Genshin Impact

[Zantos]

It's not that far out. Theyre doing ptr sign ups and will most likely come out when the battlepass ends in 36 days

That would be a rather fast turn out for new content after release. Still, gotta figure out what that healer is because I would like them. Though I do have Barbara and she seems pretty good.

[BeepBoo]

But, all of that is eliminated here. There is no "top tier player" to be had from the gacha. There is no PvP or competitive sides. Not only that, but you can get rolls for free.

Yeah, and there's no "top tier player" to be had in wow raids, either, yet we have warcraftlogs still. Doesn't matter what the game, there is epeen stroking. As well, every gacha has the ability to get casino lever pulls by normal means as well. It just usually amounts to sucking huge amounts of your life such that it's highly inconvenient and bypassing it via tossing cash at them becomes palpable.

Trust me. I played onmyoji for over a year with my wife because she liked it, and while it was fun every now and then, but I'll never play another game with a similar system again.

[Gref]

this game... I just cannot fucking stop playing it. Luckily I had a 4 days vacation starting from 10/1 and in 4 days i forgot to sleep. I kept playing this game from 11am to 7am the next day. I wanted to rest ffs as octobers are always damn busy for me but damn I am rank 27!

and what is with people wanting Qiqi so bad? I have him and well I do not like her that much. she hits so little but i guess not enough atk stacking. gotta rebuild her.

got that chinese earth user lady tho. damn she is hot.

did not spend a dime yet and i guess i was lucky. I am missing Jean and Diluc only. I have all the rest.
oh and cancelled wow sub lmao. I am sure to go back to wow but when I wonder. this game is simply so good.

[Zantos]

Yeah, and there's no "top tier player" to be had in wow raids, either, yet we have warcraftlogs still. Doesn't matter what the game, there is epeen stroking. As well, every gacha has the ability to get casino lever pulls by normal means as well. It just usually amounts to sucking huge amounts of your life such that it's highly inconvenient and bypassing it via tossing cash at them becomes palpable.

Trust me. I played onmyoji for over a year with my wife because she liked it, and while it was fun every now and then, but I'll never play another game with a similar system again.

Well, in WoW, there are Top Tier players in raids. They get sponsorships and world wide recognition. They make a literal career out of it. Warcraft logs is just for individual players to improve their abilities on their own. You have nothing for a top tier in this game. No sponsorships. No mass recognition. Its a single player game with no leader board.

So I completely disagree with the assessment here. This game has none of the things that you mention.

[Dakhath]

Killed the wolf world boss today, was a bit easier than I thought it would be but this game has really exceeded expectations

[Video Games]

That would be a rather fast turn out for new content after release. Still, gotta figure out what that healer is because I would like them. Though I do have Barbara and she seems pretty good.

Theyve probably been working on it for awhile and its almost ready. Supposed to be the japanese lightning area. But anyway, the free healer is barbara

[Sixnalia]

Elemental mastery only affects the damage of reactions, not of normal elemental attacks. So you should probably be stacking attack primarily.

Ah - wasn't aware - thanks for the clarification

Would her Ele mastery apply to Overload reactions when I swap to a fire unit? Or only reactions when she is active?

[Zantos]

Theyve probably been working on it for awhile and its almost ready. Supposed to be the japanese lightning area. But anyway, the free healer is barbara

Darn. I've pulled 2 of her. Guess I'll have another constellation unlocked then

[Caerrona]

What a shame... great gameplay, great world but a little too hard on the gimme money or grind for 3 months. I usually don't mind sending a couple hundred on games to get past the "pay wall" but this game is just a consistent giant fist pounding you over and over again.

Definently would have paid $60 for the game if they didnt have resin. Keep in the wishes and add skins for mtx and to keep some pay wall there.. Farming a boss i need to kill like 30 times for 1 character and can "loot" it 3x a day riped this game for me.

Hate to see a good game at its core end up like that.

[KrayZ33]

Ah - wasn't aware - thanks for the clarification

Would her Ele mastery apply to Overload reactions when I swap to a fire unit? Or only reactions when she is active?

That's a good question.

