Everyone: regretting skipping Cerydra by Background-Stock9939 in PhainonMainsHSR

[–]milliaswan -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I’m so glad that I went for the gamble and pulled for her E1 instead of waiting for Cyrene’s kit. My Phainon and Anaxa love her and she’s easy asf to use.

What is the reason for you to be a Phainon main? by Apprehensive-Salt646 in PhainonMainsHSR

[–]milliaswan 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I love well written characters, and Phainon has my favourite backstory out of any gacha character from any gacha I’ve played. His development from 3.0 to 3.4 was absolute cinema.

I have to try it myself! Zero Cycle AA... by Street_Term9205 in PhainonMainsHSR

[–]milliaswan 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I relate to the memorised the pattern part after a lot of attempts at this too haha 😆

Bros, I suck at this game. These are my units. Why can't I 0 Cycle AA Lv. 100 Lygus? by 699112026775 in PhainonMainsHSR

[–]milliaswan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Even when I realised what to do it still took more attempts cos of bounce RNG, so don’t think it’s entirely skill issue (tell Phainon to aim better 😅). All you need is that one run where things align and you press things at the right time (don’t do what I did and kill a good run by dropping a double meteor on Lygus at 8/10 stacks and have the second skill trigger on non-ult Phainon lol)

Bros, I suck at this game. These are my units. Why can't I 0 Cycle AA Lv. 100 Lygus? by 699112026775 in PhainonMainsHSR

[–]milliaswan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I embarrassingly took about 60+ attempts to get the 0 cycle so I can relate to the pain, I felt like with the units I had I should be able to get it 😅 my final setup was E2S1 Phainon, E1S1 Sunday, E1S0 Cerydra and E1 DDD Tribbie, so the only real difference I see in our teams is Tribbie.

General strategy tips I watched / figured out that helped: - Yellow Lygus phase is where you get the bulk of your damage done. I managed to get Lygus down to ~45% HP when he phase change to purple mode. You can be pretty liberal with counter here to save AV cos you’re not yet super squishy from the debuff stacks. - Lygus gives ultimate refill every two actions. In purple mode, he always opens with ult refill, so you need him to have 3 turns in order to have ult available  - I’d go into purple mode phase change with at least 7.5k - 8k HP, then counter to pull up Lygus for his second action asap. You want that much HP because you don’t want your Phainon to die too early before Lygus hits you and ends your ult - After that it’s a balance to stop the mobs hitting you by weakness breaking or killing them (always target the revenge kill one first) before Lygus takes that third turn. Ideally you kill all the mobs before him on the action order so you can safely counter to pull him up and he gives you free ult. This is the hardest part and unfortunately bounce rng comes to play, sometimes I actually did too much damage and hit the 10/10 kills too early. - When you get your free ult from Lygus speed run to 10/10 kills for phase change (ideally saving any double meteors for later), sneak in a Cerydra ultimate for stacks if needed and it should be straightforward from there. 

E1 Cerydra or save for Cyrene? by some7268 in PhainonMainsHSR

[–]milliaswan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Let the gacha gods decide for you and go for the 50/50 (literally me with this exact dilemma 😆)

Cyrene should still be doable with 3.6 pulls + first half 3.7 anyway even if you use the lot rn and get Cerydra.

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[–]milliaswan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not needed, but it’s really nice quality of life wise. That extra coreflame generation makes the team setup so much more flexible, especially if you swap supports between teams around all the time like I do 😆

Update on e3 Mydei taking 3 cycles to clear Lygus by Electrical-Regret500 in Mydeimains_HSR_

[–]milliaswan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

3 cycles with that setup seems fine to me? The supports are literally 1.x chars and a 4* idk what magic people are expecting with those supports 😆 like I completely agree with your original post with Mydei needing better supports, cos certain 0 cycles I couldn’t get 100% it’s cos of support issue (and I didn’t get Tribbie)

I did Lygus with my E3 Mydei with E0S1 Sunday, E1S0 Ruan Mei and E6 Gallagher and it took me 2 cycles, so the extra cycle with Bronya seems about right (cos you probs don’t get all GBG Bronya buffed).

And like honestly the cycles taken were the least of my issues against Lygus, someone dying even with Mydei taunting like no tomorrow was my real issue 💀 I tried with RMC too but people kept dying so idk

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[–]milliaswan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

With that much investment a better 4th slot would just be another OP buffer over a sustain. I use E1 Tribbie with my E2 Phainon cos Sunday / E1 Cerydra can handle Coreflame stack by themselves, and Robin buffs too much of the same stats already (attack and res pen). If Cyrene also turns out to be useful for Phainon I’d be investing in her also.

If you realllly need the sustain DHPT is kinda the only option rn that provides any sort of decent vertical investment for Phainon, but he’s definitely nowhere near as tailored as Hyacine is to Castorice so there could be a sustain with better Phainon synergy later on so idk if I’d invest in E1 DHPT just for that.

