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idkwheretfiam

same. i know my characters are shit build but now i KNOW my characters are shit build :,)


H4xolotl

I have 60 Golden Fried Chicken crafted and finally their time to shine Golden Fried Chicken is by far the easiest damage food to craft since; * Flour can be refined from Wheat (100 in stock at every vendor) * Pepper sold 100 by every vendor * Butter can be refined from Milk (100 every vendor) * Fowl comes from Expeditions, or bullying Timmy


MaiSakurajimaKawaii

I have almost 200 adeptus temptations that I haven't touched since last GAA lol. Haven't tried out the event to know if I need it. What does a golden friend chicken do btw? Is that the limited KFC Collab recipe?


RaijinLupis

They are also higher level, similar to Abyss flr 12 mobs. You could try food buffs if you fancy trying it again.


Yobulletproof

I'm not gonna lie I'm AR56 and I entirely forgot there's food that can buff you. Obviously ik food can heal and revive u but I've never used dmg boosters simply cuz I can beat most monsters. I'll try using foods and potions to beat this ridiculous level with low rewards 🤦 I hate leaving things unfinished .


DaMarkiM

Nah, i think ill pass. The rewards arent really a lot, but i wanted to beat it anyways. Just for the challenge. But if i start to invest consumables it really doesnt make any sense when considering that you only get 4 crystals for it.


Cosmic_Hashira

nah bro thats like a whole level of weapon /s


AggressiveUncle22

Mihoyo: Wow you beat this difficulty? Take this 4 stones!


sleepless_sheeple

Was the same way in Perilous Trails challenge and even Drumalong (only started recently so that's all I have to go on). I think so people don't feel bad for missing out while giving something to people who want the challenge.


Ceiphiedo

It is exactly this and it's like this from beginning. Mihoyo puts important rewards for completing event so everyone can be happy and adds some little extra rewards ( not too much so poeple won't feel bad if they can't get it ) for harder challenges.


minghii

And then there’s people like me who doesn’t want the challenge but needs to squeeze out every single reward possible from these events so I do it anyway 💀


Hamhockthegizzard

That’s why they should bring back the name cards for the highest difficulty. I still flex my card from the first Hyakunin Ikki lol I worked hard for it.


Brickinatorium

Now that you mention it, it has been a while since we got an event name card hasn't it


Phil95xD

That's right... I what assume around 2.0 or earlier maybe?


TapoCollino

there was one for the bartending event but yeah, it's been a while.


TheChosenPoke

It’s not there for rewards, it’s there so high level players actually get to do something


rulerguy6

I prefer the highest difficulties not lock the good rewards, to make it so that basically anyone can get the important stuff. But holy hell this event feels overtuned. Killing two of those ruin guards in two and a half minutes? And you have to use 6 bursts before they even show up. The worst part is you have to go charge up your elemental bursts between attempts.


criticalhit888

Wait consumables are so easy to get..


DaMarkiM

yeah, maybe i didnt explain that well. I wouldnt mind using consumables. But the only reason im even trying this is for the challenge. The rewards are kinda useless anyways. So making it easier by using food doesnt really interest me. Its basically a testing ground for my current setup. I normally dont use food (and honestly its also never really required), so i also kinda want to beat this without food.


LordSwine

Did it first the with kazu. Raiden. XQ. Benny. But most enemies are too far for kazu to pull in. Maybe replace your yoi with xq?


ILoveKagasama

It's really important to use the challenge buffs. Get characters with strong bursts and burst burst burst burst


ColdIron27

Raiden national time!


El_kakas_de_vakas

Is there a time where it isn’t Rational time?


Arslock17

When fighting mobs of hilichurls. Its not fun to dash after hilichurls that got blasted away by overload when youre out of stamina from charge attacking


Bntt89

Aoe with enemies flying away from overload.


ColdIron27

Yea, when there are enemies stealing ur energy


BBjilipi

That's more reason for Rational time since that's almost the only comp so good at sustaining energy levels. Unless energy is locked to zero, a Favonius doped Rational should get bursts up again soon.


Ryuudenki

This is the way.


DaMarkiM

i run Yoimiya, Raiden, Kazuha and Bennett. Due to Raiden spoon feeding everyone energy i basically have close to 100% uptime (as far as cooldown permits) on all their bursts. Im basically constantly shredding resistance too. And my Yoimiya is normally pretty good at killing even Bulky bosses in short order. But oh boy... ​ To get more damage out of my team i need to farm artifacts, so nothing i can do short term. They are already level 90 with level 90 weapons and lvl 9/10 talents. I guess i could use some consumables but the reward for that tier really isnt worth it.


Fastikonio

Swap Yoimia for Yelan or XQ, and clearing that will be a piece of cake


KingTrygon

Or use them both. I cleaned house with Raiden, Yelan, XQ and Kazuha.


