Don't build any 5 stars, just magically pull all the meta 6 stars from your free to play 3/4 star only and free unit account, then struggle to build the expensive ops Silence - Great Healer Firewhistle - Best Damage girl Nearl - for that Mace D Texas - Annihilation Missions 2nd best girl for DP Minimalist - For those of us who keep missing those single target Core Casters

"so averse to building twinks" 😅 I only use Ansel over hibiscus because femboy However his random dual target talent is really good, altho his range +2 tiles is, uh... Niche?

thanks for this, bruv

Where are Mulberry and Tequila? :'v

Day 1 player here. I never knew res worked like that 😅

Ethan was my first E2 and I do not regret that choice at all. It's rate that I've found a map where he doesn't put work in, and getting access to his module practically doubles his presence on the field. He is very good in IS as well and can carry some maps.

what's the bgm at 7.33?

Best answer : Build who you enjoy and love

great video👍

i began one day ago and i have Pozëmka, Thorns, Suzuran and surtr as my 6* as 5* my mains are Liskarm and Ptilopsis :)

the ear rape fucked up my ear for a minute, thanks. i was adjusting my sound and i just got blasted lol

Asestia getting love in these kinds of videos is so rare, but I am overjoyed :'- )

You forgot to mention the possibly biggest value from having Myrtle as the first E2, unlocking friend unit E2s, which is game changing, myrtle is the best for this since cheap to E2 being a 4 Star while also being a lategame unit

Only buy the furniture set if you like the visual esthetic of it. 2-5-2 base is not only more efficient it also costs less material and sanity to upgrade. Your dorm should be at lv1 or lv2 so 5000 ambiance will mean nothing. No point of having super fast dorm if you don’t change out the ops 3-4 times a days

As a recruitment permits maxxxer and enjoyer I'd like to give in my two cents as I see them too often getting glossed over and when I see them stocked up on accounts in triple digits, I get the shakes as they usually get all used up by the end of the month. As some doctors have already chipped in here (absolute units), permits are the most reliable slow generators of yellow certificates. I usually get them all on the first of the month and use them slowly throughout the month. Get them from the credit store too. Be on the lookout for the tags that guarantee 4-stars (you eventually get the combinations as a muscle memory), use the refreshes of course, but don't hesitate to just select a random tag even though you know you'll be getting 3-stars most of the time. You are still refreshing the slot by this!! More recruitments, more opportunities. I'd generally recommend saving up for either an 6-star you want from the shop (180 yellows) or 38 pulls (258 yellows). I'd advise against just getting some of the HH pulls instead of all as you get less value from it. When you get to big events and start pulling deep, you'll start accruing a lot of green and yellow certificates, snowballing your future ventures. So far, playing for almost 4 years, I had sparked 3 separate times, currently on 45k green certificates and always holding enough yellows for either a shoperator or 38 monthly pulls for the next limited operator headhunt attempt. Waiting on the opportunity to blow all green ones on orondum, but currently as I did the math, it only comes up to about 30 pulls which isn't as impressive for the amount of greens spent on it. (Deliberate of course to minimize whales opportunity to cash their pulls back in)

