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Genshin Impact |OT| 4.0 (Fontaine) - Je m'appelle "la baleine"

Pejo

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Yeah, I was waiting for that one and the "Oh Archon" commissions to advance, but I got tired and switched my commissions back to Mondstadt. I'll probably switch back to Inazuma in a couple of weeks due to boredom.

Here's some options for the devs to implement that would help the commission frustration:

- Every day, you get 4 commissions from each region (so currently 12 but expanding in the future) and you pick the 4 you want to complete for rewards. This would still put you at the mercy of their BS commission RNG, but at least you wouldn't have to be stuck on one region and would have a greater chance of getting one of the rare commissions.

- Once you reach a certain AR level, say AR50, all commissions have the same probability of appearing. If a player has hit AR50, they've probably experienced all the common commissions many times, so why not reward them with an opportunity to complete the rare commissions and their follow-up quests?

I just don't understand the logic behind locking content behind obscure and often bugged commissions.
Not a bad idea, but you didn't go far enough.

We're taking commissions right? Well they should just have a questboard that we look at each day and pick the specific commissions we want. At least for the NPC related ones, if not the other battle bullshit ones. Similar to how bounties work. That way everybody's happy and RNG can go fuck itself.

I am loving the lore implications of the new Archipelago.

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Pejo

Member
What do you guys think about Beidou artifacts? Severed Fate 4pc or Noblesse 4pc? I'm not sure which one would give more damage in the end, but it seems like Severed Fate would keep her burst ready a lot more often, so I'm leaning that way.
 
What do you guys think about Beidou artifacts? Severed Fate 4pc or Noblesse 4pc? I'm not sure which one would give more damage in the end, but it seems like Severed Fate would keep her burst ready a lot more often, so I'm leaning that way.
For her personal damage Emblem of Severed Fate is going to be better. Noblesse increases the damaging capabilities of the entire team though. If another character could carry Noblesse, that would be best.
 

Pejo

Member
For her personal damage Emblem of Severed Fate is going to be better. Noblesse increases the damaging capabilities of the entire team though. If another character could carry Noblesse, that would be best.
This is when I wish we had one of those mathtards that enjoyed doing spreadsheets in the GAF Genshin community. The Team I'm running with her is Childe/Yoimiya/Beidou/Diona so the only other one that could get away with Noblesse is Diona, but ehh....

I'm surprised with how difficult it is to build a proper Diona. You want HP for her shield, you want ER for her burst, you want Healing because her burst heals by default kinda sucks. I guess I will try it that way, with Beidou with Severed Fate and Diona with Noblesse.
 
This is when I wish we had one of those mathtards that enjoyed doing spreadsheets in the GAF Genshin community. The Team I'm running with her is Childe/Yoimiya/Beidou/Diona so the only other one that could get away with Noblesse is Diona, but ehh....

I'm surprised with how difficult it is to build a proper Diona. You want HP for her shield, you want ER for her burst, you want Healing because her burst heals by default kinda sucks. I guess I will try it that way, with Beidou with Severed Fate and Diona with Noblesse.
I'm currently transitioning her over to a Noblesse set myself. Previously I used Tenacity and Maiden's. I've always used HP headpieces for Diona. Healing Bonus didn't seem to increase her healing that much. HP on the other hand boosts both her healing and her shield. That's just my experience though, I could be wrong on the math. She's a bit awkward to build, yes, but fortunately she can make use of many strong supportive bows. I don't know what they were thinking giving her Cryo DMG as her ascension stat though.
 

Pejo

Member
I'm currently transitioning her over to a Noblesse set myself. Previously I used Tenacity and Maiden's. I've always used HP headpieces for Diona. Healing Bonus didn't seem to increase her healing that much. HP on the other hand boosts both her healing and her shield. That's just my experience though, I could be wrong on the math. She's a bit awkward to build, yes, but fortunately she can make use of many strong supportive bows. I don't know what they were thinking giving her Cryo DMG as her ascension stat though.
Yea, same. She has one of the worst ascension stats relative to her role, like Xinyan and ATK.
 

Fake

Member
Commission should be made in order. One to the last and them back to one. Want random commissions? Disable the commission place preference.

RNG is so fucking retarded.
 

Pejo

Member
Fuz Fuz
Just making sure you're staying up on what your fellow Heizou fans are up to.
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There was a particularly bad one I saw scrolling through the subreddit a few days ago but I can't find it anymore. If you put the artists of these pictures in a room mixed with random people, I bet I could point them out to you in like 10 seconds.

Anyways, I wonder if we'll still get another week's worth of apologems for the delay, or now that they've announced a date, they consider that good enough.
 
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Fake

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WTF

That's why I stay far alway from subreddit. Twitter is become this as well.


BTW, next patch is already the archipelago?
 
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Pejo

Member
WTF

That's why I stay far alway from subreddit. Twitter is become this as well.


