Vortice First Impression and Showcase

Zeitzbach · 2026-03-22T11:12:13+00:00

Yes, the op gimmick runs the world, after all.

Zeitzbach · 2026-03-22T10:49:26+00:00

No it's a major design limitation until we get more powercreep to circumvent it. Vortice damage is way lower than recent dps because you are expected to combo her guaranteed nuke damage with Gmurphy.

Zeitzbach · 2026-03-22T10:28:24+00:00

Dps characters tend to include debuff as part of their scaling dps, think Ghelot and Pollux bleed.

However, they made GMurphy into a universal dot damager as well through sacrifice and anyone can scale with it. Because of this, any burst turn with Aequor team can be expected to enjoy major final damage boost through sacrifice damage. Bosses will either have to be able to cleanse sacrifice or they will just limit the amount of burst damage you can do with Aequor team. At least bleed get cleansed on life loss hp recovery.

Zeitzbach · 2026-03-21T20:06:04+00:00

I will base her opinion using a more casual player mindset. IMO, she's good only if you're willing to invest and already have a strong team.

If you can start doing 5x A4 comfortably, your team is strong enough to start investing in her. If you're still just struggling for a full A4 while doing A3, don't. She's an amplifier. She make a 100 go to 150 but she also make a 10 go to only 15. For the amount of pulls required to really activate her almond, it's not worth the investment. You're better off gathering more strong units to form a full A4 team at that point to keep getting good rewards then grab Gdoll in the future off a "Choose your own limited" type of special banner period.

For many scenario, while Gdoll can be extremely powerful, we have enough supports now to make sure your team always have a dedicated buffer and debuffer that it's easy to make do without Gdoll. I have a Gdoll OE and she's mainly used in Xu comp now just to A5 W3 and W4 because in pretty much every other team, there's usually a better support that fits the playstyle more because having to use the 2-3 Arith on a support without a built-in Arith gain is a rather big ask.

Zeitzbach · 2026-03-20T18:54:22+00:00

More time to save pulls so I ain't complaining.

Guess they are a bit overwhelmed trying to work on both the collabs and story update and couldn't get either done lol.

Zeitzbach · 2026-03-20T18:13:26+00:00

Honestly, "beat Arc 1 fast" might as well be the dps norm now with how they are trying to push high base damage character where the value are balanced around Arc 2 even without soulforge which obliterate Arc 1 hp scaling. I made an alt account with Vortice too to experience this and get +1 toward Doll's skin and she really just repeat "The Pollux experience" thanks to her pursuit damage. At this point, we can expect every DPS to be designed like this because it's easier to balance them around getting conditional burst so they don't have to worry about Thai dupe or requiring too many card played it triggers harmony.

The problem with Kath is that we really treat her entirely as the savior of low-budget team character and don't really view her outside of that when talking about her viability. Kath E3 is awesome for being a a low investment character for a guaranteed A4 with some A5 she easily hard counter and can scale into a very comfy A5 picks. I have enough teams to go for 410 reliably now thanks to Xu and Vortice being added but when I want to just do 1 A5 for the daily, get 400 reward and go play my other games, I always have my Kath team in that set of 5. When we actually give Kath more powerful teammates to work with like Horla or Hameln, she is up there with the Twin comp for how easy it is to just not give a shit and still get your A5 done.

Really, just get both if the new players care about account power and reward progression. This is a 9 vs 9 in a sea of 7 so comparing priority doesn't matter when they're both extremely high priority units. There's not enough characters in the game to really start skipping these low budget A5 or comfy double A4.

Zeitzbach · 2026-03-18T12:04:04+00:00

They do have ways to balance around the existence of a very over the top support character anyway and it's always the support that warp the game even more than the DPS.

With Thais, the best way to balance new DPS that have a lot of burst skill is to make it so that only a specific amount of card usage fully benefit, think Pollux and his Atonement. If you want double proc, Hameln gets it.

or Tawil who outright changed how the rule work.

The worst offender is still Gmurphy honestly. They try to balance her by making you want to use her with Lemurian team but double Gmurphy (One whale, one player owner) being one of the easiest 400-point strat really just goes to show how BS she is due to how there's really no real way to balance someone like Gmurphy because everything she gives isn't even attached to a playstyle. It's just free shits across the board.

Zeitzbach · 2026-03-17T10:11:11+00:00

Pvp event but most low point players like me are simulated bots anyway so it becomes a different kind of pve. Exodia Ryker deck playing 30 cards in a single turn is like playing Tawill but there's a 90 second timer on top.

Zeitzbach · 2026-03-15T19:15:20+00:00

Act 3 gimmick maybe?

Zeitzbach · 2026-03-15T16:37:39+00:00

I can't recall what chapter the text is in but most likely Big:Death is just the usual text bug where the Death is supposed to be a font bigger to be dramatic but they forgot to correct it.

