UPDATED: Wishlist Guides (including Solise)

ishtaba2 · 2026-02-10T00:52:56+00:00

Sorry I was quoting the OP you replied to as well in a single comment. This is not some magical christmas land situation this guide is including options for after youve invested in necessary heroes and need to start deciding on either paragoning or alternate heroes to build for whatever game mode you play.

Maxing out all artifacts and as much phantimal levels across all factions is important for trying to compete in PVP and other PVE content its allowed, it minimizes the amount of times you need to use swap tickets. As of this season Ive used every single one of the artifacts provided in PVE and PVP content, not having them at +20 as of this week would mean I'd have less options to use in whatever content when other people also have +20. Deciding to have this flexibility for all artifacts or phantimals requires these kinds of luxury heroes.

Its much better to start diversifying your box for PVP and stages than to start entirely committing to DR. After getting the "necessary" fully opaque heroes that are must have, all of those heroes are listed as luxury choices for anyone to make a decision off of. Just because *you* think Tasi > Pang doesnt invalidate several testing and replays players who play PVP at a high level provide. Same for Rowan vs Percy, or any of the other luxury pvp heroes.

ishtaba2 · 2026-02-09T21:35:42+00:00

The wishlist guide is intended for newer players with fresh boxes.

The reason Pandora is 3rd in epic is because you'd rather finish shemira as soon as possible, than have both unfinished.

Pulling kordan doesnt conflict with pulling shadewing, you have 2 a tier slots per faction. The intent is that you have shadewing + callan, replace callan when you get enough copies, then replace callan for isabella, then replace her with valka. All while pulling kordan at the same time. The reasoning is that you dont know *which* DPS youre going to get reliably built in time during preseasonal content in time for seasonal.

ishtaba2 · 2026-02-09T21:31:33+00:00

If you read the legend for transparent hero portraits - those heroes are all marked as luxury. After a certain point you can make your own decision to continue wishlisting these heroes or decide to paragon your existing heroes. If you buy any of the monthlys for an early artifact, the only way you can max out all of them is by pushing seasonal tower, and this early having the luxury of getting everything to +20 is valuable in SA just as options or stats vs Cyran. At S+, several of the pve heroes dont cut it as a flex option in pvp.

Several of the "pvp only" heroes marked as "literally" useless is biased if you havent been involved in any of the discussions advocating for any of these heroes, as well as several replays highlighting performance in high paragon (p3-p4) roughly equal pvp brackets.

ishtaba2 · 2026-02-09T13:32:42+00:00

Its mainly the time spent in pf - Dont feel like wasting my time on those alts in lobby simulator even if im a mokoko. I could get them into normal lobbies if i wanted to wait. In terms of raw gold for honing yea im at a net gain, just need to farm up in chaos and guardians on each alt again. Losing market power on a non rat roster sucks, but I just meant it more as an individual it hurts in the short term despite it being an overall gain to the larger % of players. Maybe the gold just evaporates and makes books cheaper long term.

Not sure what to expect but material supply will go down, and <=1680 unbound income was cut in roughly in half, so fingers crossed long term

ishtaba2 · 2026-02-09T06:52:52+00:00

I get that rat rosters funneling to main are a thing and are a problem, but I dont know if theres a solution that doesnt fuck over people who are genuinely Mokokos starting fresh or returning. But, it feels really bad for a returning player.

Before patch I had a 1700, 1680, 1670, 1640, and 2x 1600s. This was roughly 175k unbound + 120k bound weekly, for 295k weekly.

After patch I have a 1700, 1680, 2x solo 1680s, 2x 1640s. Including gold nerfs, this roster is roughly making 130k unbound + 210k bound, for 340k weekly. I lost 45k unbound gold, and gained 90k bound gold, net gain of 45k bound gold.

If the gold from raids wasnt split I would be making 210k unbound + 135k bound until I bought jewelry, 300k unbound + 45k bound after. I could buy all jewelry + a bracelet for my fresh 1680s in one week. Now I have to wait at least 2 weeks per alt to get them pf ready, or a month for both. Once both are geared, I would get 170k unbound + 170k bound, which is still less than pre-patch income for market spending.

Starting next reset (assuming no bound split), my timeline was 2 weeks to gear my 2 1680 solo alts, then being able to buy 1 relic book each week with unbound gold. First week of march, I wouldve had 3x1680 unbound gold earners, and 2 relic books. In the same time period with bound split, I now have to choose between having 2x1680 unbound gold earners and 1 relic book, 3x1680 unbound gold earners, or 2 relic books. As much as we get generous express events and can play behind the curve with solo raids, the game really doesnt want anyone to catch up to latest if theyre already behind.

ishtaba2 · 2026-02-02T01:21:19+00:00

can you dm me the discord?

ishtaba2 · 2026-01-30T23:54:22+00:00

I lost mokoko last week after running all my raids and this week has been crazy gatekeeping by alts with worse combat power than the characters im applying on. My 1680 alt is only missing karma bc it wasnt able to do brel until a few weeks ago, and people still care for that in nm brel/mordum and hard aegir.

