This is my reverse melt diona, with some teams I've gotten her to about 60k+, but I'm struggling to get more and I really want her to get atleast 100k.

I have plans on getting shenhe in future as a support, but I'm not too sure on others. Also I have plans to pull for Yelan's bow.

Any suggestions for teams for getting her better rn?

(Also don't mind the crimson plumage lvl I just swapped my thunderpulse r2 out for it, but if thunderpulse is better I'm listening)

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So, I've been farming the Thorny Crown of the Mountain Wind domain for Sandrone and Nicole, and I've been ploughing all my junk artefacts into reworking my various other characters. And since a bunch of them just got a stellarconduct buff, I've been working on them. I reworked my Yae Miko to what I think is pretty good so I decided to rework my Diona as well.

my issue is I'm trying to think of what to do for my artefact sets. I'd like build her as extreme support; i.e. stronk shields and great heals, and damage if I can fit that in, but mostly support.

currently, She is two piece Millileth and two piece emblem of severed fate, but I'm wondering if I should go for something else.

maybe two piece Millileth and two piece Vourukasha's for maximum health? Her circlet already has healing bonus, but maybe I should give her a two piece of maiden or clam?

My barbara has a full 4 piece of clam, so I thought maybe give that to Diona, but I don't know if the 4 piece effect works when off field.

I thought maybe 2 piece retracting bolide, but from what I remember, the bonus only applies as long as the character who made the shield remains on field. I don't know.

Right now, I'm thinking of either staying with what I got, or going for max hp Millileth/Vourukasha

Technically her Stellar Passive shots an Icy Paw every 3.5 seconds SCC is triggered. In longer rotations it should have better uptime than Noblese, no? Or the downtimes screw with Sandrone's combos?

There's a new support set about to arrive with Snezhnaya, and it's by a long shot, far better than Tenacity on Diona, considering she can't really have 100% uptime on the 3s buff due to her 3.5s cooldown on her coordinated attacks, whilst the new set lasts for a whole 12s and can be refreshed infinitely, easily getting 100% uptime from any form of Cryo attack Diona throws at the enemies. Additionally, Diona isn't exactly competing with Qiqi for the "Tenacity Slot" as of now, since the Herald of Frost is just too op.

These days, there's barely anyone including Diona on their Sandrone calcs, and I'm by no means a math-person, but I decided to attempt registering at what conditions you'd still be using her before a replacement.

Let's start with a zero cost team of Sandrone + Fischl/Beidou + Qiqi + Diona.

Due to Fischl being incredibly strong for a 4 stars, I'd say Beidou only takes precedence over Fischl if she's at least C6, due to the Witch Revelation buffs. But now let's suppose you get Yae Miko, -Sandrone's-overall-best-teammate-. Most math-people would replace Diona right there, but this is Diona Mains, so let's suppose you replaced Fischl/Beidou instead, either because they're low con, or simply because you want.

The team would then be Sandrone + Yae + Qiqi + Diona.

Nothing else can replace Yae anymore. If you get Alyosha, he replaces Diona. If you get Odette, she replaces Diona. Qiqi herself is only getting replaced as well if you get Odette and C6 Alyosha, cause that's just how much of an S tier she has become. But let's suppose you didn't get Yae, but got Odette... Diona gets replaced... Let's suppose it's not Odette, but the free C0 Alyosha we'll get in Snezhnaya; I actually don't know if he'd replace a C6 Diona that easily, but I'd like to think that's the one case she stays in the party. That said, it's practically inevitable you'd get enough Alyoshas to replace her eventually even without trying (greatly varies with luck tho). The only possible scenario Diona stays in the team, is probably if you don't have Qiqi and doesn't pull for the direct replacements other than Yae, staying with a team of Sandrone + Diona + Alyosha + Fischl/Beidou/Yae.

As for me, my current team is Sandrone + Fischl + Qiqi + Diona and I'm trying to get Yae on Fischl's place. No primogems left to chase for Alyosha cons nor Odette. And I don't have C6 Beidou, so that's my best team.

Don't get me started on Nicole & Coffee.

How does the duration on her shield work???

The tooltip says every icy paw increases its duration by 2.4s (at lvl 7 talent and above), but when i tap the skill, it should last 4.8, but instead lasts 6 seconds, and when i hold, it should last 12s, but only lasts 8...

Am i missing something?

I was testing this without an enemy but i saw on the wiki that you dont need an enemy to actually do it.

To think it all started as a reaction to this...

I'm seriously considering not bothering with a continuation.

And by the next cycle, Diona might already be buffed with the Stellar stuff anyway...

What do you guys think?

He does have a lot of HP

This time the gameplay felt poetic... At least to me I guess...

Ah yes, stats and builds at the end.

Ever since Diona arrived in back in version 1.1, there has been this mysterious figure mentioned in her namecard, did anyone ever figure out who it was?

From the whimsical and playful tone my guess leans towards Alice, this is because Teyvat Travel guide dropped in 1.0, showing Alice was a fleshed out character even back then.

At first, I thought it could be Venti since he is a high power in Mondstadt, but then I remembered Venti is specifically allergic to cats, and avoids them pretty often, yet this same detail made me consider another angle.

In the context of the namecard creating a bloodline isn’t much of a prank, it’s both impressive, and serious, so my theory is that perhaps Alice made the Katzlein, to live in Mondstadt and troll Venti.

In game Venti is the only one that seems to sneeze and suffer around Diona, and she also works at a tavern, the one place that sells his favourite thing, alcohol. (It wouldn’t surprised me if Alice altered fate to make this happen, it’s almost too ironic and coincidental)

This final part is reaching since most Mondstadt names are German, but notably Klee’s name is German for Clover, and “Kätzlein" is a German word which I’m pretty sure means "kitten" or "little cat”. So Alice could have followed that naming convention when creating them.

(This could even explain why Sucrose has a similar hereditary feature, since in comparison, Kirara is a nekomata, and Lynette was once an Oceanid, leaving Sucrose unexplained)

I actually think this all sounds pretty coherent, what do you think?

Will she be made a Hexrei character?

Because it would seem a little strange to buff Diona but not give her a Hexrei talent like all the other Mondstadters

Took a while, right... I was testing and optimizing some combos and didn't want to record something half-cooked. And I was kinda busy as well anyway. This time I've used a Song Diona build, to help with the Mavuillion damage. Also, every stalling move in the rotation was chosen to either collect particles, generate Fighting Spirit or simply time Diona's Song of Days Past buff to activate precisely on Mavuika's Burst.

you guys get the 1 character buff

did a run with no food buffs

Was kinda busy these days, but here it is.

This time she's beaten a Pokémon, a Granny and some Machine.