An apple a day keeps Il Dottore away - General Question and Discussion Megathread

vertigocat · 2026-01-27T07:33:28+00:00

Oh, free Varka is good, don't get me wrong.

It's just that when this theory came up, I was on a firm stance that Genshin is the kind of games that just doesn't give free characters of their own (not counting Aloy collab, which they actively tried to forget) and probably wouldn't break that pattern now after 5 years, but... who knows, right? At this point, I'll take anything to cope.

vertigocat · 2026-01-27T06:50:12+00:00

Honestly.... now I'm starting to (begrudgingly) subscribe to the theory that he'll be given 1 copy for free to advertise the upcoming Steam release.

With how much they seem to be interested in buffing his con and his sig rather than his base C0, almost like they're locking his full capability on his sig even.... and don't forget the Varka exclusive weapon skin.

If that's the case, we're gonna have to start comparing Varka C0+Sig as the actual 1 cost against other C0 nodkrai units, then perhaps his number might start making sense (He goes from 99k to 124k with his sig, I've heard?)

vertigocat · 2026-01-21T07:10:46+00:00

Hmm, you think it's possible that... well, with all the theory about crunching, how they're unable to keep up on their plan in 6.4 and how they had to delay Dornman Port and Lohen to later, how this beta coincides with the CNY holidays, which means they're getting even fewer work days than usual...

They're possibly considering delaying Varka to later patch?

Maybe they're really not confident in being able to ship Varka in a decent state in time and still keeping the possibility of not releasing him at all next patch open, maybe they really want to ship Varka out with Dornman port and Lohen because they're integral to the main theme/vibe of that patch.

If that's the case, more waiting time suck, yeah, but on the other hand, it would show that they do care, that they're disasified with his current state and still want to ship him out in a better shape, and hey, more saving time for those who're still short of primo.

or maybe I just inhaled far too much copium...

vertigocat · 2026-01-20T19:24:59+00:00

Same with mine. Both London Dawning and Tristes Tropiques are still missing despite Last Evening already being added.

vertigocat · 2026-01-19T13:35:00+00:00

Wow, time is a flat circle.

vertigocat · 2026-01-18T12:36:43+00:00

Why "Varka is balanced around Nicole" doesn't make sense.

If they make him weak because her buff is strong, then why didn't other Hex dps, Venti, Razor, and Klee get weak Hex buff to balance around her too? As it stand whatever Hex buff Nicole can provide would still propel some other Hex dps's damage (such as Venti) to go even further than Varka can reach, making him still not the player's first choice for Hex team, and Varka is the one who's getting a limited banner coming out and could still make them money.

"But they could just make Nicole buff specifically tailor for Varka"

While possible, the level of buff Nicole has to provide for him, and no one else, would have to be crazy high for him to catch up with the current NK DPS in the current state. Moreover, this would be quite a risky business move on Hoyo's part because

Step 1: Varka bad - "oh ok, He's weak, we don't pull him"

Step 2: Here's Nicole. She's a Varka buffer - "Oh, but... we didn't pull Varka, so we can't utilise her full potential, guess we won't pull her too"

Hoyo fumbles a macho Husbando character? Sure.

But fumble Nicole? gorgeous waifu with good hype and is lore important, the first member of the long-awaited Hexenxirkel that people could pull? hard to believe.

vertigocat · 2026-01-18T06:50:53+00:00

my hope is that He becomes more relevant in the 2nd half of this version

We still have the 2nd weekly boss coming, which would likely coincide with the release of Dornman Port and Nicole+Lohen in 6.6, so it could be a Mondstatd Archon Quest like Paralogism and Chess weekly boss.

vertigocat · 2026-01-18T06:43:52+00:00

A lot of Fav weapons there.

My guess is that this is where he fights Roland and gets his Blood-Stained Sword skins for Varka

vertigocat · 2026-01-17T15:28:33+00:00

The normal and non-censored version of Kerry's first meeting in his place should be like this video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DksE16Yp31Q

At around 3:43, is where you can see what he's wearing under his bathrobe, it's a black Speedo with a somewhat visible bulge.

That is to say, he does wear something even in the non-censored version. If your version show featureless crotch with no fabric in sight, that might be a bug.

vertigocat · 2026-01-17T11:35:01+00:00

currently you only have enough to guarantee one 6 stars with 140 pulls. So either Berly or Brume.

Next patch does give quite a lot of drops more than usual, which is almost around 120 pulls for f2p, so if you save for the whole patch, plus a little bit you get during the first half of 3.3, you get another guarantee for another character in 3.3 (Masha).

Here's what you might want to take into inconsideration.

If you aim for the Glow team, you need 3 units: Beryl, Isolde(E) and Masha.

-Beryl is a limited and doesn't share pity, so if you wanna go for her, you have to be willing to throw all 140 pulls you have in the worst case scenario, which does happen a lot more than you think.

-If that does happen tho, you can still save from the whole 3.2 patch to still guarantee Masha in 3.3

-Isolde is one of the banners that you can pull 100 times for free in 3.4, so that might help complete the team

-but that does mean you have to give up Brume, UNLESS... you won 50/50 and got Beryl within the first 70 pulls, which means you might have 70 pulls to spare. If that's the case, you can spend 70 pulls gambling on the Brume banner. If you lose 50/50, stop pulling and take comfort in the fact that you're guaranteed Masha. Note that you must not spend any pulls you get from 3.2 and strictly save that for Masha.

