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And the whole thing felt like unserious - until they throw her backstory in your face so it's like ?????????
I really dislike that twist wow, i thought rappa was some quirky chuuni like fischl, giving her a tragic backstory kinda kills the mood. I guess it didn't even work and most probably skipped her quest anyway.

I think it's a case of honkai (not only star rail, hi3 too) being obcessed with making everyone hypertragic because "suffering builds character" (tumblrbrained writing). Every patch since 2.0 featured a sad flashback unit and i think everyone in Amphoreus has super trauma.

A bit of an aside but I think Japanese companies need to stop this "Its X series you love but with Gacha this time." I feel like that never works because it will always feel like a bastardization of the series you like. Persona, as a series, probably does lend itself to gacha better than most, but even then, why not just make a new Persona. Mihoyo already showed you can take the core idea and make it gacha as Genshin is BoTW with more China and a gacha system. It feels better to roll for characters when they are made for the product rather than ripped from an existing one. Maybe Persona Gacha is saved but I don't think it will catch on.

It did give us the Subway Slammer and for that, I am eternally grateful.

Modern persona (3-5) is TERRIBLE idea for a gacha. It translates the mechanics well sure but a core theme is a coming of age story where you realize life is finite and you must enjoy every day you spend with someone you care about, but then Gachasona has no time limit so everything i do feel souless.

Even the system doesn't make sense with itself. oh no i have 20 activity points but i can only do 3 per in game day. So i go to school, return to my house, study, clean and play videogames and sleep. Next day i go to school, return to my house, study, clean and play videogames and sleep. Next day i go to school, return to my house, study, clean and play videogames and sleep...

Huh, what do you mean the subway slammer is still at large and i had a vision of him killing a baby tomorrow? He can wait, i still haven't done my dailies yet. Who cares. There is no stakes.

You're right especially on western side, people are self aware enough to know licensed gacha is a shitty japanese cashcow 99% of the time, especially with the history of dead ones. P5X only exists because Atlus wants to milk every persona game forever and didn't even trust a japanese devs to do it, they picked china.

The metal slug, breath of fire 6 and megaman X gacha ones were particularly offensive. These franchises were dead and instead of a new game the companies decided to cash out on a gacha. The BoF 6 was so shit even japan hated and it only lasted 7 months (less than tribe nine).
 
I really dislike that twist wow, i thought rappa was some quirky chuuni like fischl, giving her a tragic backstory kinda kills the mood. I guess it didn't even work and most probably skipped her quest anyway.
You're very welcome. Rappa is probably Star Rail's weirdest fucking character. I don't know if that's a good thing because she's not endearing like Argenti. I don't think she sold that well either.

Her quest was really long, too, if memory serves, because time was dedicated to Boothill running around. Plus time dedicated to part of his tragic backstory (his first kill and some implied trauma from that)

Also:
And as much as I like Rappa, what is her character? Rap is not her gimmick, it's grafitti and ninjas. The game also makes it apparent that she's legitimately psychotic. The ninja shit is a giant delusion to cope with torture porn experiments. The marketing does not reflect that at all
Yeh, found my old post complaining about it. It's been ages since I played, but it really stuck out to me for how....random it actually felt. I guess the whole thing with Dr. Primitive is a little more connected outside Rappa being schzio because, if memory serves, he was the architect of all the experiments and the whole monkey thing was from those mangas Rappa read to cope, and the researchers just decided to play along with the delusion until they had enough and she murdered everyone.

I will say, though, there's something mildly and darkly amusing about her treating those mangas as ancient sacred ninjutsu scrolls through the power of being a shell-shocked schizophrenic weeb.
I think it's a case of honkai (not only star rail, hi3 too) being obcessed with making everyone hypertragic because "suffering builds character" (tumblrbrained writing). Every patch since 2.0 featured a sad flashback unit and i think everyone in Amphoreus has super trauma.
Aventurin set a dangerous precedent. His tragedy is particularly potent and, dare I say, overblown even if I like the guy. Tragic backstories have been a thing before, but all of those were in side quests and character quests, not drop-shipped into the main story and shoved down your gullet.

