Uh-huh. No water supply during the weekend (back to normal today). Had to take a raven's bath yesterday (either that or no bath at all lol).

It's okay, I guess. Very reminiscent of Phrolova's patch and Cantarella's companion quest combined. Quite fanservicy, in my opinion, but for Chisa fans and surprisingly, anime fans..? It's a bit of a me problem: I just recently recovered from my anime-watching slump so I'm still kind of sensitive to things that could bring me back to the slump (T_T). 

BUT we get some Rover lore in the end so I'm very satisfied! I can't wait to get to the next area (Lahai-Roi)!

Wasn't planning to pull for Chisa but I find her gameplay quite fun so I decided to go for it. Unfortunately, I got another copy of Jianxin (now she's S2)... & I'm fine with this result. Next time! 

*gosh my wishlist just gets longer and longer lol* 

I'm going to keep the guarantee for Phrolova~

My backup-speedrun account got her (guaranteed) but in the same 10-pull, I managed to also lose my 50/50... so I guess it's another guarantee for whatever future banner I will pull. I decided to get her for this account because I wasn't confident that my Fenn account will be able to. I was proven wrong lol because that account won the 50/50 lol... Good thing is I think I can do the 2.8 main stories without finishing Rinascita's...? (haven't tried it yet though) So I should be able to level her up to Level 90.

I tried getting Iuno for my main account but no luck. Fenn account has her but no Augusta XD so I had to arrange the team creatively. At the end of the day, as long as any of my alternate accounts have a resonator that my main account don't, I can count that as I "have" them. So far, I haven't missed anyone. 

Then continued to Galbrena's banner (gosh I really wanted her after I did the main story) but alas... Encore S2 appeared. At 72nd pull. So mean (T_T). *sigh* Then I had to keep the guaranteed 5-star for Qiuyuan. Oh well. Next time, I guess. 

I waited until I got his signature weapon to include it in this post. And I got it at 69th pull... *I'm so tired* It has been three reds back-to-back for the weapons (T_T)

My Ruru account did managed to get Galbrena (with her weapon)... but that account couldn't afford Qiuyuan XD. My speedrun-husbando account of course got Qiuyuan (and his signature weapon). I used one weapon pull in my Fenn account and managed to get his weapon LOL. What luck!... indeed. I guess I'll get him next time in that account :P

I'm officially out of tuners~! Now I don't have to worry much about my echo XPs anymore because that will build up in my backpack. I guess this is the true Tacet field grinding.. oh wait, I might do more of the weekly one (Fantasies of the Thousand Gateways) just because I don't want to fill up my echoes inventory again XD

True story. Doing the whole Rinascita finale gave me Gamer's Elbow LOL. I was so locked in because I needed to know the ending. Fortunately it wasn't as bad as that one time I was too immersed into playing ME3 Multiplayer—that time I had very weak grip and I can feel lingering pain the whole time I had it. It was on my dominant hand/arm too. Started using vertical mouse since then.

Anyway... can't really say that I remember much of it, I feel like I'm still digesting the story XD. Avidius was memorable! Nah, I still don't hate Cristoforo that much. I love the final fight with everyone... that Fenrico (and the past Primuses, I guess) scene was great too. BTW I don't think of it as his redemption (it's more like fulfilling his duty from beyond). Sigh... sometimes I can't help but think that  Rinascita arc is full of tragedies. It's probably partly due to having more Threnodian influence.

But, hey, I do like an ending where everyone in Ragunna can be depressed(?) with me about Imperator. I seriously thought no one will know about Imperator so I love that we see a conclusion(?) to that. 

Damn! It's just a brief scene but I super love it! I guess it's more like Abby's lore...?

The last speech by Fractsidus in the end sounds like another hint to Rover's relation(?) with them. 

I'm not sure if it's reincarnation, regression or alternate world kind of thing but there's the lingering idea of having multiple lives throughout the world of Wuthering Waves. This is why Camellya's companion quest is one of my favourites because it showed that it's possible(?). Maybe, in one of those worlds or lives, Rover helped the creation/development of Fractsidus... as one of the possible solutions to her mission. Oooh I think if they ever make their lore/backstory as part of the main story it would be a major flashback kind of thing. If it's a flashback, they are free to make Rover as evil as needed... that would be exciting to see!

