definitely... not 2 mention it's difficult 2 max de artifact, de increase is lackluster... de atk buff from 4* dreamblade give way more power, not hard 2 keep de buff on whenever Violet's S2 is coolin' down especially against water enemies...
as for violet, if he gets evasion buff from Rin's S3 (which comes up quite often 2 me), he can counter alot and way safer than MA Ken's counter since debuffs like stun cannot be inflicted when de hit missed... not a bad hero, he's just another pure DPS looking cool with literally no utility but can sustain in tough battle due to his hi evasion+atk down+self heal, pretty much a dueler no other thief can do better...

Cidd can definitely outdmg most hero easily with his Def break & OP S3... his strategy is hit fast & hit hard but if miss or gone wrong... crap... in pvp this is most obvious, 99% de 1st 2 bite dust...
violet has more room for mistake thanks to his survivability... unless against opposin' element... very different role

if cidd going full ATK, he should be paired with overspeed Yuna... a overspeedy Cidd makes yuna presence less significant, doesn't look good in pvp?
but in pve, a speedy cidd can cover de dmg loss from switchin' atk to speed easily by gaining faster turn, mean more chance to proc DD or RL... but then, RNG game, hard 2 say... though it is mostly the case when i have a speedy cidd vs a power cidd from friend unit, mine can move 2 times & sometimes 3 faster even both w/ speed buff... de dmg stack up almost de same, more if DD proc often...
think de same can be said to Vildred...

This post has been edited by El-LoboSolitario: Jan 25 2019, 08:16 AM

de arena ai was not updated about de NEW hero yet, must've thought violet was a spectator... lol

Hahaha, no more salt after gettin' used 2 it... bsides grinding on gears took de cake when it came down 2 RNG department... since new hero with no viable gears is just useless, on the contrary, good gear sets can make most heroes usable in most if not all contents (i.e got 2 bellona on banner last day, but ended up as bench sitter bcos no gear n no gold for enhancement on decent gear )...
nothin' beat de frustration of gettin' EPIC right side gears finally after long hours of grinding then 2 realize it's either has flat main stat or very bad substats roll... not2 mention gold sink is gettin' even abysmal these days, i am broke pretty much everyday thanks 2 Garo,
btw my ken is on shore leave since have other heroes doing hardcore farming, n as long as i am broke, can't upgrade him further ...
only focus 2 clear daily/weekly missions & guild contribution now, then try 2 sss dupe 3*heroes, usin' them as promotion material 2 save phantasma

As for hero, I am just waiting 2 see if Dev would release de God Notos or Straze ...

This post has been edited by El-LoboSolitario: Jan 28 2019, 08:16 AM

Hahaha, speakin' of Abyss gear, had a fit when de tier 71 gear made my ken "weaker" thanks 2 goddamn rng roll!! all roll went into speed! had 2 spend 20+grands just 2 switch back de tier 57 abyss w/ high atk & cri chance (n there was 20+ grands b4 de swap)
freakin' shenanigan it was!!!

Yah, look at what they did 2 event difficulty... while de gold drop from enemies in higher difficulty increase, de overall gold earning rack up slower as gold from chest is mostly 2k only and also has less choice 2 pick on catalyst farming... frankly think it's a jerk move!

This post has been edited by El-LoboSolitario: Jan 28 2019, 10:35 AM

all of de mentioned gacha games i tried above.... I uninstalled within hours...
I even got a super rare summon in another eden but somehow... I couldn't stand de battle system... wait, I couldn't even remember how it played... anyway, it just couldn't keep my interest going, LOL
Consolation price 2 Epic 7, i still holds onto it after 2+ months, although I felt abit jaded now, hope de guild war major update change something...

Not just SE... most old time classic jrpg fell out of grace when they released gacha version (+ those anime fan service gacha)...

Don't talk about FF series... Secret of mana, Star Ocean, Tales mobile spin-off, Romancing saga, Arc de Lad, Yuyu hakusho (this was anime)... what else? couldn't recall, but all these classic turned gacha were freakin' showstopper to me on de jrpg genre... or may be they already all dead...
hope i don't see jp dev pulled same crap on xenogear, breath of fire, Ludia, & many more classics...

This post has been edited by El-LoboSolitario: Jan 28 2019, 04:46 PM

Well, of course! Growing up with SFC & PSX classics, it's really hard 2 find contemporary quality game like those in de old days...

