Daily Questions Megathread (January 07, 2026)

HP unless in a (bad) team with no Lunar reactions (Skirk, Arle Vape), then Hydro is slightly better.

Hydro dmg% will only buff her raw damage but most of her damage will come from lunar reactions which doesnt care about that. So hp% is better in most case.

Why would you go for either? 

If you have Ineffa without sig, then I think going for R1 might be better just for the chance of getting Ineffa's sig along the way. Yes, the 'optimal' path is C2 then R1, but her rerun might have her paired with a bad weapon, and drip is drip.

Assuming of course you already have a decent roster before going for cons/sigs, and aren't spending money on this game just for drip and slightly bigger numbers.

youre a new player
show what you have,
take a screenshot(hoyolab character page would be better than ingame) and put it on a site like imgur or something, and share the link
then we can suggest teams. not much point saying random teams without knowing what you have

expected to work with Varka later (expected 6.4 afaik), if youre asking to think of future pulls

Honestly, he works great with just about anything. He doesn't 'buff' Hydro or Cryo, so in those teams he should be the DPS with other characters applying Hydro/Cryo for him. But he can still be off-field, so Mona (or Barbara) on-field for example can be the driver. You can still use him in a Vape/Melt DPS team, especially with Mualani who uses Mona and/or Sucrose, but he's not doing a ton of work there at C0R0.

Otherwise, just put him with any other element DPS and he'll do decently, as long as you're triggering reactions with Pyro + the DPS' element for his shred. Having a 2nd witch for the extra shred is nice, but by no means necessary. (And not even something you can unlock until you level him and the other witch to lvl 70 and do their quest) Just keep in mind that many teams with Hydro or Cryo app might not allow him to react with the right elements, especially Geo or Anemo.

In almost all cases, Fischl. The only case were maybe Iansan would be better is if you aren't using Sucrose, and are willing to 'optimize' your damage by ignoring Flins' cool infused attacks and just running around between EQ combos to keep up Iansan stacks.

No, just the shrine

You're probably talking about the injured animal one. That one repeats a bunch of times unless you have Lauma. On the bright side, each time you see it, you're getting 5 primogems.

Burst (buff) > skill (damage) > Lvl 90 (HP scaler). As for specific level, up to you but I'd say burst is worth crowning (lvl 10), or at least lvl 9. Her DPS is still good but not enough to carry her nowadays with modern teams, so lvl 8 is probably fine for that, same with lvl 80 overall. Or 6 if you're being a cheapskate. Normals can stay lvl 1.

Yes, as a hyperbloom trigger.

No, as an on-field hypercarry.

she's alright if she's C2 and you have durin

Useable and can clear endgame...but thats because her best teammates are basically the ultimate wheelchair which is Columbina+Ineffa...exactly next banner.

They're all meh at best and none of them are meta relevant. Just go with the one you can see yourself actually using the most.

the ones you dont own dont quite matter for now

Klee, notably with Fischl is worth using now in overload

There's no easy way without money. You'll have to painstakingly farm artifacts for better builds, and learn to optimize teams and rotations.

Imaginarium just needs more built characters of every element. you have no alternatives there. no tricks.

you need one good or two decent characters for every two stages of your chosen difficulty. and as many fillers as you can manage. extra is good too

consider the free ones you dont personally own and use as decent, and you can borrow one very strong one, thats best used for two bosses.

gets easier the more fillers you can raise from bare minimum(70) to decent, so lets say 80, with some talents to at least 6 and a raised weapon

IT does not need good artifacts. They just need to be functional at bare minimum. Most of your problem is gonna rely on rng.


Sure it helps your characters are built but you can literally toss a level 70 character in lunar IT and send them to fight a boss and get a stella because that character is only a (moral) support to the main dps who carry it. If primos is your goal, it's easier. If it's stella, you really need them built. Basically half ass build means clear with no stella. Built means clear with stella. Either way you get your primos.


