Genshin Impact

[Golfing on the Moon 1971]

I never understood why people are freaking this hard over it. That doesn't automatically mean that she's ruined forever, right? IIRC some people have issues with how Cyrene was written and somehow that would translate to the Tsaritsa? This doesn't make sense to me at all.

It's a multitude of factors. One of them is the whitewashing of the Fatui and their deeds, all authorized by the Tsarista, but now everything is being pinned on a couple guys. If the Tsarista winds up being playable, then I fully expect an Inazuma 2.0 situation and everything Piero to get scapegoated as the Sneznhaya bad guy so we can go out on dates with the uwu waifu dindu girl.

 

[L.V. Danslalune]

It's a multitude of factors. One of them is the whitewashing of the Fatui and their deeds, all authorized by the Tsarista, but now everything is being pinned on a couple guys. If the Tsarista winds up being playable, then I fully expect an Inazuma 2.0 situation and everything Piero to get scapegoated as the Sneznhaya bad guy so we can go out on dates with the uwu waifu dindu girl.

I think it's still way too early to call anything. I remember when Dottore fans on Twitter were complaining like hell that he was going to get killed off like that only for him to appear again. These types of people have a habit of making things sound worse than they actually are.

I mean it's also possible that the Tsaritsa lied to the other Harbingers about killing Dottore and authorized Pantalone to handle whatever he's doing in Sumeru. IIRC that part where it was said that Dottore issued the Palestar Edict was a mistranslation: the original was actually that Dottore was abusing it (which to some is probably the same thing) but the Tsaritsa may also be partially responsible for letting him do it to advance whatever she has planned by letting him burn Irminsul.

The only real hope for any change is if the CN playerbase gets too uppity and starts threatening people like what happened with Neuvilette's spin.

 

[Troon Whisperer]

I doubt the Tsaritsa will be any type of expy of anyone because they stopped doing that shit after the dev shakeup in 2.0.

 

[BinaricHate]

To be fair, he has a few side choices but those come with caveats.

Furina + escofie are good but by now you're playing a worse skirk.
Bennet + xiangling are good but now you're playing a worse Wriothesley (i assume lohen can't enable xingling).
Mavuika subdps is really good but now you're playing mavuika as subdps.

I don't think you realize just how raped lohen is without dedicated sub-dps units and top tier investment. A good chunk of his kit revolves around the triumph mechanic where his allies do more damage than him which in turn gives him buffs. Furina + esco? I guess? He's not a freeze unit plus furina scales on hp and esco's worth doesn't come from her off field atk bonus (the little cooker mech thingy). Bennet is even worse because he only buffs on-field/lohens atk meanwhile xiangling is a downgrade of durin and she can't trigger hex passives. Same with mauvika, except she has the natlan racism nightsoul mechanic so she's not as cucked as xiangling. The only other viable units who can fill lohens niche are emily and maybe fischl (possible stellar conduct shilling)? Even so adding more hex units like fish stick is redundant because you already have your hex buffs and fishy might mess with the reactions.
picrel durins hex passive. I have no clue if mauvika can top this since I don't like mauvika and don't main her.

The calcs you see of him doing big number damage is just him melting durin's dark form hits. Their application time and windows are roughly the same which means lohen can melt or reverse melt all of durins hits. This lines up with his cons who are actually standard banner tier bad. Up to c3 and c4 iirc only buffs his driving and does nothing to buff his DPS damage. I genuinely have no idea what they were trying to do with this nigga. He's too specialised and niche to be a standard banner but his investment celling is too high to him to even be a decent mid limited DPS unit. Even more confusing when you remember they didn't include wrio in the current fontaine chronicled banner so seemingly lohen isn't here to powercreep wrio?

Weapon wise he has 3* white tassel (usable with bennet/nicole atk buff) and jade spear if you have one, can use some stat sticks too (homa, buzzsaw, arle spear etc). Nicole has oathsworn (3+ year old event weapon hope you got that one!) or atlas if you got unlucky.

nah durin actually needs his signature to work semi-decently. I saw some calcs floating around and the difference is night and day. Definitely don't expect "skirk level numbers" without having his and nicoles signatures plus a few cons (allah willing). Durins cons are actually insane (picrel, c1 btw), if you wanna whale lohen then getting nicoles or durins cons would be a way better way of throwing your money away vertically investing than whatever nonsense lohens cons are.


nicole likewise needs triple ATK and 4000 total atk to max out her buffs. This is honkai tier kit design (which wouldn't be an issue if the game wasn't so fucking oy vey stingy with the pulls) and I'm genuinely second guessing whether to pull for nicole at this point or to save pulls for furinas c2/sandrone.

