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I'm not too sure on them actually. I can't think of a superconduct team that works well with him, other than maybe support ganyu which we don't have. You need off team consistent or at least a lot of ice and electro (easy with fischl) to get reliable superconducts.
Instead I thought of maybe xinyan (for her phys shred) (or maybe xiangling as a strong extra offield dps plus gouba chilli) and bennet (obvious), plus a geo. My only geos are traveller (works pretty good with all the constructs for lots of energy generation), and Ningguang (ok but she's just a burst support). No Albedo.
Alternatively I could go full additional damage on top of his attacks and do something like xingqiu, fischl, beidou, for all the extra stuff going off while he's whacking things.
What do you think?
Agreed that Rosaria / Fischl is the way to go, but I'd probably go with Sara or Beidou over Lisa if it was to be healer-free.
Diona or Qiqi would be about equally useful if they're just there to provide cryo and spot-healing.
Alternatively, get Albedo in there and just go full throw-stuff-down, maximum Zhongli uptime.
Yeah, when I think of builds, I tend to prioritize Resonance and passives over other utility, which has me completely forget that healing needs to exist.
I think Qiqi would probably be the better choice here because she has more consistent Cryo application and healing while Diona is a little redundant with her shield when Zhongli is the main focus. Unfortunately, they have no Albedo (and the earliest rerun is probably, what, two-three banners away?) and the only real good Geo helper for Zhongli aside from Albedo would be Geo Traveler. Noelle runs into the redundancy issue and Ningguang is honestly just a burst support as stated. Which is a shame because Geo Resonance is really good. Hopefully the addition of Itto/Gorou helps but that's still a ways off as well. Even then, Zhongli, Geo Traveler, Xiangling and Bennett could be a pretty powerful team. Doesn't do reactions but the raw DPS output from Geo/Pyro Resonance, Bennett's Ult and Xiangling's abilities could possibly make up for it.
As an addendum to my original suggestion, Rosaria could be swapped out for Kaeya and have the addition of Qiqi to bring in healing but also the Crit Passive from Cryo Resonance. It might not be as much as Rosaria can offer but it's still a lot, especially when you're going to have good cryo application between those two. And then Fischl or Beidou brings in the electro for the Superconduct to make it work out.
Diona has Qiqi way beat as a battery for Rosaria, plus her ult can bridge Rosaria's uptime. It works either way, really; Qiqi should be a better healer in Zhongli teams than elsewhere, due to shields making it safer to exploit the seals.
That was fun.
I'm gonna try some builds today see what I think.
I'm not really considering a healer cos even tho he's dps Zhongli, his shield is still op anyway. Bennet would be more than enough. Xingqiu also if I try out the fischl beidou xing team.
My only problem with a superconduct team is while superconduct is fantastic you have to keep on applying it to each new enemy and that's...a pain in the ass. Anyway I'll try some stuff out.
I wish they would put Amber, Kaeya, and Lisa on a banner. It's frustrating how difficult getting their constellations is.
https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197970666737/
Meanwhile on team Eula/Shogun: You get a superconduct! You get a superconduct! Everybody gets a superconduct!
oh i wish i had a zhongli, or.. any fischl constellations ;p
i'm looking forward to the Thoma banner, he looks neat.
That's fine but I'm specifically focusing on this team build over here. I like thinking about different builds, but right now it's this one.
The weird thing about dps Zhongli is he almost needs nobody. I've run him two geo two fire and they didn't do anything. They just lurked in the background while he speared everything to death as an immortal unkillable god. So for a long time we just ran whoever we wanted with Zhongli, it didn't matter, we'd win.
I just kinda wanna see if there's a team I can make that's more effective, for fun.
Yknow, diona aint that bad. You don't need her shield, so you can tap it for quick cryo application for superconduct and it can be reapplied pretty quickly then. And her aoe is a decent sized field for fischl to superconduct.
my ning on the latter team is using like, +8 pieces of Exile gear and a level 50 R5 favonius codex. My bennett has a lot of garbage noblesse pieces for the bonus. Xiangling and Noelle are looking pretty solid, though, and I guess that's all that matters.
Doesn’t help that I’m really liking Inazuma now that I have the freedom to explore.
Also the fact that events seem to require storyline completion means I want to get caught up.
Yeah, that was the basis of the suggestion.
Rosaria can do a lot of damage with her burst, in addition to proccing superconduct. Might as well speed things up - you'll like the results if you invest.
