#the 4pc bonus will make up for it anyway

[hydrachea]

The latest addition to my Fatui collection still needs work (City of Gold, my beloathed) but even without his best 4pc set he's doing very well, look at him go. My little murder swallow.

[ofonikabutobeetlesandmen]

Fontaine Grind Update #2

I’ve finally gotten myself up to 83 pulls and I’m pretty sure that by the time 3.8 comes to a close, I’ll be at 100. So we’ll see where the count is once Furina’s banner rolls around, but it will definitely be over 200.

Still debating if I’ll try risking some pulls on the weapon banner for her signature weapon. Out of all the Archons I own, only Ei has her signature weapon so it would be nice to do the same for the rest of the Archons I own/plan to (at least on my main account, sorry Zhongli on my America account lol).

According to one leaker, Furina should be releasing during patch 4.2 (and she has no choice to come home, I have the guarantee. Finally Keqing, you haunting me between accounts has done something good for me) and Clorinde is still unknown.

But it’s my preference she doesn’t release until after Furina since it gives me time to replenish how many primogems it’ll take me to get Furina and focus those pulls on getting Clorinde. And like I said before, I’m grabbing the free Lynette in 4.0. The Traveler is going to be using Fontaine’s Pneuma mechanic and Lynette will be using Ousia, so it’ll be good to grab two free units with the core mechanics of the new region.

So I’m starting up the grind for artifacts to make the journey a bit less irksome for when the characters get here.

To start with Lynette, I’m going to be using the 4pc Viridescent. 

The 2pc Anemo DMG Bonus is nice but I really want the 4pc’s ability to decrease elemental resistance to the swirled element by 40% considering how Lynette’s burst works.

And due to her elemental skill’s cooldown being, presently, 12 seconds, I’ll be slapping onto her one of my Sacrificial Swords. A solid classic that never disappoints and I have two to spare that are at R5 each.

I’m likely going to have Lynette be in my initial Fontaine team with my Hydro Traveler. For starters, she’ll be my first Fontaine character and she’ll use the Ousia mechanic, so my first team is going to be centered around getting used to the Fontaine mechanics of Pneuma and Ousia and the enemies using them.

As for the other two characters, to fill in the slot... I’m thinking Candace and Kirara OR Mona and Kirara. I’ll try out both Candace and Mona and see which character I like using the most in the comp.

Anyway onto Clorinde, my Electro sword queen.

I’m also pre-grinding artifacts for Clorinde as well. One of her concepts included Mista and the Sex Pistols from JJBA (hilarious when Kaeya’s JP voice actor is Mista and Diluc’s JP voice actor is Giorno), which I hope they go with because that would make her kit so much fun. I’ll be going with 2pc Severed, 2pc Thundering Fury and I’m using an Electro Damage Wanderer’s Troupe goblet for the off-piece.

For weapons, I’ll see what I can give her once the leaks from actually beta testing her comes out since we don’t really have any hints from pre-existing characters like the Traveler to get a gist as to what she’ll be able to do, I’m going for a couple general options.

Sacrificial and it’s elemental skill reset is always a classic solid choice.

Favonius Sword... as a nod to when we thought Clorinde, then Captain R, was going to be from Mondstadt lol. And the particle regeneration would be pretty decent for her with what little we know about her anyway since it could help with Burst upkeep.

And the Flute. The 1=200% ATK DMG from the Chord skill at R5 actually sounds really nice and I currently have a Flute at R5 despite it only being leveled up to lvl 60.

Typically for 5*s I don’t go for their signature weapons unless I really and I mean REALLY like the character and don’t have any characters I’m trying to pull for afterwards. So I’m probably not going to get her signature weapon, if anything I’ll be putting those savings into getting Nahida and maybe even Cyno’s. 

Team comps for Clorinde that I have in mind? None so far, I have to wait to see what she can do and see the state of my future present characters’ friendship levels. If I really like a character, synergy be damned they will be on a team of characters I really like OR on a team full of characters I want to get to max friendship. We’ll see how it works for her but if you look at her Vision in the Fontaine teaser, she has an Ousia Vision so we’ll see if that also attributes to any comps I have for her.

As for Furina, who I’m hoping will be the only Fontaine character who can use both Pneuma and Ousia, I’m going to use one of the upcoming 4.0 artifacts for her, the 4pc Marechaussee Hunter (looking forward to the lore from that set) and I’ll be using an HP Heart of Depth goblet for (but if possible, I’d like an HP% Sand and a Hydro DMG goblet).

The 2pc Marechaussee increases Normal and Charged Attack DMG +15% and the 4pc set, the buff is: When current HP changes, CRIT Rate will be increased by 11% for 5s. Max 3 stacks. I’m using this set going off of the Hydro Traveler’s kit. The Traveler kit’s are always essentially watered down versions of the respective Archon’s depending on the element.

During the hold version of their elemental skill, when the Traveler's HP is higher than 50%, they will continuously lose HP and cause Dewdrop DMG to increase based on their HP. So Furina’s kit will definitely be involving HP drain in some way and currently, with how it works in the current beta, any kind of HP change will give a CRIT Rate increase. Depending on how her HP drain works, I’ll probably pair her up in a team comp with Kokomi or Yaoyao.

Weapon-wise, we know she is going to be a sword user and since it is pretty up in the air on whether or not I’ll be using her signature in the first place, I’m looking at other options.

