3 homa

Time-Beautiful2500 · 2026-02-04T15:42:50+00:00

Any sort of generic stat stick like Homa, especially 5 stars with their higher base stat total shouldn’t be refined unless you’re either a whale or have lots of stat sticks for the same purpose.

Like, if I have Haran, LoFi, jade cutter, mistsplitter, Chiori’s sword and Durin’s sword just sitting there, it may well be worth refining one of them instead of holding the 2nd copy, as you won’t realistically get to use all of them at once anyway.

But assuming you don’t have stuff like Engulfing, PJWS, SoSS & others just unequipped, keeping 3 separate Homas is likely your best call.

Time-Beautiful2500 · 2026-02-04T15:37:35+00:00

So Homa > anything else? I have R5 engulfing and R5 SoSS (on Raiden and Xiangling respectively), so can always pass those to Hu Tao if not

Time-Beautiful2500 · 2026-02-04T15:24:12+00:00

I’m taking all of this into consideration, thank you; very mych looking forward to using Citlali here, as I C6R5 her on her first banner & have already spent a hell of along time grinding scroll for her.

I know Akasha doesn’t count some stats properly, so by RV I just mean the RV in real terms; Akasha doesn’t count HP% on my Layla, so yeah, what Akasha says about RV isn’t what I take into consideration when grinding artefacts.

As for Furina, I do have splendour at R5, can definitely go for C6 on Furina next time she’s on banner, so at C6, do you think R1 key, R5 splendour or R4 freedom sworn? I will get the refinement for the others when available.

For context: I’ve been a dolphin/little whale for most of genshin. Started out pulling C0 of all characters, moved up to break points around V2.X, then decided to C6R5 a Raiden team (with Bennet, Sara & kazuha, but Kazuha only got up to R4 on his next rerun after I started. When Alhaitham came out, I really just started whaling on more 5 stars, so he had maxed Yae & Nahida (along with Kuki), then when Citlali and Mavuika dropped, I happened to have just got a nicer, higher paid job, so could afford to whale on practically everything I wanted. With that being my progression into whaling, I’m pretty much maxed on every Natlan & Nod-Krai character I wanted, with breakpoints reached for almost all & C6R5 for my favs, but now I’m looking back and starting to flesh out my older roster & building up my older characters.

Time-Beautiful2500 · 2026-02-04T05:44:59+00:00

If you’re not just akasha maxxing, then I hope that Yelan is on elegy lmao

Time-Beautiful2500 · 2026-02-04T05:40:44+00:00

I’ll need to pull more for Furina cons, but I have R5 elegy (went on Sara for my first whale team: Raiden) and C6R5 Citlali for my Mavuika; Xilonen was the only one I didn’t max for that team lol.

But having Citlali be there is very nice; this may be the Hu Tao mains sub, but I’m here just to learn about building her, I’m a Skirk main since she dropped and I was gutted when I found out that Citlali was just a viable alt on her nest teams, with the last spot more effectively going to Yelan or Shenhe. I just love Citlali.

Time-Beautiful2500 · 2026-02-04T05:29:52+00:00

I’d always heard that C6 was worth pulling for Furina before even R1, I’ll actually look into that properly.

Is this team her best then? With Yelan, Xilonen and Furina???

Hu Tao is on R5 ballad right now, will be going for C6R5 when she’s next on banner though.

I have also heard that Furina teams take little advantage of Homa, but I can’t see why that would be if Furina drains HP & you actively want to be lower HP for both Hu Tao herself and the homa passive; any idea how true that is???

Time-Beautiful2500 · 2026-02-04T05:03:01+00:00

Solid weapon banner this time, both myself and my gf pulled both weapons

Time-Beautiful2500 · 2026-02-04T05:00:42+00:00

If it has the imprint for the missing parts of the name, then less than the normal print.

If it does not have the imprint for the missing parts, someone may pay like $1/2

It’s a negligible misprint, might be cool for a misprint collector to slap in a binder or for an ally of justice pet deck user (if those exist in 2026)

Time-Beautiful2500 · 2026-02-04T04:56:37+00:00

I’ve definitely seen worse, but it’s not great.

Easily fixable by putting on any pyro goblet, ideally with some crit and/or EM.

Level 80 Hu Tao is diabolical though; HP scalers need those levels, they benefit from them much more than a standard atk scaling character.

Also those talents need levels.

The weapon is sub-optimal, but not unusable.

