Gathering of Gachas Gathering of Gachas

Hello everyone and welcome to a new episode of Gathering of Gachas! This episode, Ranakel, Galen "The Sound Guy" Firestone and RyBred join in together to chat about gacha-related news events and evolutions, including the following topics:



0:02:40 - War of the Visions:


-Christmas event in February, featuring Christmas Vinera and Viktora
-Samsung Galaxy bugs
-Duane got in! Dark meta VS Yuna's Light meta
-"March" Tokens from February dailies



0:26:57 - Arknights:


-Contingency Contract 2: Operation Blade
-Gavial the Great Chief event starting Friday
-Ceobe's Fungimist "Integrated Strategies" Roguelike Event starting Friday
-Eunectes banner arrives!



0:49:31 - Genshin Impact:


-Come and gone like the Anemo characters: it's the Xiao banner
-Keqing getting her own banner too now
-New weapons came, and more relevantly, more will come.
-The lantern festival, big event number 3 which should return every year, feat. ALL of the sidequests
-Theater Mechanicus, the tower defense minigame
-Choose your 4* character from Liyue
-The primal Geovishaps (world boss version + abyss changes)
-Release of the Stellar Moments album
-KFC china-exclusive collaboration. Hi Arknights!
-They added paypal!



1:20:43 - Pokemon Masters EX:


-Impressions on the newer version from a returning Ryan



1:21:34 - Main Topic:


-Life after gachas: stopping, returning, and the communities around it all



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Welcome back to Gathering of Gachas! After a fair amount of time away launching another podcast, enjoying the holidays, and changing management, the podcast that outlives the games it talks about (new tagline) returns! This week, Ranakel, Galen "The Sound Guy" Firestone" and Dezxter discuss the following gacha topics:



0:14:11 - Arknights: 


General retrospective. Going through the banners of days past you can't pull for anymore.
Yes Galen bought Skadi.
Upcoming Thorns Banner and Hong Kong's "mistake" repeated.



0:50:06 - Genshin Impact:


Zhongli's controversial power level, Xinyan the rockstar, Albedo's straightforwardness, and Ganyu aka. "Cryo Amber"
The new area release: Dragonspine
The major events: Unreconciled Stars and the Dragonspine release event



1:32:01 - Main topic of the day:


Time to usability / Time to optimal use, what does the amount of grind to get the most out of your freshly pulled unit says about your game?



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Welcome to Gathering of Gachas! This week, Galen "The SoundGuy" Firestone and Ranakel are without support, but not without gacha-related topics to discuss! So come for the usual couple of hours and strap in for:



Final Fantasy Brave Exvius


-NV Sol, NVA Dark Fina, NVA CG Sakura and the free Alhena
-The Sol story event
-NV Daisy & Fina plus Mineur and the NVAs of the other two beach duos



Arknights


-Twilight of Wollumonde challenge stages
-"Misty Wild" Asbestos and Tsukunogi banner
-Operation Pyrite



Genshin Impact


-1.1 is here. Story, boss, reputation, and UI, so much UI
-Tartaglia aka. Childe, and Diona



Fate Grand Order


-Christmas special return featuring holiday huns
-Fluffy Sheep



War of the Visions


-Aigaion doesn't have a CG
-Also there's a mage and some other guy I guess



Topic of the Day:


Non-gacha games that have no real reason to be a temporary offer, but somehow still are



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Welcome to Gathering of Gachas! In this episode, Galen "The SoundGuy" Firestone, Dezxter and Ranakel may not have donned Halloween costumes, but that will not stop any of them from covering the following, freshly timestamped, Gacha-related topics



Final Fantasy Brave Exvius [0:00:56]


-The halloween celebration, featuring GLEX CG NV unit Ibara, NVA Lucius and Grim Lord Sakura.
-That 4k lapis a pull 35% on-banner rainbow banner (and the brief moment the tickets had to be turned off).
-Ibara's story event, and the Grave Hexvius rerun
-Dark Visions. Again.



Arknights [0:28:35]


-Twilight of Wollumonde: the story, the gameplay, the Big Bob fandom
-Lily of the valley: Suzuran banner
-Standard banner: Angelina and Helagur



Genshin Impact [0:55:21]


-Let's talk party composition
-Klee, explosions, and that weird small gap between banners
-Mona's story quest
-1.1 announcement stream: four units (with noted VAs!), reputation farm, QoL items, and a story event with a free Fischl
-November shop refresh: Lisa and Bennett purchasable



War of the Visions [1:40:35]


-Also the Halloween celebration, with the early releases of Little Leela and Rairyuu
-New Porcelain Tower!



Topic of the Day [1:46:36]


What keeps us interested in a gacha game



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Welcome to Gathering of Gachas! This week, Galen "The SoundGuy" Firestone, Kite, Ranakel and returning special guest Geisterfuchs gather to give you the latest and greatest in Gacha-related news stories, including:



Final Fantasy Brave Exvius


-FFII comes. With lots of units. Like, six of them, from your Minwus to your Aileen.
-The training dummy challenge. Just in case the stag and DV weren't pure enough DPS races. And hey, free STMR item!
-Those neo-value and improved 5*+ only step-ups
-NV Madame Edel and her buddies Lexa and Elbis



Arknights


-Free stuff "event"
-Nightingale / Ifrit standard banner



Genshin Impact


-The extended freebie squad: Geo main character, Xiangling and Barbara
-Venti, the bard
-Three weeks in, the pace is set
-Roadmap for the game's updates
-The elemental crucible co-op event
-The jank parts: co-op, climbing and friends.



Fire Emblem Heroes


-More Three Houses Units arrive! (Catherine, Seteth, Flayn, Shamir, Nemesis... and a Summoner Unit!?)
-Hall of Forms - Dream Units from Fates and Dancer Xander, how would you build them?
- Double Special Heroes, several Limited-time Special Heroes return!



War of the Visions


-Glaciella Wezette and Lasswell. One is ice, the other's not.
-Story event: Gouga and Saiga part 1: get your rune bows, get your ice lances, ninja slap fight go!
-Titan, the summon for dragoons. Somehow.
-The Behemoth Raid that I'm just not gonna bother with.



Main topic of the day:


Shiny syndrome: what causes us to spend our hard earned hoard?



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Welcome to Gathering of Gachas! This week, the brilliant observations of Galen "The SoundGuy" Firestone, the astute remarks from Dezxter, the amazing comments only Kite can make, and the spectacular insights of Ranakel will tell you all you need to know and then some, about the following topics:



Final Fantasy Brave Exvius


-FFXII Zodiac Age banner: NV Gabranth, NVA Balthier, and Ray of Hope Larsa
-Gumi adresses the GL Pog farm difficulty
-Dark Vision's two weeks



Arknights


-Children of Ursus Impressions 
-Eyjafjalla in the distinction shop!?!?!



War of the Visions


-Fenrir vision card and summon, including a guaranteed step-up
-Ifrit Challenge, and the Rune Blade



Fire Emblem Heroes


- Plumeria lewds the scene (New Mythic Hero)
- Voting Gauntlet "Ponytails vs. Pigtails"
- Tap Battle Returns Encore!



Genshin Impact


-The game's launch itself, and how smooth things were
-Base gameplay, combat, story premice and exploration
-The freebie squad: Wind!Main Character, Amber, Kaeya, Lisa, plus Noelle the battle maid.
-Progression throughout the ranks, resin and you
-The gacha and monetisation



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