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Since the family is blessed by Xipe the Harmony Aeon I'm very curious why she gives trailblazer her blessing and their new abilities since right now their skepticism surrounding said family so far in the story.
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There's been a lot of theorycrafting on the lore behind some of the visual design choices in this arc. Xipe was supposed to have assimilated Ena at the end of the Swarm Disaster, but what impact did this have on those who followed Ena.. or on Xipe themselves? Ena is strongly associated with eye imagery that Xipe lacks, but there are several times in this arc where we have run into eye imagery in places it probably should not be so strongly featured.
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Apr 28, 2024 04:42
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It could be my religious trauma talking but it's possible that the Family and Xipe aren't exactly aligned at the moment and the Family is just using Xipe's name/power for their own purposes, and that Xipe might want to give their power to the TB to fight the Family back.
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Apr 28, 2024 06:01
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Robin's voice is explicitly said to echo with the power of Xipe/the Harmony and something was wrong with her voice even before Sparkle impersonated her. It does hint that the Family isn't really acting in accordance with Xipe.
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Apr 28, 2024 06:08
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The fact that the Family is suffering from strong internal discord is itself at odds at how things are "supposed" to be with them.
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Apr 28, 2024 06:33
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Also the hand of God touching Adam is neither a match for Ena or Xipe but has traits from both of them.
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Apr 28, 2024 06:36
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Gearhead posted:There's been a lot of theorycrafting on the lore behind some of the visual design choices in this arc. Xipe was supposed to have assimilated Ena at the end of the Swarm Disaster, but what impact did this have on those who followed Ena.. or on Xipe themselves? Ena is strongly associated with eye imagery that Xipe lacks, but there are several times in this arc where we have run into eye imagery in places it probably should not be so strongly featured. Yeah, I’d argue Ena is still in the plot in some way based on art cues alone. Like you said about the eyes, there’s a whole patch making a big deal about Aventurine’s eyes, his religious beliefs and Avgin culture, and it’s a match for Ena’s artwork - not just the eye in the background, there’s also the bead jewellery and a planet similar to the Sigonia relic set. And pre-Penacony was an interruption that might as well have been titled “HEY DID YOU DO THE SWARM SU??? THE SWARM SU WITH MY MISSING AEON, IDRILA. THE SWARM SU THAT INCLUDES ENA AND XIPE’S MERGER AS WELL AS ENA’S BARGAIN WITH THE AMBER LORD. SWARM’S SU.” My running theory being Gaiathra = some amalgamation/spin-off of Ena and having the last survivor of that path running around after a whole patch of Harmony mindfucking might be plot important later. Plus there’s all the sidequests about dead aeons, fake aeons and leaving paths. Tho maybe the TB just gets a harmony blessing via super-harmoniously high-fiving someone.
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Apr 28, 2024 07:27
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4000 Sambucks and counting
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I think it's worth noting that the Trailblazer doesn't need to be on good terms with the Aeon they're channeling--- they unlocked the Destruction from Nanook just glaring at them for a while.
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Apr 28, 2024 08:05
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JT Jag posted:I think it's worth noting that the Trailblazer doesn't need to be on good terms with the Aeon they're channeling--- they unlocked the Destruction from Nanook just glaring at them for a while. Nanook is also the Aeon of Self-Destruction, he's relatively "okay" with his stuff being destroyed too. Also Stellarons might be Nanook stuff. Edit: Also without Welt we would have exploded the space station. Lord_Magmar fucked around with this message at 08:12 on Apr 28, 2024 |
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Apr 28, 2024 08:10
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I don't think most Aeons even see mortals in "good or bad" terms, just how much they reflect the potential to keep their Path going.
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Apr 28, 2024 08:29
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Pretty sure the only Aeons that even come close to operating on morality in a manner comprehensible to humans are Akivili (cause they traveled as more or less a human) and Aha (since humor doesn't work if humans can't understand if something happening is funny or "funny").
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Eej posted:I don't think most Aeons even see mortals in "good or bad" terms, just how much they reflect the potential to keep their Path going. That’s how I see it too. Aeons are past things like good and evil, and are so consumed by the path they represent that all they notice is people and events that particularly exemplify it. And even then they don’t hold their interest long— they draw a Glance, and then move on. Akivili seems like the exception there, but Trailblaze is a broader path than a lot of them.
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Apr 28, 2024 08:44
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The destruction path covers recklessness, and trying to face-tank a giant laser blast without even using a weapon or knowing what the gently caress is going on definitely falls under that.
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Apr 28, 2024 09:12
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Endorph posted:no? why do you think it would? its assuming no phys resistance but thats it. Because the answer so your first paragraph about every enemy in the game has 1000 defence exactly at level 80 and there being no variance with a level 80 character is not nothing, it is a 50% damage reduction multiplier, which would turn a 15k attack into a 7.5k attack. 5000 attack power x 1.2 (attack percent) x 2.5 (crit) x 0.5 (def) = 7500. We can ignore that there are very few enemies in the game that are not higher level sure, we can also skip resistance by assuming all the enemies are weak to physical and we can skip toughness by assuming enemy is always broken but I'm just not sure how you skip defence entirely.
