#with the local specialty passive ARE LIMITED 5 STARS??????

[litchi-tea]

not having Tighnari OR Sethos is making farming mats for Dehya & Cyno so tedious, istg they better give Kachina the local specialty passive or else they're getting suplexed straight to hell for making me suffer

[rubys-domain]

rambly thoughts about the 4.1 banners under the cut. contains mentions of leaks

so it's confirmed that venti is getting his rerun in the 2nd half of 4.1 alongside wriothesley. guess i have more time to scrape a few primos off of sumeru. i already have 2k, which is a very unusual amount for me to have, so i'm feeling confident even though it's not even worth two 10-pulls.

i'm feeling a little fomo tho because wrio is cryo and he's a cryo catalyst and-

cryo characters are just bait for me at this point honestly. if it's a new cryo character then chances are i want to pull them. i'm still holding out hope for charlotte to be a cryo catalyst tho. i want her normals to have sucrose's range at the very least. kind of a shame that leaks indicate she's not gonna be a cryo yanfei but oh well. was too good to be true. as long as her normals have some range people who want to play her as a dps can with more ease. but if hoyo makes her a sword character i'm gonna be insanely disappointed. standard or not, i don't have plans to pull for wrio, so i'm really banking on charlotte so i can still have a cryo catalyst. am i gonna use her? let's be real, probably not. maybe in the future i can squeeze her into a mono cryo chongyun team. i just like cryo characters. i would've been sad if i didn't get freminet, even though i don't currently have any plans to use him either. (i still am sad that i don't have him yet on the alt.)

neuvillette having the underwater movement speed buff though.......... i know it makes sense. but how dare you hoyo. how dare you give that to a limited 5 star. i'm definitely speaking for myself here since technically lyney currently being the only character with the local specialties locator passive is objectively more egregious. and it's not like underwater fontaine is all that big. it's gonna get bigger i know, but i doubt even twice the current underwater square footage would make me desperate for a speed buff. all that said... i really, REALLY like diving in fontaine... so the fact that it's only neuvillette that has that passive... and i'm trying to save for venti who reruns immediately after his release... and i'm not even interested in his kit... let's just say i'm saltier than most seas. maybe i should pull for him on the alt JUST for his passive. i don't care about getting zhongli anymore; layla's good enough for me. and if my luck is bad and i don't get freminet on the alt, then that'll just bump the usefulness of his passive even higher.

also re: that one leak that said chongyun is rerunning with venti... i don't buy it one bit. while it would make me extremely happy if true (seriously those two alone would already make the banner tailor-made for me), i HIGHLY doubt they're rerunning chong so soon. he's in the range of 4 stars with the lowest demand, and he just got a rerun in the yae/yoi banner. more likely he's gonna be rerun around the same time next year. which is fair since he's already had a ton of reruns over the years. it pains me as a chongyun main obviously — having to wait literally a year for another chance to c6 him since my luck on the yae/yoi banner was so shit (sure i'm glad i at least got a copy of her, but i REALLY did not need all those kirara cons). but getting new 4 stars is good, and most players have c6'd him many times over at this point. besides, info from leakers seem to be rather unreliable lately, so yeah.