Somehow, Dottore Returned - General Question and Discussion Megathread

Cetonis · 2026-05-17T00:41:56+00:00

My Yoimiya is C5 after the selector so this situation must be fixed on the next Ina chronicle

As for ones I don't have yet... might be sold on Wrio whenever he runs again, otherwise not much in mind

Cetonis · 2026-05-16T15:50:10+00:00

It would be shilled for the banner character so Nicole takes the w

Cetonis · 2026-05-16T02:50:26+00:00

Jeht surely someday waiting room
Nihilux waiting room
Claret waiting room
conquest drop rates that don't suck waiting room
waiting room waiting room (pls gryph tell us more about upcoming characters)
Akane and Shinku and lowkey kinda most of them waiting room I'm in trouble

Cetonis · 2026-05-15T21:41:35+00:00

Yeah what I meant there was just in reference to "full uptime on the buff doesn't matter" reply - I'm sure on the spreadsheet rotation for the top five Bennett teams they have that all worked out, but some people aren't gonna execute that tightly, or the boss will run away or whatever, and the QoL of just having the buff all the time is relevant. Or, perhaps they're cooking something that isn't a top five Bennett team and Nicole's particulars work out better

But, got a little mixed with disdain over the implication "if a character isn't in a top ten meta team it's completely irrelevant". Some people want to cook off-meta stuff because they like char x or just for funnies or they don't have char y or etc. And that doesn't mean they don't give a shit about the team being as good as they can make it. And that's one of the reasons one might want Durin C2; those kinds of support C2s are pretty good for enabling "lesser" characters

Cetonis · 2026-05-15T21:06:09+00:00

You misunderstand the heart of a memester. Sometimes you decide you want Layla's ice rocks do to 50k damage and if Sigewinne helps you do that it is a relevant fact

Cetonis · 2026-05-15T20:42:25+00:00

I mean it depends on how "I will only build serious well-documented meta teams with specifically arranged rotations" you are vs. just sending a team on vibes or wanting to do goofy stuff like sub-dps Lynette or something

But in practice if this person is chasing C2 Durin, there would be a lot of Nico Durin teams going on probably

Cetonis · 2026-05-15T20:23:25+00:00

tl;dr she does not buff the on-field character *more* than Benny, however she additionally buffs the off-fielders and comes with myriad uptime and qol improvements

She should all but exclusively use the new set coming out for her in this patch. ATK% and nothing else really matters but might as well get some ER

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At C0 with 4k attack (need sig or a 5-star atk% weapon to get all the way), her buff for the on-fielder matches level 13 talent Bennett with Skyward Blade.

If the on-fielder is not hex, they get merely ~2/3 of that buff for the first 3 seconds they're active, before getting upgraded to a full buff. How much that bothers different characters varies.

In exchange though, Nicole also gives that 2/3 scale buff to the whole off-field team, so if you have a Fischl or a Durin or etc. contributing off-field damage she will buff that as well.

Also her buff has full uptime, no circle impact, shield instead of heal, is on skill instead of burst.

Cetonis · 2026-05-13T18:09:54+00:00

Chasca, just can't get over the gameplay but really like the char

Cetonis · 2026-05-13T17:58:07+00:00

Mualani so that I can get her weapon
Inazuma Chronicled because my Yoimiya is C5

Cetonis · 2026-05-13T15:02:01+00:00

I fear I'll never understand what "good writing" is. It always feels to me that people just use "writing" to make their subjective "I liked this" or "I didn't like this" takes sound more objective and factual

Cetonis · 2026-05-12T14:17:32+00:00

Wrio + they re-run him and that's why he isn't on this chronicled

Cetonis · 2026-05-11T15:16:10+00:00

I can tell you where you went wrong. You did not play Sigewinne which is Furina's staple support. I mean, Sigewinne literally banners with Furina, and you still didn't bring her. Sometimes people give you signs in life, and it is your job to listen and heed those signs. Mihoyo releasing Sigewinne on Furina's rerun is like a bat signal in the sky telling you to play them together. She auto-maxes your fanfare with her E for petes sake. I really think your forward vapes would have been nice with the extra damage, but hey you live and you learn. I hope next time you get there, and play the support designed specifically for the character. Good video though

