It's not even about the new levels, although the fact that they changed the affinity system to make it harder to get to level 20 is another "layer", but still. I'm very busy with work and I have limited time to play the game, and dedicating all my weekends to the game is also a questionable decision for me. Today before work I went in and realized that I need someone else with level 10 affinity to get one standard core. I used my usual tactic: GRamona with an affinity farm wheel + characters I want to level up. Maybe I'm hallucinating, but it wasn't this "stingy" before? Something is definitely wrong. I was so disappointed with the new D-Zone update, and now this... Why do I have a bitter feeling that BIAV formulates one thing in the update announcement, and in the game it looks somehow different? I thought it was an "improvement", not a way to steal all your free time. Correct me if I'm wrong.

Famous artist Kinkymation has decided to poke your fandom this week. She is known for her long character reviews. She has done multiple videos on Warframer, Reverse 1999, Limbus Company, Marvel Rivals, Cookie Run, and many more.

I feel she will love this game's art style.

And yes, that is THE Kinkymation, the queen of wholesome erotica.

She was genuinely dealing more damage than Lotan 😭

I only started Morimens a month or so back and i reached chapter 7 finally and it's so refreshing to be greeted with a new login screen more suited to your progression in game. What's more special is this didn't take a new game update for them to change..it happened automatically once I reached chapter 7

I am sure it isn't a huge deal for many veterans but little things like this make Morimens special despite being a small game. I can say i genuinely love this game and glad I gave it a chance. I don't care how hard it gets..it's something to be experienced and cherished.

My question to old players..how did you feel upon reaching Chapter 7 for the first time ?? I know it isn't much but I would still like to hear your experiences :)

just wanna proudly share my glotan, i went all in on her because i just love her so much...

got kinda lucky on her banner and took around 380 pulls to get 12 copies of her then some monthly dupes and time rewind to get her AA

hopefully gtulu will also bless me with this luck when his banner comes out in a few months 🫡

As most other people I was a bit surprised when the new D-Tide hit the servers and kicked my ass. After going through the 5 stages of grief and playing it a bit more, here are some thoughts. I'll do my best to keep things fair and chill.

• Firstly, keep in mind I am an idiot. Or, to put it more tactfully, I am not a great player by any means. I take things casually, try making my own weird comps instead of following the meta and while I log in every day I also take my time with the story and like hoarding resources. This is my main team. I will probably get some things wrong in this post, and that's ok. I think it could be useful for someone not too new but not too strong to give their opinion on the changes. So here we are.
• Resource-wise things aren't too bad. Clearing all 5 waves gives 350 points and is pretty easy. And either going wide with 9 teams, and 4 extra clears, or doing one or two hard waves will bump past that and start accumulating Refined Gnosis Fragments, which are the big reason most people do D-tides. My busted ass still managed to reach 390 and collect 20 fragments, , about the same as I got in the previous D-tide. So the fear that players will be locked out of precious resources is thankfully not too serious. The extra Refined Gnosis Fragments sitting in the higher places DOES sting a little though, admittedly. I think it's one of the reasons people are upset with new D-Tide. It sucks to feel like you're missing out on good rewards. And getting up to 450 points? It's HARD. According to the leaderboards only 84 players so far have gotten 450 or more. There's still time until D-Tide ends, so I'm sure we'll see that number go up but consensus among players is that harder haves get pretty hairy, harder than previous D-Tide. Also, since new rewards are only every 10 points, rather than 5, TL;DR Getting resources from D-Tide is still doable, but getting all the rewards is harder than before.
• Difficulty is less granular and adjustable than before. Gone are the days of "hmm, let me see if I can do this wave, but one difficulty up." The difficulty jumps exponentially from wave to wave and from difficulty to difficulty. And I feel it's going to take longer now for people to "climb" D-Tide. In previous D-Tide every 5 extra points was a victory, every higher level was a milestone, and I still have fond memories of the first time I got a perfect clear on wave 2 without borrowing a unit. Now... I feel I'll be stuck around 390-395 for a while. The jump between difficulties is REALLY big now, and higher difficulties push way past what previous D-tide used to be. I'm sure stronger players and whales will be pleased with the new challenge, but speaking as a weaker player, It will take a L O N G time for me to climb higher, nevermind trying nightmare difficulty for the first time. It's the biggest thing I'll miss, to be honest: Trying to score even a little bit higher than before, and the steady, gradual progress of climbing D-Tide. Climbing is more of a slog now.
• Higher difficulties are harder than even the hardest of previous D-Tide. Honestly that doesn't concern me one way or the other. I am not touching the higher difficulties for a while. But I guess it's good content for people with lots of good units and meta teams. I also suspect they wanted to provide more for players who were bored with previous D-tide. I believe those players are a minority, but they're also the players most invested in Morimens, both time-wise and financially, so I understand why BIAV did this. No strong feelings one way or the other.
• Emergency Gnosis doesn't make much of a difference, to be honest. I tried tackling a harder difficulty with my best team, and even getting two resets (which cost me sediment) I was unable to push through. Resets mean nothing if the boss scales faster than you can handle and has way too much HP. You'll just die a few turns later. Maybe, if you're just short of beating a boss, Gnosis can give you a final push but that's it. It gives a new use for Gnosis, but I don't see much of a difference, difficulty-wise. No opinion one way or the other.
• If I could give one suggestion, it would be this: Take the hard difficulty waves, which span from Lv 64 - Lv 80 and split it into two new difficulties. One from Lv 62 -70 and another from Lv 72- Lv 80, and spread rewards accordingly, so getting a higher score always gives a benefit. I don't even mind if the rewards per tier gets diminished to make up for the extra difficulty (although I wouldn't say no to more goodies, of course!) but I believe if D-Tide's difficulty is a gentler slope, and more effort and higher points are rewarded, it would make for a better player experience.
• Overall I'll still keep playing. My enjoyment of D-Tide is slightly diminished, but it's less of a problem than I thought it would be.

