Gacha Chat

[silver osprey]

Me playing W Sang in heishou slop for the 10 billion rupture count

[slow raft]

well see if any of that is relevant for the next railway

luckily limbus company endgame is p easy

[runic ether]

i would too but i also find the crossover utility between ids kinda fun plus i find everlasting nukes to be extremely amusing to me.
my set up is lord lu, umasang, maost, lei sault, molar outis, t corp don for emergency time moratorium app or capoclait for more scorch or fa/s ryoshu, and then lccb ish for fast nukes

[slow raft]

https://vxtwitter.com/yllzworshipper/status/2034824323924418774

zibai enjoyer (@yllzworshipper)

the bottom tier just being the hcq is frying me of 5 people 4 must be t5

QRT: Idyvist
Tier List on how hard it is to 0c/craft a rotation for all DPSes, this assumes everyone is at E0

vxTwitter / fixvx · Mar 20, 2026, 2:48 AM

[runic ether]

hsr a mess for balance lol

[long tree]

Of five people, I and you three suck ass, the last is dead

[runic ether]

polycule fell off

[glossy latch]

Ok ngl Luuk feels pretty smooth to play

And Im not even playing him optimally yet

Also apparently Sigrika is actually just busted lmao

[old galleon]

Finally got Moran FI to Phase 3

privaty is next

[old galleon]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzGU2CdRcK8

lmao

get fucked worms

[timber sigil]

@idle grove It feels really odd seeing a more gentler side to ||Ange|| after seeing her in action during GFL1 but this is such a nice character moment for Alva too (ig she acknowledges being out of character at the end though huh xd)

that's another thing as well I've noticed

a lot of the struggles that Alva goes through I've been able to sympathise with a lot

[rapid bough]

it is increasingly funny that i husbando pulled for qiuyuan but am skipping sigrika when apparently she is very strong and qiuyuan is a BIS partner for her

[rapid bough]

blessed

[glossy latch]

She is, yeah

Apparently her BiS team is Amy level

Also I really want her weapon, why am i not getting it >:[

(Im only like 20 rolls in)

[timber sigil]

1.5 done

will start part 2 on Sunday most likely

[idle grove]

yeah pretty out of character but makes sense considering that it's not entirely real

||unfortunately unlike UMP40 Ange isn't going to be a little OGAS consciousness inside of Alva's head though||

[glossy latch]

@rapid bough

[rapid bough]

do iuno and lupa literally ever interact lol

[glossy latch]

Not that Im aware of

[rapid bough]

they share a few cutscenes but i don't think they exchange words

[glossy latch]

Unless in an event

[runic ether]

dog adopted for no eason

[rapid bough]

if iuno has adopter's remorse i will gladly adopt lupa myself

my beloved

[slow raft]

https://x.com/Furauji/status/2035048357027000725

furauji (@Furauji)

manifesting nearl descendant in endfield 🐴

X · Mar 20, 2026, 5:38 PM

[glossy latch]

Also I think Ive decided Im getting Ashveil after all

He is just too cool 😔

[summer hornet]

His trailer was sleek

I can understand it

[slow raft]

https://x.com/AlephFaust/status/2033205019193786831

Aleph Faust (@AlephFaust)

X · Mar 15, 2026, 3:33 PM

[glossy latch]

Like he is slightly overdesigned on his outfit tbh

But I would be lying if I said he wasnt actually really cool

[idle grove]

https://x.com/i/status/2035069973568135584

Ferrari (@YZsFerrari)

In addition to Welrod, ST AR15, and AK12 scheduled to arrive in GFL2 before summer, producers Yuzhong and Sixi had this to say about the Dolls coming in 2026:

👀

X · Mar 20, 2026, 7:04 PM

wait this lineup is insane

how am I meant to save

[old galleon]

that's the neat part, you don't!

anyway, the evil gave me silver moons

twenty freebies, got g ewiyar dupe, a second gold moon, princess long ji summon dupe, and ssr predator

piercing galewing is by far the best thing out of that since it saves me a dama when i eventually uncap lol

but i also woudl have taken a second gabriel dagger or, god forbid, cosmos weapon

anyway, only need one more galewing before i can uncap one of mine without bars at all

got 2 base copies, and 2 in the crate

i need 2 base copies so i can't use one of those

[pastel bear]

@ misty have you played any modded lor receptions

the new chess archetype announcement reminded me of this one that was awful and terrible

[silver osprey]

Isn't this just GripFaust

[mental acorn]

[runic ether]

nop

[slow raft]

i know the reception youre talking about but ive never played any

[pastel bear]

I highly recommend checking out some modded lor there are some really fun ones

[rapid bough]

nikke event ||among all the commander's inconsistent portrayals over the years, you can always count on one thing: dude loves his maids||

[runic ether]

i can imagine...

there are def some mechanics/fights u could do with mods

[old galleon]

based

[glossy latch]

Im actually tempted to save the rolls for wavebands now ... assuming I can get the weapon without them

Sigrika being so strong makes buffing her up further a safer choice

[wispy goblet]

Newest predictions for ZZZ PUs are Caesar and Rina

[rapid bough]

caesar PU would be very blessed

https://tenor.com/jbjSbwo2Fbu.gif

[runic ether]

she needs a buff to her model too

a true travesty she isnt fucking built like a brick shithouse

[rapid bough]

yeah her left arm being a twig is a sin

unfortunately CN gacha notoriously hate buff women

augusta in wuwa is another casualty

[runic ether]

lupa too tbh

not as huge as augusta but

theres no shot she wouldnt also be built

[rapid bough]

lupa could definitely do with some more muscles but it stands out less since she's more a finesse-fighter

augusta meanwhile is swinging a skyscraper sword around

[runic ether]

oh zani too

zani should be built

evelynn in zzz should have definition as well

[glossy latch]

Agree on Zani but tbh I think Lupa is fine as is?

I wouldnt say not to more muscle definition but she is more of a lithe fighter than a pure strength one like Augusta and Zani

[runic ether]

lupa doesnt has to be at all like how augusta or zani could be, but she should be defined

[rapid bough]

i mean this is true in general of most CN gacha female characters but it's when they should actually be buff and are just twigs that bothers me

doesn't really stick out to me with eve

i remember yixuan bothering me even though i have a bit of stockholm syndrome with it by now

caesar ofc

sometimes it gets masked by a character's outfit, e.g. zhu yuan and jane are obviously built the same way but they have bulky clothes

[runic ether]

yeah yixuan only somewhat gets away with it for me a bit nowdays bc the way she fights is more mage-like

[rapid bough]

incidentally this is why jane honestly looks kinda weird in her swimsuit skin

[runic ether]

hmmm yeah a bit

tho that fuck ass skirt also hurts jane

[slow raft]

tbf its a bit of a problem with most media that, unless its literally their "thing" female character are largely portrayed without muscle definition

[rapid bough]

true, though even then it's somewhat inconsistent

looking at you rumani from nikke, the PT who's obsessed with muscle definition... who has almost none

[slow raft]

can nikke even gain muscle mass?

or is she just stuck like that

[rapid bough]

older models canonically can get "out of shape" or in shape

i think rumani is stuck like that, since she's newer

[runic ether]

soldier 11, trigger, and anby should be much more muscular than they are yeah this is a p big inconsistency due to their profession

[rapid bough]

however, nikkes are also supposed to adopt their "ideal appearance"

which you'd figure would have more definition for rumani lol

[runic ether]

i think the ultimate takeaway is that gacha companies need to stop being cowards

[rapid bough]

correct

[runic ether]

(this applies to limbus too but this is moreso a pjm issue as a whole where their body sizes feel a bit too safe even from day 1)

this is not me saying i need outis to crush me between her ex-military thighs (but i am also not saying that i dont need that)

[glossy latch]

[rapid bough]

the double standards are just unfortunate, they're willing to make twink men like hugo but not beefy women (generally)

[slow raft]

