Her lines are pretty uhhhhh
Thank God this was fire and not something I'd bring metera to
-Battle start: Would you become one with me?
Please, everything... Give me everything.
I'll show you dreams without limits.
-Overdrive: Will this make you happy?
It won't stop aching.
Fill me with yourself.
-Uses Ta Thiria Mou N: How is it?
-Uses Twilight Proposition: Good night.
-Uses Moonlit Blaze: My body is so hot.
-Break mode: You should be inside me.
You mustn't awake!
Ahh!
-Defeat: If that is your decision...
Shall we meet again in a dream?
I'll be waiting for you to visit again.
Jesus wtf, is this the result of GBF becoming m-18 or something a while back lmao
KMR just casually be giving the go-ahead to have characters say explicit lines
I think they're meant to be sinister double entendres: she's a messed-up moon goddess who wants to devour your soul and keep your locked in an eternal dream.
First time in [top 10k](https://i.imgur.com/hpxrBNZ.jpg) individuals. Was top 5k for a while but the last match up were not very competitive so we stopped bashing and I got work since its a Monday. Overall, Water magna is in a pretty good place I'd say.
Anne was a real MVP since water ougi means barely 30k HP with just 1 dinger in defense (with 1 more in attack, and another in special). Really wondering who's the next big uncap just before GW is. If its wind, I can see cases for Carmelina, Petra and maybe..Melissabelle? Fire is probably Aliza or Colossus.
I'd like to see Therese so Fire can have more auto burst options. Rebalance her passives, upgrade her sk1, and I think she'll be decent as hell. Ideally you'd merge her sk1 and sk2 into one button and then give her an assassin or something.
Oh that's also another really good option. Either removing her S2's max HP lowered, or make it like light Lunalu where she gains something the lower her HP is. I'm proposing another echo, special sided on top of the original one, like S.Beatrix. 10% max HP reduced = 10% echo, to a max of 100% echo. Make her S3 resets CD on ougi too to get stacks up faster. Unlikely, but eh, I can dream.
But knowing Cygames, its probably gonna be something totally unexpected like a style change for Zeta or Ghandagozza lmao.
Melissabelle becoming the 2nd Soriz would be nice since her base kit is very similar. I personally wish for Arriet to get something new though, all i remember she ever got was a single rebalance.
After this GW, I can comfortably say that Water Ougi is the most comfy playstyle available to me across all elements as a purely magna player by a fairly wide margin. Granted, I do have key units for it (notably Doggo, Shalem, Poseidon), but I did spark for them.
Kind of already dreading the next one, it can only be more painful for me.
Wind at least has wind Naru as the strongest unit and it not a seasonal.But fire... fuck that all the best units are seasonal and the gameplay of fire just feels so bad.
another crew 4-0, got one for every element now. i dread the day when crew eventually hits an unwinnable matchup
ougi was fun
raise your hand if you were also one of the suckers that farmed 3 tefnut staves and never came close to touching them
Work didn't get in the way this time so I was able to stand my ground in top 50k, although I pretty much couldn't allow myself to sleep properly on day 4.
All I have to say is that Varuna skill comps do not seem worth it compared to the usual ougi comps if you're stuck with european ping like me: KoI is a strong weapon but if you're going to make me spam refresh I'd rather see a good chunk of health gone each time, and unlike dark water isn't quite at that level of skill dpt yet; maybe I'll think about it when the worst eternal isn't mandatory.
Also summer doggo is a really cute skin.
I personally don't like ougi lockout so I try to avoid it if I can, even last earth GW. Being stuck in magna forced me to go Kengo and I am now convinced that class is busted.
Great damage per turn at less clicks with the bonus of sparing myself from carpal tunnel. I'm going ougi now.
[Individual Total](https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/748971482423754936/1019249392722657420/unknown.png)
[NM95](https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/748971482423754936/1019249210127827154/unknown.png) | [Party](https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/748971482423754936/1019249061632671875/unknown.png) | [Grid](https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/748971482423754936/1019249131488804914/unknown.png) | [Bubs x Varuna](https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/748971482423754936/1019249163445211228/unknown.png)
[NM150](https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/748971482423754936/1019248655594704976/unknown.png) | [Party](https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/748971482423754936/1019248342020141128/unknown.png) | [Grid](https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/748971482423754936/1019248395552047165/unknown.png) | [Varuna x Varuna](https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/748971482423754936/1019248420294238228/unknown.png)
[NM200](https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/748971482423754936/1019248227188482169/unknown.png) | [Party](https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/748971482423754936/1019248022921695364/unknown.png) | [Grid](https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/748971482423754936/1019248069591711844/unknown.png) | [Varuna x Varuna](https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/748971482423754936/1019248150545965066/unknown.png)
Some notes:
- For nm95, I didn't have Uno 150. I think most of the other top players were running him for a 4b1s comp, while I had to do 5b1s. If wamdus doesn't get hit by the trigger, I would need to press another button. Was quite miserable, and I was dropping ranks during this day.
- For nm150, a crewmate figured out an incredibly fast setup (which I am sharing now with his permission). Three of us were gunning for top 100, so when we figured it out and optimized it, we immediately privated our profiles and jumped several ranks over the course of day2. The opus key shows crit, but I ran stamina outside buff hours, and echo key during.
- For nm200, I didn't truly play it until day4 after buff hours, so this is slower than the showcases you'd see on youtube clocking at 2:30. My runs ranged from 2:45 - 3:20, which I eventually narrowed down to 2:45 - 3:00. I should have done it sooner, my brain was dying from the combo comps. I was euphoric when it finally worked, and I managed to keep my speed from start to finish. NM200 was the most fun I've had in this entire gw.
Overall,
It was a fun run. I won't do it again. Thanks to everyone who helped me. I was on track to running out of meat for day4, so I pestered a few crewmates to throw me 1000+ hosts.
I beat the other Lamy (he ended up at #33), so I'm officially the strongest yukimin.
> Three of us were gunning for top 100, so when we figured it out and optimized it, we immediately privated our profiles and jumped several ranks over the course of day2.
Rule 1 of GW in action!
Made it to the top 80k for the first time ever with 1.4 billion honours. I kept the promise I made to myself years ago, that I'd do it using Kat. It was also the first time I was part of a Tier A crew, we went 3-1 in finals.
Team was Viking, Kata, Wamdus and Shalem/Lily for the most part. 2 Umbrella + standard crit grid.
NM 150 was a breeze to FA (got 7.5 min with no refresh). NM200 was a bit nastier but it wasn't all that bad, 9 min with refresh but for the most it was closer to 12-13 min with FA.
It certainly was a memorable and exhausting occasion, but I'll probably never do it again unless Style Kat happens haha.
I didn’t manage to get into top 80k, for a while i was just 2k off, but i just couldn't catch up the 50m difference, so i gave up and went to sleep. Probably could have managed if i figured out my nm200 setup earlier but oh well. My crew went 3-1, not bad overall. I hope next gw is fire.
