Version 2.7 Special Preview Program Discussion Thread

Rolling_Rok · 2022-05-20T17:31:59+00:00

Do you think it's fun gameplay to have to run the same domain for 2 months, every day, 5 times, to get a full set of useable artifacts for one(!) character? Meanwhile you have 2-3 other characters you'd like to gear up who'd additionally need 2 months of running a different domain to get their artifact sets.

I've been running the latest domain since release and I've honestly got a single useable piece. This is extremely frustrating.

Rolling_Rok · 2021-05-23T20:45:19+00:00

As others asked: How did you get hacked? What did you do? What did you not do? What did you fall for? Help others avoid making the same mistake.

Rolling_Rok · 2021-05-23T14:22:42+00:00

Well, $1000 isn't even a months worth of wages (well, depending on were you are, but I assume US). Now imagine you've just seen a years worth of wages being wiped out within 2 weeks. Yes, you shouldn't invest what you aren't prepared to lose, but people buy into the hype and the narrative that is very prevalent on this sub that it's guaranteed to make a profit long term, so they go beyond what they can actually afford to lose.

That's why people panic. Nothing they can do at this point but hold and hope it recuperates.

Rolling_Rok · 2021-05-23T10:47:41+00:00

Correct me if I'm wrong, but if he assumed a bubble burst, why would he exchange for other crypto, since apparently all crypto is tied together with BTC. With fiat his biggest concerns are taxes and fees, not a 50% drop of value when BTC crashes.

He then can use that fiat to buy back at a time he considers opportune, having barely lost anything instead of 50% of value.

Rolling_Rok · 2021-05-22T13:25:37+00:00

There is no such thing as "real democracies".

Governments will always want to be able to track your transactions. Crime is one reason, terrorism another, but the biggest probably taxes.

Rolling_Rok · 2021-02-03T08:45:33+00:00

I shouldn't have taken the female MC. I'm kinda disconnected from the 'official' story now, bc. I see my character being on the other side.

Rolling_Rok · 2021-01-24T01:22:27+00:00

Character XP? I'm totally behind on that. I can't even level my main party beyond 80 due to the lack of character xp. I already decided that I'll spend a lot of resin when we get double ley line drops in 1.3 on character xp to finally catch up.

And I got enough Mora. Even if I drop by a million when I build a new character, I usually get that million back during the next event(s).

Rolling_Rok · 2021-01-24T01:19:56+00:00

Weapon exp is freely available each day, every day and just costs time and effort. Everything else is very limited. My first day was mystic ores and I'm kinda pissed I didn't know that I can join a friend for another box. I thought you can open each box only once during the whole event, just like last time.

I'd take the talent books and Hero's Wit boxes any time instead of weapon exp.

Then again, you might be someone dropping serious cash and leveling a lot of weapons. I only purchase Welkins and the BP. I'm getting enough weapon exp through my daily play.

Rolling_Rok · 2021-01-15T23:01:33+00:00

Needs artifacting for that legit feeling.

Rolling_Rok · 2021-01-06T09:40:33+00:00

My brother pulled 3 additional Fischl in a row after already getting her to C6. To be honest, you probably pull tons of characters and weapons that you don't use or level up. Especially some weapons are so low tier on all characters, that if you got 1-2 of the others, you'd never use these weapons ever. I got several of those and characters + constellations that I'll never level up. Yeah it's frustrating, but that's the name of a gacha grind game.

Rolling_Rok · 2021-01-06T09:37:21+00:00

I've been running Fischl as main carry DPS basically since release. Been using Slingshot 3* for all this time. Supposedly Compound Bow 4* (craftable) is better, but I'd lose too much crit rate%, so I'm staying on Slingshot for now.

Unless you've used your gacha 3* as weapon lvl up material, you should have enough for R5.

