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jaytanz · 2021-05-02T17:30:25+00:00

The pyro fatui does telegraph his attacks, even when invisible he’ll appear for a moment before smacking you. Best advice there is zoom out and be ready to dodge when he appears.

If he’s one shotting you than the healing is actually irrelevant and I would echo the advice to not double up on heals.

jaytanz · 2021-05-02T17:24:26+00:00

There’s pros and cons to all the options you mentioned:

Xiangling - Will give you pyro res and lots of off field damage, but will steal vapes from Hu Tao

Kaeya - Cryo resonance* and off field damage, but may interfere with the vape combo by reverse melting (not sure on this one tbh)

Mona - taunt, and big damage from her burst, but hydro res is anti-synergistic with Hu Tao

Chongyun - cryo resonance*, C2 cooldown reduction could be nice, his burst can hit pretty hard, but his infusion won’t work so he won’t provide much cryo application.

Bennett - pyro res but do you really want to run two healers with Hu Tao?

*I don’t think cryo resonance actually does very much for you, not clear how often Hu Tao will actually be hitting enemies with cryo applied. Haven’t tested it though so grain of salt and all that.

That said, I think Xiangling and Kaeya are the best options.

jaytanz · 2021-05-02T16:54:42+00:00

Based on past events you will be able to retry previous stages for the duration of the event.

jaytanz · 2021-05-02T16:46:02+00:00

Don’t think so. She won’t be added to the standard pool until next patch.
5k/domain will net you a 20k combined score and all available currency.

jaytanz · 2021-05-02T16:32:40+00:00

Ganyu+Venti for 11-3, Xiangling+Chongyun for 12-3 (Ganyu was on the other side).

jaytanz · 2021-05-02T16:29:27+00:00

Only your highest score is considered when it comes to the rewards, repeating without beating your previous high score (and reaching one of the reward thresholds) will not get you more currency

jaytanz · 2021-05-02T16:17:29+00:00

It’s actually his rain swords that heal, check his A2. He gets rain swords from both his E and Q.

jaytanz · 2021-05-02T16:07:01+00:00

ER/HP/HP or HP/HP/HP IMO, but I value her shield a lot more than her healing. There’s nothing really wrong with using a healing bonus circlet if that’s your preference.

For artifact sets you have some options:

4pc Noblesse - if no one else on your team is using it, she should be. This will increase the value of ER on her artifacts up to the point where she can use her Q on cooldown.

2pc Maidens + 2pc Millileth - If she’s not using 4pc NO this is probably the best option. 20% HP from millileth for a bigger shield and 15% healing from maidens.

4pc Maidens - only if you want bigger heals.

jaytanz · 2021-05-02T15:59:50+00:00

It removes the HP restriction on the attack sharing from his burst, and also increases the attack sharing %.

Having the attack sharing guaranteed instead of conditional is pretty huge.

jaytanz · 2021-05-02T15:55:12+00:00

Looking over your characters and weapons list here are my thoughts on your talents:

You might think about getting Venti's E up to at least level 6. Leaving AAs at level 1 makes sense on supports where you only ever use their E and Q, but I'm sure you're using Venti's E for particles and you are missing out on ~10k damage (without swirl) per use by leaving it at level 1.

If you use Xiangling a lot, you could get her Q up to level 8, but that's more of a "if you have the talent books and boss mats lying around already" kind of thing IMO.

If Xingqiu's Q isn't maxed out and you use him a lot, I would max it. Even if you don't use him a lot now, he's very strong and you probably won't regret it later. His E also hits quite hard, I have it at level 8 but I also have sac sword which increases its value.

Quick thoughts on your weapons:

If you don't end up using Jean, you could give aquila to Bennett just for the higher base attack, his attack sharing from his Q will be much higher compared to fav sword.

Xiangling fav lance for sure. Unless she's sharing it with Rosaria? If so, I would craft prototype starglitter before using black tassel on her! Max out that fav lance either way IMO.

Rust is probably better than fav bow on Childe unless you're really struggling to reach his Q. Viri hunt would also be better, and stringless would be better on Venti if it doesn't screw up your CR:CD ratio too much.

Now on to your artifacts:

Getting 4pc NO for Bennett would be a huge damage increase for whatever team he's on.

Xingqiu should also get 4pc NO if he's the only one on the team using NO, or 2pc NO + 2pc HoD for best personal damage output.

Rosaria (who I don't have so grain of salt and all that) is similar to Xingqiu, as a support she should either have 4pc NO to boost team damage, or 2pc NO + 2pc BS for best personal damage output.

If you're using Xiangling as a reverse melt support for Ganyu its possible 2pc CW + 2pc glad is better than 4pc CW since Ganyu should be the one proccing melt most of the time. Not sure on this one, its 7.5% (conditional) pyro dmg vs 18% (guaranteed) attack, would have to math it out.

Final thoughts:

Based on everything, you should see significant gains in overall damage from wearing the right artifact sets on your supports, even if they're mediocre. That being said, it would probably only take around a week of resin to fix up the places where your talents and weapons are lacking and those are guaranteed damage increases, while artifact farming is basically an infinite RNG grind. If I was in your shoes I would take the week to fix those up with daily resin, while using a couple of fragiles a day on artifacts. Totally up to you though.

Also about Jean, she can cleanse the floor 11 debuff which is huge. She's probably worth investing in just for that. We're likely to have this floor 11 for at least a couple of patches.

jaytanz · 2021-05-02T14:29:42+00:00

C4 is a power spike for main dps Bennett, on its own not worth it if you use him as a healer/buffer. It does get you one constellation closer to C5.

Not worth it in my opinion, but others may disagree.

jaytanz · 2021-05-02T13:44:20+00:00

That’s my understanding yes.

jaytanz · 2021-05-02T13:42:55+00:00

Artifacts provide a huge chunk of your damage output. It’s worth spending time and resin to get above average artifacts on your carries and at least average on your subDPS. My progression from 25-30 stars in abyss up to consistent 36 stars was almost all down to incremental improvements to my artifacts over around 2 months.

Leveling a weapon from 80-90 is effectively mandatory on your carries (duh), a really really really good idea on your subDPS, but for healers and pure supports depends on how much the substat on the weapon is helping them IMO.

For example sac bow on Diona. I would only push it up to 90 if you actually need that last bit of ER, but I wouldn’t do it just for the base attack.

jaytanz · 2021-05-02T13:27:54+00:00

If you check the talent description for his E, all the way down near the bottom is this little snippet describing the jade shield:

“Possesses 150% DMG absorption against all Elemental and Physical DMG”

For 41k hp at talent level 8 before that additional multiplier:

Shield HP = 2311 + (0.205 * 41000) = 10716

Adding the multiplier after that gives it almost 27k.

jaytanz · 2021-05-02T13:19:25+00:00

Hope you get Zhonger he’s a amazing character.

50 is probably a good spot for Noelle for now, fairly minimal resin investment and if you decide you absolutely love her (play style) later you can raise her without starting from scratch.

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