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Vomit Boy is on every single new limited female character banner.
Wow Mihoyo.

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Tyranthraxus posted...

Can only buy 5/5. A month. There's nothing else to spend it on.

so just buy those 10/10 you can and wait for the next one

Raikuro posted...

I got 108 primos from the billion, but my bf got 188... guess it isn't evenly distributed among all participants like it implied.

It literally says "randomly" in the rules, no word of distributing 1 billion anywhere. It's a scam lol.
108 here

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I have 12 million.

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Tyranthraxus posted...

Mora can be obtained in unlimited quantities through stardust so the exp books are a better buy unless you've already maxed out your main teams.

lol imagine wasting a fate currency on garbage like mora.

gunplagirl posted...

Mora is the biggest gate keeper

EXP books are worth far more IMO. Lv80-90 drain them a shit-ton and you want all damage dealers at lv80

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Tyranthraxus posted...

because Jean would mean two back to back wind banners

In the end it's all theorycrafting, though. Remember Zhongli -> Albedo?
And Ayaka is many months away.

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ChrisTaka posted...

Rosaria and Hu Tao coming in the same banner would be a dream come true for me.

Also to me, because I won't have to see her on Venti's banner.

Tyranthraxus posted...

Rosaria is on the Venti rerun banner according to the leaker.

Wasn't what the leaker said that Rosaria is NOT on the Venti rerun?

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I fear the day we get an adorable S-tier geo loli and I have to raise her.
That'd mean having to grind that geo cube a lot...I'd rather fight Oceanid 20 times than geo cube 5 times.

Then again, at the very least now I can use Ganyu + Klee to cheese the fight and I can set up a teleporter on the island.

EDIT: 17 hours until the free primogem lottery.

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LookANinja posted...

I'm so glad i pulled Klee despite people saying she was trash when released. I can live without diluc or Hu Tao as long as i got her.

yeah it was mostly people who didnt know what the hell theyre talking about.
Klee is incredible

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Tyranthraxus posted...

Attack will almost certainly scale better anyway

Doesnt she limit her ATK bonuses based on her own max HP, or something similar? And have the worst ATK stat in the game?

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pogo_rabid posted...

Is it just me, or did the lower difficulties allow the maps to cycle but the higher difficulty ones are locked into 1 single map

It's random, but as far as I can tell, the further you raise your difficulty, the lower the chance of getting the early maps (or they stop appearing, leaving like 3 maps in rotation?).

coolpal23 posted...

do we get anything exclusively for beating the Blink of an Eye difficulty?

After finishing everything I had 1 background from the shop, and another background I don't know how I unlocked.
Could the mechanica background be the reward for the Blink of the Eye difficulty?
All I know is the game never told me I would have unlocked anything at all after clearing it. It was fun and challenging tho.

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Aki_Sora posted...

I just noticed that there no more cutscenes when do ultimate

https://youtu.be/JuJ0Tg3rVAQ

I cant view your video right now, but you can prevent burst cutscenes by hugging a wall during activation.

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gunplagirl posted...

If Barbara's on a banner assume you'll get 10 of her. If she's not, assume you'll get at least 1, probably 2-3 more if it's over a hundred pulls.

I wish that'd be how the game worked for me, but instead i get the fucking garbage Xingqiu

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I want Qiqi to spook me on the Venti banner in 1.4

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Nope, they're the codes we got in the past and they don't work.

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Bomberhead posted...

For the tower defense event, I have been having problems with the faster mobs just running through my gauntlet of towers because the towers refuse to attack off cooldown. That and target priority would be nice, as it is frustrating to see a runner blaze past some towers which would rather shoot at enemies far away when the time is crucial.

Use Barbara and dowse the torches of small hilichurls near your towers. High force characters like Klee can down most enemies smaller than a Ruin Guard.
Mona/Barbara + Ganyu/Diona/Kaeya can also help a lot coz pretty much everything is vulnerable to freeze.

