Intro:
Ehe.
What's in this analysis?
1. Comparison between 4 different artifact builds:
a. 4-Viridescent Venerer
b. 2-Viridescent Venerer + 2-Gladiator's Finale
c. 2-Viridescent Venerer + 2-Noblesse Oblige
d. 2-Viridescent Venerer + 2-Wanderer's Troupe
And 8 main stat set:
a. EM/Anemo/EM
b. EM/Anemo/Crit
c. EM/Anemo/Attack
d. Attack/Anemo/Crit
e. Attack/Anemo/Attack
f. ER/Anemo/Crit
g. ER/Anemo/EM
h. ER/Anemo/Attack
Note:
ER = Energy Recharge %
EM = Elemental Mastery
I didn't forget to explain this time.
2. Comparison between 6 different weapon
a. Skyward Harp (5★)
• Damaging passive will be assumed to proc every 7 seconds.
b. Amos' Bow (5★)
• Passive will be disregarded.
c. Elegy for the End (5★)
• 160 EM and +20% attack is assumed to always be active.
d. Stringless
• +24% damage passive is always active.
e. Favonius Bow
• Passive will be considered.
f. Sacrificial Bow
• Passive will be disregarded.
g. Viridescent Hunt
• Passive will be disregarded.
h. R5 Windblume Ode
• +32% attack passive is always active.
Assumptions:
The calculations below will follow the following assumptions:
1. Venti is lv90.
2. The enemy is two lv80 hilichurl, however, the damage output will only show the damage for one hilichurl.
• This is due to how swirl works in his burst:
Swirl damage is a small AOE, and if there's two enemies in the burst, then the two enemies will be damaged by two swirl every tick.
If there are three enemies, then the swirl will proc three times every tick, and so on.
The swirl will be assumed to be cryo/pyro/electro.
Hydro swirl appears to be the least effective swirl for some reason, proccing much less than the other three elements.
3. Talent lv6, C0.
4. Normal attack will not be considered.
• No swirl will occur from his elemental skill.
• Burst DoT will be assumed to hit 15 times. The maximum tick is 20, but I assume it to be 15 because sometimes, the tick is lost due to enemies being too far from the burst.
Changing the amount of tick from 15 to 20 causes some variation in the result. However, a general conclusion can still be obtained.
• Elemental damage bonus will be assumed to hit 11 times.
• Swirl will be assumed to proc 12 times.
5.This is very important, so stay with me:
• For artifact tests, the ones without crit main stat will be assumed to never crit.
• For the ones with crit main stat, critical rate will be assigned at 60%. Unlike my usual analysis where I assume all hits will crit, here, I will assume 60% of the hits will crit. This is done to give crit build less advantage.
So:
• Burst DoT will crit 9 times.
• Elemental damage will crit 7 times.
• Swirl can't crit.
Results:
Artifact Test
Stat overview:
EM damage bonus estimation:
ER estimation:
It is estimated that Venti will gain 1.5 energy per second.
"Burst CD" represents the amount of time needed to regain his burst back. Please note that his passive is considered here, so instead of 60 energies, he will only need to regen 45 energies after his burst ends.
The CD that goes under 15 seconds is boosted back up to 15 seconds.
Please keep in mind that there are a lot of factors to the energy recharge system, so take this with consideration.
Damage overview:
Simulation Result:
Note:
Tap skill = Tap skill / 6
Hold skill = Hold skill / 15
Bust Total DPS = (Burst DoT + Burst Elemental + Burst Swirl) / Burst CD
Putting all the damage together, and we have:
Note:
Left table is unsorted.
Right table is sorted from best to worst.
P.S. I don't know why the last row's color is off, and it bothers me so much, but I don't want to edit everything all over again.
Taking all the attack/anemo/crit numbers from Skyward Harp, and we have:
But, Nable, won't attack be much better if the burst proc 20 times?
Well, let's see.
1. Burst DoT = 20 times
Elemental damage = 15 times
Swirl = 12 times
2. Burst DoT = 20 times
Elemental damage = 15 times
Swirl = 18 times
3. Burst DoT = 15 times
Elemental damage = 11 times
Swirl = 18 times
4. Burst DoT = 15 times
Elemental damage = 11 times
Swirl = 24 times
Remember what I said on assumption (4)?
The results vary every time! Stringless even beat Skyward's damage output on 24 swirls.
I found this extremely amusing, but I completely understand if you don't share the same impression xD
Conclusion:
1. Attack/Anemo/Crit is generally better in most cases, however, there are some specific cases where EM is better.
2. 4-Viridescent Venerer is the best set for him.
Personal Opinion:
Although there are some cases where ER and EM is better, I'd still recommend Attack over them.
And remember that hydro swirl does not work as well as the other elements, so it'd be a bad idea to run Venti with EM if his elemental-infuser is a hydro character.
Weapon Test
All the numbers below are assumed to always crit.
Stat overview:
Damage overview and simulation result:
Contrary to popular belief, Stringless seems to be about as good as other 4-stars.
Now, I feel like Favonius has the least advantage, considering the ER is more than needed.
So I tried simulating Venti regenerating 0.9 energy instead of 1.5.
0.9 can happen if Venti is off-field, giving 60% energy recharge compared to on-field character.
This is the result:
Edit: You can check comment 40F for a calculation that completely disregard ER%.
Conclusion:
1. Elegy for the End seems to have pushed Skyward Harp as Venti's new best-in-slot weapon.
2. The rest of the 4-stars doesn't seem to have a significant difference in damage output.
P.S. Don't forget the "Windblume Ode" tested here is R5. R1 version perform less than Sacrificial.
Personal Opinion:
Ah, yes, my favourite type of conclusion: Considering all the tested 4-star weapons have similar damage output, just play with whichever makes you happy!
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