Spiral Abyss
From the 5.0 Abyss I started noting my performance due to first 36 stars completion.
Version 5 Floor 12 History
5.4 Febuary 2025 - the best Abyss
I absolutely love the split of AOE first half and single target focused second half. With the added restriction of single target in multiwave on the second half, first chamber this is a well designed abyss with fun restrictions. I got to play some teams that I normally wouldn't and I really enjoyed testing some team ideas. Sadly, with what we know about next ones the fun is temporary.
My first clear was with the team below. I tried Fishl and Beidou variants first, however with my skill it was too easy to die. I love the Fishl, Ororon duo - the energy regeneration is crazy and my Ayato and Kazuha had their bursts always available.
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I had trouble with Sucrose taser sadly on the second chamber, first half. I think that's a skill issue, I think that with my artifacts I should be able to clear. I want to try more Sucrose teams in the immidiate future.
5.3 January 2025 - with fun AOE chamber on Floor 11
Using Chasca on the second side felt almost like cheating. She just shreads to pieces Natlan bosses, especially through Papilla.
Arlecchino team felt not that great - I mostly put Chiori there because I like her character, however in gameplay she just feels absent since you just swap to her to immediately swap out. I would keep trying to improve her build, however my motivation decreases rapidly. I should try Mono Geo (especially since I have Itto) with her, however there also she would only be character to swap out.
Also it's not really fair to just put the responsibility of Chiori. My Arle lacks good CRIT DMG circlet (currently on pretty bad crit rate one), and could be much better. As always one could always grind more!
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Side note: I've tried for the first time Burgeon team in Abyss on Floor 11 first side. It's starts with bunch of AOE and the team of Kokomi, Thoma, Nahida and Yao Yao felt nuclear. In single target against Cryo Abyss Herald it sadly was just awful, however with enough luck and some more skill I could get all 3 stars - my Navia, Xilonen, Xiangling, Bennet team on second side is strong enough to clear the chamber in 40 seconds that I had remaining after the first chamber - I just need to get better.
Currently the team of Navia, Xilonen, Xiangling, Bennet feels better then the Navia, Chiori variant. This is the only reason that I was considering going for Mavuika - swapping Xiangling for Pyro Archon with Scroll set would make team Navia, Chiori, Mavuika, Bennet feel much better. However with Chevreuse and Clorinde in the next phase I want to keep my primos for them.
On my girlfriend's account
Her first 36 stars! The main difference between our accounts is that I have way more characters (due to some low spending) and she has some characters that I don't - mainly Alheitam, Mualani and Mavuika.
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5.2 December 2024 - Welcoma Chasca!
After Citlali
Not only I got some training on my girlfriend's account, I also got and built Citlali (with Sac Frag and Scroll artifacts)! This made my Chasca team much better, as seen with my one continuous 36 star run (with only one death due to distraction)!
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Before Citlali
I should be able to clear this with one continuous run. Probably it's a mix of skill issue and partially build characters. My Navia despite her heavy usage could definitely see some improvements and my Bennett is on Nobless Oblige (ER%, Pyro DMG%, CRIT) which isn't the best solution for the Furina teams. I should go back to Maiden / VV domain.
With the better builds the teams with whom I get 3 stars on Chamber 2 and 3 (which ware also my original teams for this abyss) should absolutely destroy Chamber 1. It was also my first time playing Navia Double Hydro, I was very surprised by how good it is (despite my underperforming characters).
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On my girlfriend's account
While trying to figure out the team for my girlfriend's account it got pretty interesting. She feels this abyss restrictions much more then me thus we had trouble to complete it to 2 stars per each chamber.
The solution was to run Hyperbloom on the first side (Zhongli, Nahida, Xingqiu, Kuki Shinobu) with the Burnvape on second side: Mualani, Mavuika, Xilonen and Collei. Collei was only level 20, we got her some random Emblem artifacts to make her burst consistently and help keep the burning reaaction for the Tenebrous Papilla (which works wonders) and have bow for the Aeonblight Drake. Xingqiu was suprisingly good on the first side where his orbitals were enough to break crystals dropped by Holawaqa Ngoubou (Natlan dragon).
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5.2 November 2024 - First time Xiao user
First time using Xiao and straight to Abyss. Pretty good, especially for the unfinished build - still level 80/80 on both weapon and character, artifacts also could be better.
My second team was a bit underwhelming - Beidou shield didn't really do much to protect Arlecchino, which forced me to reset chamber once. Perhaps Xilonen team would be better, but I get those 36 stars (at third approach) so it was good enough.
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5.1 October 2024 - Consecrated Beasts and Geo Shields
First approach (35 stars)
High base resistance of Consecrated Beasts scared me off from using Arlecchino. For my account this leaves me with Hyperbloom (since Navia is busy on the other side). First I used Ayato team but sadly you can feel that his build is quite old.
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I really need to invest properly into good Hyperbloom team - it feels really lacking compared to what I see on YouTube.
Second approach (36 stars)
Then I got Xilonen and even though she is not build fully yet (skill talent level 6, artifacts around level 16, level 80/80, signature sword at 70/70) you can feel the power.
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5.0 September 2024 - Welcome to Natlan
Fontaine meta here we go! Seriously, my account is so skewed towards Fontaine, look at this:
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