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On 2022-01-03 at 7:37 PM, Goat-kun said:

That's why I went EM/HP Hu. She needs no crit, atk, low HP, or Homa to do damage, she's chunky enough that she doesn't get one shot, and fast enough she can follow up after overload knockback. Some might say Yanfei or Yoimiya would be better for an overload team but they are too vulnerable unless you have the Zhong. Abyss is slowly becoming Path of Exile from a F2P perspective. You're always one random off-screen attack or undodgeable aoe away from dying. It's how the whole market works. I've manage to cheese the three puppets with Noelle using a Sacrificial Greatsword that resets her CD, along with Ningguang and Keqing spamming busts whenever there's an aoe attack. It does the job but I ain't gonna 2-star that floor any time soon. The timer is too damn short given how meaty the enemies have become. And nobody is actually satisfied with the Abyss. The fat whales can pop out Bennet, rotate their bursts and everything dies, while everyone else is sweating their balls off in floor 12. That's why there should be some alternate insane E-peen challenge for character skins and prestige. Let the casual investors be Mihoyo.

Atk for her isn't really needed indeed, as she has very low base atk anyway. It all comes from HP and thankfully I managed to get the staff of homa, which alone bumped her atk by 600+ comparing to previous f2p weapon she had. I still can't get the timepiece with hp% for some reason, and that would synergy with weapon even better, so I think I'll disagree on "she doesn't need homa" part, as that weapon alone makes a huge difference.

Every single point of damage counts, so not relying on low hp is acceptable in overworld, but not in the abyss and some events with tanky enemies, where time is precious.

I don't have c on her yet, so i kinda can't spam her charged attack that fast, which is really underwhelming.

 

Yeah, it kinda is like this. PoE in a nutshell, at one moment you are shielded and have full hp, the next moment you're dead and you might even not notice what killed you.

I always put Zhong on maguu kenki boys, and with little care it is doable, otherwise it's plain circus, unless you indeed setup a party that can spam bursts often. This time I got 6 stars on f12 and I don't think I'll ever get all of them there, because it's true, the time limit is ridiculous. On easy floors you have 5 minutes, and on f12 they only give you three, while also putting the dumbest possible enemies that do nothing but run around to waste your time (these spectres, wolves and other crap). F12 isn't actually hard, it's just plain dumb by design.

 

On 2022-01-03 at 7:37 PM, Goat-kun said:

They should. Shielding is like flying a plane in ww1. You get a couple of levers and your gut as a measuring tool. I know my gals enough that I'm able to assess which attack will pop their shield so that I can switch to a tank before it happens ... most of the time.

I'm also somewhat trying to measure it myself, but in the end it's still extremely vague. It's as crappy as if there were no hp bars at all. Zhongli's shield can sustain more damage than some of the characters at full HP (esp squishy Klee), so sometimes I'd rather have a shield bar than hp bar.

On 2022-01-03 at 7:37 PM, Goat-kun said:

Yeah, Genshin by itself is definitely not a Co-Op game, and the system itself isn't even built to accommodate such interactions. Servers should have a neutral "dev teapot" market where players could interact, place requests on a board, or exchange non-gacha overworld resources in their inventories. The system now is just some random names popping join requests.

All coop in this game is some random dudes wanting to join just to steal your world's resources and leave. And mhy even embrace that by literally making achievements for that. I I'll leave that without further comments...

But yeah, something like this would be cool.

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On 2022-01-12 at 9:29 PM, Rikifive said:

Atk for her isn't really needed indeed, as she has very low base atk anyway. It all comes from HP and thankfully I managed to get the staff of homa, which alone bumped her atk by 600+ comparing to previous f2p weapon she had. I still can't get the timepiece with hp% for some reason, and that would synergy with weapon even better, so I think I'll disagree on "she doesn't need homa" part, as that weapon alone makes a huge difference.

Every single point of damage counts, so not relying on low hp is acceptable in overworld, but not in the abyss and some events with tanky enemies, where time is precious.

I don't have c on her yet, so i kinda can't spam her charged attack that fast, which is really underwhelming.

She'd be better with Homa and a vape/melt comp, but EM is as far as F2P can take it with the weapons at our disposal. Besides, Hu was not the best in that Abyss due to the hounds. I gitted gud and went from 29 to 32 stars (2-2-1 in 12 floor) with Barbara as Poor Man's Kokomi.

On 2022-01-12 at 9:29 PM, Rikifive said:

 

Yeah, it kinda is like this. PoE in a nutshell, at one moment you are shielded and have full hp, the next moment you're dead and you might even not notice what killed you.

I always put Zhong on maguu kenki boys, and with little care it is doable, otherwise it's plain circus, unless you indeed setup a party that can spam bursts often. This time I got 6 stars on f12 and I don't think I'll ever get all of them there, because it's true, the time limit is ridiculous. On easy floors you have 5 minutes, and on f12 they only give you three, while also putting the dumbest possible enemies that do nothing but run around to waste your time (these spectres, wolves and other crap). F12 isn't actually hard, it's just plain dumb by design.

All that said, the new Abyss is literally cancer. Thunder Manifestation is too fast and has too many invulnerability instances. The hounds were bad, but that thing is an F U to the entire section of the community that does not have a whale account.

On 2022-01-12 at 9:29 PM, Rikifive said:

 

I'm also somewhat trying to measure it myself, but in the end it's still extremely vague. It's as crappy as if there were no hp bars at all. Zhongli's shield can sustain more damage than some of the characters at full HP (esp squishy Klee), so sometimes I'd rather have a shield bar than hp bar.

All coop in this game is some random dudes wanting to join just to steal your world's resources and leave. And mhy even embrace that by literally making achievements for that. I I'll leave that without further comments...

