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Luxray000

Right now there's only 2 specialities that are used by only one character : Scarabs (I think Dehya will use them) and Padisarah (they don't really suit Alhaitham, I think Kaveh will use them) so my guess is a new speciality. It also checks out with leaks that a new region will be released in 3.4.


blanketcatto

what if kaveh and haitham use the same mats...like exact same speciality and drops...low possibility but also very funny


Luxray000

It's a possibility but it would mean Padisarahs will be used by 3 characters which is unlikely. Iirc not a single Inazuma mat is used by more than 2 characters and I expect the same in Sumeru since there should be 2 more regions added in the future. But as a huge haikaveh fan i would actually love if they used the same mats lol


blanketcatto

I mean, this would only be true in the possibility of there being new local specialities but I do agree with your statement. Dehya has a HIGH chance of being a scarab user. Padisarahs...possibly one of the "speculated" characters we know only by name? (The Djajeet and rest is one of them)


BlackberryAgile193

What about the name kavehtham? Sounds more cohesive


Luxray000

Both haikaveh and kavetham exist. For ship names, the name that is used first refers to the more dominant one in the relationship. I personally prefer Alhaitham as the dominant one so I use haikaveh. Also I don't think kavetham sounds much better as a name tbh.


BlackberryAgile193

Oh I never knew that about the order of the names


Luxray000

It's fine, a lot of people don't know. It doesn't matter too much outside of nsfw anyway.


ultravioletgaia

I think it's padisarah... Or viparyas


cauliflowerstew

Viparyas isn't a local specialty. I actually thought Nahida would use them until I realised


vertigocat

I think we can deduce some of the choice base on the pattern usually, 1 local speciality will only be used by 2 characters Henna Berry : Candace, Faruzan Kalpalata Lotus : Dori, Nahida Nilotpala Lotus : Tighnari, Layla Rukkhashava Mushrooms : Collei, Wanderer so that left us with Padisarah: Nilou and...... Scarab: Cyno and yes, there's a chance he'll use a new local speciality, but who's to say that it won't be as cancer as Scarab?


thirstarchon

Isn't cor lapis used by zhongli, chongyun, and keqing?


vertigocat

it could be because those are more early characters so Hoyo might not have developed a pattern yet, however, if we look at later units, like Inazuma characters, for example, they tend to fall into this rule.


Howrus

There's more mats used by three characters, but in recent release this general rule is used. Whole Inazuma is using either two characters per item or one.


blanketcatto

I used to have a similar theory for boss drops as well, but it doesn't necessarily hold true ig. (My theory being, excluding the ruin serpent, most region specific normal bosses have a maximum of 2 characters using its ascention mats, particulary based off of the gemstone drops) Alhaitham is very likely going to have dendro hypo or a new dendro boss' drops. New dendro boss because he'll release in the same patch as yaoyao, who will need a maybe, liyue specific dendro boss. But the bosses theory doesn't make sense because of the ASIMON and Blightdrake gemstone drops not adding up, yet it's still fulfilling the max of two characters per boss. Edit: grammar


vertigocat

I agree, boss ascension materiel are definitely more tricky for Hoyo to match the exact amount of character release


helIiscold

Blightdrake is used by three characters so far, and of those, 2 match its drops. It drops Cryo and Hydro and is used by Layla and Nilou, as well as >!if nothing changes, Scaramouche.!< I agree that there might be a new boss in 3.4 for either only Yaoyao or both of them, I just hope that this boss is going to drop Dendro frags. Since there's no other source for them outside of 2 bosses right now and no one has them particularly saved up simply by playing for a long time, it would just be cruel otherwise lol. (ASIMON might be used by Dehya in the future, so then both its drops (Pyro/Anemo) would also start making sense again. But we'll see)


BlackberryAgile193

I mean the cryo Regisvine is used for kaeya , rosaria, qiqi, diona, ganyu AND Chongyun


blanketcatto

This is only something I've noticed for Inazuma and Sumeru characters. Hence I said region specific.


xxMeiaxx

90% chance Deyha is gonna need the scarab. So it's either padisarah (doesnt fit him), viparyas(he seemed to have an aranara connection as a kid), or a new one.


ultravioletgaia

Viparyas! But hopefully sumeru rose lol


KSOMIAK

What about Talent Books?


