Dire Duck🫡(C2R0 Zibai / C0R0 Columbina / C0R1 Linnea / C6R0 Illuga)

Dire Duck🫡(C2R0 Zibai / C0R0 Columbina / C0R1 Linnea / C6R0 Illuga)

Wasn't sure I would be able to do Dire Duck since no lunarcharge (and previous iteration we didn't have Linnea & I couldn't clear it), but turns out now I can so that's nice :)

u/Y_umei — 22 hours ago

My Stygian Usage Rate - 2 Dire 8 Fearless

  • Skirk c1r0 on her first run -> c3r1 on rerun
  • Escoffier c0r0 on her first run -> c1r1 on rerun
  • Furina c2r0 and still is
  • Mona c6r0 since before stygian came out
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  • Zibai c2r0 on her first run
  • Columbina c0r0 and still is
  • Linnea c0r1
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  • Arle was c1r1 and still is

Rest of the 5* are either c0r0 (Shenhe, Yelan, Raiden, Zhongli, Ayaka) or c0r1 (Clorinde, Hutao, Kazuha), except jean c6 but who cares since it's fall dmg jean.

  • Illuga c6r0 since Zibai's first banner
  • Iansan was c4 at first but got her to c6 recently (during mandagora's patch)
  • Amber c3 / Collei c3 / Ororon c1

Rest of the 4* are c6

Could have easily cleared dire most of these if not all by pulling Mavuika since I cleared 2 boss minimum on dire at every stygian, but I didn't want to cause I don't like this character.

u/Y_umei — 8 days ago

My subjective tierlist after finishing Dread (I wanted to play it for years !!!). Based on my rankings, are the last 4 games worth checking out ?

These are ranked from left to right (meaning I slightly prefer MP2 over Dread, although they're so close that I'd realistically give them the same score).

As of now, I feel like :

  • Federation Forces & Pinball -> easy skips cause they seem to bring no value.
  • Hunters -> I've seen some footages on Yt and it really doesn't appeal to me nowadays :/
  • Other M -> I've heard its characterization is pretty awful and the gameplay is weird. Do you think watching a walkthrough just for the story would be enough, or would you still recommend playing it despite its flaws ?

Thanks in advance :)

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u/Y_umei — 16 days ago

For C2+ Skirk havers : don't you feel like an ATK buffer as the 4th slot would be a "false good idea" ?

From the recent Vodya post, I see most people wanting an ATK buffer, which I completely understand and agree with if we're talking at a c0 standpoint.

However I believe this doesn't hold true anymore if one decides to invest vertically, because :

  • Skirk R1 gives her 48% ATK on top of being very high base ATK
  • Escoffier R1 gives skirk 32% ATK
  • Skirk C2 gives 70% ATK (albeit only for NA playstyle)

-> Which already equates to +150% ATK and that's not even accounting for ttds, totm & noblesse which, all together, give +238% ATK, a ridiculous amount.

This comes to a point where my C3 Skirk, who has 2476 ATK on her profile card, has more than 5100 ATK when she's on-field with all these buffs effective.
So I feel like if Vodya turns out to be an ATK buffer it wouldn't help much, atleast from a vertical investment standpoint.

An ATK speed buffer would be "good" but also kill a good portion of the fun of playing Skirk for me : her combos. Had you already tried to do N2D combos with Dahlia as the 4th slot, you know it's not enjoyable at all and the difference is very negligeable anyway since more ATK speed reduce the value of combos over spamming as the time during a dash cancel doesn't get reduced by ATK speed obviously.
So unironically, I hope she does not buff ATK speed (+ this doesn't buff at all the burst playstyle which I think is a valuable aspect of Skirk as well, being able to condensate her dmg into a short window rather than a full lenghty rotation).

So my question is : from a vertical investment standpoint, what stats would you REALLY want Vodya to give ? Appart from def shred which would be by an enormous margin the biggest improvement for the team, what else ?

