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Full Rainbow team in CC is topkek. (Got lucky yay)

I'll just say I quite liked the way the devs used the OD event (and R6 bios) as an opportunity to discuss the oft-hinted-elsewhere differences in the technological paradigm etc. in a narratively organic fashion that doesn't come across as a pure infodump.

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myrrhmidon posted:

That said, it did seem rate up was working for you seeing that you did get multiple copies of the rate up characters. Saga dupes are definitely welcome I think.

True. So far when I was rolling a lot, I was pretty lucky. Got few spooks on Rosmontis banner but also got like 9 6 stars, while on Dusk banner outside of that Ceobe, I only got rate up 6 stars, so can't really complain about it. Nian was really just a very specific one where she's not technically rate up, but also not a spook.

Still, congrats anyway. Ash dupes feel useful for me since it makes her initial deployment much cheaper.

Yea. I am really happy with it.

I was actually using the Saga + Warfarin strat. I dunno if it was due to my Saga not being max pot or max level (only level 60) but I couldn't replicate this video.

Yea. Was thinking of checking it after I beat stage myself, to see how it was done exactly. I'd put my guess on you not having max lvl, since it seems like Saga needs a very specific amount of dmg to pull it off.

Frostnova supports my ship

That's both hilarious and adorable xD

So few things I forgot. First, what was up with you suddenly only having 1 support set up? At least I'm pretty sure it was you. Also because I was waiting for second free 10 roll to see what I'll get and see if I'll roll for guarantee Ashe, I was waiting with rolling on Blemishine/Mostima banner and end up forgetting to do so (it was fine, since I do have everyone from that banner). I did roll 10 roll on Eyja banner before rolling more on Ashe's and I got Eyja. Finally getting Schwarz would be cool, but can't complain since I use her all the time. In fact since I had a lot of yellow certs and next copy upgraded her second talent, which is really strong, I bought another copy from shop. It makes her into even better helidrop so no regrets. And lastly, I noticed it already when I rolled for Rosmontis, but forgot to mention. Since I had a lot of green certs, I figured maybe for a change I'll get to third phase and get some more orundum, but then realized since they added that 3 and 4 star vouchers, you're actually forced to buy them to go to last phase now, which is really shitty, especially for whales that will have all 3/4 stars at this point and want those vouchers the least, when they're the only ones who will have enough green certs to actually reach phase 3 regularly.

Also past few days I had some insane tag luck. I got 2 fast redeployment, specialist and support the same day, which do happen sometimes (few guarantee at least 4 stars in a row), but then I also got Liskarm from single defender tag as well as nuker and got another nuker following day.

It's nice that game remembers all your autos. I just run all of them once to get mission rewards and then focused on farming DM-7. For some reason my autos for DM-6 and 7 no longer worked, so I had to clear DM-6 manually and redo it for 7 to farm. I'm actually looking forward to beating EX stages again since last time I was playing I still had most operators at E1, so I want to see how hard stages will be for me now. Especially with MO, I now E2'ed everyone I used there and I want to see now how easily Hellagur will be cutting up all those Grudgebearers. Also I really like that we pretty much get free yellow certs from bonus Sideroca tokens (assuming you played event the first time and got her).

myrrhmidon posted:

Speaking of the map we just got, I am glad it's way easier than the one before. My auto is way more reliable this time and Ash shines in this map against the UFOs.

Wanted to do anni before rerun, but had no time/energy to play it, so didn't touch it yet. I find most enemies from Ursus a pain to deal with, so I'm not really looking forward to beating it. Double so since so far I wasn't able to make 1 stable auto for new annis. Like I can beat them and usually there are no leaks, but often 1 enemy passes by or auto breaks at the very end, so usually I need to keep a eye on it and can't just let it play in background and wasn't able to fix any of them despite my numerous attempts.

New skin for Pinecone looks insanely adorable! New support archetype seems quite interesting and operator is cute too. New medic as well. I like that they're still trying to add new archetypes and make gameplay more diverse.

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I'll just say I quite liked the way the devs used the OD event (and R6 bios) as an opportunity to discuss the oft-hinted-elsewhere differences in the technological paradigm etc. in a narratively organic fashion that doesn't come across as a pure infodump.

Yea. It is pretty clever and interesting, while also being a natural way to do it.