Granted, people weren't hot on the character quests either, so it was stuffed into the main quest, which can make said main quest feel extremely bloated. I guess it's fitting that Not-Greece is the Arcadium of tragedy because hahaha Greek Tragedy - even if I like Castorice and Mydei and Phainon.

One thing I will give 3.5 is that they did away with the POV changes. THANK GOD.
 
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I'll give credit to HSR in this patch: there were hardly any black screens. The yap is still there though, but that's what the skip button is for. The Diner Dash Mem event was very nice.

On to WuWa, we can fucking fly everywhere thank fucking God. They also removed the height requirement to fly, so you just jump and fly. I'm hoping that the PC updates work with my AMD card.

Codes for 2.6 stream:

BURNINGSUN
MOONLIGHT
FACETHEFATE
 
Modern persona (3-5) is TERRIBLE idea for a gacha. It translates the mechanics well sure but a core theme is a coming of age story where you realize life is finite and you must enjoy every day you spend with someone you care about, but then Gachasona has no time limit so everything i do feel souless.

Even the system doesn't make sense with itself. oh no i have 20 activity points but i can only do 3 per in game day. So i go to school, return to my house, study, clean and play videogames and sleep. Next day i go to school, return to my house, study, clean and play videogames and sleep. Next day i go to school, return to my house, study, clean and play videogames and sleep...

Huh, what do you mean the subway slammer is still at large and i had a vision of him killing a baby tomorrow? He can wait, i still haven't done my dailies yet. Who cares. There is no stakes
In fairness, you can make this same complaint to a ton of games. "Oh no, the villain is going to destroy the world. Well, I better go finish all my side quest." This all happens in FF7, FF9, Xenoblade 1 and 2, and Golden Sun. The only difference is normal Persona does have a timer. I just wouldn't say its a uniquely gacha problem
You're right especially on western side, people are self aware enough to know licensed gacha is a shitty japanese cashcow 99% of the time, especially with the history of dead ones. P5X only exists because Atlus wants to milk every persona game forever and didn't even trust a japanese devs to do it, they picked china.
I don't even think the Japanese are that fond of these games. Square is notorious for making these games and shutting them down. The most successful gacha games are still all the original ones: Uma Musume, Gran Blue, Blue Archive, Nikke, any thing from Mihoyo, Fate Grand Order (though maybe this one is debatable). I don't think rolling for shit is appealing unless its made specifically for that game. There is likely some psychological value we place on it. Like, Raiden Shogun has value because she's only in Genshin and Intertwined Fates is the cost to get her. Ann is one of the party members from P5 who didn't cost pulls but now she does because money.
 
GI: I'm sick of settling for floor 11 clears. Guys, help me put together a team for floor 12, please!
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I can't remember all the constellations from the top of my head.
  • Xilonen c2
  • Hu Tao c1
  • Xingqiu c1 or better
  • Cookie c4
  • Candace c6
  • Bennett c1 or better
  • Hero c6 obvobv
If there's a specific constellation required, let me know and I'll look it up next login.

I'm not concerned about talents/levels as there's enough time to level them up this cycle.
 
GI: I'm sick of settling for floor 11 clears. Guys, help me put together a team for floor 12, please!
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I can't remember all the constellations from the top of my head.
  • Xilonen c2
  • Hu Tao c1
  • Xingqiu c1 or better
  • Cookie c4
  • Candace c6
  • Bennett c1 or better
  • Hero c6 obvobv
If there's a specific constellation required, let me know and I'll look it up next login.

I'm not concerned about talents/levels as there's enough time to level them up this cycle.
Floor 12 you’re going to have to play to its Gimmicks, especially considering they’re geared towards the current Banners - I don’t really try Floor 12 too often, but this rote is what, Part 1 Electro Reaction Buff, part 2 Nightsoul Buff?

Side 1 is the easy one - you have Raiden and Xingqui, slot in Fischl (hopefully at C6) and maybe Barbara or Furina and you have a fairly basic Electro Charged team.

