Current Events > Gacha Game General Topic 9: ''Out of gems, out of energy, out of sanity.''

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legendarylemur posted...

Sadly I don't have my phone with me, but the weapon for it is gonna be at the end of the list of Kagura's weapon, and the sets look like a crown, vest, and a shining thingy for badge. If you tap the set info on the weapon, should tell you what set it is. Otherwise the armor sets usually also have the name of the set on it as well

You know whats funny? This made me realize how addicted I am to my phone. Aside from doing stuff that involves water like showering, Ill have my phone with me like 99% of the time lol


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@ReturnOfThaJedi
ReturnOfThaJedi posted...

Dammit Grand Summoners. How you gonna have a Yu Yu Hakusho collab and not included Botan?

I know, right? I was beginning to think I was the only person playing who cared about that.

YugiNoob posted...

Jesus Christ monkeyballs did anyone else hate that Contingency map with those bomb drones, and the guys go into the tunnel right after they spawn? I dont think I even got to level 4 :<

I've hated all the maps so far.

Only thing I'm getting out of this is the meager "finish Practice mode" rewards and even then, apparently "finish" also includes "die miserably" because that's all I can manage to do. Even at 0 contracts and the support bonus active I haven't beaten a single one yet.

I don't know how the hell other people elsewhere are calling this the "easiest" event ever, it's been fucking maddening for me in ways Lava Mama Slug and Rat King never were. (Probably because it's generic mobs and not bosses that are throttling me.)
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Calwings posted...

I just checked. Looks like the weapon I have for her is for the other set.

Might be a blessing in disguise. You can at least get that one by doing the gear exchange. I'm at 10/20 and 15/20 on my remaining pieces of Helen's set myself

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YugiNoob posted...

You know whats funny? This made me realize how addicted I am to my phone. Aside from doing stuff that involves water like showering, Ill have my phone with me like 99% of the time lol

Lol yeah I usually have my phone with me too. But it was err... somewhere else farming in Vanguard Zero >.>.

Funny thing, I've recently read some studies that were saying the current generation of male adults have extremely low fertility rate due to keeping our phones in our pockets almost everyday. Got all paranoid so started to carry it around on my hand instead or leaving it elsewhere when it's doing stuff.

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Cell phones are a secret plot to curb overpopulation by sending radiation into our dongs D:

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I might get one of those over the shoulder pouches, but I dunno how it would look. It's not like I can tell ppl excuse me, I only look nerdy because I'm looking out for my balls.

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darkmaian23 posted...

@ReturnOfThaJedi

I know, right? I was beginning to think I was the only person playing who cared about that.

The units seem to be pretty good at least. All of them are luck farmable.

But still, no Botan.

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legendarylemur posted...

I might get one of those over the shoulder pouches, but I dunno how it would look. It's not like I can tell ppl excuse me, I only look nerdy because I'm looking out for my balls.

I have several of those. I look for the camping / outdoor / EDC / military type shit as it looks less ridiculous. My current bag of choice is a ukoala which can go over the shoulder or on your belt.

This is the website.

https://uubgear.com/


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I do think CC has the highest barrier to entry as far as Arknights events go thus far, all of the other ones at least start out pretty easy for several levels

Nice, didn't get robbed this time.



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Tyranthraxus posted...

I have several of those. I look for the camping / outdoor / EDC / military type shit as it looks less ridiculous. My current bag of choice is a ukoala which can go over the shoulder or on your belt.

This is the website.

https://uubgear.com/

These are pretty cool, but I don't think functionally it'd be too different from just keeping it in my pocket lol. I'm looking for something that might hold a bag around the chest

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Uninstalled 7DS. I was finding it more of a chore lately and the only thing really keeping me was the fan service lol.

Exos Heroes is my current main. Kinda itching for a side piece tho

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Jesus, thats it. I was logging on to get my daily rewards in Battle Divas and I saw there was a new event. Those fucking maids spawn a new guy every turn and can disarm you? Thats just annoying as hell and is just prolonging the fight. Fuck that, Im out <_<

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Yeah they also have a mechanic of being able to receive 33% hp dmg at max. Definitely pretty annoying. It does feel like they've devolved their game design the further they went in. I don't get the same sense of creativity in some of the Ch 7~10 fights. It's also getting really hard to power up without some serious luck at the gacha.

