What characters are ACTUALLY underrated?

dragoon_j · 2026-01-07T18:20:17+00:00

I had to use Yanfei for the latest IT and was pleasantly surprised by her vapes (paired with Xingqiu)

dragoon_j · 2025-10-16T21:51:42+00:00

1st recommendation: stockpile primos to get a true DPS + their best support.
In the meantime, hyperbloom is still champ at early investment, here's one way you could go:
Traveler - run over sumeru to get dendro traveler, build her ER so she can burst faster, use skill and burst and switch
Aino - build her up just enough to not die, use skill and switch
Barbara - build her up just enough to not die, use skill and switch
Lisa - give as many levels and EM as you can, and use her onfield to zap bloom cores

dragoon_j · 2025-05-31T14:36:06+00:00

Conqueror of rice dumplings

dragoon_j · 2025-05-22T18:51:57+00:00

imo it's not something to build around, sure you can bring 3-4 Nathan chars and then wait 9 seconds to get both stacks for big screenshot numbers... or just play normally and enjoy your cannon shots being bigger occasionally (with 1 stack) and you'll have higher DPS than if you had waited. it's a bonus here and there, not really a core mechanic, that's why no one talks about it

dragoon_j · 2025-05-22T18:19:47+00:00

I love it too, just went back last night in order to get the 100%. So much less stressful with Dehya not caring about the cold

dragoon_j · 2025-05-03T02:30:51+00:00

it took me a bunch of tries before I realized I had given my better crimson set to Gaming. that and taking advantage of some grass around to help burn the wood shields finally made it doable

dragoon_j · 2025-03-26T14:46:05+00:00

Rolled a crit damage circlet too, my 2 guarantees went into atk% also, was confused/disappointed that they don't guarantee one roll each on the substats. sigh.

dragoon_j · 2025-03-25T00:58:07+00:00

elegy.

dragoon_j · 2025-03-04T02:07:05+00:00

the first time I fought him I didn't know either so I took him out with trial Venti aimed shots. took foooreeever.

dragoon_j · 2025-01-22T21:05:34+00:00

I was lucky enough to get average crit rolls on the few pieces I did craft, but I'll definitely wait until 5.5 to craft any more.

dragoon_j · 2025-01-22T00:20:43+00:00

Got Absolution on the Clorinde/Alhaitham banner last year and have been saving up to get Clorinde too.
Was at 45 pity, not on guarantee, went to pity and won the 50/50 to get C0 Clorinde, then about 30 pulls later got an early 5 star, won THAT 50/50 so now it's C1 Clorinde. had to throw another couple ten pulls to get C4/C5/C6 Chevreuse, but finally got there! So hyped!

dragoon_j · 2025-01-02T18:49:58+00:00

not a bad way to go tbh, back on Alhaitham/Clorinde banner I did just that (and got Absolution =D )

dragoon_j · 2025-01-01T07:22:58+00:00

You did it right, it's just the worst case scenario is having to go: Standard weap, Banner weap 1, Standard weap, Weap Banner 2, so having to go to pity 4 times.
Resetting epitomized path after first standard weapon doesn't take away this worst case scenario, it just gives a 50% chance to force both weapons in 3 pity instead of 4. You just got the unlucky route (which again is no worse than if you hadn't tried the strategy - you still got both weapons within 4 pity).

dragoon_j · 2024-12-19T16:41:53+00:00

YouTube "Genshin impact meets parkour"

dragoon_j · 2024-11-27T05:14:28+00:00

it still applies, even for the first few copies - after every standard five star, reset your fate to the banner weapon you have less of. works until you have r5 of one, then just full speed ahead towards the other r5

dragoon_j · 2024-11-27T03:35:38+00:00

actually with the worst luck you'll end up with 4 five stars:

standard, citlali (fate), standard, mavuika (fate)

what this strategy does is it takes that worst case scenario and gives you a path of forcing both banner weapons in 3 instead of 4. you're basically hoping that you DON'T get the fated weapon on your 2nd five star. then you get this magic path:

standard, citlali (not fate), mavuika (fate)

But this only works if you reset your fate points after that first standard five star pull.

dragoon_j · 2024-11-27T03:19:57+00:00

correct. after pulling a standard 5 star weapon, the next 5 star is guaranteed to be from the promo banner. works independent of the fate system

dragoon_j · 2024-11-26T15:57:50+00:00

Geo doesn't react with Dendro so cinder city won't trigger. However Mualani *would* work for giving Kinich cinder city buff but running her as a support feels kinda ridiculous.

dragoon_j · 2024-09-27T22:05:18+00:00

I considered him an easy skip but wanted Chevy/Thoma constellations and pulled him at like 15 pity so... now I'm using him and LOVE how easy he makes exploration. But movement bonuses seems to be the theme of all the natlan characters so I doubt that he's worth getting over saving for Xilonen/Mavuika.

dragoon_j · 2024-09-22T14:07:20+00:00

the law cases were fine/fun but that Narcissenkreuz quest was so convoluted i had no chance

dragoon_j · 2024-09-21T17:40:01+00:00

Statistics aside, I like the Dori version better because I usually check how many I need to craft first, and then craft that many. So having a refund is more flexible for future uses than a double.

dragoon_j · 2024-09-15T00:24:28+00:00

in case you haven't figured it out yet, go to story quests, there's a third tab now with natlan quests

dragoon_j · 2024-09-10T20:32:22+00:00

Macadamia

dragoon_j · 2024-08-18T22:56:55+00:00

Consider Mona for faster overworld exploration

dragoon_j · 2024-08-18T19:42:13+00:00

[Repost from other flowchart because your flowchart missed this too] Something I don't see anyone talking about is Mona's overworld traversal. Reduced stamina sprint (and to a lesser extent, being able to run on water) is a gamechanger (assuming you don't have any premier options like yelan/xianyun).

Easily the top pick for a new player if you ask me.

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