Kyrios
1661
Mmm, very much looking like a wipe. P3 left his Elwin out a space too far, Emerick came up and disabled my Landius’s guard with his passive, and things all went to hell.
The map has something like 20 enemy troops on it, and seems to want tank + Tiaris even more than the level 60 map wants Leon + Liana.
peacedog
1662
Oh wow I just nocied that seeds, flowers, feathers, and hearts (for 200, 300, 400, and 600 points respectively). 10 purchases per type per week, and a purchase gets you 6 of the item (just like the reward bags).
That’s incredible.
Yeah, that’s pretty awesome. Flowers and seeds have been my major impediment to progress.
Angelina 65:
Spawn triggers are the first square on each bridge she moves to (she4 takes the “left”/“upper” path normally, but either square will work (e.g. L/R, Top/Bot).
Group 1: 2 sky archers.
Group 2: Angelica+ 2 tide lords, spawn in water. Tide lords will happily move onto the bridge to attack, she will Fire Blast from water. Angelica has ram, which is the only guard negate IIRC.
Boss is Alustrial + wolf cav.
The twist in the map is a Harpy in the NW on an island. She is immune to all damage and every turn casts a debuff on one ally (Angelina included). It casues that person to damage everyone around them by 20% max health every time they end their turn. It lasts one turn. It cannot be dispelled. One healer can probably keep the team topped off. I think an Atlebuff would be nice too, although I think I’m about to be in a group that does it without.
Final group trigger is last square of bottom bridge.
Two tanks might not be a bad idea (this group is doing it), since one tank might need to maneuver out of people’s way. Also 1p just smoked crack jesus what was he thinking.
Sounds like a risky gamble of 15 stamina!
In other news I enjoyed flexing my newly mostly maxed Narm vs 70 Rocky.
Honestly it’s not hard. But you need to know spawn points and anyone who autos is likely to cause problems :P
In that respec tit’s no different than the others. The debuffing harpy is more annoyance to be honest. Really a Landius could do some serious work here.
My Narm isn’t quite maxxed but she’s doing pretty good, didn’t even think about bringing her against Rocky. My Alustriel isn’t doing half bad either! folds hands together and cackles
Protip: do not fucking smash the sky archers out into the water where nobody can get to them. Looking at you 1p.
I’m going to say two tanks is a requirement on this map (bridge positioning makes it impossible to cover everyone with one tank and cover Angelica).
And if you have one of those tanks and leave my Leon unguarded for first spawn, you are an idiot.
Managed to climb back to Gold 3 in Apex. Pretty good matches although everyone I saw today had meta rosters (ie. Landius, Jugler, 4 healers etc.) Elwin continues to be MVP in like 60% of my matches. The couple of Yulias Ive encountered have not been scary yet (though I’m sure she’s already scary in higher ranks with whales.) I’ve started to first ban Listell now instead of Zerida.
Also new QoL change with the patch - we can sweep all the way to SS now!
Yeah with SSSS coming soon apparently.
I got a Dimensional Jewel from my SS this week, which is super exciting. It will be on Lana (who hits 5* tomorrow) soon. I also managed to do better on Nidhogg this time, although not great. C+ I think it was (like 889k or something). I botched the slime phase and didn’t work hard to fix it. I’m going to try again once more before it rotates/I leave for the holidays.
TIL: you can fuse the Mastery Stones to get a powder which can eventually be turned in for an Elite Mastery Stone pack of your choice (with apparently being able to select some of the types of stones that appear within, or soemthing). Advanced stones are only worth 5 dust (elites are 40).
Yesterdays JB attempts were. . . hahaha. Not good. Some of it was people are dumb and stupidly impatient. Some of it was people being jerks. Some was some bad luck. Someone needs to bring a way to deal with the flier spawns. I think Landius would do well here, but on that particular run I was sabotaged by stupidity. Another guy brought bow Luna but I think flier is better unless you have Ullr. A different guy tried a lana but 3p, who wisely brought a second tank, unwisely did not understand how to use the tank and left Lana ungarded for no apparently reason.
I am going for SSS today.
Probably should do some JBs while everyone is still learning the new ones.
it’s nice to see that the Anikis have switched to the superior metric system.
