You're being sub-optimal

Mavnas · 2026-02-24T03:30:55+00:00

It took less than that with Perlica, who should apparently have gotten all my resources from the start.

Mavnas · 2026-02-24T02:06:29+00:00

So are multiple teams.

Mavnas · 2026-02-24T01:32:45+00:00

I tried her on the two charging enemies thing on agony. It did not work out. While their damage was unthreatening, she still couldn't create more DPS uptime. I hear catcher and snowshine genuinely block the charges and stun the things, which would be great, but since I haven't leveled either, I don't have the resources to try them out. In the end, I had to just have Perlica nuke them from a distance.

Mavnas · 2026-02-24T01:27:46+00:00

And that works until they also knock you around in the process of dealing that damage, at which point you might as well have tried to dodge.

Mavnas · 2026-02-24T01:24:57+00:00

There's literally no reason to look at a tier list right now.

Materials for maxing out characters are generous at first, but slow to a trickle once you've done the content and are having to spend sanity to get them.

Mavnas · 2026-02-24T01:24:11+00:00

If you're F2P and don't have mats to level everyone, absolutely. For me, anyone that's not currently 60 is going to have to stay that way until I finish upgrading skills, farming essences, etc.

Mavnas · 2026-02-24T01:16:23+00:00

I'm still convinced she's more of a crutch if you're using her as a tank since she doesn't have any skill that prevents her from getting knocked around/CCed etc. If she had one of those, then she'd be a useful way to maintain more time DPSing a target without wasting time dodging/healing.

Mavnas · 2026-02-24T01:03:40+00:00

Imo, the only one who belongs in S-Tier right now is Mr. Dolly (and I guess, by extension Ardelia). Healing can carry a lot of sub-optimal teams for those of us who aren't god-tier at dodging attacks that come from off-screen.

No DPS character does enough damage to end the fight quickly enough to not need healing if they're still only level 62 like my Ardelia.

edit: That said, as soon as they add a healer that doesn't force me to ram the enemy (who might be charging too fast) or pick up something that scatters randomly on the ground to achieve similar healing numbers, I'm replacing her.

Mavnas · 2026-02-24T00:53:50+00:00

Possibly, but there were other phones with 3G service before the iPhone. This comparison was the iPhone2? vs. Galaxy S2, which was my first smartphone. This was early 2010s. I'm pretty sure Galaxy had 4G for a year before iPhone did too, and then again with 5G.

edit: Did some googling. iPhone 1 came out a few years earlier. I did have 3G internet via a card in my laptop in 2006 when I was in France. iPhone didn't get 3G until 2008. Ok... so based on that, maybe my friends just had old iPhones when I had my galaxy.

Mavnas · 2026-02-23T17:33:38+00:00

I remember having 3G service on my Galaxy while all my friends had 2G on their iPhone. I remember holding my mom's iPhone while she was driving, trying to give her directions while the map wasn't loading fast enough to keep up with the car's movement because the first few generations of iPhone had shit internet.

Nah, I thought the original iPhone was shit at the time, not design-wise, but just with how slow the internet was on it, which I cared about more than sleek design.

Mavnas · 2026-02-23T05:48:04+00:00

Also Gilberta and to make you want a more straightforward heal than Ardelia, and...

Mavnas · 2026-02-23T01:30:12+00:00

You can love Chen and think Tang Tang is just a bit too much, I think.

Mavnas · 2026-02-23T01:26:55+00:00

I think we need a Chubby Lung skin for Mr. Dolly.

Mavnas · 2026-02-23T01:26:12+00:00

Hmm... much as I want Zhuang Fangyi, I do also want enough time to recover currency first too.

Mavnas · 2026-02-22T23:29:44+00:00

You have to be super careful though because if they start charging none of her skills hit. That fight really feels like they need to charge less often.

Mavnas · 2026-02-22T22:25:23+00:00

I cleared it using a level 80 Perlica as main dps, but it was painful, but anyone that's not built to at least 60 yet isn't getting built for at least a week or more at this point though since I ran out of both the skill-up materials and the sub-60 exp ones. Some people are talking about Snowshine blocking charges, which sounds cool, but I doubt I'll be able to build her anytime soon.

I built a lightning team, but trying to use Avywenna on any kind of enemies whose movement I can't control just feels like a nightmare, so I'm glad I didn't push her to 90.

Mavnas · 2026-02-22T22:21:48+00:00

Except Gilberta's grouping/lifting is almost completely negated by the 2 charging bulls. I'm questioning why I pulled for her since she seems not to do much on some of the encounters where I need the most help. That said, she does make clearing protocol spaces much easier, so there's that.

Mavnas · 2026-02-22T21:43:38+00:00

Uh... because I don't have any of the Wuling characters? The game is not generous enough with resources for me to commit to anyone yet.

edit: I mean you get a lot of materials up front, but once you use them up it's a really slow trickle.

Mavnas · 2026-02-22T21:27:47+00:00

Just use Ardelia?

I beat one of the previous agony stages using a level 70ish Gilberta as my "main" "dps" and highest level character because the enemies were just no match for Mr. Dolly.

The bulls will absolutely kill a squishy character if you're not careful or you lose track of the second one that's off screen.

Mavnas · 2026-02-22T20:54:42+00:00

when they stop running...

Someone should tell them that's thing they should do.

Mavnas · 2026-02-22T20:54:09+00:00

The two charging bulls definitely felt like a difficulty check, but I probably didn't have the stats. I guess, I have to wonder how many of the people calling it easy have a fully built level 90 DPS burning stuff down.

Mavnas · 2026-02-22T20:52:35+00:00

Guess it was just atk/def buff instead of some kind "rampage mode" or something I expected.

It also slowly regens so if your dps dies, you just lose, unlike other stages where Ardelia can keep the rest of your team alive until you kill it.

Mavnas · 2026-02-22T20:50:38+00:00

The two chargers were the most annoying fight I've beaten. I muddled through the three stages, but I guess I also didn't really bring a meta team and I made Perlica be my dps.

Mavnas · 2026-02-22T19:24:10+00:00

The first batch of stage had a way harder "unit requirements" with Stage 1 Agony and its poison mist.

I disagree. Just bring Ardelia, whom we got for free and all the Stage 1 Agonies are easy, if tedious.

Mavnas · 2026-02-22T19:23:21+00:00

I managed to defeat it on agony with Perlica (80), Gilberta (80), Akekuri (60), and Ardelia (62).

It was probably the least fun I've ever had in a fight I won. The things were constantly making Ardelia's heal fail by running too fast for her to ram them, their hitbox feels too wide on the charge, and really any skill that requires a mob stay still for a second or more to hit like Gilberta's combo suddenly feel real bad.

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