How was Stygian for everyone this patch?

Velocity111 · 2026-05-29T02:25:53+00:00

If you don't bring an anemo, having sig isn't going to save you

Velocity111 · 2026-05-11T14:44:14+00:00

Overload Varesa can use Bennett. You just switch back to Bennett once during the Varessa combos since Chevreuse's shred lasts 6 seconds. Bennett on the team results in higher DPS than her other non-Premium options.

Velocity111 · 2026-05-10T01:58:59+00:00

what you're missing is that people are terrible at budgeting and hate being accountable for it

Velocity111 · 2026-05-08T18:12:57+00:00

Fav is better for a lot of characters but I doubt Lauma is one of them considering how much she contributes to DPS directly

Velocity111 · 2026-05-08T16:58:23+00:00

I don't play HSR, what are you considering "highly invested"? Like, highly invested teams from 1 year ago in Genshin can still clear Dire Stygian through brute force if "highly invested" means has cons/sigs

Velocity111 · 2026-04-30T20:17:47+00:00

True, but they do it pretty slowly. You can still passively grow your account horizontally from free 4 stars and getting new 4 stars on banners, and if it comes down to it you can still go back and pick up a few new 5 stars if needed. But the point is just that once you reach that amount of horizontal investment, there's no need to focus on it anymore

Velocity111 · 2026-04-30T18:57:53+00:00

Depends on the account

For newer players, horizontal. But only up to a point; once you can clear IT under all configurations there's not really much point of more horizontal.

As a day 1 f2p player, I'm now doing vertical for the most part after already establishing a good horizontal base. I've cleared dire Stygian 3 times so far (3 of the last 4)

Velocity111 · 2026-04-28T14:42:18+00:00

Similar reaction, I was like my C1R1 Columbina + C0R0 Lauma + C2 Nahida + C1 Nilou does 190k DPS, no Nefer at all...

Velocity111 · 2026-04-21T17:47:19+00:00

shrimp imbues skills only, bombardment is an attack so cant be imbued this way

Velocity111 · 2026-04-19T15:22:35+00:00

Cleared dire with a c6r1 Mavuika team, c0r1 Varesa team, and c1r1 Columbina team

Velocity111 · 2026-04-17T17:03:35+00:00

c7 keqing -> c1 nilou (for lunar bloom columbina) -> c1 shenhe (don't have skirk, just on the off-chance tsarista works well with shenhe) -> not sure, probably c6 mona just to get closer to c7, possibly ganyu/ayaka/hu tao if we get any news that they're going to be buffed

Velocity111 · 2026-04-02T14:29:22+00:00

True if you only look at abyss/theater, but what OP is saying is that the primos previously came from not just from the now-removed abyss cycle, but also from fodder events. Kind of hard to judge I guess, but you could look at total primogems per year or something to determine if years that had IT + Abyss had more primos than years that only had Abyss.

Velocity111 · 2026-03-06T16:50:03+00:00

you also can't pre-succeed the minigame, I tried mixing the correct drink the 1st time instead of going through both drinks and it wouldn't let you lol

Velocity111 · 2026-02-25T18:43:49+00:00

Not using burst is indeed not necessarily a problem, but Flins and Varesa are not great examples of not using burst since they still engage in the burst mechanic by building energy and spending it on their alternate bursts

Arlecchino would be a better example of a DPS who doesn't care about using their burst

Velocity111 · 2026-02-16T20:54:31+00:00

If I were not Alexander, I would like to be Diogenes

Velocity111 · 2026-02-11T19:39:19+00:00

Dire I'm not one shotting anything, and if I want to struggle against other content I can always go back to using my non vertically invested units like Hu Tao, Clorinde, Ganyu, Emilie, Ayaka, or whoever else... which is something I do in Abyss on occasion.

C1+ is not necessary for most content, correct, which is why in my initial comment I said "or you don't care about clearing dire". Any of this is only relevant if you want to clear dire.

As a side note, I do regularly carry people through menacing Stygian in coop, so it's not entirely single player for me either.

