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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Welcome to Gathering of Gachas! This week, Galen "The SoundGuy" Firestone, Ranakel and Dezxter buckle down, and cover all of your favorite news whether they're about stories, side stories, stories within side stories, or substories:

Final Fantasy Brave Exvius

• -The Global Original banners. Yoshikiri, Itachi, Starlight Elena. Oh and Loren's NV Awakening is there too.
• -The GL pogs. Higher floor, higher ceiling
• -Intangir EXT: Scornier than ever
• -Dark Visions 6: I miss Boss Rush so much
• -The NV Value banner

Arknights

• -Recap of Contingency Contract Operation: Barrenland
• -Our first major schedule change with Children of Ursus jumpung the line and coming four events early.
• -Along with Children of Ursus, 1st Anniversary QoL changes coming early. 
• -Yes there was a KFC crossover in Hong Kong, no we're not getting it.

Genshin Impact

• -Launch is imminent
• -Expectations and fears

Dynasty Warriors Mobile

• -The announcement at TGS
• -The many ways it can be done wrong
• -Confusion with Dynasty Warriors Unleashed

War of the Visions

• -Quick update on Ildyra after using her
• -Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles' weaksauce appearance
• -Ifrit raid: it's still annoying as all hell
• -Knight of Destruction Sterne
• -Trials of Reckoning vs. Two-headed dragon: Actually a good event!
• -New half-anniversary gifts and moogle shop additions

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Welcome to Gathering of Gachas! Playing a bit of catch-up this episode, Galen "The Sound Guy" Firestone, Ranakel, and Ryan "RyBred" get virtually together, under skies dark and ablaze both, to go over the past two weeks of gacha news including:

Final Fantasy Brave Exvius

• -FFVIIR part 2: A raid event, Aerith (Remake), Rufus Shinra, along with Cloud and Red XIII's awakenings
• -The Gil Towers Incident
• -Learning the mirror of Equity: Mog King event featuring Awakened Dragon Akstar, PG Lasswell's awakening, Lively Steward Shinji, and the free Stylish Steward Pecciotta
• -The Whip-Whiskered Beast, Coeurl trial

Arknights

• -Bagpipe banner
• -Contingency Contract Event: Operation Barrenland
• -Faster than Usual schedule

War of the Visions

• -Midnight's Deep, the Tactics-themed gimmick porcelain tower 
• -Ildyra, the Arithmetician
• -Platinum Mace and Coral Sword, the new weapons to craft
• -Six months countdown part III: the daily free 10 pull with infuriating baggage.
• -Frontline WOTV FFBE#5: Trials of Reckoning. War of the Vision's Dark Visions.

Main Topic

• -Ranakel's Great Phone Adventure

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Welcome to Gathering of Gachas! This week, Galen "The SoundGuy" Firestone, Kite, Dezxter and The Lucksack Formerly Known As Ranakel open the door to world of wonders as of yet unseen, or gacha news, that's fine too:

Final Fantasy Brave Exvius

•   Rain arrives as a new NV-base unit creatively named Rain - Neo Vision
•   Veritas of the Dark gets NV awakenings.
•   A Story Event again. Prelude to the story before Season 3 featuring Bruce & Rinora.
•   FFRK Collaboration Equipment Enhancement Event: Tyro exists, imagine that.

Arknights

•   Ceobe and Leizi banner, along with a Lappland return into focus.
•   Stories of Afternoon [sic] event.

Fire Emblem Heroes

•   Legendary Hero News
•   Upcoming Voting Gauntlet for the CYL4 units vs. Heroes who were possessed by evil.

Valkyrie Anatomia

•   The last run of the game's story
•   The chilling ghost town feel of a game without events that still bears the 1st anniversary logo
•   30% AF rates and free gems for everyone

Pokemon Masters EX

•   1st Anniversary news. The game's name evolves, as a way to call back players in

War of the Visions

•   FFT Collab part 2; Agrias, Delita and Mustadio join in.
•   Free stackable daily summon
•   The new daily quests
•   New permanent challenge board featuring taking Shadowlynx through the motions, UR tickets, and free Mediena

This week's topic:

•   How did Gachas get our hosts invested, and which ones?

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Welcome to Gathering of Gachas! This week, Galen "The SoundGuy" Firestone, Kite, RyBred and Ranakel party like it's 2019 to talk about the hot latest gacha news of 2020, including:

Final Fantasy Brave Exvius:

• The FFVII Remake banner featuring Neo Visions Cloud, Tifa's Neo Visions awakening, Barrett and the free Reno
• The many FFVII Remake event stages, from the daily challenge to the emblem stage and the new King Mog.
• Dark Visions #5, wherein Dark Bahamut pokes out of a black hole to devour your time
• The variety of shop changes, from EX to gils to summon tickets, tokens and exchanges.
• Another slot machine, but this time it's a bit faster
• Hell Wyrm, the FFXII challenge stage full of Lapis

Dissidia Final Fantasy Opera Omnia:

• Kite's hyatus for technical reasons

Fire Emblem Heroes:

• Choose your Legends Year 4: The Three Houses Extravaganza

War of the Visions:

• Oldoa joins the roster but this part is mostly about her visual design
• Ochu's challenge stage
• Return of the Treat to the West: Rundall's quests and farm event
• Auto-repeat and auto-battle improvements
• New booster bundles that definitely should just go take a hike

Main Topic:

• The change from one "era" to the next, for both new and old players.