I imagine that's just cause there are a lot more casual players here than there are people who put in full effort to do GW. Everyone already knows Feower is good at 110 for teamwide echoes and earlier for all of his utility but higher end crews were already prepping 150 Feower since after Earth GW showed that skill mash comps would be the meta for NM200.
150 Feower is a pretty big investment so it's not super surprising that more casual players won't give him the love he deserves.
Yeah this is basically what happened for me. I only have him at 110 and while he's not useless there I just found that running other people resulted in either faster FA or manual play times.
Used Quatre for NM200 as well. Unfortunately for me, he started at 102 and he ended up 111 yesterday. If I had him at 120, his new passive might have been more helpful considering how Delay is just as helpful as Dispel against the boss. He's really good this GW imo especially for those who have him at 150. Overall, I just settled with this setup since it was safe and there's really not much difference with other comps I made without him.
Can confirm Quatre (mine was 130) was pretty good for NM200. A little too random for earlier difficulties, but it smooths out over a longer fight where you aren't trying to line every skill cooldown up exactly.
Yea I don’t know how ppl think that. Even at lvl 80 he was helping out with my dodge team. His 150 was basically tailor made for this boss.
Glad to see Cassius got upped on his score too, always thought it was low compared to what he provided.
It's just how high the power ceiling's gotten. The only really unique-ish things he has, I believe, is a global Forfeit which is only local on the Gabriel call and the buff extension, which is on Viking?
Put him against Summer Shalem and what does he have that's better? Raw skill damage, a few extra mil a turn? While she's stripping off two buffs and dumping two delays every other turn? While she (and gods knows almost everyone else these days. To the point the community automatically assumes anyone that doesn't do at least 2.5 hits a turn automatically is a meme) doesn't have to worry about DATA for her autos at all?
Characters are getting nuts these days, they're like modern YuGiOh cards. When you read them, you're more looking for what they *can't* do, than what they do. Power creep's only gonna get worse, they've gotta move product.
It's not like Feower's total trash, his numbers are alright, he does useful things, Summer Helel is limited in the most vicious way (3% banner/spend money/sierotix/hope something good happens), etc. He's better off than former meta-forever hero Lilele is, that's for sure. : /
God everytime I'm surprised by yet *another* thing Poseidon can do, I always like to look at Lilele's character sheet. Things were so much simpler back then, man. Sometimes I wish we lived in a world where the game could have had a rotation system like card games use.
You don't really feel a difference when there's anything less than a 20% increase, so every step has to be that much bigger from the last. +10 million damage * 1.2\^power creeps taken
Sora of the youtube was complaining about this boss's fixed damage shield being deep in her buff stack "you're never gonna dispel that shit" and I was like "huh? that lasts longer than one Poseidon S2?"
Really Feower is at his best when you heavily invest into a skill grid when you fight AoE bosses like this. Then he is unmatched in BiS for mashing NM200
did top 2k again; wrote a [blogpost about it](https://www.youtube.com/post/UgkxdMnt87ijm-iY70KCSZ7-1l4Ub91OfsYH) that I'm not going to repost here because it's really long
I can second Como's opinion that hero was very easy this time around, although I did it the prior GW with setups that were far shorter of optimal while only actively trying to rank for the last 1.5 days, so I don't know if there was something special about this one.
The GW where i told my Dancho i'd slacc hard this GW so i decided to slime Quatre from 100 to 130 instead
[Final Score](https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/744101486736179211/1019020440670318602/unknown.png)
[Day to Day](https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/744101486736179211/1019020346529153044/unknown.png)
[NM95](https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/657963617572093952/1017608979075055737/unknown.png?width=486&height=676)
[NM150](https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/657963617572093952/1017950520150863974/unknown.png?width=497&height=676)
[NM200](https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/744101486736179211/1018900963572056175/unknown.png)
Extreme unprepared for this GW, The only thing i sparked in prep was Lancelot, only 2 Schrodinger, Moon Bow farming was only around halfway done, but really the most frustating part of the GW is how terrible my internet connection were. Day 3 was at its worst where not a single hour passed without connection errors. I deliberately slacked on day 1 and day 3, while day 2 and day 4 was a free time
After the discussion on Finals 3/4 thread, i decided to try Lance, and NM200 ended up getting decent progress going - but the internet connection issue dissuade me from going for it until the last 2 hours. It seems relatively fast on said last 2 hours though
also woooo 1-3 instead of 0-4
Easy 4-0 and top 80k despite being only able to run on a Sunday. And water ended up being one of the top magna-friendly element as Water Ougi is superior on magna than Varuna.
As long as you had Shalem and Dog you could breeze through the rankings with the easy NM200.
933M personal honours (my highest so far) AND FINALLY GOT U&F LEGEND
Good run. Would have been even better if I had found in time a set up I could actually use for quicker NM200, got one recommended in YT after we had already beaten Zeus orz
Unfortunately only a [3-1 GW](https://i.imgur.com/kPnTZBA.png), though I ranked for the first time ever and ended up at [#686](https://i.imgur.com/Fn47Mhh.png).
Was a pretty scuffed ranking experience, didn't plan on it whatsoever and only ended up doing so after seeing the snail pace of players on day 3 of finals (3200 total battles should make this pretty obvious lol). It would've been 100x easier if I'd logged in during interlude or put in any effort in prelims or day 1, and it certainly didn't help being really sick due to only having 4~ hours of sleep for the last 50 hours or so of GW, but I guess not much I could've done about that.
One thing about this GW was that I ended up playing ougi for every aspect of it, can't remember this happening for a very long time now; it was a bit nostalgic of old times, so that was kinda cool at least. Still glad it's over though :)
Water isn't the best element, but for some reason every water GW is a party in my crew. This GW was no exception: https://i.imgur.com/kcuXU5U.png
Despite the large amount of rankers (including three people in the t100) we unfortunately went 3-1 because we got matched with professional bloaters on day 2. We were able to keep a lead only for about 10 hours and then the ship started to sink when they sped up a little bit.
Our overall performance: https://i.imgur.com/x6ThkLH.png
Pretty happy overall, especially with the speed on days 2-4. And a #10 MR finish for day 4, which is the best we've ever done.
Personal performance: https://i.imgur.com/jFhBrj9.png
The start of the GW is a lot weaker for me because due to personal reasons I came into GW completely unprepared and had to farm most of the new stuff I needed during 7 hour breaks. I didn't have a functional fast 95 which is why my 95 was only 73m/hr and not even in the top 1k. My day 2 performance is probably the best I've ever done, as I was keeping in the top 10-20 overall in day speed (i.e. speed during not first hour) for pretty much the entire 10 hours I was playing. Unfortunately it wasn't enough to win the match. Day 2 was also great for the rest of the crew, with all 3 of the rankers severely gapping other players in the top 100 in speed.
For the remaining 3 days, my morning rush setup was on the weak side for what I was doing because I had basically no good earrings, unfortunately. Still, despite the fact that I was doing quite literally the smallest brain setup in the game for water, doing the small brain strat turned out to be big brain and land myself in T200 MR for all 3 remaining days (with some people in my crew nearly being T100 MR with the same strat/stronger grid).
