Gacha hell

[rocky palm]

you can

some stuff at least

there's canonically a system in place that lets you take stuff you've purchased in the dream back to reality

idk if it extends to cars but i'm pretty sure it covers clothes and stuff

[fiery geyser]

Oh, right

[rocky palm]

i'll try to find the source where it mentions this

It might be a side adventure quest

[humble citrus]

it does but it costs a lot more

[crisp birch]

fuel time

[jaunty badger]

oh thank god

the calyx event is still going

[rocky palm]

it's so good

[toxic rain]

Facts

[reef elm]

When does the next banner happpen

[shrewd plinth]

Firefly drops Tuesday/Wednesday next week

[reef elm]

Oh they did the livestream a week and a half in advance? Weird

[shrewd plinth]

Yeah, it's because they'll release the trailers for Firefly this week, as well as allow content creators to release their pre-release info from the Creator Server

[fiery geyser]

https://www.reddit.com/r/HonkaiStarRail/s/AqnVCweJnR

[split zenith]

...

[foggy cobalt]

um

[reef elm]

Modded Genshin goes hard

[serene python]

Y'all, is Encore good? (WW)

[reef elm]

wuwa

which ones encore

https://youtu.be/qsBBZRNoP8s?si=4Zj2pTdJbVlpc7JI

[humble citrus]

Yes, around the same level as Calcharro in terms of DPS

[jaunty badger]

you think any of them will be added

[reef elm]

i want red sam

such a good design for mecha

but i doubt it

[jaunty badger]

it looks really good

i want to know more of the lore

cause they look sick

[reef elm]

yeah

[rocky palm]

I think there's a good chance the last one gets added

They got extra screentime for a reason

[reef elm]

People are saying it was an evangelism reference

[rocky palm]

an evangelion reference you mean?

evangelism is a religion iirc

[reef elm]

Yes the anime

[shrewd plinth]

https://x.com/look_around_man/status/1800055958602965441

nooo (@look_around_man) on X

#原神 #Clorinde #克洛琳德 #クロリンデ

Twitter · Jun 10, 2024, 6:42 AM

[reef elm]

https://youtube.com/shorts/NP2wWrprG6U?si=UqpxZ1WjRekkcogf

Hoyo please

[rocky palm]

I do think she'll be playable

The guy almost certainly won't

I doubt the other girl will be

But this one seems important

[reef elm]

Yeah the death flags for the other two are very real

[fiery geyser]

[jaunty badger]

yeah they seem dead lol

im optimistic about the red one

[serene python]

should I pull for her or grind for jiyian? (aquamarine guy, yangyang's boss)

[humble citrus]

grind for jiyan he’s a limited character and does more damage on average than encore

and he’s easier to play

Encore is part of the standard 5 star list so you’ll eventually get her when summoning for other characters

[fiery geyser]

https://fixvx.com/starrailverse1/status/1800331861752774981?s=46&t=mny_0bQXbmXg4oWLyknaXw

[jaunty badger]

https://fxtwitter.com/KUTABARE43/status/1800125425831887271

kfc

[reef elm]

That’s one third of a pull

[jaunty badger]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Jct7Gt_-MA

hes a nerd 😭

[reef elm]

Technique looks sick

[fiery geyser]

METEOR STRIKE

[reef elm]

Wow she looks fun

I’ll probably pull with all the pulls I get next patch

[jaunty badger]

https://fxtwitter.com/rizu033/status/1800531986102251551

[fiery geyser]

[rocky palm]

I have a plethora of this artist's raccoon stelle

[reef elm]

Cat

[fiery geyser]

[fiery geyser]

https://x.com/emmikn_/status/1801111375151812690?s=46&t=mny_0bQXbmXg4oWLyknaXw

emmi 🪷 AX B29 (@emmikn_) on X

✨
#Clorinde #GenshinImpact

Twitter · Jun 13, 2024, 4:36 AM

on the note of clorinde, I really shouldn’t have built keqing

I guess it gave me an excuse to farm T. Fury but I prefer clorinde way more overall

[shrewd plinth]

Yeah...

I don't have Keqing, but I doubt I'd build her if I did because I have Clorinde now

[fiery geyser]

worst case scenario I guess there’s always running both sides of abyss with keqing and clorinde

[shrewd plinth]

True, but I think that'd get a little boring

My current plans are to grab Furina on her rerun, then make a team for her to go in.
I'm considering picking up Wriothesley on his rerun and making a Freeze/Melt Team with her, but that's dependant on who he reruns with

[reef elm]

Oh yeah I need to check for a Genshin event

In case I go past 75 pity

Trying to get furina

[fiery geyser]

[fiery geyser]

There’s one active right now until the end of Sunday

[shrewd plinth]

https://x.com/honkaistarrail/status/1801104414096429204

Honkai: Star Rail (@honkaistarrail) on X

Divergent Universe Extrapolation Handbook
Aside from the Simulated Universe, Screwllum has also created a new branch to the project. As the project's first standalone issue, the extrapolation this time concerns the "human world" beneath the stars.

Learn More:…

Twitter · Jun 13, 2024, 4:08 AM

New info on Divergent Universe!

[foggy cobalt]

divergent universe is so good

literally such a baller addition

also . honkai star rail runs better than ww

and genshin

why is ww so unoptimized

[reef elm]

Do you hear how people were using the Genshin map to make wuwa run better

[humble citrus]

yeah, ww has memory leak issues

and running genshin fixes the memory leak

[rocky palm]

That is so weird lol

[shrewd plinth]

Genshin is so optimised that it optimises other games as well

[shrewd plinth]

Also yeah, it's gonna be so good! 2.3 is freakin' stacked with this being added on top of a new endgame mode and the limited-time events on top of that

[humble citrus]

I've heard it described as "genshin drinks up WW's memory leak"

which is funny af

[rocky palm]

Oh

That's interesting

It could be that bc genshin takes up another large piece of memory that it limits how much wuwa can leak

[foggy cobalt]

are you ong

[jaunty badger]

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

oh...

