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goddessalexissara · 1 year

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Predicting What The DLC Emblems Will Do

[Image Taken from https://twitter.com/FeEngage ]

Hey. so today I wanted to go over characters that were datamined to be the remaining DLC Emblems in Fire Emblem Engage. Talk about what they might bring to the table and what I think of them. Overall, I think this is a bit of a let down of a showing that both could have been bigger but also simply had more interesting roster choices. That said this is also by far not the most boring list, many many people speculating were like "it's obviously gonna be my favorite sword lord they didn't include" and obviously, they were wrong. I think overall, the DLC Emblems could be a lot better and I do hope there is at least some kind of surprise awaiting us to improve this showing like skins or something.

That said, I am still excited for the story expansion and these, well I don't think any of them would get me to play the game again, I do think I'd consider using all of them in a fun to play the DLC story, although we'll have to see what they bring to the table.

Veronica

Veronica is the hero who really brings the widest net of possibility to the table. Even in terms of looks she has 3 very possible looks that simply could happen to be the look they chose for her. I believe Veronica: Princess Rising is the most likely version we'll see given she was the app icon for quite a while, they marked the shit out of her, and it seems to be her new default form and it is her form when she joins the heroes.

Her main gimmick likely focuses on summoning heroes while her top end weapon is probably Enclosing Dark, the tome from her most recent weapon with her earlier weapon probably being Élivágar, and Ífingr. How these weapons translate into FEH I am not sure but I imagine them being very flashy and aggressive tomes, emulating dropping specials on foes in Fire Emblem Heroes. She will probably give proficiency for Staves and Tomes.

Summoning Heroes is such a wide pool of possibility though, it could work like the summoner class from Sacred Stones, like Tanith's signature ability on Path Of Radiance, like Duplicate in Fates. For this, I think we'll likely see it summon 2 heroes that are random, simulating a gacha. I think they work in 3 tiers. 3 Star - Embla/Asker Solider, generic weak units, probably die in one hit, scaled to the emblem wearers level. 4 Star - Asker Trio, fairly weak but more useful, able to take a hit. 5 Star - summons more popular OCs Leagjarn, Fjorn, Lief, and Thrasir who will all have little signature abilities. Perhaps her Emblem attack will lock in for sure generating a rare 5 star or maybe even multiple.

As much as there is to be critical of heroes about in terms of a DLC emblem ring Veronica is honestly loaded to the brim with potential on what she could bring to the table, a lot of emblems I'll be staining to find out what they do over already existing rings but Veronica I could pitch like, 12 different ways she works.

Camilla

With no flying characters at all being represented in the emblem rings, it's easy to bet that Camilla will be very focused on providing fliers what they need. Camilla was a power house in her own game and with a huge fan base behind her I am sure they will want her to stand out and feel like a power house in the game. I think she is likely to add splash damage to the game as well, with her Savage Blow Skill and her personal skill allowing her to be a support unit will likely be reflected.

Camilla could bring in the Fates exclusive magic to the game. While most of that is on t he Hosido side she could be based in post game Revelations or in her Brave Alts alternative universe. In her core class she can't reach a high weapon rank of any weapon I think liberties will be taken here. Perhaps she provides Sanngriðr as an aggressive staff, Bölverk her fathers Axe, and her most basic weapon being something like Dragon Spirit. She will likely give a proficiency in Tomes, Axes and Staves.

I think the design ethos for Camilla is going to end up being duel natured where she is both an offensive and support unit with no defensive offerings outside of what she provides for others. I think her passive will be twofold, buffs nearby allies and also when the person using Camilla attacks, enemies with in two spaces of attack target are dealt splash damage. I think her Engage attack with be a reference to her Musou attack from Fire Emblem Warriors much like Marth and Corrin both taking from Super Smash bros. It'll be big damage with huge splash damage, potentially even dealing damage to every non boss enemy on the map.

Soren

Soren is a weird choice, a character I really like but not nearly as stand out as any Laguz or Elenica in terms of what mechanics he can bring to the table. We can assume the Adept skill he gets would be carried in allowing any attack, maybe locked with tomes or maybe after passing a skill or speed check like in his games would get brave hits. This would allow Soren to be a hyper aggressive emblem, perhaps that wanted the unit to be alone given Soren is a bit more of a loner then most of the other emblems.

Soren being a master of wind tomes could likely bring in powerful wind magic like Tornado and Rexcalibur. As a reference to Ashnard he could give Gurgurant. In that spirit he could also negate criticals like Ashnards abilities and weapon both do. There could be things to do with Soren being a tactician or being part of Griels mercs, calling on other characters or allowing for some tactical shifts. Perhaps Soren could have a radius that allows people to shove each other inside of as a reference to PoR and RDs mechanic. Soren could also provide "drive' effects that provide passive buffs for allies with in two spaces depending on what type of unit is engaged with Soren.

Overall, I think that this gay tactician will be a great emblem ring for Mage units and a mostly aggressive ring with any support it might provide not being the focus. While there is potential for a more support oriented role and despite Soren being a tactician, Soren is more of a selfish character and I do think that will be reflected in his kit.

Hector

I'm more then willing to bet that Hector brings in more support for Armors and Axes, alongside what became his Fire Emblem Heroes staple, Distant Counter. I believe the big selling point of Hector will be the ability to counter ranged attacks, I am not sure if it will be "any range" only one space away attacks, any range but has to pass some kind of check like Lyn's speed check for Vantage or just a roll with a perfect chance if on an armor unit. Regardless this passive alone if it happens would basically lock in Hector as one of the best emblems even in it's weakest form being able to simply counter attack mages and archers is a massive boon for so many units and lets them avoid using weaker 2 range physical weapons.

If any ring was going to be a purely selfish ring it be Hector. The armor lord is a brawler through and through and I think Hector will make any unit a mixed phase power house given you aggressive tools in both phases of combat. I wouldn't be shocked if at higher bound level Hector gave Unbreakable as well as "Reduces Effective Damage" abilities. Given that Hector is an armor unit It makes sense for Hector to give you all the tools to enemy phase wipe out with no worries about what tools your foe is packing, mage, archer, armor slayer, weapon triangle, fuck you, I'm Hector.

Hector will likely provide a Brave Axe for multi attacks even if your slow, Wolf Beil to be effective against Cav and Armor units and Armades to bolster your defense and provide you with effective damage against dragons [maybe corrupted instead]. I believe these weapons are the most likely since two are signature Hector only weapons and the other is a weapon he has in Binding Blade.

Chrom and Robin

I had no idea what Chrom brings to do this duo given he is in fact, made totally redundant by his daughter, Ike and Marth all existing in the game already, yet he was here. That's when it hit me, this unit has the potential to be the ultimate support unit, representing the boyfriends love for one another that was so strong it defied fate.

