Genshin Impact

[Hammr2]

Was the wargame event made intentionally boring so people skip the primos? There's like 5 dialogue boxes explaining the rules before you even get to the game screen

If they shorten it to maybe like 5 battles, it would be nice. 10 battles are kinda dragging on.

5.3 codes
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I find it's amusing with Commie symbol in a coffee shop. Image isn't mine, so don't get wrong idea.

Phase 1 - Mav and Citl. They only run for first half, not entire patch.
Phase 2 - Arle, Clorinde, Lanyan
Chronicled wish, they also lessen the restriction so old units can be rerun this banner


Laternrites free rewards. Upcoming characters, they may also come from other region not just Natlan.


Nod-Krai is "coming" to Genshin in future. Liben mentioned Nod-Krai before, it's in Southern of Snezhnaya. How he got robbed but a guild helped him back.

ZZZ, TL;DR: I'm not really keen on the new endgame mode.

Spoiler

Depending on bosses, it basically forces elements and certain dps type. In short, currently still anomaly dps is the best, With Miyabi being broken along with game mode buff, I doubt any team comp without her or even Ellen can 3* Bringer boss. But players only need 6* in total to get all polychromes.
Also since game mode high score is based on more damage players do. Technically, disorder anomaly team comp is the best since that team comp always dealing damage "evenly" unlike standard stunner + attacker.
If you can't kill Bringer hand mode aka wasting time in dodging phase, so no dealing damage means less score. Hand mode doesn't have stun bar and anomaly bar similar to Niveneh's tentacles, have fun.....

I feel like this mode is even more shilling new meta units and asking you not to skip units even more. Then ZZZ can still be like HSR and turn 180 degree on dps type meta. Who knows, it's enough to turn me off thinking about it. Enough for me taking a break or quit....

Edit: In the upcoming chars, next to Iansan. It seems like this old Fontaine leak.
Overflow abundance events will let you farm talent books on any day, no specific date restriction.

 

[DenseDeerFather]

Oh boy there's a lot to consume now. And I'd like four mofos from the chronicled wish too.

 

[Dumpster dived waifu]

Can they pick a different region to give free 4* from? Outside of the new character, I have all of them at a constellation level that is high enough for me to not care about getting more constellations. I'm still missing mondstadt characters

 

[RhoasJonas]

Can they pick a different region to give free 4* from? Outside of the new character, I have all of them at a constellation level that is high enough for me to not care about getting more constellations. I'm still missing mondstadt character

China bias too strong, expect the next set of outfits after this to also be Liyue characters.

I feel like this mode is even more shilling new meta units and asking you not to skip units even more. Then ZZZ can still be like HSR and turn 180 degree on dps type meta. Who knows, it's enough to turn me off thinking about it. Enough for me taking a break or quit....

This is gonna be HSR and ZZZ because their sales go into the toilet whenever they are not running meta banners.

 

[Clancee]

At this point every Lantern Rite that comes around I just pick the latest new character from the free 4s. Every single 4s char from Liyue I have maxed out. Except for Gaming but I forgot he existed.

 

[Xenomorphs Are Cute]

At this point every Lantern Rite that comes around I just pick the latest new character from the free 4s. Every single 4s char from Liyue I have maxed out. Except for Gaming but I forgot he existed.

I have made the mistake of not doing that during the first one with Yun Jin (I really wanted more Beidou Cons, she was my main then until I got Raiden Shogun) & haven't gotten her since on my main account. I have only picked new characters since.

 

[Shart Attack]

Chronicled wish, they also lessen the restriction so old units can be rerun this banner

My first thought was, "Sweet, maybe I can finally get Shenhe after all this time." Then I remembered this is Genshin Impact, and I'm guaranteed to pull Qiqi.

 

[DenseDeerFather]

I'm Uber behind so I'll probably just get a 4* I don't have yet. Whoever I don't have and looks cool.

Except for Xinyan. She's really cool and I'd want her on appearance alone but I hear tell she's absolutely garbage and that comes from a non Meta player.

I'll just wait until I randomly pull her or something.

 

[Clancee]

She's really cool and I'd want her on appearance alone but I hear tell she's absolutely garbage and that comes from a non Meta player.

