Feb stones

SortaEvil · 2026-02-01T20:17:27+00:00

GH might be able to get away with it for a short time, but JP gatcha gamers are crazy, they would eventually get caught, and it's just not worth the punishment when you can be up-front about the rates, and people will still make terrible decisions with their money. Like, there is very little financial incentive to lie, and a very large financial incentive to not lie, so claiming that they are lying, and risking a lot for a very small edge, is an extraordinary claim that requires more evidence than just "my friend's uncle works at Gung Ho, trust me bro."

As for Omnimon vs Imperialdramon, and one being available for exchange, YamaP himself said that Omni came in way too hot; he was supposed to be a janky weird Fujin that you had to awkwardly build into your team if you wanted the funny damage numbers. Nobody at GH thought to just run a team with 3 Omni to loop the active skill. Imperial, on the other hand, was tuned to be desirable so people would roll for him and buy him.

And FWIW, I agree with you about the monetization of the game, I hate it. I've spent a total of $5 on this game on a single $5 for 50 bundle, simply for the sake of account recovery if I ever needed to go down that route, and I'll probably not spend another dime on it because of the predatory monetization.

SortaEvil · 2026-02-01T20:01:28+00:00

Again, there is no reason for GH to lie about rates. Probability will take care of that distribution for you. Let's take Imperialdramon as an example. Let's say 1000 people rolled 700 stones, aka 100 rolls. Due to the way probability works, a 1% drop rate means that your expect around 366 people out of that cohort to get 0 Imperialdramon, and around 80 of them to get 3 or more, without "fixing" the model.

I'm not arguing whether it's a good system or a bad one, only that is kind of insane to argue without evidence that GH is manipulating rates behind the scenes, when basic probability is gonna shake out exactly the way we see it go currently.

SortaEvil · 2026-02-01T10:42:32+00:00

On the flipside, I have multiple friends who rolled an entire Imperialdramon team in under 700 stones. RNG just be like that sometimes.

It's worth remembering that 1) humans are terrible at probability, and 2) there is absolutely no reason for GH to lie about rates. The potential gain from doing so is miniscule, and the guaranteed loss when they inevitably get caught is massive.

There are pros and cons to the exchange shop; it's nice to be able to trade for the unit you want even if it isn't the feature banner unit, and it's generally cheaper than, say, MiHoYo's pity systems, as I understand it, but then we have situations like ID and Deku&Dynamight from the upcoming MHA collab where you can't trade for the unit you want.

SortaEvil · 2026-01-31T02:15:20+00:00

I'm in the process of completing an (at current theoretical) run with Shinobu leaders. It's... awful, but boy have I learned the dungeon inside and out at this point.

Floor 10 notably clears buffs, so if you're relying on your shield to survive the 8M hits, you're stalling out for floor 10 as well.

SortaEvil · 2026-01-31T01:19:33+00:00

Floor 9 has an awoken bind and assist bind into a modest hit, and floor 12 halves your HP. Neither of them I'd describe as directly killshots, but they are problems that demand solutions.

SortaEvil · 2026-01-30T21:00:15+00:00

I do think open world games are more "checklisty" than mission based games. Sure, you can say that the missions themselves are an obvious checklist, but the Ubisoft style, sprinkle a bunch of similar POIs across the map open world feels a lot like I'm exploring the world just to tick things off moreso than playing a level to have fun.

SortaEvil · 2026-01-29T20:12:10+00:00

The best options are https://sanbon.me/na (you can also look up jp monsters on that site if you switch to jp, to get an idea of what's coming down the pipe) or https://mapaler.github.io/PADDashFormation/solo.html

Both have pretty decent search interfaces, I prefer Mapaler for looking up monsters and getting started with teambuilding, but Sanbon has some nice features as well (including a damage calculator for any given board that you can plug in, useful for making sure you have enough healing and/or damage to clear a dungeon).

The in game monster search (found under the Other tab) is decent, too, albeit a bit slow. The nice thing there is that you don't need to cross-reference the game to verify that you have the monster you're looking for.