[reef elm]

The odds of red gundam are not high

[jaunty badger]

this is pretty much like gundam

[reef elm]

Not wrong

[jaunty badger]

this was pretty cool

i hope they do more

[reef elm]

Yeah they’ve been doing eight minute animatics a lot recently

[toxic rain]

I love gundam

[reef elm]

At least compared to the past year

https://tenor.com/view/gundam-laser-anime-mecha-laser-sword-gif-17279782

[jaunty badger]

the only one i really got into was the iron blooded orphans one

[wicked gazelle]

Man iron blooded orphans was so close to being great

[reef elm]

I started to watch it, then I heard about the ending

[fiery geyser]

||the fact that ruan mei was trying to bring these things back…||

💀

[jaunty badger]

i never watched season 2 cause i was satisfied with season 1

what happened

[jaunty badger]

its fine, shes hot

[rocky palm]

💀

[rocky palm]

💀

Nah

[jaunty badger]

but i think ruan mei is a pretty evil character

[rocky palm]

RM gonna be a villain fr

[jaunty badger]

oh did that new event for star rail come out

[rocky palm]

Galactic baseballer?

It's been out for a while

If you mean divergent universe, that comes out on Wednesday with the patch

[jaunty badger]

yeah that one

[jaunty badger]

i thought her whole quest was creepy but my mind went to something darker when i was doing her story

like i thought she turned little kids into those cat pillow things and thats why they were crying

[fiery geyser]

good lord

[rocky palm]

FMAB type shit

[jaunty badger]

actually what i was thinking of lol

[wicked gazelle]

its mainly the ending iirc || there is only one major death, despite multiple shots implying that there would be more|| it really felt kinda crappy

[jaunty badger]

||season 1 had a good amount of deaths||

[wicked gazelle]

yeah and those stakes go away in s2

[jaunty badger]

that was my favorite part

like war anime and it being dramatic

[reef elm]

Maybe I should go for Clorinde

[fiery geyser]

[jaunty badger]

https://fxtwitter.com/honkaistarrail/status/1801479683864686868

oh nice

[crisp birch]

Broccoli

[reef elm]

Mob psycho reference

[shrewd plinth]

This honestly doesn't look too bad. Outside of Pure Fiction is gonna be kinda rough, but inside it you get a free 28% Attack Buff and a free 8% Speed buff for most Erudition characters, and that's just at Superimposition 1 so it's likely gonna be double that at S5.

[toxic rain]

Mine was a og gundam recap then Hathaway then iron blooded orphans loved every bit of it, I was disappointed by witch from mercury I think it’s okay. Thunderbolt and war in the pocket are fire same with 08th Ms team

[fiery geyser]

[humble citrus]

is it for RM or HMC?

[toxic rain]

Probably evil ass RM

[rocky palm]

Does RM want cd?

I would've guessed she wants hp/def

[shrewd plinth]

Yeah, she only really needs Break and Speed, then the rest can be put into DEF and HP

But it's a solid piece if there's nothing better

[foggy cobalt]

if break damage could crit

[rocky palm]

I do plan to get a cr chest for Boothill when I can

60/250 will go hard or something idk

[plain bluff]

why not go for 250/60

[rocky palm]

Average seele player

[fiery geyser]

[mortal osprey]

Me staring at my PC at the 1000 damage seele ult when the 90% cr fails

[reef elm]

Sad

[jaunty badger]

https://fxtwitter.com/StarRailVerse1/status/1801836851415728279

@foggy cobalt gallagher

[shrewd plinth]

Finally, I can get Arlan

[lilac spire]

isnt he like f tier

[shrewd plinth]

Jokes aside though, this is a really crappy selector for me...I'm almost certainly getting my last 2 Gallagher dupes and I already have E6 Hanya...

[shrewd plinth]

Yeah

I just checked though and I only have E5 Luka so...I guess I'm getting E6?

[fiery geyser]

You could still get gally for more pull fuel

[shrewd plinth]

True

[lilac spire]

all of them look dead inside except for that luka person

[shrewd plinth]

Well...
Gallagher: ||He was never real to begin with||
Hanya: ||She watcher her sister die a brutal death before her eyes and now has to live with her as a robot who remembers nothing and possesses no emotions||
Luka: He just wants to be the very best, like no one ever was!
Arlan: He's the head of security on a space station and uh...He has a dog...

TL;DR, you're partially right

[lilac spire]

||hanya is carl from bbcf?||

[fiery geyser]

[reef elm]

is acheron good in glactic baseball

[shrewd plinth]

Acheron's just good in general, so I'd imagine so

[crisp birch]

https://tenor.com/view/hammer-gif-3284201032904258120

[shrewd plinth]

So, I just got to AR 50 and did the world ascension...Nowhere is safe...

Also, it took me way too long to get this

[reef elm]

oh yeah lol

just wait for the journey from 55-56 i takes about as long as 1 to 55

[shrewd plinth]

Yeah, I'm expecting it to take a while

Though that's probably for the best, since I'll be able to at least have 1 maxed out team by then

[reef elm]

if a amxed outt team means level 90 i still dont have that lol

[shrewd plinth]

[reef elm]

just the main dps

i should ascens]d kazoo though

[shrewd plinth]

I think my goal is gonna be:

• Get Clorinde to 90 with full Skill and Burst talents
• Get all the Supports to Max Ascension
• Maybe level Fischl to 90 with Skill and Burst talents as well
• Start working on Team 2

By the last one, I'll hopefully have Furina as well

[fiery geyser]

just as a heads up tho, getting from lvl 80-90 is a crazy amount of xp

like around 451 purple books iirc

[shrewd plinth]

Yeah, I've heard

That's mainly why I'm only gonna get 1 or 2 of them to max level before moving on

[fiery geyser]

[foggy cobalt]

YESSSSS

YESSSSSSSSS

[rocky palm]

I'll probably try and get e6 gallagher through banner then, and get Hanya in the selector

Pretty sure I have her e5 rn

[wicked gazelle]

whats the verdict on clorinde

she good?

[shrewd plinth]

Really good, yeah!

I play her in an Aggravate team, and she's really fun to play. Her only real downside is that her big DPS window is pretty short, and you can get interrupted pretty easily, so having a shield is pretty important

She's also pretty good for exploration, since you can just spam her skill when you're out of stamina to keep up the pace as well!

[fiery geyser]

[fiery geyser]

You have raiden, right?