Middle nursefather outis will save limbus company, trust

[rapid bough]

that said, everything i've been led to believe and my own personal experience indicates the anti-muscular women bias is at its worst in CN

i can't think of a single hoyo or kuro muscle mommy by design, even though there should be quite a few by personality/background

[runic ether]

https://tenor.com/view/outis-outis-limbus-limbus-outis-limbus-company-the-odyssey-gif-9555468545328839086

okay actually she has to have the horniest fans this cannot be one of the first things that comes up for her

[slow raft]

No she absolutely has the horniest fans of all the female sinners

I mean remember the whole "with enough fuel" meme they started

[runic ether]

oh god right lmfao

that one breached limbus containment iirc

[slow raft]

Yea

Tfw people try to say theyre "hagmaxxing" but then choose outis over ahab

[runic ether]

cowards

the lot of them

[slow raft]

(Iori is the superior choice anyways, but shes not in limbus yet)

[rapid bough]

the closest to mind might be galbrena and she's not even close in the grand scheme of things, she just has a very defined tummy/abs (glorious)

[runic ether]

yeah idt u can count her

[slow raft]

I think the most musle definition we have in arknights is hoshi alter and even then thats like

Not that much lol

[runic ether]

how feral will i be when she shows up? i am not allowed to say

[rapid bough]

grave is easily the winner in nikke as an actual muscle mommy

but she's the only one

[slow raft]

Even grave i had headcannoned as more muscular than she is

[slow raft]

Notably, not a woman

[runic ether]

is marthe a woman

[slow raft]

As far as i know

[runic ether]

oh

[silver osprey]

Oh women

Ig plume is close

[slow raft]

Theres that one manga shot of nearl the radiant

[rapid bough]

her legs are insane and she has defined abs but her arms are pretty small yeah

[runic ether]

she is not that muscular

[slow raft]

Yeah i was thinking her arms would be larger

[silver osprey]

Yeah just fit ig

[slow raft]

Same with fgo barghest

[runic ether]

yeah shes not bad. i do draw for myself and lowkey, i feel like this is a problem i run into with muscles on girls too where i want them to be muscular but not exaggerated and the arms are exactly the chokepoint

[slow raft]

Where she just has MASSIVE legs

[silver osprey]

We haven't gotten a new marthe skin lately

[slow raft]

And also a 6 pack but her arms are relatively small

[runic ether]

yeah i run into this issue too 😭
i usually need to do a double take. or cheat and go long sleeves to not have to worry about it

idk if this is specifically like. hard to convey the sweet spot that they want to convey in terms of arms?

[slow raft]

I think this is safe to post?

[runic ether]

but then again i do see perfect examples

[runic ether]

ye sure

spoilered is fine

[slow raft]

Actually does endfield have any muscular women?

Youd think ember would be p buff right

[runic ether]

her legs are big but

noodle arms

[slow raft]

The usual then

[silver osprey]

That's just all the 3d gacha models no

[slow raft]

Sure but we could be better

[slow raft]

I cant find it

@summer hornet do you have the shot of nearl the radiant with the ab window in her clothing?

[rapid bough]

first pass at shiyu, barely cleared 100k lol

can definitely push all of these though, and eve team lowkey sucks for the last one b/c miasma spam and high def

alas, no yidhari... yet

[long tree]

I need her to be 6ft tall, built like she doesnt know what any food other than meat is and to ||kick my ass||

[rapid bough]

i thought that spoiler was going a very different direction

[long tree]

For me it would've been a similar experience

[rapid bough]

a few more attempts, mostly to clear 40k on 1 and 30k on 3, but also better sequencing for 2 to get it higher

prolly gonna call it there, though i'll likely come back this reset with yidhari to see if i can do better on 3 with that team

this is definitely the most raw pull currency i've ever had saved at once in ZZZ, though i've probably had more in the past if you count the times where i had like 100+ pulls worth of saved residual too lol

[wispy goblet]

I'm at like 125 pulls currently

[summer hornet]

Late but I gotchu homie

https://www.reddit.com/r/arknights/s/slwI9wBYpz

[silver osprey]

Where is my swinging maestro

[mental acorn]

gone fishing

[silver osprey]

Considering it was creak who was supposed to give it to me she's probably off being a freak somewhere

[wispy goblet]

ZZZ beta dropping with Promeia to start
could end up that she's first

not too much hassle

just had to restart the start a bit

[rapid bough]

the prophecy of male character second half right before a void hunter must be fulfilled

[wispy goblet]

tried out an Impact 6 build on Ju Fufu
... I scored worse
I really missed that bigger buff

guess I'm in it for the long, long haul if I want to max her out without sig

[rapid bough]

i just had a vision of a possible wuwa future that will likely not be reality but would feed me for years to come

what if hiyuki has an echo damage focus (on top of debuffs) such that qiuyuan is a BIS partner for her

the aurafarming would be the stuff of legend

sadly i know she'll likely have a debuff focus and inevitably be partnered with lucilla and probably chisa

[rapid bough]

jesus christ

i saw that and immediately thought her hands were something else

same energy

[rapid bough]

...wind?

[runic ether]

accidental genshin

[wispy goblet]

looks like we're getting a new attribute

[rapid bough]

surely this just means the other new character in 2.8 is wind if true

[wispy goblet]

When Promia's attack hits the enemy, the enemy gains[Boning]Status
shit dawg I would too

[runic ether]

meta's attacks give [boning] status to his enemies

[wispy goblet]

Hit is inWind attribute abnormal stateWhen the enemy is, a special[Crushed Ice Turbulence]Effect, causing the original[Crushed Ice Turbulence]18% of ice attribute abnormal damage, the source of damage is Promia, and this time[Crushed Ice Turbulence]The damage caused by the effect is also considered[Alien Release]Damage, special[Crushed Ice Turbulence]No reply[Cold Eclipse Value];
looks like Promeia has a unqiue interaction with Wind allies

[runic ether]

huh

so we are actually just getting another element

okay

[rapid bough]

agenda only growing

[runic ether]

i guess we were all wrong

sbilly is wind

[rapid bough]

well promeia is ice anomaly and if the early kit details are to be believed and wind is a new element that she interacts with, that'd presumably mean the other 2.8 character is wind anomaly, whoever they are

what if we don't get sbilly at all and it's just velina instead

didn't she have a hand fan as a weapon or something

[runic ether]

idk what'd be worse: sbilly never releasing or him releasing with a new element but he is immediately sacrificed and powercrept in the same element + role by the 3.0 launch unit

[rapid bough]

well i assume 3.0 is pink hair girl

she doesn't really scream "wind" to me but idfk

[runic ether]

if she really ends up being an elysia reference... she'll be ice likely

maybe fire if they are gonna be really on the nose with it

[rapid bough]

https://tenor.com/sZXB5Vsz1P0.gif

why does that gif refuse to embed

damn you discord

[wispy goblet]

reading through Promeia kit, super skim summary

• Promeia's EX is like Yidhari's: it has both a parry function and triggers its enhanced version when hitting a stunned enemy
• chains and ults trigger ablooms on anomaly'ed enemies
• Promeia gains AP based on AM in excess of 160 through her core (hopefully the chinese reversal does not steer me wrong in my understanding)
• her core also gives additional abloom triggers based on her unique resource; her unique resource is built through anomaly actions like freezes, disorders, "grunges," and her EX
• when ablooming enemies inflicted by Wind specifically, Promeia gains... something extra
• when there's an Anomaly or Support on her team, Promeia builds Ice +40%; when she hits an enemy, the enemy gains the boning state, which (if I'm reading it properly) causes their stun recovery to be 20% lower

[rapid bough]

b o n i n g

[wispy goblet]

I was not joking

it will trigger the ice attribute [impregnation] effect

[rapid bough]

broke: infusion
woke: boning
bespoke: impregnation

[runic ether]

???

this is just genshin??