And I also feel like making the civilisation less dependent on Sentinels is a running(?) theme. Because with their presences, we also have their opposite equivalent: Threnodians. They both exist together. If you remove one, you remove the other too. 

It's all nice and great but again, I feel the same as before. 1.x main stories (yes, including 1.0!) are already great for me... so the whole 2.x main stories being good are just "business as usual" for me. It is as I expected them to do. Yes, there are some patches that I might like more than the others but they all pretty much got high scores from me. 

Maybe it's because I'm looking at this in a very eccentric way: The whole thing so far is just Rover's big main story... The big main story is about we getting to know Rover's past... whatever Rover do to help the people is merely side main stories. 

I WANT MORE ROVER

I also love getting to know the world & history so I do hope they'll go into more about Black Shores... and Court of Savantae. 

Honestly? I'm looking forward to a cozy patch! Last year they had Illusive Realm in 1.4 and I actually couldn't finish them for my alternate accounts. End of year is usually a busy time so I'm hoping it won't be too heavy this year. Apparently there are those who complained about lack of combat events and here I am feeling glad because I've filtered out those content creators :P.. If I don't see it, I'll just pretend that it doesn't exist.

I'm here with some updates!

 

I've been reading... but most of the books I read this year are surely from flower-picking trips and the library. Damn. Didn't think I would be doing that much audiobook-listening in my life but here we are. I'm in my audiobook era, apparently. It's a very irresistible method when you dread opening a physical (& digital!) books but still want to do some reading. I still won't touch those heavy ones but the ones that's easy to follow and maybe a book I've read before are very much welcome. I usually listen to one while playing a game that doesn't demand my full attention or when doing the dishes. I got peer-pressured (something like this XD) into reading two audiobooks but it's okay, I would just return early if I don't plan to spend time reading them. A couple of audiobooks are just to accompany my slow physical reading journey...

Oh yeah, one of the audiobooks I finished was "Real Ghost Stories of Borneo 1". I never heard about this series before but it looks like the Borneo's version of TSGS so I thought that was cool! One of the stories talked about their experience in KK and described the hotel they went to as a white castle.. Jeez, I wonder which hotel is that? :P
But seriously though, I consider that place to be old (I went there when I was little) so I wouldn't be surprised if some stuff happened there.

I had a brief silly moment few weeks ago where I almost buy a second copy of "The Labyrinth House Murders"... totally saved by my LibraryThing (which is where I mainly catalogue books I own). I think it was partially me misremembering that what I meant to get is the one I got here. Highly recommend the site to anyone who has similar problems (or wants to avoid this) to use LT. I just started using it again back in 2020 when I realised I have a lifetime account (it used to have a limit on number of books you can add, if I'm not mistaken)... but then couple months later in the same year, they became free (no fees, no limits).  

Great news~ I'm kind of out of the watching slump? I guess that's thanks to Tondemo Skill S2! I've re-watched the whole S1 and still enjoyed it (most of the time with food). But I'm so rusty with my I-know-that-seiyuu game XD. It was a pleasant surprise to know that Elrand is voiced by Namikawa Daisuke, it's so fitting! I wish we can meet Gonji soon but I guess that would be in the next season. Even in the WN, if I remember correctly, there's a big time gap between Dora and Gonji. At least Dora is here! I really need to catch up with the WN... I might need to start from the beginning again...

Here are some life(?)... updates.

Lol... more like book updates, maybe?

Interestingly, I can categorise them by month:

Yeah... I managed to get on (visit? board?) the Doulos Hope when it's in town. Had to make reservation online. Kind of fortunate that I was able to do that the night before for August 29th's... Amazingly, I only purchased one book which is another hardcover version of Jane Eyre. When will I ever read "Jane Eyre" and "Emma"? It has been 4 years XD.. what's funny is, at the moment I'm typing this post I'm considering reading them on my Kindle (because I can highlight them there and revisit them in one place on Goodreads). Well, it might be possible to do hybrid reading...

Anyway, I remember the date because when we returned to Jesselton Quay (we rode on a bus to go to the port where they docked), we saw a lorry on fire.

