#zhongli and venti’s builds are both fine since i use them a lot so their builds are alrdy good anyways-

[lo-cinno]

Anyways look at how adorable Nahida is <33

[whispereons]

it's me. again. could i get your favourite genshin fics recommendations? I trust your taste based on reblogs. Either ao3 or tumblr is fine <3 - hanabi anon

Hanabi anon! I'm afraid I don't have much specific genshin fics as I tend to binge read certain authors instead. If I do like a fanfic, I usually just reblog.

Plus most of the fics that I do remember are for general yanderes or oc's for specific prompts. And I don't read much genshin on ao3 so nothing there either.

I can give you a list of my fav genshin authors. Most of their work is yandere genshin fics. Some have sagau and some are just yandere. And they do have full length fics and head canons in it.

Quite a lot of them have a tagging system in place so you can just use that to be shown their writing specifically. Oh and warning a lot of them have nsfw.

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@yandere-daydreams - has a lot of full length yandere genshin fics. They got all kinds of au's that are amazing.

@ddarker-dreams - has quite a lot go genshin (Scara is the most) but also characters like Chrollo

@yandere-romanticaa - lots of full length fics/requests. Plus her if you like that.

@sagau-my-beloved- Venti centric with sagau and lots of fics! They got their own world building in certain posts too.

@yestrday - you need to use the tag system since they go into a lot of fandoms but the genshin ones are really good. Not full length fics but it's more than head canons. Like imagine sized.

@ventisslut - Another Venti centric. It's a mix of yandere and normal Venti. They don't write that much but they do reblog many wonderful fics.

@writing-genshin-obsession - the yandere genshin of yandere genshin. Yandere, sagau are both in their blog. But not many full length, more like brain rot.

Now @flokali - does not have many yandere genshin so you'll need to use the tags to find it. If you don't wanna then I'll rec a certain fic of theirs. Called Worship - Zhongli. If you just google their username and Worship, you'll find it.

@throwaway-yandere - warning they are retiring! But they have so many good fics to read too. The danganrompa themed was their going away (it's really freaking good). But I remember following them for their full length fics that almost always has a art cover. They write amazing yandere Alhaitham.

@chococolte - is sagau centric. Huge Zhongli fan and if you want to feed a god complex. Her fics are where to go. Just amazing choice of words in her fics.

[hematomes]

Thank you sobs

So my characters who are lv 90 are venti, diluc, raiden shogun, the traveler, Bennet, xiaoling, zhongli, kaeya and Barbara everyone else is either 70 or 80 and I'm trying to not get broke with mora while leevjing them up dksks (they all be so expensive.... Also I hate the Boss you have to fight for Xiao)

OKAY SO im gonna cut it bc damn i cannot shut the fuck up im so sorry ZBDKZN

first, general advice:

don't use google's advice on builds, especially websites with "gaming" in the title or whatever. they're full of shit, they don't even play the game and they just pick a few reddit comments and craft the most horrendous builds off of them. same goes with most youtubers

read your characters' talents. see how they scale: is it atk, def, hp..? do they get a separate dmg bonus from some other stat? do they give a bonus to the rest of the team? check every talent, and figure out the role of your character. is it a main dps, a sub dps, a shielder, a healer etc. also see which stat they get when they ascend: most classic main dps get crit (diluc, xiao, hu tao, ayato, yae etc), some hybrid (can be main or sub dps) get elemental bonus (yanfei), burst dps get er% (xingqiu, mona) etc etc.

read artifacts sets' effects and see which would fit your character. also check which elemental reactions they can make. keep in mind that melt and vaporize can crit, but the others can't. so if you want to make a team with overload, prefer elemental mastery over crit.

