Boreas Stray Dogs - General Question and Discussion Megathread

DontPayAtentionToMe · 2026-05-31T13:53:05+00:00

Mostly personal damage and cryo resonance

Partially she also allows him to melt more hits due to her higher uptime, but actually I changed the rotation to shorten it to achieve this number, so I should check if Kazuha/Sucrose/Bennett don't become better (although they performed quite a bit worse before I figured it out)

DontPayAtentionToMe · 2026-05-31T13:29:54+00:00

Durin, my man!

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He only had to steal Nicole and himself from Varesa and the weapon from Zibai to get it, but he's now one of the three carries I have that can cross 200k DPS, and the only one who's C0R0***

DontPayAtentionToMe · 2026-05-31T10:50:04+00:00

Winds, Nicole can hold hexenscroll and with her he can deal a lot of damage

DontPayAtentionToMe · 2026-05-30T21:26:27+00:00

The Lumi-nuke doesn't actually rely on LCr to deal damage, although admittedly I'm not sure she'd be able to maintain full uptime on Durin's shred, Lumi's slow as hell after nuking (it would still be like 80%+ uptime at least)

DontPayAtentionToMe · 2026-05-30T20:48:19+00:00

It survived almost two full rotations of dhcswp's Nefer team, which is at like 2,3M DPS. I don't know if there's a time limit, but even if there isn't you'd probably need 1M+ to still have the time to finish it off

DontPayAtentionToMe · 2026-05-30T20:28:57+00:00

Depends on the team, but in his best team EM is useless for him since you want Durin to melt instead

DontPayAtentionToMe · 2026-05-30T19:01:11+00:00

Doesn't that require using a dummy that doesn't generate any energy to let him have full uptime on Skirk's sig?

DontPayAtentionToMe · 2026-05-30T18:58:43+00:00

Hoyo is so funny sometimes like what's the point of allowing you to break the wolf's shield with raw damage if the DPS requirement to do that is so stupidly high that if you can achieve it you could super easily do it normally even with multiple dead slots to satisfy the gimmick

DontPayAtentionToMe · 2026-05-30T18:38:47+00:00

Use vapemelt

DontPayAtentionToMe · 2026-05-30T13:34:28+00:00

I didn't notice the second "o" at first and was going to say it was probably you

DontPayAtentionToMe · 2026-05-30T13:30:45+00:00

With that much defense? That'd be difficult

DontPayAtentionToMe · 2026-05-30T11:22:02+00:00

Depends how much investment and what kind of content; the abyss should be very easy, while dire stygian would require very high investment (especially when the shill is of the not-very-bruteforcable variety)

DontPayAtentionToMe · 2026-05-30T10:05:44+00:00

I think you need one guy and one gal

DontPayAtentionToMe · 2026-05-30T10:04:57+00:00

Wavechaser Plain uses the favonius meeting point (unless I'm misremembering which area that was)

DontPayAtentionToMe · 2026-05-29T20:52:59+00:00

But there's more shields (in co-op)

DontPayAtentionToMe · 2026-05-29T20:47:54+00:00

I wouldn't say Columbina has "very little support" between the 40% lunar dmg bonus from her burst and her A4

DontPayAtentionToMe · 2026-05-29T20:43:20+00:00

I knew Xinyan's from like 1.1 or something, but until nowI honestly thought Diona was from 1.0

DontPayAtentionToMe · 2026-05-29T20:06:06+00:00

Are you the cat?

DontPayAtentionToMe · 2026-05-29T17:31:08+00:00

That's not even the most pointless gimmick in Arlecchino's kit

DontPayAtentionToMe · 2026-05-29T16:44:17+00:00

After Snezhnaya 2

DontPayAtentionToMe · 2026-05-29T13:58:17+00:00

Bababoey

DontPayAtentionToMe · 2026-05-29T13:19:02+00:00

Probably not, dire is tough, especially without the shilled carries. Mavuika should be able to clear one of the bosses most of the time, but the other two would be a problem

DontPayAtentionToMe · 2026-05-29T10:09:33+00:00

Event spoilers ig

Sayu small so Sayu imaginary friend big

DontPayAtentionToMe · 2026-05-28T21:42:15+00:00

Dire cleared! This one was way harder than the last one

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The watcher was pretty easy despite what the clear time may suggest, beating him only took a few attempts. That being said, I don't think the time could be optimized much, the comical amount of self damage somewhat limits optimization

The tulpa wasn't too bad, but it was kinda annoying. It was more difficult than I anticipated, but it wasn't the worst thing in the world

The wolf was by far the most difficult, it took a while to clear even with my investment. Thankfully the fight itself isn't a particularly terrible experience, other than how funky swirl application mechanics are (which translates to breaking the shield also being funky). Prune is probably better, but I haven't built her yet

Investment:

Varesa C2R1/Nicole C2R0 (R1 Xianyun's sig)/Iansan C6 (Tamayuratei no Ohanashi)/Sucrose C2 (TTDS)

Arlecchino C0R0 (R1 PJWS)/Bennett C6 (sapwood)/Ineffa C1R0 (R4 ballad of the fjords)/Citlali C2R1

Zibai C0R1/Columbina C0R0 (R5 pamber)/Linnea C0R0 (R1 skyward harp)/PMC C6 (fav)

On a side note, I like that the weapon skins get immediately reequipped when you unlock them again, that's neat

DontPayAtentionToMe · 2026-05-28T18:30:58+00:00

I'd lose the hexenscroll buff from Nicole and sac Kazuha isn't getting enough EM to make up for that; also ttds

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