Tips for fu xi, please (solution? below)

[Karavanth]

What are some favorite Jade loadouts, here? And Full Control, or Flowing Water for your detonations?

I'm doing the ones where my parry causes Fu'xi internal damage, but am probably going too "tanky" otherwise - converting my damage taken to internal and prioritizing that damage self healing.

My pulls are uneven - sometimes I get halfway through phase 2, other times my attention wavers for a picosecond and I'm splatted partway into phase 1.

So any tips or "ahas" for this pair would be appreciated.

[Karavanth]

Finally got him. Obviously, learning to recognize and counter every move is key - to this fight and all others. But for the details, I focused on causing internal damage to him, constantly capitalizing on exploding that via Flowing Water. The rest of my jades were turning my own damage to internal and speeding its healing.

99% of my damage was sploded talismans. I am too much of teh dumb to weave too much else into this fight while catching all of the parries, though I did mess with some charged-sword builds for a long time.

Typing this up in the hopes it helps someone. Wish me luck with the endgame, I have a nasty feeling I'll need it.

[Songbird]

The main enemy has an extremely low quantity of attacks compared to other bosses, so the jades that work best tend to be the ones related to boosting your attacks rather than your parries, although Qi Swipe is stronger than usual because you're less likely to waste the extra chi generated. Most of the fight is just recognizing what Nowa is doing and adjusting your positioning so you can evade when required.

One strong setup is Qi Swipe + Steely + Reciprocation, using Full Control and just aggressively spam 5-charge talismans using the fact that you can only take internal damage (which can't kill you) while charging, but it does often go extremely low on HP and requires that you land unbounded counters.