Genshin Impact

[Pipi420]

Lost coinflip and got Keqing C1 but then got Ganyu 50 pulls later.
Went into abyss, got a 110k melt off rip with her and xiangling
Feel like I can finally take a long break from this game now

 

[Genichiro]

Amos + WT set easily gives Ganyu the damage she is renowned for (40k -60k per shot, go for the eyes !) A good shot will one shot those silly specters.

Haven't tried her with BS, though she shouldn't be shooting much with it.

 

[Pipi420]

Amos + WT set easily gives Ganyu the damage she is renowned for (40k -60k per shot, go for the eyes !) A good shot will one shot those silly specters.

Haven't tried her with BS, though she shouldn't be shooting much with it.

I think BS+freeze ganyu excels more at AOE, while melt ganyu you might not even want to burst in order to keep the pyro application up

 

[Xenomorphs Are Cute]

Who is more useful to have around/fun, Zhongli or Kazuha?

Honestly, I'd say both are great in their own way. I'm probably never not using Zhongli now, but Kazoo makes Elemental Reactions easy. Also, I'd go as far as to say that him, Jean, & Sayu are the only fun Anemo characters that exist.

 

[Xenomorphs Are Cute]

I forgot to give out another code which is for Primos - 9BPCJCQGHAWZ

 

[LucasSomething]

Played some hours with zhongli and ganyu, some general thoughts so far:

>John Lee

Extremely fun to use on the overworld. I dont think i'll ever get tired of playing around with pillars and yeeting meteors. Kinda trivializes normal combat but those are pretty easy (if you're any good well built dps) so i dont mind. Takes some time to get used to pillar range and placement but overall i'm happy with his performance

Here are my current zhongli stats with lvl 90 homa 90 4pc milelit atk/geo/crit with wanderer hat offpiece. talents 5/8/7.



>why do you have 93 em?

Believe it or not, that's on my best artifact that also has 9% crit 14$ critD. I'll take any tips and criticism, i actually always liked ZL as a character and he's my first lvl 90 so i want him to be the coolest.

>ganyu girl

My biggest fear happened, aka: I really hate playing ganyu. Not cause it's hard (cause it isnt, especially with ZL) but i find going in and out of zoom very awkward to the point it gives me minor headache. i guess i'll pass her wanderer set to yanfei and try to get some 2pc BS 2pc ?? hybrid.

I got a moonmoon bow from weapon baner a while ago so i wonder if it's good? It has high base atk + atk% and gives burst dmg on team burst cost (300 -> 36%) so it should make her a good offfield dps for ayaka. Gotta try it out.

Either way either way, tried abyss with day 1 ZL and finally managed to clutch out a 6/9 on floor 12!



Again, not really impressive but a it's new achievement for me. I found the first chamber the hardest to 2* because XQ has to be with Diluc so i cant use him against the pyro lector, had to retry that one the most. Even if ZL is a "dps loss" on paper, i love playing him and that comp, no regrets here.

 

[creamy cookies]

my pity luck varies a lot hueh

 

[Genichiro]

but i find going in and out of zoom very awkward to the point it gives me minor headache.

Same reason why I find mobile Genshin experience terrible. Aiming on PC (dunno console) is superior than mobile.

An example is the electrical disturbances puzzles you can solve with Venti's sharp shooting. What became a breeze on PC became a slog on mobile, to the point of missing point blank.

Despite that drawback, mobile versions enjoy the quick looting and easy account swapping. SMH

 

[Xenomorphs Are Cute]

Bruh, Zhongli is too good. His shield is literally making the fact that I cannot survive WL3 on units & conditions I have rn, just kind of a trivial minor inconvenience. Seriously, my game on many things is somewhere between laughably terrible & terribly laughable.

How can one shield can have so much power? Like seriously, holy fucking shit.

 

[LucasSomething]

Same reason why I find mobile Genshin experience terrible. Aiming on PC (dunno console) is superior than mobile.

