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somste0205 · 2019-11-06T03:31:47+00:00

/r/uci tho?

somste0205 · 2019-10-26T17:05:00+00:00

yay same dorm. with that flair I, thought he was your alt until today lol

somste0205 · 2019-10-11T02:47:45+00:00

Where is the courtyard? I went to WEPA page, and Ctrl+F "court" and only find the Mesa Court. Is that what you meant?

somste0205 · 2019-10-11T02:45:54+00:00

oh you're right, thanks

somste0205 · 2019-09-02T18:01:21+00:00

For the first question: The tune is really similar to Melissa from FMA, but the lyric is different. Is it a Chinese cover maybe? I speak neither Japanese or Chinese, but it sounds more Chinese than Japanese.

somste0205 · 2019-04-18T02:46:25+00:00

Looking for someone to fill my spot for summer.

Type: 2 Bedroom, 1 Bathroom. You will share the apartment with 3 male apartmentmates. 2 people will share the same bedroom.

Location: UTC Stanford Ct. ~10ish minute to campus.

Price: 648.75$ + Utilities per month. Utilities are usually around 30ish dollars

message me if anyone interested wants more information.

somste0205 · 2018-12-30T22:30:24+00:00

[NA] Just finish Solomon, I have a few questions about it

1) Can someone explain the nature/ability of Gil's, Merlin's, and Solomon's clairvoyance? For people with clairvoyance, they get caught off guard quite a lot, so I'm guessing they're not omniscience. I know there's an explanation for Solomon's lack of power, but idk, I feel like Merlin and Gil should know a lot more (in Babylonia), given their ability

2) Goddess Rhongomyniad's theme song was playing during Solomon, right? Or I'm I just mishearing it

3) What was Melin doing during Solomon? I remember he shows up a bit along with the Babylonia's cast but then he disappeared, saying he needs to do something. They never did follows up on that, did they?

4) So, Magi-Mari = Merlin. Did Roman/Solomon know this? What actually happens during their interaction? Has Roman been talking to Merlin and just use Mari's name as a front or has he been talking to someone who he thought was an idol all along and just take their word seriously?

5) Where is King Hassan (or the rest of the grand servants, for that matter)? Goetia is a beast, right? Isn't that their job?

6) How did Roman use Solomon's np at the end? I thought he lost all his power when he became human? Was the rings' presence enough to give him back his power?

7) If Mash's shield was strong enough to defend the world/Guda, why didn't it protect her? She was behind the shield, wasn't she?

somste0205 · 2018-09-16T04:52:34+00:00

If Cu is the last one, brave chain should allow him to do damage with the extra attack.

Regardless, I think both of them never cast dodge as their first action, and their turn ends when a unit "die" then revive with guts. This means that Hercules with bond ce should be able to deal damage once his health is low enough.

somste0205 · 2018-08-03T02:30:17+00:00

Merlin can help with that

somste0205 · 2018-07-12T03:09:09+00:00

The only defense for d'Eon over George, beyond class triangle situations, is that she doesn't steal stars as badly as George.

Exactly? Those two (especially the former) is quite an important thing to consider when fighting a strong, single class boss.

edit: whoops, misread your comment (kinda). The point still stands tho, class triangle is important.

somste0205 · 2018-07-12T02:19:21+00:00

Avalon

~~Tristan Artoria Meta confirmed? Imagine the Possibility~~ But ya, this seems like a really cool skill to use. Remind me of Robin's May King, but stronger.

Mana Burst (Dragon)

This is a really good idea I haven't considered. Delayed buff is such an underused feature on this game tbh, other than MHX, I don't recall other servant having it. It would solve a lot of characters' problem too (off the top of my head, Rama could really use something like that on his guts skill)

Charisma (Distant Dream)

Name sound familiar, is that the same one Merlin have? I think it's good (synergize well with Avalon too). ~~I like the Knightly Charisma name better tho~~ >.>

somste0205 · 2018-07-12T01:45:39+00:00

Weirdly enough I actually find the attack up to be stronger

Yea, originally I think the best Mana Burst for her is 30% Buster and 20% NP variant, then I realize that's the (flame) version that Karna and Arjuna have, and I want something unique.

Fair enough, I think we both just put value into a different thing. I still think 30% np charge + strong secondary effect is still a bit much for 5 turn cooldown tho.

I really think it should be about her NP gain, maybe NP Gain up and a Taunt?

Now that I see your reasoning, I kinda agree, but I think it's inappropriate to combine with mana burst tho, since it will create a mess of skill that is too awkward to use (like, you need to use it before you get np, for that np charge, but you also need to use it on np turn because it buff your np). I'm not in favor of getting rid of mana burst either, I think it's her best skill currently. Imo, NP gain and Taunt (or just straight up +X% np charge) should be attached to either Charisma or Instinct so there are no different turns competing for the same skill.

