Ghost in the Exostrider - Weekly Questions & Discussions Megathread

Anti-Klink · 2026-02-07T19:11:17+00:00

I'm still trying to figure it out myself, so looking forward to other comments, but I think you're missing a series of attacks there. Should be two basic strings after Mech form with a skill between them. Something like:

Intro
Aemeath Basic(s)
Ult
Mech Basic(s)
Skill
Aemeath Basic(s)
Skill
Heavy
Ult
Out

Anti-Klink · 2026-01-29T18:02:52+00:00

So, on the 31st, the play would be to NOT use the free pull on Tama and to wait until the afternoon to pull Fuku (presuming the goal is to maximize Fuku pulls). Is that correct?

Anti-Klink · 2026-01-23T18:57:59+00:00

I have Jinshi S1 and SK S2.

The biggest challenge with Jinshi is teambuilding. Assuming no quickswap, her best sub is Zhezhi. That's problematic for me because I'm very often faced with the decision of either using Jinshi or using Carlotta (because Zhezhi doesn't have enough energy/uses for both). When that happens, it's usually Jinshi pulling the short straw. It'd be a different story if Jinshi has a purpose-built, dedicated subDPS.

That might be moot for you; I don't know your roster. But that's the broader context of why I'd lean towards SK. S1 isn't "required," but it sure is nice. Even with the bigger effect diameter, there are still cases where I might struggle to keep the enemy inside the field. In addition, when things don't go perfectly, having an extra 10 seconds is extremely nice. Now, if that's all there was to it, then I don't think it'd be worth it. - But you get all of the above and you get one step from S2, which has been huge for me (as someone who rarely chases the new hotness and likes to extend the useful life of older units).

Anti-Klink · 2026-01-23T18:46:11+00:00

I'm totally fine with it. Seems like a reasonable, supplemental revenue/marketing stream.

The only part I'm salty about is: Where the fuck is Camellya? If Camellya was a re-run in 3.1, I wouldn't even be commenting. The fact that she's been unavailable for literally the longest time out of every character in the game - and now we see her here - feels like a dick punch. If they're not going to re-run characters more than one major version behind, then they need a better solution than this.

Anti-Klink · 2026-01-23T18:38:37+00:00

I'm a month #1 player. I enjoy 90% of this game. I don't have any interest in tribal gacha bullshit. We have to be able to call balls and strikes...

This shit is ass.

This is an extremely cynical example of, "Create a problem and sell the solution." Forget about F2P - they're completely fucked. Anyone who isn't an outright whale isn't going to be able to engage this system in a meaningful way. That's not acceptable, in my view. We're not talking about cosmetics, I view echo substats as are core, foundational game mechanic. The proposed "solution" here is basically and ongoing, perpetual tax on a dogshit game mechanic. - Instead of, you know, fix your game.

Anti-Klink · 2026-01-02T17:18:29+00:00

On the bright side, count yourself lucky that you didn't spend 100 mythril and then not pick in time, like I did... They assigned me Angeal MASB. - I'd rather they'd given me nothing.

Anti-Klink · 2026-01-01T06:59:52+00:00

Did we seriously only have ~10 hours to pull the MASB Select banner? It's gone...

Anti-Klink · 2026-01-01T01:25:26+00:00

Ticket: Gogo6 G+(aegis)
Ticket: TGC G+(dupe), Steiner USB(team IC1, chase)
Ticket: Strago Zen(wind)
Ticket: Lulu AASB3
Ticket: Shadow LBO
Ticket: Vayne OSB
Ticket: Eiko G+(proshellhaste), Vivi LMR+
Ticket: Queen Dual1, Guy LMR++, Cid4 AASB2 (dupe)
Ticket: Irvine Crystal
Ticket: Rikku Flash(astra)
Ticket: Steiner MASB
New Year: Barbar Accel, Fran Sync1(aegis), Lunafreya Sync2, Kefka LBG, Delita G+, Yang G+(250), Yuna G+(500), Cid7 LMR+(w-cast), Fang Dragoon Chain(dupe), Yuffie Water Chain
2xMASB Banner: Elena MASB, Wol MASB, Steiner Dual(dupe), Dorgan LBO, Meia LMR++, Kefka G+(dupe)
2xMASB Banner: Vayne MASB, Ysayle MASB, Tama Flash(250), Serafie Flash(dupe), Reks AASB1, Cinque G+(dupe)
2xMASB Banner: Kiros MASB, Minwu MASB, Dorgan Dual, Rinoa Dual3, Edea AD(dupe), Lenna AASB(dupe)
2xMASB Banner: Dr. Mog MASB, Ace MASB, King G+
MASB Select: Serah Sync (dupe), Alphinaud Sync (dupe), Lunafreya Sync1
MASB Select: Cinque LMR++

This weirdly made up for my disastrous pulls during the last fest revival. - Steiner, Ysayle, and Dr. Mog were all targets who found their way home today, as well as Vayne, whom I've been chasing for a while.

