Genshin Impact

[LucasSomething]

Saw people on reddit saying raiden sucks this abyss but i still found it fairly easy. Maybe the consecrated beasts desensetized me but these new fontaine enemies all feel very fair so far. Robots still get pulled, arlechino operatives can get stunlocked, boss crab gets wrecked by good hidro (you should have one by this point) and the cog bot only stands in the same place. The only annoying one is the copper couple cause they actually hit very hard and cryo slows you so you cant yolo glue at them and mash without a strong shielder.

btw its good to be back lol.

If you really want another 5* preservation char (there won't be another one for a long while), then sure. I'll give a few points about her.

Gepard doesnt really need to use his skill tho unless you want to risk a clutch freeze which is his only realistically advantage over her, he is very SP positive and his shield spam works well on simulated. With landau cone (+ aggro) an ER rope and vonqwac set (124 ER) my gep will just get punched enough to recharge his burst every 3ish turns. I think he and bailu are hard gatekept by lack of cleanse that forces you to bring Luocha/fuxuan.

My main issue with gep is that yeah, i have clara and blade and he kinda antisynergizes with them hard but i only have one luocha. He is good with yanqing but i dont know what i'm doing wrong that my YQ feels weak af. Everyone i have feels tho cause i hate farming artifacts.

My 5* order was like Himeko -> silver wolf -> luocha -> blade -> gepard (early) -> kafka and on standard was YQ book -> YQ - gep -> clara (early) and Welt like yesterday. She would be a good quantum breaker.

Since Fu Xuan doesn't have any option (lightcones and her skill) to increase aggro to her, she is much better for Blade and Clara comparing to Gepard.

Landau choice is 4* and increase agro tho but are you sure she is good with blade? From what i've seen she doesnt mitigate self harming from him or jingliu so blade would be near dead all the time.

TBH i dont really care about meta much in star rail because their abyss equivalent isnt fun at all (i only do until floor 5 max) and i hate farming artifacts in this game even more than genshin. Only my blade isnt super undergeared.

Ill roll for her cause it sounds like i wont regret or anything but also cause she should be fun to use with destruction blessing on simulated and i need a quantum breaker. Next i'll wonder if its worth buying Gepard lightcone on the shop or not, its BiS for every defense tank so far (TB, gep, m7) but they're all flawed in their ways.

Not the game's fault but the way this community wont shut up about powercreep yadayada dan heng also makes this game less fun. Not even genshin is this bad and its currently already shitty with the whole Neuvi jerk and furina doomposting.

 

[Dollar Store Sentai]

I would do Lynx over Fu for Blade and Clara. Her adding taunt to Pres/Destruction characters plus 2-3 turn heals with a full party cleanse is too good.
DHIL is extremely strong, especially for Swarm, but it's not worth lamenting missing him.

 

[Hammr2]

With landau cone (+ aggro) an ER rope and vonqwac set (124 ER) my gep will just get punched enough to recharge his burst every 3ish turns. I think he and bailu are hard gatekept by lack of cleanse that forces you to bring Luocha/fuxuan.

My bad, I remember Landau's choice incorrectly, I thought it was %DEF bonus not damage mitigation so even with more aggro was kinda not much imo (at that time). Having %DEF is good for FX, somewhere around 1500 should be good, her abilities don't scale with DEF.
With either FX's signature lightcone or even Herta's shop one, they both give enough additional En.R along with En.R rope, you can skip Vonqwac planar set. I prefer more effect resistant on tanks and healers, still I'd love to have more effect resistant on my current FX and Luocha.
As long as there is a boss or MoC side doesn't have any crowd control, Gepard and Bailu can hang on, at least for now most of the time.
(Edit: defense reduction debuff from fire-breathing fish and Belobog spearman can also be troublesome at LV90, 50% DEF goodbye)

Landau choice is 4* and increase agro tho but are you sure she is good with blade? From what i've seen she doesnt mitigate self harming from him or jingliu so blade would be near dead all the time.

Well, not exactly for auto health remove mechanic in Blade, but for that 100% crowd control resistant one time if Blade has enough charges for his follow up attack. I mean even if Blade gets stunlocked, Luocha can cleanse then Blade immediately does follow up. But you know not being disabled at that moment is neat, preference.

Next i'll wonder if its worth buying Gepard lightcone on the shop or not, its BiS for every defense tank so far (TB, gep, m7) but they're all flawed in their ways.

Since you pick Vonqwac for Gepard, it's great choice. More %DEF and aggro, the more effect hit rate is there just for Remembrance path shenanigan. This is what I like about HSR, you have more varied choice in mix matching relic/artifact sets and weapons/lightcones.

