The new selfie event is so silly and pointless so why do i like it? I guess cause it gives me an excuse to relax and apreciate the enviroment design for once. Also helps that it's fast and easy and has no talking.
If this counts placing characters then that sucks cause i i have like 5 character with near max friendship and xq maxed (was too lazy to take him out). At least 5000 is a lot of coins so it's enough to buy all mora, xp and resin every week.
I was going to say they might be working on huge teapot changes but it's more likely that the recent covid wave + lockdown fucked them over and they cant deal with teapot for now.
The selfie event is fun & gives a good amount of Primos. Tho the Elemental Burst part yesterday was kinda hard for the first time.
Also yes, it does count. I unlocked the 5th FP slot on the day & now that slot is wasted cause I can't put anyone there. Also, my grind is now on a halt. What the fuck are they even updating is beyond me now.
It does; since the entire placement/management system is inactive, any characters placed in your teapot are stuck there for the foreseeable future. Hoyolab has lots of people complaining about not being able to get the FP income for Ayato. View attachment 3141940
I was anticipating a relatively short maintenance period, so I'm off to a less than ideal start. Oh well, at the end of the day it's just numbers in a game and I almost certainly wasn't going to use the profile banners anyways. At least people who haven't unlocked the teapot are getting the coins too, so they'll have a nice stash to start with when they do get to that point.
>5 cxp/hour
most gain is still doing commissions with those chars and use them while dumping resin, that's how people did it before the pot. did the calculation it a while back, but given it takes around 6-8 weeks or something (cba to go back and find it) to max a companion the pot won't make that much of a difference, even with the 5-8 slots at max it just means getting a banner a few days early.
5k realm currency is pretty huge tho, weekly gain normally is 3200 iirc.
either someone found a big enough exploit (unlikely unless it's somehow like gaining more currency) or bugs can happen that can brick something hard enough to make it more feasible to disable it till it's fixed. iirc there already was something were people could get out of bounds and support had to fix it.
fucking mihoyo, dps artifacts with hp are usually the first to go. also this is the point where my last blunder is fucking me since I wanted to get yoimiya too (guess I'm gonna wait till kuki gets added to the standard banner, 20 more standard wishes when she shows up in 3 months... last pull of course was another fucking xinque, so might as well save)
>It's a weapon of a class you never really use, & you only have 2 characters to give to.
>Can't give it to Zhongli cause you need the HP, so he keeps the Black Tassel.
>Can't give it to Xiangling cause you don't use her & she has a Dragonsbane.
>Realise something like Wolf's Gravestone (Beidou), Amos Bow (Ganyu), or Aquila Favonia (Bennett) would've been much more useful. Hell, even the LPttSW Catalyst would've been useful (Yanfei).
>Can't even complain cause at least you have it & you got it for free, there could be potential future usage. Also, don't want to be an ungrateful cunt.
Never thought getting a 5* weapon would be so jarring. Like, I know I'll use this someday, & it's almost objectively better than getting character that isn't Jean (I'm biased). But I don't think I can use this now.
Maybe it's cause I'm already seething for not being able to R5 my Fillet Blade despite opening 500 Chests (400 Liyue, 100 Chasm, there's achievements to prove that). How the fuck do I have enough to R5 another Messenger, but somehow 2 more Fillet Blades are hard to get is beyond me. I was happy to R5 my White Tassel today, now I got the 5* version of it (both give Crit Rate), I'm both happy & a bit jarred.
Edit: Apparently White Tassel has better base Crit Rate than PJWS. How the fuck?
>It's a weapon of a class you never really use, & you only have 2 characters to give to.
>Can't give it to Zhongli cause you need the HP, so he keeps the Black Tassel.
>Can't give it to Xiangling cause you don't use her & she has a Dragonsbane.
>Realise something like Wolf's Gravestone (Beidou), Amos Bow (Ganyu), or Aquila Favonia (Bennett) would've been much more useful. Hell, even the LPttSW Catalyst would've been useful (Yanfei).
>Can't even complain cause at least you have it & you got it for free, there could be potential future usage. Also, don't want to be an ungrateful cunt.
Never thought getting a 5* weapon would be so jarring. Like, I know I'll use this someday, & it's almost objectively better than getting character that isn't Jean (I'm biased). But I don't think I can use this now.
Maybe it's cause I'm already seething for not being able to R5 my Fillet Blade despite opening 500 Chests (400 Liyue, 100 Chasm, there's achievements to prove that). How the fuck do I have enough to R5 another Messenger, but somehow 2 more Fillet Blades are hard to get is beyond me. I was happy to R5 my White Tassel today, now I got the 5* version of it (both give Crit Rate), I'm both happy & a bit jarred.
Edit: Apparently White Tassel has better base Crit Rate than PJWS. How the fuck?
Dont feel bad, it could be worse. Jade spear is a good atk+crit stick and the lack of good free spears makes it very useful in general. I got homa before i had anyone to use it, you'll get someone soon, just be aware that it takes 900+ large ores to get a 5* weapon to level 90 so start mining when you're free.
