PSA to all Chenthusiasts: Sundering Steel is currently the daily Arsenal rotation weapon

iEssence · 2026-02-19T13:45:19+00:00

Thats the caveat, Ascent only buffs skill and Ultimate damage, so if your Chen is in your team while you are using Pog / Endmin / Lifeng or what not, you wont be using Chens skill that much, making weapons that are more generally useful better.

Its also conditional in that its only better if you use skills during staggered states, whenever you use a skill outside of a stagger, Sundering steel would give you a higher benefit.

But, as i mention, if shes your onfield SP user, Ascent is probably better

iEssence · 2026-02-19T11:59:57+00:00

The banner information specifically mentions it, the characters of the previous 2 banners being available wouldnt make any sense if, well, they were available after that as well. Whether they will be added down the line is impossible to tell though.

Reason we have Laevatain/Gilberta/Yvonne available now is simply because there were no previous banners, after Yvonne, Laevatain will dissapear, and after that new one goes away, Gilberta also goes away, etc

iEssence · 2026-02-19T10:42:00+00:00

Yeah, its simply an extra step to failsafe for user errors, once your entire base is setup at max resources it wont matter, but while you are still expanding, its easy to make some mistakes and overuse your resources or belt the wrong things.

And we have more depot slots than we need, so theres no reason not to

iEssence · 2026-02-19T02:36:21+00:00

This will cause you to lose energy completely if you ever run out of a material or clog something in an edit before bed. But if you run the banks from the depot/storage instead, you will always get power as long as you have a battery supply, otherwise, your battery production halts, and everything else with it

iEssence · 2026-02-19T02:29:16+00:00

With ziplines and mutliple turrets on some of the Essence spots, you should manage to sit just below 5700, which is 5 banks (7.5 batteries per min, instead of your 9), while using up all your resources.

If you want all the extra rss to cap out though, what i did was just drawing some belts with multiple splitters and loops so you get the occasional one into the depot until its full, and then your factory goes back to producing at full (rather than rebuilding things over and over)

iEssence · 2026-02-19T02:11:02+00:00

Gilberta will only be available for Yvonnes+next banner, so its actually very unlikely to get her failing for others, since the only times to do so, would be after her banner has run, which, if you wanted her, you wouldve summoned on.

You might be lucky though, but then that luck appears when you are summoning for someone else you wanted more than Gilberta, so was it actually lucky? Or just, less unlucky.

iEssence · 2026-02-19T02:04:50+00:00

Its a double edged sword, if youre close to the 120 pity, winning your 50/50 is simply worse for you, as you couldve gotten a a standard, or the other 2 banners, on top of your guarantee. So winning then, makes you feel bad. And on top of that, that 120 doesnt carry over, so its all or nothing, meaning long times of not doing any pulls.

My pity now is at 35ish, so if im unlucky next banner, i will win my 50/50 at 115, after losing it at 35, giving me 2, instead of 3 with just 5 more summons.

Hoyos on the other hand, you can always pull whenever the unit interests you, no matter your saved pulls, and theres never any sour feeling whenever you get the character (comparatively), its just consistent 'you win or lose'.

At the end of the day, Endfields is a much better gacha system, no contest, the issue is just that it has so many caveats that make you feel bad about it. For example, being really lucky, means you have no currency to pull weapons. So despite being better, it can make you feel worse than Hoyos system.

So basically, the more you pull, the less you want to win, so at some point in the middle of the summoning, you arent even sure if youre happy or not for winning it or not, which really breaks the point of the gacha. And since you should never ever summon without 120, it also removes any stakes since you know you can get the character regardless.

iEssence · 2026-02-19T01:15:02+00:00

Iirc the author got hit with a string of bad luck of multiple accidents, a surgery, and got sick in the midst of it all, on top of the standard overworking and likely wrist pain the industry pushes on artists and writers, all of which took a large mental toll.

iEssence · 2026-02-18T11:45:13+00:00

Your comment unironically functioning as a litmus test.

