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

[nc-vb]

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

[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 🫠

[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.

[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

[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 🥲

[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!

[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?

[pangyham]

Sumeru archon quest acts 3 + 4

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

(1)

?! 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