If you want, you can still give it to zhongli but then give him offensive stats (atk/geo/crit). As long as his talents are leveled and he's using ToM, you should still be able to tank anything that isnt abyss or very strong bosses.
>Edit: Apparently White Tassel has better base Crit Rate than PJWS. How the fuck?
Because it has a much larger base atk than white tassel lol (400 vs 670).
Just for clarity, all weapons are divided into 4 levels of base atk, low, mid, high and extreme (very rare) and the higher the base attack, the lower the secondary stat. For example:
4* weapons
-Amenoma = 454 atk + 55% atk (low base high atk%)
-Flute = 510 atk +41% atk (mid base mid atk%)
-Prot archaic = 565 atk + 27 atk% (high base low atk%)
-wavebreaker = 620 atk + 14 atk% (extreme base pathetic atk%)
White tassel is a mid base mid crit rate 3* weapon, while jade spear is a high base low crit 5* weapon. While it might look like a downside, base attack is massively important since it's what gets multiplied by atk%. The fanbase loves crit weapons but what you really need is a balance of all offensive stats.
also, i found this new npc that mentions the shogun didnt do shit about the mikage nuclear reactor lol
"what does the shogunate has to do with our well being? It was i who took everyone outisde after the mikage furnace. The shogunate did absolutely nothing!"
What a nice detail (or damage control i guess?) to show the furnace wasnt just a random sidequest and some civilians hate raiden for ignoring that, i thought everyone would automatically love raiden after her quest.
Dont feel bad, it could be worse. Jade spear is a good atk+crit stick and the lack of good free spears makes it very useful in general. I got homa before i had anyone to use it, you'll get someone soon, just be aware that it takes 900+ large ores to get a 5* weapon to level 90 so start mining when you're free.
If you want, you can still give it to zhongli but then give him offensive stats (atk/geo/crit). As long as his talents are leveled and he's using ToM, you should still be able to tank anything that isnt abyss or very strong bosses.
>Edit: Apparently White Tassel has better base Crit Rate than PJWS. How the fuck?
Because it has a much larger base atk than white tassel lol (400 vs 670).
Just for clarity, all weapons are divided into 4 levels of base atk, low, mid, high and extreme (very rare) and the higher the base attack, the lower the secondary stat. For example:
4* weapons
-Amenoma = 454 atk + 55% atk (low base high atk%)
-Flute = 510 atk +41% atk (mid base mid atk%)
-Prot archaic = 565 atk + 27 atk% (high base low atk%)
-wavebreaker = 620 atk + 14 atk% (extreme base pathetic atk%)
White tassel is a mid base mid crit rate 3* weapon, while jade spear is a high base low crit 5* weapon. While it might look like a downside, base attack is massively important since it's what gets multiplied by atk%. The fanbase loves crit weapons but what you really need is a balance of all offensive stats.
also, i found this new npc that mentions the shogun didnt do shit about the mikage nuclear reactor lol
"what does the shogunate has to do with our well being? It was i who took everyone outisde after the mikage furnace. The shogunate did absolutely nothing!"
What a nice detail (or damage control i guess?) to show the furnace wasnt just a random sidequest and some civilians hate raiden for ignoring that, i thought everyone would automatically love raiden after her quest.
Can I do better? Definitely. It's not like I like having Defense on most my arts, but grinding ToM was tiring as it is. But I prefer it now after compared to grinding for the other artifacts. I'm too lazy for this shit.
Now I don't think it needs to be said that the only reason I'm using Black Tassel is the Health percentage buff but there are 2 reasons I'm so adamant to it.
1: As seen at the end of the video, my 24k Health turned to 21k after equiping the PJWS. This was actually higher pre-ToM (around 28.8k) when I just put a 5* 2pc. Glad arts set (it was my 1st 5* & I was excited for Zhongli). Now after sacrificing nearly 4k health, I don't have it in me to sacrifice more. The only reason I even gave my Zhongli some Artifact that's not primarily HP scaling, is cause I want him to be a bit competent in the field. Also, he's quite the Slime Doomguy due to R5 Black Tassel's passive ability, & they're the most common mob to find while exploring.
2: For some retarded reason, the devs think they shouldn't add a bar for "Shield Time Remaining" for the shield characters. Or at least give Zhongli a metric like "1000 Health = 1 second" so atleast there'll be some muscle memory to help. Because of that, I don't think I can reduce anymore health that I already have.
Trust me, it's the reason I never use Cresent Pike on him, instead of BT. It's cause it ruins the support part, which is his main utility. His all BTFO shield (until Rifthounds came in) is the main reason I got him.
This is what I'm running on my Zhongli rn: Untitled.mp4
Can I do better? Definitely. It's not like I like having Defense on most my arts, but grinding ToM was tiring as it is. But I prefer it now after compared to grinding for the other artifacts. I'm too lazy for this shit.
