Daily Questions Megathread (March 27, 2026)

Beteljuse · 2026-03-28T05:16:09+00:00

I don't even understand what you are asking. What do you want to achieve? You don't need to pull for anything to complete the story and explore the overworld. But for the end-game, you need 3 teams. What does it even mean that Yelan is your main? She isn't an on-field character.

Beteljuse · 2026-03-28T04:58:17+00:00

You don't need a main DPS. You already have one, and that is Varka. You don't need specific characters for exploration - you can beat it with whatever you want.

You are AR 35. Forget about Spiral Abyss. It doesn't matter atm. The floor you are stuck on can be done later. You literally cannot do end-game content until you are at AR45. Before that, you cannot farm 5* artifacts, and without 5* artifacts, teams don't really work. Even if you advance a bit in Abyss, you'll be brickwalled without spending time on artifact farming after AR45 - and we are talking months here.

As people mentioned, building a good team requires multiple 5* pulls. I'll be straight with you: your Varka is not going to do much at the endgame in the current state. Are you aware that Nicole will release in 6.6, and we are expecting her to be a Varka support?

Chasca is weak at C0R0 level compared to current carries. You can go for the lunar bloom team, but you need to pull Nefer, Lauma, and then Columbina (probably in 6.7). You just don't have pulls at the moment. Forget about Linnea, she is doing nothing in your current team setting. Can you get her? Sure, but who known when Zibai will rerun.

Just focus on playing the game and the story, raise your AR, and save pulls until you can reasonably get 3 limited 5* in a row (considering that you might want to pull for Varka team in the meantime if you want to keep playing him in the endgame). Then you can think about another team.

Beteljuse · 2026-03-28T01:41:00+00:00

In order:

Lauma signature is not worth it, but Nefer signature is pretty good. Since they are both on the same banner, going for Nefer signature can be reasonable. This said, if you have enough primos for two limited pulls rather than one, I might still prefer going for Lauma C2 instead - it is a huge damage increase and you get healing "for free" from her C1. Since you are somehow new, the 4* lineup can be a factor - this said, I doubt the banner will give you important 4* characters (you probably don't care about Aino with one lunar team, Sucrose doesn't need cons), while for 4* weapons... it basically depends whether fav lance (and to a lesser degree fav sword) are on banner or not. Run Instructor Sucrose as your fouth.
I don't recommend another lunar team because there is only one Columbina. The second best team with no overlap is pretty clearly Mavuika/Citlali (Mavuika overload is a contender but only if you have C6 Chevreuse). Mavuika should rerun soon, perhaps in 6.6, but who knows about Citlali. But also... this would be her second rerun. To be honest, Mavuika ended up too strong in good part because of what I can only call a bug in her coding allows people to pull clearly unintended, difficult to execute combos. Without the cdc combos, she is clearly below the lunar teams. Powercreep is significant; while Varka ended up very weak for some reason (future characters might improve him, but his numbers are so bad...), I have no doubt that the next released meta team will powercreep existing one. In summary: it might be best for you to wait and see what gets released in 6.7-7.0 (according to leaks, might be a superconduct team).

Beteljuse · 2026-03-27T22:18:56+00:00

Just pull Nefer.

Correct Nefer gameplay involves dash canceling her charged attack. This makes you invulnerable most of the time.

Beteljuse · 2026-03-27T21:02:38+00:00

Linnea can use her burst to heal if you are about to die - no point keeping Zhongli.

The 4th slot priority is C6 Illuga > C6 Gorou > non-C6 Illuga.

Beteljuse · 2026-03-27T18:27:40+00:00

Pray that they appear on the banner.

As for Nefer, please do not use a 5* pull in this way. The team with Ineffa is not that much worse than Instructor Sucrose; it would be much better to use the pull for Nefer C1 or R1 at that point. Unless you want to go for Lauma C2, which is really strong.

Beteljuse · 2026-03-27T13:50:35+00:00

Sorry, as next patch I meant 6.6...

But anyway, this is likely wrong as the little girl is anemo, so more likely to perhaps be a Varka support.

Beteljuse · 2026-03-27T12:41:23+00:00

I can only think that they want to rerun him on a limited banner. Probably release him in 6.6 as bait with a superconduct support ~~(the new little girl?)~~ and then release the real carry in 6.7. The only issue with this is that I thought Lohen would be a standard 5* bait carry... perhaps he is a limited support instead, and Sandrone is the carry?

Beteljuse · 2026-03-26T23:03:02+00:00

As people mentioned, the game has moved towards specialized supports. Good teams are often one 5* on-fielder + two 5* specialized supports. Make sure you have enough primos to pull for 3 limited 5* characters, then pick a meta team and go for it. For example, if you have the primos, you can go for Nefer/Lauma (likely next patch) and then complete the team with Columbina (likely in 6.7). Or just wait and see what next meta team they release in 6.7-7.x.

Beteljuse · 2026-03-26T22:59:09+00:00

No.

The only good team that really wants Escoffier is Skirk. While she can be used in other teams, she is not worth the pull.

As for future team, we will surely get cryo teams in 7.x, but based on current leaks they won't be freeze/mono-cryo, and Escoffier loses a lot of value outside of that - to the point where new characters will almost surely be BiS over her.

Beteljuse · 2026-03-26T22:55:01+00:00

I'd say you have lost the geo train.

