Path to Rainbow Road
Returning Month 1 Player Crawls Out of Solistia Retirement — Please Explain Rainbow Wrath to Me Like I’m 90
Hey Octotravelers,
Former Month 1 player here. I played pretty consistently all the way through the NieR Collaboration Event era before real life hit me with the ultimate debuff: family responsibilities. By the time Solistia got added to the map, I basically vanished into the void.
Back in my day, the pinnacle of human evolution was the Kaine + Tiziano combo. If you had that setup, you walked around like you paid rent in Orsterra. I recently got spooked by Tiziano on a random pull and suddenly felt whole again… only to discover everyone now worships something called “Rainbow Wrath.” Apparently the meta moved on while I was outside touching grass.
Since returning, I’ve been slowly throwing whatever rubies I could scrape together at banners and somehow got absurdly lucky with a bunch of units. I never managed to get Pardis, Mydia, or Molrusso EX (pain), but here’s what I have managed to collect:
Dark Knight
Dark Priestess
Isla
Kilns
Hikari
Casti
Hujheb
Sazantos
Signa
Shana
Lemaire
Partitio
Ochette
Lynette EX
Rinyuu EX
Diatrina EX
Viola EX
Cyrus EX
Therese EX
Sertet
Sigrid EX
Levina EX
Tiziano
Emil
Aviete
Xerc
At this point, I have a ton of characters maxed out up until Kaine, but absolutely zero idea what I’m doing anymore. I logged back in and felt like Captain America waking up in the future.
So I had a few questions for the veterans still fighting the good fight:
What’s considered the most optimal Rainbow team right now?
What’s the current top Physical team/meta setup?
Which future units should I start saving for?
How do you unlock/get the Chomper and Ochette pets?
How do Latent Powers work now?
What’s the process for getting characters to 6★ these days?
Sorry for the avalanche of questions. I’m genuinely hyped to start adventuring again, and I’m currently experimenting with team setups while trying to understand what half these new mechanics even are. I leave for ten patch cycles and suddenly everybody has pets, rainbow nukes, and existential trauma from power creep. Help an old traveler out pls.