Favorite shipgirl (Kancolle,Azur lane, Arpeggio of blue steel,Haifuri)

[Panocek]

And in other news, pepperoni class BB get

Spoiler

 

[Zemeritt]

12 hours ago, Panocek said:

During that cutscene mine was ragdolled three times completely off the screen, for next npc interaction I've switched to Zhongli with full hp build... sadly it was next to cliff, and as geo archon found out, any rock can break if you apply enough velocity to it

 

You remember that "archer" scene with those two soldiers?

Lightning forced me to retry this mission twice.... By killing a red target..

 

Also gratz on Marco Polo.

 

1 hour ago, LOZFFVII said:

I'd just like to point out that, given I'm still only AR25, I actually haven't finished the main storyline of Liyue yet, so that little casual slip is actually a spoiler.

1 hour ago, LOZFFVII said:

It's a good thing the devs made no effort to actually hide his identity when he was added to the gacha back in November, isn't it?

 

Thats why noone hides it and considers it a spoiler anyways.

 

[LOZFFVII]

So,

I've now done everything related to Dragonspine, apart from creating the spear (I need a polearm billet, and I don't have any of those yet).

I then proceeded to clear the rank up mission, and as predicted I went up WR twice. What was unexpected? I instantly hit the next AR cap.

I was surprised, while running around finding mats so I could upgrade a weapon, that the enemies didn't seem that much more difficult to WR1. The only issue was I had to deliberately switch to a party that was more focused on combat in order to clear a couple of encounters.

I've run out of time today, so I think I'll clear Liyue story tomorrow, and on to Inazuma over the following few days (or maybe I'll spend some time finding more Geoculi before I head off...more stamina is never a bad thing).

 

EDIT:

I forgot that I haven't collected all of the Agates in Dragonspine yet...those who have, can you tell me if the rewards are worth it?

I think I'm currently at red tree rank 6 and have enough agates for rank 7.

[Panocek]

1 minute ago, LOZFFVII said:

I've now done everything related to Dragonspine, apart from creating the spear (I need a polearm billet, and I don't have any of those yet).

DON'T.

 

Dragonspine spear is for all intents and purposes downgrade over other physically oriented craftable pointy stick, Crescent Pike.

[LOZFFVII]

1 minute ago, Panocek said:

DON'T.

 

Dragonspine spear is for all intents and purposes downgrade over other physically oriented craftable pointy stick, Crescent Pike.

Yo. Guy who doesn't care about meta in this game, here.

I'm only going to build one for the purposes of collection.

That's it.

I've only got one usable polearm character, anyway, and she's Pyro.

[Panocek]

8 minutes ago, LOZFFVII said:

Yo. Guy who doesn't care about meta in this game, here.

I'm only going to build one for the purposes of collection.

That's it.

I've only got one usable polearm character, anyway, and she's Pyro.

Xiangling with Crescent Pike also becomes very viable physical dps if you feel like poking someone to death, as her fast, multistrike attacks capitalize on Crescent Pike passive immensely - whenever you pick up elemental particle, any normal/charged attack add another instance of damage equal x% of user atk. And given Xiangling is all about speed instead oomph, that passive means between additonal 3rd to doubling her damage output, depending on her attacks.

 

Also, higher base attack on Crescent Pike makes it better weapon even if you'd want to use eccentric cook only for her pyro skills.

 

And there are no strictly physical characters. Even "primarily physical users" like Razor or Eula still have Visions to them and still can apply elements, they just tend to not be very good at making big colorful numbers

[LOZFFVII]

21 hours ago, Panocek said:

Xiangling with Crescent Pike also becomes very viable physical dps if you feel like poking someone to death, as her fast, multistrike attacks capitalize on Crescent Pike passive immensely - whenever you pick up elemental particle, any normal/charged attack add another instance of damage equal x% of user atk. And given Xiangling is all about speed instead oomph, that passive means between additonal 3rd to doubling her damage output, depending on her attacks.

Great advice, thank you.

But again, I don't intend to actually use the Dragonspine Spear. I'm only going to build it for collection purposes (and I might as well make a collection out of buildable weapons because I am never going to spend primogems on weapon-only gacha).

 

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Two things I realised as I was falling asleep last night:

1. I forgot to acquire the bonuses for ranking up AR. This is because I've spent most of my playtime locked at AR25, and thus never got more of them, so I just forgot they even existed.
2. With my original 90 pity being taken by Qiqi after my first 10 wishes, I have since done another 50 wishes (getting Sayu to c1 and Dionya to c3, with the odd wish remaining giving me a "Stringless" bow), which means I am 140/180 towards getting the hard pity. If I can save up 6400 Primogems for the end of this month, I have a shot at getting Raiden when her banner drops next month - making her my first Archon. However, I still intend to pull 20 more times on current banner in the hopes of getting Sayu up to a minimum of C2; knowing how screwy my luck is, chances are good that this could end up wasting my pity. Well, with my AR bonuses I'm going to claim today I intend to wish at least once more on current banner, so hopefully Sayu decides she'd like to be c2 instead of c1.

