The same as any other heishou ID.

You need to get their personal buff, and you get said buff from either their guard or their S3. For the Si specifically, this gives them their Serpert Arm which lets them actually generate poise.

This is why when you're using the heishou team, your first turn is always using everyone's guard/counter (except lord Lu). This way everyone gets their buff immediately, and you get the gluttony sins to activate their passives.

Solo’s whole schtick is that it’s extremely RNG reliant. If you want to continue with solo strats in the future then be aware that it’ll take dozens upon dozens of attempts.

IDs that have tanky kits (first stagger bar appears late, innate healing, innate shields, innate resistances) are great against the more poke oriented gameplay that unbreakable skills throw at us.

This following advice more so applies to single target unbreakable skills, but be very mindful of the damage type of the unbreakable skills throw that you’re clashing with, as well as the resistances of the sinner who’s clashing with it. It’s the difference between a broken skill dealing 20 damage, 10 damage, or just 5 damage.

On the other hand AOE unbreakable skills often have the clash lose condition of “deal -50~80% less damage” and/or “prevents targets from being staggered”. So it’s especially important to win against these skills. It may not look it, but the resulting damage isn’t a whole lot. Even if it says like “50 damage done” when you see it hit, you have to keep in mind that that damage is often split among all 6 sinners. So that 50 is more like 8 damage individually.

We can't really say which is the best for you right now, since we don't know what you have.

For example, normally NClair is the best one since he still deals good damage nowadays, but if you already have a Sinclair 000 ID then its better to get someone else.

N.Sinclair, have good damage

N.Faust, have bleed count and good sps heal passive

TT Hong Lu, have good damage

I would pick Sinclair unless you have another sinclair id

N Sinclair is the best and most recommended, unless you already have a very strong Sinclair id.

Index Proselyte is new so we aren't 100% sure how good she is but she looks quite good (and since she's a newer ID, the game's slow power creep means she'll be great in the earlygame). Rosespanner Meursault is pretty bad. T Corp Rodion is not amazing but definitely useable. Devyat Sinclair is solid but doesn't generally see use lategame. Firefist is amazing. Pequod Yi Sang is habitually underrated; quite good.

Overall, could be better, but will serve you very well through most of the story. Getting old IDs via sharding them is very approachable in this game, so I wouldn't worry too much about having good starting pulls.

Contempt is the best however it’s a WAW designed around TS4 so it’s actual cost is like 300 thread and 550 ryoshu shards

I'd say Contempt, Awe is her only "generalist" ego, though it's mainly suited for longer fights / railways. Anything else is more so situational / team dependent.

Edit: I could also see an argument for 4th Match Flame, even outside of burn teams as an emergency high clash option with a passive that can have some use.

The gameplay is a relatively simple "auto" battler in concept, but has several points where mechanical depth is exponentially deeper
In the simplest terms, you have your team of 12 characters, each having a unique inventory of movesets called "identities" that you can swap, and in most fights, you simply drag a chain along your available skills to have your sinners use them automatically once you press the start button

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Gregor inflicts self-Bleed right before he rolls his coins, Hong Lu's passive isn't doing anything.

"when exiting the store" being the key words here. It doesn't consider the Cost you gain from the boss as long as you don't enter the following floor. Either should work.

Also consider the extra EGO resources for your first three clash wins each turn, even more if the skills were Wrath/Gluttony. Depending on speed RNG, you may be able to fuel EGO for Turn 2.

If you're already using season 6 ids, there aren't really better ids available tbh, since the season 6 ids already fall into the category of best ids in the game. The fight can be pretty swingy for the first 2-3 turns, so if you're desperate, it's worth just resetting each time the first 2 turns don't go well with winning clashes.

Turn 1 Superbia into a sp healing ego (fluid sac, ya sunyata) and HOPE that the rng gods hear your prayers and please do not use sinking cause that's an instant loss

Manager Don and Index Faust are good. You should look into replacing your base IDs with better alternatives when you get the change. If you enjoy the story then I’d just play it normally, unless you pick up the combat mechanics really quickly you’ll hit a brick wall eventually anyways. Plus progressing the story gives you access to better stages for grinding Exp and thread. Again though just play normally

Yes

Don’t be afraid to bring in more IDs. More Sinners means more health to withstand poke. It also lets you have more damage type resistances to work with

I would reroll. Try for the two new units.

