u/rattenffanger

- C2R1 Cyno / C2 Odette / C1R1 Yae / C6 Alyosha

From 295K to 334k, let goooooo.

Finally got his C2, and it's awesome. And after some tests, now that more buffs get passed to Odette I found it to be better to get her on DDS and Yae on Furnace.

Besides the bigger nuke (1.5m at 11 polar stacks *.*), the extra crit rate helps sooo much, I can't stress it enough how much it sucks for her to miss the fucking crits, even after changing sets at 95% CR she was still missing them on the skill... so I end up giving some worse artifacts but at 100% crit rate for some peace of mind

Yoooo, I thought I wouldn't have time to clear it since it is almost over but hell yeah I did it for the first time.

Teams:

- C2 CryoMC / C2 Odette / C1R1 Yae / C2 Qiqi (ToM)
- C0R1 Arle / C6 Fischl (ToM) / C6 Chev (NO) / C0R0 Durin (Gift)
- C0R1 Flins / C0 Columbina (TTDS) / C0R1 Ineffa / C1 Nicole (MoD)

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The first two bosses I managed to clear on the first week of Stygian, Cryo Traveler is the goat with C2 Odette and Arle shill helps her so much it was a breeze with Nicole/Fichl, but the Duck was hell, I only had C0 Flins (PJWS) and C0 Columbina, so there was no way to do it while the IT buff was on and I had to wait for his banner, I managed to get Ineffa and on the weapon banner I got Flins sig, but it was not enough...

On the weapon banner I lost to the standard weapon, so I did the reset fate point gimmick, and selected Halo, and luckly I got a super early 5*, in 10 pulls I "lost" to Flins weapon and got the Fate point for the guarantee Ineffa sig, so in the week I grinded for as much primos as I could, (also had to get some extra welkings in advance...) and two days ago I got Ineffa's sig.

Surely now the Duck would be a walk in the park right? Nope, not happened, no easy fight here, for the past two days I've trying non stop to beat it, I tried so many times with so many different teams, artifacts and weapons combinations, holy hell. But just now I finally managed to beat the bastard duck.

In the end Nicole was the best option for me and performed better than Sucrose in this scenario, she made rotations shorter, it was easier to pass Bina's TTDS to Flins and the Duck already have negative resistance to Electro, it's also probably due to my Bina having shit artifacts, so since I didn't get full value of Sucrose and Ineffa's sig whole team buffs it was better to make sure Flins got as much buffs as possible.

But I had to take Nicole from Arle team, which made things a lot harder, I barely managed to clear it on time.

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C1R1 Cyno - C2 Odette Azurelight (Skill lvl 4) - C1R1 Yae - C6 Alyosha Fav NO (Skill lvl 5)

Still waiting for Cyno C2 on the selector.

But I can't wait to test when I level up Odette and Alyosha skills and manage to get her better artifacts, I spent all my resin on stygian and only got dogshit artifacts, like it's so sad man. I guess I spent all my luck getting Odette C2 and Alyosha C6 in 100 wishes 👀

My current team is C0 Flins on PJWS, C0 Columbina(Aubade) on Prot.Amber, C6 Fischl(SMS) on Elegy and C0 Durin(NO)/C6 Sucrose on Wandering Evenstar. I think I got up to 144k dps with Durin,

With this team I can clear Fearless on Stygian, but how much more investment do I need to be able to clear Dire?

By their banner I should have enough saved for two 5 stars (or 3 if I don't lose any 50/50), what should I go for? And would any of these options be enough for a Dire clear?

- C2 Flins, C1 flins and Ineffa or Ineffa R1?

Or if were to get three 5*:

- C2 Flins, Innefa or C1 Flins, Ineffa R1?

Was testing Varka with AnemoGoblet and Faruzan and it's looking better then either ATK or Pyro Globlet with C4 Prune and on par with C6 Prune (I don't have it but simulated with flat atk bonus).

Since Nicole C1 and Burst are anemo damage Faruzan buffs are really good for them. I imagine the gap gets even higher on C2 Varka.

My combos are not perfect and I make mistakes so I made lots of rotations to get more samples.

Investment and equipment:

All characters at level 90 except Faruzan at 80/90

C1R1 Varka - Crowned skill - Winds

C1 Nicole - Double Crown - Memory of Dust and TTDS

C4 Prune - Memory of Dust (also simulated her C6)

C0 Durin - Double Crown - Mistsplitter - Noblesse (bonus stats cause of bad artifacts)

C6 Faruzan - Elegy and Favonius (Elegy get some weird uptime)

Anemo Goblet rotation and equipment:

Shorter rotations so switched Nicole to Memory of Dust, and having her with higher atk also increase burst damage which synergizes with Faruzan buffs. She also gets to burst every time with Faruzan even without fav.

Combo used: E N4sC E 4N1C E

NO buff ends right after the first E. The rotation ends together with the last proc of Nicole Burst.

ATK and Pyro Goblet rotation and equipment:

TDDS Nicole and Memory of Dust Prune, sometimes Nicole doesn't get enough energy to burst.

Combo used: E N2sC 2N1C N1E 2N1C N2E N1C

Even without Prune second E her animations are a bit to long so NO buff ends right before Varka first E. By using some N2 you get Varka last E right before TDDS ends. One extra N1C after last E because of TDDS cooldown.

What can I do now to make him better? Should I try and get more CD substats for him or switch focus to his team? I just got Yae C1 on selector but I'm gonna get Cyno C2 next.

Oh, and does getting him from 89 to 90 make any difference? (I think I'm almost halfway there from open world xp)

And for Yae, should I try and get enough CR to swich to a CD Circlet, or just get more CD and EM on substats? (I'm happy I get to use her again, and to think only I got her (back in 2.5 lol) because I lost to her weapon while trying to get Jade Cutter)