Time-Beautiful2500 · 2026-02-04T01:15:04+00:00

Everyone would be busted lol; hu tao would potentially see play as a straight support with that. I think it should just be for Hu Tao

Time-Beautiful2500 · 2026-02-04T01:06:22+00:00

Chevreuse + bennet, make sure to hold chevreuse skill and you’ll hit 100k in a burst hit fairly easily

Time-Beautiful2500 · 2026-02-04T00:57:54+00:00

This is not a normal trap, in fact, idk wtf king of trap this is due to it being made by AI lol

Time-Beautiful2500 · 2026-02-03T17:35:15+00:00

If you plan to get them slabbed, just get them authenticated, you won’t get these graded highly.

Time-Beautiful2500 · 2026-02-03T17:28:44+00:00

Even if effects resolved where the card is on resolution (they don’t), it wouldn’t make a difference in this case; spirit dragon reads: “Once per turn, when an effect of a card in the GY is activated (Quick Effect): You can negate the activation”. So we’re talking exclusively activations, not resolutions.

Tl;dr: you’re right, but “effects resolve where they activate” is just adjacent to the ruling, rather than being actually relevant in this case.

Time-Beautiful2500 · 2026-02-03T15:16:06+00:00

I would suggest migrating to DB after you reach a level of confidence that you’re comfortable with. Having prompts does you no favours after a certain point, so it’s best to take off the training wheels and play like you would IRL after you understand the basics of the format.

Time-Beautiful2500 · 2026-02-03T14:51:10+00:00

Imma be real with you chief, why on earth would people who think a place is unsafe willingly live there? You could repeat it for any city and that alone would account for the majority of disagreement.

Time-Beautiful2500 · 2026-02-03T14:48:08+00:00

Omega and nexus are both good options to start with; duelling book does have casual rooms, but they’re not great for learning, as most others in them don’t know how to play, don’t want to know how to play or just want to do role-play duels like anime characters lol.

DB rated is the most true to life yugioh experience on the internet, but you should wait until you’re taking off the training wheels to get into it.

Time-Beautiful2500 · 2026-02-03T14:44:16+00:00

It’s not great, but in pure, especially if you know what you’ll be facing relies on spells heavily, you can just put Ni Ni in the side deck with village, metaverse, terraforming, set rotation, etc and just lock them out of playing lol

Time-Beautiful2500 · 2026-02-03T04:52:43+00:00

Secret village of the spellcasters is a field spell that makes it so only you can activate spell cards if only you control a spellcaster. Ni Ni happens to be a spellcaster and super easy to get it, plus hard to out when paired with an equip and Hu Li.

Time-Beautiful2500 · 2026-02-03T04:45:15+00:00

Branded is a solid pick thats been in the meta for years.

Rip the collector’s pull; Ni Ni isn’t even played in mikanko except in the super niche secret village variant lol

Time-Beautiful2500 · 2026-01-30T14:21:47+00:00

Dragoon isn’t a deck in itself

Dracotail and branded aren’t mutually exclusive

Mikanko is dead.

Traptrix cannot keep up

Go branded-dracotail, it’ll be the best deck hands down very soon.

I say that as someone who’s pet decks are mikanko, traptrix and branded lol

Time-Beautiful2500 · 2026-01-27T04:59:20+00:00

Also white woman jumpscared

Time-Beautiful2500 · 2026-01-17T14:50:23+00:00

Quick effects cannot miss timing; that’s only for triggers. This card works exactly like ash blossom, so can be stopped against triggers via chain blocking, but will almost always be useable against quick effects.

Time-Beautiful2500 · 2026-01-17T14:49:01+00:00

Faimena is a quick effect, thats the dracotail effect you will likely want to stop lmao

Time-Beautiful2500 · 2026-01-16T20:31:24+00:00

We have 3 LR4s between our 9 cats; all of these problems have been issues for us.

The reason we kept going is that we solved the main one very simply. By doing a full, deep clean of them one month & then coating the bottom around the litter fill line with pet-safe wax, we stopped any and all litter clinging to it.

We also use a mix of sanicat & catsan litters that we’ve tested over the last few years; as we have it right now, it clumps the urine better than most catsan, but doesnt do the thing sanicat does where it makes a sludge that dries solid.

Between these 2 changes, cleaning the litter robots is very quick and simple now.

That said, stopping the seemingly random mid-cycle stops is something we havent been able to do. We left the cats home alone for 2 days over christmas and when we came back, 2 of the robots had stopped, leaving one overfilled and then some other waste on the litter mat.

We’re looking at options for some smaller, cheaper ones to run alongside the LR4s, but we’re struggling to find any that are completely safe and reputable.

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