Genshin Impact

[LucasSomething]

I do believe Childe is more of a enabler for off-fields than dps. For Xianling he makes everything wet fast enough so her Q vapes on every swing.

Yeah, i'm aware people use him more like "on field xinqiu" than a real hypercarry but he's still the guy who stays on field hitting stuff so i referred to him as a "main dps". Not his fault but he doenst synergize with Ayaka/Diluc at all and requires very tight team comps when i dont have that many characters and cons yet.

Still, i like him and want to get him one day so the "fear of missing out" is there. His role as an on-field wetter + vapo nuke also ensures he will probably never be irrelevant meta wise. But alas, he's not what i need right now, which is a good anemo/geo support like venti or zongli.

People say the current abyss floor 11 is a barbara/qiqi check but it's really a kazuha/venti check. Seriously, 2 chambers are literally (1 elite + 2 melee + 2 ranged) x 5 and the final first has 4 cicins summoning bats (who also corrode you).

I'm not rolling just for abyss but i really want at least 1 unit who can cc/stunlock the entire room with a button. Hu Tao is also strong and cute but i dont need another pyro dps rn.

I personally think it’s gonna be a long time before we see a Ganyu rerun, entirely because she was released at a far higher power level than the rest of the cast - even with shit Artifacts she still shits out damage. Once the power creep starts to catch up, we’ll probably see her again.

No joke, the best use I’ve had for Childe is switching to his melee to get everything wet, then using Lisa of all people to zap everything. Might try that with the Shogun once I finish levelling her…

Considering the mecha cube in abyss has +2mil health and maguu kenki is living there now, i'd say the powercreep is here already. Devs know Ganyu will sell tho so they'll probably save her for a really weak patch or put her against an insanely popular character (like yae) to make people pull their cards to get both.

I heard childe works great with Raiden since she can burst while childe's cooldown passes, allegedly a great duo that people slept on.

In other news, the artifact inventory is increasing to 1500! Thank god, now i can farm 50% more thrash! /sneed

 

[Leaf Wage Slave]

Considering the mecha cube in abyss has +2mil health and maguu kenki is living there now, i'd say the powercreep is here already. Devs know Ganyu will sell tho so they'll probably save her for a really weak patch or put her against an insanely popular character (like yae) to make people pull their cards to get both.

I heard childe works great with Raiden since she can burst while childe's cooldown passes, allegedly a great duo that people slept on.

In other news, the artifact inventory is increasing to 1500! Thank god, now i can farm 50% more thrash! /sneed

…I should really start trying to clear the Bottom Abyss floors - I hit Floor 8 and haven’t really touched it since, have too many characters that I need to work on before I start attempting that.

Childe, from my little bit of time using him before I swapped that comp entirely, is definitely more of a sub-DPS, mainly because his focus is applying Wet to as many things as possible as fast as possible, before his downside of the Half Minute Cooldown kills him. Sure the Riptide effect also exists, but between Raiden, Kaeya, and Xianling (I’ve spelt at least one of those wrong) he’s got 3 stupidly easy reactions he can trigger at almost all times.

And lets be honest, how much of that new Inventory Space will just be Gladiator or Wanderers pieces from literally every World Boss - seriously, would some variety kill them?

 

[LucasSomething]

…I should really start trying to clear the Bottom Abyss floors - I hit Floor 8 and haven’t really touched it since, have too many characters that I need to work on before I start attempting that.

Childe, from my little bit of time using him before I swapped that comp entirely, is definitely more of a sub-DPS, mainly because his focus is applying Wet to as many things as possible as fast as possible, before his downside of the Half Minute Cooldown kills him. Sure the Riptide effect also exists, but between Raiden, Kaeya, and Xianling (I’ve spelt at least one of those wrong) he’s got 3 stupidly easy reactions he can trigger at almost all times.

And lets be honest, how much of that new Inventory Space will just be Gladiator or Wanderers pieces from literally every World Boss - seriously, would some variety kill them?