Clo doesn’t hit as high raw numbers, but she makes up for it by attacking really fast so like Demon said, she can synergize a lot better with dendro and stuff like Chevy overload

If you care a lot about damage, she is somewhat ping-reliant though

[wicked gazelle]

poorly built raiden but yeah. i gotta farm more CR/CD

[fiery geyser]

That’s also another nice thing about clorinde, she basically has 44% innate CR (20% from her passive + 24% as an ascension stat)

[shrewd plinth]

Yup! One thing to note as well, my Clorinde is not built well at all (4pc Gladiator, partially built relics with 65% Crit Rate and 80% Crit Damage) but I'm still able to reliably take out her ascension material boss in a couple minutes.

[fiery geyser]

plus plus, her gun strings + the mobility w/ her stab means you never really have to use stamina outside of dodging a really chunky attack

[shrewd plinth]

[reef elm]

I used to be rich

[fiery geyser]

[jaunty badger]

https://fxtwitter.com/StarRailVerse1/status/1801838795077165449

[fiery geyser]

Xueyi

[shrewd plinth]

Xue-free

[reef elm]

Ooo

[fiery geyser]

[crisp birch]

free self model

bitchin

[reef elm]

i hate how fragil gunaifen is

i just noticed that phantylia has ||boob physic||s

genuinely thinking of getting jiauquiu so i dont need to keep using gunaifen

Ey

[shrewd plinth]

New Relics & Planar Sets!

[fiery geyser]

another +6% speed buff

[reef elm]

break

[shrewd plinth]

Yup! It's actually a pretty interesting set since, if you're able to keep attacking, then it's a permanent 40% Break buff as well, which makes it better than Talia

So it's actually a viable option for HTB in Firefly teams, since she can implant the Fire weakness that's needed to activate the buff

[fiery geyser]

interesting

[fiery geyser]

we’re entering the hyperbloom era now

stack EM/BE and just murder everything

[jaunty badger]

so hmc set for the first one

[shrewd plinth]

It's more of a Firefly/Break DPS set

I'm still gonna be running HMC on Watchmaker to distribute more Break Effect to the team

[jaunty badger]

so next week is the new candy crush gamemode with all those jades right

[shrewd plinth]

That, plus Divergent Universe and Apocalypitic Shadow

Actually, now that I remember, the candy crush event is gonna be a few days after Firefly's release

[jaunty badger]

thats gonna be a lot of jades

[shrewd plinth]

About 4000, yeah

Since first-time Divergent Universe rewards give 3k, then the 800 from fully clearing Apoc Shadow, then there's likely gonna be a few more from the new Story quests and other stuff

[reef elm]

nice

i should try and make a better second teaam

[reef elm]

at least there making more than one good break characters

we still only have navia and al haitham

[jaunty badger]

https://fxtwitter.com/PunchingCat/status/1792405163593871685

me soon

[shrewd plinth]

[fiery geyser]

Navia for EM?
Al haitham does go pretty hard tho

[reef elm]

whats her name

lesser lord kasanali

[fiery geyser]

ah, Nahida

I don’t have him but baizhu is very comfy
plus we’ll have Emilie coming up soon so who knows

[reef elm]

yeah so far i havent been temted to pull for any 5 star dendro

kaveh al haitham and kirara are the only exceptions

still sad insidnt get kaveh

[fiery geyser]

[shrewd plinth]

One day he'll return

[fiery geyser]

Hoyo forgot about him

he deleted himself during the hacker allegations

[reef elm]

those were crazy

i think i can say im not a fan of follow up based on the event

[fiery geyser]

[jaunty badger]

You all remember the genshin anime

[crisp birch]

this angers me so fucking much

such blatant favoritism and its crazy

THERES NO REASON FOR THEM TO HAVE PUT FUCKING SUPER BREAK THERE

WHY

[plain bluff]

https://tenor.com/view/boothill-gif-14104857363526159286

[crisp birch]

for no reason

for no reason they hyperspecified that only ff will use this shit

when they do the EXACT SAME THING

THE ACTUAL EXACT SAME FUCKING THING

[shrewd plinth]

I just did a random 10 pull on Alhaitham's banner...I now have access to a new team archetype

[fiery geyser]

LUCKY

double luck also cuz clorinde goes crazy in chevy teams

[shrewd plinth]

Yeah!

[shrewd plinth]

I think I'm gonna run Chev with Sethos though for a 2nd team, something along the lines of Sethos/Chevy/Xiangling/Beidou(?)

Sethos really wants to build EM, so it works out pretty well

[fiery geyser]

[fiery geyser]

Yeah beidou should be good, I assume fischl is locked in with clo for now?

[shrewd plinth]

Yeah

[fiery geyser]

gotcha

[shrewd plinth]

My only other options for that slot is Lisa or Razor, who wouldn't work as well I don't think, and my only other Pyro Character is Bennet who doesn't benefit Sethos that much since he scales more off EM

[fiery geyser]

True! But you could still probably use him to battery Xiangling and buff her up

[shrewd plinth]

That's true, but I think the double Electro works a little better for energy generation

[fiery geyser]

actually yeah lol, here’s a vid of someone using that comp https://youtu.be/4-rwvpKMpAg?feature=shared

[shrewd plinth]

Oh, cool!

I'll check that out in a sec

Just had a look at it and it actually seems pretty achievable, since all the characters but Xiangling had pretty minimal investment from what I saw!

[fiery geyser]

finally, a nilou friendly abyss

jesus they really ramped this one up

[shrewd plinth]

Yeah, I've heard this one's pretty damn difficult

[fiery geyser]

there’s so many waves

and they added back in some enemies that traumatized everyone in a previous abyss

[shrewd plinth]

Oh no

[fiery geyser]

those specific enemies aren’t as annoying this time but this abyss overall is definitely harder than that one

[fiery geyser]

i love freeze machine gun wrio

also please explain what happened

[shrewd plinth]

He a s c e n d e d

[fiery geyser]

https://tenor.com/view/vine-ascend-flying-epic-vsauce-gif-21863167

[reef elm]

I want her cons

[jaunty badger]

https://fxtwitter.com/Tyrant_AE/status/1802337859413664055

I’ve never played fgo but I just know everyone says it’s bad

[lilac spire]

it was better when there wasnt pity

[reef elm]

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZPRKwt6jy/

Gunaifen still manages to die when I give her all these artifacts

[foggy cobalt]

yeah

[foggy cobalt]

I NEED TO FARM FOR IMAGINARY TB AGAIN???

