User:Kattiara

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Hi all,

I've shifted my updates off the front page, and added it here so that anyone can find it here in the future if they're looking. Good luck and best wishes to you all! :)

Couldn't Resist ..I did log back in one final time to 'pull' myself. Very amused and touched by the card. Also, three cheers to Marybeth for doing an amazing job taking over updates and working to share the knowledge with more folks! ..Back to retirement with me. All the best to all of you. -Kattiara (talk)

Goodbye, 2/27/17 As noted, this marks my final update and my retirement from the wiki. I've moved my post from last week to my userpage, so as not to clutter up the main page here. The next event will start this Thursday, 3/2, and I'm honestly not sure if anyone is going to take over updates. There doesn't seem to be anyone with the interest, time, and desire. I hope I'm proved wrong, but if not.. it's been a good run. Goodbye and best of luck to you all! Thank you so much to all of the extremely kind folks who have reached out with thanks over the past week, or posted on my wall, etc. It's absolutely because of people like you, who appreciated the wiki, that I continued updating for so much longer than I originally planned. :) -Kattiara (talk)

Status Update, 2/20/17 Hi everyone, Kattiara here. I wanted to give a general update. First a shout-out - there are some amazing and wonderful editors in the community (TORAelle and Palidan188 most recently – hugs to you both!) who have been helping out immensely with the creation of all the pages for new events, and have been doing so for for awhile. Thank you again for that, and to all of the players who contribute data in the form of unit and monster stats. I’m biased, but I think this is one of the best mobile gaming wikis around, and it’s absolutely because of a lot of great players and contributors. Thank you to everyone. :) For a long time now, I’ve been the main editor who has uploaded image files for events, and set up the units and monsters within the database backend. And over these past few years, the events have gotten shorter (usually ~ 3 days each now) and often overlap, and packs have gotten more frequent (new packs literally every single day). That means that the amount of files that go into each update have also increased, and the amount of time and effort it takes to bundle it all together has gone up. I want to note that I do not, and have never had, any affiliation with Mobage / DeNA / Silicon Studios. I’m just a random player who is also a data nerd, and wanted to try and help collect info for the wiki as best I could. For anyone curious, the update process on my side is something like this: Wake up early (~6:30am EST) to start checking when the game comes up from maintenance While I’m waiting, use the new event’s Rules page to start creating the full event page on the wiki, listing all the info, units, packs, rewards, etc. At some point, maintenance ends and the game comes up. Start the process of pulling the local, encrypted image files down to be able to work with Decrypt the files, rename the files, prep and get them ready for upload, including units, monsters, banners, item icons, packart, etc, upload to FTP site Pull down posters, rename appropriately, condense if the files are too large, upload to FTP site Go into the backend of the wiki site, create all of the units / monsters in the database Review and check for issues. Fix typos! One thing that still gets me if I’m trying to move quickly is units with the same name, but different versions. I sometimes overwrite an older version, and then have to revert it back, fix the new files with a new name, and then reupload. How many more freaking versions of Kanbei Kuroda and Yoshiteru Ashikaga will they release?!? The whole thing takes usually about 2 hours start to finish, at which point I’m running out the door and trying not to be late to work.. and as noted above, this doesn't even include the creation of the individual pack and unit pages. The whole thing gets repeated every single time there’s a new event, so about two to three times a week. Mwilkens37 has helped me out with updates a couple times in the past, but it’s too much to ask anyone to do consistently. Including, unfortunately, myself. I’ve played this game for going on 4½ years. I’ve been running files on the wiki for ~3 years. I took a break at one point in 2015, and was yelled at for ‘abandoning’ the community. If maintenance ends late, or is extended, I literally don’t have time to run the files before work, and will usually do it later that same night – but that still gets me nasty comments about the wiki being slow and out of date. Even worse are the people who post nasty things directly on the wiki itself because they’re impatient. I am burned out. Not only are the updates more frequent and larger, so have more work involved, but the game itself has turned into such a pure moneygrab that it’s no longer fun for me to play. They’ve hamstrung the ‘trading’ aspect of what was original a trading card game. Rewards are for the most part literally unobtainable without significant spending AND being lucky with bonus units. None of this is unheard of in gacha-type games, but it still makes me sad. I’ve also spent more money on this game over the years than I should have. I’m not a top ranker – you won’t see me on forstle's lists – but I always get sucked back in. I tell myself I’m going f2p, and then there’s a new nifty sprite and I end up trying to get it. Then I tell myself now I’m REALLY going to go f2p, and the cycle repeats. I no longer have the time, energy, desire, or money to stay in the game. So I’m retiring, both in game and from this wiki. I decided to post this to give a bit of explanation and warning to folks. As of right now, I’m planning to continue updating through the end of this month (February 2017). So I’ll do the Guild Battle that’ll start this Thursday, as well as the event after that on the 27th. Once February is over, I’m officially retired. Although I'm retiring, I want to stress that the wiki is still here (heck, I don't own it or anything!), and very much still a tool for all of you to use and update. I hope other folks may figure out a better and less manual way to get information posted and shared. If anyone is interested in learning the process I used (which again is not anything official, but very cobbled together), there’s a zip available here with an info doc laying out the steps I would take. Thank you to my Allies over the years, who have always been amazing. Thanks to the community for all the help and contributions. Thanks once again to the other editors on the wiki. And thank you to all the folks who have just used the wiki and enjoyed having it as a resource! My favorite thing was when someone would message me to say, the wiki is awesome, I'm so glad you guys do it. It was definitely a joint effort across a lot of great editors, so that thanks goes to everyone. :) Best of luck to everyone - whether you continue with Fanta or find other sources of entertainment (if you haven't already), hope you have fun whatever you're up to! TL;DR: I'm retiring from the game and wiki. So long, and thanks for all the fish. :) If anyone is interested in picking things up, check out this zip with info on what I would do. -Kattiara (talk)

