Board 8 > Genshin Impact Topic 8: To Inazuma; to forbid, divine.

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1. Springtide Advent

Ok Im stumped. Might have to watch some How to vids. Stage 5 has all big boo sprinters, instafail.

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Considering how busy I was I wont even get to finish floor 12 of Abyss before it resets. At least I got uh 250 primos I think? One of these days I will properly 36* it :(

Ok, now this event is easy mode lol.

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Hold up. So I maxed out my Mechanicus Mastery: Level 10, without trying the last challenge (Stage 10).

I also maxed out my daily limit, soooo does this mean I cant unlock the last challenge Obtain at least 400 Mechanicus Mastery EXP in Stage 10 since I already maxed out my Mechanicus Mastery?

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Daily limit? You cant just play it endlessly during the event?

swordz9 posted...

Daily limit? You cant just play it endlessly during the event?

Yeah I completed Stages 2-9 today. Did a few a couple times to get EXP.


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SwiftyDC posted...

Hold up. So I maxed out my Mechanicus Mastery: Level 10, without trying the last challenge (Stage 10).

I also maxed out my daily limit, soooo does this mean I cant unlock the last challenge Obtain at least 400 Mechanicus Mastery EXP in Stage 10 since I already maxed out my Mechanicus Mastery?

False alarm. Just beat Stage 10 and got the last achievement. Event cleared!

I will say, its not as bad as people make it out to be. This version is a lot easier to clear, IMO. The old way it took awhile to level all the towers up. They gave it alittle bit of that Inazuma Fortune slip flavor with the power ups.


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All I have left is grinding out mastery level and kills. The event is definitely shorter. All the stages had 5 rounds, and I don't think grinding mastery levels is as time consuming as leveling each tower. I do think it was harder, though. Multiple times I allowed the berserkers and axe mitachurls just insta-end runs, and watching a samachurl scurry by as multiple ice towers miss was frustrating.


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Also, 27-star abyss run. 8 stars on floor 10 and 1 on floor 12. Is there a trick to cutting time on lecters/heralds? Seems you just get bogged down by the shield phase.

Knocked out the two character story quest, as well, so I'll try to do the next archon quest next weekend and hopefully unlock Inazuma reputation bounties

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The main power ups I went for were either Pyro or Cryo depending on the enemies and the one that slows the enemies down while they are in your zone thingy that gives you points from killing enemies in the zone. That was a game changer.

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Made some decent progress on the event. I cleared up to lv7 and its feeling a lot easier now that my stuff has leveled up more and I just spam redraw until the 1500 boost shows up. Geo Lumine feels OP as fuck on some stages since you can set up 3 blocks and just watch enemies be stuck.

Praise to RNGesus.




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Today was a good day.



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Okay, I have to recant some of my thoughts on Theater Mechanicus from before. At the time I had only played 4 stages and found them all to be passable. I've done up to 9 now and they are completely stupid. I don't know how anyone's supposed to form a reliable strategy for these. That probably has to do with my refusal to block the path with geo constructs, but that shouldn't be required to be successful.

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azuarc posted...

Okay, I have to recant some of my thoughts on Theater Mechanicus from before. At the time I had only played 4 stages and found them all to be passable. I've done up to 9 now and they are completely stupid. I don't know how anyone's supposed to form a reliable strategy for these. That probably has to do with my refusal to block the path with geo constructs, but that shouldn't be required to be successful.

I cheated and watched KiyoStinV vids on YouTube. But after the first 5 they pretty much all take the same strategy and just have to keep track of what enemies are coming to make sure you set up the right towers; rolling for the right power up is key, too. Like the 1500 Pyro/Cryo, and the one that slows enemies within the charity.

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Mysterious Conch exchange aka heres Apples and Mushrooms every time :/

SwiftyDC posted...

I cheated and watched KiyoStinV vids on YouTube. But after the first 5 they pretty much all take the same strategy and just have to keep track of what enemies are coming to make sure you set up the right towers; rolling for the right power up is key, too. Like the 1500 Pyro/Cryo, and the one that slows enemies within the charity.

I'd like to think I'm doing this, but some of the enemy configurations just run right through your towers. And that's ignoring that you'll sometimes get waves that don't give a shit what towers you have up. I'll put up hydro/cryo, and then get a ton of shield lawachurls that just block the cryo until they get through. Or I'll get a bevy of pyro slimes that refresh their pyro pretty much instantly and don't freeze (and apparently don't take enough melt or vaporize damage.)

Enemies just have stupid amounts of health, poise and resistance. If you don't manage to level your towers effectively -- and that's down to random chance, because the game insists on watering down the leveling up potential with useless crap like elemental mastery and buffs to auxillary towers you're never going to use. Then you get one you can use, but it's a fickle, and in going up by 1 level you also get debuffed by 2. Or it's in the final 500 you have before the new wave, and one of your towers gets destroyed. So you have to pass on all fickle effects, which further reduces your options.

