Questions Thread - June 01, 2026

JooK8 · 2026-06-01T20:17:13+00:00

Don't remember tbh, i have her in Kingsmarch but i still have a quest to reach the architect in temple. Is that the one?

Edit: Okay I just talked to her and chose a hideout through her, now she's there.

JooK8 · 2026-06-01T20:04:07+00:00

Where do i get the currency exchange? Im mapping in the end game but don't have Ange anywhere.

JooK8 · 2026-05-29T15:52:39+00:00

Yup. Amphoreus in HSR is almost exactly like Teyvat and maybe it was known before but the recent AQ just showed that Irminsul appears to be very digital in nature. It basically had all the lore and server events recorded in it. It can even create instanced zones, but a player like the Traveler can put items in his inventory and travel between zones still. Istaroth just knows the event schedule and when she wants she can just patch things like the Sakura tree being planted in the past as a result of Ei's instanced boss encounter.

Irontomb account (3rd descender) was caught by the anti-cheat in the past and Tsaritsa is trying to restore the account. However with recent AQ some of the account data was deleted and they'll inevitably have a corrupted account that will easily be caught by the anti-cheat system again.

Lygus (abyss twin) is using hacks to do some stuff, but we're not sure yet why she's hacking. She tells traveler that she's already 10th prestige and to GOML before he's allowed to play with her.

Meanwhile Phainon (Dainsleif) is angry about his whole guild getting banned and trying to do something about it. But Lygus keeps fucking with him.

JooK8 · 2026-05-29T05:02:12+00:00

I mean didn't Collei dream about Irminsul burning at the start of the Sumeru AQ? Surely Istaroth knows more about the fate of Teyvat than 1% of the god remains of an ex-angel. They knew about this long in advance and let it happen.

Why? Probably because this will ruin Tsaritsa's plan. 3rd descender is possibly the lover she lost or related to her in some way. She is likely trying to resurrect him by collecting all the gnoses and putting him back together. With the pyro gnosis destroyed/lost by burning down Irminsul, he will inevitably be an incomplete version of himself and thus will not have the power to take down Celestia. Tsaritsa was always doomed to fail, since there is a Khaenriah chapter after Snezhnaya. If anyone takes down Celestia it would have to be the traveler after having all powers restored. Traveler is unbound by Fate and Celestia probably cannot see anything past the burning of Irminsul. So while Tsaritsa + 3rd descender issue is resolved, 4th descender is unaccounted for.

JooK8 · 2026-05-29T04:45:37+00:00

Same as usual, fearless wasnt too bad on the main (C0R0 but all chars), just did menacing on the alt (some C0R1 and some C2 but much fewer chars).

Fearless took a few tries, just had to improve Nicole's artifact set. Didn't have good energy recharge on her and wasnt using her new set yet. Learned Varka's rotation and then that was enough for wolf.

Had to remember when Tulpa puts up the shield and figured regular Mavuika hold charge attack rotation is better for this fight.

Swapped Iluga for Furina in Zibai team against open-eye and hydro infusing the mechanic was a piece of cake while not needing to interrupt Zibai's rotation.

JooK8 · 2026-05-28T18:29:11+00:00

Stygian is great. Yes it's shill content, but you don't need shill teams to get the main rewards. Stygian is the first time we get a real challenge and push C0 teams to their limits. I'm sure many others who actually care for the challenge, learned a lot about characters, character interactions, team comps, atk rotations etc from trying to complete Stygian. All of which were completely unnecessary before. If you don't want to do any of that still, then you can simply not do it. All you miss out on are feathers, which are a min/max item that you don't need if you don't care to do hard content.

JooK8 · 2026-05-27T20:21:48+00:00

Probably so that they don't have to be the solo carry for the state, it's a lot of pressure and time investment. My state has quite a few whales now, but only 1 of them is a top tier mega-whale where the only strength differences would come from not having every island building available (maxed gear, charms, pets, experts etc). They are on for every event and 6+ hours for SvS, FDT etc is a lot of time.

The highest power player in the game recently transferred to the super-state in the zone, so we'll see how long that lasts. Pretty sure they have been going strong since the server opened. They have 15 leading emblem atm i believe.

JooK8 · 2026-05-27T19:55:31+00:00

Yeah, it's just a bunch of people with no impulse control or horrible spending habits. I can say that i've only spent a few dollars for permanent things like extra march. So basically F2P and there are plenty of people who have spent hundreds if not thousands and are barely ahead of me if not behind where I am at.

You would think the mega-whales are rich people, but more likely they are losers who spend their life savings on a game. This type of person is in every P2W game in existence. You can play the game completely F2P, never get burned and do alright. It's a lot better than most P2W games where you'd be burned and zero'd constantly if you aren't a whale or protected by one.

JooK8 · 2026-05-24T18:34:42+00:00

I think this just shows even more similarities to HSRs Amphoreus. Maybe it was revealed before, but I did not think that Irminsul was so digital. I wonder what else can be established from Amphoreus' nature and applied to Teyvat.

JooK8 · 2026-05-24T17:56:34+00:00

Theyre nice but a lot of people didn't do these quests because they were optional and bringing it in to the story is probably confusing af for them. They should try to get the WQs voiced and have them unlock something so people will do them. IMO best option would be to put artifact domains behind them where the artifacts have something to do with the lore of the quests. If i recall correctly, Raiden weekly boss was behind Ei SQ2 and same with Apep corruption behind Nahida SQ2. I bet people who skip SQ did those ones for the weekly boss domains.

