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since I haven't done this anni yet as well
rat gaming
literally takes 0 damage
except for those ranged dudes that spawn at the end 
Rainchan or something claimed it was turned into 25 hours somewhere after POO
But how do we measure the clear speed of POO runs if not in Skalter s2 activations
to be fair I thought they already increased skalter activation after CN dealt with pinchout
We can measure it in shining S3 skill cycles
Or hoederer for that matter
But that is not really an automatic skill, so it will only give a lower bounds on time taken
We can count with exu timings
We port IS3 ligma to poo
who can even notice a depletion of ONE pixel
All skills are now auto activation
just zoom in 
Where you're staring at the orange bar it's pretty easy to see
Same thing with measuring enemies' HP loss during a stall
If there are losing a pixel every attack, you won't stall for long
iirc I only check every like 5 mins
PPS is the new DPS
and even after 5 mins it barely loses any health
In Cinder that's how I was doing
I'm not talking about the POO kind of stall
But something a bit more dynamic, where it's not simply the final setup you go to bed on
okay old man lets get you back to bed
(check the splendid r30 defknights Cinder by Banana)
Cinder is still the best CC ever
when did we grow so jaded...
idk mate
But it hurts
2 years ago was CC6, we had shit squad UI, we couldn't read talent mid combat, and barely anyone had module 
Which cc was cinder?
I started with cc11 
cc3
I skipped all other ccs before then
the sarkaz clappers
I started at 3 with Mudrock gaming
and shi
Damm I am old
that's what a 3 year break does to a person
Pretty sure modules weren't out during CC6
CC8 was my first CC (that I never actually cleared because the gimmick just killed me)
Starting on CC#8 is not funny 
Not sure for CN, but they were on Yostar time flow, as modules were around time DH happened which is when i joined so for me "modules were always a thing"
Sleep stall 
Imagine starting in CC#7 
man that would just kill me
CC#7 is ez clap
Once you understand the mechanics
(I never did)
pass and mag mods?
I started on the easiest cc in the game 
Exactly. Thats' why i used guide to even do stage on R0
CC#8 is not the easiest ??
DH was summoner and instructor modules
Which one, cc4?
same (i used a kyo guide)
I didn't have levels for kyo guide even by the end of the event
iirc
unfortunate
If I rushed my ling module I might have managed a ling clear though
But I wasn't as serious back then
pinchout is my first cc thank god for kyo 
If you speedrun correctly you can have an E2 by the end of a CC season, assuming you created your account on the day CC starts
wtf cake trolling
?!
i think for low end cc8 was p harsh
always has been
just think back on what ccs 3* cant r18 ๐ซก
low end cc8 made me mald but idk if it was super hard, or if i sucked, or both
I think low end CC8 is just hard
Does cc1 add a new welfare cc op?
Was cc4 even done with 3*
According to your pfp's IQ, the problem is more about you
oh my bad, wrong channel
damn
Feels like Mudrock was pretty unstallable
Not sure
But it was really low end
Podenco E2 + Eyja borrow + 3* could r18 with like 7ops
Mudrock is not meant to be stalled
Even in normal maps
holy crap why is arkrec taking 10 years to load
She gets to 3.6k ATK every 4.5s (3s with shield)
that makes sense
Don't you get like 10 tokens for r17 and r18 ?
Was that the 2 Knights one?
I remember ash getting some pretty good use there
rosmontis was goated...
she can onecycle the debuff knight
if u weedy cannon it so it interupts the attacks
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yall have it too easy
Blem was on crab duty for me
Just gonna self-promote real quick
Because that's a WR moment for defknights
Damn, that was quite something. I am really happy to finally have a world record. As I said, it's a tie with Tums's clear, who uses a very different strategy : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozUbXIBrdw4
I'll try to do funny Liskarm S1 vs Hammer Bro during week 2, I didn't quite have enough time for it here.
Note that while the DP pots are pre...
hung is the goattt
man cc5 was the one map where I malded search cycle
I've hated weedy ever since smh
Most goated cc i think, no mercy on max. Welp im just max reward enjoyer
I have done a tactical waste of time 
And i done tacticless waste of time 
Damn, an actual use for puzzle stainless combo??????
stage ended by time it paid off but i couldn't just skip it
dem lin usage
is this 420?
ah
get rekt by taunt 
I swear half the times I wanna use him he's actually bad fffsss
I used stall strat, so no mlynar
, yeah taunt be like. ppl camp with him ig
when silencealter could've been useful 
I gave up and tried a different strat with ntr and ash lol
actually got it second try
also first time in a while I've used chalter
I did 600 day 1 or 2 idr wasn't too difficult bit of a stat check tho
I need surtr 
Actually i can insert Angelina for arts flex since its stall, but i forgor and used ceobe
oh yeah I tried ceobe but it didn't work well for me
maybe should have tried longer I see strats with her
mainly did top with chalter eyja suzu
Burst strat pog
my hoshi wasn't tanking well tho not sure if I needed mod x or y idk
so yeah I tried burst instead lul
whatever
I hear jessica gonna be a better brick either way
not too fussed
getting good use out of hoshi lately
by lately I mean past year lol
Jessica godsend for defenderknights obviously, not gamechanger in general tho
Did her direction change even affect anything?
it's nice for a few maps
she's good in is4 I've heard
The token has taunt iirc, it often used as helidrop bomb too. Direction change come in handy for certain situation ig
Just managed to clear WDEX8 without a guide!
Any tips for chally mode? xD
Golden Glow s3 works very well on this stage
Fart affects enemies after boss is dead.
Wait the black stuff hits enemies too?
Yup
Honestly my biggest problem was the drone
And thorns wasn't killing it and kept dying to the strikers
So I had to change my comp a bit
After that it was pretty simple
