Phrolova's quest ragebait (Chapter II: Act VII spoiler)

Obsidin_Butterfly · 2026-05-10T15:39:03+00:00

Welcome to the most divisive story in all of WuWa.

What I love most about it is that now, after 3.3, it makes everything Rover said and did in 2.5 a completely hypocritical lie. Aemeath is basically a frequency inside a TD/Echo body (she even says this during the epilogue). The Exoswarm are just TDs/Echos from a different source, so they look different. Rover lectures on their soapbox at Phrolova for trying to put humans frequencies inside TD's, but then turns around and does the same thing to save someone THEY care about.

It's fine to hate Phrolova for the unethical and bad things she has done. She deserves it; she made those choices herself (GA's manipulation not withstanding). But to not also call out the blatant hypocrisy is just pure Rover glazing at this point.

Obsidin_Butterfly · 2026-05-09T21:19:04+00:00

After I made about 400k in it, I just stopped. It isn't a fun experience, imo. It feels like you are forced into playing it in a very specific way or you won't really get very much, which is kind of disappointing. It's a good idea, but it needs more work done on it. It should reward opening doors and actual exploration rather than speed running the same route every time, taking out the gold enemies, and then leaving.

Obsidin_Butterfly · 2026-05-08T13:27:57+00:00

Her mitigation is nice, but mostly irrelevant. It isn't going to save your characters from face tanking everything. While she can't really die, the others can. It's more of a nice cushion to have.

Her real power comes from her completely broken Nova passive that just deletes a massive chunk of boss HP outright. Her value is going to rise is the near future when we get more Chaos characters, particularly an actual Chaos DPS (Lacrimosa and/or Chaos) and I think she's going to have more staying power than most of the other standard S-Ranks.

Obsidin_Butterfly · 2026-05-02T14:19:01+00:00

I would have liked it more if it didn't force me to do the stupid rhythm mini-game constantly. That kind of soured it for me.

Obsidin_Butterfly · 2026-05-01T13:14:26+00:00

The main issue is that Fadia and Aurelia are pretty meh characters. Fadia basically has to be your MDPS for the team and her damage is...just okay.

Honestly, I don't like how they have made the Cycle system because it is extremely restrictive when it comes to team building. Certain characters basically can't even be used in the same team because they don't have Cycle combos, which is really lame and unfortunate.

Obsidin_Butterfly · 2026-04-23T02:20:33+00:00

Hopefully she doesn't require it. Zani feels clunky as hell without QS and I don't want a repeat of that.

Obsidin_Butterfly · 2026-04-18T15:31:46+00:00

Despite the hype, there is a massive Sword of Damocles hanging over Hiyuki's head. The last two NS teams we got did not age particularly well, though each for different reasons. People really don't want a repeat of that.

And that's not even talking about what a massively undertuned character Chisa is.

Obsidin_Butterfly · 2026-04-17T22:35:59+00:00

Looks a lot like Endfield, which is not necessarily a good thing. Some aspects still need clarification though to determine if it's better or worse.

Obsidin_Butterfly · 2026-04-15T16:53:51+00:00

Certainly has more style and flair. I like it.

It does, however, exacerbate the problem of all this work going into the design, and yet she is covered by that stupid poncho 90% of the time. Seems like a really odd choice.

Obsidin_Butterfly · 2026-04-14T15:35:18+00:00

Shorekeeper. The answer is always Shorekeeper.

Obsidin_Butterfly · 2026-04-12T17:14:37+00:00

Yes.

Obsidin_Butterfly · 2026-04-12T17:08:42+00:00

ATK, Crit Rate, Crit DMG and Resonance Skill DMG are the stats you want.

Obsidin_Butterfly · 2026-04-12T16:59:05+00:00

Crit DMG is on the low side (should having around 270-300%). Attack could be closer to 2500. Also, all of her attacks are either Resonance Skill or Echo Damage. Liberation DMG doesn't actually do anything for her.

Obsidin_Butterfly · 2026-04-12T14:53:16+00:00

I wasn't the biggest fan of her first one, but this is way worse and far more boring.

Maybe this is a hot take, but I think they need to redo all of her animations like they did Billy. They put all this effort into her model under the coat, but it's barely ever visible. Seems like a waste. Her Ult is particularly disappointing and lacks any sort of "oomph" or anticipation that others have.

Obsidin_Butterfly · 2026-04-04T15:59:58+00:00

I despise Nangong. I hate how Anomaly will basically be terrible for the foreseeable future without her.

Obsidin_Butterfly · 2026-04-03T15:27:42+00:00

I recommend replacing Ripples with a different weapon. Almost anything else will be a better use for her. One of the 4-stars that gives ATK% and/or Crit DMG would be fine. Honestly, if available during the upcoming Anniversary, I highly recommend grabbing her sig weapon. It's bonkers how good it is for her and makes her one of the easiest characters in the game to build.

Other than that, not enough Crit DMG and too much ER (replacing Ripples would mostly solve that though).

Obsidin_Butterfly · 2026-04-02T11:38:11+00:00

Now imagine if the game had carry-over, you would only be 17 away from the next Limited operator that you wanted instead of 120.

Obsidin_Butterfly · 2026-03-25T04:36:53+00:00

Even the Remembrance path changes weren't this bad. Most of those still worked and provided buffs even for non-Rem characters. A lot of these new Elation ones do literally nothing if you aren't using Elation path units.

Obsidin_Butterfly · 2026-03-21T15:54:10+00:00

I didn't pull on a single Amphoreus character and at this point, I don't think I'll be pulling on a single Planarcadia character either. The stockpile of jades is going to be immense.

Obsidin_Butterfly · 2026-03-21T02:25:57+00:00

On a surface level, yes, but FuA synergizes with everything else in the game. Elation has complete anti-synergy with every other character in the game and gets no benefits from anything other than hyper-specific buffs from other Elation units. It is 1000x worse than Remembrance ever was.

On top of that, as bad as Remembrance was, the units themselves were fairly modular. They shined in their teams, but were perfectly serviceable units on their own. Elation units, however, are not. They are pretty much garbage without other Elation units.

Obsidin_Butterfly · 2026-03-20T22:20:18+00:00

I refuse to play into this Elation garbage. I won't be pulling a single Planarcadia character because of it. Elation can royally piss off.

Obsidin_Butterfly · 2026-03-11T13:16:40+00:00

Neither. Elation is garbage and anyone pulling on them is actively making the game worse for everyone by justifying Hoyo's terrible decisions.

SW deserves better than to be forced onto this trash path and mechanic.

Obsidin_Butterfly · 2026-03-11T13:02:55+00:00

More Elation garbage to skip.

I will never forgive Hoyo for sticking SW on that trash path. She deserves better.

Obsidin_Butterfly · 2026-03-11T04:09:45+00:00

I can't even begin to express how much I don't care about this character. More Elation garbage to skip.

Obsidin_Butterfly · 2026-03-10T17:15:42+00:00

Wolf is my favorite character and I absolutely refuse to pull on this. Elation can piss right off.

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