But yeah, something like this would be cool.

And there they go with primogem rewards for hide and seek. I did say that they should bring it back, but not as a limited event with valuable rewards linked to it. That sucks.

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3 hours ago, Goat-kun said:

She'd be better with Homa and a vape/melt comp, but EM is as far as F2P can take it with the weapons at our disposal. Besides, Hu was not the best in that Abyss due to the hounds. I gitted gud and went from 29 to 32 stars (2-2-1 in 12 floor) with Barbara as Poor Man's Kokomi.

And that's what I'm aiming for, doing a classic, which is pairing her mainly with Xingqiu (a name I always have to google first to get it written right lmao). Trying to stack HP/EM/Crits as much as I can.

True, that was an inconvenience, but they don't stack it that hard, so it was manageable. I still picked her and as far as healing went, there was only Diona with her, but she was able to heal herself with bursts, while everyone else were the ones stuck at low HP. 

The potion event's last floor though... This debuff stacked like crazy and you didn't even have to get hit and it was unbearable. This is the definition of fun for MHY I guess. Thankfully they removed this disorder from the abyss, because holy balls.

 

3 hours ago, Goat-kun said:

All that said, the new Abyss is literally cancer. Thunder Manifestation is too fast and has too many invulnerability instances. The hounds were bad, but that thing is an F U to the entire section of the community that does not have a whale account.

It always has been. I haven't touched the new abyss yet, but ... I suspected this cancer will get even worse, so why doesn't that surprise me...  I hope they didn't throw that boss to F12, did they? Either way yeah, speaking of the dumbest possible choices for enemies in the abyss...

- Flying all over the place to waste as much time as possible? Check!

- Dodging bursts because their animation takes forever? Check!

- Immunity during unnecessary transformations / phase changes while the timer is still counting? CHECK!

 

3 hours ago, Goat-kun said:

And there they go with primogem rewards for hide and seek. I did say that they should bring it back, but not as a limited event with valuable rewards linked to it. That sucks.

That sucks indeed. This prop hunt actually offers an enjoyable multiplayer experience, unlike literally everything else in this game, and they are going to remove it. When they manage to add something enjoyable for ONCE, they call it an event and remove it. Every other garbage no one likes? Keep it and make it worse with each update, that's how MHY works.

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On 2022-01-12 at 12:38 PM, Goat-kun said:

So ... Enkanomiya. As a deep sea connoisseur, I'm not that impressed with its design. Way too terrestrial. Plants in darkness is one of my biggest pet peewees. Give me giant shrooms, tube worms, clams and octocorals feeding on elemental energies, sinister things swimming in the mist. We should have felt like being deep under water in the forgotten eldritch depths. The whole Greek underworld theme felt as an afterthought, though the implied parallel with the mythological eras of man were nice and will probably become an increasingly important factor in the story. And if Enkanomiya and Khaenri'ah represent the Silver age of man, then the "Kingdom in Heaven" represents the Golden age. It is implied that one of the shades in Enkanomiya recognized the Traveler's attire as they stated that they haven't seen it in a long time. That gives credence to the theory that Aether and Lumine come from that place in heaven and that their memories as travelers have some big holes. Gods themselves could also be aliens as there seems to be an age before their arrival. There is a reference to a battle with the primordial dragon gods before the fall of heaven, so the gods that turned everything to shit could have came as the second wave.  And last but not least, Abyss Lector warned us about Paimon, and she cannot be read by a fortune teller same as Venti.

I finally got down the whole world quest- man did not expect it to take forever. I agree the creatures there was a huge disappointment. Sure Enkan is shared with the abyss so we f course we would be getting the same enemies.  But I was hoping for more sea monsters instead of the one we fought as the new boss battle. I do have a hunch that these “gods”, are more of a universal being than some supernatural being. Since this place does give out a “alien” vibe with some advance techs. I do wonder what lector means about Paimon when he said that she might betray the traveler. I have a funny thought that what if she was celestria all this time. 
 

the place overall I do like though. I like how it’s have a undersea on theme with some old European touch to it. The place honestly does make me sick a bit but I overall like it. 
 

This area does give me bit of either dark soul or blood borne vibe. I forgot what place it was but this is closest comparison I can get 

i love the tower though!

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On 2022-01-18 at 1:30 AM, TBD said:

I finally got down the whole world quest- man did not expect it to take forever. I agree the creatures there was a huge disappointment. Sure Enkan is shared with the abyss so we f course we would be getting the same enemies.  But I was hoping for more sea monsters instead of the one we fought as the new boss battle. I do have a hunch that these “gods”, are more of a universal being than some supernatural being. Since this place does give out a “alien” vibe with some advance techs. I do wonder what lector means about Paimon when he said that she might betray the traveler. I have a funny thought that what if she was celestria all this time.

the place overall I do like though. I like how it’s have a undersea on theme with some old European touch to it. The place honestly does make me sick a bit but I overall like it. 
 

This area does give me bit of either dark soul or blood borne vibe. I forgot what place it was but this is closest comparison I can get 

i love the tower though!

 

The tower is K. I still think that we'll get another weekly boss in Inazuma that will be located in Enkanomiya. It would be fun if Traveler would come face to face with a dead god whose spirit endured in darkness. Those things are probably not tied by oaths and principles, but by hatred of those who banished them. Though there are some leaks that say Raiden will be the second boss. Meh, unless the price of victory is the truth about the past. She may be a dumbass, but she does tend to put her personal principles before the heavenly ones. If any god besides Tsaritsa would spill the beans, it would be her.

 

I do believe that a scholarly member of the Abyss would recognize the symbols of their oldest enemy. Perhaps Celestia the place also has Celestia the goddess. Inb4 Paimon becomes a 5 star.