First is the Black Sword (currently on my physical Traveler, my preference since he can switch through all the elements). My honest-to-Archon reason for wanting to possibly put this sword on Furina is because of the name of the weapon’s skill: Justice. It’s called Justice and she’s the God of Justice, I’ve got no excuse otherwise lmao. But uh, yeah I guess the Increases DMG dealt by Normal and Charged Attacks by 20%. Additionally, regenerates 60% of ATK as HP when Normal and Charged Attacks score a CRIT Hit. This effect can occur once every 5s. is pretty nice for Furina too.

Another option I’m looking at is Finale of the Deep, one of the upcoming Fontaine forgeable weapons. The name of the skill? No idea yet, but the skill itself is When using an Elemental Skill, ATK will be increased by 12% for 12s, and a Bond of Life worth 25% of Max HP will be granted. This effect can be triggered once every 10s. When the Bond of Life is cleared, a maximum of 150 ATK will be gained based on 2.4% of the Bond for 12s. Bond of Life: Absorbs healing for the character based on its base value, and clears after healing equal to this value is obtained. Which I think is fairly decent for Furina and it’d be fun to experiment with how the Bond of Life works using one of my healers.

The only thing really turning me off from it is the fact that we have to farm hand guards to level them up and any seasoned player by now knows how stingy the fucking Nobushi are with their drops.

My plan 3 sword that I’m considering is the Primordial Jade Cutter, one of the few 5* swords I already own which I got from fucking around on the standard banner. Protector's Virtue grants HP increased by 20%. Additionally, provides an ATK Bonus based on 1.2% of the wielder's Max HP. Something that will definitely be useful for Furina considering what her kit will look like based on what we’re seeing with Hydro Traveler and with how important HP is to Hydro as an element overall. 

So glad Hydro’s Elemental Resonance changed because before 3.0, Soothing Water was just a Healing Bonus (and resistance against Pyro)... when Barbara and Kokomi were the only 2 healers for the element. (And I guess Xingqiu on a lesser scale with one of his passives) =.= Thank you 3.0 for that change, you will always be famous.

And finally, her signature sword that we have no idea what it can do but I do know it looks great on her so I’m considering getting it (at some point). The blues are absolutely magnificent, only the best for the color that has been my favorite since I was a toddler. But regardless of the skill it will have, it will obviously be something that benefits Furina as her signature so whatever it is I will consider when making my pulls.

Team comp-wise, I definitely want her paired with a healer. Kokomi is one of my best girls and definitely my best healer, has been since 2.1 so it’s always first instinct to put her on a team but I do want to give my other healers a shot to get to max friendship.

So I’ve got two comps in mind. For a Bloom comp:

Furina

Yaoyao

Candace

Collei

And for a Hyperbloom comp:

Furina

Shinobu

Candace

Collei

I might even try putting her in a comp with Nilou whenever I get her on her next rerun. But a special 3-person team comp I’d like to do is just putting Ei, Nahida and Furina on a team and seeing what they can do together.

And that summarizes just about my current progress/where I’m at in terms of team comp ideas for the Fontaine characters I’ll be first-gen using. Sorry everyone else that interests me, you’ll have to be grabbed by chance of being a 4* on the banners I’m rolling on or during a rerun. I want to get Lyney and Freminet at some point since it will complete the sibling trio and the Trevail duo.

Wriothesley is going onto standard (may he not get the Dehya treatment) so I will see him... at some point. See you eventually, Jotaro/Erwin.

Neuvillette is pretty and going to be a male Hydro catalyst unless something changes and his lore potential makes me want to pull for him. Bro might be actually be the Hydro Dragon?? It makes me sad because I wanted that to be Kokomi but if he is, I hope his lore is pretty damn good. We’ll see how I feel after his story quest. Ayato’s story quest being boring, in my subjective opinion, made me not pull for him the first time with no regrets. I ended up getting him later on his rerun for a sibling comp though.

I MIGHT eventually grab Charlotte since she is supposed to our first Cryo catalyst and I’m plenty interested in The Steambird.

Navia is pretty but I don’t use Geo often (nor do I use Pyro often, so LOL for Lyney I guess) so IDK if I’ll be getting her.

And we will have to see about everyone else. Hope the grind is going great for everybody else, may we win all of our 50/50s.

[prismatic-glow]

Let's build a freeze team for Ayaka!

Hello everyone! I'm back now so I can start posting again :D

Before I get into it, yes I did change the banner lol. I just wanted to switch things up for a bit, I hope u like it!!

Anyways, with Ayaka's rerun currently ongoing, I wanted to make a guide for anybody who just got her and is a bit confused on her teams. Let's get into it!!

╰┈➤ why does Ayaka need freeze? You might have noticed that almost every Ayaka team is a Freeze team. There are 2 main reasons for this. The first is that, to maximize the damage of her burst by allowing it to always hit an enemy, enemies must be kept stationary via Freeze. The second is that Ayaka applies Cryo waaaay to fast with her burst to allow her to reliably trigger Melt reactions

╰┈➤ basic team outline Ayaka freeze teams usually follow this outline: ❀ Ayaka ❀ Anemo character on 4pc Viridescent Venerer ❀ Cryo battery (creates Cryo particles to supply energy) ❀ Hydro character for Freeze

