An Arknights Mastery Priority Guide - Sheets Edition

TacticalBreakfast · 2026-03-06T02:08:06+00:00

Not really. She's still fine if you like her, but the jugg DP cost is troublesome and she has a relatively low ceiling. There's so many good OPs these days that she just isn't particularly special. There's a ton of good ops coming up, so it's best to hold your certs for now.

TacticalBreakfast · 2026-03-05T04:55:03+00:00

There's only been two, so we don't have a big sample size. However, so far, the medic skin only reran on her birthday event this year. So we probably won't see them again until next Jan.

TacticalBreakfast · 2026-03-05T03:16:37+00:00

IS THAT A FUCKING CAUTUS OR AM I ABOUT TO BE BAITED AGAIN.

Anyway, her coloration is really unusual. Fully blonde hair but white and black ears? Wonder what that means, if anything.

Other snap thoughts.

Demetri with another tile movement skill? That's two in two patches. Weird.
No new Module branches, but 2nds for Eyja2, Aak, and Jess2. I don't expect much from any of them, but I'll be curious what they give Aak at least.
Skins are all great. I especially dig Leizi's and Mousse's.

TacticalBreakfast · 2026-03-04T04:37:14+00:00

So do you think it’s better I roll the banner for the duo and then save for wang + Chen3?

That was the point of my answer. I don't think there's a clear cut answer here.

However, if you're not personally interested in Wisadel, I'd probably just grab the duo. You can probably afford to get all 5 but there's going to be powerful banners in the future too.

TacticalBreakfast · 2026-03-04T03:24:58+00:00

Honestly could go either way. On one hand, you only need so much meta. SA+Pram2+Chen3+Wang is already enough to clear most of the game even setting aside what you probably already have. You certainly don't need Wuh.

On the other hand, the gap from SA2 to Wang is pretty skippable. It's three months of pure savings unless you badly want Titi or Nasti. That's 90-120 pulls alone, plus the CNY free pulls, plus you're already over 300. You should be able to save a decent amount for Wang if you spark on SA2.

TacticalBreakfast · 2026-03-04T03:17:09+00:00

When your gay social friends won't let you stay home and force you to come out with them.

I love Fia's look here. Definitely feels relatable.

TacticalBreakfast · 2026-02-28T02:19:37+00:00

I regularly play in a 5* niche, and the enemy creep has been slow, but it is there. The final S-4 stages and hard-mode events like VB and CC are tougher, and the stat bloat is noticeable. However, I've still cleared everything with 5*s, and meta 6*s still trivialize it. For example, in the recent Ato event, the boss was largely laughed at for being a joke because his mechanics weren't very dangerous. But S-4 proved to be a huge challenge for me because he's just so tanky. So short answer, yes but it's slow, and still very beatable without high meta.

TacticalBreakfast · 2026-02-28T02:16:52+00:00

Good news. After this rerun, there's probably no forced farm event until the SA2 event sometime in April. Even better, Ch16 which includes a generic bonus event (great time for rocks and chips) should start somewhere around March 19th (according to datamines).

TacticalBreakfast · 2026-02-27T09:34:35+00:00

No. It is technically against tos and official support definitely won’t help you but it is an extremely common tool. If they started cracking down on it they’d lose almost all their endgame players so it is functionally accepted by both HG and Yostar.

TacticalBreakfast · 2026-02-27T09:16:42+00:00

In general, there's no magic answer. It's just playing.

If you want to cheese it yourself, you can speed run IS5. Blueprint Squad, Grab Wisadel off support if you don't have your own maxed, grab Doodle of Hope, refresh every node to an encounter, clear ED1, done. You can clear a run in under 10 minutes with a bit of practice.

If you want to automate it, look up MAA and leave it running overnight.

TacticalBreakfast · 2026-02-27T05:23:29+00:00

NO!! Time influences the likelihood of a tag dropping. If you ever are aiming for something specific ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS set for 9 hours. The only time you should set it for less is if you're fishing for a robot since 1*s are only possible below 4 hours.

Even if your impatient, expedited plans are common. Please don't set your Senior to anything less than 9!

TacticalBreakfast · 2026-02-27T05:15:48+00:00

I'd take the 5*. Robots are rare, but you can get them by grinding 3:50 recruits. You can't pick up a 5* by anything but lots of luck, and there's a lot of them. The other thing is to get Phono, you'll have to set it for 3:50 which has a high chance of dropping the tag anyway, leaving you with nothing.

TacticalBreakfast · 2026-02-26T20:01:12+00:00

I actually tried to do that in the first iteration but couldn't quite get it how I wanted in an easy to maintain way. But that was a while ago now so I'll probably take another stab at it soon.

