Heads up: I was unsure of marking this as leaks but I do talk about Aha’s kit and my questions do relate to Aha+Waven, I also very lightly comment on Ex-Eidolons at the end. I don’t want to catch a good person that genuinely wished to help off guard with an unprompted leak, so that’s why I labeled it under leaks.
So, yeah, the title may be a LITTLE dramatic for attention. Now let me try to save face here, because I don’t want people to think my account is that bad. My ego won’t allow it. I may have a lot of bricks, but I put my heart into said bricks.
I have been playing since 1.6, but I have been way less active since 3.7 because of adult stuff so I’ve been pretty hands-off. Now that I got a tablet, playing HSR consistently has been way easier, but it doesn’t change the fact that, as you can see, I have Waventurine trapped in a whole construction site with the amount of bricks I pulled. I fear showing this screenshot, or telling my pull history, to a meta slave may induce a heart attack. I always pulled for characters I liked and then tried working from that, but that is now sort of really hard to do in end game and end game is the most consistent source of jades in the game.
In 4.X, only very few characters were genuinely characters I wanted and most of them have ended up being supports.
I got E0S1 Yaoguang (Bizarrely early both), lost Ashveil, got MBlade, got Sobin, got Ashveil E0S1, Waven and now Pearl.
This means that the only damage dealers in this list are Ashveil and Waven, so I can’t use normal FUA Waven. Most of his best teammates are also taken, since MBlade, Tribbie and Hyacine are in the Ashveil comp and Sobin has made a definitive home in Phainon’s team because I don’t have E2 Cyrene.
I know I need to address the two elation-shaped elephants in the room, so let me start. I pulled Yaoguang thinking I’d like elation meta, I was hyped for Evanescia back then and I found her design pretty so I got her and her LC in like 17 pulls. But I was dumb, I would not want a single one of the DPS’s, I deadass skipped 4.2 even though it was the anniversary, I forgot to open the game most days. This also meant I did not have a single one of the shilled elation DPS’s.
But Waven came and he was elation, and Elaven was an option. That’s where Pearl comes in. Initially, I was going to skip, but during Pearl’s beta I remember someone I trusted commenting that she worked fine with him in an elation team like the one I was using. I really really wanted Pearl and was looking fot any excuse to pull her anyways and I have been enjoying using her in a mono elation Waven team… but the reason why I come here is because of Aha’s kit (and because I have no clue who to out as my Waven’s 4th slot since my EMC is still being built and lacking eidolons).
I didn’t expect Aha to basically be solely for FUAven, I knew it was likely but I had hoped that she would allow him to be more usable with other elations, but alas. It was probably my bad for liking pretty bricks and pulling the trigger too quick. Now I have no idea on what to do team comp-wise next patch since I was really hoping to keeping him as Elaven. Playing him mono elation with Aha would miss out on her buff of allowing him both passives at once, and I can’t even just kick out Yaoguang back to the E0S1 homeless support dungeon because Pearl will activate his trace. Kinda sucks to have pulled her to not use her… but I also did pull Jade during 3.0 so it’s not a first. My main issue currently is that if I keep Ashblade as a separate team and using Aha with Elaven seems like a waste, so what should I do? Should I just ignore that and go all in with Elaven+Aha following Aventurine’s example, keeping Yaoguang and Pearl with him in the process, or is there some better Waven team I can form with my other characters (and in the future Aha) that I’m not seeing? I know I can’t expect anything ideal in these current conditions where all his supports are taken, but I was hoping Aventurine mains would shed some light here on what is the okayish path to take.
(With the buffs to DHIL and Jingyuan maybe my team situation will be easier since I’ll have at least 2 new teams and maybe that will free up Ashveil to be with Waven, but after pulling Pearl just to possibly bench her in one patch and knowing the HP inflation is off the charts, I feel that maybe I should start asking those in the know before going pedal to the metal)