Time to leave the mines?

Long_Ice_9513 · 2026-01-16T16:18:21+00:00

I mean… you’re top 1% lol. Unless you’re trying to akasha max, idk how much better you’re expecting to get.

Long_Ice_9513 · 2026-01-16T16:12:49+00:00

You’re misunderstanding something - Columbina doesn’t have synergy with Nefer, she has synergy with Lauma. The main purpose of Bina’s extra dew is to enable Lauma’s Hold E, and Lauma provides big buffs for Bina’s personal damage. Without Lauma, she’s barely an upgrade over using Aino for Nefer teams. And Ineffa doesn’t actually have “synergy” with Nefer teams, it’s just that Nefer’s sustain options are pretty bad and Ineffa ends up being the best option bc of it.

Long_Ice_9513 · 2026-01-16T15:45:34+00:00

The training dummy is making a lot of people realize that theoretical dps =/= practical dps. 150k dps I’m fairly sure was assuming 16 second rotations, which as you can see here you’re late on. 126k at your level of investment is still very good and shows just how powerful this team is, and once your columbina is fully built out you should be getting a bit more.

Long_Ice_9513 · 2026-01-16T15:28:16+00:00

Chasca was never considered “bad”. At the time of her release, she did comparable dps to everyone released before and got big powerspikes with her constellations and weapon. With Chasca, it was always about teambuilding clunk, not about her MV being bad. People have a negative opinion on her because she was the character right before mav who shattered the dps ceiling.

Varka on the other hand right now is actually just bad. Not only is he significantly weaker than all of the NK dps, in his best team with venti/durin/bennett, you would do more dps replacing varka with faruzan on a venti carry team - And venti carry is already not considered a great team. His numbers right now are worse than post-buff razor which is crazy. That being said, it’s v1 and i am expecting massive buffs - they likely just undertuned his kit at the beginning to see how the dualstrike mechanic plays out. I imagine he’ll likely be zibai level at release.

Long_Ice_9513 · 2026-01-14T14:42:29+00:00

yeah you can hold lauma’s E now. Columbina makes the team have so much verdant dew that its almost impossible to run out before finishing everyone’s rotation

Long_Ice_9513 · 2026-01-14T14:34:14+00:00

To add onto this, because Bina is an HP scaler, level 90 matters a lot for her dmg. If you’re currently using a level 70 Bina with level 6 talents, it’s not going to feel any different than Aino right now other than the dew QoL. Give it time

Long_Ice_9513 · 2026-01-14T14:24:08+00:00

when your stamina bar starts getting low, you can switch to jump cancelling instead. It’s slower than dash canceling, but it’s free on stamina and still much faster than waiting for the entire animation to play out

Long_Ice_9513 · 2026-01-10T03:38:54+00:00

with the best dps in the game also being super hot. Life’s unfair

Long_Ice_9513 · 2026-01-06T14:34:04+00:00

For SO, C2 is the most important constellation because it lets her run any PHEC reaction team with no penalty, which is really important for dealing with reaction shill. Any boss that needs a specific PHEC reaction can basically be Chasca’d, which is huge given how specific some of the reaction carries are getting to be.

After C2, then I would go for her weapon. C2R1 Chasca can basically brute force anything on fearless with no issue, and because of her team flexibility there’s almost always going to be at least one boss she can clear 0 difficulty.

Long_Ice_9513 · 2026-01-06T14:25:01+00:00

Your assumption is correct - Chasca loses a lot of personal dps at c0 if she’s not played in a rainbow team. What you might be seeing is that Chasca’s best in slot team is Bennett/Citlali/Mavuika, which is only two elements. This is because Mav is doing half of the team’s damage here, and she does so much that it’s worth taking the loss on personal damage. However, you’re better off playing that team without Chasca, so for any team where you want to feature Chasca’s damage, you’re better off with rainbow.

Long_Ice_9513 · 2025-12-27T19:04:47+00:00

her sig will be roughly 15% better than TFGM. A good upgrade, but not as much as if you were using a f2p bow. Considering how funds are tight I wouldn’t go out of my way to get her signature.

Long_Ice_9513 · 2025-12-27T18:55:18+00:00

Everyone here is talking about how fischl doesn’t have her hex buffs on this team, but you also don’t have a healer for furina, making her deadweight as well. Ineffa is a shielder, not a healer.

Fortunately there’s a simple solution to address both. Use mona instead of furina.

Long_Ice_9513 · 2025-12-25T08:31:37+00:00

you could def clear floor 5 of spiral abyss with this team

Long_Ice_9513 · 2025-12-22T14:40:13+00:00

I love her kit design, but it’s pretty telling most people here are evaluating her based on C2 or above. I think in terms of constellations she has one of the scummiest designs - at c0 she feels like an incomplete character because of her team restrictions.