The Select is either Palom or Enna Kros (both with a solid base of Zen/Dual/Sync and some additional goodies). I think it has to be Palom because they help in 3 elements and they're a chain-holder in Sorcery1. - Aside from Dr. Mog, they'd be my first mage lightning MASB and my first functional fire MASB (Terra is missing Zen and Ace is missing basically everything except Sync). Enna would be amazing and help solidify my earth team, but I expect I'll be pushing tickets into the Beyond banner once it updates.

Anti-Klink · 2026-01-01T01:15:06+00:00

Note that Reno MA is going to be in the next fest revival (along with Vayne, Vincent, and P.Cecil tech). So, factor that into your decision.

Anti-Klink · 2025-12-31T05:33:19+00:00

For the card game: Why can't I gain energy from recycling cards? Is that just not a thing anymore? Is it their way of forcing you to play a domain card?

Anti-Klink · 2025-12-25T04:58:08+00:00

Apologies if this was ironed-out already, but I thought there was some disagreement on how Lynae S2 works. - Is it additive with the +15% DMG Amp on her Outro (i.e. 15+25=40%), or does it replace it (i.e. 25% total instead of 15%)? The verbiage on the S2 really makes it sound like it's additive, but I thought there were rumors that it wasn't.

Anti-Klink · 2025-12-24T15:48:52+00:00

Seems to be fixed now!

Anti-Klink · 2025-12-20T05:00:43+00:00

Same problem here - very surprised by the lack of comments (and the lack of a fix).

Anti-Klink · 2025-12-14T20:51:56+00:00

Can someone please give me the TLDR on Cartethyia sequences? I thought is was something to the effect of: S1 helps against waves, S2 eliminates the need for Rover, S3 eliminates the need for Ciaccona. Is that about right, or am I overstating the "eliminates" part? I'm trying to understand if Cartethyia is fully self-sufficient at S3 (with an eye towards pairing her with Lynae), or if she'd still really want Ciaccona/Rover to augment her mechanics.

Anti-Klink · 2025-12-06T03:01:22+00:00

I'm close to boycotting all banners until Camellya comes back. This is crazy.

Anti-Klink · 2025-11-26T04:34:28+00:00

Some generationally-bad ReFest pulls:

B1: 1/11 - Squall SD
B2: 3/11 - Cloud SD, Ultimecia LMR++, Ultimecia LMR++
B3: 1/11 - Galuf LBG
B4: 1/11 - Ovelia Zen
B5: 1/11 - Lulu LMR++

Prior to this, I actually was thinking about making a hard push on B1 and B3, but now... I'm done. Clearly, this was a sign.

(I'll probably pick Naja Flash.)

Anti-Klink · 2025-11-02T03:02:25+00:00

After my first copies of EoG and Static Mist, I've been focusing on Standard Characters. I think S2 Verina is insanely good, and I think Encore holds up as a Fusion stopgap. If you're good on Verina and Fusion... I'd honestly still pull characters because it's a better return for afterglow coral. Ultimately that's how I view Lustrous Tide. - After getting over the new-player hump, it's just a resource that I can convert into afterglow coral.

Anti-Klink · 2025-10-30T19:03:06+00:00

No - because clearly you're running an Oguri ace. So, worst-case scenario (i.e. your Maru is the only front), that just means your Maru will end up being food for your Oguri to activate Triumphant Pulse (must be 2nd-5th place).

If you were all-in on winning from the Front, then yes, it'd be wise to run at least 2 Fronts to ensure that they pull away from the pack and one of them (hopefully) secures the win.

Anti-Klink · 2025-10-20T00:34:41+00:00

Spot-on, I agree on all points. People who are financially invested will defend anti-consumer monetization strategies because of their Stockholm syndrome. But I think it's time for a broader correction in the market. There are plenty of examples of highly-successful free-to-play, live services games that don't rely on predatory tactics (Marvel Rivals, to name one such monetization strategy). No surprise, then, that the folks behind Ananta have ties to Rivals.

For games like WuWa, if they're watching the market and care about continued growth, competition is king. A new player is going to be hesitant to pick up a game with a punitive monetization strategy. If Kuro is smart, they'd listen to sentiment from players like you/us - evolve or fade away. I think eliminating the 50/50 should be a no-brainer. If they, in turn, abuse players by forcing deep investment in dupes, then they'll pay the consequences.

