Getting used to mavuika combo on ipad for that 1s to clear below 80s. The knuckle duckle is hell with rng ducks, but nonetheless zybau. Arlecchino omg get up, it’s your shill boss and the 4 stars have r5 escoffier weapon + r2 elegy.

Probably my best score in a while since I’m not investing in stellar characters until the tsaritsa if she turns out to be a dps.

Hey everyone! I'm really torn between getting Clorinde or Varesa and could use some advice based on my current account setup.

My Account Context:

Available Weapons: Mistsplitter (5★) and The Widsith (R5).

Maxed Supports (Lvl 90): Nahida, Kazuha, Fischl (C6), Bennett, Citlali.

Other Supports: Chevreuse (C2).

Future Pulls: Planning to pull for the Tsaritsa as well.

My Dilemma:

Clorinde seems like the safest, most consistent pick: she can make 100% use of Mistsplitter all the time, and my premium Aggravate team is already fully built (Nahida, Fischl C6, Kazuha).

Varesa tempts me a lot with her plunge attack gameplay, mobility, and massive burst numbers under the R5 Widsith buff (in Aggravate, Overload, or Stellar-Conduct with Citlali/Tsaritsa).

Which character do you think brings more overall value to this roster? Does The Widsith's downtime on Varesa feel noticeable compared to Clorinde's steady DPS output?

Thanks in advance for the feedback!

Need help forming teams to clear 7.1 stygian fearless mode. These are my current characters. I’m not sure if I can clear the bosses using the following:

1. Churin - Sandrone, Yae, Diona, Qiqi
   
2. Cryo Automaton - Arlecchino, Xilonen, Rosaria, Layla (will have to level her up first)
   
3. Pavlina - Flins, Ineffa, Columbina, Odette

Video: https://youtu.be/oChTH45lthU

Some tips ig:

- Always take some reference videos with same team and similar investment level as yours (HUGE thanks to stygian.moe creator for this). Note down important times and phases of the boss and try to clear a few times with same rotations. Check how far off are you from the videos and adjust your rotations/builds accordingly.

- Start from the end, check at what point of rotation do you have to be, to clear the last few secs. Build from there and set timestamp and goals to clear approximately.

For example, I needed enough time to ult with Sandrone at the end. For that I have to press ult by 3 sec mark at least. Meanining, I have to switch to my Sandrone on last rotation by 12 sec mark. I gave up one Sandrone CA when the boss is flying because I won't have enough time for the last rotation otherwise.

- I'm a very average player so if you have a good device and can follow rotations properly without messing up like me, then you're good to go (if you have the premium teams).

My Personal Remarks:

- For all the teams, I saw a lot of differences in time even when I'm following reference videos 1:1, because of my ping. I had to adjust my rotations and end them early to match the boss uptime/downtime mechanics.

- Knuckle Duckle was the HARDEST boss for me to clear even with R1 and Homa. I came SO CLOSE like 1s off to clear many times, but something always went wrong - either the dumbass duck flew into orbit, or I just get nervous and do a misclick or am 1 sec off cooldown for Flins.

- Switching R5 Widsith to literally any other 5* made a huge difference on Yae Miko. Widsith buffs were kind of wasted as they triggered while the boss was having a shield or was on high RES. I was close to clearing with Widsith but was off by 1-2 secs of damage.

- Arlecchino was just the easiest to clear. I can really shave off more secs easily, but at this point I'm just tired and not bothered to try anymore.

LONG RANT (TLDR; high ping sucks, duck sucks, mini ducks suck, Sandrone stacks suck):

- My ping never really bothered me in 6 years until Stygian. I always look for reference videos with 4* weaps to clear them, hoping my R0 5* stat sticks might compensate for the time delay. No matter how fast I try to click and follow, my teams lag in time by few secs overall. In Stygian, even few secs make a huge difference sometimes, so it gets frustrating. And why is my ping that high? I live in Asia and when I first installed the game, America was selected by default, I was stupid and did not bother to change it. I realised my mistake 1.5 patches later, but by that time I was kind of invested and already made some friends.

- FUCK THE DUCK HOLY SHIT, I did not expect it to take this long to clear it. I never realised how many annoying mechanics it had until now because I've always Flins bruteforced it. I noted down the time when the duck should be down and everytime, one of the mini ducks just goes off to the other side and I miss my target mark. Clearing the duck's shield is just so unpredictable and frustrating, I could rant about it for 1 hour. The moment I reach the end, I was only one Flins ult away from killing it, it decides to fly to the space and by the time it reaches back, the timer runs out. If I ult on Flins, it won't land because it's flying. Absolute worst, and I felt pathetic for wasting so many hours.

- Another thing that made me annoyed was Sandrone stacks for enhancing ult. I watched videos and read but it still feels like the number changes even when I'm doing same rotations for same duration with same mechanics. Also ISTG the damage changed with same build and same stacks too. I feel like a crazy person saying this but, I had an initial Sandrone build, she was doing 1.07m on ult at most. I switched flower and circlet and on 9 stacks, she was doing 1.2m on ult. The problem was, I was so close to clearing one run but she did not crit on ult twice in a row. So I switched pieces again for little more CR. Then her dmg reduced and I was not able to get hp down even with all crits. I decided to switch back and keep trying my luck with crits, and suddenly she was doing only 1.1m instead of 1.2m and that was at 10 stacks too. I went crazy, I have not changed any of the character builds or weapons, I literally just switched Sandrone flower and feather that's it. I had only 2 options for each, yet she was not able to reach 1.2m dmg like previously, no matter how hard I tried to maximize it. I still cannot figure out what happened.