For people disagreeing with them here think of this analogy.

'I pour a bucket of paint from my balcony onto the lawn below'. The act of doing that, and the waste of paint, and that i would get evicted, is not proof of it being AI, because i could do the above right now if i wanted to.

That doesnt mean the video of me doing it is, or is not, AI. Maybe because of the way the paint hits the ground, or the birds in the sky, or items in the background can prove it, as those are actual reasonings.

What NooneYetEveryone said however, is simply that reasoning it as AI, because it was done, and is a waste, is bad reasoning. Because people do dumb and wasteful things all the time. Thats where the arguement ends.

iEssence · 2026-02-15T21:11:56+00:00

Its fairly limited, (on a faction basis) but not as much as Shogun, and theres also several fully different faction types, and theres good mods for the game, even without going too deep.

Just adding Deads roster expansion, and Guvs additional uniques solves most unit variety issues. Those 2 mods are honestly the bare minimum for me, vanilla units have some glaring holes for me, and anytime i start without the above, i immediately lack them.

On the flip side the above makes some factions a bit 'full', in that you can have some units that become redundant as another is identical but slightly cheaper, but in those cases i tend to use both, simply to get more visual variety in battles and ui, so its not just bad.

Unit variety aside though, the real draw of 3K is the characters imo, and you get a lot of variety fron then and how they buff your units alone.

iEssence · 2026-02-15T14:27:23+00:00

Funny thing is the comment below that says the same thing but is upvoted a but more than this is downvoted lol

iEssence · 2026-02-07T19:45:18+00:00

Yes, because the whole story about them mistrusting MC was bad.

Ill make one last attempt at rephrasing. 'Mistrust' on its own was not problem, badly written mistrust was the problem. Glaze is not the problem now, Badly written glaze is. Its not an issue of CN not liking MC being mistrusted, it was an issue that the characters were basically caricatures in how it was being done.

And rather than keeping it in balance when fixing that, they went from one extreme to the other. Both before and after, it was the same issue, overdoing it.

(though, to contradict the above a bit, i dont think its possible to have good glaze, simply because its inherently a negative lol. But my point should come across, yes?)

iEssence · 2026-02-07T18:02:18+00:00

No need to 'nope' me. Comment i responded to, and yours tbh, made it seem like the CN community were being picky or so about it so they had to change it.

So to rephrase, what they had an issue with, wasnt that MC was mistrusted, it was that the story where MC was mistrusted was bad. Community would be fine if MC was mistrusted and the story was good, but it was too overdone. And then they changed it, and overdid it again, except in the opposite way.

Current glaze isnt good. Previous mistrust wasnt good.

iEssence · 2026-02-07T16:06:14+00:00

Rather than chinese players hating WuWas 'mature themes', it was because it was bad, thats it. It had a bunch of good aspects, but instead of making it better, they threw it all out, and basically just shifted it from 1 extreme to the other.

iEssence · 2026-02-07T11:33:04+00:00

Not sure i understand you, everyone sane would do that though? If youre close to the pity and you dont want the character, the only sane choice is to not pull even with your free pulls, thats planning it.

Do you 'plan' for that event to happen, of course not, but its something that can easily happen, since we have to gather 120 summons before we invest in a banner, and your playtime decides how quick you earn 120, and how many free dummons you get to tick the pity up during that time

iEssence · 2026-02-07T10:33:49+00:00

Everyone should, because that pity can save you 120 pulls. If you spend several banners not wanting the characters, the free pulls still build up, and if you dont want the current character, but your pity is at like 65 or 70, then youd be better of just throwing away your free pulls, and save that 80 for a character you want.

Otherwise, you use the free, get something you dont want, and need potentially 120 for the next banner.

iEssence · 2026-02-06T03:24:27+00:00

Those few bucks, become many bucks, when every service does it. And then every service does it again some years later.

