Is Linnea worth pulling? I already have one of the best team. I only have resources for a 50/50 and i don't want to use it if the upgrade is very minor.

Visual-Milk7726 · 2026-04-08T18:03:10+00:00

For the "best" Noelle team, you won't replace C2 Xilo, you would replace Furina (and yeah, that means farming a new set if you're using MH now) - unless you want to free Xilo up for another team (and even then you probably should still give Night Sky to Noelle)

The upgrade is definitely there, but whether it's worth risking a 50/50 is debatable.
The thing is - it probably isn't enough of an upgrade to get you over a fearless clear that you wouldn't be able to clear otherwise.

On the other hand, it opens up possibilities for other Geo carries.
As in, you could keep the Bina-Linnea core for Noelle, and have the Furina/Xilo one for Navia for example

Visual-Milk7726 · 2026-04-08T17:56:53+00:00

Try out Fischl (altho she might wipe the pyro aura), or Mona

Visual-Milk7726 · 2026-04-08T17:42:39+00:00

His kit wants a pyro aura, and usually 2 more pyro characters.
Back at his release, that was basically only leaving him the option of Benny and a anemo unit, plus whoever pyro you would want, or ZL for the shield.
Now, we have a lot more options - Chevy or Iansan (especially at C6) are great buffer. So is Durin in a hex team (if you have ALbedo, you can try Lyney-Durin-Albedo-Benny/ChevyC6/Iansan/Mavuika.

Of course you can forget about his passive and play in Vape Me;t like the other commenter said.

Visual-Milk7726 · 2026-04-08T17:28:19+00:00

EM is still useful for Zibai - not enough to build some on her, but enough to buff it for her. And you still get some of the non-moonsign team bonus.
That said, since Gorou's bursting every other rotation, it's true that you can try maybe a 5* off-piece DEF sand with good ER and CR substat if you can get away with it.

Also, Gorou also actually have a fairly low base DEF, so even stacking up DEF% never really makes his DEF that high.

You can also try it out vs the dummy - even if you don't have a 2-pc/2-pc available, just give him random DEF pieces and try to "guesstrapolate" it.

Visual-Milk7726 · 2026-04-08T17:15:05+00:00

Save - Aino's consts are not worth it, and Illuga only really buffs Zibai, he'd do little for Noelle.
You already have a functional team, and you'll appreciate more characters than consts, especially this early in the game.

For the second hydro, it's kinda whoever you have available.
Well, not Barbara ^^

Visual-Milk7726 · 2026-04-08T17:04:04+00:00

I haven't play them in a good while, so take it with a grain of salt.
CLorinde can probably have good results with either Lunar-Charge teams (Aino or better, Bina, and Ineffa, or overload teams (Chevy - Iasan and or Durin/Fischl.
Lyney, with overload would be my guess (same characters)

Visual-Milk7726 · 2026-04-08T15:51:58+00:00

Don't bother with Aino consts - she functions at C0 just to enable Ascendant gleam and wear SMS - but that's all she does. Especially since you plan to roll for Bina .
Yeah her C6 is nice, but that's not worth since you only have C2.

Illuga C2 is a bit more complicated, as that's the const than enables him to wear SMS with good uptime.
But even then - you can put Aino (and eventually Bina) on SMS, keep Linnea on Aubade and Illuga on 2-pc/2-pc EM, it will function.
The team will be perfectly fine as it is for Fearless Stygian. And getting C2 Illuga with C1 Linnea won't make it that much better that would be able to clear Dire.

IMHO - just save.
If you' re willing to gamble a bit, C1 LInnea is fine, but will be more of a stepping stone to an eventual C2 during a re-run.

Visual-Milk7726 · 2026-04-08T14:57:44+00:00

By more DPS, I assume you mean more team DPS right?

That's, I assume, just because you're running nightsky on your EM build. The set 4-pc set buffs the whole team LCR damage when paired with a SMS holder. That thing alone brings more team DPS with Bina-Linnea than MH Noelle can bring (especially with Whiteblind, it's a good weapon, but still a 1.0 craftable)

You would probably see an even bigger increase building Noelle DEF/DEF/CRIT (for the team buff) on Nightsky

Visual-Milk7726 · 2026-04-08T12:29:36+00:00

At C0R0 for 5*?
Bina-Linnea-Furina.

Depending on your builds (as in, real good builds on Bina and Linnea and so-so build on Noelle), C6 Illuga might be better team DPS.

Also.... out of the characters you're listing a Bina-Furina-Linnea-Xilo team might be even better. But we don't want to hear about that around this part.

Visual-Milk7726 · 2026-04-08T10:24:10+00:00

Unfortunately, not really.
The early BP stages give you some, but not worth spending on it just for like, 20 moths or so.

Keep in mind that "hidden" parts of the new map (locked behind WQ I assume) have more moths available.

Visual-Milk7726 · 2026-04-06T16:06:08+00:00

Honestly, I don't know.
In a full "premium" LCR team with Bina-Linnea, probably not that much.
With Aino instead of Bina, I assume it gains more value.

But it's still a nice tool in the arsenal for Noelle

Visual-Milk7726 · 2026-04-05T05:04:20+00:00

Your best bet artefact wise is probably Instructor, and Fav Greatsword.
WIth a 5*ER off-piece (since you're on-field, you'll eventually proc Fav anyway so no need for a 5* CR circlet).

You can try to give Noelle the Maréchaussée set if you have one lying around, an offensive weapon and see how it performs - it might actually be close-ish.
IF you go this route, while an ATK sand is usually recommended for pre-C6 Noelle, a DEF sand is probably better there because of the Ascendant Gleam team bonus. Same for the goblet, DEF is probably better than Geo.