Edit: i just checked. Last IT cycle, i brought arle sucrose fischl layla to fight the first boss. Sucrose was using my dps build all the way back from 1.x. "what the hell is EM?". Layla? I gave her hp mainstat artifacts and closed my eyes as I spam level up. That team got a stella lol

If there's to be an "easy way",

For IT, level up characters to lvl 70 until requirements met, and give diverse buffing artifacts (noblesse, scroll, tenacity, instructors, Petra etc.) to the useless characters so at the very least your DPS is properly buffed. For 12 stars I'd say you need about 5 strong DPS at worst. Sometimes they give decent DPS like with mavuika rn, and the 4th act is always free. Try to minimize use of DPS, if the act is *way* too easy, try to beat it with a weaker DPS. Also helps to know what bosses you encounter or the possible enemies, so I'd check homdgcat if you're that desperate.

For stygian, honestly the best way is through getting shilled characters. Like for baptist you have nefer, for bird you have venti and durin, for plunge boss is varesa. You can check the next stygians in advance through homdgcat (if it's on v3, it's practically confirmed). Or brute force with top <5% characters, but even this is still dependable (will easily clear menacing but not fearless)

For abyss, it's also through shilled characters but tbh, it's much easily brute forced by brute forcing units like skirk and varesa (maybe mavu if enemy is applicable with cryo). A decent shilled build should get you ok, and a great brute force build should get you ok. You can also check in advance to maybe build what team you will be using for the abyss.

Yes, Stellar Reunion. 2 tiers, one for being gone for 14+ days and one for 45+ days.

Though if you need to take a rest, it seems much better to just take a rest and not worry too much about returnee rewards. Otherwise it turns your 'rest' into merely being different playtime.

Pyro or dendro traveler are good. Favonius sword is good for both, dendro could you the craftable sapwood blade

that sword is really bad.

Are you using Sacrificial catalyst? 

Either an abyss card that resets skill cooldown or your using sacrificial fragments as his weapon

The "reputation system" are the Columbina weekly quest, there's no bounty and request in Nod Krai

There are 3 different ones

One in Aino's workshop, other in the Frostmoon Scions' camp and the last one on Flins' lighthouse.

They don't have the usual reputation symbol, instead they have a round icon

You'll get more value from klee than ayaka in terms of c2 I believe, ayaka requires c2 to be a competitive DPS, klee shreds def at c2, which can be support, or dps.

Which one you pick depends on what team you have.

If you have esco on standby, get ayaka.

If you have c6 chev on standby, get klee.

But this is assuming that you use them for entirely DPS purposes. Klee can still serve as a support due to her being able to shred + use ttds, so if you have neither esco or c6 chev, I'd personally recommend picking klee.

Not yet

Only on monday

Xilonen dps does normal attacks or plunges, and some burst damage, all scaling with defense

Furina sig is kind of useless for Xilonen (only her dash on using the skill, does skill damage, nothing else)

Jade cutter also does nothing, Xilonen is a def scaler, the atk giving passive is useless

passives are useless, besides that, both only give crit from substat, both having about equivalent amount
crit rate has more value, so Jade cutter is better

Harbinger of Dawn is the BIS weapon for any Defense Scaling Character.

Columbina and a geo dps maybe?

Not any good ones

basically any other geo dps. if you dont have, give up

No

Back how? Back to work? They’ve all been back working since 5.8. Back like are the old 5.2-5.7 quests updated with voices? Still not entirely.

Came here for a similar question. Can confirm as of about an hour ago that Jean, Albedo, Rosaria and Sucrose (at least) are still missing all their english voice acting in the Archon Interlude quest chapter IV. I didn’t think this would be an issue then got caught in an extended scene where half the characters weren’t speaking which sucked since I usually listen to the story. Wonder if it’s worth waiting or sucking it up and reading

Ineffa first, then see how much you have left. kind of easy choice
after that, try Columbina but stop in case of lost 50/50?

Honestly, I think either option is good, but let me yap a bit to hopefully narrow down your decision.

If the sole goal is to boost Flins' team, I would go for Ineffa. The nice thing about going for her is that she's also just an excellent stand-alone unit, so if you find that your Flins team is fine without her for specific pieces of content, you can easily shift her into a second team.