[rapid bough]

those cloak animations obviously still need work lmao

[runic ether]

i mean i guess if it isnt broke dont fix it

[rapid bough]

and i'm pretty sure her equipment ani is broken since i doubt she's just supposed to randomly strip for it

however, i need her yesterday

[runic ether]

man she takes the cloak off and her fit gets hella ugly still

[wispy goblet]

we know she takes her cape off for her parry

[rapid bough]

based on that run animation, seems like she probably takes it off whenever she unlocks her hands lol

[wispy goblet]

Launch a dart attack and throw the cloak at the enemy to enter[Forgiveness in shackles]state, causingIce damage;
emphasis mine

[rapid bough]

so maybe the stripping equipment ani is legit

[wispy goblet]

stray thought
allegedly Soukaku was Wind in the beta before the attribute disappeared
so
S-rank Soukaku?

if she drops
I will spring for her

[runic ether]

s rank soukaku before s rank billy would be foul for billy fans

[wispy goblet]

apparently
the agent in the beta first is usually the second banner?
Is this a real pattern?

I'm starting to see why they put more clothes on her

[rapid bough]

the little pose she strikes around 0:16 is wild

her ult animation is goofy as hell

[runic ether]

that ult looks goofy af rn lmao

[wispy goblet]

trying to find the source of this anim people are sharing

[rapid bough]

reminds me of the nekomissile freeze frame meme except... not a meme

[rapid bough]

it's her chain attack

it's in the first vid you linked brother lol

around 0:50

[runic ether]

her seeming to be an on fielder has significantly reduced my desire for at least

cus i have never once needed 2 ice agents and i doubt she'll be stronger than miyabi

[rapid bough]

the constant switching between her cloak being on and off looks kinda weird, where tf is it coming from lol

oh i just now realized her cloak is the shuriken shit she's throwing

[wispy goblet]

ye

[rapid bough]

wack

i mean she looks cool and stylish and she's hot

prolly a pull for me

got big shoes to fill being ice anomaly in a world with miyabi, seems they're going with specific wind synergy

[runic ether]

i'll likely be too spent after nangong and maybe nangong wengine for alice

[rapid bough]

i don't see it happening after they've already made it but i do hope they change her ult animation

i cannot take that shit seriously lol

[runic ether]

im guessing its missing something

[rapid bough]

girl hits the naruto run animation

[runic ether]

and/or still needs more anims

[rapid bough]

gotta go fast

tbh she's giving me strong ice evelyn vibes, her chain attack having a bunch of strings sorta rounds it out

and given how much i love evelyn, i can't really say no

[runic ether]

they did the same to me with evelyn for promeia

i like evelyn a ton, but s11 is my girl

i like promeia, but miyabi is my girl

[rapid bough]

i've never been super enthusiastic about miyabi so i wouldn't object to using a character i enjoy/like the look of more

unless doing so would be inting my shiyu/DA scores lol

gonna be hard to fit into ice anomaly when you have to compete with miyabi

gotta imagine she'll have a niche to excel in, which seems to be the wind synergy atm

[wispy goblet]

I am a little disappointed it seems she doesn't pair with Zhao at all
at least in this state

[rapid bough]

i do wish hoyo could just commit to giving characters short hair

don't think the random long ass ponytail works here for promeia

[rapid bough]

i'm not even going to attempt to interpret shitty early MTL stuff

i'll wait til people who know how to read this shit tell me what's going on

[wispy goblet]

if I'm reading this right
AM mainstat
+35% Ice Damage
when EX deals Ice damage, anomaly damage is increased by 15%, lasts 30s, stacks up to two times, repeat triggers refresh duration

whew
what a night of reveals

I've been waiting for this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cb420gEp2_Y

[astral drift]

https://x.com/gj5623/status/2035009964734136394?s=61

KOORA/クラ (@gj5623)

쪼아요~ 쪼아요~ ㅋㅋ

X · Mar 20, 2026, 3:05 PM

[old galleon]

so as bad as that calamity gauntlet looks, there's a superboss after that that is its own gauntlet, which looks even worse

i reiterate, idk how non-gacha is doing this one

tldr three fights against it, each fight has 3 hp bars, each bar is around 300b hp, it has weakness to all elements (this is something you must plan around)

there are apparently other gimmicks with it but one of them is that it remembers what you damage it with

for each weakness you exploit, that weakness becomes absorption in the following fights

non-gacha does not have 3 elements strong enough to deal with 900b hp per fight

l

m

a

o

and idek what its other gimmicks are

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yirlRgy0HwU

maybe if i could read korean lol

anyway this bastard is easily the hardest fight in the game now (yes, harder than kaputnik, shade alter force, etc)

[astral drift]

https://x.com/figureandhobby/status/2034966433462198358?s=61

Fateシリーズグッズ＆フィギュア情報 (@figureandhobby)...

コレイズで発売中！

Fate/Grand Order_Mサイズ_ジャンヌ・ダルク&ジャンヌ・ダルク〔オルタ〕 アロハシャツ

https://t.co/JPET5LOs71

X · Mar 20, 2026, 12:13 PM

[old galleon]

s jeanne strengthening when

would also accept s jalter to make her s3 30% battery and 3 turn buster buff instead of what it currently is

[old galleon]

i am free

from crafting hell

all told, between all four parts of ode to origin, the crafting probably took a few dozen hours

even with the qol in the most recent part, this one was still the longest grind

my reward is a superboss gauntlet i'm not touching right now

[glossy latch]

Promeia really is held back by being a ZZZ character ngl

[idle grove]

where is this from lmao

actually goated sticker

[slow raft]

Glasses are very versatile

[silver osprey]

Ren just materialises Yvonne and Perlica stickers out of nowhere

[toxic cloud]

oh i borrowed it from an endfield server

legendary sticker tbh

[versed pawn]

new zzz emote on the official

baldgong

[rapid bough]

yvoro

[versed pawn]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1465989446330748949/1469912026733215936/IDontRemember__20260207_1.gif

https://x.com/nonooooo428/status/2035194841026732070

のの🍀 (@nonooooo428)

ペリカとイヴォンヌ

perlica / yvonne
#エンドフィールド

X · Mar 21, 2026, 3:20 AM

[slow raft]

probably not to advisable to post ai generated images

[toxic cloud]

oh no, purge that cup

[silver osprey]

Oh it is ai

[rapid bough]

i sure hope the actual AI image got deleted and you're not referring to godscup's post because if that's AI then i'm cooked

[toxic cloud]

[rapid bough]

god dammit man

if that account's bio didn't literally say it was AI i would never have guessed

i hate this timeline

[slow raft]

ive learned the styles these models "know" and then its just a matter of zooming in

it does help when they advertise themself as ai generating

[rapid bough]

i guess when i look closer i can see a few issues like yvonne's left glove's shading spilling over into where her tail should be

but still, god dammit

[slow raft]

yeah its grim

[toxic cloud]

My friend sent me a perlica one that was scary good. I double checked

ouch

[silver osprey]

https://fxtwitter.com/xefvel/status/2035066542782820736

xefvel (@xefvel)

**💬 13 🔁 475 ❤️ 4.5K 👁️ 46.5K **

FxTwitter · Mar 20, 2026, 6:50 PM

[mental acorn]

https://x.com/manjo_9257/status/2034918012151898253

_Manjo_(ワリト) (@manjo_9257)

Don't let your friend cut your hair.🗣️
#manhattancafe #umamusume #ウマ娘

X · Mar 20, 2026, 9:00 AM

gotta go bald now

[versed pawn]

https://fixvx.com/i/status/2034962997568053395

てりしゅ/輝 (@telish_tr)

ぽこあポケモンで、
ブルアカより「Luminous Memory」

▶ Play video

vxTwitter / fixvx · Mar 20, 2026, 11:59 AM

i dont even play the game and know the song

[long tree]

https://x.com/i/status/2035411784459223378

Dexerto (@Dexerto)

Cookie Run is getting a 3D open-world RPG

Cookie Run: New World brings 20 years of lore and characters together in Unreal Engine

