I'm returning to genshin impact after a year or two, anything i should know? I'm starting again cause i guess that I miss it, I haven't played in ages. Anything new I should know or do? i heard thaey really changed up the game with a new reaction or something. Last time i played i was in Natlan. What did i miss?
>>750809695you missed mah dick
>>750809695>What did i miss?Nothing. Arlechino C3 still unga-bungas 99% of the content.
Why would you want to "return" to gacha garbage? Play real games.>inb4 strawman arguments about "80 dollar woke AAA slop" because you genuinely don't play vidya and can't even name 5 non-gacha games you played
>>750809695some bosses might give you headaches...
>>750809695>i heard thaey really changed up the game with a new reaction or something.Nod-Krai added Lunar reactions. If you have a character from there that can do the reaction or Columbina to let everyone do it at a much weaker strength then>Dendro + Hydro spawns Lunar Blooms which are Blooms that can crit and builds up a meter for Lauma and Nefer that changes depending which one is using it.>Hydro + Electro spawns Lunar-Charged which causes a thunder cloud to form above the enemies and strike them with Electro every second or so and follows them.>Geo + Hydro spawns Lunar-Crystallize which causes three turrets to spawn around whoever you procced the effect on. If you proc it again it shoots Geo shards at the enemy.With Snezhnaya they added two of them which also require Snezhnaya-specific characters or Cryo Traveler to proc.>Electro + Cryo spawns Stellar-Glimmer which causes a transparent statue to spawn where you caused the reaction and buffs any further Glimmer reactions done in its radius.>Anemo + Cryo spawns Stellar-Swirl which causes a small vortex around the enemy you did the reaction near. If you do it two more times the vortex gets bigger and then explodes.
>>750809828because there is nothing quite like it
>>750809928>I don't play videogames!!!!If you just want to play animu shit with big numbers then play Disgaea or some shitIf you genuinely believe gachashit has "good writing" or "good story" then go back to watching Naruto
>>750809695Qiqi is meta.
>>750809960meds
Best girl is now in the game
>>750809695I got back recently too after not having played since fontaine, I did temple of space and then dug into Natlan, almost done now with collective of plenty area remaining. Heard a lot of bad things about Natlan but honestly the area is great to explore. Also since you're catching up expect tons of primos. I haven't even started nod krai yet but it took me around 2 weeks literally to finish up most of natlan.
>>750809960>NO why do you want to play the beautiful open world anime RPG with thousands of hours of content, amazing music, and constant free updates? Go play this ugly pixelshit turn based slop RPG or watch Naruto instead!!!11Did the CCP rape your family or something? This is definitely not healthy behavior.
>>750810015for now, until danica and the tsarisa release
>>750809695I did the same thing, what I learned is don't give a FUCK about meta because right now Qiqi is above Ayaka and Raiden on the tier lists so fuck my account I guess.Game's still fun though if you can tolerate the endless yapping and just go open some chests in the world.
>>750811883You still need 2 teams, and honestly skipping one of them if you can just use qiqi is also fair.I also thought Danica was a 4*, I don't get her appeal at all. Feels like a wasted slot.
>>750811983how about I waste you mister
>>750811983>I also thought Danica was a 4*Valeriy is snezhnnaya's 4*>I don't get her appeal at allmaid
>>750811983I hadn't touched the game for years and I just tried this current abyss, I had no idea even what teams to use so I ended up running:Top: Lumine, Yumemizuki, Yae and QiqiBottom: Ayaka, Shenhe, Furina, EscoffierThis got me 2/3 stars, I was too slow in the first chamber, I'm pretty sure I could clean it up if I knew what the fuck I was doing.
>>750812113did you do the quests to unlock stellar? Otherwise you don't get the buffs
The ts*rista is a whore and the fatui were a mistake. The new quest will reach level of dindu like we've never seen before.Jesus Christ they really jumped the shark.
>>750812042>>750812076She's the most generic of generic maids you could make, a walking trope. I never got the appeal of maids though so there's that.
>>750812402She has big tits and large thighs and the orca theme is cool
>>750812402she sex tho
>>750812447>>750812503I might like her more if she wasn't a maid with the most bog standard maid personality ever. Maybe her quest will change that but for now I'm a hater. Can't stand idol characters either by the way, I just don't like them.