Unlike Erika and Ephraim or Edelgard (With Dimitri and Claude) I belive Chrom and Robin will always be working together and not have a mechanic where you switch between them. I think they will provide a Support boost where units equipped with them gain support levels faster. I think in addition to that they are likely to provide the Liberation boost to nearby allies helping others engage faster but perhaps only when your actually engaged with this unit. Pairing well with that maybe boosting damage done with back up attacks which would have them pair well with Lucina could also be a factor. They could also give the ability to hit the weaker of defense or res as a passive ability letting them make any unit a threat to more or less every unit in the game given how rare it is to be good at Res and Def. That way this unit does offer something offensively outside of passive support.

I think we'll see Falchion [Sealed], Thoron, and Destiny's Bow. We'll see the weakest version of the Falchion in the game as a basic weapon, good against dragons, maybe heals you a bit after combat. Thorn is the spell most commonly associated with Robin being part of their kit in smash bros and in their appearance in Fates is their default weapon. Destiny's Bow comes from Fire Emblem Heroes on the Robin and Chrom V-day alt, I think it will be some kind of special bow so I figured, why not throw out that one. If it is Destiny's bow it probably boosts damage they deal by amount of allies near by and effective against armors in addition to fliers.

That's just what I think these units will do, what do you think? Do you have different ideas for these characters, do you think the Datamines are wrong, do you hope there is more secret Emblem Rings we don't know about or do you like the roster?

#veronica fire emblem #Veronica FEH #FEH #Fire Emblem Engage #FE17 #FE17 DLC #DLC #Hector #Soren #Camilla #Chrom and Robin #FE Engage

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seasurfacefullofclouds1 · 2 years

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https://twitter.com/jewelcoatfish/status/1568293228616744960?t=jitPDCQw6_JNuzq7HdVnNA&s=19 idk why they feel so attacked. He didn't even talk about harry.

At least Louis meets his fans where they live, eh? Instead of asking the wealthiest fans to fly to the United States and stay in Los Angeles and New York, the most expensive cities here.

At least Louis gave out water for free at EVERY SINGLE CONCERT, including the AFHF, instead of charging $9 for a bottle.

At least Louis doesn’t use dynamic pricing for ANY of the tickets. ZERO. NONE. ZIP. NOT ONCE.

At least Louis didn’t sell Covid T shirts?

Or use BLM protest to datamine his fans? And pose with influencers?

Or walk into moving traffic to avoid fans.

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vonnuvellevillanelle · 2 years

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Fire Emblem Three Houses Art Resource Masterpost

this is just a neat compilation of all the resources i’ve found/compiled about Three Houses/Three Hopes to use in projects/art, enjoy :)

also go play those games if you haven’t they’re really good

also also this is a live post so if i find more stuff/am shown more stuff by anyone i’ll add it to here with a changelog

CHANGELOG

Edit 1: Added class sprite art

Generic male blue unit sprites for characters (couldn’t find female unit sprite for the ones with big differences like Mortal Savant, sorry :/)

Male/female sprites for Dancer

Sprites for Commoner utilize M!Byleth and F!Byleth’s sprites

Sprites for Noble and Lord utilize Edelgard, Dimitri, and Claude’s sprites

Sprites for Death Knight utilize both the enemy variant (masked) and the player unit variant (unmasked)

Sprites for all monster classes included

FE3H Icons Google Drive Folder

A compilation of icons from Three Houses/Three Hopes. Note that the icons are generally low definition since they’re ripped from the game, where they’re meant to be small (except the general combat art icon which is terrifyingly high quality for some reason). Includes:

Skill icons (personal skills, class skills, mastery skills)

Skills that have the same icon (eg. Leonie’s Rivalry and Sylvain’s Philanderer) will be named after all of the names the icon has (eg. [Rivalry, Philanderer])

Includes skills that are enemy/boss exclusive, like Infinite Magic, Barrier, or Manifest Phantoms, as well as unused skill like the three unknown skill icons

Weapon icons (sword, lance, axe, bow, gauntlets, black magic, dark magic, white magic, crest stone)

Includes broken, normal, sacred, relic, and agarthan variants when applicable

Equipment icons (ring, shield, gem, staff, dragon sign)

Includes normal, sacred, relic, and agarthan variants when applicable

Item icons (healing item, key, bullion, certification seal, stat booster)

Combat Art icons (sword, lance, axe, bow, brawl, non-weapon)

Unit type icons (infantry, cavalry, flying, armored)

Also includes battalion variants (normal, silver, golden icons)

Unit effectiveness icons (armored, cavalry, flying, monster, dragon, all)

Crest icons

Gambit icons

Includes ranges for both enemy-centered gambits (like Ashes to Dust or Group Lightning) as well as self-centered or ally-centered gambits (like Onslaught or Stride).

Includes gambit categories (offensive, support, staggering blow)

Skill strength icons (bane, boon, hidden talent)

Large Portraits with Expressions Google Drive Folder (credit to u/CyanYoh on reddit)

Technically these aren’t game assets. Instead, they’re edited mashups of the units’ expression portraits (neutral, happy, sad, shocked, angry, blushing) and the neutral large body portraits that appear in the files.

This one only includes stuff from Three Houses, since people haven’t been able to datamine clean images for the new Three Hopes portraits to my knowledge (won’t namedrop because of spoilers).

#fire emblem #fire emblem three houses #fire emblem three hopes #fe #fe3h #fe16 #art #fire emblem art #fe art #fe3h art #three houses #three hopes

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gascon-en-exil · 2 years

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Have Some More Three Hopes Story Predictions

Based this time on the datamined joining levels of recruited characters, and building from my earlier predictions.

I'll assume for this that Seteth, Flayn, and Manuela are exclusive to their respective routes; the dataminers have been using characters' age data to figure this stuff out, and their ages being listed as ??? makes that much harder to determine. At any route I do think it's safe to assume that Seteth and Flayn are AG-exclusive especially as Catherine also is. Manuela could go either way at this point. I'd prefer her to be available on other routes because flexibility is essential to her kind of work *ahem* and because I just enjoy her character, but at the same time I can see her being SB-exclusive particularly if something bad happens to Hanneman early on like some have been predicting.

I'm also not going to be talking about the characters at the bottom whose join levels are listed as 50 (and also Gatekeeper). People are saying these are likely either story-independent Renown rewards - how else could Rhea be playable in SB? - or unused unit data like Three Houses also had with a few characters. For most of them I'm hoping it's the latter; Gatekeeper may be fine for a meme in Heroes, but I'd much rather do without him being anything more than a goofy NPC in a game that's trying to take itself somewhat seriously.

Scarlet Blaze

10: Constance and Hapi

16: Ashe

22: Lorenz, Ignatz, and Balthus

27: Raphael, Lysithea, and Marianne

32: Mercedes

33: Shamir

37: Yuri, Byleth, and Jeralt

43: Leonie

Constance joining SB early isn't surprising, but she's also with Hapi. Maybe they're fleeing the monastery in Chapter 5 after the Empire conquers it and Constance uses her Imperial connections to talk her and Hapi's way into the army? Ashe is probably tied to the continued unrest among the western lords of Faerghus.

