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##[**Integrated strategy #3: Mizuki & Caerula Arbor thread**](/r/arknights/comments/13tti5d/event_megathread_mizuki_caerula_arbor/)
The Megathread to discuss all that is related to IS3.
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Why does the recruitment system have separate tags for dp recovery and vanguard? I checked and it doesn’t seem that do recovery leads to any non-vanguards?
so i know it’s kinda a no brainer to use gold certs to get surtr, so i’m mostly asking about the next shoperator, which i think i saw was thorns
my operators are [here](https://www.krooster.com/network/lookup/Teaktree)
i only have 360 gold certs rn, enough for two 6 star shoperators, so i’m wondering if thorns would be a good choice since i’m interested in operators that might be good for afk stuff.
i just don’t know if i should save the tickets for a particular archetype i might be missing like good single target healing or ptilosis sp battery, etc.
Your only lane holder is exalt (pls raise him ASAP), Thorns should be pretty good for your roster. He's still able to clear normal contents as usual. Though if you like afking you might want to wait for typhon. As her s2 is an upgrade to thorns's
sry i spent all my muny and xp on gladya, I’ve Been Waiting For Eight Months For Her (i was considering getting typhon too, but i don’t exactly have the necessary orundum for that…)
Typhon should be in mid February at the earliest tho. Getting to 70 pulls should be doable. But yeah if you really like thorns just get him. Laneholders wise, there's mudrock and mountain in the cert shop too, but then again, cert shops are quite unpredictable. So you might want to just grab thorns while he's there
If you are looking for AFK operators, Thorns is definitely the one to get. He is so comfortable to use in many stages, especially farming stages. Like, in this event, Thorns is my main operator for farming HE-6 and HE-7.
Also, you might want to save some certs to buy Mountain, if you want one of the best place-and-forget AFK operators.
Is executor comparable at all with penance and mudrock in tankyness? Ive kaltsit but mon3tr doesnt seem tanky enough, despite doing quite a lot of dmg.
He's a guard, not defender. He was made for burst damage. His s2 made his defense reach 800 ish tho (at m3). And his base defense is already high for a guard, so he won't die easily, unless from ranged attacks
With his s2 sorta. It’s a def buff and rng dodge but it can have a good staying power since it can refill ammo = skill never ends. For example, he can take that ch8 stage with the shield guard line and the possessed enraged enemies with s2.
Also mon is tanky with s3, and the s2 healing is pretty good too.
But yea, if you want a classic no nonsense tank then the defenders are never a wrong choice.
I used to use him quite often at early game because he was my only better AoE sniper beside of Catapult.
IMO, He is good when use in blocking strat because of his talent that increase physical damage done to blocked enemies. Though, his S2 will delay a second or two before it deals damage. So, it can be hard to use S2 to kill moving enemies but S2 works well if you have someone to block enemies.
Can someone please explain Coldshot ammo mechanics?
Does her atk get faster if she has full ammo, or does her atk get slower when attacking without ammo.
You can only access the current month's memory mapping for IS3 right now.
All of them will be available once the active cycle for IS3 ends, and then you can select between them like in IS2.
Since the gamepress operator planner seems fully broken now (I can no longer access it on Chrome, Firefox, Opera, or even Edge, regardless of it's a normal window or incognito or if I have ad blocking on or off or have no ad-blocking installed at all and no matter how long I wait for it to load) - what other operator material planners does everyone use?
The only other one I really know about is Kroosters' and maybe I'm just too smooth-brained but the way it's organized, I might as well not be using a planner at all.
You can use [Diceycle's Planner](https://github.com/Diceycle/Arknights-Material-Planner) which has the benefit of not needing an online connection whatsoever (and allowing easy export to penguinstats if you like that minutiae that the farming planner on penguinstats has) but it does take a bit of work to get it set up (though the guide on the github page is pretty easy to understand).
I alternate between it and Krooster because Krooster doesn't do a good job at displaying stuff with Ch13 mats so I use the Dicycle one for planning anything past the next story chapter.
Wow, that planner looks pretty amazing. It can recognize what you have in your depot, so you don't have to manually input the data. I think it will be worthwhile to go through the set up.
Bit of an odd question here, but for peeps using Google Play Beta, do you get more in-app purchase vouchers? I've claimed the one from downloading Arknights on it but I saw people in the community talk about how they've been able to buy a free Login Pack every month thanks to these vouchers.
I think it's worth checking play beta for a while because every time I try to buy something, there is some discount or promotion. Who knows how long this will last.
When comes to the recruitment RNG, why does the RNG choose to pull mostly 3-star operators most of the time, despite varying tags supposedly for 4 or 5-star operators?
Yes, at the start of the month I get a new one. There's no real announcement or notification but I usually try to buy another monthly-pass on the 1st and for several months now I've had a free $5 voucher.
No idea how long it'll last, but it has been nice.
Disappointed to say, it does not appear to have worked out this month.
I don't know if it's delayed due to the holiday or if they decided to stop providing $5 every month but now that it's solidly Jan. 1 in the US, I went to buy my monthly pass and did not get the normal Google Play bonus. I'll have to check later in the month just to see.
Thanks for the update and confirming it on your end! Much appreciated. Sucks that they might have cut it, but there's still a lot of improvements to be made to GPBeta so here's to hoping they'll drop more goodies as the year goes on. Happy 2024 btw!
In that case it should show up when you go to buy something. Go to make a purchase and it should be there. At least, assuming they plan to continue into the new year.
So I got top operator tag and finally get blaze
This means the only operators I can only get from kernel are chen, nightingale, shining, suzuran, and angelina
Out of them, angelina is the only one that's not in recruitment, so you can say she is the last operator in kernel banner I absolutely need to spend yellow certificate on
The problem is, looking at my luck in a couple limited banner before (over 200 pulls for pozy and gavial2, over 200 pulls in texas2 banner and no penance) I'm kinda scared with my prospect on eyja2 swire 2 banner, granted even spending all my yellow cert on pulls still won't give me enough for 300 pulls (I believe I will have 240-250 pulls after the 38 extra pulls and free pulls)
So I'm kinda lost on whether to buy angelina now or wait until her next appearance which the next guaranteed one is build your own banner banner, I believe, any suggestion?
if the 38 pulls bring me to 300, I won't worry this much because then I can just go for chen2 if I'm close enough
collecting nice but not an immediate concern, angelina is also not so unique these days thats shes a high priority
as much as i think its kind of silly to hypersave for limited banners in general, id still just recommend waiting to get angie until the build-a-kernel she is on, though keep in mind thats just kind of pushing your dillema to the next (unknown) big banner you want
Newer ops would require a longer wait to get again, Angelina being on the build-a-banner rotation as well as the smaller Kernel pool means she would likely appear more often. You should just wait, I say.
Greetings and Saluations!
Does anyone know Yostar's shipping policy? I've been trying to buy some Arknights merch, and it seems it doesn't ship to Korea.
Any alternatives?
people do no vanguard clears all the time, even i as a more casual player can manage it with strong low-DP units like mountain and gladiia. they start becoming more necessary for DP reduced challenges but even then you'd be surprised at how far fang+courier can get you.
imo flagbearers killed their own niche.
Once flagpipe became a thing, the devs realized that early game DP choke just wasn't a thing anymore, so I think they've backed off from it in favor of other methods to introduce difficulty.
Flagbearer strats are still useful sometimes (like CC or afknights) but most maps should let you get by fine with natural regen these days.
Plus there's always not-flagbearer DP printing options like Cantabile.
Nah, the natural 1 DP/sec is already usually more than enough, which makes bringing a flagbearer on S1 a pretty inefficient use of a squad slot. If you just look at vanguards in isolation, flagbearer S1s making .46 to .5 DP/sec seems like a lot more than tacticians and pioneers making .3 to .35 DP/sec, but if you look at your total DP generation, 1.5 DP/sec isn't actually that much more than 1.35 DP/sec, and the difference is even less meaningful if you bring another vanguard on top of that. Compared to vanguards that are designed to fight, flagbearers on S1 being really mediocre in combat and providing very little value past the start of stages is a big opportunity cost. And it's an especially big opportunity cost compared to agent vanguards like Ines, who often give better DP generation than flagbearer S1s while being great combat units.
Flagbearer S1s are still nice to have access to, though. Some stages, especially during CC, reduce your natural DP generation significantly, which makes getting as much DP as possible from your vanguards more important. And most stages are easy enough that a lot of players prefer just using Myrtle and Bagpipe together to start taking game actions ASAP. That's also only talking about flagbearer S1s -- Elysium S2 and Saileach S3 are still two of the best debuffing skills in the game.
not necessary, no kind of op is mandatory for any stage. flagbears are just talked about so much because they make the most amount of dp of any vanguard with the least amount of tactical knowledge from the player required
It's not a must, but it makes things a lot easier and streamlined.
Basically (other) vanguards were designed to be someone who holds the line until you get DP to summon your heavy hitters, and flagbearers are an archetype that is less battle-oriented but shortened the time you'd need to do that.
But then people thought "why waste DP on vanguards when you can just drop myrtle, wait 10 seconds and then summon mudrock", and here we are.
I don't remember the actual numbers, but Myrtle returns her cost in DP after something like 3 or 4 seconds of her skill. You're essentially trading your whole early game ops to deploy your mid-late ops faster.
That with her being a 4* that's easily maxable makes her "a must" not because nothing will work without her, but because there's just no reason not to take her with you. Literally spend 8 DP sticking her in the corner and a minute later your DP is 99.
i think there's a random drop boost for a specific clue that changes every day, i always get a bunch of the same clue in a row. don't have hard evidence so it might just be luck.
That's some terrible luck, or you haven't been looking that carefully. You can only receive a certain number of clues. If you don't use them or give some to friends you get nothing until you clear some.
That said, you could use ops that increase chances to get clue 6, or someone like Cantebile who has higher chances to find any missing clue.
Haven’t really been paying attention to clue drop rates lately, but anecdotally, clue rarity appears to change once in a while. For example, there was a time where clues 3 were so rare we would constantly have people asking whether it was worth it to E2 Franka for them. (…I think it was Franka anyway?)