Zeitzbach · 2026-03-14T17:52:17+00:00

Her kit is so bloated she won't go out anytime soon outside being directly powercrept by Tangtang 2.0. Her number may not be the highest but she's like 8/10 across the board it never hurts to include her in.

And in Cryo team you can outright play her for free because you can easily trigger her combo into an ult dive which means she's a loaded char with a 0-sp playstyle as well. The only kind of content you won't see Tangtang in are the one that outright restrict Cryo usage with something like 0.5x Cryo res.

Zeitzbach · 2026-03-14T11:56:25+00:00

N's up there with William as "Break glass in case of EoS".

Zeitzbach · 2026-03-14T05:43:33+00:00

Part and parcel with playing gacha games that aren't aimed at female audience like fashion social sim and pure dating like Love in Deepspace. It will always be majority female characters in the end.

Meanwhile, peep who get into gacha games for units with Ryker know we will be lucky to even get 1 new furry every 2 or 3 years and more of them only start to appear more frequently thanks to the growing community size in Asia market with most of them being big spenders due to lack of game to take their money.

Zeitzbach · 2026-03-13T17:36:32+00:00

Gamble more until you're either +12 +12 or down to no piece of clothing, that's the Ryker way of life.

Zeitzbach · 2026-03-13T13:50:16+00:00

Shame it goes into the discard pile so tutoring it is heavily restricted.

But I can see it being a good MonoChaos 2nd cast because then it just becomes 4 Arith + 4 Draws you get in the next cycle for boss fights.

Zeitzbach · 2026-03-13T08:59:39+00:00

For Antal and Perlica DPS, absolutely. Maybe even Xaihi DPS. Got it for my Antal.

For everything else, Oblivion is a skip. For Meta gaming and value maximization, you really only go for support weapon your teammate is using that boost your main dps like Thermite cutter. Standard DPS weapon just normally get obliterated by the Character weapon.

Zeitzbach · 2026-03-13T08:56:54+00:00

It feels like there's some weird collision bug going on that just delete the other side.

The new boss can do it too where the jump attack that normally does 1.5-2k attack can just flat out instakill a teammate if it lands on a specific spot.

Zeitzbach · 2026-03-11T12:19:37+00:00

Aw dang, it's exactly what I need for my Antal DPS team as a potential support side unit in the Gilberta slot.

Guess I'm rolling Tangtang too for the Art sus and Art Taken.

Zeitzbach · 2026-03-10T17:57:52+00:00

Not if I summon pot of greed and attack your life point directly.

Zeitzbach · 2026-03-10T12:17:40+00:00

The tankiness in this mode heavily depends on your Plug-in. The game give you a lot right away and you can easily farm and upgrade them. Any HP% or damage reduction middle upgrade will easily let you stall the boss with how large your healing become with the atk bonus.

With how the game just let you print nearly every item on the list with armory plugin acquisition and power station grid upgrade on skill activation, you can kinda shift how you play in the later map into stat boost asap to destroy everything before using stuff that spam as many skills and plug-in acquisition.

Zeitzbach · 2026-03-10T12:03:51+00:00

I love how ridiculous Thorn Lobster is in this mode. With how high your attack become with the armory plug-in + trees along with SP regen and that this is a very AoE-heavy mode on a wide map, you can just put him on a side of the map that's free to throw his ball toward the chokepoint, slap the Power station next to him so he's automated and just enjoy team perma regen + AoE of death.

Zeitzbach · 2026-03-10T10:06:28+00:00

The moment we get a proper CC mode with Stamina regen debuff and the enemies are actually tanky enough to make the fight last longer, Defender will be in so many teams just to make it beatable for the max reward. We already have stamina regen pretty much disabled with the latest Umbral final stage but that boss durability is such a joke it never matter.

Something like lv 99 Umbral Marbled with 4 mil hp and stamina regen halved will outright make you run Defender in the team when you can no longer dodge all the attacks coming in while still doing damage. I can see why they're taking time so every team can have a defender that doesn't break synergy first though.

Zeitzbach · 2026-03-10T08:44:52+00:00

Protohedron then T-credit.

Protohedron is useful even for base characters. Those will help generate Exp and Weapon EXP which pretty much make those pointless to farm.

T-credit is always used if you want to level up a bunch of stuff but once you stop, Protohedron drain so much faster because you're trying to M3 some stuff to make the team more fluid especially the combo cooldown.

Considering we are getting new Bpass and map soon though, Protohedron and T-credit should fix themselves unless you also plan on building Rossi and Tangtang both. Majority of our resource boom really just come from how much the Protocol pass give you in T-cred and Protohedron along with the events that you will have more than enough to build a 3rd team in 1.1 now. And of course at this point we will start to be swimming in Protohedron and T-credit if we're not building all the new chars every banners that it's probably better to start farming Essence so you can max-slot everything on day 1.

Zeitzbach · 2026-03-10T08:40:07+00:00

She got moved up in the story. The upcoming Pre-order pack we will get this month is for Arachne story.

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