What are your pulling plans for 5.3?
I'm so torn. There's so much potential in the pull options and yet I feel like I may not pull any?
Since I can't stop yapping I've spoilered my own thoughts.
Mavuika: oridinarily I consider myself an Archon collector and have all of them so far, with C2 on Raiden and Nahida, and C3 on Furina. She competes quite heavily with Arle for Bennett so that's a huge bummer. I really wish they designed her in such a way that meant she didn't want Bennett, like not benefitting from flat attack buffs, and compensating her multipliers accordingly. Going for her/investing in her feels like a form of dropping Arle (especially since I don't run any other characters that especially want her off-field pyro over my Xiangling). I wouldn't want to run Arle or Mav without Bennett so that essentially means picking one or the other, and I don't want my existing Arle investment to go to "waste".
Citlali: Would boost both Mav and/or Arle. Seems nice but something is telling me to skip if I don't go for Mav, since my Arle feels satisfying enough with her vape team (though a shield with enough offensive upside to warrant a slot does sound juicy). I think because I've become so accustomed to pulling constellations on my faves, going for her might make me too tempted to go for C2R1 which is overkill but since I don't trust myself, it feels easier to skip her altogether to prevent that cognitive distortion from taking hold. (Dumb, ik)
Their weapon banner: gahh this would be a dream weapon banner if I were going for the above characters, which I still might? Sooo royally bummed that one of them didn't run with Arle so I could commit to her scythe. Especially with the full 42 banner not being true, so with that in mind would have been so easy to have put either one with her but alas.
Clorinde/Absolution: I do not want these.
Scythe: gosh I want this badly and getting it would feel like the final step in making my Arle feel "complete". However, I do not want Absolution so I'll likely skip which is heartbreaking. CMS is the drippiest weapon that exists imo, especially with the scythe exclusively being available for her alone. Cool af but I promised myself I wouldn't pull for weapons unless I would be OK losing to the other rate-up. (For additional context, I'm at 70 pity on the weapon banner with my last 5* pull being Homa from Elegy/Homa banner all the way back in 2.2. I am truly dying out here and begging to have the opportunity to pull the trigger on this saved pity.)
Arle: Since I have C3 I wasn't thinking to pull more unless I gun for C6 which, while I curently should just about have the primos for, would feel like overkill. I'm expecting Chev to be on her banner though, which may make me tempted to fish for copies of her (and also makes me a bit regretful to not have stopped at C2 Arle on her OG banner to go for C3 now since I did predict a Clorinde/Arle banner with Chev as a 4* from her debut). Gambling for Chev copies doesn't feel like the smartest use of my resources though.
How about you guys? Where are you at with the coming banners in 5.3?