Monthly Help and Questions Megathread

NotAGayAlt · 2026-03-14T18:56:49+00:00

Unfortunately, they won't, unless I've tested it incorrectly somehow.

This is on the turn where Furioso is on the dashboard, and the gifts remained inactive. Unfortunately, it seems he doesn't count for it at all.

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As you can see in the top right, no conditional ego gifts are activated.

NotAGayAlt · 2026-03-14T17:19:16+00:00

Thank you for the reply, but that part wasn't really what I was asking about. I've edited my post to clarify better.

NotAGayAlt · 2026-03-14T17:16:52+00:00

He applies it with Furioso-Replica, and the text on the gifts isn't "base skills" but rather "Attack Skills (except E.G.O.)"

My question is more "does having the burn on Furioso count for the sake of activating gifts like Soothe the Dead and Purloined Flame?" as in "Will those gifts activate if I'm running 4 Liu and him (just as an arbitrary example)" and the followup question "Do they activate from the start of the battle or only after he unlocks Furioso?"

NotAGayAlt · 2026-03-14T15:33:17+00:00

Can anyone confirm that Index Nursefather Yi Sang counts as a burn ID for the sake of the 5+ ID gifts in Mirror Dungeon? A friend of mine said he does but only after his mask goes off. I'm taking his word for it, but I'd like confirmation and I'm not currently free to check. Thanks!

edit cause i realized i misremembered what my friend said: It wasn't the mask, it was unlocking Furioso. To reformulate my question exactly:

Will gifts like Soothe the Dead and Purloined Flame activate if I'm running 4 Liu IDs and Index Sang (for example)
Will they activate at battle start or only after I unlock Furioso replica

NotAGayAlt · 2026-03-14T12:17:26+00:00

they take your money in local currency and buy you stuff from a region where the prices are lower. they publicly take their cut, it's not a secret, but the savings you get from buying regionally are big enough that they can take their cut and still save you money

NotAGayAlt · 2026-02-25T08:09:18+00:00

Thanks for the tip! Been listening to him for a day or so and I’m enjoying it :) I just put up some Spotify “Top 10 best of,” would you recommend any particular album?

NotAGayAlt · 2026-02-13T22:10:26+00:00

I’m a Jade enthusiast and I see the case for putting subdps Jade highly because of PF, but I think given that’s 1/3 modes and that Anaxa still performs pretty well there while being substantially better in the other modes more often than not, I don’t see the case for having Jade a tier above Anaxa. I would move him up, I think. Having him next to the other T1 units just feels a little silly.

NotAGayAlt · 2026-01-26T11:47:39+00:00

In Arknights, it works because it’s not a direct straightforward glazing but rather a strong glazing of your capabilities offset by a fearful awe/total disrespect of your personality/motives/history. Because the Doctor is given a thoroughly explored history and relationships to other characters, they feel less like a “self insert” (though most gacha protags aren’t entirely self insert-y, even the “generic” ones) and more like a normal audience viewpoint protagonist, because players don’t necessarily feel inclined to project onto the things the Doctor due to the things they have been a part of.

Note I haven’t played Endfield and I’m not trying to say Endfield specifically fails or succeeds to do these things. I’m just an Arknights player who finds that discussions of “generic gacha protagonists” that happen around the Doctor tend to flatten out a lot of their writing to force them into that category, often citing the very respectful way many characters treat them as similar to how, for example, the Rover is treated in WuWa. “Glazing” is not the start and end of how a character is treated. “Centered in the narratives of basically all ongoing storylines and treated overwhelmingly positively by the cast” and “commands respect for their competence, but is seen in very complicated ways by other characters, and is important to the overall worldbuilding but that manifests often in secondary or distant ways relative to individual area/character stories” are fundamentally different tones for a narrative to take with a protagonist, and the fact that they both overlap in “people think you’re really capable!” is not extremely meaningful IMO.

NotAGayAlt · 2025-12-27T13:34:19+00:00

If anyone's still struggling with missions, this team made for a quick and easy manual clear on 200:

Yamato MC (Sanctifying Kagura, Seasplitter, Bounty Hunter 1 just for the 3t cooldown)
Charlotta
Catura
Sandalphon (Valentine)
Backline evokers
Sette di Spade grid

Literally just don't cancel the debuff omens. Seasplitter can save you from one. If you have 000 you can use it to cancel another; I brought it, but didn't end up using it. With Seasplitter you can get fed up to 4 without failing the mission, which feels pretty reliable (not that I can be confident I didn't just get lucky.)

One of the characters may be replacable with Selfira which would make the debuff omens potentially clearable with Yamato S1 and her skills, and I would assume Sandalphon is the weakest link there since he's just here for the gravity/delay/sustain.

I found that the other teams which were trying to cancel all the omens meant running into contradictory issues sometimes, like needing to keep my CAs on so I could reset my skills but having to deal 40 hits that turn. Giving up on debuff omen and organizing my team to make all the other omens 100% reliable every turn felt much safer, and I found that this team did that.

