Daily Questions Megathread (January 12, 2026)

overkill but still works, go with something like citlali, dahlia, rosaria, or mona (citlali is great bcs she can hold 4pc scroll and ttds)

Dahlia Yelan sounds better
unless you want Xingqiu specifically to increase Yelan damage a bit with the hydro shred

assuming both. the answer is easily Ineffa+Columbina. if you actually try for both
except dendro and cryo(which stops lunar charge from happening), you can use any of your other characters with those two
notably Raiden(i think you put the NK dps set on her instead of Emblem)+Kazuha
and Hu Tao Yelan (unlike Furina team, Hu Tao can actually stay at half health)
and dont know what else

Ineffa+Columbina together is a strong core that becomes even stronger with Sucrose as a third, to the point that you don't really care who the fourth is so long as they don't completely shutdown electro charged.

Columbina by herself isn't horrible but doesn't really shine unless she can be paired with at least one other Nod Krai 5 star.

Ineffa by herself isn't really ideal because her good Nod Krai artifact sets all want at least 2 Moonsign characters. But you should be able to get Aino for free from the Nod Krai archon quest, and that's good enough for Ineffa. Ineffa+Aino with the new artifact sets is pretty good and would be my recommended starting point if you wanted to roll for something next patch (unless you are into Neuvillette, he's still pretty okay with Furina).

Xilonen does work with some of your characters, but most of your DPS characters are old/lackluster so I wouldn't start with a support like Xilonen at the moment as the improvement you get from adding Xilonen to an old team will be small and still be far behind meta teams.

You have to clear Act 6 or higher in theater first.

Sucrose does everything she needs to at C0. Not actually sure whether it's worth trying to give Arle Bennett buffs to make her stronger, or just embrace the Bineffa Lunar Wheelchair and go Sucrose for max DPS.

Do you really like Zibai? More or less than Nefer? Cuz if you plan to pull Nefer, I'd stick to just one Lunar team, so Nefer Lauma Bina. And until Nefer reruns, just go DPS Bina Lauma. While Zibai+Illuga or Nefer+Lauma can work without Columbina if you end up going for both, whichever one doesn't have Bina will be a fair bit weaker.

But if you really like Zibai, you should probably prioritize her, especially with all her 4\* units on her banner. Columbina will rerun more consistently, and there's always a small chance we go straight into a Nefer+Lauma rerun in 6.4. Or skip Nefer and go Zibai Bina Illuga, and use Lauma for a Hyperbloom non-Lunar team or something.

If you're going for phys superconduct, replace Yelan with someone like Yunjin. Otherwise her best team is reverse melt with Bennett, Xiangling, Kayea.

I would say yes but I’m not 100% sure

Ineffa.

If you don’t have a Nod Krai dps to use her with, then none of those options are the best (get a dps). If you’re asking between those then yup Ineffa

Probably Ineffa out of those. Saving is also option, it's not like like you are forced to spend every pull and only choosing on what.


Characters > Cons. 


And never gamble on weapon banner,  have 160 or skip. 

If you want to get Flins, you should definitely be trying for Ineffa. Having her is a bigger increase to Flins' team than Columbina, and focusing your resources on one Lunar team *should* be the best way to go, with other good teams to cover other checks. But if you prefer Zibai, then yeah you could make her work fine. Depending on your Illuga cons by the end Albedo+Mona might even be better than him.

Would you rather have one OP team or several good teams? Cuz Nefer Lauma Bina should be a top-tier team that can handle basically any Lunar shill. But Nefer Lauma one side and Ineffa Aino another side could give you 2 decently strong Lunar teams. And Columbina is guaranteed to rerun sooner than Ineffa's second rerun probably will be, if you really do want to get both. But if you don't plan to get Flins, and have one Lunar team already, I don't think you really 'need' Ineffa for a second one. There'll always be more strong teams to go for.

Columbina.

Option 2 should be better damage, especially if you get at least C2 Illuga. But option 1 is more flexible, if you value that more.

Zibai team is better than Ineffa Bina Neuv, by like ~15% or higher.

assuming dendro and keqing and Thundering Fury
skill skill burst skill skill
i only use infusion attacks after that

Mizuki doesnt help with Lisa and dendro

PAmber or Fav is fine, Sig is more for personal DPS and is generally 'optimal' only after C2 or for DPS Bina teams. Sac Jade can also work if you have one of those.

With all the Nod-Krai characters Prototype will be fine because the team dps will already be overkill. Her weapon is for her personal dps which you shouldn't need.

If you get Lauma, you'd want to be playing Bina as the on-field DPS. It does work for off-field Bina, but not as well as Ineffa off-field. Lauma Hyperbloom is more what you play without a Nefer or Bina to buff.


If you don't necessarily care about Bina being on-field, Ineffa seems to be much more flexible and stronger of a team, slap on any DPS that isn't Cryo or Dendro and you're set.

Ineffa

For sword and polearm characters, they must always perform one NA before doing their CA.

As I understand it they do carry over. They don't seem to have any expiration timer or something like that either. 


Apparently the reason they're not the default odes is that you can gift the normal ones. (and these are own use only.)


