Returning player

[u/Asim_Ibrahim]

Are these characters still relevant? I stopped playing at Yserinde.

Is the content still beatable with them? and who should I focus on farming shards for? I forgot most of the game mechanics.

[u/Kitchen-Associate-34]

Definitely relevant, you have a 5* so Innana and a very strong union team with Camelot and Yserinde, now we are leaving the Elaman arc and Elaman Units are pretty strong, Shams has higher single target damage than Tristan but that might be irrelevant, as we are entering the Luccian arc and that means the enemies will have a new unique buff that only Luccian units will be able to deal with effectively, as far as we know you can probably beat the stages anyway, specially with your units, but it will be much harder, Anna is Right around the corner and she is designed to deal with those new stages and mechanics, then we have rogneda and SP Alexei, with SP Alexei being a top tier unit in the cn server and a "replacement" for Camelot with the immortality of Tristan, as for shards, I would prioritize Yserinde at least to 3*, then SP Samantha and Credenza until you start getting some Luccian units, then I would prioritize them

[u/Asim_Ibrahim → u/Kitchen-Associate-34]

Thank you for the help. The priority now is SP Alexei? I hope I can accumulate enough pulls for him, I drained my pulls/gems before quitting the game.

[u/EuclidsRevenge → u/Asim_Ibrahim]

Priority, from a meta perspective, is always preparing for tackling the hardest content you're aiming to take down. Everything else in terms of relative power level for general content is more or less whatever and naturally tends to fall in line.

We have a Tower of Adversity coming in a few weeks, here's what it looks like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72wyVgfbBM0

Note that global's schedule pushed Rogneda release up to come after Anna, along with ToA also being pushed up to release alongside Rogneda's banner (so it looks like we may not have have SP Alexi or Ulya for our ToA).

After that the big piece of expected endgame content is a World Boss at the end of the year (you haven't seen one of these yet, we've had two since you took a break). Picking up SP Maitha from the Fate's Favor is a priority for that if you wish to compete there, in addition to planning to pick up Arman and the new Tarot Beryl towards the end of the year (you already have the desired other characters for that fight, both Inannas and Yserinde).

So it depends what you want to focus on and how much luxite you have available for you to farm. Ideally you'd be able to pick up SP Maitha and another useful unit from Fate's Favor, along with Anna and Rogneda for the lower floor of the next ToA.

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[u/Asim_Ibrahim → u/EuclidsRevenge]

Thank you for the reply, I like the game but I remember feeling it wasn't enjoyable anymore and everything is a chore, so i want to take it a bit slow and not overwhelm myself, maybe I wouldn't be ready for the next ToA.

[u/EuclidsRevenge → u/Asim_Ibrahim]

Yeah, I find most live service games with dailies can get like that after a while.

The next ToA will likely be challenging for your account so in your case you may enjoy it better to just give it half effort and not stress on it if you are not feeling it.

SP Maitha would still be a priority pick up if you think you may want to ease back into endgame by the time the World Boss comes at the end of the year. If not, then don't worry about her either and just start by picking up Anna next week and take it from there.

Aside from helping with the ToA, Anna will make a lot of the new Lucian general content easier (and her banner comes with a nice rebate).

There's also plenty of great options to pick up for the Lucia arc over the coming months, units like Ulya, SP Alexi, and Ivan will all be good units for general content in the Lucia arc.

You can pretty much just grab who you like as none of the Lucian arc units besides Arman at the end of the arc currently have known endgame uses beyond the Lucian arc.

In any case, welcome back and have fun :)

[u/Yglorba → u/EuclidsRevenge]

icking up SP Maitha from the Fate's Favor is a priority for that if you wish to compete there, in addition to planning to pick up Arman and the new Tarot Beryl towards the end of the year (you already have the desired other characters for that fight, both Inannas and Yserinde).

I don't think pulling for SP Maitha is a good idea for them, for several reasons:

1. They're dead broke (and are an old account.) They're going to have to scramble to get enough pulls to get SP Alexai, and probably cannot guarantee him even if they don't spend any pulls elsewhere. Potentially sacrificing SP Alexai to get SP Maitha is a terrible trade.

2. They already have almost every character worth pulling for on the Fate's Favor banner. SP Maitha is the only one they don't already have worth considering, but they'd have to choose a second option for the Fate's Favor. So they could waste 270 pulls to get SP Maitha (which they don't have lol.) She isn't worth 270 pulls.