>>750812152Yeah I did, pretty sure there's no way I'd come close otherwise with that team.
>>750812621I get it.For me it's Aemeth in wuwa - I think the fanbase likes her but jesus christ, there isn't a single character in that game I dislike more.Straight up ruined the game for me.
>>750812713I see, well this abyss also has lunar shill because of the moth but healing counters it too.
>>750812076Chinks and retards still think showing more skin equals good design. Anyways, there's a twink banner this week, then a Zibai rerun, then the archon, so >>750809695 it's a good time to return.
>>750814072>Chinks and retards still think showing more skin equals good designIs that why genshin has some of the most modest designs in gacha games? Don't get me wrong danica not having a proper skirt up front to show her legs is dumb but if you want skin coomer "games" there is BA and nikke for that. They don't offer anything other than designes but you get skin alright
>>750814171I don't want more coomer designs, the opposite actually. Instead half of the main characters in cold areas are walking around in bikinis. This could have been solved by alt outfits, but Niggerhoyo decided to chase the Roblox-like hype train so all the alt outfits go to that.
I want bothI want region-appropriate outfits and I want SLUTS
>>750814580winter bikini doko?
>>750809695Fuck off.
Everyone was shitting on Mavuika and claiming she was a marry sue but the Tsarista is 10 times worst.And of course they retcon Mavuika into hating Ronova because everything relating to the HP must be 100% evil
>>750811871>he chinks mobileslop grinding is "content"LmaoAlso fuck you Chang, I despise what your people did to Torchlight.
>>750815763>Everyoneyour discord sisters aren't everyone
>>750816043Revisionnist cunt.
>>750815763>because everything relating to the HP must be 100% evilDo you even play the game? We are the HP and we colonized this planet, all celestial tech belongs to travelers and all bullshit happening in genshin is because of us. And the demon name of the traveler will likely be Lucifer.
Bike > Polar Bear
>>750816193Nice headcanon retard
>>750816260>t. loreskipper retard
>>750816416Your headcanon is not in the game and even the "the spaceship's AI is the HP" theory is retarded since the HP arrived on Teyvat before the moongazer message was sent the first time.
>>750809695I look like this
>>750816636not him but with the plot now picking up the whole genesis pearl thing it looks like at least one of the twins is/was being groomed to become a replacement for the powers that be
>>750816726I predicted this a year ago and was called a lorelet. Who's laughing now huh
>>750817267hush, sandroneREAL people are talking
>>750816636It literally is canon. Also people predicted this since 1.0.
>>750817415Sandrone is a real human beanAnd a real hero
>>750816636>HP arrived on Teyvat before the moongazer message was sent the first timeThat doesn't refute anything. We know from the traveller's ship's logs that it passed by teyvat briefly without stopping in the past, and only landed with the twins the second time it came around.So all the stuff with the HP could've happened after that first instance, the twins are still in cryosleep at this point, and then at some point in the future they awaken and receive the message before coming to teyvat proper.
>>750817736oh so when the clanker twirls for no reason it's suddenly based?
>>750817842Ronova did nothing wrongbeing betrayed by everyone and dying for it, they all deserve what's coming
>>750817937but I don't wanna get turned into pure nutrients...
Genshin sucks dick now. Roster building, team construction, character building is nonexistent and replaced with hyper shilled italic reactions where you just plug the square peg into the square hole and receive a free win. Story takes about 5 times as long as it should and is not skippable. In theory the open world could be fun the explore but you’re constantly interrupted by more wordslop story sections or yet another pop up window with the 20th tutorial on the sub regional gimmick
>>750816636Fanfic retards will violently sneed and cope after reading this Trvthnvke about how retarded their fan-fiction is.
>>750809735Something so small is extremely easy to miss though. Scientists are still using the most precise equipment to look for the elusive anon's dick, alas, it's easier to see atoms.
>>750817267And you're still a lorelet instead of using that time reading up on the actual story.
>>750818083enlighten me, lore expert
>>750817429Headcanon>>750817826That's so convoluted and stupid that could be true for nu-genshin. Hopefully the real HP is not retconned and not as retarded.
