Guide to Dione in Genshin Impact: the best builds and leveling

In Genshin Impact Diona is a great 4-star Cryo-class support and healer. If you are lucky enough to get this archer during the Prayers, then it will certainly be interesting to know about her best builds, weapons and artifacts. We will also talk about its advantages and abilities. This information may also be useful to those players who are considering taking this cute barmaid to their team.

Characteristics of Dione

Skills

First of all, we note that Diona is a ranged Cryo character, capable of both dealing good damage and healing her allies. But due to her comparatively low health, she is somewhat useless as an offensive heroine. It is best used as a healer and for sneak attacks to trigger powerful elemental reactions.

• Kitten Style - Normal Attack: Allows you to fire up to 5 consecutive bow shots; charged attack: allows you to perform a more accurate aimed shot with increased damage (an arrow fired can deal cryo damage). During a falling strike, fires a stream of arrows that strike in an area.
• Icy Paws - Deals Cryo damage to enemies and forms a Noelle: Protector; the amount of damage absorbed is based on Dione's maximum health, and the duration is based on the number of ice paws that hit the target. If you hold down the elemental skill button for a long time, the heroine will bounce and strike with 5 claws, and the Noelle: Protector created by this will have a 75% bonus to damage absorption.
• Signature Mix (ultimate) - the character throws an ice bomb that causes area damage to Cryo. Health is restored to allies in the Freeze area.
• Cat’s Tail Secret Menu (Passive) - Ascension 1: Any characters affected by the Noelle: Protector gain a 10% bonus to Speed and their Stamina consumption is reduced by 10%.
• Drunkards’ Farce (Passive) - Ascension 4: Enemies in the area of the Signature Cocktail gain 10% reduced attack damage (lasts 15 seconds).
• At the expense of the house (passive skill) - Dione has a 12% chance of creating an additional dish with a restoring effect if the food was cooked perfectly.

Talents

As usual, there are some powerful constellations here, but getting them requires pure random character Serendipity.

• Level 1 - A Lingering Flavor: Restores 15 energy when the effects of the "Signature Cocktail" end.
• Level 2 - Whirl But Don't Purr: Icy Paws deals 15% more damage and shields have a 15% bonus to damage absorption. When an ability hits an enemy, a new Noelle: Protector is created with 50% of the original's effectiveness, applied to nearby allies for 5 seconds.
• Level 3 - Another Cup: The level of "Signature Cocktail" increases by 3. The maximum level is 15.
• Tier 4 - The Wine Industry Slayer: When Diona is inside the area of effect of the Signature Cocktail, all Aimed Shots recharge 60 percent faster.
• Level 5 - Double Shot, on the Rocks: Increases the level of Frost Claws by 3. Max level is 15.
• Level 6 - We're Closing: While in the Signature Cocktail area, all allied characters receive a 30% bonus to healing when they fall below 50% health. Otherwise, they gain 200 Elemental Mastery.

The best builds for Dione

The best weapon

If necessary, you can use 3-star weapons, which can be upgraded to be almost as effective as 4- or even 5-star ones. If you are looking for the most suitable bows for Dione, then check out the list below.

• Favonius Warbow (4-Star): All critical hits have a 60% chance to produce elemental particles that restore 6 elemental energy to Dione. In fact, it is this archer's skills that make her a strong character, so any weapon that can quickly load them is ideal for her.
• Sacrificial Bow (4-star): Grants a 40% chance to instantly restore an elemental upon hitting enemies with it. This can only happen once every 30 seconds, but even then you will be able to use the character's skills much more often.
• Compound Bow (4-Star): Normal Strikes and Aimed Shots increase Attack by 4% and Main Attack Speed by 1.2% for 6 seconds. Stacks up to 4 times. Can only trigger once every 0.3 seconds. This Onion can be crafted. Budget option for Dione.

Best Artifacts

If you are going to use Dione as a healer, then we advise you to take the Maiden Beloved set, as it not only enhances the healing abilities of the character, but also increases their effectiveness for the entire group. You can get this artifact in Dungeon "Valley of Remembrance" .

• 2 items: Increases the hero's healing by 15%.
• 4 items: After using an elemental explosion or elemental skill, the healing received by all team members is increased by 20% for the next 10 seconds.

When creating a support character, we recommend paying attention to the Noblesse Oblige set, which increases the effectiveness of her ult and strengthens allies. You can get this artifact in dungeon "Clear Pool and Mountain Cavern" . You can also try taking 2 maiden items and 2 nobility items.

• 2 items: Increase elemental explosion damage by 20%.
• 4 items: When an elemental explosion is activated, all team members gain 20% attack power for 12 seconds.

You can also try to collect her a complete set "Tenacity of the Millelith", 2 items of which increase the health bar by 20 percent. If you take 4 items, then when an elemental skill hits, the attack of all the heroes in the team increases by 20 percent, and the strength of their shield - by 30 percent. The duration of the effect is 3 seconds. It occurs once every 0.5 seconds. This set can be found in the dungeon "Ridge Watch" .

Combination with other characters

Diona performs best as a support and healer, so a good team with her might look like this:

• Primary DPS (Damager): Beidou, Razor, Diluc or Klee
• Secondary DPS: Fischl (Electro) or Xiangling (Pyro)
• Support: Diona
• Support: Barbara, Xingqiu or Tartaglia (Hydro)

Such a combination will allow you to almost always be under the influence of the shield, as well as receive powerful elemental reactions due to the interaction of Cryo with an Electro or Pyro element.

Leveling Dione

How to improve skills

For this you will need the following materials:

• Teachings, guidebooks and philosophies about "Freedom" - can be mined in Dungeon "Forsaken Rift" on Mondays and Thursdays.
• Durable, Sharp, or Historical Arrowhead - Obtained from Hilichurl archers and then upgraded with alchemy.
• Shard of a Foul Legacy - Dropped by Elite Boss Childe.

Elevation

Here's what you'll need to max out Dione's level:

• 1st Ascension (Max Level 20) - 1 Shivada Jade Sliver, 3 Calla Lilies, 3 Durable Arrowheads
• 2nd Ascension (Max Level 40) - 3 Shivada Jade Fragments, 2 Hoarfrost Core, 10 Calla Lilies, 15 Imbued Arrowheads
• 3rd Ascension (Max Level 50) - 6 Shivada Jade Fragments, 4 Hoarfrost Core, 20 Calla Lilies, 12 Sharp Arrowheads
• 4th Ascension (max level 60) - 3 pieces of Shivada Jade, 8 Hoarfrost Core, 30 calla lilies, 18 sharp arrowheads
• 5th Ascension (max level 70) - 6 pieces of Shivada Jade, 12 Hoarfrost Core, 45 calla lilies, 12 historical arrowheads
• 6th Ascension (Max Level 80) - 6 Shivad Precious Jades, 20 Hoarfrost Core, 60 Calla Lilies, 24 Historical Arrowheads

You can get Jade Shivad and frost cores from an elite boss called Cryo Regisvine. Jade also drops from ancient geovishap And Cryo Hypotsazis. Calla lilies are a local curiosity of Mondstadt, about which we have separate guide.