An example is the electrical disturbances puzzles you can solve with Venti's sharp shooting. What became a breeze on PC became a slog on mobile, to the point of missing point blank.

Despite that drawback, mobile versions enjoy the quick looting and easy account swapping. SMH

I play on pc and my problem is that i simply dont find the zooming smooth enough. It's like charged shots were designed only to snipe targets from safe distance, not to spam animation cancel and shoot from point blank range (which is how ganyu ends up playing on practice).

Ironically, aiming on mobile is probably large part of the reason why ganyu is so strong. Gotta compensate for awkwardness by giving her huge AoE and dmg.

I still dont know how how quick looting isnt a thing on pc or at least not an option. Pressing F 10+ times isnt fun,most some games also have auto looting as acessibility options.

Bruh, Zhongli is too good. His shield is literally making the fact that I cannot survive WL3 on units & conditions I have rn, just kind of a trivial minor inconvenience. Seriously, my game on many things is somewhere between laughably terrible & terribly laughable.

How can one shield can have so much power? Like seriously, holy fucking shit.

To give a serious answer, it's because zhongli's shield has 250% absorption against geo (exclusive) and 150% against all elements (like noele) and since it's geo it takes no reaction dmg. His first passive gives up to 25% shield strenght as you get hit and he has the second highest hp after hu tao.

In other words, it's the best shield in the game and has 100% uptime for free.

But if you were struggling at WL3 either your underleveled, not upgrading your weapons and artifact. or forgeting about talents (this is the time where grinding starts mattering). I mostly used 2pc bersekr 2pc sojourner/exile +12 on everyone until i started farming 5* arts at ar45.

 

[Catgirls are Love]

my pity luck varies a lot hueh

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What I've learned from my tracked wish history is that if there's a 50/50, I'm going to lose it. Until recently, 5*s required on average 60+ rolls and I'm still annoyed about being 12 rolls away from a confirmed Raiden but running out of wishes to make it happen. That said, I do have a fairly good track record of pulling the 4* characters I want when I go for them.

Almost tempted to go for a Ganyu constellation, but given my past luck and incoming Yae Miko...probably just going to not roll the dice.

 

[Xenomorphs Are Cute]

To give a serious answer, it's because zhongli's shield has 250% absorption against geo (exclusive) and 150% against all elements (like noele) and since it's geo it takes no reaction dmg. His first passive gives up to 25% shield strenght as you get hit and he has the second highest hp after hu tao.

In other words, it's the best shield in the game and has 100% uptime for free.

But if you were struggling at WL3 either your underleveled, not upgrading your weapons and artifact. or forgeting about talents (this is the time where grinding starts mattering). I mostly used 2pc bersekr 2pc sojourner/exile +12 on everyone until i started farming 5* arts at ar45.

I feel like I can't play this game without Zhongli now. That shield is way too good to go without. And as you said, all those "eithers" combined are my issues with WL3.

> My weapons are in fact, underleveled & at around LvL 40-50.

> My characters are also around 40-50, with only Kaeya & Beidou at 60.

> I'm running the shittiest artifacts because I wasn't ready enough for WL2, let alone WL3 (which surprised me more about Zhongli, so I'm gonna grind Tenacity soon, & give him the R5 Black Tassel, specially for that grind, alongside the HP boost). But my Benny & Xingqiu are garbage at the moment.

 

[LucasSomething]

I feel like I can't play this game without Zhongli now. That shield is way too good to go without. And as you said, all those "eithers" combined are my issues with WL3.

> My weapons are in fact, underleveled & at around LvL 40-50.

> My characters are also around 40-50, with only Kaeya & Beidou at 60.

> I'm running the shittiest artifacts because I wasn't ready enough for WL2, let alone WL3 (which surprised me more about Zhongli, so I'm gonna grind Tenacity soon, & give him the R5 Black Tassel, specially for that grind, alongside the HP boost). But my Benny & Xingqiu are garbage at the moment.

