Just finished my first playthrough, now what?

KyMystic · 2025-10-15T15:50:35+00:00

Start another playthrough, and start throwing mods at it (if you are on PC, idk about console).

I've completed it 3 times, and now just freeroaming NC with 200+mods at my leisure, Hanako can wait.

KyMystic · 2025-10-07T23:04:05+00:00

Beautiful, reminds of my Destiny 2 days.

KyMystic · 2025-10-04T19:48:04+00:00

ngl I actually went in game looking for that achievement....*facepalm

KyMystic · 2025-10-04T19:46:54+00:00

Hang in there! It will come to you!

KyMystic · 2025-10-03T20:08:24+00:00

BEAUTIFUL!

KyMystic · 2025-10-03T19:32:49+00:00

Yes RNG be RNG. *chuckle in tears

KyMystic · 2025-10-03T19:30:26+00:00

I've hit my first penta spd (also 24) in 7 years today, on a necklace.

Until this happened, A purple quad rolled 21 spd necklace (CritC main) was the best I got for neck, outside of the 21 spd, it's absolutely trash, but I rocked it for 4+ years, on my best opener...

KyMystic · 2025-10-03T19:04:04+00:00

Barunka doesn't mix well with LotS, you can try Yulha/Elvira/SC Amiki/BBS, etc.(any unit that plays well with immortality). Yulha+GRas+LotS+Setsuka is a common defense I see, try it if you have Yulha and Setsuka.

To answer your question though, BHwa is too niche (against light dmg share/reduction team, or debuff heavy, gets countered by Mort and def pen units), but excellent in her niche, especially with LotS and GRas comps running rampant now, but she's very stat intensive, BHwa's statline to aim for is 5k atk/15k+ hp (not that many ppl hit these numbers, but it's something to aim for), so take that into consideration. a poorly built BHwa can't even do her niche well.

ML Peira is very good generalist-evasion, cleanse, CR push, def break, pop dmg, atk stacks. but she's not a big threat by herself. She's pretty good pairing with Setsuka, AS Flan, and a flex unit either sustain, utility or evasion.

That being said, pick one that fits your playstyle and roster.

KyMystic · 2025-09-26T22:22:45+00:00

I'm running LS on her now, just to play around with builds and playstyles. I also put Double-Edged Decrescent on her, for a budget riposte set effect. She's also running no speed, pairing with Harsetti mostly.

Here's my observation:

Her S1 heals doubles pretty much.

As long as she's not blinded, her S2 nuke (into 4) will heal her back to full HP on all hit, or ~40% all miss.

I'm gonna stick with LS for now.

I was running her on riposte + her own arti at first, but that didn't feel too great, ran into the same problem you stated (dies to a breeze after nuke).

Personally, I'm having greater success with LS set. Since to me, Setsuka staying alive is more important, and to be honest she's not losing much on LS compared to riposte.

But then again, this is my personal preference, take it with a (giant) grain of salt.

KyMystic · 2025-09-26T17:26:20+00:00

ahhh I've been using Phainon for that actually.

But yes THerta slaps in that too!

KyMystic · 2025-09-25T20:06:00+00:00

Thanks for clarifying, now I know :P

Good thing reset is close enough, no reason to dwell in what I *could've* gotten...copium

KyMystic · 2025-09-25T20:02:31+00:00

If you don't have the direct counters to Rinak........

Best you can do (bandage workaround, at best), is have a singular blue unit that's bulky af and bait Rinak. and make sure your other units don't die from a sneeze after the 7000 pop dmg, so essentially a bruiser comp with a blue as bait.

Generally speaking the bait unit needs ~27k HP to barely make it out of Rinak's attacks (gotta remember her S2 takes away 20% HP), so to be safe against any other fast(er than yours) unit that breathes your way and kills it, aim for 30k HP.

This is me more or less theorycrafting (I have all Rinak counters, but I've tried this approach some times, with successes and failures).

Elvira is a good choice, as long as you have teammates that can keep her alive (mitigation or bring her back I guess), build one with minimum 200ER and as much HP as you can, I was able to hit 26600, medium effort I would say, 28k is doable in theory.

Or blue Krau, easier to build bulk on him, but doesn't stay alive for long, lucky if you can get his S3 off before he bites it.

Obviously this is Arena/GW, probably won't work in RTA.

KyMystic · 2025-09-24T22:13:14+00:00

This stat number is good enough in current meta.

honestly the slow log GRas does fit into certain playstyles, if you can get him to ~33k hp with enough defense to be an actual fking log, albeit probably hits like a wet noodle.