I'm still gonna play the event out and at least get 5 of Angela's boxes, then I may decide to quit, who knows

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Got my Abby recordings done.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcViOjtpCw0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAV-WS8ygQ8

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Today's CC was pretty nasty, I don't think Risk 8 is actually doable for me given how bad the effects are. I only managed 7 by first leveling Blue Poison to E1 lv 50 to replace Jessica, and then replacing Astesia with Siege in my front line, which felt like it should've been a downgrade but there's so much enemy spam that I guess the AoE on her s2 helps.

I also swear the Orirock Cluster drop rates are lower than it says on the wiki, I've been on Orirock Concentration for Eyja M3/Siege E2/Ptilopsis E2 for awhile now. Managed to squeeze out just enough for Eyja M3, so that'll help with the Challenge Contract stages, at least.

Galbias posted...

Today's CC was pretty nasty, I don't think Risk 8 is actually doable for me given how bad the effects are. I only managed 7 by first leveling Blue Poison to E1 lv 50 to replace Jessica, and then replacing Astesia with Siege in my front line, which felt like it should've been a downgrade but there's so much enemy spam that I guess the AoE on her s2 helps.

For what it's worth I found Ifrit actually helps a lot on the stage to nullify all the attack down contracts, plus all the enemies go down a single path pretty much she softens them all up before they get to you.

I also swear the Orirock Cluster drop rates are lower than it says on the wiki, I've been on Orirock Concentration for Eyja M3/Siege E2/Ptilopsis E2 for awhile now. Managed to squeeze out just enough for Eyja M3, so that'll help with the Challenge Contract stages, at least.

I've been farming 4-6 myself, even though the rate is a bit lower at least you have a shot of getting a Concentration drop outright. The most efficient is apparently just doing 1-7 but that takes forever since it's only a 6-san mission lol

After two 10-tix which got me zilch, threw a few more rolls at the Joint Op banner, so I've got Ch'en now.
#guardknights

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Meultima posted...

For what it's worth I found Ifrit actually helps a lot on the stage to nullify all the attack down contracts, plus all the enemies go down a single path pretty much she softens them all up before they get to you.

I've been farming 4-6 myself, even though the rate is a bit lower at least you have a shot of getting a Concentration drop outright. The most efficient is apparently just doing 1-7 but that takes forever since it's only a 6-san mission lol

After two 10-tix which got me zilch, threw a few more rolls at the Joint Op banner, so I've got Ch'en now.
#guardknights

ah, I was doing the no Caster condition so Ifrit was a no-go. She does work well on that map though, I used her for one of the earlier clears.

and yeah, farming 1-7 10-15 times and not having enough for even a single Concentration was obnoxious.

Where are you getting 10-tix from anyways, I've only ever gotten one.

Galbias posted...

Where are you getting 10-tix from anyways, I've only ever gotten one.

From the gold cert shop, the last batches of tickets come in 10s if you buy them out. They're of course also sold in the cash store too.

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YugiNoob posted...

Jesus, thats it. I was logging on to get my daily rewards in Battle Divas and I saw there was a new event. Those fucking maids spawn a new guy every turn and can disarm you? Thats just annoying as hell and is just prolonging the fight. Fuck that, Im out <_<

Yeah, seems Arknights *and* Battle Divas are testing my patience lately.

Not sure how much longer that's going to last...
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I posted an excessively long critique on the game and advice on their fb page, but I honestly don't know how much they can do. They're mostly just porting over a year old game anyways. I dunno how much they care either, but they have addressed issues ppl brought up and recommend ppl post there for feedback.

But it's just like from an outsiders perspective, I feel like it'd be so easy to tweek so the game is so much more playable. Some of the harder aspects that I wouldn't bother prioritizing would be stuff like AI and UI. The game needs significant gameplay tweeks before anything else.

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Anybody here play FFBE? I just downloaded it and would like some tips.

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Yeah, I've hit the wall again and I'm starting to sour on Battle Divas too.

