Genshin Impact (PC, Mobile, PS4, PS5)

[LeeC22]

Some interesting balance changes going on in the mid tiers which I don't mind as that's where I will be staying but that does make me wonder if they are planning a change in the difficulty curve in future patches to ramp up the levels of monsters in the top tiers. Especially intriguing were the Specter changes, I wonder if that was to add more practicality to Kazuha to give him more value. After doing his Story Quest I can see the attraction with his some of his playstyle and he's probably the only male character that isn't annoying personality wise but is that enough to break up my waifu teams??? I am not sure. The only practical account would be my second because it is so close to pity but with 3.0 within touching distance and seeming uncertainty (information wise that is) about the one Sumeru character I want, it's a tricky situation. I could possibly get him in 40 wishes or less and that would leave me with 108 + whatever 2.8 hands out and the remaining 24 days on my current Welkin plus my next two. So maybe I can get enough back in time should I need to do so. Of course had i not looked at any leak info, I would just pull based on my gut and worry later... lesson learned I guess.

 

As for 2.8 itself, I am attemtping to impose more restrictions on myself again. No collectibles on day one, and no using the Waverider speedup at all outisde the Waverider events. I turned off the camera reset on the Waverider quite a while ago, so I can sail and look around without the camera forcing me to look forward... it's nice for sightseeing. The biggest frustration with 2.8 is having to listen to Fischl in CN dub because I just can't tolerate EN Paimon. I wish there was a way to shift the CN Paimon voice data to the EN voice files. Or even better, a Paimon Mute option in the audio settings.

 

Edit: The deal is done... I thought if I am not building characters, why am I collecting wishes? So it took 41 wishes and it came with a C2 Heizou and 2 Ningguang cons taking her to C3. Seems like a reasonable return for 41 fates.

Edited July 15, 2022 by LeeC22

[Tails Prower]

On 7/15/2022 at 1:42 PM, LeeC22 said:

Some interesting balance changes going on in the mid tiers which I don't mind as that's where I will be staying but that does make me wonder if they are planning a change in the difficulty curve in future patches to ramp up the levels of monsters in the top tiers. Especially intriguing were the Specter changes, I wonder if that was to add more practicality to Kazuha to give him more value. After doing his Story Quest I can see the attraction with his some of his playstyle and he's probably the only male character that isn't annoying personality wise but is that enough to break up my waifu teams??? I am not sure. The only practical account would be my second because it is so close to pity but with 3.0 within touching distance and seeming uncertainty (information wise that is) about the one Sumeru character I want, it's a tricky situation. I could possibly get him in 40 wishes or less and that would leave me with 108 + whatever 2.8 hands out and the remaining 24 days on my current Welkin plus my next two. So maybe I can get enough back in time should I need to do so. Of course had i not looked at any leak info, I would just pull based on my gut and worry later... lesson learned I guess.

 

As for 2.8 itself, I am attemtping to impose more restrictions on myself again. No collectibles on day one, and no using the Waverider speedup at all outisde the Waverider events. I turned off the camera reset on the Waverider quite a while ago, so I can sail and look around without the camera forcing me to look forward... it's nice for sightseeing. The biggest frustration with 2.8 is having to listen to Fischl in CN dub because I just can't tolerate EN Paimon. I wish there was a way to shift the CN Paimon voice data to the EN voice files. Or even better, a Paimon Mute option in the audio settings.

 

Edit: The deal is done... I thought if I am not building characters, why am I collecting wishes? So it took 41 wishes and it came with a C2 Heizou and 2 Ningguang cons taking her to C3. Seems like a reasonable return for 41 fates.

 

Well I ended up getting Heizou as my 'gut' on the pity was correct, main account 59/70 pity and no 50/50 5-star so it's not looking too good for winning it again  but we'll see in  8 days time.

 

Most of the collectables it seems didn't come until Day 5 of the event, I've played through the whole event now and come to learn that I suck at 'astrology' puzzles and fixing objects  in place in Fischl's castle, those puzzles seemed to take forever to do but I enjoyed the event and I liked the 'tease' with the final bit of the story after helping out the Fatui fix their machine.

 

Paimon mute option would certainly be good! LOL!

 

Yup very good return there I would say and it looks like the coming update from the Sumeru teaser videos Genshin's been posting will keep us exploring for awhile.

 

Now I just have to get through what will be a 'slow' week in my mind for Yoimiya's banner to drop and then I can finally put wishing to bed for awhile!

[LeeC22]

On 7/25/2022 at 10:45 AM, Tails Prower said:

 

Well I ended up getting Heizou as my 'gut' on the pity was correct, main account 59/70 pity and no 50/50 5-star so it's not looking too good for winning it again  but we'll see in  8 days time.

 

Most of the collectables it seems didn't come until Day 5 of the event, I've played through the whole event now and come to learn that I suck at 'astrology' puzzles and fixing objects  in place in Fischl's castle, those puzzles seemed to take forever to do but I enjoyed the event and I liked the 'tease' with the final bit of the story after helping out the Fatui fix their machine.

 

Paimon mute option would certainly be good! LOL!

 

Yup very good return there I would say and it looks like the coming update from the Sumeru teaser videos Genshin's been posting will keep us exploring for awhile.

 

Now I just have to get through what will be a 'slow' week in my mind for Yoimiya's banner to drop and then I can finally put wishing to bed for awhile!

 

On the upside, you're close to pity and haven't lost the 50/50 yet... so there's still hope. The 4* chars on the next banner are rather off-putting. The Shenhe banner gave me a C6 Yun Jin and my Bennet is sat there with his exclamation mark waiting for me to activate his C6 (or not). I don't use him so I should probably just do it to make it go away. I don't understand how Yun Jin is supposed to work so I don't really want her on my second account either. I think she's a character for people more invested in the numbers/damage side of things, so I don't feel as though I am missing much.

 

What I didn't understand with the Fischl puzzles, is why we were forced to use the d-pad when we have analogue sticks that are normally used to move the camera. Or maybe that was just a PC thing when using a controller but it made it really hard to fine tune the position when the smallest tap moved the camera a large distance. It's been a really good event overall though, some of the puzzle mechanics were really good, especially the island switching stuff. I even liked sitting and watching the raven theatre. I wasn't a Mona fan and even less so now but her domain was good, the other domains were all excellent as well. I have managed to get to 177 (main) & 176 (second) chests on both accounts guide-free but I really have no idea where the remaining few chests are. The biggest problem I had was because my two accounts are using almost identical teams (Yanfei, Yelan, Kuki + one other), I would get a chest on one account but later would have no idea which account actually got that chest. I am surprised I am only one chest different between both accounts but it probably means the same ones are missing from both accounts as well. But considering I spend 24/7 in the house and sometimes 8+ hours a day playing Genshin, it still took a good while to get through all the islands. I spent a whole day on Kazuha's Island on just one account and still only finished about 30% of it.

 

I liked the Fatui involvement in this, it's more interesting when they take a non-hostile path because it gives a bit more insight into how the Fatui condition their operatives. It almost seems like they (MiHoyo that is) are attempting to humanise the foot-soldiers, which is an interesting and welcomed twist. They're quite a humorous bunch when you get talking to them.