FUCK THIS SHIT BRO

https://tenor.com/view/cat-smh-nope-no-cute-gif-4883226

[rocky palm]

The planar set you mean?

Only if you're getting FF

Divergent universe should make it very easy

[reef elm]

I still need to begin farming for img tb

[foggy cobalt]

yeah

https://tenor.com/view/pizza-delivery-community-fire-gif-5219358

[rocky palm]

Still pretty easy imo

Basically any main stat, just BE and speed on substats

And BE or energy rope

If you want energy rope there's two resins from the new event

I just wish these relics worked on anyone other than FF and FF supports

The other planar set is the only good one atm

V excited to put that on clara

[fiery geyser]

[rocky palm]

[fiery geyser]

took me awhile to realize this one is animated

[crisp birch]

Classic hoyo playing favorites

[reef elm]

cries in eula

[jaunty badger]

https://youtu.be/tpHEWFnS1jQ?si=lcrwajYgs6ayDL2b

[fiery geyser]

friggin mika

[reef elm]

i love when supports are only better than older units at c6

[reef elm]

she looks fun

cant wait to see her in the story

[fiery geyser]

and even then he still has fairly big flaws

they should’ve doubled his ATK speed boost

[reef elm]

Plus his design is one of the worst

[fiery geyser]

[mortal osprey]

Did that say belobog industries?

[humble citrus]

yeah, it’s one of the factions in the game

[mortal osprey]

[foggy cobalt]

wtf lol

[foggy cobalt]

low key high key

ruan mei or firefly

AHHH

[shrewd plinth]

Ruan Mei's more universal and is a super good support, especially if you don't already have two 5 star Harmony characters

But Firefly's also a pretty solid DPS, but you'll also need to build HMC to make her perform at her best

[humble citrus]

both

[shrewd plinth]

Both also works

Honestly though, you can't really go wrong with either of them since both are pretty strong

So it's just dependent on what you have and what you need

[foggy cobalt]

i dont have dps

neither support

[shrewd plinth]

Then just go for whichever one you like the look of more. And if you still can't make a choice after that, then just flip a coin

[shrewd plinth]

I just got this from doing a random Challenge Domain...

h u h

Guys, I think these challenge domains are rigged in the good way

[lilac spire]

they have such weird ass names in those games

[reef elm]

Is that a Brandon Sanderson reference

[lilac spire]

he has a book called way of kings, not city of kings so who knows

[wicked gazelle]

Good book. Need to finish it

[fiery geyser]

sick

[reef elm]

I should finish the series

[crisp birch]

Well if pull ruan Mei she can be used almost everywhere, and if you pull firefly you need to pull ruan Mei

The illusion of free choice

[reef elm]

https://fixupx.com/Naruuuuuu9/status/1802726628520530057/photo/1

[fiery geyser]

[foggy cobalt]

LOL

is 2.2 out rn?

[fiery geyser]

honkai: ruan Mei

[foggy cobalt]

i need to update maybe

[fiery geyser]

2.3 is the next update; not yet but the pre-download is up

[foggy cobalt]

what is this cancer of a new launcher

[humble citrus]

a launcher with all of mihoyo’s games on it

instead of having multiple launchers for each one

[plain bluff]

https://www.reddit.com/r/HonkaiStarRail/s/Yp7JCzMwPH

[rocky palm]

Ruan Mei: most broken character in the game probably

Firefly: enhanced skill go brrr

[reef elm]

I got rn an an alt account

[rocky palm]

If you already have good supports, I'd say FF

[reef elm]

Maybe I should try for firefly there

[rocky palm]

If you already have good dps, I'd say RM

[reef elm]

With the rerun of Ruan Mei just around the corner, I hope people will be summoning for her just because of Meta. Is she good? yeah. Is she a must have? yeah. The whole point of games is figuring out how to beat them on your own using Ruan Mei.

Is this post for everyone? Yes. If you are a dolphin/whale and you can afford pulling for characters just because you want to better your teams, go ahead, but F2P players who can only afford a premium character per patch/2 patches should really be careful of what they're pulling. If you don't enjoy a character's personality/looks and just pulling because "She's Ruan Mei" and "every team needs her" good work. There's a whole new batch of hype characters coming into the following versions like Ruan Mei and we know know what other surprises they have in store for us. There's not going to be some other harmony units on the same level of Ruan Mei that you might enjoy more.

As a day one player with a developed roster, MoC can easily be brute forced through with Ruan Mei, but the joy of beating the hardest content with OP units is not as big as figuring out ways of integrating Ruan Mei into teams. That's also another reason why I'm hyped for the next SU update, bringing into light your unbuilt characters will probably open people's eyes to lesser used 4 stars like Gallagher, Harm TB, Firefly, heck even Ruan Mei if you are a giga chad.

That's all I wanted to say, be careful with your pulls and good luck on your future pulls!

And don't forget to build your Ruan Mei

[rocky palm]

I'm excited to see how much I can hit on Boothill w/RM

[reef elm]

I’m gonna add this to the clipboard

If I grind I can maybe bet both

But finding the motivation for that might be hard

[fiery geyser]

it’s doable

we’re also getting another gift of odyssey

so more pulls

[shrewd plinth]

Then there's the 3,000 from Divergent Universe and the 800 from Apoc. Shadow, not to mention the rewards from the new story content

[foggy cobalt]

this god damned game

is so big

[plain bluff]

how do people play this game on mobile

[mortal osprey]

it's not as big there, thankfully

but I don't know, it's even bigger relatively speaking to the average storage size

[fiery geyser]

in terms of gameplay or just overall

[plain bluff]

storage space

[fiery geyser]

Oh, yeah…

uhh, just accepting that half your phone storage is basically permanently dedicated to it

[reef elm]

Sometimes it lags a lot

You basically can’t have both Genshin and hsr simultaneously

Which is sad because it’s easier to digest the story for me on mobile

[crisp birch]

Honestly

Pull ruan Mei first

If you get her then get firefly

Bc then if you’re missing like half of her supports

[plain bluff]

pulling RM is objectively the smartest choice most people can make next patch

but you should pull for characters you enjoy

unless you're concerned with the meta

[crisp birch]

I don’t even think this is about meta

Just gameplay design to begin with

[plain bluff]

that's true

[crisp birch]

She only works with like 2/3 supports

So not having one is already a big handicap

[plain bluff]

FF only has 1 team

[crisp birch]