If you split box the boss, you can keep your defender away from getting farted on if you are using people like surtr
Texas alter and yato alter should trivialize this stage
Texas is really good but doesn't do much to the boss
She kinda gets 1 tapped unfortunately
Well she's great against the strikers due to her mini stun
My yato isn't leveled yet unfortunately
For sure
My first few runs I did on S2 to see if she did anything to the boss
She was bad xD
You have any suggestions to comp besides yato? Can't put her in yet
Hello, what should three stars operator should I use? Or should I not use?
Early game it is okay, they are cheap, don't need chip stage to get promotions, Kroos do high damage, defenders block, Steward unlock skill to focus highest DEF in range which can be helpful at times.
Essentially they are all fine
But if you have a higher rarity operator of the same archetype, use the higher ratity
And that's how people start using Jessica 
Looks ok. You need to manage gas can saria tank phase 2 with those medics?
How much assistance do you want, i made a new account and managed CM with a team. Yato and texas combo do most of the work
Ok fair
Kroos and Spot are far better than Jessica and Gummy
Yeah it'd be great to have yato, might just wait till I have her built, I just need the lmd
Saria is pretty tanky, and kaltsit helps too, they're healing off each other in my positioning
I would borrow a yato, her s3 is 'not on the map' so if you trigger the gas with yato s3 it will target the last deployed operator not in the gas, and not yato, allowing you to move the gas where you want it
enemies in gas get an ASPD debuff after the emporer dies
so you can park mountain just outside of the gas and he can have enough ASPD debuff to survive the red sentinel things and manage to kill it for example, I think
Oh I forgot about borrowing
you have poze, her typewriter...is probably also 'not on the map'
I haven't tested poze typewriter vs emporer blade, I had Yato and borrowed texas
brother how are you losing when you're 6 star carried
!?
Huh?
bro you're losing to an easy stage and you're 6 star carried
I mean WD EX 8 is hard you know
you're making excuses
you put a defender here, you put two medics on her, you hold the boss and trigger his gas in good places, you kill him and then deal with the final wave
What's your problem? Are you mad that I've pulled better characters than you? Like I see no need for this
I was just asking for tips
no ๐
he's sort of wondering why an account thats old enough to have chen alter is having an issue with it, I think
!?
he's not doing well in social interaction, though
what r you talking about
what is your goal? here
I already have Mlynar. I use him to burst first phase.
what are our E2 options?
I could probably do it if I tried a few more times but I was asking for basic tips for my comp and placement before that so it would be a bit easier
sounds like a tactics issue, you should be controlling the gas, theres no need to burst first phase it does no damage
Gimme a moment
It gets it out of the way though generally. Should I wait for him to circle the whole way?
you should sit on him with a defender and medic
and kill everything else while you plan out the gas
pretty sure poze, texas and yato can deal with phase 2
if you had an e2 hoshiguma you could easily sit out phase 2
because hoshi and 2 medics can easily out survive him
It's slightly out of date
Skalter is leveled, and mods for Saria and Texas
And rosmo
you don't have any pioneers leveled?
Saga? Bagpipe? Aren't they?
Saga is, he is on copium
no, fang, courier, texas ....saga yes
aside from kal, do you have medics leveled?
I have a E1 70 ptilo and E1 80 Nightingale
and a reasonably leveled sussuro
E1 60 or stmh
maybe this for a team
Context issue is WD EX 8 CM coping?
thorns??
(It is their only anti-artillery drone from what i seen above
)
they have pozy on the ss above
I ran chalter just for the drone Im gonna be real
She 4 shots it
Made it reaaaly easy
you can run chalter anyway cause it's chalter
but pozy should do fine with drones
Drone follow standard agro rules, just have it waste time on Saria, Nearl or whatever you have
cleared it with the team I posted. Yato s3 kills the drone in like 2 spins
drone sits on the tile in the left for a long plenty of time for texas s3 or yato s3 to deal with it
YATO S3 ATTACKS AIR????/////
Ty! will try
even weirder, so does rathalos s noir corne's s2
Always has
you didn't know? 
Well i didn't use Yato outside deploying S2, get oneshot before it activates and move on to use other operator 
Jesus Christ
Whatever godforsaken bstrd thought POE was a good idea should be fired
Out of a goddamn canon
We should honestly crowdfund a Triad legbreaker for this person because 4 million HP is not reasonable in any reality
They should just have told the mega-dalaos โYeah, making this game any harder would basically kill any opportunity to get new people interested in this game. If you want difficulty, go play Dark Souls with a banana. Weโre gonna go make a Genshin clone and make a morbillion dollars. Peaceโ
โOr hell, go try to wrestle a Jaguar into submission with your own bare hands if you want difficulty.โ
I did, but their very existence is an insult to the player base
edgelord behaviour
you're only forced into million hp mechs if you picked the tag
the only time you need to pick it is to complete a challenge, but in it they're still fairly squishy, you can just kill them in like a couple minutes
Main issue is not that you can get shit hyper bloated on HP.
Issue is that it is "easier" to get shit hyper bloated on HP than take ATK risks and try to burst before bursted without some hyper advanced planing like that "Make all melee robots 1 hp, then wake them, then kill them"
Chapter 12 boss was the insult to the player base. Poo was just not playtested
lmao what
ch12 boss wasn't that bad 
Now do it without mlular 
very easily, just degen it 
IS3 auto activation curse is so funny shit. Please land it on my Archetto
just SA it 
or chalter spawncamp
I'll be honest
I barely used wandering medic in ch12
only time I remember using wandering was I think H12-4 just because of the range
omg is that the legend gcomb from r99????

