@Shigurui I feel the same except slightly different games. Deleting ZZZ has felt very freeing, and so after looking at my backlog I’ve also deleted HSR, I’ve been complaining about everything from the story to the power creeping for months and after looking at all the other games I could be playing that I would enjoy more it had to go.
I still enjoy Genshin, so that’s staying, but it also takes the least amount of time. I dont spend my resin I just do dailies and there’s just two bits of end game content every 6 weeks. I still enjoy exploring the world on new patches too and am far more engrossed in the story.
@z0d15g0d As for WuWa, I’m still playing it, but I’m going to have a think about if I really want to, it takes up quite a lot of time with dailies, weekly and monthly endgame content. Maybe I’ll just skip that and play the story. We’ll see.
My WuWa luck finally ran out. Went all the way to hard pity and didn’t get Ciaccona got…. Lingyang again 💀
Decided to go all in on Carlotta and spent all my saved weapon banner wishes on her weapon and spent all my saved shop credit on getting 2 wavebands for her to get her to S2. S2R1 should hold back and power creep for a while and give me a better chance in ToA and holograms that have a pure DPS check.
But I now have nothing and probably won’t also get Cartethia unless I get lucky.
@z0d15g0d agree the anniversary events sucked, especially the squat ball characters, but plenty of rewards, and being able to skip lame events text makes all the difference. I did enjoy the Ciaconna quest though, with the is-he-isn’t-he-bad Cristoforo.
Finally started playing Zani a bit and am
Enjoying her, but need to work on rotations with Phoebe and figure out both of their kit properly.
EDIT: also couldn’t figure out how to “support” characters in the championship races, maybe I left it too late, but it’s only a couple of wishes.
@themightyant Oof Ling is the most useless of the free 5*'s and worse than most 4*s but congrats on the Carlotta rank ups and weapon. How much more deadlier is she?
I used up most of my crystals on Zani and Phoebe since I didn't get her first time round. I'm on 67 pulls and hoping to win the 50:50 but if I lose I hope it's to Calcharo as he's on S3 now.
I haven't done the Ciaconna quest yet. That's gonna be for tomorrow while I try to finish that cubie tower nonsense for crystals.
I supported 1 racer once and thought that was all I needed to do but apparently had to sponsor them regularly so got nothing in the end but like you said, it was only a few crystals.
Zani is a lot of fun when her counter isn't on cooldown. That's the main obstruction to enjoying her kit fully I find. I'm always looking at the bottom right of the screen to see if I can counter or have to dodge then completely miss the attack lol. Mental countdowns might be in order. I'm still building Phoebe (these resources be sparse) so she's just there for the ult dump and boosts atm.
I've gotten much further in ToA since getting Shorekeeper but the "you have insufficient points" c*ck block is extremely annoying.
With S2R1 I just 6/6 the middle hardest tower in ToA for the first time even though Glacio isn't even one of the debuffs this month. One of the floors I did with 25 seconds left. Now I just have to practice my Camellya and Zani teams to try and get 30/30. I think my previous max it 25 or 26, but usually I settle for 24/30 as the next reward is 27/30.
For ToA I do the following. The first two levels of left and right I don't usually use healers, just rely on dodging and pure DPS. Floor 3 I will use Baizhi as a healer, Floor 4 on both sides I will use Verina. Then I save Shorekeeper for middle (hardest) tower. But for ages I just skipped the middle tower entirely, or sometimes just aimed for 1-2/6. So Carlotta 6/6 is entirely new for me.
@themightyant Wow nice. Carlotta sounds pretty OP at S2. I think I might start saving those shards for her next rerun. I used Calcharo for the first tower with no healer and got 7 in total, 6 with no issue but the triple grizzly tag team in the 3rd stage proved too much. I used Camellya team and got to 11 for the first time. I could probably get max but need to practice with her team as it's been a while. I'm still grinding to get Phoebe to a decent level then I will take on the 3rd tower. I tried the 2nd tower once before and never touched it since. I just might give it a go again.
I used Zani team to get to Hologram 5 against Lorelei and I think countering her cheat skills spamming might be more satisfying than against Hecate lol.
Tried pulling for Ciaccona but lost the 50:50 at 80 pulls got S3 Verina who was my 2nd choice for losses so not too bad.
@z0d15g0d 11 is a strong score! Well done. I only sometimes get 12. As I said I usually settle for 24, usually that's 11 on each side and make up the rest in the middle tower. But S2 Carlotta has raised that, at least for this ToA.
Verina dupes are always a good falback if you don't win. S3 is nice, in that it increases healing, but if/when you get one more you get a 15% Spectro damage bonus for 24s on most of her attacks, which is a nice damage boost for many of the top characters. I imagine she might became BiS for Zani + Pheobe for example. Getting Lingyang... not so much! lol (being punished for all my luck, and quitting other gachas)
I did try a level 6 hologram with Carlotta and got within a hair's breath of winning first try, second try died much earlier. While it's always skill based, S2 has definitely upped my chances, they just start attacking manically at higher hologram levels and it sometimes moves you don't really see.