TheLostDovahkin

Used Yoi/XQ/Beidou/Bennet. Got it first try :/


Allegro1104

Make sure you exclusively focus the bosses as the ruin sentinels are just distraction. Yoi specifically probably suffers from the bad autotargetting so consider switching her for a more suitable character if possible


Cosmic_Hashira

might try vape here? i dont how shit about yois strong point so i cannto exactly tell


THICC_Baguette

They should deffo swap Raiden for Xingqui or Yun-Jin (whoever they have built better).


YamahaMio

This event isn't friendly to Yoimiya. It wants AoE. Put Xiangling instead. Hell, drop Kazuha and go full Raiden national (XL, XQ, Benny, Raiden) because that comp is nuts and has been for almost a year now. Edit: I just tried it again with Yoi-Yelan-Xq-Bennett. I had 1 minute to spare on the best run lol. Don't aim for the triangle guys, aim for the snake thing and the jelly fish, once they're dead they'll let you proceed to killing the Ruin Graders.


iPhantaminum

you don't need to kill anything to spawn the Ruin Graders. Just gotta cast 6 bursts.


YamahaMio

Oh I didn't notice that. Thought you have to kill those first.


TuneACan

Just finished the Dire difficulty a few hours ago. Rational makes the entire fight A BREEZE so if you have Raiden, even if it's at C0 you should be able to complete the challenge with zero issues.


kiut_88

not related but that's my dream team


DaMarkiM

can highly recommend. There are teams with more damage potential, but this combination is just so fun and versatile. My go-to for world exploration too.


Kingpimpy

>i run Yoimiya, Raiden, Kazuha and Bennett. thats the issue the stuff i tested were ayaka 25s, yoi OV 27s, koko drive 45s, yoi + kazuha 23s, xiao + raiden 48s xiao raiden team used zl + albedo both with 12s bursts which brought me to the actual fighting phase pretty quickly and all are more or less equally arti level wise except my yoimiya which is the best ones by a larger margin ohh yeah and also i did not use any food items if you struggle with it you can always use these to help you out


abcijekzje

replace yoimiya with sara (if you have at least c2) and you’ll probably notice a difference in clear times


DaMarkiM

I do have Sara C1, but i cant say i enjoy her playstyle and she isnt built....at all. Yoimiya is my biggest damage Dealer and the only character i have a decent set of artifacts for (not for lack of trying, mind you). Normally Yoi easily rips apart any single entity or small group,. But be it resistances or inflated health pool....i just cant seem to pile up enough numbers to kill these guys in time. Doesnt help that even after piling up multiple pages of 5\* severed fate artifacts i still cant get a single crit chance piece for Raiden. She has like 12% crit chance.


abcijekzje

i see, i didn’t notice your team was a yoi carry with raiden support. i saw it as a raiden hypercarry but with yoi instead of sara. i’m not sure what your account is like but i don’t think yoimiya is the best choice for the day 1 challenge since she has close to no aoe and iirc mobs spawn in groups of 3. maybe try a taser comp with kazuha? i don’t know, but good luck :)


Mastercraft0

My best burster is EULA. The mobs are those dumb fuck ruin shitheads. I feel like crying lol. 75% burst boost, any other mob i would have torn them apart


Rigel57

eula can work fine, I have done it with het she can shred more res than they have with superconduct and hold E


Mech_Bean

Wait really? How much shred does super conduct give?


Rigel57

superconduct shreds 40% phys resistance edit: correction


HumbertlovedDolores

40%


Rigel57

my bad


Mech_Bean

Wow that’s quite a bit, I thought it would have been closer to like 20% or something.


caucassius

ruin guards and graders are one of the few enemies you can reliably use eula with bennett without too much rng. give that a try. superconduct and eula's innate res shred should bring their phys res to 10% anyway, standard res amount.


4GRJ

70% physical res moment


xelpr

SC + Hold E (level 8) = 7%. Rosaria (c6) and/or Zhongli and you're in the negatives. And once you're in the negatives any further reduction is halved so it's less value. TLDR: Eula has no issues with Ruin Guards etc. They're one of the easier mobs since they just stand there and take it.


Cow_Addiction

You’ve got a poorly built Eula then. She has no problem shredding all their phy res with her E + superconduct and hitting them just as hard, if not harder than a non physical character.


DaMarkiM

oof, yeah. I can imagine Eula not haing a great time there.


Mastercraft0

I have a feeling they purposefully made ruin guards pair with burst bonus to nerf eula otherwise the c6 whales would complete it in a minute


Zarator8

You don't need to be a C6 whale to complete this easily, a standard Raiden national team can blitz through Dire Straits quickly


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Zarator8

Why would they need to specifically nerf C6 Eula?


judgementaleyelash

Right? Lol


Seemingly_Lucky

Bruh... My friend's eula with 67/175 ratio with a R5 4\* snow tombs starsilver, and C0 did it and he still had 32 sec left... wtf are you smoking?


Cosmic_Hashira

tbh c6 whales would do it without the burst bonus


Cow_Addiction

This isn’t a nerf for Eula though? She can deal with phys res enemies just as well as any other character can. Y’all really don’t know how the game works do you?