But yeah, this is why it's beneficial to have enemies pass through 2-3 groups of towers, instead of grouping everything into 1 point. I prefer placing towers further down the road at points where all enemies have to pass through and set up mines in case someone slips fast, coz you can depend on their stopping power and they're super cheap.

Sayoria posted...

My bests are Xiao, Ganyu, Tartaglia, and I guess Jean

I imagine you might be able to abuse Xiao plunge, Ganyu+Tartaglia freeze and Jean's skill throw?

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IMO, Hydro+Electro machina still dominates for stalling and Electro+Pyro machine dominates for damage. Recovery and buff are both great for supporting.
Avoid Cryo and Anemo towers. Maybe physical arrows can be useful but I dont see the point if you use your chars or tower overload to break geo instead.

Mines are still the best for stopping enemies who get past you and for spamming damage by setting them below the enemy for basically no cost.

Sayoria posted...

11-2 is a nightmare. I can get by the first phase with 60+% still.... and even kill the Cicin mage sometimes without it dropping below 60..... but once those thieves come out, they whack the living hell out of the pillar for about 20% a swing. They are the real problem to me. I can't draw aggro enough to prevent those asses from just tearing it apart.

Freeze, overload, Sucrose/Venti pulls, high force attacks like Diluc's and Klee's are worth considering.
But yeah, F11-2 is a huge pain and basically requires Venti to 3*.

But if you think that's bad, wait till you reach F12-1.
I just got through it today and wow F12 went from easy to a real nightmare.
Chamber 1: First Half Electro+Pyro Geovishap; Second Half Cryo+Hydro Geovishap. I just barely got through it aftera lot of attempts through the help of Ganyu in the first and Klee in the second half. This is the most bullshit unfair fight in the game, even cryo+hydro abyss mage combo pales compared to this shit...
Chamber 2: Just the usual spiral abyss stuff, First Half Electro+Cryo Cicin; Second Half two Fatui Agents and a few big Treasure Hoarders.
Chamber 3: And here's another rough one, First Half is two Ruin Guards with one earth wave aura; Second Half is two Ruin Graders with one ice cage aura. Can be annoying, but it's mostly a DPS test. If you stay calm and dodge, you'll be fine.

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Tyranthraxus posted...

IDK how the fuck you're supposed to do it.

Option 1: Have Venti
Option 2: Design your group exactly for it and control how enemies spawn by killing enemies in a specific order.

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BignutzisBack posted...

Is this actually a good game or is it full of pay to win and cosmetics?

It's a fantastic game just for the exploration elements IMO.
When it comes to combat, free players are fine, but they will have a slower time upgrading characters after the first few than people who pay 10$ every 6 weeks. They will have a harder time unlocking new characters than people who pay 5$ every 30 days. If you pay both and dont mindlessly waste your premium currency, you will have an easy time.
There is no competitive multiplayer, so I would hardly call it pay to win.

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DarkRoast posted...

Considering how few electric types there are

Isnt it a horribly oversaturated element, just like pyro?
In fact, I refused to upgrade Beidou just because I already had enough electros.

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Tyranthraxus posted...

I just never pick anything with Fickle. Not worth it.

IIRC it gives a good point bonus at the end, if you care. But yeah, it's better if you get lucky and take a fearless instead. Fickle can literally destroy your run.

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Fickle can just fuck off.
150% damage to electro towers! also disables electro towers ....yeah, thanks

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IIRC there is an island in Liyue between the mainland and the eastern Liyue, where basically aggroing a churl instantly grants you that achievement, coz he's placed where he cant dig?

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IMNOTRAGED posted...

Saw a lot of complaining about her animations but they look good here

IMO voice and animation quality definitely aren't as good as what we usually get in Genshin, you can see it clearly if you pay attention to how her burst starts up, for example.
However, this is to be expected of an UNFINISHED character, so not sure why people are complaining, if they are.

Sayoria posted...