╰┈➤ Anemo options ❀ Kazuha ˚₊· ͟͟͞͞➳❥ The best option and usually the go-to. Kazuha provides Elemental damage bonus along with great grouping and his own personal damage ❀ Venti ˚₊· ͟͟͞͞➳❥ Great grouping and personal damage ❀ Jean ˚₊· ͟͟͞͞➳❥ Can consolidate the healer role which is useful in some teams. Great healer choice w/ Furina ❀ Sucrose ˚₊· ͟͟͞͞➳❥ Some grouping, Elemental DMG buff at C6. Works well enough as a substitute. Can run Thrilling Tales of Dragon slayers to give Ayaka lots of attack

╰┈➤ Cryo options ❀ Shenhe ˚₊· ͟͟͞͞➳❥ The best option and usually the go-to. Provides buffs to Cryo damage along with Cryo resistance shred and elemental Burst damage ❀ Charlotte ˚₊· ͟͟͞͞➳❥ Consolidates a healer role but should really only be used in Furina teams ❀ Diona ˚₊· ͟͟͞͞➳❥ Can consolidate the healer role along with providing a shield ❀ Rosaria ˚₊· ͟͟͞͞➳❥ Good personal damage, buffs Crit Rate which can be useful to reach certain stat thresholds for Ayaka ❀ Ganyu ˚₊· ͟͟͞͞➳❥ Very strong personal damage from Burst. Decent Cryo damage buff and can share some field time. Works well in teams with Venti ❀ Kaeya ˚₊· ͟͟͞͞➳❥ Great budget option who provides tons of energy via Cryo particles. Good personal damage

╰┈➤ Hydro options ❀ Kokomi ˚₊· ͟͟͞͞➳❥ Usually the go-to option. Great AoE Hydro application that doesn't require normal attacking. Great healing. Can run Tenacity of the Millileth and Thrilling Tales of Dragon slayers to provide tons of Attack to Ayaka. ❀ Mona ˚₊· ͟͟͞͞➳❥ Hydro Application from skill has a much smaller AoE than Kokomi. Burst gives a large damage boost. Can run TTDS ❀ Furina ˚₊· ͟͟͞͞➳❥ Great Hydro application that doesn't require normal attacking. Incredible personal damage. Requires an all-party healer such as Charlotte or Jean. Furina teams can kinda be considered a different arychetype of Ayaka teams. ❀ Xingqiu ˚₊· ͟͟͞͞➳❥ Provides some defensive capability but requires normal attacking to apply Hydro which can make the team feel awkward ❀ Yelan ˚₊· ͟͟͞͞➳❥ Very strong personal damage but requires normal attacking. Passive can provide a damage boost to Ayaka ❀ Ayato ˚₊· ͟͟͞͞➳❥ Hydro application from burst has a very large AoE and good damage. Works very well with Venti. Can also share some field-time with his own DPS. ❀ Barbara ˚₊· ͟͟͞͞➳❥ Budget option. Good healing but her Hydro application is quite awkward. Can run TTDS.

╰┈➤ premium team Ayaka's best (non-Furina) freeze team is also referred to as her "premium" team because it uses all limited 5 stars. Here's a quick overview of their builds ❀ Ayaka ˚₊· ͟͟͞͞➳❥ 4PC Blizzard Strayer. Mistsplitter's Reforged/Amenoma Kageuchi/Finale of the Deep ❀ Shenhe ˚₊· ͟͟͞͞➳❥ 4PC Noblesse Oblige. Calamity Queller/Favonius Lance ❀ Kazuha ˚₊· ͟͟͞͞➳❥ 4PC Viridescent Venerer. Freedom-sworn/Xiphos' Moonlight/Favonius Sword/Iron Sting ❀ Kokomi ˚₊· ͟͟͞͞➳❥ 4PC Tenacity of the Millileth. Thrilling Tales of Dragon Slayers (TTDS)

╰┈➤ premium team vs. Furina The Furina variant of Ayaka teams (usually Kazuha/Furina/Charlotte) seems to preform similarly to the premium team (Shenhe/Kazuha/Kokomi)

╰┈➤ issues to look out for Ayaka's teams have 2 main issues 1 ・❥・ Many enemies in recent abyss cycles are immune to freeze 2 ・❥・ Without enough ER%, Her teams can feel kinda bad to play

And that's all for today! I hope you find this guide helpful and informative. If you have any questions, feel free to drop them in the replies or send in an ask (no question is too small!)

I hope you have a great day!!

[blueskittlesart]

i need you to tell me everything about ur jean pls

HI. my jean is my pride and joy. i lost my 50/50 on ayaka's first banner and got her when i first started playing (my first ever 5 star!!) and i just. never looked back. i have a ton of like. actual dps-intended 5 stars that i could easily main but im incapable of giving her up for anyone. i literally have c1 ayaka now and i STILL main jean. if i had a little less dignity or care for my own money i would buy her summer outfit but unfortunately i am poor. so uhhh if anyone wants to tip me $25--

ive been actively working towards a 100k burst since like. well at the very least since before vv was in the fucking strongbox bc i think i have like 500 runs on that stupid ass domain. im obsessed with anemo characters in general tho so it ended up being worth it. someday I will get heizou and i will have a fully-completed build waiting for him when he comes home

anyways. up until today i was running jean on 2vv 2glad, which got me up to about 96k bursts, but her off piece was a shim and I rolled a better shim piece when farming for yoimiya so the 100k burst build is 2vv 2shim with a glad off piece! Currently her weapon is blackcliff longsword (the extra crit dmg is what finally pushed her over into 100k!) but i desperately want jade cutter. i lost the 50/50 when it was running last month so i had to settle for a 4 star :/ without buffs she has around 1.9k atk, a crit ratio of 50/158 , and a 61% anemo dmg bonus. With no buffs or supports her skill crits are around 20k and her burst crits are around 30-35k!