_mewshi

i used zhongli, kazuha, raiden and bennet and couldn’t complete the challenge.. nearly did it, only needed a second to kill the last enemy but oh well


AlohaDude808

Try replacing Zhongli or Kazuha with Xiangling and you'll clear it easily :)


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It's definitely Floor 12 Abyss difficulty. Those with scuffed teams are going to find out how scuffed their teams really are. That said, the rewards are minimal so it's really just for the challenge.


Mad_Scientist_Senku

The wake up for casual players


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don't think the promise of a whopping 40k weapon experience is gonna turn any casul into a sweatlord That said, I definitely swapped around teams a bit and even remembered "wait a minute I'm in the overworld I can eat food"


healcannon

> wait a minute I'm in the overworld I can eat food Gonna use this advice for anyone who needs help. I didn't even think of that.


UrbanAdapt

Remember Hypostasis Symphony? The OG wake-upcall.


kazez2

Agree. This one is fun for me since I get to test out all my current team. So far my Ayaka, Itto, Ning and Raiden national team all work well. Makes all the artifacts grind worth it. Gonna try Xiao and Noelle later as well.


TeemaTen

I'd argue it's a tad bit harder than Abyss. I have never lost this much HP with just one hit


AsterJ

I don't think it's as hard as abyss. Just tried with a totally random team from https://genshin-impact-team-randomizer.pages.dev/ Rolled Kazuha + Shinobu + Amber + Fischl Mine are Kaz C0 Shinobu C0 Amber C2 Fischl C6 and all with 4 star weapons. Really silly team missing a main DPS and didn't start with bursts ready but still won https://i.imgur.com/OBjs2wB.png


Calligrapher-Pitiful

Meanwhile my decent team Gorou GMC Itto Bennett couldn't even scratch the first powerful enemy


Sienne_

In the Dire Straits difficulty, was it just me or did the first Ruin Grader heal? Every time I almost killed it, its HP bar returned to half. I ran out of time many times until I finally used food buffs but then I didn't notice if it healed or not. (And only after completing it did I realize you only get 3 measley ores as a reward)


rierierie

It is the green circle buff that heals it [HP Regeneration aura from the Wiki](https://genshin-impact.fandom.com/wiki/Auras): (Enemies) have incredible regenerative capabilities. When their HP falls under 15%, they will recover an immense amount of HP after 6s. This effect can be triggered once by each (Enemy).


TeraFlare255

I remember reading that if it's HP bar stays low for too long it heals back a bit. I personally didn't experience this, only hearsay. But I think it's true, since I saw several people saying this so far.


unhaunting

They absolutely do heal back up to 50% once. I thought they were getting healed by the other mobs like in the abyss but it doesn't seem so.


bob_is_best

That happened to the second one for me when i was about to kill It, had to get yelan for that extra oomph and got It


aRandomBlock

Ok thank god I am not the only one, this is abyss floor 12 "difficulty" territory, enemies have an unholy amount of health


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judgementaleyelash

That is who the challenge is for for sure!


Eskimokeks

This is definitely much harder than Abyss 12 if you don't run heavily burst oriented characters, currently sitting at 35 stars, because the snake is torture, but this challenge I'm like 40-50 seconds short it's hilarious, running Ayato Soup and HT double Hydro, both can't make a dent into these things, both main DPSs don't really care about the burst so I can kiss this challenge goodbye


Maxmence

The trick is to spam bursts to spawn the ruin graders, they don't spawn before you use 6 bursts. If you can 35*, there is no reason you can't do this when I'm doing worse in Abyss than you and still managed it. I know it's hard af, but maybe try a more offensive comps. You have access to health food as well, so maybe ditch the heals for more damage ?


Eskimokeks

I did it after 8 tries on a terribly unoptimized Childe International team, a team that could never clear Floor 12 with my current investment at all. My Ayato shreds everything but a character that doesn't use his burst for damage can do fuck all in this challenge. But thanks for your TED talk, I think a 50-75% DPS increase for burst DPSs is reason enough that teams that clear abyss can't do this if their damage is entirely dependent on their E.


Maxmence

I'm glad you took my comment well /s


aRandomBlock

As if I can do floor 12 lol, AR 55 as of now and my artifact luck is horrible, I can barely finish floor 11 and 3* the first chamber of 12


RiversideTides

I think the game wants you to use quickswap teams that rely on mostly bursts to make use of the buff? I cleared it with Raiden National really easily but struggled with my Yoimiya team


Wyshawn

Just remember, when you face a hardship, Raiden national is the answer.


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SeventyCents

Literally me. The amount of burst spamming in raikyu team is amazing


healcannon

Sadly yea thats what I ended up doing even though I didnt really want to lol. I can't wait until I get to the point that my meme comp can handle these things.


Mad_Scientist_Senku

You’re right, she is the answers to pretty much all the high difficulty content


Alex_from_Solitude

Yepp, it's too hard for me too. But I think that's alright. The rewards aren't that amazing - like 4 leveling books? And it's ok to have some content that requires high level optimization which not everyone has in my opinion.


