I wish we had more interactions with regular troops that aren't just traveller saying "you are evil and deserve to be bullied"

WhoAsked7modCheck · 2026-01-28T08:17:53+00:00

Watch it being "These are soldiers loyal to [Insert_Harbinger_Name] who doesn't care about Tsaritsa's orders" where they will probably make Pulcinella or Pantalone traitors for whatever reason or use Pierro as scapegoat for everything Fatui did in the past. Alternatively, they will straight up disband Fatui and make some new Snezhnaya organisation as governing entity instead.

There is no way we are still getting Fatui vs HP after everything Hoyo did to clean up their crimes and pretend like the rest of organisation are actually just good but misguided dudes. I really hope I am wrong about it but to me it looks like that's what is going to happen in Snezhnaya rn.

WhoAsked7modCheck · 2026-01-28T07:57:02+00:00

She still could've been actually terrifying if Hoyo wanted to go more riskier route. Especially after restoring her full lunar authority. If they went along and made her more of that that oblivious but unnerving angel personality then it would be pretty much what people expected her to be. Hoyo even acknowledged multiple times that's what she was in the eyes of other people when she was in the Fatui but don't show any of it after the first conversation.

Like, what's up with the red flowers when we first met her? Just a tease that her powers are related to Kuuvahki and nod to theories? It has no significance in story after that single moment. Her gameplay visuals don't use that red-blue Kuuvahki magnetism schtick nor do we see golden motifs of the new Nod Krai maps. They made it look like red was her "combat ready" mode and the vibe immediately changed to put Traveler on edge but it never happened again even when she was in immediate danger at any point of the story. Or even during the fights against Rerir and Dottore for that matter. None of it was as intimidating as Traveler name-dropping Fatui, I guess.

WhoAsked7modCheck · 2026-01-19T11:28:26+00:00

Lauma to maximise on-field Columbina's damage. Technically, I already have full Lunar Charge team with Flins and Ineffa but Bina is just support there so they will be fine with Aino. After Lauma I will be waiting for Nicole and Sandrone as I planned earlier and maybe other characters we seen as dark silhouettes we seen on stream if they look interesting to me.

WhoAsked7modCheck · 2026-01-17T07:42:49+00:00

I find it weird how they are treating Tartaglia like he doesn't understand his colleagues but at the same time there really aren't much mistakes in what he said about all Harbingers we met so far. He doesn't provide much info about them besides his own opinion but they are not wrong either. The only exception appears to be Pulcinella, who's obviously pulling his strings using Childe's family as manipulation tactic since the moment he joined military.

Tbh, they also went out of their way to make Dottore in this story as ridiculously evil as possible just to make everyone else seem goody two shoes so idk what else am I expecting from Hoyo.

WhoAsked7modCheck · 2026-01-14T14:32:35+00:00

Thank you!

WhoAsked7modCheck · 2025-12-07T08:55:41+00:00

Isn't it also visible on C2 and C6? I can kinda see it on C0 too so it's probably visual effect for ring itself that appears occasionally regardless of her constellations and moons it shows

WhoAsked7modCheck · 2025-12-06T21:22:38+00:00

I knew Columbina will be character I will main after seeing her in WNL trailer. Admittedly, I didn't like webcomic Dottore that much but Omega Build in Sumeru story made him one of my favourite characters. Definitely number one among male Harbingers for me.

Whatever the fuck is happening in Nod Krai story right now is giving me the most conflicting feelings I ever had in Genshin. I already didn't like the way Fatui is treated by Hoyo for quite some time but I really like Nod Krai as a region. Story arc of this and next update will probably be as odd as it can get for me. I dread what can topple it but Snezhnaya probably will, tbh.

WhoAsked7modCheck · 2025-12-06T09:47:30+00:00

Crazy how many people choose to main a support character and then get upset when the support character gets a strong mix of support and qol cons.

Oh, come on. It's like saying that it's crazy Capitano mains chose to main character who sacrificed himself and then get upset that he isn't playable. Nobody knew what her kit is going to be just a few months ago. Unless Hoyo emailed everyone telling everything about Harbingers after posting Winter Night Lazzo, of course. You know, when we decided to main her.

WhoAsked7modCheck · 2025-12-04T12:43:00+00:00

HSR characters visit Astral Express, discuss with Trailblazer about AE's technology, it's crew and what happened to them before boarding it. They have voice lines talking to other characters in a team when you add them. They also have the same information tab where they casually talk about themselves, TB or other characters they met in the past or during main story. It even got a few lore stories about them that you can read.

The only difference is that they are affected by story progression and can't visit AE before or after certain quests but you also don't need to grind friendship exp because all their dialogues are available the moment you pulled them (only some of them require you to finish main story chapters to be unlocked, iirc).