Kyrios
1671
The Sunday JB gives little/no opportunity to hide underpowered characters, and can become very bad, very quickly if you aren’t keeping up. On the other hand, the reward is all the way up to 350K gold, so you can bet your ass I’m going to keep going at it to get the second one done, stamina be damned. (Tiaris again seems very nice, incidentally. Rachel/Landius is also a very strong combo.)
peacedog
1672
Yesterday evening I tried to do a 65 JB and had one of those situations where I joined a lobby and a dude left and I became leader. As soon as we got 3 I went to hit the start battle button and one guy left. I thought “this might be ok”.
The other player had a Leon with a post deployment attack of 480.
It was his best character.
It was not ok.
Oh hey Protip: there’s now a map event that rewards the bond materials you get from Eternal Temples. I just got a ton of stuff (granted only 1-2 of every individual thing), including the final upgrade mat. I haven’t seen this before (but I haven’t exactly been looking), so I don’t know if it’s super rare.
Kyrios
1674
Have to imagine it isn’t that rare, since I also saw it on my first day at 61 (it’s one of the new L60 events). Very welcome, especially the cores, where I was already backed up a few weeks otherwise.
And another today. It reminds me I think I need to bump up ET missions soon, I haven’t ever tried to go past 55.
Did the pvp ai go to shit again?
My team is losing on auto to teams rated like 4-5k lower than me, opponents teams with super standard lineups (glory with some protagonist mixed in; one fielded an ok Atle who somehow managed to onehsot my Elwin who was on forest tiles). Like my guys are consistently doing the dumbest possible shit too.
Kyrios
1677
Not sure! I kind of go one extreme or the other on the vanilla PvP - either I run out a team with a 2-3K+ power advantage, auto, and win even if (when) they’re stupid, or I manually play four 3-point missions to get the 15 crystals.
I did whiff fairly hard on the banner today, with Clarett for the guaranteed new SSR instead of Tiaris and then a couple of off-banner hits with the rest of my crystals, so it looks like I get to keep playing AB on hard mode for the foreseeable future (give or take a few more spins over the next couple of weeks… which I should really save for whenever the YYH banner finally gets here).
Same here, amusingly auto arena is the one daily that I don’t auto, since I try to get the 15 crystals per day.
That sucks @Kyrios, can’t imagine doing 3 of the ABs without Tiaris. She’s probably more important than the YYH characters. Is that summoning exchange mechanism already in place? If you 6* Luna, can you exchange her shards for Tiaris?
Kyrios
1679
It’s funny because overall I have very little to complain about in terms of how my lineup have developed-via-Gacha: got the important PvE characters early, have picked up most of the rest of the characters over time, and only have two big misses over seven or so months (well, three if you count whatever-T-F happened to my luck during the Sakura Wars crossover). Even one of my off-banner hits today got Yulia to 5*. I’d need 3 or 4 more Lunas for the exchange, unfortunately.
Just happens the two meaningful characters I don’t have are Listell and Tiaris, each of which is critical and relatively unique for one of the game modes. (That’s more of a game design issue to me, especially for Tiaris, but hard to put it back in the box and apparently even harder to design around it.)
Whatever, I’ll get another several 10-pulls over the next couple of weeks, and I did hear tell that someone has gotten S-rank on those ABs without Tiaris. More of a challenge!
(In better news: after getting little but int and healing SSR accessories for several months straight, I now have three Slayer Emblems in a row. Still would like to see some Apex Boots and Overlord Badges, but at least I can start getting off Assault Rings now.)
hahahah is that not happening to me right now. I can win for trying. In Auto, I noticed several times when non debuffed people failing to move into position to an enemy and attack. They just moved slightly forward and did nothing. Super frustrating. Especially when it’s dipshit Bozel, although he wasn’t the only culprit.
At least I have some new treats to play with. My pre-holiday sweeping produced a second Mirror Armor (Freya?), an Arcane Battlegarb, and a Bloodline armor (which is now 50 and on Ledin; need to decide where to toss my now spare Aeneas, which is 30 but could be 40 if I toss my laying around level 1 aeneas into it).
I had some luck on Clarett. 40 pulls to get her. I kept pulling hoping for a Luna dupe but got another Clarett at 110, so I’m done. Too many people to level for the love of god can they give us 3 more bonding realm sweeps.
