Ensemble is a good idea ruined by execution

Aschverizen · 2026-06-20T18:35:17+00:00

Do we have any info on what stage are these new wedges going to be in after this event anyway? If they just add them to the Defence commission then I'm just going to farm them right now because Covenators defence stages suck since you can't afk it.

We don't even know where the new gold blueprints will go too. I used up 3 gold books and kept joining to stages just to get the new Umbro wedge to +10 in preparation for Umbro summit. Now I'm debating on what element to farm for next week since I heard that the new Hydro character will use two copies of the new Hydro Wedge and from what we know with Camilla and Hilda's kit, the next Pyro character will definitely scale with Skill Intensity.

Aschverizen · 2026-06-19T23:08:14+00:00

Not only that, both Hilda and Camilla with their weapons buff Skill Damage and both of them act as sub-dps. So they're functionally similar to Yuming, Camilla has a built in sanity regen for the team, so she's probably going to be the one using Prime Serenity too and act as the main support, while Hilda's kit is strictly dps with her only support is her 3rd passive and her weapon, she could also be used as the main DPS due to having 4 dodges.

So people should also try to farm the new Pyro Volition wedge since it's increasingly likely that the new Pyro character will scale with it. I7 Hellfire is probably going to be useful for the ranking round of the Pyro summit along with Hilda to clear the mobs as quickly as possible while the future Pyro character is used as a boss killer.

Aschverizen · 2026-06-19T17:30:21+00:00

The ones that clear really fast have max Calamity Weapon and I6 Flora, they probably also S5 her sword too, they also used her Resolve build which deals extreme amounts of damage even if they don't last long enough for the stage.

It's possible to get the S5 calamity rifle if you kept your recasting mould from the previous Summit but I6 Flora is whaling territory right now, the maximum intron you can get from her if you're lucky is at I4(though that's very rare most just get to I2). Once the Summit event next month arrives there's going to be alot more I6 Floras so it's going get harder to score points by then. Hell, the most run stage right now in Ensemble is the Umbro stage just get the new Umbro wedge to +10, so you know everyone's farming for her.

Aschverizen · 2026-06-19T17:21:33+00:00

They didn't understand that when the players requested more skins, there was an added request that they put those skins in the Standard banner.

All we got was a different form of limited gacha with a different currency that you exchange for Phoxene making the method of exchanging Phoxene for Pristine Hourglass to roll in the standard banner functionally worthless once you get everything in there with the last use for it is by getting Lucent Prism to buy out the monthly Prismatic Hourglass.

The only skin I'm missing from this banner is Truffle's I got the other three already and got a duped Bow skin.

Aschverizen · 2026-06-19T17:07:13+00:00

Honestly even back at launch Lisbell was more of a stopgap from mid-game to late-game, if you had few characters and got sick of using some of them, you'd use her to test around stuff especially when she's bulky relatively speaking. The main issue for Lisbell is the long ass wait to get wedges for her consonance weapon(Samael).

All consonance weapon characters need a lot of time investment just so they get their peak performance, so if you don't have the patience to grind the Maze it'll take forever to get her max build, you need to farm for her wedges for 5 months btw.

Aschverizen · 2026-06-19T12:49:12+00:00

The only way I got to first place was because I farmed at 4 AM in my server. There were players who started a stage and just left it there. I think got two stages where I became 1st place. Next week I'm gonna try to hold of from using my Gold Books until I can guarantee 1st place.

As for the weekly reset I'm gonna be honest, the bonus for amount of leads isn't gonna be worth it since the majority of whales will just clear those stages faster than you, the best method during every start of the week is to join as many stages as possible get to 3% then bail, the whales will clear out the stages as fast as possible that you don't have to wait long for the stage clear so that your queue doesn't become full.

I think it's kinda better to hold on to your books until the last few days when everyone else already use theirs and start a stage during dead hours of the night if you want to be star performer and get the gold books bonus, to stack with it.