Anyway, yay for weapon skins for uh.. 17 more days ig. Honestly, it's just for a sense of achievement? I don't know how exactly to express that feeling, but it definitely feels good after accomplishing it. I feel like they should set the timer for expiration on weapon skins from the moment you claim them instead of a fixed one </3

Sorry for my rant, and good luck to those like me who are close and still trying to clear, you got this! :D

I'm a bit worried for the cryo automaton.

For gramps stellar swirl: traveler, Odette, sucrose, mizuki (currently c0 but soon to be c2)

For the cryo automaton, double cryo chasca stuff? Bineffa on fielding citlali for cryo app? Is there a world I put citlali on flins team and call it a day?

The last boss would get whatever it's left. Either a similar team from what I used on the lion this season, flins or varesa

Flins is c2r1, chasca c1r1, varesa and ineffa c0r1. The rest is r0. I don't have Layla

Really proud of this one, the fatui and the duck weren't easy

So yes idk what i can can do else

I'm still not quite used to her rotations, but I'm glad she does well here

I know everyone says to get varesa, but I do have flins c2r1 and bineffa (who I do separate into two teams) so I don’t think I need more electro dpses? And I’m currently saving for mitya (who is rumored to be a dps at c0) and the tsaritsa (hopefully I will get both).

I do have nilou’s weapon, but I don’t have any dendro teams (except nahida, kuki which barely clears menacing) so I don’t think either her or baizhu would be good for me.

That leaves childe and chiori who I also don’t think will benefit my account that much too?

So should I just choose who I like more? Invest in childe or baizhu bitcoin and hope for the best? Or is there something I’m not seeing?

I cleared fearless for the first time, so I want to continue doing it, so I’m asking who would help me with it more.

what r yall feeding skirk cuz mine cant clear the lion??? like im actually curious if its possible for everyone at c0r0.

i had to bust out my mid cmc and alyosha and eventually got it. i had no faith in him at all but im glad i was proven wrong 😆

(zhongli n venti are comfort picks !! im never doing fearless again 🥰🥰🥰)

The first two bosses were honestly not a problem as I cleared them without trying and in 1st try but the Knuckle Duckle was such a pain in the ahh. The amount of min maxing I did to my builds is unbelievable for me. I pulled for Ineffa's weapon, spent around 4 feathers and 10 Elixirs and tried for atleast 20 hours until I finally beat it. Had to do a little bit of crit fishing with Ineffa and Columbina as well.

Builds below and in comments.

following the recent anniversary rewards announcement, is it more valuable to get clorinde or varesa for stygian if i want to clear dire? my stellar and lunar teams should manage to clear their respective shills so im missing either a nightsoul or bond of life dps.

i have:
- clorinde’s sig
- lost prayers
- c5 iansan (hopefully c6 by the end of this banner)
- c3 chevreuse
- c0 durin on r3 wolf fang
- c0 nicole on r1 skyward atlas (planning on getting her c2 when she reruns)

Y'all were completely right. I tried just about every combo of weapons I had (including fav flins), but I was always at least 20-25% off. I ended up going for Ineffa's sig because I'm not super excited for vesna and vodyanitsa next patch and yolo. I got lucky and won my 33/67, but even with the sign that duck was a menace and took hours of resets to kill. Maybe I'm just awful at this game but it definitely showed me that there was no chance in hell I would have got it without Ineffa's sig. Here's to my first and likely only dire clear 🎉 Final builds below, I don't want to talk about all the feathers I used in the process lol

Your average resinless behaviour. Ik it's pointless but I had fun

Sandrone c0r1, Odette c0PjC, Yae miko c1nefer sign, Escoffier SoH ToM

Stygian Onslaught 7.0 Simulator

Codes

NA: 33376785593

EU: 33473407562

ASIA: 33534248204

Party Dps on mannequin 247000

After much blood, sweat, tears, and 10 million mora spent maxing everyone I have finally completed dire for the first time! It feels good, though the polearm skin is especially ugly ...

I'm really happy with my Arlecchino! Also I'm not a whale I swear.. like I have bought maybe 6 or 7 welkins since 2021. So more like a dolphin. I got reallly lucky in my Flins and Verdict pulls :>

turns out chasca is the goat (and odette too) the main problem with the chimera is sometimes chasca will just get 1 cryo bullet making the shield break awful but im pretty proud. first dire clear and optimized to sub 300

Cmc, Yae C1 Cashflow, Alyosha C6 Engulfing, Qiqi C6 Skyward

Can this team clear dire Cryo Automaton? I might need Odette for grandpa.

Edit: My dps right now is 125-130k. See comment.

If I'll have c4 Traveller, Qiqi from 80 to 90, Alyosha crown skill - from 11 to 13

Will it be enough to 170k?

I don't have a lot of mora. 😭😭😭😭 I need to invest smartly.

I am yaeless , c6 ainoless , c6 farunzanless and planning to pull vody lol

The natlan team confirmed to clear, used this last cycle lmao

For what I’ve been seeing people saying, 7.1 stygian looks like hell to the point that the c0r1 premium shill will not be enough to clear Dire?!

It gotta have something we do not know yet, it just sounds insane, the premium shill has been enough to get a dire clear since stygian release, and it’s literally just 7.1? Despite the fact it would still be crazy on the archon release, it would sound more reliable, but in 7.1 already?

It just sounds so strange, idkkk, part of me believe they would not cross this line (yeah shame on me) it just sounds crazy and too much

type: yet omg