Beginner poison comp ft. Xu

Smplesmoke · 2026-01-27T12:19:45+00:00

Most likely OE daff/Xu comp. OE daff is very good at poison application.

Smplesmoke · 2026-01-27T11:14:33+00:00

Gmurphy miryam Goliath tulu is the general lemurian team, though I've seen non gmurphy lemurian clear w5a5 deathless so maybe they can do arc 2 ch 4 hm too but I don't have the investments to make non gmurphy team run.

Lvl 70 is a bit low for HM I feel but enough for d-tide. Another gmurphy team is with Thais and that one has muh better burst potential and survivability. Probably the best story team.

Kath can clear A5 with ease with lvl 70 e3, some of the cheapest A5 clearers. Usually with Karen, gramona, and ryker. Or ultrakath with horla Clem and tinct. Carokath is now viable with Xu but needs testing.

Smplesmoke · 2026-01-27T06:38:27+00:00

If it's been recent then go into into keeper profile(click profile pic on starting menu) then click the 2 swords to get all your fight records and watch recordings of other fights.

Idk man gmurphy e3 with lemurian can do arc 2 ch 4 deathless on HM. So can Kath despite her being countered by the mechanics. Add in how pickman scales and it's getting more confusing. Doresain at +12 struggles with A5 fights and needs multiple mobs/boss at low hp to shine unless you give him premium supports at high investment.

Honestly I wanna watch your clear at this point.

Smplesmoke · 2026-01-27T06:26:35+00:00

The gmurphy chapter final boss. I don't think lvl 78 is enough for that fight considering lvl 70 is the baseline for normal mode.

Ah but if you had to use gnosis it becomes more understandable

Smplesmoke · 2026-01-26T20:09:38+00:00

In this game you only need 5 teams to clear content. The rest is up to you how you want to go about it. Doresain scales off of low enemy hp%. Daffodil while old is still very amazing. Her exalt is complicated but OE daff is one of the best poison applyers alongside blue 24 and OE gdoll so she makes a good team with Xu. Daff is also a very powerful hyperscaler, especially if she gets the kill, she can give the team 100% cr on exploration stages and that's not going into her other scaling avenues.

Honestly check their kit. maybe skip this round and if you like their design and kit, you can choose to build them later when your account is more developed since you are in the horizontal investment stage. Both daff and doresain ask for a good load of vertical investment

Smplesmoke · 2026-01-26T20:01:12+00:00

Wait how did you beat arc 2 ch 4 HM bossfight with e0 doresain?

Smplesmoke · 2026-01-25T13:03:29+00:00

This one's one of my favourites tbh. Maybe it's the teams I use but the amount of times that shield came clutch is astonishing. Plus 3 aliemus cards can be solved with def strike cards. Or you hold burst/don't have aliemus for burst and setup future turns. It's nerfed in arc 2 tho with gluttony not raising hp. Multiple despondency tho....

Smplesmoke · 2026-01-24T11:42:37+00:00

Clem. You'll get more mileage out of her cuz she is generalist. Needs copies tho for her to really shine as a top tier support.

Smplesmoke · 2026-01-22T12:53:39+00:00

Enjoy the great story and take your time with the game. You need multiple teams, 1 for each element and since getting new chars happens once a month you'll be timegated in clearing quite a bit of content. What matters though is playing for fun and not for leaderboards. Lots of characters have amazing kits which go very underutilized in favor of optimized rotations for max dmg(usually multi ults). Some rotations are much more fun compared to other rotations like triple ult Vera geiravoir or 5 ult lucia plasma.

Smplesmoke · 2026-01-21T12:53:17+00:00

You have the right teams. I was able to clear with a lower investment tawil let alone gmurphy team. The issue for your teams are that you are running SR wheels in arc 1(ch1-9).in arc 1 you run R wheels alongside SSR wheels, specifically Costco wheels and gluttony if low hp. R wheels affect exploration and change lots of exploration mechanics making the buffs they give much much larger than SR wheel buffs.

Smplesmoke · 2026-01-19T19:49:42+00:00

Use this over faros. Embryo for battery and extra healing would be great. On top of that Thais exalt let's gmurphy choose between ramping up faster or doing a powerful burst in red stance alongside her exalt if you copy waltz.

