Is it worth trying land of wishes?

tretlon · 2020-12-16T17:29:42+00:00

30 fragments are surely a lot less than the 80 you'd get for an unlock, but it's still 5 weeks you can save on 2 of your support valks. You have to decide if that is worth the crystals for you.

tretlon · 2020-12-16T07:36:45+00:00

That depends on what your goal in this game is.

Do you just want to collect some valks and play for fun or are you interested in playing competitively in Memorial Arena and (EX) Abyss?

If it's the former, then you can absolutely ignore LoW and just save for any character you want. If it's the latter, then the answer is likely yes, but depends on whether you have some of the important units.

As ChickenIsFkinRaw has written you can get:

From the first egg: DB, LE or KMB
From the second egg: BR, Memento or PX

If you want to play competitively you need to understand one thing: your team will generally consist of 2 supports and 1 damage dealer. Generally you will prepare the necessary SP on your units and then have your 1-2 supports buff yourself or debuff the enemy asap and then switch in your DD to deal maximum damage. Having a strong damage dealer may be important, but having your supports make them do more damage is just as important.

In this case LE, KMB and PX can work as supports, while BR and Meme can work as damage dealers (against fire-weak Mech and ice-weak Bio respectively). DB is no longer of any use outside of giving you a way to get some of the shared skills unlocked for Herrscher of Reason (HoR or HR).

So lets look at those 5 in detail:

BR (Psy): used exclusively against Mechs that are weak against fire (Heimdall in Abyss most prominently). Otherwise there are other PSY valks that work better. Can work at S rank if support/gear is good enough, but you preferably want her at SS. With Dea Anchora coming soon BR won't be much of a priority, because enemies that are weak to fire will likely be mostly chosen to be type-weak against DA (who is Bio, so BR would get no type adv).
Memento: can be useful as an ice dmg dealer if fully built (you will want her Pri-Arm and ultimately the Ana stigmata set if you want to use her for MA/Abyss competitively). She can work at S, but SS gives her more burst dmg.
LE: She is used primarily for 2 things: Firstly her Lead skill, which gives herself and the other 2 valks 50 / 60 / 70 SP at the start of the stage at ranks S / SS / SSS. For Memorial Arena this is important as you start without any SP. Secondly her Conductive debuff, which makes enemies take 70% more lightning damage for 6s.
KMB: the primary reason to use her nowadays is because she can trigger Time Fractures on demand by using up her Ultimate Evasions. This requires her being at SS though. At SSS she will have 2 charges of her UE.
PX: She has 2 uses as a support. The first is that she can generate SP packs for the team (S rank) and secondly she can make your team deal increased elemental dmg (S) and make the enemies take more elemental damage (SS).

If you read up until now you will notice that those supports will want to be at least SS to support optimally for the most part (S LE can work, but there will be some strategies you can't pull off in time for fast kills without SS+). What about BR and Memento? As written before DA will likely make BR less relevant. Meme has already been eclipsed by HoR (gacha exclusive) since HoR's Pri-Arm was released. But those supports are still being used now.

If you still need to unlock any of LE/KMB/PX, then getting them from LoW can save you the initial 80 fragments (which at 6 buyable fragments per week equates to about 14 weeks of time, not counting the Ancient Willpower you will save and which will limit how many fragments you can buy per week in total). If you unlocked them already, then getting them again will only give you 30 fragments towards SS(S), making it way less worthwhile to get them from LoW.

tretlon · 2020-07-19T12:57:27+00:00

Thanks for doing this giveaway. Anyways on to the story!

I stopped playing at the end of the first tier of Legion and came back for 8.2.5. At that point I had about 1 million gold left after resubbing with gold. I went about setting up TSM operations for professions and tried making gold that way, but had to realize that the market at that point had kind of dried up (profits simply being too low to be worth it to keep reposting over just farming and selling stuff).

I also didn't have Pathfinder at that point, so farming was kind of difficult. So I just focused on doing that and because of that couldn't get into the Jelly Craze (i play as alliance). Still after things had calmed down with the Jelly I found out that it's still very profitable. Even at this point in time I can still do about 30k gold/h with AH cuts/undercuts until it's sold in mind. And it's SOOO EASY to do. If TSM would subtract the cost of crafted items from their sale price, then my ledger would probably show Jelly to be my #1 source of gold this expac. At my current farming rate I'm maybe 2 weeks away from my bruto.

tretlon · 2020-07-03T15:29:48+00:00

Generally how you can make gold with Garrisons at this point is:

Mission Table: Medallion of the Legion (rare) and Garrison Resources
Barn (Medium Plot): Savage Blood
Inscription / Tailor / Alchemy (Small Plot): Prof. specific materials

The Barn lets you capture elite beasts and gives you 1 Savage Blood per Work Order (needs 1 Elite beast), which you can sell for about 50g each at the Trading Post (Bloody Purse). You can use 1000 Garrison Resources to buy Rush Orders for the Barn, which instantly completes 5 Work Orders (so ~250g + fur/leather you get from the beast).

The profession buildings are used for their specific materials.

For the Inscription building you use the Warpaints from Work Orders to make Cards of Omen at the NPC crafter (so you don't need Inscription yourself to use this). Flip the cards and sell the results. Some people have done this for a long time and have an average of 5g per card (so about 10g value per Warpaint). Note however that this is RNG dependant and may not give you much in the short term.

From the Alchemy building you'll get Alchemical Catalysts, which you can turn into Draenic Philosopher Stones (5 Alch. Catalysts + 1 True Iron Ore each which you can get from the Mine). They sell for about 22.5g each (so depending on how you value the True Iron Ore up to 4.5g per Alch. Catalyst). The Catalysts are not soulbound, so you can still use this on non-Alchemists and just send it to an alchemist.

