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Waiting for the last minute is never a good idea.
I get that it's better safe than sorry but you'd think if there's already a downtime in the battlepass on patch day there'd be time on the day before to claim everything.
Same for other events, Banners and basically everything in the events menu is gone for about a day before the patch. So yeah, I would absolutely never leave anything later than the weekend before patch day if you didn't want to claim rewards immediately.
So, basically;
During the Darknight Hero's Alibi; after defeating hilichurls and mages, I went back to traven, and the quest was somehow paused. I checked the list, where it said that the Mother's last wish or something one was in focused mode.
When I tried to turn it off, it said that I will have to complete the Darknight Hero's Alibi quest, to turn it off.
Now, the thing is I can't complete the Darknight Hero's Alibi quest because the Durin one is in focused mode; and I can't turn off the focus mode of that quest, because the Darknight Hero's Alibi quest is incomplete.
Moreover, I can't even change time now
Focused experience mode doesn't get turned on by default btw. You turned it on at some point and forgot or did it by accident. It's there so the quest you're currently doing doesn't get blocked by a different quest. Obviously it's only going to do the opposite if you turn it on for a quest you aren't currently doing.
(Note: No Nod Krai DPS; Took a long hiatus and just got back.)
1. Al Haitham (DPS)
2. Ineffa (Shield/Support)
3. Columbina (Support)
4. Nahida (Support)
If not, please do suggest a good team I can make do! Will sure pull for other Nod Krai Characters if they rerun. Thank you in advance!
Bina is also of limited value to this team, since her only 'buffs' are to Lunar damage and as above, Ineffa isn't doing much of that. And since she'll be getting the Lunar-Bloom damage type, which is not great without Lauma on the team. If you replaced Nahida with Lauma, it could be a bit better. Her biggest value to the team would probably be enabling Night Sky set on Alhaitham, if you had a good Sky set and no good Gilded set already. And in terms of Hydro app, she only spawns one bloom per 2 seconds, so you're not getting much HB damage anyway.
I'm saying a lot of negative things, but tbh I don't know how much actual DPS you'll be getting from a team like that, because nobody I've seen has calced it. Maybe it still works out well enough to make Alhaitham feel strong, and Bina can take care of most Lunar shill mechanics with a quick on-field CA spam, then back to Alhaitham.
Or you can give up on trying to make it an Alhaitham team, replace Nahida with a 2nd Hydro or Sucrose (Hydro burst) and embrace the Lunar Wheelchair.
I would pull Ineffa for her.
Otherwise, if you're not fussed about her being on-field specifically, or her doing the most team damage, then a Bina+Ineffa+Sucrose team will be incredibly strong, and you can either put in another DPS or just on-field Columbina for the lols and use like Fischl for more EM buffs. Either way that team should slap.
If you want actual synergy with both of them contributing: Furina + any anemo, ideally Xianyun for the plunge buff.
If you just want a strong team: Ineffa and Columbina. Tho be warned, Sigewinne does practically nothing here and Varesa also does much less than these two will. Though it will be effective.
The pink aesthetic is S tier tho.
I appreciate any opinions or links to posts/youtube creators!
quite a big EM/ATK/DEF buff depending on reaction, and scaled to Bina HP. that also gets a 40% increase
while c1 also gives interruption resistance/energy/Hydro shield, again depending on reaction
both only for the active character
while both also improve Bina skill and team lunar damage
so if more elemental aura enemies came, for example
doubt wed get many back to back
would ruin most teams, not just those two
For real though, even if HP keeps inflating, there are some good cons you can get on Ineffa and Bina to keep the team on pace if you're not interested in pulling new units for some reason.
But who knows for sure where the game's heading. They could make Snezhnaya units deal 250k DPS at C0R0, or make a boss boss immune to everything but Cryo damage from Fatui Harbingers.
adding Columbina to Lauma, you ruin the hyperbloom crit chance passive, and get a lunar bloom specific crit passive instead
so best to onfield one or the other, without electro
account 2: 57 pity, 12k, with much more possible gathering, wanna try all the NK characters in 6.3, ill be busy
mainly want Ineffa Columbina. Zibai is mainly for the purpose of just having a geo dps. unless somehow we get news of a mondstadt chronicle for an Albedo rerun
i can live with using Aino as necessary. ive already been using her. actually Zibai+Illuga, i could just use Xq as the hydro too
Currently I have Ineffa Lauma and Nefer but I'd like to get Flins on his rerun if possible.
