Thanks! I'm sort of hopeful I can get her but it's not 100%. If it comes to it I'll see what extra pulls I can get from the battle pass or just buying them, but I'm trying to avoid big spending this early. A little is OK.
Yeah, you'll also find they re-rolls banners often enough so even if you miss a character once you'll get more chances later (or get the next upgrade if they've been powercrept 🤦‍♂️). I wanted Black Swan but have done perfectly well with a lone Kafka and 4* friends heh. Earlier on I'd suggest to try to diversify your roster as some challenges that drop jades, vary in the types of teams that get boons one month to the next. For example, for memory of chaos challenges, one time they'll favour DoT teams, next time follow-up teams, then break teams etc. Having one very strong DoT team with both Kafka and Black Swan may help you net lesser overall than having one Kafka and maybe follow-up character like Topaz for example.

Saving to get light cones from Herta's store is a good idea but buy them in the order of the characters you own & use frequently that would benefit from them. Keep in mind that they are not necessarily superior to some 4*s. For example, I use a 4* one with my Kafka which is superior, thanks its effects, to the 5* Herta store one even though the latter has better stats on paper. As @Vincentdante mentioned, I think the best one from Herta's store is the destruction one as it works well with most of that bunch. Don't forget to get the bits from the store to superimpose the LCs as well, unless you really need another 5* light cone first.
For the star store I am at like 200 of the 600 I'd need for Bronyas LC but I think this also seems the best use for these?
I had started saving to get some of these LCs as well but have ended up not doing so as the ones I really wanted/needed I ended up getting naturally during my normal pulls anyway, and I've personally come to feel that the currency is better saved to get tickets to pull the more powerful limited characters/LCs instead. However, there are some that are excellent and more universal compared to their Herta counterparts, which you won't go wrong by pulling including Bronya's and Gepard's, depending on which of them you need more. Clara's is good too but better to get the Herta destruction one for effectively free instead.
 
I'd suggest to try to diversify your roster as some challenges that drop jades

Oh yeah 100% will look at that, I think I wanted to start with Kafka + BS combo first, and then branch out from there.

I really want an Acheron so if that re-runs I'd like to get one.

Otherwise it would just be trying to get some decent characters for other roles, along with good 4* ones to go with them. Will take a while I can see to be in a position to level up/use everyone so have to be a little choosy still.

Saving to get light cones from Herta's store is a good idea but buy them in the order of the characters you own & use frequently that would benefit from them. Keep in mind that they are not necessarily superior to some 4*s. For example,

I'm half considering just saving the herta currency for now in case they add new stuff to the store in the future.

I had started saving to get some of these LCs as well but have ended up not doing so as the ones I really wanted/needed I ended up getting naturally during my normal pulls anyway, and I've personally come to feel that the currency is better saved to get tickets to pull the more powerful limited characters/LCs instead.

Likewise on this I'll save towards the 600 I need for Bronya one but also could just pivot and get more pulls instead if necessary.
 
TB level 38 and up to 61/90 pulls needed for BS, so making good progress. After this milestone of 90 I'm going to stop giving real time updates on it haha. Just exciting to get 90 again and go on another casino run!

I've been focusing on side stuff this week as there is a lot of it, but will pick up main story again soon.

When was the last Acheron banner run? as you say might be able to grab her on a re-run, but assuming I can actually get BS within the 90 I'm going for, I'll need to carry on saving again.

Quite tempted to boost Asta up some as I have her at E4 now, and it doesn't seem impossible to get E6 on her as she appears on the Kafka/BS pulls quite often.
 
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TB level 38 and up to 61/90 pulls needed for BS, so making good progress. After this milestone of 90 I'm going to stop giving real time updates on it haha. Just exciting to get 90 again and go on another casino run!

I've been focusing on side stuff this week as there is a lot of it, but will pick up main story again soon.

When was the last Acheron banner run? as you say might be able to grab her on a re-run, but assuming I can actually get BS within the 90 I'm going for, I'll need to carry on saving again.

Quite tempted to boost Asta up some as I have her at E4 now, and it doesn't seem impossible to get E6 on her as she appears on the Kafka/BS pulls quite often.
Acheron was a few banners back so you'll hopefully have more than enough time to save up for when they eventually re-run her, especially as she is not on the next banner. Asta is a very good support and universal so if at e4 she'll certainly be useful if you build her
 
I've landed on Penacony and I am very close to TB 40, at 70/90 pulls for BS so nicely going up still. Levels are slowing down some though and I think it could start taking more time to get to say 50.

For Acheron could I accidentally get her on another debut banner or is it impossible until they do a re-run?

For Asta I'll see what sort of resources I have after I've hopefully gotten BS and levelled her up. I'll need to see what light cones I should use where as well mostly just using mine as stat sticks at the moment.
 
Thanks thought so, you can off-banner any debuted characters if you lose the 50/50 in SoC so I wasn't sure if they had that here as well.

So. Much. Stuff. To. Do! 🤣

Just when I feel like I'm getting through some of the missions and things, even more things pop up.

I've opened up dual team things a little now so looks like I need to boost some other characters. Hoping to do that after I get BS to see what I wind up with :)
 
Heh yeah it can really gobble up your time. But you're definitely running through it all of you're already in Penacony! Don't forget to track down the treasure chests in each new area and buy out the shops using the local currency to get extra jades

Got BS in another 80 pulls so 160 for both her and Kafka, very happy with that!

I had about 10 pulls left so just building the war chest now.

I really need to focus on getting gear and light cones that are worth enhancing, and also building out to sort of have two teams of 4 that can work for the dual team content.

