#That crit mattered btw

[unstopable8000]

No, no. I agree Kieran. That double crit was absolutely Not Fair lmao

[blueskittlesart]

Hi as an artist who also wants to work in long form visual narratives like your comic I was wondering how you present this at your critique. I have done a few short (very short) artist books in which my classmates just flip through the pages quickly and then critique it. How do you approach asking people to read longer books in a short time to then critique it?

I realize your art is much more digital. Do you offer them a QR code so they can read it at their leisure?

depends. cottontail is the longest thing i've ever had to present for full-class crit and i'm lowkey still trying to figure out exactly how I want to do it. the longest i've done up to this point is around 25 pages. my general rule is that if the piece is under 6-8 pages and is formatted for page-by-page reading, it's reasonable to just put it on the wall, because that's small enough that people can still look at it pretty easily. if it's more than that, what I'll usually do is print and bind a few little booklets (as cheaply and efficiently as possible--we're talking library laser prints with staples) so that I can pass them around, and then ask my professor if they want me to ALSO hang my pages on the wall or not. this varies on a case-by-case basis--some profs REALLY want everything on the wall, but if you're in a bigger class where space is an issue or the prof just doesn't care that much then you might not have to hang your work. If you go for this method and there's nothing on the wall I'd be sure to print enough books that most of your classmates will have something to look at so they're not just standing around waiting for their turn. I've gotten VERY good at formatting and binding booklets these last few years lol. in terms of qr codes, I have done that a few times, but i only ever do it if my work is specifically designed for a vertical scroll, because it's a lot harder to build a website with spreads or page turns, and I think a physical page turn is always going to feel better in terms of presentation than a digital one anyway. a lot of profs at my school are also pretty anti-digital-only presentation, so it's also just a practicality thing to avoid having to convince them to let me do it that way lol

[stuck-in-the-ghost-zone]

ok one more post because this is driving me literally insane.

[gothambelfry]

flop trial camellya

god Casino camellya

[gold-rhine]

since neuvi reruns, i wanted to talk about his teams, bc i saw a lot of like misconceptions. i see ppl going like "he needs furina, i dont have her\she's on another team, so i can't play him" or like "he needs both kazuha and xilonen to be good," etc.

first of all, he doesn't need ANYBODY. That man can solo one side of the abyss. One of his biggest strength is that you can put him and like 3 parasites who do no damage, but sometimes can react with hydro, and he will clear. i play him without furina all the time.

Neuvi teams are like pizza. like yes, if you put best premium ingredients, like, idk, italian prosciutto, ruccola, expensive cheese, then it will be great. but if you order from pizza chain or do homemade from whatever is in your fridge, it will still be good, probably worse than the fancy restaurant in italy, but still good, bc if you have the basics down, its really hard to make bad pizza. Same with neuvi teams, if you have a well built neuvi, its hard to do a bad team.

basics are: he wants 3 different elements (other than hydro) on a team, preferably with off-field, bc he gets buffs from just the fact that teammates triggered hydro reaction. This is why furina is not crucial btw - without his C1, he loses entire stack of the buff with second hydro on a team. furina has enough personal buffs to compensate, but overall the new buff you're getting from a character of different element will be good enough.

His teammates should be preferably buffing neuvi in some way, bc hes doing most damage, so basic formula is like:

anemo with viridescent venerer (best option kazuha)

natlan off-field with cinder scrolls set (best option xilonen)

flex slot, sub dps\buffer or shield (best option furina)

So, to illustrate i went thru first half of current abyss on my f2p account with like the most garbage options for teammates. This abyss (the one before his one rolls out) is actually not favorable to him, bc one side has hydro tulpa, and other half has a hydro beast with like 80% hydro resistance. and you know what? it doesn't matter, he can still deal with hydro beast fast enough. If it can get WET, it can get DEAD.

so, my team was, with well built, but C0 neuvi on 4 star weapon (widsith):

jean with vv on ER build - he doesnt need healer without furina (or even with her tbh), but i imagine if like im casual player and afraid of dying, i want a healer. but this can be any anemo with vv

my unbuilt ororon with scroll set. hes not doing damage himself bc he has 89% crit damage and is on energy recharge weapon, he's just there to activate buff. it could be kachina or any new natlan support. if you dont want to use natlan character for some reason, then literally doesnt matter

my level 50 dehya with level 1 sac greatsword. this is to signify like defensive unit slot, bc ppl are afraid to play him without shield. i just dont have a built shield. but yeah, you can use any shield here

so, this team has no synergy, in fact, it has like anti-synergy. no one except neuvi is doing any damage here. this is like. the worst case scenario team, with just random half-assed characters.

