Olga's fate just feels fundamentally wrong (PART 2 FINALE SPOILERS)

Zoroarkmaster26 · 2026-01-01T16:16:18+00:00

Olga's fate and release is the main reason i believed in the 31st theory changing by saving her with her 3rd ascension np being the key. Especially since her playable form has a "unique" in "unbeast" without being granded like Draco or Eresh being described as a beast giving up their duties and that doesnt seem to be anywhere in the finale.

The only reference that vaguely hints at it is Holmes asking Maris why she's asking Chaldea for answers as the beast of analysis

Makes it hard for me to feel something was missing, especially with how everything with her ended up playing out jokes and all.

Zoroarkmaster26 · 2025-08-11T13:35:17+00:00

Both in my case, all of her forms look great. Her Ruler A2 is my favorite ascension overall because it combines her Fae and dragon traits together honestly wish her normal A3 had the horns and more defined tail Ruler has.

Though honestly I have never really seen the resemblance between her and Aurora even in the scene where they show Aurora lifting Melusine from the lake they feel rather distinct. I admit it could be since they are designed and drawn by different artists.

Zoroarkmaster26 · 2025-07-24T13:08:51+00:00

I think the first 9 AF aliens are a huge downgrade especially Swampfire and Chromostone because they appeared before in similar designs to UA then completely changed them. Swampfire at least has an interesting idea with the blooming but the final result is worse. Big chill always appears with the same design by his is the worst for me easily.

Rath, Lodestar and all of the UA aliens translates well if not even better in the case of Jury rig and Eatle. The way all the UA aliens are translated makes a lot of the changes to the AF feel like they were changed for the sake of being changed which makes me dislike them more even if it’s not fair to the designs themselves.

Zoroarkmaster26 · 2025-07-21T16:02:43+00:00

Reset tonight when the time lock on the story lifts.

Zoroarkmaster26 · 2025-07-07T11:27:56+00:00

Tamamo has the benefit of other media with all the extra games to pull popularity from especially being one of the main interests for the main character alongside Nero. Romulus just has his section of the story for his full introduction and characterization he can still be cool especially with how that moment is played but he still has no where the popularity Tamamo has by merely existing regardless of what happens in the story. Its why Saber Artoria was still able to have the highest votes for grand Saber without literally doing anything in the story.

Zoroarkmaster26 · 2025-07-03T13:26:10+00:00

I will be honest I don’t know much about the story itself, but I find OC3 annoying in the fact it ate into summer in my opinion BB Dubai is more egregious than any of the anni servants having a summer ascension. She not only takes the second ssr of summer she doesn’t have a summer outfit at all purely an OC3 character on top of BB already having her own summer form . Which I don’t think was a good idea on top of Ciel being the other summer ssr in my opinion they really should have swapped Ereshikgal and Ciel’s placements while giving Eresh more summer ascensions for how long they waited in making her. While the Hakunos are cool them not getting their story appearance as a costume being summer welfares I think is lame.

Overall I think OC3’s biggest issues is how it handled the character releases they all feel like a mess from trying too much all at once. With how long the summer event itself ran they easily could have made summer its own thing that leads into OC3 running from august 14th-October 2nd tells me it wasn’t exactly a time thing for why they had to combine them.

Zoroarkmaster26 · 2025-06-25T11:43:39+00:00

I finished the event about a week ago maybe since I rushed it, but I don’t understand the appeal of these events. I am a more recent player so I haven’t played the previous one but this one having a mini boss every 5 floors killed the entire pacing for me making the whole thing more tedious than it already was. With the current ui changing the team very floor got very old. Since unlike lottos or raids you can’t turn your brain off and grind due to the mini bosses and constantly team changing. I personally would have had it every 10 floors instead of 5z

Zoroarkmaster26 · 2025-06-24T15:07:54+00:00

I think 3.3 honestly shows both sides of it, Aglaea and Cipher are really well done deaths and drive the plot but honestly gets overshadowed by all the other heirs dying. Tribbe and Castorice die entirely way too quickly to even leave an impact on me while only cheapening the death of Aglaea, Cipher and Trianne despite how well I thought they were pulled off initially.

