Traveler (Dendro)
DendroSwordOff-field DamageTL;DR
The Burst plants a lamp that sits there ticking Dendro onto everything nearby for about 12 seconds and hands your active character Elemental Mastery while they stand in it. The Skill is a cheap spray of Dendro on a short cooldown that mostly exists to keep the Burst fed. Plant it, swap off, let your Electro or Hydro character react with it.
Rotation
- Skill (E) for particles and a first splash of Dendro.
- Burst (Q) to plant the lamp on top of the enemies.
- Skill (E) again once it comes back, about 8 seconds later.
- Swap out and let your damage dealer work inside the lamp's circle.
Abilities
| Skill (E) | A spray of leaves straight ahead for Dendro damage. About an 8 second cooldown and no Energy cost, so it is the cheapest Dendro you have. |
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| Burst (Q) | Costs 80 Energy, back in about 20 seconds. Plants a lamp that hits everything in its circle with Dendro over and over for about 12 seconds. It cannot be moved once it is down and you only get one at a time. |
| The lamp's buff | Every second it is out, the lamp gives your active character another 6 Elemental Mastery, stopping at 60. It only counts while that character is inside the circle. |
The one mechanic to understand
Whatever touches the lamp first decides what it becomes.
The first element to reach the lamp changes it, once, for the rest of its life. Hydro widens it and everything it throws. Electro speeds up how fast it attacks. Pyro makes it detonate after a moment and then it is gone, taking the rest of its Dendro and the Elemental Mastery buff with it. So no Pyro in the team at all. A Pyro teammate's attacks will touch the lamp sooner or later and the Burst you brought them for ends on the spot.
What actually matters
- Energy Recharge. You brought them for the lamp. It costs 80 Energy. Push the stat until the Burst is up every time you come back to them, which usually means somewhere past 160%. The Skill and its particles are how you get there.
- The buff arrives slowly. It climbs at 6 Elemental Mastery a second and the lamp only lives about 12, so your damage dealer is nowhere near the full 60 until the last stretch. Plant the lamp before your big damage window, not during it.
- The artifact set is the team buff. 4-piece Deepwood Memories cuts enemy Dendro resistance by 30% for everyone and the lamp keeps refreshing it from the bench without any effort from you.
Gear
| Weapon | Exaiphanes Blade, free from the Snezhnaya Archon Quest and the best sword on every Traveler form. It costs nothing to level or refine: you take it to that region's Statues of the Seven. Its passive keeps ticking while they are off the field. Fleuve Cendre Ferryman is the free stand-in if you have not got there yet, since its Energy Recharge is the stat this build is short of. |
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| Artifacts | 4-piece Deepwood Memories, for the resistance cut above. Give it to a different teammate and wear 4-piece Gilded Dreams instead if somebody else in the team is applying Dendro more often. |
| Sands | Goblet | Circlet | Substats |
|---|---|---|---|
| ER | Dendro DMG | EM | EM / ER |
Crit is close to worthless, since almost everything they contribute is reaction damage and reactions do not crit.
Electro
HydroDon't bother
- Normal Attacks and the talent behind them.
- A Pyro teammate. Any Pyro that reaches the lamp ends the Burst early, every time.
- Expecting the lamp to follow the fight. It stays exactly where you planted it, so plant it where the enemies will still be.
- Crit substats. Put the same rolls into Energy Recharge or Elemental Mastery.
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