#FAQs
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im surprise people didn't like dehya demo. i thought it was really good. it fits the character and the music is really great as well.
if anything i think nilou demo was the worst for me as their wasn't much going on in that.
Is there another dendroculus in the underground tunnels from Dar al Shifa? (apart from the one right at the drop from where you enter that is) I collected the one that was in the tunnels but my resonance stone is still showing something in the same area and I can't find another.
Finally was able to clear Floor 12 first half with Double Hydro Tao đ Trying to play with Elegy Fischl (to fight ASIMON) and thus no shield unit against the consecrated beasts was a menace but I'm surprised that I did enjoy the challenge a little bit.
Idk how Sports Twitter popularized the "Athletes Saying Things In A Sports Page Infographic" meme format but it's amazing
"I owe you an apology, I wasn't really familiar with your game"
"I'll be there no matter what"
"I'm not interested"
"I will love it, and I think I deserve it"
"Ain't shit funny"
"You better learn Chinese"
I had a passing thought to try switching him to it, but in that process I discovered that his Sacrificial Sword is holding half that team together. He just doesn't have the Energy Recharge from other sources to go without it and I'm not going to rebuild him, so Sacrificial it is.
[Hbd koko](https://www.google.com.sg/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwjHncunn6j9AhWcBLcAHaF1AusQglR6BAgJEAM&url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2FGenshinImpact%2Fstatus%2F1628243199255891969%3Fref_src%3Dtwsrc%255Egoogle%257Ctwcamp%255Eserp%257Ctwgr%255Etweet&usg=AOvVaw3MYOj3PNgnfpqK8Mth8Nz2)
its drier than the sahara here
*pushes you all into the schoolbus*
Don't forget your lunches!! Don't fall asleep in class and MAKE SURE NOT TO PEE YOUR PANTS AT SCHOOL AGAIN!
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I've been playing camp buddy this past month and I just found out one of the characters there is voiced by EN Diluc lmao so I went and changed the language on genshin to EN and listened to Diluc, and I was like 'yep that's Aiden alright'
He got the range alright, Mishima (Persona 5) and Navarre (SMT IV Apocalypse, replacing Liam O'Brien) are my experiences with Sean Chiplock
Especially hilarious when he touches his Diluc's voice range as Mishima
Iâve been procrastinating floor 12 since the latest reset because Iâm still traumatised from dying a lot on the last reset đ I donât even 9 star it, I just do it for the completion
If you just need to complete it, I did it with Barbara/Kuki/DMC/Kaeya just to see if I could and 12-2 was pretty comfy with that team. They were too slow to 3 star 12-1 and 12-3 but 12-2 worked great. First half though. Barbara on 2nd half is a nightmare with the cryo enemies.
Yelan: You have a lot to learn about staying incognito Traveler. You should always travel under an alias to avoid undue attention.
Also Yelan, 2 minutes later, in her regular speaking voice: Hello Merchant. My name Jeff. Got any juicy gossip to share?
I know Itto's rerun is far away and I'm not certain how needed this information is but...
Yuegui (Yaoyao E-skill) can hit Golden Wolflord while flying.
The same as in-game? Barring card effects, youâd accumulate an energy counter each turn you attack with that card, for a cap of three. Once you have three counters on your active card, you can use its ult (whose description would be on the character card.
Also, as a thought, Oz, Guoba, etc may need to be represented by figurines that come with the starter set since Fischl and Xianglingâs card abilities kind of necessitate their use.
I always run Artiscan on my laptop. Open my Genshin inventory on another window, change artifacts at each beep and bam, done after just a couple of minutes without having to download any software or take pictures.
Just make sure you click on "Burn Results" on the results tab after you've imported your data on the Optimiser, otherwise it'll save your current artifacts and create a bunch of duplicates if you use it again in the future.
whats the deal with dehya? anyone can be good if you know how to build properly; so just pull for who you like.
- day one veteran player who consistently 26 star abyss
This current banner drained all my primos, genesis, and glitters. I'm happy that I have no interest in both banners in 3.5. I get some time to save for Baizhu.
That feeling you get when u are forced to NOT smoke for a couple of days? Yeah⊠its the same feeling without đđŒTHEMđđŒLEAKS!!! đ€đ€đ€
That one colleague is giving me aneurysm at this point. Controlling, never receiving any criticism, aggressively rebuking every single suggestion from everyone else in the team, forcing everyone to follow what she says to a T even when her proposals are fucking unrealistic, cleaning up her shit because her work is messy as hell. Good god Kazuha please give me your zen and patience. Cuz I sure have none left.
I haven't started the world quest for this patch in the desert. Assuming that I skim it but not entirely missing out on the story, how long will it take me to finish it?
Someone pointed out that Dehya is the most convenient way to setup 2 consecutive vaporize in overworld so now I am actually contemplating on using 1 50/50 to try to pull her. (Bonus point for also having day time move speed bonus passive)
Prototype Amber Wanderer (Air Ambulance) / Kazuha / Dehya / Yelan. Gonna take my time until Baizhu kit leak to think it over.
Edit : Tested with Albedo, turns out his field generation share element icd with his field proc. If Dehya field functions similar to Albedo this is now more clunkier than I though. (require to wait 2.5s before snapping first E)
>the most convenient way to setup 2 consecutive vaporize in overworld
she isn't
check the footage from the livestream. her E procs so slowly that her Dehya melts once off Ganyu's bloom damage, and then when Ganyu attacks again Dehya's E just doesn't proc. If you wanna proc easy overworld vaporises, you could run DPS Benny and just spam his E.
The sequence is Dehya cast E apply Pyro> Yelan E Vaporize > E field proc and apply Pyro > Yelan E Vaporize.
Longer fight Dehya's pyro application definitely lags behind.
yelan vape does like 70-80k in overworld
what exactly lives that, also if group them you probably miss it
if not, you probably dealt extra dmg whilst grouping + swirling
if a bigger boss, maybe? but to pull a whole unit to save 1 second per mini "boss" aint worth it imo if that's actually your reason
guoba literally does it better, bro attack fast enough and is free
guoba e -> yelan e -> yelan e
>The sequence is Dehya cast E apply Pyro> Yelan E Vaporize > E field proc and apply Pyro > Yelan E Vaporize.
yeah my point is the way it will actually go is
Dehya cast E apply Pyro> Yelan E Vaporize > nothing procs because Dehya's E is seriously awful and has hella long cooldown between procs > Yelan E without Vaporize.
If the field mechanic is similar to Albedo, then the field generation is not counted toward field proc cd while ~~the field proc does not share icd with the field generation.~~ Edit : Tested in game, Albedo field generation share element icd with his field proc. Damn now just gonna hope Dehya E bypass icd.
Gonna need to wait for her trial to test.
So do we have any info on the Geo cat girl's personality and kit? From what I'm seeing she's a genki/Yoimiya type. I also think her kit might revolve around her defense in some way
Planning my Mika main build, already have PJWS maxed and waiting, then realized 4pc Pale Flame won't work for him since his E cooldown is 15s...
Wondering if I should go for 2pc ATK% + 2pc Phys DMG, full Glad or Shimenawa's since his ult is not a dmg dealing one.
Any ideas?