Reminder that Pierro :-recruited Dottore and let him run amock for centuries-recruited Scaramouche and let Dottore groom him-recruited Signora and let her fuck up Mondstadt and nearly caused a war-recruited Crubacenna and let her use orphans as weapons (ditto with Arledindu)-supervised the civil war in Inazuma-was ok with Childe trying to destroy Liyue Harbor -was ok with harbingers killing others archons if it's convenient-did nothing to help Natlan (saved by Ronova btw) or Fontaine
>>750818336it's ok he was nice to Paimon
Haven't played since Natlan, did Dottore end up being the big bad of the fatui? Who ended up taking the blame for the fatui evil shit?
>>750818450Oh yeah I forgot that summoned Paimon for dubious reasons and abandonned her during the cataclysm because king Irmin didn't care about her lol>>750818531>Who ended up taking the blame for the fatui evil shit?Dottore and Signora because they were evil meanies while the others are the purest dindus of the planet
>>750818531All of fatui got dindu'd except for him.>>750818584Even signora is getting dindu'd right now.
>>750818531The Fatui were always planned to be good in the end, which is why Zhongli (God of China (aka not allowed to do anything wrong) ) willingly gave up his Gnosis to the Tsaritsa in 1.1
I can't bring myself to like Snezhnaya's AQ, even ignoring Anastasya. The majority of it feels like filler, and that part with Vesna breaking into a vault was retarded as fuck.
>>750818943well you're about to get a lot less filler
>>750818943are you retarded
>>750818673There's a difference between doing bad stuff for the greater good and being a dindu that did nothing wrong
You wouldn't an aranara, would you /v/?
>>750818336>>750818621>people were telling that fatui are the only real good guys since the first patch>"noooo, no way! They are ebil! You are delusional if you think they will be ever considered good!">7.0 releases>fatui are the good guys>"wtf how did this happen?!??!? They are dindu nuffining them!!111"
>>750819228No, I simply have taste and know when a story is bad.
>>750819514I will never support khaenri'ahn scum
>>750818156That's just cope. It was planned since the start. They didn't put the Kasparovs chess match against AI there for nothing. Also game is literally called original gods impact and we are the real gods of this world, reclaiming the temporary AI overlord.
>>750819514see >>750819363
>>750819454actually wouldn'tthey are many things but not sexy
>>750809695You should know I freaking LOVE Nahida's feet.
What are the giant lines in the sky now?
>>750820568Ronova's gift
>>750809695it's the same boring slop that it always was but now it's more pay to win than ever
>>750820725Win what?
>Win what?
>>750820890hot but i'm still not installing mods
>>750820890I was too focused on the aranara, sorry.
>>750820868well? win what?the only things paying players can get and free players cannot are a few skins, which aren't even as good as the free mods anyone can use on pc
>>750821019That's ok. I have enough for the both of us.
I'm so sad for Ronova, she should have been playable (and my gf)
>>750821482>dedicated fallguy for a bad archon quest kinda sucks yo
im too lazy to explore snezhnaya to 80% and the time limit is coming up
>saw the datamined leaksThe fuck you mean she's going to be pregnant?
>>750822271yae's futa knot
>>750811241Natlan is a nice region visually and probably the best one to validate the purchase of my Oled monitor but it was an absolute map gore, the turning point were they stopped giving a fuck about geography, the AQ is quite cringy at a time and the modern/urban style rub a lot of people the wrong way, also>a fucking bike.
>>750822056I finally understand what the Capitano fans feel now
>>750809695There are two new families of reactions- Lunar reactions and stellar reactions. Lunar reactions are racist- you need ssr characters for them to happen, and ideally two of them for maximizing their damage and buffs. They affect hydro, dendro, geo and electro- either through lunar charged, lunar bloom or lunar crystallize. Stellar reactions are cryo plus electro or anemo, and a lot of old units got buffed so you just need one Snezhnayan character/cryo traveler to enable them.Nothing that Mavuika/Citlali can't kill thankfully, although Neuvillette and Arlechino got powercrept.
