|
The post-login info dialogue says 2100 Eastern.
|
#
¿
Apr 25, 2023 22:12
|
|
|
|
| # ¿ May 10, 2024 18:44 |
|
|
TV Zombie posted:mono quantum team in SU 
|
|
#
¿
Jun 12, 2023 22:09
|
|
|
Having an odd issue with Simulated Universe; I started one of the new-to-me difficulty levels (having recently hit TB65), whiffed the opening blessings pulls, and decided to be cheesy and quit/restart (meaning, full-on "finalize and quit", not "save for later"). Except now, no matter how I start a new SU run (same/different world, difficulty level, starting team, quit out of SU, quit the app entirely, etc etc) I no longer get the initial blessing/curio/currency screen. Even after an encounter or two! Is this a known issue? First time I've seen a bug that resisted restarts of the app.
|
|
#
¿
Jul 28, 2023 19:14
|
|
|
Aha! (pun not intended, also, drat that was a good side quest) I tried the first battle but didn't think to push ahead to clear the first entire room. Thanks all! Glad to know I'm not crazy (about this anyways). Game is good, I am slowly building up my new free story Yukong because I have no other source of Imaginary damage. Also she's pretty, and cool, and a good mom.
|
|
#
¿
Jul 28, 2023 21:03
|
|
|
Yea, agree, or to quote from earlier,Not So Fast posted:If they didn't want me to cheese, maybe they should try giving me a blessing in my path before I hit the first boss room!  I will be wholly unsurprised if some future QoL patch note mentions "yea so we kinda hosed up the entire concept of path 'affinity' w/r/t blessings rolls, it's been fixed, you should actually feel like your path is being honored now". If it's truly weighting the rolls, it feels incredibly marginal.
|
|
#
¿
Jul 28, 2023 21:12
|
|
|
I noticed the last level of the dungeon event also paired up trial Kafka with trial Asta, but I’m not clear on what the synergy is exactly. Asta’s basic inflicting Burn? Her speed ult (which I don’t entirely grok for Kafka since speed is generally a good buff for everybody)?
|
|
#
¿
Aug 13, 2023 21:38
|
|
|
Thanks all, that makes sense! Also, now that I'm halfway through the 'deep' variant of floor 5 (this is SUCH a nice way to explore the banner characters vs the single tiny trial battles!) and have had Kafka in-party for quite a few battles, I'm really enjoying her. Interesting how only her talent and ult apply DoTs but I can see how if she had more in her own kit, she'd be a one-woman wrecking ball. And her talent helps offset when your party is DoT-poor but basic-attack heavy (eg Fireblazer, Blade) which is nice.
|
|
#
¿
Aug 14, 2023 01:59
|
|
|
All this FX chat has me wondering if mine is lacking somehow, despite being at high traces, high stats (~7K HP), decent LC (Gepard's), etc. I've beaten Swarm V under Abundance/Preservation/Nihility but Propagation seems just barely beyond my reach (to the tune of often getting to the 2nd or 3rd phase of the boss but then losing out to a particularly bad swarm AoE - and no, not always when she loses the CC roll). Those of you who are happy with a highly invested Fu: do you still find yourself losing reasonably often (eg, bad luck of the blessings draw, or tactical missteps like too many detours to rack up that sweet basic attack DMG for QQ and now oops, endboss got too buff)? Mention of her, and/or Propagation as a path, making Swarm V a "cakewalk" has me wondering if that's hyperbole (or the posters in question having eidolons). Rails-Express export:  (FTR, the team I've been trying with lately is mono-Quantum, FX / Lynx / QQ / SW. Which generally seems to gel real nicely, I might add! Tho I wonder if I should try replacing my E2 Lynx with my E1 Bailu for her resurrect and reactive healing; Fu's built-in anti-CC stuff may be sufficient on its own w/o Lynx's ult?) bitprophet fucked around with this message at 23:22 on Oct 8, 2023 |