ok, so this team cleared first half in minute and a half first try. 1-30! if you dont know, minute and a half is a threshold of like a decent team, bc its half out of 3 minutes, so the second side also gets minute and a half. so neuvi with bad supports who do nothing clears in the same time as a decent team of 4 well-built characters should.

this is why its said he has high floor - like, his worst case scenario is still as good or better than most other characters good case. this is similar to hyperbloom - another team that can be really good with low investment. in fact, i cleared second side with like most basic hyperbloom team (nahida, xingque, kuki, fischl) and easily 9 starred. neuvi on one side and hyperbloom on another is like the easiest low investment abyss clears lol.

i also tried another like "not best", but better than trash team: kazuha, fischl, nahida. its not really hyperbloom, but it can synergize better than the first one, and it has decent sub-dps damage. So this team cleared first chamber in a minute, and other chambers in 50 seconds (bc hydro beast is in first chamber). This is i think is like a mid-investment team, nothing crazy, not best case, and it still clears in a minute!

his best team (furina, kazuha, xilonen, all c0, no 5 star weapons) clears first half in 40 seconds. again, this is in abyss thats kinda bad for him. this leaves more than 2 minutes for your second side to be bad and struggle.

tldr: neuvi is crazy flexible. build your neuvi well and everyone else on a team can be garbage and do no damage, and it will still clear fast enough to 3 star abyss room. he has no "must have" teammates. the better supports you give him, the better he becomes, but he can lose any of them if they are needed on second team and not struggle.

[sharkface]

The discussion surrounding whether RWBY is good or not is frequently tainted by intentional bad faith readings done by people whose first exposure to it was a crit video from a youtuber whose opinion of it is and always was almost completely negative for reasons that have nearly nothing to do with its actual issues and a lot to do with its many growing pains or being annoyed by it being inspired by other series or copying One Scene from Cowboy Bebop (the first scene in the entire show, btw) and I find readings based on this to be disingenuous at best and utter dogshit at worst. There are plenty of things wrong with RWBY that have very little to do with you thinking it's Ugly

At the same time though I think there are a lot of fans who are much too willing to write off any criticism whatsoever as Youtuber Boot Licking or bizarrely portraying the criticism as being disingenuous by virtue of coming from an imagined "male fan just mad RWBY is about women more than men" (which I do not personally think is even true, RWBY has a higher proportion of central women to central men but a lot of significant events are attributed to the actions of men or are only talked about by men (Jaune being the only character allowed to truly grieve Phyrra, Ruby's v4-v6 arc centering her uncle, the Ozpin/Oscar situation, etc etc) and I think this is very much a shame because there was a lot of potential for gendered commentary within these characters and their personal dynamics with women that did not manifest) and I think this is a pretty obvious shutdown from people largely unwilling to even consider the possibility of RWBY handling the subject matter it chose to tackle better.

Like, I want a RWBY that values its women, RWBY is defined by its women in all ways, and it is not a coincidence to me that the diversification of writers has led to V9, the first season to even attempt to meaningfully tackle Ruby's (the main fucking character btw) trauma, feelings of inadequacy, crisis of identity now that her imagined huntress hero is impossible to become, and deep love for her family and repression for her feelings of having been routinely abandoned by them. V9 is by far the best season and I genuinely hope RWBY has the opportunity for more resources for its final season(s) because I think while it wouldn't unfuck the past seasons (and especially not the incredibly racist White Fang plot which dominates two thirds of the entire series.) I think it has the right to at least have its criticisms be based on a complete work, and, more sentimentally, I earnestly want to know what RWBY could be with a little more structure and without being coupled to a rapidly dying (and now dead) web media company. Because I have always thought it could be (and in many ways almost was) great and I am only critical of it because I want it to be

[ladyluscinia]

Oh so they're doubling down on saying that enjoying a character they don't like and being defensive (and, admittedly, a bit petty) in what's effectively a Flame War is a red flag for demonstrating cult-like fandom behavior, while clarifying that no one is actually calling Izzy fans a cult. Yet. Just saying we need to nip this in the bud, you know?

