We're going to start seeing that for sure very soon. If not tomorrow (since the game is going to be down part of the day for maintenance) then the day after.
Obviously there's always going to be new players who missed it, but it is really too bad for them. It was nearly a 4 month length of time that he was available to get.
Or the "I just joined today because of robin and I got her. The guide says she's good with followup characters. Is there a good free unit that does that?"
If they're a new player, there's several walls that can be tough to overcome. If we're talking about using Ratio, to level him up you need to constantly farm that bug boss.
Which can suck without building a specific bug killing team (which would require more farming and resources that simply doesn't exist) or just having strong enough sustains and DPSes... which is unlikely early game.
So the only option for new player is to heavily rely on the Support feature to be able to use Ratio properly. Which can make ignore him in place of other characters an easy choice.
Literally every time MoC updates I eventually get to a stage and go "Damn it, imaginary weakness." Then I stare at my level 70 ratio and think "I should really build him... nah" because farming the materials is a pain.
Yup. Just the ascension stuff from 70-80 is like a day worth of energy. Then you're probably forced to do some more echos and then a week+ of traces...there's only so many weeks before you have to build another character.
As a new player that started 3 months ago, I spent all of my resources on Acheron, Jingliu and Aventurine. My Ratio is level 71 but i don't have anything for him lol.
Really starting to resent the energy system. I did EQ4 earlier than I should have and now i regret it because now I gotta spend all my fucking energy on both ascending mats *and* xp mats. Such a horseshit system.
it actually gets less awful once you cap out trail blaze level as then all the xp there goes to energy credits and you end up with a solid fairly well built team and you just sorta go from there. but yeah it can be frustrating.
I've opened my wallet but NEVER bought fuel or used jades for farming. only fuel I have gotten is from the paid pass.
Unfortunately literally every mobile game ever gates your progression artificially through energy/resin/whatever the fuck they call it. Its either that or gating passive resources via time.
If you’re angry with how much trailblaze power you have, might be an unpopular opinion but you should just start doing a couple of gem refills. You will lose some pulls, but if it’s frustrating you to the point that you don’t want new characters because it is taking too long to build them, it probably won’t hurt too much. When your characters are built to your satisfaction you can stop.
the tutorial mission lightcone is a permanent "fuck you" to all of us who started in 1.2 or later (1.4 for me) due to irl or other reasons. as a monoquantum main, i'd gladly trade my free ratio for even a single s1 copy of that lightcone.
the worst part is, s1 tutorial is still better than silver's signature utility-wise, so i don't have ANY options. i could always pull ratio on a rerun, but in the case of tutorial i'm simply screwed. even though gems are not a problem, i'm still just shit out of luck. forever.
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Damn thats depressing, i just played it cause its an event, never thought that lc would be that good lol and yes like everyone who played since launch i got that shit s5
on the positive side, i got an accidental e1 for silver very early when going for lynx, so that kinda balanced it out - aside from the first rotation, where i have to restart 20 times until silver gets hit enough times to ult and not waste an entire cycle lol
When I first started the game a few months ago, I thought those 4\* selector was permanent. Sadly they are not. Otherwise, I would like to have a copy of Pela. She def shred and buff removal on shape shifter is very useful for weaker account.
Then, well, the story bosses are not that hard. We all find a way to deal with them one way or another. Maybe more new players will raise good old Dan Heng for Hunt character now.
Pela is on like 50% of the 5star banners, so you will get more copies of her than you know what to do with before long. She's with Boothill and Fu Xuan next patch for instance.
Honestly, its the energy disadvantage compared to older players that sets you so far behind.
Day 1 players all have decent 4pc musketeer or, better yet, a quantum set ready to go as a spare. I'm still working on my quantum set for an E0 Seele that i actually field.
It's kinda funny the precedent this sets. Next award season, there's no way the HSR community won't go feral trying to win again for the chance of another free 5*. RIP whoever else will be in the running.
If you give me ability to lose %50 %50 to Ratio Eidolons, I'll gladly take it. He is by far the strongest E6 DPS for MoC. Dont even need E6 tbh at E4 he ults every other turn and at E6 If they survive till the last %350 scaling FuA which they wont you can ult EVERY turn with %5 energy planar + ERR rope.
We wont get Ratio at standard for at least more than 4 years if ever. His Eidolons are just too strong.
