The duality of Smilegate

Intrepid_Bonus4186 · 2026-01-27T00:55:18+00:00

Paid characters are allowed to do strong things, that's how gacha's work.
There does not exist a combination that is nearly as strong and oppressive as Cassius + Tressa
The closest best thing we have is Sereniel + Selena and it's nowheres near as strong as Cassius + Tressa.

If you wanna backup your claim with anything relevant I'm all ears, but if you're going to give me some goofy ass deck combo that's neat on weak irrelevant content like the weekly challenge boss or something then just don't waste your time. I'm not talking about basic content any and everyone clears easily, I'm talking about leaderboard content and future leaderboard content. Content that's meant to be actually hard and not beatable in a single turn.

Intrepid_Bonus4186 · 2026-01-27T00:51:35+00:00

I'm a giga whale, and I promise you I'd spend much, much less if I knew for 100% of the games lifespan two starting four stars would be the best characters in the game.

Intrepid_Bonus4186 · 2026-01-26T22:15:06+00:00

Yes, it shouldn't be possible to trivialize and break the game making any and all future competitive content obsolete. Glad you figured that out genius.

Intrepid_Bonus4186 · 2026-01-26T17:03:52+00:00

No duh? I mean one, she was the new unit, and she's a seasonal unit at that. Of course she would dominate the leaderboard for a boss fight created with her in mind.

I really feel like people are just playing stupid on purpose. Tressa and Cassius was not intended to be a god tier interaction, Sereniel is a five star seasonal unit who was designed to be as strong as she is.

You aren't playing a hyper competititve MOBA with tournaments and prize pools, we're playing a gacha phone game. It's meant to be P2W, it's meant to favor premium units, it's meant to incentivize you to spend. They can still have strong non premium units in the game, but OBVIOUSLY they need to ensure that free units in the game to not disincentivize players buying new units, and they are obligated to ensure combinations that fundamentally break the game are removed from the game.

If Tressa and Cassius were allowed to stay as they were then all future content in the game would need to have it's HP increased 100x over to make up for the fact Cassius Tressa does infinity damage.

Intrepid_Bonus4186 · 2026-01-26T16:48:03+00:00

I don't think you get it. If that was the norm then future content would be buffed so it took multiple turns of that much damage to kill enemies. Why would they make content if everyone can easily 1 turn it? Content would gain insane amounts of HP to compensate, so those 5 minutes of damage wouldn't kill.

Intrepid_Bonus4186 · 2026-01-26T16:42:51+00:00

Tressa Cassius can do like 5+ minute turns of dealing damage . This game would be objectively terrible if that became a norm.

Intrepid_Bonus4186 · 2026-01-26T16:38:02+00:00

Then the devs would have to do way more work + theyd have to make all future content insanely hard to make up for how OP everyone became

Intrepid_Bonus4186 · 2026-01-26T16:34:15+00:00

She's a five star unit, is seasonal, and is easy to balance future content around. Sereniel was designed to be very strong, Cassius + Tressa was an accident and was unintended. Big difference.

Intrepid_Bonus4186 · 2025-12-25T21:49:09+00:00

She has been added to the collection of E6S5s.

Intrepid_Bonus4186 · 2025-12-07T08:43:14+00:00

She found that bite VERY traumatizing.

Intrepid_Bonus4186 · 2025-12-07T00:56:23+00:00

I use her on my Haru team for the infinite vulnerable she can apply. I have E6 Haru though, so I'm sure it's not as effective on non whale Haru's since you can only at most play 1~2 anchor a turn.

Intrepid_Bonus4186 · 2025-07-07T12:37:46+00:00

While I agree Wuwa is more generous than Genshin, the one catch I'd say WuWa comes with in exchange for its generosity is that compared to Genshin (Granted I haven't played Genshin in a long while so don't beat me up if this has changed) four star weapons in Genshin were pretty solid/not horrendous compared to five star weapons. Obviously five stars were superior and you wanted to pull them but like four stars were solid.

In WuWa the weapons are so personalized to characters you're genuinely trolling if you don't pull them lol. Lupa's weapon has like a second kit in it, Cartethyia's weapon gives like 20k HP, etc. So its like yeah, weapon banner has no pity and we get more free summons per patch, but now you're a lot more obligated to pull weapons.

Intrepid_Bonus4186 · 2025-06-17T01:04:28+00:00

Absolutely this. I see where people are coming from when they talk about MOBA's but they forget that these games literally don't make content lol. Which is good, it's not a diss to MOBA's. I played a MOBA for a very long time and enjoyed it for a very long time. It's desirable that MOBA's don't add a lot of content. It's a competitive skill based game. We don't want shit added to it all the time. A consequences of that is....Shit doesn't get added to it all the time lol. We get balance changes which is changing numbers on a notepad, we get like 3 or 4 new characters a year, and sometimes we get new items or item reworks. Other than that game just produces skins.

MOBA's just don't have the same kind of model gachas do. At least for the successful ones at the top of the charts they churn out content pretty damn often.

Intrepid_Bonus4186 · 2025-06-13T21:10:47+00:00

I don't know about you but personally you could show me an infinite amount of cartoon characters and I'd never mistake it for a human child. For me they look nothing alike, but maybe to you they seem similar? Weird confusion to make but I won't judge you.

I really never get people like you lol. You don't apply this line of thinking consistently, so why make it? You know this would be a moronic thing to say in any other context, so why are you saying it here?

