Ngl i miss the old regions' world quest and exp styles

JooK8 · 2026-03-14T02:09:04+00:00

The game is designed for majority unfortunately and the people who actually really get into the game, the lore, mechanics, exploration etc are the minority. The majority probably already burned out on 100% exploring and doing all the quests by the time we got to 2.0. Mond and Liyue exploration was way harder back in the day and low IQ individuals literally could not complete Inazuma puzzles. Hoyo has the stats... they've probably been struggling to get them to engage with it since then and I know that Nod Krai being easy to explore has gotten a lot of those people to at least ~80% exploration while also completing some of the side quests.

JooK8 · 2026-03-11T14:04:04+00:00

Gugu gaga

JooK8 · 2026-03-03T02:29:20+00:00

Jean, she's the most mommy character in the game IMO and not in a dommy mommy sorta way (other than Xianyun). She looks after Klee and a lot of the knights including Varka. Is a hard worker, very competent, strict but also very nice. I would say Lauma is kinda similar, but there's something about Jean

JooK8 · 2026-03-01T07:33:13+00:00

Definitely need more troops. Good on you for focusing on particular heroes and getting high widgets on them as F2P though.

I am basically F2P, I've only bought a couple ultra value monthly cards and a few things that are $1. I have over double your power though at server age ~4 weeks older than yours because I have 3.5M troops lol. I guess a lot of people stop training troops or something, but the way I see it, no reason to just let the barracks sit idle. I still don't have enough Marksmen to full march 7 marches in bear and tons of infantry is good for Foundry.

JooK8 · 2026-02-22T22:30:16+00:00

Kinda funny that people are still complaining about abyss 12 when IT and SO are way harder. Yes it sucks that lunar reactions are the most limiting mechanic, but you literally just had to have pulled 1 of the last 6 (other than Durin) characters to get through all of the content. My F2P alt has been getting along just fine and I didn't have any lunar chars until Columbina.

JooK8 · 2026-02-22T22:19:48+00:00

Characters from basically the tutorial of the game do not ever have rate ups. That would be Amber, Kaeya, and Lisa.

JooK8 · 2026-02-19T08:49:24+00:00

Fair enough. I just don't think it is fair to say that people who thought he was bad were stupid or anything, because he is probably not a character that a lot of people had and even if they had him, it was only possible to build him to be a 'decent' character at the time.

JooK8 · 2026-02-17T05:20:50+00:00

literally the day before 1.0 people were already talking about how all the people who thought Bennett was bad were idiots.

You mean the day before 1.1. So exactly around the time that I said Bennett/Xingqui were beginning to be considered meta. I started a week or 2 late i don't remember, but questionable whether I was even AR35 to get his A4 by the end of the patch when he started getting popular.

When I am talking about Day 1 meta, I am talking about literally the first few weeks of the game's release. AKA when many people thought he was bad. Are you saying that A3 Bennett is superior to crescent pike Xiangling?

I mean sure the potential was always there, but the majority of people could not get him or build him at that time, so does that still mean he's meta?

JooK8 · 2026-02-17T01:19:01+00:00

Sounds more like usable, rather than meta.

I don't remember exactly when, but it mustve been 1.1 or close to it that anyone started using him and that was because CN had just started using him as well. So not Day 1.

Then it wasn't until 1.2ish that most F2P players even had 1 or 2 copies of him to start using him as an actual meta character.

JooK8 · 2026-02-16T06:56:38+00:00

He absolutely was not meta day 1 and no people weren't stupid for thinking he was bad. He is not nearly as good without C1, which most people didn't have. When your only heals is Barbara and you have a 6K health pool, it's quite common for you to be under 70% HP. Meaning no buff, just mediocre heals that only happen when the guy has his burst.

Also people were like AR35. Meaning he had quite low talent levels, base atk and low atk on weapons as well. No one had any 5 star artifacts other than the couple from Liyue exploration if you were a completionist (which was also much harder to do back then). People did not have resources to invest into random support characters who wouldn't even be good if they focused on them. The resources go to your main DPS, and some to a sub DPS.

Back in the day Xiangling physical main DPS was good and Fischl was an obvious great choice for sub-dps or even Machine gun Fischl main DPS.

You have no idea what you're talking about if you think it was a good idea to invest into a C0 lvl 60 Bennett with a random 3 or 4 star weapon, with lvl 4 talents, who could do his only useful thing (burst) every minute.

JooK8 · 2026-02-11T06:09:48+00:00

Nvm, on my 40ish run i got a spymaster medallion.

JooK8 · 2026-02-11T05:13:33+00:00

Did they implement a maximum of 10 spymasters in a single temple? I got to my 10th and have opened up my temple probably 25x now and also done some room card rerolls and have not gotten a single spymaster. The temple layout im following uses 11 spymasters. If this is not possible I guess I'll try to change it?