 

Sumeru is looking outstanding so far, they look like they have stepped up another gear in the design department, it's far beyond what I was expecting. I do wish I hadn't watched the second video though because it revealed a bit more than I wanted to see but regardless, it all looks fantastic. The more complex environmental reactions make me think exploring is going to require a lot of thinking too, which is great.

 

Event skip time for me this week, so back to world boss farming. I started building Heizou but I lost interest, I don't like how he looks so I am not going to spend any more resources on him. I am waiting now for the preview programme to make a decision on Yoimiya but that's 3 weeks away... I think, maybe 2.

Edited July 27, 2022 by LeeC22

[Tails Prower]

On 7/27/2022 at 10:54 AM, LeeC22 said:

 

On the upside, you're close to pity and haven't lost the 50/50 yet... so there's still hope. The 4* chars on the next banner are rather off-putting. The Shenhe banner gave me a C6 Yun Jin and my Bennet is sat there with his exclamation mark waiting for me to activate his C6 (or not). I don't use him so I should probably just do it to make it go away. I don't understand how Yun Jin is supposed to work so I don't really want her on my second account either. I think she's a character for people more invested in the numbers/damage side of things, so I don't feel as though I am missing much.

 

What I didn't understand with the Fischl puzzles, is why we were forced to use the d-pad when we have analogue sticks that are normally used to move the camera. Or maybe that was just a PC thing when using a controller but it made it really hard to fine tune the position when the smallest tap moved the camera a large distance. It's been a really good event overall though, some of the puzzle mechanics were really good, especially the island switching stuff. I even liked sitting and watching the raven theatre. I wasn't a Mona fan and even less so now but her domain was good, the other domains were all excellent as well. I have managed to get to 177 (main) & 176 (second) chests on both accounts guide-free but I really have no idea where the remaining few chests are. The biggest problem I had was because my two accounts are using almost identical teams (Yanfei, Yelan, Kuki + one other), I would get a chest on one account but later would have no idea which account actually got that chest. I am surprised I am only one chest different between both accounts but it probably means the same ones are missing from both accounts as well. But considering I spend 24/7 in the house and sometimes 8+ hours a day playing Genshin, it still took a good while to get through all the islands. I spent a whole day on Kazuha's Island on just one account and still only finished about 30% of it.

 

I liked the Fatui involvement in this, it's more interesting when they take a non-hostile path because it gives a bit more insight into how the Fatui condition their operatives. It almost seems like they (MiHoyo that is) are attempting to humanise the foot-soldiers, which is an interesting and welcomed twist. They're quite a humorous bunch when you get talking to them.

 

Sumeru is looking outstanding so far, they look like they have stepped up another gear in the design department, it's far beyond what I was expecting. I do wish I hadn't watched the second video though because it revealed a bit more than I wanted to see but regardless, it all looks fantastic. The more complex environmental reactions make me think exploring is going to require a lot of thinking too, which is great.

 

Event skip time for me this week, so back to world boss farming. I started building Heizou but I lost interest, I don't like how he looks so I am not going to spend any more resources on him. I am waiting now for the preview programme to make a decision on Yoimiya but that's 3 weeks away... I think, maybe 2.

 

Yeah, this is true, well the day is slowly but surely finally coming with only 4 days to go as of writing this so I am gonna be very excited on Tuesday, I plan t fill in the day on the islands exploring and then I can come to the wish banner as soon as it goes up!

 

TBH I tthink it might have been a smarter move to put Inazuma 4 stars on the three slots sinced Yun Jin, XInyan and Bennett don't really hae any associations with Yoimiya but that's' just my tuppence.

 

Yun Jin is a difficult one to follow in terms of her style but the way I understand it is you simply use her to buff the other characters attack, so elemental burst, fire her shield defence and then swap to your normal character for increased damage, your not really missing much there I don't think so  a 'skip' should be fine.

 

I think as you say with the Fischl puzzles it was maybe a trying to make things same for PC and console players with the direction pad but yeah it was a bit finicky but yeah all of the domaiins were great and I thtink Fischl's will always be my favourite.

 

So far I haen't gone 'chest' hunting I plan to do that starting the weekend but yeah I spent some time hanging around the Fatui camp and I like the casual ones/spin off story a lot here.

 

I have delibaretly not looked at the Sumeru preview because again I just wanna go 'wow' when the update drops in 3 and a bit weeks.

 

The video for Yoimiya might go up this weekend since they won't feature her on this upcoming Special Program, if not go back to August last year on Genshin's Youtube and you'll see the video showcase for Yoimiya.

 

Now it's time to game as tonight I have to give Yanfei her birthday present, ascension to Level 6 and by the end of the weekend my first triple crowned build!

[LeeC22]

3 hours ago, Tails Prower said:

The video for Yoimiya might go up this weekend since they won't feature her on this upcoming Special Program, if not go back to August last year on Genshin's Youtube and you'll see the video showcase for Yoimiya.

 

It's hard to explain without potentially saying something that you don't want to read if you have been avoiding Sumeru info... so I will just wait and see. I am sure the preview programme will solve the problem for me but it isn't directly related to Yoimiya.

 

Anyway... I'll keep it short tonight, have fun.

 

Edit: Forgot to say, thanks for the Yun Jin info.

Edited July 28, 2022 by LeeC22

[Tails Prower]

On 7/28/2022 at 7:32 PM, LeeC22 said:

 

It's hard to explain without potentially saying something that you don't want to read if you have been avoiding Sumeru info... so I will just wait and see. I am sure the preview programme will solve the problem for me but it isn't directly related to Yoimiya.

 

Anyway... I'll keep it short tonight, have fun.

 

Edit: Forgot to say, thanks for the Yun Jin info.

 

Well that was quite the 'video' yesterday witth  MuHoYo playing the leakers at their own game and showing all the Sumeru characters int he video, still nothing that catches my attention in terms of character design so I will wait until there is more infor on them to decide.

 

No probs re Yun Jin, I also just learnt a fact today I did not notice before that the game's archive has a tracking record for enemies defeated and animals captured, no surprise to me was the discovery that Thunder Manfiestation has died 46 times, everyone else is below 20 showing I don't bother with bosses that much, reason Thunder Manfiestation is so high is all the times I've had him in the Spiral Abyss.

 

Maguu Kenki is second with 32 and again that's only because of him appearing in Spiral Abyss and other game battle events. 3 and 1/2 half days to go until the banner reset, thankfully I have things to keep me occupied until then as today gonna finish Yanfei's triple crown, tomorrow I'll go hunt the chests on the Golden Apple on my FTP account and Monday I have to nip out so that means Tuesday I am FREE and ready for when the banner begins!

Edited July 30, 2022 by Tails Prower

[LeeC22]

8 hours ago, Tails Prower said:

Well that was quite the 'video' yesterday witth  MuHoYo playing the leakers at their own game and showing all the Sumeru characters int he video, still nothing that catches my attention in terms of character design so I will wait until there is more infor on them to decide.

