#but then i needed c1 for my xiao and i NEEDED alhaitham

[noicevibes]

since i'm off from classes this week, maybe I'll finally complete that whole Enkanomiya thing, that I haven't even once touched lololol

[enden-k]

I don't know if this'll help improve your day, but I ended up getting Alhaitham C1 kinda on accident.

Basically, I was super close to pity on standard and needed more dust for one more wish there. So I decided to do a ten pull. I skip, expecting maybe a Sethos con because my pity was like 20, and Alhaitham's pretty face appeared.

I did end up getting my standard 5 star and now my (very scuffed) Xiao finally has his Jade Spear!

In hsr I have lost every single 50/50 but in genshin I win almost all of them. I don't understand my luck.

in all politeness, i rlly dont know how this should affect my day (not that i asked for comfort or nice words anw so pls dont 💦) but nice? congrats. also same here, i lose in hsr but won everything in gnshn.

[stelliferousduo]

;;ooc: For the New Year, I will be reviewing all of my current Genshin builds & how I want to improve them in the upcoming year.

This is a very long post so buckle up! I currently have 27 characters geared up and ready to go which is way too many, I am aware. I should really start investing more in a few select units but I love the Genshin cast so much, I want to use them. T ^ T There's still so many other units I want to build too but I'm all out of artifacts haha.

Of course, we have to kick things off with my girl herself!

Right now, I have an 'all-purpose' build on her with balanced ATK%, EM, CRIT and ER% stats.

As much as I would love to have a cracked 4P BiS for each separate element, I simply have not had the time nor resin to do so while also giving some love and attention to my other characters. T ^ T

I do have her skill and burst talents leveled to at least 10-11 for all elements, with Dendro MC having the highest investment because it is the element I use the most.

In terms of which elements I use - from most to least - it would be: Dendro, Electro, Geo, Hydro, Anemo. All of them are used as sub DPS characters aside from Hydro - who has no off field abilities so she is a vape DPS instead.

Goals: First and foremost, I really want to get Jade Cutter for her. This does mean I will have to change her sands to an ER% one and her circlet to a crit DMG one, so it will require some additional farming, unfortunately. I do have a pretty good off set ER% sands but no emblem crit DMG circlets.

My precious boy is finally on a 4P vermillion set! He is definitely high investment and without Xianyun, he does not hit those crazy numbers yet but I hope she will have a rerun in either 5.4 or 5.5 so I can give his damage another boost.

Goals: I would like to get a sands with a bit higher crit DMG and perhaps some ER on there as well. The one Lumine has an off-piece right now is pretty good, but that would require an on-set crit DMG circlet with a decent amount of ER%. The circlet he has right now has a bunch of ER% rolls and that's exactly what this build needed since I don't have his C1 or a triple anemo team to boost the particle generation.

The second little meow meow is here! He got a 5* weapon quite recently when I pulled Lost Prayer from standard banner. His build does not rank very high on Akasha but I enjoy using them. In overworld, I prefer Wanderer over Xiao because he's not reliant on his burst to do 90% of his damage.

Goals: Getting a 4P desert pavillion is obviously the dream but I don't know if that will happen this year haha. A goblet with both crit stats or a flower with some atk% and higher crit DMG would be nice. I might go back to strongboxing some VV next year so perhaps he'll get an upgrade there!

This man is the GOAT. His crit DMG is on the lower side for an obsidian codex build but this is what works for me now since I don't have a crit rate weapon on him. The damage he does in a classic burning team with a F2P craftable weapon (albeit R5) is honestly pretty insane. He has saved me the past 3 abyss cycles and I have not regretted pulling him at all.

Goals: A crit DMG circlet is the ultimate goal. This would require either more crit rate stats on his other artifacts or switching back to Serpent Spine for his weapon. Although I'm not even sure if it would translate to more damage since the Earth Shaker passive is really good on him. Perhaps I will pull for his signature on his rerun, we'll see...

