u/Tiorium

Hi everyone, I'm making this post to discuss some decisionmaking (and some woes) for people in this sub like me, who ended up acquiring both 4.2 Elation MDPSes in Eva and SW, and would ideally want to have both available as team compositions for starward endgame content.

Obivously this dosen't apply to everyone, and to be frank, until more dedicated elation supports are released, it is objectively wrong to do so (curse you Yao Guang, lol). Even so, I do believe with the upcoming releases of RobinS (or not, for MBlade havers) and Pearl this becomes an actual possibility.

Reasoning: Pearl will finally give a new sustain option for both teams, making HuoHuo the secondary (and weaker option, assuming Pearl becomes BiS for both eva and sw). RobinS, while not fully ideal for Eva due to atk shenanigans, can still serve the same function other characters like Sparkle/MBlade do in current non-full elation hypercarry comps for Eva, as well as having very strong interactions with Yao Guang ult spam if used with SW teams in the place of sparxie.

I think overall the final team compositions will change from player to player based on investment level for each MDps. In my case, who overinvested into e2 sw and only has e0s1 eva, I'd be looking to strengthen up Eva with the more dedicated supports while SW can still 0cycle/low cycle clear most pushed content.

My current plans are as (pending a Pearl kit) follows:

E0S1 Eva/E6 EMC/RobinS/Pearl

E2S1 SW/E0S0 Sparxie/E0S1 Yao/E0 Huo

I intend on trying out swapping EMC/Yao around in case Eva still struggles a bit, allowing eva to use the robinS/yao interactions and yao's buffs while relying more on my higher SW investment.

For others in the same boat as me, what are you planning on doing? Even right now I still see some issues with it: I fully expect HuoHuo to be more valuable in Eva comps for duo Elation comps, not because Pearl will be bad for Eva, but because Huo's ult is inherently more valuable the more energy-based characters are in a team. I only plan on using Pearl with Eva due to having less investment in her team and needing the extra push.

Anyways, I'm curious to see what other people in the same situation are planning!

For premise: I'm a new player, just reached 10 hours of playtime. I've been trying to unlock ICEY after looking up a run from another player and really liking the way she looks to play, and have gotten around to Mind Upload IV and completed her 3rd stage, so i'm at 94% recovery.

I assumed to continue unlocking her I would just need to complete the next main training quest of a run >35 Entropy, and after grinding for a while I finally did it, but all that got me was a quest for >50 Entropy.

I'll be lying if I say i didnt struggle a bit with entropy 35 runs, since i feel like i am rushing the game difficulty way over my actual skill in the game just to try to unlock this one character. I saw at least one post saying I could already unlock Mind Upload V by this point in the game, but I can't figure out how after talking to every NPC I could find. I don't particularly mind spoilers at this point, I would just really appreciate some directions in how to reach upload 5 and unlocking her last stage. Thanks in advance.