Recruitment permits are so important. My number 1 priority from the credit store and buy them with green certs as they pay for themselves. Even if you aren't pulling on banners you get enough 4* units from recruitment to provide a slow income of gold certs. I sparked (300 pulls) on the Virtuosa banner and as a result you get a LOT of copies of the 5* rate up operator. This means I have an outrageous amount of green and gold certs. Every month I buy everything on page 1 and the pulls/recruits on page 2. Occasionally I will grab some mats on page 2 but its very uncommon as the rate isn't good. Once the ball is rolling as long as you don't get silly you should never run out of greens. To a new player don't spend your gold certs for a bit. Get settled into the game first. What I did when I was about a month in I went through the list of operators and figured out a shortlist of who I really wanted. Looking forward as well because we can see six months into the future thanks to CN. With that list I looked at what methods were available to me to grab them and planned appropriately. Older operators can either come from Recruitment or from the cert store. Recruitment I think my average is once every 6 weeks I'll get a top op tag, but I've gotten a lot of good meta operators this way with some luck (Hoshiguma, Ifrit, Saria, Blaze, Ceobe). There is a lot of luck involved but bear in mind these older ops can spook you, always look up tag calculators if you dont know what you can get with each set of tags. Once you recruit enough you'll know what tags to look out for. I would always recommend new players spend all their gold certs on buying 5/6* operators. For pulls you spend 258 certs for 38 pulls. This on average should give you a single 6* from a banner (I believe if you include the pity modifiers the average is something like 33-35 pulls per 6*). Or you can buy a specific 6* in the shop for 180 certs. Flat out a better rate and there is no RNG. You WILL get the op you picked. While you cant get the newest ops there are plenty of powerhouses in the pool of potential shoperators (Thorns, Surtr, Mudrock, Mountain, Kaltsit, Gnosis) with some very good ones coming in the next few months (Goldenglow, Fiametta, Horn). The control is really important in a gacha game, keep a close eye on any opportunities to guarantee a character. Me personally I have most of the operators I need but I am still hording gold certs because I am waiting for the last few I want to show up (Goldenglow, Fiametta) and even once I do get them I will probably keep saving them for Bagpipe duplicates instead of buying pulls. But the more F2P you are the more you may need those pulls so it always comes down to what you want and your priorities. Now that the kernal banner exists Y1 operators are no longer in the main pool. I wouldn't recommend rolling on the kernel banner but that means there are two shoperators at a time instead of 1. Some relevant Y1 ops include Eyjafjalla, Nightingale, Saria, Blaze, Bagpipe and Suzuran. Yes most of those are in recruitment but that involves RNG and this does not. What is also important to note is that every 3 months or so alongside major events we get a Build-a-Banner promotion where you get to pick two units from the Kernal list and put them in the shop. Meaning you can pick the op you want and buy them immediately with 180 gold certs. This is extremely relevant if recruitment has been unkind to you and there is one op you really need. Or you dont have Eyja yet who is still after all this time the queen of arts damage and isn't available through recruitment. (<- Get Eyja, trust me) There are also two selectors to be aware of. A free 5* selector that comes every six months or so that lets you pick any 5* in the game and the 6* selector available to buy every anni/half anni event as Vosz mentions. While there are a lot of very powerful 6* units in the game, and thus the value of the selector is obvious, 5* units are in a bit of a funny place. A lot of the Y1 5* ops are very very good but more modern operators are often quite disappointing compared to how 6* units have gotten better over time. Probably the most important ones to keep an eye out for are Cantabile, Lappland, Specter, Firewhistle, Ptilopsis, Silence, Warfarin, Proviso, Shamare and Kazemaru. Each of these have roles that are hard to find at lower rarities (Cantibile/Firewhistle/Silence/Ptilopsis) or are so good at what they do (Lappland/Specter/Warfarin) that they are almost impossible to replace. Or are Proviso who is the queen of the base meta and makes you a lot of LMD over time. While some of these can be found in recruitment if you are lucky others will require headhunting RNG. Which means if they show up in the shop it may be worth dropping 45 gold certs on them as well. Out of the units listed Lappland is probably the most relevant as she is only in the kernal banner but also not available in recruitment unlike specter/silence/warfy/ptilopsis. As an arknights player with a fair bit of time in the game I would strongly recommend you buy the monthly pass and when it comes around the 6* selector. These two have the most significant bang for your buck and the level of control the selector gives you on picking almost any operator cannot be understated. Given the amount of content and quality of the game I look at $5 a month and a twice a year $30 punt on a selector a very fair trade. Anything beyond that comes down to what you want and how much you are willing to spend. Find the packs that give the most pulls for your dollars and prioritise those, which means its often better to save for the big events every three months. And for new players please make sure to go back and grab some of the better free units that are available in game. Gladiia, Tequila, Kjera, Kroos the Keen Glint, Lumen, Bibeak, Erato and Highmore can all do a lot for you early on. Gladiia specifically is insane even at later stages of the game once you get her module. Although it may take a few months for Kroos and Lumen to be available again.

