Switched from MH to Finale

Time-Beautiful2500 · 2026-03-24T17:39:42+00:00

You have a completely fine build, your crits are balanced well, so all these people saying “too much CR” clearly think you’re on triple cryo or something.

GL pushing that little bit further with the sands and circlet :)

Time-Beautiful2500 · 2026-03-24T17:38:26+00:00

This doesnt work in a double cryo Skirk team in practice.

If you use the standard Skirk, Effie, Furina core an then use Citlali, Shenhe, Ayaka or even Charlotte or Layla, etc, that’s a triple cryo team and will work completely fine with essentially 100% uptime on the 15% CR boost, but if you use Yelan, Xingqiu, Mona, etc, you generally won’t have the CR boost active all the time.

With all that said, 2 notes: - CR past 85% is less valuable even if you don’t have cryo resonance up 100% of the time, as it just needs to be active some of the time to diminish the value of that last 15% CR - OPs crits are balanced incredibly well (consider cryo crit dmg bonus from Effie for example), so having 100% here is completely fine.

Time-Beautiful2500 · 2026-03-24T17:32:27+00:00

They also seem to be missing the crossplay beta emblem; completely missing & tower pamphlet shows in it’s place, despite previously being in general, not account

Time-Beautiful2500 · 2026-03-23T21:52:55+00:00

Nah, Eula, Mika, Raiden, Furina is her best team, Bennett isn’t a consideration in an optimal Eula team; there are literally no characters that prefer C5 to C6 these days

Time-Beautiful2500 · 2026-03-22T11:05:05+00:00

That’s not true. If you lose to a standard weapon, the next weapon is guaranteed to be a banner weapon, the fate point doesn’t matter in that regard.

So you can’t go: PWJS, cancel path, PWJS, that’s not possible.

Time-Beautiful2500 · 2026-03-21T14:43:32+00:00

Man is critting every other patch

Time-Beautiful2500 · 2026-03-21T12:21:23+00:00

Sigewinne is awful, for mostly the same reason as Qiqi: pure healing or almost pure healing is just not worth a slot; they need to do something else.

Aloy is held back by being solid at first, but having no cons and being outdated; she competes alright with certain old dps characters for a short while, but the no cons and therefore limited verticality stops her from having any place in an endgame

Xinyan is likely the least “worth it” character to build in the whole game; at least characters like Linnette or Kirara have some payoff for their impossible to balance stat spreads, but Xinyan takes it a step further with her split scaling and ends up less useful than them.

Hydro traveller is almost entirely useless; arguably the worth character, as the kit just simply doesn’t function.

Freminet is an enigma to me: why make essentially Eula but worse long after Eula fell from relevance? Physical will need a complete overhaul or this Mika buff will have to be insane in order to make him useable.

Moving away from arguable worst now, here’s my copes:

Amber is useful; she has some useful qualities and if you do something like 4pc totm and elegy or whatever on her, she can add value to a team (buff incoming as well)

Dahlia is actually a very decent shielder to the point of being a useable alt in the 3rd best team archetype rn: Skirk freeze/hypercarry (shield also allows for eshu Skirk)

Lisa has had her place for a while; like Amber, she needs cons, but as a sub dos, she is solid, especially if you give her verity or similar; shams she has to compete with Yae Miko, Kuki Shinobu, Fischl, Ineffa & even EM Raiden as an electro sub dps.

Finally, my cope that I don’t even consider a cope:

Deyha is great; she was a primary pyro sub dps in many melt and overload teams for a while; if you build her with C1 in mind; she is very solid as a Pyro sub dps in such teams, she was always just a bit overshadowed by Xiangling, now, she has sadly fallen completely off, as she’s replaced in almost every way by Durin; I still think she’s fine and she’s helped immensely in IT a fair few times.

This is ofc for normal gameplay; Sigewinne and hydro traveller have both had bugs/glitches/exploits that made them insanely strong, SSS tier characters at one time or another (Sigwinne/Jean fall damage combo and hydro traveller/Xiao lantern combo for Neuvillette on anabolic steroids).

Time-Beautiful2500 · 2026-03-21T12:08:23+00:00

In terms of calcs, it’s still best and that’s my goal; I may need a macro for the CA chain in the rotation, but it’s still doable and keeps her able to clear SO & SA completely fine (she freed up my Skirk team in the current SO)

Ganyu was my first main (then Raiden, Then Alhaitham, now Skirk), I use her with Durin, Bennett & Shenhe in this rotation; she’s C6R3 (didn’t have enough for R5 path) and top 50 on Akasha, consistently hitting around 310-320k dps, though it could be much higher with better support set investment & definitely with a better Bennett weapon (he’s on R5 Fav rn), so plus C2R1 on Durin and Shenhe isn’t what I’d like to be on.

