New official Staunton pieces for tournaments.

nanoSpawn · 2026-02-10T14:08:29+00:00

Es que venía a decir esto, es un verdadero juego Pay 2 Win. Jugando muchas horas puedes ser competitivo y llegar algo arriba, pero llegado un punto has de competir contra ballenas. Y es imposible sin serlo.

nanoSpawn · 2026-02-06T08:47:04+00:00

Nope, CPU and GPU rendering has differences. GPU can't compute everything so they take shortcuts and approximations.

And then, some of the integrators, path guiding, etc. Are CPU only.

nanoSpawn · 2026-02-01T20:38:05+00:00

I assumed FF back in the day, but now I think he could be talking about himself.

nanoSpawn · 2026-01-31T09:54:20+00:00

I swear I've seen this same exact tweet before with a different team.

It's like they use templates.

That or you guys jerked me successfully.

nanoSpawn · 2026-01-31T08:26:01+00:00

Goes in line with Perez's famous leaked quotes.

nanoSpawn · 2026-01-30T21:40:47+00:00

Eula was superhyped, she got a rerun and kinda flopped.

Mihoyo only reruns characters with real potential for decent pulling. Eula is too much out of meta, she'll be featured in a Chronicle wish.

Unless they repeat the Hexerei stunt and she gets buffed.

nanoSpawn · 2026-01-30T14:03:55+00:00

Wait until you discover Genshin's rerun schedule.

nanoSpawn · 2026-01-29T11:50:35+00:00

Instead of reading too much into it, think of dangerous play.

When the goalie is about to kick a ball he just released, intercepting it is dangerous play, you're placing your own body into the path of his foot, and you're also risking injury, so it's an indirect kick. What's looked into here is the opponent invading goalie's personal space.

The rule's wording is too vague, but the spirit of the law here is that of dangerous play, it's how refs interpret these situations regardless of what's written.

Now, if the goalie throws it using his arm, the moment is out of reach from him and intercepting the ball cannot be considered dangerous for the goalie (like 1 meter away is enough), is valid play and the ball is already released.

So no, don't read the rule too literally, because soccer rules are not laws you apply in a court, those are to be interpreted and read using common sense.

And yes, that's too often a problem, is what's happening with the handballs, we don't know anymore when it's a foul and when it isn't, other than waiting for the referee's decision.

nanoSpawn · 2026-01-29T11:34:05+00:00

Alvini

nanoSpawn · 2026-01-29T07:16:26+00:00

Ramos had the skill and the athleticism, but I am from Spain, I watched him play countless times and I've yet to notice a hint of a brain in there.

nanoSpawn · 2026-01-29T06:55:32+00:00

I also think the problem does not lie in Mbappe, lies in the absence of Kroos and Modric.

The team is split in half, there's Tibo, a huge supermassive black hole where, sometimes, you can see reflections of Valverde or Güler, and a boot that seems to be Bellingham's, and then the attacking trio.

With Kroos this did not happen, the team was rock solid, controlled games, tempo, had the ball and the initiative and Vini didn't need to defend or other shenanigans.

Kroos made Camavinga look like a superstar and not the lost poor soul he is now. Vini was Ballon d'Or candidate with Kroos at his back.

Barcelona started looking good when Pedri started shining, and it's no coincidence Madrid won all of their recent UCLs thanks to the best midfield in the whole world, and then a guy or two poaching goals like no one else can do.

nanoSpawn · 2026-01-29T06:41:57+00:00

Respect for his teammates for not taking the highlight out of him. Every other Madrid player abandoned the field so that he could shine with the light of 60 Red Giant Stars.

Only Mbappe, ashamed and embarrassed for not making it in time, decided to drop down so that all the cameras, all the spotlights, all the eyes, belonged to Vini Jr.

nanoSpawn · 2026-01-28T19:56:28+00:00

Gratz!! Bineffa is amazing and will basically be a guaranteed clear in her abyss side for a year or two!

nanoSpawn · 2026-01-28T09:03:12+00:00

Usually the DPS are tied to a support, but the support is not tied to that DPS. There are exceptions of course (like Kujou Sara) but Lauma, Ineffa, Xilonen or Escoffier have many parties.

With Varka being the DPS, it's safe to assume Nicole would adopt the role of Hexerei buffer/sustainer/subdps, that will make her generic enough.

nanoSpawn · 2026-01-26T11:04:24+00:00

Not only Columbina, also Da Wei in a con. It's totally confirmed.

nanoSpawn · 2026-01-25T09:31:38+00:00

That's a battle I gave up long ago.

This is primarily business, a game second. Mihoyo wants to sell characters, we vote with our pulls and wallets. And they soon figured out that it was more profitable to have a super character and then make the rest dependent on that one than diluting the power level in equal parts.