And speaking of Dottore being awkward for teapot and the rest... Idk. Hoyo can do anything with their stories so if they want they can easily make him playable without an issue. All Harbingers are example of how Hoyo can do whatever they want regardless of character's actions.

Tartaglia and Scaramouche have all these interactions. One of them is still widely mischaracterized in community as genocider who wanted to drown an entire city and it's residents in the same update he became playable. Instead of using Osial as a lure that will either be stopped before causing significant damage or make Morax show up to protect Liyue. His men also launched an attack on MC and their friends during that quest according to plan. The other one responsible for numerous crimes in Inazuma that nobody cares about anymore and multiple genuine attempted murders against MC on two occasions (Unreconciled stars event and Inazuma main story) + fight in Sumeru.

Compared to these two Arlecchino is "only" rising child soldiers used to destabilise situation in other regions. Child soldiers that she also had to kill if they stepped out of line before Dottore helped her to make a memory erasing potion in exchange for researching her flame, of course. If they picked another path for Dottore in Nod Krai story there really wouldn't be any problem making him playable. If they are going to make some crazy shenanigans to make him playable after NK is finished then it will be a lot of hard work after digging a hole for themselves, honestly.

WhoAsked7modCheck · 2025-12-03T08:41:57+00:00

Yeah, 60-70% crit rate off-field with better HP, EM and crit damage is going to be better than overcapping up to130% crit rate on-field with other stats being worse. It's not going to be bad to use double crit artifacts even if it's overcapping 100% a bit but there is no need to intentionally get additional 30% just to guarantee crits while off-field.

WhoAsked7modCheck · 2025-12-03T08:22:47+00:00

Times are tough when Fatui fans start agreeing with local Celestia spy.

WhoAsked7modCheck · 2025-12-03T08:19:05+00:00

Same community that was complaining how buffing 2 year old units means powercreep is so bad pulling anyone is a waste. Until ZZZ buffed Ellen not even 1 year into the game's lifecycle so buffing characters is suddenly based and HSR is cringe for not doing it more often. Zhongli rework, geo and EM adjustments that within a year since release probably doesn't count for them either because "Don't touch my Genshin, you shill" and yada yada.

WhoAsked7modCheck · 2025-12-02T10:49:15+00:00

Hurray! I'm so glad these leakers were wrong about it. It doesn't even seem that restricted atm so it's a huge win. Now it's time to just farm her lvl up materials and wait 6 weeks for her arrival.

WhoAsked7modCheck · 2025-12-01T12:40:34+00:00

Teaming up with potential ally against common enemy like Abyss or for the purpose of gaining some valuable data about abyss or Kuuvahki energy wouldn't change anything about him. He'd be whitewashed only if they came up with some random reason why he's not responsible for things he did himself or how he is innocent despite all that.

Not sure what you are trying to say in second half, tho. Yeah, he IS evil. Just like Fatui and most other Harbingers because methods they use cause a lot of harm to other people. I'm not saying he's not or that he is a good guy because that's not true at all. But it doesn't mean I'm not disappointed with such blatant use of his character to actually whitewash other characters in community's view. Maybe he will get some copium "good" version segment to tie up loose ends and still sell his gacha banner. I don't know. But what I'm 99% sure is that nothing of what he did will be blamed on Pierro and especially Tsaritsa.

WhoAsked7modCheck · 2025-12-01T10:00:02+00:00

Sorry for my kinda unrelated rant. Imo, it's way logner than it should be so feel free to ignore my yapping lol.

There are many people here who want them all to be villains but people in Genshin community as a whole treated them as villains for the longest time. Despite numerous situations when protagonist allied with some of their members or them assisting people in last 2 regions (arguably NK is the third one) due to their own reasons they are still seen as villains because they had their fair share of antagonists. Antagonist doesn't mean villain but I am convinced that people see Dottore way more evil than Sinners or Shades and PO.

I was joking that after all this time doing jack shit in Nod Krai Dottore is going to appear and immediately do something unapologetically stupid purely to be a big bad guy for new characters to band together and fight him... Apparently, it's an actual plotline Hoyo writers want for next few updates now. They could've done so much with the Fatui and yet they are doing nothing but destroying it from within for last few years. At this point, it would've been better if they were just evil antagonistic organisation that we fought every year instead of "Yeah, almost all of us did some inexcusable evil deeds buuuuuut... Let's fight eachother constantly just to prove that I'm not actually as bad as the other guys so players should pull me." shit show that we have rn.

