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You are forgetting there was no frontline. Abyss just paradrops reinforcements wherever it pleases.
My biggest problem so far is that we don't know what that dragon was. For every other weekly boss there was a quest that more or less explained what it was and how it happened to be there. Maybe I've missed it somewhere, but I saw nothing like that for the dragon. He's definetly not one of the generic abyss units, so there must've been some story.

I had to wikia this but the dragon was actually an abyssal entity using leyline memories to mimic the pyro dragon sovereign (that xbalanque defeated) to fight mavuika. It changes voices during the fight cause it's also copying the previous pyro archon voices.

The problem is that, as far as i'm aware, this information only exists in the enemy archive description and is never explained in the quest log nor talked out loud during the quest. Even the boss name is only spoken in the interlude quest by an npc.
 
Can feel I'm getting burnt out from WuWa again. At least storywise. I'm generally not hot on the "Gathering Wives" thing for how overt and forced it feels. Compared to Cringekeeper and Super Flower Power Thot, Carlotta's Rover fetish is thankfully less in your face, even less so if you switch to fem!Rover, which I did because I have no patience for this shit.

Granted, it's a gacha and gacha gotta gacha and Chinese incels are intense about their waifus and all that because it sells...but idk, Genshin didn't need to do a harem sim (at best there was the Ayaka quest and some people would make a case for Shenhe) and HSR only has the garbo Firefly shit thankfully.

Maybe I'm the wrong audience for this but I like it when my gambling pixels feels like characters with their own lives and identities and friends and enemies, beyond the main character. The Firefly cringe was missing that for me amongst many things. I have not done Ayato's character quest yet but Ayaka's forced quest missed her interacting with him too.

Anyway, gave up on Zhenzhi and will just be saving for Zani, because she's cool as fuck. and Brant because he's cool as fuck.

Speaking of thots, no Firefly still but I worked my way to 60+ pity. I get the feeling it's one of those times where I have to reach the better half of 70 before I pull a 5*. If I lose the 50/50, then I'll save it for True Herta. No questions asked, given the upcoming smorgasbord of FOMO. Looked at the future banners and my god, are they doing the triple banners again?

Fucking hell...Well, no Feixiao E's but Boothill is back so I'll try to get him, then Aglaea then Robin I guess. Not for meta reasons. I don't want to hear about poor meta choices. I just really like Boothill.

Also is it just me or is Robin getting a shitton of reruns? She had one in September if memory serves which is a very short time for gacha banners but other characters haven't been around for like a year. Not that I mind. I just find it curious.
 
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Also is it just me or is Robin getting a shitton of reruns? She had one in September if memory serves which is a very short time for gacha banners but other characters haven't been around for like a year. Not that I mind. I just find it curious.

She's having reruns evey 3 patches while seele hasn't been seen since 1.4. Makes sense since her team action advance makes her the best support on anything that isn't break or acheron. Feixiao is also rerunning 3 patches later.

I'm gonna make a personal gamble here and say Sunday will rerun the moment a new 5* rememberance after aglaea releases, which i'll guess will be 3.2. (3.1 is mydei and tribie).
 
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The story on WuWa 2.0 is a lot more interesting now. I wasn't fond of Abby, but it's starting to win me over for some reason. I hope they don't drop the ball. The whole Carlotta thing is strange... She starts out OK, but then, she gets weird.

Rinascita is very beautiful, and flying is kino. Exploring is a lot easier now, since you can track stuff needed for 100%. Most treasure chests are in caches, with a few stragglers that you can find with the loot thingy.

The music is ever better. I came across this challenge and this track is so good.


I got Carlotta two days ago and she plays so good. I was thinking of skipping Roccia, but she's gonna probably be the best partner for Camellya. I also got all the 5 star weapons from banner and I have no idea what to do with my pulls.
 
Yeah the environmental design is amazing and I love the music. I like aspects of the story, just not Carlotta shenanigans. I almost regret pulling her because I've soured on her but hey, I have her and hopefully she'll work well with Zani and Brant or I'll bench the bitch.

I will say tho that I miss the post-apocalyptic feel because Rinascita feels like I suddenly sat foot in some Final Fantasy game or the opening cutscene from Sonic 06. But I do love how it looks and chilling with all the echos is weirdly endearing.

Abby is tolerable but only because it's slightly less annoying than Paimon and spends most of the time sleeping and not yapping.

Speaking of Paimon.
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Don't tempt me, MHY.
 
They should really just drop her ass in the standard banner then. Maybe put Fu Xuan there too so I cam comfortably get her and not beg for a rerun or something.

The funny thing is that this is how Hoyo's other game, Honkai Impact 3 works, everyone eventually gets added into standard banner after a year+ and their gacha equipment becomes craftable (takes forever) and some units become straight up buyable with the endgame currency (i got a new one even). This mostly works so you can have powercreep without having old units hold the new 5* banner.