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Welcome to Gathering of Gachas! This week, Galen "The SoundGuy" Firestone, Ranakel and Dezxter once again join forces to take your gacha news into the Next era. A veritable Evolution that take those news into Overdrive:

Final Fantasy Brave Exvius: 

• FFXII part 2: Ashe and Vossler arrive at the worst possible time
• Scorn of Shinryu will eliminate those you love
• The Neo Vision and version 5.0 Livestream report (that's the big one)

Arknights: 

• Celebate the Lantern Festival 

SINoAlice: 

• Dezxter's reasons to leave the game behind

War of the Visions: 

• FFI event banner, featuring Warrior of Light and the Death Machine
• Raid event against Death Machine, a bit more dense, still painful
• Kilphe, the mage up close and personal
• New pity system on featured banners 
• Diablos' guaranteed step-up

Main Topic:

• None this time!

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Welcome to Gathering of Gachas, this week is pretty packed with info, fresh from Galen "TheSoundGuy" Firestone, Ranakel, and returning guest Geisterfuchs, about the following gacha goodness:

Final Fantasy Brave Exvius

• Zenaida joins in as a regular unit 
• Fina & Dark Fina: just buy'em! 
• The first Boss Rush 
• CG Kuja joins in and oh, Garland's there too I guess. And a free Zidane 
• Chamber of the vengeant expansion and Elf off the handle. 
• Behemoth K's trial 
• Soon coins, dailies and exchange shop. 
• Sunday Livestream hopes and dreams.  

Arknights

•  Just a little bit of Nian congratulations and materials farming

Tales of Crestoria 

• First look at the game 
• Gacha system and the first free unit
• Summer event
• Playing a game on a series without being too familiar with the series

Main Topic

• Semi-limited units returning every now and then

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No full episode this week unfortunately, but Ranakel nonetheless took to the mic to give you just a little about things to look forward to next episode!

Welcome to Gathering of Gachas! This week, Galen "The SoundGuy" Firestone, Ranakel and Dezxter join forces once again to bring you all the latest, the biggest, the fanciest, but not the bravest Gacha news and discussions such as:  

Final Fantasy Brave Exvius: 

• The new FFXII banner, featuring the long-awaited CG Vaan, Penelo, and Fran 
• New enhancements for Elena, Morgana, Sol and Sacred Shield Charlotte, as well as latents for Kimono Fina 
• New anniversary goodies like a new 11 rainbow + STMR moogle summon and a select unit and prism tokens with quite the selection  

Arknights: 

• The anticipation builds up for Nian and the forge event coming up 
• A comic brings a message about love in unexpected places  
• SINoAlice: 
• The featured units swap places on the NieR Automata banner  

War of the Visions: 

• The Two-headed Dragon comes, with other vision card friends 
• White Marshmallow raid encourages you to murder delicious deserts again 
• Our first War of the Visions update video builds up the Warrior of Light hype, and answers some key questions  

Castlevania Grimoire of Souls: 

• The game's end, before it even truly began.  

Main Topic: 

• Phantasy Star Online 2: New Genesis, and what its innovative model could bring to the live service and gacha table.  

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Welcome to Gathering of Gachas! This week, Galen "The SoundGuy" Firestone, Ranakel and heroic return RyBred join forces to discuss the following gacha topics:

Final Fantasy Brave Exvius

• The third batch of esper units: Umbral Dragon Dark Fina, Healind Avatar Lid, and Flame of Rebirth Jake
• Second event week Type-0 Exploration and its super ribbon reward
• The fourth Dark Vision and its new formula
• Gifts from the producer, including a free Omniprism
  

Arknights

• A clarification on free Items #DezWasRight
• Quasi-confirmation of the Nian banner release date
• Some more personal anecdotes
  

SinoAlice

• First part of the Nier Automata Banner: Free breaker 2B, breaker A2 and cleric Emil
• The gratuitously violent summon animations
• RyBred's experience
  

War of the Visions

• Vinera Fennes and the event To Burn Bright for story and a Mage Masher
• Warrior of Light's confirmation, and preliminary "hype bundles"
• The relatively unannounced but nonetheless imposing gift from the producer
  

Main Topic

• Breaking the FTP Seal
  

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Welcome to Gathering of Gachas! This week, Galen "The SoundGuy" Firestone, Ranakel and Dezxter together tackle on the latest gacha game news and topics, such as

Final Fantasy Brave Exvius

• FF Type-0 units: Wild Card Ace, Benevolent Beauty Rem, and the free Steadfast Soldier Machina
• Anniversary tickets, letters from the producer, and livestream announcement

Arknights

• Half-year anniversary bundles
• Reed/Broca banner
• The mystery reward!