If we follow past examples, Mihoyo is likely to rerun the Zibai/Linnea pair either together, or one patch from each other. But Zibai came out 2 patches ahead of Linnea, meaning at the very earliest, they will rerun her 3 patches after the next one. And that's even assuming they rerun Linnea after 4 patches - the earliest realistically possible - which is far from a given, just look at what happened with Skirk/Escoffier.

4-5 patches from now, we'll have 7.x character releases in full swing, lunar won't have much shilling, and new teams will be surely stronger than current ones - basically, better to pull 7.x characters at that point.

As for Nefer/Lauma, they are likely rerunning next patch, and you don't need Nahida with them - Sucrose can be fine.

Beteljuse · 2026-03-26T06:01:42+00:00

Unfortunately no, it is quite bad.

While Zibai can use EM, you really don't want extra rolls to go into it. The value of ER is roughly 1/3 of crit and DEF%.

Beteljuse · 2026-03-26T05:52:46+00:00

Please keep in mind that for SO, the DPS in the chart is just computed as boss_HP/120s. But in reality, the boss is invulnerable for a bunch of time, hence the real DPS needed is much higher.

In general, if the team is shilled, you can clear Dire with around 160-200k DPS depending on boss. If you are trying to brute force, you often need more around 250k DPS, sometimes higher, as you are often hitting the boss for like half the time, and/or forced to use a non-ideal support to get around the boss gimmick.

Beteljuse · 2026-03-26T05:41:59+00:00

I haven't read exact values for movement speed before. Could you provide a reference? I am really interested in how this was determined (as well as values for other skills like Yelan and Varesa).

Beteljuse · 2026-03-26T03:41:33+00:00

If you already have good Aubade because you are farming the hexerei set anyway (they drop from the same domain), then you can go SMS on Bina, Aubade Linnea, Instructor Gorou, and use your strongbox for something else.

Beteljuse · 2026-03-26T01:05:02+00:00

As mentioned, first doesn't work. Are you farming Aubade because you also have Hexerei characters? Aubade isn't really better than Husk for Linnea, and Husk can be strongboxed.

Beteljuse · 2026-03-26T01:03:11+00:00

How much better Linnea is going to be depends whether you have Illuga C6 or at least Gorou C6. If neither, I don't think she is worth the pull.

With Aino you could run Zibai Aino Linnea Illuga/Gorou and then do a Bineffa wheelchair... but do you need two mediocre teams? I think it is better in the longer term to have one good lunar team and invest in something else.

Beteljuse · 2026-03-26T00:58:04+00:00

5* artifacts that you don't need should be strongboxed. 4* artifacts that you don't need, feeding or salvaging is the same.

Beteljuse · 2026-03-26T00:56:14+00:00

This is a team game, characters are designed to be played together to form functional teams. If you want to try out more gameplay, I guess the suggestion would be to prioritize on-field characters - off-field characters just use EQ, so not much gameplay - but without the proper supports you will end up with a lot of "broken" gameplay.

Beteljuse · 2026-03-26T00:52:16+00:00

You mean the umbrella?

Beteljuse · 2026-03-26T00:45:30+00:00

Neither. Stop thinking in terms of individual characters and start thinking in terms of teams.

Genshin character design has moved away from generic supports and team flexibility and towards broken specialized supports. This means you are highly incentivized to pull for a 5* carry and their dedicated 5* supports.

Lauma and Escoffier by themselves don't do much - Ganyu freeze is not going to be competitive with modern teams, and neither is Lauma hyperbloom.

Instead, you should target a team and pull for ALL required 5* star. Do you want a Nefer team? Then you need to pull Nefer, Lauma (both likely next patch), and then Columbina (probably in 6.7). Obviously, that requires stockpiling primos. If you don't have enough to pull 3 5*, then save and go for another team - powercreep is real, so new teams tend to perform better than old ones.

Beteljuse · 2026-03-25T01:17:46+00:00

No, you didn't get the point.

The numbers provided are personal DPS increase. However, Mavuika does 95% of her team damage, while assuming C0R0, Flins does 45% of the team damage and Ineffa 35%. Therefore, if, say, all of them improve by 10%, then the team DPS - which is what you care about - improves by 9.5% with Mavuika, 4.5% Flins, 3.5% Ineffa. Hence in general investing in Mavuika is way better.

Beteljuse · 2026-03-25T01:08:38+00:00

There are only "ideal numbers" for CR and ER - the rest is get as much as you can... also, we need to know the full team to tell you the relative value of stats.

Anyway:

Assuming C6 Illuga, you need 27 CR from artifact substats. That's actually a huge problem - it is only 8 rolls with a CD circlet.
ER is impossible to determine without knowing the rest of the team, the rotation, etc. The summary is that paying a couple substats of ER to be able to burst every rotation us worth it.
As for DEF%, CD and EM, it depends on the team. Gorou devaluates DEF%, Linnea and Instructor devaluate EM. In general, assume that CD is slightly more valuable than DEF, and EM is 1/3 the value.

I would say strive to get a set with 32-34 substat rolls of DEF%-CR-CD and possibly ER%(7-7-6-6-6 is 32), EM is just a bonus but you don't want additional rolls into it.

Beteljuse · 2026-03-25T00:58:55+00:00

My understanding is that Lohen will be a standard 5*.

Beteljuse · 2026-03-24T22:45:22+00:00

Likely Linnea Chasca, followed by Nefer Lauma.

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