No YYH this Thursday as most anticipated (we’re getting Prime Jessica and, uh, Emilia I think it was?).
But we will get 18 GoF chances from 1/16 to 1/29 (in addition to a host of other stuff, but really this is the best news). I’ll be done with Rachel on Saturday. I was going to slot Jugler into her rotation spot (x3). I’ll probably go to 4 sweeps for Liana (x4), continue with Yulia (x3) and then add Landius x3 and maybe Bernie (x3) since he’s useful in several AB. Although I see I can do 4 for him, I’ll stick to 3 I think just to get him to 4*. That leaves 2 open for. . .Lana I think. I can get her 1/6th to 6*, which is something.
Ugh, not really fond of those characters from what I’ve read (Jessica is okay, though I don’t really need more mages…) I’ll probably pull for one of those characters though just to make future destiny banners easier.
Though I’d be fine with the YYH banner not showing up ever, since Yusuke and Hiei seems a bit OP and necessary.
Not sure about my GOF plans. Currently working on Jugler/Yulia/Leonhardt, probably move on to either Joshua or Rachel once I’m done with Jugler. Joshua is a bit iffy what with all the fixed damage immunity, but Rachel is pretty strong at 5* as is and doesn’t really need the extra oomph.
Yeah, there’s a good bit of variation in the dps choices with Jorm. I saw someone rank fairly high with a Lewin!
G&L would be pretty good especially in the absence of Tiaris, but G&L+Sophia+Tiaris+Jugler would probably be healing overkill so probably not a reason to raise them long term. My dps all died from being one shot by the AoE * venom stacks around turn 30, but Jugler/Sophia/Tiaris could have survived probably past 50 (though Jugler stopped doing damage long ago except in the turns where he has both buffs up) so healing is not really an issue past a certain point.
Been wondering if part of the delay was going to revolve around trying to balance them a bit (rumors of licensing issues have also persisted). CN Apex season 3 was dominated by YYH and several subsequent releases I can’t identify. I wonder if they decided these newer characters had too much impact.
shrug
Like you I’m pulling on the new banner just for future destiny banner purposes. 1 SSR hit and I’m out.
Kyrios
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The other thing that bugs me about YYH is that the visual style for that anime is so disparate and jarring from the standard Langrisser style. The Kiseki/Trails stuff actually fit in relatively well, but the YYH characters… do not.
Agreed. I also never heard of YYH before. I do have some childhood connection to Lodoss War so I wouldn’t mind if they bring that over.
I have been informed, by an opinion holder, that Jessica Prime has some usage in countering pre YYH tank rush teams. Also that she’s allegedly the best unit for Scylla 70.
Emilia is allegedly a viable option for tank in PVP after Landius/Jugler.
75% done farming the current event. zzzz. Even for auto’ing on the side at work, it’s boring.
I am done. Everthing but the hammers.
It’s extra mind numbing. I like 4 reward tiers, sure. But it’s so many materials from 4 separate pools, and the best auto-maps are always set up such that you can’t always ideally farm (there isn’t a map for every material combination). Further, there’s the “select map, click start” thing that doesn’t seem like much but when you do it dozens if not a hundred+ times in a few days of farming that sort of rubs it all in.
Zomg.
Just did a +3 arena battle. Manual, natch. It’s first to kill 2 or something, but that’s a flawed one because it actually calculates in favor of the attacker in the case of ties. It’s a 30k+ team, maybe 31k.
L formation on defense, with the bottom part on the bottom of the map. It’s Liana, Freya, Lana, along the bot (Liana out front). Estelle is middle-back. Listell is top right.
I figure the enemy is angling for a Lana again. So I again Bozel and move up to hope for a silence. I target everyone but Listell, because I only move to max range. I get no silences, but ok. I only move everyone else a little bit forward.
Enemy turn:
- Listell moves out 6 spaces and casts whatever the ranged AOE spell is. I get the passive stacks + and debuffs and some silences because she’s using that. 3 silences, including Liana, but that doesn’t matter because. . .
- Liana moves over and agains
- Listell moves in for Blood dance.
No deaths, but I suddenly have 5 people at between 15% and maybe 40% health. Lana gets a kill on my Liana, and further injures other people. So now I’m debuffed, can’t heal, and looking sort of fucked.
fortunately, the guy’s entire team is basically Lana (who is pretty goode but not amazing) and Listell. Listell is not carrying fixed damage immunity, so she’s hurt. I kill her with Leon (who limps backwards after) and Ledin (Elwin is retreated since if he fights he dies). I think I silenced Lana.
Ledin managed to live through the subsequent turn (just barely, couldn’t have had more than 1k hp). As I don’t have any especially low health targets at this point (evil Liana gets some healing off), I use him to try and soften someone up and he dies from some other debuff. But I get the damage I was hoping for and am able to finish off I can’t remember who (probably Liana) and win.
It was a Listell with maybe 12.5k hp. I did not see that act again combo coming. I guess I should have, lol.
Ooof, first H&M did not go well. It was an upgrade - C+ - but I only barely got to the split phase. Need to work on positioning and turn order, and dealing with whisper better. ut Alustriel bowed out of the fight quickly. I’ve attended to some easy upgrades (bonds mostly; Narm got a few as well), and swapped her out of an Assault helm (whether I go Twilight or the Ribbon I haven’t decided yet). Likewise Narm is in an assault helm and I may swap that too. I have two SSR spirits I can use on gear. I may swap Alustriel to Holy Pegasus for more defense (she is using Ullr at 40). Possible upgrades could be their respective 20 Last Rites, for moar stats.
Narm sure wails on the boss though.
