In your invitation to wine setup try putting Silence out first instead of Amiya as Medic Amiya requires enemies to hit in order to heal and when the dragon spawns there are no enemies for her to hit so no healing. As for building operators, focus on just 1 or 2 at the same time and make sure that you enjoy using them. Remember, regardless of what anyone says, waifu is always meta.
I was trying to show people that my medics in general are not strong enough. But people are latching onto the fact that I put Amiya out. I tried all 5 of my medics, they cannot out heal the damage.
@@ClayChoShow It's alright. This is just one stage of one event. It is the last stage you need to get kroos's potentials, but honestly if you're unable to do it even with a guide then there's no reason to focus on it right now. I've had to leave events uncleared for weeks or months then go back with stronger units.
@@ClayChoShow well, arknights isnt game where you need stat bombs, you can make up by proper setup and strategy, you placed 3 healers there, amiya couldnt hit therefore she didnt heal, hence you wasted DP for her while you could place the other healers first to use their skills when neccessary, another thing you can do is dmg baiting, good luck as a proof of concept someone cleared the dragon stage with E0 operators only
@@ClayChoShow They are strong enough, you just dont know the subclasses so you grab whatever. Example is why even bring Amiya Healer to that stage since she's an incantation medic?
@@ClayChoShow u need to build at least 1 AOE Medic, and dont use amiya medic (u can't read) btw i really enjoy your video(it feels nostalgic) keep it up
I think veteran players tend to forget how difficult it is for a newer account to build multiple characters because of how resource intensive it is, I've been playing for 10 months already and if it weren't for the fact that I completely drained IS out of resources I'd still be struggling. Also I think people are just excited to see you try out the units they like, because it either worked out for them when they were in your position or just because they like them, like when I mentioned Penance (she's one of my favorite operators in the game but yeah not at all required for clearing content, I just love her kit). Don't sweat it though, I think you're doing pretty great, all jokes aside. Go at your own pace.
Yup, newbie impossible to get those resources quickly Especially new material who unlocked in late chapter + the time of grinding The only helpers are the event with lots of resources (except the mini-event, less resources to get)
Oh also the wiki is right, Ethan can bind at E1 but the talent is improved at E2, the little icon the game shows you is meant to represent that (The E2 icon with 2 small arrows pointing up). If a talent is locked behind E2 it will straight up show it grayed out and you can't see what it does, but I think only applies to 6 stars.
omg that's my thorns you took from support!!! to be honest, when you follow guides, you don't need the carry six star to be the exact same level as the six star in the guide video. often when you use them, the more important thing is the masteries (or the module if the op is the kind of op that needs module to function, ie. zuo le or lin). a lot of early game guides use blaze, thorns, surtr or silverash and around E2L60 is fine for them, the more important thing is their skill masteries. thorns' module improves his performance immensely and mine is max module, so it should be more than enough to compensate for the gap in stats from level 60 to 90. also levelling to E2 max just isn't worth it most of the time, since it's a resource drain but you get diminishing returns. the only reason why you see a lot of E2 max support units is most people put up their favorite/best units that they've maxed out, or they're a old player with lots of resources to spare. but don't feel bad about not being able to do a stage. the early game was relatively recent for me since i only started playing this march, and honestly there were a TON of stages i was stuck on and malded over for weeks. i feel like a lot of people who consume AK content are veterans at like level 120, and they don't really remember how gruelling the early game experience can be. you have so many units it's overwhelming, and you want to build a lot of them, but you only have so many resources. AK is also a game that encourages building a variety of units rather than one strong unit, so you can't just dump resources into one unit and expect it to carry you through the game. the base being somewhat complicated and the alternating openings of resource stages only make it even worse to farm and build as a new player. so, like i said, there will always be stages you can't beat for a period of time. i was stuck on 9-12 for like, over a month, to the point where i named my squad 9-12 because i was trying and failing that stage so often i needed that particular team configuration permanently saved. in these cases, all you can do is just level your team. but it's totally normal.
can confirm, year 1 player here, my account isn't level 120 yet because I take regular 3/4ths year breaks and I can comfortably clear most things. The ones that get their accounts to level 120 are usually the ones that, even if they didn't play everyday, never took a break longer than 3 months in all the years they've been playing. I remember the 3rd annihilation map (Lungmen Central) used to be a real account test in the last 30 enemies where the autorun would occasionally break until they gave us auto-cleared annihilation tickets because the auto-deploy fucked something at the last second forcing you to do the whole thing manually again. The ones at level 120 have resources stacked and when your account gets to a certain point (mine's like level 106, but it's been that way since I hit level 90s way back), you don't really need to raise that many operators unless you want to use them so their resources just stack on top of themselves so when they get a 6 star they want they can usually E2L60 them on the spot. Especially with exp tickets and LMD, if their base is built up (which it is for most people) raising characters sparingly means that when you decide to raise something they just automatically level them and the only limitation is the trust farming for modules and the time consumed by training masteries. Even those things can be ignored since putting someone as base assistant also greatly increases the trust you get for a character in a day
@@i2krhtd I'm joking but I'm perfectionist so I level everyone to lvl 90 when I'm able to, it's so frustrating to see not maxrd out something same goes for pots which I can't control and it freaks me out
You can always trust the game as it always displays correct and relevant information. If it shows Ethan has Entwined then it means he does. Elite 2 tends to improve talents and traits, that's why he has a mention of it in blue next to it. If you want to know what exactly promoting an operator does you have to click promote, then from that screen you can click "details", its hard to miss as it's right next to the summary.
Fun fact: Without any enemies in range to hit, Amiya’s healing output becomes as strong as your ability to read. It’s ClayYover! He ain’t beating the allegations. A true EN player he is, indeed.
7:49 funnily enough, it does do that normally, but for some reason when it’s highlighting something on the screen it doesn’t work. From what I’ve heard the glitch has been around since the beginning, and they just never fixed it. But it’s definitely infuriating
The E2 on Ethan’s entwined if you look closer has two up arrows on it. So what it’s trying to say is it upgrades at E2 If you want to see that yourself, if you click on “Promote” you can see a preview of what he gets at the next level, and that’s how you know for sure.
With Ethan, S2 is usually his best skill as it helps a lot with the bind and damage is decent, S1 is good for enemies like Invitation to Wine, where the important thing is amount of hits rather than damage
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9:02 Arknights is worded pretty confusingly. What "at Elite 2" means, is that he will get that effect *at Elite 2.* It's telling you what the talent will look like once you E2.
One of the best pieces of advice I've ever gotten was to learn how to disregard advice. Obviously, there are certain operators and strategies that'll essentially play the game for you, but what makes this game so good is that there is no _right_ way of playing it. All us vets did the same thing you're doing - use our brains, then use brute force, go back to using our brains, then inevitably consult Kysotin Sensei. It's just the circle of life. Tl;dr Don't worry about building "bad" or "wrong" operators. All operators are viable to some extent. Unless you're playing for Medal sets, just enjoy the game and build who ever looks the coolest. Never forget - waifu > meta.
Annihilation is weekly - You MUST do it Build Base - so you don't have to FARM exp and money - Base gives money and exp, just need to E1 some 4* - E1 4* are cheap
About Ethan he already have his bind at E1, his S2 is more usefull if you want him to bind more that what you would use more in general, his S1 tho is also very usefull but against particular gimmick like thing who require several hit like you had to for invitation to wine thanks to the DOT. Tldr : S1 when you want afk or you need him against multi hit gimmick S2 : When you want to stall with him Fully upgrade (S2M3 and max module) bro become a beast and get 84% chance of bind.
