Current Events > Gacha Game General Topic 24: ''A wasteland emptier than my gem stash''

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YugiNoob posted...

Yeah Arknights is just slow in general, so I set it to 2x speed right after I drop Texas down somewhere, since she's my first unit 99.99% of the time.

Myrtle looking at you in disgust right now for not abusing her.

Tennousu posted...

Like there was this stage that has Sarkaz unit that lasso your units from afar. The moment it appears on the screen my units instantly got lasso'd, and because I play at max speed, I always got lasso'd lmao.

Gravel, Red and Yato must have PTSD at this point from how 99% of doctors use them to just die from these units.

Stuff for Priconnect

12-4 vs 11-6 equip recommendations

https://imgur.com/Uw7R52F

Luna Tower

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1qeANy8yjm0pXxKPyLPZ1ViquoO7VuflOVVosEpoJTI8/htmlview?pru=AAABfJ3sx5I*9P4G1eL7bk6TQYaHiFGQoA#

Also, don't know if anyone knows or uses this - but the Taiwanese "armory" is very useful for figuring out how many items you need to get for your units. A little tricky to use at first, as needs to be translated and not always perfect but simple enough otherwise. Need to click "add a role" to add whoever you want to gather items for, then you can select them and assign a rank, stars, track to what your intended target is or to not count them at all for the time being. Lets you assign max map stage to go up to (so won't show items past them) and then tells you the best stages to get all you need in one go.

https://pcredivewiki.tw/Armory

I finally got enough shards from her hard mode stage to unlock Kyoka in PriConne, Is she still useful even at 3 stars, or should I wait to use her until I grind more shards to raise her rarity?

Funkydog posted...

Myrtle looking at you in disgust right now for not abusing her.

Texas smugly munches Pocky in your face

I use Texas because:

• Adorable ear twitch
• Badass enough to bring snackos to battle
• Wolves > dumb ol Dr. Seuss turtle
• Appuru pai

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/9/7/9/AAPV5JAACJsL.jpg

She works alright at 3, just obviously much better at 4/5 - and if you don't have the other heavy magic hitters built up, she should be alright.

YugiNoob posted...

I use Texas because:

I mean, I use her whenever I can just because as well. That stun is just lovely and very useful.

Arts and physical damage is great. But mainly because of ear twitch and snackos :3

Also I was mistaken, the Dr. Seuss book was Yertle the Turtle. Although theres still a book called Myrtle the Turtle lol

Oh yeah, and I use Myrtle on occasion, but mainly only when theres some restriction, like the garrison thing right now. For the most part my strategy always goes Texas > Sword Rain > Siege > Ptilopsis > Blaze, W, Eyja, or Exusiai, depending on the amount of enemies and if they have high defense or resistance

Funkydog posted...

She works alright at 3, just obviously much better at 4/5 - and if you don't have the other heavy magic hitters built up, she should be alright.

I have Hatsune, Akari, normal Karyl with her UE, normal Misaki, Illya still at 3 stars and not built, and that's it for other magic attackers. Now that I have Kyoka, is it worth building a magic team for CB, or is it still useless because I didn't pull for Summer Karyl or Halloween Misaki?

Also, how long until Grea comes out? She's the only magic attacking character on the horizon that I actually want to pull for.

You might be able to build one, but without Summer Karyl it won't be as good for now as she's a large source of def down. Anna with her UE also becomes a staple later on as well as she supposedly spams her def down skill.

You've got Karyl with UE for defence downs at least, so I think you can do a serviceable one. Might be wise to do some poking on the reddit for more information as I've never bothered to look too much into replacements as got S.Karyl and lucky to get Nanaka to build her up for more def down.

Not a clue on Grea, but probably a timeline on the reddit that will have a rough guess.

Garam OP

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/9/4/6/AARLwzAACxuK.jpg

Anna only has one skill to use normally (Her other skill is her self destruct when she drops to 10%), so she should be pretty fantastic once she gets her UE.

Only downside is you can't auto with her since you don't want her using her UB(Which not only drops her defenses to 0, but causes her to not attack for a bit afterwards) until the end.

Calwings posted...

