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[Pejo]

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Her animations are good, still don't like the design though. Wonder what the 4 stars indicate on her Shield skill. Strength of the shield? Damage buff?

Spoiler: ToF Stuff

Yeah I saw her, but don't like her. Same as Annabelle.
I was aiming for any fire resonance (Ruby) and a pairing for Claudia, plus Lin.
But seeing Lyra's gameplay threw a wrench into my plans, and the game became very scarce of resources once you finish the maps so, I don't know if I be able to get them all.
Funny, there are more characters I like in ToF than Genshin. I have way less trouble skipping in GI.

Spoiler: ToF

Agreed, Cobalt is the first easy skip for me since the game launched. I have no interest in a Fire team and her playstyle looks boring. I like Huma's shield, but it fits in off-element as a really good shield shatter weapon, so I've been leveling that up and using it with my Frost setup of Frigg/Coco. I'll eventually swap it out once I get Meryl's sword leveled. They are ridiculously stingy with upgrade mats.

I plan on making both Frost and Physical sets. I was originally planning on just doing frost only, but then I saw how much the game railroads you into having at least 2 loadouts built since everything has 50% resistances on different days. The game wants me to do Volt though, I got A6 Crow and A5 Samir off the free banners, got 3 Crows from the purple nucleus banner alone. Ended up hating Samir's playstyle of use your skill then dodge attack and then mash left click in the air for 5 minutes until you run out of stamina. Frigg's playstyle meshed with me a lot, and she's great at charging weapons for fast swaps too. Since she'll be the backbone of any Frost team I run, I'm satisfied with that. I was hoping to like Claudia more than I ended up actually liking her. Wish they had a trial like Genshin before you roll them, I'd have likely passed on her for now, but I got her in 60 pulls so it's whatever I guess.

By the way, can somebody else post their year in review link? I need to view somebody's for the last primogem reward.

 

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By the way, can somebody else post their year in review link? I need to view somebody's for the last primogem reward.

Here you go.

 

[Fuz]

Spoiler: ToF

Agreed, Cobalt is the first easy skip for me since the game launched. I have no interest in a Fire team and her playstyle looks boring. I like Huma's shield, but it fits in off-element as a really good shield shatter weapon, so I've been leveling that up and using it with my Frost setup of Frigg/Coco. I'll eventually swap it out once I get Meryl's sword leveled. They are ridiculously stingy with upgrade mats.

I plan on making both Frost and Physical sets. I was originally planning on just doing frost only, but then I saw how much the game railroads you into having at least 2 loadouts built since everything has 50% resistances on different days. The game wants me to do Volt though, I got A6 Crow and A5 Samir off the free banners, got 3 Crows from the purple nucleus banner alone. Ended up hating Samir's playstyle of use your skill then dodge attack and then mash left click in the air for 5 minutes until you run out of stamina. Frigg's playstyle meshed with me a lot, and she's great at charging weapons for fast swaps too. Since she'll be the backbone of any Frost team I run, I'm satisfied with that. I was hoping to like Claudia more than I ended up actually liking her. Wish they had a trial like Genshin before you roll them, I'd have likely passed on her for now, but I got her in 60 pulls so it's whatever I guess.

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Yeah, they're stingier than Genshin. That's why I'm saving a lot for the future and only maxing the scythe.
I hate Samir's air spinning top too, fucking boring playstile although the guns are cool and she's a really useful charger. Claudia's playstile is actually pretty cool, very similar to KING, fun and flashy AND her skill has a very low cooldown. But she's physical, which is resisted a lot and I kinda get sick of switching loadouts for exploration, so I ended up not using her much. Maybe I should have pulled Frigg. Guess I'll have her when they add her on standard banner (not pulling anymore from that, only blacks for the time being).

 

[Dregnel]

MA6RPW8GGJAM 60 primos

 

[Pejo]

Finally, the actual Nahida/Kusanali kit. I'm kinda surprised that the Burst does zero damage itself, it just applies a field and offers a few buffs, mostly to her own elemental skill. Sounds like she's going to be on-field more than we all expected. She might be the most DPS focused Archon yet, ironically.