- I'm stuck in the main story somewhere in the middle of chapter 8.
- I can only beat the first two missions of the new event.
- I can't beat any of the forbidden weapon dungeons.
- I still haven't managed to complete any of Kagura's sets, and I've gotten six unnecessary duplicates in the process.
- I have every free, grindable weapon available to me at this point except Kagura's second weapon, which I can't get because my Fire team to break her parts is too weak to actually win the battle, and if I use any of my stronger non-Fire options, I end up winning the battle before her parts break.

I'm at the point where all I can do is daily stuff and Infinite War, and I can't progress in the game at all. Even with the monthly pass gems helping me it's still not enough, so I can't imagine what pure F2P players are going through. I'm giving this game until Kagura's banner runs out on the 22nd... if I can't complete any of her armor sets by then and I still can't make any progress, I'm quitting. But even if I give up on progressing in the story and playing the game regularly, I might keep it installed just for Infinite War because it's one of the best side modes I've ever seen in a gacha game. It's just a shame that the main game isn't stacking up like I was hoping it would.
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They also need some help with their Google Translate dialogue lol

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YugiNoob posted...

They also need some help with their Google Translate dialogue lol

Thats been a real problem recently. There have been a bunch of games Ive been interested, and that are somewhat popular in their original region, that I drop within minutes because of the crap translation. None of them have lasted long in global anyway.

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Meultima posted...

From the gold cert shop, the last batches of tickets come in 10s if you buy them out. They're of course also sold in the cash store too.

aah, I knew you could buy the rolls there but didn't realize they came in 10's

congrats on your chinese dragon waifu

https://i.imgur.com/sUKUs81.png

WHAT
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Lol speaking of ...

Totally forgot about this random screenshot of the money amount

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I got Linnea

Like I needed more OP Shadow units.

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Calwings posted...

https://i.imgur.com/sUKUs81.png

WHAT

This is one of her lines about it:

At the time the history buffs said that the difference in appearance reference how it was the most heavily retrofitted ships either of WWII or ever, can't remember which. The logo on her sports outfit apparently reference some gay gym porno, so who knows what all the artist was thinking.


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Classic Maki

https://i.imgur.com/wWMVU83.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/n7vtHbZ.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/JGeqPgU.jpg

Oh wow I discovered that Harbingers has some nice deals. Apparently every day it saves 10% of the gems you spend, and at the end of the week it gives you that back. If youre a higher VIP you get triple, so 30% back. Also for completing the weekly mission you get 10 summon tickets which are used for the pin point summons. To explain, its like GFL where you can narrow down the pool of units you can get. If you pull 10 at once, youre guaranteed either an S rank unit or exclusive weapon :D

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Summer Kokkoros event finally got a permanent renewal. Ill have to find time to do it after Summer Io.

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Yep, Challenge Contract 5 was the most brutal one yet, had to do a bunch of party rearranging and leveling to get it to work. Surprisingly, the final step was swapping out Silverash from my final line of defense and replacing him with Lappland. I guess Wolf Spirit having sort of good uptime is better than Truesilver Slash wrecking everything for 20 seconds and then doing nothing for a minute. And there's 6 and 7 now, 6 doesn't seem too bad but 7...oof.

I have mixed feelings on the "you can't let your units get hit ever" challenge design, I think it's a neat twist for the most part but I don't like seeing multiple versions of the same stage that rely on it. Also really makes me wish I had Mostima, 6 second AoE stun + Nuke at E1 is bonkers, and the cooldown isn't even that long.

Meultima posted...

I've been farming 4-6 myself, even though the rate is a bit lower at least you have a shot of getting a Concentration drop outright. The most efficient is apparently just doing 1-7 but that takes forever since it's only a 6-san mission lol

late but ty, after running it for awhile I feel like 4-6 has better drop rates than the wiki gives it credit for on Clusters (still haven't had a Concentration drop, but oh well).

Lostbelt 2 hype
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Mahjong Soul, managed to summon my first new character.

https://twitter.com/eab1990/status/1274131777922138114

Its a 5% rate to summon someone, and that was my 16th roll, so rates seem accurate, at least.

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Galbias posted...