Assuming his hold E can do double hit on single target, he can stack 4pc Pale Flame instantly just like Eula tho only 7s uptime. Stick with 2pc Pale Flame + 2pc Bloodstained for unconditional 50% phys bonus, 4pc Shime is better but conditional and only 10s uptime, 4pc Glad is just a worse 4pc Shime. Since you most likely to run a atk buffer like Benny or Yun Jin or both, 2pc PF + 2pc BC is better imo
I don't have Eula and didn't even consider the multi target activation!!
I already have a semi-decent Pale Flame set for Razor so I'll have to try it when be comes out - thank you!
Yeah, I genuinely donât know which would be better because PJWS is just such a massive stat stick and the passive lends itself to doing a bunch of NAs. I just know Crescent Pike is brokety-broke, so my impulse would be to at least try it for any physical polearm build.
Itâs really nasty on characters with multi-hit animations in their NA string, and I donât know whether Mika falls into that category or not.
18% atk + 50% dmg (but with only 10 second uptime) (shime)
18% atk + 25% dmg (2 pc atk, 2 pc dmg)
18% atk + 35% dmg (2 pc atk, glad)
50% dmg (2 pc phys dmg, 2 pc phys dmg)
Shimenawa's will be the best assuming your burst is useless and you only field him for 10 seconds after pressing E.
Gladiator will be a more consistent buff as it has 100% uptime, but it won't be as strong.
The downside of using "exploration teams" is that you miss out on great dialogue for characters that you like.
Happened to have Fischl out when visiting Dragonspine today. Fischl's character breaking is always so hilarious and adorable!
Key of Khaj-nisut gives higher em for Shinobu + extra hp is just a nice healing bonus. Team em is good. It's her bis. You run triple em with hp substats.
Key of Khaj-Nisut of course, especially at higher refinements.
It has the absolutely highest personal EM for Shinobu, plus team EM buff which is typically better than FSâs buffs (especially when you already have another character holding Elegy as the ATK buffs from Elegy and FS donât stack).
So kinda random question to anyone here who has gone through and played Isshin.
How are you meant to remember who any of these characters are?
I keep automatically defaulting to their Yakuza counterparts and am so confused as to who is supposed to be who anymore.
Opinions on what I should do for pulls? Planning on getting Nahida when she comes back, I have like 29k primos and 16 pity no guarantee
Thinking of throwing some pulls at Shenhe for my Ayaka only up to the point where I can still guarantee Nahida
I'll probably wait until we officially hear the 3.6 banners to decide. The only thing that'd stop me from trying for Shenhe is Venti or Kokomi in 3.6
Save for nahida C2, you should have enough by then and its a huge difference for her damage. Shenhe you ideally need at C2 as well, to me she is too niche. I would rather use a C0 Ganyu as burst/damage support but thats my opinion.
Kokomi is 100% worth pulling if she gets a banner
For now I'd rather get more characters than cons, I don't rlly need that much more damage
Same with Shenhe, I think it makes more sense to get Ayaka c2 before shenhe
Thats a totally reasonable approach, I hate gearing and artifact grinding so I would personally rather C1 or C2 a character than pull more/new ones. Quick question - who is in your Ayaka team right now? I run two variants - Ayaka, kokomi, ganyu Kazuha and if I need koko on other team Ill put xinqui in as cryo and usually swap ganyu for diona as I always need some healing so ayaka, xq, diona kazuha is essentially my other team. Im just thinking if shenhe would actually be an upgrade to your cryo support slot at c0?
Ayaka Diona Mona Kazuha
So it would be an upgrade but no healer would be a bit rough and I'm not a fan of prototype amber Mona
I'd just prefer Kokomi since she can be used in dendro teams
Thats probably a good way to go. Koko is a ridiculous healer and her hydro application works much better than mona so you can swirl cryo from your support, drop koko jellyfish to freeze then go pew pew w Ayaka. Wish you the best of luck on your pulls! Hopefully koko gets a banner!
I'd say it all depends on if you care abt meta or not.
If you rly want your Ayato to be op then go for Shenhe. Maybe throw a couple of 10 pulls in, if nothing comes and you change your mind then I'd say move onto Venti, Kokomi, or Nahida (If you care abt meta have your priorities like this: Nahida > Kokomi > Venti). But also, pull for characters you likeđđ»đ
I pull strictly for meta lol, there are no characters (or at least none that I don't already have) that are interesting enough for me to pull over meta
I'm getting Nahida regardless, I'm just deciding what to do with the excess pulls, it's either throw them at Shenhe, save for Kokomi/Venti if they also come 3.6, or just save for any unexpected good characters
Ig just save for the Hydro Archon kek. Recent pattern w the Archons is that theyre the only ones w a good kit (Venti besides). I'd say tho, Shenhe, Kokomi, and Venti then just depend on your existing teams. Your Ayaka obv needs Shenhe for the extra buff, so you can always go for Shenhe with your excess pulls (Just make sure you have 180 fates left over for Nahida). As for Venti and Kokomi... get them if yk you DESPERATELY need them for your Abyss team.
Kokomi is good for freeze or bloom teams, and she is an op healer too. So if one of your teams needs a hydro applicator and a healer then go for Kokomi.
Ughhh Venti... he is good for small enemies crowd control. Ig he does give elemental buff to your characters (only if he is equipped w VV tho), but honestly Venti is only useful for Floor 9 and 10 in the Abyss, which are easy floors anyways. If you got Kazuha, I'd say you don't have to go for Venti (unless you like Venti in general). Though, another con for his kit is that not all character's attacks can reach the enemies that are sucked up in his tornado. Like Hu Tao and Diluc can't reach the enemies, so just have that in mind.
But ig, since Fontaine isn't that far either, having Kokomi on your team isnt bad, since there might be an HP or a hydro boost in the Abyss for v4.0 which isn't that far away XD^^ but having a guaranteed Nahida and Focalors is always reassuring.
In general, if yk that your teams are already thriving even without Shenhe, Venti, or Kokomi, then you don't gotta go for them. So just save your fates if that's the case. Maybe in Fontaine HOPEFULLY Hoyo will finally release some good characters who aren't unusable unless you unlock their C6 cons.
Anyways, good luck on your summons!!! Hope you'll get your characters early!!
>Ig just save for the Hydro Archon kek
This sounds like a good idea, but they're relatively far out
>if yk you DESPERATELY need them for your Abyss team.
Lol, I don't need anyone, I can clear already
XD ig ye, you can continue to save. Maybe if you want to get some cons of whatever 4 stars they're gonna have in their banners tho, and not mind getting the 5 star too by accident. Anyways, good luck!!
Lol, I was saving for the one character I would pull over meta (Hu Tao), also wanted Yelan, and their weapons since I expected it to be cracked
Went well, won my 50/50 on Hu Tao, won my 50/50 on Yelan, set my path to Homa but got Aqua first which I was good with bc I was going for it after, then got Homa, then my friend egged me into going for C1 Hu Tao and got it on my first 10 pull, winning another 50/50
And after that I still had 25k, no regrets
most of this week is a holiday for me so i can rest but man. i still feel like reaching monday will take forever. i need to see baizhu!!! let him out of the basement!!!
Happy Birthday to the goddess of the sea, my fish queen my first triple crowned AND my first c0r1 JUST BECAUSE she is more PERFECT with it everlasting moonglow is the most beautiful weapon i laid my eyes on. Miss Sangonomiya Kokomi my bestie my only reason i still open this game /hj
nloom spawning flowerbuds that turn into pretty flowers with a burst of dendro energy????? i would have fucking whaled so hard you wouldn't even believe
I almost never do this but allow me to celebrate Kokoday.