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Apr 28, 2024 11:11
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Day 3 with no loving speed boots. I don't even have attack boots with decent subs
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Bad Video Games posted:Day 3 with no loving speed boots. I don't even have attack boots with decent subs I just do the thing where I synthesize boots with speed. Farming for speed boots feels so futile. Also I save every purple speed boot to help make a character usable. I hate how they make speed boots basically required on all but a few characters and also make them so rare.
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Bad Video Games posted:Day 3 with no loving speed boots. I don't even have attack boots with decent subs every time I blow my 3x charges on the lovely healing set that only Huox2 wants to try (and fail) to get a single piece of speed boots I die a little inside
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Apr 28, 2024 14:56
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please ladies and gentle goons, you are probably already doing this but remember to lock EVERY single Speed boot and Energy ropes you get, even if you don't think you need them right now , or even if the set sucks
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Apr 28, 2024 14:58
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i lock or trash every relic every time 😤
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shrach posted:Because the answer so your first paragraph about every enemy in the game has 1000 defence exactly at level 80 and there being no variance with a level 80 character is not nothing, it is a 50% damage reduction multiplier, which would turn a 15k attack into a 7.5k attack. Plus 50% Damage bonus is an obvious number left off there. She's a Harmony, her 3 turn Damage bonus is one of the reasons she exists. Another would be LC, which hey. Free one that adds another 30% Damage. Then there's the orb. By the time you are done you have about 110% added Damage. She makes a big number, which even with defense stays a big number. That's how you get 15k hits without trying too hard.
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Apr 28, 2024 15:53
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kittenchops posted:I just do the thing where I synthesize boots with speed. Farming for speed boots feels so futile. Also I save every purple speed boot to help make a character usable. They'll show up eventually. I'm changing Ratio's set from the Imaginary to the Dream Diver. I'm not sure if the new set is even that much extra damage, though his crit ratio has improved slightly. Worse case scenario, he just sits in a 2pc/2pc until the right boots come along. I wouldn't even mind putting him in attack boots as long as they have double crit.
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shrach posted:Because the answer so your first paragraph about every enemy in the game has 1000 defence exactly at level 80 and there being no variance with a level 80 character is not nothing, it is a 50% damage reduction multiplier, which would turn a 15k attack into a 7.5k attack.
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why did you go off so half-cocked about this.
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and also the damage is assuming they arent broken, not that they are. toughness doesnt reduce the damage you deal as it scales up, thats just a binary broken/not-broken check.
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Apr 28, 2024 16:49
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All enemies have an extra 10% damage reduction when they are not broken. It's only when they are broken, there's no damage reduction. I just hadn't accounted for the 80% damage from her skill/light cone, which I hadn't seen mentioned previously in any of the calculations which is close enough to balancing out the defence I guess.
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shrach posted:All enemies have an extra 10% damage reduction when they are not broken. It's only when they are broken, there's no damage reduction. if youre curious on the scaling, with the same setup level 80 enemy with 20% phys res: 12k level 90 enemy with 0 phys res: 14.3k level 90 enemy with 20% phys res: 11.5k level 100 enemy with 0 phys res: 13.7k level 100 enemy with 20% phys res: 10.9k etc.
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The fact that everything takes 90% damage by default and 100% when broken is so annoying to me. Like, they take 11.11% more damage while broken? Why has Hoyoverse cursed us with these dumb numbers forever?
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Apr 28, 2024 17:00
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It's basically a small way to make all the big numbers on eidolon and light cones slightly smaller than they actually appear half the time. So they can make them bigger to look more enticing.
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Apr 28, 2024 17:16
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Beautiful speed boots with double crit. Every upgrade went to effect hit rate.
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Dazerbeams posted:Beautiful speed boots with double crit. Every upgrade went to effect hit rate.
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Dazerbeams posted:Beautiful speed boots with double crit. Every upgrade went to effect hit rate. I might accept that for Ratio. The real fun is going to be grinding the Healer set for Luocha. I want to give him actual damage stats.
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Dazerbeams posted:Beautiful speed boots with double crit. Every upgrade went to effect hit rate. 
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doing the diver/watchmaker domain and getting a bunch of atk/crit dmg/crit chance/spd watchmaker pieces and a bunch of hp/def/speed/break effect diver pieces is gonna be one of my reasons why
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It hurts to know that I've not finished quantum cave yet.
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Endorph posted:doing the diver/watchmaker domain and getting a bunch of atk/crit dmg/crit chance/spd watchmaker pieces and a bunch of hp/def/speed/break effect diver pieces is gonna be one of my reasons why Sounds like the game wants you to pull Boothill?
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Endorph posted:this is why i hope this game gets some of the epic seven gear features like being able to reset gear to level 0, being able to swap one substat out for another with worse rolls, etc. epic seven has pvp (lol) so it needs more ways to mitigate gear RNG but its still nice for that stuff to exist i think.
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Apr 28, 2024 20:09
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Be the change you want to see, start submitting it as feedback in the open part of the surveys
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Apr 28, 2024 20:30
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Clarste posted:Skill issue:
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bitprophet posted:Are the chevrons (instead of numbers in circles) marking which stats got upgrades also a skill issue, or is this a screenshot of one of those third party relic rating sites? 3rd party. It's easier for me to switch to a different browser tab than open up the game. Edit: Here's the same thing in-game: 
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