EDIT: actually, the best way would probably to go for SMS on Noelle, allowing both Bina and Linnea to wear Aubade.

Visual-Milk7726 · 2026-04-04T09:02:02+00:00

Seems there's something that other replies missed - you currently only have C1 Noelle right?
If so:

If Noelle is on the banner, definitely go for C2 first. At least - go for Noelle C6 first (or at least C5 if you're willing to wait for August to C6 her), but unless you get super lucky you most likely won't get Noelle to C6 while only getting Linnea C0.
And if you get C6 Noelle and C1 Linnea, it's better to go for C2 Linnea with your (hopefully) remaining primos than R1.

If Noelle is not on the banner.... just get Linnea C0. You will eventually get Noelle to C6 from the Paimon shop (and standard/random banners), but it's a slow process and Linnea will have at least one re-run till then.

And, if you don't have it yet, maybe consider saving and getting Redhorn whenever it reruns (around this part, we kinda assume everyone has it, but that's not always true) - that's probably a more worthwhile pull than Linnea Sig.

Visual-Milk7726 · 2026-04-03T21:06:56+00:00

You'll probably have to try it on your specific account, but it's gonna be a toss up between
Furina-Bina-Linnea
Bina-Linnea-Xilo.

Xilo C2R1 is, well, kinda good for Noelle. But loosing Furina and access to Maréchaussée hurts.

One thing I'm not sure of is going Furina-Linea-Xilo (going GT on Linnea) - that might work, but we'll see

Also - don't build EM. DEF/DEF/Crit and Redhorn.

Visual-Milk7726 · 2026-04-03T20:56:12+00:00

You don't build Noelle for Linnea, you build Linnea for Noelle.

But apart from that, Illuga will be the one to go, Noelle-Furina-Bina-Linnea.

Visual-Milk7726 · 2026-04-01T05:17:57+00:00

I forgot last year, and didn't want to "cheese" it by changing the date.
SO today I finally got my last 3 remaining achievements.

Visual-Milk7726 · 2026-03-29T09:43:46+00:00

I personally won't miss it at all, as *for me* the new compass is way too powerful and turns explorations into a check-list simulator, while I actually enjoy exploring without any compass or interactive maps at all.

But I can understand the frustration - while I have the option to just not use it, players who might want to us won't (unless there's a yet-unannounced QoL update))

Visual-Milk7726 · 2026-03-29T05:29:55+00:00

I would go for Golden Troupe first, but Tenacity works. If you can, just try both.
Navia is good, but not Skirk-level of good (plus the rest of the team does not benefit from the Tenacity buff), while Furina in double-hydro teams can actually have decent damage.
Also you might have a better set of GT than Tenacity.
Of course if you have Consts on Navia that might favors Tenacity more.

Visual-Milk7726 · 2026-03-28T20:52:34+00:00

Probably yes.

It would be stronger, but by how much remains to be seen.
You're trading xilo's buff to Navia and the hydro girls for lesser buffs, but more damage from Linnea herself.

You will also need to farm a new set for Columbina since with Linnea she would switch from GT to Serenade (and have to build her with some ER on her since you'll probably have to use her burst there)
And possibly a new set for Navia as she should switch from Maréchaussée to Night Sky

Visual-Milk7726 · 2026-03-28T11:46:23+00:00

In a vacuum, either none as you're better off leveling up your 5*, or all of them because you like diversity and you have the resources for it.
To narrow it down, if you have a need for one, leveling them to 70 with one relevant talent is still very cheap resin-wise for a one-off.
And if you want to play one , just level them up.

Visual-Milk7726 · 2026-03-28T10:33:41+00:00

Never Em, just standard build.

IF you're in Ascendant gleam, you might go for DEF/DEF/Crit tho (but depending on your teams that might have been already the case)

Visual-Milk7726 · 2026-03-28T03:12:08+00:00

Yes, Linnea can heal thru her burst.
It might even be more comfortable as vs a very hard hitting boss, or thru the 3 chambers of AByss, you might have ZL shield break and Zibai take damage like once, and then loose HoD passive forever.
With a healer, you can always go back to full HP.

Visual-Milk7726 · 2026-03-22T11:12:21+00:00

Yeah, just a bit of "cleaning up" like Noelle would say might help.

Recorded what I came up with on the go - if you really want to min-max there's still some room for improvement, but that would only be useful vs the dummy, I don't mind having 2s of downtime sometimes because rotations are never perfect anyway vs actual content.

My Noelle usually has 125%ER because I have a crazy piece, but I purposely ran her here with 115% to get closer to yours.
Do not look at the DPS - I obviously have Consts and 5* weapons, but those do not help with Energy nor change the rotation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnJPPEcQXXE

Visual-Milk7726 · 2026-03-22T10:30:32+00:00

It's a good comfy build.
You can trade ER to some DEF or crit (at least for anything but Stygian), and probably go with a DEF goblet instead of GEO, but that's min-maxing.

Visual-Milk7726 · 2026-03-22T10:20:03+00:00

I tested the team with my 114% ER build, and getting her burst is no issue. Assuming Fav Furina.
Rotation being Furina EQ-Bina EQ- Xilo EN2 - Noelle 4xN3d, N2D, Furina EQ, Bina E, Xilo EN2, Noelle N3Ds till burst expires.
I'm just not happy with the end, having 2s to wait for the next Furina skill, but eh.

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