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joined Jul 26, 2016

Probably stating the obvious here but Rosa and Dusk make those Demolitionists in DM bit of a joke. Also, trolling the Lancers with Trapper Specialists is quite funny :D

Should probably try and see how well Mudrock can facetank that assorted wakey-wakey Sarkaz nastiness but I'm a little concerned over her relative susceptibility to Arts...

And yeah those upcoming idol skins are pretty neat. Am I the only one who thinks Pine looks comically awks and uncomfortable in hers...? :P

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Should probably try and see how well Mudrock can facetank that assorted wakey-wakey Sarkaz nastiness but I'm a little concerned over her relative susceptibility to Arts...

She did a great job during CC with pretty high risks, so I'm pretty sure she should be able to tank them easily in normal stage. Her shield refreshes every other shot and she has 30% resist against Sarkaz enemies, so she actually can take a lot of hits before going down.

And yeah those upcoming idol skins are pretty neat. Am I the only one who thinks Pine looks comically awks and uncomfortable in hers...? :P

Yes xD I love how she is only able to force herself to smile for a brief moment and it looks totally forced x3

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And yeah those upcoming idol skins are pretty neat. Am I the only one who thinks Pine looks comically awks and uncomfortable in hers...? :P

Yes xD I love how she is only able to force herself to smile for a brief moment and it looks totally forced x3

My headcanon is the whole thing is something Sora came up with when bored and nobody can convince me otherwise :v

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First, what was up with you suddenly only having 1 support set up? At least I'm pretty sure it was you.

Depending on when this was, it was either when I put my Blaze on support so she shows up for my sister who was having difficulty with the OD-EX stages and having Blaze made it easier. Or it was that time after where a friend asked for Dusk with skill 2. Same reasoning: so that my support shows up.

New skin for Pinecone looks insanely adorable! New support archetype seems quite interesting and operator is cute too. New medic as well. I like that they're still trying to add new archetypes and make gameplay more diverse.

Yeah a melee Supported should spice things up I hope especially since as a 4 star, that means there will be higher rarities of the archetype.

And yeah those upcoming idol skins are pretty neat. Am I the only one who thinks Pine looks comically awks and uncomfortable in hers...? :P

Pinecone probably not used to it lol but yes idol skins are godly especially that Archetto one. Sora being mad jelly she doesn't get a skin lol.

Also the new 6 star looks like Jeanne... Jeanne D'Arknights.

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My headcanon is the whole thing is something Sora came up with when bored and nobody can convince me otherwise :v

Sounds reasonable xP

myrrhmidon posted:

Depending on when this was, it was either when I put my Blaze on support so she shows up for my sister who was having difficulty with the OD-EX stages and having Blaze made it easier. Or it was that time after where a friend asked for Dusk with skill 2. Same reasoning: so that my support shows up.

I think I actually saw both, but I definitely remember Dusk. I see, so that's what it was about. Thanks!

Sora being mad jelly she doesn't get a skin lol.

To be fair, Sora is idol by default and she did get summer skin.

Also the new 6 star looks like Jeanne... Jeanne D'Arknights.

Hahahah xD Good one x3

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Finally did new anni. It was surprisingly easy. The hardest part was making sure civilians won't die, but after 3 attempts or so I have pretty reliable setup so this time I shouldn't have so much issues with auto running it like with previous annis.

joined Jul 26, 2016

Finally did new anni. It was surprisingly easy. The hardest part was making sure civilians won't die, but after 3 attempts or so I have pretty reliable setup so this time I shouldn't have so much issues with auto running it like with previous annis.

My first attempt at it went flawlessly except for failure to kill one damn Stupid Jetpack HitlerSniper in time so a single civilian died and thus I missed full clear by literally one point (ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻

I was nearly at the weekly cap at the time so didn't retry it, will have to try again this week with a slightly different setup.

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Rosmontis
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So, I only cleared H8-1 back when it released. Tried to beat H8-2, but couldn't figure it out. Wanted to give it another go later and it was waiting like that since then. Recently I finally gave it another shot and actually manage to beat it after dozen or so tries. For H8-3 I had to go back to M8-8 and actually defeat Mephisto properly, since I only let him pass and never cleared stage with 3 stars. Turns out it wasn't that hard. So with knowledge how to beat him, I got back. Took me dozen of tries, but manage to figure out right setup and it wasn't that hard. Quickly checked out H8-4 after it. Didn't have any good ideas how to beat it immediately, so after few tries I put it for later again.