[Panocek]

1 minute ago, LOZFFVII said:

Great advice, thank you.

But again, I don't intend to actually use the Dragonspine Spear. I'm only going to build it for collection purposes (and I might as well make a collection out of buildable weapons because I am never going to spend primogems on weapon-only gacha).

 

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Two things I realised as I was falling asleep last night:

1. I forgot to acquire the bonuses for ranking up AR. This is because I've spent most of my playtime locked at AR25, and thus never got more of them, so I just forgot they even existed.
2. With my original 90 pity being taken by Qiqi after my first 10 wishes, I have since done another 50 wishes (getting Sayu to c1 and Dionya to c3, with the odd wish remaining giving me a "Stringless" bow), which means I am 140/180 towards getting the hard pity. If I can save up 6400 Primogems for the end of this month, I have a shot at getting Raiden when her banner drops next month - making her my first Archon. However, I still intend to pull 20 more times on current banner in the hopes of getting Sayu up to a minimum of C2; knowing how screwy my luck is, chances are good that this could end up wasting my pity. Well, with my AR bonuses I'm going to claim today I intend to wish at least once more on current banner, so hopefully Sayu decides she'd like to be c2 instead of c1.

Still, given weapon billets aren't exactly common, despite having option to buy them from trinket/jeweler shops, I'd focus on getting actually useful weapons first. And craftable weapons vary between pretty good to "you could do worse", all depends on who will use them. Mentioned Crescent Pike and Xiangling is match made in heaven for physical dps and very usable for elemental skills, Prototype Archaic is also extremely flexible claymore.

 

Also, you will pick up, eventually, 4* weapons from normal "character" gacha. Also in the long run you might get 5* weapon(s) from standard banner.

 

On the upside, should you randomly lukshit and get Yoimiya, she is actually very f2p friendly, as both Prototype Crescent and Hamayumi craftable bows are pretty good on her, especially if you don't have Rust laying around.

 

Still, getting Yoimiya or Baal won't do you any favors, as until you get your assets onto Inazuma archipelago, you won't be able to actually level them up

[El2aZeR]

18 hours ago, Panocek said:

Still, getting Yoimiya or Baal won't do you any favors, as until you get your assets onto Inazuma archipelago, you won't be able to actually level them up

 

This.

And even worse, gotta grind talent mats and artifacts for them too.

 

Although I guess for Baal you can at least do that in advance. That's what I've been doing these past few weeks but ofc all my artifact drops have been garbage.

[Panocek]

2 hours ago, El2aZeR said:

 

This.

And even worse, gotta grind talent mats and artifacts for them too.

 

Although I guess for Baal you can at least do that in advance. That's what I've been doing these past few weeks but ofc all my artifact drops have been garbage.

I've yet to get any actually decent pieces of new sets either, I can almost feel tinfoil hat assembling itself and readying to be worn 

 

Though for Baal all you can do now are talents, as boss drop materials and local specialties are locked to new, not yet released islands.

 

On second thought, imagine someone picking up Genshin in few years down the line, randomly pulling Snezhnayan character, but road to Snezhnaya being questwalled by all the story quests, so you can't actually use the lad/lass until you're AR45+ from story quests alone

 

[DanSilverwing]

Right before the 3rd Anniversary, what a gift!

[LOZFFVII]

On 8/15/2021 at 6:16 PM, LOZFFVII said:

With my original 90 pity being taken by Qiqi after my first 10 wishes, I have since done another 50 wishes (getting Sayu to c1 and Dionya to c3, with the odd wish remaining giving me a "Stringless" bow), which means I am 140/180 towards getting the hard pity. If I can save up 6400 Primogems for the end of this month, I have a shot at getting Raiden when her banner drops next month - making her my first Archon. However, I still intend to pull 20 more times on current banner in the hopes of getting Sayu up to a minimum of C2; knowing how screwy my luck is, chances are good that this could end up wasting my pity. Well, with my AR bonuses I'm going to claim today I intend to wish at least once more on current banner, so hopefully Sayu decides she'd like to be c2 instead of c1.

Well, I made another 10 pulls and got a character to c2. It wasn't Sayu though. It was Barbara. I think the game is telling me to stop pulling on this banner.

