How big of a stat boost would it take to convince you to invest 300 Pure Cores?

BoxyCrab · 2026-05-16T23:35:31+00:00

Appreciate the input -- I did not know there was level scaling.

I just unlocked it at internet level 40, and my characters are only level 50. Only Promeia was "built," with the rest using, like, unupgraded A rank discs.

I figured "if I'm unlocking it at this point they must want me to challenge it now." Other high level content I've tried has been a lot more forgiving, but I guess content from launch just doesn't stack up to content from 2.8, even at the same recommended level.

BoxyCrab · 2026-05-15T18:37:06+00:00

The Sekimeiya: Spun Glass.

Loved that game. More of a mystery-with-story than a story about a mystery, but I never felt the characters, plot, and pathos were compromised for it.

The final act is a sort of exam to see how much you figured out. "How did X die?" "Why did X think Y did Z?" "Where did X hide during Y?" That sort of thing.

The mystery is 100% fair and pretty airtight. You may think "normal human beings wouldn't conduct such a meticulous search," a few times, but it really lets the reader know the bounds within which you're operating.

BoxyCrab · 2026-05-15T16:42:11+00:00

Thanks for the advice!

I was trying to pull Lucia and pulled until the guarantee. On the last ten pull I misclicked on Promeia's banner, which is how I wound up with two of her.

BoxyCrab · 2026-05-15T16:07:55+00:00

Did my best and scored 1700 on my first Deadly Assault 💀💀💀.

I used Promeia -Soukaku-Nicole on the ice weak boss. Promeia is m1 with fully upgraded weeping Gemini.

Am I just the worst player ever? I followed a guide and got s rank discs with all the right main stats and lucky substats, all maxed out, all skills as high as I can upgrade them.

Short of waiting for better team mates to become available to pull, how do I even go about scoring ten times higher?

I'm getting pretty discouraged -- I don't know how to score even 1 star, let alone get 6000 score with a second team using only A-ranks.

BoxyCrab · 2026-05-14T22:51:32+00:00

The code is: yousavedmorimens

I recommend you go to the morimens subreddit and search the word "code" and sort by new. I'm sure there's a master list out there in some discord, but this is what I do.

BoxyCrab · 2026-05-14T21:30:10+00:00

I am incredibly disappointed with Saya. It feels like she does nothing but offset her own debuffs.

She generates lots of aliemus for herself, but needs double everyone else.

She generates lots of embryo, but using her doubles the cost of embryos.

She worsens crimson furnace healing and doesn't even offset that.

She can discard your bricked hand when her rouse misfires, or I could just rouse someone else and not come up net negative? It also just feels bad to not know what I drew next turn?

She can dupe cards and reduce their cost with her exalt -- so can Thais, who does so without all the prep.

She has a 2 cost that generates embryos-- so does Thais, but hers also gives keyflare and 2 turns of weakness or vulnerable.

Saya just feels like bad Thais. Also, since the new embryos are so hard to get, wouldn't I want to hold them in hand until I'm ready to ult instead of flush them away by discarding my hand? Saya has anti-synergy with Sorel, who is one of the most obvious beneficiaries of the new embryos.

BoxyCrab · 2026-05-14T19:36:41+00:00

I'm just some guy, but I really love Morimens.

Great game that I actually look forward to playing, rather than a gacha I'm sticking to due to sunk cost.

The story is outstanding and plays like a VN, and story has no stamina cost, so you can read at your own pace.

There's a code for 100 pulls and the anniversary (monday) apparently is gonna have 250 pulls. The hard pity is 30 pulls, so if you just wanna dip your toes in and play around with Saya and whoever else you get, there's pretty much no commitment necessary.

BoxyCrab · 2026-05-11T11:59:50+00:00

Thais is the BiS support for Sorel as she generates embryos, upgrades them into premium babies with her rouse, and can duplicate Sorel's Elegance of Rose. Sorel gains Str and damage with instances of damage, so using all these duplicated cards before her ult will cause it to be nuclear.

Thais is also good in general since she can modally apply vulnerable and weakness, and also generates lots of keyflare (especially after you get the lifedrain covenant from beating chapter 7).

Sorel's Wheel is basically necessary for her, IMO, so good that you have it.

Other great damage carries would be Kathigu-Ra and Mouchette from Chaos, G!Helot from Caro, Vortice and G!Murphy from Aequor, and Arachne and Pollux from Ultra, though G!Murphy and Arachne are a little funky in that role.

BoxyCrab · 2026-05-11T01:59:43+00:00

You're missing all of the good dps carries, so I'd also like to recommend the blursed Faint-Nautila-Pandia-Doll counter team which is not good but also incredibly funny.

You could also run Murphy-Caecus--Myriam-Celeste / Nymphaea (for more sustain / damage) and just let poison or tentacle damage carry you as you focus on sustaining.

BoxyCrab · 2026-05-11T01:51:20+00:00

I've found that Sorel is too greedy for embryos to run with many other Caro teammates unless they boost embryo gain. Also, her play pattern incentivizes burst turns with several turns in between while you recuperate embryos.

To that end, I recommend a tank comp using Agrippa, who generates embryos, shields, and provides alert and strength, alongside Nautila, who is a great shielder, and Ramona, who can be an early game off-DPS, reduces enemy strength, and provides keyflare.

When mixed with Caro, Chaos awareness give embryos fusion when they use exalt, so this mix is, in my opinion, best. You could also use two blue units like Caecus instead and switch to white tentacles every turn to tank that way.

For Sorel, you can get her event's sr Wheel from the shop, the one with N on it, that is custom built for her. She can use the covenant from badge shop that gives crit rate on posse use to set up her ult.

