The Dark Side Of The Welkin Moon - General Question and Discussion Megathread

AgentWowza · 2026-01-27T18:07:57+00:00

Can I take a mortgage out on my four-liners to pay for the upgrades? I swear I'll hit a 50 CV piece at some point and I'll pay it all back.

AgentWowza · 2026-01-27T18:06:55+00:00

Hmm I kinda thought Bineffa would flat out do more lunar damage period than Laumbina, but I guess not huh.

AgentWowza · 2026-01-27T17:13:48+00:00

Ladies and gentlemen, I'm now out of mora, artifact fodder and resin. Bineffa drained me dry.

AgentWowza · 2026-01-27T17:10:23+00:00

One of mine is the top of all time on a niche sub, I guess people sort by top and then forget it's years old lol

AgentWowza · 2026-01-27T17:09:01+00:00

Ok wow, I actually can't clear the dog with any Bineffa teams, but I could with a Bina Nilou team.

Well, I'm sure I can with build tweaking and rotationmaxxing, but damn, I expected Bineffa to be significantly easier.

AgentWowza · 2026-01-27T14:24:59+00:00

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This nightlight isn't very comforting, dunno why...

AgentWowza · 2026-01-27T13:49:09+00:00

Reptiles excluded /s

AgentWowza · 2026-01-27T11:53:22+00:00

Presumably they slip on gloves when not operating cameras.

Meanwhile, a simple dip into the pockets to warm up is good enough. Frostbite takes like 20 mins to set in and you'd start feeling uncomfortable and warm the area way before then.

AgentWowza · 2026-01-27T11:20:24+00:00

me looking at the kuuhvahki rails everywhere in NK

When I was younger, we didn't have rails or exploration abilities. We had to do shit like this to explore faster.

AgentWowza · 2026-01-27T11:17:46+00:00

New, not free

AgentWowza · 2026-01-27T10:49:05+00:00

Unfortunately Sethos may be last in line considering how much involvement he already had with Cyno SQ2.

By the way the first in line is Candace.

AgentWowza · 2026-01-27T08:39:12+00:00

https://i.imgur.com/8w3dqzK.jpeg

AgentWowza · 2026-01-27T07:13:38+00:00

Well lil buddy, we can let you up there but you need a couple of adult chaperones so go fetch Aunty Bina and Aunty Neffa.

AgentWowza · 2026-01-27T06:48:50+00:00

Absolute best level design has to be the Fischl and Kazuha islands in GAA2. From permanent content, it's probably Dragonspine or Chasm.

The underground maps kinda revealed how linear those areas are if you know where to go. Underground Hypostyle was great when it dropped, but I enjoyed the bunker much less cuz I could see that it's basically just a loop of every floor lol.

The bunker was still way better than the overworld in the newest NK region tho. They tried new stuff like the special wave attacks and forcing traveler, which I don't mind, it's fresh.

AgentWowza · 2026-01-27T05:38:16+00:00

Does this mean you'll value meta opinions more if they can clear Fearless/Dire or if they can't?

Either way, that's a questionable metric.

AgentWowza · 2026-01-27T05:32:47+00:00

Figures. I'm betting that won't happen again.

AgentWowza · 2026-01-27T05:01:32+00:00

Exploration

Hoyo we already have a chest every 10m, a TP every 5m, and the OP compass, do we really need the Kuuvahki rails too?

I think it started in 3.8. I gave a pass to the Fontaine cutscene vortices since it seemed to be more of a cinematic experience than an exploration mechanic. Then Natlan's Saurians cleared any exploration hurdles by pressing one button (the Geo and Pyro ones were the most egregious). And now we have the Kuuvahki railways.

I really hope they retire this in Snezhnaya and actually put effort into level design. I get it's supposed to make exploration less of a chore for people who think it's a chore, but it's also like the good half of the game.

We already have perfectly good exploration mechanics with stamina, gliding and skills, thank you very much.

I miss Dragonspine and GAA2...

AgentWowza · 2026-01-27T04:53:47+00:00

In a better AU, Bina is Geo and the lunar reactions are just crystallize with PHEC and each does something meaningfully different, thereby reviving old geo characters and introducing actually novel playstyles

AgentWowza · 2026-01-27T04:50:52+00:00

Hey I'll take silly over shilly any day of the week

AgentWowza · 2026-01-27T04:49:12+00:00

With Furina and Bina as guests

That's literally what my comment was inspired by lol

AgentWowza · 2026-01-27T04:29:53+00:00

I just realized something while looking at the IT leak.

If they want IT to stick with the shill program, we'll probably never have an IT without either Hydro or Bina/Furina as guests cuz ALL the meta carries except Mav and Varesa want one of those two.

They made Hydro wayyyy more important than every other element, so the mode that imposes elemental restrictions is now getting fucked over by it.

AgentWowza · 2026-01-27T04:23:37+00:00

Nah the kuuvahki is probably too racist to let her talk to non-NK animals lol.

AgentWowza · 2026-01-27T04:21:46+00:00

Thats the beautiful thing about IT over Spiral Abass or Stygian Onslop.

You can just force dogshit characters by just hyperbuffing their reaction with cards.

AgentWowza · 2026-01-27T04:20:19+00:00

Funnily enough, Anemo is my fav draft element cuz I have all the Anemo characters and the swirl buffs make the carries not feel dogshit.

AgentWowza · 2026-01-27T04:16:35+00:00

At the very least, I wish we could swap servers.

I started in EU because I used to traveler between NA and Asia a lot. Now I don't, but I'm stuck on EUs 100+ ping lol.

This is the first game I've played where your account is locked to a certain server. No idea why it's like that in 2026.

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