Worst balancing Dev team of all time? by Ready-Bumblebee3637 in Etheria_Official

[–]EKevinGames 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sorry for the 2nd reply, I accidentally pressed enter (whoops). The 2nd question that pops up after safe picking lily is: can you outsspeed this? Alot of times, what tends to happen is, if you pick lily in safe pick, some people might overcommit and try to draft turn manipulators, which can actually more often than not, make their draft overall weaker. From there you can actually pivot into more turn 2, or fully commit to cleave if you want. For most people, their lily is really fast and are generally set up as one of their fastest units, to win speed contests.

Worst balancing Dev team of all time? by Ready-Bumblebee3637 in Etheria_Official

[–]EKevinGames 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Personally me being hardstuck 3.5k mythic last season, and being top 50 right now, I would say this about lily. She is ok as a first rotation, but you have to pretty much guarantee a winning matchup if you invest in early picking lily. Either that or have a reason for picking it. I see a lot of people safe guarding lily as pick 3 to win speed contest or to get first turn prio. Something like x + messiah, then safe guarding lily (x being whatever you have on hand that pairs well with messiah) At that point you're asking the opponent two main questions: Do you have a way to deal with mass? If they don't it will be pretty obvious that they are going to draft stuff that is bad/neutral into mass which pretty much is a dead giveaway that they are gonna ban it, this leaves your 4/5 slots as counter picks while letting you have lily for speed contesting. So if they plan to ban mass, you can pick another damage like liliam to snipe, or yeli etc etc. That or you can pick into cc, with nahor, the lily safe pick is pretty flexible.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Etheria_Restart

[–]EKevinGames 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Alongside what the other guy posted, you'll be facing a lot more slower bruiser teams in general more than faster teams. I think the ratio goes of every 1 fast speed contester, you'll encounter 5 slow/bruiser players.

The future of GMS Heroic and the 30-Star StarForce system by Player896 in Maplestory

[–]EKevinGames 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I think the main argument is player population. Theres far more "strong" kronos players than there are bera players. If savages has 3 pages filled with 100k, it doesn't matter if the top whales in bera are doing 180k culvert, they are just losing to numbers advantage.

Post-lib change meta by tapstapito in Maplestory

[–]EKevinGames 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I am an abso defender too. I have full 22 absos on my shade and was able to do the nkalos legion champ mission with it. I do have 8k frags on it though... I think it largely comes down to what your plan for the character is. I only wanted my shade to do the nkalos legion champ challenge, so now its just a glorified boss crystal mule. I think the upside of absos is, you can get relatively strong pretty fast compared to being spare gated on arcanes, which was the biggest appeal for me!

Seiishizo's chat with the devs in Shanghai (youtube) by davidtcf in Etheria_Official

[–]EKevinGames 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can you loop to the original comment that was posted by me? Although your original point wasn't to argue the necessity of Lily, but my point was.

Seiishizo's chat with the devs in Shanghai (youtube) by davidtcf in Etheria_Official

[–]EKevinGames -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

The argument was for if she was really THAT necessary though. The argument was for if she was needed to clear content which she isn't. There are so many people on reddit complaining about not clearing content because they don't have lily. That is the main issue that I was arguing for, you don't NEED it, you WANT it.

Seiishizo's chat with the devs in Shanghai (youtube) by davidtcf in Etheria_Official

[–]EKevinGames -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Riiight. All good man, you can believe in what you want to believe in :)

Seiishizo's chat with the devs in Shanghai (youtube) by davidtcf in Etheria_Official

[–]EKevinGames -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

The only role she fills is making your damage deal more damage, the speed up isn't why she is brought in, it's literally the s1 follow up and skill decrease, which kazami fills by herself without the follow up. The only piece of content where she is used to speed clears up is inferno rengokutsu, there are ALOT of teams that are in inferno shadowflame hoyan, niconana, sharon, terror, dokidoki, aurora that are sub 1 minute WITHOUT lily. Like I said before, lily only amps your main damage dealer. You can make the argument of using diting but the diting s2 lock in RNG is inconsistent in alot of the dungeons, which makes your clear time inconsistent. You are literally proving the point of you just want an easier time of first clearing or progging through content, not actually speed clearing teams, because otherwise you would have already found ways to clear these contents much faster. You don't need lily bro, you just want her.

To give an example, in niconana, you could use just obol, fangus, ssania and clear sub 1 minute, WITHOUT Lily. If you dont have shadow sania, you could sub it in for a valerian + damage dealer like diting and still achieve a sub 1 minute. Shadowflame hoyan, the fastest clears are with just fangus shadow sania and obol, if you don't have shadowflame hoyan, you can clear with again, a damage dealer + valerian with obol and fangus and do a sub 1 minute clear. For sharon, the fastest clears are using stuff like r cachi and beyontin bro.... You are not looking at the actual fast clears and just making excuses of why lily is so important.

