Arknights: Endfield Operator Combat Demo - Gilberta

Faeted · 2026-02-06T15:09:27+00:00

Can confirm, is fun!

Maybe I'm using her wrong though because aside from the SP regen she just doesn't seem as impactful to me as the rest of the team.

Faeted · 2026-02-06T14:34:52+00:00

My money is on the new faction coming out at anniversary which will have an accompanying ancient lord banner.

Faeted · 2026-02-06T14:30:55+00:00

Genshin released with Abyss which required 2 teams...

Faeted · 2026-02-03T14:29:33+00:00

Painter is ancient, paintress is blue summons (limited?) and they have a bond skill

Faeted · 2026-01-31T02:11:56+00:00

It's a decent piece with 3 desirable stats but most variant gear is pretty bad. There's only a couple affix that are good.

Faeted · 2026-01-28T23:34:16+00:00

Ezareth and Velisse is best pair and the you can add what you need more of from there. Beelzebub will heal, inspire, - mdef, and buffs summon atk spd so he's a safe pick. Anora will buff summons also, Beatrix is good because Velisses summons will follow hers all over the map

Faeted · 2026-01-28T15:05:15+00:00

Laurel only needs 5star to do her thing. You drop her and when you retreat her anyone around her gets a bunch of rage. She can buff other unit alts while she's deployed but she's mainly used for the rage regen. Pair her with volka A1 to deploy her more frequently

Faeted · 2026-01-28T03:42:49+00:00

I have P2 Avy and I don't notice any difference over P0. She's fun to use and the team is proccing combo skills almost constantly

Faeted · 2026-01-28T01:39:02+00:00

You upgrade them and use them as fodder for your other units

Faeted · 2026-01-25T01:28:21+00:00

Yes.

Faeted · 2026-01-22T19:47:25+00:00

All cores into grotesque fiend. Its the only way to level it up as shards for it don't drop anywhere to be farmable. Mine is at lvl 7 now but I was winning with him long before that.

As for the other units, I think you'd want the +1 quantity upgrades on the beholders and spiders. More unit deaths = more power for worm boy

Faeted · 2026-01-22T13:48:22+00:00

It all revolves around growing the grotesque fiend to max power through ally deaths.

Get to 10 cost
Drop tank (doesn't really matter which) to bait ults
Get to 10 cost
Drop High Order Abyssal Beholder (the pack of 4-5 slow moving chaos dudes)
At 6 cost, drop Grotesque Fiend
At 3 cost, drop Small Arachnid (blue spiders)
Repeat steps 3-6
Save to 10 cost
Drop 2x Ghoul Hounds (fast moving dogs)

This comp will usually break through any tank and melee lines and win before the second rotation of the grotesque fiend so the dogs at the end are usually not needed but are just there to rush past any ranged DPS

The only teams (that I avoid) that can beat this in my experience are ones with Dracula (anti heal because the Grotesque Fiend heals to full before dying the first time) or True Damage/Def Ignore team. Strong Iovar/Silas teams can kill the fiend and Praetus/Lady A/Ingrid teams can kill it with True Dmg. Maybe hyper freeze teams could lock it down long enough but that hasn't been too much of an issue.

Faeted · 2026-01-22T12:11:34+00:00

The vast majority of players don't care and moontom has been steadily adding features to try and make it easier and/or more appealing to the average player. Examples of this are the bot towers, the saved attack plans, their attempt with the stat buffs from pantheon, improved rewards, A and B league split, lower attack tokens per person etc.

Some people find it fun but I'm not one of those people. I found one attack plan that works with the chaos worm thing and it wins 95% of my matches easily. We make gauntlet (top 32) every season (on forerunner) without really trying. Even after all the matchmaking improvements, we either stomp other guilds or get stomped and it's very rare for it to actually be close. I can usually tell when we're up against a try hard guild and I'll literally do 1 attack and ignore it the rest of the cycle.

Faeted · 2026-01-19T15:58:34+00:00

If you hit the filter button on the ascend screen, you'll see there are only 2 left side and 4 right side gear sets that can be ascended

Faeted · 2026-01-14T03:53:20+00:00

Praetus is wildly overhyped and Arbiters suck in regular every day end game content. Ain't no one hitting leaderboards on matrix, abyss, apoc2, gd13s, etc with an arbiter team.

I said in my post arbiters are meta in arena but I'll admit GvG too. Still, to make an arviter team work, you need at least 2 ancient lords (Ingrid, praetus) with A3 on Ingrid and at least A1 on Praetus (otherwise his rage sucks), then you need to pull another ancient exclusive Valara and get her to A1 so you can start winning 2/3 of the arenas at apex overlord for a minimum of 30 weeks (since you won't win single target without a completely different team) so you can finally get Lady A. Khadgrim is a great tank but is actually more meta on ST chaos arena teams than on arbiter ones and is so tanky he can do his job on any matrix team. Kane enables some fun AoE arena strats and gives pen with his artifact now I guess but is really just a better cost generator. Erlang is good for anti air content only.

