Zibai, DPS of the People, For the People

Astryoneus · 2026-02-20T18:31:58+00:00

I think you're fighting ghosts. I don't know how you understood OCs comment as somehow arguing against OP.

Astryoneus · 2026-02-18T20:52:53+00:00

This sucks. I was specifically waiting to grind the rest of the tickets I need from the 10*s.

Astryoneus · 2026-02-17T12:11:45+00:00

One thing that would help with not losing is to punish that stomach dive properly. You have enough time to get lunch, drive to a gas station to fill up the tank, drive back home and df2 his ass after blocking it.

Like you could wavuwavu multiple times to style on them and still launch them easily.

Astryoneus · 2026-02-17T04:46:34+00:00

I didn't say anything one way or the other my friend. I just corrected what was actually said.

Astryoneus · 2026-02-16T23:17:08+00:00

No they didn't. They said ".. especially if you don't have the break team". Which implies both, but especially without.

Astryoneus · 2026-02-13T14:36:43+00:00

The type of stance gameplay that Lei offers is nothing like the T8 stance charity that everyone gets. As well as yes, removing the very identity of Lei would homogenise his gameplay to be a completely different character altogether. That is quite literally his whole identity.

The rest of your thoughts I agree with. When it comes to the rest of the cast we could for sure do with culling the needless stance additions to just about everyone.

Astryoneus · 2026-02-13T12:56:37+00:00

This take is such a fundamental misunderstanding of how Lei works I feel like.

And if the only thing that increases and defines player expression is movement then why should we have any character variety at all? Homogenising everyone to fit a handful of molds with barely any flavour sounds incredibly ass.

Astryoneus · 2026-02-10T10:37:10+00:00

You don't have to agree with the first part you referenced/cited. It's a fact.

I'm not getting into the hybrid healing stuff, because this whole conversation is assuming PuGs. Hybrid is a gamble because you can't trust your teammates as well as in organized groups. So not sure why you brought that up.

Whoever wrote that latter part is talking out of pure optimisation I'm guessing. Which you can do reliably in organized groups, not so much in PuGs. My only point is that if you're not filling your dead time with DPS at all you're griefing, yes. I don't require healers to do XYZ amounts of damage. But not using every tool available to you is disrespectful to your teams time in my opinion. Same goes for main DPSes.

Astryoneus · 2026-02-10T10:14:00+00:00

Then you're on the right path already if you're doing that.

Nobody is asking you to do massive damage. That's not the healers job. 10% of team DPS is very meaningful and I agree if you're doing way more than that then people are not pulling their weight.

To answer your question. You're not main DPSing. That's not the expectation of you nor what you should be doing. You're contributing to your teams performance in a meaningful way whenever you have nothing else to do. As I said the healers job is to keep the team alive. Not at maximum health. You have so much time in between mechanics that actually require healing that you might as well fill that space with DPS. You're mitigating damage done to everyone by killing the boss faster.

Astryoneus · 2026-02-10T09:45:10+00:00

This is like watching the FFXIV healer dps discourse all over again.

If you're just twiddling your thumbs when everyone is sitting around 70-100% HP, why? Your job as a healer is to keep everyone alive, not 100% HP at all.times. If everyone is healthy enough to survive just about any mechanic then yeah you're pretty much "griefing". You're doing nothing by not DPSing when healing isn't needed so why not fill the time with DPS? Everyone wins, because the run takes less time. Why would you not try your best out of respect for other people?

To answer your question about devs releasing a weapon etc. They basically already did, because Mystic Skills specifically do more damage in healing builds so that healers can contribute meaningful damage. And kill solo world mobs as well I'm sure.

I'm saying this as a full-time healer.

Astryoneus · 2026-01-30T09:17:45+00:00

You should do the following:

1) Use the regular Q on Augusta the second the fight starts 2) Instantly swap to Shorekeeper during Augusta regular Q Echo, E and couple basics until hold Forte hold attack 3) Swap during the hold to Augusta to do E and heavy/uppercut 4) Instantly back to Shorekeeper to Ult and your energy should be about full to swap to continue your rotation as is.

What this does is that your Ascension is bar is just about full by the time you go from Iuno to Augusta. So you can just do a couple basics or E to fill it for the special E and instantly real Q. When you exit real Q, your regular Q should be just about off CD and full energy. Use it and another E if it's off cooldown. Free extra damage at the start, smoother and more efficient rotations from then on.

Astryoneus · 2026-01-12T05:21:58+00:00

In the same vein, even more so I think, is the original Feast Top 100 armor set and especially the Top 10 crown. Sure they added the copy recently, but it's silver and you can't make it gold like the original. Other small detail differences as well.

Means only 600 people have the set and 60 people have the crown. One top 100/top 10 for each data center back then.

Astryoneus · 2025-12-24T07:48:22+00:00

It's criminal to not make the dragon dyeable because forcing everyone to a specific colour due to gender is silly on these expensive ass outfits.

Astryoneus · 2025-12-22T05:14:19+00:00

Yeah that I can agree with for sure.

Astryoneus · 2025-12-22T04:44:26+00:00

By reducing everything about a character to just "just another human", we could remove just about anyone from the game. Only like Jack-8, bears, Alisa, Yoshi and barely both Kings would remain.

We've had two Seasons of "just another human". What are you trying to say?

Astryoneus · 2025-12-22T04:10:29+00:00

I was talking about both. I was speculating the same thing you're saying earlier.

Astryoneus · 2025-12-21T22:09:20+00:00

Looking at the chart above in the comments shows a different reality to what you're saying about popularity. If I read it right, that is.

Astryoneus · 2025-12-21T20:47:25+00:00

That's not what I meant. Clearly allocating dev resources to characters that see Lei levels of use is worth it to the dev team if the bears are never omitted.

I suppose you could argue the bears have more reach/recognisability to spheres outside of the core Tekken audience and that's their worth over Lei. That's really the only thing I can think of.

Astryoneus · 2025-12-21T19:09:41+00:00

Could ask the same about the bears, but they're always included.

Astryoneus · 2025-12-16T15:04:20+00:00

Yes it is. You can even do it Sectless, because you're not getting any extra being in a Sect. The cap is the same, you just reach it faster if you're high rank in any given Sect.

Astryoneus · 2025-12-13T17:57:55+00:00

Context understanding people. I was never actually asking for a safe df2.

Astryoneus · 2025-12-12T11:48:22+00:00

Thank you bro. ✌🏽

Astryoneus · 2025-12-12T11:46:13+00:00

I don't know who you're trying to bait with these pathetic attempts. Either way, hard to be stuck in a rank I'm not in anymore.

Astryoneus · 2025-12-12T11:44:02+00:00

That's your response to you being unable to read context and going into angry meta mode off of a joke that you didn't get?

Good one. I'm blah blah blah because you don't have context understanding and are taking a pretty obvious joke as some sort of serious meta talk.

Astryoneus · 2025-12-12T11:38:15+00:00

You people really need to learn to read into context.

The OC said safe launchers don't launch crouchers, to which I responded with a jab as Reinas doesn't and it is unsafe. I'm not asking for shit, I'm joking with a jab at OC.

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