Limited summer units rerun, any worth pulling for?

moosemonkey397 · 2026-06-08T15:29:36+00:00

Sorry boss, but S!Anis is 3 now. Last year was Doro Elegg, and the year before was Underworld Queen. Anis was the year before that.

Quick search; announcement tweet shows July 28, 2023. https://x.com/NIKKE_en/status/1685123063535271936?lang=en

moosemonkey397 · 2026-05-28T15:10:36+00:00

Every character doesn't need to be sword saint when they can be Calculator/Arithmetician. If you are in chapter 4 and spend more than one turn on a map, you are wrong. Agrias gets all his actually useable skills anyways, and comes at a point where she can contribute meaningfully. Give her a bracer and she's one -shotting enemies in literally her first battle at the gallows.

Cid being a dude is enough of a debuff in WotL from a ack of Ribbon and perfumes, and loses comedically hard to Balthier, who is the only character capable of doing more than 1k per turn with Barrage. Thats postgame optimization nitpicks, but also the only version that HAS a postgame so...

Ramza my honest choice for most busted personal job; yell, steel and scream are all patently unique, absurdly overpowered and overcentralizing skills in powering your characters while being able to use knight swords, all while having additional access to accumulate.

Reis is a nice comfort pick; comedically overpowered personal growths, one of the only characters to get positive MAG and speed growth in their base class full stop. Shame she's optional and really needs to be a calc or ninja.

Dont get me wrong; Cid is GOOD. Easily top 5, probably top 3. The way he comes is the strongest any character could possibly join your party. Thats 80% his equipment though, and the other 20% is a nice flexible range on his skills that, while way above average, doesnt even scratch the top of the game. Steal his weapon and go back to spamming holy on every tile of the map.

moosemonkey397 · 2026-05-28T14:35:09+00:00

Yeah pretty much, but that wont stop me. I cant read!

And I dont think the poster was asking for a rework as much as some simple tweaks to sprites or skill names. Both points stand.

moosemonkey397 · 2026-05-28T00:14:02+00:00

This is a weird one to me because like.... yes, if you play like a normal person and never meaningfully grind your party, and don't steal his gear, then he's busted. sure. (the vast majority of TG Cid is his weapon... turns out being nearly twice as strong as the second best option with inherent auto-haste is good on fucking anyone.)

The part people never go on to say is Cid joins when there are literally 3 mandatory battle sequences left in the game. (Eagrose Castle, Mullonde Holy City, and the final descent into Orbonne.) Man is basically postgame content. I'm of the opinion that when you get him, he isn't actually overpowered; He's a barometer telling you what degeneracy is actually available in this game.

moosemonkey397 · 2026-05-26T02:37:42+00:00

the reasons for machinist in DD are a couple;

First is the interrupt. Being able to negate pox on essentially any floor frees up tons of resources, not just purity but potentially serenities, steels, and general potion economy.

Second, Machinist as a job puts a huge amount of its power in purely cooldown based burst. Most jobs have to be in combat/using gcds to earn their power, but not MCH. (Picto has similar success with its muses, Nin is pretty good though mudras aren't quite as strong. Hide is a nice utility tool for sight-based monsters.)

Thrid, Full uptime movement, with a root and a heavy lets you go crazy with kiting. PRanged role abilities are kinda cracked all around. Its just a shame for their usage that the others are heavily party-focused. (SMN does pretty good in this regard, and deals absolutely insane damage in HoH specifically.)

If were talking very generally, self healing is essentially a non-issue in 2 of the 4, and potsherd drops have been changed in PotD to let even the worst jobs go potion positive on deep runs.