I'm sorry if it sounds retarded captain obvious advice but i'll try to be more direct with tips than what i see online

Spoiler

1-Dont focus too much on "getting strong", think it as ways to make "grinding easier" and that strenght will come naturally. What i mean by this is, think of how long you take to clear dailies and bosses and think on ways to make that faster. You'll know you suceeded when you feel it.

2-Early on you gotta understand how you need X to level Y to level X again and plan accordingly. For example:

Lets say you wanna train xinqiu but you dont have someone to deal with oceanid. I guess you gotta train kaeya and lisa but now you need someone to kill cryo regis and elec cube. I guess you gotta train xingling but now you need someone to deal with pyro regis. I guess you gotta train xinqiu so he can... oh wait.

What i mean is, early on you should try leveling 2-4 strong characters who can help each get stronger. My team when i was starting (1.6) was rosaria, beidou, benet cause 2 of them can easily farm the other one's boss (barbara even at level 1 can stunlock pyro regisvine). Meanwhile, i see a lot of beginners who got yanfei early struggling cause they straight up cant farm primo geo.

TL;DR: Get a pyro AND a cryo dps ASAP, they make farming easier.

3-Dont do artifact domains until AR45, you can survive til there with chest drops. As i said, i mostly used 2pc berserk (12% crit), 2pc sojourner (18%) atk and 2pc exile (20% ER) and got those on 12-16. What really matters is leveling up offensive main stats, this usually means atk% hourglass / element dmg goblet / CR or CD crown which is where the bulk of your stats come from.

4-The final weapon domains are AR40 and you should put your good weapons at least level 70 by this AR cause it's not so expensive. It doesnt take long to farm weapon mats and many domains can be cheesed or done in coop and as long as you have at least 1 spammy healer (qiqi, bennet, etc) people will carry you.

5-You can somewhat ignore talents until AR4 where you should do some of the lvl 36 domains. They cant drop gold but always drop 2 silver which is what usually drops at AR45. Talent scaling gets stronger with level which is massive late game. Early on tho you should on the skills that are your main damage source or main support (like benet burst). Up to level 6 isnt that expensive, it's after that it takes gold mats and tons of mora.

You got zhongli tho who should make the grind a lot easier since he is useful on pretty much all bosses (not oceanid) and domains and is actually useful against his own boss (geo hipo cant do shit against his shield). Give him an hp lance or Fav spear, dont worry about milelith now, use atk/geo/cr or hp/hp/hp arts for now and level up his talents (not normal attack unless you like fighting with him), you cant go wrong with those.

Dont know your plans for next 5* and how many gems you have saved, but unless you want ganyu, i recomend saving for kazuha next since he's a pretty strong and versatile character and anemo CC is extremely rare (i'm ar56 and my sucrose is c0). If raiden appears she's also pretty good.

 

[Leaf Wage Slave]

Well, the new Outfits have dropped. They look alright, though I’m probably never gonna use them…

Aaand the Fandom is flipping it’s shit because these’ll be the outfits used in Cutscenes going forward. To which I say, no shit - anyone that thinks MHY would make multiple versions of the same cutscene to account for players not using the changed outfits, and getting that past the Chinese fans, needs to go touch grass. Add in cries about how “they better not censor more characters”, this fandom is a dumpster fire that keeps on giving.

Also I was noticing some comments re: MHY moving it’s offices to Singapore, anyone else hear anything about that or is that some Hopium?

 

[Xenomorphs Are Cute]

I'm sorry if it sounds retarded captain obvious advice but i'll try to be more direct with tips than what i see online

Spoiler

1-Dont focus too much on "getting strong", think it as ways to make "grinding easier" and that strenght will come naturally. What i mean by this is, think of how long you take to clear dailies and bosses and think on ways to make that faster. You'll know you suceeded when you feel it.