Can't test this though. I did consider keeping one for science, but didn't go through with it. 

I can't open the link on PC

Yes it's permanent

What is your frame rate? Here is a vid that talks a bit more about the strat https://youtu.be/H-cYBK80Exw?si=4YJSLfyaR0YIBwfE

Which difficulty? I'm not sure the number of fearless, but in dire, the max limit of fall damage is around 1.5M without using bannable third party tools.

If you cant complete because of that, try a different approach if you have Tighnari. Stand near the torch near the arena and shoot his double charged attack at the Iktomisaur when he flies up. That would be 5 hits with one CA, each carrying pyro from the torch (thats boss mechanic) and each causing burning reaction. Even if the boss manages to put up a shield, you can destroy it with one CA. Works with other bow users too i believe, but you'll have to work harder

They are quite balanced. From some calcs I saw it went Nefer > Flins > Zibai; but the differences were very minimum. Like 151k, 150k, 148k or something along those lines.

Worth noting that Flins and Nefer teams both force you to spend into same-element 5-stars. Not too important, but maybe worth mentioning for F2P and/or new accounts that may want to have some variety or more open options.

Still... I think the most important part, is that you like the character and/or enjoy their gameplay. They are so close together, that you should go for the one you enjoy playing the most.

And while Nefer seems to have the highest DPS... she can feel awful for many people without a dedicated shielder or healer... and unless you go for C1 Lauma; getting that might come at the loss of some DPS.

Flins -> nefer -> zibai.


Nefers main problem is that Columbinas Q causes lunar bloom dmg so you can loose Lauma stacks when there multiple enemies.


Ineffa is also the sustain while in a Nefer team you need to manage stamina to both animation cancel and dodge enemy hits.

You are right to aim for ineffa and invest into the lunar meta. Neuvillette is still good for 95% of content. If you do end up getting ineffa, you should then try to get neuvillette even though he’s fallen behind a bit, he can still carry you until you get columbina, and Neuvi+Ineffa will make a good core team until you can pull more characters. Ineffa and zibai don’t really synergize

If you don’t feel good about pulling for neuvillette knowing he’s not the best, then just Ineffa, and try for columbina with whatever wishes you can farm while their banners are up, or pull Bina on rerun

While there will always be a “most optimal” strategy, there are ways of progression that still work but have more than just the single dps number as a focus. Ineffa is a very decent option to consider and a strategy that is a middle ground between what you want (Neuv) and what makes sense strategically (lunar at this moment) would be Ineffa and Neuv together. There are more than enough resources that you could pull Ineffa/Columbina/Zibai/Neuv from permanent content around the map, but it might burn you out to do all that exploration.

The leveling for characters gets more expensive the higher you go, but the first few levels are relatively inexpensive. So spending a little bit to get people to 20 gets you a free standard wish and the total number of characters you have leveled will eventually be helpful for theater.

Online resources do a crap job explaining to beginner how to build and play at the beginning. Don't worry about investing in the wrong characters before AR45. A few strong characters is all that is needed. A well built Lisa and Barbara, for example, can destroy most anything in the game up until at least AR35 if you just level them up and give them all the EM you can. Just be careful not to try build everyone or no one will be strong. In the Lisa and Barbara method, for example, you don't need to build the other team members because their role is simply to apply elements.

Be careful about thinking end game characters are good in the beginning. A character that requires energy to do damage is not necessarily a good starting character to build. Xiangling for example, is a great end game character but requires a ton of resources that aren't available when you start. However, she with Guobo, is a much better pyro applicator than Amber, but she doesn't need to be built to do that.

Genshin is a relatively easy game with a lot of casual friendly aspects. It's kind of hard to actually mess up. The only real ways to mess up playing Genshin:

* Trying to get every character. You wont be able to. Start with picking your favorites that are available. Maybe pick 1 5-star per patch to go for. Later on you can worry more about rounding out teams and building around those favorites to push endgame.
* Wasting Purple wishes/primogems on weapon banner/standard banner/Resin refreshes. Only use Purple wishes and Primogems (converting them into Purple wishes) to wish for the limited time 5-star character banners that feature a character you actually want. You don't need to understand mechanics of wishing odds, soft pity, 50:50, etc. For the character banner, all progress carries over. But for setting expectations, you'll usually pull a 5-star in the 75-80 wishes since last 5-star range pretty consistently. But it may take up to reaching this point twice to get the featured 5-star character, so people plan around bad luck needing 150-160 wishes even though the average is closer to 90. Wishing for characters you don't want is the only way to play Genshin "wrong" or brick your account.
* Trying to level up every character you do get. You get enough resources from just playing (quests/exploration/daily Resin) to keep 4-6 characters up with the scaling difficulty. But spread those resources too thin across a dozen characters, then the 4 you can actually play with will be weak and struggle. And to fix that you become reliant on slowly waiting for Resin on resources. Weapon lvl>relevant Talent lvl>Artifacts (don't need to be perfect)>Character lvl. Much later on in game, you will start to build these other characters.
* Inverse problem, not using resources at all so their characters are all weak, making game hard and progress slow. People read the previous suggestion and get scared of running out so they don't invest in those 4-6 characters they do play. Or they don't improve a new, stronger character to replace one of those 4-6 because they are sunk cost fallacy into what they've already invested into. Or they don't wish at all afraid of being slightly inefficient not selecting the top meta stuff (which is constantly changing) or wait 6 months-year for their MOST favorite character to come back/release, which then makes their team weak and slower to clear content now and actually inefficient.
* Not ascending Adventure Rank if the game isn't proving difficult (rewards get better). The difficulty increases should be small and more than manageable. If the game is difficult, look into what you're missing/doing wrong with team composition, reactions, rotations, and gearing. If you are VERY casual and only here for exploration/story and not combat/endgame, you can stop Ascending around AR45.
* It wont brick the game, but using Fragile Resin when you don't need to. It's there if you are feeling behind or want to get a new character built ASAP, but it's better to try to save it for post AR45 when you could have poured it all into farming 5-star Artifacts during Stygian Onslaught Outbreak (week 2-3 of new patch dropping that drops bonus artifacts). Again, you can still use it. Treat it like a catch up mechanic not something you should be using instead of questing/exploring/other forms of progression or just because you have it.
* Rushing or completionist mindset. There's just frankly too much to do and will probably burn yourself out. You can always come back and back clear content/zones. If you spend hours trying to find the last few chests hiding in a region, you are being inefficient when you could go to a new, untouched zone and be tripping over chests. But take time and smell the roses. You can still be a completionist by coming back and finishing zones later.

You can. It starts from a "Cactus Guy" speaking nonsense on the Western side of the main "Summer Islands" of Natlan, on a swing set by a tiny lake (pond?), really close to a Waypoint. [HERE](https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/670442064185655316/1460293827729428675/image.png?ex=6966641b&is=6965129b&hm=1973172c8e45ab9d2b8edc5ba40d2f490e76eb60d39d546375344fb331401896) if I recall correctly.

Not an answer to your question, but just so you know exploration playlists are a lot less necessary for Nod-Krai; the region's compass is dramatically improved, and at max level shows almost everything at any range.

100%ing nod krai is easy, the treasure compass shows you everything you need for true 100%

KyostinV on YouTube has videos for all chests and oculi. As other comments have stated, Nod-Krai compass is much more effective than other regions but it still doesn't show every single chest so if you want to collect everything, try that channel. If you want to stick to the compass, you won't miss anywhere near as many chests as you do in other regions so that's also a very good option.

dailies and some resin

You need to do 4 dailies and spend 120 resin on a single day to progress 1 day. And you need to complete 5 days on the same week to progress 1 week. Notice that using Encounter Points to complete the dailies (by spending resin) is good enough; so for many people is as easy as condensing resin twice, and talking to Katheryne.

If you didn't miss any progress you should have 1/5 of this week (since it just started) and have claimed already 6 of the 8 rewards.

It's the same requirements. That's, claim 4 commission rewards and use 120 original resin

Not really. You just use them if you have some time to fill in your rotation, or if the pyro application is relevant for the enemy's mechanics, or if you just feel like it because you enjoy doing so. Afaik she doesn't do any significant damage on any "proper" team.

the damage isnt significant at all. the only team where ive found it useful is clorinde overload (durin+fischl+chevreuse) since durins burst cooldown is slightly too long to fit clorindes 16s rotations

There are quite a few videos that highlight the fight, but it is somewhat difficult to do as you are not doing “standard” rotations but focusing on when you break certain shields and uptime on specific buffs. The more common runs that I have seen use Xingqiu on Instructor and then either Sucrose or Nahida. Sucrose provides buffs “faster” as she gives the EM buff with her skill or burst with shorter animations. Nahida provides more dendro particles (makes it a little easier to get Lauma burst up faster) and faster shield break for electro and hydro. Both are solid, but it will be a bit of preference on which you find easiest to use.

For the runs that I did, I had a specific order of things that I would do so that shields or bursts would go off at important time periods. (I am trying to remember it from a while ago so I might make some small mistakes) My rotation usually started with Nefer skill (generates particles and stops the seeds from being hit with electro/expiring), Lauma skill (catches Nefer particles), Xingqiu skill (also gets the sac proc so you have skill next time as well), Nahida skill (I ran Nahida on fav and did na’s to get the fav proc), Lauma burst, Nahida burst n1, Nefer n1 skill 3ca, Xingqiu skill burst, Lauma n1 skill, Nahida n2 skill, Nefer n1 skill 1ca, Nahida burst n1 skill, Lauma burst skill, Nefer skill 3ca, Xingqiu skill, Nefer skill 3ca skill ca burst 2ca. The shields were broken before each Nefer charged attack (or started to break with the CA) and you get 4 during the phases between shields and 9 during the full down phase.

The Sucrose version had slightly different rotations, but it involved Sucrose skill into Nefer skill (Sucrose was usually on Deepwood)

Not sure about rotations for that team, but as "tricks" go; try to squeeze high-damage (like Nefer charged attacks) in between each shield breaking and the next appearing; it should add up; so make sure your buffs are aligned for her to do her thing, and chip as it's health little by little; before the big window after breaking the 3rd shield.

