Dire Straits Guide for Hidden Strife

Dire Straits is the extreme difficulty Challenge Difficulty in Genshin Impact's Hidden Strife Event. Check out what Dire Straits is, and how to beat all the dire straits challenges in this guide!

Hidden Strife Event Guides
Day 1	Day 2	Day 3	Day 4
Day 5	Day 6	Day 7	Dire Straits
Letters & Locations		Kaeya's Location

Tips and Strategies for Dire Straits

Equip Your Strongest Team

Dire Straits is the most difficult mode in the Hidden Strife Event. You need to bring the strongest team you have that follows the Ley Line Residue of the stage you chose! Each of those characters needs to be well-built as well.

Best Team Comp Guide

Get the Afterimaged Might Fast

You only have 180 seconds or 3 minutes to beat the enemies. Check the challenge target for the Afterimaged Might and fulfill that immediately within 1 minute or less! The Powerful Enemies will appear and you can focus on defeating them next.

Eat Food for Buffs

If you are struggling with the challenge, you can eat food to make it easier. It's best to eat an ATK Food, a DEF Food, and an Elemental Potion to boost your party!

List of Food & Recovery Items

Dire Straits Challenges

All Dire Striats Challenges

Fearsome Judgment Dire Straits

Best Party for Fearsome Judgment Dire Straits
Main DPS Raiden	Sub-DPS Xingqiu	Sub-DPS Xiangling	Support Bennett
Other Main DPS
Other Sub DPS
Other Support

Take Out the Ruin Sentinels First

The Ruin Grader will heal itself if there are Ruin Sentinels present. So when a Ruin Grader shows up, defeat the Ruin Sentinels first so you can avoid their HP regeneration.

Full Fearsome Judgment Day 1 Guide

Searing Skies Dire Straits

Best Party for Fearsome Judgment Dire Straits
Main DPS Hu Tao	Sub-DPS Xingqiu	Sub-DPS Xiangling	Support Sucrose
Other Main DPS
Other Sub DPS
Other Support

Break Enemy Shields

Break all Cryo Shields fast with Pyro to deal real damage on the enemies and defeat them fast! When the enemy shields are down, use reactions such as Vaporize and Melt to defeat the powerful enemies quickly.

Full Searing Skies Day 2 Guide

Blazing Thunder Dire Straits

Best Party for Fearsome Judgment Dire Straits
Main DPS Raiden	Sub-DPS Yae Miko	Sub-DPS Kazuha	Support Sara
Other Main DPS
Other Sub DPS
Other Support

Use Anemo to Spread Reactions

Use crowd control characters Kazuha, Venti, or Sucrose to spread the Electro reactions and to pull the enemies into a single area! This would make it easier to trigger the needed element.

Full Blazing Thunder Day 3 Guide

Scatter, Flaming Feathers Dire Straits

Best Party for Fearsome Judgment Dire Straits
Main DPS Ganyu	Sub-DPS Mona	Sub-DPS Diona	Support Venti
Other Main DPS
Other Sub DPS
Other Support

Take Out the Cryo Cicin Mage and Mirror Maiden

Prioritize on taking out the Cryo Cicin Mage and the Mirror Maiden as soon as possible by using Frozen. The Cryo Cicin Mage will create a Cryo shield when left unattended, so defeat them before they can bring it out.

Full Scatter, Flaming Feathers! Day 4 Guide

Pruissant Calibre Dire Straits

Best Party for Fearsome Judgment Dire Straits
Main DPS Ayato	Sub-DPS Kazuha	Sub-DPS Yun Jin	Support Bennett
Other Main DPS
Other Sub DPS
Other Support

Focus on Using Claymore Attacks

Before you receive your Afterimaged Might, focus on doing just Claymore-specific attacks. Save your Elemental Bursts when you receive your Afterimaged Might to deal as much DMG as possible to the powerful opponents.

Use Buffs on Normal Attack Talent

Claymore DPS characters like Diluc, Razor, and Itto have Elemental Bursts that buff their Normal Attack Talents.

Supports and Sub-DPS that can increase their Normal Attack Talent even further while weakening their opponents are great partners for these characters.

Puissant Calibre Day 5 Guide

Arch-Tempered Sword Dire Straits

Best Party for Fearsome Judgment Dire Straits
Main DPS Yoimiya	Sub-DPS Yelan	Sub-DPS Zhongli	Support Yun Jin
Other Main DPS
Other Sub DPS
Other Support

Focus on Using Normal Attacks

Before you receive your Afterimaged Might, focus on doing just Normal Attacks. Save your Elemental Bursts when you receive your Afterimaged Might to deal as much DMG as possible to the powerful opponents.

Use Opposing Elements on the Lawachurl

To defeat the Lawachurl fast, use opposing Elements to its Electro Shield like Pyro and Cryo!
Full Arch-Tempered Sword Day 6 Guide

The Other Molten Quadrant Dire Straits

Best Party for Fearsome Judgment Dire Straits
Main DPS Ayaka	Sub-DPS Mona	Sub-DPS Kazuha	Support Diona
Other Main DPS
Other Sub DPS
Other Support

Keep the Geovishaps Frozen

We recommend trying to freeze the Geovishaps as much as possible. If left unattended, the Geovishaps can move around a lot and provide themselves a Pyro or an Electro aura, making them immune to Frozen.

Full The Other Molten Quadrant Day 7 Guide

What is Dire Straits in Hidden Strife?

Extreme Battle Difficulty

Dire Straits is a type of difficulty in the Hidden Strife Event. You unlock it after completing the first sets of difficulties in the Vicious Battle category. The enemies in this challenge either have a larger HP or their DEF is buffed making them extremely hard to beat!

Hidden Strife Event Guide

Genshin Impact Related Guides

Hidden Strife Event Guide

Hidden Strife Stage Guides

All Hidden Strife Event Stages
Day 1 - Fearsome Judgment	Day 2 - Searing Skies
Day 3 - Blazing Thunder	Day 4 - Scatter, Flaming Feathers!
Day 5 - Puissant Calibre	Day 6 - Arch-Tempered Sword
Day 7 - The Other Molten Quadrant	Dire Straits Guides

Other Hidden Strife Guides

Hidden Strife Event Guides
Phantom of the Past	All's Well That Ends Well
Letters and Locations	Kaeya's Location

All Genshin Impact Events

List of Events