If you're having trouble with the ascension quest you probably shouldn't be looking to jump WL right now. You absolutely should have one character of each element leveled up as high as they can get with artifacts, talents, and weapons as strong as you can get them, even if that means getting XP/weapon mats/talent books at an inefficient rate compared to max WL, or spending them on someone you don't want to be in a final team.
The most important thing is to be able to improve your returns and consistently collect them - investment goes up exponentially as the cap raises.
What button do you press?
I'm missing something, cos I can't work it out, and I can't find a help text for it, and the event website wont tell me, and I'm getting real confused.
https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197970666737/
Admittedly, I tend to forget that they exist.
edit: God damn it, I have had Plug N Play Plan, the worst commission in the game, every day for at least 5 days now. Horrible annoying specter mobs on a sliver of land so they love to go floating over the ocean and also there is an invisible electro gate that still works and will carry you out to see if you run into it even though its model is despawned for the commission.
I had set myself to Mondstadt commissions to spare myself Inazuma's weird tuning, but then I realized quite a few Inazuma quests are gated behind having done specific Inazuma commissions.
my curses really had it out for venti... i got a curse that made venti unhealable, followed by a clear all curses.. then venti was cursed and cleansed 2 more times ;p
got the constellation buff.. so i got to see that c1 ayaka adds basically nothing! same with c1 venti ;p
Weapon banner is Staff of Homa and Elegy.
Staff of Homa is obviously stupid good and would be massively better, but from what I can tell Elegy is outclassed by 4-stars for everyone but Kujou Sara, who isn't great, and I don't have the primos or cash sitting around for 240 pulls to overcome my inevitable bad luck.
And my dragon horde grows.
Normally I'd at least try to bag a Thoma but I believe I'm committed to trying to bag C2 Albedo so my co-op buddy and I can run Quad Geo for the lols.
Sayu being on the banner means that I am guaranteed to keep going on it even if I get Hu Tao on the 50/50. Need to pick up both her and Thoma at the absolute minimum. Diona's a dud (great character, but already C6), but I always expect there to be at least one of those these days.
Elegy is... interesting. Very interesting. I wouldn't say it's super high in demand for me, but I would definitely get use out of it all the same. If any of the 4* weapons I'm looking for are on the banner, I could see me rolling on it and hoping for the Staff, but it's a tough call and is going to depend on how the character banner goes.
yeah, I think I need to save all my primos for this. I might drop a few to try to get Thoma (since I'm a zero pity after Raiden) just to try to free up Zhongli from my Hu Tao team so I can run 4 geo.
Zhongli, Albedo, Itto, Gorou sounds like it will be absolutely nuts.
As far as general use goes, Elegy's probably the best weapon for Sara. Good on Venti but probably not as good as R5 Stringless (anyone looking at old video footage talking about it should recall that the EM changes were implemented after the bow was added, but its buff is still not going to apply to Venti's own burst). Good for Diona but may require you to play around the buff to be worth it. Not bad for Amber or Ganyu depending on their parties and what your other options are.
It's definitely a thing for speedrun shenanigans though, since you can have Amber or Ganyu set up big Vaporize/Melts for the likes of Childe and Hu Tao.
Tangential followup question: I’m aware of the 50/50 but is it only at max pity? Or if you a random 5 star on your first pull, will the next 5 star be guaranteed to be the banner?
50/50 applies to any 5-star you pull, you'll rarely hit the max pity because it actually scales your chances aggressively instead of having a flat chance all the way to 90.
It varies. Some of the 4* supports are really, really good and have no 5* equivalent. For pure dps 5* tend to be better than 4* dps but even that's not 100% given - I'd rather use Yanfei than Yoimiya for example. 4* have the advantage of fairly easy to get constellations which can tip the balance but 5* characters tend to have bigger numbers.
As Kamar said, most 5 star pulls actually come in the 70 range, because the percentage scales up.
As far as the difference between 4 and 5 star, it depends on the 4 star and it depends on the 5 star. Razor is a 4* character and when he's built right/has constellations he can carry against some 5* dps with no constellations. That's true of several 4 star characters. If you are looking for 5* dps, I'd say to aim for Hu Tao rather than Childe, but that's just my personal opinion.
well that really depends on which 5* you get.
with Tartaglia.. he can be quite good but really only thrives in a couple of specific comps.
for the 5*'s that you can "lose" the 50/50 to get... they are all worth building, but again, it generally depends on the rest of your character roster as to how good they will feel. (and what weapons you can give them)
Well that’s good to learn. But if anyone can make it to 90 without getting lucky, it’s me. I have abysmal game drop luck.
So I guess I need to decide if I want to try for Childe or shoot for whoever comes next.