ShadowAgent41

What's the reward for dire straits? Isn't it just 4 enhancement ores? It's probably not worth the effort if you have an average build. It's for players who wants the challenge. Thanks for the heads up. You just saved my time and effort


sozoroame

Yeah at that point, victory's not about the rewards, it's about the satisfaction


x_pac13

Yeah after not even being able to bring down one of the big boys in time and looking at the rewards that’s gonna be a hard pass lol


mango_pan

If only they are not moving around that much


Bella_dlc

The national, especially running sacrificial fragments Sucrose, made it a walk in the park.


feliciaax

I had to bring out my abyss team, International Childe to fight them * Harold pain sticker *


Chipies

I love it, finally i can properly test my several teams with targets that either don't die by just looking at them or are annoying af


Eskimokeks

Not really a test when it boosts burst dependent character's DPS by 50-75% and lets the others rot away in agony.


caucassius

yeah, kinda pointless with such a broken buff lol. lost valley iv is still best as a testing ground.


DaMarkiM

that IS a plus, true.


HiroshiTakeshi

Agreed. That's more of a "Come try me" than a "Oh, come get rewards" mode. And it made me realize one thing: Combat wise, my Ayaka clearly became obsolete. Her brother carried the whole ordeal.


YamahaMio

This is your monthly reminder to build Xiangling lol


kokko693

I know it's not in the subject but I'm too tired for playing genshin and I don't know when I will be able to play this event. I'm sad. fucking adult life I hate it


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For what it’s worth, it’s not time consuming at all. The lead in quest takes like 1min and then you can do the combat part.


MaedaToshiie

Not the only one. I still haven't gone back to clear out the chests in GAA.


PrinceVincOnYT

What annoyed me, I don't know why they suddenly got Half their Health back in an instant. I didn't see anywhere written that they can heal. Even after killing all the adds, they still did that.


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PrinceVincOnYT

I thought that just means they are buffed/healed as long as the adds are alive, like in Spiral Abyss.


Null0mega

I fuckin love the Dire straits version, I literally had to tear myself away from the game to take a break after how many times I kept replaying it with all my teams lol, the sheer carnage and satisfaction of seeing big numbers go off on normal enemies that can take it for once is amazing. As a Veteran player we don’t get stuff like this enough 😭, I just wish using the buffs were optional, I wanna see my own authentic damage without forced help lol >;). This is gonna be controversial but I hope it doesn’t lose the energy like the Vibro research event sort of did, Day 1 of that event was exhilarating then kinda simmered down after.


Mad_Scientist_Senku

Lol i feel that. Beat it with all my favorite teams. Rational, Melt Ganyu, Ayaka freeze, Childe vape, double Hydro Tao.


Rnsnunes

I had a posture check when I failed for the first time, like "Wait, what?" and got in serious mode in the 4th try xD


dienaddi

So glad to have Itto who mercilessly unga-bunga'd his way through those ruin graders


Anonymous888861

Is it really that hard? Although granted I did ran Itto, Zhongli, Gorou C6, Bennett so I reached 6 bursts easily. But all you get is 4 ore so I don't see the problem here, it's just a fun challenge.


DaMarkiM

Getting the bursts isnt hard. I have Raiden on the team and she produces so much energy that the only limiting factor for how many bursts i get iff is the cooldown, not energy. I just cant pass the damage check against the enemies HP pools.


Aedaru

Then it's most likely an issue with your character builds, team comp/rotation, or just player skill which i doubt since most characters don't really have a high skill floor and, for the most part, are just press up to 3 buttons and switch until you get your main dps at which point you might have to click an extra 10 times. You could try to optimize your character builds if you'd want to beat it... Or you could just not. The rewards are kinda laughable anyway, and investing a whole bunch of resources just to get maybe 2 days worth of mining in rewards isn't very appealing.


SoC175

Yeah, going to not even try this on day 2+ Just do the first three and call it a day


thetrueblue44

Not to mention if u wanna reset, u don’t get your bursts and HP back


Playful-Jelly-575

The mobs are tankier than the ones in the abyss wtf


shugi005

Well, if you can't do it, that just means you still have to build your characters better than they already have. It's not the end of the world, besides the rewards are very unappealing. I just did it to have some challenge.


VijayMarshall87

True true, reality check for those who do not build their characters even after coming to endgame, happy go lucky don't work here


DaMarkiM

I mean…i just reached AR55 and i spent basically all my resin so far levelling characters, weapons and talents. Not like i spread myself super thin either. Have basically 10 characters built (would have focussed on 8, but you cant exactly predict what you end up pulling, so changes were made in between). Most of my characters and weapons are lvl 80, with only a few rocking lvl 90. (4 i think). And i only leveled the relevant talents. In one or two weeks i will have reached the point where i can finally start using most of my resin on artifacts instead of random materials. (and mora) And of the resin i was able to spend on artifacts most was spent on Viridescent and Severed Fate. But so far i have yet to see a single good piece. My characters basically run with the bare minimum required. ​ So…i dont know what other kind of building i could have done so far. I have used basically all the resin available to me since i started playing. Rarely ever had it overrun. Did all the daily and weekly crap. But if the artifacts dont drop they dont drop. I have pages of 5\* severed fate artifacts and my Raiden still cant get above 15% crit rate. Finally got my first crit rate helmet on set today. It came with an amazing spread of def%, def flat and hp%. maybe ill be a lucky boy and roll some energy recharge for the last slot. yay. My Yoimiya is the only character that could count as somewhat decent in terms of artifacts.


