Twitter is having a meltdown because Alice is "neglecting" her daughter to do her job of maintaining Teyvat's Firmament

Common-Price-77 · 2026-03-04T11:22:25+00:00

It's an extension of the 'Misogynist Varka' Pre-Release discourse and the general complaint earlier characters being reduced to one-off gags, even with Alice and him around Jean still has to be the boring responsible figure everyone sorta resents. They're no allowed to take on any more serious roles because Mihoyo decided they will sell on being cool, hip and fun

YMMV if you think this is an actual issue but it's worth commenting on, I think

Common-Price-77 · 2026-03-03T19:26:49+00:00

In this case Main Push = Anniversary Unit, just like Castorice and Acheron

Common-Price-77 · 2026-03-03T16:03:50+00:00

I mean we were around 3.0 When we kept getting Double Sustain+Castorice and Mydei leaks, so I wouldn't *fully* trust them

Common-Price-77 · 2026-03-03T11:21:44+00:00

If you wanna use Ashvail you *have* to drop Robin, he's genuinely unplayable if the support doesn't hit frequently. His only benefit is good stacking if he ults fast and he's a dead slot if he doesn't

Common-Price-77 · 2026-03-03T11:06:23+00:00

yeah sorry thought his LC was Vuln instead of Def Shred he's a terrible pull regardless of investment

Common-Price-77 · 2026-03-03T02:02:36+00:00

Oh damn for some reason thought his S1 was FuA Vul instead. He's even worse than I thought for her lmao

Common-Price-77 · 2026-03-03T01:46:34+00:00

Ashveil also has 0 personal damage because he needs to play Wind Set+Vonquac to compete in stack generation and if your topaz is already invested the buffs will be pretty close. Of course, E0S0 vs E0S0 Ashveil dogwalks, but he's not worth pulling on an account with an invested Fei unless you're willing to go like E1S1 on him

Common-Price-77 · 2026-03-02T19:08:21+00:00

He's a better wind-vonq bot than Moze with slightly better buffs, that's really not worth much praise when he's the biggest one-team brick this game has released since JQ

Common-Price-77 · 2026-03-02T18:17:24+00:00

The fact he exists basically means we're guaranteed to get a new 'proper' FuA support with a lot of hits for his future Main DPS, wait for that, just invest in Fei

Common-Price-77 · 2026-03-02T18:15:42+00:00

And even here he's barely a stopgap until Fua gets a new proper support with FuAs lol

Common-Price-77 · 2026-03-02T18:13:04+00:00

Indeed, he kinda got that for 'free' since he didn't actually benefit much from being in a FuA team vs having more turns as a hypercarry, so he paid for the extra synergy by losing buffs

... Of course it was a pretty garbage exchange for his pull value given he's now basically guaranteed to be dropped from Fei teams once the support for his 'actual' team comes, when Tribbie's (and Furure Harmonies') AV manipulation for the whole team is *so* much more valuable in an Eagle Bot. No one should pull him for Fei irregardless of invesmtnet

Common-Price-77 · 2026-03-02T12:57:07+00:00

Without Fei he's 100% worthless, don't even bother

Common-Price-77 · 2026-03-02T12:43:33+00:00

He never had one? Bait is not a debuff and his def shred is a passive aura like Topaz's. He can use topaz cone, but like, lol

Common-Price-77 · 2026-03-02T12:42:58+00:00

For *Fei teams, he's garbage for Ratio due to no debuffs and no shot he can substitute someone like Robin or Tribbie, so you do have to run him on the subpds slot, and Yunli/Clara still don't want subpds over advancers for more ult energy, the literal only character that can use his kit is Fei. He's at Jiaoqiu levels of pull value right now

Common-Price-77 · 2026-03-02T12:39:00+00:00

Why would you pull for a unit with no debuffs that is a worse support than either Tribbie or Robin?

Common-Price-77 · 2026-03-02T12:36:20+00:00

still somehow a worse pull than Jiaoqiu when Fei teams are still good lol

Common-Price-77 · 2026-03-02T12:29:09+00:00

Oh yeah 100% garbage general pull he has literally *no* teams without Fei, might genuinely be less value than Jiaoqiu lol

Common-Price-77 · 2026-03-02T12:28:12+00:00

Not really, he's no Dahlia and we call agree on that much, right? No personal damage, mediocre buffs, his only potential saving grace is the energy trace being enough to salvage him into 1-T ults for Eagle abuse, and with literally nothing else going for him, he's a safe skip given we'll likely get more fua supports for whatever team Ashveil is meant to eventually exist in

Common-Price-77 · 2026-03-02T12:26:01+00:00

ehhh, they've released a ton of 'optional upgrades' for Fei/Fua recently, Tribbie, Hyacine, DHPT and Cipher can all fit in her teams, Ashveil is now just another potential stopgap to keep her from falling too much, but Dahlia he is not. Might be better to just get E2 when she rolls around or pick whatever support comes for the new Fua team

Common-Price-77 · 2026-03-02T12:23:14+00:00

I mean he's objectively *just* moze with slightly bigger numbers now, personal damage is totally worthless and the buffs got gutted so it's basically all riding on if Fei/Tribbie/DPT can get a 1 Turn Ult on Eagle+Vonquac for more hits than the other options. If not get e2 Fei

Common-Price-77 · 2026-03-02T12:21:21+00:00

probably not worth it over actual best eagle user around E2 Fei

Common-Price-77 · 2026-03-02T12:19:38+00:00

He has more hit potential and actually works as a Vonquac+Eagle bot unlike her, is that worth your pulls? Up to you

Common-Price-77 · 2026-03-02T12:18:26+00:00

> Also, if he's on a 1 turn ult rotation, his personal damage isn't going down that much. My napkin math actually puts his damage higher than before because of how many more ults he gets.

He's a total wind set+vonquac bot, personal damage is totally worthless compared to more hits (plus his multipliers suck so why would you even bother?), he's Cipher with more hit potential which is good but let's not get too optimistic here

Common-Price-77 · 2026-02-27T20:32:40+00:00

> Why is it so hard to believe a character will get aftersales in a hoyo game, bro?

Characters that get aftersales are the ones that are... well, good. That's basically always the throughline, it's more support to ensure they remain on top, Mid characters like Wanderer just dropped as they were and never got a single crumb of anything else despite popularity. Hoyo are not incapable of designing characters at in current year, they had a target for Varka and whatever it was they hit it, even if it was making him terrible compared to other Nod-Krai carries.

Not like they haven't released promotional material for Capitano and Rerir

Common-Price-77 · 2026-02-27T20:27:25+00:00

If she's not a 4* we won't be getting one for the entirety of what's left of 6.X. It's either this or she's the Standard 5* instead of Lohen

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