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I liked the part where it turned into a Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei OP
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Feb 28, 2024 06:37
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the kaleidoscope bit reminded me of the needy streamer overload trailer, just without the thumping music
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Feb 28, 2024 06:41
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Feb 28, 2024 06:44
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Sexual Aluminum posted:https://youtu.be/RC6wQ-75uQU?si=3X1c79mGUXFhZQjN All of our efforts are still going into fixing Ruan Mei. Now it is time for tea and cakes! That second Sparkle trailer is WILD.
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Feb 28, 2024 07:13
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I'd love to pull for Sparkle because she's such a little rascal, but I super duper want Fu Xuan and Aventurine and Sam in addition to Sparkle, so I physically do not have the jade for all four.
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Feb 28, 2024 07:24
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I have given up on wanting Sam so I am going for Sparkle, maybe trying a 50/50 on Acheron, and guaranteeing Aventurine. I shall pretend Sunday and Boothill don't exist until I see some official marketing.
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Feb 28, 2024 07:35
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Sexual Aluminum posted:https://youtu.be/RC6wQ-75uQU?si=3X1c79mGUXFhZQjN Can't fix perfection.
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Feb 28, 2024 09:04
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Sparkle is the character I've been eagerly waiting for forever but now that she's here I feel like I don't need her anymore. I still want to pull, but it would be much smarter to save. Truly the gacha conundrum.
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Feb 28, 2024 10:33
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Okay fine I give up she's cool.
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Feb 28, 2024 10:36
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Hope to catch her on a rerun.
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Feb 28, 2024 13:32
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Bad Video Games posted:Hope to catch her on a rerun. Yeah, same. I burned a lot on pulling Black Swan (who has been great for me so far), I'm going to be saving for a while
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Feb 28, 2024 14:02
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I'll be joining the ranks of "maybe on a rerun," personally. Trailers are cool but she just isn't for me.
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Feb 28, 2024 16:02
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My assessment of her power level is that Sparkle will be great, but she's not on the power level of Ruan Mei where she enables a new archetype. Support has a lot of great characters between the widely accepted four horsemen of Ruan Mei, Bronya, Tingyun, and Pela. And that's before you get into someone like Hanya who is at least in broad strokes similar to Sparkle. Granted part of this is me doubting a 50% advance forward. Maybe in practice it plays way better than I think and I'll look stupid and she'll be Ruan Mei tier but we'll see that shortly.
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Feb 28, 2024 16:07
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The trailer is fun, but the trailers are always well done. I'm f2p and she's low priority because she's not appealing to me, so I probably will never get her, even on a rerun. Sometimes I do a 10-pull on new banners, and I would be tempted because of the great 4*s on hers, but I would risk missing Aventurine even if I got her immediately. Even if I end up with extra jade I'd rather go for Aventurine's cone, his E1, or Topaz's E1, because I love my followup team.
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Feb 28, 2024 16:14
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Eimi posted:Granted part of this is me doubting a 50% advance forward. Maybe in practice it plays way better than I think and I'll look stupid and she'll be Ruan Mei tier but we'll see that shortly. She definitely can't be used like Bronya, where you make Bronya just slower than your DPS so that they effectively get twice as many turns. But If you make her way faster than your DPS (even giving them more attack instead of speed), then I think the 50% advance should work out really well. Like, she'd need to be more than twice as fast as the DPS in order for them to not immediately act she uses her skill. I have no idea if she'll be considered to be as good as Ruan Mei once the dust settles, but there's potential.
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Feb 28, 2024 16:24
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She's cool and will receive a very respectful 10-pull from me.
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Feb 28, 2024 16:30
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Genovera posted:The trailer is fun, but the trailers are always well done. I'm f2p and she's low priority because she's not appealing to me, so I probably will never get her, even on a rerun. This sums it all up for me. The only great thing Sparkle brings is being Quantum. But I have invested in all of my supports, so I can force Quantum weakness on any stage. I'm pulling Aventurine, and hopefully Topaz's lc. If I get lucky, I might try for her e1 as well.
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Feb 28, 2024 16:37
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I'm real dumb at math in this game sometimes; could somebody summarize how much of a damage increase I could expect from Jing Yuan's E1? I don't really think I need to take a shot at Sparkle so I wanted to see if it made sense to maybe skip this banner.
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Feb 28, 2024 16:44
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Sparkle is as good as Ruan Mei, she has stuff other than a 50% turn advancement
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Feb 28, 2024 16:52
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harmony units are so boring
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Feb 28, 2024 17:00
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Meowywitch posted:harmony units are so boring They're only boring when I don't like them as characters, I am extremely excited for Robin and hope her being harmony means she'll fit on most teams.
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Feb 28, 2024 17:05
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Eimi posted:They're only boring when I don't like them as characters, I am extremely excited for Robin and hope her being harmony means she'll fit on most teams. 
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Feb 28, 2024 17:06
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Canopus250 posted:I'm real dumb at math in this game sometimes; could somebody summarize how much of a damage increase I could expect from Jing Yuan's E1? https://www.prydwen.gg/star-rail/characters/jing-yuan calculations tab, between 0-13% depending on the # of targets.
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Feb 28, 2024 17:06
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Sparkle is pretty low importance for me since I have E2 Bronya (and her LC) and a fully built Ruan Mei and Tingyun. Even if Sparkle is really good I'd rather spend the length of the banner building up more alternate DPS options for coverage. Thanks for the link...that seems very mediocre for his E1 then
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Feb 28, 2024 17:07
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Eimi posted:They're only boring when I don't like them as characters, I am extremely excited for Robin and hope her being harmony means she'll fit on most teams. If Robin does something for follow-ups, I might have to pull for her corpse.
