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No. 323621

Genshin Impact is a free-to-play action role-playing game developed and published by miHoYo/Hoyoverse. The game features a fantasy open world environment and action based battle system using elemental magic, character switching and uses gacha game monetization for players to obtain new characters, weapons, and other resources.

Resources:
>Redeem codes without having to login
https://genshin.mihoyo.com/en/gift

>Wiki

https://genshin-impact.fandom.com/wiki/Genshin_Impact_Wiki

>Build Simulation/Optimization

https://www.gscale.cc
https://genshin.aspirine.su/
https://frzyc.github.io/genshin-optimizer/#/

>Database filled with pretty much everything found in game

https://genshin.honeyhunterworld.com
https://ambr.top/en

>Build help

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1gNxZ2xab1J6o1TuNVWMeLOZ7TPOqrsf3SshP5DLvKzI/edit#gid=2001372201

>Character guides

https://keqingmains.com/

>Interactive map for overworld item locations

https://act.hoyolab.com/ys/app/interactive-map/index.html?lang=en-us#/map/

>Another interactive map

https://genshin-impact-map.appsample.com/#/

>Genshin Center, a resource center for the game

https://genshin-center.com/

>Event timeline

https://paimon.moe/timeline/

>Wish Simulators

https://gi-wish-simulator.uzairashraf.dev/
https://konopelko.github.io/genshin/
https://qiqisfather.github.io/weaponbanner/
https://qiqisfather.github.io/universal_roll_simulator/

Previous threads:
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No. 323623

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11 hours until Neuvillette's banner goes up. I wonder who they'll put in his trial. I'm hoping they include Beidou because I want to try them out together before rolling for him.

No. 323625

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Convinced this thread is made by a coomer kek

No. 323628

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Just heard Wriothesley's voice lines, edgy-looking softies are the best. No way I'm not going for him. I'm glad I don't want anyone after Furina until Arlecchino, my primos are going to be wrecked.

No. 323633

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60 primo code

>6T8NWE3HD7PD


>>323623
I'm shamelessly electro-charged #1 fan and it'd be awesome to have Beidou there. Though I'm guessing they'll either show his freezing ability or hyperbloom with Fischl.

>>323625
Kek I was busy staring at that badly drawn Zhongli to notice coomy Mona. should've been the anemo boys in my extremely biased opinion

>>323628
Same! Though I'm thinking of skipping Furina for his weapon.

No. 323636

>>323628
I posted this in the last thread but he honestly reminds me of a youtuber or the main character in an adult comedy show on tv.

No. 323638

i really dont want to nitpick, but op why did you chose that as the thread pic. The art styles dont even match and especially the Mona art is very bad. And why is Nahida the empress, you know the card for sensuality and fertility?

>>323633
Thank you for the code!

>>323625
Yeah a coomer or a minor, like how did they even find this shitty compilation? Also I swear someone posted this picture before, including the Nahida as empress, just creepy…

No. 323639

>>323638
samefag I found the post >>>/m/305868 not the same fan arts, but still weird that this anon (who i now assume is a moid kek) keeps posting shitty genshin tarrot decks.

No. 323640

I don't understand why the thread pics are always so bad. Just use fanart of some husbandos and everyone would be happy, it's really not difficult

No. 323641

>>323640
Sorry, gotta desperately shoehorn in some shitty waifus that no one gives a flying fuck about here

No. 323642

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>>323640
Yeah especially whenever anons dump fanart there's usually a handful of the art that several anons praise which should be an indication of using that as the thread pic.

I think a way to solve this for the next thread is to do the classic cow board “voting” method. When the thread is about to be locked anons tag the art from the thread that they would like to be the next thread pic. The most seconded one is the democratic choice.

No. 323643

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>>323638
I made the compilation myself after seeing the images get posted on twitter yesterday because I thought they looked neat. They were posted under the tag #原神大アルカナ. It was a group artist project.
https://twitter.com/yuzunonicomi/status/1704813113705644496

No. 323644

trash thread pic, have to agree with the other anons. and now the OP appears to be shilling wrio with the loli, very cool.

No. 323645

>>323642
I love this image so much, has all my faves and well drawn, great taste nona.
>cow board “voting” method
1+
Iirc an anon voted the Hoyofair Anemo boys image as next thread pic in previous thread, which I almost used had I not seen the new thread already made. But oh well, we'll wait until this is at max posts.

No. 323646

Oh no the thread pic schizos are at it again

No. 323647

>>323643
Your taste is ass. How did the clashing styles of every genre of front page Pixiv artist not look bad to you while you were making it?

No. 323648

>>323646
Sorry, I had no problems with the previous thread pic since it was official art and the quality was good. But this one is actually bad kek. I was really not trying to be mean, I especially feel bad now because OP said they put the effort into making the compilation. But how can you not notice how wonky some of the fan arts are and how creepy it is to make Nahida the empress. I mean it's not a big deal, but OP should probably refain from making a compilation again.

No. 323649

>>323646
oh no op is defending themself in 3rd person again

No. 323650

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>>323647
>>323648
I don't know anything about what the tarot cards actually mean.

No. 323651

It's gonna be greaat trying to collect Neuvillete's materials when the map just dropped and all my friends are getting him.

No. 323654

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>>323651
I can only hope that they're relatively easy to collect like the sand grease pupas were for alhaitham when his patch dropped. They need to never add anything like cyno's scarabs ever again.

No. 323656

>>323648
Don't feel bad, it takes all of 3 minutes to make a collage like that. Modern phone galleries have an option for it built in.
>>323650
Hiding the op pic for a thread you use will only make it harder to notice… Is this the only thread you use on /m/? Whatever, it doesn't matter anymore. Let someone else make the next thread.

No. 323658

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>>323651
>>323651
The Wriothesley one being another bug is already worrying me. Maybe it's a good thing he's not the first banner up. Cyno's farming was a nightmare not helped by you needing to do the world quest to access most of the farming spots.

No. 323660

>>323644
>shilling wrio with the loli
Ever since an anon in the prev thread pointed out that husbandos are only ever paired with little girls my soul has not known peace. I choose to see it as wholesome and pray to the higher powers I won't see any gross art/interpretations of them cause Wrio IS NOT A PEDO SCROTE.

No. 323662

>>323658
Lyney's passive will be handy af.

>>323660
That anon is retarded. No one complains when Kaeya and Klee are posted because we all know Kaeya is being her cool big bro and it's cute when guys take care of kids.
But when Wrio is posted with Seigwennie or whatever her name is it's meant to have negative connotations? Pft.

No. 323663

>>323660
>>323662
The discussion wasn't about the men being made into pedos but instead watering down their character by giving them the boring gap moe of looking after a little girl. However all signs point to Siegwinne having adult intelligence and her being associated with Wrio only as the head nurse of the prison, not as some little girl he takes care of like is the case with Albedo and Klee or Baizhu and Qiqi.

No. 323665

>>323663
>all signs point to Siegwinne having adult intelligence
Ugh… the loli with the adult intelligence trope. I hate it so much.

No. 323667

>>323662
Thanks for bringing me back down to earth, nona. I remember another anon who really really hated seeing male characters be good with kids which felt like she wanted her child hating feelings validated kek.
>>323665
Yeah, that doesn't help at all. I'd rather believe she's just a child who's smart af.

No. 323668

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>>323667
>I'd rather believe she's just a child who's smart af.
She's at least partially a melusine, hence the short stature. Some of the other melusine in the city speak nicely of her and refer to her as if she's a fellow melusine, including talking about how she invites some of the melusine to the prison infirmary to enjoy tea with her. She hosts skincare lectures in Fontaine according to some of the billboard posts. So, along with her being head nurse of the prison, it's difficult to view her as a child. There's no way Wriothesley would be letting her work alongside dangerous criminals if she were, after reading his lines about his own childhood.

No. 323669

>>323668
>She's at least partially a melusine
Who fucked a melusine…?

No. 323670

>>323669
Fontaine is weird, I still don't get how Lyney is a human boy and Lynette is a cat girl

No. 323671

>>323669
Some questions are better left unanswered.
>>323670
It's probably a recessive gene that Lynette got and Lyney didn't. I was going to say maybe it only appeared in women but Draff has the cat appearance too so it can't be that.

No. 323685

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>>323645
>great taste nona
Thank you!! I really like the recent circus themed art a lot of the Japanese artists have been drawing

No. 323697

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>>323628
I love him so much it's not even funny. I literally was expecting nothing when he was leaked back in… April? May? I thought he was going to be a hobo/emo skinny fag. God I was so fucking wrong.
Can't wait for the update to finish to run to Forest of Meropide and see him already.

No. 323712

For the anon who was asking about where to find Hoyofair stuff, this video has all the fan animations. The circus animation that so many people have been making fanart of starts at 8:58. Also I'd skip the second skit if I were you, it's just k-pop coomer trash.

No. 323719

>>323718
Congrats anon!! What did you think of his gameplay?
Imo Don't build pity on his banner in case you get another and run out of wishes

No. 323721

60 rolls easy, well I did have guarantee.
Wonder if I should build pity for Wrio or not.
Too bad you have to go to the sewers first, I logged out already in Neuv's office. It would have been amusing to go directly into the quest.

No. 323731

>>323719
Whoops deleted cause I misquoted.
I haven't even tried him out yet but I liked him enough from the story that I wanted him.
I guess I'll save my Primos, don't need any more of these 4 stars. I just never know when It's really worth going for C1+.
Also, I thought that tower in the distance was the fortress, I guess not? Wonder how many more map areas there will be.
Now I'll actually go into the prison later, don't want to get stuck there for hours before doing dailys.
Curious about the new thing they added and if it will help skip commissions dealing with the cycle theory without having to go into someone else's world.

No. 323741

I lost the 50/50, so I'll just save the guarantee for Wrio since his play style was weird? Like the floating attack is fun but I don't know how smooth it is in overworld since his normal/skill are so stiff.
Sorry husbando collector title, I'll get him on his rerun.

No. 323748

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The fact that I’m skipping husbandos for a female archon, I’m ashamed. But I really need a Xinqiu sidegrade. I’m so sorry Neuvillette you’re too hot for this treatment

No. 323749

>>323668
SIGEWINNE NOT BEING A CHILD IS WORSE because at least if she was a child people would view their relationship like albedo with klee but now that she's a lolibaba (worst trope ever) i'll see more dumb scara x nahida shit. people already latched onto her ship with wrio

No. 323757

>>323749
Just block and mute and don't let random fanart ruin characters for you.

No. 323758

>>323749
Where are you even seeing a ship of them. I only see cute friends or older bro kind of art mostly done by female fans. I feel like you have to specifically go through sites like danbooru to see gross stuff.

No. 323760

>>323758
Right? It's like anon is going out of her way to get pissed off or imagining things to be mad about

No. 323790

>>323741
>his play style was weird
Agree. The play style is super fun, but I don't know how to position myself to use the water canon. I always panic and use it right away in front of the enemies and have to move around to hit, I look so stupid kekw.
That got me thinking… Venti + Neuvillette = insta kill? Cause Neuv can reach Venti's burst, right?

No. 323805

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Got Neuvi, unfortunately going for his C1 was ruined by Dehya of all units. At least I got her the pull right after Neuvillette and I have Lyney so she's only 90% worthless. I'm gonna stop and wait for Wriothesley, maybe get constellations on his rerun.

No. 323813

Trial-wise I wasn't impressed mostly to him being more or less pure dps than a little more flexible in roles, but when I tried him I really wanted to check something for no good reason other than I'm AR60; when you use the changed skill where he floats at a cliff, does he fly sky high until the skill ends? Like Lyney's burst?
Pls Neuvi anons kek

No. 323839

Forget the sigewinne stuff, I'm more bothered by the fact that he fucking flirted with clorinde???

No. 323841

Remember the good old times when the husbandos weren't flirting with the booba waifus? Yeah it looks like it's all over

No. 323850

>>323839
>>323841
I didn't get to that part yet but I don't get why they thought these two flirting was a good idea. Both waifu and husbando collectors are gonna hate it

No. 323853

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>>323839
Haven’t played yet this part yet but if it’s an obvious flirty vibe I’m never pulling Wrio and I sure will complain about it in the survey kek

No. 323856

These new Fatui enemy girls look good but wtf is that negative effect? If active character gets hit once they keep losing hp until the get healed for a bit or they die? That's worse than corrosion because that atleast that stops after some time.
Tl;dr healers are important in Fontaine.

>>323841
>looks like it's all over
If you're the same Sigewinne anon than you need relax and take a break from the screen. Wriothesly is a fictional character and can be whatever you want him to be lmao

>>323850
I have a stupid theory but: Wriothesly was received well by moids >> moids project onto him >> moids now can fuck their waifu through him in fanart and things.
Though I don't know what they were thinking when they know the only het fans allow is traveller x character? We'll see I guess

No. 323859

I got Neuvi C1, wanted to get both him and Hu Tao, but after getting him and trying to roll for her, I rolled him accidentally once and got his constellation. Love him, but damn, i just love to collect characters and i wanted her for collection for a long time

No. 323861

>>323841
>>323850
Please tell me you're not talking about the small "do you want sugar with your tea" conversation. You cannot actually think that qualifies as flirting. I feel bad for Genshin's writers because it seems nearly impossible to write a scene with two characters without people flipping shit about it being "flirting" or "shipbait" or whatever else.
>>323859
That sucks, I'm sorry.

No. 323862

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>>323859
If it makes you happy his c1 specifically is insane! You literally will not need a shielder in his team which clears up a whole spot in your team build.

No. 323865

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Last thread we were speculating if the Tsaritsa would be Bronya. I found this from the cbt Childe profile. Looks like both the pyro and cryo archon are gonna be easy skips for me. Focusing on harbingers instead. Do you think all the harbingers will be playable?

No. 323866

Clorinde looks so fucking greasy.

No. 323874

Ah the new Adventure Encounter thing isn't as useful as I thought, if only you could stock up points.
Now I feel like I should delay exploring the new area till I get more commission achievements.

No. 323876

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>>323839
>>323841
>>323850
That wasn't flirting. Wriothesley is just a friendly guy who wants to share tea with everyone. And yes I have seen the scene, you anons are malding over two people being friendly with each other.
Also I love Arlecchino. Her English VA is killing it. The character writing has improved so much since Inazuma, these characters feel like not just a single anime archetype.

No. 323879

>>323876
That's fair, like I said I haven't seen the scene yet. I'm glad it's not outright flirting because I would hate that

No. 323889

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Is the max exploration percentage out? Like max previous map exploration was %38 percent and I want to know if this one's gonna be %60++ for reputation points purpose.

No. 323951

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Look at XingQiu grabbing Chongyun my babiees

No. 323956

>>323839
No he didn't, they were having pretty platonic banter with each other. Jesus christ some anons (including the Sigewinne sperg) are legitimate schizos about this stuff and on par with the Chinese yumes who wanted Mihoyo dead for that one event scene where Childe talked to Yoimiya about getting presents for his younger siblings.

No. 323957

>>323876
The writing is so good right now, I can't believe how much they improved from Inazuma. It's like they threw the original staff out and got some actually good and invested writers into the game to fix what's left. In Inazuma I hated almost every character or found them boring at best but both Sumeru and Fontaine have had me at the edge of my seat awaiting what's next and wanting to learn more about every single character in the story. I was expecting to hate Sigewinne but I ended up finding her cute, even Clorinde was really cool despite having the ugliest design in the game. I can't wait for the final part and the next chapter in the abyss twins story.

No. 323958

Furina animations are out
YouTube videos will be deleted very soon so click here instead: https://files.catbox.moe/ri2lc5.mp4

No. 323960

>>323958
These animations look great, will definitely get her.
What sucks to me is that her skill is stationary and don't follow the character, I just hope they have an Ayato burst range and not a small circle.

No. 323964

>>323958
>she changes outfits
Adorable and the best of both worlds, but shame it means they probably won't ever make her a skin because it would be twice the work.
>>323957
The change from two-part Archon quests to three-part archon quests has massively improved the writing. They can afford to slow down and give the characters time to shine. Inazuma felt like they were cramming what should have been a much longer story into an hour of gameplay, it was a mess.

No. 323982

Furina can walk on water with her skill. Furina’s skill has a 100% uptime so she can walk on water forever. Kokomi really is dead in a ditch. Furina is like a Yelan-Kokomi hybrid

No. 323983

>>323960
>small circle
Her E skill follows her around. Leaks show that there is no circle at all.

No. 324003

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Do any of you know what these things are supposed to be? The guide just says "strange eels" and hitting them doesn't do anything. Are they part of some quest?

No. 324004

>>324003
you should use E skill on them, if there is two of them, you should get timing right when they are really close and use E on both of them at the same time.

No. 324013

>>323956
>platonic banter
like haikaveh? lol it was obvious shipbait don't be obtouse. by that logic haikaveh is not shipbait

No. 324018

>>324013
Paranoid schizoyume or just a moid forcing hetships? I can't even tell anymore. Anyway sorry but Wriothesley only fucks Neuvillette. They do it in his office in Meropide. And Clorinde is in love with Navia, that's why she saved her life in the previous patch. My friend works for Mihoyo, she confirmed all of this to be canon.

No. 324022

>>324013
Nta and I haven't seen the scene with Clorinde yet but Alhaitham and Kaveh had constant banter, they live together and have a relationship that goes way back and yet you could play the game and come out not shipping them. So many genshin players have terminal fandom brainrot and the writing doesn't offer much, so any small gesture or sentence between two characters is immediately seen as shipbait. It's exhausting. You don't have to get so pissed off just because your husbando talked to a female character for a bit. Clorinde already has way more of a connection to Navia and Wriothesley is mostly shipped with Neuvillette, so relax jfc

No. 324027

>>324022
It's probably the same lunatic who was having a meltdown about "Mihoyo shilling Kaveh/Nilou" because they were featured in that gigo collab. I'm surprised the oneeshota sperg hasn't appeared to tinfoil about Clorinde saving Freminet being Mihoyo shilling pedophilia.

No. 324028

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>>323951
So cute Ayato was so pretty too!

No. 324035

I love Fortress of Meropide soundtrack. For some reason it reminds me a bit of Alice Madness Returns OST. Is it just me or are they a bit similar?
Also Wriothesley is very likable, love his voice and his character but Sigwinne is very unlikeable. I don't mind the child characters as much as nonnies here but she was shrieking and sounded like a burikko in Japanese dub, like she was putting on a fake cute act. I expected to like her a bit more.
Wrio is more likable than I expected though so he makes up for it.

No. 324038

>>324035
Samefag, wanna add that the other theme from Meropide reminds me of Binding of Isaac. They're both bangers imo, they sound very different from the rest of the game.

No. 324041

Both Clorinde and Wriothesley are being lightly pushed for gay pairings, yet some anons are having a meltdown because they interacted with each other in a way very aligned with their personalities. Get help.
On the other hand, I'm loving that all the characters in Fontaine so far have interesting personalities even without ships.
>>324035
I love the soundtrack there too. None of the new soundtracks caught my attention until we went into the prison. Its atmosphere was done really well.

No. 324073

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Anyone knows the context to why Itto's apologizing to Gorou in picrel?

>>324022
I thought anons itt hated female characters for having zero personality and have coom designs, but no, it's closer to the early 2k fujo "g-girls with girls! So my men can fuck each other 24/7 without a filthy woman being there!" Vibe. Like I get this is Genshin Impact but even to the point that male characters can't interact with female ones without rage is just hilarious.

>>324027
She apologized last thread(?) for being obnoxious and said she was jealous of the girls shipped with boys and now she's doing better. the only reason I remember because of cute Haikaveh pic

No. 324075

>>324073
Nta and I am not one of these who complained because I'm not there story-wise yet but honestly I wouldn't mind Wrio flirting with a woman but pls no Clorinde, I hate her design with a burning passion. I know they just talk and there was no shipbait so it's irrelevant, just saying that I wouldn't mind girl/guy ship, I just fricking hate Clorinde the Walking Boobs.

No. 324097

>>324075
Unrelated but I've been in love with her design since anons called her hair greasy back when she was first leaked. In my mind she's an introverted femcel that can't be bothered to buy new clothes that fit her and I could take her shopping and fix her kek

No. 324101

>>324073
What are you even talking about, it's pretty obvious they're husbandofags who will flip if they talked to female characters OR were implied to be romantically involved male characters. Male characters less so because they're not competition. Fujos don't give a shit because they ignore canon anyway, it wasn't them who tried to send Chinese authorities after Mihoyo because Kaveh was too close to Alhaitham and they called him a green tea bitch kek.

No. 324102

I started exploring and noticed there are no special one-time domains that offer resources and 40 primos in Fontaine, wonder why.

No. 324104

>>324102
Didn't notice till now. Maybe it was too much effort for too little reward for the design team? We go in once and we never see them again even as a scenery. They could put the combat events in those tbh.

No. 324111

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>>324073
>I thought anons itt hated female characters for having zero personality and have coom designs, but no, it's closer to the early 2k fujo "g-girls with girls! So my men can fuck each other 24/7 without a filthy woman being there!" Vibe
I thought it was only teenagers who did this sort of thing but apparently not. Tiresome. Again, I truly feel bad for Mihoyo's writers trying to navigate around how deranged the fandom can be overall when it comes to character interactions with each other. It must feel extremely limiting as a creative writer to have to walk on eggshells when it comes to character interactions, trying to make the world feel more alive and fleshing out the cast dynamics without stepping on too many toes.

Aside from that, I'm loving Sigewinne. She's very amusing to me. I like that she's kind of conniving and how she thinks humans are just so cute to observe, like little pets.
>I like smart people, but I also like playing dumb. I like the feeling of "being trusted."
I'm hoping they will explain in her character story why she looks so much more human than the other melusine. I can't tell how much the game wants us to ignore that or not, like that one Kimodameshi event in Inazuma with the kid NPCs wearing yokai masks that we were supposed to pretend looked like genuine yokai because they were too lazy to make new yokai NPCs.
Also, her line about thinking the traveler is cute is funny to me too. The game tells you multiple times how the melusine perceive things pretty differently to humans, like the melusine quest line with the paintings, how they can see destruction as beauty. So, was that actually a back-handed compliment to the traveler? Lol.
I can't tell whether they'll make her a 4 or a 5, but I hope I'll be able to get her whenever she releases.

No. 324118

>>324097
This is such an insane, desperate cope to make coomer boob lady into something BASTE and PINKPILLED to appeal to lc users

>>324073
Why blame fujos on this when it's lumine self insert tards who care? The real problem lies with the two female characters being a lolibaba and gross coomshit paired with one of the least gay looking guys in genshin who moids would be happy to use in their own self insert porn.

No. 324127

File: 1695928950242.webm (Spoiler Image,10.12 MB, 1280x720, furina_beta_footage.webm)

Furina beta animations. NA, skill, CA, burst
https://2ch.life/gacha/src/1145109/16959281507050.mp4

No. 324128

File: 1695928997339.webm (Spoiler Image,6.25 MB, 1920x1080, furina_beta_idles.webm)


No. 324130

File: 1695929104305.webm (Spoiler Image,10.07 MB, 1920x1080, charlotte_beta_footage.webm)

>>324128
Charlotte's animations. NA, CA, skill, burst
https://streamable.com/3zbqjm

No. 324132

File: 1695929153140.webm (Spoiler Image,7.96 MB, 1920x1080, charlotte_beta_idles.webm)


No. 324133

>>324102
Am I the only one who didn't get their appeal? It's just one domain you walk through once and you get rewarded a shrine key. I agree with >>324104 , they're just a waste of developer effort imo.

>>324127
>>324128
Sorry for asking for spoonfeeding but are there any news on how Furina's kit is like?

No. 324136

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>>324111
>So, was that actually a back-handed compliment to the traveler?
It seems like they actually see something big in them

No. 324137

>>324133
They are a waste, but it's nice to get 40 primos for minimal effort kek I guess they can be easily replaced by a few chests

No. 324138

File: 1695931294956.jpg (Spoiler Image,683.81 KB, 1528x2916, furina_kit_initial_full_collag…)

>>324133
>are there any news on how Furina's kit is like?
Yes, see picrel or here:
https://genshin.honeyhunterworld.com/furina_089/
If you want to get more into the weeds of her ICD/poise/hit types, you can look here:
http://www.yuhengcup.top/char
Like usual, things may change as the beta goes on, so it's not set in stone yet. She's looking to be a sub-DPS with buffing capabilities on her burst, reliant on gaining and losing HP to gain stacks. She can change between pneuma/ousia with her CA, which also changes what her skill buddies do (consuming party HP to deal damage vs healing). Her burst DMG% buff ramps over time, somewhat like Yelan's burst buff ramps. For Abyss, recommended to have her primarily off-field at C0, can spend more time on-field at C2 and above.

No. 324139

>>324127
So… if Cyno jumps around with his burst around the arena will they follow him and apply hydro the enemies he's attacking?

>>324130
Don't really like how bland/non-character she is but that normal attack looks fun.

>>324133
I'm probably one of the few who liked solving a puzzle to open them and beat up a gang for a treasure in a special place, as a change of view.

No. 324143

>>324139
>So… if Cyno jumps around with his burst around the arena will they follow him and apply hydro the enemies he's attacking?
Yes, that's how they should behave. Her kit skill description currently says:
>(The 3 salon members) will attack nearby opponents at intervals, prioritizing the target of the active character

No. 324146

>>324143
YES, FINALLY. I'll have to get her now and keep XQ with Alhaithem, thanks btw!

No. 324159

>anon says she likes the loli
>anon says she likes a coomerbait character with tits busting out of her shirt because it's feminist
>anons moralfagging about fujos
I hate you newfags so much(complaining about thread in thread)

No. 324209

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Probably the best QOL coming in 4.2 is quick access to weekly bosses whether you started the quest or not

>>324159
Regardless of retarded opinion having one different than yours isn't new faggotry, this place isn't a hivemind

No. 324228

File: 1695965185775.jpg (1.28 MB, 4096x2304, F7Khk3vbgAAVm7q.jpg)

Lumine getting once-in-a-blue-moon official art for the Moonchase Festival.

No. 324238

>muh fujo boogeyman
I don't even have a problem with people who ship furina and neuvilette even though i see them more as a babysitter and his weak useless kid, it's just that clorinde's design is very off-putting and her interaction with wriothesley was unnecessary and it attracts the worst type of shippers. They literally got more material to work with than neuvilette x wriothesley, which should have been the actual star of this patch and it also makes her dramatic yuribait with navia redundant.

No. 324242

>>324238
Jesus just shut up nobody cares about your weird paranoia, neuvillette&wriothesley and clorinde&navia will still remain as the most popular ships of fontaine. god forbid characters talk to each other in a normal manner, must immediately nullify both clorinde x navia canonically having a long friendly past that goes way back before clorinde killed her father that they're currently in the process of mending and a personal relationship constantly being brought up between wriothesley and neuvillette despite meropide not being under the court of fontaine's jurisdiction and wriothesley even being implied to know neuvillette's secret identity during the cutscene. god I swear some people ITT have no media literacy to speak of

No. 324261

>>324242
I was going to complain too but you said it better anon. What's with the weird "boy and girl can't be just friends hihi" type of retards lately.

No. 324295

>>324242
Sane nonas like you keep me from losing hope.

No. 324319

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The same arguments kill conversations in every single thread we have. Why can't we just have fun nonas? We're all in our 20s-30s playing a shitty anime game for teenagers. It's not a radfem war against coomer otakus, they will always be more pandered to in a game created by men. I would love if we all made the collective effort to not be so fucking salty and serious toward each other. The vibes in these threads have shifted to being so fucking bad since around thread #3.

No. 324321

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>>324319
I'm convinced it's the same one or two anons every time that just come into this thread to derail and troll with bad faith bait. It's not worth replying to them, best to just ignore.

No. 324322

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>>324319
>>324321
They quieted down during Star Rail's release when they migrated to its thread which was immediately contaminated with similar mental illness but after that game plateaued they returned back here.

That said I want to give credit where credit's due, they've improved massively on writing female characters since Inazuma and given them more plot relevancy and agency. I used to hate all of the female characters and felt like the game was only giving coomer men what they wanted never giving female players a break, but during v4 we got five new male 5-stars out of which Alhaitham is possibly the best DPS in the game at the moment and gave him and Kaveh a star crossed lovers dynamic. Shockingly enough the female characters only got better during Fontaine. I love Furina and Lynette, and I never thought I would say this about a female character in Genshin Impact. Post-Inazuma Genshin is like playing a different game, complete with all the QoL improvements.

No. 324324

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>>324322
I agree. In Inazuma the only female character I liked was Yoimiya and mostly because she was just friendly and inoffensive. I thought I was going to hate Nahida but she has more character than just being a loli and Sumeru was a lot more husbando focused overall. Furina, Lynette, Navia and even Sigewinne are all really interesting and fleshed out. I wish Clorinde had had one of the better concept designs used for her but at least the character isn't offensive so far.
The QoL improvements have done so much for exploration. I'd hate navigating Fontaine without them. They put a lot of effort into making the swimming feel good and I'm going to miss it when Fontaine is done and we move on to Natlan.

No. 324325

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>>324324
Yeah I’m gonna miss the freedom of not drowning! I seriously wonder what new climate mechanic there will be in Natlan. They can’t copy the hated desert from Sumeru. Maybe something like the volcanic parts in Fontaine? Where the bubbling water slowly kills you.
>I wish Clorinde had had one of the better concept designs used for her
Same, I like her personality, face and hat but the Eula shorts and too tight shirt genuinely bothers me and reminds me why I hate anime nowadays kek

No. 324329

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>>324319
Based nona.

>>324321
>same one or two anons
Definitely same ones, I recognize the same typing style. Especially the obnoxious one who posts one line each post.
You pic reminded of this one idk why kek

>>324322
I like Lynette too. Even though her cold moe (kuudere?) type of personality isn't my cup of tea but her being in the trio and her sad story made me like her so much. Arle is a fave too.

No. 324345

>>324319
>The vibes in these threads have shifted to being so fucking bad since around thread #3
Because we all naturally got sick of the game and now only come here to complain as it gets progressively worse and more bloated

No. 324350

>>324345
Speak for yourself, I love the game

No. 324364

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(reposted with less esl)
Fishing achievement anon here and I came back with probably the worst one known to man

I could've watched anime or something when I was bored at work but instead I grinded this. I really don't recommend this to anyone kek

No. 324380

>>324364
I think I salute you. I admire you, but also damn, nonnie.
>>324350
Right, I hated this game during Inazuma and all of the shitty waifu peddling while shamelessly short changing female players, but now there is peace in the middle east. It probably helps that some of the most important characters were created before the quality decline.

No. 324395

>>324345
>we all
you can always stop playing instead of subjecting yourself to the game if you hate it so much. there have been some low points for me during some patches, but overall the game has only gotten better for me with time.

No. 324403

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>>324350
>>324380
Even during the bleak Inazuma days there were some good things, like the Ruu quest, Enkanomiya, and my man Itto. I love the game too and it keeps getting better. Only up from here I hope!

No. 324404

>>324395
>>324350
We all as in the people complaining are you slow?

No. 324408

>>324380
I feel the same way about myself, thank you anon

No. 324492

>>324404
Yes, I in fact am slow.

No. 324515

File: 1696091454058.jpg (191.87 KB, 2048x1236, R19045.jpg)

I lost to Tighnari in the 80s and thought after that loss I was bitter thought better save the guarantee for Wrio then I think I'll have enough for Furina for her Fontaine characters support ability/hydro application but I'm having second thoughts like
I want him but I don't think I'll be able to afford Wrio if I lose 50/50 to him?
In a way I'm both ranting and needing some opinions; get him and hope I win 50/50 with Wrio and ignore Furina or guarantee Wrio, most likely guarantee Furina and wait for his rerun? I really liked both after archon quests.

No. 324683

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>>324035
My husband was listening to me play and he’s really good at recognizing VAs because Sigewynne is Hello Kitty in super cute adventures. Yoimiya shares a VA with cinnamoroll/kuromi as well. I hope they get more of the HK cast because I want to do fanart.

No. 324688

>>324683
This is such cute trivia, are these JP or EN vas?

No. 324691

>>324688
It’s English VAs.

No. 324693

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>>324364
What do you mean, this one was so easy to get for me??? At least it's more bearable than having to fish 2000 times while paimon shrieks in the background. I will never get that namecard, fuck whoever thought that was a good idea.

>>324515
Furina will come back after 4 patches (4.6). All Archons have reruns often, because they sell well, I think you can skip her tbh.

>>324035
Agree!! I was vibing hard to the soundtrack kekw. There was a part I actually stopped playing the dialogue and took my time to enjoy and appreciate the ost! It fits so well with the atmosphere, I totally agree. I liked that they added electric guitars to the usual classical instruments.
I do like Sigewinne tho! I think it's endearing she thinks humans are cute creatures, kek. It's like the reverse of us, humans, thinking Melusines are adorable. (?)
Also, I have to say, what I'm not liking at all is the part about having to look for clues inside the Fortress while working. It takes so much time and I'm tired, I wanna see my husbando doing cool shit and being hot!!

No. 324698

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>>324693
I wonder if Sigwinne will grow on me. So far she seems to me like Nahida but too moe.
And I agree with that part being boring, I'm in the middle of it now and I can't wait to get out. Overworld around the Institute and the new areas in general are great though.
I love the female enemies that kind of look like Arlecchino and their JP tomboyish voices.

No. 324704

I wouldn't really say archons have reruns often. They get one once per region/once a year after their first rerun.

No. 324721

Any news on what theorycrafters think about Furina kit leaks?

No. 324737

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>>324693
I handled the Meropide investigation stuff much better than the endless Samsara bullshit in Sumeru where Nahida wouldn't just tell us what was going on because hurr durr your brain wouldn't accept it despite it being a dream not being all that farfetched or weird when something is clearly wrong. I liked the hints of what was going wrong with Childe. Looks like his Vision breaking has made him vulnerable to Abyssal corruption somehow, the leaks with him being the 4.2 boss seem pretty likely now.
>>324721
Her pets apply hydro pretty decently. Not as much as Xingqiu and Yelan but more flexible than them since she doesn't need normal attacks to trigger her pets. Her crab in particular does AOE damage rather than single target. Her ult buff is better than Kazuha's shred for teams that have a hard time double-swirling. Not a lot of word on her healing in pneuma form, I think it's around Kokomi jellyfish levels from what I've seen.
tl;dr she's good but depending on the team won't be better than Xingqiu. She's more flexible to use than Xingqiu though and that's where she shines; she's flexible and can slot anywhere.
She will be very very good with Neuvillette for all the Neuvillette pullers.

No. 324742

Nonnies what kind of laptop do you play genshin on? I'm replacing my crappy brick but I know nothing about specs so I dont want to accidentally buy something that sharts when I open Genshin or BG3

No. 324746

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>>324742
I don’t play on a laptop. I alternate between my iPad Pro with a controller and PS5. My PS5 runs the game with literally no loading times at all, it’s great

No. 324747

Nonas what did you think of today's Abyss?
I had trouble at first but when I went mono Lyney (with Kazu and Zhong) in first chamber and Baizhu burgeon on second I finished it easy peasy.

>>324746
Xing and Mika?! Now I need interactions between them in game.

No. 324761

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>>324747
Any Abyss where I can use mono Geo one half and Cyno on the other is a good Abyss.
>>324742
I've played on laptop. You'll need a cooling mat or a really good fan or your laptop will boil alive.

