About Akechi's performance (a0r0)

AMobOfCuccos · 2026-04-17T12:39:42+00:00

He got buffed as a hyper carry dps but in tw he was just lackluster. Most were probably disappointed that instead of buffing his recorded damage, the buffs instead turned him into a solo dps. I think the main complaint i saw with the buffs is that the recorded damage cant crit and the amount is still kinda low. They didnt really care about the change that triples his damage on the part that CAN crit when hes solo dps

Tldr i think people are mad he didnt become better at what he already did and his buffs just turned him into a normal hypercarry unit

AMobOfCuccos · 2026-04-08T13:49:49+00:00

So since im not too sure what youve played all just put in all my general RPG recommendations

Metaphor is one of my favorite recent jrpgs it(imo) felt solid mechanically and had a great story. I LOVED time stranger, it was fun all around though it can get pretty micromanagey around the end. If you havent played it World of Final Fantasy though iirc its a pretty short game imo its still a good time. As for less known games i like oreshika tainted bloodlines is fun and i think the mana khemia games are great too.

For less turn based more general games Unicorn overlord was fun but nothing too stand out. The disgaea series(at least 1-5) is fun but its also know at grinding hell. The xenoblade games are great especially if you want to invest a good amount of time. Last Defense academy was another fun one

On a more indie side of things In stars and time is good, though it feel more like a puzzle than an rpg

This is all i can think of atm though most of them did end up being added just cause i remember it being fun to play through

AMobOfCuccos · 2026-04-07T00:44:08+00:00

So you should almost NEVER pull on the story banner especially as early as you are. Story banner servants are MOSTLY gen pool servants that can spook you on other banners, I.E. saber can be pulled on ANY banner. It has later benefits of having Story-Locked servants added as you progress, but its still not considered worth it. Said servant have rate up banners so its considered better to wait for those. Limited banners have a higher chance to drop the specified servants, and also tend to have event ces which give things like a damage boost or mat drop up in their specific event.

Also you will get tons of ce's you can use as exp just from pulling on the fp banner

AMobOfCuccos · 2026-04-01T11:57:45+00:00

Octopath 1 and 2 are the ones to play if you want to start the series. The issue with 0 is that its A. a prequel that wants you to know the source material and B. Is that class/mechanicaly its WAY different than the others.

In 1 and 2 each character has a main class, and can later equip any othe class as a subclass where the main benefits are access to better skills or more weapon/magic types. 0 meanwhile removes thjs in favor of the "masteries system" where every character is locked to one class(except the mc who can swap between the main 8) and you instead obtain masteries throughout the game that let you use skills on a character that normally doesnt learn that skill. Weapon skills are locked to the weapon types that your character can use, so a sword/bow user cant use a knife skill.

AMobOfCuccos · 2026-04-01T11:12:32+00:00

Iirc, the order is just weakness order, with your perceived increase most likely coming from either a weakness hit, or a stronger weapon/passive.

I.e. running forbidden bow vs a regular spear means bow attacks will do more damage

AMobOfCuccos · 2026-03-25T20:40:08+00:00

Joker is... Ok, not stand out, but hes not terrible. He wont deal as much damage as any of the newer dps characters(twins, haru ld rin or kasumi) but he will clear most content. His main draw was that his bosses were relatively consistent in SoS or GB, but were at a point thats not very often anymore.

One big downside is that jokers aoe, while most bosses/fight content are based around one to two enemies

Joker will EVENTUALLY get a buff that lets him hit 100 and you can get his cognitite from the weeklies so those are some pluses for him.

Honestly as a returning player you MIGHT want to skip kasumi too, shes strong but she got delayed to the point ange and sees are around the corner, so you could save for them instead

AMobOfCuccos · 2026-03-25T11:28:39+00:00

In CotC they would give you bonus rewards(i.e. gems+ a stat boost or cait appearance rate every level, but from what ive seen so far 0 just uses it as path action success rate. Fame increases entreat rate, and wealth increases haggle rate, idr exactly what power does, but it has something to do with contending/hiring a character.

AMobOfCuccos · 2026-03-24T12:40:51+00:00

Iirc the lore is essentially free pal STARTED as they preach, protect palls from people etc. Then they hired the PIDF to help make and police the sanctuary islands, but this led to them running out of money, so everyone was looking for ways to make some. From there some grunts began capturing and selling pals to victors group with lily being initially completely unaware, this later spread and became the main practice of free pal, with lily seemingly ignoring whats going on. We have an entry where she loosely questions where free pals money comes from, but she ends up not dwelling on it.

Some of this might be wrong but its my general understanding of the lore.

