Current Events > Genshin Impact General 14: BOOTLEG FIREWORKS

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Is there a meter somewhere that tells you how many pulls you have?

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No unfortunately. You have to bring up your wish history and manually count.

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Ushiromiya posted...

Is there a meter somewhere that tells you how many pulls you have?

You can actually look at your pull history on the pull page itself. Each page is six pulls, so keep going back until you see your last five star pull, then multiply the number of pages by 6

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Hmm. I'll look for that next time I log on. Thanks.

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Keep in mind the history only goes back 6 months iirc so if your last pity was before then (eg. if you're like me and only roll on standard using the fates they give you + the monthly stardust fates) the count will be inaccurate.

I use a txt file to keep track of my pity lol
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Are you just sitting on all of those primos then? Do you have a target in mind?

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Ushiromiya posted...

Never understood the pity stuff. (but also never tried to)

To add on to what DarkRoast said, you're chances of pulling a 5* go up so dramatically that out of millions of pulls I don't think their has been a reported case of someone actually hitting pull 90 for pity.

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Tartaglia is really starting to grow on me a LOT now that I've invested so much into him. At first I thought of him as somewhat gimmicky, but now that I have a better understanding of what he brings to the table when geared correctly, I've come to realize that the way he does DPS really isn't suited for his C6 anyway. He's very much a swap in quick-explosive-DPS character who is basically unrivaled when dealing with a lot of enemies at once.

Against one or two enemies, he's really nothing special, but the key is the way his Riptide works in large groups of enemies.

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meralonne posted...

Are you just sitting on all of those primos then? Do you have a target in mind?

I guess I could have worded that better--I mean I don't convert my primos to aquaint fates, only intertwined ones, so I've only hit standard pity twice since release. I do indeed roll on event banners lol My next target is Kokomi.
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Easiest Abyss in a while. Got 36 stars in only two attempts.

Eula is amazing against 12-3 bosses

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Still mad I broke pity.

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DarkRoast posted...

Easiest Abyss in a while. Got 36 stars in only two attempts.

Eula is amazing against 12-3 bosses

There's a guy who used Ayaka / Ganyu to 36 star the entire thing.

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Sigh... after trying hard to collect primos in order to get Yoimiya, I got Qiqied C1 instead

Ganyu is finally crowned. I only take Ganyu and Bennett on Floor 12 first half and the results are miles better than adding Xiangling and Qiqi in the mix. The less allies I take the more smooth the runs are otherwise things get very laggy when I spam bursts or skills

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It has been awhile since I last sorted through my artifacts. Turns out I was holding onto hundreds of crappy 4*s
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I think I noticed something interesting while doing the Blizzard domain.
Used a combo of Klee volleyballing the Frosthide Lawachurl into the air with her charged attack, hitting it with Ayaka's skill and then kicking it with Sayu.
The Lawachurl took 22000 physical damage (I guess fall damage) on top of everything.

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hmmm I have a dilemma.

I have a Rust for Yoimiya, but I just picked up the Hamayumi prototype crafting recipe and I have enough bow billets to make it R5, once Ive farmed up a few more amethysts.

What do?

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meralonne posted...

hmmm I have a dilemma.

I have a Rust for Yoimiya, but I just picked up the Hamayumi prototype crafting recipe and I have enough bow billets to make it R5, once Ive farmed up a few more amethysts.

What do?

Rust R5 is the best weapon in the game for Yoimiya outside of R3+ 5* weapons.

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Yeah, but my Rust is R1. Guess I can use hamayumi until I manage to pull more rusts.

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You know, I had a bit of a existential moment just now where I'm wondering why I even keep rolling for characters when I can clear the spiral abyss with 36 stars in just two attempts.

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Because using the same eight characters day in and day out is a great way to get tired of this game really fast.

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meralonne posted...

Because using the same eight characters day in and day out is a great way to get tired of this game really fast.

Yeah. This is one of the reasons I stopped using Venti and Zhongli. I started exploring some of the more unique characters and found some unexpected loves.

