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Fanta Username: kattiara
Fanta ID: 36824457
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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)

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Skill
Source
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Zhang_Jiao_12
Melee 40 B 170 531232
(677000)
614612
(779000)
531232
(677000)
1677076 2133000 Slow Area Attack Atrophy Heroic Packs 44
12 Yukito icon.png Yukito.gif
Yukito
Melee 35 A 130 538567
(685000)
430933
(550500)
482293
(612500)
1451793 1848000 Slow Knockback Atrophy Heroic Packs 43
12 Black Dragon 12 icon.png Black Dragon 12.gif
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 icon.png Haguro.gif
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 icon.png Treksu.gif
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 icon.png Urufione.gif
Urufione
Melee 30 B 150 546035
(0)
417583
(0)
417583
(0)
1381201 0 Knockback Berserk 5 Star Plus Packs 81
12 Juri icon.png Juri.gif
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 icon.png Arcel.gif
Arcel
Melee 30 A 130 502340
(0)
441566
(0)
394068
(0)
1337974 0 Knockback Piercing Flash Special Packs 5
12 Elta icon.png Elta.gif
Elta
Magic 25 B 170 444901
(0)
444901
(0)
444901
(0)
1334703 0 Slow Lightning Fury 5 Star Plus Packs 70
12 Groa 12 icon.png Groa 12.gif
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 icon.png Ridin.gif
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 icon.png Zilant.gif
Zilant
Missile 30 S 175 410610
(0)
410610
(0)
410610
(0)
1231830 0 Poison Area Attack Iron Wall Quest 68-7
12 Rishen icon.png Rishen.gif
Rishen
Melee 25 A 130 475044
(0)
374191
(0)
374191
(0)
1223426 0 Knockback Pariah Heroic Packs 28
Memorial Packs 2018
12 Harthi 12 icon.png Harthi 12.gif
Harthi_12
Magic 25 B 150 329555
(0)
562949
(0)
329555
(0)
1222059 0 Slow Big Bang Extreme Packs Season 123
12 Jani icon.png Jani.gif
Jani
Missile 25 A 150 450209
(0)
401408
(0)
363277
(0)
1214894 0 Slow Lightning Fury Three Step Packs 93
12 Anne 12 icon.png Anne 12.gif
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 icon.png Myrtil.gif
Myrtil
Magic 20 A 175 387058
(490000)
314018
(401000)
393664
(499000)
1094740 1390000 Slow Area Attack Atrophy Heroic Packs 44
12 Jacqueline 12 icon.png Jacqueline 12.gif
Jacqueline_12
Magic 10 C 150 296008
(379000)
296008
(379000)
389654
(491000)
981670 1249000 Knockback Acid Deluge Heroic Packs 44
12 Otama icon.png Otama.gif
Otama
Missile 15 A 150 409280
(521000)
280323
(356000)
280323
(356000)
969926 1233000 Slow Nerve Strike Series Packs 2
Memorial Packs 2018


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