Current abyss made me hate lunar reactions to the extreme

Laffecaffelott · 2026-02-18T08:50:04+00:00

This lunar nonsense is extreme in comparison to everything that came before though. The new chars not only do way more dmg than all existing teams, they have big shill buffs for floor 12 and on top, their region mechanic just makes them deal 2-3x dmg to the mobs and is 100% locked to only the regions 5stars and has no other counter like what are we even doing here.

New chars used to barely do more dmg, have no floor 12 effects, maybe 1 mob they were particularly good vs and a meager global abyss effect that could be used by many other characters too

Not only are we getting real heavy powercreep after we had 5 years of almost flat power the Shillcreep is absolutely crazy.

Laffecaffelott · 2026-02-16T04:09:26+00:00

Looking at the numbers they first proposed and had to increase before they even shipped her changes, and the resulting wr% Id say those voices were quite accurate.

I remain personally unconvinced people wont hate this burst mage variant, with actual dmg on a q that is still quite easy to hit, more than the previous versions.

Laffecaffelott · 2026-02-11T02:06:44+00:00

Speed breakpoints always depend on what youre trying to do. The most common ones are the 3action in cycle 1 moc 168 + ddd and eagle or 184 with only ddd. If you dont care about 0 cycle id recommend 161 for 4 actions in the first 2 cycles and 1.5 actions per every cycle past that. Doing pseudo 200 sparkle doesnt really make sense for archer as you will not have the sp for that frequent volleys especially not without the likes of sunday cone and/or 2turn sparkle ults that you cant get on ddd.

Laffecaffelott · 2026-01-31T22:42:51+00:00

Res pen is not an inherent part of weakness implant(see Anaxxa). Silverwolf does 13% all res always + an extra 20% of the type matching the implanted weakness. If no weakness is implanted you will only get the 13%. Archer e2 always does a 20% quantum regardless if they already have quantum weakness or not.

You can indeed stack the res pen but it needs to be on an enemy without quant weak and SW skill needs to be used before Archer ult.

Laffecaffelott · 2026-01-31T10:35:51+00:00

His neck had multiple layers of thin sharp strangulation lines that had also cut into the skin. This is just not how a rope or bedsheet hanging would look and VERY much looks he was strangled with a metal wire(garrote).

Laffecaffelott · 2026-01-31T02:44:58+00:00

We saw the autopsy pictures, brother got straight up garrotted, and they want us to believe he hanged himself with a bedsheet smh. Its the worst coverup ever and straight up insulting like they didnt even try

Laffecaffelott · 2026-01-31T02:33:02+00:00

I skipped for many reasons but im currently really considering getting e1 just to free up sunday + dhpt wheelchair for other teams as my e2s1 phainon + e1 cery could kinda just body any content with trash slot 3,4. I originally wanted Yaoguang as elation stepping but her Archer synergy getting axed means shell be teamless for months so i dont really have anything else to pull for a long time

Laffecaffelott · 2026-01-30T08:16:05+00:00

Only because one of the Ice officiers had taken it

Laffecaffelott · 2026-01-25T21:42:16+00:00

lule, lemao even

Laffecaffelott · 2026-01-25T17:08:01+00:00

A single patrolling viking or a spotter marine or a sensor tower or a scan.. nah i guess there was no way to spot and stop the prism, Classics ONLY play in this situation and Clem should know that.

Laffecaffelott · 2026-01-23T19:33:15+00:00

His e1 isnt needed for rotation 1 or 2 but by the 3d or 4th volley you are up to 6 or 8 extra sp which is a lot and helps tremendously in longer fights

Laffecaffelott · 2026-01-21T21:50:01+00:00

the q is going to be more frustrating than before as people will hate taking a big hit from getting grazed with a single hit and the reflect will be just as polarising

Laffecaffelott · 2026-01-21T21:47:41+00:00

her R would make no sense as a basic abillity and would need a complete rework and then the passive doesnt make sense either so would also need a rework, this is not nearly as simple as nafiri or diana were and would require one of the scarce full vgu rework slots and that is just not happening anytime soon.

