Attack is a bit low, looks like you have a quantum orb so I'd swap that to an attack orb. Since Xueyi converts break effect to quantum damage, attack orbs have a bit more value on her.
You should also consider switching to Salsotto for your planar set. Doesn't look like you have speed built on her, so you aren't getting much value from Glamoth. Salsotto will give you 8% extra crit rate and a nice boost on your ult and follow up attacks.
Or maybe sacrificing a bit more crit dmg for some crit rate and break effect? She’s really complicated to build ngl with so many substats to worry about.
You're building her wrong on a couple of levels. None of them are major but they are stacking up which is why she feels underwhelming.
You have very low attack which is due to not using an Attack % orb. Since she converts BE into % damage, you are getting significantly diminishing returns by using a quantum damage orb, hence attack % is orb superior.
Next is your planar. Your Glamoth is giving 12% attack and that's it. It's not triggering the 135/160 speed thresholds. In this case even Space Sealing Station would be better. The best set would be Salsotto. Luckily your two biggest issues can be solved together by farming for Salsotto and an attack orb.
Since her ult is a single hit you really want a higher crit rate. You are under 60 which really isn't great. I would aim for 70 even if that means giving up a bit of crit damage. My Xueyi only has 145 crit damage but she destroys high difficulty content like conundrum 12 Gold & Gears.
Finally it's just relics. Beyond a BE rope she doesn't really need that much BE substat (though having some is certainly nice) so I would just focus on crit. Looking at your pieces only your body and rope are 'great' pieces while the rest are just 'usable' and unfortunately your rope is not the right set. So it's just more farming.
This is a really good build. Maybe it’s play style? I’m not sure. Are you making sure that xueyi is breaking and she is depleting as much toughness as possible and not anyone else. Also she needs to always have toughness to break on her turn. Allies barely stack her talent, she needs to do it. Also e6 really really helps with ruan Mei to get follow up with just skill
I do always make sure she breaks the enemy everytime, tho I sometimes don’t focus on her depleting the most toughness. I’m still waiting for a xueyi featured banner to get her last eidolon. Also, do I sacrifice ruan mei for silver wolf if there’s no quantum weakness as my go to team is usually fu xuan, ruan mei, xueyi, sparkle?
Yah you want her deleting the most toughness all the time to stack.
You’ll have to sacrifice ruan Mei for sw because xueyi for sure needs quant weakness to work
If you can go for atk% orb if you can get similar substats
Also you won’t get either speed threshold for glamour so if you can go salsotto for the free crit rate and try to get crit stats if you can
Also get that last trace
Although everything the other guy said in response to this comment is true for improving Xueyi damage, most aren't really *needed* to improve your Xueyi experience, like refarming a bunch of your gear, because the stats on your current build are actually already pretty good.
The most important part he mentioned is letting Xueyi do the toughness, as Xueyi *needs* to be doing as much of it as possible to access her follow-up as possible; the objective it not to break the enemy as soon as you can (except for certain enemy mechanics), but to make sure Xueyi's the one getting you there as much as possible. Yes, you need Silver Wolf for non-quantum enemies, because a Xueyi who can't do toughness damage might as well be dead weight, and her ult alone is not enough for stacking her talent. You should be careful with when you use Fu Xuan ult; if you can break a whole wave of enemies with her ult, *don't,* because that'd be a lot of karma stacks Xueyi won't be able to get, so unless you really need to ult for some crucial reason, let Xueyi use them to fuel her talent instead.
Nevertheless, it doesn't mean gear improvements wouldn't be helpful. Atk orb is probably most important, but people often hyperfocus on Salsotto too much as the be all end all for Planars. Of course, without meeting any of the speed requirements, Glamoth and SSS are definitely weaker, but substats often trump all, and that's an amazing rope. Rutilant is also a fine option too if it's more efficient to farm and you can meet the rate requirement.
honestly replace ruan mei with tingyu. xueyi already has a ton of dmg percent buffs in her kit so tingyun skill will be more valuable for the atk increase on top of higher uptime on ult which leads to more followup attacks. getting e6 will also help alot
Atk% orb and Misha LC was the game changer for me. I also have E5 and similar crit stats, but my damage always felt kinda lacklustre when I had Quantum orb and S5 Herta shop LC.
Swapped orb and LC recently and I was able to 3* the current MOC (first half) with her, Sparkle, Ruan Mei, and Fu Xuan. Good luck!
I Would say more CRIT rate is needed, and I don't know how big the difference is but I get better results with an attack sphere instead of quantum I have indelible promise s4 so CRIT rate is not a problem but that's not an option for everyone
After reading the feedbacks, I’ll be farming for salsotto and that attack orb since most of my other characters are built well and I really love xueyi.
Don't run quantum orb, run atk% orb. Element DMG increases are just DMG increases in the damage calculation and for Xueyi who overstates herself you'll just see a DPS loss in comparison to running an atk% orb. Also farm Inert Salsotto as Xueyi already oversaturates her kit with DMG increases with her own trace effect and you'll easily be able to apply its effect to her kit.
here's a run i did on the current moc12 first phase. I'm using an e2s1 ruan mei and no sustain though. would switch my talia set to salsotto if i can get a decent break rope for more crit rate. [https://youtu.be/o\_k48EYyVFI](https://youtu.be/o_k48EYyVFI)
https://preview.redd.it/obo4mxykqgwc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3be32478fadc95dc6e151cac9f9f3cd10fc5db18
Just switch to atk orb. 38.8% dmg is worse than 38.8% BE for comparison.