And now I finally went back to it and after trying several times, it's actually quite easy. I have reliable setup to kill mobs and first phase of Talulah. In fact I'm surprised how much of pushover she is. I didn't remember Deathless Black Snake to be so easy. The hardest part is protecting the damn civilians. They really expect you to not only have setup for all the mobs and sputniks, but also for Talulah herself and then immediately after defeating her, have setup to tank 40k worth of arts dmg. I want to kill those civilians myself >.> I still didn't figure it out, so far only 1 line is safe thanks to Specter and I'm starting to feel like going easy way, just to be done with this bs, and borrow someone's Nightingale.

On another note, yesterday I finally got another Top OP tag. About time, since last one was quite long ago. I didn't really have any good choices, since I could only go for guarantee Ifrit or Saria/Shining/Nightingale. Current pot for Ifrit didn't give her anything good, so it didn't feel worth it. Same for Saria/Shining and at this point I was in no rush to get Nightingale. I decided to go Top + DPS to lower pool a little and maybe luck out and roll Schwarz. Which I did... so I'm really happy with that x3

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I decided to go Top + DPS to lower pool a little and maybe luck out and roll Schwarz. Which I did... so I'm really happy with that x3

Congrats! Ceylon can be with her kitty!

The hardest part is protecting the damn civilians.

I'm hoping they don't bring back this gimmick. Not necessarily a fan of it either but it forces certain op placement to protect them which at that point just feels like another way of implementing a form of tile ban.

Chapter 9 spoilers: It might seem like we might get to fight Talulah again. RIP my hope of her being playable soon. Still hoping tho. But if she does play a big role in the Victoria arc, she might either die there or become the new Queen. Either one might just make her not playable. Also wow timeskips. Gotta justify all the events somehow I guess. Also new kitty boss is cute. Hoping she doesn't go the FrostNova route.

Also want to share this. Not fanart but I thought it was adorable.

Big update next week. No event announcement yet but unlimited support refresh finally coming to global!

joined Jul 26, 2016

Big update next week. No event announcement yet but unlimited support refresh finally coming to global!

So as I pray
Unlimited Support Works

:v

joined Jul 26, 2016

Menwhile I tried to pull for Blaze and only got a Mudrock dupe because what is even happening anymore ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Upside, enough certs to just buy her from the shop. Guess now I only need Thorns and Ifrit for the true OBARI AS FUCK roster experience... :P

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Toddifons announced. This means next event is Walk in the Dust (on Sept 30). I'm confident Under Tides should follow afterwards.

joined Jul 26, 2016

Hm, I should probably run the weekly Annihilations before the event goes live to be sm0rt about Sanity usage for a change.

...and maybe de-procastrinate and actually finally unlock Guardmiya on the side while I'm being productive. >_>

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Got Pot 6 Sesa and Pot 1 Passenger just for one copy of Toddifons. Worth it lol.

Excited to read this event story. Hopefully not that many translation issues.

joined Jul 26, 2016

...well that was a lot of new campaign missions cleared holy shit o_O

Out of the left field but I just realised those upcoming idol skins are all for birb peepl (griffons like 'Chetto and Hellaold being classed as Liberi). Coincidence? I THINK NOT!

Also 6* Myrtle has an interesting looking kit and her visual design is 10/10 so I guess that's one more waifu for the already lengthy "future savings" list... >_>

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Menwhile I tried to pull for Blaze and only got a Mudrock dupe because what is even happening anymore ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I on the other hand got Hellagur spook on Mudrock banner. Can't really complain, since I use him all the time. Like for my current auto farming.

myrrhmidon posted:

Toddifons announced. This means next event is Walk in the Dust (on Sept 30). I'm confident Under Tides should follow afterwards.

Didn't get her. Suck, but not rolling more, since I need to save for Skadi Alter.

myrrhmidon posted:

Got Pot 6 Sesa and Pot 1 Passenger just for one copy of Toddifons. Worth it lol.

Yea. RNG loves to be like that ;v Still gj!

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...well that was a lot of new campaign missions cleared holy shit o_O

YES. Leveled a bunch of operators with all the exp.

Also 6* Myrtle has an interesting looking kit and her visual design is 10/10 so I guess that's one more waifu for the already lengthy "future savings" list... >_>

Yea. I really like her too.

