It's just too flashy for me. Even the numbers on the elation card was flashing rainbow, like why? I swear someone out there got seizures over time from this.
Also people learned from Aglaea/Castorice to wait out the entire team to see whether it's worth to pull or not. Aglaea being the first remembrance without actual dedicated remembrance team like Castorice, might deter people from pulling Yao/Sparxie till SW/Evanescia full team is shown.
i quit star rail and wuwa and slowly ZZZ for similar reasoning. its just too much, and its not as fun.
i had more fun with corin and anby at the start of the game than all my super powerful flashy teams. the combat is less enjoyable. i had more fun with camellya and sanhua than i do my aemeath premium team. i had more fun with early kafka and seele and blade before the cliff of jingliu.
as much as i complain about genshin, even with all the lunar charge shit im still able to go into an endgame mode with EM thoma and have a fun time and it doesnt feel as bad.
Yeah I actually like flashy colorful things and that initial Yao Guang trial was overwhelming. Like, holy shit. It felt like a really long battle filled with flashing lights and random loud noises.
Still weirded by the fact that they decided to show off Aha damage numbers as if it's anything amazing. This is HSR after 3.0 powercreep and CW giving players the taste of inflated damage numbers.
Is high level currency wars that bad,,, I had fun in the mid and high difficulties but since reaching wealth creator I end up with runs I already know are bricked and/or dead after the first plane
I can't even imagine how annoying wealth creator 20 is
Wealth Creator 20+ means you basically have 3-5 options for viable teams that also don't take an hour+ to do a full run, especially if you decide to run on +HP conditions.
Break + full Galaxy Ranger Boothill is the strongest team and will kill even WC 30 bosses in the blink of an eye. You put double drills on him and the speed fan and watch him go.
Aglaea double SPD boots is good as well.
SP team is pretty good, but get used to seeing Elation skills.
Wolf Hunt is pretty good if you can luck into getting the emblems needed.
Currently Skill Point and Break rules in high level CW. That's if you don't count things like Wheelchair Aggie.
Skill Point is very much boosted because Sparxie, Sparkle and Yaoguang contribute LOL. Too bad Cedrya back row AI won't target Sparxie except if Sparxie is bar none more upgraded than the others, but AHA plays most of the game for you...
WC20 is just spammy and not fun (borderline torturous imo). If I wasn’t a completionism sucker, I would never subject myself to WC7+, cause runs become a genuine chore
The vending machine shit? Its so cringe. I love OG sparkle + her animations having "mysterious chaos pixie" energy rather than Sparxie's animations having looney toons vibe.
But I did really enjoy 4.0 as a patch. Just not sure if I want elation at all. I love Yao but no idea if I want her team at all.
im not judging Elation as a whole yet, but seeing it likely transforming into Remembrance 2.0 is enough to put me off it. of course things can change with Elation MC, but still.
I sure love having a beautiful elegant character have forced loud clown sounds and animations play all the time! I swear to god did no one on the dev team think for a second how unfitting this crap would be for some of the elation characters...
Same, I like Sparkle fine and use her a lot but one run of CW showed me how insufferable playing Sparxie and an Elation team would be for any length of time so I don't want to ever pull for that. I just wish they'd made Yao Guang another more generalist Harmony instead of tied to this brainrot animation path. ☹️
Nah Durin can stay especially if nicole will also buff his dmg along with Varkas. Venti however needs to be replaced his kit is so outdated even with the buffs he doesnt provide much for Varka
venti's hex buff is for him to be a mdps, him as a support is barely outdoing four stars like sucrose. nicoel should have been anemo so she can replace venti and allow him to have 2 of PECH element while still having durin as the premium pyro option.
Yeah people have only been waiting for him for 5-6 years. I’ve never seen such a non meta dps have so many C6’s, he might genuinely become the new Xiao.
Luuk is unfortunate to be released in the wrong game. Imagine just liking a male character but you are constantly being mocked and insulted for liking a character... by players of the same game.
Because your own playerbase goes around insulting and mocking the others for just playing the game and doing their own thing to this day so… it’s just karma really.
Totally this. Judging from one of their other comments, I can totally see why too. Disgruntled former player trying to justify leaving a successful game early by extrapolating the opinions of some random twittard to the entire player base. Seen it time and time again by these bad faith engagement baiters
is it really a problem if you have to go hunting for the 3 guys that are "attacking" people who pulled on Luuk, which i still dont even believe is happening lol
Varka isn't that strong, but he's fun as heck to play. I was going to skip him, and then after watching my wife run around with him power jumping up cliffs I broke and spent for him.
