I'm just fucking happy there are no more "get 100 material" quests in the battle pass.
it's not like those took any effort anyway, you got a whole week to collect them which was easy when you did it while doing other stuff. if you wanted to get it done asap it took less than an hour if you memorized the spots (which shouldn't be an issue by now).
the other thing is it's not like that wasn't stuff you just collected just for the BP (maybe if you wanted to get it done asap and collected previously useless stuff like valberries and silk bloom), completely advancing a character takes 168 items, which is one and half week of BP missions alone. possible talent/weapon requirements on top, plus cooking and now housing - with the biggest irony being that now you're even more required to run around and collect 7 different types of wood, those 10 furnishings for the BP each week require mats too (even if you craft the cheapest ones constantly that resource is finite as well).
I can already see people complaining they are now "forced" to farm for shit (like qingxin when ganyu dropped) since they don't accumulate it on the side like before.
the other one isn't much better as this weekend has shown, because if you don't talk with your mates (which you need in the first place and get them to set their housing area to always available) they gonna buy their own limited stock and you'll spend your coins on useless shit like rocks just to get the BP mission done.
Definitely not half. I recommend you hyperinvest into 1 or 2 DPS characters though, it will carry you far. Maybe 8/9/8 or something depending on which of the talents you use the most and a 90 weapon. And then for your supports anywhere between 60-80 is fine with a level 80 weapon. Usually they only use their skill and burst anyway so you can just do like 1/6/8 or something.
Also reserve level 90 for your waifu and nothing else. It takes a fucking INSANE amount of books and mora to go from 80 to 90 for like a 5% damage boost at most.
weapon exp is cheap enough, you can farm that one without resin, there isn't really a reason to not have a weapon maxed (and with mona/albedo you save some resin too, but it's not that expensive to begin with, around 360 for a 4* final ascension - high estimate, probably lower by a few runs. up to lvl 80 it's something around 670).
getting a char from 80 to 90 takes 171 purple wits (+3125 exp, which you probably don't want to waste a purple 20k wit on), 144 if you stop at 89. with around 5 purple wits per blossom (this includes blue) you can somewhat estimate how long that would take. that's why you save your fragile resin for an exp event like oceanid and go HAM. mora itself is pretty cheap with only 684k, which you accumulate on the side anyway.
I'd still do the last ascension tho, even if it costs around 600-800 resin (less if you get luck with weekly bosses or grab stuff from events), personally I hate wasting exp, that's why I usually leave them at 80 or 89.
that math might be a bit off tho since I'm not sure I read their drop rate estimates correctly, mine were even more expensive.
maxed artifacts and talents at 6 are probably better "value", although I didn't run the math. artifacts at 12 and talents at 6 should work too if you bring the right chars.
and don't tell reddit you leave your supports at 60, they like to blame low level chars when they get facefucked in coop bringing nothing but DPS into a domain without even checking the leyline disorder and try to bruteforce it.
don't wanna imagine the assrape the new boss is gonna do, childe was tedious enough but doable, this one with everyone requiring shields or not getting hit (lol good luck with that) shit's gonna be fun.
