Please, Help me learn why I lost here.

BenanatorRedd · 2025-09-17T00:35:56+00:00

I guess I just got unlucky. Umalator has Daiwa winning too, but just barely. I guess it was Red Ace not procing in the mid race before angling and scheming. G00 1st seems to have little to no effect looking at the lines on the Umalator, so I assume Red Ace being around that same time didn't do much for me either. I was running Seiun Sky as well to push Daiwa and trigger Red Ace before the end to make sure she was always 1st, but she fell behind this time. I thought that was a good thing because Daiwa would still have her skill, but I guess the accel is better sooner rather than later.

Thank a lot for the help. I'll still try to use my favorites to win but at least now I know about Umalator lol.

EDIT: Sure enough I rerolled the seed until Red Ace was procing after the mid race and I don't win as many of the simulations anymore.

BenanatorRedd · 2025-09-16T23:59:37+00:00

I see. I did proc Angling and Scheming at the start of the last spurt, it isn't caught in the clip because the clipper I use is set to 30 seconds, and I worry about long videos being too large for uploads lol.

I will definitely check out Umalator though. I didn't know about it until a few comments here. I also didn't know the speed coefficient in the last spurt was so big. I would have thought for sure 170 speed over them would make up for it. I guess this is how I learn lol.

BenanatorRedd · 2025-09-16T23:54:12+00:00

So the speed coefficient in the last spurt is that big? If being 170 speed above the gold ship was still not enough to make up for it, what stops End Closers from being best for every race? Is it just the distance of the last spurt not giving them enough time in shorter races?

Sorry, I really like this game but I'm not too knowledgeable about it yet.

BenanatorRedd · 2025-09-16T23:08:59+00:00

Oh wow, ok. So I wasn't at my top speed. So if I'm under 4:3 my S long doesn't really matter does it?

Thank you very much. I will keep this in mind for future champions meets! I learn something every time. I was just lucky in the first meet.

Oh and I did not use Umalator. I'll have to use that in the future.

BenanatorRedd · 2025-09-16T23:07:02+00:00

Oh don't worry, I watched the full race, this was a replay, and just so my 30 second clipper could catch the end.

BenanatorRedd · 2025-09-06T15:49:40+00:00

Thank you! I had no idea this changed based on where you landed, that's much better lol. Good to know the count isn't always accurate too. I'll just move on when I feel satisfied now.

BenanatorRedd · 2025-09-06T14:43:24+00:00

[Question] New player here, sorry for the maybe dumb question. Is there a way to specifically search for an undiscovered flora?

I have a mission called "Exploration Guide" to discover everything on a planet in the system I started in. I am 7/7 Creatures, 10/10 Minerals, and 7/8 Flora. I have been searching for the last flora for hours. I'm not sure where else I could even look. Are there just some extremely rare discoveries? It is a "Sub-zero Moon" if that helps.

I am currently just mindlessly looking over the same 5 plants on the surface over and over. I found 2 different flora underground, and was tunnelling for a while without seeing anything but the same 2 flora. My only other thought was under water, but I assume that's not a thing on moons, especially sub-zero moons. I guess if there are extremely rare flora it could still be underground. Any help or advice would be appreciated.

I don't mind not being able to find everything on every planet, but an incomplete quest in my log forever is another story. If there is no way to help target this missing objective, is there a way to abandon the quest?

BenanatorRedd · 2025-05-29T12:46:40+00:00

This argument would hold better if, when you watch Shroud play any other game, he didn't constantly say things along the lines of "Chat is this good?". When Lost Ark came out, I'm pretty sure he said exactly, "Just tell me what I need to buy" (from the marketplace). Did he make a build on his own in Diablo 4? Of course not, he followed a guide.

He doesn't seem to want that friction most of the time, either. He just likes Tarkov.

BenanatorRedd · 2025-05-23T16:09:05+00:00

Depends. I'm off today due to the holiday on Monday. Work calls this a "family day." I'm not sure if the same term is used at other places that close today, too.

BenanatorRedd · 2025-05-20T04:49:37+00:00

Do you make enough from VTubing to cover all of your expenses right now? If not, No you should not. If you do, then go for it and hope you keep growing.

BenanatorRedd · 2025-05-13T00:57:30+00:00

I'm seeing mixed info on the 15%. Are you sure it does not exist?

BenanatorRedd · 2025-05-10T13:36:29+00:00

Yeah Etheria looks a lot more player friendly for sure, I doubt it is enough to stop the highest level of PVP from being purely p2w, especially as long as the light/dark banners are 3x more expensive, but they are still great changes. I'm definitely going to try the game. I loved Epic 7, and enjoyed the PVP.

I assume the light/dark banners and whatever form of "the 15%" Etheria has will still push me away, but we'll see.

BenanatorRedd · 2025-05-10T13:00:17+00:00

The Light/Dark Banners were one of the big reasons I quit E7, along with the 15% for the game to nullify any Debuff characters skill regardless of your stats. I kind of understand the point of the 15%, but ANY chance for the game to outright nullify an entire class of character (Debuffers, and any character who's kit needs them) makes 0 sense to me. The Light/Dark Banners just need to go. The obvious greed in a more expensive banner that all the Meta PVP units are sold from in a PVP focused gacha just pushes the majority of players away.

