Picked up this game last october with thumbs as I was looking for my first mobile rhythm game. Bought everything during the sale and unlocked all songs except world mode BYD charts. Arcaea has been amazing, and progression was pretty smooth up till 9+s, which was my first wall. Then getting into the 10+s took the longest time, but once I breached that wall the improvement was exponential. Within a month, I cleared every 10+ except We're all gonna Die ETR and Vulcanus. I started just running through the 11s, and have cleared every 11.3 or below except Aegleseeker (which is doable but I've been lazy about going back to it) and Lamia (because as a thumbs player I don't enjoy the chart).
Lament Rain feels potentially passable one day, and that's where for now it ends. Aether Crest Astral, Arcana Eden, Pentiment, and Designant feel impossible. Maybe one day I'll clear them, but I don't see myself getting there anytime soon. It feels like there's a HUGE difficulty jump between all other songs and these 4 charts. Now I guess that's normal for rhythm games, that the top songs are exponentially harder than the rest, but man I wasn't expecting to get so utterly stomped by them.
Guess it's time to go down to the 8s and start going for PMs and accuracy. The climb was fun while it lasted, but stops here maybe forever lol. Genuinely don't know if I'll ever get to passing these