The problem with chapter 12 boss was the many long invulnerability phases
But they do very little damage for a chapter boss
"little damage" 
"very little damage"
Size doesn't matter 
Individually no, itโs only problematic when the clones gang up on you
zenith is right, only thing that hurts are the ๐

if going without elemental healer
sometimes i winder if i have a different version or something

We have bootleg version fr
Any thoughts about matoimaru helidrop?
Like deploy her and then use ability and then retreat
Weird af usage but not impossible ig
if you're using s2 she would probably die/almost die on her own anyway, so sure
that said, her cooldowns are not that big afaik? so using her as helidrop is not that good
Ye 25/15 cycle on m3, pretty fast
She's fine against mobs tbf
Probably but what if with her module
Where she does not retreat when falling to 0
It's like horns talent but less HP and +30
Aspd
yeah but it doesn't do much
what i meant is that if you don't want to support her, redeploying is a good option - it would "restore" her hp to full and she won't die
but if you want her to hold her lane, ideally you actually proc her death, and then make her stay on the field
So you're trying to say that she is more reliable on lane holding than helidrop?
you can use her in either role. Her short skill cooldowns (and s1 healing her hp) make her suitable for "laneholding" yeah
module doesn't lean into either direction much, since it helps both roles
Oh
why not just use utage?
Good idea
oh it's not a waifu pick?
there are lots of options to choose from, depending on what exactly you need
something like moduled hellagur is a menace even against arts enemies for example
dazmati cluster autos don't do that much damage
it's the skills that are annoying but very much manageable with nightingale, and even without, still doable
amm i am not getting dp?
one of the risks was no natural regen
and you choose other ones to start with 50 dp/100 dp etc
i should start reading ๐
did you read the tags before picking
truely the EN experience 
truly
nope
not surprised
why do u ask then 
ok I need melee ops 4+5 stars who can dodge/reduce arts damage
Amiya, Asbestos
And idk any more, ideas?
mousse
True but not really what I'm looking for since dorothy is invisible
Just don't buff her atk 
Iirc phys, yea
borrow mlynar, mop floor with the map, profit
foolhardy maybe

