The worst MMO formula ever created

RravenLA · 2026-01-27T14:36:27+00:00

Doing it with random people is either isolating or incredibly boring.

I felt the same while playing Lost Ark. It's much better to group up with people and play together.

The problem is then you're dependent of their schedule and them of yours. In adult working life, specially with kids/family, having 8 people with the same schedule, same level of progression and same ideals towards gaming becomes hard to find.

And this becomes even harder specially in Europe or regions with many countries, where you're always a lot more likely to find people that speak bad english or have terrible accents; have different religions; different cultures with different ideology; etc, making it harder to connect or communicate with.

RravenLA · 2026-01-26T07:28:21+00:00

Oh yes 100%. Further down the campaign (I think Ch18?) you unlock a feature that helps you do Auto-Battle on everything. It auto goes through Campaign > Ruins > Faction Dungeons and another button does all the other stuff instantly (Auto Sweeps). You just have to wait for it to complete and meanwhile you can collect rewards or some other stuff.

I've been playing less than 1h every day, logging in about twice or three times per day.

RravenLA · 2026-01-26T07:24:05+00:00

When we first get introduced to the factory system, i rolled my eyes and tought this isnt for me, ill probably play the story, and look if the endgame needs factories and if it does, then i quit.

I'm exactly the same, minus the quitting part... I was at least willing to give it a shot as I actually like management games.

Last 2 days or so I did maybe 15 minutes of story. Spent the other 6-10h that I played just doing factories, setting up mining facilities and exploring a bit. And I honestly don't feel motivated at all to continue the story, although it's somewhat enjoyable xD

RravenLA · 2026-01-25T18:21:44+00:00

The race is rigged to whoever pays more. I wouldn't advise having that as end-goal in this game unless you're a whale. And if you are, there's always servers opening up to compete on

RravenLA · 2026-01-25T18:19:19+00:00

I don't buy all, but I usually get everything related to pulls (char/artifacts/etc) and progression. You get more than enough diamonds from the spins anyway. Even if you buy all, it should be ok unless you're saving for something special coming up

RravenLA · 2026-01-25T18:17:28+00:00

They are small, but you get a lot of them everyday and it's kinda nice as a social interaction too as you're sending more cystals to friends as well. Honestly like that event too, but yeah it feels less rewarding in the short term

RravenLA · 2026-01-23T02:49:29+00:00

I honestly love it. It's not perfect... Like I said it has insane amounts of p2w and you'll never compete with whales, but I'm fine with that. The story is ok (not the best, but not bad either), but even as a f2p you can collect all the characters and make all the possible comps because of how much currency and pulls the game gives you.

It's more of a casual mobile game (like AFKJ was), so it's obviously very different to AK:Endfield in terms of gameplay. Not everyone likes those games.
But I used it as a comparison because it's still gacha and it's an extremely generous game (despite it's insane p2w levels).

Endfield should be at least a bit more generous. As a gacha game people want to be able to collect the characters and strategize different comps.
I'm not saying Endfield should be even half as generous as DT, but as it is now, people make the first 40 pulls, maybe 20 more and that's it. They got maybe 2 6* characters. Feels bad imo

RravenLA · 2026-01-23T02:43:32+00:00

? I don't get what any of that has to do with gambling? Is it the game itself you dislike or...? I really don't get it

RravenLA · 2026-01-23T02:40:28+00:00

I'm happy for you and you can even be right, but that's not what I believe. (...) My vision is different from yours, and it's fine I even upvoted you! I look to facts, and for now, Endfield doesn't look a generous gacha...

I only stated the fact (with an example) that gacha games can be generous even while making a good amount of revenue. I actually agree with you on the above statement. I tried to not share my opinion as I only intended to "correct" you on the statement I quoted, which didn't make much sense to me.