I stop caring about Abyss and MoC meta. Swarm universe is fun enough for me, despite it's being a bit grindy. Also I'm done with Star rail for now because I thought it would have more traditional story telling JRPG than Genshin live service, the whole Belobog (main quest and long series companion quests) compares to Luofu (back to Genshin style but more issues).
Very tempted with Topaz and Argenti. Former for follow attack paring with Clara and latter for overall design, but I'm good.

Not the game's fault but the way this community wont shut up about powercreep yadayada dan heng also makes this game less fun. Not even genshin is this bad and its currently already shitty with the whole Neuvi jerk and furina doomposting.

Tbf, IL Dan Heng isn't that bad in powercreep, since he needs 3 skillpoints for maximum damage. It's free crit damage bonus and C2 gives 100% action forward (Haha, me Seele now) that are really good.
HSR is an auto battle, takes much less or "zero" effort to play comparing to Genshin. At this point, people should be happy that every new 5* limited are very good and not have to chase all new FoTM (learn to save, pick favourite and not greedy).

I'm actually surprised that Neuvi being that strong as hypercarry in a good way, despite not rolling for him now. And I'm abit amused that both him and IL Dan Heng are strong and having similar water dragon theme. Conveniently, next year is Dragon Year for Asia.

I don't even know what to doomposting Furina about. If they have some fixation because she isn't another Xinqiu - Yelan or whatever, good lord go get helped. Imagine not wanting MHY to figure new thing instead of same old National, I'm saying that despite keeping beating dead horse that is Dehya. Also especially people expectation of enforcing a character into something without considering what kind of other utility/mechanic they have.

 

[LucasSomething]

48% Effect hit rate is necessary to double the defense bonus from belobog planar set and gepard cone covers half of that a least, but even 24% from substats sounds too hard to farm. I think HSR is a lot worse to farm cause not only you dont get a spare off piece, you need 6 artifacts and there are even more useless stats for majority of units like break / EHR and even resist while nice, aint no crit.

I also dont see the the appeal of star rail MoC, at least not enough to justify the community's unhealthy levels of elitism. You cant ask for opinions on the leaker sub cause people keep using "powercreepability" like its some kind of dragonball power level contest. This is a game that once you get strong enough you literally stop playing it because its just auto battles.

Im trying to get Fu Xuan, i'm currently at 72 pity no guarantee so we'll see how it goes, if i lose to someone hopefully its bronya at least.

Mihoyo marketed Dan Heng dragon a LOT and they're REALLY pushing Neuvilete in the story, apparently China loves dragon husbandos so i'm sure this is intentional.

There is leaked gameplay of Furina not keeping up with hu tao application and people freaking the fuck out about it (which is funny cause furina has anti synergy with hu tao anyway). I dont think people realize how comically overloaded furina is

1-Normals proc pneuma OR ousia every 6s. Every other fontaine unit has 12s+ CD and rules (liney might be shorter).
2-Skill has 30s duration with 20s CD and no rules. This is the ONLY 100% hydro uptime ability in the game and its free from off field. It also allegedly has good damage but i dont know how smartand agressive are the pets on practice.
3-She has a SECOND skill that heals for free seemingly from infinite range too. Yes you need to stop attacking to heal but if she did both things then kokomi would be deleted from the game. Just switch it before rotating then switch back when you go burst with everyone.
3-Her skill draining player health is actually a bonus because it lets anyone use MH, which i plan to do on wanderer.
4-Her burst does potentially >+90dmg% buffs to the THE ENTIRE TEAM for 18s. There is no other dmg% buff in the game remotely closer and its already absurd this costs 70 and not 80, sac xinqiu would easily battery her.

She is a dps, enabler, healer, buffer, pneuma+ousia stick and if she was the best at all of them she would powercreep all other hydro 5*s.

 

[Kill Your Idols]

There is leaked gameplay of Furina not keeping up with hu tao application and people freaking the fuck out about it (which is funny cause furina has anti synergy with hu tao anyway). I dont think people realize how comically overloaded furina is

Did people seriously think she was going to have hydro application on par with Xingqiu? That's some wishful thinking. It's a moot issue because adding Xingqiu or Yelan to a Hu Tao/Furina team for hydro resonance is a net benefit for everyone involved anyway.

 

[LucasSomething]

Did people seriously think she was going to have hydro application on par with Xingqiu? That's some wishful thinking. It's a moot issue because adding Xingqiu or Yelan to a Hu Tao/Furina team for hydro resonance is a net benefit for everyone involved anyway.