BTW, next patch is already the archipelago?
No, next patch is Yelan, Shinobu, Chasm part 2, drum event.

Archipelago is 2.8, which will likely be the last patch before Sumeru. Ironically, original Archipelago was the last patch before Inazuma. Maybe it's the gateway to new nations.
 

Fake

Member
No, next patch is Yelan, Shinobu, Chasm part 2, drum event.

Archipelago is 2.8, which will likely be the last patch before Sumeru. Ironically, original Archipelago was the last patch before Inazuma. Maybe it's the gateway to new nations.

But this time the gap will be huge because COVID.

Watching the level up material from this new char I found that he need the Chogun weekly boss item. WTF I forgot this was a thing.
 

Pejo

Member
But this time the gap will be huge because COVID.

Watching the level up material from this new char I found that he need the Chogun weekly boss item. WTF I forgot this was a thing.
Well CN is still being a little.... tough.. on their citizens, so yea there might be more delays, who can say?


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Art from the upcoming Yelan teaser:
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Fake

Member
Fish can't be freeze if I remember right. They swin in the air before back to 'simulate' on the water.

Well, at least I tried many times.
 

Pejo

Member
At his point, the armpit thing has to be intentional :messenger_grinning_sweat:

Joking aside, her design definitely doesn't feel particularly censored to me, which could be a good sign moving forward.
Yea you just have to use MHY vision to see the real designs under the CCP/iOS/reddit approved censorship stuff. Anywhere you see the light grey/brown hosiery stuff outside of actual hosiery on the legs, it's parts that would have been skin if MHY had their way.

It's super easy to tell that they add it just as a "technically it's not skin" bullet point. This one especially from Honkai makes it really obvious:
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Yelan's also got a lot of that going on, just like Shenhe's poor belly button and hips, the middle of Eula's jacket, etc. I think that's the compromise we're going to live with from now on.
 

crumbs

Member
Yea you just have to use MHY vision to see the real designs under the CCP/iOS/reddit approved censorship stuff. Anywhere you see the light grey/brown hosiery stuff outside of actual hosiery on the legs, it's parts that would have been skin if MHY had their way.

It's super easy to tell that they add it just as a "technically it's not skin" bullet point. This one especially from Honkai makes it really obvious:
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Yelan's also got a lot of that going on, just like Shenhe's poor belly button and hips, the middle of Eula's jacket, etc. I think that's the compromise we're going to live with from now on.

I see what you mean. From that pic, I couldn't tell if Honkai gal's under-boob was shadowed or covered in the sheer material (or maybe that was the point :pie_thinking:). After, ahem, "researching" other pics of the Honkai gal, the hosiery material seems to be vacuum-formed over just her tits, which is both kinda hot, but also somewhat awkward looking from a design standpoint.

I think Yelan's design more gracefully handles the "not skin" sheer hosiery elements compared to the Honkai character.
 

Pejo

Member
You know, now that we're a few days deep into the domain domain drops, it feels like this should be the standard amount of books dropped at the highest level domain per run. It still takes me the better part of a day to just take a single talent up from like level 7 or above. But at least you can get one talent done in a day at this rate. It took me like 1.5 weeks to get Yoimiya to 10/10/10 from 9/9/7. Some of that was due to time gating of domain drops. the rest was farming some Mora leylines when I ran out of money.

Regardless, to do the highest level domain and not even get a single purple book or even enough blues to make a purple book is just crazy cheap on MHY's part.
 

Fake

Member
To be honest, we're to the late game, no?

I mean, excluding my retarded brother who have thousand of characters, is like the base players with standarts quantity of players already finishing their character builds.

Me for example, Xiao max out besides his elemental skill at lvl 9. All my chars are either all lvl 10 or one missing lvl 9 since the damn crown that keep your progress in check.

I wish they could reconsider giving the stammina a little boost because I lost so much interess into looking for the workship since no stammina is given.


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Some of the level I don't make for good reasons. Chongus lvl 7 or 8 the elemental skill somehow stop to increase the time the ice field stay? I still trying to figure out about 'why' this is a thing. Chongus is so weak in comparison with many characters and his elemental skill increase 0,1 second per level...
 
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deanote666

Member
Yea that's the fish, but I've been hunting the one that you can put in your teapot. Just finally got it tonight.
Me fishing for the first time in months to get the last 5 pages and realizing that not all of the fish you catch are available in the teapot.

Did you get any abiding angelfish for the teapot?
 

crumbs

Member
Here we go, 2.8 hype starting.

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Have Fischl and Mona not appeared in a voice acted event since 1.1? At least they have some story history together, plus Venti and Davlin are there to Uber us to the Islands, but the rest seem pretty random.
 
