@Shigurui Hmm.. My worst will probably have to be Jingliu also. She was irrelevant like a day after I got her and I did a lot of grinding for her mats and gear. It still stings that Blade was my main for 2 months then fell into obscurity.
My best purchase by far was Luocha. He is still my most used even though I haven't used him in a while. He was practically on every single team. Now it's between Aventurine and Fu Xuan like most players. FF and Acheron are my most used DPS at the mo but that looks to change soon if I get decent teams built around Big Herta and Aglea.
@z0d15g0d@themightyant - It sucks that Jingliu fell off so quickly for you both. I've had her since day one so got mileage out of her. Jingliu, Blade, Bronya and Luocha were an absolute force together in their day. Still bust that team out on occasion but only to farm mats or the rare time I play some Gold and Gears. With the exception of Luocha they all got left in the dust. A real shame.
Anyone else trudged through the latest TB story? Pretty sure I now have carpal tunnel from mashing the x button to get through that word soup. As much as I like the new area I realised I really don't care for the narrative whatsoever and dislike almost every character in the place so far. Going to be a long year!
In exactly this boat right now. Struggling to get through the story. It's horrificly written, but worse is the pacing. It's got a lot of the worst hallmarks of Penacony where they are dragging everything out as long as possible to artifically inflate the playtime. I realise making games is hard and having an update every 6 weeks is super hard, but i'd prefer them to halt the story and have one every other patch if it was better and more concise. Fill the patch with fun minigames you've already made like Legend of the Galactic Baseballer or something if you must.
It's a shame as I enjoyed 3.0 and the start to Amphoreus. Hopefully it picks up. It looks particualrly bad as i've been playing loads of smaller games this last month (Rollerdrome, Sayonara Wild Hearts, Braid, Resident Evil 2 & 3 remakes, Ninja Gaiden 1 & 2 Black) and this just feels like such a chore by comparison. Hopefully get through it tonight or tomorrow.
@themightyant I think I've gotten through most of it and I haven't read a single line of text. Just autoplay and press 1 when dialogue options came up. Had to manually fight through the kingdom hearts wannabe boss but then back to ignoring all the story.
@themightyant Played through RE2 remake twice and now I'm going through with infinite weapons just to piss tyrant off lol. Going through Mass Effect trilogy remaster at the mo but will be getting Mydei as I lost Tribbie 50:50. He's pretty much a Blade replacement from the looks of things which makes me think that their whole "Buff older characters" is a crock.
@z0d15g0d@Shigurui to be fair I started paying attention a little more, and it got a better for a while before tailing off again. I was skim reading it and occasionally using the text recap to see if I missed anything important.
The overarching story around “kingdom hearts boss” (lol. Perfect description) Flame Reaver was actually quite good, just horribly told, and MIGHT end up being VERY interesting in the long run. It’s a shame they shot themselves in the foot by telling it so poorly.
In case you missed it, and have any interest, a brief recap. Obvious story spoilers below. The Flame Reaver is also hunting core flames, just like our band of heroes. And Anaxa has a core flame embedded in him from his Titan, which is the scene with Anaxa on the Throne at the top of the grove where we first meet Flame Reaver.
Mydei meanwhile is wracked with uncertainty about whether to seize his Titan’s (Strife) Core Flame and ascend to Godhood, he doesn’t know what to do and fearing he might fall to evil tells Phainon that he has a weakness (an Achilles heel as this all flirts with Greek Myths) between two vertebrae in his back. He tells Phainon if they need to kill him as a God this is his weakness.
Mydei then goes to face his trial to become a God while we go off to face Flame Reaver at Castrum Kremnos and try and trap him in the old world with Tribbie’s ability, using Anaxa’s Core Flame as bait. (Also remember Phainon failed his trial, though we don’t quite know what happened)
In the flashy fight scene our trap doesn’t work and the Flame Reaver doesn’t end up trapped in the past but Mydei, now a God, appears in the nick of time and traps him in the red crystal before burying that huge spear through him. Cool scene. Mydei has also changed and is all confident now.
But here’s where it gets POTENTIALLY really interesting. Below isn’t set in stone but it’s my theory based on quite a bit of foreshadowing. I’ve put it in spoilers as it’s a theory and I don’t want to spoil upcoming story, it also might not be true as HSR loves red herrings and fake outs.
The first thing to say is during the two fights with Flame Reaver we start to see a lot more of his moves and a LOT of his symbolism and marks very closely match Phainon’s. My theory is Phainon IS the Flame Reaver somehow, maybe from the future/past? There’s also some other evidence, the Flame Reaver specifically targets Mydei’s back in the second fight and Phainon deflects it, who else knows about this weakness. They also say they don’t know Flame Reaver’s fate after the fight or his origin. Theres a few other clues, but I won’t get into them. But I will say why is Phainon not a 3.0, 3.1 or 3.2 character, they are holding him for a reason. It’s just a theory.