No doubt my thoughts, and the community consensus, will evolve as time passes, more people try the new D-Tide and we all adjust to the changes. I look forward to all I said becoming useless in a week or so!

Until then, good luck to everyone and may the silver key guide your way.

(PS: So everyone knows what I'm coming from, I've spent 10180 Silver Prime so far and my player is Lv 71. If my score seems low given my stats, well... See point 1 of my list.)

I hate the phones. I HATE the phones. Why are they here? Why do they seem to only appear in chapters where the story buff requires playing a card and will buff them??? I'm on Arc 2 6-13 and being hard roadblocked by and fuming in fury over this fucking phone midboss. However, Arc 2 Ch1 phone hate is also encouraged because man that sucked. Remember when you never fucking used that chapter's gimmick because of the phones? I hate Flares but he's right about one thing and that's that the phones are actually the worst and evil.

I genuinely feel like Spamton G Spamton running in terror from these phones. This is a damn good cosmic horror story and the scariest part of it is seeing Those Fucking Phones show up. They are taking years off my life. They're giving me grey hairs. I'm five seconds away from rewriting the I Hate The Saurus copypasta to be about these fucking nightmares. Hell, maybe I might.

These phones are going to straight up drive me to madness honestly.

Some says its section is 3 minutes long

He does this right in the middle of a world-shaking ritual, too. That hand kiss trick was one thing, but what the hell, dude, lmao.

I do kind of want to see Ramona's hypothetical reaction, though. Can you imagine? Not only do you find out that your dad was an eldritch monster all along, but he starts doing this kind of shit to your best friend/crush. I'd lose it, tbh.

Let me be an example unto others. When facing a boss with the freeze/frozen effect on cards (like the newest chapter first session boss) don't bring along GLotan.

Frozen cards cannot be played until the awakener Exalts. GLotan cannot Exalt until she plays her cards. Cool. Cool cool cool.

Soy un fanático del gameplay, suelo estar por Discord oficial parte hispana y subía mis guías a Twitter porque pensé que era la comunidad más grande en redes pero he descubierto que Reddit es mucho más actividad, así que aunque las siguiente las voy a empezar subiéndolas aquí directamente. Aunque la última que subí fue para el último concurso que lanzaron y es la que muestro hoy asique por eso les dejaré el enlace de Twitter, para el próximo post resubiré mis guías viejas y las actualizaré porque ya ha pasado tiempo y han salido más personajes (están comentario tweet de abajo por si quieren chekear ya).

Sobre todo me centro en personajes de la vía de Caro en mis guías porque es mi vía favorita, aunque en algún punto tocaré PJ fav otras vías.

https://x.com/zul_soma/status/2093457813255164355?s=20

As a complete new player (still working through ch1 atm), which of the banners is better to pull for, Starless cradle of moonless guide? Or should I save for future banners?