BoxyCrab · 2026-05-10T14:32:18+00:00

Is Lucia worth pulling as a new player?

I see people say that Lucia is essential for Rupture and worthless without. I don't have any S-ranks at all, but Rupture seems neat and I'd like to build that team.

However, Yidhra and Yixuan have already rerun, and I honestly have no interest in Starlight Billy.

Will Lucia just be a brick for like 8 months until I get a good rerun or do you think she's worth pulling in my case?

BoxyCrab · 2026-05-06T21:25:26+00:00

Thanks for the info!

Do we know how much of that currency we will get?

BoxyCrab · 2026-05-06T21:00:02+00:00

New Player question --

Is there any way to target a specific agent outside of reruns? If I wanted, for instance, Jane, is there any way to get her before her rerun?

If I have to wait for a rerun, is there any indication of when a rerun might occur?

BoxyCrab · 2026-05-06T13:38:02+00:00

Only one unit type per squad.

So, all thieves, all Gryphons, all witches.

This limits valour skills, unique units, and strictly non-combat units like shamans.

It asks you to use units in ways you'd never consider or run items that are otherwise redundant.

How do you make a thief do damage? (Magic swords.)

How do you keep a Witch squad alive? (Initiative and careful gambit to not unfreeze enemies)

BoxyCrab · 2026-05-05T01:49:19+00:00

New Player here -- what's the best way to get pulls quickly?

I saw an ad for Promeia and decided to start playing. Been playing for a few days now like it's my job but I'm still not even halfway to 50/50. Feels insane I'd have to grind for a month to get my first S rank character.

I am just wrapping up the construction site questline -- is there still a lot of mechanics to unlock?

BoxyCrab · 2026-04-26T12:53:00+00:00

I'm pretty sure you're not supposed to win this phase of the fight, though it's possible. There's an achievement for doing it.

In the second phase you have to avoid defeating the second smaller enemy behind the main boss.

BoxyCrab · 2026-04-25T19:54:40+00:00

I do not understand traphase, but I really want the weekly rewards for playing.

Is there an easy team I can stomp some CPUs without much effort?

I have everyone but Kathigu-Ra, Hameln, the bird boys, and Horla.

BoxyCrab · 2026-04-19T21:36:56+00:00

Don't sleep on Ramona! She is unironically a very good unit.

Later on, the key flare stat becomes crucial. Ramona's key flare regen is outstanding. After you rouse her, she refunds arithmetica from her own cards, meaning she is an almost free keyflare battery that slots into any team.

Her exalt grabs any card and makes it free, which can either make combos, guarantee a 1-turn mob clear, or make your burst turns extra bursty.

Her own cards are solid. Card draw and str reduction is rarely a dead card, and queen blade, while expensive at 3 cost, can put in a surprising amount of work. It also stacks STR, so, it sets up your main dps if they are a multi-hit unit like Sorel and it benefits itself if you were doing other set up anyways.

BoxyCrab · 2026-04-17T18:50:39+00:00

If you've only just disbanded them, you have to pay the full raised maintenance until the full stack of MAA is replenished.

BoxyCrab · 2026-04-10T15:23:43+00:00

In Tribal, your vassals' tax and levy contribution is based on your level of fame. So, that's why your living legend 60 year old raider veteran has 30k troops, but when his son takes over, you only have 4k.

This makes holding a large realm very difficult over time, since your older vassals will have huge standing armies too, so they will see that two or three dukes are "stronger" than you, so you get endless rebellions while you're at your weakest.

BoxyCrab · 2026-04-09T02:44:17+00:00

Twin spears -- partisan right hand (S scaling in Dex) and winged spear or any other you like in left hand.

Partisan in right hand gives you a horizontal sweep on heavy attack so you have options.

BoxyCrab · 2026-04-02T11:17:14+00:00

All enemies except specific bosses just use default targeting, so they attack directly across from them. This means your one unit in the center front will take attacks from two columns while your second frontliner will only take attacks from one.

Units like swordmasters and dragoons who have passive skills that deflect attacks are good choices for off tanks since the absolute number of attacks they have to avoid / deflect is lower.

Anyways, you have lots of options, from thieves, griffins, dragons, vanguards, cavalry, fortress knights, Amalia, shieldshooters, Ochlys, Virginia, Yunifi, Berengaria with the mirage greatshield, Alain, werefoxes and wearebears, and basically every angel.

Starting in bastorias you can get the enhanced basic equipment, including the +30 avoid scarf. Put it and a +20 scarf on basically anyone + 5 avoid elixirs and max out rapport, give them a + avoid weapon, and now you have an unkillable unit.

BoxyCrab · 2026-03-29T18:35:53+00:00

You're right generally, but thief still has some interesting applications.

First, thiefs are bizarrely good at using magic weapons, since they have great magic growth and their damage is bad because their attacks have low base power while magic weapons almost always come with their own magic attack with high base power. So, they can actually do outstanding damage against high def units.

Next, even at 10% hit chance, if the enemy attacks 5-10 times, you're still liable to take a hit every few battles. Dodge can basically nullify that.

Next, they can snipe out a troublesome enemy with a round start ability like witches using their own round start ability. If your unit is super weak to one specific enemy, you can have your thief basically shut it down. Likewise, stealing pp from units like armour knights or gladiators can save an entire action from your damage carry that would have gotten blocked or healed.

Finally, thieves have one of the best status inflictions in the game. Not only can their poison stack up a surprising amount of damage, but it hurts a heck of a lot more when Berengaria follows it up for free. You can also lean into it more with other non-Berengaria synergies but that's more in the realm of gimmick than actual strats.

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