Genshin Impact

[Pipi420]

My only issue with Signora is the same one I have with like 95% of the recent enemies: THEY CAN'T FUCKING STAY PUT. Why does every single enemy need a fucking teleport/dash move?

same. invulnerability phases in this game are so annoying. that fire tornado lasts for ever. Its not that big of a deal though, only have to fight her once a week

 

[Leaf Wage Slave]

The specteres are a straight pain because they're meant to be small mook enemies that spawn in hordes but they take longer to kill than every other enemy for some stupid ass reason. I brought this up earlier but it only becomes more noticable the more powerful I make my characters as time goes on. Thay always float JUST out of range for melee attacks but since I can't be assed to lock one of my party to constant archer anymore since I already have qiqi as the locked constant healer and I want to try out more combos with the characters I've unlocked it'd be 2 slots stuck. Thing is though, archer classes don't damage them too much either, and their shots don't always land. You're stuck whittling down these fucking little floaty bastards health till they either die or decide to explode from the "rage meter" when they're near death anyways. They're like a worse and more prevalent whopperflower in how fucking dumb levels of tanky they are.

The worst part is, they could’ve easily just used the Large Anemo Slimes as a template for how to deal with them - they’re floating enemies, you’d assume they could be knocked out of the sky - thats the one saving grace of Whopperflowers, they at least can be stunned and stuck in place long enough to murder the shit out of them.

Add in Spectres having what seems to be the worst drop rate I’ve seen (even on their commons it’s only 1 per drop), at this point I’m grinding Aloy to spite them.

 

[The Lawgiver]

The worst part is, they could’ve easily just used the Large Anemo Slimes as a template for how to deal with them - they’re floating enemies, you’d assume they could be knocked out of the sky - thats the one saving grace of Whopperflowers, they at least can be stunned and stuck in place long enough to murder the shit out of them.

Add in Spectres having what seems to be the worst drop rate I’ve seen (even on their commons it’s only 1 per drop), at this point I’m grinding Aloy to spite them.

The moment I found out hitting an anemo slime while it's airborne one shots it no matter who or what hits it so you don't have to wait for it to come back down was a fucking moment for sure. Good game design for starter enemies honestly. Spectres are basically anemo slimes but without any visible weight to the damage put on them and no one-hit-death state mixed with the whopperflowers weird tanky annoying constant moving out of hit range shit.

 

[Genichiro]

At least specters don't come in cyro immunes and here is to hoping no "yet" to it.

 

[LucasSomething]

Weird, i actually think azdaha is my favourite weekly boss fight. I used to struggle with it so much early on but now i can reliably solo at rank 90 without any food (diluc 80, ayaka 80, bennet 70, qiqi 70) and i when i do it coop with my bro (50% more hp and no pause lol) it goes almost too fast. That being said, i admit Qiqi might be a crutch since her burst is basically an "You didnt win!" button that lets me bring it back, even if i only have 3/4 are almost dead units.

I'd say the real challenge with Azdaha is keeping your patience the whole fight. It's a long fight where any small mistake can kill and snowball into a wipeout so it's easy to get stressed. It's kinda like an mmo raid boss and i understand why so many people hate him but goddamn, it feels good to win.

Unlike those specters tho. It feels awful to fight them and it feels awful to win cause their drop rates are thrash. I had to farm them to ascend the Catch and it's depressing. I can kill a fatui in 20 seconds and it drops more than 3 specters that take more than a minute to kill. And that's not mentioning self healing water specters on waterfall edges. Those i just gave up fighting...

 

[Leaf Wage Slave]

Unlike those specters tho. It feels awful to fight them and it feels awful to win cause their drop rates are thrash. I had to farm them to ascend the Catch and it's depressing. I can kill a fatui in 20 seconds and it drops more than 3 specters that take more than a minute to kill. And that's not mentioning self healing water specters on waterfall edges. Those i just gave up fighting...

Trust me, if Aloy didn’t need Spectre drops for both her Ascensions and Talents, I wouldn’t even be bothering. As is, my go to when fighting them in groups is saying Fuck It, Switching to Ganyu, and hitting Triangle, let her Ult do as much damage as possible.

Can’t even do ol’ faithful of Klee then Kazuha because for some reason these fuckers don’t seem to take Swirl damage…

 

[Catgirls are Love]

The only halfway tolerant way of fighting specters is to get them in water then spam elemental reactions with a catalyst user since they don't miss. Yanfei's my go-to choice, but if I run into specters that aren't already in or right next to water I generally don't bother and just keep going.

 

[Genichiro]

C6 XQ with his homing swords works well on them as well. Haven't tried Ei with the swords on spectres. Should be great on them.

 

[Alex Yiik]

I'd say the real challenge with Azdaha is keeping your patience the whole fight. It's a long fight where any small mistake can kill and snowball into a wipeout so it's easy to get stressed. It's kinda like an mmo raid boss and i understand why so many people hate him but goddamn, it feels good to win.

I think most people would agree with you the first few times they fight him. Problem is, fighting him every week for 4 months has eroded our patience and taken the satisfaction of beating him away. Right now I think Signora is pretty fun, but I'm probably gonna get sick of her ice cocoon and hot/cold damage the more I fight her.

