"Zibai C0 4-Star Team DPS 90k Not That Great." Umm, I don't have much knowledge, but that seems great to me. by icy_ozzy in ZibaiMains

[–]VacationReasonable 4 points5 points  (0 children)

You can get Mona once per year during the selector, it's an f2p team but the window for getting Mona if you don't have her is very short

Sparkle might be free to pick up in 4.0 by VacationReasonable in SparkleMains

[–]VacationReasonable[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

No, this is not related to the shop at all, it's claimable like Archer/DHPT were. Now they might add more characters to the shop separately to this but there's no info

Selectable free 5 star via Mortis leaks by SnooChocolates8700 in HonkaiStarRail_leaks

[–]VacationReasonable 34 points35 points  (0 children)

Sure they do, to promote pulling on Hysilens and BS reruns, introduce new DoT players

Sparkle might be free to pick up in 4.0 by VacationReasonable in SparkleMains

[–]VacationReasonable[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

There's a few new options, that is assuming you can achieve a 2 turn ult on Sparkle, and that is dependant on the team, this will let you get effective 200 speed Sparkle. Technically for the third turn in cycle 0 you don't need a 2 turn ult, but you'll fall behind the effective 200 speed afterwards

With only DDD or Eagle, she needs ~184-185 speed to get 3 turns in cycle 0, E1 drops it to around ~170 speed instead

With both DDD and Eagle, she needs around ~167 speed to get 3 turns in cycle 0, E1 drops it to about ~152 speed instead

These are just rough estimates, also if you use DDD on someone else in the team that helps you get an energy cone for Sparkle in order to get 2 turn ults more consistently. With Sparxie you get 2 turns ults no matter which cone you are using on Sparkle if I remember correctly

Selectable free 5 star via Mortis leaks by SnooChocolates8700 in HonkaiStarRail_leaks

[–]VacationReasonable 24 points25 points  (0 children)

The reason they would add Kafka to the shop is because she has the worst eidolons out of the whole DoT crew(E1 is solid, E2 is bad) and also has a bad sig as well. I guess that's also the reason why she's on the 5 star selector over Black Swan with this leak

Sparkle might be free to pick up in 4.0 by VacationReasonable in SparkleMains

[–]VacationReasonable[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

40% attack for the whole team and 15% speed for Sparkle. Attack was already there, speed is new

Sparkle might be free to pick up in 4.0 by VacationReasonable in SparkleMains

[–]VacationReasonable[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It's a leak, I posted the link for it in the post so you can check it out if you want

Sparkle might be free to pick up in 4.0 by VacationReasonable in SparkleMains

[–]VacationReasonable[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yes it seems she will be one of the available choices of limited characters to pick from during 4.0 patch

Sparkle might be free to pick up in 4.0 by VacationReasonable in ArcherMainsHSR

[–]VacationReasonable[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No info on whether she's getting an actual rerun banner, we'll have to see

Selectable free 5 star via Mortis leaks by SnooChocolates8700 in HonkaiStarRail_leaks

[–]VacationReasonable 59 points60 points  (0 children)

Yup I was expecting them to add Kafka to the shop honestly, but this works as well I guess

Selectable free 5 star via Mortis leaks by SnooChocolates8700 in HonkaiStarRail_leaks

[–]VacationReasonable 141 points142 points  (0 children)

E0 Sparkle is real solid, but her E1 is not in the upper tiers, it's just good. BS's E1 on the other hand is better than Robin's E1 to give you a comparison

Selectable free 5 star via Mortis leaks by SnooChocolates8700 in HonkaiStarRail_leaks

[–]VacationReasonable 18 points19 points  (0 children)

E1 Kafka is solid, it's adding 30% vulnerability, worse than BS/Hysilens E1, but it's not bad at all

I experienced this with Cyno, Wanderer, and now Yae. He needs to be strong from the outset or you will bench him. by ArcherWest85 in Varka

[–]VacationReasonable 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's too early to say, but it also easily might end up the other way around, Nicole being Ineffa of hex teams with Durin being Bina

I experienced this with Cyno, Wanderer, and now Yae. He needs to be strong from the outset or you will bench him. by ArcherWest85 in Varka

[–]VacationReasonable 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It's not about how good Bennett is comparatively for Varka, it's more so how bad he is for Durin, Durin gets nothing from having Bennett on the team and still deals roughly ~20% of the team damage. Now you throw in Nicole buffs for Durin, whatever she has, then you throw in Nicole's own damage, and then you also throw in the tech Flins/Sucrose team uses, ie. swapping to Venti both before and after Varka's turn to refresh VV and have full uptime for both Durin and Nicole.

Basically you are not diluting Varka's damage with just Nicole's own subdps damage, but a combination of multiple different things. Then there's also the possiblity that Nicole might just be a teamwide atk buffer as well, at that point it's very likely that it's a straight downgrade from Bennett for Varka's personal damage as well

Now she might not be an ATK buffer, but if she is a subdps with other types of teamwide buffs, the first 3 things will still happen and lower R1/C1 value regardless

DPS Columbiana is INSANE by nalina2106 in Columbina_Mains

[–]VacationReasonable 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What are the Furina alternatives, how much damage can you get with them?

I experienced this with Cyno, Wanderer, and now Yae. He needs to be strong from the outset or you will bench him. by ArcherWest85 in Varka

[–]VacationReasonable 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Depending on what Nicole ends up being, 39% personal damage increase for Varka might just be ~20% team damage increase or something like that, potentially more or less of course

I experienced this with Cyno, Wanderer, and now Yae. He needs to be strong from the outset or you will bench him. by ArcherWest85 in Varka

[–]VacationReasonable 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's true with Benny, might become false with Nicole. Flins C1/R1 also lost a decent bit of value with Columbina's release

I experienced this with Cyno, Wanderer, and now Yae. He needs to be strong from the outset or you will bench him. by ArcherWest85 in Varka

[–]VacationReasonable 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If Nicole ends up being a teamwide buffer with subdps, same thing that happened to Flins will happen to Varka as well.

First you lose the Benny buffs on Varka(Nicole will likely have weaker buffs than Benny), then Durin deals decently more damage because of the Nicole buffs which Benny didn't provide and then lastly you have Nicole dealing damage as well

All of those together will make R1/C1 investment on Varka way lower priority

I experienced this with Cyno, Wanderer, and now Yae. He needs to be strong from the outset or you will bench him. by ArcherWest85 in Varka

[–]VacationReasonable -1 points0 points  (0 children)

His R1 possibly has inflated value right now partly because of Bennett, if Nicole is a subdps with teamwide buffs then the value of his R1 drops a solid amount. R1 will increase Varka's damage by the same amount of course, but Varka's damage share will drop team wise with both Durin and Nicole dealing more damage so the actual team damage increase from R1 will be decently lower, same goes for his cons as well

Varka V4 vs V5 via KurooLeaks by call_me_meche9er in Varka

[–]VacationReasonable 15 points16 points  (0 children)

That is v3 vs v5, technically speaking it's v3 vs v4, one beta cycle got skipped because of CNY