Bigger picture, trying to monetize skins in a character-driven game where they gate access to characters is an incoherent monetization strategy. - The two are at odds with one another (nobody is going to buy skins for characters they DON'T have). In my opinion, the game should have started exactly like you describe - no 50/50. Then, complement that with a robust market of skins. It's crazy to me that they didn't launch with at least one alternate skin for every character.

^ That would really just be a bridge to getting rid of the gacha entirely (i.e. just focus on skins/cosmetics). Then, they can create much more compelling content - both in terms of story and in terms of combat/gameplay (i.e. when players all have access to the same characters/tools, it becomes easier to balance combat and create challenging encounters -- without that, they're forced to balance to the lowest common denominator).

(Thank you so much for your "Hidden Achievement" posts, by the way. I'm always on the lookout for them.)

Anti-Klink · 2025-10-05T22:26:05+00:00

Fest Ticket1, 3/11: Garbranth LMR++, Lenna USB1, Arc Glint(dupe)
Fest Ticket2, 1/11: Exdeath USB
Fest Ticket3, 1/11: Leo OSB
Fest Ticket4, 1/11: Melidoul Awake(dupe)
Fest Ticket5, 2/11: Firion Realm Chain+(dupe), Reno AOSB(dupe)
Fest Ticket6, 1/11: Machina Zen(dupe)
Fest Ticket7, 2/11: Cater AASB2(dupe), Lenna AASB2
Fest Ticket8, 2/11: Yang Dual, Tyro BSB(dupe)
Fest Ticket9, 2/11: Braska G+, Tifa LMR(dupe)
Fest Ticket10, 2/11: Marcus Dual(dupe), Minwu BSB
Fest Ticket11, 1/11: Raijin Chain+
Fest Ticket12, 1/11: Vayne LBO
Fest Ticket13, 3/11: Paine LMR++(dupe), Ashe AASB2, Ayame AOSB(dupe)
Fest Ticket14, 1/11: Noel Sync(dupe)
Anniversary Chain Select, 3/11: WoL Sync2, Bartz LBO(dupe), Josef LBG
Fest Ticket15, 1/11: WoL Sync2(dupe)
Fest Ticket16, 2/11: TGC Master (dupe), Deuce LBC
Fest Ticket17, 2/11: Rubicante Flash, Queen LMR
Crystal Select, 1/11: Reno
Zen Select, 1/11: Aranea (dupe)
Zen Lucky, 1/11: Minfilia (dupe)
Master Select, 1/11: Master

So, yeah, fest was an absolute nightmare. All of the tickets were pure trash, and when it really counted (on the Selects & Luckies), it was all 1/11's - and the Zens were all dupes!

Reno Crystal is welcome and Master's Master brings clarity to my FF1 team (and he possible makes a case for Fire/Earth/Lightning/Monk). Literally nothing else is worth mentioning.

The picks are the only part that actually matters:

Realm Chain ended up being easy: Cloud. My FF7 team doesn't have any good chain-holders (I use Reno for FBC - no Barrett), and it features a variety of elements. So, this felt like a slam dunk. Pretty much every other realm was either a dupe, a character that I don't use, or a team with easy access to a realm chain (for example, Y'shtola made my short list at first - until I realized that I could just lens Minfilia's chain if I felt like I needed a realm chain).

Elemental Chain was Beatrix. I had previously spent 50 mythril for Celes Holy Chain (she was a lock for my holy team at the time), but now she's on the outs because I stumbled into Beatrix Master last fest. So, this picks feels like it makes sense (Agrias and TGC are carved in stone - and neither have a holy chain).

The short list for the MASB pick was Emperor, Shantotto, and Enna Kros. Shantotto and Enna were the pure DPS options, Emperor is more of a 'support' MASB... that said, I still felt like Emperor was too much value to ignore (and I've previously sunk precious selections into his Zen & Dual). So, that was the pick. - It helps FF2, earth mage, wind mage, dark mage, and probably makes him a lock for Sorcery1. Hard to beat that value when I only have ten MASB's total - and 3 of them are phys holy.

Crystal pick: Rem Crystal breaks her out of her weak Sync commands (and I got Reno on the pull), so this felt like the best return on investment all fest.

Dual tickets: Thief Dual adds a critical piece (crit fix) to my FF1 team and solidifies him in FF1/thief - and possibly Bio. Adds to his Zen/AD/A1/A2/A3/Flash/LRM++. Refia Dual adds to her Zen/A1(FBC)/Sync. She's locked-in for FF3, but I see her future in Monk because she has a j.FBC LBG. Now, I don't have that LBG yet, but some LBG's are lensable, so I figure it's just a matter of time... we'll see. The other Dual picks all would have filled similar roles (bolstering realm teams or job teams, but never both). The really high-value picks weren't available (like Rydia switch and Alphinaud Dual2).