 

I was going to not watch it and last night I sat there and thought "I am going to watch the preview programme and all this stuff is going to be shown in there anyway so...". So I watched it this morning and thought Nilou looked okay. Anything kid sized is rejected by default, along with male characters. I know I pulled Kazuha but that was a one-off, had Kagotsurube Isshin not existed then I wouldn't have pulled for him... which is probably the most ridiculous reason anyone ever pulled for a 5* but I just felt that sword deserved someone to wield it and he was the only one that qualified. Ironically I find the way he hops onto rocks really irritating, so I still use Yanfei as my default character roaming around.

 

8 hours ago, Tails Prower said:

No probs re Yun Jin, I also just learnt a fact today I did not notice before that the game's archive has a tracking record for enemies defeated and animals captured, no surprise to me was the discovery that Thunder Manfiestation has died 46 times, everyone else is below 20 showing I don't bother with bosses that much, reason Thunder Manfiestation is so high is all the times I've had him in the Spiral Abyss.

 

I never think to look at that section, after checking I was quite shocked to see Oceanid with 70 kills and Electro-Hypostasis with 75 (that's on my main account) but I do run world bosses more than anything else, so it's to be expected I guess. Pyro-Regisvine was even higher at 85 but I have a lot of pyro characters. I am currently running the Cryo-cube on both accounts, which isn't my favourite by any means and I have another 20 or so runs on each to hit my 46 boss mat target. I have to run Noelle because I can't dodge the homing icicles.

 

8 hours ago, Tails Prower said:

3 and 1/2 half days to go until the banner reset, thankfully I have things to keep me occupied until then as today gonna finish Yanfei's triple crown, tomorrow I'll go hunt the chests on the Golden Apple on my FTP account and Monday I have to nip out so that means Tuesday I am FREE and ready for when the banner begins!

 

Fingers crossed for you getting Yoi, I hope the RNG luck is on your side. I will hopefully know at the end of the week (or the week after more likely) if I am going for her or not. I mean I am sure you can guess beased on my preferred weapon choice which Sumeru character I am waiting to hear about. I have seen more info this week confirming "a rumour" about how she is arriving but I still have to wait for official confirmation before knowing for sure. Then I just need a female version of Gorou... Ms Hina skin perhaps?

 

Edit: Damn, I forgot Anemo archers as well.

 

Good luck with the chest hunting.

 

Edited July 30, 2022 by LeeC22

[LeeC22]

Xinyan seems to be flavour of the month this month. Did my usual 30 wishes on each account. Main: Bennet (now C7), 2 x Xinyan (now C5) and a Sacrificial Bow. Second: Bennet (C1). 2 x Xinyan (C1 as I didn't have her on that account), Yun Jin (didn't have her either). It's uncanny to get the exact same Bennet and Xinyan pulls on two different accounts.

 

I have gone back to leylines this week because I have had enough of world bosses for a while, the stunlocking from the icicles on the cryo-cube gets me really irritated and I still have another 12+ runs on each account to hit my target so I am taking a break from it. Magu Kenki and the PMA would be next up and I am out of patience for MK and his teleporting BS all the time. So I think it's a chill week of farming crystalflies, valberries, dandelions and cecilias... maybe some crystal marrow as well because I don't have many of them. I don't need any of those things but it gets me out and about. Need to find some Fatui Agents as well because I noticed that I have none of their weapon mats.

 

Tried to upgrade some artifacts on a couple of characters... I don't know why I bother, I am way beyond caring with the boring predictability of artifacts now. There's only so much DEF, DEF, DEF%, DEF I can take.

 

Any good luck stories on the wishing front from anyone else?

 

Edit: Today, running two accounts finally caught up with me and my failing memory. Bought the BP on my main account, chose the wrong weapon because I thought it was my second account. I have Ayaka with an R5 Black Sword on my main and Kuki with an R3 Black Sword on my second... my main now has an R1 Black Sword as well. I normally stop at that point and check my weapons to make sure but I just didn't think today. Lesson learned for next time...

Edited August 4, 2022 by LeeC22

[Tails Prower]

On 8/2/2022 at 8:05 PM, LeeC22 said:

Xinyan seems to be flavour of the month this month. Did my usual 30 wishes on each account. Main: Bennet (now C7), 2 x Xinyan (now C5) and a Sacrificial Bow. Second: Bennet (C1). 2 x Xinyan (C1 as I didn't have her on that account), Yun Jin (didn't have her either). It's uncanny to get the exact same Bennet and Xinyan pulls on two different accounts.

 

I have gone back to leylines this week because I have had enough of world bosses for a while, the stunlocking from the icicles on the cryo-cube gets me really irritated and I still have another 12+ runs on each account to hit my target so I am taking a break from it. Magu Kenki and the PMA would be next up and I am out of patience for MK and his teleporting BS all the time. So I think it's a chill week of farming crystalflies, valberries, dandelions and cecilias... maybe some crystal marrow as well because I don't have many of them. I don't need any of those things but it gets me out and about. Need to find some Fatui Agents as well because I noticed that I have none of their weapon mats.

 

Tried to upgrade some artifacts on a couple of characters... I don't know why I bother, I am way beyond caring with the boring predictability of artifacts now. There's only so much DEF, DEF, DEF%, DEF I can take.

 

Any good luck stories on the wishing front from anyone else?

 

Edit: Today, running two accounts finally caught up with me and my failing memory. Bought the BP on my main account, chose the wrong weapon because I thought it was my second account. I have Ayaka with an R5 Black Sword on my main and Kuki with an R3 Black Sword on my second... my main now has an R1 Black Sword as well. I normally stop at that point and check my weapons to make sure but I just didn't think today. Lesson learned for next time...

 

Yup she does indeed seem to be a regular 'pop' since the banner changed to Yoimiya.

 

As you may have guessed from the slow reply the news on my front has not been great, my main account lost the 50/50 to QiQi (again!!!) so no Yoimiya for that account so of course the game would give me the '50/50 win' on my FTP accouunt which was not prepared for Yoimiya at all! I'm now at 63/70 pity after loosing the 50/50 and my guarantee for her still has not 'popped' if it does not do so after I finish the Summer event stuff on my main well I will just play my FTP account hereafter.

 

So the past two days I have been running around farming Samachurls and Naku Weeds to make a build for her, I had to throw together a bad 'Echoes of an Offering' and Rust bow set so that I can at least use her for the time being and whilst the damage is sufficient I know she can be better, so far no aim 'lock' issues and she shredded Azhdaha weekly boss since he's not pyro this week.

 

I think your luck of DEF with the artefacts fits with my gacha luck but strangely this week I actually got some good substat rerolls but I think once I am happy with Yoimiya on my FTP account that will be the end of my RNG on the domains as I need to stock up on boss materials and money so like yourself I think it will be Leylines for a while.

 

Have also done that myself with the battle pass before so you are not alone there!

[LeeC22]

5 hours ago, Tails Prower said:

As you may have guessed from the slow reply the news on my front has not been great, my main account lost the 50/50 to QiQi (again!!!) so no Yoimiya for that account so of course the game would give me the '50/50 win' on my FTP accouunt which was not prepared for Yoimiya at all! I'm now at 63/70 pity after loosing the 50/50 and my guarantee for her still has not 'popped' if it does not do so after I finish the Summer event stuff on my main well I will just play my FTP account hereafter.

