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[deanote666]

Geo Clorinde.

But I didn't get here either so I can't compare to her either, lol.

Hmm, I just reached AR 58 and got prompted to increase my world level. What should I expect in terms of difficulty and rewards once I do the ascension quest?

I don't think I noticed any real difference in difficulty. If you're doing fine now, you'll do fine if you go up.

You get a guarantee 3 boss material drop from over world bosses and supposedly higher chance of rarer drops from mobs.

When in doubt, you can always lower the world level back down.

Only thing I would suggest is maybe clear out the superbosses in Fontaine, Natlan, and Nod-Krai and their achievements before raising it.

 

[InterMusketeer]

But I didn't get here either so I can't compare to her either, lol.

NA 4 times to fill meter, then press Skill for big damage. Repeat. Use Burst whenever you like.

Simple to use, no fuss. Decently strong, moreso with Illuga cons and possibly Linnea whenever she releases.

 

[deanote666]

Spoiler: The internet did a thing. Slightly NSFW

I saw it and now you have to.

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

Thanks for the answers, guys. Appreciate it. I'll go ahead and do the ascension quest today or tomorrow, depending on how much time I have, since I'm currently too captivated by Arknights Endfield to play anything else beyond just doing dailies.

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

Finally got around to doing the Ascension Quest to max out my World Level, and then I decided to throw whatever pulls I had left at the Bina banner and this happened on the 3rd 10‑pull (pretty loud volume). Now I've got her at C1R1.

 

[Pejo]

Well, finished up the Imaginarium. I was pretty pissed off, I got one of the "survive until the end" arcana stages and had absolutely zero characters left at that point with sustain of any kind. I would have had a "perfect" run otherwise.

Quick question - how do you borrow your friends' units for Imaginarium? I spent like 10 minutes looking through each menu in the book and I couldn't find any way to borrow any characters.

 

[InterMusketeer]

Well, finished up the Imaginarium. I was pretty pissed off, I got one of the "survive until the end" arcana stages and had absolutely zero characters left at that point with sustain of any kind. I would have had a "perfect" run otherwise.

Quick question - how do you borrow your friends' units for Imaginarium? I spent like 10 minutes looking through each menu in the book and I couldn't find any way to borrow any characters.

Spoiler

 

[Pejo]

Spoiler

I honestly had no idea that that was a clickable button, lol. Good to know. I need to borrow some units for one of the last achievements I need in that category.

Also, I hate Knuckle Duckle.

 

[deanote666]

Spoiler: Onion Ninja Warning

 

[Dice]

I may be having too much Dark Souls type fun with these lanterns.

 

[Pejo]

I may be having too much Dark Souls type fun with these lanterns.

This better not be referencing what I think it's referencing...

Spoiler

 

[Dice]

Managed to get 6 stella. My character building is paying off. I was lucky to get a hydro-weak boss when I had furina/bina/lauma/nefer. Went real easy.

Spoiler: Lunar Festival story stuff

Zizhi keeps calling Traveller "a mere mortal" but uhhh… the whole being here for 500 years since arriving, traveling the stars before that, kicking gods asses, purifying abyss energy, holding a moon marrow like nothing at all, I'm like…

Also, yet again I just really like Xiao. He's so cool. I wish he was the Traveller lol. Hopefully he gets some good buffs to make picking him up worthwhile.

I was saving leveling stuff for Zibai in case I get her but when I had enough to put Bina to 90 I couldn't resist and spent 80% of it. Also got her weapon to 80%. She is so strong and buffs everything it's totally worth it. Also it is starting to get to the point where what artifact sets I choose will be for the particular combinations of teammates. Whether Ineffa is with Flins or not, whether Lauma is with Nefer or not and if someone is holding Silken, etc. The benefits of different sets complementing or overlapping and the different stats that each character scales off of is making it interesting. Team options are expanding quite a lot but set selection for optimizing each team depends on who I have arranged into party with whom.

Edit: LOL this lunar/electro/hydro challenge. Ineffa/Bina/Furina/Flins.

I think I got it.

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

I appreciate that all the mini‑games in this edition of the Lantern Rite are fun. Cleared all the available rounds so far, now I'm just waiting for the last one to unlock.

Oh, and I had to push my Columbina to C2 since I snagged that C1 a few days ago with those lucky pulls. All in all I'm very grateful to RNGesus for letting me win four 50/50s this patch, including an early Bina copy.