As a side note, I was really disappointed my first time fighting her and seeing a hot counterpart to sheer cold because I just know it's gonna make its way into Natlan. I hated that aspect of Dragonspine, but now it seems like every area is going to have some place that sucks to explore because of environmental damage.

 

[Skips]

I do like some environmental damage, I found pretty fun how you had to be on your toes on dragospine until you unlock Goulash, and you had a heat source every ten steps, so I bet Natlan will have some cold beverage or something like that. Now, the radiation in Inazuma was pretty annoying though. While cool lore wise, the flimsy sigils were just stupid to deal with

 

[Pipi420]

I just did a 10-pull on standard because I was bored/addicted and got this

For once I actually have some fragiles saved up so I can start building her immedietally. She seems to have so many weapon options, and my usual math trannies (keqingmains) are failing me, they don't even have the Emblem set or Wine & Song mentioned on their Mona guide at all so it seems super outdated.

 

[LucasSomething]

I finally managed to 9* eleven abyss floors, right on the last day. edit: I started in july fyi

Floor 10 was extremely tiresome cause i kept failing and over to beat the water herald in time and was forced to do it all again. Floor 11 was stressful as hell cause the boosted abyss mages were cancer and if they killed someone i had to restart. The cubes were actually very easy but i guess having 2 strong pyro/cryo main dps helps. If my lazy f2p ass with barely leveled cast can do it then anyone can (diluc is the only one with anything close to an "optimal" set).

I know it's not really impressive but it's still an achievement for me. I like to try hard but not enough to get in my life, only enough to feel earned. I wouldnt be stressed/sad if i lost but i still felt great for winning. What i mean is: Dude, why is this game so fucking good???

 

[Pipi420]

I finally managed to 9* eleven abyss floors, right on the last day. edit: I started in july fyi

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Floor 10 was extremely tiresome cause i kept failing and over to beat the water herald in time and was forced to do it all again. Floor 11 was stressful as hell cause the boosted abyss mages were cancer and if they killed someone i had to restart. The cubes were actually very easy but i guess having 2 strong pyro/cryo main dps helps. If my lazy f2p ass with barely leveled cast can do it then anyone can (diluc is the only one with anything close to an "optimal" set).

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I know it's not really impressive but it's still an achievement for me. I like to try hard but not enough to get in my life, only enough to feel earned. I wouldnt be stressed/sad if i lost but i still felt great for winning. What i mean is: Dude, why is this game so fucking good???

Nice, hopefully you can get your hands on xingqiu, both of those teams could benefit greatly from him. I bet taking down the lectors and heralds is a lot easier with Sayu due to swirl spam.

edit: new abyss just dropped. nothing crazy, just more HP bloat on floor 12 but I was able to get it done. Mona/XQ/Diona/Ayaka first team and Ning/Zhong/Bennet/Diluc second team.
Floor 11 is interesting, it has that new corrosion mechanic. Whenever you kill an enemy you get poisoned though once you get to 15% HP you cant take damage from corrosion any more. Had to make sure my Diona's burst was ready to go at all times which was fun and satisfying to manage, though on the second team I just unga bunga Bennet + Jean overheal every 30 seconds

 

[LucasSomething]

Nice, hopefully you can get your hands on xingqiu, both of those teams could benefit greatly from him. I bet taking down the lectors and heralds is a lot easier with Sayu due to swirl spam.

The only reason i bought Sayu at first was to proc VV for ayaka and help break one pyro mage shield with her burst, i still have no idea know how i kept her alive. I actually bought XQ from the monthly shop and got him on 50 + a mid level emblem set for abyss but it simply wasnt working with him no matter which side i took. Rosaria/XL had more value against Lector, water swrpds useless on herald bubble, cant freeze ice cube and and too slow for pyro cube who requires barbara already.

My pyro team was basically quickswap -> bennet like button -> everyone ults and ice team was literally 3 girls fueling Ayakas spirit bomb and praying she kills shit fast enough (spoiler alert, she does).

I think what makes abyss (as an f2p at least) so fun is that none of this bullshit should work but you make it work with what you have. I had to fight pyro hipo +10 times until i managed to break the shield in -30 seconds while dodging perfectly to not get my 9k hp barbara killed. Ayaka might be busted but that win was on me.

Random fun fact? According to the abyss log (?) my diluc apparently took +265k dmg during this run which is like, 15 lifes worth of hp lost lol. Guess that def/def/hp/hp pyro goblet wasnt pure copium haha...

And since i`m here, people managed to datamine Kokomis banner from the pre install files, here it is.

>Rosaria increases crit rate during burst
>Kokomi cannot crit

Nice synergy there devs. This banner is stacked but i will hard skip it, unfortunaly. 60+pity, not wasting unless its a godlike character or a wind/geo sup.

 

[Genichiro]

ice team was literally 3 girls fueling Ayakas spirit bomb and praying she kills shit fast enough (spoiler alert, she does).

Try Chongyun in place of Diona if you have C2 on him. The cooldown reduction helps, though with a decent NO set, he can propel your freeze team's performance much further by his low cost bursts. When XQ gets a few constellations, swap Barbara for him and freeze things all day.