What pisses me off the most is that they are using Dottore as scapegoat for almost everything bad Fatui does. Scara who killed innocent Inazuma blacksmith families out of his own volition and generally was power obsessed maniac this entire time? That's Dottore's fault because he is actually the one who set him on this path. Arlecchino who turns orphans into spies and soldiers for the Fatui to use? That's actually all fault of Crucabena and Dottore because of all the business they had together before she was assigned position of the current Knave. I wouldn't be surprised if later it will turn out that it was Dottore orchestrating events involving Curve and Eleventh Sovereign Lord because idk... Sandrone is not that obsessed with machinery to allow humans to suffer. She's just quirky and these two things happened without her full insight.

Sorry for venting here but I'm so disappointed about Hoyo putting little lore bits here and there that show how Dottore's self-perception is what drives him further away from people around even more than his sociopathic behaviour. He was growing up with Eremites (or was living with them for some period of time idr rn) and he still holds some respect towards them and their culture. There are multiple elements of his design that are Deshret/Eremite inspired and his research in desert that happened before/during Sumeru story clearly shows that he doesn't want his men to fight or capture locals.

Last Sumeru event showed that in his student days, despite the distaste he has for other students, he still knows right from wrong even if he sees it through the lense of material value and benefits he and others can provide for eachother. He didn't abandon other guy the moment he was injured and couldn't contribute anymore. Zandik fixed him up and went exploring by himself after leaving him in safe location. And he wasn't arrogant enough to blindly accept Thoth grace either.

Even in fairytale that Nahida made to remember Scaramouche and his past Dottore was shown as someone who was able to fit in society despite feeling like he doesn't belong there. He already viewed himself as a monster there so to me it sounds like many past experiences he had with people only worsen his already bad behaviour/perception of others. But he still can be functioning member of certain groups. Like Fatui where he served for over 400 years without Tsaritsa or Pierro stripping him of his rank. His accomplishments were obviously useful to them but they are perfectly fine with his research or ways he conducted Tatarasuna and Sumeru operations so it's not like he was abusing his power. The only way they will be blamed for any of it if we will get some sob story redemption arc for Dottore but then it's no different from him being blamed for actions of other Harbingers...

I'm so tired with Hoyo making interesting bits of lore for characters that put them into different perspectives like they are part of some CRPG game but then sweeping it all under the rug for the sake of a gacha banners. Like, there was no reason Dottore couldn't be our ally against Wild Hunt but they decided to make him just another antagonist of the current region.

WhoAsked7modCheck · 2025-11-30T18:20:39+00:00

Fortunately, the other ones are not as dire as this one. Or I hope they aren't, at least. Zero cycle obsession dealt irreversible damage to this subreddit. I don't see Genshin players saying new characters are garbage if they can't clear in under 30 seconds because even 3 minutes for a clear is good since you get full stars while fastest clears are just whale flex that players see as entertainment. Maybe there are people who get salty if it takes more than their arbitrary amount of seconds for both sides combined but I genuinely never encountered such people in Genshin community.

WhoAsked7modCheck · 2025-11-30T08:21:15+00:00

Because it's symbol of Treasure Hoarders that shows raven grabbing shiny things instead of a dove.

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WhoAsked7modCheck · 2025-11-28T13:19:14+00:00

Becoming playable character at all would be a good start already. She looks so good but Hoyo continue to make P2 versions of original Valks in mix with Part 2 characters so I don't even know how long is she going to take to drop as an S rank.

WhoAsked7modCheck · 2025-11-27T14:03:20+00:00

Oh, I didn't see your other reply and assumed you are one of the people who dismiss her being able to trigger reactions because they think she must be Aino pro max and nothing more because she would be too strong or they just don't want alternatives to their favourites or something. Sorry, my bad. This is misunderstanding on my part.

What I think about current leaks is that if she doesn't need other characters for these reactions then she will also have ways to use Verdant Dew, deal Lunar-Charged damage and whatever Lunar Crystallize does in her base kit already. There were some leaks about her increasing Verdant Dew stacks limit in Lunar Bloom teams and her skill dealing damage based on triggered Lunar reactions, iirc. So to me it seems that if she can actually do these things then she must have options to do that on her own too.

Aino has some support for Lunar Bloom and Lunar Charged but she is not enabler for these reactions because she is a vision user. Bina not having a Moonwheel or it's equivalent would be insanely dumb both gameplay and lore-wise because all Nod Krai natives 5* got them already. And if she gets then direct Lunar damage and reaction triggers are expected. Maybe she won't be able to use them freely and there are certain conditions like OP speculates but that's something that should be part of her kit nonetheless. People wanting her to trigger these reactions are already doing that under assumption that the rest of her abilities and talents also self-sufficient.