Side 2, you have a few characters that benefit from the gimmick, but outside Xilonen they’re not the best options. Worst case there, I’d suggest Xilonen, Ororon, then just stick in old reliable in Bennet and Xianling. Just spam Bursts and keep everyone as topped up as possible HP wise.

My suggestions are definitely not the best, again, I largely ignore Floor 12. You’re going to want Talents as highly levelled and Gear as Optimized as possible regardless.

E - I’ve edited this twice. I may have mixed up my patches. Oops
 
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Guys, help me put together a team for floor 12, please!
I'll preface by saying remember that you can clear chambers and then reconfigure teams, which is very helpful (e.g., if i can clear chamber 1 and 3 with 3* but not chamber 2, I'll make teams specifically for chamber 2, and try to get 3* only on that chamber). Abyss only saves your fastest/highest star clear so even if you don't do well on other chambers with that specific team, it doesn't matter.

First half ideas:
- Alhaitham, Xingqiu, Furina, Kuki
- Tao, Furina, Fischl, Kuki/Xilo
- Navia, Furina, Fischl, Xilo
- Assuming enough DPS for brute force: Skirk, Furina Xingqiu, Flex (Rosaria, Kaeya, Layla, etc.) or other brute force DPS

For second half, I would mainly recommend Kinich, Bennett, PMC/Xiangling, Flex (not too familiar with Kinich teams but maybe a Kirara/Nahida). The biggest obstacle is having pyro for the Fat Fuck and a movement character that can go high for Configuration Device such as Kinich and Xilo (cheeseable with any character but not recommended) - but as I mentioned earlier, you won't have to use the same teams for all the chambers, so some teams from my first list might work as well if you swap stuff around.

Not an extensive list but some quick suggestions. If you need more help I would recommend checking YouTube/KQM guides, or I can maybe give some pointers on specific team comps or builds in more detail if you're struggling.
 
Yeh, found my old post complaining about it. It's been ages since I played, but it really stuck out to me for how....random it actually felt. I guess the whole thing with Dr. Primitive is a little more connected outside Rappa being schzio because, if memory serves, he was the architect of all the experiments and the whole monkey thing was from those mangas Rappa read to cope, and the researchers just decided to play along with the delusion until they had enough and she murdered everyone.

It's the other way around The monkey thing is because Dr Primitive is literally trying to setup a universe wide "Return to Monke" thing, and the manga that Rappa read to cope was pretty much Naruto, hence why she's obsessed with ninja's.
 
GI: I'm sick of settling for floor 11 clears. Guys, help me put together a team for floor 12, please!
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I can't remember all the constellations from the top of my head.
  • Xilonen c2
  • Hu Tao c1
  • Xingqiu c1 or better
  • Cookie c4
  • Candace c6
  • Bennett c1 or better
  • Hero c6 obvobv
If there's a specific constellation required, let me know and I'll look it up next login.

I'm not concerned about talents/levels as there's enough time to level them up this cycle.

I dont know how well built your units are, i assume hutao and furina are best here cause you're using them. The main note worth things about this abyss are

1-Blessigns buff are huge. +75% nightsoul is good for any natlan dps and 75% EC / lunar charge is actually absurd for ineffa who deals that damage directly. The problem is that you lack ineffa and second half has Yumkosaur + grass chicken who have 70% dendro resistance so your kinich can't pop off unless he's godlike and bring two different shreds (deepwood support + c2 or zhongli etc).

If you're willing to change teams after you 3* this can be easier, but can also be tiresome. If not i'd say don't stress over and content with 3-6 stars. Spoiler with every room:

12-1-1: I found this to be the most dangerous room. It's 12 elite eremites spawning at your face 3 at any times and they can stunlock you. Kazuha shreds this room but most AoE stuff works here, you can even play skirk freeze or hyperbloom or most things assuming you can frag fast enough.

12-1-2: It's fluid lava avatar into yumkasaur which is a fucked up duo. One has huge fire resistance and the other is countered by fire blowing his fruits and dealing fixed hp dmg, as an attempt to hold kinich and mavuika back and push mualani+chasca. If your Navia is good i think navia/xilonen/ben/xingling can work.

