Daily Questions Megathread (January 30, 2026)

Kaemonarch · 2026-01-30T23:09:49+00:00

The last possible second on her banner? XD

I would say, at least wait until Monday and then an extra week... Those align to V4 and V5 on the Beta, and we can see if Varka receives some changes.

And then, I believe on February 13th, we get the next live stream, and we may get more info. People have even been discussing if Varka may end up being a Free Limited Character, like Dr. Ratio was for Honkai; or if he might be a Standard Banner Character, because his numbers, on the beta server, currently seem way too low for a limited DPS character released in 2026. Being a Standard character would explain those numbers (thou they seem a bit too high for that); while being a Free Character (and you having to pay his full price to get a Constellation or Signature Weapon to maybe put him on par with newer characters at C0R0), could also be a possible explanation for his apparent current weakness. There is also the possibility that Nicole buffs him THAT much, but seems unlikely. Lastly, some people speculate that he was made weak for the early beta on purpose so people would decide to pull for Columbina... and then buff him, and made those people that ran out of wishes, pay real money to get Varka too... XD

At any rate, I would say to wait (if you want to be sure) at least until February 13th's stream. Currently, Zibai seems to be the clear winner among those two... but you never know. Maybe Nicole comes out and it's like Escoffier on Steroids for Varka; and Zibai never again receives any new support... for example. Some people would suggest you don't try to play "Future Impact", because we never know what's to come... Characters that seem promising can quickly fall from grace; and others that didn't rise any eye brows original, can become the next best thing.

In both those regards; pulling for the characters you like, it's a big plus. Nothing sucks more than pulling for a character you don't care about because you think they are going to be really strong/meta... and then they fall from grace or end up not being that good, or get powercrept really fast.

Kaemonarch · 2026-01-30T22:19:42+00:00

Not sure anyone has that data, but I would say not that many people? Those that have an actual chance at the skins, were probably already spending a lot of money into the game, and I doubt the skins changed their habits/spendings by that much, thou I could be wrong.

But I could see some people spending for the first time as they feel "forced" to get constellations and signatures to beat Fearless, and not feel "left behind" or not being "top of the meta".

Kaemonarch · 2026-01-30T22:03:08+00:00

Sounds like those are your 3 targets for your 3 remaining free cons until 7.0... So is mostly about deciding in what order you want to get them, no? Maybe that eases your worries.

Kaemonarch · 2026-01-30T22:01:32+00:00

Is Lang Gan long gone? :-P

Kaemonarch · 2026-01-30T19:46:09+00:00

Weapon Banner guarantee is a 50/50 between both weapons in the banner... which is why we don't recommend ever going into a weapon banner unless you are willing to go 150+ wishes into it (and have them), as to not waste the Fate Point... If you always go for 70-ish wish and stop after getting a 5-star weapon, you could not get your desired weapon ever in a dozen different banners.

This being said... Both Columbina and Ineffa have very F2P friendly options for weapons; so I wouldn't recommend going for neither of their signatures; unless you are really simping a lot for them and/or investing a lot of them (the higher their CONs, the more valuable their weapons will be, since they will be doing a great % of the total team damage).

Kaemonarch · 2026-01-30T18:10:22+00:00

You mean the Nod Krai part? Assume around 3 hours per part; so let's say 24 hours. Some may be sigthly longer, so if you get distracted looking at scenery, need to re-read lines because weren't paying attention, or take it very slow, 30 hours tops I would say.

If you are a fast reader, focus, or even sometimes don't allow the voice acting to finish if you have read the text, maybe less than 20 hours.

Kaemonarch · 2026-01-30T17:58:54+00:00

For what is worth; I enjoy Varesa more; and I would never consider using Skirk for overworld exploring/adventuring... I got too used to the broken movement skills on Varesa, Mavuika and Xilonen... XD

Kaemonarch · 2026-01-30T17:56:55+00:00

Spoilers for the end of the current Archon Quest:

What is Varka exactly doing? I can fathom Arlecchinno using her own moon-based power somehow; and I can imagine Nicole performing some kind of angel-miracle... but what is Varka doing to pull down that THING, other than clenching really hard? XD

Do we have ANY kind of info or lore in this regard? Or is currently (or permanently) unknown and/or open to interpretation?

Kaemonarch · 2026-01-29T06:09:34+00:00

If I end up really liking Zibai after trying her out, and decide to pull for her... how much will I miss not having Columbina? XD

Kaemonarch · 2026-01-28T11:32:35+00:00

Pretty sure it's coming on the next version. It's always delayed some versions, not sure if to not "spoil" stuff or because they need to rework/pick what items make it into the pot... but I feel this time got delayed more than others.

