Hoyo really needs have more efficient ways to earn billets rather than locking them behind weekly bosses.

im not even joking when i say in my whole 3 years of playing genshin, i have only R5ed only one craftable, the Prospec Shovel for Flins. I know you can techincally earn them with exploration rewards, but once those run out, ur screwed.
And worse? There are now 3 variants of billets that are locked to specific bosses
Even worse? Dream solvents are just as rare as ever, and it costs 2 dream solvent to convert a billet to your liking

Its tedious system, already hampered by the fact you have only a few chances per week for it to drop. My personal suggest would it be to be available on the starglitter store every month but idk, just give them a bit effiencicy to drop

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PandiTati2026-01-19 10:22

Absolutely agree with you. The fact you can't convert one weapon type to another, like catalyst billet into sword one, is also disappointing. I have so many bow billets when craftable bows are genuinely useless for me, yet I get zero of those types I actually need.

Putting them into starglitter or stardust shop would be amazing, even if it would be just 1 per month. There's no opportunity in GI to get the event limited weapons like in HSR or ZZZ, and putting fav on everything as funny as it is isn't an option, so craft is actually useful and important

jasonensteinyt2026-01-19 10:59

Ironically enough, that aspect is the worst part, finally getting a billet but it's the wrong weapon type. I was just barely lucky enough to have 2 spare billet shipments (I think thats what it's called), to R5 the weapon I actually wanted

Imo the 2 dream solvents would make sense only if you're converting the billet weapon type to another

PandiTati2026-01-19 13:48

Yes, 1 solvent to change the regional type and 2-3 to change the weapon type would be a more fair deal, solvents have almost a three times bigger chance of drop (33%) than a billet (12%). The chance to get a certain weapon type billet is 2,4%

I get that the game wants to push players to pull weapon banners or get BP, but there also should be a way to get billets of a certain type aside from rare instances of being rewarded with billet crates.

Hoyo added crowns into the starglitter shop, it's not wise to buy them for 50 glitter but the opportunity is still there for those who desperately need it. The same should be for billets for about 15-20 starglitter. Not too little to devalue the item, the cost of 3-4 pulls is enough to consider not buying it over cons for 4 star characters or wishes to get weapons from weapon banner, but not too much to make it impossible to get or devalue the Blackcliff and Royal weapon series (tho arguably they are mostly trash even with Crit substat with only couple exceptions)

LoreoCookies2026-01-20 00:20

I have onto the ones that let you pick like a covetous little goblin because they're so hard to get... I hard farmed the ones from the Chasm for my first Prototype Amber and was extremely lucky to have 5 catalysts for Columbina. Meanwhile my partner is swimming in bows and claymores :(

Solacen2026-01-19 11:30

Ive been trying to get the natlan/nod'krai catalyst billet for months now and still havent gotten a single one xD fml. Just let me exchange one ofmy ass load of claymores or spears for one.

CoconutxKitten2026-01-19 15:14

Right? I just got a bow billet & I wanted to scream because I’m trying to R5 my prototype Amber

Darkfire13782026-01-19 10:22

Surprised 3 years you only got 1 R5.

In 5 years I have at least 30 of each and 182 Solvents.

I only really use the Proto Ambers tho.

I have an Alt I made recently and I only really feel the pressure to get Billets there, So i understand that feeling.

DaisukeIkkiX2026-01-19 11:51

yeah same, I at least have half of your number lol and not even farming all bosses every week, just 3. I call bs on OP.

silent_soda2026-01-19 16:20

Same

misanthropicirishman2026-01-19 10:29

these kinds of systems are always super annoying. if you've played a long-time, they almost don't affect you at all. but if you haven't, good luck doing this from scratch. it's tediousness for tedioussness sake, it's the same sorta issue the weekly boss mats for talents has.

rW0HgFyxoJhYka2026-01-19 12:30

Basically Mihoyo wants people to pull for weapons or buy BP.

Thats why they make it such low drop rate. The game actually has legit good craftable weapons unlike their other games. So these billets are way more valuable.

codyak19842026-01-19 18:34

I've been killing 5+ bosses per week for the last 6 to 8 weeks because I want to R5 the Lantern for Nefer. Haven't gotten a single billet, period, let alone a Borderlands Catalyst. I'm half wondering if the shit's bugged, because sub-3% drop rate is ass otherwise.

Cole_James_CHALMERS2026-01-20 00:22

I couldn't do the Xiangling Crescent Pike strategy for the Herra boss a couple Stygian Onslaughts ago because no Polearm billet. Still no Polearm billet since then and I've been doing 60 cost weekly bosses sometimes too.

