Genshin Impact (PC/PS5/PS4/NSW/iOS) - Open-World Action RPG - 2020

[Karbuncle]

As far as I know that is indeed confirmed. They announced a bunch of things on their Chinese side that got translated, a QA mentions it and says its coming in 1.1, and will be "earned in the game". So you unlock it presumably.

[Kaslo]

Well got my first 5* and it was a catalyst weapon... but it did come with 10 glitter so I could unlock Razor! So I’m done will pulls until Klee banner!

[Drai]

Almost to AR37, did all the character stories unlocked via keys, now it's literally chest grind/resin use until AR40, been hoarding my fragile resin for the most part until then so I can hopefully use them to farm a decent offering of 5* artifacts.

Do we have any info yet on chest respawn conditions? Is it time based or something like ccertain number of monsters killed that I saw floating around? Anything concrete?

[Lokus]

I farmed out all of Mondstat yesterday so I'm gonna do another round today to see which ones spawned and which ones didn't. The bad thing about the chest maps is that they don't specify if they were a one time chest from a challenge or if they were exquisite+. From what I've read, only common chests respawn but I'm pretty sure I came across some exquisite chests that I'm pretty sure I opened beforehand.

Either way, chest grind is a slog from hell. Need to do it for AEXP and Mora so at least it's killing two birds with one stone.

[Drai]

I've definately had Exquisite chests respawn also, and a couple of precious, just no idea on timers for them or whatever D: it also seems like there are X number of possible nodes for chests to respawn in, but only Y number of them can be populated at any given time, and when a chest respawns it's not a guarantee that it will respawn in the same node it was in prior, so really hard to keep track :\

[Kaslo]

I think Exquisite can respawn, but you get common exp from them

[Kachiko]

I've had common chests pop up on me, without opening anything, when doing search patterns for 1st time chests. Fly over an area, find nothing, port back, and now there's a chest near me. Whatever the mechanism, I'm pretty sure exquisite and precious have a chance to spawn in place of common, but supper rare chance. I'll be 37 tomorrow, after commissions, resin, and 100% Mondstandt, as I already finished Liyue. Should be AR40 in two weeks and can then unload resin, but somewhat concerned about the next world rank, as it's terribly hard to actually level anyone, let alone a team, but by then, I should have my main mostly done, at least for uncapping. Actually hitting L70 is something I haven't figured out yet....

[Lokus]

Very quickly finding out just how resin efficient you need to be to progress past AR35. Leveling just one character from 60-70 is going to cost you around 319k mora not including their weapon. Then you got talents to level, which isn't as expensive but it will take a good chunk of your resin to get the mats. Overall, seems like artifact farming is best left for AR40+ since you can at least get golds more reliably. Before then it's just spending resin on talent mats, weapon mats, and mora to get your characters ready.

These growing pains and lack of resources reminds me of other games and how rough it is at the start but later on, you're swimming in mats so you can basically upgrade a character right away. Right now, if I lucksack another 5*, I wouldn't even be able to use it at all. Reminds me of gbf where I had a shit grid for months cause I couldn't level it up properly but nowadays I can 'skill level go brrrrrr' a new weapon in minutes.

And speaking of talent leveling, it's going to be some extra bullshit to level them past 6. They require a drop from the Wolf, that we can only fight once a week, and he has a chance to drop 1 of 3 different talent leveling mats. Assuming good RNG, you can upgrade 1 character's talents in 3 weeks just to lvl 7.

[Drai]

It's not horrible to level to 70, farmed a ton of geo and anemo sigils, spent like 200 resin on the leyline to earn mora, managed to level 3 characters to 70 and their weapons, cleared floor 7 of the abyss, should be able to clear floor 8 before the timer ends, according to my friend and my math we should be able to hit BP 50 without too much issues :D

[Katlan]

And speaking of talent leveling, it's going to be some extra bullshit to level them past 6. They require a drop from the Wolf, that we can only fight once a week, and he has a chance to drop 1 of 3 different talent leveling mats. Assuming good RNG, you can upgrade 1 character's talents in 3 weeks just to lvl 7.

Inb4 it becomes a cash shop item later. I hate gating like this. Epic 7 had that with character skills and it is such a stupid thing.I mean you could say FGO does that with Lore's for getting a skill to the max/final level, but they had them out pretty generously so it's never been an issue for me.

[Ker]

[Drai]

the event isn't bad but holy shit is there bugs with online lol, went into a couple rounds where people just flat out could not pick up the elemental regents, not sure if it's the netcode or just peoples internet?

[Kachiko]

Very quickly finding out just how resin efficient you need to be to progress past AR35. Leveling just one character from 60-70 is going to cost you around 319k mora not including their weapon. Then you got talents to level, which isn't as expensive but it will take a good chunk of your resin to get the mats. Overall, seems like artifact farming is best left for AR40+ since you can at least get golds more reliably. Before then it's just spending resin on talent mats, weapon mats, and mora to get your characters ready.

