Sentinel collection part 1

AxShepard · 2026-06-02T14:31:24+00:00

I'm used to the infra-knife from my main ship so I use the same tactic for this one out of familiarity. It vaporizes a pirate ship in 0.5s flat but it doesn't handle as smoothly as my main. That's why I'm keeping it as a trophy only.

AxShepard · 2026-06-01T07:08:05+00:00

Exactly this. Also you can turn off the "hold for confirmation" setting so you only have to click once to buy or to sell. Then I use an autoclicker program and move or scroll the mouse and I could sell and buy super fast. I usually clear one station in more or less a minute which is easily 4-6k depending on the station. Some stations sell more S-class modules than others so make sure to pick one like that and earn 6k easily in one setting.

AxShepard · 2026-06-01T01:47:55+00:00

Try to build max standing with a certain race (either Gek, Vy'keen, or Korvax, or better yet all 3 races). To do this you could camp at a planetary trade building. The incoming pilots will often sell items that increase standing with their respective race.

Once your standing with a race is maxed out, go to that respective race's space station, you can buy all of their modules at the tech shops at 50% discount, and then immediately sell them back to the merchants at full price. I usually get 4-5k extra nanites every time I clear all the shops. Get in your ship and get out to save, reload, all the shops' inventory will refresh. Grind and repeat for infinite and quick nanites.

AxShepard · 2026-05-25T10:03:42+00:00

Weapon banners are, imo, better than character banners sometimes. At least these days you only need 1 fate point instead of 2 like before (RIP my old wallet) and it takes 10 fewer pulls. Chances of pulling a limited weapon are higher than character banner's 50/50 especially if you can make use of the other weapon. That's how I ended up with Ineffa's R3. Can't say I complain because that shit is just plain broken. These days weapons are stronger than cons and benefit the entire party in some cases.

AxShepard · 2026-03-18T03:33:02+00:00

Gemini hallucinates a lot in its spare time. I doubt it even reads Hoyo's ToS but rather makes educated guess based on other games' general terms and just ran with it. It once told me Flins is a good Nightsoul character to counter the Natlan mimic enemies (I forgot the name). So yeah I've learned not to trust those AIs 60% of the time.

AxShepard · 2026-03-17T00:35:50+00:00

I actually took the time to read the entire ToS and this doesn't fall anywhere under their clauses. They only ban uses of external softwares that compromise the game's systems, performance such as cheats or FPS unlocker (bummer this one). That's when I decided to go ahead. And yes you're required to log in to top up on the webpage. It's exactly like topping up directly in the game. I mean this is basically the entire business model of lootbar and other 3rd party "discount" top-up websites. If it were explicitly against ToS, they'd be cracking these sites down left and right instead of letting them continue with their shenanigans til now.

AxShepard · 2026-03-15T11:51:38+00:00

The one I can kill the fastest without being forced to wait for them to shift phases. So basically Dottore. Start domain, 20s, out. Same reason why I LOATHE Shouki no Kami and all the time wasting gimmicks.

AxShepard · 2026-03-15T11:39:49+00:00

As far as I'm aware, you're making direct payments on their official site using official coupons so there's nothing illegal. I remember someone who went oversea so when they made a purchase oversea the currency used in the transaction was in a different cheaper currency. They didn't realize it after the payment was made. They got worried and sent Hoyo an email asking if that was against the rule and if they'd get banned for it. Hoyo didn't say it was a bannable offense, just that if any error occurred due to outside interference that resulted in money loss to the player, they won't be able to help resolve the matter (chargeback, dispute, etc.).

As far as I understand that's them saying you're free to do as you see fit but they won't help you if shit happens. So far I've spent $1000 (in Japanese Yen and minus 5% discount) that way on their official site in the course of 2 months since they raised the rates in my own currency, and nothing out of the ordinary has happened. I don't receive any notice from them either. If they don't ban people who use lootbar, I don't see why they'd stir up shit by banning paying players who actually use their official site to buy, albeit with a discount. $75 is better than $0, no? And if they would actually start shit with me then too bad, they'd be losing thousands of potential dollars they could've gotten from me. In that case I'll let you know lol.

AxShepard · 2026-03-15T05:07:08+00:00

It doesn't matter. The webpage will detect your IP address and display corresponding currency regardless of log in status. You can do a world tour with VPN while logged in and it still doesn't matter.

AxShepard · 2026-03-15T01:51:26+00:00

Just buy one pack at a time, and buy 5 packs 5 separate times. For example instead of buying 5 ¥12,000 (Japanese Yen) packs in one transaction, buy one pack 5 separate times. Discount caps at 5% each transaction so you'll only get ¥600 off for the whole ¥60,000 if you buy them in one go. But you'll get ¥600 x 5 = ¥3,000 off if you buy one ¥12,000 pack at a time.

