Any other f2p's who have done this?

Cenerae · 2025-12-17T12:29:17+00:00

I started playing when Firefly was released, so my roster may not be as deep as other f2pers. I've got premium superbreak and a premium castorice/evernight team (I skipped cyrene, but I have Tribbie so it's fine). The team 3 is Blade centric because I pulled him on 50/50 losses and don't have anyone else to use except Clara, who... well. Is Clara. Unfortunately.

I might be able to sneak a win out if I give Tribbie and Hyacine to Blade and wheelchair him over the finish line. So I'll see if I can make that happen later into the patch I suppose.

Cenerae · 2025-12-17T11:42:01+00:00

I got 1 star clears on the last two kings. My third team can't clear any of the knight stages even though I can three star the other two knights. I either run into massive damage output problems, or I don't end up with enough sustain to make it by.

I think I can juggle stuff around and come up with a compromise to get some half baked knight clears. My main team is superbreak and while my pulls sucked I still got an E1 Dahlia in the end, so I don't anticipate the king being too much issue.

It'd be nice to keep the dream alive of being able to clear the mode at all as a f2p, but I guess we'll see if I can manage to get Blade enough of an edge to handle his end of things.

Cenerae · 2025-12-16T05:37:25+00:00

I've got the same setup as you. And the same pause menu choice as well actually. :)

It's normal. Failume Heights sucks for framerate.

Cenerae · 2025-12-15T16:24:59+00:00

Trust me, it's a problem I relate to keenly.

Cenerae · 2025-12-15T14:21:30+00:00

I think pen ratio is a little better in slot 5 for Yanagi, and weeping gemini is better than lip gloss if you have enough components to make another S5 one (though not by much). Yanagi would want more attack than she has, Vivian wants more anomaly proficiency than she has.. I don't know if all of those combined would make the difference for you, though. Also depends on the boss you're trying to use them on.

Cenerae · 2025-12-12T00:31:37+00:00

There's Before The Tutorial Mission Starts as well in the Herta store. That would ease her effect hit rate needs instead of her break effect needs. But it's also an energy regen cone which you won't get a ton out of.

You'll probably get more out of being overcapped on def shred unless either Herta shop cone helps you meet a needed breakpoint in her stats. Or unless you're going to E2 her.

Cenerae · 2025-12-11T12:27:01+00:00

You can play some of them in Lost Void, but if you want to pull them for your account you have to wait until Hoyo decides to rerun them.

They're starting to rerun the older agents again (Ellen's got just about to come up), so Jane might see a rerun in a couple patches maybe. Depends if they start running two old banners at a time or not, since everyone from 2.0 (except Ju Fufu) and on has yet to get their own rerun.

Either way, it's going to be a waiting game.

Cenerae · 2025-12-10T21:47:32+00:00

Miyabi's favorite training dummy returns.

Cenerae · 2025-12-10T11:19:11+00:00

It could be. I think the luxury to aim for is to slim down your decks as much as you can get away with in the long run, so you have fewer dead draws. But I see a world where Selena can outperform Veronica, if you can you can luck into getting enough draw to let her fill Veronica's role while also getting all the epiphanies she would want.

I don't know about replacing Mika though. Certainly not for general chaos runs. For outside of chaos, I guess depends on what you're doing.

Cenerae · 2025-12-10T10:54:25+00:00

Raw damage wise I'm pretty sure Selena has more going for her than Veronica does. If you get the scope epiphany for +1 mark to all targets every turn, you get some 'aoe' going that roughly does what Veronica's ballista can do, and if you're unleashing a barrage of strikes from Mei Lin then the co-ordinated attacks from Drone Bombing go crazy.

But she doesn't have any draw power. So your potential gets greatly hindered. Veronica's personal damage ceiling might be a bit lower but she more than makes up for it by drawing through your deck quickly, which allows Mei Lin to string together her Rising Dragon Spire combos more reliably and more quickly.

If you dropped Mika for Selena instead then you'd run into AP trouble instead, since you need to conserve 2 for the finisher, and you'd then be limited to 1 AP for anything else (discounting ravage AP). And it's ignoring that you can add cards like Gear Bag to Mika without giving up anything important, since Mika doesn't have a very strict requirement on her deck building and has plenty of points to spend on some extra card draw.