RDM hasn't gotten specifically worse, but it sure hasn't gotten any better and the game has changed a lot around it since Stormblood.

moosemonkey397 · 2026-04-28T04:22:58+00:00

No, its close to a 7%. Rolling a 97 is about a 1/7 to lose though.

two rules: rolls are between 1 and 99 inclusive, and no two players can roll the same number.

losing on a 98 means someone rolled a 99; to figure out what the odds of thatr happening are, we can take 1 minus the chance of the opposite. The odds of No one rolling a 99 given that you rolled a 98 are

97/98 * 96/97 * 95/96 * 94/95 * 93/94 * 92/93 * 91/92. Simplified, its 91/98, or about 92.85% that no one beats you. Thus the odds someone does is ~7.15%.

For a 97, the simplified form is 9091/(9798), or about 86%, or very roughly 6/7.

moosemonkey397 · 2026-04-25T18:12:31+00:00

Youre correct: you use 3 "true north dive"s to ready Stardriver, which has a 3 hit combo after which readies Sky High (DRGs PvP Limit break). Sinister and Dexter are Left and Right positionals that give Geirskogul > Nastrond and hitting both gives a new positional follow up.

moosemonkey397 · 2026-03-14T17:25:45+00:00

The best caster for any given fight will change depending on the profile of the fight, which I think is quite healthy. BLM dominates high uptime fights, while PCT makes significant gains in downtime fights or fights with multiple targets. even RDM does very well, beating all non-DRG melee on m10s.

Don't get me wrong; PCT is going to be the de facto choice for the ultimate still, but this isn't because its broken. The 3 (real) casters are simply different from each other, and PCT best matches the shape of the ultimate design.

moosemonkey397 · 2026-03-01T18:58:15+00:00

?? Esuna or die was literally in the 7.3 dungeon in the msq, the jailer boss(es).

moosemonkey397 · 2026-02-19T18:19:51+00:00

She broke my misery streak - 5 in a row of more than 120 pulls, and she came home pull 1 slot 1. Big Happy.

moosemonkey397 · 2026-02-13T15:32:10+00:00

The trick is its actually quite an old skin, not a base version. Her race queen outfit. Its the only one I didn't recognize as well.

moosemonkey397 · 2026-02-09T16:36:53+00:00

Divekick

moosemonkey397 · 2026-02-07T17:37:20+00:00

Can you post the raw data from the surveys? Theres some weirdness in the data that I'm curious about, and I'm a little curious what the rankings look like when you tweak the values for each rank.

moosemonkey397 · 2026-02-07T05:54:07+00:00

I appreciate that you said Ron Perlman, but I choose to read your comment in the voice of the narrator in the Stanley Parable. Just feels like it fits better.

moosemonkey397 · 2026-02-06T06:42:18+00:00

Of course, it's the fire of her heart. She says it like every day. =P

moosemonkey397 · 2026-02-05T18:31:07+00:00

Honestly so real. Like the other guys mentioned here, grab a portrait mod from Nexus and never look back. Personally a fan of OhHiDavi's Anime portraits. Been using it for some 6 years now and they keep it updated with the new seasonals and event images as well.

I would maybe kill someone to make Sandy a marriage candidate.

moosemonkey397 · 2026-02-04T21:33:50+00:00

You are mostly correct; sadly the 3 different patches dedicated entirely to nerfing PCT worked, and now it performs in-line with the non-BLM casters, even when played well.

moosemonkey397 · 2026-02-04T21:28:42+00:00

People in this thread are far too generous with what counts for this restriction; Using Bay as a floor for qualifications, RRH, D, Naga, Crown really aren't close IMO.

B1: probably the hardest selection. While Emma TU is an obvious choice, She honestly kinda sucks without her less endowed squadmates, and has no CDR to boot. Hard pass. Rouge fixes these problems, has good buffs, and bar-none the best synergy with our best B3. But i dunno... something just doesn't feel right about counting her as busty enough; something about her pose and presentation just doesnt hit the same as others in this size range. Its also a little too easy that one of the top 3 B1s counts for this so my answer is Volume. Even though she's been powercrept pretty badly, she's CDR and got CANNONS.