In a vacuum, with no further info or priorities or favorites or plans for the future... I would say Ineffa's.

ascend ur AR no question, enemies really are a piece of cake

especially when you have a good team going which synergises with each other.

get the basics of character building, team comps and combat down first (id suggest watching a yt video)

you really dont need 5 stars and all that fancy stuff to beat world enemies or bosses

Pull Bina now and then get Nefer + Lauma later.

Idk if you wanna pull those reruns if the plan is to get strong teams. Basically things have similar longevity so older ones have less time left. Just get a premium NK team, and then another new bundle.

actually pity 36 with 78 wishes lol (i think i cant get all this but ok)

Since you want Columbina, then get her first. Ineffa if you have left over. Weapons can be good but her weapon might not be the best for you at this time.

Columbina weapon is not very good when she's in support role.

Get Columbina first, then Lauma when she reruns. Columbina's weapon priority is behind Lauma C2, Nefer C2, Columbina's own C2 and Nefer/Lauma's weapon.

It's 2pc 2pc EM/Serenade/Deepwood. Maybe Deepwood/Serenade/Instructor in practice cause Lauma has superb uptime on Deepwood even when things get delayed and stuff, while, Kuki skill runs out faster depending on her cons and has lower AoE for shitty bosses that hop up and down like the fucking herra.

NotSU/Serenade/Aubade/Instructor for Zibai team.

In Lauma / Bina / Kuki you go Deepwood / SMS / Instructor. This is possible because Kuki can proc Instructor and her performance won't suffer due to lack of stats.

Columbina's stats are too important to put her on Instructor. Losing HP stats hurts her personal damage and she also has non-trivial ER needs. So while you would prefer to have Instructor on your team, there are team compositions where no one other than Columbina can trigger a reaction, like Lauma / Bina / Nahida. In that team composition you would go 2pc2pc EM / SMS / Deepwood.

New banners start tomorrow, and last 3 weeks until rotation.

So Zibai banner should be February 3d. (Maybe 4 if timezones work out wonky, refer to your usual local banner times)

February 4th

Feb 3, Tuesday, 6:00 PM server time. The banner of second half does not start at the same time globally, but same clock on different servers. Asia/CN server starts earlier, and America server is the latest.

If you can only pull 1 character, skip Columbina. If you can pull at least 2 of them, get Columbina + Ineffa and/or Zibai.

Yes


I'd give Ineffa higher priority but you do you.

There may be a pattern but never a guarantee

That seems likely, yes. And then other in 6.5 if it's just the one.

But of course, there are always exceptions, even to such seemingly fixed rules. Think this is the first year they broke the 'Xiao at Lantern Rite' pattern.

Skirk is gonna get a rerun too and with how much promo stuff they did with her she might as well be the same an archon

problem still is that Raiden got two runs last region
so really not sure if Raiden comes this time

0 Iansans and Chevreuses? Ineffa would be good, but you'll need a bit more time for getting more primos I suppose.

It's a very cop out reply, but "whoever you like and/or want to play".

Just make sure to test them A LOT on their trials if you are thinking about pulling for them; and I don't mean mindlessly spamming buttons and easily clearing the shilled waves of enemies; but to understand how they are played and see if you like their gameplay.

If you find a character you like and whose gameplay liked in the trial, then consider informing yourself about how "meta/strong" they are (if you care about such things, if you don't mind not getting the highest scores/rewards in Abyss, Onslaught and Theater EVERYONE is good), and if so, who they are meant to be paired/played with... Like some people will get Escoffier because they loved Skirk and want to improve her team, even if they don't care much for Escoffier.

Of the upcoming banners... The only "wrong" (not really, just heard me out) choice, might be Neuvillette, because "power-wise", he is getting left behind (specially when almost all the content is easy enough to play ANYONE, but his DPS starts to feel lacking with Stygian Onslaught high requirements, thou the next one may be prepared to make him feel good in two of the bosses)...

...this being said, if you really like how he plays (I personally do, got mine C1 with R5 Prototype Amber), he is still a very valid choice.

Ineffa is great in general, but is not team-defining and is Electro (like Varesa) so it may "hurt" your flexibility a little; Columbina is great... but mostly as a support (or when paired) with other Nod Krai characters, for the whole Luna Reaction synergy; so she might not be the best choice as a stand alone... but still plenty valid if you really like her. She can still be played as an on-field DPS (even if not top-top of the meta) and you might eventually get someone in the future (released or new) that works with her. I'm not too sure about Zibai; I kinda want to like her, as I'm really looking forward to getting an actual 5-Star Geo DPS, but I really need to play her trial a bunch to see how I feel about how she plays; and even then I'm not too sure who I would pair her with.

If you don't have any pity (stopped pulling after Varesa) and got some wishes; I would personally strongly consider doing some pulls on Xilonen's banner before it runs out. That way you may get a Iansan and/or Chevreuse for your Varesa (and pretty much get a full Overload team going)... and if you get an early Xilonen... just be happy about getting her for cheap; and she can be paired with Varesa too; and is a very flexible support that always can be used in a team or another. If you don't get her, just bear in mind that built pity for future banners, and consider you may not be able to do the same for other 4-stars; since you got a higher pity and can't risk anymore until a banner comes that you really want the 5-star from.