P/S I stood by FF6 being the best in the series over any other FF motherships... LOL

... FF7 & 8 was released about de time of my junior high, de late 90s...
well, I actually didn't beat FF7 & 8... cos there were too many other great titles comin' out, I rented it 2 my friends n went on playin' others like Castlevania SOTN etc... while ff8 memory corrupted on me after I beat omega weapon b4 i could thrash altemesia (n i roughly remember it's not de lvl tat matters, it's the materia which made up de stat)... so screw it, LOL

This post has been edited by El-LoboSolitario: Jan 28 2019, 05:06 PM

Hahaha, I don't know man... I have all de heroes you mentioned... but I could barely afford Ken, don't even bother diene & F.Kluri... Still tat sucka brute squandered my resources so much I locked him down in de pit n only fed him whenever I had some spare...
No resource, epic gears are just some shiny luxurious ornaments...
Even with resources, single epic gear with epic stats can just bankrupt u in an instant... Wait, i haven't even talked about we need 2 pass de RNG purgatory b4 this...

Well, they can kick me out all they want if that's what de game has turned into... As long as I don't spend real money for those shenanigans, I am not at loss at all (worse come de worst, I may sell my acc w/ ML Ken , though I just hate de hassle 2 do this)
In fact, 90% of my guild mates are at least challenger v, me still in gold iv, ... but damn, since I don't have those speedy cleave team or adrenaline rushers 2 breeze thru' I am 22 lazy 2 do arena matches, LOL...
Anyway, will see !

We might've gone very OFF.... but screw it, u reminded me this too! Actually I didn't even beat de game when 1st release in JP until I played de ENG ver on Emulator... Love de game but hated their last techniques in their human form which were so hard 2 perfect , it's such twist when I found out who Rose really was...
Honestly, Square in its prime was during de SFC to PSX transition era... I remember de 1st nostalgic RPG i played on PSX was Wild Arms, well, it was de 1st JRPG on PSX, that's not by Square, lol...

Not so OP now, I meant de legend of One Man army is over... if taking gears in account, with most people accesses to Hell raid and have heroes like Ass.Cart, Leo, Tenebria etc can render him useless, while Sigret, Sez etc those who inflict unhealable can shut down his survivability from LS (& since counter won't proc from indirect atk i.e. dancing blade, Sez's S2 etc, Ken can be defeated in a lame way)... Even fire ken now if with de same gear set & art, have 50 or more chance to take him down... at harder content, with most creeps can inflict unhealable & def down, he can no longer fight alone like he used to... though he still strikes fear to lower rank pvp players, literally from 1man army turning to Scarecrow, lol... well, power creep is real ...

This post has been edited by El-LoboSolitario: Jan 29 2019, 09:04 AM

O, no doubt about that... after usin' for two months... n especially after the "awakening" of fire ken... MA Ken is really overhyped once you used him enough time (may b just my perception to power creep?)

He's only good at bully... love 2 see how he slaughtered poorly equipped heroes with his badass cuttin' thru dimension ground pound move...

But then bcos of his past glorious OPness, it is lamest way 2 die when it was him got killed by poison, bleeding, burn, or got whacked 2 death w/o doing dmg when locked by stun, or de worst, couldn't counter CRITICAL HIT from indirect counter atks or extra 2nd atk (Kikiratv2, Purgis, Banshee Queen Poison-Proc Attack, Wyvern 2nd hit if not debuffed etc) or indirect AOE (Sez's S2/S3, Kayron's buffed S1, Clarissa/Vildred extra atk from killin' a target etc...), basically free hit on MA KEN whose main offensive power coming from countering!!!

owell, needless 2 say i did have enjoyed playing him just as much as de above...

saw some video showcasing speedy cleave team w/o S.Rose but Roozid SC instead... guess he is there 2 screw F2P?

So mystic summon actually contains artifacts in the pool... It sounded so exciting when they announced in the last dev note how one would expect higher chance to get desirable hero as the pool getting smaller with some heroes from covenant and new heroes... No mention of artifact at all... Now it certainly shows that there are artifacts in the pool, I guess the rate would be... Meh... They sure know how to toy with player semantically... N 50 MB for one summon... Don't know why feeling bummer, guess having too high expectation from this update now that hunt stages also increase in energy usage... They never show the drop rate in the 1st place, how much increase to drop rate is a mystery.. well, still RNG game, no much different but need to spend more energy... hah

This post has been edited by El-LoboSolitario: Jan 30 2019, 10:09 PM

I think they did say non-participant will still get the reward but they specifically mentioned "Standard reward" somewhere in de note... not quite sure how much it's worth of... probably 1 MB? then u can try gettin' de MB from Hunt lvl 7 & above, but they forgot de reason 2 make "improvement" was 2 ease de pain of grinding ...
Well, as long as your guild chief doesn't kick u out is considered fortunate n let u leech ...

