Endorph posted:

what? your character's levels dont affect the domain levels or drops at all. same with the spiral abyss.

Gladiator's Destiny posted:

The end had finally come for the triumphant gladiator.
The young challenger paid her final homage to the gladiator.

When the vanity of victory and desire for freedom dissipated into the air like the morning fog,
and when the light of dawn finally shone on the arena through layers of blood-soaked clouds, the gladiator saw a flying bird.

One battle away from being free, the gladiator was defeated by an anonymous girl.
Cries and howls burst out in the crowd like pounding thunder,
but the victor refused to humiliate her opponent by execution.
She refused to plunge her sword into the opponent's throat and end his life like that of a slave.

The gladiator's healing wounds were covered with invisible feathers.
He eventually set off on a journey, finally as free as a bird.
His destination was the place where flowers bloom and birds soar.

Deathmatch posted:

This crimson polearm has seen countless battles, and has borne witness to a certain gladiator's valor.
Its ice-cold tip was often drenched in the blood of its foes, to the thunderous applause of the crowd.
Bloodstained was the gladiator's fate, and freedom, so near yet so far, was often balanced on a knife's edge.
The dull sound of that crimson tip piercing flesh was many a battle's death-knell.

As the gladiator's final performance ended, their master spoke up amidst the thunderous applause:
"The promised number has been met. You have done well, and are a warrior worthy of great renown."
"Consider this weapon to be a parting gift... Yet, would you not consider fighting on?"
"Continue your brilliant performance as a free person, for your glory and for mine. What say you?"
Many years past, and the beasts and men who fell to that spear grew too numerous to count.
The duelist's weapon became known as undefeated, but his heart belonged to his young master.

As the gladiator's final performance ended, amidst thunderous applause,
His weapon fell to the bloodied sand as the red-haired maiden's scorching blade pierced the old warrior's heart.
As he fell, despondent, he turned his eyes to his beloved master, his noble lord who cherished him...
"Eberhart, Master Eberhart... Did my final performance please you?"
But his master's seat was empty, save for a wine goblet and silver platter, toppled in haste.

"At first, I fought for myself, for blood and battle-lust."
"But since a time I know not when, I have killed for my master."
"Only for the sake of others can we fight like wild beasts without care."
"Someone like you, who fights for her people and not for herself... Surely, you understand this as well."

Gladiator's Longing posted:

The gladiator crafted this hourglass himself. He would flip the hourglass before each battle.
When the hourglass stopped flipping, the gladiator had long since died in a pool of his own blood.

The gladiator would put this hourglass aside before entering the arena.
When the fight has ended and the crowd started to cheer for him, the sand in the hourglass was still flowing.

In the gladiator's final fight, he faced a young girl.
In her eyes, he saw both the timidity of a young girl and the ferocity of a young lioness.
From his step, the girl saw the unbreakable shackles of age that the gladiator wore.
It was a fight like the old gladiator has not had in years. Fierce, yet satisfying.
But the fight ended in a flash. The sword plunged into the gladiator's heart and the sand in his hourglass crawled to a stop.

RPATDO_LAMD posted:

Dainslief was literally in the pre-release preview trailer, before Genshin even released, as the featured playable character from the Khaenri'ah chapter (and also the narrator of the trailer!). So they definitely have plans to release him, but it'll be a very long time before we work though all 7 countries and get to there.
As for the others: Yae is scheduled to release as playable some time around patch 2.5 according to leaks, and Scaramouche could eventually be playable just like Childe is, after he gets to play a major antagonist in some future chapter.

Endorph posted:

And yea, in general I wish some of the more major NPCs got unique designs. Xiangling's dad, Hoffman, Smiley, these are all characters who get a reasonable amount of dialogue but your mind slips right by them because they have generic villager models.

Kale posted:

Because the game holds your adventurer exp in reserve until you raise the cap via ascension quests it's very possible and even likely for you to do the 2nd one and have it jump your world level multiple times past what you can reasonably handle at that point making even daily quests kind of brutal. It's possible to lower or raise your world level within a certain threshold after that point so see if you can drop it by opening your menu, selecting world level with the d-pad and seeing what it says your options are. I had to do this after Ascension Quest 2 to make things kind of more bearable again.

It also really helps by that point to have at least one strong 5 star DPS character since there's a pretty noticeable power gap between some of them and the 4 star characters that are available. For me this was kind of Ayaka with her absurd 20 hit high damage multiplier burst, self buffing elemental skill with a giant AoE, crit damage perk, and just damage potential in general as well as her dash allowing her to dance around and toss cryo onto enemies. She doesn't come across as the kind of character that would be like this being a demure princess and all (or maybe she does cause anime I dunno) that only fights once in the entire Inazuma story that I recall during her character quest, but she just hits like a motherfucking truck with her drawbacks being kind of weak defensively and a bit of a higher execution character than some since you're pretty much constantly hitting and running stuff to reapply cryo infusion and spreading Cryo as well as lining up her charge attack so it hits the maximum amount of enemies. Before her though it was Diluc off the standard banner that really helped me to get things going again in terms of matching the enemies. He's still available there permanently but unfortunately Ayaka is off the table right now as are certain other coveted DPS characters like Ganyu, Eula and to some extent Raiden Shogun though she's a bit more of a support DPS when not in her burst mode.