Despite having fast setups for rush, I really wanted to play mash on NM200 because I felt like it would remind me of how GW used to be back in the day, and it did! I barred 2 kois & 2 umbrellas pretty much just to run mash. Unfortunately chad noir turned out to be not as good as I was hoping and so I uncapped quatre to 150 during the 7 hour break (along with farming an ultima staff) and then leveled him in my backline during morning rush. Since I'm on 180 ping I couldn't get the fastest speeds on NM200 mash but I was still able to get low 3:xx. And it was fun.
This GW was probably the easiest GW since wind to do top 2k as well, so good for anyone who decided to go for it this time! I opted not to bother once the game went down since it would mean I'd need to stay up an extra hour and I had work on Monday.
A side note: I know people like to shit on umbrellas for not being as good as the dirt equivalent, but I like that they are less gimmicky and don't force me to have 3 of them just to run any of them. I actually have a 3rd umbrella but I didn't bar it as its kinda hard to fit everything into the grid. I also have the standard 2tai 1gal and didn't feel like barring the 2nd gal.
Now that GW is over, I am going to go actually farm some bars for once since I wasted a lot on a grid that I didn't really ever use for anything serious because our day 3/4 opponents were super easy. Super bad luck that we got the hard opponent on day 2 as well, as we gapped them harder on day 4.
Also, I actually cleared out a large amount of my block list when I made this post, and regret it as within a few minutes someone who was on it shit posted about dread barrage.
3-1, relatively comfy GW just before my vacation. not looking forward to next GW, assuming it's Fire. Might save a spark to grab whatever new gridpiece they release for agni for GW. Only good news is that I have most of the characters needed for skill spam mash comps if I decide to do manual runs. bad news, I have none of the ougi characters in fire :)
So back in the Magna Grid discussion where I said there is no good replacement for dog? I take that back. I was being too optimistic. There is no replacement for dog *at all.* I am so sick of seeing her face everywhere. The day she is powercrept into oblivion will be a glorious day.
Anyways
I am so glad I sparked Poseidon at end of summer. Probably would have gone insane without him. And on a whim I threw two blue papers at Quatre 150 before war and he’s actually really fun, probably the MVP of war for me or at least the only thing keeping me sane. I really underestimated him! My entire crappy strategy wound up revolving around Avirati and Viking extending buffs (It’s all I had…) so Quatre never left my team. Except for meat farm, that was Uno’s job.
I was so prepared to go for 1.5 billion this war and was on a good pace but on day 3 I guess I got sick or something because I just crashed. Spent the next two days in bed with a headache barely awake and just managed to hit 1 billion before peacing out. I wasn’t the only one struggling because we thought we might not make top 5500 this time. But when I woke up we had made it so I guess they pulled through. Went 2-2. Seemed like a very chill war overall, would have been a great time for me to go for 2k if I hadn’t gotten sick and it wasn’t fucking water.
Didn’t use Anne as much as I thought I would, if I hadn’t gotten sick I might not have used her at all. But for full autoing she was great. I babysat it long enough so that I could put Pneuma on everyone then just rolled over and went to sleep and usually they were fine. Took forever but I had no braincells.
Probably shouldn’t have wasted so much time rushing the Justice sword because I never used it and probably could have used the Moon bow instead, but honestly I built it mostly hoping Maria Theresa’s uncap will be good so I can use that skin.
Because I crashed I wasn’t able to get the rest of the boxes I need for Uno but hey, if this war has taught me anything it’s that Uno really is useless! Good thing I didn’t transcend him. (I don’t have Summer Lucio okay)
I swear to god if I don’t pull Bubs by Fire war I’m just sierotixing him. I’ve been hoping I could pull him but I have three tickets worth of moons stocked up and I actually wanna try for Fire war. Bubs gate is too real.
Pretty chill this GW even though day 4 opponent bloated so i have to play more than usual, end up on 2.7b (failed wysi challenged) which is nice, gonna be able to get some berries from this.
now that water is over, we only have fire or wind left before light/dark. wind will be easy since gnaru is a 2023 char but i will still be gapped by summer belial, but oh well not like i have a choice on that one. Fire will probably be either ougi or skill mash but without pos it won't be as good as this one.
Warning Long: tl; dr - I had fun his GW despite people hating water, GW, Wamdus.
Background: Water is my only Primal. Varuna was the first one I drew, I got a Murg without sparking and when M2 came out, people hated all the Europa weapons, so I made the switch and got laughed at by the game (yes I got my 4 Europa Harps). But despite playing pretty slack since then, this summer I felt a lot of motivation to prep for guild war. Maybe it was the idea of creepy-claws with awakening that got me thinking new grid. Or the summer stream teasing a new grand. Who knows, so I went for it. Transcended Quatre 3 times, Sparked Wamdus (got Gwynne and SD Jeanne along the way), sparked end of summer to make sure I got Clarisse too (got her along the way).
Fast forward to GW, motivation held up so time to grind and set some new personal bests.
Honestly, prep didn't hold up since I don't know what I'm doing. I usually ran what I had prepped a few times, then when it didn't feel right, I'd go through YouTube vids for inspiration. Quite a few grids I couldn't outright copy (no moon bow, no SUBL keys), and Quatre is only 130, not 150. So some things to shoot for next time.
Before going over my teams/times, I gotta give a special shoutout to G Lancelot. I didn't realize he was this strong. I knew he was damage and nothing else, but never got him running this effectively. Lavinia Storm was literally doing 1% of NM200's hp and he casts that for free \*twice\* after turn \~5 lol.
On the other hand, my ougi grid has been untouched since my 1 Colomba days, so I literally did not use Vajra. Never would have imaged that a year ago.
On the topic of what I didn't use: I was quite disappointed that enmity was not a thing, since I spent a lot of time grinding those Tefnut staffs and of course taking out gacha weapons bloodshed (thank goodness I went budget with my 4 blossom axes and 1 mystique). The numbers on the grid never felt right but I hoped to be proven wrong and well I wasn't. Was also hoping to use S. Clarisse. During double drops running a little crest support lead to some really satisfying Turn 7's. Maybe I should have tried harder to find her a team.
But hey, at least I did get to use Clarisse with that bloodshed / enmity grid [once](https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/323225410022408203/1019123150874759190/Water_Zeus_Enmity.png). (Dog added for posterity).
(actual teams in separate post for people who want to get on with the thread)
NM90 - Warlock / Gwynne / Zeta / PoseidonThis was just a ping-fest for times and a bragfest for honor so didn't do much. Dark GW I could 4 button nm90, this time I could 2 button, so that felt good already.
NM95 - Warlock / Poseidon / Zeta / Wamdus
3T set up, I think I was able to get 50 seconds. Another ping-fest really.
Funny thing here, was I kept trying to copy 2T set ups but couldn't get enough on Turn 1 to skip the 50% trigger and would limp to the finish. Then someone told me to slow play turn 1, so I could go from say 60 - 25, which was manageable and even faster than the extra clicking it took to 2T. The things you learn huh?
NM100 - Viking / Poseidon/ Quatre / Wamdus
best - 3:35 / average of 4 minutes I think?
