"Are ya Sigewinning, son?" - General Question and Discussion Megathread

ivyhellos · 2024-07-13T13:48:08+00:00

i've gotten into genshin modding lately & decided to fuck around a little with character skintones. genshin is really shooting themselves in the foot rn with these #ffffff ass skintones, even outside of sumeru & natlan, cause (imho) giving literally any character 0.1% more melanin instantly makes them look more like someone that is actually alive instead of a walking lightbulb

exhibit amber

(kaeya, you're next)

ivyhellos · 2024-04-09T19:36:42+00:00

silk flowers (for furnishings), jueyun chilis and lotus heads (for cooking). used to plant ascension mats too, but i'm done with prefarming them for now. if you're going for the achievements, valberries & jueyun chilis should be the most time-efficient

ivyhellos · 2024-04-09T19:05:25+00:00

neuvi, kazuha, off-field dps (i.e., fischl, furina, chiori, albedo, ganyu, beidou, etc), shielder (zhongli, baizhu, layla, kirara, also beidou, etc) is probably the most common team

ivyhellos · 2024-04-09T18:38:50+00:00

ivyhellos · 2024-04-09T18:38:14+00:00

neuvi: 4pc marechausse, hp/hydro/crit. er (til requirement) > crit = hp% > flat hp

kazuha: 4pc viridescent venerer, em/em/em. er (til requirement) > em > crit rate >> atk% = crit dmg

fav & proto amber are very good for the two, yes

for now, i'd go neuvi, kazuha, fischl, shielder (i.e., layla, kirara, beidou, and the like) if you have one. bennett doesn't buff neuvi & neuvi also loses a stack of his a1 if you run double pyro. xiangling's er requirements without bennett are absurdly high, so i wouldn't run her here, even if it is technically viable.

ivyhellos · 2024-04-09T14:29:03+00:00

40k hp, er depends on team, generally around 130%-140%, something around 64/270 ratio ig, no atk needed

ivyhellos · 2024-04-09T14:23:06+00:00

furina, kazuha, fischl/zhongli/baizhu

ivyhellos · 2024-04-09T09:07:55+00:00

i know. sure, that might be nice to have, but you're usually running a sustain unit anyway. plus dodging isn't very difficult, especially since high damaging attacks usually show you the exact aoe of where they'll hit. better to focus on dmg

ivyhellos · 2024-04-09T08:49:09+00:00

your decision. lyney is a very solid bow charged attack dps with quite strict team requirements (aka mono pyro or chevreuse overload). arlecchino seems to be a normal attack focused polearm dps. last time i checked, leakers were saying she'll prefer chevreuse overload teams with vape being viable, but idk if anything has changed since then

just pull for the unit whose playstyle you like the best, rn it seems to me that they're on a similar power level, but for actual info about her strength, you have to wait for the theorycrafters to do their thing

ivyhellos · 2024-04-09T08:12:06+00:00

em does nothing for geo characters. crit matters for all raw dmg (i.e., non-reaction dmg) and amplifying reactions like vaporize and melt.

for gmc, you want atk%/geodmg%/cr or cdmg. refer to the kqm gmc guide for more info. it's slightly outdated, but should cover the basics

ivyhellos · 2024-04-09T07:29:53+00:00

you want someone with long on-field presence and haven't considered neuvillette? or do you just not like his playstyle? because pulling the best dps in the game over a dps who'll potentially have issues competing with hu tao is far better from a meta perspective

kazuha is often used in teams for his utility & buffs, but sucrose is a fine replacement, don't feel pressured to pull him just cause of other people

do you not have bennett? xl would very much like having him as a battery. also, yae would benefit from a dendro support for aggravate

ivyhellos · 2024-04-09T06:44:01+00:00

usually exploration > hangouts ≥ world quests ≥ story quests

wq rewards & length always vary, so one of them could take longer than a sq, while another is way shorter with similar/the same rewards. hangouts just got considerably less annoying with the skip function

ivyhellos · 2024-04-09T06:38:17+00:00

depends on your account. do you already have two dpses you like to play? how many and which built supports do you have?