(This being... what exactly? Arguing about S2 predictions on tumblr? Vaguing people? - Hi! 🫡 Having "bad" takes that may or may not be problematic? Bitching about tagged character crit / hate about your fave, sometimes on the posts in question? Dedicating blogs to wank? Welcome to every-fandom-ever-including-BlackBonnet, I guess.)

Not a new accusation, but since people are once again making ominous statements about the "concerning" potential of a Snapewives situation... maybe we should pass around a reminder of who, exactly, they're referencing?

The Snapewives (Fanlore Link, Reddit Synopsis) were an extremely small niche forum in a really huge fandom that are pretty much only known for infamous levels of cringe that got them mocked relentlessly when discovered by Fan Wank. We are talking a tiny subsection of a subsection of a subsection of the massive HP fandom that got really earnest with their self-insert fanfic / roleplaying (and really didn't like the canon ending of Snape's arc). There's actually a really interesting paper on analyzing "Snapism" as a religion that alludes to their particular issues with Christian faith and erotic fantasies, and can kinda sketch in how they might have gotten to where they did. It's weird, no doubt, but honestly sounds pretty harmless?

Like, I'm not sure if we're using the BITE model that they would even count as a real cult - "Snape" seems very controlling and makes them do things (cook specific dinners, stop biting nails, go on diets, etc.) but, like, there's no cult leader being "Snape". These are all self-assigned "tasks" via "channeling" (which is again weird but not super unique - read the paper) and then the women themselves disagree on things and could just come across as a really intense roleplaying forum having disputes over ratings for self-insert fic, among other things.

The situation is different when there's an obvious cult leader - see the extensive documented history of Andy "thanfiction" compiled here. Trigger warnings for sexual assault, abuse, manipulation... all the stuff you expect from cults. And really getting into reading the supplementary info will take you many hours, btw.

Anyway... having looked extensively at our "fandom cult" examples, I don't think I'm remotely "concerned" that we're veering toward cult behavior. Or Snapewives behavior. The Izzy section of fandom - and, for that matter, the Izzy Anti section of fandom - haven't really done anything that hasn't been done in countless flame wars before? Like we as a collective haven't even gotten to the levels of targeted character hate that I can glimpse by searching "Teen Wolf" right now, and frankly OFMD still isn't big enough to dream of replicating 2010s fandom's biggest hits. There's some cutting edge weaponization of social justice that's a more modern development, but that's still fundamentally just fighting about the fiction. Even the one doxxing incident is unfortunately not unique.

Sheesh, "Izzy Canyon" isn't even demonstrating a unified meta or consistent S2 desires / shipping preferences / etc. We're just better at not being dicks about it by necessity?

[kafus]

file too big for tumblr so you get a youtube video but HIII I DID IT!! I BEAT THORTON!!! I GOT THE GOLD PRINT BABEY I WAS NOT EXPECTING THIS TO HAPPEN TONIGHT!! months of on and off grinding and then 3 days straight of doing this nearly all my waking hours and losing so many streaks and I DID IT!!! this is one of the hardest things you can do in gen 4 ever i think i'm losing my mind. pthgss battle factory does NOT fuck around

some commentary below the cut if you're interested in my thoughts/strategy while doing this

when i saw whiscash i swapped into scizor because i thought it was safe and i wanted to preserve weavile's strength, speed, and fake out for later... and i did my calcs wrong. i've been hunched over calculators and spreadsheets for hours to have the best odds of winning this streak and somehow i was calculating doubles damage instead of singles so EQ was stronger than i expected. embarrassingly i didn't notice this until someone pointed it out to me after the fact LOL. i don't even know how i didn't catch it, of course EQ does more damage, it's STAB!! so that was actually a pretty damn dangerous switch! but he missed stone edge i am BLESSED stone edge more like stone MISS AHAHAHAFSDKFSDAL

anyway after whiscash was down i let entei take out my scizor because scizor is slow and was already on low HP, if i tried to preserve it it would probably just get outsped and die to a legendary or something later. and entei had two dangerous sets in particular it could possibly be so i really needed to scout its fire move. tbh when i saw entei my heart sank, i knew my team was really weak to fire and that it could be a problem but i just never found any good pokemon to swap while climbing round 7. i just hoped that garchomp resisting and having earthquake would suffice... but the entei had a shuca berry (halves a super effective ground hit) so outrage actually did more damage. if entei crit me at any point it would have been over but otherwise it would have been impossible to take out garchomp in two hits thankfully. and i had a persim berry if outrage ended in two turns and confused me. but didn't end up mattering!