Spoiler: Kusanali kit

 

[Fuz]

meh

 

[Fake]

I want 80% attack speed god dammit.

 

[SSfox]

I'm already so nostalgic about Aranana quests, so great.

Played some Desert today, it's quite fun so far.

 

[InterMusketeer]

Finally, the actual Nahida/Kusanali kit. I'm kinda surprised that the Burst does zero damage itself, it just applies a field and offers a few buffs, mostly to her own elemental skill. Sounds like she's going to be on-field more than we all expected. She might be the most DPS focused Archon yet, ironically.

Spoiler: Kusanali kit

My biggest complaint is that the burst seems boring. It's just a buff for her skill. Many characters have underwhelming skills or bursts, but you'd expect something a bit more exciting for an archon. It's visually quite spectacular though.

I'm still not sure if she's supposed to be on-field or not. So many aspects of her kit seem supportive in nature. Guess it'll come down to how much damage she can deal herself.

 

[Fuz]

I hoped she were a full support. I thought we had to wait for the pyro archon for a on-field DPS. Meh. Really an underwelming kit, at least it looks cool.
mihoyo is the king of weird choices.

 

[Pejo]

I'm still not sure if she's supposed to be on-field or not. So many aspects of her kit seem supportive in nature. Guess it'll come down to how much damage she can deal herself.

Well maybe not on-field like Hu Tao or Klee or Cyno, but pretty much her whole kit is based around making her elemental skill stronger and have different effects based on party composition. So you'll need to either swap her in and re-apply the skill every so often or apply it and then stay on field and go to town with her. Off-field reaction machines like Kokomi/Waterboi/Yelan/Xiangling/Thoma/Xinyan(!)/Fischl/Yae/Beidou are going to be great for this purpose. Kusanali can be built almost exclusively for EM and easily hit upwards of 1000-1.4k, so you definitely want her Dendro damage triggering the reactions for that massive bonus damage. Her Spread damage is going to be absolutely bonkers, depending on ICD.

At least that's how I read it.

*edit*

In case anybody wants to pre-farm, here are the ascension mats. If you would have asked me yesterday, I'd have put down 200 bucks that Kusanali was going to use those flowers that only appear in Aranara dreamlands, the Visiripupa Flowers or whatever. That's the whole damn reason I've been collecting them....dammit.

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Layla's kit. Shield sounds stronger than Diona's, with some piddly damage after you get 4 of those little stars appearing on the shield. No healing, minimal damage. ZZZZZzzzzzZZZZzzzzzz

 

[InterMusketeer]

Well maybe not on-field like Hu Tao or Klee or Cyno, but pretty much her whole kit is based around making her elemental skill stronger and have different effects based on party composition. So you'll need to either swap her in and re-apply the skill every so often or apply it and then stay on field and go to town with her. Off-field reaction machines like Kokomi/Waterboi/Yelan/Xiangling/Thoma/Xinyan(!)/Fischl/Yae/Beidou are going to be great for this purpose. Kusanali can be built almost exclusively for EM and easily hit upwards of 1000-1.4k, so you definitely want her Dendro damage triggering the reactions for that massive bonus damage. Her Spread damage is going to be absolutely bonkers, depending on ICD.

At least that's how I read it.

I interpreted her more as a beefed-up Dendro version of Shogun, or even Fischl. You just have those around for frequent element application. Kusanali marks enemies for 20 seconds, plenty of time to go through your rotations and deal damage with a DPS. Even her burst just buffs that off-field Dendro application, so you can safely swap away. There's nothing in her kit that improves or encourages the use of her NAs (except C6) so I assume those suck.