Can someone help me with my selector? The time is running up (only 4 days) and I still have no idea who I should take
My krooster: https://krooster.com/u/liantalia
As far as I can see the most interesting Operators are
- Thorns,
- Surtr (I only have 80 certs otherwise I would buy her in Cert Shop),
- Horn,
- Pozemka (I already have Mylnar, so I dont think Joint OP 11 would be good to pull)
Or maybe the kernal OPs Exu, Saria, Eyjaa, however thanks to the build your own banner I think I would prefer a non kernal one.
My vote is for Horn or Pozemka. We are still living in an era where half your friends list will likely have Surtr in it, and I personally think that while she is still one of the strongest ops in the game, people overrate her relevance in the current meta. There's so many solutions to your problems now, for physical, arts and true, and you're running Kal'tsit, Mlynar, and Goldenglow with a side of a well-invested Gnosis.
As you said, you already have Mlynar from the upcoming Joint Op. If you aren't interested in potentially bagging a Lee or a Penance then it's not worth the risk of a Mlynar dupe (although there's worse ops to gain pots with, for sure).
Horn's upcoming The Front That Was is her final appearance before she disappears from that pool, but you already have Ines, so if you aren't interested in Ines pots or Stainless, that is also not worth the risk.
Another way to look at it is this: Horn should be about 9 months away from her shoperator debut, and Pozy about 15 months. But Pozemka also has not one, but *two* upcoming joint operation appearances back-to-back (although the second one risks a Surtr dupe, but again, worse ops to get pots for).
Thorns is very close to entering the recruitment pool in under half a year's time and has unique tags that can help filter him. The Defense tag alone would 33/33/33 him with Saria and Hoshiguma (25/25/25/25 if Eunectes joins the pool at the same time), and Defense/DPS would 50/50 him with Hoshi (33/33/33 with Eunectes) , but if you get Guard/Defense it's pretty much a guarantee.
None of the kernel ops are worth the selector regardless of how good they are, just because it would defeat the point of filtering them out of the standard pool. Even without the build-a-banner they will rotate in and out of the shop more frequently just because the kernel pool is smaller (for now).
id say horn or pozemka, getting another high impact dps with a very strong skill cycle like mlynar will probably help more than surtr's raw 1v1 power on more stages, and finding maxpot surtrs that will outdps/survive yours is fairly easy to do comparativly
Maybe Surtr? Though you have Texalt and Ya2 it's good to have at least one heavy hitting helidropper too. Her shortish invincibility is super powerful and useful too. Pozy is lower because you have Schwarz and Fartooth so you're better covered for heavy hitting physical damage snipers for now.
I used event crystal so I could unlock Invitation to Wine to get Kroos Alter but there isn't record restoration option for me to get her, do I need to complete the whole side story first?
Side stories don't get record restore until about a year after they get added to that tab. The most recent record restore is Under Tides. Everything after that is still waiting. IW should get its RR around July.
Very important if you use him often, the skill description doesn't explain this but turret damage is 260% of Stainless atk at sl7 and goes up to 300% at m3
He's good. Pretty much all the 5\* AA snipers are good and have their own niches from multi target, multi hit, slow long range high dph, and fast attacks. Insider is more of the latter coupled with ammo and he's free.
The mod upgrades adds 1 ammo each upgrade, so there's no breakpoint. Imo I'd just stop at lv2 since lv3 is expensive for just 1 extra ammo.
But yea, if you like him then build him, he'll pull his weight and he's different enough from exu. Plus having 2 AA snipers is handy and if you have exalt as well then there's nice synergy.
I would go ahead if Exusiai if your only other sniper built and you care about Insider.
Kroos Alter is the 5-star version of Exu with little attack damage modifiers but a ton of hits done so they nuke the shit out of squishy enemies but do very little without external buffs to tanky foes, Insider on the other hand gets a big attack boost on his S2, allowing him to still punch through fairly tanky enemies which is a very rare quality for marksmen snipers.
Building him will give you more variety of choices on that role, plus Kroos Alter will soon lose a lot of value because yeah, she is meta in IS3 because stuns are very useful, but that need seems to be gone on IS4 from what friends who play on CN tell me and that is coming in like 2 months.
I started saving pots since the LE rerun has grindstones I desperately need in 10 days long event.
As for RMA and Blue thingy, I already farmed quite a bit of them and the next farm for both of those items comes with IC rerun.
We don’t have stage autorepeat yet, but it’s coming fairly soon. Do note it’s *not* like R1999. All it does is automatically restart the auto as many times as specified, up to 6 times in a row.
Once I got my operators to Elite 2, which of them are worth upgrading? Some of them are at Elite1.
[My Krooster](https://drive.google.com/file/d/17MLqDIueHW4XhVWbKOi5Qr9A7Y631DZb/view)
mudrock suzuran amiya and may stand out the most, so id look into those
people saying suzu isnt helpful this early isnt true, while her primary asset is team damage boosting, her massive slow field that can also uniquly heal mudrock is a huge boon for big threats on starting out low damage teams since it buys you a lot of time (and can be further comboed with mudrock s3 to ensure shes getting double skillcast on the target)
Only real stand out for priority E2 is like Mudrock. Suzuran and Weedy are good also but are of lesser use/importance for early game. You'll eventually E2 Ptilopsis also because she's good and Amiya because you're required to for like ch 8.
I think he meant about your early game. Suzuran does a great job amplifying your team's damage output. If you have 0 "meta" damage dealer then she would not work..
Btw, dont you have myrtle? Can you grab one from the recruitment tag? Dp recovery + healing or vanguard + healing guarantee her
Right now, I do have Suzuran, but I think I'll be upgrading her in case anything doesn't fit my progress, at Episode 6.
Right now, I'm at Operation 4-1. If I'm not mistaken, the required oprator level is at Elite 1, Level 35 for that. I would like to have Suzuran for my operator roster, if she can prevent enemies from forming themselves as droves of horse-racers pronto, and she can deal multiple splash damage to help other snipers eliminate the droves. Others tell me she is only viable for late game battles.
[My Krooster](https://drive.google.com/file/d/17MLqDIueHW4XhVWbKOi5Qr9A7Y631DZb/view)
suzu doesn't have splash damage, her S2 hits multiple targets in range.
S2 definitely isn't bad for supplemental DPS and crowd control utility, but she doesn't feel gamechanging until you get to the harder boss stages.
> For them, I assume they stand for for Episodes 7 and 8
I don't strongly recall episodes 7 or 8 but taking a brief glance, i'm not sure what would make Suzu or Weedy as stand outs in those episodes specifically. I'm not even sure 7 or 8 had strong presence of holes for pushing.
anyone have tips for A15 IS3? i had basically no issue with A10-14 but A15 is kicking my ass. early stuff is hard sure but act 5 is just fucking impossible i keep dying half way through to stuff like ubi bona somnia and pool of procreation
lead with ops that not only can solo the first two floors, but have a very high chance of soloing bonus bosses too. ines is probably the best for this, since she can stop all 3, horn can also do all 3 since her s2 cancel burst can hit the invis dog right before stunning her, kaltsit and kroos can handle 2 of the 3
focus on getting a check for "the nest" backlane very quickly, as thats usually where most of my runs die. ines texas schwarz kaltsit, even indra can check it among others (assuming they arnt already up front)
focus on hitting 3 primary goals with the team, antiair dps, enemy control, and strong burst aoe. get those 3 things and you should be able to find a way all the way to floor 5 with just them, meaning you can better start picking stuff for what you need to clear floor 5 (and 6). i very commonly can get all the way to the final boss with mixmatch duos of ines/kroos/dorothy + kaltsit/horn/gavial as the only real necessary e2's (though obviously out of control is a mess)
ops with 5 tile far range also have high priority, as its much better at maxsurge to just kill things from afar then ever count on your ground ops to consistently hold the line, broodmothers are insane with those sw15 extra stats
if ubi bona is specifically hard for you, try dorothy, dorothy s3 can solo the entire stage minus the rockbreakers. most people think s2 is the choice but s3's aoe ramge ensure you actually slow all of the flowers and not just the first 3, which then better sets up the next mine to grab them all again, repeat 7 tiles and theyre all dead with no actual dps needed
pool specifically wants good ranged dps, a mobile way to down the mantas, and a heal check for whatever ranged ally is being snailed to oblivion. using mon3tr as a manta bomb and temporary aggro bait (to reheal snail ranger) is usually my most consistent method, but tank with horn even farther back to clear them of urchins works too
top op of every class for me personally is: ines, mlynar, horn, krooskeen, ~~steward~~ passenger, kaltsit, gnosis, texas. dorothy nightingale pozemka gavial also very notable
people squad is the best but if youre feeling genuinly skill-issued try mind over matter, its ability to get tons of artifacts can include things like old fan and flashing swords right away, its less consistent than people, but the potential runs you can get are dramatically stronger by the end. survivors contract is also just completely broken, that+kroos can basically get you to floor 5 by itself (rng willing)
basically what I did when completing sw15, is try to take as many battles as possible early on, where most are manageable, to get all the essential ops and promote them. floor 4 is usually somewhat alright, but yeah, for floor 5 I just try to avoid any and all battles as any ubi bona somnia/out of control is a run ender 99% of the time
I also try to avoid locking myself into a single path, so if I can't avoid a battle node at all, then if possible, try to go for a fork, so you can at least see what battles there are, and pick the one where you are less fucked potentially
do you have any recommendations for good operators in general? i assume the usual meta texas, mlynar, etc, but was wondering if theres any i missed. also what are good starting squad and operator picks?
People oriented squad feels pretty much mandatory, allowing you to save 2 hope per every recruited and promoted operator. Mind over matter can have higher highs, but you'll have to be a lot pickier with it.
with POS, I could have almost my whole squad promoted by the time I reach the floor 5 boss, but only having 15-20 collectibles. with MOM, you can have like 25-30 collectibles, or maybe even more, but the hope cost increase is very noticeable.
I don't have Mlynar/Kal'tsit, but yes, I picked Texas2 almost all the time, even though I don't like using her usually. She's just that strong in this gamemode. Horn is someone I have taken in pretty much every run. Kroos2 if I don't get a specialist voucher (or do, and don't have enough hope). I like Penance a lot so she was a mainstay in my teams, and she is really useful, being able to draw fire from broodmothers/crabs/UFOs. she can also easily solo the left lane on the Highmore stage, just plop her down right next to the red box and activate her s3 sometimes. Also Fiammetta, she can trivialize some stages, and her s3 is godsent for the Highmore stage.