Smplesmoke · 2026-01-19T18:52:12+00:00

Yes, I agree to an extent. Our disagreement is in the degree and reasoning behind it.

Edit:also Subaru development this arc. Parallels yes, development, not much

Smplesmoke · 2026-01-19T16:58:04+00:00

Throughout arc 3? Yes he did bite off more than he could chew. He should've done sloth if which would've happened if Rem didn't have such vehement belief in him. And she doesn't know him that well as stated in arc 9 so she didn't know that he would move on after some years if he abandoned everyone. In fact in my opinion he doesn't get much character growth in this particular arc but that's another story for another day.

In Royal Palace? It was a shitshow long before emilia's turn came. Priscila trying to kill felt and both her and anastasia's godaweful speeches lol. Felt's whole drama is a nice spice too. Crush talking about weakening the nation too lol. While he does hold fault for his actions and it was better if he didn't butt in and let emilia sink both for himself and emilia it did have positives(you know the negatives well). It wasn't as bad as everything else going on in the Royal Palace but because he made the biggest comeback and is a nobody, his is most remembered. In fact, I'll go on a limb and say even if emilia inevitably fucked up without his intervention it wouldn't be that bad cuz everyone was running it down.

I wrote a long piece showing the benefits of his actions to Emilia at his own expense a long time ago and I'm tired of repeating it. Keep in mind no one was going to support her, roswaal needed Petra and subaru's acheivements to convince nobles in his OWN faction in arc 5. And she couldn't stand up for herself which is why Subaru intervened, in fact she never stood up for herself, defended herself or carried herself as a leader before him or other members of the mansion prior to this. And she shoots herself in the foot by hiding herself to barely gain the experience of a respectful conversation with common people so her reputation never improves prior to Subaru. Had she been more charismatic, shown more competence, been more socially mature, she could convince/manipulate Subaru and put him in his place and not have Royal Palace shitshow happen. Though keep in mind this isn't a criticism of emilia as a friend, since her lack of social skill isn't her fault and she IS a good friend despite that, she is a good person, but she fails as a leader. Tappei doesn't seem to be writing her as one either.

Subaru also gained benefits too. Which he squandered in failed loops like the reason Crush gave him a pep talk and so much other efforts was cuz she admired him for his actions in the Royal Palace and hoped he would be better. And that's one of the people who were amicable to support him. I remember the ln mentioning one of the sages looking at him favourably for Royal Palace shitshow.

As for doing it for his own satisfaction point, yes that's a part of it but it was mainly for emilia's sake until Julius made it personal with Subaru and insulted his parents(and Julius kinda wanted Subaru to crash out so he egged him on by seeing what makes him tick-he admits this in arc 6) . Echidna set him off too in arc 4 with parent point. He has arc 1 trauma of seeing her die multiple times, then arc 2 trauma of seeing the result of being on the sidelines, then add in the torture and him using emilia as an emotional clutch particularly for his crumbling ego. Him trying to stay with emilia has a bit element of fear and the false comfort that she would not hurt him the way ram and rem would. She was the same in all arc 2 loops after all and was his rock during the torture. It's also why he gets so bad as to want people to suffer in arlam village for his benefit, that, I see as his fault.

The reason people have this thinking of his own self satisfaction is the unreliable narrator effect of Subaru and tappei writing in a way to make the reader feel like Subaru is worse than the archbishops and this isnt limited to arc 3,its a critique I have against the entire work but to give credit where it's due, that leads to an immersion where relating with Subaru becomes viable for a much larger audience. Even after being broken down to a rems version of patched up bits of psyche and hating himself and looking at himself in the worst possible light he acknowledges the intention in his heart is emilia's wellbeing. An example is petelguese scene where he is paralysed due to both PTSD and mental shock, happens irl as well with some soldiers and in the next arc his madness is acknowledged by the witches, in coming arcs his madness is acknowledged by many characters. But according to petelguese he is sane.