She's sort of like a beta Eula in the sense that she (mostly, if I'm not mistaken) deals physical damage. Physical was never that great to begin with, plus there are other, better Fire types even if you aren't worried about meta. (Meta really only applies to abyss anyway, not something casual players tend to worry about)

 

[Keine]

I wouldn't mind more Gaming constellations since I think I have all of the other Liyue 4* units at C6 or C5.

I used to run Xinyan as my main DPS early on in the game and her kit is really at odds with itself since she scales off ATK and her biggest damage source is physical but her shield scales off DEF, so you either build her DEF and she does no damage or you build her ATK/Phys and she still doesn't quite do numbers on the level of even other 4* DPS units. Her shield's pyro aura pulses at intervals that make it appealing for Burgeon but it only actually gets that aura if she hits 2+ enemies making it useless for bosses or enemies that are spread out, so even her off-meta options aren't great. If you really want to run a physical DPS you can use Razor or Rosaria or even the old physical Keqing build for memes. And if you want a pyro unit for burgeon then Thoma does exactly what Xinyan can do but much more reliably since his shields can have near 100% uptime. And lastly if you want a strong shielder who can DPS then you've got Noelle who builds DEF and turns that into damage, especially at C6.
If any unit needed a serious rework it would be Xinyan, but we know Hoyo will never do such things. She suffers from 1.x design decisions where the team had no idea how to properly allocate power to characters and was throwing shit at the wall to see what stuck. If you compare her to, say, Fontaine or Natlan 4* units there's a clear difference in design philosophy where (most of) them have an obvious goal they're trying to achieve and a kit that leans into that.

 

[LucasSomething]

1-They broke their own chronicled wish rules to allow shenhe (she didnt have enough reruns yet) or else she would probably take another year to rerun lol.
2-They didnt put hu tao on CW just so Homa and Jade cutter aren't in the same weapon banner didnt they...
3-Xingling skin is cute and obvious "totally not christmas", hu tao looks like fem childe cosplay.
4-I AM NOT SEEING CAPITANO SILHOUETE THERE HAHA, SURELY THIS IS A PRANK AND HE'LL SURPRISE DROP :^)
5-Ifa, iansan and dahlia will probably be 4 stars and we get a new 5* waifu every patch.
6-Skirk is leaked as cryo and 5.7, which i might be true but it would be a guess since leakers clearly didnt expect her to release in natlan.

I'm Uber behind so I'll probably just get a 4* I don't have yet. Whoever I don't have and looks cool.

Except for Xinyan. She's really cool and I'd want her on appearance alone but I hear tell she's absolutely garbage and that comes from a non Meta player.

I'll just wait until I randomly pull her or something.

Grab xinqiu if you dont have him, even if you won't play abyss he's the only good 4* hydro in the game and enables every pyro dps since release.

 

[DenseDeerFather]

Grab xinqiu if you dont have him, even if you won't play abyss he's the only good 4* hydro in the game and enables every pyro dps since release.

I already have him. He's part of my main team. He will also be the first thing I'll use the Welkins gems on because I hate his hairstyle.

What his C level is, idk. Think it's C1 or 2. I'll focus on that when I have mostly everyone and not like 1/4th of the entire cast.

Spoiler: Musings

Edit: Finished the second chapter of Raging Thundercunt's Eternity Gooning session and I never have to look at her retarded womanchild boomer ass again! Yay! Yae also continues to be fucking useless like a fat housecat yowling at me to get shit done instead of doing shit herself but hey, primos.

And it helps that the Raiden Prime boss fight was fantastic and so was the music. Also is it just me or were they kinda inconsistent with the personality of Shogun (I got the feeling she was as humorless and mechanical as she has always been but she seemed weirdly friendly and nice by the end) or did I miss the part where they implied it was due to Ei' dead sister's influence.

Idk, the woman might have DID, who knows?

Anyway should be at 50 pity. I don't expect to win a second 50/50 in Genshin on top of winning it in HRS but a nigger can dream. And hopefully I'll avoid getting a second Qiqi. Give me Jean or Tortelini or Keqing. If I end up losing Neuvi, I guess I'll save the guarantee for Citali.

