u/louchenii

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1. E2 Phainon > everything else, first and foremost. If you want to keep playing him long-term, that’s the first thing you should get. And yes, E2 Phainon still zero-cycles every mode except AS.

2. Yes, you need Cerydra. She’s the BiS support because she provides a unique mechanic. Yes, she has some anti-synergy, but that’s normal Hoyo practice for strong characters. Fugue and Firefly are a perfect example of this.

3. Yes, Cyrene is the second BiS. Yes, even at E0.

4. E2 Cyrene is the best third investment after E2 Phainon and Cerydra. It changes the game so much that with E2 Phainon + E0 Cerydra + E2 Cyrene, you can clear all three Arbitration Knights with 3 stars. And honestly, E2 Cyrene is the best support in the game for any character. I even use her with Seele for Arbitration zero-cycles.

5. Yes, Sparkle is better than Sunday. By a lot. E2DDD Sparkle > E6S1 Sunday

6. Yes, Bronya is also better than Sunday. One stack literally means nothing.

7. DDD, Vonwacq, and 160+ SPD supports are the best investments outside of pulling.

8. The fourth slot. E1 Tribbie ≈ E2 Sparkle. One is for AoE content, the other is for ST and blast content.

9. E1 Blade also works as the 4th slot, BUT only if you have E2 Cyrene.

10. Yes. Pull Cyrene, especially if you have more than one Amphoreus DPS.

11. No, don’t pull Sunday or his eidolons just for Phainon. If some useful novaflame appears later, you’ll be able to deal with it then. Pulling for a possible future is a VERY bad idea.

I think I answered most of the questions. You can be as mad about it as you want, but I’m talking about what’s best for Phainon. That’s all.

P.S. Yes, eagle set. The answer is always eagle set.

P.S. 2 No, the video isn’t mine.

Hi. I wanted to ask if anyone here has had a similar experience with a professor. I’m finishing my studies and decided to thank my curator for the years of teaching (literally just that, I wasn’t asking her for anything), and in return I got such a disgusting comment that I honestly haven’t been able to recover from it all day.

Skipping over the openly arrogant rhetoric, her main complaint was literally: “I don’t want to be associated with you because your style is too commercial and, unfortunately (yes, she literally wrote unfortunately), writers and ordinary people will actually like it, but it’s not art.”

I still genuinely can’t understand — is selling your creative work really considered that terrible? Not everyone has a businessman partner supporting them like she does...