Genshin Impact Gacha-of-the-Wild All

Dyni wrote:

I rolled on his banner 4 times and pulled two Chongyun,

Jealous. He's one of my mains since early on. He can be dealing ice damage almost constantly.

Dyni wrote:

How are you liking Zhongli? The Genshin community at large seems pretty disappointed that he's not a damage powerhouse, but it looks like he might be fun as a tanky support.

That was his story quest. You may notice he is the fifth man in the party.

mrtomaytohead wrote:
Dyni wrote:

I rolled on his banner 4 times and pulled two Chongyun,

Jealous. He's one of my mains since early on. He can be dealing ice damage almost constantly.

I've heard he's quite good, but I haven't tried him out yet. I want to get a solid core team going with decent artifacts, then I'll branch out and test my neglected characters which are currently Chongyun, Razor, and Beidou.

My current core is Childe, Ningguang, Xiangling, and Fischl. I swap in Diona or Barbara when I need a healer, but the only times I need that are on level 90 domains or Spiral Abyss. When I'm exploring or doing any other fighting that isn't super difficult, I just use Ningguang with Prototype Malice as my healer and energy battery.

Mantid wrote:
Dyni wrote:

How are you liking Zhongli? The Genshin community at large seems pretty disappointed that he's not a damage powerhouse, but it looks like he might be fun as a tanky support.

That was his story quest. You may notice he is the fifth man in the party. :D

Whoops! I watched that on my tiny phone screen and definitely didn't notice the trial tag.

From a couple weeks ago:
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Today:
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I will admit I am one of those boar kills. I just nearly fell to death in the wrong spot!

Seems like a very active game guys.
Havent had the time to play at all

Information on 1.2 is starting to be released.

Information released elsewhere:
In game friend chat (while in different worlds)
Ability to see ascension material requirements for every level in game
Gain some wishes for leveling the Traveler (and maybe other characters)
Domain reward screens (no more picking up drops from the trees)

The last one will be very welcome. I think I've left the rewards on the ground at least once when I was distracted.

I wish they'd extend it to other things. I'm always paranoid I'll lose connection right after killing the wolf and that'd be very disappointing. Removing the need to scan the area after fighting a group of normal mobs would also be nice but not as important.

New Genshin Code:

eATDgIXLD56 -- 100 primogems, 50K Mora

I believe it has a usage limit, so post if it stops working for you.

This morning’s misfortune:

peanut3141 wrote:

New Genshin Code:

eATDgIXLD56 -- 100 primogems, 50K Mora

I believe it has a usage limit, so post if it stops working for you.

Two more to redeem:

5KVeIbSxDUU - (100 Primogems and 10 Mystic Enhancement Ore)

G3TQQ6TOQME - (100 Primogems and 5 Hero's Wit)

https://genshin.mihoyo.com/en/gift

So my current main team is as follows:

Ningguang (40)
Fischl (40)
Chongyun (40)
Xianglang (30)

I just picked up Xingqui in a pull and people seem to like her based on the tier lists I've seen. Should I level her up and work her into my main team? Seems like she is a sub DPS character so probably would take Fischl's spot but I like Fischl and she is my only character currently at 2nd assencion so I don't really want to get rid of her.

Xingqiu is a GREAT enabler and burst damage support for nearly any DPS carry, and I highly recommend leveling him for nearly any team. However, he really shines if you can give him a Sacrificial Sword (which gives you a chance of instantly resetting the cooldown on your elemental skill when you use it, which is particularly powerful for characters like him with long cooldowns). Short of that, you'll want to be especially focused on getting him energy recharge, ideally through either a Favonius Sword or whatever the three star energy recharge sword is (Skyrider, I think?).

How useful he's going to be for you in particular, however, is going to vary a bit depending on how you're playing that team, since all four of those characters are technically capable of being a DPS carry. (Ningguang and Chongyun are the most commonly used in that way amongst them, but Fischl and Xiangling can be set up to carry as well).

If Chongyun is your main carry on that team, you'd probably end up swapping Xingqiu in for Ningguang or Xiangling, because in many situations you'll be getting nice, strong elemental synergy with Chongyun, Fischl, and Xingqiu, throwing out tons of freezes and electro charges. (Superconducts too, which are nice AOE damage but Chongyun's skill converts auto attack damage to cryo so you won't get as much benefit from the superconduct physical damage debuff.)