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On 2022-01-17 at 12:58 AM, Rikifive said:

And that's what I'm aiming for, doing a classic, which is pairing her mainly with Xingqiu (a name I always have to google first to get it written right lmao). Trying to stack HP/EM/Crits as much as I can.

True, that was an inconvenience, but they don't stack it that hard, so it was manageable. I still picked her and as far as healing went, there was only Diona with her, but she was able to heal herself with bursts, while everyone else were the ones stuck at low HP. 

The potion event's last floor though... This debuff stacked like crazy and you didn't even have to get hit and it was unbearable. This is the definition of fun for MHY I guess. Thankfully they removed this disorder from the abyss, because holy balls.

Healing is not that much of an issue than the stalling movements. You need a ranged character for large hounds in order to kill them in time since they woosh all over the place.

On 2022-01-17 at 12:58 AM, Rikifive said:

It always has been. I haven't touched the new abyss yet, but ... I suspected this cancer will get even worse, so why doesn't that surprise me...  I hope they didn't throw that boss to F12, did they? Either way yeah, speaking of the dumbest possible choices for enemies in the abyss...

- Flying all over the place to waste as much time as possible? Check!

- Dodging bursts because their animation takes forever? Check!

- Immunity during unnecessary transformations / phase changes while the timer is still counting? CHECK!

 

That sucks indeed. This prop hunt actually offers an enjoyable multiplayer experience, unlike literally everything else in this game, and they are going to remove it. When they manage to add something enjoyable for ONCE, they call it an event and remove it. Every other garbage no one likes? Keep it and make it worse with each update, that's how MHY works.

Thunder Manifestation aside, floor 12 now has Perpetual Array, two Heralds, and Kenki. They went all in with the cancer. I had to use Raiden International. I suppose this is good game design from their perspective. The company wants frustrated players so that they pay money and do big damage numbers just like Twitch streamers.

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2 hours ago, Goat-kun said:

Healing is not that much of an issue than the stalling movements. You need a ranged character for large hounds in order to kill them in time since they woosh all over the place.

Yeah, the time is always the issue, not that the enemies are too hard or anything.

2 hours ago, Goat-kun said:

Thunder Manifestation aside, floor 12 now has Perpetual Array, two Heralds, and Kenki. They went all in with the cancer. I had to use Raiden International. I suppose this is good game design from their perspective. The company wants frustrated players so that they pay money and do big damage numbers just like Twitch streamers.

Woo, they moved them back to F12? Wonderful, I cannot wait to enjoy this majestic content. If I had to be honest, this is what makes me NOT want to support this game. I'd buy few things, but I always come to conclusion, that I don't need anything, because I hardly enjoy the game anyway. All there is is extremely repetitive and unsatisfying grinding covered in obnoxious challenges. I come and exit after 5 minutes and if there's anything more than that, it's always some barely rewarding repetitive garbage going on, so why would I invest money into something like this. Paying thousands of dollars in hopes to finally be able to get few more primos worth very little from the abyss? That's literally the only benefit. Obviously it's designed for content creators, streamers and their simps, who can flex in social media, because if one plays for just themselves - for real gameplay part of the game, one can nicely go through the storyline without paying a single cent. 

What is really frustrating in all of this is the great potential, that is being wasted so hard. This easily could be a truly epic game, but MHY deliberately wants to keep it as garbage. And those cringy streamers give MHY no reason to change that on top of that... Why MHY should care if it just stonks as it is...

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22 hours ago, Goat-kun said:

The tower is K. I still think that we'll get another weekly boss in Inazuma that will be located in Enkanomiya. It would be fun if Traveler would come face to face with a dead god whose spirit endured in darkness. Those things are probably not tied by oaths and principles, but by hatred of those who banished them. Though there are some leaks that say Raiden will be the second boss. Meh, unless the price of victory is the truth about the past. She may be a dumbass, but she does tend to put her personal principles before the heavenly ones. If any god besides Tsaritsa would spill the beans, it would be her.

 

I would assumed we might get one weekly boss in Enkanomiya, most likely another Harbinger. Also Dain is going to make an return in the next archon quest. Speaking of Harbinger, Scaramouche- I did saw a leak of the new weekly boss which is Raidan. But I do not believe it's Raidan herself. If you saw her second stage she have puppets arms. It's most likely a puppet that we're going against not Raidan. Now it may sound stupid already, like how on earth did Raidan failed to keep her own puppet on a leash, well maybe it's Scaramouche? My guess is we're going against a puppet that is being controlled by Scaramouche himself. Also there's going to be 6 (freakin) phases with a total of 1M HP. The game didn't reveled us all 6 phases, but I assumed the last phase, Scaramouche might reveled himself as a puppet master. I could be wrong and skeptical about this since it may be too soon for another Harbinger weekly boss(?). Overall, I can tell the new weekly boss is gonna be a huge pain in a ass. Because you have to be quick to clear a stage, otherwise if you failed, you gonna have to start all over.

 

22 hours ago, Goat-kun said:

I do believe that a scholarly member of the Abyss would recognize the symbols of their oldest enemy. Perhaps Celestia the place also has Celestia the goddess. Inb4 Paimon becomes a 5 star.

Playable paimon, pffft that would be the day.

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19 hours ago, Rikifive said:

Woo, they moved them back to F12? Wonderful, I cannot wait to enjoy this majestic content. If I had to be honest, this is what makes me NOT want to support this game. I'd buy few things, but I always come to conclusion, that I don't need anything, because I hardly enjoy the game anyway. All there is is extremely repetitive and unsatisfying grinding covered in obnoxious challenges. I come and exit after 5 minutes and if there's anything more than that, it's always some barely rewarding repetitive garbage going on, so why would I invest money into something like this. Paying thousands of dollars in hopes to finally be able to get few more primos worth very little from the abyss? That's literally the only benefit. Obviously it's designed for content creators, streamers and their simps, who can flex in social media, because if one plays for just themselves - for real gameplay part of the game, one can nicely go through the storyline without paying a single cent. 

