Guan Yu isn't meant to be spammed. My theory is that she's meant to have a team built around her (hence my Sarutobi binge - those two characters move at the same speed and work very well with each other from what I can see so far). The recent nerf to attack speed rendered her weaker than before, but at higher levels your energy isn't the issue, but rather cooldowns. Based on what the official forums are saying, she's meant to be a counterpusher - just look at her skill. They're trying to figure out a way to make the game more balanced so it'll draw more players for their eventual multiplayer, so take that as what you will.
Since she's obtainable from NR easily (komica has confirmed her drops from the stage), she's a proxy SR that has much lower cooldowns. At R+ for 43 seconds I'd rather have her than say, Toki-san or White-Black, both of whom are much harder to get than her (and doesn't perform noticably better).
Most of us are sitting on piles of leveled SRs and R+s anyways (let's face it, I've basically rebuilt my account in less than three weeks) that we often forget how useful characters like Yoshi or Guan Yu/Kanu could be.
Tiana: Tested her for hellmode once maxed. Definitely better than Ranmaru and Wizarda, Revoica or not. She's like a throwaway range unit that you can spam.
Farm R extensions on boss stages that you can clear quickly. Rotate different boss stages. .
Guan Yu offers newer players basically a large, unspammable (I define spam as something <8 second cooldown) unit that can help them plow through harder stages, especially with the newer changes. She's going to fill a niche where she acts as their single big hitter due to her skill - again, see below, or she's going to be runnable in multiple copies (what I'm testing right now. 3x Guan Yu on a 30 second cooldown breaks normal stages and makes hell 3-6 a breeze) for players with super high levels.
I have Amakusa and took her off my roster because the anti-knockback isn't as useful even in hell stages since I use Maia as my main source of wall. I don't have White-Black but based on how often she gets summoned as an ally unit, my un-maxed level 31 Guan Yu does more AoE damage than her (tested using Sixth Heaven's stage because it's good efficiency), mostly because I only play her when it's time for a push (i.e. the enemy has enough units stacked up that I need to start moving my line). It's probable that once the White-Black gets maxed she'd do better, and I don't disagree, but I only report what I see. Therefore, tentatively, I'm suggesting to newer players that Guan Yu might act as a decent unit until they can RNG their way into an SR card because no other R character has the same degree of durability, damage, and speed.
As for skill, read the wiki. Search for 一騎当千 if you can't read the language. If you don't believe it or me, try it yourself. Her attack powers increase by a flat rate for every enemy that is present on the field. Go run a 3-5 crystal stage if you want to test it.
Tiana's main purpose is damage. She's not a wall. No walls beat "sister" because of the RNG proc. She's a throwaway unit that does her damage and dies. Works for me.
People who don't have their friends list maxed out will want other ways to obtain R expansions. EXP and drops-wise most of the boss stages are better, and you'll frequently find yourself with a stack of R+s if you're after a card specifically. If farming boss stages is a waste of ST, I'm not sure what's actually not a waste of ST.![]()
Also saying you have 10% chance at an R extension isn't super accurate. It's 10% at an item, which is more likely to be a Whip, BP potion and Regen potion rather than an ST potion/Premium Whip. R extensions may be somewhere in between those. It may seem like you get a ton of R extensions from NR gacha, but it's also because you're spending limited currency in a very quick manner.
You can spend 20k RP in a matter of minutes and of course you'll get plenty of rare items. You can't acquire 20k RP too quickly though. Either way you're gambling. I try not to think too much about them and they pile up as I farm Revoica and Kanu's stage.
Prima, you linked a page that talks about stage 2. I'm not sure what's the purpose, but if you're saying that farming stage 2 is a waste of time if you're after R expansions, I agree.
But it's like Fruit said, R expansions pile up if you farm boss stages. I personally use Revoica's stage myself and it's generally a round or two and an R expansion drops for me. I don't play this often enough to warrant continuous farming (being a doctor-in-training has its downsides.), but what I have noticed is that R expansion drops frequently enough that in my play sessions I get a substantial amount of them effortlessly.
Besides, when you load up the game, what are you going to do? Wait for RP so you can spin or play a stage? If you're playing a stage you might as well go hit a boss stage unless you 1) hate the clicking minigame, 2) hate the boss CG (THANK YOU FAW MAW FOR SCARRING ME FOR LIFE. I LEARNED A NEW TERM THAT DAY), 3) want to farm something that only drops elsewhere (Jean being a good example) or 4) want to burn ST as fast as you can.
Fatigue: This goes back to my initial guesswork on some sort of fatigue system that's inherent in the game. I know that - based on stuff fromYou must be registered to see the links- (you need to join their internal discussion group to see more details) that a fatigue system exists for LoW, where drops decrease dramatically if you play a big block of time, thereby prompting players into spending money into the cash shop because the game isn't doing it for them.
Given that devs have neither confirmed nor denied this despite drops being one of the most commonly asked topics on their official forums, I'm inclined to think there might be something systematic, but this is all guesswork.
On girls:As far as the girls: I've told you that you can test Guan Yu's damage output on crystals in 3-5. It costs 1 ST. Take a level 1 and see it for yourself if you send her out solo. At level 1 she can't oneshot the card-drop reliably, but the instant a few ninjas pop onto the field she'll start to oneshot things, and her damage'll fall back off to normal as she clears the field. Remember that her attack powers up based on how many enemies and how many allies you have on the field. I don't run fodder, so that might also explain why I see such a large disparity in her parameters.
Durability-wise I've been using Sixth Heaven's stage and she is easily more tanky (at her level) than the Space Sheriff or White-Black (I don't know what levels they are, but they should be players here). I use Sixth Heaven because unlike the next set of stages, Sixth Heaven spawns a consistent pattern roughly 1/2 times for me, so it provides me with a useful metric. Your comment about her dying to midrange is valid, but most things without dodge will die to midrange swarm. She's certainly better than all the R alternatives present, which is the only point I'm actually harping on about.
and nope she's not better than any present R girls. there are girls who does the work better but the game's been fucked them up they're useless (i want my Hybrider back!!)
lol congrats Fruit! now we have something worth to test
oh man.. it sucks to see the newest girls are gacha exclusive and in limited time too. i really hoped they'd include those girls in event stage later (like the last christmas event)
Yeah fastest way to make me not want to play is when I have nothing new to test, glad I found a new girl, I was getting bored. Just need Revoica now and I'm done for stage R's, weee. Wow Kanu is extremely strong for a level 1. I'm impressed already. I like how she's a short range girl so can hit projectile immune enemies but her attack also has some range on it for if she misses an enemy, it'll keep going and hit someone else. One of my new favorite girls, she works really well with 6th Heaven Oda too and gives Yae more purpose with her high health pool.
Yeah I hoped so too. I guess it was inevitable that they'd do this eventually. At least I think it says they're all limited, but it's just by google translate. Anybody with some better Japanese knowledge sharing info on it would be great.
now that you mentioned it i haven't see Kanu's health pool. her defense is reasonably weaker as i tested but perhaps having Yae around could give some hand.
anyway is Yae good as for now? i'm not sure to include her into the team. would you suggest using Yae as supporter?
also fruit, have you try this game?
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it's on the DMM game page for quite some time. it's good to kill some time too as it's easy to level up just like Tentacle Tactics.