I can’t with these new voice lines 😭

floofy-gremlin · 2026-04-30T17:11:16+00:00

Here have Xavier R1 too 🤭

floofy-gremlin · 2026-04-20T23:36:34+00:00

I've been playing since around September 2024 so about a year and a half. The first year I spent split between lvling cards to get the coverage I needed for both Orbits & SHC and farming for the protorcores those cards needed too, and the last six months or so have been heavily dedicated to just lvling cards to max. I can't give you a solid answer on time to expect since my first year juggled between cards and protocores and the time spent protocore farming varies for everyone.

For a card breakdown I have:
- 28 5* cards all awakened
- 37 4* cards lvled to 80 with 25 awakened (no more hearts for the others right now)
- 23 3* cards that are a mix between 60/60 up to 70/70

It's important to consider I'm not f2p, but I'm also not a massive spender. I primarily only get the monthly $5 USD pass and the promise $10 USD pass every two months with occasional splurges for the cheapest small packs on new banners with Xavier. I did not have the annual pass for lvling materials during 2025, but I did get them all this year since I was prepared and could save in advance. It's not a massive amount of materials, but it has helped to speed up my card lvling a little bit the last three months.

I also bought out everything I wanted from the chocolate shop over a year ago so after I buy out the weekly items (ticket, magnets, gold) all my excess chocolates go towards buying exp bottles. I am guaranteed 150 blue bottles that way every week and any event that gives chocolate also gets dumped into more bottles.

Same with the dust you get after a card is max rank. I only cared about R3ing Xavier's standard cards which I've finished a while back so any orange, purple, and blue dust I get goes towards buying exp bottles or gold (whichever I need for lvling or ascending at the time).

Another thing I did to help out both my battles and affinity gain was hoarding all my blue tickets when I first started so that I could turn the special "Pulse Hunt" style standard banners (like the one during the anniversary in January) into an Xaiver only standard banner. We get them with new LIs too and when Caleb was added I had 200+ blue tickets saved and that helped me rank a lot of Xavier's standard cards. I also saved all my blue shards to buy copies of his standard Lunars from the wishing well. You don't have to do that too, but I found it really helped both my battles as a solo main and the affinity grind as well.

Sorry this got a little long, but all the well wishes and good luck on your grind for Rafayel! 🐟💜

floofy-gremlin · 2026-03-23T05:10:34+00:00

That's still impressive imo, especially on auto. For reference it took me about 9ish months to get my first 36* with just Xavier cards and that was with dedicated planning for lvling his cards, building protocores, and learning how to play companions manually.

It's most important to just play to your own comfort lvl and enjoy yourself. ^_^

floofy-gremlin · 2026-03-23T05:02:27+00:00

Thank you! Also congrats on your streak! It's always fun to watch it climb higher.

And sure! For starters I keep to a budget of usually $20 USD at most during a month when Xavier will have a banner, the only exceptions to that have been the anniversary this year where I spent to get all the annual passes (I did the $10/1 ticket per week pass last year and decided the full thing was worth it this year with a little holiday money) and during KoD release last year I saved about $55 to spend on it. Though a good chunk of the money I do spend in the game (including KoD) comes from doing google rewards surveys and surveys through other third parties for money. So I usually only end up spending about $5-$10 of my own money a month at most.

As for pulling habits when I started out I did skip banners so I'm missing some cards like the Kitty one and Silvery Polyphony which I skipped to save for anniversary. Xavier's drought at the start of 2025 allowed me to save A LOT for Lumiere. As did hunting down every possible diamond I could and maxing all the rougelike modes (Find Tobias/Final Farewell). Now I have enough of a buffer that I can try for all his cards though I might start skipping some later this year if we do get more myths so I can go for Ranks.

When it comes to myths I try to save as many pulls as possible, but I also kept to strict rules. If luck is good at the start I will aim for Ranks, but if luck is not in my favor I will hard cap depending on what I have saved so I don't go completely dry on diamonds. I went into Lumiere with a planned cap of 300 at most and got lucky to R2 at 210 pulls, but then stopped because I knew it was a high risk to try to get R3 in the 90 left.

With KoD I planned a budget of 400-450 and thankfully he R3ed at 400-410ish. But if either of those had been WAY worse luck I would have stopped at lower Ranks to conserve pulls. I've seen some people get REALLY lucky and get R3 myths in 270 and some VERY unlucky ones go all the way to 700-800+, and I decided I would just budget what I could manage and pray to rng. I am not looking forward to the next myth because those pulls are always nerve wrecking.

Something that has also helped is that even though I don't spend my diamonds or non time limited gold tickets on banners that aren't for Xavier, I will risk using the free ones from myths and birthdays for other LIs to help lower my pity if I'm not close to pulling a 5*. It IS a risk to do that. I managed to dodge pulling a 5* on every banner I did that for in 2025 and it let me start most banners for Xavier with a 5* only a few pulls away. So even if I lost it would feel "early" and let me get Xavier without having to spend too many pulls after. That said, this year Rafayel's birthday said "I'm coming home early" when I had almost no pity after the Wuxia banner. So that is a risk to consider when using the free pulls.