Alhaitham you are hot af but you're also one of the hardest characters to build...This man needs EM, crit and ER% and he ascends with NONE OF THOSE. I do have other builds with higher CV but then his ER is barely existent so I had to find a balance. I think a bit more CR and maybe some less CD might get me better results but I have switched around artifacts on this man so many times, I just cannot anymore. T ^ T Gilded Dreams has to be my most unlucky artifact set ever...

Goals: I would love to get his CR up to 70~75% while maintaining at least 300 EM and 150-160% crit DMG. I tried to pull for his signature but lost to Skyward Harp, unfortunately. If I do end up getting Jade Cutter from chronicled, I might sometimes put it on him so I can focus more on crit DMG with his artifacts.

Mualani is a character I was super excited about getting because I loved everything about her: design, vibes, idle animations, etc. Hydro is one of my favorite elements too. At first her playstyle was really fun because in Natlan, she can keep surfing almost endlessly. ...But then I began playing her in Abyss or outside of Natlan and suddenly I had to actually stack her hits quickly or her skill would end with me only getting 1 or 2 skary bites off. I am a skill issue player and I suck at playing her, so she has been benched for the past month or so. I really hope I can get better at playing her one day because her damage potential is insane. She has hit the highest numbers on my account ever with over 300k in Abyss.

Goals: Her build is super solid as is, but a bit more EM won't hurt. Her crit DMG is quite inflated so I wouldn't mind sacrifying some of that for more HP%, EM and a teeny bit more crit rate.

My very first 4* from standard and the only Pyro DPS on my account to this day. Hu Tao? Nah. Lyney? Nope. Arle? Nu-uh. I have a C2 Diluc collecting dust because Yanfei is my girl! She might not be as strong as 5* units, but I love her attack combos and always have a blast playing her!

I recently changed her build from 4P Wanderer's to 2P 2P because Tighnari needed some of her pieces. At first I thought it would be a downgrade but the boost in ER% and crit DMG makes it so she actually hits harder.

Goals: A flower and feather from Wanderer's Troupe with similar stats as my current 2P MH so I can get her back on a 4P would be nice. A bit more crit rate wouldn't hurt either. She does get a 15% increase when targets are below 50% HP, which is nice against chonky bosses but doesn't do as much against overworld mobs which die very quickly anyway.

I used to have this boy on 2P WT and 2P Deepwood but by yoinking some pieces from Yanfei, he's now on a 4P Wanderer's Troupe! I feel the difference more with him than I do with Yanfei, so I think it was worth it.

My biggest struggle with Tighnari is that I can never fit Nahida on his teams, so I end up having to run Zhongli on deepwood instead. Perhaps in the future I will build my Kirara to fill the role of shielder + deepwood holder instead. For off-field electro, my only options are Fischl and Kuki but Kuki isn't great for ranged combat and Oz is single target, so I need Kazuha for grouping & spreading the electro aura to the other enemies.

Goals: Higher crit DMG and for Hoyo to make an electro shielder with off field electro application lol.

My electro queen and the first 5* I pulled from standard banner! She was my main for the longest time alongside Yanfei. I have been purchasing Wolf-Fang from the BP forever so she doesn't have to share with Alhaitham lol. Again, I might sometimes run her on Jade Cutter went I get it from the Chronicled Wish.

Goals: Her pieces are honestly kind of garbage but her crit DMG ascension + crit rate weapon make up for a lot. I do have a flower with higher CV but I need this one for the EM - which is already very low for an aggravate comp. I'm forced to run her with double dendro + Nahida to get about 250 extra EM.

The Pyro Archon - BOUKEN DA BOUKEN! I swap around his circlet and weapon quite a bit depending on what my team needs. Favonius with crit rate circlet when I need particles, Sapwood for the bigger attack buffs and healing bonus circlet when I run him as a solo healer with Furina. He never gets all of the fanfare stacks but usually the atk buff he provides is more valuable than getting full fanfare.