I'm not sure if the mastery is "added together" but I believe not.
It seems to make the most sense if the character triggering the reaction is the character that needs the elemental mastery.

This seems to be in line with what I've seen so far too - but I'm not certain, honestly (not really into "testing" right now when the game still has stuff to explore)

That means Fishl, who can trigger effects off-field through her bird Oz, gets to use her elemental mastery.
While Kiqing can only do so on the field.
Attack + Normal/Charged Attack Damage should be the way to go for her since she isn't really about applying lots of debuff on several enemies at once. Or is she?


Edit: Oh btw, with yesterday's commission quest at the Winery, I found out that you can "fail" quests and still get the/a reward. I have no idea if it was the same or worse, I was so shocked (just like Paimon, lol) and the maids got really angry with me :( .
I "accidently" put the whole hay on fire *cough* (I didn't have the wind-traveler on me and I was too lazy..)
There are some puzzles that give you a better (bigger chest) reward if you do it the more "difficult" way too.

I know a ton of people are saying "BOTW CLONE", and frankly, that's bollocks.

BOTW has a massively deep and largely unstated lore, tying in most other Zelda games in some way or another.
BOTW has a lot of puzzling, and relatively complex puzzles at that. Maybe Genshin Impact is hiding that from me? The few puzzle-lite elements in GI don't even compare.

well, there are some bigger ones too, the majority is about hitting 4 torches or some other stuff similar to it though but I don't really consider that a puzzle, it's basically on the same level of unlocking a chest that is guarded by monsters.

The longest puzzle I found so far is on the island (not marked on the map) just east of the starting area.
It was a very "witcher"-ry puzzle and took me like 15+ minutes to figure out.
There are a few dozen of those throughout the world.

[everydaygamer]

Managed to hit AR 25 and kill Stormdragon before the reset, didn't think I'd make it for a moment there. Still have a bunch of weekly Battle Pass challenges left but I'll have an easier time when I actually have a full week to do them.

[Tang0]

What a shame... great gameplay, great world but a little too hard on the gimme money or grind for 3 months. I usually don't mind sending a couple hundred on games to get past the "pay wall" but this game is just a consistent giant fist pounding you over and over again.

Definently would have paid $60 for the game if they didnt have resin. Keep in the wishes and add skins for mtx and to keep some pay wall there.. Farming a boss i need to kill like 30 times for 1 character and can "loot" it 3x a day riped this game for me.

Hate to see a good game at its core end up like that.

There are no bosses, that need to be killed more than a few times to ascend a character.

Also no paywall, I basically at the end of current content with only 2 gacha characters and a Total roster of 9.

[xenogear3]

What a shame... great gameplay, great world but a little too hard on the gimme money or grind for 3 months. I usually don't mind sending a couple hundred on games to get past the "pay wall" but this game is just a consistent giant fist pounding you over and over again.

Definently would have paid $60 for the game if they didnt have resin. Keep in the wishes and add skins for mtx and to keep some pay wall there.. Farming a boss i need to kill like 30 times for 1 character and can "loot" it 3x a day riped this game for me.

Hate to see a good game at its core end up like that.

This is the business model these companies choose.

They don't want the $60 fix price model.
They think they can make more money from "lure and annoy" people.
Personally, I will not spend a penny on these games.

The only reason I play it is because of COVID-19.

[Zantos]

I usually don't mind sending a couple hundred on games to get past the "pay wall" but this game is just a consistent giant fist pounding you over and over again.

So far, I am Rank 17. Barely done any of the main story quests. Just exploring and side quests / challenges. Not sure what this paywall you speak of us. Resin recharge over night. What else would you do? No life farm the Few rewards that actually want them? I just bought some ascension material from the shops in game for in game items. Just a quick look about resin on reddit, there is probably going to be something added that gives you 2 fragile resion for free every day in version 1.1. That is what they say a dev on the chinese forums said, and each fragile resion restores 60, so that would be 120 for free a day + the 120 you normally get + 60 or more from going to work and then coming home. So you would be looking at a total of 300 resin for free between sleep / work / fragile resins.

No paywall to be found here.

