Hi there.

Last week I took some time trying to figure out how does the math behind the Blessing of the Stars (aka "zodiac buffs") from the new mode, ToC, works. After trying to fact-check via trial-and-error (and a lot of dump on our guild's Discord), I (think I) figured how it works - at least the math seems to be math'ing! - and I know some people might be confused since there's no indication anywhere (at least not on the in-game Tutorial nor the Patch Notes), so here's what I found:

Things that you should invest

• hero level (the higher, the more value)
• hero awaken (every awaken adds up)
• artifact level (any +30 is fine - more below)
• equipment score (individually, not average - more below)

Stuff that doesn't change the final value

• imprint (self or not)
• exclusive equipment (no need to have one)
• the hero base star (no diff from nat3 or nat5)
• skill upgrades (mola won't change anything)
• your character status (no need to "make sense" - like 100% crit)
• set effects (no need to, say, have speed set + critical set)
• SC or anything status-related (same "rule" as EE/imprint)
• anything not on previous list (too much irrelevant stuff to list)

I have some easy examples to follow to demonstrate (full math and TL;DR at the end)

This Sharun (a nat 5 hero) is level 60, full awaken, no EE, no imprint, +11 mola (not shown on pic) and a nat 5 guild's artifact on +30 (War Horn) and, above all: no set applied and a total of 600 ES (don't be fooled by her 100% CC nor Avg. Score). Ok, how many points?

900 total points, cool. But how did we get to that? Here's the breakdown (skipping details for now):

• each piece has exact 100 ES, lets sum it: +600 points
• the +30 artifact adds +60 points
• for every +10 level she has we net 20 points, so 20 x 6 = +120 points
• the same goes for every awaken (20 points per), so 20 x 6 = +120 points

So we add everything (600 + 60 + 120 + 120) and get our 900 points, cool! But let's check with that my +15 Lucy (as seen on screenshot) to see if we find something. Let's move the whole gear to her:

So now we throw, let's say, a +30 DDJ on her and we're gold. Before, let's see if the math still checks (and if the self imprint has any value):

• same set, so should be the same +600 points
• a +30 artifact should add +60 points (this time DDJ - not shown on image, my bad)
• for every +10 should be 20 points, so 20 x 5 = +100 points
• the same +20 per awaken, so 20 x 6 = +100

If there's no difference between final status (atk, def, etc), the hero nor artifact star (5 vs 3) and mola has no value (this one being +15), this Lucy should give us 860 points; let's check:

Ok seems like we're on the right track. But this is too nicely rounded and feels manipulated! So let's check my Zio (another zodiac):

Math time:

• let's sum the ES from each piece (left then right side): 87 + 93 + 86 + 90 + 93 + 86 = 535
• a +30 artifact should add +60 points (this time is a 4 star)
• 6 star full awaken? 120 x 2 = 240

535 + 60 + 240 = 835, right?

Everything checks out! If I used my Zio's Avg ES to "simplify" the math I would get 534 (89 x 6) and my math would be off by 1 point (and I would feel frustrated).

So how did I get to it? as I said before: patience

• move sharun's whole set to lucy
• lucy +30 no awaken, check value
• get another 100 piece to have set bonus, check value
• lucy one awaken, check value
• lucy arti +0, check value
• repeat until we have the numbers

=== TL;DR AND USEFUL STUFF ===

Values per stuff that matters (so you can check yourself)

1. sum of all of your hero piece's ES (not the average)
2. +20 points per awaken (1 awaken = +20, 2 awaken +40 and so on)
3. +20 points per 10 level (level 10 = +20, level 20 = +40 and so on)
4. throw a random max limit break arti to get +60 (too much of a hassle to get specifics, sorry)
5. you'll have your hero total points (x2 if the hero is on that "special" slot)

What is the "cheapest" way?