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Feb 28, 2024 17:10
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Sparkle is simply BiS for two different builds. If you don’t have those builds then you’ll probably care way less about her.
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Feb 28, 2024 17:17
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Canopus250 posted:I'm real dumb at math in this game sometimes; could somebody summarize how much of a damage increase I could expect from Jing Yuan's E1? It doesn't help at all with single target and its just an extra ~25% on the adjacent enemies when lightning lord hits. I have his E2 from unwanted early pulls while trying to build pity for silver wolf and he's been great for me but is definitely power crept by Jingliu and Kafka and probably now Acheron. Discussions from his first go around said his light cone was a much better investment and I'm thinking of grabbing that - its just not as fun as pulling new characters instead.
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Feb 28, 2024 17:18
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qbert posted:Sparkle is simply BiS for two different builds. If you don’t have those builds then you’ll probably care way less about her. Are you referring to ~Daniel~ and MonoQ?
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Feb 28, 2024 17:27
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AshtonDragon posted:She definitely can't be used like Bronya, where you make Bronya just slower than your DPS so that they effectively get twice as many turns. But If you make her way faster than your DPS (even giving them more attack instead of speed), then I think the 50% advance should work out really well. Like, she'd need to be more than twice as fast as the DPS in order for them to not immediately act she uses her skill. For me it seems like you want to run Sparkle as fast as possible and have your DPS use ATK boots. Sparkle will never double-turn like Bronya can, but she can act as an effective ~50+ SPD. Speed matching her the way you do with Bronya makes the MoC cone not great for her because you can't guarantee the DPS will move immediately after. But that also doesn't work with people like Topaz or Jing Yuan who will lose the cone buff before their followups go off, so DDD is a solid choice in those cases.
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Feb 28, 2024 17:31
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GoodluckJonathan posted:Are you referring to ~Daniel~ and MonoQ? I think Sparkle would have more value for me if I had Dragon Dan. My Quantum team runs so consistently that I just don't feel the need for her.
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Feb 28, 2024 17:37
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GoodluckJonathan posted:Are you referring to ~Daniel~ and MonoQ? Yep. She is to DHIL what Bronya is to JL. She’s also the 4th Mono-Q slot ppl have been awkwardly trying to figure out since Silver Wolf came out. We’ll see if she’s good enough to make either of them the top DPS team in the game.
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Feb 28, 2024 17:39
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But have you considered:
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Given 2/4 of my decent dps are Qingque and DHIL, I can't really turn down Sparkle. Letting them ditch speed boots and relics with breakpoint hitting speed substats while inheriting from her, 160 speed, near 100% crit damage, 18-48% damage, 15%+ attack, probably another 30% damage from lightcone like Battle Isn't Over or Past and Future kind of seems like a really good force multiplier on top of the 3 skill point attacks from QQ/DHIL. Is there going to be a better support for Jing Yuan? I don't have him but I'd have thought she's going to be pretty good for him.
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Feb 28, 2024 17:45
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Sparkle's getting a 10-pull from me. If I get her, great, but no big deal if I don't and either way it won't disrupt my pity too much.
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You can still run Sparkle 1 SPD slower than your DPS, it just means you're multiplying your DPS's turns by 1.5 instead of 2 like Bronya. This doesn't necessarily make her "worse Bronya" either since the massive crit DMG from her Skill is generally gonna be better than Bronya's DMG boost, and of course you'll have a way better time managing your SP
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Feb 28, 2024 17:49
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Won't that make them immediately go off-sync? The point of the 1spd slower Bronya is that they stay synced up no matter what and no part of the boost is wasted.
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Feb 28, 2024 17:55
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shrach posted:Given 2/4 of my decent dps are Qingque and DHIL, I can't really turn down Sparkle. Letting them ditch speed boots and relics with breakpoint hitting speed substats while inheriting from her, 160 speed, near 100% crit damage, 18-48% damage, 15%+ attack, probably another 30% damage from lightcone like Battle Isn't Over or Past and Future kind of seems like a really good force multiplier on top of the 3 skill point attacks from QQ/DHIL. Is there going to be a better support for Jing Yuan? I don't have him but I'd have thought she's going to be pretty good for him. Bronya isn't great with Jing Yuan and I imagine Sparkle will be the same. Bronya's damage buff from her skill and lightcone doesn't affect follow-ups. Bronya can make getting 10 stacks of Lightning Lord more consistent, and her crit bonus is good. But generally, you want Tingyun and Pela or Asta or Hanya.
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Feb 28, 2024 17:58
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Clarste posted:Won't that make them immediately go off-sync? The point of the 1spd slower Bronya is that they stay synced up no matter what and no part of the boost is wasted. I mean if you Advance Forward by 50% twice you're getting 100% total advance after Sparkle's second turn, so the target will be moving before Sparkle again every odd Sparkle turns. Which basically translates to 1.5x more turns, unless I'm missing something.
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Another thing about Sparkle that I don't see mentioned much is her LC. My DHIL and QQ currently sit at an extremely awkward 60-65% Crit Rate with the Rutilant Arena set and no Crit Rate body. Sparkle's LC's Crit Rate buff means that I can wear a Crit Dmg body on them instead and still hit the Planar set breakpoint, probably seeing a significant overall increase in damage.
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