PS: Albedo + Sayu is better than sex.

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Tartaglia + Kazuha = Full Mess

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DarkRoast posted...

Tartaglia + Kazuha = Full Mess

I've only just started using Tartaglia seriously and I kind of regret not pulling for him now but OTOH I don't really like Tartaglia's style much and have only really started training him since it looks like a very long time until we can get a real hydro DPS.

Maybe we'll get lucky and Ayato will be a hydro character. Regardless that's late October at the earliest & they still haven't announced when Yae Miko or Thoma will release and neither of them are hydro.

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Tartaglia is a very hard character to like until he's finally fully built, but he requires so much investment and has such a narrow scope of team comps that I can totally understand why most players hate him. Hell, I hated him until I got C6 Fischl (that combo is preeeeeeeetty good)

One thing I did finally realize is that his C6 really isn't as useful as it looks. Tartaglia is all about rapid hydro application, and Heart of Depth is basically a 15s timer.
Really aren't a lot of situations in which the C6 would actually be useful, because you will want to swap him out for another sub DPS anyway.

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DarkRoast posted...

You know, I had a bit of a existential moment just now where I'm wondering why I even keep rolling for characters when I can clear the spiral abyss with 36 stars in just two attempts.

i said this months ago, and here i am, still rolling for chars. baal is definitely the last one i need though. definitely.

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There is no last one for me in all honesty, there will always be something in the future I will love to have. Granted, I don't really need to pull anything new when I already have Ganyu/Ayaka/Hu Tao/Eula/Zhongli but this is one feature of Gacha where I will have to and want to roll for new chars

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I have had a C1 Zhongli since his first banner and he's still sitting at the bottom of my roster. I don't know why i don't want to use him

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Lukey_Bug posted...

I have had a C1 Zhongli since his first banner and he's still sitting at the bottom of my roster. I don't know why i don't want to use him

I honestly think he's not all that necessary. I know everyone likes to talk about how ridiculously overpowered he is, but frankly if your DPS is high enough and you have Diona and Bennett, you really don't need him. A fully geared Noelle has really good shields too. I didn't even use him in my latest run of 36 Stars. Venti is, in my opinion, more useful in that there is literally no other character who even approximates what he does.

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Got a 26GB update jeez

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DarkRoast posted...

Venti is, in my opinion, more useful in that there is literally no other character who even approximates what he does.

At this point I definitely believe Mihoyo is trying to make Venti less "one button to solve it all" and more "one of the ways to make the game a lot more comfortable".

Kazuha definitely performs on par in my opinion. If enemies can be pulled and your characters hit into the windhole, Venti is superior, otherwise Kazuha has the advantage.

Next update Mihoyo introduces specters. I peeked at leaks and apparently they cannot be pulled, grow more powerful if provoked (very high damage hit? critical hit?) and explode on death

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Noraneko_Vel posted...

At this point I definitely believe Mihoyo is trying to make Venti less "one button to solve it all" and more "one of the ways to make the game a lot more comfortable".

Kazuha definitely performs on par in my opinion. If enemies can be pulled and your characters hit into the windhole, Venti is superior, otherwise Kazuha has the advantage.

Next update Mihoyo introduces specters. I peeked at leaks and apparently they cannot be pulled, grow more powerful if provoked (very high damage hit? critical hit?) and explode on death

The problem with Venti used to be that he was kind-of a one-trick pony.

If enemies could be "Venti'd" he basically deleted them from the game. In this current abyss, the floors with the slimes are an absolute joke thanks to him.

But I do think Kazuha, in MOST situations, is at least as good as Venti, if not better. That said, if you're in a battle where every enemy can be "Venti'd" it's basically still instant win.


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It took a fair bit of luck with getting the enemies to group up but I finally got that last 12-1 star.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQ-tFQUKcTg
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As a C6 Noelle main myself (crowned attack and ult) I have respekt for this

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The OST in Liyue never stops putting a smile on my face. It's so beautiful.

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DarkRoast posted...

The OST in Liyue never stops putting a smile on my face. It's so beautiful.

