Gathering of Gachas

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August 21, 2020Gathering of Gachas episode 53: Apocalypsis Exvius
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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1h 46min
August 14, 2020Gathering of Gachas episode 52: Tales of Zenaida
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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2h 10min
August 04, 2020 Gathering of Gachas mini-episode 2
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!
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4min
July 30, 2020Gathering of Gachas episode 51: Be kind to your off-banners
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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1h 58min
July 23, 2020Gathering of Gachas episode 50: Luck is an important gacha skill
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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1h 55min
July 15, 2020Gathering of Gachas episode 49: Party in the front, gacha in the back
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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1h 50min
July 10, 2020Gathering of Gachas episode 48: Alice in Gachaland
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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1h 53min
July 03, 2020Gathering of Gachas Episode 47: Codename cross-promotion
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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1h 47min
June 26, 2020Gathering of Gachas episode 46: Animated discussions
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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1h 40min
June 17, 2020Gathering of Gachas episode 45: Dark Gachas
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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1h 39min

FAQs about Gathering of Gachas:

How many episodes does Gathering of Gachas have?

The podcast currently has 65 episodes available.