Is Xiao too flexible?

[Ekimmak]

So, once again, I find myself looking at Xiao's page, trying to figure out the proper deckbuilding to go for. And I think I figured out why it's been so hard to deckbuild for her: she's *too* flexible.

Base Xiao, at emotion level 2, basically gets what Yujin has: a +1 to all die. At level 3, she gets an additional +1 to all offensive die. She inflicts a burn on every hit, and if someone she hit with a melee page is staggered, half those burns spread to the enemy. At emotion level 4, she inflicts 2 burn every turn on all enemies.

She also gets several EGO pages of her own. One cheap individual hit that debuffs all enemies, one moderately costly double individual hit that buffs her, and one costlier summation attack (that's more reliable than 4th Match Flame) that inflicts burn.

And that's even before getting into her exclusive two pages, Raging Storm: Love and Ji Ni. More burns for everyone.

It strikes me that maybe the reason it's so difficult to deckbuild is because there's too much? You need high light regen in order for her to really utilise her personal combat pages (either the exclusive ones, or the EGO). But then, if you want to exploit her burn potential, you probably want Chun's passive. Which needs pages that already have burn on them. And the problem with that, is that there are ZERO light restore pages that burn.

And because she has Speed III, you also need some good page draw to keep her hand full. And all the best page draw is expensive (and potentially singleton).

So in the end, you have one really good page that can do a lot of different things... but only one at a time.

[Dima green]

No, she's not. You can utilize all three ego mass attacks really well(raging storm love is overrated+overpriced change my mind), have a reasonable amount of light regen(three is more than enough to keep up) and still have singleton(oh wow, as if there just weren't tons of different and good pages that could be sufficiently used one at a time AND inflict burn) while attributing whatever your soul wants to her since none of the things above depend on it(except if you are anti-WotP type of person and need Esther to survive lmao)

In the end I can assure you that anything is possible, it merely depends on your experience in the game and deck building skills. However the fact that she can do a lot of stuff at the same time is true, she is one of the most powerful pages in the game at the moment after all

[Ekimmak]

I definitely agree on Raging Storm. It's unique for having a strong second roll individual attack, as the only page I can think of with good odds of outrolling that second hit is Sturdy Defence or Flaming Dragon Fist. Everything in the 20 range tends to be on the first die.

Although I look at bookshelf I gave her, and notice that I've got so much dedicated to getting light and cards back quickly, that I have no pages dedicated to burn. And end up wondering if I'm doing it wrong.

[Chaos]

Nope shes not hard to build. We have huge amounts of good light regen and draw combat page that keeping up is never a problem by now while also doing singleton same time. (also Esther? Oh you mean unlocked potential fodder i see i see). Raging storm... out of all the mass attack we get so far, hers is somewhat OK? to use due to not being 7 cost but even then slotting in normal combat page works even better than it.

Is she flexible? Definitely. But I've never used her on a burn floor due to her alone on my end is enough to sustain some few 10-20 burns on enemy per scene with only TCC passive as the one related to burn which is good enough.

And like dima above said, she is an extremely good keypage even after impuritas has been release

[Daijin]

While she is definitely a high tier page, she still pales in comparison to PT and Nikolai. Also the page needs A LOT of time to reach emotion 4.

[Ekimmak]

Other pages I really struggle to build for.
PT I've been able to build a semi-reliable singular strike set for. But I don't know what I'm doing with Nikolai.

[bgammax]

Honestly basically anything can be built pretty well by just following the rule of running 3-4 bits of light regen including Multislash, Will of the Prescripts, and one other piece of draw of your choice, leaving you 4 ish slots for whatever you want (probably good burn cards or the mass attack in this case)
It kinda sounds like you’ve been baiting yourself out of this rule and that’s part of the struggle

[Lovise]

yelp multislash and will is just tooo good and too mainstream.

[Raviel]

It is really funny how we didn't start getting good alternatives for page draw and light regen till the Xiao and Hana receptions.

Even then it's really hard to ignore Multislash, Will of the City, and Will of the Prescripts.

[Ekimmak]

Will of the City doesn't need Singleton, though.
It's basically Multislash, but with more light investment versus return.

I guess part of my problem is looking, and not seeing burn on the good pages.