If you really do not want Xilonen... but would still be willing to "sacrifice" some wishes for Iansan/Chevreuse (and remind you can NOT guarantee 4-stars, you may not get a copy in 200+ wishes if unlucky), decide before hand (this is usually ALWAYS a good idea) what amount of wishes you would be happy with getting a not-so-desired 5-star; and don't go beyond it. If you would be super happy about getting Xilonen in 30 wishes or less, go for 30 tops. If 40 starts feeling a little "expensive" and you would rather save 30ish pity towards a future character, do not do the 4th 10-pull, and so on. Do NOT "risk" your pity (and never the guarantee) if getting the 5-star by that price would be awful for you. Stop spending as soon as they move from a "cheap surprise" to an "expensive disgrace".

At the end of the day, you do you; it's good that you inform yourself (and don't rush-pull on a whim) as to try to not regret your choices; but if you like the character and/or their gameplay, and they are not in the gutter meta wise (or you do not care about them being so), everyone is fine.

On your case; I *personally* would "risk" up to 50 pity (without guarantee) on Xilonen's banner; be happy if I get her with 50 or less wishes; and try to fish some Iansan/s and/or Chevreusse/s while doing so. But to each their own preferences. Xilonen is also great for overworld climbing... too good in fact; I "can't" play overworld exploration anymore without at least a combo of two of Mavuika/Varesa/Xilonen... XD

objectively it makes more sense to do ayato because the others you can get from the standard selector we have been getting the past couple of anniversaries

If you mean that your Ayato is C1, his C2 is quite noticeable; so go for that if you enjoy playing him. If you don't, or you meant to say it's C0 and can pick his C1, that one is quite mediocre, and you could consider going for a Standard Character to (eventually) get them to C6+ and start getting (even if that's a couple of years down the road) the Lv90+ elixirs.

While still some CONs away, Mona's C4 is considered pretty good (even meta in one or two teams!); and personally I would love to eventually get Dehya to C6 so she feels like an (old) limited 5-star DPS.

No choice is wrong; feel free to go for the characters you like or use. Also bear in mind that this is an ongoing thing, you will be able to select two more CONs after this one... and then 4 more the next "Genshin Year", thou the rooster will change by then, and we don't know yet if they will just add new characters to the list, or if some will rotate out. If they do not rotate out, you could get (for example) Ayato C2 next year, if that might interest you.

Personally I had a really easy choice, since I started playing quite late; and I only have the standard characters from the list; so I went for Mona C3, and the other 3 will probably be Keqing C4, Dehya C2 and Jean C2... So easy to ignore Qiqi and Diluc. Tighari is a valid choice thou, and I may switch to him depending on my 50:50 loses and standard banner pulls.

>!Here’s a tight, no‑fluff **5‑line recap of Act IV**:!<

1. >!A dream‑plague spreads through Nod‑Krai, causing memory distortions.!<
2. >!You investigate and learn the Dream‑Realm is destabilizing.!<
3. >!Someone is deliberately corrupting dreams to weaken the Sleeper.!<
4. >!You confront them inside a warped dream full of illusions.!<
5. >!The Sleeper regains partial control, but the real threat is still out there.!<

Year of Tribulation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HEx2RF-SsE&t=686s

the answer will always be
the one you are actively using now
so if thats Wanderer, no reason not to.
(none of them are that great either way)

If you like playing Wanderer, even if it's just occasionally on the IT when he is allowed, or if a Spiral Abyss happens to cater to him, it's a fine choice. Remember you will get 2 more constellations afterwards for the characters on that list... and 4 more next year for a different list (that might or might not have limited repeats, I think we don't know that part yet).

Personally I would do Wanderer, Ayaka and Mona (assuming I like/enjoy Wanderer and Ayaka and want to play them by time to time). If I wanted to go "full meta" choices, I would consider Mona C3, Qiqi C3 and Jean C2; moving them towards their C6+ to eventually (even if its some years down the line) start getting the Lv95-100 elixirs...

...but even if that's was (arguable) the "meta move" right now... maybe in a year Wanderer and/or Ayaka get buffs like Albedo did, and I would regret not having picked them. So since you "can't" really go for "meta" (since we don't know how it will change), go for whatever you like to play; and worse case scenario, you may have "lost" an elixir or two, 3 years down the line, that you may never use because you are not sure who from your list of characters "deserves" it most, or are scare that the one you give it to, will become "obsolete" two patches afterwards... XD

r/GenshinHacked has 2 guides for the recovery form. everything really has to be 100%, otherwise the support won't give out any info.

Better than expected. Yes, Aino deals no dmg but in turn you get Nod-Krai resonance and it certainly works in the Abyss. Like I used Cyno Lunar-charged for clears with this duo.

pretty good, stronger than hyper-bloom for sure, add fischl and sucrose, good enough for some F12

If you aren't sure if you'd rather have Zibai or not, there's always option 3: Get Columbina, roll for Ineffa, and if you lose 50:50, get Zibai instead.

