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requiemsHappy March, Overwatch is getting a Nier Automata collab and for some reason Square lobbied for Kiriko to be 2B. Kiriko does not have the legs and ass to be 2B, and nor does she make any sense to be her at all in playstyle or personality. On this one occasion she ought to have been Widow... or any of the characters trained in dance, as they have the legs for it... or Widow, who suppresses the emotions she feels due to the death of the person she loves, something 2B does on the regular...
And you could've done so much with the easter egg of Widow requires a visor of some kind that slots into place when her ult activates, and on this occasion doing the opposite - removing the visor to show her eyes, and making them red to match the og visor lighting up, whilst also implying logic virus... I just know this would have tickled Yoko Taro's brain... Square letting me down one last time.
The other skins are going to Wuyang (9S, weird pick), Vendetta (A2, personality clash but the sword is good and the big spins she does with the sword are just Nier spins), and then Lifeweaver (Adam) and Mercy (the Yorha Commander) and the last one in particular is so. Yeah. Give it up for another evil Mercy skin everybody. And not a single omnic/robot got a skin in the game about androids/robots. Of course not. I hope we get music in some way at least...
Decided on and bought my gold weapon backlog, of which Anran has seen some use because it turns out I do enjoy playing her, she just works best when you have someone to coordinate with when retreating for cover or heals woops. But I got the majority of my list, so, Orisa, Sojourn, Tracer, Widowmaker, Ana, Illari and Kiriko, then Anran and Domina, leaving Pharah, the cat and Vendetta, of which I decided to leave Vendetta until such a time that she crashes and burns during the storyline because then congratulations girly you actually did something and advanced the plot successfully (because thus far we are three weeks in and nothing has happened yet with her attack on Overwatch, it's all new character introductions, yknow, stuff we got pre character release being drip fed, I'm expecting once the five week run is over we'll see some advancement?). I do kind of want to give her the crimson wolf weapon as it is literally her theme, but I committed to the golds for women bit, and don't want to get two comp weapons for someone I don't play... :')
I did get the gold for Mizuki. I have lost every single game with him since. That's how it goes. I've been playing stadium slowly, Ashe build is fine just adjacent to how it was - a lot of Ashe abusers have disappeared due to the extra steps to make her work but I am a connoisseur so if I go uncontested or matched by another Ashe I get it easy. Brigitte is still very strong, she just has long queue times for support. Dva feels extremely, very bad. She simply has no oomph. I have tried many variations to middling low success, and Hazard has become the dominant pick this season, since now nobody can keep him and his high block (with high damage at the same time!) and mobility in check. I tried a few Orisa games... I lost 3 of the 4 to Hazard's, she cannot win against him. Junkerqueen is going okay but I struggle to land the knife consistently so I'm mostly here for the high sustain and cycling cooldowns and overhealth, which seems to be working... mostly. She's yet to be Hazard tested. I need to have a look at builds for her to see if I'm on the right track as though I can sustain reasonably well I'm not getting the damage I see others do.
There's been an ongoing UI bug in stadium that Blizzard claimed to have fixed but have not, so my duo hasn't been unable to play stadium at all (the hud just doesn't load, you can't buy items). I've had this bug previously, it's always existed, but maybe 3/600 games and was easily solved my leave/rejoining, they've had it 3/4 games. 😔 so unless it actually is fixed come mid season we may have to look into regular comp placements for drives.
Due to being unable to duo, hero changes in what was my main role and also wanting to not be hitting stadium as hard as I was, progress is slower. A lot of my time has been purely trying to complete event checkpoints, since the best way is to go hard for the first 2-3 days of the week so you can swap factions to do both their dailies and get more lootboxes, and more lootboxes means more legendary skins for characters I don't play, so eventually it should give me skins for characters I do play. Maybe.
Weapons wise... I do still have some comp points from last year leftover, I'm maybe a hundred off being able to convert current currency for another gold, but I think I'll hold off on conversion/getting for now. I'd like to get golds for women by the end of the competitive year again, but I don't know how many more that's going to be 🥲 at the moment three (Pharah, cat and Vendetta), the next dps in April is female, then of the remaining four heroes for the rest of the year perhaps two more, so six total?? That'd be 18k for all of it, which I can get through just doing drives. For crimson, I think I basically want almost identically the same as my galactic list, being Ashe, DVa, Brigitte, and Mercy... there's a few good Ashe combinations and her mythic gun was made for a red wrapping, Dva's looks really good on a few of my favourite skins, one of Brigitte's skins is a fantastic combination, and Mercy is a maybe for the fact it looks really good with Panther. Otherwise maybe Reaper (it's likewise made for him), maaaaybe Wuyang (this is for his P5 Joker staff we do it for him), maaaaaaybe one or two more galactics. We'll see.