He's not actually dehya tier, his numbers are still better than ayaka but at least ayaka works alone while Lohen doesn't. He mostly exist to be a cryo enabler for dps durin, and durin really wants nicole and even then this team is not even close to zibai premium.

I mean I'd hope the new big event banner would outperform wet socks girl from 5 years ago.

Going back to more rambles, this is one of the stingiest patches in a long time, giving only 60 rolls in it's entirety for f2p. I also found out that they are REDUCING the gems you get from main event and moving them to miliastra bullshit events

This version also doesnt have a free weapon, it has a free weapon skin... that is the same as a previous weapon, the melusine claymore.

They probably allocated a good chunk of the genshin team to work on miliastra and are thus moving more rewards and khaantent to miliastra. Like I really want these 60 primos but I can't figure out what this shit means because the miliastra UI gives me a headache whenever I see it. That's 60 primos right down the drain because the game is trying to shill me a gamemode I have 0 interest in. Oh well.

 

[DenseDeerFather]

Did a fuck you ten pull and got The Dahlia with zero pity. Right then. Well at least my Firefly team is complete since I already got Dahlias light cone

 

[Troon Whisperer]

Like I really want these 60 primos but I can't figure out what this shit means because the miliastra UI gives me a headache whenever I see it. That's 60 primos right down the drain because the game is trying to shill me a gamemode I have 0 interest in. Oh well.

It's about to get worse, next patch has 270 primos in Temu Roblox so embrace the headache.

 

[RhoasJonas]

It's about to get worse, next patch has 270 primos in Temu Roblox so embrace the headache.

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If you are gagging while having to play milliastra for 1.3 pulls you are ngmi.

 

[LucasSomething]

Genshin already has honkai expies but we forgot at this point cause they simply look similar and are barely "counterparts". Venti is wendy, Raiden has the same name as honkai raiden, Nahida is smaller theresa and mavuika is biker himeko.

Everyone was expecting Furina to look like Seele cause some fake leaks guessing at random but her design was fully original. Everyone was expecting Tsaritsa to be bronya cause russia but they see pointy years and now everyone assumes it's elysia?

I don't expect to be either of them and even if it's, her personality will not be like Elysia or the bronyas we know.

He's not a freeze unit plus furina scales on hp and esco's worth doesn't come from her off field atk bonus (the little cooker mech thingy). Bennet is even worse because he only buffs on-field/lohens atk meanwhile xiangling is a downgrade of durin and she can't trigger hex passives. Same with mauvika, except she has the natlan racism nightsoul mechanic so she's not as cucked as xiangling. The only other viable units who can fill lohens niche are emily and maybe fischl (possible stellar conduct shilling)? Even so adding more hex units like fish stick is redundant because you already have your hex buffs and fishy might mess with the reactions.

Spoiler: spergery

We are talking about Durin being mandatory or not. Escoffier skill has more dps than ayaka's burst and and she can do +12k per ice cream, furina has good dps, buffs team damage and scaling with hp doesn't matter here. Just add Mona for 2 hex with the and everyone gets 40% dmg bonus before her brst. He is not meant for freeze but in this team he is functional, he can probably kill overseer without issues. The problem is this is an expensive team and lohen is a worse skirk here.

Bennet and xiangling are 4* so if you don't have those 5* and want to use lohen then it's ben+xl. If Lohen alone can't enable xingling then citlali can help but having citlali and no mavuika is weird.

Mav at C0 is only 6 beams but at c1 she is better than c0 durin (unfair comparison). If you have xilonen or citlali you can put them to fuel mav. It's not going to be your best use of mavuika but if you don't have durin and want to play lohen, it's a choice.

Fischl is not enabling Lohen stacks, especially on a superconduct team, you need to do 10x lohen's base atk worth of damage and she aint doing that (maybe if he's on white tassel and fishcl god the 1% build). Superconduct is awful too and stellar conduct is looking to be lunar bloom levels of restrictive.

The calcs you see of him doing big number damage is just him melting durin's dark form hits. Their application time and windows are roughly the same which means lohen can melt or reverse melt all of durins hits.