As far as I can see for DoT based teams I really want a Ruan Mei or HuoHuo but case of seeing what comes up on banners. I'll save my pulls for now. Not a huge fan of HuoHuo in terms of design/character but Ruan Mei looks good!

I might post my characters up later if anyone fancies seeing who I should boost up. I got Asta E6 via dupes and had a few Luka/Moze dupes as well (but not enough to E6 any of them).
 
Got BS in another 80 pulls so 160 for both her and Kafka, very happy with that!
Congrats on your pulls, they will work great together.
I really need to focus on getting gear and light cones that are worth enhancing, and also building out to sort of have two teams of 4 that can work for the dual team content
I forgot to mention the 4* light cones you can get from the challenge quests' (like memory of chaos) store by grinding - the erudition one (seriousness of breakfast) is really good so worth getting copies of, including to superimpose. The newer abundance one (with Gallagher on the front) is also excellent for Gallagher (and I presume will work well with the upcoming Lingsha).
As far as I can see for DoT based teams I really want a Ruan Mei or HuoHuo but case of seeing what comes up on banners. I'll save my pulls for now. Not a huge fan of HuoHuo in terms of design/character but Ruan Mei looks good!
I agree! Ruan Mei is excellent, as is HuoHuo, though I feel constantly guilty every time I take the poor petrified foxian into battle - Tail on the other hand is bloody hilarious and makes up for the guilt heheh.
Luka/Moze
I think Moze would be worth levelling up - he seems pretty strong and a lot of fun to play with in his trial, plus adds a follow-up attacker to your roster. I don't think you'll need Luka now that you have Black Swan, though I do like his character. Asta is pretty good so at E6 should serve you well.
 
Thanks guys :)

I'm definitely looking more at lightcone/relic farming now as well as boosting up light traces in general some where I can. Think I have some more bits to unlock on Penacony.

I have Moze at E3 so definitely an option, shame I didn't get one more copy as E4 on him looks pretty good. This is my current roster, I mostly have E0 on the 4 * ones except for Asta which was E6 and Herta I think who is E3 but mostly from the story stuff.

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Thanks guys :)

I'm definitely looking more at lightcone/relic farming now as well as boosting up light traces in general some where I can. Think I have some more bits to unlock on Penacony.

I have Moze at E3 so definitely an option, shame I didn't get one more copy as E4 on him looks pretty good. This is my current roster, I mostly have E0 on the 4 * ones except for Asta which was E6 and Herta I think who is E3 but mostly from the story stuff.

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I'd suggest to get your 5* pulls to 80, as well as Natasha, Gallagher, Asta, Herta and then Moze and potentially Qingque if you don't happen to get any stronger Quantum characters. My poor Serval took a backseat after I got Kafka. Stick with Trailblazer if you need a physical DPS character for now to save on having another one to level up. Good luck with the grind for relics - that can become a blooming pain eventually when you start fine tuning and getting picky with your stats.
 
Thanks for the tips! I probably won't be getting more characters soon unless from story/events so makes sense to iron out which ones are worth investing in.

Loving the Penacony main story missions at the moment and the Inception style dream things that are going on. Lots of exploring to do and things to unlock/get still.

I'm going to save up for my next character banner I want but high on the list is Acheron/Ruan Mei from the existing ones, I'll see what else shows up as well of course :)
 
Loving the Penacony main story missions at the moment and the Inception style dream things that are going on.
Yeah I loved the Penacony arc - really, really good and the final boss fight is just amazing.

Seeing as you're almost caught up on the storyline, I'd actually suggest leveling up March ahead of Moze as, like Trailblazer, she gets a variant which will be very useful having as DPS (with follow-up attack) as well as support functionality and will slot into multiple team setups. I quite rate her original preservation variant as well, though I don't believe most others do heh.
 
Progress update of sorts.

Got to TB level 55 and unlocked a bunch more stuff, still so much stuff to do and my quest list is long, with my phone messages going unanswered largely still lol!
Completed up to date with main questline I think, Penacony was quite an epic ride in the end!

Did the Feixiao questline as well which was also very good.

I've done 120 pulls on the normal banner and despite unlocking a few more characters (Pela and Hanya at E0 are my latest ones) I've only had 2 LC's from the 5* drops, the Welt one and the Clara one. Kind of annoying as I'd not mind a random character (still low-key want Himeko) but oh well!

I've not bought any tickets since early days when I bought 2-3 to get the starter banner done, these are 99% from the ember store, or event drops etc, so a pretty decent income but a lot of these are one-offs.

I've purchased the normal battle pass which for some reason was £10 on the PC version and £8 on the PS5 version. You can probably guess which one I used! Not to mention you can often buy PSN credit for cheaper than 1:1 it seems a no-brainer. They must have a deal with Sony for the Hoyoverse games?

I'm at 110 pulls banked now on the other tickets, I did briefly consider Feixiao or Robin (Robin is probably the more versatile one here) but I decided against it in the end, I feel like her taking over the music with her songs every battle would get a little annoying to me, great if you love the song she sings, less so if you want the normal game music.

I'll probably pull for Lingsha, Natasha is decent but I'm seeing the limits of her usefulness where Lingsha can do the same job with some healing + she also provides fairly good DPS, where Natasha is mainly just a heal-bot. People say E6 Gallagher is also good but I'll not get that for a while unless he winds up as the 4* on a debut banner then I may, but I figure you still probably want two decent supports so Gallagher + Lingsha seems like a solid investment for later on.

Mainly working on gearing up the team and getting to TB 60 so I can more efficiently gear up the team. I do have more to say but this post would get stupidly long so I'll leave it here for now! :)
 
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