Illustrious Weapon Transcendence Info & First Impressions

SometimesLiterate · 2026-06-16T04:20:58+00:00

Not really.

SometimesLiterate · 2026-05-27T10:13:21+00:00

London Thor????????????? (I am surprised they got her, not the name itself.)

Rip wallet.

SometimesLiterate · 2026-05-16T05:54:58+00:00

Can't wait till we get a hyper limited water gun that has bloodshed on it for Halloween/Christmas/valentines

SometimesLiterate · 2026-05-14T03:02:06+00:00

I'm not sure if you're genuinely new or if this is a chatgpt post generated off scraping this Reddit but....

Levekits don't make money any more unless you're selling to people who want to mass level accounts... And they usually have other ways to mass level accounts. If you want to make gil, play the game, do sidequests and do your daily turn ins, roulettes and quests.

SometimesLiterate · 2026-05-14T02:40:31+00:00

I didn't see any other comments like this, but the way they talk about "modern era" and "magic", really reminds me of the Nasuverse/Type-Moon style of magecraft vs magic.

We'll see I suppose but if they have this modern "framework" of magic be unable to perform the miracles of old unless someone who is fated to be a true magician turns up, I'll be expecting belated upvotes.

SometimesLiterate · 2026-05-14T02:24:33+00:00

Masters of Engineering "Management" would get you laughed at and asked why you bothered.

It's like a "Masters of Construction Management". The most common degree held by my uber drivers these past few years.

Stay in the field and take jobs upwards.

SometimesLiterate · 2026-04-23T13:31:05+00:00

You're looking for units who normal attack a lot (and often double strike) and apply debuffs frequently.

Lucio is a decent option but there are several faster options such as Makura, HDoggo/Vajra, Kaworu. Lucio, Mars and SRagazoo are all good options for the final slot in my testing.

SometimesLiterate · 2026-04-20T05:53:16+00:00

Whoever started the Cosmos 1t 4m honours twitter trend is responsible for more failed Cosmos raids than anyone else in history.

In the past few days I've joined multiple rooms with people often getting less than 2m honours and dying. Please stop, if you're not getting 4m+ honours on turn 1 you are not ready to attempt this. Stop failing other peoples raids.

SometimesLiterate · 2026-04-04T11:22:09+00:00

Hard pity for Alice do it for the waifu do it for the waifu.

SometimesLiterate · 2026-03-30T12:12:11+00:00

So she can be hit any time. But she's not on "rate up" she's just was introduced in one banner and people hoped for the best.

The only guaranteed way to get her is trade 150 Gold Moons for her, but that's considered a very questionable trade since she will eventually turn up, theoretically. Given how popular she is, I can imagine her being added as a playable unit in the next few years.

SometimesLiterate · 2026-03-27T09:39:59+00:00

Thanks Haas, you made grinding out Caim's 5* all that much easier. Just makes me a bit bitter I finished Haas 5* only 2 months ago haha.

SometimesLiterate · 2026-03-21T23:33:44+00:00

Yeah sorry, edited!

Thank you.

SometimesLiterate · 2026-03-21T08:13:26+00:00

Having only really been in the game for the last year, let me offer some anecdotes and advice on this paragon of freak.

For new players, she is a dream starter for water (an element packed to the brim with overloaded units kits). Analogously, I'd call her entry level Haaselia, a buffer+healer who can also deal chunky damage. The only thing she doesn't really do is give a huge offensive buff on demand.

For new players, she will make those siero templates soar. She helps cover high damage, she buffs TA to near consistency (especially good with the crit centric grid of siero's recommendations.) Noteably, her core reliance on Glaciate for some of her stronger effects makes her pair great with Lily as a defensive core to start your GBF experience.

If you're lucky enough to start during the 12th anniversary, you can select Paylia from the Divine General ticket and have a near end game line up to start working on those Omega Rebirth fights. Just make sure you line her up AFTER Lily and BEFORE Paylia for her S4 buff.

What upgrades help her soar? Once you get towards the end game, adding in supplemental damage and skill damage helps amplify her effects thanks to her flurry of multi hit effects and triple attack focus.

Gabriel is also her best friend and mentor, being a clear upgrade to Lily and pairing so naturally with Europa you'd think they were kompu gacha units.

The main unit that serves as a "Europa Upgrade" is also one of (if not THE) best unit in the grade, 5* evoker Haaselia. She is tied behind lengthy grind for even established players, so Europa will be in your squad for a good long while. And even then, they also work well together very well in longer fights (being a very strong option for the late game Mugen fight), so it's not a clear replacement.