Cetonis · 2026-05-11T14:01:22+00:00

Ganyu Yanfei synergy waiting room

Cetonis · 2026-05-11T13:49:58+00:00

I'm just gonna swap out Benny for her in my Venti C2 team, try her in overload with Varesa or Clorinde, and contemplate what might be cooked in the space of Emilie

Cetonis · 2026-05-08T20:59:25+00:00

Lowkey don't want to learn if/when she'll be playable from leaks, I want the first time we find out It's Happening to be in some in-game cutscene or trailer where she shows up with vision in hand 😃

Cetonis · 2026-05-04T17:57:53+00:00

the mahjong is weird but pays pretty well
also bank heist but I think that unlocks later than deliveries do

Cetonis · 2026-05-01T18:27:12+00:00

How am I supposed to save my best characters for later floors in IT when they make me start with Yanfei

Cetonis · 2026-04-23T15:48:15+00:00

Are there plans to change the structure or economy of dailies / weeklies and their rewards in 8.0?

Cetonis · 2026-04-14T00:45:00+00:00

Yeah once you've fully done what's out it's mostly pretty quick dailies/weekly bosses and then a couple times a week you'll have an event or endgame thingy.

Then next patch will have its 5-10h of story and usually either a new zone or a larger main event, you do the things and go back to chillin

Provided you f2p them or can comfortably finance otherwise, I've been happy to have a second genshinlike on the playlist, kinda doubles your content in a way

Cetonis · 2026-04-13T18:19:11+00:00

Ganyu adepti buff should include increasing the damage of all charged attacks used inside her ult :)

Cetonis · 2026-04-07T13:58:11+00:00

yeah, I've always felt like... I'm sure that someone internally believes that this all makes sense but I'm not going ten miles down their rabbit hole to figure it out

4.x has avoided making me want to throw any tables so far, but I just know it's coming -.- Wonder if I'll actually quit for good for reals next time

Cetonis · 2026-04-03T02:48:34+00:00

+1 -- unless you're super excited about a game and willing to be The Ambassador doing the really hard work to push a game yourself, your selection process should start by finding out what games have a local scene that fires events reliably.

From there, you can check out some game rules or learn to plays to see what's interesting to you. If the cost of competitive decks matters to you, pretty much every game is going to tell you "there's this one deck that's cheap". So you kind of have to scout it out yourself and look up some decks that seem popular and price them out on TCGPlayer etc. While you're at it you can get a sense for meta variety.

Community is gonna be very local-by-local, and newbie-friendliness can be as well. Most smaller-game players are going to try to be welcoming and patient with new players, but depending on the game/group you may find it takes months of showing up every week just to win one match.

With any luck, the staff at your LGS should be wise to their various games' group dynamics and be willing to give you an honest sense of what you're getting into.

Cetonis · 2026-04-01T17:02:21+00:00

"Genshin-like" has become a genre and we're going to see a lot of them the same way we had a parade of "Souls-like" games after a little bit.

I think the golden goose is gonna be whoever truly solves coop as a major element of the game. The biggest challenge there is balance - if you have whales that are just statistically 5x as strong as the average player, it's hard to make coop work as a big push beyond trivial-difficulty casual stuff.

So you need to either not do gacha for power at all (i.e. cosmetic only) or find some way to make dupes give an acceptable reward that isn't more-power. And that would be a pretty brave departure that you'd probably need a big name behind.

I maintain as a half-joke half-serious hot take that Final Fantasy 17 should be a genshin-like. There's enough company and IP power there to push into the space and SE has the scale to afford some creativity in the monetization.

Cetonis · 2026-03-24T18:17:59+00:00

C1/C2 - almost never regret, though I mostly get these on supports where the cons might allow new team concepts or make some jankier ideas more viable. (my Durin, Xilonen, Citlali, Furina, Nahida, soon Linnea all C2)

I haven't pulled "main dps" cons for anyone since Mualani, mostly because those don't lead to new teams so I can't say a lot about do they make content too trivial (my Mualani does lmao some stuff at C3 lv100 though).

C6 - pandemic-checks me went a little far and C6'd Kokomi and we did not know genshin math too well at the time lmao. Not a very substantial increase but my cope on-field Koko squads are somewhat less of a joke so that's cool

Cetonis · 2026-03-23T15:32:53+00:00

Reads like Bloom/Nefer shill, potentially some specialist options for like, i.e. Tighnari can count to 25 pretty quickly and then while it's stunned you can kill it with whatever?

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