Happy Birthday to Kokomi! She is amazing, groundbreaking, spectacular and honestly my fave Genshin character, her mermaid/magical girl vibes are off the charts and she is my comfort character ever since that fateful day near the 1st anniv.
Happy Kokoday!!!! She's such a joy to play anywhere, I'm so happy I have her. Her mermaid/magical girl vibes and pastel mermaid princess aesthetic are unmatched
plugging the [fave genshin character survey](https://forms.gle/mH31FiHxoJGRsdDz7) again hehe
currently at 372 responses, i'm aiming for around 500 :D thank you!!
i'll post the results here ofc once everything is done \~
just overall, i guess. i was thinking more in terms of personality and how they appear as a character in general rather than kit or strength, but everyone has their own criteria for their fave
Semi off topic rant:
My laptop can't update windows and because of that it became slow af, genshin is almost unplayable, I discovered that's because windows is downloading the update in the background but even when is downloaded and I restar to apply the update ...it doesn't fucking let me!! All the time I get "failed to install update, reverting all the changes" and it restart all the process again!! It's been 2 days of dailies missed and capped resin.
Is not the end of the world but I'm mad!! Fuck you windows!! And the saddest part is that I still can't resolve the problem :'v
you're telling me there's no leaderboard for kokomi even though i got mine above 40k hp?
edit: how do people have 55k I farmed for months and have basically no dead statsđ
Isn't that very normal for Kokomi to have that much hp? Mine with hp/hydro/healing bonus with prototype amber got 42k hp on 4pc ocean hued clam and thats without much hp substat rolls
Yeah, 42k is damn high. If I did the math right, a level 90 Kokomi with Prototype Amber's gonna need about 90% HP from substats to reach it without Hydro Resonance. On average, that's 18 rolls on HP% across 4 pieces. Probably a bit less in reality because flat HP rolls help towards it but rolling that much on a single stat will still take some good luck. Add in her ER requirements if she's to be played on-field (likely if running 4-pc Clam) and yeah, it's very tough.
I feel like in any conversation about builds, "enough ER to comfortably burst as needed" is a given for characters that need their burst. Anything that doesn't meet ER reqs on characters that use their burst might as well not exist.
I feel they move from that archetype and do something different for her, slow but very heavy hydro maybe or AOE focused off field instead of single target unlike Xq/Yelan and not needing NAs, also heavy Hp related focus, like max hp to allies, or hp to dmg stuff or some defensive utility. There are roles she can do that doesn't fall to their role. However even if she doesn't compete with Xq/Yelan she still has heavy competition from other hydros that it feels that Hp related support is going to be the only truly unique and role that she can have. Hp buffs will will make he good for Nilou, Hu-Tao, double and mono hydro.
This may be an uncommon opinion (at least not one Iâve seen expressed a lot), but to me Focolars presents a very interesting dilemma coming up
Aside from Venti who had circumstances go against him, it feels like MHY doesnât want other characters encroaching on archons territory, and MHY wants all of them to be strong. The problem is hydro is probably the most complete element of the bunch. You have:
-an amazing on field enabler
-super flexible on Field DPS/enabler
-great healer
-an OP character with defensive utility, great damage, and enabling abilities
-A great character whoâs a good enabler and brings great off field damage and has a passive that buffs the team
Like theyâre going to want to make Focolars a staple of the element, but itâs difficult to do without encroaching on another characters territory. Generally MHY has been great with avoiding power creep, but this is going to be a pretty unique situation
pity venti was the very first 5 star, he used to be considered godly but is pushed towards mob-related concerns now. it's not gonna happen but i rly wish they'd update him. his trailer pales in comparison to others as well (even klee's looked better and she was released right after him).
The unfortunate thing is heâs a victim of is being too OP. Like Venti in early 1.X is the only example of a character breaking the game and trivializing everything. They had to counter that in some way and unfortunately his use took a hit because of it
I don't think that one would be that popular
They seem to make the Archons Sub DPS cause everyone wants good Sub DPS in their accounts, while very few people pulls for many on field characters, much less hypercarries.
Ayato is pretty close despite his burst being off field
The reason heâs so flexible though is because hydro as an element is just OP at enabling so even if they have standard ICD on fast normals theyâll still be good for it. I have a hard time seeing them implement a selfish carry Hydro archon that doesnât completely encroach on his territory
Archon is the key word here
Yea they can make another on fielder differentiate themselves from Ayato/Childe, consider me doubtful theyâd give a kit like that to the hydro archon. If sheâs an on fielder theyâre going to give her the flexibility to take on a lot of roles, and considering hydros biggest positive is itâs enabling capabilities I have a hard time seeing the hydro archon not having that
I expect the main focus of her kit to be off-field AoE Hydro with a XQ/Yelan-type application. She might even have the 1.5U application that Yelan once had in Beta. We don't have many characters who can apply off-field AoE Hydro in the first place; XQ and Yelan are single-target and rely on NAs, while Ayato's burst application isn't too great. I also expect her to have HP-buffing capabilities and some minor healing (more like Xingqiu's healing than Kokomi).
(Coincidentally, fast off-field Hydro that doesn't need NAs, minor healing, and HP-buffing would all be great for Dehya, even more so if Focalors actually did damage.)
If they end up implementing this kit and the HP buffing was significant enough then Iâd expect weâre about to get a lot more HP scaling characters
Though I feel like theyâd have a difficult time implementing this kit without just overshadowing XQ/Yelan
in order to not have her beat XQ/Yelan, they could just give her lower damage multipliers so that her main focus was support/elemental application as opposed to both hydro application and damage.
I donât think theyâll commit to making an archon that niche/restricted. Like Nahida and Raiden for example accommodate multiple roles, for the archon of the most universal element I donât think theyâll restrict her to just a buffer, especially considering a lot of the other hydro characters have multiple aspects to their kit. Theyâll in all likelihood consolidate multiple roles into her kit, which is going to encroach on some characters role.
If they did make her a pure buffer though theyâd probably make her so OP that sheâd just end up replacing one of the hydro characters in their best comps
Nilou's existence opens the gates to custom reactions. Imagine if Focalors' role is to give something new to electrocharge, vape, freeze, etc. while also buffing hp and crit dmg. That way she doesn't invalidate other hydro units and will instead be used with other hydro units.
I have heavy doubts theyâd dedicate the archon towards one reaction. Look at the others:
Venti- can be slotted anywhere, is most useful with enemies that can be CCed
Zhongli- Can be slotted anywhere. Is one of the most common characters used in mono Geo, Xiao, Melt Ganyu, Yoimiya, Hu Tao teams.
Raiden- has multiple teams where she excels like hyperbloom, hypercarry, Eula, national, tazer. Can be used as an on fielder or off fielder
Nahida- is BiS on nearly every dendro team
The archon is supposed to encompass the element they represent, they arenât going to pigeonhole an archon like that to not work with most of the elements reactions. Being the most universal element and facilitating so many different reactions is part of what makes hydro OP, and thatâs not something theyâll take away from the archon of the element imo
That's why I said she could buff hydro reactions. She would buff all of them, not just one. That would make her top tier for most reaction teams that need hydro.
this isnât uncommon at all, everyone has these same fears for focalors.
a lot of people have suspected she may be a âjack of all trades, master of noneâ situation where she touches on all of those roles but isnât as effective as those characters. subdps utility without being as great as xingqiu, healing but not as good as koko, etc etc. issue with this is it would just make her a second option and go against the whole archon design philosophy.
itâs a hard one honestly. idk what hoyo can do to her without making her stupidly OP or justâŠsecond to the rest in every aspect.