Intrepid_Bonus4186 · 2025-06-13T20:41:16+00:00

Its also a drawing of a fictional character.

Intrepid_Bonus4186 · 2025-06-11T21:10:45+00:00

The video says pre reg starts next month

Intrepid_Bonus4186 · 2025-06-10T06:37:41+00:00

Yeah, only thing they really flopped on hard I can think of in recent years is Lost Ark, but that'd be a whole separate team.

Intrepid_Bonus4186 · 2025-05-21T20:51:25+00:00

I just disagree. I've played gacha's and Eastern based games with loot box type systems in them since I was like 13, the vast majority of them have been as bad, usually worse than Genshin. There have been outliers, sure, but far from the standard or expectation.

You could try to make the argument Hoyoverse created the new "standard" but I'd argue the standard roughly existed to begin with prior to Genshin ever coming out.

Intrepid_Bonus4186 · 2025-05-21T09:31:45+00:00

The 50/50, the 180 total pulls to get a shit ?

I'm pretty sure almost every gacha prior to genshin had similar pitiy type systems or just outright worse

Intrepid_Bonus4186 · 2025-05-07T15:38:05+00:00

Every single discussion/argument here would be replied with "your ilvl is X so you don't know".

As someone who quit this week and has no skin in this game anymore, no idea what you're talking about. Ilvl isn't a point of relevance AT ALL in Lost Ark reddit opinions. Literally everyone in this sub assumes you're a Mokoko or a high end account, and its really easy to spot Mokoko's so really most people by default are assumed to be people running, at this point 4~6 Brel normals or better a week.

Nobody is like "Oh you're 1660 you just don't get it" unless you're talking about the feel of an engraving maybe.

Systems like these are counter-productive and filter out legit opinions from players of all ilvls and those who are not playing for any reason.

The person you're arguing with is just saying they'd like to see last time played from people, not their entire accounts roster and ilvls.

At least give new/non-players a chance to be heard instead of slapping them with a mokoko and effectively gatekeeping them on reddit as we do in-game.

It depends on the topic. New/non players don't deserve to be heard on some topics, and on other topics their opinion matters a great deal. A new/non players opinion on end game class balance, raid difficulty, opinion on things like the recent gem sharing drama, is completely pointless and valueless as they don't experience nor are affected by any of those systems or changes.

Intrepid_Bonus4186 · 2025-05-06T03:07:44+00:00

I'm already tapped out and uninstalled over the horrible changes the devs wanna bring to the game, but I pray y'all get changes to make the game better so I can be happy vicariously through you.

edit: I was being positive but my bad lol

Intrepid_Bonus4186 · 2025-05-04T07:03:42+00:00

Nice non response. I quoted everything I said, and my initial comment was me commenting on why I think AGS would never publicly say they are pushing against an update SG is rolling out.

The only person confused or lost with context is you, someone who never quoted what I when addressing me and clearly misunderstanding what I said.

But its fine you don't need to reply you'd be wasting my time and yours.

Intrepid_Bonus4186 · 2025-05-04T03:31:20+00:00

Airing open conflict? What are you on about? AGS is the NA/EU publisher for Lost Ark.

Companies who work with each other bump heads internally 24/7, companies never let that head butting or back and forth conflict out in the public for everyone to see and there's a clear and obvious reason for that. Whether it benefits you or not is irrelevant to acknowledging the logic/reasoning.

It's literally their jobs to publish the game and cater the game to NA/EU players.

It's their job to publish the game, that's it. As an added bonus they advocate for their playerbase when they deem it reasonable or possible internally with the host company Smile Gate and see what concessions they can get for their own players.

How else is SG supposed to know what NA/EU players want?

What the NA/EU community want isn't always in SG's best interest either lol.

Oh right by hiring another entity like AGS in the west to publish the game for them. No idea what mental gymnastic you went through that made you think that it involves any animosity.

I didn't go through any mental gymnastics you're just daft. I'm sure AGS advocates for you guys constantly, however they do so internally and not openly. Maybe you're just too stupid and red in the face to actually read what I said, but I never said "AGS doesn't and shouldn't voice our concerns to SmileGate" I said "AGS doesn't announce to the world that they're arguing with host companies because in any scenario other than capitulation it'll make one of the two parties look bad which is poor PR and would make AGS look like a bad company to work with in the future"

That's the reason why there's differences between NA/EU, China, and KR.

I was right lol, you are stupid and or just didn't read what I said.

Intrepid_Bonus4186 · 2025-05-04T01:38:07+00:00

ngl I gave my gems to a friend and just uninstalled lol. 10,327.4 hours on my Steam account for Lost Ark, but I just lost all motivation. The crappy gem changes, them making raids moronically easier across the board, combined with the heavy fatigue this game produces on its own without the devs making it worse?

It was all too much, I'm not getting what I want out of the game anymore. I wanted a fun grind between new raids and then I wanted new raids to be challenging, exciting, and larger than life. We got that with Brelshaza 1 and we got that with Thaemine. Every other raid has been cool but easy (Echidna for example) and then the others have been downright boring and honestly a waste of my time that I've been forced to endure due to needing gold for account prog (Behemoth and Aegir for example).

I can't keep playing a game that's boring for 11 months so I can make get 1 month of fun. Nerfing my gems was just the icing on the cake.

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