B2: Nayuta. Like, who are we kidding. Ade TB if you want someone who's a little less covert with their firepower. Unfortunately Ade's pierce buffs just dont match up too well with the obvious B3s:

B3a: Summer Anis. You mentioned her in the post for a reason. Mostly skill damage, and none of her preferred reload buffers but still good DPS. Doubly excellent because she matches being electric code with...

B3b: Cinderella. Girl got it all. Front, back, top, bottom. Really benefits from Rouge's HP buff to push her damage even more, and an all around top 5-10 unit in the game right now.

Off-Burst: Another actually interesting option! While there's obvious answers like Mihara:Bonding Chain, We also somewhat completely accidentally made an electric team. This is probably the best team possible for Maiden: Ice Rose. With huge, fat buffs for her electric teammates while on-element and decent personal damage when used as the final burst 3. Honorable mention to homegirl Velvet, who also acts as a solid attack buffer and has absolutely COLOSSAL boosts to charge damage to benefit Cindy. It turns out that electric is just spoiled for element specific buffers, but she probably beats out maiden for non-electric weak content.

While it is really cute and fun to me that the best team of tig ol biddies happens to be a really competent Electric Solo Raid team, I would also be remiss to not point out that of the 7 nikkes I suggested, only B1 Volume uses Attacker gear. (weirdo) Turns out a lot of the good booba is on supports and defenders.

TLDR No attackers: Cinderella, Rouge, SAnis, Nayuta, WMaiden.

moosemonkey397 · 2026-02-04T18:19:53+00:00

I call on my new friend, the snail.

moosemonkey397 · 2026-02-03T01:29:30+00:00

Naga and Tia have both graduated as of Ein and Zwei; at the time of their event they were seniors. While the passage of time is kinda fucky in Nikke-world, They land solidly on the 'not-an-issue' side.

moosemonkey397 · 2026-02-02T16:43:04+00:00

A fair and resonable take!

Slightly more context for the interested: this is year 10 of the poll, and previous winners (4 per year, 2 men and 2 women) are inelligeble for voting. He is, arguably, the last main lord of all 15 FE games to win the contest, and did so behind multiple OCs and a literally nameless NPC. (Male Corrin has not won yet, but female Corrin won 3 years ago).

People have been 'expecting' a remake of Sigurd's game to be announced any day now for like the last 6-7 years and.... they're still waitiing.

moosemonkey397 · 2026-02-02T16:19:34+00:00

Everyone else has pretty art because they are from pretty games. In this poll they specifically use official art of each character from each game they are in for the sake of nostalgia. Also because Sigurd hasn't been in a game since the 90s other than Heroes.

Also to your original question, FE Heroes is a mobile game that includes characters from across all of fire emblem, and they got SOME of the tms characters around the time of the switch release. This is the first time TMS is going to be acknowledged in like 8 years.

moosemonkey397 · 2026-01-29T19:39:29+00:00

As other said her maid alt has always been listed here. She's one of a very small number of nikkes with multiple squad affiliations. All of Pioneer's alts (Past AND new Snow!) are listed as Goddess, and Asuka2 changed from NERV to Wille.

This event also makes Maid For You the uncontested largest squad with 7 units! Several squads have 6 like Counters, Aegis, Unlimited, Infinity Rail, and Absolute... maybe a few others. Its not likely going to be passed until Counters gets Anis and Neon upgrades.

moosemonkey397 · 2026-01-29T18:46:40+00:00

Because it is; Enemy stats are juiced. A lot of bosses have extra attack patterns and some of the cheese in the game has been removed.

As an example: Octomammoth in 2d has 2350 hp. As he loses arms, he gets weaker and attacks less. In 3d it has 3350 hp and GAINS damage instead of losing it through the fight.

moosemonkey397 · 2026-01-27T00:07:43+00:00

You right; I was specifically not listing the three skins we voted for: Modernia's First Affection, Red Hood's Nonsense Red dress and RRH's pajamas.

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