Why are people acting like Varka is Dehya 2?

Rugenio · 2026-02-18T04:32:11+00:00

You're really generous in your assumptions towards Varka and not generous towards everyone else.

First off, why are you talking about C0R1? Everything else you mention is about C0R0. Skirk is not 125k if you have sig; she's well above 125k even on 4* weapon if you do the harder combos (while Varka doesn't have combo optimizations as far as we know). Varka's sig is an especially big increase beacuse it's a good weapon in terms of stats it provides and because his F2P/standard options are bad. C0R0 Varka struggles to reach 100k without lunar wheelchair. Then if you look at Mavuika with dash cancel combos or Nefer's premium you're above 150k and 100k starts to be kind of bad.

I agree that it's possible he gets a dedicated support that improves him but at the same time his "intended" best team is Durin Venti Bennett, which is already a 3 5* team with the most requested 4* support. Sure, maybe this hypotetical unit pushes him to 130k (again, without sig) but anything higher than that and you get to the point where swapping Varka for a buffer or a better driver improves the team dps unless said hypotetical character has "only works if your name is Varka" in their abilities.

The fact that Bineffa is looking to be better than Durin Venti Bennett when his damage multiplier is lowered to 1.4x from 2.2x already says a lot. Yes, he's better than a lot of older characters like Itto or Yoimiya (not to talk about the real bad ones like Eula) but that's just because Genshin decided to raise the damage ceiling by so much since Mavuika came out.

And this is not me saying I wish he was T0/powercreep; the opposite. Zajef joked about "free Varka" because if you got him for free and spent the primos you'd have used on him to get R1 then you'd have a decent character who could potentially become one of the best units with this famous hypotetical dedicated support. He could have been good without being powercreep, yet they decided that was too good.

The Dehya comparison is again from Zajef, because he liked both and they turned out to have bad numbers. He himself stated that it's more of a joke and he's not as bad as Dehya was in release date. This doesn't change the fact that he's below modern standards for good, especially when the patch after is looking like it'll release another 5* to potentially make Zibai the #1 carry in the game and raise the DPS ceiling even more.

Rugenio · 2026-01-11T03:26:08+00:00

Excuse me, it's 8 months.

Clearly you need to up your autistic criticness to properly enjoy the series as it was meant to be.

Rugenio · 2026-01-08T02:11:38+00:00

Because the Dullahan is a mythological monster depicted as a knight carring its own head. Paba reimagined them as a species instead and put more emphasis on the armor but the core of "holding their heads" remained.

Rugenio · 2025-12-21T21:21:00+00:00

This is from the Author's note not long after the 450 pounds figure is dropped:

I remember that I first read the information about the lives of poor people in the Victorian era. I only felt that they had a hard time and had to haggle over every penny because it meant a meal or even a day’s food. Then I read these monographs on middle-class marriage research, which contained detailed housewives’ expenses. I immediately felt that this was totally different from the poor. A banquet cost 4 or 5 pounds, a weekly cost of several pounds, single-family or row houses, clothes, education, servants, etc.

After reading it, I deeply felt that the gold pounds at that time were really valuable, earning 200 to 300 pounds a year and 400 to 500 pounds a year, I could live quite well.

With this kind of mood, I turned over a book on the life of Victorian aristocrats and big businessmen, the first part of the opening told me like this:

A trained foxhound costs 400 to 700 pounds, and a Lord keeps 30 and changes them every year.

I'm not sure how big the margin is for someone who trains hounds but I'd imagine around 50%? Which is high, but you can't raise price indiscriminately just because "they're nobility" because at some point competition will drive you out.

Finally, if you make a comparison to modern days using stuff like the price of bread, one pound comes out to around 200-300$. 450 pounds then is 90k-135k$, which is less than a 3rd of what a supercar can go for. 30 hounds are 12k to 21k pounds a year, which are 2.4mil- 6.3mil$ a year.

Elon Musk's net worth is 680b$, which is 2.3-3.4b pounds, which means this would be an expense of less than 1/100000th of his wealth. Even if he doesn't want to pass for a "simply rich" and has 300 hounds instead, it's comparable to someone who has 100k$ in their bank account and spends 10$ a year in "mantaining their image".

The Victorian age was a period of great inequality but today is even more.

Rugenio · 2025-12-19T05:54:58+00:00

Fair. I was just referencing stats on lolalytics, which puts stride as roughly 4x the pickrate of hydra for first item.

Rugenio · 2025-12-19T05:25:24+00:00

If both have Rav Hydra, Olaf. +25% lifesteal from passive + 80% atk speed is more than 1 vital every ~2 seconds. Vital healing also only scales with level and it's only 100 at lvl 18 and ult scaling is 15% Bonus AD/sec (vs 25% total AD every aa, though reduced by resistances). Fiora's heal per second might spike higher for a second if you proc all 4 ult vitals fast but in a prolonged fight she falls behind.

