The Chivalrous Thief Who Believes in Bonds

Obtainability: Limited to completing missions for the Puella Historia Campaign.

MLB Effect: Flame Attribute Attack Up [10%] & Blast Damage Up [20%]

Effect Definitions:

Flame Attribute Attack Up will increase a unit’s base attack stats when they use a Flame-attribute attack. It functions similarly to Attack Up and even stacks with it, but it won’t contribute to Attack Up’s Percentage Ceiling.

Blast Damage Up is a straightforward buff that means Blast Discs will deal more damage. Blast Damage Up has a capped percentage at 100%.

TLDR: “The Chivalrous Thief Who Believes in Bonds” is a decent free-to-play friendly memoria with a scary amount of ATK stats. However its two effects are low for their percentages, so it’s not overpowered. You can equip this on Flame Blast-type supports.

Review: Before saying anything else, “The Chivalrous Thief Who Believes in Bonds” has a truly terrifying amount of passive ATK. In fact...

As of writing this review, it has the most passive ATK in the entire game! That’s including a bunch of limited gacha memoria! Impressive.

Less impressive are the effects’ percentages for “The Chivalrous Thief Who Believes in Bonds”. Flame Attribute Attack Up and Blast Damage Up are both good effects, but at 10% and 20% respectively, this memoria might feel a bit lacking.

However, this isn’t absolutely terrible either. For a Free-to-Play player, this memoria is going to be extremely helpful on Flame blasters-- so its best to use this on units like Chizuru, Kyoko Sakura, Swimsuit Kyoko, Doppel Kyoko, Juri Ooba, and Ranka Chizu.

It’s questionable how useful this memoria will be for Whales. Attack Up has a 100% cap ceiling, so many players will use Attribute Attack Up to stack a similar effect without contributing to said ceiling. However, “The Chivalrous Thief Who Believes in Bonds” means sacrificing a LOT of potential buffs for only a small 10% in Flame Attribute Attack Up. It’s also entirely possible that if the player is capped on Attack Up, they also might be capped on Blast Damage Up, meaning that all this memoria can offer is a pitiful 10% Flame Attribute Attack Up and some truly menacing ATK stats. 

Other things to consider for players would be if other (semi) free-to-play friendly memoria are better or worse to use than this one, such as:

(Limited Welfare 4*) “An Entrance Backed by a Column of Clouds” Blast Damage Up [35%] & Anti-Burn [100%]

(Limited Mirrors 4*) “I'll Continue to Shoulder the Burden” Blast Damage Up [30%] & Damage Increase [25%]

(Limited Welfare 4*) “Never Forget” Blast Damage Up [30%] Blast Damage Cut [10%]

(Limited Welfare 4*) “Being Myself, With Pride” Blast Damage Up [25%] & Attack Up While At Max Health [25%] & Defense Down (Self) [15%]

Obviously on non-flame units the answer is that all of the above are better to use. On Flame units the answer is more tricky. Personally, memoria like “I'll Continue to Shoulder the Burden” and “Being Myself, With Pride” are superior to use thanks to their secondary effects. However, memoria like “An Entrance Backed by a Column of Clouds” or “Never Forget” are trickier-- my gut feeling is that “The Chivalrous Thief Who Believes in Bonds” is better to use, but I don’t feel like doing the legwork to check that out.

Overall, this is a good free-to-play friendly memoria. You can use it on support as long as that support is a Flame type with three blast discs. 

got enough dice thingies to get him from the shop 🤧 heard abt his date story in the tl and i cannot miss out on this istg

the new chat skin is so pretty too!!

it never works out when I pull DPS charas for meta but here we go w acheron fellas 😔l

begging on my hands and knees please pb stop killing your own game its getting quiet in hereeee

I'M IN TEARS I AM INCONSOLABLE TEARS AND MUCUS FLOWING DOWN MY FACE WHAT DO YOU MEAN THIS IS THE END FOR THEM I REFUSE TO BELIEVE THIS😭😭😭😭

Hey question for the missions above 30 do you think it's worthy to update cards that aren't Sr or SSR or should I wait until I get more Sr and SSR cards

Oof so that's kind of a difficult question. Mostly because I don't understand the "combat" mechanics of the game that much. This is very much a "make numbers bigger" game in my mind.

I'd say it's probably worth it. You can have four teams max in one battle. A team is 6 units. That's 24 total units per battle. There are only 21 characters--so even if you had the full cast(and we can't get every character yet! You can only have like 19 out of 21!) as R units, you wouldn't have a full team.

You're probably going to start with your higher rarity units. If they die it's on the lower rarity ones to finish the fight. They are your backup. They are important.

Also, they can actually be stronger than SRs of the same level if they've been awakened once or twice.

So yeah. I'd say buff them up! Focus on your SRs and SSRs, but don't neglect the Rs just because they're weaker!

This is in light of certain events where all of these games have had some blatant pay to win bullshit going on by the way. So I made this poll to see which game you guys think is the most pay to win (p2w) and why.

installing another gacha game because 3 aren't enough

Not me spending my only 42 Deepspace Wishes I saved up for LONG TIME in hope of getting Raf's Private Trip memory...

ONLY TO GET HECKING ZAYNE WITH HIS STUPID BUSINESS TRIP!

(This game hecking hates me... and probably anyone who doesn't throw TONES of money into it)

You know I gotta love how the magireco devs heard the complaint of “the original 2*- 4* characters are becoming outdated due to to power scaling of the game” and just added new versions of those units but uglier and limited. Thanks that helps

i made something stupid. rb and put in the tags (or screenshot) your results and what you think the game you got would be like.

paper apologists dni im not logging on to web just to block u from here

I know I just made a post about the complaints but what do you fucking mean the new rateup gacha is paywalled. I know PB is new to this sort of gacha game but at this point, I really do think they need to do some more research and look at how other gachas manage their own rateup gachas as well as their game balancing, because this is getting fucking ridiculous.