But I am always biased against constellations. 3 c0 characters >>> Any c2.
Am I cooked? Is it best to go for Bina and Lauma rerun (I guess it’s coming soon) or go for Varka in a team of Mona/Jean/Furina?
Otherwise, the only character I can think of at the moment (there are characters like that in just tired) is Mizuki, who just uses her elemental skill to float around as an on field support. Mizuki isn’t great though, I wouldn’t recommend her unless you really like her.
The thing is both Nefer and Flins really need their 5\* support character (Lauma and Ineffa) so if you want to get Flins I'd suggest to get Ineffa.
You could also consider Zibai but she spams normals so nvm, even if Flins do that too.
1. How long do dailies take?
2. How difficult is the endgame?
3. Is there QOL (either sweeps or increased stamina multipliers for more rewards)?
4. How important is it to fully explore maps and how long does that take?
Thanks!
2. Depends. Abyss and stygian, you need to know what you're doing. Imaginarium theater, it's a character count check but the only thing you really need is basic teamcomp knowledge. IT heavily relies on rng so you need to plan your boss fight
3. Long term encounter points in itself is a qol. We used to do 4 commission quests for a daily.
4. 100% is not that important. You get primogems from exploration tho. It'll take months considering some areas are quest locked. And there are quests such as aranara that are very long.
2. At this point, it's mostly a character/team check, unfortunately. If you have the right characters/teams, it's pretty easy, but if you don't, it can be hard. And when I say hard, it's mostly about the HP/DPS-check. There is hardly any fight in the game that is challenging in terms of timing your dodge, for example.
3. There are no sweeps, but there is a way to spend more stamina at once to reduce the grind.
4. Exploration (and to a certain extent, exploration quests) give you a sizeable amount of resources to get new characters. Also, some quests that open up new areas/bosses, which drop materials to level your characters. If you don't enjoy exploration, you can get by most of the time. But, from my experience, I see that people who enjoy exploration/quests tend to stick longer playing Genshin than those who only play for its combat. Edit: It can take a good amount of time to explore all areas; because, at this point, Genshin is almost a 6yo game with constant map updates. So the sheer amount of maps is already huge.
1. very fast. You could also log in daily but do the stuff every 2nd day (look at 3)
2. depending on what you want to achieve, like it can be fun challenging or you can really challenge yourself and "tryhard" depending on the floor, mode etc. But like most important rewards (pull currency=primogem) are always easy to get
3. no sweeps but yeah stamina multiplier for double reward, or you can craft "condensed resin" in which its counted as 3x. Crafting them also "completes dailies"
4.not important but its amazing, truly. You can do it whenever you want like I did. Can take long or not as there is a lot of content now (which is good), so dont rush things. I fully explored many things 3 years later haha
Well again, just have fun but my advice is to not use the primogem/gacha currency for standard banner
2. Depends a lot on your relative strength/character lineup/level of end game. For older accounts, abyss and theater can be done without too much hassle if you have played/pulled. Stygian can be a bit more ruthless if you are trying to do the absolute hardest thing and don’t have investment/the most optimal matchup.
3. Sometimes at the end of patches will be events with extra rewards for resources. There are a few other bonus times (like stygian artifact bonuses), and some resources given for free for doing quests/exploration during a time period.
4. The stories in those regions are usually added context to the story that is happening on the main storyline. So it is supplemental, but not required. If you wanted to do everything then it will be hundreds of hours.
2. Difficult enough that people usually need guides. Like probably most games, end game contents here heavily promote the characters currently on banner. Like for example, tomorrow is columbina and ineffa's banner, so they'll make the content noticably easier for columbina and ineffa than for others. In simple terms;
If you have the current banner's character: not too hard, can do pretty much whatever
If you don't: you might need a very strong team or a guide.