No. 324820

>>324747
I thought it was one of the easiest Abyss cycles in a while and I hadn't even fought the new fatui enemies or weird gravity boss beforehand. I think this is the first time I've ever 12 battle'd the Abyss.

No. 324894

>>324761
Can confirm the laptop overheating.
>>324742
I use a gaming laptop and a ps5 controller. Idk the brand because my husband gifted it to me. There’s some good fans on Amazon. Don’t forget to have keyboard duster so you can clean them regularly.

No. 324918

>>324742
I play with a ROG Strix, but I don't really recommend it because the fans make a lot of noise and the wifi drivers or whatever the hell they are called are fucking shit. Plus the keycaps break pretty easily.
It doesn't overheat, though, and I play Genshin with the max settings at 60 FPS. I have a GeForce RTX 3050 card and a AMD Ryzen 7 6800H. The most important thing when looking for a good gaming PC/laptop is the graphics card, in my opinion. I used to play on a Lenovo that had an nVidia GTX 1050 card and I couldn't even play it a 60 FPS. The storage was pretty good, tho.

No. 324945

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Fontaine's OST is out, 96 tracks
FLAC download here
https://mega.nz/folder/VdFjVKzS#fdxch98cmpENfsQnm7_D-A
Some very nice relaxing tracks in this release, listened through it all together this morning, lots I like to hum along to.

No. 324953

>>324918
I play with a ROG Strix but with a GeForce and Intel graphic cards, so it's a slightly different model. It's a gaming laptop but this fucker burns even with Genshin at the lowest settings and the fans make so much noise. I've cleaned it several times and even changed the thermal paste with a very high quality one, Genshin still fucking boils it. Even added additional fans under it, still hot as fuck. The only time it's bearable is when it's winter and freezing. I've given up because I did everything I could kek, I think Genshin also tends to burn devices.

No. 324973

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Just finished the archon quest and I don't get why Clorinde was there? Not as a "reee female character" but as a genuine question. I remember her as a good duelist yet she was there to swim and save the fortress, how?
Wrio can freeze water, I get that so he's useful but she's electro? I saw her shoot the lever to a gate but what's her ability to stop the water after?
Even the swimming aspect, like why her of all people? Even Navia would make more sense since she goes to metro area and would potentially sacrifice herself for Fremmi probably.
Actually wouldn't Clorinde be better fit sitting with Furina in her meeting with Arle? Since she stands beside her in court??


I liked the whole thing and didn't mind her as much as I thought I would minus her shirt that's about to pop but I feel they misused her potential, especially when I'm praying male duelist to be a real thing and her introducing him to traveller or something.

>>324945
Thank youuu!! I was going to wait to download a whole youtube playlist but you made my life easier. There are really nice tunes and I'm sorry I was being a doomer when Yu Peng left, these new guys are doing a great job.

No. 324985

>>324973
I think they're going for Clorinde being more of a secret agent type of character. She's Furina's bodyguard but she's also probably part of Furina's spy circle trying to devise a way to save the nation from the prophecy. Or she just happens to be someone Wriothesley can trust so he asked her for help. I agree it's kind of silly that she was going to keep back the flood though, it's not like she's a hydro or cyro.
I also wish the male musketeer showed up but given we only got concept art for him and no model leaks if he shows up it's probably going to be very late into Fontaine.

No. 324996

>>324985
>Furina's spy circle
Sorry I must've missed it, when was this mentioned?
But now that you mention him trusting her, she probably stayed down with him as a form of comradery, which is nice.
>very late into Fontaine
I wouldn't mind but please don't be a scrapped concept and that guy near Fontaine's Kathryn is where the concept went to.

No. 324999

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>>324953
>Intel graphic cards
AYRT and Intel is so shit. I had Intel in my Lenovo and when my NVIDIA graphics card broke I had to rely on intel, and oh god, Detroit Become Human wouldn't even open kek… Intel and Mediatek are my archnemesis, I swear.
Nvidia is usually good, but you probably have a model with a card that is similar to the one I had on my Lenovo, which was pretty outdated.
>the fans make so much noise
Same. Thank god my model has different settings for the fans and when I'm not playing vidya I can set it to "silent" mode and forget about them. They still wake up from time to time for god knows what, but eh. Sage for computer sperging.

No. 325001

>>324996
At the end of 4.0 when you could ask Neuvillette questions he mentioned Furina had international operatives working around the clock to find some way to stop the prophecy and that she wasn't as useless as she seemed.

No. 325017

>>324973
It felt like the devs saw a bunch of surveys begging for more character interactions on-screen and they just kind of forced it with her because they didn't know what else to do with her.

No. 325077

File: 1696322643933.jpg (Spoiler Image,220.83 KB, 1668x1668, 20231003_103322.jpg)

I just finished the Archon Quest and I need to see more of this stupid trio. I love deadpan characters and them cracking jokes and throwing jabs at each other made me laugh a lot. I hope Mihoyo adds them to events and we see them together again.
(Sorry, reposted to add spoilers.)

No. 325100

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I don't know why I love Arlecchino so much, she's so cool. She's edgy in just the right way. Also, isn't it new that Genshin kind of adds voice acting on top of art put on screen like a visual novel? Or was it in archon quests before this?

>>325017
Yep honestly she was very bland before. I finished the archon quest and I do have to say sadly Wrio and Clorinde do have better chemistry than a lot of characters that people are convinced are canon ships. You say it's not flirting but Wrio does seem like he's kind of flirting with everyone, or his voice is just like that to me, even when Neuvi passed by and he was like 'wooow, what's your secret'. If only Clorinde was a bit less of a coombait character, I'd probably love her with her deadpan personality and bloodborne look. But from what I've seen scrotes absolutely love her design. If only we had skins to select from, if only her shirt wasn't white but like grey, she'd look so much better to me.
I pray Wrio's character story fleshes out his relationship with Neuvi more because he kept talking about him but they exchanged like two sentences.

No. 325102

>>325100
The relationship between Wriothesley and Neuvillette is so strange, why do they keep hinting at something while barely showing them together? Like when you're in Neuvillette's office and read the document about Wrio's case and how Neuvi was quiet for a long time? Why was that relevant? And how Wriothesley tries to invite him to stay for tea only to basically get a polite but cold no. They have barely any chemistry, it actually feels like they want to bait fujos to get that sweet, sweet free advertising through copious amounts of fanart

No. 325106

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4.2 banner leak

No. 325108

>>325106
I wish Baizhu never reran so weapon banners didn't get ruined by his shitty green donut

No. 325111

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>>325102
I don't know if it's different in other languages but the English voiceover and script really emphasize Neuvillette's detachment and loneliness from the world and humanity in general. I'm not surprised a character like that isn't very shippable yet. Maybe he'll grow more open as the Fontaine story progresses.

I found the letter from Furina to be pretty funny, being happy Neuvillette was seemingly taking a day off and going out for once.

No. 325134

>>325100
>isn't it new that Genshin kind of adds voice acting on top of art put on screen like a visual novel?
I'm glad they are doing this, instead of that cheap "white text on black background that explains what is happening". Like, come on, how lazy can you fucking be, your game earns millions each month, ffs.

No. 325136

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I stupidly pulled for Nuevi just cause and hot him in a 10 pull… I was saving for Wrio lol. I think I have enough for hard pity if I grind some, but this is so funny to me.

No. 325162

>>325106
I'll most likely lose my 50/50 to wrio and get him at hard pity because this game hates me but I'd love to get her to boost both Wrio and Neuvi
And Charlotte to try melt with her and Lyney.

No. 325171

>>325102
I think they're trying to hint at what will be revealed in Wriothesley's story lines that are available to read through sites like project amber already. When you read his backstory, you find out he killed someone, alluding to perhaps an abusive foster parent of some kind, maybe more than one person, and stating outright that "the people he'd taken vengeance on were villains themselves in the first place". I think it's to just add a little more 'flavor' to how Neuvillette abides to judging by the letter of the law even when it doesn't seem to have allowances for things like killing in self-defense, and how that troubles him. It's not the first time the game tells you about people who get sentenced to punishments that they ought not to have and how it troubles Neuvillete but "the law is the law".

No. 325201

>>325100
vn started with yoimiya story quest 2

No. 325228

I really like these docu vids about the music. It's interesting to know the inspirations.

No. 325231

File: 1696408930756.jpg (1.11 MB, 2480x3508, 20231003_020959.jpg)

Some things about Neuvillete story quest:
I was kind of suprised there was no dungeon for us to try him in. He's the second character after Albedo that you can't play.
Also it felt like a mini archon quest rather than a story quest. All Fontaine's characters made an appearance, minus Furina and tbh although general lore isn't bad but I wanted more Neuvillete if that makes sense, like not as an OOC date but it felt so… general(?)
Hope Wriothesly's more personal.


Pic not related just found it be cute af

No. 325238

>>325231
this is like the only cute husbando-potential Itto art I have ever seen

No. 325386

File: 1696487241251.jpg (1.8 MB, 2080x2396, 107550114_p1.jpg)

I started playing recently and so far it's great! Exploring is a blast and I really enjoy the worldbuilding. In every game I play I like to choose a husbando to yoom over, but Genshin has so many cool guys to choose from that I'm not sure where to start. Which male characters seem most willing to tolerate autism and severe mental illness? Just in your opinion.
>tldr which Genshin guy would make the best tard wrangler?

No. 325398

>>325386
I'd say most of them, a lot of them aren't human and seem to care about traveler a lot and traveler is basically a non-verbal weirdo kek. But I'll give you my headcanons
>Tighnari
Cares for Collei which is a troubled kid, is very kind in general.
>Zhongli
Percepts things differently from humans and rants about his monotone interests a lot himself, I feel like he wouldn't care if you were weird
>Itto
He's very nice to children and gets along with them, he's very goofy all the time and also would probably get along with speds.
>Kazuha and Albedo
Both are very kind but kind of blandly kind (sorry kazuhafags) and I think they'd treat an autist or mentally ill person very well
>Neuvi
Same as Zhongli.

Honorable mentions
>Bennett
He's so sweet but not a husbando so he goes in the honorable mentions
>Razor
He's too weird to notice you're weird.
>Wriothesley
Probably treats everyone the same
>Cyno
His post-archon quest himself would be nice, his archon-quest himself wouldn't tolerate any bullshit

Enemy
>Alhaitham
He strikes me as an autist himself and you know how autist males don't tend to be nice to autistic females kek but as a Alhaithamfag I don't care
>Scaramouche
He'd bully you
>Tartaglia
He's too psycho to be nice to an autist kek
>Ayato
Seems to care about being proper too much, severe mental illness doesn't go well with that

No. 325405

>>325386
>would call you retarded
Tighnari, Alhaitham, Ayato, Scaramouche, Xingqiu (passive aggressively), Dottore, Xiao
>would be polite about you being retarded
Zhongli, Albedo, Neuvillette, Kazuha, Cyno, Wriothesley, Lyney, Baizhu
>would not notice you're retarded
Bennett, Chongyun, Gorou, Mika
>is retarded/autistic
Childe, Itto, Razor

No. 325412

>>325405
I don't know why but this whole post made me laugh
But what about Diluc, Kaeya, Heizou, Kaveh, Thoma and Venti?

No. 325413

>>325405
Based and all true

No. 325422

>>325405
Disagree with some of these, Tighnari is too used to autists to comment on it thanks to Cyno and Alhaitham and Xiao is too suicidal to even give a shit about someones retard levels

No. 325430

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>>325422
This, plus Tighnari is too sweet, I agree with >>325398 that he would be patient and understanding.
I would also add Thoma as a good potential husbando, he is very kind, he loves taking care of others and making them feel welcomed.
>>325386
Also, welcome! Glad you like the game, remember to take it easy and if you have any questions you can ask here!

No. 325438

I really just want Furina and Arlecchino but neuvillette is growing on me so fucking much. I can probably get 2 characters guaranteed but three… idk depends on how much time I have. Anyone know anything at all about the arlecchino banner? Is it soon-ish?

No. 325439

>>325438
Posts in the leak subreddit seem to indicate that she likely won't come out before 4.5, but it's not certain of course. I have a feeling that it'll take a long time until she gets a banner

No. 325459

>>325412
>kaeya, kaveh, thoma
Polite about you being retarded (thoma would probably protect you)
>heizou
Passive aggressive about you being retarded
>venti
Pretends he's retarded
>diluc
Borderline retarded, sorry Diluc fans (in all seriousness he'd probably be polite about it tho)
>>325422
>>325430
I play with English voices. Cranky English Tighnari would call you retarded but later say it's not your fault. Probably not the other languages so much.
>>325438
As >>325439 says she's not likely before 4.5-4.6 but Navia and Clorinde switched places so it's not impossible she shows up.

No. 325466

>>325386
>would straight up bully you
scaramouche
>would make you embarass yourself
ayato, heizou, kaeya, xingqiu, alhaitham
>would tolerate autism and take care of you
tighnari, thoma, baizhu, neuvilette, zhongli, kazuha, lyney, gorou, chongyun, wriothesley, albedo, venti (kinda)
>they're already mentally ill
itto, cyno, xiao, kaveh, diluc, childe

No. 325470

>>325459
What about sex pest EN VA tighnari?

No. 325472

>>325466
>they're already mentally ill
KEK

No. 325474

>>325466
Venti would enable the fuck out of you nonny

No. 325482

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>>325398
You gave so much detail, thank you! It really helps me get a better idea of the characters. Based on your descriptions and what I've played so far, Zhongli intrigues me. He's a "seen it all" type of guy so I'm confident he could handle me. My only worry is that he would be too enlightened and therefore turned off by my pitiful human catastrophizing.
>>325430
Thank you for the warm welcome! Thoma seems like the most willing to be an active caretaker, so right now he's at the top of the list. He would think of a retard as a stray animal and feel compelled to help me out, and want to make me even the littlest bit happier. And beyond the yoom I really really appreciate his worldview:
>As long as you live, good things will always happen… This is what Thoma has always believed in.
>Even if these animals had not encountered good things before, he hoped that at least his presence would be a good thing worth celebrating for.
Great recommendation nonita ♥
>>325405
Your succinctness is very funny. Though none of them are husbando material, my fave category are the ones who don't even realise I'm retarded. It's just a funny thought. Also I'm glad everyone agrees that Scara would bully any retard he happened upon.
>>325466
>would make you embarass yourself
I also enjoy being tormented so maybe I could have one of these guys as a sidepiece. That would create a satisfying hurt/comfort cycle as well as scratch the masochistic/self-pitying itch. Thoma and Ayato are narratively linked, so already an Inazuma-based daydream is beginning to form. I'll be playing that chapter next and I feel more excited about it then ever!
Thank you to everyone who contributed, I'm really thankful that you shared your ideas and that everybody got to laugh together.

No. 325494

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>>325439
>>325459
Thanks! I guess I will have to wait for more leaks but if nothing indicates that Arlecchino comes before 4.5 by the last Neuvillette banner day I definitely will pull for him!

No. 325504

>>325430
I was gonna say "cute Tarta pic, you never see him with animals"
I'm so sorry Thoma baby kek

>>325438
I caved and got him after 120 wishes approx. Having fun but I'll have so much fun if I win Wrio's 50/50 and can guarantee Furina with what's left.

No. 325602

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>>325504
Looks like we both need to grind for primos then kek. Good luck!

No. 325615

I'm so mad, I just can't get XQ cons, I am still at c0 because I keep getting Diona, Fischl or weapons. I am cursed by always getting loli and weapons, whyy

No. 325616

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>>325602
Thanks nona, good luck to you too!!
(Although the only thing I can grind is Kaeya's hangout as I'm an ancient AR60 that wiped everything clean kek)

No. 325630

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Just finished the AQ and SQ. where did ppl get that Neuvilette supposedly hates archons?

No. 325643

>>325630
They're making some assumptions based off information in his leaked profile lines about the archons, his About the Vision: II and his Feelings About Ascension: Conclusion. He says he's going to judge most of them (in due time) and in Venti's line he refers to the archons as "the unauthorized seven gods"

No. 325650

>>325630
He also sounded a bit more angry about judging the archons in a vague fan translation from chinese than he actually does in the legit translation.

No. 325666

>>325615
He's still meta af at C0, don't worry about it. If you're still a beginner at the game and aren't going for 100k Hu Tao vapes it doesn't matter much. Giving him a high refinement sacrificial sword is more important than any of the constellations anyway

No. 325686

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>>325643
Oh okay that makes sense. Any idea why he wants to judge the archons? All I heard him say that was a bit anti-archon in the AQ was that his dragon powers were limited because of Furina being the hydro archon. If she died/stopped being an archon he would regain his powers

No. 325707

>>325686
Before the Primordial One arrived in Teyvat, the Seven Sovereigns were the rulers of the realm. The Primordial One and the Seven Sovereigns fought for many years, resulting in most of them dying out. The rest fled (like Apep). From the perspective of the Sovereigns, the Primordial One (and subsequently the archons) are usurpers. While Neuvillette is not the original Hydro Sovereign, he is a successor. Thus, from his perspective, the archons are "unauthorized gods" and because he "must remain a symbol of absolute justice", he must judge them..eventually. I don't think his judgement is from a malicious or hateful place, but rather "this is what must be done, this is my duty and the archons do objectively have crimes to answer for".

No. 325752

>>325615
The 4 star system needs a rework for real. I was so unlucky with his cons I actually bought them from the paimon bargain shop thing.

>>325686
Who's the guy in the pic?

No. 325758

>>325752
Albedo!
>>325707
>this is what must be done, this is my duty and the archons do objectively have crimes to answer for
This makes so much more sense than him just simply ”hating archons”. Thanks anon now I get it!

No. 325772

>>325707
The sovereigns are all dragons right? The lore kind of reminds me of Dark Souls kek. Or is it in some world mythology that before gods, dragons ruled the world and games keep referencing it?
>>325666
I'm not a very new player, I'm just unlucky with banners. XQ is always on some waifu banner I'm not interested in or on a male banner I have to skip to save for someone else. I didn't have enough starglitter for Paimon Bargain Xingqiu last month. Oh well, I'll have to wait. Sucks that I mostly use Alhaitham/XQ/Nahida/Kuki team in overworld to be quickly done with annoying mobs so his cons would help a lot.

No. 325949

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I swear I'm not trying to bait but I really don't get the hype for Arlecchino, at first when she was revealed during the Fatui trailer last year I was interested in the possibility of a princely female character but they made her wear an overdesigned vacuum sock pantsuit with the most lackluster color design an open back under the coat and a stupid rat tail to top it off, so far her personality has been closer to a world quest villain NPC twirling their moustache than a playable character. And before you come at me I'm not even one of those people who hate all female characters because in contrast I really like Furina's design and writing and how they're edging us on her hiding a plan. Scaramouche was foreshadowed since Inazuma but Arlecchino came out of nowhere, barely made an appearance besides bullying Furina a bit and now everyone is just losing their mind over muh problematic lesbian dommy mommy like they did with Signora. Unless she gets an actual arc in 4.2 I'm just going to assume people are just so desperate for a morally questionable female villain that they accept any crumbs that game devs throw them, maybe someone wants to explain what's her appeal because I was just disappointed beyond belief when they revealed her final design. And no, I don't hate her, I just don't understand why people are declaring her the best character in Fontaine when she's so generic. Maybe I'll be proven wrong.

No. 325985

>>325949
I just like her. Her design, voice and personality. You don't have to force yourself to like a character, everyone has different tastes. Maybe I would think your husbando is shit kek

No. 326013

>>325949
You could say all of this about any other unreleased Harbinger. Many people like Arlecchino because she is the first female character who's allowed to be covered up from head to toe without any cringe armpit windows or thigh highs, but the lore around House of Hearth is also really neat. There are hints that she's a wolf in sheeps clothing who's not so secretly very unhinged which obviously also draws in a lot of people. We are only in 4.1 and we are sure to see much more of her so just give it some time to develop if you think she's boring right now.

No. 326014

>>324945
what do you guys think of fontaine's music so far? i don't think it's bad, but sumeru's soundtrack is still my number 1. i felt it was a bit generic, but that's probably because it's european-style music.
i hope they're able to make natlan's music as good as sumeru's.

No. 326015

>>325686
Nonnie, who's the artist of this?? I couldn't find anything by image search. This drawing is so beautiful and dreamy.

No. 326019

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So happy to see that Furina is good with Cyno teams (only if your Cyno team has Baizhu though)! To the anon who wished for a usable Cyno team, we have it now!!

>>326015
The artist is the one who made the pretty Albedo watercolor art from last thread too! On Twitter: @Jotto75

No. 326026

>>325949
For me it's because I love Fatuus and how she saved Lynette/twins. So far I hope they expand more on her and other characters and her personally.
As in even though Signora isn't playable but her lore being a witch that wants revenge for her lover, was misunderstood by her people, suppressed her powers…etc. were nice additions even though her design is too coom-ish for my tolerance kek, hope to see the same lore for Arlecchino.

>>326014
I was surprised to how much I liked it despite Peng's departure, even the battle theme is great with me doing challenges with these 3mil bosses. My only complaint is Wriothesly's theme, I feel it's missing something.

No. 326028

>>326013
I think the lore around her is really neat (House of Hearth, leaks saying she's a child experiment herself for example) but I guess I'm just so disappointed in how they copped out of making her more masculine/androgynous since the word "knave" refers to a male servant and the kids call her "father". Yeah the titles don't really mean anything but something about those stiletto heels, the attire pronouncing her curves and the fandom cooming to hypersexualized pinups of her rubs me the wrong way.

No. 326029

>>326014
I like it, it's different from Peng's style but still works imo. I've found myself actually listening to the tunes when before they sort of drowned in to the background, they nailed the European sound really well and I say this as an euro myself. I liked the gritty sound in Meropide, very different from the other music, but >>326026 is right about Wriothesley's theme needing a bit more edge. But I agree with you on Sumeru having the best soundtrack in the entire game so far. Inazuma was really boring and repetitive, Enkanomiya was just droning ambient music and both Liyue and Mondstadt were just "nice".

No. 326049

>>326014
The underwater exploration music is so nostalgic and beautiful. Surging Reminiscence and Shade of Flowers are my favorite songs in Fontaine as of now.

No. 326110

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Thoughts about the archon quest? To me it was weaker than the last one.

What I liked
>Childe being involved and being the main conflict/dilemma alongside the prophecy. So fun when a past character’s backstory intertwines in a current archon quest. Much better than npc focused conflicts
>the world building of the prison and its system
>every Arlecchino appearance because she’s so fucking cool

What I dislike
>the weird pacing at the prison, the whole first part was me doing meaningless work and eating at a shitty cafeteria with childish paimon commentary
>overall nothing really happened?
>Neuvilette dragon identity reveal should have been more epic and cinematic
>the flashback animations of Childe looking so damn cheap. Is it that hard to make actual animated cutscenes for such a big company instead of the same running and idle animations

No. 326132

>>326110
I loved his new gang so much.
But yeah I agree, for the time spent doing everything I felt the reward of lore and new information wasn't enough. Even though I love the Fatui trio seeing them again didn't make me as excited as I expected.
I know this is Genshin Impact, I know what it is, but all I want is just a little more edge,just a bit. I'm glad the Narzlongname world quest is offering it but I want more with main characters.

No. 326139

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Same anon ^

Yesterday was Xingqiu's bday and look at this mofo
"that takes this dish to the next level. I wonder which lucky individual will end up eating it…"

I love him and his bullying so much.

No. 326140

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>>326139
And the chibi art features Albedo!

No. 326160

>>326110
I laughed at the Childe animations too. They were laughably bad. Should have used the visual novel style instead, or do some proper animations.
On the similar note, I find it pretty weird how characters don't turn properly in cutscenes. At least I think so, or some other movement is missing, but when they stop moving and when they turn somewhere to run, it looks like old pokemon animations. Weird because we have proper running in overworld. I hope someone knows what I'm talking about.

No. 326164

>>326140
People who didn't play the event with them being writers bust be so confused

No. 326170

>>326164
It's mentioned in Xingqiu's character profile and brought up in his story quest too, not just the event.

No. 326192

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I pray that genshin never adds a character like this.

No. 326222

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Second phase banners

No. 326225

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Ganyu and Xq skins

No. 326226

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>>326225
That one is Ganyu. This one is Xq

No. 326228

>>326225
>>326226
For ages now they've been saying Zhongli and Qiqi were going to be getting skins and they still aren't here. I don't think I really believe any skin leaks anymore.

No. 326233

>>326192
Kek hoyoverse is going to release a character with an actual dark skintone before they mention preferred pronouns. Surprising that Reverse:1999 is like that though, I thought it was going to be a generic coomerbait waifu gacha

No. 326250

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Furina's C6 and C2 have been swapped around. Her C2 now turbo buffs her ultimate while the C6 is the tiny infusion. Weird choice but I guess they're doubling down on her being swapped as soon as you do skill + burst. Her burst has a shorter cooldown and less strict energy requirements now too.

No. 326276

>>326192
>>326233
I know nothing about this game but is it the same in Japanese/Chinese?
I noticed in some games/animes when it comes to localizations they change normal talk to "respect my pronouns!" dialogue without the creator's knowledge.

>>326250
>burst has a shorter cooldown and less strict energy requirements
If she's coming home with little primos I have after Wrio then YESSS since my arti set for her has zero energy recharge.

No. 326336

>>326226
I really want XQ skin, I find him so ugly. But even with another skin, his voice is still gonna annoy me.
As for Ganyu, I don't have her, but anything is better that the weird black boobs covered by Mysterious fabric that sticks to them but isn't leather nor latex and is matte. It looks like she has boob necrosis to me.

No. 326370

Is Nuev strong? I'm not sure if I should roll him or Wrio, I only have enough for 1 guarantee and I feel about the same about both of them so I'm choosing the more meta option

No. 326372

>>326370
Yes, he's one of the strongest characters in the game right now. He can solo the current Abyss. Wriothesley isn't bad either, just mediocre, but Neuvillette is really strong while also being stupid easy to play. Plus he works really well with Prototype Amber so you don't even need any fancy limited weapon for him.

No. 326378

Whats the quickest way I can get 30 rolls in a week

No. 326419

>>326378
f2p way =Do the events. Grind all the chests available with the help of this interactive map. https://genshin-impact-map.appsample.com/

No. 326421

>>326419
Actually use this official one instead: https://act.hoyolab.com/ys/app/interactive-map/index.html?lang=en-us#/map/2?shown_types=45&center=2008.50,-1084.00&zoom=-4.50

The fan made one seems to have gotten retarded submissions

No. 326453

I was trying to look for good Nuev art and all I get is him and Furina together. Yeah, he's her tard wrangler but the dynamic isn't even fun when it feels like obligation and he looks tired in everything. I'm not even a shipper, I just want more art of him and the relationship is overrated imo.

No. 326462

Nonnies I dont know how I should build my traveler. I'm relatively new and I only occasionally bring her out for a pyro swirl reaction. I'm thinking maybe switch her to dendro once I unlock Sumeru but then I wouldn't have any anemo options.

I also have an unbuilt Freminet, my plan for him is to just switch him with Kaeya whenever I want freeze because seeing him lug around that massive sword is just so cute.

No. 326469

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>>326453
Same, some of the art woth Furina has him looking cute but because of his /spoiler/ he's now drawn with everyone. Though in tag websites you can choose the proper tags to find him by himself.

>>326462
For now go elemental mastery or %atk in her artis if you have any, and an %atk or physical sword.
Don't sweat it too much because you'll get Lynnette for free and she's a good anemo characters for your traveller to be Dendero.

No. 326517

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>>326462
Anon you seem very new, just use this button for builds. At your stage you really don't need advanced builds. It tells you what most users prioritized for their artifacts.

Other than that, just level talents and character level.

No. 326519

Anons who have Neuvillete; why does my Neuv sometimes charges his charge attack slowly like he has no bubbles but he has his bubbles and just absorbed them??
Twice in a domain today he did that, I tried searching on youtube on how I'm screwing up but no one seems to have this issue.

Basically skill drops 3 bubbles -> most of the time he does as he should– absorb then immediately charge attack but sometimes not and slowly charges. I don't know how to solve it

No. 326523

>>326519
Hmm I don’t have him yet but maybe it’s the "tracking" issue Zajef mentions in this video at 09:20. Neuv can pick up old orbs that expire too quick because they’re old? Idk sorry anon for linking this autist but that’s the only thing I could find

No. 326545

>>326523
I'll double check when I log in to see if that's the issue, thank you soso much for going through his video for the time stamp

No. 326729

>>326545
no worries anon I was curious myself!

No. 326755

The new event has cute interactions, but I laughed when Hutao and Venti were trying to invite Xiao to the event, didn't expect him to be the poet type kek.
Ativities suck though imo.

No. 326890

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I hate this man with every fiber of my being. I lose EVERY 50/50 and always to him. If I could delete one character from this game…

No. 326891

>>326890
Why? Diluc has saved my ass so many times, he works amazingly with my husbando teams.

No. 326892

>>326891
I have him C5 at this point and never use him because I absolutely hate his play style.

No. 326893

>>326892
Samefag, but matter of fact, I don’t like claymore users (except Itto.)

No. 326915

>>326892
I hate his gameplay too, too clunky, but like him in fanart kek
I hope I don't see his face in my wishes.
>Inb4 I lose to him in Wriothesly's banner

No. 327027

>>326890
He loves you, nonna. You didn't choose this husbando, he chose you! sorry you keep losing to him though, and every 50/50? I keep getting Jean and the only other being QiQi. Three years and it's just Jean wtf

No. 327045

>>326890
I understand your pain but tbh if I'm going to lose a 50-50 to a standard I'd rather it be a husbando than a goblin like Qiqi or something

No. 327083

>>327045
I would rather lose to Tighnari, but I guess beggars can’t be choosers.

No. 327085

>>327027
My luck is quite bad. I’ve checked my paimon.moe stats, and yeah, it’s not ideal.

No. 327428

Nonnies wtf is this event's story?
I was excited to see a fully character interact with zany Venti and Hutao shenanigans joking and pranking but instead it's some weirdo Young boy who fell in love with oceanid is now an old man who gets a kiss from her or some shit.
What did you think about this whole story?

No. 327431

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>>327428
Came here to complain too kek they really made us think we'll get interesting interactions between characters with very different personalities then it turned out to be an npc story again. It wasn't even a cute love story, I didn't need the mental image of that old faggot kissing a young girl or a water monster. I was waiting for Hu Tao to join in and have a big ending to the story at the end, but it just ended abruptly. The actually poem related parts were good but the last part just wasn't it. I hope we learn what happened to Chongyun the way we learned Diona's condition. It's like the writers are allergic to letting the characters progress, all the characters still act the same they always were, we just learn details about shit we already knew. I know Mika will again be a scaredy cat with social anxiety next event he appears in. No wonder the few that learn and grow through the story are a million times more popular than all the others.

No. 327483

What do you think of Wrio's trailer? I like his character but to me it was meh. Not very interesting. And that's probably because they spent a lot of time on his design it seems but not a lot on his personality. I wish they'd make him a bit more interesting, imo with his design they had lot to work with. I think if they built on his past of being a criminal and repenting a bit more it would be better. Maybe it'll be in his story but so far he seems kinda mild. Or they should have built his relationship with Neuvi more, character interactions are what makes us understand the character more.
Also I'm almost always liking the characters songs from the version trailers more than their extended versions.

>>327431
I wish they'd stop with using the generic boring npcs so much.

No. 327493

>>327431
What killed me was the abrupt ending, aside from the weird… bestiality? I don't know what to make of that kek.
Many many decisions made me go "huh?!" Several times like Zhongli popping for no reason, Xiao popping for no reason and was this the shortest event dialogue-wise? I remember Mondstadt's Collei and Sucrose's one, it had alot of dialogue and I liked learning more about characters, why is this one so short and weird?
One postive thing is the illustrated movie thing, I like the style.

>>327483
I feel the same way, hope his story and profile make him more interesting.

No. 327497

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>>327431
The event was kinda mid for being an anniversary event. I liked better the first and second anniversary events, this one is just boring.
>It's like the writers are allergic to letting the characters progress.
Since the second Golden Archipelago event, I have noticed mihoyo is listening to the casual players screeching about lore and characters being developed in events. I will never forget 2.8 update, it was one of the best events ever and it gave a lot of depth to Mona, Fischl, Kazuha and Xinyan. I'm glad I was there, kek.

>>327483
>What do you think of Wrio's trailer? I like his character but to me it was meh.
The trailer was just fanservice for the simps. And I'm grateful for that, kekw.
I love his personality a lot, he is perfect in my eyes. I like that he seems cold and aloof but he is actually playful and sometimes can be a total dumbass. I can wait to play his archon quest and also unlock his voicelines.

No. 327499

>>327497
Nonny i am a Wrio simp. Just when I compare it for example to Alhaitham's trailer, I'd rate it much lower on a creativity scale

No. 327526

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>>327499
I just think his personality is a bit meh like you said. It transferred into the trailer. There's not much that makes him unique. But I have hope, some characters like Cyno turn out to be completely different after the archon quest and Alhaitham became more than just “smart” when his relationship to Kaveh was developed more in depth. So I bet Wrio will get more multifaceted too with time.

No. 327542

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So nice seeing a well known trusted chinese leaker talk about this. I remember when a waifu banner (forgot which) and a Hu Tao banner had the exact same numbers on Genshin Lab down to the freaking decimals. No way the exact same amount of people pulled a character. It’s inaccurate data that caps at certain numbers and it famously shows male banners as underperforming.

No. 327547

>>327542
hxg_diluc has always been on our side, kek
I barely care about banner revenue anymore tho. Mihoyo is just gonna do whatever the hell they want with the game. They don't have competition, so they don't need to listen to their userbase.

No. 327569

>>327542
This guy isn't trusted at all. He gets almost all of his original leaks completely wrong, especially the story ones.
Neuvillette didn't perform terribly badly but to act like it's a major accomplishment to be the best selling banner since 3.5 is kind of stupid (and as far as I can tell, Genshinlab says the same thing anyway). IIrc the only new character who got released between 3.5 and 4.0 was Baizhu who really did sell like total shit, and anyone who wanted Lyney had 3 years to save for him. What else were people going to spend their money on between then and now? The Klee/Eula banner kek?
The sales numbers of specific characters clearly don't matter much to Hoyo anyway, we got a ton of limited husbandos this past year while moids only got Nilou a year ago. They know that flooding regions with a majority of male or female characters works because husbando or waifu collectors need to swipe to get all of them. Neuvillette and Wriothesley will most likely be the last limited male characters for a long while because of this. At least Fontaine has stepped up its female characters and there are some promising ones like Arlecchino to tide us over until the next husbando releases in a thousand years.

No. 327690

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>>327569
No? He has a good track record as of late. Almost everything in Sumeru was correct and things he said about lion dance boy turned out to be true when we got the leak flood images

No. 327741

>>327690
He reposts what he sees other leakers say and makes random shit up that he deletes or "corrects" later when its proven as false. He said that Ayaka's skin is 5 star, Alhaitham is more like Ayaka than Dendro Keqing, Alhaitham is friends with Zhongli and very close to Nahida, and Dehya is a 4 star. He's also the one that threw everyone in a panic by saying everything about Scaramouche changes and he won't be the same person anymore with that retarded ship comparison. I don't think he even has any kind of inside connection, he just hangs out in CN forums all day to see what people are saying.