|
#
¿
Oct 8, 2023 23:19
|
|
|
Kyrosiris posted:Does she have all her hp% minor traces?  Basically, outside of being really bad at picking blessings (it's possible, tho I feel like I have a decent grasp on mechanics and what is or is not going to help with her survivability in the final boss fight) I'm just wondering if I'm missing some variable like "actually she'd do better with a different 2-set of relics" or "getting a good substat roll on her X slot will make just enough difference". Zurai posted:No, you're not the only one. FX is extremely vulnerable to boss AOEs in Swarm Disaster 5 if the rest of your team isn't strong enough to kill the boss quickly. [...] stacking damage buffs [...] I don't have DHIL or Seele; my best-built DPS is likely Blade, Kafka, QQ or Sushang, tho the 5-stars are low-Eidolon. quote:I actually wouldn't put up her field in the last phase of specific bosses bitprophet fucked around with this message at 01:02 on Oct 9, 2023 |
|
#
¿
Oct 9, 2023 00:55
|
|
|
In true "complain for success" fashion, I literally just now beat Propagation V. Didn't actually do anything differently; did get pretty lucky re: the state of the board and the dice (eg, I skipped most of the 2nd phase with the golden die face when like 2/3 of the board was bug-colored, and eventually entered the final boss with literally every single Propagation blessing in hand). I did have a small pile of non-Propagation blessings such as some (not all) of the Hunt extra turn and heal/energy on break/kill ones. (Also Macrosegregation picked up early and then...zero other Preservation blessings so it didn't do jack, heh.) But yea: having so much Propagation oomph behind QQ meant I did have plenty of DPS; she just went beast mode and I blitzed through the entire boss fight very quickly. darkgray posted:There's also plenty of blessings that'll heal the team through a variety of methods (the 3* heal-share abundance one is superb), so you don't really need a proper healer taking up a slot. Speaking of Fu and shields, btw, it's not clear to me how those interact with her ability. It sounds like, because the ability says "redirection happens before shields are calculated", that a shield on her will absorb redirected damage? Thus why having a shield on her can help (orthogonal to the blessing that gives % dmg-reduction of shielded characters - agree that's fantastic if you get it)?
|
|
#
¿
Oct 9, 2023 03:06
|
|
|
MadHat posted:You can start with a Healer and rotate them out when you get the right Blessings  ). Should break that bad habit.Kyrosiris posted:
(That said, now I sort of want to build my recently 50/50-loss-acquired Gepard, just to see how FX+Gepard do together, it sounds hilarious. Not a big fan of him as a character sadly.)
|
|
#
¿
Oct 9, 2023 17:05
|
|
|
I just finished what I thought was the tail end of the not!Pokemon event, got every reward I can see, but I’m missing some final aether chip for an achievement. What gives? Also, my Silvermane Lt, Silvermane Cannoneer, Chunky Chops, and Dracolion team did real well in the final stretch, even if going up against another player’s Lt team made for some hilarious counter-counter-counter spam.
|
|
#
¿
Oct 18, 2023 06:04
|
|
|
MadHat posted:You missing a Chest? thanks  I did get all Barrie’s stuff, but only because I knew to talk to him from earlier posts upthread!
|
|
#
¿
Oct 18, 2023 17:51
|
|
|
Finally got my first 30-star MoC, will find out next reset if it’s purely due to the gimmick or if my built FX and partly built Jingliu are just that good.Eimi posted:Pela is extremely notable too, she pairs great with Jingliu.