Most of the Deer come in two big waves in the 20s, suggesting that this is around the time that Claude makes his big political move to dissolve the Alliance (~Chapter 9, based on GW chapter titles). Lorenz would be the most pissed among the playables, so he shows up first along with his knight and also Balthus.

The rest feel like stragglers, although extremely-late-joining Leonie made me raise an eyebrow. This just about confirms my suspicion that lategame SB will include an incursion into Leicester, probably to hunt down Thales in Shambhala. Knowing Leonie, you'll probably have had to recruit Jeralt first and maybe even use him directly for the recruitment. Also, is Yuri working with Jeralt's Mercenaries in this route, or is that just coincidence?

Azure Gleam

9: Petra, Seteth, Flayn, and Hapi

16: Dorothea

20: Bernadetta

26: Balthus

33: Lorenz, Raphael, Ignatz, Marianne, Catherine, Shamir, and Yuri

41: Linhardt and Constance

44: Byleth and Jeralt

46: Jeritza

AG gets a bunch of new characters right away, starting with Petra apparently being fed up with Hubert using her as cannon fodder in Ailell. This may also be the case later on with Dorothea and Bernadetta. Seteth and Flayn coming in right away isn't surprising, although having to wait so much longer for Catherine is. Hapi...is also here, all of one level earlier than in SB. The first battle map of Chapter 5?

The Alliance implodes a little later here it seems, and while Balthus gets out a bit earlier everyone else comes in a massive clump. I'd be curious if Shamir's recruitment were tied to Catherine, but she comes in at the same level in SB so probably not. The AG chapter titles are not very helpful when it comes to figuring out how this story will handle what happens in Leicester, if it even does at all apart from taking in these recruits.

Linhardt and Constance must be recruitable out of the Empire's lategame defenses, possibly while attending Hubert and Ferdinand's demented drag ball (at least Constance is dressed for the occasion). The thought of such an all-around awful character as Jeritza hanging out with the Lions makes me dry heave, but he appears to be the latest normally-recruited character on any route so hopefully he'll just stand in a corner mumbling about bloodlust and murder while Mercedes feeds him ice cream or something. (Also, if I do go for 100% for this game, I'm not touching Jeritza on AG and will instead do everything with him on SB. I've more than had my fill of his awful availability from CF, thank you very much.)

Golden Wildfire

9: Linhardt

15: Balthus and Holst

21: Bernadetta

25: Petra

30: Constance and Hapi

33: Yuri, Byleth, and Jeralt

36: Ashe

42: Dorothea

Linhardt must be at Myrddin and defects to the Alliance there. Balthus and Holst joining early is unsurprising, and I expect to see a lot of boisterously no-homo'ed gay undercurrents from those two (can they single-handedly save the GW men from dull heterosexuality?). It seems like prolonged conflict with the Empire may be what pushes Claude to his big power grab based on the steady trickle of Eagles and also Constance bringing in Hapi again.

Again, Yuri joins at the same level as Byleth and Jeralt so I really have to wonder if there's something to that. Some have noted that Yuri joins as a trickster in SB and GW (where he's at the same level as those two) but as an assassin in AG (where he joins at the same level as a bunch of Deer), but I'm not sure if that's meant to say anything as in Three Hopes trickster appears to be the master class upgrade to assassin. He just isn't promoted yet in AG for some reason.

No idea what's going on in GW lategame, just that it involves Ashe and Dorothea. Chapter 12 being "Two Kings" could either be Claude and Dimitri fighting or teaming up, which seems like around the time Ashe would join. Dorothea...I got nothing right now, unless the final chapter being "Field of Beginnings" means the route will end with Claude taking down Edelgard for good at Gronder.

#Fire Emblem #Fire Emblem Three Hopes

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unlocking-information-from-data · 1 year

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Data is now your best friend.

In the 1980's when Business intelligence tools were introduced into businesses, the use of statistical modelling was not used to help unlock information and insight from data. To day by deploy datamining tools to get to the data, be it structured vs unstructured data opens up a multitude of questions, never though of previously. Information is the new Oil

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balitonki · 2 years

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Battlefield 2042 battlefield portal

#Battlefield 2042 battlefield portal mod

#Battlefield 2042 battlefield portal update

#Battlefield 2042 battlefield portal Patch

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#Battlefield 2042 battlefield portal Patch

Potential content for the next patch (currently scheduled for August)? /9cLo38gPmsĬurrently, DICE has the next patch set to drop sometime in August, though there’s no mention of what it will contain.

#Battlefield 2042 battlefield portal update

New references to unreleased weapons for Portal in #Battlefield2042 Update 1.1: Over on Twitter, reliable Battlefield dataminer temporyal has unearthed some of the unreleased weapons in Battlefield Portal, which was spotted in Update 1.1! Speaking of which, DICE has also promised a big Battlefield Portal update would be hitting in Season 1, and it seems some of the content associated with that has leaked!

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Given that we’re a few weeks in with Season 1 and still haven’t seen any Battlefield 2042 map changes for Season 1, some might be wondering whether this is still in the cards, or if DICE is pushing that to the next season. Back in May, DICE revealed some of the map changes coming to Battlefield 2042 as part of the Season 1 update.

#Battlefield 2042 battlefield portal

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af1899 · 2 years

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FEH — Calendar for Nov/2021 is out + own thoughts and plans

(Twitter thread)

The calendar for the month is finally out, and we can plan ahead for who/what I want to pull on, as well as look out for other potentially interesting events.

I'll dump my own plans and thoughts as per usual below the cut, feel free to read on.

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I didn't include links and mentions from the leaks' contents, in case you're avoiding those.

From the looks of it, the dates are still the same for my timezone, but I've read that'll change starting next calendar for some months, due to the Daylight Savings.

Anyway, as it turns out, Ryoma was indeed our next Resplendent Hero, he looks good, but I care very little about him, so I didn't make the usual thought post — but Ryoma being the next Resplendent upgrade candidate means that the leak for the whole month is turning out to be true, it's still soon to say it's trustworthy, but I'm assuming it is to motivate myself to keep saving, as there wouldn't be anything of interest coming for the remainder of November.

The only banner I'm worried about is [Heroes with Bonfire], there are 14 sources in the regular pool but only 3 will comprise the banner itself, and among them is Idoun (best girl 💜🙏🏻), if she's there (extremely unlikely doubtfully but who knows), I'll try to aim for at least one merge, otherwise I'm hard skipping this month; I even had to pass up on the other 3 tempting red stones from the monthly refines banner, Summer Tana doesn't need merges right away and I think pulling on her home banner would be best.

