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Table of Contents
- Don't Drown in the Deeper Recruit Pool!
- Use Your Rare Tags!
- Guaranteed 4 Star and Up Rate
- Tag Lists For the New Operators
- New Tag Combo Lists and Recruitment Resources
Among the exciting news from the Anniversary Livestreams, we learned that we'd be seeing the addition of a large number of Operators to the Recruitment pool! We immediately lamented the loss of all the guaranteed Gummies and ShiraYukis, but is their loss someone else's gain?What other tags have been affected, and what new tags have taken their place? In this guide I will discuss the major additions, changes, and impacts of the first recruitment pool expansion.Don't Drown in the Deeper Recruit Pool!
All Tags will be refreshed when the recruitment changes are implemented. So if you try to save aTop Operator Tagto get Ch'en, you are going to have no Ch'en and a lot of tears and regret. Use any rare tags before the recruitment update! Note:Recruits that start before the reset and end after the reset will use the pre-reset pool, not the post reset poolUse Your Rare Tags!
We don't know 100% for certain, but based on data that has been collected up to this point, it is highly likely that: What does that mean? We all know that certain combinations of tags guarantee that higher rarity Operators will be recruited when they are selected together. Based on the fact that these "high rarity" combinations more frequently occur together than apart, it is believed that the process for which Tags appear for the player is a 2 step process: Since this process doesnot change, the updates to the pool will not change the rate of getting combinations that guarantee higher rarity units, it will only change which tag combinations you get. So you won't be getting less Yellow Certs, but until youmemorize the new tags that guarantee them, you might want touse a filter/calculator so you don't miss one:Guaranteed 4 Star and Up Rate
Ch'en Tag List:Top Operator,Melee,Guard,Nuker,DPS Guarantee Combos to get this Operator: Top Operator +Nuker Notes:Top Operator + Guard -no longer guarantees SilverAsh, but is shared by him, Skadi, and Ch'en. Skadi Tag List:Top Operator,Melee,Guard,Survival,DPS Guarantee Combos to get this Operator: Top Operator + Survival Notes:Top Operator + Guard -no longer guarantees SilverAsh, but is shared by him, Skadi, and Ch'en. Swire Tag List:Senior Operator,Melee,Guard,Support,DPS Guarantee Combos to get this Operator: Senior Operator + Support + Guard, Notes: Nightmare Tag List:Senior Operator,Ranged,Caster,Healing,DPS,Slow Guarantee Combos to get this Operator: Caster + Healing, Healing + Slow, Healing + DPS, Senior Operator + Caster, Caster + DPS + Slow Notes: The following combos will no longer guarantee Istina:Slow + Ranged+ DPS,Senior Operator + Slow + DPS,Senior Operator + Slow + Ranged. There are still combos that will guarantee her. Greyy Tag List:Ranged,Caster,AoE,Slow Guarantee Combos to get this Operator: Caster + AoE + Slow (however, choosing only Caster + Slow gives a chance at Nightmare, and will also give Greyy most of the time.) New 4 Star and Up Guarantee (Yellow Cert): Caster + Slow Beehunter Tag List:Melee, DPS, Guard Guarantee Combos to get this Operator:none New 4 Star and Up Guarantee (Yellow Cert): none Spot Tag List:Melee,Defender,Defense,Healing Combos that no longer guarantee 4 Star and up (Yellow Cert):Defender + Healing, Defense + Healing Notes: Finally somebody other than Beagle if you are going all-out for Vulcan. The addition of Spot will make getting Gummy more difficult. Popukar Tag List:Melee,Guard,AoE, Survival Combos that no longer guarantee 4 Star and up (Yellow Cert):Guard + AoE, Survival + AoE, AoE + Melee Notes:The addition of Popukarwill make getting Estelle, a recruit-only Operator, quite a bit more difficult. Midnight Tag List:Melee,Guard,DPS Notes: Popukar and Midnight will be giving Melantha a rest if you are trying to get lucky with Indra. Catapult Tag List:Ranged, Sniper, AoE Combos that no longer guarantee 4 Star and up (Yellow Cert):Sniper + AoE Notes: Even with the addition of Catapult,ShiraYuki still has the Sniper + Slowcombothat will guarantee her, and AoE + Slow that will guarantee her or Greyy, so it shouldn't greatly effect the difficulty of getting her. THRM-EX Tag List:Melee, Specialist, Nuker, Robot Combos that guarantee this Operator: Robot + Specialist, Robot + Nuker, Specialist + Nuker Note:if time is set to 3:50 or below, 5 stars are removed, so a Nuker tag guarantees Themal (assuming it doesn't drop). At above 3:50, robots are removed, so the Nuker tag guarantees Firewatch (you should be setting to 9 hours)Tag Lists For the New Operators
On the main Operator Recruitment guide, I have the updated full lists of Tag combos that guarantee 5 and 4 Star Operators. For example, here is the new Yellow Cert Tag List:New Tag Combo Lists and Recruitment Resources
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