1:18 although the tactics are great, you didn't use the character to the maximum potential, like amiya medic being just in the position like being a normal medic. She is incantation medic which heals operators in range 50% of atk when she attacks an enemy. And extra note, when you invest on base with a 2-5-2 layout being 2 Trading Post, 5 Factory, 2 Power Plant you can get good amount of LMD and EXP. Take your time, im just suggesting not forcing
Just wanting to chime in that the Base is a Highly controversial debate topic in the community. There is a war between the 2-5-2 people and the 2-4-3 people. There are pros and cons to both, really just do whichever. I can't remember which is which, but one is better if you login 2 or more times a day and the other is better for once a day.
Although there is a war between 2-5-2 and 2-4-3, there is more explanation from the youtuber PeterYR to learn more about it. I'm aware that this will make more controversial between both sides, but please check and do some calculations first.
@@ZensherxD Exactly this. Sorry, I was not trying to ignite a debate, simply warning that portions of the community can be a bit touchy about base specifically.
Sorry about the influx of tips. I can understand getting flustered by all the stuff to do. Chapter 7 is a tough one I can attest. All I'll say is I'm glad you are trying to hear everyone out. Whoever you feel helps you out I would say to keep them on your squad. I like having men on my team and recently got a guy named Broca. For fun and giggles if you have time, can you look at his skin please? Otherwise have a good day and great job getting through the chapters. ^-^
I have three accounts. One CN, One Global P2W, and one Global F2P. Here are some tips from Arknights Vet: Completely build one Beat-stick Op - E2 LVL 90, and M3 (M Stands for Mastery, which is trained in the base at the Training Room) her S3. It will take a lot of resources, but it will help immensely for your entire career. I recommend Wis'adel since you have her. You need to READ! FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, READ THE ENEMY INFO ON THE STAGE SELECT SCREEN! Have at least one AOE Healer, like Perfumer, and one Single Target Healer, Like Warfarin/Gaviel, at E2. You don't need to get them to level 90. E2 level 1 is fine. That's it. Everything else you can take your time with.
Stop. Building. New. Operators. You were set the moment you got mountain. If u want to grind mats without sanity theres also integrated strategies, which is why the hivemind keeps suggesting it
this is the really weird and funny problem with new players, there's an overwhelming amount stuff to do, but EVERYTHING needs sanity (although you could easily use originite prime). when the game first launched globally, there was a bunch of free time in between events (plus a bunch of side events giving sanity potions), without any of them being saved in intermezzi or side story. although it's possible to beat harder stages with e1 ops, it's pretty recommended to do it with e2. build who you want and whoever you think will be good. also the fact he has medic amiya yet being in ch7 is funny.
1:19 ok so the problem there is that you're using Medimiya and she's an Incantation Medic, and they only heal by attacking enemies, so since nothing's in range she does nothing (but she has passive global heals when either skill is active)
Ethan was my first E2 and carried me through through most of the early game. I still use him sometimes even now that I have multiple built 6* characters, because he eventually gets to be that good. I'd recommend just borrowing a built Ethan (I know it's weird to borrow a 4^ as a support) and seeing for yourself how strong he is. As opposed to the half dozen 5* and 6* units everybody tells you to build, Ethan would be a fraction of the cost. Dr. Silvergun is the content creator who specifically only uses 4* units. On his 4* tier lists, Ethan gets his own special tier at the very top that's just labeled "You know who". Here's my quick rundown on how Ethan works and why building him makes him exponentially stronger and worthwhile: At E1: His bind ability is kinda garbage. He attacks every 3.5s but the bind only lasts for 2s so there's a big gap even when it does work. He only binds 25% of the time though, so most enemies don't ever get bound at all. When you turn on his S2 it increases the bind chance to 62.5% which is better but still not reliable. At E2: The bind duration improves to 3s. This is a substantial improvement. You can also Mastery his S2 which makes the bind go up to 75% of the time and increases how long the skill lasts to 30s. He can now slow down swarms of enemies for at least half a minute (and the skill costs only 25 SP, which means it comes back up about as fast as Myrtle's, which is very quick). With Module: This is Ethan in his final form, where his ability now rivals that of many 6* units. He now passively slows all enemies in his range by 20%. His bind now lasts a full 3.5s, which coincidentally is exactly how fast he attacks. He now can permanently stop enemies from moving at all because he rebinds them the exact moment the previous bind wears off. His bind chance also improves, now up to 83% with his S2 active. So his bind now applies 5/6th of the time, no longer has any gap where enemies can move at all, and even in the rare cases they resist they're still 20% slowed, and they typically just get bound again the next time he attacks. Ethan can get to the point where he can solo entire groups of enemies in a huge area for a half minute because the yo-yo does a surprising amount of damage, and he doesn't get attacked because he doesn't block, and if ranged units shoot at him he dodges 50% of all hits. His range is large enough that some maps you can have him hitting multiple lanes at the same time. Against big enemies he can hold them in place for half a minute while your team shoots them to death. There are very few situations where Ethan isn't useful to have out at any point in the game. His S1 is only useful in cases where a DoT is good, such as Invitation to Weenay where it murders the furniture and fire thingies that ignore damage. The damage it deals is very small. The ATK bonus you get from his S2 does more extra damage in a single hit than the DoT deals in total.
so if you seen the logo for entwined at elite 2, it has promotion logo which mean it can be improved on e2, cause in AK they dont tell you what you can unlock in the basic character menu its all what you already got, it will tell you on the promotion menu
Hey do IS(dont fucking do it, it costs sanity and not the in game one), hey do under tides(costs sanity but hey you gain a hunter for free you only need to unlock and play until stage 4 or 5), hey do dailies, do weeklies, and mostly important do be Happy.
9:00 the symbol is actually for improvement. He has the trait at e1 and could be improve at e2. If you get into the 'upgrade to E2' you would see what improves.
Now that I think of it, it kinda makes sense why you dont read often when the comments just keep flooding you with advice and expecting them to work as intended but often times Arknights is a situational games so advice can flactuate as situations change. Yes Wisadel, Ling, Degen are bust ops but they have their use cases. My only advice for now is to read the "Traits" portion when in an Operator's page. Vey important info like deals AoE damage, 50% Dodge, Cannot be healed, etc. Very obvious, I know but from my experience, even as a vet, you often get showered with mechanics that you forget that there are operators with built in mechanics made to trivialize certain stages, enemies and/or mechanics.
My friend recently started playing arknights again on a new account, and I had to guide him for awhile as a veteran, regarding things to do and what not to do, and in just 2 months he's already doing some amazing things. Every new dokutah should play at their own pace, and take things slowly as everything is very limited when you start early.
i started the game 8 months ago and yea not being able to clear stages, looking for guides and not having half of the operators used can be very frustrating. But the good thing is that a lot of them just stays there for you to clear when your account is stronger. I too was stuck at this very stage on the begining, and got my clear a few days ago (i honestly forgot it existed until i saw you commenting in one of the videos that you wanted to clear this event lmao). Good thing is that Kroos Alt is strong even without pots, so you can use her without any worries just like i did.
