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I'm not too fussed with his shield atm, it does hold out for me and that's great (I mean, I rely on it too much to the point I forget to run heals when I'm not using it and forget about my health lmao), it is Level 8 in his talents and it does fine as is so I'm not looking to boost it.

Nosblesse and the geo set wouldn't be such a bad idea I think, since it will boost his burst damage and so will geo boost but I'll have to have a think about that (I need to farm Nosblesse for a couple other of my characters too, rip, it's a good job and I can do that domain with ease now, ugh e__e). I've been running the 4 piece Tenacity of Millelith on him and it's the set I have on him when he does the 80k damage so it'll be interesting to see if it makes a difference for sure.

I don't think I need energy recharge that much if I'm honest, when I set him with Albedo who's running on energy recharge and I have Zhongli at C1, meaning I can put two pillars up at once inside of Albedo's skill which generates damage and partials, because of that, I'm not short on energy partials and often recharge his burst quickly.
The black tassel I was only using to try to see if the HP build boosts the power of my planet befall but that experiment failed, I usually have Blackcliff on him which has crit damage substat and its skill increases his attack (honestly my weapon options are limited and I just like that polearm and it has been working for me more than the black tassel xD).
I have to be that person who does quirky stuff with their characters uff

But thanks for your input, I'll be considering the artifact switch up.

On a random note, I used to run Zhongli with the Favonius Lance (Spear? .. The polearm variant from the Favonius series) because I had like 3 polearms that were 4* at the time and when I paired him with Albedo like I usually do, the recharge was crazy, both constantly recharged their ult before their cooldowns ended constantly so as soon as the cooldown ended, I was throwing it back out again, it was both insane and fun to use, I miss that xD

I have Level 10 Planet Befall, he's C1, I stuck the HP 3* weapon on him since I don't have Staff of Homa and it has HP as a stat, HP artifact set x 2 for the 10% boost, Geo boost set x 2 for the Geo damage boost since it's Geo element and his artifact layout was as such;

Feather and flower, the default stuff
HP time piece
Geo boost Goblet
HP head piece
- Some HP sub stats, crit rate and crit damage.

and I saw about 20-50k damage a hit.. which was.. underwhelming. My old build that I just ran with hit harder than that, Blackcliff polearm, x 4 of the HP set, Geo goblet , crit rate on the head piece and I think attack on the time piece and that always hit harder, I saw 80k a lot of time and if I was lucky, I see 90-100k damage. I often run him with a second geo character, usually Albedo.

I do run geo boosts but I often find that it always makes your elemental skills hit harder (I noticed this when I see my Xiao build vs my partners Xiao build and my Anemo damage always hits bigger, which the only different we have is a different golbet, they run att and I run anemo boost) and I thought that would help and when I've taken off my geo boost , I've noticed planet befall hit lower numbers frequently.

So my question is, any advice? I don't know what I'm doing wrong 😅 I think I know about a damage multiplier but it does go over my head a little and I wonder if there's a way to calculate damage too..

I did want to try him with 2 piece pale flame and 2 set bloodstained (plus physical goblet ofc) but I ended up with so many Blizzard Strayer from when I was farming the hydro set for Childe that I just threw them on him ( It's a flower, feather, att% time piece, physical damage goblet and att% headpiece set up currently and I'd probably have the same set up for the other build). I guess he is a mixed phy/cyro damage build at the moment and should pick one over the other 🤔 I'll change at it some point to pure physical but for now he can probably stay as he is, I put him together with his constellation and blizzard strayer artifact set in mind and least he is some what useable now >w<
But yeah, it is silly how many Kaeya's I've had, I don't pull in the standard banner often, I just use the 5 wishes from the shop, battle pass and accession rewards. I won't complain though, his constellation is pretty nice! The skill that increases the waltz, the shield, crit rate increase are all great! I've ended up making good use of the extended waltz for reactions!

I only have Yanfei at C1 ; _ ; She dropped at the last moment for me on Zhongli's rerun and her C1 dropped during Kazuha's banner, it is all I've seen of her.. I wish I got more of her ah, the joys of gacha

But thanks for the advice! I'll circle back to him, my plan was to level his current artifacts and then start work on a elemental mastery Kazuha build, I'm very excited to start using him!

This morning I finally got him to level 90 and I finished levelling his weapon to level 90 this week too. I've aimed for more of a physical damage build so his currently wearing Aquila Favonia (which was a random lucky drop and one of my only 2 5* weapons aha.. weapons don't really like dropping for me <w>) and his goblet artifact has physical damage boost too.

For his artifact set, I'm using Blizzard Strayer, mostly for the 4 set piece bonus, if it wasn't for that I might have ran him with one or both of the artifact sets that boost physical damage although I may try that build as well at some point!. I have Kaeya at C4 so with a combination of his artifact set and his C1 skill, I get a 35% crit rate boost every time I throw Frostgnaw at an enemy which is kinnda neat because the cooldown on that is very short so I'm often inflicting cyro on enemies. His crit damage is kinnda poor though and I dunno if I should see if the crit damage goes up on his sub stats but if not I'll have to consider a crit damage artifact piece.. which yay, artifact grinding u__u; I pretty much only have his artifacts to work on now then he's done for now and he's not doing too bad, his attacks his 8-13k damage which I know isn't amazing but I'm happy enough with him.

I got his talents to level 8, Frostgnaw is at level 11 though because of his constellation.
The standard gacha liked to drop Kaeya a lot for me and at C3 I decided to work on him, it wasn't until the shop reset and I got the 5 wishes that I got another Kaeya constellation aha, but Frostgnaw at level 11 is very nifty and C4 is pretty funny, he now makes a shield on low health and that amuses me a little bit.

Currently I pair him with Yanfei for melt (I don't really have an electro character to use) and I have Bennett for the double pyro boost (plus he's adorable, max constellation, support and heals ehe)
I've always wanted to work on Kaeya and I'm glad I finally got to! ; W;