 

So the past two days I have been running around farming Samachurls and Naku Weeds to make a build for her, I had to throw together a bad 'Echoes of an Offering' and Rust bow set so that I can at least use her for the time being and whilst the damage is sufficient I know she can be better, so far no aim 'lock' issues and she shredded Azhdaha weekly boss since he's not pyro this week.

 

I had a feeling that was the case, so I thought it best to not mention her at all. There are still a few events left in this banner so hopefully you can hit pity and get her before it ends. I always think that if I get a character on at least one account then it's a win but if your main account is your most important account then I suspect that isn't the case for you.

 

Edit: That last sentence sounds really bad reading it back but I don't know how best to say it. Because I play in the most casual way possible, this game is essentially a Waifu collector game in a great open world setting. I invest no time in beating content, building ideal teams for abyss etc... But for anyone who invests money and serious amounts of time into an account, that probably isn't the case. A specific character makes your account better so has greater value on a particular account, whereas in my case it just fills another slot and gives me someone new to walk around with. *sigh* I don't know if that's any better than what I originally said now.

 

My main account was on a streak of losing the 50/50 but this time it decided to be kind... but I was fully prepared for a loss. I had got to 68 pity and was going to stop, then I read a post about my wanted Sumeru character and decided to drop another 10 wishes. She has an embarassingly bad build of 3 x Shimenawa, 1 x Clam and 1 x Noblesse... that was all I had, weapon wise she got Childe's Skyward Harp which helps a bit.. Her DMG as a result is poor (like 3k - 5k poor) and she's in my overworld team which is an OK Yelan, a moderate Kuki and a bad Heizou. I took them round Inazuma yesterday after doing the Pyro-cube (with my Kokomi led team) and every mob fight was like a boss battle, it was so much hard work to defeat WL 5 enemies with a lvl80+ team. But I like taking new characters out at low-level because it makes it feel like they are at least learning the ropes to gain experience, instead of just going to a shop and buying it.

 

I like her design, I like her personality, I even like her normal attacks... but what lets her down is her charged attack because of the game's stupid targeting system. You can line up perfectly on some enemies and then watch in dismay as the flame arrows lock onto some berries or a torch instead. I don't know who decided berries and other plants would be a targetable entity but it was such a poor decision. Although it was amusing when I found a location with 3 torches in a line and she was able to light all 3 in one shot. I will play her like every other bow character because that's how I like to play them, so it just means I need to be even more aware of surroundings in a fight.

 

These quest bugs are proving interesting, today my second account had Ascension quests 3 and 4 available at the same time, so it looks like it hadn't cleared quests from my main account properly when I switched accounts.

Edited August 5, 2022 by LeeC22

[Tails Prower]

I think that wording was okay and yeah I did kinda have a plan for the 'game events' involving Yoimiya on my main account but it's no biggie. As you say I still have events and time left on the banner for a drop.

 

There is nothing wrong with bad build I guess iff you have the mindset of them learning the ropes, to be honest I think you havve at least something for her compared to my FTP not  having anything decent ready but that's okay because I know I will get the stuff 'eventually'.

 

I do like her play style, to be honest I very rarily have used her burst so far so I haven't noticed the issue you describe but it sounds comical so I will probably have a chuckle at that when I do notice.

 

Again I haven't noticed or experienced this 'bug' yet for the quests and audio/cut scenes but then I did all of those in the first 3 weeks so maybe that is why.

 

Right time to get on with today's farming run for artefacts, I am hoping this won't take too long and then I can link my video of how she looks  but please don't take it the wrong way since I know you say your build is bad, ito's mearly to show how dedicated I have been to Yoimiya's character that I want her to be my best build.

[LeeC22]

6 hours ago, Tails Prower said:

but please don't take it the wrong way since I know you say your build is bad, ito's mearly to show how dedicated I have been to Yoimiya's character that I want her to be my best build.

 

It's not a problem, I know people like to show builds and damage videos and I also know that people watch them to learn more about how a character can be built. As someone who spent their life mentoring people, I think it's good that people can provide that information. If I was chasing the meta then I might find them intimidating perhaps but I have long since accepted that my choice of playstyle comes with consequences.

 

I know my posts always seem to be riddled with frustration but it's the crazy little things like the 3 torches that make that frustration seem not so bad... and she can do that with a bad build, so it's a win, win, win. Kokomi, Yelan, Raiden and Fischl will kick the pyro-cubes ass for her later and she will get a bit stronger as a result... it's all good in the end.

 

The game has so much more good than bad and when you compare the 6-weekly updates against things like the latest GTAO 6-monthly update, this game's bad is still far better than some other game's good.

 

Oh... the arrow thing, go into charged shot mode, wait for the three spinning flames to appear and it's those three that will track obscure things. Anyway, enjoy the farming, I am going to throw some resin at the pyro cube.

 

Edit: Note to self... getting carried away is costly! When I have ascended a character my first instinct is to hold RT to use Hero's Wit to take them to next ascension. Just did Yoi's final ascension, held RT, thought "that's a lot of books", hit the confirm button and then realised what I had done. I now have a lvl90 Yoimiya and a gaping hole in the EXP reserves. I know where my resin is going next week.

Edited August 5, 2022 by LeeC22

[Tails Prower]

15 hours ago, LeeC22 said:

 

It's not a problem, I know people like to show builds and damage videos and I also know that people watch them to learn more about how a character can be built. As someone who spent their life mentoring people, I think it's good that people can provide that information. If I was chasing the meta then I might find them intimidating perhaps but I have long since accepted that my choice of playstyle comes with consequences.

 

I know my posts always seem to be riddled with frustration but it's the crazy little things like the 3 torches that make that frustration seem not so bad... and she can do that with a bad build, so it's a win, win, win. Kokomi, Yelan, Raiden and Fischl will kick the pyro-cubes ass for her later and she will get a bit stronger as a result... it's all good in the end.

 

The game has so much more good than bad and when you compare the 6-weekly updates against things like the latest GTAO 6-monthly update, this game's bad is still far better than some other game's good.

 

Oh... the arrow thing, go into charged shot mode, wait for the three spinning flames to appear and it's those three that will track obscure things. Anyway, enjoy the farming, I am going to throw some resin at the pyro cube.

 

Edit: Note to self... getting carried away is costly! When I have ascended a character my first instinct is to hold RT to use Hero's Wit to take them to next ascension. Just did Yoi's final ascension, held RT, thought "that's a lot of books", hit the confirm button and then realised what I had done. I now have a lvl90 Yoimiya and a gaping hole in the EXP reserves. I know where my resin is going next week.

 

Fair enough!

 

Yeah definetly it is one of the better games for more 'good' than bad and at least as you say we have regular 6 weekly updates to keep us 'fresh' with new content which no other game is doing at the moment at least of my PS4/PS5 games that I play.

 

Will certainly check that out later and see, gonna finish off the last bits of video stuff I am recording first.

 

Well a Level 90 Yoimiya is no bad thing, she will be my second character and first on the FTP to go all the way to Level 90 and at least the Pyro Hypostasis isn't completly annoying with it's attacks as Hydro/Electro shred it's attack phase pretty quickly so then it's just a case of a quick 'mop up' of the second phase.

 

TBH my biggest  excitement at the moment is gonna be the special program next week, I think there's gonna be a few quality of life changes I am gonna like this time but we'll see if the speculation is true next Friday I guess!

