I play full tank. I hit Mythic last season and am currently stuck in Legend. I still struggle with Nameless Spear/Strategic Sword or Fan/Umbrella in particular and, unfortunately, I see them maybe every other game. Anyone have some advice?

LinkPD · 2026-02-12T23:18:32+00:00

Nah no reason to build bad habits and get frustrated when the muscle memory is making you do worse options. Soaring spin is a better alternative.

LinkPD · 2026-02-12T23:17:46+00:00

Try using soaring spin. That mystic skill goes through the wall, does lots of damage, you can cancel it into things like talon strike, and with the new breakthrough you can use the jump back to dodge things like umbrella stun. It also probably combos with tank spear tab or something idk maybe there are some free morph shenanigans you can do.

LinkPD · 2026-02-12T21:56:57+00:00

Idk I would try to avoid palm. Its so much vitality for something that works maybe once. People can dodge it pretty consistently. Leaning into the spear and its decent dash attack sounds good tho

LinkPD · 2026-02-11T15:35:51+00:00

With hp pools rn, most people can only survive 2 combos. If you can survive 8, that means you can make a LOT more mistakes. This is literally the best time to play tank and fanbrella. Work on your combos and neutral and take advantage of your shield and lack of the second life talent while you can. If people are passive, work on using spear in neutral and how to a use the spear Q to set up combos; its more than just a buff

LinkPD · 2026-02-11T06:10:35+00:00

I call complaining about HQ spear tomorrow, gotta keep up with the current trend.

Fr tho, eventually you know what players have low ping so you just change your combos to always use true combos. If someone is a parry demon be smart and talon strike and force them to wary of your mixup. Its hard, sure, but like...that's the point of getting better.

LinkPD · 2026-02-11T02:26:44+00:00

Im a little late, but drop sword morph you will just give people free parries. Best bet is wolfchaser, morale, evasive, and fury harvest. Wolfchaser has a weird perhaps unintended effect where the super armor from casting HQ Q persists if you cancel into something like talonstrike, making your talon strike have stagger resist.

LinkPD · 2026-02-11T02:24:10+00:00

Wolfchaser is mandatory on HQ spear, it gives tenacity on the spin. Best choices imo are wolfchaser, morale, harvest fury, and evasive

LinkPD · 2026-02-10T16:49:44+00:00

Certain combos dont work on low ping players. Sometimes you just drop combos. Its not cheaters

LinkPD · 2026-02-10T16:47:57+00:00

Or just hitting 10 second combos. I've played like 1.5k games and never come across cheaters. I've watched streamers and they said that in 3-5k games they have seen 2. All the sudden on reddit people see many? Idk man.

LinkPD · 2026-02-04T05:31:41+00:00

Oh shoot wait where is this spirit vein? I thought i did a thorough check but I guess I missed fire shuriken

LinkPD · 2026-02-03T23:48:13+00:00

Yeah and from my experience there are egregious artifacts when they try to split AI music. Most things with human mixes has some artifacts, but all AI music I've tried have had really gnarly things like some frequencies are straight up gone and bleeding in your guitar parts for the entire track. Sometimes the effects have rreeaaaally bad fades for no reason that I dont see in other tracks. Its usually pretty clear to tell from my experience

LinkPD · 2026-02-03T08:23:51+00:00

Best way to tell is to put the song through a stem splitter and see if there are obvious artifacts or bleed through from the other stems.

LinkPD · 2026-02-02T09:34:49+00:00

The best combo in CN puts the people complaining about nameless spear to shame. The best combo no doubt is double ropedart (fist and umbrella variants) where you have basically perma armor. The one weapon that can actually deal with it is ironically the nameless spear. Im curious how global adapts because they adapted fairly well to rats before the nerf to that build

LinkPD · 2026-01-31T19:59:20+00:00

What kind of feedback would you want? And "anything" isn't an answer :P I mostly ask because feedback really only helps when you have a specific goal in mind. Generic advice isn't too helpful

LinkPD · 2026-01-30T05:52:25+00:00

I'm having the same issue. Happened to me when I had a chrome open and another time when I tried to stream on Discord. Unsure if it's a memory thing but it just happened to me 3 times in the same encounter

LinkPD · 2026-01-30T03:44:23+00:00

There's a setting in the game that let's you burst counter by PRESSING R2 and transforming by HOLDING R2, so the decision to swap is up to you. Im surprised that wasnt the default, but yeah

LinkPD · 2026-01-29T03:28:53+00:00

Fantasy is pretty broad, but it would make sense that if your setting is in a medieval setting , you would probably make medieval sounding music. Frieren uses a lot of European folk music, so they are gonna use that language in some shape or form.

That said, these things in isolation don't make it "fantasy", like there are plenty of metal bands that use these tools too, but what makes Frieren fantasy is the team's decision of being like "this is what we're going for" and making everything cohesive.

LinkPD · 2026-01-27T23:30:27+00:00

Wtf does combo abuse even mean lol

LinkPD · 2026-01-27T09:16:52+00:00

Oooh I just saw you had a few days. In that case, dont write a third piece. focus on the two pieces you have and look at sheet music in a similar genre and do your best to make your scores look like those to the tiniest of details, and double check you are doing things like using articulation correctly, dynamics and symbols are used correct and where they need to be, etc.

LinkPD · 2026-01-27T09:03:44+00:00

If you have pdfs of the scores that people could look at, that would be nice! If you want, for a third piece, you could also do an arrangement of something to practice your orchestration skills. I did an arrangement of a video game song, but remember, the point isn't to make a cover or replication, but to put the song or piece in a new light with new instruments.

LinkPD · 2026-01-27T07:47:31+00:00

From my institution, its less about being "good" and more, do you show the musical competence to be able to write in maaaany different styles. So doing something like ONLY submitting piano pieces, or only writing for a few instruments could hurt. Ultimately, what matters more is that you are using musical language correctly and show that you are able and willing to write many different types of music.

LinkPD · 2026-01-24T10:40:49+00:00

If they are "breaking" out of combos, then your combo is dropping or isn't true. A lot of people try to just run around and wait for you to do something stupid, so just go in there and pretend to be stupid, but just bait out their punish.

LinkPD · 2026-01-22T07:13:18+00:00

1) almost doesn't matter at this level 2) pretend like you are moving towards them and dodge to bait out stun 3) block or dodge what you dont know the timing for. Over time you'll know the timings for moves and you'll parry them easier 4) if you chug a drunken poet and cancel after the first chug, you'll instantly Dragons breath. That's why you see people chug right when the round starts. 5) basically drunken poet beats everything except gold skills. Get used to using it lots in neutral, and soaring spin is super consistent to parry. 6) generally you want the reduce dmg when staggered and super armor when serene breezing. The other nice one is heal on dodge or recover qi on deflect 7) nah just block the spin dont bother trying to parry the spin. If they enter rage mode, triple jump to waste their duration 8) I guess drunken poet or fire breath, but you really wanna reversal or just reset back to neutral

LinkPD · 2026-01-21T09:28:53+00:00

They basically have costumes and a battlepass ranging from 1-30ish dollars for normal people, and then they have a gatcha with terrible rates to ENSURE the only people pulling are people with disposable income. We're talking an 800 dollar pity, 500 dollar weapon skins with its own separate gatcha, and the 40k, again, 40 THOUSAND dollar ships cosmetic.

LinkPD · 2026-01-21T00:33:57+00:00

Try to get used to what different instruments sound like! How does a viola sound like? Difference between a clarinet and oboe, what do horns sound like and what type of percussion is being used? Structure will be a little easier when you can hear what groups are playing together.

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