I have Hatsune, Akari, normal Karyl with her UE, normal Misaki, Illya still at 3 stars and not built, and that's it for other magic attackers. Now that I have Kyoka, is it worth building a magic team for CB, or is it still useless because I didn't pull for Summer Karyl or Halloween Misaki?

Also, how long until Grea comes out? She's the only magic attacking character on the horizon that I actually want to pull for.

You could probably build a mage team for CB with Kyoka, Akari, Karyl, support S!Karyl, and some kind of tank (pretty certain Illya doesn't work for CB at 3 star). Current CB I never use more than one mage team per day anyways, and I still notice a few of S!Karyls on support in our clan, so it could work.

You can always put something together and trial it compared with your physical teams, in case something is particularly anti-physical.

Grea should be sometime around April IIRC. Here is the list of JP banners: https://fansubbing.com/priconne-upcoming-banner-list/

Given than NA anniversary is earlier, Muimi and V!Shizuru might be swapped in release order, but we don't know for certain yet, so the estimate still has V!Shizuru first. That shouldn't affect Ann and Grea releases though.

YotsuMaboroshi posted...

You could probably build a mage team for CB with Kyoka, Akari, Karyl, support S!Karyl, and some kind of tank (pretty certain Illya doesn't work for CB at 3 star). Current CB I never use more than one mage team per day anyways, and I still notice a few of S!Karyls on support in our clan, so it could work.

YotsuMaboroshi posted...

Grea should be sometime around April IIRC.

Cool, thanks for the help.

Are you guys participating in the Arknights 2nd anniversary web page event? It starts today.

https://2ndanniv.arknights.global/

You can at least log in and do the Cake Adornment Program and the Dossoles Warrior Champion interviews. In the former, press one of the social media share buttons (you don't have to actually share anything) to add cake ingredients, then collect your two stickers for the day, and finally use your points to exchange for in-game stuff.

In the latter, just read the short interview and choose a response that you think the reporter should say. You'll get 600 Orundum for every interview and furniture for doing this for all the interviews.

There's also an event where you make a postcard with the web editor (really simple), a social media drawing, a photo/video contest, and a fanart contest.

Even if you don't care about the contests, there's at least free in-game stuff to be collected.

Was about to post this, as pretty easy to do and some nice rewards from it. A bit annoying can't do it from in game, but signing up was simple at least.

I was considering it, free Orundum can always come in handy. I know I'll need every bit of it for the next banner.

Ah, the preview for the collab is starting and the first piece is Kanna :3

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/0/8/0/AAPV5JAACx_4.jpg

YugiNoob posted...

Ah, the preview for the collab is starting and the first piece is Kanna :3

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/0/8/0/AAPV5JAACx_4.jpg

Yeah I have no pulls left for em. Sadly didn't even pull another Bethlehem. Thankfully she's pretty much just as good BT3

I'm hoping I get at least one of them, but I'm hoping they aren't too reliant on their BTs.

I... ok how many fucking Schwartz is this? Is this my 9th fucking Schwartz? Daddy Schwartz, I maxed you out of mad respects. You don't need to show up anymore. I have so many other 5*s I need to breakthrough more

*BA*

Out of enhancement stones.

These tier ups farming is certainly....trying to leech my pyroxene stockpile.

Yeah I reached the point where I gotta buy em daily from base money shop. It's gonna be a pain raising red team members after my Serina is done (PvP member so I want to max her at high priority)

Noraneko_Vel posted...

Yeah I reached the point where I gotta buy em daily from base money shop. It's gonna be a pain raising red team members after my Serina is done (PvP member so I want to max her at high priority)

I bought them daily already.

Even with only focusin on watches and hats/gloves/shoes, it is still draining.
And I'm STILL not done with the watches....nevermind the others.

I had a dream last night where Tohru was guaranteed on the 6th pull like in PGR. A guy can (literally) dream

BTW hows that Bleach Brave Souls game? I tried it apparently, since it shows the redownload button in the store but I dont recall why I deleted it or ever playing it. Im just curious since theres something about being able to pick a 6 star character

YugiNoob posted...

