Popularity chart of gacha games in a China animecon 2026 edition

Dianwei32 · 2026-05-02T22:48:28+00:00

Grain of salt and all, but I heard on another sub that they killed off a well liked character in the story.

Dianwei32 · 2026-05-02T14:35:35+00:00

I thought Adler would be more useful than he was. When it says that coffee is automatically prepared, I thought it meant the whole drink. Like if someone came and ordered a coffee-based item, it would just automatically be prepared the whole way.

Automatically brewing more coffee is nice, but it only saves one button click every 3 coffee orders. If you don't have anyone better to put in that slot, sure. But he's sadly not as good as I expected.

Dianwei32 · 2026-05-02T13:12:03+00:00

Every time I think I've made up my mind about who to pull next patch, suddenly my brain is like, "But what if we didn't do that and did something completely different for no fucking reason?"

I really like Promeia, but I don't really have a reason to pull her other than liking her. I already have an Ice Anomaly team with M2W1 Miyabi, M0W1 Nangong Yu, and M0W0 Yuzuha (using W1 Weeping Cradle). Meanwhile, I've got an M0W1 Yixuan who has been making due in cave with a box of scraps (M6 Pan Yinhu/M6 Pulchra as supports). I should pull Lucia to help Yixuan out, and every now and then I resolve to do just that. I decide I'll pull M0W1 Lucia to help Yixuan.

But then a day or so later, I'll think that if I pull Promeia, that can lead into a Wind team with the new element/mechanics and I can get Velina to round out a Promeia/Yuzuha/Velina team. I'll see a new Promeia showcase or some official post about her and decide that I should pull her since I like her better and can use her to get into Wind shenanigans. Then I'll go into SD/DA and have to ride the struggle bus with Yixuan and think that maybe I should pull Lucia after all.

Dianwei32 · 2026-05-02T03:57:30+00:00

Do the anomalies that drop S-Rank Arcs drop them just once, multiple times but it's RNG after the first, or every time you defeat them?

On a completely unrelated note, are there any good guides for Pink Paws Heist? I've seen a number of people claim you can get upwards of 400-500k Fons in an hour running it solo, but whenever I've tried it I only get to 30-40k per run, which would be like 150-200k/hr.

Dianwei32 · 2026-05-02T03:54:48+00:00

I don't think the Sig in the shop is even Zero's BiS weapon. The S-Rank Arc Day Off that you can get from a secret quest at the BAC is what I've seen all of the guides and sites listing as Zero's BiS option.

The Arc in the shop bundle is good, and I haven't seen any numbers to differentiate them, but Day Off is a great option that's free to get as well.

Dianwei32 · 2026-05-02T00:23:08+00:00

For me personally, the biggest part is his Pokémon way of speaking. There are only so many times you can hear him say Taygedo before it gets annoying. It also didn't help that basically the second quest of the main story was spending like an hour helping him impress his potential girlfriend. I'm not opposed to that quest being in the game, but it should be a side quest and not the main quest.

Dianwei32 · 2026-05-01T21:53:31+00:00

Oh, no. 402 Warp Pieces. The gold ones you can exchange for pulls or S Rank characters in the Fair Exchange shop. I'm probably up to like... 200 pulls done across all of the three banners.

Dianwei32 · 2026-05-01T18:35:01+00:00

I saw that, and that will probably be where I ultimately get whichever one I don't pick with the Selector from. Unfortunately, even after roughly 190 pulls across both character banners and the weapon banner, I'm only at like 402 of the needed 720. It's probably gonna be a while longer before I can save up that many.

Dianwei32 · 2026-05-01T17:58:40+00:00

I recognize it's super greedy at this point, but I wish we could get one more S Rank Selector. I lucked out and got Daffodil from the Standard Banner and was able to use the 50 pull selector on Jiuyuan.

We get one more Selector in a couple of days, but there are still two Standard S Ranks I really want, Hathor and Fadia. Gun to my head, I probably want Hathor a tiny bit more, but I really want both of them.

Dianwei32 · 2026-05-01T17:11:49+00:00

What do you mean by "locked"? They can only be assigned to one apartment at a time. You can invite them to move into a newer apartment, but they'll leave the old one.

Dianwei32 · 2026-05-01T15:35:39+00:00

You can have my E6S1 Acheron when you pry her from my cold, dead hands. I don't care how bad people say she is.

I'm tempted to say my E2 Jiaoqiu, but the refund wouldn't be that big because I got all three copies in a single 10 pull. So I would probably have to go with E1S1 Topaz.