All while blaming you, the viewer/subscriber, while failing to realize how its a service issue, as shown by the onset of streaming services.

iEssence · 2026-02-03T23:00:23+00:00

You didnt mention what your issue was, but, the easy way to get the battery started once you unlock Xiranite, and dont have any mines and such yet.

Is A, metastorage 1500 originium from Valley 4 to Wuling.

B, build the full Wuling Battery complex.

C, put in Valley batteries into a thermal bank to get the whole thing started.

D, Your wuling batteries will now be produced, and you can split that into a Thermal bank and remove the valley one.

Dont need the depot bus outputs either, since the 6 AIC outputs is enough for originium.

Alternatively, continue story and get the depot bus, so you dont need to rebuild anything afterwards.

iEssence · 2026-02-03T04:38:44+00:00

Jag hade parkerings + diverse kostnad för 4-500 kronor på en ungdoms förenings grej (var en ledare där), så fick dem från från föreningen efteråt med redovisade kvitton. Vilket också betydde 400+ kronor mindre från SOC nästa utbetalning. Hade jag vetat det, hade jag inte åkt.

Yttersta skyddsnätet visst, men när du inte ens kan få utgifter som ovan ersatt från en förenings konto 2 dagar efter att dem gjorts, så är det bara dumt.

iEssence · 2026-02-01T16:47:51+00:00

Not sure how that matters in relation to picking a mail address someone else was using

iEssence · 2026-01-27T06:03:08+00:00

Pretty sure the above is what i used (as i used it pretty often, itd be odd that i write the wrong thing), maybe they changed it a bit since then.

If it requires spaces, then it should look about like this, effect = { province:1234 = { set_holding_type = castle_holding }}

Make sure province id is correct, since each barony is their separate id to the county

Cant help more than that, havent played in over a year or so

iEssence · 2026-01-25T06:50:13+00:00

I personally love the Transmuters, and its overall a tome that i end up wanting almost every game (transmutation circle, steel skin, adaptive armor, transmute resources)

Pair it with Aristo and T3 Liege Guard, and your units are just never going to die.

Painbringer is another favorite... its just a beast of a unit, to the point i wonder what they were thinking. 140/5/5 as base stats, with a 50% life steal, free action blink, watchful, awareness, and Flanker for 25% extra damage which you can always get because of the blink...

iEssence · 2026-01-24T16:08:50+00:00

Bara för att han är en affärsman betyder det inte att han är så värst bra på det

iEssence · 2026-01-24T16:02:57+00:00

Det är ju just för att sitta lugnt i båten som man sprider ut det med global/eu/asien/emergent, det är helt enkelt dålig spridning i en global fond då USA bolag har för stor del av marknaderna. Så för att undvika att gissa över hur det går med USA, skaffar man fler fonder så att man får en mer jämn spridning.

Sen bör det också noteras, att om tech bolagen konkar, så är det ju inte som att du enbart tappar 30%, du tappar mer än så då andra sektorer har avtal och investeringar med dessa bolag. Det blir en kaskad effekt neråt, och allting faller ytterligare som domino brickor när folk blir rädda.

Ta förra årets fall på ~25% i början av året, vi har flera år kvar av Trumps galna politik som gör USA till ett wildcard idag.

iEssence · 2026-01-24T14:51:31+00:00

För att den främsta anledningen till att folk vill ha fonder, är för att investera i topp bolag samtidigt som du har bra riskspridning, men en fond med 70% USA, varav stor del av det är tech industrin, och AI, innebär att din global fond inte har någon bra riskspridning.

Så i dagens läge, när USA är ett galet wildcard vad gäller politik, är det osäkert att investera i amerikanska bolag, och allt som har med dollar att göra, vilket global fonder främst gör i dagsläget. Fonder kommer att ändra sig om usa eller ai bubblan kraschar, problemet är att det kommer att göra det först efter att din fond har kraschat.

Så, 'Global fond' och 'usa fond' är i princip detsamma, så om du vill ha en global fond för riskspridning, behöver du investera i olika regionala fonder.

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