It depends on the dungeon. Some dungeons have certain paths that give ego gifts that are really useful for fights (Like in Canto 3,8). Dungeons that don't have many paths (Ie straight line) should be obvious just to go foward

Ignoring any evade ones (since you mentioned you dont have them) it's probably drifting blade followed by heishou, because they would consume only 1 count using defence every turn.

She doesn't even have a sinking ID.

Not all characters have options for every status, and even if they do, they're not all viable.

Cantos are divided into 3 parts, with each new part releasing after a week (so part 3 comes out on the 15th). The new Mirror Dungeon usually comes out a couple of weeks after part 3 of the canto comes out, so late January or early December.

After canto part 3 drops, so around Feburary.

Focus on killing Ren first, do this by depleting his poise count. You do this by having Gregor and Meursault guard his skills twinstrike and triplestrike. You probably want to make sure you win all. This will completely neuter Moonlit Azure blade gain as it relies on generating poise potency past 25. From there Albina should be easy.

Edit: Also don't forget to always deal with his defend and reflect to minimize his poise count gain, but those skills are luckily pretty easy to clash with. Also note that for gaurding twinstrike and triplestrike Ren should have at least 15 poise potency to make sure he actually crits.

The Gimmick is this, you want ever skill to target the first guy's defense skills. If you don't he gains too much poise. You are aiming just to clash win every turn.

You can not offset block guy's skills btw as its combat start. Best thing to do is stack a status (But I don't know your status)

For The second person, you just want to clash (Or evade/defense) win the envy skill as it doesn't do much. When she is using the her Lust skill thats big just have fastest units clash with other skills so she does no damage.

Tl;Dr: Just clash win sanity, always have 1 sinner targetting each of blockma skills

I gave your team a try and it's doable but quite rough lol... Maybe it's a bit better with lv 60 IDs.

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- Use Morositas on turn 2 to help with clashing and build your sanity.

- Clash with Ren's clashable defense skills to slow down his poise gain. Other that just keep hitting him until you reach his first stagger bar.

- As for Albina the only things to look out for are her Repressed Flesh and maybe Iron Curtain skills. Read the descriptions to know what to do.

- I recommend borrowing a better Mersault or Gregor ID to make your life easier. If you don't have any friend let me know.

insta levels as they unlock

There are 3 points in time it makes sense to start playing.
1) the start of the season. The reason for this, is the value of the battlepass is better the more you play of the season so if you intend to buy the battlepass now is the best time, but this is only if you intend to pay for the battlepass.

2) the start of a new intervallos or reruns of intervallos. These kinds of events provide loads of important resources, they also give players free IDs. This will give you strong kick start through the early parts of the game.

3) the start of a non-generic Walpurgisnacht. Walpurgisnacht should happen about every 2 months, but should flip between generic and non-generic. non-generic Walpurgisnacht IDs tend to have very strong banners, while also providing resources, though to a lesser extent than intervallos, Walpurgisnacht IDs can also only be obtained when a Walpurgisnacht event is active. If you're the type to reset until you get a account this is the prime time to do so.

The start of the season was yesterday and usually takes around 5-6 months.
The next non-generic Walpurgisnacht is probably sometime in early february.
Next intervallo is likely sometime in late february to early march

I would say best time to start is now. Season just started and first part of latest canto droped (part 2 and 3 will be released in folowing weeks) but there isnt really an event atached to it.

Only semi-limited characters thing in the game is an event called Walpurgisnight, which allows obtaining of certian ids and egos during the event period. We dont know when the next one will be.

Game is easy enough to not need doing this but if you want to re-roll your acount untill you get something very strong I would recomend one of the following; Mao Branch Adept Faust, Lord of the Hongyuan Hong Lu or Thumb East Capo IIII Meursault.