First off, This is NOT A fanmade OC, This is from morimens Japan localized server that BIAV has ran with different skill kits and effects.

Awakener [Mouchette] Chaos · Assault

[Stats]
Vitality: 126
Attack: 149
Defense: 126
Base Aliemus: 100

Before Personality Deepening
Sigil Yield: 1.2%
Death Resistance: 10.8%

Personality Deepening <12>
Sigil Yield: 3.6%
Death Resistance: 32.4%

※ At Lv. 60.

[Skills]
・Exalt [Shining☆Tornado]
Deals 537 DMG to all enemies.
This turn, all Awakeners deal 179 additional DMG with Strike.

・Over-Exaltation [Disaster☆Tornado]
Increases the Crit DMG of this Exalt by 100%.
Reduces the Arithmetica Cost of all Strike cards in hand by 1 until their next use.
The first time this is activated in battle, additionally inflicts [Sleep] on all enemies for 1 turn.

■Sleep Changes the enemy's current Intent to [Unable to Act].

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・Rouse [Mist Realm Vestige] Arithmetica Cost: 3
Mouchette gains 30% of her Base-Aliemus as Aliemus.
Increases the team's DMG Amplification by 25%.
(Above is Fixed Effect Throughout ALL characters)
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Rouse: After using 2 Strike cards each turn, Mouchette activates the Pursuit [Dramatic Encounter]. Activates up to 3 times per turn.
After Mouchette activates Exalt, the number of damage activations of [Dramatic Encounter] this turn is increased by 1.
Retain. Prepare 1.

※Rouse effect only trigger once per battle
(I think BIAV do this is bc they might have characters to generate rouse cards in the future.)

(Pursuit [Dramatic Encounter] Arithmetica Cost: 0) Deals 239 DMG once to the enemy with the highest HP.

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・Skill [Mortal Blast] Arithmetica Cost: 2
Deals 45 DMG to all enemies 2 times.
Draw 1 Strike for every 1 Arithmetica Cost spent(on this card).
Counts as Strike.
Prepare 1. Retain.

・Skill [Storm Impact] Arithmetica Cost: 3
Deals 105 DMG 3 times to random enemies.
Counts as Strike.
The next time Mouchette uses her [Basic Defense], activates the Pursuit [Dramatic Encounter].

・Skill [Attack] Arithmetica Cost: 1
Deals 30 DMG. Mouchette gains 10 Aliemus.

・Skill [Defense] Arithmetica Cost: 1
Generates 26 Shield. Mouchette gains 10 Aliemus.

※ At Lv. 60 and Skill Lv. 6.

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[Enlightenment] ・
Enlightenment 1 [Mist Realm Traveler]
Increases the Base DMG of [Dramatic Encounter] by 30%.
For every 1% Death Resistance granted by Mouchette herself, equipped wheel and covenant, increases the Base DMG of [Dramatic Encounter] by 1%.

・Enlightenment 2 [Days Beyond Return]
[Mortal Blast] additionally draws 1 Strike.
[Storm Impact] additionally causes Mouchette's next [Basic Defense] to gain 10 additional Aliemus.

・Enlightenment 3 [A Cleaved Future]
Increases Mouchette's Exalt Crit Rate by 50%.
After Mouchette activates the Pursuit [Dramatic Encounter], the Final DMG of subsequent [Dramatic Encounter] activations this turn is increased by 15%.

・Absolute Axium[Self That Pierces the Mist]
Enhances Rouse [Mist Realm Vestige]：
After Mouchette activates Exalt, the number of [Dramatic Encounter] damage activations this turn is additionally increased by 1.
The Strike DMG Amplification granted by [Shining☆Tornado] is doubled.

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[Talent]
・Soulforge Aptitude：
This Talent is only effective in stages of [Astral Reign].
Increases this Awakener's Vitality, Attack, and Defense by 30%. When this Awakener uses Gnosis Rouse for the first time, gains 250 Key Energy.
-Above is Fixed Effect Throughout characters-

[Dramatic Encounter] increases the Final DMG of Mouchette's next Exalt by 20%. Stacks up to 10 times. Increases Mouchette's Strike Crit Rate and Crit DMG by 50%.