Several issues I have with this:

(Rant post again, feel free to skip over. I'm tired at this point.)

It's giving Pokemon Unite new character being paywalled vibes. And people complained HARD about Unite because new characters are often busted while shifting the meta greatly, which is like. Really Fucking Bad for Ranked!!! You can make the argument that WHB is a PvE game but still, not a wise decision when PvE meta and viability can change over time. Look at how, in Arknights, the standard DP generator combo became the Flagpipe combo the moment Bagpipe was released, or how people started using GoldenGlow over Eyjafjalla for her global range. You can clear stages with other units, it just becomes much more complicated. And this game's current meta for easy clears is L-rank skill spam, so if this trend keeps up...

The amount of communication regarding patch notes is atrociously low. Early on, there were some ninja patches without any prior notice as to what they're for - the last time I've seen this happen is on Brave Frontier (which is where we used this term most anyways), and they've stopped doing sudden patch fixes without any announcements after their servers have mostly stabilized (which was around Zevalhua or Alfa Dilith arc iirc, this was nearly a decade ago). Even GBF announces major patch notes like the raid instakill after Belial raid implementation exploit, only doing stealth fixes for things like fixing skill descriptions (and EVEN THEN they still announce what they fixed). Some days after launch I've tapped into WHB only to be greeted by a ~400 mb size patch, which is really fucking draining on standard shit SEA net, and often with no discernible reason behind the update at all. Which often leaves me wondering, what the fuck were they fixing to warrant such a huge patch - especially when there wasn't any obvious difference between patches?

Related to the above, one of the things that I feel pissed players off about this current banner is the fact that there was no indication that it was going to be a paid gacha. The prior announcement only mentioned the usage of Solomon's Seals, which people naturally assumed could be purchased using Guilty Gems. Having separate gacha materials for a time limited banner would make sense to most seasoned gacha players - this system is used in many CN games like Honkai Star Rail and Arknights to differentiate between banners. In HSR it's to differentiate between permanent items (Regular Warp) and new/limited items (Event Warp), while in AK it's to differentiate between older units (Kernel Headhunt, up until Suzuran's banner) and newer units (all other Headhunts, including Limited Headhunts). In both of these cases, you could use each game's respective Guilty Gem equivalent (Stellar Jade for HSR, Orundum for AK) to grab these gacha items. Which, again, is not the case in this new banner.

Another thing that pissed players off is the monetization. Now, me and a friend have both voiced out our gripes with this game in our GBF crew server, and it's mostly related to the gacha rates and scarcity of resources. Solomon's Tears, Greater Key and Lesser Key rates, how little Guilty Gems we get? All discussed by us. It got to a point non-players end up getting interested to listen to what we have to say about this game. And recently, after finding out just how expensive the Solomon's Seals packs are (if they're really $30, then they're the same price as a GBF Suptix for a 10-pull, and a Suptix is a 10-pull PLUS a unit of your choice from a given pool of units), it got to a point where we're just not surprised. It's insane how much we've grown tired of the constant bad decisions.

Even though I'm against harassing the devs, it's decisions like these that are VERY worthy of criticism imo, and very understandable for it to be the reason why one might choose to drop the game. I understand that you need money, but the monetization practices and gacha mechanics being introduced are not F2P friendly. In fact, I doubt they're friendly for dolphins, either - only whales and leviathans can reasonably benefit from them. And I've talked extensively about the game design choices that confuse me at best and piss me off at worst. Me personally, I've definitely reached my limit on leniency for the devs, and I've been lenient on other games as well, notably Limbus Company. Look, as much as Project Moon fucked up with how they handled the Vellmori situation, LCB also had a very rocky launch with worse stability issues than WHB (I nearly couldn't beat Kromer bc of them), but I still stuck by it because it was F2P-friendly, had a super engaging world and characters paired with a superb story, and the devs were communicative about everything (roadmap and emergency updates included). It got to a point I was about to willingly drop money for the paid battlepass if Gregor had a paid EGO reward (AEDD Gregor ended up being free but I bought some Google Play credit just in case - which was diverted to Muse Dash in the end) if not for the controversy. The monetization and paid gacha being the rate-up in WHB is definitely the straw that broke the camel's back for me.

As for what I'm going to do with my WHB account? The fan server I'm in was compiling the bugs they've found as well as other concerns regarding the gameplay and gacha mechanics in particular, to send an email to the devs. I might help around with these efforts if still required and see if there are any positive changes (especially in terms of monetization). I've stopped playing regularly for now, and I feel like this is a game I'm likely to drop in the future. Which is a shame, because while I find the premise interesting, to me it isn't enough to justify the shoddy game experience. Especially when I have other games on my plate - chapter 12 H stages are coming in AK, and Lone Trail is next week btw!

I'll just vicariously enjoy the plot through other people's playthroughs, mostly because that's what interested me about this game in the first place. I'm sorry, I just can't force myself to play the damn game at this point.

getting albedo instead of arle is such a bad idea, since i have so good weapon for him whatsoever, but why is it so tempting

I finally got this man after doing 30 more pulls!

Took him long enough to come home!

And also here’s my final build for him:

love seeing how big the reception to wuthering waves is bc kuro games' prev game release punishing gray raven is kind of like. underrated? under the radar? the fandom isn't that big for it (on tumblr at least)

anyway if you want similar (but different) action game combat try punishing gray raven