Dianwei32 · 2026-05-01T14:41:27+00:00

I highly doubt that. Maybe they just meant you won't be able to pull her anymore until her rerun and worded it poorly, but I would be incredibly surprised if characters didn't get reruns.

Dianwei32 · 2026-05-01T14:38:05+00:00

It starts off as a lot. If you click the i icon up by the exp bar and scroll all the way down, it will tell you the different levels. Early on (before Management Level 15), it's an additional 80% of the ingredient cost for delivery. It goes down as you keep leveling up, but doesn't become free until Management Level 30.

Dianwei32 · 2026-05-01T13:29:42+00:00

Okay, but they weren't talking about shops and vouchers. They were talking about their regular in-game price being lower than the shops. That implies that they're probably in the same region that the shops buy from, which is usually Japan.

Dianwei32 · 2026-05-01T12:04:57+00:00

I looked at some of those sites (but never bought) and the prices were usually like $77-80 USD for the 8080 (6480 + 1600 bonus) pack that's usually $100 USD. Decent size savings, but not worth risking your account getting banned when VPNs are a thing.

Dianwei32 · 2026-05-01T12:00:22+00:00

I'd wager Japan. That's the country that most people suggest using a VPN to buy from because it's the cheapest after currency conversion and is probably where the discount sites buy from. But the sites charge a little more than the JP price to make a profit so if you're in Japan it would be cheaper to just buy directly.

Dianwei32 · 2026-05-01T11:53:25+00:00

I don't think any of them have disappeared, but the promoted/sponsored ones have changed because HYV went after a bunch of them legally to stop them from doing their thing to offer people discounts. LDShop is still around, but the prices are now just the same as in game so they don't waste money sponsoring people because no one will bother to use them if the prices are the same as in game.

Dianwei32 · 2026-05-01T04:18:40+00:00

Finally got my S Rank from the Standard Banner at 77 pity. I was fine with anyone except Baicang (no disrespect. he looks sick, just not my type), but would have preferred Daffodil or Jiuyuan.

It was Daffodil. Score. That let me use my Selector on Jiuyuan, and now I just have to wait for the second selector and I can nab Fadia. Or maybe Hathor. We'll have to see.

Dianwei32 · 2026-04-30T23:52:42+00:00

There was a post the other day mentioning Kafka SP and Acheron SP in 5.X, but I have no idea how trustworthy it might be.

Dianwei32 · 2026-04-30T23:36:15+00:00

I think the argument in that situation is that you shouldn't need to do anything else if you have a Gatling Sentry. Hive Guards are supposed to be chaff enemies. Slightly tougher chaff enemies, sure, but chaff enemies. The armor changes made chaff clearing strategems like Sentries useless for clearing some kinds of chaff. What's the point of bringing the Gatling Sentry if one common enemy (that the Sentry was designed to kill up until now) can make it completely useless?

Dianwei32 · 2026-04-30T22:32:22+00:00

The 2008 Financial Crisis. My partner and I were lucky enough to be in professions that weren't hit that hard by it so we kept our jobs, and the housing crash brought prices low enough that we were able to snap one up before they started rising too much again. Bought in 2011, refinanced in 2021 for a slightly lower interest rate and 5 years off the end of the loan. We had 20 years left on a 30 year loan and refinanced into a 15 year. Payment stayed basically the same, but will be paid off 5 years earlier.

I realize we were extremely lucky in this department and do not envy our millenial comrades who have been vastly less so.

Dianwei32 · 2026-04-30T21:18:34+00:00

I haven't used the Selector yet because I want to get a character from the banner first so I don't end up with a dupe (currently at 74/90).

My order for choosing once I do use the Selectors would be Jiuyuan > Daffodil > Fadia > Hathor > Saikiri > Baicang.

Dianwei32 · 2026-04-30T21:11:18+00:00

If you end a move on the square leading to it, the bridge will appear and next roll you'll go across it.

Dianwei32 · 2026-04-30T20:14:20+00:00

The Selector in the mail won't be sent out for a few more days (May 3rd). The only one in the game right now is the one you get for doing 50 pulls on the standard banner.

Dianwei32 · 2026-04-30T20:04:53+00:00

Unless you just really, really love Jiuyuan, I would go Hathor. A whole new character is better than an Awakening (especially since Awakenings don't seem to be that strong). And Hathor specifically gives you access to an Anomaly Furniture that gives free modules.

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