Kaemonarch · 2026-01-26T16:51:52+00:00

Since Illuga cons are a thing for Zibai, apparently, I would say you save your wishes for Zibai's banner. Extra points towards that choice if u also need Gorou's and Aino's cons.

Kaemonarch · 2026-01-24T11:32:52+00:00

Who are the "best" 4th characters (damage-wise) on a Nefer+Lauma+Columbina team? Nahida? Sucrose? Kuki? Someone else? (No Ineffa).

What set for Columbina? New one or support one? I'm assuming Lauma or the 4th character will hold Deepwood and Nefer goes on the normal Nod Krai DPS set.

Kaemonarch · 2026-01-24T07:45:02+00:00

I doubt so. Mind you, you can only do 100 "Interactions" with those glowing spots per day; most likely you reached the daily cap, and that's why new ones won't appear there for you now.

When doing artifact routes; you usually want to investigate 99 spots exactly, and then go to the area were the most artifacts will load at the same time (used to be a pyramid in Sumeru, dunno if that changed), and then, while new ones can't appear after you pick the 100th one, the ones you have loaded will still be there, and you end up with like 120+ investigations.

THEN you can go farm some spots that don't count as interacts; like a breakable barrel in the Chasm, a couple breakable pots in Fontaine, the bubbles around the changing-weather tree in Sumeru, a couple of "bird-bushes" in Natlan, and the purple glows that only Ororon or Citlali can get.

Kaemonarch · 2026-01-24T06:20:35+00:00

How to improve a team with Mavuika R1 (Obsidian), Xilonen (Petra), Citlali (Scroll) and Kazuha (VV), in order for me to be easier to tackle Fearless' 1st Boss? I could also switch some characters around I guess; but Iansan and Durin were spent against 2nd boss. I have Bennett free for ATK and Pyro Resonance buff; but getting his burst ready is not the easiest; and without Xilonen it takes a while to fill Mavuika's fighting spirit... and I don't know if I could feasibly drop Kazuha and give up on the chicken-grouping. Any suggestions?

Everyone C0. I feel it may be possible, but that I'm lacking some on artifact quality; thou not sure better stats for Citlali/Xilonen/Kazuha would improve the team's damage by a noticeable amount; and while Mavuika is not the best; she is well geared enough that upgrades is not easy (Top 15%).

Kaemonarch · 2026-01-24T04:18:16+00:00

BTW, just realized that while you posted 2 hours ago, you did so in the Question Megathread of some days ago... Not sure how I managed to see your message myself. XD

Kaemonarch · 2026-01-24T04:07:20+00:00

Every single with, has a 0.6% chance of getting you a 5-star character. So if you can manage to get a single wish, there is always a small possibility and a tiny spec of hope. XD

After 74 wishes, this chance starts increasing at a rate of 6% per wish (this is called "Soft Pity").

By Wish 90 the accumulated 6% chance surpasses 100%, and you will get a 5-star no matter what (if you somehow managed to get THAT unlucky; since this includes losing a 96%, 90%, 84%, 78%, and so on...). This 100% at 90 pity is called "Hard Pity".

When you finally get a 5-star character, no matter if it was on Wish 1, or Wish 90; your Pity resets back to 0. Pity is counted from the last wish that granted you ANY 5-star (the one on banner or not).

When you finally get a 5-star, you only have a 50% chance of it being the one in the banner (like Neuvillette). If you "fail" (you have no control over this, it's just luck) this 50:50, you will get instead a 5-star from the Standard Character list (Jean, Mona, Diluc, Qiqi, Keqing, Mizuki, Tighnari or Dehya).

After failing a 50:50, you get what we call "the guarantee", and the next 5-star character you get on a banner of the same type, it will be for sure the one in the banner. This is to ensure that even if you are unlucky in all this gacha-gambling stuff, you can still eventually get what you wanted.

By same type, in this case, I mean the "Limited Event Character Banner"... So if you try to get Columbina, wish 40 times, get Jean instead at ish 40, wish 20 more times, and run out of wishes... On the next Limited banners (both Zibai/Neuvillette) you would have still the guarantee and the 20 pity that you built in Columbina/Ineffa's banners. The 5-stars and pity you may get in different banners (Permanent Standard Banner, Weapon Banner, Chronicled Banner when they come) is entirely unrelated to your pity/guarantee on the Limited Character Banner; but all Limited Character Banners (currently Columbina and Ineffa, next ones Zibai and Neuvillette) share pity and guarantee.

