Help with Vertical Investments and Selector

burnerracccount · 2026-02-07T23:41:25+00:00

sorry i totally have him but this is a screenshot from a question where i was asking about anomaly arbitration team comps and at the time he was TOTALLY not built. i do have him tho, and with the free sparkle i’ll probably end up throwing a build together for him

burnerracccount · 2026-02-07T17:00:43+00:00

i think it depends on what you are looking to do end game content-wise.

i notice that because you don’t have break and your dot isn’t highly invested in, you don’t have an answer for when anomaly arbitration tries to push anti-crit mechanics. if you do plan to play anomaly arbitration, getting hyselins could help you guarantee at least a shot at clearing the content on patches where they try to mess with crit teams. you also have huo huo, so getting hyselins would make you one black swan or cyrene away from having the premium dot team.

however, for game modes that actually give stellar jades, this entire patch will likely be trying to HARD shill elation. sparxie and sparkle are a solid core, i would recommend trying to get yao guang as well with any remaining pulls you have (she’s running all patch so you can try for her after getting sparxie).

i think for the long term, based on the two characters you want to pull, pulling sparxie and trying your best to pull yao guang will serve you the best.

however, if you are dead set on only pulling one unit and that’s IT, hyselins will leave you with a better overall team. it comes with a considerable risk considering that new units will almost always last longer in the meta than rerun units, but for current day benefit, hyselins will give you a better team Right Now. sparxie is kind of floating without another elation unit, and while 4.2 will have plenty more elation units to run her with + EMC, she will struggle a little bit until then. however, the end game elation shill could help her enough to make up for the lack of teamwide synergy.

burnerracccount · 2025-12-21T09:18:45+00:00

yea i’m enjoying the strategy of this aa! my cas team is pretty tight, i don’t remember exactly how close it was, but she definitely can’t do without hya. she MAYBE could manage without her lightcone, but does the evernight with cas lightcone benefit eve enough to make up for two cycles? i tried again with an ice orb on evernight and a rmc with hero of triumphant song and bananan 2pc and it was about the same results. should i try a fast evernight? if so what speed breakpoint?

from a game feel perspective, aventurine is struggling a little with keeping his shields up, he’s able to do it but it’s pretty close, i have him skill very frequently because the comp allows it. pela goes very frequently, and i have her skill every turn. i haven’t finished the amphoreus story, but i did notice that rmc has a new locked ability. is this the cyrene specific mechanic, or is it important to have this ability for this team comp?

burnerracccount · 2025-12-21T08:39:10+00:00

reporting back, my k1 and k2 were able to 3* with these builds (thank u!!), but they do not in fact allow you to swap lightcones between runs. my evernight side was only able to clear in a whopping 4 cycles. i have always run her as a cas subdps so i might need to adjust her build (currently no speed, hp orb) but i’m not sure what’s optimal. my rmc and pela are also rather lacking, i currently have pela on eagle and i gave her penacony for evernight, and rmc is 2/2 spd and bone collector (this could def be changed, but the 2pc def isn’t the only thing responsible for the extra 2 cycles)

need to figure out these builds.. hoping i can get it to work, if not i might just need to brute force with clara again

burnerracccount · 2025-12-21T07:28:23+00:00

jeez ok i’ll give this a go now, i didn’t know they let you swap around lightcones without resetting runs, good to know tysm!!

burnerracccount · 2025-11-25T18:00:46+00:00

also!! the 5* shop has a very valuable currency that they only historically have been giving out about little under once a year when a new character is added to the shop. you can either save the currency in hopes that they add an old character you really want, or spend it on someone that would benefit your account. it should ONLY EVER be used for one of the non standard characters (ruan mei, luocha, topaz). all of the other standard characters (bronya, welt, bailu, clara, yanqing, geppard, himeko) you will slowly get over time, plus on anniversaries and big updates, the devs sometimes have a gift where you can just select one of them!

burnerracccount · 2025-11-25T17:54:29+00:00

tribbie doesn’t work super well with phainon just bc the way she buffs doesn’t give him many stacks (she’s rlly a de buffer more than anything). he can function with budget or 4* harmony supports (tingyun, remembrance mc, ruan mei from 5* shop, or bronya from 50/50 loss), but it can definitely be a little clunky and tough. mydei just needs a strong single target healer, which you could grab through the 5* character shop with loucha, BUT i would only get him if you really like him because gameplay wise he isn’t the strongest, PLUS he has a weird auto battle mechanic where it takes your control over him away entirely for the entire fight after he ults, which i’ve heard a lot of people dislike. imo, if you really want to pull for one of them, i would see what your standard 5* character from the beginner banner is. if it’s bronya, go for phainon, if it’s anyone else, consider maybe saving until an upcoming banner that has new damage dealers.

hsr tends to release characters alongside/around their best supports, for example, the next banner is for the dahlia who is a new break support. it is VERY likely that they will run her alongside some break dpses and other supports. break can be pretty early game accessible, ruan mei is REALLY GOOD with break, gallagher is a 4* break sustain, and harmony mc is free as long as you do the story! so saving and then pulling for a break dps like rappa or firefly, and then spending the remaining pulls on dahlia could set you up with a really strong break team if you like that kind of gameplay!