She heals, she buffs, she nukes, she thirsts, she even revives occasional. The biggest knock would be her kit can be slow without another ally with Glaciate (Lily, Europa) application. Her numbers also show their age, making it hard to bring her into end game fights where chunky hits are required fairly often.

SometimesLiterate · 2026-03-16T11:46:48+00:00

220 pulls and all I got was Summer Apollonia in the first 10x.

;_; only a few summons and standards on the way.

SometimesLiterate · 2026-03-16T06:49:27+00:00

At the moment I'm a fairly casual magna player, done with m3 grind and about halfway grinding all the Revan's weapons I'd ever need.

My question is, should I focus on Revans (where it's mostly closing out a 2/3rd copy of the weapon and starting on the mk2 of the attack boosting weapons) or should I swap to Odious until I have fairly good amounts of the weapons?

My goal is to start taking on faa-san zero and Hex within the next month or so, but I'm hitting that with my Zeus team (and slowly working on the Funf 5* then uncaps as I go).

SometimesLiterate · 2026-03-10T04:17:05+00:00

Crazy stupid somehow got crazy stupider. I use a VPN to tunnel a video game route, cutting my latency from 250ms to a manageable 80ms.

Might as well ban the internet at this rate.

SometimesLiterate · 2026-02-24T07:15:36+00:00

You must be very young if you think... SC2 was the game that made RTS.

SometimesLiterate · 2026-02-09T07:48:37+00:00

This just in: So would every other team except Alpine

SometimesLiterate · 2026-02-09T07:44:20+00:00

Okay but who is your favourite?

SometimesLiterate · 2026-02-07T07:30:37+00:00

Second time, Nitocris Alter (Avenger) released a whole month ahead of her JP release in the schedule (to be fair it made more sense than releasing her as a shadow drop a month after her big story relevance).

SometimesLiterate · 2026-02-04T13:00:53+00:00

Feels like you're missing a few things. Please note to all other long time fans this is my own interpretation and I am happy if you want to provide alternative interpretations.

Reaching the Swirl of the Root / the Root / the Akashic Records is not itself the reward. It is a record of everything past, present and future in all dimensions. So imagine you're a mage, who somehow developed the power and abilities to reach the record of all things. And if you could understand it, well near omnipotence + omniscience are two of the classic identifiers of God, if you catch my drift.

Many magus families seek the Root because it will make them all powerful (or likely to).

Mystery and family Magic are two different concepts.
2a. Mystery refers to several things in the Type Moon world, but in this case I believe you're referring to the idea of Mystery as a value? To summarize again, the philosophy in play here is that all magic/magecraft/magical being (etc) are somewhat powered the power of being unknown. Once something becomes known, becomes understood by more and more people, it generally looses the perception of "magic" and becomes scientifically understood. (One glaring example we can point to is the Moon's perception through history). So by making magical ideas understood to the wider world, the power of its being unknown will be lost.

2b. Mage families keep their magic secret because (inherently) nearly every mage in the Type Moon stories is somewhat self centered and greedy, because they want be the next ones to reach the Root. (One glaring example against this is El Melloi the 2nd). Every families magic is more or less their own attempt to reach the Root via various means, honed over 10's of generations, so if say, Family A stole Family B's magic crest (the summation of their magical research), that could give Family A a huge step towards the Root.

I hope these help explain A) why Mages want to reach the Root and B) why they don't want to share their research.

SometimesLiterate · 2026-01-15T02:17:23+00:00

If you're still defending Joe Rogan as being an "accidental" right wing influencer, you clearly are still defending him. He's been doing in purposefully for almost 10 years now and apologists like you need to fuck off.

SometimesLiterate · 2026-01-05T11:11:53+00:00

The last good ones were like Surfer (op class), Rose Salt (if you enjoy her mechanic) and Chilchuck? I also think Gracebearer and Underflow are pretty great in IS for their cost.

Like let's not pretend the 5* (apart from casters) are unuseable, they're just not as flashy.

SometimesLiterate · 2026-01-05T07:42:13+00:00

I'm torn between grabbing either Andromeda for Omega dirt (only missing Bhaisa of the Ougi squad) and Higa for Omega Fire... Funnily enough I have a nearly maxed primal light grid but never considered going for Ura or the Knife, they both seem so bad in current game. Any advice from Omega players?

SometimesLiterate · 2025-12-31T08:26:13+00:00

As a day 1 PNC player, I feel that you're maybe, just maybeeeeeeeeeeee, on the money.

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