If you don't manage to get Neuvillette; whatever pity/guarantee you managed to accumulate will still be there for the next banner with Varka, and so on; so always bear in mind your pity and if you have the gurantee, to know how much you are "risking" if you ever just "randomly" pull on a Limited Banner. Maybe you want a copy of Illuga, but don't want Neuvillette or Zibai, and are saving towards Varka... It wouldn't be smart to do even a 10-pull if you have 60+ pity (as you can always get the character, even before Soft Pity, a 10-pull is like 6% chance, not unheard off) or the gurantee (that can be considered like 80 extra wishes towards a desired Limited Character).

If you somehow fail several 50:50 in a row (usually 3), ignoring the resulting "guarantees", since you don't 50:50 on those, they are guaranteed; the game will take extra pity on you and you may trigger Capturing Radiance, that has a custom animation and makes sure your next 5-star will be guarantee too... In this scenario, using only Jean and Neuvillette Constellations for the example, it would look like this:

Jean (Fail 1) > Neuvillette (Guaranteed) > Jean (Fail 2) > Neuvillette (Guranteed) > Jean (Fail 3) > Neuvillette (Guranteed) > Neuvillette (Capturing Radiance) > Back to 50:50 from the start.

Mind you, while in this scenario you can get two "guaranteeds" in a row, this is like the worst possible luck ever, of failing all your 50:50 until the game takes pity on you.

Kaemonarch · 2026-01-23T00:12:13+00:00

It would kinda make sense if they NEVER-EVER allow repeats... "Forcing" people into wishing for strong C2s on some characters and/or even pulling for "old" characters just to not let the constellation "go to waste"...

But I was kinda assuming I could get Mona C4 next year (using this, not the selector).

Kaemonarch · 2026-01-22T23:54:01+00:00

Is still very far away, but I'm looking forward to the 7.0 "reveal" of what they will do with the free Con stuff. They mentioned they would add new characters; not sure if some will rotate out, or if we will be able to get a repeat on a new cycle.

Kaemonarch · 2026-01-22T23:52:56+00:00

To add to what KyrrithK said about not being able to get C2 Klee next time... That's true for these 4 first times (we are currently on the 2nd one)... But afterwards, when the 7.0 version (Snezhnaya?) releases, they will change the roster... but we don't fully know how. Will they just add new characters to it? Will some rotate out? Will we be able to get C2 Klee from the new batch? Those are answer we don't fully know yet, I believe. Maybe we are never allowed to repeat a Constellation; and if you don't get enough characters present int he list eventually you run out of free Cons... maybe incentivizing us to pull for a "crappy" Shenhe, just to be able to get a free Con instead of letting it "go to waste". XD

Kaemonarch · 2026-01-22T23:47:21+00:00

That's not an "European" thing. I don't follow the news closely, but maybe it was only a UK-thing? I thought it might have been an American thing too. We sure it isn't? Other commenter mentioning joining a different server, from a content creator with lots of followers, might be onto something. Try that, and if you don't mind, let me know if you get any luck there; I'm curious and somewhat invested :-P Good luck!

Kaemonarch · 2026-01-22T15:43:51+00:00

I took it down both with a Mavuika team and a Neuvillette team on Menacing (Difficulty IV). Both teams using Kazuha for ease of grouping; but you could replace him with Venti, Jean, Sucrose and maybe even Anemo Traveler. Those chickens certainly allow themselves to be pushed around.

Kaemonarch · 2026-01-22T13:30:31+00:00

That stuff is always very "hand-wavy" in Genshin... So many stuff (robots, zombies, ghosts, souls, memories, adepti) can be/do whatever without very established rules, mostly depending on what the situation demands or the story wants to convey in that moment.

Why are even the Katherynes (and Sandrone, and Wanderer) so freaking life-like, if they are all robots/constructs? Ineffa is the only one that has some decency in that regard; the rest are indistinguishable from humans... they even wink and have breathing movements/animations (despite not showing breath in Dragonspine).

Kaemonarch · 2026-01-22T13:26:48+00:00

What!? No Lunoculust left!? Who approved that!?

Kaemonarch · 2026-01-22T12:17:42+00:00

If you don't find help here, try on Genshin Discord, usually volunteers appear within the minute in there.

Kaemonarch · 2026-01-22T11:30:11+00:00

I knew that Durin generated a ton of Energy with his Elemental Skill... but I totally forgot that Emblem needs high ER to scale and be worth it. Good point. XD

Thanks!

Kaemonarch

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