|
|
#
¿
Oct 20, 2023 22:00
|
|
|
Thanks for the info re: Jingliu. I gotta remember that Prydwen often assumes things like “well obviously you’re blowing stacks of cash on the freakin’ weapon banner”. Surprise, I do not have her LC! I will remember that Pela is good for her though, I’d forgotten about that particular eidolon. Unrelated: gently caress I hate accidentally using Swarm dice which replace random tiles on the board, only for them to replace the goddamn final respite zone when I have nowhere else to spend all the money I was hoarding for blessing improvements  EDIT: also Remembrance sucks hard in Swarm V. Not sure I’ll ever get it to work without incredible blessings luck (such as hitting all the good Remembrance ones and getting enough defensive off-path stuff). bitprophet fucked around with this message at 01:17 on Oct 21, 2023 |
|
#
¿
Oct 21, 2023 01:09
|
|
|
Zokari posted:i had a remembrance run once where enemies were taking massive damage every time i hit them while frozen and i can't remember what caused it Also love scooping up the two Spores-applying Propagation blessings regardless of actual path. So many big numbers. I still haven’t managed to beat Swarm V on Remembrance or Hunt tho, even in runs I would call particularly lucky. If I get enough damage resist or shields, I don’t get enough busted damage blessings, or vice versa. I think FX may be one of my problems, though, since she’s so good anytime you aren’t facing ridiculous AoE damage I tend to overuse her. Should go back to Fireblazer + hoping to roll up Macrosegregation and a few other shield blessings. or build my Gepard, I guess, siiiiigh he’s so booriiingggg Relatedly, I’ve got all but the last star on the Luofu themed Forgotten Hall. Can’t seem to clear it quite fast enough, always over the limit by 4-5 turns even if I’m reaching full 10 stacks of the buff.
|
|
#
¿
Oct 26, 2023 04:12
|
|
|
coolusername posted:But I finally beat world V with hunt, the last path I was stuck on… by prioritising other options like preservation and abundance, bringing firemc + fu xuan + luocha and using the “stop hitting yourself stop hitting yourself” strat I can still never seem to find the right balance, if I get enough firepower to outrun the damage stacking I lack the defense to keep from even early tank oneshotting, or vice versa (enough defense means not enough firepower, fight drags on until it’s no longer enough defense either). That said, I haven’t tried doubling up with FX+FB, could be amusing if I get enough self-healing blessings and Macrosegregation. I also feel that not having any Imaginary DPS is a hindrance in this situation, so I’m left gambling on the first boss weakness add, or hoping I get enough key Propagation blessings to make QQ a real powerhouse.
|
|
#
¿
Nov 7, 2023 19:07
|
|
now to never touch it again
|
Finally, after what felt like months of trying, beat Swarm V on Remembrance. Sample size of one success, but the key may have been to say YOLO and ignore the countdown in favor of vacuuming up as many blessings as possible. I’m normally of the opinion that you won’t get enough key blessings in those extra turns to offset the crazy enemy buff scaling, but now I gotta rethink that! Not only did I get essentially every Remembrance blessing, I got enough Hunt to juice my turn count, enough Preservation that at least some characters were shielded much of the fight (and buffed from it, eg the crit boosts), and a few key Abundance ones to boost max HP. Fu got smacked in the face a lot but she actually (barely) weathered the storm despite being at countdown negative 8 levels of enemy buff. Time to see if “ignore countdown” works for Hunt too, and then it’s just Elation left, which I assume will be reasonably easy once I finish building Clara some.
|
|
#
¿
Nov 11, 2023 06:35
|
|
|
Game’s open!
|
|
#
¿
Nov 15, 2023 03:31
|
|
|
Anyone else finish Foxian Tale of the Haunted content, but have the dreaded "mystery exclamation point" in the travel log icon and menu? Everything that can be checked off, is, and I'm not seeing any new conversations at the 'squad spot' or anything. Unrelated first-world-problems gripe: wish they already had a loadout feature implemented, I'm having to keep a partial Prisoner relic set around (locked, obviously) to avoid otherwise tanking Kafka by replacing her fully built Band+Musketeer relics piece by piece. Also unrelated gripe: still mad about Swarm V Hunt being nigh impossible, back in the "survive boss hits XOR dps-outrun boss buffs" hole again. Might need to craft an SP-neutral team and then hyperfocus on the extra turn / speed boost blessings or something. e: Eimi posted:Never use 4pc hackerspace. It doesn't have a good effect and it can mess up spd tuning. The 2pc is amazing but pretend the 4pc doesn't exist.
