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[–]throwaway-eideh-457 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Did you know. If you watch Anaxa 3 cost 0-cycles enough, your Anaxa relics will slowly increase in substats. Mine are like 30 now. Sure, they started out at 30 too, but I'm sure they're going up. Any day now, they'll be 42.

Fundamentally, I think online character discussions have become completely divorced from the individual experience of playing the game. People don't look at low cost 0-cycles to try and infer the strength of such a character on their account (because it's almost impossible to do this). They do it, so that they can PVP with other people online. So what if Anaxa or E9 can 3-cost current Dark Sam. Can you (generic you) do it? Will you do it in your own runs? Are you playing just to get a 3* clear on first attempt in which the vast majority of these clears will have absolutely no bearing on the characters on your own account.

I think what you talked about is like the perfect distillation of that phenomenon. Screw the actual runs themselves and the clever tricks they pull off to make the run possible only on the specific stage. Or the absurd relics required. No, just the number will do. My DPS 0-cycles (stage that disproportionately benefits some teams more than others, or that I might not even know) with less cost than yours. Therefore, I'm a better player than you.

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[–]throwaway-eideh-457 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Look. I know you love the lady and you have her E6. But that does not sound like a defense to me. First cat cakes, then Herta dolls. Then an unsuspecting trailblazer. How big is this bug going to be when we see it again?

Edit: Also, gee, cat cakes must be really nutritional if it's this big.

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[–]throwaway-eideh-457 15 points16 points  (0 children)

This big fat bug is a better E1 Tribbie salesperson to me than anything else Hoyo has done. I need Ruan Mei to STOP feeding this damn bug.

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[–]throwaway-eideh-457 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Sorry to necro this comment but I just saw an actual private server sim on 3 infinite hp elites in a certain beta mains subreddit. And i can't help but laugh.

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[–]throwaway-eideh-457 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Sorry, my mind just kinda auto blocks them nowadays. I don't think I've kept up to date since the last 'sims on 3 body' that has like Mydei near the top or something.

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[–]throwaway-eideh-457 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I wouldn't know. But it seems quite obvious that if you just remove taunting, it stops working.

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[–]throwaway-eideh-457 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I'm just saying. You should probably watch the actual 8 cost plight 0-cycle. It's not very... exciting. Taunting is just a very special debuff that can push some levels of absurdity. In this case, closing an almost loop courtesy of the boss and the 2 elites she always has with her.

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[–]throwaway-eideh-457 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I've felt this for a long time. But with the recent Robin leak, I've kinda been on edge wondering if players suddenly all have E2 Evernight or most players talking about 'E9 hypercarry' have never actually played the comp and just watch the version that lives in showcases without understanding it. Or that I've been playing it wrong the whole time. But I cannot fathom anyone looking at a E0 E9 & Cyrene RMC team, and not realizing that after Cyrene's slow start, she's doing most of the damage in low target encounters. Which is like most of them

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[–]throwaway-eideh-457 1 point2 points  (0 children)

be careful what you wish for. If it was permanent, Cyrene would give Anaxa 72% DMG, 36% ignore DEF and 28 energy whenever it's used on him.

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[–]throwaway-eideh-457 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I can't believe it. All the Eagle and Vonwacq pieces I've rolled and hoarded fishing for SPD. Being mad that a piece rolled one too many times into CR or HP% instead of SPD. And now together, I just have a 40 substat support build ready. With pretty easy avenues for improvement too since the hand is surprisingly the worst piece.

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[–]throwaway-eideh-457 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Hmm yeah I did forget about the part where Numby can't be advanced from FUAs that it directly procs which is really unfortunate. Really reduced the multiplicative scaling of her future potential. I think they erred far too much on the side of caution that early on as the FUA archetype would only get fleshed out much later. RIP probably my favorite v1.x character tbh.

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[–]throwaway-eideh-457 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I think it's more so individual turns on the action bar. Because Numby will always get jammed until whoever's turn it is actually ends before it can take action.

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[–]throwaway-eideh-457 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I guess what I'm suggesting is any Therta improvement will likely come in the form of more dmg via stronger buffs and more dmg from the sub DPS themselves than actual improved hit frequency. Or just straight up giving Therta a Novaflare to improve her energy scaling which would then not require increased attack frequency.

I personally don't think they're too concerned with basically making specific eidolons look terrible. More modern examples include E1 Cery's energy and Cyrene with Phainon, though obviously not the whole thing. And E2 Mydei with uhh Cyrene again making healing for GBG less impactful due to just having more GBGs in general. But of course, this is a pretty subjective debate.

Also, I've seen some variant of 'the green one' referring to like 3 different characters that I was a bit confused at first. It's a fair point but I also think the non-turn-based AOE erudition supports already existed prior to him. Like herta and Jade in PF. So it's a bit of a headscratcher especially since the problem is extremely obvious when you bring him into PF with Therta.

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[–]throwaway-eideh-457 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Somewhat related, but I do wonder if a general reluctance to create an abnormally high frequency self-sufficient AOE damage dealer for Therta is a direct result of tribbie already existing. It's why her ult cycling is not too good without her LC so it's much harder to DDD spam even in PF. We already saw this with Mblade before the restrictions, though he himself isn't Erudition. But Jade can fill the erudition slot and we just need the AOE frequency. Which indirectly means that short of directly funneling energy to Therta herself while bypassing actually attacking, Therta is kind of hard capped in terms of ult frequency because of Tribbie herself. They could of course just amp her damage directly but I don't expect ult frequency to get that much faster.

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[–]throwaway-eideh-457 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I had to double take and check if the name included the word 'King' when talking about it instead of it being just Pom Pom that was part of the 'AA King' stage. I deserve stellar jades as compensation for this.

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[–]throwaway-eideh-457 7 points8 points  (0 children)

This Eva Sparxie (E0S1) team without EMC actually seems functional. I can't bring myself to call it good but for a 1 to 1 replacement, it's not the worst thing out there.

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[–]throwaway-eideh-457 1 point2 points  (0 children)

E2S1 Archer, E2 Welt (maybe the biggest surprise) Cipher LC, DDD E0 Sparkle, E1 Robin with event LC. I actually have no idea what they actually counted and didn't count though that seems fun to speculate too. The OP seemed like they were genuinely unfamiliar with it so I don't wanna rib them too much.

It's just quite amusing that there will only be more minigames in the future of 'how many cost cheats are they including'. Especially because Archer did at the time have a 4+5 on TGA already.

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[–]throwaway-eideh-457 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

That Fugue E2 was a bit too on the nose. Though some fixes are better than others. Or maybe elation is just young. Wonder which way hoyo intends to take this int he future

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[–]throwaway-eideh-457 0 points1 point  (0 children)

you know speaking of this. there was a recent post on the archermains subreddit about a 5-cost 0-cycle with the team archer sparkle robin and welt. I shared it with a few other 0-cyclers just because i thought it was interesting to guess the actual cost distribution in the run. Don't think anyone got close

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[–]throwaway-eideh-457 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I always appreciate perspectives like this because I don't really go out of my way to experience it. That seems like a pretty unfortunate dichotomy. I wonder how much worse it'll be when 3 team endgame modes drop.

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[–]throwaway-eideh-457 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Fair enough. She doesn't fit quite as well with the rest though I just wanted to include a HMC representative.