[LeeC22]

18 hours ago, Tails Prower said:

TBH my biggest  excitement at the moment is gonna be the special program next week, I think there's gonna be a few quality of life changes I am gonna like this time but we'll see if the speculation is true next Friday I guess!

 

Yeah, it already feels like this is going to be a biggie in many respects, should be good.

Edited August 7, 2022 by LeeC22

[Tails Prower]

Well I finally got Yoimiya on my maiin account 75 pulls again but now that she's here well wishing is done for a very long time.

 

I think this may be the frirst 'new area' where I don't go for any characters and if were looking another 8 updates till the next archon who knows how many wishes I will have buy then, it feels crazy.

 

I am happy I got Yoimiya tho, now I just need to farm her boss drop and finish getting the talent books for a triple crown and then I can just 'save, save, save everything!

[LeeC22]

3 hours ago, Tails Prower said:

Well I finally got Yoimiya on my maiin account 75 pulls again but now that she's here well wishing is done for a very long time.

 

I think this may be the frirst 'new area' where I don't go for any characters and if were looking another 8 updates till the next archon who knows how many wishes I will have buy then, it feels crazy.

 

I am happy I got Yoimiya tho, now I just need to farm her boss drop and finish getting the talent books for a triple crown and then I can just 'save, save, save everything!

 

75 pulls is right on the button, good to know it didn't force you into high-pity territory. I have one Azhdaha fight next week to get her to 7/7/7 and then she is considered done for me.

 

I am glad I decided to pull her on my main account, she has created interest in an account I was getting tired of. I almost feel like I am missing something when I switch to my second account though but I have Kazuha there to bring something different. What she has also done is make Heizou relevant on my main, so she's like a 2 for 1 deal.

 

There are two characters on my list for Sumeru, both have been released by Mhy so I don't think naming htem is a leak thing but I will spoiler them just in case.

Spoiler

Collei and Nilou

 

I don't want the archon and it sounds like many others are going the same way. This might be the area where a lot of people are wish saving for reruns more than the new characters, which is kinda strange. (Edit: that's probably a bit of a leap on my part... that probably won't be the case at all)

 

Still no word on the preview programme so far, hopefully it will be here this week.

Edited August 9, 2022 by LeeC22

[LeeC22]

Slightly unrelated... I installed the latest "Genshin Killer" yesterday out of curiosity as it said the global launch was today. I only did this after their customer support told me how to turn off settings to avoid being forced to play with other people. I created a character yesterday and then today I have just tried to launch the game. Failed login and a character error were the first things I was greeted by and then it got to playing the game... which I can apparently do after waiting for the other 2,900 ahead of me in the server queue to join, play and leave. ETA for that, 24 hours from now. Pretty sure that even if I really wanted to invest time in the game I wouldn't be leaving my device on and sat in a queue for a whole day. If that's the MMO experience, then I am glad I chose a single-player game.

 

Edit: Seems this wait time is grossly exaggerated, maybe I will check again later.

 

Edit: Did try again and it was just a few minutes in the end, second time the queue was only about 90 long so that was quick. I'm not going to talk about that game in here, it was just a casual mention.

 

On a more important note, preview programme is on a Saturday again and just 2 days from now. Plus we have a new event starting tomorrow and it's one I can participate in this time. Hard to believe we're so close to the end of 2.8, it has gone really quick and I think that's partly down to how much there has been to do. It took me close to three weeks to get all the chests on both accounts, so there was plenty of active play-time in there, especially considering how many hours I was playing each day.

Edited August 11, 2022 by LeeC22

[Tails Prower]

Whoops!

 

I've been so busy of late I completely forgot about the topic again!

 

Well Sumeru is here and I give it a 10/10, I've been playing the last two days solid and it's immensenly beautiful as I expected it to be and much more intricate in design than the previous areas as we have new caverns and undergorund areas to explore which I very much like along with the weather effects and so forth.

 

I have completred the main archon story quest already, it was a very sad tale but I won't put anything about there here, suffice to say I could full sympathise with the sub character that forms the basis of Chapter II and I also feel a lot of understanding for Collei (again no spoiilers), I was surprised at how easy it was to obtain her character for free but now of course comes the 'pain' of trying to get artefacts for her!

 

Now that I have progressed a lot with the area I can give a couple bits of info:

 

Reputation Level: You have to complete Chapter II of Act 3 the main Archon story to access reputation level in Sumeru, there are two rewards instantly available of 100 XP but it will be a bit before you get to Level 2, at present it seems onnly exploration and doing the world quest stories will advance this so getting the Level 2 unlock feels like it will take awhile.

Once at Level 2 it should be no problem but getting there might take a while since most only give 20 points per world quest.

Daily Commissions: Again you have to have completed the main archon story quest, after this the next day you login Katheryine will unlock Sumerui Daily Comissions but they only take effect the following day at server reset so my first Sumeru comissions should be tomorrow. I'm gonna post videos of these for the first days so you can all see them.

Expeditions: At present there is no increase in the limit it's still 5/5 so I hope this will change in one of the coming updates as there's lots of good stuff to farm in Sumeru for the new materials!

 

The best thing of the update for me though is the Item Box, it was exceptional happiness for me that I got confirmation of the subject we've been diacussing prior to the special program as you know I've been asking for this for a long time! I had to keep it to myself since the usual disclosure agreements applied.

 

I actually got some good stuff out of saving all my 2.8 artefacts too! So on my FTP I was able to build Noelle, Yanfei and improve my Taveller, Keqing and Hu-Tao builds so now that the new itoem boxes are there I can just try my luck at finishing off some earlier character builds as and when I like it.

 

My main account I got improvements for my Kokomi build, Hu-Tao, Beidou and one other character I forget so now finally I am running around with less build problems against certain enemeis.

 

After the Archon Story I am going to pull for NIlou and Dehya because there stories warmed my heart a little and I really like them in the story but if I don't win them it's not going to be a big deal I will happily wait.

 

So in short things have felt vevry good the last two days and I am sure the desert area will be fantastic when it is added too!

Edited August 25, 2022 by Tails Prower

[LeeC22]

Design of the new area is through the roof impressive and looking at the map it's also huge and this is just the rainforest area. Plenty of new gameplay mechanics at work as well, which is going to make exploration interesting. Some of the new enemies have a few tricks up their sleeves, so I am having rto run with Kokomi in the team again... I don't mind that though as she's good at fueling reactions with Yoimiya and Fischl.

 

As per usual with new areas I am playing through on my main account only so far, with my second staying in the old parts of the map. I was worried that this would prevent me from getting Collei but the RNG Gods were... unexpectedly kind is as much as I will say. On my main with my usual 30 pulls it decided I wanted Diona, Diona and then Diona again but because of how we got Collei that was okay. How we got Collei was the issue I was trying to resolve with my Yoimiya decision. Nilou will be coming to my second account thanks to the wishing escapades and she was the only other character I wanted so that's worked out well enough.