So beat all the stages and have to say, what the fuck? Everyone was talking how insanely hard boss of this event is, so I was prepared for hell, but he was incredibly easy. Beat him just after few tries and setup auto with only 6 operators. Today I played some more since my strategy revolved around stalling him with Cuora, which meant that each run was taking quite some time, since I was waiting for last casters to come to me before I even started killing him. Also I wasn't entirely happy with how I was killing his second phase, cos I felt like the way I did it was really messy and I could kill him faster. After many attempts, I managed to make a reliable auto with only 4 operators and didn't even use any usual broken ones like Mountain, Blaze, Surtr, Thorns or SilverAsh. Used Hellagur, Specter, Exusiai and Eyja (with skill 2). Very fittingly Hellagur is the one to finish him off.

On the other hand, today got elusive senior tag. Didn't really have that much options, so got guarantee next to last copy of Red.

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joined Jul 26, 2016

...WiD is basically just Kal's Bizarre Cosplay Adventure isn't it? Hell she even has a Stand... :v

Given all the shit she pulls off here it's no wonder she basically soloed poor Crownslayer and her mook squad in the main storyline tho.

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Got Pot 6 Sesa and Pot 1 Passenger just for one copy of Toddifons. Worth it lol.

Yea. RNG loves to be like that ;v Still gj!

Thanks. E2'd her too. Her eyes turning red is a really nice touch. inhales copium

So beat all the stages and have to say, what the fuck? Everyone was talking how insanely hard boss of this event is, so I was prepared for hell, but he was incredibly easy. Beat him just after few tries and setup auto with only 6 operators. Today I played some more since my strategy revolved around stalling him with Cuora, which meant that each run was taking quite some time, since I was waiting for last casters to come to me before I even started killing him. Also I wasn't entirely happy with how I was killing his second phase, cos I felt like the way I did it was really messy and I could kill him faster. After many attempts, I managed to make a reliable auto with only 4 operators and didn't even use any usual broken ones like Mountain, Blaze, Surtr, Thorns or SilverAsh. Used Hellagur, Specter, Exusiai and Eyja (with skill 2). Very fittingly Hellagur is the one to finish him off.

Wow that's cool. Did you make a video too? Would like to try this especially since Hellagur got a badass new skin.

I am expecting EX stage Emperor's Blade to be harder. Also lore-wise, they're usually in groups like the group that attacked early Reunion. Really shows how badass Patriot was to take on two of them.

...WiD is basically just Kal's Bizarre Cosplay Adventure isn't it? Hell she even has a Stand... :v

LMAO

Art stuff: NSFW same VA Skadi x Eula yuri, Black Bunny x White Bunny, Kal x Amiya with a very interesting title "Lie", and my favorite ship with some very nice tailholding

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random posted:

...WiD is basically just Kal's Bizarre Cosplay Adventure isn't it? Hell she even has a Stand... :v

ROTFL. Brilliant xD

myrrhmidon posted:

Got Pot 6 Sesa and Pot 1 Passenger just for one copy of Toddifons. Worth it lol.

Yea. RNG loves to be like that ;v Still gj!

E2'd her too. Her eyes turning red is a really nice touch.

Yea. I liked her E2 art.

inhales copium

pat pat

Wow that's cool. Did you make a video too? Would like to try this especially since Hellagur got a badass new skin.

Thanks! Sadly since I wasn't really getting views, didn't want to stress about youtube copyrights, especially since it started to strike my old FGO videos, cos I was using animu music there and in general not feeling as passionate about my videos, since I didn't have a niche and felt a bit like another generic AK wannabe youtuber (I tried to make videos of only stuff I found cool/didn't see anyone else did), I kinda gave up on it and unlisted all my videos some time ago. I actually do have idea what videos I could make, but for that I need to max out a bunch of operators and I'm not exactly swimming in resources so I'm working on it slowly. And sure I could just promote my videos on reddit or w/e but it's not like I want to be youtuber or something. I was just expecting YT to recommend my videos to some people and would be happy if just 100, maybe 1000 people saw it, but of course algorithm is unforgiving, especially to new channels. Either way, I actually liked this run enough that I did consider making a video out of it. I'll see if I want to mess with editing and looking for some game soundtrack etc, but if I won't, I'll record it just to share here.

Yes! Got his skin immediately. It's awesome!