Now I don't think it needs to be said that the only reason I'm using Black Tassel is the Health percentage buff but there are 2 reasons I'm so adamant to it.
1: As seen at the end of the video, my 24k Health turned to 21k after equiping the PJWS. This was actually higher pre-ToM (around 28.8k) when I just put a 5* 2pc. Glad arts set (it was my 1st 5* & I was excited for Zhongli). Now after sacrificing nearly 4k health, I don't have it in me to sacrifice more. The only reason I even gave my Zhongli some Artifact that's not primarily HP scaling, is cause I want him to be a bit competent in the field. Also, he's quite the Slime Doomguy due to R5 Black Tassel's passive ability, & they're the most common mob to find while exploring.
2: For some retarded reason, the devs think they shouldn't add a bar for "Shield Time Remaining" for the shield characters. Or at least give Zhongli a metric like "1000 Health = 1 second" so atleast there'll be some muscle memory to help. Because of that, I don't think I can reduce anymore health that I already have.
Trust me, it's the reason I never use Cresent Pike on him, instead of BT. It's cause it ruins the support part, which is his main utility. His all BTFO shield (until Rifthounds came in) is the main reason I got him.
I get what you mean but you dont need an hp weapon for a support zong, you can get that just by investing on him. My level 90 ZL has +27.000 hp (not counting homa) with offensive build (atk/geo/crit), just from ToM and some random hp substats and my shield is lvl 9 so it can tank almost anything outside the abyss, as long as i dont push me luck (aka still dodge).
2-His shield lasts 20 seconds and has 11 seconds cooldown. My protip would be: If you switch to zhong and the skill is avaiable, then you have less than 9 seconds left. If it isnt but it's 1-2s left, you have enough time to reposition the pillar.
Either way you should focus on leveling your good weapons too. Even a few 3*s like harbinger of dawn are worth getting to lvl 90.
btw btw i found this on the genshin subreddit and this thrash fandom is at it again, using abyss pickrate to bash characters.
It's seems like no one understands this counts people who finish abyss and OWN the characters (most people who rolled ayato used him? wow who would guess) but either way a sample size of 3.700 people on PC from a game with millions is too low to realistically be taken at face value. It mixes different countries and doesnt count china either. This is just toxicity fuel.
I also see redditors unironically whining that this current abyss is "too element dependent and not dps check enough" so the 2.7 abyss in the beta has primordial array and autismal vishap bosses in 12-3 for gearing like 5 million hp so congrats, this fandom gets what it deserves.
I get what you mean but you dont need an hp weapon for a support zong, you can get that just by investing on him. My level 90 ZL has +27.000 hp (not counting homa) with offensive build (atk/geo/crit), just from ToM and some random hp substats and my shield is lvl 9 so it can tank almost anything outside the abyss, as long as i dont push me luck (aka still dodge).
2-His shield lasts 20 seconds and has 11 seconds cooldown. My protip would be: If you switch to zhong and the skill is avaiable, then you have less than 9 seconds left. If it isnt but it's 1-2s left, you have enough time to reposition the pillar.
Either way you should focus on leveling your good weapons too. Even a few 3*s like harbinger of dawn are worth getting to lvl 90.
btw btw i found this on the genshin subreddit and this thrash fandom is at it again, using abyss pickrate to bash characters.
It's seems like no one understands this counts people who finish abyss and OWN the characters (most people who rolled ayato used him? wow who would guess) but either way a sample size of 3.700 people on PC from a game with millions is too low to realistically be taken at face value. It mixes different countries and doesnt count china either. This is just toxicity fuel.
I also see redditors unironically whining that this current abyss is "too element dependent and not dps check enough" so the 2.7 abyss in the beta has primordial array and autismal vishap bosses in 12-3 for gearing like 5 million hp so congrats, this fandom gets what it deserves.
I only invested in his Pillar (LvL 6, best I can do cause I'm AR35, & too pussy to move foward) & a bit in his Q (used to hit like a fucking pebble before, now it actually feels like actual meteor). I do still dodge after the shield (unless it's Ganyu), cause I don't wanna be the monkey who forgets how to flip. The only reason I went with HP is cause his shield's strength scales off HP. But then again, if you can kill 'em quick, you won't need a heavy shield at the end of the day.
That said, if what you said is correct, than I've been using him fairly right cause I basically erect the pillar up the second I get it back, majority of the time I actually get hurt is cause my shield gets fucked up on anytime.
My HoD is at 40, it's also why I'm trying so hard to R5 my Fillet Blade. The passive buff is nice, & it's drip is nice to carry. Same with the Halberd.
As for that list, a redditor is usually just one step of sub-humanity below a twitter user.
It's seems like no one understands this counts people who finish abyss and OWN the characters (most people who rolled ayato used him? wow who would guess) but either way a sample size of 3.700 people on PC from a game with millions is too low to realistically be taken at face value. It mixes different countries and doesnt count china either. This is just toxicity fuel.