I doubt I'll use him much in endgame, but he rapidly became my favourite overworld character.
As a picky whale Varka is great at high investment. He can do damage with 5 different elements and because of that he is far harder to block out of content than lunar teams.
Flins/Nefer's reactions can get fucked if an enemy has an element affinity that kills their reactions. In a world where a fire enemy will totally screw Flin's damage output, Cryo Varka will just trigger extra melt damage against that foe. Like... Varka CAN get effectiveness-blocked by hoyo, but its harder. I can throw all the money at Flins but Flins will forever have only one job while Varka has 5.
Realistically Varka, because he has access to 5 elements, has to have a flexibility tax, particularly at low investment levels. You cant let Varka alone be the 1-2 best DPS in the game of 5 different elements. You cant let him replace Mavuika/Skirk/Varesa/Mualani at low investment. There's gotta be a trade off.
This is a really nice breakdown. I would also add that he is a claymore user with very fast animations that is very effective with geo shielded enemies.
considering that C0r0 varka with r1 serpent spine managed to beat diff 5 cryo overseer with just four star teammates, varka raw damage is higher than most people realise.
granted that build in the bilibili showcase had good builds, good ping and very good varka combos.
I was pretty surprised to see how many women were at a pop up event in LA for WuWa last month. The couple behind me the girl was there for WuWa after her boyfriend went to the Endfield popup and in front of me the boyfriend didn’t even play gachas but his girlfriend was there for WuWa. It was about 1/3 women to 2/3 men on the way in and pretty close to 40/60 on the way out. Kuro is missing out a lot by not releasing more male characters .
Promotion team and varka's story doing the hard carry. His kits are too restricting. Would have sold more if he's strong without support like the nod krai characters
I'm just stating what I see. Both men and women of all ages can love Varka's design and his memes. Luuk however is for 12 yo girls and they have no money yet
I’m older than 12 and I like Lukk’s design. The problem is that he looks like he’d be from an otome game or joseimuke game but I don’t think many of his target audience are left in the game.
Idk what was going in hoyo's mind to make Varka so weak, i have him on mavuika's weapon with pretty decent artifacts and premium team yet he's weaker than Mavuika,flins,Nefer,Skirk,Varessa,Chaska,Mualani (these are what I have, tested on milliastra wonderland dummy) and Zibai also is stronger , that's 8 characters already
His story quest is one of the best in the game tho, absolute cinema fr
Hex characters are generally within the same ballpark be it new and old, hoyo might raise them all up with future exansion of the hex roster. Varka specifically has that "atk buffer unbound from circle impact and a shielder" shaped hole in his team.
what's not generic about luuk compared to other male characters released in wuwa? he's covered head to toe, uses the same model as every male character post game release, is another male mid air dps.
Jiyan wears tights ,XLY has robotic arm (clothes are normal ,highschool crush type) , Brant has his chest out(more fanservice than any genshin chara,flamboyant type),qiuyuan wears martial arts uniform(serious, quit type) , Luuk wears a doc with his veiny arms out and a coat(cunning, gentle type)....
Surely every male chara are "generic" relatively.(Maybe you should check your eyes?)
I'd like to tell you that her lore has been in the game since 1.0 and she already had a 10 minute fanmade animated short film about her over a year ago so knowledge of her existence is definitely not an unpopular notion..... but in regards to revenue specifically yeah I'd say it's basically people either going "pretty girl" or "oh so she's basically Zhongli's predecessor"
I’m a latecomer to Genshin so I mostly play it to pass time but your experience mirrors mine for HSR, ZZZ and Wuwa. I tried them all and put a lot of time into HSR but eventually realized I wasn’t having fun with any of them and dropped them steadily.
I think deleting a gacha game and walking away is better for you if aren't having fun. Its like spending say 100 hours in a non-live service game. I've spent over 150 hours in Total Warhammer 2 or 120 hours in Civilization 5. I didn't feel bad walking away because I had fun with them. It also helps that you can come back any time you want.
I know what you felt. I stopped playing Genshin around 3.4 or so too. And I came back for like 3 patches in 4.X just to pull because I had a big stockpile and left. Then I straight quit for a year. The story wasn't doing it for me and the game had issues I wasn't liking. So I quit it for HSR.
I can't see quiting Genshin anytime soon after the last phenomenal archon quest. Writing (IMO) is very tight and presentation with all the camera angles, animations is quite good and it's only getting better, even in event quests. Meanwhile HSR, even with the skip button I just couldn't care much about the latest story, especially when every 10 minutes they push you into this stupid ass braindead 2D minigame....? So I decided to quit that, even if I like the characters....
