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I’m sure a lot of people would say otherwise but is it just me who thinks Varka’s gameplay is much more efficient? I’m not talking about his mechanics or damage or kit itself but what I realised is that a lot of characters from nod krai need you to set up hydro application before you start dealing any viable damage… I’ve been co-oping with my friends lately and I realised how fast his execution is, like I don’t need to swap characters or use any other skills or burst (sure you can set up supports and so on but it’s not a necessity), especially for domains and overworld you just tap his skill and you’re good to go. He’s got team restrictions but those aren’t really rules you HAVE to follow, you get more damage if you do but there’s no mandatory rule… I don’t have Skirk or mavuika but can someone confirm if this whole “set up” requirements started with nod krai? I know elemental reactions always needed it but lunar characters are a joke without their reaction.

Also he’s likely to enter top 5 soon and comparing him to someone like Mavuika how needs a lot of skill, Varka is really beginner friendly too. This is another thing I realised while helping my friend build a team because all you need is another anemo and 2 characters of the same element and you could be looking at 50-55k dps without any supports, and you can also just pick the anemo hex character from the quest for free.

I guess it became a rant but please feel free to add what you think about his standing as a character in terms of usability and not just meta.

With the new hex set coming out, would fischl do more damage with the hex support set or golden troupe when used in a durin overvape team?

Durin on rising winds in this case.

I’ve never really been in this spot before but I’ve got c6 of all the 4 stars in Nicole/durin banner with the sole exception of Prune of course. I really wanna get as many cons of her as possible for my Varka premium but is it a good thing or a bad thing to have every other 4 star? I mean we get enough star glitter to redo the pull but effectively we lose guarantee of 4 star every 10 pulls by this logic right? I mean we could assume that I might pull a non featured 4 star but that very rarely happens. But I guess we could say that this is ideal to reach soft pity because we will effective have 2 pulls for every 10 pulls.

Is it a good thing or a bad thing in general though? Aside from the opportunity cost of getting some other 4 star who’s not c6

So I remember a lot of people thinking Nicole would be the best in slot for a DPS Alice when she comes, but as it stands with her set, Nicole wouldn’t technically be maximising her support potential with Alice if she’s also pyro right? I mean unless they get a new hex support set (very unlikely imo)

Or do you all think Alice will have another character as a 2 character core to enable some special reactions?

Hey, I’m prefarming for Durin right now and just got a pyro goblet that can replace by attack goblet but there’s a change in stats.

Following attack stats are before the pyro resonance buff gives an additional 25%

With attack goblet and feather 1, I have 210 CD and 95 CR with 2.2k attack

With attack goblet and feather 2, I get 216 CD and 90 CR with 2.1k attack

With pyro goblet, I have 239 CD and 82 CR with 1845 attack (pyro goblet is from the set so I can use a higher cv feather as an off piece but with lower CR)

Which of the 3 would be the best combination if I intend to use him in Varka premium with Nicole?

Thanks!

Basically the title. If so, what are some f2p teams? All I see suggest melt but I don’t have any one but kaeya in my new account.

Can durin fischl core work with the new hex support set?

Now with his team changing, I wanna know what would be his best rotation for c1r1 Varka with c0r0 Nicole and Durin (I am planning to get r1 Nicole for comfort but I don’t have a guarantee, I would still be using oathsworn if I don’t get it, hope that doesn’t change the rotation)

I’m not sure if this was asked already but here goes, I intend to pull for Durin in the upcoming patch to use him with Varka and Nicole, I already have a few spare hex dps artifacts so I’ve already gotten myself a 216/93 cd/cr build. However, that’s with atk/atk/cd and I thought it’s fine since I’ll mostly use him in light mode but I wanna know if its worth it to change from attack goblet to pyro? (my current goblet gives like 21 cd and 9 cr so I’d rather not go back to the mines if I can help it especially since I have to farm for Nicole as well)

Here’s the deal. Most calcs I’ve seen don’t use his R1 and most people who pulled for him know his R1 is a huge increase in dps. I’ve seen people with damage calcs for his new premium team but none use the weapon as a baseline to compare him with meta. So I’d say a Varka R1, Durin, Nicole and c6 prune team would be a 5 cost team (as far as my understanding of how the cost system works). So putting the top dps into their respective 5 cost teams, where does Varka land at the end? Im using the term 5 cost more flexibly as some character might her better buffs from cons while some would use their sigs.

As it’s official now, phase 1 of 6.6 is basically the tech support patch for Varka to enter top meta… mind you I believe he’s actually gonna crack top 3 and maybe even hit 2 with more fine-tuning once players get their hands on Nicole, prune and durin.

In the meanwhile, this raises a more generic question for Genshin as a whole. Context first, I was a 1.x player who returned after nearly 2 years only for Varka and despite the doomposting, I’m quite happy with his gameplay and the first thing I noticed upon my return is how much the community as a whole changed around the concept of DPS because back then we didn’t have a metric to measure and all big numbers were just for showcases… I guess I missed a huge meta powercreep during Fontaine and natlan but there were shifts in meta when dendro was introduced too though to not this extreme.

Now leading back to the question, is it just hex that is getting all the hate in terms of team building? As almost every character in hex is relatively more popular and well established than some random lunar fae subdps yet they have horrible numbers individually… they need the power of damn friendship to even come close to meta… It really makes me wonder if snezhnaya will also need you to have 3 5* characters and a dedicated 4* support to even come close to removing a damn shield but let’s be honest that’s guaranteed atp… Also I really do hope hoyo doesn’t pull this dps before support crap again because if it wasn’t Varka, I wouldn’t have given up on a top dps like Flins and gamble on the buff Nicole was supposedly to bring with her, though ideally this whole coming as a set itself ending would be so much more fun.

I guess this turned into more of a rant about how disappointing team restrictions have gotten but feel free to chime in…

I’ve heard a lot of people say TTDS is a good f2p option for Nicole but I want to know if that’s really the case. From what I remember, TTDS has a buff time of 10 seconds which ruins the rotation and I feel a lot of people want it to be BiS to avoid having to pull her weapon which is completely fair. But I wanna know how big of a difference we are looking at and also where oathsworn stands in this discussion as it should help with ER and also her attack requirements.

So after a lot of experimenting I’ve realized I don’t feel comfortable without a healer on my overworld team. I’m currently building a team around my c1r1 varka and always wanted to play him with Jean but needed Sucrose for hex buff. Now I plan to pull for Durin and Nicole in the next patch so that’s sorted and Jean seems to be the best fit for a healer, even thematically.

Considering Nicole’s shield, I don’t think I’ll be using Jean’s heal mid battle and I’ve also noticed her burst swirls relatively less. I wanna know which artifact combo is the best for her since she’s gonna be pure healer in my team.

Can the effects of 4p VV be triggered when the equipping character is off-field? I mean to ask if the res shred the set gives can be used by Varka and if so is it really worth it with Durin in play?

Another option I’ve considered is 2p glad and 2p shiwa for the attack% but not sure if it’s better than the combination below.

I’ve read somewhere that for pure healer, 2p ocean hue and 2p beloved is used and I’m inclined towards it, can someone tell me if I’m losing out on too much dps by switching from VV?

Basically the title. I have Varka c1r1. 50 pity and about 185 pulls by the time 6.6 starts. I did the math and I can basically afford one 50-50 loss before running out of funds for Durin. So should I risk it and get her weapon or just use my pulls only on the character banners to get both at c0r0?

I’m not currently inclined towards Durin R1 so that’s not something I’m planning to pull.