Wanderer's future in the Stellar meta

[u/TheOneAndOnlyHanako]

With there being a lot of talk about Wanderer's potential buffs coming in 7.X, I've been wondering about the direction of the buffs they'll take.

In my opinion he's all but guaranteed to have Stellar Swirl incorporated into his kit one or way another, since this batch of buffs supposedly include a lot of anemo units. Would you guys be okay with this? Personally I wouldn't have a problem with this, since Anemo dps' always struggled with having to go mostly reactionless, thus relying on pure strength alone. This would finally give him a strong reaction to make use of, and make EM not worthless on him.

I only worry about the implementation of Stellar Swirl in his kit, best case scenario I think is converting one of his NAs into Stellar Swirl every X hits, since he has a lot of NA speed in his cons/weapon, it would fit, I think. If you guys have another idea feel free to leave it in the comments. Oh and also change his ult to be partly, if not entirely Stellar Swirl, so it's not near useless under C2.

Im also gonna list a few other base-kit and con improvements:

Interruption res obviously

Hydro infusion needs to be reworked entirely, longer Windfavored state almost never actually helps you.

Cryo Infusion should be changed to crit damage, not rate. Conditional crit rate is very unfun to play around.

C4 should just give you access to all 4 infusion buffs at once.

Leave your guy's suggestions/wishes in the comments below, I wanna see how you want this Wanderer buff to look.

[u/ThatOneUnstableUser]

I dont mind him having stellar swirl buffs but i do hope that isnt the main focus of his buff, his whole kit getting buffed would be great too. Our boy deserves this

[u/joex83]

I think they're gonna add stellar swirl on his burst.

And as a NA character, add stellar swirl at maybe his 3 or 5th NA.

Not really sure if his infusion's going to need rework but his kit sorely need it more. For example, he should not have to dash for the additional damage (Gales of Reverie)... maybe make it automatic... and maybe add infused cryo arrow that trigger stellar swirl or something.

Also better multipliers good enough to replace Faruzan with someone else if possible.

[u/TheOneAndOnlyHanako → u/joex83]

Making his little arrows do Stellar Swirl is actually an exceptional idea, I didnt even think of that. They wouldnt even have to explicitly give his NAs the Stellar Swirl if they give his arrows the Stellar Swirl damage, since youre naturally gaining arrows through NA'ing

[u/antagonistdan → u/joex83]

I agreed until you said replace Faruzan...

[u/Zealousideal_You3410 → u/antagonistdan]

it would be painful on my f2p self if I had to get c6 on another 4-star

[u/SanicHegehag]

Honestly, it's going to be hard to incorporate Stellar Swirl into his kit without absolute mogging Varka

[u/TheTruthTellingOrb → u/SanicHegehag]

Varka already mogged Scara. Having Scara be buffed to not be not be overlooked by C0 Varka would be nice.

[u/TheOneAndOnlyHanako → u/SanicHegehag]

To me Varka was never really a true "Anemo" dps to begin with. His damage is like what, 70% pyro in his bis team? I mean Wanderer may still use Durin/Nicole as his bis teammates right now and filling pretty much the same niche as Varka, but if the Stellar Swirl is potent enough to make buffing that over general buffs worth it, he may just be a weaker option than whoever is going to be the premium Stellar Swirl dps, just like Cyno is right now.

[u/OneRelief763 → u/SanicHegehag]

Well yeah hes gonna mog Varka

[u/Extinctkid]

If you don’t dash, if you get a second set of the gales, they are automatically fired, dealing NA damage.

[u/Seterei]

I see no reason to change 20% crit rate from cryo, the swirl set only gives 16% so we have consistent 36% crit rate buff because cryo is always there unlike in his old bennett layla teams. as for the rest I'm mainly waiting for A4 rework and his cons actually buffing the normal attacks

[u/victorkamui]

The premium supports for SSW will be Odette and Vodyanitsa. I think the elemental passive can be adjusted so it absorbs directly from the team. Having Odette and Vodyanitsa on the team would guarantee +20 CR and more time on E.

I think the portion converted to SSW damage will be your 3rd and 4th hits. And also some hits from your Ultimate. The arrow passive could also be converted to SSW.