@themightyant Yea so I tried Lorelei Level 5 and I did not see which attacks wiped my team. She had around 4 different attacks overlapping each other how they expect you to evade or counter those is beyond me. Are there any echos that grant invulnerability when summoned as I still take damage with all my equipped ones.
I attempted middle tower again still no dice. Not a nice feeling when you've been dumping all your ults and countering every attack just to see you have barely got the boss HP halfway and 3 secs left on the clock.
@z0d15g0d I feel your pain on middle tower this was mostly me until quite recently. It's a MASSIVE DPS check in several ways:
1) Character Investment. I don't think it's possible to get higher grades with S0R0 characters. R1 usually increases DPS around 20%, each copy around 15% on average. (Carlotta S2 is 32% up) + supports may add more if invested.
2) A skill / rotation check. If these aren't perfect you lose DPS. All I can say is look up online what the optimal rotation is and practice it. It will significantly increase your DPS.
As I said until Carlotta S2R1 with her BiS team I was lucky if I could get 1-2 stars on the central tower.
WuWa is super generous with the freebies but gacha End Game content is BAIT to try and get you to spend and WuWa is one of the worst for this. At the end of the day it's a few wishes a month you are losing, that isn't worth the sort of investment that's needed imo. Be happy with what you CAN get and slowly try to increase, but there's a natural limit (as I said it was around 24 for me playing since day 1).
As for Level 5+ yep they just turn mental and hurl attacks at you, I just spam dodge and hope for the best. The S2R1 just increases the odds, it's still BS.
@themightyant I think it's more DPS check as I've been on a few sites and most of them have the same team Carlotta builds and combos which I've pretty much got down to perfection. I honestly wasn't using Zhezhi correctly till I read up on her lol. She does a really decent amount of damage if you manage to get the 3rd teleport on her resonance skill plus the grouping/launch it does is always welcome. End game is defo bait but I believe I've got enough characters for each element now so don't need to waste those extra corals and can save them for re runs. Well until we get a better Wind DPS than Jiyan.
I tried Lv 5 Lorelei again and it was just pure BS. Used Zani this time but with the cooldown on her counter that fight just ends after one missed dodge.
@z0d15g0d yep it’s all bait, and yes mostly an investment DPS check. Lv5+ is BS. I’ve beaten a few of them and as I said came close on Lv6 and sure I could do it, but the rewards aren’t really worth it. I’m all about minimum time investment nowadays. It was
more a curiosity of what S2R1 Carlotta could do as she was already obliterating most other content.
Jiyan has had a bit of a resurgence with Whimpering Wastes really benefiting characters that can group or AOE e.g. Camellya, Jiyan, Roccia etc. (Zani and Chamgli too apparently but I haven’t mastered them yet)
Yep Zhezhi hits pretty hard and gives decent buffs if played right. Her kit is very simple and doesn’t take too much ramp up time. My build is just a little short on Energy Recharge. Need to do a few extra steaks to get her ult up, unless rotations are perfect. But RNG hasn’t been good to me or echoes.
Looks like Kuro will be winning the "Fantasy Rome Adventure" Awards. The addition of the explanations option during cut-scenes is most welcome too.
My rng is fully shot I'm on 75 pulls and still nothing. Since Cartethyia needs new drops to build I can at least farm those till I get her so not too bad.
@z0d15g0d I was on a guarantee (after bloody Lingyang) but then spent all my wishes and got nothing... but then I checked my mail and there were another 10x wishes + gems. Got Cartethyia she took me to almost to full pity twice, not that I can build her yet - she needs a new echo set. She's apparently the new most powerful DPS in the game (power creep) but only with a very specific team. As I missed / lost Ciaccona she won't be quite as beefy, yet still strong.
I am still enjoying WuWa a lot, both the story which is comparatively concise, and I love exploring the new maps. But i'm kinda over building and learning new characters in these games, especially when like Cartethyia they require specific characters with specific / different builds to their usual (to max her HP scaling) + new set + new boss etc. etc. the reality is she won't be built properly for weeks. It's a bit tiresome having done it 100+ times over the last few years across all these games which are built basically the same for upgrades.
@themightyant From what I read online it looked like she was dependent on Ciaccona but there was outrage so her kit was tweaked for her to work solo or with Aero rover. Cia still gets her to lofty DPS erosion heights but no longer mandatory. I think game8 even updated her echo sets because of the change. I might have read the angry messages wrongly though.
Yea since I have similar gaming tastes with you and Shigs you guys are like gacha ghosts of christmas future lol
@z0d15g0d Yes I think you can use Aero Rover, I didn't mean to suggest otherwise, I just think she takes a pretty big DPS hit that stops her being the strongest DPS in the game. Still strong.
@z0d15g0d I really enjoyed this update. New lands to explore were fun, new characters, a new story that was well told. The animation quality was top tier, as is the animation for Cathethyia’s final Ultimate, it looks utterly insane. My only real complaint is performance inside the city of Septimont is a new low, it chugs especially if flying.