There's also yet another {Double Special Heroes} banner coming... what's with I.S. breaking patterns? That should come out every 2 months. 🤨

Anyway, last time we got a rerun for an assortment of seasonals released this year, from the Valentine's banner to the Young Heroes one, the next banner... well, here are my guesses, just what remains of some of the thematics that appeared in the previous one:

Red

→ Duo Young Eirika+Ephraim

→ Bridal Shanna

Blue

→ Bridal Juno

→ Young Lyon

Green

→ Spring Inigo

→ Summer Caspar

Colorless

→ Summer Duo Hilda+Marianne

→ Groom Saul

...

Hm... assuming I got it right, I'd pick colorless, but unlike last time, we'll need to wait two weeks for the banner reveal, maybe less if it's datamined and shared, but as I've expressed before, these banners are [Orb] scavengers, so I'll skip it in the end.

The New Heroes were also leaked, of which none are my interest (again, assuming the leaks are true).

So yeah, gonna save and see what's in store this month.

Events

Just the usual without much of interest.

[Heroes Journey] (three days) and [Pawns of Loki] (two days) will run once like past months, [Røkkr Sieges] is also coming back and starting today, it's a fun game mode with rather acceptable reward value, but I don't have much motivation to aim for the top in my world, I'll just waste whatever [Stamina] and score as well as I can like usual.

We'll get [Limited Hero Battles] soon, perhaps I'll feel inspired to record a video of my own solution of an abyssal map unless it covers Three Houses units, of which I have very little and stand no chance.

Palla and Catria also get their [Bound Hero Battle], since it's the first run, I'm guessing their banner will have Est as the last unit? Minerva would fit too, but not as well. Either way, it reminded me Palla — best Whitewing! — is +9 among my projects, I'm looking forward to finish merging her.

No free unit will get a rerun after Veld until maybe later next month, but we'll get a few new maps and free units, the next New Heroes are also coming early next month, we can expect the next [Feh Channel] by then, to announce the theme for [Book VI], among the usual celebratory stuff and whatever, I'm quite thrilled to find out what's in store.

So... overall?

I think it's an average month without much of interest (not even the themed banners hold much of interest barring the [Bonfire] one), if you've seen the leaks, chances are you won't be as thrilled for which Heroes you'll see later on, and I can see that, specially since now it's gaining credibility so I don't feel the same thrill but I like planning ahead when given the resources... maybe the fodder will be interesting at least? Who knows, but I plan to skip all along.

Anyway, that's it for me, take care and thanks for reading!

#FEH #feh calendar #fe heroes #fire emblem heroes

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xinoize · 2 years

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PokeMas Update 2.20.0

At long last, May’s datamine has come. :D

Credits to @absolutelypm for all following information.

As expected, besides Morty, no faves are featured, so my gems are safe.

I only mention the stuff I care about, lol

But regardless, it appears that this isn’t all we’re getting. For all I know, I’ve fucked myself. Johto Part 2 is in June, I suppose.

Gem count is 27,340 gems. Nice.

New EX

Silver is getting his EX!! My boy!!

...It’s ugly. I wish it’d have at least been all white instead of red and white. Another unit I’ll be using their base colours on. :’D

New Units

Aaron, Bertha, & Lucian

We’re FINALLY getting more spotlights. The last spotlight we got was Sonia back in December. And it’s three in one month??? Hope we get Lenora soon...

I’m really happy there’s multiple. Even when Darach joins the Sinnoh pool, I still wouldn’t pull because I have Dawn at 5/5, Volkner at 4/5, and already have Fantina despite being 2/5. Pulling for Darach would be a waste if all I’d get was Dawn or Volkner. Even then... I already have Darach, despite being at 1/5.

But now the possibilities include three additional characters, so it won’t feel like a waste. That’s assuming I don’t get a single new Sinnoh unit for an entire year.

Sygna Suit Giovanni

This. OUTFIT.

I’m glad I’ve got a ton of self-control and strictly pull for faves. If I pulled for outfits, Giovanni would’ve killed me.

Sygna Suit Morty

Not sure how we feelin’ bout this EX gang. I think it’s okay, but I’ll need a better view.

Still EXing him, of course. Husbandos always get the EX. :)

Banners

So Morty appears to be a Poke Fair unit. I’m really glad. If he were a “Seasonal” unit, I would’ve been sad. I wish Seasonal units had five star rate boosts.

Anyways... literally all I’m pulling for is Morty, so I consider this a good month.

Legendary Gauntlet

Regirock, Latios, and Tornadus, with Super Powered 3 as the Deluxe Cookie.

Dunno how hard this’ll be, but I’m just gonna stick to 12 wins. The last LG was so stressful.

#pokemon masters spoilers #pokemas spoilers #pokemon masters ex spoilers #pokemas datamine #pokemon masters datamine

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sekaiconfessions · 4 years

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Info & Rules

Welcome to the blog! I know there’s a lot of rules here but I’m mostly chill and wanted to make this anonymous confessions blog because y’all should stan Project Sekai Colorful Stage feat. Hatsune Miku.

All confessions can be sent through the Askbox or Submit. If there is a high number of confessions being sent, it may take a while for me to post them. Even then, it’s always possible I may not post your confession (whether it’s because of Tumblr not delivering your confession or because of my own fault/laziness) so I apologize in advance.

You are free to send in anything Project Sekai (game, music, gacha, characters, artists, story, community, etc.) following the rules below. All confessions will be posted with relevant tags.

You can include images you want to put in your confession, but please send only official art or in-game screenshots.

Generally I will try to post the oldest confessions first, but I may give higher priority to less common topics/characters/units.

Confession images are made using Figma, I only mention this because it’s a really good design tool and you should check it out.

Any asks sent to the askbox that are not confessions must be labeled (NOT A CONFESSION) because sometimes I can’t tell if it’s meant to be made into a confessions image or just a message to me.

General Rules

No Tolerance: Hate or harassment, or posts that incite hate or harassment to anyone on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, marital status, nationality, national/ethnic origin, or genetic information will not be tolerated.

NSFW confessions are only allowed for Megurine Luka, MEIKO and KAITO. Posts with these confessions will contain a Community Label.

Negative confessions or criticism of any of the characters, songs, story, game or Sega/Colorful Palette is allowed, but not meaningless or excessive hate. Negativity towards any players or fans is not allowed either (e.g. you can say Miku herself is overrated but you cannot insult people for liking her)

The mod reserves the right to decline any confession if necessary.

Spoiler Rules

There will be different tags related to spoilers:

All major plot points of events and card stories (both from JP and EN) will have the general tag #sekai stories.

Stories found only in the JP release (not yet in EN) will be tagged #jp stories.

Stories released in EN will be tagged #en stories.

The following are not considered spoilers and will not be tagged:

News & event/gacha information for the JP release

Menu dialogue, Area conversations, Virtual Live dialogue

You must mention if your confession includes story spoilers (according to the criteria above)

Please do not submit any confessions that references leaks/datamined content. They will either be declined or have their submission date changed retroactively.

#(do not reblog please)

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jadeazora · 3 years

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Unite is now live on mobile.

Festival Pikachu is now available in the mobile version of the game, along with the other preregistration rewards. (Get them before Oct31.)