The furinamains subreddit is really tense right now between people who insist she's garbage and mihoy will surely fix all her drawbacks and others who heard from TCs that she is broken because "hu tao triple hydro with XQ/Yelan/mona has broken dps" (not sarcasm).

I think Nahida being so prevalent kinda broke people and now they think Furina HAS to be even more overpowered and the best hydro in the game at every scenario because "archon privileges yadayada" when that's just a fake excuse these people made to justify her needing to be """universal""".

Furina is obviously not intended to be "universal" like xinqiu, her skill will still be generally good on most teams but her main niche will be synergy with fontaine units. Her kit almost feels designed to be better outside of abyss because you can simply farm stacks then heal back for free as you explore.

 

[Kill Your Idols]

The furinamains subreddit is really tense right now between people who insist she's garbage and mihoy will surely fix all her drawbacks and others who heard from TCs that she is broken because "hu tao triple hydro with XQ/Yelan/mona has broken dps" (not sarcasm).

I think Nahida being so prevalent kinda broke people and now they think Furina HAS to be even more overpowered and the best hydro in the game at every scenario because "archon privileges yadayada" when that's just a fake excuse these people made to justify her needing to be """universal""".

Furina is obviously not intended to be "universal" like xinqiu, her skill will still be generally good on most teams but her main niche will be synergy with fontaine units. Her kit almost feels designed to be better outside of abyss because you can simply farm stacks then heal back for free as you explore.

I agree that Nahida skewed player perceptions of what an Archon is capable of. Nahida had everything going for her when she was released: strong element, low energy cost burst with a massive range, EM buff on burst, functionally simple skill with consistent dendro application, catalyst weapon for even more reactions, and next to no competition from other units because dendro was still new at the time. The end result is that she almost broke the game balance, shot to the top of the Spiral Abyss usage rates, and probably will remain there for a long time. Hoyoverse likely will not make a character this busted again because the powercreep comparisons to previous units will be blatantly obvious and they're usually good at avoiding that.

Meanwhile, I just want Furina to for a full Pokemon team with Fischl, Xiangling, and Yaoyao.

 

[LucasSomething]

I agree that Nahida skewed player perceptions of what an Archon is capable of. Nahida had everything going for her when she was released: strong element, low energy cost burst with a massive range, EM buff on burst, functionally simple skill with consistent dendro application, catalyst weapon for even more reactions, and next to no competition from other units because dendro was still new at the time. The end result is that she almost broke the game balance, shot to the top of the Spiral Abyss usage rates, and probably will remain there for a long time. Hoyoverse likely will not make a character this busted again because the powercreep comparisons to previous units will be blatantly obvious and they're usually good at avoiding that.

Meanwhile, I just want Furina to for a full Pokemon team with Fischl, Xiangling, and Yaoyao.

I agree but Nahida is mostly "busted" for 2 reasons

1-Dendro is the only element in the game where talents don't matter and too much EM and application is ALWAYS good cause it doesnt get in the way. If it's burning then dendro resets the burn. If it's quickbloom then more dendro means more spread and bloom.

2-Every dendro off fielder so far has hot garbage application and/or crippled icd, awful range and energy issues. I think Baizhu is the only character in the game that has a burst cast that staggers but doenst apply anything which is hilarious.

This means the dendro ceiling is very very low and you only need nahida + kuki at level 90 with EM pieces (that you farm on the same domain btw) and simply add your level 60 barbara to have an actual abyss viable hyperbloom team. She is the most used because she has the best investment / reward ratio in the game and people are lazy by default.

But here is the thing, Nahida didn't "powercreep" anyone because dendro simply didnt exist and now that it does it's an option. Abyss pickrates are mere microdata twisted into elitism and conspiracy theories for a singleplayer game with no competitive mode and pay to win gambling.

Either way i dont think mihoyo is avoiding powercreep per se (i do think they might buff her or lower her drawbacks) but they simply want Furina to crack her own niche among a stacked hydro cast and embody the core mechanics of fontaine, thus she is a summon skill dps and has strong synergy with fontaine dps.

I'm personally planning to use furina with Wanderer because she lets him use MH set lol.

 

[LucasSomething]

I agree that Nahida skewed player perceptions of what an Archon is capable of. Nahida had everything going for her when she was released: strong element, low energy cost burst with a massive range, EM buff on burst, functionally simple skill with consistent dendro application, catalyst weapon for even more reactions, and next to no competition from other units because dendro was still new at the time. The end result is that she almost broke the game balance, shot to the top of the Spiral Abyss usage rates, and probably will remain there for a long time. Hoyoverse likely will not make a character this busted again because the powercreep comparisons to previous units will be blatantly obvious and they're usually good at avoiding that.

