Gacha Arknights

[Kallian]

I've mostly just been farming the LMD stage past couple weeks. I have everything I need for my turbo autism "E2 literally everything" plan aside from cash and exp chips now.

CC was ok, I think it was a lot less annoying than the last one because you didn't have to constantly be dropping a fast redeploy to bait the angry guys, but it was also quite a bit easier as well. I've not bothered rolling anything properly for a while either. Saving for the next Limited. I did make sure to do my 10 roll on whatever banner Beanstalk was on though because she's cute.

 

[Bep]

Upcoming Arknights "buffs" for archetypes
sourced from https://space.bilibili.com/161775300/dynamic

Some of the saddest buffs I've ever seen.

 

[itzu]

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Upcoming Arknights "buffs" for archetypes
sourced from https://space.bilibili.com/161775300/dynamic

Some of the saddest buffs I've ever seen.

In my opinion these are just the buffs these classes really needed, but they could do better

 

[Bep]

In my opinion these are just the buffs these classes really needed, but they could do better

I dunno man,

For the duelists, sure, Skadi in particular needs those kinds of buffs but for the AoE casters? Their problem as an archetype is not that they aren't dealing enough damage, it's that they aren't dealing their damage quickly enough, Mostima's still not going to match either Eyja or Silverash as a damage dealer because she got an attack and HP buff, the required SP to skills as well as the attack speed of her normal attacks as well as skill 3 need to be fixed, or otherwise she needs to be rethought entirely to fit her character tags.

 

[Kallian]

I hate this dumb fucking dragon. This is easily one of the most irritating EX levels I've ever done. I'd rather not resort to using a guide but this thing is fucking me. Sometimes it feels like those exploding marks just decide to totally change how they work and just go on someone random and one shot them.

I've got a couple more days of practice runs to spend on this so I'll probably get it but it's definitely a pain in the ass. Can't really remember the last time a map was this annoying to clear other than the exploding guys that would insta-convert the towers from the event a couple months back.

 

[itzu]

I hate this dumb fucking dragon. This is easily one of the most irritating EX levels I've ever done. I'd rather not resort to using a guide but this thing is fucking me. Sometimes it feels like those exploding marks just decide to totally change how they work and just go on someone random and one shot them.

I've got a couple more days of practice runs to spend on this so I'll probably get it but it's definitely a pain in the ass. Can't really remember the last time a map was this annoying to clear other than the exploding guys that would insta-convert the towers from the event a couple months back.

i feel ya pain, sadly my brain wasnt good enough at solving ex8 so i reached to uncle kyo, but at least i tried couple of times

 

[Jahy]

Their problem as an archetype is not that they aren't dealing enough damage, it's that they aren't dealing their damage quickly enough

I agree with you completely. I have absolutely no reason to use any area-of-effect Caster when I have Eyjafjalla S2M3 aside from wanting to spice things up a bit. The damage boosts are nice, but the developers should have also considered reducing their attack intervals, their DP cost, or both.

I assume the buffs have gone live by now since the summer event is underway. Have the changes really made any pronounced effects for any of the operators? Are any of the archetypes more viable now?

I hate this dumb fucking dragon. This is easily one of the most irritating EX levels I've ever done.

i feel ya pain, sadly my brain wasnt good enough at solving ex8

Seriously, fuck this event. With under an hour to go, I managed to finish it but only just. "Free" is probably the worst boss I can remember having to deal with from any of the events, but I could very well be mentally blocking up some horrors long since suppressed.

Either way, while I liked the event aesthetically, I can't say I was very pleased with the mobs and mechanics. I haven't checked ahead, but I wonder if we're going to be a Contingency Contract map based on the nonsense we've dealt with here.

At the very least, I'm pleased with what I've yielded in terms of the store rewards and farming stages. I shouldn't be running out of alloy in a very, very, very long time, and the rock farming has been put at bay for the time being. Also managed to pick up two copies of Dusk just from the free daily tickets alone, so that's a plus. Sadly no Saga, for now...

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Who Is Real aside, is everyone ready for Operation Originum Dust? What are your rolling plans, if any? Apparently, thanks to the newly added banner mechanics this time around, you should be able to get every limited operator in a worst case scenario of 57,600 orundum. I'd say that's fairly generous all things considered.

Anyone else excited for the co-op mode? I'm really looking forward to trying it out with my friends. I very much enjoyed the last time the game did something very different with its gameplay with the Ceobe's Fungimist event, so I have high expectations for what's to come.

 

[Kallian]

you should be able to get every limited operator in a worst case scenario of 57,600 orundum.

Oh, sick. Guess I'll be there just on time.

I'm not that interested by the co-op event but it'll probably be good to fuck around with for a few tries. I'm actually just glad we get a week of being able to farm normal stages for now. Feels like we've not had a "free" week for months now just because it's almost been back to back on the events. I've got some various shit I need to do some more farming on so it'll be nice to do it without thinking I'm wasting sanity efficiency.

 

[itzu]

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Who Is Real aside, is everyone ready for Operation Originum Dust? What are your rolling plans, if any? Apparently, thanks to the newly added banner mechanics this time around, you should be able to get every limited operator in a worst case scenario of 57,600 orundum. I'd say that's fairly generous all things considered.

Anyone else excited for the co-op mode? I'm really looking forward to trying it out with my friends. I very much enjoyed the last time the game did something very different with its gameplay with the Ceobe's Fungimist event, so I have high expectations for what's to come.

The new operation is quite interesting and i hope ex stages wont be nearly hell as the who is real ones, and yeah i had spend many rolls on trying to get saga and yet i got two dusks and ifrit so i have saved 35 rolls, still i think its quite enough to at least get some of the event operators or even ash

And for coop i think same as you but im quite scared of how hard these stages could be especially with probably very high ping

 

[Kallian]

OD-8 was fucking horrible. I did not enjoy figuring that level out. Ended up semi-cheesing it using Spectre and Mudrock on the first Cannon Spiders that spawn top right/left. Definitely a lot less annoying to deal with than the Dusk event though so I guess I can't be too mad about it.

The sandstorm mechanic was kinda fun, I'm hoping that the EX stages have some more creative uses of it. I really like that they've added a map mechanic that the mobs actually interact with as well like the ones that get the dodge or do increased damage to ops in the storm. Feels nice to have some control over how you handle the storms, even if there's usually one very obvious solution to all of the maps so far.

 

[Kallian]

Anybody want to group and do some of these co-op levels? The rewards are decent so I'd like to get them all done at some point, but queuing takes forever with randoms and I can't find a way to do them solo unfortunately.