X · Mar 21, 2026, 5:42 PM

[timber sigil]

https://vxtwitter.com/i/status/2035208976577523957

Year of the Junya (@MurderCube)

cuteness overload

vxTwitter / fixvx · Mar 21, 2026, 4:16 AM

@idle grove @rapid bough

[old galleon]

today the evil gave me gold exp books

roulette was break mode that turned into 14 free ten rolls before finally giving me one (1) gold moon

overall ssr rate on non-gala is 3% so even though it's strictly worse than gala getting 14 attempts at it is not expected

funny thing is that i have most of the rate-up summer characters on this banner (the gold moon was a regular character dupe)

on the very unlikely chance i do get to spark this one, i'd probably just take nier

i have s cucouroux, i have s hallessena, i have y tweyen, s ragazzo, s hekate, s galleon, y aglovale...

the only sparkables i don't have are y nier and s mars (a summon)

i do have s bubs so, lol

[rapid bough]

i know FGO is old but god every time someone posts a screenshot of it i feel like i have to bleach my eyes, the UI is nauseating

either of these as a skin or alt would kill me

[digital marlin]

You get use to it

[rapid bough]

i imagine so, i got used to azur lane's UI for instance

though manjuu did actually seem willing to make notable improvements to it over time, such that by the time i stopped playing it was actually MUCH better than when i started

[old galleon]

has the clay skin login event started yet or am i just blind?

[rapid bough]

it starts april 2

well, i guess april 1 for us

[old galleon]

aight

be me
be baited by arcana alt
roll for arcana alt
use ticket
gold gate
elysion

always fuckin punished

[rapid bough]

is she really reformed if she's still terrorizing your gacha luck

[versed pawn]

https://x.com/Edyssey_/status/2035448803751268461

Edyssey (@Edyssey_)

Las animaciones de la Nangong Yu 💀
#zzzero #zzzcreators #NangongYu

▶ Play video

X · Mar 21, 2026, 8:09 PM

[old galleon]

have to derive some sort of humor from this unfortunate situation

the entire point of not rolling for eh was to maybe put her on wishlist for completion later, not to get spooked by her rolling for blessed shotgun

[rapid bough]

i'm ngl the triple faceplant AoD animation is making me sad that i won't have them as a full team

that is an SSSSS-tier team combo animation

[wispy goblet]

Allegedly
Wind attribute does not disorder or abloom
All of its interactions are contained in its own unique interactions and effects
This could be why Promeia has a separate unique interaction with Wind, because the standard interactions do not work

[glossy latch]

Still more variety than HSR

Ooh Idk if I agree

[rapid bough]

i was reading through these boxes checking most in the first two or so rows and getting worried

luckily avoided the rest for the most part

many of these are completely reasonable criticisms of the game tho

why is wuwa player even a box on here lol

is it because ZZZ and wuwa released near each other and are being pigeonholed into a rivalry that doesn't really exist

[versed pawn]

its from a twt post

so people have like tribalism fights every 0.8 posts over there

[rapid bough]

figured

[slow raft]

the second from the right in the middle row feels like really weak deflection

the problem isnt that every fan of them is a pdf, its the catering to that kind of crowd in the first place

[runic ether]

zzz discussions is rough but the other subs are full of pedofiles idk what to say

well zzz leaks is alright

[rapid bough]

i followed ZZZ discussion until YSG released

they were even more insufferable about her than they think hoyo was about shilling her as proxy's gf

[runic ether]

def

seeing zzz discussion go on about ysg made me realize i didnt really hate her i just do not gaf about her

vastly different than how they act

[versed pawn]

Most discussion subs are just circle jerks most of the time

[wispy goblet]

Preload in five or so hours

hrmmm
I had been hoping to skip the 3.0 agents
But if one of them is Wind
There will be pressure

[glossy latch]

Well yeah

Thats how wind works

[wispy goblet]

[silver osprey]

https://x.com/umamusume_eng/status/2035477826426839046

Umamusume: Pretty Derby (@umamusume_eng)

🎊 Here's your first look at the new 3★ character!

Introducing [Natural Brilliance] Satono Diamond!

For details, please check the Featured Trainees section on the top right of the Scout screen, available from Mar 22 (UTC).

#Umamusume

X · Mar 21, 2026, 10:05 PM

[mental acorn]

i didn't know there was an enhanced version of right-handed

[silver osprey]

Crazy name for the skill as well

[slow raft]

https://x.com/shiadyne/status/2035453887772315697

SHIA (@shiadyne)

wearing a blazer all day probably gets pretty hot lol hahaha right am i right

X · Mar 21, 2026, 8:29 PM

https://x.com/hrtk0112/status/2035436472879489376

hrtk (@hrtk0112)

ブリキ

X · Mar 21, 2026, 7:20 PM

[old galleon]

i'm really proud of this clear

[wispy goblet]

only 30 pulls

[old galleon]

blessed

[wispy goblet]

new peak

[rapid bough]

god i fucking hate the pathforger minigame in gfl2 with such a burning passion

i wish they would just scrap it

worst gacha minigame i've ever played

[astral drift]

https://vxtwitter.com/i/status/2035406838662095267

清落 (@SqyLost37)

⭐ 千咲がおやつを食べてるGIF！

vxTwitter / fixvx • GIF · Mar 21, 2026, 5:23 PM

[rapid bough]

chisa cute

[digital marlin]

grinding out a Sigillum crit dmg echo for Aemeath and noticed that the enhanced echo absorption is bugged

its not going down when its being used on Sigllum

[slow raft]

https://x.com/tuumatae/status/2035702914375962734

pandesal (@tuumatae)

outisiisi

X · Mar 22, 2026, 12:59 PM

[wispy goblet]

Thinking about it
Wind seems to be an anomaly-focused attribute
Norma could be the second
Anomaly A-rank

[silver osprey]

We might have a chance next CM

[versed pawn]

U sure they increased it from 15 to 20

[digital marlin]

no im keeping track

i went in with 10 and did 4 fights and came back out and checked and it was still at 10

[mental acorn]

https://x.com/Quiet2049/status/2035467345963917369

Quiet (@Quiet2049)

X · Mar 21, 2026, 9:23 PM

[mortal iron]

https://tenor.com/view/maruzensky-ears-horse-cinderella-gray-uma-musume-gif-9817517142559820774

[old galleon]

new aac clear hot out of the oven

you might look at that score and think it's way overkill, but the threshold for this one is 3.1b

so i actually just barely did it lol

also this is the first ode to origin aac i've gotten around to doing, and it's one of the new ones

berserk zestah and genesis ego have been sitting there for months and i never bothered touching them

zestah at least will be pretty free, with sword and beast being requirements, so i can literally just run the above team but with myrus es instead of tsukiha and then switch claude as to claude es for sword

or i can just leave him as is since he's also royalty, which is another one

eh fuck it let's cook while the oven's hot

oh wait this one's glasses instead of royalty

claude es it is

threshold is "only" 602m so it should be simple, if zestah's weak to fire or slash

okay she is, so assuming i don't die we're good

act bonus is gonna be kinda small here bc i'm going to af a lot but any fight that lets me use this specific team and get full party bonus is pretty free

assuming i can beat the final boss, lag

idk why but this fight is really laggy

so uh this was scarier than i thought it'd be

turns 4 and 5 she just decimated everyone except aldo

way more than enough damage, though, so we're good

lol i even forgot to put grasta on claude

i had them on as but not es

do i want to do some more aac or do i want to do calamity gauntlet

[old galleon]

detoured from genesis ego to instead do ice jailer

renri alter isn't stellar awakened, but it's fine

[old galleon]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1N53OKUmX7Y

how do people figure this shit out

mc mainhand being a seasonal silver weapon bc it reduces skill cooldowns on charge attack

lmao

https://gbf.wiki/Impassioned_Rose

[slow raft]

https://vxtwitter.com/spidergenome/status/2035746808102822394

Mr. Hamster Nervous (@spidergenome)

happy sunday ☀️ whether you're playing or resting today, i hope it's marvelous nonetheless!!!

