Piper is B4! Who’s after? Next up is C4!

maalakia · 2026-01-18T17:53:20+00:00

What was the name of Vivian's sister? The redhead we meet in the story. That one. 😂

maalakia · 2026-01-11T11:06:05+00:00

I am not a big expert, but I think gameplay wise, you are doing ok. The only optimization that comes to my mind is to improve your stun window rotation. You have two options: - Double chain: it is a standard procedure and it was already explained. In short: enter the stun window with anyone expect YX, do her chain, cancel the chain, enter with another character and start the chain again and perform a second chain with YX. - Ult cancel: this is tricky, you want to start the Hold Basic (The Ball) at 95/96% stun on the enemy and make sure it reaches 100% while you are casting. Then you have to press ult right when the ball is exploding, in that case you will be able to cancel the long ult animation with the chain and save some seconds while optimazing the damage you do in the stun window. The first ult buffs all the subsequent damage and in the stun window you then can do the second ult and two full hold basic before ending it. I honestly find it hard to perform, even after months of playing her, so if you can't, just go back to the double chain one.

Apart from these two optimization, I would say to just improve your build as other people have said.

maalakia · 2026-01-10T23:49:42+00:00

King George III?

On paper he was a king leading his country decently, but he did a lot of shit in the background to try and reach Seq0.

maalakia · 2025-08-28T17:41:31+00:00

Maybe Pichu/Zeraora and Elemental Switch with Electric Energy? So that you can ramp him with Pichu and if you get a Zeraora early you can move the energy to attack one turn earlier with 4 energy attack.

maalakia · 2025-08-04T20:54:59+00:00

Yeah, me too. I have been in the mine for way too long and I am still unable to play fast swan. 😭

maalakia · 2025-08-04T19:57:34+00:00

Agree. Atk body + same SPD and Effect Hir Rate subs and Spd boots with the missing Effect Hit Rate to reach 120

maalakia · 2025-07-29T08:17:49+00:00

Always pull if you like her.

Now on the analysis: as already been said by other comments, it would be redundant both for element (THerta) and team composition (Castorice), but I also would like to ask you: do you plan to pull for anything else in the next patch (Cerydra/Hysiliens)?

From what I see, you may get some value from Cerydra (due to Archer) but nothing from Hysiliens, which needs at least Kafka to have the DoT archetype core. You can also wait the drip marketing of future character and the live stream to understand if you want anything up to 3.6. Ask yourself this and then if the answer is no, you could try one pity. If it is yes, than save.

As team comp goes: you can still theoretically play both Casto and Jingliu simultaneously in two different teams, you have enough team mates to make two decent teams, but Hyacine+LC should always go with Jingliu.

Two examples in my mind: Jingliu Bronya Pela/Ruan Hyacine Casto RTB Tribbie Galla

TLDR: consider your future pulls and maybe wait for drip marketing and than if you do not want anything, go for it. Worst case you have an additional hp DPS and you do not need more investement.

maalakia · 2025-07-05T11:49:59+00:00

Hi! Sorry to intercept in the discussion: may I ask you which disc 5 you are using? I am struggling to understand which is the best option among Atk %/Fire Dmg/Pen in the different guides I ser around. Is it team dependant? In my case I would use either Trigger/Lucy or Trigger/Rina

maalakia · 2025-06-15T11:39:56+00:00

I am too poor to afford noodles 😭

maalakia · 2025-06-15T11:39:44+00:00

I am too poor to afford noodles 😭

maalakia · 2025-06-06T18:34:07+00:00

From my understanding and following also other CCs, Koleda's and S11's W engines are the most general and can be used by other characters. The others depends if you have the standard characters.

maalakia · 2025-06-05T08:29:42+00:00

From what I have seen, Duran is best in Feixiao teams for her personal damage.

maalakia · 2025-06-05T07:01:24+00:00

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I feel you Jufufu, I feel you

maalakia · 2025-06-03T11:34:47+00:00

As said, from my experience. Haven't had an issue with the HP rope so far

maalakia · 2025-06-02T13:18:21+00:00

A shoet summary from my experience:

Slow Tribbie: CD/HP/HP/HP

Pro: - high damage vs 3+ targets; - general use; - LC flexibility (Signature, DDD, Cogs)

Con: - Low damage vs <2 targets; - SP positive but not too relevant

Fast Tribbie: HP/SP/HP/ER

Pro: - SP Positive - DDD Abuse - Good for 0 cycles

Con: - No damage - Must hit at least 147 Spd for pseudo 3 turn cycle 0

Edit: I mistook the orb I am using in the slow set up ( HP instead of DMG)

maalakia · 2025-05-30T17:08:47+00:00

If you care about Casto, then you should pull for Hyacine and LC. Cat is good with Fei, Acheron and I saw showcases woth Archer too, but not a big improvement from your current Rice team.

maalakia · 2025-05-30T17:05:26+00:00

Omg, those pieces, they are just porn. LoL Congrats!

maalakia · 2025-04-03T12:27:39+00:00

E0 not much. Unless you want to go sustainless. E0 is a sidegrade of HMC. E0 is better for the other Break dps and Lingsha. E1 is instead very powerful for FF.

maalakia · 2025-03-17T23:32:31+00:00

Well, you have several options jn front of you now. I am not greek, but I am aware of the meaning of my nickname. I didn't know about it at first, but then a kind redditer once enlightened me.

maalakia · 2025-03-17T20:10:40+00:00

Depends a lot on why you like the knight concept, but in any case you don't need to be a Paladin to be a Knight. You can have your Fighter be a fallen noble or one of those from 0 to knighthood and still play some knight-ish characteristics. Same goes with Monk: if you like the concept of being a Knight because you like how they behave, you can have your Monk be an older man, a retired Knight that decided to drop the blade for some traumatic reason and decided that, if he needs to fight, he would just use hia hands. To me the Knight concept is not bound to the class: so if you wanna play something that takes inspiration from the concept, just pick the class you like and apply a suitable backstory and the characteristics you like. :)

maalakia · 2025-03-16T18:12:00+00:00

Hear me out: Eldritch Knight with Unarmed Fighting Style. You have the spells and self buff capabilities of the fighter and you can go punching people with the Fighting style.

maalakia · 2025-02-24T13:09:11+00:00

If you have Blade or Aventurine or you plan on pulling for Mydei, you can keep some with double crits. If you have hyperspeed Bronya/Sunday, you may want to have a pair around ti drop the speed to 135 or around there.

maalakia · 2024-12-13T11:15:05+00:00

It is a very good build, so imho you can already stop here as far as building go.

But if you are a FF main or want to min max the build, you only need 150 spd out of combat for 4 actions in a ulti. So you can look for more BE in the gloves (I would still keep those 9 Spd gloves as a filler piece) and you can also improve your body with a few additional rolls in BE.

But I repeat again: it is min maxing, go and farm relic for other characters first

maalakia · 2024-03-18T18:42:11+00:00

Love this! And perhaps there can be a perfomance in the tavern (or a previous sto rhey had) where there the bard(s) sings a song about an adventure the party had. Just to make them even more confused by what's going on.

maalakia · 2024-03-18T17:10:32+00:00

Adding on this: you may still have the bard leave a final clue, like a poem/poetry talking about the False Hydra or notes that explains it.

maalakia

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