We don't even know what focalors kit is, if she has a defensive kit then she might replace xq instead of Yelan and that's only assuming that her kit will revolve around fast single target hydro application. The way I see it she's probably gonna be a buffer+healer so maybe a combination of Mona and Kokomi.
Hypothetically, if she truly was a max HP buffer with personal damage, then Focalors + Yelan would probably be better than Focalors + Xingqiu because Yelan benefits a lot more from HP, so in that scenario you could pull for Yelan without worry.
but she isnât though? i thought it was agreed upon that yelan being 5 star xingqiu is a good thing, and that the both of themâs best teams are always with each other?
It is a good thing, but redundant nonetheless.
Also, Yelan's best teams might be alongside XQ, but XQ's best teams aren't necessarily. Yelan needs XQ so much more than XQ needs Yelan (and even that is being generous, he doesn't need her at all)
Oh wow I [flubbed](https://www.reddit.com/r/Genshin_Impact_Leaks/comments/108y8na/comment/j4kogbx/) this one pretty badly huh.
Which means it's time to try and fail again! 3.6 banner prediction lessgo!
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3.6 1st half: Baizhu + Ganyu
3.6 2nd half: Nahida + Nilou + Kaveh (4*)
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I feel like this one's *gotta* be more straightforward so hopefully I get it right? The only one I'm confused about is who the second character with Baizhu will be. At this point I've sort of given up hope on Eula and I think that *if* she gets a re-run it'll be at the tail-end of Sumeru in like 3.7 or 3.8.
I'm stuck between Ganyu and Kokomi but I went with Ganyu because she's a Liyue character and I feel like MHY will try to put her there to get some Shenhe pullers to go for her...although you could use this logic for Kokomi and people who pulled for Ayaka so idek tbh. Guess we'll see in about a month!
RemindMe! April 5, 2023
Kaveh not being with Baizhu wouldnât be the end of the world, Iâd still pull for Kaveh and wouldnât be opposed to trying Nilou bloom, but him with Baizhu would be more preferable
Also, wouldnât the 3.6 livestream be on the 31st of March?
Yeah it'd fall on the 31st of March but in the past I just set the bot to give me a reminder a week before the actual update so I've just kept doing that lol.
Only reason I think Baizhu+Kaveh would be on separate sides is because MHY seems to prefer doing that and if they make 3.6 a half Liyue/half Sumeru event (which I'm thinking might happen because one of the leakers suggested we'll get a Liyue and Sumeru area in 3.6) then it would sound more reasonable to put them on separate sides based on story relevance.
Although from this last patch it looks like MHY is saying "screw story relevance" for the banners so who even knows tbh.
Looking back at it now, Cyno was definitely due for his first re-run so idk why I didn't pick up on that back then. Although it looks like few other people did either so maybe it really was unexpected at the time.
Eula getting skipped on the other hand came out of nowhere though, still shocked at how MHY bait-and-switched us like this lol. Everything in the world was pointing to her getting a re-run and then this happens.
#FAQs **When is X?** >**Version 3.5 Livestream** is on 17th February 2023, Friday at 12:00 PM GMT Countdown and view it in your timezone [here](https://timee.io/20230217T1200?tl=Version%203.5%20Livestream~) >**Version 3.5 goes live** on 1st March 2023, Wednesday at 03:00 AM GMT Countdown and view it in your timezone [here](https://timee.io/20230301T0300?tl=Version%203.5%20goes%20live~) >**Version 3.5 Preload** is on 27th February 2023, Monday at 03:00 AM GMT >**Drip Marketing** for characters in Version 3.6 is expected to be on 27th February 2023, Monday at 10:00 AM GMT Countdown and view it in your timezone [here](https://timee.io/20230227T1000?tl=Drip%20Marketing~)
im surprise people didn't like dehya demo. i thought it was really good. it fits the character and the music is really great as well. if anything i think nilou demo was the worst for me as their wasn't much going on in that.
I don't think they disliked the demo itself, I think it was more of a form of protest to how bad her kit is designed.
Is there another dendroculus in the underground tunnels from Dar al Shifa? (apart from the one right at the drop from where you enter that is) I collected the one that was in the tunnels but my resonance stone is still showing something in the same area and I can't find another.
Finally was able to clear Floor 12 first half with Double Hydro Tao đ Trying to play with Elegy Fischl (to fight ASIMON) and thus no shield unit against the consecrated beasts was a menace but I'm surprised that I did enjoy the challenge a little bit.
Why not put elegy on Yelan?
Idk how Sports Twitter popularized the "Athletes Saying Things In A Sports Page Infographic" meme format but it's amazing "I owe you an apology, I wasn't really familiar with your game" "I'll be there no matter what" "I'm not interested" "I will love it, and I think I deserve it" "Ain't shit funny" "You better learn Chinese"
donât forget the marvel youtube thumbnail format. âwhat was he cooking?â âdoes he know??â
Goku solos
KOKOMI BIRTH đđđđ
It's a crime how good Amenoma Kageuchi looks on Xingqiu
I had a passing thought to try switching him to it, but in that process I discovered that his Sacrificial Sword is holding half that team together. He just doesn't have the Energy Recharge from other sources to go without it and I'm not going to rebuild him, so Sacrificial it is.
[Hbd koko](https://www.google.com.sg/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwjHncunn6j9AhWcBLcAHaF1AusQglR6BAgJEAM&url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2FGenshinImpact%2Fstatus%2F1628243199255891969%3Fref_src%3Dtwsrc%255Egoogle%257Ctwcamp%255Eserp%257Ctwgr%255Etweet&usg=AOvVaw3MYOj3PNgnfpqK8Mth8Nz2) its drier than the sahara here
*pushes you all into the schoolbus* Don't forget your lunches!! Don't fall asleep in class and MAKE SURE NOT TO PEE YOUR PANTS AT SCHOOL AGAIN! **[Have a nice day at the new megathread dear!!](https://www.reddit.com/r/Genshin_Impact_Leaks/comments/118o3er/tighnaris_declassified_sumeru_survival_guide/)**
I've been playing camp buddy this past month and I just found out one of the characters there is voiced by EN Diluc lmao so I went and changed the language on genshin to EN and listened to Diluc, and I was like 'yep that's Aiden alright'
He got the range alright, Mishima (Persona 5) and Navarre (SMT IV Apocalypse, replacing Liam O'Brien) are my experiences with Sean Chiplock Especially hilarious when he touches his Diluc's voice range as Mishima
You would be surprised. Sean Chiplock is in quite a bit of BL VN
Yeah, definitely surprised me. He was really good as Aiden too ngl
Iâve been procrastinating floor 12 since the latest reset because Iâm still traumatised from dying a lot on the last reset đ I donât even 9 star it, I just do it for the completion
If you just need to complete it, I did it with Barbara/Kuki/DMC/Kaeya just to see if I could and 12-2 was pretty comfy with that team. They were too slow to 3 star 12-1 and 12-3 but 12-2 worked great. First half though. Barbara on 2nd half is a nightmare with the cryo enemies.
Yelan: You have a lot to learn about staying incognito Traveler. You should always travel under an alias to avoid undue attention. Also Yelan, 2 minutes later, in her regular speaking voice: Hello Merchant. My name Jeff. Got any juicy gossip to share?