▶ Play video

vxTwitter / fixvx · Mar 22, 2026, 3:53 PM

[old galleon]

so it turns out that, while i do actually have this character, i clearly reduced his weapon at some point

bc i don't have it

lol

not that it matters to me, because it's 100% getting nerfed (either the weapon itself, or jornsborg)

and i'm nowhere near ready to do the versusia raid, let alone solo it

[mystic python]

They updated how it works this patch, if it drops the echo naturally, it doesn't use up one of the guaranteed drops anymore, so if you keep hitting the 20% it won't go down

[digital marlin]

OH

[silver osprey]

https://tenor.com/view/uma-musume-diamond-kitasan-kitasan-black-happy-gif-11168364830765148767

[glossy latch]

God its gonna take so long to grind out Sigrikas echoes

And I havent even levelled her weapon because I havent gotten it yet

[wispy goblet]

I need to do my solo raid run tonight
tomorrow is ZZZ patch and also I have work the day after tomorrow
I hope the guides are up

[old galleon]

this took a good while to figure out, but it's done

turn 1 swap out sheila for pizzica for status immunity in turn 3, turn 2 af

takes a minute to set up but wryz is good

just realized i could have used claude ns here, which might have saved me some trouble

tho idk whom i'd have replaced

wryz was my damage dealer, pizzica is mandatory for song and status immunity

yukino awakens the zone so probably suzette, but then i'd have to figure out how to set pain

ah well

[wispy goblet]

not exactly an inspiring score
but we'll take it

[rapid bough]

mother whale in the museum kicked my ass lol

only one of my teams could make it past like 45sec into the fight

[wispy goblet]

I got two
my RRH team and my Moran team

[rapid bough]

sky seems to have updated his spreadsheet with team comps but not much in the way of description

[wispy goblet]

looking at it
good enough for me

[toxic cloud]

Glasses Yvonne...

[wispy goblet]

thank you standard banner

we can now do her favorite item

...after I farm up the leveling materials for it

rewarded for wishlisting

mlb poggers

okay not exactly who I was looking for

but I've hit on three ten-pulls in a row

I was hoping for Tove so I could cash in the favorite item
but I'll take it

at least that's MLB Maxwell

still no Laplace at all

let's go more Mast dupes

Moran MLB yay

four for four
with two double hits
we quit while we are ahead, as they say

[rapid bough]

favorite item waiting room

also a shame she's nowhere to be seen in the current event (for now)

[wispy goblet]

still a Part II and Hard Mode

[rapid bough]

i somewhat doubt she'll appear since given "teacher" privaty (and commander, if you go that route) is the focus

but a man can dream

[old galleon]

if you do viper's favorite item, be careful with it

if you don't use her in arena then it's not a big deal, go ahead and max her out

but if you do, then making her a re-burst 2 is detrimental, so stop at whichever phase does that

[wispy goblet]

solo raid time (for realises)

[old galleon]

fgo players, aqua marie is in the game now

good luck with this second gauntlet

it's not that different from flare marie in terms of the structure, but most of the waves are aoe as opposed to st and there is a gimmick with the mystic code you're given

as with all the gauntlets, no friend supports are allowed

[old galleon]

also kagetora's very good strengthening is live now

single-handedly fixes all her problems lol

this would have made my fluffy kill even easier if it were up 3 years ago, but hey

[pastel bear]

I haven't filled fluffy yet so

[old galleon]

idt you'll be able to replicate what i did for it since it required some very specific ssrs

||https://i.imgur.com/QACng3Q.jpg||

spoilered bc mata hari and pyon pyon lol

[pastel bear]

yeah I don't have castoria or tamamo

[old galleon]

the annoying thing about that fight is trying to play slowly is extremely hard

[pastel bear]

or pyon pyon

[old galleon]

so instead i played it fast

that comp min turned it

(after quite a few attempts)

[pastel bear]

I'll probably just throw leyline stones at it until it's over

[old galleon]

that strat relied on using scathach to break its first bar, hence kscope

also need higher np level to make sure it actually breaks

[old galleon]

honestly this fight is probably the best use of leyline stones in the game

it's really fucking dumb

anyway, kagetora was able to break the remaining bars and then finish the fight

originally i wanted to do it with hokusbaer but i just couldn't get her to work

oh right

for that strat all slots are mandatory, except maybe you can replace tamamo with lady avalon if you have her

she has the added bonus of more battery, which can help

would not know if jda post-strengthening can sub in

tho now that i think about it, she's probably good here too

[old galleon]

lol ae support sent me an email asking me to do a survey

time to unload all my gripes

(yes it's a legit email linking to a legit game survey)

[toxic cloud]

Support email is crazy

[old galleon]

i sent them an email a few days ago reporting a serious bug

it got resolved, in the sense that they implemented a reset button to escape the lock that you could get yourself into

the email from tonight seems to be a follow-up asking mainly about my satisfaction with the support interaction

but it has a couple boxes asking me for my opinions about how to improve the game in general

so i'm damn well gonna take that opportunity lol

[wispy goblet]

lots of fresh leak news about ZZZ Wind
the simple takeaway is
you apply Weathered
and then repeatedly apply non-Wind anomalies to trigger Catalyzes for extra damage
and occasionally reapply Wind to maintain the Weathered state

notably, Weathered blocks all disorders and ablooms
Promeia cheats by having a unique interaction on Weathered enemies, Turbulence
that is treated as an Abloom
so she can keep using her disc effect

also remember the 2.8 boss applies Weathered to himself

https://youtu.be/LSEz6KT026k

[timber sigil]

https://x.com/darrian_xd/status/2036040556418330796

DarrianXD (@darrian_xd)

I love the way the Daiyans chibi looks in the ac

she looks so lost

X · Mar 23, 2026, 11:21 AM

[timber sigil]

@rapid bough wya w/Corposant btw

[timber sigil]

https://fixupx.com/SNaFu_1313/status/2036085022885880287?s=20

snafu  (@SNaFu_1313)

Holy ragebait

**💬 1 🔁 12 ❤️ 100 👁️ 853 **

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FixupX · Mar 23, 2026, 2:17 PM

[idle grove]

did you finish corposant?

[runic ether]

lcb check up spoiler
||https://vxtwitter.com/1RAb4HCgDrrfOXJ/status/2036096522979512755||

HenNa (@1RAb4HCgDrrfOXJ)

#LimbusCompany
요한 + 직원
호엔하임 탈출 포트 지키기

vxTwitter / fixvx · Mar 23, 2026, 3:03 PM

[rapid bough]

did part 1 over the weekend but that's it so far

[late canopy]

Now that free pulls are over and I used my rainbow crystal to finish Topro, I can actually easily run 60 RB deck for Kita

[silver osprey]

Mfw I have a LB3 Shiko Windy

[mental acorn]

canto 9 ||https://vxtwitter.com/drunklaim/status/2036074089052270638||

The Doctor, Tiantui Star of #pinkytwt (@drunklaim)

kira in the intervallo: i see now.. papa was just... a hype moments and aura merchant, after all..

outis who was just using the matthias id: hey do you think if we line her and ishmael up we'll get a 4x damage boost

vxTwitter / fixvx · Mar 23, 2026, 1:34 PM

[old galleon]

the new superboss in ae is named an-ki dingir

should sound familiar to some of you : ^)

anyway, got people already doing the re-fight

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwadIOxfD2s

"all malefics" is code for "give this thing all of its stacks and make the fight extremely difficult"

i don't even remember what all of them do, but some of them include the following

• absorb all elements
• break zones at the end of every turn
• reduce af gauge by 30% every turn

in the regular series of fights for it, it absorbs elements based on the elements you damaged it with in its previous fights, but for the re-fight you can set it to absorb all of them from the start

anyway this fight seems tailor-made for nilya and nekoko

[glossy latch]

... well I randomly got an early standard 5*

... its Yanqings signature

Which Im pretty sure is the least usable one?

