Nah Durin can stay especially if nicole will also buff his dmg along with Varkas. Venti however needs to be replaced his kit is so outdated even with the buffs he doesnt provide much for Varka
venti's hex buff is for him to be a mdps, him as a support is barely outdoing four stars like sucrose. nicoel should have been anemo so she can replace venti and allow him to have 2 of PECH element while still having durin as the premium pyro option.
Yeah people have only been waiting for him for 5-6 years. I’ve never seen such a non meta dps have so many C6’s, he might genuinely become the new Xiao.
Luuk is unfortunate to be released in the wrong game. Imagine just liking a male character but you are constantly being mocked and insulted for liking a character... by players of the same game.
Because your own playerbase goes around insulting and mocking the others for just playing the game and doing their own thing to this day so… it’s just karma really.
Totally this. Judging from one of their other comments, I can totally see why too. Disgruntled former player trying to justify leaving a successful game early by extrapolating the opinions of some random twittard to the entire player base. Seen it time and time again by these bad faith engagement baiters
is it really a problem if you have to go hunting for the 3 guys that are "attacking" people who pulled on Luuk, which i still dont even believe is happening lol
Varka isn't that strong, but he's fun as heck to play. I was going to skip him, and then after watching my wife run around with him power jumping up cliffs I broke and spent for him.
I doubt I'll use him much in endgame, but he rapidly became my favourite overworld character.
As a picky whale Varka is great at high investment. He can do damage with 5 different elements and because of that he is far harder to block out of content than lunar teams.
Flins/Nefer's reactions can get fucked if an enemy has an element affinity that kills their reactions. In a world where a fire enemy will totally screw Flin's damage output, Cryo Varka will just trigger extra melt damage against that foe. Like... Varka CAN get effectiveness-blocked by hoyo, but its harder. I can throw all the money at Flins but Flins will forever have only one job while Varka has 5.
Realistically Varka, because he has access to 5 elements, has to have a flexibility tax, particularly at low investment levels. You cant let Varka alone be the 1-2 best DPS in the game of 5 different elements. You cant let him replace Mavuika/Skirk/Varesa/Mualani at low investment. There's gotta be a trade off.
This is a really nice breakdown. I would also add that he is a claymore user with very fast animations that is very effective with geo shielded enemies.
considering that C0r0 varka with r1 serpent spine managed to beat diff 5 cryo overseer with just four star teammates, varka raw damage is higher than most people realise.
granted that build in the bilibili showcase had good builds, good ping and very good varka combos.
I’m pretty sure this is rage bait but just for everyone else’s benefit, my c6 varka was doing 350k dps with c0r1 venti and durin and Bennett. I’ve seen some do more. My c6 Flins does 420k with columbina ineffa c0r1 with xilonen c0r2.
Spitting anything nowadays. as much as i disappointed with his number his c6 team is equal to lunar team c6 without their support. Flins, nefer is around 1m without lauma inefa, varka hitting 960k which is close enough.
I was pretty surprised to see how many women were at a pop up event in LA for WuWa last month. The couple behind me the girl was there for WuWa after her boyfriend went to the Endfield popup and in front of me the boyfriend didn’t even play gachas but his girlfriend was there for WuWa. It was about 1/3 women to 2/3 men on the way in and pretty close to 40/60 on the way out. Kuro is missing out a lot by not releasing more male characters .
Promotion team and varka's story doing the hard carry. His kits are too restricting. Would have sold more if he's strong without support like the nod krai characters
sorry my bad. i forgot that people on reddit can't think properly. the conversation was about varka AND THE DUDE FROM WUWA. so OBVIOUSLY i meant that varka is a character and the wuwa dude is the furniture holy sh** -.-
Yeah, just reread your previous comment. Seems like I really misread it. Sorry, but it really read like as if you just called Varka an unimportant background character. My bad.
I mean if how much money these games makes are your basis for judgement then there's really nothing else to say, luuk is more future proof than varka since he's not restricted to any single teammate, has way more and way better animations (I mean just do a comparison) and personally I liked luuks story a lot better than varka. Not to mention hoyo dropped the ball on varka big time...all that hype and he's worse by like 50 to 60k dps compared to nod krai units.
If how much money they make is the only basis for quality then that's kind of stupid
Their DPS is not the only thing I mentioned btw. Plus how good of a unit they are absolutely plays a vital role. Let's keep in mind that varka was teased ever since 1.0 he is arguably more hype than venti when talking about monstad units
I'm just stating what I see. Both men and women of all ages can love Varka's design and his memes. Luuk however is for 12 yo girls and they have no money yet
I’m older than 12 and I like Lukk’s design. The problem is that he looks like he’d be from an otome game or joseimuke game but I don’t think many of his target audience are left in the game.
Idk what was going in hoyo's mind to make Varka so weak, i have him on mavuika's weapon with pretty decent artifacts and premium team yet he's weaker than Mavuika,flins,Nefer,Skirk,Varessa,Chaska,Mualani (these are what I have, tested on milliastra wonderland dummy) and Zibai also is stronger , that's 8 characters already
His story quest is one of the best in the game tho, absolute cinema fr
Hex characters are generally within the same ballpark be it new and old, hoyo might raise them all up with future exansion of the hex roster. Varka specifically has that "atk buffer unbound from circle impact and a shielder" shaped hole in his team.
what's not generic about luuk compared to other male characters released in wuwa? he's covered head to toe, uses the same model as every male character post game release, is another male mid air dps.
Jiyan wears tights ,XLY has robotic arm (clothes are normal ,highschool crush type) , Brant has his chest out(more fanservice than any genshin chara,flamboyant type),qiuyuan wears martial arts uniform(serious, quit type) , Luuk wears a doc with his veiny arms out and a coat(cunning, gentle type)....
Surely every male chara are "generic" relatively.(Maybe you should check your eyes?)
Are you being deadass rn? Yeah they're different when you sit there and break them down but at a glance (which is what they're going to get by virtue of being in a notorious waifu game) they're nothing special. As good looking as Luuk is anyone who left or heard of this game is not gonna come running for any of these guys individually.
I don't know what you are even trying to argue over here ?
"Yeah they're different when you sit there and break them down. "
"Break down" when I literally gave the most surface level shit that ANY female who goons over husbandos in gachas could tell at 1st glance over any chara in existence.
I never knew that "phainon" or even "varka" where the most unique charas in existence?,yet smh their banners performed well.Fck,phainon broke records that HSR have never seen before,while his design is like GENERIC af.
"As good looking as Luuk is anyone who left or heard of this game is not gonna come running for any of these guys individually."
That's a bold assumption lmao.Thanks for sharing your "Biased"/"trash" opinion.
I'd like to tell you that her lore has been in the game since 1.0 and she already had a 10 minute fanmade animated short film about her over a year ago so knowledge of her existence is definitely not an unpopular notion..... but in regards to revenue specifically yeah I'd say it's basically people either going "pretty girl" or "oh so she's basically Zhongli's predecessor"
And that's just the first bit of lore. We've seen refferences to her in the previous Lantern Rite with the Eight Adepts, as well as lore from Chenyu Vale. It's been in the background, but they've been building up to her for a while.
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