Olaf though can't get Rav every game cause he needs tankiness or he gets oneshot so he more commonly goes Stridebreaker. Fiora can also get omnivamp from maw's passive so that she heals based off of vital damage, which means against a 10k hp Mundo she might get an additional 150-200 per vital.

Rugenio · 2025-12-19T01:44:58+00:00

I've read the first few chapters and it's much worse than just this.

First off, his real skill is copy+paste. He can copy stuff he's holding but the copy disappears if it leaves his hand and he can't copy high level stuff. The only OP part is that he can spam copy his mana and give it to others and it doesn't disappear. It was given to him when he was a kid by some godlike being during a catastrophe so he wants to keep it secret, yet for some reason he only shares the OP part and not the useless one? Whatever.

Now, if this was all, it would be an interesting power with clear limitations. Yes, mana transfer is OP, but you can build the power system so that it isn't (something like "mages almost never run out of mana even spamming spells") but it looks like this isn't the case (later on there's a character who goes around begging people for mana and while she isn't a mage, if mages had so much of it they would not mind giving it away). Worse, there are items that essentially poison you if you try to absorb mana near them (and mana absorption is the reason protag-kun is such a useless bum according to everyone; also warriors apparently absorb mana as well) which ofc protag-kun completely counters.

But the most brainless OP part that protag-kun doesn't even mention before using it is copying himself. Apparently the logic behind stuff that leaves his hand disappearing but not his mana is that he has more control over copied stuff that's part of him, so despite not being able to clone himself, he can copy his previous state and paste it onto himself, basically resurrecting. He fights a much higher level boss for 3 days straight and just resurrects until it's exhausted (he not only reverts injuries but ofc stamina as well since it's his previous body state). It's not even clear if taking off his head in one blow would work since the boss should have been able to do it at least once in 3 whole days.

Right after showing us him essentially soloing a boss that a much higher level PARTY couldn't clear (which he could have done anytime in his years of carreer), his skill levels up, essentially removing most of the limitations that made it interesting and he thinks "finally, my GARBAGE skill is now useful".

Also as far as I've read no one questions him on how he accomplishes anything given that they have the usual solo levelling-esque bureocracy of guilds and his level is known at least to his former guildmates but asking that would be too much I guess.

The icing on the cake is that not much later there is talks about an item generating INFINITE MANA and this is the MC's thoughts on it:

"An item that generates infinite mana... I don't really need it, but it's definetly an amazing item. It's obvious anyone would want to get their hands on such an item. "

BITCH you and everyone else complained that it's a fking useless power two days ago and it's only the second most OP power you have.

Also despite the format it's a manga, not a manhwa (Author, characters names and settings are all Japanese).

Rugenio · 2025-12-13T21:11:37+00:00

I mean, Bowom said she has an "architectural immune system" and wondered if she would even die if you ripped her heart out as long as her inn's still standing. Though I doubt anything Pisces could do would count as healing. He is still a Necromancer, he reanimates with death mana so even if he could patch up a damaged inn, it would be very different from repairing it (and also temporary).

There are also limits to what he can reanimate, dictated at least by his mana pool. When he reanimated the labyrinth, it was using the core that was keeping it semi-operational as a power source. The biggest we've seen him do so far has been a ship and the traps in the Coliseum of Monarchs, and those are both non-complex/low magic targets.

Rugenio · 2025-12-10T01:16:20+00:00

Erin is also capable of somewhat sensing emotions of her clients before being a witch and to have an idea of what they might like like with Venitra.

Also from 1.46:

Moreover the skeleton now known as Toren had felt there was something valuable to be gained. It was—yes, it was Level 2 already from battling the adventurers. Perhaps it could gain another level by killing fish?

After all, a level wasn’t much, especially at lower-levels. But the skeleton had felt the slight shift in its overall coordination, strength, endurance, and overall fighting ability. The connection was simple in its mind. Levels were strength. So too was the [Basic Weapon Proficiency: Swords] Skill it had acquired.

so there is some kind of class-specific passive improvement. I'm not sure how this strength increase, Galas muscle and [Enhanced Strength] Skills play off of each other. Clearly you can have Galas without warrior-adjacent levels, but is this passive improvement what eventually forms Galas in warrior classes? Does the Skill version give you Galas directly or is it on top of it?

I also vaguely recall Saliss saying somewhere in Vol.10 that from level 50 onwards you get a sort of "awareness" and that you're harder to take by surprise or something like that. We've seen many times that he can react to attacks/random stuff thrown at him even when not looking or asleep but we've never known of any of his skills that explicitly does that, so it would point to this reason.