 

perfect time to use this

Honestly I only play for the primogems and sometime for the story depending on my interests. After they killed off SIgnora, who happen to be my favorite character and whom I have been saving primogems for, my motive in playing the game constantly dies down. I'm waiting on Yae banner though, since I'm planning to pull for her, so that's something for me to look forward too finally.

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5 hours ago, TBD said:

perfect time to use this

Honestly I only play for the primogems and sometime for the story depending on my interests. After they killed off SIgnora, who happen to be my favorite character and whom I have been saving primogems for, my motive in playing the game constantly dies down. I'm waiting on Yae banner though, since I'm planning to pull for her, so that's something for me to look forward too finally.

Yeah, it is like this. 

It's hard to play for something else there, as there's pretty much no end-game content after the story is done.  Besides that storyline, it's indeed about collecting favorite characters, so I get what you mean.

I'm waiting for Ganyu at the moment. Not 100% sure yet, but I may want to pull for Yae as well, only if RNG archon will be merciful and spares my primos on Ganyu banner.

I've been saving for a while, I hope this will be enough 

I'll also have to face 50/50 first... 

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18 hours ago, Rikifive said:

Yeah, it is like this. 

It's hard to play for something else there, as there's pretty much no end-game content after the story is done.  Besides that storyline, it's indeed about collecting favorite characters, so I get what you mean.

I'm waiting for Ganyu at the moment. Not 100% sure yet, but I may want to pull for Yae as well, only if RNG archon will be merciful and spares my primos on Ganyu banner.

I've been saving for a while, I hope this will be enough 

I'll also have to face 50/50 first... 

yeah I guess the event keep us busy and occupied for the moment-except for the past recent event is such a drag- like the potions- I couldn’t even complete it! And the hide and seek one. What gives them the idea to bring that back? In my opinion it’s so boring. But I think we’re getting a new (mini archon) quest on part two for 2.4. I’m looking forward getting to know the new fatui harbinger! However I do think them getting the story are bit slow and it can make a person lose interest- even so, their story build up always leads to more questions and not getting to the main point, if you know what I mean.

Nevertheless, I hope you are able to get Ganyu on your 50/50! How many more pull before you hit your 50:50 pity? You might have enough and plus you can always earn more during the lantern festival 

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6 hours ago, TBD said:

yeah I guess the event keep us busy and occupied for the moment-except for the past recent event is such a drag- like the potions- I couldn’t even complete it! And the hide and seek one. What gives them the idea to bring that back? In my opinion it’s so boring. But I think we’re getting a new (mini archon) quest on part two for 2.4. I’m looking forward getting to know the new fatui harbinger! However I do think them getting the story are bit slow and it can make a person lose interest- even so, their story build up always leads to more questions and not getting to the main point, if you know what I mean.

Nevertheless, I hope you are able to get Ganyu on your 50/50! How many more pull before you hit your 50:50 pity? You might have enough and plus you can always earn more during the lantern festival 

Yeah, it's always that something, although it's hardly anything original most of the time. Majority of events are pretty much boring abyss clones and they started recycling these lately. I did complete the potion event without any troubles, buuuuut I can't say I found it to be entertaining, because at the end of the day, it's just an abyss clone with equally terrible challenges with basic rewards.

The hide and seek one, I actually really like. It's my most favorite event by far (gameplay-wise). I generally like Prop Hunt, so having it here is very nice, although in my opinion they should just permanently include it as a feature/gamemode, with weekly rewards perhaps, not as an event. I used to play Prop Hunt in Garry's mod with my siblings for a while, but now there's that problem my sisters are PS players, while me and my brother prefer and have PC only. Having Prop Hunt in Genshin that supports cross-platform is a great deal in my opinion (I don't know any good prop hunt games that would have this atm) and they totally should keep it and advertise the game with it, I'm sure it could attract more players. This is, by far, literally the ONLY thing, that makes an actual use of multiplayer feature. Personally I'm having fun with it, but I can see why it can be boring to some.  

Yeah, the main storyline is a Kingdom-Hearts-grade mess I refuse to follow. I absolutely love all the quests that focus on specific characters and/or places whatsoever, but the "finding sibling" and those abyss boys.. I already lost interest. I'm so confused, that I don't even dig into this. I love worldbuilding and events happening there, but really dislike the "main" plot. For me it started going downhill when the MC was asked about the past and you had to click something like "I remember..." --- but I actually didn't know what the hay they were talking about and there weren't any flashbacks shown to introduce me to something I'm supposed to remember.  Literally MC you control knows something you have no idea about and they make you say something you can't agree with. It was on the quest with Dainsleif iirc. I wonder, because the storyline goes sooooooooooooooo slow, maybe I just forgot or missed something.. Well in general they talk a LOT about things I have no idea about, it's a little bit irritating. Everything is kept as a mystery, that isn't even interesting and I already got bored of that. The very beginning itself is extremely vague - traveling through different worlds? randomly bumping into a lady (that just happened to be waiting ages in that exact spot or????) that turns everything to poop? Kinda a wonky base to start with tbh. I legit don't care about finding the sibling anymore lol, I prefer interaction with the world of teyvat itself.

Thanks  My pity is at 18, so the worst outcome would be spending everything just to get Ganyu.  But the upcoming events will leave me some spare wishes even if that happens, but there will be that 50/50 again, so I don't feel safe about that  , not with my epic luck. 

