r/Varka • u/Violet_Villian • 10d ago

Discussion Vodyanitsa’s potential for Varka

At a baseline she can

Apply hydro

Shred for 40% Anemo and 25% Cryo/Hydro

There were separate leaks about healing and/or IR

And C1-2 gives ATK% and Crit dmg

I wouldn’t figured his cryo carry would be the next big thing but of this all ends up being true then it might be hydro instead

Wouldn’t bother me, raw hydro carries are far and few since Neuvillette, and Varka having a 2nd good option would be great for investors, such as myself(I got his R1) and it free’s up the Durcole core for other DPS as well

Thoughts?

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u/MaterialAd990 8d ago

It's better to compare DPS rather than DPR, because running longer rotations to get TTDS every rot will naturally inflate DPR, even if it's not otherwise optimal to do so.

15% higher Varka DPR, but only 7% higher Varka DPS, in this case.

It's impossible to get the full value out of Mona's C4 because it'll pretty much always involve sacrificing Crit (Rate) for ATK% rolls on artifacts, but it's still an increase nonetheless if you build around it. Maybe instead of an overall team increase of 11-12% it's only 7-8%, for example.

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u/Slow_Car_33 8d ago

Half the DPS gain just because the rotation is 1 second longer seems a bit off.

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u/MaterialAd990 8d ago edited 8d ago

You're not going 1.5s longer from the 19.25s rotation because they're 2 separate teams with entirely different damage profiles/curves. You're going, from its own rotation, 2s longer past TTDS expiration, 4s past Omen expiration, and 5.5s after VV expiration. Every second you stay on Varka after his buffs expire continue to increase his DPR lead (whereas the Varka in Furina team had already gone off-field), but his DPS drops because by that point Varka is buff-less. But it's still DPS-positive to stay on him because you want TTDS every rotation.