What AR are you? Just think of abyss as some optional challenge and rewards to see how strong your characters truly are, dont worry about trying to 9* floor 12 so soon. I'm only AR53 f2p but i think i can reliably clear floor 9 and 10 now which is 300 gems + gold + mats every 2 weeks which makes me happy enough.

Childe's main mechacic is riptide tho, if you kill someone with it, it "blows up" and spread to the next who also blows up and spreads over and over. This is why he synergizes so well with Kazuha, you basically stack all mobs together and "chain riptide" them all at once. I recommend trying to play around it more.

At least Gladiator 2pc is a good hybrid filler but 4pc glad and wanderer are niche at best. I would kill for two new 5* boss artifact sets that have 12% crit 2pc (like berserk) and 20% skill dmg 2pc (like gambler).

 

[Leaf Wage Slave]

What AR are you? Just think of abyss as some optional challenge and rewards to see how strong your characters truly are, dont worry about trying to 9* floor 12 so soon. I'm only AR53 f2p but i think i can reliably clear floor 9 and 10 now which is 300 gems + gold + mats every 2 weeks which makes me happy enough.

Childe's main mechacic is riptide tho, if you kill someone with it, it "blows up" and spread to the next who also blows up and spreads over and over. This is why he synergizes so well with Kazuha, you basically stack all mobs together and "chain riptide" them all at once. I recommend trying to play around it more.

At least Gladiator 2pc is a good hybrid filler but 4pc glad and wanderer are niche at best. I would kill for two new 5* boss artifact sets that have 12% crit 2pc (like berserk) and 20% skill dmg 2pc (like gambler).

AR57 - the AR Grind is the true hell, and I fully expect that the second I'm about to hit 60 they up the AR cap to 70...

Never thought about using Childe with Kazuha, but then again my usual Kazuha combo is Klee - it's amazing just how quickly those two shred through basically anything that doesn't resist either Anemo or Pyro, especially since I swapped Kazuha to a 4 Piece VV - lowered his EM by bout 150 in doing so, but the VV Effects are so stupidly overtuned it doesn't really matter.

And frankly, I'd even take an upgraded version of the Defenders Will set, though that's entirely because my main healer is Noelle (she may not heal on every hit without her Burst, but over 2500 heal per hit kinda balances that out...)

 

[Kill Your Idols]

Not his fault but he doenst synergize with Ayaka

I've used Ayaka/Childe teams before and it worked better than I thought it would. The comp breaks down as: Ayaka/Childe/Cryo Sub-DPS/Healer or Buffer. My rotation was: set up with the Cryo Sub-DPS burst (Rosaria or Kaeya are probably the most easily accessible options) > Healer/Buffer (Sucrose or Barbara with Thrilling Tales. Sucrose provides VV shred and CC, Barbara can provide stamina reduction and Hydro bonus at C2) > Ayaka burst > Childe melee form for the burst's duration for permafreeze. Yeah, it's not the most optimal set-up because Xingqiu exists, but Hydro units are low supply/high demand right now so it was a good alternative in my opinion. This team was one of my best options for dealing with the samurai in the last abyss rotation and Childe at least provides some benefits that Xingqiu doesn't have. (Passive boost to normal attack talent and you only have to play around his cooldowns, so you don't have to worry about energy as much.)

 

[LucasSomething]

AR57 - the AR Grind is the true hell, and I fully expect that the second I'm about to hit 60 they up the AR cap to 70...

Never thought about using Childe with Kazuha, but then again my usual Kazuha combo is Klee - it's amazing just how quickly those two shred through basically anything that doesn't resist either Anemo or Pyro, especially since I swapped Kazuha to a 4 Piece VV - lowered his EM by bout 150 in doing so, but the VV Effects are so stupidly overtuned it doesn't really matter.

And frankly, I'd even take an upgraded version of the Defenders Will set, though that's entirely because my main healer is Noelle (she may not heal on every hit without her Burst, but over 2500 heal per hit kinda balances that out...)

They work too well together, especially if you throw an aoe freeze in the mix.