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I just did the abyss. It wasn't as bad as I thought it's going to be. I still got 9-9-9-6 (F12: 2* - 2* - 2*), so I guess it's pretty much equally bad as it was, as at least my performance didn't drop.

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Heh I started playing this game back in the fall and really enjoyed it, only recently got back into it over my winter break and have been trying to catch up on more stuff. Am annoyed I missed Albedo but Itto makes up for it 

I’m saving for Ganyu! Haven’t really touched the abyss. I mainly just care about exploration and the side quests. And the teapot, heck yeah.

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On 2022-01-20 at 12:31 AM, Rikifive said:

Yeah, the time is always the issue, not that the enemies are too hard or anything.

Woo, they moved them back to F12? Wonderful, I cannot wait to enjoy this majestic content. If I had to be honest, this is what makes me NOT want to support this game. I'd buy few things, but I always come to conclusion, that I don't need anything, because I hardly enjoy the game anyway. All there is is extremely repetitive and unsatisfying grinding covered in obnoxious challenges. I come and exit after 5 minutes and if there's anything more than that, it's always some barely rewarding repetitive garbage going on, so why would I invest money into something like this. Paying thousands of dollars in hopes to finally be able to get few more primos worth very little from the abyss? That's literally the only benefit. Obviously it's designed for content creators, streamers and their simps, who can flex in social media, because if one plays for just themselves - for real gameplay part of the game, one can nicely go through the storyline without paying a single cent. 

What is really frustrating in all of this is the great potential, that is being wasted so hard. This easily could be a truly epic game, but MHY deliberately wants to keep it as garbage. And those cringy streamers give MHY no reason to change that on top of that... Why MHY should care if it just stonks as it is...

Things may get a little better once the game simmers down, but for now this is it. All in all, F2P or low investment is the best option. I might be having trouble with cancer enemies but whales are the ones who have thrown insane amounts of cash into the game just to win everything by clicking Q three times in a row. They have nothing to do in a game they invested so much into. That's sad, no copium. That's why I'd like to see some insane endgame option for cosmetic rewards.

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22 hours ago, Rikifive said:

I just did the abyss. It wasn't as bad as I thought it's going to be. I still got 9-9-9-6 (F12: 2* - 2* - 2*), so I guess it's pretty much equally bad as it was, as at least my performance didn't drop.

Mine did fall back to 30 stars that is my average. Will have to git gud again but I kinda don't wanna right now. I spent many days scouring through code of some failed RTS game in order to figure out how to make it better, so I'll have to "speedrun" the hide & seek event first  

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On 2022-01-22 at 3:17 AM, Rikifive said:

Yeah, it's always that something, although it's hardly anything original most of the time. Majority of events are pretty much boring abyss clones and they started recycling these lately. I did complete the potion event without any troubles, buuuuut I can't say I found it to be entertaining, because at the end of the day, it's just an abyss clone with equally terrible challenges with basic rewards.

The hide and seek one, I actually really like. It's my most favorite event by far (gameplay-wise). I generally like Prop Hunt, so having it here is very nice, although in my opinion they should just permanently include it as a feature/gamemode, with weekly rewards perhaps, not as an event. I used to play Prop Hunt in Garry's mod with my siblings for a while, but now there's that problem my sisters are PS players, while me and my brother prefer and have PC only. Having Prop Hunt in Genshin that supports cross-platform is a great deal in my opinion (I don't know any good prop hunt games that would have this atm) and they totally should keep it and advertise the game with it, I'm sure it could attract more players. This is, by far, literally the ONLY thing, that makes an actual use of multiplayer feature. Personally I'm having fun with it, but I can see why it can be boring to some.  

Yeah, the main storyline is a Kingdom-Hearts-grade mess I refuse to follow. I absolutely love all the quests that focus on specific characters and/or places whatsoever, but the "finding sibling" and those abyss boys.. I already lost interest. I'm so confused, that I don't even dig into this. I love worldbuilding and events happening there, but really dislike the "main" plot. For me it started going downhill when the MC was asked about the past and you had to click something like "I remember..." --- but I actually didn't know what the hay they were talking about and there weren't any flashbacks shown to introduce me to something I'm supposed to remember.  Literally MC you control knows something you have no idea about and they make you say something you can't agree with. It was on the quest with Dainsleif iirc. I wonder, because the storyline goes sooooooooooooooo slow, maybe I just forgot or missed something.. Well in general they talk a LOT about things I have no idea about, it's a little bit irritating. Everything is kept as a mystery, that isn't even interesting and I already got bored of that. The very beginning itself is extremely vague - traveling through different worlds? randomly bumping into a lady (that just happened to be waiting ages in that exact spot or????) that turns everything to poop? Kinda a wonky base to start with tbh. I legit don't care about finding the sibling anymore lol, I prefer interaction with the world of teyvat itself.

Thanks  My pity is at 18, so the worst outcome would be spending everything just to get Ganyu.  But the upcoming events will leave me some spare wishes even if that happens, but there will be that 50/50 again, so I don't feel safe about that  , not with my epic luck. 

The problem with the story is that it is told through Easter eggs only someone who knows a thing or two about religion and various mythologies would follow. That is not because it's some big brain Rick & Morty crap but because there is no story at all, just Easter eggs for you to pick up. To sum it up: "The Traveler just wants to go home" as if written by Night Shyamalan. I suspect it will continue to be like this until we meet Tsaritsa, unless we get our Traveler stuff back before that or Abyss actually becomes relevant enough to produce an army worthy of Mordor. It could happen, but I wouldn't hold my breath.