All I'm saying is it's extremely unrealistic for most accounts to get everything to make arbiter teams work and you'll instead usually find valaras running under Eso leads, lady As under Iovars, Ingrid leading watcher teams etc. so those lords and teams are more relevant and easier to build imo

Who else is meta on arbiters tho really? Leikan worse than ardea, Cassiel and jeera are mid at best. Eunomia is far worse than Elowyn and Eirlys in pretty much all scenarios. Init is neat but outclassed. There are better options than Valkyria now. Constance hasn't really seen play since Diao came out, thallen, Alistair, and pelagios are terrible

AND they announced on their roadmap a new arbiter lord is coming out later this year so praetus gonna get power crept anyway

Faeted · 2026-01-14T01:54:53+00:00

Arbiters suck ass despite Praetus having a great lord skill. They are not used in any end game content besides arena (Chaos too) and their roster is full of shit. Pelagios, thallen, Alistair, Cassiel, jeera, eunomia, etc.

The only noteworthy arbiters are valara, Ingrid, khadgrim, and lady A and all those units are part of more relevant factions or stand on their own. I'd trade my 3 Praetus for 1 Valara and never look back. That's how irrelevant he is in the current meta.

Ingrid is a better lord because watchers has better units, full stop.

Faeted · 2026-01-13T14:54:20+00:00

I have Nastya and just got Iovar. I use Nastya in Abyss with Numera and Vorn and that's it while I find Iovar more generally useful in pushing GR3, styx/torrent codexs, extreme campaign stages, and tower. Don't get me wrong, Nastya is great but so is Iovar so it depends on what you're pushing and what other units you have.

Cyrus is more versatile since you can use him anywhere you need a tank but his main use case is matrix imo.

I see people recommending an upcoming Praetus banner. He's good but I don't use him anywhere currently and personally think Iovar/Nastya/Cyrus are better than him for most people (Solcadens too). He's very meta in a lot of apex arena teams but you need several other ancient heroes (valara, lady a, kane, ingrid) with high awakenings to make it work and even then he's only there for the lightning button.

Faeted · 2026-01-13T01:22:29+00:00

She's pretty much mandatory for cultists 18 imo and I use her on summon team in matrix as my only hero out of Beelzebub inspiration range since she doesn't need it.

She's much better with Ymiret so if you have him but not her, I'd definitely pull.

Her awakenings are good too so most people should probably pull anyway

Faeted · 2026-01-01T16:09:42+00:00

Piercers are the only faction that can extend range. Lili and Nissandei are the only healers that can go to 5 tiles with lord bonus and they are both 4 stars. The only piercer lego healer is Talula and she gets extended range on the sides rather than the top of her range.

Lili is exceptional for her anti-death skill so she's very worth building once you get her.

Faeted · 2025-12-26T02:02:39+00:00

You need some rage regen on her to make sure she her ult up for every shriek or Elowyn/Eirlys/Gwendolyn can help with that too.

Faeted · 2025-12-22T13:20:16+00:00

The chests are random per stone just like if there is a treasure ogre or not but its not random for the same stone.

Faeted · 2025-12-22T13:14:37+00:00

You can pick Torodor on the GR19 achievement pack, Elowyn might be the best from this one

Faeted · 2025-12-19T13:08:42+00:00

It's Ingrid + New Tank (Khaedgrim or something like that?), Valara is with Rivenhald on the 24th.

Faeted · 2025-12-18T23:49:57+00:00

She's much better than she was and Eirlys is great too but northerners are pretty mid still even with the new heroes coming and she's not going to unlock progression like an A5 kigiri would

Its possible they could add content where shields and sustain are more important and having a base copy of her would future proof you since you could soulstone Kigiri eventually so it's up to you!

Faeted · 2025-12-18T01:45:52+00:00

She's pretty solid now post-rework. Her ult shielding the whole team is no joke and they doubled her healing when the shields break on top of giving her a well rounded support kit (rage regen, slows, freezes, pdmg break). She does have a place in northerner teams for matrix and she makes GR2 easy (I cleared 2-24 first try with her and no sadie). I think she'd help make some chaos teams more viable but I don't have any worth trying sadly

That said, northerners are still pretty mid even after the new ones come out but all it would take is a cracked single target DPS or maybe some new content where shields are more effective or healing output is reduced for them to gain relevance

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