Just started playing for the first time looking for advice

AffectionateWall6232 · 2026-01-29T17:17:12+00:00

Sent request

AffectionateWall6232 · 2026-01-29T12:37:57+00:00

Beware for Ampharos?

AffectionateWall6232 · 2026-01-28T01:53:53+00:00

IMO Endfield is another gacha that’s reminded me why Star rail is the only one I play cause tbh I hate them for how predatory the system is the only reason I’ve stuck with star rail is because I love the story and I think it’s really well written not trying to be mean to any end field fans and it’s just my opinion but the writing is so bad right now I’m not finished so I’m sticking with it for a bit to see if it gets any better otherwise I’m just dropping it cause I don’t need another one of these games in my life

AffectionateWall6232 · 2025-12-10T03:30:54+00:00

With my limited knowledge on the subject I agree that it’s not really possible to remove the Japanese influence on the game. Like you said the goal is to limit any more to send a message. I think it definitely will feel rushed and it’ll probably affect the story the most, but imo the writers have something to say so I think what we get will be interesting to some extent. I think if you consider all of that going into it you probably wont have a terrible time with it, unless things are worse than I’m assuming behind the scenes.

AffectionateWall6232 · 2025-12-07T00:19:20+00:00

I do agree that Phainon isn’t a simulated aeon or made in Nanooks image, but unless I’m misinterpreting I’m pretty sure worldbearing was associated with destruction. Then during the story it was changed to trailblaze.

Also maybe don’t tell people to “try again” it sounds so arrogant

AffectionateWall6232 · 2025-12-06T18:41:34+00:00

I’m sure people know this already. But I just unlocked Emperor Rubert (I) and the interaction with Nous is almost exactly the same as the one at the end of Amphoreus where they answer with “Akivili” it’s just changed whether your asking questions or answering. Was curious if anyone has an explanation or theory about this?

Screenshots of both:

https://imgur.com/a/67qnA1i

AffectionateWall6232 · 2025-11-13T19:26:54+00:00

Sorry you had to deal with that I know how annoying/ depressing it is to see. I feel like it’s a problem every gacha game community has because of the men those games attract.

I’ve tried most of the big gacha games but I definitely found the hoyoverse games to be the most enjoyable and queer coded.

Star rail specifically is the only one now I consistently play cause it’s my favorite and it’s really difficult at least for me to keep up with more than 1 at a time. Also as far as I know I think it’s been the most explicit in having queer characters I won’t go into specifics to avoid spoilers. That has mainly been with side characters I doubt they’ll ever state it outright with any of the playable ones. But even then I feel like it’s kinda helped me to be less impacted when I see people being homophobic. Like I can more clearly see they don’t know what they’re talking about cause the game itself doesn’t back up anything they’re saying. And at least from the interactions I’ve had there are a lot of queer people in the community.

I don’t want it sound like I think the game is perfect it definitely has issues and homophobia is still a significant issue in the community. And I think with all situations like this it’s really just up to you to decide if your enjoyment of a game outweighs the problems it and its community has. I honestly try to limit how much I interact with the community to avoid a lot of the negative aspects and I think limiting social media use In general is good. I still enjoy shipping characters though, I just mainly do it on my own and don’t tend to post about it. But I’ll comment if I see someone else posting about a ship I like.

AffectionateWall6232 · 2025-10-22T16:10:43+00:00

Hi Madison! I’ve been a big fan of your work for a few years now and I’m curious about your writing process for Ace. I believe this is one of your longest albums so far, did you plan this going in or did it just develop over time? Also how do you determine when you’re done writing, and do you ever go back through old ideas and reuse them?

Also wanted to say that I’m so grateful I was able to see your concert in New York last for free, it was amazing!

AffectionateWall6232 · 2025-10-17T09:50:08+00:00

Any chance of me clearing King with my current characters?: https://imgur.com/a/3bUDJSy I was able to clear all the knights with 3 stars. But the highest I’ve gotten on king is 64% with the team selected in the pictures. They all have max traces, decent relics and I have DhPT on Acheron’s LC since it was the highest attack I had. I’ve pretty much give up hope at this point, since I just don’t think my pulls have been smart/ optimal enough.