Also yes, I activated his C6 and have not regretted it at all. I actually like playing around with it at times.

Goals: I would love to get more personal damage out of Bennett as he can actually hit really hard with his burst when running a Pyro DMG goblet and crit circlet. I just haven't really invested enough in Noblesse to have the right pieces for that.

I did not get Xingqiu until quite a few months into playing the game and even when I did, I did not build him right away because I hate his original design lol. Now that he has a skin, it's gotten much more comfortable for me to play him because I actually enjoy looking at him. His build is pretty average but he does what I need him to do - apply a whole bunch of Hydro and enable reactions such as vape, hyperbloom, etc.

He is insanely strong and while his design might not be my personal favorite, it would be a huge loss not to use him in a lot of my teams.

Goals: Level his talents to 1/12/12 and maybe get a bit more CV on him. Other than that, he does his job just fine as is.

I have a love-hate relationship with this girl right here. I know she's supposed to be AMAZING but my build on her is pretty mid and I also really struggle with Oz uptime...In AoE content in particular, she feels quite clunky when you don't have a grouper like Kazuha around.

Goals: Get a better crit rate circlet or an on-set atk%/EM sands which will allow me to use an off-set crit rate circlet.

Do not fear, Yaoyao is here! Using her as a typical healer did not do much for my account nor did I enjoy playing her that way, so instead I slapped my unused MH set and spare Deathmatch on her. I also have a spare PJWS but Deathmatch gives more CR so it works better with my current pieces.

Goals: Get a flower with crit rate on it. The one I had on her previously was given to my Yanfei, so I had to change my build a little. Yaoyao is not top priority - of course - but I'll have to farm the MH/GT domain anyway for Fischl and Albedo so if I get an upgrade for her along the way, I won't complain.

Zhongli also has two builds: the first focuses more on his personal damage as a burst sub DPS. The second one is specifically for teams with a Dendro DPS, either Kinich with Bennett/Xiangling or Tighnari with Fischl/Kazuha.

Zhongli is the second limited 5* character I pulled and while he is never the highest DPS option for a team, he is so comfortable for a skill issue player such as myself, I can not imagine how I would play this game without him.

Goals: I think I want to eventually change his sub DPS build to 2P Noblesse / 2P Tenacity for the 20% HP. I generally run him with. Bennett on teams which benefit from the atk% boost, so the 4P is a bit overkill. It's just that right now, I have better DPS pieces for Noblesse than for Tenacity.

Probably the easiest character to build on my entire account because I already had a 4P VV with EM main stats ready before I pulled him. (Thank you Strongbox for that EM goblet!) Even with lower crit stats, he still does amazing and his grouping is so much fun when taking on smaller mobs in the overworld. Just like Zhongli, I cannot imagine an account without him. I skipped on C1 Xiao to have a guaranteed for this boy and I do not regret it at all.

Goals: A feather with EM and a flower with more EM would be nice. Or more ER on my sands/circlet which could allow me to run an EM weapon instead. Although Fav is so good for team-wide particles, I think it's more worth it than hitting the 1000 EM on him.

The other Pyro Archon, Xiangling! Even though she's on banners every other patch, she's never on the ones I wish on so this girl is stuck at C0, unfortunately. Maybe I can get a copy or two from the Chronicled Wish banner because I would love to have her C4. Her build is pretty good but without C4, her damage output is just a lot less, unfortunately. T ^ T

Goals: Cons, please...Also maybe a bit more ER% and EM without sacrificing too much crit.

Remember when I said Gilded Dreams is my unluckiest artifact set? When it comes to Alhaitham pieces - it is - but Kuki pieces? Oh boy the game loves giving me those HP% and EM rolls. Just look at those feather and flower! I have her on a 5P Gilded now because I don't have a single off-piece which is better lol.