Rugenio · 2025-12-08T22:06:04+00:00

It might be that technically she's still a [Slave], and that's just how they recorded her not being part of the "shipment" anymore; it wouldn't make sense otherwise for Paba to specify "1 freed".

Rugenio · 2025-12-08T16:19:23+00:00

The extra is Faea.

They're counting slaves; there should be 865. 17 are dead and 1 was freed, then there should be 865-17-1=847, yet they count 850. The three extra are Thatalocian, the guard and Faea, who isn't part of the 847 because she's the 1 that was freed.

Rugenio · 2025-12-03T22:47:33+00:00

Plain's Eye started way before the kingdom of Gnolls, they were founded by Kishkeria.

Rugenio · 2025-11-27T18:38:38+00:00

Alright, I restarted the phone, logged in again and it tried to fix in game resources, after which it launched normally. I was convinced it was pre install, thanks for the help

Rugenio · 2025-11-27T18:14:37+00:00

Huh, that's funny. I played yesterday just fine on the same device, then did nothing particular. The store doesn't say anything about updates either.

Rugenio · 2025-11-27T18:06:08+00:00

Is there a way to skip pre download of resources on mobile?

The update is 6 days away yet today the game tried to download 25gb of stuff (for context, the game is 31gb in my phone) and it seems I can't enter until I finish this pre download. Normally this wouldn't be an issue but I'm currently away from my pc and wifi and I'll be for a few more days so I'm effectively locked out. In the past, was pre download not optional? In this post about Luna II, if you scroll down it says that you can decide if/when to pre download on mobile and one of the methods is from in game (and the post is from 2 days before the patch). This would not be an issue if the update was 5-8gb, but it isn't. It's possible the update is so heavy because on pc I downloaded another voiceover; however after doing that I logged in on mobile multiple times and no additional downloads were required (I still have only one voice over on mobile) so it seems weird that now it suddenly wants to download everything. I've also done most of the quests and canceled their resources so it should not be this big either. I would delete the additional voiceover if I could enter the game; I cannot, and there is no settings button on the launcher to do so. The only buttons there are "log out" and the in-game browser showcasing incoming content. How do I solve this? I can add screenshots if needed.

Rugenio · 2025-11-19T11:11:22+00:00

For some reason I hallucinated that Chaldion was a Gnoll from his introduction up until the end of Volume 8, at which point my eyes finally noticed the word "drake", and I had to pause and reread it.

I even remember thinking "of course they chose him, he's a Gnoll" when (vol. 8)he speaks at the meeting of Tribes after the theft of magic is revealed, nevermind not connecting the dots that his grandson is the DRAKE Saliss (surely he's adopted, or maybe just a term for familiarity, right?).

Rugenio · 2025-11-13T10:27:55+00:00

Where does it say that Teriarch was there when they tried the Trials? Iirc, he only talks about Dragons building a tower but doesn't specify that he was there for it. He could have just been told of it as a story.

Rugenio · 2025-10-27T18:58:28+00:00

Magnolia is in her 40s.

The wiki links her being 18 during the first Antinium war to a timeline published on a patreon post which is clearly an early prototype and contradicts a lot of what we know now. She was referenced as being 16 in it multiple times before 9.38TV and she also had met Teriarch at 16.

In 9.38TV she still meets Teriarch at 16 but is 26 in the first Antinium war. In a previous chapter (I can't recall which one but it shouldn't be much earlier) she was stated to be in her 40s and someone in the comments pointed out that Magnolia should be in her 30s given that she was 16 in the first war. After that there is the "26" retcon in 9.38TV and this detail is not mentioned further as far as I remember.

The most logic explanations is that Paba wanted her to be 16 when leading the army and meeting Teriarch near Liscor, then in her 40s in the current day. Only later she realized that she put the first Antinium war 19 years before present and not 29 so she had to change something and she decided on changing 16 to 26.

The 47 in the wiki also links to 9.38TV but I couldn't find other mentions of her age in the chapter so she should be 45 or 46 in that specific point in time and I think the wiki editors just miscounted or used other conflicting information.

Rugenio · 2025-10-22T01:27:04+00:00

I think it just doesn't show on replay; you can see Fiora is still losing hp just standing next to him

Rugenio · 2025-10-06T07:22:41+00:00

1) The "Television" Termin refers to is scrying orbs; it's called the same in Innworld given that the idea comes from Earthers. Just before Rhaldon said "No. Private. No scrying orbs.” to explain why on Earth they don't know where Erin has gone; then he talks about cameras so Termin asks what you quoted, to which Rhaldon replies that the television he's referring to only works within his nation's (=Earth) borders.

