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I've been looking at Fearless clears without the shilled units and Cactus is easiest boss to kill with no Ineffa:
He gets -90 res on all elements after you break the hat so you can use non Hydro Electro dps like Nahida Kuki Hyperbloom or Hu Tao during that time.

By comparison the c0 Papillia clears all use Natlan dps (Kinich, Mavuika, Chasca or Varesa) and the non Natlan Papillia clears I've seen all had cons:
c6 Pyro Trav spamming CAs is really good at breaking the shield. But to get it you need to have maxed all 6 tribes to get the real c6 that gives him Pyro Infusion. Aether is slightly faster than Lumine making him objectively better at this role.

Cactus has a lot of options as long as you have good Hydro and Electros. And for Papillia hopefully you've pulled even one Natlan dps since all of them except Mualani are good against Papillia. If you didn't pull any Natlan dps then hopefully you spent those primos on actually useful cons?

It's the turtle is that's really restrictive because the lowest cost clears I see for Turtle all have either Mualani, Mavuika or Skirk. The only turtle clears I see without these units all have high cons.
 
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After months of procrastination, I finally finished collecting the costumes from Last Evenings on Earth
 
Troon Whisperer said:
Started speed running the Fate event in HSR thanks to someone reminding me I could just skip the dialogue to get to the fighting and claim my jades. Is there any reason to choose anything other than the Rider/Berserker buffs because those have been making short work of the event so far.
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I blame Penacony and Amphoreus for the fact that they had to implement a skip button into a heavily story-centric game.
 
Multi-billion dollar company needs to reinvest their money into hiring better writers to tighten up the script, and hire animators/camera people to make the scenes more engaging to watch.
 
I normally don't skip dialogue, but I really don't give a fuck about the Fate franchise so being able to skip everything and just get to the actual event was a blessing. But yeah HSR fucking sucks compared to Genshin when it comes to in game camera work and presentation.
 
I did not see but if anything the last patch story in star rail might be the devs giving up and writing with skip button awareness (like i feared) as it's allegedly a four hour long cutscene where you don't really explore or fight anything important until the climax. This adresses the problem i said of "needing forced gameplay breaks between story because videogame" but it doesn't make me hopeful for improvements, as i expect them to make more the story more like this.

I fell Honkai 3 already suffered this where i saw the start of the game is very standard gacha missions where you have "intro talk -> combat section - end talk" but when i did the latest story missions (that i did not understand at all) it was a shitty open world where i must walk between a bunch of long exposition dumps. This is what happens when you start writing around skip button.
 
HSR has some really good lore especially in this Amphoreous section of the story, but the way they present it just makes me want to sleep. You're probably right as to why they added a skip button.

The Fate collab event sucks by the way. Story is shallow, people who don't know Fate wouldn't understand what's going on, and the event itself is cheesed very easily.

Also I just updated my Reverse:1999 today and saw there is an Assasin's Creed collab? That's interesting I guess, but I somehow didn't know that was going to happen.
 
How long does the Fate quest take if you don't skip? I'm curious because I skipped it and took me roughly 20 minutes to complete.
 
ZZZs summer surfing mini game sucks balls. It's really fucking slippery and the drift is bonkers.

Or maybe I suck balls since I've been spoiled rotten by playing hours of Crash Team Racing: Nitro Fueled.

Also the banner is super long. It lasts for almost a month which doesn't happen often. I recall it happening with Miyabi but I assumed it was because Miyabi was one of the most anticipated characters.

I don't know with Alice.
 
Apparently there is a consistent bug where if you have ping >120 the cactus boss in genshin will straight not take damage after stun, which i didn't mind because i actually thought that was how it worked (the wikia page is incomplete).


Bruh, i even saw it not get stunned at all (i thought you could only stun it during hat phase) lol my brazilian ping is not built for this, i wonder if i can at least brute force it in abyss.

Daddy's Little Kitten said:
As a new Genshin player, should I try for Citatli or Ineffa?
Also, I got some 4* water sword guy and Gayming.
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I would say both are bad beginner units tbh, Ineffa wants one specific reaction and citlali supports 2 reactions. Citlali by herself does no damage, she only supports melt/freeze and her shield isn't reliable, while at least ineffa has a good shield, notable dps and way more convenient than fischl. You can save for later but xinqiu + fischl makes this banner very good for beginners.

If you have mavuika i'd say citlali, otherwise i'd say Ineffa. Ineffa should also (on theory) be more useful for nodkrai as she fills a moon phase slot and lets you equip the nodkrai artifacts and blacksmith weapon with just her + the new 4* girl.

And don't sleep on "4* sword guy", xinqiu is the OG hydro enabler and the best 4* in the game after bennet, give him an energy sword and train him asap. GaMing is genuinely great 4* dps but he only becomes viable on C6 with a tailor made team really.

Oh yea i also found this at random, there was a chinese popularity pool for hottest gacha character and it seems like one of them isn't like the others...


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Clancee said:
He is going to be one of your best even if you're not tryharding. He's got great Hydro application with his burst, his e-skill reduces damage taken (your mileage on this may vary) and it heals a bit. If you have Sacrificial Sword, works great with him.
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no need to whale for him tho, you can get him from the shop every 6 months.
if you don't care about meta or abyss his value drops tho, I haven't used him for years (only put him in a skirk team recently)
 
Clancee said:
He is going to be one of your best even if you're not tryharding. He's got great Hydro application with his burst, his e-skill reduces damage taken (your mileage on this may vary) and it heals a bit. If you have Sacrificial Sword, works great with him.
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I think I may have gotten it in some random pull. I have to check my inventory when I get home.

This is my roster:
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Yeah, I have to farm, but I'm trying to get 100% exploration in the summer island thing, so I've been busy with that. I'm currently at 97% and I need a pyro key for the achievements, how do I get?
 
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Pyro keys are from the statue of the seven or the tablet near the arena (dump pyro sigils for goodies).

Is that roster for Theatre or did you pick up GI recently :0
nvm. Welcome to Teyvat
 
Magicat said:
Pyro keys are from the statue of the seven or the tablet near the arena (dump pyro sigils for goodies).

Is that roster for Theatre or did you pick up GI recently :0
nvm. Welcome to Teyvat
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I got one from giving it pyro thingies, but I don't think there's more on the island, and I have no idea where Natlan is.
 
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