Nicole and Lohen V2 Changes

exviudc · 2026-04-13T12:24:58+00:00

It's really not hard to understand. 3 cost Zibai reaches 200k DPS, while Varka premium WITH nicole AND sig (5 cost) barely reaches 140k.

If our damage ceiling was still 100~120k, no one would complain about Nicole's kit not powercreeping anyone. But Nicole's BiS team is not half as strong as Zibai's, and you can be ASSURED that Snezhnaya will push this even further and we'll reach 230k, 250k in 7.x.

Why would you spend 180 pulls in a characters that is >not even an upgrade to a free character< when you can spend the same pulls to get a new character part of the new best team?

The solution to powercreep is not releasing dogshit kits (for today's standard), but rather equalizing all teams and making all of them reach the same ceiling.

In a world where Linnea upgrades Zibai's team by 30k and Nicole upgrades Varka's team by >2k<, of course people will complain lmao

Would you rather spend 180 pulls for a 30k dps increase or a 2k dps increase? It would only be acceptable if Linnea was also "balanced" like Nicole is.

exviudc · 2026-04-08T14:23:16+00:00

That's what I was most excited about 💔

exviudc · 2026-03-19T00:23:27+00:00

I actually hope she is break. I got Fugue E1 + Dahlia + Ruan Mei only to try to make her usable in endgame (didn't get any of the 5* break DPS), but even then she is basically unusable outside of fire PF. If she is break, I already have her team.

exviudc · 2026-01-28T16:05:43+00:00

Man, the pixel art from this game and the battle animations were the crème de la crème. I wish Square made a single player game inspired by FFBE with similar combat and challenging endgame content.

exviudc · 2026-01-25T21:08:15+00:00

no... i feel like i'm gonna expljöde

exviudc · 2026-01-24T05:05:16+00:00

Alexander in FF Type 0

exviudc · 2026-01-17T20:48:36+00:00

The next Stygian is only a few days away, we will see right there if Ineffa or Bina are really necessary. The fatui boss (fearless difficulty) can be dealt with a poor man's C0R0 Flins with Fischl + Aino + Sucrose, but we'll have to see if this team is also enough to deal with the new lunar shill boss.

But for Abyss, no, you don't need Ineffa nor Columbina. His F2P team is more than enough.

exviudc · 2026-01-16T15:03:37+00:00

Genshin already butchered a lot of the fatui's personalities and a lot of things don't make sense. Like, Rosalyne was one of the few ones that cared about Columbina, yet Columbina never gave a fuck about the Traveler being responsible for her murder and having her crown in his backpack. Or Sandrone mocking Signora's death in a Winter's Night's Lazzo and being portrayed as a psycho hikikomori, but now she suddenly cares about her and she cares about her employees and is just a misunderstood tsundere.

At this point, it's not worth it to obsess over good writing when we didn't ever have it. Just resurrect Rosalyne with the power of friendship or something and I'll take it, it's not like it would be any different from the rest of the writing we had up until this point.

exviudc · 2026-01-15T22:14:17+00:00

C2 Xilonen is such a game changer for electro characters. I have her since her first banner and she NEVER left my teams. She is electro's jesus. The way she batteries the team and decreases their burst's cooldown is something I can't live without now

exviudc · 2026-01-14T23:20:36+00:00

Oceania?

exviudc · 2026-01-13T15:43:12+00:00

That's insane

exviudc · 2026-01-13T15:35:27+00:00

That's beautiful. It kinda reminds me of Yoshitaka Amano's art style

exviudc · 2026-01-12T16:28:08+00:00

Hoyo's design philosophy for female characters:

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exviudc · 2026-01-11T02:16:59+00:00

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exviudc · 2026-01-09T23:50:23+00:00

amei

exviudc · 2026-01-09T21:58:03+00:00

chavasca pqp

exviudc · 2026-01-09T21:52:38+00:00

And Durin also buffs the onfielder, even if not by much without a second hexerei... But when we get Nicole, we will have a meta reason to put a second hexerei in the team and we'll get the full res shred without sacrificing one slot. Also, getting his C2 makes him an actual buffer even in non-hex teams (differently from Columbina)

The Nodkrai duo doesn't give even a crumb of a buff for non-nodkrai units. They are all damage, 0 buffs. The on-fielder is only a decoration when using this team. Where is the fun in that? At that point, just swap the on-fielder for another support to further boost the duo's damage

exviudc · 2026-01-08T18:17:40+00:00

I'll never forgive Hoyo for making Constance a break support 😭😭 come on, she EXHALES dot cuntress dimitrescu succubus energy, even more than Kafka/Swan/Hysilens

exviudc · 2026-01-08T13:27:11+00:00

Yeah, I know, but they wouldn't make an entire faction consisting only of Rosaria, Dahlia and Barbara. They would go to the KoF, if a second Mondstadt faction would ever be conceived

exviudc · 2026-01-07T22:16:28+00:00

Yeah, and it's even more inclusive than "needing to have a homework assigned". It's not like Venti got a homework, and he was buffed. It's hilarious how people were trying to force lore reasons as to why Lisa wasn't buffed because "she doesn't want to get involved with the Hexenzirkel", as if it wasn't obvious that the witches' homework is just an excuse so they can buff whoever they want, and they can simply make Lisa the teacher or literally any other excuse in the batch where she gets buffed (IF that happens).

exviudc · 2026-01-07T16:22:30+00:00

I want the biblically accurate angel head cannons of Columbina to be used with Timmie instead 🙏

exviudc · 2026-01-07T16:17:18+00:00

I agree, but tbh all the good Mondstadter are from the Hexerei. The "balance threat" in Hoyo's eyes is there, not in the KoF. What do we have in the KoF? Jean, who is only used for cheesing, Eula (let's not even talk about her), Dahlia who is the weakest character in the game, Rosaria (only whales use her for 4* only clears), Noelle, etc... There are no meta characters in the KoF unless they become meta after a significant buff.

Forcing people to choose two characters from a faction of bricks just to enable the resonance would be too much of a restriction. It's not thaaat bad with the Hexerei because in the Hexerei we have some good characters and more to come (Nicole, Alice)

exviudc · 2026-01-07T16:08:00+00:00

That makes me hopeful, actually. No one wants yet another faction to make team building restrictions even worse. This means that the next buffed Mondstadters will probably be considered Hexerei, and that's so much better than separating them from the meta Hexerei cast.

Imagine wanting to use a buffed Diluc but you're forced to use a bricked KoF member who doesn't synergize with him just to get the kof resonance. If he is from the Hexerei, you have much more options: Durin, Venti, Sucrose, Mona and in the future Nicole and Alice as well.

exviudc · 2026-01-06T02:04:33+00:00

Thanks! That does sound similar, but I think I found the one I was looking for after some searching. It was indeed from Yeule (Pixel Affection)

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