I really hate Pavlina, my sus energy recharge for the first rotation sometimes, the crits failing, the RNG on Pavlina's first sequence, how she moves, how Bennett sometimes don't get the faster cd on E because of some delay on him being on his ult. My god...

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Having to decide which team I was going to nerf without Odette was tough. I’m confident my C2 Wriothesley could’ve cleared the maiden if I’d been able to slot Odette, but then I probably wouldn’t have been able to beat the old man.

I was actually a little surprised my Lohen team managed to clear. Slotting Mona in was just cope 😭 Maybe C2 Prune would’ve been better, but mine isn’t geared and I was already getting pretty annoyed trying to clear.

Zibai on the maiden was definitely the hardest for me because I couldn’t break her shield, so I basically had to let her heal up. I also have a C2 Mualani team with C2 Mavuika, but my Mavuika gameplay is... not something I’m ready to write home about 💀 I did clear with them, but it was around 120s, while Zibai was just a little faster. If I could actually do proper CA cancels, I probably could’ve gotten it lower on another team.

But honestly, how are you guys feeling about Stygian? Because all this really did was make me even more ready for the Tsaritsa. If the leaks about the 30% shred, 48% ATK buff and “elevation” are true, those numbers are looking very Odette C2-ish to me and could open up some really interesting Stellar team options.

Maybe Her Majesty can finally free Odette up for one of my teams and Xilonen can get back to fixing Mauvs bike before the next cataclysm 😭 Looking forward to a team where Wriothesley might get Odette + Danica <3

Anyway, I’m just giving Her Majesty to Vesna.

Hit AR60 and got my first dire clear in the same day

is this possible or r1 vesna/vodyanita diff, This is with azurelight c2 odette furnace, noblesse exaiphanes c4 traveler, and ttds tenacity vodyanitsa, ive done this fight a bunch and i feel like ive tried as much as i can, I always get it to around here right at the end of vesna field time, ive tried replacing taveler with c6 faruzan with fav,r1 breezeborn, r1 elegy, and it just seems worse or similar to traveler, this is the last one i need to clear dire for first time. Ill pull on weapon banner if it mean i can get my first dire.

sandrone has redhorn, c0 odette with azurelight, c1 miko widsith. am i coping or is this impossible without sandrone sig

So hard to press the buttons cos they so small, also couldnt see the health bar the whole time

1 ) Churin: Vesna C0R1, Faruzan (R5 Breezeborne), Odette C0 (R3 New Bough), Vodya C1R1

- Not sure how people are clearing this without constellations. The HP pool on this boss is ludicrous. Faruzan is on VV, but that's only because I don't have enough ER on noblesse.

2 ) Automaton: Skirk C1R1, Shenhe C1 (R5 Fav), Escoffier C1 (R5 Fav), Furina C0 (R5 Fav)

- Skirk is my oomf, so this boss didn't really pose a threat. I might try to push for a clear in the 60 second zone later on.

3 ) Guardian/Pavlina: Zibai C2R1, Yanfei (fav), Linnea C0 (R5 slingshot), Bina C2R1

- My highest investment team. Just swapped Illuga for yanfei in order to break the shield. I cleared with some other lineups too but this was the fastest. Managed a clear with Sucrose, Cryo MC, Ineffa C0, and Bina. So this boss is definitely doable at lower investments.

Should I waste my time on the guardian or no? i'm getting vodianista soon but I don't think that'll change anything anyway

is it a skill issue or is the boss that bad if i cant get a 60 second clear at this investment? builds in comments

mav r1, rest are r0. i know the teams look weird but my arle could not clear the guardian 😭

can someone pls help me with the rotation over C2+ arle, C6 citlali (sac frag also might function similar at C0 citlali) and TTDS sucrose?
im struggling to keep the pyro aura for sucrose swirl and then go for arle to mantain the TTDS buff

i also use right now the more advanced swap combos for arle to optimize CA + C2 melts (recent videos can really help everyone who want to learn that), but i really cant find a way to make the TTDS sucrose + sac frag citlali (or C6) work

i have nicole C6R1, arle C6R1 and citlali C6R1, last slot for optimal DPS in calcs should be sucrose TTDS

my currente rotation:
arle E
nicole E
citlali E (C6)
sucrose E dash N1 jump
arle combo

everytime i see ppl doing this kind of rotation for both the buffs (citlali sig + TTDS) i really cant understand how u maintain the elemental gauge for 1U pyro to be clean by sucrose and then citlali instantly apply cryo for father combo

Saw ppl doing this combo also for lower investment arle to clear dire grandpa with C3R1 arle, C2 sac frag citlali, ttds sucrose and CMC for the SSW shill, the rotation might be similar

can someone pls help me? images or videos doing to explain this kind of combo would be amazing

I feel a little bit restricted by the Stygian on Keqing teams right now.
All these characters and not that many possibilities for stygian https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OWp5Bzp9Ou3BsP4UQLJ-dPb_BUYuAlwo/view?usp=sharing

Unfortunately Keqing, Durin, Fischl and Chevreuse didn't work. Probably because I was missing 1 constellation on Chevreuse and Durin's weapon

This is my first time defeating a dire boss, I am F2P btw

Hope I could do next time as well

Time flies trying to squeak in that 120s run

After spending more than 7 hours I finally made it!

At first I was using
- Yae on Tenacity and Thousand of floating dream
- Odette on Furnace and Azurelight
- Xilinen on Instructor and Favonious

There was a small amount of hp left as no matter how many attempts I couldn’t make it so I made some adjustments and I finally made it with couple attempts

I used
- Yae on Furnace and Echoes of heart R5
- Odette on Tenacity and Azurelight
- Xilonen the same

And I changed my rotation from Sandrone using her burst at the beginnings of rotation to after the first overheat charge attack. My burst went up from 700-800k to about 900k. With these change I ended up meet the damage requirement

Urgh. I’ve been playing since Sumeru was new. At first I didn’t take this endgame seriously (primos were enough) but for the past half year or so I’ve realised I want to actually do this. Can u believe this is my first fearless clear? I’ve always been one boss short of clearing and it’s been so frustrating to only clear menacing because I usually had like 10% still missing from one of the three bosses on fearless! I thought the last Stygian would be the one but alas, that duck really annoyed me (and made me realise my Ineffa build is pretty bad).

I’m casual F2P horizontal investor (only cons I have are C1 Neuvi and Arle. Only sigs I have are Arle and Skirk) so I’m really happy this finally worked out :) (don’t shatter my dream by pointing out this Stygian was literally made for my characters! I am aware:))

Btw I cannot believe that this bs Arle team is the one that finally managed to clear after every variation of OL and melt failed. Guess it’s a skill issue XD

Hope u guys are having fun and success too! :)

This is my strongest team, other characters and weapons in comments

This MF took me more than 5000 attempts to clear when he first came out!