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

[LOZFFVII]

20 minutes ago, Pururut said:

I have heard some rumors about Idea Factory planning to release another Azur Lane game. Cant say I am looking forward to it especially after the disaster that Crosswave was. 

I haven't heard anything about IF/Compile Heart working on it, but the JP stream did hint at a possible Azur Lane spin-off game coming in the future.

[Zemeritt]

Oh look, after refusing to drop from builds, someone dropped out of my farming today

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Also had a player in my META support today doing over 900k in one sitting:

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Regarding the last pic: Azuma has the plate, Helena a SG-Radar and Drake the german radar.

 

And with the new dresses today, of course I had to buy Strassers oath dress skin.

[LOZFFVII]

1 hour ago, Zemeritt said:

Also had a player in my META support today doing over 900k in one sitting:

Yep, two UR BBs and a team dedicated to maximising their damage.

I can't think of much else in the game that could do that much damage.

[El2aZeR]

4 hours ago, Pururut said:

Kadokawa had what was coming.

 

On the other hand given some of the... controversies other initially indigenous games have endured since their global release, I can't help but see why KC stayed JP only.

Oh well, one can only speculate how a global release could have gone.

 

Funnily enough after all these years there is actually a working English patch available now. It is technically against the ToS and thus a bannable offense to use it but the game currently cannot detect it and so far no one has been banned for it.

Still, too big of a risk imo and I've played with moon runes so long that I know my way around anyway.

And on a final note:

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Done.

 

Now onto something different

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Still can't get any good Blizzard Strayer pieces to kit her out. T_T

 

[Panocek]

6 hours ago, El2aZeR said:

Still can't get any good Blizzard Strayer pieces to kit her out. T_T

One does not simply get good artifacts to begin with to the point I feel my resin is better spent on getting every character, Qiqi included, up to lv70a5 and 6/6/6 for that free pull and to make them somewhat usable when I decide to take them for a spin with existing artifacts/weapons.

[Khaba_Gandalf]

well, i was so proud to have more than 400 cubes when the event started and thought that i would never need so many. 

 

guess i was wrong about that, 5 pulls until the pity mechanic triggers.... 

 

 

Edit : no chikuma drop either, got two copies of umikaze. katsuragi dropped like crazy, think i had 3-4 more copies than needed for max limit break and Yura dropped 5-6 times too. 

[Panocek]

Initial pulls were outright bad, and I mean I've got only three event ships (Umikaze, Yura and Katsuragi) in 90 pulls, but then I've got double Shimakaze in 11th 10pull, at the same day I've got Chikuma from SP1 drop so I can go back to hoarding cubes, as I have more than plenty of purins/bulins to burn for limit breaks

[WWDragon]

6 hours ago, Panocek said:

as I have more than plenty of purins/bulins to burn for limit breaks

Oh God, dont remind me as I have 4 rows of freaking purple and 2 rows of the gold ones and 2 of the UR with likely a 3rd from the event point rewards and since I cannot use gold because rolls take cubes and gold I am stuck with then until this event is over and I can finally start using then to clear up dock space.

 

Also I gone from no Enterprise to three Enterprises, there is also those dupes I cannot really use because I need gold.

[Zemeritt]

Oath skins coming with the next update:

 

Taihou:

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There are people complaining about her breast size being nerfed

 

Noshiro:

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I'll be blunt: If they would've switched Strassers skin and this one, it'd would have been a better match.

Strassers looks more like an oath skin,

this look more like a (party) dress skin, not like an oath skin.

 

and York:

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As teased in Exeters skin (Who also make a cameo here, the black dress at the top)

 

[epsxe]

On 9/23/2021 at 5:50 PM, LOZFFVII said:

The event doesn't end until next thursday (30th), the update today is just adding the Dress skins celebrating JP anniversary.

You still have plenty of time to farm points for both Chikuma and Rainbow 610mm Quint.

Yep, I ended up to get the 18k points for Chikuma and Rainbow 610mm quintet torps. And with that I finished the event, all characters got with at least 1 copy of each and got the new armament. Time to resuply again my wisdom cubes (already 379) and oil.

[LOZFFVII]

10 hours ago, epsxe said:

Yep, I ended up to get the 18k points for Chikuma and Rainbow 610mm quintet torps. And with that I finished the event, all characters got with at least 1 copy of each and got the new armament. Time to resuply again my wisdom cubes (already 379) and oil.

If you keep on grinding event points, you can even get some PR ship blueprints from the event shop - these are extremely useful, as you can choose to use them on any PR ship for a little boost.