But in star rail everyone is "true limited" so whoever gets powercrep has no reason to rerun anymore and is stuck in limbo. Even Ratio who isn't technically weak didn't get a rerun because Hoyo clearly wants everyone to own Feixiao instead.
 
Since this also seems to be the general Gacha thread: I'm not nearly far enough along in Wuwa to say this for sure but I'm having more fun with it than Genshin.

And about half of that reason is because Wuwa has a fucking skip button. I'm not asking for a masterpiece or anything, but I feel like half the main and sidequesting I do in Genshin is just listening to Paimon and another character can talk about absolutely nothing for 10 minutes.

I don't care if games include slice of life dialogue because it builds characters and gets you invested, but Genshins dialogue is terrible. 5.2's archon quest was awesome and I really got invested after defending Natlan from an Abyss invasion, but then to get thrown immediately into something else that didn't continue that momentum was so disappointing. Genshin is still fun but I can't tolerate more than a weekend of questing before I just get tired of trying to figure out if I should actually be paying attention to the shit dialogue or not before I miss an important story beat or piece of lore.
 
But in star rail everyone is "true limited" so whoever gets powercrep has no reason to rerun anymore and is stuck in limbo.
Rip Luocha and Blade and more characters that haven't been mentioned probably.

But since Silver Wolf is getting a rerun, Kafka had one in September and Firefly is having her rerun now, is there hope for the undead egdelord who has a driver's license and mobile phone?
Even Ratio who isn't technically weak didn't get a rerun because Hoyo clearly wants everyone to own Feixiao instead.
As a proud Feixiao owner, I'd like him to come back. Also I have no interest in Ruan Mei but has she ever gotten a rerun?
And about half of that reason is because Wuwa has a fucking skip button. I'm not asking for a masterpiece or anything, but I feel like half the main and sidequesting I do in Genshin is just listening to Paimon and another character can talk about absolutely nothing for 10 minutes.
Actually fully agree. HSR and Genshin severely lack this feature. The autoplay feature is horribly slow too, even if you actually read the dialogue like I do - most of the time. I mean I flashed through Yae Micunt's quest because I can't stand her.

But also what is the deal with the many amounts of instances where you can't even do autoplay because you have to reply to the conversation - but there's literally only one option? Like what's even the point lmao? Genshin is really bad at this especially.

Btw fuck whoever decided you needed to wait three in game days to continue Micunt's quest. Granted, it's not three irl days but still gtfo. I just want to get it done with so I never have to bother with the stupid fox bitch again.

I can't seem to recall but I think ZZZ has a skip button or maybe that's just wishful thinking.
 
Btw fuck whoever decided you needed to wait three in game days to continue Micunt's quest.
Thank heavens the time skip feature is a thing. Imagine having to wait multiple ingame days for all the quests that require it.

I wish they'd stop making dialogue options that are basically one sentence split into 2 options. At that point just condense them into a single dialogue choice.
 
Thank heavens the time skip feature is a thing. Imagine having to wait multiple ingame days for all the quests that require it.

I wish they'd stop making dialogue options that are basically one sentence split into 2 options. At that point just condense them into a single dialogue choice.
The times when it's really blatant are outright hilarious. Because the back half of the sentence makes zero sense. And the dialogue doesn't even matter because characters will often react to only one specific answer, which may or may not have anything to do with what you actually said so it's just pointless.

The exceptions are the times when you can insult Paimon. I abuse that option liberally.
 
But since Silver Wolf is getting a rerun, Kafka had one in September and Firefly is having her rerun now, is there hope for the undead egdelord who has a driver's license and mobile phone?

Leakers are saying one of the new planet units will be a buffer/speacialist on hp fluctuation for Mydei but they should also synergize with Blade so if/when that unit comes blade is definitely rerunning with them.

As a proud Feixiao owner, I'd like him to come back. Also I have no interest in Ruan Mei but has she ever gotten a rerun?

She had one when firefly first released. Firefly was very clearly balanced around Ruan Mei, to the point speed boots + RM speed buff gives her the exact right speed thereshold for an extra attack per burst.

And about half of that reason is because Wuwa has a fucking skip button. I'm not asking for a masterpiece or anything, but I feel like half the main and sidequesting I do in Genshin is just listening to Paimon and another character can talk about absolutely nothing for 10 minutes.

Supposedly 5.4 will add some level of archon quest skip but obviously not perfect.


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Actually kinda shocked they're putting this in genshin before star rail.
 
Skip for archons quest only? Thats the one thing I'm actually not interested in skipping.