Also fittingly I keep misreading the name of the event as "Walk in the Park" stares

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Doing my first 6 operators clear again to record it took way longer than it should to pull it off. I kept messing it up, because it's way too overcomplicated and requires precise timing multiple times, so it's very easy to fuck up on top of being way too long (at least auto never messed it up). As I was trying to record it I already found at least 3 ways you could improve it, while keeping general strategy intact. On the other way my 4 operators clear is so streamlined, it's incredibly easy to replicate and very hard to fuck up. That was kinda the whole point of me trying to improve my auto, cos I was sure I can make it faster and way easier in general.

EDIT/ Also forgot to mention. It's nice that we finally got option to play old events, but not all of them are available and I'm kinda confused about how we're supposed to unlock more.

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Doing my first 6 operators clear again to record it took way longer than it should to pull it off. I kept messing it up, because it's way too overcomplicated and requires precise timing multiple times, so it's very easy to fuck up on top of being way too long (at least auto never messed it up). As I was trying to record it I already found at least 3 ways you could improve it, while keeping general strategy intact. On the other way my 4 operators clear is so streamlined, it's incredibly easy to replicate and very hard to fuck up. That was kinda the whole point of me trying to improve my auto, cos I was sure I can make it faster and way easier in general.

Oh the delay strat. Definitely feels scuffed compared to just 4 ops. Surprised it was Hellagur's skill 1. Also is your Hellagur M9? That's awesome if so. Will have to level skill to match yours. That said, my Exu isn't masteried either so matching the timing will be more difficult. Again, great job on that 4 op clear.

EDIT/ Also forgot to mention. It's nice that we finally got option to play old events, but not all of them are available and I'm kinda confused about how we're supposed to unlock more.

Maybe after every rerun of an event? I think only the events that have rerun are available?

Art: Heidi simps for Kal'tsit

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myrrhmidon posted:

Definitely feels scuffed compared to just 4 ops.

IKR?

Also is your Hellagur M9? That's awesome if so. Will have to level skill to match yours.

I intended to, since I like all of his skills. I was being gated by mats so at first I focused on mastering his second skill, since it's the best one against single enemy and was using it almost exclusively since then. It's good for the most situations, but when you need sustain dmg and/or enemies spawn more frequently, skill 1 is better and since unlike most people I like those "empowered strike after x hits" skills, I didn't mind mastering it. Third skill looks cool and should be great for when there's 1 huge wave of enemies, but because so far I almost never use it, cos other 2 skills are enough, I'm in no rush to master it, so it's sitting at only first mastery. I'm intending to master it eventually.

Either way, I think you could pull it off with S2, if you won't deploy him on pursuer, but you'll need to watch out for timings and not sure if it won't be too late, cos I really don't know when exactly he uses that anit-surtr attack. I actually could deploy Exusiai when he goes top and she almost kills him (leaves him with barely any health, probably would if she was max lvl), but then he reaches Specter too fast and she kills him, before she can kill the Ursus dude and so he leaks. When he reaches Hellagur, I tried to deploy him facing up, so he'll kill him faster, but he kills him too fast, so Specter and Exu aren't ready for deploy when he goes bot. As easy as this run might seem, there's actually a lot things going there you won't realize, unless you try to change something.

That said, my Exu isn't masteried either so matching the timing will be more difficult.

Yea. I'm not sure it will work when it's not max mastered, since she needs to charge it asap to deal enough dmg.

Again, great job on that 4 op clear.

Thanks!

Maybe after every rerun of an event? I think only the events that have rerun are available?

That's very possible. Still you gain 1 stack of event crystal to use to unlock events every week and it caps at 2, but there are no events to unlock? What's point of adding entire new mechanic, when you have nothing to unlock, and things you're unlocking with it will be added so rarely, you'll always have enough resources to unlock them. At this point they could just add all events. That's why I feel like I'm missing something.

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That's very possible. Still you gain 1 stack of event crystal to use to unlock events every week and it caps at 2, but there are no events to unlock? What's point of adding entire new mechanic, when you have nothing to unlock, and things you're unlocking with it will be added so rarely, you'll always have enough resources to unlock them. At this point they could just add all events. That's why I feel like I'm missing something.

Hmmm. I don't get it either then.

Anyway all our talk and strategizing on WD-8 yet of course a certain penguin can then solo it. The galaxy brains to pull this off...

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