Goals: An EM goblet with HP% is the only thing which could improve this right now. It's very low priority though because her heals are pretty decent even now.

Kaeya is a character which I was not originally going to build but I had these artifacts leftover and figured: why not. It's not a great build but he's mostly there to enable melt reactions.

Goals: I would like to give him a proper build and improve his pieces. Especially the goblet is not great but it's the only Cryo DMG goblet I have leveled on my entire account whoops.

The best character in the whole game, anyone? Seriously Furina is so good - both her personal damage and her support capabilities. When I use her in the overworld, I can just sit around for the most part and let her little animals take care of the easy mobs.

Goals: Get a bit more ER. I sometimes have to switch her to fav, especially in teams where she's the only Hydro character. Other than that I'm very happy with her build!

My first limited 5* and the character I started playing the game for. I love soft pastel girls and Kokomi fit the bill perfectly! Even though she cannot crit, her mono hydro team with Xingqiu, Kazuha and Furina is so comfy to play and I have actually cleared the Abyss with it as well.

Goals: None at the moment! I do have a lot of wasted crit rolls on her pieces so I might eventually farm a second Ocean-Hued Clam set. Then I can potentally transfer some of these pieces over to a character like Qiqi or Charlotte who can benefit from the crit stats more. I should probably level her weapon to 90 as well haha.

Nahida my beautiful radish baby!! I am so sorry that I had to skip you in 4.4 but my guaranteed Xiao was waiting for me. When I got her and Kuki on her latest banner, it instantly boosted my account by giving me access to some very strong hyperbloom teams. I can slot her and Kuki on basically every team and it works great!!

I have another build with almost 100 EM but way less crit rate so I actually prefer this one. Especially since I generally run her with a 1000 EM Kuki so she still gets the full buff with her burst!

Goals: Perhaps a bit more ER on the goblet or some more EM on the flower/feather. Crit rate on the sands or crit DMG on the circlet would be nice too but none of those are priority.

This is barely a build but I do use him in some double Geo comps so I decided to put him here. Not having his 'signature' from the limited event hurts me every day. Harbinger is a great weapon but it does mean he is attached to Zhongli's hip or I have to swap off him very quickly.

Goals: Where do I even begin? I want to do a complete overhaul of his build. Either a new 4P Golden Troupe with better substats, or I might aim for a 2P husk 2P GT or even 4P husk instead. I am also considering leveling the new Natlan DEF% sword for him. It all depends on the main stats/substats I can get on my artifacts.

My Faruzan is basically just there to buff Xiao/Wanderer, which is why her pieces are very scuffed. I just tried to get enough ER and some crit rate to proc the favonius weapon. Which is a shame because her personal damage at C6 is nothing to scoff at either.

Goals: I want to get more Tenacity pieces so I can give her a proper build with a nice 1:2 crit rate (60/120 would be ideal) without sacrificing ER. A bit more atk% would be nice too. Lastly, I want to get her final acension and max out her burst level talent for optimal buffs.

I don't use my Jean super often, but sometimes her team-wide healing is very nice alongside Furina. I got her from Noelle's banner when I just started playing so I honestly should give her more love, but I've build too many units, it's hard to give all of them attention.

Goals: I think having a 4P VV set might be better on her so she can also res shred when I'm playing any team with reactions. I also want to get a bit more crit DMG and atk on her.

Layla's shield is THICC and that is all I need from her. If I ever get her C6, I might build her for damage too but right now her shield and normal attack buffs are all I need. I love her design so it's a shame I can't play her on field, but she's still quite useful to me in melt or freeze teams.

Goals: Right now I'm happy with her even though she does not crit. Her shield is almost as strong as Zhongli's and the fact that she does have some decent Cryo application is nice when I use her with Yanfei.

This character threw me off guard with his personality so much. I thought he was gonna be an edgy/cold boy but he's such a precious ray of sunshine!! I am so glad I managed to get her on one yolo 10-pull. His build is something I threw together quite quickly so he's hard-carried by his weapon but I love using him in taser and even hyperbloom teams!