Loooool the first thing I thought about when she was talking about undue attention was "Bro you wear the flashiest clothes in the country"
she didn't even bother to throw on a fake moustache đ
I know Itto's rerun is far away and I'm not certain how needed this information is but... Yuegui (Yaoyao E-skill) can hit Golden Wolflord while flying.
Common Yuegui W
If you were to make an IRL version of Genius Invokation TCG, how would you do it? Hereâs the idea I had: - Starter kit comes with a playing mat that replicates the in-game space, a starter deck that mirrors what you get in-game, energy counters that are placed on top of character cards, and 8 elemental die that take the form of d8s. To compensate for the fact that the faces of the dice canât light up, theyâd all be painted with the color of the element they represent, with the actual symbol in black. The Omni-Element face would be colored white (compare: PokĂ©mon, which did something similar with Normal-type energy in its own TCG). - Cards would have a brief description of their effects printed at the bottom, with their deployment costs printed on the top left corner or so. - Extra card packs and additional die would be made available for purchase, as would additional playing mats representing the different nations. - Card packs themed around certain characters would also be available for purchase. - The game would play almost exactly the same as its virtual counterpart. Thoughts?
how would energy work?
The same as in-game? Barring card effects, youâd accumulate an energy counter each turn you attack with that card, for a cap of three. Once you have three counters on your active card, you can use its ult (whose description would be on the character card. Also, as a thought, Oz, Guoba, etc may need to be represented by figurines that come with the starter set since Fischl and Xianglingâs card abilities kind of necessitate their use.
Thinking about getting Shenhe for Aloy as a F2P... someone please stop me why does my brain work like this đ
Aloy is already the strongest unit in the game. Getting her Shenhe on top of that would take the fun out of the game at that point.
Do it no balls
Wait, isn't Dehya's teaser coming out tonight?
To those who have used Genshin Optimizer, what's the best and/or easiest way to import your artifacts?
I always run Artiscan on my laptop. Open my Genshin inventory on another window, change artifacts at each beep and bam, done after just a couple of minutes without having to download any software or take pictures. Just make sure you click on "Burn Results" on the results tab after you've imported your data on the Optimiser, otherwise it'll save your current artifacts and create a bunch of duplicates if you use it again in the future.
Artiscan video capture
whats the deal with dehya? anyone can be good if you know how to build properly; so just pull for who you like. - day one veteran player who consistently 26 star abyss
had us in the first half not gonna lie
Anyone can be good true, it's just the other would take you blood, sweat and tears to make her good. LOL
26 star? damn, thats pro
Watching the latest Liyue's Cuisine was a mistake. Now I'm craving cornbread. đ
This current banner drained all my primos, genesis, and glitters. I'm happy that I have no interest in both banners in 3.5. I get some time to save for Baizhu.
*patiently awaits Kokomi's probably beautiful birthday art*
I am also waiting, but not patiently. pls mihoyo release the art now đ„č
Almost 2 years maining Kazuha and [this](https://twitter.com/kzshii/status/1628007976459182080?s=20) still happens every time
That feeling you get when u are forced to NOT smoke for a couple of days? Yeah⊠its the same feeling without đđŒTHEMđđŒLEAKS!!! đ€đ€đ€
That one colleague is giving me aneurysm at this point. Controlling, never receiving any criticism, aggressively rebuking every single suggestion from everyone else in the team, forcing everyone to follow what she says to a T even when her proposals are fucking unrealistic, cleaning up her shit because her work is messy as hell. Good god Kazuha please give me your zen and patience. Cuz I sure have none left.
[ŃĐŽĐ°Đ»Đ”ĐœĐŸ]
Wtf
Dude. I'm also a woman.
I haven't started the world quest for this patch in the desert. Assuming that I skim it but not entirely missing out on the story, how long will it take me to finish it?
Someone pointed out that Dehya is the most convenient way to setup 2 consecutive vaporize in overworld so now I am actually contemplating on using 1 50/50 to try to pull her. (Bonus point for also having day time move speed bonus passive) Prototype Amber Wanderer (Air Ambulance) / Kazuha / Dehya / Yelan. Gonna take my time until Baizhu kit leak to think it over. Edit : Tested with Albedo, turns out his field generation share element icd with his field proc. If Dehya field functions similar to Albedo this is now more clunkier than I though. (require to wait 2.5s before snapping first E)
>the most convenient way to setup 2 consecutive vaporize in overworld she isn't check the footage from the livestream. her E procs so slowly that her Dehya melts once off Ganyu's bloom damage, and then when Ganyu attacks again Dehya's E just doesn't proc. If you wanna proc easy overworld vaporises, you could run DPS Benny and just spam his E.
The sequence is Dehya cast E apply Pyro> Yelan E Vaporize > E field proc and apply Pyro > Yelan E Vaporize. Longer fight Dehya's pyro application definitely lags behind.
yelan vape does like 70-80k in overworld what exactly lives that, also if group them you probably miss it if not, you probably dealt extra dmg whilst grouping + swirling if a bigger boss, maybe? but to pull a whole unit to save 1 second per mini "boss" aint worth it imo if that's actually your reason guoba literally does it better, bro attack fast enough and is free guoba e -> yelan e -> yelan e
>The sequence is Dehya cast E apply Pyro> Yelan E Vaporize > E field proc and apply Pyro > Yelan E Vaporize. yeah my point is the way it will actually go is Dehya cast E apply Pyro> Yelan E Vaporize > nothing procs because Dehya's E is seriously awful and has hella long cooldown between procs > Yelan E without Vaporize.
If the field mechanic is similar to Albedo, then the field generation is not counted toward field proc cd while ~~the field proc does not share icd with the field generation.~~ Edit : Tested in game, Albedo field generation share element icd with his field proc. Damn now just gonna hope Dehya E bypass icd. Gonna need to wait for her trial to test.
Dehya's E has a large radius and can be recast, making it perfect for Yelan's E
So do we have any info on the Geo cat girl's personality and kit? From what I'm seeing she's a genki/Yoimiya type. I also think her kit might revolve around her defense in some way
Uncle tiananmen said she's an overworked woman.
Must be an Inazuman shrine maiden/priestess thing
Planning my Mika main build, already have PJWS maxed and waiting, then realized 4pc Pale Flame won't work for him since his E cooldown is 15s... Wondering if I should go for 2pc ATK% + 2pc Phys DMG, full Glad or Shimenawa's since his ult is not a dmg dealing one. Any ideas?
Assuming his hold E can do double hit on single target, he can stack 4pc Pale Flame instantly just like Eula tho only 7s uptime. Stick with 2pc Pale Flame + 2pc Bloodstained for unconditional 50% phys bonus, 4pc Shime is better but conditional and only 10s uptime, 4pc Glad is just a worse 4pc Shime. Since you most likely to run a atk buffer like Benny or Yun Jin or both, 2pc PF + 2pc BC is better imo
I don't have Eula and didn't even consider the multi target activation!! I already have a semi-decent Pale Flame set for Razor so I'll have to try it when be comes out - thank you!
A polearm phys build without Crescent Pike? Interesting.
Tbh I didn't even consider it, figured PJWS might be better thanks to the base stats+crit, I'll have to see how crescent plays with him though!