No. 327742

>>327741
But out of those 5 times he was wrong he was also correct over 20 times. Of course any leak is stc. I also don't get where you got this:
>Neuvillette didn't perform terribly badly but to act like it's a major accomplishment to be the best selling banner since 3.5 is kind of stupid
How do you know Neuvillette didn't perform terribly badly if you don't trust Genshin labs either but at the same time denounce hxg_diluc. So what is your source? Or are you just speaking out of your ass and pretending it's facts. He sold really fucking well, why is that something you want to downplay?

No. 327745

>>327742
He's a reposter, stop whiteknighting so hard for him.
I'm not downplaying how well Neuvillette sold, I'm just saying that his banner didn't sell on the same level as the actual powerhouse banners. Hxg's weird Tiktok hours and Genshinlab are probably about equally unreliable and statistically they tell the exact same story anyway. I don't really understand what the point with being so obsessed with inaccurate sales numbers is, as I said in my first post Hoyoverse won't change the amount of male characters they release based on how much previous ones sold so who cares

No. 327801

>>327745
>I don't really understand what the point with being so obsessed with inaccurate sales numbers is
It's an insecure ex-kpopfag thing

No. 327815

>>327741
>dehya is a 4 star
Well he wasn't exactly wrong, was he. I would have thought 4* with a kit that scuffed too.

No. 327837

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>>327745
>I'm just saying that his banner didn't sell on the same level as the actual powerhouse banners.
Well this is what I was asking, how do you know this and why state it as a fact?

No. 327853

>>327542
The Genshinlab banner revenue numbers have been really suspicious lately, every banner has been performing like shit since Nahida which makes no sense. According to them Lyney&Yelan barely made a dime which is just preposterous because even if everyone boycotted Lyney they damn sure weren't passing up Yelan since she's a waifu and one of the most sought after units in the game. Even if he was wrong about some leaks the banner thing makes sense.

No. 327862

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>>327853
Yeah especially that weapon banner revenue. That is usually counted into banner revenue calculations. Shit is fake as fuck.

No. 327953

I got Wrio in 12 pulls and his weapon in 78 (I think), this is the first time I got lucky since playing holy shit I'm happy.

Now the only characters I want are Furina and Arle.

How did your wishes go nonas?!

No. 327956

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>>327953
Congrats nona!
I spent my 250 wishes in one go and I got 1 wrio, 1 jean, 1 wolf gravestone and wrio's bis. All were almost hard pity, lel. Pretty happy anyways, could have been worse! Now I have a guaranteed and I don't know if I should try and go for Baizhu or just wait and save for Shenhe.
Btw I like his playstyle a lot, he is very satisfying and easy to use! I was a little intimidated by his health drain mechanic, but after doing abyss with him I'm starting to learn how it works.
Kind of a shame he struggles running solo. He definetly needs a shield/healer.

No. 327960

Won the 50-50 at ~90.
But now I have to level him up and still I'll probably never use him cause I have to figure out new team comps…
And might as well roll for Xiao next time he's up, didn't realize beforehand that both Neuv and Wrio hurt themselves with their own attacks too. So annoying.

No. 327965

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>>327953
>>327956
I lost my first 50/50 but won the next one for his C1. I haven't decided whether to go for the weapon or not since I already have Wanderer's weapon but never use Wanderer and Tulaytullah's Remembrance is second-best in slot for him. Furina's going to be the perfect support for both him and Neuvillette so I don't want to have to skip her.
>>327960
Teams aren't that hard for Wriothesley. You'll probably want another cryo unit and an anemo unit then throw Bennett or a hydro unit in depending on whether whatever you're fighting can be frozen or not.

No. 327994

Metafagging in spoilers I'm regretting pulling Wrio in a gambling addicted haze… why is his damage kinda shit even in a team while Lyney was fucking my ass through the screen at level 1 with no supports? Wrio even has a crit dmg weapon while Lyney has that shitty Ganyu bow. No force on earth can make me pull that woman shaped pillow with a hole named Shenhe. Is Wrio destined to become a national melt enabler?

No. 327997

>>327994
My c0 Wrio with a 4* weapon does 30k per hit with food buffs which is fine enough for a c0 in my books, maybe you're just building him wrong? He runs off high attack, not elemental damage unlike other catalysts so give him the Marechaussee set. Sure Lyney is a goddamn cannon when it comes to damage dealing but I personally hate the aimed shots playstyle and how squishy he tends to be.

No. 328000

>>327997
Nta but if I have enough crit rate is it best to go with 2 piece Marechaussee 2 piece Blizzard Strayer or stick with 4 Mare pieces? Or any %18 ATK 2 piece instead of BS?
(Just wanna double check before leveling up artifacts)

No. 328011

>>327997
Wait, does that mean he'll do better with an atk% cup instead of cryo dmg?

No. 328014

>>328000
>>328011
Most guides are recommending 4pc Marechaussee set for him because it gives a normal&charged attack boost and a 32% crit rate boost when your HP changes, which fits Wrio's HP mechanics. So that's preferred over a 2pc marechaussee and 2pc blizzard set, but if you're lucky enough to get a cryo dmg marechaussee piece then yeah that's definitely useful for him.

No. 328016

I just tried burning with Wrio and it works! Way better than him and Xiangling as a melt team, though ICD for melting seems to be 1.5 seconds? Anyways my recommendation is to try it, with a shield because burning is kind of ass and damages the active player too.

No. 328050

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>>327994
It's not. Lyney needs ridiculously high personal damage because he's designed to not work with a lot of the best supports. With Wriothesley you need to make sure you have a healer at C0 to maintain his bonus damage buff. At C1 you don't need a healer anymore and can do whatever as long as you charged attack when your HP is around 60% and you see the red aura around him.
He's going to work really well with Furina, so you should be able to pull for her instead of Shenhe if you're unsatisfied with his current damage. I'd still run a second cryo for cryo resonance, but that's up to you.

No. 328054

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>>328050
>Lyney needs ridiculously high personal damage because he's designed to not work with a lot of the best supports
What do you mean? Bennett and Kazuha are both BIS teammates for him and they are the best supports in the game. Xiangling, Venti and Zhongli work really well with him too. He honestly has a lot of options for being shackled to mono pyro.

No. 328055

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>>328054
He doesn't work with Xingqiu, Fischl, or Yelan, widely considered some of the best supports in the game. Discouraging reactions with him means he needs really high damage himself to compete or he'd be trash compared to Hu Tao, who Vapes. He works with Bennett and Xiangling and Kazuha but a lot of other units want them too.
I'm not saying he's bad, he's not bad by any means because they gave him the insane damage buffs he needed to compete, he's just inflexible compared to a unit like Childe or Raiden (who want all the same teammates as Lyney).

No. 328062

>>327497
>lore and character development locked to events is good reeee. if you think otherwise you are a casual
Lol, fuck off. Go explore Dragonspine as a new player and tell me that its good that all its lore was event-only.

No. 328065

>>327741
>alhaitham isnt dendro keqing but ayaka
He is right lol. Calling alhaitham "keqing" is a casual dogwhistle. The only thing they have in common are animations.
>>327547
>mihoyo is just gonna do whatever the hell they want with the game. they don't have competition, so they don't need to listen to their userbase
Lmao

No. 328069

>>328050
>you need to make sure you have a healer at C0 to maintain his bonus damage buff
But the healers get him above 60% all the time so I run him with no healer. Which healer do C0 Wrio nonnies run?

No. 328077

>>328069
It's kind of impossible to reliably keep him at 50-60% to use both buffs so just use whichever healer fits your team. I think it's not super necessary to have one though, since he can also heal himself a bit

No. 328092

>>328062
So true, without the Albedo events there Dragonspine feels so out of place

No. 328096

>>328062
NTA but I think lore events are still really good, but I wished they would return or could be unlocked by newer players. The fact is I really just don't give a fuck about npcs.

>>328069
I heard Mika is good with him, he heals and increases attack speed. Also gives cryo renosance. Ofcourse the physical buff is useless but still

No. 328218

>>328054
This pic is beautiful. I love this melodramatic Fatui thing fans wanted but never really got. The closest thing is in first AQ.

>>328077
Iirc leakers said Furina's healing is worse than the average healer so maybe Wrio can use her with her many buffs.

No. 328299

>>328218
>I love this melodramatic Fatui thing fans wanted but never really got.
I’m so curious, what do you mean by this? I felt like the Lyney Lynette situation fits that vibe
>Furina's healing is worse than the average healer
Yeah and she is best in teams with a healer. Fontaine seems to be going for the two healing units in one team kind of set up

No. 328376

>>328092
>>328062
I'm a new player who did the Dragonspine stuff before going to Liyue and I didn't realise there was more to its story. I honestly thought they just added a huge ice mountain for the fun of it… and it wasn't even that fun! Now I feel kinda cheated.

No. 328402

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>>328376
Look up "The Chalk Prince and the Dragon" and "Shadows Amidst Snowstorms" on Youtube. There's a lot of important stuff that took place in Dragonspine, they really flesh Albedo out. It's a real travesty that they and Unreconciled Stars aren't permanent story events.

No. 328410

>>328065
Anyone who calls Alhaitham "dendro Keqing" is confirmed seething moid, they tried to do damage control when they realized Alhaitham was going to turn out to be a S tier DPS and then tried to meme everyone into not rolling for him because he's "dendro Keqing".

No. 328413

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>>328065
>>328410
Even as someone who kind of regretted pulling for Alhaitham because I don't really like his playstyle and how he's shackled to Kuki I still don't think he's Dendro Keqing. Play Keqing after Alhaitham and you'll be amazed at how awful and clunky she feels to play. Plus she deals so little damage compared to him it's laughable.

No. 328416

>at 50 pity
>only have 5 measly rolls left
>start doing desperate singles to empty stash
>venti actually arrives on the 5th pull
I love you I love you I love you

No. 328424

>>328416
what the fuck is that nasty moid self insert picture

No. 328441

>>328424
Obvious bait or moid. Report it

No. 328480

>>328424
>>328441
Damn I didn't know women weren't allowed to enjoy horny POV art

No. 328510

>>328416
Why is moidgaze shit always so badly drawn, this looks 100% traced

No. 328516

>>328480
only troons/pedo moids want to fuck venti

No. 328525

>>328516
Sad how lolcow has become filled with delusional policing twitterfags like this over the last few years. Keep believing this and maybe one day it'll come true. Original artist is a real woman btw.

No. 328527

>>328516
I only see women simping for Venti

No. 328613

>>328416
Why do people always draw Lumine as a the female lead from a hentai, she is so cute but they always have to change her to be super coomerish with big tits and remove her cute bloomers.

No. 328635

>>328613
>decently sized boobs = hentai character
I'm sorry anon but your brain is completely rotten

No. 328642

>>328416
>anons seething about this
Goddamn this website really has changed for the worse over the last few years.

No. 328645

>>328527
NTA but trapfag and pedo moids love Venti, just because you only spend time on female-dominated spaces doesn't mean it never happens.

No. 328662

>>328645
he's been as popular as astolfo with them for a long time now. that anon is coping hard, they should go back to /vg/ to post their unspoilered straight shota POV art where girl boobs take up a third of the screen. men would appreciate it more than we would.

>>328527
the only woman I've seen simp for venti was the one who drew all that gross venlisa oneeshota that moids love. one moid got banned for spamming that here.

No. 328709

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>>328613
That picture is pretty close to how she looks in-game.
Anyway, Venti is one of the cutest and lewdest guys in the game and I'd love a romp in the hay with him.

No. 328720

>>328709
Are you same retard that made the thread pic

No. 328802

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>>328709
Based and same. Next thing you know the twitterfags here will tell you that only moids want to fuck Scara since he has a sizeable tranny fanbase too. The absolute state of nu lolcor, nothing but troons and moids on the mind.

No. 328844

>>328720
The are one or two very spergy anons always in here. Their posts are obvious if you know what to look for ('twitterfags', '/v/ermin', fanatical defense of moid pandering, seething about being called moids for it). They turned into personal cows lmfao. I come to lurk their latest infights more than I talk about the game.

No. 328880

>>328709
Anon that's not close at all

No. 328921

>>328802
>calling lolcow demographic twitterfags while acting like an aiden twittard defending coomer art
>doesn't even know the scara fans vs moids lore
This thread has truly gone to shit huh

No. 328980

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>>328921
It’s more like
>anon posts innocuous on-topic post
>”Y-YOU CANT LIKE THAT BECAUSE TRANNIES LIKE HIM TOO WAAAA WHERE’S MY HUGBOX”
>random moid accusations because you cant come up with a real argument that doesnt make you sound like a trad retard
Typical moves from someone who found lc in the last few years and thinks she can create some purist radfem hivemind here. Try not being so terminally online. Women can like sexually suggestive art too.

Anyway to get back on topic I cant wait to build my Venti & Wrio to hear their cute fighting and climbing grunts.

No. 328983

>>328980
Nonnie… Got any more art or artist suggestions? I've never seen Xingqiu like this and the art's so quality.

No. 328991

>>328980
To be fair while I don't mind it I can't remember a time where oneeshota or a straight shota was welcomed on lolcow. It's always been bl shota in the least.

No. 328996

>>328980
I don't care about women liking shotas and Venti. That art was very obviously moidy and ugly.
>Try not being so terminally online
We're both on lolcow retardchama. Pot calling the kettle black

No. 329018

I'm farming primos for Wrio and wanted to know, did any nonnies care about the Paris? The dialogue's so long that I skip through it all and barely know the bare minimum. They def can't compare to the anarana kek

No. 329051

>>328980
this coming from the most terminally online user itt who spends so much time around 4chan moids someone here mistakes her for one every other day is making me kek. go back.

No. 329119

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>>328983
The artist @nz__g, she's great

No. 329231

>>329119
Thanks, nonnie!

No. 329291

Oh so Timmie's story is that his dad is dead, I was so sure that it was gonna be Draff having a drunken one night stand.
Now I can finally leave Mondstadt behind.

No. 329295

Do anons have any team ideas where I can put Xiao and Lyney on the same team? I’m pretty new to team building but I’m not interested in Lyney’s mono Pyro.

Ideally without any waifus, I dont mind having less damage as a result

No. 329303

>>328402
It's just a shame that they've struggled to find a midpoint between the critical lore dumps that get lost forever like the dragonspine events and no character development in quests at all.

>>329295
Just make two separate teams? They're both meant to be the primary character on-field and don't really work with any other play style. They do both like some of the same supports though, so if you really wanted to you could pair them with any two of Bennet/Kazuha/Zhongli.

No. 329306

>>328635
The image is now gone but the artist literally made her breast 2x as big

>>328613
I know how she looks in game, i choose her as the mc. I don't mind if you post sexual fan art, it was just a comment about how a lot of people just change Lumine her appearance to be more sexual.

>>329295
Are you asking if you can put Xiao and Lyney on the team? They are both on field characters so that would not be optimal, but if you only care about overworld you could just keep swapping dpses I guess. For Xiao you want to use a healer and/or shielder. Like >>329303 mentioned you can use Zhongli and Bennet for shielding and healing.

No. 329318

>>329303
>>329306
I wanted them on the same team. Lame that they dont really mesh well.

No. 329339

Was gonna say something about how Choiseul doesn't look Korean in the slightest but apparently it's a French name, the things you can learn from gatcha.

No. 329368

>>329295
Xiao and Lyney just won’t have any synergy team building wise. There’s not much we can that will make it work, all you can do is just do an overworld team with them. Everything dies quick in the overworld if you do basic builds with them.

No. 329385

>>329339
You should also learn to spell it as gacha instead of gatcha

No. 329499

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New official art from Genshin's Japanese twitter account to celebrate 3.4 million followers
https://x.com/Genshin_7/status/1716394039417684352

No. 329564

>>329499
Kaveh a cute

No. 330053

>>329499
So cute. Although it’s so interesting how incredibly irrelevant Inazuma and sumeru characters feel.

At least with Fontaine, Neuvillette and the Arlecchino plot line with Furina makes it feel like the characters are important to the game’s overall story. Especially with Childe being involved in the story too. It really feels like the game is finally moving forward and we’re taking the steps to understand Celestia/Abyss/Archon powers more. I didn’t feel like that at all with Sumeru characters. Even the Scaramouche and Nahida irminsul tree thing didn’t feel like it told us something groundbreakingly new.

No. 330077

>>330053
That's true, I oftentimes forget that those chapters even happened because nothing in them mattered

No. 330090

>>330053
Liyue was also completely irrelevant though. We just went on a shopping trip and then there was a very badly written climax, only for Zhongli to tell us he can't say anything about the archon war because muh contract.
The only nation that has future lore relevancy to Celestia is Mondstadt. Sumeru didn't give us many lore bombs in the main archon quest, but Khaenri'ah is below it and the interlude was pretty good.

No. 330217

This is a little off topic but I‘m currently doing database work and there’s a ton of Chinese people in it and it’s really struck me how everyone in Liyue is named the Chinese equivalent of SparkleDog or WarriorShadowKiller. In 1000 names I didn’t see a single name that matched a genshin name.

No. 330493

>>330217
It's an anime inspired game, it makes sense. They don't usually give anime characters normal names (unless you think fishcake swirl is perfectly normal). They go for meaningful (even if it sounds dumb with a literal translation) over realistic 9 times out of 10.

No. 330518

>>330090
Yeah but Liyue at least gave so much info about Childe and the fatui network.

No. 330560

Childe really is the game's fave if his lore is necessary in determining if a story or whatever is good. I wouldn't say I hate him, but we can't escape the guy kek

No. 330563

>>330560
kek yes he benefits a lot from being the most normal/casual fatui harbinger. Others wouldn't have just approached us on the street and give us their visions to kick off a storyline. Or be distracted by the chance to fight people while they're sent out to find another harbinger. It's easy for the game to remind us that he exists casually until we get to his story.

No. 330572

>>330053
>Sumeru is irrelevant
>Irminsul tree didn't tell anything new
What are you talking about? The entirety of Teyvat is connected to Irminsul and you can control the collective memory of everyone in the world by editing what's stored in it like Scaramouche and Rukkhadevata did by removing their existence and Traveler is the only person who had their memories preserved, even Nahida and Paimon forgot about them. The biggest revelation in the end of Sumeru chapter was that the traveler's sibling was recorded in the Irminsul database even though it shouldn't be possible due to the limitations specifying that "people from outside of Teyvat are excluded from the records". Both of these were huge plot points. Irminsul is connected to every single domain and Leyline in the game making it in essence the central computer of Teyvat that has two flaws: the data stored in it can be edited and people from the outside aren't recorded in it. The most popular theory is that the reason the Traveler's sibling is recorded is because Teyvat is running in a loop and the traveler's sibling already died once (i.e. "completed their journey"), had this recorded in the Irminsul's database and then started over again. Which would explain a lot of things happening in the game. I sometimes feel like people here just sleep on half of the lore because they autoplay the dialogue and then complain about bad writing.

No. 330626

>>330493
Jean/Lisa/Bennett/Charlotte and a few others all have pretty normal sounding names. I just assumed that there would be a few normal Chinese names thrown in there too.

No. 330653

>>330572
>The most popular theory is that the reason the Traveler's sibling is recorded is because Teyvat is running in a loop and the traveler's sibling already died once (i.e. "completed their journey"), had this recorded in the Irminsul's database and then started over again.
Well that’s what I meant with nothing new. Anyone not retarded knew this loop thing by what characters have said. Literally Venti saying "we meet again" to the traveler, we got to know that 2 years ago. They just added the tree as an explanation for it in sumeru, which to me wasn’t enough new info. Lumine being in Teyvat before us and our journey being a loop that we have forgotten is as obvious as Paimon being sketchy.

No. 330782

>>330626
English names sound exotic without needing to be fancy to non-English speakers. Good example is Terra in Final Fantasy 6 being called Tina in Japan because they thought it made her sound cool and different, but they changed it to Terra in English to keep the same unique vibe. Once you see it, you won't unsee it, characters called Alice and Steve next to Shining Hero and Evil Killman.

No. 330783

>>330572
Nta but thanks for reminding me about how important Irminsul is. I never thought too hard about twin theories cause I'm just waiting on the story to unfold, but your explanation is an interesting thought. It'd make since if the twin died imo, it'd explain the feeling of hopelessness they give off.

No. 330828

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>>330572
>>330653
God I hope this time travel plot is not what the writers go with. Superfluous time travel always makes a plot 1000% worse. The writers always fail to think things through and create endless contradictions and everything falls apart with the least bit of scrutiny.
What I immediately thought is that the Traveler's sibling died/was killed and the one we see is a clone made by Rhinedottir. We already know Albedo is made up of the same substance as the Traveler, hinting that he was only able to be made because of the Traveler somehow. We also know that Rhinedottir made a lot more than just Albedo (Durin, Elynas, Dorian, the Riftwolves). If the "sibling" is a clone it would make sense why they're recorded in Irminsul, they were made in Khaenri'ah. It would also make them being the Prince/Princess of Khaenri'ah make sense if they were a symbol of Khaenri'ah's greatest fuck you to the gods, creating life itself.
It's probably a retarded thought too but god I just can't stand time travel plots.

No. 330832

>>330828
IMO, time loop isn't the same as time traveling though. Taking into regard Scaramouche's old statement of "the sky being fake" I would guess that the current events in Teyvat are happening inside a simulation and the abyss twin is looking for a way to end it in order to escape, and maybe that's also what the Tsaritsa is attempting to do seeing how the Fatui made the Sumeru Academiya conduct that controlled Samsara experiment. As for the possible reason as to why the sibling has been recorded in Irminsul, there have been speculations how when a person dies in Teyvat they get absorbed into Irminsul before being reborn (like what happened to Rukkhadevata), which would indicate towards the sibling dying in the past.

>>330782
>Evil Killman
kek

No. 330917

>>330828
Don't forget the tidbits where Gold pulled souls out of the Abyss and slapped them into her creations. It's possible the sibling died but got their soul plopped into a clone.

No. 330968

>>330782
True. I guess I should have expected this from the company that named their male power fantasy character Keven.

No. 331081

>>327431
I just finished the event. It ended so awkwardly. I thought there would be at least a grand ending to the poem event like maybe Venti and Hu Tao giving an ending/goodbye poem but we got nothing. I sorta don't mind the mini npc love story line because they did set up the story a long time ago. The only part I find truly enjoyable is the Traveler and Xiao interaction.

On another note, does any know when Lyney banner reruns again? I missed out in getting him on his first banner. Forever sad I didn't get him on his first run.

No. 331158

>>331081
Probably not again for several months, anon. Maybe February at the earliest but I'd guess March or April to be more likely. If Arlecchino is a pyro support he'll likely rerun with her.

No. 331346

>>331081
Just saw a leak saying 4.6 but I'm not sure who's reliable and who's not in leaks. I was guessing .5 or .6 anyway, he'll be the first Fontaine to rerun since he was the only new 5* in .0.

No. 331364

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They finally sent out the welkin and mora rewards from that Memories: Teyvat event on Hoyolab a few weeks back. Check your in-game mailboxes. Can't believe I actually won something for once.

No. 331368

So now we're getting Furina, Navia, Clorinde, Cloud Retainer, Sigewinne (leaks are saying she's a limited 5*) and Arlecchino. 6 limited female banners consecutively. I know we just had a long run of Sumeru boys and Baizhu, Lyney, Neuvillette and Wriothesley but why are they alternating like this? Wouldn't it be smarter to even the gender ratio out?

No. 331370

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>>331368
They're doing it to force waifu collectors to whale if they want them all. Seems it worked well enough with the husbando collectors for them to be going this path but now for waifus.
Also Sigewinne isn't confirmed, the guy who leaked that has a history of faking leaks in his streams to stop people from taking credit for his leaks.
As for a credible leak, we have concept art for a new area releasing in 4.6. So we're getting expansions in 4.2, 4.4, and 4.6.

No. 331423

I wish Faruzan's kit was given to a male unit. Same with Nashitda

No. 331425

>>330917
>Don't forget the tidbits where Gold pulled souls out of the Abyss and slapped them into her creations.

Gold sounds terrifying and I've had bad vibes about her since that one Albedo event with her "failed" creations.
>>331370
I'm so ashamed. I might actually whale for Wrio.

No. 331604

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>>331423
Real. I know moids would seethe if Murata, whatever Furina is, and Bronya were turned into manly ass dudes, but little boys are as dimorphic as adult men, so they lost nothing by genderbending Theresa. What does the game have against little boys anyway?

No. 331610

>>330217
Tao and Xiao seem pretty normal though

No. 331655

I didnt get Kazuha’s birthday mail, was I supposed to log on during his birthday to receive it? I thought they send it regardless

No. 331657

>>331655
yes, you have to login. I havent gotten a birthday letter since last year because I never bother to login anymore lol.

No. 331668

>>331657
Fucking hell… I logged in for the green goblin’s birthday but I was so busy on Kazuha’s birthday. This is the worst.

No. 331681

>>331604
They're lazy and don't want to make a young male model. They've shot themselves in the foot though, they have to have it ready for Pulcinella. Still two years away but the clock's ticking, Hoyoverse.
>b-but grandpa won't be playable-
He's in the Travail trailer, it's almost guaranteed he'll be playable.

No. 331682

>>331668
If you log in and immediately log out you will still have the mail when you log in next. If you claim the mail you'll have it forever in the heart mail icon. If you know it's someone's birthday you could log in and out real quick next time.
>>331681
>it's almost guaranteed he'll be playable
Is it? Who's gonna pull for him? By then meta will be even more saturated so I don't think he'll be desirable even with a meta kit.

No. 331686

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>>331425
It’s what Fontaine’s story line is hinting too with jakob, caterpillar etc. I think it’s just hints leading up to Arlecchino’s backstory reveal.

No. 331690

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>>331682
I would. I genuinely think his design is neat and badass grandpa isn't a character type we have yet (actual grandpa, not Zhongli). Even better if he's a support that can remove the need for one of the generic waifus on a team.

No. 331711

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>>331690
I would seethe so hard if they made an ugly ass gnome playable cause you know they wouldn’t make an ugly female character. Husbando pullers getting one less husbando because of this deformed grandpa

No. 331719

>>331711
I mean Nahida is essentially an ugly little green gnome. Especially compared to Rukkhadevata, who has a very elegant design.

No. 331731

>>331364
Omg i also won a welkin! I'm so glad, i posted a comment but did not excpect to actually win something. Im happy that they gave the rewards to random comments, because my comment was like only 2 sentences kek

>>331719
I think Nahida is cute, she's not comparable to the deformed grandpa. I agree with the other anon. I don't want any ugly male characters unless we get an ugly female one.

No. 331734

>>331719
there are millions more pedophiles than ugly grandpa fuckers. may he never be playable so we won't have to see coomer memes about him being the only small male surrounded by a dozen lolis.

No. 331752

>>331719
Nashitda was carefully designed for her intended subhuman audience from her personality to her bare feet and meta kit. But even grandpa/midget fuckers have standards that arent just any old ugly gnome, so thats not really an accurate comparison

No. 331760

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>>331734
>coomer memes about him being the only small male surrounded by a dozen lolis
Fuck anon, this will totally happen if he gets an in-game design that looks like his 2D art. Nightmare fuel

No. 331814

Finished the quest with Caterpillar today and went wiki diving, damn so much stuff I missed.
Like I didn't even notice Arle's hands are black, just thought she was wearing gloves…
Also that she only 'recently' took over the House of the Hearth from the more 'evil' previous Knave.
And Freminet's depressing backstory.
Also all the stuff with Lyris, Rene and the Master that people seem to have theory-ed together and I wonder if it will be spelled out concretely at some point in a future world quest.
And then I see a reddit discussion and people don't bother saying if a spoiler is in game content or from a leak, really hate that.
leak? if Mary-Ann is somehow that little girl Fatui…

No. 331820

Also at the end of that Caterpillar quest a reference to both Babe and apparently a Borges short story, oh the worldliness.

No. 331860

>>331711
>>331734
This, I will never agree with the weird ass people demanding Pulcinella to be playable. I would be fine with an old man character if they made him at least normal looking, not an ugly gnome like him. Unless waifufags are hit with an equally hideous female character then I'm not having it, releasing this goblin as a playable character into the male character roster would feel like an insult.

No. 331993

>>331711
>>331860
Do you nonas only pull for characters based on how fuckable they are?

No. 332009

>>331993
Do you pull for ugly cringe goblins?

No. 332018

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>>331993
Yes. Why else would you spend money on a character

No. 332020

>>332018
Imagine actually whaling for characters.

No. 332021

>>331993
Come back when there's an ugly female gnome made playable in the game and we'll talk then

No. 332022

>>331993
Yes? That's the point of Gacha games

No. 332024

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No. 332025

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>she thinks we would still be playing without the cute anime boys

No. 332027

This is just sad to see.

No. 332028

>>332025
>she
I envy your optimism nonny

No. 332032

>>332028
I'm not a scrote.

No. 332042

>>331993
Yes? retard

No. 332043

>>331993
For me, no it's not the only metric, but it is a baseline requirement that they at least be cute or sexy. I want to like how the characters on my screen look. I wish for characters of all body types, male or female. They also need to be either fun to play or enhance the playstyle of one of my favorites.
For the vast majority of gacha players, it is expected that the characters you are able to obtain will be pleasant on the eyes in one way or another.

No. 332301

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Well the trailer got leaked and we can see Skirk. She looks like a Honkai character, so dissapointing.

No. 332302

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>>332301
As a reminder this was her leaked concept art

No. 332305

>>332302
They couldn't even go for middle left? Who's the one making these shitty decisions, she looks so generic in that image. Basically just Eula with long hair

No. 332307

>>332301
What the fuck am I even looking at. Is she naked? What a waste of these pretty decent character designs >>332302

No. 332313

>>332301
Star Rail Seele and Jingliu lovechild, ugliest design ever. It looks like she's wearing the least clothes out of all female characters in Genshin so far

No. 332318

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>>332301
Been waiting since 1.1 for this shit. I know it's so retarded of me but I was imagining her like picrel. This happened with another character before, I can't take even Childe seriously now that I know his ass got taught fighting by a naked woman with the arm thickness of a toothpick. I wasn't expecting a buff woman model but at least the clothes could be used to give the weathered fighter vibe. I was hoping she would be an npc with a unique model just so she could be older too.

No. 332340

>>332318
That's hoping for too much nona, there was just no way they'd do this. Have you played Limbus Company? Just curious, your pic rel made me think of Outis even though she's not as old

No. 332341

>>332301
>>332302
pls say sike or that they at least have time to change things up, it would be cool to have her as a badass older woman, but I would be fine with a black rock shooter princess type of design too, the leak just looks like ai-generated honkai shit

No. 332342

>>332340
Sigh, I know nonna I know. Got my hopes high for nothing. I wasn't even expecting her to show up in game till leaks happened and Childe came back with his abyss lore. I'd rather not see her at all than have her image ruined in my mind to be honest. And nope, this is from Arknights instead. Do you recommend it nonnie? Is there good story with few coomerish designs?

No. 332348

>>332342
I hope some fanartists out there will share your vision and make lots of good art of her, hoyoverse designers just couldn't make a woman past thirty even if they wanted to… Oh my god, I've never played a gacha with such good writing and so little coom. But you should know that they fired a female artist over mildly feminist tweets which were dug up by seething incels who were mad about the summer event having no tits-out coombait ID. I deinstalled the same day they announced it and still can't understand why they decided to act that way. I miss it so much, maybe I'll pick up Arknights just to see older women in games again even if they are just NPCs

No. 332353

>>332301
She looks like dogshit

No. 332357

They consistently go with the worst version holy fuck

No. 332361

>>332357
they have to, it's the only way to keep the aesthetic consistent kek

No. 332373

>>332361
She doesn't even look like a genshin character tho, they really fucked her up

No. 332379

>>332361
>only way to keep the aesthetic consistent
Any of those concept art designs would have looked fine and consistent with the rest of the roster of Genshin. A lot of them were reminiscent of Fischl except more creepy-themed. What we got is jarring compared to the rest of the cast. She really does look like a rejected Honkai design rather than a Genshin character.

No. 332381

>>332301
Looks like my expectations for the other witches is now in hell. I hate the underboob so fucking much.

No. 332437

>>332301
What the fuck? This is just Jingliu. It's literally a redrawn Honkai character. They even share the same character writing being a warrior mentor. This isn't even an expy anymore, it's just the same fucking character. Embarrassing. They went with the most unimaginative boring design, if they really had to have Skirk look like a young pretty girl the leftmost one in this >>332302 would've been the best option for someone who dwells in the Abyss. Fuck Mihoyo, what an enormous disappointment. They should keep the AI-generated garbage in Star Rail where it belongs.

>>332318
>I can't take even Childe seriously now that I know his ass got taught fighting by a naked woman with the arm thickness of a toothpick.
This, holy shit. What are you doing, Childe. I didn't expect Skirk to be an old lady because Mihoyo would rather explode than include a female character over 25 but I did expect her to look like a warrior that lived in a dark realm.

No. 332448

>>332381
This is a naked boob at this point tbh

No. 332461

>>332381
>>332448
the image quality is shit, so the lower half of her bikini or whatever is almost the same color as background, so technically it is a sideboob. not that it makes matters any better

No. 332463

>>332461
>>332448
I don't get how China censorship allowed this when they had to even make Amber's shorts longer?

No. 332473

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>>332301
>https://twitter.com/Genshin_7/status/1720414468809920595
It's official. How disappointing. There's a reason I don't play Honkai and it's primarily because I hate the "aesthetic".

No. 332477


No. 332478

>>332473
I hate Honkai's aesthetic so much, the futuristic scifi princess look with coomer overtones is such an overplayed otaku scrote style I can't stomach it. Everyone has the same exact armpit-less dress vacuumed into their skin with thigh-high socks and weird holes in their clothing everywhere. And Skirk is exactly that.

No. 332483

>>332473
They really used my favorite female seiyuu on this ugly mug… my disappointment cant even be measured in words

No. 332498

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>>332477
Thanks nona!

No. 332502

>>332483
I was disappointed when my favourite seiyuu voiced token waifu Ayaka only to realise I was lucky she got one of the few non coomer female characters genshin would ever release after 2.0
>>332477
Thanks nonna! I didn't even realise they had the livestream kek

No. 332507

>>332483
You know she’s going to be playable. She’s got the token hair split.
>>332302
They had one chance to give us a otherworldly design and failed us again.

No. 332510

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>>332301
Holy fucking shit who the fuck is this disgusting tranny mihoyo I fucking hate you so much
Who the fuck is this bitch?
Just the mere idea of this retarded slut pixelating on the same servers as genshin irritates me to no end. The honkai-fication of the game begins in line with more lore reveals. And it sucks because the lore is the only thing i really love about this game
Sorry for the autistic meltdown anons

No. 332513

>>332510
>Sorry for the autistic meltdown anons
No, bless you for putting my feelings into words. I seriously can't believe that the elusive character who's been teased since the beginning for mentoring Childe when he fell into the abyss and described as a fighting god is a dainty Honkai bitch. Absolutely robbed.

No. 332605

her name doesn't even fit her look! It's like they gave us an idea of a toughened female mentor to keep us hooked all these years just to drop this bitch last minute. It was always about the honkai aesthetic coom…

No. 332666

>>332605
Honestly this is why I want Varka to be a skinny twink and not a male power fantasy. If we can't have one at least a bit strong looking woman that doesn't have toothpicks for arms, they don't deserve a muscle-beast.