 

I initially got sidetracked with a world quest and then hit a brick wall with a challenge that I can't do (skill issue), so I started the archon quest yeasterday and it took most of today as well to complete some but I think not all of it... not sure yet. I switched off to prevent me from just playing non-stop. If I said the events in that archon quest were unexpected, that would be an understatement of epic proportions. I am sure there will be people who didn't like it all but I am certainly not one of them, it feels like this is an area that has had a lot of attention paid to it, it's all top quality stuff. I will get a better idea if all those extra daily things have unlocked for me when I play tomorrow, I won't be playing it again tonight, I want to slow things down a bit. There's a lot to do in this area so it's going to take a long while to do it all on both accouonts, which is great. Nice to be working with the statues again to unlock stuff as well.

 

QoL wise, it has taken me 2 days to find the "Create Team" option to expand the team count, I had to watch a Youtube video of someone doing it with Mouse & K/B to realise I was missing something on that screen. I play with a controller and just didn't see the prompt at the bottom. My vertigo is going at full tilt today and that isn't helping me conecntrate but I will stupidly play while almost falling off my chair sometimes, so it's my own fault. Strongbox expansion solves nothing for me artifact wise, so I am still stuck with scraping through existing items to make sets for new characters. It means I won't get a Dendro goblet but so be it... I have some okay Wanderer's Troupe stuff so that will do for Collei. Then again, it could all fall apart if the boss for her mats causes me problems... we shall see. But I am not going to let character building ruin my enjoyment of what seems to be a superb update, I can probably carry Collei with 3 other characters so I will use her one way or the other.

 

Edit: Looks like I had completed the archon quest as I had a mission with Katheryne that took me to the guy who deals with bounties and requests but I still have a while to get them unlocked. I don't mind though because I still don't have all the map open and I would rather unlock it at my pace instead of being forced into it by a bounty or request. I did unlock another section today because of another fantastic quest... It's funny really because the only TV I watch is true crime shows and nothing in them ever stirs any emotion in me, no matter how bad the crimes are or who they involve but this game manages to push the sadness button with alarming regularity. The "wholesome" quests are just annoying, so it's good to see that they're not afraid of swinging the pendulum in the opposite direction and that they do such a good job of it when they do.

 

Today was also the first time since I started playing where I have been looking at the map and felt a bit overwhelmed by the scope of the task ahead. I made first steps into Sumeru with my second account, so maybe that contributed to it as well. Luckily the other game I am playing is progress-locked so that keeps that distraction under wraps. And to think this is only a 5-week patch as well.

Edited August 27, 2022 by LeeC22

[LeeC22]

Sumeru makes me wish the game had 3D pins with an above/below indicator on them. I came out of a cave yesterday, got distracted by some stuff and then spent about 30 minutes trying to find the cave again. I have so many occasions where I am in a quest, spot something in a cave and think "I'll come back to that" and the chances of me ever finding it again are minute. I've still not got enough rep for the bounties and requests and my statues are still only at level 2 and a bit,  despite the whole region being visible on the map. I have lost count of the number of times I have gone "Holy sh*t!!" with this map, because it's an endless stream of amazing area after amazing area.

 

I have fought the new bosses once each and that was amusing. Electro-regisvine took an age because it seemed to keep its weak-spot hidden and then after fighting the shroom-bird I discovered that Fischl probably wasn't the best character to take in there. Poor Collei is begging to be levelled but she's still the best option for Dendro puzzles even at low-level.

 

12/10 update so far for sure.

[Tails Prower]

Yes I agree lots of wow factor moments within Sumeru.

 

I too have only really scracthed the surface as lots of real life stuff came up that has distracted me over the past few days but I plan to get back into the game and the area over the weekend.

 

My focus at the moment is I am trying to prepare my FTP account as much as possible for the Ganyu rerun bunner that starts next week as one thing that account is incredibly weak on is Cryo and so when I go into the boss fights I am getting myself beaten up more times than hot dinners but I know that Ganyu will walk the park with those bosses however with it being my FTP account and only 40 wisihes it's a oneshot hope for early pity but if I don't get her I will have to soldier on as best I can, it's so annoying that all the characters I want to improve talents are Azhdaha boss and with no Cryo  that really makes him quite tricky for me at least.

 

Yup you will have completed the quest if bounty guy is unlocked but as you say it will take awhile to start progressing that!

 

I haven't found the new bosses yet but I will do so over the weekend and hopefully I can put together Collei, I know I need to collect a lotta Mushrooms tho and I have found very few of those yet!

[LeeC22]

Amusing seeing people elsewhere complaining about having to run a bow user in Sumeru when I am playing a team of Yoimiya, Kokomi, Fischl and Collei and if I didn't need a healer in there, Yelan would be in as Hydro. It's not a high-damage team but it has its perks when it comes to Dendro reactions. Sucks for mining ores and getting wood mind you.

 

On 9/2/2022 at 11:11 AM, Tails Prower said:

My focus at the moment is I am trying to prepare my FTP account as much as possible for the Ganyu rerun bunner that starts next week as one thing that account is incredibly weak on is Cryo and so when I go into the boss fights I am getting myself beaten up more times than hot dinners but I know that Ganyu will walk the park with those bosses however with it being my FTP account and only 40 wisihes it's a oneshot hope for early pity but if I don't get her I will have to soldier on as best I can, it's so annoying that all the characters I want to improve talents are Azhdaha boss and with no Cryo  that really makes him quite tricky for me at least.

 

If I didn't have Ganyu I wouldn't be going anywhere near Azdaha, she's definitely another of what I call my "comfort characters". Another boss she really helps on is the Geo-Cube, which is just really annoying because of the broken targeting with the auto-lock in certain pillar configurations... she just stands in the middle and takes it down then Noelle finishes the job. And of course Oceanid becomes a whole lot easier with her. Then again my view is skewed because of the low WL I play at but I would imagine your build would be infinitely better so a higher WL wouldn't be a problem.

 

I feel like I have been hammering Sumeru but even though my main account has now done the main 3 quests, there still seems so much to do. I saw a comment yesterday that what we currently have is just 1/3 of Sumeru... that's staggering if that's really true.

 

I am currently contemplating building Mona seeing as the game decided she would be my latest 50/50 loss. I didn't mind too much because she came at 36 pity in a 10-pull alongside Fischl and Collei, although it meant I could only spend 10 wishes on this banner because I don't want Tighnari (or Zhongli) so being guaranteed becomes high-risk. I just don't know if she offers anything Hydro-wise above Kokomi or Yelan... or even Xingqiu for that matter. I don't like her to be honest, either how she looks or her personality, so I think she might just be blue-fate material. Plus with Nilou on the way, I think her starry future is looking bleak. I do find one thing intriguing about her though and that is Astrology because it's something I used to do many years ago but only at a very basic level of creating star-charts and minor interpretations.

 

Back to collecting mushrooms for Collei for me I think, she now needs 60 for ascension... not funny.

 

Edit: Good to see Dori on the next banners as I will be skipping them both, so I am guaranteed to not get her. My worst fear was that she would be on the Nilou banner. .. although I am not sure if Nilou is a 5* saying that. Actually, that's a worrying thought because if she is a 4* then there is no guarantee to get her.

Edited September 8, 2022 by LeeC22

[LeeC22]

Decided to have a go on the weapon banner for a change seeing as both weapons were useful, I mean I already had Amos on my main account but I didn't mind the idea of an R2 version. I picked a different weapon on each account and the game said "You're having Amos Bow" on both accounts, so it looks like I am farming shackles tomorrow on my second account as I don't even have enough for the first ascension.