This makes no sense, Lohen is cryo childe, he applies a ton of cryo for someone else to melt and even has a unique ICD of only 2 normal atks. If he is even the one melting then something is wrong. The real dps is durin.

Lohen's cons are bad because most of them are for his personal damage and his personal damage isn't great (as he is a driver (but this didnt have to be mutually exclusive)) so you get more value from support or subdps cons.

picrel durins hex passive. I have no clue if mauvika can top this since I don't like mauvika and don't main her.

This isn't as big as it sounds. At base dark durin gets 40% melt/vape bonus. 2 hex increases it by 75% of that value, so he gets +0.75 x 40 = 30 for 70% melt/vape bonus. Since durin has ICD, he only melts every 2 hits of burst tho.

It's still very good but the main benefit is that it lets Durin skip building elemental mastery, which is great cause building EM sucks ass and i would NOT farm 2 different sets for light and dark durin.

nah durin actually needs his signature to work semi-decently.

I think we got some different standards here for the meaning of "work" lol. Durin is just a burst dps, he can use anything but having 2500 atk gives him extra dmg and a second hex gives more shred/reaction bonus. 2500 is a lot harder to reach without a 5* sword or Nicole tho. Thankfully i have jade cutter so my durin is mostly fine.

Nicole has her own problems. Allegedly she used to benefit from flat atk bonus so Prune would significantly alliviate her needs but now she doesn't so it's going to be really hard to get there without an atlas or her sig. I wouldn't roll her sig as it's too niche.

Either way lohen got the short end of the stick, but all the hex kinda did. Durin is the most flexible but he's very tightly balanced and needs 2500 atk thus a 5* sword or nicole. Varka's sig is his best support and he has mid as hell cons and restrictive team choices. Nicole needs 4000 atk and is worse to non hex dps, on top of losing the set and most burst (that isn't even that good) without 2 hex. Lohen can't use his gimmick without strong subdps (the best happens to be durin), has mediocre damage and weak cons.

I don't understand why hex units got these retarded restrictions. I thought the idea was that they would buff old units and be flexible unlike the racist nodkrai squad but they didn't really bring back anyone old because they're not that buffy nor that flexible. They don't do anything unique either.

If you want to clear endgame with childe, you don't give him nicole+durin, you give him zibai+linea+bina and never play childe (he's there for hydro resonance).

And i don't know why hoyo didn't put Wrio on fontaine banner other than him being very popular and having a notable amount of whale mains so they think he would sell by himself. Lohen wasn't a support and if Sandrone is a cryo maindps then she will probably mog both and lohen was sent to die.

Like I really want these 60 primos but I can't figure out what this shit means because the miliastra UI gives me a headache whenever I see it. That's 60 primos right down the drain because the game is trying to shill me a gamemode I have 0 interest in. Oh well.

You're supposed to clear any stage with either the real money exclusive gacha skin or the battle pass skin which isn't conveyed well cause they suck at it. Yes, they're telling you to spend money every patch to get 60 gems.

You get a time limited box in the mail that lets you pick one of the battle pass skins for 3 days, so you can technically complete it without paying money but i don't remember having the box??? Either it didn't happen or it melted into thin air because i didnt open in time.

btw here is a new genshin code i spotted with 60 gems, probably from some youtuber

PFY1S40I88T9

https://genshin.hoyoverse.com/en/gift?code=PFY1S40I88T9

Fun fact: Apparently the hoyoverse website crashed after the stream cause too many people were using the codes at once. Guess the russia hype is real.

 

[BinaricHate]

You're supposed to clear any stage with either the real money exclusive gacha skin or the battle pass skin which isn't conveyed well cause they suck at it. Yes, they're telling you to spend money every patch to get 60 gems.

yeaah i suspected it was something to that extent. The fact that you can only gamba on miliastra skins by buying the pulls with real money is probably forcing them to shill this as much as possible. "loo guyzz miliastra skins are soo cool!! totally worth the 99.99$ price tag!!!"

Spoiler: metaslaving

We are talking about Durin being mandatory or not. Escoffier skill has more dps than ayaka's burst and and she can do +12k per ice cream, furina has good dps, buffs team damage and scaling with hp doesn't matter here. Just add Mona for 2 hex with the and everyone gets 40% dmg bonus before her brst. He is not meant for freeze but in this team he is functional, he can probably kill overseer without issues. The problem is this is an expensive team and lohen is a worse skirk here.