4:28 Logos S1 Moment. Using Myrtle is great, she's basically the best vanguard in the game for DP generation. If you're having issues with healing, I suggest trying to pick up a Perfumer through recruitment, she's a 4 star multi-target medic who also gets a talent that applies a global health regeneration, which also ignores the restrictions of enmity operators such as Juggernaut class characters, as well as things like Wis'Adels turrets (When you get Wis to E2) Who aren't able to be healed by allies. (I'm late game and still run perfumer because I'm a long time Mudrock enjoyer, and she's also just a fantastic medic that benefits from the fact 4 stars are very cheap and easy to build) Your Ethan's bind will get buffed at E2, but he has it at E1 otherwise S2 be a dead skill till E2. S2 is the better option because the bind allows your other units to beat on the poor suckers he locks down for 2 seconds longer, which is better than 3 ticks of 60 arts damage from his passive S1. Ethan can also pretty much perma-CC lock enemies who enter his nono square once you get him properly built. I highly recommend doing material missions like for LMD, EXP items, and chips. I personally didn't do much of the story until chapter 14 dropped, and instead I was grinding the bejesus out of those promotion material missions, and now I have a lot of units either really well built, or about halfway there, while I'm doing the dumb idea of building like 5 6 stars at the same time to E2. I find it to be a better use of sanity, as those items from the missions are guaranteed to drop, and will always be universally useful for building every operator in the game (Not chips though, those are for specific classes only and can only be swapped over to 1 specific different variety of chip at a loss.)
If you find a stage you don't mind not-autoing, consider borrowing an Ambriel for EP.7, she kinda trivialises this episode with her S2 (global range and aims at the lowest DEF target, which is usually the Heralds)
1:46 : to be really fair, whatever the others say, building your base is ABSOLUTELY your top priority: your base gives you passive LMD and battle record income in a way that you'll never have to farm LMD / battle records stages ever again. It's quite a long thing to do (need to farm the base materials a bit) but it's 100% worth it, even wisadel isn't as important to build than your base. You mention you spend sanity to get battle records for example: again do not do that, ever. The base is where it's at. It's more important than building wisadel, more important than to build any character, more important than annihilation, more important than progressing the story, more important than literally everything else. 8:20 : depends on the stage, Ethan's S1 shines against enemies that need hit to get killed rather than damage (for example in invitation to WEENAY) or in stages where you need hits to activate specific devices rather than big damage (e.g chapter 14), while his S2 is better everywhere else but requires his module and masteries. As long as he's not fully built (which, again, you don't need to if you don't want to, build whoever the f you want but BUILD YOUR BASE FIRST PLEASE TRUST ME) then his S1 is probably better.
Normal rate for player to get their first E2 is around Ch.6-8 ONLY IF they sacrifice some character builds. The only way around to bypass this is to max level all 3-stars operators and rush the entire resource stages - which is less stressful today thanks to the new autorepeat feature. That way you'll have necessary amount of resources without relying a lot to daily freebies or your newly build base.
ifrit is usually worth if you can hit multiple lanes or a very long lane. the 1-tile ifrit is mostly used for her res shred in a debuff team composition that nukes strong bosses with massive arts damage from surtr and eyjafjalla
For Ethan, if you go on his operator page, click Promote, regardless if you have the materials or not, it will tell you what he gains from E2 (in this case improved talent)
6:51 it's not subway surfers but it the first anime episode abridged (2x speed it if you need ruclips.net/video/9M7bdxJnIHc/видео.htmlsi=DF9mAfxabmIZsobz Also if your looking for a hard carry, thorns was a good "dps" 2 years ago
Up Perfumer, she's a multi target medic, she's better to use when you fight the dragon Anyway, that "E2" of Ethan is just upgrade talent. Not like some Ops, who need E2 to unlock the talent
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One thing I noticed that is recommended in IW-9 is Elite 2 LVL 20. So the recommended thing would be to continue in the story, but realizing that some of the story levels are asking for Elite 2, then it's better to start focusing on 4-star operators, since, compared to 5-star and especially 6-star, they are easier, and there are also some that can even surpass 5-star, like Gummy. I have Shu, but I really recommend Gummy because of her healing and not the need for allies with half health. However, her best skill is the first one, at least the one I use the most. And one interesting thing, Myrtle's module is good, because she gives an ally who is in front of her (the direction of the attack to the ally) she gives him +1 blockable enemies. Another 4-star recommended and also easy to get is the Courier, with his second skill he gains 80% defense (in M3), in S7 he gets 50%, and immediately gains 3 DP + 8 as the skill progresses. I apologize for any possible English mistakes as I am using a translator, and I hope I was able to help in some way. And good luck!
If you increase Ethan enough he can just keep people stuck in place for 30 seconds per skill activation thus becoming the ultimate stall machine. Also the symbol next to entwined means it is UPGRADED at Elite 2 (which causes the bind chance to increase). In the talent is *grey* it means you don't have it yet.
The in-game dialogue boxes are horrible. Certain boxes display the full text when clicked but others skip the whole thing and I don't think it's consistent either
"I'll build my characters when I'm all caught up on the story." If, by some miracle, he survives 7-18, he ain't finishing Episode 8. Ain't gonna say anything else cuz spoilers. Side note: I don't think many people will mind if you take your time farming and building, while posting updates. It is part of the game, after all.
the blue text with an E2 icon on Ethan's talent means "upgraded at Elite 2". The white talent title highlight thing indicates that it's unlocked. So you do have it unlocked. Ah yeah, a lot of the veterans of the game have more resources for leveling up and upgrading than they know what to do with, so for them deciding to E2 a character they got will barely dent them. Many of them have also probably forgotten the grindiness of the early game from when they hadn't built their base yet from how long ago it was for them. They really love helping out the newbies, but I'd imagine that they can be a bit overbearing for these things so just do them at your own pace. The base can actually save you on sanity consumption because even with my 2-4-3 (not ideal for accumulating resources when you're raising characters but I'm not always raising characters anyway) set-up, a fully upgraded base can net you at least 30K LMD a day even if it isn't min-maxed and also accumulate a lot of yellow grade EXP tickets. I also have not needed to run EXP supply tickets because of my base. I think that since the supply stages are selectively open, to simply prioritize the base building materials when it's open but when it's not open, just raise what you think you need to raise more of at your own pace whether it's a tankier tank, more healing or more damage. Ah right... Medic Amiya is good but uh... she can't heal if she can't attack anything ^^; her specific medic archetype is known for their healing being proportional to how much damage they dealt to an enemy they hit. activating her skill can give global regen to some extent
Turns out you can clear the Dragon boss with just Support Mlynar, min 3 Medics (max Hibiscus, max Ansel, Elite 1 lv 60 Perfumer), a Spot, and Ethan. Though need some redeployments and timings shenanigans. Ofc some form of other DPS/AoE to help with the fireballs.
Normally what I did when I started was if there's an operator that I wanted to build I would focus solely on building that operator, if there's another operator I want or need to build I would take care of them once I get my current build up to a sufficient point, especially if they were an operator that was incredibly resource intensive. As you've said, you're sorely lacking in healing power, so I would personally suggest getting your Silence to E2. What you have going right now is you're too busy trying to build multiple characters all at once, while doing so under a tight schedule. Unless you're willing to burn resources and money for the sake of content, I would highly suggest taking time to build your team to a sufficient level rather than push and struggle everyday on stages your team is currently too underpowered to take on.
Hey clay, just play and comment whatever you like. Find out yourself about the solution for clearing the stage. Honestly watching you struggling and commenting in such ridiculous way is the reason you're great.