I think that a "vulnerability" type of effect, such as the one we have on HSR, would be amazing. Because the thing is that at high investment, all stats are already saturated af :

  • +5000 ATK already at C2
  • +310% c.dmg with Esco C1 (+60%) and good build (+210%) + azurelight (+40%)
  • +277% dmg with Furina c3 (+124%) / galleries (+75%) / cryo goblet (+46%) / miniburst (+20%) / scroll (+12%).

-> We lack another form of multiplier

Either this or have CRAZY high quills with good uptime, not like the 5 quills we get from Escoffier C2 or the ridiculous small quills Shenhe gives.
I'm talking about something like Lauma C2 or Xianyun C2 level of quills, which are like the double of what Escoffier C2 gives and I want that to have no limited amount (or atleast a very high amount), that could also adapt the dmg it gives based of if we're hitting for normal attack dmg of burst dmg.

I'd also quickly want to address the support sets : they are terribly bad for the modern standard.
+20% ATK from totm compared to the +40% dmg from hex/nightsoul scroll sets, or what the lunar/stellar set provide to their carries, is night & day let's be honest.

Having Escoffier bis set being a ridiculous +12% dmg while not even giving anything on the 2p just screams to me that new sets are needed for this team to take a new step forward, alas Hoyo will probably never put new sets for old units so we're probably stuck with totm/noblesse and hopefully Vodya on a new modern op set.

Quite a lot of yapping but I'm genuinely on the fence that an ATK buffer is a received idea that wouldn't benefit Skirk much in the long term, especially if one wants to invest more into the team.
Def shred is almost a necessity, but even that alone (unless absurd amount) wouldn't solve the gap between her and the likes of lunar/mavuika/stellar.

u/Y_umei — 1 month ago

How much dps would a C6R1 Keqing have with C2 Nicole & C2 Durin ?

My Keqing is C6R2 and I want to invest into her best team cause I’m sad I dont use her anymore due to her lacking performances.

But so far I only see either c0 or c6 showcases for the 2 mentionned supports, and I’m by no mean a whale (never took a single top-up and I never will), so C2 is the max I can aim at by saving multiple months of primos.

I would ideally want it to be able to clear dire stygian, or more precisely, to atleast have the theoretical dps for it (now the shill mechanic aspect is another entire subject), would you say that having both at C2R1 with a fischl or chevreuse as last slot (or something else that isn’t too costy so c0 5*) could be enough ?

Do some of you have around this team investment and if so may I ask how much dps do you have against miliastra dummy ? Thanks.

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u/Y_umei — 1 month ago

C3 Skirk - 93s Dire Pokeball (day one score)

Can be improved for sure (no scroll wheel / high ping), but we'll see that later

u/Y_umei — 1 month ago

When you say no to Stellar-Conduct

(Shhhh, don't tell I used fischl over mona to clear dire... 👀)

u/Y_umei — 1 month ago

Boothill still holding up through the power of vertical investment

Novaflare when, need some additionnal turn mechanic

u/Y_umei — 1 month ago

E1S1 Eva / E6S0 Emc / E1S0 Yao / E0S0 MBlade (6 cost) - 0cycle Arbitrary King

Happy :)

A lot of rotation/speedtuning fixing was needed (even tho the final run doesn't have that much rng). No global passive cause I skipped both Castorice & SW999.

u/Y_umei — 3 months ago

(Burst agenda) 69s Watcher Dire - C3R1 Skirk / C2R0 Furina / C1R1 Escoffier / C6R0 Mona

Could do a bit better with more c.dmg and less c.rate but I like the 85% mark 🎮

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u/Y_umei — 3 months ago

What's your opinion on this Yaogguang-less / Huohuo-less performance ? (7 cost)

Quite satisfied with her performance so far

E1S1 Evanescia
E1S1 Tribbie
E6S0 EMC
E1S0 DHPT

u/Y_umei — 3 months ago