If Ningguang is your main carry, though, you're probably making a bit less use of the big reactions so the benefit of swapping him in might be a bit less pronounced, but I think you'll still find him a great addition to your team regardless of which of the other three you replace with him.

pizzaddict wrote:

I just picked up Xingqui in a pull and people seem to like her based on the tier lists I've seen.

I don't disagree with anything zeroKFE suggested, but I really want to reemphasize that tier lists in Genshin Impact are almost completely inconsequential for anything outside of Spiral Abyss floors 9 and up. Xingqui and Bennett are typically regarded as the strongest 4 stars overall, but all four of your current party members are great characters. I'd suggest equipping Xingqui with a decent artifact set and taking him for a spin to help you decide.

Some highlights from the 1.2 stream:

Upcoming 5* banner characters:
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New mechanic for the new zone:
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I'm very excited to see the crazy damage My Childe will be putting out after I can farm this hydro set:
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Ok, thanks for the advice. I currently use Ningguang as my main DPS, I'll level up Xingqui though and give him a try.

Yeah, that 4 piece water set bonus might as well read "this is for Childe -- it makes him better."

Decided to resume pushing Spiral Abyss now that reset is only 4 days away and I've levelled up another main carry. So far floor 7 has been a cakewalk with Bennett doing a 1-man show on team 1 and razor/qiqi handling most things for team 2. A level 20 Kaeya is still plenty capable of dropping electro fatui shields, Bennetts only weakness.

Hopefully floor 8 goes as well.

Do we know when the character pull changes from Zhongli to someone different? Do we have to wait until the 23rd when the new update comes out?

pizzaddict wrote:

Do we know when the character pull changes from Zhongli to someone different? Do we have to wait until the 23rd when the new update comes out?

On the wish screen it currently says 10 days until Zhongli goes away. I believe the new banner usually appears within a day.

lol, thanks I guess I've never noticed that before or at least it hasn't registered when I've seen it.

Between the extra codes posted above and finally looking at the Spiral Abyss (what part resets?) I got about 1800+ primogems yesterday and did the 10-summons twice last night. Guess I'm gonna be investing in Razor. He's up to his 4th constellation now. Really wish those were Chongyun since I've already leveled him to 80.

Logged into this for the first time in a while, and there was a bunch of primogems in the mail, so bought some wishes. Got Xinyan twice, but the character isnt anywhere. Do you need to do anything else to get those newer characters?

None of the 3 codes mentioned above were redeemable for me.

Edit2: Nvm, unclear UI and error 40.

mrtomaytohead wrote:

Between the extra codes posted above and finally looking at the Spiral Abyss (what part resets?) I got about 1800+ primogems yesterday and did the 10-summons twice last night. Guess I'm gonna be investing in Razor. He's up to his 4th constellation now. Really wish those were Chongyun since I've already leveled him to 80.

I think I'm just about ready to give Spiral Abyss a solid go myself. I think I cleared up to floor 6 a while ago, so I'm hoping I'm strong enough to make it through at least floor 10, maybe 11.

From what I understand, C4 is a very big deal for Razor. C4 Razor on a Superconduct team is supposedly one of, if not the strongest main DPS for Spiral Abyss outside of the 5* fire lords. He's one of the few characters able to cleanse debuffs off, which is a huge deal on floor 12 specifically. Jean, Bennett, and Xinyan are the others, IIRC. I don't have any of those characters yet, so that should be interesting to figure out once I make it there.

Friendly reminder that the gliding challenge ends after tomorrow. Make sure to do them if you want some easy primos, mora, and xp books.

mrtomaytohead wrote:

Between the extra codes posted above and finally looking at the Spiral Abyss (what part resets?) I got about 1800+ primogems yesterday and did the 10-summons twice last night. Guess I'm gonna be investing in Razor. He's up to his 4th constellation now. Really wish those were Chongyun since I've already leveled him to 80.

Only floor 9 and above reset, which is why it didn't mean much to me until recently. Today I was able to finish 9 starring 1-8. Tomorrow I'll push into floor 9.

So far I've had a mainly fire team of Xiangling, Fischl, Bennett, and Kaeya. Second team is Razor, Xingqiu, Qiqi, and whoever is needed to break shields on that half. The second team tends to kill faster, but Bennett's team is effectively immortal.

I am kind of disappointed that we are getting another Cryo bow user so soon after Diona. I wish there was a better balance/distribution of weapon types until we at least get one of each weapon type for each element.