Meanwhile, I just want Furina to for a full Pokemon team with Fischl, Xiangling, and Yaoyao.

I agree but Nahida is mostly "busted" for 2 reasons

1-Dendro is the only element in the game where talents don't matter and too much EM and application is ALWAYS good cause it doesnt get in the way. If it's burning then dendro resets the burn. If it's quickbloom then more dendro means more spread and bloom.

2-Every dendro off fielder so far has hot garbage application and/or crippled icd, awful range and energy issues. I think Baizhu is the only character in the game that has a burst cast that staggers but doenst apply anything which is hilarious.

This means the dendro ceiling is very very low and you only need nahida + kuki at level 90 with EM pieces (that you farm on the same domain btw) and simply add your level 60 barbara to have an actual abyss viable hyperbloom team. She is the most used because she has the best investment / reward ratio in the game and people are lazy by default.

But here is the thing, Nahida didn't "powercreep" anyone because dendro simply didnt exist and now that it does it's an option. Abyss pickrates are mere microdata twisted into elitism and conspiracy theories for a singleplayer game with no competitive mode and pay to win gambling.

Either way i dont think mihoyo is avoiding powercreep per se (i do think they might buff her or lower her drawbacks) but they simply want Furina to crack her own niche among a stacked hydro cast and embody the core mechanics of fontaine, thus she is a summon skill dps and has strong synergy with fontaine dps.

I'm personally planning to use furina with Wanderer because she lets him use MH set lol.

 

[Xenomorphs Are Cute]

I have a feeling Furina might get a Dehya treatment of being fixed through Artifacts. Dehya is now an AFK Goddess because of it, so it's possible for Furina somehow too.

 

[Leaf Wage Slave Jr]

But here is the thing, Nahida didn't "powercreep" anyone because dendro simply didnt exist and now that it does it's an option. Abyss pickrates are mere microdata twisted into elitism and conspiracy theories for a singleplayer game with no competitive mode and pay to win gambling.

People have this fucking weird fascination with worshipping Abyss as the Be All End All of what Genshin content should be, and ignore that the actual completion rate of 12-3 is surprisingly low - I'm using Playstation trophy stats for that metric, so ymmv on how well that translates to PC and Mobile, but that currently hovers around 11.8% of the console player base having fully cleared Abyss content and earned the relevant shiny doodad.

The Genshin fandom reminds me most of the Pokemon fandom - it's a fairly casual game you can clear with basically any team, your choices for said team being what gives 99% of any difficulty, but there's some proper autism in this bitch.

I have a feeling Furina might get a Dehya treatment of being fixed through Artifacts. Dehya is now an AFK Goddess because of it, so it's possible for Furina somehow too.

As someone who's used Dehya for a few patches now, she has exactly 2 modes - braindead AFK, or Constant Crit Monster. There's exactly 0 in between.

The team I use her in isn't exactly good - Kequing and Rosaria to get up close, Kokomi to keep me alive - but when 3/4 of her hits are crits and cause a stun animation, the team doesn't need to be too efficient...

 

[Daddy's Little Kitten]

Minor Swarm simulated universe thing, the adventure tile sets, ones where you have to destroy barrels or hitting trotters. Her normal attack out of combat is AOE and range, it makes thing much easier.

I always use Kafka for those, since her technique's range is huge.

I'm torn on who to pull for 1.4. I need Seele since I missed her initial run, but I also kinda want Jingliu. But, I also want everything from 1.5...

I would do Lynx over Fu for Blade and Clara. Her adding taunt to Pres/Destruction characters plus 2-3 turn heals with a full party cleanse is too good.

I have Lynx and I use her with Clara and Blade, but I feel her taunt hardly works. I use it on Blade, he gets attacked once, then everyone else gets attacked...

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

Are those cosplayers in the commercial the voice actors, or did they purposely choose the ugliest looking people they could?

 

[Kill Your Idols]

People have this fucking weird fascination with worshipping Abyss as the Be All End All of what Genshin content should be, and ignore that the actual completion rate of 12-3 is surprisingly low - I'm using Playstation trophy stats for that metric, so ymmv on how well that translates to PC and Mobile, but that currently hovers around 11.8% of the console player base having fully cleared Abyss content and earned the relevant shiny doodad.

The Genshin fandom reminds me most of the Pokemon fandom - it's a fairly casual game you can clear with basically any team, your choices for said team being what gives 99% of any difficulty, but there's some proper autism in this bitch.