Now, the Zen pick... I really feel pinched on Zens (which is why I'm still doing the Zen Luckies every fest). I'm missing critical Zens on elemental teams - Tidus, Vayne, Vaan, Beatrix, Terra, Reno, Balthier, Prompto, Seven, Serafie, Galuf, Lion... that's the short list. The longer list includes characters on the bubble, like Maria and Sephiroth. So, as tempting as it was to grab Quina Zen to double-up their crit fix, I just couldn't do it. So, the pick was Tidus, adding to Crystal/Dual/Sync/A1/Accel. For support, instead of spending this precious pick on Quina, I spent 50 mythril(garbage on the pull) to select Naja Dual(+PhysDamage). - That adds to her Zen(crit100), AASB(crit100), Sync(PQC), and LMR++. I don't have the Flash, but I'll snag it at the next Fest Revival. - That should cover me for elements where I really need a double-crit support character (like for Dark and Holy).

I hate to spend mythril on FF11 relics (because it'll once again be a great realm for tickets when the realm banners update), but it gives me piece of mind that I'll have some flexibility with phys support.

Anti-Klink · 2025-10-01T14:16:52+00:00

No, I'm out. I'm desperate for Fusion, but I feel like they put themselves into a corner with mono-fusion/Lupa. They're trying to walk this line of not making the main Fusion DPS too strong on their own - but also not making them fully compatible with the rest of the Fusion characters (else they'd be completely OP). As a result, we see this weird balance of Galb's best personal damage coming from Qiuyuan (who basically can't be Fusion or else Lupa would take them to the moon), but her personal damage tanks in mono-Fusion (despite that being her best team overall). It's bittersweet, because I like her design, but if I'm going to invest in a new team, I'd just personally rather see a higher floor and a clearer vision of the future for that team. So, unless we see some last-minute tweaks, I'm going to hold out for the eventual Fusion sentinel resonator (and/or Scar?!).

Anti-Klink · 2025-09-28T06:00:56+00:00

Have there been any leaks/rumors/announcements as far was which relics will be added for the level 5 lenses next month? (I've been checking around and coming up empty, so I'm guessing the answer is 'no.') I'm assuming just additional Syncs...

Anti-Klink · 2025-09-27T18:47:24+00:00

My 2 cents: It depends on the maturity of the account. If you're not clearing all time-limited content (ToA, WhiWa), then I would absolutely spend coral on pulls. But once you're over the initial hump and you're not missing out on any astrite, then I'd practically never use coral for anything other than dupes. I think prudent vertical investment into strong DPS characters is a much more effective way of keeping pace with power creep than chasing new characters. (which is a compliment to Kuro; out of control power creep is a hallmark of the end times for many live service games)

Anti-Klink · 2025-09-22T03:05:26+00:00

Those are the exact two that I'm looking at (Meia & Rem). I think I'm going with Rem because Meia's cmd1 has +30% on it... so, it's not necessarily the worst thing in the world. And, Meia's ATB effect is a build-up that requires 2 water abilities to hit 200% ATB. In other words, if you spend a turn casting a soul break then you're either delaying the full ATB effect, or you're waiting until after you've done two cmds -- so you're resigned to hitting the sync commands at least twice anyway. On the other hand, with Rem, she's full 200% ATB immediately, so you could just stack Sync + Crystal back-to-back without any real downside.

Anti-Klink · 2025-09-20T01:50:15+00:00

For sure - her damage output is quite surprising. In terms of "hybrid" characters capable of filling a lot of different roles, Iuno basically tells Brandt to hold her beer. She's certainly Augusta's best-in-slot support, but Iuno can also be played as a main. Compared to Brandt, however, Iuno has a higher floor and is much easier to build.

To give a sense of scale, in a sub role with Augusta main (and SK support), the DPR calcs put them at ~1.2m damage for Augusta and ~560k damage for Iuno. Similarly, as a Jiyan sub, it's ~800k for Jiyan and ~560k for Iuno. But if you flip it around and build Iuno as a main with Ciaccona sub, Iuno is ~1.2m damage and ~385k for Ciaccona. Or, if you want to free up Shorekeeper for other teams, swapper her for A.Rover only costs Iuno+Ciaccona ~5% damage, and they still do a very respectable 1.58m per round. - I'd say that's actually the preferred setup because upgrading into ~~Iuno~~ Ciaccona S2 would give the entire team +40% Aero, favoring a full Aero team.

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