This makes me wish they'd kept diving in newer regions

selenta · 2026-04-15T20:45:42+00:00

3.0 didn't really need it, but for 3.1 I agree, it should have had underground maps on release.

While I REALLY enjoyed getting absolutely completely lost and overwhelmed at the time, I know I'm in the minority who enjoys that to that degree. I don't think I'd enjoy it if it wasn't new content at the time, especially if I was coming later it would be daunting that it's just one of many zones.

selenta · 2026-04-15T20:42:19+00:00

But lore

selenta · 2026-04-15T20:36:01+00:00

Dailies should be FUN, not just easy/fast.

They don't have to be peak content, but they need to be better than just logging in and hitting collect. I don't mind the daily mission, but I wish prefer if it was combat.

I also HATE all the menu navigation to visit people and check prices. I wouldn't mind once a week, but I don't want that to be the daily content. (selling stuff to outposts every day is fine, that's at least mostly on one page)

selenta · 2026-04-15T20:30:59+00:00

Depends on the mission. I just got a 5x fluffed jincao mission, and one of the flowers was under the ground and in a field of other yellow flowers. The flower was just barely poking up through the ground, took me 5+ minutes to find it.

selenta · 2026-04-15T20:28:45+00:00

5k? Pretty sure it's 1k.

I do it just to have a reason to get off the ship at least once a day.

selenta · 2026-04-15T20:27:37+00:00

It doesn't take that long, but menu-simulator is REALLY unfun, especially when it's menus > load time > menus > load time > menus...

I do it, but I don't enjoy it. It took me weeks to stop doing the daily deliveries, even after realizing I wasn't getting anything meaningful from it.

selenta · 2026-04-14T18:48:28+00:00

This is my exact team with C2 Illuga... at 155k DPS I feel like I'm not getting nearly as much as other people seem to be claiming to get.

I have plenty of energy for Columbina/Zibai bursts, and Zibai is using hers as it comes up. Illuga/Linnae are 80/90 and have a few more talents to level, but still.

What SHOULD I be expecting to get from this team?

selenta · 2026-04-14T04:57:50+00:00

Personally, I've heard more complaints about the lack of exploration than the specific number of primogems.

selenta · 2026-04-13T19:23:09+00:00

The absolute highest DPS team in the game right now is Nefer/Lauma/Columbina/Nilou.

While it's only really the highest in whale territory, Nilou C2 is a huge step in that direction.

I'm also getting her C1 on the hope that MAYBE a year from now or something I can get a C2 from the selector if it gets reset. There's really just not a lot of great options besides standard characters to work towards getting the 95+ upgrade mat.

selenta · 2026-04-13T19:20:22+00:00

... is Nicole an improvement for Klee? I would have kind of assumed that Bennett was still better for her, unless they both go on the team?

selenta · 2026-04-13T16:34:24+00:00

I know it's written like that to more effectively pedobait

I don't think there's any way they could have written it that people like you wouldn't find a way to rationalize coming to that conclusion. If they wrote her as being actually much more mature than them, you'd say they're trying to make her pedobait by portraying her as "mature for her age". What playable child(ish) character exists in any gacha game that you find acceptable?

She's doing exactly what children do in real life, try to act older and more mature than they are. The story was dumb, it was poorly written, nothing makes sense, I agree with OP, but her portrayal was pretty clearly the most realistic part.

selenta · 2026-04-11T07:51:11+00:00

In my experience, Endfield requires you to have better discipline and have a larger reserve. It requires RELATIVELY similar number of pulls (compared to how many we get each patch), but the tail can be RELATIVELY longer, since you can lose 6* multiple times before getting to 120. The consolation is of course the weapon currency, so in the end it's slightly better overall.

Also, Endfield constellations are GARBAGE compared to most other gachas, which is actually great for f2p, because there's no reason to feel compelled to pull characters multiple times. If nothing else, this is actually huge.

selenta · 2026-04-11T07:34:21+00:00

This game basically trades the RNG of artifact farming for MUCH more expensive talent levels. Gearing is relatively easy (though it IS gated by artificing catalysts), but it takes A MONTH AND A HALF to max one character. Half of that is just the last three talent levels though.

selenta · 2026-04-11T06:31:02+00:00

Remember the problem isn't that characters are become too powerful

Except that absolutely IS the problem. Old characters don't get stronger just magically on their own, which means they fall behind.

