13 Replies to “PAD Academy 2023 with Gear Step (WIP)”

1. Do they use an AI to make these BGM remixes? They all sound so awful. Mion and Marius sound alright because its just simple piano notes but sheesh everything else is so bad

2. Dungeon drops includes 3x DMG Cap Latent

   itll be at least 3 months before the version update for this comes to NA then.
   Ina seems weak. Seiren and Lilith has a much higher HP multiplier and and its still considered too weak because healers have no HP to start with.
   I’m praying they dont give my girl Isis rainbow awakenings. She’s such a versatile superblind cleric for water teams and I can see YamaP thinking trading 7c for rainbow would be a good thing when it really just makes her a less vers sub. Kio could becomes good too I guess but he can be exchanged for and GH hates buffing ild stuff lately even when theres so many forms for Kio making rolling and exchanging for many dupes desirable

   1. From looking at the original JP source a bit in advance, PAD Academy Isis’ reincarnated form did indeed get her 7c replaced with 3 Att. Enhanced Attack (Her base ATK was also quadrupled to offset the difference). However, her base and ultimate forms ended up getting 2x TPA+ and 2x 10c, so it is now a viable side-grade if you prefer that playstyle, compared to before where they were largely inferior to her reincarnated form.

      1. Weighted stat diff + 8 latent frames isnt really a sidegrade as much is it is straight up better. They also did this change that makes her ‘buffs’ null on a team that isnt activating 3+ att.
         Shes as good as she was last year bicolor and mono teams… but I still feel like something was taken away from me :/
         Revos also have a high resource cost to undo that includes the MP to undo it, the xp and globes to Super Limit Break, and the latents removed if you had 8 on previously.

3. what if instead of 6 7c they just buffed the 7c awakening and condensed? I don’t miss the skill lock resist since awoken bind then skill lock is common and I can easily get the 5 I need from 3 assists. They could buff SLR to have the secondary effect of counting as one Skill Delay Resist but Yamamoto knows what he’s doing and Yamamoto knows best

4. So Lucifer and others are just removed availability now? Most of the buffs are really weak so its not like the president missed out on anything but he had good artwork and it would have been cool if he got buffed to be useful for once in his life. GH Collab is the jewiest cash grab in the game and this change just makes the Japs seem more Jewy.

5. They really made a waifu out of my main leader Nautilus

   1. After a lot of negative responses and personal attacks, YamaP said that they were not anthros but are pilots in training to pilot their respective mechs. DJ Naut has become an irreplaceable sub on my Naut team now. There’s just no damage without DJ Naut. I even tried Exia as a sub and it doesn’t help enough. Unfortunately Naut doesn’t work as a row lead any more. All the great wood subs are pierce blob focused so if you actually make rows you won’t do any damage. I miss wood rows and I hate the damage cap and Naut has a really bad 2 turn skill.

      1. Makes sense, I imagine it being a similar case to Julie and Barbara being the pilots of Balboa and Baldin. Admittedly, the pilots and the mechs of Transforming Robot series sharing the same name does raise some questions, but I figure it might just be their callsign that applies to both of them in a general sense. That being said, PAD features multiple alternate universes, including one where there are dragons counterparts to many of the characters. The Transforming Robots somehow having humanoid counterparts wouldn’t even be the weirdest thing PAD Academy has thrown at us compared to something like oh… PAD Academy Yog-Sothoth.

         1. Its really lame that the pilots look so weak art-wise. Maybe Alternate pilots will come out. I personally feel aversion from wanting to play Daytona, Seawolf, and Naut now that I know twinks and a girl with a silly facial expression are behind them. An AB test so I can imagine the pilot I like more piloting my team would make me want to play them. The robots are all sorta weak now though. Who was using sealab team anyways? He was never a real red lead and takoyaki awakenings are better suited on assists.

6. As a fun detail, the GEAR STEP versions of Nautilus, Daytona and Sea Wolf are all wearing watches that bear some degree of resemblence to their original namesake, although admittedly more colorful and futuristic. Nautilus’ watch in particular looks the closest to its real-life counterpart the Patek Philippe Nautilus line of watches that are recognizable by their distinct “porthole” shaped frame and singular crown dial.

   1. I’m looking forward to Black Veil June Bride to have a stealth fighter jet in the skyline carrying a sky banner celebrating the wedding.

7. So the only event rn is Gear Step? If they don’t have a collab scheduled this week (plz fujimi rerun with highschool dxd additions) they could at least do a mini event like they’ve done with sin dragons and mystics and spectres in the past. DBDC and Sacred relic havent been available in a long time. they dont even have to give buffs they can just make the gacha and dungeons available so people have options of what to play.