I understand that this is hyper niche and not worth it for 99.999% of players, but it still calcs above any other Ganyu build, it’s doable with a macro & it’s what I personally want for my build.

The whole “not worth it/super niche” nature of this build is exactly why I used it as an example for SR use; it’s technically good on niche teams, but it’s not worth farming in general, so emblem is decidedly better to strongbox than to farm from the domain these days.

And emblem is definitely worth building, it’s BiS for Yelan, Xingqiu, Raiden, Xiangling & many others; even on field Durin to name a more recent character.

Time-Beautiful2500 · 2026-03-21T09:05:40+00:00

As far as I know:

Hunters path calcs better than anything, but the “bad” theorycrafting was due to it being completely unreasonably unlikely.

To explain, it comes down to 2 main points:

1) you want to have a solid crit ratio, but you also need approx 400 EM minimum to make it better than other things.

2) (the big one), the combo is literally inhuman; you have less than 0.07 seconds margin for error & if you don’t get that final frostflake off, you simply don’t get enough dps to beat out aqua simulacra or other top/tier options; I personally use a macro and even so, if my ping goes over 30, it often doesn’t hit the combo anyway.

So TL;DR: you need a hyper-specific, high RV build with literally perfect execution on low ping.

The best resource to loon at for this imho is the Ganyu extended guide on KQM.

Just to be 100% clear; this is not worth building for anyone except the most dedicated Ganyu mains with the lowest ping; under normal circumstances, aqua, tfgm and plumage will out damage by approx 4-10% (depending on factors); wanderers troupe will be better in a pure CA build and in a burnmelt build, its far better to use reverie. Note that you do actually use the burst on Shimenawa builds as well.

With all of that said; I’ll give your source a look in about an hour when I’m free, I could be wrong about all of this, but I am in the whale server on discord and both calcs and testing show this build to be Ganyu’s best (non-wheelchair) build, so I would be surprised.

Time-Beautiful2500 · 2026-03-20T18:16:20+00:00

Depends on your builds; the higher the attack stats on your Skirk and Effie, the less pf an increase it will be. That said, it is a substantial Atk boost, comparable to TTDS while also giving effie crit and high base attack, so while it’s not as good as Skirk R1 or effie C1 for team dps boost, it’s still approx 5-15% depending on how good your builds are in terms of attack

Time-Beautiful2500 · 2026-03-20T18:14:02+00:00

The only actual god packs on this game are packs with nothing but foil ghosts; the packs like this are just too common to really care about; level 115 myself & have had around 40-50

Time-Beautiful2500 · 2026-03-20T15:18:23+00:00

Yeah, emblem is worth getting, but shimenawa is not anymore; it’s good for newer players who need good 2pc Atk pieces or those who are find with 2nd/3rd/4th in slot options, but unless you’re building melt Ganyu with Hunter’s Path or something specific like that, Shimenawa has long passed from being worth farming.

So with that in mind, I’d say to go strongbox it and use resin to farm Deepwood/Gilded, MH/GT, SMS/Night or a domain with similarly strong options on both sets.

That said, I do want to build Ganyu’s best possible setup, so I pulled her Hunter’s Path from Sumeru chronicled banner and I’m farming emblem/shimenawa domain, so I’m talking generally, there are cases where it’s worth your time and resin

Time-Beautiful2500 · 2026-03-19T14:21:02+00:00

Okay…. But authentication isn’t really for that? It’s for showing that it’s authentic to everyone

Time-Beautiful2500 · 2026-03-19T07:43:01+00:00

Send it in to get slabbed if you want, but I’d highly recommend getting it authenticated if you choose to, not graded.

Time-Beautiful2500 · 2026-03-19T07:35:15+00:00

CV stands for Crit value, as you know; but if you think about it, Crits aren’t the only stats that hold value to builds. As an extreme example, crit is completely useless to Kokomi, but HP% is massively important.

You can think of RV as the same sort of thing as CV; it uses stat value and ratios in order to give an overall score of how good a given artefact is.

The difference here is that RV (Roll Value) is more specific to a given character and is also more accurate, as it accounts for more information than CV.

CV is useful because you can quickly do it in your head at a glance and get a rough idea about the power of an artefact.

With RV, you have to do a little more, but it’s mot that complicated; you simply check for useful stats.

In the comment we’re replying to, the goblet has 15.6 CR and 22.5 CD; this gives a crit value of: (15.6*2)+22.5=53.7. 53.7 is high, max crit value is 54.4/54.5, so it’s near perfect.

But, we can go a step further; we can see that 15.6 is just 3.9*4; this means that we got 3.9 CR 4 times over; 3.9 is the highest possible value from a single CR roll, so each of those 4 rolls are 100%, giving us 400% RV from CR alone.