The new map doesn't reward any billets sadly, they knew Polearms would be in high demand for Flins & Ineffa

ianmeyssen2026-01-19 16:19

i've been playing every day since the release of 3.0, including my weekly 3x boss claims and i'm still short on billets of every weapon type

Mumarmaiz2026-01-19 18:09

Played since 2021 and I'm chronically out of sword billets but also have made stupid choices like R5 Iron Sting... Haha. Just checked the total of current billets combined with crafted weapons: 32 claymore, 30 polearm, 26 bow, 22 sword and 17 catalyst.

Also a few of the sword ones has been from events where I can choose a billet so it definitely skewed towards the ones I need the least 🥲

cartercr2026-01-19 19:18

I’ve played daily since 1.2 and can’t craft a single Proto-Amber for Columbina.

(For the record I *do* own an r5 one, it’s just needed on Mona for my Mualani team.)

StanTheWoz2026-01-19 10:30

Yep, I made r5 prototype amber for Columbina this patch and it completely wiped out my supply of those billets.

Ok_Trifle53502026-01-19 10:32

I have the same problem. I've been playing since the game came out, but the weekly bosses never give me any, and it's the same for solvents.

I have no luck in this game, whether it's with that, or with pulls and other things.

rW0HgFyxoJhYka2026-01-19 12:31

You...weren't farming weekly bosses in the first 2 years to get a a bunch of these?

EntertainmentIll15672026-01-19 10:34

Me with 3 R5 craftable claymores (all of them are ass compared to most 3 star claymores)

Good-Commission11872026-01-19 10:37

yep, i kill 3-4 boss for a week and i get this stuff only 1 out of 10 lol

PandiTati2026-01-19 10:43

The chance to get a billet from weekly bosses is 0,12 or 12%. So it tracks

kuroro032026-01-19 10:56

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Mitsun2026-01-19 11:18

Well... if you haven't been playing the game then it kind of makes sense you 'get more' from the returning player rewards because your chance of getting them from the weekly bosses is... zero? like yeah the RNG for these aren't great but back when I was tracking billets I've gotten 2 in one week, sometimes I get them anywhere from back to back weeks or 40+ days apart. but at least I have that % to get them since I do my weekly bosses. On average I wouldn't be surprised if any regular player has more billets than someone who only gets them from returning player rewards.

Meettherubbish2026-01-19 10:58

Absolutely 100%. Maybe through the abyss or IT but it comes every other abyss/IT instead of every reset, if they really wanna make it scarce. But being rng is bs.

throwway852352026-01-19 11:00

Dream solvent can't be that rare, I have 200 of the thing.

HolyBiscuit692026-01-19 11:55

And how long have you been playing?

throwway852352026-01-19 12:29

Since October 4th 2020.

HolyBiscuit692026-01-19 12:40

Then of course you would have ammassed a considerable amount of solvents and billets ftom thrn to now. And still that is a very small number c9nsidering how many times you probably farked weekly bosses to maybe get those materials.

throwway852352026-01-19 12:45

Dream solvent wasn't introduced until April 28th 2021. Assuming a uniform distribution, around 5 years for 200, if people played for 3 years they should have 120. Most weeks I don't even do all 3 bosses for battle pass.

HolyBiscuit692026-01-19 12:54

I think the issue is more with the billets than the solvents. There is no variation to the solvents, they just are, but the problem arises with billets which you either get or don't with the chnaces of getting the one being extremely low too.

PandiTati2026-01-19 13:33

The drop rate of billets is 12%. There are 5 types of weapons so you have 2,4% to get the one you need. Dream solvents that have 33% of drop chance aren't the issue as you cannot use them to change the bullet of one type of weapon to another.

ConciseSpy850672026-01-19 11:06

Want some of mine? I got like 3 billion of them that I don’t use

Kingpimpy2026-01-19 11:10

>in my whole 3 years of playing genshin, i have only R5ed only one craftable

i crafted all sumeru ones to R5 on release so i call bs on that

and no i didnt do more than 3 a week

i could craft more than enough weapons very easily right now without even checking my billet count

if you try to lie for easy karma make it at least believable lol

Fickle-Soup65062026-01-19 17:16

I can assure you that this billets are really really annoying to get, especially one precise type of weapon you want. In two month of playing, I've only got 2 billets

LostAllBets2026-01-19 20:21

3 bosses a week, there was about a month long span where I didn't get a single dream solvent. It's RNG. Sometimes people simply don't get any.

Congrats, you get dream solvent regularly. Why do you think other people also get drops like you do?

