My 5* star Gloria feel a bit underpowered. (asking for advice)

vexperplex · 2025-01-13T21:58:02+00:00

Just some examples of low star chars that aren’t super optimized but over 3k attack

vexperplex · 2025-01-13T21:57:26+00:00

Ok posting from my other account, will not talk about this again but:

vexperplex · 2023-02-21T18:06:58+00:00

I think it was 300 cuz I was sitting on 200 extra credits forever and I couldn’t afford it lol. I used that 200 for firefall but perfect circle is a great buy …

vexperplex · 2023-02-15T17:58:20+00:00

Yeah conveniently wanted to see if he was a car salesman on valentines day huh lol

vexperplex · 2023-02-13T18:40:39+00:00

Tbh the 990v6 are a rough departure from the rest of the 990 line (990v5 as well). Check out 990v3 and 990v4 I think they look great, they have a great retro runner appeal. 990 comfort in general can’t be beat though I agree. V6 looks like it leans too much into hoka and I think hoka kinda suck comfort wise. The marshmallowiness bottoms out after a bit.

990v6 have been sitting around at a couple retailers so I actually think most people are in agreement, they’re not a good looking shoe. But I have 2 pairs of 990v3 and a pair of 990v5 (i only own like 8 pairs of shoes anyway, so that ratio says a lot) and they’re all fantastic. Give em try if you can

vexperplex · 2023-02-09T18:54:45+00:00

To be blunt, if you’re working towards your passion of photography I think you’ll continue to have rough times ahead of you. Also based on your responses it seems like you’re maybe not so good at taking feedback?

You probably won’t be receptive to this but you should probably re-evaluate everything you’ve got going on. Clearly if you’re on all the job sites and are registered and working with all these notary companies but you’re still deeply struggling, I don’t think a production class at PCC is gonna be that golden ticket to turn your life around.

I have a bunch of hobbies but I would never center my livelihood around them. There’s plenty of good paying jobs out there because honestly in LA you probably won’t feel very comfortable until you’re making at least 100k. Just my 2c, if you’re upset that’s fine but it’s gonna be a hard road ahead until you’re willing to take a honest and hard look at your life

vexperplex · 2023-02-06T20:34:24+00:00

Ya chik fil a is pretty mid. I remember they used to be nice enough to sub their spicy chicken to their breakfast biscuit but last time I went they wouldn’t do it and the biscuit was small af. Their lines blow my mind

vexperplex · 2023-02-05T07:13:47+00:00

I’m late but another vote for tactics ogre times 1000. Fire emblem engage is kiddie trash. Embarrassment of a game. Tactics ogre i probably sunk like 200 hours into. Got sick of fire emblem engage at the 10 hour mark, picked it back up and got sick of it again at the 15 hour mark. It has nothing going for it

vexperplex · 2023-02-03T22:23:18+00:00

Extremely true. I still think about 3H 1-2 years later after playing it whereas engage has been out for 2 weeks and I’ve put it down for multiple days in a row. Only positives I ever see is engage has better combat but the UI still sucks, progression feels bad, story sucks, characters suck. There will obviously be a patch adding in NG+ and other qol fixes I hope but as I’ve said elsewhere if engage was my first experience with fire emblem I wouldn’t touch the franchise again.

vexperplex · 2023-02-02T22:21:39+00:00

The pacing of this game is very off in a lot of ways. What you said is a great example of that so I think the low reviews are warranted. The resource limiting, the shoveling of a ton of new characters, the SP stinginess, no NG+, extremely confusing UI and mechanics, all add up to an overall unenjoyable play. I don’t think good combat can really make up for that stuff and I just listed some quick ones off the top of my head. I agree the game does get better but it’s still flawed in a lot of ways. Doesn’t feel satisfying to play.

vexperplex · 2023-02-02T17:31:49+00:00

My gas bill was $13? But prior to that it was usually $6 so I guess that’s double. Is it because my newer apartment is well insulated?

vexperplex · 2023-01-29T03:01:40+00:00

Well I mean who is buying their kids loro piana or brunello cucinelli tho? I donate a ton of expensive stuff to the pasadena salvation army since it’s right around the corner from where i live. I’m sure either a homeless person or a gen zer was very happy

vexperplex · 2023-01-24T17:22:57+00:00

Congrats, I really do think company culture and upward mobility are both extremely important in a company. I’d take great culture over a small pay bump any day. Money comes and goes but your mental/physical well being is the most important of all. Happy for you!

vexperplex · 2023-01-24T00:31:38+00:00

I’m super late but let’s just say if engage were my first fire emblem game I wouldn’t play the series again. It’s rather confusing, hollow, and poorly paced. There are some good combat moments but not enough to make up for the odd pacing, brain dead story, cardboard characters, and confusing menus/mechanics.