Various new Holowear outfits have been added (or datamined, at least in Sylveon's case since Sylveon's not in the game yet.)

At least Charizard, Garchomp, and Gengar are live today.

A new battle pass "Galactic Ghost 094" is also available. Complete daily and weekly missions for rewards, including space-themed Holowear and other cosmetics.

Three new equippable items have also been added: Weakness Policy, Razor Claw, and Choice Specs.

#pokemon unite #charizard #gengar #pikachu #garchomp #tencent #sylveon #timi studio group

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murasaki-murasame · 4 years

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After doing way too many summons on this gala without getting Gala Elly I’m just gonna quit while I’m ahead and start hoarding for the New Years banner, lol. And in the mean-time I’ll probably be skipping the Christmas banner so that kinda sucks but oh well.

Either way, I still got a whole bunch of new stuff in my gala summons, and also I have a lot of thoughts about the new This Month in DL post, so I’ll just put the rest of my thoughts under the cut.

I swear to god this gala was the most summons I’ve done on a banner without getting a focus unit, lmao. This must be punishment for me getting like three copies of Gala Euden last time. I think I did like 250 summons total, which included over 10 5-stars, but no Gala Elly. I may or may not end up caving to my temptations and grinding adventurer stories and hard mode campaign levels to try and summon more, but I should just quit while I’m ahead.

Either way, my haul of 5-stars, new and dupes, is:

-Gala Ranzal

-Wedding Elly

-Xanfried

-Lea

-Jeanne

-Chthonius

-Dupes of B-Zardin, Victor, Sylas, Cassandra, Gala Sarisse, Shinobi, Vayu, and Long Long [x2]. I also got another dupe Shinobi from the 5-star dragon voucher thing they just gave us.

Let’s just say that I don’t know how to feel about wanting Gala Elly and then getting Gala Ranzal + Wedding Elly, lmao. At least they’re both new units for me. Though it feels doubly bad that I got Gala Ranzal, 45MC’d him, and then almost immediately afterward I got Wedding Elly. Welp. I’m a Noelle main in eHMC anyway so it’s not a huge deal. But it’s nice to get my wind roster fleshed out more.

I’m honestly really happy about getting Xanfried, and it more or less makes up for not getting Gala Elly. He was one of those 5-stars who I was vaguely tempted to dream summon because it was bugging me that I still didn’t have him. Now I think the only launch 5-star I don’t have is Hildegarde.

I’m also happy about getting Lea, even if she isn’t a great unit and I have like six other flame swords. I really like her whole design aesthetic.

I don’t really care much about the new 5-star dragons I got, but they’re nice to have. The Long Long dupes are nice, though, since now I have a nearly MUB one for my Lin You.

Oh and I got regular Aeleen as well, and she was the last non-limited 4-star I needed to get, so that’s cool.

We’ve known about the next banner for a while because of datamines, but either way, I feel a little bit salty that the new 5-star is literally just Thaniel But Better [tm], lol. If it weren’t for the fact that Chocolatiers is a limited print, I’d say that she wouldn’t even be worth it when Thaniel’s a more accessible option who works just fine in HBH because the whole fight is literally tuned around his kit since until now he’s been the only real healer for it. I hope this doesn’t lead to people acting like Thaniel’s not good enough for eHBH anymore once Jiang Ziya comes out. I’ve invested way too much into him to switch. I did recently craft the HDT water spear, and I can use my H-Maritimus on Elly if I want to use her in eHBH, but I still want to stick to Thaniel.

And on that note my H-Maritimus is at 2UB, and between the sunlight stone we’ll get soon from the Megaman event, and the dragons I have at nearly max bond level, he’ll probably be MUB soon, which should push my Thaniel above 7k might, which will be great. He’s currently at about 6,850 might, between him having +200 augments, Chocolatiers at +190 augments, a MUB HDT1 water staff, etc etc. And we’re gonna be getting the Christmas event facility again soon so that’ll boost him up even further.

Also I’m really not interested in the new dragon since he’s just water Hastur and I don’t care about that at all, lol. Durant seems cool but I already have a 50MC Natalie, and he’s a 4-star so he’d be easy enough to get off-banner anyway.

I’m gonna probably skip the Christmas banner since I went all in on this gala and I want to save for the New Years banner. And since it looks like the Christmas banner will be in just a week or so, I won’t exactly have many resources saved up by that point anyway. I’m not really interested in any of the existing Christmas alts, though, so it’d probably be an easy skip anyway, unless the new ones really interest me.

I hope that them doing the Christmas rerun stuff earlier in the month than I expected means we might get a Christmas-themed raid event afterward, but I won’t get my hopes up. I think we’re due for a new raid event anyway, but that’ll probably be what the New Years event is anyway, I guess.

I’m curious to see how they handle the New Years stuff, since it’d feel weird to rerun the Ieyasu event/banner, with how that was themed around the current zodiac year. I think we’ll just get a new event with new units, and probably a new welfare unit along with the event itself. With how good Ieyasu was [and how salty I still am about not having him], I think it’ll be worth saving for that.

Though considering that the next story chapter is gonna apparently be Luca-focused, I’m guessing the January gala unit will be Gala Luca, who I’d be extremely interested in, so that’s another thing to worry about saving for, lol.

And on that note we’re getting Chapter 11 in about two weeks, and even though we got more or less the same teaser description for it as last time, we at least have a better look at the two new android characters. Even though they’re gonna be antagonists I still kinda hope we can get them as playable units some day.

We also got more info on the new endgame boss mode, and even though I still want more specific details about it, my current guess is that it’s basically going to be High IO. It’ll probably be themed around there being new android military squads to fight against, with the new bosses being their leaders or whatever. It’d be fun to get some genuinely difficult wave-based content, but it’d also be great if it means we can get facility upgrade materials a lot faster.

The reveal of the new mode being called The Agito Uprising also more or less confirms that rumour that’s been going around for a while, which also talked about how the Christmas banner would include a new Christmas Phoenix alt, that the new endgame bosses would drop 6-star weapons, that we’ll get a Monster Hunter collab in February, and that Mikoto, Ezelith, Naveed, and Xanfried will be at least some of the first units to get their sixth mana circle upgrades.

I’m honestly kinda happy to hear about Christmas Phoenix since that makes it more likely that the Christmas banner will be an easy skip for me, lmao. But anyway, I really wouldn’t be surprised to see the Agito Uprising bosses dropping weapons that are roughly between 5t3s and HDT weapons in power. we really need something like that to ease the transition into the eHDT cycle. I’ve basically given up on getting into eHJP/eHZD until something along those lines happens to make them more accessible, lol.

I still have a lot of questions about how the whole sixth mana circle upgrade thing will work, and sadly this didn’t really tell us anything new, but they at least said that they’re aware of how limited the pool of units used in endgame content is, and that they’ll try and make changes to make more units viable for that, so that’ll probably be the main point of the sixth mana circles. I have a feeling that only 5-star units will end up getting them, which would kinda suck. There’s a lot of 5-stars who need an upgrade, but there’s also a lot of other units who need an upgrade too.

