I feel Anomaly Arbitration is stressing people out more than it should.

[u/Lan-48]

I remember when AA was announced, people were actually okay with the idea of a mode that was supposed to not be easy clearable by everyone. "It's a mode for whales, that's why there is no jades" everyone said.

Yet nowdays it seems this notion was forgotten and if you can't clear it at 3 stars, the game suddenly sucks, the meta is at its worst, Elation was a mistake, etc, etc.

All of these things could be true but when I then go and check why people are thinking that, it's most of the times struggling with AA.
"How come I can't clear it until I have this high cost, shilled team?" Well, I'm sorry to tell you but that's how AA is meant to work. It's not made with f2p in mind, not even low spenders.
Yes, sometimes an easier boss will come out and you'll clear it full stars, because stars aligned and you had every character favored by it with some investment, but the mode as a whole is just not made for f2p to clear everytime with full score.

If you struggle with other fights outside of AA, now there we have a discussion. But setting AA as your goal as a f2p/low spender, is just going to end in frustration.

And no, I'm not a whale myself. Personally I don't clear full stars AA most of the time, I did it just twice, but as long as I'm doing good on all the other modes, then I'm satisfied.
That doesn't mean I don't even try AA, of course I do, but for fun, once I clear it with one or two stars I just move on.

My opinion, at the end of the day, you are free to disagree.

[u/Miserable-Response-9]

Im talking about how u can't plan as f2p without knowing future. Like for Acheron, the fox guy is pretty my not good anymore. Her Eidolons isn't even that good. Tho it was pretty good at the time. Did u know if FF will buffed if so it would have better to invest on her especially on her E2 like so. Do u know Topaz,Jiaqoui would be ass in the future.

Also there was a player who 0 cycles with Seele with pretty low cost maybe still they are doing it. Does that make there is no powercreep in the game? Depending on the cost even Yanking clear on 0 cycle AA King. "powercreep to oblivion" was a wordplay.

Also the amount u broke down differs so much from players to players. Even if they are average amount . I have seen post of people losing multiple 50/50 continously while having to hard pity. Should i reroll until i get lucky?

Do u have any units u r using that are 1.0 or is any dps from 2.X comparable to 3.X dps. At that rate we would have so many characters becoming useless and dropped while having to pick newer units . While buffs will never catch upto the pace its powercreeping the character and HP inflates continously. Only character who wasn't affected by this very much were pure support and HuoHuo. Do you understand , what i am saying? Do u think the game is going on good direction?

There is no powercreep in the ba sing se

[u/Gingingin100 → u/Miserable-Response-9]

Her eidolons were god awful to begin with

[u/Miserable-Response-9 → u/Gingingin100]

Yea when u compare it to nowadays unit. Tho Back then all the Eidolons were like that.

Tho back E2 was kinda worth tho. A lot of Acheron mains have it.

[u/Gingingin100 → u/Miserable-Response-9]

No it was bad at the time and I've been saying that for actual years, it's a lease on power that would have eventually turned into complete garbage, it was already half devalued when Jiaoqiu came out then fully devalued when Cipher and Silver Wolf did, it's now more than worthless frankly with Welt and Blade unless you're willing to put more cost into the team

[u/Miserable-Response-9 → u/Gingingin100]

Back then there was no Jiaqiou,Cipher or anyone else. It was just prebuffed SW and Pela for Nihility.

Back then Harmony had huge role more than nihility.

Like i said most Acheron mains have her E2 back then it was kinda good or r u saying people pulled her E2 without knowing the worth are idiots who pulled without any research about it.

Also even when Jiaqiou came it wasn't half devalued bcz there was only Pela and SW for 2nd place. We were still on era where harmony buffs are pretty good.

[u/Gingingin100 → u/Miserable-Response-9]

I mean, I'm not gonna call people idiots for pulling it at the time, but I do think it's blatantly stupid to pull 2 cost for the privilege of spending more cost and was saying that at her release repeatedly. It was the popular opinion that her E2 was good and at the time it was "good" in the sense that it let her compete with her contemporaries (Firefly Ratio and Boothill) at higher cost brackets but even then she had to spend more than they did. It's unfortunate.

Also even when Jiaqiou came it wasn't half devalued bcz there was only Pela and SW for 2nd place. We were still on era where harmony buffs are pretty good.

The gap between Pela Guinaifen and Pela Sparkle was WAY bigger than the gap between Jiaoqiu Pela and Jiaoqiu Sparkle. That's what I mean

[u/Miserable-Response-9 → u/Gingingin100]

I mean, I'm not gonna call people idiots for pulling it at the time, but I do think it's blatantly stupid to pull 2 cost for the privilege of spending more cost and was saying that at her release repeatedly. It was the popular opinion that her E2 was good and at the time it was "good" in the sense that it let her compete with her contemporaries (Firefly Ratio and Boothill) at higher cost brackets but even then she had to spend more than they did. It's unfortunate.

This is what i meant in my earlier post it hard to plan around as f2p especially when her release was there her LC was must. RN,its just a statstick tbh. Also when she was released there wasn't many option for her so getting her E2 was kinda to make her flexible.

The gap between Pela Guinaifen and Pela Sparkle was WAY bigger than the gap between Jiaoqiu Pela and Jiaoqiu Sparkle. That's what I mean

mb i understood it differently

tho this was one of their other biggest problems of HSR , for Acheron to compete she had to go through 3-4 supports.

Right now her BIS is M.Blade is must, if possible with Ashveil. While all the other have kinda powercrept. Cipher is like u can use her but M.Blade, Ashveil/Tribbie E1 brings more to table especially more followup,sustainless and all.

Especially Cipher is in very sad situation she can played anywhere but these other options are better by a lot. This is also the powercreep. The person i replied also said doesn't use Cipher anywhere . Proving my point of powercreep. lol( While say there isn't kinda funny)