I got escoffier on 80 2/6/6, with a decent GT set (rolled a lot of atk and little cd but oh well), here is my first impression review
+Her skill damage is deceptively very good. It's not so high or fast so it doesn't feel big at first, but when you see health bars drop you realize how solid it is. Mine is currently doing almost 10k per snowball.
+She does apply cryo every 2 hits which is good for shield breaking and ensuring freezes. Just she and furina can reliably keep 1 enemy frozen.
+Her skill has good range, follows and is automatic for a 20 seconds. It's so convenient
it doesn't feel right. It feels like i'm insane. Like i'm ignoring her "gimmick" and playing incorrectly. Like this shouldn't be allowed to exist when everyone else has a notable flaw. But it simply is.
(it's shooting at the cooking pot from max range. I guess it hates them).
+Her healing ticks from passive 1 work on coop so she's a good coop healer god bless. She also heals pretty decently with a dps built, but if you want to heal furina she will require you high investment, like +2100 atk and level 9 burst, dare i say prioritize atk% rolls or consider atk goblet.
+She's made for freeze but feels good enough to not be freeze restricted. I can see her being great for units who want an automatic subdps, like Chasca, Wanderer, navia/itto etc. Might enable melt for some units (need to test). Argueably strong enough to hold her own weight in random comps like hyperbloom/electrocharge. If they release a unit that improves cryo reactions she'll be even better.
+Her food crafting gimmick is cute and free food is free food. You can only do it per week so i'll forget it exists, but it's cute.
>my negatives
-Her skill doesn't actually target the flying phoenix dino boss so it's clearly not TOO flawless.
-Her AoE really isn't good, which is balanced but weird since freeze is mainly good against enemy clusters. The current floor 11 abyss has a room with 60 bandits and she would be ironically awful at it (ganyu and venti soloed).
-Her skill is 4 particles / 15 seconds
which is kinda bad and IMO her only true flaw. If she is solo cryo then you need to build some real ER or use favonius, but long ooldown means less opportunities for her to proc.
-I kinda hate how it's 15s cooldown so it doesn't align correctly with furina. I keep messing up so it's either too early or too late, but it's my skill issue.
-I do not like her design. People say varesa is goonbait but her clothes are fine for natlan, she is cute and has fun animations. Escofier just looks like someone at hoyo googled "sexy chef costume" once.
tl;dr: Overall a lazy and strong cryo subdps+healer+freeze shreder who is great for exploring and cryo meta. You know that if Yae miko released today her turrets would be 25s duration, apply electro every 2 hits and follow her.
And btw,
escofier is mandatory for skirk at least in v1 beta. Skirk damage is significantly dependent on raw freeze (1.7x multiplier) and escofier is the only one who can provide decent cryo shred in that scenario. It's pratically a star rail support situation.
(it's shooting at the cooking pot from max range. I guess it hates them).