Unless you’re going to reroll your account, the best time to start any gacha is right now. Currently the newest chapter of the game released just a few days ago, so there’s a lot of buzz around the game right now. Any character released recently should do you fine, generally as a new player just roll on the latest banner until you get the featured IDs. Continue doing this until you have a decent ID for every single one of your characters. Once you get through the story you can start saving your pulls for specific events.

The meta picks suggested are good, so to complete your team you would want to get KK heathcliff to complete the KK Duo (As they both get buffed if there is 2 kk units, which they count). These 2 units will be your bleed potency engine as long as you have 3-4 lust resonance every turn

After that you want to get Manager Don to get your payoff for bleed, she is also good for bleed count if you spam defense skill.

Then you can decide to get the meta picks or mix and match some bleed count units. Thought season 1-2 bleed units will need uptie 4 to be effective.

Examples of bleed count units:

N Faust (Only works for uptie 4, but great support passive for bleed team)

Hook Lu (Walpurgisnact, but he only needs uptie 3)

R Meursalt (He can do 10-14 bleed count per rotation, but too slow at uptie 3. At uptie 4 he can do things)

Ring Outis (Least investment needed for bleed count, but you are losing barber outis so no go)

KK Ryoushu (Bad clashing, good bleed count with KK Ish passive dark cloud burst)

So gl with team building

The actual answer is a mix of the two. Basically, not all characters of both factions are actually good.

The core of the team is manager Don, princess Rodion, prince Meursault, KK Ishmael and KK Heathcliff.

The last 2 slots are contested by N corp Ryoshu, ring Yi Sang, barber Outis and priest Gregor. Which 2 you choose depends on the fight.

Team I use is following, which works for me but might not be the meta. (Not nececarily in deployment order)

Manager Don,

Princes Rodion,

Prince Sault,

KK Heath,

KK Ishmeal,

N.Ryoshu,

Ring Sang.

It does say in the extraction page, youll get used to it

Bl poise/rupture poise/bleed poise/tremor/charge. All of these 5 are braindead during the fight assuming you know which floor to hunt for

For actual full teams, easily rupture poise.

In all my adv 50 runs with this team I just win-rated all the way up to floor 14, and in floor 15 it was just making sure my stronger characters attacked unopposed, didn't even need to use EGOs.

You can also do solo runs, which are technically easier but require way more knowledge to pull off.

Just be mindful of doing anything online, people generally are loose lipped or careless with spoilers

No

In MDN, Udjat since Time Moratorium will slow you down. In MDE and any other content, T Corp

T Corp and it's not even close because Udjat is a sinking unit with a sprinkle of tremor rather than the other way around

I got almost all the walp IDs and Collab Egos (except for meltdown Faust) on the respective sinners and some burn IDs just because. Do note that I haven't got them all to lvl 60 yet so some of them may be under leveled.

MD7 isnt gonna drop until after part 3

The battlepass has switched over to the new one, so there's no reason to save your runs anymore

The next MD will come likely around a month or two from now

Along with what successful said, you should also have someone resistant to the skill’s damage type clash with the unbreakable skill. Most unbreakable skills will have conditionals that only activate when unbroken, and really nasty unbreakable skills will have a conditional that says something like “if broken, deals -80% damage” on top of reducing its coin power.

Winning a clash against a red coin nullfies the +/- portion of it to be respectively +1/-1. So a red coin with a base power of 4 with a +2 is guaranteed to only roll a 5.

Often times, enemies will have a condition that will only work if it the coin isn't cracked so it's in your best interest to do so.

You can tackle RR1 Bokgak with your strongest IDs. It shouldn't be that hard even with the buffs some of them got.

For RR5, you do need at least 24 different IDs because of the way this Railway works specifically. That includes base IDs, so at least 12 more IDs besides them. You can't use the same team you used in the first section for the second section, so it requires you to have a fair amount of properly-leveled IDs.

To add on, being poise count negative isn't as big of a deal as damaging statuses esecially in a poise team. If anything, it would be like a charge where you build it up for big damage on one turn (albeit a bit harder to manage).

Also, unlike N Corp Yi Sang, basically breathing gives her poise, so she will need 2~3 turns to build up enough poise to crit for 2~3 rounds.