I had a dream last night where Tohru was guaranteed on the 6th pull like in PGR. A guy can (literally) dream

BTW hows that Bleach Brave Souls game? I tried it apparently, since it shows the redownload button in the store but I dont recall why I deleted it or ever playing it. Im just curious since theres something about being able to pick a 6 star character

Dunno, I've never played any Bleach mobile game, though I think there's two in the store.

Brave Souls is a hack and slash I think, and the other is turn based. I remember playing the other one because of a super fucking annoying boss fight where the dude reflected a percentage of the damage back at you. I absolutely HATE that effect in any game <_<

Ugh, I *knew* I was going to regret going after Winter Manuela merges.

My first 40 summons days before only got me one copy from the spark.

40 summons later today, despite sniping red the entire time (so 38/40 reds, including two full circles of red only), despite being the demote, I only got *one* more copy of her.

And just to rub salt in the wound, I forgot that sparking doesn't let you pick the same unit as before, so I ended up with a Winter Lysithea I give zero fucks about (as I already had Winter Mirabilis and Artur from the first 40 summons I did).

This is why I don't give this game any money.

lmao

Hiryuu META finally maxed out her skills. Only took...ten months? A year? Feels like forever, with how slowly they get XP.

Just realizing how perfect Dragon Maid collab is for Alchemy Star looking at Vice's comment on Kanna. I forgot that a lot of Aurorians are like dragon chicks themselves, including Vice. Though a lot of them kinda stop on the tail, a few of them like Sharona has a pair of horns

Also RIP Maggie lmao

https://www.reddit.com/r/AlchemyStarsEN/comments/ryxm49/janes_notes_kanna/

The curse of the hardcore gacha player Especially for me since stuff like Arknights and Priconne reset at 1 and 3 AM respectively :<

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/0/9/3/AAPV5JAACyPt.jpg

Me waking up at 4-5 am whenever FGO releases a must have Waifu. Wait for me, Melusine.

YugiNoob posted...

The curse of the hardcore gacha player Especially for me since stuff like Arknights and Priconne reset at 1 and 3 AM respectively :<

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/0/9/3/AAPV5JAACyPt.jpg

I'm lucky enough to not have to deal with this. I have a pretty solid routine when it comes to playing my gacha games.

Morning (past 7am when it resets for me) = PriConne dailies
Afternoon (past 3pm when they reset) = Revue Starlight and Tenkafuma dailies
Night (past 8pm when the last reward is available) = claim and burn the free login stamina in PriConne

Even if I did play a gacha game whose daily reset was in the middle of the night, I'd still usually wait until morning to play it.

Shotgunnova posted...

lmao

Hiryuu META finally maxed out her skills. Only took...ten months? A year? Feels like forever, with how slowly they get XP.

I put one Meta ship in my OpSi mobbing fleet. It really helps rush along their skill exp gain.

Yeah, but I hate OpSi, so I do the bare minimum all the time.

Decided to give Alchemy Stars a go. Very unique gameplay, love the art!

PikachuMaxwell posted...

Decided to give Alchemy Stars a go. Very unique gameplay, love the art!

I dont know if youre interested, but theres a collab with Miss Kobayashis Dragon Maid in 5 days as well :3

Yeah save your gems for the Dragon Maid collab. I... don't think the guarantee beginner gachas ever go away? So you can save them for later anyways. If they're timed, you should probably go for it cuz they give you a 6* converter guaranteed I think.

It's important to load your team up with good converters. Having 2 is a minimum, though there are exceptions. The beginner gachas basically guarantee you one of the better converters. Otherwise you might find yourself having a lot of dead turns or a lack of damage.

Usually doing 1 element is better, but in casual play, just use whatever you want. I've gone weird mix match for a really long time b4 making a better team

Add me if you want to use my support units: 150997694

https://www.reddit.com/r/AlchemyStarsEN/comments/rzhshi/aurorian_abilities_tohru/

Tohru is pretty good. Not sure if she can outdamage Sinsa but you won't regret having her, that's for sure

Also the current event's welfare unit is imo a pretty high tier unit. Lola. She's also one of the only units that can fit in every team, also fulfills a healer role all by herself. Also she's a delight in the story. Thank god the likable characters given away are all great. Pittman is also terrific. I do wonder how they're gonna handle the welfare units to new players who missed them, especially if they're gonna be as good as Lola and Pittman

Anyone still play Girls Frontline here? The Val-Ha11a collab is coming back next (?) month, I think, so now's a good time to get yer robot eschelons in order. This was the banner the last time:

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/8/0/1/AABhrNAACyax.jpg

Wait, is that true that the strongest attacker should be last to attack in Alchemy Stars?

