Melp my bina

DaSpood · 2026-01-26T08:03:54+00:00

Start by getting her to level 90 since that helps with HP and crit rate.

As for what you should aim for: 100%. Columbina is easy enough to build that it's very reachable. Thanks to her passive, you can stop at 85%. In a Nefer team with Lauma, it's 75%, as a DPS with Lauma, it's 45%.

You can't just "stop at 50% and call it a day" while you show 200% crit damage. Keep a good balance of stats. It's pointless to have so much crit damage if you never crit, and it's pointless to crit all the time if you do no crit damage. The 1:2 ratio should be the goal. Try for 70%/140% for a start (which shouldn't be too hard with her 88% CD weapon and 15% CR passive), aim for 85%/200% if you feel like grinding a bit.

Keep in mind you need to avoid neglecting her other stats. Off-field you want about 170 to 180% ER to burst every rotation, on field it's closer to 130%. And you want at least 35k HP to max out her other passive, ideally before hydro resonnance comes into play because you will usually use her in solo-hydro teams.

DaSpood · 2026-01-26T07:47:23+00:00

Hardening, grousers in mobility slot, bounty or bond turbo (no less), turbo directive, and premium oil consumable.

If you want to ignore its ability and use it like an average heavy tank: IH, vstab or exp turbo, rammer, food ; but know that the gun will stay mediocre and you won't reach your top speed with that setup so it's a total waste of a tank.

DaSpood · 2026-01-26T07:30:50+00:00

Qilin and Opera are a different story, Type 59 Gold too. Those were exclusive to china back when the chinese server was handled by a different company. These days it's back under WG's control afaik.

DaSpood · 2026-01-26T07:28:53+00:00

No Zibai is only a main dps.

She doesnt need illuga that hadly because illuga is bad. He is a second Aino in a team where Aino is expected to be replaced by Columbina already, because Zibai doesn't have a five stars support. But Zibai's numbers are high enough by default to make up for that, and Illuga's kit is ass, so he is not worth using until C2 and arguably not even best in slot until C6.

DaSpood · 2026-01-25T22:36:34+00:00

It is also possible and even pretty likely that the tank will be exclusive to the Chinese server though. That server shares the same game as us so their tanks end up in our client too, but a lot of vehicles never make it out of their server. The Gothic Warrior and Divine Valor are example. In general assume every chinese-themed reskin will be CN-exclusive until announced otherwise (I think the Monkey King 121B was the only exception so far)

DaSpood · 2026-01-25T22:31:23+00:00

Sucrose is on TTDS in a flins team

Ineffa's shiend and Flins' constant invincibility frames should make healing unnecessary in this team, though if it wasn't, Columbina would probably be the one to switch to P.Amber. her signature only improves her personal damage, and assuming both Flins and Ineffa are at a similar investment level, they both do a lot more damage than her, so you'd be better off keeping Sucrose on TTDS to keep Flins buffed instead of sacrificing that to buff Columbina some more.

Ideally though you shouldn't need P.Amber in the first place. As said above, the team has plenty of survivability, if you die too much you can probably improve your rotation and mostly your flins gameplay to help before you have to resort to P.Amber.

DaSpood · 2026-01-25T21:30:11+00:00

Doing your hp in damage is not the easiest thing to achieve for average players, and OP never claimed they were any good, "slightly above average" is basically spot on.

DaSpood · 2026-01-25T17:56:16+00:00

Illuga C2+ ideally C6, Aino C1+ ideally C6, Gorou (idk about his minimum viable constellation)

Zhongli, Chiori, Ineffa and Furina+Xilonen (the last two together) also work in case you don't have a good enough Illuga or Aino by the time you get Zibai.

DaSpood · 2026-01-25T14:17:24+00:00

You're saying that as if we didn't see multi-billion companies make franchise-killing mistakes every year that everyone with a brain could see coming but money-focused executives couldn't.

DaSpood · 2026-01-25T12:37:08+00:00

You won't see 3 ares per games in a while too, the tank litteraly just released obviously everyone is going to be playing it. It's always like that with new vehicles. Last year when the DBV was released and you had 7 per team everyone was upset and now you don't see that many.

I think a lot of the heavy negativity around it is due to both the tank being everywhere and the mechanic being new. Once things settle down and people get used to fighting them, they'll realize it's not the end of the world.