12-2-1: It's same as before but with 12 animal ruinbots. They can be pulled and sometime fuck off so you might need to reset but again, anything with good AoE works well here. Watch for the scout backdash and try to hit 3 bots at once and bait them to aproach.

12-2-2: Pyro wayob and dendro chicken, another attempt to hold mavuika and kinich back. Wayob is weyob, you want to burst it down or freeze it, but it drain energy with white shield that ignores reactions so you have to act fast or have a non burst reliant dps. Chicken is fair but can be deveptively murderous. I think navia/xilonen/benet/xingling can work again assuming they're strong and you get those burts before it shields and navia can burst it down.

12-3-1: It's john cactus, the electro charge shiller. Fun fact, you technically don't need EC to kill it in abyss (SO is harsher), the deal is that hat mode resists everything except elec and hydro and you need to take down 40% of it's hp through the hat to stun it. It simply takes more EC damage which is too low for anyone who isn't ineffa. I just saw a guy clear the whole chamber with Skirk/furina/yelan/charlote.

For this you can try Raiden/furina/xinqiu/jean, try to get jean to swirl both elements. Keep in mind that the real cactus hat is the one with golden glow and mustache. Furina will always target it so she helps a lot. If you want to try that skirk team, you should craft the fontaine craftable for her, it's a genuinely top sword for her as it gives significant amount of atk when you're healed.

12-3-2 is pillar automaton. You need xilonen to climb this one, it's non negotiable. She also shreds it's high resist and she can accelerate the pillar after 2-3 skills so you can stun it. Most boss kilelr teams should work, the navia one can work, kinich should do as long as you 3* previous chambes and can climb the pillas with his hook. I recommend training teams on overworld version.

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tl;dr: The main cruxes here are Cactus hat resisting everything but hydro and electro (you dont need EC to stun him, only dealing enough dmg) and pillar automaton needing vertical mobility (xilonen is the ez choice). The other is pillar automaton requring vertical mobility and xilonen is the ez choice. If you want a single team for all chambers then raiden/xinqiu/furina/jean + navia/xilonen/bennet/xingling OR kinich/bennet/xingling/nahida. 12-1-1 might kill you a few times (srsly you might want a shielder or anemo cc for this one) and dont expect 9* stars for now but you might clear. Navia is not carrying this, kinich gets countered by dendro res and and if you can't explode wayob you lose without breaking his pyro shield (you have no hydros left).

If you're willing to change midway consider skirk raw freeze on 12-1-1, 12-2-1 or add sucrose for better CC, maybe hyperbloom, if you had more hydros you could play skirk second half or spare xinqiu for hutao but you need furina on cactus. Your kinich would be half carried by nightsoul boost being that huge and deepwood cutting 30% res, then have to be played optimally (he can fire 5 cannons if you play frame perfect but that means good ping), you can climb the boss pillar with his hook (i assume, i don't have him). Again, it's fine if you don't 9*, the materials are worth it.

If you want to roll chasca or mualani for abyss, they won't carry for now (chasca can use bennet/furina/ororon but furina has to fight cactus, mualani is awkward and would need benet+xingling, wasting bennet).

Other general tips:
-You have a faBonius spear at R5 wtf it took me years to get one, put that thing on level 90. level that wolf gravestone too, it's expensive and atk% but it's good stick on anybody, supports can use it too.
-Bennet doesn't need an atk% sword, give him skyward sword and the pipe sword for Jean.
-If you use non reaction xiangling (that navia team) then change her dragonbane (EM) to Fav or the event torch on rosaria. Use her skill first and she snapshots the atk buff.
-If you need decent atk% sword or claymore (like for skirk) the fontaine forge ones are surprisingly decent and only require being healed.
-If you use charlote with TTDS/fav (you should) her attack drops significantly but her burst scaling is the highest in the game so at high talent level she still heals a lot at level 12.
 
TF? I've gotten enough to R5 3 Fav Lances plus another one gathering dust. I could have sworn everyone had loads of those.

