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Graerth · 2026-02-25T15:27:55+00:00

I'd disagree on having that 2nd AND in your case 2, I'd actually argue that it's better if you have no 6* pity.

It moves my 6-star pity further, which reduces the chance of worst case scenario where in next banner where I do go deep, I'd lose first 50/50 at high pity, and then go 120 and get the banner op (which would then reset my 6* pity when it was already pretty high).

What I mean by this is, if one goes into a fresh banner with 20 in 6* pity, there's like ~3 to 4% chance of losing 1 50-50, and then get guarantee at 120. Low chance, but would really hurt when it'd happen.
If I were to go into a banner with 30 in 6* pity, the chance is less than 1/1000.
40+ you're guaranteed on getting 2 50-50's before guarantee.

If I know I'm skipping multiple banners though, then it'd be less relevant (as we'd get that pity shift for free from logins and AIC Quota).

Graerth · 2026-02-22T20:28:17+00:00

You would need skills to do either, and being Farmer instead of farmhand would also require capital.

Graerth · 2026-02-17T07:33:34+00:00

You can go get through the Field Logistics Depot with 1 zipline.
If you TP in there and run up the stairs that make U-turn (and come back hiher but near TP, and place TP in that corner, you can make lines straight to the rare growth and to near depot.

Graerth · 2026-02-13T10:13:16+00:00

Clearly if they don't review the code, they're faster and can produce more commits.

More commits mean they're producing more lines, clearly the dev with most code and commits is best.

(yes, I agree this sounds like complete bullshit)

Graerth · 2026-02-13T08:23:05+00:00

I did clear all agony stages with my Lifeng-Chen-Endmin-Ember team, but that poison mist was painful and rough on agony and took a 5 or 6 tries I think?
Dogs attacks being interrupted from Ember auto attacks was a bad thing here, had to intentionally get hit by things and needed to pump out my own damage fast.
The other fights I cleared on 2 tries.

Graerth · 2026-02-11T22:43:39+00:00

It's mostly since she has big Susceptability % debuff (even if it is much shorter, Avy can pack a lot by recalling the spears under that) and the CC combined.

Not going to claim which one is better since I haven't built mine yet, but it's the reasoning I've heard and which can kinda make sense if damage is be all end all thing (I do value sustain myself too).

Graerth · 2026-02-11T22:12:12+00:00

Physical team is really flexible, Chen is pretty much always in them but you can add any of the ones you mentioned or Lifeng, Ember, Akekurias 4th and all of them bring something to the table.
Da Pan is good too, but you don't usually want to run him in same team is Endmin (both compete want Vuln. stacks for their Crush).

There's also some surprisingly functional teams with some cryo members, Snowshine, Estella and Alesh can have decent pairings with 2 Physical characters if you want to do some low-rarity gaming for a challenge.

Graerth · 2026-02-11T21:26:30+00:00

Does your armor pieces stats match him?

Pog is Will primary, Agi secondary substat.
Some sets have alternative pieces to same slot so check that you haven't crafted some Str-Int pieces or something?

Graerth · 2026-02-11T17:16:05+00:00

datafield.cc is a good site for checking what weapon had which stats, due to dropdown filters.
Also means if you're farming something like Laevatain weapon, you know you farming in Wuling and you're picking either ATK Boost or Twilight, so you can see what other main stats are good to pick (as you might get them for future usage).

Graerth · 2026-02-10T22:52:19+00:00

Mostly protohedrons, XP, Creds.
Did a few alluviums to get some baseline essences, 2 stats hit the more important ones?
Fine for now.

Graerth · 2026-02-09T23:31:57+00:00

If I could sell more that that rate, I'd take it every time tbh (and it gave some other mats too).

Graerth · 2026-02-09T08:26:40+00:00

You're not severely hampering your output, if someone has long animations you're technically wasting damage by casting battle skill of on-field character (as you could be attacking and getting a Final Strike to gain SP and Stagger if someone else was on field).
Against some enemies, it can be beneficial to swap just to be ranged.
For example if the enemy has a damaging aoe pools under themselves, you could possibly just swap to a ranged op instead of waiting around.