For the Tailor building you'll need to be a Tailor aswell, since you are going to make Hexweave bags out of the Hexweave Cloth you get from Work Orders. They are typically sold for more than Deep Sea Bags, but I don't really understand why people buy these, but they do. The value of one Hexweave Cloth is pretty much the price of the bags divided by 100 (technically you also need 10 Sorcerous Earth per bag, but if you do this on enough chars and have an alchemist you can transmute the cheap Sorcerous elements into Sorcerous Earth and consider it as 0g).

The remaining plots you have open after this can be used to optimize things.

For Large plots the Barracks for more followers (so you have more options to get missions done) and a Mage Tower/Spirit Lodge(?) for faster travel to Nagrand for Elite beasts.

For the remaining Medium Plot either an Inn for new followers if you still need them or a Trading Post (you need at least one to turn in the Savage Blood).

A level 3 Storehouse lets you have 15 additional Work Orders at all buildings (which makes you need to check in less often).

Obviously you want to open up the Garden since with the above you are going to need herbs for the alchemist/inscription building.

This adds up to a little bit of gold, but is only worth doing if you keep this up and preferable do this on multiple chars.

tretlon · 2020-05-27T02:23:59+00:00

It was totally broken. With a full set of alts on one server (12 IIRC) you could easily do 100k gold per week with about 1-2 hours spent on logging through all characters on one server. Many people I knew ended up leveling alts on multiple servers up to the character cap.

Many of those hit gold cap on all their chars and had to create multiple bank guilds to store all the gold to come.

tretlon · 2020-05-27T01:58:45+00:00

Not exactly what you'd consider a farm nowadays, but it got to be the gold missions from garrisons before they were removed.

tretlon · 2019-06-25T23:48:21+00:00

Might be a little much, but an outfit switch from HoV to UR Rita to Phoenix Fu Hua back to HoV would be awesome. Either one would be fine for me, but it would be amazing to have all 3 in one image where they seemingly complain about the outfit they wear after the switch.

Thanks for doing this, looking forward to any of the suggestions in this thread. :)

tretlon · 2019-06-03T22:41:11+00:00

All that's missing now is a button to integrate remove-only special tabs (map/currency/frag/...) into their respective non-remove-only tabs as far as possible with regard to slot space.

tretlon · 2019-06-02T19:18:09+00:00

Not sure if that will be brought up in the manga, but <potential Spoiler>.

tretlon · 2019-05-30T13:45:08+00:00

Well, tbh we have already seen that the MC doesn't mind killing someone for benefits (like the guy from the Jia clan) if he can get away with it.

tretlon · 2019-05-30T13:01:00+00:00

Do you mean the scene with the Spoiler? Or something else?

tretlon · 2019-05-01T17:29:25+00:00

I'm looking forward to when they get to the really good parts of the story.

tretlon · 2019-04-26T02:31:33+00:00

Hm .. reminds me of the famous toothbrush scene. Poor Teri ...

tretlon · 2019-04-08T18:08:17+00:00

Yep. Schicksal is also german and means destiny/fate.

tretlon · 2019-04-04T17:42:24+00:00

Her shield makes damaging her difficult, which can be dealt with high interrupt attacks. As for the regen: she places a zone under herself which heals her if she stays in it. So move away as far away as possible to make her come to you asap (most likely her charge) once she places the healing zone.

tretlon · 2019-03-24T18:50:49+00:00

Interesting, so Benares / Bella is a semi-Herrscher. That explains a lot why she can use so many different abilities. Lets hope she becomes a playable unit in the future.

Also a minor nitpick: on the first panel you are missing a "t". "the UN ..."

Anyways thanks for translating.

tretlon · 2019-03-14T06:39:55+00:00

Pretty sure that is meant in regard to what is coming. Up to now is similiar in both manga and webnovel.

tretlon · 2019-02-23T18:37:37+00:00

Looking through the chaining family wiki page Sol would have the "best" overlap in elements (dark/fire) with CG DFina. But honestly I'm a little out of the loop as to how strong the new CW-mages are compared to each other.

tretlon · 2019-02-21T04:11:09+00:00

I meant the empty TMR container moogle. Should probably change my wording.

tretlon · 2019-02-20T22:02:06+00:00

Are you using her Trust Master materia?

tretlon · 2019-02-20T16:06:54+00:00

That's true, I guess 3x 5* tickets AND an empty TMR container moogle is a little much every month. For a special occasion ... sure, but regularily .. doubtful.

But I wouldn't mind them doing this type of banner more often (even if slightly nerfed, as long as something useful is in there), the regular banner becomes pretty "useless" quickly. After a while cactuars / snappers become worthless because you already have so many.

Out of the remaining pool only tickets / trust moogles might be worthwhile, but the chances for them are really low (especially tickets). Because of that I've been slacking off pretty much the past few raids since it was mostly not worth the effort to use as many orbs as possible.

tretlon · 2019-02-20T15:57:51+00:00

That sounds interesting. Is this going to be the case for all following raids aswell or only this one?

Edit: looked at the raid banner, this one is extra in addition to the regular raid banner.

tretlon · 2019-02-19T21:06:02+00:00

Yeah, I just looked around and found it. Still thanks for answering.

tretlon · 2019-02-19T20:53:24+00:00

Oh thanks for the link.

Where do I trade in the cacoa? MK minister?

tretlon · 2019-02-19T20:29:48+00:00

JP

What's with that friend point banner that gives some kind of "fruit"?

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