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I'm gonna pull for Cyrene in her upcoming rerun, and I wanna rebuild my Anaxa (Who is currently on Scholar because it was tb efficient), I am gonna farm Eagle for Cyrene as I've heard it's her BiS in that team, and I was curious if I should build my Anaxa on 4pc eagle too. I love teams that are a bit harder to play, and I was curious if 4pc eagle Anaxa well played is better than Genius, and if so or not, by how much. Hope you guys can help me clear my doubts and give me some more insights!

Edit: I wanna add that my Anaxa is E0S0, and I also wanted to ask if you needed to build any SPD for Eagle to work well, but I don't think you do(?)

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I know the build isn't optimal etc..., but I'm farming for other characters rn, and she can 3 star AA knights, so for now, she'll stay the way she is. Sparxie is slightly faster than AHA etc... The overall team works, but once I'm done farming for others, I'd like to make this team faster, to keep up with next AA's (I care about this team being able to 2 cycle AA knights), so what's the next SPD breakpoints? Is it already 180? And why 180? What does she gain from reaching it? Any SPD breakpoints for Yao Guang? I can calc Sparxie's SPD just fine so don't worry about that, and I take into account Huo Huo's E1 (Also, I know some people are talking about a Elation sustain that buffs spd, but I won't be pulling for that, or for SW S1, so I'm gonna complete the builds with this level of investment)

I've seen a lot of desire in the community to get a Phainon Novaflare to make him feel on par with the meta at E0, rather than being kinda locked behind his immense E2, but I've also seen some people ask for a Cerydra novaflare, I'll explain how some Novaflare might impact the base kit of these characters, and I'd like to know what you wish would happen, and not necessarily what's more likely, although I'd like to hear what you think is more likely to happen too!

So starting from Phainon, honestly a Novaflare could make so many changes, and I've heard countless ideas, I am of the idea that 1 extra turn could be nice, like importing some of his E2 into base kit, for example "After your first meteor, gain 1 extra turn immediately" to not waste av, ofc that would remove the extra turn from E2 on the first meteor, which would weaken his E2, so not really sure how that could work honestly. Some suggested to increase his Scourge stack limit to 8 or even 9, to allow for double meteors and for some more flexibility in his skill choice in some scenarios. Others suggested to bring back some changes removed from his V1, which was about the Scourge Stack generation from his stab and counter ability. I think there's some merit to all of them, and would like to hear some more from you guys.

For a Cerydra Novaflare, what I heard the most is "Change the spd buff to base spd buff", and honestly, yeah, it really makes sense. None of Cerydra's other team mates have spd% buffer in their teams, so having a Base spd buff wouldn't make them more broken, 20 base spd is the same as his S5 tho, so it would probably need to be nerfed to 12 base spd + 8 normal spd or smth like that. What else could they give to Cerydra? I'm personally a fan of that change + more personal dmg on her... I know it sounds strange, but honestly, they pushed so much the idea of giving her personal dmg, that at this point they might as well go all in into that idea, with a FuA or some sort of damaging ability everytime you activate a Bonus Skill.

So, what do you think is more likely? Do you feel the need for a Novaflare for either of these two? Do you think they'll get a Novaflare as a result of the popularity thing we had during anniversary, or we won't see these changes for at least some months? I personally think a Cerydra novaflare would go much further than a Phainon one, since Cerydra is a support who is really good with more than just Phainon, and I don't think E0S1 Phainon is even that weak. On my friend's account I play him with E0 Cyrene, S1 Cerydra and RMC, everyone with Vonwacq and reaching the spd breakpoints to allow Phainon 4 turns in ult state during first cycle of MoC, and he honestly feels really good to play, although I haven't 3 starred an AA knight in a while, and I'd really love to, but my friend's Phainon's build isn't good enough unfortunately.

I have Cerydra and Cyrene, and I won't be getting hyacine anytime soon since her rerun was so recently, and didn't manage to get her. Who are good 4th slot? I was thinking of Loucha or Tribbie, or maybe (leaks alert) >!Blade SP but I don't know if I'll manage to get him.!<So who are generally good slots there? Does he need a sustain against enemies who deal single target dmg? Tell me anything that I should look out for, for a 4th slot, so I'll see what I can use on my account

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I need to reroll this before yesterday oml, this is the current piece I'm using:

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It's not bad, it's a 5 rollers, and as you can see I have no dice, I wish I could clear AA , but my account is kinda cooked ngl. But hey, I will be able to reroll the first piece I'm sure, let's hope for insane speed rolls pls (My SW is at 160SPD it's so bad istg, at least E1 HuoHuo helps with that)

I just got Lauma's R1, I'm using R3 Dawning Frost at the moment, while Lauma is on Spindlelute, should I give Lauma's weapon to Lauma or to Nefer?

