What is Arknights
Incase you missed the last even breakdown or are just new to the game, let me quickly break down what arknights is before we get into the event. Arknights is a Tactical Tower defence game from Chinese Developer Studio Montagne that is available for Android devices.
The game follows the story of “The Doctor”, who you play as, after they awaken from a coma and are quickly put incharge of the Private military portion of “rhodes Island”, a pharmaceutical company looking into a cure for the highly infectious disease known as Oripathy. Also Catgirls. Lots of catgirls. And catboys is thats your thing. At the same time, the Extremist Faction known as “reunion”, comprised of people who are infected with Oripathy, have began a terrorist campaign that threatens to destabilize the world. Arknights story is part political thriller, part tragic character drama and part Anime.
The game is a gacha Game, meaning you need to “Pull” for units which are graded on a star based rarity system, similar to Genshin Impact. The characters you pull are known as operators and can then be used in stages that take the form of A tower defence style system. Every character is unique (although most do fit into broader Classes and subclasses) and everyone strategy with a stage will be different based on what team they have.
Arknights has recently been confirmed to be getting an anime adaptation, scheduled for release in the not too distant future, so if the game itself doesnt seem to be your style then maybe check out the show when it launches. You can watch the teaser trailer here:
Preluding lights: whats that?
Preluding lights is the newest story event for the game. This is a mini story event, meaning there is not multi-stage storyline. Instead, you buy information fragments using earned currency in the shop and use those to unlock Visual novel style cutscenes featuring the characters.
That doesnt mean there are not any stages, though, there are 10 limited access stages, they just dont have any soty attached to them and are just there for farming. With that in mind, only 1 stage is considered more efficient than normal stages for materials, that being the Stage “PL-5”, which can be used to farm the material RMA70-12, which is used for leveling some characters.
You can also get 10 free originite prime from clearing the stages, and 10 more for doing their challenge modes, which can be used to unlock costumes for operators in the Outfit store or used to pull on the current banner. More on both of these in a bit.
Operators
We have 4 new operators, 3 new on the banner and 1 welfare from the store, with their rarities ranging from 6 to 4 star. So, with that in mind, starting with the welfare
Welfare> Bena. “puppeteer” specialist (the first operator of her type). This means that, when bena receives lethal damage, rather than withdrawing from the battlefield she is swapped with her substitute and continues fighting. The Substitute has a block count of 0. After a certain period of time, the substitute will be replaced with the real Bena again. If the Substitute dies while deployed, Bena retreats as normal. Benas first and only Talent means the substitute deals arts damage and receives 40% less physical and arts damage. Her first skill halves Bena’s max HP, increases her attack and means that she ignores a percentage of her targets defence, while her second skill increases her attack and attack speed but means she loses 4% of her HP every second. This lasts 20 seconds at base and 22 at max meaning that in a single activation will drain bena of 80% of her HP, without even considering extra damage from enemies. Bena Is a unique beast and very interesting, but not the most generally useful character
6 Star> Carnelian. “Phalanx” Caster. Again, this even is all weird off-role operators. Phalanx Ops do not attack unless their skill is active, but gain some chumby defence and arts resist in the meantime. While her skills are active, she deals arts damage to all enemies in range. Carnelian has a unique mechanic on top of this, “charged”, where she will continue to gain SP after her skill is fully charged, and once she has double the SP required to launch the skill she gains the “charged” effect. Her first talent means she recovers a percentage of her hp after activating her skills, with the charged effect doubling the amount recovered. Her second skill increases the SP she generates per second once her skill is ready, letting her reach the charged state quicker. First skill gives and attack and Defence buff, with the Charged effect being that her trait remains active during the skills duration. Her second skill reduces her attack interval and slows enemies. When charged this skill deals extra attack and the slow is changed to Bind, holding enemies in place for an amount of time, starting a 0.2 seconds and maxing at 0.6 seconds. 3rd skill expands Attack range, and causes her attack to gradually increase until the end of skill duration. When charged, the skill also means that enemies gain a stacking debuff each time they take damage, which increases the amount of damage carnelian deals to them. Carnelian, along with all Phalanx operators, is weird. Shes good, dont get me wrong, but she is a strange beast and wont easily slot into most teams. Probably not worth pulling for overall, but definitely not something to be scoffed at if you do get her
5 Star> Kirara. “Stalker” Specialist (same Subclass as Manticor and ethan). She attacks all enemies in her range, has a 50% physical and arts dodge and has a lower priority to be attacked by enemies. Skill means she self heals, with her healing being increased if there are no allies in the surrounding 8 tiles. First skill is a single shot skill that charges off dealing damage to enemies. Kirara does an additional hit of arts damage, equal to a percentage of her overall attack. Her second skill increases the potency of her talent, and lets her deal a percentage of arts damage to enemies in her range every second. Kirara is a solid pick, and fills out a unique niche alongside Manticor and Ethan. You’re probably never going to need more than one of these 3 in your team at a time, but Kirara does make a good addition.
4 Star> Indigo “mystic” caster. She deals arts damage, and when there are no targets in her range she can store her attack energy up to 3 times and fire it off in a burst once a target is available. Her Skill means that she has a percentage chance to bind a target, and that she does not attack said bound targets. This may sound weird but remember, due to her ability to store charges of damage, this means that if there is a single enemy that gets bound, Indigo’s next attack will be devastating. Her first skill changes her attack range to be straight in front of her and reduces her attack interval, with an added percentage arts damage decrease. Second skill also reduces attack interval, increases her talent activation chance, and means any bound enemies in her range receive arts damage every 0.5 seconds. Indigos main draw is being a 4 star of this style of caster, and all in all she isnt bad. I just dont care for this class.
Skins
3 new skins, in collaboration with hong kong based fashion brand I.T. Skins and prices are as follows
- Cómodo (Thorns)> 18 Originite Prime
- Liberté//Échec (Surtr)> 18 Originite Prime
- UrsusIO79 (Зима [Zima]) > 15 Originite Prime
Furniture
As with all events, a new set of furniture for your Dorms has been launched. This one is titled “Lena’s Rest”, provides a total of 500 Ambiance to a dorm for the full set, and will set you back 6,070 furniture pieces, or 32 originite prime.
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