#please Cygames I AM BEGGING YOU

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[murasaki-murasame]

Now that it’s like 90% confirmed that the next Agito boss will be Ciella, who we’ll use wind units against, I have some thoughts about how I want the fight to be designed, and how I want a new batch of wind mana spirals to work to go along with it.

I’m gonna put this under a cut cause it got long, lol.

For one thing, I want them to avoid making the fight hinge on buff dispel, no matter what. The shadow roster already has a poison meta that overlaps with the wind roster, and it’d just be asking for people to only bother using their existing shadow teams against Ciella if their buff dispel utility also ended up being important to the fight.

I also hope that they make her immune to stun, so that Hawk can’t cheese it quite as easily. That’d at least be way less punishing to the entire wind roster than making her poison immune.

The fight’s probably still going to have some sort of unique mechanic to it like Volk and Kai Yan do, and personally I like the idea of Ciella routinely inflicting debuffs on all of your characters that need to be cleansed with specific debuff cleansing skills [which would be introduced via upcoming wind mana spirals and new wind units in general].

Depending on how they tune it, this sort of mechanic would give you a reason to use more support-oriented units instead of just going full DPS, and it’d make it a lot harder to do off-element clears unless you bring a wind unit with debuff cleanse. Since otherwise the debuffs would just get more and more punishing.

It’s worth noting that there’s some vague precedent for us getting fights designed around debuffs, and skills with debuff cleanse. Several of the void dragon fights inflict strength debuffs, and Natalie’s S2 technically cleanses debuffs from herself, if I remember right. So the mechanics are there, we just haven’t gotten any endgame bosses beyond the void dragons that inflict debuffs, or characters that work around debuff cleanse. But the foundation is there. [Also, giving people skills that cleanse debuffs would work so much better than how the void dragons are based around using relatively weak weapons to resist certain effects, lol]

As for the units who I think might get this sort of thing added via mana spiral upgrades, my best guesses would be OG Ranzal, Sylas, Wedding Aoi, and Lowen. Ranzal’s almost certainly gonna get a mana spiral designed around Ciella’s fight, like how Cleo got buff dispel, and it’d give everyone at least one accessible option for debuff cleansing.

Sylas just really needs a buff in general, and if they keep him as a support-oriented unit, I think they need to give him this sort of unique utility. And honestly I think him getting a debuff cleanse effect would just fit him as a character really well.

Lowen might not really need this sort of buff, but it’d fit his kit nicely, and it’d be nice to get another Agito fight where healers are actually useful.

Wedding Aoi’s a bit of an out-there option for this since she’s more of a DPS unit, but she’s one of the wind units that really needs a buff in general, and this would help her stand out, while also fitting with how she’s also kind of intended to be a support unit as well. She has a team heal on her S2, so they could just add a team debuff cleanse effect to that as well.

Specifically my ideas for mana spirals for those three are along these lines:

Ranzal:

-Maybe add poison punisher mods to his S1

-Give a team debuff cleanse to his S2, and maybe make his shield work like Grace’s where it absorbs damage instead of breaking the first time you get hit.

-I think he’ll get some sort of unique addition to his A1 like Euden and Cleo did, which might be where they fit in the debuff cleanse stuff, but who knows.

-His Last Defense ability will probably just get changed to 100% and nothing else because these abilities continue to suck lmao.

W-Aoi:

-Maybe add poison punisher mods to her S1

-Add team debuff cleanse to her S2, and maybe make the team heal a bit better

-Change her A1 so that her S1 will always give a 15% team strength buff, with it being increased to 25% if she inflicts sleep.

-I think they’ll just increase her striking haste ability to 15% and leave it there.

Lowen:

-Add team debuff cleanse to his S1

-Increase his S2 defense buff to 25%, and the max HP buff to 15%

-Increase his skill prep to 100% and add 5% skill charge

-Increase his recovery potency ability to at least 10%

[Alternatively they could give Wedding Xania this sort of buff instead since she’s basically just a worse version of Lowen at the moment, lol]

Sylas:

Oh boy this dude needs some heavy reworking in general. I’ve been toying with what to do with him for ages, and I think he should be reworked so that he has a stance shift mechanic like recent water units. They might have to retroactively change his entire kit to make this work, though. But basically I imagine him as having two stances, with them impacting his whole kit as follows:

-Make his S1 inflict a defense debuff in stance 1, and a strength debuff in stance 2, with the damage and poison affliction happening in both stances. I think they should also add poison punisher mods to his skill so it’s less weak.

