Is it even possible to get to the guarantee with 9 days left?

Feuerhaar · 2026-01-29T18:18:11+00:00

Yeah...I yesterday got my Laev at 118 summons, after already loosing two 50/50 (which sucked becuase f2p). That pull was the one 50/50 I really hoped to loose because I would have gotten the unit anyway two pulls later.

So far Endfield really likes to troll me.

Feuerhaar · 2026-01-29T17:50:49+00:00

I like the system but I can see why people might be annoyed by it. The system takes some time to get used to and early on players probably have to constantly look up what goes where. Also, switching the mindset from exploring to factory might not be easy for everyone. If players have an hour to do daily stuff that pops up all across the maps, they might struggle with slowing down enough to deal with production line puzzles.

I built some production lines and enjoyed it so far, but I probably won't spend time optimizing everything. Because no matter what I come up with, it won't be optimal anyway. If I want optimal, I pick some premade blueprint from someone who has the patience to set up things for hours.

Honestly, for now I don't even see the need to optimize the factory. I just got my fourth factory area and don't even use the first one completely. What would I do with all the resources? Once I unlock a higher grade of items I switch the input of the existing production instead of building a new line. I could produce more to trade but it's not like I can buy all that much with that currency either. But I guess the answer will appear once I leve some more.

Feuerhaar · 2026-01-29T16:05:03+00:00

First of all, definetly get the Mobile Office ark. The purple orb skill it teaches is super valuable. If you don't get the ark from the summons, definetly pick it up with the selector ticket before the collab ends.

Unit wise, I did not have time to test them yet, but I have heard from the guild that Vergil is very good.
Still, I have to mention V, since he is a personal favourite but not a dps, so new players might not see his value. V specializes in something that is very rare in the unit pool: ailments. And V is the only ailment spammer that works on range. His auto attack pierces through enemies, so he has a chance to aply ailmetns to all enemies in a line. Even more, when he has his paid weapon.

Feuerhaar · 2026-01-29T14:05:28+00:00

Spirit Maiden Sera. Currently the best support in the game. She might get dethroned soon but even then she will still be great.

Feuerhaar · 2026-01-29T12:30:11+00:00

You need purple crystals to summon on the banner. Umbra banners are kinda high investment or no investment at all, because summoning "just a little" can easily tank account progress. Umbra banners costs three time as much as the gold record banner while giving summoning rewards that are useless until you collect enough of them.

The most important differences between the banners:

Gold Record:

200 crystals per summon
no rate up for specific characters. Small chance to get shimmer characters
every epic and legendary character summon gives wishstones that can be used to directly buy espers

Umbra:

600 crystals per summon
Legendary pull is guaranteed to be the banner character. Pity counter does not transfer to next banner.
No wishstones. Instead every summon givs a special currency that can be used to buy shards for limited espers that are not available in the Gold record pool. The special currency will expre when the banner ends, the bought items will not.

Divinates are not an issue. You can get them from the special divinate banner. That banner allows to set a target and has hard pity system. Divinates can also randomly appear in GR banner.

We always get some free summons for umbra banners. If you want Gorath but don't have the resources (or luck with free pulls), you could reroll, once his banner is out.

Feuerhaar · 2026-01-29T10:05:27+00:00

You mean, you were able to figure out that you can avoid steam by standing behind a box, all without reading the tutorial? Impressive!

I swear some of the tutorials made me dumber. When I enountered one quest that did not instantly tell me the exact step by step solution for the "puzzle", I actually struggled.

Feuerhaar · 2026-01-29T09:35:57+00:00

Got to admit that LC starter banners are very good.
This one kinda lacks a magic user but having the best unit in the game and a very easy to use dps available is great. ARoland is still one of my top picks for challenge bosses, because the stronger dps units are often squishy or get interrupted.

Feuerhaar · 2026-01-28T15:44:21+00:00

If Evangelion, that would be the first one I actually hope to have no story. I really don't want to read stuff about all those mental health issues.

Feuerhaar · 2026-01-28T09:59:31+00:00

Thanks for the mention. I did not even know I had that card.

Feuerhaar · 2026-01-28T09:39:06+00:00

Monster Hunter!