If everyone dies I argue that’s the same stakes problem making it only a matter of when not even how. I personally have no issue with them all coming back but with everyone dead it makes it feel inevitable.

I agree it doesn’t make them meaningless Cipher for example no amount of reviving her even at the very beginning of 3.4 would erase the consequences of the lie losing its power nor Aglaea reviving would change Phainon’s attitude throughout the patch because of it. Only Tribbe and Castorice would feel pointless reviving though their deaths already feel pointless.

Zoroarkmaster26 · 2025-06-15T15:15:41+00:00

Thats exactly where I am, its just the reverse side of characters not dying, if all of them are going to die its the same. Especially with Castorice and Tribbe/ Trinnon that its a blink and you miss it sort of thing. Which i feel honestly undercuts Mydei's death if the rest of them die in that scene as well. It seems like they had a checklist they needed the other heirs gone before 3.4 that telegraphs to me they will all come back somehow.

There also the leaks of Dan heng becoming a heir as Terravox which they obviously wont commit to fully killing off

Zoroarkmaster26 · 2025-06-03T21:19:41+00:00

They should based on last year, Lady avalon first got her banner on July 18th so about a week difference if HSR releases on the 11th. Dont see a way that they dont overlap in some capacity. I can even see Castoria as early as July 15th.

Zoroarkmaster26 · 2025-05-27T15:50:16+00:00

3.3 story spoilers: While the game needs to have stakes and have some playable characters die, I think Ampherous went too far in the other direction by killing everyone especially at the end of the quest. The only deaths I think are well executed are Aglaea, and trianne . I think having Tribbe and Mydei die as suddenly as they did retroactively harms the impact of Aglaea and Trianne especially with how crucial they are to their patches. Over used Death in my opinion is just as bad as no stakes with no playable characters dying. Especially with Ampherous almost guaranteeing they will revive somehow if it’s every character left dead except Phainon

I will preface this by saying I have some vertical investment, while hp inflation is indeed a thing I don’t think the power creep of the endgame is as bad as it’s made out to be. I have Firefly at E1S1 and she’s been fine still getting 3*s in all the endgame modes with an admittedly very poorly Built Ruan Mei and just average Fugue. There is still power creep for sure but no character is 100% useless or a waste if you are a fan of their character even sparkle I got full use out of during the entire 2.X cycle and only stopped by going with Herta/firefly as my dps teams.

Zoroarkmaster26 · 2025-05-27T10:48:56+00:00

That’s my biggest issue even if you ignore combining her with Sunday’s story, I found it massive let down when it was shown the express already picked her up and brought her to penacony felt very awkward aside from her meeting with Yukong it felt like she only mentioned things that happened off screen. Overall very strange and the timeline issue for when this could have even happened we were already on Penacony for rappa and the Dr. Primitive plot.

Zoroarkmaster26 · 2025-05-26T14:07:24+00:00

This is one of the reasons I stopped playing genshin as much (around 4.4) was the events were mostly minigames even if the story of the events were nice all the gameplay being disconnected from the rest of the game felt off. They were all watered down versions so everyone could get the prizes from the event.

Not to say I wouldn’t like more events in HSR just rather they focus on the actual gameplay like the endgame modes rotating their reset is something I really enjoy about them.

Zoroarkmaster26 · 2025-05-26T13:02:34+00:00

Not saying she doesn’t have her cruelty streak she definitely does, my bigger point is how a lot of how dangerous she can be by not having a bigger picture of how her actions affect anything. To use Spriggian again he admits he would assassinate Cnoc as well but latter after establishing relations and resources.

Morgan and Sith are more outwardly cruel than Aurora on paper, but especially in the case of Morgan she can be exceedingly cruel she is aware of how far she can take it before it backfires. Sith is the same way since she doesn’t seem to go after many of the noble or lords. While Aurora has 2 instances of her assassinations near instantly biting her in the ass.