as for crit, try to get at least 50% crit rate and 130% crit dmg on your main dps. it's a pretty solid start, but if you're motivated, you can aim for 70% rate and 200% dmg. you generally achieve that with a character that ascends in crit and with a lot of luck, so don't worry if you can't

your flower and your feather will always be flat hp and flat atk, so look for the substats. if you can get both crit rate and crit dmg, it's perfect, but either way try to have one of them on every artifact, except for venti, kazuha and full healers. venti and kazuha need elemental mastery, healers need er% (and either atk - jean, sayu, qiqi - hp - barbara, kokomi, bennett - or def - noelle). the key is to understand what the character needs

always try to give some elemental mastery to your main dps, especially if it's a pyro, hydro or cryo dps. these elements are the strongest thanks to vaporize and melt. but crit is just as good

now for the specific advice. in the abyss, my basic party would be: main dps, shield, sub dps, and healer. it keeps you alive while dealing dmg, which you'll need bc no food there </3

you can try a team with diluc, zhongli, kaeya and bennett. i found that diluc and kaeya work rather well together (which makes me laugh bc. yk.), bennett is perfect for anyone but especially pyro dps if you have him c6, and zhongli has a godly shield so he'll keep them safe. if you have ganyu, ayaka or chongyun, they could replace kaeya and give better cryo application

diluc does well with 2p crimson and 2p atk!! an elemental mastery timepiece could also be good on him with kaeya, since the goal is to maximize his dmg with the melt reaction. atk is also fine

zhongli should have lots of hp and some dmg, i personally have him on hp/geo/hp and he manages pretty well. 3p tenacity is good to buff the whole team, but you can also try 2p tenacity and 2p emblem!

kaeya can be either 2p blizzard 2p atk or 2p blizzard and 2p noblesse, with the basic atk/cryo/crit and some energy recharge

bennett's best shot is 4p noblesse with energy recharge/hp/healing bonus. stack him with er and hp to have his ult almost constantly and a good heal

as for the talents, diluc needs all 3 of them as high as possible, kaeya can manage with skill and ult prioritized. focus on zhongli's shield & on bennett's ult!!

this team could also make fighting xiao's boss easier, that way you can also use him in the abyss bc he's still one of the best dps of the game <3

another team you could try is raiden, venti, xiangling and barbara. you won't have a shield with this one, so id say use it against mobs that venti can control so that they don't attack you as much

you don't exactly have a main dps here, but it could work (just to be clear i don't have raiden so im not 100% sure absjz). basically with her, you should have their ult almost constantly, which is perfect because xiangling and venti get most of their dmg with their ult and barbara's skill cooldown is a PAIN

raiden and xiangling would need the same build: emblem of severed fate. er% timepiece, elemental dmg cup and crit hat. aim for at least 200% er%, which means substats but also the fish weapon if you have it!! xiangling also needs elemental mastery, the em 4* spear is good on her bc of the pyro bonus passive

give venti the viridescent set, 4p and full elemental mastery. crit isn't as important bc swirl doesn't crit, so aim instead for er% substats & maybe the sacrificial bow if you have it

and barbara does well with the maiden set, but if you want some extra dmg then kokomi's set can be cool on her as well, it just means you'll need to get closer to the mobs. hp/hp/healing bonus is preferred, her ult doesn't do any dmg so hydro bonus isn't exactly necessary

if you have questions at any time, don't hesitate, that's also why this blog exists hehe <3

[genshin-djinn]

Genshin Impact Chapter 1 Act 3: A Reaction.

Chapter 1 Act 3 is what took my experience with this game from “good game” to “masterpiece”.

THIS POST CONTAINS MANY, MANY SPOILERS FOR GENSHIN IMPACT CHAPTER 1: ACT 3

Genshin Impact has some problems— actually, it has a shit ton of problems. But during the fight against hordes of Fatui, with the Adepti channeling their abilities through my gang, flying through them as Oz, decimating them with Diluc— I just thought, this is the best time I’ve had in a mobile game in my life.

This game might not be perfect now— it’s only a quarter of the way done if we’re counting Karenri’ah. But it will be a fucking masterpiece once it’s all out. If this is the level of quality we’re getting for our archon quests, this game is going to be an amazing time on story alone.

KEQING

I love Keqing with all my heart. If she were alive today she would be a socialist here to topple the ruling 1%. When ningguang asked Aether who they trusted more, her or Keqing, I hit the Keqing button as fast as possible.