No. 332691

>>332477
>17 hours ago
For a game so casual their codes surely expire way too fast.
Fuck mihoyo, such a bunch of greedy faggots.

No. 332718

>>332666
Based nona

No. 332745

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>>332302
Youre telling me we could have gotton this but didnt?
Men never fall to baffle me with their retarded tastes

No. 332775

>>332691
It's just the livestream ones, they're supposed to be for the people watching

No. 332779

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>>332437
>This is just Jingliu
I don't see the resemblance personally. However, she does look an awful like another honkai character, Benares.

No. 332784

>>332779
what is it with mihoyo and putting honkai character re-designs in genshin impact

No. 332786

>>332784
Yeah, what's the point of having artists make interesting concepts only to go for a honkai copy instead

No. 332789

>>332779
I hate Honkai designs so much. Look at this insipid coomshit. What kind of a person unironically likes this? Other than 14-year old boys maybe?

No. 332814

>>332779
>that naked belly, bare legs, pointing at pussy tattoo (?)
Oh no no no no no. And when I thought it couldnt get any worse

No. 332827

>>332779
How can a company that rakes in millions every month be so creatively bankrupt

No. 332831

>>332786
This is what's genuinely upsetting about it, the megaleaks showed that they have a lot of interesting concepts included in the pipeline for the girls but for some reason someone just comes and picks the most milquetoast, generic one that still manages to be offensively butt ugly despite being so lackluster. The Clorinde design they ended up on for example was absolutely the worst of them all, Skirk just follows suite.

No. 332863

>>332302
I just checked in, what's First Hassan doing on the top left there?

No. 332907

>>332863
design inspiration probably

No. 332919

>>332863
They are leaked concept art sheets so they have all sorts of references and inspo pics on them.

No. 332920

>>332779
Shit like this is REALLY meaking me want to stop playing this game

No. 332921

File: 1699179639434.jpeg (1.05 MB, 1356x1402, IMG_2571.jpeg)

This part just looks ridiculous

No. 332997

>>332342
Limbus is just OK, it suffers from a lot of content drought. Most farmer players left the game after the whole fiasco where they fired a female artist on rather baseless allegations of being a feminist just because angry incels hedged a misinformation campaign against her and protested at the office.

No. 333308

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Yeah if anyone had told me Skirk was gonna be this naked years ago I wouldn't even have played the game kek

No. 333315

>>333308
Hideous. She looks like a 10-year old with huge tits. This is who mentored Childe and lives in the abyss?

No. 333358

>>333315
>This is who mentored Childe and lives in the abyss?
This makes me so fucking disappointed, I started playing Genshin for Childe and was so hyped to one day see his badass mentor. Now I dread the gross coomer ship fanart I'll see of them.

No. 333359

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No. 333360

New info about Skirk: she doesn't seems to be important in the grander scheme of things at all. She has a male master/mentor herself and her relationship with him is pretty much 98% of her personality:
https://ambr.top/en/archive/quest/1405/masquerade-of-the-guilty?chapter=5

No. 333361

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No. 333362

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No. 333363

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No. 333364

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>>333361
Honkai character again. Mihoyo is creatively bankrupt

No. 333366

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>>333363
They changed her design? Or is it another one of those "alternate outfits" like Jean and Amber had?

No. 333367

>>333366
she switches her color scheme with her charge attack stance change

No. 333368

>>333367
She loses her long hair too??

No. 333369

>>333368
yeah, she has her long hair and white colors in healer mode and short hair dark colors in attack mode

No. 333370

>>333366
>>333368
Nonnies it's not hard to do a Google search or even read the last thread

No. 333371

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>>333359
Navia is so beautiful. Wonder if she'll end up using that umbrella to shoot something.
>>333360
>She has a male master/mentor herself and her relationship with him is pretty much 98% of her personality:
Seriously? This is the best they could come up with? Isn't she supposed to be based off mythical Scáthach? Between Arlecchino seeming to get the shaft for doing anything notable the archon quest despite being Harbinger rank #4 and Skirk being written like that, that's a pretty big let down for me.

No. 333372

>>333360
He better be an anemo-sized cutie seeing as hyv doesn’t like to use logic or reason for characters

No. 333378

>>323621
>>333371
>>333360
So the waifu character is actually completely irrelevant? Kinda based

No. 333379

>>333364
They both have purple hair, i dont see how they are the same character. Unless they got the same outfit but like 90% of female characters in there games have detached sleeves, tiny short, thigh highs and an openback. So im not sure if that counts either.

No. 333380

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>>333378
For once that makes me sad. We have a handful of characters like Gold, Alice, Skirk that we have heard about since the very start of the game. For such a big character to be watered down into being a nobody, it makes the story so unimpactful. At this point we only have Dain that has been hyped up since the start and actually seems to live up to his hype in the story each year.

No. 333381

>>333360
Holy fucking shit, some lore-bombs in that link

So the gnosises are the remains of the third descender? The guy after the primordial one and the second who came.

No. 333394

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Don’t know if anyone posted this yet but here are the 4.2 banners

First half:
Furina, Beidou, Collei, Charlotte
Baizhu Beidou Collei, Charlotte

Second half:
Cyno
Ayato
Leaks say: Xiangling, Kirara, Kuki

No. 333406

>>333360
Wait, what? What does that make Alice? The Fifth Descender? I mean I guess it kind of makes sense, she came after the Traveler, but still. Watch there have been a bunch of different Descenders now and being one not being all that special.

No. 333413

>>333361
Pom-pom looking ass
>>333363
I like her overall design, but those shorts look super uncomfortable

No. 333414

>>333372
First little playable boy hopium

No. 333415

>>333406
There are only four descenders, anon. Alice is just a meme character

No. 333421

>>333415
You're not wrong and I'm kind of half-expecting a non-answer now that Skirk's been such a letdown but lorewise that's not an acceptable answer. Especially given Alice is supposed to be a hyperpowerful witch in the Hexenzirkel and one of Rhinedottir's friends.

No. 333948

Always forgetting it's update day, now it's gonna take 5 hours to redownload the game and I forgot to do dailys.

No. 334031

File: 1699442207277.png (657.2 KB, 551x552, public-bidet.png)

has anyone finished the new quest yet? does wrio appear in it?
i got furina as i wasn't able to get wriothesley, she's pretty fun to play and i like her design, just wish she wore pants or ouji shorts instead of booty shorts

random unrelated question: what was your first screenshot of the game? i just found out that my screenshot folder wasn't gone after having deleted the game a bunch of times, and apparently this was the first picture i took when i downloaded it in 2020 lol

No. 334035

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>>334031
This is my oldest screenshot kek

No. 334053

>>334031
>Wrio
He shows up a bit at the beginning and a bit at the end.

Wasn't intending to but I just blitzed the whole thing, mixed feelings.
I really like Neuvi but once again a character with too much responsibility to be a husbando. Can we get a cool tall male bounty hunter or member of the Adventurer's Guild or something. Someone who could conceivably come along on the MC's adventures.
And then they give Furina a tragic? backstory, but it's too late, she will always be an annoying brat to me.
And Skirk… It's not her design that makes her annoying to me, but it is funny that I'm pretty sure she's the short female model. Have we ever heard about her master before? And those other names she mentioned that weren't Gold?
And annoying that they just bring up Childe's backstory like you should know it even though it only comes up in game if you rolled for him and leveled up his bond to get the story.
Don't really know what to think about all the reveals about the real Focalors and the people of Fontaine's true origin's and how easily everything seemed to wrap up at the end.
Salty that they killed off Navia's assistant's and I feel like part of it is just so the only one she has left is Chlorinde to push that ship…

I guess it was a little boring, but not terrible?
When is Natlan probably then, Spring?

No. 334055

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I'm disappointed Arlecchino didn't do much on screen. It makes sense that most of her involvement was her help off screen since she was never really portrayed as an enemy in this region but now that we're done with the story I feel like all my excitement for her since the Winter Night video was for nothing? She just showed she cares about Fontaine, what about her goals as a Harbinger? Is she even going to be playable during Fontaine? Involving the Fatui too much would complicate things unnecessarily but I wish we got to see her more since her eventual personal story won't be about her. I was already guessing the main story would end in this update and I think they did really well with Furina's backstory (didn't play her character story yet) but dropping info that there are beings residing in Teyvat that can keep a galactic whale that terrorized a nation as a pet and not explaining anything felt so abrupt. It's not even similar to the dragon pets we saw before, this one is from out of Teyvat and all. Then there's Skirk who's been training all her life…. to fight what? More than anything I don't want this to be connected to fucking Honkai bubble universe bullshit. Guess we'll see in the next Dain quest.

No. 334056

>>334055
Forgot to add… They scammed me into playing the 4.1 and 4.2 updates the first day by keeping Childe captive. We didn't even talk to him again after seeing that he was really straining himself in his Foul Legacy form. Skirk just threw him into a void. Bruh.

No. 334091

Charlotte is absolutely hilarious as a character. The attacks with a camera are fucking funny, I almost want to pull her for that

No. 334120

>>334031
>the filename
kek

No. 334136

>>334055
Yeah Dottore was very much tied to the Sumeru lore and a notable actor in the entire Archon quest line being the major antagonist, but Arlecchino just kind of was there doing things offscreen for the entire story. I didn't really care about Arlecchino and she has the design of an NPC so it doesn't bother me personally but I get how people would be disappointed.

If that bubble universe shit happens in Genshin I will go berserk I don't want that shit.

No. 334149

Navia’s design is so cute. I skip all waifu banners but she’s the only one to ever tempt me to roll, I think its because I have a weakness for drill hairstyle. Its nostalgic.

No. 334184

I'm going to Genshin's orchestra concert on Saturday in Seoul, would any nonnies be interested in pictures of the venue? There will also be a pop-up store and later on a cafe too (Faruzan was on the promotion)

No. 334186

Archon quest spoilers: I liked it. The biggest lore bomb for me was finding out that the gnosis are related to the third descender and their death, what do you nonnies think that means?

>>334149
I love her too! For the first time I actually want to roll for a female character, her design is so cute.

No. 334278

Navia's animations are so cool and her hair animation is so pretty. Too bad about her wearing those millennial meme shades. Nothing “funny” about it like they intended. Literally makes me not want to pull for her, way too cringey.

No. 334296

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Once again the summer event proved to be about the Archon quest.

No. 334301

I actually loved Furina at first but in the archon quest they fucking woobified her fuck off mihoyo then I found out she's the new "she's literally me" character for transbians, why must every interesting female character be appropriated like this. It also made me realize how many of the "lesbians" in the Genshin fandom who are obsessed with the female characters and harbor visceral autistic hatred for husbando characters are actually trannies but I shouldn't be that surprised tbh.

No. 334305

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>>334301
too bad troons relate to her. I think Furina is cute but I wish she grew up and matured a bit. I think it would be cool if she took up theatre and put together a troupe.

No. 334315

>>334301
>>334305
I'll never understand the troon delusion. How can they relate to Furina? Being small and annoying? Being cute and kinda a tard? I don't get it.

No. 334316

>>334278
What were they thinking… Her outfit and weapon are so cute, where do the shades come from? Just as random as Ayato's annoying boba slurping

No. 334317

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>>334184
yes I'd love to see some pictures of the venue! also if there's any new alhaitham merch or art in the pop-up store, if you don't mind. hope you have fun and enjoy the concert. i've seen some videos from other venues and it looks like a lovely time.
>>334315
trannies love characters they can pretend are as useless and retarded as they are. "oh she's unemployed, eats macaroni all week and floods her apartment, she's just like me frfr!!! she's flat as a board just like me! girlfailure!" ignoring the fact that they look nothing like an anime girl does and that they'd never have the mental fortitude and social skills necessary to pull off what she did for 500 years.
>>334316
she has shades like melus and silver do. i like them and they made me laugh, even if they're kind of cringe.

No. 334325

>>334317
>shades like melus and silver
Oh my god, that makes sense! I forget about NPCs as soon as they leave the screen kek that's actually sort of cute

No. 334331

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>>334301
She has always been a woobie ever since 4.0

No. 334335

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>>334315
It’s because Focalors kills herself

No. 334336

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>>334301
God I'm never going back to twitter if I have to see trannies pretend to relate to female characters. If anything, Furina's story relates to gender for being similar to how women have to act like a personality that will sit right with what's expected of our position/womanhood to get everyone's approval and constantly be overwhelmed by other people's opinions on us because their opinions and words will have crucial effects on our lives unlike men who get forgiven no matter what they do even in front of the law. Her begging people to remember how much she does for them and how they loved and were entertained by her just moments ago feels like women begging for people to be sensible while they try to ruin women's lives and careers over the smallest mistakes or even misunderstandings. I don't actually think it's a commentary on sexism or anything but if it has to relate to gender, it would've been this instead of whatever trannies think they see in her.

No. 334338

>>334336
Making her prove she’s a god by having her touch the primordial water made me think of witch trials.

No. 334339


No. 334341

>>334336
Troons don't consider those things because they're not women and don't know about the things we experience and thus can't relate or understand them or allusions to them, they just see funny cute anime girl being overly emotional and annoying furina is totally a transfem princess!!! and that's where they leave it at.

No. 334350

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>>334301
>>334315
Men see small cute woman and want to be her, what else is new. They see her being a "girlfailure" as if pretending to be god for 500 years is anything but a losing game and think they too should be allowed to eat macaroni and cake all day and contribute nothing to society.
I think it's unintentional too but >>334336 is some pretty good analysis. But troons are incapable of analysis because everything has to be about them and their egos.
tl;dr never listen to troons and ignore them, they feed off of attention and starving them of it is the best way to make them mad.

No. 334516

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I don't play Genshin but are there really any "implied" ships in the game? Lately, I see a lot of shipperfags claim that Focallette/Neuvifuri is canon. Can any lorenerd tell me if this is true, and if yes then what are the other almost canon ships?

No. 334517

>>334516
This is bait, nonnies don't reply

No. 334519

>>334516
In case this isn't bait, no Neuvilette/Furina isn't really even implied.
I'd say the most implied ships are Beidou/Ningguang, Alhaitham/Kaveh and maybe Raiden/Yae. But it's all very vague, the actual shipping is done by the fandom in fics and fanart. No canon pairs or ships in genshin unless it's some npc with another npc.
Not sure why you'd need to know if you don't even play genshin.

No. 334520

>>334519
>Not sure why you'd need to know if you don't even play genshin.
Because it's bait. Literally attempting to bait people into infighting by asking "what are the most canon ships in Genshin please tell me I have no idea!!". Don't engage.

No. 334521

>>334516
There are no canon ships, this is a martketing strategy because players self insert as the mc and they dont want to have there waifu/husbando be in a relationship with anyone else.

Like >>334519 said, I believe the most they have implied was the flirting with Beidou and Ningguang during the lantern rite event.

>>334520
I don't think it's bait, if you are not a twitterfag and infight about ships a question like this is not big deal.

No. 334530

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>>334519
>>334521
Thank nonas, that makes sense. I too had the impression that there cannot be any canon ships with playable characters as that would anger self-inserters. I occasionally lurk on /gig/ and twitter and I was seeing many posts claiming them to be canon, so I had been thinking if there's any truth to it. I am not much into shipping so I really didn't post that in hopes that it will start an infight.

No. 334531

>>334530
No worries I think anon was afraid of an infight starting because there has been a local sperg posting about Neuvilette and Furina before.

No. 334539

>>334316
Yeah it totally breaks the immersion and just looks fucking weird

No. 334594

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>>334516
>>334530
As anons said, only Beidou and Ningguang and maybe Kaveh and Alhaitham and even then there has to be plausible deniability because anti-gay laws in China. There's flirtatious interactions between some characters but nothing confirming they're official couples or anything and almost every character flirts with the Traveler too to appeal to self-inserters.

No. 334655

>>334531
uhh i think im the sperg in question but i swear i dont care about them that much to fight about it

No. 334823

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I’ll post what I can during the intermission, this one’s for the Tartaglia wives

No. 334825

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Ganyu looked nice too

No. 334827

>>334823
He looks so beautiful… I'm glad Genshin doesn't forget about their characters just because they were released years ago

No. 334849

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Zhongli and Eula is next

No. 334852

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I’m sorry for the shadow in the front, sadly there was a lot of people infront of her.

>>334317
Sadly no Alhaitham stuff but there’s a pop up store in Gangnam right now, I’ll see if there’s goods there too. Ganyu and Nilou are the promo chars

No. 334870

>>334852
Thank you for posting the pictures, I hope you have fun!
They all look so nice, everytime they use genshin characters with different outfits in promo art I wonder why hoyo doesn't release more skins. I guess it's because they are making so much money releasing new characters, they don't even need to bother with releasing more skins?

No. 334871

>>334870
Long dresses are just surely a pain in the ass to put in the game because pantyshots are a must. But they have literally no excuses when it comes to the boys since the alt outfits they all wear in promo art tend to be quite easy to adapt to their models.

No. 334873

>>334870
To be honest I don't know if I even want my faves in ugly blue fits that will cost 20$

No. 334904

>>334849
Cute!!

No. 334930

>>334870
Most gacha games have multiple new outfits every update. It's harder to implement skins in Genshin but I believe they could dedicate some part of their design and 3d teams to put out a skin every patch or 2 skins every other patch if they want to keep up the 2 on theme thing.
>>334873
You won't get it if you don't like it anyway.

No. 334978

>>334930
I think they're just too lazy to do it. I play Enstars Music which also needs to consider how new character outfits would move in 3D textures/MVs and they casually release them bi-weekly. Mihoyo probably doesn't want to waste resources on skins that only a subsection of people will buy and instead direct their energy towards new characters. To be fair they also have the actual open-world to work on too which my example game doesn't have.

No. 335032

>>334849
mmmmmmmfffgphh

No. 335132

>>334823
Childe and ugly shoes name a more iconic duo

No. 335298

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Nilou from the pop-up Samsung store in Gangnam. Saged because not that interesting but the outfit was cute. Also no Alhaitham goods sorry to the nonnie who asked, however there is Dainsleif merch which I thought was interesting lol

No. 335313

>>335298
I love this outfit. It would be a great base outfit for her. The og is beautiful too but it looks like she's always about to perform (works for the main story) whereas this one is more casual.

No. 335330

>>335298
Show us the Dain merch!

No. 335337

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>>335313
On the topic of skins, it would be nice if they just gave them the same designs they have in promos, honestly the promo designs tend to be loads better than the alternate skins we have now. Imo most of the available skins are kinda ugly/not better than the original maybe except Ayaka and Fischl. If I could have this skin on Yelan or Ning I'd use them more.

No. 335341

>>335337
I would love these too. Their backview being boring would be a problem though.

No. 335344

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Finished the Narcissenkreuz quest.
>All dreams must come to an end
>If you don't act your dreams will never come true
gdi I play this game because I dream and my dreams can never come true in the real world no matter how much I act.
Hate when video games remind me of that shit…

something about this line though

No. 335347

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This was a wierd quest too, still have to finish the follow up hidden thing.
gamer girl Traveler bath water…

No. 335396

>>335344
>saving the world
>alleviate mental illness
Hate when anime games pretend to be philosophical and shit but kek

No. 335549

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I like the takarazuka theatre influence in fountaine. Both furina and arlecchino wear androgynous fashion (FOR GENSHIN STANDARDS don't come at me that they're still feminine-looking). I also noticed that furina's legs are skinnier/more shapeless than the other short girls who tend to look "curvier". She doesn't give much to coomers (besides the tomboy enjoyers), even her chest is ultra-flat and she speaks in a boyish manner. In japanese she sounds like venti. And arlecchino is rather handsome, even if her body underneath the suit is still very curvy with big boobs. I remember some angry chinese moids were claiming she sounds like a drag queen lol. For me at least, she gives the vibes that she's genuinely gay and for a female audience, unlike yae and raiden who pander more to straight male yurifags.

No. 335551

>>335549
I was happy to see no thigh spillage on Furina. She has it in her splash art but as you said, her legs are shapeless/normal in-game

No. 335706

>>335549
She definitely gives yume vibes. I'm not even a shipperfag but this here is some intense bait. And the fact that hoyoverse commissioned it knowing they were feeding the delusion KEK.
I love how Fontaine is just pandering to women, scrotes wanted lyney to be another pornified femboy but he turned out to be another character for the girls.

No. 335711

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>>335549
i noticed that too! it's funny to me because i started playing genshin thinking venti was a cute tomboy lol
i hope to see more female characters like that, and more male characters like wriothesley, unapologetic female gazey

No. 335726

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>>335706
>intense bait
Which one are you

No. 335730

>>335706
As a yume she's too bratty and woobyish to self-insert into and Neuvi deserves better.

Anyway just realized that the weird lines in the investigation notes that made me think Fontain had homunculi was just more references to the abyss and foreshadowing of all Fontaine people actually being Oceanids.
And Lynette and Freminet ended up just traumatized children not actually robots.

No. 335744

>>335726
>that genshin homophobic bi guy
Only a twitterfag can understand this

No. 335746

>>335726
NTA and I don't like the ship either because they have a very familial relationship to me but honestly who cares if women wanna ship them? Furina is the character Neuvillette interacts the most with by far, and Wriothesley felt very shoehorned in as the other half of the regional yaoi ship so it's not really a surprise that Focallette has become a popular ship.
It only disgusts me if there are obvious pedo undertones and Furina is reduced to being a DDLG brat while Neuvillette is her daddy tardwrangler, but Act V showed that she is actually a lot more mature than she came across at first so… Whatever. I really couldn't give less of a fuck if 15 year old girls wanna self insert into Furina to live out their yume fantasies with Neuvillette.

No. 335753

>>335746
Spoilers for Act V Focalors isn't the same character as Furina though, she's responsible, mature and smart, and killed herself in the end. Furina is the "actor" she hired, a woobified brat who thinks and acts like a literal child, and she's the one Neuvillette knows. I can't stop people from shipping them but it's a red flag to me because it gives off severe DDLG vibes.

No. 335756

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>>335753
Have you played her story quest or read her voice lines? Her real personality is a lot more calm and levelheaded than what she acted like when she pretended to be the archon, that's why playing that role was so difficult for her. The "real" Furina is more like Focalors than the bratty ojousama she pretended to be during the archon quests because they are two sides of the same coin. She isn't a hired actress, she is Focalors and Focalors is Furina. If all you got from the many hours we spent learning about Furina is that she's a woobified brat with the mind of a child then you must have pretty bad reading comprehension.

No. 335761

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I cringed hard when I watched how Focalors sounded in English dub. I played in JP and she sounded just a bit more calm than Furina, in EN she sounded like she's trying to be Jessica Rabbit or something kek, hope you get what I mean. I get why EN players think she was flirting with Neuvi when the voice actress tried so hard to sound sultry. Wonder if in CN and KR she also sounds so cringe.

No. 335765

>>335761
I don't think she was trying to sound flirty, she was trying to sound smug because it was her moment of victory and everything went how she planned. But smug women often sound flirtatious so it's no surprise it came off that way.

No. 335778

>>335765
I don't think it was supposed to be smug. It was probably supposed to be 'adult, confident, mysterious' but she did have weird intonation that sounded too sultry and cringe in a lot of sentences.

No. 335779

>>334930
I wish traveler got new skins. Would be nice to not have to look at the same dress/outfit for 5 different regions. Their design/model looks super dated compared to the newer characters.

No. 335798

>>335779
While that would be neat I'm sure they don't do it because barely anyone uses the Traveler (at least before Dendro Traveler was released). Can't make money off of a skin for a barely-used unit.

No. 335807

>>335798
The traveler is present in all the cutscenes though so you do see him/her a lot. I would pay for a cute Aether skin no questions asked.

No. 336000

>>335756
I'm just going to come out and say it, I absolutely despise Mihoyo for woobifying Focalors/Furina beyond repair. I hate what they did so, so much. I wanted her to be a cunning, pompous brat but in the end she got the Ei treatment and suddenly she's a kind, composed waifu deep down who just wanted to protect everyone and sacrificed herself for centuries boo hoo don't you feel bad for the little blorbo shame on you for thinking she was just being mean. It came out of nowhere during the last act while Furina had barely been present for the entire storyline doing nothing while Neuvillette was the actual hero of the archon quest for its entire length. I wanted one fucking female character that was a bitch born out of a trash fire but in a way that's interesting, got hyped for Furina, had Mihoyo shit in my face, ruin everything in just one act. The self-sacrificing storyline was done so well with Nahida/Rukkhadevata, it's like some writer at Mihoyo saw that and wanted to copy it but remove everything that made her complex, intelligent and humane. It's seriously no wonder so many emotionally unstable young women self insert into her so much, she's framed as a troubled quirky girl sitting around eating cake and crying but achsually she's a super powerful god who saved an entire nation offscreen. I'm so fucking mad because the most interesting parts of the archon quest turned out to be Childe's connections to Skirk and her master, Gold, the dragon sovereigns and Egeria's sin yet they were barely touched upon just so we could feel bad for a character that appeared at the last minute to drop the most generic, forced tearjerker cutscene that made me feel NOTHING. Just like in Inazuma, Fontaine's world quests have a way better payoff than the archon quest.

Phew, got that autism out of my system. Thank god.

No. 336002

>>336000
You still kinda see that bratty part of her in the story quest. I mean I get she was playing a character but I also wish it was part of her personality too. I cried during Nahida’s quest with the self sacrificing mushrooms.

No. 336004

>>336002
Nahida joined the traveler early on to save her people who had completely forsaken her, she was authentic, pushed her limits and her story was opened up little by little during Sumeru's archon quest instead of being dumped on the player at literally the last second. She was likable but didn't kiss the traveler's ass, she came up with the samsara technique to take down Scaramouche and showed mercy to him only to keep him under her thumb simply because he was useful to her. She gambled away the gnosis for exchange of information because she had true curiosity for the world making it clear that she kept her own head despite being burdened by the legacy of her previous incarnation. Ei was a literal retard in every possible way and got ultra woobified in the end for no fucking reason besides waifufagging so Nahida was a huge improvement after her, only for me to be let down by everything repeating with Furina. I can't fucking believe they gave us a girl that actually felt interesting and flawed only to do the "just kidding, she was only playing a character!" rug pull, I'm convinced that the rumors about Fontaine's story being written by that scrote talking shit about female players are true.

No. 336054

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>>336004
Furina is literally just a human, and she wasn't even aware of the entirety of Foçalor's plan, so the only thing that she knew was that she had a burden of knowledge that that plan would fail if she ever let even one person in Teyvat know that she's not a real archon, despite everything she did her best to suppress her more humane side which is obvious even from the first court hearing with Lyney, so I don't know why you think that that came out of nowhere. She wasn't an archon but she still did everything for her people only to be discarded by them and not even being in epilogue, how tf is this comparable to Ei who was just sitting in her shitty doll for hundreds of years and let corrupt commissions do whatever with her country and people as long as it didn't mess with "eternity" which she herself confessed she didn't know shit about. Look, I understand that hoyoverse's writing for female characters is fucked, but the latest regions are actually improving on this and if they manage to make Tsaritsa a sleepy hardworking waifu somehow I will personally send them a pipe bomb. We still have Natlan in the future with a literal goddess of war, so maybe she will satisfy your want for psycho female characters (I don't judge, I am personally very satisfied with Arlecchino)

No. 336055

>>336054
Please spoiler these things nonas!

No. 336611

Randomly found a Bloatie Floatie on the edge of the Liyue map today that I'd missed for ~3 years…
Has it really been that long already.

No. 336844

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She is so girlfriend, anons

I love her so much

No. 336907

Do I meet any new characters in The Chasm main quest or can I just put it off for later? I want to hurry up and move onto Inazuma now, been meandering around Liyue for a while now

No. 336918

>>336907
if you're talking about the one that is in an interlude tome, then you'll have to go through inazuma and some characters' quest to unlock it anyway

No. 336923

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>>336918
This is the one

No. 336938

>>336923
is it a world quest? then yeah you can skip it for now, I'm relatively a newfag, I completed all main plot quests for now just fine and still have uncompleted world quests in inazuma, sumeru and Fontaine. Though for you there will be one Dainsleif quest inside the chasm at one point, so you'll have to at least start this one by then (but you can complete it later).

No. 336942

>>336938
Yep world quest, and thanks I dipped out of those mines real quick. I kinda hate seeing world quests stack up on the side as I progress onto other cities but oh well

No. 336952

>>336923
Skip the world quest. Do Inazuma. Then Chasm interlude story quest and world quest. It’s better to explore the area through a world quest when the game actually asks you to go there (the interlude/archon story quests) cause it will make more sense narratively

No. 337123

Nonnies are there any more husbando banners leaked for the next few patches or am I finally free to save?

No. 337134

>>337123
Only possibly Lion Boy as a 4* in patch 4.4. Otherwise we're husbando free until at least patch 4.7.

No. 337135

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>>337123
No 5 star husbando banners. Save for the reruns coming in 2024!

No. 337211

Now we only have Navia, Clorinde and Arlecchino left from the main line up!
To get the thread going again for funsies:

>Out of the current Fontaine characters, who has been your favorite in terms of gameplay?

>Which Fontaine characters have you pulled?
>Are you planning on pulling Navia, Clorinde or Arlecchino?
Personally I'm waiting for Arlecchino and Neuvillette rerun had I known he would be the one who took the “archon”-ish role I would have pulled for him instead of Furina. Navia's burst is so cool though. Currently I have Lyney, Lynette, Fremmy, Charlotte, Furina and Wrio. My favorite gameplay style is surprisingly Lyney! His animations are so fun and flashy for a male character as well as just really smooth. He feels great in the overworld and abyss, where you can comfortably just use his skill and burst to kill a bunch of enemies if charged shots aren't your thing. Great damage too even though theorycrafters like to downplay that. Furina was a bit disappointing to me, I can't find a team where she is better than Xinqiu.

No. 337216

>>337211
ooh questionnaire time!
>Out of the current Fontaine characters, who has been your favorite in terms of gameplay?
I don't really do abyss or care much about meta in general, but I really like the fact that E character skills can be utilised to solve pneuma and ousia puzzles in overworld, idk it's just more satisfying than going to those orbs. The traveler's hydro kit is shit though, even I can tell
>Which Fontaine characters have you pulled?
I'm f2p newfag, so I don't have much: pulled for Lyney - didn't get him, pulled for Neuvilette - got him, didn't pull for Wriotheseley, wanted Venti - lost 50/50 to Mona, currently pulling for Baizhu, I like Furina, but I want to get her on the rerun. Out of 4 stars I got Lynette and Freminet, they are cute
>Are you planning on pulling Navia, Clorinde or Arlecchino?
I pull for everything, because I actually don't care that much. Navia's banner is alongside Ayaka's and tbh I kinda hate Ayaka, so I'll be pulling for Navia. I like Clorinde even though I know that her design could be better, I hope her kit is good. And Arlecchino is simply a wife material for me, I've been daydreaming about her for an embarrassing amount of time to that Pugacheva remix from atomic heart

No. 337217

>>337216
>I don't really do abyss or care much about meta
I get that! I rarely pull with abyss in mind. If you don't think about meta and since you have Neuvillette, Lynette and Fremmy, which character's playstyle did you like the most?
>I've been daydreaming about her for an embarrassing amount of time to that Pugacheva remix from atomic heart
Kek anon that's cute

No. 337219

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>>337211
>Out of the current Fontaine characters, who has been your favorite in terms of gameplay?
Wriothesley. Neuvillette's laser is unique and it's funny seeing enemies just melt in it but Wriothesley feels so satisfying to play. Good animations, good damage, perfect voice acting.
>Which Fontaine characters have you pulled?
Neuvillette, Wriothesley, and Furina.
>Are you planning on pulling Navia, Clorinde or Arlecchino?
Navia on rerun maybe because I like her character, Arlecchino 100%. Hard no on Clorinde. Maybe Cloud Retainer but she'd have to have a broken kit for me to consider it when I already have C6 Kazuha.

No. 337223

>>337217
I guess I like Freminet's playstyle the most, usually I'm not too much into claymore gameplay, because not all of my teams have shielders and dodging with giant ass sword is a challenge, but I use Neuvilette as a hydro applicator and then freeze everyone with Freminet and have a good time seeing him on-field
Thanks for keeping this thread alive, nonnie! There's not so much places on the internet where talking about genshin is actually enjoyable

No. 337226

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Should I build a phys Freminet with prototype archaic or would he be better with cryo reactions? I still regularly use kaeya for freeze/melt but I kinda want to replace him with Fremi in my main overworld team (because I'm really into freminet these days), but I also feel like the slow ass claymore attacks wont harmonize as well as Kaeya does with my xingqiu, benny and lyney

I'm kinda just guessing and talking out of my ass here since I'm still new to building but yeah, not sure what to do

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And another Freminet pic because I was going through my folder and he is just so adorable

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>>337226
I think Freminet's best team is a hyperbloom team or a team with Xinqiu, Electro (Kuki/Fischl), Kazuha or Rosaria/Kaeya or Mika. Keep him cryo, physical is dead in this game kek. Pretty much focus on off-field hydro, electro unit and then either a cryo buffer/off-field cryo/cryo healer.

No. 337365

>Out of the current Fontaine characters, who has been your favorite in terms of gameplay?
Wriothesley. I got lucky and got really good artifacts for him so he kills enemies really fast and I love the punch combos I can do. The last/charge big punch feels good.
>Which Fontaine characters have you pulled?
Neuvi, Wriothesley and all the four stars. I pulled for Baizhu but I'll probably try to get Furina on her rerun because she goes well with Wrio.
>Are you planning on pulling Navia, Clorinde or Arlecchino?
I'm Arlecchino simp so definitely her, I hope she's a support and I can have her in same team as Wrio.
I don't care for Navia's personality because I thought she's really weird with the random macron baking during the conversation (manic pixie girl-ish?) and I really wish she had a different role in the story than a weird mafia boss, her design says something totally different. The sunglasses don't go well with her dress too. I feel like she was designed with something different in mind, like a navy captain or a court lady.
Definitely not pulling for Clorinde, I am a certified Clorinde hater, can't take her seriously with that design.

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>>337365
>I feel like she was designed with something different in mind, like a navy captain or a court lady.
Yeah the navy vibes with Navia are strong, which is why they went with the giant ship in Poisson I guess

Also on a completely unrelated topic, what happened to Childe nonas? Skirk threw him into that Dainsleif power-looking portal with the whale. We don’t see him but Arlecchino and the the two Fatui in Mondstadt say he’s badly hurt and is resting in Shneznaya, but is that really true? Also why is Arlecchino the second strongest harbringer she hasn’t done shit kek. Just seems like a competent and kind lady.

No. 337417

>>337410
>hasn't done shit
It's all backstory lore only stuff.
She apparently killed the previous Knave.
And killed the people who abused Fremi and Lynette.

No. 337425

>>337410
Regarding Arlecchino, it's so, so weird that Childe's voiceline about her described her as having "no sane bone in her body" and she was foreshadowed as the ominous "father" in the Fontaine trailer pushing down those Lynette and Lyney stands making cryptic remarks but in the end she was just a nice lady who helped everyone out offscreen. What the fuck? It's like they missed an entire story chapter, seeing what a mess Dottore and Scaramouche created in Sumeru I was fully expecting her to carry on the tradition. She just showed up, bullied Furina a bit, helped everyone and left. Why is Mihoyo so allergic to morally questionable women?