Goals: I want to switch him over to Chain-breaker so I don't have to keep on swapping Skyward Harp between him and Tighnari. This means I will have to get a better 4P Scroll set on him so that's a top priority for now.

Last but not least, we have everyone's favorite housewife - Thoma! I got C6 while wishing for Kinich and this is pretty much the only team I use him on right now - hence the 4P deepwood on him. He doesn't do much damage on his own but he enables Kinich to do big PP damage and that's honestly what I want from him the most.

Goals: His HP% is quite low because he's only level 70 for now. I would like to get him up to 80/90. I generally run Zhongli on my Kinich teams as well (giving him Layla's tenacity set) so the weaker shield is not that big of an issue. I maybe want to play around with Burgeon Thoma too, but that would require getting FLOP pieces.

[wriokitty]

i missed seeing you on my dash so i had to manually go to your blog because it felt like it’s been forever— what do you mean i’ve been missing out so much??? you better believe i’m consuming all those little drabbles you’ve been cooking + everything else i’ve missed

and !!! what do you mean the first thing that greets me after forever is you downloading l&ds???? the sylus pull is too strong— WELCOME!!! i feel for you so much because same. hopefully you do enjoy the game and story (and the men) because sylus and rafayel hold a special place in my heart and it’d be fun seeing even your think-pieces about the game/them

lastly, might as well add ‘neuvi-less’ on my long list of missing characters i want (and need) because this girlie just lost yet another 50/50. hurray for c1 diluc though(???) — i say as if he isn’t still at level one because of the grudge i hold against him dating back since v3.4 when i lost xiao’s 50/50. the only time i’ll ever get to finally building him is when i get xianyun for my xiao— who, by the way, is the last character i got where i won the 50/50 back in v4.4. every wish after have all resulted to losing the 50/50 (arlecchino, kazuha, neuvillette) or running out of primos because my terrible luck always brings me to hard pity (baizhu, alhaitham, ei, xilonen)

i’m guaranteed for mavuika though, so yay! but not so yay because that c1 diluc took me 82 pulls so i barely have funds left for mavui. the most i can probably do is 15 so adding on to the rewards we’ll be receiving + events + quests i need to clear, hopefully they’ll be enough for 80 wishes (that thread of hope is very thin i tell you).

i’m sorry i went on rambling lmao. it feels like i always have so much to say— i hope you don’t mind though 😭 but if you do, please don’t hesitate to say so, i wouldn’t want to unintentionally cross any of your boundaries <//3

—ayatoless et al anon

OMG I MISSED YOU SO MUCH WELCOME BACK!!!! Omg I feel like everywhere I see sylus and rafayel are everyone’s favorites so now I’m very high in my expectations for rafayel he better impress me for his own sake. BUT SYLUS IM SO EXCITED TO MEET. I’ve been debating back and forth to play this game for weeks now just for him but kass and my little l&ds nonnie convinced me to try it out

BUT IM SO SORRY YOU LOST ON NEUVI NOOOO he’s so good 😔 but tbh I’m also so biased for mavuika that I think you should hold onto your guaranteed for her. I think you could get enough wishes in time for her by the time her banner ends!!! I also have rly bad 50/50 luck tbh I think I lost my first 5 50/50s in a row consecutively as a new player in fact so I was SUPER heartbroken LOL. In fact I think alhaitham was my first win ever so I was convinced he was my soulmate for that reason hehe

DID U SEE WRIO IS RUMORED TO RERUN IN 5.4???? I mean he’s rumored for ages and we’re always let down so I’m taking this info very lightly so my hopes don’t turn too high BUT IM STILL HOPING

But I loveeee hearing from you never ever stop telling me ur thoughts I love hearing them. IM WISHING U BETTER GACHA LUCK and may you win ur next 10 50/50s at early pity!!! Also speaking of diluc I have him c5 now and I’d really like him c6 but I hope saying this doesn’t jinx me to lose to him on mavuika. That would be so sad to get the wrong pyro claymore 😭

