It is just me or is the grind in Genshin just satisfying?

I dunno i guess you cant really compare it to games like OSRS or Lost ark which are pretty darn annoying to grind sometimes... my point is though that something about the way genshin is is just so fkn... enjoyable. I just came on after grinding for like 3 hours straight. And the way the rewards pop up and sht is just sooooo satusfying 😩 its that and just other stuff which i cant exactly put a finger on... just ranting here and wondering what ya'll think. Absolutely addicted to the game rn

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WashedWolf42422026-01-27 18:41

I'll take OSRS every single time over some trash energy system where you're only allowed to play 10 minutes per day.

Superb-Job-53682026-01-27 18:52

I suppose if you love the grind and have the absolute patience needed for something like OSRS. Could agree on that. But my point is that something about genshins short term grind as compared to OSRSs long term grind is satisfying..not that I'm lazy to grind for a long time, it's just I dunno! Something about the 'grind' _experience_ is different. Not even the time spent actually. I could grind 2 hours in genshin (with the time gating) and 2 hours in OSRS (unlimited) and still something about the grind in genshin is satisfying...

I-LEWDED-MY-SISTER2026-01-27 19:27

Grinding for 2 hours in Genshin takes 2 months. You never get your fix, that's the trick.

ahmadalhuraibi2026-01-27 18:45

Are you sure? It sounds like you haven't played the game long enough.

Superb-Job-53682026-01-27 18:55

I have, I get the whole annoyance with the time gating and resin limits, but that's just my point you know. Like I keep wanting to grind, and the resin annoys me. Thay means something about the damn grind is satisfying 🤔

WashedWolf42422026-01-27 19:12

>Like I keep wanting to grind, and the resin annoys me. Thay means something about the damn grind is satisfying 🤔

No it means you're unsatisfied with your garbage artifacts because on top of being energy system sewage it's also plagued by unfathomable amounts of terrible rng odds.

You would not be doing domains if you had good artifacts

dnzgn2026-01-27 20:57

The last sentence couldn't be more wrong. If my characters are all built, I just try to get better and better artifacts.

OrbitalSong2026-01-28 02:20

I've been playing since 2.x and I enjoy the grind. I find it satisfying.

Aromatic-Tear72342026-01-27 18:50

You could even say they've... gacha.

RubApprehensive25122026-01-27 21:06

Well. Aino what you have done. It seems like this joke was ineffable. I guess I should tartaglia myself out then.

Aromatic-Tear72342026-01-27 21:10

Good one, though Tartaglia was a bit of a stretch.

RubApprehensive25122026-01-27 21:38

Look at the Italian definition

TheCatInTheBat2026-01-28 01:36

Oh, you want puns? Cyno more, got some inJeaneous IDehyas. Aino you made some good ones, but we can Nefer have Ineffa them.

Subject-Gur69572026-01-27 18:52

If I'm in the right mood it can be relaxing
I pop on a long podcast episode or YouTube video to play in the background and grind.

Soloking_Itachi2026-01-27 19:00

Either you like being rewarded for anything you do or you just like the game,not that deep.

OldSnazzyHats2026-01-27 19:41

It was for me at one point. But the Gacha style grind finally broke for me at some point. Even as someone who typically enjoys a grind, as my first Gacha eventually the cycle just wore me down.

JAntaresN2026-01-27 19:45

What grind? We dont even have enough resins for anything. 😭😭😭.

You younglings dont know the old days of maplestory grinding. Lv 200 was holy unemployment.

DevolayS2026-01-27 20:21

Memory unlocked

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JAntaresN2026-01-27 20:30

LF > GF, WILL PAY NX.
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With the world megaphone 😩

mysticsouth2026-01-27 20:52

"Offer"

\*gives market price\*

"mmm no thanks"

Good ol days...

Chaelbenth2026-01-27 21:32

Or WoW classic where 14 hours a day was seen as casual.

icee_x2026-01-27 22:12

I never played maplestory but their music makes me feel like I've lived a different life before

JAntaresN2026-01-27 22:42

Yeah it had some great soundtracks, which is why i have a love hate relationship with the game

Schen5s2026-01-27 23:27

I love the wizard forest music. Always sounds so peaceful and oddly nostalgic for some reason

DevolayS2026-01-28 02:27

Still vibing to it when I'm coding or drawing :D

Ricksaw262026-01-27 23:29

I used to play tera, does that count? That shit was so full of rng, and you could only do dungeons a couple of times a day, so it was also timegated.

Citronsaft2026-01-28 00:33

I hit 3rd job and then some all the way back then....actually died a few times at 69 to stay in ludi pq to finish getting the broken glasses when they had just come out. God I miss PQs though, the vibe and the coop teammates and the feeling of mastery once you get familiar with it...

fuck ludi maze pq though

oof-eef-thats-beef2026-01-28 02:01

I wish we had enough resin to actually grind. I would 1000% spend hours and hours daily

Cole_James_CHALMERS2026-01-27 19:47

Genshin replaced OSRS for me as well.

