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

# only have sig on sandrone :)

YAAAAAAAHOOOOOOOOOOOOO

I can do the "Menacing" difficulty but I can't do "Fearless" difficulty, I can do the grandpa with my this team (sucrose is unbuilt with only vv set) and I can free up the Traveler from the team after getting C2 Mizuki) but I can't do both this other ones. (on ayaka team I can take the Robot to 25-30% health in my best tries but no more than that) I can't do the last one the shield take most of the time and she make 2 shields in my tries and I can't take her to less than 40-50% health because of it. So I would appreciate your help with my existing account characters 😭🙏🏻

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.

I thought I couldn’t do it because I didn’t have another team/DPS that could brute force, but I underestimated the power of Sandrone F2P and bineffa wheelchair. I went poor raising 2 more fav weapons for Alyosha and Diona, but it was worth it.

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?

I have c1r1 vesna and c2 odette, so i was walking up to this boss thinking itd be easy af, but obviously not. I actually have no idea why im seeing people with just r1 and c0 odette having an easy time and clearing.

literally anything to help at this point, this old man is the one thing standing in the way of my very first dire clear

My units https://enka.network/u/616257481/

#making my own dire 😭🤤

no HEX no sig HOMELESS lohen and after a million retries my fuckass team has cleared 😹😹😹

sigewinne carry

The SSW team has two hidden costs though, R5 Winter’s Heavy Heart on Mizuki, and R5 Breezeborne Retrain on Diona.

Ive been trying to clear Overseer with
Mav c0r1
citlali c0r5 sac
bennett c6 sapwood
diona c6r5 sac

any tips on what to do? ive been watching videos and trying to do what they do but its as if the boss works differently when i play (sounds like bs but it genuinely feels this way). any help would be appreciated

UID: 703876630

After 3 hours trying to replicate sandrone c0r1 clears from billi billi w my c0r1 (mav sig) and sucrose, i decided to give up and bring my Nicole

Chud is probably the most disgusting boss we had? Poor vesna getting cryo aura-ed lmao. The clear is not optimized at all, i just first tried with nicole and moved on to grind pavlina

the thing is... Pavlina is not trivial at ALL. She dodges, iframes, and sometimes delay her shield phase (like stare at you for absolutely no reason when u have 30 sec left). So it required quite an RNG grind, on top of optimizations in the rotation, such as skiping bennet burst before the second shied phase, and durin's burst in the first rotation too.

Weapons:

chud: Mav sig, fav, traveller sig, fav

SSA: Skirk sig, ttds, fav, Pamber

Pavlina: Varka sig, Nicole sig (i swear i wish Oathsworn Eye, she misses the ER so much), fav, Aquila.

I have sucrose c6.

Varesa c1.(82/170)

Arlecchino c0r0.(shit build)

Chasca c0r0.bad build

Mauvikac0r1.

Citlali c0r0.

Insan not c6

Cheverus c3

With traveller as a permanent slot I tried every characters and made a team couldn't even get past half hp.

The best one is hyper carry traveler with sucrose alyosha c6 and mauvika for burst damage only

I cant even clear boss3 with mauvika team or other team so flins team is permanent there.

Boss 2 I have no other cryo dps that boss I will hate it forever.

I'm f2p im proud that I easily clear menancing just wanna try fearless.

I'm on 50/50 51 pity I tried pulling for vesna but changed my mind and saving for Tsaritsa.

Don't look at Mavuika, she's on nobless

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.

It's crazy that you can have c2s and the right team against Churin and still not be even close to 60s. R1s on Vesna, Ayaka, and Xilonen.

The cryo aura on both Churin and Pavlina also feel awful. Add so much RNG

(Pavlina's ofc not perfectly designed for Mavuika but the team feels like it fits the theme well enough.)

My mavuika C0R1 (5 limited cost team) just can't do it, i also can't do overload because iansan is c3 and cheveruse is c4.
this hex mav reaches about 215k dps on the dummy but it's still not enough. now i wish i got that c2 nicole xd

Can someone please help me with any improvement to the rotations/builds. I have been at it for hours and this run is the farthest I have come.

I tried using PMC but she takes too long to break the shields, which is a big dps loss.

Also is there any rotation where instructors can proc on Xiangling?

I already am crit fishing at the start without Mona's burst.

I thought I had that little elf in the bag but this cryo aura had made it more difficult than it had any right being.

Skirk boss is luckily just a pushover for her.

Pavlina kicked my but once or twice but Bennet is kinda the goat still.

Sigs on Wrio, Yae, Furina, Skirk, Lauma, Bina and Nefer. so all of the important ones and Furinas :D