for her showcase rotation I use a standard anemo dps showcase rotation (i believe this one was originally developed for xiao), which since anemo can't take advantage of any reaction buffs is bascially just stacking atk. (I do also use food & potion buffs, idk exactly what the dmg drop is without them bc i havent tried it.) the team is c1 bennett with noblesse and aquilla favonia (high base atk), c0 mona with TTDS and tenacity, and c6 anemo traveler with vv (weapon doesn't matter, mine has sac sword.) the point of all of this is basically just to stack atk buffs bc that's really the only thing anemo dps's can take advantage of, aside from c6 traveler's anemo res shred.

rotation goes bennett skill x2 (to break the cryo regisvine shield) > bennett burst (atk buff scaled off weapon + noblesse buff) > traveler burst (res shred) > mona skill (4pc tenacity atk buff & ttds character swap buff) > mona burst (atk buff) > jean burst! this rotation should also work with any other anemo character you want to build as a dps. I haven't tried it with my xiao yet bc i've been so focused on jean but he regularly hits around 30k per strike unbuffed so. i think it will make him insane lol

ANYWAYS. jean main nation. someday I'll get jade cutter and then i'll be unstoppable

[lostacelonnie]

New genshin stuff means i too am stuck on it for hours a day & yelling at discord friends about it so i feel. What blondie from fontaine is this im intrigued? Also xinyan lantern rite im so glad she's involved. The new desert area is fun im an exploration whore so of course im there too. Love that for us. Love that for yall im a big fan of indescribable weird places. Tumblr is like a catgirl girlfriend who brings new weird & fun hyperfixations. Radish daughter indeed she has not left my party really since i got her. The hyperfixations are sometimes very strong & i easily lose track of like. Everything

SO SORRY TO KEEP YOU WAITING FOR A LONG TIME. had a big test and was epic stressed ab it. it didnt go well but eh. idc. ANYWAY. YEAHH LITERALLY I DONT REMEMBER THE LAST TIME I WAS SO INVESTED IN GENSHIN. EXTREMELY HAPPY ABOUT THE XINYAN CONTENT. also i finally started playing hangouts cos i never had the energy to do it before and god theyre literally so fun?? forgot how much i like noelle. and this is the blondie from fontaine [feat. focalors(?)]:

and shes SO beautiful plus theres speculation she might be a bianka expy which makes me legally obliged to get her. but about focalors, im also thinking of getting her since i wanna complete my nahida team. ALTERNATIVELY ayato bc i honestly LOVE his playstyle. anyway YEAAHHH the new desert IS very fun i agree. also yeah, as the wise once said i love poland [poland?] i love poland [why?] i love poland [shut up] pa pa po po-

sameeeeee the AMOUNT of interests i got from here. and right shes like kinda. Cracked. im currently still farming for her artifacts and im literally missing one to get the 4pc bonus but i keep getting garbage. help. and same. started playing disco elysium recently and i can feel the tism Approaching.

[kjclfaller]

One good thing about building Jean as a physical dps is that her artifacts aren't specific to her character alone. I can put them on someone else if I want to build them as physical.

[mattoyaki]

Diona Build Guide

I’m actually having a lot of fun with these build guides so let me know if they’re annoying and I’ll stop. 😂 Anyway, I figured Diona was a good candidate being that she’s on the rate up right now as well as being given out for free in the current event in 1.5!

I hope some people find this useful!! :)

Role

Diona is a fantastic support character, especially at full constellation. Even without her constellations though, Diona offers a lot of utility in her kit. She heals, she shields, she regenerates energy, she can cleanse debuffs and she can even increase movement speed! Definitely one of the more versatile 4⭐️ supports in the game right now.

Diona is often compared to Qiqi, being a Cryo loli character but I’m here to set the record straight right now. Diona is better than Qiqi!! She may not heal as much but she heals plenty and she offers so much more to a team beyond healing. Sorry Qiqi stans, it just be like that.

Talents

Focus on leveling up Diona’s skill and burst, her autos are a waste of resources. I’ve only ever used Dionas normal attacks to shoot a guardian’s eye out in the abyss...and you don’t need levels for that. Diona is perfectly viable at Lv 70 with level 6 shield and burst, but feel free to take her to Lv 80 and 1/8/8 if you want her shield to be a bit more durable.

To level her talents Diona requires books of Freedom, arrowheads, and later on Shards of Foul Legacy from Childe.

Weapons

I normally list 5 and 4 star weapons here but there’s no need for that with Diona - the Sacrificial Bow is hands down her BiS weapon, surpassing any 5⭐️ bow. If you don’t have the Sac bow, she makes good use of the Favonius Bow as well. The Sacrificial Bow is made for her though, it provides extra Energy Recharge and can reset the CD of her skill which is insanely useful on the kitty cat.

Edit: Elegy of the End is pretty pog if you have it. Sac Bow is still the most comfortable to play though!

Artifacts

Overview

(4pc) Noblesse Oblige; (4pc) Maiden’s Beloved; (2pc) Maiden // (2pc) Noblesse // (2pc) Millelith; (4pc) Exile

Diona is pretty simple to farm artifacts for because she pretty much just stacks HP% regardless what set you use. Stacking HP increases the strength of Diona’s shield as well as the amount she heals with her ult. The set you use really just depends what role she’s filling. If you need a good healer, go with maiden set. If you don’t require that much healing consider noblesse set. Either can be used with 2pc tenacity of the Millelith for the extra HP%.