Ofc, if you're out of oil* don't try to break the bank just to get more of them, as the update in July should have made PR blueprint farming for specific ships a bit easier anyway.

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* So long as you are able to clear D3 while spending only around 300 oil, it's actually a net gain to spend 2250 event points on the 5k oil resupply and then spend all 5k of that oil on grinding D3.

It costs 450points for 1k oil, so as long as spending 1k oil on D3 gives you more than 450points, you are making a net profit.

Take my fleets auto-farming D3 as an example:

Mob fleet: Ticonderoga lvl109/Independence lvl106 - Charles Ausburne lvl115/Halsey Powell lvl108

Boss fleet: NJ lvl108/Intrepid lvl84 - Aulick lvl117/Shimakaze lvl87

Total oil cost per run of D3 is 301 exactly (or, it was, last time I checked). Total points gained from a run of D3 is 180.

3*180=540points.

3*301=903oil.

So you can see that I'm making more event points per 900 oil spent than it's costing me to buy 1000more oil from points shop.

In fact:

5000/301=16. (runs of D3 I can make with 5000 oil)

16*180=2990. (number of points I will earn by running D3 16 times)

2990/2250=1.33.

I'm actually making 33% more points by investing the 5000 oil you can buy for points back into D3.

Of course, this means that if you can make a clearing fleet that's even more oil efficient than mine (not hard, so long as you use low-rarity ships or retrofits), you can actually get an even bigger net positive.

 

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On the subject of grinding the event:

By using her as part of my 1-1 A1-B3 triple points-farming fleet, as well as having her on my D3 Boss Fleet, a certain someone has gained quite a lot of affection:

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Shimakaze is officially the first UR shipgirl I have oathed in the game, and I wouldn't have it any other way.

 

[LOZFFVII]

*Sorry for double-post*

Yuudachi Retrofit has been announced for EN:

This means that her retrofit item will most likely be available through a minigame added to the game with this week's update on Thursday!

I actually checked how much coin it costs to retrofit either Warcorgi or Sandy the other day, with Warcorgi costing 54kcoins and Sandy 57k, so this is a fair warning to everyone:

MAKE SURE YOU SAVE AROUND 60K COINS SO YOU CAN RETROFIT SHOOBDACHI.

[Zemeritt]

And I just spent 50k for Haku

[Panocek]

Agir, second of PR4 characters at lv120. With Anchorage and Marco Yolo being next at 119 and 118lv respectively, only Parsival being lazy at lv113 

 

Moonchase Festival event eerily reminds me of Lantern Rites and not because of being China Liyue event, but due to amount of legwork needed. At least you will do it for familiar faces instead random mute npcs?

[LOZFFVII]

I totally missed this yesterday:

Also with the upcoming update is a new difficulty for the Daily Raids.

As this is including the Weekly Sub Raid ("Supply Line Disruption"), it's recommended that anyone who has not already completed their weekly allowance for said raid should wait until Thursday to clear it.

Of course, I am aware that many of you probably have already cleared it by the time you read this and to you I apologise. ヾ(_ _。）

[Zemeritt]

4 hours ago, LOZFFVII said:

Of course, I am aware that many of you probably have already cleared it by the time you read this and to you I apologise. ヾ(_ _。）

 

Nah, I always do the sub one at the weekend

 

 

 

Regarding GI, the dumb players actually started to harrass th VA of Kokomi for being a bad character.

How braindead can the playerbase become?

[LOZFFVII]

22 minutes ago, Zemeritt said:

Regarding GI, the dumb players actually started to harrass th VA of Kokomi for being a bad character.

Wha.

I don't.

That doesn't.

22 minutes ago, Zemeritt said:

How braindead can the playerbase become?

Insane troll logic doesn't even come close to explaining wtf that even is.

The VA has absolutely no control over how terrible a character Kokomi is (either plot-wise or gameplay-wise).

And that's before even getting onto the topic of rational human beings DO NOT send death threats to each other.

EDIT: I have no idea where I read "death threats".

[El2aZeR]

45 minutes ago, Zemeritt said:

How braindead can the playerbase become?

 

Believe it or not, that's unfortunately quite typical in SEA.

 

On a more positive note, the event is great so far.

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EDIT: Nevermind, the event is ruined and I want to kill this weird panda thing now.

(Minor spoiler I guess)

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[Panocek]

10 hours ago, Zemeritt said:

Regarding GI, the dumb players actually started to harrass th VA of Kokomi for being a bad character.

How braindead can the playerbase become?

yes

 

9 hours ago, El2aZeR said:

EDIT: Nevermind, the event is ruined and I want to kill this weird panda thing now.

