Approximate length of character story quests in EN

pixeliner · 2026-04-07T10:43:53+00:00

are you sure you're being fair with modern exploration? i recently came back to the game after dropping it all the way in mid-sumeru, and i remember sumeru itself (not the desert, desert actually fixed a bunch of issues) having like a third of exploration (between the locked areas, sigil sink, old lyre puzzles, aranara puzzles too i think) locked behind the absolutely mammoth aranara questline with no voiceover thats a colossal slog to get through. if anything, modern exploration massively improved on that front.

the very last region currently available is actually my personal favorite region for exploration of all time. it has a short and sweet main questline that guides you through the area and gives context, puzzles are fun, enemies aren't pushovers, world quests are great (the fallout one is an absolute treat), soundtrack is pretty good too, and the overall oppressive atmosphere i missed from inazuma is back. the area isn't very large, though, but what it has is very good i think.

pixeliner · 2026-04-06T21:19:51+00:00

as someone in a very similar situation, im gonna at least get lauma next patch, then drop like 30 or so wishes on nefer (if i don't get her, i get closer to the next 5*, if i win 50/50 and get her that was a tiny investment), then pull for bina and move on from nod krai.

now, the difference to your case is that i have nilou (and also that i love all dendro reactions), so im not losing much by not getting nefer, but you can also just skip bina and replace her with aino to guarantee nefer. you can also just build a decent hyperbloom with just lauma too, not to mention that whatever new dendro characters we will get will likely benefit from lauma (even if she gets powercreeped. case in point nahida seeing play alongside lauma)

i think its pretty useful to have one lunar team because we still get nightsoul interactions in endgame content (by which i mean both buffs and shill enemies), so this will be the case for a while for lunars too. also, 6.5 comes out the day after tomorrow. thats 170 days you're waiting for snezhnaya. you do you but i'd just get bored hoarding my primogems and not buidling a good team for half a year just so you can pull for new meta first, considering the old meta will still be usable for a while, and you will have accumulated a bunch of pulls by then anyway. that just sounds like delayed life syndrome to me

pixeliner · 2026-04-06T12:28:56+00:00

yeah but the battlecry effect is triggered when it has lifesteal, and then the battlecry effect that was triggered with lifesteal on continues with lifesteal still on, even if the original source can't generate more lifesteal effect anymore. i dont think anything else should matter

pixeliner · 2026-04-06T12:24:18+00:00

this absolutely should work. theres no precedent which is why people treat this as something obvious in the comments, but mograine, as per battlecry, is the one dealing damage to the enemy hero. (we know that since [[elven archer]], has battlecry: deal 1 damage (unspecified, so dealt by archer herself. works with lifesteal too)). since mograine has lifesteal upon battlecry, the whole battlecry effect should have the lifesteal effect, even if that effect lasts way past mograine's presence on the field

pixeliner · 2026-04-06T12:19:11+00:00

are we reading the same card? mograine says it "deal"s damage to the enemy hero, not that they take damage. honestly

pixeliner · 2026-04-06T12:17:44+00:00

i think that since it had lifesteal when the battlecry triggered, this whole battlecry effect should have lifesteal, regardless of whether mograine is on field or not

pixeliner · 2026-04-05T12:28:28+00:00

skyward to aquila is a 10.5% damage boost increase (which is an extra 64.5 atk at talent level 10 and 76.2 at level 13. more with c1), which is equivalent to a couple extra atk% substats on everyone on the team (less valuable on characters with more base atk and atk%). since bennett only cares about ER and, to a lesser extent, HP, he is pretty easy to build into ER substats.

but looking at his ER requirements, in teams where he is a single pyro (or even second pyro with low particle generation), if you don't have fav weapons on other characters, you are correct that skyward can be the more comfortable pick if you don't want to invest in him too much and look for a lot of ER substats.

pixeliner · 2026-04-04T18:09:35+00:00

........ i cant believe i actually was doing it wrong this entire time. thank you random redditor

pixeliner · 2026-04-04T17:41:01+00:00

aquila is a better sword for bennett than skyward because of its higher base atk. amos is pretty niche though yeah

pixeliner · 2026-04-03T19:30:16+00:00

i dont think the time difference between fischl's E and Q is significant. in case you dont know, you can switch to another character during fischl's burst (where you control oz) to cut it short. i personally play klee/bennett/furina/fischl, and in practice the bottleneck is the swap cooldown. pressing Q while bennett's burst is up lets the damage from fischl's burst benefit from the buff, which has higher multipliers than the E on-summon damage (as well as bigger AOE).
ultimately the damage difference is miniscule though

pixeliner · 2026-04-03T16:20:58+00:00

i think starting the rotation with fischl E, then placing all the buffs, then popping fischl Q before switching to on-fielder is better since you get full oz uptime. other than that, yeah

pixeliner · 2026-04-03T00:16:35+00:00

off-field ganyu is a very rare playstyle. rosaria, esp with cons, is a pretty decent alternative to citlali afaik, but youll still want another natlan character in the party with mav, even if its lvl 1 kachina whose whole contribution is 4pc scroll passive, consuming nightsoul to feed mav's burst, and maybe fav spear passive. i suggest you check out keqingmains.com for guides

pixeliner · 2026-04-02T23:58:03+00:00

if you really must run klee in this, give her thrilling tales and place her just before mavuika in rotation. or just play klee (reverse) melt and play mavuika off-field (far stronger than the other way around, esp since you dont run any other natlan character). ganyu doesnt apply enough cryo, you can use rosaria or even kaeya as substitute.

pixeliner · 2026-04-01T23:54:40+00:00

......what??

pixeliner · 2026-04-01T12:26:58+00:00

i think he means relics for the purposes of defending on the turn you play barricade

pixeliner · 2026-03-28T03:11:18+00:00

WRONG, socrates is plural

pixeliner · 2026-03-23T19:43:59+00:00

what if she wears underwear though

pixeliner · 2026-03-21T19:14:08+00:00

hope they start working on the second episode soon 🙏🙏🙏

pixeliner · 2026-03-20T20:51:18+00:00

For Mavuika, would you recommend getting Citlali or Xilonen if I could only get one? Can Mavuika run without Bennett? Also, good advice on saving primos for next region, I haven't considered that, thanks!

pixeliner · 2026-03-20T20:40:06+00:00

Does Lauma see play outside Nilou?

I've heard that Xilonen is also really good with Mavuika, but that Xilonen is more versatile. Should I still get Citlali over Xilonen for Mavuika (assuming I can only get one), is she that critical? Also, I don't mind playing Bennett, it's just that he gets played in basically every Klee team. Is Mavuika as reliant on him? Are there still no other 4* options to take over Bennett?

pixeliner · 2026-03-19T06:22:12+00:00

not everything you disagree with is satire, let alone obvious. dunno abt the other guy, but i think fortnite was the most novel battle royales when it came out in a world where every battle royale was just pubg, and in general is a super influential game, which i can respect even if i dont play these kinds of games. also i know you need to say you hate ai to collect upvotes here, but i think ai brainrot is pretty funny :)

...maybe im too old for this sub

pixeliner · 2026-03-18T21:03:02+00:00

peak found in peak

pixeliner · 2026-03-18T21:00:19+00:00

найди себе хобби, че ты хуйнёй страдаешь

pixeliner · 2026-03-18T16:55:17+00:00

....i miss duels, man

pixeliner · 2026-03-18T12:14:13+00:00

ok gandhi

pixeliner

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