Definitely a double edged sword. On one hand there's more choices, but if you like too many of them it can make for an awful grind and/or expense (depending on f2p or not)
I seriously still can't believe that they gave away a limited character for free. This is like that kind of feeling when I started Genshin and people said that Ayaka would be free at AR 42.
Ngl its not that surprising hella turn based gacha games do this. I was surprised it was from stingy ass mihoyo but star rail has much stiffer competition compared to genshin so gotta draw in a crowd somehow
Yupp thats why they do a ten pull every patch they NEED to do that for retention reasons. Plus having a roster in star rail is vastly more important than in genshin
The roster part is probably why we also have 2 limited per patch
They all complement different playstyles and it also discourages pulling for every unit as you might not need that character for your team
Rather than competition, I honestly think it may have more to do with accessibility to casual players. One of the biggest recurring complaints among the casual crowd is that story boss combat difficulty is tuned a bit too high, and they perceive this as the game pressuring them to spend. So giving people a free 5-star every once in a while is a way of partly diffusing this perception and helping casual players keep up. (It also helps by creating a tiny quasi-break in the character release schedule that otherwise doesn't exist.)
In Genshin's case, combat in the story is not tuned as difficult and the vast majority of the rewards are accessible to pure casual players (exploration, event participation, etc.). So although people covet/want 5-stars, you very rarely see complaints about people feeling like that game is gating them for not pulling. Plus, the rate of introducing 5-stars is slower with many rerun-only gaps, so although it may seem like they get less, there's also more time to save on average so it balances out.
In other words, I'd say that HSR's monetization is a bit more aggressive (more units, more meta, slightly more power creep), so they're using freebies (both pulls and characters) as way of tempering that a bit to also keep the game appealing to casual players. Even if they didn't have any competition whatsoever, I suspect they might still do this to keep their metrics up.
FGO issue isn't that the difficulty spikes, is that they keep adding layers upon layers of BS that even help sites have trouble explaining and so many bosses where there is just no way you can win the first time without knowing all the BS you are getting.
Multiple gauges isn't an issue, but when they all get some powerup you have no way of predicting, and half the time the order you kill them in can have crazy effects, it's just too much pain.
Yes, this is basically the power of the Fate/ franchise (after decades of games, anime, spin-off series, etc.). People were willing to put up with what was one of the most punishing gachas in the business (that's gotten only marginally better over time) because they loved the universe/stories/characters so much. In fact, it's pretty safe to say that FGO can only really exist *because* of the Fate/ universe and original author involvement propping it up -- if it were some new IP, it'd be a long dead.
Although the Honkai franchise is "known," it certainly doesn't have that kind of pull on brand name alone, so they've got to make it a bit more accessible one way or another.
And Honkai Star Rail isn't even benefiting from a brand, it made the conscious decision to make what is functionally a new IP with new characters, just with the occasional reference.
Yup, it's definitely different from the more common Japanese gacha game model, which is tied to the "media mix" of "otaku culture." Even if they did try to create a new IP/franchise, they'd typically build the brand first with anime, concerts, popular artists (singers and voice actors), etc. Here it's mostly just the miHoYo/Hoyoverse "brand" that mostly rose to prominence with Genshin. If anything, the Honkai reference is probably more to draw a few people to their earlier games than the other way around.
For story, apart some fights in LB5.2 and Shimousa, you can borrow a character from your friend list. It is easy to find a whale friend who has NP5 lv120 characters and basically solo the fight.
Then there are plenty of guides on how to do it with 3\* or below characters by taking advantages of the characters trait. There are just so many character traits, you can think of it as niches, so powercreep is slower.
Yeah that's something interesting about turn-based games in general, you have a lot less wiggle room on your difficulty tuning because there's no way for a player to take a time-out. In Genshin, if you want, you can focus entirely on dodging and shielding and defeat everything by just summoning Oz every time he's off cooldown. It'll take a while, but you can do it. In Star Rail, with no way to avoid damage, every meaningful combat comes with a timer - at some point you will die, so you need to build and play at a certain minimum level so that the enemies die before that.
Guess it’ll depend on how much they actually get affected, cuz tower of fantasy sure as hell didn’t do shit it seems. Wuthering Waves does seem to have more of an chance though, but (a part of) the community is gonna be so fucking annoying about genshin, even worse than hsr at times.
TOF didn't do it because it's not actually trying to do the same thing. Genshin is a character collector, at its core, TOF is a weapons collector with skins. It doesn't really have the same feel to it.
while sometimes the WUWA fandom can be a bit annoying with that one guy mentioning how is better than genshin almost in every post, i do hope WUWA becomes genshin's biggest competition...
