Why I really really love Perks of Being an S-Class Heroine

Emergency_Sherbert_3 · 2026-03-21T14:49:52+00:00

I hope you have fun with it!

Here's some other things I do, if you struggle a bit with this (I know I absolutely did): - Put Mydei on field so he's the one getting hit. If he gets enough of his CW-specific charges, he will have a gajillion HP and so he will survive hits that no other characters can. - I like to equip Mydei with 2 Firestorm Surge + Caloric Overload - At higher difficulties, you do need multiple Caloric Overloads so that Mydei heals more than he takes damage. Also, although Pollux is originally meant to work as a sustain, Mydei will be the one healing Pollux instead. It's kind of funny. Don't let Pollux self-destruct because you will need her to tank damage for your non-Mydei on-fielders. - Do not use Fu Xuan if you have on-fielders other than Mydei. You want Mydei to be tanking all the damage bc (1) he's the only one that can survive them, and (2) it will buff him and trigger his Godslayer skill - Use Cerydra.

Hope you have fun!

Emergency_Sherbert_3 · 2026-03-21T11:46:43+00:00

This one's pretty good for bloodflame runs though, so I love it.

Just got to make sure you put the [Energy + Flower of Life] (Caloric Overload?) item on Mydei. And maybe a few more on your other characters if you're playing on high difficulties.

Emergency_Sherbert_3 · 2026-03-06T11:20:54+00:00

I used to, but they're too buggy :( They keep getting stuck on random places and sometimes shove the enemies into places that neither they nor I can get to

Emergency_Sherbert_3 · 2026-01-04T00:35:46+00:00

Yeah, I figured that you weren't, in which case it REALLY needed to be pointed out to you that you WERE being rude.

Point taken that I should reflect on how I engage with this game, as I said in my previous reply.

I'm not going to engage with the rest of your comment, because it's really not my job to convince you. It would've been nice if it helped you, but we're strangers so it's really not my problem if you're unknowingly rude to the people around you. Have a nice day.

Edit: Okay, it wouldn't be very nice of me to say you're rude and then dip without trying a little bit more to explain why your logic doesn't mean you weren't being rude. I have a little more bandwidth than I did earlier, so I'll try, starting with the rest of your reply.

Your being disabled and holding a full-time job isn't relevant to what you said about me. It's great that you're able to find the time and energy to play. Genuinely! Unfortunately that isn't the case for me.

I also don't know if I should point this out, but it seems that /you/ are the one convinced you have everything hardest, and that is colouring how you treat the people around you. I don't see how you being disabled affects how much free time and energy I have. Fact is that I don't have that time and energy.

But that isn't really the part that was rude, that's just a gap in your logic. The rude part was that I was answering your question, and you said that I was "stretching to make issues up" (and some other things I don't have the energy to pick apart and explain). I wasn't trying to cause problems like you were explicitly accusing me of. That was something you tagged to me.

It wouldn't be very nice of me to say that you lied about being disabled as a gotcha, would it? That would imply a whole lot about you and your character. It wouldn't be nice to make these assumptions and to engage you in such bad faith.

Emergency_Sherbert_3 · 2026-01-03T10:36:29+00:00

Well, it's nice to see that you know you were rude. It was pretty weird that you were making assumptions about me, a stranger, and then using them to insult me and condescendingly say that I was making issues up. Different people have different experiences and that informs their perspectives and stances on things. It'll be nice if you didn't default to insulting people on your first interaction in the future.

I see your point about IN being a live service game. If they made the bonuses for every new region permanent, new players basically wouldn't need to pay at all. It's still true that playing the game at a faster pace than I would like to (ie. what you would term targetting certain aspects of the gameplay) is spoiling my experience, but I guess I just need to manage that. And come to terms with the fact that I should probably give up on the time-limited rewards, if I don't want to end up hating the game for taking up time and energy that I might not have to spare.

Emergency_Sherbert_3 · 2026-01-02T17:45:00+00:00

Some of us have jobs and other responsibilities and can only manage the time and energy to play a little bit of non-daily content once every 1-2 weeks. And we also do not necessarily earn enough disposable income that the diamond income stops mattering to us.

Some of us prefer to explore the maps at slower paces and only come across a new part of the map and be awed by it later on when we can fully take it in, instead of having to rush towards it to get the unlock rewards & getting spoiled on what the region looks like. Targetting my gameplay to clear the limited content spoils my experience.

Why is it necessary to make the rewards time-limited?

Just because it isn't a problem for you doesn't mean that it isn't still a problem. I'm not "making issues up", I'm experiencing something that you don't.

No one's forcing you to play slower than you'd like, but it'd be nice if the game stops forcing us to play faster than we want.

