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If any one is bored and needs to pass the time, the links are legit and there's actual PDF copies of famous works translated in English. I'm currently working my way down the list of authors, halfway through the Akutagawa Ryuunosuke tab.
If I was in charge of the Grammy's, I'd 100% want the artists with strong backing to be there, you know, the people that could really make or break a nearly century-long hold on the entertainment industry. Then I remember I'm not a racist institution propped up by generational venture capitalists. Would've liked to see BTS finally get what they've been working towards all these years, and see others potentially pass through the proverbial doorway they opened in the future, but I guess I'm still naive.
When I was at the movie theatre they were advertising a romcom where the premise was that unmarried people are only legally allowed to have sex once a year and that one, that one made me put my head in my hands.
I scrolled mindlessly til this popped up and I actually chuckled. It's 8 in the morning, my friends are still asleep and this is what's getting me while I'm hungover on a Sunday🤦♀️
This one was interesting. When I first downloaded the game and took that warding card quiz w/Hyde, I was given a Frostheim card. Knowing the house's values better now, I was surprised when the game gave me that card. I had a feeling that I wouldn't have many matches here, I didn't expect so little, though.
Not surprised by this at all. The Vagastrom episodes are enjoyable and the characters are fascinating in their own way (need more of Leo's backstory🙏), but if I was a student on campus, I wouldn't give them the time of day. Just not me or my style.
I was close on this one. Definitely surprised that a lot of squares applied to me. Jabberwock is cool and I like both the characters and the animals living there, but I feel I'd go crazy much like Ren after a while.
Knew I wasn't gonna have many on this one. Most likely won't for Vagastrom and Mortkranken as well. I definitely prefer the more chill, laid-back vibes of Hotarubi and Obscuary.
The game doesn't explain its fighting system well enough, and with how low the summoning rates are, it totally feels like it's Pay-to-win. But as a ftp player myself, I'm here to tell you it's possible! It does take a while to pile up, but once it does, it's a total avalanche.
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Topics covered:
Leveling up, team building, resource gathering, nightmare raids
First and foremost, let's work on building a Main. Choose ➡️ONE⬅️ SSR card to be your primary fighter. Having one strong card will do better than two smaller ones! So pick ONE!!
Once you've picked, you can dump everything you have into LEVEL and POTENTIAL.
This one is mine! I've been playing for a couple years, so I had the resources to switch my main, and then to start building a second main with whatever I'd maxed out on the first.
-->click the "skills" button and take note if your card is S or P for later.
If you have your card's matching Warding card, equip it now and upgrade its POTENCY, LEVEL, and SPECIAL ATTRIBUTES. Your warding card gives a huge boost to power, and when it matches, you get an additional Link Bonus that increases with upgrades. AWAKENING the warding card really helps, so I recommend awakening it fully!
If you do Not have the matching warding, it might be better to wait until you can get it first.
Tools:
There are three kinds of tools. Perfume, Brooch, and Accessory. The Accessory is different depending on the card you have. Through Galaxy missions, you can obtain up to A level equipment. Only R+ can be upgraded.
For R+, you need to go to Mr Mo's Mines. I recommend only summoning when there is an event that rewards you for summoning here. Otherwise, you are not guaranteed to earn anything from it.
-->equipment Grade is more important than its Level, but I would still recommend saving for higher quality if possible.
When leveling them up, here's what you should prioritize based on your card.
For P Attackers: Perfume>>Accessory>>Brooch
For S Attackers: Brooch>>Accessory>>Perfume
Gemstones:
There are 10 different kinds of gemstones. If you press the "?" Button and scroll down far enough, it will tell you what they all do, and then you'll figure out that the ones with weird names just help 2 stats and aren't actually that complicated.
In battles, you do not attack very often. So, you want to maximize Attack per hit and Defense for between hits.
For P attackers: Warding-->HP, P ATK, Strength or ATK. Perfume--> S DEF, P DEF, HP. Other--> same as warding
For S attackers: Warding-->HP, S ATK, Intelligence or ATK. Brooch-->S DEF, P DEF, HP. Other--> same as warding
of course, you can switch it up a bit depending on your needs, but this is what I've got.
Gemstones can be bought up to Level 9, and then can be upgraded up to 15 in your equip menu. Do your Warding's gems first.