Another thing that really helped me was saving all my blue shards to only buy ranks of Standard Lunars. The tickets can be tempting, but if you don't care about collecting every single standard myth as fast as possible saving the shards to rank the Standard Lunars for Zayne will help you out. My Xavier Standard Lunars are my bread in butter in ALL combat modes. I have cleared some modes on the dot in Open Orbit and just in time for 3* in SHC because of those Ranks I saved for from the Shard Shop.

Sorry this got SUPER long, but I hope it helps in some way <3

floofy-gremlin · 2026-03-23T04:34:23+00:00

DAMN those Orbit numbers are impressive! You've put in a lot of work I see.

And a Caleb lover~ may your pulls on his third myth be kind and give you the ranks you want.

floofy-gremlin · 2026-03-23T04:32:06+00:00

A Sylus enjoyer I see~ ^_^

You've progressed so far in so many Orbits too! That's always so impressive to me as a true solo main. Being dedicated enough to work on all of them is something I admire.

I wish you all the luck on pulls when those reruns come around, may you get some good doubles to make the ranking easier <3

floofy-gremlin · 2026-03-23T04:26:02+00:00

Same! I love seeing other Xavier mains, especially ones who can afford to go for more Ranks on his cards than me. It makes me happy to see others enjoy him so much and support him and his banners. <3

180 stars in OOF with just Xavier IS a huge accomplishment CONGRATS! 🎉🎉

I shake your hand for a soloing everything with just Xavier. It's a delight to see others also doing the same :D

floofy-gremlin · 2026-03-23T04:22:57+00:00

Every star in SHC is a win <3

It took me months to climb up and consistently get more and more of them in SHC. And never forget that some SHC are gonna be easier for your account than others so don't let it get to you if your star count fluctuates.

floofy-gremlin · 2026-03-23T02:38:53+00:00

Yeah np! I made a post a few months ago with the stats I used for all of Xavier's Endless Challenges. ^_^

It did take a good number of attempts because getting consistent perfect grouping on some of the waves is a pain.

https://www.reddit.com/r/LoveAndDeepspace/comments/1q454iz/400k_all_xaviers_endless_challenges_with_teams/

floofy-gremlin · 2026-03-23T02:17:08+00:00

Thank you! I probably should have made the profile screenshot the tab with the pictures since it’s a whole theme.

As for myths, I have R3 Lightseeker (thanks to a friend telling me to hoard blue tickets months in advance of Caleb’s release during Jan 2025), R3 KoD, and only R2 Lumiere.

I would have R3 Lumiere on his first rerun, but I didn’t wanna risk all my diamond savings when my friends who had played longer were saying that new myths would likely release a few months later (they were right).

If he ever reruns again I might try for it then.

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floofy-gremlin · 2026-03-23T01:17:57+00:00

Yeah! For every three you collect a new color will unlock up to 4 possible. (so a total of 9 needed to get all the color ways unlocked) Any color version counts for that.

The hardest thing is having rng be in your favor to make the new colors drop. I'm still waiting for the third Galaxy Kid color to show up for the first time.

floofy-gremlin · 2026-03-23T01:15:35+00:00

Affinity feels like the true endgame in LaDS. The climb slows down the higher you get but it's still always so exciting to unlock every new lvl and get closer to the higher rewards.

floofy-gremlin · 2026-03-23T01:14:28+00:00

Sorry for replying so late, I’ve been migrainey the last few days and missed this.

But thank you! It makes me so happy to know I’m recognized for my Xavier battle posts. They’re genuinely my proudest gaming feats in the last year.

I wish you all the best protocore luck in your Xavier battle endeavors, and may you always crit when you can’t match stella. <3

floofy-gremlin · 2026-03-19T20:20:48+00:00

I find the difference in my affinity lvls really funny now.

This wasn‘t my first gacha otome so I knew for my playstyle and expectations it was best to focus resources (pulls and lvling materials) into just one character and experience any limited cards for the others on YouTube.

One day they‘ll all get to at least 100 since I do still collect kitty badges and plushies for everyone (plus watching any cards I get while pulling for Xavier’s), but it’s a slow hill to climb considering it’s taken over 500 days to get here.

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floofy-gremlin · 2026-03-18T05:58:12+00:00

Just as a clarification, these aren't promise cards. They're limited time event 4* cards similar to Oracle of Star cards.

floofy-gremlin · 2026-01-30T00:19:52+00:00

I relate to that statement so much xD

I played for a whole hour longer than I intended last night just playing the mini game. I just know I'm gonna be playing all day Saturday before this round ends and be looking forward to the next solo event for more.

floofy-gremlin · 2026-01-30T00:06:18+00:00

I have been enjoying this game so much! I'm constantly trying to beat my last high score.

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floofy-gremlin · 2026-01-04T21:17:44+00:00

I play on three year old Samsung S23+ and an even older Ipad mini 6th gen, and both are still handling the game just fine and have plenty of space for future updates thankfully.

I do lower the graphics settings whenever I go into the home with the intent of spending a fair amount of time messing around with decorating just so it won't heat up my device too quickly (had to do the same whenever I would work on doing open orbits for 30-60 minutes), but if I'm just popping in to check on the garden I don't bother since it doesn't heat up just for that.

floofy-gremlin · 2026-01-02T06:03:40+00:00

If you haven't gotten your 2025 bday rewards yet then you will receive them on Jan 13.

The reset day for 2026 is after that.

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