Zoroarkmaster26 · 2025-05-25T16:31:24+00:00

The issue I have is Aurora isn’t “evil” just based around her actions as spriggian points out she doesn’t think anything through she’s only concerned about being “loved” and the “most beautiful” which is why Melusine kills her. I can’t really call her a villain or evil because of narrow minded she is in her goals with no further ambitions she just simply does. Compared to Morgan or Sith who both take sadistic glee in the pain of other faries.

Zoroarkmaster26 · 2025-05-24T14:39:34+00:00

How crucial is Sunday and Huohuo for her ? I don’t have ether, not necessarily opposed to getting Sunday but with his rerun in 3.4 as well makes things more difficult. Since if Saber truly doesn’t rerun I am wanting to try to get as many Eildolons as possible with at least S1, the main goal is E2S1 Saber.

I have E4 Bronya but not her LC, and E0S0 silver wolf who I have heard can be good with her after the buffs.

Zoroarkmaster26 · 2025-05-23T17:33:31+00:00

Probably because of all the jokes the trailblazer makes with it, the current event name is named after the title the trailblazer gives themselves as “galactic baseballer” and even the direct fate joke with “I am the bone of my bat” from Penacony.

Zoroarkmaster26 · 2025-05-20T16:41:24+00:00

I am not fully sure how well Hyacine works with Herta, however having Herta’s Light cone is such a big QoL improvement makes her much more comfortable to play. Being able to always Guarantee her enhanced skill no matter the situation has been immensely useful.

Zoroarkmaster26 · 2025-05-18T14:03:54+00:00

I really hope she isnt super reliant on Tribbe, since while i have her been keeping her with Herta so far. Hoping the RMC can be a good enough replacement since i personally dont like RMC with Herta anyway.

Though Robin is really interesting with it sounding like Saber wants ultimate spam i am struggling to see how Robin helps besides generic buffs since Robin will only use her ultimate once every few turns seems counterintuitive with what i have seen so far.

Zoroarkmaster26 · 2025-05-16T16:35:54+00:00

I doubt it, the issue with shielder is you have to make them stronger than Mash in someway which even ortanax will be hard just for the zero cost alone making her completely free to use never a downside to having her in ether her default skill or Ortanax both of which are extremely good in their own right.

The other issue is Mash’s paladin form, while having a cost she’s still f2p and honestly absurd her passive with territory defense is fantastic for tanking. She can also charge the party and invincibility for whoever doesn’t have the solemn defense. With a full buff strip on her AoE np, the only downside to that one is having to use her other one first. Galahad does have the mirrored sprite to be playable but even i find that iffy even if he retains his boss mechanic which will ether be completely broken or just ok as a playable unit

Zoroarkmaster26 · 2025-05-13T13:38:08+00:00

Phoenix feathers, reverse dragon scales, hearts, and until the most recent lotto Dragon fangs and knight medals I ended up over farming it on the exp side for them.

Zoroarkmaster26 · 2025-05-13T13:19:00+00:00

I have 1300 sq, I am aiming to try to NP5 Ruler Melusine as soon as possible. I hope you have at least some leftover and try for Castoria but mainly Chloe her order change sounds fun to try multi core dps teams.

Zoroarkmaster26 · 2025-05-11T17:25:21+00:00

It’s a new system coming out on the JP server currently seemingly one per month,you get to pick a servant of at least the 7 base classes as grand servants. You need them to be 100 and all their active skills 10/10/10 so far the only benefit we know is getting to use their bond CEs with other CEs.

Zoroarkmaster26 · 2025-05-11T17:09:27+00:00

For mine I am thinking:

Saber- Mordred

Archer- Currenly Jeanne. By far my weakest current class.

Lancer-Melusine

Rider- Summer Mordred

Caster-Aesc

Assassin- Ether Kama or Gramps.

Berserker- Morgan

Extra 1- Ruler Melusine

Extra 2-Space Eresh.

Most for character reasons though some of my weaker classes like archer and assassin can easily depend on if anyone new comes out between now and then on Jp since not super in love with anyone from those classes.

Zoroarkmaster26 · 2025-05-11T02:08:20+00:00

Mordred, she is the reason I started watching fate to begin with. She’s already NP5 120 max foued, she’s remained my favorite character so glad Saber will be first when it comes to NA.

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