cashew | Thursday, March 10th, 2022

So, in my last two pulls in Another Eden, I got Myunfa AS and Ewan AS.

Between these two, Amy, Skull (who I'm slowly working towards), Prai, and Riica, I guess it's time to build a blunt damage team. (May turns out to DPS with piercing damage WTF why you use hammer child?!) So many hammers. 😵 And braces. I was hoping for at least one glove user to get away from the five billion braces I'd need to share between the hammer and sword users (thank you Yuri for equipping rings), but I guess that's not to be.

Thank goodness for Skull having a personal weapon. That's one less hammer that I have to farm. (This is the superiority of slash-based teams; P5 and Tales collab units all come with level 60 weapons, and thus don't require me to slowly farm up the necessary materials to make the same weapons over and over. Urgh. I only need to find enough braces to cover everyone — plus a ring for Yuri.)

At least having Ewan means I can get bonus points in both the mining and seeker side-quests. That's always a plus.

(BTW: the mining side-quest is painfully slow. After speed-grinding through the first half so I can get Amy's 4-star tome, my progress have dropped to a snail's pace because...well, there's just so many other things for me to do.)

The one good thing about Ewan is that at least his DPS skill changes its attack type based on the stance deployed. That means he can get a bonus from the magic-slash stance from Serge despite being a hammer user.

And once again, Serge continues to carry my progress. Him and ~~FukuJun~~ Joker are the MVPs of dungeon grinding. Too bad one of them is shadow and the other is light. If only they were of the same alignment. It'd make my dungeon grinding so much easier.

Everyone else is a leech. (Except Yuri and Milla who are love. 💖)

Also finally pulled a 4-star Miyu. I guess I'm going to have to go unlock her story now. Ffffff. (At this point, I'm not convinced Miyu nor Ciel are really worth grinding to 5-stars, since it's probably better to work towards their AS form instead, as their normal 5-star form has been out-paced by power creep. But their stories are seriously fun to play, so...)

Why do I even pull on the gacha when I prefer playing with my free units anyway?

Also, also...

My first 5-star was Tsukiha ES...which is just pain, because I have no functional piercing units right now. I'm working slowly towards getting Sheila AS (need to progress so much story to even begin farming Sheila AS), and have a headache just thinking about trying to unlock Jade's 5-star form. And then my options are...

Farming Ciel AS form forever in Very Hard ADs
Use Joker's Triple Shot as a sub-optimal filler
Farming Foran AS form forever more in Very Hard ADs
Work on Cerrine as a filler, who is also a much better blunt DPS unit to go on Myunfa's team
Complete May's 5-star and use her hammer for piercing DPS b/c this game is counter-intuitive

So anyway, point is, a lot of units, a lot of options, need to figure out how to build my non-slash teams while I slowly farm dungeons.

Also fish.