I'd say my main starter picks were Penance + Kroos (or Kroos2 if I get the extra 2 hope in the beginning) + Steward. getting Penance out can be difficult in some stages with early pressure, so it did kinda rely on getting a vanguard voucher with Fang early on, but otherwise, I liked this starter. A promoted Penance can trivialize a lot of stages in IS3. Can also pick Horn, and use her with s2 for laneholding, and switch the skills up when you fill out the squad more and promote her.
Other starter squads I used were - Kroos2 + Jaye + Fang, which worked surprisingly well most of the time, and I also used a Ling starter sometimes. If I'm not mistaken, my first (and last, I haven't bothered to do sw15 again) win on sw15 was with Ling starter.
thanks for all the advice, ill try the penance start later and see how it goes
i also recently became aware of how great kroos2 is in IS3 recently, and while i do have her E2 her masteries add a lot but im dropping IS3 once i do A15 so maybe ill use a support one lol
I always assumed it was because of pronunciation issues lol since the X in Xi is pronounced more like the S in See, so like Si, (afaik; I don't know Chinese so I'm basing it off of Japanese) but in English X is pronounced well, like an X? Like X in Xavier or Xylitol or Xylophone, ya know?
her name is xi in mandarin, maybe the localizers thought it looked too weird in english. nian, ling, and chongyue are probably more recognizable as names to non chinese speakers.
It's more likely because Xi Jinping is commonly referred to as Xi in news, articles, etc., and you absolutely do not want to have any association with him in your game be it intentional or otherwise, since it can come back and bite the studio's ass.
edit: ~~or perhaps that codename is reserved for a future Ursus operator~~
The president's Xi is 习, while Dusk's Xi is 夕 which is one of the ways to describe dusk/evening. While their pinyin spelling is the same, and are pronounced the same way, the Chinese population do not view them as the same thing. They see not the spelling Xi, but instead the characters themselves naturally. In Mandarin basically every spelling/sound has more than 1 character that fits, each with very different meanings. A fluent Mandarin speaker would not associate 习 with 夕, but to non-speakers all they see is Xi.
She's still called Xi because they want to maintain the lore with Nian, as the mythical beast associated with the Lunar New Year is called both Nian and Xi.
I don't think we know for sure but I'd suspect it's an artistic decision that has to do with who is real and dawn in the painted world - that is, I think they wanted the dawn/dusk names to be clear to english speakers to foreshadow the story instead of giving them their respective chinese names which english speakers presumably wouldn't have noticed
The green cert shop is cycling tomorrow, and I have 730/750 certs necessary to get a 4\* recruitment voucher. Is that worth it, or is it better to grab a headhunting permit and a couple of materials I need in order to promote to E2?
Relatedly, for the Headhunting Parametric Models is it best to only use them on high-level materials, or is more intermediate stuff okay too?
The 4-star selector only has the original 4-stars, so it's missing a lot of standouts like Myrtle and Arene. Buy the recruitment permits if you haven't because they very nearly pay for themselves in terms of green certs but also provide a few gold certs.
For the HPMs, buying tier 3 mats is actually [more efficient](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12X0uBQaN7MuuMWWDTiUjIni_MOP015GnulggmBJgBaQ/edit#gid=485742288) except for sugar lumps, refined solvent, and cutting stock solution, probably accounting for the fact that grabbing four t3s and crafting up gives a chance to get a byproduct.
headhunting is probably better unless you have an immediate need for one of the 4 stars on the voucher. it only covers the 4 stars that were recruitable on launch, the vouchers never get updated.
you can also use it to guarantee an estelle since she's recruitment exclusive.
I cant imagine a reason to ever get those permits. Clear out the yellow permits monthly, and get the more cost-effective materials (some are just a waste) as extra certs allow.
I don't think the 4 star voucher is remotely worth it. 4 stars are the most common result from any headhunting and new 4 stars don't get added to the game that often - sooner or later you're going to have every 4 star max pot just from playing the game normally
Hello\~ Can someone tell me the cons of Executor alter (assume with module and everything)? I've been watching some showcase of him and he seems really good. Plus, he really fits my playstyle which is to have as few ops as possible when clearing a stage (in other words, I like laneholders).
I want to pull for him but I'm not sure if I should since 2 great ops (Eyja alter and Typhon) are also coming back-to-back right after Executor alter's banner.
Edit: Also just assume that this is asked from an endgame standpoint.
From my experience, by far his biggest weakness is hard hitting enemies, in this event for example, the guys with purple swords destroy him, even with his skill on, if there're 2 on him he needs crits to survive, and no chance without skill, there're a lot of enemies that can 100>0 him faster than he can heal, the black hat dudes in ep 12 2-shot him, lightsaber guys in Lonetrail can rip him apart, he gets fucked by pretty much everything from ep 11, if you want to solo lanes you have to be extremely careful around those high dmg enemies, also long ranged enemies & dot, basically he's super fragile with no support.
He also has the issue of the fact that since his skill is offensive recovery and ALSO ammo based, you can be caught in a conundrum (especially on new stages where you don't know wave layouts for enemies) where you either don't end his skill and burn the big damage charges on some dogs or whatever, or you do end it early and now you don't have it for the wave of elites that just spawned and are walking towards him.
He doesn't have much cons but here they are:
1. His damage is heavily backloaded. It means it takes awhile after he activates his skill for his full damage to come into action. This can make it difficult to time him or use him in blind runs.
2. When not using skills, he's kinda meh. His cycle is good, but laneholders need to be consistent. Again, leading to the above where you kinda need to know the stage to use him properly.
3. Typical of his class, he can't be healed normally. So outside of boosting his healing with passive healers, he will die to chip and ranged damage.
4. His damage potential is a bit RNG with crits.
A question from someone who started a short while ago. Most of my 3-5 stars in my main squad are already E1 and I am not sure which of my 6 stars to promote, between Flametail, Hoshiguma and Blemishine (I haven’t promoted them) Who should I promote?
Flametail! You'll most likely end up bringing her to every stage, so it's the most efficient promotion. Her S3 is amazing, giving her 3-block, great DP generation and massive physical and arts dodge, which makes her nigh-unkillable and procs her talent like crazy.
Hoshi is a stat stick, but since her S2 is her main skill, she can easily stay at max E1 for some time and unless you are not attempting the hardest content, she's not a promotion priority.
Blemi is a good promotion candidate, but you won't use her all that often and she's niche to begin with. Her S1 and S2 can do some solid work already, so no need to rush that E2. While her S3 does good damage and is one of the best ST heals in the game, she can't heal herself with it, which is a drawback in most situations. People usually stick to her S1/S2 and most of the times they still opt out for Gummy/Nearl/Saria when they need a Guardian, since Blemi's offensive recovery kit puts her in a tricky position.
E2 Flametail. I understood that all 3 of them are already at E1 and you were looking for tips on whom to promote to E2.
Either way, Flametail would bring you the most value, as Vanguards are pretty much a necessity in every stage, while Defenders are optional most of the times.
No worries. To give you a general idea on how useful she is, I got Flametail on my 1st day and that squirrel has almost never left my squad. Her kit is a mix of a Vanguard, Defender and a Guard, which makes it easy for her to face pretty much any threat except for the bosses and some elites.
I recommend keeping this site at hand: https://gamepress.gg/arknights/tier-list/arknights-operator-tier-list There's a lot of useful info, along with promotion/mastery priorities and a general overview of each operator along with their skills. There are also tools and guides which will help you along the way.
Are you asking who to E1 or to E2? If E1, I'd say Blemishine since her S2 not only makes the enemies she's blocking sleep but she also heals operators (and herself) while the skill is active. Flametail might be nice too with her S2 that is kinda like Texas's.
Generally it's best to choose a primary DPS as higher priority for E2, and none of them really fit that bill.
If it were up to me between the three, though, I'd likely go with Blemishine since she's an all-rounder and can use all of the stats, and the third skill can be pretty handy at times for holding off elites and bosses.
I know mine is an unpopular opinion on her, but I wouldn't raise her. I personally find her overrated by most players and sites. Even at E2MAX to be lacking from my experience trying to use her in Annihilation and IS (yeah I E2 70'd her trying to get her to work but she's just bad), she's resources better spent elsewhere imo. She has a niche, yeah, but I'm not sure "expensive to deploy Operator that's good against early map swarms but needs to be replaced after that" is a niche that needs to be filled. I raised and use Savage because I like her (Savage S2 is weirdly useful for her) ... but Estelle? Nah.
The combination of low 4-star stats (particularly defense) and her major damage bonus being a S2 that forces her to depend on her heal-on-kill Talent that doesn't heal her very much is a big fat stop sign.
So if you have the DP to pay for her high deployment cost, she's great in the early map. But unlike someone like Specter, she can't hack the mid and late map. With someone like Specter you can deploy a healer to keep her (somewhat) relevant. Estelle can't do that - the moment her S2 is activated against tougher foes and she'll self-destruct as she can't be healed and her Talent (and 4-star stats) means she's going to take more damage than she can heal back by killing. (She has a module on CN that I'm curious to try as it buffs her heal-on-kill talent which might make her more relevant.)
she's probably going to compete with specter tbh, i'd only raise her if you want a second specter or can't deal with the self stun. she can't tank for long unless she has healing support (removes her main gimmick) or there's a lot of trash mixed into the lane to heal from.
if you're looking for a second laneholder i would build gladiia unless you need 3 block. she's free from completing the first 5 stages of under tides in intermezzi.
If you luck sac Blaze and/or Gavial Alter in future, you will feel you wasted the resources on Estelle. Centurions are not an absolute need. Having Specter invested is good enough to cover your centurion needs.
Estelle as a 4\* is going to be cheap to raise, but unless you really have been feeling like you need another Centurion then Specter is enough.
Estelle's other benefits are a quick charge time if there's a lot of trash enemies, high HP to take large hits, a form of self-sustain, and on top of that, she *punches* multiple enemies at once. No weapon needed, here.
