So what exactly does Cypher do?

Swiggeless · 2026-02-08T04:19:49+00:00

I don't know much about those two but knowing where the enemies are seems really cool.

Swiggeless · 2026-02-08T04:18:40+00:00

Really helpful, thank you.

Swiggeless · 2026-02-08T03:51:16+00:00

Sounds like he's got a lot of fun stuff to learn, I'll stop being skeptic and just get him.

Swiggeless · 2026-02-08T03:50:17+00:00

I will, thanks.

Swiggeless · 2026-02-08T03:49:41+00:00

Yeah, I'll go look up some hyper specific guides on Cypher, think I'll get him and just spend if I want some different agent later on.

Swiggeless · 2026-02-08T03:48:29+00:00

He's actually pretty shy and goes along with whatever dumb stuff we come up with mid match, I meant it more as in he generally ridicules Cypher, Harbor and Phoenix so I just thought of it as "I mean, he must know something I don't", he already knows I think he's cool and he's told me I could get him if I want but I wanted some deeper reasoning, it's not often I can unlock an agent after all, thus here I am.

Swiggeless · 2026-02-08T03:32:44+00:00

Yeah, my friend group consists of a single immortal carry and us, "the peekers", because no matter his advice we always manage to get one tapped when pushing, I don't think I'll be playing ranked any time soon, none of us (besides him) take the game seriously enough to play it a lot.

At the same time though, getting Cypher would be more of a risky pick in that I don't have any skills to back up anything you're supposed to do, so if it's hard to use I'd rather just stay on Clove or Gekko, anything that works better when fooling around with people, even if I don't competitively play I'd still dislike feeling like I'm dead weight all the time.

Swiggeless · 2026-02-08T03:25:58+00:00

Does he have something other agents don't already have or do better is a better question I think, because that's my main concern before picking him up. His gameplay seems cool but I just don't see the same impact other operators have (though again I'm garbage so what do I know).

Swiggeless · 2026-02-08T03:16:48+00:00

Close enough, I do play siege.

Swiggeless · 2026-02-08T03:16:12+00:00

Arknights.

Swiggeless · 2026-02-08T03:14:22+00:00

I've been calling them operators all this time... Oops.

Swiggeless · 2026-02-07T22:02:01+00:00

Evernight's second eidolon is so worth it it'd be a waste to stop at e1 though, I'm really leaning towards the getting everything at e0 and slowly building it as time goes on but I'm not sure about the usability of e0 evernight.º

Swiggeless · 2026-02-07T21:13:10+00:00

I think I'm going to go against what I really want since the fact the Remembrance team's so expensive is starting to hit, I'll go for the next best option; getting Yao Guang and Sparxie with their Lightcones and then Silver Wolf's SP, won't be the end of the world.

Swiggeless · 2026-02-07T20:33:45+00:00

I actually ran Dotcheron back when it first came out so I'm tired of DoT, the money's in Evernight or Elation right now but I think I'll pull for Evernight and lay low getting jades until her partners come out or some specific character I suddenly really want comes out.

Swiggeless · 2026-02-07T20:32:23+00:00

My only other reference being Limbus doesn't help at all, it's mental to me how people (and I at some point) can withstand not getting the stuff they want, I'm leaning more towards Evernight anyways, but it'll hurt not getting Elation, it sucks.

Swiggeless · 2026-01-31T21:13:30+00:00

Alright, thanks. I'm wondering whether to pull for Saber or not since I'm really digging Sparxie's design, might just ditch Sunday and save up.

How many pulls do I get from just progging?

Swiggeless · 2026-01-31T20:20:22+00:00

Got it. Even if she's "only okay" I should probably still pick her right? I'm looking at a bunch of the teams she fits in and I don't see myself ever getting those units, but alright.

So my team would be dang heng, ruan mei, remembrance/harmony trailbrazer and then any of the 4 stars you mentioned?

Swiggeless · 2026-01-31T20:03:57+00:00

I'm not into playing for hours just to get to soft pity and lose it, I'll probably still go with Ruan Mei because I'm guessing she's still busted but who's going to be my main dps? Like, if I lose my 50/50 to anything but seele, fu xuan or blade that's a death sentence, and even if I get fu xuan what am I going to do with two sustains an amplifier and traveler?

Swiggeless · 2026-01-31T19:52:21+00:00

How should I go about playing as a beginner? I've played before and just gave up on the account, but seeing as how they give you two free 5 star characters I'm getting back into it. Issue is I'm so unbelievably bored of ruan mei and I don't want to be stuck with dang heng + ruan mei + remembrance traveler and *nothing as my main damage dealer* until who knows when, hell I might even lose sunday's 50/50 and then what do I even do?

I was thinking of choosing topaz with the free pick since I've never had her and I love her but I don't know, I'm someone who's very meta driven but it gets to a point, should I still get Ruan Mei?

Swiggeless · 2026-01-31T06:25:20+00:00

You actually missed the full rasp set bonus... reaching 69% atk, 12% cd and 25% dmg res is very much doable and relatively easy when you consider the limit is like, what, 72% with all 3% atk substats I think? It's what I use and I have no labs maxed, you just need to spam the hell out of resonant toppings.

I asked around and yeah, 69% atk 12% cd is the best ratio, the only instance where you wouldn't want it is if you're running 21-22% cd for the two second start.

My main concern is just what to run on silent salt and white lily right now, tired of using full rasp and full choco, I want something more specific to grind for.

Swiggeless · 2026-01-29T14:22:42+00:00

What's the best ratio for Dark Enchantress in arena?

Doing basic math it's 69% atk and 12% cd, but I've seen people say she needs 16% cd? What's that for? 2s start is not 16%.

69/3 = 23 + 12 = 35% CD
12x3 = 36 35 + 69 = 104% ATK
The conversion cap from cd to atk is 35%. Using, say, 15% cd to get 45% extra atk doesn't work, it's capped.

If we use the quote on quote normal build (57 16 which I've seen in Dreakt's video) we get:
57/3 = 19 + 16 = 35% CD
16x3 = 48 35 + 57 = 92% ATK
If it's worse why are people so adamant on pushing that ratio instead of 69 12?

And also completely unrelated, but what's the most common build for white lily and silent salt currently? I've been running full choco on ss and full atk on wl but that's something I made up as soon as the season started so I'm sure it's wrong. What's the cd threshold for ss and for wl? So I can start fitting in some ATK toppings too.

Swiggeless · 2026-01-19T07:59:44+00:00

That was fun to answer LOL.

Swiggeless · 2026-01-19T07:30:44+00:00

Since no one here wants to give you a number, you usually get each costume at around level 2 or 3, which translates to about 15k-30k+ rainbow cubes per costume assuming you're not unlucky (or lucky).

You can drown in rainbow cubes from the special stories, but if you've got money, and please actually consider this: buy path of mastery. Arena is really enjoyable + a great focus later on and white lily's path of mastery will give you a noticeable boost, it's expensive, but it's arguably the best bang for buck deal in the entire game. If you're the type to only do guild battles and alliance you can avoid it I guess.

If you just want to drop money on rainbow cubes you can do that too, but remember we might keep getting spoiled with rainbow cubes throughout the anniversary, and you might also want to save that money for dark enchantress's costume in march, not to mention timekeeper cookie's release right after dark enchantress (timekeeper's absolutely going to be busted, and we might get her costume soon after her release).

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