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Cue Yakety Sax.

Today’s new event map looks like quite a fun puzzle. Only dabbled with it this morning but it was pretty stimulating.

Wrapped the plot missions for the second trails set today. Pretty fun… now the grind begins!

Strike that. It’s an evil feast of frustration. The recent trend of having strong enemies immune to all debuffs is getting old, fast.

I find the challenge missions infuriating… I just don’t think I have the right mix of SSR characters, and it becomes an exercise in frustration.

I go online for tips and it is always like ‘I did this will Elwin, Luna and Bozel’

And I’m over here with mostly empire faction spinning my wheels

I checked on reddit (I was that desperate!) and it boils down, to me, to those missions being probably tuned for Chinese whales, making even our own whales suffer against those challenge. You need a full 6k cast to stand a small chance in those last two it seems, since tactics or even cast don’t matter, only raw numbers.
Frankly, I am probably done with the game if that’s the new content we can expect from now on.

No doubt…

They need to feed some content for the folks living in 55-60 land like me!!

I was doing the challenge today where Ferequa (sorry, spelling) turns into a dragon. I grind along for about 12 turns but eventually eliminate her, feeling pretty good… then boom, she turned into a dragon. No Elwin for me meant that I didn’t really have a chance at that point. I don’t think that one is even particularly hard, but I got frustrated and gave up

Yes Fellaqia isn’t hard, but your experience stigmates what has been happening for the last few weeks: even if you got a sound tactic, a nice team and can survive, you need unusually high attack numbers to be able to cope with a limiting factor, often the arbitrary timer.
For reference, I beat her with Vargas (who incidently got the highest attack numbers on my team, despite lousy attack skills: just a coincidence).

Just had a really nice day of pulls.

Spent the $20 for guaranteed SSR and snagged Elwin. Just at spent the last hour boosting him as much as possible. Frees up my options for the Valentine’s event

Also had SSR draws of Veil of Light, Jormundgers Eye and Tennyos Robe… Not too shabby

Nice! I haven’t gotten a drop all week from dragons :/

I had a quick go at each of the challenge maps. Definitely tougher than the last set. At least this week’s SSS trial was pretty easy.

I should hit account level 55 early in my dailies on Thursday.

I have been sweeping for mats for Cherie’s & Sonya’s level 55 class upgrades (which are mastery for both), figuring they’re probably the best people to focus on first (as my primary damage dealers; Ledin is doing just super right now).

I have been neglecting Flier upgrades (not completely, but I’ve been mostly focused on Lancer where possible, and sort of shifting my second priority), so I’ve got some work to do before I get Angels unlocked. This entire time Iw as waiting for Cherie to get them thinking it was a class unlock and then I looked up and saw she was about to Master whichever class and I was like “huh”. Whoops. I sitll have to get level 5 on Core Def and then level 5 of Aerobatics before they unlock (I did just hit Flier 12, fortunately).

Extra sweeps have been going to Aniki training in the mean time, because I had to catchup on R books. Also, I spent my dailies today on Lancer before realzing all of this. Doh!

Angels are awesome, it allows Cherie and Leon to sometimes survive magic attacks that melee units have no business surviving.

Also I finally had a chance to try out some of the challenge maps.

  • The dragon one was kind of fun, wish the other maps were like this. More mechanics than a stat check, it’s nice that the bats and squid don’t do any damage with their pulls, and the dragon’s stats were reasonable as well.

  • Weismann challenge #1: Probably not worth the sanity cost for 20 tokens.

  • Weismann challenge #2: So the trick is to surround him and he won’t resummon Leonhardt, but my team isn’t tough enough to survive his AoEs without a lot of luck. Even with a 5* Luna (which means -25% magic damage for everyone with 2 spaces) my Tiaris/Liana will die if any of the following are true:

  1. if they are damaged which disables sorceress/shrine maiden defense buff
  2. If Weismann’s int isn’t debuffed (which I’m relying on Leon’s atk break / Cherie’s last knight & helm. Wish I had a built up Vargas/Angelina)
  3. If they still have -35% mdef debuff that Weismann applies.

