thirteen
runic ether
canto 12 spoilers: faust fucking explodes. replaced by hohenheim which to keep up with the contract rules, becomes a woman to keep our balance
estrogen would fix him
slow raft
im glad i saved the last walp so i could clean out the event store from prior id...
im hoping i get a few of the ids i havent used shards for this season in the walp pulls
i wouldve gotten reinsang already if not for the announcement lol
runic ether
i sharded him instantly as i could cus im sitting on another like 300 yi sang shards
after sharding him
runic ether
my current chokepoint is thread rn. uptying all ego and ids is p costly
slow raft
ive gotten spooked by seasonal ids i sharded so many times in walpurgis banners
silver osprey
~~estrogen would fix him~~
silver osprey
my current chokepoint is thread rn. uptying all ego and ids is p costly
I'm all out of threads and shards and I'll have to UT5 the 4th match flame egos in a couple months 
runic ether
it'll be 300 thread and 150 shards
man, varka is great
he was p damn good in the nod krai story even if the story as a whole ended up quite flat at the end
but i wish he was actually a good dps
vernal snow
zamb I have like 190 rolls for walp now
can i have some...
im not gonna have enough 😭
slow raft
runic ether
only if we can get lor anime only fans
wispy goblet
rapid bough
i am not looking forward to having to actually learn vesper for this DA rotation lol
versed pawn
gonna wait until aria is released for this da
pastel bear
I may not have enough to get heathcliff and hong lu full stop by the time walpipi ends
runic ether
hmmm that'd be a bit rough in a way
tho of course atp, focus on heathcliff
cus lord hong lu is also a poise unit lol
and hes kinda busted
and u can get him from the season 1-6 selector
lusty egret
https://fixupx.com/MayB_Art/status/2027337381251281031
Apparently it is Master Gumdam/Phoenix Gundam type map attack that move you forward
mortal iron
Apparently it is Master Gumdam/Phoenix Gundam type map attack that move you forw...
Oh...lame
Okay skippable
silver osprey
X
runic ether
a certain starter
wispy goblet
Had this exciting near-miss earlier
Had to roll some slightly nicer disks and push a bunch of my Alice skills up to 12 to finally close that gap
the others were no-stress clears
I might have to cash in for that Weeping Cradle for Yuzuha to keep clearing Vesper
tbh
I might have had an easier time with Alice-Yuzuha-Trigger
But I just got Jane so I wanted to use her
wispy goblet
@rapid bough what team you gonna use for Vesper?
long tree
runic ether
more motion in this one gif than she has in all of hsr
rapid bough
<@219319817688186891> what team you gonna use for Vesper?
idk, it's an anomaly boss right? probably start with alice/yuzu/vivi and go from there
wispy goblet
probably your best bet
Benefit from the Abloom push buff
I don't have Vivian or Sunna
nor am I likely going to get Aria
So it'll be rough sailing for me for a bit
rapid bough
i thought you were planning on getting aria
turbid olive
Let's Mog a video. 
digital marlin
I'm probably getting Nangong
same tbh. At 100 rolls think I probably will go for her engine too
wispy goblet
Next beta is expected Sunday or Monday night
We'll see if there are any big changes
wispy goblet
same tbh. At 100 rolls think I probably will go for her engine too
I can secure Nangong pretty confidently
But her w-engine will be a stretch
rapid bough
i can obviously improve these (they were all like 85-90% accuracy) but i think i'm happy lol
i used all the mods except the "good/great count as misses" because fuck that one
rapid bough
the folks that suggest closing your eyes/not paying attention to the screen were definitely correct
i actually got hard 1 with mods in a single attempt once i did that
helps you focus a lot more on the rhythm
my score is highest in my union by like 30k, i'll take it
silver osprey
I made the Surtr team today and she just starts exploding everything on sight
It's so funny
runic ether
i was so used to seeing ardelia on your teams then she wasnt there and i said where sheep
silver osprey
Then spam Surtr and Wulfgard's skills because Akekuri vomits SP
rapid bough
guess we know why they redesigned her lol
it's funny since i was nearly baited by an edit like this earlier today, some guy was agendaposting for EH getting a banner
turns out he was either a psychic or leaking the sauce to us
idle grove
I would have said it's probably pretty obvious after that redesign
I hope they give her old look as a costume though
rapid bough
there's like a 100% chance that happens given what they did with velvet
also aeri since when did you closely monitor nikke news lol
idle grove
for a while I just don't really talk about it here
I started playing it again for real with anni
rapid bough
neat (and based)
long tree
Lifeng doesnt get his signature
I said this and then immediately did a ten pull for his weapon and got it
idle grove
yeah my account is pretty low level still
long tree
i was so used to seeing ardelia on your teams then she wasnt there and i said wh...
I used ember instead of sheep for fire team cause its thematic ||and im down bad for her||
idle grove
like 228 sync level
rapid bough
i knew you had an account and played intermittently before but didn't realize you'd been back in a more consistent capacity since anni
rapid bough
i'm on NA, but also my friends list is full lol
gotta keep the social points rolling in
idle grove
yeah my friend list is barren
old galleon
https://x.com/NIKKE_en/status/2027556871515873319
incredible design nearly ruined by the stupid-ass bomb
rapid bough
yeah my friend list is barren
just add a bunch of randos, that's what i do
everyone wants to keep social point gravy train moving so it's easy to fill your friends list
silver osprey
I need to make a team that uses Angie/Gilby that isn't Last Rite
Also imo Chen is definitely not that low
long tree
Chen you can make arguments for being a tier higher
silver osprey
B or A I think, she spams lift stacks for the others and her ult does good damage
idle grove
just add a bunch of randos, that's what i do
ah sure
long tree
I think the issue is she's worse than lifeng and endmin so it makes her a bit weaker in mh eyes by comparison
rapid bough
ah sure
it's basically free 20 (lower rate) pulls per week to max out your list + 30 social points per day
runic ether
I think the issue is she's worse than lifeng and endmin so it makes her a bit we...
in terms of damage but shes way better at lifting compared to either
long tree
Eh haven't had that much of a need for lifting in content that matters
Thats usually because I nuke them before they can do anything though so
mental acorn
I need to make a team that uses Angie/Gilby that isn't Last Rite
gibby battle skill crowd everybody into one spot -> avy battle skill shove like 9 lances through them -> profit 
old galleon
walfrid is a grand
also ange finally got an ssr
so of course my freebie rewarded me with off-rate-up rei weapon dupe
at least it's one more gold moon, i guess
![https://static.atlasacademy.io/JP/CharaGraph/300500/[email protected]](https://static.atlasacademy.io/JP/CharaGraph/300500/300500a@2.png){kind=link}
runic ether
dante quirked up in yet another animated short (this one unofficial)
pastel bear
I feel bad for explaining it but every single big fandom got one of their own fan edits of sugar song and bitter step back in the day and it makes me tear up that limbus got one finally
summer hornet
pastel bear
I call obito I'm gonna aurafarm and die
summer hornet
LMAO
runic ether
sadly tho
i gotta kick out wh heath for md sinking
riensang has to bring his gay daughters to work + lamp gregor is kinda goated
fortunately his passive is good
but what a time
pastel bear
me pulling riensang on this account is like the top-scoring unusual-wearing demo main getting autobalanced to the enemy team full of F2P's
runic ether
literally
but also me kicking out wh heath
"the prescripts know best!"
hydrogen yi sang vs coughing laughing heathcliff
in regular encounters im just not sure yet
i like butterfly way too much rn
and echoes of the mansion is goated too
pastel bear
sinking is so cool I wish depression was real
runic ether
the prescripts telling me to annihilate a candle
downside to riensang
he killed skin prophet too fast
i could not fire off healing in time
this is however a "fuck it, we ball" moment where "i'll live whatever"
yeah okay running through this
i think i prefer him way more in poise than sinking
but part of it is def from the fact poise teams lack a true full identity that overarchs the gang
which is fine
sometimes its fun to run with 7 solid ids
vs sinking where rn, its kind of going a bit like a tremor route except instead of collecting tremor types we are applying panic types
which is its own fun
pastel bear
oh now that you've beaten ruina I can plant in your mind the aura that'd come from ||yanclair||
runic ether
i believe we've discussed that
and
||im of the opinion that he'd land great for hong lu actually||
pastel bear
my memory's not too great these days, my bad on that
runic ether
||not that he wouldnt land on sinclair too but||
||if i had to pick, he'd be a great bad end id for hong lu moreso than lord of hongyuan as you'll see if you get lord hong lu's uptie story. cus that goes a totally different sexier direction for a bad end hong lu||
pastel bear
true