Clorinde is a 5-star Electro DPS character in Genshin Influence, and the second character ever to include Bond of Life mechanics of their equipment. Right here’s a breakdown of Clorinde’s distinctive equipment and the best way to play her.

What’s Bond of Life?

First, a fast clarification of Bond of Life. Bond of Life is a debuff that restricts the therapeutic {that a} character can obtain by a flat quantity. The quantity of Bond of Life that you’ve is represented by a purple bar surrounding the affected character’s well being bar. If that character receives therapeutic whereas a Bond of Life is current, the Bond of Life will take in that therapeutic as an alternative of permitting your character’s HP to be restored. 

Bond of Life might be cleared by receiving sufficient therapeutic. As soon as Bond of Life is not current, you may heal your character like regular.

Bond of Life on Clorinde, defined

When Clorinde makes use of her Talent, she enters a particular “Night time Vigil” stance. Throughout her Night time Vigil stance, her Regular Assaults grant a Bond of Life value 35% of her max HP, stacking as much as thrice for 105% Bond of Life complete.

When Clorinde has most stacks of her Bond of Life, utilizing her Talent once more heals her, clears her Bond of Life, and offers bonus harm. For that reason, you will have the utmost 105% Bond of Life when utilizing Clorinde’s Talent throughout her Night time Vigil stance.

When enjoying Clorinde, you need to see her well being bar be fully overtaken by a purple Bond of Life meter earlier than being fully cleared whenever you use her Talent.

Whereas in her Night time Vigil stance, any therapeutic that Clorinde receives will probably be transformed to extra Bond of Life. Whereas this makes her considerably extra susceptible throughout her combo, it helps make Clorinde extra constant (and typically extra highly effective!) when performed with healers. 

Clorinde’s finest combos

That is the rotation you need to use for Clorinde in most groups. There may be room for optimization you probably have a robust healer in your staff, however for basic use, this combo needs to be pretty dependable.

1. Arrange your teammate skills.
2. Swap to Clorinde.
3. Use Clorinde’s Burst (non-compulsory).
4. Use Clorinde’s Talent to enter Night time Vigil stance.
5. Carry out three Regular Assaults.
6. Use Clorinde’s Talent once more
7. Repeat her three Normals + Talent combo till her Night time Vigil stance ends (about six instances complete).
8. Swap to teammates.

In shorthand notation, this combo combo appears to be like like:

(Q) E 6[N3E]

When you have a robust healer in your staff, you might be able to use two Regular Assaults throughout her combo as an alternative of three, permitting Clorinde to make use of her Talent extra typically. Your healer needs to be repeatedly therapeutic a minimum of 30% of Clorinde’s HP per tick. For those who’re in a position to meet this criterion, then Clorinde’s optimum combo could be:

(Q) E 8[N2E]