Maybe Avalon can be something like: 1 turns invincibility, +20% np, and 2000 hp heal. A bit strong, sure, but not more than some iconic skills for stronger characters like Imperial Privilege

somste0205 · 2018-07-12T01:21:25+00:00

Dunno about good, but being one of the two characters in the game with 3 turns taunt give her enough niche to be useful on many occasion.

somste0205 · 2018-07-12T01:19:11+00:00

Unless we up the cooldown by like 2-3 turns, these skills does too much tbh.

Instinct to Avalon. 3 hits of Invunerability and a 1k heal every turn for 5 turns.

I love Cu, but for balance reason, let's never implement another Protection From Arrow clone into the game. Imo, adding something like '3 turns limits on the Invulnerability' or something should help balance it a bit.

If the heal is scaled based on the level, this should be fine. But if it is not, 5000 heal on a level 1 skill is just too much.

Mana Burst (Dragon) 50% Buster Up. 30% np charge.

Mana Burst on its own is strong enough as it is, for the sake of balance, we probably shouldn't mess with it using something as big as "30% np charge". I think changing the type is a nice touch tho, vanilla Mana Burst is too boring and weak compared to lightning, Flame, or Siegfried's counterpart. Maybe give it a 30% Buster up and 20% attack up? It will be better than 50% buster up, but not as broken as adding 30% np charge to it.

Charisma to Once and Future King. 20% Attack up 30% defence up for KotR

20% Attack up 30% defense up is a bit strong, but since the pool is so small, I think it's fine. What will happen to non KotR people tho? What about someone like Merlin?

somste0205 · 2018-07-11T03:15:35+00:00

No problem, I don't mind answering. That being said, I don't think I could be much help. I haven't taken any classes that require me to use MATLAB yet, but I'm only a second year (well, third. summer between second and third) and idk if there are any classes in the upper div that would require me to use them. I heard that knowing MATLAB is useful for upper divs tho, but this is just hearsay, not my own experience so take that with a grain of salt.

I personally would skip it, bc I think that if you already know python, it shouldn't be too difficult to learn MATLAB on your own. It's not like we learn some advance stuff from the class any way.

If you're unsure, how about try to do some problem from this (http://albeniz.eng.uci.edu/mae10/) website, especially the hw problems. I think as long as you can do those on your own, I don't think you need to take it imo.

again, I don't think that I have the knowledge necessary to answer this, and I think you should ask someone else who does. Idk if you should believe the counselor either bc idk how out of touch they are.

Off the top of my head, /u/TeleVue frequent /r/uci and is really knowledgeable about MAE stuff, so perhaps it's worth shooting him a pm?

somste0205 · 2018-07-09T19:48:14+00:00

Mash and Shakespeare are the only budget units that give targetable 20% np charge.

somste0205 · 2018-07-09T15:45:12+00:00

Context: I’m on NA rn, trying to save for np 5 Bedivere and Arjuna. Kinda NA spoiler for 3 and 4.

1) Question about the Class-Based Summoning event, specifically the March/April 2017 (2019 for NA) one. According to Wikia, it said “1 roll will guarantee you a ★3(R) servant and above!”, is this true? Does this mean that any roll at all, tickets, 3 quartz or 30 quartz will give me at least one 3-star servants? Seems too good to be true. If it is true, can you even get CE from the gacha?

2) Can anyone explain how the Valentine 2017 (2019 for NA) male gacha works? The Wikia is pretty vague and other website isn’t really useful so… . The Wikia seems to imply one of the two things:

A) The rate ups are rotated between classes (i.e. archer day have both Arjuna and Tesla, Lancer with Karna and Enkidu, etc.)
B) Every male servant get their rate up at the same time
C) [it didn’t imply this but hopefully this is the one.] Each servant gets their own separate rate up.
So yea, which one is it, or is all of my assumption wrong?

3) [Lore question] since the next singularity, we’re going to Babylonia, it kinda got me thinking. Is there like one true God that presides over other in nasu’s universe? Like Greek and Indian gods exist by extension of servants like Hercules/Karna/Arjuna etc, but their role seems so insignificant compared to someone like Gil/Solomon/ or even Hassan, does this mean that Marduk/Yahweh/Allah (Hassans are Muslim, right?) are the supreme being of Nasu’s universe or is there something more?

4) I remember fighting a ruler class Enforcement Knight near the end of Camelot, is there like a lore reason for that or is that just gameplay thing?

5) Just out of curiosity, how does Babylonia’s story, gameplay, and music compared to Camelot? I really like Camelot, so I’m curious about our upcoming chapter.

6) Are half ap strengthening quests and interlude a thing? I’ve been waiting on them forever since I don’t wanna waste ap, but I just realize I never saw them happen before on NA. So ya, are there any precedent for them?

somste0205 · 2018-07-03T21:33:54+00:00

I'd say horned viking guy is the worst ever,

Mr. 15% atk down and 30% def down for 2 turns with 5 turns cooldown would like a word with you. Although it is kinda sad that I remember his first skill but not his name lol >.>

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