Foolhardy, illiterate
Brave Brave, Brave Sir TBone.
When Danger reared its ugly Head, Sir Tbone turned his tail and fled
brave Brave Brave Sir TBone
Kid I never fucking run
lyrics say otherwise
Well I'm considering it since I got 540
||you should say "No i didn't"||
But I haven't quite given up on the dream yet
at least that's how the sketch goes
Hi anyone found useful applications of silence alter s2? I'm deciding if I should mastery it for consistet AAK buffs on Squishies.
An alternate use would be on pennance, letting her hp drop below half before sheilding up to grant her permenant big %dmg reduction
well she was useful to me
Been playing around on pennance blemishine stainless and shamare combo and its surprisingly tanky, able to go toe to toe with the steamknight on h11-4 Thinking of swapping shamare with silence alter
Ooh how so?
24% shelter is not that much, if we're talking about penance, that said i'm confused, are you talking about s3 silence, not s2?
does this not work on enmity? i never tried
i used her s3 not s2
one case never will probably be again in need of her..
Hmm true the math dosent really work out
because s2 doesn't really help there?
i mean ig it does by reducing the rate of penance's hp falling but it seems too convoluted
Yeah it does work on enormity I've tried it out. Only thought was using it on mumu clones
Idk if they count as Rhine lab operators
Context is really just an appropriate healer for my enimity meme team.
I have been using ptilopsis to heal the non enimities but I just thought that silence would fit the team better
But I don't think it would be worth the s2m3 investment
Oh the team revolves around aak or belmi stainless to replenish her shield at stupid rates

I know it's a convoluted team but it's just funny to use pennance to tank bosses
as long as you're having fun
Yeah tried skadi perfumer but it dosent really work out efficiency wise
What
I'm curious is silence alter s2m3 prevents aak from one shooting golden glow
Alone
I've done the math and it's...not comforting
why wouldn't you use s3 for that
Yes but her S2 cycle is shorter and matches aak golden glow cycle for spammability
I guess skadi S2 can tip the scales in their favour but then it becomes a bit too bulky team wise
which skadi, alter?
Idea is basically super golden glow turret with global range and spammable
Yep alter
you 100% want to use skadi here yes
cut anything else for her, she buffs gg greatly 
probably better than some convoluted 3 op combo, due to GGs low stats
Hmm i mean
4 op
Skadi silence alter ask goldenglow
With ptilo somewhere else on the frontline tanks
Then the 4 of them just squat in the backline and Lazer beam everyone to death from across the map
Hmmm
Then texalter to helidrop and lower rez
Then abyssal team to split lanes and hold the line
Ok gonna try that out with S2lv7
Gonna be actually usable when aak gets his module and acts as a aa sniper
Yes 
Aak gaming
Yeah but
Shining has super long cooldown
Is silence can replace her
Hmmmmmmmmm
take a second look at the vid
Oh shit wait that's shining S2!!!!
Each one gives a reward for beating them
full run?
bear in mind gg dies horribly if shining would be distracted by something
Another dumb question but ceobe mod 3 actually useful in POO. By stacking defence into stupid numbers does her damage actually scale properly?

Gotta be careful with that one hha
it's not particularly useful in POO since it doesn't accomplish anything at all, just saves a bit of time
but for general content it's a strong boost to ceobe's damage
True true. I used the leak start myself just trying to justify ceobe upgrades so close to executor
Have you ever done monthly op in is3?
it's a big upgrade for ceobe and solidifies her niche
but how often do you use casters?
so yeah...
1 or 2 times
still doesn't answer my question
tis the IS2 monthly
it's like IS3 monthly but IS2
same rules for rewards i believe
Just reach floor 3 then quit for rewards 
ty
the question was what do i have to do, didn't wanna know if its the same like is3 since i did run it to the end there
anyway i did ask what are the conditions zenith gave me the answer ty
Is3 monthly squads work the exact same way

also only going for rewards... i mean you do you i suppose
u got it, don't care much about the story or what it says i did try to skip that thing for a long time
saw now there are rewards so i am going to take them
only thing i wanted is a do this answer didn't wanna be rude or anything
imagine not unlocking lore
my man missing out on the pizza lore
Yeah abc lore funny there
Is2 lore is funny
Kaltsit squad: Talk about immortality
ABC squad: Pineapple pizza
Ceobe: Ceobe trying to eat rusty mallet on sight
sarkaz: damn that's a big woman (they are unaware)
I can't kill these 9000 adds on 600 pinch out
technically ayerscape
Reaper, splash caster, flinger
since i assume you're blocking those anyway
Kazemaru at moment of clone spawning from S2/Death
BN s2 and kafka
Ambusher
Thank you all
most 600 pt strats i've seen use teq/pluma
take shamare depending on your risk choice
you could also do the funny
enforcer with blacknight/liskarm