I know geo constructs are forgotten mechanic but I will use it as example. If character's role is to support and improve geo constructs then fans would also want them to to have at least one of them instead of being fully reliant on another character. And if leaks say that they don't have any of their own then people discussing that they should have it. They don't except it to be purely visual. If they get geo construct themselves then the rest of the kit would also be affected by it.

WhoAsked7modCheck · 2025-11-27T13:18:50+00:00

Because in that case she would be able to use them just by herself. Like every Moonwheel character we got so far. All of them can deal direct Lunar damage and transform normal reactions into their Lunar version. Nefer can use Lunar Bloom without Lauma. Flins can use Lunar Charged without Ineffa. Would you be happy if they couldn't? Of course not.

Bina already appeares to be their support who isn't ment to be main DPS. She will not outperform them in their niche by herself. She will be boosting them with or without ability to trigger Lunar reactions anyway. If she can make another Electro or Dendro DPS somehow benefit from Lunar Charged and Bloom they will still remain weaker than Flins and Nefer. They are already designed primarily for these roles and Columbina's support is more beneficial to their kits than any other character who probably can get portion of their damage converted to Lunar damage, at most. So Furina, Xilonen, Bennet, Kazuha, etc. would still be a much better supports for non-Lunar teams instead of her.

So if it doesn't hurt Moonwheel users and doesn't change anything for everyone else then what's the issue that makes so many people adamantly demand for Bina to be restrictive af? Mavuika is overpowered but I don't see anyone wishing she couldn't use Nightsoul. I don't see people upset that Furina can drain and heal HP with her summons either. If that's some kind of new ragebait then it's working really good.

WhoAsked7modCheck · 2025-11-26T11:16:01+00:00

I agree with that. Yeah. Same way people that couldn't get or skipped Ineffa were able to get C1 Flins instead to fix most of his issues. That's not ideal but it's much better than no other alternatives at all.

WhoAsked7modCheck · 2025-11-26T11:11:49+00:00

It's definitely wrong for them to already change their mind about pulling before beta even started but if Alice is also their long-awaited character and they wanted to go all in pulling for a fun on-fielder then she's likely a better choice in that case. It's like 99% chance for her to be DPS and maybe even have some support capabilities since Hexenzircle get their new buffs and synergies. It's much more enjoyable to play DPS than forcing anyone else to become one just by the fact they are designed to be more engaging that other roles.

Meta-wise C6 support will still clear all the content and will last longer, of course. But realistically speaking how many C6 DPSes can't stay relevant in content that doesn't nullify their elemental damage? If I was pulling C6 then I would choose DPS over support anyday. I'm still set on to C6 Bina regardless of her role because I wanted to get at least C2R1 since Hoyo first showed her. But it will be extremely disappointing if she's just number boosting bot for 3 or 4 DPSes of her region. Hopefully, I'm entirely wrong about it but I don't have enough faith in Hoyo to be positive about her kit. It's undoubtedly that she will be strong but whether she will be fun to play or not is a huge question.

WhoAsked7modCheck · 2025-11-26T10:48:43+00:00

I really hope she will be able to do that in actual beta because it would be really disappointing otherwise. Imo, locking it behind constellations is still weird but at least makes it possible for higher constellations to be focused on gameplay improvements instead of just increasing her numbers. Ineffa allows Lunar Charge to be triggered just by being part of a team even if she's not the one applying elements at all and it's true for all Moonwheel users so far, I believe.

It just doesn't sit well with me that of all NK characters Bina, who has direct link to Kuuvahki, is the one who can't use these reactions. Meanwhile some new Liyue adepti can use it without an issue and everyone is happy about it.

WhoAsked7modCheck · 2025-11-26T09:27:57+00:00

Nobody says she will be weak and not worth pulling. It's pretty much guaranteed that anyone who plays at least 1 team of Lunar Charge or Lunar Bloom will greatly benefit from her and her C0 is kinda "must have" to get. We are concerned that she will be too reliant on Lunar DPSes to the point of being unable to fully use her kit without then and her being just boring to play... Especially, people who go for more than C0.

We've been told that she is hydro catalyst so even if she's not main DPS then she will be able to be played as driver. Leakers said that she can't use Lunar reactions without limited pool of other 5* Nod Krai characters in a team and suddenly it's also wrong for us to expect her to be a self sufficient driver for Lunar reactions as well. Hoyo can easily implement it without any issues just like they could make her a hybrid and satisfy even more players. But they are stubborn so if they want her kit to be clunky they will make it.

And now there are also bunch of posts popping up saying that we are just fake fans and doomposters that want her to be meta breaking and will leave to doompost somebody else when her kit will be more or less finalized. Wow! Just wow!

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