Because Hutao is a part of Liyue 3, and Liyue 3 as we know it, is bonkers. C1 Childe can get the job done too, but Hutao C1 just pushes the boundaries further. With that in mind, whose constellation would you rather go for? Plus quite frankly, I really don't think Childe is that all amazing. Solid and viable for sure, but if you're stuck choosing between either one of them, it's hands down Hutao over Childe. Unless you have no love for the character, then Childe all the way maybe?

Or get Polar Star to pair with C0 Childe?

Yeah. Unfortunately, Hutao is a high-risk, high-reward kind of character. You'll always have to be below 30-40% health to optimize her damage.
If you're in serious need of a pyro dps, you can consider repurposing your Benny to a main dps. Or you can utilize Diluc or Yanfei as your stand-in pyro dps until someone better comes along. They're not strong as Hutao but they are pretty decent in their own right.

:x. I'm not a fan of using crit weapons to circumvent my builds. So if you ask me, I think it's perfectly fine for you to have Hutao and still skip out on Staff of Homa. Imo, you can just use Black Tassel for Hutao if you're lacking a good weapon kek. Or Blackcliff Pole is fine too.

This post has been edited by MerryGoRound^2: Oct 5 2021, 01:05 AM

Low quality video incoming.



I am laughing real hard in the face of ZL mains now These guys' attacks bypasses shields, and they can't be petrified, only frozen it seems. Basically, they are a hard counter to ZL.

A better quality of the video.

This post has been edited by MerryGoRound^2: Oct 5 2021, 09:50 AM

I doubt Broken Pines is returning so soon. If it does, I'll gladly whale for an R2.

That aside, what's with all the hate for Venti and Xingqiu based on their designs :S? Besides, China isn't asking game developers to visually update their fembois to look more masculine. Rather, they are calling for future game characters to be depicted in a more masculine manner, so I don't think Venti, Xingqiu or even the likes of Bennett is going to undergo plastic surgery.

At best, it means this will be the last of Genshin's fembois we'll see lol. Venti and Xingqiu getting hated on for being top-tier abyss materials is utterly idiotic. While they are a staple in 80% of the team comps in game, at some point they'll fall from grace or become second best. We still have 4-6 regions to go, all planned out between the timeline of 2021 ~ 2023. Someone is bound to break the mould.

I rather ZL get dethroned because the shield meta was around since January, and it's disgusting. I think we're slowly moving into the dot meta, and corrosion is just the tip of the iceberg. And Sumeru should provide some much-needed fresh air to the game's elemental reaction mechanics. After Sumeru, we go into Fontaine, and I think we'll start getting a healer/on-demand heal meta, and the Hydro Archon might probably have some gimmick to do with overheal and damage increase.

monkahmm

A balance is nice. The ban on twinks and fembois was just CCP's attempt at curbing any LGBT agendas in the country. Though I doubt it'll do anything sizable to the LGBT community. Quite frankly, LGBTs are more attracted to masculine looking males as opposed to fembois

It's mostly girls who are attracted to pretty boys anyway, at least in the CN scene.

I do! But you could join the Malaysian discord server for GI leaks if you want on the dot news.

That reminds me goldfries, are you planning on starting a GI discord server anytime soon ?

You wanted more masculine males, you say? Well... get ready to see more gay players joining the fray

If this is real, I'll whale on Hutao's banner KEK.

Oops, correction, I meant the weapon banner debuting with Hutao's banner. I honestly don't care if we're getting a Jade Claymore soon. Broken Pines is hands down the best weapon I can see Eula wielding.

Black Tassel.

Dumped my freemos into Kokomi's banner today.

C5 and C6 came together. Don't ever think I'll get this lucky ever again.
Also got Jean C0-C2 for my 50-50s. Jeanless year over. Also what I wanted.
2 Jade Cutters, 1 Donut for Kokomi.

Can finally stop pulling for 6-9 months, skip Sumeru and only pull for C0 Yae and Dendro Archon. Rest of the freemos can go to C6 Raiden.
Probably looking 3-6 months of grinding and farming artifacts + ascension mats for other 4*s. Beidou, Xingqiu, Benny, Fischl, Diona, Yanfei, Venti, Jean.
Also switching over to JP voiceover because I can't stand friggin Kokomi's EN VO.

Sekian.

KEK. My Benny and XLs are partially built. They're both taken to LV50 and have remained there for a good full year. I'm generally not a big fan of pyro units and dislike using Benny on the grounds that he's just so broken. But the whaling on Kokomi's + past and current weapon banner has given me a plethora of reasons to develop my sub dpses again. So I'm looking at months after months of grinding. Also gotta regrind my talent books, ascension mats, soooo many stuffs to do.

I swapped out Benny's Favonius Sword for an Aquila Favonia last night. Was reserving the Favonia for Jean... but now that I have 2 Jade Cutters... I think it will go to Jean and Xingqiu respectively, or Jean + Keqing. Was hoping for an R2 Moonglow, alas

XL was also running on the lv40 Jade-Primordial Winged Spear, but I gave her Skyward Spine to remedy her ER issues. All my sub dpses are WIPs because I've been running on comfort Eula for far too long.

Pot calling the kettle black. I think you whale more than me sia

Looking forward to your C6 Yae, as is the case with si kutu rayau

Too bad. I'm 2 days into using my JP voice dubs now, and so far they're quite okay ahahahaha.

Also, I finally understand why folks are calling Floor 12 a massive stat check >_>. 12-3-2 is such a pain in the ass. 12-1, 12-2 and 12-3-1 were fun at least.

Completed the abyss with 36 stars for the first time :x. Usually I'd only hit 34~35 stars at best.

Floor 12 always taxes my teams for certain reasons. And because I cherry level my team roster, one of the teams that go into Abyss usually lags behind a little, and it particularly shows on the higher levels where fighting tooth and nail is important to coming out on top of the timer.

Well not anymoreeee. Completed 12-3-2 with a Kokomi team comp. Kinda fun. Still hoping for the day to come when Mihoyo buffs Kokomi's personal damage, or that copium artifact that drops in 2.3. Already saw leaked images of a new domain in Tsurumi Island, the domain is either an artifact one or for wep ascension materials I guess.

As long as you're building a traditional DPS, %ATK > Flat Atk.

The only time you'll settle for Flat stats is when you get a flower/feather and your substat rolls into flat stats. Then again, if you get a lot of rolls into flat stats, I suggest refarming them.

Generally, all crit-dependent characters want %ATK, as it scales off your base attack. *inserts some multiplicative formula involved that I don't know*

Personally, I think your CR:CD ratio is fine. It is a little disproportionate, but nothing worth refarming all over again. Because we know refarming is a pain in the ass.

As for HappyBerry's suggestion about going ER sands, that's viable but not recommended. If your goal is to use Xiangling as a sub-dps and you want her pyronado to have 100% uptime, you can remedy that with substat rolls into ER or run a Skyward Spine, assuming you have one. Use weapons to circumvent her ER issues.

That said, if this is your current build already, I don't see the need to change anything. My Xingqiu has some pretty scuffed CR:CD ratio, and I let it be because he does a lot of hits with his burst that one of them is bound to crit anyway. And that's not even factoring the fact that I haven't gotten him a full 4pc EoSF. Ditto for my Beidou.

Xiangling and Xingqiu have been shadowbuffed in the meta to the point that both are slowly becoming Benny-level broken. Xingqiu is probably closer or above Benny. And Xiangling is closely behind those 2. Even Fischl doesn't have that sort of versatility and power level. With that in mind, building XL with an ATK sands allows you to bring a back-up carry in instances where your main dps get one-shotted for no reason and dies.