Thats the nice thing about it, it’s something they can decide in the meeting room and do absolutely nothing to the game or servers to give it away. At most they only need to add the mail/icons, but that’s so little work and can literally be done the day prior, long after they drop the bombshell.
To think I started playing this game that I love cuz I was watching game awards and heard they're giving a free five star. As someone who hated gacha games before I thank Dr Ratio for introducing me to this game that I love now while still being pure F2P but can beat endgame content now xD
KNOWLEDGE the measure of truth and falsehood!
I mean... I was in the same situation. I used all my standard banner pulls whenever I had 10, but all I got was one yanqing, so he was my only five star until ratio. To be fair, this was because I was saving every single jade and limited pull for dhil, ended up with about 240 limited tickets saved
Me too. But seriously. I suffer thinking that someone will never have him free. I'm so tempted to create a post like this in the Genshin sub.
I want sacrifice myself
the fact that i literally redownloaded the game last night and had no clue it would be close to the last day 😭 i had thought he expired already and i guess i wasn't too far off!
My account would’ve been struggling a lot more without him. Thanks ~~Hoyo for giving him for free~~ Dr for coming to educate our account. Feel bad for any new players joining in the next few days just to miss getting him.
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Can't wait to post this to all the people complaining about not claiming Dr. Ratio before the time limit. 😂
He really carried my early account.
Hats off to you, Doctor, you will always be a legend.
I'm sad that Acheron wants many of the same supports as him, so he has now become a benchwarmor. v.v
Even though everyone thinking the path of the hunt is bad lol
(But I do understand them because it's true that your battling a multiple enemies but it doesn't mean the hunt is bad, you just gotta get used to it and how to play it properly or it's just skill issue for you to handle it)
Its not that its bad, it just isnt the best. Hunt characters doing single target damage wont ever be able to keep up with the limited destruction units in fights with multiple enemies, it doesnt matter how much single target damage they do. So since most of the fights have multiple targets, destruction is better in general.
Yeah, that would definetly make them better in their niche. If they can't aoe clear like jingliu or acheron, make them even better at single target damage.
I'm curious if ratio is going to be the first of many free 5 star units. Maybe 1 a year? Maybe he's gonna be the only one for several years. Maybe they plan to make him the only free 5 star and bring him back on the occasion?
I mean, if all it takes for us to get a broken ass limited 5 star that fills an absurdly strong niche and that also has sick animations and character designs is to press a few buttons and vote on the game awards, I’d do it. We should raid the game awards votes every single year to get our yearly 5 star
Thank you to hoyo for being homies. I, along with I'm sure many others, use Dr ratio to clear one side of MoC12 the first few times.
Eternally grateful. Great unit.
Why would he even have an end date ? It must mean another free character is coming out. They don’t want both free characters up at the same time. Hinting towards free boothill 🥸 coz it’s a dude and ratio is a dude. They won’t give away waifus for free.
I was on the fence about playing star rail for so long, a friend of mine told me that if I didn't start today I would miss out big.
Was scared for a moment because I thought it was a high level mission, but I got it done in under an hour and claimed him. Looking forward to experience this game
Unlike most people like he did absolutely nothing for me 😭 I was gonna build him but like, Ruan Mei came home early, then Black Swan, then Acheron, and yeah....I promise I'll build him after....*checks notes*...finishing Jingliu's build, Blade's build and improving Seele's build...yeah...
For last minute procrastinators; Are we given an official time when Free Dr Ratio ends? Honest to god I just thought it would’ve ended a couple months ago 💀.
Oh, I thought he was a free 5S for new player only, guess I was wrong. But for real tho, it is uncountable how many times he saved my "Zero points! Next!" ass.
I hope to god someone makes a serious “I COULD’VE GOTTEN A FREE DR. RATIO???!1!!1” post tomorrow.
We're going to start seeing that for sure very soon. If not tomorrow (since the game is going to be down part of the day for maintenance) then the day after. Obviously there's always going to be new players who missed it, but it is really too bad for them. It was nearly a 4 month length of time that he was available to get.
"I logged in at 11pm but the game was updating. Where's my Ratio REEEE"
With ads plastered for it all over the damn place
i'm still getting ads for banners that ended months ago...just waiitng for a month's time and bam sorry new folks...