These growing pains and lack of resources reminds me of other games and how rough it is at the start but later on, you're swimming in mats so you can basically upgrade a character right away. Right now, if I lucksack another 5*, I wouldn't even be able to use it at all. Reminds me of gbf where I had a shit grid for months cause I couldn't level it up properly but nowadays I can 'skill level go brrrrrr' a new weapon in minutes.

And speaking of talent leveling, it's going to be some extra bullshit to level them past 6. They require a drop from the Wolf, that we can only fight once a week, and he has a chance to drop 1 of 3 different talent leveling mats. Assuming good RNG, you can upgrade 1 character's talents in 3 weeks just to lvl 7.

Mora isn't my problem; I have almost 3K sigils between geo and anemo, and I'm not quite done with Mondstad yet. EXP books are my bottleneck, and it takes 60 purple books to go from 60 - 70, of which I get about 80k each leyline, at AR35. That's about 2 days per character, which isn't so bad, but add in ascension & weapon mats, it leaves no room for artifacts. If you want them instead, you'd have to hold your world level, otherwise you're looking at a 20 level difference, against bosses, which I don't think will work.

[Karbuncle]

the event isn't bad but holy shit is there bugs with online lol, went into a couple rounds where people just flat out could not pick up the elemental regents, not sure if it's the netcode or just peoples internet?

Had the same problems when i did it today. Of the 10 Runs I did, about 5 of them had bugs, horrible bugs. Sometimes Elemental stuff didn't show up, sometimes I couldn't pick them up, sometimes I couldn't drop them off, sometime there was like... 2-4 seconds delay on any of the actions. A few of them cost us the 3 minute timer because you couldn't see the things to pick up .

Its a pleasant little event, but yah, buggy AF.

[Lokus]

Mora isn't my problem; I have almost 3K sigils between geo and anemo, and I'm not quite done with Mondstad yet. EXP books are my bottleneck, and it takes 60 purple books to go from 60 - 70, of which I get about 80k each leyline, at AR35. That's about 2 days per character, which isn't so bad, but add in ascension & weapon mats, it leaves no room for artifacts. If you want them instead, you'd have to hold your world level, otherwise you're looking at a 20 level difference, against bosses, which I don't think will work.

I've more or less neglected leylines so that's probably my struggle right there. But like I said, you gotta be resin efficient not to mention not fall into the trap of leveling too many things at once. I've cleared out Mondstadt and probably 95% of Liyue so now it's just me not being a doofus and spending my resin willy nilly. Got 3 characters ascended to lvl 70 and 4 weapons to lvl 70 but barely any mora or mats to cap them.

[Sumy]

Bleh, this event shouldn't be 40 Resin.. that's like... 4x or 8x too much.

[Vaspinne]

If I'm not mistaken, you can do it over and over again to get through that list of accomplishments. the 40 resin is just to claim the prizes. I got 4 clears in 120 resin without replenishing it at all

[Vaspinne]

Also, am I better off doing 1 pull at a time? Or go for 10 with the guaranteed 4-5 star pull included? =X

[Tomiko]

Advance Teal Deer: What team should I be building up for late game dungeons/content?

For those at higher levels (35+, I'm at 32 currently), what changes would you suggest for my current main party? With upgrade costs, I feel like I should be making any changes as soon as possible.

• Traveler - Anemo/Geo (Note: I have the Sword of Descension for them maxed out for my level.)
• Fischl - Electro (Maxed constellation)
• Amber - Pyro
• Barbara - Hydro (Maxed constellation)

Others I have:

• Beidou - Electro
• Kaeya - Cryo
• Lisa - Electro
• Noelle - Geo
• Razor - Electro
• Sucrose - Anemo
• Venti - Anemo (Maxed or -1 constellation)
• Xiangling - Pyro (Think 3 constellation upgrades)

No shortage of Electro or Bow users. lol Though I'd likely use Keqing if I had her.

I've mainly been using Fischl/Barbara for DPS, but that doesn't do well when I come across things that aren't weak to Electro which leaves me with Traveler (was typically on Geo until I changed back to Anemo recently for better damage) and Amber who is hard to make elemental combos with.

Amber got tossed in because I got tired of lighting torches as Xiangling having to wait all the time. Plus the Bunny helps with weighted plate puzzles. So she's mainly there out of convenience and me being lazy to switch characters out for most current content (at my level).

I should probably be using Venti, but I'm guessing I would likely have to drop Traveler (since Geo sucks and 2x Anemo doesn't seem good) and/or Fischl (I'm biased towards her). I know I definitely don't want more than 2x Bow users.

[Gokulo]

Also, am I better off doing 1 pull at a time? Or go for 10 with the guaranteed 4-5 star pull included? =X

10 is always better