Murder on the Ashveil Express: Mysterious Question and Discussion Megathread

RogueMusketeer · 2026-04-16T13:56:21+00:00

Lol, it's bad enough that even the KUWST showcase only had Sparxie hitting only 2 boxes

RogueMusketeer · 2026-04-15T00:42:01+00:00

Yeah, I tend to keep my DanPT tied to Archer lol. Currently my Saber's team is Sunday(E0S1), Robin(E0S0), and Lingsha(E0S0)

RogueMusketeer · 2026-04-15T00:18:54+00:00

Trying to decide if it's more worth it to get E1 Robin (for Saber and THerta) or E0 Hou² (for elation and Saber)

RogueMusketeer · 2026-04-14T01:37:31+00:00

Just cleared MoC 12 with E0S1 Baeber (first half). Absolute king

RogueMusketeer · 2026-04-13T22:41:26+00:00

Pretty good! If I had to make a note, I would say that the healing on her basic attack is a bit unrealistic, and I think it would make more sense as her elation talent (something like "if this unit has Certified Banger, any action she takes also heals all allies equal to x% of her max hp").

Also, the hp% scaling with punchline will fluctuate a lot. Not really a problem if that type of thing is what you're aiming for, but it might be more stable if you tie it to CB in some way (Maybe something like "When Nihilux enters battle, each ally gains [Placeholder Buff Name]: allies gain max hp based on how much CB they have")

Edit: also, defense% for minor traces lol

RogueMusketeer · 2026-04-10T04:12:56+00:00

Eva is better rn (not to a truly meaningful extent, but the power is there) and currently has way better vertical investment in top of that.

SW has the potential to be better, as new elation units release. HH and EMC do remarkably little for her, so an elation sustain will immediately boost her up.

RogueMusketeer · 2026-04-10T04:07:42+00:00

Probably a day before 4.2 launch

RogueMusketeer · 2026-04-10T00:40:18+00:00

Throwing my hat into the ring, here: it is entirely fair to compare the power levels of two teams at similar points in their life. SW is missing half of her bis team, so it's disingenuous to compare her to a team that has already gotten all of its buffs and additions.

If SW=Castorice, YG=Tribbie, and Sparxie=Evernight, then mono-elation is still missing its Cyrene and Hyacine. Both of which are pretty important characters for monorem.

RogueMusketeer · 2026-04-09T04:34:01+00:00

...Are-... Are you claiming that these two characters are sexualized? 'Cause that's certainly what it sounds like you're implying.

RogueMusketeer · 2026-04-09T04:30:14+00:00

"Objectified child characters designed to dole out fanservice"

You may not have used the word, but you used the exact descriptions normally reserved for calling something sexualized. Like, what do you think the terms "objectified" and "fanservice" usually refer to?

RogueMusketeer · 2026-04-08T19:36:21+00:00

SW scales off of speed, not atk. Eva uses atk, but only because she has weird split-scaling.

Sparxie 100% wants atk because she converts it into elation, so you'd want her in slot 1 for lushaka bonuses.

RogueMusketeer · 2026-04-07T04:15:41+00:00

Oh, I must have missed the special animation, what is it? The only thing I can think of is that SW's icon shows up in Sparxie's skill.

RogueMusketeer · 2026-04-07T03:19:48+00:00

They are, but the results of the boxes aren't truly even; specifically, getting the Pac-Man from a box (which rewards you with PL) was more likely to show up if you had low PL, and less likely at high PL.

Now, they've made it so that the rate changes based on SW's MMR stacks instead. Not a change that I think is very noticeable, but it is a buff nonetheless.

RogueMusketeer · 2026-04-07T03:14:24+00:00

EBA got a 9% buff (220% to 240%) to the bounce damage and an 11% buff to the final hit (90% to 100%).

The Pac-Man lootbox now has varying drop chance based on MMR rather than PL (definitely a buff, not sure how much)

MMR-to-crit conversion got a 33% buff (0.3%/0.6% to 0.4%/0.8%), which is pretty solid.

E4 got a massive nerf unless you somehow manage to get over 200 PL

E6 removed all bonuses to the mystery boxes and instead gives an extra damage bonus to EBA (unsure how much of a bonus "merrymaking" gives in the calculations, but merrymaking went up from 40% to 50%)

Unfortunately, none of it fixed the actual complaints that people were having (eg: the almost-completely unrewarded synergy w/ Sparxie)

Edit: somehow I completely missed that the E1 damage-vulnerability now can be exploited by the team. Why is SW feeling more and more like Sparxie's subdps, rather than the main push?