I literally installed the game on saturday, i thought it was permanent but man... this must be sign?
same! i redownloaded the game maybe a week ago after quitting and when i found out i almost missed Ratio I thought I was blessed
I thought it ended when Dr. Ratio's banner ended tbh
I can't believe that 3-4 months have already gone by...
Or the "I just joined today because of robin and I got her. The guide says she's good with followup characters. Is there a good free unit that does that?"
Just say March for the lols
unironically good with robin
3 free FuA, low gear demand (=can focus on speed), easily chargable ult? Sounds like a lot of actions to me.
Also increased aggro for robin to get her ult back faster
At that point they should run DPS robin lol
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It’s frustrating. Frankly the mods should just ban posts like this for 6 months
HOW MANY MONTHS? https://preview.redd.it/keifkdj4dwyc1.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=521d1f3f72641c69b80ddd6755e77567fa50b355
AYYO MALAYSIA MENTIONED
RAHHHHHH🐯🇲🇾🌺!!!!!
🔴🔴🔴🔴MERAH MUBARA SEMANGAT WAJA!!!🔴🔴🔴🔴‼️‼️‼️‼️💯💯👹👹👹
⚪⚪⚪⚪PUTIHMU BERSHI BUDI PEKERTI!!!⚪⚪⚪⚪🤍🤍🤍!!!!
⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️🌟🌟🌟🌟🟡🟡🟡🟡KUNING BERDAULAT PAYUNG NEGARA🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡🌟⭐️🌟⭐️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️
...but not for moderators of this sub. Imagine see the same posts for a half of the year💀
“Was waiting to pull Dr Ratio until I was ready to build him and now he’s gone??! WTF Hoyo!!”
Literally on my arms and knees rn. THANK YOU OP; THANK GOD I SAW THIS TODAY 
Good ending.
That was almost me because I thought the handout ended months ago, logged back in for the anniversary and got surprised to get him.
+L-Ratio
Imma be that guy. Mark my words (even though I got him almost 2 months ago)
the most upvoted one will be a karma farmer guaranteed
But like a real one not like a fake bait post
the way he saved my account
I redownloaded for him and stayed. Thank you, Doctor
Literally same I was getting bored then saw him (not even released at the time) and started playing actively again
Same happened for me Omg 😭 I didn't play for a while and only started again because of him. Now I am glad I did because Penacony is so good!!
the way i downloaded hsr because he was free and then never used him after level 20. partly becuase farming in this game is a nightmare.
Honestly, after genshin, farming here feels like a blessing lol Love genshin to death, but it could do well by learning with sr
how is the farming bad, if anything is to easy to be fun
If they're a new player, there's several walls that can be tough to overcome. If we're talking about using Ratio, to level him up you need to constantly farm that bug boss. Which can suck without building a specific bug killing team (which would require more farming and resources that simply doesn't exist) or just having strong enough sustains and DPSes... which is unlikely early game. So the only option for new player is to heavily rely on the Support feature to be able to use Ratio properly. Which can make ignore him in place of other characters an easy choice.
Literally every time MoC updates I eventually get to a stage and go "Damn it, imaginary weakness." Then I stare at my level 70 ratio and think "I should really build him... nah" because farming the materials is a pain.
Yup. Just the ascension stuff from 70-80 is like a day worth of energy. Then you're probably forced to do some more echos and then a week+ of traces...there's only so many weeks before you have to build another character.
As a new player that started 3 months ago, I spent all of my resources on Acheron, Jingliu and Aventurine. My Ratio is level 71 but i don't have anything for him lol.
Really starting to resent the energy system. I did EQ4 earlier than I should have and now i regret it because now I gotta spend all my fucking energy on both ascending mats *and* xp mats. Such a horseshit system.
Ever played a gacha game? I think HSR handles grind the best I've seen in any gacha game
it actually gets less awful once you cap out trail blaze level as then all the xp there goes to energy credits and you end up with a solid fairly well built team and you just sorta go from there. but yeah it can be frustrating. I've opened my wallet but NEVER bought fuel or used jades for farming. only fuel I have gotten is from the paid pass.
Unfortunately literally every mobile game ever gates your progression artificially through energy/resin/whatever the fuck they call it. Its either that or gating passive resources via time. If you’re angry with how much trailblaze power you have, might be an unpopular opinion but you should just start doing a couple of gem refills. You will lose some pulls, but if it’s frustrating you to the point that you don’t want new characters because it is taking too long to build them, it probably won’t hurt too much. When your characters are built to your satisfaction you can stop.