I just found out this video, and I'm not an aglaea player myself, I don't even have her, I know she cares about SPD and energy and that's about it tbf. I'm not an expert on her rotations, but the overall gameplay doesn't look too polished to me, but I might be wrong and there's some good optimization I'm missing, anyway, considering it's a 32 subs Aglaea with 30 subs Blade (Or viceversa, I don't remember), is this good performance? Would Sunday buffing Aglaea be more dmg? With this level of relic investment, does she perform better in other teams? Can someone tell me if this is legit or at this level of investment she should be doing much better? And if so, is it a gameplay issue or just team issue?

So, if he ends up being the Elation FuA main dps that I want him to be, there might be some interesting ways for his kit to work. First of all, Elation and FuA have always been kinda related, with pre-elation DU and SU having FuA buffs in the Elation path, and Elation just being a teamwide built big FuA, so makes sense for at least 1 Elation character to be FuA related. Anyway, I'm not gonna talk about a possible FuA sustain, as I don't think we'll have one at all, and I also don't think the Elation sustain will work with them anyway, meaning, all of my theorizing will be with the current sustains we have in mind.

As of right now the FuA team is made of Ashveil, Blade, Tribbie, Hyacine, with Hyacine being replaceable by DHPT and Huo Huo and to a lesser extent, by Gallagher. Tribbie is just really good there, but if Aventurine comes out, he will obviously replace her.

If we expect Aventurine SP to work with Ashveil and Blade in mind, we have to think about their kits first, at both E0, E1 and E2.

Ashveil's kit revolves around high-frequency attacks on bait target and final killing enemies to gain gluttony stacks, so he would prefer his team mates to deal equilibrated AoE dmg, so that all enemies will be at around the same hp%, so he can end them all with his FuA's or Ultimate.

Blade's kit also revolves around high-frequency attacks, hp manipulation, being attacked, and at E2, converting Ultimate dmg to FuA dmg. He is also a AoE unit just like hinted at the Ashveil section.

What they both have in common are self buffs, team buffs, tons of enemy debuffs, and very good SP economy, with Ashveil regenerating his SP consumed, and Blade not costing SP at all.

With all this in mind, what could we expect from Aventurine? First of all, I'm gonna exclude what I don't think he will do, that is, addressing Blade's HP and taunt mechanic. That is probably just Blade's character identity and can be solved by having an healer in the team, and for that reason I don't think Aventurine will have anything to do with that.

For the rest, I already said Ashveil likes having team mates that deal AoE dmg, they both want an high-frequency attack team mates like Tribbie, they both deal very good personal dmg, so Aventurine will probably give enemy debuffs or teamwide buffs, just like Ashveil and Blade do, and he will probably have an ultimate that deals dmg, to benefit from Blade's E2.

I also talked about their good SP economy, and looking at the 4th slot in the team, while Hyacine can be SP demanding to ult in some scenarios, DHPT and Huo Huo aren't, and Gallagher is even more SP positive than them, and while I wouldn't keep Gallagher in mind while talking about Aventurine's kit, the point still stands even if we ignore him. We have already seen Elation being tied to SP, with both DU buffs and Sparxie's and SW's kits, so nothing surprising there too.

Lastly, being an Elation unit, he will have an Elation skill, and knowing AHA's SPD formula, which in this case would be 80 + Aventurine's SPD/5, even if he were to be built at 200SPD, AHA would still be at 120, which is astonishingly slow, which means he'll probably have one of three abilities: Action advance AHA, make AHA's SPD reliant on attacks frequency rather than his own SPD, or building a much more powerful Elation skill, considering how long it takes.

Maybe his skill could consume tons of SP, but that would be too much like Sparxie, unless the more SP he consumes, the faster he/AHA gets, advances AHA or obtains 1 stack for his own FuA mechanic, or his Elation skill could consume all the SP to buff the team, debuff enemies or anything related to that. I doubt it'll be just a dmg elation skill, and will probably be team related, considering this team will probably have 3 characters with very similar dps in it.

And that's about it, I probably have some more ideas in mind that I forgot to talk about, but this post is already so long and most won't read through all of that either way. If you disagree with my ideas, please talk about yours or why you disagree, I just wanna talk about his possible kit, and I don't think in any way I'm absolutely right or anything, I just wanted to share my thoughts <3 

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My Anaxa build is currently really bad and was looking forward farming either the Genius set, or Wavestrider, probably Wavestrider tho, because it's far more tb efficient for my account. Since I have to farm from basically scraps, and I need to farm the other set for M. Blade, would this be good enough? E0S0 Anaxa with E0 Cyrene, Cerydra and DHPT, so no other forms of def shred>!&#x200B;!<

