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PrinceKaro posted...

I am looking at things in the long term, an active f2p player will eventually end up with most if not all 4 stars as they rotate through the featured banners, but their resources to obtain 5 stars are very limited and it seems a waste to expend it to get a 4 star character a little bit sooner. It is not like the storyline content of genshin is exceptionally difficult, until you get to the Abyssal Moon Spire team power is more a quality of life thing where you can clear out groups of overworld monsters more quickly.

1) The only reason I have all four-star characters is because I've gone out of my way to make that happen. I used my Lantern Rite picks to complete my account, and I pulled on banners with 5-stars that I didn't really need. These characters would not have simply fallen into my lap otherwise. So no, a long-term player isn't just magically going to end up with all the four-stars.

2) A new player won't ever become a long-term player if they aren't enjoying themselves. Even a waifu > meta player is going to want the appropriate support characters. If you simply get locked out of that character because you reason "eh, I'll get them some day" when that constitutes two years or more of making your gameplay experience more miserable...because you wanted LESS THAN A TENTH OF A PITY...that's just stupid. Like, it's not even a ten-pull. I'm not sure how many wishes worth of glitter would make me question this trade-off, but it's definitely more than seven.

3) On most support characters, constellations are not unwelcome. Bennett's fine at C1, but that C1 makes a noticeable improvement in his consistency. However, other characters in question want to be C6. Plus, if the character in question is Amber, Lisa, or Kaeya, you literally won't get their constellations because they're only found on the standard banner and you get, like, 10 of those wishes per month, spread across all the possible four-stars in the game.

I am not advocating auto-purchasing every character that appears in the shop just because you don't have them maxed yet, but targeted selection is extremely efficient here and far outweighs the benefit of restricting yourself to the gacha.