The way you describe her makes her sounds like a driver, in the same way Kokomi, Sucrose and Childe act in certain team comps. I don't know how viable that is. Is that high EM enough to just delete enemies with just a couple elemental reactions? Can those reactions crit? Her ability cooldown is short, but not quite spammable. This play style sounds more fun though.

 

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In case anybody wants to pre-farm, here are the ascension mats. If you would have asked me yesterday, I'd have put down 200 bucks that Kusanali was going to use those flowers that only appear in Aranara dreamlands, the Visiripupa Flowers or whatever. That's the whole damn reason I've been collecting them....dammit.

Of course Kusanali takes the inactivated fungus drops and the annoying hanging lotus variety. Time to bust out the cryo team again.

Also, did anyone at MiHoYo playtest the new Aeonblight Drake boss? I had it reset itself with full health twice during a fight because it flew itself to the edge of the area and If I knocked it down at that point, it would disappear & reset at the center of the arena.

 

[Fake]

My memories:
https://act.hoyoverse.com/ys/event/...red=true&game_biz=hk4e_global&code=GB9XZXDA6N

 

[Saber]

Layla's kit. Shield sounds stronger than Diona's, with some piddly damage after you get 4 of those little stars appearing on the shield. No healing, minimal damage. ZZZZZzzzzzZZZZzzzzzz

My god, what a fucking boring character. Whos gonna bet this shit gonna flop? Might be the worst character ever overall on both design and kit.

 

[Reizo Ryuu]

poverty memoirs

 

[Fuz]

My god, what a fucking boring character. Whos gonna bet this shit gonna flop? Might be the worst character ever overall on both design and kit.

You haven't seen the weeb brigade.



Dear mihyo, can I pull for Jebrael instead of the twinks?

Spoiler

 

[Fuz]

Spoiler

Of course Kusanali takes the inactivated fungus drops and the annoying hanging lotus variety. Time to bust out the cryo team again.

The aranara vendor sells those flowers.

 

[Nankatsu]

Does Raiden pair well with Cyno?

I've been watching some team comps and no one pairs him with her, even though it's kind of mandatory you run him with a 2nd Electro character.

 

[Saber]

Genshin Impact: Take part in the "Canvas of Starlight Memories" and share your travel memories to obtain Primogems and other in-game rewards! https://act.hoyoverse.com/ys/event/...red=true&game_biz=hk4e_global&code=GB7FCI4A6N

 

[Pejo]

Does Raiden pair well with Cyno?

I've been watching some team comps and no one pairs him with her, even though it's kind of mandatory you run him with a 2nd Electro character.

From what I read, no. She's fine as a battery and an extra source of damage while he's not in Burst mode, but when he transforms her skill doesn't activate anymore, and you ideally always want him to transform asap. I heard Beidou or Fischl are better partners for him. I haven't tried either yet, but I can later today.

 

[Saber]

Guys if you wanted to explore my world for leveling materials, just say a word. Just remember to send me a message or something so I know before hand its one of you.
Oh and if you're trying to farm Candance leveling materials have to say I'm sorry. I'm scouting for them at the moment.

 

[Pejo]

So thanks to crumbs I was able to get enough scarabs last night to get Cyno to 70. Slapped my level 80 R5 Deathmatch on him just for experimenting a bit. He's quite fun, but very energy hungry. He's not quite strong enough yet to be able to fight enemies in Sumeru, but when I go fight hilichurls and slimes in Mondstadt, he kills them too fast to get any decent use out of his Burst. At this point without being maxed and with low talent levels, he is EXTREMELY weak without his burst up. I'm sure that gets better, but it will never be solved completely. At least Diluc can put in a few hits until his elemental skill comes up, and his Burst charges quickly. Cyno needs 80 energy and his elemental skill is a single hit with a long startup that can actually miss quite easily, despite being a homing dash attack. I have had several slimes dodge it just by doing the regular moving bounce, and a few hilichurls just step right to the side of it. I don't know why they added the extra startup frames to it, it should work just like Rosaria's.

