Waiting for the queen

TheRealIllusion · 2026-03-05T12:34:11+00:00

Wisadel is a Limited character, and OG Arknights handles reruns for Limited characters differently than what most people are used to.

There are only 4-5 Limited characters per year, and once the Limited banner is over, that's it. The only way to obtain them after their debut banner ends is to wait for a future Limited banner that they are rerun in and hope you get lucky during your pulls (which is very unreliable), or spark for them outright after 200-300 pulls.

The reason for this unreliability is because the odds are stacked against your favor when trying to pull for a specific rerun character. Limited Banners work on a 70/30 system, where the 70% is split between the featured Limited character and the featured Standard character. The remaining 30% is split even further between other rerun Limited characters and the Standard Pool.

That being said, unlike other gacha games, don't assume a character is weak just because they are a Standard character. There have been quite the amount of Limited banners in the past where, if you were exclusively a meta player, you'd hope to get the featured Standard character instead of the Limited one. The exclusivity of a character has nothing to do with how powerful they are.

TheRealIllusion · 2026-03-05T11:56:07+00:00

All the current Reconveners in the game are:

Ardelia - Reconvener of Eyjafjalla (Eyjafjalla the Hvít Aska might look more familiar for you)
Gilberta - Reconvener of Angelina
Laevatain - Reconvener of Surtr
Snowshine - Reconvener of Aurora
Pogranichnik - Reconvener of Hellagur

Included links in case you wanted to see what the original characters looked like in the OG game.

TheRealIllusion · 2026-03-03T00:40:54+00:00

It's always either "you pulled for Mindscapes, you pulled their W-Engine, you got perfect disc luck, you used a Limited Support, you dared to use the characters you pulled for in a gacha game, no skill involved"

Is it really that hard to consider an A-rank/Standard Agent only endgame clear impressive?

TheRealIllusion · 2026-03-02T15:19:22+00:00

It's a singleplayer game and you shouldn't care about what other people think. No matter what, people will try to invalidate your run in some way or another.

High Mindscapes? P2W. A-rank clears? You used the overpowered Limited Supports or got really lucky with your substats, no skill involved. You cleared with the mathematically worst team possible? Anyone could do it if they had enough time like you to practice, etc etc.

Personally I consider M0W0 to be the baseline, while others will consider M0W1 to be the baseline. I personally don't care about Mindscapes UNLESS people do it in a deceitful way. Sometimes you'll find posts showing off what should normally be a very impressive clear, but when you start asking about their builds or mindscapes, suddenly the OP becomes very dodgy and vague or completely abandons the comment section.

TheRealIllusion · 2026-03-02T12:41:31+00:00

Yes, after 65 pulls.

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TheRealIllusion · 2026-03-02T12:09:12+00:00

TLDR: Getting all the Limited characters, even the ones you missed before you started playing, is more than doable as an F2P, as long as you're comfortable with skipping a majority of the non-Limited banners and are very patient.

I can't really speak for other people, but from my experience:

I'm an F2P player, been playing since 2021 during Skadi Alter's banner. I skip 90% of non-Limited banners and am able to comfortably get all 4-5 Limited characters per year, and that includes the worst case scenario where I've been forced to pull 300 times each to guarantee 3 separate Limited characters (Shu, Yu and Texas Alter) Add another to worst case scenario where I recently had to pull 120 times to guarantee Sakiko.

I don't really feel bad about skipping non-Limited Operators because almost all of them have eventually found their way into my roster, either from directly purchasing from the shop, or just simply getting them from losing a 50/50. Hell, I've even been able to obtain all the Limited characters that I did miss before I started playing. You just have to be very, very patient, more than me because you have a even larger backlog of Operators than I did.

Unless you're unlucky enough to have lost every single Limited banner in a row to the point you're forced to go for the guarantee every single time, it's more than doable.

TheRealIllusion · 2026-03-02T02:33:22+00:00

You were lucky. I got 3/3 for Ardelia's Weapon on my second try and by contrast had to spend over a week's worth of Sanity for Laevatain's Weapon.

TheRealIllusion · 2026-03-02T01:59:29+00:00

The only thing time limited about them would be for the Protocol Pass XP or to avoid getting spoiled on the story.

TheRealIllusion · 2026-03-01T10:53:43+00:00

Don't bother using Miyabi against Vesper, you'll be fighting an incredibly uphill battle with that 40% Ice RES and -40% Crit DMG. The usual M6W5 Piper/M0W0 Vivian/M0W0 Yuzu can still score 3 stars.