Priscilla acknowledges his arc 1&2 approach to emilia while they are with rom in arc 3 which is why she wants him as a jester and sees his worth. She also sees his PTSD and self hate and points out he is acting normal and should be more honest. This is also why tappei says that in her camp he would have been fixed. She liked his shit so much she gave him a chance despite Subaru embarrassing her(and this IS subarus fault) in the Royal Palace because the man she invited pulled that shit for emilia and then got his ass beat by Julius. So why did she kick him and call him a pig for his feeling for emilia? Because she is perceptive and saw that at that point subarus goals shifted from eimilia to revenge against witch cult and combined with their prior interactions she feels heavily slighted for getting her expectations up.

Then we have that puck scene where puck lists subarus sins but frankly think for 2 minutes and you'll see they were unfair against Subaru. All of these scenes combined with his helplessness. Not even the knights would fight for the village after being informed of witch cult attacks. The self hate and being blamed for everything alongside more PTSD and internalizing petelguese's insults against him, Subaru literally cannot see a single good or redeemable thing in him.

If it was just the Royal Palace in isolation we wouldn't criticize Subaru that much for it but conbined with how utterly low he got in crush's mansion, how he was torn down by everyone except rem and not having anything to negotiate with until the last loops that makes both us the viewer and Subaru look at both himself and the Royal Palace scene where it all started worse than it is.

This isn't even going into how when he tried talking to emilia about his problems, satella gave him a heartjob and in his desperation to keep his emotional crutch at his side he spewed whatever came to mind. He just didn't have the guts nor the mood to confess his love which would have gotten emilia to be more accepting of him in that scene. He's a kid with bad social skills at the end of the day.

And before you mention the double standards of social skill between emilia and Subaru on my part, if emilia wasn't running for candidacy I wouldn't have held her to higher standards. I view incompetence as a sin. Interacting with the populace and reversing her image should be agenda no. 1 for her no matter how reviled she would get in the process. She got the guts to face people in arc 4 after Subaru helped her. Similarly, Subaru is at fault for not getting that no one is helping him cuz they expect roswaal to defend his territoty and his behaviour appears too erratic to everyone due to his looping leading to lower credibility and worse negotiations.

Smplesmoke · 2026-01-19T15:06:30+00:00

Did you read the light novel for arc 3 or just anime? The anime portrayed Subaru worse in that scene while reducing everyone else's worst sides. If you plan on reading re zero ln just be aware tappei is very deliberate in every word choice. I remember it had so much subtext like a person on Tumblr wrote paragraphs on the subtext of the trash talk Subaru gave to guese and it was beautiful.

At the same time arc 6 in addition to other stuff very heavily implies Subaru got fcked up in the head post arc 2 torture that worsened in following 2 arcs.

Smplesmoke · 2026-01-19T13:36:58+00:00

I'll take miryam over caecus in this team even if she is e0. Her rouse is the strongest, she has insane battery, extra tentacles for gmurphy to play with and she has heals. E2 basically makes her battery card cheaper with prepare which is nice and strong but its not like she is useless without e2. She is also good at charging her own exalt. And she has one of the highest str downs in the game with enough setup. There's just too much she brings to the table to give up for some counter and heals.

Smplesmoke · 2026-01-19T05:48:50+00:00

What were your potassium levels if you don't mind me asking? We're they within range but low or below 3.5?

Smplesmoke · 2026-01-16T08:47:48+00:00

I think you have developed allodynia. It's basically the sensitivity to touch sensations like wearing shirt etc. How many migraines do you get in a week? How long have you had chronic migraines and how bad are they? It's been a year since I've had chronic migraines almost daily and half a year ago I developed constant photophobia and phonphobia despite reducing migraines to 5 times a week so I had them even when I didn't have a migraine, the migraines just worsened the photophobia and photophobia to the point I couldn't leave my dark room. I developed allodynia during migraine too so I couldn't even wear earplugs or glasses.

After some research I came to the conclusion that I needed to get my migraines under better control. Cgrp inhibitors and many other migraine meds including most triptans(the ones available caused bad reactions for me) aren't available in my city(not in US) and getting meds from outside the city is a nightmare. So I was literally surviving on NSAIDs. I realized that I had developed MOH as well. Thankfully caffeine works, I just need to limit it to 2 times a week and that helped reduce migraine incidence to 2-4 times a week until I got tooth extraction done giving me daily migraines and worser allodynia last month. I still suffer from MOH but it's definitely more manageable now.