Finished 5.3 in SHB! I actually got to see the second part of Elidibus for the first time ever! The prior two times I was in too much pain from the ATE to do so as it's the first trick one, and the first one not to fill a gauge but to keep it from depleting and will, always, be pixels off failing. It's a not a couple of seconds worth of quick pressing that you could take ten seconds to do, it's like ten to twenty seconds of consistent quick pressing, which is not very accessible at all. My method with ATE's after much trial and error is to very gently roll a finger around the d pad, and whilst it is not fast by any means for filling a gauge or stopping a deplete, it will do it successfully. And doesn't wreck my right thumb further, or cause issues in my left. I just can't regularly do whatever that piece of content is. tl;dr, I actually really like his fight now that I could participate, lol. I'd forgotten a lot of the plot threads and his reasoning for becoming The (titular) Warrior of Light, but it's actually really genius, because he was embodied to be hope, it has simply become twisted and an obsession over the years, and he uses what is typically reserved for the playable hero of the power of hope to win against his adversary (you). Full end of Okami or Persona 5 moment. And in true JRPG style, the next thing the WoL themselves do is call upon the power of hope and belief to take their friends safely home to the Source, including G'raha, and it's such a nice moment... you know you will succeed because Elidibus showed you the way... I am so weak to stories about hope and that is what SHB is, ultimately, all the way down.
Eden 9-12 also did, and Cylva follow up quest where you leave the crystals you gathered to her (and their memories recognise her), went to solo Warring Triad/HW base primal ex's so I can today take Unukalhai from the closet to the First for the final bits of Cylva content, and so when Khlip does do Endwalker I can have all my voidsent threads already in place. I wasn't going to do 5.4/5 right away but Krile hijacked my cursor when I was looking directly at the Solar so uh 5.4 did start LMAO. I guess I'll continue until Endwalker start and then take the break by playing something else. It shouldn't take too long, since it's just two dungeons I know very well. I may cutscene skip for certain individuals though. I absolutely switched off during their respective monologues at the end of 5.3: I simply do not care :')
And you could've done so much with the easter egg of Widow requires a visor of some kind that slots into place when her ult activates, and on this occasion doing the opposite - removing the visor to show her eyes, and making them red to match the og visor lighting up, whilst also implying logic virus... I just know this would have tickled Yoko Taro's brain... Square letting me down one last time.
The other skins are going to Wuyang (9S, weird pick), Vendetta (A2, personality clash but the sword is good and the big spins she does with the sword are just Nier spins), and then Lifeweaver (Adam) and Mercy (the Yorha Commander) and the last one in particular is so. Yeah. Give it up for another evil Mercy skin everybody. And not a single omnic/robot got a skin in the game about androids/robots. Of course not. I hope we get music in some way at least...
Decided on and bought my gold weapon backlog, of which Anran has seen some use because it turns out I do enjoy playing her, she just works best when you have someone to coordinate with when retreating for cover or heals woops. But I got the majority of my list, so, Orisa, Sojourn, Tracer, Widowmaker, Ana, Illari and Kiriko, then Anran and Domina, leaving Pharah, the cat and Vendetta, of which I decided to leave Vendetta until such a time that she crashes and burns during the storyline because then congratulations girly you actually did something and advanced the plot successfully (because thus far we are three weeks in and nothing has happened yet with her attack on Overwatch, it's all new character introductions, yknow, stuff we got pre character release being drip fed, I'm expecting once the five week run is over we'll see some advancement?). I do kind of want to give her the crimson wolf weapon as it is literally her theme, but I committed to the golds for women bit, and don't want to get two comp weapons for someone I don't play... :')
I did get the gold for Mizuki. I have lost every single game with him since. That's how it goes. I've been playing stadium slowly, Ashe build is fine just adjacent to how it was - a lot of Ashe abusers have disappeared due to the extra steps to make her work but I am a connoisseur so if I go uncontested or matched by another Ashe I get it easy. Brigitte is still very strong, she just has long queue times for support. Dva feels extremely, very bad. She simply has no oomph. I have tried many variations to middling low success, and Hazard has become the dominant pick this season, since now nobody can keep him and his high block (with high damage at the same time!) and mobility in check. I tried a few Orisa games... I lost 3 of the 4 to Hazard's, she cannot win against him. Junkerqueen is going okay but I struggle to land the knife consistently so I'm mostly here for the high sustain and cycling cooldowns and overhealth, which seems to be working... mostly. She's yet to be Hazard tested. I need to have a look at builds for her to see if I'm on the right track as though I can sustain reasonably well I'm not getting the damage I see others do.