ZZZ, I see a lot of heart being put into it, excellent characters, demos, songs that I actually listen on daily basis, even interesting NPCs... I think I can stick with it for a long time, despite sometimes characters feel shoehorned into the story (Looking at you YSG)
aren't you able to skip some regions though? like i think you can skip Inazuma since it's pretty much closed off by itself....
i'm not too sure though because i haven't replayed with a new account lol. if i lose my account i think it's more likely i'll acquire one (wink wink) that has my favourite chars rather than replay everything haha.
I quit on Genshin after the main Natlan story. I just couldn’t balance it and HSR anymore. You can only devote so much time to live service games. And I got burned out on open world games, I can’t commit that time like I could in the pandemic. My 3 live services are HSR, Warzone, and Battlefield 6.
All these delays, politics and schedule stuff tanked release a bit, yeah. But overall March, April and May look like they would be bangers for HSR, so I guess we will see next month.
He might as well release strong since hes gonna be semi-powercreeped before the rest of his team shows up per leaks. Full Elation team is gonna be in beta and giving a new power tier peak DURING his banner. The rest of his team aint allegedly coming until late region.
Ashveil numbers won't be big, yeah. But they would be included in March and April. And March has Sparxie + Yao Guang. And April will have anni character, so they'll carry.
I think the upcoming HSR character roster according to leaks is pretty stacked. Aside from Sparkle Alter who is not released yet (she's second half of 4.0), we are expecting
Yae, Silverwolf Alter, Himeko Alter, Blade Alter
Feels like 4.X will have some pretty strong revenue showings based on these alone.
Yeah, why did they release a support 1st 😭my YG is just collecting dust unless I do triple sup for Phainon lmao but hey, 21m is still high considering what's happening the past months.
I wish that was the case just to see the memes, but it's gotta be like at least 70M with the spending event, both elation teams' main DPSs releasing, novaflares probably getting reruns. I'm kinda hoping to see our first 2 patch rerun for Yaoguang just to amend her terribly timed forced CNY release.
They have reached the maximum milking achievable with the game, wouldn't surprise me if a many casual player simply jumped ship after Remembrance in Amphoreus and have had enough
Unlikely unfortunately. HSR marketing is bound to bring them back combined with how easy it is to keep up with the game. Players should've jumped ship after seeing what a shitshow Remembrance was but if Genshin can maintain its rhythm with all these competitors, HSR likely can as well (with no real competition)
Not just that. People have been burned bad by the remembrance path and now they are actively avoiding locking themselves into another new path unless they can pull full premium teams with premium LCs and most likely some needed cons also. It’s way too expensive for F2P and low spender. I am also skipping the entire elation path.
Why play then? They won't add any new archetypes this year. Sounds really boring. Imagine not pulling Remembrance during last year; every piece of content would just feel like shit because it's balanced around something you don't have access to. No reason to expect a 4-star Elation team either
Part of me coping that HSR will slowly start bleeding players considering that the "new" path is once again just another reskinned cashgrab of old mechanics.
But we all know that it'll sadly once again top charts during anniversary.
This new area is def the least interesting main zone that Hoyo has ever released, everything feels so cheap and generic, Amorphous character design was just so much better, the streamer culture is way too annoying be centered as the culture anchor for an entire region.
It’s not just Yaoguang. Sparxie is just as bad since she’s a sub dps and her kit needs multiple elation units while the only one out is Yaoguang who she’s not even supposed to pair with.
And now we have Asheveil who they neutered to make him another sub dps for a team that isn’t out yet.
We’ve basically had 4 months of nothing but support/subdps units for old ass teams or teams not released. It’s bad
to be fair i get why. at the same time- why? why cant they put Yao Guang much later, other than her being somewhat Chinese looking? you'll only pull for her if you know for sure Elation is your thing after the trial from Currency Wars with Sparxie and her tutorial which included a surprise! Sparxie! and on top of it... theres only 2 Elation units, and we got Sparxie this week. so for the whole month it just was Yao Guang as the lone Elation, and as a support lol.
Technically WuWa have much more PC players since they also released on Steam as well +them not caring that much about mobile performance/experience. So I assume they kinda made most profit by far, I wouldn't be surprised if mobile revenue is only under 20% for them.
I think I share the same negative opinion of her, not sure if I’d call her ugly exactly but she seems so generic to me. Doesn’t nearly give the same ‘oomph’ as Black Swan or Aglaea.
I think it might be because she looks similar to Zibai from Genshin. Two Chinese themed characters running at the same time, both mommies, white hair… like, wow, Mihoyo, that’s recipe #638 right there.
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