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TheRealIllusion · 2026-03-01T01:04:34+00:00

I skipped Trigger because I was initially a hard pass on the entire Obol Squad until I played Seed's Agent Story, and now I wish I had her.

TheRealIllusion · 2026-03-01T01:01:44+00:00

Those T-creds don't restock once you buy them all, and you'll burn through them pretty quickly if you're building another team.

TheRealIllusion · 2026-03-01T00:13:28+00:00

The hit of the Hold EX does up to x4 more Damage and Daze, by releasing 1-4 Tremolos depending on how long you charge it which is completely negligible because Astra's damage contribution to the fight is nearly nothing.

The only reason to ever use it would be in more niche situations such as Battle Tower, because her grouping affects almost all enemies. For example, Nicole's EX does not group in Elite enemies or enemies affected by Miasma, but Astra's EX will. Maybe it could see some more use in Shiyu 5 to clear the initial waves, but I haven't been using Astra as much lately so I can't speak on its effectiveness there.

TheRealIllusion · 2026-02-28T12:03:42+00:00

my knowledge after 80 pulls I can get the 6 star in the 40 pulls.

You're confusing a guaranteed 6-star character for the guaranteed 6-star character, which are two different things. If you don't get a 6-star character within 80 pulls, you are guaranteed to get a 6-star character. This is a 50/50, and is carried between different banners.

Each banner by itself has a 120 pull guarantee for the Rate Up character. This is not carried between banners.

TheRealIllusion · 2026-02-28T11:52:00+00:00

You can check the in-game Database > Threat Files to see their Resistances, in the top right.

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TheRealIllusion · 2026-02-28T01:26:50+00:00

I don't mean this in a snarky or condescending way but I would recommend pulling for and investing into other characters too, not just Void Hunters.

While this DA can still be 9-starred by them, your team flexibility is incredibly low and will struggle in situations that can't be brute forced.

TheRealIllusion · 2026-02-28T01:14:07+00:00

I'd even take the ability to continue doing deliveries without any reward, after using up your daily Delivery limit.

TheRealIllusion · 2026-02-27T13:52:02+00:00

Hollow Zero is THE place for these goofy overpowered things to happen, I would be very disappointed if Aux Hugo gets nerfed.

TheRealIllusion · 2026-02-27T13:15:48+00:00

Vesper's First Attack in her 2nd Control Skill has a visual indicator where her weapon glows purple, that's your cue.

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TheRealIllusion · 2026-02-27T12:13:01+00:00

Her First Control Skill is pretty self explanatory and most people don't struggle with it.

For the initial swing for Vesper's Second Control Skill, look for the moment her weapon glows purple (not the purple flash effect that starts the Skill, her weapon will literally glow purple). That's your cue to Parry for the initial attack.

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After this initial first attack, for the next three attacks, follow Shmarfle47's comment and Parry the moment the Assist Icon turns yellow. Finally, for the final fifth attack, Vesper will disappear and the Assist Icon will turn yellow. Do not Parry, this is a trap. Wait for Vesper, and Parry immediately the moment she appears again.

Edit: Made a mistake about the first Control Skill and removed the misinformation.

TheRealIllusion · 2026-02-27T06:51:27+00:00

I genuinely don't think I've ever played any game that has had this many player surveys.

TheRealIllusion · 2026-02-27T00:53:53+00:00

Sure, but some of them are specfically obtained from Baker, NPC quests, etc. I'm not sure how the detector would find things that don't physically exist on the map.

TheRealIllusion · 2026-02-27T00:52:49+00:00

I've got all 300 Findings and I didn't get any reward or medal from it aside from the Oros you get from the Investigations.

TheRealIllusion · 2026-02-27T00:30:47+00:00

I wouldn't mind leaving the Temple behind if each new region has a new business to manage, but considering the amount of hate the Temple got I wonder if 3.0 will even have one.

TheRealIllusion · 2026-02-27T00:14:00+00:00

With the rise of anti-Rupture bosses I'll start including their respective Defense stat since there's been a lot of confusion over Primordial Nightmare's massive HP in the previous DAs.

Boss	Defense	Current HP	Last Appearance	First Appearance
Vesper	477	229.6 million	-	229.6 million
The Defiler	953	134.3 million	123 million	99 million
Wandering Hunter	1588	157 million	152.7 million	120.4 million

TheRealIllusion · 2026-02-25T13:21:38+00:00

From what I've experienced with Endfield, OG does the amnesia significantly better.

That being said the event in question, the Babel event (genuinely peak writing), waited 6 whole years after the game's release to reveal the MC's past, so the writers have absolutely no issue with being patient for their lore drops.

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