[glossy latch]

Ive already got two four-liners for Sigrika o.0

[mental acorn]

kita and windy didn't show up for senior summer camp but still managed to get my first s+ just in time to get the last rainbow shard from event points

[mortal iron]

How the fuck are people playing MANT

What is the sauce im missing

[mental acorn]

with great effort and much time

[mortal iron]

I say this coz my runs end up with umas that rival...base campaign

[mental acorn]

dealing with the shop rng on top of regular career rng

if you go for the epithets you get like +300 spread across random stats, winning rival races gives you skill hints and more stats so you can boost your score even more, using 3 gold hammers on finals gives you +65 to everything

[mortal iron]

Oooy

[mental acorn]

friendship training with megaphone + ankle weights during summer camp gives you like +100 and you ideally do that all 4 turns

[mortal iron]

I just keep buying like
Energy, Speed/stamina boosting thing, and whistles

[mortal iron]

God this mode refuses to give me friendship

[mental acorn]

the whistles feel cursed i hate them

whistle 0 speed whistle 0 speed whistle 0 speed

and you gotta bring a good race bonus deck

[silver osprey]

Somehow my best run is still with Machitan

Where I got 1200/800/1200

Just as I was complaining that I didn't have Shiko MLB'd

[mental acorn]

Manhattan Cafe (My Solo Drawn to Raindrop Drums) spotted

[silver osprey]

I also needed her

She's LB3 but at least she gets 8% racing bonus like this already

[silver osprey]

https://x.com/strograph21/status/2036045876767113343

Astrograph (@strograph21)

Sky Striker Ace - Reed

X · Mar 23, 2026, 11:42 AM

[old galleon]

they gave the harmacist a sword

run

[versed pawn]

https://fixvx.com/kagame748/status/2036156000219308158

Kagame (@kagame748)

Dumplings taste test😋🥟
#ArknightsEndfield #EndfieldCreators #TideRises

▶ Play video

vxTwitter / fixvx · Mar 23, 2026, 6:59 PM

[versed pawn]

@toxic cloud

[toxic cloud]

[mental acorn]

[idle grove]

yoooo

https://x.com/i/status/2036062180475388125

IOP Gear Division (@gfl_iop)

"Is it finally up?🤩"
"...Not yet. Give it a moment."

IOP Gear Division is coming online soon. ⚙
Official Girls' Frontline series merchandise—Design and testing complete*. Preparing for the official launch.
(*Well, most of the testing, anyway.🤓)

Stay tuned.

#gfl2exilium #gfl

X · Mar 23, 2026, 12:47 PM

[glossy latch]

Tactical Hologram, fully cleared

Luuk is a beast

Still lacking Sigrikas weapon tho 😔

[rapid bough]

i cleared the first 4 hyvatia levels easily but didn't want to bother with the rest so i'm just letting it sit lol

and waiting on having a non-fusion team available to do reactor husk with

probably won't have that til hiyuki+lucilla

[glossy latch]

Fair

Tbh Hyvatia ended up being surprisingly fun

Her last two levels arent really all that bullshit minus the usual "attack that comes out slightly delayed to throw off your timing"

[rapid bough]

the devs seem to have an obsession since 3.0 with bosses that spend most of the time flying around unhittable

hyvatia is that at its worst

i know you're supposed to hit the counters to ground her but it's still annoying design

[glossy latch]

Funny enough I couldnt use Luuk for her since spectro res

Eh Idk, I enjoyed it

Reactor Husk was the one I didn't like

Because the hitboxes on reflecting his projectiles are kinda janky

[digital marlin]

Same

[rapid bough]

every boss that uses the projectile reflection mechanic takes years off my life

dreamless was annoying as hell too

[glossy latch]

I actually didn't mind Dreamless

[digital marlin]

Khaios doesn't have much to live

[wispy goblet]

Four more hours to 2.7

[glossy latch]

Mostly because its projectiles are much easier to reflect

[rapid bough]

there was always a few that would hit me no matter how well-timed i thought i had them

since it spammed the shit out of them

it doesn't help that both aemeath and lupa are shit for reflecting projectiles in my experience

they've got some long basics that take a while to actually hit things

[glossy latch]

Depends, I think with Lupa you could save her ultimate then go ultimate into the attack barrage

That one should be pretty good at deflecting

[rapid bough]

i ain't saving my ult for that shit lol

it wasn't what ever killed me in the fight anyway, it was just annoying

[glossy latch]

Issue of the skill variety

[rapid bough]

what killed me in dreamless were the multiple instakill attacks that may as well print "Wasted" on your screen if you're a nanosecond off on the dodge

which it's really easy to be because combining their animation with your characters attacking makes it nearly impossible to see the cue

[glossy latch]

Oh I fought enough actual boss Dreamless to be able to hear the cue even through all the sound effects

[rapid bough]

i don't often play with headphones on so audio cues completely elude me

[glossy latch]

... yeah I guess that would make it difficult

Its the most fun endgame tho imo

[rapid bough]

it's fine

[glossy latch]

Its not a DPS-check but a skill-check

Shame its one-time only tho 😔

[rapid bough]

i do feel like it has to make me actually learn a boss to beat it

which is a plus

unfortunately i am not a huge fan of wuwa boss design in general so i sometimes find the process annoying

[glossy latch]

Fair enough

Anyway can I get Sigrikas weapon already, I dont wanna cash in my corals if I can maybe still save them for a waveband >:[

[old galleon]

got privaty to phase 2

now to wait approximately forever for phase 3

i'm almost considering using a spare body voucher to get my second dupe of laplace so i can get her favorite item so i can then use those dupes to speed up privaty

otherwise 110 mats will take around a month and a half

also TIL laplace, for some reason, isn't in the silver mileage shop rotation

at all

despite drake and maxwell both being in there

i guess laplace just released later or something, but damn

was wondering why she wasn't showing up at all

funny thing about that is that she is in the spare body selector, which is mainly release nikkes plus helm

so idfk

anyway, most nikkes in the selection box are also in silver mileage

laplace isn't

seems kind of like an easy call at this point tbh

someone give me one good reason not to just go ahead with this

aaand time's up, gunning it

[rapid bough]

killing your doll maintenance mats lol

[old galleon]

unless i get really badly trolled that's actually not a huge problem

i have a decent stock

and if nothing else, she's usable in arena, so at least i'm getting some actual gameplay performance out of it

got fairly lucky in the purple doll part of it, managed to get a super just three attempts into stage 10

[wispy goblet]

Have y'all done or seen all the Part I routes?

[old galleon]

frankly, i skipped them because even as a wannabe vn, it's a lot of reading that i can do at my own leisure later

but current progression cap is at 46.1%

if you're not at that, you missed something

[rapid bough]

i only did all the student routes

have yet to do the teacher routes

but i know how they all end

[wispy goblet]

I've only done the one for now
I'll catch up later
But I've seen most if not all of them

[rapid bough]

i read this yesterday and only just now made the connection that this is not a bug

it's true of all lahai roi overlord/calamity bosses

all 3.x bosses have 100% echo drop rate, so the enhanced absorption doesn't apply to them

speaking of sigillum farming, just got this beauty

[glossy latch]

Noice

God I really wanna just get Sigrikas weapon but I dont wanna use my corals 😔

But theres like not a lot of quick sources of astrites left

[wispy goblet]

it's monday
gotta do another Kraken run

[old galleon]

aight, got enough to cut down the expected wait time from a month and a week to...a month

better than nothing

looking into doing more solo raid museum to see if i can make any of these work

so far i've done mother whale (got 4.9b, iirc with most of that coming from rapi team lol)

and black smith (got 6.9b, iirc with a fairly even split between rapi team and not!gundam team)

ultra is asking 12.something billion from me, which isn't happening right now

yeah all of the other ones i think are a bit out of my range right now

but with like a few more months i should be able to do them

looking at tehse selectors and i'm reminded that favorite item season 3 was mostly bangers

had all of the following

helm

(obviously great)

miranda

(less obviously great but core in a bunch of different solo raids)

drake

(very important to shotgun team since its introduction)

it also had milk, but we don't talk about milk fi

unrelated note but the privaty gacha skin is the most tempted i've been to grab one, despite knowing it's a scam

the art is a huge glow-up, even compared to her already good free skin

and i'll be looking to actually use her more after finishing her favorite item

so it works out both for lobby and for gameplay

on the other hand, it is still a scam, and even with all that i still find it hard to justify 60 bucks

[rapid bough]

*stares at lineup of owned gacha skins*
no comment

i already volunteer to be scammed by playing gacha games in the first place so i just get the pixels that make me happy

[old galleon]

fair enough

[summer hornet]

What's the $$ needed to guarantee the skin 'gacha' again?