Remember, that doesn't mean that it's instant win if you have the characters, the minimum requirements (lvl 90, 8+ talents, proper artifact sets + build, proper weapon lvl 90) must obviously be done.
3. I wouldn't know what kind of QoL you're looking for, but you'd most likely be disappointed. We have the infamous skip button which doesn't exist (you'll have to go through every piece of dialogue, be it important or not), no resin reserve (basically demands daily commitment), and so much more other inconvenient things. But to be honest, compared to what it was like in the early versions, they're doing quite great.
4. If we're talking primos (currency for pulling characters), very. Other than quests, events, and other things, exploring is one of the most important if you're aiming for primos. Exploration varies, but if you use an exploration guide (you can look up interactive map), I'd say it takes a day maximum for each parts (you'd know since they put percentages per part)
But at the same time, if you're more inclined to get Columbina than Ineffa because you like the first more, nothing wrong going for that. The game should first be fun, and people should play characters they like the most, as opposed to chasing that 5% more efficient (just a random number to illustrate my point).
But would you rather have one very good team or a bunch of okayish teams?
Personally though, columbina is an obvious option, it will make you worry about only 2 teams for stygian rather than 3.
If you're more of an abyss guy, columbina is still a better option.
About imaginarium though, like you said, ineffa is more flexible therefore becoming the better option for imaginarium.
The appropriate question to ask *isn't* whether or not you have flins, but rather, do you have lauma and nefer.
You wouldn't be worrying about which to pull if you already have ineffa, and if you *don't* have lauma and nefer, getting ineffa would easily be the better option since columbina is meh without them.
Tl;Dr
Pull for columbina in your case
If you would prefer any of them, this is a terrible way to lose your pity to the ones you want least.
I'll be pulling for her next patch and I'm asking because I'm also planning on buying BP next patch and I could get one of the BP polearms for her.
Also, I think you got the passive for DM mixed up. You want to have fewer than 2 enemies for the additional attack
Like, having to pay at least a Welking Moon to be able to log into the game?
Would it be better?, it would definitely made some players leave the game but the rest would benefit from a higher item/money rate, less abusive gatcha mechanics and better overall game quality
What do you think? should GI become a totally paywalled game?
F2P is F2P for a reason - it attracts whales. You'd need thousands of people willing to pay a bit to make up for the potential loss of a single whale. And then you'd lose all the people who would be willing to pay a little extra for a free game.
It just wouldn't work. There have been games that have abandoned power gacha in favor of cosmetics, but they still keep a F2P model even then.
I would think the things you listed out are the way they are right now precisely because this current state makes them the MOST money. They definitely have professionals doing all that math and human behavior analysis.
if youre in EU
YOU should know what time it will be for you 9 hours from now
so no point downvoting me for not writing out a specific hour for you
For information: i have wanderer, skirk, furina, hu tao, xiao, kazuha, zhongli, albedo (not properly built, ayato, ganyu. I listed them by how properly they are built.
So which one would you advise me to pull for? 😬 i want to boost my teams
I think my skirk furina mona diona team is perfect i just wanna build another team
This is just. my opinion, and pulling for Collumbina isn't a bad move either. She can proc Luna Crystalize after all.
On paper sounds really good. Otherwise I'd likely just use Homa on Ineffa
Still a pretty good weapon though, as a stat stick as well. but risking getting Columbinas.. probably not worth it at least if you have another 5\* stat stick for Ineffa.
Thanks
Help me build 2 team. Im new.
not really sure on a second team
Keqing Dendro-MC Collei, Diona
Gaming Diona Rosaria, Amber when Bennett is busy.