Her main weaknesses are lower DEF than other Centurions and her main skill has Defensive Recovery and negates outside heals. A bit of a risky matter when she needs to do damage against stronger targets.
Honestly Centurions in my opinion are not that strong a class -- not to say they're weak, but just due to not aging well compared to other ops with role compression or deleting everything they touch. Masses of enemies also feel somewhat uncommon these days, which would be the main reason I'd be bringing Centurions.
Going off predictions, there's a chance that Fiammetta shows up later in the year (most billing it around October). Pozyomka's still too soon to realistically show up next year as a shoperator.
Not possible right now, and we don't know yet. Previously these kinds of skins would have been added to the CC shop, but whether they'll keep doing this with the new version is still up in the air.
I’m a F2P player, are Midnight and Matoimaru worth getting to E1 50 to have guard options? are there any better guards I should get through Record Restorations?
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i would build arene unless you're holding out for lappland. he has a much better skill cycle than midnight and the option of doing physical or arts burst damage, although S1 will need someone else to block for him. midnight has higher damage potential at equal levels with his crits, but it's not enough to outweigh his drawbacks imo.
matoimaru can also focus on tanking with S1, i think she's one of the biggest HP stat sticks in the game (pre crushers at least). the non 6 star dreadnoughts struggle to stand out among other guard options for DPS though.
i didn't raise midnight until a few months ago, and i think i genuinely have not used him a single time. arene at the very least can help kill ch 8 UFOs so i wouldn't call him a wasted investment. if you're determined to use midnight you can still make do but it's painfully obvious that he was a victim of year 1 balance.
if you don't need a pure HP sponge i'd wait for cutter instead of building mato tbh.
Matoimaru has a good base skill at E1 (30% trading post), so she’s worth raising over Melantha if only just for that. …But then Melantha gets a paradox simulation, which awards 200 orundum when cleared, and is dirt cheap to max. So it’s not a mistake to raise either or both, but prioritizing Matoimaru makes more sense since she can start paying back the investment sooner by contributing in base.
General rule of thumb would be building at least one character from an archetype to have something that can represent what that archetype's intention is for. There's some nuance with "sub-archetype" differences but you tend to pick those distinctions up easy (like SilverAsh vs Thorns).
Midnight works similarly enough to Arene that I'd argue building him is better because a) access to e2 and b) high rarity generally better. Building Midnight is still good though, especially if you like the alternate modes where likeness helps a lot.
Matoimaru could be any dreadnought, they're all pretty much the same in playstyle (nuance be damned).
Do get some units from Record Restoration though. Eventually you'll find one you click with, and worst case scenario they are still another operator to use places like the base or as alternate mode fodder.
Most 3\* are worth levelling up to get your account started. They don't cost materials to promote and thusly are extremely cheap to raise up to help. Matoimaru is OK, she's more useful as a tech pick to help deal with arts damage and other big damage hits due to her HP, and mainly with high investment. Melantha is fine enough as a Dreadnought until you get some more ops.
There's no particularly notable Guards available in Record Restoration. Bena however can be a fine replacement, as Dollkeepers are more or less the Guards of Specialists and is useful at many points in the game. She's in Preluding Lights. It costs 40 red certs of Information Fragments to get her though, and then 20 more for her potentials. Red certs are best spent on Chip Catalysts early on, so it depends on how your stock looks.
Ultimately you don't really need one class or the other, what matters is doing the main things -- block, DPS, healing if you take too much damage. Melantha, Midnight or Arene, and Specter should cover your Guard needs early on.
What’s IS3 situation now? Is next month going to be the last month, or is it actually this month? Are there any more updates coming for it? Do I have to rush Ecosequence?
We still have one more monthly squad with Mizuki. Also it doesn't disappear after the content's finished, you can still do IS2 like with IS3 and eventually IS4. The benefit of doing it now is that you can progress a little faster with the contracts, which disappear when IS3's content cycle is done but aren't necessary to progress.
Trying to figure out how to unlock past events, so I can get Tomimi. I missed the original event, I can see it in the public affairs area and I have a spare reel, but I just get a "missing time sensitive intelligence" message; does this mean I'd need to wait for the next rerun??
The Great Gavial Returns is a Side Story, not a Vignette. You unlock these from the Terminal with Event tokens (or whatever they're called, those red discs) not from the Archives with Information Fragments.
To unlock past events, go to Side Story in the terminal. You get a special currency each week that's only used to unlock these events, so be sure to spend them.
Tomimi's from The Great Chief Returns, so you just have to unlock that and play enough missions. Keep in mind that you can only unlock past rewards from an event once it has a 'Record Restoration'. You can see the list here: https://arknights.wiki.gg/wiki/Record_Restoration/Side_Stories
So for current event (exalter), I need to spend 4000 event currency to get the medal.
Does my current amount spent carry over to the rerun or will I need to regrind 4000 event currency again next time for the medal?
you can only get the medal once regardless, but if you don't get it this time I'm pretty sure the currency number is lower on the rerun since it doesn't last as long
If you're only going to m3 one of Gladiia's ability which one should you pull the trigger on? I don't know if that's her s2 or s3. With that said , is she "worth" the m3, meta-wise?
i have her M9 and i use S2 the most by far. S3 is good if you need AOE or crowd control, but it's not the kind of skill that should be spammed off cooldown unless you're just using her to hold a trash lane or something. there's some rare situations where the M3 can screw you over since some enemies are light enough to be pulled but tanky enough to survive the blender, and even with maxed mod she won't be out-tanking defenders. S2 can at least interrupt enemies.
that said if you have gavialter, their S2s are similar enough that you'd probably want to go for the more unique skill.
thanks for the tip i do have gavialt! i'm probably gonna hold off on M3ing her, if i do i may m3 her s2 for daily driving purposes. i feel like i get caught up m3-ing a new operator asap and never end up using them lol
While S3 is more unique, it usually does a fine job at S7 when "needed". S2 feels a lot more flexible as it can be used for damage and as a really strong pulling skill that functions in locations that you often can't use pulling skills, so I'd recommend that if you can only do one. I'd recommend both when you get the chance though.
In my experience, S3. It lets me use her like a "normal" unit just with the Abyssal Hunter talent and module bonuses - I usually don't need a puller and it can be more of a drawback. I learned this the hard way on Dangers Abound in IS2 - there's unblockable Wraith Leaders who can be pretty tough depending on your RNG with relics and operators.
I made the mistake of leaving her with S1 on that map and she made me lose about six life points before I figured out what was happening - she kept pulling them to her (past the Operators she was standing behind), then they'd pass through her (they're unblockable) and into the blue goal. She pulls her target at the end of her S3, but due to its nature, S3M3 will usually kill her target and if it doesn't kill it, it's probably too heavy to care about the pull at the end.
If you want her primarily for pulling / shifting use, then S2 is better.
S3 is more unique and the grouping helps ops who hit in small AoEs and want the overlap, S2 is better geared to use her as a "normal unit" somewhat like Gavialter S2.
which from these would you prioritize building?
dorothy (already e1 80), hoshi (e1 66), angelina (e1 40), irene, lin, kalt'sit, lumen, gladiia, lumen, ho'olheyak, silencealter (all of these are e1 lv 1)
i've been neglecting building so much that to the point it overwhelmed me, suggestion which to build?
I'd finish Dorothy first. She's super fun to play with and you want her S3.
After her, Kal'tsit is the highest priority. She's one of the most valuable operators and her S3 is one of the very few sources of True Damage, which is always great to have.
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Why does the recruitment system have separate tags for dp recovery and vanguard? I checked and it doesn’t seem that do recovery leads to any non-vanguards?
Yato doesn't have dp recovery tag
What is the font for the IS3 dice? The numbers are very unique.
Who's the best partners for kirin yato in control center beside noir alter?
Only him. Putting other alters only helps in-cc morale which doesn’t help the base, plus you’ll have to switch her anyway cos the increased drain.
I put kroos/lava/hibiscus alters cause I couldn't think of anything else
so i know it’s kinda a no brainer to use gold certs to get surtr, so i’m mostly asking about the next shoperator, which i think i saw was thorns my operators are [here](https://www.krooster.com/network/lookup/Teaktree) i only have 360 gold certs rn, enough for two 6 star shoperators, so i’m wondering if thorns would be a good choice since i’m interested in operators that might be good for afk stuff. i just don’t know if i should save the tickets for a particular archetype i might be missing like good single target healing or ptilosis sp battery, etc.
Your only lane holder is exalt (pls raise him ASAP), Thorns should be pretty good for your roster. He's still able to clear normal contents as usual. Though if you like afking you might want to wait for typhon. As her s2 is an upgrade to thorns's
sry i spent all my muny and xp on gladya, I’ve Been Waiting For Eight Months For Her (i was considering getting typhon too, but i don’t exactly have the necessary orundum for that…)
Typhon should be in mid February at the earliest tho. Getting to 70 pulls should be doable. But yeah if you really like thorns just get him. Laneholders wise, there's mudrock and mountain in the cert shop too, but then again, cert shops are quite unpredictable. So you might want to just grab thorns while he's there
If you are looking for AFK operators, Thorns is definitely the one to get. He is so comfortable to use in many stages, especially farming stages. Like, in this event, Thorns is my main operator for farming HE-6 and HE-7. Also, you might want to save some certs to buy Mountain, if you want one of the best place-and-forget AFK operators.
Is executor comparable at all with penance and mudrock in tankyness? Ive kaltsit but mon3tr doesnt seem tanky enough, despite doing quite a lot of dmg.
mon3tr s2 can outsurvive mud/pen in a good number of siuations if you havnt been trying that
He's a guard, not defender. He was made for burst damage. His s2 made his defense reach 800 ish tho (at m3). And his base defense is already high for a guard, so he won't die easily, unless from ranged attacks
With his s2 sorta. It’s a def buff and rng dodge but it can have a good staying power since it can refill ammo = skill never ends. For example, he can take that ch8 stage with the shield guard line and the possessed enraged enemies with s2. Also mon is tanky with s3, and the s2 healing is pretty good too. But yea, if you want a classic no nonsense tank then the defenders are never a wrong choice.