WuWa's Suoming, their first loli in 2 years outsold Genshin's rerun banners, can we get a new 5* loli in Genshin too now? It has been almost 3 years.
>>750825561So if I have an old team that Qiqi can fit into that's all I need?
>>750825701i hate it when retards make a fair point
>>750824759I would let her kick me allday
>>750825943
>>750825782you need cryo traveler to enable stellar reactions in teamthen qiqi acts as supportmizuki can be stellar swirl driveryae miko can be stellar superconduct enabler
>>750825701was that the loli or fox hag who raked in the money
>>750825943>>750826065
>>750826631
>>750826416Oh okay so all the old buffed characters are still useless without Lumine or a new unit?
>>750826836your lumine is a good unit now so it's fine
>>750812742Are you a story skipper? Aemeath is the best selling unit by far and she's exactly not some bog standard character.
>>750826507Hag fox was 3 weeks before the loli so barely on the edge of the month, her day 1 sales would fall in September.
>>750826907I'm not saying she isn't but maybe I'd prefer to use my other characters if that was possible.
>>750826968I think I got turned off hard during 3.1 and completely lost the will to play after Sigrika's patchI just can't stand that pink menace>not some bog standard characterpart of why I dislike her so much, I thinkwhole zone and patch series revolving around a character you dislike isn't exactly funmy personal Wuk Lamat, so to say lmao
>>750827286I can't agree with you, but I respect that you're able to offer your opinion without ragebait. What about 3.1 bothered you so much? For many, myself included, it set a new standard for what I expected from a gacha game.
>>750809695Get Columbina for lunar reactions
You can dance, you can jiveHaving the time of your lifeOoh, see that girl, watch that sceneDigging the dancing queen
>>750809695Qiqi is meta now.
>>750827458Yeah I get that people really liked Aemeath's whole thing but personally I just found her character really obnoxious. Giving her that significant relation to Rover out of the blue didn't help there. Amnesia is a neat tool in storytelling to create a sense of mystery but it also makes it easy to add a lot of bullshit if you feel like it, and in this case there was just too much of a discrepancy between me and Rover - he cares about her, I don't. Similar deal to how he dealt with Phrolova, I guess, and I suppose it works to make Rover feel more like his own character but then you run into the problem of having an unlikable main character that could sour players on the game.Then there's my issue with Aemeath being more or less a Mary Sue (amazing in everything she's doing, loved by all, yada yada) but I dunno if it's maybe mostly because I played the wrong dub or if I just wasn't into mecha enough or anything.Ultimately everything about her simply failed to reach me, and even had the opposite effect. 3.3 was apparently pretty cool but I just didn't feel like doing it (tapped out during Hiyuki's early story sequence because she also didn't interest me).Maybe New Fed will have something that brings me back but right now I have no desire to install the game again.Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk!
>>750827934Qiqi made this post and forgot she already posted >>750810015
a fucking frozen reference.
>>750827191You essentially need a reaction opener- in this case the cryo Traveler, and fill the rest of the 3 slots using old buffed units (Yae Miko, Qiqi, Beidou, Wriothesley or Mizuki). Of course its ideal to have two openers, because buffed superconduct doesn't mix with buffed swirl reactions. For Lunar reactions, tabibito does nothing, Columbina (the archon equivalent of Lunar) opens reactions to everyone in the cast, and there are specific characters for each of those reactions. Oh, and a bunch of Mondstadt chars got buffs too, so put two of them together and they form a decent team. Buffed peeps include some absolute heavyweights - Sucrose and Fischl, along with some big guys of yesteryear- Mona, Razor, Klee and Albedo. The Mond people don't have a new reaction, but do better numbers essentially.Oh, and if you have a freeze team it will still take most things down too if you have Escoffier from Natlan, so don't worry too much.
>>750828234This is my private domicile and I will not be harassed. Bitch.
>>750809695>What did i miss?
How is the new english voice for sucrose? She's not AI generated is she? My doggo wife is the only thing i miss about this game.
>>750827981She's a Mary Sue because of her relationship with Rover. It's meant to be a story about inheritance and upbringing, love and sacrifice. I guess if you hate rover then it all makes sense from there, but I think he's a surprisingly decent character on his own now and Aemeath's story is a big part of that. Not to glaze a gacha too much, but wuwas writing team isn't making something superficial like their contemporaries and I think that alienates people who are just looking for something to slurp sometimes.