I again have to question the beta testers and what the fuck they're actually doing, and MHY's decision to make his burst 80 Energy instead of 60, which would feel appropriate to me. Non-burst ready Cyno just flat out sucks. Keqing of all characters seem to fit the niche he's going for even better than he does. Quick elemental skill cooldown, near 100% uptime on imbue, low energy burst that can be spammed. She doesn't gain as much from EM as Cyno does, but I don't even know if that's how I want to build him. I need to experiment with battery characters and see if any of them can actually keep his Burst fed. It seems almost mandatory that you have both Electro Resonance and a good battery character if you want to use him, since he offers zero support to the team until C4 or something crazy like that.

It's a shame too because he's really fun and satisfying to play, but his kit again actively works against him being fun. I don't get why all of the new characters have these severe drawbacks baked into them.

 

[Fake]

I again have to question the beta testers and what the fuck they're actually doing,

Beta testers just want to play at first and nothing more. I remember League of Legends begging for people to actually be a Beta testers because most of the participants are just fanboys.
Thats mean, the game is 100% functional, no error is reported, keep up good team and all the positive bullshit you can imagine.

One of my most regret was when I participate to be beta tester on Windows 8. What a fucking waste of time. A forum with loads of praise, 'like' buttons is what the company measure to fix/improve things. Is like enter on Genshin Impact reddit and trying to find something useful.

 

[Fuz]

"Let's do this quick side quest", I said.
"It will be fast", I said.
Two days later. A fucking gigantic underground maze. Tons of dialogues.
Still don't see the end.
Send help.

 

[Pejo]

"Let's do this quick side quest", I said.
"It will be fast", I said.
Two days later. A fucking gigantic underground maze. Tons of dialogues.
Still don't see the end.
Send help.

Yea this one is just like "Oh this girl just needs an escort to that little village, should be done in 10 mins.
*it's the Aranara quest line*

Also, supposedly the first banners of 3.2:

*edit*

Neat, Nahida's passive can collect certain regional specialties without climbing/reaching them:

Archon of farming mats. Why not crystalflies though

Spoiler: New World Boss Attack

 

[Fuz]

Yea this one is just like "Oh this girl just needs an escort to that little village, should be done in 10 mins.
*it's the Aranara quest line*

I dodged that bullet... I got that quest then went back to archon quest, so I was less in a hurry and less anxious.
This one is entangling my brain. I left behind some puzzles I couldn't complete and I have no idea how the fuck I am gonna find them again.
Really cool quest, toh. They really got the design right... a bit of caravan work then the archeological exploration. Pretty neat.

P.S.
Companion Birb dead after one day. Even less than estimated. Can't stand that shit in the middle of the screen.

 

[Pejo]

Kusanali skill - Kinda undewhelming special effects, but if it's strong I guess it's fine. Considering her Burst does no damage on its own, I expected this to look cooler somehow.

Spoiler: Kusanali gameplay

Impressions based on some collected peer feedback from the beta:

Items you can pick up with her elemental skill. DAMN YOU SCARABS!

 

[Fake]

Man, so much fucking potential. No visual effects. They should put fireworks, IDK.

 

[Pejo]

I dunno if I've ever seen such a boring kit in a character action game:

Spoiler: Layla kit

Based on the leaked numbers we saw the other day, why even release this character? What is she's aiming to do? Shield isn't as available as Diona's, no bonus speed effect like Diona's, no heal, miniscule HP based damage, slow Cryo application on Burst, have to charge her shield to get it to do Cryo application.

You could have put her whole kit on a weapon passive and it wouldn't be overpowered.

 

[Fake]

Creativit is falling a part.

 

[Nankatsu]

We went from a Booba sword Archon into a little kid in a swing Archon.

Talk about disappointment.

 

[InterMusketeer]

We went from a Booba sword Archon into a little kid in a swing Archon.

Talk about disappointment.

That's how I felt when the only archons we had were a trap and a broke funeral parlor lackey.

 

[Saber]

Gods, I'm tired....