I think the Privaty skin is, while appealing, too much for me to ever commit to it

But I'm curious

[rapid bough]

$60

a man can dream about them one day adding more features to the gacha skins that make the price tag at least somewhat more justifiable but it's never gonna happen

[wispy goblet]

$60 is the lowest guarantee price, buying all the biggest bundles

[rapid bough]

instead i am forced to look longingly at $15-20 azur lane skins with 10x the features

[wispy goblet]

doing some tower catchup while waiting for ZZZ maintenance

[rapid bough]

hell even brown dust 2 implemented gacha skins and even though i don't play it anymore, i know full well they're orders of magnitude better value propositions than nikke gacha skins

[summer hornet]

☠️

[rapid bough]

i do think part of nikke's issue though is that it wants to ostensibly remain "mainstream," which requires some amount of restraint that azur lane and bd2 don't bother with (simulated sex animations and all)

and introducing interactive skins like AL/BD2 just opens up a pandora's box

but mostly i think the devs are just lazy and know people will pay anyway lol

(yes i am one of the sheep)

[wispy goblet]

Nikke also puts very little competitive pressure to pull for characters
between a relatively generous gacha system, the wishlist system, and story mode
so they gotta make their bread and butter from FOMO and skins

[summer hornet]

Or TCG lmfao

[rapid bough]

right, i'm not arguing with their monetization structure

[old galleon]

this was an accurate statement, regi

[rapid bough]

i'm arguing that when you compare the value you get from buying skins in nikke to buying skins in other similarly goony games, nikke stands out in a bad way

though what makes it worse for me is that if you compare a $20 pass skin to a $60 gacha skin, the only real difference is the burst animation + lobby

is that a significant difference? depending on the quality of the burst ani, absolutely

is it $40 significant? definitely not

it's hilarious to me that they originally released gacha skins without the unique burst ani and people rightfully thought they were taking the piss to the point they had to go back and add one (bunny rupee)

[wispy goblet]

the april surprise will be a new interactive feature for all gacha skins

[rapid bough]

the bunny rupee precedent gives me a shred of hope they may one day add features to gacha skins, but unfortunately it cuts both ways

on one hand, yes they have gone back and added a feature before

on the other hand, that was when they had to do it to one skin

if they did it now they'd have dozens to update

tbh more likely they come up with a brand new skin bracket with interactive features and it's even more expensive than a gacha skin

god help my wallet when that happens

[summer hornet]

The minimum price for guarantee in the skin gacha is the base price for a box of Union Arena Nikke cards

Dunno if that's the price now, but

It's funny

[rapid bough]

it should be noted that during anni events, gacha skins can be guaranteed for $50

since they give you $10 worth of free pulls on the gacha

so that's a bit of a silver lining

still shit tho

to this day my second favorite gacha skin i own (behind SBS's) is little mermaid's

and while it is a good skin, the big reason i like it is that it's the only time i've pulled a gacha skin before guarantee lol

[old galleon]

which iirc you weren't a huge fan of at first

[rapid bough]

got hers for $20

[rapid bough]

indeed

i went into 2.5 anni thinking mihara's gacha skin was a must buy and mermaid's was a skip

ended up buying mermaid's and skipping mihara's

[old galleon]

speaking of anni, who do we think 3.5 anni will be

[rapid bough]

because it's the main feature of gacha skins, if the burst ani/lobby screen isn't good, i don't buy

mihara's gacha skin burst was mid so i didn't get it

mermaid's meanwhile is fantastic

[wispy goblet]

they also sell two gacha skins during anni

[rapid bough]

overspec anis + neon

[old galleon]

neon and anis? pinocchio and (insert someone)? idfk

[wispy goblet]

Neon and Anis seem most likely

[rapid bough]

they've sold two gacha skins simultaneously outside of annis and don't give the $10 free pulls

[old galleon]

if it comes down to both and i end up only being able to get one from mileage, it'll probably be anis

but we'll see

[wispy goblet]

I have enough mileage to get one of each

[old galleon]

i like all 3 counters and would absolutely pick one over the other based on kit

[wispy goblet]

I wonder what the "April surprise" is

[old galleon]

(i expect both kits to be great)

is it not just april fools'

or did they distinguish from that?

[rapid bough]

i can't wait for 3.5 anni to crush my soul after this very wholesome (for true endings anyway) dating VN event

[wispy goblet]

the way they described it I don't think it's APril Fools

[rapid bough]

i think they said it was related to anni

[summer hornet]

I'm. SO ready

[rapid bough]

my initial guess was a side story (similar to how mudfish set up 2.5 anni)

but that wouldn't be much of a surprise, they announced we'd be getting one around this time a few dev notes ago

[rapid bough]

adjacent note, i honestly think this might be the best non-major lore event they've done

and if not literally the best then definitely in the top 5 or so

they honestly cooked big time with 2x2 love

feels like it has an anni event-level of effort put into it

plus the writing is actually good, from comedy to the sweet/wholesome moments to the "bad ends"

[wispy goblet]

a lot of CGs
voice acting for a "minor" event
lots of replayability

[old galleon]

cute gacha skin

[rapid bough]

they could've phoned it in with dating VN slop where you segs everything but they didn't

[old galleon]

||aren't the sex endings bad endings anyway||

[rapid bough]

teacher route end spoilers ||i actually think it was really good of them to make the "lost in desire" endings where arcana/privaty and commander just go at it constantly the bad endings||

||since in the context of the event they're unhealthy relationships where they just hedonistically indulge in one another instead of actually living their lives||

[old galleon]

hey, remember that scene from valentine's day? now take that and dial it up to 11, and that's what you probably get from everyone else ||after the bad endings||

[glossy latch]

Guess who got Sigrikas weapon early and without having to spend Corals

[digital marlin]

[glossy latch]

Only 60 corals for the waveband too 👀

[rapid bough]

how early did you get it so i know how much i need to hate you

[glossy latch]

31 I believe?

[rapid bough]

[glossy latch]

Its the first weapon I got early since .... I wanna say Zani

Anyway now I can save for Hiyuki, finish grinding out Echoes for Sigrika and level her skills

[runic ether]

i love how you leave leveling her skills as last

[glossy latch]

At this point Im just doing it to spite Khaios

Well not spite

Mock

[rapid bough]

real "cut off your nose to spite your face" energy

[glossy latch]

To be fair her echoes are already nearly done

Its mostly just a question of getting mats to level the rest

[digital marlin]

cant we just be happy for people when they get something early instead of spiting

[rapid bough]

no

[glossy latch]

no

[runic ether]

i cannot throw this stone from within this glass house

[digital marlin]

[glossy latch]

Gambling is a zero sum game

And I need to win

Anyway I have my way forward for this patch

Just gotta get some mats for the weapon, grind out echoes, level skills, and then save up for whoever I get next

[rapid bough]

i'm just vibing filling out my roster and leveling qiuyuan til lynae releases

[glossy latch]

If I fail getting Sigrikas waveband, maybe Ill just get Hiyukis

[rapid bough]

running low on echo XP mats since i've been on that nightmare/cost 4 grind lol

[glossy latch]