I also see redditors unironically whining that this current abyss is "too element dependent and not dps check enough" so the 2.7 abyss in the beta has primordial array and autismal vishap bosses in 12-3 for gearing like 5 million hp so congrats, this fandom gets what it deserves.
I've always found the subreddit to be really funny, A lot of the users seem to be meta slaves and always seem dependant on the best characters just to get by in the abyss. I remember when Kokomi was just releasing and they were all shitting on her because she couldn't crit and now shes carrying them through byss lol
So, anyone else mildly amused that the Chasm - a Permanent Area -, which is technically Story Related, has no VA outside of one section, while the newest event - that’ll only be here for like, 2 Weeks - is fully VA’d?
Like, I get the Chasm was full of filler characters outside of a tease for Yelen and mentioning Klee and Kaeya couldn’t make it, but they couldn’t just find some interns to voice the throwaway characters?
So, anyone else mildly amused that the Chasm - a Permanent Area -, which is technically Story Related, has no VA outside of one section, while the newest event - that’ll only be here for like, 2 Weeks - is fully VA’d?
Like, I get the Chasm was full of filler characters outside of a tease for Yelen and mentioning Klee and Kaeya couldn’t make it, but they couldn’t just find some interns to voice the throwaway characters?
I only invested in his Pillar (LvL 6, best I can do cause I'm AR35, & too pussy to move foward) & a bit in his Q (used to hit like a fucking pebble before, now it actually feels like actual meteor). I do still dodge after the shield (unless it's Ganyu), cause I don't wanna be the monkey who forgets how to flip. The only reason I went with HP is cause his shield's strength scales off HP. But then again, if you can kill 'em quick, you won't need a heavy shield at the end of the day.
That said, if what you said is correct, than I've been using him fairly right cause I basically erect the pillar up the second I get it back, majority of the time I actually get hurt is cause my shield gets fucked up on anytime.
My HoD is at 40, it's also why I'm trying so hard to R5 my Fillet Blade. The passive buff is nice, & it's drip is nice to carry. Same with the Halberd.
As for that list, a redditor is usually just one step of sub-humanity below a twitter user.
Wait you're ar35? Then dont bother farming artifacts domain for now lol, wait until ar45 for guaranteed 5*s and if you cant clear the domain do it coop. You should be able to survive on chest drops, just mix the best 2pc berserk exile and sojourner pieces you get and it should be fine.
If you're unsure what to do, wait till ar40 to do the weapon mat domains and get the good ones on 80 if possible. WL6 is a big difficulty spike where the expects you to have leveled talents and gear.
I've always found the subreddit to be really funny, A lot of the users seem to be meta slaves and always seem dependant on the best characters just to get by in the abyss. I remember when Kokomi was just releasing and they were all shitting on her because she couldn't crit and now shes carrying them through byss lol
From my experience, a lot of gaming subreddits are filled with "proud metaslaves" that are actually casual players with no idea what they're talking about. They think they're pros because they watch youtubers and look at graphs but on practice they're low elo players who never climb the ranks, so their opinions have low weight and only serve to spread toxicity.
I admit i was kinda like that too and i bashed kokomi but on hindsight, her value as a ttds holder and freeze enabler was obvious. You dont really "get it" until you finally 36* abyss and realize what really matters is having a good strat and busted artifacts. This might sound absurd but i think Genshin is fairly well balanced outside of 2-3 units (bennet, xinian) and any redditor who insists the devs dont know what they're doing is insane.
The abyss itself is a genius trap that only exists for the sake of convincing hardcore players to roll on the pseudo-meta they enforce. I've seen people unironically talking about how getting a serpernt spine R5 (50 dollars across 7 months) is a "good investment". I wont even mention the garbage youtubers and "theorycrafting culture". Genshin community is the elitist AND stupid i've seen for a game so anti-competitive. Even the "professionals" dont know what quadratic scaling or diminishing returns means.
So, anyone else mildly amused that the Chasm - a Permanent Area -, which is technically Story Related, has no VA outside of one section, while the newest event - that’ll only be here for like, 2 Weeks - is fully VA’d?
Like, I get the Chasm was full of filler characters outside of a tease for Yelen and mentioning Klee and Kaeya couldn’t make it, but they couldn’t just find some interns to voice the throwaway characters?
Gonna sound harsh here but i'm kinda glad it doesnt so i can mash through without feeling guilty. With the sheer amount of text on chasm, i'm not surprised they didnt bother voicing but if that was the reason, then maybe stop bloating the game with text in the first place.
Gonna sound harsh here but i'm kinda glad it doesnt so i can mash through without feeling guilty. With the sheer amount of text on chasm, i'm not surprised they didnt bother voicing but if that was the reason, then maybe stop bloating the game with text in the first place
Oh that wasn’t a complaint - you’re right, there’s far too much goddamn exposition bloating scenes in the game - I just found it funny that a new are thats part of the story got less attention than “help Fox Lady set up a Convention”.
