Should You Build Civilight Eterna (Theresa) ?

The newest free operator from chapter 14 Civilight Eterna, is she worth building?
and how is she compared to other operators in her archetype like Skadi the corrupting heart?

Note: all the skills cards are for M3 while the Theresa you see in the video has all her skills at Level 7 with no module

Scenarios where you should use Bards attack Buff instead of the usual buffers like Warfarin:

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[abrahamwijaya]

Btw if you play the hidden front, the reward is literally all her promotion funds😂😂😂 so no question if you want or not it's all you

[freezermeat]

I am a simple man.
I build Skalter, because Skadi.
I build Theresa, because Theresa.
I use both in one stage on different ends of the map.

[randomweeb]

Titel: Should you build CE?
Me having an e2 lv90 M9 CE: well, well, well... lets find out

[mammothmk]

I will raise her.
Because getting Skadi is like getting a grand prize in national lottery. Which is, to put it simple, nill.

[L_Nivale]

Both skalter and theresa have a role that other cant do, theresa s3 is an absurd skill that basically make your operator immortal. skalter s2 is still the best inspiration in game with bot attack and defense buff and range expansion with her seaborne. both of them can serve as dps/attack buffer. just build whatever you want because you will get value no matter what

[mycatjoe]

I finished the story and immediately maxed her out.
First time that I actually read a chapter and this was peak cinema
She deserves this spotlight

[fang]

CE is skalter but with a different focus.

Skalter S1 - focuses on burst self survival (self max HP increase) and can support others in her range with a summon to grant range beyond her area. Maximizes regen and share self HP pool. Good for supporting few allies.
CE S3 - focuses on burst party survival (party max HP increase rather than self) and support others in her range. Maximizes regen and HP distribution. Good for supporting many allies.

Skalter S2 - Unlimited duration skill, focuses equally on ATK/DEF/slight regen increase. Summon can allow others to benefit beyond her range. Faster activation.
CE S1 - Unlimited duration skill, focuses heavily on regen and particle accelerating speed in her range and within the 8 surrounding tiles.

Skalter S3 - burst damage skill, heavily boosts ATK, applies true damage AOE DoT to enemies in range and within her summon range, loses HP over time. Summon allows true damage on the map.
CE S2 - burst damage skill, heavily boosts ATK, applies single target true damage bind to enemies in the outer ring range, loses talent accelerating regen speed on allies

Basically a sidegrade.

[Allurita]

Let's not forget that Skalter is a limited unit, and not a fresh one. Many players who started playing a couple years after the beginning might not have her.
But I agree, the biggest and most important power Skalter has over CE is flexibility due to her seaborn, that allows you to make very cool moves and bursts.

S3 can work as an amazing saving ability, I tested and lvl7 skill can easily let you survive Talulah's firestorm and it used to be a challenge where you'd usually grab Nightingale on.
She won't be as good as proper medics in terms of healing, given her unusual range, but she can serve very well.

And I absolutely prefer CE's S2 over Skadi's S3. Especially the fact that she won't suicide. When you have high-end content you have to plan every single unit, and if you know that you have to provide even a tiny bit of healing to a unit that would die otherwise... It can put quite a few sticks into your wheels.

[secretscarlet]

Her True Damage was absurdly powerful even in E1, so I had to build her of course. Pairing her with IS collectibles for ASPD was super fun as the thingys circle in light speed, killing everyone.

[Mighty_Dork]

Thank you for this, there's not enough Arknights content on YT. I was pondering this question since I do have Theresa with max pot

[NikkiTheViolist]

6:45
I actually used Skadi's 1st skill very recently, during Chapter 14 in fact
yeah, actually they're pretty similar. The difference is that Skadi's has immediate redistribution while Civilight Eterna's is periodic. Also, one of them is slightly better when you have HP tanks while the other is a little better with squishy units

[TheBeardedAdmiral]

Much love for this, was looking for a video that explained Not-Theresa in detail when Chapter 14 launched but couldn't find one that went this in-depth.

Danke based Dagyo.

[RuiFanTier]

3:19 bold of you to assume that the enemy could even move the moment one of her particles hits lol

[Sephiko]

Her biggest competition here is pot 1 Sora so I think I'm building her.

[Zeitzbach]

Since I sparked Skalter, I will put CE on the side as Skalter S2 and S3 already covers 99% of the scenario in this game. The extra range is really helpful for classes that position themselves further away like Ambusher to benefit from the buff and it's hard to compete with that. Her S3 is also really good when you consider how it can easily be comboed with any skill that work like Virtuosa S2 in the future so it has a bright future ahead of it with any 6* ritualist.

Should the game ever release a physical boss version of Harold who can nuke 3k the entire map if you mess up then I will consider building CE just for her S3.

[Pramit]

39.9 Hp per second since this game calculates in decimal too. And its crazy

[Muzakr_Halfdan]

I did it out of obligation to the King.

Praise her Majesty.

[ynTx_Error]

I used Skalter S1M3 before. The healing is good... I can say quite similar to CE. But the problem with her S1 is that whenever ally takes too much damage, she will die. High AOE dmg is bad if you use Skalter S1

[drucy.]

She can solo DPS almost every bosses easily with her S2 thanks to her bind keeping them in place so that the 1K~ish True Damage DPS eats away at their HP bar wtihtout a single f_ck given about their defensive stats or Physical/Art dodge (that including Patriot (as long as you bait his spear with another op) and the Sanguinarch). And she does that all while buffing nearby allies and without killing herself for it (looking at you, Skalter). All that on a 35s cooldown.

Ofc, you should build her.

[notalpharius]

Theresa is stupidly cracked at IS with her S2. well that is if you get the proper buffs and the Civlight Eterna relic which boost the already good true damage by a lot. Or you can use her S3 with healing buffs; in short she is really REALLY useful at IS.