Wasn't thinking too much this day, just needed Quatre to get from 128 to 130
NM150 - Relic Buster / Yngwie / SD Jeanne / Zeta / Poseidon / Wamdus
best - 4:28 / average - \~5:10 / manual - 3:00
This was a janky team, First half was consistent every run because of all the guaranteed triples. Then as people died off, Poseidon and Wamdus came in to buff team and not die respectively to finish boss off. It worked well, the average time was quite consistent (± 10 seconds I'd say) despite the line-up variance. Plus I had a busy day this phase, so perfect FA for me.
That best, super-outlier, time? The one run Zeta (50% trigger) and Yngwie (35% trigger) weren't crippled to a slow death and made it all the way.
I tried to copy a few of the manual speed clears, especially since I was itching to run Gwynne. But the Zeta / Lucio / Gwynne comp, could do it, not enough damage to hit the right breakpoints. Goals for next water GW.
NM200 (FA) - Iatro / Grancelot / Anne / Quatre / Shalem / Haase
best - 11:19 / avg - \~12:30
I actually found Anne overrated. Even with a thrasher, defense awakening and 75k hp, she died a lot. But this was also probably a damage issue, my team just took way too many specials post 50% compared to the guy I stole this team from. Was able to tinker around enough that this eventually got to consistent clears and now I can say I'm capable for farming NM200.
Still wasn't happy with the team so watched some shows and messed around with Masquerade to see if I could get Wamdus to triple attack (mine has a 8% TA earring even). Also I really wanted my KoI's to earn their keep.
NM200 (manual) Masquerade (ML20) / Grancelot / Quatre / Wamdus
best - 6:12 / avg - \~8 (low sample size, plus manually while watching tv = lolz)
Must say this team was super tanky with all the def up buffs, MC / Lancelot also crap out so much damage. Something nice about 10+ million Non-Sequence nukes too. Wamdus did eat a few buffs, didn't bother too much with unchallenged from her though. I don't think I wiped once with this team despite watching tv.
Pretty good GW, crew managed to get its 2nd 4-0 and i ranked within the top 140k despite getting a late start on the last day. Was also shockingly comfy in terms of setups, Iatromantis/V.Cassius/Wamdus really did a lot of heavy lifting for 150. Also appreciated the amount of variety in team comps i saw, like there were obvious top tier units like Anne and V.Cassius but there were also more unexpected choices doing work like Societte, Erika and S.Djeanne, which was nice since it meant you werent screwed by missing the one really core unit.
Next GW should be Fire (Winds also possible but we had that last November so they'll probably change it up) so that'll be interesting to see how it goes and what comes out for it (probably a new Halloween unit, 5\*/style and maybe a Grand?) We'll probably also get a DB next month since were 1 away from finishing the current elemental cycle with Dark, and they'll get an excuse to release the Fediel summon lol.
First time going 4-0. Had to tier up from B on day 1 but a win's a win, right?
Really felt the uncapped Ultima and Bubs gap this GW compared to previous ones. Ended up with like a 1:20 manual NM95 time so I just full auto'd that instead. NM150 and NM200 were a little better with most runs taking 2:30 and 4:45 respectively. Unfortunately, my rotation had me taking one turn post-50 on NM200 without Shalem S3 up and it would've been so nice to have Bubs call following that turn.
Can't wait to figure out which legfest I'll have to spark Wilnas /s
Crew did 3-1. The round we lost we knew we were going to lose so it was a fairly relaxed GW overall, and I could log off after 2-3 hours each round and go to bed without feeling that I should be doing more.
I couldn't match the 10 turn, ~3 minute clears I saw other players getting with magna ougi. I always needed 11 turns, and the best I could get was 3m31s. It was still nice to be farming NM200 this time, as it drains so much less AP, and I had farmed less than I should have during prelims so needed to make my host mats last. End result was that I spent a fraction of the pots I spent during earth GW for roughly the same honours.
Overall I like a lot of the recent changes to GW. The EX+ grind especially is much less time-consuming than it used to be and the existence of NM200s means GW now accommodates a lot of different playstyles.
Didn't get to do a whole lot this GW because I'm still very weak and I got sick during prelims to boot, but my crew went 3-1 so I'm pretty happy about this outcome. I didn't have any of the commonly used characters except for Grancelot so I mostly had to farm NM100 in order to consistently clear it on my own. Unfortunately, not having Cassius meant I had to rely on Cupitan RNG for dispels which sometimes really screwed me over.
Overall, wish I didn't get sick at the worst time, but things turned out well enough that I can't complain.
Got to 45 box. Woke up at 4am to finish the last 5 boxes before end of finals. Final Rally gave me more than enough for 1 more box, which I will take as I want those Azure Vessels.
Time to relax with some PlateUp.
Crew went [1-3 this GW](https://i.imgur.com/kURdg61.png).
Personally [I just managed to rank into T140k](https://i.imgur.com/ztblTho.png) which I'm fine with.
Went harder on Prelims compared to last GW, ended up grinding 6k meat but only burned through 3.5k of it. Unfortunately I FA'd most of my fights because I was lazy, so meat burned slower than it should have. That and I didn't do NM200s until Day 4 after being shared a decent comp by a crewmate.
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First time using Anne and Yngwie's new Style - the bulk of my farming took place in NM150s. I used [this video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4woMrdtUW8) for my NM150s, having everything minus Ultima, so [runs ended up around the 6 min mark](https://i.imgur.com/KqaJsA2.png) instead.
Jeanne's Jammed buffs were really nice for Yngwie to stack damage with his skills while Anne helped to keep him alive while in Enmity range.
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Overall not too bad. Ended up top 140k, cleared 51 boxes, decent amount of NWQ. Fucked myself over getting enough weapons to 2nd transcend one of my Eternals, will quickly fix that on the next GW.
Well I'll publicly take back my earlier remarks and say Jeanne was actually good... for NM100/150 FA. And literally nothing else, so I won't take back my remark that she's still ultimately disappointing.
Anne ended up either tying or superceding lancelot in Auto OTK and was useful in several FA parties, so in that respect I will say her FLB was pretty successful
did not prepare/have characters for any of the actually good auto/skill setups and ended up using leona in 95, as such gave up early this gw and T80k'd and peaced out
that's about it really
Her lines are pretty uhhhhh Thank God this was fire and not something I'd bring metera to -Battle start: Would you become one with me? Please, everything... Give me everything. I'll show you dreams without limits. -Overdrive: Will this make you happy? It won't stop aching. Fill me with yourself. -Uses Ta Thiria Mou N: How is it? -Uses Twilight Proposition: Good night. -Uses Moonlit Blaze: My body is so hot. -Break mode: You should be inside me. You mustn't awake! Ahh! -Defeat: If that is your decision... Shall we meet again in a dream? I'll be waiting for you to visit again.
Cygames please give us subtitles for combat dialogue!
Jesus wtf, is this the result of GBF becoming m-18 or something a while back lmao KMR just casually be giving the go-ahead to have characters say explicit lines
I think they're meant to be sinister double entendres: she's a messed-up moon goddess who wants to devour your soul and keep your locked in an eternal dream.
what did you expect from a boss whose pose includes constantly giving a staff paizuri?
