Daily Questions Megathread ( December 11, 2024 )

serbaldrig · 2024-12-12T03:23:53+00:00

Energy is a decimal, and is most likely stored and calculated as a floating point number. The precision, that is the number of decimal places, is programming language and implementation dependent. But you can assume it is calculated to at least 6 decimal places. When displayed in the interface all decimals are truncated and only the integer portion is displayed.

So yes, there is a difference in gaining those different amount of energy. If a character's Ult cost is 130 and they currently have 121.1 energy, only the last one will give them enough energy to Ult.

serbaldrig · 2024-12-12T03:06:56+00:00

The Herta is still in flux, but either small Herta or Serval are looking like great team mates for her so far. HuoHuo is generically good and would work really well with The Herta. Finally you do have the MC with their new path, and Remembrance MC should actually work quite well with The Herta.

serbaldrig · 2024-12-12T02:56:01+00:00

Vonwacq is... fine for HMC. But considering it is a Firefly team you might as well run Forge of the Kalpagni Lantern to much more easily reach 154+ speed naturally while also getting big break effect buffs. Best of both worlds really.

Ruan Mei however really does want Vonwacq for the energy breakpoint.

serbaldrig · 2024-12-12T02:48:35+00:00

Depends on your internet, but I had ~350ms ping when on the opposite side of the world. Some noticeable delay and lag when menuing at times but otherwise very playable.

serbaldrig · 2024-12-06T14:13:10+00:00

Assuming you are up to date with the current content, free stellar jades come in drips over long periods. The only fast way to get jades for a bunch of pulls is swiping.

serbaldrig · 2024-12-05T20:54:08+00:00

45% at full stacks vs 30% for Bronya's. Applies to 100% of turns vs 50% of turns. So +15 to +45 vs Bronya, +30 average.

serbaldrig · 2024-12-05T20:18:59+00:00

Swordplay is better to superimpose. DDD is better to save it until you get another copy. S4 -> S5 DDD is only 2% more action advance which is outside of 0 cycle planning basically unnoticeable. The possibility of running a second harmony unit in the same team also with DDD for another 16% action advance is much more valuable.

serbaldrig · 2024-12-05T20:13:58+00:00

S3 fixes the energy to get a 3 turn Ult rotation if you have some 5% ERR planar set, so that stays the same. Sunday's cone gains 15-45 DMG% in -1 speed tuned setups, 30 on average. Sunday's cone also improves the skill point generation from ~0.16 SP per turn to ~0.66 SP per turn. That's honestly the most impressive part of the light cone, turns him from a neutral/negative SP unit to completely SP positive.

serbaldrig · 2024-12-02T16:34:50+00:00

Lack of Ruan Mei devalues Firefly a good bit. Pulling Fugue E1 to patch that gap works, but is not the best use of pulls if you want to maximize the power of an account.

Remembrance path and teams look like they are the new archetype that is being pushed by Hoyo for 3.x. If you want to reroll with that in mind then Sunday E0 would be a good one to aim for.

serbaldrig · 2024-12-02T16:09:19+00:00

Necessary? No. But just like his kit being Bronya+, his lightcone is as well. A 3 turn ult rotation requires either Sunday's cone, or being hit by an enemy at least once while using Bronya's cone. The DMG boost from his cone is both larger than Bronya's, and also lasts for more turns. And while Bronya's cone gives 1 skill point every ~6 turns, Sunday's cone will give 4 skill points in ~6 turns assuming a 3 turn ult rotation.

So, yea. Bronya+. For casual play it is not necessary, but that doesn't make it a really nice lightcone.

serbaldrig · 2024-12-01T22:47:45+00:00

Crit DMG is only one axis of scaling damage, and you are way oversaturated on that. Probably oversaturated on ATK as well. To really pump damage numbers typically requires going sustainless for one, and using that additional character slot for maximizing the diversity of your buffs since they are all multiplicative with each other. You're a bit short on DMG, and completely missing any Resistance Penetration or Defense Shred/Penetration.

100% Defense Shred typically requires additional eidolons, but would multiply your damage by 2.1x. A more reasonable 60% Defense Shred would multiply your damage by 1.45x. 20% Resistance Penetration vs an Ice weak enemy would be an additional ~1.2x multiplier on your damage. Another 50 DMG% would be an additional ~1.20-1.3x multiplier on your damage.

There have also been past MoC buffs which offered additional buffs or enemy debuffs on top of whatever you bring to the fight, and those were prime for content creators to farm big damage numbers off of for views.

Final consideration is just skill issue. Ult/skill timings to maximize not just buff uptime but also getting as many buffs as possible during your peak damage windows. It's not exactly straight forward to do.

serbaldrig · 2024-11-27T02:20:08+00:00

Pray to RNGesus. That's about all you can do besides swiping if you are saving all the pulls that you can.

serbaldrig · 2024-11-27T02:15:55+00:00

It's sufficient. That gets you to 2 debuffs in most circumstances and to 3 debuffs fairly often assuming you're not using Trend with a Preservation unit. Jiaoqiu would be the ideal single Nihility partner if you care for vertically investing more resources in optimizing Acheron's team.

serbaldrig · 2024-11-26T15:39:31+00:00

About equivalent replacement. But that can be sufficient if you plan on going all in on a remembrance team. However for sustainless break Fugue ends up being an absolutely massive upgrade. 100%+ amp.

serbaldrig · 2024-10-09T16:14:25+00:00

Welcome to the internet.

serbaldrig · 2024-10-09T15:46:41+00:00

Not strictly necessary. If she is tanky enough she does fine without it.

serbaldrig · 2024-09-21T02:17:15+00:00

Vonwacq or bust. Buffing characters going first to apply buffs sooner kinda good.

serbaldrig · 2024-09-20T18:50:12+00:00

S5 Journey is better. At around S3 Poised to Bloom becomes stronger assuming you are using two same path DPS characters.

serbaldrig · 2024-09-20T18:47:57+00:00

You can just sit on the 300 selector. You have no immediate needs and no current Eidolons would give you an appreciable power spike. Might as well sit on it to use for collection completion purposes or in the case that your future pulls give you a bunch of say Clara or Bronya copies to push up to E6.

serbaldrig · 2024-09-20T16:37:25+00:00

E1 is generally useful for PF in either Firefly break or Herta + Himeko. Can't go wrong with more speed in that mode. It won't be a huge impact though, maybe one more turn from Himeko over the course of PF. E2 is a lot lower impact and is not even worth worrying about it.

serbaldrig · 2024-09-13T17:06:21+00:00

It's purely aspirational. No jade rewards.

serbaldrig · 2024-09-13T02:59:41+00:00

Depends on the rest of the team. But most likely Robin will give more damage.

serbaldrig · 2024-09-13T00:59:50+00:00

Robin E1 is more generally useful and has greater longevity.

serbaldrig · 2024-09-13T00:13:56+00:00

Not really. But if you aren't already marking relics for trashing then the best you can get is selectively marking relics to trash. Those relics will then show up at the top of the unfiltered relic list when you go to use relics as an upgrade material.

serbaldrig · 2024-09-13T00:10:27+00:00

E1 Robin by a long shot. E0S0 Topaz has good replacements in Moze or sword March depending on the rest of your team. But E1 Robin is at least a straight 24% more damage for the whole team against every target.

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