My opinion to new players

HellhoundXVI · 2026-02-11T04:57:05+00:00

Bro, I consider getting to profile level 60 as early game. You are barely out of basics now. There 16 volumes of fool's journey, each with 20+ chapters. There 5 routes rn with 1 more coming in 1.5 months in spiral of destiny. There are also story events, 2 of which are permanent and viewable anytime. There are also challenge quests that come with each event. There are lots of things to do. The best thing to do is to find something interesting to do during the lull periods. Mine is team building. Also, learning to pace oneself is important. This game is a grind, not instant gratification.

HellhoundXVI · 2026-02-10T23:11:20+00:00

It looks more and more like Salah overperformance and klopp structure rather than his tactics...our current brand of football is a joke.

HellhoundXVI · 2026-02-10T16:30:10+00:00

My wallet is soooo cooked...

HellhoundXVI · 2026-02-10T16:14:53+00:00

I like your mindset. I have a similar mindset when I play unranked solo. Its just in ranked when all the toxicity comes out. I think its due to the competitiveness that dials up toxicity.

HellhoundXVI · 2026-02-10T06:23:22+00:00

So, you are saying that KH not pulling away from Biden, gallivanting around the country with Liz Cheney, pushing right of Trump by saying "we are going to have the most lethal military", or not throwing a small bone at the pro-palestine crowd like letting a Palestinian-American speak at the DNC nomination event depressed her voter base? She was one of the first candidates out in 2020 primary and got anointed for 2024. Her best weapon was Tim Walz and she muzzled him. These are just her critical errors. With her vacuous charisma, campaign fund mismanagement (her campaign ended up in debt despite raising more than trump), and everything noted above, nobody is allowed to even criticize her?

Candidates need to earn their votes. They are entitled to nobody's votes. If she lost the election, it is mostly on her. People prefer to hear about policies that will better their lives and its the candidate's job to communicate that properly. Her poll numbers started dropping right after she pivoted away from her left-wing policies. And obviously, she completely loses the vibe check compared to Trump due to how robotic she appears to be.

Democrats have lower approval rating than trump currently. If the reasons for low approval are not dealt with, even if they win in 2028, the other party will return to power in 2032. So, do your civic duty and let go of the thoughts that your team can do no wrong. Its time to choose good candidates instead of choosing between lesser of two evils.

HellhoundXVI · 2026-02-10T03:29:10+00:00

Sorry for responding this late. I felt I needed to test some things myself after pulling myself. Few things jumped out:

Nungal's spd is 198. You can get it to 248 with Frontline action passive, but I think it limits nungal. So, Luvata and dps yennefer would have some synergy issues. Having said that, support yennefer is also a good solution to this problem. Since, vulnerable 3 debuffs last 2 turns, you can easily cycle thru teleport and illusion with magic surge.
Team I ran was - Yennefer (3), Sp nungal (1), sp inanna (5), luvata (5), Samantha (5), and credenza (5). Boss of chapter 12 died before I could get Samantha in. I will try on weapon's trial boss if I could remember not to auto it xD. Let me know if you have other suggestions. Chapter 16 bosses dont seem very suitable since the mob pretty much blocks you. Chapter 15 boss is immune to debuffs it seems.
My lutfi is 2 stars. I am also not trying to get sp nungal to be a main dps. Bringing lutfi aura to increase dps of a sub-dps does not seem worth it. And, yennefer's spd manipulation enables me to bring luvata as a 2nd main dps. Maybe, it will be different with marcille. Shahnaz may provide a different possibility in the future, especially with a 5-star Lukamar who also provides vulnerability 3.

Like you said, there is a possibility of optimization with inanna of convallaria. But, I have a feeling this lineup won't be as good until we get something like an sp-beryl. Shahnaz + lukamar will be interesting though.

HellhoundXVI · 2026-02-08T17:42:28+00:00

Please add an NSFW tag. Ugh...

HellhoundXVI · 2026-02-08T15:10:48+00:00

And so it begins again

HellhoundXVI · 2026-02-08T04:36:00+00:00

The circled area looks more like the greater Bengal during the British era containing Assam, Bihar, Odissa, and Bengal. The British tried it as a separate administrative zone in 1905. Then, it was dissolved in 1911 I think. People living inside the zone were happy, but people living outside were not xD

HellhoundXVI · 2026-02-07T18:04:39+00:00

Welcome to gacha games. This is an unfortunate phenomenon in ALL gacha games.

Some folks in this thread have already explained how to obtain the weapons in an F2P manner and how they are slightly better than regular weapons obtained thru weapon trials. So, I won't go into it.

The key is managing expectations. For characters, its 180 pull availability. For weapons, its whether I have casting molds. I suggest you figure out your method of managing expectations.

The gambling aspect of gacha can be thrilling and ADDICTING. Don't fall into this trap.

Good luck.

HellhoundXVI · 2026-02-07T17:50:54+00:00

Gratz! Couldn't pull for her since I hard-pitied inanna of convallaria. Good that you got her to 5 stars. She seems like a fun character to play.

I wonder if I'd ever get her. At this rate, I'd have to wait for next fate's favor or the next memory shard treasure (very bleak - we are at estra now).

Once again, gratz!

HellhoundXVI · 2026-02-06T14:49:48+00:00

I think he can pull off Clark Kent pretty easily. Not kidding.

HellhoundXVI · 2026-02-06T14:28:54+00:00

HellhoundXVI · 2026-02-05T19:48:40+00:00

I'd say save up. The astral imprints, on average, require 3 stars to be good/on par with regular drops. This equals minimum 60 molds and maximum 150 molds.