Could you imagine 100 psychopathic water imps existing?No wonder they were banished.
>>750828486A bit too cocky.
>>750828404I stumbled onto the frost moon by accident and I think very out of sequence I have no idea WHAT the fuck is going on. I haven't unlocked temple of space where the fuck is that?
>>750829720North of Mondstadt.Where are you in the archon quest?
>>750819514Most people knew they were going to be allies in the end, it's just the story has to explain the questionable or evil shit they did for people to accept that. And the easiest way to do that is to pick one member and make him the evil baddie behind everything to shift all the blame from everyone else.
>>750829795Which Archon quest? I skipped ahead and did Sneznaya because I wanted the free limited.I think I might have some Natlan epilogue and like more than half of Nod Krai undone.
>>750831328Still the best and sexiest archon.
>>750809775>Arlechino unless they made some serious changes this character is still dead weight compared to mavuika in every single possible scenariolike, straight up 30%-50% worse across the board in every team comp i can remember
>>750832178For the temple of space there is no archon quest requierement at least narratively speaking just go up north of Dornman where the Venti statue is in the big ass cliff.
>>750832178i don't think the archon quest takes you to dornman portit was released in 6.5 so after nodkrai AQ if you want to time it right
>>750833485That doesn't change that you can still use arle just fine. Hell my Klee can clear any content that mavuika can clear except for dire, which I don't care about anyway.
>>750833834>my shit character can clear every piece of content in the game>except the only non trivial content that has any sort of gear or investment check whatsoeverthe abyss is unironically level 70 content, and has been since forever because its constantly jam packed with insane shill buffs like giving you over 100% plunge damage for free to varesa or like 80% attack on ayakek with escoffier teams
>>750834302Dire doesn't give any rewards except for temporary weapon skins, if you consider that non-optional content a 3-6 year old character should be able to clear or be considered bad you can show your opinion right back up your ass. It genuinely does not matter that Mavuika is 50%-100% better if all you're getting out if it is a temporary weapon skin and some bragging rights. So far I'm glad that powercreep hasn't spiraled out of control, though I can't say I like the racist mechanics much either.
>>750809695You should know that the game has become even more Jewish, and all your characters are now worthless, and you'll be forced to pull new ones if you want to do anything relevant
>>750811871>Thousands of hours of contentLmao. Opening chests and solving a handful of toddler tier puzzles isn't content.
>boohoo muh ronova-sama so saaad!!No one believes you aren't just coomers. If she'd been a man or a monster or something you wouldn't have cared.
>>750834556>i'm glad power creep isn't insanewhat fucking world do you live in? outside of the hardest versions of each content there is no reason to ever go past level 40 on any character, you can clear everything in the story and up to floor 11 solo with just the traveler.it doesnt even take that longALL rewards that give primos (1/25,000th of a character) are completely imperceptible in comparison to the income you would need to justify the time sink in the content. you get less than one day's wage at mcdonalds worth of wishes for 100%ing a patch, and each update introduces a new character that is 10%-50% better than the last one, and is the new bar for clearing content.power creep has been fucking crazy bad since dendro, and its only gotten exponentially worsefucking knuckle dragger
>>750811871They got really btfo by this one kek
>next main quest starts with a cutscene of ronova about to die, lying on the ground>A mysterious hand comes into frame and places an omelette in front of her and then leaves
>>750835040>and is the new bar for clearing contentYeah stick your retarded opinions up your ass.
>>750835336>Ronova, you will not revive until you eat all the eggs.
>>750834905Cry more capitano tranny
>>750835336guess who's back
>>750835383tell me again how new characters releasing consistently 10% better than the last doesnt raise the bar?
>>750836438Look at Star Rail and you'll understand, they've bloated enemy HP so far they had to give the next character a global passive that reduces it again.
>>750836438Now show another game, even non-gacha games, over the same span of 6+ years.
Ronova would always be back, in the first region trailer we already had her standing in front of the frozen reactor underneath Snezhnograd, with Anastasya holding her spear.This scene has yet to appear.