 

P.S: I have that super wow 5 star bow, but for it to truly be wow I need Cocogoat. The problem is that I evaded 50/50 Qiqi for 3 times in a row. I'll need to summon with Hu Tao to scare her.

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On 2022-01-20 at 8:18 PM, TBD said:

I would assumed we might get one weekly boss in Enkanomiya, most likely another Harbinger. Also Dain is going to make an return in the next archon quest. Speaking of Harbinger, Scaramouche- I did saw a leak of the new weekly boss which is Raidan. But I do not believe it's Raidan herself. If you saw her second stage she have puppets arms. It's most likely a puppet that we're going against not Raidan. Now it may sound stupid already, like how on earth did Raidan failed to keep her own puppet on a leash, well maybe it's Scaramouche? My guess is we're going against a puppet that is being controlled by Scaramouche himself. Also there's going to be 6 (freakin) phases with a total of 1M HP. The game didn't reveled us all 6 phases, but I assumed the last phase, Scaramouche might reveled himself as a puppet master. I could be wrong and skeptical about this since it may be too soon for another Harbinger weekly boss(?). Overall, I can tell the new weekly boss is gonna be a huge pain in a ass. Because you have to be quick to clear a stage, otherwise if you failed, you gonna have to start all over.

 

Playable paimon, pffft that would be the day.

Paimon is a Herrscher and so is Traveler, you'll see  

 

She's jumping around like a monkey on crack and has an instakill mechanic. Interesting. But does this mean we'll be killing off another Harbinger. No skin off of my back. Maybe this is just the battle doll Ei wore during the Archon War.

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On 2022-01-21 at 7:17 PM, Rikifive said:

Yeah, it's always that something, although it's hardly anything original most of the time. Majority of events are pretty much boring abyss clones and they started recycling these lately. I did complete the potion event without any troubles, buuuuut I can't say I found it to be entertaining, because at the end of the day, it's just an abyss clone with equally terrible challenges with basic rewards.

The hide and seek one, I actually really like. It's my most favorite event by far (gameplay-wise). I generally like Prop Hunt, so having it here is very nice, although in my opinion they should just permanently include it as a feature/gamemode, with weekly rewards perhaps, not as an event. I used to play Prop Hunt in Garry's mod with my siblings for a while, but now there's that problem my sisters are PS players, while me and my brother prefer and have PC only. Having Prop Hunt in Genshin that supports cross-platform is a great deal in my opinion (I don't know any good prop hunt games that would have this atm) and they totally should keep it and advertise the game with it, I'm sure it could attract more players. This is, by far, literally the ONLY thing, that makes an actual use of multiplayer feature. Personally I'm having fun with it, but I can see why it can be boring to some.  

Yeah, the main storyline is a Kingdom-Hearts-grade mess I refuse to follow. I absolutely love all the quests that focus on specific characters and/or places whatsoever, but the "finding sibling" and those abyss boys.. I already lost interest. I'm so confused, that I don't even dig into this. I love worldbuilding and events happening there, but really dislike the "main" plot. For me it started going downhill when the MC was asked about the past and you had to click something like "I remember..." --- but I actually didn't know what the hay they were talking about and there weren't any flashbacks shown to introduce me to something I'm supposed to remember.  Literally MC you control knows something you have no idea about and they make you say something you can't agree with. It was on the quest with Dainsleif iirc. I wonder, because the storyline goes sooooooooooooooo slow, maybe I just forgot or missed something.. Well in general they talk a LOT about things I have no idea about, it's a little bit irritating. Everything is kept as a mystery, that isn't even interesting and I already got bored of that. The very beginning itself is extremely vague - traveling through different worlds? randomly bumping into a lady (that just happened to be waiting ages in that exact spot or????) that turns everything to poop? Kinda a wonky base to start with tbh. I legit don't care about finding the sibling anymore lol, I prefer interaction with the world of teyvat itself.

Thanks  My pity is at 18, so the worst outcome would be spending everything just to get Ganyu.  But the upcoming events will leave me some spare wishes even if that happens, but there will be that 50/50 again, so I don't feel safe about that  , not with my epic luck. 

I tried my best to wrap up what we have so far in the stories- I did lose interest when they got up to Inazuma and that was a flop. Hopefully, 2.5 next archon story will do it justice. My interest go back up when we have the new quest story with Albendo- I believe we might have another for 2.4 when we going to be introduced to a new Fatui harbinger, Arlecchino. @Goat-kun. But I agreed the stories does take forever to unfold itself, I mean I know Mihoyo wanted to try to stretch it for 5 years, but I feel that the story keeps dumping new informations, which brings more  questions arise to the point the main topic will eventually become lost.  So far from what I understand, the traveler not only wanted to find their sibling but also finding the truth from behind Celestia. I hope the story will eventually glue together nicely and not falls into pieces where it becomes a mess.

 

But I do wish you best of luck! Keep us updated since I believe their banner is up now!

 

On 2022-01-23 at 12:03 PM, Goat-kun said:

Paimon is a Herrscher and so is Traveler, you'll see  

 

She's jumping around like a monkey on crack and has an instakill mechanic. Interesting. But does this mean we'll be killing off another Harbinger. No skin off of my back. Maybe this is just the battle doll Ei wore during the Archon War.

Well, I kinda hope it’s more of scaramouche doing, then some crazy robot going out of control- since honestly that would make Ei ridiculous for letting a robot lose it control. 

 

On 2022-01-22 at 9:56 PM, SparklingSwirls said:

Heh I started playing this game back in the fall and really enjoyed it, only recently got back into it over my winter break and have been trying to catch up on more stuff. Am annoyed I missed Albedo but Itto makes up for it 

I’m saving for Ganyu! Haven’t really touched the abyss. I mainly just care about exploration and the side quests. And the teapot, heck yeah.

