Diting Build Guide – Why He’s Top-Tier

Diting is rapidly becoming one of the most devastating single-target DPS units in Etheria: Restart. With proper investment, he can unleash absurd burst damage capable of deleting high-end PvE bosses in just a few turns. This article breaks down why Diting is so powerful, how to build him correctly, and how his unique kit synergises with top-tier supports like Lily.

Diting excels at pure single-target burst. His kit revolves around a high-scaling nuke followed by a powerful follow-up strike. In optimised conditions, he can reach damage numbers exceeding 580,000 per rotation, effectively melting even the hardest bosses in Hell difficulty.

What sets Diting apart is its built-in crit scaling and vulnerability application. His passive grants significant boosts to crit rate and crit damage, allowing players to run lower crit rate builds and instead invest heavily into attack and crit damage stats. Additionally, he applies vulnerability to enemies, which further amplifies all incoming damage from the entire team—an invaluable trait in coordinated PvE content like Union Boss.

Main Focus: Crit Damage → Attack → Crit Rate

Diting’s passive allows him to convert crit rate into crit damage at a 150% ratio. This opens the door to lower crit rate, higher damage builds, especially for players willing to calculate stat thresholds based on enemy crit resistances.
While the “perfect” stat spread may vary slightly depending on your modules and shells, an ideal Diting build looks something like:
Crit Rate/Crit Dmg main stats on your cores with substats prioritising Crit Rate, Crit Damage, and Attack

Shell selection focused on increasing DPS throughput

Even without perfect gear, Diting’s output is significant. In fact, in one of the highest-damage runs, he dealt over 500,000 damage without even equipping a key module, showcasing just how ridiculous his base scaling is.

• Modules: Focus on pieces that boost Crit Damage and Attack while still maintaining enough Crit Rate to trigger passives and debuffs reliably. Speed substats are a nice bonus, but not mandatory for PvE.
• Shells: Choose damage-enhancing options that boost Animus Attack, Crit Damage, or Vulnerability effects. While not central to the build, synergistic Shells like White Fang (which boosts crit damage over time) can increase Diting’s consistency in longer fights.

Diting’s best ally is without a doubt Lily. Her ability to boost turn meter, provide crit damage buffs, and fully reset cooldowns means Diting can rotate his nuke and follow-up more frequently. With a maxed Lily on the team, Diting becomes a full-blown artillery cannon, looping massive bursts every few turns.

Pairing Diting with units like:

• Freya (for attack buffs and healing)
• Lian (for AoE)
• Kloss (for additional debuffs and attack control)

…allows him to consistently hit his peak damage thresholds while staying alive long enough to do it multiple times in one fight.

In PvE, Diting is capable of turning Hell-difficulty fights into speedruns, achieving sub-40-second clears when supported correctly. Against bosses with damage mitigation like Terramaton or DokiDoki, his vulnerability debuff helps bypass defensive mechanics.
In PvP (Arena), Diting’s flexibility makes him an excellent secondary pick. If opponents ban your main DPS, he can step in and carry. His burst makes him a viable option in control-cleave teams, particularly with first-pick Lily comps.

Diting benefits massively from skill investment, particularly his S1 and S2, which determine his burst ceiling and passive scaling. But even without full prowess levels, he’s strong enough to clear difficult content when properly geared.
His value only increases with ascension, better crit gear, and meta support units like Lily or Valerian. He doesn’t require a lot of sustain because his goal is simple: kill the boss before the boss kills you.

Diting is one of the premier nukers in Etheria: Restart for players focused on PvE bossing and high-damage comps. His kit rewards min-maxing, synergises incredibly with Lily, and delivers some of the highest single-target numbers currently achievable. Whether you’re clearing Hell content or climbing PvP ranks, Diting’s raw burst potential makes him a worthy investment—and with proper support, an unstoppable force on the battlefield.