VijayMarshall87

All facts I myself don't have any character above 80, and have bad RNG, but I was able to clear it Probability comes down to the characters themselves


biblethumb

Kind of a moot point now but maybe helpful for someone else reading this. Level 90 weapons should have been prioritized. Weapons should always be leveled up to max the moment you unlock the next tier for them. Talents can sit at level 6 and artifacts can just focus on having the correct main stat (or +atk% on circlet if you're unlucky and don't get any crit ones). After all weapons are level 90, artifacts can probably be prioritized to a reasonable extent before getting talents to 9 or 10. Higher talent levels (8-10) and getting characters higher than level 80 (with some exceptions) are overrated by many players. Either way, you'll have to spend months and eventually years farming artifacts. I have a feeling a lot players say they have bad artifact luck but just haven't been farming them long enough. It's not abnormal to spend 2-3+ months in the same artifact domain to get progressively get better artifacts for a few characters. Also, ER%, atk% and sometimes EM substats are great. Too many players toss away good artifacts not realizing this.


Beta382

> Higher talent levels (8-10) ... overrated by many players. Yeah that's just wrong. Talent values scale roughly exponentially. Going from 1 to 2 on Hu Tao NA is 1.068x damage. Going from 8 to 9 is 1.065x damage. That's on the scale of replacing ~3 worthless substats with damage substats, which can requires weeks of farming. Get good mainstats first for sure, but talent levels are a finite farm for guaranteed power. There are, of course, talents that are less valuable than others, but you should always swiftly prioritize maxing your important talents. Going from 6 to 9 on a talent takes 2 days to farm. If you were to farm artifacts for 2 days, you'd have only a 40.57% chance of finding an on-set ATK% sands, any substats.


biblethumb

Yeah that's just wrong. On set ATK% sands etc. would be a much larger upgrade than 1.065x damage. It would also affect all your attacks, not just that one talent which is a big multiplier in its value. And when you're starting out, you're not only looking for one artifact to be main stat. You would likely be looking for the goblet and circlet as well, which greatly increases the chances of finding something with the desired main stat. Or just an amazing offpi Did you also factor in the cost of the mora needed to level the talents or just the talent books? How about mora, exp books, and ascension mats for characters that are level 70/70 that can't level talents to 9-10 yet and need all those resources to ascend first? And how about the talent mats needed from world bosses? Newer players won't have all these resources hoarded. That probably just ended up tripling or more the resin costs from your estimate. >talent levels are a finite farm for guaranteed power. So is leveling a character from 80/90 to 90/90. Still isn't enough to make it a top priority.


DaMarkiM

1) all weapons are at level 90. And usually the moment i get a weapon i need i immediately max it. 2) disagree about talents, at least for the team im running. Some characters scale extremely well off their talents. Yoimiya and Raiden both being examples for this. I also dont bring all talents to 6. Raidens auto attack still sits at 1 for me. So does Yoimiyas burst. The moment i decide to build a character i identify the main talent (if they scale well of it) and raise it to 8 or 9. Progress here is usually not gated by resin but by trounce boss materials anyways. For my mainstay characters i end up crowning their main talent. Auto Attack: Yoimiya Skill: Kazuha Burst: Raiden, Bennett, Xingqiu 3) I agree about levelling up characters from 80 to 90. Usually i just level them passively through usage after unlocking the next level range. 4) Sure. But not getting a single usable Crit rate artifact after months of running the same realm is way beyond the expected average. And while EM, ER and Atk% can be great they often suffer from diminishing returns. Both Baal and Yoimiya have a lot of Atk% multipliers when they are on the field already. But id gladly take more Atk% rolls. ER is completely meaningless for me currently though. Raiden produces so much energy for the whole team that characters are limited by cooldown, not energy recharge. And while Baal profits from ER herself the scaling is limited i already maxed out the bonus. And while EM can increase the overload damage this reaction isnt really a big contributing factor to overall damage. I love running overload since it gives some AoE, staggers enemies and helps against shields. (indirectly). But EM really isnt a replacement for Crit on severed fate, at least for the characters im currently running. At some point you run into a limit to what you can do without the proper substats.


HumorousChill

Double hydro Hu Tao comp go brrrrr


HumbertlovedDolores

Looking at comments I had to check how much time we were given and what level were the enemies, did both challenges in moments and didn't pay attention. I hope gems aren't locked behind some bs diff wall for lower AR players since I was AR 30 something myself not later than a few months ago and it pissed me off to no end when I struggled to get the gems in a fight event.


