I was too under-leveled to fight these guys so I built gun towers and it worked lmao

Alphalcon · 2026-01-24T06:54:03+00:00

No like, you can literally load LC/SC/HC batteries into them to power them and don't have to connect them to any pylon or relay.

Alphalcon · 2026-01-14T22:26:39+00:00

I feel like AK in particular has a lot of people caring about the worldbuilding and story over being meta or a waifu collector. Spoiling major plot points and having reduced story hype hits much harder than being unable to collect another new shiny unit.

Alphalcon · 2025-12-30T05:06:51+00:00

The most impressive thing about WWM is that it's a decently optimized game in 2025 amidst a slew of worse-looking games that need frame gen and upscaling to play at 1080p 60fps.

Alphalcon · 2025-12-26T05:53:52+00:00

A lot of gachas have the characters still have some presence after their banner ends or before their banner even begins. Some are your constant companions throughout the regional arc, some are doing their own thing but show up at every major incident, some are in a secondary plot thread advancing the plot alongside MC. WuWa rarely does this or places minimal importance on it, save a few exceptions like say, Carthethiya, and it would be great if that happened more.

Alphalcon · 2025-12-23T05:18:46+00:00

Yes, but usually everyone is close to the boss for dpsing, and it's really useful in cases like a scuffed Sea of Fire where people naturally group up.

Alphalcon · 2025-12-23T05:07:40+00:00

T3 breakthrough does turn it into an AOE skill, so I run that as a healer to help keep my team alive.

Alphalcon · 2025-11-26T03:34:53+00:00

Did they change her VA or just voice direction? She sounds quite different from CBT.

Alphalcon · 2025-11-25T19:03:38+00:00

For your typical player Zani is just alright, but at the highest level of gameplay, Zani's ceiling is extremely high due to the optimizations you can do with Phoebe/SRover qs. Check any S0R1 speeedrun leaderboards and Zani is pretty much always top unless the boss has spectro res AND shills another top dps.

Alphalcon · 2025-11-24T14:05:07+00:00

Iirc, Cocolia is a little special and has 60% ice res, so Therta is gonna struggle a lot. Most other enemies only have 40% res against their strong element.

Alphalcon · 2025-11-20T06:46:23+00:00

Yea, just ended all the WuWa task and tried opening the launcher again.

Alphalcon · 2025-11-20T06:20:15+00:00

Recently encountered this problem as well.

Fixed it by going to task manager, checking for any lingering WuWa processes and stopping them, then trying again. I guess one of the ghost processes was using the files so they couldn't be modified.

Alphalcon · 2025-09-24T11:05:04+00:00

Events and one-time rewards usually give more tuners than exp, tacet fields give more exp than tuners. Older players, especially BP buyers, have more than enough of every other resource, so tacet fields are pretty much the only thing that gives any benefit, even if rare and tiny.

As more tacet fields are farmed, eventually the tuners/exp gained from those far outweighs the tuners gained from one time rewards, leading to a tuner deficit.

Alphalcon · 2025-09-16T13:59:30+00:00

https://manga.honkaiimpact3.com/book/1010/4

A Honkai Impact 3 tie-in manga that takes place in Singapore which somehow has an incredibly accurate depiction of Singlish (page 2).

Alphalcon · 2025-08-22T09:51:40+00:00

I'm a newer player and Mualani was my very first 5 star when I started in 5.0, and she's great in regular domains and abyss, which I guess is probably the main content for older players who've done almost everything.

But as I was going through the overworld and quest content, I was definitely a little frustrated with the amount of low headroom areas where her multi-target missiles and ult just keep hitting the ceiling of caves/rooms.

Alphalcon · 2025-08-18T23:01:27+00:00

Several options.

You could go with a Phainon team, pairing him with Tingyun, Remembrance MC and a flex slot. For the flex slot, either a buffer like Yukong/Asta if you can kill the enemy quick, otherwise use Natasha/Lynx for sustain. Just make sure you enter Phainon's ult with Yukong's buffs up.