Regular Packs Calculations: Starter Pack: For the Headhunting Permit alone, it's not bad but not necessary. 1 pull is 600 Orundum or 3.33 Primes, which is more than the first-time $0.99 in the Prime Store. Plus the extra rewards mean it's better to get this first before the one in the Prime Store. Monthly Card: The massive outlier. Essentially this is 7,080 Orundum or 39.33~ Primes which is 11.8 pulls. In price, it is $0.127 per Prime. The only catch is that the player needs to log in daily for the month. Basically, you’re getting a value of $3 by spending $4.99. Monthly Headhunting Pack: 42 Primes and 10 Pulls. Which would be either 13,560 Orundum or 75.33~ Primes. In price, it is $0.345 per Prime. Reasonable for dolphins who don't want to spend too much but want to stay safe on pulls but don’t want to whale too much. Monthly Chip Choice Pack: I’ve never personally pulled on this before since I always farm extra Chips from the stage to prepare for future operators. Either way, since now we’re using Sanity as the value here, 1 Prime is essentially 135 Sanity (Player Lv117). Since each Chip Pack is 36 Sanity and each Chip is 18 Sanity, in total it is worth 378 Sanity. That's almost 3 Primes worth of Sanity Refresh, and at that point, you’re spending a little under $1~ just to guarantee the specific Chips you want. Material Issue Voucher Pack: Skip, too many numbers to calculate. My brain can’t handle it. Weekly Growth Pack: Not going to bother calculating this since it isn't worth it. Carbon Stick still has its use with Nine-Colored Deer to force a material drop, while Furniture Parts are flat-out worthless. The rest can be easily farmed and/or obtained in the base passively. Maybe worth it for a new player, but not necessary. Starter Furniture Pack: The Primes are worth under $2 and the Furniture Parts will be worthless, so it's a scam. Starter Upgrade Pack: Basically a better Weekly Growth Pack. Maybe worth it for new players, but not for those who can passively earn Battle Record and LMD in base. Starter Advance Pack: Technically Pack is just $10 since you’re getting a free Monthly Card ($4.99) from purchasing it. Excluding the Monthly Card, 2000 Orundum is 11.11~ Primes or over $3~. This means that you will be spending $6~ to E2 a 5*, which can be worth it _if_ you don't already have the material. However, that free Monthly Card being included makes it 100% worth it in the end. Starter Headhunting Pack: $19.99 for 20 pulls. I don't even need to calculate this to say that this is worth it, but this is essentially $0.30 per Primes.

2:35 Aside from the $0.99 Prime, the other five also offer extra after the first-time purchase (still not worth it). The $0.99 is self-explanatory, $0.33 per prime (1+2) for the first time, and then $0.99 (1) for each after. The $4.99 is $0.416 for the first time (6+6) and then it’s $0.713 (6+1) after. The $14.99 is $0.375 (20+20) and $0.625 (20+4). The $29.99 is $0.375 (40+40) and $0.600 (40+10). The $49.99 is $0.379 (66+66) and $0.555 (65+24). Finally, the $99.99 is $0.385 (130+130) and $0.540 (130+55). Personally, only the first-time $0.99 Prime is reasonably worth it (despite only being 3 primes), and the rest should be a last resort.

Personally when I decide on if a pack it good or not, I base it on its Primes/Orundums per cost. Aside from the Monthly Card which is an outlier, I check if at least every 1 Prime (180 Orundums) is around $0.33. If it’s under, I see it being worth it if I need the pulls. If it’s over, it’ll depends on the additional rewards on that pack or if need the pulls and there are no other options.

22:32 "... as you can see in the bottom right." Nope, we can't. No offense intended, just funny moment. =)

Personally, I dont think the starter pack is a good idea, just by playing the game a bit, you'll get all of the items in that pack for free, unless you've got a lot of extra money on hand, I'd say just wait to get myrtle (the only good reward from the starter pack) from somewhere else.

Good advice, but here I will make additional note that I think worth to get into: For 258 Yellow-certs, you could only get 38 pulls. That's not even reaching the soft pity count. Beside you're getting more pulls to spark an operator (which is for me is still bad), it's not worth it. For what you wanna get, is using those Yellow-certs to buy a 6 stars for only 180 Yellow-certs Essentially, you can predict when an operator will come to standard banner by looking CN banner history. If an operator became Shop-Operator at [X] event, then in Global they could come around 3-4 standard banners later after [X] event. I have been using that method & I'm being able to buy 4 operators now But, what should I do when I don't have any yellow-certs? You can farm it. How? Well, by buying Red-certs operator. How do I get it? Farm it in supplies stage. Make sure to buy the 5 stars first, by the time you can get 100 Yellow-certs by buying them