I did have one hilarious run, which was how I got through the 8th stage. I took the bonus that all the cards have ominous effects, and then the one that gives all towers +1 level whenever you pick an ominous, and then I just spammed the cheapest cards in each set. For once, instead of being vastly underleveled, I was incredibly overleveled and completely wrecked the final wave.

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Ive also been using a guide lol. Who needs brain power when someone else can figure it out for me

I enjoy tower defense games, and I thought the only thing that was actively bad about the original Theater Mechanicus was the pacing (as well as the one-size-fits-all strats.) I was looking forward to its return, but I derive no enjoyment from this whatsoever. The player has no control over the outcome.

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The best thing I did was probably give up on maxing out exp. I skipped all courage and ominous cards, and made sure to snag at least the affluent pyro card that grants death from above. Towers in groups of 4: Banishment, two cryo, pyro in the back. And just focus on buffing those. Use Barbara from hydro application and Klee for any shields.

I preferred the progression in the Liyue version, but this was fine (when it wasn't frustrating)

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SockoressKnight posted...

Use Barbara from hydro application and Klee for any shields.

See, I'm not doing this, either. The towers are supposed to function on their own imo. I've certainly played TDS where you have a character you control -- Kingdom Rush, Sanctum to name a couple -- but given that most characters are relatively unable to affect the battlefield in any meaningful way, it seems strange that the game allows some characters to do so. The point of TM, as I see it, was to provide a minigame that doesn't rely on who you have on your account.

But maybe that mindset just makes me a scrub.

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Yeah, in this you definitely need to use your character abilities. Ive cleared up to stage 7 so far and Geo Lumine, Barbara, Jean/Sucrose and any decent Pyro user are like must haves for the events.

That's...really dumb. Either make the characters have a role or don't make them have a role. Someone who goes in with just their regular overworld team isn't going to understand why they can't do shit.

It's also kinda awful because you need to keep up with cycling through cards, which you can't do if you have to be controlling your character. I guess you can do some Korean Starcraft player-level multitasking, but waiting for the wave to clear means you're not getting any extra support during that wave.

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The way I do it is set up towers for Wave 1-2 (using a guide of course lol) while using my character abilities on enemies. These waves are easy enough to not need upgrades. For Wave 3 before the round starts I just spam the fortune upgrades or whatever until the round begins and then do the same until its over.

Hydro/Electro is way stronger than Hydro/Cryo, especially for those little speedy fuckers, they get shocked back.

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It would be amazing if you could just replay a floor for Abyss instead of having to do all 3 sections. Like if you get 3/3/2 you could just select the last stage instead of having to go through 1 and 2 for both sides first.

This is one of the reasons why I have never bothered to try to 9-star floors 11 and 12. I've hit it on 11, but never on 12, and I have absolutely no desire to play 12-1 and 12-2 repeatedly just to try out a new team that might work on 12-3.

I mean, that, and they're always P2W dps checks.

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Got C20 Bennett with my wish.



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Hey Genshin can I please quit getting DEF and HP % main stats from the latest electro artifact set :( :(

swordz9 posted...

latest electro artifact set

I wasn't aware my hydro characters were wearing an electro set.

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You know what I mean. It being purple and in an area with lightning makes it easy to just call it an electro set lol

I mean, I had to guess that was what you were referring to just because it's good on Beidou and you obviously didn't mean Shimenawa's. So no, I didn't really.

You definitely aren't alone in having the HP/DEF blues. If I showed you all the sands, goblet and circlet pieces I've picked up from that domain, it's really sad how few of them are usable based on main stat alone.

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Oh, guess that livestream was today. Will copy/paste primo codes when I find them

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2.1 Livestream? Feels like Yoimiya just came out...

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Theyre hitting hard before the anniversary next month. Hard to believe its almost been a year already.

Third code is NTPVU7JTJYPD

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I don't care how strong it is, I'm not fighting with a fish


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Who is the first best for? Also I finally got the Bow recipe from the stupid mystery conch exchange

So basically what I read your teams as:

Hu Tao + Xingqiu + anemo + shield
Ganyu + Bennett + anemo + shield

Obviously you deviated on 12 first half by bringing Eula instead with Fischl for superconduct. I would have asked how Mona might fair instead of Barbara, but Barbara slides in for Bennett as the healer.

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Sidenote: that bonus reset thing for the primogems is such bait for people who have never bought to get in on the action.

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I did floor 9 at least so far. Would be doing better if I could get better artifacts though. Still hunting for the new ER/EM or whatever set in Inazuma. I lost track of how many 5* ones I used as Exp fodder, but its likely over 100 already >_>. Just so many full of HP or DEF main stats and then plagued with them as sub stats too lol

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Preparing for Baal. Might do Abyss today, too.

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New event was fun!

Also 35* Abyss run. My teams for Floor 12:

A: Ganyu, Mona, Venti, Diona
B: Eula, Xingqui, Zhongli, Albedo

12-1 continues to be a pain in the ass. Eula is a beast.

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