my heart SANK when the focus band proc'd on latios (a 10% chance) but then i was like YES!! THIS IS WHAT WEAVILE HAS BEEN WAITING FOR!! THERE'S NO WAY IT PROCS TWO MORE TIMES IN A ROW RIGHT?! because weavile using fake out would give me a chance, and then if focus band proc'd again, the flinch from fake out would let me get a second turn and weavile outspeeds that latios SO it was pretty safe unless i got insanely unlucky. AND IT WORKED OUT!!!!

i dunno if i deserved this win because my round 6 (the round before this one) was INCREDIBLY lucky, like, i got the round 7 staraptor in my draft and it had choice band brave bird and just decimated EVERYTHING except a couple bronzongs which i had a strong vaporeon for, so... it was basically a freebie and then round 7 had some close calls but also i got garchomp from trading with the literal first trainer (who i almost lost to but shhh) and then all the stuff with scizor/whiscash... BUT. it's been long enough i'm TAKING IT

anyways POGGERS

i'm probs gonna upload this battle video to the dns exploit server later but i gotta wait for my parents to go to bed so i'm not interrupting them using wifi by turning on the gen 4 compatible guest wifi lol

(btw if you want to do factory yourself please look up smogon's resources on it and use calcs and stuff i promise without it it will be a living nightmare 10x more than it already is)

[shephar]

Happy birthday, Izanami.

Izanami (me) in HSR.

"No Easy Way"

I look like albedo IRL, btw, just uglier because I am real.

Introduction.

"Me? Oh, you know. I'm Izanami. Nothing special about me, honestly. Hahaha..."

Izanami is an Imaginary damage type character, an Emanator of Elation.

Their weapon of choice is a deck of cards, instead of having Hearts, Diamonds, Spades, and Clubs, the deck had Stars, Eyes, Rectangles, and Bones.

About: Self.

"Ahh, hmm. You wish to know more about me? I'm afraid there's not much to say, you know. I travel the stars..."

They wear loose clothes, aesthetics not mattering as long as it's comfortable.

A billowy T-shirt, a long coat, jeans, an obnoxiously long scarf.

About: Clothes.

"Where I got these? I don't remember, back when I was mortal at the very least. Thousands of years ago, maybe. Haah, I hope I can rest soon, my bones ache."

For their talent, Izanami guarantees to have half their hand full of cards that match for a set, and if characters who require attacks or skill points to use their ultimate instead of Energy are in the party, they have two extra points.

Their basic attack as a Blast damage where Izanami launches 3-1 useless card/s at the enemy, those cards going back in the shuffle.

Voice Line: Ultimate.

"50/50, winner takes all! My life or yours, let's find out who takes the money. Laughter."

Izanami's skill debuffs opponents speed and reshuffles useless cards in their hand, along with boosting Crit Rate for the party and depending on who the other party members are (Qingqiu, Aventurine, Silver Wolfe, Welt) this can be buffed higher, or lowered.

Their Ultimate is a giant screen, opened on a blank canvas that just says "Pull 10", when clicked, it either gives a 4*, which leaves Izanami at 1 HP and buffs the other members, or leaves the opposing side at 0 HP. For bosses, that's lowered to 50% HP and a debuff.

Ask: Aventurine.

"My thoughts on Aventurine? I ran into a friend of his once, at least I think so. They thought I was related to him, they saw my hair and my luck when I was betting on something. I won, of course, but they said that the Aventurine fellow has incredible luck. I just have luck for the funniest outcome."

Izanami's quest to get them on the ship takes place on the Astral Express, them bumping into the train as they walk along the stars. They ask for directions to the nearest space station, and are on their way.