Nice overview. On the cert store, i want to add some things: a) the full 38 pulls for gold certs us unfortunately 258, not 228. b) the recruit permits in the tier 1 green cert shop are absolutely worth getting, as using them awards more certs than they cost. The worst case on a recruit ticket is a already full 3*. Pull + Token award 10 Green certs, turning a profit of 2 certs. Getting usable duplicates, 4*s or even new characters is even better.

yangyang's character design is fine it's her (EN) voice that makes me want to sink into some waves myself

You have chosen a very convenient opponent for yourself. A modest girl who falls apart under the slightest pressure, who is unable to speak in one tone due to her lack of self-confidence. She even laughs softly so that you don’t feel uncomfortable making awkward jokes. Dude, who would be interested in watching you beat up a scared girl for an hour? She's right about the fact that characters from the same faction don't share any details with each other. Look how it's done correctly in Arknights

I'm not here to watch an hour video, respectfully, but all I'm going to say is these designs are mid to me. AK and endfield clears every single design in wuwa by a long shot imo. Trying to prove that they are either objectively bad or good to another person is kinda pointless as it's way too subjective. Some people just love eating shit and no matter what you won't be able to change their mind (and frankly, you shouldn't, why bother)...

nonsense!

So sad that we are the minority here that still watch someone do impressive stage clear and wow Sometime i feel like Arknights player doesn't use internet at all😅

We actually need more .exe video with good editing like mustofast or Remonium for example. There's no problem branching out game, but later when you already making a content for that game but still have low views despite the game is very popular, simply people just tend to go watch the more popular content creator or your channel not even got noticed due to big competition beca people only have so much time in the world.

sounds like a first world problem...

Hey, take it easy! It's not like this is your job.

its good to have variety and you might meet some new people too...

perfectly understandable!

Arknights isnt the best game to made content on sadly. Story wise its unappealing for videos as its 2d text without voice acting Gameplay wise only content that havent been done 6 months ago from CN clears is just gacha pulling and thats it. There isnt really anything unique to see other than some spesific niche clears

God i wonder where this Myrtle hate comes from, her E2 cost is cheap as hell and litterally one carry e2 from support is enough to destroy all stages pre chapter 8 so you have an immense amount of time to get characters and build them

As much as i like arknights i still play other games so if you just force yourself to play one game its bound to cause burnout, for the case of a youtuber its kinda different but the same, if you limit your channel to a game you'll die alongside it (not literally lol but i think you see the picture) Ill be playing Wuwa too so ill be sticking around thats for sure :)

interesting. I just play Ak when on the weekend or when waiting (for bus, vehicle maintenance, etc), but I do daily login and drain sanity (in-game), i just don't consider them as "playing". as for fav char on Wuwa, i gotta go with Chixia.

for WuWa, i will waiting for yinlin and build my team around her in mind for now. so i decide to get calcharo for now for league, ok i already quit from that rabbit hole. but nautilus and kaisa will be my fav design wise. i want to answer morde too, but i not play the new morde, so i cant be sure

As a Poppy main, I fully approve your choice of playing Yasuo

40 games of lol in 2 days? and a Yasuo player at that?.. I'm sorry to tell you but... I think you're a lost cause, soon you will piss in bottles and die of sleep deprivation D: was nice knowing you, may your soul (or whatever is left of it) rest in peace o7 Jokes asside it's probably good for your that you diversify

Livestreams are cool, but... I'll like the stream and watch it later, as usual

TO BE CLEAR: I am still making Arknights content, but I'm going to be throwing my hat in the Wuthering Waves ring as well. It's been a minute since I posted a video so I wanted to get something out there kind of explaining why. This video wasn't scripted, so I didn't quite get all my thoughts across, but essentially I got distracted catching up on real life, social stuff and watching MSI. We'll be back to regularly scheduled content now (and maybe I should make some back up videos...)

I feel you. You really run out of content fast when there is nothing going on

Most AK videos nowadays are more on the gameplay + theory crafting side, if not centered around the beginner experience/tips. Which I do enjoy watching but I understand we're the minority here especially with some content creators, most notably Yii, quit making AK videos, then you have the ppl who just steal from bilibili... Low effort, moreso when they get monetized by RU-vid at a higher rate than content creators like you.