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DontMindMe
Dec 3, 2010

What could possibly go wrong?
I'm not looking forward to the choice between Time Waits for No One (for Bailu) and But the Battle Isn't Over (for Bronya) once I hit 600 starlight.

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Black Griffon
Mar 12, 2005

Now, in the quantum moment before the closure, when all become one. One moment left. One point of space and time.

I know who you are. You are destiny.


Man, SU4 really is a bit easier than SU3. Got pretty close to wiping a couple of times, but the energy on break blessing is phenomenal. A dozen attacks or something for every hostile turn.

Kanos
Sep 6, 2006

was there a time when speedwagon didn't get trolled

DontMindMe posted:

I'm not looking forward to the choice between Time Waits for No One (for Bailu) and But the Battle Isn't Over (for Bronya) once I hit 600 starlight.

If you have Bronya, I think Battle Isn't Over is far and away the superior choice. I have Time Waits on Bailu and it's definitely very good but the effect is mostly whatever outside of the passive stats.

GateOfD
Jan 31, 2023

by Fluffdaddy

(and can't post for 4 days!)

my relic is basic as hell for my Bailu. Just the 3* Cornucopia max Superimpose. Since her healing is really the thing she brings for me atm.

Infinity Gaia
Feb 27, 2011

a storm is coming...

Asta with Dance, Dance, Dance! is extremely funny. I even have mine at SI1 due to being chronically unlucky. I feel like at max SI it's an insane menace.

Endorph
Jul 22, 2009

dance dance dance is probably the best harmony lc in the game at launch

jokes
Dec 20, 2012

Uh... Kupo?

Infinity Gaia posted:

Asta with Dance, Dance, Dance! is extremely funny. I even have mine at SI1 due to being chronically unlucky. I feel like at max SI it's an insane menace.

I am become speed

kirbysuperstar
Nov 11, 2012

Let the fools who stand before us be destroyed by the power you and I possess.

Meowywitch posted:

I have a bone to pick with Scott

As in, his bones.

i;m going to kick his rear end

haypliss
Oct 2, 2022
More Erudition talk, but I feel like Breakfast is a perfectly good light cone if you don't want to buy BP or use your BP selection on Erudition. It gives unconditional dmg% and higher superimpose levels will match/exceed the bonus some characters get from the S1 BP cone. At worst it's costing you 4* cone bux from Echoes and FH, but the former can also drop it.

In terms of the class, Serval has been enough to give me a positive impression even in boss fights. I realize the rest of her peers are a bit lacking, but don't see it being a problem for Jing considering how he stacks up against Serval who is already quite useful. Hopefully something good in a non-lightning flavor can be added soon lol.

Meowywitch
Jan 14, 2010

Fight for all that is beautiful in the world

now i have a "coffee guy"...the rewards for some of these quests is very funny

Meowywitch
Jan 14, 2010

Fight for all that is beautiful in the world

and I've just met the suicidal origami bird

MadHat
Mar 31, 2011

Meowywitch posted:

and I've just met the suicidal origami bird

That extended quest ha some real fun bits.

GoodluckJonathan
Oct 31, 2003

MadHat posted:

That extended quest ha some real fun bits.

I love how so many of these incidental, unmarked quests go on for waaaaay longer than expected.

GateOfD
Jan 31, 2023

by Fluffdaddy

(and can't post for 4 days!)

Got to the end of current story content:

Space China Story thoughts
felt like the running back and forth delivering messages was a bit repetitive, but finally getting to the meat of everything with Dan Shu was a cool twist. And the overall social stuff surrounding the 'Incomplete'

Also some more info about Aeons and stuff. So many aeon names thrown around...

Felt like I spent a lot of time, but at the cutoff, seems like I'm still only halfway thru the whole thing.


Current roster at end of story:

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Clarste
Apr 15, 2013

Just how many mistakes have you suffered on the way here?

An uncountable number, to be sure.
Incidentally, I still haven't found the last bird. Is there one in the Artisan district?

delfin
Dec 5, 2003

SNATTER'S ALIVE?!?!
Annnnnd that's Sim Universe settled for now. 100% on Index and Ability Tree. Seele / Sampo / Hook / Bailu makes World 6 a breeze, if I get enough Hunt blessings along the way.

Excelzior
Jun 24, 2013

Clarste posted:

Incidentally, I still haven't found the last bird. Is there one in the Artisan district?

no

Clarste
Apr 15, 2013

Just how many mistakes have you suffered on the way here?

An uncountable number, to be sure.
Yeah, figured. I assume the quest unlocks before it's available. Unfortunately I've already explored everywhere else and it'd be a pain to do it again... Other than the starter one, I've got the one with the fake map, the one hiding in the shop, the one playing with kids, the one looking for porn, and the one fighting monsters...