I think one of my favorite things about Keqing is that she’s so completely honest, which is unusual for a Liyue politician. If she doesn’t like something, she’ll speak out against it. If she thinks something else should be happening, she’ll make it happen. She can probably be deceitful at times, but in general she’s straightforwards in that she wants a government for the people and by the people.

I can’t wait for her story quest!

NINGGUANG

pretty.... voice pretty....

Ningguang is cool. Her JP voice is very pretty, like she could do ASMR videos online or smth. One thing I decidedly did not like about Ningguang is how her personality just ???? flips? In the middle of the quest, for no reason other than “because plot”.

It’s established that Ningguang cares about two things more than anything— the Jade palace and Mora. Why, then, would she destroy the Jade palace for the sake of Liyue? I get that she’s a good person at heart at all, but I want to see more of her indecision, her brain saying “mora” and her heart saying “Liyue”. The way she just flips on a dime isn’t really strange but it does contradict with her preexisting characterization.

Childe’s Boss Fight!

The section of this quest from Childe’s fight to the Adepti + Qixing battle is just nonstop adrenaline.

Childe is IMO a lot more fun than Dvalin (sorry Dvalin). I’m at WL5 and have a tendency to play fast and loose with important mechanics like.... dodging, for example.... and Childe’s Mask Electro form ended up destroying my team. I killed him with Guoba because everyone else besides Xiangling was dead. I

Another thing I really enjoy about Childe’s boss fight is that in the irrationalities of Childe as a character, it actually makes sense. Genshin is decent at making weekly bosses logical excursions— Andrius wants you to get stronger, Dvalin’s weekly fight is ~~all a dream~~; but tbh sometimes the weekly bosses don’t make sense. Andrius wants to train us, not murder us! How does dvalin, a dream slash memory that doesn’t exist, manage to knock someone out?

Childe as a weekly boss actually makes perfect sense. He’s an adrenaline junkie addicted to the thrill of fighting people— to put this in modern AU terms, he’s the guy who’s first in line to ride the rollercoaster that failed all of its health and safety checks. Childe wants to befriend the Traveler entirely because they’re stronger than him, so that he can fight them over and over again until he’s the strongest. Of course, this will never happen, because the Traveler is the MC and therefore is stronger than all others. However, in this way Childe being a repeatable boss makes 100% perfect sense— he actually wants to fight the Traveler again and again and again.

The one question I have about Childe is how in the living feck are the Fatui letting him join the Traveler and fight for them *against the Fatui*??? I think this might be touched on in Childe’s Story quest, which I’ll do in a bit, but like????? They let him keep his delusion and just walk over to Aether like “aight fam I’m on your team now”? How?

Jade Chamber/ Guizhong Ballista vs Sea Monster Fight!!

Basically, all my charged adrenaline from nearly dying to Childe just came to a head in this one huge fantastic fight.

And Xiao :)

I absolutely loved seeing the Adepti and the Qixing work together. This fight was probably my favorite fight in the whole game— the music was amazing (soundtrack where), the graphics were so nice, the adepti were so feckin cool, using everyone’s abilities was n I ce. My adrenaline was reaching its highest point at this fight and it was just perfect. It was just so fecking fun after days of WL5 pain, having to pop like five ultimates to kill one hillichurl, to be able to just demolish swathes of enemies with Fischl and Diluc, run around like a madman thanks to Xiao, have infinite health idr who did that for me but bless them, just absolutely destroy.

Ever since I hit WL5 I haven’t been able to really just go insane during a fight and stop caring about HP/ when to use skills/ dodging and this have me that opportunity.

Zhongli’s Deal

*punches Zhongli across the room with the power of being the player character* I love this man so much.

Zhongli Zhongli Zhongli Zhongli Zhongli. I AM VERY ANGRY AT HOW THE PLOT RESOLVED HIS STORYLINE. But it also makes a lot of sense. And I think, for once, Zhongli should be allowed to be selfish.