You know I keep trying to make Blacknight work and I am just not smart enough
idk how people use pet units
the trick is to figure out how to feed liskarm first
then work out how to get blacknight next to liskarm
Enforcer BK lisk is cooking
on the pinch out perma, bot left you can open with flag and liskarm above them
I'm surprised people can get enough dps using Teq/Pluma
then there's exactly one tile where blacknight can sit
it's not that surprising when they're the best phys wave clear 5*s have
Rly? They're both target capped
teq might be capped at 3, but he kills those three faster than basically every other 5*
but she hits everyone?
yes
Jesus translations
the trouble with pluma is that she's fragile
thats very good to know ty
you have to be careful about who she blocks
there's a good reaper corner though
where she can use her range to great advantage
yeah its a good map for reaper for sure
teq's other big benefit is that he's a fat 3 blocker when his skill is up
and if you have ptilopsis, they're both up for every meaningful wave
you can manage it even if you take the sp risk
hung is also a decent blocker to use
because his s2 charges so fast
yea using the shit out of hung
3 enemies blocked and 1 - 3 rockets hitting him
Don't have Teq sadly
if you have your support slot free you can borrow mine
Nah don't want to do that, but appreciate the offer
we have a medal for borrowing support units ๐
If I don't have my pride in a gacha game what do I have
you're already playing no 6* i'm guessing
yeah
it's okay to use support lol
you should already be proud of playing with a weaker team
We'll see I might come crawling to you tomorrow
yeah teq is pog
I am in dire need of a better team for EX8 lonetrail. I managed to clear but only with a borrowed Volcano Eyja which was kinda cheating .
My main problem is just my guys dying too damn quick against the swordsmen
If kaltsit skill not up monster just can't hold them
use a shifter
you're playing hard mode without it
but also, how is using eyja "cheating"
She wiped out the whole map in one skill, but I don't even have her so i can't autodeploy
It took me 2 damn hours for that one level I stg
why would you autodeploy on ex8 
Will it not eventually rerun for Intel certs
i think for intel you usually need to clear challenge mode ex8
at least for other events it was like that
and idt you can autodeploy challenge mode regardless
Triple DP is insane
Heh? Lin?
||Ling ||
Fair enough
I did at least get immense satisfaction thru all my retries by one shooting the boss so many times
Turns out Surtr + Mlynar + Chalter does a lot of damage
that said if you don't need OP from the event
you can wait a year 
when it reruns
so you would actually get first clear rewards
I don't need it, was just finding stuff to play since I finished the story
I'm sad I needed Eyja for this one though
I was able to beat Walk in the dust EX8 without one yestrrdau
Yesterday
Donโt stress too much about setting up autodeploys now, itโs going to be easier when the event reruns and youโre stronger anyway
Fair enough. Would be so satisfying though. Did all of the ones thru Ex7 so it's just disappointing
you can do it without a support by refining the strat if you wanted
E: need to add a unit type that i mentioned above and to change the strat
Yeah I'd have to do some changing around of stuff
Any strategy way to clear this map using 4 star operator(or below?)
mousse's atk debuff is going to be the core
gravel is probably not that useful if you want to go for low op, but otherwise will still put in some work by baiting Burning Breath and/or face tanking crystal fire
the rest is likely the usual suspects for large squad 4* runs
sussurro/perfumer medics (probably want a third), gummy utility tank, cutter dps
you'll be redeploying a lot so jaye might actually not be good, and myrtle will probably be mandatory to help setup
4 stars or below. Gonna be quite the stall
if you want direct references to how, you can look for ILA or Silvergun's clears on it.
although ILA is 3* oriented
Imagine using Saria S2.
I just need to cluster constantly damaged operators together? Chapter 10 
what units do you even have'
cutter s1 should be able to shred ss
Yep, hard mode Raythean it is
JuSan blogging
How unusual
Dark timeline where mods don't flashbang this chat every 1.5 hour 
So on the build your own banner, who do I want on there?
what do u master on lin?
S3
How long has it been since a blue name showed up here actually ?

hahahaha
the reason is the funny part
called someone a "little troll" went to far of topic i guess
๐๏ธ ๐๏ธ
You need to be on the problematic users list
Or share a certain file...
d word, some nsfw stuff, or something else?
Don't worry about it 
and he isn't

Well
That could be considered a sign of madness from me
Because huh... This chat is more #map-help than anything now...
what would you recommend instead? Nearl s1? cuz thats saria s1, or her niche s3?
That's the point...
Saria S2 is only good in poison haze maps
Outside of that, it's a bait
Sarai s1 is single target, s2 is AOE, and S3 is...uh, special
S3 is bigger AoE, more heal, slows enemies and increases arts dmg
It's bloody amazing
its basically suzuran s3 with worse uptime
S2 has a big SP cost, wastes most of its heal in overheal and you shouldn't have more than 2 ops taking damage anyways
True
But you can use both
Well, that's not really the meta anymore
So I guess it's natural Saria S3 isn't as impressive as it used to be
depends, you got the chapter 12 boss splashing everyone, everyone needs heals
saria s2 can also be used if enemy would kill you from >50% hp
and you can't use medics, whether because of no tiles or due to risk banning it
Congrats !!
You found the third map of the entire game where Saria S2 is very strong over S1
always using her s2 is just flexing that your acc is way stronger than it should be for that particular map