If she was a crit dps then it wouldn’t be as bad

But her being hard locked to those few makes it bad

[plain bluff]

and RM has so many uses outside of break compositions

[crisp birch]

Mhm

[plain bluff]

while FF is exclusively a break dps

[crisp birch]

I still use her with jingliu

[plain bluff]

yep

[reef elm]

Ah didn’t think I’d use this so early after getting it

With the rerun of Ruan Mei just around the corner, I hope people will be summoning for her just because of Meta. Is she good? yeah. Is she a must have? yeah. The whole point of games is figuring out how to beat them on your own using Ruan Mei.
Is this post for everyone? Yes. If you are a dolphin/whale and you can afford pulling for characters just because you want to better your teams, go ahead, but F2P players who can only afford a premium character per patch/2 patches should really be careful of what they're pulling. If you don't enjoy a character's personality/looks and just pulling because "She's Ruan Mei" and "every team needs her" good work. There's a whole new batch of hype characters coming into the following versions like Ruan Mei and we know know what other surprises they have in store for us. There's not going to be some other harmony units on the same level of Ruan Mei that you might enjoy more.
As a day one player with a developed roster, MoC can easily be brute forced through with Ruan Mei, but the joy of beating the hardest content with OP units is not as big as figuring out ways of integrating Ruan Mei into teams. That's also another reason why I'm hyped for the next SU update, bringing into light your unbuilt characters will probably open people's eyes to lesser used 4 stars like Gallagher, Harm TB, Firefly, heck even Ruan Mei if you are a giga chad.
That's all I wanted to say, be careful with your pulls and good luck on your future pulls!
Hope I added the right flair
And don't forget to build your Ruan Mei

[plain bluff]

they aren't wrong

[crisp birch]

Just Ruan Mei

[plain bluff]

it's a joke post

but they have a point

[plain bluff]

meta dps characters will always rotate over time

while meta supports are eternal

[crisp birch]

Powercreep is insane in star rail

[lilac spire]

the fgo community was hella toxic back in the day over metas

[plain bluff]

they honestly still are

every new servant is judged based on how good they are at looping

[crisp birch]

I think the easiest and most observable power creep is how they just straight up replace a dps in a single patch or two

[lilac spire]

i thought a lot of them left after covid died down

[crisp birch]

In star rail I mean

Like with blade and jingliu

[lilac spire]

i cant remember the whale community name. was something like farmgo or something

[crisp birch]

Or ratio and Acheron

Or boothill and firefly

[plain bluff]

Boothill is a tragic case

[fiery geyser]

tbf, blade has so little support rn

[crisp birch]

Literally doing almost the same exact thing yet still gets fucked over

[plain bluff]

Blade needs a Bronya-esque support

that drains hp

Jade is a good start

but not enough

[foggy cobalt]

if firefly drained hp

[wicked gazelle]

Boot up on phone, hit auto play, play set in strive, check phone

[fiery geyser]

furina expy

[foggy cobalt]

let me cook

wait

[sharp gulch]

I had a feeling this thread is gonna be the most active haha

[plain bluff]

Firefly does drain her own hp

[foggy cobalt]

if SPARKLE drained her own hp on her skill and then gave it back with her ulti

well not her own

teams

she would be even more baller

[wicked gazelle]

I mean there is jingliu

[lilac spire]

thread has its moments. be dead for a bit, then someone says something so controversial and brave, then it pops off for the next 3 hours

[plain bluff]

but she's not really a support

that team is mostly Jingliu ft. Blade

rather than

Blade ft. Jingliu

Jingliu is the main draw there

Blade just happens to benefit from her hp drain

but he's a sub-dps

[wicked gazelle]

Yeah...

[crisp birch]

Unironically

Jingliu

[wicked gazelle]

Hey!

That's what I said

🤝

[fiery geyser]

[fiery geyser]

it’s always live for a new update then it chills out afterwards

[wicked gazelle]

Maybe health loss synergy in return to lanfu

[crisp birch]

Jingliu and blade were some of the first teams used when pf released

[plain bluff]

leaks: ||Yunli is slated to drain hp, so maybe there'll be a hp-drain support||

[crisp birch]

||Team or self?||

[plain bluff]

self iirc

but the subreddit has more info

[crisp birch]

Ah hell naw

They hate blade

[plain bluff]

we'll know for sure soon

[wicked gazelle]

We get jade though

That's something

[plain bluff]

||they didn't buff Jade a single time during the beta cycle||

||while Firefly got buffed quite a few times||

[wicked gazelle]

Uh oh

[crisp birch]

Yeah hoyo favoritism

[foggy cobalt]

uh oh

[crisp birch]

Not a first not a last

[wicked gazelle]

Might mean firefly is on par with arle

[reef elm]

You do raise a good point about rm being good with jingliu, she might make the team truly useable on my account

[plain bluff]

Firefly is going to be on par with Acheron

[wicked gazelle]

Oh

[reef elm]

||i do recall quite a bit of doom posting about her||

[crisp birch]

Jingliu RM Pela Huohuo

That’s a good team if you can manage it

Pela is still an amazing character

[wicked gazelle]

||that'll mean she might be better with the leaked resistance changes||

[reef elm]

Pela belongs with Acheron

[crisp birch]

Just pull sw smh

[rocky palm]

As long as BE supports that don't only cater to FF come out, he won't get power crept

Not very much anyways

[reef elm]

Ikr should have seen the future smh

[fiery geyser]

also you could just run FF on one side and BH on the other

[plain bluff]

Boothill will never be bad

but it's hard to not feel bad for him

[crisp birch]

The sets are already doing that

[rocky palm]

Sadly, ||it sounds like FF has already gotten a 5* fire BE sustain||

[crisp birch]

Who?

[rocky palm]

The sets barely make it even

Being honest

[lilac spire]

yo feesh i forgot to ask you

[rocky palm]

Boothill outdoes firefly with normal stuff

[plain bluff]

but Boothill is ST

Firefly is Destruction

it makes sense that he'd outdo her

in ST

[rocky palm]

They had to give her two relic sets and it is still more or less even

[lilac spire]

at my tourny my friend had to play against someone in a 1v1 league tourny called somefish. they must have been your cousin

[rocky palm]

[rocky palm]

As long as there aren't 4+ enemies every wave he can still keep up

Especially using a Bronya support

[plain bluff]

interesting

that's good to know

[lilac spire]

you guys see wuthering waves income so far?