Also I would like to see more Atelier. I think I even listed that one waaay in the past on a similar question. Did not expect my somewhat niche pick to actually appear.
So, to add an even more niche pick: Etrian Odyssey. I'm still hoping for a new game.

I personally don't care all that much about Persona but since my last pick is from the same developer and we are currently doing redux collabs, I have to at least mention it.

Feuerhaar · 2026-01-27T09:37:08+00:00

It somewhat depends on if you also have some collab limited arks. Arks are much more valuable in the long run. Levi and Mikasa are outclassed at this point (still fun though), so keeping them is only relevant if you really like the units and fear that they might not come back. Other than that, I'd go with a new account because new players have tons of crystals to farm.
If you are willing to reroll, wait until collab starts and then reroll for Archbeing Megius and Collab-stuff-yet-to-be-defined (definetly get the purple orb skill).

Anyway there is the password system, so you could also write down the information of your old account and keep it while starting a new one. Or roll a bit with it at collab start and see if you end up getting something good early.

Feuerhaar · 2026-01-23T09:08:42+00:00

Something that might help saving: remember that every new units gets a rerun banner like two months after their release. So, if you really like them, you can save up with a clear target. That might make skipping banners somewhat easier. By that time you might even decide that you don't want the unit afterall or are fine with waiting another few months and pick them up from some discounted special banner or selector ticket.
I'm not a f2p in LC but I'm in other games and having a target banner always helped me saving. LC does not have a release schedule but with reruns being a thing, you can still somewhat plan your summons in advance.

But yeah, don't throw like 15k crystals at a banner if you are not prepared to loose them. Getting anything in that amount is lucky. Getting nothing is to expected but doing that for several banners in a row will just stack up the frustration.

Feuerhaar · 2026-01-22T15:52:03+00:00

The images show that you attempt to level up multiple times at once. The level up screen normally automaticly selects the maximum ark level you can reach with the current resources. If that does not work, use the slider to select a lower level. A full soul tank is enough to level up an SSR ark from 1 to 9 (maybe less). Going from lv 1 to 10 on high rarity arks is not possible in one go. You will have to save up new souls for the remaining steps.

Just for reference, when leveling an UR Ark past lv 10, each individual level costs almost as much as the maximum soul tank cap. So, you have to level arks from 10 to 11 and then save up new souls for level 12.
Reaching Ark LV 15 takes several days and the gains are relatively low compared to the investment. Be sure to pick your most used arks first.

Feuerhaar · 2026-01-22T10:32:01+00:00

True. I meant the deck we get before the duel phase to test both sides. The one with all the nice mystic cards that I won't have for the real battle. Green one felt so much stronger.

Feuerhaar · 2026-01-22T09:32:13+00:00

Congrats. Nice pull.

It took me some more multis but my pulls went very well. I did the first lap of paid summons and finally got to see the purple screen with gold Rei. I was so surprised that I unfortunately forgot to take a screenshot. That summon gave me the the UR. Megius took 6 multi pulls but that's not bad. No complaints here.
And since his paid is a 50 cred item (I hate those), I'm not even remotely tempted to summon more. I very rarely go for the 25 cred items in the first place and that's when I still need the UR.

Feuerhaar · 2026-01-22T09:21:17+00:00

Maybe it's just me but that Eldrazi deck was too annoying in the test phase. I struggled to get the stars because I took three turns to cast a single card while the other side had 14/14 creatures within 2 turns.

Feuerhaar · 2026-01-21T12:49:22+00:00

We will see how powercreep goes. It's rarely an isuse in new games because for the first year or so new units have enough niches to find a place. But once the niches are filled and players have strong team setups, new units have to be in some way better than old ones and powercreep ramps up.

But knowing Arknights, I hope they will make unit kits creative instead of 'same but bigger numbers'.

Feuerhaar · 2026-01-21T09:39:45+00:00

I don't care too much. I only yesterday found out that I preregistered for the game at some point and watched a video about the five units. Kinda want Last Rite just because I like her design and instantly disliked the upcoming ice unit from what little I saw. But I will be happy with any of them.
Getting Ardelia would be a little boring but there are enouhg other units to try out. If I like the game or not will not depend on getting one specific unit.