Least the most relevant part of the Chasm got some VA, but even as a sucker for world building I’m saying theres too much goddamn world building going on with the NPC’s…
Wait you're ar35? Then dont bother farming artifacts domain for now lol, wait until ar45 for guaranteed 5*s and if you cant clear the domain do it coop. You should be able to survive on chest drops, just mix the best 2pc berserk exile and sojourner pieces you get and it should be fine.
If you're unsure what to do, wait till ar40 to do the weapon mat domains and get the good ones on 80 if possible. WL6 is a big difficulty spike where the expects you to have leveled talents and gear.
I only did Arts grind mainly for Zhongli ToM. I surprisingly thought to expand my horizons after that & quit 2 days later (with a real good Gambler set) & just started doing Mora Leylines (never know when one can become broke). I now only do Weapon & Talent ones alongside Mora. Atleast they can be used from an alchemist to upgrade to better stuff.
Got actually burned out for the first time, farming Kokomi's artifacts.
Just HP, they said. ER sands. HP everything. That's fine until crit rate and damage shoved themselves in half of Kokomi viable sets farmed, the other half is the "DEFENCE" family. The often appearing ER main stat? Gone and out of sight. For fuck sakes, let me off this ride, I don't have Mona on this. A 30k hp+ with prototype is a low request and am bored using TTDS.
Don't really understand this RNG. The analogy can be used as serving daily coffee which tastes random and could be any two from a 10 flavor combination which includes the usual bitterness. You can have sweet and salty black coffee this morning, fuck you !
You can say subreddit, Twitter and the fandom largely does not understand the game, do also add at least a portion of the devs as ignoramuses and spiteful simpletons as well.
You can say subreddit, Twitter and the fandom largely does not understand the game, do also add at least a portion of the devs as ignoramuses and spiteful simpletons as well.
This is true, The game has some serious problems that aren't addressed by the community hard enough it feels like Mihoyo knows but doesn't care enough since not enough people give a shit, there really is no endgame content other than abyss and the artifact rng is genuinely atrocious. Like seriously there's nothing worse than the artifacts. Also, I have a hunch that that domain has an intentionally higher chance of giving you attack and crit pieces since most of the characters that need that domain scale off def and hp. I have no way to prove it but that's just the rng based on my own experiences.
Also, I have a hunch that that domain has an intentionally higher chance of giving you attack and crit pieces since most of the characters that need that domain scale off def and hp. I have no way to prove it but that's just the rng based on my own experiences.
Now I think if it, back when farming a basic husk set, Qiqi inadvertently got her seafoam set in a week. The WHOLE set chock full of crit. With a good sword and she can pretend she is cyro Bennet.
Got actually burned out for the first time, farming Kokomi's artifacts.
Just HP, they said. ER sands. HP everything. That's fine until crit rate and damage shoved themselves in half of Kokomi viable sets farmed, the other half is the "DEFENCE" family. The often appearing ER main stat? Gone and out of sight. For fuck sakes, let me off this ride, I don't have Mona on this. A 30k hp+ with prototype is a low request and am bored using TTDS.
Don't really understand this RNG. The analogy can be used as serving daily coffee which tastes random and could be any two from a 10 flavor combination which includes the usual bitterness. You can have sweet and salty black coffee this morning, fuck you !
You can say subreddit, Twitter and the fandom largely does not understand the game, do also add at least a portion of the devs as ignoramuses and spiteful simpletons as well.
RNG is one hell of a drug, there is really no solution other than "never stop farming. If you want some actually good information, check out the percentages of artifacts drops on the wikia. At the same it's not "helpful", it's very enlightning.
Fun fact: Getting crit mainstat crown will actually lower the chances of getting crit d substats and vice versa.
Also, dont throw those crit clam pieces away at least for now! If you ever use Qiqi she can hold those and if they release another defense scaling healer (like noele) you got that ready. Kokomi ideally wants HP/Hydro/Healing or ER/HP/Healing, she's still easier to farm cause you dont have to worry for substats that much.
You can say subreddit, Twitter and the fandom largely does not understand the game, do also add at least a portion of the devs as ignoramuses and spiteful simpletons as well.
I feel the devs want genshin to be an immersive casual game and not overwhelm normies with too much combat information at once. Honkai Impact has a lot more of quality of life like buff durations and shield meters but genshin doesnt.
The genshin community has no excuse to be THIS awful tho. Like, watching youtubers is one of the worst things you can do while starting (speaking from experience). There is too much focus on arbitrary character powerlevels and not on fundamental stuff like how aplication and drop rates works. Keqingmains doesnt even make guides on 4*s anymore unless they're "meta" which is also sad...
It's seems like no one understands this counts people who finish abyss and OWN the characters (most people who rolled ayato used him? wow who would guess) but either way a sample size of 3.700 people on PC from a game with millions is too low to realistically be taken at face value. It mixes different countries and doesnt count china either. This is just toxicity fuel.
I also see redditors unironically whining that this current abyss is "too element dependent and not dps check enough" so the 2.7 abyss in the beta has primordial array and autismal vishap bosses in 12-3 for gearing like 5 million hp so congrats, this fandom gets what it deserves.