If you lack energy recharge (no timepiece or sac bow) then you can run 4pc Exile set.

Stats

Timepiece: HP% or Energy Recharge

*Run HP% unless you lack good ER

Goblet: HP%

Circlet: Healing Bonus / HP%

*If you want more healing use healing bonus, otherwise just use HP%

Sub Stats

Prioritize sub stats in the following order:

HP% > Energy Recharge > HP

Team Comp

Due to the utility of her kit Diona can fit into most team comps. She pairs especially well with characters that react into Cryo or characters that like a shield such as Hu Tao and Ganyu.

Potential Teammates include:

Razor, Xingqiu, Bennett, Xiangling, Sucrose, Venti, Kaeya, Yanfei, Ganyu, Hu Tao, Keqing (physical), Klee, Diluc, Jean, Mona, Childe

TLDR:

Diona is a great support character who is easy to build. She uses books of Freedom, arrowheads, and Shards of Foul Legacy to level up her talents. The Sacrificial Bow is her BiS weapon. She can use a variety of artifact sets that stack HP%. She fits into pretty much any team comp due to the versatility of her kit!

🐈 ❄️ 🏹

[dourpeep]

Mind giving me advice? If i wanted to build yanfei what should I do?

I had to ask C about some of this because they main Yanfei lol

For weapons, C said that hands down, you can give her Dodoco tales and you're good to go. Mappa Mare is might be good but it's reaction-reliant.

Specifically, Dodoco tales gives 32% extra charge attack dmg and landing a charge attack gives an extra 16% attack for 6s at refinement 5.

Anyway, census for artifacts* is:

4pc Wanderer's

2pc Gladiators, 2pc Crimson Witch (not the best)

4pc Crimson Witch (pyro reaction dmg bonus)

(con't under the cut :DD)

Wanderer's is great b/c it gives elemental mastery and beefs up those reactions, and 4pc gives a charge attack boost (which you really want to use often for Yanfei). C says this is good mmhm

The Glad/Crimson is good because you're boosting her attack and pyro damage

Crimson Witch is really good if you're also focusing on proccing elemental reactions. So if Fei has a 4pc Crimson, then refer to the next part. (C said this one is 100% only for if you're doing elemental reactions)

*make sure her crit rate% is high so that pretty much every hit is a crit hit b/c her passive talent makes it so that when her charge attack deals a crit hit, it'll deal another 80% of her attack as charge attack dmg (which is also effected by any buffs)

C also said you'll want to have an either hydro or cryo character (like Xingqiu, maybe Diona or Rosaria for their cryo fields). Melt is one of the better reactions (specifically if cryo is applied first, and then pyro is applied, but that's a lot of semantics). For the purpose of proccing consistent reactions, you'll probably want to go for Xingqiu for his Q.

Other good combos would include Bennet (since she has long range and he gives the attack buff when your HP is below 70%). It's also helpful to have crowd control like Sucrose or Venti to keep the enemies in one place.

Out of her talents, prioritize her autos + Q. E is good, but doesn't need as much focus.

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C said the best part of her kit though is her third auto attack because:

[paimonsgenshinguides]

Ganyu Builds

even though her banner is already gone so this post is kinda useless </3 but shhh

I wish I could've gotten her but I already got c1 Xiao and I'm sure I'd lose the 50/50 anyway

I've won it 7 times in a row 😟 ain't no way im gonna win it again

But Kokomi please come home :((( I won't u

ok anyways enough abt me

I tried including lots of builds!! Don't worry though, I made sure this was f2p friendly ^^

builds included in this post:

Charged shot DPS

Pure Cryo DPS [ normal dps build ]

Burst DPS

Melt/Freeze Ganyu

Support

under the cut cuz this post is long </3

Charged Shot DPS [ just making sure her charged shots do the most dmg. mostly a cryo build tbh ]

lucky you, you don't REALLY need any constellations or any specific ones for this build!!

c1 Ganyu could be helpful here so you can do more cryo dmg after using her attack [ and can help with ER just a tad ], and c6 also is helpful thanks to it allowing you to not have to actually charge her shot [ after using her skill/E ]

Weapon(s): 

Prototype Crescent, Hamayumi, or Viridescent Hunt

Amos Bow or Thundering Pulse

Artifact Set(s):

4pc Wanderer's Troupe

2pc Wanderer's Troupe + 2pc Blizzard Strayer

Stats + Substats:

Flower - HP [ can't change ]

Feather - Attack [ can't change ]

Hourglass - Attack

Goblet - Cryo DMG Bonus or Attack

Crown - Crit Rate/DMG [ DMG is recommended due to her passive and also if you have cryo resonance!! ]

substats you need are attack, crit rate, and crit dmg!! ER also is good :D

Talent Priority:

Her normal attack takes the most priority, but of course make sure to pay attention to her E&Q at least a bit!!

Pure Cryo DPS [ basically just a normal dps build ]

c0 ganyu would work great with this build, but a c4 Ganyu will be fine too!! if you truly want then you can get her c6, ofc

Weapon(s): 

Stringless, Hamayumi, or Prototype Crescent

Polar Star or Skyward Harp

Artifact Set(s):

2pc Blizzard Strayer + 2pc Wanderer's Troupe

4pc Blizzard Strayer

Stats + Substats:

Flower - HP [ cannot change ]

Feather - Attack [ cannot change ]

Hourglass - Attack

Goblet - Cryo DMG Bonus

Crown - Crit DMG [ recommended due to her passive and if you have 4pc blizzard strayer on her! ]

Talent Priority:

honestly all of her talents take equal priority here! but if you truly want then you can focus on her Q&E!!