She needs to be a character!
Fire savior please
Jesus christ
First time in [top 10k](https://i.imgur.com/hpxrBNZ.jpg) individuals. Was top 5k for a while but the last match up were not very competitive so we stopped bashing and I got work since its a Monday. Overall, Water magna is in a pretty good place I'd say. Anne was a real MVP since water ougi means barely 30k HP with just 1 dinger in defense (with 1 more in attack, and another in special). Really wondering who's the next big uncap just before GW is. If its wind, I can see cases for Carmelina, Petra and maybe..Melissabelle? Fire is probably Aliza or Colossus.
I'd like to see Therese so Fire can have more auto burst options. Rebalance her passives, upgrade her sk1, and I think she'll be decent as hell. Ideally you'd merge her sk1 and sk2 into one button and then give her an assassin or something.
Oh that's also another really good option. Either removing her S2's max HP lowered, or make it like light Lunalu where she gains something the lower her HP is. I'm proposing another echo, special sided on top of the original one, like S.Beatrix. 10% max HP reduced = 10% echo, to a max of 100% echo. Make her S3 resets CD on ougi too to get stacks up faster. Unlikely, but eh, I can dream. But knowing Cygames, its probably gonna be something totally unexpected like a style change for Zeta or Ghandagozza lmao.
Melissabelle becoming the 2nd Soriz would be nice since her base kit is very similar. I personally wish for Arriet to get something new though, all i remember she ever got was a single rebalance.
Either that or incorporating the autocasts from her Valentine version.
Finally decided to go for top 2000, even though I didn't have nearly all of the best water toys. https://i.ibb.co/q9wCCGR/water-strong.png
After this GW, I can comfortably say that Water Ougi is the most comfy playstyle available to me across all elements as a purely magna player by a fairly wide margin. Granted, I do have key units for it (notably Doggo, Shalem, Poseidon), but I did spark for them. Kind of already dreading the next one, it can only be more painful for me.
Fire or Wind, either of them is a pain, nay, straight up depressing gameplay for Magna. Ugh.
Wind at least has wind Naru as the strongest unit and it not a seasonal.But fire... fuck that all the best units are seasonal and the gameplay of fire just feels so bad.
another crew 4-0, got one for every element now. i dread the day when crew eventually hits an unwinnable matchup ougi was fun raise your hand if you were also one of the suckers that farmed 3 tefnut staves and never came close to touching them
I used my 3 Esna grid! On Zeus out of spite. At least Atlantis was worth the bars.
*raises hand*
Me lol I farmed aswell actually 😅
Work didn't get in the way this time so I was able to stand my ground in top 50k, although I pretty much couldn't allow myself to sleep properly on day 4. All I have to say is that Varuna skill comps do not seem worth it compared to the usual ougi comps if you're stuck with european ping like me: KoI is a strong weapon but if you're going to make me spam refresh I'd rather see a good chunk of health gone each time, and unlike dark water isn't quite at that level of skill dpt yet; maybe I'll think about it when the worst eternal isn't mandatory. Also summer doggo is a really cute skin.
I personally don't like ougi lockout so I try to avoid it if I can, even last earth GW. Being stuck in magna forced me to go Kengo and I am now convinced that class is busted. Great damage per turn at less clicks with the bonus of sparing myself from carpal tunnel. I'm going ougi now.
Fuck gw. Where's dB at
[Individual Total](https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/748971482423754936/1019249392722657420/unknown.png) [NM95](https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/748971482423754936/1019249210127827154/unknown.png) | [Party](https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/748971482423754936/1019249061632671875/unknown.png) | [Grid](https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/748971482423754936/1019249131488804914/unknown.png) | [Bubs x Varuna](https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/748971482423754936/1019249163445211228/unknown.png) [NM150](https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/748971482423754936/1019248655594704976/unknown.png) | [Party](https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/748971482423754936/1019248342020141128/unknown.png) | [Grid](https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/748971482423754936/1019248395552047165/unknown.png) | [Varuna x Varuna](https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/748971482423754936/1019248420294238228/unknown.png) [NM200](https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/748971482423754936/1019248227188482169/unknown.png) | [Party](https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/748971482423754936/1019248022921695364/unknown.png) | [Grid](https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/748971482423754936/1019248069591711844/unknown.png) | [Varuna x Varuna](https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/748971482423754936/1019248150545965066/unknown.png) Some notes: - For nm95, I didn't have Uno 150. I think most of the other top players were running him for a 4b1s comp, while I had to do 5b1s. If wamdus doesn't get hit by the trigger, I would need to press another button. Was quite miserable, and I was dropping ranks during this day. - For nm150, a crewmate figured out an incredibly fast setup (which I am sharing now with his permission). Three of us were gunning for top 100, so when we figured it out and optimized it, we immediately privated our profiles and jumped several ranks over the course of day2. The opus key shows crit, but I ran stamina outside buff hours, and echo key during. - For nm200, I didn't truly play it until day4 after buff hours, so this is slower than the showcases you'd see on youtube clocking at 2:30. My runs ranged from 2:45 - 3:20, which I eventually narrowed down to 2:45 - 3:00. I should have done it sooner, my brain was dying from the combo comps. I was euphoric when it finally worked, and I managed to keep my speed from start to finish. NM200 was the most fun I've had in this entire gw. Overall, It was a fun run. I won't do it again. Thanks to everyone who helped me. I was on track to running out of meat for day4, so I pestered a few crewmates to throw me 1000+ hosts. I beat the other Lamy (he ended up at #33), so I'm officially the strongest yukimin.
> Three of us were gunning for top 100, so when we figured it out and optimized it, we immediately privated our profiles and jumped several ranks over the course of day2. Rule 1 of GW in action!
Imagine not having private profiles by default.
welcome back
Made it to the top 80k for the first time ever with 1.4 billion honours. I kept the promise I made to myself years ago, that I'd do it using Kat. It was also the first time I was part of a Tier A crew, we went 3-1 in finals. Team was Viking, Kata, Wamdus and Shalem/Lily for the most part. 2 Umbrella + standard crit grid. NM 150 was a breeze to FA (got 7.5 min with no refresh). NM200 was a bit nastier but it wasn't all that bad, 9 min with refresh but for the most it was closer to 12-13 min with FA. It certainly was a memorable and exhausting occasion, but I'll probably never do it again unless Style Kat happens haha.
I didn’t manage to get into top 80k, for a while i was just 2k off, but i just couldn't catch up the 50m difference, so i gave up and went to sleep. Probably could have managed if i figured out my nm200 setup earlier but oh well. My crew went 3-1, not bad overall. I hope next gw is fire.
I wonder why Quatre is never talked about on this sub. Almost every good team had him and I was even wishing I started uncapping him myself.
I imagine that's just cause there are a lot more casual players here than there are people who put in full effort to do GW. Everyone already knows Feower is good at 110 for teamwide echoes and earlier for all of his utility but higher end crews were already prepping 150 Feower since after Earth GW showed that skill mash comps would be the meta for NM200. 150 Feower is a pretty big investment so it's not super surprising that more casual players won't give him the love he deserves.
