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  • Shakey1245Shakey1245 Registered User regular
    edited April 19
    "Now..."

    - Richard III, William Shakespeare

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  • JazzJazz Registered User regular
    edited April 19
    Shakey1245 wrote: »
    "Now..."

    - Richard III, William Shakespeare

    "That's all I can remember. That brilliant 'Now...' speech, 'Now... something something', unforgettable."

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  • KrathoonKrathoon Registered User regular
    edited April 19
    Yeah. I will watch Marooned and Polymorph next. Maybe, I will watch Backwards.

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  • ShadowfireShadowfire Vermont, in the middle of nowhereRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    4.0 trailer
    https://youtu.be/1hJ5J5QiyIY

    Codes:
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    Banners
    First Half: Lyney (5* pyro bow), Lynette(4* anemo sword), Yelan
    Second half: Freminet (4* cryo claymore), Zhongli, Tartaglia

    Everyone at AR25 will get Lynette for free as well.

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  • AshtonDragonAshtonDragon AKA The Nix Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    It feels wrong to roll for an old character at the start of a new region, but Yelan would be a great pickup for me, and I'm worried that Lyney might have too much overlap with what I'm doing with Dehya. Given, uhh, Lyney is probably considerably better than Dehya. Certainly, in fact. But I am committed.

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  • ShadowfireShadowfire Vermont, in the middle of nowhereRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    I'll be rolling for Childe, finally get his C6. I've been saving a bit!

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  • Mc zanyMc zany Registered User regular
    edited April 19
    Backwards is about a bunch of guys who show up, get into a fight and then clear up a space ship wreckage before flying into space.

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  • KrathoonKrathoon Registered User regular
    edited April 19
    I have seen Backwards way too many times. I may skip it.

    I am tempted to watch the first two seasons even though the novels cover most of it.

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  • Zilla360Zilla360 21st Century. |She/Her| Trans* Woman In Aviators Firing A Bazooka. ⚛️Registered User regular
    edited April 19
    Backwards is a brilliant example of Penrose's theorems. One of my former professors actually used it in a lecture once.

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  • akTheraakThera akjak Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Why we even need another pyro, or even pyro bow?

    All those banners are easy skips for me… I can be strong to continue my quest for All Archons.

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  • JedocJedoc In the scuppers with the staggers and jagsRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
  • HobnailHobnail Registered User regular
    edited April 14
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  • DepressperadoDepressperado I just wanted to see you laughing in the pizza rainRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    man we should drop kittens with little baby parachutes, omg and goggles, instead of bombs.

    can you fight an army that is like "LIGHT'S ON, SNUGGLE PILE GOLD, GO GO GO" tossing baby cats out the back of a plane

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  • NaphtaliNaphtali Hazy + Flow SeaRegistered User regular
    edited April 19
    I can't believe I'll have to wait a few months for the sequel

    ha

    ha

    ha

    ha

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  • KrathoonKrathoon Registered User regular
    edited April 19
    Marooned is done. I may switch to watching Twisted Metal and IT Crowd.
    The menus on the IT Crowd dvds are brilliant. Video game themed.

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  • SpoitSpoit *twitch twitch* Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Hmm, maybe I should pull for kokomi then. Not sure if she's redundant with yelan, but it sounds more useful than the rest of the lineup

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  • PolaritiePolaritie Sleepy Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Spoit wrote: »
    Hmm, maybe I should pull for kokomi then. Not sure if she's redundant with yelan, but it sounds more useful than the rest of the lineup

    They do different things. Yelan is single target hydro+DPS, Kokomi is aoe hydro and tons of healing. Both are really good, but they support different teams.

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  • SpoitSpoit *twitch twitch* Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Polaritie wrote: »
    Spoit wrote: »
    Hmm, maybe I should pull for kokomi then. Not sure if she's redundant with yelan, but it sounds more useful than the rest of the lineup

    They do different things. Yelan is single target hydro+DPS, Kokomi is aoe hydro and tons of healing. Both are really good, but they support different teams.