I got him to about half health once, but that’s it. I have been neglecting my healers’ defense bonds, going to try and build them up before the event ends.

  • Trails family challenge - maybe doable? Looking to rely on the tender mercies of the RNG and Peacemaker / Detect to disable passives.

Haven’t tried nightmare arena yet. All in all, not very fond of these maps. Guess it’s not the end of the world if I miss out on some game tokens, but still wish they weren’t time limited like the Twisted Fate events.

The Trail family bucket thing is quite evil: it looks doable, but then will throw horrible low punches at you (the only viable tank is Ledin on this map, and disabling passive works… until someone decides to become invincible to debuff and bad status — that last thing seems to be Zlong’s new approach at making things “challenging”. Yeah, no thank you for turning most of the characters useless.

I have stopped playing on the world server last week because of this. I am at a place where I have zero hope to be competitive in the level 70 single player content and challenge events, apart from stupidly slowly boosting my various stats over the next two months, done by playing contents that is so easy it is boring to death.

I switched and concentrated on my Japanese party. I drew totally different characters there: I have Zelda, Lanford and Juggler — no Leon or Luna, aw! — and being on my early 60s, a lot of the content is still very much fun to play.
Interestingly enough, the challenges event in the first Trails event that is about to close there have very different balances from the one we got in the International server. Overall much harder (which makes sense, although newer, the character’s levels have grown much higher there), but also a bit more rewarding. I will report what happens with Weissmann and friends there when they show up, in a couple of weeks probably.

First, I dunno, 6-7 batches of pulls were nothing (although I think I can get another star for Sonya now).

Then I tripled pulled O_O

Elwin, Liana, and 50 Elwin shards all in one batch.

Nice!

I pulled Elwin and Jugler… Used my CP with Leon shards for Lana, then my Elwin shards with the second CP for Liana… So Liana, Lana and Jugler off about 110 pulls.

Pretty pleased. Leveling them up is going to take some time. Also happy to have the extra gate of dates for the event, that is helpful

Slide 40 Frostrend over to Elwin, along with Apex Boots (which are still 20; I am considering using a spirit on them) and a few other SR gears. One of which I just leveled to 30. Sonya gets a level 30 Fire Spear thingy (30% chance to do fixed damage) that I upgraded to 40. Team is now Ledin, Tiaris, Elwin, Cherie, and one of Bozel or Sonya as needed. Sonya got a bit weaker in this exchange which is a mild problem (the spear upgrade helped mitigate this somewhat).

I need moar SSR weapons lol. But for now I’m continuing on the master plan. I can do 45 dragons (some, I’m going to try the others I haven’t completed yet as they come into the rotation the rest of the week).

More pulls produced nothing (except I got a ton of Imelda shards today, like 80). I’ve gotten Elwin to Bond level 15 and unlocked his first 3 bond power nodes but I lack keys of every tier haha.

Grats folks! 3x SSR in one pull is pretty damn lucky. I got Landius in 40, so decent for me as well.

Today at lunch I gave the “Black and White” level a few more tries. Just couldn’t get far. I looked on reddit for strategies, and there’s this neat one where you use Ferquea (sp?) to switch positions with Weismann so that he’s backed into a corner, so he ends up meleeing (as a mage) your Elwin. Pretty damn clever. Unfortunately my Elwin’s not up to snuff; by turn 15 Weismann still has ~1/4th of his health.

A big part of this is that (like Leviar) Weismann has a massive melee damage reduction buff, but it doesn’t apply during counter attacks. So I’m curious if I could sub in Ledin for the task. He wouldn’t have the self heal that Elwin has, but he’d easily do 3 times the damage. I also have 4 copies of True Cross I’ve been meaning to merge that might give him a hilarious +20% def +20% mdef against Weismann.

