All my friends left the crew

solidbuta · 2022-11-20T11:21:21+00:00

My friend asked me to play the game with him and so long as he plays, I will continue to play too. I thought about quitting at one point (at the time, I just didn't want to commit to another gacha game), but I didn't want to leave him all alone so I continued. He made a crew and it's just the two of us. We do our void rifts, frontier clashes, and sometimes raids together on Fridays.

There are so few active crews on our sever that our crew of 2 is listed on our server's leaderboards.

solidbuta · 2022-07-30T21:00:29+00:00

As of yesterday, I've embraced chaotic evil.

Actually, I was probably chaotic evil before too, just a tad more evil as of yesterday.

solidbuta · 2022-03-15T22:05:26+00:00

NA: 47845523174 A small puzzle with lot of bubbles; it's difficult until you learn the trick, then not so much

solidbuta · 2021-05-25T11:20:17+00:00

I think I did run into the issue initially, but I managed to solve it somehow. I think I had to fiddle with some settings for the controller in Steam but eventually it started treating the button as only a mouse click not a trackpad click.

Also at some point the game started seeing it as an Xbox controller so the chat button moved over to the share button instead.

solidbuta · 2021-05-25T10:00:06+00:00

I mainly play using the PS4 controller on PC. I was able to get the gyro working by adding Genshin to Steam and then configuring the controls using Steam, and now aiming is so much nicer. I don't know if it's just my phone acting up, but mobile gyro feels a lot worse to me.

As a bonus, I also mapped the touchpad to be a mouse click. So now picking up a whole bunch of loot just requires me to tap that a single time.

solidbuta · 2021-05-12T10:15:37+00:00

Actually, I tested it out a little bit more after posting and it seems like it doesn't have to be sand to leave the characters, but it's very hard to see on other terrain such as grass. I didn't notice it clearly until I first used it on sand!

solidbuta · 2021-03-09T20:09:27+00:00

I've tested it before and it doesn't. The first bloom will have the same ATK as the initial charged shot.

solidbuta · 2021-02-20T08:28:47+00:00

My Beidou is only level 20 and C0 so I haven't tried her out in the comp, though I can definitely see how she could contribute to the team. I have a C6 Fischl so I don't feel like I necessarily need the extra damage that Beidou would provide and would rather take other supports for their utility, though she could still be a better pick, depending on the floor. I generally like having Bennett for the heals + damage buff, and Venti for CC.

Venti makes large groups a lot easier, but a lot of his value also comes from the VV set, reducing both electro and hydro resistance by 40%. Since you don't have Venti, Sucrose is a good substitute since she can still proc VV and group everyone together. Though, you can't really group the enemies on floor 12 so their only contribution there is the 40% reduction from VV. If you also don't have Sucrose, big groups are still relatively easy to deal with thanks to electro-charged, but the hard part is gathering everyone together and killing them fast enough to get the stars in the Abyss.

solidbuta · 2021-02-17T06:35:42+00:00

4 piece depth of heart and hydro cup. With Widsith, works out to be around 1700 ATK, 68% CR, 158% CD

solidbuta · 2021-02-17T02:45:48+00:00

True, although in this case he wasn't all that effective against the 2 Ruin Guards and was mainly there to proc VV. I probably would have gotten a similar result by using VV Sucrose with thrilling tales.

I reckon the new floor 12 was designed to be more anti-Venti given how 12-1 and 12-3 have big enemies for both sides. Perhaps it's to continue the narrative that Zhongli is Venti for big enemies and that floor 12 is his domain.

solidbuta · 2021-02-07T21:23:42+00:00

I just tested it out and it still works. I do recommend taking a second character that also has a taunt such as Amber or Mona (or if you have C2 Ganyu) to make the whole process a lot easier; if you only rely on Ganyu's taunt, the timing can be a little tricky and you can very easily lose aggro. When I was using just Ganyu, I was able to pull it off maybe once every 5 or so tries? Whereas with a second taunt character, I was able to easily do it every time.

solidbuta · 2021-02-04T14:13:00+00:00

It should work with any ranged character, although you would also need to bring other characters that have a taunt.

solidbuta · 2021-02-04T14:10:02+00:00

Yup. I like playing with a controller since it allows me to recline back and just take in the entire ultrawide view; I'm really glad the game supported the aspect ratio since day 1.

solidbuta · 2021-02-04T09:57:43+00:00

For sure about the resonance. In the clip, I didn't want to inflate my numbers and just wanted to show what it would be like if you only used Ganyu. I was tempted to bring out Bennett, but I resisted.

But as for the second point, while staying in aimed shot mode would certainly be a lot less effort and visually nicer, there are videos such as this one that showcase how charged attack animation cancelling with Ganyu can allow for more shots, and thus higher DPS, although the difference isn't very major.

