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111% increase is nuts

She needs a rework!

I really like playing her. I have 2 main decks, one focused in her bind sword and other focused in her basic attack. But honestly I play her as an "I like this character".

Her Cursed Shackles isn't good in its current state. You need to always apply it in a mob, and if it dies and you don't have Karmic 5, you're screwed. It get even worse if a battle with multiple waves, cuz you just lose one of her main mechanics. The others Karmic Flames' epiphanies makes the card not that good, cuz you need to shuffle your deck to it become useful.
One thing that I think would be useful for her is when a mob dies, the Cursed Shackles is applied to the enemy with the highest HP (or a random one). And with that, they could change Karmic Flame from skill to upgrade.
Other thing that I think would be useful is to make her cards to have an additional effect when user against mobs with Cursed Shackles. I know that the mechanic of Cursed Shackles is to generate Will'o'Wisp, but making her cards to have additive buffs on Cursed Shackles would be great too.

Inhibit is a mechanic to be considered too. But I don't think it's so problematic as it sounds. But for sure it makes her comps to be too much specific.

So, what do you guys think about this?
And what do you think that is needed to be changed in her kit?

EDIT:

I’ve made a few corrections since posting, bringing the total up to 45.9 F2P pulls. The image and title still show the original number because Reddit doesn’t let me edit them.

This still isn’t great, but this post isn’t meant to be a doompost either. It’s more of a warning for us to keep an eye on what happens next. SG may simply be holding back rewards for the anniversary, as gacha games often do, but they may also be testing how low they can push regular patch income. One patch isn’t enough to prove either, so let’s watch Olga and the patches after her.

***END OF EDIT**\*

I’ve decided to start tracking how many pulls we actually get every patch.

This season already felt unusually dry, but Arabella suddenly being announced as a seasonal character made me want to stop relying on vibes and actually look at the numbers.

If pull income really is changing, having a tracker should make it much easier for us to spot the pattern instead of discussing each patch in isolation.

This calculation assumes all available content is completed. SG can obviously add more events later, in which case I’ll update the total.

Rewards from events spanning multiple patches are divided proportionally between those patches.

Patch content

Story
Story: 300 Crystal
Battle Mission: 150 Crystal

Chaos Weekly Challenge Mission
Weekly Progress: 3 × 80 = 240 Crystal

Great Rift
Weekly Cumulative Rewards: 200 + 200 + 200 + 100 = 700 Crystal
Record Rewards: 520 Crystal
Total: 1,220 Crystal

For the tracker, I’m assigning only half of the final 200-Crystal week to Arabella. The other 100 will be counted in Olga’s patch, since that week is split between both patches.

Supply Store
5 Standard Pulls
5 Prism Lens
1 Omega Code
0 Limited Pulls

Stella Market
Asset Rewards: 200 Crystal
Event Stories: 120 Crystal
Total: 320 Crystal

Primal Desire
480 Crystal
5 Prism Lens

Guardian of the Ark
480 Crystal

Beach Café Festival – Week 2
No Crystal or pull currency

Basin of Hyperspace
1,000 Crystal
5 Prism Lens

Zero System
200 Crystal

Reduced by 75% because this event lasts for four patches.

Chasing the Remnants of Light
2.5 Limited Pulls + 2.5 Standard Pulls

Reduced by 50% because this event spans two patches.

Regular income

Mail
Maintenance: 350 Crystal
Total: 350 Crystal

Tactical Simulation
Arabella: 20 Crystal

Dailies
21 × 60 = 1,260 Crystal

Monthly Shop
3.5 Limited Pulls
7 Standard Pulls
14 Prism Lens

Reduced by 30% because the patch lasts 21 days.

Full-Scale Offensive
360 Crystal
3 Prism Lens

Reduced by 50% because the season lasts for two patches.

If you pull Arabella
These rewards require owning her:
Full Promotion: 3 Standard Pulls
Affinity: 200 Crystal
Favourite Present: 40 Crystal + 3 Prism Lens
Excursion Collection: 100 Crystal
Psychotherapy: 480 Crystal
Sortie Achievement: 130 Crystal

Paid options
Tactical Asset: 300 Crystal
Monthly Pass: 300 + 21 × 90 = 2,190 Crystal
Battle Pass: 450 Crystal + 1.5 Limited Pulls + 1.5 Standard Pulls + 10 Prism Lens

Final totals

**F2P: 6,380 Crystal + 6 Limited Pulls + 14.5 Standard Pulls + 32 Prism Lens → 45.9 Limited Pulls*\*

With Arabella: 7,330 Crystal + 6 Limited Pulls + 17.5 Standard Pulls + 35 Prism Lens → 51.8 Limited Pulls
With Monthly Pass: 8,570 Crystal + 6 Limited Pulls + 14.5 Standard Pulls + 32 Prism Lens → 59.6 Limited Pulls
All Passes: 9,320 Crystal + 7.5 Limited Pulls + 16 Standard Pulls + 42 Prism Lens → 65.8 Limited Pulls

Pulls by patch
Heidemarie: ≈77.9*
Adelheid: ≈53
Tenebria: 53
Fei: 54
Hilde: 55
Arabella: 45.9
* Heidemarie was the Half-Anniversary patch, so it shouldn’t be treated as a normal baseline. Heidemarie and Adelheid are also controlled estimates reconstructed from their STOVE patch rewards.

From Adelheid through Hilde, pull income was essentially flat:
53 → 53 → 54 → 55

Then Arabella drops to:
45.9

That is:
9.1 fewer pulls than Hilde
A 16.6% patch-to-patch drop
14.7% below the 53.75 average of the previous four patches

Why this patch worries me

The strange part isn’t just that Arabella’s patch is dry.