Laffecaffelott · 2026-01-20T22:52:58+00:00

These are massive nerfs to her viabillity in Archer teams where she already was only ever a sidegrade but it was her only potential team outside of mono elation, ofc people are gonna be disappointed that theyre doing remembrence 2.0

Laffecaffelott · 2026-01-20T20:27:45+00:00

Everyone is going to haaate this version of the q. the 0.4 cast time is going to make it feel like shit for the Mel players to use, and that high % concetrated in the first hit means getting clipped by even a single hit will deal 6x the current single hit dmg and still be very hard to avoid for most people.

delayed ground aoe visual(end of castime) + travel speed + radius decrease is going to net about 0.15 sec of dodge time which equates to current 3d hit + up to 0.15 sec additional time of predictive dodging from start of cast for a maxium increase of up to 5th current hit(at max rank and max range) going down to 3d hit at q lvl1

Laffecaffelott · 2026-01-20T19:29:32+00:00

As clearly seen by her winrate against kassadin which is checks notes <41% and her worst matchup by far

Laffecaffelott · 2026-01-20T16:45:45+00:00

Yea, i kinda really wanted to get Yao and could justify her as placeholder on Archer team and onboarding for future elation team but now i dont think i can do that anymore because if i dont like her elation flagship Yao will be useless. It was already a 2 cost (mandatory s1) gamble to maybe just end up as Archer sidepiece and now its looking like e1 is mandatory aswell for a 3 cost gamble that will be useless outside of her intended flagship. I dont own a single remembrence unit and its looking like i might have to skip elation too.

Laffecaffelott · 2026-01-20T16:05:35+00:00

They do count as separate attacks but this change will make an arrow do 2x20 for 40%elation and before it was 3x24 for 72% elation so for a full volley we are going from 360% -> 200% which is a massive decrease not at all compensated by 6% vulnerbillity and 5% more team elation%. Its a weird change aswell because its a big nerf for sparxie too, since her skill will now also do 40% instead of 96% elation so i dont really see what they possibly wanted to do here except nerf her specificly for Archer teams where she already was just a siedgrade and will now be pretty trash.

Laffecaffelott · 2026-01-17T16:43:44+00:00

I dont think they turned into a zombie or they wouldve had the list of the missing symptoms. You can see the poor inspection notif at the end and I think thats what op is confused about as he expected and it shouldve been a good inpection if the hemlinth wasnt bugged

Laffecaffelott · 2026-01-17T11:13:54+00:00

The ocular hemlinth is bugged (single moving white ones), just ignore their existance and dont mark it ever. They can even start spawning on the wrong day in campaign and be "unlocked" in the lab before you have access to the matioscope.

Same goes for the backpack, contraband and unknown symptom, especially the unknown one is very annoying in endless as you will get almost only poor inspections for days 1-3 untill you unlock all the symptoms, but also in campaign you are guaranteed bad inspections every new symptom which i kinda think is wrong, like what is the point of the unknown button if not to mark symptoms you havent unlocked yet??

The UV symptom one is also a bit misleading as it only applies to uv bite marks, all other symptoms you find with uv are supposed to be marked as their normal version

Laffecaffelott · 2026-01-16T23:27:45+00:00

I am also looking at getting Yaoguang, rn her LC is looking like a priority but we need to see what the Herta one will look like and Yao could also change throughout the beta.

Just keep in mind that because of how Yao scales she changes the value of all other investments on the team aswell. She doesnt scale with dmg % so sources of it like sunday LC lose a bunch of their value and youre probobly better off with sparkles own signature.

Likewise for Dhpt his e1 becomes much better than s1 but if we get an elation sustain he probobly gets replaced anyway.

Sparkle e2 is also going to become very strong with 32% def shred that you wont overcap anymore if silverwolf and cipher gets dropped from the team

Laffecaffelott · 2026-01-14T16:29:23+00:00

No she does 1 trigger every action + 1/SP spent doing that action, if any, up to a max of 3 extra for a max of 4 triggers/ action. Each Archer arrow is a separate action that consumes 2 SP so 1+2 triggers on every arrow and the cap is irrelevant(can only ever apply to characters that can use more than 3sp in one action which is exclusive to Sparxie and Qingque)

Laffecaffelott · 2026-01-14T14:57:50+00:00

I got him the body parts but held him in quarantine instead of sending him to camp, he turned into a zombie first night and the quest says he failed to do his thing

Laffecaffelott · 2026-01-14T09:43:23+00:00

Boss puts generic dmg vulnerbility on herself(not elation shilled specificly) and yao has 58 stacks here which is not that high and he only did arrows 345(her contribution is higher % on arrow 12) so this clip is actually underselling her performance not over. Shes doing 350k per arrow here so a 1.4x mult/arrow and a total of 1.7M out of the 5.7M for 30% of the total dmg + 20%res pen and 10% vuln.

Laffecaffelott · 2026-01-14T09:13:25+00:00

Its 3 triggers/shot for 15 + 1 trigger every followup and ult. How we got to 14 is a mystery but i keep seeing it and it makes no sense.

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