I had to do an arlequino (trial)
they built her kinda weird too. they gave her the second BP spear, not deathmatch (the passive gives EM and scales on elements in your team, so kinda pointless in IT compared to deathmatch).
"her" artifact set is ok I think, but I still feel I nuke harder with deathmatch and some random gladiator pieces...
IT on the other hand feels like the most artificial endgame challenge designed to remove your choices and make you regret not pulling for coverage. Have you been stomping abyss with Neuvilete+furina every 2 weeks? Fuck you (me in this case), hydro is out of rotation so they're useless now. If you dont have an E6 built Chevruse you can't even play a decent overload comp.
it doesn't even make sense tbh. I can understand wanting to make people pull (and honestly I'm fine with that when the alternative is obvious powercreep) so they have a horizontal requirement instead - but that fucks over new(er) players or people who went for cons instead. now, who goes for cons rather than waifus? the same people whining about "no endgame", so unless the goal was to piss off that already vocal minority with the artificial limits, while making it easy enough for casuals and new players no one is satisfied, I'm not sure what the idea was. I even get that the idea forcing players to "make do" with some non-meta teams to actually apply the knowledge how the game works (lol) instead of lazily copying tierlists, but again that will only make the same pissbabies whine even harder.
suddenly trying to push an "endgame" mode with actual rewards doesn't help either, unless their stats say all the casuals went over to HSR. abyss could be easily ignored, it's just a few rolls, but the rewards in IT is the stuff casuals and waifu collectors go for, forcing them to suddenly build all those characters and drag them through a row of tedious battles obviously is a bad idea. after all those years mihoyo should know that those players don't care about combat or efficiency.
and lastly, fuck a mode that requires a certain degree of gear progression when said gear progression is gated via layers of RNG. forcing people into the artifact mines for their casual rewards is a bad idea which is not gonna work. they won't suddenly get sweaty, they gonna drop the game. even if the gear requirement itself is low (luckily it is, for now at least), it still forces people through "unfun" combat. something to keep in mind most people don't roll on the weapon banner (I certainly won't after getting spoiled by wuwa), and if they don't buy the BP they have no access to any crit weapons besides the store ones if they rolled often enough (slim chance), which artifacts would have to make up. to make matters worse you can't change gear in IT, so you better have copies of those mid weapons (which only comes from fucking billets, which are random as well and limited to weekly bosses) instead of r5.
and personally, combat "events" in genshin bore me to tears. abyss I could ignore, events I just grab the rewards, but this thing being regular now is just gonna burn me out if anything.
At least it seems hoyo is aware of the criticism (SHOCKING) and plans to "optimize" in the future
not surprising since the whole thing feels like a kneejerk reaction now that they're slowly getting competition, and then blew up in their face. the amount of QOL alone compared to the years before is like someone mixed amphetamine into their drinking water.
