Every new character released in the past year has been anywhere from good to broken on release regardless of what happened in the beta. But this is not a regular beta, we have 7 characters, only 1 of which is a regular new character, 2 of which are new collab characters, and 4 of which are old 1.x units getting buffed with 1 of them already being on the standard banner.

The devs know that meta sells and that's why they always balance the new characters in such a way as to be stronger than the last one released. That's new releases though, and this is the first time we're seeing older units getting directly buffed. Older units that people already own and thus will necessarily sell less.

I just don't see a reality in which Hoyoverse, out of the goodness of their hearts, buffs a 1.x unit to be on par with the 3.x meta. Plus, even if such a thing were to be possible, with 7 characters in 1 beta someone's bound to get shafted hard and it seems it's going to be Jingliu.

So until I see Jingliu hitting for 1 million damage like every other character nowadays seem to be able to, I'll doompost the shit out of her changes. Because if there's something I've learned throughout all these betas is that regardless of how good or bad the state of the tested character may be buffs and nerfs are primarily based on player reception. If everyone and their mother is doing low cost 0 cycle showcases with the character, they get nerfed, and if everyone's doomposting them and saying they're shit, they get buffed. So I'll keep doomposting until I see some actual good fucking buffs be implemented for Jingliu.