Yeah, I genuinely donât know which would be better because PJWS is just such a massive stat stick and the passive lends itself to doing a bunch of NAs. I just know Crescent Pike is brokety-broke, so my impulse would be to at least try it for any physical polearm build. Itâs really nasty on characters with multi-hit animations in their NA string, and I donât know whether Mika falls into that category or not.
18% atk + 50% dmg (but with only 10 second uptime) (shime) 18% atk + 25% dmg (2 pc atk, 2 pc dmg) 18% atk + 35% dmg (2 pc atk, glad) 50% dmg (2 pc phys dmg, 2 pc phys dmg) Shimenawa's will be the best assuming your burst is useless and you only field him for 10 seconds after pressing E. Gladiator will be a more consistent buff as it has 100% uptime, but it won't be as strong.
Happy birthday to my favorite healer, kokomi! Thank you for keeping my team healthy every time!
Please leak Kaveh soon...
The downside of using "exploration teams" is that you miss out on great dialogue for characters that you like. Happened to have Fischl out when visiting Dragonspine today. Fischl's character breaking is always so hilarious and adorable!
Can any weapon beat FS on hyperbloom Shinobu currently?
Key of Khaj-nisut gives higher em for Shinobu + extra hp is just a nice healing bonus. Team em is good. It's her bis. You run triple em with hp substats.
Key of Khaj-Nisut of course, especially at higher refinements. It has the absolutely highest personal EM for Shinobu, plus team EM buff which is typically better than FSâs buffs (especially when you already have another character holding Elegy as the ATK buffs from Elegy and FS donât stack).
Freedom is absolute best on hyperbloom Shinobu.
So kinda random question to anyone here who has gone through and played Isshin. How are you meant to remember who any of these characters are? I keep automatically defaulting to their Yakuza counterparts and am so confused as to who is supposed to be who anymore.
Yeah, the writers purposefully played with their "actor's" original personality for a bunch of characters It's really fun
I fear coming to this sub knowing well there will be no new leak. đ„č
Opinions on what I should do for pulls? Planning on getting Nahida when she comes back, I have like 29k primos and 16 pity no guarantee Thinking of throwing some pulls at Shenhe for my Ayaka only up to the point where I can still guarantee Nahida I'll probably wait until we officially hear the 3.6 banners to decide. The only thing that'd stop me from trying for Shenhe is Venti or Kokomi in 3.6
Save for nahida C2, you should have enough by then and its a huge difference for her damage. Shenhe you ideally need at C2 as well, to me she is too niche. I would rather use a C0 Ganyu as burst/damage support but thats my opinion. Kokomi is 100% worth pulling if she gets a banner
For now I'd rather get more characters than cons, I don't rlly need that much more damage Same with Shenhe, I think it makes more sense to get Ayaka c2 before shenhe
Thats a totally reasonable approach, I hate gearing and artifact grinding so I would personally rather C1 or C2 a character than pull more/new ones. Quick question - who is in your Ayaka team right now? I run two variants - Ayaka, kokomi, ganyu Kazuha and if I need koko on other team Ill put xinqui in as cryo and usually swap ganyu for diona as I always need some healing so ayaka, xq, diona kazuha is essentially my other team. Im just thinking if shenhe would actually be an upgrade to your cryo support slot at c0?
Ayaka Diona Mona Kazuha So it would be an upgrade but no healer would be a bit rough and I'm not a fan of prototype amber Mona I'd just prefer Kokomi since she can be used in dendro teams
Thats probably a good way to go. Koko is a ridiculous healer and her hydro application works much better than mona so you can swirl cryo from your support, drop koko jellyfish to freeze then go pew pew w Ayaka. Wish you the best of luck on your pulls! Hopefully koko gets a banner!
I'd say it all depends on if you care abt meta or not. If you rly want your Ayato to be op then go for Shenhe. Maybe throw a couple of 10 pulls in, if nothing comes and you change your mind then I'd say move onto Venti, Kokomi, or Nahida (If you care abt meta have your priorities like this: Nahida > Kokomi > Venti). But also, pull for characters you likeđđ»đ
I pull strictly for meta lol, there are no characters (or at least none that I don't already have) that are interesting enough for me to pull over meta I'm getting Nahida regardless, I'm just deciding what to do with the excess pulls, it's either throw them at Shenhe, save for Kokomi/Venti if they also come 3.6, or just save for any unexpected good characters
Ig just save for the Hydro Archon kek. Recent pattern w the Archons is that theyre the only ones w a good kit (Venti besides). I'd say tho, Shenhe, Kokomi, and Venti then just depend on your existing teams. Your Ayaka obv needs Shenhe for the extra buff, so you can always go for Shenhe with your excess pulls (Just make sure you have 180 fates left over for Nahida). As for Venti and Kokomi... get them if yk you DESPERATELY need them for your Abyss team. Kokomi is good for freeze or bloom teams, and she is an op healer too. So if one of your teams needs a hydro applicator and a healer then go for Kokomi. Ughhh Venti... he is good for small enemies crowd control. Ig he does give elemental buff to your characters (only if he is equipped w VV tho), but honestly Venti is only useful for Floor 9 and 10 in the Abyss, which are easy floors anyways. If you got Kazuha, I'd say you don't have to go for Venti (unless you like Venti in general). Though, another con for his kit is that not all character's attacks can reach the enemies that are sucked up in his tornado. Like Hu Tao and Diluc can't reach the enemies, so just have that in mind. But ig, since Fontaine isn't that far either, having Kokomi on your team isnt bad, since there might be an HP or a hydro boost in the Abyss for v4.0 which isn't that far away XD^^ but having a guaranteed Nahida and Focalors is always reassuring. In general, if yk that your teams are already thriving even without Shenhe, Venti, or Kokomi, then you don't gotta go for them. So just save your fates if that's the case. Maybe in Fontaine HOPEFULLY Hoyo will finally release some good characters who aren't unusable unless you unlock their C6 cons. Anyways, good luck on your summons!!! Hope you'll get your characters early!!
>Ig just save for the Hydro Archon kek This sounds like a good idea, but they're relatively far out >if yk you DESPERATELY need them for your Abyss team. Lol, I don't need anyone, I can clear already
XD ig ye, you can continue to save. Maybe if you want to get some cons of whatever 4 stars they're gonna have in their banners tho, and not mind getting the 5 star too by accident. Anyways, good luck!!
Yea, it's kinda maybe looking like Fischl will be on Shenhe's banner and I need her last con, wouldn't mind a copy of Mika either
if you pull for meta, why dont you already have nahida...
Lol, I was saving for the one character I would pull over meta (Hu Tao), also wanted Yelan, and their weapons since I expected it to be cracked Went well, won my 50/50 on Hu Tao, won my 50/50 on Yelan, set my path to Homa but got Aqua first which I was good with bc I was going for it after, then got Homa, then my friend egged me into going for C1 Hu Tao and got it on my first 10 pull, winning another 50/50 And after that I still had 25k, no regrets
Are you a waterloo student? (sorry, i was looking at what teams you use x.x)
Check dms
most of this week is a holiday for me so i can rest but man. i still feel like reaching monday will take forever. i need to see baizhu!!! let him out of the basement!!!
Happy Birthday to the goddess of the sea, my fish queen my first triple crowned AND my first c0r1 JUST BECAUSE she is more PERFECT with it everlasting moonglow is the most beautiful weapon i laid my eyes on. Miss Sangonomiya Kokomi my bestie my only reason i still open this game /hj
=) Happy birthday to Kokomi! Everything about her just makes my day brighter. I must add her to all my teams today.