There's been an ongoing UI bug in stadium that Blizzard claimed to have fixed but have not, so my duo hasn't been unable to play stadium at all (the hud just doesn't load, you can't buy items). I've had this bug previously, it's always existed, but maybe 3/600 games and was easily solved my leave/rejoining, they've had it 3/4 games. 😔 so unless it actually is fixed come mid season we may have to look into regular comp placements for drives.
Due to being unable to duo, hero changes in what was my main role and also wanting to not be hitting stadium as hard as I was, progress is slower. A lot of my time has been purely trying to complete event checkpoints, since the best way is to go hard for the first 2-3 days of the week so you can swap factions to do both their dailies and get more lootboxes, and more lootboxes means more legendary skins for characters I don't play, so eventually it should give me skins for characters I do play. Maybe.
Weapons wise... I do still have some comp points from last year leftover, I'm maybe a hundred off being able to convert current currency for another gold, but I think I'll hold off on conversion/getting for now. I'd like to get golds for women by the end of the competitive year again, but I don't know how many more that's going to be 🥲 at the moment three (Pharah, cat and Vendetta), the next dps in April is female, then of the remaining four heroes for the rest of the year perhaps two more, so six total?? That'd be 18k for all of it, which I can get through just doing drives. For crimson, I think I basically want almost identically the same as my galactic list, being Ashe, DVa, Brigitte, and Mercy... there's a few good Ashe combinations and her mythic gun was made for a red wrapping, Dva's looks really good on a few of my favourite skins, one of Brigitte's skins is a fantastic combination, and Mercy is a maybe for the fact it looks really good with Panther. Otherwise maybe Reaper (it's likewise made for him), maaaaybe Wuyang (this is for his P5 Joker staff we do it for him), maaaaaaybe one or two more galactics. We'll see.
Finished 5.3 in SHB! I actually got to see the second part of Elidibus for the first time ever! The prior two times I was in too much pain from the ATE to do so as it's the first trick one, and the first one not to fill a gauge but to keep it from depleting and will, always, be pixels off failing. It's a not a couple of seconds worth of quick pressing that you could take ten seconds to do, it's like ten to twenty seconds of consistent quick pressing, which is not very accessible at all. My method with ATE's after much trial and error is to very gently roll a finger around the d pad, and whilst it is not fast by any means for filling a gauge or stopping a deplete, it will do it successfully. And doesn't wreck my right thumb further, or cause issues in my left. I just can't regularly do whatever that piece of content is. tl;dr, I actually really like his fight now that I could participate, lol. I'd forgotten a lot of the plot threads and his reasoning for becoming The (titular) Warrior of Light, but it's actually really genius, because he was embodied to be hope, it has simply become twisted and an obsession over the years, and he uses what is typically reserved for the playable hero of the power of hope to win against his adversary (you). Full end of Okami or Persona 5 moment. And in true JRPG style, the next thing the WoL themselves do is call upon the power of hope and belief to take their friends safely home to the Source, including G'raha, and it's such a nice moment... you know you will succeed because Elidibus showed you the way... I am so weak to stories about hope and that is what SHB is, ultimately, all the way down.
Eden 9-12 also did, and Cylva follow up quest where you leave the crystals you gathered to her (and their memories recognise her), went to solo Warring Triad/HW base primal ex's so I can today take Unukalhai from the closet to the First for the final bits of Cylva content, and so when Khlip does do Endwalker I can have all my voidsent threads already in place. I wasn't going to do 5.4/5 right away but Krile hijacked my cursor when I was looking directly at the Solar so uh 5.4 did start LMAO. I guess I'll continue until Endwalker start and then take the break by playing something else. It shouldn't take too long, since it's just two dungeons I know very well. I may cutscene skip for certain individuals though. I absolutely switched off during their respective monologues at the end of 5.3: I simply do not care :')
