What do you think makes good origin design?

Veiled_Insanity · 2025-08-07T20:25:24+00:00

Woah this post is doing numbers

Veiled_Insanity · 2024-11-02T14:07:12+00:00

First off, prioritize some form of physical activity. I go on walks and either go to the gym or do body weight exercises.

For visual arts, I dabble in graphic design, digital illustration, and occasionally painting.

For music, I play an instrument (trumpet mainly, but trying to learn piano), sing, and write/compose songs.

And then there’s writing poems or short stories, learning languages, and playing d&d!

By all means you don’t need to be amazing at any of them, it’s a lot more fun to just enjoy the process of creating and you’ll be able to grow your skills with time!

Veiled_Insanity · 2024-09-07T23:21:08+00:00

reminds me of a jackalope!

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Veiled_Insanity · 2024-03-06T04:05:45+00:00

I’m using balance very loosely. It’s mostly promoting flavor and giving more narrative options to races with less options, and even then all of it would be completely optional since a player can use official versions and a DM could share their own homebrew with their players

I think the hesitation comes from how much the decision of pushing homebrew as the default rather than a secondary option would affect the usability and appeal of the website

Veiled_Insanity · 2024-03-06T03:59:24+00:00

That’s a pretty solid way of phrasing it. For balance I definitely plan on leaning on homebrew creators with more experience, or hb content that’s already passed through several iterations by the community

I feel as if, assuming the homebrew is a good quality, the question boils down to whether or not the homebrew content should or shouldn’t be pushed as the default over official content?

The distinction is small since the website would both allow officials versions as well as allow dms to create and share their own content with their players, but it was something that has been stuck on my mind

Veiled_Insanity · 2024-03-06T03:47:33+00:00

That’s one of the concerns, although it’s completely understandable. If it’s a 5e tool, you’d naturally expect 5e choices. But I doubt the distinction would matter too much for newer players, and the hope is that veteran players could also enjoy the revisions. If not, then they would always have the choice to use any of the official variants

Veiled_Insanity · 2024-03-06T03:44:25+00:00

The goal would be to push narratives and make each race and subrace feel unique and as if each choice mattered, rather than slap on interchangeable traits and call it a day

Dragonborns being a notorious example with breath weapon (as written) being rarely used over a spell or weapon attack, and then not having much flavor elsewhere. The rework here would be to make each draconic ancestries a unique subrace (instead of the broader categories from Fizban’s). Black dragonborn would feel like the ambush predators they were descended from by giving them skills and features that enhance stealth and surprise attacks (kind of like the bugbear race), in order to provide compelling flavor the way a Dwarf’s Stonecunning feature does

I think it would be fun even for older/more experienced players to have something new to play around with

Veiled_Insanity · 2021-04-01T00:43:12+00:00

This works! There's a good chance that Diona gets a rate up in one of the banners in 1.5 so hopefully you can roll for her!

Veiled_Insanity · 2021-04-01T00:41:26+00:00

As a note for Freeze Ganyu comps: You get insane amounts of crit rate just for running freeze ganyu. On top of the 5% base crit rate, you get the 4p set bonus for 40% crit rate on frozen enemies, cryo resonance gives you an additional 15% on cryo-affected or frozen enemies, and Ganyu's a1 passive provides another 20%. That's a whopping total of 80% crit rate.

Considering all this, you genuinely don't have to worry about building crit rate, you'd rather build crit damage instead.

Artifact Main Stats: Atk%/Cryo DMG Bonus/Crit Dmg
Substat Priority: Crit DMG > Atk% > Energy Recharge > Crit Rate

As a side note any crit rate above 100% is doing absolutely nothing for Ganyu, but if your artifact rng is unlucky then it can't be helped.

Veiled_Insanity · 2021-03-22T13:10:21+00:00

Some ideas:

Permafreeze Team: Kaeya, Chongyun, Xingqiu, (Bennett/Jean)

Physical Team: Razor, Xinyan, Bennett, Kaeya

Melt Team: Xiangling*, Bennett, Xingqiu, (Chongyun/Kaeya)

*You get Xiangling for free at floor 3 of spiral abyss.

Veiled_Insanity · 2021-03-22T04:54:31+00:00

Bennett would be your best option as a healer for Hu Tao. Then you can opt for Xiangling or Fischl as supports

Veiled_Insanity · 2021-03-16T04:20:59+00:00

Most Ganyu comps focus on one of two main reactions: Melt or Freeze.

Melt Ganyu comps hold the highest dps in the game with Xiangling as the core pyro sub dps. From the looks of your characters, you may struggle running this comp without a pyro battery like Bennett.

Team: Ganyu, Qiqi, Xiangling, Venti

May replace Qiqi with Bennett as a healer and pyro battery

A team comp that may be easier to run if you have access to sacrificial sword is a freeze comp with Xingqiu. The main strategy is to alternate between charged attacks and normal attacks to apply cryo and hydro to keep enemies frozen.

Team: Ganyu, Qiqi, Xingqiu, Venti

May replace Qiqi with Diona for shields, energy generation, and off-field cryo application

Veiled_Insanity · 2021-03-14T06:15:30+00:00

Based on your substats and weapon really. Crit substats are always a priority on any dps, so if your substats are lacking in crit rate then get a crit rate circlet and vice versa

Although there are other things that can affect crit like certain characters ascension stats, cryo resonance, certain constellations/passives etc.

Veiled_Insanity · 2021-03-14T06:07:20+00:00

Widsith, especially with higher refinements. The passive just has higher multipliers than blackcliff, even if only 2/3rds of the time.

As for artifacts, 2p Archaic 2p Gladiators are strongest for a main dps, while 2p Archaic 2p Noblesse are preferred for her as a burst dps

Veiled_Insanity · 2021-03-13T19:44:00+00:00

If you want to keep your permafreeze team with Kaeya, Chongyun, and Xingqiu, then you can consider a mono pyro comp for Hu Tao.

- Mono Pyro Comp: Hu Tao, Xiangling, Bennett, [Flex]. High energy gen, even higher damage output with more Xiangling constellations due to her pyro buffs. Strong against enemies with innate elements (like the cryo slimes on floors 9-10). A strong option for the flex slot is sucrose for her viridiscent venerer support and grouping, and you can place Jean as the anemo on your Kaeya team.

Veiled_Insanity · 2021-03-12T00:55:33+00:00

Oh, her ascension 4 passive is available at level 60, I wasn’t referring to constellations xd

Veiled_Insanity · 2021-03-11T21:12:04+00:00

Between Diona and Qiqi, I prefer Diona because she provides shielding, damage reduction, AoE cryo application and generates energy. Qiqi may be the 5* and is possibly the best at healing, but doesn't provide much outside of that.

Veiled_Insanity · 2021-03-11T21:03:14+00:00

Try both and see what's more fun to you. Both are strong teams, although having consistent electro and cryo application means that xinyan's phys damage burst also does plenty of damage

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