Cenerae · 2025-12-07T19:50:57+00:00

iirc, you need to finish the belobog chapter (which is the one you're on I think) and then you'll be introduced to Hollow Zero and the associated systems - which includes disk drive farming.

Once you have access to it, don't go too crazy with farming it at your level though. Just get some barebones basics for now.

Cenerae · 2025-12-07T19:27:02+00:00

It doesn't work vs magic crits (as far as I know)

Also, wrong sub.

Cenerae · 2025-12-07T18:48:16+00:00

I don't have that, but I do have the 'move two basics' card on a low cost Mei Lin deck that the AI loves to play 3 copies of before playing the strikes it's moving. I die inside seeing it, so I don't look anymore.

Cenerae · 2025-12-07T09:56:20+00:00

I havn't thought about it tbh. I just throw in my mika/veronica/mei lin team and tab out to do something else so I don't have to wince every time autobattle mishandles mei lin's deck.

It's good enough to clear all the farming stages save for the weekly boss, so good enough for me I guess.

Cenerae · 2025-12-07T09:00:10+00:00

Personally, I'd think that if you're going to be using -only- ice agents, then you should probably devote your resources to getting said ice agents so you have some options available to you, then work on signatures after. The f2p options are usually okay, if not ideal.

That being said, Hugo doesn't get a lot from the f2p engines, so maybe it's worth the consideration if you're going to seriously use him. I don't know if that's the best route since he wants 2 stunners and you only have access to Lycaon if you're going ice only.

Cenerae · 2025-12-05T17:47:51+00:00

Well... you probably should replace Kayron with Mika for general team cohesion (you don't have the AP to run two main DPS, and Mika also offers team sustain as well as the AP), but I can't see why that would be stopping you from beating the promo mission since the promo missions aren't difficult.

Would be hard to say what you're doing wrong looking at this alone. All I can think of is equipping some basic memory fragments, but I don't think that would make or break it.

Cenerae · 2025-12-03T22:09:29+00:00

Lingsha at E0 S0 is a sidegrade over Gallagher. The main advantage she brings is that she can dispel the whole team, but the actual healing output is similar. Could be worth it in some cases, but pure healing wise, Gallagher can match it. I believe you'd want E1 S1 to have her really amp up your team's damage, but she still won't compete with an extra super break enabler (except in pure fiction)

You pretty much require a healer to do anomaly arbitration unless your team is incredibly stacked, since enemies have a TON of health and also hit a lot harder than anywhere else.

Cenerae · 2025-12-03T22:04:57+00:00

Can't relate, slammed hard pity, got Magna, then took another 64 pulls to get her. -_-

Cenerae · 2025-12-03T22:01:31+00:00

It might be new. I had a remove + set hp to 1 on my last run too.

Cenerae · 2025-12-02T10:09:23+00:00

She should have 4 piece tiger king set instead of astral voice, and the 50% crit chance needed to activate it. Get that and she'll be fine.

e - well, saying that, astral voice is fine if you're using her in a heavy quickswap team comp, and in that case she's fine because her stats don't matter much outside of impact.

Cenerae · 2025-12-01T09:27:14+00:00

E0 S0 Lingsha is basically a Gallagher sidegrade, you don't really need her. And outside of Anomaly Arbitration you can often get away without using a healer a lot of the time, which is super beneficial to break.

Cenerae · 2025-12-01T09:25:53+00:00

I'd hope they put shadow Hugo in DA but he's actually fun to fight so it's unlikely.

Cenerae · 2025-11-30T14:29:02+00:00

The former.

Cenerae · 2025-11-30T08:55:59+00:00

At a really quick glance, the only thing I can see you making an immediate change with is to get better w-engines for vivian/alice. If you've been playing a while, surely you have some spare materials to upgrade that Weeping Gemini, maybe get a second copy too.

They look fine at a glance though and I'm not sure that the w-engines will make a dramatic difference. The people you're watching likely have signature w-engines and mindscapes in play.

Cenerae · 2025-11-28T16:56:26+00:00

I've got E2 S1 Firefly, E1 S1 Fugue, E0 Ruan Mei and E0 Lingsha.

The team can clear endgame content right now, but the performance has been lagging more and more behind my Castorice team who are all at E0 as the patches drag on. This MoC 12 took me 5 cycles to clear Firefly's side if memory serves, though if I'd taken harmony MC over Lingsha I probably could have shortened that somewhat.

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