[Caerrona]

So far, I am Rank 17. Barely done any of the main story quests. Just exploring and side quests / challenges. Not sure what this paywall you speak of us. Resin recharge over night. What else would you do? No life farm the Few rewards that actually want them? I just bought some ascension material from the shops in game for in game items. Just a quick look about resin on reddit, there is probably going to be something added that gives you 2 fragile resion for free every day in version 1.1. That is what they say a dev on the chinese forums said, and each fragile resion restores 60, so that would be 120 for free a day + the 120 you normally get + 60 or more from going to work and then coming home. So you would be looking at a total of 300 resin for free between sleep / work / fragile resins.

No paywall to be found here.

Cool now you can do like 6 things a day before you have to pay or stop playing... sick.

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This is the business model these companies choose.

They don't want the $60 fix price model.
They think they can make more money from "lure and annoy" people.
Personally, I will not spend a penny on these games.

The only reason I play it is because of COVID-19.

Yeah I dropped the game after the second day when I wanted to do more than 3 things that day on the game but it was whip out CC or wait 24 hours. Sucks... was fun

[Gorsameth]

This is true for every gacha. The gacha part becomes an issue when you want to start being competitive and a top tier player. Or if you're a collection whole (which I'm not). Otherwise, sure... you don't NEED those SSS, 5 star, or whatever rated champs do "play" the game. The real problem is, most of the time, these gacha games run out of content REAL fast, so you're left with the repetitive activities, which often don't matter except for epeen stroking. That, or you get rewards based on how you do relative to your competition.

This is a F2P game right? so why not enjoy the game until you run out of content and get to the repetitive activities, and when you get bored you uninstall and go on with your life?

[Zantos]

Cool now you can do like 6 things a day before you have to pay or stop playing... sick.

Im not entirely certain you know how the game works. There is no point at all at which you simply can't do anything in the game. If you're talking strickly about resins, yes. You can kill and loot 6 rifts and thats it. If you're actually playing the game, you can do quests if you've not completed those. Daily commissions. Hunt down things to level the statues. Hunt other bosses. Once you hit AR 20, the spire unlocks for even more to do. Run around exploring alone will take a long time. Plenty of people at AR 30 with still more to find.

So, until you've found all 900+ chests, all the items to level up the statues, done all the challenges, unlocked all waypoints, done all main / sidequests And beaten all of the floors in spiral abyss until reset, then you've got plenty to do with more on the way. The wall you've hit is in your mind.

[KrayZ33]

This is a F2P game right? so why not enjoy the game until you run out of content and get to the repetitive activities, and when you get bored you uninstall and go on with your life?

I don't understand it either.
And then they pay 13€/month for WoW (or any MMO, really) where it's basically the same deal.
Weird.

I mean I get it a little bit. It IS basically a SP game with time-gating.
But it's f2p also... and you can easily get at least 40-50 hours of developing characters and fighting/seeing new stuff before you get to the point where you log in once a day and farm stuff for 1-2 hours.
That's where you wait for the new zone to appear for example and get another 20 hours for free, if the game loop itself is not your thing.

[Caerrona]

Im not entirely certain you know how the game works. There is no point at all at which you simply can't do anything in the game. If you're talking strickly about resins, yes. You can kill and loot 6 rifts and thats it. If you're actually playing the game, you can do quests if you've not completed those. Daily commissions. Hunt down things to level the statues. Hunt other bosses. Once you hit AR 20, the spire unlocks for even more to do. Run around exploring alone will take a long time. Plenty of people at AR 30 with still more to find.

So, until you've found all 900+ chests, all the items to level up the statues, done all the challenges, unlocked all waypoints, done all main / sidequests And beaten all of the floors in spiral abyss until reset, then you've got plenty to do with more on the way. The wall you've hit is in your mind.

I'm ar 30... if your suggestion is "run around and loot chests cuz reasons" you do you friend. Good game turned into straight trash. Run around isnt content, spiral abyss is not enough content.

[xenogear3]

I am done at AR 25.
The daily is the best way to gain AR. It takes 3 days to gain an AR.

Overall, it is a good open world, but lacks story and contents.
It only has two big bosses, Wolf and Stormterror.