What on earth is this shit?
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I was going to say at least you got exp but i realize that it's the most useless late game material ever. In later mech farms you straight up get dozens of each exp on top of money so you have a bunch to spare and it costs no money to level up at all so you can easily get new pilots and cap them instantly.
Its like the experince economby is completely broken.
Honestly the hsr cast always struck me as pretty mid. I liked Sparkle, Jade and Phainon but even then I wasn't invested in them enough to pull for constellations or to spend money on them. Twitter is doomspiralling about Cyrene but I'm not far enough into Amphoreus to understand why. Waifubait and shitty kit?
The entire amphoreus ark is a reference to honkai 3 elysian realm / flamechasers ark, where Kevin (phainon's inspiration), Elysia (Cyrene inspiration) and others were digital copies in a simulation to test people (raiden) so they can fight honkai.
The thing is that, out of all of them, Cyrene is the most egregious in similarity. Phainon becomes an emanator of destruction with cool design. Cyrene morphs into elysia. A bride dressed tall woman with bow.
Elysia is also memed as "Yuri Jesus" because she is unironically jesus figure (she is a sacrificial savior with 12 followers) and is flirty with a bunch of female characters. Cyrene on the other hand was (afaik as i didnt play it) a smaller gal who mostly interacted with phainon and no one else, and turned into this elysia-like that only supports amphoreus.
Gameplay wise i think she is overhated but also not great. The problem with her is that her ultimate is like the reverse of phainon stacks, she gets when allies acts and includes memosprites, meaning if you don't have 3x-4x rememberances she will charge is SLOW, which is stupid since not all amphoreus are rememberance. They give her extra starter stacks but not enough.
But this community is completely powerlevel brainrotted so a unit that isn't designed for zero cycling is seen as garbage, like they said phainon was. Cyrene's ult buff is permanent so she is meant to snowball and buff your full team eventually.
The other problem is that cyrene ONLY buffs the heirs but even within them she is not that strong compared to tribbie, Cipher or even cerydra, which she HAS to be because otherwise she would replace them but she couldnt replace them anyway as must be good with them.
This basically creates a retarded nightmare balance scenario where you have to make a buffer who buffs a dps less than other buffers but also buffs those buffers yet not enough to make them better than the dps. How does she do that? By giving each one different buffs, which ends up being overly complicated and contrived.
Mydei for example gets crowd control cleanse from her burst, which is weird since mydei already gets crowd control immunity from his own burst. She also gave him 60% crit dmg and was buffed to 200% which is nice and all but doesn't really improve his kit in a meaningful way, so it feels lazy.