This ascencion item hunting is draining me. It's aways me wandering a big ass desert looking for cactus that has no flower at all(thanks for making all cactus looks the same, I appreciate). And when I do find, it's just a single one. I think I spent almost 2 hours in this fucking place and find like...4.

Gonna take me some time I guess...

 

[deanote666]

Spoiler: Chapter III Part III spoiler

Are we the baddies?

 

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Spoiler: Chapter III Part III spoiler

Are we the baddies?

Yeah, I haven't had a chance to complete the rest of this archon quest, but that part was messed up. The Traveler didn't hesitate or show any reservations about completely mind-f*cking this NPC.

 

[Saber]

The game gave yet anothet 5 star bow. Gods, I hate that.
At least the fate points are full now...argh. Hate...

 

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Spoiler: Random Ballad and Brews thoughts:

- Mondstadt sure has a lot of festivals. Weird that we didn't hear about this one last year
- I'm a little worried about the Knights of Favonius. Their "All Hands on Deck" meeting had like a dozen people.
- They also seem to employ multiple children. This includes Mika who proceeds to read Varka's letter like a 5th grader giving a book report in front of class. It doesn't help that Mika's design look like it was rejected from a Kingdom Hearts game.
- The game's dialog makes a big deal about how sensitive the characters need to be with Razor and the situation with his parents. So when Razor opens his box, Paimon reacts by saying "oh, it's a bunch of trash".

 

[Pejo]

So I finished the new archon story last night, man it was a lot longer than usual. Loving the lore implications though.

Spoiler: Archon C3 P3 spoilers

So we confirmed a bunch of stuff at the end of this. Scarlet King and Rukkhadevata were friends, working together to help save the people of the desert from the "forbidden knowledge" which I'm guessing might have been knowledge of Celestia. And I think that was more metaphorical because the black sludge and the madness are signs of the same shit that happened when Celestia dropped the nail in other regions, so it's probably related to Celestia dropping a nail in the desert. Rukkhadevata did not end up dying in the Cataclysm at all, she simply shrunk due to using up most of her power and turned into Kusanali. It's unclear yet what happened to her memories or powers, but I'm guessing in chapter 4 we'll see the meaning behind the whole "World... Forget me..." quote that's been passed around since we arrived in Sumeru, and it'll be related to why she is the way she is currently.

Such a shame, Rukkhadevata looked amazing in the cutscenes, wish she was the archon we got as playable. I don't hate Kusanali, I'm just not a fan of the kid characters. Anyways, we got some lore drips about The Scarlet King, and now I firmly believe that Alhaitham is in fact a homunculus (like Albedo) with the Scarlet King's gem embedded into his neck. Also, the symbolism used for the Scarlet King is the exact same color pattern as his eyes, turquoise on the outside with the red/brown in the center. In the animation, when they talked about the Scarlet King sacrificing himself, it showed that he turned into a small green gem (looked identical to his neck gem) and fell into the sand. Wonder if Alice or Rhinedottir could be related to Alhaitham too. This also makes me wonder if Albedo is now wearing the crystallized gem of a dead god in his neck, instead of just some random yellow one. Could that be Durin or maybe Rhinedottir herself?

Spoiler: Random Ballad and Brews thoughts:

- Mondstadt sure has a lot of festivals. Weird that we didn't hear about this one last year
- I'm a little worried about the Knights of Favonius. Their "All Hands on Deck" meeting had like a dozen people.
- They also seem to employ multiple children. This includes Mika who proceeds to read Varka's letter like a 5th grader giving a book report in front of class. It doesn't help that Mika's design look like it was rejected from a Kingdom Hearts game.
- The game's dialog makes a big deal about how sensitive the characters need to be with Razor and the situation with his parents. So when Razor opens his box, Paimon reacts by saying "oh, it's a bunch of trash".

