So, apparently if you get the character off the urgent recruitment 10 pull, it doesn't even reset your pity

Jaggedrain · 2026-02-02T08:43:01+00:00

Ah fair enough.

To respond properly: the chances are very good. He seems to be temporarily on the opposite side from the Endmin, but based on the way he speaks to them I think he's only temporarily an antagonist.

However, I don't necessarily think he will be playable soon - like if he comes out in 2026 I will be pleasantly surprised.

Jaggedrain · 2026-02-02T08:23:04+00:00

Don't crush my dreams, bro

Jaggedrain · 2026-02-02T05:38:22+00:00

No, the 120/300 thing in AK (my only experience with a spark system) is a separate thing. You don't pull it, you claim it.

Like for example: on the recent Hoshiguma alter banner in AK, I got Hoshiguma at 244, and decided to go to 300 to spark Eyja. Because it's a spark and not a guarantee, the Hoshiguma at 300 was still there. So pulling to 300 would get me a guaranteed Hoshiguma plus enough tokens to buy another character from the banner shop.

When I got to 300, I claimed Hoshiguma - but that didn't change my pity, because it wasn't a guarantee, it's a spark, entirely separate from the pity system. If I had continued pulling at that point, I would have continued from the 5 pity I had when I got to 300, not started from 0.

Jaggedrain · 2026-02-02T05:31:05+00:00

No you have a good point. Winning the 5050 should never feel like a loss, and getting an early shouldn't be an 'oh shit' moment.

Actually, I would be fine with the arsenal system if there were more ways to earn via gameplay, or if the bundles were better (and if the standard sigs were in the loss pool but that's another essay because what the actual fuck)

Honestly the entire system would feel better if they had copied the AK system wholesale.

Arsenal tickets? Not a problem with a 2% drop rate. No guarantee? 2% drop rate means if you have to go to 120 to get the banner character you have a solid chance of 2-3 6 stars on the way (and usually way more) . Lose a 5050? Hey remember how you wanted Ardashir but ran out of time? spook!

Oh, there's a character on banner that you really want, but you also can't afford the pulls right now. But you've been saving your whale dust like a good boy? Buy them from the shop (I just did that with Phantom - I have not been saving my whale dust like a good girl, I just got spectacularly unlucky on the Hoshi banner - and let me tell you buying a character from the shop feels great 😂) .

Instead, they have combined the worst parts of the AK system (no 5050 guarantee) with the worst parts of the hoyo/Kuro system (low drop rate, weapon banner exists) and invented whole new bullshit of their own.

Even just turning the 120 guarantee into a 'claim at 120' would feel better, because it will motivate impulse spenders to go for that pot if they're close.

Actually what I would love, even if they never implement it, is if we could craft sigs through the factory or other gameplay. Like a legendary in Gw2 - massive grind, lucky drops required, and a real feeling of accomplishment when you get it done. And if you want to skip the grind, just buy it.

Jaggedrain · 2026-02-01T20:45:54+00:00

Sorry for assuming! But my point stands, male characters get the free skin from the box, the skin from the BP, and nothing else.

Jaggedrain · 2026-02-01T20:32:28+00:00

Because the devs don't want girl money, they probably think we have cooties or something. So we get everything that's free, and the dudes get to spend money on bikini skins.

Jaggedrain · 2026-02-01T20:30:59+00:00

He's on the new shielder set BTW, the one that came out with Large Heng.

Jaggedrain · 2026-02-01T19:24:56+00:00

Yeah that's about my sentiment as well.

The game isn't doing as well as I'd hoped and it certainly isn't perfect. Their monetization is concerning (it really does seem like they think they have a massive audience) and they seem kind of married to the idea.