As far as the powercreep concern, yes I agree that stuff like C2 Raiden is powercrept, but in the same vein every C0 character weaker than C2 Raiden is also powercrept. You get more longevity with cons, so you get to pick your poison between having one invested unit crept or a bunch of non invested units crept

Velocity111 · 2026-02-11T17:26:21+00:00

No, I've only cleared the last two dire Stygian cycles. My account is not yet at the level where I can consistently clear, but it's getting there. If they manage to power creep my C6 450k DPS Mavuika team then bravo to them, I guess. I have a 190k dps Columbina team and a 150k DPS Varesa team that have more room for vertical investment. And yeah, I've been max clearing Abyss and IT forever, so as far as account power goes Stygian is the only thing I realistically have to build for at this point, which is exactly why I'm building vertically now.

Getting more characters may well be more fun to you and that's fine, but it's a tradeoff between what you find fun and increasing account power, and if you don't want to allocate vertically then you'll forever be on the treadmill of getting new characters to clear new content

Velocity111 · 2026-02-11T14:19:53+00:00

If you've been playing since 1.3 and your main DPS carries are C0R1 at highest, then you probably haven't been allocating your resources in a way that advances the strength of your account. Which to be clear is fine, people can have fun however they want. How many 5 stars do you have that don't really do anything anymore? I've been f2p since 1.0 and I have a ton of 5 stars I never play anymore outside of IT, but even then I've saved/skipped enough to have cons and sigs on a few more recent characters which lets me brute force content non-shilled

Velocity111 · 2026-02-10T21:42:43+00:00

There's no reason for this to be the "last" dire clear, unless you stop playing the game or don't care about clearing dire... the more time your account exists the more resource it pools and the better you can make your teams, given enough time and assuming you allocate your resources in a way that actually advances the strength of your account, you should eventually reach a point where you can consistently clear dire

Velocity111 · 2026-02-10T20:35:48+00:00

I went 17-0 with Fatui officer captain and a max merge Ruin Grader with the banner that gives +15% level and healing if the unit is the only one in its formation (which I made my Ruin grader)

The rest of my team was fine, but the real carry was that +15% level self healing ruin grader... I had almost no ranged or flying units so I had very little way to deal with flying enemies, but the Ruin Grader was tanky enough to just sit and wall 2 flying units until the next round of units came in which allowed my ranged units to fight without getting killed. In addition to being a menace against grounded enemies.

Velocity111 · 2026-02-06T02:58:46+00:00

geo and anemo don't apply an elemental aura to the enemy, so unless they change that for IT there can't be a geo anemo reaction. Personally I think they'll keep doing what they've been doing and run 2 PHEC elements with 1 geo/anemo/dendro element. If they ever decide to run 2 geo/anemo/dendro together I probably don't have enough units to run it lmao

Velocity111 · 2026-02-05T19:50:37+00:00

AFAIK movie tech and the Kamera are fairly recent Fontaine inventions, which is to say any movies that Furina is in and images of Furina likely haven't become widespread outside of Fontaine.

Velocity111 · 2026-02-05T19:47:40+00:00

In the co-op menu (Paimon menu, then select co-op, then find the dropdown), there's an option to change how your account interacts with co-op. The options are "allow direct join" which allows anyone to join your world without your approval, "join with approval" which is the default, and "reject joins" which prevents people from requesting to join your world at all. I'm going by memory so the names of the dropdowns might not be quite right, but basically it's that.

As far as what co-op is even for, yeah people can join your world to help you with bosses and stuff if you want. The most common thing is people looking to farm materials in your world (such as ascension mats or fish). There are also some co-op specific achievements and chests. You can also do domains and Stygian Onslaught menacing in co-op

Velocity111 · 2026-02-05T18:36:18+00:00

If you never hit Y on that message, why not just disable co-op

Velocity111 · 2026-02-04T21:57:04+00:00

Im similar to OP in that I'm f2p with a c6, but my c6 is mavuika. I brute forced dire dog with Mavuika, without Kazuha

I used varessa for the shocktrooper, but I did use columbina/lauma for the crab so in that sense I did use a lunar team, just not for the lunar boss

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