I wish I had Everlasting Moonglow for my Koko đ„Č still, happy birthday Kokomi!!! đđ
It is so pretty on her i hope you get it someday. It completes her already perfect aesthetics đđ
thank you! I'm hoping for a Nilou-Kokomi banner soon so I can roll on the weapon banner and hopefully join R1 club
sometimes i wish bloom spawned flowers instead of seeds :(
It would be great if that happen, but somehow hoyo chose a freakin tomatillo, now i can't unsee that we slapped enemies with exploding tomato
if they locked bountiful blooms behind nilou they might as well have made them beautiful flowers too, missed opportunity smh
smol indian company :(
bountiful gulab jamun
Or at least the explosions from when they pop could take the form of flowers.
!!!!! i would nut!!
They missed that opportunity with Nilou
nloom spawning flowerbuds that turn into pretty flowers with a burst of dendro energy????? i would have fucking whaled so hard you wouldn't even believe
That would look really pretty
nilou stonks would have skyrocketed if we had that
holdup thatâs a great concept
hoyo made a big L when they pushed through with seeds
I almost never do this but allow me to celebrate Kokoday. Happy Birthday to Kokomi! She is amazing, groundbreaking, spectacular and honestly my fave Genshin character, her mermaid/magical girl vibes are off the charts and she is my comfort character ever since that fateful day near the 1st anniv.
Happy Kokoday fellow Kokocult member!
Happy Kokoday!!!! She's such a joy to play anywhere, I'm so happy I have her. Her mermaid/magical girl vibes and pastel mermaid princess aesthetic are unmatched
love her and i hope she gets more screentime!!!
plugging the [fave genshin character survey](https://forms.gle/mH31FiHxoJGRsdDz7) again hehe currently at 372 responses, i'm aiming for around 500 :D thank you!! i'll post the results here ofc once everything is done \~
Favorite character in terms of Kit? Story? Animations?
just overall, i guess. i was thinking more in terms of personality and how they appear as a character in general rather than kit or strength, but everyone has their own criteria for their fave
:0
Ughrhrhrrhrrrrr leak deprived(ââžâă)
[Live feed of the inventory Kamera scanning my account](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5CIOulmiIA&ab_channel=theereactions)
Semi off topic rant: My laptop can't update windows and because of that it became slow af, genshin is almost unplayable, I discovered that's because windows is downloading the update in the background but even when is downloaded and I restar to apply the update ...it doesn't fucking let me!! All the time I get "failed to install update, reverting all the changes" and it restart all the process again!! It's been 2 days of dailies missed and capped resin. Is not the end of the world but I'm mad!! Fuck you windows!! And the saddest part is that I still can't resolve the problem :'v
I'm more surprised about a laptop handing Genshin lol Did the battery died instantly or was it connected?
I had this issue a few days ago an the solution was to do a fresh reinstall of windows (you will not lose your files).
Yea, I guess I just do that and save me the trouble but I will make a back up of some important files just in case....good damm it, I hate this :'v
you're telling me there's no leaderboard for kokomi even though i got mine above 40k hp? edit: how do people have 55k I farmed for months and have basically no dead statsđ
The builds page has a filter you can use to find builds not officially supported
Isn't that very normal for Kokomi to have that much hp? Mine with hp/hydro/healing bonus with prototype amber got 42k hp on 4pc ocean hued clam and thats without much hp substat rolls
Is that with hydro resonance? You need a lot of hp rolls to get 42k hp with hp/hydro/hb.
Yeah, 42k is damn high. If I did the math right, a level 90 Kokomi with Prototype Amber's gonna need about 90% HP from substats to reach it without Hydro Resonance. On average, that's 18 rolls on HP% across 4 pieces. Probably a bit less in reality because flat HP rolls help towards it but rolling that much on a single stat will still take some good luck. Add in her ER requirements if she's to be played on-field (likely if running 4-pc Clam) and yeah, it's very tough.
that's a pretty normal amount of hp even for hp/hydro/hb
i thought most peopleâs kokomis are above 40k hp? if you use hp/hp/hb it isnât a hard bar to reach
Maybe it's HP/Hydro/HB
With good ER%? That's not that easy.
i just assumed OP is talking about just getting to the 40k milestone, not taking into account er requirements.
I feel like in any conversation about builds, "enough ER to comfortably burst as needed" is a given for characters that need their burst. Anything that doesn't meet ER reqs on characters that use their burst might as well not exist.
Ouch.
You dare to gaze upon me?!
_Oh, so sorry!_ ^âïžâšïž
Wretched vermin!
I'm really worried that Foçalors + Xingqiu is going to be better than Xingqiu + Yelan and it makes me not want to pull Yelan
If she's an HP buffer then Focalors + Yelan is gonna be better.
I feel they move from that archetype and do something different for her, slow but very heavy hydro maybe or AOE focused off field instead of single target unlike Xq/Yelan and not needing NAs, also heavy Hp related focus, like max hp to allies, or hp to dmg stuff or some defensive utility. There are roles she can do that doesn't fall to their role. However even if she doesn't compete with Xq/Yelan she still has heavy competition from other hydros that it feels that Hp related support is going to be the only truly unique and role that she can have. Hp buffs will will make he good for Nilou, Hu-Tao, double and mono hydro.
My guess is she will be a Hydro Raiden/Nahida and apply Hydro in AOE instead of single target like Xingqiu and Yelan
that just means that focalors+xingqiu+yelan+kaz would be the best ST team in the game and you would just play that so they probably wouldnât do that
This may be an uncommon opinion (at least not one Iâve seen expressed a lot), but to me Focolars presents a very interesting dilemma coming up Aside from Venti who had circumstances go against him, it feels like MHY doesnât want other characters encroaching on archons territory, and MHY wants all of them to be strong. The problem is hydro is probably the most complete element of the bunch. You have: -an amazing on field enabler -super flexible on Field DPS/enabler -great healer -an OP character with defensive utility, great damage, and enabling abilities -A great character whoâs a good enabler and brings great off field damage and has a passive that buffs the team Like theyâre going to want to make Focolars a staple of the element, but itâs difficult to do without encroaching on another characters territory. Generally MHY has been great with avoiding power creep, but this is going to be a pretty unique situation
pity venti was the very first 5 star, he used to be considered godly but is pushed towards mob-related concerns now. it's not gonna happen but i rly wish they'd update him. his trailer pales in comparison to others as well (even klee's looked better and she was released right after him).
The unfortunate thing is heâs a victim of is being too OP. Like Venti in early 1.X is the only example of a character breaking the game and trivializing everything. They had to counter that in some way and unfortunately his use took a hit because of it
We don't yet have a selfish hypercarry archon or a selfish hypercarry hydro.
I don't think that one would be that popular They seem to make the Archons Sub DPS cause everyone wants good Sub DPS in their accounts, while very few people pulls for many on field characters, much less hypercarries.