Is this have anything to do with the beach skins? I mean, we can only dream.
I thought we were getting a Diluc skin in 2.8. Not exactly what I'm interested in. The other beach skins we've gotten have been such a letdown that I don't expect anything from them anymore.
 

Pejo

Member
Me fishing for the first time in months to get the last 5 pages and realizing that not all of the fish you catch are available in the teapot.

Did you get any abiding angelfish for the teapot?
Yea I have at least one of all the fish now except that long thin red boi, I think they call them Koi even though they're obviously carp.
Wait... Sumero without Dendro traveler?
No the leak image has a dendro icon over top the traveler, but the follow up tweet says that we won't get Dendro traveler until 3.0 (Sumeru). So something weird's going on. A previous leak also said that Nahida is the Dendro Archon. So maybe she meets us at the island as a preview or something?
 

BJK

Member
Fish can't be freeze if I remember right. They swin in the air before back to 'simulate' on the water.

Well, at least I tried many times.

Fish can definitely be frozen; Ganyu is particularly efficient at gathering fillets.

(Avoiding any unfortunate wording about shooting at fish in plural, for the obvious reason.)
 

Pejo

Member
I appreciate that leakers keep us talking about the game when MHY gives us shit to talk about, but god damn why do they all suck at the game so bad?



It's like watching those goldfish play Pokemon on Twitch by swimming by sensors that are mapped to buttons.
 

Pejo

Member


Got you covered too YukiOnna YukiOnna


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Still waiting for the story quest to judge her personality, but I was hoping she was more of a cold bitch type character. Not getting those vibes currently.
 
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Fuz

Banned
It's also the last commission I need to completely close Inazuma.
I'd really want regulators to go and check all those RNG subroutines.
Just got it, finally.

Ranting WORKS. Not the first time I rant about something and then it happens, against all odds.
The gods themselves need to be scolded, sometimes. mannaggiagesùcristo
I'm... free. I'M FREE!

Edit: the follow up quest is actually kinda cool.

Bonus:

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Pejo

Member
Just got it, finally.

Ranting WORKS. Not the first time I rant about something and then it happens, against all odds.
The gods themselves need to be scolded, sometimes. mannaggiagesùcristo
I'm... free. I'M FREE!

Edit: the follow up quest is actually kinda cool.

Bonus:

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I read a guide, and I think I messed up on the quest where you have to pick books to suggest to the author. God dammit. Probably another year and a half for me to get that comission again, but boy they love making me help out that damn cat every other day.

So it looks like they did give us the "delay" apologems after all for this week. I didn't expect them to, now that they announced the release date of 2.7. Pretty cool though.
 

Pejo

Member
Oh same. But I love those, they're super quick. Fuck escorting the balloon.
Well those are a separate category of daily. If you notice, there's always 1 where an NPC is involved. In Inazuma, that's like the cooking quests, the cat quests, training with the spear guy, showing off your archery skills to the military, etc. Then the other 3 are randomized from any other type of non-NPC related quests (balloon escort, balloon destruction, gentleman strikes in broad daylight, blow the thunder clouds with Anemo, any number of the random battle dailies). So every day, you only REALLY have 1 chance to get the quest related commissions, which makes the RNG even more frustrating.


Damn, what a lack of content does to a dude...

That must have taken hours and hours to move him to all of those spots.
 
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Fuz

Banned
Well those are a separate category of daily. If you notice, there's always 1 where an NPC is involved. In Inazuma, that's like the cooking quests, the cat quests, training with the spear guy, showing off your archery skills to the military, etc. Then the other 3 are randomized from any other type of non-NPC related quests (balloon escort, balloon destruction, gentleman strikes in broad daylight, blow the thunder clouds with Anemo, any number of the random battle dailies). So every day, you only REALLY have 1 chance to get the quest related commissions, which makes the RNG even more frustrating.
Yeah, I noticed that.

Still, fuck escorting the balloon.


I don't know WHY or HOW but I recognize some of the songs. Which animes are those from?
 
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deanote666

Member
Yeah, I noticed that.

Still, fuck escorting the balloon.


I don't know WHY or HOW but I recognize some of the songs. Which animes are those from?
First song feels like a Naruto opening but I haven't seen 90% of the openings for Naruto.

There's links to 2 of the songs in the description but I'm guessing those aren't the ones you're referring to.
 

Fake

Member
First song feels like a Naruto opening but I haven't seen 90% of the openings for Naruto.

There's links to 2 of the songs in the description but I'm guessing those aren't the ones you're referring to.

I watched Naruto and Shippuden (not Boruto) and no, none of them are from Naruto openning unless I missing the ending theme.

But yeah, I watched the video and I got some nostalgia somehow.
 

Pejo

Member
Is this a "one and done" kind of thing?
Sure is. If you want to not even read it, the perpetrator is the treasure hoarder.

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Well, hope you guys haven't been keeping your characters at 80, looks like you're going to want those last 10 levels for Dendro.

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