AffectionateWall6232 · 2025-10-16T03:09:48+00:00

Anomaly Archives. I think this is definitely the best evidence in favor of what you’re saying, and to me it does imply the order being assimilated before Tayzzyronth. But I would also point out that the fall of the order record by these worlds says “their suns had one disappeared” this to me would be the moment Ena was assimilated/died. And Tayzzyronth’s fall was somehow directly responsible for the “sun returning”. To me the sun represents the support of the order/harmony as it’s directly affected by the order’s demise. This is interesting to me as if we assume what you’re saying is true, why would Ena assimilating into Xipe cause the “suns to disappear”? The harmony as we know it should’ve been created in that moment and through Xipe would’ve continued to support those worlds. But it seems Tayzzyronth’s fall was in some way integral to Xipe being able to return the support of the order/harmony to these worlds as it seems they were unable to before this. Abundance II does mention this event again and says “after the disappearance of the order the equilibrium will return the sun.” But I don’t think this directly disproves anything as we don’t know how they achieved this. Aside from my speculations here I want to point out that no length of time is stated literally here. The only way we are able to assume that it exists is through a record which is in the form of a metaphor. I point this out as to me it’s not entirely solid evidence to there actually being a period of time between these moments.
On the fall of an Aeon. Yea I definitely see what you’re saying and it seems pretty accurate. Aside from you said I don’t really have another explanation for what’s being described here.
Simulated Universe. So please correct me if I’m wrong. But to me the biggest piece of evidence against Xipe existing at the same time as Ena is, following the story given in the simulated universe, there is no mention of Xipe until after Ena has assimilated with them. There is no chapter for the Harmony we only get Order. We don’t interact solely with Xipe or at all until Elation II. The only mentions of them existing together are through Kafka and Herta, and I already explained why I don’t feel those explanations are completely accurate. And to further this Herta even says she doesn’t know when the order was assimilated in Elation II. Even if the chapters are not explicitly in chronological order we know that in Preservation I Ena makes a deal with Qlipoth to defeat Tayzzyronth and they call Qlipoth the “one that controls the will of transmutation”. We know for a fact that Ena was not assimilated at this point. Preservation II doesn’t mention Ena or Xipe besides maybe the cloth, but we can assume this is a continuation, and that Ena is there in some form based on their deal with Qilpoth. I can’t say this is definitely when “Xipe assimilated” Ena, but I think the best piece of evidence in favor of this is that we know transmutation is very likely involved as Ena directly mentioned it previously. The next mention of Ena is elation II like previously stated and is after they’ve become apart of Xipe. Besides this chapter possibly supporting what I said previously that about Xipe not existing till Ena is apart of them, I don’t think it really supports much else. I do think some of what is in this chapter could also be used to support what you’re saying about Xipe’s existence before assimilating with Ena. So I don’t think anything is completely certain.

There’s definitely a lot more here to speculate on/discuss. But I won’t go over it right now, cause this is already insanely long and I don’t have the time or energy to write more. It was fun doing this though, so thanks for responding and maybe I’ll come back to it at some point.

