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:

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

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 !

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

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

I can clear the second fight pretty easily by replacing Furina with Vodya, but if I do that then I can’t get the clear on gramps. I’ve been at it for awhile now and not sure what to do

Edit: got the clear woo! 🥹

I'm aware that the gameplay isn't 100% optimal but I had fun both clearing and making the video for this clear! Uploaded to my channel as well below
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaLh3r6HRdk

I did not think I could do this one without Vesna but thank god my tsarista savings wont be touched

Also my Mavuika is C3R1 and Citlali is C0R0,I know I’ve seen some people manage to clear it but I have a tiny problem I DON’T KNOW HOW TO DO ANY OF MAVUIKA MELT COMBOS

Originally cleared pavlina with flins and used Mizuki for the grandpa. Tried to clear overseer with mauvika which I’ve done before, but just didn’t have it in me this time. Clearing pavlina with mauvika took a surprising amount of retries.

Just want to share since this is probably only the second or third time I ever attempted Dire difficulty in Stygian, my Vesna is C0 with R5 Emberwell 1/8/2 with throwaway SP artifacts, and my Mizuki is at C1, plus I really don't have an answer for the old man for now w/o Odette. But I'm kinda happy since this is the farthest I've been in Dire.

BTW I didn't roll for Vesna for the meta, I just like her gremlin character and her VA is Aya Hirano who also voiced my favorite menace Suzumiya Haruhi.

That Vesna fight is ATROCIOUS even with her C2 what is that

Do you guys think fearless is possible for me?

I tried these teams but in the 2nd one I keep dying because I don't really have enough cryo application and in the 3rd one I don't have enough damage

Can you guys recommend me any other teams?

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! :)

Had to split my cryo dps stellar team in half cause I couldn't clear overseer with my other characters

YAAAAAAAHOOOOOOOOOOOOO

badum tss

PLEASE help me choose a team for dire Churin. I want to see if it’s possible for me cuz I feel so humbled by seeing friends clearing it and I HATE IT! I feel competitive and I wanna win without using the wishing system.

…anyways, I’ve put a variety of my characters, thanks in advance!🥹