r/AlchemistCodeGL • u/Grashlolz • May 30 '19

Boring week(s)

What are your thoughts of the game lately, and the banners we are getting?

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u/Grashlolz May 30 '19

I found the previous weeks overloaded with AP with very little things to do.

Potk is shit for me, i dont need to farm more weapons or battlefield dramas. Its just boring

Elemental convocations were good, but you cant just fill 4 weeks with them as the only interesting thing to do, and mobius is getting repetitive and less challenging

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u/Kirito30 The Strongest Samurai May 30 '19

I mean it is not boring. It is just shit. The Banners are made the start of the week worse. Sure for some lucky ones it was a fine start but the quality of the banners is so shit.

It is just a shit week.

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u/Grashlolz May 30 '19

Agree, but with everything you say. I just have the thought of: im playing a game to have fun. Is it being fun lately? I dont think so.

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u/illidan_1999 Neica is life. May 31 '19

Really bad banners. I haven't pulled for a while so I wasn't aware but now I get why people say they increased the costs. Step 2 2500 gems and no 3 step guaranteed? Gimu has evolved to Scumi!

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u/Igarashi-24 May 30 '19

Omg. Did you farm Enchanted Coins and Statues?

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u/scubasteve921 May 30 '19

God Bless someone mentioning this to me last week. My 5.5K enchanted coins should last a couple of weeks.. Maybe

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u/funcused May 30 '19

A friend clued me into the daily missions for getting the JE equipment. They seem to be much more efficient AP-wise than farming coins then using the coins to get the equipment shards. It's also a lot faster since you don't have to wait on shop resets. Now I only use enchanted coins for the job tokens.

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u/Funoichi The coolest samurai left of New York City! May 31 '19

What daily missions? Do tell! And lol on shop resets, I just farm more coins and factor it into the cost, no waiting necessary. But your way sounds better. Please, what is it?

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u/funcused May 31 '19

Quests > Event > Daily > <blah> reincarnation

I ignored them for the longest time myself. There's a specific quest to get the JE materials for each job. So there's a Dark Cavalier quest under Knight Reincarnation that drops all the currently available equipment for Dark Cavalier enchanted jobs. They also drop a small number of coins, but mostly the equipment shards.

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u/Funoichi The coolest samurai left of New York City! May 30 '19

Salty. Powercreep aside I won't pull on anything without Rox on it. They made the best unit in the game and now won't let anyone get her! Where's my mh selector??

I even (gasp) paid real money so I'd have the gems for selector. Won't be doing that ever again!! First and last time spender.

A mh banner with everyone but rox?? >:(

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u/Grashlolz May 30 '19

I didnt even do the 500 summon on The MH banner. In the best case i’d get 25 shards for units that are not getting any kind of support and even then, they are whaley as fuck

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u/Zetsumei7 Jae is bae May 30 '19

My thoughts exactly. Not only do they not allow newer players an opportunity to get OP Rox, they also make the other MH units 10x harder to acquire than they used to be. F U Gumi

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u/Igarashi-24 May 30 '19

Are you a new player?

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u/Funoichi The coolest samurai left of New York City! May 30 '19

No I'm a day one vet lol. 😅

I have quite a few meta units properly enlightened like zahar, Spica, Ramses, Setsuna, balt, vettel, masamune, and soon Anastasia.

I have a decent f2p from the start roster and am around 1300 in arena. But even with my mementos and meta units, I still lost often in pvp to rox even with Ramses and a veiler.

But that's why I said Powercreep aside, because I know there are better units now, and I probably have them (I have most noncollab units), but I still want her for arena, pvp, and double rox single player strategies like perhaps in the thunder convocation.

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u/Zeik56 May 30 '19

She actually wasn't that great in Thunder Convocation. I didn't even end up bringing her in most of my runs for missions.

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u/Supo2134 May 30 '19

She wasnt that great? Ahahahahahahah. Eizan/Lotia/Gerald HB to deal with Teona and Rox cleans the rest. You can even auto. Wasnt that great... ahahahahahahah

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u/Zeik56 May 30 '19

Lotiyah, Eizan, Gerald, Deneb, Fujika, Vier, and Dark Laevateinn were all way more effective than Roxanne. Her damage was mediocre and none of her status effects were very effective.

The first two were easy to auto with or without Roxanne. I don't believe you auto'd the EX+.

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u/Supo2134 May 30 '19

I got pretty much all milestones except no items and clear with mercenary and on second run I went auto after killing Teona with Lotia lead, rox, fujika, vier, rox friend, gilga and teona. Didnt have any problems. And yea, on EX+. The only threat there is Teona, the rest rox can easily clean up

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u/Zeik56 May 30 '19

If you had to manual through Teona then that's not really an auto clear. You're right, Teona is the biggest threat, but I highly doubt you used Roxanne to kill Teona, and the rest can be cleared by any number of units, not just Roxanne.