Ayato is pretty close despite his burst being off field The reason heâs so flexible though is because hydro as an element is just OP at enabling so even if they have standard ICD on fast normals theyâll still be good for it. I have a hard time seeing them implement a selfish carry Hydro archon that doesnât completely encroach on his territory
slower app, hard hits, nuke burst=forward vaporise carry its actually not that hard lol
Archon is the key word here Yea they can make another on fielder differentiate themselves from Ayato/Childe, consider me doubtful theyâd give a kit like that to the hydro archon. If sheâs an on fielder theyâre going to give her the flexibility to take on a lot of roles, and considering hydros biggest positive is itâs enabling capabilities I have a hard time seeing the hydro archon not having that
I expect the main focus of her kit to be off-field AoE Hydro with a XQ/Yelan-type application. She might even have the 1.5U application that Yelan once had in Beta. We don't have many characters who can apply off-field AoE Hydro in the first place; XQ and Yelan are single-target and rely on NAs, while Ayato's burst application isn't too great. I also expect her to have HP-buffing capabilities and some minor healing (more like Xingqiu's healing than Kokomi). (Coincidentally, fast off-field Hydro that doesn't need NAs, minor healing, and HP-buffing would all be great for Dehya, even more so if Focalors actually did damage.)
Same, a Hydro Raiden/Nahida is what I expected Focalors to be cause that would definitely be OP and it's something we don't have now
If they end up implementing this kit and the HP buffing was significant enough then Iâd expect weâre about to get a lot more HP scaling characters Though I feel like theyâd have a difficult time implementing this kit without just overshadowing XQ/Yelan
in order to not have her beat XQ/Yelan, they could just give her lower damage multipliers so that her main focus was support/elemental application as opposed to both hydro application and damage.
We don't have yet a proper crit dmg/HP buffer, Focalors can do that. She might do damage, maybe only if you get cons.
I donât think theyâll commit to making an archon that niche/restricted. Like Nahida and Raiden for example accommodate multiple roles, for the archon of the most universal element I donât think theyâll restrict her to just a buffer, especially considering a lot of the other hydro characters have multiple aspects to their kit. Theyâll in all likelihood consolidate multiple roles into her kit, which is going to encroach on some characters role. If they did make her a pure buffer though theyâd probably make her so OP that sheâd just end up replacing one of the hydro characters in their best comps
Nilou's existence opens the gates to custom reactions. Imagine if Focalors' role is to give something new to electrocharge, vape, freeze, etc. while also buffing hp and crit dmg. That way she doesn't invalidate other hydro units and will instead be used with other hydro units.
I have heavy doubts theyâd dedicate the archon towards one reaction. Look at the others: Venti- can be slotted anywhere, is most useful with enemies that can be CCed Zhongli- Can be slotted anywhere. Is one of the most common characters used in mono Geo, Xiao, Melt Ganyu, Yoimiya, Hu Tao teams. Raiden- has multiple teams where she excels like hyperbloom, hypercarry, Eula, national, tazer. Can be used as an on fielder or off fielder Nahida- is BiS on nearly every dendro team The archon is supposed to encompass the element they represent, they arenât going to pigeonhole an archon like that to not work with most of the elements reactions. Being the most universal element and facilitating so many different reactions is part of what makes hydro OP, and thatâs not something theyâll take away from the archon of the element imo
That's why I said she could buff hydro reactions. She would buff all of them, not just one. That would make her top tier for most reaction teams that need hydro.
this isnât uncommon at all, everyone has these same fears for focalors. a lot of people have suspected she may be a âjack of all trades, master of noneâ situation where she touches on all of those roles but isnât as effective as those characters. subdps utility without being as great as xingqiu, healing but not as good as koko, etc etc. issue with this is it would just make her a second option and go against the whole archon design philosophy. itâs a hard one honestly. idk what hoyo can do to her without making her stupidly OP or justâŠsecond to the rest in every aspect.
We don't even know what focalors kit is, if she has a defensive kit then she might replace xq instead of Yelan and that's only assuming that her kit will revolve around fast single target hydro application. The way I see it she's probably gonna be a buffer+healer so maybe a combination of Mona and Kokomi.
I always pictured her as a Max HP buffer, like an HP Bennett, but she might also have good damage like Raiden
Hypothetically, if she truly was a max HP buffer with personal damage, then Focalors + Yelan would probably be better than Focalors + Xingqiu because Yelan benefits a lot more from HP, so in that scenario you could pull for Yelan without worry.
But then you have 3 XQ, so you can run double Hydro on one half and 1 hydro on the other half. Make the Abyss a genuine meme
It's just I already have Kokomi, Ayato, Nilou and Mona so I get worried about redundancy
I mean Yelan already is pretty much redundant, so why want to pull her in the first place?
but she isnât though? i thought it was agreed upon that yelan being 5 star xingqiu is a good thing, and that the both of themâs best teams are always with each other?
It is a good thing, but redundant nonetheless. Also, Yelan's best teams might be alongside XQ, but XQ's best teams aren't necessarily. Yelan needs XQ so much more than XQ needs Yelan (and even that is being generous, he doesn't need her at all)
Oh wow I [flubbed](https://www.reddit.com/r/Genshin_Impact_Leaks/comments/108y8na/comment/j4kogbx/) this one pretty badly huh. Which means it's time to try and fail again! 3.6 banner prediction lessgo! *** 3.6 1st half: Baizhu + Ganyu 3.6 2nd half: Nahida + Nilou + Kaveh (4*) *** I feel like this one's *gotta* be more straightforward so hopefully I get it right? The only one I'm confused about is who the second character with Baizhu will be. At this point I've sort of given up hope on Eula and I think that *if* she gets a re-run it'll be at the tail-end of Sumeru in like 3.7 or 3.8. I'm stuck between Ganyu and Kokomi but I went with Ganyu because she's a Liyue character and I feel like MHY will try to put her there to get some Shenhe pullers to go for her...although you could use this logic for Kokomi and people who pulled for Ayaka so idek tbh. Guess we'll see in about a month! RemindMe! April 5, 2023
bro u were so close đ
Nahida Kaveh Nahida Kaveh Nahida Kaveh!
the way that second half is a dream for me⊠manifesting đ€
rip eula wanters
Kaveh not being with Baizhu wouldnât be the end of the world, Iâd still pull for Kaveh and wouldnât be opposed to trying Nilou bloom, but him with Baizhu would be more preferable Also, wouldnât the 3.6 livestream be on the 31st of March?
Yeah it'd fall on the 31st of March but in the past I just set the bot to give me a reminder a week before the actual update so I've just kept doing that lol. Only reason I think Baizhu+Kaveh would be on separate sides is because MHY seems to prefer doing that and if they make 3.6 a half Liyue/half Sumeru event (which I'm thinking might happen because one of the leakers suggested we'll get a Liyue and Sumeru area in 3.6) then it would sound more reasonable to put them on separate sides based on story relevance. Although from this last patch it looks like MHY is saying "screw story relevance" for the banners so who even knows tbh.
Kaveh isnât with Baizhu and his weapon is with Amos so I hope you flub this one too đ
LOL don't worry I probably will
That weapon banner would be amazing for Nahida. Can give Kuki the sword for hyperbloom teams.
You did pretty well considering everyone was guessing Shenhe for 3.6 (partial liyue patch + ayaka as well or ayaka in 3.7 rumored inazuma patch).
>ayaka in 3.7 rumored inazuma patch Oh yeah I remember that one leaker who said we may get an Ayaka rerun in 3.7 lol
Looking back at it now, Cyno was definitely due for his first re-run so idk why I didn't pick up on that back then. Although it looks like few other people did either so maybe it really was unexpected at the time. Eula getting skipped on the other hand came out of nowhere though, still shocked at how MHY bait-and-switched us like this lol. Everything in the world was pointing to her getting a re-run and then this happens.
Covenant of the deep.