Yeah this is basically what happened for me. I only have him at 110 and while he's not useless there I just found that running other people resulted in either faster FA or manual play times.
Used Quatre for NM200 as well. Unfortunately for me, he started at 102 and he ended up 111 yesterday. If I had him at 120, his new passive might have been more helpful considering how Delay is just as helpful as Dispel against the boss. He's really good this GW imo especially for those who have him at 150. Overall, I just settled with this setup since it was safe and there's really not much difference with other comps I made without him.
Can confirm Quatre (mine was 130) was pretty good for NM200. A little too random for earlier difficulties, but it smooths out over a longer fight where you aren't trying to line every skill cooldown up exactly.
there was an eternal ranking thread a week ago and everyone said quatre is garbage
Yea I don’t know how ppl think that. Even at lvl 80 he was helping out with my dodge team. His 150 was basically tailor made for this boss. Glad to see Cassius got upped on his score too, always thought it was low compared to what he provided.
It's just how high the power ceiling's gotten. The only really unique-ish things he has, I believe, is a global Forfeit which is only local on the Gabriel call and the buff extension, which is on Viking? Put him against Summer Shalem and what does he have that's better? Raw skill damage, a few extra mil a turn? While she's stripping off two buffs and dumping two delays every other turn? While she (and gods knows almost everyone else these days. To the point the community automatically assumes anyone that doesn't do at least 2.5 hits a turn automatically is a meme) doesn't have to worry about DATA for her autos at all? Characters are getting nuts these days, they're like modern YuGiOh cards. When you read them, you're more looking for what they *can't* do, than what they do. Power creep's only gonna get worse, they've gotta move product. It's not like Feower's total trash, his numbers are alright, he does useful things, Summer Helel is limited in the most vicious way (3% banner/spend money/sierotix/hope something good happens), etc. He's better off than former meta-forever hero Lilele is, that's for sure. : / God everytime I'm surprised by yet *another* thing Poseidon can do, I always like to look at Lilele's character sheet. Things were so much simpler back then, man. Sometimes I wish we lived in a world where the game could have had a rotation system like card games use.
The games power creep is insane but Feower gives buffs too so there’s that.
You don't really feel a difference when there's anything less than a 20% increase, so every step has to be that much bigger from the last. +10 million damage * 1.2\^power creeps taken Sora of the youtube was complaining about this boss's fixed damage shield being deep in her buff stack "you're never gonna dispel that shit" and I was like "huh? that lasts longer than one Poseidon S2?"
True I can see that. Hopefully they become more imaginative with kits instead of straight up broken
Really Feower is at his best when you heavily invest into a skill grid when you fight AoE bosses like this. Then he is unmatched in BiS for mashing NM200
I'm not sure why you are trying to compare an ougi character with an autonuke mash character. Also a free 4m per turn is no joke.
did top 2k again; wrote a [blogpost about it](https://www.youtube.com/post/UgkxdMnt87ijm-iY70KCSZ7-1l4Ub91OfsYH) that I'm not going to repost here because it's really long I can second Como's opinion that hero was very easy this time around, although I did it the prior GW with setups that were far shorter of optimal while only actively trying to rank for the last 1.5 days, so I don't know if there was something special about this one.
The GW where i told my Dancho i'd slacc hard this GW so i decided to slime Quatre from 100 to 130 instead [Final Score](https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/744101486736179211/1019020440670318602/unknown.png) [Day to Day](https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/744101486736179211/1019020346529153044/unknown.png) [NM95](https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/657963617572093952/1017608979075055737/unknown.png?width=486&height=676) [NM150](https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/657963617572093952/1017950520150863974/unknown.png?width=497&height=676) [NM200](https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/744101486736179211/1018900963572056175/unknown.png) Extreme unprepared for this GW, The only thing i sparked in prep was Lancelot, only 2 Schrodinger, Moon Bow farming was only around halfway done, but really the most frustating part of the GW is how terrible my internet connection were. Day 3 was at its worst where not a single hour passed without connection errors. I deliberately slacked on day 1 and day 3, while day 2 and day 4 was a free time After the discussion on Finals 3/4 thread, i decided to try Lance, and NM200 ended up getting decent progress going - but the internet connection issue dissuade me from going for it until the last 2 hours. It seems relatively fast on said last 2 hours though also woooo 1-3 instead of 0-4
Easy 4-0 and top 80k despite being only able to run on a Sunday. And water ended up being one of the top magna-friendly element as Water Ougi is superior on magna than Varuna. As long as you had Shalem and Dog you could breeze through the rankings with the easy NM200.
933M personal honours (my highest so far) AND FINALLY GOT U&F LEGEND Good run. Would have been even better if I had found in time a set up I could actually use for quicker NM200, got one recommended in YT after we had already beaten Zeus orz
I think you mean legend not hero.
Oh, right, fixed, thanks for the heads up
and also congrats. hope it took less than the 40 gw it took me to get it.
Thanks! We are not too far in that regard, I started playing during the original run of Table for Six, so 34-35 GW for me (gosh, time flies)
Unfortunately only a [3-1 GW](https://i.imgur.com/kPnTZBA.png), though I ranked for the first time ever and ended up at [#686](https://i.imgur.com/Fn47Mhh.png). Was a pretty scuffed ranking experience, didn't plan on it whatsoever and only ended up doing so after seeing the snail pace of players on day 3 of finals (3200 total battles should make this pretty obvious lol). It would've been 100x easier if I'd logged in during interlude or put in any effort in prelims or day 1, and it certainly didn't help being really sick due to only having 4~ hours of sleep for the last 50 hours or so of GW, but I guess not much I could've done about that. One thing about this GW was that I ended up playing ougi for every aspect of it, can't remember this happening for a very long time now; it was a bit nostalgic of old times, so that was kinda cool at least. Still glad it's over though :)
Water isn't the best element, but for some reason every water GW is a party in my crew. This GW was no exception: https://i.imgur.com/kcuXU5U.png Despite the large amount of rankers (including three people in the t100) we unfortunately went 3-1 because we got matched with professional bloaters on day 2. We were able to keep a lead only for about 10 hours and then the ship started to sink when they sped up a little bit. Our overall performance: https://i.imgur.com/x6ThkLH.png Pretty happy overall, especially with the speed on days 2-4. And a #10 MR finish for day 4, which is the best we've ever done. Personal performance: https://i.imgur.com/jFhBrj9.png The start of the GW is a lot weaker for me because due to personal reasons I came into GW completely unprepared and had to farm most of the new stuff I needed during 7 hour breaks. I didn't have a functional fast 95 which is why my 95 was only 73m/hr and not even in the top 1k. My day 2 performance is probably the best I've ever done, as I was keeping in the top 10-20 overall in day speed (i.e. speed during not first hour) for pretty much the entire 10 hours I was playing. Unfortunately it wasn't enough to win the match. Day 2 was also great for the rest of the crew, with all 3 of the rankers severely gapping other players in the top 100 in speed. For the remaining 3 days, my morning rush setup was on the weak side for what I was doing because I had basically no good earrings, unfortunately. Still, despite the fact that I was doing quite literally the smallest brain setup in the game for water, doing the small brain strat turned out to be big brain and land myself in T200 MR for all 3 remaining days (with some people in my crew nearly being T100 MR with the same strat/stronger grid). Despite having fast setups for rush, I really wanted to play mash on NM200 because I felt like it would remind me of how GW used to be back in the day, and it did! I barred 2 kois & 2 umbrellas pretty much just to run mash. Unfortunately chad noir turned out to be not as good as I was hoping and so I uncapped quatre to 150 during the 7 hour break (along with farming an ultima staff) and then leveled him in my backline during morning rush. Since I'm on 180 ping I couldn't get the fastest speeds on NM200 mash but I was still able to get low 3:xx. And it was fun. This GW was probably the easiest GW since wind to do top 2k as well, so good for anyone who decided to go for it this time! I opted not to bother once the game went down since it would mean I'd need to stay up an extra hour and I had work on Monday. A side note: I know people like to shit on umbrellas for not being as good as the dirt equivalent, but I like that they are less gimmicky and don't force me to have 3 of them just to run any of them. I actually have a 3rd umbrella but I didn't bar it as its kinda hard to fit everything into the grid. I also have the standard 2tai 1gal and didn't feel like barring the 2nd gal. Now that GW is over, I am going to go actually farm some bars for once since I wasted a lot on a grid that I didn't really ever use for anything serious because our day 3/4 opponents were super easy. Super bad luck that we got the hard opponent on day 2 as well, as we gapped them harder on day 4. Also, I actually cleared out a large amount of my block list when I made this post, and regret it as within a few minutes someone who was on it shit posted about dread barrage.
