C2 Skirk - Mistsplitter - MH
C4 Mona - TTDS - NO
C2 Furina - Fav - TotM
C1R1 Escoffier - Symphonist - Scroll
No macro, No scroll wheel, No FPS unlocker, 60 FPS, 90 ms
A12 Preset DPS Dummy
SoD dummy used. Same build, teams, and combos applied. The only real difference is the swap order for Furina and Escoffier. Which is roughly an 8% dmg difference across 120 seconds. Although the important thing to look at here is the Citlali application rather than the DPS dealt.
Realistically, you should always go for Escoffier EQ first, BUT in the case where your build just doesn't have enough ER for Escoffier to burst every rotation in Stygian, Furina EQ Favonius will battery your Escoffier better. Additionally, you should EQ instead of QE to Escoffier so you can also catch particles while her animation plays.
If you start with Furina EQ as your baseline rotation, you can guarantee Citlali CC by bursting on the first rotation. Itzpapa opalfire (the off-field application) will trigger because you pass 50 and will begin ticking down after that. Skirk will wait a little bit, then the CC will last up until your very first N2 on the second rotation. Then you won't have it until halfway through your third rotation and last up until the last N5D on your fourth, and never again for the rest. If you're wondering why the third rotation, it's a mix of A2 and your E-skill cycling the Nightsoul to hit Opalfire again. There are times you can get unlucky with this in practice because of Furina's summons missing, but it's usually consistent as long as you do the first rotation correctly. tl;dr even with shit CC uptime it's not enough to offset the dmg difference completely.
It's important to distinguish these small details because forcing a rotation where your ER isn't perfect can ruin Stygian runs. If you ever need to normal attack a little bit on any character, just to wait for that 1 particle to catch it's already a bigger dps loss than having an unreliable buff such as CC. All of this to say, I just wanted to showcase the difference between the two, for people to optimize their stygians better.
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