QUOTE(MerryGoRound^2 @ Apr 5 2022, 02:54 PM)
It might sound insensitive to say this, but you either have the patience or you don't to go with the grind.
Genshin Impact isn't the first and the last game to enforce grinding and people sometimes speak as if there are no other games out there that has a certain degree of grinding required. Think about classic games like RO or MapleSea. Those demand equally long hours of getting your desired drops and stats. Again, it's not the grind that is the problem, but the way the grind is handled. If grinding in Genshin Impact was made easier then the players will be hounding Hoyo 24/7 for newer contents to be delivered sooner. And to be frank with you, there's never a ceiling to the grind you can get in Genshin.
Once you hit your best record, you start pushing again. That's how it works. A friend of mine once said there's a lot to do in Genshin, looking at it now, it's kinda true. The road to optimizing your 4* and 5*s is long, you can go pick ingredients daily, if your exploration for certain areas isn't 100% you can do those too. Those will keep you busy until the new patch drops. The fun in games that demand an absurd amount of grinding is the progression. If anything, think of Genshin as a leisurely game. Lastly, the whole point of the daily grinds, missions and freemos is to build up to something great, if you get into that mindset, then maybe it'll be easier to wait out the contents.
I think people just hate grinding as a whole because the world is used to getting things fast and on the spot these days, esp the younger generation who hates reading long ass stuffs, and its rubbing off on the Millennials or Baby Boomers. Not saying Genshin isn't monotonous, but it is a game you generally spend 15-30 minutes daily to get things done, then you check in every 8 hours to prevent resin overflow. When a new region/patch drops, somehow that game time goes up to 4-8 hours for me. Still good, still fun.
I'm not saying I have problem with the grind. The problem is that I have reached the end there's nothing to grind anymore. My exploration is at 100% with every single chest gathered by going to every single point using the map tracker.
My artifacts already have super high crit stats, what more do I need really? What do I do with the resins? I have thousands of experience book and millions of gold. What do I do with my resins. I think I spend more time trying to figure out how to manage my artifact inventory more than anything
The character I like are already built up. So unless I pump money, I have no one to level anymore.
My account is bottlenecked at primogems even though I pay for monthly pass, do dailies everyday and never missed an event. At this point, its either spend more or quit. I chose the latter.
Again, I have no problems with the grind. Genshin is child's play compared to other games if you are talking about grind. I mean I left Genshin for an MMO, I put in 600 hours in the game since I started February and I have a full time job. Grind is nothing for me