Kingpimpy2026-01-19 21:00

>Claim Trounce Blossom from Weekly Bosses with Original Resin for a 33% chance to drop.

so the next month you got 8 probably

so what?

i used around 200 by now for sure i still got 120

its nonsense to complain about that

you expect to get solvent for not playing thats your issue tbh

LostAllBets2026-01-19 21:35

>so the next month you got 8 probably

Incorrect.

So what? You making stupid ass assumptions everyone gets the same drops you do is what.

It's nonsense to complain about rng on rng? Why? Because you are spoiled with plenty of drops so everyone else must be too? You're insufferable.

nadsjinx2026-01-19 11:26

i once tried to farmed these with some months getting 0 drops. i eventually gave up not getting what i want, the drop rates are just abysmal.

you play long enough though you build your weapon cache and will outgrow these billet crafter weapons.

strawberry_ooyoo2026-01-19 11:28

I wish I could give away all my billets in exchange for 5,000 eggs

Alpha06Omega092026-01-19 11:43

Take mine, I haven't used billets since 2.0

Josh_Addy2026-01-19 11:45

i was just ranting about this to my friends. i want to r5 finale of the deep, prospector's shovel the nod krai sword... I'm getting nothing from these boses ... before dottore we only had 1 boss to get the 3rd kind of billets.
its so infuriating

Abgott892026-01-19 13:07

Check the alchemy table. You can convert between billets from different regions, you just can't turn them into billets for a different weapon type.

Josh_Addy2026-01-19 13:13

bold of you to assume i have dream solvents

komandos452026-01-20 03:35

Its beyond me how peoples missing dream solvents. Like for what you guys use them ?
Or you don't do weekly bosses at all.

Josh_Addy2026-01-20 09:20

dude character talents? i have like 25-30ish crowned talents across my characters and multiple level 9s
I've been playing since 2.0 i didnt care enough for old box billets and solvents at that time n just converted them for shit weapons earlier ... but since sumeru dropped i started using them more seriously and its been a long standing issue since then.

SparrowUwU2026-01-19 11:56

if you need more billets you could always run more than 3 bosses a week

Iokua_CDN2026-01-19 17:07

Now we actually got a ton of bosses so it's easier than ever! I only ever do the 3 a week, but the options there.

How many weekly bosses are there now? 7?

Edit, there is 12..... 12 chances each week if you really want a billet.....

wphxyx2026-01-19 12:03

I've been trying for 3 months to craft a Sapwood Blade for Bennet.
Three bosses a week, sometimes more, trying to get that billet... I have yet to have even a single drop of any billet, let alone a sword. That is, of course, apart from the one time I did Dottore I got a borderlands halberd billet. The actual physical pain I felt when I saw it appear in his drops, like I had wasted an opportunity...

No sword billets so far. I dreamed of R5, but right now I will settle for the base.

StevesEvilTwin22026-01-19 13:01

There's no reason to refine the Sapwood blade for Bennet anyway, the ability is useless for him.

Banned-User-562026-01-19 13:55

It took me around 5 months to get enough claymore billets for R5 Whiteblind, it was pain.

MattE362026-01-19 14:16

You can get a sword billet from both sumeru and Fontaine “sigil trees” just do some exploring.

wphxyx2026-01-20 00:05

I know, unfortunately I used those for Skirk's craftable just before I started on this venture.

Iokua_CDN2026-01-19 17:02

That's why I always save a billet box when you get one. Just in case you need a single craftable

-_crow_-2026-01-19 12:05

this confuses me so much, I have like 20 in total laying around and then 3 choice ones. and i don't even do my weekly bosses. (oh and I did use like 10)

Iokua_CDN2026-01-19 17:06

Unless you are trying to r5 a bunch of craftables, you won't have a billet problem.

I don't worry about r5ing them, just get 1 copy of each, then slowly refine the ones that actually get used. Useless craftables sit at r1 until actually used

jo_nigiri2026-01-19 12:18

I'm a casual, I just straight up refuse to R5 craftables because of this

Iokua_CDN2026-01-19 17:01

It's better that way.

I r1 at least each, in case they end up being useful. Then I slowly add refinements when I get an extra billet.

Seems silly to try and r5 all of them when many aren't useful at all, and others have better free alternatives.

Just slowly refine the useful ones as you go

soaringneutrality2026-01-19 18:06

Yeah, that's the solution, whether people want to hear it or not.

Don't go for R5 straight off the bat. Farm more than 3 bosses a week if you want billets.

Frostgaurdian02026-01-19 12:33

It is 5 years late for that.

ElsaGranhiert2026-01-19 12:39

I think it's fair to say billets should be in the free battle pass rewards. Maybe 1 for free and 2 for paid or something like that.