    Which one for nahida? I'm still trying to figure out the 4th besides yelan and zhongli. Have it on Tighnari for now out of inertia, since I've been lazy about leveling up alhaitham

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  • PolaritiePolaritie Sleepy Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Spoit wrote: »
    Polaritie wrote: »
    Spoit wrote: »
    Hmm, maybe I should pull for kokomi then. Not sure if she's redundant with yelan, but it sounds more useful than the rest of the lineup

    They do different things. Yelan is single target hydro+DPS, Kokomi is aoe hydro and tons of healing. Both are really good, but they support different teams.

    Which one for nahida? I'm still trying to figure out the 4th besides yelan and zhongli. Have it on Tighnari for now out of inertia, since I've been lazy about leveling up alhaitham

    I'd probably choose based on whether it was one enemy or many tbh.

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  • shoeboxjeddyshoeboxjeddy Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    PSA, The "Fragmented Formations" medal lists WB-EX-3 as the default condition and WB-EX-4 as the trim condition. All of the conditions are for 4, I don't know why they let this sit instead of fixing it.

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  • Darth_MogsDarth_Mogs Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Kokomi is essentially a "Comfort" Character. There's no real situation where she's the Best in Slot for a particular team but there are several instances where she is a very easy no-brainer slot because it makes things move easier. For instance, she is very good in bloom teams because of her jellyfish (both for healing in the case of Nilou or Burgeon but also broad application) and ability to apply faster, directed hydro with her normal attacks but she can be fairly easily replaced. This is especially so because we have healing options for Hyperbloom, Burgeon and Nilou bloom in Kuki, Bennett and Barbara respectively. They all perform well enough in those teams that you do not need her involved for her healing but can still easily slot her in for her hydro application because of how broad it is. It's not exactly 'optimal' but Bloom teams have such a high floor, damage-wise and usability-wise that you have a lot more flexibility with them. I will note, however, that this is dependent on who your trigger is meant to be. If you're playing, say, Cyno, who has very quick Electro application in his Burst, Kokomi would be a bad pick for him because you want something that can quickly refresh dendro cores but that's just team-dependent.

    The other area where she has a really good niche is Freeze Teams, whenever those end up being viable. If I'm not mistaken, the premier Freeze team is Ayaka, Shenhe, Kokomi, Kazuha simply because Kokomi has, again, that broad Hydro application that you want and can be swirled by Kazuha to keep enemies perma-frozen while Ayaka's Burst and Shenhe's skill/burst are up. But again, you can replace Kokomi with Mona because Mona has AoE hydro application with pulses (even if they're far less than Kokomi) and offers a good damage boost with her ult. If you /need/ healing, you can even run Mona with a Prototype Amber but generally you run a Freeze team because you're not planning on taking much damage.

    Overall, I really like Kokomi. I pulled her on a whim during her last banner and have been using her a lot since. She lives in my Nilou team (Nilou, Nahida, Kokomi, Kirara/Collei depending), Freeze (Ayaka, Shenhe, Kokomi, Kazuha) and Aggra-bloom (Yae, Kuki, Kokomi, Nahida) teams pretty permanently and while I could switch her out depending on what I wanted to take those teams against, I just enjoy keeping her in those spots because it's easy and generally gets the job done.

    All that being said, Yelan is a very powerful character. On the whole, she sits somewhere between "Comfort" Character and "Must-Pull" Character (with the caveat that Must-Pull is not something you should take as Gospel because a character should only be a Must-Pull for you if you really like them) because she's a Situationally Better Xingqiu and when she's not 'better', she's at least complementary, competitive and/or synergistic. For example, take Hu Tao, who is a very powerful Pyro character that scales off Attack and HP and wants quick Hydro Application and damage amplification. You used to just stick her with Xingqiu because he gave her hydro and stagger resistance and when Yelan came out, the community at large was arguing about who was 'better' to run with her: Xingqiu or Yelan. The answer turned out to be "Both". Because Yelan and Xingqiu together give you a lot more Hydro, but also Hydro resonance, which increases the entire team's HP. Which both Hu Tao and Yelan scale off of. Then if you add a fourth Pyro (Bennett if you want to over-heal and trade some extra Atk% for Hu Tao's A4, Yanfei C4 or Thoma as Shield options, or Xiangling because you really want to add as much damage as possible at the cost of potentially stealing some of Hu Tao's vapes) then you get the Pyro resonance for extra Attack as well. To a lesser extent, this holds true for Yoimiya as well, if only because running XQ /and/ Yelan means she's going to get more vapes, as opposed to just hitting her 'big' attacks. She doesn't benefit from the HP bonus (aside from that boosting Yelan's damage) but it's not negligible, considering double-hydro gives you more leeway in dodging and whatnot which is good for Yoimiya.