2-Early on you gotta understand how you need X to level Y to level X again and plan accordingly. For example:

Lets say you wanna train xinqiu but you dont have someone to deal with oceanid. I guess you gotta train kaeya and lisa but now you need someone to kill cryo regis and elec cube. I guess you gotta train xingling but now you need someone to deal with pyro regis. I guess you gotta train xinqiu so he can... oh wait.

What i mean is, early on you should try leveling 2-4 strong characters who can help each get stronger. My team when i was starting (1.6) was rosaria, beidou, benet cause 2 of them can easily farm the other one's boss (barbara even at level 1 can stunlock pyro regisvine). Meanwhile, i see a lot of beginners who got yanfei early struggling cause they straight up cant farm primo geo.

TL;DR: Get a pyro AND a cryo dps ASAP, they make farming easier.

3-Dont do artifact domains until AR45, you can survive til there with chest drops. As i said, i mostly used 2pc berserk (12% crit), 2pc sojourner (18%) atk and 2pc exile (20% ER) and got those on 12-16. What really matters is leveling up offensive main stats, this usually means atk% hourglass / element dmg goblet / CR or CD crown which is where the bulk of your stats come from.

4-The final weapon domains are AR40 and you should put your good weapons at least level 70 by this AR cause it's not so expensive. It doesnt take long to farm weapon mats and many domains can be cheesed or done in coop and as long as you have at least 1 spammy healer (qiqi, bennet, etc) people will carry you.

5-You can somewhat ignore talents until AR4 where you should do some of the lvl 36 domains. They cant drop gold but always drop 2 silver which is what usually drops at AR45. Talent scaling gets stronger with level which is massive late game. Early on tho you should on the skills that are your main damage source or main support (like benet burst). Up to level 6 isnt that expensive, it's after that it takes gold mats and tons of mora.

You got zhongli tho who should make the grind a lot easier since he is useful on pretty much all bosses (not oceanid) and domains and is actually useful against his own boss (geo hipo cant do shit against his shield). Give him an hp lance or Fav spear, dont worry about milelith now, use atk/geo/cr or hp/hp/hp arts for now and level up his talents (not normal attack unless you like fighting with him), you cant go wrong with those.

Dont know your plans for next 5* and how many gems you have saved, but unless you want ganyu, i recomend saving for kazuha next since he's a pretty strong and versatile character and anemo CC is extremely rare (i'm ar56 and my sucrose is c0). If raiden appears she's also pretty good.

Thanks for all the advice, it'll help a lot. From all that, I know one main thing for sure. I need to make my Benny useful by all means (kinda wish they bring the Festering Desire back), even if it's just as a healer. And, my Xingqiu needs to be more than just my "make them wet cause you don't know how to use him even if you have C2 on him" unit.

I haven't upgraded a single talent to this day, except my Aether's, which just happened on it's own cause I got C5 Geo on him at AR25. I just hoarded books from events, I didn't even do the domains.

I have around 1400 Primos at the moment thanks to the Lantern Rite & will get more due to the pile-up of missions & WQs extreme leveling has given me.

My memory of how pity works is bad, but I'm sure one can get a guaranteed banner 5* after winning on 50/50 (which I did with the Zhongli). I think I have 30-50 pity on for Ganyu, but not enough to get to Ganyu's 90th summon (I refused to believe I'll get a 5* beforehand). I also loved my experience from that dungeon event a month ago with Kazoo & Ayaka, but maybe I'll save in general for the future, cause IIRC, the pity carries forward to future banners.

Well, the new Outfits have dropped. They look alright, though I’m probably never gonna use them…

Aaand the Fandom is flipping it’s shit because these’ll be the outfits used in Cutscenes going forward. To which I say, no shit - anyone that thinks MHY would make multiple versions of the same cutscene to account for players not using the changed outfits, and getting that past the Chinese fans, needs to go touch grass. Add in cries about how “they better not censor more characters”, this fandom is a dumpster fire that keeps on giving.