I enjoyed the account building aspect of OSRS, since I built multiple accounts for PVP (pures, zerker, med levels, mains). Building characters in Genshin scratches the same itch, very enjoyable but way less time intensive.

The min-max aspect of MMORPGs is present in Genshin too, but manifests in the aspect of account planning (resin & pull spending). I have the goal of clearing Fearless Stygian, 36* Abyss and 12 Stella IT, so I pull and build characters that can finish endgame but I don't vertically invest in them further or spend tons of resin, I'd rather move onto the next project.

I was also paying like $40 a month in membership fees to be using multiple accounts in OSRS, who knew a gacha game like Genshin would be cheaper to play lol

Big-Cauliflower-34302026-01-27 19:47

Its just you

Magdalina7772026-01-27 19:49

Idk. Rolling a double crit artifact just for all 4-5 rolls to go into DEF/flat ATK doesn't feel that satisfying to me. Oh yeah, then rerolling with the new feathers just for it to ONLY do the guaranteed 2 good rolls and the rest to go into DEF/ATK again, time after time. I prefer more honest grinds where good stats aren't gated by RNG on top of RNG on top of RNG on top of RNG.

BigDaddySpankEm2026-01-27 20:43

This right here. Someone could show me top tier artifacts and I would just shrug. Top tier artifacts are not something you grind, they are something that literally just randomly happens to you.

No one in the world would say “man I worked so hard to get struck by lightning!” Other people would just say you got lucky, or in the case of the lightning, unlucky.

OriginCycle2026-01-28 02:56

Well, yes, that's what grind is. One type of grind is farming something that has a chance to drop over and over again, which is RNG, but you still take the time to try and get it. That's basically what artifact farming is like, except its over the span of months or possibly years. It's slow, but can be rewarding.

SvensonIV2026-01-28 00:31

Guild Wars 2 may be the perfect game for you then. Once you have good equipment there, it will always be relevant as the stats have fixed affixes. The newest equipment is just as good as items 10 years ago.

sir_aphim2026-01-27 20:20

Idk. Guess it depends on what people are looking for. Many people complain about the artifact rng or never having enough resin. I personally can get a character into a good enough state in maybe a week or 2. And probably abyss ready with an extra week if that.

And as an adult with other things to do, the resin gating actually is nice so I don't feel like I have to constantly spend hours on the game. While the new patch updates give me the longer content I can play when I have the free time.

But I'm not the one who enjoys grinding hours on end, so other games never appealed to me to begin with.

Kotya-Nyan2026-01-27 20:22

What are you grinding in genshin? Like for real

Exploration %? Damage numbers?

I have no idea what were you doing because there is like 10m of gameplay per day after you've finished exploration

al_jose3712026-01-27 20:51

I mean, doing the same 10 min everyday for a long time is also a type of grind. One that is slow and steady

Corlunae2026-01-27 20:57

You could grind some achievements. Fishing for example.

TheLastTitan772026-01-27 21:48

Counter point - doing all quests and exploration is basically months of gameplay

Skylair952026-01-28 01:46

While there's definitely a ton of gameplay with quests and exploration... I wouldn't call that a grind. It's more like the non grindy part of the game. Grinding is usually repeating the same task over and over for rewards.

L_the_KD_lover2026-01-27 20:22

As a former Ark: Survival Evolved player, I enjoy the grind in Genshin precisely because it prevents me from grinding excessively; I never want to go through the experience of hatching 100 gigababys in PvP again. I'd rather die.

DevolayS2026-01-27 20:22

Domains maybe not so much, but open world, definitely, yes. For me, I think it's the music, the views, and the atmosphere.

There was only one time when grinding was annoying as hell, and it was back in Inazuma when I had to farm specters. Ugh.

al_jose3712026-01-27 20:50

Once you develop a routine, Genshin Grind is not the worst. Like, if you take harder grinds like building more characters, getting perfect artifacts, clearing timed endgames etc, you kinda get some final results like good damage numbers, variety of teams to play etc. It's not the most fair one out there and there is a grind but it is a relatively rewarding grind ig. Also, you can choose to ignore some of the hardest grinds like perfect artifacts.

When I am not interested in grinding, I stop leveling characters at lvl 80. For the longest time my characters were capped before last ascension. Nowadays the grind is easier and I do take it to lvl 90.

But , I enjoy the satisfaction of triple crowning multiple characters at the same time while recording it and then adding music to make it into a video. It's a much harder grind but I enjoy the results enough. I have done videos with 1 char, 2 chars and 3 chars and I'm preparing for 4 at a time.