She's a sinking potency beast, but she needs major support in the form of her own Thoracalgia as well as Butler Ryoshu's support passive to be able to actually maintain her poise count and subsequently not be massively sinking count negative

On a Solemn Lament team she should be fantastic as long as you can provide her with the aforementioned support, but a Spicebush team cares more about simply stacking sinking and deluging it and in that case Butler Faust is better

As for poise teams, BL Faust and Shi Faust are already pretty bad IDs so she can't possibly be worse than them

The debuffs that cause the panic type to change do stack, but only 1 panic type can be applied at a time

Just shard ids.

To get a gurantee for any id you need 26,000 lunacy, 200 pulls. But only the rate up id or ego on the banner you spent the pulls on can be obtained this way.

if you are just going after bp levels then no

but exp and the thread is worth it

Definitely run Luxcavations. Not only will you need plenty of Thread and EXP for IDs, but it's also more efficient in terms of your real-life limited time on this Earth.

Pull using lunacy -> dupes turn into shards -> use shards to dispense.

Alternatively, if you're a masochist, turn lunacy into energy -> spend energy on mirror dungeons -> get shard crates from mirror dungeon -> open shard crates and pray. This option will only work once we get the rest of the battle pass unlocked, though.

You can pull on the Standard banner for a 0.0408% chance of pulling him or wait until Sinclair's target extraction where you will have a 0.0220% chance of pulling him

Haven't had the chance of testing Udjat Outis (no friends who have her :c) but I did test Index Faust.

She's good in Poise. For Sinking she's great, in a similar way to Hanafuda Ishmael. Fast SP gain and good amount of coins for triggering Sinking.

"Count negative" is a non-issue because Knight Rodion + Echoes is a thing, and since she applies Sinking multiple times per skill Echoes easily makes her count neutral, or even count positive if she crits.

She also applies a nice amount of Sinking potency, which is more valuable considering Count is already well-covered, and all it takes is a little ramp-up:

By default her skills do +1(+2 if crit)/+2/+2 potency, which looks lame (12 per rotation) but hitting the Prescript's target inflicts an extra +1 Sinking, and it triggers multiple times per turn with higher Grace. At 9 Grace her skills also inflict +1 more Sinking. So the potency generation is actually fairly high.

And how hard is it to reach 9 Grace? Not at all. She gets 3 Grace as long as she targets a marked enemy, so she'll be at 6 Grace in 2 turns, and then using S3 or EGO on a marked enemy is enough to reach 9 Grace.

She does have some issues with maintaining Poise count, but this isn't as bad as it sounds. Only the last coin needs to crit and at 9 Grace her skills and passive give her enough Poise to have a decent chance of getting that crit and just enough Count to not miss out entirely if she gets 1 (but not 2) "lucky" crits before that

Basically, she does crit but not guaranteed every time, since keeping her Poise stack between turns is kind of a struggle without EGO or support.

On that note, she also fuels Thoracalgia entirely by herself, and you're already incentivized to use an EGO to max out Grace. It's not a "needs Thoracalgia to function" level of Poise problem like Shi Faust, but rather it fits like a glove so you might as well just do it.

Doesn't mess with Hanafuda's gameplan either, since Thoracalgia only needs 1 Gloom, 1 Sloth and 5 Pride. The first 2 are easy to get, Ishmael's Bygone Days and Snagharpoon don't need Pride, and her other relevant EGOs (Christmas Nightmare, Capote, Tidal Elegy, Maggot) don't use more than 2 Pride unless you're going for Corrosion.

Index Faust being count negative can be a little misleading. She wont be critting every single turn but all her skills give her poise so she will still be critting very often.

This is a copy and paste from another reply I sent. Do take it with a grain of salt though.

Index is good for poise. and okay in sinking. She has the same problem as N Corp Yi Sang where she requires crit to apply more sinking but is poise coutn negative. She can be somewaht less poise negative by using Thoracalgia and Maid Ryoshu's support passive together. I suspect she will be in a much better place when we get more Index IDs or sinking IDs that can help her with the poise problem. You probably dont want to put her in Spicebush team since Butler Faust would be better and he wants Yurodivy Ryoushu support passive anyways.