Welcome to the team! And don’t worry! From the looks of it they’re releasing characters reruns based on their special event. He came around December and so did his rerun! So maybe next December you might be able to get him,  but congrats on getting Itto instead!

4 hours ago, RainyDash said:

Ganyu banner is now out! Managed to get her, Xingqiu C6 and Zhongli! Saving was defs worth it  Good luck to everyone else pulling these banners as well! 

I'll have to start redoing my teams soon though, I've mainly been investing in my Hu tao, and both Ganyu and Zhongli are quite strong units on teams from what I've heard so i'm looking forward to building teams for em. Xingqiu C6 will be nice for Hu Tao though 

whoooa that’s some mad luck! Congrats! How did you managed to get them? Lots of primos or winning 50/50?

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On 2022-01-23 at 7:22 PM, Goat-kun said:

Things may get a little better once the game simmers down, but for now this is it. All in all, F2P or low investment is the best option. I might be having trouble with cancer enemies but whales are the ones who have thrown insane amounts of cash into the game just to win everything by clicking Q three times in a row. They have nothing to do in a game they invested so much into. That's sad, no copium. That's why I'd like to see some insane endgame option for cosmetic rewards.

Yeah, I think so too. For now it "just works", so they see no reason to change that. To be honest I don't know about the insane endgame with cosmetic rewards. There are some in the shop and whalers most likely already are buying all availalble cosmetics whatsoever. For now all a normal player can't manage to get in this fantastic end-game content is some primos - a less than a single wish (100 primos) per month in my case. Not a big deal. I think I prefer it this way than not being able to obtain something unique & worthwhile. If they are willing to invest thousand of dollars just to squeeze these last 50 primos, good for them, fair for me.

 

On 2022-01-23 at 7:28 PM, Goat-kun said:

Mine did fall back to 30 stars that is my average. Will have to git gud again but I kinda don't wanna right now. I spent many days scouring through code of some failed RTS game in order to figure out how to make it better, so I'll have to "speedrun" the hide & seek event first  

Still not that bad to be honest.  

10 hours ago, RainyDash said:

Ganyu banner is now out! Managed to get her, Xingqiu C6 and Zhongli! Saving was defs worth it  Good luck to everyone else pulling these banners as well! 

I'll have to start redoing my teams soon though, I've mainly been investing in my Hu tao, and both Ganyu and Zhongli are quite strong units on teams from what I've heard so i'm looking forward to building teams for em. Xingqiu C6 will be nice for Hu Tao though 

Nice! Congratulations!  

36 minutes ago, RainyDash said:

Managed to get em with a lot of primos had about 230 wishes ready, however I got very lucky with how many it took, i lost 50/50 and got ganyu 20 pulls after that, then lost 50/50 again 40 pulls later and had enough left for a guaranteed Zhongli ! 

Getting 5* before hitting 70+ pity twice in a row? Woo now that's some nice luck I wish I had. 

5 hours ago, TBD said:

I tried my best to wrap up what we have so far in the stories- I did lose interest when they got up to Inazuma and that was a flop. Hopefully, 2.5 next archon story will do it justice. My interest go back up when we have the new quest story with Albendo- I believe we might have another for 2.4 when we going to be introduced to a new Fatui harbinger, Arlecchino. @Goat-kun. But I agreed the stories does take forever to unfold itself, I mean I know Mihoyo wanted to try to stretch it for 5 years, but I feel that the story keeps dumping new informations, which brings more  questions arise to the point the main topic will eventually become lost.  So far from what I understand, the traveler not only wanted to find their sibling but also finding the truth from behind Celestia. I hope the story will eventually glue together nicely and not falls into pieces where it becomes a mess.

To be honest I'm only interested in exploring the regions and solving the issues there whatsoever. Any mention of the abyss or fatui boys gets me somewhat bored. At first it all was kind of making sense, then the further it went, the less I knew what is what, heh. For now there indeed are more questions than answers...

5 hours ago, TBD said:

But I do wish you best of luck! Keep us updated since I believe their banner is up now!

Aaaaaand wishes.... I had around 19000 primogems, 17 fates and 18 pulls made towards pity - I dumped everything I had for Ganyu banner hoping to get her twice (to get her and c1 her) and... I have mixed feelings...

>> Of course, 76th wish and I lost 50/50 to Diluc (new character for me).

Just according to keikaku, going all the way to pity and losing 50/50 on top of that. I lost all the hope, started expecting the worst possible outcome.

>> Next 10-pull and WOAH! Orange! It's Ganyu at 9th pull.

What a relief it was. Diluc is apparently a good boy, he came home and said hi, but didn't want to steal Ganyu. 

So is there hope for c1? Still plenty of pulls left...

>> Nah of course not! Not with my luck lmao. 78 wishes (all aboard the pity train!) and lost 50/50 again woo hoo! And it's a yet another Mona! (c2) 

Of course it had to be Mona... She's always the one who ruins everything the most. For me and my siblings, that's like the most common disaster. 

>> I pulled about 10 more wishes, but nothing so far, and I'm out of everything I saved for so long. 

 

I'm kinda not sure what to think about this to be honest. It's not thaaaat bad, but I really hoped for a lil better outcome. Thankfully I managed to get that Ganyu earlier, otherwise it would literally be the worst possible outcome I was afraid would happen.

 

As for 4*, all banner characters are like, beyond c10 or something lol. All Liyue characters I have are at full constellation, besides just one - Yun Jin that I don't have at all.  Welp, some more free wishes I guess.

