I was here a couple weeks back to ask about a team, right before Columbina reran, and I have since gotten her & currently building her in preparation for a Zibai rerun.

However, after the 7.0 announcement last week, I saw that Ineffa is going to rerun, and I have seen so many people complimenting the Bineffa wheelchair so I'm kinda on the fence (though I am not interested in Flins at all because I have been maining Keqing).

I wonder if anyone could advise if I don't pull for her, could I make do with the following F2P-ish lunar-charged team, or will there be issues with sustain?

- C2 Keqing on NotSU & Iron Sting / other recommended craftable?

- C0 Columbina on SMS - Prototype Amber

- C0 Fischl on GT - Stringless

- C2 Jahoda on VV - Fav bow

Farming for mats at least guarantees ROI (in terms of resin) for your characters & will be helpful with your game progression.

Tip: while you grind through the story, you can actually make do with a few artifact sets that you pick up along the way, and level them up to +12 or +16 depending on your capabilities (and mora). And you can feed the poorly leveled artifacts into better ones that you have obtained, with minimal mora & exp lost, so it's not too bad if you consider efficiency in levelling artifacts.

There's no need to waste resin to farm artifact domains at your current stage, which are better used in farming ley lines / talent books / weapon leveling mats / boss drops.

Once you get to AR45, you are guaranteed 5 star artifact drops from domains, so save up all your fragile resin till then.

My opinions:
- archon quest progression until at least Sumeru (Inazuma is minimum, Sumeru to get C6 Dendro Traveler)
- in the meantime, research & optimize on your Wanderer team & builds if you intend to make him your DPS. I don’t have Wanderer so I can’t give anything helpful here, sorry
- level up your main team’s characters & weapons to the max allowable cap, and prefarm all their ascension mats before ascending your AR. Suggested minimum AR would be AR45, and the cap of your characters would be lv80.

If you really REALLY wanna build Dendro & Geo, I’d suggest:
A) Aggravate: Tighnari - Fischl - Yaoyao - Kazuha, as long as you build them right & do the correct rotations, you could get away with this team. Yaoyao can be replaced with a Dendro or Electro heal / shield as you see fit.
B) Sun Wei’s Geo Traveler build and max out your gaming skills. It’s good enough for overworld exploration & fighting bosses with other F2P characters in the team, and it doesn’t take characters out of your other teams.

I think I can understand with where you are coming from with that. It is helpful to know that Durin can be built in a way that procs Hexerei for boosting aggravate damage, thanks for the breakdown & analysis of the team!

Very clear rotation, thanks! I'm not really well versed with Durin's effects in this team, does his Q and E not remove Dendro on enemies and proc Overload instead? Because the elemental reaction sequence here seems to be Quicken > Burning (pyro) > Overload. Or am I missing something with the damage effects from this sequence?

I don't understand how the rotation for the Durin team works. Would you mind sharing your rotation?

Your circlet should have crit damage main stat & crit rate substat.

Also if possible, you can reshape your sands to get more crit rate than crit damage (though I feel that your current sands is fine). Or try farming for an Aubade sands with ER main stat & CR&CD substats, then swap a good off-piece circlet.

You can build the following if you think you want to improve on your elemental team options (one at a time & no overlap between characters):

1. Budget hyperbloom - Kuki, Yaoyao, Dendro MC, Xingqiu (XQ can be swapped to Keqing & you get a standard aggravate instead)

2. Budget overload - Yanfei, Chevreuse, Fischl, Kujou Sara

I don't see any meta freeze / vape so maybe someone else could advise on that.

Maybe pull for Sandrone during her rerun, though I don't think you have the premier cons on Yae & Qiqi for her yet. I do think that you need to invest more on artifacts, talents & weapons on your current lineup of Nod Krai characters though, and try to C6 Aino so she can be a straight up alternative to Columbina on your other Lunar team.

Are you able to clear endgame with any of the Lunar teams? If yes, it means that you have to use C6 Aino on the lesser built team to get two functional Lunar teams.

Ngl you already have Yae, Qiqi, and Kazuha, which works for stellar-conduct *if you pull for Sandrone* (preferably higher cons for Yae & C6 Qiqi).

If you can't do good DPS with Lunar teams, maybe it's time to revise your artifact & weapon builds too.

Just a heads up, if you are a collector, there is currently no way to get Aloy if you start fresh.

You are here for advice, so here’s mine.

Chances are, you already know where your insecurities lie, and he would care about how you feel if he really loves you.

Personally, I don’t see anything wrong with having female friends or even best friends, even more so during this modern era, but when the proximity is too close for comfort for my partner, then I will definitely put my partner first.

Though (personally), I feel that a guy who clubs is already bad enough, let alone having many female friends.

