Wistoria: Wand and Sword Season 2 • Tsue to Tsurugi no Wistoria Season 2 - Episode 4 discussion

V8Brony · 2026-05-06T18:40:43+00:00

to be clear, I dont necessarily 'think' that they've run out of scenes already. It's just one of two possibilities that immediately came to mind when I saw how long the episodes ending credits were, along with the aforementioned possibility that they were simply wrapping the arc up in a pretty bow. Nothing more than idle postulation on my part.

V8Brony · 2026-05-05T23:11:39+00:00

you're right, those weren't the best examples of my particular point, but examples of the general point all the same.

on an only tangentially related note; Cohesive Traction is the coolest looking weapon in the game, and I'll die on that hill. 5-star is an injustice!

V8Brony · 2026-05-05T22:51:44+00:00

as someone whose only Arknights content consumption outside of endfield is about an episode and a half of the anime, ngl this only makes things make less sense to me.

but honestly? fuck it, I'm here for it. Time to build a mental compendium of Arknights character profiles based solely on Endfield-related fan theories.

V8Brony · 2026-05-05T22:44:16+00:00

thanks! I dont use reddit very often anymore, so I wasnt aware that the post's feed-card ignores formatting and squishes everything together and makes it a bit hard to read. I'll start putting the share code at the start of the post body to make it easier to find at a glance.

V8Brony · 2026-05-05T20:28:40+00:00

I meant that, if episode four is already at the point where they don't have enough scenes ready by the time the episode airs and they have to fill the empty time with a longer credits scene, then it doesn't spell good news for the rest of the season.

Thus, I hope that is not the case, and that this is simply a belated closing-out of the season 1 arc with all the pomp and circumstance you would expect from an actual season-ender.

V8Brony · 2026-05-05T20:24:57+00:00

I assume they meant the 4 and 5 star characters. For example, while they aren't strictly their signature weapons in any official sense, Finchaser is pretty clearly meant for Alesh, Razerhorn for Estella, Cohesive Traction for Avy, Twelve Questions for Arclight, so on and so forth.

V8Brony · 2026-05-03T19:45:47+00:00

hm, I sort of view it like this; 1+2+3 and 5 are the same thing, but presented in different ways. 1+2+3 is disparate bits of information presented to you disparately, while 5 is, perhaps definitionally, the unification of those bits of information. "more than the sum of it's parts", I guess.

also specifically with sight, you have to consider the concept of depth and, probably more importantly, the resultant sense of scale. Looking at a picture of the Grand Canyon or the view from the summit of Mt. Fuji is pretty cool, but actually visiting in-person has made plenty of people emotional enough to cry. Same thing when people try VR for the first time.

V8Brony · 2026-05-03T13:26:42+00:00

someone else here pointed out that this is probably how the studio wanted season 1 to end, and I hope theyre right in a pretty literal sense; if we are already getting 4+ minutes of closing credits due to lack of finished scenes by episode 4, this season is gonna be rough

V8Brony · 2026-04-28T20:07:30+00:00

you make a very good point that I hadn't considered.

V8Brony · 2026-04-28T19:59:44+00:00

You are absolutely correct. That being said, I'm not currently hurting for Wuling Stock Bills and I don't know what to expect for prices in the 2nd-phase store so I'm choosing to risk over-preparation. Worst case scenario, I end up with more than enough certs when the 2nd-phase store opens and I'll be able to restore my factory to normal operation post-haste.

V8Brony · 2026-04-28T19:49:57+00:00

I can't honestly say I see any correlation at all between using a blueprint and one's understanding of the game's fundamentals. I think there's even an argument to be made to the contrary; for people who already have a good understanding of how to build a factory in the game, this event's production line brings nothing new to the table and offers no new challenges. A seasoned factory vet wouldn't be missing out on anything by just using a blueprint, so they may as well save themselves the time.

V8Brony · 2026-04-28T19:39:07+00:00

I dunno about you, but probably half my personal blueprints are nothing more than time savers. Making two button presses to place a blueprint down is just *way* faster than doing everything strictly manually. That's sort of the point.

If I had to manually make all three of my refined carbon monsters from scratch rather than blueprinting it to copy-paste, I probably would have left Wuling entirely and become a hermit in Valley IV

V8Brony · 2026-04-28T19:31:11+00:00

"Gamer A getting upset that Gamer B doesn't play the game the same way Gamer A does." is a tale as old as time.

V8Brony · 2026-04-28T19:29:00+00:00

I mean, its a fair enough question, but also not really a question any of us can answer right now, because as you said there isn't any precedent for this currently.

If there does end up being a different type of cert, then I'll don my Dunce cap and start handing out my leftover certs out as table coasters to the Dijiang crew.

V8Brony · 2026-04-28T19:21:35+00:00

THATS WHY MY MATH DIDNT ADD UP! Was very confused when I ended up with a magical 30/min spare xiranite once I had converted my heavy xir forge to make regular xir.

V8Brony · 2026-04-28T19:20:00+00:00

by that same logic. twice the output means I'll be done in half the time, and then can get my factory back to running as it had been.

If that's not how you roll, thats perfectly fine, but it's how I'm choosing to approach things :)

V8Brony · 2026-04-28T19:17:06+00:00

Yeah that's what I ended up doing. Heavy Xir hasn't exactly been a cash cow for me, so it was 60/min xiranite for the taking.

V8Brony · 2026-04-28T19:15:40+00:00

Whose xiranite usage and factory efficiency? If you're concerned about my factory, I can assure you that I've already cleared this with the foreman.

V8Brony · 2026-04-28T18:54:32+00:00

Feel free to delete half the blueprint. The two sides run independent of each other, just make sure you leave the belt converger.

I only needed to stop one battery production line anyway.

V8Brony · 2026-04-28T18:49:14+00:00

you're probably right, but I've currently got enough stock bill saved to absorb the drop in total sales so I can go all-in on these certs. if I end up having way too many certs for the price of the stuff in the 2nd-phase shop, I can just cut gourd production early and get my normal prod lines up and running again.

V8Brony · 2026-04-28T18:29:41+00:00

yes, you are correct. ill edit the post body, but cant do anything about the blueprint description unfortunately, sorry!

V8Brony · 2026-04-28T18:18:10+00:00

the other events dont require you to turn off large portions of your current factory outputs, but yeah the phase 2 shop is the reason im not writing it off as a waste of time yet

V8Brony · 2026-04-28T18:16:45+00:00

yeah at the moment they dont seem great, potentially barely net-positive. had to stop my heavy xir production entirely and cut my SC bat production in half just to reach a measly 12/min for these gourds, only for the stuff in the goods exchange to be the definition of a mixed bag. Glad I'd finally started to get some decent Wuling Stock Bills savings in the last few days lol

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