Burst DPS [ self-explanatory ]

if you want a lil boost, then you can get c3 Ganyu!! but, obviously, it's just a recommendation ^^

Weapon(s): 

Favonius Warbow, Sacrificial Bow, or the Stringless

Elegy for the End [ honestly this is best only for a support Ganyu! ]

Artifact Set(s):

2pc Blizzard Strayer + 2pc Noblesse Oblige

4pc Noblesse Oblige

Stats + Substats:

Flower - HP [ can't change ]

Feather - Attack [ can't change ]

Hourglass - ER or EM

Goblet - Cryo DMG Bonus

Crown - Crit Rate or DMG

substats you need are mostly ER, EM, and Crit Rate/Dmg!! Attack is also good, too!

Talent Priority:

Her Q/burst takes most priority, obviously, but if you truly want then you can level it her E/skill too!! leveling up her normal attacks is useless for a burst build, so you don't have to worry about that

Melt/Freeze Ganyu [ Mostly a main DPS build for a freeze/melt team!! ]

no constellations are a necessity for this build.

this build is the only one with a team comp since most of the comps are only really good with an element-focused build like this!

Weapon(s): 

Hamayumi or Prototype Crescent [ Main DPS ]

Stringless or Favonius Warbow [ Sub DPS ]

Amos Bow [ Main DPS ]

Elegy for the End [ Sub DPS ]

Artifact Set(s):

2pc Blizzard Strayer + Wanderer's Troupe

4pc Wanderer's Troupe

4pc Blizzard Strayer

Stats + Substats:

Flower - HP [ cannot change ]

Feather - Attack [ cannot change ]

Hourglass - Attack or EM

Goblet - Cryo DMG Bonus

Crown - Crit Rate/DMG

substats you truly need are all the basic ones!! EM, ER, attack, and crit rate/dmg!!

Talent Priority:

all of them have priority here! I wouldn't really say that one takes any more priority over the other, tbh

Team Comps [ includes both Melt + Permafreeze teams!! I tried including both Main DPS and Sub DPS Ganyu :3 ]

Team comp 1 [ permafreeze ]:

Ganyu - Main DPS

Shenhe or Chongyun - Support

Venti or Sucrose - Sub DPS

Kokomi or Barbara - Support/Healer

[ the cryo resonance > everything ]

Comp 2 [ permafreeze ]:

Ayaka or Chongyun- Main Cryo DPS

Kazuha, Jean, or Sucrose - Support

Ganyu - Sub/Burst DPS

Kokomi or Barbara - Support/Healer

Team Comp 3 [ Melt ]:

Ganyu - Main DPS

Zhongli or Noelle - Shield/Support

Xiangling - Sub DPS

Bennett - Support/Healer

Comp 4 [ Melt ]:

Hu Tao or Yanfei - Main DPS

Kazuha or Sucrose - Support

Ganyu - Sub/Burst DPS

Zhongli or Noelle - Support/Shield

Support [ for if you want her on your team but only to help out someone else ]

kinda a part 2 to the burst dps build

Weapon(s): 

Blackcliff Warbow, Favonius Warbow, Stringless, or Sacrificial Bow

Skyward Harp

Artifact Set(s):

4pc Noblesse Oblige

2pc Wanderer's Troupe + 2pc Noblesse Oblige

2pc Blizzard Strayer + 2pc Noblesse Oblige

Stats + Substats:

Flower - HP [ can't change ]

Attack - Attack [ can't change ]

Hourglass - EM

Goblet - Cryo DMG Bonus

Crown - ER, EM, or Crit Rate/DMG

ER and Crit Rate/DMG are perfect substats!! Attack too, if you want

Talent Priority:

I'd say her Q takes most priority, but give attention to her E as well. You can level up her normal attack talent as well if you want, but I'd recommend focusing on her Q/burst and a bit on her E/skill

AAAND that's the end of the post!!! Ik her banner is literally gone so this post has really no business being here, but I thought I'd post it anyway cuz...well...I just wanted to lmao

I hope this post was helpful for any Ganyu havers who don't really know how to build her, though!!

Zhongli is coming soon but school is cruel to me so it'll be a hot sec before I post himb </3

fischl, thoma, and diona will be coming soon too!! now that Lady Yae is out n all

[mattoyaki]

Bennett Build Guide

Last one today I promise!! 😂

Bennett is currently available in the Starglitter shop this month so I figured I’d make a little guide for him, cause you should definitely be using him if you have him. Benny is lowkey the best character in the game, at c1 anyway. He’s an enabler, a healer, and an insane burst support character all wrapped into one. He should really be a 5 star character in my opinion

Role

Bennett is a SSS support character right up there with the two archons. There aren’t many team situations Benny can’t thrive in. While he can be built for DPS his true potential lies in his supportive capabilities.

At c1, Bennett’s elemental burst rapidly heals up to 70% HP and provides an attack buff that scales with Bennett’s attack stat (natural attack + weapon only) as well as imbues the team with Pyro. Bennett scales with Energy Recharge as he ascends and can spam his E for an absurd amount of energy particles. He’s a burst support that burst heals.