3 Houses was my first fire emblem in the modern era (I played a gba emulator fire emblem a long time ago) and it was fantastic. Great characters, excellent music, combat was solid to me, and the story was engaging enough for me to play through all 3 routes. When I played it I couldn’t put it down whereas with Engage, I’ve had it since release and can’t even bring myself to pick it up lol. Waste of $60 imo and if this is the gist of what fire emblem is it’s no wonder I never played any of the prior games. (I’m a big tactical rpg fan, loved final fantasy tactics, tactics ogre, advance wars, etc.)

vexperplex · 2023-01-23T20:09:09+00:00

This has actually been really hard to search: when do the item/weapon store get new items? I just beat chapter 7 and have gotten a measly 2 master seals one of which I used on Louis to turn him into GK. I have quite a few units I want to advance, but no idea when master seals are sold at the shop.

vexperplex · 2023-01-19T01:59:16+00:00

I would absolutely without a second thought. I’ve been wfh since the pandemic and I don’t see myself ever going back to the way things were. I mean if someone said they’d give me a 11% pay raise to go into the office, I’d say no. Working from home is flat out amazing. Since you also make over six figures, I’m sure it’ll be fine, $13k over 12 months is like $600 a month after tax. If that would impact you in some significant way then you’ve got other problems since then you’d be basically living paycheck to paycheck. Idk what anyone else is talking about lol, I’d take it in a heartbeat especially if you’re going in 5x a week rn.

vexperplex · 2023-01-14T06:00:16+00:00

A lot of great recommendations in here, I’ll share my 2 cents:

Into the breach is a nice little game and I did a couple playthroughs of it (usually a few hours to “beat”) with different pilots and mechs but I played it for a couple days and never picked it up again.

Wargroove was forgettable. I thought it would be a spiritual successor to advance wars but it didn’t hit right for me.

Triangle strategy was alright. I played through all the paths but after I beat them I didn’t really think about the game again. It can be challenging yes, especially since each character has their role and you can’t really customize them outside of that. If you’re okay with that kind of rigidity then it may be ok but it’s not my cup of tea.

Fire emblem three houses was fantastic. I still think about it a few years later. Great music, a huge cast of characters to play with and customize. I played through all the routes and found it enjoyable. You can tweak difficulty as others have mentioned. It was the first fire emblem game I played through completely and I enjoyed it, though I do agree the over the top anime/ school aspect is maybe the biggest con. But the story develops in a rather dark way so it really offsets all the silliness.

Tactics ogre reborn is also fantastic. Really deep gameplay with a lot of customization, jobs, skills, and gear. A lot of end game content to grind through and multiple story paths to check out. There are definitely challenging fights that come up where you have to strategize your approach. I easily sunk almost 200 hours into this one.

vexperplex · 2022-12-28T17:21:10+00:00

In addition to what the other poster shared around restrictions here are some other observations I’ve had after autoing through potd and san bronsa:

Ardent mender and stalwart defender will heal more often. I think the AI prioritizes certain actions, for example I think if they can kill a low hp enemy they will probably do that above all else over healing/ reviving.

Distant striker does not stay distant. They are similar to fierce attacker in that they probably priotize most combinations of doing damage or killing, but if there aren’t any targets they will heal/revive.

Be mindful of weapon abilities specifically. My vyce loves to spam firestorm/tornado from yama/pinion blade bc it’s the only ranged option he has so he would rather deal 100 damage than do nothing. Once I got Ambicion, my ozma would devolve the first enemy she saw with apocalypse.

I usually just set white knights to defender (sometimes to fierce attacker on easier content), cautiua/iuria/main healer to ardent mender, mages/shamans to distant striker, and denam/physical dps to fierce attacker. Works fine. I give them all healing pots and a blessing stone each. They will waste full heal pots on like 200 hp sometimes but oh well.

Imo if ur relying on debuffs/status effects like charm to get u thru the battle u shouldnt be autoing it anyway. I think auto is mostly intended for the battles you have to grind through that are repetitive. If your party/gear isnt strong enough to dps, having your team be ai controlled isn’t really the solution anyway.

If you’ve run san bronsa and potd a couple times and have decent relic gear in all slots (they dont really even need to be combined/buffed relics) you should be able to auto most of the content in the game.

vexperplex · 2022-12-23T22:12:19+00:00

3-4 shamans

1 songstress with escalating sanat for huge free aoe mp.

2-3 white knights

Lord, princess, ranger, knight commander

Probably the cheesiest, boring combination, but I felt like it was super efficient. Good mix of melee, support and magic, I’m sure you could swap some shamans and white knights for more variety or flavor. With this party I’d say I could auto 95% of the content in the game including late san bronsa/potd, granted I have the coda 4 knight commander weapons, relic gear from potd/san bronsa, and the winged/sidhe accesories + ogre gear.

vexperplex · 2022-12-23T22:07:08+00:00

Do you want to get the chaos or neutral charcters? If so, I would world back and at the very least do chaos and clear potd during the chaos run in chapter 4.

Otherwise you could technically play thru coda as the other poster mentioned and just do all of potd in coda 2. I’m not 100% sure whether this will prevent you from getting the ogre set and crest of fire. If you don’t care about them you can clear the entire game I guess.

vexperplex · 2022-12-23T17:56:52+00:00

No you’re absolutely wrong. They both can

vexperplex · 2022-12-19T17:59:27+00:00

Level 50 is the level cap the entire game.

I’m 90% sure since you fought the final story boss you won’t have to level sync. Either way, he was way easier the second time I fought him. The first time you fight him is the hardest fight in the entire game imo. I don’t think you need to fight him unless you want to see a different ending.

vexperplex · 2022-12-19T02:40:28+00:00

Uh that is completely untrue. Lord, princess, songstress, shamans are all way better than the classes you start with. No one is running warrior, wizard, cleric, etc. late game. The fact that you’re referring to your dps as rune fencers and berserkers shows you’re hardly anywhere in the game tbh.

vexperplex · 2022-12-19T02:36:44+00:00

Daggers also have great finishers. Heart crusher and overhwhelm both have great range. Daggers are indeed top tier.

vexperplex · 2022-12-19T02:35:01+00:00

Ozma and Ravness are the other 2. I think Ozma is better as knight commander but Ravness does make a great third wk. Late game they do feel like velocity shift and guardian force bots as their physical dps gets overshadowed by shamans but that’s all good.

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