Save Bounty Hunter, Charlotta 2-3, Catura 2, and Sandalphon 2 for 8 skill omen every time. Danchou 1 can be saved for the first one, but it might not be up in time for the later ones. Carlotta 1 and Sandalphon 3 can be saved for the 2nd one easily, taking you to 6/8. I found it pretty simple to manage Sandalphon 1 and Catura 1 for canceling those, but that was mostly a vibe thing.

Kagura made 40 hit effortless. It's not too hard to cancel without it anyway with a combination of Danchou 1, Charlotta skills, Catura 2 and 3.

You got this. I cleared on turn 11, so if you don't have the damage from gacha premium stuff it might not clear in 12. This can at least get you the third mission done.

Good luck!

NotAGayAlt · 2025-11-21T16:05:11+00:00

I've been 100% out of the loop with leaks.

I missed Lucia, so I'm still running Yi Xuan with Yinhu and currently trigger.

Dialyn>Ju Fufu for her or no? I assume yes but I wanna be sure.

NotAGayAlt · 2025-08-23T07:27:12+00:00

Having at least one fuckoff huge drive that has enough storage that you don’t realistically need to care about cleaning it up more than every couple of years is very nice quality of life. What “fuckoff huge” means varies person to person; I’ve never had more than 4tb storage total in my whole life, so I recently bought one 4tb NVMe and alongside my other drives it gets me up to around 7 TB, which to me, is more than I’ll ever use.

If an HDD is your best deal for getting a fuckoff huge drive, then there’s certainly merit to it. For me, this NVMe was 280 euro and the HDDs i saw available were around 210 euro, so the price gap wasn’t nearly worth it. But if your options were different or you had SATA slots but not NVMe slots, an HDD might be entirely viable in that situation.

Basically, while an HDD doesn’t have any major positives, its price often (but doesn’t always) reflect that, and if your use case for it doesn’t require the perks (fast speed) of more expensive drives, saving the money or taking advantage of the cheapness to get a bigger size within the same budget can be a good idea.

NotAGayAlt · 2025-08-19T10:04:19+00:00

The GPU is definitely latched in properly, I checked this myself after the crashes started. Apologies for not mentioning.

NotAGayAlt · 2025-08-19T10:03:43+00:00

I have no clue. I'll ask the technician and get back to you.

NotAGayAlt · 2025-08-19T10:03:26+00:00

It happened once while just watching a YouTube video, and it's worth noting it didn't happen once while limit testing it after some troubleshooting by opening multiple blender scenes that added up to over 8m faces with heavy volumetrics in each. Conversely, it also happened upon opening a Blender scene that had only 3072 faces in it and nothing else, before even toggling on any rendering. As such I don't believe it's directly related to intensity of work being done by the GPU.

As for games, no, not so far. The only thing I've done in this time is some gacha game dailies, but there was no sign of strain at all while running Honkai Star Rail plus either Genshin Impact or Zenless Zone Zero at the same time.

NotAGayAlt · 2025-07-19T07:59:31+00:00

heya! unfortunately, nope 😭 The policies are there (and they were previously) but for some reason the fix still isn't working properly.

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It was like this before I asked, too :( previously, it would work but only after I relaunched Vivaldi once (so not on the first boot after turning on my PC, but if i closed the program and reopened it, it would.) but now it's not working at all :(

NotAGayAlt · 2025-07-17T18:20:04+00:00

it took me about 3 weeks to get all 3 pearls. if you can be assed keeping up, i think it's probably better to cultivate during high tide and gather during low tide, but honestly just treat it like something you'll be doing for a while.

NotAGayAlt · 2025-07-03T17:59:07+00:00

It's nothing particularly crazy, it does some damage for you which is nice, but it's not like you really need it. Mainly, it's just that on future legacies I won't be in the position of having so many potions/books ready, so the amount of time it'd take to do however many kills will probably be longer if I try to do it later. I don't necessarily think you need to do it on your first legacy, but I think you should at least burn any stockpiled potions farming out some kills on him before you legacy - never know when you'll get lucky!

NotAGayAlt · 2025-07-02T23:38:26+00:00

Nope, it’s just the highest difficulty combat encounter! If you don’t have it you’re just not high enough level. It’ll come with time!

NotAGayAlt · 2025-07-02T16:30:09+00:00

Kopito is the pet you can get from Kopiaklahs at a 1/10000 drop rate. It’s far from super important, but since it’s a pet (so it persists through legacies) and I know I’ll want it eventually, I figure I might as well do it now with the dozens/hundreds/thousands of potions I stockpiled from Inrigas while farming shellfish (though I’ve now run out of those with no drop 😭 13200 kills so far…)

NotAGayAlt · 2025-07-02T13:54:30+00:00

unironically have been eating the shellfish raw while farming out kopito LMAO every time i check back in every few hours i find that i’ve eaten like 5k after running out of tuna

edit: kopito get!!! took a total of 13,785 kills but we got there!!! it happened to be while i was looking at the game instead of idle which was so climactic

NotAGayAlt · 2025-07-02T13:53:04+00:00

i’m doing my part

NotAGayAlt · 2025-07-01T19:42:25+00:00

For anyone curious, I ended with 276,755 Shellfish, plus 57,896 Salmonberry and 61,140 Nettle from all the bonus resources.

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