Dragonspine Spear is kinda mehhh

What build is your XiangLing? Support or DPS?

For DPS Xiangling, Crescent Pike is still the best for now (even better than the 5* Primordial Jade Winged Spear). Another good alternative is the BP weapon; Deathmatch.

IMO, her pyro skill works more like an enabler for setting up elemental reactions for your hydro DPS. Not much of a damage dealing skill. So you'd wanna prioritize leveling up your normal attacks first, then Pyronado & lastly Gouba. Pair her up with a cryo enabler (like Chongyun, Kaeya & Diona), then your Pyronado can do a lil more damage. You might wanna put Amber in party just for the +25% attack bonus from Pyro resonance too.

If you use her as support, the stringless. If dps, prototype crescent would be good.

That Battle pass bow also good for dps Guanyu.

If you can exchange Northland Prototype Bow from the Liyue shop, that's strongly recommended. Alternatively, the Blackcliff Warbow in the Cashshop is the easiest to get & slightly better than Prototype Crescent.

im gonna put my old test results for you to decide

lv83 electro keqing with R5 lv90 festering vs lv89 geo slime
Q: 9.4k
E: 10.1k
normal: 1.6-2.8k
charge: 4-4.4k

lv83 electro keqing with R2 lv90 blacksword vs lv89 geo slime
Q: 9.4k
E: 8.4k
normal atk: 2-4k
charge atk: 4.6-5.1k

I personally prefer Black Sword, by the time your Black Sword hits R5, your normal & charge atk numbers will go higher than it currently is, not to mention its substats is crit rate, plus the extra heal.

and prototype is basically free, while blackcliff cost starglitters, depends on how you want to spend your resources.

Blacksword wins hands down over Festering Desire. Even Prototype Rancour & The Flute should be better than Festering Desire. But that doesn't means it's bad. Festering Desire is quite imba on Bennett & Albedo.

If you're nuts with damage, Blackcliff Warbow definitely does more damage than Prototype Crescent. But if you wanna reserve your Starglitter for a 4* you're dying to get, then better use that Northlander Prototype Bow.

depend on your build and your party... if your party have to double cryo, blackcriff good, crescent not bad but not all boss have weakpoint so overall blackcliff much better (if blackclif could gain max stack, dmg wooow but still cannot beat amos bow)
but i don't really suggest use ganyu as support,  atleast sub-dps else your energy recharge is slow, unless you have alot good artifact in energy recharge or use energy bow.
viridescent hunt is good for abyss usage....  fight single boss, overall dps is terrible hahahaha. if melt or superconduct are your main damage source, energy bow not bad. overall depend on your gameplay style hahahaha

you pity count resets the moment you draw a 5*, so count from your last 5*

assuming you get ganyu at 350, then your next guaranteed 5* will be at 440, and your next guaranteed banner 5* will be at 530 (assuming you did not get the banner 5* at 440)

"your pity count resets the moment you draw a 5*, so count from your last 5*"



pity system is basically a 90 pull counter, once you pulled a 5*, the counter resets back to 90, doesnt matter if you have a total of 351, 440 or 1k draws.

so lets just say you draw 40/90 and got a 5*, your pity counter resets back to 0/90, hence count from your last 5* instead of total pulls.

so unless youre REALLY unlucky, you pull 90/90, the system makes sure your 90th pull is a 5*

Mona IS a 5* 

if you meant 100% banner character, then theres a dumb separate system where if your last character banner pull is the banner character, your next 5* is a 50/50 chance of not being rate up unit, so example: if you got Mona instead of Ganyu on Ganyu banner, your next 5* is 100% banner rate up unit.