They did mention that they’ll be doing something with 3-star units in general, though, so I’m really curious about that. I really really want them to rebalance 3-star units so that they all have 100% on-element status resistances. I could take or leave anything else, but they really need that sort of buff. There’s no real point to holding back a unit by giving them incomplete or off-element status resistances. Which also applies to welfare 4-stars. For example, my Xania would be way more viable in eHMS if she can get to 100% stun res without needing a print, and it’d just be great in general if Vixel could get an actually relevant status resistance for his element. I have a feeling they won’t change anything else about their kits, but even just that’d be nice.

My realistic prediction for what the sixth mana circle upgrades will actually include is that it’ll more or less just be more of what we already have with the current ones. It’ll probably just be a few flat stat upgrades, maybe some more coability node upgrades, and one or two upgrades to the skills/abilities of each unit. At the very least I think that units will get a third upgrade to their S2, since those only go up to two upgrade tiers whereas every unit gets three tiers to their S1. And there’s a lot they could do to improve units by buffing and adding stuff to their S2s. For example, Thaniel would really benefit from getting a regen heal added to his S2, but Jiang Ziya existing makes me think they’re just forgetting about Thaniel for good. I can’t really think of what they could do with any of the 5-stars, though. It’s possible but less likely that some units might also get upgrades to one of their abilities, but that’s a bit more uncertain than them getting skill upgrades, if only because there’s a lot of ability types that you just can’t upgrade at all, like 100% status resistance or skill prep abilities.

It’d be really nice if they changed the second ability of 3-stars to 100% status resistance and gave them something entirely new for their third ability, but I wouldn’t be surprised if they just buff the 25% status resistance abilities of those units to 50% status resistance.

Also, we got more details about how we’re getting higher-level void battles added, and higher difficulties added to the void dragons, which I think is a necessary addition in order to help bridge the gap toward endgame content. As it is now, void battles aren’t really worth doing outside of endeavors. But it’s also nice that they’ve added augments to the void dragons and stuff.

In general they’d been making a lot of steps toward easing the progression toward endgame content, especially with the other changes they made to Avenue to Fortune, and them also adding augments to HDT drops. It’s nice that they’re aware of the issue of how steep the progression curve is right now, but it also really makes it clear that it’s a genuine problem that they’re currently being stuck trying to fix. I don’t really blame them for it, though. These things happen with games like this. I’m just glad that they’re actually addressing it instead of leaving it unchanged.

It’ll sadly take a while for them to add all of the new void bosses on the same tier as the Volcanic Chimera, but it’ll be nice to eventually have more accessible options to get into other eHDTs and stuff.

Anyway a whole bunch has been going on lately and I think it’s on a good track. Honestly my biggest issue right now is that since they changed the UI I keep clicking the wrong buttons when I’m trying to go between menus, lmao.

Oh and yeah the Megaman event is a thing that’s happening. There’s really not a lot to say about it because it’s so barebones and gameplay-focused, but it’s fun, and I like how much they’re leaning into the aesthetic of it. Megaman himself is a really goddamn weird unit, though. I like how much he’s apparently designed to play like he’s in an actual Megaman game, but it’s a weird playstyle to get used to for this game. And I still prefer Xania as a flame wand, lol.

#dragalia lost #this week on 'rate up is a lie': I get punished for my hubris :)

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thebossveigar · 4 years

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Let’s Discuss - Bandle City in Legends of Runeterra

So Legends of Runeterra recently got datamined, and a ton of new regions were uncovered. Here is a link to the datamine for my sources

Bandle City is one of those regions however it uses its old crest:

This isn’t the same spiral crest we have now. Here’s the new crest for a reference:

It’s possible the old crest is being used as a placeholder, but it’s also possible they just chose to go with it for a certain reason.

I want to discuss potentials for Bandle City as a region in Legends of Runeterra here.

So let’s begin~

The Champions

For Champions in Bandle City, I can think of a few that would work well.

Veigar

For Veigar, I can see him being a 2|3 card, that costs 2 or 3 mana. His level up condition can be an execution.

Start of Round: Kill a damaged enemy with 2 or less health.

Grant me +1|+0 when I kill an enemy.

Level up: I’ve killed 3+ enemies

Veigar’s associated spell: Event Horizon

Event Horizon - Stun 2 enemies. Shuffle a Veigar into your deck.

Leveled up Veigar

3|3

Start of Round: Strike a damaged unit.

Lulu

For Lulu, I see her being a 1|2 card for 2 mana. I can see two level up conditions for her: Barrier, or polymorph.

If Barrier:

Support: Grant my supported ally quick attack and Barrier this round.

Level up: You’ve targeted an ally 6+ times

Leveled up Lulu 2|2

When an ally gets Barrier, I grant them +0|+3

I don’t see this being likely, as Shen has a similar theme. So the polymorph option seems more likely!

Lulu’s associated spell: Whimsy

Lulu’s Whimsy - Polymorph an attacking enemy. Shuffle a Lulu into your deck.

If Polymorph

Play: Polymorph an enemy for one round

Level Up: You’ve polymorphed 6+ units

Leveled up Lulu

2|2

When you polymorph a unit, I gain +1|+0

Another Champion I would love to see is Tristana, but I can’t think of her gimmick as of now!

Units

Let’s talk about some units/followers we’d see in Bandle City. The first and natural thing we could expect; lots and lots of yordles! Let’s not stop there though. Other fae, whimsical creatures could be great units too.

Some obvious ones I can think of.

Norra (Yuumi’s Master)

2 mana - 1|2

Play: Grant an ally in hand barrier.

Glade Protector

3 mana - Elusive 2|1

Bandlegunner Recruit

1 mana - 1|1

Faerie Companion

3 mana - 2|3

Play: Grant the unit at the top of your deck barrier.

Bandle Scout

2 mana - 2|2

Last Breath: Reduce the cost of the most expensive card in your hand (this includes spells)

Bandlewood Sorcerer

5 mana - 3|3

Play: Grant me +2|+2 for each yordle unit you have played.

Glade Trickster

Play: Polymorph an enemy

Bandle Fisherman

2 mana - 1|2

This is just some small ideas I had. There is plenty more that can be done with Bandle City!

The Gimmicks

Every region in Legends of Runeterra goes for a certain theme.

Freljord has a lot of cards that buff units (and many poros!)

Ionia is more stall-y (from my experience)

Piltover (and Zaun) has lots of spells

So forth, so on.

For Bandle City, I can think of a couple things it’d have

Elusives

While a lot of regions have elusives, I think Bandle City could have more than usual, but with worse stats to compensate. Why elusives?