SINoAlice

• 1 Million download celebration
• First step-up banner in the game
• New story chapter
• Thoughts on PvP

Main Topic

• Status report: where we're at, what are our goals, and a look back over goals past.

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Welcome to an all new episode of Gathering of Gachas. This week, with a bit of unfortunate lateness as the team's getting used to new workflow methods, Galen "The SoundGuy" Firestone, Kite, Ranakel, and Dezxter talk about the following:

Final Fantasy Brave Exvius

• New trial: the Sworn Eight of Palladia
• War of the Vision Collaboration: Sterne, Kitone and Mont

SINoAlice

• Very first impressions and rerolls
• Game systems, and the choice of a small character pool
• Scenario, tone, atmosphere and art
• Gacha and monetization

War of the Visions

• FFBE collaboration: Rain and Fryevia
• The First Porcelain Tower to climb

Valkyrie Anatomia

• Notice of closure: the game's global version ends at the end of August

Main topic of the week

• Toxic discourse and mental health in Gacha games community spaces
  

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Welcome to an all new episode of Gathering of Gachas. This week, Galen "The SoundGuy" Firestone, Kite, Ranakel, and Dezxter chime in on gacha topics such as:  

Final Fantasy Brave Exvius 

• FFVIII event featuring Selphie, Irvine and Edea. 
• Dark Vision the Third, and its scoring issues 
• Blue Mage Fina obtains her seventh star 
• Sieghard's GL buffed latents are here (and still bad) 
• 4th Anniversary: War of the Visions Collab, limited pool banners,11 rainbow  summon + STMR Moogle, Omniprism and more 
• World Revisit Quests begins for Season 2 quests  

Arknights 

• Chapter 6: Partial Necrosis 
• The Blaze banner, and Arknight's dip into limited units 
• New Costumes  

War of the Visions

• WotVxFFBE / Exvius Universe: Fryevia joins in as the first Global Original unit. 
• Celebrate with the FFBE series 4th anniversary 4 UR guaranteed summon (if you have money) 
• Special events: Chocolat Flan challenge for sage's hat, magicite dailies and Arena mock battles 
• Mobius Final Fantasy: the world's saddest collab  

Dissidia Final Fantasy: Opera Omnia 

• Act 2, Chapter 9 of the main story 
• More Abyss Normalis 
• Summer Fiesta Campaign begins. 
• Cloud of Darkness and Kefka's EX+ awakenings 
• Aphmau from FFXI returns, featuring her EX weapon debut. Lion EX+ awakenings.  

Main topic of the week

• The difference of impact between staggered and immediate reward distribution  

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Welcome to an all new episode of Gathering of Gachas. This week, Galen "The SoundGuy" Firestone, Kite, Ranakel, and Dezxter cover a variety of gacha topics (possibly with technical recording issues that slipped in: listener beware) such as:

Final Fantasy Brave Exvius

• FFVIII units: Lone Lion Squall , Seifer, Fujin & Raijin. Plus Quistis as free unit.

Arknights

• Contingency Contracts event
• New Chapter 6 Anime PV
• An All-stars targeted Headhunting Banner

FFBE: War of the Visions

• QoL update also added voicelines for normal battle selection
• New units/Vision cards: Lucia the tank killer, Adelard, who has a hat, Tetra Sylpheed
• Viktora and the special MR Salire
• Ras Algethi farm
• The first step-up banner since the beginner one
• Gilgamesh's second character quest and unique passive
• Chocolate Flan Raid Event

DFFOO

• Arciela Skill Overview
• Cyan & Fujin reworks, EX debuts and a Mission Dungeon Event
• Alphinaud returns! (EX debut) & Yda's EX+ awakening!
• Keiss character event Highlights, Zidane EX+ awakening and Keiss Skill/Weapon Overview
• Stream Recap for July

This week's topic

• What defines a "bait banner"?

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Welcome to an all new episode of Gathering of Gachas. This week, Galen "The SoundGuy" Firestone, Kite, Ranakel, and special guest Bharos from the Global Exclusive podcast ( https://anchor.fm/global-exclusive ) discuss all sorts of FFBE-related topics such as:

•   FFXIII-2 event. Serah, Noel, Adult Hope and the free Lightning
•   Collaboration Festival: 2B, Elly, Rena, Adam Jensen and Rico Rodriguez
•   Dark Visions: Save function and scoring changes right after the end of the event.
•   In depth Dark Visions discussion with Bharos or how I learned to stop grinding and love Regina

Main discussion topic:

•   Temporary highly challenging contents.
  

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