2020-07-02, 11:15 | Link #84 |
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Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Athens (GMT+2)
Age: 35
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Reroll button was nice and all, but I barely got a job +1 SR weapon after three hours of rerolling. Some people took more than a day, missing today's colosseum just to roll 2 jobs + SR weapons.
Anyway, the game is pretty, with nice art, music and good voice acting, it's grindy but not TOO grindy; the newbie energy rush lasts until rank 30-ish. Still, it's an expensive game! €30 for a x11 roll is just too much, although maybe that's just how gacha games roll these days, I don't know. Stage difficulty is variable, the first event is easy enough at first but scales hard on the last two verses. Story mode seeeeems okay, with only ch.5 and Alice 4-10 being super hard. I rolled a cleric job, got ~20k power and got rekt, so I'm not too sure what to make of it. Gameplay: the targeting system is rigid. Everyone must finish acting before you can select a target, and that's really, really annoying. The class system + weapon grid is easy enough to get into, but weapons are not readily available, and you can't use dupes either, so now I know why people want to spend so much $$$ to quickly make a good deck. A guildie actually spent $400 to hit 40k on day 1, highest player I've heard of atm sits at 70k or so. IMO it's stupid because everyone knows about the incoming power creep, but whatever. The game crashes a bit on stage rewards, lags somewhat too. Other than that, it's been fun so far. |
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今宵の虎徹は血に飢えている
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2020-07-03, 12:59 | Link #87 | |
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2020-07-03, 13:39 | Link #88 | |
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For example, if you want to focus on being a physical DPS (Breaker/swords or Crusher/hammers), then you want to focus on PATK and paid jobs like Red Riding Hood/Cleric won't have many useful mastery bonuses for that. Also if you're just playing casually for the story and only touching PvE modes, then min/maxing job mastery bonuses won't be a big deal anyway. |
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2020-07-03, 21:15 | Link #89 | |
今宵の虎徹は血に飢えている
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The 1% rate kind of balances it out though. Although it also doesn't pressure you to whale this much since only few units are truly OP there. This one here is arms race vs either other players or the game content
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2020-07-04, 04:12 | Link #90 |
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Join Date: Jan 2016
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2 Days in this game... I'm not sure if I like this or not. Expected deeper story like a VN, somehow disappointed since story is short, very short and not very interested on it so far... and didn't bother to re-roll.
Combat is... eh... not sure, not liking it or hating it... Maybe I play it for a month or 2, see how it goes after a couple of events. Planning to play very casually even no login some day. Plus Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon 2 coming next week so not very short of games to play. BTW ID:305409306 IGN: NrTmt (for Nier Automata) |
2020-07-04, 11:05 | Link #92 |
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Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Athens (GMT+2)
Age: 35
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So, time for an update. My guild is supposed to be semi-competitive, but we actually placed 7th yesterday on the colosseum rankings. Today, an announcement came out for a total power requirement of 35k, with Sunday's fight as a deadline. As a cleric, my main concern is hoarding staves, not many of which are currently in the game (I think there are 7 or so?), which meant I had to fill my grid with orbs, tomes and instruments, just to get that power requirement. I also ended up using all my skip tickets, a 2x drop vial, two x11 draws and a few purification tickets just to get ~15k power in half an hour. All of that, just to level up some gear which I won't be using in the future, it feels like SUCH a waste!
Anyway, the game's fun to play, but making elemental grids is near impossible atm. This is definitely the kind of game where you kick back until a banner that you like pops up and then just unload all your quartz on it, but people are really desperate to rush through the whole thing. I hope I can relax while playing in the future...if anyone asks of me to even reach 40k as a cleric, I might as well switch guilds. |
2020-07-05, 00:32 | Link #94 |
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Join Date: Mar 2010
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Yeah, the gameplay does not interest me at all. Weapon abilities are straightforward and don't seem to provide anything interesting.
I will still continue casually for the story until I hit a wall, then probably stop playing after a while. |
2020-07-05, 00:44 | Link #95 | ||
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If they ask you to toss in some instruments, for now that's probably fine. Probably not so much tomes, though. I know late game Sorcerers and Minstrels sometimes would dip into the other's stuff if they didn't have the best of the best stuff for every slot (Sorcmin and Minsorc being their unoriginal names). Though even then they only ever dipped 5 of their 20 slots, and it meant they couldn't use a Half Nightmare. Quote:
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2020-07-05, 01:11 | Link #96 | |
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Ah yes, that Alice 1-4-10, I was stuck there until Friday. I'm only now finishing everyone's book 1, but from what I've heard the difficulty curve is very steep.
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2020-07-05, 01:50 | Link #97 | |
今宵の虎徹は血に飢えている
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For everyone wishing to play mainly for story, besides the main one, the key event is the DoD event where Accord appears
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I wonder when we'll start seeing those OP Sorc focused guilds in English-server. The ones where they just debuff you to uselessness and their sole frontline class player takes his time to pick your team off. Probably when Gretel's Half-Nightmare becomes available I guess
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2020-07-05, 02:58 | Link #98 |
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Join Date: Sep 2008
Age: 38
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I'm so frustrated trying to get Alice Paladin. Can't get past Alice 2-3-10 nor Pinocchio 2-2-10, so can't even get into the 4th chapter to try for her.
Guess I'll just... stop trying and put the game on ultra super casual barely log on mode until the Neir event. |
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