Keep investing in the base because eventually it'll produce more unit leveling resources for you for free per day so it's the top priority honestly. Your next biggest priority is getting Wis'adel to E2. Wis'adel is one of those 6 stars that benefits MASSIVELY from reaching E2.Wis'adel gets a huge jump in survivability and firepower from her S3 skill and E2 talent that basically over doubles her usability. You are now deep enough in the story that E1 units start falling off. Since you already got Amiya for healing you now need an E2 defender so that you can stonewall enemies you can't kill fast enough without straining your healer severely due to lack of defense. Either Gummy or Cuora will work as cost effective defense picks that you can raise at mid priority. While gummy's defense isn't as good she heals and cuora is super thick defense for stonewalling physical damage.
If you are interested in Ifrit i highly recommend checking out content creator called Yii. He has reviews/guides for many operators and his video on Ifrit is amazing. If nothing else, you will get an idea about how to use her and what she is capable of before you decide to build her. She is a 6 star operator and thus very expensive to build. Trust me, you dont wanna pour a kidney's worth of resources into a 6 star operator blindly
Honestly, you are ignoring two key aspects of arknights. Your operators aren't being deployed fast enough. Your Eclaygen has 1 vanguard, and she doesn't even generate DP. So you have 4 operators out by the time the dragon spawns, which is 6 under your maximum. If you had a DP generator, and charged thorns on the flames, and put amiya on a tile to hit the dragon (like 2 to the left), then put both healers (silence and hibiscus) out to heal thorns while being far enough apart not to trigger lightning, this is 100% doable. Amiya can heal herself to self sustain on the dragon, also baiting a whole lightning, and the healers bait the other two. Add some extra helidrop as you see fit.
7:32 as a Veteran, that's my problem as well. They're so damn inconsistent whether they're gonna fill up the whole dialogue box or just skip the dialogue entirely like bruh
Your team is mostly setup just a matter of getting them up now. Only thing I haven't registered you having is a aoe medic which is helpful for some stages (but silence's drone can work towards it a while). Progress as you want but yeah.. make you sure do Annihilation (till the cap it shows you per week) its giving you pull currency weekly afterall.
If you are really having a hard time with this boss just look for a Kirin R Yato maxed out with 3rd skill (Middair Spinning Blade Dance) as support, just look for showcases against Sui-Xiang (that dragon) if you don't believe me. The rest is just using actual medics while waiting for Yato redeploy time (she is fast)
You should focus more on the functions over the characters, like you don't need ethan there, ethan is there because he gives AoE slow, you can use any other to do the same, focus on what are the character doing and not in which characters are
Annihilation is farmable pulls, i dont care how much sanity it takes. Also, first time clearing it gives you a shitload of the resources you keep saying you dont have, just do it.
Just to help you to understand who you need to upgrade, use them as support by asking someone. Personally, I recommend using Wis'adel S3 from support, you'll see how busted is that E2
There are over 300 operators in the game and every level is designed to be beaten with only 4*s. Play the way that's fun, the game ain't going anywhere. Edit: The "Entwined at Elite 2" thing was just a misreading on your part. The "at Elite 2" part had several arrows pointing up, showing that it can be upgraded with elite 2.
7:00 check frostsbyte's chapter summery, I think he stopped doing it last year. huffing copium for ch13, babel and ch14 xD -probably should read them myself-
Welcome to the toxic positivity Arknights community experience, everyone talks to you as if you were a veteran and know everything. "Asbestos is an amazing unit! You should waste tons of resources on her extremely niche ass in the early game!"
Who tf is telling him to raise Asbestos, lol. All of the operators they’ve been telling him to build are literally the important ones like Ethan and W alter. The only people telling him to build useless operators like Frostleaf or Asbestos are either trolls or people with them as their waifu.
@JamesP7 Go back to the video when he pulled Asbestos, comments were telling him that she's great and that he should E2 her "fuck the meta, use who you want"
@@Kyle81290 Well, they’re not wrong. It’s one thing to say “build this character if you like her” which is what they were telling him. That’s completely different from lying about a mid operator being excellent. The people telling him to build Ethan and W alter aren’t lying, they really are units worth building. And I’m pretty sure she actually _was_ “great” whenever people were recommending her, because Clay was struggling with hordes of enemies rushing him for a time. But as his experience and available operators increases, the operators “great” for him shifts.
6:48 20-30 min recap? idk any that is specifically for a chapter but the closest I got is bionicfactory1's "arknights story badly explained video". For event stories he got some covered but they're more 30-50 minutes.
You keep saying you need stronger healers, but that’s not your issue… the boss targets 3 ranged units so you need to use multi-target medics and healing defenders instead. You actualky don’t need a lot of DPS for the stage, so it would actually be smarter to bring either Ejya alter to heal or Nightingale for RES increase and multi-target healing.
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In your invitation to wine setup try putting Silence out first instead of Amiya as Medic Amiya requires enemies to hit in order to heal and when the dragon spawns there are no enemies for her to hit so no healing.
As for building operators, focus on just 1 or 2 at the same time and make sure that you enjoy using them. Remember, regardless of what anyone says, waifu is always meta.
I was trying to show people that my medics in general are not strong enough. But people are latching onto the fact that I put Amiya out. I tried all 5 of my medics, they cannot out heal the damage.
@@ClayChoShow It's alright. This is just one stage of one event. It is the last stage you need to get kroos's potentials, but honestly if you're unable to do it even with a guide then there's no reason to focus on it right now. I've had to leave events uncleared for weeks or months then go back with stronger units.
@@ClayChoShow well, arknights isnt game where you need stat bombs, you can make up by proper setup and strategy, you placed 3 healers there, amiya couldnt hit therefore she didnt heal, hence you wasted DP for her while you could place the other healers first to use their skills when neccessary, another thing you can do is dmg baiting, good luck
as a proof of concept someone cleared the dragon stage with E0 operators only
@@ClayChoShow They are strong enough, you just dont know the subclasses so you grab whatever. Example is why even bring Amiya Healer to that stage since she's an incantation medic?
@@ClayChoShow u need to build at least 1 AOE Medic, and dont use amiya medic (u can't read)
btw i really enjoy your video(it feels nostalgic)
keep it up
I think veteran players tend to forget how difficult it is for a newer account to build multiple characters because of how resource intensive it is, I've been playing for 10 months already and if it weren't for the fact that I completely drained IS out of resources I'd still be struggling.
Also I think people are just excited to see you try out the units they like, because it either worked out for them when they were in your position or just because they like them, like when I mentioned Penance (she's one of my favorite operators in the game but yeah not at all required for clearing content, I just love her kit).
Don't sweat it though, I think you're doing pretty great, all jokes aside. Go at your own pace.
Yup, newbie impossible to get those resources quickly
Especially new material who unlocked in late chapter + the time of grinding
The only helpers are the event with lots of resources (except the mini-event, less resources to get)
Classic situation of "TOO MANY COOKS SPOIL THE BROTH"
Oh also the wiki is right, Ethan can bind at E1 but the talent is improved at E2, the little icon the game shows you is meant to represent that (The E2 icon with 2 small arrows pointing up). If a talent is locked behind E2 it will straight up show it grayed out and you can't see what it does, but I think only applies to 6 stars.
