u/Talukita

The Current CW version is called Zero-Sum Game, and it has been like that since the beginning.

However the 4.7 one has a completely different title, so there's a chance it's a completely new version altogether.

To be honest I already have my suspicion because they have to add 3 Elation chars back to back (Waven Pearl Nihilux). However the bond is already somewhat complete at 7, and the usual rule (one in one out) would need to apply to make it balance. However all the Elation chars are too new to be added into advisor so they will need some serious tuning to make it work so I guess this happens lol.

For those who don't know, the BP+ has a feature that lets you reset the turn before and not having to retry the entire fight.

Supposedly it's a neat feature for you to test stuff, or perhaps to correct your mistakes. A small but neat QoL feature.

These days though it's becoming something else. After the release of several RNG characters like Saya and Caraboo, where you manipulate the play order to either change the blessing output or not play the wrong perception warp cards.

And with the new Dtide scaling, it's now a cheesing tool to let you DR up to 4-5 time by changing seed. Some people basically abuse it to get DR proc even at 10-20%.

Thus a small QoL feature now a massive game-defined feature that saves you HOURS of playtime (or even like half a day straight up when add up).

Worse is that because it's tied to BP, some patch duration makes it last shorter. I think at one point my BP+ only last for 21 days.

At the very least imo, this needs to be move down to base BP, or even the monthly to make sure it always last 30 days per purchase.

• Probably 3 hour story or less
• Confirmed no CW update, that's for 4.7
• No DU update for sure, since it's already this patch
• One character only, that's purely function as sustain for Elation teams
• Also introduce one of the most Elation-shilled boss.

Literally son 😭

Yep that's right, FOURTY THREE TURNS just for the final battle alone.

Full +12 Awakeners, with +12 every wheels along with bond covenants.

Keep in mind Salv+Caraboo is one of the better scaling awakeners, both in a sense they can afford to survive/stall along with the constant ramp up from furnace and str (Salv OE gives additional str scaling per use). And they have 6k freaking str.

Otherwise literally 90% of traditional DPS is dead (not counting %HP chars like Vortice). Ghelot? Dead. GMur? Dead. Tawil degraded into 24 support. Kath is now a def bot. Poison/Counter also dead (Xu is used but solely for utility and her %hp damage portion).

This also affects supports btw. Chars like Aigis that can buy 1 turn was useful when the fight was like 4-5 turns. But when the average fight here becomes 20t+ she just doesn't do enough to justify slotting.

Saying this is 'poorly' balanced is an underestimation.

• March: The only way to get access to Himeko counter strat. Also works for Phainon and various shield related strats.
• JQ: Core healer for DoT and Debuff, the latter being very strong at the moment.
• Dahlia: Essentially keep Break afloat and functional so...
• Mydei: The only way to make Bloodflame playable and through early game. Is a permanent scaler so can carry on his own. Also top counter against Beyond Endurance. Even if you have full Rem E2+ battleship they aren't coming online until plane 3.
• Rin: Core enabler for Skill Point, can carry herself if well invested. And Grail Bond want to rush max Bond anyway so she's automatically included.

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• Agl: Not much needed to say about her. With that said Energy has other carry option now like Saber/Gil and Himeko that also a lot less bricky without Boots dropping.
• Huo: Main battery for various energy-related chars, also decent healer to carry through early.
• QQ: Frankly I don't really like ever using her. Though it's undeniable that she can cheese the game with certain emblems (if you willing you break your hand for an hour run).
• Yao: Same function with Huo but for Elation though can't heal. Also needs items to start feeling good. Elation also have like 3 chars coming in 4.7 so more competition.

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• Herta: AoE is kinda weak outside of 3 bonds / emblem just to enable +2 dummies. With that said she's kinda core for Therta/Cosmic (along with an auto investment I guess)
• Sampo: Mostly to account for that start investment where he gives you free ores each node. Otherwise decent way to get 6 DoT Bonds if you want to chase it.
• TY: Frankly I never really use her at this point, Energy just needs 3/5 and neither actually need her at all. But I suppose she could be decent filler until RMC.
• Moze: Good way to combine FUA and Wolfhunt if you want to aim for it. Otherwise mostly bond filler. This doesn't account for his special investment which would make him tier 0 due to not taking team slot.
• Galla: Bond filler / back up healer because Lingsha healing is yikes. Having Planet bond kinda helps him big time since you can feature Dahlia for extra spd and break amp.
• Rappa: Purely for GR/Phainon off field.

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• Cipher: Nightgod is trash, so she's mostly for Debuff/FUA. But even then I don't really bother, meh amp that needs manual and is so squishy she ends up eating more AV from dying.
• Asta: Slightly better than Cipher since she enables DoT for early and Cosmic needs as many chars as possible. Still I would try to replace her immediately when I have ways to max bond without her.
• Jade: Annoying targeting that does little damage and overall pointless character. Also least compatible with other ipc due to not having fua while draining HP when they use shield. Almost 100% certain she will be kicked into Advisor when Pearl drops.
• Blade: Replaced in everyway by his SP version. No point using him ever again.

