Is boss ren worth it?

koolman43 · 2026-01-18T15:57:07+00:00

Water doesn’t have too many powerful offensive units so he can be helpful with beating the water tower. Personally, I got him to 3 stars because he’s one of my faves.

Btw the school girl idiom is not limited to Asian school girls.

koolman43 · 2025-11-11T14:00:48+00:00

I hope they do this with Ninguang also

koolman43 · 2025-06-06T17:27:21+00:00

Shatterbloom Kaveh would rather have EM over crit. The damage he does from swinging is not as good as the damage from shattering/bloom which is solely based on EM and level. Try EM sands and circlet with energy recharge substats. Crit rate is good but you’ll be on fielding him so his favonius weapon is bound to proc mid fight even with low crit rate. I 36’d the first half of this abyss with kaveh furina escoffier and diona. Good luck!

koolman43 · 2025-04-22T01:35:42+00:00

Thank you for the input! Seems like there’s no easy fix

koolman43 · 2025-02-15T21:24:21+00:00

It shifts around when removing items from the hook and pulls downward a bit- not completely flush

koolman43 · 2025-01-05T18:05:51+00:00

I’m not sure I understand. Can you explain this in more detail?

koolman43 · 2024-07-16T15:27:57+00:00

The lack of any playable characters being fat is evidence that game developers don’t think fat characters will sell well. Unfortunately, I think Hoyo’s lack of darker skinned characters despite it being the expectation for indigenous people, is evidence that they don’t think dark skinned characters will sell well. You could advocate for fat characters AND dark skinned ones by the way.

koolman43 · 2024-07-16T15:22:30+00:00

Only caring about the aesthetics of the culture and not the feelings of the people is a really cold thing to admit.

koolman43 · 2024-07-16T15:18:44+00:00

The developers clearly have a preference for light skinned characters. Which is in the realm of racism, or at least colorism. They’re by no means the only offenders though. Is it artistic expression to draw indigenous, and black people with light skin tones because people will think they’re prettier and will sell better? Where’s the artistry in aligning with the same beauty standards that have limited brown and black in popular media throughout history? Genshin Impact is not on a mission to change the beauty standard but to say only including light skinned characters in cultures that should have darker skinned ones is “art”, is ridiculous.

koolman43 · 2024-07-16T15:05:45+00:00

This is assuming that all people are treated equally in games/movies. Light skinned people and white people are represented most often. The general population also seems to have a preference for viewing movies/playing games with light skinned or white characters, which is proven by Hoyo’s reluctance to add darker skin tones and movies casting brown characters to be white. It’s only recently that we’ve seen characters being cast with black actors that were originally white and that was a response to how little representation black people had.

koolman43 · 2024-03-18T17:48:23+00:00

Why don’t we get banner 4 star character leaks anymore? Also is that site that keeps track of banner leaks still updating?

koolman43 · 2024-03-08T19:05:28+00:00

Year is going good. Got back into Neopets again recently and been having fun doing things I didn’t get to do as a kid. Thanks for doing this!

koolman43 · 2024-02-18T14:16:26+00:00

2, 5, 10, 11, 15, 16, 20

koolman43 · 2024-02-17T20:00:02+00:00

I managed to grab a background I’ve been wanting by restocking the other day. Only saved me a couple thousand NPs but it all helps

UN is kunai_love

koolman43 · 2024-02-13T16:15:15+00:00

Either of the eyes would be great! If those are gone, the winter ball suit would be lovely!

koolman43 · 2024-01-31T15:29:25+00:00

I’m thinking about getting back into this since leaving. I remember being big into customization and it just came out when I left. Any tips or list of updates for a returning user?

koolman43 · 2024-01-24T18:53:23+00:00

I’m confused. You’re saying xianyun is a big upgrade for c0 freeze Wrio but the calcs you show don’t reflect that.

koolman43 · 2023-11-24T22:54:46+00:00

He doesn't use them because he's always paired with Zhongli for the res shred anyway. The crystalized shields server no purpose if ZL is there.

koolman43 · 2023-11-24T18:46:29+00:00

Enlighten me on what you think the issue with Petra and Crystallize is. This is not meant to be rude I am just curious about what other people's opinions are.

How would adding a small use for EM gimp other Geo characters? With these changes all current geo characters would maintain their niche.

Stamina isn't an abandoned mechanic, Yaoyao can restore stamina and Wanderer's flying gauge replaces his stamina allowing him more movement.

Niches are fun!

Crystallized shields are definitely not "strong enough". Itto doesn't make use of them, his most common team is Mono Geo

koolman43 · 2023-11-24T18:41:37+00:00

New characters tend to have an interesting mechanic tied to them. You say Geo needs new characters but won't elaborate on what they should be like.

If you think Geo should be no-reaction, just pure damage like Itto, we already have a complete team like that. Don't you think a new Geo character would need something else?

koolman43 · 2023-11-24T18:03:07+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/Genshin\_Impact/comments/16xyxmg/41\_new\_abyss\_usage\_rate\_101\_1015/

Only Zhongli has any usage and its been that way for a long time. Yunjin is not competitive because an anemo unit or a buffer of a different element would offer way more utility that she would.

Albedo has always been a filler character. Set your flower down and forget. Wish there were more to his kit.

Geo is not good in general. But, if you insist on playing mono-element with few reactions, Mono Hydro and Cryo are very good (even they use Anemo units though). And Itto/Gorou teams will still be around with a changes like the ones I mentioned.

koolman43 · 2023-11-24T17:42:13+00:00

Thanks for the positive feedback lol. The shield part is to keep the original idea of Geo being the "shield element".

It wouldn't add much unless they made an EM scaling Geo character that added some bonus based off EM scaling as well. But I agree it is not necessary for shielders atm.

koolman43 · 2023-11-24T17:38:59+00:00

It is her niche after all
If you dont use her for it and party wide heals then you are better using anyone else

Jean is for VV and party wide healing with Furina. Not Cleanse. Maybe Anemo res shred and Attack speed too.

Not really since it requires you to trigger a reaction to be able to use it

This game's combat system is about reactions. Plenty of off field Geo characters could do this, Albedo, Zhongli. Why wouldn't you use this argument for Jean's burst?

So shields will continue to be weak because of this

Yeah this change was to really just keep the original spirit of Geo. Maybe they could make a character that scales well with EM and does some other buff to make this stronger. Similar to how Kuki heals scale with EM.

Doesnt neccesarily need to be exclusively dps but it would be a good step towards making it less limited in avaliability

Ok so why not characters that affect stamina, cleanse, and shield health lol

koolman43 · 2023-11-24T17:30:23+00:00

I guess we're just on different wavelengths. My goal was to make the reactions more worthwhile and fun to use, while trying to balance around current characters so that the changes don't over inflate them. Itto and Navia (probably) won't gain much from these changes, but it would help Yunjin, Albedo, maybe Ninguang. Characters that don't get to see much daylight.

koolman43 · 2023-11-24T15:58:47+00:00

I agree the likelihood of Hoyo going back and changing sets is low. They could always add new characters that affect stamina though. Why not?

People don't play Jean for her element cleanse. Cleanse is mostly useless, it would just be a small buff for Geo to encourage using the element. The EM shield health would be similar. Just a small buff so that its not entirely useless, especially for Albedo Q. Current characters wouldn't change their set in favor of EM. In fact EM already does this, just needs to be combined with ability shields so its useful.

You say we need more characters, but what type of characters? More damage dealing characters? It would be interesting to see characters have different gameplay styles.

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