When it comes to powerscaling threads, I only see discussions on who the strongest in the lore is in general (usually from newer players). I've never seen a discussion on who the strongest characters are that aren't Emanators or their adjacents.

So if we take out Emanators, pseudo-Emanators like the Stonehearts, or "maybe" Emanators like the Arbiter-Generals, who would be the Top 5 or Top 10? Edit: It'd be up to you if you want to count the Genius Society members who we don't know are Emanators.

I feel like Jingliu, Dan Heng IL, and Firefly are the Top 3, but who do you all think would come just below them?

#Introduction

I've noticed there's been a lot of confusion about Paths and Pathstriders lately.

I've been doing a lot of for-fun reading on the different books, dialogue and data entries in HSR and I've realized that a lot of what people say about Paths isn't actually supported by the game. Thus, here I am trying to explain it all in as easy-to-understand way as possible.

Note that I will be linking all of my sources as they become relevant, because I did the reading all so you don't have to.

#What are Paths?

If I were to summarize it, I would describe them in three key points:

1. Paths are a form of energy that exists in the Imaginary.
2. The power of the Paths can be used by people w

Disclaimer: Spoilers up to the end of Jarilo-VI and its companion quests. Also, apologies for those who don't like to read, I couldn't find a way to make this any simpler without losing out on important details.

Introduction

I've recently been seeing a lot of confusion regarding what Paths are and how people become Pathstriders, leading to a lot of needless debate on simple details when there is more interesting lore we can be discussing instead. A lot of it seems to stem from misunderstanding what Paths are and what decides the Paths that a person ends up walking. For the sake of having more interesting discussions on the subreddit in the future, I'm writing this up and jamming it a

According to Danberu, Machio is about the same height as Haruo, who's 7'11". For reference Julius is 6'9" and Toa is 6'10". Machio has over an entire foot over both of them, and built like a god on top of that. He's basically what Haruo would actually be if he went full Indra, for a more solid comparison.

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Just reached the late-game (AR40) and am finally getting semi-consistent 5-star artifacts, so I started thinking about how to optimally build my Lvl80 C3 Razor.

Currently, I've got 4-pc Gladiator set equipped, with most of their main stats being Atk% outside of the flower and feather pieces, though the substats aren't particularly good. I have Aminus up to lvl 80, and most of my artifacts are lvl 12+, but I still feel like I'm doing so little in terms of effective DPS. Not to mention I have a support C0 Bennett at 70, Diona at 60 and sub-DPS Fischl at 70.

But despite all of the above, I die ludicrously quickly in level 80 artifact domains, especially the one that drops the Bloodstained set