I guess. Ideally (from what I saw) you'd want someone like durin who can hit 80k+ with his dark form hits. Not esco's puny 12k off field or furina's off-field shootas. I wouldn't be surprised if these two can stack his triumph buffs but I don't know how feasible this would be. Of course he's gonna perform ok in this team when you have 2+ meta supports crammed into a team.

Bennet and xiangling are 4* so if you don't have those 5* and want to use lohen then it's ben+xl. If Lohen alone can't enable xingling then citlali can help but having citlali and no mavuika is weird.

Well thats that I'm saying. He literally doesn't have any good 4 star alternative (or even 5 star for that matter) teammates besides xiangling.

Mav at C0 is only 6 beams but at c1 she is better than c0 durin (unfair comparison). If you have xilonen or citlali you can put them to fuel mav. It's not going to be your best use of mavuika but if you don't have durin and want to play lohen, it's a choice.

They specifically cucked nicole so she has the whole 3 second delay on her buff seemingly just to fuck over mauvika. Once again with the horizontal investment lohen demands I'm left feeling very disappointed in him.

This makes no sense, Lohen is cryo childe, he applies a ton of cryo for someone else to melt and even has a unique ICD of only 2 normal atks. If he is even the one melting then something is wrong. The real dps is durin.

Lohen's cons are bad because most of them are for his personal damage and his personal damage isn't great (as he is a driver (but this didnt have to be mutually exclusive)) so you get more value from support or subdps cons.

I said this in my post as well. He was probably set up as a melt driver standard banner but after the fujoshits started freaking out over his burst animation they changed him into a limited banner to maybe squeeze more cash out of him. I even recall seeing them slightly buff his cons in one of the betas. (bad cons are a tell-tale sign of being standard banner)

Sidenote, funny how literal nobody Prune is gearing up to be Varka's BiS pyro swirl VV holder, Varka's HEC swirl enabler and also a kazuha powercreep. Another fine addition to my neuvilette wheelchair collection...

 

[Clancee]

Fun fact: Apparently the hoyoverse website crashed after the stream cause too many people were using the codes at once. Guess the russia hype is real.

Can confirm, I wasn't able to redeem them at the time, tried a few hours later and had no issues.

And here I was hoping Prune would release with Sandrone or something, as dumb as that is. I want her but don't want to waste my hard-earned guarantee on Nicole. Especially since I'm not touching Milliastra for any reason.

 

[hipster_skeleton]

Sidenote, funny how literal nobody Prune is gearing up to be Varka's BiS pyro swirl VV holder, Varka's HEC swirl enabler and also a kazuha powercreep. Another fine addition to my neuvilette wheelchair collection...

I'm still confused why prune never came out with varka back in 6.4, his beta would've gone a lot smoother.....

 

[00R-Gundam]

Genshin Kiwis, ive come to you all for information. Im a Wuwa player and ive been meaning to ask whats the deal with the, wanna say rivalry? Between genshin and wuwa communities? I get they are both open world gachas but i feel they are different and cater to different people. How hostile has gotten or how do they tend to clash?

 

[Clancee]

Genshin Kiwis, ive come to you all for information. Im a Wuwa player and ive been meaning to ask whats the deal with the, wanna say rivalry? Between genshin and wuwa communities? I get they are both open world gachas but i feel they are different and cater to different people. How hostile has gotten or how do they tend to clash?

They are, and they do. At the time, every upcoming open world gacha was being labelled the next Genshin Killer, the new game would replace Genshin if Hoyo didn't adapt, etc etc. Not sure if the "Genshin Killer" term is still used these days.

At the time leading up to release, WuWa fanatics were shitting on GI every turn of the way and nitpicking every single thing. Many of these guys also happened to be former Genshin players who left because of burnout and were shitting on it. Add to the fact that WuWa has stuff that Genshin still doesn't, like a skip cutscene button, and you had the WuWa fans going "Genshin could never" and the Genshin fans with some resentment that Hoyo still wasn't really improving the game that much.

As for how hostile they are these days, not sure since I don't keep up with fandom drama between the games, if any.

That said, it will never not be funny how WuWa's success lit such a fire under Hoyo's asses that they straight up changed their promo codes to be actual words instead of random letters and numbers. If only that extended to adding an actual skip button, which even fucking Star Rail managed to add.