Topic: Honkai Star Rail

@z0d15g0d I'm guessing you didn't get that lottery ticket in the end.

@Shigurui What? really? I've been praying to the 50/50 gods all this time for the LC too.

@z0d15g0d Thanks, and congratulations on the LC. Upgrading characters we do use is useful to help reduce any creeping HoYo do in future.

Also spot on about credits. It’s similar in all hoyo games, there’s a point early on where you are struggling as you are upgrading many characters and all resources are tight (pushing you to the battle pass or more) but after a while of no changes you just accumulate wealth.

@Shigurui thanks for the info on 75:25, that makes more sense, it’s my first time wishing on the banner. Acherons LC is between 35% and 50+% stronger depending which stats/characters you have compared to what I had before. It’s one of the largest increases for a signature.

P.s. no lottery ticket. I’ve actually never bought one. I know what I’m like, if I did it one week I’d want to do it every week.

@Shigurui that's all good to know, and nice work! I was 67 wishes.

@Shigurui I think I will rebuild my Blade after Clara. He was such a fun character to use with Luocha. Will try to get him over 10k HP currently on 7k if I recall. Not sure if Lingsha is any good with him.

@themightyant Agreed, I've fed their gacha machine enough. Could have bought a PS5 pro and disk drive + headset and a few games with the money I've given them.

@z0d15g0d Blade's always been a character I have enjoyed playing each time I get to mess with him. But he's never been on a banner when I had jades or wasn't saving. One day maybe when the dual dps meta comes back.

@themightyant Haha yea I miss the Blade, Jingliu and Luocha team combos.

@Shigurui Yea especially after all the hype surrounding him before launch. I guess he didn't hit the gacha waifu numbers they expected. Him being the least androgynous 5* male to date.
Them's some sweet HP numbers I'll try to get that next if Clara corrosion stops feeding me trash.

@Shigurui Thanks for the codes dude.

Yea it's crossplay and Co Op so we can go hunt some bosses.

Hmmm...another Nihility fire Foxian. They already trying to make him obsolete?

@Shigurui Amazing for f2p. I've only bought the BP cause I wanted the unique weapons that come with it. All the 5* I wanted have dropped between 20 to 40 pulls and there's always events on to get you to about 60-70 crystals before of during the launch of a new character.

They've even done the free 5* giveaway and unlike Ratio he's actually one of the best characters in the game.

The new update added tag team ults and it's amazing. I wonder how it woud function in Co Op though.

@Shigurui thanks for the codes! And yes excited for WuWa on PS5. I’ve been playing that since day 1 but hate the mobile / tablet performance. Hopefully better on PS5.

As @z0d15g0d said it’s been amazing for F2P so far (it can always change), I’ve not spent a penny, no battle pass or anything and have everyone except one limited 5-star (Zhezji) and one standard 5-star (Encore) I also have four 5-star weapons. To be fair my luck has been insane, including three 5-star characters at E1 equivalent (Jiyan, Verina & Camelya). The weapons banner is also guaranteed, no 50:50s or 75:25 and has its own currency which they give free wishes for. They’ve given us several free 5-stars, weapons and characters. (I don’t know if they will for new players) They also seem like they are struggling to keep up with HoYo’s update schedule and already didn’t have a new character for half a patch, which makes it easier to get them all if they keep giving the same amount of free rewards. More time to save.

As for the game it’s VERY much a clone of Genshin Impact in most ways but with a more skill based battle system. If you like Genshin, especially exploring the world, you’ll provably like WuWa.

If I had any complaints it’s that while it’s production value is still high it’s a lot more janky and less polished than a HoYo game… especially on mobile / tablet. The multipliers for 5-star weapon and banner character copies are also much higher, DPS checks are more obvious in some end game content. Combine that with the high skill requirement and a lot of on screen effects sometimes makes it hard to tell what’s going on it, which does make the end game tough for F2P. But as long as you can accept some stuff is likely out of reach for F2P unless you are a gaming god (or spend money) then it’s great.

My only MAJOR complaint is less about this game specifically but more that all these Gacha games are so time consuming, especially if you play several (I’m on 4 currently: Genshin, HSR, WuWa and ZZZ) it doesn’t leave enough time for other games. My backlog has grown a lot since I started playing Gacha games and it’s grown even more since WuWa and ZzZZ came out. They are all good games but the OPPORTUNITY COST of playing them is huge due to their time consuming nature. Would I be better off playing ONE of theses or playing ALL of Baldurs gate 3, Elden Ring, Cyberpunk 2077, Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth & Tales of Arise instead? That’s the real cost to me. Free is enticing, and I’ve fallen in, but would you have I be better off using our time differently. Look at the hours you have put into HSR and ask if it’s worth it. We’re all in a different position and only you can be the judge of that.

I really need to drop ZZZ, the combat and style is amazing, but I don’t like the rest of the game and it’s such a time sink. I’m just struggling to go cold turkey, sunk cost (in terms of time) fallacy. Meanwhile I’m very slowly going through Xenoblade Chronicles 3 would prefer to play that, but find it hard to quit Gacha.

@Shigurui haha. lol. Didn’t feel so long when writing it!

Reading it back the last part reads more like self-therapy. I just need to delete ZZZ and play other games instead!

EDIT: I’ve deleted it from PS5 and mobile & tablet. Thanks for indirectly helping me to stay accountable! 😂

@Shigurui it does have a high skill ceiling, especially certain characters/teams, so you might enjoy it. Ninja Gaiden was tight back in the day, never quite gelled with DMC.

The only problem for me is that the moves can be so flashy it’s hard to sometimes read what is happening (too many effects). That doesn’t always feel fair, but ymmv. Hope you enjoy it.

@Shigurui @z0d15g0d we get a free standard banner 5-star character in 2.7 which is a bit random, but I’ll take it! Who are you going for?

I’m split between E3 Himeko, which isn’t great in itself but it’s one step closer to E4 which is very strong (it gives her an extra point of charge when she breaks an enemy weakness with her skill)

The alternative is E1 Bronya which combined with her lightcone makes her less skill point heavy allowing her to play better in more teams.

E1 Bronya is definitely the better Eidolon on its own, but as discussed above I don’t use her in m/any teams anymore. Himeko I use a lot in Pure Fiction so that’s probably the more sensible choice. I think I’m getting closer to another 5-star on the standard banner so i might see why happens there first.

@Shigurui Lol I don't really have beef with Ratio it's just that my DHIL does a far better job. I don't use hunt unless there's no other choice.

@themightyant @Shigurui I'm defo going for Clara it will be E3 but gets me closer to that sweet E6. triple super counter and 50% chance to counter when allies are attacked normally? Hell yea. Now if only they will update her kit to let you summon the hands.

Yes! NG2 and DMC 3,4,5 all sweet as hell. Metal gear revengance also I think i broke my controller doing the infinite slash lol. WuWa is pretty similar in the combo aspect. When things start getting too flashy I just focus on my character and it's easier to dodge or parry when they're about to get hit (controllers for the win).