The statistics for usage rates are more or less fine for what they are. It's a smaller sample size than the overall population, but only a fraction of players can or even attempt to pass Floor 12, so the results are probably accurate. I think tracking usage rates can be interesting because it shows player preference against certain abyss match-ups, but I agree it shouldn't taken at face value as a tier list because it varies wildly. (Venti goes from "I am become death, destroyer of worlds" to "trophy fuckboi" depending on what the content is.)
2.5 stats for comparison:
It's also been fun to see all the people who were adamant that Kokomi is trash because she can't crit have been malding for months now over her high usage rates. Genshin players need to understand though that there's huge power discrepancies on certain characters based entirely on match-up except if you're Bennett so it's unfortunate that people try to dickwave these stats to prop up their waifu/husbando.
So, anyone else mildly amused that the Chasm - a Permanent Area -, which is technically Story Related, has no VA outside of one section, while the newest event - that’ll only be here for like, 2 Weeks - is fully VA’d?
Like, I get the Chasm was full of filler characters outside of a tease for Yelen and mentioning Klee and Kaeya couldn’t make it, but they couldn’t just find some interns to voice the throwaway characters?
Supposedly, this event will feature every Inazuma unit and bunch of other characters from Mondstadt and Liyue, so I wouldn't be surprised if they cut the VA work on the Chasm section for that factor alone. This event will have over a dozen VAs on just PCs, and the only events that have come close in VA count are maybe Windblume or Lantern Rite II.
The statistics for usage rates are more or less fine for what they are. It's a smaller sample size than the overall population, but only a fraction of players can or even attempt to pass Floor 12, so the results are probably accurate. I think tracking usage rates can be interesting because it shows player preference against certain abyss match-ups, but I agree it shouldn't taken at face value as a tier list because it varies wildly. (Venti goes from "I am become death, destroyer of worlds" to "trophy fuckboi" depending on what the content is.)
2.5 stats for comparison:
It's also been fun to see all the people who were adamant that Kokomi is trash because she can't crit have been malding for months now over her high usage rates. Genshin players need to understand though that there's huge power discrepancies on certain characters based entirely on match-up except if you're Bennett so it's unfortunate that people try to dickwave these stats to prop up their waifu/husbando.
The statistics are always fine, what matters is interpretation and genshin youtubers, theorycrafters and fans love to get it wrong and fuel hate or praise towards something.
Like, even the idea that "it depends on the meta" is false because 2,5 was the electrocharge abyss and Beidou only had 9.2% pick rate. Beidou is widely considered extremely strong and the disorder was pretty strong, to the point i benched diluc (for the first time ever) for an EC beidou team and managed to 36*. So why isnt she played more? Cause nobody wants to play electrocharge, they want to play vape, freeze or raidenational.
Same reason nobody except me plays diluc even tho he really isnt weak as youtubers say. If you spent 100 rolls to get a pyro waifu, you're gonna use that pyro waifu and not Diluc. Hu tao mains are still using her against wolves and pyro heralds and they'll never stop.
There are a lot of nuances to this data that are missed by taking it at face value. For example, Jean has 16% use rate but Jean is also a standard 5* so it's likely that 99% of those veteran abyss finishers have her, which "dilutes" her pickrate. Yoimiya has 26% but a lot less people have yoimia, meaning 16% jeans would be more than 26% yois.
The hate Kokomi got is proof of how nonsensical genshin elitism is (i admit i didnt help). Yeah she cant crit but she was designed to be a low effort healer, ttds/amber holder and freeze enabler and she does that role well. Debatable if she's "worth 80 rolls" sure but if that's what you want that's what you'll get, and i do wish i had her.
I still remember the cries that mihoyo was killing the game with thrash characters like Kazuha, raiden, kokomi, etc. but nowadays everyone wants them. The current "doomposting culture" is pretty cancer and only gets worse despite being proven wrong over and over.
Either way, for now i'm finding the new event kinda boring but the fact that fan novels was translated to fanfics in portuguese makes me chuckle everytime and i cant wait to see the thrashy yae x raiden ship fic that Yae commissions (yes, that's going to be a thing).
Altho what i'm really interested is theater mechanicus, i loved helping people that straight up didnt know how to read, it was fun.
So, anyone else mildly amused that the Chasm - a Permanent Area -, which is technically Story Related, has no VA outside of one section, while the newest event - that’ll only be here for like, 2 Weeks - is fully VA’d?
Like, I get the Chasm was full of filler characters outside of a tease for Yelen and mentioning Klee and Kaeya couldn’t make it, but they couldn’t just find some interns to voice the throwaway characters?
wasn't that the same before? pretty sure there was at least one island with standard text and then a fully voiced event. think it was the fog one or the one after that.
Oh that wasn’t a complaint - you’re right, there’s far too much goddamn exposition bloating scenes in the game - I just found it funny that a new are thats part of the story got less attention than “help Fox Lady set up a Convention”.
