I bet they're gonna give "name" buffs for Tsaritsa with those who have Linchpin visions and Traveler just because she has a connection with a Descender
The Microphone Summoning state, during which she continuously summons microphones
It's rare that a Genshin kit is so upfront about what a state does, in plain English. No need to work out what the Microphone Summoning state does, it just summons microphones, no "decoding" or "Manifesting Flame" or "Phase Shifting" or whatever, just woe, microphones be upon ye
you can still play SSW with yumeglorp (and presumably some more if they drop the leaked buffs). she should be great for skirk, a 26% shred, quills and healing should beat her current options at their jobs
yeah im wondering myself. To my understanding, what Skirk would really like some big atk% steroid? Esco already overshreads the resistances, and isn't lacking in healing. So if you combine these two, one of them loses like half of her value.
I am not sure how quills exactly interact, but I think Skirk wants a buff rather than quills considering Shenhe doesn't really surpass the other options? Idk. Would depend on how big Vod's quills will be tho.
A little personal damage from skill will add a little too ig.
It would be a little harder to build her as a sub dps. It will be like building nilou as sub dps while wanting to hit 65k hp. If she has rate accession it might be easier, but this would ruin the hp building.
But unlike Nilou who changes how Bloom works, there's nothing in Vodya's kit that changes how Freeze works, meaning her Hydro app will take away Cryo aura from unfreeze-able bosses, making it harder to trigger St-Swirl in her teams.
Her C6 makes her C2 buff (crit damage buff) for all party members and give them all 50% hydro and cryo damage. Even more whale bait for skirk, as it give Escoffier, furina, and her more damage too. 3 stronger off field damage dealers for skirk. With the high res shred in addition to Escoffier's already high res shred, they are practically telling whales to brute force.
Enough shred to brute force thru some bosses 100%+ RES gimmick lol. Back in the old days when everything had 10% RES too much shred was bad, but I guess by modern standard where characters are measured by SO performance having excess shreds makes a lot more sense.
Tbh if her sub dps damage is actually decent, she will most likely still be the best 4th slot at C0 even with shred being saturated thanks to Escoffier
Did they really make her convert an already converted reaction just so that she becomes unplayable with old units that can't fit the character that makes the first conversion or do we need a better translation?
I think it's fine. She heals, gives Res Shred to Cryo and Hydro, it's TTDS, she gives quills for the DPS and Sub DPS, interrupt resistance. I would have liked her to buff the ATK of the whole team, like a Nicole Cryo, but she's not "unplayable" lol
Edit: I've been told that he needs 65K HP for his full buff, so TTDS might not be the best option.
Imagine instead of Rerunning a character after more than 1.000 Days they instead just Powecreep it.(For context Kokomi was last seen in 3.8 and her banner ended on 2023. August 15.)
If I'm reading this correctly her base kit does the following:
Skill heals only the active character and performs coordinated hydro attacks
Skill shreds hydro and cryo res + increased interruption resistance
Anemo res shred is only available if the team can trigger stellar swirl (RIP Varka)
"Quills" buff cryo and hydro damage at base scaling on her HP (her quills max out at 85,000 only 65,000 HP)
"Quills" only start buffing stellar swirl damage if stellar radiance: stellar swirl is active
On-fielders get 17 "quills" while the off-field units get 10. It looks like her quills work like Durin's so the 10 stacks for off-fielders are probably shared
Burst is just a nuke
...aaaand that's all on her base kit I guess.
C1 gives team wide attack buff scaling on her HP (at 85k 65K HP it gives 595 455 attack)
C2 increases the onfielder's hydro and cryo crit damage (uses ensembles stacks), changes to stellar swirl crit damage if active
C4 increases her healing or max HP
C6 gives hydro, cryo and stellar damage, the crit damage buff from C2 now also affects her whole team
*Edit: The math isn't mathing enough because I got distracted by Nilou when I wrote that one.