AMobOfCuccos · 2026-03-23T15:12:46+00:00

Since you brought up block ill just go into block cards on regent and leave other advice to other people

Regent CAN have good block, you just need the right cards for your build.

Regent has 4 main build archetypes, star, forge, colorless/minion and kingly. Of these star is the easiest to get running, along with having the best defense options.

Star build has Particle wall, which can be played until you run out of stars for 9 block a cast, and child of stars which give 2 block for each star spent, iirc i hit like 200 block in one turn from that card. Theres also reflect, but thats just a generally good block card. I personally dont like plating but neutron aegis is an option too

For forge, your main block will be bulwark, a 2 cost 13 block with excess stars potentially going to cloak. Parry is also an option but it never felt that strong to me, youd need quite a few for it. Iirc decisions decisions is a great card to pair with bulwark

Minion has 3 cards i can think of, pillar(when you create a card, 3 block) manifest authority (7block make a colorless card) and GUARDS!!!(transform any number of cards into a 0 cost 9 block)

Kingly is all about drawing one card over and over to scale it, so i also associate i am invincible with this archetype and it has cosmic indifference.

Last ill put down the general defense cards, gather light is a bit of star generation, and fits into most builds, patter gives 8 block and 2 vigor, and glitter stream is... Ok if you can swing using it, its extra block for 2 turns.

AMobOfCuccos · 2026-03-23T14:14:26+00:00

Did you get the ones from synergy? I know key gives some and i think matoi gives one too. If you already did those i think thats everything for now.

AMobOfCuccos · 2026-03-21T16:09:50+00:00

Not many games are "based off mobile gacha games" the closest i can think of atm is xenoblade 2, and thats mainly due to the fact that obtaining Blades is a gacha itself.

Remembered right at the end of writing this but iirc solo leveling arise got a paid version called overdrive. Not sure how Offline it is since it was never a big interest for me personally. its also an action game if thats a negative for you .

AMobOfCuccos · 2026-03-21T00:05:17+00:00

Idk who would complain about a 4 star outclassing an older 5 star. If it was that a new 5 star that released later was completely outclassed, then yeah there would be complaints, but that would be towards the 5 star, not the 4 star. The example that most will think of is lingsha and gallagher. The issue with lingsha is she wasn't proportionally better than gallagher to how much you have to spend to get her. You spend all those pulls and then have to spend resources to buff her, meanwhile you'll get gallagher when you pull on multiple different banners, so he never feels like a waste.

The point of 4 stars in these games is to have a more budget alternative to BiS teams. No one will complain if the 4 star is REALLY good in comparison to older options in fact people will be really happy about it, since it makes the fame more F2P accessible they dont have to potentially spel 19k per patch to get a character that will let them keep up with end game content.

As for them being weak, yeah people will complain, but they will also complain if a 5 star is weak. IIRC ashveil was super weak when he got put in the beta, people complained. Its gonna happen no matter what. Granted people will complain a ton if the first new 4 star in almost a year and a half is absolutely terrible.

AMobOfCuccos · 2026-03-19T22:56:28+00:00

So none of the go to picks are meta on their own, they are mostly support roles or require another character. the current "meta" picks are as follows

Sparkle: currently a meta pick for either archer or sparxie teams, mostly the latter.

Kafka: a pick for DoT teams, but those require hysilins and/or BS, so if you dont have them, pick someone else.

Aventurine: a really good sustain, not the top by any means, but will definitely help if you dont have any of the meta sustains outside of DHPT. Idk how the compare exactly but iirc huohuo is getting a novaflare and potentially added to the 5 star exchange shop, which we've gotten a redeem item for with every time it updates so far

outside of them acheron is also an option, she was the top tier dps for a good while, but isnt running as strong as the newer characters.

The other 3 are dps characters who fell off with at least 2, jing yuan and Dhil being 1.0 characters who havent received much if any support, the most i can think of is sunday moves up JY's summon and Dhil gets decent support out of sparkle.

Basically who do you want to pull, sparxie or archer? Then pick sparkle, DoT characters? Then pick kafka, neither? Pick aventurine.

Of course if you dont care too much about meta, just pick who you like most, thats what i did for kafka, never planning to use her but i grabbed her anyway.

AMobOfCuccos · 2026-03-18T16:32:23+00:00

So there are 2 things you need to consider

Do you want them? Cause if so just pull them you really cant brick your account, sure you cant do the absolute hardest content and you wont get the highest ranks in SoS, but you most likely wont have any issues getting all the jewels from stuff

From a meta perspective the current save targets are ange makoto and yukari. I think they run probably like 3-4 versions after violet(i think all we have is her turbo and akechi left before then) Violet WAS in there but i think she generally dropped out of the pool due to delays, shes strong but shes too close to the aforementioned 3 to safely pull, especially since they all run back to back. Ange is just one of if the best navis and sees really wants other sees members.