Speaking of that second team, Columbina + Ineffa is possibly the strongest wheelchair core we've ever gotten. You can on-field anyone and clear purely through the sub-dps power of those two. That doesn't mean you can't go for Mavuika, especially since a pyro team will be a completely different elemental combination, but if the sole goal is to create a second team then Columbina + Ineffa is a real consideration.

Another part to consider is if you're planning to get any other Lunar characters? Columbina's value goes up the more Lunar characters you have, so even if your Flins doesn't needer her, if you plan to get Lauma or Zibai they would both really like Columbina.

The nice thing about Mavuika is that with her and Citlali you have two fairly flexible units. Mav can either be a hypercarry or a support, while Citlali's cry app and shielding can go in a lot of teams, so you aren't locked into Lunar teams like you would be if you went for Ineffa/Columbina. (Ineffa by herself is completely fine outside of Lunar teams as well).

We also don't know when Mavuika+Citlali with both rerun. I don't think it's unreasonable to guess that it would be within the next few months, but what if that's not the case? what if only Mavuika reruns without Citlali?

At the end of the day, both options will lead to you getting powerful teams, so I'd just go with whichever you like more. Power creep will keep slowly creeping, but both Mavuika/Citlali or Ineffa/Columbina should be good for a long time to come.

it would have to be Raiden
cause you dont have a good weapon or that good of a team for Itto
Raiden helps the rest of the team burst, so you could afford trying to get some more HP on Furina and Yelan, increasing team damage, not that i know specific numbers

[https://keqingmains.com/misc/newbie-guide](https://keqingmains.com/misc/newbie-guide) scroll down a bit for pity explanation

Standard and limited banner pity is not shared. So right now you have 20 pity on standard banner and 10 pity on the limited banner.

The limited pity is shared between current and future banners, meaning its 10 for both Varesa and Xilonen and if you do no more pulls it will also be 10 on Columbina and Ineffa banner.

The pity is just a count from last time you got a 5*.

It's good to know as you are guaranteed to get a 5* under 90(hard pity) pulls and around 70(soft pity) pulls the chance get 5* goes significantly up.

But the guaranteed character under 90 pulls doesn't mean you get the promoted 5* on limited banner, you still have 50:50 between any standard 5* and the promoted limited 5*. If you win the 50:50 great you will get the limited 5* you wanted. But if you lose you will get a standard 5* and will need to get another 5*, which can against cost up to 90 pulls.
But this time you really have guarantee as there is no 50:50.

There is also capturing radiance, which in simple terms mean that occasionally you will get the limited 5* even if you 'lose' 50:50.

One important thing don't use primogems on blue fates/standard banner, you should use it only on pink fates/limited banner.

Few other things, when you lose the 50:50 on limited banner, the guarantee that next character will be the one promoted is shared between banners same as pity.

It's the questions thread. Anyone annoyed about questions really is in the wrong place. :P

There's a bunch of different banner types; Each has their own counter and mechanics. Rotating ones change every 3 weeks.

Standard banner: Has all the Standard stuff, does not rotate. (Recommended to not spend primogems here, mainly because other banners have the same stuff and more). It takes up to 90 wishes to get a 5-star, when you do it's a random one from all the ones in the Standard pool. There is also some system that over long time (270 wishes) you will always get at least one weapon and one character.

Character banner: Has characters (who knew?). Both limited character banners do share pity, and are effectively the same banner, only difference being which limited 5-star is available on them. It takes up to 90 wishes to get a 5-star. When you get a 5-star, it's a 50/50 chance of being the limited character on the banner, or a random one from the Standard pool. If you got a Standard one, your next 5-star is guaranteed to be the limited one. This guarantee does carry over across banner rotations. So it can take up to 180 pulls to get a limited character, if you lose the 50/50 and go 90 both times.

(On character banner there is also Captured Radiance, TL:DR is it's a mechanic preventing from losing too many 50/50's in a row. Requires separate post to properly explain if wanted.)

