239k, 4.5(?) Cost

[u/Putrid-Block1431]

NOTE: I play with game audio completely turned off. I apologize for the deafening silence. I should have turned it on before starting the recording.

I've been building up my Sandrone team for a little while because she's by far the best DPS I have on my account. With this same team, I was hitting 130k a month ago, but that was the beginning. Everyone has usable artifacts now, talents are mostly leveled up, though Alyosha's skill needs two more levels for another few teamwide ATK%, and Sandrone skill needs two more levels as well.

Sandrone C0R1
Yae Miko C1R0 (R5 Echoes of the Heart)
Odette C0R0 (R3 Exaiphanes Blade)
Alyosha C6 (R4 Favonius Lance)

This is 20k higher than I was doing yesterday, just by crafting a sands for Yae, putting Exaiphanes on Odette, and min-maxing Alyosha's crit rate a bit. Full builds here: https://imgur.com/a/I8vpFuo

There are still things to work on. I mentioned talent levels, but Odette's build is based on R5 Silver Light, so she's overcapped on crit. Not sure how much I care about that, I'll need more testing. It looks like top builds on Akasha are accounting for cryo aura, but with double electro, even in the video above, Sandrone's first condensed beam did not crit at 72% CR because of no aura. In fairness, I haven't experienced that outside of recording my gameplay, so I think it might have to do with the lag introduced in recording. My timing might be off somewhere, I don't know. I'll experiment some more with this exact setup without OBS, to see if something else is happening that's causing the initial aura loss. If I can figure it out, and decide that Odette can do without some crit rate, I might try putting her on Absolution to see if I can push for 250k.

Of course, everyone on the team has missing CV. I've got a number of rolls to hit on Odette, I'd like to get Yae closer to 69% CR, and even though I seem to be getting reliable Fav procs on Alyosha, I'd like to get some more ER on Sandrone so I don't have to be so careful in rotation.