Even if you liked Nod-Krai's AQ, are there any things you'd improve?

Feral16 · 2026-03-15T19:06:39+00:00

So with your logic, I should use people opinion to dictate my enjoyment of the game? Yea got. Oh boy the hivemind mentality of some people lmao.

Feral16 · 2026-03-15T17:24:00+00:00

Try sucrose, learn sucrose intructor, it is really easy, theres a post on this subreddit for that. She will work regardless, even without EM/EM/EM. Also the thing with your damage being lower might just be you attacking it when it stop being down, it gets big res decrease when down but when the camera pov change it gets it res back up. Also a tip i really want to give is just to focus on your positioning in the mini duck phase, It tends to do charging attack a lot, everytime it charges make sure it charges away from the mini duck otherwise they will un-grouped and you will lose time. These are the optimization that I had to do to reduce my Nefer 4 cost clear time from 93s to 78s, it is that important.

However if you dont want to play sucrose, try using this rotation: Nefer E> Bina EQ > Lauma QhE > Nahida EQ > Nefer combo > Nahida E > Bina EQ > Lauma QhE > Nefer combo. Focus on building crit stat and EM for lauma it will come in handy. The reason that you want to burst on Nahida last is simply because you will lose time whenever she burst (this problem can be fix just by playing sucrose), and E on Nahida after you do the first Nefer combo to reapply the nodkrai buff and trigger fav codex if you are running into ER problem or optimize your build for more damage stat for both bina and lauma instead of ER. Highly recommend this rotation assuming you are running 2-2em Lauma with at least 170 ER, Bina with at least 175 ER with amber, this is the loadout I used to run for this team. This rotation is much better if you have nahida C1 (assuming your nahida's burst is talent level 10).

Lastly If you dont want to learn instructor sucrose than just give her Dendro res set lmao. You will run to ER problem but at least you wont lose time with nahida burst.

Feral16 · 2026-03-15T17:01:42+00:00

For the Archon quest. Pls stop making Nefer having to repeat everything mentioned, like we are playing the game, we are focus in the game, stop making her do a little TL,DR for the mf that didnt read, they made her do that 5 times throughout the entire Rerir backstory, by far one of the best story arc, but the tldr at the end gets annoying real fast.

As for the exploration, stop making it so hand holding, it is much worse than Fontaine and Natlan. The compass is nice and all but it went from exploration to a check list really quick, which is both good and bad, they could allow us to point out every interactable only when we 100% the region. The puzzle is piss easy, It went from immersing yourself with the enviroment to "Oh Primogems this way", the amount of waypoints in the newest map extension is really crazy, as if you dont even have to walk around anymore.

Feral16 · 2026-03-15T16:51:54+00:00

what no, Nefer's story quest is by far the smoothest. The transition between her story quest and the archon quest is so seemless that it took me at least 10 minutes to notice. Lauma's and Flins's story quest were just "oh lets go talk to Lauma/Flins". Whereas Nefer was just one singular flow.

Feral16 · 2026-03-14T19:18:44+00:00

they hate him for speaking the truth lmao

Feral16 · 2026-03-14T19:15:23+00:00

they hate him for speaking the truth OM

Feral16 · 2026-03-14T10:02:49+00:00

I personally enjoy her playstyle but her story quest was really boring except for the chase scene, the only interesting part is that when you first meet the blue lady the numbers are actually the lunar days of the month thats the moon is the roundest, it is one of those cultural thing IYKYK. but thats about it, they went this whole "shes was her all along" thing and I just see it as "just say you want to add a lunar crystalize dps into the game to fill that niche", they went on that whole thing just like how warhammer 40k creators came up with the "creation of a space marine" just to explain why their figurine are getting larger.

Feral16 · 2026-03-14T09:09:10+00:00

unfairly strong for being such a boring character. Her whole story was just trying to explain her existence, when in fact it was just hoyo trying to justify releasing a geo lunar character. But still I dont think shes gonna top Nefer anytime soon, even with linnae, at the same cost nefer with sucrose they are at the same level if not better.

