Man, regional banner times being different sucks balls. The new banners should all drop simultaneously like most other gachas. I have enough for one 10 pull and a few misc pulls afterwards. Also might drop some masterless glitter on an extra pull or two. My chances are slim, but there's a chance. Wonder if big dong Zhong trivializes (further) the earth hypostasis. If his resonance works on the pillars, my guess would be "yes".
It's a shame he's not a DPS monster, thematically. Lore wise he's one of only two archons that are still alive from the original war (other being Venti lol), and supposedly he's essentially the "god of war" of the seven without any human emotion or compassion. I think he'll end up being better than initial impressions after some time to build/use him. People still think Childe isn't a top damage character too.
Hit rank 6 Mondstat fame yesterday, portable waypoint is pretty cool. They're only usable once and expire in 7 days, but still handy. The crafting recipe for them isn't too bad. I put mine at the top of the mountain by Stone Gate because it's an Unusual Hilichurl spawn and takes for fucking ever to climb to it. People that join your world can use it, but if you join somebody else, it's not there. The Anemo treasure compass is a one-time craft (that uses 50 goddamn Philanemo Mushrooms, the most pain in the ass thing to farm), that points a wavey line similar to bounty clue lines towards a chest if there's an unopened one within the minimap window from where you use it. Like a 5 second cooldown if it doesn't find one and a 25 or so second cooldown if it does find one. Hopefully this helps me 100% explore Mondstat finally, but I wish the detection radius was bigger. I also wish they'd open up the other tool slots, because the treasure compass takes the place of the food pouch when you equip it.
I did all of the achievements in Challenger II, and finally got my 20th Unusual Hilichurl kill yesterday and......it unlocked a new quest to kill him 50 total times. God dammit. The key to the achievement for beating the water boss without eating a bomb was to use Venti to hover up above them before they explode. I did this in multiplayer and it was ezpz. I kept getting hit using any other method, like depending on iframes, jumping in the water, using shields, etc.
I'm making some good progress with team building too, almost done getting the characters I play all to 70, then it'll be another round of ascending. It's so demoralizing to see an entire day's worth of resin go into xp leylines and only getting 5-6 levels for a character. I need another event, but this time with tons of xp books. My Mora's holding out well still thanks to the recent event shop.
