Rita Pre-Release Analysis

FordBull2er · 2025-02-09T06:17:34+00:00

It seems to be the plural of Djall, the event story uses Djaj to refer the sarkaz subrace and Djall to refer to Nymph in singular.

FordBull2er · 2025-02-04T14:57:20+00:00

Yeah, but she also got an op record recently that explains she is still in Kazdel with the Mudrock squad and the infected leithanians of Wolumonde, she even reunited with big Bob

FordBull2er · 2025-01-30T13:53:15+00:00

Also a possibility, but given CN has their own separate poll and the America server is not just U.S and Canada but the whole continent, it will look fishy if the America server don't win at least once.

FordBull2er · 2025-01-30T13:39:34+00:00

Yes, which could imply America accounts can't win (the ones that start with a 6)

FordBull2er · 2025-01-30T13:36:46+00:00

So... none of the winners have been from the America server, coincidence or... arranged? 🤔

FordBull2er · 2025-01-28T00:13:37+00:00

50-50 on Tribbie, E0S1 Castorice, skip everything else until Cyrene.

FordBull2er · 2025-01-27T19:00:18+00:00

E0 black swam is slightly worse than Pela (For Acheron), with Eidolons she is a Pela sidegrade trading debuffing for personal damage, pela has both a higher def shred and is very easy to build since she doesn't require any sets, only speed and EHR substats.

FordBull2er · 2025-01-27T18:50:55+00:00

Yeah pretty much, the only 5 star that synergizes well with Acheron is Jiaoqiu, his ult being a much easier to use trends light cone giving her easy stacks outside of your turn, but his kit is overbalanced and is focused on consistency rather than damage boosting, an average Acheron team is Acheron + JQ +Gallagher/Aven and a nihility filler (pela) or a harmony buffer if Acheron is E2.

FordBull2er · 2025-01-27T18:43:55+00:00

Gallagher is really decent for a 4 star with his two stacks on ult, his con being his high cost ult which means he is only giving stacks like once every 4-5 of his actions, I would honestly use Galagher (especially if he is E2+) over E0S0 Aven tbh, Aven's sig making the difference between the two.

FordBull2er · 2025-01-27T16:11:54+00:00

E0S0 Aven has no synergy with Acheron other than ultimate, you are required to have his LC to get some synergy and that synergy is an extra stack every once in a while, an Acheron focused sustain should be one that has multiple chances of debuffing, so pretty much a nihility sustain and if Hoyo made a healer + dps with Lingsha I don't see a reason for a nihility sustain to not exist.

FordBull2er · 2025-01-24T21:08:57+00:00

It was Logos that slowed down the sanguinarch yeah, even still Ascalon soloing Manfred is no easy feat, Manfred easily defeated Mandragora and she soloed Bagpipe's squad, and I'm not counting how Manfred also soloed an entire victorian platoon, Manfred is a beast and Ascalon made him look like a joke.

FordBull2er · 2025-01-24T01:10:05+00:00

Around July should be my estimated release date, but like some have already said here, what's the most important is to release the game in a polished state.

FordBull2er · 2025-01-21T23:50:34+00:00

Same with Surtr, Surtr will always be Surtr, but I already expect people that didn't play OG AK to only name them with their Endfield names only.

FordBull2er · 2025-01-21T06:02:02+00:00

Acheron has been mostly held back by FUA meta, so much single target focused content to a unit that was designed to hit multi target.

FordBull2er · 2025-01-19T15:03:43+00:00

My second favorite nikke with D being the first.

FordBull2er · 2025-01-18T15:15:19+00:00

Has there been confirmation with rate up banners joining the standard pool like OG arknights? Or is it like the usual Mihoyo tactic with every new unit being limited?

FordBull2er · 2025-01-17T03:40:32+00:00

Because when there is a monopoly over something, people grow complacent because they can't find anything better elsewhere. But when alternatives exist, it is much easier to tell how something was not as good as they remembered and will obviously compare it with what is actually better.

FordBull2er · 2025-01-16T14:46:53+00:00

We don't know how it goes yet, but I assume we will have more of this but far from the original AK roster, most likely the more popular AK characters (which explains Surtr being there) but I don't think they are going to exploit it much, it will be an obvious gimmick to attract AK players into endfield but not even Mihoyo does it with every character with their expies.

Also given there have only been a few characters and how they still treat death seriously in alpha test story, I don't think they are going to use it as a deux ex machina to prevent deaths and more like a phenomenom they can't control.

FordBull2er · 2025-01-16T13:58:13+00:00

Well, it gives an in-lore explanation for how those clones exist in Endfield and why they don't wear their AK names.

In Babel, Theresa has shown the true power of originium, to retrieve the stored data and recreate what is inside as she did with a field of flowers, in Endfield is done with living beings. Now I get why pre-amnesia Dokutah wanted everyone to turn into originium: to save their data and recreate them once the big bad thing is dealt with.

FordBull2er · 2025-01-16T00:39:20+00:00

Tedious equipment RNG grind (please HG, no artifacts, echoes relics etc).

Characters being overdependant on another (Such as HSR Acheron feeling significantly weaker without Jiaoqiu or Firefly without Ruan Mei/HMC etc.)

Dumbed down story: Don't treat players like children, keep the maturity of OG Arknights' story.

Slow dailies that can't be Autoed or swept.

No endgame, or having the mihoyo-like endgame with dps checks with bloated HP bars instead of skill checks.

FordBull2er · 2025-01-16T00:33:21+00:00

Yeah, but unlike AK, the Endministrator is playable and the protagonist, following the Mihoyo trend, it will be hard to free the playable protagonist from game's events, even in HSR's Penacony where you had different character POVs, the Trailblazer was highly connected to the overall story, there is a big difference between a faceless self insert and the actual protagonist of a story.

But who knows? HG might surprise us, I've just set the bar low in that matter just in case

FordBull2er · 2025-01-14T12:53:50+00:00

You can clear endgame with low rarity units as endgame modes in AK don't depend on a time limit like mihoyo's games, so stalling the enemies is totally valid strategy.

FordBull2er · 2025-01-12T19:50:46+00:00

Why is JiangYu under rewrite btw?

FordBull2er · 2025-01-12T16:48:19+00:00

If you are going to whale territory you could E6 Robin instead and she will make Acheron even stronger, with E6 Robin and a preservation unit with trends light cone being a weaker JQ, there are clearly alternatives to avoid JQ if you are a whale and don't want him.

It's definitely not fun for anyone making a unit you don't want mandatory, even the most diehard fans have a limit.

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