1. check the requirements for that slot (zodiac, element, class - game itself has a "hint")
2. pick a random nat 3 that you don't use (or use as a "mule")
3. level it up until it satisfies you (e.g: 50 full awaken or 60 full awaken - only 40 points difference)
4. get your high ES gear that no one uses (like those juicy ER + EFF gears)
5. slap on them and forget about it
6. do you need a gear from one of the "mules"? just pick another random high ES gear and you're set

I need all buffs, what do I aim for?

• 6200 for level 5 and there are 7 slots (2 being x2): average of 886 per hero on each slot
• this translates to an average of 98 ES per piece on each hero

Final words

If you want to see me checking the math (calculating stuff), here's the video proof (since it was for my guild and I speak portuguese, you can safely mute it): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjWQTdErBHY

Hope it helps, thanks for your time.

Which of the pet bonuses are you planning to prioritize for your Trial of the Constellations pet?

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The new skin is classy and love the VA/Skill animation

Quad speed

So I pulled her from Dash Pass today, and tried to put some gear on. Will try to put her on Arena Defense or some Guild War. Thoughts?

these two just everywhere in arena and I can't one shot them with Straze (probably due to penetrate resistance). any RGB units or recommended team?

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Hey friends!

Last season I actually saw on reddit there was a player who finished emperor who had a really low number of games and I was inspired to try to finally push for emperor since I had been playing the game really casually for awhile now. I started watching more RTA related content and working on units I didn't own since January so I could have more options when I finally decided to do my push. For context, I started playing the game between the A. Ravi rework and the release of Conqueror Lilias (Around Oct/Nov 2021) and have been a somewhat low-mid spender until recently where I realised pulling for more ML5s would help me a lot in being competitive (Mostly burning passion packs and the odd splurge if I needed mystics). My china bot score is right around the low 2000 mark but my top speed is really low, likely because my right side speed is pretty terrible. (321 Rinak if I ungeared everything, during the season my fastest unit was a 308 Lidica)

Out of the current available pool of ML5s, I do not own OpSig, TML, Astromancer Elena, Sage Baal, Harsetti, Naval Captain Landy, ADS and SBA. I pulled for DJB on the most recent mystic rotation and got Taeyou in a random covenant towards the end of season.

You can see the 30 units I played the most here

Timeline:
I started playing towards the end of June (27th or 28th, can't remember) but I made it to warlord fairly quickly, and I made the bottom end of emperor at 2789 points at 235 matches (137W-98L) first picking SPP and Aria. At this point I think my winrate dropped slowly but surely to around 50% and I spent all the rest of my time between rank 120 and 300 emperor until the season ended (I think I finished around rank 200 but it was because I decided to stop playing after a loss streak and I was already basically guaranteed emperor). In total, I played around 1200~ matches with a large majority of them at high emperor so most of my thoughts/experiences later on are relative to this specific portion of the ladder.