Again, depends a lot on would you rather have one really strong team (Zibai+Bina) or lots of good teams (Ineffa). If you don't have Furina yet, Neuvi+Bina+Ineffa would probably be a sizeable increase for him. For Arle, less of an increase but still a decent option for her.

Neither columbina or Ineffa is need in Arlechino teams. Ineffa is very good in Neuvillete teams, but Neuvillete has like millions of team options anyway but Ineffa is one of best of them. 2nd option in fine and works.

Basically get Columbina if you want to play lunar teams.

Bit of both because she's the only normal crit-based off field nod-krai subdps (until columbina), and she actually does do crazy damage.

She's not NEEDED for any team except maybe Flins. You can still play Flins without her, but he'll just be a lot weaker.

As for using her with Nefer or Zibai as the 4th slot, it's more just a case of Ineffa has the same requirements that they do (Hydro aura on enemies), and as long as that requirement is met, she does a ton of damage. And aside from that, she offers a shield for defense (something most premium Lunar teams lack) and an EM buff that all Lunar DPSs enjoy. So, since there's not really many 'great' 4th slot options for those teams, Ineffa is actually pretty competitve.

Using her for Hyperbloom is pretty decent, since again, shield and her EM buff applies to herself too. Depending on the team, double Hydro adds her personal DPS, double Dendro + XQ doesn't get much uptime on LC cloud but typically gets more Blooms instead. Edit: But it's hard to build for a ton of LC and HB damage at the same time. Usually in Double Hydro you still build ATK > EM and just rely on the EM buff for decent HBs, and in double Dendro you'd probably build EM >= ATK and ignore half of her kit. Which some might say is a 'waste' of a good character, but you do you.

And then of course the Ineffa+Bina wheelchair getting basically anyone over 100k DPS. Between that fact and all the people saying Columbina sucks without a Nod Krai 5\*, it should be clear who the real powerhouse of that duo is.

Half? You act there's more than Nefer and Flins teams for Nod Krai dps now. Sure, I guess half of two is one but you don't need to make it sound so dramatic. If you want to play Flins to his max potential, sure, get Ineffa. If not then you can skip her no problem.

She is only need in flin teams. She does provide em and attack buff so she is versatile in a lot of teams anyway. But not need in nod krai non flin teams.

You probably did the missions earlier and forgot.

bina weapon isn't that much better than alternatives (aka 4\* weapons) if using her as a support.

Escoffier’s weapon is really good for Chevreuse and Iansan as well as Escoffier. Worth saving for.

Yes, that's correct. There's a grace period between when the current banners end and when the new update is out.

Yes.

The end of the Character event wish is dependent on the Local server time (which time it is in the timezone where the server you play on is located)

However whenever a new update releases, the game servers are taken offline for roughly 5 hours. This period is known as update maintenance. This period is synchronised across all servers.


For the EU server, it usually happens from 23:00 till 4:00 wintertime. While the character banner ends roughly 15:00 wintertime. (This is relative to the central European timezone)

28.6 GB, but downloading it tends to need a bit of extra space.

My full installation with 1 language voice pack, with pre-download of the new update, and without delete anything at all, is about 46.5 GB.

The total size should be a lot smaller after tomorrow's update. And if you have finished some archon/story quests, you should be able to delete some files and the final size should be further smaller.

I would heavily recommend pulling for the newer units over pulling for copies of older ones. However, the new unit, Columbia (coming in a couple days) is only a support, and works to mainly only buff units her region. (Lauma+Nefer combo, or Ineffa+Flins, or Illuga+Zibai).

Unless you pull for both Ineffa+Columbina and/or Zibai, I wouldn’t recommend getting Columbina immediately.

There’s also 2 new endgame modes in addition to spiral abyss. Imaginarium Theater, which requires a lot of units level 70+. Each month the Theater resets, and 3 elements are chosen. You can (mostly) only use characters from those 3 elements, and the highest difficulty needs 28-32 characters.

Stygian Onslaught resets once per patch, and has 3 bosses that shill current banner characters. The highest difficulty is C0R1 with really good gameplay-level, though the second hardest is spiral abyss level.

The unfortunate truth is that most of your current characters are pretty old, and thus are not only underwhelming by current damage trends, but have weak constellations that make investing further into them not as much 'return on investment' as just getting new characters. It's still *possible* to get clears with them, but it needs the right situations, good builds that usually take ages to farm, and perfect gameplay that might take hours of resets.


Ineffa would definitely be one to go for, a team of Raiden, Ineffa, Columbina (or 4* Aino if you can't get both) and an Anemo unit for shred should be good enough to deal with endgame needs.


Also, this Abyss rotation in particular was 'harder than usual', so it's somewhat understandable that you couldn't beat it, especially coming back after so long. You might have better luck in upcoming Abyss cycles, especially if you invest in at least one Lunar team to take advantage of the shill. Whether that's Ineffa+Columbina (/Aino), Columbina+Zibai (or just Zibai+Illuga+Aino is ok if you can't afford both), or some other future Lunar character. Otherwise, you could consider Escoffier for Ganyu, but the actual DPS isn't much better than XL+Bennett, especially in AoE situations. Or just save up some pulls and get some other meta duo, like Skirk+Escoffier, Mavuika+Citlali, etc.