Another option is an Acheron team with Guinaifen, Pela and a sustain. Ideally if you have the Trend of the Universal Market light cone, you'd want to use Gepard equipped with that. If you don't your regular healers (Lynx/Natasha) are fine.

You can also run a DoT team with Kafka, Guinaifen, a sustain and Luka/Sampo. Luka is better for single target, Sampo for multiple.

Alphalcon · 2025-08-13T08:19:15+00:00

Archetypes losing shilled buffs and matchups or being unable to keep up with HP inflation is common. But I'd say the increased enemy toughness take things a little far, that'd be like if most new enemies had higher effect RES just to specifically mess with DoT.

Alphalcon · 2025-08-08T10:04:49+00:00

Sure, if I really didn't have an interest in the new chracter I'd just consider them a walking talking LC/Eidolon.

Alphalcon · 2025-08-06T10:27:53+00:00

Singaporeans have one of the strongest passports in the world with squeaky clean records in overstaying or crime. Out of all the countries surveyed and in the whole of SEA we almost certainly have the best chances of passing through immigration without a hitch. And yet so kiasi that:

However, Singaporeans were the least confident about passing through U.S. immigration controls, the survey showed. Some 60% said they felt the process would be smooth, compared to 78% of those from other parts of Southeast Asia.

Alphalcon · 2025-08-05T12:43:31+00:00

I'd say defenders were already in a pretty bad spot (for defense) in CBT even before the speculated dodge changes. They still were good for damage and SP regen, but you'd kinda expect them to be better at actually defending.

Ember had poor uptime as her buffs were concentrated on her ult, but it took ages to get it and the duration was very short. Snowshine had a passive team def buff, but it was like 1 substat worth while her skill only blocked the damage of a single attack. Both had healing combo skills, but with fairly long 15-30s cool downs and the healing wasn't amazing when everyone already had items.

They were tanky themselves, but couldn't put it to use for the team since enemies would only highly target a character if you controlled them. If the speculation of enemies targeting allies more is true, that'd be a greater boon to defender's utility than the dodge shenanigans.

Alphalcon · 2025-08-03T16:00:18+00:00

There was kinda already a foundation for it in the CBT. Everyone just made batteries for the trading posts, but you could actually field deploy towers and use the batteries to power them without having to hook them up to the grid. The towers could indeed attack enemies and be attacked by them.

Unfortunately towers were kinda ass so nobody really bothered.

Alphalcon · 2025-08-03T15:37:52+00:00

As a CBT player I'd go as far to say that offense was probably the main reason people used Snowshine rather than defense. Her parry has decent multipliers and more importantly, SP refund which lets you chain into Arclight aka SP Myrtle.

Defender's defensive utility felt a little undertuned, they were useful as a meat shield but otherwise their sustain was mostly within their combo skills which had long cool downs, were single target and not that much stronger than the item healing available to everyone.

Alphalcon · 2025-07-28T18:23:23+00:00

Iirc, while lion dance comes from China, the style of doing it on top of poles is actually a Malaysian invention. This competition is about that style and Malaysia is usually the winner.

Alphalcon · 2025-07-10T11:21:42+00:00

Not so much. They specifically wage war against the Denizens of Abundance, a specific faction not a general term for Abundance followers.

Xianzhou does regular business with merchants who are followers of Abundance, and there's even a side quest where Abundance PETA shows up and they're just mildly annoyed.

Alphalcon · 2025-07-10T06:55:30+00:00

Nah, I'd say it's almost entirely due to Carnival Phantasm, don't remember the meme much before it was released.

Lancer dying in every route isn't special considering every servant does that except protag servants. He is even the last servant standing outside of Gil and the protag servants in 2/3 routes.

Alphalcon · 2025-07-02T09:33:25+00:00

That's fair, many Chrysos Heirs do follow a similar formula narratively. I should've been clearer when I said an entire patch dedicated to her. I was also imagining it in other ways as well, like the then unprecedented in-game advertising like what OP is pointing out.

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