"Ahh, the Astral Express is much warmer than the expanse of space. I wouldn't recommend walking the stars, friend."

Eidolon Activation.

"I don't see why you gave me that, aren't there better characters you could get?"

Their Eidolon only buffs the length their buffs last. No whale buffs.

"Yahaha! Get ready Astral Expressers" is their line when pulled.

Added to a team with Welt.

"Hah, Earth boy. Wait. I'm from Earth. What's up fellow earth guy. Forget I said anything."

Izanami would be yet to appear within the main story, outside of mentions by Sampo or Sparkle.

Sampo: "Oouh, my good buddy Izanami, whatever are you doing to keep you so busy."

Added to a team with Aventurine.

"Woah, we're twinning. Crazy."

Status when they leave the story: Unknown, but assumed dead.

"Wouldn't it be funny if I said that I'll see you again but I died and you never got to know anything more about me? Hahaha!"

[comradeboyhalo]

im truly not that mad at it but its just frustrating cause bads gotten so much flack for metagaming with the map when he doesn't, he uses an in-game mechanic. and then an egg admin metagames for vegetta's benefit (not vegettas fault btw) and ofc no crit happens bc vegettas a big streamer and bbh stans r chill.

again i dont think there should be arguments or upset over this, cause it doesn't rly matter in the grand scheme of things. its just annoying to constantly see the double standard and its always against bbh :/

[astrxlfinale]

Thoughts on Firefly's gameplay? Congrats on getting her btw! :D

First off! Much appreciated! I have been VERY happy to finally have her joining my roster.

As for her thoughts? It's exactly what I've been looking for. Moreso an influence of my account direction, but, I've REALLY been trying to find other means of getting damage in motion without having to do Hoyo related crit grinding. Firefly happens to supply that perfect answer for me, a burstdown oriented playstyle that focuses on stunning the enemy via Breaking then supplying the beatdown.

That said, I do have to say that Firefly is particularly demanding like any other hypercarry. There's a lack of flexibility (as of now) for optimal team set ups. To draw out her best is also pricey as well considering that Ruan Mei serves as one of her best partners. With this being the start of a Break playstyle, it's going to be a bit tight for the time. (The FF/H MC/Mei/Gallagher team feels pretty pre-planned for her.)

Unless you have her E1, there's also the matter of SP juggling as well. Having units (and light cones) that score positive on SP engagement will be the best grounds to have her thrive. Otherwise the momentum can really take a nasty hit. Though, the catch is that a supposed answer like Sparkle/Bronya doesn't offer much outside of advance forwarding, a lot of their crit boosting goes wasted. (This is me speaking from the E0 perspective though.)

She's one of those units where you have to explicitly know what you're looking for. The realm of investment is considerable due to needing another five star.

Though say you have everything all set thought? She's going to be a DEMON across the battlefield. My account direction just heavily benefited breaking since I first joined Star Rail on Ruan Mei's banner.

Hope the deets are useful to ya!

[gladiolidiaries]

hii idk if u remember but I’m the anon from a few days ago who learn of critblr through Reddit and has never watched a dteam video ever because they cringe me out so badly 😁

From a complete outsider perspective personally I’m feeling like this is going to backfire massively. the cantu situation proved it doesn’t matter if dream has firm, solid evidence (which he does not have btw lmao) the gp don’t care. From what I can see the fandom is dwindling rapidly - I’m expecting some damage control streams in the coming weeks (George mainly).

this defo has the potential to be massive. I don’t think other streamers will react to it well either - absolute best case scenario, like BEST timeline for him is some commentary channels will take a neutral stance. more likely he’ll get mass unfollowed and subtweeted a lot (think a lot of ‘guys remember to believe victims!’ stuff) and I wouldn’t be surprised if he starts getting vauged by Tommy a lot since his friend group already thinks dream is weird with women. And this is assuming the Jamie stuff isn’t true (which I think it is) because if it is he’s cooked. Once u start debating the game of consent it’s game over.