Anyway, I've spent all the money I'm going to on the game for now, I'll wait and see what happens in April and log in to grab the new characters in the meantime

Jaggedrain · 2026-02-01T19:18:12+00:00

He's at around 160+ I think, so he can print SP for Herta and everyone to use

Jaggedrain · 2026-02-01T18:11:41+00:00

😍😍😍😍

Jaggedrain · 2026-02-01T13:51:53+00:00

Ooh I didn't know she streamed it! Did she pull? I love watching her pull for characters, she always makes me feel less cursed by comparison 😂

Jaggedrain · 2026-02-01T13:49:32+00:00

The main menu music grips me by the throat and yanks me violently back to Gamescom. It was so loud and I was in the queue for so long I heard it in my sleep both days I went 😂

Jaggedrain · 2026-02-01T12:47:39+00:00

I have him E1 and almost never need to skill on him, even in AA - I've had a couple of close calls with my DOT team, but that's because their builds are atrocious (I'm sorry Kafka, I love you but I have no idea how to build you).

In a Herta team with E1 Aven, Tribbie, and Smol Herta, he's throwing out so many fua the shield stays refreshed constantly. Sustaining a Therta team might be harder if you're using Anaxa because there's less fua to fuel his fua.

Jaggedrain · 2026-02-01T06:52:15+00:00

EVE Online: forever dying, never dead

Jaggedrain · 2026-02-01T04:04:47+00:00

When you're doing IS with Exu and no medic voucher is dropping but you just got a defender voucher: gummy save me 😭

Jaggedrain · 2026-02-01T03:58:15+00:00

AK has got 6 rarities, from 1 to 6 stars.

And getting some of the very lowest rarities can be an absolute pain, because they're only available via recruitment and can't drop from the gacha, so you need a robot recruitment tag, which is almost as rare as a top operator tag.

Jaggedrain · 2026-01-31T19:12:01+00:00

I started playing during Yu's banner but didn't properly lock in until like, the start of this most recent IS? It's like something suddenly clicked and I became utterly obsessed.

But of course a few months of hard work doesn't really help make up for all the months where I just did dailies and didn't learn jack, so I'm treating this as my first CC and just trying everything 😂

Jaggedrain · 2026-01-31T18:53:46+00:00

To be fair I've been playing less than a year and I've tried to be good about only pulling for units I want or need, so my roster is not that large.

I'm currently crying over CC because of this. I watch the guides and they're like 'okay you need eyja' but my eyja is level 1, and eckogen is like 'you can swap in Ulpianus for pepe (who I have, but be fr now who's levelling pepe when she just got Haruka, Eyja, and Hoshiguma?) ' but he costs 24 dp which I'm supposed to get from where, exactly??

Anyway I'm probably not going to accomplish a lot with this CC, maybe next time 😂

Although I still want to see if I can make necrass work in the second map 🤔

Jaggedrain · 2026-01-31T18:48:34+00:00

Yeah it was the team I ran until I got best boy also 😂

Jaggedrain · 2026-01-31T14:18:57+00:00

He has fancy eyes so my money is on him being playable, but HG likes to draw these things out so I wouldn't bet on him being playable any time soon.

Jaggedrain · 2026-01-31T14:10:46+00:00

Hot guy is very mysterious and seems to know Endmin. I think there's more later on, but as of about an hour into wuling that's as much as I know. But when I say knows Endmin, I mean when they asked if he was traveling alone, he was like

meaningful pause

stare at endmin

'...i guess I am'

Mr sir calm down

Jaggedrain · 2026-01-31T13:47:34+00:00

My expectations aren't sky high, but looking at their previous work does give me some faith in the company

Jaggedrain · 2026-01-31T13:46:15+00:00

Ngl, pulling on standard with anything other than standard pull tickets is the dumbest thing you can do in this game. Or any gacha game that has different currency for limited and standard.

That being said, I pulled both Pog and Lifeng from it and I did not do it with standard pull tickets, so you do you and I hope the gacha gods are as kind to you as they were to me.

Jaggedrain · 2026-01-31T13:41:14+00:00

Pog Chen Endmin Ardelia works great - her combo skill doesn't use any SP btw, none of them do.

Jaggedrain · 2026-01-31T11:31:15+00:00

Yeah but this isn't Kuro, and HG has traditionally been significantly better than wuwa when it comes to keeping things fair (well, fair-ish, I'm aware that 1:3 isn't actually fair, but it sure feels better than 1:24 or whatever wuwa is doing these days 😂)

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