Names are really telling of region in this game

Not always, like Mondstadt names dont make sense. Klee and Fischl are definitely fitting, but what about Diluc, Bennett, Razor, Sucrose? I don't really see a pattern.

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Tyranthraxus posted...

I'm gonna need one of you to help me with this tower defense shit because I am really bad at it.

Go fail a few times.
Go into armory and upgrade electro to lv4, maybe hydro too.
At a good point that all enemies go through near enemy spawn, place hydro closer to enemies, electro a little bit closer to your base, if you have points, place a recovery between so that it covers the whole field after the hydro tower.
Enemies get wrecked. Now you have points to place more, place hydro close to the other spawn point, and an electro closer to the point where enemy routes meet, again cover them in recovery.
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Now you have a good setup, add a few other things like more electro, maybe a pyro, and place the same setup near your base, with a cryo past the bridge, then again hydro and electro, pyro to make sure enemies who got through will get finished off.
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Long story short, electro-charged is broken in tower defense.
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During this whole time, you can use someone like Klee or Diluc for breaking all enemy shields (cryo, geo, dendro). A cryo character can be abused to freeze enemies, too.

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gunplagirl posted...

Hey, any of you guys got Ganyu to c2 for the extra use of her cool down? Is there a trick to using it, like should I spread them out, place them with a few seconds pause in between for up time, etc.? I've not experimented much with it yet so I'll confer to others who levelled her right away.

I don't have C2, but pure theorycrafting...
You use it best to abuse C6 instant frostflakes. Other than that, I guess to maximize damage you just use it either to escape from enemies again, or immediately when the first one detonates.

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Wasn't there a screenshot that showed you can't consume condensed resin with the 2x leyline event bonus?

And yeah, condensed resin costs 40 resin and gives you double reward rolls in any 20 resin challenges. That means they basically exist to quickly consume 40 - 120 resin when you're busy and save them up for later.

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I don't care about Bennett, but on the official forums I saw people say you shouldn't go too far coz you'd be neglecting other stats. 200% seems to be good?
In general, when it comes to Recharge, testing it in real combat (especially Spiral Abyss) is probably a good idea. Characters like Venti and Klee can swiftly bring you back to max energy.

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Bingo.
Mine's only C0, but that Solar Pearl R2 works wonders

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Personal taste and Diluc is the only one out of all 5 permanent gacha 5*s who is truly useless to me.
And just saying but anyone with the right 5* weapon and artifacts can obliterate. He is strong but I don't need him.

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I feel like everyone except me got a Qiqi on Ganyu banner, but I got the fucking Diluc garbage

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pogo_rabid posted...

It seems they just timegated the events with standalone timers vs timegating them with resin, a good move imo

Not exactly sure what you mean, but compare the Fischl (meteor shards) event to the Dragonspine (Festering Desire) event.
They're still unlocked after a few days pass, and instead of waiting for 14x20 / 7x40 resin runs, we had to do each of them 21 times at no cost.

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Irony posted...

I'm WL8 and don't always get a 5*, with weekly bosses yeah, but not stuff like vines.

Really? Rumors and wiki say WL8 is guaranteed 5* artifact for elite bosses.

Tyranthraxus posted...

AR56 also needs something like 236000 xp or roughly half a year of dailies

Just saying, but dailies aren't the only sources of exp. But yeah it will take you freakishly long. IIRC someone calculated you will reach AR60 by fall sometime?

In general, Mihoyo is very calculating and makes sure there is a meaning behind the things they do, for example how they went along with players' demands to remove resin from events, so they also greatly reduced the rewards by (what I imagine) the amount you'd gain with that resin normally and then made us spend double or triple the amount of event challenges for all rewards.
You can bet by the time we even get close to AR60 at all, it'll already be Inazuma time.
And at that point we'll likely get a full redesign of all character/weapon/artifact/talent upgrades and AR exp.

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pogo_rabid posted...

fak
https://i.imgur.com/LnyWGmc.jpg

I got a good artifact like that recently.
All 5 upgrades went into flat hp+, though...

