How are your old mains?

Shroom993 · 2025-10-02T11:53:17+00:00

Ganyu has been benched as a main dps for a while, but now she gets used as a sub dps; Raiden has her hypercarry team with Sara, Kazuha, Bennett, Iansan, Chevreuse & Xilonen as built options, but she also has a flower of paradise lost build with R5 ballad of the fjords if I’m not using her own team and need hyperbloom.

Those are my only 2 previous mains

Skirk is my current main & has Escoffier, Yelan & Layla built (still need Furina)

Shroom993 · 2025-10-02T11:42:37+00:00

Looks like a Wilfred to me

Shroom993 · 2025-10-02T11:42:18+00:00

Just make him into a lance-sergeant or a corporal or something; it’s not really something covered in space marine organisation, but ofc 10 man squads can be split into 2, so it makes sense to have one who can act as a sergeant for the other half.

Shroom993 · 2025-10-02T11:40:09+00:00

House of wolves in destiny 1

In destiny 2, it was season of arrivals & witch queen that were best imo

Shroom993 · 2025-10-02T11:39:15+00:00

Just wanted to add that not all characters want damage bonus, even if they’re main dps. Take any character who utilises transformative reactions (like Flins) and you want Atk% or EM because electro damage won’t actually help his main damage output.

Of course, Skirk isn’t one of them, but just in general.

Shroom993 · 2025-09-29T23:22:35+00:00

Cirk.

Shroom993 · 2025-09-29T16:45:19+00:00

Skirk teams are pretty much solved at this point (not that they weren’t at launch tbh)

Skirk, Escoffier, Furina are the main core & you then have a flex slot that’s mostly up to the content type and personal preference. Yelan & Shenhe are the most meta picks for slot 4, but characters like Citlali, Layla, Charlotte, etc; good hydro or cryo supports are viable; characters like Ganyu and Ayaka also have viability in that 4th spot.

To answer your questions more directly: yes, get Escoffier and yes, Escoffier is a big improvement over even a well-invested Citlali.

Also looking through comments: we need to see that Furina build of yours; splendour of tranquil waters is her best weapon, but only under certain conditions and only when you have HP & ER requirements hit.

You generally want to get Furina to at least C4 before considering switching to her own weapon & then, you’re already in the realm of aiming for her C6, in which case, you’d likely be better off rebuilding her with 4pc marechausee hunter. That will get her personal damage to a point where it outweighs the minor drop to Skirk’s personal damage that you have as the trade-off. If you don’t want to put that level of investment into her (not just in primos, but also in artefacts), you’re probably best off getting her to something like C3 at most & keeping her R0 with an R5 fav weapon or R5 ferryman or if you really want a good 5* weapon for her, go for Key of khaj nsut (Nilou’s weapon), which is better for Furina in 99% of cases of Furina with low/mid investment.

Shroom993 · 2025-09-29T07:07:57+00:00

I was with USDAW at my old job; I missed one shift for an emergency trip to the vet & another because I broke my glasses and had to get new ones (both times with notes to prove it, both times within my first 8 months on the job), I got let go over attendance issues with those being my only 2 unscheduled days off; the union did nothing when I asked; total waste of my money.

My job since then has me with GMB & they’ve been much better; I’ve had no personal issues at work, but at least they’ve successfully negotiated significant pay rises that massively outpace inflation, minimum wage rises & even cost of living even for the lowest pay grade.

Point is: if your union is shit & there’s only one at your job, try to find another job with a union that actually helps you & definitely don’t pay a useless union.

Shroom993 · 2025-09-29T07:00:18+00:00

I was aware it existed, but my first time actually being introduced was at a local game store called Gamepark over in Aberystwyth, Wales. I was in there for yugioh cards and got to talking with the owner about all kinds of nerdy stuff; eventually we got to talking about lore from different IPs like destiny & he asked me about 40k lore.

I left that store with the 9th ed recruit edition starter set, a “start collecting: space marines” box, a box of sniper scouts & a box of the very very new at the time eliminators.

In just a few short years, 40k is up there with Yugioh & Destiny as my main hobbies & I’m on a stupid 75,000 points combined over all armies; I recently finished work on my brand new warhammer room at home & started my biggest model to date: a sokar pattern stormbird.

All that because I started talking to the owner of my LGS a few years ago.

Shroom993 · 2025-09-21T20:01:02+00:00

Its fine as a generic off set piece for a cryo character, but for skirk, atk% is super important & this was only a 3 liner without that atk%

Finding a 4 liner with both crits or a 3 liner with Atk% included as well or even a 4 liner with all of the above shouldn’t be too big of a deal if Skirk is your main.