No. 337513

>>337425
I think it's because they realised people want her playable and tinfoil but they might be wary of making her more edgy like Scaramouche. He ended up being a huge problem with Korean and Chinese people, probably because he's a male character but there's a substantial portion of fandom hating him just because he isn't mild a nice like most other characters. I was really looking forward to playing a villain and she sounds kind of ridiculous in English, her voice actress makes her sound like a cartoon villain while she is just a nice lady now.
I feel like the change was last minute because in the 4.0 trailer she still acted kind of evil.

No. 337539

>>337417
Yeah I know that, Freminet said that. I just mean in the archon story, she is just a "cunning diplomatic mastermind" but other than that it’s a bit underwhelming for the second strongest harbringer.
>>337425
Exactly, I expected her to be unreasonably cruel but she seems very level-headed and morally righteous.
>>337513
The Scara hate is because women found his bad boy attitude cute and formed a huge Scara fandom globally. Dottore doesn’t get that hate by male players (even though he’s crueler than Scara) because Dottore doesn’t have a vocal fangirl fanbase. Scara is still the most liked character on every official Genshin twitter, that ought to bother the male playerbase who insist genshin is a waifu-only game. So Arlecchino could have definitely been portrayed as more cruel, the moids wouldn’t get bothered by that.

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>>337539
>>337425
She isn't the second strongest, she's the 4th in rank. We have only seen her "good" side in the Fontaine archon quest because that's what she wanted to present herself as. Scara told us exactly what she is, a wolf in sheeps clothing. It wouldn't make sense for her to be on bad terms with Traveller already, they're more useful to her if they think she's friendly.
If you think about who she is and what she does for more than 5 seconds you'd realize that she's actually a terrible person. She grooms children into being hyper loyal child soldiers and doesn't mind sacrificing them like pawns when it suits her.
I don't think she's fully evil like Dottore (who's pretty comic book villainous at times, especially his Webtoon variant. Thank God they gave us a different version of him in the actual game), but even her perceived kindness towards the HoH kids doesn't feel fully genuine because of how ready she is to let them get killed. Keep in mind that she has indoctrinated them to the point that Lyney was ready to sacrifice his siblings for her. She didn't save them from their abusive circumstances out of kindness, she took them in because traumatized children are more easily manipulated into being loyal servants for their savior.
And she didn't "bully Furina a bit". She straight up attempted to assassinate her.
Fontaine was all about playing a role, and she played the role of the elegant Fatui ally.

No. 337558

>>337547
>Keep in mind that she has indoctrinated them to the point that Lyney was ready to sacrifice his siblings for her
He had a mental breakdown and lost his composure entirely attacking Wriothesley when Freminet and Lynette were in perceived mortal danger, what do you mean "ready to sacrifice his siblings"?
>she took them in because traumatized children are more easily manipulated into being loyal servants for their savior.
After killing the people who abused them and took the kids under her care. HoH has never been described as "grooming child soldiers", it's just a spy faction for the Fatui, not some boot camp of death because only children who are perceived to have "potential" are chosen to join Fatui ranks anyway. It's just a regular orphanage for the most part.
>And she didn't "bully Furina a bit". She straight up attempted to assassinate her.
No she didn't. She literally said that she was testing her to see if she was the real archon or not, not trying to actually kill her.

Look I know you're in these threads whiteknighting the fuck out of Arlecchino because she's your ultimate waifu but people are justified in being disappointed at how milquetoast she turned out to be despite all the foreshadowing done beforehand. Dottore was a sophisticated supervillain and genuinely intimidating in how ruthless and evil he was, Arlecchino wasn't given that edge because Mihoyo would never make a a female character be threatening. Sure this might be just the first half of her story and she could turn out to be a real psycho but so far I'm not holding my breath since Genshin has woobified (or killed unceremoniously) every potential female villain in the entire game since its launch.

No. 337565

>>337211
>Out of the current Fontaine characters, who has been your favorite in terms of gameplay?
Wrio, but Neuvillette is just too good to not keep using in abyss.
>Which Fontaine characters have you pulled?
All the male characters, I will probably try and get Furina on rerun if I think she is a better replacement in some teams where is use XQ instead.
>Are you planning on pulling Navia, Clorinde or Arlecchino?
I will probably get Arlecchino if she is an off field character. I really dont need anymore on field characters. Clorinde is really ugly so i will never go for her. I think Navia is pretty, but her character to me is just okay and she is geo.

No. 337567

>>337539
What are you talking about, everyone absolutely hates Dottore. I'm not talking just about moids (who in general hate him too) but considering at least half of genshin userbase are teenagers that freak out about morally ambiguous characters, I think hoyo wants to be safe with her and maximise the pulling.

No. 337570

>>337558
NTA but Lyney was having a mental breakdown over Wriothesley just asking him to arrange a meeting between him and Arlecchino. He was breaking down having to make the choice of potentially harming Arlecchino. Arle even berates Lyney later for being so paranoid about her safety and said she wouldn't have minded meeting Wriothesley.
Also Mihoyo not making a woman threatening falls apart when you remember Signora existed. She shouldn't have been killed in Inazuma, plain and simple, but she was given a plenty threatening introduction and role. Arlecchino was playing nice with us to get what she wanted, she'll probably be an antagonist towards us later.
>>337567
>everyone hates dottore
Citation needed, lots of people like how unhinged Dottore is.

No. 337574

I hate every single waifu in this game

No. 337576

>>337570
Yeah normal people like him because they realise character can be evil but a good character but watch any YouTuber or any twitter interaction of younger normies and they hate on him. Hard to cite this tho kek. They are definitely gonna redeem him before he gets playable, just watch. Hoyo won't let any real villain be playable in my opinion, I wish though.

No. 337582

>>337547
>she's the 4th in rank.
Ah, I remembered wrong, Dottore is second. But my point still stands, you're coping.

No. 337588

>>337574
me too. I gave up logging in, I don't like the male characters enough to make up for everything and I hate the story most of all.

No. 337593

>>337567
I hate Dottore because he choked a woman to death then made it look like she got killed by a rampaging meka.
Not to mention all the horrible human experimentation.
I wouldn't consider him 'morally ambiguous' in the slightest.

No. 337597

>>337593
Yeah Dottore is definitely not morally ambiguous, he’s evil. I think Scara or Childe fits anon’s example better of morally grey characters.

No. 337616

>>337558
>only children who are perceived to have "potential" are chosen to join Fatui ranks anyway
Yes, and if they want to leave the organization they have to do crazy shit like fake their own deaths. They don't have a choice whether they want to join or leave, and we have met ex-orphanage NPC Fatui who realized that what they've been forced to do is bad and they didn't want to stay in the ranks anymore but couldn't just resign.
>No she didn't.
Yes she did. She said that it was an attempted assassination.

I literally said that Arlecchino isn't a fully evil person, no idea why you think that me pointing out her wolf in sheeps clothing behavior is copium or whiteknighting. The only actually evil person we have met in the game so far is Dottore. Nobody else comes close, not even any of the other Fatui Harbingers. Childe is at this point a chill guy who plays with kids and makes friends more than he does evil things, and Wanderer is the biggest woobie in the entire game. I love him but some of the behavior he exhibited while he was still with the Fatui feels like weird over the top behavior you'd find in a fanfic kek. It is kind of a shame that Dottore is likely going to be the only actually morally black Fatui since Capitano is apparently also a decent guy, but what can you do.
Imo, what we have seen of her is very interesting, and I personally much prefer the subtle approach of Arlecchino over cringe in-your-face obvious villains. It feels like more mature writing compared to Paimon explaining things 500 times and many characters only having one personality trait. Let HYV cook, their writing abilities have been massively improving since Sumeru and I doubt this will be the last and only narrative relevance Arle is going to have. Remember that Scara's appearance in Inazuma was also super short and pretty meaningless even though he's clearly a big writers pet.

No. 337689

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Is it just me or does he look like he has a stick up his ass

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>>337689
Also the chibi look like there's not much thought put into it? I don't normally nitpick so much but this is underwhelming. Maybe just me though

No. 337701

>>337690
Yep it's like I said, they made him look very cool but he needs a bit more personality. I hope he appears is a few events and we get to see more of him like what happened with Cyno.
>>337689
I think this is pretty though!

No. 337821

There we go Liyue commissions done.
Now onto the Bantan Sango stuff.

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I notice that a lot of the archons always have an other “half”. Nahida was part of Rukkadevata, Ei was Makoto’s twin and Furina was Focalors’s human self. Since Venti and Zhongli are their original archon seaters it makes sense they don’t have another “half”. Makes me wonder what will happen because it feels like all the new archons are like the traveler.

No. 337909

>>337908
Venti has his friend whose appearance he took on and Zhongli has his dragon form

No. 337920

>>337689
This is so hot what are you talking about

No. 337922

With Neuvillette being the one to take the role of the archon and its duties, and Furina being a normal human who now got her vision in the most anticlimactic way, I can’t help but seethe that they advertised her as an archon. I would’ve never pulled for her knowing she was a normal human and that Neuv is the closest to an archon for Fontaine. Every traveler is based on the regional archon. Hydro Traveler is based on Neuv’s skills and everything too, rather than Furina’s. Neuv in general was definitely who the story revolved around, fucking Furina disappeared during the end of the finale and Neuv got the epic archon power cutscenes. The one time I pull a female archon and she turns out to be a wet fart in the story. I should’ve stuck to my husbando gut feeling about Neuvillette.

No. 337924

>>337922
Does her past and present not matter to you? The before of the future you wish they started from? We saw her story and progressed it on screen. By your logic we should only ever get characters after they've completed all their arcs and that's how we get characters with boring personal stories and no true impact on archon stories. If you don't like her because she no longer has archon powers which she never had and never showed on screen anyway so it never mattered then did you even like her at all?

No. 337929

>>337922
I genuinely hate how 4.3 turned out, the buildup was HUGE and it ended up being a disappointment in every meaning of the word. I'm honestly happy that Neuvillette became the ruling hydro sovereign because they were the original rulers of Teyvat and got their powers ripped away from them but I hate what they did to Furina, she was so hyped and even I was excited to see where they take her character and it was just a regular human and the laziest fucking "plot twist". "Oh yeah by the way I built this machine to gather up energy to kill myself and end the hydro archon throne and Furina was fooling Celestia while I was doing it" sounds like such a cop out, I really don't see Celestia not being aware of this happening. It seriously doesn't make sense that they wouldn't realize that Furina wasn't the real archon ESPECIALLY seeing how Egeria betrayed them, you'd think they'd keep an eye out? No, fuck this, I wanted Furina to have a moment to shine at the end and save her people and reclaim her position in their eyes but now she practically disappeared offscreen being disgraced in front of Fontaine. I know that would've been equally cliche but it would've been much more satisfying for the amount of build up 4.1 and 4.2 gave us. Furina was too promising to end up as a crybaby human who suffered for 500 years not being able to tell anyone oh no!!!!! The people defending her are the ones projecting into her and that's that.

No. 337958

>>337929
>The people defending her are the ones projecting into her
This thread has an allergy to accepting that people can like what you dislike. I would never do what she did but I liked her and her story. I didn't experience anything close to what she did but I enjoyed seeing her experiences. This type of passive aggressive dismissiveness of other anons' opinions is so annoying. It's why lore discussions are so rare now, we can't just say whatever we like without getting shat on for absolutely no reason. You can talk about your opinions without inserting random remarks about how everyone that disagrees is a retard with no thinking skills.

No. 337968

>>337958
Then don't get so tangled into it, you can ignore the remarks and not take it so personally unless you're a hit dog hollering.

No. 337970

>>337968
Why wouldn't she say her opinion too?

No. 337972

>>337968
Keep feeling superior to anonymous users cause you yapped longer. No one's coming back to the thread at this rate

No. 337976

>>337958
Just how you’re allowed to say you like Furina we are allowed to say that she was wasted potential. If anons call you a retard, just brush it off. It’s chan-lingo, we’re on an imageboard after all.

No. 337981

>>337970
Because she's not voicing her opinion about Furina or refuting what's being said about the writing of the plot but focusing on the one last remark writing a whole ass paragraph bitching at how it hurt her feelings.

No. 337995

>>337981
Exactly. She didn't even read the points >>337922 and >>337929 said that really aren't just baseless Furina hate but about the writing being disappointing and stupid.

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No. 338109

>>337929
The writing in this game is so sporadically shitty that I can't tell if the events of 4.2 are supposed to be a big hint that Celestia is running on autopilot, that no one is really actively "awake" up there, or if it's really just that shittily written. I can only suspend my disbelief so much. I'm left wondering if they're going to give Furina a second story quest or not too, or if they'll just give Neuvillette one now that he's essentially the de facto archon.

No. 338118

Honestly, nahida is forgetful as fuck as an archon. Everytime my ADHD brain percieves the word "Archon" I immediately think of Venti, Zhongli, Raiden and Furina and then my mind goes "Oh, and that white-dress one too"

No. 338179

>>338118
Yeah same and I don't know why? Whenever I hear “full archon team” I think venti zhongli raiden furina, never nahida. Don't know why cause she was story-significant. Maybe it's cause she's a loli, so my brain just casts her aside as a non-option by default

No. 338209

>>338109
It feels like they're just making shit up and hoping it sticks

No. 338275

>>338118
I have her in my team so I don't ever forget her

No. 338286

I don't even seen Ei as an archon because her puppet was in charge since Makato died and she's a pathetic neet. Ei has no leadership or dependable traits to be an archon imo. Nahida's the one archon who I feel has true love for her people and her last meeting with the greater lord was a tearjerker.

No. 338289

>>338286
I think all anons can agree that Ei is shit and that Nahida was better written, yet Nahida does still feel forgettable

No. 338308

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Let’s talk about Natlan! Pic related is a leak about Natlan that Liben will say in an event. He basically says nothing at all? Which is so odd for Liben to not drop hints about Natlan. At the end of the archon quest when we ask about the next nation, nothing we didn’t know already was mentioned. Thoughts about that anons? Why is this all we know about Natlan?
>Natlan has hot springs
>You can take a vacation there as a non-Natlan citizen
>Nation of dragons but not dragon sovereigns like Neuvillette
>Nation of War
>War and conflict between tribes
>Many different tribes
>Murata was or still is the archon
Why is this all we know after so many years? Why is there no Natlan NPC? Theories on what mihoyo is plotting would be a fun discussion!

No. 338315

>>338308
We also know about Mare Jivari, an ash-filled field where the wind doesn't blow and people's dreams die.
I like the theory that Bennett is from Natlan and there's a curse on the people of Natlan if they leave, hence why there's no Natlan NPCs anywhere.
We know nothing because the devs probably didn't have anything nailed down except some basics like there will be hot springs and wanting South American and African influences.

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>>338315
>there's a curse on the people of Natlan if they leave
Totally forgot about Mare Jivari! And yeah the curse would make sense but Venessa was from Natlan and could leave and end up in Mondstadt.
>We know nothing because the devs probably didn't have anything nailed down except some basics like there will be hot springs and wanting South American and African influences.
This would make sense if we were still in Sumeru, but now we’re in Fontaine with a finished archon quest and Natlan being released in summer. Mihoyo has prepared the general story and conflict of the upcoming region every time during this point in the current region. This has to be deliberate.

No. 338322

>>338118
Same, absolute useless piece of shit

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No. 338333

>>338327
I have to agree with ayrt that Nahida is trash. You're probably one of the only ones who likes her here, redditchan.

No. 338340

>>338308
>>338315
I don't think there's a curse, but I do think there's something that makes them not leave. We have met NPCs from literally every region, even Snezhnaya, but nobody from Natlan so there must be a reason to it. Even a war would cause refugees, wouldn't you think? Neuvillette mentioned dragons and Enkanomiya foreshadowed vishaps evolving into humans, maybe that's happening in Natlan since the Enkanomiya prophecy about the hydro dragon came back in Fontaine?

No. 338390

>>338333
I don't like her design in the slightest but she is undeniably very useful in combat, especially with alhaitham, saying she's useless is delusional

No. 338399

>>338390
Alhaitham works great with Baizhu, XQ/Furina, Kuki. Nahida is not useless but not a must-pull like scrotes shill her.
>>338340
I also believe in the vishap thing, it is the only thing that would make sense based on what Neuvillette said. Maybe they can't leave because they'll turn to their vishap form? And other people from Teyvat don't know this vishap thing I assume since nobody mentions it. But the weird thing is why hasn't a single NPC mentioned the lack of Natlanian presence in other nations.

No. 338428

>>338333
reddit barely likes her either. last I saw the chart, she's not even in the top twenty of sub sizes for genshin characters.

No. 338456

>>338428
Everymoid started hating Nahida because she wasn't a braindead little girl like Klee or Qiqi or Diona after all but actually an intelligent old soul (sans the retarded really out of character dookie talk) who played an important part in the archon quest so she stopped being the cute corruptable loli to them. Say what you will about Nahida, if you removed her from the story they wouldn't have been able to escape Dottore, defeat Scaramouche, deal with Irminsul or break out of the Samsara so she actually did something worthwhile compared to Ei who barely appeared in the story quest and did literally nothing during the entire Inazuma chapter but she's a fan favourite because she's a head empty no thoughts sapphic hikikomori booba sword autist. We hadn't had an archon as involved as Nahida with the main party since Venti.

No. 338495

>>338428
didn't the biggest nahida subreddit get banned cause the "kaiser" scrote who creates most subs is a pedo and spammed nahida porn?

No. 338497

>>338495
Didn't that guy also own like a ton of other r/charactermain subreddits? Like any time a character got leaked he went and created a subreddit for it. Or am I mixing things up?

No. 338585

>>338497
Yeah afaik he always creates the subs and spams porn. Average moid activities

No. 338597

>>338497
Yeah even for leaked character names. He immediately creates all subreddits and then exposes people to porn.

No. 338685

Nice more dead children thanks China.

No. 338965

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The missed potential with the longer shorts.

No. 338966

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>>338965
Some hairstyles. I like the short hair most.

No. 338967

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>>338966
Sorry for the Reddit watermark on this one. This was supposed to be her archon form.

No. 338968

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>Haha, okay, okay… I know you can't wait to see everyone.
>You simply can't rush someone when they're doing their hair. Ah, it's been so long since the last performance… How did I do it last time again?
>Hmm… Something about it just doesn't look right. I know, why don't we ask the Traveler for a hand?
>My dear, kind, exquisitely-feathered friend — do me a favor and call over that blond Honorary Knight standing there in the distance, would you?

No. 338969

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>>338968
>"Another glass, Diona~!"
>"Ugh… Even with all those strange ingredients, you're still not done! I'm struggling to keep up…"
>"Haha… I know my demands are unreasonable, but play along, would you? I am the birthday boy after all."
>"sobs Even you admit that they're unreasonable!"

No. 338970

>>338966
Agree, it's uber cute especially combined with the ribbon.

No. 338972

>>338968
So cute
And of course there's a war in the comments about him not being dark enough kek

No. 338973

>>338972
He does have a different tone in the chibi piece. It's just weird, don't they have a color reference for their characters?

No. 338978

>>338967
>>338966
>>338965
I love that her ahoge is a constant through all of the designs. the longer shorts look nice too.

No. 338986

>>338978
They outsource the detailed pics. I don't know how much they bother to correct a commission.

No. 338991

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>>338967
This looks like the same artist who made the butterfly/fairy Nahida concept art. It's sad that all these really cool concept arts get watered down so much.

No. 339033

>>338991
Yikes what’s with the pussy cover flap and general nakedness on a kid

No. 339145

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We're getting 800 primogems in the mail total from December 2nd to December 5th. You don't have to log-in that day to get the mail, but you do need to log-in by the time 4.2 ends (December 19th/20th depending on where you are in the world) to claim the mails.

No. 339148

>>339145
Only 5 pulls. Damn

No. 339160

>>339145
5 pulls? Genshin already has a dwindling popularity, why are they so stingy with the players they have?

No. 339183

>>338456
>We hadn't had an archon as involved as Nahida with the main party since Venti.
Sad, but true. Nahida just feels like she truly loves her people even when she was imprisoned and replaced by them.
>>339160
ooh, the hype's dying? Is it because of better competition, nonna? I'm genuinely curious and don't keep up with other games.

No. 339214

>>339183
>Is it because of better competition, nonna? I'm genuinely curious and don't keep up with other games
No not because of that. You can see the hype dying just from these threads, the "big" genshin youtubers barely playing the game anymore and just the fandom in general on twitter/twitter fanartists for example dwindling in numbers. It’s natural for a game to lose some hype after the first few years, especially with a game like Genshin where most players that have left say that the amount of content to catch up with is too much.

On these threads especially I saw a small decline during the later end of Inazuma. Then a surge during Sumeru and a drastic decline in thread activity during the many desert patches. The threads have been slow since then. I do think the desert areas did drive away the returning players. It’s exactly the criticism that the leaving players have conveyed: too big, too much, hard to keep up with the lore dumps, huge world quests etc. All of this mihoyo has addressed with Fontaine with its smaller region size and shorter world quests that explain everything to you. Easier to keep up with. Seems like it’s a bit too late though, genshin isn’t nearly as hyped anymore than its earlier days.

No. 339222

>>339214
>Sumeru desert
I actually really enjoyed those quests etc.
But really who cares if it's a 'hype' game on twitter/youtube etc. as long as Mihoyo is still getting enough money to run everything and they finish out the story I'm fine with it.

No. 339224

>>339222
>But really who cares if it's a 'hype' game on twitter/youtube etc.
Never said I cared.

No. 339242

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Vent post, sorry anons.
I haven't opened the game at all in the last three weeks, basically because I don't even know what to do anymore… I already have all of the characters I want built, and the ones I don't don't fit on any teams or have similar kits to the ones I already have built. There are too many charas that have the same kits or need a national team to work.
Artifact farming has taken a toll on me, and chest/primo farming too. My artifact storage is full, cause I'm too lazy to look at each one and see which ones are trash and which ones I should save "for future characters"…
Last month I bought a welkin, but I wasted my money, cause I couldn't bring myself to even log in everyday.
The story is more confusing as the plot advances, and instead of answering questions we already have, they just keep creating more plot points or whatever. The only times we get "answers" are when Dainsleif appears, which is… two times a year.
The events are so stupid lately, full of NPC faggotry instead of showing us interactions between the playable characters. I haven't even touched the 4.2 main event, even though I don't have Freminet.
The anniversary was also a joke. Nothing felt like we were celebrating 3 years of economic success for mihoyo. It was just another normal update. I miss Windtrace, I miss the first Archipelago events, I miss event namecards, I miss lore in events!!
And now, I feel stupid for having wasted so much time on this game. I enjoyed the first two years, but after Sumeru (3.0) everything went downhill in my opinion. I miss
I just don't have any motivation lately. I open the game and I get the urge to close it. It's like when you reach that point on a farming sim where you still haven't gotten all the achievements or whatever, but you are content with your farm and can't bother to keep grinding.
Maybe it's goodbye, who knows.

No. 339251

>>339242
Who were your faves though

No. 339256

>>339242
Well if you're not enjoying it you're not and you don't have to feel obligated to stay.
I still log in everyday for primos, cause who knows what kind of characters will be released in future areas.
And I'm working through the commission achievements now that they've changed how commission rng works.
The event was ok, and it really doesn't take much time. I'm glad they gave a free Fremi even though I'll never use him.
I'm used to this kind of slow burn story from other games as a service like FGO and Destiny so that doesn't bother me.

No. 339259

>>339242
You don't have to regret the time you spent on it, just appreciate the fun you had in the past and accept that it's time to uninstall tbh. You will regret forcing yourself to continue wasting your time and/or money on a game you know you no longer enjoy in the future.

No. 339264

>>339251
Kazuha, Thoma and Scaramouche.
>>339256
>I'm used to this kind of slow burn story from other games as a service like FGO and Destiny so that doesn't bother me.
Yeah, makes sense, I'm just starting to realize that maybe gacha games are not for me because of this.
>>339259
You are right, anon. I had a good time til it lasted, and I guess it's time for me to just move on. Thanks for your words.

No. 339265

>>339264
Good taste

No. 339271

>>339242
Sometimes a normie attitude can be healthy: It’s just a game. Games are supposed to be fun and a hobby. If it’s no longer fun and feels like a waste of time to log in daily, then stop playing and find another hobby. I agree with a lot of your points anon and will be taking a break after the Dain quest myself. Planning on returning when Shneznaya is unlocked.

No. 339284

Since I'm not rolling for any of the upcoming girls I decided to go for C1 Cyno, and finally lost the 50-50 to Keqing… now only Dehya left of the standard characters.

No. 339484

Hey nonnies can someone give me a rundown on the Genshin “schedule”? I hear you guys get a yearly lantern event? What other seasonal events are there? How frequently do streams happen, every X weeks or once a month? Whats the usual gap between showing new worlds?
I really hate that I missed out on so many events and I will watch them online but I’d still rather play them myself

No. 339511

Wait! Edwin is alive! That was almost a more shocking revelation then anything in the Archon quest.
And then they just send him to the fortress and we'll probably never know who really caused the explosion.

No. 339539

>>339484
>How frequently do streams happen, every X weeks or once a month?
The streams are always announced beforehand by Genshin official accounts. Each Genshin patch is every 6 weeks. The livestreams are usually 2 weeks prior to the next patch, on Fridays or weekends depending on your time zone and if there is a Chinese death/holiday they have to avoid having a livestream on.
>I hear you guys get a yearly lantern event?
The lantern rite event occurs close to Chinese new year. It’s a yearly event that has never been skipped. There’s also some events that used to be yearly but aren’t anymore. However, there’s a big chance they’ll come back. We used to have a yearly Dragonspine event with Albedo lore. Then there is the Windblume event in Mondstatdt. Golden Apple Archipelago event is every summer. Check this list and click on the events for more info. There are some events like the Weinlesefest that I believe will be returning someday. https://genshin-impact.fandom.com/wiki/Flagship_Event
>Whats the usual gap between showing new worlds?
Do you mean new nations? We get them after summer each year, around August. Usually this is after the .8 patch. So 2.8, 3.8 etc. Golden apple archipelago event is before that.

No. 339571

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I've been building my Xiangling this week because I need more pyro supports and man, have I been enjoying the ride. It's crazy when you build older characters because it's such a walk in the park to get their materials. Power creep is so real and you don't notice it until you go back to Liyue/Mondstat.
>>339539
Didn't they say Fontaine was going to be shorter and have less areas? I'm probably tripping because we'll get dorman port and chenyu village soon.

No. 339622

>>339571
imagine getting a genshin tattoo, cow behavior
>Didn't they say Fontaine was going to be shorter and have less areas?
Some leakers started that rumor, nothing confirmed

No. 339633

>>339622
> imagine getting a genshin tattoo, cow behavior
Kek I thought so too this looks so bad.

No. 339746

>>339571
Initially datamines were only showing up to version 4.6 but now they have 4.7 and 4.8 there. We're going to get Chenyu Vale in 4.4, Remuria in 4.6, and the port is delayed to who knows how long.
>>339484
There's a new stream every six weeks coinciding with the release of a new patch. Lantern Rite is essentially the Chinese New Year event and happens every year. There's a summer event every .8 patch. Other than that they've had Windblume in Mondstadt and a summer festival event in Inazuma.

No. 339769

Got Dehya on my birthday
I quit

No. 339773

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>>339769
kek I'm so sorry anon

No. 340005

is kaeya's hangout romantic? i have only done a couple hangout events, to me it's not worth it if ur not into the character

No. 340306

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Some silly dialog lately.
I don't really like the gameplay of these fungi events, but it's cute that they game Haniyah a new outfit.

No. 340308

>>340005
I don't remember it or any other hangout being romantic at all. They are all pretty boring and I couldn't even get through the ones with characters I like. The dialogue takes forever and nothing happens, it's not worth the 20 or so primos

No. 340344

>>340308
Most of the Thoma ones were essentially dates.

No. 340356

>>340005
Barely. Usual Kaeya being a bit flirty but nothing super romantic no

No. 340662


No. 340666

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>>340662
Thanks anon

No. 340668

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Did any of you catch this? Furinas designer was getting targeted by incels because she's feminist (=she said she wants to kill moids that chew disgustingly and that creepy men should be purged). They were threatening her life and wanted to doxx her because of this. Hoyo then released a statement saying players shouldn't incite harassment, spread rumors or post personal info but that could also be due to other apparently ongoing issues in the chinese community. I'm glad that they are able to handle it without throwing women under the bus though. It's not like they are outright protecting her but other studios have reacted way worse to similar situations

No. 340672


No. 340673

>>340668
Korean incels should unironically be put against the wall. Truly the most unhinged bunch of psychotic schizo scrotes of weeb media but at the same time pathetic beyond comparison. They recently got some completely random female employee at a gaming company fired because they got mad at a female character's swimsuit not showing enough skin and took it out on some poor girl because they dug up an old tweet of her defending feminism.

No. 340674

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>>340673
That was Project Moon back in july, I'm still not over what they did. I wish someone would just do something about those wastes of space that can't leave women be and I hope game studios stop listening to them. PM lost like 70% of their playerbase and basically all fanartists quit, so no one talks about the game anymore and they don't get new players but they still double down on it. I can't believe they hate women to this extent, their highest peak in revenue since then is equal to the lowest point before this happened and likely aided by the battle pass resetting in november

No. 340679

>>340672
Most comments support her though

No. 340686

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>>340668
>Hoyo then released a statement saying players shouldn't incite harassment, spread rumors or post personal info but that could also be due to other apparently ongoing issues in the chinese community.
Where did they release this statement? Can you link it?
If you want to try and parse it from a Korean perspective, I ran most of this through DeepL in chunks and it wasn't complete gibberish (though it does seem to keep translating misandry as misogyny).
>https://namu.wiki/w/%EC%9B%90%EC%8B%A0%20%EC%9B%90%ED%99%94%EA%B0%80%20%ED%98%90%EC%98%A4%20%EB%B0%9C%EC%96%B8%20%EC%9D%98%ED%98%B9%20%EB%85%BC%EB%9E%80
It really makes me laugh how some guys lost their marbles over these very low-level joke tweets when they, 99% of the time, are jerking it to destructive pornography of women and girls every day and in KOREA of all places, the country where women can't take a peaceful piss in public without worrying about being recorded and posted online. It seems this same artist had a previous "controversy" with fans of Arknights with at least her art getting deleted by the company and an apology message from them
>https://namu.wiki/w/%EB%AA%85%EC%9D%BC%EB%B0%A9%EC%A3%BC%20%EB%82%A8%EC%84%B1%ED%98%90%EC%98%A4%20%EC%9D%BC%EB%9F%AC%EC%8A%A4%ED%8A%B8%EB%A0%88%EC%9D%B4%ED%84%B0%20%EC%B6%95%EC%A0%84%20%EB%B0%B0%EC%A0%9C%20%EB%85%BC%EB%9E%80
I can't tell if she got fired by Arknights or if she did a one-off art for them. Like you said, I'm happy Genshin's HR isn't giving her the boot considering how things have gone recently with other similar situations like with Limbus Company.

No. 340696

>>340686
Here, the quote adds context saying that there were other ongoing issues in the community as well; https://x.com/10NIPIMPACT/status/1730604884716884325?s=20
That arknights thing is crazy though, I really can't understand that incel mindset. What are they so fucking pressed about, do they actually have no empathy for women who will always have it worse than them

No. 340709

>>340668
>>340673
Korea is such an absolute shit country. Like people love kpop and the soft power korea has, but it is a literal hellscape for women who can never speak out against men. They openly hate feminists and women who are for women's rights. It's so heart breaking to see this happen to women in 2023. I really hope Korea dies out due to their low birth rates and women take over.

No. 340710

>>340686
Arknights commissions their art, only few do more than one character afaik so it's normal for them to not commission an artist again until they want a skin. Actually one artist got harassed because he made a character with boobs that were too big once kek its players are elitist for not having coomer designs (at least they didn't at first) but who knows what incels might threaten them to do now

No. 340724

I hate when the thread dies so that one faggot drags in drama from reddit to spark the same discussion we've had a thousand times. Incels bitched about something stupid and nothing came of it, whoop-de-doo.

No. 340725

>>340724
NTA but I hate when a few anons discuss something here and some bitter faggot comes in to minimod them because she doesn't like the topic

No. 340733


No. 340742

>>340725
>minimodding
How do you misuse such a simple word? This goes beyond newfaggotry and straight into retardation. Go back.(infighting)

No. 340753

I can't believe that Albedo is now getting Eula treatment, I hate Inazuma girls, so yeah those banners are easy skips, but I really wanted him…

No. 340757

>>340753
It's so weird he's not running with Navia. I would have thought he'd be a good support for her with being a Geo battery and giving a bunch of EM. Plus it's December, he used to have story events in December.

No. 340777

>>340753
My only theory for him not running with Navia is that we’re getting a Albedo lore dump soon. Or maybe he’ll appear in the Dain quest like Kaeya did in Sumeru

No. 340784

>>340724
Taking my ban to tell the scrote to shut the fuck up

No. 340833

>>340784
>everyone who doesn't want to see my reddit links is a scrote
lol

No. 340904

Seeing genshin, zzz and star rail on the game awards as trailers was such a weird experience. Not a single other game, not even other anime games, had as much shameless coomer content. It was embarrassing to see. The characters having jiggling tits just by standing still and the trailer zooming in on it and shit. Made me realize how fucking weird hoyo is. They’ve become mainstream and have really low age restrictions, why are they doing this? Publically humiliating themselves.

No. 341096

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Lantern Rite leak:



This is Liyue's new kid, he's apparently based on the Lion dance and he's pyro. Don't think there's much else we know besides that

No. 341101

>>341096
So disappointing. I stopped playing genshin a while ago because I just didn't feel like wasting time on long useless dialogues and pointless missions to get a crumble of interesting lore (that they won't dwell on for more than 2 minutes) but I was considering going back to get some of the cute leaked boys, but man he looks boring. There was one of his concept designs that looked so good (the blonde one iirc), I can't with them always choosing the worst fucking designs. Anyone knows when the bad boy (Rosaria's boss?) is coming?

No. 341105

>>341096
Generic looking and disappointing

No. 341108

>>341096
>lion boy concept
>final design is yokai watch npc heizou
I expected nothing and I'm still let down

No. 341116

>>341096
shonen protagonist lookin ass.
>>340686
Furina got one of the best designs and better yet she was designed by a woman.

No. 341117

>>341096
I think he’s cute. On the basic side sure but not bad. The other options looked worse

No. 341121

>>341117
The other options looked much more pretty and creative

No. 341122

>>341096
>Shenhe and Ganyu skin
Fuck I wanted a Zhongli skin, also why the hell did they chose to make the skins BLUE AGAIN.
Disappointing that the lion boy doesn't have ears and a tail. I still hope we atleast get a Xingqui skin for free.

No. 341238

>>341096
He looks really cute (albeit yeah a bit plain) but I want to fucking murder something when we get TWO 5-star female skins and still that ugly ass Diluc is the only male one we have. Do men even buy aesthetic skins like women do? I thought they only gave a shit about gameplay autism.

>>341101
>Anyone knows when the bad boy (Rosaria's boss?) is coming?
Probably with the rumored Mondstadt's expansion that should be coming soon enough.

No. 341243

>>341122
The leaks are true if they’re blue. Kek

No. 341248

>>340668
Wow turns out we were right to think that furina was designed with female audience in mind. Cheers!

No. 341272

>>341096
Easy skip for this generic looking ass. Another time where the concept art was a thousand times better.