Yeah it's a bit weird, but when your leader crosses the panel, the bonus applies to everybody, so your last unit probably gets a slight bit more damage multiplier. But it's not like a massive enough difference that you were missing out on a ton of dmg or anything

Characters like Hiiro or Sinsa should be leaders though. Hiiro gets her passive restored when the leader crosses the enhanced tile, so you'd want her to be normal attacking the boss ASAP so she can get the passive refreshed again. Sinsa applies his def down debuff on his diagonal attacks, and it applies immediately to all the following units. If you put him last, then your units don't get the def down benefit when they're normal attacking

Wait, did they basically confirm that the last 2 collab characters are Elma and Fafnir in December with this?

https://twitter.com/AlchemyStarsEN/status/1477112415502450691?s=20

Do you think they just worded Tohru's chain skill poorly or something? It says "When a target takes damage more than once, the damage from the second time is halved."

Because I noticed it specifically says second time and not the second time on, so the third and fourth hits would do full damage. So that would mean that her 13 chain attack which does 145% damage 4 times, would do 507.5% damage if there was just one (small) target lol. Imagine the poor gigantic enemies that take all the splash damage too lol

Yeah the AS localization team has never been very good at writing out skill description. But it should be half damage from 2nd hit and on, which is still really powerful. I use Fleur, whose active is basically if Tohru hit the same enemy 3 times, and he's very very good

YugiNoob posted...

I dont know if youre interested, but theres a collab with Miss Kobayashis Dragon Maid in 5 days as well :3

I'll check it out. Thanks for the heads up!

Thank you also @legendarylemur !

Shotgunnova posted...

Anyone still play Girls Frontline here? The Val-Ha11a collab is coming back next (?) month, I think, so now's a good time to get yer robot eschelons in order. This was the banner the last time:

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/8/0/1/AABhrNAACyax.jpg

SInce Dual Randomness starts at the end of this month and runs for four weeks, the Vallhalla collab rerun is more likely to start in March.

And cheers for advertising one of the three games I play!

I have almost 3000 tokens, so this might be a banner to actually pull on. I got Jill's silly cosplay outfit last time.

Yeah, I'm saving my tokens for it too, since I want to collect all of the collab stuff I missed the first time.

https://www.reddit.com/r/gachagaming/comments/s098rb/arknights_is_getting_english_dub/
https://www.reddit.com/r/arknights/comments/s08bip/the_arknights_ingame_english_voiceover_campaign/

Huh... that's interesting. How many gacha games have had an English voice option added after launch like this? The only gacha games I've ever played that had an English voice option at all (Fire Emblem Heroes, Yu-gi-oh Duel Links, and Pokemon Masters) had it from the start.

I want to know what appuru pai and kokodayo are gonna sound like lol. Also it would be great if they could get some VAs that have that unique quality, like JYB or Patrick Warburton lol. I just like it when I hear someone and can instantly identify them :3

Also, what element is Fafnir going to be in Alchemy Stars? His dragon form definitely looks like it would be dark in any other game, but that's not an option in AS...

ennuigamer posted...

Yeah, I'm saving my tokens for it too, since I want to collect all of the collab stuff I missed the first time.

Imagine missing exactly two furniture to fully complete the set. ;____;

Also Blu Aka hates me by not giving a Serika eleph so I can't 3* her today.....

Tennousu posted...

Also Blu Aka hates me by not giving a Serika eleph so I can't 3* her today.....

Welcome to my world.
I had 2 shards left to 3* Serika during a 2x hard event, all 9 attempts that day gave me 0 Serikas.

Luckily I finally finished collecting all 2* shards I needed, so now I'm doing Mutsuki and Haruka just in case.
Of course, Haruna, Hoshino, Hifumi will still take a long time.