Also I think the video will cause a lot of dregirls to come out which will make him look worse.

with all that being said I would like dream to have a little wander round crit just to see what he thinks 🤔

honestly your last point is what i think too, i think that more victims will come out, specifically the one behind the burner

[fivegaze]

3.31

mm heres what i did today- i added the combo system (where you have to follow the key sequence on screen to add damage to your attack), fixed what was wrong with it (i kept trying to access the scene variables not realizing that with an additive scene there would be two science variables objects and it was trying to pull from the wrong one.) when that stopped being broken (aka i just plopped the whole thing into the same scene which felt like an anticlimactic solution but hey) i finally fit it into the state machine. it's not fully functional yet, but when i sat down they weren't even connected at all

there she is! my incredibly janky combo system. please ignore the way everything just stacks on top of each other that's not. staying there i am going to animate it. none of these ui graphics aside from the menu buttons and text choices are final btw i am not leaving those govt street sign ass arrows in there.

this is what the state machine looks like for the combo system :] i called it combo crusher <3 i always worry that my state machines look really janky and cluttered but i guess that doesn't matter as much as if it's working lol. ummm one day i'll learn C# (and html because god lmao) but for now it's just me and my little visual scripting machines against Da World.

the second pic here is how i'm currently detecting input which feels silly to me but there's no event block for "any key down" just this one so that's what i'm doing for now. my blatant abuse of on update is what got me into such a Freaking pickle with something's on the station. fun fact that game is Not built with fungus like space case and the VN scenes for soul squad. i wanted to do it myself and i spent so long building a prototype for UI that i didn't even end up using at all that by the time it was time to plug in the dialogue i didnt really have a lot of time to work the system out. so it's just the world's worst dialogue system. do you wanna see it it's SO bad

i can't even fit it into one screenshot. every time you click the "advance dialogue" button it checks to see if you're on the last line and if not it's like okay what line ARE you on then. at which point it pulls from a list of every voice line (unlabeled and barely organized btw) and corresponding dialogue line which is, like, fine, okay, whatever, and ALSO,

IT'S CHECKING WHAT LINE YOU'RE ON EVERY FRAME and just going through a giant if/else chain to make sure the right characters are active. also on every frame it's updating the text color, just in case. also sometimes more than one character is active and it just completely breaks the color coded character text. like okay this could definitely be worse but it sure could be better. i'm being overly self-critical bc i'm an annoying perfectionist (to the incredible detriment of my wellbeing and productivity, obviously) so the fact that it was all completed during a semester gives me SO much room to self-crit. i'm still really proud of it even though i ran out of time to bugfix and i didn't have time to level any of the audio or clean up any of the voice lines. (seriously though this is me being proud of something i make i just don't know how to not like pick my work apart. /neutral.)

anyway this is supposed to be a soul squad update so let's move on from that

this is the turn system btw! combo crusher is brand new. i already have a (time consuming) move selection set up which is irritating bc i'm gonna have to go in and undo everything so i can add a new movelist but i'm moving that out of the priority spotlight(tm) because um my (writing) scripts are NOT done and i need them to be done. cheers and light and love this is gonna be such a meaty github upload im pumped. i love writing myself little devlogs for me and me only. like a little treat

anyway that's all i did today besides go to an extremely short job interview which was cool. i really hope i get the job because i would like to be able to afford rent :D

[dragonmoder]

(btw from here on out i'm differentiating between crits and natural crits - natural crits are, no matter the modifiers, Very Good or Very Bad, whereas an artificial crit fail is worse than a regular fail but still not nat-tier)

[gold-rhine]

btw some tips on now to build nahida:

the most low effort basic build for her is just triple EM main stats on Deepwod set

but she actually does a good amount of damage, so it's better to also build crits

sands are always EM

goblet: she converts her own Elemental Mastery to dendro damage bonus and crit rate for her skill, so it means EM goblet is almost always > dendro dmg goblet. like, even 600 EM will give you about same dendro damage as dendro goblet, but also free additional crit rate. she converts EM over 200 to bonuses, so take your overall EM - 200, then *0,1, i.e. 600-200=400, 400*0,1 = 40% damage bonus from 600 EM.

hat: the best option is to roll crit substats on three EM pieces, so you have EM as main stat - see as example my top 0,1 Nahida if you don't have pieces like that, you can use crit hat. but to calculate crit rate bonus from EM, take your overall EM - 200, then *0,03. i.e. your EM is 600, then 600-200=400, 400*0,03= 12, so you get 12% crit rate.

