u/ToXiniX

Yes, I like posing while frozen. Anyway, this felt kinda like Tidal Grief 2, where the main objective for Gilberta solo was to stall over pure dps. I ended up switching back to Detonation Unit for this one too in case I needed to heal. Also tried using LYNX set again since I anticipated needing to heal more, but turns out MI Security gives enough damage to cleanly kill with ult + a battle skill after ult if unlucky, so we're back to the carcinization of Gilberta solo gearsets lmao.

Of course I had to hit the funny number. This time instead of cutting down the timer, I figured I could sacrifice some dps from dive-spamming to take weaken 1 and -50% stamina regen. The new flashfreeze and SP risks are basically free, but the risk that upgrades the Heavy Rams and Heavy Sting are hell. Previously I would rely on Gilberta's battle skill to create distance and avoid the Heavy Ram's regular attacks, but with their new pull immunity that is no longer an option, and I have to hope they both are committing to an attack that won't hit me in order to cast battle skill, and pray they don't run out of it by the end of the cast. In the Risk 27 clear, the 2x Heavy Rams were basically just timesinks and the Heavy Sting + Ram combo was significantly more difficult to play around, but now, they are ironically the easier pair than the 2x Heavy Rams since my solution for them didn't change with the new risks.

Anyway, that's probably all for me this CC, I know the run can be improved and optimized a bit further, but probably not enough to hit a higher risk. Back to huffing hopium we get a new vulpo at some point.

Definitely the hardest run I've done in Endfield, so much RNG had to line up for this to work out. I'm not sure if 28 can be pushed with the -%attribute risk, but seeing how each successful run takes literal hours of resetting to accomplish, I'm probably not gonna try testing that theory this week.

The scorpion + heavy ram combo is actual hell compared to tidalklast. The only safe way for me to dps without the timer catching up is to always bait out the scorpion's melee AoE and hope the heavy ram doesn't hit you.

And to address the trunkbeast in the room (I don't remember what elephants are called in Arknights oops), yes, low crit rate MI security set outdpses 2 LYNX Slabs somehow. Even with horrible set effect uptime. Kinda wack, but it is what it is until we get a nature infliction DPS specific set.

I wasn't originally planning to do this, but after seeing u/Semont' Chen solo and u/Endmouse's Perlica solo of this fight, I figured it would be fun to see how Gilberta holds up in this. Though with this being Gilberta, going no-hit was basically not super viable unless I wanted to spend weeks grinding this, so a regular no-item solo should be good enough.

This boss is honestly quite a nice fight for soloing in general, most of its moves can be played around and it's got some good windows for fitting in damage. It does have a few small annoying gimmicks that drive me up the wall though, like how its right sidestep dodges out of Gilberta's battle skill, and its left sidestep doesn't.

Anyway, this is my warmup for CC, hopefully I can get all the rewards with Gilberta solo so I won't have any other characters barging into my CC records lmao.

I thought this would be easy. Looking at this stage, it just looks so doable for Gilberta solos, and brushed it off as a "boring to watch" stage and skipped over trying to solo it. Little did I know, I would be very wrong about that. This stage is all about learning the attack patterns of the main boss and finding openings to fit battle skill casts in, while also trying not to die during adds phase. Eventually I figured it'd be a good idea to run 3 LYNX set so I can facetank the inevitable hits I take during adds phase, while also controlling the boss' stagger bar so I can land 2 battle skills right before its stagger to re-trigger Detonation Unit's effect during its stagger window. This clear obviously isn't perfect by any means, just a show of how even a very unassuming stage can turn out to be very engaging for Gilberta solo. I would honestly say this has been my second hardest solo so far, below Howling Flame: Agony.

I'm already theorycrafting how I would go about soloing CC with Gilberta, stay tuned to see just how high I can push her :)

After seeing the Ardelia solo on this stage, I had the idea of trying a similar strategy with Gilberta, only to find out that a mixed healing & dps gearset comes just short of being able to survive the final purple slime explosion. Well, that was 100+ artificing catalyst and around 1k coolant gel wasted. I then had the cursed idea of giving her Ardelia's signature, which drastically increases her healing output at the cost of more than half my damage, which made the clear significantly less satisfying. Oh well.

Anyway, not sure if I'm gonna try this on the other Umbral Monument stages this rotation, some of them are definitely possible but not as satisfying, while others are theoretically possible but very annoying to execute. We'll see if I end up doing any of them.