Weapon banner: Has weapons (shocking). You select one of the 2 limited weapons to go for. It takes up to 80 wishes to get a 5-star. When you get a 5-star, it's a 37.5% chance of being the one you went for, 37.5% of being the other limited, and 25% chance of being a random Standard one. If you didn't get the one you went for, you get a fate point for your aimed weapon. Fate point does guarantee next 5-star will be the one you are aimed at, but will expire at end of banner. If you got a Standard one, you also have a separate lesser guarantee that next 5-star will be a limited one; This does carry over to future banners, but without the fate point it'll still only be a 50/50 between the two. (And with the fate point it's redundant.).

Recommended to avoid pulling weapons if you don't have 160 spare pulls, else you risk wasting your pulls for nothing if you lose the worse-than-50/50 and have the fate point expire.

Occasionally there is also Chronicled Wish. Chronicled Wish contains a bunch of (older) 5-stars, so far always region-themed. It's somewhat similar to weapon banner; You select a 5-star to aim for. When you get a 5-star, it's a 50/50 between your choice, or a random other 5-star of the same type (weapon/character) on the banner. If you didn't get your chosen 5-star, you get a fate point, fate point guarantees your next 5-star but expires at end of banner.

simplest version is:

Only use purple wishes/primogems to wish for limited characters you want. You can't really mess anything up and you don't need to know or manage any of those mechanics/terms. It's an easy enough game you can focus on the characters you want first, then flesh out teams around them.

A more detailed answer:

* Only use purple wishes/primogems on character banners.
* Only use blue wishes for Standard.
* Only wish for banners with a limited 5-star character you actively want.
* Never wish on a banner with a limited 5-star character you actively DON'T want (often to "build pity," which isn't a thing, or hoping for a 1/9 featured 4-star)
* On average it takes 62 wishes to get any 5-star, but heavily skewed to the 75-80 range which will be the case about 50% of the time.
* Including 50:50+guarantee+capturing radiance, it's 90 wishes on average to get a limited 5-star but a high end max of around 160 (technically 180 but that's never happened). If there's a character you REALLY REALLY want, maybe keep a savings of 100 wishes (can save the rest in time between announcement and character being available).
* F2P gets ~600 wishes from all permanent content and another 70-90 per patch (about 600 a year).
* Don't wish on weapon banner.
* If you do wish on weapon banner, both featured 5-star weapons should be very desirable.
* Never wish on weapon banner unless you can hit pity twice (about 150-160 wishes saved up). Same for chronicle banner (about 160 wishes saved up).
* Characters relegate to Chronicle banner are often much weaker than newer/meta characters. Go for one only if you REALLY like a character on the banner.
* New characters>Constellations or Signature weapons.
* Don't consider constellations and signature weapon for at least a year after starting and for a rerun after you get a character. It'll give you time to really find out what and how helpful a pull would be.
* Don't let FOMO get to you. You wont be able to get everyone. But you don't need everyone. And characters will rerun (eventually).

Probably not. Arlecchino's fire is related to her bloodline. We've got no evidence that Signora has that connection or that the Akademiya would have known about it.

Shenhe's skill enhances other character's Cryo damage with an additive bonus based on her own Atk. You get a limited number per skill and those are her quills. She was the first however several other characters have similar mechanics such as Lauma, YunJin or Citlali C1.

The terminology originally comes from Shenhe's skill https://genshin-impact.fandom.com/wiki/Spring_Spirit_Summoning

It generates Icy Quills, a stacked buff that characters consume to add Additive Damage to their normal damage. The term Quill has since been appropriated by the community to refer to any damage buff that has a similar function of giving Additive Damage.

i dont think anyone is beating mavuika - maybe mualani in certain one shot comps

cause they didnt focus on completing the missing stuff

No, so far Quick Start has only been for the latest region.

The relative order of importance to a Lunar Charged team is Ineffa > Columbina > Flins

If you're planning on getting Flins because you like Flins, then Ineffa is more important than Columbina. But you still can get by with Columbina w/o Ineffa if that's what you want to do.