Someone also came up with a pretty inventive strategy in the bizarro dragon level. Basically the reason the dragon doesn’t move is because she has 0 move, but if she plunders a +move skill (like sprint) she’ll move from her initial spot, only to die from her own flames.

Man extra Gates runs has really helped me in collecting crystals (which I also gathered from some more time rift feat/star cleanup). Cached in what I had and I’ve done a bunch more pulls, and got Leon. I really want Lana but I also wanted Leon, and he’s arguably more useful until I can get a princess buffer anyway (and I do want one). Although I can’t move him all the way up to the first team just yet in any case (he’s now level 44 or something; he’ll probably make first team after tomorrow’s Angelina dailies, but Sunday if not).

And I have to say I am liking Sonya + Bats + Ninjitsu (treat all terrain as plains, if terrain gives a def buff you also add that to attack when attacking). But I’ll probably replace her with Leon over the next week.

I will finally be able to unlock Angels sunday. I just need I think 12 gold flier books. So yay for Cherie and Leon there.

I started doing World Arena. I’m up to Silver III. Holy crpa the rewards are much better than regular arena (where I’m having a ton of trouble finding opponents I can beat as it is).

Leon is the best! Enjoy just axing units all over the map

Pulled Lana. Can’t do anything with her at this point anyway but wanted her for down the road for sure.

Got Wind Knife and Peacemaker Axe from dragon dailies today. Am now using the latter (currently level 40) on Cherie with Last Knight sliding over to Leon.

A massive change to the CN servers is looming. Details:

  1. Level Cap Raised to 70.
  2. New Continent for story mode
  3. All Secret Realm Modes will have another tier added with better rewards (e.g. Level 65 Angelica’s Training School, Level 75 dragon, etc.)
  4. New soldiers. 6 are featured here:
  • Mechanical Soldier: When active in combat, can attack with hero’s ranged attacks. Attack +30%
  • Crystal Construct- After action, recover 10% soldier HP. When attacked by a magic in combat, reduce unit dmg taken by 30%.
  • Unicorn - Normal attacks become Magic. Unit movement does not receive terrain penalty. When in combat on Forest, Mountain, or Plain, MDEF + 30%.
  • Land Dragon - no desc provided
  • Black Widow - no desc provided
  • Angelic Warrior - no desc provided New soldier class upgrades. 3 are featured here: Lonely Combat - Infantry soldiers. If no allies within 1 tile, damage dealt increased by 30%. Bloodbath - Lancer soldiers. If unit HP % is greater than opponent unit’s in combat, ATK + 20%. Steel Hooves - Cavalry soldiers. For each 1 tile moved before attacking, damage dealt +8%. Max +40%.
  1. Level 70 heroes. Limit breaking has 3 components:
  • Skill Cost Cap increased to 6 from 5.
  • One 3-cost skill.
  • Special animation for every 3-cost skill e.g.: Luna’s Goddess of Wind - [Support] Active use. Receive buff: [Highwind]: Converts 1.5x MDEF to ATK. This effect cannot be dispelled. Lasts 6 turns. Also gain [Goddess of Wind]: All non-flying allies when passing within 2 tiles of Luna gain 2 opportunities to ignore terrain movement penalty. Lasts 2 turns. After using this skill, can move 3 spaces and attack.
  1. Hero Card upgrades (now featuring backgrounds)
  2. Anniversary skins for Matthew & Zerida.
  3. Q&A
  • Items to increase number of Gate of Fate chances.
  • Collab reruns. Trails in the Sky confirmed rerun. The rest depend on $$$$.
  • Improvements to Alchemy system (QoL)
  • View past story events.
  • No plans to increase number of skills carried (currently 3)
  • Reruns on other limited events.

Also I just noticed I now have a memory Shard exchange in the store. Yet more stuff O_O. Where am I going to be getting them from and should I exchange excess love tokens for them over Ori/gold?