Somehow managed to oneshot Fire Hypo once its defenses went down using such a team.

 

[Leaf Wage Slave]

And since i`m here, people managed to datamine Kokomis banner from the pre install files, here it is.

>Rosaria increases crit rate during burst
>Kokomi cannot crit

Nice synergy there devs. This banner is stacked but i will hard skip it, unfortunaly. 60+pity, not wasting unless its a godlike character or a wind/geo sup

Honestly, I’m just amazed at how much the Genshin fandom is shitting on Kokomi over her not being able to crit. Assuming that MHY really does want to move away from just Face Tanking everything with Shields, dedicated Support or Healers might be needed more than another Nuke, and if Kokomi has a decent enough Healing Percentage that might be enough to counter balance her lack of crits.

Or I’ll just keep using Noelle and do both - hey, a shield and the chance to heal for over 2k per hit is still a good combo, even if she is stuck to Physical outside her Burst…

 

[Jared Car]

And since i`m here, people managed to datamine Kokomis banner from the pre install files, here it is.

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>Rosaria increases crit rate during burst
>Kokomi cannot crit

Nice synergy there devs. This banner is stacked but i will hard skip it, unfortunaly. 60+pity, not wasting unless its a godlike character or a wind/geo sup.

I'm gonna get her just to see how much hp I can stack on her

 

[Pipi420]

I wish I had unlimitted resin so I could just minmax the fuck out of my xiangling and beidou already. also i cant be fucked to fish still.

The only reason i bought Sayu at first was to proc VV for ayaka and help break one pyro mage shield with her burst, i still have no idea know how i kept her alive. I actually bought XQ from the monthly shop and got him on 50 + a mid level emblem set for abyss but it simply wasnt working with him no matter which side i took. Rosaria/XL had more value against Lector, water swrpds useless on herald bubble, cant freeze ice cube and and too slow for pyro cube who requires barbara already.

Yeah I guess Xingqiu is pretty underwhelming until you have him fully built. But when you have those water swords up at all times hes amazing.

 

[Back me up!]

So what is the final verdict on a C0 Raiden Shogun? Worth it, or basically just skip unless you are willing to whale?

 

[ZMOT]

Honestly, I’m just amazed at how much the Genshin fandom is shitting on Kokomi over her not being able to crit. Assuming that MHY really does want to move away from just Face Tanking everything with Shields, dedicated Support or Healers might be needed more than another Nuke, and if Kokomi has a decent enough Healing Percentage that might be enough to counter balance her lack of crits.

Or I’ll just keep using Noelle and do both - hey, a shield and the chance to heal for over 2k per hit is still a good combo, even if she is stuck to Physical outside her Burst…

the problem is they can try as much as they want, if their sole idea of "hard" content is dps-checks with a timer, people will inevitably glass-cannon it turning it into an endless "I kill u b4 u kill me" race to the bottom trying to cheese it, either with shields or healbombs.
and let's better not talk how that kind of design absolutely crashes into a wall when it comes to multiplayer.

the complains are imo mostly that it means she will be one dimensional support. sure you could build her into a dps just as you can barbara, but if you look at their encounter design that won't get you that far, which means it's a complete waste of a 5*. she's no archon so she won't be OP mechanically like zhongli either (that's probably dendro's archon job), but you also can only overtune heals for so much as the rest of your team has HP, which won't help you against oneshot attacks either. and since by now most people already have healers which bring even more to the table (diona shields, bennett buff, jean shred) what's the point of rolling for her. heck even qiqi might actually be better since she heals passively and is cryo instead of hydro so works better for pyro dps.

TLDR: from the looks of it she's the 5* version of barbara, down to the same fatal flaw of applying wet to herself.

Nice synergy there devs. This banner is stacked but i will hard skip it, unfortunaly. 60+pity, not wasting unless its a godlike character or a wind/geo sup.

banner synergy was always retarded, like who builds their team exclusively from current banner chars? you always look how the chars work with your existing team and what abyss requires if you care about that.
outside of that mihoyo's release "strategy" is simply catching up to them, since the fucking shop is still running on the same fucking rotation from a year ago with the the same two 4* per month, they have to re-run certain chars in a certain frequency. last xianling was 9! banners ago, xq/beidou 5. in comparison noelle hasn't been on one in 6, and it didn't help they whored her out so often it became it's own meme (actually it was the same amount as xq, I think they just did it more frequently in the beginning on top of being a guaranteed char). beidou was only on 3 banners same as xianling. running her after the very banner they just fucked with the interaction is just rubbing salt into it.

So what is the final verdict on a C0 Raiden Shogun? Worth it, or basically just skip unless you are willing to whale?

I like her but you have to built a bit around her. also helps I don't do abyss so I'm not that much of a slave to meta. crazy they basically gave her the perfect 4* weapon for free as well.

if you're still building teams there are probably better chars to dump your primos on with re-runs coming up, but also always depends what you already have.
besides that the waifu powerlevel is hard to beat with that gap moe and yamato nadeshiko look (fuck the haters)