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Today was HSRs 2.6 livestream. Dan Heng has been confirmed for free. Codes:

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First phase is ColdMarch with Herta (lmao?), second phase is Dan Heng with Anaxa. New relic sets: one is for March and the other for shielders. Stygian Onslaught is debuting. New item for relics: Interference Key. That locks a stat when you reroll. You get them fron Stygian.
 
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It would've made more sense for Castorice, but maybe she'll come back next patch with Cyrine?
Ah yes, gotta pair the two hyped characters for extra FOMO.

Edit: Black Beacon's endgame mode is still bugged to fuck which is ass because we began a new cycle today but you cannot play it still.

That said, they gave compensation. A full ten pull, some not-resin, growth items, and special currency used to buy 5* weapons or ascension items in the store

Not enough to buy anything, mind you, but a good amount of it.

It's gonna be fucking funny if we get a second cycle to be bugged to fuck and they have to give more compensation as a result because still no one can play it.
 
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How does one beat the Natlan boss?

You'll have to be more specific there.

If you're farming for Chasca then it's papilla and chasca counters it but you want as much elemental application fast to break it's shield as possible (put ororon with chasca, should be enough).

If it's ororon then it's "phoenix dino" and you either blitz it down or throw water onit's feather drops so it falls and you hit it with more water (xinqiu is not sustainable, might need barbara here). Furina counters it really hard.

"Fat yoshi" dies to anything but blowing the seed hurts it hard. "Pillar robot" requires vertical mobility to climb the pillars nad break the cores but everyone who uses it's mats (mav, laian, xilonen) can do it. Lava dragon requires fast pyro application (not even bruteforceable) then more to stun (cannot use hydro or cryo). Bat clone girl needs pyro application to break shield and stun (citlali and ororon can "freeze" it with aim). Overseer "cooler device" automaton requires fast cryo application to make it weak and harmless.
 
Last night I did some of nod krai, might do a bit more tonight. With the way people seem to be covering genshin right now you'd think it's like the worst thing ever but from what I've played so far it's a solid if not odd in terms of quest layout new area. It wants me to go back tot he inn to continue the main quest but then there's a sideline quest thing for two areas with voice acting and framing like it's part of the story quest anyways so i've just been doing those and the world quests I keep randomly running into during that way. i think this is another attempt by the devs to incentivize people that just want to do bare minimum story stuff and whale for "the meta" on a singleplayer adventure game but like I don't think that's going to get those people to come back. Still, it's an interesting enough shakeup from the usual formula after several nations so I'll take it.

I was fucking freaked out for a bit when I just kept hearing ineffa faintly going "save... me...." in a pained voice after the workshop island quest segment was done. Actual really fucking funny bit there that caught me off guard because I didn't realize it was above me.


Lava dragon requires fast pyro application (not even bruteforceable) then more to stun (cannot use hydro or cryo).
You can just hit him with a dendro guy and he just starts burning to death despite being made of lava it's really fucking funny.

Only natlan boss I have issue with is the one needed for ineffa and some other characters because JESUS FUCK WHY DOES IT NEED CRYO ATTACKS TO SLOW IT DOWN BUT THEN IT SPEEDS BACK UP AND DOESNT' EVEN GET STUNNED OR FROZEN DESPITE BEIGN A WATER BASED BOSS WHY DOES ELECTRO SEEM TO HURT IT MORE AAAAARGH FUCK

It's ok I don't have to fight him again for a bit. he's not hard, just a bitch of a grind to deal with like the pillar boss in liyue is.
 
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Midway through Mecharashi chapter 4 and I gotta ask: what the fuck is up with Fridas accent? She sounds like she got quarter of a potato in her mouth too.

It's weirdly fascinating. I get the feeling I'll be using her a lot if I get her just to listen to more of her weird voice
 
You can just hit him with a dendro guy and he just starts burning to death despite being made of lava it's really fucking funny.
Burn counts as fast pyro hits but the boss has high pyro resistance so you want the dps to be dendro so he's designed to be countered by kinich.

The boss is a giant version of the lava avatar that if you hit enough pyro it simply dies for no reason. A lava golem dies... to fire. I did not find any explanation for this.