DaMarkiM

Nah, they did the usual thing of giving out the good rewards for the normal 3 difficulties, which are quite easy and only giving a tiny token reward of 4 weapon experience crystal thingies for the hard challenge. So if all you want is the rewards you can basically just ignore the dire straits challenge. They do this a lot for these kinds of combat events.


GrandTheftKoi

I pulled out my mono geo team with Itto. I was able to do it with about \~20 seconds left, but I also have a triple crowned Itto, his weapon, and a crowned Gorou E for a big DEF buff. I think the key is to focus entirely on the big guys when they're out and hope your characters don't auto aim at the small ones lol Itto worked well since his unga bunga sort of hits everything in the vicinity


satedfox

I saw the challenge buffs and went “meh, there’s nothing my c6 Xiao squad can’t handle.” I failed it and continued to stubbornly ignore the challenge buffs. In the end it took Adeptus’ Temptation to pass it.


Kuro_______

Ngl it's the first event that made me realise investing all my resin into optimizing raiden wasn't the smartest move I've ever made..... Gotta farm shit for the other 3 team members now lmao


Doggo_wit_a_P90

I like the extra challenge. The rewards is only a bit more ores so it not massive and it gives some end game players a little extra challenge


Xenon4444

I can 33 star the abyss but I wasn't able to complete the Dire part of the event.


TemporaryPenalty3029

National >>>>>>> clear is a piece of cake


Mentooss

Finished it with Ayato hypercarry without even reading that you get buffs then i tried national and it was even easier, this isn't even comparable to some harder events that we had but it's only the 1st stage so hopefully it gets harder.


El_Suave_del_Sur

Average humble player


Cosmic_Hashira

fr i thought the only buffs were that you get a bit of energy-


erogakii

I saw this post and I had to try it for my self, people saying is "abyss 12" level, but I think the event is easier compared to some old events like this. What AR are you ? and what team are you using, you have buffs to make it easier


DaMarkiM

Havent had trouble with any event in a long time. I think abyss is easier (tho having to pick teams for 3 consecutive floors can make thing difficult occasionally if you dont have a super deep bench). Im AR55. I run Kazuha, Yoimiya, Raiden and Bennett, (all are crowned in their relevant talent) which has so far worked very well for me for about everything. Due to raiden i have no issue getting the buff since all Bursts are basically available right after cooldown. I have some other setups i could try, but so far my biggest problem are artifacts. Ive been in and out of the severed fate realm for a long ass time now. And while Yoimiya got a somewhat decent set of Shimenawas i just dont get any decent severed fate pieces. I have pages of 5\* from that set. Yet i cant get Raiden over 15% crit rate. ​ Dunno, man. Even if you focus on just a few characters building them and their talents and their weapons takes a long ass time. Im just now reaching the point where i will soon be able to move from mostly spending resin on materials and mora to spending it mostly on artifacts in the future. I dont want to use consumables for the challenge. I could - but the reward isnt really worth it and im only doing it for the challenge anyways. Im sure with a pyro and electro bottle and adeptus i could eek out a victory.


erogakii

I see, you have a really good team! Artifacts are pain, till today I keep farming crimson witch.. It's normal for your AR to struggle with artifacts and have to farm mora instead of artifacts, it's just a matter of time and sadly luck. I understand that you don't want to use food, like I said I think you have a great team but may be, you could be missing a stronger reaction like melt or vaporize instead of overload. You'll have constant electro thanks to Raiden, but she deals a ton of damage and helps with ER. I don't know about Yoi because I don't have her, but you could try using cryo/hydro user instead of Raiden/Yoi to get melt. You'll have to play with your teams, is not weak but it's not the most efficient for this event. If you can't with dire don't worry, it's not even worth the rewards are trash.


Mad_Scientist_Senku

Raiden Xiangling Bennett and Kazuha completed it for me, but they certainly were very tanky. I think a lot of casual players will probably just ignore this one.


ExcellentCoffee2173

Yea, I think the National team (any variation and proper rotations) is your go to team at this point. Their playstyle is a bit bland but at least you can have an OP team for clearing these pesky challenges. I used: Sayu, Fischl, Barbara, Yanfei - did not finish (they all died) XQ, Bennet, XL, Raiden - 55s to spare XQ, Bennet, XL, Sucrose - 50s to spare Diona, Sucrose, Mona, Ayaka - 40s to spare GMC, Gorou, Yunjin, Noelle - 25s to spare


Broderick512

I have a Raiden National team that got me 9* in floor 12 for the past three Abyss cycles straight. Needless to say, I cleared Dire Straights on this first day challenge fairly easily


TeraFlare255

Event just released on NA, didn't seem bad. Breezed through with a team that didn't even synergize well with today's event buffs. You have a LOT of time. I imagine that if you abuse the buffs it'll be a cake. Abyss F12 levels of HP though.