Abyss worship mainly boils down to the fact that Abyss is the only hard* content that matters** so it's the highest metric to judge characters on their perceived power levels. There's also a ton of sunk cost fallacy going on because every whale, theorycrafter, and min-maxer has to justify their autism to the world by inflating how important Abyss is to the overall game. They cannot handle that Genshin is casual game for most of the audience that would rather focus on collecting attractive anime characters than number crunch and optimize team rotations.

*Floor 12 is challenging, but everything before it is a breeze to well-thought out and properly equipped teams.
**It doesn't actually matter, scoring perfect Abyss runs for a year nets you a whopping 90 pulls, which means you'll likely hit pity an additional one time.

Are those cosplayers in the commercial the voice actors, or did they purposely choose the ugliest looking people they could?
https://youtube.com/watch?v=9dkSs0LHChQ

There isn't a Portuguese dub so these have to be random actors or cosplayers. @LucasSomething please help us understand the way of the Brazilian.

 

[woowie queen]

so, i found myself with a newer account with almost no one in, and i thought it was time to build characters like i should. i remember existing some google doc thing in which there were written the perfect builds for every character, but i can't remember the link at all.

 

[ZMOT]

3-Her skill draining player health is actually a bonus because it lets anyone use MH, which i plan to do on wanderer.

beidou-mains still in shambles when it doesn't count as damage.

 

[Hammr2]

I have Lynx and I use her with Clara and Blade, but I feel her taunt hardly works. I use it on Blade, he gets attacked once, then everyone else gets attacked...

Not sure if you know about the whole aggro stat for each character path/class?

So it's better to put like healer next to Clara and Blade, while dps and buffer/debufer far away as possible. Otherwise, you probably have way bad luck.

Are those cosplayers in the commercial the voice actors, or did they purposely choose the ugliest looking people they could?

Well, if you read video description, it says all cosplayers info right there.

It's bad with cheap cosplay costume, especially with wig.
Haohaw is Bennett, Tess is Layla (blue), Karla (indie filmmaker) is Hutao Maya (Tiktoker, yikes) is Yae Miko.

so, i found myself with a newer account with almost no one in, and i thought it was time to build characters like i should. i remember existing some google doc thing in which there were written the perfect builds for every character, but i can't remember the link at all.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1gNxZ2xab1J6o1TuNVWMeLOZ7TPOqrsf3SshP5DLvKzI/pubhtml?gid=654398186#

 

[woowie queen]

[...]

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1gNxZ2xab1J6o1TuNVWMeLOZ7TPOqrsf3SshP5DLvKzI/pubhtml?gid=654398186#

thank you man!

 

[Daddy's Little Kitten]

So it's better to put like healer next to Clara and Blade, while dps and buffer/debufer far away as possible. Otherwise, you probably have way bad luck.

They are next to each other, but Bronya and Pela still take damage even with Lynx's skill on Blade...

 

[LucasSomething]

There isn't a Portuguese dub so these have to be random actors or cosplayers. @LucasSomething please help us understand the way of the Brazilian.

Are those cosplayers in the commercial the voice actors, or did they purposely choose the ugliest looking people they could?
https://youtube.com/watch?v=9dkSs0LHChQ

Oh god this looks so cursed

Narrator: DO YOU KNOW WHO THEY ARE? OPA! (whoa!) It's yae miku, the layla and benet!
*hard cut to completely different scenario*
Narrator: Cooking with hu tao! What is she going to do? UDON PASTA (yes, not "noodles")! Really? ... Jeeeez.
*No one likes the udon pasta*
Noodle man: Just pour hot water! CUP NOODLES!
*what i assume to be yae miko in a pink fursuit appears and drop kicks noodle man*
Narrator: And there is more!
Yae: Come to BGS and guarantee your cup noddles from the genshin collab. Delicious!
LETS GOOO!
Cup nodles: Hablabasdu (i have no idea what he said)
GENSHIN CUP NOODLES

Some weird things:

1-You can actually see the cup noodles recipe in the cooking list above udon btw. It will probably be a promotional dish you unlock with a code or something.

2-Why didnt they like udon? Udon isnt hated or anything in brazil, but its less known than cup noodles. It doesnt seem like the joke is about hu tao being a bad cook either since it doesnt look ugly.

3-The fact they used Yae makes this accidentally funny because Udon is her favourite food but here she hates it. In fact, Hu tao (?) literally made YAE'S CUSTOM DISH for her and she didnt like it.



Either they're all very dumb and never played the game or someone there was trolling.

edit: 4-Yae refers to genshin with female pronouns ("da genshin") which i have never seen anyone ever use for videogames lol.