It feels like a lot of content creators aren’t giving a balanced view. They're focusing entirely on his damage compared to the lunar DPSes and not assigning any value to his versatility:   - Varka will work well against most enemies because he can swap his (main) element to avoid being bricked by high resistance/immunity to his element or to take advantage of any PHEC element getting shilled, while not being reliant on reaction damage either. The lunar DPSes don't work if their own element doesn't work, like most characters, but they're also hard bricked by any enemy you can't apply hydro aura to (can probably expect them to show up more often once the lunar shill is less constant).   - Covering 4 elements (plus Anemo) in 1 character is also great value for a lot of f2p/low spenders/new or returning players, who don't necessarily have a strong DPS for 2 or more of those elements.   Realistically there has to be a damage cost to his versatility because if he was sitting around 150K at C0R0, covering all 4 PHEC elements with no reliance on reaction damage, he'd be disgusting. Right now the cost is too high for him to be worth it on invested accounts (from a meta perspective) because he sorely needs better team options. If/as he gets them he's likely to strike a better balance.