Meanwhile, I did some calculating and remembered just how stingy this game is with primogem income. With the 10 pulls I made yesterday, I now need to save up 4800primogems in order to hit the pity for Bael. There are about 14days left of current banner before the next one starts and I'm making only 60primos a day on dailies alone (14*60=1080, so I'd need at least 4* that in order to get close). At the very least, at the start of next month I should be able to get five more of those pink orb things (forgot what they're called) reducing the amount of primos I need to grind for to 4000. The "daily log-in bonus" (which is only available from logging in to the main mihoyo Genshin website, rather than being in-game, btw) will give me an additional 20primos every 7 days, as well as 100 for starting it. At this rate I need to penny pinch as many primos from incomplete missions as possible (which is a problem, as many world missions are an absolute slog to get through).

Trying to play one of the minidungeons in Liyue ended up with me getting my @$$ kicked by the increase in difficulty thanks to the WR increase (didn't help that it required Geo to complete and both of my Geo characters are <lvl40). And speaking of getting my butt cracked, I freaking hate fighting Childe - he has that one skill that comes down like a lightning bolt that I have no idea how to dodge, I just have to hope Dionya's shield isn't on cooldown and even then it can one-shot her or Sayu.

Speaking of Sayu:-

On 8/15/2021 at 6:23 PM, Panocek said:

Still, getting Yoimiya or Baal won't do you any favors, as until you get your assets onto Inazuma archipelago, you won't be able to actually level them up

9 hours ago, Panocek said:

On second thought, imagine someone picking up Genshin in few years down the line, randomly pulling Snezhnayan character, but road to Snezhnaya being questwalled by all the story quests, so you can't actually use the lad/lass until you're AR45+ from story quests alone

Like, I get why Inazuma is sealed off in a narrative sense. But I really hate the fact that she's currently locked to lvl40 with no opportunity for enhancement before I complete more of the story. This is the main reason I even tried to ice bridge over to Inazuma in the first place.

I can only hope miHoYo won't do something as stupid as locking off other nations down the line. Or, at the very least, they should put traders in either Mondstadt or Liyue that sell stuff from other regions (for a mark-up) so you can still upgrade your characters.

 

*Sigh*

Right now, I'm trying to clear the quest to get the Serenetea Pot. I thought it would only be one little quest, but it's turned out to be a story quest for Yanfei just to pad out my playtime with more exposition, dammit.

 

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7 hours ago, DanSilverwing said:

Right before the 3rd Anniversary, what a gift!

Congrats.

Soon you'll have gotten 16 of her from drops, like I have, due to how much you'll be using 12-4 for grinding purposes.

[Panocek]

6 hours ago, LOZFFVII said:

I freaking hate fighting Childe - he has that one skill that comes down like a lightning bolt that I have no idea how to dodge

Spoiler

Touch the arena border to clear the brand, that way he will hit the ground instead you. His landing still have aoe though

 

6 hours ago, LOZFFVII said:

Like, I get why Inazuma is sealed off in a narrative sense. But I really hate the fact that she's currently locked to lvl40 with no opportunity for enhancement before I complete more of the story. This is the main reason I even tried to ice bridge over to Inazuma in the first place.

I can only hope miHoYo won't do something as stupid as locking off other nations down the line. Or, at the very least, they should put traders in either Mondstadt or Liyue that sell stuff from other regions (for a mark-up) so you can still upgrade your characters.

Getting boss specific materials cost resin and its not exactly fast process. Are you sure you want to get one [insert boss specific drop] per 40 resin? Because normal drop rate is 2and on AR50+, lowest character level I'd be somewhat comfortable to bring onto open world is lv60a4, which means 16 of the boss material and around 60 of local specialties

 

Also, it is known Chasm will be prelude to Sumeru, whether it will be just minor area Dragonspine style that happens to be on the border between Liyue and Sumeru, or you need to clear the road via lengthy questline before you can even set foot on the land of the smarts, we don't know.

[LOZFFVII]

12 hours ago, Panocek said:

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Touch the arena border to clear the brand, that way he will hit the ground instead you. His landing still have aoe though

 

Thank you.

So, it's been the barrier around the battlefield that's been randomly giving my characters pyro? I've been wondering where that was coming from.

 

12 hours ago, Panocek said:

Getting boss specific materials cost resin and its not exactly fast process. Are you sure you want to get one [insert boss specific drop] per 40 resin? Because normal drop rate is 2

Considering it only requires two drops (plus the 10 "local speciality", which should be obtainable for mora) to remove the lvl40 cap and allow Sayu to reach lvl50, yes I would be fine with 1 per 40 resin. I barely use more than 80 resin per day, given my schedule anyway.

 

12 hours ago, Panocek said:

Also, it is known Chasm will be prelude to Sumeru, whether it will be just minor area Dragonspine style that happens to be on the border between Liyue and Sumeru, or you need to clear the road via lengthy questline before you can even set foot on the land of the smarts, we don't know.

Is Chasm the next confirmed area?

Sumeru...was that the one supposed to be based on India? Suddenly, I'm very intrigued.