MadHat
Mar 31, 2011

Clarste posted:

Yeah, figured. I assume the quest unlocks before it's available. Unfortunately I've already explored everywhere else and it'd be a pain to do it again... Other than the starter one, I've got the one with the fake map, the one hiding in the shop, the one playing with kids, the one looking for porn, and the one fighting monsters...

Sounds like you missed the massive DnD reference one? Location The docks north east ish

Setec_Astronomy
Mar 10, 2003

there's nothing wrong with you that an expensive operation can't prolong

Clarste posted:

Yeah, figured. I assume the quest unlocks before it's available. Unfortunately I've already explored everywhere else and it'd be a pain to do it again... Other than the starter one, I've got the one with the fake map, the one hiding in the shop, the one playing with kids, the one looking for porn, and the one fighting monsters...

I think you're missing the one guarding a "hoard" of boxes in a side passage in northern Cloudford

YoshiOfYellow
Aug 21, 2015

Voted #1 Babysitter in Mushroom Kingdom

So I'm considering what my two teams will be once Jing Yuan comes around and wouldn't mind some outside perspective.

Team A:

Fire MC (Tank/Shields)
Bailu (Heals)
Pela (Defense Shred & Buff Removal)
Jing Yuan (Damage Dealer)


Team B:

Gepard (Tank/Shields)
Natasha (Heals)
Tingyun (Offensive Buffing)
Yanqing (Damage Dealer)

In both cases I end up doubling up on an element because team building is suffering. Anyways I pair Bailu with Fire MC since he needs a bit more help with healing due to his weaker shields than Gepard does. And thus Pela goes in the support slot so I don't end up with a 2 element team, and also Pela's defense shredding is valuable damage boosting anyways even if not on the same level as Bennett Tingyun.

On the other end Gepard needs a lot less help with healing thanks to his shields being so beefy so Natasha works well. I got him paired with Yanqing also because the sword brat really doesn't wanna take damage to keep up maximum damage, so Gepard's giant shields really help facilitate that uptime. Tingyun just amplifies his damage even further.

Black Griffon
Mar 12, 2005

Now, in the quantum moment before the closure, when all become one. One moment left. One point of space and time.

I know who you are. You are destiny.


God, I almost envy those of you who haven't rolled Seele yet. Got all this jade and I'm just watching it, longingly. So many rolls.

Endorph
Jul 22, 2009

a bunch of upcoming character skill sets got leaked. extremely subject to change obviously but the guy's credible from genshin. you can find them all on the star rail leaks subreddit if youre curious. https://www.reddit.com/r/HonkaiStarRailLeaks/new/

like i said tho very subject to change so take it with a grain of salt

Ibblebibble
Nov 12, 2013

Black Griffon posted:

God, I almost envy those of you who haven't rolled Seele yet. Got all this jade and I'm just watching it, longingly. So many rolls.

It's ok, I'll be sitting pretty with Silver Wolf and Kafka... Hopefully...

haypliss
Oct 2, 2022
I should've known to hold onto it all, but I was too tempted by Hook...

acumen
Mar 17, 2005
Fun Shoe

Black Griffon posted:

God, I almost envy those of you who haven't rolled Seele yet. Got all this jade and I'm just watching it, longingly. So many rolls.



I feel ya, gonna drop some on JY for the hell of it before dumping everything on Silver Wolf

YoshiOfYellow
Aug 21, 2015

Voted #1 Babysitter in Mushroom Kingdom

I'm just under 30 pulls saved up for Jing Yuan since I've been playing slow. Not enough for a guarantee but there's plenty more jade for me to earn still so it shouldn't be too hard to guarantee him with my pity lined up from that 30 pull Bailu on the Seele banner.

I seek husbandos in a sea of waifus.

frajaq
Jan 30, 2009

#acolyte GM of 2014


Endorph posted:

a bunch of upcoming character skill sets got leaked. extremely subject to change obviously but the guy's credible from genshin. you can find them all on the star rail leaks subreddit if youre curious. https://www.reddit.com/r/HonkaiStarRailLeaks/new/

like i said tho very subject to change so take it with a grain of salt

pffhahaha what the gently caress thats insane, thats a LOT of characters leaked

Mr E
Sep 18, 2007

I got really lucky with a Seele draw pretty early and then my next 4* or greater from the normal banner was Yanqing so I'm pretty happy with characters til Silver Wolf and Kafka. I like Himeko but fire MC seems more useful overall and Hook seems pretty good too. I'll probably use Hook some just because the game has given me 3 or 4 Eidolons for her. Otherwise Natasha has been great and replaced March mostly in my party since I got her, but I'm just starting spaceship China so that may change. Really enjoyed the ice planet and loved the characters and companion quests there. I've only spent money on the $5 pass so far and felt like I more than got my money's worth for the only gacha I've ever really played any of because the combat is pretty fun too for being so simple.