But if you just want a Lunar Charged team, Ineffa and Columbina is already strong.

only for the 60 primos and the mats to level him

Mona. Childe's cons aren't very good period where as Mona just got buffed.

Childe because it’s the only way to get it and even though Mona got buffed be honest with yourself, are you ever going to actually play her in a meaningful way? What teams are you using that are actually going to slot her in? I’m getting limited characters cons and I’ll just eventually get Mona cons from losing the 50/50, standard, or maybe the anniversary.

But if you actually want to use Mona somewhere then sure, go for it

no. but.. on mobile devices, the download is only around 20 GB.

the other option would be genshin cloud:

[https://cloudgenshin.hoyoverse.com/en-us](https://cloudgenshin.hoyoverse.com/en-us)

Bronzelock. at WL9, he can one-shot you tough.

1 hour and 15 minutes

It is >!split into two sub parts, and you meet her pretty early in the second sub part "ripples that will never reach"!<

It can be a decent weapon depending on what teams and buffs your team needs. It can be decent on Kinich/Mavuika, but they often have external sources of attack that "diminish" the relative value if they did not have those external buffs. So a wide array of characters can benefit from them, but it will depend on the teams you are running and the buffs you are providing on if it is beneficial over your other options.

Characters like Mav/Kinich/Gaming/Navia/Freminet/Dehya/Eula/Diluc/Razor/Beidou/Chongyun can see benefit from it. Additionally, there are supports that could potentially hold and trigger the passive (teamwide attack) that could be beneficial depending on your use case.

You have made some progress of the world quest, but you forget it.

No, you can't. However, the event is recurring, so it'll refresh once the current time remaining ends. You can work towards getting your free constellation with the next cycle of that.

Xingqiu anecdotes? those arent new, those came in the first round of anecdotes
still during a time with unvoiced stuff, i think

She's fairly good, but not quite 'meta' unless you also have C6 4* supports. If that's your only goal, Ineffa+Columbina next patch will work much better. 


But Varesa is fun to play, fairly F2P friendly just to get working, and will be absolutely fine for anything except the hardest of endgames. 

Will she keep up with meta - depends on where the meta goes from here really. Her number is still good enough to do content and Natlan characters have great exploration value that is not often considered in tier list.

Her banner also contain 2 of her best teammates (Chev, Iansan) and you can always use Pyro Traveler as budget 4th so you can have a full team ready just wishing on her banner. Even the weapon banner, even if you get Xilonen's weapon you can slap it on traveler for some party buff.

F2P: it completely depends on your luck with 4*. Varesa is very dependent on having C6 Chevreuse and C6 Iansan - if you have say C5 Chevreuse and C0 Iansan, you have lost around 30k team DPS.


The game has significant powercreep. Imho you are better off going for either Columbina+Ineffa (+potentially Flins, but a perfectly played C1R1 Hu Tao would be not far behind) or Columbina+Zibai (IF your supports for her, like C6 Gorou and Zhongli).

Do you actually want both? Or are you just pulling for meta?

I do not suggest pulling for more than one lunar team. Assuming you want Columbina, your options are:


- Pull Columbina+Ineffa and play Columbina on-field with Lauma and Ineffa. Not the best team in the game, but shokld be better than using Columbina Ineffa wheelchair (with an old C0 carry).


- if you have Nilou, pull Columbina and play her with Lauma Nilou. Team is just ok in single target though.


- Pull Columbina, wait for Nefer rerun. This is a top team, but it might take a bunch of patches for her rerun.


- Pull Columbina+Ineffa, abandon Lauma, pull Flins in 6.4. Top team, but 3 pulls in 2 patches.


- Pull Columbina, abandon Lauma, pull Zibai. Depending on what you have available (e.g., Gorou C6, Zhongli, etc.) close to the top; potentially best in the game IF they later release a dedicated 5* support (Sandrone?).

ineffa and have ifa hold vv

does ifa not hold vv? sucrose is good for em buffs and ttds.

