I think they might have PTSD with the last Zhongli drama so they won't ever tinker with him too much... Only other option is to diversify it. I agree that I don't want every boss going forward to be anti shield, but it'd be nice to have a couple where Zhongli/Shield can't be an option during a phase of the fight or in its entirety. They already had the gimmick of ability lock with Archon Shogun. Wolflord isn't exactly what I had in mind either.
I can't wait. Never have I liked fish so much.
Her birthday in-game mail should be good.
Yeah, it's really nice. Even the chibi art style changed since the Beidou one.
Yep, Elden Ring is pretty much my plan for this coming weekend. That's why I wanted to get the new Enka event thing done quickly. I'll still log in and burn resin in Genshin but that's about it for the next few weeks. Not like it takes a ton of time to do your daily chores.
Yea the writing was a little jumpy, but the entire point is just to get you down into Enka and give you some motivation to explore it again. There was also that one soldier that had a boner for Tsumi out of nowhere, then he disappears.The writing for the start of this new Enka event is tonally all over the place:
Kokomi: We're in a crisis. There are many causalities and Watatsumi Island is in danger. I can't help because I need to heal the wounded. Let's go see this Shrine Maiden for some info.
Shrine Maiden: Ohh, looks who's on a date
Can't we save the reddit shipper bait for story quests
See my "edited in" section above, I think the battle songs are too slow burning for battle songs. They sound great, do a good job of providing flavor to the battles, but the battles are over so fast you just end up hearing the same 20 seconds of the intro repeatedly. It'd be cool if they kinda put battle music on "pause" when you exit combat and resume it on the next combat. Other games have done that to great effect.
I never even heard that portion of the song, it's like an entirely different track... They should adjust it to fit the speed of overworld battles or have the pause/resume feature, yeah.
Too sexy.
It was a pic of two Amber cons in one ten-pull.
Some new info for Yelan, apparently she is the owner/manager of the illegal gambling den in Liyue where they're ultra rude to the traveler when you talk to them. I hope she's a real bitch from her characterization, but they probably don't have the guts to do it.
There's been a lot of changes to Ayato in the beta so far, he keeps getting buffs. Apparently they actually care how he fares in the meta, unlike the last handful of 5*s. Buffs to his cooldown, %'s, stagger resist, icd of his slashes during his skill, frequency of his water procs in his burst. I don't personally find him interesting, but they're actually trying to make him usable which is commendable. He's going to have the same problem I ultimately ran into with Childe. You can't effectively main DPS them because Hydro overwrites Pyro, so you can only ever get 1 good vape proc. At least Childe has a single hit Burst so you can go for big dick damage there, but Ayato is like Ayaka - death by 1000 cuts. Should be good in taser/freeze comps though, just like Childe. They also showed that the Kamisato siblings work well together in freeze comps, if that's your thing.
Chasm map size overlayed with the world map:
Seems a bit bigger than Dragonspine or any individual Inazuma island. I'm satisfied with that, it should be a great patch. I have been trying to stay spoiler free of the visual design of the areas, but I accidentally saw some sample screenshots, and it looks really varied and cool. I'm impressed.
With this it's going to be 3 good patches in a row. Nice.Chasm map size overlayed with the world map:
Seems a bit bigger than Dragonspine or any individual Inazuma island. I'm satisfied with that, it should be a great patch. I have been trying to stay spoiler free of the visual design of the areas, but I accidentally saw some sample screenshots, and it looks really varied and cool. I'm impressed.
MHY's messed up priorities strike again. They better put some effort in Yelan too.
I still don't get what you guys have against the island stuff. I thought it was great for giving each island its own flavor and for them being able to rapid-fire release the areas in consecutive patches. When we're back on the mainland, we're just going to go back to the red border "Paimon doesn't think we should go here yet" bs. If anything, I wish that they'd have done more with the ocean between the islands and waverider/boat stuff. The water was just there to separate the islands, there was almost no meaningful content that had to do with it.
Yea, regardless of the missteps with recent characters and the main story being inconsistent quality wise, the new areas have been progressively better and higher quality. The world lore is probably one of my favorites in any game released in years. We don't know very much about Chasm yet, lore wise, so I'm excited to see what they cook up.
I don't really know why, but they seem to put more effort into the kits of male 5* characters compared to the female ones, which I guess they assume (correctly) that they'll sell just on design/visual appeal/waifu stuff. Itto was the only outlier to this as I feel his kit is undertuned considering he's Geo.
Islands were awesome. I didn't find it a pain to explore at all outside of the dreaded hunt for Sango pearls. Not to mention, can easily see the ghibli aesthetic to it or if it was based off a specific culture with the World Quests. For Chasm, the description mentioned a celestial body so I wonder what's up with that. Going to be fun to see how it links to Celestia or outside this universe.
I keep going to back to Journey for the idea of what they're going to do in the desert. I hope they actually have a sand sliding mechanic for traveling around the area, that'd be a ton of fun. Dunes everywhere with ruins and tunnels spotted throughout, obviously an oasis or two. If they really want to get ambitious, it'd be cool if they had shifting sands that cover/uncover parts of the map and sandstorms that severely limit visibility. I'm excited for deserts.
Outside of Chasm and that underground area with the "salt god" Zhongli story, yea. But that was considered a "release" region because it existed before the game came out.
Yeah, that's the reason I posted the rankings.NSFW Venti with the podium finish
I think Elden Ring will have an effect, but i think Lost Ark's flavor of the month is already waning. If it had any effect it would have been in the past few weeks.
In other news, the leak subreddit is just a list of "AYATO+OTHER CHARACTER" threads, which is fucking stupid and pointless. But I guess there's no much going on for leaks, so...
By the way, I wonder IF and how much Lost Ark and Elden Ring will impact Genshin playerbase.