Note: Bennett’s sixth constellation infuses all sword, claymore, and polearm normal attacks with Pyro within the AoE of his burst. This can be a really good or bad thing depending on who he is supporting. I.e, if you’re pairing him with Razor this is bad because all of Razor’s physical damage bonus is wasted through the Pyro conversion whereas Melt Daddy Diluc loves Pyro infusion.

Some people see his c6 as a nerf. It’s not. It’s actually really good, but it does limit him to elemental comps only. If you want to keep him physical and elemental friendly leave him at c5. If you’re okay with limiting him to elemental comps definitely activate his c6!

Talents

Prioritize Bennett’s Burst first when leveling his talents. His skill can be next and you can save his autos for last. If you’re running DPS Benny then level the autos up as well.

Bennett’s talents level up with Books of Resistance, Treasure Hoarder Insignias, and at higher levels Dvalin’s Plume.

As a support Lv 70-80 is plenty for Benny with talent levels 1/8/8

Weapons

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ - Skyward Blade; Aquila Favonia; Summit Shaper

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ - Iron Sting, Sacrificial Sword; Alley Flash; Favonius Sword; Festering Desire

If you have a 5⭐️ sword, let Bennett use it so his attack buff can scale higher. Skyward Blade is BiS for its energy recharge sub stat and useful passive.

Festering Desire is a fantastic F2P option if you happened to acquire it back in 1.2. If not, consider using Iron Sting (craftable), Favonius Sword, Alley Flash or Sacrificial Sword!

Artifacts

Overview

(4pc) Noblesse Oblige; (2pc) NO, (2pc) Crimson Witch; (4pc) Crimson Witch

Benny will 9/10 times run full Noblesse Oblige set unless he’s in a comp where another character already uses this set. 2pc NO is almost a necessity on Benny though to get the most out of his ult.

4pc Crimson is preferred for DPS or mix it with Gladiator

Stats

Timepiece: Energy Recharge or HP%

*Run ER unless you have at least 150% without it. Otherwise run HP% for better heals. You can run Atk% or EM if running DPS.

Goblet: Pyro Dmg Bonus or HP%

*Pyro Cup for more damage from his ult, HP% for higher heal scaling.

Circlet: Crit or Healing Bonus

*If DPS run a Crit circlet, if support healing bonus is a bit more consistent

Team Comp

Bennett (c1-c5) pairs well with pretty much every character besides electro characters (overload is kinda of crappy in its current state). Even with overload though, he’s still a great support to pretty much any character.

The standard Benny team would be a core of Bennett + Venti/Sucrose + Mona/Xingqiu. This combo of characters is honestly broken and can nuke enemies on their own let alone help out whatever main DPS they’re supporting. Chongyun also pairs well with Bennett for his Cryo infusion, which gets pretty nutty if Benny is c6 and has Pyro infusion. Here are some sample comps:

DPS Benny + Chongyun + Xingqiu + Sucrose

Diluc/Klee/Yanfei + Benny + Xingqiu/Chongyun + Venti/Jean/Sucrose

Ganyu + Bennett + Sucrose + Venti/Jean

Childe + Bennett + Venti/Sucrose/Jean

Kaeya + Bennett + Chongyun + Xingqiu

TLDR:

If you have Bennett, use him. He’s a stupid good unit in the current state of the game. All he needs is his c1 and he’s the best support around. Bennett’s talents level up with Books of Resistance, Treasure Hoarder Insignias and Dvalin’s Plume. Skyward Blade is his BiS but Festering Desire makes a great f2p option if you have it. He makes great use of Noblesse artifact set and can fit into just about any team comp.

If you’re thinking of purchasing Bennett in the shop I cannot recommend a better character! Definitely buy him if you have the starglitter!!

[dourpeep]

Seeing people complaining about the lack of anniversary rewards is getting so tiring. The game's ratings dropped to like 2 on Google play, all comment sections of official accounts are full of complaints. I know and understand that people are upset but it's just so so tiring to the point where I unfollowed most accounts that aren't related to fanart or fanfiction because of all that negativity

I personally spent (a little) money on the game so I get where p2w players come from but idk. I saw that we didn't get anything and moved on pretty quickly. Maybe that's just me, idk

Maybe you have a different view on this and if so, I'd like to hear it

Sorry for ranting in your inbox

hehe no need to apologize because I have quite a bit to say myself nodnod

Read if you like, don't if you don't--this is just my opinions and stuff based off my experience knowing Eastern gatcha games as well as talking about using a 5* vs 4* of the same build + slot

This got kinda long ehe-

Like really long.

Anyway

My turn for a Hot Take (tm)

Yeah I understand this--I've been feeling so drained and my enjoyment of the game and writing has diminished immensely because all I see everywhere is just that.

I understand that the event rewards suck but at the same time? I realize how gacha aren't really popular here in the West--and I have seen a lot of comparison between Genshin and Cookie Run but they're also two entirely different genres despite both being gacha. Not to mention that Cookie Run is fast at first until you get to around uhh Kingdom lvl 37~~ and you're stuck and can't go forward because things cost too many materials or your cookies aren't strong enough even though you have several stars on your team consisting of epics built as optimally as possible-

So the maintenance rewards for Cookie Run have been the only significant amount of gems I've been getting for a few weeks now compared to when I first started and could do 10 roll after 10 roll.

Also also, Cookie Run is PvP (arena, guilds, etc). Being able to get more rolls is absolutely a gamechanger. If you can't get a good defense cookie or healer cookie, you're fucked.

