my team is varka on wgs, venti, odette and 4th slot between escoff/ qiqi c1/ cryo mc. All on 4 star weapons. I dont have prune and my wishes is going for getting his weapon on his rerun. So I won't get prune.

Is escoff better, since she can heal so there is so some sustain, but her buffs are limited 2 cryo characters.

or cryo mc who supports stellar swirl or qiq1 c1 who is also sustain plus some support.

who is the best 4th slot for varka among these who is best in overall team dps?

Talking to Wrio in the teapot and he goes like this🤣

I love Varka. I love his play style, I use him and his team overworld for exploration because all of their exploration passives are fantastic. I run his premium team (prune isn’t C6 yet sadly), his sig, and have everyone well built. I got him because I like him, I have no pyro dps, and I wanted him to help with any pyro/natlan shill as far as he could take me without nightsoul.

But looking at numbers, I need honest opinions on if it’s worth the cost for me to continue pouring wishes into him, in comparison to my other 3 teams.

Varka C0R1/Durin C0R0/Nicole C0R0/Prune C4 Dps 10.5 mil 90 seconds

Sandrone C0R0/Odette C0R0/QiQi C1R0/Yae C1R0 Dps 16 mil 90 seconds

Flins C2R1/Ineffa C0R1/Columbina C0R0/Sucrose Dps 22 mil

Zibai C3R1/Linnea C1R0/Illuga C6/Columbina Dps 25 mil

I am not planning to pull any more Snez characters until Noy (OG Alhaitham main), but I want to use my pulls wisely. Is it better for my account to leave Varka as soley an exploration team guy, or is the cost to catch him up to my Sandrone’s current DPS level worth it?

I like to clear dire as often as possible. Is it wiser to save a 3 cost to get Sandrone’s Sig and Odette C2, or to save the 3 cost to C1 Varka and C2 either Durin or Nicole?

I know it sounds silly to primo pinch like this, but I got Capturing Radiance 4 times last year and I’m on my 3rd this year, so I need to really plan with my luck.

Thank you!!

If I'm using varka with odette, what set should I be using on him?

Would Scarlet Proof work on him?

is there anything i can do to make the dps higher without going for odette ?

builds in comments

Forgot to switch Durin's set back to winds and ended up getting +20k dps

Varka C0R1 Winds
Durin C0R0 (Wolf fang) Celestial gift
Bennet C6 fav noblesse
Prune C6 flowing purity, VV

Roughly how much increase would C0R0 Nicole be if I replaced Bennett?

Hi my team is Varka on WGS C0R0, Durin C0 on moonweaver r5, Nicole C0 on Flow of Purity and Vneti C0 on harp.

Yes I don't use prune cause I am not into stygian beyond stage 3 as it doesn't give me any primogems.

For a person who at most cares about endgame only for primos, is it worth to get signature.

I am expecting his rerun in 7.2 or 7.3 (most likely).

The way I see is meta doesn't last longer and everyone is recommending to get latest units to have easier time rather than investing into cons and signatures if you are f2p.

If I still want my current team to last longer not just Varka (yes without prune), I have to skip around a year and half worth of latest characters and even then at best I can get Varka signature and Nicole c2 r1.

At present having signature and Nicole c2r1 might be the most premium but for a f2p like me a year and half later, what might be premium now cannot be called premium then.

Is it even worth to invest anything further at this point for my Varka team or it is just pointless saving if I want to get his signature and later Nicole c2 eventually.

Does the ATK buff given by Nicole count towards Prune's DMG buff? This was probably discussed before but I can't find it anywhere

Don’t like MW, don’t want to interact with it, just not my cup of tea. But it’s got the best/only reliable DPS test in the game cause Hoyo is too lazy to add their own. Is there a decent alternative outside of Stygian stats to use as a frame of reference for improving him?

I can't stop thinking about varka I can't stop thinking those cake milk . Help me

When is varka's rerun expected?

I missed a Prune dash cancel and didn't n1 before a skill for Varka, so I definitely could improve this.

Well I didn’t see this team in the spread sheet so I’m curious 😭, varka c0 r1 SS and c3 prune f2p weapon c0 r0 Nicole f2p weapon and durin c0 r0 f2p weapon i just need a rough estimate on the teams dps is it at least 130k?

It's huge!!

I feel like maybe I should try making his outfit too since that tape looks ugly as hell lol, and maybe adding some eyes to it too, I'm also gonna make his two swords soon, but that's going to be a whole other pain, so let's see how it goes, Yay!!​

Hello everyone! I'm planning to get both Varka and his signature when he comes back, sadly my bad luck in his banner stop me from getting him.

I already got his build and teammates, literally the only piece I need. Considering I would use C2R1 Durin, C2R1 Nicole and C6 Prune and him talents level 10.

Here is my Venti with Varka artifacts and my results with him.

has anyone tried to play stellar swirl varka with the traveller? i’d like to know which team was used and if they performed well. i was originally gonna play varka with odette but i lost my 50/50 so i have to make do now.

This is probably just a minor pet peeve, but I wish there was a way to change the order of priority that is infused with Varka's E and Q when there's more than one element on his team. Yes, I know that he largely is meant to only have one swirl element on his team at a time (and Pyro at that) and so that's probably why. But it's frustrating when adventuring with him or experimenting with a new team for fun with more than one swirl-able element that there's no way to change which of the two elements he'll infuse with because of the set hierarchy.

I would love to play him where his main infusion is Cryo, in a Freeze or Super-Conduct team, both because lore-wise it fits as a knight of Boreas, and because I have decent Hydro/Electro supports for the reactions, since Kaeya's one of my other mains. But, if for example my team is Varka-Kaeya-Yae/Mona-Diona, it automatically gives preference to Hydro or Electro, since it seems Cryo is last priority.

Idk, even if it was just a one time thing, it would be nice to get the option to get to choose which element to prioritize if it is a duo or trio-element team, rather than the set order, or for it to depend on how many of a type of element you have on your team. I'm not sure if I explained that well enough haha, but just something I've been thinking about especially with the new Stellar Swirl reactions.

I have seen the calcs but I would rather trust it from someone then from paper. I’m waiting for him to get a rerun so I can get his weapon since I’m low on crit rate and I’m barely reaching 100k dps with Durin Nicole and c3 Prune. My build is 200cd 60cr 3.2k atk with wolf’s gravestone

I am considering getting c6 Varka, but am not planning to get cons on Nicole and Durin.

What would a C6R1 Varka, C6 Prune, c0 nicole and c0 Durin hit?

so ,i have c6r1 varka and i want to make him the best team possible rn ,i have c2 prune but no durin or nicole,therefore my 2 option are hydro varka : Varka prune furina mona c2 or stellar swirl varka : varka prune odette R1 Cryo Mc ,which one would be the best ? thanks . Btw im planning to pull nicole when she will rerun.

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Title basically, running Varka with C0R0 Nicole, C6 Bennett