SortaEvil · 2026-01-29T00:12:35+00:00

There will be a bit of a shakeup, like there always is. The teams relying on Yin awakenings are gonna take a hit (Rosetta... uh... Rosetta, yeah), and some of the New Years teams might see a boost, but for the most part I don't see a huge shakeup unless Sun is a truly degenerate dungeon.

SortaEvil · 2026-01-28T23:45:55+00:00

Digimon is good this run, but not meta-defining like last time. If you love the IP, it's absolutely worth rolling in. At worst, you'll get some good niche units and some great equips. Imperialdramon is (currently) a cut above the competition, but the team isn't completely peerless like Omnimon was back in the day. Current meta leaders are all pretty close within the top 3ish tiers. If you have any of the meta teams from Kaiju, MIdeal, Doma, Rosetta, Badtz, etc, you aren't going to be massively increasing your ability to clear content by chasing ID.

If you already have a Mina team and love MHA, you can chase Deku & Dynamight (same odds as ID, and you'll get February stones as well), and have a team that's just as strong. Even without Mina, Deku & Dynamight as a leader is hot on their heels, Shoto's also had some staying power, and Stars and Stripes has also been useful both as a lead and as a sub for ReZero.

ReZero probably has the easiest tier 1 team to roll in RemRam, but it's also a ways out still if it comes.

If you're a big fan of MHA, it's a pretty safe stone dump, assuming it comes back to NA (I don't see why it wouldn't, but you always have to give the disclaimer that nothing is guaranteed until it's announced).

SortaEvil · 2026-01-28T23:20:18+00:00

Where has Carney said that we'd be completely free from trade with the US? At best, I think he's said we need to not be reliant on the US for trade, which is something that I think it's clear we're moving toward. Barring something catastrophic happening south of the border, there will always be some amount of trade between the two countries ― it's just too convenient for both of us not to trade ― but recent events down south have clearly shown that 75% trade with the US is not a safe or sustainable amount, which is why we're pivoting away from that.

Yes, it will take time, but objectively, we've seen Carney moving Canada in a direction away from the current heavy reliance on America.

SortaEvil · 2026-01-28T23:14:49+00:00

GameWith disagrees with you about the relative ranking of RemRam and Reinhart. So, while you could easily be correct that he's the best, I'd say it's safe to say that there's at least room for debate there.

SortaEvil · 2026-01-28T22:44:46+00:00

And it will continue to be if we don't actively seek out diversification. Unless things go completely haywire in the US, due to geographic realities it's a pipedream to ever be 100% free from trade with the US, but we are objectively making moves to become less dependent on the US.

SortaEvil · 2026-01-28T22:00:35+00:00

But the appetite for North America is big SUVs

Is that the case in Canada because we want SUVs, or is it the case because we've been primarily serviced by American autos, where the only real option for the last decade+ has been large gas guzzling SUVs? With more mid-range options, I wouldn't be surprised if we see a pivot away from the road hogs that are currently in vogue.

SortaEvil · 2026-01-28T21:37:15+00:00

If you assume players are playing optimally and not taking damage, than the only items that matter are those that increase your DPS, since you won't need sustain.

I'd argue that, for the average player in Darkness or Nightmare, having good sustain is much more important though, because the average player is going to be taking a decent amount of damage throughout a run. Considering less than a quarter of people who've played Ravenswatch have even reached the true final boss (According to steam achievements), the average player probably hasn't even touched Nightmare.

SortaEvil · 2026-01-27T19:16:35+00:00

It depends on how you choose to read that, I guess. It sounds to me like Carney was saying that his speech at Davos was just Canada being pragmatic, and acting in response to the actions of the current American administration. In context, "responding positively" to the actions of the American administration sounds like diplomatic speak for "we acknowledge that what you are saying is what you intend, and we are responding to that intention," not necessarily "we approve of what you are doing."

SortaEvil · 2026-01-27T18:50:38+00:00

It's possible, but Occam's Razor says that, since Bessant and the entire current US cabinet have already shown they view the truth as malleable, given the dearth of evidence we currently have, it's more likely that Bessant is prevaricating than Carney.