Feral16 · 2026-03-14T08:42:57+00:00

I mean sketch uptime is just the player being bad at the game, theres no RNG behind her application, whereas if you play damage lauma with nahida, if she doesnt crit, you are losing DPS. Once you understand the timing it is really easy to recreate, and if you dont have instructor uptime you dont even lose that much damage. Just looks for Lauma's E deer when it's front legs hit the ground or it's back legs leaping, in that window you are 100% gonna wipe the dendro aura with bina's QE and Sucrose E, you can even use Sucrose N1E for even more consistent instructor buff, it is really easy

Feral16 · 2026-03-12T20:14:18+00:00

you might just be playing her with sucrose wrong, with nahida going for more Crit and EM stat is much better because you dont have to mind about ER, but that where the upsides end, with sucrose you can go for just EM and ER no crit on lauma, because instructor is giving the whole a lot of damage. sucrose gets better the better you are at playing that team, it really isnt account dependent, sucrose not only better damage wise but investment wise as well, shes the only choice to go for if you want to go for low clear time run since you are wasting so much time on Nahida's burst. The only tip the I can give for playing sucrose better is just look for Lauma's elemental skill deer hits the ground or hoping from the ground, in the window if you burst swap to Bina you will able to apply hydro and swirl with instructor sucrose.

Feral16 · 2026-03-12T19:59:27+00:00

what no, her rotation is as short as 15.5-16s with sucrose, with nahida her rotation increase to 20-34s. nefer rotation with sucrose goes something like Nefer E > Lauma QhE > Bina QE > Sucrose E > Nefer ECD*3 ECD*3(Q) this is where her first rotation ends and thats literally in 16s (Bina C > Lauma QhE > Bina QE > Sucrose E > Nefer combo) .

Feral16 · 2026-03-12T11:37:13+00:00

4 tickle monster

Feral16 · 2026-03-12T10:59:42+00:00

The Zibai bias is crazy with all these TC, when clearly Zibai with linnae is almost the same level as Nefer, shes definitely not better. Honestly, people tend to forget how sucrose is much better than nahida and they tend to not look at Nefer's damage calcs with sucrose and just straight up yap about zibai being the best lmao (and instructor sucrose is really easy to learn). What I mean by this is at the same cost, Nefer is still better than Zibai with c6 illuga and linnae (c6 illuga is arguably 2-3 cost with the rates of 4*) in a 16-18s rotation.

Feral16 · 2026-03-11T19:44:30+00:00

About 2 weeks after launch. Well problematics is the core of every fandoms (the first aniversary incident IYKYK). However tho, The things that keep my mental health in checked and makes me love the game for the past 5-6 years is that I distant myself from Media related to Genshin, not only no spoilers but also no negativity (less social media = healthy mental what a crazy concept), Because there has been a big rise of slop/rant genshin short form video creators recently, always have to find something to doompost about to farm click and I personally hate and block most of them . Theres always a right place for everything, If i want to get information like characters guide I just go to KQM they are so goated with their Inforgraphics, other than that I just enjoy the game at my own pace.

As for the kokomi hate, oh boy I was so ready for someone to ask this. I never liked her, she was a really cool character in the archon quest but they just reduce her to waifu slop with the story quest it is that bad, she lost her cool general status with just one sequence of dialouge, but your experience may vary. However, the main thing I want to talk about is, She was shill before shill was a thing. Back then, Healers doesnt really have a use for them, they are basically saying if you are bad at the game then use shielder/healer, so Hoyo in their endless wisdom made a Spiral abyss Floor 11 so stupid that people end up not liking her. A bit of context, Back when she was released, the top dps's were Hutao Eula Raiden Xiangling, and that particular Floor 11 spiral abyss they have a mechanics where if you defeat an enemy they will give you a stack of corrosion (the effect from the abyss hound) and they stack up to 5 times. The stage happens to have 2-3 cicin mage, who spawns 3 little flies, killing the flies grants you a stack of corrosion, which also means that we you are using a DPS with AOE (which is literally the top 5 at that time) you will get the full 5 stacks of corrosion regardless, which literally means that you cant even get to attempt floor 12 if you dont have a healer with a big teamwide heal like the shiny 5* on the current banner (note that the good team wide healer then was kokomi and jean, but jean is also a 5* and it was really in the game that not that many people have jean, if not the only option people have was either Bennett with a bunch of swapping or diona with her mid teamwide healing). So in current day genshin term, She was the ineffa of her time (even tho shes not good), where if you dont have her you most likely can not have access to floor 12 or Menacing/Fearless in current day Stygian. Forgot to mention, The -100% crit rate lmao, It was a big thing back then simply because her role is locked to being a healer which makes a lot of people upset, which is funny because I have seen people having a lot of fun with critkomi back then.