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Electro dmg goblet looks like a keeper if the 4th stat revealed is very good. Goblets are extremely rare, so it doesn't matter what set it is, it doesn't matter if substats are only average, if it's usable, you keep it.
Circlet can become very good with 5 lucky upgrades into ATK, but I guess you need crit stats?

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gunplagirl posted...

Anyhow, recs on a good set for C1 Ganyu? I have a maxed out the stringless, that's about it for non crafted 4* bows but I can double check when I get home.

Wanderer for melt setup (recommended crit weapon for damage). They're very hard to get.
Blizzard for freeze setup (recommended ATK/CritDMG weapon for damage). They're pretty easy to get.

Melt setups have a higher ceiling and I hear they have the potential to far surpass Diluc and Klee by a lot in the future, but Ganyu doesn't have any effective pyro support characters yet. You'll need to make up for the missing critrate on your own, so a lot of critrate from weapon and artifact set recommended.

Freeze setups don't work on enemies who have their own debuff (coz you need wet or cryo to be on the enemy) and I hear optimally they're about similar to Diluc. Benefit is enemies don't move letting you hit them easily, tho the twitch movement post-freeze might screw you over. I highly recommend speccing into as much critdmg (and ATK% if available) as you can, but it's best if you get over 30% critrate from substats and use critdmg on main stat. You should not depend on the 4set, because if the enemy is for example a pyro slime or electro slime, the 4set will never activate. On the other hand if they're hydro, or if you apply your own cryo to them, your attacks will almost guaranteed crit them, leading to incredible consistent damage.

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pogo_rabid posted...

"we won't do any holiday events"

IIRC what they said was basically that Teyvat is its own world and doesn't need to have the same festivities as our world.
So people don't start demanding stuff like Santa dresses or free presents in Genshin, I guess.
You can tell they completely ignored Christmas and (our) New Year, for example.
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Also, IIRC they got a huge negative reaction in China for saying this, and after Zhongli / elemental reactions scaling with WL we know they fold when pushed hard enough.

Tyranthraxus posted...

I ascended amber to one star to get the fate and did the pull on Wanderlust and scored a Skyward Pride.

What do I do with this? Lol.

Welcome to my world. The garbage Skyward Blade wasted my standard banner 5* pity and I have not used it even once coz I have no one to use it with and getting Qiqi won't be easy.

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IIRC the final challenge grants a lot more points to make up for being a huge pain in the ass. That means you can afford to drop the max hp handicap to lv1 and maybe skip other handicaps that hurt your group.

Irony posted...

Next banners are confirmed. Xiao then Keqing. Xiao banner is only for 2 weeks. Both of these are easy skips for me.

Please explain. Only 2 weeks?
Did they reduce the overall banner duration to 2 weeks per limited banner? If so, that's a great idea coz otherwise reruns and standard rate ups are impossible right now. It hurts people who play free coz they have less time, but I'd be fucking HYPED for Qiqi rate up.

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Xiao likely next banner coz this is his story focus and no other 5* shown.
4 Geovishap minibosses.
Free 4* character choice: Xiangling, Xinyan, Xingqiu, Beidou, Ningguang, Chongyun.

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Resin pass is garbage and designed more for whales, 40 resin is absolutely nothing. They shoulda put it in Welkin.
10 fragile resin in BP is incredible for people who already were paying 10$ each 6 weeks for it.

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Tyranthraxus posted...

5 fragile resin being added to the paid tier of the battle pass.

It's 5 for free and 5 for paid hymn in total, one at 5, 15, 25, 35, 45.

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lol, the 4th cube challenge is basically the 1st challenge repeated, except different handicaps.
Sadly, critdmg debuff got replaced with critrate debuff, making it a skipper.
In turn, there is no longer any cryo resistance so Ganyu completely tears it apart.

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Sayoria posted...

So, cleared the Ameno. Got 3060. Took off 80% decharge?.... and electro res. Was again, a close one. I forgot you can't just kill the ameno on the orb connection like you can with the other two for some reason. Had to wait for it to respawn back and killed it with like, 5 seconds to spare. Maybe less.