Because Bandle City is in an elusive part of the world - the spirit realm. Yordles are generally elusive creatures, and most of Runeterra denies their existence. I think for the theme Bandle City goes for, having more elusives at the cost of higher stats would fit its theme. (and likely be annoying)

Polymorphs

Assuming Lulu goes along with the Polymorph idea, one of the spells could be a card that turns an enemy unit into a 1|1 Squill for that round (the creatures that Lulu makes with her Whimsy)

Polymorph/Whimsy - Turn an enemy unit with less than 5 power into a 1|1 Squill

Spells

We don’t know a lot about Bandle City, or what artifacts it has. Some regions use known objects for spells, and I feel Bandle City wouldn’t be any different. Here’s a few based off what we do know. Other than the Champion spells listed earlier, which of course count here too.

Event Horizon

Slow - 6 mana

Stun two enemies.

Book of Thresholds

Burst - 5 or 6 mana

Discard 2 cards from your hand, then draw 3.

The Whispering Key

Fast - 4 mana

Recall an ally, then grant it barrier.

Faerie Charm

Burst - 2 mana

Restore 3 spell mana.

Whimsy

Fast - 3 mana

Polymorph an attacking enemy.

Cosmetics (Board and Guardian)

For Bandle City, the board could take on the shape of either the main village, or the Bandlewoods.

For its guardian, Bandle City could have a Hushtail!

This is all I have. I may make a follow up thread with more ideas!

#legends of runeterra #Bandle City #yordle

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rwbyconversations · 5 years

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Amity Arena Easter Egg uncovered and rewarded

RWBY Amity Arena’s Twitter account on March 1st offered a challenge to its userbase; uncover an Easter Egg that allows viewers to rewatch the intro animations for cards when they unlock, and players would get a sneak peak at new content coming in coming updates.

Fans quickly found out how to unlock the animation; by tapping on the character’s portrait on their skill screen approximately 20 times, the animation would replay, as shown here with Shadow Blake’s intro.

As Twitter user Blade_151 pointed out, this is also the only way to actually see Jaune’s intro, as he is added to your deck during a match without you getting to see his intro.

True to their word, several hours ago the team showed rigging animations for Blake and Yang’s signature combo attack from the Volume 2 Paladin mech battle and Volume 6 Adam fight, indicating that the game will start to include custom attacks for certain units. Users who datamined the game also found that a potential White Rose combo attack would be in the game soon.

The Amity Arena developers have said this system would be implemented in the March update.

#rwby #rwby amity arena #Blake Belladonna #Jaune Arc #yang xiao long #bumblbee #white rose #weiss schnee #ruby rose #rwby news

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pdchronicles · 6 years

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Long Post about Trolls in WoW

I have, for a very long time, had an issue with the way Trolls are portrayed in World of Warcraft. On the surface, this must sound like a rather pretentious and borderline entitled statement to make, and I understand that. I’m not trying to sit here and tell Blizzard how they should portray a group of people that they’ve created in their own game and in their own intellectual property. Instead, I’m trying to explain a potential that I see in them. I’ve mulled over making a post about this in a place where someone at Blizzard might actually see it, but I’m concerned it will come off as a bunch of complaining in an already saturated echo chamber. I’m also not confident enough in my own ability to effectively capture my thoughts and articulate them into carefully ordered words. Before I continue, be aware that I’m going to be referencing things that I’ve seen in BfA’s beta, so there will be heavy spoilers in this post. I was prompted to make a post like this after seeing the outdoor content that will be released with the new Warfront feature in Arathi Highlands. Before this content was datamined, we learned that Witherbark Village got an overhaul in its design, with new assets added to spruce the place up and make it look quite nice, and very Troll (even Zandalari) themed. The Warfront content includes a quest to kill 20 Witherbark Trolls in order to drive them out of Arathi Highlands. The quest for both the Alliance and the Horde are the same, albeit with slightly different text. Here is the quest text for the Horde-side quest: “The bloodthirsty Witherbark tribe has always refused to join the Horde... and now that the Horde holds Arathi, we will succeed where the Alliance has failed. Drive the forest trolls from the Highlands.“ In a war between the factions, wouldn’t it make sense for the Horde to try to gain any allies that it could? A bloodthirsty group of Trolls seems to fit right into the Horde that Blizzard is currently portraying to us. It’s right there in the quest text. The Horde’s mentality here is “if they’re not with us, kill them”. It’s true that this convenient alliance has been done before, such as way back when the Orcs aided the Darkspear Trolls. Or, when the Taunka joined the Horde in Wrath. And it’s likely being done again with the Zandalari, because I don’t understand how they would join a Horde led by an undead unless the circumstances were incredibly dire. (More on that later.) However, I think the only thing more tired than “convenient alliances” is the “Trolls being driven away from their home” trick. Darkspear by the naga. Drakkari by the Scourge. Amani by the elves. Frostmane by the Dwarves. And so on, and so forth. I think that it’s totally in-character for the Alliance to want to drive the forest Trolls out of Arathi. However, I think it would make more sense for the Horde to try to work with them, even if it’s just leaving them be and perhaps encouraging them to attack the Alliance for them. It’s possible that I’m stuck clinging to an idea about the Horde that is no longer relevant. Before we had Garrosh, who was interested only in orc superiority, and before we had Sylvanas, who cares only about herself, we had a Horde that served as a refuge for the people of Azeroth who suffered because they were different. This was something that I could relate to, deeply, because I have always felt different myself. I’m a gay man living in a predominately conservative part of the United States, a country that seems on the brink of a moral crisis, where the people in charge, if they had their way, would deny me basic human rights in the name of their religious beliefs. I live in a country where the current “president” jokes that his vice-president wants to “hang all the gays”. I don’t think I need to explain this in any more detail to show how my own feelings of being an outsider made me relate to what the Horde was. They were a group of misfits who banded together to help each other because the other people around them hated them and didn’t want them to be a part of their world. The Horde feels much different now. I struggle to both relate to it, and feel like I’m a part of it. Still, it would be nice to see a little bit of that from time to time, and the situation in Arathi Highlands offers a small opportunity to do so. Another reason I felt I needed to rant about all of this is because I’m simply tired of the Trolls being the go-to bad guy fodder. As if it wasn’t obvious, they are my favorite race in the Warcraft universe. I love the fact that they are one of the oldest sentient civilizations. Zuldazar is the oldest city, still standing, in the world. They mastered magic before the elves. Elves are descended from Trolls, the magic of the Well of Eternity mutating them into what they are. Trolls, through their Prelates of Rezan, also mastered the art of the holy warrior before Human paladins ever came into existence. The Amani Trolls hunted down the C’Thrax and sacrificed almost everything they had to defeat Kith’ix. They saved the world. Trolls are the oldest (we think) non-Old God or non-Titan created beings on Azeroth. They called the Titans “The Travelers”, and they witnessed the Titans first battle with the Old Gods. Trolls never enslave anyone. When the lower castes of the Zandalari wished to leave the Empire and go out into the world, the Zandalari encouraged them to do so. These lower castes would eventually become the Gurubashi, Amani, and Drakkari tribes. It’s because of these tribes that the Aqir haven’t destroyed Azeroth. The Trolls’ persistence at hunting them down forced them to split up into separate groups themselves: Azjol-Nerub, Ahn’Qiraj, and the Mantid Empire. That was quite the history lesson, but it helps to articulate my point. The Trolls have a long, deep, and varied history. This makes it an absolute travesty that they are used for little more than villain fodder and comic relief in the game itself. Every circumstance of the Trolls doing something evil can be traced back and attributed to one thing: Desperation. They are constantly losing their home to outside invaders. The first example of this was the elves, who stole the Troll’s lands because they wanted the magic within it. The Great Sundering, a fault of elves, caused terrible destruction, death, and starvation for the Trolls. In desperation, the Trolls called out to their gods, and these calls were answered by Hakkar, and this led to even more suffering. The Drakkari killed their own gods for their power in a desperate attempt to stop the Scourge from destroying their tribe. I could go on like this for a really, really long time, but I think you get the point. For a people so ancient, with so much history, and so much potential for their culture, they deserve better than to be slowly and efficiently erased from existence. But, that’s what’s been happening over the course of WoW’s history. Just look at the Darkspear. They have gotten so little development that we don’t even know who’s leading them right now. We don’t even have very many of them left to be candidates for the role. The elephant in the room, of course, is the incredibly disappointing end to Vol’jin’s character arc by unceremoniously killing him off by a random demon in the opening act of Legion. There are so few notable Darkspear characters that Blizzard invented a new one, just so the Alliance could kill him during the Battle of Lordaeron. They have already killed off so many of the Tribe that they had to invent one...to also kill off. This, in a game that felt the need to add two more “races” of playable elves in a game that already has two. And a new class that’s only playable by elves. I have never understood this direction. With all of this on my mind, I hope you can see where I’m coming from when I say I’d like to see something other than “kill the Trolls” in a quest. But, let me shift gears here, and maybe be a little more optimistic for a while. I’m thrilled that the Zandalari are being added as an allied race for the Horde, and I’m excited that we’re going to get to explore and experience Zandalar. I do think it’s unfortunate that these things are being added to the game now, because the faction war is really putting me off. More specifically, the direction of the Horde, and Sylvanas leading it, is really dampening my enthusiasm and I’ve been really struggling to get past that. It’s going to be really depressing if their methods for getting the Zandalari to join the Horde will be to make them suffer so incredibly that they have no choice but to ally with them. But hey, I said this was supposed to be optimistic now, so let’s get to that. In the novel Shadows of the Horde, Vol’jin mentions that King Rastakhan has a plan to unite all of the Trolls once more. This plan is only hinted at, but it’s described well enough that it is clear that whatever this plan may be, it is different from that of the Prophet Zul. Vol’jin denied Zul’s offer of joining with him (along with the Drakkari, Farraki, and Gurubashi), and the events of BfA fully reveal what Zul’s plan ultimately entails. (Hint: It’s not good.) King Rastakhan’s plan appears to be different from this, and doesn’t seem to involve any of the shady shit that Zul’s been up to over the last several years. In that same novel, while Vol’jin is conversing with the spirit of his father Sen’jin, the elder Darkspear seems to indicate that perhaps it is time that a Shadow Hunter once again leads the Trolls, like it was before the formation of the first Empire of Zul. Fast-forwarding ahead to BfA itself, there is an area in Zuldazar that is sort of a Troll embassy. It’s a place where a representative from the different Troll tribes meet, each tribe represented by speakers. The Amani, Farraki, and Gurubashi, being the largest of these tribes, have their own specific areas. The other, smaller tribes all hang out together. The existence of this area might just be for flavor, but I like to believe it has some other purpose. It could be there to give further merit that King Rastakhan is working on a plan to unite the tribes once more. In addition to this, there is a Zandalari NPC in Zuldazar who offers to give you a glimpse of your future, in a way. One of the possible things that she tells you mentions the unification of the Troll tribes.

