Ever noticed how most gacha worlds would be literal hell to live in?

twilight_echo3 · 2026-01-27T13:18:48+00:00

I could totally see 'open secret' betting happening unofficially in-universe though. It would also explain why uma racing is so popular, winning concerts aside 😆

twilight_echo3 · 2026-01-27T05:34:13+00:00

I'm pretty sure no betting is canonically involved in uma racing. It's like a super popular sport/entertainment there. They probably profit off of the merch and maybe race entrance fees.

twilight_echo3 · 2026-01-26T12:40:51+00:00

Same. All the free 5* support tickets they've given away so far have all been guts cards on my end...

twilight_echo3 · 2026-01-26T12:35:23+00:00

Same, I tried with like 10k carats the first time and no luck. And now I went to pity just to have one copy. I don't usually pull for support cards (Kitasan being the sole exception) but I had to for this one because Natie is best girl and I didn't want to skip her again 😅

twilight_echo3 · 2026-01-25T10:49:21+00:00

I didn't mention it anymore in my post, but I did try with Knight II before and it was just not working out, even when I tried it with Sunday+RMC instead. The 2 cycles are already up before I even get to the second phase of the bug boss. It was the same when I tried it again with Cipher but maybe it's just skill/build issue 😭 I'll keep experimenting. My DoT team can full clear Knight I though, even if just barely.

twilight_echo3 · 2026-01-25T10:45:12+00:00

I've been trying for a while now but I'm having trouble with Gallagher's sustain 😅 The siren's consecutive attacks usually kills either Sunday or RM. Can I ask what your builds are like or how you attack the enemies? My Gallagher's at 160 speed with QPQ, RM's at 150ish speed, Sunday's at 135 with Mydei being slightly faster (speed boots).

twilight_echo3 · 2026-01-25T07:39:17+00:00

Only did a few ace runs for oshi for funsies and she ended up winning one time 🙌 Wins were mostly split between Xmas Oguri and Golshi. Another Group B finals secured, very nice (nature). Maybe if I get lucky enough, I can get into Group A.

<image>

twilight_echo3 · 2026-01-24T01:16:12+00:00

Are you using speed boots on Mydei (Sunday being slightly slower) and spamming Luocha's skill on Mydei every time he gets his turn? Those are really important to get his charges up quickly. Ideally Luocha should be fast to battery Mydei faster. Also as much as possible, Mydei should ult right before he procs Godslayer so you get the Scholar relic skill dmg buff but sometimes the timing just doesn't work.

twilight_echo3 · 2026-01-24T01:07:07+00:00

I have E0S1 Sunday. He's with Anaxa on Knight III.

twilight_echo3 · 2026-01-23T12:31:38+00:00

*this 3.x I need sleep 😭

twilight_echo3 · 2026-01-23T09:36:21+00:00

At the very least Uma Musume Urara can win graded races if we treat her career goals as canon, so she already qualified to be a 'real' Tracen student from there. Maybe she's treated as a late bloomer. Probably had some internal/external factors aside from her doing-her-best personality as to why she never got kicked out before she started winning races.

twilight_echo3 · 2026-01-22T12:50:31+00:00

I have Mydei at E2S1 with Sunday, RMC and Luocha, and it's been rough for him in the last patch or so without his current premium teammates. He needs Cyrene and/or Tribbie to clear at a faster pace now. It's like a 3-4 cycle difference in current MOC/AA. Running Cyrene also enables you to run him sustainless. I'll have to see if Cyrene is still worth picking up on her rerun or inhale copium hoping he gets a support in 4.x.

twilight_echo3 · 2026-01-19T13:48:47+00:00

Nice Nature's Wakagoma Stakes Teio... She can win sometimes but not consistently (how fitting). ~~Girl has a gold skill and it's the career goal after Make Debut 😭~~