[rocky palm]

He instant kills basically everything

[fiery geyser]

All I know is that yinlin broke the store lol

[rocky palm]

The issues are getting his turns, and getting his ult up

[plain bluff]

he also stacks medals in the process

right

[fiery geyser]

also the SP cost

[rocky palm]

I think giving FF easy to repeat fire weakness implant is the worst part of her kit tbh

It's very dumb

[rocky palm]

Yeah

Gallagher and RM should help a lot with this

His e2 makes sp issues nonexistant

[rocky palm]

||Lingsha, allegedly||

[plain bluff]

||Gallagher's days are numbered||

[crisp birch]

Allegedly

[crisp birch]

Always were

[plain bluff]

true

[crisp birch]

Thus is the life of a hsr four star

[plain bluff]

there have been a few 4*s that have been meta

[rocky palm]

He gets trickshot every time he weakness breaks or kills an enemy in standoff

[crisp birch]

Tingyun

Pela

[plain bluff]

like Tingyun

[crisp birch]

That’s it

[rocky palm]

It gives him 10 energy

Which is really important

[plain bluff]

HMC seems to be one as well

[plain bluff]

but they're technically a 5* ig

[crisp birch]

HmC is a five star

[rocky palm]

It would honestly be crazy if they did this

[plain bluff]

that's really good

[rocky palm]

I really hope it's wrong

[plain bluff]

at least he'll be as good as he was before

even if there's a better version out there

[fiery geyser]

the trailblazer reboot

[rocky palm]

Yeah, it'll just be stupid if they give FF a custom limited sustain to make her even better

[plain bluff]

yeah...

[lilac spire]

ok i got the name wrong earlier. the whale fgo community name was farmville

[rocky palm]

Ik Acheron is getting one as well

[plain bluff]

Acheron being in her weakest state is interesting to think about

she's only going to get better

assuming that the devs cater to her

which they will

[rocky palm]

I want to see how many stacks Jiaoqiu gives her

If he can give two a turn he'll be so good

I figure it will be closer to 1 a turn and 1 on start of enemy's turn though

[rocky palm]

Technically all the new characters are right

Personally, I'm hoping that they release a relic set that works more with Boothill

There's a small chance cause if we go off the assumption Boothill was supposed to be 2.3 and FF was supposed to be 2.2, then he might get a set in 2.4 (read: copium)

[crisp birch]

DAWEI!!!!

TREAT JING YUAN AS THE GENSHIN TEAM TREATS XIAO

AND MY LIFE

IS YOURS

[fiery geyser]

Xiao?

[rocky palm]

Isn't that the fire chef lady in genshin

[crisp birch]

No

Xiao is the short one

[fiery geyser]

Thats xiangling lol

I’m sick and tired of…

[crisp birch]

He has been repeatedly buffed for no reason

Xiao is hoyo’s favorite child

[rocky palm]

Hasn't JY been buffed a lot too?

[crisp birch]

Yeah but Xiao is still a top 5 dps after 4 years of being released

and Jing yuan still sucks imo

[plain bluff]

yeah

[rocky palm]

If they could give him something to prevent CC

[plain bluff]

but Acheron is T0 right now

the best dps in the game

[plain bluff]

Fu Xuan

[rocky palm]

That would be really good

[rocky palm]

Inb4 FF release replaces her

[plain bluff]

they'll be T0 together

along with RM

[rocky palm]

/s

[fiery geyser]

oops

[rocky palm]

Why has discord made it so hard to do /s now

[fiery geyser]

ghost ping, sry duck

[plain bluff]

/s

[wicked gazelle]

I dunno tbh

Unless SW or pela get power crept hard I don't see her getting explosively better

[plain bluff]

if they can buff her ult rotation time

she'll get much better

[wicked gazelle]

Yeah that's true

[plain bluff]

||Jiaoqiu|| seems to do so significantly

[wicked gazelle]

Oh? 👀

[rocky palm]

Jiaoqiu not only does def shred

He also buffs ult damage

He's literally her best support

[wicked gazelle]

Should I not go all in on jade

[crisp birch]

Guh

[plain bluff]

he's the first banner after Jade

second*

[rocky palm]

*currently

His beta has still not happened

[wicked gazelle]

😓 whew

[plain bluff]

it goes Jade>Yunli>Jiaoqiu

[rocky palm]

But I don't see them making a lot of changes

[fiery geyser]

I meant to type smth in the conversation but I sent it as a reply to your message

[rocky palm]

They seem to have settled on everything along with Acheron

[plain bluff]

excited to see what they do with Yunli

[rocky palm]

Idk how they're going to make her kit work with the valorous set

[plain bluff]

the best set in the game

[rocky palm]

Apparently valorous goes well on Yanqing

[plain bluff]

currently only usable on Yanqing

but it's not even good on him

since his FUA is rng

[rocky palm]

Maybe they'll make a carbon copy of Yanqing with extra stuff

[plain bluff]

Yanqing but good

[rocky palm]

Damn

Ngl I didn't even know he had one

[crisp birch]

Didn’t even notice lol

[plain bluff]

I didn't know he had one until people started saying that he'd be good with Valorous

lol

[fiery geyser]

[shrewd plinth]

Jing Yuan's big problem is that, unless a hyper-specific support releases that caters directly to him (Buffs LL and Gives CC Immunity), there are other units that can use those supports better

• New Followup Support? The IPC Team will likely make better use of them
• Unit that gives consistent CC immunity? There are better DPS that can make use of it
• A support that directly buffs multi-target abilities? They'll likely be better used on characters like Argenti or Herta, who are all AoE (Though they'd still be pretty good for him as well)
  TL;DR: The things that JY wants are things that other units could likely make better use of, outside of a hyper-specific and niche support unit

[fiery geyser]

LL getting delayed on CC is still so

[plain bluff]

JY doesn't have to be the best dps in the game or anything

it'd be nice if he was better

though

and he's already fairly good

[rocky palm]

There's a good chance something like this could happen relatively soon

[plain bluff]

he is one of the only units capable of beating both PF and MoC relatively well

[rocky palm]

||since Feixiao should be largely similar||

[shrewd plinth]

I know, I ain't sayin' that he has to be. I'm just saying that, at this point, it's gonna take a lot for him to gain a big boost.