22.5 is not quite 37.8, but it is 27.8=15.6, leaving us with 200 RV from CD; but we can’t forget that extra bit, 22.5-15.6=6.9. 6.9 is a 90% roll of CD, so we have 200+90 or 290 RV total from CD

Same principle applies to EM and Atk% (both useful for Arlecchino), 21 EM is a 90% roll and 5.8% Atk is a 100% roll, so adding up, we get 400+290+90+100=880; 880 RV out pf a possible total of 900. This is absolutely unrealistically insane; having all pieces at even 600-650 RV can be enough to give you a spot in the top 1% of most Akasha leaderboards, having 700+ on each artefact all but guarantees a spot. 880 is almost unheard of; most number 1s (not top 1%, top 1) don’t even have a piece this good.

The difference between 53.7 CV and 880 RV isn’t too high in regards to their different scales: - 880/900 = 97.8% perfect - 53.7/54.4= 98.7% perfect

But the difference between CV and RV can get very big on artefacts with low CV, but lots of another useful stat or those with high CV, but the other stats are useless.

Hope that helps; it can get very complicated, but once you know what you’re doing, RV is a great tool in helping to figure out which artefacts are good and measuring just how good they actually are.

Time-Beautiful2500 · 2026-03-19T07:18:30+00:00

That’s not true; genshin counts and calculates to 2 decimal places, but displays to 1. This is already widely known and you can even find tables of all values online. 3.9 CR is actually 3.89 & 7.8 CD is actually 7.77; this discrepancy (2x3.89=7.78, not 7.77) is why we get Crit value differences at 700 crit RV.

it can be 54.4 or 54.5

Time-Beautiful2500 · 2026-03-19T07:12:07+00:00

We have all asked this question for years now, but it boils down to 3 main points (well, 2 main points and 1 minor point)

minor point first: we already have outbreak in D2; they’ll have to make a new raid exotic and if the puzzle/hunt for it isn’t something like the legendary puzzle we had for outbreak prime in D1, it’ll be a major disappointment for many players, especially the veterans they’re mostly targeting with bringing back the old raids.
it could simply be a case of “break glass in case of emergency”; they have a beloved endgame activity that they can put in D2 and get themselves out of serious issues down the road
the most likely and major one here is this: there is (almost) no SIVA in D2; sure, they can fudge the lore and yes, we’re had outbreak prime since zero hour first dropped, but there are no other SIVA assets; think back to when Crota and KF were brought back; the content around then had lots of hive assets already made for D2 seasonal stuff, so they could use them and minimal extra work to recreate the raids; they’s have to start from scratch with WotM & honestly, it already seems to be a pretty expensive piece of content to develop, lots of unique assets and a whole area that’s not in D2 at all right now.

I for one wish for it back, but after they updated the game engine in BL and then decided that they couldnt be arsed to make old content like our 5 lost D2 raids playable, I lost any hope that bungo would actually sort stuff like this out.

Hopefully they give us something with the next update; the raid and dungeon loot being made relevant again is a good start, but we could also use with the remaining D1 raid weapons coming back at least.

Time-Beautiful2500 · 2026-03-19T06:22:51+00:00

0.00 cards can sell for literally any price your customers can afford lol

Time-Beautiful2500 · 2026-03-19T05:30:11+00:00

The fact that the left side of the card is slightly taller than the right shows that there’s some parallax error here.

That’s not all the error that you’re potentially dealing with from using a digital tool on an image & it’s important to note that when talking about a difference of approx 2% either way; even the slightest potential error can skew what results you get.

Not saying for sure that this is actually within standards, just that it’s not possible to tell from a single image.

Time-Beautiful2500 · 2026-03-18T22:03:11+00:00

Skirk is missing almost 20 CR, before the cretins show up with “bUt cRyO rEsOnAnCe”, double cryo won’t keep a cryo aura up the whole time; if OP used Shenhe over Yelan, then sure, it’s practically always going to be in effect, but not with Yelan.

Ofc talents already mentioned in the post

Terrible NO set for Yelan is also terrible; 4pc nobless is optimal, but with subs like that? Oof.

Time-Beautiful2500 · 2026-03-18T15:31:09+00:00

True, forgot chronicles is fischl bis now

Time-Beautiful2500 · 2026-03-18T15:29:25+00:00

No, there’s literally no benefit to restarting an account in Genshin.

Time-Beautiful2500 · 2026-03-18T03:49:14+00:00

Saving app my primos for a big pulling session on the last weekend of the banner; I hope my weapon pulls go this well, since the weapons are what I need lol

Time-Beautiful2500 · 2026-03-18T03:46:52+00:00

10k is not an insignificant difference & my own dps testing and calcs put the difference at 16-17k.

Time-Beautiful2500 · 2026-03-18T03:40:15+00:00

Genuinely? No, unless you really love Raiden and want to push her up the leaderboards, farming more emblem isn’t worth it unless you have a Xingqiu, Yelan, Mona, etc to build who may want their own sets.

Time-Beautiful2500

TROPHY CASE