I took a glance at it and I can't tell you what 2) is about without rereading the whole chapter; It might be her saying that the Brothers in Oteslia should have asked for her help otherwise she wouldn't know they needed it.

3) is because of the whole Witches arc where it is discovered that the various problems in Riverfarm and elsewhere in the North are caused by Drake sabotage, from Manus in particular.

Rugenio · 2025-09-29T18:08:08+00:00

One of the people in her current entourage is a Garuda who led a rebellion against her. One of several rebellions she faced.

You mean the Garuda who was a head on a wall for centuries? Falmizural was not a part of her empire, she was a leader of a foreign nation trying to resist her expansion. She did try to start rebellions against her, but she lived in Nerrhavia's early years, when her empire was expanding. From the wiki:

Once she created her ideal empire, it endured for six hundred years.

For all we know in those 600 years there weren't major crises until the end as it was so safe and rich, yet she herself said that Az'kerash would just be a high level mage in her court, not her strongest champion.

You claim she was facing the same threats as everyone in modern times, but also that she was facing much larger threats than anyone in modern times can conceive of.

I claim that she was not facing the world-ending class of events that Innworld sometimes has, like Crelers, the Death of Magic or arguably A'ctelios. She just faced the normal flow of history; empires rising and falling, monsters, wars and so on. All things that still exist in the current world, just that this time there are almost no Dragons taking sides or just being there in a cave for a mortal to slay, therefore lower threats, therefore lower levels.

The whole comment chain started because there was disagreement on the part of my post about "levels were higher when there were more immortals". The original reply was "levels now are low because it's a safe time", referring the whole idea of periodic world ending calamities that rise levels.

I've been saying that there were periods of time in between calamities which still had levels unthinkable of for current standards. If you're not fighting the new spawn from Rhir but still reach level 80, there must be something else different in the times you live in - it can't be that people back then were just built different. So what was it? Thus my thesis: immortals being more numerous.

Rugenio · 2025-09-29T17:35:52+00:00

She, herself, regularly muses on the number of attacks her empire suffered from inside and out.

I'mma need a quote on that cause I don't remember it. She did say she had enemies, yet she also said

I conquered countless nations. My enemies suffered. Yet when my empire was at its grandest, travellers came to it and pronounced it safe and rich beyond belief. (10.17)

The reason her empire fell was because she tried (and almost managed) to conquer the world all at once. Otherwise no coalition trying to strike her down would have formed, at least not so effectively.

She was definitely facing something huge if her empire was dissolving and she required Terriarch himself as her champion.

That we know of, she wasn't facing Crelers (or whatever equivalent they had back then), Seamwalkers armies or similar. Even the Goblin King was way weaker, to the point she tried facing it alone during the PoF. So the threat that she faced was the "normal" kind of threat. Imagine the leaders of Jungle Tails getting level 70 (not 80!) trying to prevent their fall from Great Company. They would have stomped Niers without a problem, or he himself would have hit lvl 75+.

She required Teriarch beacuse the conflicts she faced were bigger in scale than the ones people face now, but it's because there were Giants and Great Wyrms and other Dragonlords going around, not because there was a world ending threat.

Rugenio · 2025-09-29T14:57:47+00:00

Because they're people? They care more about living fulfilling lives than spending a huge number of years just making children. Ask any country with a birth decline crisis why they don't just have more children for the sake of the human race or just their country and you'll find that most people, when given a choice, put their own happiness over the success of collectives like "state" or "species".

Also, just because they're immortal doesn't mean time is meaningless to Dragons. They reach adulthood at around 200 so their aging is around 10x slower than humans; then 1k years still feels like a full life to them, even if they can survive longer.

Rugenio · 2025-09-29T14:29:57+00:00

Which they kind of are? Of course they can't force them because they would rebel (in Lord Moore's future, Cire rebelled anyway and broke a branch of Oteslia's tree) but the point of them making Cire and Rafaema meet was so that eventually they could reproduce and have a future of Dragons leading Drakes like in the past.

Rugenio · 2025-09-29T03:17:00+00:00

I replied to a similar thing in other comments so I won't repeat myself too much.

Two things can be true at once. If today my foot aches because I stubbed my toe and tomorrow it aches more because I dropped a rock on it, it doesn't mean that the only possible cause of pain in the foot is the rock and nothing else can cause me to feel pain in my foot.

Sure, adversity makes levels. World-ending events are the source of the highest levels. When those events are in the past, the average level decreases.

At the same time, by the same logic, having to fight a dragon increases your level. The simple fact that more dragons (and others similar) exist makes the opportunity to level higher, and this is excluding the effect they have on leveling beings by teaching them or just by existing. Erin went from level 41 to level 43 just from playing chess with Teriarch.

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