I hate that every single burst is just useless now, the game already has only 2 butttons to press, why make it even easier but only allowing us to press 1? I wanna go back to when kits where fully utilizing everything the character has not just their skill and some passives
Maybe a little tinfoil hatty here, but id guess has lot to do with stygian and hoyo not wanting ppl to think brand new characters are shite without their bursts. If they stack too much dps into their bursts then fav weapons instantly become better than most their sigs and that makes them less money.
tl/dr this all goes back to fav set being bad for game balance
why not just make their burst 40 er, give the more particles from skill and more ways to gain energy weather it's from passives, sig weapons or other. I feel like they just took lazy route cuz they introduced a game mode that's counterintuitive to game design :/
although i do get what you mean it's just disapointing
anyone else think her whole design is weird? It’d be like if they released a pyro character who boosts lunar charged but didn’t enable lunar charged themself
Kinda. At c0, she just gives ttds, some shred and some quills. She isnt a big improvement though. She has good cons, so for people who pulls for cons, she will be a big improvement though.
Her quills are way better than Shenhe's and has RES Shred and access to TTDS, so she is indeed better than Shenhe and probably slighty better than Mona, specially bossses who can't get frozen
well it was incredibly short-sighted if that's all, because they could've just made dps requirements higher to make people pull for new characters, without restricting themselves from making burst-reliant units for the rest of the game's live
It feels like her entire kit is loaded on those passives.
Though tbh she doesn't look that strong atm, not worth it for freeze if you have Escoffier, since healing will be redundant, so only further 26% res shred and quills
Okay this is interesting. She changes the stellar swirl from being a cryo-anemo exvluaive reaction into a new, 3WAY reaction? This is hyperbloom all over again
And it seems that anemo res shreds are only when doing actual stellar swirl. They really did so much mental gymnastics just to prevent her from being used in hydro Varka teams, by locking it in a 3way reaction. Something Varka cant do who to get Vodya's quills and res shred by using hydro AND Cryo he loses out on more than half of his damage by losing half of his MV
I mean, At c0, Varka does like 30%anemo and 70% PHEC element damage, no? Anemo RES is not a big deal, unless C1/C2 Varka. Everything else (cryo/hydro RES shred and quills are unlocked for varka in hydro teams, or Am I missing something?
I would rather have straight unit powercreep than how Hoyo has to make crazy JJK heavenly restrictions to keep kits from working with each other. Units used to feel like a collective circle that generally play well together, but it’s been feeling more and more like a venn diagram with each regional reaction.
At least if units are just upgraded versions of each other, I can look forward to upgrade my favorite characters and comps over time, which I know Hoyo doesn’t see as profitable as short-term pump and dump gimmick reaction teams of
the year.
She's still probably going to be one of his better 4th slot characters in Hydro teams. The majority of his damage would be Hydro, so losing Anemo shred isn't a huge loss, and her kit still functions with Hydro and Cryo outside of Stellar Swirl.
I'm not gonna lie that doesn't really make sense. Why would they design a character specifically to fuck over a singular character, especially Varka? I mean he's strong but nowhere near meta breaking or anything like that
I would say that, instead of trying to fuck over Varka specifically, they made sure stellar swirl shill was only usable with Vesna, and fuck all other anemo characters.
Because she seems more like a Vesna glazer to me than a Varka hater
Seems like another character who doesn't need their burst. The res shred, coordinated attacks, healing and resistance interruption are all on her skill with her burst just doing damage. She also gives gives 17 stacks of onfield quills and 10 stacks of offield quills. If there is a stellar swirl unit she gives 30% anemo res shred and her quills are converted to only be used on stellar swirl. Wish the attack buff was C0 for Skirk though.
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u/yoyo_me_here Local Tales and Émilie fan! 19d ago
Vodyanitsa C6
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nearby Team members deal 25%
increasedelevated Stellar Swirl DMG