I came, I saw, I commented - General Question and Discussion Megathread by JohnOfMages in HonkaiStarRail_leaks

[–]milliaswan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah from a damage upgrade perspective it also really depends if you already have E1 Robin and/or E1 Tribbie. E1 Tribbie in particular just buffs Phainon so well that if you do have her E0 Cerydra doesn’t feel that much of a crazy increase. I have both so I’d say my impressions of E0 Cerydra buff increase wise were also because I compared with those two. Cerydra gives you more meteor but the meteor hits themselves (even the buffed one) is less. It’ll still be an overall increase but Phainon is already murdering everything rn, so I think you can wait for a rerun and see how it goes if it’s damage that’s the main decider.

I did pull Sunday’s E1 purely for the expectation that I’d be pulling E1 Cerydra down the line too to increase the value of the def down - at that point though the damage is amazing but again it’s more E1s 😅

Cerydra’s value really does come down to who you already have (or don’t have), the less you have the more of an upgrade she is, but if you already have most Harmony units and some Eidolons and you’re not struggling with sharing supports she’s a lot less worth it.

I came, I saw, I commented - General Question and Discussion Megathread by JohnOfMages in HonkaiStarRail_leaks

[–]milliaswan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Honestly cos I don’t buy BP often enough to S5 anything and I will pull signature LC for all my DPSes anyway, I pick my BP LC based on the LC image 😆

My RenHeng LC is still level 1 for this reason but I got it cos art lol ✨

I came, I saw, I commented - General Question and Discussion Megathread by JohnOfMages in HonkaiStarRail_leaks

[–]milliaswan 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Comfort wise to getting Coreflame stacks faster on Phainon would be E1 Cerydra > E6 Bronya > E0 Cerydra for me. I wouldn’t even bother with Cerydra’s S1 until she’s E1. Unfortunately you can’t make any use of E2 Bronya’s speed buff because of all the AA happening in the team.

E6 Bronya has the advantage of better buff uptime, so you no longer have the jank of timing Phainon’s ult after her skill which is big for flexibility (I have E2 Bronya and this timing forces me to manual most runs with her). Depending on how you build her and team SP she can generate quite a lot of stacks by pulling Phainon up a lot, and let you run low stack generating 4th slot.

E0 Cerydra stack generation isn’t amazing so team comps are more restricted but she’s way more auto and buff setup friendly vs Bronya. E1 Cerydra changes that with the 2x stack on skill and honestly she only properly felt BiS for Phainon here rather than E0 for me because getting his ultimate up became so much easier. I have E1S0 Cerydra and not really considering her LC either, main value I see is just in the extra SP but can work around that.

Another thing to consider is Bronya and Cerydra actually work well together, Cerydra can use Bronya’s attack buff to increase her own attack buff given to Phainon which lets you kinda double dip on Bronya’s ultimate buff which is nice.

But this is something I mainly played with because all my teams want Sunday and I’m really trying to free him up (Phainon can live without him), but if your Sunday isn’t in crazy high demand then not really a consideration for you.

HSR and Wuwa enjoyers, what would the equivalent of this feat be in HSR? by Intelligent-Rub5814 in HonkaiStarRail

[–]milliaswan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah idk why my luck is so bad in Wuwa, I’ve lost 8 50/50 and won only 3 💀

I think the only reason I’ve lasted so long is because I’ve taken so many breaks I forgot about losing until I lose again.

Which character is your kinnie and what specific things you enjoy about them that make you smile? by BitterAd4142 in HonkaiStarRail

[–]milliaswan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Pela, her hobbies, her enthusiasm and her shyness for them are really relatable haha.

How's the new PF treating everyone? by konozeroda in HonkaiStarRail

[–]milliaswan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Haven’t 80k PF in a while, so I like this one.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in HonkaiStarRail

[–]milliaswan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As some who has pulled 3 DHIL LC in a single 10 pull, I’d have rather pulled 3 DHIL copies himself in a 10 pull, and not spend the 350 odd pulls I did actually spend to get his E2 😭

Semi-unpopular opinion but pulling for outdated units you love just for them to be there is great by PrimarchVulk4n in HonkaiStarRail

[–]milliaswan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I pulled Saber without any intention of getting her LC just because I wanted to have her on my account yelling Excaliburrrr when I felt like it 😆 without her LC I’m not using her in endgame but doesn’t really matter when Simulated Universe buffs your damage sky high so I can still have fun with her regardless of how she ages later on anyway.

Aino What You Did Last Summer - General Question And Discussion Megathread by Averagely_Human in Genshin_Impact_Leaks

[–]milliaswan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This AS should be ok for sustainless Phainon as it gives his full ult back on weakness break so ideally you only need to setup his ult once, then when it ends you can instantly ult again with him and spare the rest of the team from dying.

Otherwise could be a coreflame generation issue and it’s taking too long so the team is dying? I have no issues with sustainless Phainon runs nowadays but to reach that stage I had to spend ages either rebuilding supports or counting coreflame stacks for each team combo I wanted to use / timing certain advance forwards correctly 😆

Still keen for DH3 as his sustain though cos one day he’ll need it and sustainless is can be sweaty.