Can you take a screenshot of your full roster and upload it to imgur? Also if you have your uid then you can plug it into akasha and get some build information based on that.

This current abyss cycle has been pretty tough for a lot of people. Venti was on banner recently, and when he is on banner there will usually be a lot of small enemies and 12-1-1 is 41 of them in a lot of different waves. Which is something that a lot of teams can have trouble with if they are not able to adapt to multiwave or aoe well. There are clears that I have seen with Ganyu melt, but it didn't look all that easy to do. But knowing what characters you do have but haven't leveled yet might be beneficial to helping form a team for that content. Additionally, the abyss will change soon and you could have teams that line up better for that content or that could help influence your pull decision

The good news is that you don’t need to get a single star for the trophy, so you have the full 10 minutes to play with. Just gotta get through it.

22 ish

Sounds like the card game

Not especially. The map highlights areas to find the items in at least and how many per area, and if you buy BP you can get 30 of any material from the early levels.

Dont know when you quit but its easier now, the grind still exist though.

Drops rates are better now.

Materials/enemies can be marked on the map. (Honestly still lacking cause they only show limited amounts daily)

Bosses just respawn on the spot.

The domains are now practically always open when it matters, e.i. at the start of the patch.

Honestly the collecting itself is trivial, the only really inconvenient things are the time gated ones. Like I can only kill so much enemy before they go extinct and now I have to wait for the next day which ruins my flow.

If you do their story quests right after they release, they give you a little burst of materials. On top of that, there is a new world level that gives more materials from enemies/bosses. Lastly, you can now mark items/enemies on your map directly from the item description and it will take you around.

Not really, this part is intentional and for new characters time gated. For example for columbina you need 2-3 days just to get her to level 90 and then wait another 2 months to crown her because the crown materials are getting released with her and you need 2 months worth of it to double crown her.

For characters on rerun you have no problems and you can always prefarm materials for them.

If you need character EXP, farm blue ley line outcrops.

If for some self-imposed challenge or other personal reason, you specifically want Wanderer's Advice and not the higher-tier materials, buy them from Tubby in the Realm Depot.

Do you actually like Nefer? Both character and gameplay-wise. Cuz especially for an on-field DPS, you have to kinda like a character to actually enjoy playing them long-term. But if you like Bina more, DPS Bina should be fine, and while Ineffa isn't necessary for that, it's a pretty big improvement regardless, plus opens up lots of team flexibility. Columbina + Lauma and/or Ineffa should be more than enough to do endgame, Lunar shill or not. As long as it doesn't directly counter it, like with permanent non-Hydro aura or immunity to damage types.

For the current Nefer team:

1 upgrade would be Nefer c1, 2 would be Lauma c2, 3 would be Lauma c2 Nefer r1, 4 is Nefer c1 on that last one. Columbina cons/weapon are not as impactful for the team damage as other options, but if you have a lot of primo income then none of the other things are on banner.

I would probably say c0r0 Columbina and then see how she feels after a week. Then probably save for other characters depending on how you feel.

We have no concrete info on Varka/Nicole but ask in the leaks sub in a little over a week.

I mean, is there an upcoming character that you actually want, or are you just pulling for meta? Cuz if it's meta, more chars to cover more checks will be better, and C0R0 Columbina should be more than competent. Lauma's C2 is a better DPS increase to that team than Bina C2, or Nefer C2/C1R1.

They do regional rollouts for abyss/events and it is personally frustrating to see others get to play it first.

What more do you expect from a Chinese company? Would you prefer if Asia server got access to the patch 10 hours earlier than you, and had time to flood social media with story spoilers and showing of pulls? I find it depressing enough when I'm at work, Asia server gets their banner and abyss changeover hours earlier, and all the videos are coming out while I know I have to wait for it.

>Why doesn't Mihoyo do better release windows when it comes to time zones? For EST players tomorrow, Luna 4 is actually playable at 11PMbEST... That's barely a January 14th release and more realistically a January 15th release.

Because they do whatever they want? All updates release at the same time globally. While it's 11pm to you, it's 11am for me

You could have just said you want hoyo, a chinese company in the other side of the ocean, to cater to your schedule instead of writing all this. 


I guess it wouldn't qualify as a "question" then.

I did it with a hyperbloom team with Nahida instead of Lauma, but it was pretty tight. There are also bloom variants that have another damage dealer like Neuv that can beat it while also doing some of the gimmick. Also since it is in the overworld you can eat food before the fight for an extra edge.

[This google doc](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/19KYfTSNpTNXCvwbcPeN3T9Cylc0AaOIqwNysmFqOmWY/edit?gid=0#gid=0) lists all the quests, and indicates their importance.

But it's mainly the series that led up to Paralogism that have the biggest impact tbh. Shadows Amid Snowstorms and then Simulanka. Others have cool lore reveals, but aren't really important to the 'main story' as of yet.