Again, it could be here for flavor. But, why? I’d like to think this is another hint that Rastakhan has some sort of plan for the Trolls, and that we, the player, could be a part of it. And since this is seen during the Horde leveling experience only, it means it’s the HORDE player that could be a part of it. The optimist in me hopes this is foreshadowing an eventuality where many, if not all, of the Troll Tribes join the Horde. Naturally, there are a thousand holes that can be poked into this. But like the Trolls I love so much, all of this wishing and hoping is a result of desperation, because we’ve been given so very little in regards to the Trolls for years now. Blizzard just can’t seem to help themselves when it comes to making Trolls suffer. It doesn’t stop in BfA. Nazmir is an entire zone dedicated to killing Trolls (Blood Trolls), and there is no option or hope of saving them. The Zandalari, in turn, are made to suffer through the murder of several of their most revered Loa by both the Blood Trolls and Zul’s fanatics. It’s questionable whether King Rastakhan will even survive the expansion. These thoughts, this negativity that I have has been plaguing me for a very long time. It started in full with Vol’jin’s death. I don’t mind admitting that watching that happen made me cry, if that’ll better articulate how strongly I feel about this race of misfits. I’ve felt a pang of sadness and regret every time I’ve watched Blizzard unceremoniously kill off a Troll character before they could be fully developed or their character arcs brought to a meaningful conclusion. Zuni. Torunscar. Zul’jin. Vol’jin. Durja. Zin’Jun. Not to mention the countless “cannon fodder” NPCs. The voice line of a dying Troll on the Broken Shore yelling “Da pain!” still fucking haunts me. Blizzard’s portrayal of Trolls is heartbreaking. As you can probably tell, I care a bit too much about this. Trust me, I recognize that. I’ve been dealing with this in a number of different ways, not least of which is continuously reminding myself that WoW isn’t for me. It’s for a huge audience of different people with different interests and different passions, and it’s unfair of me to expect my own desires to be fulfilled. At the end of the day, my point here is that I see incredible potential for amazing stories and it frustrates me that I seem to be in the minority about that. Games are an amazing medium and they offer this unique ability to make the player feel like a hero. That feeling is the main reason why I play games in the first place. The real world is complicated, ugly, confusing, and it’s not always clear which choice is the right one. In games, it can be different. You can see the wrong and you can stand up against it or help to fix it. I’m finding that more and more difficult to experience in WoW because I’m playing a race that I feel its creators care very little about. In an attempt to wrap this up, because I’ve been at this for way too long already, I want to see what Blizzard has in store for the Zandalari. Their portrayal will likely decide if I still stay invested in WoW to any degree, or if I finally leave it behind for good. None of the characters I have exist canonically in WoW’s story any longer. Why the hell would I put them through that? But, I still enjoy the gameplay and getting inspiration for my own stories from Blizzard’s creativity. This is their game and their story to do with as they please. I’m just hoping they recognize the potential that they have with the Trolls and start utilizing them for something better than they currently are. Thank you for reading.

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