I've used Ayaka/Childe teams before and it worked better than I thought it would. The comp breaks down as: Ayaka/Childe/Cryo Sub-DPS/Healer or Buffer. My rotation was: set up with the Cryo Sub-DPS burst (Rosaria or Kaeya are probably the most easily accessible options) > Healer/Buffer (Sucrose or Barbara with Thrilling Tales. Sucrose provides VV shred and CC, Barbara can provide stamina reduction and Hydro bonus at C2) > Ayaka burst > Childe melee form for the burst's duration for permafreeze. Yeah, it's not the most optimal set-up because Xingqiu exists, but Hydro units are low supply/high demand right now so it was a good alternative in my opinion. This team was one of my best options for dealing with the samurai in the last abyss rotation and Childe at least provides some benefits that Xingqiu doesn't have. (Passive boost to normal attack talent and you only have to play around his cooldowns, so you don't have to worry about energy as much.)

hmm yea you're right but i then i'd have to play ayaka as a sub dps which is... workable? It feels wrong but i guess her kit is flexible enough to play subdps. You forgot the biggest difference between childe and xinqiu, the latter is basically single target while Childe has AoE and deletes enemy clusters.

Either way his big appeal is really the lack of other water options. You know shit is bad when people genuinely roll on kokomi solely to "free xinqiu for the other team". With Childe coming right after her, it might take months to get a hidro 5* again. I guess there is ayato but if he's hidro and releases before a new hidro 4* then fuck, now the game is exploiting it's own bad design.

But i dont want to buy into the hidro fears, i need to keep saving! Guess i'll wait for the 4*s and leaks to decide...

 

[Pipi420]

Ganyu wanters on suicide watch rn.

I just want to roll already god dammit

 

[LucasSomething]

After a bunch of really rough tries, i managed to finish abyss floor 11 but i only got 4/9 stars. Oh well at least i managed to beat it fully this time.

Also, i'm pretty sure this floor was intentionally designed to fuck with Bennet as much as possible by punishing his pyro embue. On top of every chamber having a pyro miniboss with burning aura that Bennet cant cleanse unlike Jean (and barb?), you get:

11-1-A: Electro hili bow to overload you
11-1-B: Dendro shamachu -> burning on self infuse
11-3-A: elec cicin can easily overload stunlock you and ice cicin melts you (seriously bennet is a trap here)
11-3-B: geovishap and pyro slimes

Hot take but i dont think Corrosion is awful by itself but if you're going to make a "healer check" floor then it doesnt need to be an AoE CC + dps check floor too. Kokomi is genuinely bad for this abyss since she has no AoE and wastes too much field time which is hilarious. They also remove the pyro/cryo dmg bonus for no reason so you cant even optimize comps around it.

Everyone whined about the pyro hipostasis floor 11 but that one was a lot more about skill than stats, so much that i won with a half low level team. Hell, you can even solo the cube with barbara. This corrosion abyss felt pretty bad to play and i hope it wont return so soon.

Of course, for anyone who can clear floor 12 this might sound like scrub whinery too.

I just want to roll already god dammit

My brother literally started playing genshin TODAY because he saw me talking about the free anniversary stuff. I tell him to roll the 10 free aquaint fates on standard banner instead of Noele's because you build 5* pity there and he somehow got Kaeya, Keqing and sacrificial fragments all at once.

My hands were itching just looking at it. I... I'm not sure i can save for another 6 weeks. If it's not childe then i might roll 10-20 on standard just for the sake of it. The qiqi phobia is real but the Jean Dream is stronger.

 

[Random Dyke]

OH MY GOD IT'S ACTUALLY CHILDE AGAIN HAHAAHAHAA! Ganyu wanters on suicide watch rn.

I'm a big fan of Hu Tao. Believe me when I tell you I do NOT have enough primos for her (I rolled a lot on the Raiden Shogun and Kokomi banners). I am also on suicide watch rn.