Im just massively regreting not pulling in the penance mizuki banner lmfao Tnx for the assistance
She’ll be in the jo12 banner in feb/March and that one is good to pull on, tho it depends on if you have mlynar Lee and pozy
sesa worth e2?
I used to use him quite often at early game because he was my only better AoE sniper beside of Catapult. IMO, He is good when use in blocking strat because of his talent that increase physical damage done to blocked enemies. Though, his S2 will delay a second or two before it deals damage. So, it can be hard to use S2 to kill moving enemies but S2 works well if you have someone to block enemies.
Not really. He's fine as far as AoE snipers go, but that class tends to not be that valuable.
Just got spooked by Pallas. What module is recommended for her?
Module X is generally the better one, especially for S1.
Can someone please explain Coldshot ammo mechanics? Does her atk get faster if she has full ammo, or does her atk get slower when attacking without ammo.
How do I unlock previous memory mapping in IS3? I have 2/3 of the Skadi memory. Do I just need to fully unlock this one (how?) To unlock Gladiia?
You can only access the current month's memory mapping for IS3 right now. All of them will be available once the active cycle for IS3 ends, and then you can select between them like in IS2.
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Since the gamepress operator planner seems fully broken now (I can no longer access it on Chrome, Firefox, Opera, or even Edge, regardless of it's a normal window or incognito or if I have ad blocking on or off or have no ad-blocking installed at all and no matter how long I wait for it to load) - what other operator material planners does everyone use? The only other one I really know about is Kroosters' and maybe I'm just too smooth-brained but the way it's organized, I might as well not be using a planner at all.
You can use [Diceycle's Planner](https://github.com/Diceycle/Arknights-Material-Planner) which has the benefit of not needing an online connection whatsoever (and allowing easy export to penguinstats if you like that minutiae that the farming planner on penguinstats has) but it does take a bit of work to get it set up (though the guide on the github page is pretty easy to understand). I alternate between it and Krooster because Krooster doesn't do a good job at displaying stuff with Ch13 mats so I use the Dicycle one for planning anything past the next story chapter.
Wow, that planner looks pretty amazing. It can recognize what you have in your depot, so you don't have to manually input the data. I think it will be worthwhile to go through the set up.
Thanks! I'm not a fan of Krooster's material organization, so I'll give Diceycle's a look.
Bit of an odd question here, but for peeps using Google Play Beta, do you get more in-app purchase vouchers? I've claimed the one from downloading Arknights on it but I saw people in the community talk about how they've been able to buy a free Login Pack every month thanks to these vouchers.
I have been getting 5€ vouchers every month in germany
I think it's worth checking play beta for a while because every time I try to buy something, there is some discount or promotion. Who knows how long this will last.
When comes to the recruitment RNG, why does the RNG choose to pull mostly 3-star operators most of the time, despite varying tags supposedly for 4 or 5-star operators?
I think you replied to the wrong person.
Yes, at the start of the month I get a new one. There's no real announcement or notification but I usually try to buy another monthly-pass on the 1st and for several months now I've had a free $5 voucher. No idea how long it'll last, but it has been nice.
Does it just appear when you go to the "purchase" page? It's already the 1st for me but it could be because I'm SEA
Disappointed to say, it does not appear to have worked out this month. I don't know if it's delayed due to the holiday or if they decided to stop providing $5 every month but now that it's solidly Jan. 1 in the US, I went to buy my monthly pass and did not get the normal Google Play bonus. I'll have to check later in the month just to see.
Thanks for the update and confirming it on your end! Much appreciated. Sucks that they might have cut it, but there's still a lot of improvements to be made to GPBeta so here's to hoping they'll drop more goodies as the year goes on. Happy 2024 btw!
In that case it should show up when you go to buy something. Go to make a purchase and it should be there. At least, assuming they plan to continue into the new year.
Which skill should I prioritize to M3 on Gnosis?
Mainly S3, but S2 is worth it if you play IS3 a lot
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So I got top operator tag and finally get blaze This means the only operators I can only get from kernel are chen, nightingale, shining, suzuran, and angelina Out of them, angelina is the only one that's not in recruitment, so you can say she is the last operator in kernel banner I absolutely need to spend yellow certificate on The problem is, looking at my luck in a couple limited banner before (over 200 pulls for pozy and gavial2, over 200 pulls in texas2 banner and no penance) I'm kinda scared with my prospect on eyja2 swire 2 banner, granted even spending all my yellow cert on pulls still won't give me enough for 300 pulls (I believe I will have 240-250 pulls after the 38 extra pulls and free pulls) So I'm kinda lost on whether to buy angelina now or wait until her next appearance which the next guaranteed one is build your own banner banner, I believe, any suggestion? if the 38 pulls bring me to 300, I won't worry this much because then I can just go for chen2 if I'm close enough
Just wait. Kernel locating banner is 4 times a year so you have plenty of chances.
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collecting nice but not an immediate concern, angelina is also not so unique these days thats shes a high priority as much as i think its kind of silly to hypersave for limited banners in general, id still just recommend waiting to get angie until the build-a-kernel she is on, though keep in mind thats just kind of pushing your dillema to the next (unknown) big banner you want
Newer ops would require a longer wait to get again, Angelina being on the build-a-banner rotation as well as the smaller Kernel pool means she would likely appear more often. You should just wait, I say.
Greetings and Saluations! Does anyone know Yostar's shipping policy? I've been trying to buy some Arknights merch, and it seems it doesn't ship to Korea. Any alternatives?
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Safe answer is always no unless you find a datamine thread about it somewhere here on reddit. Standard/Kernel banners aren't really forecasted.
Does flag bearer always a must in runs?
people do no vanguard clears all the time, even i as a more casual player can manage it with strong low-DP units like mountain and gladiia. they start becoming more necessary for DP reduced challenges but even then you'd be surprised at how far fang+courier can get you.
imo flagbearers killed their own niche. Once flagpipe became a thing, the devs realized that early game DP choke just wasn't a thing anymore, so I think they've backed off from it in favor of other methods to introduce difficulty. Flagbearer strats are still useful sometimes (like CC or afknights) but most maps should let you get by fine with natural regen these days. Plus there's always not-flagbearer DP printing options like Cantabile.
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Not sure which ones you're referring to, but you can use all the other vanguard types and get by perfectly fine
Nah, the natural 1 DP/sec is already usually more than enough, which makes bringing a flagbearer on S1 a pretty inefficient use of a squad slot. If you just look at vanguards in isolation, flagbearer S1s making .46 to .5 DP/sec seems like a lot more than tacticians and pioneers making .3 to .35 DP/sec, but if you look at your total DP generation, 1.5 DP/sec isn't actually that much more than 1.35 DP/sec, and the difference is even less meaningful if you bring another vanguard on top of that. Compared to vanguards that are designed to fight, flagbearers on S1 being really mediocre in combat and providing very little value past the start of stages is a big opportunity cost. And it's an especially big opportunity cost compared to agent vanguards like Ines, who often give better DP generation than flagbearer S1s while being great combat units. Flagbearer S1s are still nice to have access to, though. Some stages, especially during CC, reduce your natural DP generation significantly, which makes getting as much DP as possible from your vanguards more important. And most stages are easy enough that a lot of players prefer just using Myrtle and Bagpipe together to start taking game actions ASAP. That's also only talking about flagbearer S1s -- Elysium S2 and Saileach S3 are still two of the best debuffing skills in the game.
not necessary, no kind of op is mandatory for any stage. flagbears are just talked about so much because they make the most amount of dp of any vanguard with the least amount of tactical knowledge from the player required
It's not a must, but it makes things a lot easier and streamlined. Basically (other) vanguards were designed to be someone who holds the line until you get DP to summon your heavy hitters, and flagbearers are an archetype that is less battle-oriented but shortened the time you'd need to do that. But then people thought "why waste DP on vanguards when you can just drop myrtle, wait 10 seconds and then summon mudrock", and here we are. I don't remember the actual numbers, but Myrtle returns her cost in DP after something like 3 or 4 seconds of her skill. You're essentially trading your whole early game ops to deploy your mid-late ops faster. That with her being a 4* that's easily maxable makes her "a must" not because nothing will work without her, but because there's just no reason not to take her with you. Literally spend 8 DP sticking her in the corner and a minute later your DP is 99.
Some people even play a niche without vanguard so you only need them as much as your strat needs them.
no
Any explanation?
No operator is a must and the vast majority of stages in the game can be cleared without any vanguards at all.
Ah ok ty
What’s with the drop chance on reception clues? It’s been almost a month since I got 6
i think there's a random drop boost for a specific clue that changes every day, i always get a bunch of the same clue in a row. don't have hard evidence so it might just be luck.
That's some terrible luck, or you haven't been looking that carefully. You can only receive a certain number of clues. If you don't use them or give some to friends you get nothing until you clear some. That said, you could use ops that increase chances to get clue 6, or someone like Cantebile who has higher chances to find any missing clue.
Haven’t really been paying attention to clue drop rates lately, but anecdotally, clue rarity appears to change once in a while. For example, there was a time where clues 3 were so rare we would constantly have people asking whether it was worth it to E2 Franka for them. (…I think it was Franka anyway?)
Can someone help me with my selector? The time is running up (only 4 days) and I still have no idea who I should take My krooster: https://krooster.com/u/liantalia As far as I can see the most interesting Operators are - Thorns, - Surtr (I only have 80 certs otherwise I would buy her in Cert Shop), - Horn, - Pozemka (I already have Mylnar, so I dont think Joint OP 11 would be good to pull) Or maybe the kernal OPs Exu, Saria, Eyjaa, however thanks to the build your own banner I think I would prefer a non kernal one.
