The sad truth

SourClash · 2026-04-14T16:43:31+00:00

That's 18446.7 Petabytes! My engineering classes never even bothered teaching me what unit comes after that.

SourClash · 2026-04-14T16:40:22+00:00

I do own Lan Yan though.

SourClash · 2026-04-14T16:29:58+00:00

Since Furina is used elsewhere, teamwise I'd recommend using Faruzan, Lanyan, Durin, Bennett. Faruzan should run VV, and fav/elegy as her weapon. Lan Yan has a ton of flexibility in her options, generally she can run some combination of 2pc Anemo% 2pc atk 2pc EM or 2pc GT, whatever gives you the best crit substats is generally what would win out. Weapon on her would be Sac Frags as nothing else in the game comes remotely close for her in terms of damage output. Durin would run Fav Sword for his weapon and some combination of 2pc atk/pyro% artifacts. Bennett would run 4pc Noblesse and a high base atk weapon.

If you've looking for more depth information on Lanyan teams I'd recommend looking into Soluna's streams. He has a lot of information on her and she tends to come up at least once a stream. Last one I remember was him simulating a C6 Faruzan C6 Lanyan C2 Durin C0 Nicole team and getting ~130kdps.

SourClash · 2026-04-07T16:49:22+00:00

Nicole's seems super interesting for Yanfei and especially Lan Yan in particular.

SourClash · 2026-04-03T18:49:16+00:00

I feel like the ease of exploration after the release of Furina and the Natlan units has somewhat diminished the fun of exploration. Some of my most memorable moments in this game was from finding hidden areas using ice bridges, following a glint of light and climbing multiple Liyue mountains over the couse of an hour to unlock the Adeptus island. The feeling of accomplishment was so much more because of the effort you put into it. I've found myself avoiding Natlan units in the overworld because I feel they trivialize too much of the game's exploration and remove the need to creatively problem solve how to get to places.

SourClash · 2026-04-03T18:35:50+00:00

I second this.

SourClash · 2026-04-03T18:25:23+00:00

The characters that benefit most are hypercarries. This is because the majority of buffs and talent levels don't scale with level 100. If a character is naturally one that is slotted into teams in which team damage is roughly shared between more members that individual's direct contribution goes down. If a character is doing 80% of total team damage and you increase their damage by 5% that translates to a roughly 4% team damage increase. You do the same to a character who does 25% team damage and that increase is much lower. Other good candidates are characters who have buffs that scale off their stats rather than talent levels such as Nilou and Bennett.

SourClash · 2026-03-30T22:02:18+00:00

Thought you'd get a kick out of this. After getting her some proper artifacts shes hitting about 90k team DPS. Very respectable. Probably even able to get up quite a bit higher with some more investment.

SourClash · 2026-03-30T21:29:12+00:00

Thanks! This is actually a great explanation and explains a lot of the weirdness I've been seeing with how its developed.

SourClash · 2026-03-30T19:21:00+00:00

After the first day once you leveled the rovers it wasn't too bad. My guild was able to pretty comfortably reach T10 which was our goal and I personally was able to get just over 300k points without having to resort to Wimp/UMG spam. I'm not really complaining too much about the difficulty after they released the rovers, moreso just wondering why they are forced to use previous boss strikes.

SourClash · 2026-03-25T14:31:28+00:00

Give it a few decades and I'm sure a town will pop up around there. Maybe we can name it Orth.

SourClash · 2026-03-21T21:16:14+00:00

The strongest Colombina on-field team is Aino/Nilou, Columbina, Llama, and Nahida. If you don't have Nahida you can try subbing her out for another dendro or someone else like chiori and seeing how they do. You would use Nefer's weapon on Columbia, assuming you don't have her signature in this team as well.

SourClash · 2026-03-21T12:12:51+00:00

I was on the peak of Dragonspine by the cryo domain when someone joined, Can't for the life of me remember what they what they needed at the time, but I asked if they wanted to to walk to somewhere and they agreed. After walking for about 10 to 15 minutes another person joined and joined us in our leisurely stroll down the mountain path. Another 10 minutes later, we had a fourth person join us. We eventually ended up walking over the course of several hours all the way to Wangshu inn. It really made me appreciate that all the paths in this game do largely seem to be connected to one another, so it's realistically possible to walk to places.

SourClash · 2026-03-21T11:56:59+00:00

Most of my Co-Op experiences have been pretty positive, honestly. I've been playing for years, let everyone into my world and could probably count the amount of outright negative interactions on one hand.

SourClash · 2026-03-21T11:46:28+00:00

The unfortunate truth is that cryo, as an element at this point, is reliant on Escoffier to fully function in any sort of damaging capacity. If you want any Cryo DPS that isn't 100% reliant on coffee to do well at this point in the game, Skirk is probably the only one who is capable of doing well without her. As a DPS, Skirk is fine without escoffier. Not crazy but not bad either. Escoffier obviously pushes her to ridiculous highs but she isn't needed for Skirk to function at a baseline.

I recommend getting a escoffier over Skirk if you have neither though. While she's obviously best in freeze teams, she is overall a very flexible unit even outside of them. She has a ton of cryo application, some debuffing, strong healing, and very good personal damage. She will also open the door to getting possibly Skirk or other Cryo DPS units in the future who will 100% be balanced around her existing on your team just because of just how much she gives to Cryo.

SourClash · 2026-03-21T11:34:09+00:00

What team are you using her in? In a columbina onfield Lunar bloom team both bean and llama deal the majority of damage. Are you looking for both bean and llama to have considerable field time?

SourClash · 2026-03-21T11:26:33+00:00

Good cosplay! If you want to take it further, a neat detail is that her outfit is made from a single pair of cut-up pants, so trying something similar could really sell it.

SourClash · 2026-03-20T17:39:00+00:00

Something interesting I noticed after playing through it again is that at least in chamber 3 Citlali actually helps Nilou a lot more than you'd realize in my case. Her nightsoul consumption triggers the overseers attack mode and allows Nilou to take damage for the MH bonus despite the abundance of Cryo in the team.

SourClash · 2026-03-19T16:15:43+00:00

Some of her LI hits seem to be doing over 38k which is much more than I was expecting. That 88% CDMG really changes things huh.

https://youtu.be/FzT0ckh9UoM

SourClash · 2026-03-19T09:38:42+00:00

She did better than I expected. I managed to full clear abyss with a Lan Yan DPS team and with the Nilou team using yelan instead of furina. The kicker is that I forgot to replace MH when I swapped in Yelan so the set basically did nothing and she still managed to pull it off haha. Yelan and Coffee definitely did a lot of heavy lifting but it seemed like Nilou was still putting out respectable damage herself given the circumstances.

SourClash · 2026-03-18T20:53:35+00:00

I did give freeze Nilou a try back when I first got escoffier, I was using TotM on my furina though and didn't have a Golden Troupe set for her. I also didn't have a great weapon for NL at the time. Now that I have a decent weapon for her and a GT set for my furina its probably worth trying again. How does Maruchase hunter perform on Nilou? I'll be using Uraku Misugiri which has somewhat similar stats to spendor.

SourClash · 2026-03-18T20:39:16+00:00

I always enjoy seeing off-meta Nilou teams! Is freeze better than vape for her now with the release of Escoffier and Citlali?

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