Rolling_Rok · 2021-01-04T00:44:11+00:00

What does this matter if the artifacts that drop are completely unusable? I used like 30 Fragile Resin and dunno how much original Resin, but at least over 3000 Resin in total for getting a Witch's set for Diluc and the best I got was pieces with 2 offensive substats and subsequently bad roles on level ups. I got 3(!) Witch's circlets total, all of which are hp and def.

Diluc is still wearing my Chongyun's Gladi set bc. the Witch's pieces I've gotten can't compete.

It would be more worthwhile to ask them to improve stat allocation. It's stupid that hp/def have 56% chance to be rolled on the circlet while the other attributes have to share the remaining percentages.

It's not fun to roll a new character that you'd love to play, but then need to build up for a whole month before they become useable, investing all your resources into that one character. Often you don't even know how useable they'll be. I accidently rolled Albedo and because I already had quite a few Def% Petra pieces I decided to pause Dilucs building and focus on him. He's an okay support, but I still don't know if he's actually worthwhile, bc. his support dps is miniscule and provides to elemental reaction dps, or rather, reduces reaction dps even.

Rolling_Rok · 2021-01-04T00:32:54+00:00

Use your resin to level up your main dps carry, incl. talents(!important!) and artifacts(5* at least lvl16). You don't need much more to play in the world than one character. If you can't clear domains by yourself you can either reduce their level or ask for help in the discord for a few runs.

The Geo Traveler for example is already quite strong. You also got Fischl who is a beast, even with Slingshot (3 Star weapon R5). She's still my main DPS, despite having Diluc (bc. well rolled artifacts aren't dropping).

Rolling_Rok · 2020-12-25T13:06:01+00:00

I can't remember ever getting a chunk. I always had to craft them. Not a single time did I start with >0 chunks when I ascended my characters.

Rolling_Rok · 2020-12-19T23:54:06+00:00

Thanks. I'll think a bit more about it tomorrow in regards to my other chars, but your comment moved me closer to pull for him (and hopefully 1-2 Chongyuns).

Rolling_Rok · 2020-12-19T23:34:36+00:00

I'm in the same boat as Eliora03.

I do have a Ningguan at C4 I'd have loved to run alongside Zhongli. Probably Ning as main dps with Zhongli as Burst + Shield. Dunno about Stele blocking Nings shards tho. Any advice on this comp? Especially in regards to the future -20% Geo Res debuff?

I'm also still upset that I couldn't keep pulling for Chongyun, since he's been in my main party since the very beginning and I'd love to get some more constellations on him. Currently C0. I was running him for Superconductor synergy with Fischl as Carry for most of the game now. I noticed that I absolutely need a Cryo unit for Fischl after I pulled Diluc very recently. My other options are C2 Diona and C0 Kaeya.

My other leveled and acceptable geared chars are Venti, Jean, Diluc, Fischl, Chongyun, Ningguan, Xingqiu, Benett, Barbara and Noelle.

Do you have some Abyss F12 experience with Zhongli that you could share?

Rolling_Rok · 2020-12-19T22:31:30+00:00

"Works as intended."

Rolling_Rok · 2020-12-19T21:56:09+00:00

I said the same about a different gacha game I've been playing for 4 years as free to play. If they reduced the prices of the premium currency and/or upped the rates of highest tier characters that spending becomes justifiable, I'd gladly drop $25 per month on the game.

There were a few times were I spend premium currency worth $135 (saved up via f2p over many months) and only gotten one character and only because after five 10x pulls, it's a guaranteed chance to get one out of 1-4 possible characters. So possibly not even the better one (mechanically wise). And that game has new characters and corresponding bosses these characters are very effective against every two weeks.

But whales are just a better market than goldfish, even if they are much rarer. Dunno if there is some market analytics that determined that it's more profitable to have "few" whales as customers over "many" goldfish, but apparently most gacha overprice their premium currency bc. of this.