Play at your own pace, most important thing is that you're still having fun.
all fun and games until u only farm rocks
Don't forget to e5 wisadel to use her S6
n lvl 500
omg that's my thorns you took from support!!! to be honest, when you follow guides, you don't need the carry six star to be the exact same level as the six star in the guide video. often when you use them, the more important thing is the masteries (or the module if the op is the kind of op that needs module to function, ie. zuo le or lin). a lot of early game guides use blaze, thorns, surtr or silverash and around E2L60 is fine for them, the more important thing is their skill masteries. thorns' module improves his performance immensely and mine is max module, so it should be more than enough to compensate for the gap in stats from level 60 to 90.
also levelling to E2 max just isn't worth it most of the time, since it's a resource drain but you get diminishing returns. the only reason why you see a lot of E2 max support units is most people put up their favorite/best units that they've maxed out, or they're a old player with lots of resources to spare.
but don't feel bad about not being able to do a stage. the early game was relatively recent for me since i only started playing this march, and honestly there were a TON of stages i was stuck on and malded over for weeks. i feel like a lot of people who consume AK content are veterans at like level 120, and they don't really remember how gruelling the early game experience can be. you have so many units it's overwhelming, and you want to build a lot of them, but you only have so many resources. AK is also a game that encourages building a variety of units rather than one strong unit, so you can't just dump resources into one unit and expect it to carry you through the game. the base being somewhat complicated and the alternating openings of resource stages only make it even worse to farm and build as a new player.
so, like i said, there will always be stages you can't beat for a period of time. i was stuck on 9-12 for like, over a month, to the point where i named my squad 9-12 because i was trying and failing that stage so often i needed that particular team configuration permanently saved. in these cases, all you can do is just level your team. but it's totally normal.
can confirm, year 1 player here, my account isn't level 120 yet because I take regular 3/4ths year breaks and I can comfortably clear most things. The ones that get their accounts to level 120 are usually the ones that, even if they didn't play everyday, never took a break longer than 3 months in all the years they've been playing. I remember the 3rd annihilation map (Lungmen Central) used to be a real account test in the last 30 enemies where the autorun would occasionally break until they gave us auto-cleared annihilation tickets because the auto-deploy fucked something at the last second forcing you to do the whole thing manually again.
The ones at level 120 have resources stacked and when your account gets to a certain point (mine's like level 106, but it's been that way since I hit level 90s way back), you don't really need to raise that many operators unless you want to use them so their resources just stack on top of themselves so when they get a 6 star they want they can usually E2L60 them on the spot. Especially with exp tickets and LMD, if their base is built up (which it is for most people) raising characters sparingly means that when you decide to raise something they just automatically level them and the only limitation is the trust farming for modules and the time consumed by training masteries. Even those things can be ignored since putting someone as base assistant also greatly increases the trust you get for a character in a day
A nice excuse to say that you neglect your thorns and he's underleveled)))
@@jeownek ???? sorry that I’m not a year one player and don’t have excess resources?? lmfao (cant tell if this is joking or not)
@@i2krhtd I'm joking but I'm perfectionist so I level everyone to lvl 90 when I'm able to, it's so frustrating to see not maxrd out something same goes for pots which I can't control and it freaks me out
7:58 that placement is chef's kiss, didnt expect to be that effective
Extra note: ifrit Skill 2 is best at do boom booms
You can always trust the game as it always displays correct and relevant information. If it shows Ethan has Entwined then it means he does.
Elite 2 tends to improve talents and traits, that's why he has a mention of it in blue next to it.
If you want to know what exactly promoting an operator does you have to click promote, then from that screen you can click "details", its hard to miss as it's right next to the summary.
Fun fact: Without any enemies in range to hit, Amiya’s healing output becomes as strong as your ability to read.
It’s ClayYover! He ain’t beating the allegations. A true EN player he is, indeed.
Hey Clay. Make sure you build your favorite operators and just have fun with the game.
7:49 funnily enough, it does do that normally, but for some reason when it’s highlighting something on the screen it doesn’t work. From what I’ve heard the glitch has been around since the beginning, and they just never fixed it. But it’s definitely infuriating
it further contributes to people not reading
6:50 "I need a recap"
Perfect! The anime IS the recap!
The E2 on Ethan’s entwined if you look closer has two up arrows on it. So what it’s trying to say is it upgrades at E2
If you want to see that yourself, if you click on “Promote” you can see a preview of what he gets at the next level, and that’s how you know for sure.
Arknights story summarised: Old civilization made rock cancer that accidentally caused animals to repeat human history with rock cancer magic.
Having no AOE medics definitely makes the Sui boss fight harder too
This wouldve been avoided if he learnt the subclasses instead of grabbing whatever
W has really grown very fond of you, lol
"I don't have time to watch the snory..."
that was waaaaay funnier than it should have been
With Ethan, S2 is usually his best skill as it helps a lot with the bind and damage is decent, S1 is good for enemies like Invitation to Wine, where the important thing is amount of hits rather than damage
Two steps forward 4 steps back type shit
Love your stuff man, been watching since the beginning of your arknights series
Quick story recap:
-Doctor is woken up without memories
-people have rock cancer and there's racism for it
-you will cure it
-terrorists that want rights for rock cancer victims try to kill everyone
-Doctor made rock cancer
-Kallywally is your daughter
-Saber from Fate does not want to be king
-Saber from Fate now wants to be king
-use your two weekly event unlocks
People forget that some mats are locked behind later story chapters.
9:02 Arknights is worded pretty confusingly. What "at Elite 2" means, is that he will get that effect *at Elite 2.* It's telling you what the talent will look like once you E2.
Yo it's gummy's pet!
1:17 Medic Amiya (incantation medic subclass) only heals when she hits enemies unlike hibiscus or gravel (other medic classes)
Seeing "that" stage at the end of the video gave me flashbacks.
One of the best pieces of advice I've ever gotten was to learn how to disregard advice. Obviously, there are certain operators and strategies that'll essentially play the game for you, but what makes this game so good is that there is no _right_ way of playing it. All us vets did the same thing you're doing - use our brains, then use brute force, go back to using our brains, then inevitably consult Kysotin Sensei. It's just the circle of life.
Tl;dr Don't worry about building "bad" or "wrong" operators. All operators are viable to some extent. Unless you're playing for Medal sets, just enjoy the game and build who ever looks the coolest.
Never forget - waifu > meta.
Annihilation is weekly - You MUST do it
Build Base - so you don't have to FARM exp and money - Base gives money and exp, just need to E1 some 4* - E1 4* are cheap
And Clay just got to the same point my level 74 ass is in the story. I might be a litle lazy ngl.
About Ethan he already have his bind at E1, his S2 is more usefull if you want him to bind more that what you would use more in general, his S1 tho is also very usefull but against particular gimmick like thing who require several hit like you had to for invitation to wine thanks to the DOT.
Tldr : S1 when you want afk or you need him against multi hit gimmick
S2 : When you want to stall with him
Fully upgrade (S2M3 and max module) bro become a beast and get 84% chance of bind.
1:18 although the tactics are great, you didn't use the character to the maximum potential, like amiya medic being just in the position like being a normal medic. She is incantation medic which heals operators in range 50% of atk when she attacks an enemy. And extra note, when you invest on base with a 2-5-2 layout being 2 Trading Post, 5 Factory, 2 Power Plant you can get good amount of LMD and EXP. Take your time, im just suggesting not forcing
Just wanting to chime in that the Base is a Highly controversial debate topic in the community. There is a war between the 2-5-2 people and the 2-4-3 people.
There are pros and cons to both, really just do whichever. I can't remember which is which, but one is better if you login 2 or more times a day and the other is better for once a day.