 

Annoyingly on my main it also said "Have Barbara... twice", so I now have a C7 barbara. It also said "Have Gorou", which whilst being a male character isn't great it is a missing bow element, so that was okay I guess. We really need a female Anemo bow user now so that I can complete the set.

 

I have been really struggling to play today though, I was getting really frustrated because I just can't remember where certain places are that I need to get back to. I think it's in a cave and in Sumeru that's about the worst place anything can be. Severe insomnia problems aren't helping either because frustrated + tired = bad combination. I have been sat playing at 5am because I just can't sleep... crazy really.

 

Edit: Amos on Ganyu makes her the only character on my second account with an ATK of 2,000+ which is quite sad really seeing as they are all level 80 with level 80 weapons. Then again, she's not far off Ganyu on my main account where she's level 87 ish with an R2 level 90 Amos Bow. I also discovered today that Yanfei on my second acc doesn't have a Pyro goblet because her off-set piece is not a goblet and I don't have a WT piece to replace it with.

 

Edit: Aranara quest... I don't think I have ever played a game with such a multi-stranded, ever-evolving questline as big as this. Every time I think I am getting close to the end, up pops another Aranara with a set of tasks to complete. I play the game for hours every day and yet here we are, 2 1/2 weeks after the patch dropped and this quest is still going strong. I haven't even started it on my second account, there's no way I could keep track of it across two accounts. I spent close to two hours last night trying to find an Aranara in a cave. I met it once, it gave me a quest but I have no idea how to get back to where it is to check my progress.

 

I don't want to use a guide but with my inability to remember things and the verticality making pins less useful, I don't know what to do with it. I also found a Dendro-locked rock with no dendrograna even remotely close to it. I had to watch a video last night to give me a hint on how to open a domain. In it was a door I thought was in a completely different part of the map which I had also spent an age trying to find. I tend to use videos to just get me in the right area of the map and then I stop watching... a hint is more valuable than a solution to me.

Edited September 11, 2022 by LeeC22

[Tails Prower]

Yes there has been a lot to take in and do over the past 2 1/2 weeks, it's been a bit overwhelming for me if I am honest because I didn't think we would have such an epic questline as a World Quest.

 

I have a few issues with the Aranara quest in that it was a great story and I love the aranara and of course Rana, she's my favourite NPC to date in the game and I really hope the storylines end means that we get to actually play as her in a future update, I am mostly finished the quest line but there are a few small parts I have left to do and I've only done it on my stream account, I think I will wait a while before i attempt it again on my main.

 

I did not like the lack of direction on that quest and having Paimon say things randomly only once in area's that were important, quests need to have a guide line at all times in my opinion as there was so much how were we supposed to remember small remarks a few days later etc.

 

The events have been fun though and I did enjoy the exploration but as you say finding your way back to things and the height issues etc can be a bit of a problem!

 

Yes the fact we only have a small part of Sumeru is staggering so I can't begin to imagine what it will be like with the desert in 3.1, btw the special program is back on Friday at 4pm for UK time so that's tomorrow 16/09 just for your info in case you weren't aware.

 

Tomorrow I am going to try my luck on my FTP account for Ganyu, it's a 50/50 but for once I hope I loose it as that way it will give me the guarantee for 'Nilou' whom I really want, I have got Dori on both accounts so I am quite happy with that but I have no plans to build her at this stage, if you do decide to pursue building Mona my suggestion is try to go for the following Sands ATK, Hydro Damage Goblet and Crit Rate Circlet, the reason for that is that if you put ER on her and she has Hydro goblet she'll loose ATK damage due to the ER effect of her passives.

 

If you don't have a Hydro goblet you can use Energy Recharge on her then by all means go ER for the sands. Mine is put together with a bad Nobilese Obilege set but the ER from the pieces sort of make her work but as you say she will likely be redudant when Nilou comes along, btw her stats should all be HP for Sands, Goblet and Circlet, I'm gonna run her with Wanderer's Troupe because I can't be bothered farming Heart of Depth or Tenacity.

 

I will at some stage but make do with what I have for now!

Edited September 15, 2022 by Tails Prower

[Tails Prower]

Well it's the end of the weekend and I can finally breath a  WOO-HOO!

 

I finished the Aranara story book so I think  I have all of the achievements from that but that was on another level in terms of the work needed but it is finally done!

 

The gacha of course decided my 'fate' and I won my 50/50 so now my FTP account has it's Ganyu which I am  overjoyed about but it's also an ERK in that I don't have anything prepared for her so she will have to sit on Level 1 for a bit, I have a Wanderer's Troup set for her but I'll need to hope for a random Cryo goblet as I am lacking in those as I only have 1 for QiQi.

 

The biggest grind though has been my weapons, since I had a lot of them on very low levels ony my FTP account so I've been grinding the weapon domains/ore spots and the talent book domains a lot to get everyone actually built to a more acceptable level but this weekend sees me finally achieve my desired goals for this year which was to have my FTP account at the same amount of characters as my main (19 characters built)

 

So as of today I now have the following characters fully built to 80/80 Level, Weapons at 90/90 and Talent Level 8 on all three talents:

 

Amber, Barbara, Beidou, Eula, Fischl, Hu-Tao, Jean, Kaeya, Keqing, Mona, Noelle, Qiqi, Sayu, Traveler, Xiangling, Xinyan, Yelan and Yoimiya

 

Ganyu is the 19th but I have to go run her boss and talent domain tomorrow and Tuesday to build her up but after this that will be it until Nilou on the farming so I wil be able to slow things down a bit and just develop characters as and when.

 

Special mention for the 3.1 Special Program that is defo the best one they have done yet and lots to look forward to in the desert and I really like the fact we are getting the card game in Version 3.3, I suspect I will spend a lot of time playing that!

 

Edited September 18, 2022 by Tails Prower

[LeeC22]

I am still fighting with the Aranara quest on both accounts and it's still unfinished on both. I had another section pop up today out of nowhere that tied up one section in the Aranyaka book. I kinda liked how it all worked to be honest, once you were on a quest then it did have a guideline but once you had the main quests out of the way, it relied on the book to lead you into certain areas where you would pick things up through exploration. It's been very different to what we have been used to but it seemed to represent what the Aranara were a lot better.

 

I hit lucky with Mona as it turned out because I had a full HoD set on Xingqiu so she has stolen them. They're a bit unbalanced stat wise but they'll do, the goblet is Hydro so that's 93% of useful hydro damage she's dishing out. The circlet is EM which isn't ideal I guess but in the team with Yanfei, Yae and Collei she's doing okay. Got the final books today to get her talents to 6/6/6 so she's at the standard build level for my characters. The problem is going to arrive when the next characters turn up because Candace has put herself on the wanted list along with Nilou but they're both Hydro as well. The biggest problem with Candace though is she's a 4* on banners where I really don't want the 5* and I am on guarantee. I'm only on 6 pity but that's still not safe with this game.

 

Just spotted your second post while I was writing this... good news on the Ganyu front. Her and Yoimiya actually got me an achievement today that I thought I would never get and that's "Beat Azhdaha without ever gaining a shield". That was on my main account as well, so I was pleasantly surprised by that one. I normally have to rely on Kokomi and Noelle to get me through but they didn't get used.