[chenyuvale]

WAVES MY HANDDD hi i main in eu :3

suffering through my EU genshin alt because im burnt out on my main but like. things are SO difficult i need to level kokomi, but sango pearls and specters are a nightmare. ok ill build a pyro catalyst i have yanfei and i like her but i have to farm the geo vishap and use MY LEVEL 39 NOELLE since i dont have any other shielders rn. the hydro cube is also hard and dendro would make it easier. ok so ill keep wishing on ayato for a kirara. KIRARA ALSO NEEDS SPRECTERS ARGHHHHH MY HU TAO'S CRIT RATE IS DYING. SEND HELP

[kyogre-blue]

3.6 is about done, so here are the end results: 

On my main, I went from 20 pity to 65 pity to get C0 Kaveh. I have 240 rolls left, plus about 6K primos. Nothing notable, though I did manage to finish book farming and getting everyone to x/8/8 talents. 

My goal is both Eula and Klee in 3.8, after which I’ll really only be looking for new Mondstadt characters, Gorou cons, and maybe some weapons. I guess I might consider C2 Albedo at a stretch. Other Mondstadt 5 star cons are, how to say, not really appealing to me. 

On my alt... oh boy. 

I decided to see how close I could get to C2 Baizhu. There’s no specific reason except that saving is boring, I need a stock of stardust, and I think it’s very funny that he starts proccing his skill from off-field. I keep forgetting to switch to him, so hey, it would be convenient. 

Anyway, I’m going to pass on Alhaitham in 3.7, and 3.8 probably won’t have any men, so why not. 

I got: 

Diluc (good) at 76 rolls

Baizhu C0 at 78 rolls

Jean (useless) at 76 rolls

Baizhu C1 at 5 rolls

Keqing (useless) at 77 rolls. 

currently at 13 rolls into a guarantee

C4 Kaveh

C2 Candace

Unrelated: Standard banner Qiqi (very good) 

And. 12. Goddamn. Copies. Of. Fischl. 

4.0 is being sus leaked to have Childe, so that will be my next goal. With a bow, I will be unstoppable. (He’ll be largely useless otherwise, so he’s gonna get a Noblesse+Fav support build lmao)

Conveniently, my rolling priority now is Childe (bow) > Zhongli (survivability if needed, can phys dps, spare me from geo traveler) > Ayato (super flexible combat option) > Xiao (cute, anemo option, cool skill) > Itto (cow) > Thoma (burgeon) > Alhaitham (skill teleport I guess)

(if anyone wonders why Qiqi and Xiao are on the lists, it’s because I made a special exception for Qiqi as Baizhu’s ward. It wouldn’t be fair to separate them! I need a second healer And then I thought that we might as well bring Xiao too, though it’s largely because I ended up never really using him on my main and I want to.) 

Thoma had been way higher before this patch, but I have Diluc for most pyro related things, and I remember from my main how hard it is to use Thoma’s shield and how bad his energy needs get at C0. He’s also a 4 star, so getting him at all might become an entire fiasco, to say nothing of cons. And of course, doing the pyro cube without Ayato is just not happening. 

Alhaitham, Itto and Xiao are all in roughly the same category of having little to their kit aside from on field DPSing, which is not really useful since they also really want specific supports that my alt won’t have. Alhaitham ranks lower than the other two because I already have two dendro men, Kaveh can do a knockoff version of the same DPS role, and his boss is super annoying to fight. 

3.7 has been remarked by everyone as looking super dry, but I will now have so much to farm on my alt... Kaveh artifacts, Kaveh Fav weapon mats, Qiqi artifacts, both their boss mats to max ascend... maybe even talent books if I’m feeling spicy, since they don’t use Mond book hell and Qiqi even uses Andrius, an accessible weekly boss. 