[rocky palm]

And will likely get a dedicated support if the current pattern continues

[plain bluff]

we'll see ig

but he's definitely aged a lot better than some other early characters

like Blade

[shrewd plinth]

Oh yeah, for sure

[plain bluff]

the addition of Sparkle was a massive boon for him

probably the biggest buff he's gotten since launch

[rocky palm]

Blade mains are holding out for a HP reduction meta in 2.8 last I saw

[plain bluff]

that's months away

lol

[rocky palm]

Yep

[shrewd plinth]

The fact that Blade got outclassed by a unit that released one patch earlier is just...yikes

Oh wait, nevermind

I thought that DHIL released before him for some reason

At least he didn't get completely Boothill'd though, since he at least had the 2nd half of 1.2 before he got outclassed completely

[rocky palm]

Boothill hasn't been completely outclassed

If the BE relic set hadn't been changed...

[plain bluff]

it's such a petty change

[rocky palm]

Fr

Firefly's kit is just kind of awful I've decided

[plain bluff]

mash E to win

[rocky palm]

Not even that

She can't function

Without HMC

[plain bluff]

doesn't she have innate super break now?

[rocky palm]

I'm seeing people say "oh I'm going to use x and y and z" and not HMC

[rocky palm]

She does

But HMC is about uhh

60% of her damage iirc

[plain bluff]

ah

[lilac spire]

this is the gacha channel, why we talking sol badguy?

[fiery geyser]

Not that HMC

[rocky palm]

The official numbers are on Prydwen if you want to check

But basically FF's superbreak sucks

And there was no reason to give it to her, bc it fixed nothing

And only resulted in the relic set becoming shit

[plain bluff]

[rocky palm]

@plain bluff

[plain bluff]

ty

[rocky palm]

Mfw dps does not work as dps

[wicked gazelle]

Lmao

[rocky palm]

This is why I've kind of accepted the state of things

Cause FF requires hmc, OR a better super break unit

And if they're a better super break unit then Boothill should be able to utilize them as well

Not that he can't use HMC currently, but he overkills a lot

So it's less necessary, and Bronya's extra turns are better

[rocky palm]

is this new launcher a billion gigabytes?

it's taking an eternity to download for me

[plain bluff]

not in my experience

it downloaded almost instantly

[rocky palm]

weird

i'll try terminating it and restarting

you did the update through the existing client right?

[plain bluff]

yes

[rocky palm]

alright

it's something about my home network

it really doesn't like accessing the hoyo stuff

swapped to vpn and it worked immediately

[lilac spire]

thats cheating

[rocky palm]

ehrm

the hecking flip

[fiery geyser]

[reef elm]

The urge

https://youtu.be/eFXQqY3ia6k?si=ZtA3R6cCsbYZo5Ug

[reef elm]

You can get so many jades from moc

Too bad my second team isn’t good enough

Acheron can one cycle it but jingliu and tingyun kinda sad

[rocky palm]

Kafka still has highest bounty

This is second highest though

[reef elm]

I didn’t see it when I watched

[fiery geyser]

[rocky palm]

kafka is 10.8 BB

[reef elm]

Only 1bil off

[rocky palm]

what exactly has kafka done that's worse than mass murder...

also also

are the ipc people robots or real people

[shrewd plinth]

I think it's more that Kafka's been active as a Stellaron Hunter much longer, so she's done much more stuff which has added up

That'd also explain why Blade and Silver Wolf are much lower than her as well, since they joined after both her and Firefly

[fiery geyser]

more mass murder probably

and the whole “domination” power (but idk if that’s canon)

[rocky palm]

I think canonically she's just very persuasive

Though she definitely has powers of some kind cause she helps blade with the mara struck right

[rocky palm]

[fiery geyser]

yes (?)

[rocky palm]

If there was someone who robbed 10 banks without killing anyone, I would not put as high of a bounty on them as the person who robbed one bank but killed 5 people

just sayin just sayin

[plain bluff]

she's the ringleader of the Stellaron hunters

the one who actually makes things happen

based on what Elio says

and her powers are dangerous on their own

she's a master of manipulation

[rocky palm]

i figured there would be more to it than just that

[plain bluff]

and has carried out many elaborate crimes

[rocky palm]

but you're probably right

[plain bluff]

she's also probably the most public-facing figure

of the bunch

that's also why SW's is so low

[rocky palm]

elio's will be $2

~~ bc he is a cat~~

[plain bluff]

that's highballing it

[reef elm]

Destinys slave

[rocky palm]

it would be really interesting if they update Kafka's splash art over time

To add new stellaron hunters (if there are any)

I think the 8 umbrellas theory is a bit of a stretch, personally

or however many there are

[jaunty badger]

8 is a lot

also do you all think firefly will die this update

[rocky palm]

[jaunty badger]

or join the astral express

or neither

[rocky palm]

she's cooked

[jaunty badger]

like 3rd death

it hasn't happened yet

[rocky palm]

I don't think she's joining the express

she's probably having a figurative death?

but this is also penacony, where we've had two character deaths already

so she might also just be dead dead after this

she has a shit ton of death flags

[jaunty badger]

but shes so popular

[shrewd plinth]

||I mean, they didn't really die. They were just very violently transported to Dreamflux Reef||

[jaunty badger]

would they really kill a cash cow right before it gets really good

[shrewd plinth]

Yeah, I don't think it'd make much sense to literally kill her off since her character's all about living the best life she can

At least not yet

[rocky palm]

I wasn't talking about Robin/FF

if that's what you're referring to

[shrewd plinth]

Oh, right

[rocky palm]

also

they better give sleepie some closure

[shrewd plinth]

Yeah...