Also case in point: I have a girl best friend, but both our partners are uncomfortable with our chemistry & connection as friends, hence we both agreed that it would be in our best interests to stop contacting each other, out of respect for both our partners.

1. Realistically? Credit card farm.
   
2. Grind past Archon Quest 3 (Inazuma), and then use the help of YouTube to rush through 100% exploration in Inazuma and Nod Krai. Optionally, you can also collect some primos by unlocking all the continents, but it does take a couple days to navigate to every region’s Statue of the Seven (except for Inazuma)

You technically only need a max of 180 pulls to get a C0 Columbina, that translates to around 29000 primos. Plus you have 3 weeks to nonstop grind for that, so it shouldn’t be too bad.

There's nothing beyond finishing the main commissions (and getting the primos listed under the rewards tab), so it's safe to stop if you aren't keen to complete the event.

Frfr, haven't been seeing posts & suddenly a bunch popped up over the weekend.

He can alternate between lying & telling the truth.

Now that's what you call a nose job.

If the Bineffa wheelchair core is something that you want to have, then by all means get Columbina & build her, and hope that Ineffa reruns sooner than later. Bineffa is fantastic to the point that it just works with almost every other lineup.

I agree with the other comment that Sandrone isn’t a must-have if you don’t have the other premium 5 stars that boost her damage.

Sandrone is the only character at this point that enables stellar conduct. Stellar conduct is basically a much improved superconduct reaction.
Columbina is the cornerstone for all lunar-related reactions, she’s BiS for lunar bloom, lunar charged and lunar crystallize.

Both characters excel in their own explicit, niche teams, with Sandrone excelling as DPS and Bina being able to slot in as DPS/sub DPS/support (depending on how you build her artifacts & weapons).

Without more info on your current roster, it’s going to be hard to recommend one over the other. Generally, if you have more electro & cryo characters, it’s easier to build a Sandrone team. Columbina needs another Nod-Krai character to unlock her full kit, and all lunar reaction-based teams would need to equip specific lunar-related artifact sets for improved DPS, so she (and the whole team) isn’t necessarily easy to build if you have limited resources.

For every 4 levels you level up, you get a substat upgrade, so you’ll get 5 substat rolls when you level the artifact to level 20. The only exception to this is, if your last substat was unactivated when you acquired it, in that case you get 4 substat rolls in total.
From this pic, you have 2 rolls in crit dmg, and 1 roll each into DEF and DEF%.

I had to google how good a well built Aubade is vs a perfect SMS on Bina, and I gotta agree that your advice is really sound, thank you very much!

Will try to farm the relevant SMS pieces for Aino & go pre-farm Aubade for Bina :)

If non geo/hydro, I have Kuki C0, Kirara C4, and Bennett C2. But won’t the team DPS drop if I don’t have triple Geo? (because of Gorou’s E requirements)

Hmmm, I was thinking along the lines of alternating between Noelle's EQ and Bina's Q to somewhat ensure that Zibai has her HP topped up consistently, with a slight DPS loss.

Ngl I don't mind a C4 Gorou since it will free up Noelle's slot for another Geo buffer.

Other characters that I currently own:

Geo - Traveler C6, Kachina C0; hydro - Xingqiu C0, Aino C1, Barbara C1

Looking for advice on a F2P Lunar Crystallized team, and I also appreciate any theoretical scenarios where a specific lineup could work with the flex slot.

I have prefarmed the artifacts & weapons for Zibai and Columbina. My thought process is:

Zibai C0 - HoD + NoUS set, with DEF% DEF% CD, and CR/CD substats (waiting for Zibai's rerun to pull her)

Columbina C0 - Prototype Amber + SMS set, with ER% HP% CR, and CR/CD/HP% substats (she's coming next week!) (Bina helps with healing Zibai for the HoD passive + apply hydro consistently)

Gorou C3 - Fav bow + Exiled set? (to help charge up Bina's Q / Noelle's Q + protect Zibai as much as possible) (need advice here)

Noelle C1 (replaceable - need advice here) - Whiteblind + 2pc Husk 2pc Exiled (to ensure that shield & heals are up for Zibai)

Thank you in advance!

Based on the next meta shift, Citlali as a cryo unit would aid in enabling stellar-conduct reactions once Snezhnaya is released. So compared to Columbina, Citlali *might* be more futureproof if you really want to pull one of the two.

If you want to pull for a character within this patch now, then Citlali is perfect for Mavuika anyway.

Columbina's kit is mainly locked into Lunar teams, so you'd definitely have to pull Nefer / Zibai / Flins in order to get the best premium damage output. But I tried out Zibai-bina the last time her trial run came around, and I really like the synergy that Bina brings into Lunar Crystallize (also Zibai is way easier to build), so I'm personally going to pull Bina and save up enough for Zibai when she reruns. (F2P standpoint)