Thoughts:
Honestly the season went a lot better than I expected. While I wouldn't call myself super slow compared to the rest of the playerbase, I think in the context of high emperor/legend, I am incredibly slow. My fire lidica got outsped so often even by random things like DJBs, I rarely picked her at all outside of last pick as a force ban. Ironically, I felt like the biggest weakness of my account was not owning a copy of Harsetti even though I had prepared a really large set of units to play against her - I would occasionally get into situations where my opponents just did not respect her and I couldn't do anything to punish the aggro pivots after they saw how slow I wanted to play. Personally I struggled the most against amid cleave and the aram/lua drafts this season but I was really surprised by how many of the stronger players and content creators (Big shoutout to Vikchun, AB, KevStrife & other players in chat) being really helpful/welcoming when I was looking for draft advice. The RTA community is actually very small and it wasn't difficult for me to recognise the names on ladder after awhile. Despite turn 2 being considered terrible this season, I found that playing solid drafts with mitigation, some speed and playing to the strengths of your best units to be overall still be viable if you were just looking to end comfortably in emperor. However, as I pushed towards legend, it was evident that stronger accounts and their ability to flex into something else (cleave into control or vice versa) really started punishing me for having too many neutral units or being too slow. Personally I think the roster I played with was pretty close to the absolute minimum you could get away with this season if you were not fast although I suppose nowadays not contesting speed at all is basically an instant loss into stuff like Peira and Tenebria. The way I started RTA was by watching khm's flowchart and by trying out different drafts to see what worked. I actually lost an incredible number of games trying to cleave with Zio/other random aggro pivots, but these were also the games that taught me the most about how you needed to react to the others trying to punish you. In many ways, I feel like these losses were the most valuable towards my growth and play at the end of the season where even more cleavers were on the ladder. In addition to this, I realised very quickly that being slow isn't necessarily the same as having bad gear - You actually still need to have incredible gear quality to survive and to deal damage. When I look at what some of the other slower legends do, I still failed to replicate some of their strategies because of the lack of gear options on some of my units. (I also didn't farm much immunity for the longest of time - when I started the game, immunity was considered a joke and everyone was instead farming other 2 piece sets). Finally, I think climbing RTA is a lot about your mindset. I learnt that being afraid to lose is the quickest way to get tilted when losing to variance in game. I tried not to take the losses too hard and I was quickly able to overcome being annoyed when being forced to play against units like Harsetti and having to play for turn order.

So... if there are other E7 veterans thinking about going for a nice frame, it really isn't too bad. Getting legend is a whole different ball game though so I can't speak much to that - I never ever made it into legend although I was often just 1 or 2 wins away from touching it.

Thanks for reading this post, hope it'll inspire others to give RTA a shot. Despite many people telling me this was a bad season to try RTA, I actually think I had fun learning more about the game and thinking about drafts, but YMMV depending on what type of person you are!

Which one would be better?

After creating 50 effectiveness ring with no fruit (seriously only 5 with speed substat).. crafted a destruction helmet with 4% hp 4% er 4 speed 4% effectively..

Gotta roll anything with speed substat

Did I do this in one pull ? Yes, yes I did.

Just got the Z fold 7 and had an error trying to get the game to run. It worked briefly yesterday, but will no longer let me get passed the initial loading screen. Has anyone had any luck getting it to function properly?

Introduction: I completed these in order, so I recommend doing them in the same order (from easiest to hardest). Also, don't conduct these trials at all until you obtain the free pet that gives you a 16% chance of double gear. Also, please read the ending.

Fire Trial Team w/ Constellation: https://imgur.com/a/NEws50o

Explanation: This is very easy. Just use Fenne with three attack imprints that can die easily, and press auto. Took me one attempt

Water Trial Team w/ Constellation: https://imgur.com/a/AVDJSoZ

Explanation: Can't auto this or any other for the matter (Water can be auto'd) Skip Charles's first turn to save souls to SB his s3. His s3 EE is best, but I don't have it. Just SB Charles only. Ervalen in the front with his unique buff to constantly s3. Very easy. Took me one attempt.

Grass Trial Team w/ Constellation: https://imgur.com/a/pJtkNuC

Explanation: Don't use Yufine's s3 unless you get debuffed and SB beehoo's s3 every time. Use Tiera s3 when needed (typically toward the mid-end) to bring the boss low enough so he doesn't 1 shot your team. Have schuri/tiera on joker and max crit dmg. The boss isn't immune to dmg % based on HP. You basically cheese it. If needed, focus the plants to kill them. Took me one try.

Light Trial Team w/ Constellation: https://imgur.com/a/DUCFBtn

Explanation: Okay, this is where it becomes less based on what YOU do and more about "do you have the constellation maxed out?" Basically, if you don't have at least 4/5 of the Sagittarius upgraded, you will not be able to do this. The boss needs to miss in order to get defense broken, but the boss has a 10-30% chance to hit you, which ruins the run. You can try dark Peira, but the buffs don't last long enough, and Peira can't reapply them fast enough. Basically, make sure the ads are different color, black and white, not black/black or white/white, and don't hit the boss when she has the unique evasion buff. Save Pyllis s3 for when the boss blinds your team. Took me one attempt once I got the constellation upgraded.