Although there is a war between 2-5-2 and 2-4-3, there is more explanation from the youtuber PeterYR to learn more about it. I'm aware that this will make more controversial between both sides, but please check and do some calculations first.
@@ZensherxD Exactly this. Sorry, I was not trying to ignite a debate, simply warning that portions of the community can be a bit touchy about base specifically.
das ok u fine im not mad
Not me sitting here with my 1-5-3 base.
Sorry about the influx of tips. I can understand getting flustered by all the stuff to do.
Chapter 7 is a tough one I can attest. All I'll say is I'm glad you are trying to hear everyone out. Whoever you feel helps you out I would say to keep them on your squad. I like having men on my team and recently got a guy named Broca. For fun and giggles if you have time, can you look at his skin please?
Otherwise have a good day and great job getting through the chapters. ^-^
I have three accounts. One CN, One Global P2W, and one Global F2P.
Here are some tips from Arknights Vet:
Completely build one Beat-stick Op - E2 LVL 90, and M3 (M Stands for Mastery, which is trained in the base at the Training Room) her S3. It will take a lot of resources, but it will help immensely for your entire career. I recommend Wis'adel since you have her.
You need to READ! FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, READ THE ENEMY INFO ON THE STAGE SELECT SCREEN!
Have at least one AOE Healer, like Perfumer, and one Single Target Healer, Like Warfarin/Gaviel, at E2. You don't need to get them to level 90. E2 level 1 is fine.
That's it. Everything else you can take your time with.
Clay is tight down there
Stop. Building. New. Operators. You were set the moment you got mountain.
If u want to grind mats without sanity theres also integrated strategies, which is why the hivemind keeps suggesting it
this is the really weird and funny problem with new players, there's an overwhelming amount stuff to do, but EVERYTHING needs sanity (although you could easily use originite prime). when the game first launched globally, there was a bunch of free time in between events (plus a bunch of side events giving sanity potions), without any of them being saved in intermezzi or side story.
although it's possible to beat harder stages with e1 ops, it's pretty recommended to do it with e2. build who you want and whoever you think will be good.
also the fact he has medic amiya yet being in ch7 is funny.
1:19 ok so the problem there is that you're using Medimiya and she's an Incantation Medic, and they only heal by attacking enemies, so since nothing's in range she does nothing (but she has passive global heals when either skill is active)
I can’t wait to see what his reaction will be to silence alter being free in the new event
Ethan was my first E2 and carried me through through most of the early game. I still use him sometimes even now that I have multiple built 6* characters, because he eventually gets to be that good. I'd recommend just borrowing a built Ethan (I know it's weird to borrow a 4^ as a support) and seeing for yourself how strong he is. As opposed to the half dozen 5* and 6* units everybody tells you to build, Ethan would be a fraction of the cost. Dr. Silvergun is the content creator who specifically only uses 4* units. On his 4* tier lists, Ethan gets his own special tier at the very top that's just labeled "You know who".
Here's my quick rundown on how Ethan works and why building him makes him exponentially stronger and worthwhile:
At E1: His bind ability is kinda garbage. He attacks every 3.5s but the bind only lasts for 2s so there's a big gap even when it does work. He only binds 25% of the time though, so most enemies don't ever get bound at all. When you turn on his S2 it increases the bind chance to 62.5% which is better but still not reliable.
At E2: The bind duration improves to 3s. This is a substantial improvement. You can also Mastery his S2 which makes the bind go up to 75% of the time and increases how long the skill lasts to 30s. He can now slow down swarms of enemies for at least half a minute (and the skill costs only 25 SP, which means it comes back up about as fast as Myrtle's, which is very quick).
With Module: This is Ethan in his final form, where his ability now rivals that of many 6* units. He now passively slows all enemies in his range by 20%. His bind now lasts a full 3.5s, which coincidentally is exactly how fast he attacks. He now can permanently stop enemies from moving at all because he rebinds them the exact moment the previous bind wears off. His bind chance also improves, now up to 83% with his S2 active. So his bind now applies 5/6th of the time, no longer has any gap where enemies can move at all, and even in the rare cases they resist they're still 20% slowed, and they typically just get bound again the next time he attacks.
Ethan can get to the point where he can solo entire groups of enemies in a huge area for a half minute because the yo-yo does a surprising amount of damage, and he doesn't get attacked because he doesn't block, and if ranged units shoot at him he dodges 50% of all hits. His range is large enough that some maps you can have him hitting multiple lanes at the same time. Against big enemies he can hold them in place for half a minute while your team shoots them to death. There are very few situations where Ethan isn't useful to have out at any point in the game.
His S1 is only useful in cases where a DoT is good, such as Invitation to Weenay where it murders the furniture and fire thingies that ignore damage. The damage it deals is very small. The ATK bonus you get from his S2 does more extra damage in a single hit than the DoT deals in total.
3:54 Malcom in the Middle truly was a great show.
so if you seen the logo for entwined at elite 2, it has promotion logo which mean it can be improved on e2, cause in AK they dont tell you what you can unlock in the basic character menu its all what you already got, it will tell you on the promotion menu
Hey do IS(dont fucking do it, it costs sanity and not the in game one), hey do under tides(costs sanity but hey you gain a hunter for free you only need to unlock and play until stage 4 or 5), hey do dailies, do weeklies, and mostly important do be Happy.
I finally beat Mirror container today in Nikke.
9:00 the symbol is actually for improvement. He has the trait at e1 and could be improve at e2. If you get into the 'upgrade to E2' you would see what improves.
Now that I think of it, it kinda makes sense why you dont read often when the comments just keep flooding you with advice and expecting them to work as intended but often times Arknights is a situational games so advice can flactuate as situations change. Yes Wisadel, Ling, Degen are bust ops but they have their use cases.
My only advice for now is to read the "Traits" portion when in an Operator's page. Vey important info like deals AoE damage, 50% Dodge, Cannot be healed, etc. Very obvious, I know but from my experience, even as a vet, you often get showered with mechanics that you forget that there are operators with built in mechanics made to trivialize certain stages, enemies and/or mechanics.
My friend recently started playing arknights again on a new account, and I had to guide him for awhile as a veteran, regarding things to do and what not to do, and in just 2 months he's already doing some amazing things.
Every new dokutah should play at their own pace, and take things slowly as everything is very limited when you start early.
Couple nitpicks:
1:18 incantation medics NEED ENEMIES in range
4:37 you could have retreated cuora because spot would’ve blocked
9:43 just good luck 👍
i started the game 8 months ago and yea not being able to clear stages, looking for guides and not having half of the operators used can be very frustrating. But the good thing is that a lot of them just stays there for you to clear when your account is stronger. I too was stuck at this very stage on the begining, and got my clear a few days ago
(i honestly forgot it existed until i saw you commenting in one of the videos that you wanted to clear this event lmao). Good thing is that Kroos Alt is strong even without pots, so you can use her without any worries just like i did.
Funny thing is that W used to hate our guts but time can heal old wounds xD
The anime starts from the beginning so you dont have to worry about it
4:28 Logos S1 Moment. Using Myrtle is great, she's basically the best vanguard in the game for DP generation. If you're having issues with healing, I suggest trying to pick up a Perfumer through recruitment, she's a 4 star multi-target medic who also gets a talent that applies a global health regeneration, which also ignores the restrictions of enmity operators such as Juggernaut class characters, as well as things like Wis'Adels turrets (When you get Wis to E2) Who aren't able to be healed by allies. (I'm late game and still run perfumer because I'm a long time Mudrock enjoyer, and she's also just a fantastic medic that benefits from the fact 4 stars are very cheap and easy to build)
Your Ethan's bind will get buffed at E2, but he has it at E1 otherwise S2 be a dead skill till E2. S2 is the better option because the bind allows your other units to beat on the poor suckers he locks down for 2 seconds longer, which is better than 3 ticks of 60 arts damage from his passive S1. Ethan can also pretty much perma-CC lock enemies who enter his nono square once you get him properly built.