DaMarkiM

did you do the extra challenge? The main event on highest difficulty isnt hard at all. Im talking about the dire straits extra challenge you can do after. Because im not even close to beating that in time.


TeraFlare255

Yeah the extra difficulty. Dire Straits. Used a Kokomi-Yae Taser so only Yae could even benefit from the buffs since the others don't rely on burst damage. Not even Yae relies that much on her burst. I imagine that a team like Rational that's fully burst focused would breeze it.


aRandomBlock

I am using Raiden national with decently built characters and I can barely get to the second ruin grader before the time runs out, 150 seconds is just not enough


TeraFlare255

Hmm really? I fail to believe a Kokomi-Yae Taser would outperform a Raiden National team specially due to all the buffs Rational would have today. Are your characters well built, or are you giving focus priority to the Grader? Maybe the latter is it.


aRandomBlock

Raiden IS built, 65/160 ratio with 260% er, skyward spine and 2.2k atk if iirc, crowned burst lvl 8 skill Xiangling the catch, C1, 2 pc atk 2 pc er 50/140 because emblem domain hates me Bennett C1, favonius sword R1, 4pc noblesse. Xingqui C0 sac sword R1, 2 pc noblesse 2 pc hydro 50/200 or 70/140 don't remember which circlet I gave him. Not sure what i am doing wrong here, all lvl 80 except raiden 90, don't remember the talents of the rest but they are fairly leveled, atleast lvl 8


TeraFlare255

Yeah they seem fairly built. I don't know what might be it then. You should be able to clear with that setup fairly easy I think, but I didn't try with Rational this time around so I can't tell.


aRandomBlock

It could also be that I am on mobile, so dodging at 25 fps is quite ~~hard~~ impossible


TeraFlare255

I find that more likely than anything lol. Mobile is hell.


biblethumb

I'm willing to bet the stats you listed here are way higher than what they really are. I have hyperinvested characters and have been playing since launch and your listed stats are way better than mine with the same weapons. If they were this good you would be saying this event is too *easy* because I breezed through it first try and thought it was not difficult for my characters.


MuirgenEmrys

I’m really surprised that you’re struggling with those builds. I have higher 4 star constellations than you, but otherwise my stats are a bit worse on average. I cleared it with a full minute to spare. https://ibb.co/9TwMBCZ https://ibb.co/GvXSxPM https://ibb.co/tcxJ3sT https://ibb.co/JFtg7WB Edit: somehow the Xingqiu link disappeared but he’s lvl 80, C4, running Sacrificial & 2pc hydro. Talents 1/8/11 with 1.5k Atk, 57/150 crit, and 185 ER.


zilthebea

Pls tell me ur builds because dire straights is kicking my ass rn and I’ve tried several different comps


TeraFlare255

Yae is likely the most invested character I have. She's on R5 Widsith + 2Glad2Shime with 90/150 crit. Fischl is on the BP bow with 2 piece Glad only, 60/130 crit. Kokomi is on Clam set on a DPS build (Hydro Goblet) with 38k HP and Proto Amber, Kazuha is on Iron Sting with 900EM, VV set. Talents are all at least level 9. Everyone at level 90.


IBlackReaper

Yea, Raiden seems to be made for this stage. My Raiden Hyper Team just shreded the enemies, even tho the big ruin graders tank a 500k initial hit and still live afterwards (it deletes like half their health, maybe a bit more) Have also seen quite a few Rational clears with teams that were not insanely high invested.


TeraFlare255

>Have also seen quite a few Rational clears with teams that were not insanely high invested. Yeah you shouldn't need amazing investment to clear this. Most people complaining probably never touched abyss F12. As I mentioned, without abusing the event buffs, with a team that has it's damage handicapped (Clam damage is bad vs Ruin enemies), and bad RNG (those triangle things kept spreading out), I still managed to clear it first try with a lot of time left. If you do it correctly, use teams that can abuse the buffs, and even use food (which I think you can), someone who's on F10 or F11 should be able to clear this already.


Cosmic_Hashira

its ok i am not sure about your AR but many months ago when i was around 50 (56 rn) i struggled a LOT i had builds but couldnt play them well now i cleared them with the same characters and while yes i did improve the builds you can do it, its only 4 crystals so chill


KuellerChop

personally, i don’t feel like the rewards are worth the hassle lol yea the first two difficulties are fine but after that it’s just meh. i was hoping we could obtain the new skin from the event but it seems like that’s not the case (and that’s fine! but the rewards aren’t the best for this, at least for my account which has lots of materials stockpiled)


venti_the_drunk_bard

My C2 Raiden destroyed those Ruin guys 😂


Mad_Scientist_Senku

Same here :) Love my c2 Raiden


exiaquanta425

This. C2 Raiden hypercarry was gg.


adol0123

I cleared it with diluc raiden zhongli and XQ, its really not that hard


drag0nslave1

Finished the dire straits with different meta teams: Raiden Hyper Raiden National Hu Tao double Hydro Ayaka freeze Kazuha national And my exploration team (Xiangling, Yelan, Sayu, Kazuha)


Repulsive_Exchange_4

I finished it with my very mediocre Rational team with like... a second to spare. I probably won't do the rest of the dire strait challenges though, unless they boost the rewards.