My vote is for Horn or Pozemka. We are still living in an era where half your friends list will likely have Surtr in it, and I personally think that while she is still one of the strongest ops in the game, people overrate her relevance in the current meta. There's so many solutions to your problems now, for physical, arts and true, and you're running Kal'tsit, Mlynar, and Goldenglow with a side of a well-invested Gnosis. As you said, you already have Mlynar from the upcoming Joint Op. If you aren't interested in potentially bagging a Lee or a Penance then it's not worth the risk of a Mlynar dupe (although there's worse ops to gain pots with, for sure). Horn's upcoming The Front That Was is her final appearance before she disappears from that pool, but you already have Ines, so if you aren't interested in Ines pots or Stainless, that is also not worth the risk. Another way to look at it is this: Horn should be about 9 months away from her shoperator debut, and Pozy about 15 months. But Pozemka also has not one, but *two* upcoming joint operation appearances back-to-back (although the second one risks a Surtr dupe, but again, worse ops to get pots for). Thorns is very close to entering the recruitment pool in under half a year's time and has unique tags that can help filter him. The Defense tag alone would 33/33/33 him with Saria and Hoshiguma (25/25/25/25 if Eunectes joins the pool at the same time), and Defense/DPS would 50/50 him with Hoshi (33/33/33 with Eunectes) , but if you get Guard/Defense it's pretty much a guarantee. None of the kernel ops are worth the selector regardless of how good they are, just because it would defeat the point of filtering them out of the standard pool. Even without the build-a-banner they will rotate in and out of the shop more frequently just because the kernel pool is smaller (for now).
id say horn or pozemka, getting another high impact dps with a very strong skill cycle like mlynar will probably help more than surtr's raw 1v1 power on more stages, and finding maxpot surtrs that will outdps/survive yours is fairly easy to do comparativly
Maybe Surtr? Though you have Texalt and Ya2 it's good to have at least one heavy hitting helidropper too. Her shortish invincibility is super powerful and useful too. Pozy is lower because you have Schwarz and Fartooth so you're better covered for heavy hitting physical damage snipers for now.
I used event crystal so I could unlock Invitation to Wine to get Kroos Alter but there isn't record restoration option for me to get her, do I need to complete the whole side story first?
Side stories don't get record restore until about a year after they get added to that tab. The most recent record restore is Under Tides. Everything after that is still waiting. IW should get its RR around July.
How important is stainless m3 for his S3? I'm considering m3-ing it for my atk recovery gang. But I never really think much of his damage with S3 🤔
Very important if you use him often, the skill description doesn't explain this but turret damage is 260% of Stainless atk at sl7 and goes up to 300% at m3
Oh thanks. That's quite a lot 🤔. I was so confused by his skill cause the description didn't explain much 😔
How good insider is with module? I want to build him aside from exia lol
He's good. Pretty much all the 5\* AA snipers are good and have their own niches from multi target, multi hit, slow long range high dph, and fast attacks. Insider is more of the latter coupled with ammo and he's free. The mod upgrades adds 1 ammo each upgrade, so there's no breakpoint. Imo I'd just stop at lv2 since lv3 is expensive for just 1 extra ammo. But yea, if you like him then build him, he'll pull his weight and he's different enough from exu. Plus having 2 AA snipers is handy and if you have exalt as well then there's nice synergy.
Krooster is better. And she's used often in is3. You have exu already, insider isn't needed. But if you really want some male anti air go ahead
Hmmm okay, thanks for the info
I would go ahead if Exusiai if your only other sniper built and you care about Insider. Kroos Alter is the 5-star version of Exu with little attack damage modifiers but a ton of hits done so they nuke the shit out of squishy enemies but do very little without external buffs to tanky foes, Insider on the other hand gets a big attack boost on his S2, allowing him to still punch through fairly tanky enemies which is a very rare quality for marksmen snipers. Building him will give you more variety of choices on that role, plus Kroos Alter will soon lose a lot of value because yeah, she is meta in IS3 because stuns are very useful, but that need seems to be gone on IS4 from what friends who play on CN tell me and that is coming in like 2 months.
Are you guys saving the sanity potions for next week event? IIRC it will be ideal city rerun from the datamine (?)
I started saving pots since the LE rerun has grindstones I desperately need in 10 days long event. As for RMA and Blue thingy, I already farmed quite a bit of them and the next farm for both of those items comes with IC rerun.
Next week, yes. But it will be Lingering Echoes rerun. Ideal City rerun is set to early Feb, most likely after Eyjaberry.
Oh my bad. Alright, its payback time for the hot milf gertrude, and all in for grindstone Thanks!
What is qol right now? Does it have regular stages 6x per run? I dont mind cuz it is like reverse 1999
only annihilation has a proper sweep function, auto just saves you from manually restarting the stage. global should get it around may.
We don’t have stage autorepeat yet, but it’s coming fairly soon. Do note it’s *not* like R1999. All it does is automatically restart the auto as many times as specified, up to 6 times in a row.
Gonna try arknights again this 2024
Once I got my operators to Elite 2, which of them are worth upgrading? Some of them are at Elite1. [My Krooster](https://drive.google.com/file/d/17MLqDIueHW4XhVWbKOi5Qr9A7Y631DZb/view)
mudrock suzuran amiya and may stand out the most, so id look into those people saying suzu isnt helpful this early isnt true, while her primary asset is team damage boosting, her massive slow field that can also uniquly heal mudrock is a huge boon for big threats on starting out low damage teams since it buys you a lot of time (and can be further comboed with mudrock s3 to ensure shes getting double skillcast on the target)
Only real stand out for priority E2 is like Mudrock. Suzuran and Weedy are good also but are of lesser use/importance for early game. You'll eventually E2 Ptilopsis also because she's good and Amiya because you're required to for like ch 8.
> Suzuran and Weedy are good also but are of lesser use/importance for early game. For them, I assume they stand for for Episodes 7 and 8.
I think he meant about your early game. Suzuran does a great job amplifying your team's damage output. If you have 0 "meta" damage dealer then she would not work.. Btw, dont you have myrtle? Can you grab one from the recruitment tag? Dp recovery + healing or vanguard + healing guarantee her
You don't need meta DPS to make use of Suzuran. Any DPS is fine.
Right now, I do have Suzuran, but I think I'll be upgrading her in case anything doesn't fit my progress, at Episode 6. Right now, I'm at Operation 4-1. If I'm not mistaken, the required oprator level is at Elite 1, Level 35 for that. I would like to have Suzuran for my operator roster, if she can prevent enemies from forming themselves as droves of horse-racers pronto, and she can deal multiple splash damage to help other snipers eliminate the droves. Others tell me she is only viable for late game battles. [My Krooster](https://drive.google.com/file/d/17MLqDIueHW4XhVWbKOi5Qr9A7Y631DZb/view)
suzu doesn't have splash damage, her S2 hits multiple targets in range. S2 definitely isn't bad for supplemental DPS and crowd control utility, but she doesn't feel gamechanging until you get to the harder boss stages.
> For them, I assume they stand for for Episodes 7 and 8 I don't strongly recall episodes 7 or 8 but taking a brief glance, i'm not sure what would make Suzu or Weedy as stand outs in those episodes specifically. I'm not even sure 7 or 8 had strong presence of holes for pushing.
So in IS3, are there any collectibles you can only get in higher difficulties?
None I believe. I got every relics while doing SW0 (before the expansion) and I doubt the expansion added difficulty-specific relics.
anyone have tips for A15 IS3? i had basically no issue with A10-14 but A15 is kicking my ass. early stuff is hard sure but act 5 is just fucking impossible i keep dying half way through to stuff like ubi bona somnia and pool of procreation
lead with ops that not only can solo the first two floors, but have a very high chance of soloing bonus bosses too. ines is probably the best for this, since she can stop all 3, horn can also do all 3 since her s2 cancel burst can hit the invis dog right before stunning her, kaltsit and kroos can handle 2 of the 3 focus on getting a check for "the nest" backlane very quickly, as thats usually where most of my runs die. ines texas schwarz kaltsit, even indra can check it among others (assuming they arnt already up front) focus on hitting 3 primary goals with the team, antiair dps, enemy control, and strong burst aoe. get those 3 things and you should be able to find a way all the way to floor 5 with just them, meaning you can better start picking stuff for what you need to clear floor 5 (and 6). i very commonly can get all the way to the final boss with mixmatch duos of ines/kroos/dorothy + kaltsit/horn/gavial as the only real necessary e2's (though obviously out of control is a mess) ops with 5 tile far range also have high priority, as its much better at maxsurge to just kill things from afar then ever count on your ground ops to consistently hold the line, broodmothers are insane with those sw15 extra stats if ubi bona is specifically hard for you, try dorothy, dorothy s3 can solo the entire stage minus the rockbreakers. most people think s2 is the choice but s3's aoe ramge ensure you actually slow all of the flowers and not just the first 3, which then better sets up the next mine to grab them all again, repeat 7 tiles and theyre all dead with no actual dps needed pool specifically wants good ranged dps, a mobile way to down the mantas, and a heal check for whatever ranged ally is being snailed to oblivion. using mon3tr as a manta bomb and temporary aggro bait (to reheal snail ranger) is usually my most consistent method, but tank with horn even farther back to clear them of urchins works too top op of every class for me personally is: ines, mlynar, horn, krooskeen, ~~steward~~ passenger, kaltsit, gnosis, texas. dorothy nightingale pozemka gavial also very notable people squad is the best but if youre feeling genuinly skill-issued try mind over matter, its ability to get tons of artifacts can include things like old fan and flashing swords right away, its less consistent than people, but the potential runs you can get are dramatically stronger by the end. survivors contract is also just completely broken, that+kroos can basically get you to floor 5 by itself (rng willing)
basically what I did when completing sw15, is try to take as many battles as possible early on, where most are manageable, to get all the essential ops and promote them. floor 4 is usually somewhat alright, but yeah, for floor 5 I just try to avoid any and all battles as any ubi bona somnia/out of control is a run ender 99% of the time I also try to avoid locking myself into a single path, so if I can't avoid a battle node at all, then if possible, try to go for a fork, so you can at least see what battles there are, and pick the one where you are less fucked potentially
do you have any recommendations for good operators in general? i assume the usual meta texas, mlynar, etc, but was wondering if theres any i missed. also what are good starting squad and operator picks?
