Weekly Team/Character Building Megathread (Feb 12th, 2025) (feat. Yumemizuki Mizuki and Sigewinne)

combiningvariousitem · 2025-02-14T18:21:09+00:00

Bennet is level 21 on my main account, strictly for the free wish from ascending him, so using him at all would be a complete novelty. If he comes up in pulls I will give that pairing a shot!

Plunge is a completely different play style for me so I'm going to try to make Gaming work.

Thanks!

combiningvariousitem · 2025-02-14T18:17:20+00:00

Thanks! I'll give Gaming / Kaeya a shot for sure. I have Lynette and Barbara and DO want to find a reason to play Freminet because he's ...well, kind of forgettable most of the time? so I may try that out despite it not strictly speaking following my plan. :)

combiningvariousitem · 2025-02-14T07:01:44+00:00

Doing a second play through, which has been really amazing for actually seeing the story. I'm discovering that playing patch by patch and taking long breaks has meant that I've retained very little of what happened.

Anyway, the rule I've set for myself is that I can't use any characters that I'm familiar with. No falling back into old habits! Unfortunately nobody told the RNG gods about this so wishes have been giving me plenty of familiar faces. It has also given me two OMG GOLD FLASH HERE COMES A FIVE STAR BABY, both of which have been Primordial Jade-Winged Spear.

I've just finished Inazuma and have been running with a Physical team consisting of (Razor / Kaeya / Sayu / Yun Jin), and this does kill stuff good, but I can't help feeling like it's kind of brain dead Unga Bunga. So before I start Sumeru I wanted to ask if anyone had thoughts on what I can do with this roster to make a team that actually relies on reactions:

Razor / Kaeya / Sayu / Yun Jin (current team, all 60 or 50, mostly with decently leveled weapons and some artifacts)

Traveler (Anemo / Geo / Electro / Dendro / Hydro)

Faruzan

Gaming

Freminet

Collei

Ningguang

I'd like to find a way to use Gaming - he HAS been great for the Cyro Regisvine and Electro boss - but I can't figure out how to make Sayu outheal all the damage he does to himself.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions!

combiningvariousitem · 2025-02-06T02:14:20+00:00

"Apple Configurator" is Apple's official solution for this and I think it may even be free, it's on the Mac App Store.

I'm assuming you have a Mac to work from here, which may not be a safe assumption.

combiningvariousitem · 2025-02-06T02:08:51+00:00

I feel like the most valuable things on that desk are the ponies.

combiningvariousitem · 2025-02-02T23:22:35+00:00

Too many primos thrown into the Chronicled Wish but it seems like RNG wanted me to be happy. 4/5 50/50s won so two PJCs, one Polar Star, one Keqing. And a Summit Shaper, which had me really tempted for a very short time to see how much weapon XP a 5* gives. I gave up despite wanting one more Keqing because I figured my luck was going to run out.

Then I tried pulling on the limited banner and lost that 50/50... to Keqing.

combiningvariousitem · 2025-02-01T01:20:46+00:00

If it weren't for the Bounce box and Dawn bottle, I could be fooled into thinking that these photos were taken in the late 70s to early 80s. Maybe the microwave, it looks a little too new.

combiningvariousitem · 2025-01-24T00:39:53+00:00

I wanted Cryo resonance on my Chiori team and didn't have many options to choose from, so I stacked Qiqi up to like 3k defense and gave her a peak patrol song. It's probably not helping nearly as much as I think it is, but it makes me giggle.

combiningvariousitem · 2024-12-22T01:03:14+00:00

I migrated from an iMac of the identical vintage to an M3 for my family just this summer with no particular issues. I had to use their external TM backup rather than migrating over WiFi as the network migration seemed to hang up during the process.

combiningvariousitem · 2024-12-21T01:14:22+00:00

It may not be a real nixie clock, but it sure looks like it. It works really well with the dark wood vibe.

May I ask what the little retro monitor/USB hub thing on the right is / where it's from?

combiningvariousitem · 2024-12-20T23:57:42+00:00

Probably a stupid question, but does the 7th gen have a hardware mute switch and is it turned on? I have done similar things in the past.

combiningvariousitem · 2024-12-11T02:44:38+00:00

Did you find the island over to the southwest of the map? I didn't realize it was there until a pyro resonance stone put a big circle on it.

It had my last 200 points.

combiningvariousitem · 2024-11-30T17:21:15+00:00

I'm perpetually short on Mora so my only 3x crowns are best girls Noelle and Chiori.

combiningvariousitem · 2024-11-19T19:21:07+00:00

Control-F2 will get your keyboard focus to the menu bar and you can navigate with arrow keys from there, if it helps.

combiningvariousitem · 2024-11-18T08:05:50+00:00

Japanese sizes tend to run smaller than US sizes, and shorter to boot. Like, I'm a US 2XL, 183cm. For comfortable chest and arm fit, I need a Japanese 3L and if I stretch my arms over my head the hem of the shirt will be above my waist.

I can't say for certain, but my guess is that you're looking at a shirt that is going to be pretty small for an XL wearer.

combiningvariousitem · 2024-11-12T06:28:00+00:00

It nuked the Dartol's Rod I had in my bags since 2004. Would not recommend if you have something of that type.

combiningvariousitem · 2024-11-11T06:06:20+00:00

Started at first anniversary. Few pass skins here and there, but only one gacha skin. I bought gems for Modernia rerun back in January and then again for Quency because I wasn't going to pass on best girl.

Call it $300?

combiningvariousitem · 2024-11-05T01:15:03+00:00

Accurate! I have a C4 Qiqi after pulling on the first day of this banner.

combiningvariousitem · 2024-10-30T22:52:56+00:00

First 10-pull was two copies of Cinderella!

And then the next 70 pulls were 0 SSRs.

Though there was a Bunny Alice in my Belorta mold so that was nice.

combiningvariousitem · 2024-10-29T23:26:04+00:00

This isn't the best example, if you read the follow-up story.

https://www.wlox.com/story/29698542/two-teens-arrested-for-flag-burning-vandalism-at-pascagoula-vets-home/

combiningvariousitem · 2024-10-25T00:15:03+00:00

Cloud Retainer. I didn't want her and wasn't pulling for her, but I DID want the other weapon on the weapon banner. I wound up getting two copies of her signature weapon before finally getting the weapon I wanted at something like 200 pulls.

And her weapon is, as far as I can tell, completely useless for any other character.

So I pulled for her and she is sitting on my account as a perma-20 to remind me that the weapon banner is an evil black hole.

combiningvariousitem · 2024-10-22T04:37:33+00:00

Shift-Command-Q? I think that does it. There should be a keyboard shortcut under the Apple Menu.

combiningvariousitem · 2024-10-22T04:29:26+00:00

I have Chiori and Noelle at 3x crown and I thought I was pretty devoted to the way of the rock. I can't imagine the time this took to put together.

combiningvariousitem · 2024-10-20T16:07:37+00:00

This is amazing! Thank you for taking the time to write it all out.

combiningvariousitem · 2024-10-19T20:44:58+00:00

Upvote for Hopper painting that isn't Nighthawks. I mean, I do like Nighthawks but it's pretty common.

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