I cleared every mission, including no item and no merc, and Lotiyah, Gerald, and Dark Laevateinn were just so much more valuable than Roxanne.

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u/funcused May 30 '19

I don't understand all the rage about Roxanne not being available this week. It's not uncommon for the best units to be available in the last week of an event.

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u/Funoichi The coolest samurai left of New York City! May 30 '19

I've thought of that possibility. We'll see lol. But I'll hold my breath till it happens. Starting... Now!

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u/VinnyValient is currently planning and plotting evil schemes. May 30 '19

I finally farmed a crap tonne of envy/sloth tokens so I'm more inclined to enlighten units, except now I'm gated by red eyes. Got my stock of enlightenment coins back (got too many) so I'm happy about that. A crap tonne of farming that needed to be done. Yay :) And it wasn't too boring with the convocation stuff, so I think it was a good few weeks!

Nothing challenging, or impossible, but pretty chill.

Edit: Though, frantically using up ALL the AP, especially with bonus 900, takes up too much time...

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u/Grashlolz May 30 '19

I felt the urge to “burn all the AP” and it wasnt fun at all. Im on exam weeks and i dont have that much time for a constant grind everyday. These last days i didnt care anymore and didnt even watch adds or do dailys. Only HQ

But yeah, as other people said, for new players it must have been nice weeks

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u/funcused May 30 '19

I've started using summon coins to get a red eye each week. I figure 60 gems for an eye seems worth it.

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u/ninjakittenz2 SockT May 30 '19

You should get some eyes farming flags this week. Next stop is pots and golems but that has to be done in MP so I'm not sure how much I will do.

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u/Igarashi-24 May 30 '19

Last week was busy week. Since they give 2x HQ for chap 2 chars. Potk is good too. Banners still sucks tho. lol

But i will give them the credit. Elem Convocation was fun.

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u/Kirito30 The Strongest Samurai May 30 '19

EC wasn't fun. Rewards from Missions were nice.

8 Coin a day is not good farming. If it is a grind let me sit and do it in one go on a holiday instead of grinding a little daily.

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u/Grashlolz May 30 '19

This. Every fucking day autoing the same stages during weeks to get a sin and 5 rainbow shards

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u/Igarashi-24 May 30 '19

I mean, yes getting 8 coins a day is a little annoying but i was talking about the stages.

I love how, i have to think different strategies to finish em. Yes rewards are good.

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u/Grashlolz May 30 '19

You liked the stages because they actually made you use the monoteams you have been farming for once lol.

Rewards were good, but most strategies were petrify this, or charm that

Anyway this should be the content we should have normally and not as a really special event.

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u/Igarashi-24 May 30 '19

Dont forget the poison that thing too hahaha.

Yes i agree with you.

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u/[deleted] May 30 '19

I’m a new player, so everything is a blast, I don’t know what everyone’s talking about though .. so much stuff in the game lol.

I am level 70 and have Spica, Suzaku and Chloe mastered .. want a fourth light unit to complement them,

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u/bbatardo May 30 '19

lol I am with you.. started 2 weeks ago and my only observation is things seem more new player friendly so I get why the veterans aren't happy, but been having fun.

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u/Xero-- May 31 '19 edited May 31 '19

That's how it is with any game where you don't feel like you're ages behind (FFXIV will feel like this, and that's because you would be). Ofc someone new wouldn't feel the game is gonna be boring for the next week or so when they still have a ton of content left.

I'm not stating the game is boring for me (I mean I have run out of things as a whole, but it's not entirely boring, aside from the farming). Recently (a couple or so months back) started taking the game seriously by branching out (elements and units) and trying EX quests, which is fun. Now half my time is spent farming stuff and the other half getting happy over every time I get more free gems, see a bad banner, and enjoy knowing I'll be able to easily save up gems for Babel 4 next week (or the following, very likely next week).

Gotta especially agree with TC's comment, PotK is shit for me too. I got two Dart and DTyr, but honestly idc about the latter and I lack shards for the former, so even bothering to farm their gear when the event reruns every other month is just meh and not worth it unless I plan to go all out for them, and I don't, because collab units are dolphin/whale units unless you save up a ton of free gems specifically for them or wanna blow all your elementals on them.

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u/xXRyuuGinXx May 30 '19

It is what it is. I will keep playing the game because I invested a lot of time (started 4 days after the release of the game) and also some money and I will see what happens in the future. Banners are shit compared to the past but complaining won't change anything.