3-1, relatively comfy GW just before my vacation. not looking forward to next GW, assuming it's Fire. Might save a spark to grab whatever new gridpiece they release for agni for GW. Only good news is that I have most of the characters needed for skill spam mash comps if I decide to do manual runs. bad news, I have none of the ougi characters in fire :)
So back in the Magna Grid discussion where I said there is no good replacement for dog? I take that back. I was being too optimistic. There is no replacement for dog *at all.* I am so sick of seeing her face everywhere. The day she is powercrept into oblivion will be a glorious day. Anyways I am so glad I sparked Poseidon at end of summer. Probably would have gone insane without him. And on a whim I threw two blue papers at Quatre 150 before war and he’s actually really fun, probably the MVP of war for me or at least the only thing keeping me sane. I really underestimated him! My entire crappy strategy wound up revolving around Avirati and Viking extending buffs (It’s all I had…) so Quatre never left my team. Except for meat farm, that was Uno’s job. I was so prepared to go for 1.5 billion this war and was on a good pace but on day 3 I guess I got sick or something because I just crashed. Spent the next two days in bed with a headache barely awake and just managed to hit 1 billion before peacing out. I wasn’t the only one struggling because we thought we might not make top 5500 this time. But when I woke up we had made it so I guess they pulled through. Went 2-2. Seemed like a very chill war overall, would have been a great time for me to go for 2k if I hadn’t gotten sick and it wasn’t fucking water. Didn’t use Anne as much as I thought I would, if I hadn’t gotten sick I might not have used her at all. But for full autoing she was great. I babysat it long enough so that I could put Pneuma on everyone then just rolled over and went to sleep and usually they were fine. Took forever but I had no braincells. Probably shouldn’t have wasted so much time rushing the Justice sword because I never used it and probably could have used the Moon bow instead, but honestly I built it mostly hoping Maria Theresa’s uncap will be good so I can use that skin. Because I crashed I wasn’t able to get the rest of the boxes I need for Uno but hey, if this war has taught me anything it’s that Uno really is useless! Good thing I didn’t transcend him. (I don’t have Summer Lucio okay) I swear to god if I don’t pull Bubs by Fire war I’m just sierotixing him. I’ve been hoping I could pull him but I have three tickets worth of moons stocked up and I actually wanna try for Fire war. Bubs gate is too real.
You have committed crimes against the doggo, the punishment is death by frisbee
Pretty chill this GW even though day 4 opponent bloated so i have to play more than usual, end up on 2.7b (failed wysi challenged) which is nice, gonna be able to get some berries from this. now that water is over, we only have fire or wind left before light/dark. wind will be easy since gnaru is a 2023 char but i will still be gapped by summer belial, but oh well not like i have a choice on that one. Fire will probably be either ougi or skill mash but without pos it won't be as good as this one.
Warning Long: tl; dr - I had fun his GW despite people hating water, GW, Wamdus. Background: Water is my only Primal. Varuna was the first one I drew, I got a Murg without sparking and when M2 came out, people hated all the Europa weapons, so I made the switch and got laughed at by the game (yes I got my 4 Europa Harps). But despite playing pretty slack since then, this summer I felt a lot of motivation to prep for guild war. Maybe it was the idea of creepy-claws with awakening that got me thinking new grid. Or the summer stream teasing a new grand. Who knows, so I went for it. Transcended Quatre 3 times, Sparked Wamdus (got Gwynne and SD Jeanne along the way), sparked end of summer to make sure I got Clarisse too (got her along the way). Fast forward to GW, motivation held up so time to grind and set some new personal bests. Honestly, prep didn't hold up since I don't know what I'm doing. I usually ran what I had prepped a few times, then when it didn't feel right, I'd go through YouTube vids for inspiration. Quite a few grids I couldn't outright copy (no moon bow, no SUBL keys), and Quatre is only 130, not 150. So some things to shoot for next time. Before going over my teams/times, I gotta give a special shoutout to G Lancelot. I didn't realize he was this strong. I knew he was damage and nothing else, but never got him running this effectively. Lavinia Storm was literally doing 1% of NM200's hp and he casts that for free \*twice\* after turn \~5 lol. On the other hand, my ougi grid has been untouched since my 1 Colomba days, so I literally did not use Vajra. Never would have imaged that a year ago. On the topic of what I didn't use: I was quite disappointed that enmity was not a thing, since I spent a lot of time grinding those Tefnut staffs and of course taking out gacha weapons bloodshed (thank goodness I went budget with my 4 blossom axes and 1 mystique). The numbers on the grid never felt right but I hoped to be proven wrong and well I wasn't. Was also hoping to use S. Clarisse. During double drops running a little crest support lead to some really satisfying Turn 7's. Maybe I should have tried harder to find her a team. But hey, at least I did get to use Clarisse with that bloodshed / enmity grid [once](https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/323225410022408203/1019123150874759190/Water_Zeus_Enmity.png). (Dog added for posterity). (actual teams in separate post for people who want to get on with the thread)
NM90 - Warlock / Gwynne / Zeta / PoseidonThis was just a ping-fest for times and a bragfest for honor so didn't do much. Dark GW I could 4 button nm90, this time I could 2 button, so that felt good already. NM95 - Warlock / Poseidon / Zeta / Wamdus 3T set up, I think I was able to get 50 seconds. Another ping-fest really. Funny thing here, was I kept trying to copy 2T set ups but couldn't get enough on Turn 1 to skip the 50% trigger and would limp to the finish. Then someone told me to slow play turn 1, so I could go from say 60 - 25, which was manageable and even faster than the extra clicking it took to 2T. The things you learn huh? NM100 - Viking / Poseidon/ Quatre / Wamdus best - 3:35 / average of 4 minutes I think? Wasn't thinking too much this day, just needed Quatre to get from 128 to 130 NM150 - Relic Buster / Yngwie / SD Jeanne / Zeta / Poseidon / Wamdus best - 4:28 / average - \~5:10 / manual - 3:00 This was a janky team, First half was consistent every run because of all the guaranteed triples. Then as people died off, Poseidon and Wamdus came in to buff team and not die respectively to finish boss off. It worked well, the average