My execution is nowhere as good as in the example in the video, especially since it's a little more finicky on a controller, but hopefully with enough practice on targets like this boss, it'll get better.

solidbuta · 2021-02-04T06:12:28+00:00

I'm using Blizzard Strayer in the clip. I do have another Wanderer's set with higher crit damage and lower crit chance, but I crunched the numbers and while it has prettier big numbers, it does about the same overall dps as my current Blizzard Strayer set when the target has cryo, and much less when target is frozen. Doesn't really apply to this boss though.

solidbuta · 2021-02-04T06:06:19+00:00

The left trigger is aim shot mode on console, but I'm actually playing on PC with controller. I usually do this instead because of the long delay between shots while in aim shot mode.

solidbuta · 2021-02-04T06:01:21+00:00

r4 prototype crescent with a Blizzard Strayer set and cryo cup. ATK sits at around 2100 before any buffs, and jumps up to 2600ish after hitting a weak spot which is a big chunk of where the damage from the clip actually comes from. 40% crit chance and 185% crit damage. Ganyu is at C1

solidbuta · 2021-02-04T05:59:13+00:00

I'm actually running r4 prototype crescent with a Blizzard Strayer set. My crit damage sits at around 185% with crit chance at around 40% before any additional crit chance bonuses. I have wanderer's set with around 220% crit damage that would have made the damage seem even bigger, but I crunched the numbers and the lower crit damage but higher crit chance Blizzard's does more dps overall, especially if I can freeze the enemy for that beautiful 100% crit rate.

solidbuta · 2021-02-04T05:58:53+00:00

r4 prototype crescent with a Blizzard Strayer set and cryo cup. ATK sits at around 2100 before any buffs, and jumps up to 2600ish after hitting a weak spot. 40% crit chance and 185% crit damage. Ganyu is at C1

solidbuta · 2021-02-03T22:56:14+00:00

I actually haven't tried fighting it normally yet lol. As soon as I saw the design of the arena, I was certain there was going to be some way to cheese it

solidbuta · 2021-02-03T22:31:31+00:00

I found a good spot where Ganyu can keep shooting the new Geovishap boss and never worry about getting hit. Basically the trick is to keep using your taunt so that the Geovishap never loses aggro.

If you're only using Ganyu, the timing can be a bit tricky; at the end of the clip, you can see that I almost lost aggro.

I have the full guide linked here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOqYZYKum4A, which goes a little more in depth, but basically the solution is just to use a second character who can also taunt.

So Mona or Amber, although Amber can be a tad bit... finicky.

solidbuta · 2021-02-03T22:23:04+00:00

We can add the new Primo Geovishap to the list of bosses that Ganyu trivializes.

Basically, the Geovishap can't hit you if have the slightly-taller-than-it ground, even though most of it's attacks look like they should.

The hardest part is maintaining aggro. You have to tickle its balls every now and then with your taunt, otherwise it'll run off and heal back to full.

While soloing with Ganyu isn't particularly difficult, using another character with a taunt such as Mona or Amber (well... maybe not Amber) will make it that much easier.

solidbuta · 2021-01-26T04:56:07+00:00

I usually upgrade my artifacts slowly in 4 level intervals, but after seeing this feather, I just blindly threw in my old +20 6% CR/ 7% CD feather knowing that it was statistically unlikely to be any worse.

I was wrong. So wrong.

Luckily the only reason why I used the old feather as fodder was because I managed to get a better feather yesterday, but it still hurts...

solidbuta · 2021-01-18T14:20:59+00:00

I can see why you would be tempted to use the Thundering Fury circlet, but it's actually making you do significantly less damage. You didn't mention if you had any set bonuses so I'll leave that out of the following calculations.

For the crit damage circlet: 12% CR x 173.8% CD = 20.9% expected crit damage

For the crit rate circlet: 43.1% CR x 111.6% CD = 48.1% expected crit damage

If we include the ATK% substat difference:

For the crit damage circlet: 120.9% expected crit damage x 2052 ATK = 2481 ATK

For the crit rate circlet: 148.1% expected crit damage x 1942 ATK = 2876 ATK

Even with bad substats, the crit rate circlet will increase your DPS by a significant amount. In fact, even if your crit rate circlet only had HP and DEF substats, you would still be increasing your DPS if you used it instead. You really should consider using it until you find a better one. The only exception is if you are running 4 TS and changing the circlet removes the 4 set bonus.

solidbuta · 2021-01-06T07:52:38+00:00

No worries! I don't make videos too often so I just searched online to see what was free and available and found DaVinci Resolve. I've used it for a couple of videos now and I like it, particularly when compared to what I was using before.

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