Only natlan boss I have issue with is the one needed for ineffa and some other characters because JESUS FUCK WHY DOES IT NEED CRYO ATTACKS TO SLOW IT DOWN BUT THEN IT SPEEDS BACK UP AND DOESNT' EVEN GET STUNNED OR FROZEN DESPITE BEIGN A WATER BASED BOSS WHY DOES ELECTRO SEEM TO HURT IT MORE AAAAARGH FUCK

If you cool it down to zero then the boss literally does nothing for 20+ seconds. I think Layla + kaya is enough to get around the world version and a strong enough team can blitz it. If you bring 2-3 cryos it becomes a harmless punching bag.

If it "speeds back up" it might be because you triggered it's racist rage mode. When you spend enough nightsoul nearby it will get glowy, stronger and more agressive, mostly for the sake of countering natlan dps and selling skirk+escofie.

I meant the one for weapons. I think it's the weekly.

The dragon one? You have that one unlocked already? It's has no notable resistances but it has void shields like papilla that you must break with fast element/nightsoul to stun it (you have chasca). Traveler is boosted in this fight and mavuika actually removes the dark mist with her skill. It can kill fast so a spammy sustain is recommended.

If you want billets keep in mind that you can convert billets of the same weapon into different bullets by using 2 dream solvent in the alchemy table. So if you want to craft a fontaine sword but got a billet from monstat, you must convert it first.

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You can do coop too but before AR50 you won't get matched with the endgame players.

Midway through Mecharashi chapter 4 and I gotta ask: what the fuck is up with Fridas accent? She sounds like she got quarter of a potato in her mouth too.

It's weirdly fascinating. I get the feeling I'll be using her a lot if I get her just to listen to more of her weird voice

I checked her imdb to see other works (she only has a few hyper obscure visual novels that i can't even find and what appears to be short korean drama dubs, did they get her from Vocaroo or o something?) and the only vn audio i found she sounds bad but normal. Maybe she or the director decided to go with a "smug punk delivery" and landed on this wackass ambiguously racist accent.

She's super good tho. Her passive lowers enemy hit+dodge but i didn't realize until later her attacks ignore enemy tank cover so she counters that mechanic for free. It's not always useful but can be clutch.

Unrelated but i realized there is a double drop "event" right now because it's weekend and i'm shocked that there is no actual limit beyond the usual daily count. I just cleared every elite battle and mech mat stage because it's double drops for "free" (well you need to use the consumable energy but it's worth it).

This is an actually useful farm event instead of hoyo's "you will have to do 3 leylines today and get a bit extra gold/exp for free". You get xp and money from mech mat farm too.
 
Unrelated but i realized there is a double drop "event" right now because it's weekend and i'm shocked that there is no actual limit beyond the usual daily count. I just cleared every elite battle and mech mat stage because it's double drops for "free" (well you need to use the consumable energy but it's worth it).

This is an actually useful farm event instead of hoyo's "you will have to do 3 leylines today and get a bit extra gold/exp for free". You get xp and money from mech mat farm too.
Yeah it's awesome if you can get extra runs. Sadly the final level (6-5, I think) for bio components has a tank and just tears me apart when I try to kill it.
 
I meant the one for weapons. I think it's the weekly.
Not sure you'll have fire Traveller yet, so just whatever hits hard and consistently. Main check will be being able to break the phantom bars (especially the three after the slice), which is a little easier with Nata characters.
Barbara and Jean (if you've picked her for your freebie) can keep your party healthy.

Not sure this will be helpful:
I like to stall rushing to the boss at the start for a few seconds so if it launches dark elemental blasts at you at the start of the fight, the pools won't be in MD to mess you up. Spend that time using prep abilities like Barbara's elemental skill.

Probably not a hot opinion, but I think it's the first proper boss in the game. Everything else dies too fast or is way boring.
 
Probably not a hot opinion, but I think it's the first proper boss in the game. Everything else dies too fast or is way boring.
I mostly do the weekly bosses in coop mode for my own amusement and it's consistently the boss which will maul most players easily.