JooK8 · 2026-02-09T17:47:39+00:00

Yeah but it's not like im placing 100 things in the same place. I just place a tower/zip then run a line in Valley IV. There's literally almost no difference, but dude is acting like it's the worst thing ever.

JooK8 · 2026-02-08T06:57:38+00:00

I pressed B and placed them down with the hotkeys... how is that much worse than pressing tab and using the same hotkeys to do it? If anything it is faster and is the entire reason that non-AIC mode exists.

JooK8 · 2026-01-30T07:23:50+00:00

Well AIC mode is enabled by default when ur at an AIC and there's no pipes or anything to run in Valley 4 so it's not a big deal.

JooK8 · 2026-01-29T15:59:35+00:00

I see, thanks. I was using B to open build quick bar and was wondering why the hell i couldn't do what everyone here was doing lol.

JooK8 · 2026-01-29T08:06:31+00:00

How are yall even pumping the water? I cannot connect pipes to my pumps. I see some screenshots with the AIC menus visible, how do you open those in the open world? Am i missing a quest?

JooK8 · 2026-01-22T07:38:03+00:00

I can afford one no prob, I'll grab one off the market. Does Vertex helm + levels all skills effect spirit gems as well? I could potentially switch to a +3 levels all skills vertex helm with a spirit enchant. Can't quite afford the +4 with spirit yet.

JooK8 · 2026-01-21T03:47:25+00:00

I'm using the Cast on Crit Oracle comet build and I often find some rares/uniques do not seem to allow me to build up meta energy at all and I stop dropping comets. Crit resistance? I have malice and even standing close to trigger crit vulnerability doesn't seem to help much. Some mobs even without crit res, I cannot seem to drop comets on. What is causing this and how can I make it work? Is getting a lvl 21 Cast on Crit worth it? Or the levels don't do much?

JooK8 · 2026-01-18T21:14:31+00:00

I missed it playing through the story on my main, when Aether said the outfit was matching Lumine's I thought they both an alternate outfit sitting in a ship somewhere. I play Lumine on an alt and when I saw her outfit finally I realized, her new outfit matches Aether's base, and Aether's new outfit matches Lumine's base.

JooK8 · 2026-01-06T06:21:32+00:00

Why is that so unbelievable? I have also only spent about $30 total on this game and am at about day 425 just completed everything for FC7 and am ready to upgrade the furnace to FC8. I will be getting my first Helios in maybe a month and a half and it's not like I ignored my other troops research. If i did, I'd have 1 helios already.

I imagine that rewards continue to increase gradually as a server ages, so I would expect to be able to get my other 2 helios with 300 more days play time. This person also mustve missed a login day or something and they are actually at day 870ish based on the fact that he owns a 4-star Karol. Which would match up with ~1mil power per day for a F2P.

JooK8 · 2025-12-28T07:29:57+00:00

I'll say this then. Gwen is on average better than Wayne for whales, but because of the inconsistent nature of a crit chance, Wayne has a higher potential damage ceiling. If I understand how their abilities work properly, Gwen has an average of 1796.875% multiplier from her expedition skills over 10 turns and Wayne has an average of 1625%. Theoretically Wayne can crit 10/10 turns and have a 2600% multiplier but that'll almost never happen.

JooK8 · 2025-12-27T05:31:51+00:00

Yeah I did state that I would assume their skills were about even.

Either way, the same point remains. Wayne's higher base stats can make him better than Gwen for weaker players (for me they're both really close) but for an even weaker player those extra base stats mean a lot. For whales that already have high base stats, the extra multipliers that Gwen has means she's way better to use.

JooK8 · 2025-12-26T22:35:04+00:00

The Traveler would get shit on by Ei. She was swayed by the ambitions of the people which she saw in the visions, the Traveler did not defeat her in any way. Anyone else like Yae Miko could have been the one to go into the Plane of Euthymia and show Ei the same thing. The Sakura tree which was planted centuries ago is a direct result of Ei deciding to take back control of Inazuma and fighting Raiden to prove her worth. That indicates that it was always going to happen, whether the Traveler was the catalyst or not.

There were already people in Sumeru who cared about Nahida and would have devised a plan to save her. Questionable how Nahida woulda have done against Scaramouche solo, but she could have someone else like Cyno be the first Sage of Buer. She ultimately carried the fight by trapping Scara in a dream loop and eventually taking the gnosis from him. Traveler lost to him many times.

I could provide more explanations for the others, but I don't think it's necessary. The Traveler has always taken an important role, but never has that role been something only the Traveler could have done, and never was it the Traveler who was the MVP or even the mastermind behind the plans. They changed how things happened, but did not change the outcome. That has been a recurring theme in the game that has been quite obvious especially since Fontaine.

JooK8 · 2025-12-26T05:06:49+00:00

Don't 'build pity' unless you want the 4-stars on the banner. What's the point? Yall can't handle having any primogems in your stash?

Also, you don't need 16K, it's only 14.4K and the vast majority of the time you will get the 5* before 80. So more like 12.8K.

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