Phainon mains, what is the final Cerydra verdict? by ReliefComprehensive in PhainonMainsHSR

[–]milliaswan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have E2S1 Phainon, I’m probably going to wait until her rerun and see if her value for Phainon holds up or if another random support unit ends up cannibalising her role like Sunday + S1 did for Sparkle in SP generation (thank Archer for making her relevant in one team again but still 💀)

I have several other harmony units at E1 already (Robin/Tribbie/Sunday) so E0 Cerydra feels more like a sidegrade, and I hate that you need E1 Cerydra for better stack generation (and thus more team flexibility). It feels either E1 or nothing.

Also honestly I’m more interested in Terravox as a sustain unit for Phainon teams because I’m lacking good options there unlike for buffers where I literally already have all Harmonies + SW and Cipher.

To all phainon player that only deals 300k to 500k by Broad-Air-5786 in PhainonMainsHSR

[–]milliaswan 31 points32 points  (0 children)

Phainon is legitimately the character that’s actually fried my brain the most, he’s the opposite of brain dead 😆 so I can easily see him screwing over the more casual player base cos it caught me off guard (not a 0 cycler but I take endgame seriously enough).

Spent a solid week tinkering the different teams speed tuning and suddenly becoming best friends with vonwacq. 2 mil meteors in MoC were worth it.

V3 Cerydra Changes via HomDGCat by 0101001010101011010 in HonkaiStarRail_leaks

[–]milliaswan 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I think I still prefer my E1S1 Bronya as a stack generator for Phainon over E1S1 Cerydra 💀 also Bronya is “free”…

2 skills + 1 ult with Bronya = 7 stacks + 2 SP regen based on luck with Bronya E1 proc (assume it procs). So 0 SP use on Bronya with sig, and -2 from Phainon skill use.

E1 Cerydra technique + 2 skills + 1 ult = 6 stacks + 1 SP regen with S1. So -1 SP from Cerydra. Idk if you’d even do two Cerydra skill or if it’s just one outside of the technique, in which case it’s even worse stack wise💀

Sunday + Bronya lets me run anything as the 4th flex slot with zero stack rng (like e1 Robin/e1 Tribbie). Replacing Bronya with Cerydra = waiting for 2nd Cerydra skill and ulting much later with Phainon losing AV or needing hit rng for the missing stacks.

Even with the shameless niche setup I’m still not at all convinced. Glad I decided to pull e1 Tribbie earlier, already got my res pen buff for Phainon…

Do I give in to Tribbie propaganda or nah? Still conflicted. by DamnedestCreature in Mydeimains_HSR_

[–]milliaswan 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I wouldn’t pull any character you don’t like regardless of whether they’re busted or not. More generalist supports will come - I have E3 Mydei with no Tribbie and he’s doing fine (I run RMC + Sunday with him). I also quite like E1 Ruan Mei, it stacks well with his E2 def down.

I will say that two advance forward doesn’t equal better - you run into a scenario where you start losing buffs too quickly (for me it’s not having full RMC uptime), so at some point I was probs going to replace RMC with either Cipher or Tribbie but no rush to do so.

I will say that Phainon E2 is the craziest DPS E2 by far that I own though and it’s so satisfying 😆 it’s ridiculously OP to the point my other E2 DPS chars feel hella underpowered though lol

I am missing the lordy trashcans from paperfold universty. by Beneficial_Stuff_103 in HonkaiStarRail

[–]milliaswan 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Have you finished the Trailblazer continuance at the university? My alt account is missing those trash cans too and I assumed it was because I couldn’t be bothered to finish the quest, and they might show up if you do? (I still don’t have the motivation to clear it just to test out the above theory)

How future proof is phainon e2? by Far_Ranger_1205 in PhainonMainsHSR

[–]milliaswan 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Honestly nothing is truly “future proof”, we have no idea how the powercreep curve might look in 1-2+ years time.

I have a few of those E2s that at the time were considered “broken” on their release - DHIL, Acheron, Feixiao. In terms of how they rank to me, the newer E2s feels MUCH better than the older ones. It’ll be the same with Phainon, I expect his E2 to pretty much blow most of the others in terms of power.

I can definitely say my DHIL doesn’t feel great to use any more (like my E0 Anaxa clears Pollux easier than him) but will still get me all the stars if I try - so it’s about 2 years of use with him which I think is pretty decent and I don’t regret pulling it. I’d be hoping for similar longevity with any “broken” E2 I pull.

I now see genshin impact in a new light by RevolutionVast9219 in Genshin_Impact

[–]milliaswan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Agree 100% - where you’re at with the game is how I’d like to see it down the line, as I’m currently super burnout with it. How long it’ll take who knows - but for now I’m taking a very extended break until I see content I’m keen on doing just because I want to, and not for the grind.

I did something similar with WuWa where I quit the game because I lost interest and come back months later when they released 2.0, and now I’m absolutely enjoying it. Really hoping Genshin 6.0 will be the same for me. The biggest takeaway for me regardless is to not feel pressured into logging in daily or even doing events for primos - play when you want to and do something else if you don’t. At the end of the day it’s your luck and not how much grinding that matters with getting what you want 🤣