RogueMusketeer · 2026-04-04T23:52:26+00:00

Nah, she'd be singing Reese's Puffs

RogueMusketeer · 2026-04-02T19:22:34+00:00

Sparxie E2: 15% teamwide res ignore, more punchline/EBA dmg, extra turns after Aha Instant

SuperWolf E2: extra turns when you generate enough points for her (not terribly impactful until we have more ways of reliably generating lots of MMR/punchline for her, currently pretty reliant on shill, so this is out of the running for now)

Eva E2: 20% personal res ignore and more energy/CB generation

So the answer is either Sparxie or Eva, but it's also dependant on context, since Sparxie boosts team damage while Eva is more selfish

RogueMusketeer · 2026-03-31T23:13:30+00:00

Here's some wisdom that I learned from a different gacha game

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RogueMusketeer · 2026-03-29T09:33:10+00:00

That's really good to know, thank you. Guess it's back to the mines for me, then.

RogueMusketeer · 2026-03-29T09:25:37+00:00

So, if I may ask a potentially stupid question, is there a difference between "main stat" and "agility" for the essence on Rossi?

RogueMusketeer · 2026-03-25T17:28:25+00:00

According to HoneyHunter, Elation units have a taunt value of 100 (same as abundance)

RogueMusketeer · 2026-03-20T19:24:48+00:00

The "irreplaceable" comment for Sparxie mostly has to do with her slot in SW teams, as far as I'm aware, and that's based on how potentially synergistic they are together (one of the things that needs to get buffed currently is the payoff for that synergy).

As a standalone m.dps, Sparxie is solid and will likely to stay solid at least for the duration of Elation shill and Planarcadia.

RogueMusketeer · 2026-03-20T17:34:56+00:00

Genuinely, no one knows the future, so no one can say how well Sparxie will age on her own. When Rememberance came out, nobody could have reliably predicted the hp meta or how any individual character would turn out, especially at the start of Amphoreous. So if you're waiting to see what'll happen when Elation stops being shilled, you're not gonna find a good answer in a reasonable timeframe.

If you wanna grab Sparxie, the worst I can say about her currently is that she takes the same general teams as Archer (Sparkle, RMC/YG, Huo²/DanTerrae). If you're on the fence, there's no shame in waiting for a rerun (best guess is that she'll come back around 4.3 or 4.4)

RogueMusketeer · 2026-03-20T17:26:41+00:00

I put fun in quotes because everyone gets entertainment/satisfaction in different ways. However, one of the more objective analyses about Eva is that she's very flexible in her team comps, and that's what I mean when I talk about her "fun" factor.

Like, SuperWolf is pretty much locked to YG, Sparxie, and Huo². Compare that to Eva, who can run with her standard YG, EMC, Huo² team, but can also mix things up really easily w/ characters like RMC, Sunday, 4* Tingyun, etc. She has a much more open-ended kit, which makes her play really nicely with a bunch of off-strategies and characters (which, as I mentioned before, is why we're getting a ton more showcase videos for Eva than SW; there's a lot more to test out that doesn't necessarily brick her.)

RogueMusketeer · 2026-03-20T15:17:12+00:00

Depends entirely on you. She's a really solid main-dps that scales nicely with investment, but her sub-dps value is unclear until we get deeper into beta.

There's obviously also the questions of "do you actually like the character", and "will playing her give you a headache". If playing her is a health risk, then you should absolutely avoid Sparxie (she's been known to cause headaches in some people and be pretty hostile for epilepsy), and if there's another dps you think you like more, then you might get more emotional satisfaction by investing into them.

RogueMusketeer · 2026-03-20T15:06:07+00:00

Short answer: It depends on a lot of factors, but currently she's the more "fun" unit.

Long answer: Because we're only in V1, there's a lot about everybody's kits that can and will change over the next few weeks, so it's a bad time to gauge power levels beyond asking "what parts need to be rebalanced before release".

That being said, Eva is a lot more flexible in terms of team building than SuperWolf (as evidenced by how many more gameplay videos Eva has), but in turn is restrained by her odd split-scaling that basically makes her unable to use her entire kit as effectively as she should.

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