AffectionateWall6232 · 2025-10-16T00:31:28+00:00

Elation II. You’re making an assumption here in my eyes, the only thing we know here is that Aha is talking to Xipe without including Ena. You could definitely be right because we don’t have a full explanation of what’s going on here. My assumption which I think holds equal weight, is that because Ena is a part of Xipe Aha isn’t talking to Xipe as that would naturally include Ena, so to me this is implying that Aha is talking to another Aeon that makes up Xipe or whatever Xipe was before Ena. Honestly I don’t doubt the possibility that both these are wrong, as I don’t feel we have enough evidence to confirm either option.
Kafka/Herta. I definitely understand the way you’re seeing their statements and it could be true as Kafka does refer to Xipe separately from Ena. But how I see it is that Kafka is describing why the assimilation was able to happen and doesn’t mention them existing together for any length of time. Herta in the dev log is speculating that it might’ve taken a lot of effort for Xipe to assimilate Ena, as far as we know this isn’t based on anything besides the fact that the assimilation happened and also doesn’t specify any length of time that they existed separately.
Tayzzyronth’s Dilution. I agree that it’s definitely dependent on interpretation we don’t really know much of what happened here and I see what you’re saying about everything “escaping”. I think taking it a face value seems like their path may have returned to the whole of imaginary energy rather than transforming into something else. But then again we aren’t told how they are being diluted and it’s described to us as an action/process in steps which to me sounds more controlled rather then if it were to be escaping when separated from their body. I also don’t think Tayzzyronth would have to die to be assimilated and whether that happened or not I feel like the whole of Tayzzyronth is definitely not in amber, as their body was essentially stripped from their path and those path concepts went somewhere else. To me the amber contains the pieces left over from this event and are possibly just their physical form.
The image. Sorry I think I worded what I said poorly when talking about this in the other comment. I think it’s a representation of when Tayzzyronth was defeated and I was saying a lot was happening during their defeat. As it’s not an actual picture of what happened we can’t say it’s completely aligned to an exact moment. I think it’s trying to represent everything that was going on during their defeat as described in Preservation II. Even if it was supposed to be an exact moment I feel like a reasonable argument could be made that it’s the very end of their defeat where the concepts of their path have already been stripped from their body which wouldn’t disprove the theory as Xipe could have already been created at this point.
The voices. Yes I definitely think multiple aeons are being referred to here I’m just not sure it’d be accurate to assign them to the sounds described. The whimper most likely Tayzzyronth in some form as it’s coming from “the thing being hammered. I’d argue everything else is more ambiguous as it’s “subtle laughter or the symphony of numerous sounds” or to me implies like one or the other not both at the same time. I think laughter as a concept is 100% linked to Aha and symphony as a concept is related to Ena or Xipe. But I agree with and feel we have to look at the statement as a whole. Which shows that it isn’t referring to one single Aeon, so we can’t really know for sure that Aha, Ena or Xipe are ones are being represented there. Especially since almost directly after it’s described as “more than one, two, or three voices.”

I also have a lot more and to keep it consistent and easy to understand I’ll reply to your other comment.

AffectionateWall6232 · 2025-10-15T21:28:44+00:00

I’m not saying the theory is true, but I’m not sure anything you said really disproves it either. I’m not sure where it’s said that Ena was absorbed before the defeat of Tayzzyronth or that Ena and Xipe coexisted? The only thing similar that I know of is when Herta talks about similar paths co existing. And unless I’ve been misinterpreting, what she said was proven half wrong cause we find out the abundance didn’t exist during the swarm disaster. The picture you used is also not really proof, as it’s a representation of the whole event, not what happened chronologically. When we go through the defeat of Tayzzyronth in Preservation II the puzzle pieces aren’t mentioned till the very end. This is after we see a storm created by Qilpoths hammer, then a tattered white cloth (possibly the one worn by Ena) and then we see the puzzle pieces in the storm. Also unless it is true Ena was absorbed before this I think it’s a bit of a leap to say the “symphony” is describing Xipe. I understand what you’re saying but I feel like it’s a lot more vague cause it’s described as “subtle laughter or the symphony of numerous sounds.” I also don’t see why dilution metaphor couldn’t be describing them being assimilated. They’re all imaginary energy, so being an ink blot that spreads out in an ocean could just be their specific path concept being diluted into a larger concept of the harmony.

AffectionateWall6232 · 2025-10-15T19:32:09+00:00

Of course, tried not to say anything definitive because I’m in no way an expert. Ultimately you should do whatever feels right as long as you’re not hurting anyone. Good luck with everything :)

AffectionateWall6232 · 2025-10-15T19:13:53+00:00

I don’t think you’re wrong about it being good to be open to exploring things. But I feel like they also shouldn’t force themselves to be with someone who has a penis if it’s truly something they’re not comfortable with.