If that happens, S2 HPS is certainly not enough to keep your ops alive 
for the unit economy, saria s2 provides moderate healing over a wide range
no tiles for medics, but you were using 2 healing defenders
possibly saving you the need for a medic
saria s1 saves a unit from death when a medic can't keep up
obviously for much higher risk you were using that feater + SA nuke, but for like r25-26 saria s2 + nearl s1 were better than both on s1 for example
the bursts of damage were also non constant, since they originated from slugs dying
Barrenlands ???
You used Saria S2 in barrenlands ?! Damn...
was barrenlands CC-0?
Saria S1 is the medic
S1 nearl s2 saria probably
Because you need to keep 1 target alive
Like everyone should
trust me i tried s1 
idr what i used in the end.
that said, yes, there was literally a problem of s1 saria allowing your units to get so low they got oneshotted by spiders
If it's for r18 it doesn't really count
3* beat it
maybe it was 24-25 actually
idt this was cutting for 26
why are we talking about a CC that ran 2 years ago and won't rerun?
it's been a long while...
If you let the spiders explode on you, you have no understanding of the map
the bulk of the game is farming the last 3 stages of an event over and over
it started with this
lemme reroll for that spider rng splitbox with gravel
is CC0 the last CC that banned medics?
You can't, or shouldn't, tank that hit
iirc cc5 had medics cost up but not outright ban
Anyways
Gotta go
Keep wasting your heals on scratch damage I guess 
Same idea why Spot > Gummy at E1
ty ty
this isn't DnD, I don't have a small amount of heals per day
yes yes, garbage mode and game
the UI is a mess and the permanent map felt, un play tested. without getting into rhetoric
yeah if it wants us to get 100 planning we should be able to sort by planning
It could be 'sweet, spicy, umami' for all it seems to correlate with what the actual risks are
cool UI but...
i thought it looked neat, but actually doing anything with it was a mess
there should only be 4 categories.
things that make the enemies do more damage, things that make the enemies take less damage, things that affect deployment/DP generation, and uh 3 categories
100 planning is just two "funny" 50 tags, no?
Legit every new event UI feels less discernable than the last
Also whoever thought afking for 4 hours to kill 1000% hp robots was a good game design seems to have forgotten you can play this game on phone
But game is still fun as fuck
LOL I completely forgot
bots should self destruct after 30 minutes at x2 speed, because if they haven't won yet, give it to the player
I've been eating shit for so long
Yes
I haven't done 600
600 isn't hard
I really needed the LMD on one of my accounts
Idk to me its weird to call gacha/strategy games 'not hard'
Like ya if you lookup what someone else did or use the 6 star p2w units its not to hard
If you figure it out yourself at the intended power level then its pretty fucking hard
Eehhh I'd say 5 star is pretty clearly intended power level for everything besides like extra credit CC/PO
and it's not fun to guess if you can bring your yellow horse or goat stealth revealer because they balanced shit around them
or it would make it giga easy
i'm not sure if 5 stars are intended power level
especially since 5 stars also have big outliers that are always present in the clears for example
are they too strong? is using them devaluing the game difficulty?
or are they just right, and then the rest of 5* just suck?
I think 5 stars are just balanced and 1-2 are really strong on any given map (PO/CC included) but will be weaker on other event maps
Whereas when I used 6 star units I could throw Ifrit/Eyja/SA at literally any problem and it would instantly be solved
teq pluma ptil shamare i'd say are quite stronger than your regular 5*
not even talking about stall shenanigans with blacknight/bibeak and lisk, who can just break the difficulty
do they pay mods and admins? ๐
Can't speak for the first two but I don't really use Ptil more than any other healer
Sometimes I use her but a lot of the time Perfumer is better
And Warfarin is xany more dps
Silence has better range
when is perf > ptlopsis
the passive heal matters very rarely, and ptlopsisโs sp gen is basically always helpful
Shamare also idk if there's something I'm missing but Prammanix is better a lot of the time
Probably when you can't deploy healers to every part of the map? xD
Ooh um
Last event the spaceship one
There was a robot that Utage could not quite solo
But with Perfumer she could
doesnโt happen much
and if healing is an issue where ranged units canโt reach, a healing defender is more consistent then a slight passive head
yeah I mean there is a tier list in terms of how versatile the 5 star units are
perf passive does have its uses but generally the sp boost from ptlopsis is more impactful
But there are plenty of situations where I would prefer another healer to Ptil
Unlike say 6 star units
Where any situation could be solved with Ifrit/Eyja/SA
That's why the 5 star difficulty is intended, you don't use the same units every time
Obviously you still use some more than others
well i'm not that dedicated of a 5* user to only use them, but we do have a couple others (besides you) here
i was under assumption that 5* still have a core of ops that are just...better
so sure you swap around the rest, but the core usually stays, is that not the case?
no
If I'm going in blind yeah I'll probably bring a core of Lappland/Kroos/Silence/Myrtle/Gummy/Leizi/Red/Perfumer and whoever
BUt those are all generalized characters so the more specialized a map gets I'll swap out more of them
The closest there is to a character I use literally every map is Myrtle
i meant uhhh
with enough optimisation, you will usually just have the "core" operators almost always be present on maps
those guys
so you cut ops until you can't clear anymore
I mean maybe that's the case for other people but not for me LOL
One sec
Like half these characters I haven't used in months
BIson I leveled explicitly for this
Puzzle also
Even though Texas is better in 99% of situations
Amiya guard I don't think I have ever used
Until today
fabled s2 amiya 
Squid couldn't an argument be made that Saria S2 has bigger range than S1?
Saria S2 could work in some silly strats with someone like Fiammetta where she gives 1 SP battery every so often I guess 
but I'd imagine a big part of why Saria S2 can be good is cause it has big range
You mean 2 sp
but please don't do it
I've actually done that a couple times with Fia
it's okay
good damage for sure
Good fia memes are funny
such as... 3vg2casterB fia was it in old SSS?
I don't remember what I cooked
but I cooked some funny shit that worked clearing it with fia as core