 

[InterMusketeer]

Was able to win the 50/50 on Zibai, so that feels worth it. I'm at exactly 0 pity and I think I'll hold off on pulling until Gretel makes it into the game in 6.5.

 

[Dice]

Had 40 pulls and secured Zibai on first 10 pull. Brilliant! Got C2 Illuga with the rest, which is good. Don't really see a reason to C6 Illuga, which is his next big step up. Even if tuned for pairing with Zibai, he's still a sub-DPS 4 star which are pretty much always outclassed by good 5 stars, which I have. They'll probably also give her another 5 star partner later besides the nice Columbina pairing now. I can save the pulls from now forward and probably have enough to get Nicole for free later. As for weapon, I have two Uraku Misugiri all leveled up so I don't have much a need for Zibai's weapon which is only like 9% better and for that I would have to spend a bunch of resources to get it fully leveled anyway. I can nab it on a rerun if I really want but with Nicole and Sandrone on the way we have higher callings. Neuvillette looks way cooler in his new suit but I'm not getting another hydro after building Mualani, Furina, Columbina, Yelan, and Mona. No fuckin way.

Edit:
Due to prefarm I got her to lvl64 with talents at 6, three good artifacts but no sands or goblet at all, so missing tons of stat power. Even so, she still seems strong. I think she will be fine at C0 just like Nefer. I'm actually having trouble testing her out bc after Columbina and Chiori pop off it's like everything dies before I can get to it lol.

Switching back and forth between her and Ningguang, the latter has a larger ratio to her head? It's like they modeled Zibai more like a Wuwa character, which is also how Nefer, Flins, and Mavuika are. It is interesting how there is this stylistic variance between characters since Lauma is voluptuous but in more the typical Genshin style like Chasca and Xilonen are, then Jahoda is fully old school Genshin.

 

[deanote666]

Aino for days. Illuga evaded capture.

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

Genshin on the New New 3DS!



And the same CN company is making a VITA looking mobile handheld, so we'll have Genshin on the PS PS VITA too, lol.

 

[Pejo]

Forgot Zibai was dropping today. I liked her gameplay in the trial, and wanted a use for my Chiori, so I rolled.

Lost 50/50 to Qiqi, got Zibai in 40 pulls after the loss. Managed to C6 my Aino and C2 Illuga, so it's not all bad I guess.

I'm trying to figure out who to finish her team with. I'm looking at Zibai/Chiori/Aino/??? so far. Ah well, she's a future project anyways, I don't exactly have a burning need for Lunar Crystallize at the moment.

You guys making the crafted Natlan sword for her? I see some sites saying that 3* Crit Damage weapon is better than the 4* crafted DEF sword, but I don't know if I buy that...

 

[InterMusketeer]

I'm trying to figure out who to finish her team with. I'm looking at Zibai/Chiori/Aino/??? so far. Ah well, she's a future project anyways, I don't exactly have a burning need for Lunar Crystallize at the moment.

Xilonen is a solid pick. Zhongli works too. Candace could even work, but you'd have to find a healer/shielder elsewhere.

You guys making the crafted Natlan sword for her? I see some sites saying that 3* Crit Damage weapon is better than the 4* crafted DEF sword, but I don't know if I buy that...

The 3-star Harbinger of Dawn is calced to be 8% stronger than the craftable weapon, but it mostly comes down to comfort and preference. HoD has insane Crit value, and since Zibai doesn't care about ATK, it all lines up perfectly for her. There's the HP requirement though, which can be difficult depending on the team.

Flute of Ezpitzal gives tons of DEF, but Zibai has a lot of that already between her artifacts and talents, so there's some diminishing returns there. Still, it is good and will increase her survivability too.

I actually crafted another Flute for her, but decided to go with HoD at the last moment. She's sitting at a solid 98% CR and 280% CDMG now, and she hasn't been fully ascended yet. That value seems tough to beat.

 

[Dice]

The interesting thing about Lunar-Crystalize is that it is actually consolidating the total damage of all participants in the reaction. So it is like a conduit of your team rather than solely driven by the Geo DPS. However this makes it a bit weird figuring out the best team comp between def shred, team boosts, skill boost, reaction boost, crit boosts. It seems you have a range of options of different ways to build and empower and what is best will relate to the particular vulnerabilities of the enemy.