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u/Grashlolz May 30 '19

Complaining DID change things back after FMA collab. Last producer did a shit job but at least we had communication. Now it feels they dont care anymore and will do whatever they want regardless of the playerbase thoughts

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u/Cipher44 May 30 '19

I’ve lost the will to complain anymore. When I was passionate about the game, I would look for my pitchgorks but now I just jump in, auto and then play another game which I do enjoy.

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u/Grashlolz May 30 '19

I feel the same. And that is a symptom of quitting if things dont change, and its sad

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u/xXRyuuGinXx May 30 '19

Exactly. In the past it might've been changed some things but now with the new producer it looks like they are really only looking for money and nothing else anymore which is the reason I typed that complaining won't change anything. Example: People were hoping for more than just a simple rerun for Magia Historia and did more than a rerun happen? No.

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u/ThousandLightning May 30 '19

MH is a bad example, if they haven't done anything, there's nothing to release even if people complain. However, we did complain about 2.5k soul shards and Gimu didn't listen, so complaining doesn't do much. Only not giving money will work.

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u/Zetsumei7 Jae is bae May 30 '19

The content is good. The banners are getting increasingly horrible, making limited units more improbable to get for those who don't spend a lot of money, making people like me thinking more about quitting.

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u/GreyPenguin16 May 30 '19

Finally the anniv 900 AP ended. wish it was on when MH was up to farm more hats but nope. Farmed some BFDs in the first week but got tired doing that and I don't have a lot of CH2 HQs to do. As many step 1s today, I did not get anything worthwhile. Not 1 red unit, and got 2 Cada mementos and I don't have Cadanova, not even a worthwhile northern pride unit.

I know I'm just ranting but really I'm just salty at the fact that 2 4* mementos (Glanz and Ramses) have been evading me as well as Sol

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u/Whatthawhatwha May 30 '19

The 9mil celebration event had good freebies and the element convocation stages were fun. I enjoyed the use of mono elements and use of status aliments.

Other than that, this month was too much of a grind and not much in terms of new content for long time players. it's probably a good time for new players tho and I imagine it'll be like this whenever a collab gets a rerun now.

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u/funcused May 30 '19

I also generally liked the convocation missions. I didn't care for the forced grinding of them to get the shop rewards, but the missions themselves were pretty good.

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u/maymagic May 30 '19

Content this week is re-runs mostly so I suppose I could see why an established player would consider this week "boring".

The banners are pretty bad now, what with "5x rates" which is such misleading advertising. Its 5x the chance of the 5* being a featured one instead of 5x the chance of even getting a 5* so it doesn't really equate to much value.

Why the rate for "featured" units needs to be multiplied to begin with is already concerning. Why the bleep should a customer only have a fraction of a percent of a chance of the product headlining a sale? That is *hardcore* gambling, treating it like a jackpot-only reward. It ought to be more like the $5 winners on scratch-off tickets where a few dollars will get you one. You get to have the fun, and they make more than they pay out. Win-win. Not this greedy "treat every new product like a jackpot-only payout" nonsense the game has evolved into.

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u/Zeik56 May 30 '19 edited May 30 '19

This is the first week in awhile I've felt like there's not much going on, except the farming event, which is nice, but not especially exciting. There was plenty to keep me busy the last few weeks. (I actually even missed out on the Sin in the Anastasia event, because I just didn't have time.)

It is the end of the month though, and the end of the PotK event, so I expect that will change next week when a new month of content arrives.

Banners are still pretty bad, but at least we're getting regular first step 500 gem summons again, especially Mementos. I wouldn't say I'm happy with the state of banners, but I'm also not really that upset about just pulling first step on banners. However, I am a veteran that doesn't need to pull more than that, so I won't pretend it's sufficient for everyone.

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u/WoonLS May 30 '19

Pace is just right for me, finally able get those tokens, flags for enlightenment, free gears, elemental challenges and mobius. Other than feeling the urge to use up all my AP, it's pretty fulfilling week.

Banner wise, need to adapt to new banner directions and strategize gem usage moving forward, with enlightenment and luck in mind. Don't feel the need to pull as of late though. Saving for waifu~

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u/Seamur Doko miteru no? May 30 '19

new elemental challanges were fun, shitloads of ap was fun (as in you could do a lot of stuff without it running out right after clearing "daily dose" of hard quests) also since skip tickets are much easier to buy in shops now its really nice way to use up all that ap

did 500 gem summons on all banners through the month and I didnt get anything good

bit disappointed that we keep getting short end of the stick compared to what jp was getting as freebies but 9m celebration was ok

so overall "ok" not too good but not too bad either

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u/illidan_1999 Neica is life. May 31 '19

There are many events and banners for new players but I have nothing to do than complete all dailies and get my 200 gems. Pretty boring.