I highly recommend doing material missions like for LMD, EXP items, and chips. I personally didn't do much of the story until chapter 14 dropped, and instead I was grinding the bejesus out of those promotion material missions, and now I have a lot of units either really well built, or about halfway there, while I'm doing the dumb idea of building like 5 6 stars at the same time to E2. I find it to be a better use of sanity, as those items from the missions are guaranteed to drop, and will always be universally useful for building every operator in the game (Not chips though, those are for specific classes only and can only be swapped over to 1 specific different variety of chip at a loss.)
If you find a stage you don't mind not-autoing, consider borrowing an Ambriel for EP.7, she kinda trivialises this episode with her S2 (global range and aims at the lowest DEF target, which is usually the Heralds)
9:00 if you dont have the talent, it is disabled and wouldn't show any text. The wiki is right. Ethan also binds several dozen times during the video.
i mean the building the base passively gives you the exp and money so its the one true thing people should level
1:46 : to be really fair, whatever the others say, building your base is ABSOLUTELY your top priority: your base gives you passive LMD and battle record income in a way that you'll never have to farm LMD / battle records stages ever again. It's quite a long thing to do (need to farm the base materials a bit) but it's 100% worth it, even wisadel isn't as important to build than your base. You mention you spend sanity to get battle records for example: again do not do that, ever. The base is where it's at. It's more important than building wisadel, more important than to build any character, more important than annihilation, more important than progressing the story, more important than literally everything else.
8:20 : depends on the stage, Ethan's S1 shines against enemies that need hit to get killed rather than damage (for example in invitation to WEENAY) or in stages where you need hits to activate specific devices rather than big damage (e.g chapter 14), while his S2 is better everywhere else but requires his module and masteries. As long as he's not fully built (which, again, you don't need to if you don't want to, build whoever the f you want but BUILD YOUR BASE FIRST PLEASE TRUST ME) then his S1 is probably better.
7:50 THIS!!!! Idk why AK doing this, I always accidentally skipped tutorial/dialog because of this. Let's hope there will be new QoL update soon
Normal rate for player to get their first E2 is around Ch.6-8 ONLY IF they sacrifice some character builds. The only way around to bypass this is to max level all 3-stars operators and rush the entire resource stages - which is less stressful today thanks to the new autorepeat feature.
That way you'll have necessary amount of resources without relying a lot to daily freebies or your newly build base.
ifrit is usually worth if you can hit multiple lanes or a very long lane.
the 1-tile ifrit is mostly used for her res shred in a debuff team composition that nukes strong bosses with massive arts damage from surtr and eyjafjalla
Unironically, ethan is one of the best units for 7-6 for a player with a newer account. His AoE and bind are a lifesaver
For Ethan, if you go on his operator page, click Promote, regardless if you have the materials or not, it will tell you what he gains from E2 (in this case improved talent)
6:51 it's not subway surfers but it the first anime episode abridged (2x speed it if you need
ruclips.net/video/9M7bdxJnIHc/видео.htmlsi=DF9mAfxabmIZsobz
Also if your looking for a hard carry, thorns was a good "dps" 2 years ago
The anime is a good recap for the early chapters, def recommended. Has good voice acting and animation for effects.
9:40 Oh you're gonna be stuck on that level for a while that is a giant wall of a stage.
Up Perfumer, she's a multi target medic, she's better to use when you fight the dragon
Anyway, that "E2" of Ethan is just upgrade talent. Not like some Ops, who need E2 to unlock the talent
*Family Guy Funny Moments **#24368*
Arknights 100% accurate Ch.1-14 Speedrun Recap, go!
Ch.1-3: Amnesia Doktor wakes up to anthropomorphic planet where some people have rock cancer that makes them EXPLODE.
Ch.4-6: Some of those rock-cancer patients don't like the [insert literally every type of -ial] oppression, so a terriost group steals a nuclear powerplant (it's on wheels) and tries to ram it into Chinatown.
Ch.7-9: You murder a war veteran who was grieving for his daughter (that you killed), a necromancer turns himself into a dragon, and by God, the devil himself decided to possess a thick, Russian, anime woman.
Ch.10-11 The United Kingdom sucks.
Ch.12-14 The devil himself (NOT the one in ch.7-9) raises a Hell army, the rock-cancer starts literally eating people and your hologram waifu is the cause.
*GTA Car Falling Down Multicolor Ramp*
*Railroad Graffiti Teen running from Cop*
Perfect. Now if only I could read. 🤣
One thing I noticed that is recommended in IW-9 is Elite 2 LVL 20. So the recommended thing would be to continue in the story, but realizing that some of the story levels are asking for Elite 2, then it's better to start focusing on 4-star operators, since, compared to 5-star and especially 6-star, they are easier, and there are also some that can even surpass 5-star, like Gummy. I have Shu, but I really recommend Gummy because of her healing and not the need for allies with half health. However, her best skill is the first one, at least the one I use the most. And one interesting thing, Myrtle's module is good, because she gives an ally who is in front of her (the direction of the attack to the ally) she gives him +1 blockable enemies. Another 4-star recommended and also easy to get is the Courier, with his second skill he gains 80% defense (in M3), in S7 he gets 50%, and immediately gains 3 DP + 8 as the skill progresses. I apologize for any possible English mistakes as I am using a translator, and I hope I was able to help in some way. And good luck!
Make sure you have sanity!
You can see the upgrades in the promote window
If you increase Ethan enough he can just keep people stuck in place for 30 seconds per skill activation thus becoming the ultimate stall machine. Also the symbol next to entwined means it is UPGRADED at Elite 2 (which causes the bind chance to increase). In the talent is *grey* it means you don't have it yet.
The in-game dialogue boxes are horrible. Certain boxes display the full text when clicked but others skip the whole thing and I don't think it's consistent either
"I'll build my characters when I'm all caught up on the story." If, by some miracle, he survives 7-18, he ain't finishing Episode 8. Ain't gonna say anything else cuz spoilers.
Side note: I don't think many people will mind if you take your time farming and building, while posting updates. It is part of the game, after all.
Nah, I'd win.
@@ClayChoShow Sure, Jan 😂
the blue text with an E2 icon on Ethan's talent means "upgraded at Elite 2". The white talent title highlight thing indicates that it's unlocked. So you do have it unlocked.
Ah yeah, a lot of the veterans of the game have more resources for leveling up and upgrading than they know what to do with, so for them deciding to E2 a character they got will barely dent them. Many of them have also probably forgotten the grindiness of the early game from when they hadn't built their base yet from how long ago it was for them. They really love helping out the newbies, but I'd imagine that they can be a bit overbearing for these things so just do them at your own pace. The base can actually save you on sanity consumption because even with my 2-4-3 (not ideal for accumulating resources when you're raising characters but I'm not always raising characters anyway) set-up, a fully upgraded base can net you at least 30K LMD a day even if it isn't min-maxed and also accumulate a lot of yellow grade EXP tickets. I also have not needed to run EXP supply tickets because of my base. I think that since the supply stages are selectively open, to simply prioritize the base building materials when it's open but when it's not open, just raise what you think you need to raise more of at your own pace whether it's a tankier tank, more healing or more damage.