|
|
#
¿
Nov 20, 2023 23:18
|
|
|
darkgray posted:Pair her up with a shielder (M7, Fire MC, Gepard), put Wildfire on one 
|
|
#
¿
Nov 22, 2023 17:22
|
|
|
darkgray posted:Yes, but no. What I mean is that your "bonus shielder" can equip it in order to automatically heal up the team between fights in SU, meaning you can get away with skipping a healer altogether. Saves you in painful lotto ticket implosions too. I actually experimented last time with a Fu + (March/TB) dual-tank setup and thanks to great luck w/ Preservation blessings, it was incredibly durable. Got to phase 3 of the boss, even, but did not have the offensive power to outrun their buff stack (for a few reasons). I'm still not sure who's better as a Fu-adjacent shielder in this scenario; per action, March does 50% more shield (~3000 shield on one character, vs TB's ~500 shield x 4 characters = 2000) but TB applies shields on every action, including the ones where she is generating SP. (This all assumes Macrosegregation, of course; I can't see a shield focused run succeeding without.) Zurai posted:You can actually use consumables in SU now. At least, if you've finished the SU skill tree.
|
|
#
¿
Nov 22, 2023 18:05
|
|
|
darkgray posted:I don't have Gepard, so I've only been running her with M7, but it's a match made in heaven from what I can tell. Will definitely have to experiment with this pairing more, thanks for the anecdata! I'm thinking Fu/March/SW/QQ or (if I luck into giving the boss ice weakness and/or end up with strong Remembrance blessings) Fu/March/Jingliu/QQ.Re: path: I'm still trying to get Hunt squared away; I've only got it and Elation remaining. As I think I've said before, the Paths with a usefully scaling "engine" (eg Nihility, the defensive ones, etc) haven't been super hard for me. Remembrance was pain until I went long for enough RES shred and blessings; Hunt continues to really suck; I imagine Elation will be easy and I'm just saving it for when my Clara and Topaz are built more. Kyrosiris posted:Also, just keep the bugs entangled forever with Hell Is Other People and you don't need all this fretting about survivability. 
|
|
#
¿
Nov 22, 2023 19:00
|
|
|
Kyrosiris posted:I admittedly picked it up on a whim but it was very useful, especially because it was pre-upgraded and worked with the "when you apply a Break, get a skill point" boss debuff that I got out of world 2. One break hit everyone, and also gave me a bucket of skill points.  Think I had each of the key blessings mentioned in the previous discussion: distributed heals (not that I needed them much), Macrosegregation, break-effect-hits-all-enemies, oodles of shield gen / shield boost / DMG reduction, a key smattering of Disassociation bits, the IMHO more-useful-in-Swarm of the two damage-dealing Preservation 3-stars (they're hitting me more often than I'm hitting them). Thanks!  Time to focus on building Topaz and polishing Clara (you'd think it would be the other way around, polish the gem and beef up the waif).
|
|
#
¿
Nov 22, 2023 20:29
|
|
|
delfin posted:The main issue is that Difficulty V hits too hard for my healers to keep up for long [...] Speaking of Topaz, I only just started using her myself; she seems to be pretty decent, but I haven't tried her on V yet. Kinda curious to see how she does without a ton of Elation support, tho I have a big enough roster I can't imagine running her with no other followup attackers in the team, even if it's just Kafka and/or Blade. (But I tried her on a lower Swarm difficulty alongside Clara and Himeko and woof. Woof, I say! Or I guess squeak/oink/whatever noise Trotters make.)
|
|
#
¿
Nov 26, 2023 17:59
|
|
|
Bad Video Games posted:Her talent boosts damage when a skill causes an attack. So probably not great for Blade, Quinque, or Jingliu. quote:Her leaked kit looks great. I'm still not pulling for her.