>>750837496scenes from the trailer don't necessarily happen. Ronova might come back because they're gonna realize she's very popular and wanna cash in
You see, I can understand Tsaritsa going against the big janny man. What I can't understand is everyone else going along with it.
QUICK- Nilou so I get her to C2. Seems useful as a discount Vodyanitsa for hydro res shred- Chiori for delicious femdom pantyhose, but she'll likely be always benched- THICC cow that is an all around good character I thinkI tend to go with Nilou. Cow would make more sense (new character, a good one), but it's not like I *need* her. That Nilou C2 makes her more versatile in various teams/in the theater.
>>750837781they wouldn't have, until ronova activated a nuke in their nation
>>750837841get the one you don't already havecons and meta will always get crept
>>750837841Literally none of them are meta relevant, the cow might be a overworld movement upgrade depending on your account but that’s it
>>750810015Dps meta or support meta?
>>750837729>scenes from the trailer don't necessarily happenWe all said that until irmansul actually fucking burned.
>>750838117This.
>>750837729>>750837496Ronova can't die because abyssal twin is collecting all 4 shades
>>750838117may chaos take the world o algo
So why the fuck can't she pronounce Phane's name, when the Tsaritsa can in the 7.2 trailer?Unless Ronova was talking about someone else? But I don't see who else would trigger that censorship.
>>750838112This man has a type.
>>750838316someone removed from/not recorded in irminsul...the traveller perhaps?
>>750838316It's possible heavenly principles isn't censored because it's more akin to just a job title, while phanes or whatever their 'true' name is would be.
I love Mualani so much but god damn she was so fucking useless in this IT, literally Yoimiya tier genki bitch.
>>750837841Do you wanna go fast?
>>750837841Varesa is nice for the overworld and for theatre she can still carry you at c0 even when using shitty filler teams.
>42 days>exactly the numbers of days between Genshin patches>42 days until 7.3You know what would be ABSOLUTE KINO? Logging-in every day and seeing the counter decrease, and the world day after day changing/shit happening, shit getting crazier and crazier, even dire in the last day before the 7.3 patchThey have a live service, they have the absolute best opportunity to do this, and why do I feel they won't take advantage of it.This would be absolute kino.
>>750838506I managed to beat the first 2 bosses pairing her with Iansan, ororon and Kachina, probably the electro/hydro and hydro/geo buffs helped alot but it worked fine.
>>750838675>livestream happens 10 days before the new patch>trailer for the finale drops on the final countdownyou know the issue with great ideas like this is the dissapointment when it doesn't happen, but it would be cool.
>>750838785She disappeared in Snezhnaya.RIP.
>>750838351sometimes its hard to let go.
>>750839057Vesna took her place as the goofy dork.
Would you let her kill you?
next version banners will be the most skippable since varka's patchthank god, i'll have enough for both tsaritsa and danica
What do we even know about Danica? Will she be the new Yae in astro teams?
>>750839707mitya is the new yae
>>750839583It was neat how you got better and better at willing yourself back to life over time. The last time it happens you just yeet yourself back to consciousness in seconds
>>750837496Yeah, tell'em!
>>750837496Yeah, and Valeriy will transform into a bear to fight Alyosha any moment now.
food
>>750840639Not even a Signorafag but recent leaks may open the door for her not being dead.
>>750839583Ronova cute! Sexy and CUTE!
I love Nahida so much.
>>750841506
Is there any stitch of her entrance scene? I need those lickable legs printed in a 60" poster or some shit. Tried to make one out of 4k screenshots but failed miserably.
>>750836803the problem is that non gacha games arent asking you 500 fucking dollars every 3 weeks you fucking MONKEYif i decide not to buy armored core six, i'm not suddenly thrust into a flying mecha fight with my dark souls 1 character you shitskinned, spear throwing apeif i dont want to buy whatever the new gayest niche male DPS hypercarry then not only am i not playing that specific period of end game, but by the time it rotates around again my old characters are unable to fucking play again
>>750842410I accept your retarded ravings as a concession, please kill yourself hereafter.
>>750842410NTA but I literally logged in to Genshin after a 2 year break and cleared abyss 12