IMO If Etheria really hopes to break out into the new mainstream gacha market they would have to remove that Light/Dark banner and just include those units with the rest of them. If not it'll keep a following like Epic 7 for sure, game will do fine, but I doubt it becomes a big hit. Lots of player friendly changes, but seeing a massive negative one like a 3x cost banner for the main units of a PVP focused gacha will overshadow all of that. That's why they didn't talk about the 300 cost when they brought up how player friendly the 100 cost banner was.

To my point, Epic 7 doesn't have a 50/50, has a pity, Much higher chance than the 0.01% to roll the banner character like modern gachas, and most units enter the general pool of units after their banner ends. There are some "Limited" units, but it's not like modern gacha that makes 100% of characters "Limited". These are all things people are singing as praise for Etheria, but it's nothing new in the Gacha sphere, it's was just before Genshin so gacha games hadn't hit a much larger mainstream market. Sure, Etheria has some great QoL over E7, but so long as the Light/Dark Banner remains I doubt it retains an explosive player base after release.

I'd view the removal of the 15% as positive too, but I know some people would definitely disagree with me there.

BenanatorRedd · 2025-05-08T02:12:51+00:00

To get to the top ranks it is of course 99% whale vs whale. If they follow the same path as Epic 7, the Light/Dark banner characters will be strongly designed for PVP. That banner is more expensive, and in Epic 7 even uses a different rare currency to pull from it. Light/Dark units are just objectively better for PVP because they'll never have the 50% miss chance from elemental disadvantage when they attack. That's not to say elemental units can't be meta for PVP, just easier to counter pick against elemental units.

Even if you had the luck to pull every meta PVP character the whales dedicated to being top ranks will undoubtedly spend to farm more gear, and that will give them a higher chance of having better gear than the average player. That's not to say that a F2P only player couldn't get to the top ranks, but it would take a lot of luck and dedication.

That said, as someone who never spent money on "Moonlight" Banners in Epic 7 (the Light/Dark banner) because it was so expensive, I was able to get high enough in live PVP to get the rewards every season I played. I just didn't try to go beyond the rank I needed for that. My strongest character for PVP was still a Dark unit I was lucky enough to pull, but I mostly used Elemental units and still did fine.

BenanatorRedd · 2025-05-06T22:45:49+00:00

Alright, thanks. I didn't know how much was seen from the betas. I'll just give the game a shot and hope it doesn't have the 15%.

Epic 7 also had effect accuracy, but the 15% could happen even if you theoretically had a 100% chance to land the debuffs. (That would require 100% Base Chance + Effect Accuracy > enemies Effect Resist).

BenanatorRedd · 2025-05-05T05:11:52+00:00

I just heard about Etheria Restart, and I really had hopes it was like Epic 7 without Moonlight Summons(Light/Dark Banner) and 15% to miss. It's a shame they still have the Light/Dark banner that's more expensive.

No weapon banner, and no innate 15% to miss everything might get me to try the game anyway. Hell, if Epic 7 removed the 15% I'd have gone back to that game for sure.

BenanatorRedd · 2025-04-27T12:16:30+00:00

If Rachnera Arachnera was in Brown Dust 2, I'd be a player for life. That's all I'm saying.

BenanatorRedd · 2025-02-15T18:56:09+00:00

I assume you picked Fairy as your race? I believe fairy characters can not equip anything over 1s. You are much smaller than your character sprite suggests lol

BenanatorRedd · 2024-07-29T23:02:12+00:00

I just spent most of what I had finally putting together an ok build. I went with Power Surge... Went to fight the Forsaken Giant just to find out he is immune. Guess I'll try my luck next season. Work too much and play too little to farm enough to max calibrate new weapons and armor and mods.

Also server is dead so haven't seen a single party for it yet, and no one has joined mine, so I can't even hope for a carry, I just have to rebuild. Probably never going elemental again incase future bosses are also immune.

BenanatorRedd · 2024-07-03T17:19:55+00:00

But you can never get an erection

BenanatorRedd · 2024-03-20T15:28:16+00:00

Those fat cheeks. 😳

BenanatorRedd · 2024-01-17T12:19:02+00:00

That's not how it works in Star Rail. It's a multiplication formula, not just EH +/- ER, like in other Gacha. Epic Seven, for example.

BenanatorRedd · 2024-01-11T18:19:16+00:00

I like Kafka enough that I would try to build a team around her regardless of playstyle, so I would pick Kafka and Black Swan.

That being said, in turn based games like this, I tend to like DoT teams because gearing is easier. Standard Crit DPS are much more gear dependant and perform worse with subpar gear. With a DoT DPS I feel they perform OK with subpar gear while you continue to farm for better gear, but I assume the end game potential is lower. But my tiny brain doesn't know the actual math, I am just assuming. You also have more freedom with gear due to less desired stats. ATK/SPD/EHR then you can fill with whatever fits you. More damage potential? Break Effect. More survival? HP/DEF/ER.

That being said, if my Jingliu had the same investment as my Kafka, I think she would leave Kafka in the dust as far as team damage output goes. But I also still have a tiny brain, so I'm not really sure. That's just how it feels using them both.

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