Choose your grind and Genshin grind is not the worst

__mymelody2026-01-27 20:50

Can't make a positive post about an aspect of the game others dislike apparently.. anyways, I enjoy it too! It's designed to be satisfying to keep you playing

bruhhh_bama2026-01-27 20:55

Thats all you bro 😭 im not a fan of doing 4 runs of a domain, getting buns artifacts, and then not being able to do more until tomorrow

YannFrost2026-01-27 21:03

God I remember spending months getting white wolf( forgot the game) evey Sunday in summoners war. Then there is the fox mines in Azur Lane. I would call modern gacha game a grind.

igowallahh2026-01-27 21:19

I don't mind the grind except for running out of artifact inventory space. It needs to go up to 9000 tbh

shirone02026-01-27 21:24

Grinding for 3 hours?? With the resin you get you have like max 10 minutes of grinding per day?

issm2026-01-27 22:29

Genshin's grind is basically tiktok brainrot. The grind tasks are short, and you get your dopamine rush immediately.

More old school games like OSRS or Lost Ark have long form grind. They ask you to put in minutes to hours on end of content to get your reward - and since even in these games, the goal of the grind is still to just waste your time so that you come back to play more, the rewards aren't proportionately greater, so they don't feel as fun.

CortexArt252026-01-27 22:35

It is just you.

needmangos_notcrabs2026-01-28 00:37

Nah, after 6 years its just plain-ass boring. When there's new content, new domains or bosses, sure. Its a short-term dopamin kick. After a few days its just.... bleh. One of my very few downsides of this game.

einerderandere2026-01-28 01:47

me with arknights endfield, i‘ve been grinding that factory since 3 days straight and it doesn’t get boring

but ye i love 100% genshin maps its so fun

Apprehensive-Appeal12026-01-28 02:15

I am done with genshin farming in like 15 minutes tops if i have to go gather materials, or less if it's just resin. I guess that counts as nice since it's easier to get off the game faster while i wait for more content?

AndyCGYan2026-01-28 02:59

I wouldn't call exploring overworld a "grind", it's not repetitive content to begin with. The actual grind consists mostly of character building, from getting level/talent materials to minmaxing artifacts, and to me most if not all of them are unnecessarily lengthy and annoying.

VaultOfTheSix2026-01-28 03:21

The music, ambience, low-ish difficulty (and thereby little to no anxiety) makes “grinding” really enjoyable for me as well!

This is in terms of doing artifact routes, mining, and elite mob farming. Typical resinless shenanigans.

X3m9X2026-01-28 04:18

I love how alot of the comments point out the time gated stuff being not fun and just ignore the possibility of OP didnt do much exploration or other non time gated stuff before and he/she is about to do it now

Low_Artist_76632026-01-28 05:23

I like genshin daily grind more than HSR and ZZZ.

Controversial opinion, but i like playing the game myself. If grind is so boring make it interesting instead of slaping auto on it, turning the game into bitcoin miner. And overworld materials and money are completely useless.

And zzz just too short fights with too long loadings. It would greatly benefit from multiple waves.

ZatoTBG2026-01-28 08:08

Depends. As an avid gacha gamer who has valid comparisons (played HI3, ToF, ZZZ, GI, CS and still play GI, WuWa, GFL2, umamusume and since recently arknights endfield) I personally think the grind of genshin has quite some things it can improve upon.

I'd say WuWa is at the top in QoL. The grind does not take ages as echo farming genuinely feels better compared to artifact farming. Combat has a little more depth to it as well and everything feels less like a "chore" and instead feels like it is fun.

I have only played arknights endfield since recently but I don't think you must grind all too much for something comparable to artifacts or echo's. Then again, character building feels like it has less depth to it.

GFL2 has attachments you grind, keys you add to your characters for extra passives and since recently they gave us a system which gives us something comparable to artifacts through different gamemodes. The grind takes longer but feels less necessary. The gains between different grades artifacts are minimal but still satisfying.

Genshin though, has a little more annoyance to it. After every update once they give more features, the way to obtain them are so scarce that it feels like they mainly use them for moneygrabs. Like the artifact printer or feather items.

In the time it gave me enough to craft 1 artifact from the vial printer in genshin, WuWa gave me 50+ artifact main stat swap items. The ratio of rewards in genshin is just too poor and greedy to be satisfactory.

(All is my opinion, feel free to differ in opinions)

clouddog-1112026-01-28 08:54

I have five condensed resin and 200 resin to farm artifacts, it's so satisfying

avarageusername2026-01-28 13:29

I would agree but grinding what exactly?

It takes like 5 minutes to spend resin regardless of what you spend it on.

Collecting flowers and enemy materials is fun but also doesnt take that long, especially if you use a character that shows the flowers on the map. The game is designed for you to play a little bit every day, there is really nothing to do for hours even if you want to after you're caught up.

Im convinced that people crying about "grinding" in genshin just have wrong mainstats and underleveled everything so its way harder than its meant to be for them. But they just assume thats how the game is designed, every ruin guard feeling like an elden ring boss.