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Gacha will be gacha so luck will vary hard between people. I'm not sure i went all in any weapon banner with fav spear, if i did i got unlucky. Fav sword also took me years to R5 and i think i only have 1 r5 on xilonen (thank god furina has jade). I also only got The Flute after like +3 years of playing and i realized that sword exists. In comparison i have dozens of dragon banes and the bells. I'm sure everyone here has a weapon that avoids them forever.

This reminds me that the next weapon banner is super stacked in 4*. Fav sword+spear (always useful), natlan gacha claymore (fruit hook) is OP for plunge attackers, chasca 4* bow and mualani 4* catalyst (it's er+hp but good i guess) are good consolation prizes if you miss their 5* weapon.

It's kinda scummy but at the same time i prefer how 4* gacha weapons in genshin are actually good, especially fav/sac being universal support weapons. The gap between 5* weapons got higher since fontaine and they're becoming more and more niche (nodkrai weapons will all be lunar locked) but at least it's not like star rail or wuwa where the f2p choices can range from copium to nonexistent.

Some event weapons are pretty good too (which is bad in albedo's case), reminder that the bennet event ends TOMORROW so go get that skin and bloom claymore.
 
So as part of my occasional check-ins with dying gacha games, I found out Etheria Restart continues to be eternally retarded, and people are growing more and more sick of it.

Devs released a statement addressing some of the issues, but did it in the most backwards way possible.

Side note:
The game has several bosses that you need to farm for gear (matrices) and weapons (shells). Shells are not character-specific but character type-specific so no one has a unique one, just a type of shell that goes with their kit.

One big issue. The boss with the best shells for DOT characters and AOE DPS units is also one of the hardest bosses in the damn game. People were screaming about a nerf for ages, so what did the devs do?

Nerf? No, you dumb idealist, they instead did some drip marketing for two characters specifically created to counter said boss.
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????????

Wh-

That's not a theory btw; they flat-out confirmed this.
From their garbage announcement.
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And then there's this.
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Heaven forbid you balance your game!

This also makes another issue with the game much more worse.

See, unlike WuWa and MHY games, where you need boss items to level up skills after a certain threshold, you use something called latricces in Etheria. For what this game equates to 4* characters who use their own type of latricce, they are pretty easy to get as you get them as rewards from events or stage completions, or buy them using one of the game's five million currencies. Sometimes twice or more.

For 5* characters, on the other hand....hahaha, they are very hard to come by unless you whale. You can also buy them in the store, but they are significantly pricier, and you can only buy one from the store with each type of currency per week...If you have the currency...and not even all types of stores have one.

This means there is a high chance you cannot max out certain skills for your characters, especially if you're anything but a whale, which they absolutely fucking need to clear some of those bosses and certain stages. Not to mention PVP. Which ultimately has a chance to make these so-called "strategic counter tool" characters absolutely fucking useless.

Granted, it's not like WuWa or MHY games are charities either. People who spend more will always be rewarded more; that's just the name of the game. And you can't farm higher-level skill mats either because there's a weekly limit of three attempts per week. But at least, that's evenly spread out for everyone, regardless of whether they are whales or not. Here, you can just swipe your credit card and buy packs to level up your character's skills, which may or may not work because of the difficulty spike of certain bosses that you NEED to farm if you want to build certain characters.

You can make the argument that it's not fair to compare a PVP-focused game to a PVE one, but it is kinda odd to me that they are somehow making the game more unbalanced by creating a massive gap between F2P, low spenders, and whales in a competetive game verses games where there's no PVP being more even in that regard. Didn't some games here in the west come under fire for that exact same thing?

Anyway, I ramble about this because the announcement also makes the following statement.
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Yeah, well, you created the problem.

More piss is the insane amount of RNG, also with gear. It's actually even worse than MHY because you cannot reroll on gear. You can buy gear with a special currency...that's only available after you defeat those super hard gear farm bosses, and you don't get to pick the main stat. They are also extremely expensive to upgrade.

You cannot craft gear either. So how do the devs decide to fix this?

Oh by giving us a gear crafting system....except it's an event.
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At least you can have a say in what gear and what stat you want, but you're shit out of luck if you don't have that currency. And you don't get that currency by dismantling 5* gear.