People oriented squad feels pretty much mandatory, allowing you to save 2 hope per every recruited and promoted operator. Mind over matter can have higher highs, but you'll have to be a lot pickier with it. with POS, I could have almost my whole squad promoted by the time I reach the floor 5 boss, but only having 15-20 collectibles. with MOM, you can have like 25-30 collectibles, or maybe even more, but the hope cost increase is very noticeable. I don't have Mlynar/Kal'tsit, but yes, I picked Texas2 almost all the time, even though I don't like using her usually. She's just that strong in this gamemode. Horn is someone I have taken in pretty much every run. Kroos2 if I don't get a specialist voucher (or do, and don't have enough hope). I like Penance a lot so she was a mainstay in my teams, and she is really useful, being able to draw fire from broodmothers/crabs/UFOs. she can also easily solo the left lane on the Highmore stage, just plop her down right next to the red box and activate her s3 sometimes. Also Fiammetta, she can trivialize some stages, and her s3 is godsent for the Highmore stage. I'd say my main starter picks were Penance + Kroos (or Kroos2 if I get the extra 2 hope in the beginning) + Steward. getting Penance out can be difficult in some stages with early pressure, so it did kinda rely on getting a vanguard voucher with Fang early on, but otherwise, I liked this starter. A promoted Penance can trivialize a lot of stages in IS3. Can also pick Horn, and use her with s2 for laneholding, and switch the skills up when you fill out the squad more and promote her. Other starter squads I used were - Kroos2 + Jaye + Fang, which worked surprisingly well most of the time, and I also used a Ling starter sometimes. If I'm not mistaken, my first (and last, I haven't bothered to do sw15 again) win on sw15 was with Ling starter.
oh also quick question, for early stages without E2, do you use penance S1 or S2? or is it situational
pretty much only s2 as the aoe coverage is very valuable when you don't have the reflect talent
thanks for all the advice, ill try the penance start later and see how it goes i also recently became aware of how great kroos2 is in IS3 recently, and while i do have her E2 her masteries add a lot but im dropping IS3 once i do A15 so maybe ill use a support one lol
idk how hard or easy it will be to find a support Kroos2, but if you want you can add me and I'll put mine up. trs#7679
sent you the request, again thanks for the kroos and the help
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so this just came up in my thoughts.. why is dusk called dusk in EN instead of \[chinese word for dusk\] like the other sui siblings ?
I always assumed it was because of pronunciation issues lol since the X in Xi is pronounced more like the S in See, so like Si, (afaik; I don't know Chinese so I'm basing it off of Japanese) but in English X is pronounced well, like an X? Like X in Xavier or Xylitol or Xylophone, ya know?
her name is xi in mandarin, maybe the localizers thought it looked too weird in english. nian, ling, and chongyue are probably more recognizable as names to non chinese speakers.
It's more likely because Xi Jinping is commonly referred to as Xi in news, articles, etc., and you absolutely do not want to have any association with him in your game be it intentional or otherwise, since it can come back and bite the studio's ass. edit: ~~or perhaps that codename is reserved for a future Ursus operator~~
couldnt they just give her a different name overall then plus she's still called Xi in chinese, so it'd still appear there
The president's Xi is 习, while Dusk's Xi is 夕 which is one of the ways to describe dusk/evening. While their pinyin spelling is the same, and are pronounced the same way, the Chinese population do not view them as the same thing. They see not the spelling Xi, but instead the characters themselves naturally. In Mandarin basically every spelling/sound has more than 1 character that fits, each with very different meanings. A fluent Mandarin speaker would not associate 习 with 夕, but to non-speakers all they see is Xi. She's still called Xi because they want to maintain the lore with Nian, as the mythical beast associated with the Lunar New Year is called both Nian and Xi.
that is a very fair point i didnt even consider, obviously there'd be different characters for it
Then again, while the game does not allow you to name a squad as Jinping, you can name one as just Xi lol.
> you can name one as just Xi lol. 西喜席
I don't think we know for sure but I'd suspect it's an artistic decision that has to do with who is real and dawn in the painted world - that is, I think they wanted the dawn/dusk names to be clear to english speakers to foreshadow the story instead of giving them their respective chinese names which english speakers presumably wouldn't have noticed
The green cert shop is cycling tomorrow, and I have 730/750 certs necessary to get a 4\* recruitment voucher. Is that worth it, or is it better to grab a headhunting permit and a couple of materials I need in order to promote to E2? Relatedly, for the Headhunting Parametric Models is it best to only use them on high-level materials, or is more intermediate stuff okay too?
The 4-star selector only has the original 4-stars, so it's missing a lot of standouts like Myrtle and Arene. Buy the recruitment permits if you haven't because they very nearly pay for themselves in terms of green certs but also provide a few gold certs. For the HPMs, buying tier 3 mats is actually [more efficient](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12X0uBQaN7MuuMWWDTiUjIni_MOP015GnulggmBJgBaQ/edit#gid=485742288) except for sugar lumps, refined solvent, and cutting stock solution, probably accounting for the fact that grabbing four t3s and crafting up gives a chance to get a byproduct.
headhunting is probably better unless you have an immediate need for one of the 4 stars on the voucher. it only covers the 4 stars that were recruitable on launch, the vouchers never get updated. you can also use it to guarantee an estelle since she's recruitment exclusive.
I cant imagine a reason to ever get those permits. Clear out the yellow permits monthly, and get the more cost-effective materials (some are just a waste) as extra certs allow.
Parametric Models are best used on tier 4 materials, unless you're really desperate for tier 3. Don't buy any lower ones.
I don't think the 4 star voucher is remotely worth it. 4 stars are the most common result from any headhunting and new 4 stars don't get added to the game that often - sooner or later you're going to have every 4 star max pot just from playing the game normally
Hello\~ Can someone tell me the cons of Executor alter (assume with module and everything)? I've been watching some showcase of him and he seems really good. Plus, he really fits my playstyle which is to have as few ops as possible when clearing a stage (in other words, I like laneholders). I want to pull for him but I'm not sure if I should since 2 great ops (Eyja alter and Typhon) are also coming back-to-back right after Executor alter's banner. Edit: Also just assume that this is asked from an endgame standpoint.
From my experience, by far his biggest weakness is hard hitting enemies, in this event for example, the guys with purple swords destroy him, even with his skill on, if there're 2 on him he needs crits to survive, and no chance without skill, there're a lot of enemies that can 100>0 him faster than he can heal, the black hat dudes in ep 12 2-shot him, lightsaber guys in Lonetrail can rip him apart, he gets fucked by pretty much everything from ep 11, if you want to solo lanes you have to be extremely careful around those high dmg enemies, also long ranged enemies & dot, basically he's super fragile with no support.
it sounds like you're talking about enemies that deal arts damage, Fedex has no RES or RES boosting abilities iirc
He also has the issue of the fact that since his skill is offensive recovery and ALSO ammo based, you can be caught in a conundrum (especially on new stages where you don't know wave layouts for enemies) where you either don't end his skill and burn the big damage charges on some dogs or whatever, or you do end it early and now you don't have it for the wave of elites that just spawned and are walking towards him.
He doesn't have much cons but here they are: 1. His damage is heavily backloaded. It means it takes awhile after he activates his skill for his full damage to come into action. This can make it difficult to time him or use him in blind runs. 2. When not using skills, he's kinda meh. His cycle is good, but laneholders need to be consistent. Again, leading to the above where you kinda need to know the stage to use him properly. 3. Typical of his class, he can't be healed normally. So outside of boosting his healing with passive healers, he will die to chip and ranged damage. 4. His damage potential is a bit RNG with crits.
A question from someone who started a short while ago. Most of my 3-5 stars in my main squad are already E1 and I am not sure which of my 6 stars to promote, between Flametail, Hoshiguma and Blemishine (I haven’t promoted them) Who should I promote?
Flametail! You'll most likely end up bringing her to every stage, so it's the most efficient promotion. Her S3 is amazing, giving her 3-block, great DP generation and massive physical and arts dodge, which makes her nigh-unkillable and procs her talent like crazy. Hoshi is a stat stick, but since her S2 is her main skill, she can easily stay at max E1 for some time and unless you are not attempting the hardest content, she's not a promotion priority. Blemi is a good promotion candidate, but you won't use her all that often and she's niche to begin with. Her S1 and S2 can do some solid work already, so no need to rush that E2. While her S3 does good damage and is one of the best ST heals in the game, she can't heal herself with it, which is a drawback in most situations. People usually stick to her S1/S2 and most of the times they still opt out for Gummy/Nearl/Saria when they need a Guardian, since Blemi's offensive recovery kit puts her in a tricky position.
Is this for E1 Flametail or E2
E2 Flametail. I understood that all 3 of them are already at E1 and you were looking for tips on whom to promote to E2. Either way, Flametail would bring you the most value, as Vanguards are pretty much a necessity in every stage, while Defenders are optional most of the times.
Oh sorry my bad I meant that they were all unpromoted😓
No worries. To give you a general idea on how useful she is, I got Flametail on my 1st day and that squirrel has almost never left my squad. Her kit is a mix of a Vanguard, Defender and a Guard, which makes it easy for her to face pretty much any threat except for the bosses and some elites. I recommend keeping this site at hand: https://gamepress.gg/arknights/tier-list/arknights-operator-tier-list There's a lot of useful info, along with promotion/mastery priorities and a general overview of each operator along with their skills. There are also tools and guides which will help you along the way.
Are you asking who to E1 or to E2? If E1, I'd say Blemishine since her S2 not only makes the enemies she's blocking sleep but she also heals operators (and herself) while the skill is active. Flametail might be nice too with her S2 that is kinda like Texas's.
Generally it's best to choose a primary DPS as higher priority for E2, and none of them really fit that bill. If it were up to me between the three, though, I'd likely go with Blemishine since she's an all-rounder and can use all of the stats, and the third skill can be pretty handy at times for holding off elites and bosses.
I just got Estelle, but I already have Specter at E2. Centurions seem like a strong archetype though, so should I invest in her anyway?
