u/Every_Window1416

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1 year 9 months daily Welkin player with 10 BPs.

Vertical

• C2 Citlali – pulled on release for my C0 Gaming at the time
• R1 Mualani – lacked Widsith copies at the time (even now it's only R2)
• C1 Lauma – got the con on a rerun; on my way to C2. FYI, C1 carries exploration in bloom teams lacking any mobility talents
• C1 Nilou – con selector
• C1 Mona – con selector

Would I exchange Citlali cons for Escoffier and Ineffa?
I saved and farmed 338 pulls (with Capturing Radiance) to get C2 Citlali on release for my C0 Gaming at the time. For a while I pondered if she was worth it and given a chance if I had exchanged her cons for copies of Escoffier and Ineffa. Looking at the clear history, Ineffa would clear Ball, Cactus, Knuckle Duckle and Trooper. I might have struggled against Plunge boss without the cons, but it seems doable more or less. I could have cleared only 8 out of 10 Fearless lineups with Ineffa and perhaps 9 with Ineffa and Escoffier. I am unsure if I would pull Escoffier just for Cryo SSA clear, but missing Ineffa hit my account meta-wise. It is what it is, I can't be confident I wouldn't have pulled for another character before Ineffa's release. For what it's worth I got lucky winning my 50/50s on both Mavuika and Mualani banners.

0 usage?
Nilou was used in Nefer team against Baptist initially, but I got better results with Xingqiu while trying to clear Dire.

Chiori could have been Yae Miko, I was swapping them while throwing singles at Inazuma CW. I have no SSC on-fielders (except CMC), so meta-wise it's fine, but most importantly getting Chiori landed me an in-game friend who I found through their mains sub. We just co-oped and cleared Fearless together right after assisting another player in claiming their Menacing clear rewards!

Nicole is new. Pulled for Gaming (got his C6 just recently). Hopefully will debut in the list once or before I get C2 Xianyun!

Snezhnaya
Time to get Cryo, Electro and Anemo DPS characters! Looking forward for Danica personally. Will try going for Odette because she is a dancer and already working on my C1 Mizuki (whom I selected last anniversary for the teapot set rewards, om. I got her C1 a few days later losing on Lauma's banner).

Several runs later improved to 90s!

Having this particular floor layout helped in locating SSA's prospective pillar cast location.

My fastest Fearless so far. Kudos to the player sharing their C0R1 Mavuika Shinobu clear on Stygian.moe. C2 Citlali keeps carrying.

In hindsight each DPS did a million strike! Mualani's 1.1M was a skill damage, not a burst (burst is 1.4M on the SSA's down phase, but I use it right before the pillars).

I lack any Cryo 5-stars except granny and own no 5-star Electro characters yet. Snezhnaya is going to heal my account.

Good luck everyone trying to clear or improve your totals. You've got it!

Teams I already have
I generally prefer hypercarry teams. I built teams for Gaming, Mualani, Nefer, and Zibai. Got Mavuika to support Mualani initially, but along the way also managed to assemble her teams as well. Mavuika doesn't have a special place in my heart, and I heard with C2 on Mualani, she is even worse than PMC (I will go for Mualani C1 at least, and perhaps stop if I have either Dire level Arle or get C2 Xianyun to run Gaming, so that Mavuika isn't completely benched; I would like to not on-field her eventually).

I get the premise of going for the chars you like, but I would like for them to be capable of contesting Dire at some point too. I played Arle in IT multiple times, and so far enjoyed it much. She is also a hypercarry.

Early vertical on Arle
What vertical shall I aim at? I just watched Noir's recent video on Arle, and it seems with C2 Mona (will be selected this anniversary; she also buffs my Mualani) and C2 Citlali she can be run as one of the three teams in SO.

I am unsure if I go for her C1 or R1 (my current best option is R1-2 PJWS, but losing to Odette's sig doesn't sound plausible, and I am on 50/50, since my last 5-star was a standard weapon). I have C1 Mizuki, C6 Faruzan and C6 Diona, so technically I can skip Odette, and get her on a rerun if she is a BiS in Danica's team (character I will build a team around).

I have enough to hit my limited char pity on a 50/50, and if I lose, I can technically stop and save for other chars (Vodyanitsa, Vesna), but if I win, do I stop or go for C1 / R1?

Aftermath?
After writing this post, it seems the optimal route would be claiming Xianyun's C1 on the con selector and getting her C2 on Liyue's CW, which is probably due sometime soon because of the rumored Liyue character buffs. Perhaps the bird will not only enable my Gaming with clearing Dire, but also be beneficial to Vesna, who is also rumored to be a plunge DPS character.

Am I wrong?

Seems like high base atk, some EM and DMG% are all beneficial, although the weapon is missing from many Durin guides, so I wonder if I am wrong here.

I do understand that Melt Durin generally wasn't played before Lohen, and the weapon itself is a gacha one, although it doesn't stop Bennett guides from mentioning it.

Refines seem good too.

Yes, it's lame they put even more primos to MW, but claiming 30 primogems for spending just under 2 minutes there? I take it!

I visit DPS dummy once and Ice Fishing (exitable immediately) twice per day, and on top of the 30 primos you get to fill your weekly MP and spin the MW banner if you are into it (I lost interest more than a month ago).

Anyway, have a great day!

Things might change, I will likely put Illuga on Fav and consider putting Bina on Neuv's sig, but for now I will focus on leveling them all to 90 and pray to get a billet from Trounce Domains for that last refine on Flute of Ezpitzal.

My C6 Illuga moment:
https://www.reddit.com/r/ZibaiMains/comments/1tty04r/fck_yeah_gang

God bless standard banner. I had an unusual feeling while standing on 9th pity for a 4-star after throwing 5 blue wishes from the shop's monthly reset today.

I could have waited for a couple of days to get the 10th wish from hitting level 40 on a free BP, but I got impatient and raised my Gorou from 20/20 to 50/60. I had mora and exp books for Nicole and Prune, but oh well, I farmed boss mats for Gorou before Zibai's release. I went on a hunt for spectres with my Zibai premium and after crafting a few missing gems, I pulled.

I am speechless. What a day. I am also both C0 Zibai and C0 Linnea owner. I feel blessed. Couldn't stop myself from sharing with you all 🫂

I also have top 1% builds on both of them. And now those are real since I got my C6 Illuga 😭

UPD
Here are my builds and current team DPS:
https://www.reddit.com/r/ZibaiMains/comments/1tu1e13/just_got_c6_illuga_from_standard_banner_here_are

I can't grasp if I need ER at all if I am using AMM. I heard in Zibai teams she doesn't need to burst every rotation with a respectable CV on AMM set. In Nefer team she is on SMS, and needs to burst every rotation. I am not playing Flins, so I don't care much, but for the sake of this post, I should mention him as well.

I am playing at C0R0, perhaps some vertical alters the answer. If you know, please, share!