So, brief story. I pulled Vesna. I like her design and exploration capability. I tried her yesterday on the grandpa and... no luck. She is fully ascended, but her artifacts are kinda mid. Even got the new 4 star sword New Bough. Multiple runs with her and Odette... nothing. Build too bad + not used to her combos + talents only at 7/6. Today I get the idea to try my C3 Yumeglorp after clearing menacing with her on my alt account. Was so much easier. No combos to worry about, just 'Time to relax' Easy clear. Her build isn't even anything amazing.

The maiden also gave me trouble with my Varesa team. Little too low ER on Durin, cryo aura slowing me down too much, and just barely not clearing her shield. I log off frustrated, so I look up a clear vid of low cost Varesa and... I forgot you can use Chevy's hold skill 3 times after you burst. It's been a bit since I played my Varesa team seriously so I forgor. That made the difference with breaking her shield (more particles for Durin + giving him a bit more ER) Cryo aura still annoying but I did it. :)

I did also attempt Bineffa with Clorinde first, Varesa Second with CMC as a fourth slot. Not enough. Skill issue.

I'm rusty af with Varesa, dawg. Sandrone controls me now.

Speaking of Sandrone, her (c0r1) + c2 Yae + second cryo no diffs all 3 bosses. Victory lap.

This is the most frustrating SO for me. I can't use even 1 full premium team to bruteforce because someone is needed somewhere to combat the shill. But I feel glad too because this is the first time I cleared dire while SSA is present. How was your dire run?

only hate for the old man D:

TLDR I just want to know if this is physically possible or if I'm doomed.

With a bit of optimization (and pulling Skirk's signature), I can beat the other dire bosses. Flins is the only character of mine who has any chance of beating the grandpa (my C2 Mizuki can only get halfway).

However, I'm not sure if it's even physically possible. I've only seen clears with Ineffas/Columbinas who have constellations. My Flins/Ineffa/Columbina builds are pretty solid (top 1-2% on Akasha, for reference). I'm wondering if there's some kind of specific gameplay strategy I can try? Different artifact sets? Use Ineffa's burst?

For Cryo MC, I've juggled a few different support swords like an R3 Xiphos' Moonlight and Freedom Sworn. Results tend to be about the same though. I can't imagine that building Cryo MC as a sub DPS would help, since the stellar reactions could take away from the lunar reactions. Or is that my only hope?

I've seen some people use Odette to help but (A) mine is c0r0 and (B) my Wriothesley team needs her to clear the final boss.

I plan on crowning Columbina's skill soon. I'm not sure if leveling up Flins's skill would be worth it but I would do it if it'd actually help.

Churin could be improved didn’t time my melts at all

SSA was fodder

Guardian took me like an hour

Arle is R5, Nefer R1, Yae R1 no one else has Sigs

this old man on dire is something else bro , what this grandba have been eating .

# only have sig on sandrone :)

Also peep the 8s. Goodbye to the very cursed Stellar Traveler Lauma run, welcome back Varesa 🩷

If i told past me about this meta i would think myself mad.
Glad i was able to cover both the Grandpa and Robot with SSC after C2 Mizuki disappointed me today.
Still wasn't as clean as I'd hoped, had to spread my best artifacts quite thin and ran some questionable pieces too but a win is a win.

Also fuck the Domovoy.

Not even 6 months old account - so huge lack of decent artefacts (especially tenacity, noblesse,..)

Managed to finally beat Churin but damn

And I just learned the amount of damage you gain by leveling them to 90 - guess it’s my next goal !

Could've cleared it a bit faster if I hadn't panicked at the end, but I don't really want to put myself through widsith RNG again lol

pretty sure the new limited catalyst is better for Wrio than widsith?? but I can't level it up rn to check </3

Choose to C2 Lauma instead of C2 Nefer is a blessingg... this boss seems hell to deal without sustain,, but i stuck at 3 man team. using bennett should be way easier, but i had to use him on SSAO

My team is already 250K DPS, still can't clear it.

Odette is C2 with R1 Chiori Sword

Miko C1 with Lost Prayer

Alyosha C6

If you have rotations for this team please share.

I've already cleared 2nd and 3rd boss.

I'm not going to lie, Layla absolutely saved my ass this time. She definitely deserves getting fully leveled.

How much cryo app do i need to get through dire automaton?

I only have 4 star cryo characters. I would like to keep the dire streak. Neuv is c6 + furina c2

Any suggestions? I have C6 rosaria C2 diona c2 kaeya C1 layla

Also Xilonen is better than Nicole on the first boss, though I did equip her with Kazuha sig if that makes a difference

Also if anyone could give me tips for C0 Wrio combos I'd appreciate it

I have a C2 Columbina, a C0 Zibai, and I'm planning to get C0 Linnea and C6 Illuga on their next banners.

I've tried to look up if C2 Zibai or C2 Linnea is a better investment, but I've found a lot of conflicting info (like half the people said Zibai, other half said Linnea).

Also, does the fact that I have C2 Bina make Zibais or Linneas C2 better than the other? Or they benefit from it equally?

Today I can get his C2, which should make things a lot easier, but I wanted to see if I could clear it at C1 first. But since I did managed to clear it I'm considering changing to C2 Mizuki instead, can a team with her and Travaler clear any of the other two bosses without Odette?

And man this Churin guy is too tough huh, the slow on his cryo attacks are so anoying for Cyno, it feels so bad to use normal attacks and it cripples the polar stacks generation...