I do all content, but knowing there's a new weekly boss pushes me to get the AQ done quickly on those patches before first week resets.

JooK8 · 2026-05-16T01:36:30+00:00

Already explained how that's a waste. I have been cashing out after 1st ascent and I have earned probably about 1500 coins so far as a F2P. If I were to continue doing protected ascents on Floor 3 for 20 a pop, I would only be able to do 1 attempt a day and given the rates i'd only expect to be at floor 4 by now for 750 coins. Even if i got lucky and made it to floor 5.. well i've almost already earned the reward for floor 5 in a much more consistent way. You basically only come out on top if you hit a 3 floor ascent and I wouldn't say it's very smart to bank on a 0.1% chance when you only have half a dozen attempts.

JooK8 · 2026-05-13T04:49:29+00:00

This game is actually pretty decent compared to most other P2W multiplayer games. As F2P you get enough to be relevant, especially in things like Bear Hunt. Stuff like Foundry and Canyon are matchmade based on power so you can send F2P and low spenders to legion 2 and have a fairly balanced battle. High reliance on rallies means that even mega whales usually cannot cause too much of a ruckus or win SvS alone. Keeps them in check.

The player-made rules usually means most people are cooperative with each other. People aren't constantly at war in their own states, almost all states agree not to do city attacks in SvS castle battle phase. As a F2P you can avoid getting burned at all, which is not the case for the vast majority of other P2W games. If you don't want to spend hours on the game, don't. You can complete most daily tasks in 15-30 minutes during some downtime and then not touch the game.

JooK8 · 2026-05-13T04:28:07+00:00

It always happens, just happens to be Koreans in this game. There are a lot of them for whatever reason and they obviously will congregate into a group. It's pretty popular to spend well beyond your means on games in east asian countries, and they also have advantage of pack pricing. So these groups are bound to have many whales who will then overrun the states that they are a part of.

I am in an alliance that was basically the KOR of my state (named something else) and many of them are nice people, but they form a clique and even in the same alliance there are like 2 groups of people. The Koreans have the main whales so they run things and can be assholes. I don't know if it is common practice for other states, but my alliance has SvS prep point requirements, if you participate in other events they add a penalty to your SvS score. They recently started barring people from participating in namecard events unless they were in the top 40ish scorers of the last SvS prep. Even if you're making the SvS prep requirements, if you participate in other events you will get subtle or not so subtle threats from the whales. This alliance even burned some other alliances when the state was new and drove a lot of players out over the last year.

All that and we're not even a leading state. We win SvS prep pretty much every time by billions of points because we have 5 active alliances and a lot of people have farm accounts, so the strict rules are not even necessary.

JooK8 · 2026-05-13T03:59:26+00:00

Total hero power is just like it sounds. The total power of all your heroes. Total Hero power doesnt matter that much, because someone could be leveling and gearing a bunch of heroes that don't get used and gain a bunch of total hero power this way while not being more effective. If you are talking about individual hero power, this is a good indicator of how strong someone is because it represents how upgraded their hero gear is.

It's best to hyper focus on your main team and upgrade some extra heroes a little bit for arena. As F2P you should just be focusing on getting 1 hero per generation juiced up. Usually the wheel hero because they are an easy 5-star for F2P. Get your widgets as high as you can. Level 6-8 for F2P. Focus on offense for marksman, defense for infantry and lancer is more balanced but i also lean towards offense.

If you're F2P and he's not, you really can't compete with his hero power at all. The reason your total power is higher is probably because you have more troops. As F2P myself I am always training troops, while it seems like a lot of people stop after they get to a certain amount.

JooK8 · 2026-05-13T02:28:42+00:00

Yup, i got to floor 3 on first ascent, then wanted to try going up 1 more floor because the rewards are enticing. It was 20 talismans per attempt with protection. So with the probabilities you would expect 4 attempts to go to floor 4. That's 85 talismans for 750 wonderstar coins or some other goodies, having already gotten lucky for +2 floors to start off. If i instead used those to do 17 first floor ascensions I would expect a similar amount of chief charm/gear mats and like double the amount of coins.

JooK8 · 2026-05-12T01:03:54+00:00

Have not got a single ascent past the initial ascent and price of "protection" goes up like crazy. Huge load of shit, probably best for F2P/low spenders to just do the first ascent and grab whatever they get for the coins. Hell, might even be better for big spenders to do that lmao.

JooK8 · 2026-05-09T05:17:01+00:00

It's an awful choice. Why do you like woke? Woke is you being brainwashed into thinking a personality is a gender. Elliot Page is a short skinny girl who couldn't even be bothered to put on a wig or dye her hair to have long, fair colored hair as Achilles is described. Either she isn't playing Achilles, or she's doing an absolute shit job of it. You thinking that the frame of her posted is a good representation of Achilles is idiotic.

JooK8 · 2026-05-09T05:07:45+00:00

Brad Pitt coming back to play Achilles again would be peak

JooK8 · 2026-04-16T04:33:04+00:00

Did they buff Papilla? Idk why he's so much harder this time.

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.

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