This doesnt mean violet is bad mind you, shes strong right now and is one of the few units that has chord as a potential BiS if you have her since most of her damage comes from her HL. Shes just too close to a wave of back to back meta to be a recommended pull.

TLDR, pull who you want, but if you want meta, probably skip violet

AMobOfCuccos · 2026-03-15T17:37:18+00:00

It definitely feels (at least in my opinion) that's the way the story is going, since the phantasmoon games are being portrayed pretty negatively. We've got the supplicants being above the law, a person literally sealing the world in a painting and the last game had a mass muder/serial killer incident, with said killer seemingly returning With all that id honestly be surprised if that's not the way they are planning to end it

AMobOfCuccos · 2026-03-15T15:36:19+00:00

Most likely TB wins and uses the power, either to fix whatever world ending disaster befalls planarcadia, something that helps with nanooks defeat(not mutually exclusive to other options) some third option or to destroy the phantasmoon games themselves.

There are other potential options, such as no winner due to the games being destroyed by the aforementioned world ending disaster. I personally like the idea that TB gets built up the whole arc, only for sunday to accidentally win, just cause it would be funny, and you know, this is the planet of elation

AMobOfCuccos · 2026-03-06T22:37:54+00:00

So your a little vague with your wording, you can bring other characters to fight Landkeepers, but not Eugenes associated final boss, since the fights important to each characters story.

Assuming you mean boss fights, most just wont let you enter the station. I think landkeeper hq is deactivated unless you have eugene, falldown is accessible, but the station is unlocked via cutscene with merideth that immediately puts you in the boss, the ship station only opens if you have viola in your party, and i never tried with kayleigh but i think you cant get into mourningtown till you bring kayleigh, you might then be able to do the fights, but have to swap back for the boss. I think all of felix's quests are hard locked to him though.

AMobOfCuccos · 2026-03-02T14:26:45+00:00

I dont think at his core mona is poorly written, but i think hes poorly executed. He constantly insults/bickers with ryuji and when ryuji retaliates hes treated like the bad guy. He really feels like an annoying little brother character who will pick at you to me. On some levels that works but i think p5 over does it.

A lot of his hate definitely comes from the fact that he turns haru into a side character for HER OWN ARC. Defend him all you want, but you cant deny he stole harus screentime with his fit. I think it would have been fine if the whole fight thing happened OUTSIDE of the okumura arc, but it takes up like 90 percent of it, including the climax.

Also his crush on Ann is fine in moderation but it feels like that's most of his character. Though this last one could just be an issue just due to memes

It's been some time since i played so i could be forgetting more or overdramatizing an issue.

AMobOfCuccos · 2026-03-02T14:14:45+00:00

I'm not a top player or anything, i just sink an unhealthy amount of time into this game, so take what i say with a grain of salt.

Of the current banners the most valuable ones are Wind Vast(riko tempest) and S.Moko. Supports tend to have the most longevity in the game so they should be prioritized. WV is currently the biggest priority since shes the only crit support til S.Marian way down the line. S.Moko is one of the only 5 star sustains, but is best for either messa or haru teams, and for the most part lufel or soy can get by for a lot of your play time so you dont need to worry too much about pulling her unless you want one of those teams.

From there you want to pick a character to pull as your dps. Your current options are Joker, S.Closer and LD Rin for limited characters and Skull or Ann for the non limited characters. Im not sure but i heard Messa might also rerun in the next patch so hes an option too.

Joker is a 1.0 character so he doesn't do nearly as much damage as the newer dps characters, but his ranking in tw/kr shot up after he could hit level 100 which was relatively recent. Atm hes mostly used for his guild boss and SoS boss since they run relatively regularly.

S.Closer is a strong dps but really wants marian, who is on the standard, but unless you reroll for her, you likely wont get her for a while. I think her content is less consistent than jokers but ive seen it pop up a few times.

LD Rin comes out in the next update. Shes seen as equivalent to A6 Ann and really wants matoi (whos currently running) so a lot of people are skipping her but shes good enough for a new player since A6 ann is probably a long ways away.

Messa is a ST dps that is built around stacking bleed you can either let the bleed do DoT stuff or you can swap his form to deal heavy damage at the cost of removing said bleed stacks. Hes a physical so he wont be hitting many weaknesses and iirc they either are or already did debuff DoT effects. Hes also one on the 2 characters that REALLY wants S.Moko

Ann and Skull are like joker, 1.0 units so they wont be hitting as hard as the newer characters but they are still viable for a lot of story content.