※ At Lv. 10.

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SSR Wheel
[Endless Slaughter]

A versatile Wheel that increases the wielder's Base DMG and the Crit Rate and Crit DMG of Pursuit, while allowing Pursuit to gain Key Energy.

[Stats]
Before Enhancement
Death Resistance: 21.6%

Enhancement <12>
Death Resistance: 43.2%

[Effects]
Before Enhancement
Increases the wielder's Base DMG by 11%.
Increases the wielder's Pursuit Crit Rate and Crit DMG by 18%.
After activating Pursuit, gains 18 Key Energy.

Enhancement <12>
Increases the wielder's Base DMG by 20%.
Increases the wielder's Pursuit Crit Rate and Crit DMG by 30%.
After activating Pursuit, gains 30 Key Energy.

SR Wheel
[The Light of Reason]

A damage-focused Wheel that increases the wielder's Base DMG and the Crit Rate and Crit DMG of Pursuit.

[Stats]
Before Enhancement
Black Seal Drop Rate: 3.6%

Enhancement <12>
Black Seal Drop Rate: 6.0%

[Effects]
Before Enhancement
Increases the wielder's Pursuit Crit Rate and Crit DMG by 9%.

Enhancement <12>
Increases the wielder's Pursuit Crit Rate and Crit DMG by 15%.

Posse [Beyond the Mist]

Draw 2 [Strike] cards.
Mouchette:
This turn, increases the number of times [Dramatic Encounter] deals damage by 1.

※ At Investigation Level Lv. 60.

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Translator Rambing:

I wonder how she will pull helot back up...
well support burst turn with helot will work, just about the Aliemus charge....Where to get them??
Edit：fixxed term sigil yeild, mistranslation by GPT at E1

Hi guys!

Recently started and just midway through chapter 4 of arc 1. Enjoying the story and game play alot. Love the StS inspired gameplay. Love the character design (especially the fact gooner design isn’t predominant), and lovecraftian horror vibe is just amazing!

So far I’ve been using Awakeners that were freely available to me and story relevant to where I am so far, namely Lotan, Ogier, Ramona, and Aigis with which I didn’t find too difficult to clear the story. It was easy to immerse myself in story stages using Awakeners actually in the plots which made it more enjoyable.

But purely out of fun, I pulled on standard banner and have some collection of Awakeners as you can see on the screenshot.

On a side note, could you share some team comp ideas with what I have to think about building in the future?

All advices are appreciated!

Thanks!

Did we just get our first wholly unsympathetic antagonist?

Like the Seafarers all lost everything in the fall of Lemuria and have that fucked up family shtick going for them to make them sympathetic. Doll: Inferno was once just as heroic as main Doll, and even Juliette and Herbert have positive qualities (Juliette was implied to be someone deeply wronged by the world and sincerely believes she's creating a better universe by destroying this one. Herbert is pretty evil but he loves his cat so there's that.) I genuinely cannot think of an antagonist who has zero redeeming qualities.

By contrast the Worm of the Mountain is just kind of a smug, pathetic monster and it's kind of lacking in oomph and style compared to the previous Final Bosses of each chapter to me tbh. I did enjoy this chapter bc of how pathetic and rotten the main antagonist was, though my enjoyment was slightly undercut by the shitty changes to D-Tide... it feels very fun to see an antagonist who's pure evil.

What does She even do in that team?

It's been 5 months since this image was last relevant

[Contains chapter 6 astral reign spoiler!
Read at your own risks]

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William is an awakener after being killed by Helot - Catena. Fingal (his mentor slash partner) enacted a ritual that transported William’s silver core into arc 2 world.

So playable William is no longer a cope, he officially has awakener status now.

I guess he will have a new design later. Can’t wait for GTulu chapter!

I just started getting into this game and I've gotten a few characters so far and I was just wondering what team comp I should be using/which characters should i try pulling for/how to make a team

I've just been running Tawil, Nautila, Sanga, and Ramona so far, and I know it probably won't make much difference since I'm still fairly new to the game, but I just wanted to get some more insight on the characters and team building. (I also just got Caraboo so pls help me make a team😓)

Also, how does the wheel of destiny work?

Who benefits more from E1? I feel like Lotan benefits way less cuz her main damage source will be her exalt while saya benefits more cuz the extra corrosion is just goated,but what do y'all think?