I wouldn't level the DPSs more than lvl 70, they'll be replaced soon-ish
almost forgot about an actual strong team: EM-Lisa (on-field) Dendro-MC and Collei, or Collei and Diona, Xingqiu for hydro > hyper-bloom. More details if you're interested.
what 2nd teamcomp can i build around ineffa (i have raiden , furina , sucrose, aino, kuki ) and i want to clear abyss
or should i go for columbina
Columbina version: definitely, pretty easily
you really dont have much options with just the mentioned characters
match for coop
otherwise you already got suggestions
anyway Durin Fischl Chev is the Arle team i am currently using
Some tips to fight The Knave is to bring a healer with you and try to dodge her attacks
Xilonen in general should be good, because she heals and you kinda want to heal the bond of life the boss puts on you. If you have your Noelle already somewhat invested and/or only needs you to switch some artifacts around, her healing can also be quite handy. Or maybe Barbara with burst. Mentioning those two because everyone has them.
Lastly, you could just go Arle vs Arle and practice A LOT how/when to dodge :-P
Which one of them would benefit me more? My current team for my C1R1 Flins is C4 Aino, C6 Ororon, and either Baizhu, C0 Jahoda, or C6 Sucrose.
Baizhu is quite a bad choice to use on Flins team
Abyss has felt much easier since SO started (normally my friend completes it for me but even I've been able to manage it) and theatre would be the only place I'd *maybe* need help depending on the elements allowed but otherwise it doesn't seem like cons affects much.
Constellations and weapons certainly make things easier, but are absolutely unnecessary. For some characters you might need to be lucky on artifacts, and you'll probably need a wider variety of built characters to handle more situations that you can't brute force, but they are not mandatory at all. They only really matter for deeper difficulties of SO or the occasional bad Abyss cycle to 36 star rather than 34 or 35 star.
I would get cons partly because of my friend who helped me complete SO but he hated it and stopped and now I'm trying to decide what my pulling habits will look like going forward which has been a bit rough. Again, thanks for the response!
Everything else should be easily attainable without constellations even with lower skill.
It's nice knowing I can accomplish anything that theoretically matters if I had skill though. That was definitely the gist of my question
I more or less gave up on getting feathers but those would be the only thing I'd want from OS if I actually started attempting it
that's probably the only place I'd be concerned about, but even then it would probably make my habits go from cons+weapon to get more characters (although aside from geo it's just a matter of building who I have)
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Yes.
>Is Columbia good pull if i don't have other nod krai character?
Not really. The lunar reactions themselves are just not that big a deal.
maybe later?
Columbina is good choice then
use the two together until you get Nefer, and dont add electro
i think Columbina is the better onfielder
For context I already have Flins/Nefer/Lauma so this is largely to make their given teams more effective.
but if the option was just one con after getting c0 Columbina, i think id consider c1 Ineffa
could check character subs for a better answer
In lunar-bloom team itself alone: Nefer's R1 > C2 Lauma > C2 Nefer > Either C6 Nefer or C2 Columbina
Other than Columbina the only really interesting character for me that I really want is Sandrone and Lauma but I want a team for bina too.
Not interested in never or flins and neutral about zibai so my question is who and should I pull?
I'm debating between getting Columbina and ineffa and getting columbinas weapon for mdps but would have to wait for lauma to see that really come online.
Or I get Columbina and then pull for zibai and use them together until lauma gets a rerun and then put Columbina mdps with lauma and put aino with zibai and then get columbinas weapon maybe during her rerun.
Any insight advice would be appreciated!
Edit; any time you can walk, you can hit Esc and go back to the 'regular world', and while there's several long dialogue strings, I don't think there's more than 30 mins without some chance to walk around or do some other mechanic
should i go for ineffa or columbina (or wait for geo lady next patch?) in order to carry me long term?
Columbina with Lauma can be the main DPS, you'd run supports that fit into a dendro team like Nahida.
Columbina with Ineffa is a strong wheelchair. You can slot in any main DPS and their best support.
If running all three together, you probably onfield Columbina and run a second hydro.
Fml
1. For the hydro applicator, should I go for C0 Aino or C6 Xingqiu?
2. What weapon should I give Ineffa? I can craft R5 Prospector’s Shovel right now and I also have R1 PJWS. Other wish/standard weapons I have are bad on Ineffa.
3. What would be the best artifact sets for Ororon, Ineffa, and Aino/columbina? In this team
If I use Prospector shovel, that would mean I'd have to use aino as an hydro applicator. Also, I'm gonna try and get Columbina for this team. I'm not guaranteeing anything though.