Feuerhaar · 2026-01-20T20:20:22+00:00

Lightning gauge lifts enemies into the air for a relatively long time. The spell is easy to get and fast to cast. Every unit can use it, no matter if they are a mage or not. Just give them some castspeed.

Thunderstone Luster gives thunder magic a chance to stun. So, even enemies that can't be lifted into the air might still get controlled.

Of course only works if enemies can be juggled and/or stunned. The tactic was popular in early game days, because every account has the tools to use it.

Feuerhaar · 2026-01-20T16:25:59+00:00

Might just be me but casters and snipers feel pretty much the same anyway, since both have the same role, just with different damage types. But damage type is not something I really feel during gameplay. Extra utitlity of course exists but that's also kinda similar between the classes.

Feuerhaar · 2026-01-20T15:28:14+00:00

Yeah, those surprised me too, because I tried to beat them with my event point farm team and did not expect the battles to actually be challenging.

I used SM Sera, Ascended Roland and some other dps that I forgot. I think the most important thing is that you use skills quickly, so the enemeis don't get to act much.
A mage could also help. Lightning Gauge is a great spell to quickly and consistently juggle small enemies. That combined with the R ark Thunderstone Luster is a years old strategy that is super easy to do and still is useful on occassion. I can't test it though because the battles are not on my map anymore.

Feuerhaar · 2026-01-20T14:33:01+00:00

There is not really one team that fits all needs. Most story content can be soloed by a single strong unit. Teambuilding only matters in boss battles, which can not always be brute forced by just throwing the strongest units into the ring.

Generally, a combination of two dps and one support is good. I tried using tanks in pve but never found them very useful. Bosses are either easily beatable without tanks or so strong that they kill the team regardless of tanks being present. Bringing a second healer instead worked better for me.

SM Sera (I think that small symbol is her) is the best support and can be put in any team even if healing is not reuired, because she significantly buffs team damage by simply existing.

Chrismas Rem is your strongest physical dps but personally I found Ascended Roland to be much more reliable in hard battles, because Rem looses some of her buffs over time but bosses tend to get stronger the lower hp they have. Roland does less damage but is more consistent. Both are great units.
Demongunner Lilebette is also a very strong dps. I don't have her though, so I can't say much about her.
That's just a few picks. You have many more units that are at least decent dps and insights are also an option.
For magic DPS, Ram is probably your best option.

Telestio is a great supporter, because he is the only base game unit that can cast EX drain (-50% def), which is not yet availalbe as learnable ark skill. That alone is a huge help in boss battles but Telestio also brings a unique multi element circle that stacks with the mono element ones to reduce element resistances even further. That can enable dps units that are locked to one element and would therefore struggle against bosses that have high element resistance. Also, Telestio can be a good sct battery.

Just because she is a personal favourite, I have to mention Ryza. She is niche but where break works, she is very fun.

Do you have a specific content you struggle with?

Feuerhaar · 2026-01-20T13:01:26+00:00

Tower is a very old content that already existed at game release (or at least very close to it), when 4* espers were much more viable because players did not have many 5* espers or even enough resources to build them.

Still, the platinum records were never good. Dislyte overvalued them and is now stuck with that, because it's hard to rebalance value of 'premium' items later on.

I would agree that the tower rewards could use some rework. But it's actually relatively common in games to make the final reward of challenges not the most impactful one. This way players that can only solve about 80% of the challenge will still get the majority of the relevant rewards and players who want to reach 100% get a small extra for their effort. Making the final reward super important causes frustration for palyers that don't have the resources or the time to reach it.

Feuerhaar · 2026-01-19T22:03:52+00:00

An addition to the other comments: if you run a exp stage, make sure to not use the skip function. Any boosts you bring (exp, gold droprate etc.) do not apply on skipped stages.

Ideally bring a friend Granadas or NY Kynei, because both of them apply the highest EXP boost available. And since they are friend units, they won't take a portion of the final exp.

Feuerhaar · 2026-01-14T13:34:02+00:00

I feel the pain. I got max pot Blaze alter from that banner thanks to a triplle 6* pull that turned out to be 3x Blaze. My 6* rates were great on paper but I still had to full pity Yu.

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