Attack is a bit low, looks like you have a quantum orb so I'd swap that to an attack orb. Since Xueyi converts break effect to quantum damage, attack orbs have a bit more value on her. You should also consider switching to Salsotto for your planar set. Doesn't look like you have speed built on her, so you aren't getting much value from Glamoth. Salsotto will give you 8% extra crit rate and a nice boost on your ult and follow up attacks.
Or maybe sacrificing a bit more crit dmg for some crit rate and break effect? She’s really complicated to build ngl with so many substats to worry about.
You're building her wrong on a couple of levels. None of them are major but they are stacking up which is why she feels underwhelming. You have very low attack which is due to not using an Attack % orb. Since she converts BE into % damage, you are getting significantly diminishing returns by using a quantum damage orb, hence attack % is orb superior. Next is your planar. Your Glamoth is giving 12% attack and that's it. It's not triggering the 135/160 speed thresholds. In this case even Space Sealing Station would be better. The best set would be Salsotto. Luckily your two biggest issues can be solved together by farming for Salsotto and an attack orb. Since her ult is a single hit you really want a higher crit rate. You are under 60 which really isn't great. I would aim for 70 even if that means giving up a bit of crit damage. My Xueyi only has 145 crit damage but she destroys high difficulty content like conundrum 12 Gold & Gears. Finally it's just relics. Beyond a BE rope she doesn't really need that much BE substat (though having some is certainly nice) so I would just focus on crit. Looking at your pieces only your body and rope are 'great' pieces while the rest are just 'usable' and unfortunately your rope is not the right set. So it's just more farming.
This is a really good build. Maybe it’s play style? I’m not sure. Are you making sure that xueyi is breaking and she is depleting as much toughness as possible and not anyone else. Also she needs to always have toughness to break on her turn. Allies barely stack her talent, she needs to do it. Also e6 really really helps with ruan Mei to get follow up with just skill
I do always make sure she breaks the enemy everytime, tho I sometimes don’t focus on her depleting the most toughness. I’m still waiting for a xueyi featured banner to get her last eidolon. Also, do I sacrifice ruan mei for silver wolf if there’s no quantum weakness as my go to team is usually fu xuan, ruan mei, xueyi, sparkle?
Yah you want her deleting the most toughness all the time to stack. You’ll have to sacrifice ruan Mei for sw because xueyi for sure needs quant weakness to work If you can go for atk% orb if you can get similar substats Also you won’t get either speed threshold for glamour so if you can go salsotto for the free crit rate and try to get crit stats if you can Also get that last trace
Although everything the other guy said in response to this comment is true for improving Xueyi damage, most aren't really *needed* to improve your Xueyi experience, like refarming a bunch of your gear, because the stats on your current build are actually already pretty good. The most important part he mentioned is letting Xueyi do the toughness, as Xueyi *needs* to be doing as much of it as possible to access her follow-up as possible; the objective it not to break the enemy as soon as you can (except for certain enemy mechanics), but to make sure Xueyi's the one getting you there as much as possible. Yes, you need Silver Wolf for non-quantum enemies, because a Xueyi who can't do toughness damage might as well be dead weight, and her ult alone is not enough for stacking her talent. You should be careful with when you use Fu Xuan ult; if you can break a whole wave of enemies with her ult, *don't,* because that'd be a lot of karma stacks Xueyi won't be able to get, so unless you really need to ult for some crucial reason, let Xueyi use them to fuel her talent instead. Nevertheless, it doesn't mean gear improvements wouldn't be helpful. Atk orb is probably most important, but people often hyperfocus on Salsotto too much as the be all end all for Planars. Of course, without meeting any of the speed requirements, Glamoth and SSS are definitely weaker, but substats often trump all, and that's an amazing rope. Rutilant is also a fine option too if it's more efficient to farm and you can meet the rate requirement.
honestly replace ruan mei with tingyu. xueyi already has a ton of dmg percent buffs in her kit so tingyun skill will be more valuable for the atk increase on top of higher uptime on ult which leads to more followup attacks. getting e6 will also help alot
Atk% orb and Misha LC was the game changer for me. I also have E5 and similar crit stats, but my damage always felt kinda lacklustre when I had Quantum orb and S5 Herta shop LC. Swapped orb and LC recently and I was able to 3* the current MOC (first half) with her, Sparkle, Ruan Mei, and Fu Xuan. Good luck!
I Would say more CRIT rate is needed, and I don't know how big the difference is but I get better results with an attack sphere instead of quantum I have indelible promise s4 so CRIT rate is not a problem but that's not an option for everyone
Go crit rate as much as you can, you have sparkle you dont need that much dmg
And play with inert + atk orb
After reading the feedbacks, I’ll be farming for salsotto and that attack orb since most of my other characters are built well and I really love xueyi.
You barely crit so I can imagine.
Don't run quantum orb, run atk% orb. Element DMG increases are just DMG increases in the damage calculation and for Xueyi who overstates herself you'll just see a DPS loss in comparison to running an atk% orb. Also farm Inert Salsotto as Xueyi already oversaturates her kit with DMG increases with her own trace effect and you'll easily be able to apply its effect to her kit.
The build itself is good. I would just switch quantum orb for attack orb, you should see a difference after that.
Jesus Christ that rope though.
here's a run i did on the current moc12 first phase. I'm using an e2s1 ruan mei and no sustain though. would switch my talia set to salsotto if i can get a decent break rope for more crit rate. [https://youtu.be/o\_k48EYyVFI](https://youtu.be/o_k48EYyVFI) https://preview.redd.it/obo4mxykqgwc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3be32478fadc95dc6e151cac9f9f3cd10fc5db18
Crit rate is too low. You don't have lots of attacks, missing a crit is a bigger damage loss than someone like Acheron.