So!! That's why Cookie Run is more generous with rolls. You're not going to want to keep fighting other people in the Arena or doing Guild stuff if they don't add in those generous rewards.

On the other hand, Genshin Impact is an open world rpg w/ co-op (note, co-op doesn't count as pvp because you're collaborating) where you can build pretty much any of the characters to be viable (dps/vampire Barbara is one major example, Noelle is a guarantee roll character for that beginner's banner and she can easily be built to be a tank/healer/dps to fill whatever slot you desire)

So they're not going to be incredibly generous w/ rewards because the characters you have--meta or not--don't really effect your ability to play the game (unless we're talking spiral abyss which really is considered endgame anyway) when you're able to get at least one character of each element for free I mean, you start out with traveler who can be anemo, geo, or electro once you get to the respective places, Amber, Kaeya, Lisa, Barbara (iirc, you need to get to rank 20?), Xiangling (complete spiral abyss floor 3), and Noelle (reduced cost 10roll w/ guaranteed Noelle).

Which would be one of each element and a variety of one of the 5 weapon types nodnod.

Time to talk about builds and why it's not necessary to have a 5* unlike in other gatcha games like Cookie Run (again, a kingdoms builder) before going back to the anniversary stuff

But continuing, like Eula is considered a fantastic 5* character who features a kit that is based around her being a physical damage character. My sibling, C, has her built and she does some insane damage.

On the other hand, I have Xinyan built as a physical dps and if you were to compare their damage?

With crit, C's Eula deals 9k to 14k with Skyward Pride (5* claymore w/ energy recharge substat). With crit, my Xinyan deals 8k to 13k with Song of Broken Pines (5* claymore w/ phys substat) OR 7k to 10k with Prototype Archaic (4* craftable claymore w/ attack substat).

Both C and I agree that they're pretty evenly-matched in the sense of damage output.

We have similar builds focusing on physical damage, however, C's Eula uses 4pc Pale Flame and my Xinyan uses 2pc Bloodstained, 2pc Pale Flame (both have the 25% phys damage bonus for the 2pc). It's also good to note that both their Eula and my Xinyan have a physical dmg % cup.

So just by stacking up more phys on Xinyan, you get a physical dps (with some elemental support capabilities due to her E and Q) you can easily make her deal consistent, reliable damage that is comparable to a fully built Eula. Ofc, I'm sacrificing Xinyan's shield, but since she's built to be a physical dps, it doesn't matter anyway.

Another thing is Zhongli is an incredible shield support. His shield?? Absolutely insane because it's based off his hps. Guess who else has a hp-based shield and heals??? Diona. Another incredibly good support 4* with a shield and healing would be Noelle!

But with Diona, specifically since I did kinda cover over Noelle already, she can easily be built along with her shield having over 100% uptime (like how Zhongli has over 100% uptime). The fact that Diona is also a healer definitely is a perk too.

Ofc the difference with this is that Zhongli can be built as a burst support/dps while Diona is not. But the point isn't that--the point is that you don't need a 5* shield support to have a good, reliable shield support.

But regardless of 4* or 5*, to get a viable character, you need to build them well. So if your character isn't doing satisfactory damage, you just have to take a quick peek at what artifacts they're running and fix as needed!

Another thing--

Talking about the rewards and stuff for the anniversary-

Generally, gatcha games aren't really that generous with rewards and instead usually have some sort of event. In this case, I'm pretty sure that Moonchase is considered a part of the anniversary which is why it's giving so many rewards- just the primos from the first day alone with the chests and quest was enough for two rolls (40 chests * 5 primos each + 60 from the quest and a few that I forgot where they come from but are from the event) as well as the 4* Luxurious Sea Lord claymore.

Before you say that it's shitty for them to make a festival into the anniversary event, I'm certain that people would complain if the anniversary rewards were just a little more than the 10x fates and stuff and that's it because it'd feel like they're skipping over the anniversary entirely. (keep in mind, festivals don't normally give this much stuff in terms of primogems from what we've experienced so far--they're mainly focused on the free event weapon you can get and build like with Festering Desire, Windborne Ode, Dodoco Tales)

Also companies love taking advantage of festivals to make an event bigger + more fleshed out. It'd be otherwise kinda boring to have to just log in every day for a week (not to mention, not everyone does that) and encourages players to play to get rewards.

yeah, that's supposed to work in their favor because they want to keep interest.

So the fact that there's a lot of backlash on everything going on is tiring and also?? I want to make the point that they'll only listen to so much. Getting heard is important, but there will be a point where Mihoyo will just stop listening to the players entirely because all they're getting is a constant barrage of "this event is the worst" "no one likes that character" "(insert character) when???" "okay but where's (blank) rerun?" pasted over the forums, discord, twitter, facebook, instagram--

You can't keep demanding more while also talking shit constantly about the new stuff added because then they'll just not add those new stuff because we (general) seem to never be satisfied.

Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if they end up just cutting Genshin Impact as a loss entirely if this continues as it has and gets even worse.

But I digress.

Anyway, I agree that it sucks that the daily login rewards for the anniversary are just cut and pasted from the Lantern Rite, but as someone who's played a lot of gatcha games, it's pretty much the standard.

Have a daily sign in for rewards and a big event featuring a ton of stuff you can get instead of having an 'official' anniversary event.

I'm sure there's a lot I'm missing because it's not coming to mind, but yeah. These are my general thoughts on what's happening with the discourse.