Another Learning Experience (augh the sufferinggg)

-Congrats to our 3 Superstars! Odette (borrowed) gets Highest Damage Dealt, Wanderer successfully keeps his "Most Opponents Defeated" title (better luck next time, Sandrone!) and Ifa gets "Most Damage Taken". -I adjusted my cast until I finally got a successful 12-Stella run: I left out Jean, Layla, Thoma, the Varka I borrowed, -and replaced them with Ifa, Sayu, Charlotte (I don't know how I missed her out the last time?) and borrowed a friend's C0 Odette (lvl 90, on lvl 90 Exaiphanes Blade). - I also Crowned Qiqi's skill, double-Crowned Cryo!Traveller, gave Sayu her final Ascension, and levelled up Jahoda a few times, I can't remember how many exactly. - I feel like this experience taught me the value of having what I'm going to call "pseudo-dpses" in your cast. That is, units who provide off-field support but can also be put in the active slot, and yet don't have the firepower necessary for tackling Boss or AC Acts unless you have very strong off-field application supports + high Blessings levels. - When you don't have a lot of dpses, you'll want one of those in the active slot for Act 4 which can be stalled out, so that you can save stronger dps units for other Acts. My psuedo-dps units were Kaeya, Sayu and Ifa. - In my previous completed run, I didn't yet understand how to activate the elemental absorption in Jahoda's skill... I now understand that she can only do that when in Ascendant Gleam 🫠 hooray for learning? Unfortunately in my experiences, it takes too much time to charge up to be used against bosses to really be worth the dps loss... - I'd managed a very exciting AC I clear with Wanderer - Cryo!Traveller - Faruzan + Xianyun that I regretfully had to rewind... now that one was fun, there were Stellar-Swirls ALL OVER the chamber, even more than when I did it with Qiqi previously. - At the start of Act 9, I got an extremely lucky Mystery Cache pull that restored 1 Vigor to Odette, which let me clear that Act with Ayaka without needing Ineffa or another high-value support unit, like Yelan. If I hadn't already resolved to pull her before, this would have been the clincher. - Since I was able to land Skirk's best teammates just in time for the Act 10, it went off without a hitch... but the Aquabreeze Blessings icon kept popping up mysteriously. Why, when there were no Anemo units in the party? - I found out why afterwards, when I used Hoyolab to check the effects of Aquabreeze Blessings... I hadn't read them carefully at the time of choosing because my only Hydro dps (Neuvillette) had already been used up, but it seems that the Level 2 Blessing I had chosen will activate whenever there is healing, even if it was done by a non-Hydro, non-Anemo unit such as Escoffier. It even gets a little boost at Level 4! -I'm not sure how much it helped Skirk, but if I'd gone with the other Level 2 Blessing, it wouldn't have activated during the fight at all. This might be useful knowledge for future cycles, maybe? You never know.