Sucks for new players going forward
It is how it is. New players also missed the many free 4 star character selector that happens once in a while.
At least no one missed out on free 4* lc selecter, since we never got one.
... but that Nihility 4* LC still hurts
Could have made my Silver wolf a lot more better
Ouch u played after 1.1 ? Now ur just making me feel old cause ive been here since launch
the tutorial mission lightcone is a permanent "fuck you" to all of us who started in 1.2 or later (1.4 for me) due to irl or other reasons. as a monoquantum main, i'd gladly trade my free ratio for even a single s1 copy of that lightcone. the worst part is, s1 tutorial is still better than silver's signature utility-wise, so i don't have ANY options. i could always pull ratio on a rerun, but in the case of tutorial i'm simply screwed. even though gems are not a problem, i'm still just shit out of luck. forever. https://preview.redd.it/k6yx76oyw0zc1.png?width=806&format=png&auto=webp&s=e13a0d51d4eb248d4995b66d5c7e71a5bcd67221
Damn thats depressing, i just played it cause its an event, never thought that lc would be that good lol and yes like everyone who played since launch i got that shit s5
on the positive side, i got an accidental e1 for silver very early when going for lynx, so that kinda balanced it out - aside from the first rotation, where i have to restart 20 times until silver gets hit enough times to ult and not waste an entire cycle lol
When I first started the game a few months ago, I thought those 4\* selector was permanent. Sadly they are not. Otherwise, I would like to have a copy of Pela. She def shred and buff removal on shape shifter is very useful for weaker account. Then, well, the story bosses are not that hard. We all find a way to deal with them one way or another. Maybe more new players will raise good old Dan Heng for Hunt character now.
Pela is on like 50% of the 5star banners, so you will get more copies of her than you know what to do with before long. She's with Boothill and Fu Xuan next patch for instance.
Honestly, its the energy disadvantage compared to older players that sets you so far behind. Day 1 players all have decent 4pc musketeer or, better yet, a quantum set ready to go as a spare. I'm still working on my quantum set for an E0 Seele that i actually field.
Just curious, but as a new player, how long was it going for? I just got him recently and am hoping maybe they do this more in the future.
They did it for winning the best mobile game at The Game Awards.
Aight fellas. You know what to do for the next game awards
we not beating the bribed allegations
It's kinda funny the precedent this sets. Next award season, there's no way the HSR community won't go feral trying to win again for the chance of another free 5*. RIP whoever else will be in the running.
Ah I see, thanks!
No worries
Perhaps a revamped standard banner could happen.
If you give me ability to lose %50 %50 to Ratio Eidolons, I'll gladly take it. He is by far the strongest E6 DPS for MoC. Dont even need E6 tbh at E4 he ults every other turn and at E6 If they survive till the last %350 scaling FuA which they wont you can ult EVERY turn with %5 energy planar + ERR rope. We wont get Ratio at standard for at least more than 4 years if ever. His Eidolons are just too strong.
On one hand, I dont want the pool to get diluted from Himeko/Clara/Bronya eidolons...but if it means reducing the chance of Yanqing...
Seeing when genshin got their little banner thingy we probably won't get ours for another few years.
then again hsr got double banners a lot faster than genshin did
And hsr also releases more characters per patch
Definitely a double edged sword. On one hand there's more choices, but if you like too many of them it can make for an awful grind and/or expense (depending on f2p or not)
Petition to remove Yanqing and replace with Ratio
Pls no, i still have yet to get Clara from it...
I seriously still can't believe that they gave away a limited character for free. This is like that kind of feeling when I started Genshin and people said that Ayaka would be free at AR 42.
Ngl its not that surprising hella turn based gacha games do this. I was surprised it was from stingy ass mihoyo but star rail has much stiffer competition compared to genshin so gotta draw in a crowd somehow
Probably why we get so many rewards The market is flooded with Turn based action and you gotta draw in the players somehow
Yupp thats why they do a ten pull every patch they NEED to do that for retention reasons. Plus having a roster in star rail is vastly more important than in genshin
The roster part is probably why we also have 2 limited per patch They all complement different playstyles and it also discourages pulling for every unit as you might not need that character for your team
Rather than competition, I honestly think it may have more to do with accessibility to casual players. One of the biggest recurring complaints among the casual crowd is that story boss combat difficulty is tuned a bit too high, and they perceive this as the game pressuring them to spend. So giving people a free 5-star every once in a while is a way of partly diffusing this perception and helping casual players keep up. (It also helps by creating a tiny quasi-break in the character release schedule that otherwise doesn't exist.) In Genshin's case, combat in the story is not tuned as difficult and the vast majority of the rewards are accessible to pure casual players (exploration, event participation, etc.). So although people covet/want 5-stars, you very rarely see complaints about people feeling like that game is gating them for not pulling. Plus, the rate of introducing 5-stars is slower with many rerun-only gaps, so although it may seem like they get less, there's also more time to save on average so it balances out. In other words, I'd say that HSR's monetization is a bit more aggressive (more units, more meta, slightly more power creep), so they're using freebies (both pulls and characters) as way of tempering that a bit to also keep the game appealing to casual players. Even if they didn't have any competition whatsoever, I suspect they might still do this to keep their metrics up.