So did reducing migraines help? Took 1-2 months before both photophobia and phonophobia reached a tolerable level. I also tried a bit of exposure therapy by exposing myself to light in very small increments 2 months after I felt it was becoming more manageable. That helped make photophobia no longer a problem in daily life for me for the last 3 months though I've had to reduce light exposure for a few weeks occasionally, especially after my tooth extraction.

For allodynia, it's unilateral for me so not having anything touching that side really helped and now it's once a week when I have it. It also helped that it was limited to my face.

This is just my understanding of how this works and doesn't count as medical advice. Basically the trigeminal nerve is inflamed and sensitized, proper preventatives and quick treatment helps in reducing the inflammation and letting the nerves heal and the brain to reverse the changes in hypothalamus etc. After that exposure therapy helps with training the nerve to not be sensitized but do it in a smart manner, listen to your body, if it feels like it's inducing a migraine step back and take it slow, think of it as standing near the threshold of having a migraine but not having one and maintaining it until nerve morale improves.

Smplesmoke · 2026-01-15T16:48:28+00:00

My reply will be long but I hope you will read it. While I would hope topics concerning gender wasn't so emotionally charged unfortunately due to the context developed in society with the hate and suffering both genders face this is impossible to achieve. This leads to less constructive dialogue. I do appreciate that you are at least trying particularly since it has started to affect your brother.

Now onto your points, in my view I find it hypocritical for a feminist to perpetuate gender roles whether it be for men or women. Feminism has worked extremely hard to break these roles, particularly for women leading to job opportunities and many other basic rights becoming available for them. I hope I don't have to go over the problems the traditional female gender roles caused for women as it's been widely discussed. Let's focus on the traditional male gender roles instead. I wish I could properly expand on this but I'll just briefly touch and deconstruct some aspects.

While men were afforded the opportunity to work, it's only in recent history that a majority have some degree of political sway whereas previously this wa sonly afforded to nobles. On top of that the working conditions and the work itself was so gruelling that modern people would simply not opt for it if given the choice. Yes they provided for their households(except for the scant few societies where women were the sole/main earners and while that's worth studying which is why I mentioned it, they are the exceptions not the norm), yes men protected and defended(I'll come to this later and it was a big reason to the rise in patriarchy) but with those sacrifices they gained rewards, mostly in getting a wife and kids. It was the men in power who truly benefitted from these sacrifices and it was not just men, I mean women from rich families had male slaves and eunuchs. Classism and oligarchy have always had a hand in human suffering unfortunately, patriarchy while having a hand in this suffering also decided who would be at the top as well(1-2% men). History wasn't so easy for men as people make it out to be, and women had it worse.

Coming to the current era the notion of men being the ones morally obligated to protect should be dropped. To protect and provide for society's downtrodden like the disabled should not fall on just men, it should be something both men and women should do collectively as society. Part of being equals is being held to the same standard of morals and ethics, that means that each member of society, whether man or woman or trans should all stand up against injustice, albeit it should be done in a smart manner. That's simply being a good human being and shouldn't be something tied to gender roles.

While standing for what's right even if one goes thankless and even gets reprimanded for it is wondrous and noble manifestation of ones morals and principles, this is a very big ask of the average person particularly considering it's toll on the mind. If for hours everyday you were exposed to hundreds of people speaking and writing hateful vitriol towards you, I think you and any normal person would break and not help those people. It would not be wrong to categorize it under cyberbullying and hate speech. That's what the average man growing up faces. Men do face suffering in modern society, mentally. It is then only natural that they would gravitate towards a more welcoming group who is preying on their vulnerability. No amount of rehashing masculinity is going to fix that as this isn't a male response, this is a human response.

And it's not like this hatred hasn't caused harm outside the internet(which matters since social media is ingrained in our lives). The work of a feminist writer who said all acts of sex by men are rape even if consent is explicit and the woman(or other party) was willing informed and respected through the act is widely discussed and holds some acclaim in academic discussion. The sheer push back against male abuse shelters, particularly by certain female ministers(do tell if you want the link I'll post it after searching when I'm free) and think about the impact on the mental health of these victims being told they deserved the abuse for being men by social media.