StevesEvilTwin22026-01-21 01:01

I would legit even take the option of a billet box *in place of* one of the BP weapons

FilDaFunk2026-01-19 13:16

I haven't had any in the last 15 bosses :(

Competitive-Watch7502026-01-19 13:55

Drop rate should be increased. At least guaranteed 1 billet in 3-4 weekly boss drops.

Jonathan3141592026-01-19 14:03

You could just quit playing for over 2 weeks to get welcome back rewards which includes a billet selector box (repeatable after another 45 days)...

BlackestFlame2026-01-19 14:37

Sure

Iokua_CDN2026-01-19 16:56

Maybe I'm just the odd duck.

1. Dream solvents are plenty for me. Like all the time. I have a stock pile of them. So any billet is good, I can convert it to the one I want.

2. Occasionally taking a break for 2 weeks to get the return bonus means you get a billet box. I run multiple accounts so it's really easy to take a break on one and get a billet box.

3. You only get the 3 chances for 30 primos, but you can bust through the other bosses for 60. For a true billet hunter, getting every weekly boss means more chances.

4. Being selective on which weapons you max. Do I need a r5 prototype Rancor? No way.
But getting every Craftable at r1, then maxing the ones that actually have a use, a character that uses them, and a noticeable effect from r5ing them and no better 4star alternatives.... you won't need to max many of them.

5. Just be patient and wait. Save a billet box or 2 in case new Craftables come out that you need the r1, but otherwise, build the weapon and slowly refine it over time. I'll throw the odd refinement on my prototype amber or iron sting as I get them, but it's OK to slowly build from R1 to r5. It's a small upgrade over time.

6. I've sort of already said it, but save a few billets for new craftables. A new R1 can be a much bigger power increase than simply r2 or r3 or r4 or r5 on an existing weapon. Saving a billet in case means there is no mad rush after a new area Is released. Or save a billet box instead because rarely are all the weapons good, usually there is just a couple of useful craftables out of the bunch

taintedmask2026-01-19 17:51

dream solvents are rare? i got 150 of them

Mefhisto6662026-01-19 18:23

still waiting for catalyst billets to craft refinements for my nefers weapon

TrueLink002026-01-19 18:36

Since Nathan released I’ve received one borderland billet from a boss. Craftable weapons feel less available than weapons from wishing.

cartercr2026-01-19 19:16

Me: oh sweet Columbina can make really good use of Proto-Amber! Let me go craft one real quick!

My inventory with no catalyst billets:

JewelKnightJess2026-01-19 19:58

At the very least you should be able to get one on the Battle Pass. Or maybe an NPC who you can trade unwanted boss drops to for them.

Elxjasonx2026-01-19 20:01

i Have 14 bow billets, i need catalyst for columbina

EuraLapist2026-01-19 21:00

By the end of the year I will be able to craft another catalyst, maybe 😭

leakmydata2026-01-19 21:49

How is this possible? I have so many damn billets that I don’t need for anything.

Costyn172026-01-19 23:37

Just leave them to the weekly bosses and instead of a chance to get a billet, you always get a material used to craft the billet you want. Maybe 5 for 1 billet?

the_tygram2026-01-20 00:27

Also stinks that you used to get billets with the Sigils from opening chests. Nod Krai used the "meeting spot" system instead and none of those rewards are billets. So we currently have 5 less than usual for an expansion.

Melon7632026-01-20 00:35

If you do all the weekly bosses instead of just the 3 discounted ones you’d probably have a lot more, I got like 30 spear billets rn

BandicootFar41262026-01-20 01:10

A solution could be to grab the stellar reunion reward, you just need to stop playing for around 15 days. Not sure if it's worth it but still... at least it's a guaranteed billet of your choice.

It's ridiculous how the best way to obtain billets is to stop playing the game.

Dreameater22026-01-20 01:41

This is so true and theory crafters are putting 3 craftables in 1 team in the recent teams and I am like who the heck has 3 r5 catalysts that has not played for at least 1 and a half year and if they have it , is it still considered low investment at that point ?

Graveyard_012026-01-20 03:25

Bro I had to constantly do each and every weekly boss until mid sumeru to r5 my prototype crescent. I have more dream solvents that I know what to do with at this point.

Ghurty12026-01-20 03:51

im glad that after 5 years i was easily able to r5 prototype amber for columbina bc i had collected *6* total billets of that type lol

aikuaivenchorr2026-01-20 07:49

Solvent is not really that rare, although I would not object against increasing of drop rate of it.

Buf situation with billets is really, really horrible, I agree with it.

Alola72026-01-21 13:33

They should at least drop it as a billet box from which we can choose the particular type of billet we wanna get. I need more claymore billets

LarryKingthe42th2026-01-23 04:28

I just want more dream solvents...i have so many useless boss mats