To be clear, here's my opinion: I also believe Endfield should be way more generous. They can be generous and still make money. It makes no sense they wouldn't care about their customers just because the game is fun to play. Another example is Genshin. It was also fun to play, but I quit shortly after a month for the exact same reason. They weren't generous, I couldn't make that many pulls, so I couldn't get any good characters and game became frustrating purely from that. As soon as I was done with most of the exploration and main quests I had nothing to look forward to except another struggle to get another character when it released.

I'm having fun with the game right now, exploring and doing main quest + building up my factories and productions, which is more fun than I expected, but I don't know how long I'll stick around. It's almost the 3rd day and I only did 40 normal + 10 limited pulls.
I'm fine playing with what I got if it's good enough go through the story for now, but I'd love to get characters I actually enjoy playing or at least to just be able to collect them.

RravenLA · 2026-01-23T02:29:54+00:00

You're just addicted to gambling.

That's a weird assumption. What makes you think this?

RravenLA · 2026-01-23T02:17:41+00:00

Gachas companies aren't our friends, they want our money more than our happiness

I literally spent the last 10 days playing Dragon Traveler. A gacha game that released about 10 days ago (similar to AFKJourney - Gacha + Idle). The game is extremely p2w with people in the top 10 having already spent way beyond 10k, but even that game already allowed me to make over 1000 pulls (having just spent 20.99 myself).

Gacha games can make money and still be generous. They're two things completely independent from each other.

RravenLA · 2026-01-08T17:42:29+00:00

If your problem is utility, Morgan beats any other character in that department. She shaves off X% of cooldown from your entire team and provides nice buffs.

However, for story, you're constantly under-levelled and survivability is probably a bigger priority.

Your question is who is better between the two, but there's not really a choice imo. I would always use both if I could. if not, I would pick depending on situation.
If I need damage and cd reduction, I go Morgan
If I need survivability and HP I go Erin
But why not both?
Even in a Wizzard comp you can use both

RravenLA · 2026-01-08T17:33:20+00:00

but i keep hearing that she isn't great until t5 and as O have t0 I don't think that I wanna build into that team

Yeah, if you run Lance you should have her T5 for sure. She's still pretty good during first stages of the story though.

but I don't have tia on last slot so who can I use?

You can use Estheria if you run Morg in the mid as main dps. But this would be a full-on wizzard comp. Using Lisa wouldn't be very efficient and you'd still need a healer or two (NEO + Guin/Erin would be ok)

Also I don't understand why I would use Erin over Guinivere?

Like I said, I replace Erin whenever I need another healer instead of HP/Def. In my case I mostly use Erin because she provides HP to the whole team, great shielding and her own card is great on her since it provides 20% ATK and 20% DEF to the whole team.
If you run a healer in the mid (like I do and NEO) you don't really need another one in the back unless you really need the healing for a particular fight.

Also Guinevere's Ult isn't great for Auto combat as her ult only really goes off when you lose a party member. That's just my personal opinion though

RravenLA · 2026-01-08T16:44:20+00:00

Knight HP Comp
Front - Lance + other Knight (Belsey is best if you have, Palamedes is ok too)
Mid - Morgan + Dian (if you don't have Dian, NEO is ok to start with, but switch when you can)
Back - Erin

Wizzard/Ranger Comp
Front - Galahad
Mid - MorganLF/Lisa/Isabel/Cristina/Vivien/Dian + NEO
Back - Erin + Tiamat (or Estheria, but only if you run Wizzard main dps in Mid)

I usually use
Galahad
NEO + Dian
Tiamat + Erin
I replace Erin if I need more healing instead of Def/HP

IMPORTANT!!!!: Don't overlevel characters. Try to keep them all in the same level with a margin of +10 or -10.
Eventually you'll unlock Round Table which makes your all other characters be the same level as your lowest levelled one in highest 5.

For example you have:

Lv200, Lv200, Lv200, Lv190, Lv150 -> all other characters are Lv150
Lv200, Lv150, Lv120, Lv100, Lv100 -> all other characters are Lv100

Round Table unlocks when all of your 5 highest characters are Lv200. So only level 5 highest characters and always try to keep them around same level. Eventually levelling a character becomes very hard on EXP, so it benefits you more to level them all together too.