Probably Sucrose for the EM buff and grouping plus VV. But you probably want another nod Krai unit for ascendant gleam. If you don't have Ineffa, then maybe Lauma if you have her. Last hope would be Aino, though Columbina already has decent hydro application.

I use Kuki, Aino, Sucrose with my C1 jade spear Flins and it works very well. All 4 stars are C6 though. A lot of people use Fischl

Replace Dori with Fischl or Kuki. Fischl for dmg, Kuki if you need sustain.

One Sanctifying Essence is not going to be enough. If you go back in there and look at the right side of the screen, there should be a fairly obvious progress bar that goes to 100. You need to extract enough via Essence, Sanctifying Unction or leveled-but-not-quite-useful Artifacts that you want to dispose of.

As for Artifacts to define, we can't answer that with just "Arlecchino is my main." That depends on your current build and what stat(s) need correction, if you even *want* or *need* to bother using it to finish or upgrade their Artifact set. Many will tell you to "never use it to make flowers or feathers," but I don't entirely subscribe to that line of thinking. Those two Artifact types are lower priority, sure, but I say make them if that's what you need.

It takes 5 total days, so you'll be told to come back the next day 4 times.

The [wiki lists the individual quests](https://genshin-impact.fandom.com/wiki/The_Magic_Known_as_Storytelling), so just check vs your ingame quest log which one you're on. Don't scroll further down into the summary section since that's obviously spoilers.

It'll be a slight hit, but having multiple DPSs should more than make up for it.

No, the only unstackable part is the 10% lunar reaction bonus. That's not a particularly big deal.

1. Phanes is a real deity, who is usually portrayed as male

2. Other Greek and Greek-adjacent names like Aristophanes and Eratosthenes are associated with men. A feminine version of the name would probably be something like Phanea.

Phainon has no connection, similar name doesnt matter
by default by many, uncertain gender will be called a him
without putting much thought into it
not much can be done about that

Ineffa's buffs the team 40%, Bina's is personal DPS only and she typucally deals half the DPS of *either* Flins or Ineffa. In a full team with 3 LC damage dealers, I'd definitely lean towards Ineffa's. But to be transparent, I haven't seen calcs to back that up.

Both are about the same, but Zibai gets there with just one 5* pull vs Nefer+Lauma being 2. Though we don't have a Geo shill boss yet, and Lauma is a lot more flexible as a support than Illuga


Edit: I suppose yes, it depends on your luck with Illuga cons. But I'm pretty sure Zibai without Illuga is still pretty good if you have other Geo alternatives. And Zibai + C2 Illuga (on her banner) + C1 Aino (probably on Bina's banner) is still better than Nefer without Lauma.

Zibai with C6 Illuga and C6 Gorou is roughly the same as Lauma+Nefer or Ineffa+Flins. C6 Gorou for Zhongli, you lose 5-10k dps (switching from Flute to HoD). If you try to use a C2 Illuga and a C0 Gorou - apart from no shield/strong healing - you tank your damage at -25K dps. At C0, I believe Illuga is not even recommended. You are not going to get C6 Illuga pulling for C0 Zibai; you might or might not get C2. Summary: on a theoretical spreadsheet where all 4\* are C6, Zibai is as strong as the other teams. Practically... no, and the difference depends on which supports you can use with her. If Mihoyo later releases a dedicated 5\* support (Sandrone?), then Zibai will likely be at the top, but we have no idea.

Now, if both Illuga and Gorou are on banner, AND you decide to pull for C2 Zibai instead... the chance of getting C6 Illuga goes way up and this might make more sense. For this reason - and given that Columbina adds less to Zibai compared to the other teams - it might make more sense to forgo Columbina and just focus on Zibai cons if that is what you want to play.

Garcia's commissions can take a while to get. Commissions with achievements you haven't gotten yet are given higher priority and Sumeru has a ton of commissions with achievements. Try to get as many of those achievements as you can to remove the other commissions from the pool and increase the chances of you getting one of Garcia's commissions.

Both are good, Ayaka I imagine is easier to use on mobile. Just get whichever you use more now, then just get the other one next time when it resets.