 

[Jared Car]

I don't need another childe but I'm going to try and get his weapon so I put his current weapon on another character. I'll just have to wait and see what the other 5 star weapon is if I lose.
On a unrelated note, why does no one talk about Sara? I see people get her to at least c2 but hardly ever use her.

 

[The Lawgiver]

I'm a big fan of Hu Tao. Believe me when I tell you I do NOT have enough primos for her (I rolled a lot on the Raiden Shogun and Kokomi banners). I am also on suicide watch rn.

Could be worse, you could be like me and randomly got a 5 star LONG before pity on the kokomi banner only for it to be mona lmao.

I don't really have a need or strong want for kokomi compared to other 5 star characters I've missed out on or gotten so it's ok I guess. Sucks I didn't roll klee ONCE on the klee re run though for real. Not even a 5 star character. It's ok I already technically have the character, but I'm just considering the fact she becomes absolutely fucking busted when you pair her with the raiden shogun's "every attack also deals electro" move so you can literally overdrive beam people to death. Making a character I can do shit like that with and already have more powerful would be fucking hilarious to me.

 

[ZMOT]

And lets be honest, how much of that new Inventory Space will just be Gladiator or Wanderers pieces from literally every World Boss - seriously, would some variety kill them?

ironically if you have already maxed all your chars (like me) there's no need for more space since no bosses means no more gladiator/wanderers.

AR57 - the AR Grind is the true hell, and I fully expect that the second I'm about to hit 60 they up the AR cap to 70...

55+ is bonus, you already have max charlevel etc., more doesn't change anything.
if they ever up the cap they probably adjust the curve as well, highly doubt they expect new players to grind for a year+ to catch up (and worse be locked out if 60+ unlocks stuff again)

I personally think it’s gonna be a long time before we see a Ganyu rerun, entirely because she was released at a far higher power level than the rest of the cast - even with shit Artifacts she still shits out damage. Once the power creep starts to catch up, we’ll probably see her again.

there's still the char everyone forgot: albedo. was the banner before ganyu, so he would be even more up for a rerun based on the timeframe alone.
as for the powercreep, hu tao apparently is right up there at the top too, and even worse pyro. if that's their concern they wouldn't have run her this soon either.

really, at this point I have no idea what they're smoking. considering childe banners seem to have sold pretty shit, maybe it's their idea to whore him out more often to make more people roll over time... which would mean we gonna be drowning in kokomi banners at some point.

 

[Catgirls are Love]

I don't need another childe but I'm going to try and get his weapon so I put his current weapon on another character. I'll just have to wait and see what the other 5 star weapon is if I lose.
On a unrelated note, why does no one talk about Sara? I see people get her to at least c2 but hardly ever use her.

Probably because Fischl has been around since Day 1 and everyone who has played for any length of time has probably C6d her by now.

 

[Genichiro]

Kokomi's that bad ? For those who pulled her in a 10x at most, probably got their money's worth but pull her for abyss clear, get cucked by pity and pull until hard pity... ooof. Although it seems Qiqi and Jean can prove standard banner characters get the limelight time to time.

All the reason not to pull a 5* char at least a week in to decide their worth.

there's still the char everyone forgot: albedo. was the banner before ganyu, so he would be even more up for a rerun based on the timeframe alone.
as for the powercreep, hu tao apparently is right up there at the top too, and even worse pyro. if that's their concern they wouldn't have run her this soon either.

really, at this point I have no idea what they're smoking. considering childe banners seem to have sold pretty shit, maybe it's their idea to whore him out more often to make more people roll over time... which would mean we gonna be drowning in kokomi banners at some point.

Reruns are nice banners to recoup primos on, they did just push out 4 new banners continuously and rarely any better banner than Childe's to rest on. Not even sure whether to pull C1 for Walnut gorl at this rate, 160+ pulls just for a bit more damage is kinda dubious deal.

 

[Kill Your Idols]

On a unrelated note, why does no one talk about Sara? I see people get her to at least c2 but hardly ever use her.