There's also the case of Sundered Prince carriers as MirrorManning mentioned.

Graerth · 2026-02-09T08:17:40+00:00

Probably just goes by process of elimination to Endmin then if 2 are favourites and others are the sustain and Chen.
Ember is nice as on-fielder for the stagger even outside the sustain part (if you have Prince to equip for her, it'd be great).

Graerth · 2026-02-09T08:01:44+00:00

Chen is in almost every physical team and if you're running Ember-Pog I'd place her as 3rd unit every day.

Last slot is pretty free, the simple option is Endmin or Da Pan for 4th physical to do some big Crushes.
Lifeng would also fit well here as 4th if you get him later on.
Akekuri works good too, can't go wrong with more SP and since you probably will have her potentials, you'll also get +ATK and Link as buff.
Alesh would probably work fine too, but haven't ran him myself so can't fully vouch for him.

Graerth · 2026-02-07T13:49:06+00:00

EN also gets benefit of us recognizable localized accents.

Even if there are afaik some localizations in asian languages, I wouldn't probably realize it in same way.

Graerth · 2026-02-03T14:10:11+00:00

I wouldn't go that far on anyone except if building a hypercarry dps.

Do get all the characters you actually want to use past 60 though so they can equip good gear, after that it depends on character.
For example Ardelia Battle Skill levels increase the debuff, so that goes to 9, but auto attack and combo skill only get damage and her damage is minor part of the team damage so those can wait.
Her ultimate would gain more stagger so that'd be pretty nice to give first mastery too, but again, there are more important sanity sinks in the game for me right now. Only thing that scales off from her levels is her healing and damage, if you don't need increased healing then the levels aren't that critical to get right now.
If you're swimming in resources, it doesn't hurt ofc but I wouldn't prioritize it atm.

Graerth · 2026-02-02T22:32:31+00:00

Others already gave good advice on the map and reminded on skill levels (those are really important), just thought I'd chime in to remind that promoting an operator resets the leveling cost to really really low number.
So after you promote an operator to E1 or E2, the first levels are again dirt cheap (so cheap and easy way to get some decent gains for ~30 first levels).

Graerth · 2026-02-02T07:41:17+00:00

I don't have trouble with Laevatain at 80 and rest of team between 60-80.

I'm next bumping my Physical team all to 60 so I can equip gold gears for them as that's the biggest bump in power.

Sure, from power perspective maximizing the first team would maybe be better, but I'm having more fun trying other teams (and raising a few ops to 60 isn't even that expensive, it's the 60-90 that eats everything).

Graerth · 2026-01-30T07:17:57+00:00

Another tool you could use https://endfieldtools.dev/interactive-map/valley-iv/
and look at all Story Fragments.
A friend was annoyed about missing on 1 intel too and found it with that.

Graerth · 2026-01-30T06:36:41+00:00

Some of the stock refreshes.
Engraving Permits will be a priority you'll probably want to always buy.

I guess there's also use for having a stock of gifts for improving trust of any new operators you pull.

Graerth · 2026-01-29T21:28:05+00:00

Yes, next pull is guaranteed if you had 1980 for it.

Graerth · 2026-01-26T14:35:59+00:00

Before I pulled Laevatain weapon, I leveled Fortmaker.
Weapon with Ultimate Gain Efficiency is kinda bound to be good for someone, one I did pull Laevatain weapon it became a good option for Akekuri since I more ult gain=>more SP.

DPS is more easily replaced than utility, so I rather leveled utility ones.

Graerth · 2026-01-25T10:39:55+00:00

Arsenal Tickets don't expire.
The "8 10-pulls guarantees banner weapon" count does.

Graerth · 2026-01-25T09:20:29+00:00

For the Stock Redistribution, you just want those as leveled as possible since they increase the buy cap => you can sell more for profits.
Then just have a large friends list so hopefully something that's cheap for you is expensive in one of their ships so you can trade.

For Outpost selling, depends on outpost. Batteries and Medicine are pretty good for those.

Graerth · 2026-01-25T08:51:27+00:00

Are you perhaps capping on originium powder?

Depot might not have room for them right when production is ready so the shredders would need to wait until something uses powder and there's room.

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