★	Icon	Unit	Type	Cost	Speed	Range				Total	MLB Total	Skill	Arena Skill	Source
12		Zhang_Jiao_12	Melee	40	B	170	531232 (677000)	614612 (779000)	531232 (677000)	1677076	2133000	Slow Area Attack	Atrophy	Heroic Packs 44
12		Yukito	Melee	35	A	130	538567 (685000)	430933 (550500)	482293 (612500)	1451793	1848000	Slow Knockback	Atrophy	Heroic Packs 43
12		Black_Dragon_12	Missile	35	A	150	500000 (0)	500000 (0)	422216 (0)	1422216	0	Poison Area Attack	Big Bang	5 Star Plus Packs 86
12		Haguro	Melee	30	B	130	454842 (0)	414482 (0)	525451 (0)	1394775	0	Slow Atk Boost (Female)	Light Speed	Ultimate Plus Packs 95 Memorial Packs 2018
12		Treksu	Missile	30	B	130	525557 (668000)	418918 (532500)	447970 (569000)	1392445	1769500	Knockback Area Attack	Counterstrike	Ultimate Plus Packs 93 Heroic Packs 44 Memorial Packs 2018
12		Urufione	Melee	30	B	150	546035 (0)	417583 (0)	417583 (0)	1381201	0	Knockback	Berserk	5 Star Plus Packs 81
12		Juri	Missile	25	C	175	506404 (0)	401004 (0)	436428 (0)	1343836	0	Slow Area Attack	Absolute Zero	Three Step Packs 96 Memorial Packs 2018
12		Arcel	Melee	30	A	130	502340 (0)	441566 (0)	394068 (0)	1337974	0	Knockback	Piercing Flash	Special Packs 5
12		Elta	Magic	25	B	170	444901 (0)	444901 (0)	444901 (0)	1334703	0	Slow	Lightning Fury	5 Star Plus Packs 70
12		Groa_12	Magic	30	S	150	394600 (0)	394600 (0)	490926 (0)	1280126	0	Slow Atk Boost (Female)	Light Speed	Heroic Packs 31 Memorial Packs 2018
12		Ridin	Magic	25	B	150	376856 (0)	444300 (0)	444300 (0)	1265456	0	Knockback Atk Boost (Female)	Angelic Aura	Ultimate Plus Packs 86
12		Zilant	Missile	30	S	175	410610 (0)	410610 (0)	410610 (0)	1231830	0	Poison Area Attack	Iron Wall	Quest 68-7
12		Rishen	Melee	25	A	130	475044 (0)	374191 (0)	374191 (0)	1223426	0	Knockback	Pariah	Heroic Packs 28 Memorial Packs 2018
12		Harthi_12	Magic	25	B	150	329555 (0)	562949 (0)	329555 (0)	1222059	0	Slow	Big Bang	Extreme Packs Season 123
12		Jani	Missile	25	A	150	450209 (0)	401408 (0)	363277 (0)	1214894	0	Slow	Lightning Fury	Three Step Packs 93
12		Anne_12	Magic	20	B	200	331294 (0)	435428 (0)	376590 (0)	1143312	0	Poison Area Attack	Absolute Zero	Heroic Packs 37 Memorial Packs 2018
12		Myrtil	Magic	20	A	175	387058 (490000)	314018 (401000)	393664 (499000)	1094740	1390000	Slow Area Attack	Atrophy	Heroic Packs 44
12		Jacqueline_12	Magic	10	C	150	296008 (379000)	296008 (379000)	389654 (491000)	981670	1249000	Knockback	Acid Deluge	Heroic Packs 44
12		Otama	Missile	15	A	150	409280 (521000)	280323 (356000)	280323 (356000)	969926	1233000	Slow	Nerve Strike	Series Packs 2 Memorial Packs 2018