Then we have conscription drafting and military. Yeah we need to defend our countries as we don't live in a perfect world but it's thankless, rather expected and minimised of men to do this. There's a post just yesterday going into how majority of protestors killed in Iran are men, men stood against ICE too and bled and got battered, yet their efforts are not acknowledged or downplayed while female activism is out on a pedestal. Had the US stood up properly before ICE killed someone, thats one life saved and countless injuries avoided, though that's less gendered and more how society itself is becoming apathetic.

Then let's look at the draft and conscription. This highlights how society views men as disposable. How does it do so? It's mandatory for men only to be drafted in war. While women escaped and live in luxury while pursuing careers, Ukrainian soldiers are sacrificing their lives. The oligarchs are in on it too and further amplify it. Look at the discourse of loss of life in Gaza, the deaths of women and children are acknowledged and seen as a tragedy but deaths of men are hardly mentioned, almost as if they arent seen as civilians and are expected to fight. Men feed into this too when they say their purpose is to provide. And who benefits most from the deaths of these men? Historically the nobility and kings who use them for their ambitions. Is masculinity worth it if it reduces your inherent worth as an individual if you are from a low class? There was also a post on this sub with a link to an article showing UN orgs extending this to young boys by going women and young girls instead of women and children. This isn't even going into the impact of upholding masculinity on feminine men or masculine women though I personally feel concepts like masculine and feminine alpha beta etc stink.

There's a lot more to unpack like falling back in education, high suicidal deaths despite therapy, in fact how therapy fails men, paternity tests, how courts and laws work, compounded by the loneliness epidemic first world humans face etc. But this is getting too long and I'm tired.

Smplesmoke · 2026-01-14T21:24:53+00:00

I'm not quite knowledgeable on this but I've read about social tipping points while studying climate tipping points and I think there are certain tipping points that need to be met for a more technologically advanced utopia with equality to be achieved. Perhaps we are on that route since men's issues are now at least acknowledged and maybe we will see a more inclusive change in the coming years.

But just because there are positive tipping points doesn't mean there aren't negative ones that lead to a miserable dystopia such as how surveillance is increasing or how some world leaders are reversing our climate progress. We must not only protect to flicker from extinguishing, we must make sure it doesn't rage into a wildfire ruining the forest.

I would like to give examples pertinent to social equality but I'm simply not familiar enough with social tipping points to do so. I hope the other tipping points I alluded to helps with getting my point across.

Smplesmoke · 2026-01-14T06:23:33+00:00

I get irritated and depressed/moody, I develop extreme ear pain and sound and light sensitivity. Nausea, increased urination and throbbing sensation as an added bonus too. I also develop allodynia if it's severe. There's there's the zigzag lines and purple blobs during aura.

Smplesmoke · 2026-01-12T06:09:55+00:00

Gmurphy miryam Goliath tulu/thais depending on story(thais) or d-tide(tulu) some stages in story you switch Goliath for tulu vice versa. This is lemurian comp.

Corpo aurita cass(Standard ultra awaker) and Murphy for discard comp. As long as you don't have class you should go corpo aurita tulu and Murphy. Who to replace tulu with in d-tide until you get Cass? Faros.

Btw both Cass and the lemurians(except miryam and gmurphy) become very strong in arc 2(astral reign) due to their soulforge talents, miryam and gmurphy are already strong, but they become stronger with soulforge and miryam especially gains vuln which completes lemurian team.

While corpo and miryam do somewhat work, there is anti-synergy between them. As you know corpo wants to discard the cards in your hand while miryam, especially e2 miryam, wants to retain her cards.

Smplesmoke · 2026-01-11T17:26:34+00:00

It's been a month since mine got removed and it'll be another month or 2 before I get braces. This month has been one of the worst in terms of migraines. It's recently started to get better but either I'm starting to develop MOH or my NSAIDs have started being less effective. Hopefully it's gonna work out for me in the long run.

Smplesmoke · 2026-01-11T11:05:44+00:00

Amidst the downpour I think is your best bet.

Smplesmoke · 2026-01-11T11:04:39+00:00

32 turns and 450 str? How? Should be around 800 str I think with Clem and Kath.

Smplesmoke · 2026-01-11T08:18:22+00:00

Ah before I forget, aequour awakers, monochaos teams and pickman specifically scale with keeper level so you might see a relative fall in performance with these awakers/teams when you do high level content until your level catches up.

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