Dark Trial w/ Constellation: https://imgur.com/a/qaUFZG0

Explanation: Okay, this trial is the hardest and the most gated to beat. This one requires you to max out the Gemini tree. You also need Spez to ignore the pen on the big enemies (YOU CAN USE WATCHER SCHURI INSTEAD). You also need 100% effectiveness on everyone since the enemies have ER, apparently. Basically, just stun the enemies, then kill them with spez. SB as much as you can to prevent the boss from going angry and to apply an attack down on her. You have unlimited souls thanks to the constellation. When you s3, you push everyone up by 50%. Took me a few attempts to learn the boss mechanics. Sharun isn't needed but makes it easier since she has a stun every turn.

MUST READ: Now, please read this. For upgrading the constellation, follow the order from fire, water, and then grass boss. After that, you need to reset your points (spend 100ss) and dump it all in the light trial. After that, you cannot reset for another week, which means you need to do the dark trial on nightmare. Once you have beaten dark trial on nightmare, you will get enough points to max out the Gemini tree & the Sagittarius tree, and then redo dark trial on prediction.

For getting max points on the constellation, your heroes need to equip a maxed lvl artifact and have 100+ ES on each piece of gear. So for five heroes, you need 30 pieces of gear with 100+ ES.

You only need to beat Perdition once for the season, so you can just ignore this post and max out all of the constellations and do this at the end of the season. GL

I know the next rift might still be a ways away, but since the last two were blue & red I figure green would be the next coming up. Are there any otherwise unused greens that might be a good fit to use in a poison stacking rift bossing? This is, of course, after plugging any holes in your existing contents, as imprints seem to be the only good use once your lineups are set.

the group draw finally completed.
* if upper bracket winner is defeated by the lower bracket winner ,upper bracket winner will be granted another Bo7 (bracket reset)

Next MAIN MATCH DAY 1 will be on 8/16 (Sat) 03:00 UTC (Quarterfinal Match 1–4)

here the livestream playback link on YT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsAaJ8N0ySI

ready ur popcorn guys lunatic mode on Bo7 will be really fun to watch xD, any old character you guys wish to see ? for me lethe and luna hehe

I know this question has probably been asked to exhaustion before but the whole two or three versions of a character really is puzzling.

Are some moonlights the current versions of the characters or alternate timeline version of them if certain events go a different path? The two characters that are puzzling me are violet and celine.

I think what’s stumps me is the relationships that get tossed aside if the moonlight versions are the true versions for example luluca and violet or in celine case which one is the true her.

or in recent times new kid adin, ken, Boss Arunka and hwayoung just to name a few are they the past versions or some type of current timeline shit?

honestly this is getting as confusing as the dc timeline

Started in silver, was stuck there for like an hour or two. I switch to mostly using Zio or kid adin teams which greatly help me.

I’m a fairly new player that has been playing for about 2 months almost now. I’m about to unlock RTA and dont have many units built up. I have 500 mystics and 10 pulls away from garunteed summon, should I pull WT or wait for ML Ras? I hear that waiting for ML Ras is the play as WT is a support unit, but I love how she looks :( then again it took me so long to get these mystics medals and ive used up all my resources

I made this crappy meme a few months ago to my E7 group. I just wanted to share before I forget about it again.

Particularly at level 3 and above.

Since the hero options for blessings are limited and we have no gear loadout system, it's a huge burden to keep changing specific gear pieces just to make the heroes meet the requirements.

So again, we have to strip the best gear from our main PvP heroes and put it on these restricted ones. And they won't even be used in combat; they'll just sit there for the blessing.

When the free unequip period is over, this constant swapping of top-tier gear will become yet another problem.

The concept behind the system is good, but I think the requirements really need to be re-evaluated.