They got a lot of flak for their shit events. From what I've seen, they are still reusing events.
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Amigo, the RNG was half the issue. How about...you know, better events?

"Risk-averse players" lmao

Also, this does not bode well.
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But you won't do anything about your batshit economy.

Also, people have begun asking for story updates, but they are silent on that, too. The story was, from my memory, kinda meh, but they are apparently releasing PVs as though they are building this grand narrative, but they have done fuck all since launch.

I am so fucking happy I dropped this game. Now I'm just checking in to see the game slowly strangling itself to death.

I'm going to wait with bated breath for this month's revenue report. I guarantee it, even more people will drop the game because of this announcement, and I am willing to eat all the Power Waves in the world if this game doesn't drop below 1 mil. It dropped from 7 to 2 in one, so I am certain it's doing the horny eagle death spiral.

Fun fact: Twink's name is Batsby.
 
I am so fucking happy I dropped this game. Now I'm just checking in to see the game slowly strangling itself to death.

I'm going to wait with bated breath for this month's revenue report. I guarantee it, even more people will drop the game because of this announcement, and I am willing to eat all the Power Waves in the world if this game doesn't drop below 1 mil. It dropped from 7 to 2 in one, so I am certain it's doing the horny eagle death spiral.
We're going to hit Higan: Eurythll levels of "How the FUCK is game still going?" in like 4 months
 
Yeah so about that, it got worse....Or better if you're naive. I was going to the Gachagaming Reddit for unrelated news, and uh, came across this regarding the whole skin drama.

Apparently MICA, the GFL devs, sent out an official mail to CN players to get an offline, face-to-face meetup with them on August 17th about the skin shit.
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But there's some hooplah here because of these conditions, so people aren't hopeful.
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Even chinks aren't happy.
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I don't play GFL but I am fascinated by this.
Quoting myself here, but the result of this meeting came out, and I am actually shocked at how unsurprised I am at the result. Everyone called it so...

*Drum roll
TLDR: MICA told everyone to fuck off, and things will remain as they are.
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I don't know if the quests are locked to the event for this new area or not, it seems odd because there's no timer on the quests but it plays out like a normal timed event and I learned tonight finding one quest that some are gated behind daily refreshes... ont he last day.... So will I be able to complete them? who knows? Sad that mare jivari map still isn't relevant, you'd think it'd be a new area under the map or in that massive empty ocean space but best we get is a pocket dimension schizo hallucination of it based on bennet's memories as a baby.
The rave thing felt a bit too out of place compared to everything before, but most of the other stuff felt like normal wackier genshin quest stuff. I really like how the new area is just straight up fucking tropical mexico. Natlan already had mexico/mesoamerican influences but the twitter people kept just saying "oh no it's africa guys!" because some african country shit is in there. Wow, a nation of fire that takes inspiration from countries in warmer climates, who would have known?

Shame we likely aren't gonna see more of the guy this theme plays for. It was a neat quest even if the gun controls were slightly clunky.
I can't believe they blue-ballsed us into thinking some abyssal guy decided to become a cactus bandito.

EDIT: apparently there's a boss version of him I missed on the map and in the onslaught I missed the rewards phase for that just plays the normal fight music. They should have just had it be this so you could hear it more!
EDITX2: It's another guy, and tied to a quest which I just did. Also we do go to the actual mare jivari but also not really because it's just a fucking domain hallway for a bossfight you can only fight once but can go back tot he arena of for some reason after killing it. Really wanted to explore the island on the map in our inventory.
 
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I don't know if the quests are locked to the event for this new area or not, it seems odd because there's no timer on the quests but it plays out like a normal timed event and I learned tonight finding one quest that some are gated behind daily refreshes... ont he last day.... So will I be able to complete them?
The event quests are permanent as well as the area, only the free skin, weapon and event rewards are going away.
 
Well fuck., lost the 50/50 for Saber to Welt - again. Shit if he's becoming my Calcharo/Lyacon, then I will no doubt be able to buy Ruan Mei cons at this rate.

Also new Apocalyptic Shadow is piss easy if you have Mydei. Well him and Blade's LC, which he works with pretty well.
 
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