-Overhaul his S2 so that it’s SP cost is reduced to around 8k, and it’s ‘base effect’ is a team debuff cleanse, with the stance 1 effect being 20% team strength and 20% team skill haste, and the stance 2 effect being 20% defense and 15% HP increase. Sylas’ main weakness is that this skill as it is now is a super high-cost roulette buff, which is just kinda awful all around.

-I’m less sure what to do with his A1, but it could be nice if they made the heal affect your entire team, even if it still happens once. Maybe they could tie it to his stances, and have the heal effect happen while he’s in one of his stances, and some sort of a strength buff happen if he’s in his other stance when his HP drops below 30%.

-I think they’ll just upgrade his HP70 = Strength ability to 15%, or maybe 20%, and leave it there.

I’m pretty likely to be wrong with Sylas in particular because the way I want to buff him is so massive compared to everyone else, but he really needs this sort of ground-up rework, lol. I basically imagine him in this scenario as being a hybrid support/DPS unit who can switch between what he wants to focus on mid-battle. I assume this wouldn’t make him *too* overpowered or anything. He definitely runs the risk of having too much utility in his kit for one character, but the way he is now is way too punishing, with him being unable to fulfill any role properly because his S2 is so expensive and random.

I’m expecting the meta for Ciella’s fight to still just end up being 4DPS runs, and/or off-element shadow runs, but really the whole point of this post is that I want the support-oriented wind units to be meta for the fight too, lol.

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Cygames I am BEGGING you give Joe “Gay Icon” Dragalialost a 5 star alt please I need it

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please cygames i am BEGGING YOU to give spinnah some fucking lore and depth

[maritie]

Having WMtSB be a tragedy all the way through would be awful please don't do that

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Cygames please I am BEGGING you to give us a sticker of Norwin going ‘Ta-daaaah! :D’ from the new Dragalia Life comic

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I got a whole lot of neat stuff off of the recent gala banner and the current summer banner, and I have a lot of thoughts about what I want from the [hypothetical] second summer banner that I wanna get down on paper in advance so I can either look smart if I get it right or really dumb otherwise, so here we go, lol.

I’m just gonna put this under a cut in case anyone doesn’t care to see me basically liveblog my last week of playing a gacha game.

My experience with the gala banner was kinda funny. I ended up doing two different summoning sessions at the start and end of it, since I initially didn’t care enough about Gala Cleo to pull much on it, and I wanted to prioritize the summer banner more, but then we found out that the summer banner wasn’t going to be limited and we got like 30 pulls worth of free currency for various reasons, so I decided to just spend all my resources on the last day of the gala, which I think got me to about 80-ish pulls total on it.

Which was totally worth it because I managed to get Amane, Vixel, Annelie, Julietta, Natalie, Nefaria, and Gala Cleo. I also got enough eldwater to get around to promoting my Norwin, because my good purple bunny boy deserves all the love. I actually got Gala Cleo on the very last 10-pull I was able to do, and considering that my very first 10-pull on the gala gave me a dupe Maribelle, I still got really nervous for a second there when I saw the rainbow wand, lol. I also got enough 4-star strength dragon dupes to MUB a couple of them, so that was nice. I don’t think I actually got a single 5-star dragon from the gala, oddly enough.

In spite of the fact that I even managed to get Gala Cleo, I actually got most excited about getting Vixel, since he’s one of the units I’ve been wanting to get ever since I started the game. I just love his design and his voice so much, lol. I also promoted him just to help make him even stronger.

Though mostly I find it kinda funny that literally all of the new adventurers I got were light and shadow ones. It’s not like I had all of the other ones or anything. But I can’t complain, since light was one of my weakest teams before this. I was contemplating dream summoning someone like Annelie or Julietta to round it out, so I’m glad I won’t have to.