Ah right... Medic Amiya is good but uh... she can't heal if she can't attack anything ^^; her specific medic archetype is known for their healing being proportional to how much damage they dealt to an enemy they hit. activating her skill can give global regen to some extent
Turns out you can clear the Dragon boss with just Support Mlynar, min 3 Medics (max Hibiscus, max Ansel, Elite 1 lv 60 Perfumer), a Spot, and Ethan. Though need some redeployments and timings shenanigans. Ofc some form of other DPS/AoE to help with the fireballs.
1:16 Amiya isn't healing anything, she needs to attack an enemy to heal allies
Normally what I did when I started was if there's an operator that I wanted to build I would focus solely on building that operator, if there's another operator I want or need to build I would take care of them once I get my current build up to a sufficient point, especially if they were an operator that was incredibly resource intensive. As you've said, you're sorely lacking in healing power, so I would personally suggest getting your Silence to E2.
What you have going right now is you're too busy trying to build multiple characters all at once, while doing so under a tight schedule. Unless you're willing to burn resources and money for the sake of content, I would highly suggest taking time to build your team to a sufficient level rather than push and struggle everyday on stages your team is currently too underpowered to take on.
Hey clay, just play and comment whatever you like. Find out yourself about the solution for clearing the stage. Honestly watching you struggling and commenting in such ridiculous way is the reason you're great.
Keep investing in the base because eventually it'll produce more unit leveling resources for you for free per day so it's the top priority honestly. Your next biggest priority is getting Wis'adel to E2. Wis'adel is one of those 6 stars that benefits MASSIVELY from reaching E2.Wis'adel gets a huge jump in survivability and firepower from her S3 skill and E2 talent that basically over doubles her usability.
You are now deep enough in the story that E1 units start falling off. Since you already got Amiya for healing you now need an E2 defender so that you can stonewall enemies you can't kill fast enough without straining your healer severely due to lack of defense. Either Gummy or Cuora will work as cost effective defense picks that you can raise at mid priority. While gummy's defense isn't as good she heals and cuora is super thick defense for stonewalling physical damage.
If you are interested in Ifrit i highly recommend checking out content creator called Yii. He has reviews/guides for many operators and his video on Ifrit is amazing. If nothing else, you will get an idea about how to use her and what she is capable of before you decide to build her. She is a 6 star operator and thus very expensive to build. Trust me, you dont wanna pour a kidney's worth of resources into a 6 star operator blindly
7:15 Are you asking for a whole lord of the rings trilogy with subways surfers on the bottom because thats probably how long the summary is gonna be.
Honestly, you are ignoring two key aspects of arknights. Your operators aren't being deployed fast enough. Your Eclaygen has 1 vanguard, and she doesn't even generate DP. So you have 4 operators out by the time the dragon spawns, which is 6 under your maximum. If you had a DP generator, and charged thorns on the flames, and put amiya on a tile to hit the dragon (like 2 to the left), then put both healers (silence and hibiscus) out to heal thorns while being far enough apart not to trigger lightning, this is 100% doable. Amiya can heal herself to self sustain on the dragon, also baiting a whole lightning, and the healers bait the other two. Add some extra helidrop as you see fit.
7:32 as a Veteran, that's my problem as well. They're so damn inconsistent whether they're gonna fill up the whole dialogue box or just skip the dialogue entirely like bruh
Your team is mostly setup just a matter of getting them up now. Only thing I haven't registered you having is a aoe medic which is helpful for some stages (but silence's drone can work towards it a while). Progress as you want but yeah.. make you sure do Annihilation (till the cap it shows you per week) its giving you pull currency weekly afterall.
If you are really having a hard time with this boss just look for a Kirin R Yato maxed out with 3rd skill (Middair Spinning Blade Dance) as support, just look for showcases against Sui-Xiang (that dragon) if you don't believe me. The rest is just using actual medics while waiting for Yato redeploy time (she is fast)
If you build your base it give you passive EXP and LMD farm so you don't need to farm it with sanity.
You should focus more on the functions over the characters, like you don't need ethan there, ethan is there because he gives AoE slow, you can use any other to do the same, focus on what are the character doing and not in which characters are
Annihilation is farmable pulls, i dont care how much sanity it takes.
Also, first time clearing it gives you a shitload of the resources you keep saying you dont have, just do it.
My man patriot gonna humble bro
Just to help you to understand who you need to upgrade, use them as support by asking someone.
Personally, I recommend using Wis'adel S3 from support, you'll see how busted is that E2
bro even me still struggling to build operator, there's no end to it, play at your own pace man relax
Arknights is a game that requires time. Don't stress it, just make sure to use all of your sanity daily and you'll get there 🤝
Anime’s story is actually shorter than the game so it’s more accessible for story
use Kirin R Yato (Yato alter) skill 3 as support. it 3 shot the boss cause the boss take so much space.
Pioneer vanguards crying in the corner rn
4:30 How? Because Logo S1 has elder dragon effect.
There are over 300 operators in the game and every level is designed to be beaten with only 4*s. Play the way that's fun, the game ain't going anywhere.
Edit: The "Entwined at Elite 2" thing was just a misreading on your part. The "at Elite 2" part had several arrows pointing up, showing that it can be upgraded with elite 2.
7:00 check frostsbyte's chapter summery, I think he stopped doing it last year.
huffing copium for ch13, babel and ch14 xD -probably should read them myself-
Welcome to the toxic positivity Arknights community experience, everyone talks to you as if you were a veteran and know everything.
"Asbestos is an amazing unit! You should waste tons of resources on her extremely niche ass in the early game!"
Who tf is telling him to raise Asbestos, lol. All of the operators they’ve been telling him to build are literally the important ones like Ethan and W alter. The only people telling him to build useless operators like Frostleaf or Asbestos are either trolls or people with them as their waifu.
@JamesP7 Go back to the video when he pulled Asbestos, comments were telling him that she's great and that he should E2 her "fuck the meta, use who you want"
@@Kyle81290 Well, they’re not wrong. It’s one thing to say “build this character if you like her” which is what they were telling him. That’s completely different from lying about a mid operator being excellent. The people telling him to build Ethan and W alter aren’t lying, they really are units worth building. And I’m pretty sure she actually _was_ “great” whenever people were recommending her, because Clay was struggling with hordes of enemies rushing him for a time. But as his experience and available operators increases, the operators “great” for him shifts.
@@JamesP7 Toxic positivity rigth there. Asbestos is ass at any point of the game.
@@Kyle81290 You feeling that way shouldn’t impede Clay from building who he wants to. You’re the real toxic one for saying he isn’t allowed to.
Have you bought the level up packs on the shop? The ones that can be bought by primes they can really help your account e2 your main operators 😊
6:48 20-30 min recap? idk any that is specifically for a chapter but the closest I got is bionicfactory1's "arknights story badly explained video". For event stories he got some covered but they're more 30-50 minutes.
Use Reed in the medic support unit she have the heals you need and you dont need thorns
You keep saying you need stronger healers, but that’s not your issue… the boss targets 3 ranged units so you need to use multi-target medics and healing defenders instead. You actualky don’t need a lot of DPS for the stage, so it would actually be smarter to bring either Ejya alter to heal or Nightingale for RES increase and multi-target healing.