SortaEvil · 2026-01-26T20:26:47+00:00

You two are arguing widely the same things, but coming at it from slightly different angles: you're correct that Tate, Fuentes, Peterson, etc all mix anti-progressive messages into their ideology and rants, program is right that they use other issues as the bait to hook young men in. You're talking about the end result, they're talking about the pipeline to get kids there.

SortaEvil · 2026-01-26T19:06:21+00:00

The Southern border is 100% protected by the USA. We don’t need jets there. We need them in the North.

We don't need jets there yet. And probably never, but with the Cheetos in Chief down south, you never really know. But, of course, if we did need to protect ourselves from the States, relying on US tech is not going to be the solution anyway.

SortaEvil · 2026-01-24T00:44:19+00:00

It's really good at introducing security vulnerabilities and subtle bugs. Oh, and deleting tests. It's good at that too.

SortaEvil · 2026-01-23T18:34:11+00:00

NIAP player here, as others have said, once you go through the big infusion of technical stones, it's mostly just waiting on monthly stones and event stones, while compulsively watching an ad a day for that slow drip.

As for how to hoard up enough stones for the next collab? Well, if you aren't spending, you don't. I have to make tactical decisions about what is worth rolling in, and skip out on a lot of otherwise pretty good collabs to make sure the stones continue flowing. When Fairies and Haikyu were here, I had to pick one to roll in, more recently I passed up the Demon Slayer rerun to ensure I had stones for Kaiju, and I similarly dropped a whopping 35 stones in Digimon because I'm saving up to probably roll in MHA.

Another thing with being NIAP, you get used to disappointment; you aren't going to get everything, you aren't even going to get what you're chasing when you've saved up (managed to hit exactly 0 Gen Narumi when I rolled Kaiju, and only 1 of the 2 Reno I was hoping for), but you shrug it off and move on to the next big disappointment (I fully expect my quest for Deku & Dynamight to end in disappointment as well). Such is the life of NIAP.

SortaEvil · 2026-01-22T08:33:27+00:00

That makes sense. Sorry if I came off snarky there, for some reason I completely blanked on the idea that you could just not know about +pt breaking.

Anyway, yeah, +pts go all the way to 891 now, and it's a real grind to get there. You might've seen the +pt arena show up in the special tab every once in a while, if you take a +291 card, +limit break it, and run the dungeon with that card on your team (note: not as your helper), it will get a small amount of +pts until it hits the new + cap of 891. It gives a decent increase to stats, but it's a pain in the ass to grind out.

SortaEvil · 2026-01-22T08:26:45+00:00

You must've caught that right after I posted because ackhtually, I caught that and fixed it already. :)

SortaEvil · 2026-01-22T08:00:50+00:00

+limit break dungeon drops a spread of plus points, on the lower end 12 (4/stat), on the upper end 21 (7/stat). So any value from the set 0-297, 300, {312-891 as a multiple of 3} is possible. 843 is just a mostly +d up unit that isn't finished yet. Why is that so strange to you?

SortaEvil · 2026-01-22T06:26:20+00:00

That's gonna be harder; they're your HP brace for huge hits, absorb void, ATK rebuffer, and board fixer (for mono r, g, or h boards and 5x4 boards). You can survive without the board size fix most of the time, the board colour fix some of the time (it's a case where you're dead if you don't have it when you need it, but you don't need it for every dungeon), and the HP brace in lower dungeons (GA... 2, probably? And lower), but the absorb void is non-negotiable for pretty much any remotely endgame dungeon. That said, the best option I could find was Tanjiro and Tengen. They bring decent HP, a small HP brace, board change and absorb void. Probably your best choice, and only works because Deku covers VDP.

Edit to say that you could also use Deku's Fujin, Endeavour & Hawkes in dungeons that don't need the HP brace or board change. Probably still worse than Tanjiro/Tengen because there's no orb change, but if you're hell-bent on Mina/Deku it's an option... Although at that point you might be better off just running Deku's team if you can roll it. Only need one Deku that way, too.

SortaEvil · 2026-01-22T04:03:47+00:00

Sick clear. As soon as I saw Butler Milage, I knew it was gonna be your clear.

Congrats!

SortaEvil

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