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Pros
Diene is one of the most versatile Soul Weavers in the game. She improves the damage and bulkiness of your team because she has a 3-turn Attack and Critical Resist buff. She can spam an AoE (Area of Effect) Cleanse and Barrier to your allies.
Cons
Sadly, she is a somewhat limited unit in the current meta and has no healing skills and can be easily countered by units with Strip and Unbuffable skills.
Diene Summary
Diene is one of the most resourceful Soul Weavers that works in almost every team composition. However, she is limited, and most players won’t be able to acquire her.
Skill 1: Light of Judgment (Multiplier: 0.95)
Diene emits a ray of brilliant light that increases the caster’s Combat Readiness (CR) by 10%. This effect doubles when the caster is buffed. Therefore, she can push a 10% CR on herself with her normal attack. With many buffs at her disposal in her S2 and S3, she can obtain high CR with her S1 attack.
Skill 2: Blessings of the Goddess (Cooldown: 4 turns)
With the Blessings of the Goddess, she covers all allies with a barrier for two turns before dispelling one debuff. The barrier’s vitality increases proportionally to the target’s max Health. Her barrier’s strength is 20% of her max Health (can be increased to 30% with a mola upgrade). Diene has a high base Health for a soul weaver (5254), so her barrier will be excellent.
Her S2 only has a 3-turn cooldown period with a mola upgrade, so she can use it often to cleanse, protect, and heal her allies (if she equipped with the Rod of Amaryllis Artifact).
Skill 3: Saint’s Prayer (Cooldown: 5 turns)
A miracle of the Goddess manifests, which increases the attack of all your allies for three turns before it augments the caster’s Combat Readiness by 50%. Because of this unique buff, Diene is limited in the game.
Her S3 provides a 3-turn Attack and Critical resist buff for all your team. Only three units have a 3-turn ATK buff in the game, which are Diene, Maid Chloe, and Vivian, while only two units have a Critical Resist (Diene and ML Crozet) Additionally, she can push up her CR by 50% with this skill.
This makes it very powerful because with incredible personal CR boosts from her S3 and S1; she can cycle her skills quickly. Most of her skills are non-damaging attacks, so she can heal a lot with the Rod of Amaryllis Artifact.
PvE Content
Before Tamarinne and Angelic Montmorancy were released, Diene was the most versatile Soul weaver in the game. She provided everything, except healing, but she can fix it when she is equipped with the Rod of Amaryllis Artifact. Besides her Attack buff and Critical resist, she also has a fast AoE cleanse and strong barrier.
Useful In Hunts
Diene can be useful for every Hunt (including Banshee) and Raid/Abyss. She can be a strong buffer, soul spammer, and provides decent healing with the Rod of Amaryllis. She is also a great unit in Raid, giving bonus points in most team compositions.
PvP Content
In PvP, Diene can improve both the damage and bulkiness of her team. So, she can work well for both offense and defense teams. Her buffs have a long duration, with a 3-turn Attack buff and Critical Resist.
Crit Resist and Combat Readiness
Her Critical Resist is rather strong and unique, with a 50% chance to dodge Critical Hit Damage. This is a huge damage reduction.
Also, she instantly gains 50% of Combat Readiness from using her S3, which means that with a good enough SPD, she can bring near-permanent uptime on Attack buffs and Critical Resistance.
Cleanse with S2
Her S2 can cleanse one debuff from each ally and provides a strong barrier for her team. With a mola upgrade, this skill has only a 3-turn cooldown period, making it very easy to spam to cleanse, protect her allies with a Barrier, and heal them with the Rod of Amaryllis.
Best Paired With AoE Damage Dealers
On offense, she is best paired with a strong AoE damage dealer, such as Vildred, Tenebria, SSB, or Ludwig, because of her 3-turn Attack buff. Her Speed is decent for a soul weaver (103) but not enough to grant her the first turn in PvP, So, Diene needs to be paired with at least one CR pusher, like Roozid, Judith or DJ Basar.
She has incredible personal CR boosts, so once she gets her first turn, she can cycle her turs around extremely quickly to support and protect her team with her buffs.
Good In Guild War
Diene is often used in the Guild War defense but rarely used in the Arena defense because she still has some weaknesses. First, she is countered by units with skills that can dispel or provide an Unbuffable effect. With a low base Speed and her kit revolving around buffs, units like Basar can strip from all her buffs and then apply an Unbuffable, making her useless.
In Challenger rank and higher, Tywin-Basar is a trendy team composition, so Diene poses no problem for them. Her S2 only cleanses one debuff. Therefore, you might have difficulty when fighting against heavy debuffer like Dizzy, Basar, or SSB.
Her S2 will apply a barrier first, then cleanse a debuff. So, if Diene and her team are affected by Unbuffable, she will be unable to use the barrier, even if she cleanses the debuff afterward.
Because of this, she is not used that often in the current Meta. However, she can be a good option in World Arena gameplay because you can pick her on your team and ban the use of strippers, like Basar, in your opponent’s team.
Build
Diene has the same stats as most Soul Weavers. Therefore, she needs better sustainability to keep her allies alive with her buffs.
Gear: Speed/HP set (%HP Necklace, 9%HP Ring SPD Boots)
Stats Priority: SPD> %HP >Resist > %Def
Artifact: Rod of Amaryllis or Magahara’s Tome
Skill Enhanced Priority: S3 (+ 2) > S2 (+ 6) > S1 (+ 5)