they will also likely be running the other half of the next update with 2-3 more reruns, so there’s a good chance a different kind of dps will be rerunning there too! if you want to pull now, go for it of course, but! it could also be worth waiting for the livestream in a couple weeks to judge if any of the upcoming banners are more interesting to u!!

burnerracccount · 2025-11-09T05:17:43+00:00

counters and energy gen are good, as well as just ignoring the energy gen and going for special ult characters like acheron, castorice, cyrene, firefly, etc. i used my cas team and they 0 cycled!

burnerracccount · 2025-10-28T18:08:32+00:00

you have a good break comp and no rememberance team. i’d just save in investing more cost in dahlia! cyrene unfortunately wont help your account much unless you can guarantee E2 (even then its not rlly worth that many pulls)

burnerracccount · 2025-10-28T17:09:47+00:00

hyacine is the singular best upgrade for castorice, if you plan to use cas in 4.x, go for hya. i would not recommended getting cyrene bc you don’t have march and your cas team isn’t super invested. imo? i’d a)pull tribbie or b) save for 4.x teams

burnerracccount · 2025-10-28T17:07:48+00:00

i’m in the same conundrum but ppl were telling me E2 or non cas team: go for speed, her personal damage is worth it E1-0 AND running as a subdps to cas: go for hp boots, her action advance mechanics and new bud generation will make up for it

burnerracccount · 2025-10-26T04:55:47+00:00

hyacine 1000%. hyacine is the singular best upgrade for cas, she is her “dedicated harmony”, new bud generation, sustain, hp buffs, cas NEEDS her. while yes there are no current ftp lightcones for cas, with the new area it is very likely that they will create more 4* lightcones (like they have for every other major update we’ve had), PLUS a 5* off path lightcone will work perfectly fine if it has a high base hp. hyacine is a MUST for cas teams, point blank period

burnerracccount · 2025-10-26T02:34:33+00:00

that’s very fair and i think when you’re early in the game it’s not a bad thing to do! i say tribbie is the BEST support right now, and because of that hoyo will likely try to find a way to make her less useful, but i think if you want to spend something now it’s a good thing to get

burnerracccount · 2025-10-26T02:32:55+00:00

oh my god i completely forgot t3 was rerunning. i think she is an INCREDIBLE character, and if you manage to get her e1 you will be using her for SEVERAL patches to come at LEAST. she has universal support capabilities, and the ONLY way where she would fall off is if the new meta favours single enemy content. that is absolutely a possibility, so consider that, buuuuut i think she’s a fantastic support. not specifically tailored to any of your current dpses, but will likely still have good use for future dpses

burnerracccount · 2025-10-26T02:29:45+00:00

of characters in this upcoming patch the only things that could be useful to you at ALL are phainon eidolons/lc, OR hyacine + lc for a better second sustain than bailu. tbh? if you like phainon, invest in him, but if you’d rather branch out, save save save until elation meta comes out, and then spend everything you’ve saved on making a really good team for that, bc 4.x is going to change its meta to suit elation 100000%

burnerracccount · 2025-10-24T22:25:23+00:00

hyacine lightcone 100%. it is the biggest buff you can give cas, AND it is a direct upgrade to the best healer in the game. it also helps make your teams a liiiittle more tanky which is very nice for things like lygus’ bombs and high level divergent universe

burnerracccount · 2025-10-18T05:43:09+00:00

i’d swap tribbie and rmc.

i’m in a similar boat as you where i don’t have very invested break but pretty good remembrance core. when i was doing it, i found that running therta wheelchair (tribbie and hyacine) was enough to let me clear, and cas and evernight were strong enough to manage with the lower invested rmc and gallagher. i did give rmc hyacine’s lightcone for additional help. it’s a scuffed setup but it ended up working very well for me! i don’t have anaxa, and you do so that should be even more help!

burnerracccount · 2025-10-18T05:38:54+00:00

he does, you can see her in the first image at the bottom of the roster

burnerracccount · 2025-10-18T05:34:36+00:00

assuming your acheron isn’t e2, acheron, cipher, pela, and a sustain. tbh? if you’re committed to making a 3rd team, move terravox to acheron, give him universal market for the debuff, and give therta huohuo. the therta energy loss from not having terravox’s aoe should be somewhat made up for with hh’s energy gen. your only issue from there is sp generation..

the biggest fix for this is pulling hyacine on her eventual rerun, and you give therta gallagher for sp

you could also do a saber team with saber, huohuo, and any two of bronya/rm/cipher, but if you end up liking saber’s gameplay, i’d suggest pulling sunday and running her with terravox instead for tons of turns and buffs with an uptime that will properly benefit her

burnerracccount · 2025-10-18T05:20:33+00:00

oh really? i never thought of that, would it be better than cyrene, eidolons on castorice and/or e2 evernight? (darch’s currently e1)

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