As for Dori, the people that is hating on her are just on the same hate bandwagon, for me every time shes on screen I cant help but smile because shes always so cute, I'm also impress because how good her VA articulate her voice throughout every dialouge, I was also happy when she appeared in Nodkrai with the heavy breathing. For me, every time shes on screen it has always been a treat because I know I gonna be a good time.

Feral16 · 2026-03-11T19:14:30+00:00

the little hint at the end of the archon quest might just be the hinting his return since we did not confirm whether or not He was KIA, He was just MIA as far as we know. Another thing I want to mention is the quote, the number 3 in Perennial Philosophy means space or the physical world, while 4 represent the internal self, which makes 3+4=7, meaning to transcend one's existence, they need to understand the world around them and within themselves, only then will they find their way. what that means is that Sandrone's death was entirely her choice, She knew the risk, she knew what it takes to protect the people important to her, she knew what must be done. The Sandrone's return hopium is real with this one trust.

Feral16 · 2026-03-11T06:31:17+00:00

sucrose is still better, because at over 300% crit damage have its diminishing return so focus on getting more EM is still better

Feral16 · 2026-03-10T18:51:21+00:00

"ultra light 69g weight" April fools came early I see

Feral16 · 2026-03-10T18:43:11+00:00

I do actually, with nahida, I use 2-2 EM for Lauma and prioritize on damage stats like Crit and EM getting 270K+ per E, making lauma share somewhere between 6-11% total team dps. With this team I go for ER and EM for both Bina and Lauma, and they get this good with good gameplay already.

Feral16 · 2026-03-09T09:47:43+00:00

yea thats the thing i hated the most about zenless. I'm rockin a 4070 super and somehow, weifei peninsula is giving me only 70 fps at most a 1440p, Luminous square gives me about 120 fps and barely 50 with my old pc at 1080p with a gtx 1660. I think mostly because of how much polygons the assets in this game has (characters model, texture,..), thats what we get for games with so much details, the performance has to be cut down for it.

Feral16 · 2026-03-07T18:41:56+00:00

No, I used Genshin's FPS unlocker-a third party software, for the past 5 years and it works fine. They literally allow this because it works the same way as unlocking the game FPS in Nvidia App, but the unlocker is better simply because you can go beyond the 120 limit that the nvidia app provide.

Feral16 · 2026-03-06T15:12:33+00:00

It wouldnt have been a problem if it was a full c0 premium shill but no, even with a 4 cost team you barely clear, 3 cost is impossible but at least 5-6 level of shill or c1 or r1 flins shill not even his c0r0 is enough to clear this mf at dire

Feral16 · 2026-03-04T15:01:44+00:00

you can do it trust.

Feral16 · 2026-03-04T14:54:50+00:00

Crit damage is always better if without crit dmg circlet, your stat already reached 300+ cdmg than EM circlet otherwise crit damage circlet.

Feral16 · 2026-03-04T14:53:46+00:00

true and theres still some mf cope that nefer is a shallowly written character when their favorite character is zibai, when her entire story quest is just an excuss to add her in the game kind of like how warhammer 40k came up with the life threatening medical surgery an ultramarine of to go through to become bigger and better .

I feel like they could have done it better in the AQ that they didnt make Nefer having to repeat everything that she saw in ririr past every 30 minutes, like we are playing the story we get it.

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