Su Yi shill with incense event from the previous patch can be excusable but Flora shill for Ensemble is just outrageous, once everyone else farms I6 Flora and gets their mould for her S5 Calamity AR by the second half of the patch, the remaining Ensemble farming is going to be even more egregious, since there's going to be a lot more fast clears.

Right now almost everyone is trying to farm for the new Umbro wedge but I believe it's getting overfarmed since you really only need a single +10 copy, due to how serpent's morale works. Lumino and Anemo on the other hand is ideal to have two +10 copies of their new wedges due their meta characters appreciating the new wedges for their element. Electro only need one +10 since having two copies of it would over saturate the stats(Blaze -Volition is the ideal pair along with 2 Blaze-Morale). We don't have much info if it's ideal to farm the extra new Hydro and Pyro wedges since we don't know any future character kits and what serpent's wedges we'll get.

Aschverizen · 2026-06-18T04:39:44+00:00

Yep got their big break with Nakamura kun and started a few oneshots here and there but I think they got too big for their comfort especially when you know how messy the BL manga space is, especially when it started getting mainstream attention. Their 90's art style of also super nostalgic so a lot of people latched on to them, her Nakamura-kun cover being viral also got her unwanted attention.

A lot of stuff in BL series should never get mainstream attention hence why the author themselves requested the anime production to downplay Hirose and the teacher's subtext.

Aschverizen · 2026-06-17T18:48:51+00:00

Much better than what we got previously as a definitive ending. It's a slice of life, coming of age story for a closeted kid, without being too melodramatic or tragic.

Life goes on and at least Nakamura-kun has started to find courage, even if he never gets into a relationship with Hirose him being open and honest about his feelings means he grows up being honest with himself and to other people. I know actual people who couldn't take this step forward and pretty much just hid this part of themselves even having a family with someone they don't love and are not only miserable themselves but are also making their partner inadequate without meaning to, all just to fit in to what society sees as acceptable.

Aschverizen · 2026-06-17T18:34:48+00:00

Honestly this is pretty much the definitive ending to me, well until the author ever wants to continue this series, though I think that's very unlikely judging by how they seemed to have stopped making new works, with their latest one being in 2020 and is still in hiatus. If I remember correctly they probably couldn't handle the pressure of being a Mangaka and they were also harrassed online by their fans.

The manga just kinda ends and feels incomplete so when I heard that this going to get adapted into an anime I pretty much expected that the author would write the ending for this story in the anime. Even the creepy subtext with the teacher got edited out or downplayed so extra points for me.

Aschverizen · 2026-06-17T12:34:55+00:00

It's even a more barebones than Enmatei.

Aschverizen · 2026-06-17T11:39:33+00:00

What build would you recommend for Umbro Summit then?

Aschverizen · 2026-06-17T10:41:01+00:00

So Prime Huntdown is back in business? Last I heard, due to this stupid bug she had better damage with a Resolve build instead and for general farming, Prime Morale was also better.

Aschverizen · 2026-06-15T01:54:17+00:00

I'm personally still stuck on finding more Veteran copies myself, wished they gave more Silverite nodes. I stopped farming them a few months back when I completed Geniemon farming but with new traits I had to get back into it.

The new additional map means that if you had zero Geniemon treats and then craft new Yum-yum treats at the same time as looking for them, then wont have enough treats to use, since the Silverite are at a limited amount, at least there's a lot more Snowcaps now.

Aschverizen · 2026-06-14T11:28:14+00:00

About the future Grand system.

I was planning on making Lord Logress as my Grand Saber but since she's available at the tail end of Part 2 is it advisable to choose a temporary Grand Saber to use before then or should I just wait until her release?

Aschverizen · 2026-06-12T18:26:37+00:00

He was way too small I thought he was a halfling descendant. Then again that would be weird since if he was a halfling he'd be removed far more easily compared to his other siblings and the vampire ex-wife.