Also, does this mean we'll finally see Dendro characters?

[Zemeritt]

2 minutes ago, LOZFFVII said:

Is Chasm the next confirmed area?

Sumeru...was that the one supposed to be based on India? Suddenly, I'm very intrigued.

Also, does this mean we'll finally see Dendro characters?

 

Isn't Sumeru closer to the middle east and slightly pushed towards Persia/Babylon?

Atleast thats the clothing style is telling me (Could be wrong tho.)

[Panocek]

6 minutes ago, LOZFFVII said:

Considering it only requires two drops (plus the 10 "local speciality", which should be obtainable for mora) to remove the lvl40 cap and allow Sayu to reach lvl50, yes I would be fine with 1 per 40 resin. I barely use more than 80 resin per day, given my schedule anyway.

It seems fine until you notice amount of those boss drops for later ascensions 

 

32 minutes ago, Zemeritt said:

 

Isn't Sumeru closer to the middle east and slightly pushed towards Persia/Babylon?

Atleast thats the clothing style is telling me (Could be wrong tho.)

Pretty much.

[LOZFFVII]

5 hours ago, Zemeritt said:

Isn't Sumeru closer to the middle east and slightly pushed towards Persia/Babylon?

Atleast thats the clothing style is telling me (Could be wrong tho.)

From what I can tell from the wiki, it seems it's something of a fusion of multiple middle-eastern cultures, from Persia to India.

[Panocek]

Something regarding event that started today in Arknights

 

[LOZFFVII]

I gotta admit, I'm tempted to get Abercrombie's new outfit, despite not really caring about 'Crombie herself.

It's entirely because of that Bufficer as well as her antropomorphic turret having a stubby arm holding a cocktail glass.

I haven't logged into the game yet, but I'm really hoping we can see the turret holding the glass in her chibi sprite, too.

I'm not joking, btw. There's just something weirdly charming about her turret in that skin.

[Pururut]

Got Ingraham and Nautilus in three rolls so yay me. Wish there was more to them besides art.

 

Nautilus has a nice debuff but its requirement is very specific. Regardless of its use I think Yostar is taking the right direction by adding submarines like Archerfish and Nautilus which compared to most of the previous non-SSR German submarines have actual abilities that can be utilized as a whole together with the vanguard and main fleet. There is still no competitive alternative to the U-37/81/96 but hopefully there will be in the future.

 

Ingraham is a weird mix of an AA cruiser/heal carrier. When I first obtained her I had high hopes due to her relatively high base AA (for a DD) and abilities. Then I remembered the awful gun multipliers for DDs and how better it would be to simply use a combination of Unicorn/Shouhou for heal and one of the Cleveland sisters for AA. I think she will be a fine addition to new players as a stopgap ship until superior alternatives are obtained. Looking back on the last year it is saddening how obsolete the destroyers become.

 

All this drivel aside I still havent decided on which ship to oath with my last ring especially since all the gems are now going into dock space for ships that I will never use besides commissions and the odd PR research. What criteria do you folk have when deciding on which ship to oath? 

[Zemeritt]

50 Builds and no new ships Thats my rerun luck as always

 

New trailer for GI 2.1 is also out. Looks like we get a Baal Fight 2.0

 

[LOZFFVII]

9 minutes ago, Zemeritt said:

[snip]

Claymore: "Luxurious Sea Lord".

Ah, I'm glad to see miHoYo are willing to do joke weapons, too.

[Zemeritt]

23 hours ago, LOZFFVII said:

Claymore: "Luxurious Sea Lord".

Ah, I'm glad to see miHoYo are willing to do joke weapons, too.

 

In before it's an actual viable weapon.

 

Also don't mind me listening to this in a loop:

Spoiler

 

 

[Panocek]

On 8/21/2021 at 1:47 AM, LOZFFVII said:

Claymore: "Luxurious Sea Lord".

Ah, I'm glad to see miHoYo are willing to do joke weapons, too.

 

8 hours ago, Zemeritt said:

In before it's an actual viable weapon.

Fish memes aside (including summoning one when casting ult), this weapon might be surprisingly good f2p option for Beidou

 

Though I'm VERY curious about Ei/Baal/Shogun story quest, hoping they will elaborate on her recent actions more than "ha ha funni"

also waiting for her dialogue lines datamine

[Zemeritt]

2 hours ago, Panocek said:

Though I'm VERY curious about Ei/Baal/Shogun story quest, hoping they will elaborate on her recent actions more than "ha ha funni"

 

Considering Baal is watching Signora fighting us (You can see her in the trailer in the back), atleast she seems to be okay with the Fatui.

Also them mentioning Baal losing someone dear to her (a previous tengu general) again, makes me assume it had a bigger influence on her decision making than expected.