Least the most relevant part of the Chasm got some VA, but even as a sucker for world building I’m saying theres too much goddamn world building going on with the NPC’s…
chasm exposition dump was actually fairly small and pretty relevant to the lore. otherwise it's usually character fluff to get you more info about it etc with varying degrees of value, now at least you get a lot of interaction with other chars, first lantern fest had you do random stuff for random people (I didn't mind since always meeting the same chars makes the world small as fuck aka the star wars "everyone knows or is a skywalker" problem, but a lot people apparently had an issue with it). I also suspect some of it is part due translation, 5 chinkrunes are probably 2-3 dialogs at once.
zone itself was pretty good, topside was not!scotland as much as it could be down to the soundtrack, expected the cave itself to be a lot "more of the same" but it was actually quite varied, and I'm a sucker for good lightning effects which after enkanomiya they really seem to have fun doing.
Maybe it's cause I'm already seething for not being able to R5 my Fillet Blade despite opening 500 Chests (400 Liyue, 100 Chasm, there's achievements to prove that). How the fuck do I have enough to R5 another Messenger, but somehow 2 more Fillet Blades are hard to get is beyond me. I was happy to R5 my White Tassel today, now I got the 5* version of it (both give Crit Rate), I'm both happy & a bit jarred.
good luck, I'm missing ONE fucking white iron greatsword for a second r5 since before 2.0. (l like to have two r5 copies of everything just in case, prolly gonna save a third TTDS and black tassel since I already got two of each in use and I rather farm mats and stuff than artifacts).
lesson of the day (especially for new players like @Scarlett Johansson, which I learned a bit too late myself): save fucking everything, you never know when you need it. kinda related, craft at least one of each craftable weapon if you got the billets and save the rest for later - you don't want to get a char in the future who could use it (*cough* kazooha) and then have no billets, especially with the fucked droprate. don't even have to level it. worst case you can still put one of the dozens of 3* weapons on someone you had at some point, if it's not outright the best bang for buck option like HOD or snow tombed starsilver if you don't have access to a character's event weapon or whaled for a 5* (or BP weapons, which are usually worth it imo).
better to have it and not need it than the other way around.
The statistics are always fine, what matters is interpretation and genshin youtubers, theorycrafters and fans love to get it wrong and fuel hate or praise towards something.
sadly it's not limited to those. theorycrafting these days is like talking about videogames on /v/, if something is not 10/10 GOTYAY it's shit not worth thinking about. those retards have no concept of a fucking scale and that everything's relative. just because something is 5% worse doesn't mean it's shit, even more so when you consider other factors like price, availability etc.
you also have to remember most people don't think for themselves and never did, they just regurgitate what they read on the internet or now what their favorite youtuber tells them (so they don't even have to fucking read anymore) without understanding how it works - down to shit like bringing diluc into the geo domain (the one which imbues enemies with CRYO and the disorder that causes damage to chars on melt...). one of the reasons I stopped doing coop. so I'm not surprised hardly anyone uses beidou, fuck most people probably haven't even built her "because tierlists say she's shit, being 4* AND electro and all..."
granted mihoyo's idea of a "challenge" doesn't help where it's a dps race all the time, which inevitably means chars only get judged in a certain aspect and how hard they can nuke, which retards then extrapolate to everything.
as for builds, this might help: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet...FptcOU3ViLh0_PJyMxFSgwJZrd10kbYpQFl1/pubhtml# (think I found it on reddit back then, but it seems to be mainly from one of the discords)
This is true, The game has some serious problems that aren't addressed by the community hard enough it feels like Mihoyo knows but doesn't care enough since not enough people give a shit, there really is no endgame content other than abyss and the artifact rng is genuinely atrocious. Like seriously there's nothing worse than the artifacts. Also, I have a hunch that that domain has an intentionally higher chance of giving you attack and crit pieces since most of the characters that need that domain scale off def and hp. I have no way to prove it but that's just the rng based on my own experiences.
I was kinda pissy about that as well, but you have to consider: if all your chars (you at least care about) are 9/9/9 with maxed exp and weapons, what else to dump your resin on? while it's gonna take a while to get there, it's not impossible. I already got almost all of my chars at 8/8/8, probably pushing some to 9 (I could probably calculate it, bit given going from 6 to 8 looks worse than it actually is I don't expect 9 to be that much worse. ironically the biggest stopgap are drops like whopperflower nectar and hilichurl masks because it seems every second char needs that stuff, and after 6 that shit adds up).