No. 341279

>>341122
We do get XQ skin and 4* skins are always free for the limited event time

No. 341391

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>>341096
Wish they kept the headphones.

No. 341411

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>>341391
Imagine choosing generic shounen protag over tiger cutie with a scarf.

No. 341556

>>341411
It's the same guy?! I was chill about shounen protag because it didn't register that he's the tiger boy… It's like they're setting their male characters up for failure. Who does the final design appeal to? Bennett didn't need a better looking twin. The left one in this pic with the tail is super cute, would pay to get him 100%. Just imagining walking around with him and his tail does a little twitch. So much potential wasted for a design with no creativity. They keep making amazing designs then dumbing it down to boring archetypes.

No. 341596

>>341556
Even Benny looks better than the design they picked imo. Benny has personality with his scarring and skin showing.
I was so hyped for tiger cutie based on Killua now my interest is zero.

No. 341607

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>>341596
he was really obviously based on gokotai from touken ranbu even if he wasn't pictured, it looks like new outfit fanart of him

No. 341785

I wonder if it's not possible to separate the voice packs on PS4 architecture. I really wonder how many gigs that might save.

No. 341871

>>341411
The blond one is SO cute. I can't even tell the official one is supposed to be a lion dance boy if not for the tiny badge on the hip.

No. 342616

Will Natlan be a waifu region? Since Sumeru and Fontaine were back-to-back regions with prominent male characters

No. 342744

>>341607
Man tourabu had the best shotas ever

No. 342786

>>342616
Fontaine is considered a waifu region since all the characters left from the leaks are going to be waifus minus the Liyue boy and Dahlia (Mondstadt boy) and maybe the musketeer if he hasn't been cut. They just frontloaded the husbandos. If anything Natlan should be a husbando region to balance it out.

No. 343164

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Looks better than the leaked image imo. Concept is still better tho, but at least he has longer hair, in the leak he was basically ben 10

No. 343165

I can't believe they gave cloud retainer an actual beautiful design, with no hint of coomery. Am I living in a different universe?

No. 343166

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>>343165
Did you not see the rope squished in the middle of her boobs? Gross

No. 343167

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No. 343168

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>>343167
We'll see how it looks in game. On the drip art, it isn't as apparent, in all the other art, it looks gross.

No. 343169

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Chiori looks pretty and without any coomery to me.

No. 343170

>>343167
>>343168
You guys can't be pleased with anything. In the new art the rope follows the curvature of her breasts but it's not squished. She's literally fully dressed, with no ass cracks, exposed thighs, armpits or cleavage. She looks actually elegant and serious. You can't even compare her to someone like shenhe

No. 343172

>>343170
>She's literally fully dressed
Am I just fucking blind or something, because to me it in the art >>343168 it looks like her thighs and butt are exposed at the side to show that she is not wearing any panties. And her the top of her cleavage is covered with some thight see through fabric. Like yeah its not as bad as Shenhe, but lets compare her to >>343164 or Arlecchino who are actually fully covered.

Speaking about >>343164 so sad to see that he has no cute ears and tails, and again is fully covered. While the female characters are always allowed to show skin at weird places.

>>343169
I think she is pretty, i hope she wears cute bloomers or shorts under her skirt. Ayaka her panty shots are always so creepy during her fight animation.

No. 343173

>>343170
I hated the rope in her boobs since the first time I saw it in the cutscenes last year. Yeah it looks uncomfortable to look at it for me, kinda icks me out so I'll skip on Cloud Retainer sadly. Makes me cringe, like a wedgie or something.
Yeah it's good she doesn't have exposed armpits and thigh highs though.

No. 343174

>>343164
This is a good female design. They should've given this to another female character and made the guy the blonde design.
>>343165
I agree that it's beautiful but the fact that it is considered noncoomery just shows how bad the female designs are. It's just an okay level of coomery.

No. 343175

You guys wouldn't be happy with any female design or character anyway…

No. 343176

>>343175
This is such a bait, literally everyone likes Arlecchino here and most of us like Furina too. I could name a few more characters, but literally everytime a new character is released with coomer elements you come to this thread and reee about how we all hate your waifus or something

No. 343177

>>343175
I even like some of the coomer designs like Yae Miko, I just don't like the boob rope kek. I don't like the matte black elastic fabric over boobs in general (Ganyu, Shenhe, Sara). Other than the chest area I like Cloud Retainer's design.

No. 343178

>>343176
How is this bait?
>everyone likes arlecchino
Yes, but you can't say you like any other girl without one of you being like "she has a few coomer elements so she's moidpaindering trash" like how is that fair? It's not even about being delusional, yes I'm aware that they're pandering to moids first and foremost but that
doesn't mean I can't enjoy some of these female characters. Moids are literally constantly seething that their designs are niqab tier while you guys think all of them are dressed like prostitutes just because they're showing some patch of skin. Also not all of them have the same level of coomery, look at clorinde and navia, from the same region, both showing skin, but clorinde feels more male gaze-y while navia doesn't even have a regular cleavage.

No. 343181

>>343178
No one is saying she's moidpandering trash? Everyone is saying it could be better but it's pretty okay? Stop seething

No. 343188

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>>343165
Her breasts and legs are covered with see-through skintight mesh fabric so she might as well be naked. Hate the tit squish and the holes on the sides of her thighs. Blatant Bayonetta ripoff.

>>343169
She's pretty, but I really hope she's wearing shorts under her skirt. Her armpits are bared again because someone at Mihoyo really can't fide his fetish.

>>343176
I don't like Arlecchino's design, I hate how she looks like an overdesigned overworld monster NPC indistinguishable from those fatui women implemented recently, how her suit is vacuumed to her body showing off her figure and how she's canonically barely clothed under the open jacket with huge breasts too. That one cutscene screenshot of her without the jacket really showed how coomerish her outfit actually is, she looked way better in the concept art than her actual model. Every single tall female in Genshin looks like ridiculous coomshit except maybe Dehya and Candace who ironically enough show the most skin because at least them living in the desert it fits their conditions and they don't have stupid pervy peekholes in their clothes.

No. 343189

>>343168
>arm pushing up her breasts
Ew. This is so embarassing kekw. If I were the artist, I would feel ashamed of drawing her like this, but moids have such simple minds they think this actually doesn't look retarded as fuck and is super sexy and all, lel.
Someone give her a free breast reduction surgery, she is struggling.

No. 343191

>>343178
its bait because you keep saying we dont like any of female characters just because we comment om some of the coomer design elements?
>Yes, but you can't say you like any other girl
This is also not true and you know it, there was literally a Yoimiya fan here. She has a super coomer design, yet nothing stopped her from posting fan art and perging about her. No one called her a moid either. Do people point out the coomer elements, yes but you wont be called a moid and banned for saying you like a female character even with the coomer design kek.
Also where do any of us say that you can't like her character design? People are only saying that she in fact does have some coomer elements so i really don't see why you feel so attacked. no one is calling her a prostitute either?
>Also not all of them have the same level of coomery
No one is disagreeing with this? Like yeah no shit Shenhe has a far more coomer design
If you are seriously so sensitive that you will feel attacked when we just point out some parts of the design, without even saying that you are not allowed to like it or that girls dont like it. You really need to get offline.
>>343177
>I don't like the matte black elastic fabric over boobs in general (Ganyu, Shenhe, Sara)
Yeah I remember someone saying that Ganyu her top looked like a panty hose and i cant get it out of my mind, it just looks tacky.

>>343188
I don't remember Arlecchino her concept art being that different. It's just that the tall female genshin models all have the same boy so it looks different then on paper.
>except maybe Dehya and Candace
I actually really like those too, like you said it makes sense because they live in the desert. Ofcourse the thight belts on Dehya make my eyes roll. But i think her design is cool, and Candace has a really elegent outfit. It's not so much that i care about the amount of skin being showed, its those anime coomer elements that bother me (spilling thigh fat, panty shots, showing side of the hips to show a character is not wearing underwear ect).
>she looks like an overdesigned overworld monster NPC indistinguishable from those fatui women implemented recently
The thing is i really like those npcs desgins too kek, but i understand your point. And her suit is indeed vacuumed, but i feel like her design is the best we will ever get for a female character in a suit.

No. 343193

>>343168
Of course they had to give her naked hip cutouts like almost all Liyue tall women

No. 343201

>>343165
Yes, you are because her design is plenty coomery and she's going to become one of the most pornified characters in the entire game due to her personality and relationships with ganyu and shenhe.

No. 343207

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His name is Gaming… I know it's pronounced completely differently but still, his name is GAMING

No. 343211

>>343207
his name is retarded and he doesnt even look like a boy

No. 343218

>>343207
FUCKING GAMING I'M KEKKING

No. 343219

>>343218
Also I hate his color scheme, the dark green and red remind me of fucking santa claus or something

No. 343220

>>343207
sick, generic mcshonenkun even comes with a new painfully unfunny meme the community is going to run into the ground

No. 343221

>>343207
He's really really cute and I actually love his design but I wish we got a new 5-star pyro male, I'm hoping he'd a good support instead of a on-field DPS at least.

No. 343235

>>343221
I think we'll get a pyro 5* male in Natlan

No. 343245

>>343221
I mean we got Lyney recently right. I don't think we need a new 5 star pyro dps male yet again.

>>343207
Stupid ass name and his design is boring, at least dr ratio from honkai was hot.

>>343211
>he doesnt even look like a boy
He does, no female character in genshin would ever look like that

No. 343248

>favorite overall male char
>favorite overall female char
>favorite mondstadt char
>favorite liyue char
>favorite inazuma char
>favorite sumeru char
>favorite fontaine char
>favorite design
>least favorite design
>least favorite male char
>least favorite female char

No. 343252

>>343248
>favorite overall male char
Scara
>favorite overall female char
Ei
>favorite mondstadt char
Jean
>favorite liyue char
Zl
>favorite inazuma char
Ei
>favorite sumeru char
Alhaitham
>favorite fontaine char
Neuvilette
>favorite design
Yunjin
>least favorite design
Mona
>least favorite male char
Mika
>least favorite female char
Ayaka

No. 343253

File: 1702921946408.jpg (219.05 KB, 1448x2048, FgZ_338agAAnS_E.jpg)

>>343248
I'll start
>favorite overall male char
scara
>favorite overall female char
furina
>favorite mondstadt char
venti
>favorite liyue char
xiao
>favorite inazuma char
ayato
>favorite sumeru char
cyno
>favorite fontaine char
furina
>favorite design
arlecchino, zhongli, xiao, hutao, furina
>least favorite design
YELAN, shenhe, mona, baizhu, clorinde
>least favorite male char
baizhu
>least favorite female char
yae

No. 343258

>favorite overall male char
Venti
>favorite overall female char
Beidou
>favorite mondstadt char
Bennett
>favorite liyue char
Zhongli
>favorite inazuma char
Itto
>favorite sumeru char
Alhaitham
>favorite fontaine char
Neuvillette
>favorite design
Wanderer
>least favorite design
Shenhe
>least favorite male char
Diluc
>least favorite female char
Ei

No. 343261

>>343189
her arm isn't even touching her breasts so I don't get what you mean, but they do look like painfully inflated marshmallows who disobey the rules of gravity.
>>343164
>>343207
really cute design but I thought this was a cute tomboy before I remembered what game this was from so that was disappointing. hope he gets something fun in his kit to play with.
>>343169
she does look pretty but she also looks like she's supposed to be emulating an oiran look and she's a lazy keqing reskin. the shoes are just lol. the textures on the design are going to look particularly bad and fuzzy without the 4k textures.

No. 343263

>>343248
>favorite overall male char
Wanderer
>favorite overall female char
Hu Tao
>favorite mondstadt char
Venti
>favorite liyue char (exc Hu Tao)
Childe (kek)
>favorite inazuma char
Kazuha
>favorite sumeru char
Dehya, Nahida
>favorite fontaine char
Furina pre depression
>favorite design
Wanderer (all versions, video related), Wriothesley, Yunjin, Ayaka
>least favorite design
Skirk (low hanging fruit kek), the usual like Shenhe

No. 343264

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>>343248
>favorite overall male char
Childe
>favorite overall female char
Layla
>favorite mondstadt char
Kaeya
>favorite liyue char
Zhongli
>favorite inazuma char
Gorou
>favorite sumeru char
Layla, but since I have also chosen her as fav female character my second would be Kaveh
>favorite fontaine char
Wriothesley
>favorite design
Layla
>least favorite design
Shenhe or Yoimiya
>least favorite male char
Ayato
>least favorite female char
Ei

No. 343266

>>343176
>literally everyone likes Arlecchino here and most of us like Furina too
Speak for yourself lol

No. 343268

>>343248
>favorite overall male char
Scara
>favorite overall female char
Fischl
>favorite mondstadt char
Venti/Diluc
>favorite liyue char
Xiao
>favorite inazuma char
Heizou
>favorite sumeru char
Alhaitham
>favorite fontaine char
Lyney/Fremi
>favorite design
Fremi/Lyney/Scara/Heizou/Xingqiu
>least favorite design
Mona, Baizhu, Nahida
>least favorite male char
Baizhu
>least favorite female char
Nahida

No. 343269

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>>343248
>favorite overall male char
Kaeya
>favorite overall female char
Rosaria
>favorite mondstadt char
Kaeya
>favorite liyue char
Beidou
>favorite inazuma char
Kazuha
>favorite sumeru char
Naida supremacy
>favorite fontaine char
Furina by vibes/design alone, since I still don't have it unlocked
>favorite design
Layla/Kaeya/Kokomi/Fischl
>least favorite design
Faruzan/Kirara
>least favorite male char
Ayato
>least favorite female char
Keking. I keep losing to her.

No. 343271

kek shenhe taking the lead as the worst designed female character in the game

No. 343297

>>343264
good taste

No. 343369

File: 1702945650383.jpg (97.21 KB, 850x1052, __rosaria_and_rosaria_genshin_…)

>favorite overall male char
Wrio, Alhaitham, JP Benny
>favorite overall female char
Layla (I don't acknowledge the sleepwalking persona though, it's dumb), Arlecchino, Rosaria
>favorite mondstadt char
Kaeya, Rosaria
>favorite liyue char
JP Yanfei
>favorite inazuma char
No one really
>favorite sumeru char
Alhaitham, Layla
>favorite fontaine char
Wrio
>favorite design
Arlecchino, Wriothesley, Rosaria
>least favorite design
Ganyu, Sara, Shenhe, Xianling, Clorinde, Xingqiu
>least favorite male char
Xingqiu
>least favorite female char
Ganyu

No. 343540

File: 1703005138464.jpeg (555.43 KB, 852x1572, IMG_0636.jpeg)

>favorite overall male char
Alhaitham
>favorite overall female char
Rosaria
>favorite mondstadt char
Rosaria
>favorite liyue char
Xiangling
>favorite inazuma char
Yoimiya
>favorite sumeru char
Scaramouche
>favorite fontaine char
Furina
>favorite design
Furina
>least favorite design
Nilou
>least favorite male char
Mika
>least favorite female char
Ayaka

No. 343542

>>343540
is that a leaked design? she looks cute!

No. 343549

>>343542
Yeah she’s part of the leaks. I hope she will be included but I have doubts.

No. 343553

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>>343248
>favorite overall male char
Alhaitham
>favorite overall female char
Dehya, Arlecchino
>favorite mondstadt char
Fischl
>favorite liyue char
Yanfei
>favorite inazuma char
Itto
>favorite sumeru char
Aside from Alhaitham and Dehya, Dori
>favorite fontaine char
Navia
>favorite design
Alhaitham
>least favorite design
Baizhu, Clorinde
>least favorite male char
Mika
>least favorite female char
Ganyu puts me to sleep
>>343542
One of the many designs drafts leaked for a perfumer character. Her name should be Emilie. She's mentioned in-game a few times in characters lines and, if I remember correctly, a couple of billboards around Fontaine. That particular one was one of my favorite iterations too, so cute.

No. 343579

I’m surprised to see how many nonnas here like Rosaria. Given her design and how this thread talks about sexualization of the female characters, I would think she wouldn’t be so popular here. Is it moreso her personality that is liked?

No. 343589

>>343579
I don't get it either. She's a forgettable character with a gross design. Samefagging?

No. 343594

>>343579
I’ve been here since the first genshin threads and while there has been criticism of her design pre-censoring, her personality has been praised plenty of times throughout several threads.

No. 343605

File: 1703017542344.jpeg (5.26 MB, 2480x3508, IMG_0689.jpeg)

>>343579
Not a lot of Genshin waifus are snarky and have short hair

No. 343612

>>343579
I have a soft spot for edgier cool characters. She makes me laugh with her aloofness and snark. Both her designs look cool and sleek to me (post breast reduction, her original torpedos were impossible to look at without laughing at how comical they were). But I'm also not one to nitpick over any sexuality or sensuality on a (usually female) character like some anons do.

No. 343636

>>343579
She's one of the few female characters that isn't just boringly nice and despite being obviously sexy her (especially the new) outfit has more of a punk rock feel than a moidpandering one to it. No retarded holes around her hips or translucent pseudo-nude parts. I also like her lore, she was kidnapped and raised by bandits who taught her the ways of an assassin and after Knights of Favonius killed them all she just got stuck with the church doing the bare minimum to stay there. I like that she's unapologetically edgy and mean, it's fun.

No. 343668

>>343589
I just like goth or edgy designs. My dream team is Wriothesley, Rosaria, Arlecchino and the demon girl that isn't released yet.

No. 343728

>>343579
I'm no big fan of rosaria but she's one of those characters who were made for a moid audience at first but gradually gained popularity with the female fanbase because of her personality and goth aesthetic. I think I've seen more female fans genuinely enjoy her character rather than moids who only jerked off to her when she was released and then forgot about her. Also I think her new "censored" outfit is pretty cool actually.

No. 343771

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>>343728
Yeah, honestly haven't seen many moid fans of her, I wonder why? She's pretty much forgotten in moid spaces, I guess they have newer waifus to obsess over.
I thought I would hate her because of how she was designed for moids too much but I ended up liking her and her shitty attitude a lot. The new design is such an improvement in the chest area, I wrote itt that I hate matte black boobs and I don't discriminate, I hated her mystery fabric matte white boobs too. But a part of me really wishes she kept her fishnets in the new design, I thought they looked great. It's a shame scrotes find them sexy and apparently CCP thinks they are too sexy and have to be censored, to me fishnets are associated with cool alt girls and not porny bullshit.

No. 343832

>>343771
moids only cared about her as long as she had massive boobs

No. 343833

it's kind of a niche ship but i really like rosaria x barbara, i think it's cute how rosaria clearly has a soft spot for her

No. 343848

>>343168
eh, i don't see anything that wrong with her design, i really like the colors, her makeup and hair.
my only ick would be the thigh holes. i do think the cleavage fit her vibe, is not like it is exposed anyway.

No. 343854

File: 1703111159789.jpeg (Spoiler Image,56.91 KB, 640x360, IMG_2557.jpeg)

Ga Ming in game model looks good to me. Better than the splash art imo.

No. 343855

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No. 343857

File: 1703111370675.webp (Spoiler Image,174.79 KB, 1280x720, IMG_2559.webp)

And Xinyun/Cloud Retainer, not digging the side body much. Her hair is very nice though, and she looks good from front.

No. 343862

>>343857
ugh they ruined the side body…

No. 343863

>>343857
Oof, she looked a lot more elegant in her splash art. The sides makes it look trashy and looks to much like shenhe. Also her dress is weirdly vacuumed at her pelvis? Im sad because i maybe wanted to get for my Diluc. I believe her ult will make it so any character can jump like Xiao for a few times? And Dilic has really high multiplier for plunge attack. Oh well, maybe they will hopefully release a different character that allowes other characters to plunge?

>>343854
I mean the hoodie is cute, but still not really excited about him

No. 343868

>>343862
And from what I've seen her back is bare when you move around and the cape lifts

No. 343870

>>343857
>Her entire fucking outfit is nude from the sides and back and she has thigh windows
Well, this post >>343165 aged like milk left in the summer sun.

No. 343872

>favorite overall male char
Razor
>favorite overall female char
Navia
>favorite mondstadt char
Benny or Razor
>favorite liyue char
Yelan or Chongyun
>favorite inazuma char
Wanderer
>favorite sumeru char
Wanderer (he counts in my heart) and Cyno
>favorite fontaine char
Wrio
>favorite design
Wrio
>least favorite design
Yae
>least favorite male char
Ayato (even though he's one of my main dps kek)
>least favorite female char
Ei

No. 343873

File: 1703115811392.webp (Spoiler Image,114.05 KB, 760x798, IMG_2560.webp)

I like Gaming's dog-lion pet, wonder if he gets to summon it in his attacks

No. 343883

>>343857
From the gameplay animations I saw… yeah she has a deeper back cutout than ganyu even. Moids seem happy that they get a buttcrack tease.

No. 343888

>>343857
noooo fuckkk it's so over

i truly liked her design but those fucking details are so unnecessarily coomerish

i'll have to avoid genshin's fanbase like the plague because i'm sure those scrotes are gonna treat her worse than how they treat ganyu and mona

No. 343917

>>343854
>>343855
Another boy wearing a niqab, with abaya included this time! Wonderful.

No. 343918

>>343873
his animations finally leaked. they're really cool. I love the blue neon glow on the idle.
https://twitter.com/World1mpact/status/1737639676293566950

No. 343938

File: 1703139639632.jpeg (3.67 MB, 2500x2500, 213FFC2A-2219-4DCD-8370-F530D3…)

>>343248
>favorite overall male char
Scaramouche/Wanderer
>favorite overall female char
Ayaka
>favorite mondstadt char
Diluc
>favorite liyue char
Yun Jin
>favorite inazuma char
Ayaka
>favorite sumeru char
Nahida
>favorite fontaine char
Wriothesley, Navia as second close
>favorite design
Diluc 2nd outfit, Ayaka 2nd outfit, Nilou
>least favorite design
Ei, Yae Miko
>least favorite male char
Ayato
>least favorite female char
Ei, Yae Miko

No. 343970

Is this even genshin anymore kek really cool animations

No. 343974

File: 1703156989221.webp (Spoiler Image,5.62 KB, 195x224, IMG_0851.webp)

Samefag, the rumored XQ skin is coming and he has a little mini low ponytail

No. 343982

>>343970
Really nice animations, just wasted on an uninspired design

No. 343985

Anons who complain about farmers hating every female design, they hate every single male design just the same kek. I think Gaming is really cute and his design looks cool, his model is also a huge improvement in quality and detail from the previous Liyue boys released in 1.0.

No. 344000

>>343985
>his model is also a huge improvement in quality and detail from the previous Liyue boys released over three years ago
How impressive!!!

Agree with the other anons, he has the weakest male design so far. Very forgettable.

No. 344011

>>343985
It's not bad by itself, just basic. It ticks off the list of the most basic design rules like every clothing piece making sense and being in harmony etc but the same clothing could belong to literally any other character. It's a very common modern-traditional mix you can see on any character in any game. >>341411 These designs on the other hand have design elements that could belong only to a character that does the Lion dance/has relations to a tiger. It has the shoes he'd wear during the dance, the fur resembling a tiger around his neck, tiger eyes, lion tail in the back of his clothing. Even the right one with no fur scarf has it on his wrists. You look at these and can tell he's a performer and is active. You look at the final design and he just looks like a guy from Liyue.

No. 344012

his design is not as good as the concept art but i think most of the hate comes from his color palette because red + brown hair is associated with shounen protagonists. however i think he looks kinda cute, and i don't mind the shounen bakugan reference kek

No. 344023

>>343985
Yeah I agree with the model improvements. Look at xingqiu and chongyun it’s very noticeable. Makes me happy that Xing is getting a new skin tbh,

No. 344088

>>343970
Is he really a 4 star? Waaaaay too much effort went into him and that's not a bad thing at all. Idk what caused this (maybe just because his motif was culturally important to hoyo) but I hope this effort becomes a trend.

No. 344223

>>344088
They did the same thing with Yunjin who was inspired by chinese opera, she sings during her idle animation and her does like those dance thingies from the opera. They probably have to put more effort and be more respectfull to characters who are directly inspired by chinese culture.

No. 344225

>>344223
nta but
>Chinese Honkai players tried to commit first degree murder because hoyo put a Chinese god character in a bunny costume
Now that I think of it you're right

No. 344226

>>344225
Nationalism is so fucking scary.

No. 344238

File: 1703266301038.jpg (267.83 KB, 2048x1152, Chiori.jpg)

this is somehow worse than cloud retainer's design….

No. 344291

File: 1703288748158.png (483.81 KB, 548x700, 003842.png)

>>344238
The garter belt is nasty but at least she doesn't have an open back all the way to her damn ass crack. Cloud Retainers side view might as well be completely naked. Hopefully this will be the last time they ever use this full body stocking bullshit in a design, it was already cringe as hell when it was just Ganyu and Shenhe.

No. 344311

File: 1703291746976.png (558.66 KB, 500x725, download.png)

>>344291
Good lord that looks both foul and ridiculous. Literally picrel, Mihoyo played everyone who thought she had a non-coomer outfit from the splash image.

No. 344336

File: 1703307726555.jpg (505.36 KB, 2048x1152, epiOuZi.jpg)

Official new year art

The "directing" event is so fun, I like cute short event challenges that involve characters. But about the 2nd story of the event, they really pulled a reason out their ass to replace the sibling that got no spotlight in his country's story with a female character that looks the farthest thing from Ayaka. Actor Ayato was going to be so fun to see but we can't have nice things I guess. I really can't understand what's going through their heads while writing these events. The single male character in the event and he leaves after one act despite the premise being that he's one of the two main characters.

No. 344340

>>344336
why furina and not neuvillette?

No. 344345

>>344340
Archons are the Celestia appointed rulers. Neuv is the original ruler dragon, he just got back his previous position not the archon position. Zhongli is also in the picture despite not being an Archon any longer.

No. 344349

>>344345
that sucks.

No. 344354

>>344345
>previous position not the archon position
Not entirety true. Yeah he’s not an archon but he did say that he’s taking over the archon role and its previous duties. I think “archon role” was the exact wording he used even.

No. 344356

>>344340
Because if they don't include enough female characters they will scare off the moids.

>>344336
Thess outfits are very cute, kek at venti and furina wearing those shorts in the winter

No. 344360

File: 1703331275894.jpeg (225.08 KB, 744x1049, IMG_0862.jpeg)

Thought this Christmas art was cute so I’m doing a mini-dump

No. 344361

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No. 344363

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No. 344364

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No. 344368

>>344360
Thank you nonna they're really pretty except for Arlecchino's face which looks like it's supposed to be a certain art style but failed. Still nice idea though

No. 344373

>>344368
Glad you liked it anon! Happy holidays
>they're really pretty except for Arlecchino's face
kek

No. 344512

File: 1703412609424.jpeg (207.45 KB, 1200x675, GB9jFc8asAAGQRu.jpeg)

Official art for the upcoming Hoyofair event

No. 344513

File: 1703412682741.jpeg (2.2 MB, 4003x3058, GCBmQc9acAAMwaU.jpeg)

>>344512
Do anons here feel anything on seeing official art of female characters with exposed midriff/cleavage/thighs etc.? I saw many women on Twitter going crazy over Ningguang, Navia and Lumine's outfits. Personally, I do not feel much except disdain because I HATE how male characters are always covered from head to toe in loose-fitting outfits, even in modern settings, while female characters are consistently drawn in skimpy outfits.

No. 344514

>>344513
Anime girls barely resemble humans to me, does any normal person even feel attraction to them? They're abstract pug-like creatures to me.

No. 344515

>>344513
The skin showing is not tasteful so they just look like the coomerbait they are designed to be to me. If the game didn't desensitize me to thighs spilling from a meaningless space on the pants or armpits being shown on every single woman I could find the occasional skin reveal sexy just like how Childe's small stomach skin and Heizou's side chest windows are sexy in a subtle way. Ningguang could look "unexpectedly" sexy if her in game outfit wasn't already too revealing for her job. I'm hoping we never get to the point where people see huge boobs spilling everywhere and think it looks like a human being… Anyone else saw that one gacha art on twitter a few months ago?

No. 344516

>>344513
>I saw many women on Twitter going crazy over Ningguang, Navia and Lumine's outfits. Personally, I do not feel much except disdain because I HATE how male characters are always covered from head to toe in loose-fitting outfits, even in modern settings, while female characters are consistently drawn in skimpy outfits.
I agree with you a lot, I'm a lesbian but I feel only feel annoyed that the male characters are fully clothed and the girls have to wear skimpy clothes. This will probably get me in trouble, but those "girls" on twitter who go crazy about these female anime characters (calling them mommy ect) are mostly teenage girls who feel they need to be a cool girl and act like a horny moid. I can't imagine actually finding this attractive kek.

>>344514
I have never felt attracted to an anime girl, the only fictional girl i have actually felt attracted to was Vi from arcane kek.

>>344515
>Anyone else saw that one gacha art on twitter a few months ago?
I have not seen it, but I'm guessing it was really bad. I hate how sexualized female designs are normalised. And like you said, there is nothing wrong with a bit of subtle sexy elements. But these designs are always so over the top, non human and frankly disgusting kek.

No. 344522

>>344516
those girls aren't even lesbian anyway

No. 344529

>>344512
Holy FUCK the Lumine outfit is so trashy it makes me cringe.

>>344516
I'm a lesbian too and I hate nothing more than how all the performative polilez barely adult EiMiko shippers have made it so that fandom lesbians are always obscenely horny over moidish designs and that you can never complain about female characters consistently being made for male coom or you're being "lesbophobic". None of those people begging mommy Cloud Retainer to fuck them would eat pussy in real life, never, but most of them will never even end up with the predicament since a sizable amount of them are degenerate she/her transbian degenerates leaving bomb threats on every male character's release post.

No. 344530

>>344513
Kinda looks like Ninnguang's outfit covered her body at first, but some monkey brained scrote from art direction saw this and demanded she showed some skin, so the artist had to cut out an awkward hole on her thigh.

No. 344531

>>344513
Ningguangs high heeled sneakers are so fucking retarded. I would've liked her outfit without that and the stupid random missing thigh fabric. Every other design for this collab is trash

No. 344532

>>344513
At least I like how Diluc looks, his outfit is cute and cozy, I want to do unspeakable things to him.

No. 344533

>>344360
>>344364
Gartaglia and nottore.

No. 344536

>>344530
one of the most notable points of her original design is the leg cutouts, it was definitely intended from the start. wouldn't be surprised if it was the other way around and the artist ended up adding more clothes after deciding she would be in the front so it wouldn't look like a pure softcore porn add when half their playerbase is still underage.

>>344532
his is unironically the worst. lazy pose and expression and an unremarkable outfit with no resemblance to his original design other than being fully clothed unlike any of the others. he's already ugly but they did him dirty. if not for the hair he would barely register as a character instead of some random background helper. he was a bad choice for this.

No. 344537

File: 1703424577722.png (3.88 MB, 1919x1083, damn.png)

Traveler desperately needs a new outfit. look how outdated Lumine's model is compared to all the new girls.

No. 344540

>>344537
Maybe it's because I haven't played in a while but them all using the exact same base body looks uncanny…

No. 344545

File: 1703426547554.png (Spoiler Image,1.07 MB, 1196x825, eww.png)

>>344515
>Anyone else saw that one gacha art on twitter a few months ago?
Kek I guess you are talking about Kashino from Azur Lane. What shocked me the most is that the artist is a woman. It is very disheartening how so many women genuinely enjoy drawing super coomerized art of female characters meanwhile there probably isn't even a single moid artist who would draw male characters that would appeal to fujos/yumes.

No. 344546

>>344545
>how so many women genuinely enjoy drawing super coomerized art of female characters
>she doesn't know those women are doing it for the money
sage for ot

No. 344548

>>344514
Despite being lesbian I barely find anime girls attractive at all. To me they represent moid pandering, they're mindless sex dolls made for men to slobber over. They're not real women and that's why the "you're misogynist if you don't like female characters" narrative is so retarded, as if 90% of these characters weren't created solely for scrotes. You can almost immediately tell when there's a female character who was made by someone wanted to just make a good character with a nice design because the vibe is noticeably different from those that are made by either coom-addicted men or alternatively women who caught coom-addicted male brainrot fleas.

>>344545
Horrifying. Meeting women who unironically like and create this shit in real life is absolutely horrifying and 2 times out of 3 they're obnoxious NLOGs who think they've ascended for thinking unnaturally big booba bursting out of lingerie is soooo sexy please notice me.

No. 344554

>>344529
Extremely trashy. It doesn't match get original style at all, and it's too trashy for any setting even for any other female character. It's just horribly overt, unfashionable coom.

No. 344555

>>344536
I mean, his outfit is extremely out of character but he looks cute, just because he doesn't have foxy sharp eyes doesn't make him ugly, I think he's really cute. Still though, he needs a model update desperately.

No. 344560

>>344336
Cute venti and zhongli

No. 344604

>>344537
It was the perfect opportunity to give Traveler a new outfit when Ayaka suggested buying a kimono for them. No idea why the writers even included that moment just to go "jk lol".

>>344545
>there probably isn't even a single moid artist who would draw male characters that would appeal to fujos/yumes
Have you never heard of faggots anon? There's plenty of scrotes that draw male characters women are into because gay men are also attracted to pretty boy yaoi, not just bara muscle beasts.

No. 344651

>>344537
I honestly find most of the other girls overdesigned. Imo simple is better and genshin really has a huge problem with overdesigning its characters.

No. 344813

File: 1703552651153.jpeg (1.29 MB, 4096x2304, GCGe2RzbUAAuNoY.jpeg)

merikuri

No. 344952

>>344545
are you retarded? they are paid for drawing these, it's not a passion project or a hobbie kek
also, paraphrasing another anon, there are a bunch of gay moids who draw attractive men, twink bishies included

No. 345126

File: 1703685179640.jpeg (1.45 MB, 3600x2700, GCRIPibacAANDt5.jpeg)

More official art

No. 345128

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No. 345137

>>345126
>>345128
The difference is insane. They really look at these together and see no problem. Is it just me or were they more subtle about their coomerism at the beginning? Not only the designs but also these commercial stuff got so out of hand. Makes me ashamed to admit I like this game at all at this point. Not important but even the resident naked man Itto being covered in this one makes me kek

No. 345145

>>345137
>Is it just me or were they more subtle about their coomerism at the beginning?
It was way more subtle, just look at the 1.0 female characters, back then Lisa had the most sexy design.

>>345126
This art actually made me decide to stop buying welkins kek. I know I shouldn't have put any money on this game anyway, but I just wanted to grab my fave characters. It just makes me so sad, because I finally thought I found a big weeb game with a good budget that would actually also try to appeal to the female gaze and not sexualize the female characters too much. Like all these shitty open world anime games have the most coomerish and over sexualized female characters. It's so sad, I guess my only hope is Infinity Nikki, even though that will probably focus more on the dress up part like the other games in the Nikki series. I don't want to start writing a whole manifesto about how much the game industry caters to moids, but god damn. I feel like mihoyo just baited female players to play the game at launch and then slowly decided to pander more to moids with each update.

No. 345149

>>345145
lisa? sure, she had the ara ara meme moaning thing but mona, jean, and fischl were so bad they had to be censored and beta ayaka was made for panty shots alone, not to mention some of the prerelease promo art. you wish they were more subtle about it back then, you probably feel that way because it opened with a buch of back to back male releases to bait fujos. this is just the kind of game genshin is.