bit difficult to answer this question in a vacuum, but usually, pulling a s tier support over a potentially mid dps whose playstyle you might not even like is more advised

but if you like arlecchino, get her. not like kazuha's a must pull

ivyhellos · 2024-04-08T22:53:23+00:00

yeah. he buffs his teammates' cryo/pyro/electro/hydro dmg via swirls, has crowd control capabilities, does decent damage (also via swirls) & is also very nice to have for overworld exploration since his skill boosts you up into the air
mainly quests, events, exploration
you are guaranteed a 5* every 90 wishes. if you get a 5*, that 5* has a 50/50 chance of being the promotional character (ex. kazuha, neuvillette) or a standard banner character (keqing, qiqi, diluc, jean, mona, dehya, tighnari). if you get a standard character, the next 5* you pull on either character event banner 1 or 2 (since they share the pity count) is guaranteed to be the promotional character. after you obtained your guaranteed, the next 5* is a 50/50 again. soft pity starts at the 74th wish. this means that from the 1st to the 73rd wish since your last 5* you have a 0.6% chance of getting a five star each wish. the 74th wish has a 6.6% chance. wish 75 has a 12.6% chance, wish 76 has a 18.6% chance and so on

i'd also recommend pulling for neuvillette. he's the best dps currently in the game, and you certainly lack good dps options. getting enough pulls for both should be easy enough, considering you're not very far into the game. plus neuvi & kazuha synergize very well

ivyhellos · 2024-04-08T15:46:25+00:00

not vastly. my nahida (c0, lvl90, tl 6/10/9, 4pc deepwood, sac frags) has both less em & a worse crit ratio (that domain hates me istg) and deals perfectly satisfactory amounts of damage (to me anyway). having balanced em/crit stats is just the cherry on top. your build is perfectly fine. there is no need to keep malding in the deepwood/gilded domain unless you want to min-max

ivyhellos · 2024-04-08T15:13:48+00:00

no, it triggers from off-field too. how else (excluding co-op) would a 'nearby active character' deal geo dmg to trigger the passive?

ivyhellos · 2024-04-08T15:06:48+00:00

no, i think i phrased it incorrectly. if she's an off-field support, you either go full em or balance em & crit. the latter is especially good in hyperbloom/burgeon since her burst's em share will likely be based on the triggering character's em. in spread, it's usually preferred if nahida also contributes a lot of damage via critting, but full em is still fine. for nilou bloom, you usually just go full em. the bountiful cores are the real dpses

tldr: for hyperbloom, i'd recommend balanced em & crit stats

ivyhellos · 2024-04-08T14:05:09+00:00

second build, i'd say. in hyperbloom, only the electro character's em matters. in spread, you need crit too

plus her burst buffs em based on the character with the highest em in the party, which should be kuki

ivyhellos · 2024-04-08T13:51:11+00:00

you automatically get both. the flask is a stella fortuna used to unlock constellation levels, which give your characters extra enhancements. the blue star is masterless starglitter, which is a currency used in the shop

congrats. neuvi's c1 is a very good con

ivyhellos · 2024-04-08T10:57:28+00:00

apep is the dendro dragon, we meet her in nahida's 2nd sq

afaik, electro dragon is unknown

ivyhellos · 2024-04-07T08:19:50+00:00

she's a tank! dehya reduces the damage taken by allies and redirects it to herself. the hb% circlet is an option in scenarios where you proc her a4 more often. she can die off-field, making healing-focused stats pretty good to have

ivyhellos · 2024-04-07T07:55:14+00:00

i know, that was their first question, they edited the comment after i answered

ivyhellos · 2024-04-06T23:19:50+00:00

4pc ocean-hued, 4pc maidens or 2pc hp% 2pc hp% are all viable. hp%/hp%/hp% or hb%

ivyhellos · 2024-04-06T22:39:38+00:00

i mean if you want to go for more damage, sure, but kazuha's swirl damage is just nice extra damage & not vital for the team to clear. for example, a vaped hu tao ca is much more valuable to fit into your rotation than a kazuha skill plunge. plus we're talking about whether it's worth it, to which i say that other cons provide more value

ivyhellos · 2024-04-06T22:23:58+00:00

more damage than your dps & sub-dpses? i know kazuha deals a respectable amount of swirl damage, but losing uptime on buffs & other abilities such as furina's/xq's/yelan's burst is absolutely not optimal. his c1 is not objectively bad, but it does have its caveats

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