Maybe the Origami birds will become it's best friends

[fiery geyser]

[reef elm]

Today on tomorrow

[humble citrus]

14 hrs and 20 mins from now

[reef elm]

Sweet

[fiery geyser]

now we wait

[toxic rain]

Guys wish me luck on Ruan Mei summons

I will cry if I lose

[reef elm]

Don’t die

[toxic rain]

I haven’t won a 50/50 in a min

[reef elm]

And good luck

[toxic rain]

Thanks man I might run into a wall like I’m ed from ed, Edd, and eddy if I get her

Even though she a deadbeat

[reef elm]

https://tenor.com/view/ruan-mei-ruan-mei-star-rail-honkai-star-rail-gif-17692174118184476749

[shrewd plinth]

I shall pray for us both

[jaunty badger]

So how much more time

[reef elm]

Four less hours

[shrewd plinth]

The banners drop at 12pm for me, so probably around same time or a few hours earlier for those on US servers

[shrewd plinth]

https://x.com/Dino_illus/status/1803116169554964853

Dino (@Dino_illus) on X

Firefly | 流萤

Twitter · Jun 18, 2024, 5:22 PM

https://x.com/syrup_123/status/1800468857880199668

シロップ (@syrup_123) on X

『あなたにとどけ』
壁紙などにどうぞ！

※タップ奨励です (4K○)
#Genshin #Furina

Twitter · Jun 11, 2024, 10:03 AM

[rocky palm]

I still cannot believe this banner name

😭

8 hours till banner goes live btw

[fiery geyser]

I was wondering where this was ingame lol

[shrewd plinth]

Yeah, it's edited

Still really cool though

[fiery geyser]

True

[rocky palm]

so long space cowboy...

[reef elm]

See you space cowboy

Oh that reminds me mtg x cowboy bepop

[reef elm]

Like 3-4 hours

[reef elm]

I believe there’s another couple hours maybe

Or half an hour

One of the two

[fiery geyser]

I think it’s up rn (in some regions)

[lilac spire]

https://x.com/ironmouse/status/1803253872091144263

💖ironmouse😈VSHOJO💖 (@ironmouse) on X

Set sail to a new destination with the 2.3 patch in Star Rail- Farewell, Penacony. Watch me pull for Destruction DPS Firefly!
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Use code 6T3F5HVD6LK7 for 50 Stellar Jade! #ad #hsr #honkaistarrail

Twitter · Jun 19, 2024, 2:30 AM

jade code for you guys

[fiery geyser]

Ty

[jaunty badger]

https://act.hoyoverse.com/sr/event/e20240619reflow-emk7kj/index.html?inviter=GU440R6NUN&hyl_landscape=true&hyl_auth_required=true&hyl_hide_status_bar=true&win_mode=fullscreen&utm_source=share&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=ingame

money for draws

[lilac spire]

im going to assume maint is over cuz my follower list just lite up with honkai

[plain bluff]

it ended 14 minutes ago

or so

[jaunty badger]

i got gallgher

[plain bluff]

congrats

[jaunty badger]

i need 80 more rolls

for ruan mei

[humble citrus]

i got firefly in 80, and then 20 pulls later this;

i also got like, 5 gallaghers so he's at E6

[jaunty badger]

OH nice

[wicked gazelle]

hes goated

[jaunty badger]

wait it gives 40

[fiery geyser]

[jaunty badger]

the little blue crystal things

i thought it was like 20

[reef elm]

Is that iron mouse?

[humble citrus]

if you have a char at E6 you get more powder/crystals

i got E6 gallagher after 2 of them so the rest were extra

[humble citrus]

the himeko fake out into RM was one of the biggest popoffs of my life

ALSO i got E6 misha and E4 xueyi

soon to be E5 with apoclyptic shadow

[jaunty badger]

||YO topaz pov||

[reef elm]

I did not get any Gallagher cons in 30 pulls

That’s like 83 pity

I lied

That is not 83 pity

GUAKA19A6N invitation code

[lilac spire]

whale wars is so dumb

[rocky palm]

how do invites works

[jaunty badger]

do you got like the link

[reef elm]

Uh

I think you just paste the code into the event

Since when I try to share it only says like twitter or instagram

GUAKA19A6N

[jaunty badger]

yeah fish is right

how do invites

work

where do you even paste them

[reef elm]

Think it’s here

[jaunty badger]

where is that

[reef elm]

I got it in the events page

March was on the banner

I remember this thing being really hard to do last time it ran

[jaunty badger]

im ngl

this is still hard to find

[jaunty badger]

in the special event page?

@humble citrus you know?

[lilac spire]

watched a whale wars and someone lost a 75%

didnt even know that was the pity for weapon banner

[humble citrus]

https://act.hoyoverse.com/sr/event/e20240619reflow-emk7kj/index.html?inviter=GUDWC73K6N&hyl_landscape=true&hyl_auth_required=true&hyl_hide_status_bar=true&win_mode=fullscreen&utm_source=share&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=ingame

see if this URL works

for mine

[crisp birch]

Man apocalyptic shadow is tough

[fiery geyser]

[toxic rain]

1ms timeout

I got the deadbeat pretty sure I hit hard pity

Makes sense as to why

[shrewd plinth]

I'm still updating, I just woke up

[jaunty badger]

thats so fucked up standard banner

i got like one character for everytime that ive rolled standard

everytime its a 5 star is a lightcone

[mild mauve]

thank you god

[jaunty badger]

Damn E6

[shrewd plinth]

Holy hell

[mild mauve]

i got it pretty cheap

200 dollars and 10 months of saving

[fiery geyser]

nice

[rocky palm]

trying to kill god.jpg

could probably kill two god's with that tbh

[jaunty badger]

hey fish, did you figure out how to put in codes

[rocky palm]

friend code thing?

[jaunty badger]

yeah

[rocky palm]

i'm pretty sure it's meant for returning players

i.e. people who haven't played in a month

so we can't use it

[jaunty badger]

now i know atleast

thanks

[rocky palm]

I will share this piece that I rolled

Boothill stonks

Also got RM at 40 pity

huge gains ngl

[shrewd plinth]

Got her!

[rocky palm]

Tingyun is on this banner?

[fiery geyser]

[rocky palm]

tf

[fiery geyser]

No

You can get any 4 star

[rocky palm]

oh wack

[fiery geyser]

it’s just the featured ones should have a higher rate

[wicked gazelle]

just got lucky

[shrewd plinth]

Yeah, I also got 2 Xueyi and Misha

[wicked gazelle]

i got gui on acheron's banner

[rocky palm]

misha

[fiery geyser]

Gallagher might as well not have existed

[rocky palm]

I want to get his messages

I got e6 gallagher and also finalized his kit yesterday

150% BE and 147 speed (5k health too)

I basically don't need his e4 cause he gets ult up before the enemy gets two turns anyways

[shrewd plinth]

I'm also going for Firefly, so there's still a chance

[fiery geyser]