600 btw is how much EM you normally get if you have EM sands + EM goblet + EM weapon and maybe a roll or two on the flower and feather, you can get this even still having crit hat

but if you go full EM like my nahida with 948 EM, then you get 948 - 200= 748, 748*0,03= 22,44 crit rate. which is only 10% less than crit rate hat. so if you can get these 10% from substats, then EM hat is >> crit rate hat.

Burst: nahida gives 25% of highest EM in the party to the ACTIVE CHARACTER, up to 250 EM. this means that for teams like hyperbloom where electro character like kuki or raiden are off field, her burst doesn't really do much and you don't have to bother.

but for teams like aggravate and spread, where carry on field very much wants EM, like clorinde, cyno, alhaitham, keqing, sethos, crit build raiden, etc, her burst is very useful. for these teams you also need to keep in mind who is the highest EM in your party.

for example, if its aggravate team with anemo character like kazuha, he will usually have highest EM, he should have about 1000 EM, so nahida can share his EM and her own EM will only matter for herself. but if this is spread team without kazuha, or aggravate with xilonen, then its better for nahida to have triple EM ~1000K EM build herself, otherwise theres not enough EM to meaningfully share bonus

in bloom its better to always use nahida's burst

[chocoenvy]

in regards to the god!reader having a lover from their world, how would the archons or whoever you want react to god!reader somehow bringing them into tevyat? (not the same anon btw)

If this were to happen i feel like it'd be a bit like this ofc it'd be different im just a tad bit obsessed with this atm

I brainrotted so hard with this thank you

The archons would be mega jealous but you love your lover so much. You're so happy when they smile, hold your hand, kiss you, no matter how jealous they may be they can't get upset.

You were so sad without them too, that when they finally came to Teyvat the entire world felt how happy you were.

Not to mention that they know you best, been there before you were deemed a god.

When they're first brought to Teyvat they're very confused about your new deity status and are threatened 24/7 by the characters to treat you with respect

To which you scold them because your lover doesn't have to do that.

Eventually they get the hang of it but I feel like the teasing potential they have over you is too great

They'd probably tease you about all the characters you're down bad for.

They'd be like, "Hey remember when you spent your money to get Thoma? A four star?"

"When you saw Yae Miko and went 'Excuse me, mommy? sorry mommy? sorry, mommy-?"

"SHUT UP SHE'S RIGHT THERE!"

You have to be careful though because your acolytes can and will take threats to your spouse literally.

"I'll push you off Amakumo peak if you don't shut the fuck up about my gambling addiction-"

Meanwhile your cult is already planning their murder but they have no clue how to get to Amakumo peak.

if you catch onto their plans for murder you have to tell them that your insults and threats are loving. It's how you showed your love for people back on your world because they didn't treat you like a god.

Some of them are confused, unable to imagine you as anything other than a god, but others understand.

Eventually you have to make it excruciatingly clear to all of your acolytes that your lover is untouchable. Not to be hurt no matter the circumstances or what you say. You make a rule book just so the number one rule can be to not hurt your lover no. matter. what.

You lover saying so much obscure shit. They make it their mission to make you laugh at the stupidest inside jokes and memes that none of the cult members understand.

You: *Being serious*

Your lover: It was never about the wandering traveler...

You: Shut the fuck up-

Your lover: "It was about THE METS BABEY-"

Singing tar-tar-taglia lover of Snezhnayan queen together and Childe isn't sure if he should be touched or not.

Cute dates in all of your favorite places. All those places you'd take pictures together you can now stare at for hours together.

Y'know how most of the time we shorten names to make it easier to type? Like Barbara = Barbs?

Doing that and saying all of their names wrong

Calling Kokomi negative crit rate and she's not too sure what that means but she's hurt.

You getting homesick and you're tired of being treated like a god and they're right there for you. Grounding you, being your home, and being the place where you don't have to be a god.

They're just a beacon of comfort for you and you them so you're stuck to each other 24/7 much to the dismay of the archons

They'd love to get to be closer to you but your lover takes up all of your time

But you're so happy, you never smiled that much before they came. You enjoyed Teyvat much more when they were around.

It hurt the archons, but they knew that you were happiest this way. They could tell with every breath of Teyvat that you were giddy when your lover was around. To which, they couldn't argue them taking up all of your time.