[rougekithes]

The Cyno rerun is like... I kinda want his C2 (Since he's at C1 already anyways). Because I love him and he was my first limited 5* and he's baby and deserves everything good.

But- ever since I started to finally fucking understand how the damn game works, I STRUGGLE. Like, it's comical at this point.

I built him, he sucked. Didn't realise how EM works back then.

I rebuild him after getting his C1, he's now good but not great.

I get him Staff of Scarlet Sands, he's almost great.

I get him Nahida so I can have a proper Aggrevate Team. Now he's so broken in terms of damage that everything dies within 2 seconds after hitting his Burst, leaving me with no more dendro, which means he now sucks again and has about 15 more seconds of his 80 energy burst left in which he's kinda useless.

So Baizhu comes out, everyone says Baizhu is underwhelming. Two weeks later they tell me Baizhu is actually great for Cyno, allowing him to do multiwave combat. So I tell myself I'll get Baizhu on a rerun.

Baizhu reruns, but alas it's alongside fucking Furina, who ALSO enables Cyno like crazy. So now I'm in a predicament, do I get Baizhu? Do I get Furina? Decided Furina is probably worth more for me, because I can throw her onto Noelle, Neuvillette, Alhaitham, Cyno, Tighnari - anyone really- fuck, I could run dps kokomi now. while Baizhu helps me at max with Neuvi and Cyno.

Hoyo took the Sumeru poster child and said, "here. Have the electro version of Ayaka Premium. Gotta run a full team of 5 stars to make him work, as well as making you want C2 at minimum."

And don't get me started on the ER....

GOD THE ER, Artifacts hate me. Which you know. Would be fine. I don't need to shred the abyss with him - that's what I got Neuvi and Alhaitham for. But it'd be nice if I could kill a hilichurl during my commissions. I used to think it's not that bad but like- 80 energy cost burst. SO, you don't burst for the two random hilichurls. but his normal attack multipliers suck and his skill cooldown is weirdly long. in the time Cyno kills one hilichurl, Xiao is already done with the 3 mitachurls next door, because I get 3 (.... bc I'm a C1 hoe) charges that deal like 50k damage each and normals that go for 20k.

[malachiexists13]

I'm so excited to fight for my life to get Razor and Thoma on the first phase banner and pray I don't get an early pity 5-star because Razor is the only Mondstadt 4-star I don't have and Thoma is one of 3 (I think--) Inazuma 4-stars I don't have. I like Eula and Klee but I want Wanderer more than I want either of them so-- But I also have to fight for my life to get Wanderer in like 3 weeks because I used my guaranteed on Kazuha and so now I'm on a 50/50.

If I get Wanderer tho, that's 3/5 anemo boys. I just need Xiao and Venti after so like-- rerun when? When can I collect these old men? Idk when Venti's last rerun was but I do know Xiao reran with Alhaitham's debut (I got my C1 problem child then) and considering said problem child JUST got his rerun against Kazuha and Wanderer is getting his next (who came out before Alhaitham)... I feel like I'm about to be fucked over!

But also if I get Wanderer, that's 4/5 Sumeru boys. I'm literally just missing Tighnari at that point but he's on standard so I can literally get him at any point. He could even ruin my Wanderer 50/50 if he so pleased!

[pangyham]

Sumeru archon quest acts 3 + 4

liveblogging, reposting and editing it so i can rb from this post ...