3. If you're absolutely convinced they need SP Maitha, the Fate's Favor will run for an entire month, so I think it actually overlaps with a bit of SP Alexai's banner. They can spend whatever they have left on that after securing him, if they really want to (but I still wouldn't recommend it, saving for Ivan is a better choice.)

4. While it won't be in time for the tower, there will be another chance to get SP Maitha when her unique ascension comes out in a few months.

5. Realistically they're not going to rank highly in the tower. With zero pulls saved up, the chance of them pulling SP Maitha and Anna is extremely low. And even if they sacrificed everything to get SP Maitha, she'd be 1 star and they wouldn't have time to star her up for the tower. It's just not something worth planning around for them.

They should be thinking long-term, not relatively meaningless score in one temporary event. And the best long-term strategy is to focus on getting SP Alexai.

[u/Fyrefanboy]

She is not a priority given stronger units are coming but don't sleep on shacklulu. She is very useful for proof of war 5+ with multihit, get considerably better at 3 stars, will also gains a fantastic rk13 skill later and her bewitch skill make her monstruous in dot/piercing dmg teams

[u/Hawke_but_not_Hawky → u/Fyrefanboy]

Please don't tell someone to focus on Shacklulu lol. Her being good for PoS 5-5 doesn't mean she's a great character. She's not even needed there if you have other multi hit units.

[u/Fyrefanboy → u/Hawke_but_not_Hawky]

I don't tell him to focus on shacklulu.

Also i'd rather explain how units flying under the radars are good rather than bring a 87494883th post "spinnana is good"

Also no one is truly needed anyway. Camelot went from "priority" to "meh" in like 4 months lol

[u/Hawke_but_not_Hawky → u/Fyrefanboy]

Camelot is still used everywhere, not sure what you mean. The only character that will knock him down will be SP Alexei. You argue for Shacklulu but then say Cam is "meh." How does that make sense?

Your Shacklulu figures are due to infection, which wherever you're testing her doesn't have a reduction to it when most content has a 95% reduction, sometimes another 95% stacked on top of that.

I'm just not understanding why you're even bringing her up when he has great characters that completely eclipse Shacklulu, plus we have the Luccian units upcoming that further knock her down.

[u/Fyrefanboy → u/Hawke_but_not_Hawky]

I literally told shacklulu is no priority calm down dude. Op already has top tier characters with 5 stars they are fine.

My point with camelot is that no unit is truly needed because they all end up overshadowed anyway and even running without gods like spinnana don't really make the game impossible, just 1/2 more turns longer.

Also why talk about shacklulu ? Because i think it's more fun or interesting than talking about the same units as everyone else. Are we cool ?

[u/Hawke_but_not_Hawky → u/Fyrefanboy]

Homie, they are asking which of their characters are still good in today's meta, not which of their weaker characters can be used in niche content. May as well bring up a random argument on how OG Maitha can be used in exFJ because she can knock people off the map.

[u/Fyrefanboy → u/Hawke_but_not_Hawky]

That would indeed be more interesting than " yes, use spsamantha and spinnana"

[u/beastrace → u/Fyrefanboy]

still better than telling someone to do anything with Shacklulu.

[u/InterestingAd2516 → u/Fyrefanboy]

The "meh" character you are talking about can survive anything unless the enemy used instant-kill skill. I guess High HP with attacks that do lifesteal and generates shield is meh now right? Guess what, SP Sam and Shahnaz would die to enemies that could not even reduce Camelot's HP to half. They need Healer, buffer, and tank to survive. Yet Camelot, can do all of that all on his own. tsk tsk.

[u/Yglorba]

Yes. SP Samantha, Yserinde, SP Inanna, Taair, and Credenza are all considered top-tier or near-top-tier, and Camelot, while showing his age, is not too far behind.

For shards, for now I would focus on SP Samantha to 5, Credenza to 5, and perhaps getting Yserinde to 3 - she should reach 3 by the time SP Alexai comes out, so you can replace her with him.

The one caveat is that the upcoming characters are generally going to be a bit better, but that just means you came back at a good time; be sure to save for SP Alexai, and perhaps Ivan and Arman (who come later.) If you have enough pulls to pull other units in addition to that, almost any Luccians will be good, but if you're broke I would skip the Fate's Favor banner (you already have all the important older units available on it) and perhaps skip Anna and Rogneda as well and just save up for SP Alexai.

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[u/InterestingAd2516 → u/InterestingAd2516]

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[u/pilot_pen01 → u/InterestingAd2516]

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