I would guess no, but the future is hard to predict

What do you mean by following lunar reactions?

hex that also enables or supports lunar reactions specifically? that wont happen
hex that can be used in lunar teams? yes, in that case

If you are not past 55 or so then[ this might be helpful](https://www.reddit.com/r/GenshinImpactTips/comments/qkxdj6/infographic_of_build_order_priority_based_on_wlar/)

There are a lot of things that have been QoL upgrades over the two years, so condensing it would be somewhat difficult. The commission system is a bit better (you can condense resin and then go talk to Katherine and you have completed your commissions for the day), crafting recipes are a bit easier to find (you can sort by characters to see what each needs), there are ways to "craft" artifacts so that you can avoid awful luck along with ways to reroll the rolls that they went into. More sets have been added to the strong box which makes it nice to get some older sets while still going for new sets. There are two new game modes with one being Imaginarium Theater being a game mode that rewards accounts with a lot of different characters and stygian onslaught that rewards accounts that build for damage output. Lots of new characters, mechanics, interactions and exploration to run around with.

I too am just starting Fontaine but I’ve already jumped into Nod Krai as well. I’d say the most QoL for artifact is that the 4th line is now viable. Before, you’d have to level it level 4 to know whether the artifact is worth it. Artifact can now also be re-rolled. Let’s say you leveled an artifact to level 20 most of the stats rolled into def, hp, and not the crit rate/crit damage you wanted, you could use a item(s) to try and reroll it into the crit rate/ crit damage.


I’d say the most important things are the time sensitive stuff like the events, as everything else can be done whenever.

Borrowing this excellent little summary format from /u/KyrrithK

|**Version**|**Summary**|
|:-|:-|
|6.2|Witch's Homework - Mini Quests to unlock Buffs to some Mondstadt Characters|
|6.1|Miliastra Wonderland (Open Beta) - User-Generated Content Sandbox|
|6.1|New Players now can claim Anniversary Free 5★ Selector All Year Long|
|6.0|Freely spend 40 resin per (artifact/weapon/talent) domain clear and condensed resin holds 60|
|6.0|To Temper Thyself and the Journey - Free (Older) 5★ Constellation Every 12 Weeks|
|6.0|Travelers' Tales - New Permanent random interactions with Playable Characters|
|6.0|Valiant Chronicles - Defeat Local Legends to unlock Avatar Frames|
|5.7|Stygian Onslaught - Boss-Rush Endgame for 3 Teams (per Patch)|
|5.3|Repertoire of Myriad Melodies - Permanent Rhythm Gamemode|
|5.0|Capturing Radiance - New Guarantee to Prevent 50:50 Loss Streaks|
|5.0|Anniversary Free 5★ Standard Selector for this and Every Future Anniversary|
|5.0|Weapon Banner - Fate Points Reduced from 2 -> 1 (Max Weapon Pity 240 -> 160)|
|4.7|Imaginarium Theatre - Rogue-like Endgame for many Characters (per Month)|
|4.5|Chronicled Wish - Mass Rerun Banner, can lose 50:50 to Any Banner Character, infrequently appears|
|4.1|Encounter points - Do quests, exploration & events to get daily commission rewards instead of actual commission quests|
|3.3|Genius Invocation TCG - Battling Card Game (Solo and Online PvP)|

You'll see Fontaine & later overworld stuff explained in-game as you run into it.

Regarding artifacts, notice the introduction of stygian onslaught in 5.7. It's a boss-focused endgame mode that has 6 difficulty levels that, if you were previously clearing abyss floor 12, are approximately:

- Trivial

- Trivial

- Trivial

- Comparable to abyss 12

- Abyss 12 +50% dps check

- Whales / god gamers / heavily favored matchups only

Stygian opens one week into every patch and is available until the end of the patch. The first 10 days that it is open, every boss kill of at least difficulty 3 (which is as easy as the usual lv 90 artifact domain) gives you the option of cashing in rewards as if you'd cleared an artifact domain *of your choice*, ***with a freebie artifact every 6th.*** In other words, while that 10-day period is active, you do all your artifact farming in stygian and preferably dump all your available resin into it while doing other sorts of farming some other time. If you're ever going to spend fragile resins for artifacts, do it in stygian.