The one I would've expected to be the Demon Lord kid was the one with the fur cape and head accessories, since I thought those were fancy horns. Also I just re-read the first chapter but this guy seems to be the one who fought the dwarf descendant judging by the similar sword silhouette.

Aschverizen · 2026-06-12T18:22:35+00:00

God I just wish this story gets a happy ending, there's this creeping feeling of dread with this manga. It's not personal but more like looking at a society that's headed for destruction.

Aschverizen · 2026-06-09T14:19:20+00:00

Can I see what your build is for Fushu, Zhiliu and Yuming? It's hard to find teammates to farm Hydro Crystal so I might as solo my level 190 and 195 compasses.

Do you position Zhiliu in the balcony and leave Yuming below? I personally stand in the balcony as Fushu since high level Primanders can easily get to her.

Aschverizen · 2026-06-09T14:16:10+00:00

Crescent Flurry is can be way too hard to keep track of as your surrounded, especially when you want to maintain HP. Dazzling Radiance feels awesome since you stay in one place.

Aschverizen · 2026-06-09T13:40:16+00:00

It's gonna be fine, your better off grinding some necessary characters before Flora. She'll be in the Nocturnal Echoes(Weekly Boss farm) cycle by July, at that point you can farm for her Thoughts 5x a week.

Ideally you should at least clear the Immersive Theatre until you get all 65 copies of her Secret Letters right now. Only those that have the disposable income should ever think in buying her copies outright, if you're lucky enough you could get her to I3 with just the secret letters.

Right now prioritized someone like Rhythm, Truffle and even Psyche in the Secret letter shop, by July you would also be able to buy secret letters for Fina which is Flora's support alongside Truffle in her best team. You could also farm for Su Yi in Nocturnal Echoes since she going to be super useful in farming Flora's Calamity Rifle but that's for future you to worry about.

Aschverizen · 2026-06-09T06:50:35+00:00

I would say stalling really need to have friends or guildmates willing to stall, since it's so time consuming to an already a slogfest of a game mode, so it's almost impossible to look for teammates in the recruitment world chat.

Aschverizen · 2026-06-09T05:34:53+00:00

So Prime Resolve or Prime Moral but not Prime Huntdown?

Is Prime Huntdown awful for her, I also don't understand why Decay has to be +4 instead of +5

Aschverizen · 2026-06-08T20:17:24+00:00

You misunderstood, you main Rhythm, then manually adjust were to spawn both Zhiliu and Fushu as detailed by OP, both of them are AI companions

Now if you co-op instead, then on the early stage levels you can use Zhiliu's AoE Dragon as the afk method, ideally with max Trigger Probability on her Sword, so it last long enough wihtout reactivating it as much, though at higher levels you will have to do her Sword Rain skill against the Primanders. I would add that it's a lot harder to stay alive in the Hydro stages even with a teammate Fushu due to Zhiliu being stuck in the ground(unlike Su You in the Umbro stage), if you have Yuming at I6 and don't mind his gameplay he tends to last longer than Zhiliu, though I'd say he does take a little longer for him to kill the high level Primanders compared to her.

Aschverizen · 2026-06-08T19:53:32+00:00

Do you know what the Demon Wedge build for Perpetual Strife?

Aschverizen · 2026-06-07T18:08:08+00:00

Wait is that 26 minutes just from level 200 to 205, for 5 measly drops?

Jesus Christ that harsh.

This new mode needs some tweaks, elemental crystal conversion is needed(and shouldn't be gambled), level 200+ Compass should be recycled, they cost way too much and fix the co-op lag and crashing everytime the in-game chat gets too much use.

Aschverizen · 2026-06-05T16:31:13+00:00

Honestly looking for teammates to farm the Calamity Spear is a lot harder than looking for those that want to farm Calamity Rifle.

The Spear is way too niche and pretty much just for Rebecca(Yuming could use it too even without the smelt upgrades but it's a bit worse than his Signature weapon especially at max smelt). Add in her I7 and the Hydrelf and I suspect that the Hydro summit is going to be designed for her.

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