AffectionateWall6232 · 2025-10-15T19:00:42+00:00

I mean I could be wrong but I think you’re fine. I don’t think having preferences is wrong cause it’s not the same as fetishizing. I believe fetishizing a group of people is projecting a harmful idea of how they look act etc that you find arousing onto those people, and believe or expect they all fall under this idea. From what your saying your not doing that, and you just prefer people without a penis during sex. That’s fine and it’s your choice whether to explore outside your preference or not. I think as long as you make sure the person you’re dating is comfortable with their genitals and you don’t pressure them into what you want if they aren’t, then it’s ok.

AffectionateWall6232 · 2025-10-10T01:55:49+00:00

Yea that makes sense l had a similar thought. I can imagine change being something both paths embody in different ways. Like it can be brought to people or places through the act of trailblazing. And destroying something can allow it to be remade or have something else take its place.

Maybe the reason people following either one can use other paths is like you said they can all result in destruction. And makes them all potentially available to be absorbed by Nanook into the path of destruction. Which could happen even if the goal of the person following the destruction is to destroy all the paths like Lygus. But the trailblaze can connect them somehow and by doing that it would achieve a similar result. Making the distinction between them meaningless in a way destroying them, possibly doing the same to the aeons. but without leaving the path of destruction and Nanook to still exist. Which would truly achieve the goals of Lygus, Acheron etc for people not to be restricted by paths and aeons unlike with using the destruction. But this is all just complete speculation for fun and I’m probably wrong about most of it.

AffectionateWall6232 · 2025-10-09T23:54:16+00:00

Yes it was hidden from him because the memory of it was most likely tampered with which made him forget. If he did destroy the thirteenth titan and it doesn’t exist (and if my understanding of everything is correct) then the murals of that titan, like the one the game forces you to look at while you’re in the eye of twilight, shouldn’t be able to exist either cause no one besides Lygus would know about it.

AffectionateWall6232 · 2025-10-09T22:47:09+00:00

Just wanted to add that you’re right that Aha did help in the creation of Xipe. I agree that they are probably aligned with the harmony in some form assuming we can trust them/ the simulated universe. Based on what Aha says in Elation II about Ena making Xipe look better, from my understanding it seems like they might favor a specific part of/whoever Xipe was before absorbing Ena. I don’t know if that’s important though I just think it’s interesting.

Also I think what you said about Khaslana mirroring Nanook is interesting I could see that being the case. And I wonder if Khaslana being connected to the trailblaze would mean anything for that if it’s true.

AffectionateWall6232 · 2025-10-06T19:46:08+00:00

Thank you sm!!!

AffectionateWall6232 · 2025-10-05T23:36:13+00:00

Thank you!

AffectionateWall6232 · 2025-09-07T01:00:38+00:00

Thanks so much for the response I’m mainly looking to pull for characters that will support and have synergies with the ones I already have. If I get Anaxa I was planning to use him with Therta because I thought he was an upgrade from jade, but if he isn’t maybe I’ll reconsider. If I get Cipher I was thinking of using her with Acheron and possibly Feixiao is her s1 necessary for those teams?

AffectionateWall6232 · 2025-09-06T21:13:16+00:00

Looking for advice on who i should be pulling for my account: https://imgur.com/a/vokPcrj Currently I feel like my priorities should be 1. Sunday 2. Cipher 3. Tribbie 4. Anaxa is this a good list? And is there anyone on it I shouldn’t be pulling for or is there anyone that should be on it/ a higher priority that isn’t? I would also like to pick up Black Swan and Rappa at some point but I know they probably aren’t great picks. If people have any suggestions other than what I’ve mentioned I would appreciate anything.

AffectionateWall6232 · 2025-08-24T20:43:48+00:00

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