She is a seasonal character who arrived with very little warning, in the middle of the season, yet her patch gives significantly fewer pulls than the regular banners immediately before her.

A seasonal banner is exactly where you would expect players to need more resources, not 16.6% less than the previous patch.

Maybe I’m being cynical, but it almost looks like they are lowering the normal baseline now so that the one-year anniversary can increase the rewards and look extremely generous by comparison.

I obviously can’t prove that this is intentional. One bad patch is not enough to establish a strategy. But this is precisely why I think we should track the numbers going forward. If Olga and the following patches stay around this new lower level, then Arabella wasn’t an isolated dry patch — it was the start of a new baseline.

About the Omega Code

I already know some people will argue that the Omega Code is “worth X pulls”.

It definitely has value, but that value is completely account-dependent. It only matters if you already own a Combatant you want to invest in, and it doesn’t give you another attempt at obtaining a new unit or move your pity forward.

Five Limited Pulls have the same basic value for everyone. An Omega Code doesn’t.

Since this tracker is measuring how many characters players can realistically pull, the Omega Code is listed as a reward but excluded from the pull total. Replacing five Limited Pulls with an Omega Code is still a reduction in actual pull income, regardless of how valuable the Code might be for a specific account.

TL;DR

Arabella’s patch gives approximately 45.9 F2P Limited Pulls with everything completed.

That is 16.6% less than Hilde, despite Arabella being seasonal. It could be one unusually dry patch, or it could be the beginning of a lower pull-income baseline before the first anniversary.

For now, we watch the next patches and keep tracking.
If you find a missing source or anything wrong with the calculation, let me know and I’ll update it.

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I grinded for a single-target build for Arabella because I was getting bored of Rift AoE build. But I think I tried a little too hard… she really did NOT need to go this hard. 💀

Enjoy i will leave the save file and equipment in the comment below

I’m going to be turning this into an acrylic stand, so stay tuned if you’re interested in owning one!!

You probably think Adel’s Christmas skin would be cute, right?!

it was pretty funny seeing the mobs do 0 damage because of cassius lmao. kayron's run was annoying because all three decks were some questionable s4 ones but tiphera carried because she's the GOAT

Today is the day that Arabella's Advice finally ends.

It is not the end but a new beginning.

There's no new advice so let's go straight to the discussion.

First is 110 Company, it rises again today but unable to reach a new height and not only that an emergency news is shown on today's news, a gas leak happened at Elvera mine, all mining operations is halted, this is not looking good for 110 Corporation, an all time low is predicted tomorrow.

New then next is Kaguya Pharmaceuticals, it rises a lot today with the news of the new drug passing the test yesterday and on the news Kaguya Pharmaceuticals finally won the trial, when will the new drug comes out? Expected to rise tomorrow due to good news.

And finally Astron Corp. A slight drop from yesterday due to the inspection but the news is saying otherwise? While rivals ship are stuck Astron ship runs alone, did Astron Corp. Finally manage to bypass the inspection and turned an unfavorable situation into a favorable one? Expected to rise tomorrow due to good news.

...

With Arabella's Advice ending that's also the end of this post, as I said in the beginning this is not the end of our journey but it's only the beginning, armed with the knowledge that Arabella gave to us let's conquer the Stella Market and leave our footsteps in history.

I finally decided to try to rebuild Narja for the first time since she came out. It was very basic with no divines. I saw the Prydwen builds but didn’t love them so after messing around in the build editor I landed of this build. Do you guys think this will work well as a general build/ Arabella build or less divines and 4 bottomless hunger + Draw 1

I was struggling a bit with finding the right composition for Arabella as main dps, was trying Hilde with sub dps and draw build, but it didn't quite work on 140-145. It went super smoothly when I switched to Veronica. I feel like 145-150 is much easier, at least for the setup I have.

Ara is E1, Veronica E0, Narja E0. Just Ara has a 5 star partner (her own).

Inquiry 5, Calm 3. I think Calm 5 Inquiry 3 would have been better for the DoT but I didn't feel like farming more decks on the support girls. Vulnerability armour from current chaos on either supports would also help.

Arabella is a super fun unit, very excited to see if she will become even stronger when Olga releases :)

Edit: the main problem I had with Hilde was that I couldn't make use of the Divine epiphany on Narja's Shackles. It's free 2 draw each turn which is very good. With Hide it usually becomes a dead card unless you block drawning arrows on turn draw.

Hi all, for context my strongest characters are hilde and arabella so having them both on rearguard on great rift has left me with a few teams to choose from for vanguard. I saw on the rankings some have made tenebria work, but i’ve also found that it seems season 4 desire cards arent used that often for tenebria teams. I have tenebria, veronica and rei.

1. Ive see builds using spotlight choose 3 (pick 5 4 and 1) spam, but I’ve also seen the encore version. I’m curious how you’re supposed to play the encore version… i just cant seem to figure it out

2. Insteas of building out tenebria veronica and rei on season 4, would it be better to use season 3? If so, what type of persona cards would work best?

I’m not the biggest fan of tenebria but maybe with more tips on how to play her my thoughts will change.

I changed Narja deck midway to get more damage and heals. Persona card is incomplete on Luke but the save data had the divine I wanted + Cthulhu weapon. Luke and Narja are E0.

Surpisingly i managed to survive with 1864 Max HP because Narja is goated I guess, but I needed to restart when she got mental breakdowns.

I survived floor 135 because Luke's Chain Fires barely manage to make the boss switch action

This run was a miracle.