 

The 3.1 SP was immense... everything looked outstanding again although I am concerned by the new boss, it looks pretty evil. It looks like it's going to be a puzzle-heavy area as well, so that's going to be good. And it's only just over a week away. Not sure on the card game front because I'm not a card game player. I'll just have to see how it pans out but it's pretty neat that they're adding a complete game inside an already impressive game.

 

One last thing... the Dusk Bird... what a superbly animated animal that is. I love the little hops it does to face the player and then the ambient anims while it is sat watching the player. So many small details in such a small creature are things my animator-head really appreciates. They (MiHoyo) are very good at the subtleties of movement and that's something I really like to see. The Nova character they designed for the Nova Desktop is a masterpiece of that philosophy, the animations are exquisite.

 

Edit: Finally got Heizou to Friendship 10 on my main account so I can eject him from the team. I don't care about Friendship levels but I do use it to get me to play a character for a prolonged period of time, just to make sure I give a character a chance. I never took him above level 70 because he just didn't feel worth the extra investment. His playstyle was interesting but I didn't like him as a character design-wise. But him leaving now opens up my main team to be my ultimate team of bow users. Yoimiya and Collei are in there alongside any two from Yelan, Fischl and Ganyu. I might build a catalyst team on my second account to see how that works out, probably Yanfei, Kokomi, Yae and Sucrose... could be interesting. Still not worked out what to do with Gorou, Geo is such an odd element to work with.

 

Edit: Sent an email to support today to ask them to add some options for camera targeting because I lost my rag with the game today. I was doing a leyline, just cleared the first wave and I had positioned myself (using Collei) so that the next wave would be directly ahead. I fired off her skill when they spawned and she fired it 90 degrees to the right... there was no enemy there. In Stormbearer Mountains there's a small lake with a Mist Flower in the centre and about 10 feet away is a hilichurl sat on the ground facing away, so he doesn't aggro easily. I stood right next to the mist flower with Yanfei, the hilichurl was off-screen 90 degrees to the left. I fired her burst and she hit the hilichurl. Parts of Sumeru are an absolute nightmare with Yanfei because you just have no control over what she is aiming at. I think this is why I use bow users so much, because their charged shots go where you aim them.

Edited September 20, 2022 by LeeC22

[Tails Prower]

Very good with regard to Mona and thank you with regard to Ganyu, very happy that worked out.
 

My main account went to 68/70 pity soI am now going to save that account until Nilou comes along, it's a 50/50 wildcard but if it tunrs out I loose the 50/50 I should have enough Primogems left over to draw her with the guarantee but that's 22 days or so away yet so a little bit of time.

 

I would like to suggest a bit of a 'gamble' when it comes to Candace and skip the first banner entirely because she's 4 star she will be added to the standard wish banner so I am just going to skip entirely  and wait for her to eventually pop on the standard banner, it usuaully comes pretty quickly! It;s all up to you though, me I think I can skip her because the only  thing that really got my attention for her was the shield defence but otherwise nothing special stood out in her preview.

 

Yes as you say the Dusk Bird has some lovely animations as do so many things in the game.

 

Yeah more targeting options would  be good when it comes to character like Collei/Yanfei etc as they dos sometimes hit things they are not supposed to or aim completely off where you wanna hit!

 

After I finish the materials gather for Ganyu on Friday I am probably gonna havve a couple of chill days away from the game and not look until the 3.1 update drops on Wednesday, I have a few other games on the go just now and am close to finishing one of them Touhou Project Lotus Labyrinth R so I might play that and then enjoy the new update!

[Meekail]

There's a Genshin thread on here? I'm barely active on the forums these days and recently came back for the GTA 6 leak but I've been playing Genshin since last October so it's cool to see a discussion thread about it.

 

Right now I'm saving all of my primos for Nahida whenever she comes around but I'll prooooobably try to get Candace within 30 pulls

[Tails Prower]

On 9/24/2022 at 8:59 AM, Meekail said:

There's a Genshin thread on here? I'm barely active on the forums these days and recently came back for the GTA 6 leak but I've been playing Genshin since last October so it's cool to see a discussion thread about it.

 

Right now I'm saving all of my primos for Nahida whenever she comes around but I'll prooooobably try to get Candace within 30 pulls

 

Yes, I decided to make a thread because it's the game that replaced GTA Online for me, we don't have a lot of members taking part but new faces always welcome!

 

I too will be trying to get Nahida when she comes which will be in Version 3.2 so not too long away as she was announced on Monday. I have a tricky challenge there though because I have 50/50 chance and if I loose on the Nilou banner I'll defo get her but if not I will have to be patient for a rerun.

 

The new update is pretty amazing for the desert but I've only just got there, I'm still busy finishing the Aranara quest as I want to get that done and out of the way before I continue the main story and explore the new area but it all looks great from the wandering round I did, exactly as a desert should look in my opinion!

[LeeC22]

This update us just fan-tas-tic. Beyond the epic scale of things I just find myself marveling at the attention to detail with texture work, lighting and environmental effects. Their appreciation of the differernt properties of different materials is astonishing, their art and desgin teams are such a talented group of people. If anyone was in any doubt about what the Unity engine is capable of, this game is excelling at showcasing its capabilities. I saw a Re**it post about someone saying Genshin should use the Unreal Engine to make it look better. The "other" game (that I am still playing for some reason) uses Unreal and proves that talent > engine. I think whilst this game is by definition a gacha game, the dev team has to be classed as AAA quality in my opinion. I still don't know how they manage to hit the deadlines without fail every single patch update. I mean they're apparently spending a fortune on development costs but according to a post I saw yesterday, they're at $3.7bn earnings in just 2 years and I don't even think that includes all platforms. They are clearly driven to make this game into something special and based on the 3.x updates, they are succeeding at that and getting well deserved returns for their efforts.

 

Hydro is really pushing my second account resources to the brink now. First Mona who is still active in my farming team, Candace can't even get a spot in the team because I haven't started the desert on my second account yet so can't get her boss mats and Nilou will be next as I have guarantee. My main just got Venti (long story I won't bore people with) which means I have a full set of archers, one for each element. I don't like Venti but I do like having my archer set complete... and who knows, if I ever start farming artifacts again he might prove useful in some domains. Nahida = small character = easy skip. Layla on the other hand... is probably not going to be skipped unless she is a 4* and the game decides to be a PITA on that banner.

 

Still haven't found all the Aranara on either account and annoyingly, it seems I have missed an oculus in the forest on my main account. Do I start the hunt before I use too many pins in the desert I ask myself.... decisions, decisions.

 

Funny thing I read that highlights how differently people play this game. Someone was complaining that we need more stamina because (and I quote) "the desert is boring to cross"... Then there's me who gets a waypoint 800m away and never uses sprint at all and is frequently in walking mode because it all just looks so stunning. I recently binge-played/completed Submerged and that was quite nice to wander around in as well. But this game makes me just want to stop and look all the time, the last game I played that made me want to do that was the very first Assassin's Creed when it came out... and No Man's Sky saying that, I played that on a 92 inch HD projector and that was just amazing.