5casterB Fia was funniest
5 caster Fia 
with Warfarin + casterB'd Skalter
speedrun to carpal tunnel
Fia was funny in jungle sss last season
i don't like afk stuff myself but some of those strats scare me 
so much clicking
I like AFK stuff, but Fia S2 is very ASMR and funny damage
Hitting the beacon with s2 almost totally refunds all sp

Still less than trying to use Pinecone, Bibeak, and Archetto s2 at the same time 
I often prefer Fia S2 over S3, but if there's an obvious Fia S3 place that just does a lot more then I'll use that
Leto s2 but for bird faction whenplease no
@spark sinew But regardless of what intended difficulty is I do unironically appreciate the advice you were giving me last night, same with @limpid siren @somber falcon . Gaming communities are so fucking toxic that it's impossible to get useful/relevant advice so shout outs to you guys for fighting the trend
AKO sucks
I use s2 more now that i have stainless
every large public community sucks massive balls
but they all have one corner with more tryhard-focused people
sometimes too tryhard
not Fire Emblem
All their tryharders have been driven off a cliff
their skulls impaled on spikes as a warning to all
do you just have her attack stainless turrets
to recharge SP

What Fire Emblem community are you in where that's true
Stainless s2
Theres still plenty of efficiency thumpers in my experience, they're just newer faces
Time is a flat circle
I did Engage lunatic without Engage rings because they obviously broke the game and got a whole lot of shit for criticizing the game by that standard
And by a whole lot of shit I mean literally everyone
I love having the same arguments every other week because someone new has come into the game and been handed down the same years old misconceptions
I never even finished engage on normal/casual 
On the plus side the community will accept you
I've been a FE fan for a long time and never once interacted with its community
That would explain why you're still a fan of the series xD
Tbh its a better game if you don't tryhard, even the devs are trying to kill off their hardcore audience
da fk
38 days, 400 kills?
ako is okay tbh
nothing incredibly bad that you wouldn't see in any large server
im only here for a few people
actually why do I have a memory of cobra killing H bird 
Thatโs anni 3
Oh
I'm mainly here to ask random stuff cause I don't follow the game day to day anymore lol
help is kinda annoying tho idk if it's because I'm old and grumpy or what
I think weโre both just old and grumpy
what squad should i use
nah
im just keeping the username
im just bashing my head into a wall once again
too many trolls, too many clingy newbies
idk if it's as bad nowadays
I just remember it used to be that bad
I don't have a problem with new ppl it's just uh
feels like there's more of those ppl who don't contribute anything substantial and are just there looking for an opportunity to talk down to some peps newer than them lul
it's nice to help new ppl until you realize you can't teach them to think for themselves and/or adapt on top of that they start asking questions for every single tiny thing
then again the ones I think of are outliers
I just feel like AK has a lot of ppl like that
cause AK isn't as easy as an average gacha game would be
bruh are you traumatized by jerry or smth lmao
Happy day, good luck
well, not particularly traumatized but
I remember times where it felt like every person in help was codemuncher level
without the ling syndrome
then again I never really talked there, only observed sometimes because that channel felt like #arknights in help category 
at least his last message was in september 

wait why is leite gone 
He comes and goes
Just answer questions you want to, and skip ones you donโt
but would you step in to stop misinformation
Depends on the misinfo
I was mostly thinking back on this lmao
But I'm not exactly qualified to talk on efficient investment matters, which most questions are about, because I don't really play that way.
I'm a 6* abuser so I can only help with basic stuff
and trying to wear such a mindset as a hat often has me spouting weird takes.