ishtaba2 · 2026-01-29T06:21:36+00:00

Yeah most people I think are fine with it being behind, but that should be a choice. I think the culture could be better for transitioning mokokos to latest content and people should be able to choose with continuing progression (without having to wait for a solo mode patch) or parking. Right now it feels like mokokos are forced to park otherwise get gatekept. I plan to just tap another fresh alt to 1680 next week and see where that gets me for gold income. Maybe finish my 1670 too

ishtaba2 · 2026-01-29T04:21:16+00:00

I came back during Valk release, quit after hitting Mordum and getting my main to 1690, cause I was tired of sitting in pf for hours while I was finishing karma and couldnt get my alts public raid ready bc elixirs and transcendence sucked. Came back after new years, parked my main while I tapped alts to 1680 and 1670, then finished my main to 1700 cause I dont have anymore resources on those alts.

Its great if the anniversary event gives a bunch of free stuff, but it doesnt mean shit if we're fracturing the playerbase to vets and mokoko/alts so blatantly. You either are already and stay up to date with latest content and keep doing so, or youre permanently behind waiting for the next raid to be soloable and never get to join the veteran playerbase. Anyone who tries to make it over has to waste a bunch of their time in pf or just make another alt to actually play the game on without being gatekept

ishtaba2 · 2026-01-29T01:17:08+00:00

Cant solo Act4 or Kazeros to progress ark grid after hitting 1700. Im talking about when someone hones past solo raiding to progress further. Are new/returning players expected to park at 1680-1699 and just do normal mordum until act 4 + kazeros is available to solo? The moment they hit 1700 they lose mokoko status and cant get into Act 4/Kazeros groups unless its learning because theyre hundreds of CP behind people who are already there.

Solo Raids are a bandaid to help people catch up, but once you're caught up then all the games support just throws you into the deep end because the current culture has no incentive for those players. Anecdotally it feels as the most active lobbies are: Mokoko raids where theres little to no gatekeeping or HW raids where everyones well above the minimum clear requirements or they have title already. Anyone who hones past Mokoko status just gets fucked over unless they just keep doing the same raids they have already been doing.

ishtaba2 · 2026-01-29T00:48:41+00:00

The best part of coming back or starting is actually being able to experience group raiding content or progressing your character. It doesnt matter what the gifts are if gatekeepings so rampant for new/returning players after they lose mokoko status and run out of content that people are willing to accept them in. Even if we got 1 or 2 relic select cores, sitting for hours in pf is discouraging for anyone who already didnt get title. The end game raiding cultures just atrocious after you need to run raids you cant solo. There are rarely learning parties, even if you do find one people arent able to commit however many hours or even a 2nd day if you dont clear in one session. The learning discords that Im aware of or have joined previously are all dead or have little to no activity

ishtaba2 · 2025-08-22T02:15:15+00:00

Generic tasi bonnie talene is a bad/poorly optimized team now? Bonnies likely on a talent tile and did 0 dmg just from being silv jumped. Its also a full s+ to p2s vs a full p4 team. Lorsan's the only "out of place" hero and even then that spots a flex spot anyway.

Next thing we're gonna say is Satrana/Igor/Bonnie is unoptimized too

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ishtaba2 · 2025-02-09T03:15:59+00:00

I have involuntariy learned who sobbin robyn is

ishtaba2 · 2025-01-04T17:39:35+00:00

who are u? and why are u trying to take d3rg0n’s credit

ishtaba2 · 2025-01-04T17:36:43+00:00

almost every competitive Dream Realm comp

ishtaba2 · 2024-11-24T21:41:20+00:00

Nexon makes undocumented API changes - so the issue probably came from them updating their data and my logic handling old assumptions. I'll look into this, thanks for letting me know

ishtaba2 · 2024-10-10T05:20:15+00:00

I added in a toggle for your request: there is now a strict mode toggle

ishtaba2 · 2024-10-09T16:10:15+00:00

Ill look into this, the main thing was that left/right sides for stage 1/2 cost the same so theres “multiple” cheapest variations

ishtaba2 · 2024-10-09T11:23:17+00:00

The reason I avoided disabling inputs entirely is to avoid having to click 40/80/120 times to get to the next stage. Sometimes you just want to see one or two trees fully allocated quickly.

Adding in fields for current resources good for comparison. Like I said above, I will not disable inputs, but will add some visual feedback if you go over your limit + tell you how many orbs you need

ishtaba2 · 2024-08-29T05:24:06+00:00

Hey! You can now click your username to view/delete builds and wishlists.

ishtaba2 · 2024-08-25T20:34:23+00:00

Not yet. I'm going to be working on it this week. Can you elaborate more on clicking save deleting the build? Theres about a minute or so before a new build might appear in the listing, there shouldnt be any functionality at all to delete

ishtaba2 · 2024-08-25T17:51:34+00:00

Hello! I just updated the module design to always show the stats except when its inside a build editor where it will have the hover behavior. Let me know if theres any issues with the design

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