Spoiler: Festival thoughts

Yea I definitely thought it was weird that they made a big deal about breaking things to Razor slowly/easily and then the way they treated it. Honestly though it seems like a story mechanic they threw in to have an intro to the Wine festival. Regardless, it's nice seeing some forgotten characters getting some screentime like Razor and Lisa.

I actually didn't hate Mika as much as I expected to. He's just a passive wimp, not really like the description that leakers were giving him. He looks stupid for sure, but at least he's not actively annoying every time he's on screen like Ayato. I guess it's kind of a believable way to act for his character and role, which makes it stick out less for me at least. Man I can't wait to see Varka though, I still hope he's a playable old strong guy with his metal arm. I'm glad they're hyping him up a bit, which means it's unlikely that they'll kill him offscreen. The KoF we saw were just the ones on duty and stationed in town, there are a ton of them out on patrols etc, so to me it was more just the "local office morning shift" way of looking at them. Regardless, I don't believe them to be a massive organization to begin with. When Varka's team is back, I'm assuming there's probably only a total of 50 of them altogether. Mondstadt, despite looking grand from a distance, doesn't really have that big of a population or square footage.

 

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Spoiler: Festival thoughts

Yea I definitely thought it was weird that they made a big deal about breaking things to Razor slowly/easily and then the way they treated it. Honestly though it seems like a story mechanic they threw in to have an intro to the Wine festival. Regardless, it's nice seeing some forgotten characters getting some screentime like Razor and Lisa.

I actually didn't hate Mika as much as I expected to. He's just a passive wimp, not really like the description that leakers were giving him. He looks stupid for sure, but at least he's not actively annoying every time he's on screen like Ayato. I guess it's kind of a believable way to act for his character and role, which makes it stick out less for me at least. Man I can't wait to see Varka though, I still hope he's a playable old strong guy with his metal arm. I'm glad they're hyping him up a bit, which means it's unlikely that they'll kill him offscreen. The KoF we saw were just the ones on duty and stationed in town, there are a ton of them out on patrols etc, so to me it was more just the "local office morning shift" way of looking at them. Regardless, I don't believe them to be a massive organization to begin with. When Varka's team is back, I'm assuming there's probably only a total of 50 of them altogether. Mondstadt, despite looking grand from a distance, doesn't really have that big of a population or square footage.

It will be interesting to see Varka's design, although I have a feeling he'll look like Itto's model with a grey beard attached.

My only only other complaint is that they introduced this limited time event in Mondstadt when they just released a new region in Sumeru. Between the Archon quest and the long setup to the Mondstadt fest events, there hasn't been much time to explore the new region, at least for players like me that aren't "No-Lifing" the new stuff

 

[Pejo]

It will be interesting to see Varka's design, although I have a feeling he'll look like Itto's model with a grey beard attached.

I don't know why they don't start with the Cyrus/Smiley Yanxiao models and just upgrade them. Or start with the buff Fatui model and shrink it. Either way it seems like the animation skeletons should be easy peasy. Male characters need a 3rd model anyways, and nobody but the biggest of pedos want even smaller boys than Mika/Benny/Xingqiu in shorts as playable. I was actually a bit relieved when I saw Pierro, because it shows that MHY can make decent looking older bearded characters, something a lot of anime games have problems with where they end up looking like teens with a copy/pasted facial hair on their faces. (Tower of Fantasy is bad with this). I hope Varka is a more full-bearded version of Pierro with Guts' arm.

Wonder if MHY will have the balls to do it, and make a male character that isn't Otome or UwU.

My only only other complaint is that they introduced this limited time event in Mondstadt when they just released a new region in Sumeru. Between the Archon quest and the long setup to the Mondstadt fest events, there hasn't been much time to explore the new region, at least for players like me that aren't "No-Lifing" the new stuff

Yea they sure are a fan of front loading patches. You didn't even mention the new "main" world quest, which leads me to believe you haven't started it yet. It's not quite Aranara quest tier, but it's loooonnnng.

*edit*

Kusanali's farming in action. This is gonna be so nice. If only she had the underground sprint...