Artifacts have also seen two sorts of guarantee systems added. [One](https://genshin-impact.fandom.com/wiki/Sanctifying_Elixir) lets you spawn in a new artifact of a given main stat + 2 secondaries. [The other](https://genshin-impact.fandom.com/wiki/Dust_of_Enlightenment) lets you re-randomize what an existing maxed artifact rolls into. These items are gained mostly from endgame stuff including stygian and imaginarium theater (an endgame mode that emphasises having lots of decently invested characters, as opposed to a small number of heavily optimized teams). Hoyo's pretty stingy about it, and frankly you should not worry too much about the whole thing. Good old fashioned grinding -- in stygian while it's up -- is still the bread & butter.

E: I totally forgot about the commission rework with encounter points. Added that to the table under 4.1, but it's worth elaborating on.

Previously, your basic daily was to do 4 commission quests and spend your resin on something useful. That'd be on top of longer-term stuff like doing (archon/story) quests, exploration, and temporary events. Nowadays when you do those long term things, you get stamps; "encounter points". Opening a single chest in the overworld is half a stamp, completing an archon or story quests is 4 stamps in one go -- the amount you get for activities varies but you'll see how it works out soon enough. Then you hand in 4 full stamps to Katheryne to get rewards as if you did 4 commission quests. In other words, you can just go straight to longer-term goals without having to do that bit of daily busywork.

Now, what if you've already finished your 4 stamps for the day and cashed them in, but you still do more stamp-earning activities? Then those stamps go on the pile of *long-term encounter points*. On a fresh new day when you haven't filled your stamps yet, for every 30 resin that you spend, one long-term encounter point is redeemed to fill a stamp. In other words, as long as you have these long term points, you can log on, go spend 120 resin on whatever you like, and have that fill your 4 stamps. And of course you want to be spending your resin (average of 180 a day) *anyway*.

It's fine until you need him to be stronger. XD

My best guess is that they just deemed it as unnecessary, since they've been working to improve the in-game tutorials on that kind of stuff.

You're allowed to do that on diff 3 and below.

EN is fully voiced once again.

English dub is voiced and good. The female VAs for the Nodkrai playable cast are absolutely divine.

No, it definitely isn't required for any of that. At most, there's just some endgame bosses who incentivize it.

Flins (the emo guy) would like one other NK character to help enable his kit. You already have them available as Aino (small pink and yellow hydro claymore).

Some bosses benefit from his mechanics, but plenty of other are neutral and everything will have a few different ways to approach it

No it's not required [does help a bit with some of the enemies though] and since you get a free Aino, all you need is Sucrose and another electro, preferably Fischl, to make a perfectly viable [and powerful] f2p team for him anyway [you can also now get one copy of either Fischl or Sucrose [or Razor if you want].

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Also “coin” stages can be pretty quick

"solo", there's two and a 1-coin stage.

Depends on the team and your weapon/artifacts. In an overload team with Fischl/Chev it's around 20% more personal damage, a bit less if you're playing with Bennett, a bit more with Durin.

Upcoming Ineffa+Columbina pair will be meta for lunar-mechanic endgame content, and strong to carry your old/bad characters.
Lauma is also hard nerfed Nahida into bench (she buffs bloom/hb/burgeon damage when only NK character, or she enables good Columbina on-field damage when together).
Variety is not important. And Hutao, Xiao, Wanderer are not meta and not considered "strong". Venti is currently best anemo dps before Varka release.

Clorinde? still the BoL set
the NK dps set will make Clorinde overcap rather easily
could be nice with Ineffa, i wouldnt use Columbina with Clorinde without her

cause as is, i am not sure Clorinde could even surpass an onfield Sucrose and Fischl with Columbina and just adding the free Aino, and team having ascendant gleam. Aino(if c1+) +Sucrose+ Fischl all giving an EM buff too