Ibblebibble
Nov 12, 2013

Endorph posted:

a bunch of upcoming character skill sets got leaked. extremely subject to change obviously but the guy's credible from genshin. you can find them all on the star rail leaks subreddit if youre curious. https://www.reddit.com/r/HonkaiStarRailLeaks/new/

like i said tho very subject to change so take it with a grain of salt

Glad I'm not super interested in any of the leaked 5*s so I can save up for SW and Kafka guilt-free. Maybe even throw a couple of pulls at the LC banner.

blizzardvizard
Sep 12, 2012

Shhh... don't wake up the sleeping lion :3:

Endorph posted:

a bunch of upcoming character skill sets got leaked. extremely subject to change obviously but the guy's credible from genshin. you can find them all on the star rail leaks subreddit if youre curious. https://www.reddit.com/r/HonkaiStarRailLeaks/new/

like i said tho very subject to change so take it with a grain of salt

Sounds like I'm saving for this Butler guy

I do appreciate HSR keeping roughly a 1 male:2 female ratio so far, which is good enough for me

kirbysuperstar
Nov 11, 2012

Let the fools who stand before us be destroyed by the power you and I possess.

kirbysuperstar posted:

I'm kinda proud of my self for getting to phase 3 of world 3 on my first go at it, despite being capped to level 40 and having really only Sushang wearing relics that have been upgraded at all



let's go shields

GateOfD
Jan 31, 2023

by Fluffdaddy

(and can't post for 4 days!)

fitted my fireblazer to defense equips, went from like 700 defense to 1900
her shields before gave the team like a millimeter of white
now its like 10%-14% of the bar depending on how squishy the one its shielding was.

Autisanal Cheese
Nov 29, 2010

thought I was all prepared for World 6 with Hunt path FireMC/Seele/Bronya/Natasha and got my rear end handed to me by that second elite

Maybe try a different path, or Serval/Tingyun for lightning breakage?

Pain of Mind
Jul 10, 2004
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Pretty pleased with myself, even though I lost in World 6. Got Cocilia or whatever her name is to phase 2 free to play at level 49 with mediocre curios and blessings. I don't think I have the power to get through phase 2, but half a level from TL40 and then I think it would be more doable.



Also, how do you get the light cone out of the battle pass, I hit 30 but I am not seeing any way to recover one.

Pain of Mind fucked around with this message at 04:09 on May 10, 2023

GreenBuckanneer
Sep 15, 2007




IDK how anyone is doing this poo poo at lvl40 because I'm struggling

either I get wrecked earlier in the map because tingying is made out of paper at level 50 and I have nothing better than a lvl40 3☆ harmony LC that actually works for her instead of being for a different character.

I can see vestiges of the shushang/tingyun/natasha/pela being useful for SU5 but I am pretty convinced this build assumes you have everyone at lvl60 w/ 4☆ LC also at 60, along with at least lvl6+ full relic sets and some traces upgraded, otherwise it's too much of a glass "cannon".

The furthest I got was w/ FireMC, failed on 85% phase 3 but this was with the Hunt path, which was helpful clearing content in a timely manner....but if I try again with the abundance path then I'll be clearing content much slower which is pretty annoying.

Ibblebibble
Nov 12, 2013

Pain of Mind posted:

Also, how do you get the light cone out of the battle pass, I hit 30 but I am not seeing any way to recover one.

Spend money, it's from the paid side of the battle pass sadly.

Pain of Mind
Jul 10, 2004
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Ibblebibble posted:

Spend money, it's from the paid side of the battle pass sadly.

Oh, I thought it was part of the free one for some reason. I guess that explains all that.

TheMathyFolf
Sep 14, 2014
I haven't pulled on Seele, I currently have 99 pulls saved up for Jing Yuan.

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sushibandit
Feb 12, 2009

On the plus side, the paid battlepass track provides the second-best "value" per dollar spent, after the daily login thing. On the minus side, it's still paying something so anyone dead set on staying F2P won't benefit from it.

I would strongly consider buying at least the first battlepass round if you're enjoying the game so far and have 10bux to spare - the additional credits and materials really help a lot with leveling up characters, the weapons are generically "good", and this early into the game's lifecycle everyone is leveling up their entire roster leading to chronic resource shortages.

Edit
My biggest complaint with SU so far is that it seems like the path you pick at the beginning does absolutely nothing for actually determining what blessings you're offered. I tried Hunt in SU5 earlier today and literally not a single one of the first 5 sets of blessings included a hunt option. That's with rerolling them too. For gently caress's sake, game.

sushibandit fucked around with this message at 04:07 on May 10, 2023

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