The skin should be on sale as soon as the patch goes live, but the Lantern Rite event it seems like he might appear in with the skin won't be for another \~3 weeks after the patch goes up.

Usually it'd be instantly after the update, with a temporary discount

You can if you want to, but the value is a bit lower. Lauma is pretty much the main unit making Lunar-Bloom valid.

If you want to on-field Columbina, sure. That duo shoukd be able to handle most Lunar shill mechanics, which Lauma on her own usually doesn't. If you aren't on-fielding Bina, it does still 'work' but it's not as good, in general or for shill.


If you want to try a Nilou team (guessing from flair), it could work, but you'd actually prefer 3 Hydro with Lauma the only Dendro, so she gets Bloom ownership (and already builds full EM) and you don't lose too many of her 'quills' on the Blooms instead of Bina's damage. But if you just wanna do 2:2 and not worry too hard about being optimal, that's still probably good enough a team, esp with Nahida burst helping Bina who still wants to build HP > EM.

Columbina is not recommended if you have no nodkrai units (Flins, Ineffa, Lauma, Nefer), but if you still want her AND a strong team off the bat, you should get Ineffa. They are in the same phase of the same patch, so it may be difficult to get both.

Columbina + Ineffa is like one of the best thing you could be doing. They make a lot of team easily reach 100k+ dps which was the baseline for top tier teams. They are on the same phase though.

If you’re going to be playing a significant amount over the next six weeks, you *might* be able to get Columbina and one other character this patch. Zibai will be a great main DPS (you would only need Illuga to make her work, and he’ll be on her banner) and Ineffa is a fantastic support/off-field DPS character who forms a strong team core with Columbina.

Obtaining two of them is very unlikely as a F2P, however. The next Nod-Krai support to run will almost certainly be Lauma - a few patches down the road, mind you - and using her in a team with Columbina would potentially allow you to use the latter as a main DPS. I haven’t looked into how effective this is at low investment.

You could instead aim to obtain Illuga on the second half banner this patch, even without acquiring Zibai. He may open up some Geo-related team options with Noelle and Columbina.

As others have said, Columbina on her own isn't anything too crazy. You really want to pair her with another Nod-Krai 5 star to fulfill her potential. In that case, you can either pull for Ineffa, who is rerunning alongside her, or Zibai, who is coming in the 2nd half of the update.

Ineffa is an off-field sub-dps/shielder. She pairs really well with Columbina thanks to the both of them buffing each other and providing solid off-field damage. The two of them combined make for a very versatile and solid team core to build around.

Zibai is an on-field dps who wants to be run with other geo and hydro characters, with Columbina easily being her best hydro teammate. Calculations are showing that she should be one of the best dps we'll have upon release, assuming you have the right setup for her (with Columbina being the most important piece of that).

Multiplicative

Additive. It's negative dmg bonus applied to enemies' attacks.

See: https://genshin-impact.fandom.com/wiki/DMG_Reduction

Yes, that's correct. If you replaced Chasca or Ning with a PHEC element character, she'd be able to heal with her burst.

Think she also loses ability to shred res too. It's supposed to be her like DPS mode. Need C2 to at least keep her Geo Res shred up while off field.

Ineffa isn't needed for her team, and might not even be her BiS afaik. You'd typically want Columbina, Illuga, and C6 Gorou (or Zhongli if you need a dedicated sustain). Ineffa would take the last slot if you did include her, but it's far from being a big deal for the team.

Zibai's premium team is Columbina, Illuga, and Gorou, and both 4 stars should ideally be c6. Ineffa, while still great, isn't really considered a priority in any lunar crystallize team as far as I'm aware. So really you should just grab Columbina and then go all in on Zibai's banner to get as many copies of Illuga and Gorou as you can.

Ineffa is definitely not needed. The competition for the 4th slot of Zibai's team is not very fierce atm, with Gorou C6 and Zhongli being the better ones, but Albedo or Chiori also work if you have either, or Ineffa as said just cuz of her damage. C6 Aino/Jahoda are also options just for Lunar buffs, or you can slap on a generic healer/shielder as long as they aren't Dendro or Cryo (which would ruin your Hydro aura). But considering both Gorou and Aino are on Zibai's banner, it's not very likely you'll miss getting at least one of each, and even if pre-C6 they're not as good, they still function.

We don't know what varka do yet. Maybe completing flin team should be better because ineffa is in natlan patch, she will most likely be available last in nod krai just like sumeru teams are none existant in nod krai except for archons.

I wouldn't. This one's pretty good, and most other EM goblet users don't care (as) much about crit.

I wouldn't. Maybe if you have a literally perfect off-piece Flower. But a crafted Goblet is very unlikely to roll more than 4RV into crit (only like 10% chance for 6+RV that would match or be better than current). So you'd have to make up for that 2 lost RV on Goblet with a Feather that's like 8RV to come out ahead by only like 3% DPS.

Better option is craft for other characters or just level up whatever you find. Most who want EM Goblets don't care about CR/CD, want ER (Sucrose/Kazuha/Lauma), or don't care about ER at all (Kuki).

We do not know. Have to wait until the patch notes at least.