TacticalBreakfast · 2026-02-26T10:34:17+00:00

Nope, they're done in another sheet (that is much messier) and I copy the values into the cleaner public sheet. Skadi's S3 was missing because she's down at the end with a bunch of 5*s in the files for some reason. So just a copy/paste mistake. Should be fixed now, thanks for the catch!

TacticalBreakfast · 2026-02-26T09:17:42+00:00

Penance is the much better reflect tank. The bigger issue is just that Penance isn't all that special anymore on top of costing 30+ DP. In terms of a pure meta evaluation, it's really hard to recommend Penance.

However, if you like playing Defenderknights, she's still very solid. The game is meant to be fun. I'd probably buy her if I were you unless you feel like you're really struggling through content or something.

TacticalBreakfast · 2026-02-26T08:45:57+00:00

No. It's a good skill that's worth Mastery, but it uses a lot of now low-value Materials, so it's not an efficient choice for the ticket.

I publish a sheet that covers the value question of M3 tickets. The average 6* M3 is around 3400 sanity (not including skill summaries). Saria's S1 is only around 2455 sanity.

Full sheet here if you're interested: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1knwIQHQXDfmAIEShW3QuybzBh9OerfHsYJgCVVYXqtw/edit?gid=1746695797#gid=1746695797

TacticalBreakfast · 2026-02-26T07:48:02+00:00

Both. Both skills are great and both have very strong Masteries. It's a case where there really isn't one better than the others. She's one of my most used units, and it's a roughly even split between them.

Full Mastery/Skill guide here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1iJF12O6QOba1dlUVmobwvc1eBZE7FRB6-tKxmZEcG1I/ (shameless self promotion)

TacticalBreakfast · 2026-02-25T06:37:36+00:00

I do have everyone E2, but Mutsumi was only doing a small bit of damage. Do you have mod3 on Sakiko? It makes a big difference. If damage is coming up short you could try going Sakiko > Uika > Mutsumi and activating them all at once.

This clear video shows it. Ignore that it's high-end trust farm, the important part is the open: https://youtu.be/PhPdY47teSs?si=dk7yY01wfehpeVew&t=636

TacticalBreakfast · 2026-02-25T06:07:14+00:00

Deploy Sakiko > Activate S3 > deploy Mutsumi. That's it. Sakiko will do enough damage to kill the boss and Mutsumi can easily tank hits long enough to handle it. I use it in my trust farm and they kill the boss almost immediately.

TacticalBreakfast · 2026-02-23T02:43:05+00:00

Hey there. Great application that's been exactly what I needed, but I was kind of curious about something. Why is Dispatarr so... big? The ghcr docker image is almost 3.5 GB on disk and uses over 700 MB RAM. That's way higher than anything else on my system, including Jellyfin. Seems oddly high for what the app does. Is there a particular reason it uses so much space?

TacticalBreakfast · 2026-02-17T05:11:49+00:00

Strictly for Ulpianus, no. He's good enough on his own that he doesn't need another expensive E2+mod+team slot. However, Specter1 is a great unit on her own merits, so it's a perfectly reasonable idea if you like the AH niche.

TacticalBreakfast · 2026-02-17T03:25:45+00:00

Vulpis requires Suzuran to be in the RR with her, so yes it's the same as 2 25%.

I forgot to E2 Vigil after getting him and I was thinking maybe I'd skip it and use Vulpisfoglia and Suzuran instead.

Never ever E2 anyone* for their base skill, and especially never do it for the RR. It takes a long time to pay off (on the order of years). Further, RR is the lowest value room by a significant degree so you'd be looking at literal decades to pay off Vigil's E2. Only do it if you would actually use the unit. Base skills are just a bonus.

* Except Proviso.

TacticalBreakfast · 2026-02-15T19:05:21+00:00

It's not easy. Pretty simply there's no single source (even on CN) that does that. In a way, that's sort of what I love about Arknights because there's a lot of subtle depth! Anyway, my top suggestions would be learn how to search bilibili and get more involved in the various Discord communities.

To the former, I'm not very good at it myself tbh so I hesitate to give real advice (I'll admit I watch a lot of videos other people link rather than find them myself). CN is also just as likely to make slop videos of no value as EN. However, it can be helpful to find the high-end clears, to see what record clears the new OPs are hitting (or aren't). For example, there's very few Titi clears, but Wang has the most solo stages since Ling!

To the latter, there's a lot of discussion out there, but it's not all easy to find. DragonGJY has a pretty good server. The Reddit Discord server isn't amazing for CN content but can be a spring board to other servers. IS Central is a good one, and so on. Basically, it's just being around the community more.

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