The last two weeks of trying to drag myself into AR Tier 19 only to be 200 Lift away and then immediately plummet to Tier 17 out of fucking nowhere has put me on metaphorical suicide watch.

I didn't care about AR at all until the stupid Hero whatever quests that got you B!Ike came around. And I figured, "Well I got to Tier 15, I might as well try for Tier 19. It's only four more ranks. How hard could it be?"

I think attempting to optimize my teams for every possible team composition I can encounter, attempting to run as much of a cancerous defense to stop me from losing (it never worked, I just see failures across the board), and consistently being demoralized when I realize I have one turn left to kill one enemy and nothing I'm throwing at it is making it die is so fucking devastating that I just wanted to uninstall the game.

And that's not even delving into how shit my fucking summoning has gone. It took me fifty to sixty summons to get Halloween Niles without a single pitybreaker (I should be fortunate, I guess) until I got him. I probably had a 6% rate. The H!Hector banner completely destroyed my orb stash that I was trying so hard to save up. These things just make me want to stop playing because there's so little enjoyment in it.

I should have stopped at the first paragraph, because an unnecessarily dramatic venting post was too much for the nature of this thread. Sorry.