For context, Fei AS boss used to need to break only 3 parts of 4 to fully break her. Now they make it that you need to break all 4 to do it.

Which is still somewhat possible for bar 1, bar 2 she has on the other hand Fei goes hide mode and you need for her to do certain stuff before she reveals herself. So either you just end up killing her without breaking or let her waste your time.

And if you aim for 1800+ then there's extremely high chance you will kill both bars without breaking / not getting any reward from it at all. Talk about stupid design ~~she's also extremely obnoxious if you want to sustainless because of high high damage and enrage debuff~~

The fact it will get worse in 4.6 is even funnier

Tbh, Silver Wolf has always been actually been decent-ish at DPS (even without CW context). She just needs too many stats from spd to ehr to crit etc.

Her NF fixes most of the issue, and CW fixes it even more with free stats from passive along with making her skill AoE. Then MBlade debuts as the final icing on the cake to now enable SH bond without opportunity cost.

Anyway, Hacker Expert is the best way to play this strat imo. It can spawn Plane 1 so you can roll with her immediately. And what separates it from other ways to get SW is the special Hacking Component, which comes with a bunch of strong effects. +1 SH bond, give free copies, etc. This run I got 3* almost for nothing from the free copies lol.

Being Quantum makes her naturally good to chase 5 Quantum, slap boots on Kafka for more frequecy. Also the implant makes her really good at consistently breaking enemies which means reducing the damage you take a lot.

Imagine boss taking turn ever. Like even with like doubled or tripled HP idt that would matter here.

Anyway meant to be Sparxie carry run at first, then the fua emblem dropped and I had another idea. Also Crown of Sin is too busted tbh. It drops immediately without doing quests and the amount of stats it gives is too overwhelming to bother about the penalty assume you know what you are doing. I think every run I got it was perfect streak lol.

To explain what healing strength is, it's basically a multiplier to your healing output. Same for shield strength.

MBlade for some reasons, despite not being being a healer or shielder, has +100% healing and shielding strength.

In comparison, someone like Hyacine has +65% healing strength at 1* and becomes +85% at 3. Which is still lower than MBlade. And her shielding strength also doesn't scale at all.

But does it matter? Not like MBlade can heal or shield anyway to make use of that gigantic stats...

Well that's where the beauty of CW comes in. With items like Caloric Overload and Bastion Projector.

The first build makes MBlade becomes one of the best healers in the game, while the second one makes him a potent shielder instead. Especially if you consider him as one of the most universal char in CW at the moment and can go to 99% of teams.

And depends on situation you can cut your sustain slot entirely, or just throw in Fuxuan if you want a back up.

Some teams also can make great use of a 2nd sustain, say Energy with just Huo who naturally has big healing issue at high WC / plane 3. Cosmic Scholar also has no real sustain and I find sustain MBlade is a great great way to keep them alive while not losing out on the amp (Therta also loves him cause she can get battery from off field attacks).

Shielder MBlade for Phainon is also extremely busted overall. It's funny because Bastion gives shield based on %max hp, and most shielder builds %def or %atk like PT so it's just most effective on MBlade by default.

It's the trinity of healing affixes in one. I tried to slog through it a bit but it's genuinely unbearable. Like you thought they are finally dead nu-uh.

Then the healing bots show up and I immediately quitted kek

For context, I always try to max out Grail bond for potential free rewards even without maining it for the run (this one supposed to be 4 shield Durian Phainon).

This time though it offers two choices that are equally bad (one that strip you all gears and the other requires Saber to be top dps else you get +4 gold per exp purchase). And since there's no option to cancel I have to stick with one and brick the run lol.

Joking aside it's still a good bond that worth trying out like 95% of the time. This is just hilariously bad luck case that happens like once in a blue moon.

Note that I care very little about Rin kit outside of surface details like being a support for Archer (a comp I don't really use) so I didn't really bother to learn about it.

So yeah, having a blast with it. She basically chain nukes everything to oblivion lol. Perfect with Cheap Taste modifier too.

All of this from a single ult lol.

This hasn't accounted

• Up to 100% damage buff from his own trace
• Personal dps
• 100 extra AV = free stacking for boots/flamestorm
• Slow and delay also act as pseudo sustain, so less team dying / more AV saving
• 10% lucky strike chance from Galactic, more if you have additional members. Also lucky strike damage if there's an emblem.
• Access to Debuff with MBlade, giving true damage and damage reduction
• Access to AE / current best faction with train buff and many other top supports

If you have the investment that gives 2 gold tickets on plane 2 and it spawns him there's a good chance you kinda just instant win from there. Not having other DPS? Just make him the carry on his own.

Welt may be a bum in story but he sure makes it up in CW.

Beyond Endurance and Permanent Trauma. Perfect chance to go 4 shield.

Then it drops 2 AoE emblem so pretty much no reason to not go DPS Gepard.

DHPT probably better here even though Aven gives a lot more shields due to fu spam. Mostly cause Sunday refuses to target Gepard.

An extra shield emblem to move Sunday up and 3* Gepard can probably push 150b