Which one of these supports would work best in a Sigrid Norma team? I have them as outlined above and I heard Rina if you have higher mindscapes and her sig. For Sigrid herself, I only plan on getting her to M0W1 (hopefully) if that makes a difference on which support to go with. Also, my Norma is M0W1 for added context.
Since Claret and the armourer class showed up in the current beta, it made me about 95% sure it's a test run for the eventual Sunbringer banner. Whether Sunbringer will be all three of them as one agent, or if they fuse into the OG Sunbringer or if it's only Eldera that's playable doesn't matter. What I'm talking about is specifically her role and element.
You might be wondering why would Claret's reveal in particular lead me to that conclusion. Simply put, because it doesn't make sense. Specifically, Claret's element and the fact that she's the introduction to an entire class. I'll explain.
Let's run through the void hunters we have right now:
Miyabi - the first ever ice anomaly agent
Yi Xuan - the first ever ether rupture agent (because she deputed the class)
Ye Shunguang - the first ever S-rank physical attacker agent
Remielle - the first ever lumiflux anomaly agent ( again because she deputed the new element)
Every void hunter we got had an until then unique element/class combination with the first three having special variations on their elements too. So from a marketing standpoint if you were to introduce a new class, just like with Yi Xuan, you'd use a void hunter or and extremely important character to the story to drum up hype for it. Neither of these points fit Claret at all.
Claret is popular no doubt about it, but she is neither a void hunter character or on the same level of strength, nor is she super important to the overall narrative of the story. And most importantly of all I think, her element doesn't suit her. You're telling me a character named Claret FLINT, who is the owner of a BLACKSMITHING workshop, whose drip marketing quote is "Fire and radiance forge my blood and bones", and lastly whose outfit and design full of the color red, is an ELECTRIC agent? What part of that makes sense?
Another minor point unrelated to Claret herself but reinforces my belief is Koleda's potential from the leaks. She was changed to work armourers and give them extra buffs. The problem is that if she is supposed to be a F2P option in case you don't pull Roxy, then you run into fire and electric's well known anti-synergy as many enemies weak to electric happen to be resistant to fire and vice versa. So while it possible they didn't have anyone else to assign that job, I think it was more than that.
Here's what I think they're doing. I think they don't want another Yi Xuan or Miyabi situation. When Miyabi deputed, she was absolutely destroying the game with her hybrid play style between anomalies and crit dps. Something that all anomaly and ice agents afterwords still pay for to this day. And when Yi Yuan deputed she was also doing great numbers just of off the fact the game wasn't balanced around just ignoring the enemies defense and her having two ultimates but her gameplay loop was clunky and not very smooth because she had yet to get rupture dedicated teams, and once she did, her numbers also soared above any other character. So I think they're using Claret as an experiment both to test how the class would perform in the current environment of the game and an excuse to introduce supporters for the role before Sunbringer make her debut as the first fire (probably will get her own variant) armourer agent.
What do you think of this little theory of mine?
Every single day when I first open my steam deck it has to do all these "updates" and I can't figure out why. There is no way all these games need updating everyday right? Is there a problem I'm not noticing?
I have pen on slot 5 for when using Rina but I'm also farming for Ice dmg. I also have Norma and Sunna and I will be using this w engine if I don't get her sig. What if anything can I improve?
My Aria feels like she not doing as much damage as she should with a 4pcs shining aria and I remember seeing somewhere that phaethon's melody is better for teams with no Nangong (which I unfortunately couldn't get). Important to mention I also don't have her signature but have her in a Sunna-Yuzuha team. Should I switch to Phaethon's melody or is it just a skill issue on my part?