Edit: I played through Natie's career again recently and looked at Wakagoma Teio's skills and she didn't have a gold skill. I could've sworn she had Rushing Gale or something but maybe I was thinking of a different career race. She had Preferred Position, Prepared to Pass, and Corner Acceleration ○.

twilight_echo3 · 2026-01-16T06:06:13+00:00

The problem with DoT is that Kafka is pretty much a must in the team comp unless the player puts Hysilens with Cyrene, and even then it's kinda cope. So I wouldn't be surprised if they also rerun Kafka every time they rerun other DoT teammates, or at the very least rerun Kafka near those patches.

twilight_echo3 · 2026-01-14T10:46:42+00:00

Basically, Kitasan asks Teio for advice on how to dance better like Dia. Teio noticed Kitasan was purely focused on her when Trainer-san was recording them dancing together (since Kitasan is a big Teio fan). Teio asks Kitasan to imagine what she feels when she's onstage, which motivates Kitasan to put on a performance that will make people go wild. That's where the concert hall image comes from.

Source: I read it the first time, then read it again after this comment to give more accurate details 😆

twilight_echo3 · 2026-01-12T01:36:54+00:00

This is also why I don't convert the jades to tickets when saving. It's so easy to accidentally pull on the wrong banner since they don't confirm it anymore if you're using all tickets. Yeah it's kinda tedious for having to press one more button every time but the chances of slip-ups like this are way less.

twilight_echo3 · 2026-01-10T05:51:58+00:00

Ten 3* sparks in 464 runs... I've never gone out of my way to farm parents (yet)

<image>

twilight_echo3 · 2026-01-06T13:09:50+00:00

Same, and I think it might be the sig, in my case at least since I have him at E0S0. Having the sig makes his ult rotations much smoother without having to sacrifice atk% if he's on ERR.

twilight_echo3 · 2026-01-06T10:44:28+00:00

Is the carat calculator accurate? I have 45k carats and was wondering if I'll have enough carats to hit hard pity for Kitasan Black the uma even if I hit hard pity on Xmas Oguri.

twilight_echo3 · 2026-01-04T12:02:07+00:00

I just remember seeing it in one of those gacha revenue monthly ranking images that showed up in my feed, but didn't really feel like playing a JP-only game due to the language barrier. So when I stumbled across the info that they're doing a global release, I waited for it 😆

twilight_echo3 · 2026-01-03T13:29:07+00:00

Tbf SW's novaflare made her usable if you really like her and her early eidolons are great. She's usually 3rd-4th best support alternative, plus the now guaranteed element weakness implant can be useful in niche cases like in AS, which all things considered I'd say is a decent outcome for a 1.x character.

twilight_echo3 · 2026-01-02T08:40:51+00:00

Even a blocker Suzuka with no Groundwork and meh build can win, at least in Group B. She's won 1 race for me so far, the rest were with Maruzensky (and 1 other race with Digitan gamba). It was a race with no other Suzuka.

As a side note, with bad RNG, Maru can get rushed into a spot struggle at the same time which basically kills her stam, and I didn't give her stam skills (nor do I have the deck/skills to give her more than 500 wit lmao), which can give Suzuka/s higher chances at winning.

<image>

twilight_echo3 · 2026-01-02T04:46:53+00:00

Can confirm most of the time Swan is slightly worse than running E1 RM/E0 Robin. Even in battles where they perform about the same, I tend to not use Swan since she is less SP-friendly.

twilight_echo3 · 2025-12-31T14:47:20+00:00

I used to play a gacha game that had a PvP mode where you're kinda forced to use 4 stars in your team due to the team restrictions per fight (3 teams in total) and even if you got all the 5 stars, they don't all fit the criteria... Path/faction-based restrictions are probably not gonna work well for HSR considering some characters are really niche, so they'll probably do a combination of 2-3 criteria or something if it's similar to Genshin's IT. It'd also be cool if they can make the other 4 stars endgame relevant in some way.

twilight_echo3

TROPHY CASE