Like my quasi-distaste for vgs.
specific vgs or all vgs?
All vgs.
Yeah. But I do wonder if it wouldn't be "efficient" to just leave vgs at e1 unless you have ambitions for high diff IS or CC
not necessarily
some VGs should be higher level so they can actually hold a lane for the beginning of the stage
cases being EX and S stages, especially CM
I'm thinking ones like Saga and Siege
๐ any advice, i'm stuck at s2-4
it's more of a qol thing since you can argue you can beat most/all stages without e2ing anything
Theres strong dps ops at those dp costs these days though
that's the thing
They kill stuff for a good while, and time is DP
if you have strong ops you don't need that dp anymore
powercreep issue ig
except when you absolutely have to have dp, for example -75%dp gen
but that's hard content specific
how frequent is DP gen CM
even then
I at least managed to get past all the DP gen risks and CMs
with just this
so they're not that problematic

Yeah. I think what it really is that I'm too hard on comfort motivated investments, which is kinda jank logic in some ways
now I have cantabile and saileach raised, but I didn't have them earlier
why'd you consider comfort investments bad tho
btw we should prob help the guy who asked for help with s2-4
have you used your 5* selector tickets yet?
most stages before chapter 5 are just level up
oh
Bit of help on MN-EX-5 CM?
s2-4 is barricade placement lessons
dunno, i just returned yesterday
whats the issue?
yeah
check your mailbox, you might have a couple 5* selector tickets in there
okay
Two of the gramophones start under enemy control
so park a 0 block near them. like mizuki? or mylnar
in your case Arts could be Angelina, Carnelian, Amiya, Click, Haze, Steward
actually you don't have Steward yet
Carnelian isn't exactly the best option either
I can bring Ethan as well
so you can either give Amiya some levels and plop her down
ty
Click and Haze aren't bad options, though Click sees a lot more use than Haze
when you get Steward consider giving him levels
great 3* unit that can provide you a lot of Arts help
are you forgetting pudding?
he doesn't have pudding
everyone has pudding, she's always in the shop
tyty 
you get 150 red vouchers clearing the first annihilation
though I did kinda forget about pudding (cause she isn't on his owned list)
btw @slim ocean you can place barricades something like this
to put units through longest possible path
that way your dps units can have more time to hit
๐ ty
and when everything fail troll last few enemies by unlocking block on left but placing block on right 
for the actual question at hand, common wisdom revolves around a "two of each, except supporters/specialists" for early game squads
you may consider the following:
- texas, **courier **(texas is a bit fragile early, so if you get a charger like vigna you might like courier/**vigna **instead)
- get lappland if you have the big 5* selector, you can pair her with maybe **mousse **or **melantha **until you get a better option
- mudrock, bubble is fine
- kroos, shirayuki (wait for the next event to pick up insider, the welfare 5* marksman)
- click, lava (you can keep using **carnelian **if you really want, but she'll be tough to see much value out of for a young squad - same deal for angelina)
- get silence (from the 4 pick 5* ticket if you have it), otherwise run perfumer with **hibiscus **or ansel, whoever you think is cuter because it doesn't really matter
the sniper and caster slots are good for covering st and mt dps early on
lava is cheap and good enough to clear basically every early swarm stage with a bit of help
vanguards exist to chump block and accelerate dp early, which you'll kinda need with an expensive unit like mudrock (who will be very powerful at e1)
it's nice to mix in 3*s, because they're so cheap and the first two you raise to certain level thresholds give you rebates on the investment
your guard lineup is very weak if you don't have the 5* selectors, but okayish if you do
lappland is a strong unit for weak rosters, as she is a solid dps unit at lower levels and helps negate some nasty effects in three story chapters with her silence talent
medic lineup is fine, perfumer is a nice pickup early to cover the multi-target healing role
That worked. Ty!
the modal units you have (carnelian and angelina) will be dead units most of the time, as in early chapters auto-attack dps does actually matter and neither unit is very good for that
okay, thank you very much
angelina will sometimes be nice to use though, because slowing enemies can be a very helpful thing
๐
if you play through hortus de escapismo soon and get insider, pair him with kroos until you need splash damage from someone like shirayuki
oh
actually you could just keep using meteorite instead of shirayuki
tbh
that's totally fine too
btw trapmaster mines work (mudrock event right?)
MN is maria nearl, no?
what would be gramophones in that
traps work either way
good question
these four units aren't really worth more investment too
e1 1 frostleaf is fine

you might want to do that eventually anyway, but probably wouldn't bother investing much past that
I remember that stage cause I was tryna some really geeky stuff lol
i remember trying aurora on that stage and feeling hatred





