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Somehow my e6 EMC gets faster clears in Anomaly Arbitration than my e0s0 Sparxie. E0S1 SW and E0S1 Yao Guang were my other teammates alongside e0s0 Huohuo from the shop. Should I try and invest more into Sparxie next patch or just punt on her verticals and wait for Pearl?

Does Sparxie LC or e1 make a big difference?

I used to be able to split up Therta/Jade for both sides in Pure Fiction and get an effortless 40k for both. However ever since 4.0 and the crazy Pure Fiction HP inflation lately now my go to team of Jade/Tribbie/DHPT/Sparkle barely gets 30k.

I know she is a subdps first and foremost but I really hate the direction Pure Fiction has taken where erudition units now suck there. And with 3 team Pure fiction now Jade feels even worse where I always defended her as a Pure Fictuon queen.

Any advice or team tips? I have every meta unit aside from Blade.

I float between Grandmasters and Diamond most seasons and have added WF to my roster of supports. And even though she's clearly one of the best in the game I find the minute a match goes south teammates beg you to switch to Invis or CnD.

I had my 2nd healer who was playing Jeff begging me to switch to CnD when we played domination and we lost the first match. We end up losing 2-1, I check the stats and see I had 34k healing to Jeff 26k but he was still complaining post match saying he got sold. I also had less deaths and better overall stats than he did.

Mind you the enemy team had a Magik going crazy on him and I was helping keep him alive. But people rely so much on the main healers that even with good performances if you don't have Luna/Invis/CnD they blame you for playing someone else. Why is that?

With Himeko Nova and Archer/Rin taking endgame HP inflation to another level starting 4.4 doesn't that mean its more likely for Nihilux to be a support/subdps to help catch up to the other top teams?

Yes Pearl is coming but she's a sustain first, which makes me doubt she by herself will help SW999 catch up to Himeko. Hyacine was a massive upgrade for Castorice but Castorice's kit NEEDS a sustain to function.

Therefore Nihilux+Pearl makes sense to me to allow both elation carries to catch up as 4.x continues, with a bias towards SW999 since she is the main push ahead of Evanescia. Nihilux as a main DPS just makes no sense when all that does is piss off both fanbases and neither would want to replace their elation main this fast.

I was watching some endgame analytics summary videos from Mr.Pokke and saw that MBlade was shockingly low compared to the other supports. He was behind Ruan Mei and RMC and just barely in front of Sunday/Tribbie for MoC clears, and actually behind all of the above in APoC when it came to clear speed.

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Is there a reason why he isn't scoring better? I lost my 50/50 on him and am trying to get as many wishes before he leaves banner, but when I saw he cleared slower than Tribbie for APOC I started to wonder whether I should just save guarantee for Himeko.

E2S1 Therta, E1S1 Jade, E1S1 Tribbie and E0S1 DHPT. Against one of their best boss matchups and a great stage buff for them with 25% res shred.

I got down to 1300 AV before restarting my lineup to an e1s1 DOT team and first try got 1650 AV.

We can no longer live in e2 Herta cope, she NEEDS a new teammate and/or an early Novaflare. Just make an exception for her Dawei.

I'm seeing more and more clears where people seem to match or even outperform Sparxie with EMC. I was under the impression EMC sucked so I didn't even bother building him, but I'm reading a lot of criticism towards Sparxie lately. If the performance with EMC is close or sometimes better, I'd rather put that cost into SW.

I should add, I don't really like Sparxie as a character but am willing to pull someone I don't like if it improves my favorites performance.

I've been reading more and more that Himeko SP and Archer/Saber teams are way stronger than anything else in 4.4

This has made me reevaluate my pull plans when I see e0s1 Himeko is outperforming e2s1 Phainon. I have e0s1 and planned to pull e2 next banner since I really have struggled with him in endgame lately, even after getting Cerydra a few patches ago.

But if Himeko and Rin/Archer are just way stronger than e2, I wonder if I should just leave him at e0s1...but if I skip his e2 that means he is cooked on my account since he probably doesn't rerun for a long time after.

I think we all recognize how mid his eidolons are compared to his fellow Harmony counterparts. His e1/e2 just don't compare to Robin's, or Sparkles early eidolons. Hell, you could argue e2 Bronya is a better eidolon than either of his.

Now that we have close to confirmed NV incoming, you'd have to imagine the first thing mihoyo will do is improve his early eidolons. They keep rerunning Sunday despite him being very complete at e0s1 and if they want to make more money off him the easiest way is to buff his e1/e2.

Is there any chance his buffs get leaked before his banner ends?

Been watching a lot of the early access videos from CCs like Guoba, Pokke, etc and even though they arent outright saying it, I get the feeling they all vastly prefer Eva's kit and gameplay, and even seem to just think she's stronger than SW999.

These are supposed to be Phainon's ideal teammates right? But neither of his aftersale supports help him charge his ult. Its something you really notice now that Phainon can't quite finish everything in 1 ult anymore with increased HP inflation. That 2nd ult could be a lot faster if his supports were more synergistic with him.

Its especially annoying when you see how perfect Hyacine and Evernight are for Castorice the other main push DPS of Amphoreus.

Is he really that bad now? I'm a returning s2 player who is adding some duelist to my arsenal and picked IronFist due to aura, looks, and I like his kit in practice, seems to have a good mix of tank busting and dive, but my friend who never left the game said IF is one of the worst duelist now and to learn Daredevil instead.

Give it to me straight, how is he in the current meta? I don't need him to be dominant, I'm fine with working with a B tier hero if I like them more.

I just started this game yesterday for the first time and after the intro mission I've been exploring the city and I've already met the same dude with headphones needing a trip to a nearby ambulance 4 or 5 times.

What's going on? Its literally the same dude each time, brown guy with a sweater that moans "ThAnK yOu SpIdErMan!" in a creepy voice.

Phainon e0s1 with Sunday/Cerydra, and lets assume in 3 endgame content you likely need your Sparkle and Cyrene on other teams (Archer/Sparxie/Remembrance/Mydei/etc).

Who is your go to flex support? For myself I've come to really like Ruan Mei as the 3rd teammate, her buffs are more rare for Phainon (def ignore with e1, res pen on ult) and her teamwide speed buff actually is really helpful for setting up Phainons first ultimate and not having fast enemies kill your teammates before Phainon ults. Current MoC 12 I had to reset several times because wave 1 enemies would kill Cerydra before Phainon ult was ready but Ruan Mei helped alleviate that.

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