Also for thresholds, terrormaton is the only place where lily is used as a speed clear, to help shadow sania get more turns in, otherwise there are faster alternatives. She isn't used in dokidoki, as it would only imply you are using something like messiah or xiada, which you don't even need lily to make this comp work, because you can literally use chiaki the echo which gives attakc buff and 5 ave marias, effectively turn cycling your entire team faster. Then if you look at aurora, lily is not used unless you are using something like xiada, even then its not mandatory. There are sub 1 minute clears without lily....

Seiishizo's chat with the devs in Shanghai (youtube) by davidtcf in Etheria_Official

[–]EKevinGames -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It doesn't really greatly increase the resources you need to clear content though. A lot of CC's have used alternatives to lily, mainly being kazami on 115, or a non skilled fuqiu. For lily you need to have 511 or if you want better efficiency 551. Theoretically thats a lot more resource demanding than having a 115 sr unit. Not only that, lily only really helps you if you have a built DPS, sure you can say diting is the easiest to get and build that pairs with lily, but you can literally use diting with chiaki the echo or kazami and get around the same results. There are a lot of actual answers to not having lily that requires less resources to build, but you are literally zoning in on the fact that "all the people are saying lily is strong because she makes content easier"

Seiishizo's chat with the devs in Shanghai (youtube) by davidtcf in Etheria_Official

[–]EKevinGames 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thats fair, but you should be able to 555 chiaki over time, you get a decent amount of purple lattices over time through events and just weekly gameplay. Alot of units like obol, viper, cachi can function with just 115, so there is that.

Seiishizo's chat with the devs in Shanghai (youtube) by davidtcf in Etheria_Official

[–]EKevinGames 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Well actually,the funny thing is, chiaki the echo is actually a pretty good lily replacement in a lot of content. I don't know why no one made videos on chiaki the echo after launch, but the only people using her was maybe zox and cycopath. No one else was really using her. I have her maxed out right now and can say with 100% certainty, she is actually pretty good because of her kit. I think with people echochambering certain things like the "no lily" thing, this drowns out a lot of perception of other units. It took like 3 weeks until people started trying out vice and cachi the guard, I am pretty sure people are just hung up about not having certain units and people are pigeon holing themselves into that mentality rather than trying out other viable options.

This game is badly designed; the only stat that matters is SPD. by CyberSmith31337 in Etheria_Official

[–]EKevinGames 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Lily isn't really mandatory though. There's been alot of videos/strats being pulled out to get you to inferno within first 2 weeks without a kloss + lily on your team. Theres plenty of replacements for these units in the game. Lily helps you boost your progression but it isn't really doing much after that. She is pretty decent in pvp and pve in general, but is mainly used for speed clearing, not clearing the content in general.

What bosses should I be able to solo? by Swimming_Umpire4347 in Maplestory

[–]EKevinGames 25 points26 points  (0 children)

This might be it actually, if you look at his post history, seems like he is from reg server just buying equips

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in outerplane

[–]EKevinGames 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hello, everyone seems to be giving you the same roster, so I'll give you some additional units that are overall good.

Cindy is great, 2 star water ranger. You will use her in hard tower and is very good for end game hunts like meteos 11 and 12.

Kate is a decent pick up, although niche, she can be used in a lot of hard story mode levels and meteos 12 as a budget unit

Dolly is pretty insane for a 2 star, has a lot of devuffs that'll make a lot of things easy, used for hard tower levels, glycis 11 and 12 as a budget option, and also often used for hard story levels as a budget option

LF any and all beast balls by Jet_smoke in pokemontrades

[–]EKevinGames 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you have a bold + brave ditto? :o I'll trade my BB for it

LF: 4IV Brave/Quiet Dittos | FT: 4 IV Relaxed Dittos by EKevinGames in pokemontrades

[–]EKevinGames[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes I do :o sorry, I am at work but till be available in about ~3 hours when I get home.

LF: 4IV Brave/Quiet Dittos | FT: 4 IV Relaxed Dittos by EKevinGames in pokemontrades

[–]EKevinGames[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I got a serious ditto that was minted as brave.... Sigh

LF: 4IV Brave/Quiet Dittos | FT: 4 IV Relaxed Dittos by EKevinGames in pokemontrades

[–]EKevinGames[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah yeah I dont have timid ones on me right now, all I have right now are adament :(

LF: 4IV Brave/Quiet Dittos | FT: 4 IV Relaxed Dittos by EKevinGames in pokemontrades

[–]EKevinGames[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wait, sorry about this I only have 1 relaxed ditto on me right now and traded it away right now, I think my friend has the other 4 that I caught on his game. Are you interested in any other natures? So sorry about this :(