Yep, Challenge Contract 5 was the most brutal one yet, had to do a bunch of party rearranging and leveling to get it to work. Surprisingly, the final step was swapping out Silverash from my final line of defense and replacing him with Lappland. I guess Wolf Spirit having sort of good uptime is better than Truesilver Slash wrecking everything for 20 seconds and then doing nothing for a minute. And there's 6 and 7 now, 6 doesn't seem too bad but 7...oof.

Yeah redeploying Silverash is actually faster than just waiting for him to charge up lol
I still need to do Challenge 7 myself, haven't purchased one of the contracts

late but ty, after running it for awhile I feel like 4-6 has better drop rates than the wiki gives it credit for on Clusters (still haven't had a Concentration drop, but oh well).

Concentration drops are still pretty rare yeah, I think I've seen them maybe five or so times? lol


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BD has detected that I was quickly souring on it so it rewarded me with a random Fran weapon pull from a box. That means I can finally freaking use her in 3* required missions... Considering how ridiculous the latest event is (trust me, they're not as bad as Ch 12), this is a pretty big relief.

And on PAD, I rolled Tsukuyomi, a current top tier lead, completely out of a screw patience kinda roll. So 2 big low % hits in one day

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Harbingers detected that I was pissed off at RNGesus and finally gave me the waifu I wanted after spending all the resources I got from new player bonuses and about $200 of whaling :<

It's nice that it gives rewards when you spend certain amounts so it shows exactly how much you spent, but what's scary is that there's stuff up to $1,500 D:

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legendarylemur posted...

BD has detected that I was quickly souring on it so it rewarded me with a random Fran weapon pull from a box.

Same here, the game gave me a random Kagura weapon last night too. Not the one that goes with the equipment set that's in her banner, but it's something. If I can strengthen my team enough to grind 7-7 for part breaks, she'll become my first 4-star character. Despite this development, I'm still not sure if I'm going to stick with Battle Divas for the long haul.

I've started executing my backup plan by reinstalling Revue Starlight ReLIVE after several months away from the game and getting my account back... and wow, it's changed a lot since I last saw it. Plus that Hatsune Miku collaboration event I mentioned last thread is already in the EN version.
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Calwings posted...

Same here, the game gave me a random Kagura weapon last night too.

The hell? I got a new weapon for Sarah myself last night.

It's almost like the developers had an epiphany; "Oh wait, nobody has three *3 units yet, do they?"

Not that it makes me any difference I suppose, fighting those robo maids/butlers is still bullshit. I'm not even sure I can just stomach grinding our the first stage for the event tokens, it just takes soo fucking long to finish one battle.
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Meultima posted...

Yeah redeploying Silverash is actually faster than just waiting for him to charge up lol
I still need to do Challenge 7 myself, haven't purchased one of the contracts

Concentration drops are still pretty rare yeah, I think I've seen them maybe five or so times? lol

7 actually ended up being pretty easy with the same strategy I used for 5.

and I did finally get a Concentration drop, though I've been trying for Risk 18 and neither Siege nor Ptilopsis are in the strategy I'm using, very similar to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlrDUcDknXk except with Istina instead of Glaceus and...Texas instead of Mostima, which is making it a lot more difficult.

Galbias posted...

7 actually ended up being pretty easy with the same strategy I used for 5.

and I did finally get a Concentration drop, though I've been trying for Risk 18 and neither Siege nor Ptilopsis are in the strategy I'm using, very similar to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlrDUcDknXk except with Istina instead of Glaceus and...Texas instead of Mostima, which is making it a lot more difficult.

Ha, I actually used that general strategy earlier, Istina in Glac's spot and everything
https://s7.gifyu.com/images/CCI.png guess I'm done with CC now
(that's your sheep btw)
I've set Mostima in my support slot if you want to try her out
Def. felt simpler than trying to emulate some of the other ground-based runs at least

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Meultima posted...