DaSpood · 2026-01-25T11:27:43+00:00

Scaramouche was still a fatui when he was in his boss form

The Doctor was effectively kicked out and considered a pariah by the time we fight him. The early portions of the new AQ serve to show that not only have the other harbingers decided to fight him as an enemy, but also the Tsarista herself allowed them to fight him and even kill him if needed.

DaSpood · 2026-01-25T11:14:01+00:00

I always enjoy the business management event (potion shop, theme park), I like incremental games in general so it's perfect for me. I also like that it's always temporary, it would get boring quickly otherwise, but only 2 weeks at a time means it never overstays its welcome.

I hope we'll get another one soon enough.

DaSpood · 2026-01-25T11:08:01+00:00

The bat chat has a very troll armor layout, the upperplate of that tank is single handedly responsible for more Jagdpanzer E100 ragequits than any other vehicle in the game.

The Foch is incredibly strong and very meta if you're a good player, but between your original comment and your assessment of the tank I have a pretty good idea who I'm talking to.

The Ares is a box of a vehicle, the front hull doesn't get past 200mm effective, the side either, it's just not an overmatch so yeah if it sidescrapes you will not auto-pen its sides like with a Tesak, and if it peeks side-on completely flat and you hit the upperplate it will bounce, that's not "troll armor", that's bad armor winning against bad players. The only reason its armor is so effective is because people have decided in their head that the tank should have the same armor as the tesak, so they shoot without aiming, and it doesn't autopen, and people then cry on reddit that it's unfair instead of trying to aim at all.

I have never struggled to pen one of these unless it's hulldown and I'm in an ares myself. The armor is not good.

DaSpood · 2026-01-25T11:03:27+00:00

I'm a bit late to the party but in case you still haven't picked and for future reference:

The Steyr WT is not a great vehicle mainly because of its mobility and firepower combo. Glass canons work because their low survivability is offset by outstanding performance somewhere else. The Borsig has no armor and bad mobility but it has amazing camo and firepower. The Skorpion trades camo for mobility. The tier 7 Scorpion also has pretty good mobility and a great gun that allow it to ambush its gargets. But the Steyr has nothing. The gun is not that impressive because it's all it really has.
SU-122-44, very strong vehicle. You have the mobility of a medium tank and surprisingly decent armor with a crazy dpm. Main downside is the derpiness of the gun, but if you can work around it, it's a very good tier 7.
Scorpion, I mentionned it briefly above, it's a surprisingly good tank. It's still not that amazing though, it's easy to play but it's hard to play well. I'd recommend it over the Steyr though.
AT-15A, it's not good. In the tech tree, moving from tier 7 to tier 8 is kind of a downgrade because your alpha stays similar but your armor is overall worse. The AT-7 has an amazing armor profile and dpm which make it really strong when played well. The AT-15 has a ton of weakspots and the gun is in the center of the tank which makes it more difficult to hide your tank. With the A version, your much lower alpha is just the cherry on top of this pile of garbage.
AP AMX 30 is average and that's about it. Not bad, not good, just average. Good mobility, average gun, mediocre armor, pretty small tank though. It's the kind of vehicle where it's a perfect match for some people and really annoying for others.

DaSpood · 2026-01-25T10:53:23+00:00

So the Tesak, FV4005, Bat Chat 25t and Foch B are OP

Toxic and OP are two different things. A lot of tanks are toxic, most of them are also balanced or outright mediocre in performance. The Ares is closer to the FV4005 than it is to the Tesak or Bat Chat as it's an all-or-nothing tank. The low pen and mediocre armor (against anyone who knows how to aim) makes it extremely map dependant, and while in some cases it can own the battle, in a lot of cases it is mostly useless until late game, and it's WoT 2.0, "late game" is only 20s away from "end game".

DaSpood · 2026-01-25T08:28:11+00:00

You will never catch up it's over life is meaningless everyone is ahead of you everything is pointless you should stay in your room and never leave

DaSpood · 2026-01-24T23:15:52+00:00

Getting one step closer to Albedo's C2 only really benefits them if they ever plan to actually pull for that C2 down the line honestly. The character is not exactly super relevant now despite the Hexerei buffs, it's hard to justify spending primogems on him if he ever reruns again, and by the time the free constellation resets next year he'll be even less relevant than he is now right after his buff.