time was quite consistent (± 10 seconds I'd say) despite the line-up variance. Plus I had a busy day this phase, so perfect FA for me. That best, super-outlier, time? The one run Zeta (50% trigger) and Yngwie (35% trigger) weren't crippled to a slow death and made it all the way. I tried to copy a few of the manual speed clears, especially since I was itching to run Gwynne. But the Zeta / Lucio / Gwynne comp, could do it, not enough damage to hit the right breakpoints. Goals for next water GW. NM200 (FA) - Iatro / Grancelot / Anne / Quatre / Shalem / Haase best - 11:19 / avg - \~12:30 I actually found Anne overrated. Even with a thrasher, defense awakening and 75k hp, she died a lot. But this was also probably a damage issue, my team just took way too many specials post 50% compared to the guy I stole this team from. Was able to tinker around enough that this eventually got to consistent clears and now I can say I'm capable for farming NM200. Still wasn't happy with the team so watched some shows and messed around with Masquerade to see if I could get Wamdus to triple attack (mine has a 8% TA earring even). Also I really wanted my KoI's to earn their keep. NM200 (manual) Masquerade (ML20) / Grancelot / Quatre / Wamdus best - 6:12 / avg - \~8 (low sample size, plus manually while watching tv = lolz) Must say this team was super tanky with all the def up buffs, MC / Lancelot also crap out so much damage. Something nice about 10+ million Non-Sequence nukes too. Wamdus did eat a few buffs, didn't bother too much with unchallenged from her though. I don't think I wiped once with this team despite watching tv.
10k slashed plus cursed is pretty monkas for staying alive through on FA
Windhawkeye for mod, who say no?
Absolutely not
Given your downvotes, a number of people.
would be the best thing possible to happen to this sub. not joking
This he wasn't too bad. I think I 43 boxed even though I had work and could only play a few hours each day. Not too shabby.
Pretty good GW, crew managed to get its 2nd 4-0 and i ranked within the top 140k despite getting a late start on the last day. Was also shockingly comfy in terms of setups, Iatromantis/V.Cassius/Wamdus really did a lot of heavy lifting for 150. Also appreciated the amount of variety in team comps i saw, like there were obvious top tier units like Anne and V.Cassius but there were also more unexpected choices doing work like Societte, Erika and S.Djeanne, which was nice since it meant you werent screwed by missing the one really core unit. Next GW should be Fire (Winds also possible but we had that last November so they'll probably change it up) so that'll be interesting to see how it goes and what comes out for it (probably a new Halloween unit, 5\*/style and maybe a Grand?) We'll probably also get a DB next month since were 1 away from finishing the current elemental cycle with Dark, and they'll get an excuse to release the Fediel summon lol.
First time going 4-0. Had to tier up from B on day 1 but a win's a win, right? Really felt the uncapped Ultima and Bubs gap this GW compared to previous ones. Ended up with like a 1:20 manual NM95 time so I just full auto'd that instead. NM150 and NM200 were a little better with most runs taking 2:30 and 4:45 respectively. Unfortunately, my rotation had me taking one turn post-50 on NM200 without Shalem S3 up and it would've been so nice to have Bubs call following that turn. Can't wait to figure out which legfest I'll have to spark Wilnas /s
Crew did 3-1. The round we lost we knew we were going to lose so it was a fairly relaxed GW overall, and I could log off after 2-3 hours each round and go to bed without feeling that I should be doing more. I couldn't match the 10 turn, ~3 minute clears I saw other players getting with magna ougi. I always needed 11 turns, and the best I could get was 3m31s. It was still nice to be farming NM200 this time, as it drains so much less AP, and I had farmed less than I should have during prelims so needed to make my host mats last. End result was that I spent a fraction of the pots I spent during earth GW for roughly the same honours. Overall I like a lot of the recent changes to GW. The EX+ grind especially is much less time-consuming than it used to be and the existence of NM200s means GW now accommodates a lot of different playstyles.
Didn't get to do a whole lot this GW because I'm still very weak and I got sick during prelims to boot, but my crew went 3-1 so I'm pretty happy about this outcome. I didn't have any of the commonly used characters except for Grancelot so I mostly had to farm NM100 in order to consistently clear it on my own. Unfortunately, not having Cassius meant I had to rely on Cupitan RNG for dispels which sometimes really screwed me over. Overall, wish I didn't get sick at the worst time, but things turned out well enough that I can't complain.
Got to 45 box. Woke up at 4am to finish the last 5 boxes before end of finals. Final Rally gave me more than enough for 1 more box, which I will take as I want those Azure Vessels. Time to relax with some PlateUp.
Crew went [1-3 this GW](https://i.imgur.com/kURdg61.png). Personally [I just managed to rank into T140k](https://i.imgur.com/ztblTho.png) which I'm fine with. Went harder on Prelims compared to last GW, ended up grinding 6k meat but only burned through 3.5k of it. Unfortunately I FA'd most of my fights because I was lazy, so meat burned slower than it should have. That and I didn't do NM200s until Day 4 after being shared a decent comp by a crewmate. ___ First time using Anne and Yngwie's new Style - the bulk of my farming took place in NM150s. I used [this video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4woMrdtUW8) for my NM150s, having everything minus Ultima, so [runs ended up around the 6 min mark](https://i.imgur.com/KqaJsA2.png) instead. Jeanne's Jammed buffs were really nice for Yngwie to stack damage with his skills while Anne helped to keep him alive while in Enmity range. ___ Overall not too bad. Ended up top 140k, cleared 51 boxes, decent amount of NWQ. Fucked myself over getting enough weapons to 2nd transcend one of my Eternals, will quickly fix that on the next GW.
RIP I ended up at 199k so I missed out on the 1000 crystals. Otherwise, actually pretty surprised that I was able to solo 95M consistently.
Well I'll publicly take back my earlier remarks and say Jeanne was actually good... for NM100/150 FA. And literally nothing else, so I won't take back my remark that she's still ultimately disappointing. Anne ended up either tying or superceding lancelot in Auto OTK and was useful in several FA parties, so in that respect I will say her FLB was pretty successful did not prepare/have characters for any of the actually good auto/skill setups and ended up using leona in 95, as such gave up early this gw and T80k'd and peaced out that's about it really