Also I was noticing some comments re: MHY moving it’s offices to Singapore, anyone else hear anything about that or is that some Hopium?

Genshitter retardation aside, they're going to Singapore with their publisher sub-group Cognosphere. So they're technically shifting.

 

[Kill Your Idols]

Also I was noticing some comments re: MHY moving it’s offices to Singapore, anyone else hear anything about that or is that some Hopium?

This has already happened, to a certain degree. Genshin is technically no longer published by Mihoyo, but by a Singaporean company called Cognosphere. However, this is mainly financial wizardry and Cognosphere is Mihoyo in all but name. Supposedly, this move was made to help with cash flow because doing international gaming business from within China sucks shit. The game still has a massive Chinese userbase though, so they're still going to have bend over to the CCP to some degree. The international front should at least keep them from compromising completely in other markets so we can keep our fanservice and twinks.

 

[LucasSomething]

For some reason i cant quote @XenomorphsAreCute but i'll tell you bennet is easy to build, you can give him prototype rancour if want for atk buff, skyrider (3*) / fav / sac sword if you want more energy, and later the inazuma katana is good f2p option too. Just use 4pc exile with ER or hp until you get noblese.

Pity carries across banners so it's never wasted. I recommend kazuha cause he's fun, strong and useful but you can roll on anybody you prefer or like.

This has already happened, to a certain degree. Genshin is technically no longer published by Mihoyo, but by a Singaporean company called Cognosphere. However, this is mainly financial wizardry and Cognosphere is Mihoyo in all but name. Supposedly, this move was made to help with cash flow because doing international gaming business from within China sucks shit. The game still has a massive Chinese userbase though, so they're still going to have bend over to the CCP to some degree. The international front should at least keep them from compromising completely in other markets so we can keep our fanservice and twinks.

The game is still majorly published by mihoyo, it was only on epic store that changed to cognosphere, presumably because singaporean publishers dont have to abide to chinese forms of paying meaning that changing publishers on the epic store gives them more ways to get money.

I know everyone assumes this was to run away from china censorship but those are rumors, the devs themselves said the reason was more types of payment. I feel like no one ever reads the whole thing on the website.

Genshin Impact – Step Into a Vast Magical World of Adventure

Genshin Impact is an open-world action RPG. In the game, set forth on a journey across a fantasy world called Teyvat. In this vast world, you can explore seven nations, meet a diverse cast of characters with unique personalities and abilities, and fight powerful enemies together with them, all...

genshin.mihoyo.com

 

[Gamepad]

This has already happened, to a certain degree. Genshin is technically no longer published by Mihoyo, but by a Singaporean company called Cognosphere. However, this is mainly financial wizardry and Cognosphere is Mihoyo in all but name. Supposedly, this move was made to help with cash flow because doing international gaming business from within China sucks shit. The game still has a massive Chinese userbase though, so they're still going to have bend over to the CCP to some degree. The international front should at least keep them from compromising completely in other markets so we can keep our fanservice and twinks.

Probably not. Making fanservicey characters that need an alternate outfit is enough of an extra cost that they're going back and changing the damn cutscenes as well instead of making double the artwork/assets.

 

[ZMOT]

Well look who decided to show up around 75ish pity.
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Only took 30 pulls, also got a Dragon's Bane, Xingqiu's 4th constellation and Beidou (already maxed). Fortunately, this leaves the wish stockpile mostly intact.
Edit: Holy shit Ganyu easily does lots of damage.

I swear they fucked with the rate, I was getting cucked around 40-50 by diluc twice but suddenly coco goat girl takes almost 70+ while showering me with useless xinque and beidous (nigga I still need yanfei constellations, I've maxed those other two ages ago), r6 rain slasher and r5 bell. well at least finally got r5 rust and r1 dragon's bane (which I still have no use for...)

also finally did grind the rewards I wanted on the last day of windtrace, which somehow didn't feel as annoying as I remembered. however, more hilariously, literally EVERY team had at least 1 ganyu - either as char or pic. also looked like 2/3 were russians for some reason (maybe because they like pvp that much?).

kinda stings I had to dip into my yae miko pool to finally get her, but was not gonna let her escape another time.