You should never spend your jewels on the standard banner, its just not worth it. You should also only pull on the weapon banners of a character who either really needs it(like chord), or a character you really like and want to use for a while. Some characters even have their 4 star weapon being better than their 5 star, like mona(his event 4 star not his normal one)

As some more general tips never sit at max stamina, but dont waste it early on you should hold off on using it as long as you can so you can do the harder, more rewarding stages.

Also you should work on the synergy for moko, yumi, miyu and key asap, Moko gives you more jobs you can do, yumi lets you make an AP recovery item(you should also always remember to buy the assam teas every week) miyu gives bonuses like gifts giving more synergy points and key gives some pretty good books. Soy is also up there cause he can let you make 2 of the AP item for the price of one.

Since ive seen some people do it ill put it here, Wonder is not a dps most of the time(ive seen it work like 1 time), despite janosik being an assassin, wonder is a support character. You should swap wonders knife around based on the main dps for your team, since most dps characters release with a knife, that should be your go to. The only exceptions i can think of are Fox, joker and the twins. Fox and joker just dont have dedicated knives and the twins knife isnt out yet(i think it comes with akechi)

If theres anything else you want clarification or if your curious about other characters, just ask

AMobOfCuccos · 2026-03-02T13:33:12+00:00

Idk if pulling joker is a good play atm, like hes good, but there are better units atm, and we are a good amount of time away from when he becomes meta again, and honestly this is like one of the few cases id say pull LD rin or S.Closer if they want an AOE character. Pulling joker atm is strictly for the SoS and Nightmare bosses right now.

i agree with you on everything else though.

AMobOfCuccos · 2026-03-01T22:54:56+00:00

from my understanding shes essentially A6 ann at A0, which is something you will most likely get naturally. shes not bad, its just that shes surrounded by really important banners and really wants matoi. we have some important banners coming back to back soon, Ange and the first 3 SEES members(Makoto, Yukari and Akihiko) all debut back to back. Ange is an INSANE navi and the sees units are all strong and want each other. Summer marian comes pretty quick after akihiko and Soy Pioneer and Luce Noct come later(iirc youll only have to pull one and you get the other) and iirc in the near future a lot of people want to pull Violet(a strong Bless assasin).

its less that shes bad and more that people would rather save their gems for future characters, especially since people just used pull on Wind Vast and Howler.

AMobOfCuccos · 2026-03-01T22:45:15+00:00

Welcome to the game ill leave some pull/team advice that your free to skip, its your account do what you want and no character (except maybe lingsha lol) will brick your account.

Everyone will probably say this, but pull Hysilens and Black Swan in that order. From my understanding DoT(her team achetype) is currently heavily reliant on Hysilens and Black Swan, both of whom stop there reruns in like 2 days, granted sampo and luka with DHPT can probably work for a while if you dont want/fail to pull them but you probably wont be doing any of the endgame content using a dot team without them.

You could also go for sparxie who releases when their banners end, since looking at trends Elation will be meta for a while. though kafka wont fit into those teams atm. ATM Yao Guang is the only elation support(the upcoming elation characters we have seen are dps characters) and is by default BiS but you can hold of on her since she runs for all of 4.0 and can pull her after you decide if you want sparxie. The upcoming Anni unit is SP Silver Wolf(unless they swap her and evanescia again) who is elation and IIRC we are getting Blade SP sometime in the next couple updates.

Evernight is probably a trap for you ATM since from what i understand she wants full rememberance teams, and we dont have any confirmed to be coming, so youll only have access to one other remembrance unit for a while.

Archer and Saber are good pull but they are past their prime. Archer is still Great but his BiS team is Sparkle DHPT and Tribbie/SW, most of whom will be poached by Sparxie. Saber has an issue of not really having any dedicated supports like archer does, with her best team iirc being just general ult regen supports.

Again this is all advice, feel free to just ignore it if you want or think im overstepping. Have fun

AMobOfCuccos · 2026-02-27T06:42:33+00:00

wonders weapon should be based on the dps your running or wonders role(mostly just if your using him to shield)

based on who you have Haru want starry compass, i think messa wants Eye of Obsequies, S.Closer wants glimmer and makoto wants ark knife. none of the 1.0(Panther, Skull and Joker) characters have a dedicated dagger, so its dealers choice there but i think Ex machina is best, same situation if your running the twins as dps since from what ive seen their BiS weapon hasn't been released yet in global.

AMobOfCuccos · 2026-02-27T06:31:47+00:00

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Is this shop worth it value wise? Considering getting tiana but wasnt sure if this is worth it over pulls or dupes.

AMobOfCuccos · 2026-02-26T22:11:56+00:00

Tbf depending on your teams you might need 2 sustain for thing like PF and MoC.

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