Now that’s all unconfirmed but could be a cool story, it’s just a shame they tell it so badly and have 6-8 hours of dragged out word salad to get there.
Aside from that I’m now at about 70 pulls in with a guarantee. I SHOULD probably pull Tribbie, she’s strong, she’s fits with teams I have, and I’ve kinda farmed for her.
However I still really like Mydei, especially after that story, he had a pretty great arc in the end and the way his confidence and character changed after ascending to Godhood is cool. Even though he’s the worst option - I don’t have any of his best team - I kinda want to pull Mydei even more now, he’s awesome. Undecided what I will do. I have 3 days to decide. Heart or head decision.
@themightyant - Interesting theory, I did pay some attention to his arc but it ultimately bored me to tears thanks to reams of unnecessary text. Roll on 3.2 and the story summary option like WuWa.
Did you decide on who to pull? I totally get why you want Mydei, I'd like to get him having already got Tribbie and Luocha but having got Aglaea with 2/3rds of her optimal team I'm not doing it again. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy running her but the missing piece in Sunday is huge for that team and I really feel her drop off at times. I think Mydei will perform well with F2P options much better than Aglaea does though.
@Shigurui Agreed FAR too much text. They are just dragging out what is in reality a 2-3 hour story for 6-8 hours. Woeful. Sadly I looked up reviews for 3.1 and a lot of people were praising it. I think perhaps i'm just not the target market for it. Story skip... is it really coming in 3.2? Sounds great, but I also wonder why to keep playing an RPG if I don't like the story.
My head prevailed and I got Tribbie... so I now have 1/3 of Mydei's best team, I'll try and snipe him, but unlikely I only have 9 wishes left even after all the events, Tribbie went almost all the way to 90 pity TWICE.
@themightyant - I think you made the right choice. She's amazing with Big Hat Herta and won't disappoint in your Acheron team either. I got ran hard to get her too, 83 pulls to lose 50/50 and another 84 on guarantee. Harsh. I did get E4 Welt for my loss and rebuilt him for meme fun in DU, so there's that I suppose lol.
As for 3.2. We're not getting a direct skip button but we are getting a summarize option for certain dialogue choices and they're cutting down on the black screen text to progress story stuff. Small steps but something I suppose. Enjoy Tribbie man, she's a fun unit.
Just got Mydei and added him to support if you guys wanna try him out. He's mostly built but still need better relics. Running with Blade's LC. I tried Tribbie and Sparkle against Feixiao boss and I dunno it looked like he did more damage with Sparkle. Not by much though but the fight was faster as it was practically always his turn. I used him with RMC and Luocha.
I just got Mydei in a single pull. Was on 44 pity as I'd been trying for E1 Tribbie, I'll take it after a 3x loss streak with 2x Bailu's adding insult to injury. I can strip all of Blade's gear and sig LC to get him up and running while I farm better relics. Really wanted Arlan's E6 though. /s
I spent all 16 wishes I had and nothing. I do have 70ish wishes saved in the shop credit (that could also be used for 5-star lightcones) but I save that in all these games for when I REALLY want a character and miss the 50:50. I'll still try and snipe him to the end of his banner, if I get close to 75 wishes (unlikely) I might use a few of those to see if I can get him, but I don't want to use most of them.
@themightyant - Heh, I know man he's absolutely useless. I was one pull away for the guaranteed 4* drop and genuinely did make the pull for his E6 just to have it lol. Turned out slightly better.
Stream highlights. Anniversary rewards are 30 pulls, 20 tickets + 1600 jades and 10 fuel. Free 5* picker to claim any current standard character OR a free Luocha or Ruan Mei (E1 RM for me). Also an unannounced free 5* character down the line and Blade and Jingliu are getting buffed in 3.4, actual character buffs, not game mechanics. Solid stream.
That sounds like a solid update to the game. That's a tough one. RM E1 or get my Clara closer to E6 lol. She seems like Mydei's best sub DPS especially for enemies who do aoe.
Any mention of when we will learn what buffs Blade and Jingliu get?
@Shigurui Thanks for the codes and reminder about the Livestream. That seems like a great anniversary! I don't really have a good healer so I might got for Luocha, but E1 RM is also HIGHLY tempting. Silver Wolf and Kafka also getting buffed with Blade and Jingliu.
Castorice continues to look insane. They did keep they the off-field recovery after all.
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