    But honestly, Yelan's major strength comes from being a Xingqiu alternative. In any situation you can use Xingqiu, you can generally use Yelan so long as you understand 1) her Hydro application at C0 is slower than Xingqiu (especially higher Constellation XQ) and 2) she offers no interruption resistance or healing. This is offset by her generally dealing far more damage with her skill and Burst, as well as her A4 which gives you more damage for staying on-field with a single character. So in general, you're going to want to hit her burst last before you switch to your DPS/Driver to maximize what she's dealing. Yelan Rational (Raiden, Yelan, Xiangling, Bennett) is a team you see a lot in Abyss usage charts because of the damage output, not to mention she (and XQ) can also be used in Bloom teams with her arguably winning out because of her skill, though it's mostly a matter of preference there. Energy generation can be a concern, but if you run her with a Favonius Warbow, you can generally make up for the energy you're missing out from XQ and the Sacrificial Sword that's usually glued into his hands.

    I'm not telling anyone to pull for one over the other. I have both and I use them both quite a bit. They're both really good for bloom teams and then have other areas where they do well and they're solid picks for different reasons. But they're also both characters that have easier-to-access alternatives for a trade-off, so it honestly just depends on what you want.

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  • useruser Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    I've been playing this since the latter 3.7 Kazuha banners..

    I'm now AR48, but I am really struggling to get relevant 4★ or 5★ artifacts. Especially when I am trying to bring a whole second team online...

    Maybe this is just the real grind of the game finally hitting. But it's kinda sucky just spinning my wheels on like 5 characters I leveled up, their weapons too, and I keep getting Artifacts that aren't congruent to any of them even though ostensibly I am farming the right sets for them.

    Thankfully the story quests and overworld exploration are easy enough, that I can just keep trudging on my original team having fun, with their totally piecemeal cobbled together horrible but leveled artifacts I guess.

    It's seeming like it will be quite a while before I can actually online a second team and try the Spiral Abyss... despite my best efforts.

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  • WotanAnubisWotanAnubis Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    This isn't quite on the level of Xenoblade Chronicles X's Melancholia for strangest place to play a song like this, but it's up there.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSVRtM1x9wQ

    Enjoy the character creation screen.

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  • IanatorIanator A predator cannot differentiate between prey and accompliceRegistered User regular
    edited April 16
    Oh boy, it's Suletta Saturday!

    ...Oh no.

    ...Oh nooo

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  • UrielUriel Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Do they refurbish furbies

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  • LanzLanz ...Za?Registered User regular
    edited April 16
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    Demi Garrison coming to PBandai

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  • SpoitSpoit *twitch twitch* Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    -Loki- wrote: »
    My approach to artefacts is just try for the set you want. The set bonus is always good.

    Once you have a full set on a character, start grinding for specific stats if you want them. The game isn’t hard enough that this step is particularly necessary, but it’s at least another goal.

    Did they get rid of all of the character bonuses in Expeditions that give you extra materials? I had several characters with that and now I only see the 25% faster bonus.

    No, it's still there:
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  • DiarmuidDiarmuid Amazing Meatball Registered User regular
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  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Do they refurbish furbies

    Damaged and discarded Furbys should be placed in the burnables lest the malevolent spirit bound within break the seal

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  • HoukHouk Nipples The EchidnaRegistered User regular
    edited April 19
    today I learned that Greenland isn't a country but a "North American autonomous territory in the kingdom of Denmark"

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