 

[The Lawgiver]

Concept art pulling from venti and zhongli that looks like a possibly evil bard? Wait, is this a revived durin in a human form like Neuvillete? Or is this just a coincidence I'm seeing here? Water element would be weird but I just remembered the simulancra clone of durin was hiding from people behind a waterfall... Hmmm...
We do know durin has been constantly hinted much like elynas as being "dead but still alive and regenerating". Hellhe's the first one that was like that with his exposed heart being the only warm spot on the whole mountain.

Also it's fucking weird seeing hu tao in anything other than the "crafty coffin merchant" garb Given her behavior and backstory. Not that it's bad, just weird. Especially with the lack of the hat.

Except for Gaming but I forgot he existed.

I only remember he exists because he's literally named "Gaming" and that feels like a kind of meta in-joke even if it's not the same pronunciation as gaming. Like the thing where a character's name is spelt "shithead" but it's "sitheed" or if it's like "dumbass and it's dum buaus" or some shit.

 

[Dollar Store Sentai]

Okay. Bought a bundle and now have Miyabi. Burned through 2k+ energy building Soldier 11, Harumasa and now her. Got her to lvl 55, but not farmed discs for her yet or figured out what Wengine to give her if I don't get hers

 

[Dumpster dived waifu]

Skirk is leaked as cryo

Goddammit Hoyo, you had the opportunity to do something fun, make a character that has no element. They could generate generic energy, and just have all of their attacks deal pure physical. Throw in some constellations so she ignores phys resistance and she'd be great.

Why create characters that seem to be ignoring the elemental wheel/strong despite lack of vision, just to give them one anyways?

 

[LucasSomething]

Goddammit Hoyo, you had the opportunity to do something fun, make a character that has no element. They could generate generic energy, and just have all of their attacks deal pure physical. Throw in some constellations so she ignores phys resistance and she'd be great.

Why create characters that seem to be ignoring the elemental wheel/strong despite lack of vision, just to give them one anyways?

Genshin is too focused on reactions for hoyo to make a non elemental character. Dainslef will probably not be "abyss element" like everyone think and i'm gonna bet he's hydro cause he wears dark blue (cursed).

Skirk is Childe's master so i expect her to be an on field dps, i assume with a style change like him that lets her fight with a multiple ice weapons, but after Natlan where everyone changes mode that wouldn't be impressive anymore.

 

[The Lawgiver]

Why create characters that seem to be ignoring the elemental wheel/strong despite lack of vision, just to give them one anyways?

Genshin is too focused on reactions for hoyo to make a non elemental character. Dainslef will probably not be "abyss element" like everyone think and i'm gonna bet he's hydro cause he wears dark blue (cursed).

Hydro and anemo is also usually associated with purifying shit so it'd make sense. Also yeah people kind of forget sometimes the whole appeal of the game (aside from exploration) is supposed to be the elemental combos. "no element" characters usually get anemo due to how it blends with all the other elements. Hell, Scaramouche was originally electro-y but despite being anemo for his playable character he gets status boosts according to nearby alements in a way where it incentivizes shit where he's using other elements in a way that kind of mirrors his whole "temporarily ascended to godhood" thing.
Still holding out for the ability to use his original outfit at some point even with the electro theming of it.Shit's too good of a design tobe lockedto only a few short story appearances (most locked behind limited time events including his first appearance!)

 

[RhoasJonas]

Concept art pulling from venti and zhongli that looks like a possibly evil bard? Wait, is this a revived durin in a human form like Neuvillete? Or is this just a coincidence I'm seeing here? Water element would be weird but I just remembered the simulancra clone of durin was hiding from people behind a waterfall... Hmmm...
We do know durin has been constantly hinted much like elynas as being "dead but still alive and regenerating". Hellhe's the first one that was like that with his exposed heart being the only warm spot on the whole mountain.

NTA but we know all of them but one

Iansan, Dahlia (Mond Deacon), Ifa, Skirk, Mizuki (New Inazuma girl), Varesa (Collective of Plenty, big eater)
The last one is the unkown

 

[Dumpster dived waifu]

The last one is the unkown

Would it still be considered too "early" for them to reveal a Hexenzirkel witch?

 

[RhoasJonas]

Would it still be considered too "early" for them to reveal a Hexenzirkel witch?

It could be, but it could also be an Emilie situation where its just some unit from left-field before 6.0. I'd assume either summer event related or a Schnez unit.