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I knew this King Stage was terrible. I heard all the complaints beforehand. But good Lord I didn't expect it to be this bad. This is the most brain-dead shill boss I've ever encountered in a game period. It does literally everything wrong. Wasting the players time? Check. Completely cripple sustainless teams? Check. Screws over Shield sustains? Check. Removes all variety & skill expression from the game? Check. Punishes the player for not spending? Check. Punishes the player for spending but not on the right shill? Double Check. I thought sure I don't have elation but with my 14 cost remembrance team, literally the most synergistic team in the game mind you, plus element type weakness and close to 300 SPD Hyacine and I still had a hard time. This fight took so long I legitimately fell asleep while blowing up the dragon over and over again. Did the Devs even play test this?? It's this really the future of Star Rail??

Update: I originally thought it was funny that so many people just assumed I was lying about falling asleep (I really did btw). But honestly it's kinda sad seeing how many people are hyper focused on my zero cycle rather than the problems the stage has. If this is how most players react then it's no wonder the Devs can get away with this stuff. I'm a sweaty dolphin. I vertically invested and built my favourite teams to zero cycle. I'm sorry if that offends some people. But please don't let that detract from the topic at hand. The Devs made this stage bad intentionally, and I think that's more important than some random guy's zero cycle

Okay for real tho this f*** this boss in particular. I normally stick with my Cyrene Cerydra & OG Robin to zero cycle endgame. But with this boss I had to pull out my E2 Sparkle and abuse the AV reset just to make it work. All he does is stall for time which just feels so so bad and is low-key a b*tch move. Can't wait to say goodbye to Planarcadia so I never see this bum again

I've noticed a weird absence of OG Robin in Phainon showcases and that really bothers me especially since many of us got her E1 for free.

She never comes up in meta discussion and now her SP form is taking the spotlight. Is she the strongest? No. But her performance is on par with E1 Tribbie which is pretty impressive.

Before I got E2 Cyrene my strongest Phainon team by far was Phainon Sparkle Cerydra Robin. I zero cycled multiple King Stages with this team and now E2 Cyrene just makes it easier. Sure I can switch to Sparkle for more DMG but I just don't see the need yet

So I pulled E2 Evernight this patch and with that I finally have a complete full E2S1 Remembrance team. So I decided to take on Plight. It was a lot harder than I expected. I figured it would be a piece of cake becuz Quantum weak but it really come down to the wire. Literally cleared on the very last action. Is this HP inflation?

I see a lot of posts saying Anaxa is starting to fall off but in my opinion he's still one of the best Apoc Shadow brute forcers. But only with E2 Cyrene. I'll never forgive the Devs for bricking Cyrene's kit at E0 but I'll admit E2 Cyrene feels like a huge upgrade

So I've been seeing posts saying the new Robin will be BiS with E2 PhainRene x Cerydra and in the same breath everyone clowning on her LC for not doing enough.

Now I know it's only V1 but what would it take for Hoyo Devs to make the SPD buff on her LC apply to base SPD not just regular SPD? With everything else she does I think that would definitely make her Phainon's best 4th slot by a mile.

I miss the days when every game could fit on a 4gig DVD and I didn't have to spend the first half hour of every new game screwing around to determine the most optimal settings to hit a basic 60fps even though I'm using fairly decent hardware and the DLSS enabled