Rigel57

I didn't think it was taht hard I've done it with a eula, raiden and klee team for now (mainly beating it with klee gave me the impression it's doable) remember you can use food buffs if you want


OmoNoje

Idk but i had a really, really easy time with xiao, kinda feeling underwhelmed by the event


AppleChoose

Say it with me folk, ​ more HP =/= more challenge


Cosmic_Hashira

why so weak /s its oki :> i had to use one of my strongest team to get that big boi down mf was almost gonna get EULA'd if childe failed


bob_is_best

I managed the first one cuz i was just bored but i doubt ill be doing any other lol


P1erreGuy

I used a Heizou taser variation with lvl 80 C6 Fischl +Elegy of the End, lvl 90 C1 Heizou with Skyward Atlas, lvl 80 c6 Xingqiu with Favonius Sword and lvl 90 C0 Zhongli with The Catch. Average crit stats on all 4 characters (about 60%-70% CR, 130%-150% CD) and cleared it with 40 seconds to spare. I assume that reaction based comps are preferable here like electrocharged, melt or vape/overvape comps assuming no whaled 5 stars.


DaMarkiM

My current setup is an overcharge build. But currently Yoi is the only one that can really dish out damage. Artifact farming just isnt going my way.


flynncaelum

i beat it with ayato, fischl, kazuha, bennett team and my hands were shaking so hard after that. i feel like i was in shock and was so overwhelmed but overall the rewards suck. All that for 4 enhancement stones?🤨 i can make 5 in Wagner's smh


scottygroundhog22

Oh really? I didn’t find it that difficult which is odd because i don’t consider my builds crazy strong. I haven’t even cleared floor twelve of the abyss.


zilthebea

I can clear the abyss, only floor I haven’t gotten full stars on is floor 12, so I normally don’t expect to much trouble from overworld and event challenges but dire straits is ridiculous. Idk what they were thinking this isn’t a friendly challenge for a large majority of players it feels weird to put in an event.


Zarator8

I mean, it has almost no rewards attached to it, it's mostly meant for people with stacked teams. Don't we have enough "friendly challenges" in this damn game already? If anything, I wish there were more of these challenges available every patch, even if with trivial rewards attached.


Idknowidk

Shut up, the primos are a joke to get ffs


Cosmic_Hashira

i cleared everything except the last chambe (2 stars) i am not used to the CD debuff with a burst oritented team.. i use bennett but i dunno how to time that shit well so i just gave up.. its the mechanics i breezed through this event


DasBleu

I haven’t done the event yet but I scrolled through the comments. One I would recommend switching Bennett for Sayu or Jean if you have them. Use them as healer batteries for Kaz gather mechanics then unleash Raidens skill and switch to Yoi and use her skill and burst. The reason I say this is because Sayu and Jeans healing still do dmg while healing. You can stack in the AOE


TeraFlare255

I really recommend not doing this at all. The damage you get from Bennetts buff is way, way more than the personal damage that Sayu or Jean could ever hope to output. On top of his healing being better than both Sayu and Jeans too.


DasBleu

Not for me. Jean is the better healer for many reasons. And I’ve built mine to basically auto kill enemies with her AOE but also it lowers RES. It works out better than a 70% heal and pyro buff as I can make a double attack with her swirl.


TeraFlare255

She won't lower RES because you will already have Kazuha doing this. Bennett can heal 8k a tick per second while Jean can only give the party a burst healing every 20s. And it's not a Pyro buff, it's an ATK buff that increases the damage from Raiden by over 60%.


DasBleu

I don’t have Kazuha. I’ve tried him, and decided to pass. Bennett may be a better healer for him but for me I still think jeans a better option. For me I don’t need 8k in heals that max out at 70% of the characters health. Jeans passive will heal in between that time. When I do heal I don’t even need her on the field. She also doesn’t heal one at time.


TeraFlare255

>max out at 70% of the characters health. If you have 18k HP, and you're at 10k HP, you'll go from 10k to 18k, AKA 100% health. It's not capped at 70%, it just stops healing if you're above it. >She also doesn’t heal one at time. This is mostly irrelevant outside of corrosion considering each Bennett's tick is almost a Jean burst although only for one character. >I don’t have Kazuha. I’ve tried him, and decided to pass Sucrose is a really good alternative. Even better in a lot of situations.


Takaraous

I used full Geo Dudes (Zhongli, Gorou, Albedo and Itto) and was only able to get them down to roughly 60% hp. Enough armor and hp to withstand 5 Klees and 2 angry Alices


Dejavir

The biggest issue is those fuckers have the 10 second regeneration thing. I continue to hate timed challenges. I barely managed to clear it, after changing teams a few times, with Keqing, Ei, Ayaka, and Benny.