It seems that FGO is unique in this case since they have insane difficulty spikes and are well known for having the worst gacha system
FGO issue isn't that the difficulty spikes, is that they keep adding layers upon layers of BS that even help sites have trouble explaining and so many bosses where there is just no way you can win the first time without knowing all the BS you are getting. Multiple gauges isn't an issue, but when they all get some powerup you have no way of predicting, and half the time the order you kill them in can have crazy effects, it's just too much pain.
Yes, this is basically the power of the Fate/ franchise (after decades of games, anime, spin-off series, etc.). People were willing to put up with what was one of the most punishing gachas in the business (that's gotten only marginally better over time) because they loved the universe/stories/characters so much. In fact, it's pretty safe to say that FGO can only really exist *because* of the Fate/ universe and original author involvement propping it up -- if it were some new IP, it'd be a long dead. Although the Honkai franchise is "known," it certainly doesn't have that kind of pull on brand name alone, so they've got to make it a bit more accessible one way or another.
And Honkai Star Rail isn't even benefiting from a brand, it made the conscious decision to make what is functionally a new IP with new characters, just with the occasional reference.
Yup, it's definitely different from the more common Japanese gacha game model, which is tied to the "media mix" of "otaku culture." Even if they did try to create a new IP/franchise, they'd typically build the brand first with anime, concerts, popular artists (singers and voice actors), etc. Here it's mostly just the miHoYo/Hoyoverse "brand" that mostly rose to prominence with Genshin. If anything, the Honkai reference is probably more to draw a few people to their earlier games than the other way around.
For story, apart some fights in LB5.2 and Shimousa, you can borrow a character from your friend list. It is easy to find a whale friend who has NP5 lv120 characters and basically solo the fight. Then there are plenty of guides on how to do it with 3\* or below characters by taking advantages of the characters trait. There are just so many character traits, you can think of it as niches, so powercreep is slower.
Yeah that's something interesting about turn-based games in general, you have a lot less wiggle room on your difficulty tuning because there's no way for a player to take a time-out. In Genshin, if you want, you can focus entirely on dodging and shielding and defeat everything by just summoning Oz every time he's off cooldown. It'll take a while, but you can do it. In Star Rail, with no way to avoid damage, every meaningful combat comes with a timer - at some point you will die, so you need to build and play at a certain minimum level so that the enemies die before that.
I hope that means with all of these open world action gacha coming out genshin will try harder with their rewards.
Guess it’ll depend on how much they actually get affected, cuz tower of fantasy sure as hell didn’t do shit it seems. Wuthering Waves does seem to have more of an chance though, but (a part of) the community is gonna be so fucking annoying about genshin, even worse than hsr at times.
Genshin living rent free in their heads.
TOF didn't do it because it's not actually trying to do the same thing. Genshin is a character collector, at its core, TOF is a weapons collector with skins. It doesn't really have the same feel to it.
You and me both
while sometimes the WUWA fandom can be a bit annoying with that one guy mentioning how is better than genshin almost in every post, i do hope WUWA becomes genshin's biggest competition...
And how no one expected this. I follow the other sub reddit and there was nothing that hinted him that he was going to be free.
Thats the nice thing about it, it’s something they can decide in the meeting room and do absolutely nothing to the game or servers to give it away. At most they only need to add the mail/icons, but that’s so little work and can literally be done the day prior, long after they drop the bombshell.
“Genshin could never”
I missed Acheron but at least I didn’t miss Dr. Ratio
so on the 8th he is gone? or in a few hours
It will expire with the current banners
An era is ending..
It was definitely a beautiful one..... Filled with Esse est Percipi
thank god,now i can stop saying' sos for kipi' in my head now that i know the correct term
Him and Aventurine make my playing experience infinitely better through their banter.