LCA Outis sucks in tremor, providing only 1 tremor burst or 2 if the enemy has SP. There is no reason to take this ID over Molar and T Corp. She is great for sinking, especially with Solemn Lament. LCA applies more sinking count than Butler (without echoes or the manor or blue sand) but with echoes of the manor and blue sand, Butler applies more count on single targets while LCA Outis applies more count on multiople targets. You probably want to use Butler against single target anyways since Spicebush is a single target nuke and he provides no gloom skill for LCA's gloom res passive. Her sheut and gloom fragility makes enemies take more damage from gloom and sloth skills (both favorable for SL, Hanfuda, and Dieci Don), and udjat vanguard stacks can help win unfavorable clashes.

Overall, use LCA in almost every scenario except single target bosses outside MD. Index Faust in sinking team I would take in short fights with Solemn Lament, although I have yet to test it thoroughly. Index in poise team has less poise issues and I would use her in a poise or poise/slash team.

Yeah they made the stage harder this October. Source: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1973530/view/525356497715069492?l=english

Wave 2 enemies now have this passive:

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I guess you have to bring a healing EGO, preferably Fluid Sac Faust, to keep your team alive.

If it's the stage I'm thinking of, they made it a lot harder to be able to beat nowadays. Just keep playing and you'll see what will happen.

haha no

Index Faust is great on Sinking. Full explanation on this comment

Index Faust being count negative can be a little misleading. She wont be critting every single turn but all her skills give her poise so she will still be critting very often.

Index is good for poise. and okay in sinking. She has the same problem as N Corp Yi Sang where she requires crit to apply more sinking but is poise coutn negative. She can be somewaht less poise negative by using Thoracalgia and Maid Ryoshu's support passive together. I suspect she will be in a much better place when we get more Index IDs or sinking IDs that can help her with the poise problem. You probably dont want to put her in Spicebush team since Butler Faust would be better and he wants Yurodivy Ryoushu support passive anyways.

LCA Outis sucks in tremor, providing only 1 tremor burst or 2 if the enemy has SP. There is no reason to take this ID over Molar and T Corp. She is great for sinking, especially with Solemn Lament. LCA applies more sinking count than Butler (without echoes or the manor or blue sand) but with echoes of the manor and blue sand, Butler applies more count on single targets while LCA Outis applies more count on multiople targets. You probably want to use Butler against single target anyways since Spicebush is a single target nuke and he provides no gloom skill for LCA's gloom res passive. Her sheut and gloom fragility makes enemies take more damage from gloom and sloth skills (both favorable for SL, Hanfuda, and Dieci Don), and udjat vanguard stacks can help win unfavorable clashes.

Overall, use LCA in almost every scenario except single target bosses outside MD. Index Faust in sinking team I would take in short fights with Solemn Lament, although I have yet to test it thoroughly. Index in poise team has less poise issues and I would use her in a poise or poise/slash team.

For the pinky, just make sure every skill is always being targeted and he should fall fairly easily.

The ring can be ignored (mostly, clash the important dangerous ones) until she's alone.

If you have faster Sinners than the one clashing, they'll go before the Sinner that is clashing with the skill.

If you don't have faster Sinners, you're out of luck, as clashing skills will almost always be prioritized over unopposed skills.

Princess Rodion is better if you want to borrow another ID. KK Heath and KK Ishmael want to be in a duo to get their benefits. But if you eventually shard them make sure to shard KK Heathcliff as he provides more damage and bleed than KK ISH.

Get Rodya first.

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As well as ego's:

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If you have to ask, no. Just save your lunacy for walp banners.

In general, most people just farm MD to get IDs and EGOs without gambling, very rarely do we advise people to actually pull on banners.

Basically, no. Only pull if you're not f2p and can just buy more lunacy, or if you have lunacy to spare. Otherwise just save for walp banners.

If you're lacking some good IDs yeah but if not it's better to just shard them

I'd say Sinking for all except those fuckass monks who roll negative coins.

Truth is, using Sinking on positive-coin, SP bosses is kind of just easy mode. You gut the enemy's rolls and even if they have a passive that resets their SP, you can just make them depressed again with ease.

