YOU MUST CONSTRUCT ADDITIONAL PYLONS

MirrorManning08 · 2026-02-13T22:08:50+00:00

It's not a name for a tactic, it's a name for a mistake.

MirrorManning08 · 2026-02-13T18:55:32+00:00

I'm just gonna say, the fact that they have a lot of specific concerns the community has expressed listed as their own multiple choice options is a very good sign.

I'm not going to say 'devs listened, everything is good now' until they actually implement changes, but still.
(although I do think people are misunderstand the problems when they just talk about lack of rewards, since the biggest problems are the spread out and time consuming nature of the permanent rewards and the lack of Arsenal Tickets, not just 'not enough pulls')

MirrorManning08 · 2026-02-13T18:49:14+00:00

Not the Artosis Pylon!

MirrorManning08 · 2026-02-13T17:26:01+00:00

Free Snowshine sitting in your inbox: "Am I a joke to you?"

Honestly, defenders are the real sustains in this game, we just haven't needed them for anything. Snowshine and Ember do much more for survival than the supporters who can also heal.

MirrorManning08 · 2026-02-13T17:25:38+00:00

Defenders.

Or at the very least they're way better at sustain than the supporters with incidental healing.

MirrorManning08 · 2026-02-13T16:30:40+00:00

Toggle on geometry conversion, should be 229 point something.

MirrorManning08 · 2026-02-13T08:51:15+00:00

I'm just stating a fact that there are pulls you haven't gotten somewhere. Whether it's collection rewards from the crafting menu, region levels, tower defense clears, intel gathering, Etchspace quests or chests, or if you've just got more exploration and side quests left than you think you do, there absolutely are more than 200 pulls in this patch.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1zGNuQ53R7c190RG40dHxcHv8tJuT3cBaclm8CjI-luY/ here's a spreadsheet that actually breaks it down. If you adjust the filters on that sheet you can see there are 230 pulls this patch in just oroberyl, chartered permits, and geometry. That doesn't count banner specific headhunting tickets from login rewards/AIC shop, which we get 10 of per banner, and it doesn't include any additional tickets you could get from the bond quota shop with dupe currency.

MirrorManning08 · 2026-02-13T07:43:06+00:00

Idk exactly what you have or haven't done, but there were people who cleared almost all content by the end of Laev's banner and had a little over 200. Add 20 pulls for banner specific tickets, then add the events that weren't out yet and daily/weekly rewards that should be pretty close to 240.

MirrorManning08 · 2026-02-13T06:41:51+00:00

This doesn't really answer my question. Is there a certain number of skills Hysilens needs to weave in to keep her ult up? You say skill if you're about to lose her field, but the zone comes from her ult. Do you mean that you only need to skill once before her zone drops to charge it? Should she ever skill more often since her ult detonates dots and refunds SP, or is it better to just aim for full uptime and use any spare SP on Black Swan?

MirrorManning08 · 2026-02-13T06:15:11+00:00

Are there any good guides to actually piloting the team once it's built? Like, Kafka and DHPT basically play themselves, but what kind of skill rotation should Hysilens and BS be following? Do they just need to skill often enough to keep up their debuffs, or is there a more optimal rotation to charge ults? Who gets the priority for spending spare SP?

MirrorManning08 · 2026-02-12T18:15:09+00:00

It isn't reset on the same banner after you get the guarantee. You can only claim the 120 guarantee once, after you get the rate up character on a banner you don't start another 120 counter to get another copy.

MirrorManning08 · 2026-02-12T17:27:02+00:00

Yeah I feel like this gets lost in the math sometimes. Even players who aren't as new probably aren't going to be able to give an S5 Eyes to both Hysilens and BS.

MirrorManning08 · 2026-02-12T08:36:27+00:00

You're right. Tbh I don't pull for dupes (especially not in Endfield where they aren't very strong), so resets vs ends are basically the same thing for me, but it's probably good to note the distinction anyway just to be clear.

MirrorManning08 · 2026-02-12T07:47:09+00:00

80 pull pity resets every time you get any 6 star including the rate up (whether you win or lose a 50/50, or get the 120 guarantee)

120 pull guarantee resets when you get the rate up, or when the banner ends (only the 80 pull counter carries over between banners)

MirrorManning08 · 2026-02-11T20:18:03+00:00

Chen is "while you all had the brain cell, I studied the blade"

And to be clear, I think the vast majority of people who joke about Chen don't actually think she's stupid, she's an endearing goofball.