No. 345157

>>345128
>all the same boring form-fitting racing suits
Seriously? Couldn't even attempt to switch it up? Especially when you look at >>345126 which doesn't even look like clothes

No. 345159

>>345149
Fischl didn't get censored, Jean got censored because in china they think showing cleavage is worse then flashing panties. You are right about Fischls design being bad tho, I kinda forgot because I use her skin from the Klee summer island event so much. I guess I really did get baited by the male releases at the start. But I still insist that those designs are still not as bad as the characters we later get like Shenhe and Eula.

No. 345164

>>345137
>>345157
The guys are dressed as drivers and the girls are race queens. Of course they wouldn't draw it the other way around.

No. 345167

>>345159
eula was still from 1.x, she was definitely designed before the game released. ganyu and rosaria who was censored too. I do think the coom has been pretty consistent, this is from the honkai company after all.

>Fischl didn't get censored

oops, I forgot it wasn't fischl, but amber who was censored back then, the very first character you meet after paimon kek.

No. 345169

>>345137
>Is it just me or were they more subtle about their coomerism at the beginning? Not only the designs but also these commercial stuff got so out of hand. Makes me ashamed to admit I like this game at all at this point.
Yes!! I said this about hoyo during the game awards too. It’s so embarrassing at this point to admit you play genshin cause they’re shameless now with the coomer designs and ads.
>>345128
Also is this AI or something? Why is Arataki and Fontaine spelled as Araraki and Fointaine

No. 345172

>>345164
So? They can still attempt to make the race driver outfits look interesting or different. Its not like the characters are actually getting in the cars and driving, its a commissioned fanart piece for players to enjoy.

No. 345176

File: 1703704337096.png (3.03 MB, 2434x3622, F_DcP_EbkAA2nfj.png)

Any anons who think that the game was less coomer-ish when it first came out are on some military grade copium. The game has had anime girls wearing lingerie and hotpants while their tits jiggle around like pudding since release day. Honestly I think Liyue and Inazuma were the worst eras for pornified female designs and - other than Skirks ugly stripper outfit - things have massively improved since Fontaine.

I just wish they'd design more tall male characters like Wriothesley because I'm sick and tired of 90% of the game being either comically sluttily dressed women, comically overdressed men, or underage looking manlets.

No. 345189

File: 1703711158761.png (627.77 KB, 640x433, burn.png)

>Friend i'm hanging with asks me to look up this character i've never heard of because i'm not a genshinfag
>For some reason my hands keep typing and i end up with "Yaoyaoi"
>"I saw that"

I would have gotten away with hiding that i'm into it, if it weren't for you genshinfags and goofy ahh chinese names
I'm still so deeply embarassed

No. 345191

Chevreuse just casually talking about how her dad almost killed her but it made her a better person, oh China.
Even if it would've just been more boring politics talk I'dve liked to see Neuvi and Ayato interact.
Story was pretty meh and cliche like most events, but I liked the directing and shooting minigames.

>>345176
Will forever be annoyed Cyno isn't the tall model.
Hope we get some hot Natlan guys.

No. 345192

>>345176
>copium
Integrate redditfag

No. 345200

I love Genshin's open world, underwater and so on. I love that it's accessibile on mobiles (tablet in my case) because I'm very busy and often don't have time to start up my ps plus it's portable.
But man, the coomer part is so bad, and most of the quests are so boring. I wish we had a skip button so bad.

No. 345205

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>>345200
Same, Genshin is enjoyable as long as I only play with characters I like and don't go online to see what people post about them kek but that skip button is never coming. I'm sure they write the dialogue to be as long-winded as possible on purpose, they wouldn't gain anything by allowing players to skip

No. 345211

>>345200
the dialog is so bad and i'm tired of the cookie cutter never-changing never-growing characters (for that reason scara is my favorite, he is the only character in game that actually had character growth, we will likely never see that again). i wish i could just do exploration and world quests without cutscenes (i really liked the long desert ones and the long sumeru one). i also ignore the canon characterization of chars and pretend they are my own character that i dressed up like it's the sims, ayaka might be annoying canonically but MY ayaka is a great warrior that is on a quest to improve her swordmanship.

No. 345213

>>345205
Holy shit that screenshot is so accurate. Especially with paimon explaining the whole quest again while you’re walking/picking up the quest item

No. 345215

>>345200
you could always buy a steam deck and play real games on the go. it's perfect for piracy, emulation, and VN/otome. I had to quit genshin because of the boring unskippable story, events, and gacha farming gameplay, and the open world is kind of… really ugly and poorly made, tbh the novelty of those has worn off on me and I started to find them overrated. I don't even like the characters anymore because of the ridiculous vtuber look every design seems to have regardless of sex, and the female characters being terrible in both design and writing is depressing. not to mention just building them is aids. I don't do spiral abyss or anything so why bother?

No. 345228

>>345215
Nta but I feel what you're saying so much. Like literally playing any other good game is so freeing. You realize how shit genshin really is. But then there's pics like this >>344813 and I go back to genshin. All the cute lantern rites with Xiao, playing Mondstadt for the first time and being so intrigued by Venti, getting a crush on Scara. Moments like that keeps me coming back all the time. No open world game has cute male anime characters that feel female-gazey like that.

No. 345303

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>>345128
I feel like this artist is just incapable of designing good outfits, this second piece is way better

No. 345304

>>345215
Honestly not a bad idea. Sadly it's too expensive for me right now but once my income is steadier I'll probably buy it.

No. 345305

for the amount of cute husbandos genshin has that were also designed by actual female staff (so you know they're female gazey), i can ignore most of the coomer designs since usually they aren't as hideous as something like azur lane, blue archive or fgo. obviously the bar is in hell but at least in fontaine the worst that we got so far is clorinde and i think sumeru was pretty decent overall. faruzan, layla, nilou, candace all look quite pretty to me without any big coomer elements. the biggest offenders seem to be in liyue + skirk who might be an even shittier design solely because she's a honkturd clone with zero personality, hell even shenhe's BBL onlyfans thot design has more personality than her…

No. 345322

File: 1703759045240.jpg (Spoiler Image,409.91 KB, 2046x680, w2T55JC.jpg)

>>345305
>Liyue
Hoyoverse's inability to design Chinese female characters was called out recently on twitter, even by coomers and trannies. Spoilered for Honkai. This is the newest game with already few characters btw, so all of these literally came out consecutively. How they know their own culture the best yet make the weirdest designs is beyond me. Other areas don't get fucked up in the name of fantasy as much as Liyue.
>>345303
I love this art. Kaveh's arms are times sexier than naked women with weird muscles.

No. 345360

>>345322
kek if a western company did this they would be called out for being racist and relying on stereotypes. the chinese culture is rich, why are they all designed like this?

No. 345376

>>345322
Makes me kek when I remember how people were for some reason tinfoiling that all of Genshins good devs and artists switched to work on HSR. Now the characters in Star Rail turned out to be so fucking ugly and boring while Genshin has actually improved in both writing and character designs.

No. 345383

>>345376
>Genshin has actually improved in both writing and character designs
I've seen no improvement at all on either of these

No. 345427

>>345376
i think they made the “good” designers work on star rail’s launch- they had some sick designs and genshin had the shittiest designs around this time (like tignari and nahida) but they went back to genshin afterwards. Star rail had a strong launch but it has been shit since then, and I’m not talking just design wise

No. 345439

>>345427
What's wrong with Tighnari? He's got a lot of colors going on but that's the only criticism I could possibly think about him.

No. 345454

>>345439
He looks like shit but that’s just my very subjective opinion

No. 345500

>>345454
Tighnari’s design would be better if he had matching sleeves.

No. 345526

can people here please stop complaining about genshin being coomer? like holy hell if youre unable to see female characters in your games then play shit like enstars or obey me.

No. 345528

>>345500
He also would've looked better with a darker skintone imo. And I've rarely felt that way about characters in general, but when I see fanart of him with brown skin it somehow looks way nicer considering all the multi-color shit already going on. But maybe it's just because any changes are an improvement over the original

>>345526
Those are rhythm and turn-based games, how does that even compare to Genshin and Obey Me has a female character too kek

No. 345537

>>345526
I’ll complain about whatever I want here stupid bitch and there’s nothing you can do about it.

No. 345540

>>345526
I love female characters I don't like coomer designs. Also stop complaining about people discussing shit and go to reddit if you want to only hear praise. Literally everywhere on the Internet but here you have to praise coomer shit or get piled on so just go anywhere else.

No. 345541

>>345526
Where else can we complain about it without being called misogynists?

No. 345546

>>345526
No. Go back to calling raiden your sapphic mommy girlfailure on twitter if it bothers you.

No. 345548

>>345526
i want to play an rpg though, retard. you think you are being soo feminist by telling women to just play otomes and retarded idol games instead of an actual rpg don’t you

No. 345623

>>345526
I didn't expect to see this when it's almost 2024, it's a very 2021 Inazuma release statement kek. anyway fuck off, if you're so bothered over women not liking coomer designs then you go back to the nikke subreddit or whatever

No. 345628

>>345376
This, the only good designs in Star Rail were in the very beginning and then it dipped immediately. They're so bad now, everything looks AI so generic I'm not surprised that they keep handing out free stuff since people aren't interested in pulling for uninspired AI generated slop #45346. Genshin's designs have only gotten better with time imo, at least I can tell female characters apart from each other which is already better than what Star Rail has going on as proven here >>345322 .

>>345427
There's a reason why the Star Rail thread died in a month. The story is even more autistic than HI3 and it's a huge snoozefest with characters that don't really have the charisma and relatability Genshin characters do since the game takes itself way too seriously.

No. 345641

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>>344537
I like Lumine's outfit but it would be fun if she got a new one each region. It's strange how infrequent skins are in Genshin.
>>344513
>>344512
>>345126
>>345128
Only this >>345303 one is good. The other designs just suck. They really need to quality check the artists they're giving this work to instead of approving whatever coomer slop. The coomerism is mostly outside of the game, at least.
>>344291
It would look better if only part of her back was exposed or none. I like Bayonetta but this is not it. Overall I think Sumeru and Fontaine have been pretty coom free though minus Clorinde. Nilou, Layla, Dehya, Furina, Navia, Arlecchino, all of them have been well-received by women. Even the duds like Nahida have had story relevance that make them more than just coom bait. There's been a lot of fanservice for women in the men too, though I'd like to see a male character exposing as much skin as Itto again.

No. 345849

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Anons, I've just gotten around playing the Archon quest with the Furina/Focalor drama. I'm ESL and I don't understand what has actually happened during the quest? Can someone tell me if I got the story right? Spoiler below in case some anons haven't played the quest yet.

From what I understand, Focalor separated her "divinity" self and "humanity" self creating human Furina to play the fake Archon for 500 years right? But they're actually the same person? Just separated? But then Focalor also mentioned that they're both not humans too and were Oceanids. Focalor wanted to avoid the wrath of Celestia and the inevitable prophecy that's why she "created/separated" her humanity side to trick Celestia. But I still don't get why she needed to separate her divinity/god self and human self to trick Celestia? She's just making herself and Furina suffer for nothing because in the end the prophecy did happen? Also, does that mean all the characters from Fontaine like Navia, Lyney, Lynette etc are not human but Oceanids? What about character from other nations? Also Focalor mentioned that before the Archons become rulers of Teyvat, it was the dragons who ruled before them, so does that mean the Archons are actually just demi gods? While "Celestia" is/are the actual God(s)?

Is it just me or does the game's main story is becoming too complicated to comprehend? Or maybe I'm just bad at following Genshin lore because I have the attention span of a gnat haha. Please someone explain to me like I'm Razor who doesn't understand english. Thanks!

No. 345853

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>>345849
Tl;dr of the story:
Hundreds of years ago, long before the Cataclysm, Egeria turned the Oceanids of Fontaine into mortal humans (only in Fontaine) as a gift to them. Celestia had a hissy fit because she didn't ask for permission and made the Prophecy saying all the Oceanid-humans would get washed away beneath the waves and the Hydro Archon would be left crying on her throne. The God-King Remus overthrew Egeria possibly with Celestia's consent and tried to reason with Celestia after he took over, but Celestia wouldn't hear him out and he went crazy trying to protect the people by turning them all into Golden Ichor and making them into robots. Before he could do that Remuria got swallowed by the Abyss and Egeria took over again. She then died during the Cataclysm helping Rukkhadevata protect Irminsul and her body became the giant flower that the Pari protect, leaving her second-in-command Focalors in charge.
Focalors realized the only way to save the people of Fontaine, who weren't really fully human yet, was to get the Hydro Sovereign (Neuvilette) to turn them all into real humans so they wouldn't dissolve in Primordial Seawater. But Neuvilette didn't have his full powers and wouldn't have them as long as a Hydro Archon existed. So she made a plan to store enough Indemnidium to fully destroy the seat of the Hydro Archon so Neuvilette could turn the Oceanid-humans into real humans and she couldn't be replaced. Celestia needed to think she was acting as the Hydro Archon or they might start the Prophecy too early, but she needed to entirely focus on her task. So she split herself (she was also an Oceanid-human, but with divine power as the Archon) into her "divine" self and her "human" self. Her human self became Furina and was given the task of pretending to be divine until Focalors could store up enough power. Focalors went into the Oratrice and stored up the emotional energy from 500 years worth of trials into a weapon that could fully destroy the Hydro Archon. Furina pretended to be fully divine. Neuvilette lived among the Oceanid-humans and learned to relate to them.
When the Traveler and Neuvilette put Furina on trial trying to figure out what she was hiding, they accidentally revealed Furina wasn't divine. Celestia triggered the Prophecy and started flooding Fontaine, which would dissolve the Oceanid-humans into water. But Focalors' trial triggered and she used the stored power to kill herself after explaining what was about to happen to Neuvilette. Neuvilette regained his full power as the Hydro Sovereign and decided to turn the Oceanid-humans into real people who wouldn't dissolve in Primordial Seawater, making it seem like the Prophecy happened but really averting it. This included Furina, who wasn't executed because she was Focalors' "human" half. Neuvilette then gifted Furina her Vision when she returned to the stage, making her a potential god candidate again.

No. 345874

The boring dialogue is the worst part of Genshin. I've been seeing Furina and Neuvilette everywhere recently, I like Neuvilette's design and was curious why they seem so popular so I tried to play again. But I can't get past the Chasm, because it is way too boring for me. The dialogue and quests really suck, maybe I'll try again if we eventually get a skip button but I don't have hope for that. Which is very odd, why don't they have that I wonder.

No. 345887

File: 1704032796886.jpeg (80.2 KB, 1280x390, IMG_0783.jpeg)

Here’s uncoloured Xingqiu skin

No. 345888

>>345887
did they make his shorts longer?

No. 345891

>>345887
Long shorts REEEEEEEE

No. 345899

>>345887
we truly cant have shit

No. 345913

>>345887
why are all the skins in genshin so bad? the only one i like is ningguangs.

No. 345919

>>345887
I get the Ciel reference but xingqiu is a hoe who likes his shorts short.

No. 345928

>>345887
>>>>>>>>longer shorts
Fucking GARBAGE. I don't need to see anything else and thanks for letting me save my money mihoyo

No. 345946

>>345913
I like Lisa's

No. 345950

>>345853
Thanks anon! You're my hero.

Tbh I think Focalors/Furina had it coming since she defied Celestia lol. I really find this Archon quest more interesting than previous ones. The most boring Archon quest was definitely Ei's.

On another note… wtf?! What did they do to Xingqiu's short shorts?! A travesty!

No. 345957

>>345928
the skin will be free so you dont even need to spend any money for it

No. 346129

File: 1704165731965.jpg (408.84 KB, 2402x1585, FZgkpEzXkAks2KP.jpg)

>>345913
Fischl's skin is a major improvement over the original.

No. 346151

>>345887
I don't get why people want him in shorter shorts? Wtf who but shotacons would care? He's looks and acts like he's 13.
I'm glad the hair is different I hate the original a lot.

No. 346157

File: 1704188213008.jpg (Spoiler Image,49.76 KB, 608x640, ytIUhTjl.jpg)

Very blurry picture of the skins in game.

>>346129
I love Fischl her skin, I don't think I will ever take it off.

>>346151
>shotacons
I feel like we argue about this every thread, if XQ is a shota then Ganyu, Yanfei and all the other female characters who also use a shorter model must be loli.
>but women are shorter then males, so because of this there is no possible way that a male can be shorter then a woman!!
tell that to all the ugly manlets i have to see everyday
Also it's not like I want him in shorter shorts, it's just hypocritical that the female characters keep there skimpy clothes (see Shenhe and Ganyu skins), but Kaeya and Xingqiu actually get covered up more. Also his hair is the same, the only thing they added was a small ponytail in the back.

No. 346158

>>346157
woah, they all look like shit. I like how mihoyo doesn't bother to change the hair, facial expression, makeup, or anything for their skins most of the time, and on the rare occasion that they do it's like playing spot the difference on hard mode. the bare minimum in other games both big and small. but the designs are improving soooo much you guise!!!

No. 346161

File: 1704190847305.jpg (1.1 MB, 1121x3897, lyney.jpg)

>>346157
>Very blurry picture of the skins in game.
Not a fan of any of those. Someone take away the colors blue and black from their skin designer.
>I feel like we argue about this every thread, if XQ is a shota
Lyney's JP VA calls Lyney a shota. There's no shortage of artists calling them shotas either and it's obvious in a lot of fan art with how it's drawn. It's not a coincidence that so many of them have the shota shorts in-game.
>https://youtu.be/jofWnBD8MmM?si=jPtS30_iJ_IHxAd6&t=160
>then Ganyu, Yanfei and all the other female characters who also use a shorter model must be loli.
They would have used to have qualified. The two words have taken different trajectories catering to different audiences. Clarisse from Castle of Caligostro, somewhere between 16 and 18, used to be the iconic loli character of the 80s and she has about the same body type as those characters.

No. 346162

>>346157
I know what you're saying but I'd like Yanfei and so on more covered too.

No. 346170

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>>346157
Here’s blurry Ganyu splash art.
>>346129
Fischl’s skin is great. Funny how the non blue skins are the best ones.

No. 346172

>>346157
Ganyu gets her tits as focus, Shenhe has the whole side of her body out, but Xq gets a niqab skin so moids don't get uncomfortable by his short shorts anymore. I give up

No. 346176

>>346158
They did give Ganyu a bun which makes her hair a tiny bit better. But yes they have the same silhouette and are pretty boring.

>>346161
Not trying to start an argument, but since when do the va decide these things about characters? The eng va of paimon said she was an enby, should we now al refer to paimom as they/them? I also never heard of shota shorts before, it might be because im a zoomer with very little background in anime. Aren't
the character models of nahida, qiqi ect called loli in the game files? While the short characters are literally called, short female and short male. If shota and loli just means young girl/boy and that includes the age range of 16y-18y then yes i guess about 70% of the cast is either loli or shota kek.
>They would have used to have qualified
Who the hell decides that, you can't make exceptions like that. Just because males are infantilized irl and women sexualized doesn't mean that we have to change these terms in fiction and reinforce these standards.

>>346162
Yeah i would like them covered more too, but if anything i think XQ outfit resembles hu tao the most. And even then her shorts are still tinier. Like i said, its not like i need or want tiny shorts on him. Its just the double standards that bother me.

No. 346191

>>346170
I love the shoes, wish it went with an actual dress instead of magic glue fabric pieces. Other than that, what even is the point of skins if the silhouette will stay the same? It's the same clothing in different colours with little detail changes in the front which I won't see.

No. 346196

>>346170
I couldn't care less about Ganyu, such a bland character. All the Liyue skins are lame and black/blue.
Best skins for me were Ayaka in Fontaine, Lisa in Sumeru, Fishl's magical heroine dress, Klee as a little witch. Even Kaeya's skin's concepts were okay, they just fucked up modelling and coloring it. I feel like even Jean and Barbara are better than every single uninspired Liyue skin. Why do they do such bad skins for Liyue characters, is there some connection to blue and black in Chinese mythos or something?

No. 346215

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So they’re really going with Scara being a university student at Sumeru. I really thought it was a thing Nahida only suggested for an event. Not that his character who's supposed to wander just chills at a university. His arc really is over, wished they would have tied him in to the overall story of the game more continuously like Childe.

No. 346217

>>346157
>>346170
>>346191
They're not terrible and anything would be better than Shenhe's base skin but they're not very distinct from the originals. It's like they're afraid of deviating too far from the original designs and just throw dark blue on everything. It's a shame, a skin should be different than the original, that's the whole point.

No. 346218

>>346157
Why did they make Xingqiu cosplay as Furina

No. 346222

>>346157
Everything about xq's skin is a downgrade. Can't have shit anymore.

No. 346225

why won’t they just release the og scara outfit as a skin. like don’t even upgrade it just release it as is free money for hoyoverse. i need it so bad

No. 346342

>>346215
Honestly I kinda like it, I think it's funny

No. 346351

>>346342
I do too knowing that Scara haters kill cats because he gets to hang out with Nahida. He’s just very popular with the ladies kek.

No. 346363

>>346351
>he gets to hang out with Nahida
>He’s just very popular with the ladies kek
you mean lolis? gross

No. 346364

>>346363
I think anon meant he's popular with real life women. At least, that's what I hope.

No. 346514

>>346364
Yes it’s a joke referencing the cat killings in china.

No. 346696

i liked chevreuse and chiori's personality in the game, it was so contrasting with the kamisato siblings's bland personality even though it was a short quest lol
i headcanon them as besties who listen to true crime together

No. 346988

And done with Inazuma commissions. Wonder how many cycles the rest of Sumeru is going to take…

No. 346992

I just unlocked Inazuma, its probably too early to judge but I'm not a huge fan. Its a little ugly compared to Liyue. Is the AQ any good?

No. 346996

>>346992
The Inazuma archon quest is probably the shittiest in the game. Don't get discouraged by it though, the Sumeru and Fontaine AQs are significant upgrades to it

No. 347001

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The tiger boy from wuthering waves looks so cute! He's what I wanted from Ga Ming. This question could go in the mobage gen but since they two games are so similar, is anyone going to be playing Wuthering Waves whenever it finally comes out?

>Inb4 bootleg

His design was out before the Ga Ming concept art, and his model and animations were finalized first.

No. 347013

>>347001
Their jiggle physics are even worse than genshin's. No thanks

No. 347019

>>347013
I only care about male characters so if the designs, animations, and models are better I'll gladly suck it up and move.

No. 347088

>>347001
The boys are cute so I’ll give it a shot at least.
>>347013
The character tits jiggling like water in balloon were so fucking gross when I first saw them. Moids really need to be gunned down.

No. 347144

>>346992
Enkanomiya and Tsurumi were the best parts about Inazuma, the AQ was trash. Sumeru was a huge upgrade in regards to the archon quest, world quests and exploration. I honestly almost dropped Genshin during Inazuma because I hated every second of it but loved both Sumeru and Fontaine.

No. 347148

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>>347001
Oh wow he seems really cute! I'm not sure if I will play it, the female characters seem even worse then the Genshin ones. I remember Genshin also having horrible jiggle physics, but they eventually toned it down. It also seems like there are a lot more female characters that will take the centre story wise then males? Genshin kinda baited female players by having so many male banners in the beginning, and giving husbandos important roles in the story. To be fair, Genshin still has almost an equal amount of 5 star female and male characters. And even in the latest AQ, male characters are still included and can play an important role in the story. The female MC design is also a lot more coomerish compared to the male one. I like how Aether also shows some skin. I choose Lumine, but if I will play Wuthering Waves I will probably choose the male mc because i cant stand the design of the female mc.
Sorry if it sounds like I'm complaining to much, I would really another openworld game with cute males and that doesn't have ridiculous female character designs. Pic related is a male character that will be playable. Of course they will never add an older looking lady, I'm afraid that even most men will be designed for the male gaze.

>>346992
The AQ is really bad, like others said. It's probably the worst AQ, however after slugging through Inazuma you will appreciate Sumeru even more kek.

No. 347152

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Wuthering waves looks like an actual Genshin bootleg but with the blandest fucking designs I've seen for both genders. Muted colours, everyone wears only black and white, the men look like NPCs and the girls like generic AI generated armpit fetish coombait. Only around 4 male playable characters vs. 10 female ones, that's a ratio even worse than Genshin had during its launch. It'll inevitably have the same fate as Star Rail did, everyone hypes it up for the launch and gushes about how much better it is than Genshin, then after the honeymoon phase fades off they quietly drop the game and eventually go back to playing Genshin after a new character they like is released.

No. 347166

>>346992
No, Inazuma sucks. I particularly hate the density of enemies. Can't interact with anything because first I need to defeat 100 identical boring enemies. They also tend to take more time to kill than other regional monsters.

No. 347174

>>347148
This guy looks like he was made to be a redditor self insert. The fedora + neckbeard + glasses wombo combo is certainly a choice

No. 347185

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>>347152
The pic you're using is old. The game has been in beta for years now and all those designs have long been revamped. The latest models look pretty nice, I love the detail on the guys' bodies. https://fxtwitter.com/blonneykisser/status/1743390215534706701?s=20

I don't care about it being a bootleg when Genshin itself is a Chinese gacha bootleg of Zelda. If the gameplay and animations are better, then that's all the difference it really needs. If memory serves, both games started development around the same time, this one just wound up stuck in limbo.

No. 347186

>>347148
You stole every word out of my mouth nonna

No. 347257

>>347185
A lot gray and black in the designs. Good to see that they actually gave a cute outfit to the little girl. Funny how many of the males are fully covered, the boob phsyics really do look like water balloons.

No. 347259

>>347185
Looking at the latest designs they still look exactly the same with only slight tweaks like changing the first girl's hair from black to green. The fedora tipper guy especially looks absolutely hideous with the mismatched colors and pieces, a lot of those have the same problem as Star Rail being having all the designs look like incoherent AI vomit. He looks like someone tossed the dice in a character randomizer, a literal clown outfit.

>If memory serves, both games started development around the same time, this one just wound up stuck in limbo.

Probably because they saw how what Genshin was doing became a runaway success and revamped the entire UI to ape it. Chinese game development scene in a nutshell. That's what it looks like to be honest, like they went for a more Nier style aesthetic but then backpedaled and wanted more of a colourful anime style instead. With the most offensive boob physics yet.

No. 347261

>>347185
The boob jiggle at 1:00 just made me shit myself laughing, what the hell is that? How can a game expect to be taken seriously when it has this in it?

No. 347265

>>347185
Every single guy is fugly, that's crazy
Aside from the ugly male power fantasy muscle body type, they also all have hideous rattail or other ugly shape of hair. Not one husbando material. And I thought Genshin males were ugly.
Sorry for reposting this I skipped over some characters before.

No. 347290

>>347265
They even have the damn female mc dressed with her pits out and tits jiggling but the male mc is completely covered up.

No. 347294

>>347265
the white hair guy, lion boy, and the cu chulainn lookalike are leagues better than any guy genshin put out in the last year

No. 347306

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>>347294
Are you serious? The cu chulainn one looks so fucking goofy in his nonsensical hairstyle and the bottom right guy in picrel is genuinely the ugliest male design I've seen, he's like a geriatric Sephiroth kek. One of them has a fucking neckbeard and a fedora that he tips in his animation, it's a joke. Like >>347265 said it's amazing they missed the mark on every single male character. The female ones look equally bad though so I can't even be mad about it, it's a pure skill issue.

No. 347310

>>347294
Lion boy is a shota and I'm not a coomer.
So, in my opinion: Long white hair looks like an ugly musclebeast for moids, he also looks really old and his face is ugly. The other white hair guy literally has a mullet.
Dark blue hair guy also has a hideous hairstyle with the sideburns and pineapple hair. Fedora tipper is straight up hilarious. Red hair guy looks like a cliche megane character that aren't interesting to me and has a rattail.
None of their clothes are really saying anything, designs are forgettable.
The girls look better imo, but the jiggle physics are terrible.

No. 347312

This discussion should've gone to a game thread already. It's gonna die in two months like any other game, even mihoyo's own game, so who even cares.

No. 347382

>>347306
the only remotely appealing looking one aside from the cute white hair lion guy is the red head guy and he's nothing special. what an atrocious looking cast of characters.

No. 347391

>>347294
are you one of those people who actually bought into the 'waah waahh we need to sexualize muscleheads/dadbods/grandpas more and add them in my anime video games' moid propaganda?
>>347306 all of the male cast here are boring or straight up ugly. the animations/3d models in >>347185 don't look any better. it's actually kind of amazing how unappealing they are tbh. they're like if someone designed based on a list of other, popular anime men but also had to stack on enough detracting ugly features in order to not offend other men's delicate male sensibilities or something.

No. 347392

>>347391
>had to stack on enough detracting ugly features in order to not offend other men's delicate male sensibilities or something.
kek I was going to say this earlier but didn't want to drag it on. The male designs really look like they tried to make it safe enough for the average fat otaku to not feel threatened by, only the cute lion and maaybe the knock-off sephiroth seem to not fit in this but the others look like they thought
>ok… surely this will get SOME men to like and roll for him too?
Meanwhile we have to stare at tits jiggling around like water balloons

No. 347407

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Happy birthday Thoma!

No. 347409

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Hi, can anyone tell me wtf this is? I climbed a cliff next to the waypoint on the west side of Mawtiyama Forest and found this weird ass tree. I can't find anything about it online and I would like to break this dendro seal/barrier/thing. Hitting it with dendro attacks does nothing. I can't climb on top of it because it has a roof that spreads out horizontally, and this is the tallest thing in the area so I can't glide to the top either. Any ideas?

No. 347442

>>347391
>>347310
>mentions two bishounens and a "shota"
>"hurr durr you like dadbods don't you?? kekw"
>if any short male genshin character was called a shota it would start a 3 week long infight
they're genuinely no worse than what we've been getting in genshin, it's straight up denial to insist otherwise. are you being hypercritical about them because it isn't genshin? if the long white haired guy was announced for genshin everyone would eat him up. the faces in the models are better proportioned to boot. sure, genshin has more of tall guys, genshin has also been out for 3 whole years and had only 2 on launch followed by ugly ass childe.
>sephiroth guy is a musclebeast
how? he hits a better twink middleground than itto and wriothesley, that's what a muscular male character should look like. nice body but still a prettyboy above all.

man, I know well by know that the genshin fanbase is full of autists but I hope this is a product of samefagging and this thread didn't get discovered by tiktok genshinfags for real. or more accurately, it sounds like spergy 4chan users did.

No. 347444

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>>347306
>the bottom right guy in picrel is genuinely the ugliest male design I've seen
I just don't see how a genshin impact player can say this with a straight face, I really don't. and I'm saying this as a genshin impact player. you may be suffering from stockholm syndrome.

No. 347452

>>347152
>eventually go back to playing genshin
No, thats where you are absolutely wrong. I would rather play any other gacha, because genshin is too high-maintenance. Btw hsr is still very popular.

No. 347453

>>347259
Imagine bitching about bad designs while liking genshin's ones. omega kek

No. 347457

Holy shit someone was seriously hurt over anons not liking ugly guys kek

No. 347458

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>>347444
Itto is a thousand times hotter than generic tacticool Sephiroth clone 1001.
>>347409
There will either be a puzzle nearby to break the door or you can sneak onto the top of the building and open it from the inside.

No. 347461

>>347442
I don't like genshin shotas either kek don't be upset we don't like your ugly genshin knockoff

No. 347470

>>347306
>female characters all have cutesy genki personalities
>all the male characters except the lion look angsty and serious
yawn give me interesting male characters for once i am tired of angsty serious dude n25145, its so unoriginal.

No. 347576

>>347444
I don't even husbando Itto but his design is vastly superior just because it actually shows personality compared to the white haired guy whose main design point is his abs being vacuum sucked by his full body stocking. I think the only male characters in Genshin that are really bland are Ayato and Gaming, the other male designs have personality even if they're subjectively ugly.
The WW guys all either look the same (copypaste face and skin tight space suit to show off their muscles) or they look retarded (fedora guy). It's obviously just to lure in horny women and fags because "l-look!!!!! our gacha might have shitty boob jiggle waifus BUT we also have sexy men showing off their abs!!!1!1!".
Genshin also baited the female players at the start but Venti, Zhongli, Tartaglia and Xiao actually have good or at least memorable designs.

No. 347605

>>347576
>the other male designs have personality
They look no less AI generated than the female ones. Ask anyone, this is the popular opinion about almost all of Mihoyo's character designs both male and female: painfully generic, cluttered, overdesigned, soulless, look like AI, pointless details, look like Z list vtubers, uncohesive, ugly, etc. People who aren't active fans of it take offense to their characters and others they like being compared to them. The majority of this thread's posts are purely dedicated to criticizing and fighting over them. Itto is a bad bootleg of another popular husbando from the former most popular gacha game in China. This is all pot calling the kettle black.

No. 347638

>>347605
kek reminds me of the time someone on twitter unironically tried to convince me that lyneys design is actually good

No. 347639

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>>347576
This. Even though they're often cluttered as fuck, Genshin's male designs are very enjoyable for always showing personality and being instantly recognizable, you couldn't confuse one for another. They have different expressions, different colour schemes, different body language etc. The wuthering waves guys look boring and generically edgy except the fedora guy who's absolutely hilarious but in a way that's not intended to be. The Genshin characters have pretty neutral/basic hairstyles too which compensates for their overdesigned outfits and give them a conventionally attractive look, that guy with the dark green pineapple on his head shows off why you don't want to do the opposite kek

No. 347663

>>347638
You should go back there newfag

No. 347683

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>>347638
every day genshin fans jump between breaking their backs to defend the shitty designs of a billion dollar company when they get compared to something else and complaining endlessly about those very designs, fighting eachother over who's the ugliest. it's the main discourse around the game besides porn.

>>347639
kek you should not have posted a picture compiling them, its working against you. they really look terrible and soulless when you put them together like that. you like them because you like the game, not because they're good, and conversely you hate the ww and sr ones because you don't want your favorite game to have competition, not because they're worse. colorful = personality is a sparkledogian cope.

ww is made by the same people as punishing grey raven, it'll be fine. that game has fun combat, a world chat, and a story skip button. and if they make another a guy like picrel in ww, I'm downloading immediately.

No. 347688

>>347683
>every day genshin fans jump between breaking their backs to defend the shitty designs of a billion dollar company
Or you know… Some people simply like the colorful genshin designs? And don't like generic scifi designs? And that's why they play Genshin. Do you realise not everyone has the same taste as you kek you don't have to do mental gymnastics about it
Also ew why are you posting coomer shota shit says a lot about your taste pedochan

No. 347692

>>347688
Basically this, I find the dark and angsty rpgs cringe 15 year old redditoid katana sheathing shit, I'd rather take my autistic sparkledog colorbursts over fake deep brooding and fedora tipping.

No. 347694

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>>347688
the colors in question: dark blue, brown, white, and whatever the fuck baizhu has going on. you can like ugly things all you want, just like how anons are welcome to like the coomer waifu designs. but don't insist that they're objectively better anything else kek you're only setting them up to get shat on harder.

>says a lot about your taste

like how I want to lick changyu's back down to his tailbone?

