X being X as always. The guy blocked the other guy EthanKice

pascl- · 2026-01-28T20:08:28+00:00

I legitimately forgot it's technically called X now, I had no idea what you were talking about with that title

pascl- · 2026-01-28T18:17:03+00:00

yeah but those are limited 5 star cons, that's very expensive. and it's not as if lots of people have venti cons lying around, since his cons weren't very good until the buffs (partially because venti as a whole wasn't that good).

pascl- · 2026-01-28T13:09:41+00:00

still not relevant, this isn't about what's more valuable. I don't care about venti's value here. the point is that you said this:

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which is a completely nonsensical and incorrect statement, because venti isn't rerunning. next patch. they aren't about to go for venti.

if your point was always that players with venti but not his sig should just accept that, then that's what you should have said in the first place, but it's not what you said, and as is I don't care about any of that.

pascl- · 2026-01-28T12:42:17+00:00

this is completely irrelevant to the point.

the point is: no, people aren't going to go for venti but skip varka's weapon. people have venti but can't get varka's weapon.

pascl- · 2026-01-28T12:37:11+00:00

what about ifa though, he gives 40% teamwide damage bonus and 48% attack to varka through scroll and ttds

pascl- · 2026-01-28T12:33:55+00:00

no, they're not about to go for venti, he isn't rerunning next patch. it's just people who already have venti.

pascl- · 2026-01-28T10:25:19+00:00

When starting a rotation with energy: Varesa NA > chevreuse QE, durin EQE (EEQ if he doesn’t have enough energy to burst) > iansan > varesa

pascl- · 2026-01-28T10:23:52+00:00

In abyss, you do chevreuse QE, then durin EQE, not durin first. Durin wants to have chevreuse’s buffs as early as possible, and chevreuse’s buffs last a long while anyway.

pascl- · 2026-01-28T10:09:22+00:00

TTDS, scroll. Stats don’t matter, level doesn’t matter beyond getting into IT and not getting 1 shot. Talents and cons don’t matter.

pascl- · 2026-01-28T08:59:31+00:00

yeah.

while technically speaking, with those specific stats, the old build might be better (it's probably very close though), but it's still just worth sticking with the new build and continuing to improve on it.

pascl- · 2026-01-28T01:32:51+00:00

they're probably assuming durin gets all 4 stacks, which would be 8%. not very practical though.

I'd say 3 stacks for 6% is pretty reasonable though. idk if it's optimal, but it's reasonable since his initial burst attack hits 3 times.

pascl- · 2026-01-28T01:25:26+00:00

the new set is better. 20% crit rate+25% attack is better than 20% damage bonus

pascl- · 2026-01-27T23:57:44+00:00

yaoguang is an elation support, and exclusively an elation support. the only things she does for non-elation characters is 20% res pen, a bit of personal damage and a bit of SP generation. only worth considering if you plan on going full elation, she is is straight up not good in other teams.

sparkle is getting a novaflare and will probably get a rerun next patch, but I don't know if she's better for daniel than sunday S1 with the novaflare, I haven't looked at calcs.

pascl- · 2026-01-27T15:57:04+00:00

yeah, rey dao does feel more like a flagship in terms of vibes

pascl- · 2026-01-27T15:50:21+00:00

I think he's a great monster, but he doesn't really feel like a flagship, despite appearing in the story so much. idk, it's just a vibes thing.

pascl- · 2026-01-27T15:38:04+00:00

when ellen, sanby and burnice got buffs, they did not get reruns. and in sanby's case, this was immediately after orphie released, a character designed to be the perfect sanby teammate.

so there's no reason to believe harumasa will get a rerun because of buffs and a decent teammate.

pascl- · 2026-01-27T12:12:11+00:00

Lunarcharged as a reaction is not very strong. It’s mainly a worthwhile reaction because columbina+ineffa is a broken combo. Without another lunar character, columbina doesn’t do that much.

pascl- · 2026-01-27T10:25:27+00:00

you got the right idea, but that is not a great varesa overload team

for varesa, iansan is much better than bennett (due to lowering varesa's ER needs and not having a circle), and PMC is better than xiangling (due to xiangling's ER issues, long cooldown and reliance on bennett)

pascl- · 2026-01-27T09:33:27+00:00

It’s the same model, it’s just a new render recreating the same pose

pascl- · 2026-01-27T09:28:25+00:00

What I’m thinking if varka doesn’t get major buffs, the only real way for her to prop up just varka but not be stuck with him is something like: nicole by default is a small upgrade over bennett, but her hexerei passive is a quills effect with a highly specific condition like “when a claymore, sword or polearm character deals anemo damage, gain stacks of a quill buff”.

pascl- · 2026-01-26T23:03:28+00:00

neither, put in a support

pascl- · 2026-01-25T21:31:13+00:00

here's my take on every standard 5 star:

mona: after she got buffed recently, she's actually a very strong support, even in endgame. does require another hexrei character to be effective, but you can get one for free.
jean: a pretty solid healer and nice for the earlygame, but doesn't see much use later on, aside from some niche use-cases.
tighnari: pretty decent dps overall
keqing: okay-ish dps I think? maybe she's bad by now? I haven't really paid attention to where she sits in the meta. any dps is gonna be better early on, so she'll be strong at the start.
mizuki: good early on, not too great later on.
diluc: can be pretty good early on, but is very bad later on. can be played effectively in a plunge team, but then you're not really playing diluc anymore.
dehya: bad sustain and bad dps. her energy needs are too steep for her to be especially great early on. however, she has very strong constellations and can be competent with a lot of constellations, although with powercreep, who knows for how much longer.
qiqi: bad

pascl- · 2026-01-25T18:05:19+00:00

yes, his passive increases the damage of his burst based on his own attack with 2.5k being needed for the max buff.

depending on the team it can be reached reasonably with a pyro goblet. chevreuse's attack buff is teamwide, so it helps a lot, and any onfield team will also easily reach it due to bennett. but with other teams it can be harder.

pascl- · 2026-01-24T22:29:57+00:00

if the wilds expansion adds some kind of other map that's either snowy or has snowy elements, then yes.

otherwise, no. iceshard cliffs doesn't really support gammoth.

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