 

[Pejo]

Free Dori upcoming. Pokemon Shroom. Sounds fun.

 

[Saber]

Would be better if they pay me primos to even keep her.

Also Pejo do you still use Shinobu? I tested her recently, didn't find her kit bad actually.

 

[Pejo]

Would be better if they pay me primos to even keep her.

Also Pejo do you still use Shinobu? I tested her recently, didn't find her kit bad actually.

Yea she's fantastic with Dendro or as half of superconduct team for a physical DPS. She's one of my favorite healers in the game. If she didn't have the stupid HP loss mechanic she'd be even better, but I think she got out alright considering she's a 4* and we see how bad current 4* kits are becoming. Too bad her Burst is basically useless other than some pissy low damage. I guess it helps shred Cryo shields pretty well, but yea, if it had some utility she'd be a really good unit.

 

[Saber]

Yea she's fantastic with Dendro or as half of superconduct team for a physical DPS. She's one of my favorite healers in the game. If she didn't have the stupid HP loss mechanic she'd be even better, but I think she got out alright considering she's a 4* and we see how bad current 4* kits are becoming. Too bad her Burst is basically useless other than some pissy low damage. I guess it helps shred Cryo shields pretty well, but yea, if it had some utility she'd be a really good unit.

I would say its a bad hp loss, but when I tested it wasn't that bad because I healed myself afterward. Still not a good thing though, but its way more acceptable than Hu Tao. Theres no fun in her, you just sacrifice hp in the hopes your skill kills everybody.
Also didn't find the burst as bad as well because even though its not damaging it still a fair aoe that hits constatly. Reminds of Kaeya that even though has very low damage on his burst its still damaging and usefull as fuck.
I see potential in her, something I don't even felt when played Dori.

 

[Nankatsu]

Is it just me or right now geo is almost useless if you wanna trigger dendro reactions?

By nature geo itself doesn't trigger any type of reaction, I know, but looking at this new dendro meta, by the looks of it, I get the feeling geo will also be the element to have the shortest end of the straw in the future.

Changing shred into trigger reaction would be good, maybe?

 

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Is it just me or right now geo is almost useless if you wanna trigger dendro reactions?

By nature geo itself doesn't trigger any type of reaction, I know, but looking at this new dendro meta, by the looks of it, I get the feeling geo will also be the element to have the shortest end of the straw in the future.

Changing shred into trigger reaction would be good, maybe?

It's not just you: Geo, Cryo, and Anemo don't directly react to dendro at all.

Since Anemo can swirl hydro, pyro, and electro, it can still be indirectly helpful in facilitating dendro reactions.

I do think it's weird that geo doesn't at least have a crystalize reaction with dendro. Not sure how the devs could change geo to make it more relevant outside of shields and mono-geo teams.

 

[Fuz]

My only only other complaint is that they introduced this limited time event in Mondstadt when they just released a new region in Sumeru. Between the Archon quest and the long setup to the Mondstadt fest events, there hasn't been much time to explore the new region, at least for players like me that aren't "No-Lifing" the new stuff

They always do this crap.

 

[Fuz]

Mmmm, I notice she does put the fruits in the little square.

 

[InterMusketeer]

Mmmm, I notice she does put the fruits in the little square.

The square apparently doesn't complete depict the targeting area. It's slightly bigger. It sounds like you will still have to aim to mark enemies though.

Guess I'll be the only one to say I don't mind Layla's design. Her kit sounds bad and she has stiff competition from Diona. Her introduction alongside the Dendro archon is pretty dumb. I also dislike the overused "overworked" and "tired" tropes. I think she looks pretty nice though and her animations are good. She's not the drill hair ojou-sama I was hoping for.

I can't believe we're getting another Yoimiya rerun. That was literally just a couple of months ago. It would make for a decent weapon banner though. I'm currently pre-farming for Kusanali and I have roughly 450 wishes saved up for her and Dehya.