In other fun coop observations, 90% of the time the skirk player will eat shit and die within the first 30 seconds of any boss fight. What is it with shitters and playing skirk?
 
I got lucky-unlucky. Relatively early I lost the 50/50 for Alhaitham to Dehya but there's still two weeks left, he's still guaranteed and I have explored 20% of Natlan plus I'm missing Nod-Krai so I have plenty to do. Also I got the Skyward Sword from standard banner so until further notice, that's gonna go to Jean.

Truth be told the Natlan world quests are far more interesting than the Archon quest.

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Also caught this little exchange in Mecharashi.
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What is your fucking problem, Naomi? Is shitting on Grant just the national sport of Mikhama Island or something?

Btw, Pokemon Honkai Version is now open for pre-registration. No rewards for doing so, yet.

Also I kept looking through the characters again for the hell of it, and holy fuck, how could I forget about Cassio Rollex and his....what is that not-Pokemon, a cherry bomb?
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I guess they peaked with Boothill when it comes to them cowboys.

And the vampire twink with his fucking edgy-ass bootleg Gligar. It looks as though Gligar got dropshipped into Nights Into Dreams.
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Sunbane Curse? So he's a vampire.

Also I am quite foolish. I misread "Novarch" as "Monarch".
 
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Yeah it's awesome if you can get extra runs. Sadly the final level (6-5, I think) for bio components has a tank and just tears me apart when I try to kill it.
The extra runs are locked behind monthly blessing so that's an nice bonus for paying lol.

Man i hate the bionic stages (and arena), i cleared 5-1 for the Y chips and eve been on 5-2 for a while, every enemy gimmick is cancer. I guess i hate to clear 6-1 for alpha 3 chips...

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Also caught this little exchange in Mecharashi.
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What is your fucking problem, Naomi? Is shitting on Grant just the national sport of Mikhama Island or something?

It would be fine (not really) it was just kaidan but everyone randomly shits on grant even when he doesn't do anything.

I didn't screenshot (if you see pls do) but there is one intermission convo where they say like
Grant: I wonder if ephifilum girls are okay.
Dana: What are you, some kind of pervert?

wtf dana the man is not allowed to say anything

Btw, Pokemon Honkai Version is now open for pre-registration. No rewards for doing so, yet.

I noticed that this game actually has more males than women... Considering the genre... It seems hoyo is really keen on reinforcing the stereotype lol.

Probably not a hot opinion, but I think it's the first proper boss in the game. Everything else dies too fast or is way boring.

To be fair there was significant unit and boss powercreep.

Story childe and story raiden were proper scrub filters before they were nerfed (you still see some get locked). Azdaha is optional but used to be OG coop wipeout monster because people kept using bennet and diona. Signora was the first to force you to actually think and i still see people kill each other on coop by breaking the glass or wasting the heal before the meteor rain.

Nowadays you have immortal healer+support like xilonen/furina and dps who don't need burst and are much easier to build thanks to the new artifacts.
 
I noticed that this game actually has more males than women... Considering the genre... It seems hoyo is really keen on reinforcing the stereotype lol.
Don't hold your breath. They are gonna change that shit to Honkai Impact 4th the second, they earn 24 million instead 26 or something.

Or China complains.
 
Nexus Anima never stood a chance.

 
I'm already afraid of how this will go, there is no way people skipping into nodkrai will understand the story at all and hoyo REALLY wants you to skip to nodkrai because they're giving 620 extra gems for finishing the main quest.
Watch me do it. I need Alhaitham. He's the other reason I started playing Genshin....after Wrio.

And Natlan plotwise so far is pretty boring. I love the world design if anything.

All sabotage aside, why does MHY do this? Imagine you just started Genshin and you're fucking around through Zhongli's grocery list and suddenly SKIP TO NOD KRAI NOW, ruining people's experience. Genshin really wants you to park your ass and sit through the story since they refuse to add a skip button, unlike their two biggest games and rival. So they want to waste your time keep you engaged but at the same time, invite people to skip ahead hours upon hours of lore.

It reminds me of the latest Lantern Rite that had some pretty big fucking spoilers for Natlan.
 
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