Arkon wrote:

I am kind of disappointed that we are getting another Cryo bow user so soon after Diona. I wish there was a better balance/distribution of weapon types until we at least get one of each weapon type for each element.

I get that frustration. 3/5 pyro characters are claymore users for now, so clearly they don't care about weapon/element balance. At the same time, I'd be more annoyed if it felt like they were designing characters to fill out a checklist. Thankfully, weapons don't have much impact on team compositions. Well, except for claymores as shield breakers. They really need to even out the disparity between claymores and other weapons in some way.

I'm sure we'll get all the combinations eventually. I think it's far more important that they keep a good variety of element and team roles coming. Diana is very clearly a support character, while Ganyu looks to be a dps focused character. We'll see how that pans out. She looks like an improved cryo version of Amber from the footage shown so far.

Speaking of Amber... I cleared Spiral Abyss floors 6-8 yesterday. I gave floor 9 a shot. The first chamber was pretty easy, but the 2nd beat me down pretty well. Those ice cages are rough. I have a feeling I'm going to have to level up Amber a bit just so I have a 2nd pyro character to take down Fatui shields I think I should be able to pull it off with some planning and practice.

Any news when this game is coming out on the Switch?
Seems that it will be my best chance to play it.

Dyni wrote:

Well, except for claymores as shield breakers. They really need to even out the disparity between claymores and other weapons in some way.

Well bows too, to a lesser degree, in that they can stun Ruin Guardians and take both Guardians and Hunters out of their missile modes.

I'm glad they seem aware that claymores are so important, but the only options they've given us outside of claymores are both on limited five stars (Klee and Zhongli)!

Current rumor is that our next banner will be Albedo, Rosaria (Cyro/Polearm), Amber, Kaeya, and Sucrose, followed by a banner featuring Ganyu, Hu Tao (Pyro/Polearm), Barbara, Lisa, and Bennett.

Seems like solid leaks on the 5 star order (Albedo, then Ganyu) but I think that leak about the four stars was a fake based on (fairly logical) supposition from what we've seen before. (Also, banners so far have only had three featured four stars each.)

That said, the order for the new 4 stars seems reasonable (particularly since the official announcement for 1.2 had Rosaria in the background of a cutscene, so her being on the first banner with Albedo might make sense). It's anyone's guess on the order of the four existing characters, though, but since Bennett and the three free Favonius knights are the only characters we haven't had on banner yet they seem slight more likely than a return for Sucrose and Barbara.

My hope certainly is that Bennett is paired with Ganyu, though, since it's more likely I'll want to roll for her than Albedo.

Darkhaund wrote:

Any news when this game is coming out on the Switch?
Seems that it will be my best chance to play it.

Nothing confirmed, but I do believe there was talk of a Switch version coming at some point. However, after hearing about how poorly the PS4 version performs, I doubt the Switch version would be a good experience. Perhaps if/when a Switch Pro is released.

Mantid wrote:
Dyni wrote:

Well, except for claymores as shield breakers. They really need to even out the disparity between claymores and other weapons in some way.

Well bows too, to a lesser degree, in that they can stun Ruin Guardians and take both Guardians and Hunters out of their missile modes.

I'm glad they seem aware that claymores are so important, but the only options they've given us outside of claymores are both on limited five stars (Klee and Zhongli)!

I didn't think about that aspect of the bow because I've been running with at least one bow user since I started playing. One of my most commonly used team comps has 3 of them! It's not a huge deal against the Ruin Guardians, but I'm sure Hunters are a pain without one. How do you get them to come down without a bow?

Geo characters can at least substitute reasonably well against Abyss mage shields. I haven't been running with any claymore users since Ningguang became a staple in my teams.

Mantid wrote:

Current rumor is that our next banner will be Albedo, Rosaria (Cyro/Polearm), Amber, Kaeya, and Sucrose, followed by a banner featuring Ganyu, Hu Tao (Pyro/Polearm), Barbara, Lisa, and Bennett.

I'm tempted to roll for Rosaria, but I don't want to risk my pity on Albedo. Has it been confirmed that the new 4 stars enter the normal pool after their rate-up banners expire? As long as I have a chance for her later on, I'll probably pass for now.

Very true that it is good they aren't just completing a check list but bringing in different team comps/capabilities. I seem to have a lot of trouble with the bow gameplay, I feel like any time I have tried a bow user they have felt super weak but I am used to the impact of sword/claymore. I would kill for Bennett on a banner, could use some constellations on him!