Pets:
You can get SSR pets from the Nightmare events. These can be upgraded by sacrificing your other pets. Other pets come from Eggs at varying levels, but they should only be used as placeholders until you can get an SSR to upgrade.
➡️TEAM BUILDING⬅️
Once again, mine's gonna look a little different because I have enough for a Secondary.
But oh my gosh, do NOT just use the Optimize button. It is NOT optimal.
Here's the Team menu. If you press and hold on any of these characters, their Skills menu will pop up.
Based off of your cards' skills, you should arrange them in a way that gives your Main an advantage.
In the first few Squads, I recommend using extra damage skills, like Curse and Poison.
Right before your Main, I'd put a couple Sleep or Stun cards.
Right after your Main, but as many Guards as you have.
If your Main's skill has a skill that, for example, does extra damage to Cursed enemies, put a bunch of Curse cards right before it. Mine have Endurance, so I did not put anything special in front of them.
If you have extra cards, you should use a shrunken version of this logic to have extra teams for Guild Battles as that is the only place you can use them.
➡️RESOURCE GATHERING⬅️
Once your teams are ready, head over to Arena. Here is where your primary income of Gems and Pyramids will come from. It rewards you for your rank every 24 hours. Gem prizes can be anything up to ~300 daily.
If you want a better chance at winning, maybe take a quick glance at the other players's team. You don't need to examine it, but checking their Main and will give a better idea of their power than their Total power.
Also, if they have their main at the very top, they probably used the "optimize" button on their teams... your chance of winning is 80%.
Now, go do your daily tasks. You will earn most supplies from Investigations. Doing your dailies will also reward you 150 gems + whatever you get from reaching the Active Bonus.
You also have things like Chests(inventory), Guild Points(guild), Feathers(pheonix exchange), and Silver Coins(arena). You can use these for extra supplies as needed.
➡️NIGHTMARE RAIDS⬅️
The last place to get supplies from is Nightmare. These happen twice per day, and are team events. The most notable resources from Nightmare are Gapples, Pink coins, and Gem shards.
I only login once per day, and it's during this time. You don't have to do both raids, and you don't have to do raids daily. They get frustrating, I know, but they are useful.
Most players do raids within the first couple minutes of Nightmare opening, but there are some strays afterwards. I do recommend friending some people to do raids with if you need to, but doing it with strangers works as well. I'm pretty sure the top raid's power is about the equivalent of 3 ftp players who've been doing their dailies consistently, so you should be fine.
➡️➡️For Nightmare, it will tell you the raid's power. BUT, if you have THREE PLAYERS in your room, you ONLY need a combined power of ~70% of the raid.⬅️⬅️
If you still can't beat them, try again at a lower one. Some resources is better than none.
Also, being defeated once does not mean you can never beat that raid. Similarly to Arena and Galaxy, since the attacks are directed randomly, the result is highly based in chance.
Unsuccessful attempts do not count towards your Key count, so feel free to try again. I especially have to retry a lot when I'm by myself, even if I have more power than the raid I'm doing.
That's about everything! If you have questions, please ask. I'm not very active, but I'll get to it when I see it.
This guide is extremely helpful no matter your player status. Thank you @shewhodoesntexist for breaking this down. I've been wondering why I've been stuck on the the same case and arena level for a while now.
Movie idea based on a dream I had: guy crashes his car with his friends inside after a fun night out on the town to bust out of a game-based time loop.
Inside my dream, I was having a fun night out with some people. We got slushes and vodka from a gas station before jumping in a red convertible and booking it on the highway. Laughing, joking, I stood out of my seat for a second to feel the wind in my hair. The guy driving us was swerving all over the road, nearly hitting cars, trees, whatever. I hear an "oh shit!" from the other guy in the passenger seat before we crash into a semi. Suddenly, instead of being in the car, I'm overlooking the accident, like an overhead shot. I hear the driver's voice say "you might be wondering how I got into this mess. Well... I had to kill my friends to win. You wouldn't fault a guy for having fun before, would ya?" Then I woke up and was like "damn, that's crazy."
This has been stuck in my head all day. It's been almost a full day since, and I'm probably misremembering some things, but I have been consuming a lot more books and tv lately, so my imagination is in overdrive (hehe) right now.
I forgot to mention Midnight City by M83 was the accompanying background sound. It was very cinematic, like I would have to compare it to Euphoria season 1.
Maybe I'll get to write about it more someday.
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