I doubt it's going to be a true skip, i feel like it's going to more of an "unlock" like the 5.0 Natlan "skip" that was promised to only be aviable until this patch. It doesn't say you get the rewards, only that you don't lose them. You might still have the quests avaiable.

I expect something like "anyone who clears Liyue can straight up start Sumeru, fontaine or natlan quests without clearing inazuma".

In other ramblings, i decided to spend my guarantee on Citlali so i could go with zero pity on arlechino banner and hope to get Chevruse C6 but now i kinda half regret it. Citlali is not bad but her shield feels thin as paper, her shred is only 2 elements and her cryo application requires burst + vape/freeze so i can't even put her on a superconduct team if that ever gets viable.

But the only thing i ever hear everyone talk about is how she is soooo good for mavuka and arlechoni yadayada, i never cared about pyro dps that much anyway. Hopefully i'll warm up later, as least her big jump is fun to use on explore.
 
I doubt it's going to be a true skip, i feel like it's going to more of an "unlock" like the 5.0 Natlan "skip" that was promised to only be aviable until this patch. It doesn't say you get the rewards, only that you don't lose them. You might still have the quests avaiable.
Oh wow, that'd be the single most worthless way to implement a skip, so I have no doubt that that will be how it's done.
 
Sorry for multiple people quoting.
I can't seem to recall but I think ZZZ has a skip button or maybe that's just wishful thinking.
It's there for any of these visual novel dialogues or comic/manga ones.
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WuWa new region. I mean any (MMO, live-service) games new regions or expansion is gonna have a boring and slow-burn at the start. Lots of introduction to new things, meeting new people and so on.

The answer everyone gives is that it's not Ajaw, it's a projection of him from a relic Kinich found in a ruin.
Kinich lore,
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The problem is: How come a projection can be physically interactable and harm others when it is powered up? I mean, Kinich can slap, hang on Ajaw and even put him in a wooden box. Then Ajaw is bouncing on water like rock. In the end, it doesn't matter because "comedy".

It's literally fucking bionicle. The plot is 6 colorful unique tribes having to unite and face off an almost incomprehensible enemy underground.
Come to think of it. I don't even know what is so special about the six Heroes beside their heroic feats. At the end, all of them are recorded and act as a battery to power up Mavuika. I guess that's something special about Natlan where heroic feats and their souls are preserved through Lord of the Night rather than archon power. Pyro gnosis is just for maintaining Sacred Flame for now and almost wasted away to fix Natlan leylines.
Basically, it took 500 years to have that much power and Mavuika is betting on successors to inhere the name. Somehow, like Fontaine needing 400 years to transfer right to Neuvillette.
There aren't even legendary items from Heroes either.

More or less, Mavuika me is more of "wow how convenient things work out so far" rather than she's being Mary Sue tier like Rey fixed Falcon by "breaking it".

And about half of that reason is because Wuwa has a fucking skip button.
It's MHY corporate standard bullshit beside getting bunch of revenue. They want player retention online in game and don't want players getting rewards too fast. World quests' dialogues shall not be skipped. Despite even completing these only giving small amounts of premium currency to roll/wish.
WuWa 2.0 new region stops littering random chests in nook and cranny, but put them as some specific hot spots shown map.

Supposedly 5.4 will add some level of archon quest skip but obviously not perfect.
Beside WuWa having a skip button and what I've said just right above. Since Mizuki is supposed gonna be into standard banner and there is still no way for new players to skip immediately to Inazuma, that'll help somewhat.
About Genshin (Vision) itself, if you remember Allpa from Chasca tribal quest. She has a Anemo vision yet she isn't something special either.
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Edit: I don't think Citlali's shield is good, it's more on let down. Trial Citlali cheats with 1.1k EM and 185% ER.
So it's the both Pyro and Hydro res shred being the important part and just happens to be for vape comp when elemental reaction happens. Mind you, even if the shield is broken, as long as you have enough night souls point on her, her off-field cryo application is still there.
Either way, it's benefit HuTao/Arle or Yelan/Xingqiu. Target doesn't need to be frozen for damage Hydro shred.
Typical scummy C1 for better uptime on her off-field cryo application without Nighsoul points. C2 for further shred and coop shield like Zhongli.
 
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About Genshin (Vision) itself, if you remember Allpa from Chasca tribal quest. She has a Anemo vision yet she isn't something special either.

I don't remember actually, probably because you fight her and i think she doesn't use the vision at all? Well that was pointless. I think Atea from mualani tribe had a vision too but she was a walking deathflag. Some of the warriors in the kachina tournament allegedly had visions too.

I remember her having really terrible voice actor tho. Not offensive but just emotionless script reading and not even sounding like an english speaker. Clearly they had no professional avaiable.

This reminds me that Lantern Rite will also be mostly unvoiced this patch by the way. I wonder how many people switched out of english voices.

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