Because choosing to leave Liyue was a bit selfish. He’s leaving the country that adores him, loves him, gives him shit for free; to its own devices and then to a completely unknown fate once the new Geo Archon becomes god and takes over. But he made a frankly fantastic plan and can now leave the country, for now, in peace.

I was absolutely delighted to see Zhongli in Morax form. Making deals with La Signora, being a complete and utter puppet master who set this entire situation up and played Childe like a kazoo; but just like his dear friend Venti, I think Zhongli is happier when he’s just Zhongli, the eccentric mortal. He seems so much happier and so much more relaxed when he’s forgetting about mora and eating dinner with Aether and Paimon. Rex Lapis might have just put Liyue through the wringer, but he can now put down his 3000- year long reign and just be the happy, eccentric Zhongli.

Zhongli’s little bit of insecurity over being a “bourgeois parasite” makes perfect sense now— he doesn’t want to be seen as Morax, a superfluous god who’s using his name to get whatever he wants from the humans he watches over.

But also the part of my brain that feeds off lore nEEDS to KNOW what Zhongli got from Tsaritsa. What could be worth a gnosis? His own happiness isn’t enough— Tsaritsa is likely going to use his gnosis to try and destroy Liyue. What could be worth that?

My main thought would be either “someone’s protection” or “another gnosis”, but I don’t think the latter is possible. The former could be possible but doesn’t really make sense either— a) whose protection is worth putting an entire country, much less the world, in danger and b) the Fatui are out to kill everyone who isn’t Fatui, so they won’t agree to spare a major player in the war to come like that. Brain go brrr.

I’m very hyped for Zhongli’s story quest, which I think is coming with his banner on Dec 1, when Childe’s banner ends. I really hope that Zhongli visits Mondstadt and chills with Venti for a while, but anything with this guy would be fine lol.

LORE

We got a lot of lore this update and I am delighted by it.

Firstly, we get a tiny hint of how Visions are bestowed— “if a person shows true strength of will at a desperate and fateful moment in their life, the gods will look upon them with favor.” Vague but more than we had before.

Next we got some neat lore about Inazuma— firstly, that it’s led by a god named Baal and secondly that it steals everyone’s visions. I’m very hyped to visit because guess what fam aether doesn’t have a vision.

Final Thoughts

In case you can’t tell from my insane ramblings, I loved Chapter 1 Act 3 and I absolutely cannot wait to play through Childe’s story quest and Chapter 2 and beyond.

The Prologue in Mondstadt set the stage for Genshin. We started out in a fantasy environment with a fantasy tale of an immortal bard and a dragon. Mondstadt was an excellent introduction to the world of Genshin.

And now? We’re starting to build on that. Chapter 1 brings us another story of another god and their relationship with the country they watch over. Liyue is much less of a traditional fantasy setting and takes the darkness we saw in Mondstadt— a friendship ruined by manipulation and suffering— and build on it. Now we don’t just see the Fatui more often but we also see more of the Treasure Hoarders and the way both groups kidnap and experiment on humans.

Mond started to introduce us to the Fatui, but Liyue is where they really start bringing continuous plot relevance. Inversely, we saw much more of the Abyss Order in Mondstadt than we did in Liyue. I’m extremely disappointed we didn’t see any more of the Princess this chapter, but it makes sense given that Chapter 1 was really more about the Fatui than the Abyss Order.

All I’m trying to say is the Liyue arc was an excellent continuation to the stage Mondstadt’s arc set. Now, we’re on to the world of the Eternal Shogun, Baal! I’m really excited to meet new characters and experience new stories of Inazuma, but I hope we’ll continue to see Mondstadt and Liyue in the future. Mondstadt is likely going to be the most “boring” of the countries we experience, cuz it’s just so classically fantasy- themed, but it will always be the first country we explored in this world.

After Inazuma (if I had to take a shot in the dark, inazuma’s arc will take from December 23 to maybe March or April) we’ll go to Sumeru, which I am really extremely hyped for because it sounds extremely different from Mond and Liyue and we’ll meet Cyno and possibly even Collei! (just me extrapolating lol). I can’t wait to see where Genshin Impact goes story- wise, because its first major update has brought so much to the table.

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