Probably the next really good example of a solid 5 star DPS carry coming up is Hu Tao, though the way she works also kind of requires you to gamble a little since fittingly for her personality and motif she basically gets stronger the closer she is too dying and her elemental skill burns her HP as well to take advantage of this so you have to play a little careful.

RPATDO_LAMD posted:

xiangling is stronger than ayaka and everyone gets her for free
you don't need a 5star DPS to progress

QuantaStarFire posted:

I feel like I'm missing something when I try to play this game. I can't farm artifacts or talent ascension materials at AR45 because everything hits like a truck and has far too much HP for me to reasonably kill in a timely manner. Every fight is a struggle at this point and it's not even remotely fun anymore. I feel like it's not supposed to be like this, but what am I missing?

gandlethorpe posted:

CVS Receipt Impact

King of Bleh posted:

What on earth does it even mean that the damage is "calculated similarly to elemental reactions, but not affected by EM or level or bonuses." What's left?

jokes posted:

What elements do y’all run? I personally use cryo main/anemo/electro/hydro because freezing and super conducting is just a very powerful combination

Glazius posted:

Snapshot your roster with your usual team up front. That and the cancel screen will help us tell you what's up.

RareAcumen posted:

Ning/Eula/Noelle/Zhong
Geo/Cryo/Geo/Geo

RPATDO_LAMD posted:

Superconduct does nothing if you don't have a physical DPS though

gandlethorpe posted:

CVS Receipt Impact

QuantaStarFire posted:

(A* is the current Ascension of each character)

My general experience is that open-world content is mostly not an issue; it depends on the enemies, though it's different for bosses, and sometimes domains that scale with WL like the exploration domains or the event dungeon. XL and Beidou are both 6/6/6 on their talents, Fischl is 4/5/4, Kokomi is 2/6/5, and then from there it varies wildly between 1 and 3 talent levels per character until Aloy where everyone after is 1/1/1.

QuantaStarFire posted:

(A* is the current Ascension of each character)

My general experience is that open-world content is mostly not an issue; it depends on the enemies, though it's different for bosses, and sometimes domains that scale with WL like the exploration domains or the event dungeon. XL and Beidou are both 6/6/6 on their talents, Fischl is 4/5/4, Kokomi is 2/6/5, and then from there it varies wildly between 1 and 3 talent levels per character until Aloy where everyone after is 1/1/1.

jokes posted:

What elements do y’all run? I personally use cryo main/anemo/electro/hydro because freezing and super conducting is just a very powerful combination

QuantaStarFire posted:

(A* is the current Ascension of each character)

My general experience is that open-world content is mostly not an issue; it depends on the enemies, though it's different for bosses, and sometimes domains that scale with WL like the exploration domains or the event dungeon. XL and Beidou are both 6/6/6 on their talents, Fischl is 4/5/4, Kokomi is 2/6/5, and then from there it varies wildly between 1 and 3 talent levels per character until Aloy where everyone after is 1/1/1.

QuantaStarFire posted:

(A* is the current Ascension of each character)

My general experience is that open-world content is mostly not an issue; it depends on the enemies, though it's different for bosses, and sometimes domains that scale with WL like the exploration domains or the event dungeon. XL and Beidou are both 6/6/6 on their talents, Fischl is 4/5/4, Kokomi is 2/6/5, and then from there it varies wildly between 1 and 3 talent levels per character until Aloy where everyone after is 1/1/1.

QuantaStarFire posted:

(A* is the current Ascension of each character)

My general experience is that open-world content is mostly not an issue; it depends on the enemies, though it's different for bosses, and sometimes domains that scale with WL like the exploration domains or the event dungeon. XL and Beidou are both 6/6/6 on their talents, Fischl is 4/5/4, Kokomi is 2/6/5, and then from there it varies wildly between 1 and 3 talent levels per character until Aloy where everyone after is 1/1/1.

Sanya Juutilainen posted:

I agree, leveling to 90 is not worth it:

Kale posted:

Maybe if you build the loving poo poo out of her in comparison or are fighting a Cryo enemy, but 5 stars tend to be a lot better than 4 stars right out of the gate at least in my experience and without having to put quite as much work into building them.

QuantaStarFire posted:

(A* is the current Ascension of each character)

My general experience is that open-world content is mostly not an issue; it depends on the enemies, though it's different for bosses, and sometimes domains that scale with WL like the exploration domains or the event dungeon. XL and Beidou are both 6/6/6 on their talents, Fischl is 4/5/4, Kokomi is 2/6/5, and then from there it varies wildly between 1 and 3 talent levels per character until Aloy where everyone after is 1/1/1.

Pope Urbane II posted:

You just want enemy kill xp to go somewhere, don't you...

QuantaStarFire posted: