#Gacha Chat

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summer hornet
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Do who?

mental acorn
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mambo is also the name of her pet bird

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why did she say this

silver osprey
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And... a cuban dance?

silver osprey
glossy latch
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Yeah that's why it's called mambo no. 5

runic ether
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every day i wake up and thank god i do not have the horse autism

digital marlin
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Its nice to see another person who hasn't succumbed

slow raft
summer hornet
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Sigma upscale

rapid bough
runic ether
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oh endfield finally updated on my phone guess im not skippgn this game for a month

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fuc

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tangtang does seem good for yvonne...

versed pawn
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She's not not needed tho

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Great thing is u can timestop a enemy's for a few seconds with her ult so u can unleash your Yvonne ult safe

runic ether
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welp holy shit my greed soo far is rewarded

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pog m1

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within the first 20 pulls

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alright yep i can guarantee her

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hope i get her early and i can save

silver osprey
versed pawn
summer hornet
runic ether
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got tangtang

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slightly earlyish

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and gto her weap

silver osprey
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Ok super freak

mental acorn
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yeah sure what the hell
my wit cards refuse to show up, end on 1008 wit, scrape through into s rank, and get 3* wit spark

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radiant star is Fucked what an absurd skill

wispy goblet
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doing more pull math
it is time to hope
that we learn what Promeia sig does before Yidhari's rerun ends
and that Caesar runs in the second half of 2.8

wispy goblet
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nikke co op live

rapid bough
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why the starfish kinda...

wispy goblet
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Patrick has been doing his squats

versed pawn
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Dummy thicc

toxic cloud
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Cup I did not get soupsoup

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I guess that's payback for getting pot1 Yvonne

timber sigil
old galleon
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got around to finishing gbf anni story

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ending felt kinda rushed but w/e

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lecia's style wants 6 sword spec characters to get her stack at the start of the fight lol

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if there's any upside there it's that fighter origin counts

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but i double checked my roster of sword spec wind characters and it's a bit dicey

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no katzelia means his passive won't work, same for raphael and ami

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v sandy post-rebalance is legitimately good

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but most of the rest are either average or not great

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and i don't have walfrid

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oh also lancer origin looks kinda cracked, tho not as much as fighter origin for most purposes

old galleon
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but rhomphaia is a spear and ereshkigal is an axe, and both of those are disgusting so

slow raft
silver osprey
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1000 more HE egos for Faust

slow raft
sharp swan
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Welcome Back Alpha

mental acorn
slow raft
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If you laugh you go to hell

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Same user who made a dogshit potential woman image for aromashu and called other people "mentally challeneged halfwits btw"

long tree
slow raft
sharp swan
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rapid bough
slow raft
rapid bough
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jesus she's going to be in the same patch as lucilla isn't she

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and right before cyberpunk

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rip savings

slow raft
runic ether
timber sigil
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@rapid bough @idle grove lul

rapid bough
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rt

toxic cloud
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WOOOO

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@versed pawn @silver osprey @mental acorn @runic ether endfield is back

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no luck on multis, but free hh permit sure 👍

mental acorn
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soupsoup

toxic cloud
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supreme chief

runic ether
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nice

toxic cloud
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something something yvonne

timber sigil
rapid bough
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i have seen this meme but with anis from nikke so many times

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very odd to see it with anyone else lol

rapid bough
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poor sigrika

vernal snow
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Sometimes my ish has a s1 and s3 open with the yellow buff

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Whats going on

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I assumed it was just luck based

slow raft
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If you only have one type of skill in the dexk it will always gice you the corresponding buff

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So in md you can kozan every 2 turns

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Since turn one s3 gives 1 base and 1 for matching and turn two s3 gives one basw, one for matching and 1 for 2 in a row

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However, if you dont have 9 copies of the same skill that doesnt happen

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And it randomizes after kozan

vernal snow
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Icy

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But lets say you dont have any skill replacements

vernal snow
glossy latch
slow raft
glossy latch
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Even I'm debating skipping her, poor girl

slow raft
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At the start of the battle no

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Kozan specifically says "[Skill End] Next turn, convert the Suit in this unit's Hand to a random Suit that corresponds to one of this unit's Base Attack Skills (once per turn)"

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However, it isnt possible if you triggered kozan with less than 3 bright, since that cancels the skill and the passive applies, which converts the hand into one fitting the affinity of a random skill in the units leftmost skillslot

silver osprey
summer hornet
long tree
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Omambo

wispy goblet
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quick run on my break
Ben isn't fully skilled out yet

rapid bough
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there is also a fan comic with the same basic energy though

runic ether
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a classic from hsr

vernal snow
summer hornet
timber sigil
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Daiyan being involved with the main plot is everything I ever wanted bless Mica for giving my fav the spotlight finally

rapid bough
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well, it sorta works with her

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idk much about her and haven't done corposant yet but she doesn't seem like the type of character to act seductive toward SKK

idle grove
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she definitely would break a table if she sat on it though

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probably a steel one

astral drift
slow raft
mental acorn
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stupid envy peccatula corroded and wiped it's own team icant

slow raft
runic ether
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sinclair solos

mental acorn
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5 + 10 Gain +1 Poise Count
After a successful evade, lower Stagger Threshold by the evade skill’s Power at a (5x Gloom Reson.)% chance.

wispy goblet
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slightly improved score

pastel bear
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god

silver osprey
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Yeah, similar experience

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And had to spark Kita

old galleon
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next solo raid is fire weak

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rapi, mihara, and diesel are salivating at the thought

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(now if only i could get good lines on the latter two)

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oh also the existence of fire solo raid implies the next nikke will be fire

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unless they're a support of some kind, they have a lot of competition

glossy latch
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... yknow

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Im actually realising I might actually skip Hiyuki

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Something about her design doesnt work for me

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And Denia I can skip since I dont have Aemeath

slow raft
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Thats my chief researcher

runic ether
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thats the goat right there

rapid bough
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feels like it's been ages since a rotation like this

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i can def do better on thrall, i've completely forgotten how to navigate that fight lol

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feels good to mog pompey with eve team again

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might be able to push that slightly further if i redid my disks, i'm still on 4pc puffer in case i ever want to use eve with dialyn but i never actually do lol

glossy latch
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... wait if I go Sigrika I'll have to start farming her echoes

rapid bough
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puffer is still fine even without dialyn, but going back to astral eve + lullaby astra might be better

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still CBA to make that transition

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on that note, someday surely hoyo will implement disk loadouts copium

glossy latch
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And I'll need her signature pensivecowboybread

digital marlin
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One skip patch and I'm back into hell afterwards sadly

glossy latch
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For me it depends entirely on if Hiyukis gameplay is fun

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Denia is a safe skip and Cyberpunk collab might also be a skip

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And Sigrika is sort of a maybe since she needs her sig I believe

wispy goblet
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not a particularly difficult one to full clear
could push my scores but might or might not

rapid bough
digital marlin
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I want to.skip cyberpunk but missing out character that might not rerun is just not in me

rapid bough
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i mean i still prolly won't pull

glossy latch
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She's a fusion burst sub-DPS according to leaks

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But tbh I don't think you have Chisa

rapid bough
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by then i'll have two different aemeath premium teams (mornye/lynae/aemeath and mono fusion)

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so

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i can live without another one

glossy latch
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So probably more easily skippable

rapid bough
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ah i assume she'll be the missing fusion burst piece

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since right now only really aemeath's tune break mode has a proper team(s)

glossy latch
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Yeah

rapid bough
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the brief teasers of denia's design don't really do much for me so i'd prefer to skip her if possible

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especially if she's releasing the same patch as hiyuki who i am guaranteed pulling

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lynae next patch, lucilla and hiyuki in an undetermined future patch, cyberpunk most likely as well

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my savings will be tested

glossy latch
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Oh yeah you're cooked

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It's likely Lucilla after Cyberpunk

rapid bough
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the post-chapter segue next patch looks to be lucilla focused so we'll see

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(i'm basing this on the teaser image + synopsis)

glossy latch
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Maybe it's Lucilla and collab units in the same patch >:)

rapid bough
glossy latch
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Anyway gonna have to actually figure out my pull plans ig

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Realistically Electro is the only team I need to upgrade but I'm eh on Lucilla

rapid bough
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lucilla is the mommy of lahai roi, in the same mold of changli for huanglong and cantarella for rinascita

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therefore i must have her

rapid bough
glossy latch
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Huh

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Also that's just not how I pull characters nyaruhodo

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Ignore the Zani on my account

mystic python
rapid bough
glossy latch
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Yeah that's the oooold leak so I'm like

rapid bough
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look me in the eyes and tell me luuk's smoldering gaze didn't defeat you immediately

glossy latch
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Not expecting them to be accurate

mystic python
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Also man, I thought I'd like Hiyuki more but came away more of a Denia fan (different coloured underside hair cooks me)

glossy latch
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He's not fem enough for my tastes nyaruhodo

rapid bough
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...understandable have a nice day

glossy latch
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Again Zani is the actual exception but I did also like her animations

rapid bough
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i'm definitely a design-first, gameplay second sort of guy though i do heavily value both

glossy latch
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Fair

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I lean more on gameplay

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And sometimes character

digital marlin
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Same Khaios

glossy latch
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Lupa I pulled entirely because of her story

rapid bough
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character is important and can make me want to pull for someone i was on the fence about for some reason

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but pulls are too scarce in these games for me to pull entirely for that reason

glossy latch
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Also ironically I'm pretty sure the best upgrade for my account now is getting Augustas signature

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I mean I'm happy with pulling Lupa

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But it was her story that convinced me

rapid bough
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it's kind of basic "shrine maiden with sword" atm

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however, if she aura farms like qiuyuan in combat, i'm so cooked

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and there's surely like no way she won't

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that design begs for aggressive aura farming

glossy latch
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I mean that's a high standard to aspire to

astral drift
rapid bough
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as did qiuyuan, and they understood the assignment with him

glossy latch
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Kinda funny being in a position where I can pull purely based on what I think is fun without having to worry about filling out teams

rapid bough
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so i'm optimistic

glossy latch
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Minus maybe Augustas signature obv

mystic python
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Almost started ZZZ after seeing YSG's animations

rapid bough
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i literally did start wuwa for aemeath's animations so i think that sums up how much i value them lol

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it's also why i have to resist pulling qiuyuan with every fiber of my being

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he'll come home eventually but i just don't have the budget atm

glossy latch
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OK but have you considered getting lucky?

rapid bough
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sadly i am not misty

runic ether
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works for me

glossy latch
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Obviously smh

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Anyway I can plan my pulls and prepare to farm Sigrikas echoes maybe tomorrow

runic ether
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it still feels gross that i spent roughly 120 pulls to get yixuan m2p1

rapid bough
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it is gross and i hate you

runic ether
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starting from not having her back when 2.0 started

mystic python
runic ether
glossy latch
long tree
runic ether
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dont tempt me

wispy goblet
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I just realized
I did my monophys run without a leveled w-engine on Yuzuha
whoops

wispy goblet
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man
I cannot manage Hormone Punk at all
I'm gonna have to put Evelyn on Astra or Puffer at this rate

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couldn't hit my previous peak with Astra/Evelyn/Dialyn
but I'm only 400 short there
which makes me feel a little less bad about resetting

rapid bough
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puffer is her BIS with dialyn afaik anyway

wispy goblet
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I'm not actively managing it
can't be bothered to try that
but it sure makes the variance feel higher

rapid bough
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if you're not actively managing it then there's no way it's optimal

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just use astral or puffer, especially puffer w/ dialyn

wispy goblet
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I'd probably use Astral
I sometimes flex Ju Fufu with Evelyn
but I wouldn't use her without Astra

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I forgot to put Kaboom back on Yuzuha before I did my first Fiend run
improved my score by 6k when I remembered to put it back

rapid bough
wispy goblet
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Ye Shunguang would score higher for Thrall
the mechanics buff her more than Yidhari
but the fight is more fun with Yidhari

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tbh I'm more frustrated at not hitting my peak score again
the DA scoring system can really punish you for playing multiple teams in the same fight if you can't hit your peak again

rapid bough
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so you're not trying to optimize overall score, just scores with specific teams

wispy goblet
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for now, ye

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I upgraded my Ben's skills and I never hit the same peak again lamo

rapid bough
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god i just realized one of the minigames running for this major gfl2 event is pathforger

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i hate this minigame so goddamn much

versed pawn
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could play thrall and misasmic fiend defo better

mortal iron
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@summer hornet @lusty egret

lusty egret
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Now this is banner I won't miss

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But is it 1st anniv or something else?

mortal iron
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Seems to me the 1st anni will have 00 in it

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Coz "new" 00 story (finishing s2)

lusty egret
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Yeah it's the only campaign that feels unfinished

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Which is amazing since it got the most chapter when unfinished compared to others

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Guess Trailblazer gonna have to wait for another year

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Damn am slacking off on the 00 farming

slow raft
versed pawn
versed pawn
summer hornet
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I'm so doomed

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WHY

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LITERALLY ANYTHING BUT 00 AND MY GEMS WERE SAFE

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NOW I'M DOOMED

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DOOOOOOOOOOOOOMED

wispy goblet
versed pawn
wispy goblet
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First half is Nangong-Yidhari
Second half is Cissia-Seed

versed pawn
rapid bough
wispy goblet
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I'm contemplating going for Yidhari sig

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and they are winning me over a little with Cissia

rapid bough
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gonna have to debate how much i actually want yidhari/seed

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i don't really want cissia which has me favoring a seed skip

wispy goblet
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Seed sig would be nice
I'd like it for Zhu Yuan, even if it ended up being a rebuilding project
But that's pretty low priority for me

rapid bough
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why you gotta be like this hoyo

wispy goblet
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Now
||The lady in this trio||
||This is an intriguing proposition||

rapid bough
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either way, act 3 story looking to be far more interesting than act 2

rapid bough
wispy goblet
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tbh none of the likely upcoming 3.X characters are moving me right now
I'll take the opportunity to save or pull for reruns

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also
Good thing I banked some extra monos
That Nangong skin is very tempting

rapid bough
wispy goblet
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Cowardice

wispy goblet
sharp swan
summer hornet
versed pawn
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"When Hollows threaten the city, from the city rises a champion!"
"Laughable. Hollows don't give birth to heroes — only raw, unfiltered desire."

"Let's play a game that's more fitting for a Hollow, how about it?"

"Thanks for signing up for the Hollow Champion competition. Good luck out there!"

—Welcome to New Eridu!—
PS5·iOS·Android·...

▶ Play video
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nice ost at the beginning

mental acorn
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strong outerversal digitan

long tree
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Nah this is a universal feat, makes her stronger than cell saga gohan

rapid bough
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finally got new standard pistols for galbrena

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now wtf do i focus lol

glossy latch
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Second emerald of genesis

digital marlin
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^

rapid bough
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census of characters i have/am planning to get and their weapons:

  • aemeath - sig
  • lupa - synth broadblade
  • mornye - discord
  • galbrena - synth pistol
  • shorekeeper - variation
  • lynae - brume pistol is technically better since i'm using her as a sub-DPS/support, but synth pistol will probably do just fine
  • hiyuki - ? don't even know her weapon type but it's probably sword lol
  • lucilla - ? don't know her weapon type
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i also have encore/rover/verina for 5 star resonators, though not using them atm. verina shares variation with SK, rover can use his free aero sig... don't have a good option for encore but she's probably the one i'm least likely to use any time soon

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oh cyberpunk character(s) too, but they're TBD on so many levels including whether i'm pulling for them

digital marlin
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Im.guessing Lucilla is using rectifier or guns(hopefully) if guns can use the standard weapons

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Banking on regular swords for Hiyuki so I can just jeep using emerald with her too

silver osprey
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I'm not used to not having harikitte ikou nukgar

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Training Kita has been annoying

wispy goblet
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spitballing a bit about the ZZZ story trailer
||the first lady talks about "rebirth" and Big Glasses refers to Sacrifices, so I guess she's mostly behind the Exaltists and pursuing the "evolution through Hollows"||
||Big Glasses then talks about needing more entertainers, and Old Guy says he's talking about Void Hunters; maybe more about social control strategy||
||then Old Guy talks about pursuing the sky island (and uses Youkai to manipulate the outcome?)||

old galleon
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finally got around to doing jeanne and jalter strengthenings

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jalter really likes that 50% battery (even if i don't like that they didn't touch the rest of that skill)

runic ether
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also banger use of ne me relinque spotted. based boss theme

runic ether
idle grove
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gfl2

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is orpehlune's VA kana ueda

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she sounds very rin-esque

runic ether
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lead writer of hi3rd and the lead of hsr's 3.0 patches

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if you like long dialogue, overly explained, yet poorly written story conclusions, and only the greatest shilling of his favorite pink-haired waifu, you're in for a treat

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otherwise its a mess

rapid bough
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i thought hi3rd's story was pretty well regarded

runic ether
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it is

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but it did have a p strange arc that, while good for kiana's overall development, felt out of nowhere

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especially with p much all characters in there deleted

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literally

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hsr then went on to do the same story except we dont follow kiana as our protag and it decided to drag out the narrative way too long

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those patches were pushing 6 hours for story and they started saying significantly less each time

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wouldnt say its the weakest hi3rd act...thats probably the beginning? maybe start of part 2? but it was a mess then and it felt that way partly bc of elysia
which is a character that only really works when we have a protag as defined as kiana

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i really wanted her to be reworked more in hsr and in zzz with them showing her in the lore trailer... i hope he doesnt get involved and mostly hope this girl isnt the same as her

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tho its hard not to see similarities

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yo? my desire sensor for promeia increased exponentially upon seeing this...

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was hoping for actual pants but i'll take anything over that mess of a first fit

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that said i do see why ppl are calling this a jane fit reskin...

glossy latch
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Thats a wack hoodie

rapid bough
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yeah meta posted a thread with some crashouts at the "yet another leotard" lol

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cissia has it too

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it's the new booty shorts design choice that they ran with for yixuan, lucia, and yidhari

runic ether
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maybe a novel thing but women should dress more normally in this game

rapid bough
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i feel like most of them do? the only ones that stand out to me as kinda strange are orphie and now promeia, and maybe seed?

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some of them actually have the opposite problem of dressing too normally when they arguably shouldn't (lucia is a good example of this)

runic ether
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really only nicole and yuzuha are outfits i'd wear or other women ik would wear everyone else is on some bs

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oh sorry yanagi counts too

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alice in some spots

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either way, actual pants would be nice

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proper shorts

rapid bough
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i mean... you don't live in a post-apocalyptic monocity that meshes as many different cultures and themes and settings as they have the time to actually develop

runic ether
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we dont yet

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give it a lil

rapid bough
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i feel like "what i would wear" is a very poor measure for what dressing normally looks like lol

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i think my threshold is just whether an outfit blows my suspension of disbelief as like... damn girl you really walking around in public like this?

glossy latch
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I think Janes outfit is fine tbh

runic ether
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fitting with npc thresholds is where i find it tbh

rapid bough
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it definitely is

runic ether
rapid bough
runic ether
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she looks good

runic ether
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better than some pcs

glossy latch
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But I do get what Misty means

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Some of it is a little too exaggerated?

rapid bough
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sure, and invariably those are actual characters that could easily have been gacha if not for in-universe constraints lol

runic ether
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if we adapt outfits for pcs based on the npc fits? could go hard

rapid bough
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but cmon, are you saying you're ok with cecilia and not astra

runic ether
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hmmmmmm astra and the idols get to a special spot due to their actors/singers status

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i forgor eve

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shes great

glossy latch
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Like Lucia and Yidhari are both weird in different ways

rapid bough
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there aren't very many characters that have outfits that just don't fit them or their situation

runic ether
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lucia and yidhari for instance... can absolutely be wearing actual outfits

rapid bough
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and they don't stand out in weird ways in-universe imo

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i already mentioned lucia as actually being an example of the opposite

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she's too normal when she shouldn't be

runic ether
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i think the opposite. i think that sure, something like 11 is exaggerated, but i actually really would have liked them to have kept obol squad very consistent in their coloring

rapid bough
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they... are? are they not all black and yellow?

runic ether
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nothing was stopping them from being as sexual as trigger with her skintight fit and such but her and 11 have a very shared color scheme that orphie and seed lack and those 2 stand out hard vs them

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orphie lacks the pants and enough yellow which would have made her fit better

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seed needed to be a black and yellow plugsuit

rapid bough
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right and i mentioned her as a weird fit earlier

runic ether
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would have contrasted super well vs her hair

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like looking at them + isolde feels so off

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like also, sure, make em sexy, but not so far off what npcs get

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like if u made npcs as sexy design wise, sure honestly i wouldnt mind

rapid bough
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i honestly think holding characters pulled on gacha to NPC standards is insane

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there's a reason every gacha game has the fun minigame of picking out future gacha characters in a crowd of NPCs

runic ether
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like if we see more of the military girls in story just npc girls and they wear outfits like 11 or trigger... sure

runic ether
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and they look thematic with the playables

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nagi and harumasa forgoe the jacket but they stand out, while miyabi gets a very specialized pc fit and soukaku has it messy

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sons of calydon, while i wouldnt wear what they do, also fit thematically with other bikers in the region

rapid bough
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i genuinely don't think obol would or do stand out in a bad way against a backdrop of soldiers

runic ether
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i think they would. especially the helmeted soldiers

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and their color scheme... can stand to use more overall cohesion

rapid bough
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well i mean of course gacha characters won't have helmets on lol

runic ether
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it can come off

rapid bough
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hell not even important NPCs would

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isolde didn't

runic ether
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yea tho hers was definitely a different sort of circumstance over why she wouldnt at the time.

rapid bough
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honestly isolde looked more out of place with her elegant dress and flower and saber than the rugged military fit of the rest of obol

runic ether
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in a way she does have a helmet lol

rapid bough
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not in any context where she wanted to fit in to obol lol

runic ether
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even if it'd be a lot of effort + still coping for her eventual playability

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like for instance

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11 was our first obol squad member intro

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if this was just the stock standard soldier girl fit for this game, spread a simpler version of it to npcs

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yes even the men get skirts

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but a modified, poppy sort of orangeish-yellow with grey-blacks being the military outfit
trigger comes out just fine
seed, she is special. she is not the actual soldier/active combatant (which is stupid, she should be trained too), but then give her plugsuit the same scheme as the rest
orphie can ditch the skirt and weark pants it fits her more but splash more of that orange-yellow onto her. make her coat look like a winter outfit for women and maybe if she unzips it, she is wearing a simpler version of 11s shirt underneath

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this remains very consistent throughout

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i may just draw what i mean cus i feel like im not getting the point across as much...
point being, a lot of fits do not feel consistent with that the world has provided with npcs and other prior pcs
i can slightly forgive yunkui summit being weird cus china magic but even then there is a clear disconnect with what we have seen and with how different from npcs they look that it is a bit jarring to me.

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if we even saw npc girls wearing these fuckass shorts
or the damn leotards
i'd understand okay sure the pcs would wear the same

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but when cissia is dressed how she is when neither jane nor zhu yuan nor qingyi nor other npc police girls do, thats where it breaks

rapid bough
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i mean it's plainly obvious that cissia is not a "police girl" in the same way that zhu yuan or qingyi are

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her mismatch from everyone else is absolutely deliberate given she was evidently basically conscripted/forced to work for NEPS for yet unknown reasons (i assume we'll find out next chapter)

wispy goblet
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We know she's from the Outer Rim

rapid bough
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i don't agree that yunkui is mismatched, they're all pretty coordinated with the exception of YSG who has a reason to be different

runic ether
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oh i mean mismatched from the rest of the world

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ysg is their only mismatch and like sure, whatever ig

rapid bough
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i don't even really agree with that, or at least i don't agree that any mismatch is out of place

runic ether
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i think they do look out of place in a game like zzz. idt their outfits are as modern as they could be for martial artists in what zzz presents itself as. though granted, this is somewhat a complaint leveraged against all of waifei penninsula even if they do capture a p good urban china aesthetic

rapid bough
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well i guess i don't disagree with that, but all of waifei had that problem soooooooooooooooo

runic ether
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like i can see yixuan in genshin. i dont think i should be able to see yixuan in genshin.

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fwiw genshin had that same issue with natlan where i could see varesa in zzz and i dont think i should be able to see a genshin character in zzz

rapid bough
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i think this is just going to be a fundamental issue with all of these sorts of games that have extremely distinct regions or characters often based on real world locations that are likewise very distinct

runic ether
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yeah somewhat? but also cus overall hoyo has been p good at this

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sure, playables def stand out

rapid bough
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like these two characters are from the same game

runic ether
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but a lot of them do not feel so out of place of their faction(s)/location(s)

runic ether
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still qiuyuan has a pretty modern fit too

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his turtleneck under the cloak actually works well

rapid bough
runic ether
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no yeah im saying that qiuyuan stands out more than the others

rapid bough
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like, qiuyuan is perfectly consistent with huanglong designs

runic ether
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but thats due to the regions being so different

rapid bough
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so he's not out of place despite being wildly different from lynae, a character in the same game

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my point here is that i don't think it's a bad things for new regions and characters to be introduced that are wildly different in design from previous regions, so long as the designs within that region are relatively consistent, and those that aren't have reasons to be so (e.g. hiyuki is very dissimilar from other lahai roi characters, but surprise, she's basically been transplanted there against her will lol)

runic ether
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yeah thats not a bad thing overall. i do actually like yunkui and waifei's aesthetic enough even if its a bit out there to zzz

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but i would like more characters to follow their previous or established aesthetics

rapid bough
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right, i'm saying that for the most part i think they have in ZZZ? even yunkui didn't really go all-in on the eastern mystic stuff, which is why you have yixuan in a pretty modern fit with mystic influences rather than rocking up with a shrine robe or something lol

runic ether
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they had prior, and i do think its slipping?

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cissia feels off, not happy that krampus has no inherent outfit theme

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even if i do like their overall designs

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seed and orphie missed
yidhari and lucia missed

rapid bough
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idk why you don't like cissia so much, she's like the clearest case of unwilling transplant lol

runic ether
#

something about her feels off to me way more
and her story has not made me like her much either

rapid bough
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i mean we basically don't know her story so that seems a bit of a premature judgment

runic ether
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her story so far

rapid bough
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i think you just don't like her outfit (understandable) and are projecting that onto the theme

runic ether
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i dont like it yeah
but i also dont like the faction she is being placed in

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even if she was a clear "i dont wanna be here!"

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promeia's fit should have been what all other krampus outfits are based off of (color scheme mostly)

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the 3.0 characters we have seen tho seem pretty thematically consistent at least

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so this is moreso just a 2.x rant

rapid bough
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i've said before that i don't agree since it's plainly apparent to me that krampus is a wild arrangement of people with their own agendas and backgrounds, they're basically just a ragtag enforcer crew

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look no further than the fact banyue is a fucking krampus member lol

runic ether
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and i think thats stupid. thats not how that could work and if it is, they are not really shown this way enough. not enough complaints from zhao that she is forced to do things entirely solo and cant rely on anyone else

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and banyue being added to krampus was a case of "story has placed him into that faction" but hes a new join

rapid bough
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is that not what suited zhao best until her story in 2.6

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she quite explicitly hated relying on others

runic ether
#

yeah but the others have not

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dialyn has jumped into getting favors from others often

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if they were supposed to be so ragtag and individualistic, then she'd complain way more about it or let us know more

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and i guess? we'll see with promeia

rapid bough
#

we've met a grand total of 3 krampus members

  • banyue (new transplant)
  • zhao (only recently had a proxy-related change of heart)
  • dialyn

all who are working as a team and are relatively close in design, or at least have a similar theme going for them

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we know literally nothing about promeia

runic ether
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they are not close in design much, which is fine for banyue, but not for dialyin and promeia and zhao. i'd have liked a unifying theme in their outfit type and promeia has a promising theme which is her moon theme

rapid bough
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for all we know she has a damn good reason to be so distinct from the others

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just like YSG for yunkui

rapid bough
runic ether
#

i dont think dialyn loses much for her color scheme fitting with promeia and zhao same deal

rapid bough
#

dialyn and zhao definitely have similar motifs

runic ether
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or vice versa

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they have a very vague eastern theme. even then, they do not give off anything that'd tell you they are teammates

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(dialyn moreso)

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like i get banyue can be super different

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because he is literally the newest addition

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and we know very little of krampus still

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but promeia looking so different to the others is not promising to me

rapid bough
runic ether
#

either make them all share her color scheme + outfit themes
or make her fit theirs more

rapid bough
#

my takeaway from this is that you want color coded factions lol

runic ether
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and they dont need to be the exact same color
but i want to believe that a professional organization would have a standard dress code as they have presented already in this game

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zhao's outfit is great, i do like how she looks. but i cant see her + dialyn to be in the same faction

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i also fw dialyn's design a lot. but same deal

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she does not look like she'd ever be in the same profession as zhao

rapid bough
#

i think it'd be more out of place for the shady enforcer oversight organization to have a dress code lol

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you expect them to be walking around with krampus badges or something?

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this isn't NEPS

runic ether
#

yes! actually! they are an sro but they are official as hell and are very well known to tops themselves

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they are out there to punish top round table companies... it'd be a bit crazy to not have an identifier

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or something that top families can see and go "oh i fucked up"

rapid bough
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it's seemed to me ever since their introduction that they primarily work in the background, and at the point they have to identify themselves then whoever's their mark is already in colossally deep shit

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they don't show up like the FBI flashing a badge like "can i ask some questions"

runic ether
#

nothing has been said that they are a secret org or even background org
dialyn is going around asking questions in her intro more or less
even if she is not asking questions to the person she is looking for specifically and asking for the quarry

rapid bough
#

i didn't say they were a secret/background org, i said that's how they work

runic ether
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in fact the fact that dialyn and zhao are out there active and have notable reputations is very much a case of

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sure the average person wont know krampus

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or at least their purpose

rapid bough
#

"oh yes i know of zhao's reputation" is different from "oh yes i know zhao is investigating me right now"

runic ether
#

but it'd be insane to have an org that polices the biggest companies in this world and have no one know anything about them or have them be so out there and without a unifying way to say "this is the kca"

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like if someone gets visited by zhao and then promeia, and then dialyn, you may not even realize you met 3 kca members
a badge would be the bare minimum

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and i fw promeia's moon them, and i think it'd have done well for zhao and dialyn to have shared that

rapid bough
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well it's not typically random joe schmoes getting visited by krampus in an official capacity

runic ether
#

and i dont think its a big ask for that.. even if the color schemes are different

rapid bough
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it's TOPS folks who would know who they are

rapid bough
#

we know nothing about promeiaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

runic ether
#

i dont buy that tho. it'd be totally ripe for abuse.

rapid bough
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swear to god misty you do this every time a new character is revealed when we know nothing about them

runic ether
#

"yes mr. tops man, i am 100% in krampus"

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if we had established that they already know everyone's face and name and are on a first name basis with the kca members... that'd be one thing

rapid bough
runic ether
rapid bough
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that's not the same as wearing a badge

rapid bough
runic ether
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it doesnt has to be them fitting promeia, it'd be fine if she fit the others
having a clean theme makes sense for what they do and what they deal with
and if promeia is a case of "she does the killing" then they have not indicated that zhao and dialyn do not handle this at all.
it feels messy and lacks cohesion just off appearance alone.

rapid bough
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i just fundamentally disagree until we know more about promeia and really krampus as a whole

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i reject the notion that they need some dress code

digital marlin
#

Hello

rapid bough
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you're simultaneously very "faction code"-pilled while also acknowledging there can be good reasons for characters to be mismatched with their faction (sanby, YSG)

digital marlin
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Seems we are on this convo again

rapid bough
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so it feels very strange to me that you've jumped onto cissia/promeia mismatching despite us knowing nothing about them and therefore whether there's a good reason for the mismatch

runic ether
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she needs more yunkui orange

rapid bough
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didn't you literally just say above that you were whatever about it

runic ether
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im whatever on her as a whole

runic ether
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i dont like that shes a mismatched character but i just dont care about ysg at all i can ignore her existence since they presented her different than the others anyways

old galleon
#

today's freebies gave me a europa summon dupe

rapid bough
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how do you sleep at night with factions that have deliberate mismatches and no color coding, like the two found family factions (cunning hares and spook shack)

old galleon
#

idk if anyone's actively logging onto granblue during anni or is starting on steam right now, but for tomorrow's rolls (not today's), you should hold them until the banner changes to the flash gala banner

runic ether
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no but genuinely cus thats their point overall even if i dont fw lucia and yidhari's designs

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but a place like hand section 6 all having cohesive outfits... sons of calydon too...

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neps up until a certain point

rapid bough
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i mean yeah i don't really like either of their designs but that's not got anything to do with how they fit in the factions

runic ether
#

yunkui summit

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barring ysg but again peeposhrug

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vivi and hugo both fit their outfits well

rapid bough
#

YSG never felt out of place to me and her different outfit is explained so w/e

runic ether
#

victoria housekeeping

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crisp

rapid bough
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i mean yeah i agree

runic ether
#

belobog industries also all have a p good aesthetic mix and fit combinations that fit their professions overall

rapid bough
#

this discussion started with your "what if women in ZZZ wore normal things" and this was basically where i was at

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i can count on like one hand the number of women in the game that i think are wearing something that doesn't fit with either who they are or their faction

runic ether
#

yeah on that front, if they wore normal things like actual pants and shirts is all that was, but in terms of how they are supposed to fit in, i do think that a ton of them actually do work well with their current factions. even if some of the actual outfits are stupid.

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also looking at the nangong skin... what the fuck was the point of the maid outfit for sunna??

rapid bough
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"the author's barely disguised fetish"

runic ether
#

zzz designers are def on the epstein list yeah but sunna stands out way more now given how goth the other 2 are

rapid bough
#

just setting up a second sunna skin to match in the future

runic ether
#

potential fit is crazy

rapid bough
digital marlin
#

by god if we do get second skin for her before other agents like Miyabi get one im going to go insane

runic ether
#

they hate miyabi /hj

rapid bough
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btw, the fact that all of those characters were released in two consecutive patches that were largely misses among the playerbase is probably not a coincidence

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if lucia wasn't the BIS rupture support she'd probably be the lowest selling banner in the game's history instead of yidhari lol

runic ether
#

hold it. aria still has a shot at the crown

#

(idts but it'd be funny)

rapid bough
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hard to say

#

sunna not selling well is noteworthy, but i wonder how much of that is the fact that zhao was right before her, was quite good in the same sort of role, and free

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aria meanwhile is sort of her own anomaly niche atm and she has probably the most egregious shill boss yet in vesper

#

could honestly see her outselling sunna

runic ether
#

probs

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that said

#

hmmm

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the thing about aria is that she performs well too if you have her full team

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so there is a meta reason?

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but idk if that can actually push her sales well

digital marlin
#

outside of them probably not appealing to general fanbase i feel like the way they are presented vs how they are being release is also causing issues with it

rapid bough
#

right, though i think there's more reason to pull for aria solo than there is for sunna

runic ether
#

honestly the only thing i hear about nangong too is that she is broken despite the nerfs

rapid bough
#

yeah, i think ultimately the best AoD outside the angel premium team will be nangong

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anomaly stunner is just cracked as an archetype

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but idk how many people pulling on this patch know that's in the pipeline lol

runic ether
#

which means i can see aria getting passed on for nangong to work best for miyabi/alice/jane/yanagi

#

yeah thats true...

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tho if they dont care about meta, then they probs care less about aria

rapid bough
#

sigh, i don't want to feel like i have to pull for nangong so i don't sell my entire anomaly lineup for all time

runic ether
#

im at the same spot... except i dont think even getting vivi mindscapes/wengine or burnice + her wengine or even m2 jane will ever catch up to m0 nangong for me atm

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especially sitting on m0p1 yuzuha and m2p1 alice

#

it'd just be too good a boost for my account

idle grove
#

finally started reading corposant

#

jumpscare

rapid bough
#

i still need to go through it lol

summer hornet
#

Finished Spring Cultivation

#

Once again, Limbus Peak

#

||Does anyone else hear that bell tolling? No? Just me?||

runic ether
#

||xichun becoming a respectable power in the city in the span of 30 days is a crazy feat for limbus. also we are now besties with h corp and now u understand why we are still in the fucking building again lmao||

summer hornet
#

||I do indeed understand why we hadn’t moved an inch from Hongyuan by the Arknights crossover lmao||

runic ether
#

||we have been in hongyuan since nocturnal night sweeping||

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||it is canto 10. we are still in hongyuan. it is canto 15, we are still in hongyuan. it is canto 20, we are still in hongyu-||

summer hornet
#

||the repeated mentions of Mephistopheles give me slight concern as well||

runic ether
#

play canto 9

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at least the intro

summer hornet
runic ether
#

||you jest but if the war of the wings actually happens... i'd rather we be with hongyuan since they are allies of ours and the proximity it has to p corp and w corp and t corp which we have helped well is actually would be an advantageous place to be in||

summer hornet
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||I do not disagree at all lol||

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||tbh it shows the growth of Limbus as well||

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||we were on the back foot through Canto 3, started winning and making a name for ourselves from Canto 4 to 6, and Cantos 7 and 8 have given us genuine allies||

summer hornet
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||or, at least one genuine ally in Hongyuan||

runic ether
#

learn how she became so joyful

summer hornet
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||the other is up for debate||

summer hornet
runic ether
#

wait if you havent

#

go look up last year's april fools event

summer hornet
#

Oh the body swap one? Lmfao

runic ether
#

yes

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no but fr at least the intro to canto 9 would be a good idea to play right after 8.5

summer hornet
#

Just lemme finish dailies in the other gachas lol

idle grove
copper steppe
#

hell yeah

#

now onto oc2

mental acorn
#

valentines eishin flash from today's free 10pull wtf

old galleon
#

went into the co-op menu to remove the noti from my front screen and uh

#

i must be dumb or something bc i don't recognize the nikke in the lobby

wispy goblet
#

Eyes on her, you fool.

#

How dare you not recognize the Guillotine de Mephisto.

old galleon
#

i play with burst animations off so idk what most of theirs look like

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i suppose i should have connected "chuuni pose" with "guillotine being herself" but idk

long tree
#

On the one had i just used the selector on ougiri, on the other what the fuck is this multi

silver osprey
#

The 2 best umas in one 10 pull

#
  • Machitan
runic ether
#

geez. its so notable how much better more modern models in genshin has become when comparing even the new npc's hair + lumine's new skin vs amber and paimon

#

honestly they need to use a whole patch cycle to upkeep and maintain the old models to new skins

silver osprey
#

Amber peepoHappy

runic ether
#

amber deserves a new skin so bad

#

also this star fox-style shooting event is actually really nice?

#

genshin needs to add an event list

rapid bough
#

it's been 84 years...

#

idek what cube to level next

old galleon
#

i'm still doing resilience and bastion

#

r13 b8 or something like that right now

#

after that...

#

maybe destruction? i did just get that

#

quantum sounds fine for arena, if i cared a lo tabout that

#

tempering or vigor for the same reason

glossy latch
#

Ok I figured out my pull plans

#

Im just gonna gamble and if I get Sigrika in the 50/50 Ill get her signature

#

If not Ill get someone else

rapid bough
#

arcana alt was not on my bingo card but i can't argue

#

"transfer student" implies we're getting an MMR academy storyline?

#

which are always a special kind of depressing so... yay

#

i wonder if this makes her the quickest character to get an alt

#

ah nm that'd probably be rupee and i doubt she's getting beat

#

(release nikke that got an alt like ~2 months after launch lol)

wispy goblet
#

These villainous fiends at Shift Up

#

They knew they had a gold mine when they saw the reaction to Arcana

#

They knew the old wrestling wisdom
Push the guy that's hot

rapid bough
#

i mean they knew what they were doing lol

#

this was all to plan

#

they made arcana's dialogue extremely wife/gf-coded as well

#

combine that with being gorgeous, a dork, and having one of the better minor event backstories?

#

we were locked in from the start

wispy goblet
#

Well uh
Guess EH is going on the wishlist

#

Hope I get her in my like 90 standard pulls

rapid bough
#

you should be saving for anni anyway

#

this is a clear bait banner

#

one of likely two we'll get before it's anni time

wispy goblet
#

I have my mileage
And if it's somehow not Overspec Anis and Overspec Neon
They'll give us extra pulls

old galleon
#

arcana alt
wat

#

it hasn't even been a year since her original version released

wispy goblet
#

I don't pull on half-rates

#

Push the guy that's over

old galleon
#

i mean as an arcana fan this is obv bait

#

i won't pull but

rapid bough
#

i'm never pulling... out

wispy goblet
#

Dawg
Memory serve me right
I blew over two hundred pulls on Arcana's original banner
And I didn't even get her
I must redeem myself

rapid bough
#

surely she won't play hard to get twice

wispy goblet
rapid bough
#

anyway i'll be pulling but i pull on every new release these days

#

got enough savings to not care

old galleon
#

oh right

#

this also makes yet another elysion nikke after what was supposed to be the year of elysion

rapid bough
#

ingrid simply cannot stop winning

wispy goblet
#

Also Arcana was after half anni last year
So actually she's just shy of her release anniversary

old galleon
rapid bough
#

as based as arcana enjoyers are, she has/had no chance on the popularity poll anyway

#

this is cindy's year

wispy goblet
#

Does the poll include the upcoming half-anni units

rapid bough
#

no

#

doro wasn't on the first, crown wasn't on the second, mermaid wasn't on the third

#

so cindy won't have to contend against (likely) one or both of anis/neon's alts

wispy goblet
#

We'll see who the frontrunners are
I think Siren has a good chance

rapid bough
#

i honestly don't think so since unbreakable sphere was kinda panned by the community

#

mermaid herself is a precious cinnamon roll and deserves to be popular

#

but i don't think people can separate her from the mid event

wispy goblet
#

I dunno
Vibe in the circles I frequent are big up on her

#

If anything, I think people are more down on Nayuta than expected

rapid bough
#

whereas old tales is one of the best events so far and cindy already nearly beat rapi last year

#

i can see mermaid reaching t5 but i think cindy is going to lap the field tbh

wispy goblet
#

Tbh I think Siren is Top 2 at worst
If there's no Counters Overspecs

rapid bough
#

for reference this was the top 5 last year, it's hilarious how far ahead cindy and rrh were (and crazy how close they were to each other)

wispy goblet
#

but like you said
no Siren

rapid bough
#

sure, but like i said, i don't think siren will be as strong in these polls as you do

wispy goblet
#

the proof will be in the pudding

rapid bough
#

if she's #2 in this upcoming poll then i bet cindy still at least doubles her votes

wispy goblet
#

I think it's gonna a lot closer than that

#

but as a wise Jedi Master once said
until the possible becomes actual, it is only a distraction

#

you think anyone new breaks into the Top 5?

rapid bough
#

nayuta is the one with the best chance but someone's already probably getting knocked out by siren being a candidate and i'm not sure nayuta beats out what they were already getting

wispy goblet
#

I could see Dorothy dropping
this is a pretty big low point in her story

wispy goblet
#

but I wouldn't be surprised if Dorothy drops out and someone else comes in

rapid bough
#

my bet is always going to be scarlet dropping out

#

even aside from her being #5 last time already

#

she's the only one with a significant split between her and her alt lol

#

if you combine both of them she's the #3 almost every year she's eligible, but sadly she's doomed to like a 60/40 split between her two forms

wispy goblet
#

if you want to be a real nerd about it
if Nikke's playerbase is growing overall
then we have an increasing number of players who haven't experienced Old Tales
and some of the players that would have voted for Cindy have dropped the game

rapid bough
#

cindy has still featured more in the main story than mermaid by this point so

#

another point against mermaid is that people hate how her advise sessions were done (which was also a secondary reason unbreakable sphere was received probably the worst among all the anni events to this point)

wispy goblet
#

They hated the advise session framing because they love Siren and they wanted to self-insert interact with her

rapid bough
#

and it's not possible that not being able to do that decreased their enjoyment of the character? lol

wispy goblet
#

not in a way that impacted their opinion of the character herself

rapid bough
#

the sort of people who deeply parasocially connect with the nikkes would absolutely have their enjoyment of a character affected by an inability to deeply parasocially connect with mermaid

wispy goblet
#

honestly I think a lot of the complaints about the anni event are more symptomatic of people disappointed in not getting to interact with a character they loved in a way they wanted
not things that turned them off from her character

rapid bough
#

no i think the advice session stuff was a secondary reason, like i said

#

the reason people were down on unbreakable sphere in general is because it was bluntly kind of a clusterfuck and too melodramatic for its own good

#

i think its status as the weakest anni event is well-earned

wispy goblet
#

I just don't smell it the same way

rapid bough
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i distinctly remember deliberately distancing myself from the wider nikke community during unbreakable sphere because the incessant negativity on the event was shitty to read

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and ever since i don't think i've seen unbreakable sphere mentioned without a bunch of comments on how mid it was

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like you can't talk about the event without addressing the community controversy it caused

wispy goblet
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we must tread in different circles
I never got it that bad about the event

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I remember much more vividly complaints about the advise sessions

old galleon
wispy goblet
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I forgot about Neo Snow

rapid bough
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sadly i don't think snow has ever gotten the appreciation she deserves

old galleon
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i'll be voting cindy

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but wouldn't be sad if snow took it

rapid bough
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and now she gets the scarlet problem

wispy goblet
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although she does have three variants at this point

rapid bough
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i don't even see snow cracking t5

wispy goblet
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tbh I probably won't end up voting any of the big names

rapid bough
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i will be voting 5x cindy every day for as long as the poll lasts

wispy goblet
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you know I'm starting to suspect you might be a little biased in this analysis of the playerbase demographics

timber sigil
rapid bough
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i'm starting to think you don't understand just how popular cindy is lol

timber sigil
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@idle grove Nemesis upgrade has 2 sources you can get the neural things from

rapid bough
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she only narrowly lost a popularity poll to the game's poster girl alt that people had been waiting for since release

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that is crazy in and of itself

wispy goblet
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speaking of this community
have you been seeing more Marian chair memes recently

old galleon
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marian chair
i hate the community sometimes

rapid bough
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for one, no

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for two, since when was the go-to chair character marian instead of rapi

old galleon
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probably since you-know-what

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as someone who likes both rapi and marian, if we can just do away with chair memes, that'd be great

wispy goblet
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we must tread in different circles
this is the new "hotness" that I've been seeing

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people are really down about how Marian's been treated recently

rapid bough
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i mean, understandable, but i don't get how that translates to chair memery lol

wispy goblet
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I think it's more a depresso kind of meme
rather than a meme people think is funny or have fun getting a rise out of some rapi fans with

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but I've been seeing the cucked Marian joke more frequently
for better or worse

rapid bough
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yeah i don't follow, so whatever circles you tread in are brainrotted beyond all belief

idle grove
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||wait so Helena was in the Oberstein mansion in Nirvana before she was brought into the real world?||

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gfl is doing it again

rapid bough
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i am probably more stressed than i should be to play through corposant

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gfl has this way of constantly making me think it's going to rip my heart out

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it hasn't yet, but i know it will eventually

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also god damn skills are so much more expensive to level in wuwa than ZZZ

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and the fact that skill and weapon leveling mats are shared is also cursed and doesn't help matters

glossy latch
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Yeeeep

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Why do you think I always level skills last nyaruhodo

rapid bough
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implying that echo farming is any better

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at least skill leveling has a defined endpoint

glossy latch
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Exactly

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If you leave it last you actually can predict when you're all done

rapid bough
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except a character with unleveled skills and a great echo set is still shit

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while a character with leveled skills and a mid echo set is fine

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skills are the barrier to viability in content, not echoes

glossy latch
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OK but have you considered "I won't use the character until I finished building them"?

rapid bough
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you are moving out the timeline of finishing building them (and therefore using them) potentially indefinitely by focusing on optimizing your echoes first

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or, put another way, a character with leveled skills and a mid echo set is built, just not optimized

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a character with unleveled skills and a great echo set isn't even built

glossy latch
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Please, I'm not mad, obviously I have a reasonable endpoint

rapid bough
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i mean obviously you finish eventually, but my point is you're at the whims of RNG

glossy latch
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It's when all echoes are at least three-liners and I have a good crit split

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I am, but that's going to happen either way

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This way I get the RNG out of the way first

rapid bough
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again though, the RNG isn't the bigger barrier to your character being usable lol

toxic cloud
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I like using scuffed chars

rapid bough
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because you're deranged and level in the wrong order lol

glossy latch
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I'm gonna use them in endgame, and you need decent echoes there

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Maybe except for the side towers but I just use rhe same two teams for those

rapid bough
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i guess i'll grant you that it doesn't make a huge difference if you're purely endgame-focused on your new character, i.e. you won't use them there until they're optimal anyway so when the optimization comes doesn't make much difference

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but i watched you do this in ZZZ where you desperately needed characters to fill out teams and were just farming disks lol

idle grove
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god that event was a wild ride

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actually peak gfl

rapid bough
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how long did it take you to go through

idle grove
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probably like 2 hours but not non-stop

rapid bough
idle grove
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it's the size of 3 main chapters tbf

rapid bough
idle grove
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I'm a quick reader

rapid bough
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i consider myself to be a pretty quick reader too but jesus

idle grove
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it might have been a little longer cause I spread it out

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I read part 1 before part 1.5 and 2 dropped

rapid bough
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ah

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yeah i haven't even started any of the parts

idle grove
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might take a little longer then yeah

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but I didn't really notice how long I spent reading it because it totally had me in its claws

rapid bough
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based on the length of time previous events have taken me, i assume i'm in for like a 6 hour adventure

idle grove
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it also has a couple short animated cutscenes too

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and I do mean short they're like 20-30 seconds

timber sigil
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春田さん上位キー

・アクティブS3の効果対象を味方全員に拡大
・必殺技で召喚物をもう一体召喚。存在中、味方実体召喚物の与ダメージ+50%
・味方実体召喚物かタリーズの攻撃で水属性ダメージを与えると新召喚物のダメージ倍率増加。

idle grove
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voymastina shot up in the rankings for me after this

timber sigil
# timber sigil https://x.com/kzwolf12/status/2032767987376431347
  • Extends the effect of Active S3 to all allies
  • Summons an additional Taryz with ultimate. Whilst active, damage dealt by allied physical summoned creatures is increased by 50%
  • If an ally’s physical summoned creature or Taryz’s attack deals Hydro-attribute damage, the damage multiplier of the summoned creature increases.
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@rapid bough

glossy latch
timber sigil
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I've only finished Chapter 1 of Corpo atm

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gonna move onto 1.5 tonight

wispy goblet
rapid bough
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oh. fuck.

wispy goblet
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so-called privaty hater when the sexy teacher skin hits

rapid bough
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i was just about to say that

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or something to that effect

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at the end of the day, i am a simple man

wispy goblet
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it is a really good skin

rapid bough
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TBD on burst animation

wispy goblet
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and the burst
you can see on the left

rapid bough
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nowadays the deciding factor for whether i buy a gacha skin is the burst ani

wispy goblet
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could be a good one

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the burst splash is probably there on the left

rapid bough
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honestly might wanna spoiler the post

wispy goblet
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smh this man tryna cover up a 12+ game

rapid bough
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you know, come to think of it, i'm surprised it took them this long to do a privaty gacha skin

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though now that i say that, she did get the maid alt fairly early which fed privaty fans for years

wispy goblet
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this woman just cannot hold a single job

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I gotta do the outpost event with Yulha and Maid Privaty

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somebody did a zoom and enhance on the books in the desk

rapid bough
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sorry you said there were books in this image?

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lol a commenter observed this is the formula that spells "i love you" if you erase the upper half

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well

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gacha skins have had me in a chokehold from teasers before only for me to not buy them (mihara comes to mind)

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so i'm not locked in yet but... pretty high probability i fold

timber sigil
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Nemesis upgrade trailer

idle grove
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cannot wait for her to speak normally

rapid bough
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actually managed to full clear chasm in whiwa before reset which is nice since it gives the most rewards

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but holy shit i am nowhere close to being able to clear torrents lol

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3500 is the lowest reward bracket and i'm sitting at 2600 after my first attempt

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i was hoping i could get to at least 3500 so i try matrix before it also reset but uhhhhhhhh yeah rip that ain't happening

glossy latch
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Remind me what your roster is rn?

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I'm a little surprised you're not getting there even with Aemeath

rapid bough
old galleon
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privaty gacha skin is diabolical

glossy latch
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Hmmm, Galbrena, Mortefi and Verina and Aemeatg, Lupa Mornye are your best bets

rapid bough
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verina over shorekeeper?

glossy latch
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Tbh I think that might be able to get you to 3.6k even with suboptimal builds?

rapid bough
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and yeah i'm leveling mortefi now

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i realized sanhua was shit for galbrena too late

glossy latch
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Oh I missed shorekeeper lmao

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Shorekeeper works too yeah

glossy latch
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Though less so for your specific teams

rapid bough
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yeah i don't regret having her leveled

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i just should've done mortefi first

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oh well

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i used her a bit with havoc rover before i got galbrena so

glossy latch
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But I think you can maybe get to 3.5k, especially if you focus the good units onto Aemeaths team and try to frontload the points there

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Though WhiWa is less forgiving than ToA in my experience

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It's why I got Phrolova lmao

rapid bough
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gave things another try and got to 3390

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so close ugh

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good chance i have a skill level problem

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my aemeath and galbrena are like 5 or 6/10 on most skills and don't have their passive statlines (they do have their inherent skill lines leveled though)

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mortefi over sanhua probably gets me over the cliff too

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guess i'll try again tomorrow after i get more mortefi leveling mats

sharp swan
versed pawn
runic ether
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ye ik thats what i'd like them to do at some point

versed pawn
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Scorpse Walker for nangong mats it seems

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proxy tool updated

versed pawn
mortal iron
mortal iron
versed pawn
slow raft
runic ether
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but does hohenheim have his lamp gear

mental acorn
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if he did then he would just negdiff erlking

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needs to be a more balanced fight

sharp swan
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I got Narita Taishin on free pulls

silver osprey
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Just in time for the masochist CM

mental acorn
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i love seeing people's live reactions to arknights chapter 15

old galleon
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gbf free rolls reset in about an hour, so just a reminder to save those rolls for after the banner resets

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iirc it should be like 14 hours after daily reset

silver osprey
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Evil & intimating ex wife

old galleon
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evil and intimidating scratcher ticket

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i actually got the sunlight stone out of it

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which was the best outcome tbh

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michael summon dupe would have also been fine

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anyway, save rolls for after banner changes since it'll be flash banner

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grand octavia plus either the new summer units or new yukata units

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historically, they've put the new summer units on this banner

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so that would be apollonia and anthuria

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(apollonia being the black knight, anthuria being the dorky horny dancer)

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if they switch course and do yukata units instead it'd be alliah and eustace

slow raft
wispy goblet
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cashed in over three hundred gold discs
326, be precise
got to... 21 subs for Nangong

slow raft
old galleon
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went realist (maybe shoudl have gone idealist today but whatever), and hit break mode (new age gachapin)

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so we'll see how that goes tomorrow

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who do i even want out of flash aside from the new units

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cosmos obviously

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is orologia flash?

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oh they actually are

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cosmos, orologia, and fenie then

slow raft
pastel bear
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what the hell does gojo do against ||lock||

slow raft
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Literally nothing put people argue that he can simply speedblitz

pastel bear
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gojo when he "speedblitzes" but that raises the emotion level to 5:

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||know your place||

slow raft
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Library empowred binah can probably solo gojo yeah

runic ether
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arbiter binah would be overkill

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simply degraded arbiter would win

rapid bough
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reading some comments in the nikke sub brought my attention to the fact that the privaty gacha costume is slated to run from 3/19 to 4/9 (no date attached to arcana alt announcement but safe to assume it's the same)

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which means we're getting a 3 week event

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iirc 3 week events typically have two new characters, so i wonder if we'll get an announcement of a second one tonight

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there's also the possibility that this is a normal 2 week event that's just being extended to 3 because they've got to fill in 5 weeks til anni

wispy goblet
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maybe they start anni early?

rapid bough
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surely the odds of them starting anni 2 weeks early is significantly less than just having a normal 2 week event before they kick it off at the normal time

silver osprey
pastel bear
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some of us haven't gotten to that canto yet fyi

silver osprey
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Oh yeah

rapid bough
# rapid bough

improved the aemeath side with some better sequencing which was enough to get me over the hump

slow raft
rapid bough
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the inclusion of demo characters here was a life saver for my shitty undergeared and underleveled roster, no way i clear this without them

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and that's me caught up to the endgame content i can currently clear, hooray

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glad i fit in all that before reset

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that's an extra ~1k astrites i wouldn't have had otherwise

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now i'm over 20k, the lynae fund is looking good

versed pawn
rapid bough
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TL;DR:

  • in april: anomaly intercept rewards increased, and now stages 8 and 9 also give rewards (they were meaningless before except for the title from clearing 9)
  • next event is "2x2 Love", apparently going to be a VN-like event with different routes and endings depending on your choices + a minigame and voice acting (unclear if voiceover is only for crucial scenes or the whole event?)
  • surprise event in april in addition to the half-anni
  • "regroup feature" for raid content allowing you to reorganize squads after starting a fight without needing to restart the game
  • view mode improvements to simulate combat so you can see actual particle effects, projectiles, etc of nikkes
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they've done a VN-adjacent event before with the naga/tia event and it was pretty mid but i will reserve judgment

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pretty minor dev note all things considered, but more anomaly intercept rewards is nice

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i seem to recall a previous dev note promising a side story in april? so i assume the "surprise event" either is literally that or at least related to it

old galleon
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it was sad for the wrong reasons

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||turns out when the game sells this harem-esque fantasy but then has a story where you explicitly and (arguably harshly) reject one of the girls, it comes off weirdly||

wispy goblet
old galleon
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banner characters are apolonnia and eustace

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lol

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also octavia is water and they made her grand weapon stupid broken

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first 10 roll gave me eustace, got break extension, then got three more 10 rolls out of it, the third of which gave me grimnir summon dupe, red hare summon dupe, and maleagant

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did a 10 roll with crystals for lulz and uh

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lmao

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game has some explaining to do

silver osprey
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Hurray Ardor Faust no longer explodes