cashew | Another Eden

So, I took a slight break from packing to play a bit more of Another Eden. (See tag for previous entries.) Recently, the game is doing a campaign that gives a random guaranteed 5-star pull if you complete the first three chapters of the Wanderer in the Vortex sidequest. And since I progressed enough of the story to open the first three chapters, I naturally went and attempted to get through the chapters as quickly as possible.

After three days of dedicated rushing through story (which were actually pretty fun little romps and far less disappointing than the Ciel sidequest), I finally got my reward and pulled...

...a Hismena AS. I'm not sure how I feel about this. On the one hand, since my first ever 5-star unit was a Piercing Stance unit, getting another piercing unit means one less character to grind for the pierce team. On the other hand...I'm not very fond of this character design, so I'm not really inspired to use her. Like...at all.

Since I barely progressed in this game for about a year, I'm still more-or-less where I was the last time I updated. At least I finished both IDA school sidequests and have completed the newest Tales Collab, gaining four more freebie units. The more recent units are far more powerful than the original, but I find myself still going back to Milla. Like, I just can't help it, Milla's kind of awesome. I like how flexible she is, so I basically bring her whenever I have a slash team, which is pretty much all the time, because I haven't built any other team that can deal with the challenges thrown my way.

Anyway, point is, I'm mildly amused that there's more voice acting for the most recent four Tales Collab units, although Colette breaks the game and causes so much lag. Thanks to the lag, I'm usually better off using Lloyd during AF, which kind of sucks because I feel like Lloyd and Colette should be used together as much as possible. Upon consideration, though, a Milla-Kid-Lloyd-Serge front line is a pretty sick AF DPS spike, and having Harle-Colette in the backline for rotational healing should give me enough sustain through most story challenges. Although I'm sure there are people who insist that Alphen, with fire zone, is a better option, I prefer having Milla because she's already level 80 and because I'm not really running a fire-team at the moment. I'm sure when I get ready to put together my fire team, I'll need to drop Milla for Alphen. But until then, Milla is my team leader.

I'm also finding that I'm not using Joker as much now. In order to use Joker effectively, he needs to be paired with another P5 unit, otherwise his damage isn't enough to actually take out mobs. And that translates to having one less spot on my team to level characters. I'll probably go back to using Joker more regularly once I finish leveling the 10 or so freebie characters I'm still trying to get to level 80.

Anyway, time to go back to packing.