C6R1 Furina
C6R1 Mavuika
C6R1 Columbina
Who would benefit from it the most? I was leaning towards Furina for the HP boost, but I wanted to be sure.
Because normal scalings would have made HP scalers benefit the most by far.
[https://imgur.com/a/GbdxymB](https://imgur.com/a/GbdxymB)
And for a team of flins columbina fischl sucrose what artifacts set would columbina and fischl use?
For example Im on 50/50 and in a single ten pull I got both furina and tighnari and tighnari came first before furina
*I have pretty good SMS pieces and I'm gonna farm the witch set anyway.
You can logout oftentimes betweeen segments and there is a saving icon that shows you when you can 100% safely log out.
300 pulls should be enough to get C0R1 in any realistic scenario.
We don't know when Nicole arrives, but with how heavily everyone expects Varka 6.4 there should be enough time to save up for her.
**current stats**
* Pity - 11
* Wish - 4
* primos - 63
Initial Estimate -
* Welkin moon (90) + daily (60) = 150 x 20 = 3000
* Archon Quest = 560
* Exploration = 400
* Char Tutorial (20 + 20) = 40
* Nuevi Outfit Quest = 30
* Imagnarium Theater = 1000
* we are getting free +10 pull
* shop reset +5 pull
Total = 5030 \~ 31 + 10 + 5 = 46 wishes. (50 with 4 I already have)
I need at least 20 more. (3200 primos)
Edit **- Also have 900 (300 x 3) blue crystal you get when you buy welkin. I'd like to save that for costume lol**
I have only done few wq in nod-krai + only collected few chests, sigil and statue thing.
And if you haven't finished doing stuff in the 1st section of Nod-Krai, then that should be a good bit more right there.
>!I am currently on the bit where you play as Columbina, and it says, 'Enter the world in the mirror'. I talk to Flins, see the Luonnotar, and then the scene restarts. How do I proceed to next part of the quest?!<
If it helps, I am on the America server.
I am an old player, but I took a 2 year break, and started playing again 2 months ago. I have no 5* characters past Baizhu, and almost none of the 4*’s. I’m at around 60-65 pity right now but not guaranteed. I’m wondering if Columbina is worth it? Or should I pull for Ineffa? Or wait for Neuvilette? Columbina feels like a better play style but I don’t know if she would fit well in my party. My current party is Wanderer, Yelan, Zhongli, Tighnari. I’d probably replace Tignnari with her, and build my Cyno more to replace Wanderer. My IUD is 647456783 on America if anyone wants to check.
Neuvillette is quite strong and very comfy to use. However he is showing his age nowadays as more and better dps characters are released. If you are looking at the meta, I would wait for other dps.
If you just care about the numbers look up their sheets or videos on youtube that test the exact numbers.
Choose whats fun Id say, the difference should be miniscule. Youll clear easily.
Her + Zibai is also a potentially strong duo but it is up to the actual details on Zibai's kit.
In any case having some Lunar-option is good if they start putting those Wild Hunt bosses/enemies in endgame.
Anyone on NA willing to let me join their world for Columbina flowers?
But comes down to what team types you like. If you have the chars you could also try to make a good hyperbloom team. (Nahida, Kuki, flex)
Or a good geo dps with her, but without Illuga its harder and hes in the next phase sadly. (Navia, Columbina, Illuga/flex, fourth slot geo aswell probably, more constructs mean more buffs)
Would nit stray from those three archetypes, since in Vape or else her buffs are lost utterly.
Should I just make this R1 or is there any other character that can make use of it?
So its better to equip Attack % than Electro damage bonus?
If Ineffa and columbina on the same team then
Ineffa on new set then Columbina on nod krai support set?
In Nefer team or no ineffa team Columbina also support set or new set?
HP better than Hydro damage bonus on Columbina?
Not pulling for anyone else so artifact-wise for Ororon, is it better to give him the Cinder (Natlan) set or Serenade (NodKrai) set?
P.s: not using Fischl yes.