Lets say there is more to this brainded panda than it meets the eye.

 

Also "Anniversary" is on. While Moonchase event started strong with really neat story prologue driven by playable characters instead copy/paste npcs, as well chest hunting was fun like Genshin used to be, actual "Anniversary" is 10pull over 7 days as well Mihoyo in their big brain move pushed remaining rewards onto players themselves, as you need to share/visit other players gifts. Which, if nothing else, gives them "if you wouldn't be asocial you'd have your anniversary rewards" argument

[WWDragon]

I started playing GI as a curiosity, looks advancement is slow as I hit the lv20 roadblock.

 

It reminds me more of a MMO that a mobile game to be honest, akin to BDO even if I am not a fan of being boxed into the starting area (that BDO doesnt do), also spend everything on gacha and all I got was a undead priestess? and a rock star?

[Panocek]

15 minutes ago, WWDragon said:

I started playing GI as a curiosity, looks advancement is slow as I hit the lv20 roadblock.

 

It reminds me more of a MMO that a mobile game to be honest, akin to BDO even if I am not a fan of being boxed into the starting area (that BDO doesnt do), also spend everything on gacha and all I got was a undead priestess? and a rock star?

Enemies in open world scale with "World Level", which in turn you can advance at your own leisure by completing specific quest. Though at such low Adventure Rank (account level), later Mondstadt or Liyue/Inazuma quests may not be accessible at all. Though it shouldn't prevent you to wander into Liyue and steal whatever you need from there, so far only Inazuma is quest walled area.

[WWDragon]

1 hour ago, Panocek said:

Enemies in open world scale with "World Level", which in turn you can advance at your own leisure by completing specific quest. Though at such low Adventure Rank (account level), later Mondstadt or Liyue/Inazuma quests may not be accessible at all. Though it shouldn't prevent you to wander into Liyue and steal whatever you need from there, so far only Inazuma is quest walled area.

I am just Adventure Lv16 so you can see how limited I am ... still getting the grip of things as I fail a lot of challenges because they want me to do a specific thing and I flub it.

[Panocek]

4 hours ago, WWDragon said:

I am just Adventure Lv16 so you can see how limited I am ... still getting the grip of things as I fail a lot of challenges because they want me to do a specific thing and I flub it.

You mean you're at the best stage of the game, with entire map to explore and lots of quests to dig into

 

Apparently whole "anniversary" exploded hard, to the point Genshin is being review bombed. Currently 3.7 on Google play store. And it had 4.6 in the morning?

[WWDragon]

5 hours ago, Panocek said:

You mean you're at the best stage of the game, with entire map to explore and lots of quests to dig into

 

Apparently whole "anniversary" exploded hard, to the point Genshin is being review bombed. Currently 3.7 on Google play store. And it had 4.6 in the morning?

 

Well ... I only noticed two exits, the "freezing mountain" pass and the "there is a forcefield here" up to the NW.

I ... managed to get cross the mountain, then when I was rushing to the harbor not stopping I notice the enemy levels gone from 30, 35 to 19 and lower so ... I followed the road back looking to what I missed and ... realized there was another exit along the beach, I blame the devs.

 

So its far more open, I didnt realize because I assumed that the mountain was the only connection to the rest of the map.

 

Also I agree the anniversary isnt good, from the games I played they ... arent offering much or at all, a free 10x roll would be at least something and still way behind AL that offers sadness because UR doesnt want to drop a invitation ticket for a SSR as well 500 Gems, even DOAXVV gives a free 10x roll daily.

[Panocek]

9 minutes ago, WWDragon said:

 

Well ... I only noticed two exits, the "freezing mountain" pass and the "there is a forcefield here" up to the NW.

I ... managed to get cross the mountain, then when I was rushing to the harbor not stopping I notice the enemy levels gone from 30, 35 to 19 and lower so ... I followed the road back looking to what I missed and ... realized there was another exit along the beach, I blame the devs.

 

So its far more open, I didnt realize because I assumed that the mountain was the only connection to the rest of the map.

"There is forcefield" around old ruins that will play part of the story later on in NW part of Mondstadt. In the center of the Dragonspine there was area that was quest walled, also on one of the Inazuma islands there is similar barrier with side quest attached to it. But those are rather minor areas blocked than "you shall not progress until I say otherwise".

 

Enemy levels compared to your own aren't that big of a deal, unless we're talking about 40lv+ difference. That said, early on, artifacts and weapons aren't going to be anything worth writing home about, at the same time, characters are rather quick to raise up to lv40 ascension 1