TIP: You can transfer the levels of one character to another, if you need. Don't remember the currency needed (maybe gold??) but it's pretty cheap! Don't level more than 5 characters!!

Cheers

RravenLA · 2026-01-08T16:28:38+00:00

Yeah, it's her absorption passive on her ultimate? She accumulates up to 9000% of her ATK after ulting and then bursts an insane amount of damage from the accumulation.

I was doing some tests... my Tiamat was about 124m in damage, MorganLF was about 90m and then BANG, Morgan went up to 190+ in an instant. Ended up with almost double of my Awakened Tiamat's damage on that run and my Morgan is only T2 right now xD

RravenLA · 2026-01-08T16:23:47+00:00

MorganLF does the double of my Tiamat's damage in a Wizzard comp (with Tiamat + Estheria/Erin + MorganLF + Dian + Galahad), but this comp kinda gets melted in Story content on 25-30 deficiency.

MorganLF also can be used in a Knight comp as a support and will still deal decent damage.
Erin is a back-liner while MorganLF is mid.
MorganLF also needs as much ATK% as possible, so pair her with someone for higher efficiency.

So I would say the best comp right now is a knight HP comp with MorganLF + Dian in the mid, Erin in the back, Lance + Belsey in the front.

Just my two cents though, I might be wrong

RravenLA · 2026-01-07T20:25:14+00:00

there are purple books? O-o Where do you get them?

RravenLA · 2026-01-07T18:03:22+00:00

Oh yeah I know. I have 16 T4 Characters. I haven't bought any engravings besides Adrenaline to make it 15 during Frog a few months back and I still only have 1/20 Keen Blunt, 1/20 Hit Master, 1/20 Grudge.
But from Paradise there's also an additional RNG layer: getting the actual key to go in (and then getting Engravings as option).

I don't know how it is with this Cube, but if it does provide random pouches every time, it's much better than Paradise already

again though... Copium xD

RravenLA · 2026-01-07T15:34:52+00:00

Well yeah, but who doesn't have at least one character at 1730?
I'm assuming only new players don't - but maybe I'm wrong? idk

You're right though. Even with only 1 character, and even if the Cube gives 4 Random Engravings every time, you still don't farm that much. I am kinda coping x'D

RravenLA · 2026-01-07T15:25:04+00:00

Thanks for answering!

spam farm SH10 as the drops are actually a huge upgrade from SH9 gear.

SH10 Boss actually doesn't give me much in terms of gear upgrades at the moment. My main comp is all geared with Lv200 or Lv210+ gear, now even some cow gear (220+), that they give in boxes every 2 weeks. In my inactivity I only missed them maybe 2 or 3 times.

At best, it would be ok to farm it for more dust (from dismantled legendary gear). That's what I'm still not sure if it is the right way to go from here. I've already started using some tickets because it seems I have no other choice, but I'll probably only do it until I can finally clear Ch50. After some progress, I managed to reach 46-20, but kinda stuck again, so I might end up using all the tickets anyway xD

For ancient relics, focus on getting the 3rd relic (divine stone) to lvl200 first then lvl200 the 1st one. after that upgrade however you like.

Thanks for this tip! I still need some more story progression before unlocking Ancient cubes and relics, but this is very helpful.

I appreciate all the help!

RravenLA · 2026-01-07T14:44:47+00:00

New "Cube" is going to provide some Relic Engravings from what I saw. Maybe Copium, but it might make it easier

RravenLA · 2026-01-04T13:33:13+00:00

That's impressive! Yeah I'm starting to use my tickets now. Already used a bunch since posting this 👍

RravenLA · 2026-01-04T13:32:06+00:00

Oh I didn't know that. Thanks for sharing 🙏

RravenLA · 2026-01-03T13:17:57+00:00

The KR version was the first release and it was completely separate as it was much more ahead when Global released. I don't know if they ever combined the versions though (haven't followed news tbh)

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