ExHaseo

The time gating is what really drove me away from the game. It soooo annoying.

I wouldn't recommend it if you care about the plat, unless you're looking to spend at least a few months playing the game. Things are time gated super hard.

For context, to get the materials needed to unlock max level with a single character, just one of the materials requires you fight a boss around 23 times. I say around because it can drop between 1-3 of the drop you need, so an average of 2. Anyway, each time you fight a boss, it costs 40 resin, an in-game energy that replenishes 1 every 8 minutes. So, for a single run you need to wait a little over 5 hours. So to get just one of the drops you need, it takes almost 5 full days. And you have to do it 8 times, which would be about 40 days. That's for a single item just to unlock max level for your characters, not actually get them to max level. You also need to grind out certain types of equipment as well as materials for enhancing other types of equipment, which also costs resin, and are also subject to RNG. They give you a specific number of items that recharge resin for free, but that's only going to take you so far. You can always pay real money for resin to speed things up, but that's up to you.

I just wanted to give fair warning. I didn't realize how much stuff was time gated before I started, or I wouldn't have given it another try. I thought I could just push through and bum rush the plat in a week or two if I had no intention of playing forever, but that's not the case.

Yiiikes. Okay, thanks for the warning. I was thinking I wouldn't mind a game to log onto while I watch Netflix but that sounds way too excessive.

I will add to this, the 90 pull pity has to be on one pull type. The blue pull thingy and the rainbow pull thingy count separately (I can't remember what they're called lol)

Outside of spiral abyss, everything can be done with 4 stars. My first account (that I haven't touched since v1) used Lisa as a main dps and she got me through everything except Abyss. And my second account has a great 5 star for my main dps but is backed up by a team of 4 stars, despite having tons of 5 stars.

And personally, I can't really comment on Spiral Abyss since I've never really cared about getting it done. But there are videos on YouTube of it being beaten by 4 stars, post changes.

Just wanted to add a few things onto what's already been said, but I recommend not using primogems on the standard banner and saving them for the character event wishes.  You get plenty of standard wishes throughout the game, and you'll likely pick up a lot of the standard characters if you lose 50/50 on the event wishes.  

There are some craftable weapons in the game that are actually pretty great - there is a polearm you can get for Xiangling from fishing called The Catch, which is one of the best weapons in the game for her as an off field DPS.  I also noticed that you've activated Dendro traveler, which paired with Fischl you'll get some great reactions.  I'm not sure how much you've wished on the current character banners, but out of the featured 4 star characters, Heizou is a great anemo option and can be built as a DPS.

At this point though, I wouldn't even worry about being able to platinum the game.  As you've just finished Monstadt, I'm safely guessing that you're still under Adventure Rank 45.  This is when the artifact domains really open up and you can get 5 star artifacts for your characters and really unlock their potential.  Also, there is a streamer called Enviosity who completes each Abyss with just the free 4 star characters you get in the game, so it's definitely possible to beat all the content without worrying about pulling a 5 star.

Thanks for all the information everyone! It's all a lot of help.

I've been pulling on both standard and premium banners, since they have separate tokens for standard and premium. So I must be pretty close to a pity, at least on the premium one. Luckily, I've just been using the free tokens on the standard one already.

I've pulled 6 times on the current banner, and gotten all of the 4* twice. I've just been using Layla to trigger burst with Fischl, along with Xiangling, and then my 4th just being whatever I need at the time for exploration, but I'll look into Heizou. I'll definitely look into the craftable spear too!

I'm just adventure rank 32 so far. I've been hoping to get some good stuff early on to more quickly build them, but oh well. I still have a ways to go it looks like anyway, especially to get the reputation trophies. I'll try not to worry about it so much for now. Thanks again everyone!

Oh yeah, Crisis Core coming is one of the reasons I didnt too. Hard to justify buying more games when I'll be buying a full price one in just a few weeks. Plus FFXIV, Genshin, and Arkham Asylum are already keeping me pretty busy.

Yeah, there's a fair amount of stuff I'd buy if I had a lot of disposable income... but I don't. So I try to remind myself that I have a huge ass backlog and ask myself if these are games I really want or if they'll just be yet more backlog stuffing.

Was thinking about Fire Emblem 3H Season Pass, but overall it seems like a waste when I haven't even beat any of the actual routes yet.

Keep in mind this game gets updates every few weeks that you should play if you care about the story. There's also the gacha aspect that you can kind of lessen by playing once a day. You can do everything as F2P or you can spend a lot of money on the game. It'll most likely keep going for at least some more years. You don't have any trophies yet, so be sure you know what you're getting into before you earn a trophy.

There are ways to lengthen the stamina bar if you do decide to keep playing.

Game has a habit of selling solutions, such as Sayu or Yelan for covering lots of ground. There's also going to be a new vertical specialist next patch iirc

Oh wow. Congrats though

Congrats! 

@ExHaseo Aw, sheesh, the Ape Escape treatment? Rats. =[ Was hoping for fuller platformer Platinums, not sparser.

Congratulations to you anyway~