for example the BP wants you to do 20 leylines per week - that's 1.2 mill in mora and "only" 400 resin, so a bit over two days worth. for comparison pushing a 4* weapon from 80 to 90 is 248k mora, getting a talent to 6 is 117,500 mora, from 6 to 8 another 380k mora. so two days alone gets you enough money to almost push all 3 talents to 8 (and don't forget the BP also has a mission where you want to spend 500k per week)
talent domains give you at least 2blue+2green with a lucky improvement of getting more or straight up 1 purple (=3 blues, =9 greens), with 20 resin per domain and with 15 per week for the BP that's "only" another 300 resin, so less than two days (and that doesn't include any alchemy boni like sucrose' etc.). getting a talent to 6 doesn't even need a purple 4*, just 21 blues (and three greens from 1->2), meaning less than 10 domain runs going by 2/2, which can only go up (6->8 is where it gets expensive again with 10 purple books, but if you go with "1 run 1 purple" that's more or less the same as going from 1->6, and 8->9 is "just" 12 purple books).
and that is just me being stingy and for the longest timed trying to not spend too much mora each week for the 500k mission, if I wanted I could probably raise and cap a char much sooner with less time spend (domains don't drop shit, might as well use a condensed resin for that to save some time. otoh leylines in mondstadt have a lot of hilichurl mobs I want masks from). also doesn't include other sources like BP (doesn't give you mondstadt talent books anymore, which makes it much easier to calculate how much you'd potentially need), events, transformer and new zones; or fragile/transient resin you get on top your weekly 1260 resin if you don't let it cap.
like ignoring purple artifacts people focus too hard on artifacts in general, which outside of abyss you don't even need. anything else is much less RNG with guaranteed power increase, but since the internet says you NEED THIS SET WITH THIS STATS this is what people focus on, which to some degree even works against them making them think they can't "win" another way and it affects their enjoyment of the game.
point is, artifact grind is endgame because everything else is capped, and given how the game is designed any "real" endgame would probably be even worse, either being even more grindy or gatekeep certain players. the goal is not to keep you busy for hours each day, but have you come back every day for a bit before it gets annoying.
you could see the same when people whined about event rewards costing resin, and doing a surprised pikachu face when it got changed and the rewards got worse and limited. now imagine the good shit like primos and crowns are locked behind the highest tier of whale events instead the other way around (and which apparently is the norm in some other gatchas, so people don't even know how good they have it right now).
almost makes me wish mihoyo would remove the resin cost of artifact domains so I can shit even harder on retards who were constantly bitching about it on reddit and now cry about being still the same RNG, except with korean mmo tier droprate (hint: giving you more pulls on the slot machine doesn't improve the RNG, especially when you remove the cost the RNG is calculated against. enjoy sitting in the same fucking domain for hours each day getting fuck all).
it also doesn't help managing the whole thing is a pain in the fucking ass, starting with new artifacts not getting marked in the list, so EVERY FUCKING TIME you have to go through EVERY FUCKING ARTIFACT OF THAT TYPE to find the one with DEF to turn into exp. oh and good luck if you want to automatically dump something else than fucking greys to level, because the thought of LET ME AUTOFILL BLUES FIRST AND ONLY BLUES YOU FUCKERS is too outlandish. so I have constantly ADD THAT FUCKING BLUE TRASH BY HAND FOR EVERY FUCKING ARTIFACT AFTER SCROLLING TO IT EVERY FUCKING TIME.
another thing that probably trips people up is that to get to the point you can comfortably rotate artifacts around to over time distill the best one out the bunch you got takes quite a while, and given how the whole process works you need to level at least a few spare ones, or potentially waste a good one (lets say you got 5 artifacts, for simplicity all having the same stats. you want to level them all to 20 to see how they upgrade. then if you get a new one turn the worst of those 5 into exp, and since you get 80% exp back the new artifact will be much cheaper to get to 20. then just repeat the process). the problem is you want to do that for every piece of every set (and that's not considering support sets you want different types of depending on char). most people a) don't want to wait months or years to get to that point given how limited artifact exp is and b) you run out of space quite fast while "working" on trimming your collection down that way, not to mention the more artifacts you got the more "crowded" the whole thing becomes (which artifacts did you got recently? which set were you working on? which were the trash artifacts again? so wait lemme compare them all first. now you have to find that one trash artifact again asf.). lot of people advice only upgrading till 12 (based on cost), but that's still 2 potential upgrades and 80% is 80%.
in the end this means people waste potentially good artifacts (even one with 2 substats can develop well enough to be usable, and that is all that matters. BIS is a lucky luxury since not even abyss requires it), and instead complaining about the process or time requirement, they complain about the "RNG", and that's not considering much of that is based on the perceived NEED to have a full godroll set instead of 2x2pc mix of general stats like ATK+damage type, which I can guarantee most people could've easily done by now - instead they farm for that one specific artifact with that specific stat and of course it needs all the right substats right from the start, anything else is trash. fuck, you could even use something like a purple HP piece since it only affects HP, most shit oneshots you anyway, and even lower substats beat one without those any day. but how many people do you think even look at those?
with how limited and linear everything else is in the game, this sudden degree of choice and options is just mindboggling when you think about it, especially when people have no grasp on relative scale and can't think for themselves. as tacked on as the whole artifact system I feel is, mihoyo probably didn't expect the majority of their playerbase being dumb metaslaves.
TLDR: artifact "endgame" is not as bad as it seems. careful what you wish for.
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