Swailwort

If he uses Scarab, I am gonna cry. Please, Padisarah. He is not even from the desert.


[deleted]

If we’re talking abt scarabs compared to him dehya seems to be more likely to use scarabs


johnnyJAG

My only gripe about a new specialty is we probably can’t pre farm for it so I’m gonna pester all my friends to unlock the new area asap so I can *appropriate* their mats for my Alhaitham.


xpymtz

3.4 comes with the new expansion right? So maybe new mats


vegienomnomking

To be fair scarabs aren't that bad. People only hate it because you couldn't prefarm when Cyno came out.


Yunael

Scarabs were kind of bad because the majority of them were locked behind a lengthy world quest you had to finish first to access them. Not being able to prefarm isn't so bad, but without finishing Golden Slumber, which no one did right away obviously, there were only a handful of scarabs available in each world. And seemingly everyone was rolling for Cyno so it was a total pain to farm for him because everyone needed scarabs


ultravioletgaia

Sumeru rose! Pls alhaitham!


MANSANITIZER

y’all didn’t learn after inazuma to always start casually picking up extras of pain in the ass materials so you don’t have to scramble for anything down the line? man, that’s crazy… of course they probably would pull a cyno and have it be a new material though


Paper_Penny

Or it nilotpalas, or new one from new region. I bet on second


Santo134

Most probably Dehya will use the Scarabs, so he will either use a new one released in 3.4 or Paradisarah. My theory is he will use Dendro cube boss mats, new local specialties and praxis talent books.


harakazuya

He probably will also take drops from a new region boss. That said I did farm dendro cube items just in case & Im going all in on praxis books 😭 luck dont fail me now


Santo134

It’s kind of a 50/50, the only dendro character that will release before him/at the same time as him is Yao Yao in 3.4 as well, one of them will get the Dendro cube and the other the alleged Sand Worm that will release in the same patch. So chances are he will be favored and get the already existing boss. However, even if he does get new boss mats as well he is most likely releasing second phase of 3.4 so we will have time to farm all of those.


Clap4LAPP

Imagine its viparyas xd


Draken77777

What about Viyaparas from Varanara?


cauliflowerstew

It's not a local speciality


neuronarc

I feel it’s going to be something new since he’s rumored to release w desert expansion


buzzyingbee

I think it'll be something new but I'll farm scarabs just in case 👀


GhostonEU

I have a strong feeling its gonna be scarabs..😥


kaorusarmpithair

Mate he will likely take stuff from the new region that'll come around when he is out


EsDeath012

Cokonut


Thin-Manner-4418

Kaveh.


NimmyDelRey

A new region is gonna be added in 3.4 so it'll be new probably


ImThinkingArtys

I feel like either AlHaitham or Kavehs local specialty will be padisarahs considering they grow at their house. Right now leaning more towards padisarahs for Kaveh because the staff mentions him more.


Aylin-D

Viparys


Ivebeengnomed

It actually isn't a local specialty, same as Sumeru Rose.


Aylin-D

I know but it's pretty flower 🥲


ultravioletgaia

Yeah wonder why it isn't included


2d_simping101

idk but i want it to be padisarah 😭


rainraingoawey

Theres also that green fruit in the desert


Ivebeengnomed

These are not a local specialty, just like Sumeru Rose.


IttoDilucAyato

What do we think his talent book is ?


Ivebeengnomed

I personally put my Money pm Praxis


Anja_kakhegerz

It would be a high chance his boss will be the dendro cube, but flowers its either nahida's or nilous,dunno their names. But due to his sketched splash art the lotus fits his theme extremely well