As for difficulty, I'd say it's about mid difficulty, but that really depends on your team. I didn't find it particularly difficult myself.

Sinking seems to be better since more bosses are weaker to gloom. I personally didn't have any trouble with it, but then again, I used a team that was strong against the bosses.

Btw the picture is a little bit outdated only but my team is the same

KK Hong Lu is great throughout the earlygame (up until like Canto V-ish) but Fanghunt is perfectly usable too. Lob Corp Remnant Faust is quite good, too. You're early enough in the game that you shouldn't have much trouble; rely on the raw power of Ring Outis and Princess Rodion and just make sure you keep up with levels until you get some better IDs.

He is kind of a jack of all trades and it is hard to notice how he contributes to the team. Despite appearing like a dps, he applies a pretty good amount of sinking. His main gimick is his coffin stacks, which makes his S2 hit up to 4 enemies for really good damage. Coffin also makes his S3 deals more damage.

Overall, as strong as KoD or either Yi Sang IDs in short fights, but still applies good sinking.

I still reccomend him to beginners because, a) it encourages them to read the kit (although not forces them to) and b) he is good for both chain battles and bosses.

Wei Sang is overall solid in terms of damage, tanking, and rupture application. The You IDs deal a lot of damage but eats up a lot of rupture count. The Si IDs deal less consistent damage but eats lets rupture count and have high burst damage. They also synergies well with Lord Lu since Lu is also a rupture/poise hybrid and the bolus affects from Si IDs contribute to rupture application.

Overall, use Wei Sang, Si Rodya, and last can be either Si Gregor or You Heathcliff. You can also use LCE Sang and kill him off after three turns to subsitute Jia Ish in although this is more of a speedrun strat.

As a new player, keep pushing the story as far as you can. You can borrow lvl 60 IDs from people on your friend list so pushing the story is very easy. The more you progess the story, the better luxcavation tiers you can do.

Once you're stuck or are relatively up to date, that's when you can spend energy on farming instead.

Assuming you're efficient with using your resources (only leveling and uptying stuff the 4-6 characters you're actually using), just doing 1 EXP luxcavation and 3 thread luxcavations everyday is enough.

I personally do 1 EXP and 3 thread luxcavations per day, and then 1 MD run. I started during the Mao Faust banner, and already have 3 full teams at lvl 60 and uptie 4 by just doing this (rupture, sinking and tremor).

I recomend advancing the story as muvh as imposible. If you hit a wall dedixate some stuff to leveling. Ypu xont have many ids so thread isnt as important as long as ypu have all ypur ids 3 stare

I personally go for the two same set rather than mixed

Was this datamined or something? We've only had access to Pierce Lux these last two days.

As for why, probably to save time and because we didn't have that much of a variety in enemies in part 1. We only fought manikins and bosses in this first part, so the Soldatos were probably reused for lack of better options.

A lot of the unbreakable skills that can actually wipe you have the conditional of losing a lot of power and not being able to stagger like the other guy said. If you actually win the clash, they're barely even a problem.

As for the EXP Lux, I think someone did the calculations and you actually have to farm less with the newest Luxcavation now.

Unbreaks are there not as a mechanic but to show off skills, so act as if they're not real

To be fair, they did add the: "[Clash Lose] Deal -XX% damage and damage dealt by this Skill cannot Stagger the target" on a lot of the scary skills.

I feel like the status infliction is necessary to just to have some threat / attrition from enemies over time with things like bleed / rupture stacking on your units and serving as a sort of countdown.

I mean, you're still getting EXP, once the levels unlock you'll get everything at once. I'm already at lvl 84, so if I stop here I'll jump straight to 84 once it unlocks.

Basically, just because you're not getting them until the 15th, doesn't mean you're not getting them at all. Besides, all you're gonna be missing out on is this banner, and you'll still be able to shard them on the 15th.

Edit: also, we get like 600 yellow crates from lvl 1-120, and like 200 red crates. You're still gonna be getting some crates before the 15th.

yeah, you won't get the extra boxes until part 3

Kinda, you can farm you just cant get them untill pass fully opens.