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?! 3 cutscenes in like, under 10 minutes?! scaramouche ?? crap i should probably reread the inazuma archon quest's plotline on the wikia... need to recontextualize scara's identity. and i keep forgetting the fatui's the overarching antagonist of the game. that was so cool though. also katheryne getting impaled was uh, really unexpected

it's too bad tighnari's not staying with us for long I kinda like him heh. desert time

(2)

finished act 3 goddamn the girls are fighting. so far i rly love the concept of the akademiya and how it's where the sumeru charas intersect and that theyre all estranged from it lmfao. i wonder if by the end we're able to overthrow the sages and restore the institutionalso i used my free fate from the quest completion rewards and i got xiao. woohoo! not interested in future banners so ive been wasting primos on xiao because i think itd be funny if i got his c6 in the long run. my boy's at c2 now. i got his c1 on his very first banner in 2021. ive waited too longthat means ive won 50/50 8 times in a row. yoi, tighnari, ganyu, cyno, nilou, xianyun, xiao... ah, i hope furina's kind to me

(3)

- i really like the dehya-candace-alhaitham-cyno gang going on

- cyno defaulting to punishment as a recourse is so interesting i wonder if they ever explore that loophole in his character? this is comes from a subjective standpoint but i dislike punishment as a means of discipline or a resolution to conflict. some charas who are even more severe like childe who kills as easily as he would breathe because he's a weapon of the abyss have reasons to be morally gray

- but for cyno it's like ? yes he wants to restore justice especially when an already disenfranchised group is criminalized and exploited by the akademiya but that's an institutional issue that cant really be solved thru individual punitive measures no? the scene w dehya and eremites and cyno immediately going "we should.. [beat them up]" kinda reinforces his character for me haha. i think him exiling himself from the akademiya is a good start but he still holds like, systemic values as general mahamatra.. it's interesting. alhaitham imo outclasses him in wit and judgment just cuz he operates so rationally. hes the most perceptive one in the group, everyone yields to his observation. cyno is too impulsive to assess his decisions no matter how tactical they seem

- "you get a total of three [strikes], then you die by my hand" RELAX BRO DAMN...!!!!

- while alhaitham is calculative and cyno is punitive and certain, dehya is really adaptable. her being an eremite kinda puts her at an awkward spot in this situation but she doesnt really place loyalty in her affiliations, so among everyone shes got the strongest moral backbone.. uses her knowledge for good. shes really cool. maybe real commitment.. is the friends we made along the way.. 🫶 kinda like alhaitham except nicer hahaha

(4)

huh are they not going to acknowledge the fact that king deshret's priest literally looks like cyno. why does he don his headpiece ?? maybe theyll expand upon that later

oohhh i'm finally starting act 3... sumeru archon quest is actually quite interesting but maybe i just havent played g3nshin in so long that past archon quests are muddled in my memories and so the current one is a lot more appealing

but in my time away from this game.. i realize the quests now are a little different..? h0yo implemented small changes like slightly cinematic scenes and camera angles that make quests register more as a film. it's not very interactive, as past and current g3nshin quests usually are, so it's not necessarily a huge improvement but i appreciate it. i can just autoplay and do chores hahaha

anyway ive mentioned this before but playing the game now is so much more fun because im not in the fandom and am behind like 2 years of community talk aka theories drip marketing etc.. i genuinely dunno any of the sumeru charas and esp the fontaine charas. who tf is the hydro archon. also got jumpscared by dottore in act 3 LMFAO i had NO IDEA HE EVEN HAD AN IN GAME MODEL THATS NUTSSS. cool ass cutscene though

anyway... im gonna liveblog act 3 here maybe. ill just rb and edit on the way hahaha. times like this i wish i had a twt and just made a thread

[xiaosbackwindow]

listen i’m a couple pulls away from a guarantee and i need to know: sweet baby boy itto or insufferable feeble scholar bastard (affectionate) alhaitham??? idk what to do anymore 🫠

[anadorablekiwi]

I GOT MY C1 XIAO (and my sister got her husband Alhaitham!)

YOOOOO WOO HOO!!! CONGRATS TO YOU BOTH!!!!!!!

I want alhaitham so bad but i need pyro more 🥲

[cryoexorcist]

so: i need opinions.

i got my c1 xiao and i'm very happy. but now, do i want to keep trying to roll for alhaitham, or do i want to save for the next banner?