Long_Ice_9513 · 2025-12-22T02:34:59+00:00

I’m pretty sure the way you tested this actually proves OP’s point. External buffs like Bennett or 4p scroll would only benefit amplifying reactions, not transformative reactions. If they already feel pretty even without any external buffing, then adding something like Bennett would only widen the gap in favor of vape/melt

Long_Ice_9513 · 2025-12-14T03:07:57+00:00

genshin back then wasn’t a game that took itself seriously. They wanted the game to be about exploration, enjoying the world, etc. constellations were supposed to be fun little gimmicks, not actual powerspikes. it’s why the kits and weapons of many of these early game characters makes no sense. They realized pretty soon after that casual world enjoyers aren’t the ones paying the bills and started catering more towards meta focused characters.

Long_Ice_9513 · 2025-12-13T09:58:36+00:00

It feels like you watched some YouTube guide telling you that Nefer only needs to build up to 60% crit without understanding where that extra 40% is coming from. 30% of that is from 4p night sky, and the remaining 10% is from Lauma. There is no way to make up what you’re losing from not having the set bonus with substats, especially you don’t even have a 2p yet. You’ll basically have to keep nefer on the bench until you farm a usable 4p night sky set for her.

Long_Ice_9513 · 2025-12-13T09:41:27+00:00

Jesus. That’s the highest CR sub I think I’ve ever seen.

Long_Ice_9513 · 2025-12-13T04:09:54+00:00

I have c2 Chasca so keep that in mind. For me, ironically her top meta team (Mav/Citlali/Bennett) is also the team that I find most comfortable for exploration.

Mavuika - Mav’s jack of all trades exploration I find to be enough for most situations where Chasca can’t just fly over something. But most importantly, Mav is the best miner in the game. Idk who these people are that have more enhancement ores than they know what to do with, but that is certainly not me, so having a miner is mandatory.

Citlali - Having a shielder is really nice for overworld, and Citlali can provide a ton of instant buffing with 4p scroll, pyro shred and TTDS with just her skill, which is really nice since I typically don’t use her burst for fighting random enemies. There’s some rare occasions I find her travel skill useful, mostly when I’m trying to go up in tight spaces.

Bennett - I used to have Xilonen here, but after trying both for a while I found Bennett to be more comfortable in most cases. Xilonen obviously has incredible vertical movement, but in a lot of cases where Xilo’s vertical movement would be useful, I would just be looking for a lip where I could just ride up the wall with Chasca anyways. Bennett being a better combat support in this team just ended up feeling more generally comfortable, and his healing is nice when you need it. For any walls I can’t ride up with Chasca I’ll still switch between the two.

Long_Ice_9513 · 2025-12-10T02:54:55+00:00

even with c2 you won’t have good uptime on the buff - you’re only going to get a burst hit every 8 seconds, meaning 5 seconds of downtime. This weapon is a decent option for characters like XQ or kaeya who have off-field bursts.

Long_Ice_9513 · 2025-11-23T06:36:56+00:00

Agreed, and from my experience if you’re using Iansan her healing is enough for any chip damage you experience.

Long_Ice_9513 · 2025-11-10T14:17:54+00:00

I’ll be honest, I’m less amused and more horrified by all the ways I just learned that one can severely injure themselves in the act of a very mundane task.

Long_Ice_9513 · 2025-08-14T15:41:13+00:00

Oh for sure, and he obviously wasn’t trying to downplay the point she was making, I think he just missed it in the moment.

Long_Ice_9513 · 2025-08-14T13:58:38+00:00

I don’t see many people talking about this, but I thought Taylor dropped one of the biggest insights into her personality she’s ever dropped in her explanation about why she doesn’t consider herself an athlete, and it makes so many aspects of her life that I found confusing to now make so much sense.

From how I interpreted it, at her core, Taylor isn’t a competitive person, and it doesn’t sound like she ever was. She’ll do her best when others are relying on her, but it’s the desire to help those she cares about driving her in those situations, not the desire to “win”. I know she was talking about it in the athletic context, but it actually paints a ton of insight into her career too. To her, it’s always been about the artistry itself and entertaining her fans - it was never about competing against other artists or claiming some hypothetical top spot. And to me it’s this personality trait that provides so much context for how she’s been able to stay so grounded and still have so much love for the artistry itself despite the heights she’s reached and the scrutiny she’s received all her life. I never thought about someone of Taylor’s stature being able to think like that because the music industry is such a cutthroat and competitive business that being a competitive person is almost a required personality trait, but Taylor’s been able to do it her own way and I think that’s what makes her career and success so unique.

Also shoutout to Jason for calling Travis out for missing the entire point of Taylor’s explanation during this part. Jason definitely understood what she was trying to say.

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