I think most people dismissed her because the initial leaks made it sound like she was going to be a second Bennett, but she's not nearly as broken so that killed people's hopes. I'm building her now, but that's primarily because I lucked out super hard on the Raiden banner and C6'd her. She's good, but I can see why her comps are niche considering Bennett is just more universal. That extra crit damage is no joke though, when she's paired with Raiden, they (fittingly) fuck shit up.

 

[The Lawgiver]

Probably because Fischl has been around since Day 1 and everyone who has played for any length of time has probably C6d her by now.

I don't have anywhere near good enough luck to hav a c6 fischl lmao
Characters i don't even play like book water boy? yeah filled up with shitloads of dupes of him.

 

[firestoopscience]

Kokomi's that bad ? For those who pulled her in a 10x at most, probably got their money's worth but pull her for abyss clear, get cucked by pity and pull until hard pity... ooof. Although it seems Qiqi and Jean can prove standard banner characters get the limelight time to time.

Kokomi can do what Jeanne and Barb of all people can do better. It didn't help that her role in the main story sucked or was irrelevant, but I will guess the last Island will be her prominent moment.

 

[Random Dyke]

I think most people dismissed her because the initial leaks made it sound like she was going to be a second Bennett, but she's not nearly as broken so that killed people's hopes. I'm building her now, but that's primarily because I lucked out super hard on the Raiden banner and C6'd her. She's good, but I can see why her comps are niche considering Bennett is just more universal. That extra crit damage is no joke though, when she's paired with Raiden, they (fittingly) fuck shit up.

I only got one Sara, so I can't really improve her besides leveling up her + her bow. If I had gotten Raiden, I would've paired them together and formed a team based on them.

She's pretty alright, but I'm not good at archers outside of Skyrim. I mostly like her because she's pretty. I also really love her theme as a tengu.

Could be worse, you could be like me and randomly got a 5 star LONG before pity on the kokomi banner only for it to be mona lmao.

I mean, I got pity at around ~73 wishes through the Kokomi banner last night... it wasn't Kokomi (thank God, I got Keqing instead). I believe I can get an event 5-star the next time I reach pity... what a shame my pity count has been restarted though. I'm going to have to save every single primo that I get up until her banner releases. I'm fortunate that Childe is saving me a few weeks of time to grind.

I will whale if absolutely necessary, but I'm going to try to stay F2P for this banner.

 

[Pipi420]

I don't need another childe but I'm going to try and get his weapon so I put his current weapon on another character. I'll just have to wait and see what the other 5 star weapon is if I lose.
On a unrelated note, why does no one talk about Sara? I see people get her to at least c2 but hardly ever use her.

The buff timer destroys her potential synergy with Eula unfortuanetly
Other than that though she seems fun, I just couldnt get her because im savefagging right now

 

[LucasSomething]

I don't need another childe but I'm going to try and get his weapon so I put his current weapon on another character. I'll just have to wait and see what the other 5 star weapon is if I lose.
On a unrelated note, why does no one talk about Sara? I see people get her to at least c2 but hardly ever use her.

1-People were expecting Bennet 2.0. She was not bennet 2.0.

2-She is janky as fuck. Like, her backdash doesnt work half the time and her optimal playstyle is literally "teleport -> shoot your own foot -> switch" until you get c2 which then becomes "teleport -> switch -> snap burst -> switch back -> shoot own foot -> switch".

She's still the only non bennet atk buffer so she has a few niche uses, which is being Raiden's cheerleader, but she's not worth the awkwardness to play, unless you actually love that kinda of playstyle. From what i see, even some of her fans dont like playing her.

At least you see people picking Sara to give Raiden big damage per screenshot, i never see anybody talk about Sayu. I blame that on people dont knowing how to build her since she is an ATK/EM split scaling healer but unlike others, you actually want to be hybrid, especially at C6.

In other news, the guy who manages the leak translation discord is saying the next banners will be Albedo+gorou and Ittou

Be aware, this is the guy who said 2.2 would be Ganyu and Yae so a bunch of people hate him right now.