Received these books on September 26th... and I remember the date again because it's the day for Wuthering Waves 2.7 preview livestream XD

Anyway, got Ciaccona's signature weapon... but at what cost?

75th. Yeah, I was so surprised that it's the 75th pull, I forgot to screenshot the convene result lol. 

I'll include this shot of the weapon still at Level 1 with Ciaccona instead :P

Lol didn't expect to make a debut for PGR label in this post... though I don't see myself posting about it as much as WuWa in the future because I'm very on-off with the game...

A short one actually.

WuWa updates before Iuno arrives...

Saw people complaining about Augusta's shield so I guess it's just for her sonata set/less interruption (like Ciaccona's?) kind of thing? Well, I'm still glad I pulled for her because while I'm still in the process of getting better echoes for her, I can already see her damage potential... I guess she's stuck with Mortefi for now because I'm not sure if I'm able to pull for Iuno seeing how I always go at least 70 pulls (and there's also the 50/50 *sigh*) 

So, to add to the draft above... I guess it's like I'm compensating for my lacklustre convene experience from 2.5 (lol): yes, I got my guaranteed Augusta and her signature weapon, both at 73rd and 72nd pulls, respectively. Though I didn't convene much for her weapon because I was actually near to getting one (because I did most during Lupa's and a few 10-pulls on Phrolova's... with no wins, obviously).

And... this week I just finished getting all her skills to 10 (yay!). As always, I still need to get better echoes for her (*sigh* it's the usual Echo xp problem again) but I'll focus on learning how to play her for now. I did get to 36/36 (yeah we have extra two floors now in the middle tower) the new Tower of Adversity with her team so I think I'm getting the hang of it lol

My wheel has picked Verina as the next resonator to max out her skills. I guess this might make many cringe because she doesn't need that actually because she's a support/healer but I'm going to do it anyway. I like to think of everyone as DPS (I'm aware they are not :P) so I want them to deal damage as best as possible.

So... I did a random 10-pull (just because) few days ago and managed to get another copy of Shorekeeper... Yes, I won the 50/50 lol, and now she's S2! I did want to get her so it's fine (my Shorekeeper team has gotten a bit stronger because her S2 gave 40% ATK buff) but I wasn't expecting it to be early?! (after 8 times getting them around 70 *sigh* I was really not hopeful). 

Probably should've used that luck for Iuno's but oh well~ I'm fine with winning or losing 50/50 for Iuno's banner. If I win, yay for my Augusta I guess but losing means I'll keep the guarantee for Qiuyuan :P... Well, there's also the possibility that it will go near 70 again.. so that means no pulling until Qiuyuan, maybe? (The thing is I also have interest in Galbrena but my priority is male resonators XD. It's unfortunate that Iuno and her [banners] are running back-to-back... good news is I usually have my alternate accounts pull for the ones I can't in my main account so I still get to experience their gameplay) 

2.6 so far

The new area has thriller/horror vibes, I love it! And we get another dinosaur-type echo (which looks like a Carnotaurus IMO) - Corrosaurus~ 

And the lore at the area is so good... there's a few more I haven't done but damn!

This one got me crying:

It's always the TD/echo-related ones that got me. This was a simple quest but the impact was deep enough to hurt my heart... it's that Imperator over Phrolova thing all over again. Don't get me wrong, I [kind of] like Phrolova's gameplay so I'm okay with her (I do think she's a bit chuunibyou so there's that) but the whole sadness "tragedy" is so overrated... I can't even take anyone who thinks it's very deep seriously (especially when they vehemently gets mad with Rover for "forgetting". LOL).

Although, I guess I can share my, ermmm, failure recently XD. Don't worry, it's still birthday-related. Had a birthday eve lunch outside at City Malls' Sushi King... honestly I've been missing eating kaiten sushi so finally had the courage(?) to do so this year. Yeah it's just the usual eating lunch stuff but... I made a mistake not double-checking our order (you do it from a tab/pad on the table) and we ended up with three bento boxes instead of only one XD. Damn, no wonder it (they?) arrived so late! Fortunately, packing them is an option... it would be more hassle for them but that's the only best option. I ended up eating them for yesterday's dinner and today's lunch. Nothing's wasted :)