The best track in the game is from Liyue.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1JsBvHzWfY


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The 2.1 beta has ended, Kokomi got another round of nerfs and Raiden got another round of buffs.

Her jellyfish can only vaporize once every 4 seconds and heals less now.

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Tyranthraxus posted...

Kokomi got another round of nerfs

iirc the last Kokomi change was a clear buff.
Increase in HP and ATK base stats by an unknown amount and at the same time decrease in healing multiplier? Which would mean she likely will heal the same but will gain a damage increase.

The internal cooldown on hydro application was just something they never noticed until they tried vaporozing an abyss mage shield as far as I know. Basically makes her skill better than Barbara for vape/freeze, but worse than Xingqiu and Mona?

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Noraneko_Vel posted...

iirc the last Kokomi change was a clear buff.
Increase in HP and ATK base stats by an unknown amount and at the same time decrease in healing multiplier? Which would mean she likely will heal the same but will gain a damage increase

The decrease in healing was significant enough that she heals less even after the base stats buff. She'll do more raw damage but with the jellyfish only able to vaporize once every 4 seconds her final damage won't exactly be that great.

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Yeah but the point is she needs damage in her kit more than healing right now, so it's a buff in the end.

Let's say Kokomi has 30000 base HP (my Barbs has that much and her base stat is worse).
That's already over 2900 hp healing each tick at lv8 without counting the many multipliers she has on top. Barbara has a smaller multiplier and slower ticks on her skill passive. Barbara's skill is already enough to keep my group alive.

Kokomi's skill heals every 2 sec and has full uptime. She will never have issues keeping everyone alive.

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Some good news. The difference between electro goblet and atk goblet for Raiden is pretty small. A bigger issue is sands where ER sands does not play nice with Electro goblet so basically if you have an ATK sands you can do whatever with the goblet but if you're using ER sands then you should only use ATK goblet.

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that's good, because ATK% goblets are garbage to everyone except Qiqi and maybe Sayu.
It'll make gearing Baal easier.

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Noraneko_Vel posted...

that's good, because ATK% goblets are garbage to everyone except Qiqi and maybe Sayu.
It'll make gearing Baal easier.

They're arguably okay for Rosaria if you're going for mixed phys/cryo

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just learned that gorou is going to be a geo bow user. i've been interested in that combo for months now. hopefully i'll have enough time after baal to save up and try rolling for him, or at least if i lose my 50/50 on baal (very common with my luck), i can gurantee him if he's good.

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TwoDoorPC posted...

just learned that gorou is going to be a geo bow user. i've been interested in that combo for months now. hopefully i'll have enough time after baal to save up and try rolling for him, or at least if i lose my 50/50 on baal (very common with my luck), i can gurantee him if he's good.

I thought Gorou was a 4*? Did that change?

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Yeah he's 4-star.

Geo bow sounds great.

Geo superiority forever.

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even better, i was told he's a 5*

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Tyranthraxus posted...

Some good news. The difference between electro goblet and atk goblet for Raiden is pretty small. A bigger issue is sands where ER sands does not play nice with Electro goblet so basically if you have an ATK sands you can do whatever with the goblet but if you're using ER sands then you should only use ATK goblet.

I don't understand

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Irony posted...

I don't understand

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That's kind of a general issue with any character that might reserve sands for a stat besides atk%, not just Baal. People suggest element% goblet because it's generally assumed your sands already provide atk%, so switching to a different modifier gives greater gains.

If your sands, substats, and weapon are all providing very little atk%, an atk% goblet is functionally the same as an element% goblet.

Raikuro posted...

That's kind of a general issue with any character that might reserve sands for a stat besides atk%, not just Baal. People suggest element% goblet because it's generally assumed your sands already provide atk%, so switching to a different modifier gives greater gains.

If your sands, substats, and weapon are all providing very little atk%, an atk% goblet is functionally the same as an element% goblet.

It varies by character especially if the character has an element damage ascension stat then Atk% goblets tend to contribute more. Raiden is a strange case because of her set and Ascension bonus.

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