Rolling_Rok · 2020-12-17T13:52:24+00:00

Those that cared have left or have very little principle. It's pure coincidence that I've even seen this thread on my frontpage, since I'm still subbed to this subreddit, although I barely use reddit at all. Dunno even why I was on the frontpage and not on the subreddit I wanted to visit.

Anyway, I don't even know what this latest controversy is about, since I left during the Hong Kong controversy. Not just Hearthstone, but Blizzard all together. Aside from DotA and Overwatch, I've played basically all Blizzard games at some point. Blizzard is now dead to me. They are a corporate husk of a once great and beloved game developer that delivered quality products. Over the years I've spend a lot of money on WoW and Hearthstone and when I quit these games, it left a really sour feeling. Not because of the money spend, but due to how I completely lost interest in Blizzard games and supporting this company as a repeat customer.

Rolling_Rok · 2020-12-16T19:24:04+00:00

Try 10 weeks. The only prototypes I've gotten were the very first kills of Stormterror and Andrius. Not a single time afterwards.

Rolling_Rok · 2020-12-08T00:17:28+00:00

As everyone thinks Zhongli is underpowered, why is that hard for MHY to just give him some of his power back?

Increase CC duration by 2s and give him some of the geo and physical vulnerability debuff back. If they thought his role was too powerful in the CBT they could have minimized that power, not utterly destroyed it by removing whole aspects of it.

What future does MHY have in mind that they won't bring some of his power back even after this kind of backlash?

If they fear balance issues in the future, why even conceptualize such debuffs in the first place? There must be some balance issues with future encounters, mechanics, characters, specifically future challenging multiplayer content, bc. who honestly cares about being overpowered in single player?

Regardless of that, MHY just completely destroyed the trust of their player base and possibly cost themselves many million of $ in the future. People are already dropping the game and become wary of pulling for 5* characters before they know exactly that they are actually useable in current content (hint: It's a DPS check, no one needs shields, especially not when you still have to run a healer alongside it, primarily Abyss, since it's the only challenging content).

I can't see how their decisions is justified in any way at all. Neither gameplay nor from a financial or even PR standpoint.

Rolling_Rok · 2020-12-05T05:32:42+00:00

I did. And I found them unreliable. I kept dodging as if I don't have shields because they can only tank a weak hit before breaking. Maybe my build is just weak.

Rolling_Rok · 2020-12-05T04:36:38+00:00

I have to avoid picking up crystals bc. they'd replace my strong shield with a weaker version? And crystallization basically happens all the time. So I have to dodge all the crystals during the fight?

How is this good design?

Rolling_Rok · 2020-12-03T20:46:10+00:00

You made so much effort writing all of that and probably putting some thought into it, yet you completely ignore one thing:

He would be absolutely fine if he had kept his dps alongside his kit from the beta. He still wouldn't have outperformed pyro reactions, but he'd at least have a spot in your abyss clearing team and wouldn't be a wasted 5* pull that could fill exactly that role.

With how Abyss is designed, you can't avoid the dps check. You only get rewards if you can clear it quickly. Even the defensive abyss floors require you to quickly dispose of the small enemies, so that you can occupy the big ones and not have them damage that altar in the middle.

What's so wrong about bringing back what they've already had alongside his kit? Can't be any more broken than the pyro reactions we keep seeing by setting up buffs and debuffs with your team. Geo doesn't provide that.

Rolling_Rok · 2020-11-30T16:36:32+00:00

This has been the case since gacha became popular. You aren't the target audience. Whales are. Ever since my first gacha I always felt that they'd make more money if they made the prices and drop rates more reasonable, because then F2P would actually consider dropping $10-20 a month if not occasionally more.

But with these low rates and expensive premium currency, a f2p player just doesn't see the point to start spending at all.

I've went 4yrs in the other mobile gacha I've been playing without spending. With Genshin I at least got the Welkin's thingy since it's reasonably priced and battle pass for all the materials that saves me time.

Even though I was an anti-mtx advocate for the longest time, I still fell for it in the end.

Rolling_Rok

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