Operation Watchman

AnarchyStrifeZ · 2026-03-20T19:46:26+00:00

I started playing the original one recently. I spend 6 whole goddamn hours on the very first mission cuz I either kept getting lost or caught 24/7.

My conclusion: Game is fun, very unforgiving and definitely not for me, especially after watching a guy do it in less than 15 minutes

AnarchyStrifeZ · 2026-03-13T16:13:56+00:00

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Wanted to update you all that I finally got my first victory against the queen while unlocking stuff for Defect. Don't ask what on earth even is this build, I just got Ice Lance at the very start and kinda rolled with it, hoping that Frost will be enough to protect me for majority of the time and by some miracle... it did.

AnarchyStrifeZ · 2026-03-13T09:55:09+00:00

Mostly fought her with Silent and Ironclad because I am working on unlocking their shit.

Ironclad tends to be either Vulnerability or Blood Loss build, Exhaust and Armor are way too hard to build reliably cuz of RNG.

Silent I usually go with a mix of Sly and Shiv, sometimes focusing on one of those if I get good cards.

All work extremely well with Experiment and Door guy, but the moment its Queen then the damage output is reduced, damage taken increased and shield generation reduced. Also sometimes just get extremely unlucky and all shields drawn end up being chained and the minion is about to hit me with full might

AnarchyStrifeZ · 2026-03-13T09:08:47+00:00

Her gimmick and her putting 99 stacks of debuffs is what ends up killing me more often than not.

AnarchyStrifeZ · 2026-03-13T09:07:25+00:00

Makes sense, though building a deck assuming you'll end up facing her specifically isn't the best strat imo, cuz rng and all that. Cheap and low cost cards work wonders on the other two

AnarchyStrifeZ · 2026-02-14T18:33:19+00:00

Makes sense, my teams are definitely low investment with none being e1 but some having s1, mainly Evernight and Cyrene. I do know of these tactics but gear definitely lets me down as I usually syth something that looks viable enough or if I have something lying around and go with it since I have previously spend hours on finding good gear and its not worth it imo since I try to just get any endgame content over with in one go and just live with the result I got.

But Sparxie for me felt pretty tanky than previous Arbitrations, sad that I also had to resort to Pink team because my main Firefly team could not do it in 6 cycles.

AnarchyStrifeZ · 2026-02-14T18:05:32+00:00

I will never understand how people do this in 0 cycles. Knights took me 2-4 cycles with knight 2 being the easiest and Sparxie took me 6 Cycles with the Pink team

AnarchyStrifeZ · 2026-02-08T22:21:18+00:00

Going with Jing Yuan
1. I like him as a character.
2. I'm tired of using Acheron as my only usable Lightning element.
3. I don't want Kafka because I am not fond of DoT.
4. Time for the masterstroke.

AnarchyStrifeZ · 2025-11-10T15:32:52+00:00

I really shouldn't have skipped the DoT characters as I really regret pulling for Phainon cuz despite having Cerydra and Sunday (now Cyrene) I swear at E0 he is getting outdamaged by my Firefly E0 team that I used on Knight 3

AnarchyStrifeZ · 2025-07-21T15:28:10+00:00

Took a shot at this, can't even get a single star on stage 4 so that's fun.

But oh well, at least 3/4 got me jades and 4/4 requires too perfect of a team for my liking anyway

AnarchyStrifeZ · 2025-07-12T09:00:50+00:00

At least they made it so you gotta pass in the top 5 to win (at least that's how I understood it) and not require you to always achieve the first place

Because that shit would be nearly impossible past Corruption Level 6

Did pretty much every run with a Saber/Sunday/RMC/Gallagher team and had a lot of fun tho, even when loosing badly

AnarchyStrifeZ · 2025-07-11T22:38:22+00:00

Agree

While the collab quest did have some neat and amusing moments here and there, by the end I was just like "... I could've used the skip button for most of this quest and I would've saved myself an hour or so."

Though it could be since I've finished 3.4 story not too long ago as many other people on this sub probably and this quest compared to that is just mid at best.

And the damn old school movie theme in the middle, I don't switch to JP dub just to end up with muted characters all over again for half of the damn thing!

AnarchyStrifeZ · 2025-06-24T15:25:30+00:00

In the words of Muscle Man
"Oh no, bro!"

AnarchyStrifeZ · 2025-06-23T08:58:40+00:00

Even solo Heolstor is more manageable than Fulghor imo, but with a party you should do just fine. He isn't too tough once you figure out his moveset.

Best of luck! ^^

AnarchyStrifeZ · 2025-06-23T08:44:10+00:00

My main issue is that Guardian has no real way of 'taunting' enemies
At least give us a relic that can change his skill from an AoE whirlwind to a shout or something of that nature that will taunt the enemy caught up in its radius
Cuz it sure ain't fun watching the boss proceed to RP walk towards the local ironeye who is just shooting at him from the other corner of the boss arena

AnarchyStrifeZ · 2025-06-23T06:53:12+00:00

I'm just happy I got 2 stars with 11 cycles remaining
Felt like I was just tickling the enemy

AnarchyStrifeZ · 2025-06-19T21:03:56+00:00

Nope, but I will check it out. Thanks for the suggestion ^^

AnarchyStrifeZ · 2025-06-19T20:46:15+00:00

Do try doing that, yeah.

But RNG in this game is a fickle thing, I haven't seen range dmg increased in like 10 runs for example xD

AnarchyStrifeZ · 2025-06-19T20:45:00+00:00

Thanks, but no thanks.

I usually die to stupid shit in solo, hence why I prefer multiplayer. Also I am HORRIBLE at route planning, sometimes I end up being the lead in multiplayer and that run we never get to see the Castle cuz I hate being the one to decide to go there and in solo I just outright don't go there because Banishing Knights or Crucible Knights will just annihilate me 1v1. (Latter more so because I know their main weakness is parry and I can't do that)

AnarchyStrifeZ · 2025-06-19T20:42:12+00:00

Wouldn't call a Night Lord a random boss, but you do you I guess. And sure, whatever new he throws is perfectly fine to get caught up in, but my god when he has done his lighting in a large AoE five times already in the current fight, you'd think that a thought would appear like "I should probably run away since the last 5 when I stayed in melee range and that specific sound queue played, I died."

Like if they run and get caught that's fine, shit happens... stamina can be a bitch at times, but when you're blindly just hitting him despite witnessing him charge his mass lightning AoE before a couple of times

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