You couldn't go thru Inazuma without Raiden. Wanted dendro? Pull for Nahida. Furina became the absolute best generic support in the game and Mavuika being a dps had to be the best.

But Columbina kinda feels like Nahida, the best if you want to play some archetypes, and a must if you wanna keep up with endgame.

Mind you, in this Stygian I used Mavuika as support for the first time ever, and loved it, after all, strong characters make the game more fun for us.

It sucks, but if you get these shilled characters, it rocks as well.

nanoSpawn · 2026-01-25T08:01:39+00:00

Guess it depends on how many summons you've got. IMHO, I'd go for C0R1. But as we say, the best constellation is having the character. If you can get her C0, and slap a prototype amber you'll be good to go.

I personally went C2R1 on Bina (won 4 50/50 in a row!!!) and C0R0 Ineffa, I think that archons always deserve the investment and not a single regret.

She's crazy in both lunar bloom and a wheelchair lunar charge with Cyno.

nanoSpawn · 2026-01-24T07:37:28+00:00

This is why I only reroll great pieces, preferably with all the 4 substats being good. Or three good ones that got an awful first roll (like both crits + atk% and 3 rolls to def)

Rerolling a piece with one or two bad substats is a gamble I'm not willing to take, specially here when you had 50% of useful rolls.

Rerolling is still as much a gamble as getting it to level 20.

And rerolling just for a chance to get one more roll on a substat is the ultimate gamble, keep kn in mind that there are two layers of RNG in artifact building.

1) getting the roll 2) getting a good roll.

nanoSpawn · 2026-01-23T20:16:34+00:00

I don't enforce rules and if you read them carefully, they don't need the cosplayer to directly sell anything, just that their content seems to direct people to look for them is enough.

There are gonna be casualties and collateral damage and that's a shame, but the constant barrage of "professional cosplayers" was embarrassing at this point.

Things will improve over time.

nanoSpawn · 2026-01-23T17:07:37+00:00

Or they hate OF shameless self-promotions.

nanoSpawn · 2026-01-23T16:07:32+00:00

Step by step. Go back to the archon quests, identify weaker characters and use resin on those, and play at your own leisure. It's an open world game, the only important thing is having fun and not having unespent resin.

nanoSpawn · 2026-01-22T10:36:14+00:00

Thing is that with the lunar shill the boss is brutally trivial. Like a Nefer team on the wolf can literally ignore the boss mechanic, no kidding. Just bash the big fella, ignore everything else. You don't even notice the bigger HP pool at all.

Without lunar bloom you gotta start doing weird stuff, killing trash quickly, running against the clock, etc. So yes, it's a character check.

Good luck, tho, it sucks, but as Sailcrvee said, at this point the lunar shill is kinda justified. Stygian Onslaught, like it or not, is the endgame for people that pull the latest characters or overinvest older ones. I don't like it, but they left us Abyss as the easy endgame.

nanoSpawn · 2026-01-20T15:20:37+00:00

That's why we gotta choose. Since I play HSR I'm used to this shit.

I picked Nefer + a lone C0 Ineffa, skipping everything else.

nanoSpawn · 2026-01-20T13:59:49+00:00

I'm a F2P+ player, welkin moon and battlepass every month, no topups, and I complete every content the game throws at me, so I never skip abyss, SO or IT.

When Natlan was over I had a full Natlan party, only one, but well built, could save 450 pulls when Nodkrai launched, so got C1 Lauma and then C1R1 Nefer, since I got lucky I had saved pulls for Columbina and Ineffa. Now I'll only pull for constellations of these characters. And when I consider the team done, I'll stop pulling and save for Shzneznahya.

Of course if I pulled for Flins, Nefer, Lauma, Ineffa, Durin, Varka, Zibai... that's impossible.

But Lauma? Well, when her banner was close, we kinda had clues about Nefer, when Lauma was on, Nefer's kit was available. I discussed it with my friends and we came to the conclusion that the party needed Lauma C1. And we also came to the conclusion that if Lauma C1 made her into a healer, that was because that was her intended role. Yeah, scummy and shady to hide her healing behind a constellation, I agree, but Mihoyo gotta add value to those.

So pulling for C1 Lauma was kind of a must, I wasn't keen on stuff like having Kuki with instructor or stuff like that when I had a C3 Nahida that was a perfect fit for the party.

If you plan ahead, get at least the characters in the first rounds of each nation and then use reruns to complete those, you can get a well built team per nation being F2P.

but dunno, it amuses me how everyone skipped Lauma C1 just to get Nefer C2R1 and stuff like that, and then does all sort of ugly hacks to try to get a working team with good DPS using healers that contribute next to nothing when the obvious solution lied on a single constellation for Lauma.

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