I fking hate this horse fk fk fk id rather fight papilla all day

nah my Nefer lost 90% of her hp to the dog's shield mechanic ending. The only recent she survived was because I have her on Surf's Up which bumps her hp to 21k

I mean you can Also Dodge the papilla explosion, and It gives you a lot of time to break the shield, so if you see that you can't manager to break It you can Just...go away? It doesn't even have that much range

that is the risk they are willing to take .

Depends on how the majority of players react after this. If they keep doing this, maybe that means the majority of players tolerate it or even like it

Genshin US fans couldn't properly boycott cause they still played the game and were secretly pulling for characters...they'll be fine until CN and JP decide it's too much

"might" that implies that hoyo is playing a 50/50 here.

Eh, lets be real....Whoever cares enough about emdgsme WILL pull if thats the case, whoevers not will not worry about this issue anyway.

They were already doing it, but now they are going to far. In the past having the banner characters made end-game content 'easy', but was still doable with other teams if build well enough. Now we enter the true p2w territory, where you need the new characters or you can't beat it. The current abyss making it so you need lunar for the first boss and electrocharged for the remaining two in the second half, really limits your options.

I think it depends on how dire and how obvious it can be.

This boss is a pain in the ass, but it's an optional world boss you probably don't need to fight and, in the endgame game modes, it's mostly delegated to the higher floors or only becomes a pain the higher you go, which, for some players, it's alright to just not do (such players who are content stopping at Floor 11).

Because of this, players probably won't be turned away as quick. Plus, between Columbina, Nefer, Flins, and Lauma, I'll be surprised if some players still don't have any lunar characters tbh, unless they really don't care like that lol.

It will surely lower if the cost incline is steep. That's why they're adding the new mechanics in slow waves. It provides a false sense of security for people insisting on saving for favorites. Natlan had the steepest so far. Two source automaton bosses, lava dragon, and papilla were the main spikes. The local legends and the rest of the bosses were gentler. They were clearly testing the waters. At present, Nod krai already has 4 bosses and 6 local legends and it is not yet over. There is more to come.

They are determined to see how long players will choose to struggle before they drown. You can say some will quit but there are also some who will give in and be converted into a paying customer.

It's easy to assume that they will lose revenue from your perspective if you are among the victims. Yet they keep doing it anyway without slowing down. So there is a reason why they keep doing so and that's because they have data on this already. The loud ones here in reddit are simply the minority who are drowning. Crying for help in desperation.

*-Taps this handy-dandy inforgraphic-* 📊 https://www.reddit.com/r/Genshin_Impact/s/vmAcLiKkXp

* Unlike in common discourse, psychology and "humans can change" is highly accepted as real and tangible mechanisms in corporate culture. Not for the better🚩
* The human brain can literally be rewired towards new habits. Look up the word "neuroplasticity" 👏

FOMO, gambler's fallacy, lootbox controversies, whale-baiting, gacha design, anything you don't understand from the infographic—all phrases you can look up to start your research rabbit hole. The more you know!🌈✨

*This got a little long, segmenting this into parts.*

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There are some gacha designer former employee stories out there about how some game studios literally monitor their vast numbers of players and experiment on them.

* Giving different players different discount sales to test optimal spending encouragement
* Flagging whale-spenders, and setting up 50/50 chance modifiers to them more likely to lose their 50/50s, so they swipe their credit card more (this is fraud btw, but how is any govt suppose to catch them?💀💀💀)
* They plainly are not looking to simply make money, they are looking to prey on the vulnerable (rich or poor) and make those players ⚠️addicted⚠️

It's all a mechanisms geared towards a **pipeline** for molding players into feeling compelled to log in daily, spend more time online... thus more likely to spend *a little* money sooner or later... and thus more likely to spend *a lot* of money later.

*And it WORKS. It puts a chokehold on plenty enough that it doesn't matter who it scares away. It brings in thousands and millions and, in Genshin's case, billions!*

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Most gacha games are pure trash that puts all those mechanisms on your screen asap.

Genshin was one of the first to offer a big open world adventure and not shove the crap in your face. There is a legitimately good game...

* ...but it is still integrated with and tries to slowly ease you into the gacha stuff. That's why some call these bosses shills. It's all a part of the system.

The key to enjoying the "good game" part (I don't believe in shaming consumers) and not getting sucked into the gacha-fomo-addiction bs is **awareness**👏 and **active resistance!**👏

* Skip dailies/resin sometimes!👏
* Plan how to spend your primogem savings, skip banners regularly👏
* Take full week or month long breaks if any part of the game feels like a chore (that's a sign of burnout) to break free of the habit-forming cycles👏

Being more ✨conscious✨ about your gaming instead of blindly looking for escapism is the only way to avoid these pitfalls. Gachas are fucking insidious if you let them.

but they know characters like flins and bina are extremely popular. making them essential to current shill bosses makes them even more appealing

also a. very large chunk of genshin playerbase jsut pull whoever they want even to this day.

The majority of the playerbase doesn't engage with endgame, and even less engage with it at a level where the extra investment actually really matters. So the audience that said content is aimed at is those that either already spend, or those willing to spend.

So the narrow portion of the playerbase that is F2P or very low spender and is trying to do high-end endgame is a very small portion to potentially lose. Compared to the revenue they will get from the people willing to spend more for more cons/chars/sigs for that content, they will not only maintain but gain revenue. They still need to make sure they don't go too far and push too many players out, but they have data to calculate that.

You can still clear miasma with dodge-counters and ults, you don't need to parry, so Jane isn't even a big deal if you play the fight well.

you can also work around this boss just by having a grouper

Istg if we have to wait for Nicole to get Lunar-swirl to make Varka usable I'm gonna mald so hard

Lunar kits have only been for hydro+ electro dendro and geo and nicole being pyro doesn't have any chance of getting lunar kit

And then there still will be someone crazy and dedicated enough to make Kokomi crit unter that debuffs

Dehya meta

Watch dhcwsp clear this with Mavuika.

Bruhhhhhhh........ The shilled team

That's below Spiral Abyss

Hard is just for farming artifacts. I've cleared it with the most wack ass friendship farming teams whom lack synergy and don't even clear the boss mechanic.

Menacing is about on par with Abyss difficulty.

Fearless is the absolute META sweat mode where it's a complete toss-up whether or not you're allowed to clear it depending on what characters you have, what artifacts you have prepared, and if you're even willing to try that hard just for an extra reroll feather.

Dire is a playground for whales. Abandon all hope, ye F2Ps and low spenders who enter.

I already had good build on ningguang but now she became way better
I even cleared the abyss with ningguang for the first time
With ningguang, furina , xilonen and columbina

I also used the same team for navia but i found ningguang more fun than navia
But navia team have like 5k extra dps

Understandable.

ororon is very underrated, i am just stuck with c3 sadly

Killed him with overload Varesa without the need to stagger, just bruteforcing him

But even then, i cleared him in 6.0 with Clorinde Furina, but i had to use my Furina vs crab this time