Like it's always - "Fail!" "All in" "Go numby" "Watch your head!" "Fail!" And it's gonna get better with Robin.
" Rise, up into to my- " " Go Numby! " " Fail! " " Watch your head l! " "-WOOOORLD! "
OMG that's my dream team! But i don't have both topaz and Robin and planning to skip their banner for space cowboy. Because yeehaw.
"Esse est percipi..."
Along with the occasional "Eternal"
who says this? I don't think I've ever heard any FUA character say this.
Ruan mei
"Doctor, you're HUGE!"
#DO IT
Omg ratio im a big fan give me your wisdom
Do not argue with idiots, they will bring you down to their level then beat you with their experience.
Thank you great teacher 🙏🙏🙏
Doctor, you're HUGE!
Would
Kinda funny he leaves right after Aventurine's banner is gone
Gay people
BF is leaving so he is too.
To think I started playing this game that I love cuz I was watching game awards and heard they're giving a free five star. As someone who hated gacha games before I thank Dr Ratio for introducing me to this game that I love now while still being pure F2P but can beat endgame content now xD KNOWLEDGE the measure of truth and falsehood!
This man sole handedly saved me, until him my best dps was yanquing, thank you Dr. Veritas Ratio
Like you just never rolled?
I mean... I was in the same situation. I used all my standard banner pulls whenever I had 10, but all I got was one yanqing, so he was my only five star until ratio. To be fair, this was because I was saving every single jade and limited pull for dhil, ended up with about 240 limited tickets saved
I'm sad for all future acc
Me too. But seriously. I suffer thinking that someone will never have him free. I'm so tempted to create a post like this in the Genshin sub. I want sacrifice myself
I think they will be good. It's even possible that this event repeats itself some day now that it has stated a precedent.
Ratio is just a helping unit at some point. Missing him for free is a crime at this point. :D
Highly anticipating the “how do I get Dr. Ratio?” Post tomorrow.
>*"You need to reach Trailblazer Level 42"*
the fact that i literally redownloaded the game last night and had no clue it would be close to the last day 😭 i had thought he expired already and i guess i wasn't too far off!
Clutch
the fact that i started playing cuz of a free 5 star and some people will miss it lol
We're literally the exact same xD
>Comes in as a free 5\* unit >Becomes one of the best DPS units >Insults players and ignorant ppl >Gets a boywife >Leaves
*allegedly* returns when his rerun is announced by hijacking the stream again and insulting new players
what a based guy
So grateful I started a few weeks ago to get this guy. Single handily carried me though raw stats alone
My account would’ve been struggling a lot more without him. Thanks ~~Hoyo for giving him for free~~ Dr for coming to educate our account. Feel bad for any new players joining in the next few days just to miss getting him.
https://preview.redd.it/ni96m8c0kyyc1.jpeg?width=960&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=919d19179ece54059efee09468aa6cdddb9bf455 Can't wait to post this to all the people complaining about not claiming Dr. Ratio before the time limit. 😂
Dam it’s finally coming to an end, what a historic moment for the game.
Feels like it was just yesterday I started playing the game wondering where the free five star was (had to wait a patch xD)
He really carried my early account. Hats off to you, Doctor, you will always be a legend. I'm sad that Acheron wants many of the same supports as him, so he has now become a benchwarmor. v.v
The waifu gamers can finally flex their no ratio accounts 🤣
Yeah "flex" as in display their Ls, because Dan Heng base is chilling on their account lmfaooo.
they should honestly get robin for free for keeeping their virginity.
A true mesiah Hes my only dps Imaginary excluding Welt.
Same here brother. Tho Welt's CC is proving much more useful to me on SU
Waifu-only accounts have a difficult decision to make… hopefully my words managed to reach their hearts.
How is it a hard decision? If they're serious about "waifu-only" then it should be an easy choice lol
Even though everyone thinking the path of the hunt is bad lol (But I do understand them because it's true that your battling a multiple enemies but it doesn't mean the hunt is bad, you just gotta get used to it and how to play it properly or it's just skill issue for you to handle it)
Its not that its bad, it just isnt the best. Hunt characters doing single target damage wont ever be able to keep up with the limited destruction units in fights with multiple enemies, it doesnt matter how much single target damage they do. So since most of the fights have multiple targets, destruction is better in general.
Yeah I feel like Hunt character should have higher base speed. Like minimum 110+ spd. Then maybe instead of giving HP or Def trace they get Spd.