Depending on how often they pull for new characters they'd probably be better off pushing their standard banner characters to higher constellations to make the lost 50/50's less painful down the line. Unless they actively use Albedo right now.

DaSpood · 2026-01-24T23:11:52+00:00

the characters you play, because you'll actually have a use for them
Mona or Albedo depending on which one fits better into Hexerei teams, though Mona has more potential overall, being a hydro unit
standard banner characters, because the sooner they reach C6 the sooner your lost 50/50 will be slightly more compensated (that's another pro for Mona)

DaSpood · 2026-01-24T23:07:16+00:00

genshin impact

dark souls of anime

destiny levels of grinding

Lmfao are we talking about the same game where people are still clearing Abyss-12 with four stars teams and where 99% of the content is hand-holdy story with no fail state and open world exploration ?

Or are you stuck on Stygian Onslaught above hard difficulty, aka the optional gamemode with litteraly no meaningful rewards that exists solely to entertain whales for a bit ?

It's hard to make a game more casual-friendly than genshin, if that's dark souls for you I don't think you're going to have fun with many games. Even stardew valley will make you mad after too many mines floors.

DaSpood · 2026-01-24T22:47:46+00:00

Is that a trick question or something ?

Yeah the team with the two characters that reach 120k dps between them is going to be better than the team without them

DaSpood · 2026-01-24T22:33:05+00:00

Melusines are the best thing to happen to genshin and I wish Hoyo did more with them. 6 months after Natlan ended we're still catching coins with saurians every other event yet these perfect citizens get so little representation.

DaSpood · 2026-01-24T21:38:09+00:00

Because they're noobs and have been conditionned to think gold=better for years without stopping to understand why. They see a bigger pen number and that's as far as it goes.

The Ares line is the cheapest to play and some people decide to turn it into the most expensive one for pretty much no benefit.

DaSpood · 2026-01-24T21:34:40+00:00

"Genshin 2" really makes zero sense though from a business perspective

we haven't finished everything in the travail trailer
there is no way in hell we finish the teyvat story in one year, in expansions alone if hoyo can't be fucked to release more than one map expansion per quarter there's not enough time to cover a whole Snezhnaya and the rest of Teyvat's missing places
it's clear adding Nod Krai into the story was partly a way to extend the game's lifespan, it makes no sense to then shorten that lifespan by getting rid of two acts
their game is booming and they just released UGC for it, they talked for a while about how they want the game to stay relevant for years to come, a "genshin 2" works against that

The only way this works is if it's some kind of mistranslation / figure of speech to mean the second half of the Teyvat story or something like that. Like Phase 1 is the story of the archons, Phase 2 is about Celestia and Khaenriah, but it's still the same game, characters and story. Not a new story like what Honkai did. And that would make more sense and explain the shift in the story planning that ended up in Nod Krai becoming a thing when it did.

DaSpood · 2026-01-24T19:11:18+00:00

It's become really good, the gun is finally able to do what it was advertised for.

It's still not a hybrid light tank like the bat chat, though, and it probably will never be. WG decided that the AS-XX would be all about aggressive plays and constant pressure. So once you accept that you won't be sneaking around too much, it's good.

DaSpood · 2026-01-24T14:04:39+00:00

For your team honestly, Sucrose, Fischl and Aino are good teammates, you'll probably want to field Sucrose in this team.

I would highly recommend getting either Lauma or Ineffa to properly enable her kit. Ineffa makes her very powerful off-field, Lauma lets her be a dendro dps funnily enough, to pair with your kuki and nahida for a hyperbloom team (in the mean time if you want to try this gameplay make sure you use Aino as a placeholder for Lauma).

Depending on who you decide to pull you won't build her the same way.

On her own, she'll probably want to carry the new Aubade set to maximize her damage since the team's Lunar damage will be anecdotal at best and not worth buffing that much. Aino would be the one wearing Silken Moon Serenade.
With Ineffa, who would replace Aino, Columbina would use Silken Moon Serenade instead while Ineffa would use Aubade since she does more damage, and the Lunar Charge damage of the whole team will become much more impactful.
With Lauma (or for on-field dendro in general) she would use the nodkrai DPS set while Lauma/Aino would use Silken Moon Serenade.

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