I’ve been trying to use Zani, with Phoebe and Shorekeeper, but just can’t get their rotations very good, will need to keep practicing. I’ve found Cartethyia, Rover and Sanhua slightly easier so far, but still need some better echoes and perhaps a better weapon.
Have you played the story? Did you get Carthethyia?
@themightyant I really enjoyed this update too. Finished it in one sitting over the weekend and thought it was really short even though I recall getting the "you've been playing for 3 hrs" warning early lol. The new area is pretty sweet except for the performance issues as you mentioned. Mine was mostly during the amazing grand battles, I'd be frozen at the start and took a few invisible hits. Made me dodge and retaliate with extra zeal though.
I'm pretty on point with Zani now and just figured out Phoebe's combo over the weekend. I had been sleeping on her Resonance skill all this time. It does the stasis effect like Charlotta's but with the added bonus of grouping. Doing that at the start of a fight charges her enhanced basic considerably faster and changes it to an AoE instead of the beam. Lots more SFX eye candy and damage than the combos I was using before.
I managed to max out Carthethyia's main skills thanks to pre-farming I did and she is a damn good beast. It's also great that you can swap her out I her ult form and have that form permanently so long as you don't do her ult but even if you do the bar is already full if she has been there long enough. She can't jump or climb though so I'm guessing having her outside of battle was never intended.
I believe we need to discuss the elephant in the room...That damn dinosaur enemy. Wtf were they thinking in adding that monstrosity? How can a regular enemy be more OP than bosses? That's a serious power creep lol. I counted like 9 or 10 skills for it. Basic and enhanced versions too.
@z0d15g0d That "damn Dinosaur enemy" is exactly why I was complaining about not being good with Zani. It has a part of it's kit where after being stunned it recovers but with a resistance to whatever element you most used on it. Basically you EITHER need to use a team with a good sub-dps of a different element, or more preferably, it is a timer to finish it quickly. It's a bit of a DPS check. The moment I switched back to Carlotta, Zhezhi, SK I breezed past this enemy he never gets to phase 2 where he gets super tanky ESPECIALLY with Zani, Phoebe + SK (all Spectro)
I need to work on Zani and Phoebe. I keep accidentally putting Phoebe in the wrong state (hold attack gold bar) from muscle memory of using her as a DPS a bit not the hold skill (blue bar). The only way I've figured out how to get out of this is use 4 x 3 hit + charge ATK rotations, or I think using your ult does it, but I don't want to do that! That and pausing attacks for Zani to sit in her chair to do the more powerful attack. I just find it all a bit clunky. (It's a skill issue. lol) I realise there is an even more powerful quick swap rotation of Zani, Phoebe + SK but i'm too lazy to learn it. As I said on a previous post, i'm just a bit bored of learning new characters at this point.
@z0d15g0d following on from what I said about being a bit bored of learning new characters. I have been enjoying Cartethiya (that final ult animation is just 🧑🍳😘) so based on that I decided to try and snipe her signature weapon and on the 30th pull got it. It will be ages away but I will be all in on Ciaccona, assuming no other massive Aero Erosion support characters pop-up.
I’m currently a bit more interested in Vertical investment of the characters I do really like rather trying to get as many characters as possible, which is definitely a big change. We’ll see if I regret it down the line. I did even consider burning all my spare wishes from the shop (which I save for a rainy day) on her dupes but I think that may be a step too far. Either way I have 15 days to play with her and decide.
I then did the weekly Somnaire with her and unlocked some ridiculous buffs. Her final ult was basically splitting everyone in two and effectively one cycled the final floor boss. Completely OTT but HIGHLY satisfying.
@themightyant I had been using Camellya's weapon on her since it seemed to be the 2nd best option. I didn't have enough pulls so was gonna give her weapon a miss but saw your message and decided to snipe and got it in 5 pulls I might have to start doing single pulls instead of 10 lol.
I agree her ult animation is top tier. I hope they start doing the same with other characters. Hopefully they release another decent wind supp for her as I can't stand Ciaccona's ult. I switched out as quickly as I could each time I used it.
I'll build the weapon then try out Somnaire tonight and let you know how that goes.
You might be better off getting her dupes as she's future proof for the foreseeable.
One other big bit of news I’ve just done ToA. I had already 6/6 the middle hazard tower with Carlotta (despite the fact she doesn’t even get a buff) but was struggling with Camellya and Zani. But my Zani practice has paid off and I JUST by about 0.3 of a second got 3 stars on the final right floor for 12/12.
That left Camellya I had a couple of goes but was a bit short. Then I realised I was using a 4-star weapon for her (somnaire event weapon, which is good but down about 10%) I swapped the standard 5-star with Changli and did another run and got 3 stars next try.
That’s 30/30 for the first time and with it the Platinum trophy. Let’s go!!!
Lots of good news today. Even heard HSR has added a skip function… lol
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