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16 hours ago, Rikifive said:

Yeah, I think so too. For now it "just works", so they see no reason to change that. To be honest I don't know about the insane endgame with cosmetic rewards. There are some in the shop and whalers most likely already are buying all availalble cosmetics whatsoever. For now all a normal player can't manage to get in this fantastic end-game content is some primos - a less than a single wish (100 primos) per month in my case. Not a big deal. I think I prefer it this way than not being able to obtain something unique & worthwhile. If they are willing to invest thousand of dollars just to squeeze these last 50 primos, good for them, fair for me.

 

Still not that bad to be honest.  

Nice! Congratulations!  

Getting 5* before hitting 70+ pity twice in a row? Woo now that's some nice luck I wish I had. 

To be honest I'm only interested in exploring the regions and solving the issues there whatsoever. Any mention of the abyss or fatui boys gets me somewhat bored. At first it all was kind of making sense, then the further it went, the less I knew what is what, heh. For now there indeed are more questions than answers...

Aaaaaand wishes.... I had around 19000 primogems, 17 fates and 18 pulls made towards pity - I dumped everything I had for Ganyu banner hoping to get her twice (to get her and c1 her) and... I have mixed feelings...

>> Of course, 76th wish and I lost 50/50 to Diluc (new character for me).

Just according to keikaku, going all the way to pity and losing 50/50 on top of that. I lost all the hope, started expecting the worst possible outcome.

>> Next 10-pull and WOAH! Orange! It's Ganyu at 9th pull.

What a relief it was. Diluc is apparently a good boy, he came home and said hi, but didn't want to steal Ganyu. 

So is there hope for c1? Still plenty of pulls left...

>> Nah of course not! Not with my luck lmao. 78 wishes (all aboard the pity train!) and lost 50/50 again woo hoo! And it's a yet another Mona! (c2) 

Of course it had to be Mona... She's always the one who ruins everything the most. For me and my siblings, that's like the most common disaster. 

>> I pulled about 10 more wishes, but nothing so far, and I'm out of everything I saved for so long. 

 

I'm kinda not sure what to think about this to be honest. It's not thaaaat bad, but I really hoped for a lil better outcome. Thankfully I managed to get that Ganyu earlier, otherwise it would literally be the worst possible outcome I was afraid would happen.

 

As for 4*, all banner characters are like, beyond c10 or something lol. All Liyue characters I have are at full constellation, besides just one - Yun Jin that I don't have at all.  Welp, some more free wishes I guess.

Yeah i mean is it wrong to... idk? skipped some long ass dialogues?  I know there are some fans who would be triggered by that . 

 

But duuuude, that was clutch!! congrats on getting her without having to spend much, but while you didn't get C1 Ganyu, but hey at least maybe you can save to get a guarantee Yae right? 

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4 hours ago, TBD said:

Yeah i mean is it wrong to... idk? skipped some long ass dialogues?  I know there are some fans who would be triggered by that . 

lmao, understandable.  Personally I'm not skipping any dialogues (just to not blame myself in case I don't get something), but sometimes I think I should.  I'm trying to give it that chance even though I'm hardly interested in their talks about fatui and that kind of stuff. Yeah, sometimes it is frowned upon, but I don't think there's much to miss in that regard, the main storyline feels like some random fillers, that aren't that relevant to the story. You maybe get to know few names (and that's it, because you hardly get to see anyone), but it's still all completely vague what is what and who wants what. It's not like anything changes, you still just end up going to the next region where local things happen, that are a bigger deal than the entire abyss and finding sibling stuff. 

4 hours ago, TBD said:

But duuuude, that was clutch!! congrats on getting her without having to spend much, but while you didn't get C1 Ganyu, but hey at least maybe you can save to get a guarantee Yae right? 

I really hoped to get a bit lucky though - to get c1 Ganyu and be done with the banner, saving for the next, but instead it drained everything and didn't give that c1.  

But yeah, at least 50/50 isn't sneaking up on me anymore. Since I'm not far with pity, I guess I'll be still pulling a bit for Ganyu. If I won't get her, I should be able to get Yae instead. I'm still not sure about her playstyle though, would be nice to have some exact details on her. I kinda have plenty of Electro characters I use, so I'm bit unsure about potential spot for her. Though from what I heard from the leaks, she is probably going to be an interesting unit.

Either way, my Ganyu already deals some nice solo damage, around 40.000 (crit damage at 85%rate 170%dmg) per fully charged arrow without buffs, nor reactions. That comes from a 4* crafted bow and not fully leveled up talent, so there's still a bit of area for improvements. And she is 'THE' end game character for Timmie's birds.  I loved playing with a bow back in the day (Amber go brrr), but these quickly became so weak with the lack of AoE and damage overall.. All bow users aren't really supposed to actually use the bow, because it deals inexistent damage, it's often about skills/bursts only. I really don't understand why bows are so weak. They give constellations for multi arrows and stuff, but the normal attack is still the same poop compared to non-bow chars. I mean yeah, weak points, that's some usage, but there's no time for that in the abyss, and why would I bother if Klee destroys enemies faster than shooting a ruin guard with a bow twice just to temporarily stun him... Even worse if there are multiple, because it's a one-by-one process. Ganyu though.. Her entire kit is great, including the normal attack, hence why I always wanted her so bad. She'll surely improve my performance in the Abyss. 

Diluc is actually not bad too, cheap and nice burst - works pretty well with Ganyu now that I have them both in party to level up their friendships. (Everyone else is maxed out)

 

With how many constellations Mona gets, I should build her too sometime. Not saying she's a bad character (actually she has some nice tricks), it's just... that it's usually her, who laughs at me for losing 50/50.  Fun fact: I was pulling hard for Ganyu on her first banner and guess what happened - I lost 50/50 to Mona and didn't manage to get Ganyu in the end.  See the pain now?