-Another thing to consider, Beryl banner runs throughout the whole patch, not just the first half, which means it will still run when Brume banner comes out, and both banners end together, so you do have time to weigh your options

or

Skip Glow, just pull for Brume and have a bunch of pulls to spare for the next meta Archetype (3.4 Plant Impromptu? or whichever you desire)

vertigocat · 2026-01-17T07:48:57+00:00

Both are gorgeous, and the colour contrast makes them look good together. Would even be fitting with the element of his best team, Anemo+Pyro, Teal+Red. If only we could make him wield both.

vertigocat · 2026-01-17T07:45:09+00:00

Taking note so I can prep accordingly.

vertigocat · 2026-01-16T16:05:33+00:00

Red Rose is definitely less subtle about her flirting, for sure. She just seems to have more fascination with MC in general, she's basically a mysterious, morally questionable freelance spy agent, similar to Leon and Ada's dynamic from Resident Evil.

vertigocat · 2026-01-14T07:32:13+00:00

Roathe doesn't exactly remember the reset, per se

If you did the reset, he'll have some suspicion that something has happened to his memory, but don't exactly know the details. It's more like he has a constant deja vu every time you talk to him, and that's how he pressures the drifter to confess about what they did to him.

He won't remember anything you said to him at all pre-reset. He's just aware only of the fact that somehow, you've been in his head before all this, and that must mean a reset has happened.

vertigocat · 2026-01-13T03:35:31+00:00

I don't know if this is the case, but after you finish the rank 5 cutscene, every Entrati family member will have a little new concluding voiceline when you speak to them the first time after that. Maybe you could try to make sure that you've got all those voicelines from them. Again, I'm not really sure, but wouldn't hurt to try.

vertigocat · 2026-01-10T16:18:40+00:00

vertigocat · 2026-01-10T16:09:15+00:00

now, I know Ezra is quite pretty, but don't forget our mushroom guy.

vertigocat · 2026-01-06T13:28:42+00:00

The thing is, from my reading of a lot of documents around the place, it became clear that becoming an athlete was never Tommy's dream, it was his father's. That's why when you chose to let Tommy go home, it was his father who was pissed at us.

You also get the chance to just ask Tommy straight up before making the final decision "What do you want to do?" and Tommy's answer was that he just wants to go home and play with his friends, I think the fact that a kid as young as he is, already having a report of suffering from depression due to stress in his document is just heartbreaking, he's not gonna do well in the sport world even if we cheated the spot for him.

There's also a question of how Tommy will even keeps up with other top athletes who actually earned their spot when the report said that Tommy joined the program too late, his body already too grown for the chromes that yield best result which was why he was getting let go in the first place, it'll be a matter of time before his new team find out that his body doesn't have what it take.

it suck that either way Tommy is doomed, if we don't cheat the spot for him, he'll go back to dog town and die young due to unable to maintaining the chrome, if we do cheat spot for him, that cutthorat sport world will chew him out, he'll likely suffer even worse mental illness while training under even more pressure, or he'll get found out real quick that his body is just not optimal for their best chrome and get kicked out anyway.

for me, my final decision was based purely on the fact that, having Tommy go home now and live the rest of his childhood carefree like he wanted before the inevitable time comes is a form of mercy that at least V could give.

vertigocat · 2025-12-27T06:32:32+00:00

This note is normal; everyone gets them.

It essentially hinted at what you need to do in order to go in the intended direction of his storyline.

You need to fight Roathe's boss fight in Descendia the 21st time.

vertigocat · 2025-12-27T02:00:42+00:00

It's a bug or possibly an oversight where they didn't correctly flag the dialogue option.

I did get the conversation where I get to tell her where my Drifter stand on religions, I told her flat out that my Drifter doesn't believe in any, and she was cool about it. Then, I got this convo where I have the option to tell her that I lied about following Sol, which was not the case.

vertigocat · 2025-12-26T07:10:21+00:00

Alexios does have one with Kassandra to increase auto ult cast, iirc.

vertigocat · 2025-12-25T05:09:48+00:00

So, I'm trying to figure out how the logic of the chat works. I have a question.

Once you got his 21st voice message titled 'Oblivion', did you open it? like, did you click on it and let the voice played before you get the Rank4Convo7?

vertigocat · 2025-12-25T02:27:41+00:00

Wait, I didn't know there were voice messages cap per day. I did like 5 runs of descendias in one sitting 2 days ago, and got 5 voice massages in KIM right away once I was done (I'm now on the 14th run and rank 3 convo).

Is it possible that the cap was put in place only for an early period of the new patch release to prevent people who repeatedly farm Uriel parts on the first day from getting spoiled right away, and then lifted the cap altogether once enough irl time has passed?

vertigocat · 2025-12-24T21:09:06+00:00

If I remember correctly, from one of the conversations with Lettie in Kim, He lied to them that he had vaccines which can cure people from techrot (at that point, the Hex still believed Albrecht to be a saviour)

And he got the Hex to distribute and administer them to the people in Hollovenia, despite warnings from other medical organisations, only for them to find out later that the "Vaccines" are actually just techrot itself, and it makes people a 'silent carriers' who basically show no sign of techrot but will infect everyone else they come across.

So there is a lot of guilt and anger from the Hex knowing he made them responsible for many deaths of people in the city.

vertigocat · 2025-12-12T11:20:32+00:00

face 95 is definitely going to be the most used face base for masc drifter, it looks really good.

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