Yeah, having to go into one more phase after the recovery phase screwed me over and I couldn't clear it without disabling 3rd hp handicap, 3rd time handicap and the -50% critrate (crit is Ganyu's lifeline).

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I'm enjoying the new bosses.
I kinda wish they'd add these upgrades to the base bosses and greatly increase drop rates (including cryo regisvine)

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Tyranthraxus posted...

Uhh for $5 I can already get a monthly welkin blessing which gives me enough primogems to refill resin daily by 60 and still have some left over on top of 300 genesis crystals.

So in short that rumor sounds completely fake.

It's completely real.

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TwoDoorPC posted...

i've been told that diluc + ganyu is a 10/10 combo for constant melt dmg

Ganyu has 100% burst uptime, her field is massive, deals frequent big damage (with dps gear at least) and she recovers it pretty quick even without a recharge setup.
So yeah, I think that's true.

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Tyranthraxus posted...

Diluc is the highest damage dealing character in the game. Only Klee or Childe can compete with his damage.

I have Klee, Xiangling, Keqing and Ganyu for main- and sub-dps. I also have interest in Hu Tao because of her unique fighting style. Considering Ganyu and Xiao are totally power creep characters (IMO), I imagine Hu Tao will outdo Diluc, too.
So frankly, Diluc doesn't benefit me at all.

I do consider raising him just for the sake of having the option, though. Because my next step is fully re-gearing Klee's purple artifact set into optimal gold artifacts, Diluc can take the second-hand goods or inferior artifacts I roll for her.

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First 10-roll, Diluc. (I had 20 into Diona's banner for her)
40 rolls more, Ganyu. I actually got exactly enough Vomit Boys and Metal Maids to C6 them, but sadly no Xiangling even though I wanted her C4...

Why Diluc, that's like the worst possible pity roll, even Jean would be less useless than that...
I still need Qiqi, but Mona would have been fantastic with Ganyu...

Irony posted...

So she sucks confirmed?

She's insanely overpowered. I'm constantly getting 30000 damage aimed shots with her and that's without any buffs or elemental reactions. Melt easily raises it to 60000 in Spiral Abyss. Her skill does like 8000 damage both hits, her burst does almost 6000 damage constantly for 15 seconds.

Basically you can nuke enemy camps safely from a far-away mountain top and tear apart anything except cryo slimes, cryo shields/armors and geo-protected enemies in seconds.

gunplagirl posted...

Be that as it may, the talent stuff... Doesn't really matter unless you're maxing out a cool down or whatever. D;

1 talent level doesn't matter but going lv6 -> lv10 does give you a pretty huge boost. Isn't every level like a +9% boost or something?
It's very expensive tho, yeah.

TheLoneCub posted...

this. The tougher dragonspine challenges pale in comparison. I imagine crowd control makes this far more manageable

This. And the first challenge, shooting barrels, is something you'll only barely clear too, iirc.
They're obviously designed to be almost impossible alone to bait people into coop.
On the bright side, the rewards are like 6 exp books, so it's nothing to rip your hair out over.

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Tyranthraxus posted...

The weapon banner is horrible this time.

Perfect for Ganyu

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OF COURSE they put vomit boy into the waifu banner. AGAIN.
Fuck off Mihoyo

pogo_rabid posted...

What's Ganyu's passive skill tho, if it's crap, or a repeat ez skip.

IIRC, one is +20% crit rate on repeated frostflake arrows within 5sec
The other is +20% cryo damage in burst field.
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That means she benefits from energy recharge substats and can easily reach 100% critrate

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When I compare
Klee Keqing Diona Sucrose
to
Klee Fischl Diona Sucrose
I kill enemies much faster and easier.
Maybe it's because my Fischl is C0. It feels like she's really terrible on her own at dealing with any enemies Klee can't handle (= pyro). While Keqing shreds them like paper.

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