That’s my usual approach to the normal arena, the sprint lady/listell/rachel/bozel/liana. Sprint, then Listell either finger of deaths Jugler or Mind Bores everyone, Rachel Arcane blast then Bozel AoEs. Liana agains Listell and she goes for blood dance. This usually leaves Bozel/Listell/Landius/Jugler at a sliver of health. Finishes 95% of arena teams – except the langrisser PvPers who have badges on everyone or the teams with Wiler.
Tried the rowing challenge a few times last night, had to retool team as the second AoE was oneshotting DPS, and on the run where I got everyone to survive, had to give up about half way as I wasn’t going to hit the time limit. Pretty tough. The Aniki challenge on the other hand I was able to brute force with Landius.
Aha, managed to pass the rowing challenge during lunch. Last night I had tried using Luna/Lana/Angelina/Yulia/Liana/Tiaris (with Angelina taking the 1st attack, and then using Alternate to speed up the stun right after, making sure that it doesn’t actually pull anyone) I spent too much time fiddling with the lobsters.
The trick (again) was to use Landius; the lobsters don’t knock back if they are guarded, and Landius can kill a lobster on the second counter attack, so basically I never had to directly attack a lobster except on the turns when dragon does its blowback attack. This time I did it with Angelina/Rachel/Landius/Leon/Tiaris/Liana, Angelina and Leon both brought their knockback skill in case of bad positioning of the lobsters, and Leon is better for tanking the first hit then Angelina with Chivalry. Still, the dps check (and the hp check) on the fight is pretty tough, even without having to directly attack the lobsters I still ended on turn 18 or 19. If your Landius can 2 shot a lobster on counter attack, and if your squishies can survive the AoEs you’re golden.
Kyrios
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Yeah, the HP check for the AEs has been the issue for me. I got through the Aniki Planner challenge with basically no trouble, but a couple of stabs at Rowing has not worked well at all. I might try it once more tomorrow if I have the time but it’s probably a miss.
I did run out a B+ on H&M today, though - might have a shot at A over the weekend with the extra levels and a few more days’ worth of gold to upgrade things. My Narm couldn’t survive counterattacks past like turn 4 last time, and she made it to turn 8 or 10 this time. At 100K+ for a snipe and 60K+ for a normal hit, each extra round of survival gets pretty meaningful.
I believe Landius’ Tranquility reduces AoE damage, and also using Angelina’s ATK Intimidate was what ultimately did the trick for me. Also spending the rest of the events rewards to max out everyone’s bonds.
Uh the login rewards thing that’s running for the next two weeks is bonkers. It includes a runestone (day 14), a couple of 1m gold rewards, 30 burst keys (and other keys), 300 ore, 3k guild points(??? I wonder if it’s different for unguilded people), ore, tons of useful mats. Wow.
There are new things for sale, anniversary packs. The heroe ones give 60 shards for 1 of 3 heroes it seems. The gear ones allow you to pick an item though. I am getting one for Overlord immediately kthx.
70 pulls and Emilia. No complaints there as I had some real luck on previous banners (and that is slightly lucky to boot).
Massive QoL improvement to Alchemy, You can now select all gear by rarity category (it caps at 99 still) and batch fuse that way.
I got Bernie shards from the grab bag. So now he’s 4* with like 40 shards, I’ll squeeze him into the weeks rotation to work towards 5* for more stats. My overlord badge is about to be 40 - I guess shinguards back to Alte - and I’m super happy but passing on Cursed Lance/EMB/Teddy Bear (whatever the release version of it is called) etc was not easy. Still, I’m basically about “improve Landius/Jugler at every opportunity” at this point., factoring rarity in I wasn’t going to take the blood gem thingy.
Kyrios
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Hmmm, I need to see if there are any iTunes gift cards on sale anywhere. Very tempting to run out both of the anniversary buys as well, probably for Princess and an Overlord Badge. (Meteor Strike might actually be the highest expected value, but I’d be so disappointed if I got Dieharte.)
I did pull a Young Jess very easily this morning, so between that and the new story/time rifts I should be able to start building up some crystals/tickets again for everything that’s coming.
I was shooting for Gizarof.
That said, and despite the fact that there was a FB post about YYH just recently apparently rumors persist it’s a licensing holdup and who knows when it will get resolved. Fortunately I barely dipped into my crystals for this (just once) summoning binge, so I still have a nice pile.
Emilia is interesting; she’s got ranged counter and is Mdef based. I’m not sure how much that helps in the current pvp meta which favors assassins over mages. It seems like she’s going to be harder to roll enchants for since she gets attack scaling from Mdef (from an ability) but will need def + hp too (because tank). She does have a holy class line. But she’d be like 3rd in line for the hypothetical second Oath of Justice I need.
ZOMG there is a fight again button when autoing dailies. Dare I hope it shows up in events?
Also, you can now bulk collect daily mission rewards.
Luckily I’m not too tempted by the bags since I have two characters from each one. The value is roughly similar to the monthly subscription I guess (which is the limit I’m willing to spend) I might have have rationalized myself into it and (skip the sub for a while, maybe) if I needed all 3 characters from a particular bag, but I’m safe with this particular spread.
Got Emilia with 30, but I think that’s the pity pull since I spent about 5-7 pulls on the previous Lambda/Sigma/Gizarof without effect. Wish I kept going on that one since I could really use either Lambda or Gizarof in the future. Emilia looks interesting, and a high mdef lancer could be the answer to the Yulias/Mystery knight/Deelits/Sonyas being hyped for future PvP, but I can’t justify investing in a third tank at the moment. If she had one more faction, maybe. Princess/Empire is so awkward.