I could alternatively start saving

And aim for Luuk S3 in the long run

Buuut eh

WuWa is a game where I really dont feel like I need sequences

[digital marlin]

same

tbh if i had the option to turn off sequence i might have planned for them

[glossy latch]

Surprising that isnt a feature in any gacha Im aware of

[rapid bough]

and after some echo merges to finish out a decent set, my qiuyuan is looking pretty good

CR is a bit short since his skill lines aren't done for the free 8%, but he'll be above 65% which is the important threshold when that's done

ATK feels kinda low since i didn't get many ATK% lines on my echoes, but that can be optimized over time, i just want to get him in a decent state

so with that i think i'll change my main exploration team to SK/qiuyuan/galbrena because the aurafarming between qiuyuan and galbrena will give me life

[digital marlin]

ZZZ is up

@wispy goblet you ready

[rapid bough]

perfect timing

now to find out whether yidhari will bless me

[wispy goblet]

it's time

[digital marlin]

80 for Nangong

[wispy goblet]

smh I did all that preloading for the game to still take ages verifying

[digital marlin]

and 30 for WEngine

[rapid bough]

20 pulls, she did indeed bless me

[wispy goblet]

damn only 20 in too

are you gonna go for sig?

[rapid bough]

now i'm very tempted to lol

[wispy goblet]

You're probably skipping Cissia and Seed rerun, right?

[rapid bough]

yeah probably

more like i'm skipping cissia which makes seed sorta of an autoskip as well

[wispy goblet]

if SBilly is indeed the other 2.8 agent
are you gonna spring?
are there any other reruns you're interested in?

I'm in

[rapid bough]

orphie

whether i spring for s-billy depends on whether he's good with sanby

also i lowkey really want hugo to start a march toward m2 because he gets really fucking OP with dialyn at that point and i think that will be very fun lol

but that's a very long-term investment

[glossy latch]

Has Silly been announced yet?

[rapid bough]

not officially no

[wispy goblet]

here we go

[rapid bough]

only leaks imply he's the other 2.8 character

but he has no assets yet even then

[wispy goblet]

storywise we're pretty clearly building to something with Billy

[glossy latch]

Well not time to reinstall ZZZ yet then

[rapid bough]

forget story, it's mandatory that we get a male character to release the patch before a VH-tier character

[glossy latch]

Ping me when we get Silly announcement or at least a model

OK but imagine if Silly is the VH-tier character

Idk who it would actually be, I haven't really kept up

[rapid bough]

likely remiel, incoming pink hair girl they teased in the last patch trailer

or w/e her fucking name is

[wispy goblet]

not exactly treating me well here

[runic ether]

im in the exact same spot rn lol

guess im not getting her wengine

[rapid bough]

man after getting super lucky on yidhari i might end up springing for nangong

[runic ether]

tho i wasnt planning on it anyways

[wispy goblet]

80 in

[digital marlin]

something is not right here

[rapid bough]

i know she's OP and michelle marie is pushing me in a very particular direction

[wispy goblet]

I see we're doing it the hard way

[glossy latch]

Wait weren't the AoD supposed to have the angel names?

[rapid bough]

i don't hate AoD, just unenthusiastic... and not pulling on nangong risks gimping my anomaly comps for the foreseeable future

[glossy latch]

What was the Vivian yuzuha core already powercrept?

[rapid bough]

remielle (sp) is an angel

she's got wings

[glossy latch]

Ye but her name is clearly meant to be an angel name, which I thought the AoD were supposed to have

Yknow, -el and all that

[runic ether]

yeah

iirc nangong's last name was remiel

originally

[rapid bough]

idk if remielle is just the new age "chinatsu" who ended up getting a name change to sunna

[glossy latch]

Guess it was changed then

[rapid bough]

point is pink hair girl, whatever her name is or will be, is likely our next VH-tier

[glossy latch]

But yeah uh, if Vivian + Yuzuha is already powercrept

[rapid bough]

yes and no

[glossy latch]

That's not ideal™

[runic ether]

yuzuha isnt powercrept

vivian is

[rapid bough]

it's more that fight/anomaly design is going to be shilled toward nangong's way of doing things (stun)

[wispy goblet]

lost count but I think it was like another 40 or so pulls

[rapid bough]

another thing that keeps me from wanting to pull nangong is that she's super sig reliant due to her AM scaling

[wispy goblet]

wowee I got her

[rapid bough]

feelsbadman

[wispy goblet]

[runic ether]

she is not as sig reliant as ppl say, but it is definitely a notable performance dip without good disc quality

[glossy latch]

I just don't like her design ngl

[rapid bough]

it's grown on me

i think i like her skin more than her base tho

[runic ether]

exposed toes is so fucking stupid on her base skin

also yeah kinda her skin does look better? still weird af

[glossy latch]

Wait

Does she have a literal cutout for her belly button???

[digital marlin]

quick question what is her best 4 piece

[rapid bough]

i'm ngl at least 85% of my enjoyment of nangong (which isn't particularly high) is her VA being anis from nikke's (michelle marie)

im love her

[runic ether]

its phaethon's melody

[runic ether]

yes

[wispy goblet]

Phaethon's is her highest personal damage
Shining Aria is lower damage but requires a lot less intent to manage while playing
Freedom Blues in non-Aria compositions help her disorder more consistently, and in Aria compositions accelerate Aria's buildup

[rapid bough]

hmm

i know i want to pull for promeia down the line

[glossy latch]

I really don't like that

Oh right Promeia is also a thing

[rapid bough]

and there is a 5913084529043572348548% chance that nangoing is going to be BIS for promeia (along with whatever wind anomaly agent we get)

[runic ether]

they found a way to make even the robot pedobait among the angels. its a skill at some point.

[glossy latch]

Promeia I'm actually a little mad about because her design could've been a lot better than it is

Eh

ZZZs designs are clearly mostly not for me

I just hope Silly is good

[digital marlin]

obligatory s1 desins were better

[rapid bough]

that's undeniable

[digital marlin]

im assuiming chaos jazz for her 2 pieces

[rapid bough]

except for banyue

his design goes hard as fuck

banyue and komano hard carry s2 designs lol

there are ones that are passable/decent (alice, yuzuha, yixuan, YSG imo)

[runic ether]

i mostly agree

[rapid bough]

most are just eh to me tho

[glossy latch]

I'm just glad WuWa is actually doing well design-wise even if I wish we got more male characters

[runic ether]

i do think yuzuha fits well with season 1 designs if u had told me she was part of the cunning hares

[glossy latch]

But at least the ones we get are decently varied

[rapid bough]

well spook shack was basically s2 cunning hares so that tracks

[runic ether]

i personally like alice a ton cus she breaks so many hoyoisms

but its def a case where i dont like. love her design? moreso her animations and gameplay carry her for me

[rapid bough]

her VA is one of the best in the game too imo

perfect fit/performance for her character

[runic ether]

oh absolutely

[glossy latch]

Also WuWa does fashion surprisingly well tbh

Which is why I'm still hoping we get that full on desert region from the concept art

[rapid bough]

part of me wants to ride the high of ripping yidhari in 20 pulls but i think i will hold and see how much i end up liking nangong in the upcoming story

same with making the decision of whether to pull for any sigs

[runic ether]

got nangong

16 off hard pity

[wispy goblet]

I'll get her skin later

but other than pulling her sig
she's all set

[runic ether]

i doubt i get her wengine. i'll just disc grind to perfection

[runic ether]

i had enough spare ether chips to get her skills to 12/1/1/12/12 but i forgor she had a new boss + outpost boss so i guess i'll finish her later

[rapid bough]

ugh this stat page looks fugly without her sig since you have to use CR disk 4 so her CD is dogshit

doesn't help that i don't have a huge amount of CD lines on my disks, but that's partially because i need so many CR lines lol

ah shit that's right i need to level lycaon too lol

and get him p6

is his sig still shit for him even with the potential upgrades

[wispy goblet]

Do you have Manato sig?