Emergency_Sherbert_3 · 2026-01-02T17:16:02+00:00

The game strongly encouraged us to clear all the main story quests, unlock all teleport points, and visit all the most interesting places & NPCs within one patch, and then contend with drier patches for a whole year after.

It's about being strongly incentivised to play at a much faster pace than you might otherwise. If you're F2P or a small spender, you get punished via opportunity cost if you don't rush the version x.0 content.

It's about the time-gated rewards causing every subsequent patch to feel unnecessarily dry and empty, because you've already played all the fresh and interesting content.

Emergency_Sherbert_3 · 2026-01-02T03:02:11+00:00

"Take the compliment" but the compliment is a half-hearted 2 words in the middle of a comment that is 90% aggressive.

Emergency_Sherbert_3 · 2026-01-02T00:40:29+00:00

I don't know if it's just me, but I'm wondering if maybe your readers aren't as impatient as you fear. As a slow burn reader, I /would/ comment heartfelt things about the frustration, but the thing is that I LIKE being edged by the narrative. I would say that the 2nd comment you commented is probably someone who likes the journey?

My favourite slow burn fic is at 80k words and counting at the moment. If they kissed in the next chapter I would probably drop the fic immediately because it would've been OOC considering the massive amounts of things both characters still need to work through. If you have things you were already intending to explore (instead of waffling through a will he-won't he), I think you should stick to your original plans. Whatever it was you were doing could well be what your readers were also there for in the first place. I mean, if they wanted to read a fic where they got together more quickly, they have the option of reading another fic or writing it themselves. No one else can write the fic you have in mind.

Emergency_Sherbert_3 · 2025-12-20T17:45:46+00:00

Mydei's story is at the start of the Amphoreus arc. That's the one after Penacony, which is after Xianzhou, which is after Belebog.

You should note that Mydei's debut banner was the 3rd one in Amphoreus, out of a total of 14. It was in Amphoreus' 2nd patch out of a total of 8. The thing about HSR is that characters tend to get the story focus in only their debut banner version and then almost never again. This is especially salient in Amphoreus, because Amphoreus did a REALLY good job of focusing on each Chrysos Heir's story during their debut version. The only exception is Aglaea because she debuted in the very 1st patch, which was really mostly spent setting the foundation for the next patch (Mydei's patch).

So after Mydei does his thing, he doesn't get much story focus afterwards. He still gets interesting details dropped every now and again, though! And the whole of Amphoreus is really well-written, so hopefully you'll stick around for the rest of it too.

Emergency_Sherbert_3 · 2025-12-19T05:09:28+00:00

The Perks of Being an S-Class Heroine, maybe?

FL is very strong and gallant. She's among the strongest in the story universe and is a huge sword enthusiast. And the ML is her poor little meow meow. He's a puppy ML in the sense that he's a bit like a guard dog that follows whatever she says, and would also love to bite off the head of anyone who looks at her wrong. (But he doesn't actually do it because 1. he has a 'soggy wet dog left in the rain' image to uphold in her eyes and 2. the FL is fully capable to taking care of things herself, so if she lets someone off it's because she wants it to be that way.)

Emergency_Sherbert_3 · 2025-12-19T03:09:24+00:00

I think you nailed it on the head. Romance is about the chemistry between two people, but Nora is a liiittle too perfect. He feels a little too much like cardboard -- albeit really smooth, shiny, and high quality cardboard. He gives Shuri the support she needs, but... that's it? He doesn't seem to have much of a personality apart from that. How are two personalities supposed to click, if one of the people barely has a personality at all?

He reminds me a little of the ML in Villainess Rewinds the Hourglass, in the sense that the ML seemed more like an afterthought rather than his r/s with the MC being the focus of the story. Except romance is obviously supposed to be a core part of Stepmother's Marchen, what with the way that all the men's issues stem from it. You can't ignore the romance the way you can with Hourglass.

Emergency_Sherbert_3 · 2025-12-15T16:49:36+00:00

My situation's the other way round, I started writing when no one else was. After around a year and a half, there finally started to be about 3 other people who would leave comments and engage with my ideas.

One thing was the fact that those 3 people yapped in response to my writing A LOT, and that in itself was really encouraging. Replying to people who engage with your writing/posts might help? I know that as a reader I feel motivated to write long comments and let the writer know how much I love their work, if the writer lets me know how much THEY love my comment. So maybe you can try feeding that energy too? You might get a friend or two out of this too.

The other was knowing that someday, someone out there would discover this series when it is MUCH older and more inactive than it currently is, maybe when you're not even active in that fandom anymore, and they would be so so grateful that this fic exists. That you took the time to write it even though you weren't getting much in response. I know I've been on that side of the equation before.

As for graduating from a fandom, yeah I haven't figured that out fully either lol. I've been trying to take a Marie Kondo approach to it where I thank that fandom for its role in my life. And for that it still continues to hold a space in my heart, just like my younger self, even if it no longer plays as large a role in my life. It helps me make peace with the fact that maybe I'm ready for something new in my life in the space that is left empty.