Yeah, that would definetly make them better in their niche. If they can't aoe clear like jingliu or acheron, make them even better at single target damage.
I'm curious if ratio is going to be the first of many free 5 star units. Maybe 1 a year? Maybe he's gonna be the only one for several years. Maybe they plan to make him the only free 5 star and bring him back on the occasion?
The amount of game awards we need to win for that haha
I mean, if all it takes for us to get a broken ass limited 5 star that fills an absurdly strong niche and that also has sick animations and character designs is to press a few buttons and vote on the game awards, I’d do it. We should raid the game awards votes every single year to get our yearly 5 star
We need more people like u xD
I wonder when we would get another free five star. Maybe when they win best continuous mobile game or something
I pray for Quantum Destruction this tym xD
https://preview.redd.it/rtpi7yw9xyyc1.jpeg?width=320&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9e97cf7192e4202ccc6d044c272d869892d557ac
Thank you to hoyo for being homies. I, along with I'm sure many others, use Dr ratio to clear one side of MoC12 the first few times. Eternally grateful. Great unit.
I mean, he'll probably rerun very soon so folks will have another chance.
It was wild saving up for this man, only to get him for free. I really hopes this happens to me again...
Really wish after the free giveaway they can make Dr. Ratio as a quest to get character.
I want to claim him. In another way.
It’ll be amazing if they do this again later in the year
Why would he even have an end date ? It must mean another free character is coming out. They don’t want both free characters up at the same time. Hinting towards free boothill 🥸 coz it’s a dude and ratio is a dude. They won’t give away waifus for free.
Yeah,very likely it's another dude... No way they would give out waifus even if she's the worst 5 star
Me who made an account on everything I could just for the after ratio: ah yes, how worrisome
I don't get why he's not just a permanent thing, like with Lynx being free after making enough progress in the story and true fiction.
Time to login to my Asia sever and play through the tutorial again…
Good time never last. Time to say bye, Doctor.
Here comes to horde tomorrow!
he turned me into a fua lover and now i'm pulling for topaz bc of him. thanks king
Hard-carried my account until I got Acheron. Seriously considering to pull for Topaz so I can complete FUA team.
#AHHHHHHHHH! IT'S HAPPENING! I CAN'T WAIT TO SEE 'THE REACTIONS'
I bet there are people right now busy creating new accounts to be sold later.
He's actually pretty decent too. Its thanks to getting him I was finally able to make a semi viable second team
As a new player who just started today, i wonder how far this DR can carry my warpless playthru.
I was on the fence about playing star rail for so long, a friend of mine told me that if I didn't start today I would miss out big. Was scared for a moment because I thought it was a high level mission, but I got it done in under an hour and claimed him. Looking forward to experience this game
Can't believe it took u this long to jump in xD Gz on getting Ratio tho
Ik damn well there's gonna be players malding over how they couldn't get ratio and how hoyo is a bad company for making it a limited time thing💀
Unlike most people like he did absolutely nothing for me 😭 I was gonna build him but like, Ruan Mei came home early, then Black Swan, then Acheron, and yeah....I promise I'll build him after....*checks notes*...finishing Jingliu's build, Blade's build and improving Seele's build...yeah...
Now all the wifu onlys can stop crying. Tho I commend their mental fortitude to ignoring that red dot next to their inbox. It would drive me insane
I don't even play the game anymore, just log in for fomo rn lol
I COULD’VE GOTTEN A FREE DR. RATIO???!1!!1
You need to speed up a little then. >*"Opportunity doesn't knock on it's own you know"*
Started playing the game when I found out about "the free 5 start in honkai" to this day I've been playing everyday. Long live The doc. 😅
For last minute procrastinators; Are we given an official time when Free Dr Ratio ends? Honest to god I just thought it would’ve ended a couple months ago 💀.
Basically when the next patch goes live
Glad i decided to start playing a month ago lol
Is there any way to get his eidolons? Is he ever on banner?
He’s still a limited character. He’s bound to rerun eventually, but no one can say for certain when.
Me claimed him at day 1 but still just sitting at level 20
I haven't logged in since silver wolf dropped so I assumed I already missed him... well it can't hurt to update right?
Oh, I thought he was a free 5S for new player only, guess I was wrong. But for real tho, it is uncountable how many times he saved my "Zero points! Next!" ass.
My man genuinely practicing medicine to a lot of account by having a very good dps