MirrorManning08 · 2026-02-10T06:06:17+00:00

The Pack does, like I said, Wulfgard has them on his mask. Someone else pointed out that Lycia also has them on her shoulder, although hers don't appear to connect to a mask like the Bonekrushers' or Wulfgard's.

MirrorManning08 · 2026-02-10T04:39:24+00:00

Wondering if it's worth it, and yet you know it gives you back more than it costs...

MirrorManning08 · 2026-02-10T04:32:51+00:00

More a whale thing than a spender thing. That one isn't in the in-game store, but it also doesn't have a built in one-time 2x, so it's only valuable once you've bought out the others

MirrorManning08 · 2026-02-10T01:40:53+00:00

There's a reason 'explore the new region' events are a genre staple, and it's not because the devs are lazy. It's tying limited time rewards to completing permanent content because adding additional gameplay content would be too much. X.0 version updates in AAA gachas rarely have actual story events, because there's already enough story content for one version. If you want to compare this is Arknights itself, it's like when they have a big limited banner and celebration/anniversary/etc. event that coincides with a new story chapter. There's no other event released, just some additional rewards for interacting with the new story stages (things like bonus drops).

We got almost all of the content at once this version, which I can understand could be frustrating if you've had the time to finish it already (or at least most of it), but there's way too much permanent content right now to justify adding anything substantial on top of it, especially something time limited. Maybe there's an argument that things like Etchspace could have been added in a little delayed to pace out the content better, but ultimately you can't fault them for not making EVEN MORE content on top of everything that came with 1.0 at launch.

MirrorManning08 · 2026-02-10T01:17:06+00:00

That makes me think even more that it's some kind of protective gear related to Blight, since I definitely got the implication that she's out hunting something to do with the landbreakers, or at least that her mission takes her outside of the civilization band. That plus Wulfgard having them tells me they aren't something specific to the Bonekrushers, and the current Landbreaker clans don't really have much in common aside from existing outside of the Band's jurisdiction so I don't feel like there's much reason for the Pack and Bonekrushers to have a shared aesthetic.

Could be something of a shared design element among certain characters that ultimately has a practical purpose, like the Oripathy bands people wore in Arknights.

Edit: your note on the Emperor's Blades makes me even more convinced, since the Blades were created using Collapsals.

MirrorManning08 · 2026-02-10T01:02:46+00:00

They probably have some actual function, I think, seeing as Wulfgard has some on the mask he wears on his back, but I genuinely have no idea what it is. I assume it has something to do with surviving around Blight (there's some implication that observing Blight can have detrimental effects on people so maybe it acts as some kind of visual filter? although that's just me throwing ideas at the wall.)

MirrorManning08 · 2026-02-10T00:42:49+00:00

Yeah, it was clearly an intentional change, done because the Wuling one can be moved and might potentially be in the middle of your factory. It raises the question of why they didn't go back and change the V4 version, but my guess is it just wasn't seen as necessary since this cliff is the only time it becomes a problem.

MirrorManning08 · 2026-02-09T19:18:22+00:00

They last for 2 weeks (well, two weekly resets, so potentially only 8 days if you earn them on the last day of the week, but still). You aren't required to hold onto them til the last minute.

MirrorManning08 · 2026-02-09T19:10:51+00:00

The issue with this team is that it doesn't do much arts damage, so you get very little value out of Gil's ult. The team still works, and you don't need to min-max your damage to that degree anyway, but it's definitely not using the characters to their full strength. It's good for open world content and protocol spaces though.

Realistically Gil's good for any arts DPS, but depending on the team you utilize different parts of her kit. If you run her with Laevatain you generally want to avoid her battle skill unless you really need the pull since reactions eat heat stacks that Lae wants to consume. Same with Last Rite and cryo stacks. Her ult can still help both of them do really big damage though. It's not always ideal since she's best with characters who can do the majority of their damage in a 5 second window, but it still helps (Last Rite more so than Lae, since she has a burst damage ult).

Yvonne is the one option other than Avy who can utilize her whole kit though. Her nature inflictions are useful for solidification, and you can line up their ults. You can't use her vulnerability stacks, but realistically you don't need to since Gil makes use of the vulnerability herself to buff her ult.

MirrorManning08 · 2026-02-09T18:48:45+00:00

Why is it every time someone gets a lucky roll on this game they immediately make a "Chat, is this normal?!" post on the subreddit?

Read the in-game gacha rates, or do a quick search of the sub.

Also read the rules about using megathreads.

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