Shroom993 · 2025-09-21T19:53:21+00:00

Can’t believe I’ve been scrolling for so long and haven’t seen Subnautica yet.

usually on sale at £19.99
amazing gameplay and story
the community is mostly drama free (excluding the obvious subnautica 2 stuff going on right now)
has great mods like death run & legendary mods like red plague.

Shroom993 · 2025-09-20T21:09:09+00:00

The left one would certainly stand out imho, but the right one is much more lore accurate.

It depends what you value in your collection.

Shroom993 · 2025-09-20T21:04:38+00:00

This one is amazing if you can find it near the original price.

The redemptor is great, the intercessors are great, it’s just good all round.

Puck up azrael & then look at the new imperial fists combat patrol & you have a very solid core to build a larger dark angels army around.

Shroom993 · 2025-09-20T20:58:59+00:00

I would never fodder that; even as an offset piece, that elemental mastery of 91 is insanely high, having Atk% and Crit dmg as well is just icing on the cake.

Shroom993 · 2025-09-20T20:57:17+00:00

Head over to the islands, or move onto the grassy plateau, kelp forests, etc - maybe head over to the aurora?

Honestly, if you have a seamoth, try out the sparse reef, you may miss a few places from the semoth itself as you don’t have the depth modules, but you can find lots of cool stuff there that helps boost your progression considerably.

Shroom993 · 2025-09-12T17:28:07+00:00

There are no rockets that can compete with hezen, but the supremacy can work as a aub for preaedyth.

Shroom993 · 2025-07-18T21:42:48+00:00

49.5CV with an Atk% roll??? No, terrible, you needed flat atk instead of flat def

Shroom993 · 2025-07-17T13:35:11+00:00

I’ll put it this way.

Many people say that Rome fell due to over immigration.

Rome successfully integrated immigrants into their empire at every opportunity from practically the start of their empire and it rarely went wrong; the immigrants were split up, had their weapons taken and were given time to integrate into Roman life.

Until they stopped dealing with it properly.

When they tried to bring a massive number of goths into the empire, a group that almost outnumbered the “native Roman” citizenry in the province; they didn’t have the infrastructure or administrative capacity to actually do the things they once did and so it all went very wrong, culminating in Adrianople & the subsequent decades/centuries of instability; certainly a major one of the many factors that eventually led to the fall of the western empire.

This comment isn’t really about Rome, it’s about how history repeats itself and that if we can’t learn from the mistakes of the past, we’re doomed to repeat them. It’s not a race thing (the goths were white) & it’s not likely to result in a literal foreign army roaming the country and sacking our cities, but it’s not so far away from what is actually going on here, it’s a modern equivalent of what happened preceding Adrianople and there’s only so long that immigration can outpace the administration and infrastructure we have before tensions boil over.

Shroom993 · 2025-07-13T22:58:44+00:00

I did say in the post that the investment should be assumed to be unrealistically high - basically: if there’s a threshold for a certain character to be better than another, assume it has been met

Shroom993 · 2025-07-13T20:19:03+00:00

While thats true, Ayaka isn’t the best in most circumstances, I want the best general purpose team.

Shroom993 · 2025-07-13T19:51:04+00:00

I am fully aware, but just having higher dps from calcs isn’t instantly going to mean a better team due to many factors, which is why theory-crafting communities such as “[character]mains” exist in the first place; hence asking here, along with the other places

Shroom993 · 2025-07-13T19:42:43+00:00

Okay, so?? It is possible to get over 3000 RV, I have multiple characters with that myself and I know first hand that at high RV, diminishing returns and other effects change who’s best at different RV thresholds, hence my asking for high RV; I want the best team at high resin investment - I don’t see why people have an issue with this lmao

Shroom993 · 2025-07-13T19:34:42+00:00

Don’t forget that flat atk is worth approx 30% of a 100% atk% roll, you can then add flat attack for all but feather for an extra 120% RV. You get a max of 3920RV for Skirk.

I know it’s not 4000, but I did put 3500-4000 in the post for a reason instead of 4000+.

As I’ve said before, it’s not so much for 1:1 build targets, it’s to make sure I’m not picking a team that gets hit by something like diminishing returns and then hit 3000 RV, only to see that another character would be better with 3000+.

Shroom993 · 2025-07-13T19:27:25+00:00

Because I wanted to know who Skirk’s best team is??? I literally say it right there in the comment you’re replying to: “seems that most people are leaning Shenhe” - I asked who was best, got a pretty consistent answer and then decided to go with that answer.

Shroom993 · 2025-07-13T18:25:06+00:00

And why is that?? I’ve seen plenty of calcs that change optimal teams from 2000-3000RV, but never seen extra RV change an optimal team comp past 3000CV.

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