Anyway, I just play 2 complete daily/weekly missions now... as for arena just pick on those 1 man army or obviously MIA one whenever i feel like...
Not that I highly desire new hero, after all the grinding & RNG purgatory still there, could possibly get worse w/ more drops in de pool, having dozen heroes still sittin there "naked", includin' bellona ... so not tat i would miss out, but just don't like their way of marketing, may be it was de translation tat screwed up... anyway, at least more time for new games that i can play off line

in contrast, this E7 was my 1st KR GAME I played! I'd always been abstaining playing KR game for a long time due to... ahem... confession: discriminate+bias on KR culture, lol...
But i began 2 lower down my stance these days n start 2 accept it n voila, E7 turned out 2 be a 1st nice game but unfortunately found out later it has one of de worst kind of gacha practice... oh, I still stand sayin' KR language are such ear sore 2 me... whenever my western friends made racial joke chin chon chin, i always think they were directin' at de wrong group, bcos neither mandarin or other SEA like Vietnamese etc sound like that, but KR did sound like tat 2 me ...
Alright done w/ stereotyping crap...

This post has been edited by El-LoboSolitario: Jan 31 2019, 08:44 AM

de new heroes...
thought after my 1st impression when preview their skills... "Good lord, I need 2 spend all my galaxy bookmarks now before these two buggers got into de pool diluting chance gettin' better 4/5* ML heroes..."

This post has been edited by El-LoboSolitario: Jan 31 2019, 12:29 PM

Nope, I don't
I thought de new heroes only enter de pool after de closure of de first week of mystic summon (dev note was never accurate...)!
owell, i got a 3* sissy anyway

it's not even April yet...
But SG can always be a jerk n good at trollin'...
inb4, it's actually a concept desgin for CNY tangerine box art... those skill infos are just one of de otaku staff messing' w/ dataminer... lol

This post has been edited by El-LoboSolitario: Jan 31 2019, 04:32 PM

yeah....
I knew I said them bein' inconsistent last time on stove... some dumbA knight still defend their dodgy master...
now even recalled there one guy on reddit mentioned how SG in KR server hoodwinked 'em when E7 released its Global... so HE WAS RIGHT all along... lol

Hahaha, crap... After the last urgent update, I might end up auto quitting...
First wouldn't let me logging in from my home wifi... ok, not first time, I know data plan could mitigate... Then able to log in and started download update patch... but wouldn't move beyond 91%... then uninstalled n reinstalled n see... Fxxx, Won't let me complete the download n stuck at 79.2%...0
GG... What a way 2 quit a game @@

home wifi is Unifi
My mobile data is REdone... neither has network issue since i can still surf net & stream video...
still couldn't log in... i knew there must have some stove# at bottom left of de screen if log in but it remains ?...
using mobile data may prompt de download but it won't finish downloading the patch thus I can't play until de CS feedback & tell me what 2 do or had their technician find out where was de problem... could be my device issue...
thinking to sell this acc if nothin' improve by Mon (hopefully my office network work? but wasted 2 days aldy) but then realized it's locked to my google acc which i signed up solely for gaming...
p/s while waitin' for them 2 feedback, i still haven't seen de guild war registration coupon code come in not tat i care now if it won't let me play...

This post has been edited by El-LoboSolitario: Feb 1 2019, 07:19 AM

No coupon n no response from Dev so far... LOL
can only wait till Mon 2 test usin' another network from my office n find out if it still blocks my device from logging in on their server...
Edit: Found de coupon code in the spam, my gmail app didn't show but web gmail showed it... too bad... can't use, lol

Now my situation is like auto quit liao
Think will ask 4 refund from Google Play by Mon if no improvement n don't giv crap about acc ban, since my current state is worse than ban... cannot play on my device, don't even bother d/l emulator js 4 this...

This post has been edited by El-LoboSolitario: Feb 1 2019, 06:04 PM

Nope... same result! de download progression bar stuck after reachin' certain percentage... tried uninstall & reinstall 3 times n newly purchased 3GB mobile data gone still failed...
could only try at my office network on Mon, that's de last straw I'd give a damn about this game... then i will send refund request via GP since they don't bother feedback so far...

Bro, just cry... don't hold de tears up, it's hurtin' inside n we knew it's hard... lol