#light bender

[trashiejunkyard]

Luiseach, the High Preist of Aldorei. I finally able to make light bender archetype charcter

As I mention, they are high priest of Aldorei in Wartorn universe and pretty much responsible for Aldorei society being this religious extremist and reason to why Lari fucked up the way she is.

[tainbocuailnge]

Downloaded ark knights and gonna start today - read a few guides but there's so much info. Any advice before I start?

arknights as a game is pretty forgiving of just fucking around and finding out. you can read guides and lots of people have typed lots of words about the best way to squeeze out the most digital resources but don't feel like you have to memorize all that or you fuck up your account forever, it's really not that serious. do prioritise building your base though, because it passively generates resources that make things easier long term.

if everyone is saying a unit is good then the unit is good but if everyone is saying a unit is bad don't fucking listen to them, first of all because a lot of units that got called bad turned out to be god tier if you just use them as intended, and second because every unit in this game is perfectly functional and your strategy matters far more than how strong your units are. arknights is a well designed strategy game first and gacha game second.

level your 3* units, they're cheap and completely serviceable, and their functionality is designed to teach you basic gameplay principles that higher rarity units will branch out from. they also have good base skills to help get you started.

if you just want to read visual novel arknights then feel free to follow video guides for every stage, but if you want to also play strategy game arknights then try to understand why the video uses certain units in certain ways. again, an understanding of the game mechanics will take you much further than rolling the latest powerful unit.

the monthly card is a good deal if you're not averse to spending on gacha games in general.

here's the best gameplay information resource

here's the best resource for non-gameplay information like upcoming events and external media like manhua

here's my preferred online story archive

here's the droprates database

the arknights gamepress is dead and I personally avoid the arknights wiki where I can because the lead editor is a petulant despot, I only check it if I need a list of operators that have a certain debuff or something.

[iesnoth]

A commission of a light bender for someone on DA. I’d never heard of light bending before, but it’s a really cool concept!

If you’d like a commission, here’s the prices!

[tainbocuailnge]

Tis me again, here's to bother you with arknights questions.

I've been enjoying the game! But I am so confused - almost every guide seems out of date if not just wrong. I dont love tier lists but I do like to know which characters are good to invest in. Almost every 2025 guide mentions that you get a 5 star selector roll, did I miss that or something? I got the initial 6 star banner but other than that it's just the regular banners that have characters most of the guides recommended against rolling for so now I'm just sitting on some headhunter passes since I got Marcille 😅

Im tempted to try and ask people on the discord but I know with gacha games the discord can be kinda toxic.

the 5* selector is a ticket, not a banner. there are multiple 5* pick tickets that beginner players get, which should be in your depot. they have no expiration date so you can't have missed them.

I advise against reading guides on who to roll for. you can ask fellow players directly what they think but people who regularly write operator assessments or tier lists are playing a different game that is exponentially more hostile to the player. every unit in arknights is viable, that's not me huffing copium, that's a fact extensively documented by countless players posting videos where they clear stages with every imaginable configuration of units. some are objectively stronger than others but none are a waste of resources. as I told you before, your strategy matters far more than where your units are on the tier lists.

if you're not sure whether you're interested in a unit just from looking at their abilities on paper, look up videos from nicheknights players that use this unit and use those to determine whether the unit looks interesting or fun to you. not "operator review" or "operator showcase", specifically nicheknights, because those are the people actually regularly using these units and invested in showing off what they can do.

without knowing more about your roster I can't give more specific advice on who to invest in to round out your options. I don't necessarily disagree with the advice to skip standard banners for a while, because we're about to enter a series of back-to-back powerful operator releases, but since you're still very new I recommend grabbing your guaranteed 5* from every banner regardless of whether people say said banner is worth pulling on just to expand your roster.

[tainbocuailnge]

Heyo,

See you post a lot about ARK knights and I've always wanted to get into it but I've been playing FGO since launch and I feel like if you tried to start fgo now you'd be so insanely behind with so many units locked away etc - is Ark knights going to be like this?

I appreciate being able to ask you here cause I don't get into gacha games lightly after what fgo did to me haha.

nah arknights is really good about past content availability, fgo is the freak outlier there honestly I can't imagine getting into fgo past year 1. the only units and stories you won't be able to access are those from the collab events unless they secure the rights for a rerun, everything else is made permanently available save for event maps from what's called vignette events (which I think is a shame because there's some interesting maps in there, but the associated story cutscenes are available for those who missed the event itself)

there's a fairly small selection of limited units too especially if fgo is your point of comparison and they return at predictable intervals with imo pretty robust safety nets. one such limited banner is running right now and comes with a bunch of free rolls so if you've been eyeing the game now is a particularly good time to start because you'll get a bunch of free shit to get you going

[tainbocuailnge]

Finished all the Arknights story in like a month and idk why I thought main story went past chapter 14 but now I am kinda sad tbh. Great game though!

chapter 15 is coming to global in a little under half a year 👍

[tainbocuailnge]

Ok so loving Arknights! Maybe too much cause chapter 8 to 9 got pretty confusing and the I started 10 and realized I am absolutely supposed to be doing side stories in a certain order. Any recommendations? I've tried looking online and on reddit but a lot of the answers are confusing

arknights separates side stories it considers to have main story relevance into the intermezzi, so that's a good place to start. some side stories are sequels to each other, so just playing them from the top down is the safest bet.

for chapters 1-8, I recommend reading darknights memoir and a walk in the dust. the first goes into W hoederer and ines' history, and the second into some of kal'tsit's history.

for chapter 9, you should read what the firelight casts. I don't know why it's not in the intermezzi.

chapters 9-13 are kind of ass pacing-wise so if you're confused that's normal honestly. my hater stance is that you can skip 11 and 12 entirely and be just as confused as if you did read them.

chapter 14 and babel are a set which can be read in either order. ending a grand overture is the epilogue to the chapter 9-14 arc.

some personal favourite side stories are twilight of wolumonde and lingering echoes.

[dizrez]

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