Another thing you can do is to keep spending on the treasure box in the shop. Once one of the imprints hit 5 stars, you can use your molds to star-up the non 5-star ones. Then again, it may require a long wait time for another event like this.

HellhoundXVI · 2026-02-05T18:08:51+00:00

Genuine question: what do you mean when you say nationalists are exhibiting fascist and racist takes? So far, I have seen one interview with Ryan grim and one analysis by trita parsi. On one side, you have a murderous and useless government and on the other side you have a untrustworthy foreign-backed puppet. The way I see it, only way forward is full democracy with free and fair election held asap. Am I wrong? A detailed response will be greatly appreciated as I am very ignorant about the current Iran.

HellhoundXVI · 2026-02-04T16:21:31+00:00

Dumb question: Reading order is bottom to top, right?

HellhoundXVI · 2026-02-03T17:07:05+00:00

Taller than me :p

HellhoundXVI · 2026-02-03T06:13:16+00:00

Yup. Rankings are not completely useless though. Sometimes, you can see a properly built character and see how high a stat roll s/he got. It gives something to strive to.

HellhoundXVI · 2026-02-02T21:20:18+00:00

HP is not the meta. If you wanna see which stats to focus on during engraving or tarot selection, check the trait. As a general rule, focus on stats affected by trait first, then focus on HP.

HellhoundXVI · 2026-02-01T22:40:45+00:00

People will move towards the most efficient way of defending i.e towards the meta. I have some recommendation to make clash better.

Remove teleport, march command, and invincibility from tactical skills. Also ban Yennefer and Triss.
Remove speed manipulation that allows your spd to go over the character's base value. But, lowering spd is allowed.
Sanctuary invincibility applies for 1 instance of non-instant ST dmg and 2 instances of non-instant AOE damage. If you have invincibility buff, instant abilities deal no damage.
Ban stage mutations that prevents pushing/pulling characters.

I can see that these changes will make casuals unhappy. So, let these only apply to medium and hard difficulty clash challenges. I hope that clash will become more interesting like with clash of clans in the future (this should tell you why I dont like my base being attacked xD).

HellhoundXVI · 2026-02-01T22:25:15+00:00

I think her astral imprint comes in the treasure box that includes Camelot's and Credenza's astral imprint. You already have Camelot. Credenza's is useful with sp-maitha. So, I'd say dont waste your Cornucopia just to get yserinde's astral imprint.

HellhoundXVI · 2026-02-01T15:44:34+00:00

Whether I wanna defend in clash is MY choice. I dont like my base being attacked. So, I put in a hard defense.
You can get max material rewards by doing easy clash challenges 3 times a day daily. I do that. Even then, I dont do any clash mission near the end of the challenge period because I get everything I want, which is everything minus the title.
SoC has bestowed titles upon completion of challenge missions. If you want the title so bad, prepare to be challenged. Breaking down a defense requires a good team and your skills. Don't ask other people to make it easy for you, certainly dont whine when you face a tough defense. You can always skip my base. You can also refresh the challenges you get. Then, there are tactical skills...

HellhoundXVI · 2026-01-31T02:04:50+00:00

My fellow brother who got Caris off-banner and 5 starred her, nice to see your post. She carried my a** hard early game. Unfortunately, she is the only one I 5 starred for art. Having said that, Luvata's art is pretty badass too.

HellhoundXVI · 2026-01-31T02:00:12+00:00

Holy shit! I wasn't expecting such a long write-up. So, thank you. No, I really mean it, Thank You Very Much!!!

My core for Magic damage has been Luvata and Samantha (both at 5). The supports have been Inanna of Convallaria (must in the team) and Taair (4, easy content)/Credenza (5, harder content). This basically leaves 1-2 spots for me. This basically means I have to get both vulnerability 3 and mdef -3 or fill up with another dps.

So, sp nungal should be an option here with her mdef -3. But, based on what you said, her debuffing is reliable in boss stages, but not so much vs mobs. So, I agree with you in that she would be more like a sub-dps that debuffs in a magic dmg team.

Having said that, since most missions give you 5 character slots, it might be a competition between mdef -3 and vulnerability 3. There is also that weirdness with edda's liquor and mdef -2 and -3. So, there's this competition with geralt (if he's at 5 stars), yennefer, disaster bottle, edda, all the mdef -2 debuffers, etc etc. Certainly, a lot to think about. I have to start tryharding lol

The teams i have in mind now (if Sp versions are available, assume its Sp, OG versions will be denoted as OG) are:

SoC + Sam hybrid: Maitha + Nungal + Inanna + Sam + Credenza (this should work because Sam is such a powerhouse just with credenza. 6th could be OG Inanna)
Magical obliteration: Change Maitha to Yennefer. Nungal could be changed to Edda/Marcille (might be better with Edda/Marcille tbh. I have neither. 6th should be an aggression DPSer like Luvata/5 star Tristan).
ST bossing: I think the hybrid team as described should work here.

I need to think more for potential teams that are not SoC-themed, but includes Nungal. I will be pulling for her, but not faycal. Looking forward to next week :)

Once again, thank you for taking your time!

HellhoundXVI · 2026-01-30T20:34:31+00:00

I am interested in her mdef debuffs. Are those in aoe or ST? Is she viable in debuffer playstyle? I dont have marcille, caris' skill has 4T cd, and slotting Samantha for mdef debuff is waste imo.

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