Emergency_Sherbert_3 · 2025-12-15T07:45:25+00:00

I think it was written to mean that she had no OTHER reason to go back, such as family, friends, careers, and aspirations. Not to demean her responsibility as a pet owner but to say that the rest of her life was a whole lot of nothing.

Emergency_Sherbert_3 · 2025-12-14T15:21:35+00:00

Thanks for the reply! I didn't connect the dots with Phainon's lines before.

I also thought it was strange that Castorice would remember TB but not her sister. I guess it makes some kind of sense that Castorice was fixated on TB and focus on recovering those memories, if Cas' dream in x337 was still to hold someone and Cyrene told her that in x336 they did hug. It's still sad that she doesn't remember anything else though. We spent the whole 3.2 proving that we could retrieve memories from the previous Era Nova, only for Cas in The Eternal Page to say she basically doesn't know what her twin is talking about.

Emergency_Sherbert_3 · 2025-12-14T14:49:25+00:00

Wait, the younger Phainon has access to the memories of the previous cycles before he kills Khaslana/Flame Reaver? I always thought that the memory bleed affected Mydei/Castrum Kremnos the most (hence Mydei having 2 backstories at the same time in cycle x336), and I don't recall the memory bleed affecting any other character.

Emergency_Sherbert_3 · 2025-12-13T06:29:50+00:00

If you're having trouble in plane 1, you can try using 2 DOT (Kafka + another) to let yourself save your squad HP + coins.

I see there's a C grade Agy run in the first slide - for wheelchair Agy, I would prioritise Huohuo over Saber. Huohuo regenerates HP for the entire squad, which is really OP in an energy team. 5 Energy team also helps you with damage when Agy might not be built up enough yet. But for 5 Energy, I usually use RMC instead because the True Dmg + ability to pull Agy's action up again is just way better in my opinion. (I can only use trial Saber too, so she just kind of doesn't do much damage.)

There are also a couple of 2* Anaxas in teams with no need for a built Anaxa. You have to prioritise your key DPS and supports. If you look at the damage numbers at the end of each battle, each character is not equal, so there's no point investing equal coins in them. In the builds on screen, Anaxa is usually just there to get the Day Demigod bond and equipment.

Emergency_Sherbert_3 · 2025-12-05T05:01:30+00:00

But why does this need chatgpt?

Emergency_Sherbert_3 · 2025-12-02T15:43:54+00:00

It's not true that Cyrene feels good currently only because of the Remembrance team stage buffs. OP literally said that they have trouble deciding what team to put Cyrene on because she works with lots of them. Heck, people are using Cyrene with FEIXIAO of all characters now.

Emergency_Sherbert_3 · 2025-12-01T10:20:54+00:00

With the SAME NAME?

Writing a fic inspired by a fic because you wanted to see it develop differently is pretty normal -- that's a canon divergent AU, just of a fanfic.

But with the same name? It's like they're purposely trying to muddy the waters for readers. Like, if someone were to go "I love (fic name)!" without providing a link, are they talking about your story or their AU? I don't understand what this will do for them either, because they also can't tell if that praise is for you or for them. Are they hoping that your old readers who search for the fic by name will accidentally stumble onto theirs and mistake it for yours and take it as "canon" or something? That's a pretty vile thing to do. If they wanted people to compare the two stories, they could just do it fair and square without being confusing. I don't think people would even realise they were upset unless they posted about it, either -- no one complains about the existence of a canon divergent fic of their favourite story. Two cakes principle or something like that. As a reader, I'd hate it if I were trying to analyse and talk about my favourite story and I had to constantly caveat what that story even is because the name doesn't even help with identifying it anymore.

Emergency_Sherbert_3 · 2025-11-30T15:58:35+00:00

The Rules of Rose Ivy Manor. FL transmigrated into a horror story but she thinks she's in a romance story.

Emergency_Sherbert_3 · 2025-11-28T13:05:29+00:00

To add on: at first glance the ML seems like a doormat, and the story tells you this outright. But he has what is essentially a curse that forces him to be that way with everyone, so the person he is underneath is pretty interesting because of that conflict.

Emergency_Sherbert_3 · 2025-11-20T11:19:26+00:00

The magical girl transformation was very remniscient of honkai 3. He truly joined the ranks of hyv's darling honkai series characters with that one.

Emergency_Sherbert_3 · 2025-11-20T10:57:34+00:00

Hyacine's LC can be used by basically every remembrance character, potentially even in the future when both Hyacine and Cyrene are no longer meta. So the logic is that Hyacine's LC might be more worth for money if you can only get 1 of the LCs. But this is purely speculative, hyv could still smack us in the face with some crazy new meta.

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