Honestly, I'd say both are great in their own way. I'm probably never not using Zhongli now, but Kazoo makes Elemental Reactions easy. Also, I'd go as far as to say that him, Jean, & Sayu are the only fun Anemo characters that exist.

you talking shit about my girl sucrose?

> How can one shield can have so much power? Like seriously, holy fucking shit.
because until that point geo was kinda meh with shields all it has going for it, and when finally the DRAGON GOD OF FANTASY CHINA came out he was pretty underwhelming. which caused the chinks to throw a massive shitfit (among other things requesting their data en masse, and since that's mandated to be paper suddenly mihoyo had to mail several thousands of players their shit).

he got buffed, geo alongside it, and since then mihoyo is trying to figure out to walk back from that without triggering the chinks again and nerfing all those shiny characters people paid thousands of dollars for.

I feel like I can't play this game without Zhongli now. That shield is way too good to go without. And as you said, all those "eithers" combined are my issues with WL3.

> My weapons are in fact, underleveled & at around LvL 40-50.

> My characters are also around 40-50, with only Kaeya & Beidou at 60.

> I'm running the shittiest artifacts because I wasn't ready enough for WL2, let alone WL3 (which surprised me more about Zhongli, so I'm gonna grind Tenacity soon, & give him the R5 Black Tassel, specially for that grind, alongside the HP boost). But my Benny & Xingqiu are garbage at the moment.

don't waste resin on artifacts at that level, at that point even a simple exile set will do (or even a mishmash of HP gear) and you get loads of that by grinding the bosses to level the chars, while saving the resin for talent books/weapon parts/char exp (if you want to minmax only grind the stuff that doesn't upgrade soon, no point grinding talent books at 35 when domain level III unlocks at 36 for example).

first course of action imo should be to get the talents as high as possible (up to 6, after that it spikes in cost and mats), then the weapons (don't think there's a limit, however drops scale with world level so it makes no sense to farm for 60+ weapon stuff when you get less drops on your world level) so you got a core of kaeya/beidou/ZL. maybe add noelle for resonance and heal, or amber/xianling if you need pyro (especially helpful for the mondstadt talent domain). with those you can also easily farm all the bosses you need (geo hypostasis can be done with a lowlvl noelle and talents at 1, cryo regisvine only needs a lvl1 amber/xl to get her into weakened state, electro hypostasis has probably the easiest moveset and it's last phase is easy to do with amber + charge shot).

since the level up domain also has an electro hypostasis as final boss going that route kills two birds with one stone, ZL's OP shield should take care of anything else.

I know everyone assumes this was to run away from china censorship but those are rumors, the devs themselves said the reason was more types of payment. I feel like no one ever reads the whole thing on the website.

Genshin Impact – Step Into a Vast Magical World of Adventure

Genshin Impact is an open-world action RPG. In the game, set forth on a journey across a fantasy world called Teyvat. In this vast world, you can explore seven nations, meet a diverse cast of characters with unique personalities and abilities, and fight powerful enemies together with them, all...

genshin.mihoyo.com

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this was recently changed globally, up until december or so it was mihoyo directly except epic store, now it's all cognosphere.

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Probably not. Making fanservicey characters that need an alternate outfit is enough of an extra cost that they're going back and changing the damn cutscenes as well instead of making double the artwork/assets.

cutscenes need the "default" look, so due to the change in china they had to update those. for china those old skins might as well not exist anymore (also shouldn't be that hard to change). it's also more consistent for anyone starting now.

ironically the splash screen when you get the skins is the same as the when you get the char, and that's still the original skin. unless they update those too anyone getting amber and the rest will still see the old skin at least for a few seconds.

 

[Catgirls are Love]

Apparently, we've got another concert incoming.