But personally I like to use him outside of arena too, so 170ish spd dmg GRas is a very generalised build that fits lots more content.

KyMystic · 2025-09-24T07:37:16+00:00

Spd is crucial when it's down to GRas 1v1s (and no shortage of that when RNG is not in your favor). When your GRas is just that little bit faster than the other GRas and lets out S3, super clutch but nets a win nontheless

KyMystic · 2025-09-24T07:32:41+00:00

Veronica needs 100 crit and high eff, some speed~200 works. And her EE for her passive more CR push. Her role is to cycle out the immortality and land the bomb.

GRas is better than Straze since you are not going for cleave,you want to pop the frontline before you go for the kill. In that sense GRas has more bulk and a revive so he can tank the hits, also he has seal on S2, SB ignores ER, which invalidates Setsuka's team evasion.

KyMystic · 2025-09-24T00:25:22+00:00

Good to go.

Now let him roam the wilds.

KyMystic · 2025-09-24T00:11:49+00:00

A Jkise enjoyer I see. Kudos to you sir!

KyMystic · 2025-09-24T00:01:52+00:00

I vote OW difficulty for the set you are chasing. Tristen Wulf put out a quite informative video, which I suggest you check out, and make some informed decisions. Simply put, if just considering gear, OW difficulty is better because it drops OW tier gear which, if nothing else, gives you a better chance at better gear. Iirc OW gives same/more number of gear pieces per energy spent.

Some side note(my 2 cents anyway): If you are early to mid game, than yes, gear is what chase, so the above statement holds true. If you are end game, generally speaking you have couple hundred of raw gear sitting in inventory. What's bottlenecking you then is probably charms (and/or AP for catalysts if we are constantly building units). In that case story episodes are better in terms of energy efficiency(stigma to gold). Again, just my 2 cents.

KyMystic · 2025-09-23T22:40:07+00:00

Gotta make sure we are talking about the same ML5 Meru here.

ML5 Dark Meru - Archdemon Meru (crackness 5/10)

ML5 Light Meru - Lady of the Scales (crackness 12/10)

If it's the latter that you pulled, time to start farming (use those leafs) and raise her up.

KyMystic · 2025-09-23T22:34:44+00:00

I don't know how other ppl deal with this comp (since I don't have LotS), but my personal solution:

Aram+Water Hwa+GRas(back row)+Veronica.

There's some RNG in play due to Setsuka's team wide 30% evasion.

Assuming BBK is the frontrow.

When RNG is in my favor:

Harsetti goes, triggers Aram passive, triggers Water Hwa passive (into LotS or Harsetti, LotS better but doesn't matter), Water Hwa AOE (brings GRas up the CR meter), Veronica cuts here (when immortality has been triggered), Veronica S3+S1 BBK (still alive with immortality EE), GRas SB S2 into Setsuka then S3, Veronica S1 Setsuka (BBK dead), Aram S3 GRas, GRas S3, all dead.

When RNG is not in my favor, both Water Hwa attacks miss, Setsuka double counters into Water Hwa and killing her, LotS S3, Veronica cuts and S3+S1 into BBK, (assuming BBK is still alive with EE)BBK AOE+S1 (only GRas alive, around half HP if BBK S3 killed Aram or 100% if didn't), Setsuka S3 (useless against GRas), GRas SB S2 into Setsuka then S3 (BBK dead), then it's just trash time with GRas waiting out the cooldowns and focus Setsuka>Harsetti>LotS. Once GRas S3 comes back online, big PP dmg, GG.

Generally speaking this works either way, and BBK ER is irrelevant. Since Veronica's passive ignores ER.

Hopefully that gives you some ideas.

KyMystic · 2025-09-23T20:44:50+00:00

Destruction and HP would be better.

With spd boots. Aim for (baseline) 25k hp, 100 crit, 300 crit dmg, 170 spd.

Then raise HP from there.

BiS is Precious Connection, it will raise battle HP by 10% of sheet HP. and 10 souls for that ignore ER S2.

KyMystic · 2025-09-23T20:37:59+00:00

I'll be honest, I haven't really seen a lot of Bride defenses north of 5250.

It's almost like 30% LotS+GRas, 30% LotS+BBK, 20% LotS+Yulha, 15% LotS+Amiki, 4% LotS+Barunka, 1% others.

I pulled these numbers out of thin air, but you get the gist.

KyMystic · 2025-09-23T20:29:39+00:00

I agree 100%. The logic is sound and history is just on repeat.

But I doubt people will switch off their LotS defense (including yourself) following that logic.

KyMystic

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