And then the summer banner happened, and even though I spend all my resources on the gala, we’ve been getting drowned in enough summon vouchers and wyrmite recently that I still managed to do 20 pulls on the first day of it, and another 20 pulls yesterday. The first 20 pulls got me Summer Ranzal and Summer Julietta [plus a Konohana Sakuya dupe], and the second 20 pulls got me Summer Celliera and Siren [and a Freyja dupe], so at this point I’m just gonna quit while I’m ahead and hoard my resources for the next banner, lmao. I feel like with each new banner I tend to either get all of the units on it almost immediately, or I struggle to get any of them. I got all the new adventurers in the B-Zardin and S-Maribelle banners, I only got Shinobi from the festival banner, I didn’t get ANYONE from the Ramona banner, but now I have Gala Cleo and everyone from the summer banner. I’ve got some weird luck with this game.

I also wanna point out that in the summoning session I did yesterday, I started by spending 10 single vouchers to raise my pity rate, and the 10th voucher I used was the one that gave me the dupe Freyja, which at the time bugged me because I got baited by a dupe 5-star dragon AND it reset my pity rate, but then I just decided to spend the 10-fold voucher they gave us for the 1.10.1 update, and in spite of having a freshly reset pity rate I got both Summer Celliera and Siren in it. Somehow.

I’m glad I got all of them, though, since my water DPS options were severely lacking before this. Especially when it came to dragons.

Even though it’s not really confirmed yet, I still think there’s going to be a second summer banner after this one, and I was planning on hoarding most/all of my resources for it even before I managed to get everything on this banner. I’m readily putting on my clown nose and hoping against hope that we get a Summer Luca based on his incredibly good summer outfit from this event, and if we do then I’m gonna spend all my resources on him.

Either way, I think a second summer banner would almost certainly give us alts for Luca and Verica. It’s pretty obvious how Verica’s 5-second cameo in this event was one giant tease for the second banner. And Luca even has a 3D model for his summer outfit. If we get a third new summer alt to go along with them, I have a feeling it’d probably be Elly because lol of course it would, but I hope not. On top of the fact that she literally just got a non-limited 5-star alt a month or two ago, it’d also be really unnecessary for her to get a water-element summer alt since she’s already a water unit, and she’s probably gonna eventually get a water-element gala alt anyway. Since regular Elly’s one of the best units in the game, I feel like a summer Elly would either disappoint people and everyone would ignore her in favour of keeping regular Elly on their teams, or she’d be better than regular Elly and everyone would complain about her being broken. So I just wanna be spared of all that, lol.

If it’s not Elly, though, they could really do anything at all with a third summer alt in the second banner. I feel like only her, Luca, and Verica really stick out as obvious options, since they’re basically the only other characters involved in this event. I know everyone wants a Karina alt, but she’s already a really good water unit, and also she kinda already looks like a summer alt of herself. She deosn’t really need one.

I actually kinda like the idea of it being Johanna in a sundress, to go along with some of the Dragalia Life comics from a little while ago about her.

In terms of weapon types and stuff, I’d like to see a 5-star water blade, a 5-star water staff, and a 4-star water sword, since those are some slots that haven’t been filled at all yet. And if they do it that way, I could definitely see Verica as a 5-star water staff, and I’d really like to see Luca as a 5-star water blade. Which I guess would leave the wildcard third summer alt character as the 4-star water sword. I guess Luca could just get a 4-star alt, but I really hope he gets a 5-star one, since he hasn’t gotten any alts at all thus far.

If we do get a second summer banner that’s tied to the second part of the summer event, I’m also really curious to see who the featured dragon is. I wonder if they’d just keep Siren as the featured dragon, or if it’d be a new one. She’s the only dragon that’s really relevant to this event [other than the welfare one we got already], but they might not want to have the same dragon be featured for two banners in a row. I saw someone suggest the idea of Barbary becoming a summonable dragon, and I actually really like that idea.

I might not want to bother summoning much on the next banner if it’s another summer one that doesn’t have Luca on it, since my water team’s much more well-rounded now, but we’ll see how it goes. At worst I’d probably just keep hoarding my resources for the next gala.