u/monchers

What do you guys think are interesting use cases for gmurphy outside of the usual aequor teams and Sorel team? Outside of pdive and train meta since those modes sucks.

I am curious to try it out.

Inspired by the post to not make guides surrounding hard content. Here is my attempt at a guide for the 90%.

Normal Mode Ultimate Team Comp:

Ramona: Sub DPS and Exalt lets you play any card for free so long as it is not in your hand.

Ogier: Fragile debuff dispell. Provides Vulnerability debuff on 2 cost.

Doll: Vulnerability debuff dispell. Provides Weakness debuff on 2 cost.

Lotan: Weakness debuff dispell. Main DPS.

Straightforward comp and well rounded in terms of debuffs and dispells. You CAN swap one(or all) of them out for a limited unit if you want to experiment.

Alert 1-2 Guide:

Level your characters to 60. Play cards that do damage.

Seems like they took the feedback and made the changes to raids. No FOMO, community goal, zero pressure, no more pvp.

Personally I feel no excitement to it but I've always been a big proponent of old raid.

Since Rain won't be making his post for a few days, I wanted to share my thoughts while it is still fresh after finishing.

Overall dtide difficulty deflation continues, as it feels like it is getting easier as our roster expands. This would likely feel the opposite if you don't have all the characters.

Wave Difficulties W5> W4> W1> W2 >>> W3.

Wave 1 (Blessor): ~1M Hp per phase.

Wave would be very hard if you do not bring shielders or cannot do a massive burst turn on the dormancy turn.

Tank Kath is likely the easiest counter. You do not need to worry about the debuffs. Just keep shielding on turns he attacks and he does 1 damage. Vortice works well too as divine aequor shield reduces his damage and you can blow him up with exalt when he has reinforce.

If you want to do a burst strategy, you will want to bring a stun(mouchette) or Aigis petrify to extend turn 3 intention. You do double damage during that intention and basically do normal damage when he has reinforce.

Wave 2 (Wax guys): ~1M Hp for the man and ~700k for the woman.

Not the typical wax couple as the man does not do his 10x hit on T3. Instead they do 1-3x multihits over and over. The woman does the usual sticky wax deck clog.

I don't think there is any particular special strategy that works better than not. Some multihits is beneficial as the man generates barriers for himself. I played Sorel and the twins into this. Also tried a wanda run but felt tight.

Wave 3 (dog): ~700k HP

Typical multi hit enemy with one hp bar. Doesn't scale his strength but just more hits. Extremely weak wave 3 boss.

A decent Wanda or Caecus can practically solo this boss by themselves. If less invested, just combine them or bring in supports.

Xu poison works here as well since str down works wonders.

Wave 4 (Faros): ~1.6M HP over two phases.

Boss that feels like there is a timer. Around turn 7 she starts hitting like a truck with all her tentacles. Boss is a test if you can kill her before she is ramped up.

I think teams like Mouchette and Ghelot are favorable into this due to the burst damage. Lemurian as well by nature of blue ring and sacrifice mechanics.

Wave 5 (Arachne): ~2.5M HP over two phases.

Extremely annoying ultra bar mechanic where it reduces your handsize per card in her ultra bar while making her stronger.

She doesn't scale up much otherwise. But still would consider her the hardest wave for this rotation.

I brought Xu Poison into this since they are invincible and also mouchette but I wouldn't really recommend her. Lemuria works as it is blue ring. Some recommend kath into this due to the lack of boss scaling but I feel like she is better in wave 1.

Did some thinking and I am not sure if any team really counter her mechanics.