Ha, I actually used that general strategy earlier, Istina in Glac's spot and everything
https://s7.gifyu.com/images/CCI.png guess I'm done with CC now
(that's your sheep btw)
I've set Mostima in my support slot if you want to try her out
Def. felt simpler than trying to emulate some of the other ground-based runs at least

ty, can you leave her there for a couple days? I tried again and then realized I had another issue (Gravel's HP is too low to survive one hit even with the shield lol; I had lowered the enemy attack when I was testing earlier, need to upgrade her a bit)

and grats, enjoy your haul of LMD or whatever else you use the bounties on after clearing out the limited stuff. Gonna be mostly LMD for me, I had a decent surplus of RMA and Polyester Pack even before this event, but LMD is always in high demand and I still want to E2 Siege/Ptilopsis, and maybe Blue Poison and Myrtle too.

Galbias posted...

ty, can you leave her there for a couple days? I tried again and then realized I had another issue (Gravel's HP is too low to survive one hit even with the shield lol; I had lowered the enemy attack when I was testing earlier, need to upgrade her a bit)

That's fine, I was planning to leave her for the duration of the CC anyway, my current friend supports are CC-centric
For Gravel you might want to stick her everywhere in the base and on standby in your farming runs to raise her trust to 100 too, that's an extra 300 HP

and grats, enjoy your haul of LMD or whatever else you use the bounties on after clearing out the limited stuff. Gonna be mostly LMD for me, I had a decent surplus of RMA and Polyester Pack even before this event, but LMD is always in high demand and I still want to E2 Siege/Ptilopsis, and maybe Blue Poison and Myrtle too.

Haha, well getting to 18 from 17 was just an extra 100, already did a ground run previously but I couldn't break 17 with my current lineup
I kinda wish they had Aketon for sale as well, that's one of my biggest bottlenecks at the moment and the drop rate for it is rather meh

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yep, that did it, ty
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/593126506012868609/724354091719065660/Screenshot_20200621-160030.jpg

it's been a fun event even if some conditions have been frustrating. Also really like the fact that you can get LMD in bulk, by the end I should have almost 700k LMD in the bank

i guess now it's mostly back to farming red certs to buy Breeze dupes (ie Yellow certs) and saving for Blaze/Nian/W/Weedy

Meultima posted...

I kinda wish they had Aketon for sale as well, that's one of my biggest bottlenecks at the moment and the drop rate for it is rather meh

I thankfully haven't needed too much of it thus far but yeah. Most T3 materials are slow to farm since they only drop like 1/3 of the time and the game is so limited when it comes to stamina, which is part of why getting them as rewards feels so nice.

Come to think of it, I should probably be using more Green certs for rolls instead of T3 materials, but w/e

Galbias posted...

yep, that did it, ty
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/593126506012868609/724354091719065660/Screenshot_20200621-160030.jpg

it's been a fun event even if some conditions have been frustrating. Also really like the fact that you can get LMD in bulk, by the end I should have almost 700k LMD in the bank

At least you got something out of it, I pretty much walked away empty-handed.
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The Catgirl Fondler posted...

At least you got something out of it, I pretty much walked away empty-handed.

I mean, getting maximum risk is challenging and requires you to have at least some high-tier characters, but the way that the event is set up, doing it at maximum difficulty isn't necessary to get a large portion of the rewards. Like, here's a guy doing it at Risk 12/18, which should be something like 80-85% of the bounty from the permanent stage (not including challenge contracts) with nothing but 3* characters:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6IAK_gvgdI

They have extra sanity pots for the duration of the event too so it's easier to upgrade your characters.

So I still find Infinite War in BD really fun, been mostly doing that and giving up on the Kaguya banner. I guess in terms of the main game Fran being 3* also let me clear all the missions on the side story, and it would seem I can actually auto it thanks to Helen's attacks being a multi-parter. Btw, set weapons for honor store cost freaking 50k... I rolled into Kaguya's weapon too only to realize I still can't afford it. Fuck it all

But in my IW, I tried to get the White Queen set (Shion, Kaguya, Ling, Ashanti). I've literally used everybody as the main source of funnel at this point, so I know this team has some potential. Sadly I never rolled Ling but got the rest.

Ashanti wouldn't roll a weapon for the life of her, so I decided to just leave her as base weapon just to summon tentacles. Reminded me of the Rick & Morty meme where Rick makes a sentient machine and it goes like what's my purpose in life. And it'd be Ashanti and Rick would be like to stay way back and summon tentacles. Oh, but she also had a passive that roots everybody on turn 1. It's actually really good

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