|
|
#
¿
Dec 18, 2023 04:53
|
|
|
rio posted:I wish we had some sort of combat dummy that tracked damage so I could get a better sense of stuff like Pela vs. Hanya in a Seele team. Which reminds me to go put it to use, I’ve always been support-averse (preferring double dps) but my Asta is finished-ish and my 300-pulls free Bronya is getting there. Wish the game had a running damage tally though, or exposed turn counter outside of the modes where it’s mechanically significant.
|
|
#
¿
Dec 19, 2023 07:33
|
|
|
Bad Video Games posted:I get a strong feeling of disgust the hornier a character is designed.
|
|
#
¿
Dec 25, 2023 19:16
|
|
|
Regarding Ratio, do we know yet what his optimal relic set/s and main/sub stats will be? Asking for me, I would like to do at least a cursory amount of pre-farming for him and already had the obvious stuff (ascension, trace mats) sorted. Guessing some combination of Wastelander and/or Duke, and the usual FUA emphasis on CR/CD, ATK, SPD?
|
|
#
¿
Jan 12, 2024 22:19
|
|
|
Thanks for the Ratio infodump folks! Going to be real fuckin weird training my eyes to actually see/consider the Imaginary symbol during team construction and target selection, instead of completely ignoring it...
|
|
#
¿
Jan 13, 2024 03:22
|
|
|
 overthinking alert!!! I feel like pulling on the LC banner for once (my LC stable is weak & my roster overstuffed). Enjoying free Ratio, who has S5 Cruising (taken from Sushang, who now has S2 Swordplay; my Topaz has S5 Only Silence). His signature LC looks really good. I love Kafka, who's got S5 Fermata, but her signature 5-star looks significantly better. Finally, I'm building Ruan Mei and have nothing good (of my other Harmonies, Bronya has her sig, Asta and Hanya have S5 Cogs, Tingyun who I barely use has S3 Carve; and I've got unused decent-superimposed copies of Dance! and Rendezvous.) I figure I'll hopefully hit on a usable 4-star, or S5-ish of a third Cogs, on the way to one of the 5-stars. With all that in mind, would you: - pull for Veritas Bathtub - pull for Kafka's Extremely Small Portion Sizes - shuffle my existing LC allotment around (or dig into the Herta or FH stores), and put the gems towards the 2.0+ character banners, overstuffed roster be damned ?
|
|
#
¿
Jan 21, 2024 23:38
|
|
|
Wouldn’t “everything is meaningless” be more IX’s thing under Nihility? Obviously those two Aeons have some overlap or adjacency, but. Also, I don’t care if Firefly has no significant story relevance by end of planet. She’s cute! (Ok, and mysterious. Please no spoilers, I’m hoping it’s not “she’s actually just this other character!” since that would be a little boring.)
|
|
#
¿
Feb 18, 2024 19:44
|
|
|
Been playing iPad-exclusive since launch, it’s great, I had to drop Genshin in part due to it being too button-mashy but this has been so nice to do on a touch platform.Bad Video Games posted:We loving better get 5 star Sampo. I'm going to be pissed if all we get is a new path for Trailblazer.
|
|
#
¿
Feb 19, 2024 03:08
|
|
|
Ytlaya posted:I wonder if there's ever been an Aeon of Cool that perfectly embodies "being cool"
|
|
#
¿
Feb 24, 2024 00:31
|
|
|
Leraika posted:march is your paimon.
|
|
#
¿
Mar 23, 2024 05:11
|
|
|
ME: aw jeez, I came in just a hair under the 20-turn mark on MoC 12!!! Curse you, boss!Aventurine! but also, I can't believe I did this well! BOSS!AVENTURINE, VERY NOT DEAD YET:  that was only my 1st phase, boyo, and also now your entire team is low health & you've no healer.ME: 
|
|
#
¿
Apr 19, 2024 20:02
|
|
|
|
| # ¿ May 10, 2024 18:44 |
|
|
Clarste posted:Skill issue:
|
|
#
¿
Apr 28, 2024 20:36
|
|