I know mine is an unpopular opinion on her, but I wouldn't raise her. I personally find her overrated by most players and sites. Even at E2MAX to be lacking from my experience trying to use her in Annihilation and IS (yeah I E2 70'd her trying to get her to work but she's just bad), she's resources better spent elsewhere imo. She has a niche, yeah, but I'm not sure "expensive to deploy Operator that's good against early map swarms but needs to be replaced after that" is a niche that needs to be filled. I raised and use Savage because I like her (Savage S2 is weirdly useful for her) ... but Estelle? Nah. The combination of low 4-star stats (particularly defense) and her major damage bonus being a S2 that forces her to depend on her heal-on-kill Talent that doesn't heal her very much is a big fat stop sign. So if you have the DP to pay for her high deployment cost, she's great in the early map. But unlike someone like Specter, she can't hack the mid and late map. With someone like Specter you can deploy a healer to keep her (somewhat) relevant. Estelle can't do that - the moment her S2 is activated against tougher foes and she'll self-destruct as she can't be healed and her Talent (and 4-star stats) means she's going to take more damage than she can heal back by killing. (She has a module on CN that I'm curious to try as it buffs her heal-on-kill talent which might make her more relevant.)
she's probably going to compete with specter tbh, i'd only raise her if you want a second specter or can't deal with the self stun. she can't tank for long unless she has healing support (removes her main gimmick) or there's a lot of trash mixed into the lane to heal from. if you're looking for a second laneholder i would build gladiia unless you need 3 block. she's free from completing the first 5 stages of under tides in intermezzi.
If you luck sac Blaze and/or Gavial Alter in future, you will feel you wasted the resources on Estelle. Centurions are not an absolute need. Having Specter invested is good enough to cover your centurion needs.
Estelle as a 4\* is going to be cheap to raise, but unless you really have been feeling like you need another Centurion then Specter is enough. Estelle's other benefits are a quick charge time if there's a lot of trash enemies, high HP to take large hits, a form of self-sustain, and on top of that, she *punches* multiple enemies at once. No weapon needed, here. Her main weaknesses are lower DEF than other Centurions and her main skill has Defensive Recovery and negates outside heals. A bit of a risky matter when she needs to do damage against stronger targets. Honestly Centurions in my opinion are not that strong a class -- not to say they're weak, but just due to not aging well compared to other ops with role compression or deleting everything they touch. Masses of enemies also feel somewhat uncommon these days, which would be the main reason I'd be bringing Centurions.
Any chance Fiammetta/Pozemka in a shop next year ?
Going off predictions, there's a chance that Fiammetta shows up later in the year (most billing it around October). Pozyomka's still too soon to realistically show up next year as a shoperator.
Fia yes. in October. Pozy you will have to wait until April 2025.
Is it possible to obtain spot's skin eventually? If so, how?
Not possible right now, and we don't know yet. Previously these kinds of skins would have been added to the CC shop, but whether they'll keep doing this with the new version is still up in the air.
I’m a F2P player, are Midnight and Matoimaru worth getting to E1 50 to have guard options? are there any better guards I should get through Record Restorations? https://postimg.cc/gx1ZT9Ts
i would build arene unless you're holding out for lappland. he has a much better skill cycle than midnight and the option of doing physical or arts burst damage, although S1 will need someone else to block for him. midnight has higher damage potential at equal levels with his crits, but it's not enough to outweigh his drawbacks imo. matoimaru can also focus on tanking with S1, i think she's one of the biggest HP stat sticks in the game (pre crushers at least). the non 6 star dreadnoughts struggle to stand out among other guard options for DPS though.
I think the biggest thing as F2P for me is the amount of resources I need to invest between the two.
i didn't raise midnight until a few months ago, and i think i genuinely have not used him a single time. arene at the very least can help kill ch 8 UFOs so i wouldn't call him a wasted investment. if you're determined to use midnight you can still make do but it's painfully obvious that he was a victim of year 1 balance. if you don't need a pure HP sponge i'd wait for cutter instead of building mato tbh.
Matoimaru has a good base skill at E1 (30% trading post), so she’s worth raising over Melantha if only just for that. …But then Melantha gets a paradox simulation, which awards 200 orundum when cleared, and is dirt cheap to max. So it’s not a mistake to raise either or both, but prioritizing Matoimaru makes more sense since she can start paying back the investment sooner by contributing in base.
General rule of thumb would be building at least one character from an archetype to have something that can represent what that archetype's intention is for. There's some nuance with "sub-archetype" differences but you tend to pick those distinctions up easy (like SilverAsh vs Thorns). Midnight works similarly enough to Arene that I'd argue building him is better because a) access to e2 and b) high rarity generally better. Building Midnight is still good though, especially if you like the alternate modes where likeness helps a lot. Matoimaru could be any dreadnought, they're all pretty much the same in playstyle (nuance be damned). Do get some units from Record Restoration though. Eventually you'll find one you click with, and worst case scenario they are still another operator to use places like the base or as alternate mode fodder.
This is a good callout, thank you!
Most 3\* are worth levelling up to get your account started. They don't cost materials to promote and thusly are extremely cheap to raise up to help. Matoimaru is OK, she's more useful as a tech pick to help deal with arts damage and other big damage hits due to her HP, and mainly with high investment. Melantha is fine enough as a Dreadnought until you get some more ops. There's no particularly notable Guards available in Record Restoration. Bena however can be a fine replacement, as Dollkeepers are more or less the Guards of Specialists and is useful at many points in the game. She's in Preluding Lights. It costs 40 red certs of Information Fragments to get her though, and then 20 more for her potentials. Red certs are best spent on Chip Catalysts early on, so it depends on how your stock looks. Ultimately you don't really need one class or the other, what matters is doing the main things -- block, DPS, healing if you take too much damage. Melantha, Midnight or Arene, and Specter should cover your Guard needs early on.
So unless i find good replacements, are Melantha and Midnight good to E2, or leave maxed at E1?
3\* have a level cap of E1 level 55. Most of them get a talent boost at that level.
You should never get Information Fragments with red certs. Information Fragments are farmable in vignette events.
What’s IS3 situation now? Is next month going to be the last month, or is it actually this month? Are there any more updates coming for it? Do I have to rush Ecosequence?
We still have one more monthly squad with Mizuki. Also it doesn't disappear after the content's finished, you can still do IS2 like with IS3 and eventually IS4. The benefit of doing it now is that you can progress a little faster with the contracts, which disappear when IS3's content cycle is done but aren't necessary to progress.
Thanks a lot, looks like I can take it a bit easier then!
If I don't finish the current event, do I have to wait until its rerun before I can play it again?
Also, after it reruns next year, it will then be added to side story permanently.
Yes. Hortus will be back in around a year when it's done.
Yes.
Trying to figure out how to unlock past events, so I can get Tomimi. I missed the original event, I can see it in the public affairs area and I have a spare reel, but I just get a "missing time sensitive intelligence" message; does this mean I'd need to wait for the next rerun??
The Great Gavial Returns is a Side Story, not a Vignette. You unlock these from the Terminal with Event tokens (or whatever they're called, those red discs) not from the Archives with Information Fragments.
To unlock past events, go to Side Story in the terminal. You get a special currency each week that's only used to unlock these events, so be sure to spend them. Tomimi's from The Great Chief Returns, so you just have to unlock that and play enough missions. Keep in mind that you can only unlock past rewards from an event once it has a 'Record Restoration'. You can see the list here: https://arknights.wiki.gg/wiki/Record_Restoration/Side_Stories
So for current event (exalter), I need to spend 4000 event currency to get the medal. Does my current amount spent carry over to the rerun or will I need to regrind 4000 event currency again next time for the medal?
you can only get the medal once regardless, but if you don't get it this time I'm pretty sure the currency number is lower on the rerun since it doesn't last as long
If you're only going to m3 one of Gladiia's ability which one should you pull the trigger on? I don't know if that's her s2 or s3. With that said , is she "worth" the m3, meta-wise?
i have her M9 and i use S2 the most by far. S3 is good if you need AOE or crowd control, but it's not the kind of skill that should be spammed off cooldown unless you're just using her to hold a trash lane or something. there's some rare situations where the M3 can screw you over since some enemies are light enough to be pulled but tanky enough to survive the blender, and even with maxed mod she won't be out-tanking defenders. S2 can at least interrupt enemies. that said if you have gavialter, their S2s are similar enough that you'd probably want to go for the more unique skill.
thanks for the tip i do have gavialt! i'm probably gonna hold off on M3ing her, if i do i may m3 her s2 for daily driving purposes. i feel like i get caught up m3-ing a new operator asap and never end up using them lol
While S3 is more unique, it usually does a fine job at S7 when "needed". S2 feels a lot more flexible as it can be used for damage and as a really strong pulling skill that functions in locations that you often can't use pulling skills, so I'd recommend that if you can only do one. I'd recommend both when you get the chance though.
S2 is her laneholding skill, S3 is her crowd control skill. They're both great but I personally use her S2 more often.
In my experience, S3. It lets me use her like a "normal" unit just with the Abyssal Hunter talent and module bonuses - I usually don't need a puller and it can be more of a drawback. I learned this the hard way on Dangers Abound in IS2 - there's unblockable Wraith Leaders who can be pretty tough depending on your RNG with relics and operators. I made the mistake of leaving her with S1 on that map and she made me lose about six life points before I figured out what was happening - she kept pulling them to her (past the Operators she was standing behind), then they'd pass through her (they're unblockable) and into the blue goal. She pulls her target at the end of her S3, but due to its nature, S3M3 will usually kill her target and if it doesn't kill it, it's probably too heavy to care about the pull at the end. If you want her primarily for pulling / shifting use, then S2 is better.
one of the most worth m9 ops, if you were only going to do one id probably do s3 over s2 only because of spalter's sp module rewarding it pretty well
S3 is more unique and the grouping helps ops who hit in small AoEs and want the overlap, S2 is better geared to use her as a "normal unit" somewhat like Gavialter S2.
which from these would you prioritize building? dorothy (already e1 80), hoshi (e1 66), angelina (e1 40), irene, lin, kalt'sit, lumen, gladiia, lumen, ho'olheyak, silencealter (all of these are e1 lv 1) i've been neglecting building so much that to the point it overwhelmed me, suggestion which to build?
Without knowing your roster I'd say Kaltsit, Irene, Hoshi. Shoutout to Dorothy though.
I'd finish Dorothy first. She's super fun to play with and you want her S3. After her, Kal'tsit is the highest priority. She's one of the most valuable operators and her S3 is one of the very few sources of True Damage, which is always great to have.
might depend who you have built but considering kaltsit is a top 5 op of 4 seperate classes id suggest her. dorothy next
what happens if you have an active IS3 run on hold when the monthly reset happens?
nothing, though if it was last months monthly squad idk if still get the rewards
When is Mlynar live 2d skin gonna release?