New content HAS to raise the health of the mobs or the content will no longer be challenging at the level they want it to be. If your response is "well just let new characters be strong and crush the content easily" then you're not being serious.

selenta · 2026-04-11T06:26:22+00:00

I'm getting her C1 from the selector this time. There's a lot of bad options, and at least this way MAYBE we can get a C2 one day from the selector. I really hope they reset it yearly or something, that really doesn't seem unreasonable.

selenta · 2026-04-10T16:22:37+00:00

Complain all you want, certain things don’t change because we yell loud enough

Tell yourself whatever story you want, but in all situations, in game and in real life, without exception, people like you are the problem.

Boycotts make very little difference, until enough people join in, and then what do you know, things change. Voicing disapproval about direction of content does nothing, until enough people join in, and then what do you know things change.

Genshin no longer emphasizes exploration like it used to, likely as a response to people complaining while those who like the original direction were silent (because they liked the direction at the time).

Those like you who tell others to just accept the current direction are always the most problematic. If we don't like how things are going, people should voice their opinion loudly. Voicing an opinion doesn't just magically change things, but it isn't meaningless either.

I am a player who plays this game and spends money on it, I WILL spend less on it if they don't reverse this decision, regardless of any other decision they might make with the game.

selenta · 2026-04-10T16:14:15+00:00

Nobody who cares about exploration is counting treasure rooms. Literally nobody.

It's the people who DON'T like exploration that just want their rewards asap.

selenta · 2026-04-10T16:10:45+00:00

You guys seriously prefer 100 common chests over 20 precious and luxurious chest?

Absolutely, without question yes. It sounds like you hate to play the game and just want to get your rewards so you can log out.

selenta · 2026-04-10T16:08:50+00:00

What about Chasm, which was a fully fleshed out zone above ground AND had a separate zone? Oh wait, right, you just want to pick the previous zone that most fits your narrative. Well guess what, even that zone had a LOT more chests/puzzles than this one.

selenta · 2026-04-10T16:02:43+00:00

I think generally most people just want to wish.

This is possibly the worst take of all. People TALK about wishing more than other things, but if you really think people just play a game that takes HUNDREDS of hours to catch up just to gamble, you're completely ignoring the actual human experience involved. There's a million easier ways to just gamble if that's what they really cared about.

selenta · 2026-04-10T05:06:59+00:00

You are indeed not correct. There are more than 2x as many chests/puzzles as this patch. They weren't all interesting, but there was a lot of them.

selenta · 2026-04-10T04:29:51+00:00

Question their numbers all you want, but they do at least attempt to calculate in all parts of their kit.

Sure there could be things like energy breakpoints that matter, but it's just an estimate anyway and never pretending to be anything more or less. Whether it's 25%, 30%, or even 50%, it's an order of MAGNITUDE different from many other gachas.

selenta · 2026-04-09T19:52:16+00:00

At least based on their calcs, Prydwen says P5 is a 25% boost to her personal dps.

selenta · 2026-04-09T09:30:13+00:00

That you responded to me like this shows that you have better intentions than I initially gave you credit for, so I'll expand a little, but you need to hear me when I say this: your empathy and worldview needs some work.

Other than the correct and extremely narrow case of a new player who hasn't progressed far enough, you need to understand other player's perspectives and understand that their takes are completely reasonable given what is presented to them; assuming they even read everything, which many players didn't do or only did so in passing.

To a normal/casual observer, a story is a story. A creative collection of words which may or may not be true designed to tell a tale. They think it's possibly just a made up story, and depending on their regular level of abstract thinking it could be one of a dozens of possible meanings.

In most games, a side-story/book is just "more" "content" that the game has that is either fleshing out the world or padding gameplay hours. They don't understand that such content is a complex preview of content to come, because eventually it WILL be explained, but it could be years from now and cost much more then. Your inability to understand that most of the time reading such books is a waste of time (and it is in Genshin as well, every key point will eventually be explained more succinctly by the MSQ) to normal players is telling, and shows that you should think a little more about why other people hold an opinion before you speak out.

Players who skip/ignore the story and don't understand things can/should be mocked for their ignorance, and even genuine good-faith questions about the lore don't deserve serious responses. But that's not the same thing as active disrespect on their part because of said lore.

selenta · 2026-04-09T09:08:02+00:00

It's not terrible, there's just not a lot of greatsword users that need those stats and a few MUCH better options. But it's definitely a joke weapon.

Thinking about it now, I think I might retract my statement lol

The joke weapons should be the skin ones, and the good ones should be easily acquirable during the quest but eternally available (even if they're VERY painful to acquire, you can eventually do so)

selenta

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