So, Blade got nerfed in his sustain options, being no longer able to be run comfortably at 1hp with a shield, and people complain about an oversaturated stat on ashveil? I'm crying. E0S0 Ashveil with Duke set has a total of 203.2% dmg bonus, from lightning orb, 2pc, traces and major traces, including the balefire bind status effect. Losing 50% (So going from 253.2 to 203.2) isn't that big of a deal, what's that big of a deal is how much more dmg blade deals now, with a 50% motion value bonus to his ult, and 75% dmg bonus to his whole kit, rather than 50% to just his FuAs. Please stop doomposting, and understand that this wasn't a nerf at all. At worse the team is gonna do like 4-5% worse at E0S0, and even then, I'm not sure, might just be an outright increase in dpav. I don't know how much was Tribbie's dmg contribution ngl

So, I don't really know how nod-krai reactions work, I stopped caring too much about meta and stuff and shifted towards hsr after all the cringe shill and nod-krai bs that they put into the game, but I just pulled Linnea because I like her a lot, sooo, I saw I got 56 Lunar Crystallize on Noelle and 28 on Linnea (team is Linnea-Furina-Aino, Aino is C1 but I'll get C2 once I'll start the nod-krai AQ, and I have a C1 Illuga too), I don't know the dmg formula for lunar reactions, but like, is em important on all my characters, on who activates the reaction? How does it work? Should I build em on Noelle? Also, is MH good on her, or should I give her the nod krai artifact set?

I think Cyrene will have her rerun in 4.3, which would make sense, and I'm planning to pull her alongside Blade, if the game will be so kind to let me win a 50/50 lol. I already have cerydra on S1 DDD and DHPT on a off path lc, I'm gonna use Cyrene on the Herta shop LC at S5, and I'm ready to rebuild all of my characters's relics from nothing, because as of right now, my Anaxa is really underwhelming unfortunately. What set and planar set to give Anaxa, Cyrene, Cerydra and DHPT, and their SPD breakpoints and why. I know sustainless with RMC is an option, but I'll probably never run that, so I'm okay with farming the BananAmusement set if that's his BiS or around 3/4% off of that. If you want, you can include situationally BiS sets or alternatives that will depends on the rolls quality, anything is much appreciated. Anaxa is E0S5 (The Great Cosmic Enterprise)

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I'm gonna pull for Cyrene, so I'm aware of the crit rate problem, but for Cyrene-less comp, how can I improve his build the fastest? I know wind dmg is not optimal but I don't have Atk orbs. What should my priorities be? I wanna clear Apoc side 2 at at least 3k points but can't get more than 2.4k... Sunday is on a -1SPD build, and the fastest I can get him to is like barely 150, I think 148(?) I don't remember.

I'm F2P and I have E0S0 Anaxa, E0S0 Cerydra, E0S0 Sunday and E0S0 DHPT, this is my team comp at the moment, running a -1SPD set up with Sunday, but the team barely clears, I got like 2.4k or 2.5k points this Apoc in second boss, (I don't have THerta) and feels rough. I want Cyrene for both Anaxa and Phainon, and because I like her, but with Phainon she just isn't enough to make him full clear content, and I'm worried it's the same for Anaxa, she does seem better tho with him, so I was wondering if E0S0 Cyrene is enough for Anaxa, or if I should get her another time (So not in her next rerun probably in 4.3/4.4, but on the one after that) and prioritize E2 Phainon to at least allow him to full clear AA etc... with ease. You can check my builds on 722004588, Ik wind dmg is bad for him, I'll craft/find an atk% orb asap. I can't pull for too many characters, I want M Blade in 4.3, and either E0 Cyrene or E2 Phainon (I have E0), what should I prioritize?

Has anyone seen a M blade team with those two at E0S1 or E0S0 with Sunday? Everyone plays them with Tribbie but I don't have her and I don't have enough to pull for her, but I wanna know how much better/worse would Sunday be there, sustain can be anyone, I think DHPT works best with Sunday but Hyacine is fine although I don't have her

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I know they're very similar, and both overcaps on def over 2k, is the 44em more valuable than the 2.3cv loss? Also, that's base em, doesn't take into account the em buff she gets from smth, idk what tho, she has 253/297em in overworld in ascendent gleam. Btw I don't have Zibai and will run her with Noelle and Bina (I'll get Bina on her rerun 100%)

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Sunday: 5av slower, 212% CD

Cerydra: 134SPD outside of combat, 3.65k atk (I can also run 154SPD outside of combat, 3.25k atk)

DHPT: 142SPD, 3.5k atk

I don't have Cyrene unfortunately, but I will pull for her. I can't clear Apoc side 2, I'm so desperate, he reaches like 2.4/2.5k points at best, and I can't go sustainless with Sparkle or RMC because I don't think it's even doable to go sustainless against that abomination, can anyone tell me if I'm doing anything wrong? I know the builds aren't the best, and double sacerdos isn't the best either, but I'm out of fuel. Can you tell me how can I improve my supports? I also have Phainon btw, so I'd like to farm things that go well for both, since I run the same team with him.