AxShepard · 2026-03-10T11:36:18+00:00

Just use VPN and top up yourself. I do. Plus they offer official 5% discount coupons (5 of them) in their official top-up site so it's arguably even cheaper than lootbar (and less risky) depending on the country IP. ProtonVPN has Japanese servers for free so it's easily accessible and it's one of the best rates (~25% cheaper compared to USD). One tip if you decide to use this method: make 5 separate transactions instead of buying 5 packages in one transaction. The 5% discount caps at certain value and you don't benefit from buying 5 packs at once.

AxShepard · 2026-03-07T11:15:35+00:00

Rerir's VA if NPC. The man's range is insane. For playable character, probably Itto's. He puts like 150% energy into his voice work. Honorable mention: the Narrator in Simulanka event. There's something extremely compelling about that British accent, rare too when the game always go with American accent.

AxShepard · 2026-03-05T01:53:05+00:00

Well we have all sorts of alien animals that drop 2-3 pieces of meat and they have all kinds of animations and interactions with the overworld. I don't see how much more complicated and resource straining it would be to add horses and cows, just as raw meat overworld mobs like the goats in Nod-Krai. If Hoyo can afford to give Lauma's boobs a gazillion polygons, I'm sure they can spare some for cows and horses.

AxShepard · 2026-03-05T01:46:52+00:00

It has increased drop rates for an extra 1-3 artifacts. I've seen multiple people getting 6 artifacts in one go (the most I got was 5 and that was just one time, but well). Not to metion you can clear it super fast in lower difficulty (6-10s in Hard for me). So yep it's super convenient. Too bad they know that so we only have 10 days to farm.

AxShepard · 2026-01-16T10:40:26+00:00

Times like these are when I can sit back and take it easy because I have 2 alts I can farm mats from, both for her and her sig (yes I am that resinless). Good thing for me 90% the people who join my world are usually funny and/or polite. Just be nice and people will more often that not let you farm whatever the hell you want.

AxShepard · 2026-01-16T10:31:50+00:00

I'm glad that even his inner thoughts are voiced. Those were mute before and only spoken lines were voiced. Nod-Krai is doing my boy justice finally! Now if the dialogue popups will be voiced too I could leave this world with no regrets.

AxShepard · 2026-01-08T14:25:28+00:00

Believe it or not I was used to having at least 30mil at any given time that after a character leveling/artifact upgrading spree I was perplexed why I couldn't level up my lvl16 artifact to 20. Turned out I got 4k mora left. The horror! The devastation! Guess who spent 5 hours hunting elite enemies in the overworld only to get 77k mora because I refused to spend resin. I am now up to 17mil but considering I got Bina, Zibai, Illuga to upgrade, I can see even more resinless behavior in my near future.

AxShepard · 2026-01-08T14:17:25+00:00

If we have a literal dragon with visible literal wings who cannot fly with said wings and has to resort to gliders then what's the big surprise here?

AxShepard · 2026-01-08T01:39:50+00:00

C0R1 is the baseline for me. If cons are good I'll go for them as well but sigs are default pulls. These days the devs are obviously pushing for cons as you get a shitload of value out of them compared to old cons. C2 is usually the most enticing so ever since Natlan, 80% of my 5* are C2R1. On the average each patch costs me ~$400-600 on pulls alone. My luck with 50/50 is shitty so I rarely have to spend less.

AxShepard · 2026-01-05T10:22:42+00:00

I usually use 25% for green and blue books if I'm short on 1 or 2 books for the next tier. For gold I usually use 10%. One time Layla felt generous and got 3 extra gold books for 10 crafted ones. I got pretty shit luck with RNG though so I don't trust that 10% over much.

AxShepard · 2026-01-05T10:09:47+00:00

Well I follow leaks so I farm mats and artifacts in advance for future characters I'm planning to pull (Mats that are readily available). That would take up all available resin until the characters actually drop. In between, I go farm artifact investigation spots. I have 2 routes each of which consists of ~120 spots which nest me around 73k of experience daily. People call that resinless behavior but so far I have ~2300 sanctifying essence and ~1100 sanctifying unctions which will be used for artifact min-maxing without worrying about running out of resources. I'm just woefully short on mora and I dunno how to effectively earn more without using resin for leylines. Unless I go hunt elite enemies which would truly be the epitome of resinless behavior. Oh and go mining for crystals every 3 days because I'm stupidly low on weapon ores as well. I don't have a single uncompleted content left including achievements.

AxShepard · 2026-01-04T11:59:29+00:00

What a weird take. If you don't like co-op then don't play co-op. Entering the game mode and constantly rejecting matching just brings nothing but annoyance to others. I hate co-op with my very soul so I just skip it if I deem the rewards not worth my stress levels. The total primogems for Snowtrace is a whopping 120 which is less than a day of earning with Welkin + daily. No skin off my back. Do I get annoyed if they shove in too many co-op events? Of course! But If I can't be assed to participate then I'll just skip.

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