No. 347695

>>347694
>getting this mad over pineapple head and fedora tipper being insulted

No. 347696

>>347605
I've never heard any of these complaints about the male characters except for Gaming now being generic compared to his concept art. It's only the waifus that get complained about and even then some are pretty decent, outliers like Skirk and Clorinde are outliers, not the norm. >>347306 This is generic as hell compared to Genshin's designs.
>>347683
>>347694
Kek, this is your peak male design? He's nothing but a mediocre Judar ripoff. The open back is the only interesting thing here, he doesn't even have Judar's nice hair or ornaments to spice up the design.

No. 347698

>>347683
>>347694
who the fuck finds backs attractive he should show tits and ass and leg

No. 347699

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>>347605
The only tall male design I'd say is really overdesigned is Neuvillette, everyone else looks totally fine. They have a lot of small random details but they aren't offensive to the eyes.

>>347694
>male genshin designs suck because the colors in question are dark blue, brown, white
>anyway I wanna fuck this underaged looking guy dressed in all black
ok?

No. 347700

>fans of crappy chinese ripoff game with ugly characters fight players of other crappy chinese ripoff game ugly characters over which is the crappiest chinese ripoff with the ugliest characters
>this is the only activity the thread has seen in weeks
>aside from calling the new characters and promo materials ugly
Classic Genshin spergs

No. 347701

anyways do some nonas want to farm some stuff with me? it gets really lonely having no friends who play genshin..

No. 347702

>>347701
dead game

No. 347703


No. 347705

>>347700
The sperg is annoying but there's not a lot to talk about until 4.4. and the new area come out. The .3 and .5 patches are always dead, they're essentially filler patches with no map expansion.

No. 347706

>>347701
I would love to but I don't want to doxx myself kek. Try some random people from your server, they're usually nice!

No. 347707

>>347683
>>347694
Damn ok I still think most of the WW males look ugly as hell but this guy is hot as fuck. He’s in PGR?

No. 347717

>>347699
He really does look like a half naked prepubescent boy in the game, ew I don't get how that anon doesn't feel gross saying sexual stuff about it

No. 347718

>>347717
go back to twitter

No. 347720

>>347718
Posting shotashit is twitter behavior, lolcow never supported shota/loli gross shit you newfag

No. 347722

>>347720
that isnt even shota

No. 347732

>>347717
You should really go back. You stick out like a sore thumb.

No. 347733

>>347717
Agree with anons telling you to fuck off back to twitter

No. 347734

>>347720
he's 16. we've been posting the genshin "shotas" for years in here, schizo.

No. 347739

Being a nonroidpig enjoyer is pain lmao i am glad genshin exists for my manlet needs. Also its a rule of thumb that if the character doesnt look like a loli genderbent, then its not a shota. That guy would look like a generic girl with boobs.

No. 347785

>>347717
>>347720
Some moids stop growing after puberty, deal with it.(infighting)

No. 347815

>>347701
I was thinking the same thing earlier, same wavelength. Are you on the EU server? Honestly I'd love to play with anynonny who is kind. I made a post in the Friend Finder Thread >>>/g/372573 with contact info.

No. 347818

So Sandrone? is also the kind of psychopath who will mindbreak a guy and cut out his tongue to get on our 'good side'?
Wonder if we'll meet the rest of the Harbingers before Sheznaya. I guess Capitano will probably be in Natlan.

No. 348287

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This made me so happy, moids can kill as many cats as they want. Girls still like Scara. I wonder if mihoyo knows the extent of his popularity? I feel like we deserve a skin.

No. 348291

>>348287
I think all the other four are from a dating game. Goes to show how much love a character we get to bond with throughout the story can get, he even surpasses characters made to be liked by women.

No. 348302

>>348287
why is wanderer even that popular? he isnt really hot and his personality aint that great either.

No. 348312

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>>348302
Xiao and Zhongli was on the list too but couldn’t even reach top 5. Scara even won by a large margin. We’ve loved him since his first edgy appereance in 1.1, pic related, so he’s had a long time of building a fanbase. He’s also the only male character with some fleshed out personality in a popular game like Genshin.

No. 348315

>>348312
This pic feels so nostalgic. I started playing the game for Scara. I remember seeing this pic and saying I'll never play a game with those female character designs only to download it immediately once I saw a Scara clip and loved his design and EN voice. One of the few characters they took their time to flesh out, he deserves the love.

No. 348320

>>348302
He's one of the only characters who actually had character development and an arc spanning multiple years. Everyone else is extremely stagnant. Also tsundere boys are cute

>>348312
This is probably an unpopular opinion, but I never understood the love for Zhongli. He's always seemed kind of bland to me. I hate Neuvillette's design but he's a much better example of the "old stoic guy who's a bit out of touch but has a heart of gold" archetype.

No. 348321

i love scara i just hate people who push his ship with nahida

No. 348327

>>348321
i thought people only see nahida as scaras second mom, never seen people who ship it romantically.

No. 348331

>>348321
Never seen anyone push it. You have to specifically look for weird ships like this. I'd understand complaining about something actually popular but this is just not something you find if you search and follow normal people.

No. 348345

>>348331
i follow a lot of japanese artists and while none of them post blatant romantic art where the two of them kiss or whatever they still get a lot of art together

No. 348347

>>348345
Wouldn't that be due to their interactions in-game

No. 348358

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>>348287
Despite all the seething and jealousy, best boy will always remain best boy.

No. 348359

>>348345
She's the only person that knows who he really is aside from the MC. She's been shown to act like his mentor if not mother so it's natural. I wouldn't call it pushing the two if they interact a lot in canon

No. 348361

>>348287
they definitely know. his first fashion line kept selling out even after several restocks and even though it was expensive.
>>348321
the only ones i've seen who actually ship them are young jp or SEA yumes who projected themselves onto nahida instead of lumine. all the other pics of them together are very clearly as friends or family.

No. 348365

>>348321
Can we stop bringing this up every time we praise Scara
>>348320
I agree!! Neuvillette is Zhongli but more well written.
>>348358
>gif
So cute omg

No. 348422

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>>348302
Abandonment issues and hot fetish torture kek
he's basically an allegory for homeless people who end up getting molested on the streets

No. 348437

>>348422
>he's basically an allegory for homeless people who end up getting molested on the streets
so unfunny cause this made no sense

No. 348444

>>348437
Look at the picrel, anon is either baiting or clinically retarded

No. 348470

is there any chance that the pyro archon won't have pale white skin

No. 348502

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>>348302
Might be something to do with who got polled for that considering the top five are all cute guys. Hoyolab released their 2023 character results recently and he didn't crack the top five for the guys but I think that app is mostly used by kids. He seems to be a pretty polarizing character.
https://www.hoyolab.com/article/24318878
>>348287
>I wonder if mihoyo knows the extent of his popularity?
I assume so with all the official merch he has gotten. Boss theme is featured during the genshin concert too.

No. 348507

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>>348287
>>348320
I'm the opposite, I love Zhongli but don't get the love for Wanderer. He was intriguing as Scaramouche but how the story went for him was really disappointing imo and his redesign sucks. Still, I'm glad his fans are drowning out the psychopaths.
>>348470
She's going to look like Himeko Murata. Maybe a dark-skinned Himeko Murata since Iansan has dark skin but it's way too soon to tell anything else about her.
Though there is a theory that Murata will already be dead, but as much as I want another male archon I personally think it's cope until proven otherwise.
>>348422
What is this retardation kek

No. 348508

>>348470
There's 1 picture when you search Honkai dark skin so yes there is a chance kek
>>348502
>Wrio and Navia
Doesn't it seem a bit weird among meta characters? Also Xiao still being there. But I agree, most casuals or people that are into few characters and not battle gameplay probably wouldn't even know what Hoyolab is. I forget it exists and think I never even signed up even though I play regularly, it's useless unless you want the 2 primogems a month.

No. 348512

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>>348508
Wrio is a hot guy and feels good to play. Navia does big numbers and is the newest 5*. It's probably as simple as that.

No. 348521

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>>348512
This reminds me that Wrio is the only Genshin dude who made it to the top 10 of the biggest yume poll in Japan.
>10th place: Wrio
>59th place: Alhaitham
>63rd place: Childe
Some of the male characters in the list are objectively ugly like the thing that is there in the 54th place so I wonder how reliable this poll is. But still happy to see Wrio getting some love.

No. 348524

>>348512
>>348521
That's exactly what I mean though, he's well liked by yumes, not metafag hoyolab users. Though I don't know who actually uses it or what the exact data is for the ranking. I just assumed its numbers are reflecting the meta. I also forgot that JP fans' hoyolab usage might be different.

No. 348535

>>348521
Just wanted to post the same thing. Yeah he's probably really popular with casual players, I am no husbandofag but design-wise I probably also like him the best out of genshin male characters. He also has Daisuke Ono as his voice in Japanese so I think it was kind of guaranteed he'd attract a fanbase.
>>348508
Casual players absolutely do know and use hoyolab. You can't move 5 cm in Genshin without it telling you to download it and participate in events for primogems.

No. 348546

>>348521
No ZL wtf? This cant be real, even in japan.

No. 348551

>>348502
There will never be a time when I will understand Raiden's popularity. The stupidest and most worthless, selfish bitch of the entire game with no personality at all and somehow everyone goes nuts over her.

No. 348553

>>348521
why are there so many grandpas

No. 348555

>>348551
She has banging character demo, that's probably it

No. 348559

>>348551
>selfish bitch of the entire game
Youre saying selfish, mean women arent cool? Whatever you say anon

No. 348561

>>348551
The most powerful woman we've met so far and she has her tits and ass out for men to look at. I'm sorry to say it like this but it's a power play thing, they like that a woman of power and stoic personality is still "available" to all men.

No. 348562

>>348559
She's not "mean", she's retarded and dumb. She kills Signora just because she has a literal tard rage moment, not because she's cunning or "mean". If she was "mean" she wouldn't immediately go on a date with the traveler acting like a demented grandma let out of the cage without her wrangler. She has absolutely no charismatic elements, she's a literal head empty bimbo who has no other ambitions than her muh eternity autism that she does a shit job at keeping up anyway since the moment Yae just asks her nicely she just lets it go. The only reason she's so popular is because of her design and nothing else, she's the worst written character in all of Genshin and the most useless archon so far. She wasn't even a proper antagonist since everything that happened in Inazuma was orchestrated by the Fatui and the Tri-commission anyway, she was just a fucking nuisance.

No. 348584

>>348551
B-but anon, she pulls the heckin sword out of her boobs!!1

No. 348587

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No. 348599

>>348562
Mondstadt and Liyue were peak Genshin writing. It went downhill with Inazuma. I barely cared about Sumeru and Fontaine is just extremely boring

No. 348600


No. 348602

>>348599
While Inazuma was a steaming pile of dog shit I don't get this hype for Liyue's writing. I thought it was boring, convoluted and hard to follow with tons of exposure dumping and nothing really happening onscreen, it felt like a long side quest complete with item gathering bullshit. The only thing anyone remembers is the boss battle with Childe and the very end part of the story with Osial and the Jade chamber. Sumeru is still the best archon quest to me because it was the first story that had a very coherent 3-act structure and showed every scene rather than describing tons of ancient lore drop that you just have to imagine in your head. Even Rukkhadevata's fate and Irminsul were addressed in a separate map with visuals instead of some NPC telling it to us in text while Paimon interferes. Fontaine started out strong but went to shit because the buildup done in the 2nd act didn't pay off at all compared to how grandiose Sumeru's conclusion felt. Like I get if people liked Liyue, but putting Sumeru's AQ down while praising Liyue's storyline seems such a weird decision to me.

No. 348605

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>>348602
I agree with you, I think a lot of people mistakenly remember their fondness for the exploration in Liyue as the story. Maybe there's also fascination with the Adeptus stuff if they never read Chinese fiction before. Even while playing I thought the main story wasn't nearly as interesting as Mondstadt which made me care for all the characters. Sumeru was definitely the best.

No. 348608

>>348605
Yeah I definitely had a fun time exploring Liyue and liked it as a region, absolutely, but the AQ was more about getting to know Liyue's people and customs rather than learning about the main quest spanning continents making it feel more like a world quest. Like the cocogoat stuff with Qiqi or almost the entire second part being just blindly fetching stuff for Zhongli. Compare this to Sumeru's AQ where Dottore gets heavily involved in a plot with the Akademiya to build his own god, The samsara which was now in Fontaine confirmed (in a "blink and you'll miss it" note found from the ground though) to be a big plot point about the entirety of Teyvat being stuck in one, Irminsul being the central computer of the entire world, the discord between the desert people and the city dwellers, Alhaitham's plot to overthrow the Akademiya, Rukkhadevata having sacrificed herself and removing her entire being from the collective memory to get rid of eleazar…. just a LOT of things at stake compared to the previous regions and in my opinion upstaged Fontaine completely. I just don't understand how someone could say that Sumeru was a downgrade when it's objectively the most robust writing in the AQ yet.

No. 348609

>>348524
>metafag hoyolab users
I think you've got a weird perception about who uses hoyolab. When you look at community posts, it's usually teenagers and stunted adults posting their crappy cosplays and terribly unfunny memes or trying to use the app as a facebook replacement. I get pretty casual vibes overall. Some people post their tier lists and they're usually pretty badly placed by metafag standards.

No. 348610

>>348609
I'm assuming anon meant "the metafags who use hoyolab", not "hoyolab users are metafags".

No. 348630

Mondstadt was fine but it was also really bland, heroically saving Dvalin through the power of friendship is about as generic as it gets. The Abyss connections still don't even make sense. Venti was the only thing that made the Mondstadt AQ interesting, I don't remember anything any other character did other than Diluc fighting off a million hilichurls on the bridge and Barbara screeching at the broken lyre.

>>348602
Yeah, Liyue was really shittily written. No idea who could think that it was leagues ahead of Inazuma or better than Sumeru and Fontaine. Half of it was going on boring shopping trips with Zhongli and then the writers fumbled and didn't know how to proceed so they turned Tartaglia into an attempted mass murderer. Zhongli ended up making a deal with the Fatui so that entire thing was just peak retardation and happened for no reason. The devs obviously asspulled Osial because they needed a grand epic battle where the heroes all work together in an epic moment and epically win the day. Doesn't help that they rehashed this entire thing with the Shenhe quests and basically copy pasted the Osial fight.
I think the only ones who still think that Liyue is the creme de la creme of Genshin writing are hardcore Tartali shippers who cling onto the last interactions their ship had 4 years ago.

Fontaine could have been really good if they didn't have that boring prison segment that took 4 irl hours longer than it should have. It's still my favorite because I actually like all the Fontainian characters and enjoyed watching them interact while Sumeru had some rotten eggs (Nilou, Dori) that ruined my experience a bit.

No. 348668

>>348630
Nah Mondstadt was basic but that is what made it good. Mihoyo cannot write good complex stories without walls of text. Mondstadt was the only level where they could convey a story properly, because it was so basic.

No. 348672

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>>348668
Disagree, some parts of Mondstadt felt really convoluted and back when I played it I didn't fully get what the deal with the Abyss and Fatui was. I used to think they worked together because they did a shit job at explaining that there are 2 bad guy factions, and I still don't understand wtf the Abyss mages were trying to do with Dvalin. But maybe I'm just really retarded

No. 348817

>>348630
Liyue wasn't bad per se but it was very unambitious and boring compared to Sumeru. The part about the jade chamber came at the last minute and to me it still feels a bit silly that a human made conception would just go off and smack a god like that dead when the adeptus weapons couldn't, Zhongli was able to barely pin him to the sea floor with his archon powers and Focalors had to collect 500 years worth of energy to destroy the hydro archon throne. They definitely got distracted doing worldbuilding for Liyue and forgot that they had a story to continue so they just came up with something they didn't really think through.

No. 348834

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>>348602
>worst written character
Nah that goes to Diona or Noelle, fuck those bitches, Diona is a disgusting mix of bratty tsundere and loli and there's no reason Noelle shouldn't be a Knight already except that that's her only character trait so they can't progress her story. Ei is a retard but at least retarded is a personality. Scaramouche wouldn't be nearly so interesting if Ei wasn't a retard.
Eula, Yae, and Ei are definitely bottom tier to me though.
>>348599
>>348562
I like Liyue and the lore of it, but the story itself is a lot more about lore than doing much. If you don't like Zhongli I can see you hating it and Zhongli and Shenhe's story quests arguably advance the story of Liyue more than the story quest itself. Liyue feels like a land where all the action (Archon War, Cataclysm) is already done by the time you get there and you're living through the epilogue. Mondstadt is pretty generic save the town starter fantasy stuff and didn't leave much impact on me apart from Venti. Inazuma's Archon Quest starts strong but falls apart so completely at the third act to absolve Ei of responsibility that it's by far the worst.
I detested the Sabzeruz part of Sumeru, it's such a waste of the player's time, so I rank Fontaine's AQ higher than it but apart from that part Sumeru's archon quest was pretty good.

No. 348850

>>348834
Diona and Noelle are side characters who barely have a role in the entire game besides some event stories, Ei was a major character and the main focus in the Inazuma chapter. You really can't compare them because you don't expect stellar writing from random filler 4-stars but a goddamn archon should have something besides terminal autism assigned to her.

No. 348861

>>348850
If we're only going by 5*s Eula's still worse to me because she's also terminally retarded (just stop being such a bitch and people won't treat you like one?), the only difference is Mondstadt isn't set up in a way that rewards her retardation. Ei is second worst.

No. 349248

God I hate the dynamic that Kuki and Itto have. Like why are they like that, they’re fine on their own but when they’re together they become a retarted manchild and a nagging mommy who wipes his ass. Did they ever explain why Kuki feels the need to stay in the gang and not find some other one? I didn’t do her hangout, so idk, she doesn’t seem like a fun person and is not down with whatever the fuck Itto is doing, so wtf she’s even doing there? Does she secretly enjoy babying a retard? Wouldn’t waifufags be jealous? Or is Itto so annoying on purpose so that no one can even take him seriously as a man or husbando?

No. 349546

So, how do you all think is better to play genshin? On mobile or on PC? Have any of you played on both? Is it heavy for mobile players?

No. 349548

>>349248
im more annoyed by the fact that ittos abs look fucking drawn on

No. 349549

>>349546
pc is the best

No. 349590

>>349546
Pc. I play on ps5 which works better than mobile and ps4, but pc is still better

No. 349665

>>349546
I play on iphone 13 and I find it pretty comfy, just laying around while exploring. The graphics are still nothing like how pc players have but that doesn't bother me. I will be getting a laptop soon so maybe I'll change my mind once I try it out on that

No. 349722

lol what is this power wash simulator web event?

No. 349724

>>349546
I play on ipad and it looks okay and doesn't lag. I played on ps4 before but stopped because it takes me more time to set up and turn on my consoles and it makes me feel more like I'm procrastinating kek. Also I disliked some of the controls that are solved with being able to touch the screen.

No. 349725

>>349546
Definitely PC, I sometimes play on mobile when traveling with public transport. The controls are really a lot more difficult on mobile. I definitely have a hard time doing abyss on mobile. Doing basic quests is fine though, the underwater exploration is also really annoying with mobile compared to pc.

>>349722
Yeah it's weird, i never say no to free primos though.

No. 349731

>>349722
Maybe a reference to this? (jk)

No. 349741

File: 1705669001810.png (1.1 MB, 1442x690, code_redeem.png)

Stream codes, redeem ASAP. They expire in 15 hours. You can also redeem from the right-side of the hoyolab interest group page.

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MT88AYHCZ2UR
FA9QAGYDZJEV

https://genshin.hoyoverse.com/en/gift?code=BBQ8AZHUH2CZ
https://genshin.hoyoverse.com/en/gift?code=MT88AYHCZ2UR
https://genshin.hoyoverse.com/en/gift?code=FA9QAGYDZJEV

No. 349749

>>349741
Thank you kind anon!

No. 349767

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So Ganyu gets LITERAL PANTIES OUT and our boy gets long boring shorts? I quit.

No. 349768

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>>349767
this feels like such a fake post.

No. 349769

>>349767
the 12 different shades of blue in his outfit are making me a little nauseous. huge downgrade from his default outfit if I'm being honest. even the added details only stand to highlight how dated his face and hair modelwork is. no comment on shityu.

No. 349774

>>349767
ganyus skin is really cute, too bad it will cost 20 dollars

No. 349783

I think all Liyue skins so far are mid, I wonder if Zhongli ever gets one if he'll also be blue kek
>>349767
I still think it's a bit weird to want XQ in short shorts, I'd rather both him and the young female charas were dressed in a non-outright-fanservice way but what can you do, it's a gacha game for weebs. But idk I guess I'll never get wanting to see teen character's thighs. Don't dogpile me please I don't mean harm, I think it's just some cultural difference.

No. 349785

>>349783
I'm more interested in the Shenhe skin than the Ganyu skin because it covers Shenhe up a bit more, even if just by the smallest bit. Her default outfit is so bad anything is an improvement.
Zhongli still not having one is absurd with how many collabs have given him new outfits.

No. 349786

>>349767
Ganyu looks like she just realized she forgot to put on her pants

No. 349794

>>349783
>I'll never get wanting to see teen character's thighs
I don't know about the majority but I never think of them as teens anyway. I view them as people my age (early to mid twenties) so it doesn't bother me. I'm not sure if anyone else just makes up shit about characters and ignores canon as much as I do. It's not like my random ideas can affect the character or other fans anyway so I always think of young adult characters at my age.

No. 349806

>>349767
This is so fucking bullshit.

No. 349822

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>>349767
The double standards between the male and female outfits piss me off so much. Nearly every other female character wears some variation of a vacuum-tight, backless, armpit-less mini dress with booty shorts and stiletto heels while all men are covered in nice, comfy clothes. I am already dreading what they have in plan for the Tsaritsa.

No. 349979

>>349783
you the same retard who called everyone pedos for thinking that 17 year old guy from pgr was hot?

No. 349990

>>349822
This outfit is literally lisa but chinese.

No. 349994

>>349990
It's more similar to Ningguang's outfit imo.

No. 350069

>>349822
She's dressed like a whore but I hate how pretty I find her in this fit

No. 350326

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>>349769
They actually updated his hair. The bangs are more separated now and not so chunky. It’s just his original design has such simple colours is all.

No. 350447

I switched to pc from mobile genshin and the controls are so hard to remember as opposed to just pressing whats on my screen lmao. It's nice to have a bigger screen at least

No. 350469

I think it would actually be hilarious if Itto became Cloud Retainer's disciple.
Wonder if it will come up again in another beetle battle event next year.

No. 350574

>>350069
>dressed like a whore
lmao are you ok?

No. 350608

>>350326
yuck the weird ass neon blue color on his outfit is awful

No. 350629

>>350469
I agree. Their relationship could be really funny, a more traditional manzai comedy than what he has with Shinobu (who babies him) and Paimon (who is a baby).
>>349722
My first reaction was also "wtf," but when I actually played it I liked it a lot. I hope they'll do more weird, random stuff like that because the minigame was fun. It was held together by more than just desperation for social media engagement.

No. 350788

>>350326
No but seriously why did they put him in Furinas clothes

No. 350948

Did you hear about the Chinese fans going apeshit over the lantern rite rewards? About time they did something of value.

No. 350950

>>350948
kek is it really true we only get like 3 pulls?

No. 350951

>>350950
Yes and you have to buy the Genshin ps5 for a free 5star.

No. 350952

>>350951
damn mihoyo is truly next level greedy

No. 350953

>>350950
they're stingy fuckers, but the "just three pulls" thing is incorrect. it's 10 pulls given via log-in rewards like they've done before + 3
>>350951
that's not what the bundle is. the incentive is to buy a PS5 in china and you'll receive a 4* skin selector bundled with it.

No. 350957

>>350953
Sorry, I’m multitasking at work. Kek

No. 350960

>>350953
Why only care now though? That's unironically more than what we got every other year. Global players have been complaining for years but I heard nothing from Chinese players.

No. 350962

>>350960
I think it’s due to Honkai giving a free 5star. Last time china fans were pissed was all the way back when Zhongli was weak.

No. 350963

>>350962
time to play honkai ig

No. 350965

>>350962
Honkai Star Rail also gives free ten pulls every update. They kinda need that to keep players interested because the grind and story are shit though. Genshin players come back even without free stuff, I guess that's why they can get away with less freebies in Genshin.

No. 350966

>>350960
From what I understand the Chinese fans are pissed about the skin + PS5 bundle. They're saying everyone should be getting it for free (and they're not wrong)
It's an extremely shitty bundle regardless, those bundles usually come with a whole-ass game like Spider-Man or Horizon Forbidden West. The skins are worth what, $15?

No. 350970

>>350962
Yeah they have to because the game is shit

No. 350971

>>350966
You can even get the skins for "free" if you regularly buy Welkin and use the Genesis Crystals that are bundled with it. They really should have just given every player the skin selector, especially because most people already have all the 4* characters skins anyway because you could get them for free in events. Plus they're all low effort as fuck and don't even have any special effects or anything. Total retard move from HYV

No. 350974

>>350971
It should be one free skin and 4star.

No. 351026

Nonnas I'm a new player who started a few months ago, I have quite enjoyed myself this entire time exploring Mondstadt and Liyue but now I hit Inazuma and logging in just feels like a chore. This place is miserable. I don't care about the stupid story. None of the characters are appealing. The music is at least nice but Liyue's was better imo. Just wondering if this shit gets better?

I want to reach Sumeru for all the cute Sumeru boys and Fontaine looks like a fun place to explore, but god damn Inazuma is killing my enjoyment.

No. 351031

>>351026
I didn't really think it was that bad.
But there isn't any other way then playing through the quest.
Just force yourself to do one step a day until you're done?

No. 351046

>>351026
this is similar to my experience with the game except im not a new player i just haven't logged in in almost two years now kek I was extremely charmed by Mondstadt and Liyue and played quickly trough them but Inazuma was so dreadful that I stopped playing completely. I wasn't super invested in the stories and characters in Mondstadt and Liyue either but I still loved exploring their worlds. I just hate moving around in Inazuma for some reason and the story just feels too "grand" compared to the other two nations.
I can't say when it gets better but you reminded me of how much i wanted to reach Sumeru. Hopefully if I just focus on that then I can motivate myself to finish inazuma

No. 351061

>>351026
Inazuma made a lot of us quit or go on a long hiatus when it was released if you check the previous threads.

No. 351134

>>351026
You can walk to Sumeru and Fontaine on foot even if you haven't advanced the plot yet. Maybe you can take a break from Inazuma and go exploring somewhere else whenever you start losing your mind.

No. 351220

>>351026
Inazuma is generally pegged as the worst arc of the game. The Tsurumi Island world quest is good but you have to do Seirai Island first so no shame if you don't feel like doing it right away. Enkanomiya is locked behind doing the main quest which sucks imo because Enkanomiya is a cool place.
You can go right to Sumeru or Fontaine and do the world quests there for a break from Inazuma if you feel like (I recommend Aranyaka), or even the Chasm quest if I remember correctly.

No. 351674

What content are you guys looking forward to from this point onwards? What do you want to see?

No. 351677

>>351674
Finished the Fontaine archon quest and I’m now on a break. I’ll come back for the Dain quest then I’m back on a break until Natlan.

No. 351678

>>351677
i'm curious about nonnas who take breaks, do you not worry about losing out on primos from the dailies? I'm a f2p so every gem counts I guess, so I wonder if you're just not f2p or you just learned to not care?

No. 351680

>>351220
Why do people always praise Tsurumi island? It was just as bad as the rest of that nation. Just a fuckton of useless puzzles and this annoying fog and once again a boring story about NPCs. I feel like paimon made had at least two jokes about having to do everything thrice during it

No. 351682

>>351678
I used to care a lot about that, but after multiple long breaks inbetween I stopped. If they release a character I like I know I'll probably be able to collect enough primos for hard pity if I just play a lot during that patch. If necessary I'll get a welkin since they are pretty cheap. Most of my long breaks were actually due to burnout from doing dailies without any good characters in sight, I pick the game up again if there are leaks about someone I want to get

No. 351684

>>351680
I liked the puzzles and the atmosphere was good. Helping Ruu and then the island's ghosts was fun for me. Plus there's a lot of lore there and I enjoy lore. If you think it sucked as much as dealing with the Tatarasuna and Balethunder for seven irl days I dunno what to tell you.

No. 351689

>>351678
you have a problem if you actually care about that

No. 351696

>>351689
>you have a problem if you care about one of the only ways to get currency without spending real money
Not really

No. 351708

>>351696
yes, really. when you can't imagine someone not worrying about missing out on the 1/30th of a gacha pull worth of currency you get from doing tedious daily grinding you're at an unhealthy level of fomo lmfao. there aren't even any long term daily login rewards in this game.

No. 351715

>>351708
Why so hostile? We don't need to be enemies here when the real problem is Mihoyo greed. OP said "every gem counts" because those 30ths add up, and if she's saving up then her consistency is rewarded. I don't think she said enough to indicate an "unhealthy level of fomo" or earn such sardonic replies from you. We all have different ways of enjoying this stupid game and for some of us that means daily playing. As long as she's still having fun, why should you care? If anything I'm happy you've found a way of engaging with Genshin that doesnt drain you. Hope you will use that extra energy to be a kinder person.

No. 351719

>>351708
It doesnt change the fact that they are one of the only ways to get currency without spending money though. It makes sense for anyone to be concerned about completing them unless you're a paypig

No. 351946

>>351678
I’ve been playing for 2 years so I think after you’ve gotten a bunch of characters you like, primos feel less important. I don’t feel fomo anymore and I’m fine with skipping my dailies. I don’t like to feel like gaming is a chore.

No. 351947

>>351946
Samefagging to also answer your question. I’m mostly f2p but buy welkin if I feel like playing a lot.

I used to be like you anon and really prioritized getting primos but you’ll grow out of it after a few years playing.

No. 352044

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Ok who’s gonna attempt to murder da wei for second time?

No. 352049

>>352044
meanwhile cloud retainer was mad into an big tiddie anime mommy, i hate it here.

No. 352050

>>352044
I hate these npc models so fucking much. They're so ugly and unpolished, if they want to make important and relevant npc then just spend like a few hours to give them a unique face at least.

No. 352071

>>352044
Femgaze game btw

No. 352075

>>352049
Coping but maybe it means they can put more effort into other designs instead. I wouldn't want the ugly old men they would've turned them into anyway

No. 352080

>>352044
>murder da wei
the green streak is awful. ugly models, but I don't care about either of these characters. when was the last time they even got any lines?

No. 352082

>>352075
>ugly old men
We haven't had a single playable old man yet, anon. Why do you think they would have been old men if they were made playable? They would have looked vaguely old like Neuvillette at most.
These designs are incredibly generic, though. They can put effort into NPC designs (see Takuya) yet keep choosing not to.

No. 352093

>>352044
Fucking laughing my ass off seeing this after cloud retainer

No. 352142

>>352075
Why would they be ugly old men if the female one is not an ugly old granny

No. 352160

The 4 stars on Xiao’s banner fucking suck damn, I was hoping for at least one male 4 star

No. 352172

>>352044
Kek i fucking hate genshit

No. 352176

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>>352044
Kek, this makes me wonder what they have in plan for Capitano. He attracts the worst kind of fans, ranging from women who are into old men yaoi and monsterfucking to moids who want a faceless, power fantasy self-insert.

No. 352180

>>352176
I fucking hope he turns out to be a pretty guy just to piss off the self-inserting scrotes and old man/monsterfucker degenerates who can't shut up about how much more cultivated they are for liking ugly men.

No. 352221

>>352176
That’s a cute nose and I feel retarded for saying that as someone who was never hyped for capitano

No. 352226

>>352044
You gotta be kidding me?? Seriously hoyo?>>352176
I hope he’s a cute bishie

No. 352242

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Chiori's kit has been leaked.

Her E switches party members and summons a doll that attacks with the player twice and leaves an additional doll that attacks with the player if there's a geo construct on the field. Her Q is just two big slashes of damage.

tl;dr she's an Itto support, but not a very good one unless you get constellations because they summon additional dolls when there's more Geo constructs and start applying on every attack at C1 and C2.

Her weapon seems like Albedo's new best in slot, so there's that I guess. Crit damage ascending weapon, boosts off-field elemental skill damage by 24%, then by 48% if teammates do geo damage. It also buffs defense by 20% passively.

No. 352245

>>352044
Every once in a while I have the urge to start playing Genshin again, then I visit this thread to see what's new and change my mind.

No. 352256

File: 1706641988992.png (1.5 MB, 938x1091, Il_Capitano.png)

>>352180
>>352176
I really hope they make him pretty but that his playable version still has the mask, it looks cool. I also like his long hair but I'm worried they'll give him an awful middlepart


>>352082
>>352142
Tbf while Neuvillette isn't that ugly he's also not appealing to me. My bad though, I basically meant to say another vaguely old guy in a full suit and coat that covers his entire back. Her design is also uninteresting to me, but we all know that male whales pay more and have lower standards than female ones so they can't just make a male 5 star character up like that, they are usually relevant to the main quests

No. 352257

>>352242
then who the fuck is she good with? she clearly needs another geo in her team

No. 352258

>>352242
>Her weapon seems like Albedo's new best in slot
Might go for her weapon then.

>>352257
I guess albedo, zhongli or geo mc. They are the only ones who can actually create a construct. Not counting ning since her construct gets destroyed pretty easily i believe? Albedo his e has a low cool down too, so you can easily places his. They really need to make constructs less easier to destroy by enemies tho.

No. 352267

>>352257
>>352258
>They are the only ones who can actually create a construct.
Itto's ushi (skill) also counts as a construct and I don't think it can be destroyed. It behaves more like amber's baron bunny or xiangling's guoba, but is still counted as a construct. And ushi taunts, too. Ning's jade screen does get wrecked about as easily as albedo's flower but if you've got one of her early cons, you can recreate it fairly easily, with the caveat that if you recast it within ~6-8 seconds, she won't generate particles on the second cast.
I think Chiori should work pretty decently with Itto considering that she has a decent amount of dual-scaling (ATK+DEF), so Gorou would buff her and even better if he's C6.

No. 352277

>>352257
She's fine for Itto if you don't already have Albedo. If you already have Albedo there's not much need for her at C0. With constellations she will probably be better than Albedo because unfortunately he's a victim of early Genshin design where constellations sucked and his scaling is split.
Her sword is perfect for Albedo. It's the sword he should have been given as his signature from the start.

No. 352324

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>>352176
I love Capitano, but I'm not a monsterfucker or into old men. I feel like Capitano is more appealing to women who like masked characters.
I do hope he is the mature type tho, I don't want him looking like Childe or Zhongli. Something like Wriothesley maybe. My theory is that maybe they will give him face scars which could look cool, like picrel but a few more scars.

No. 352391

I’m not making any wishes for these banners. Ga Ming might be my Lantern rite freebie. I love how he plays it’s very fun. Played a bit of ChenyuVale last night and it’s very beautiful. Love the jade mouth area.

No. 352443

>>352391
Ga Ming is surprisingly fun to play. I don't usually build new four stars but I might build him. I haven't decided whether to try Melt with him or just use Furina though.

No. 352975

Ganyu's skin is AWFUL, I prefer the body sock, the bare legs and cleavage make me uncomfortable. Shenhe's skin is not as bad, but can't say it's much of an improvement over the default skin. It covers the butt and crotch but I don't think black suits her color palette. Xingqiu's skin is better because he looks less like a femboy and it fixes his retarded haircut. Minus the longer shorts, I liked the mini shorts more.

No. 353081

Hey nonnies I'm pretty new to the game, when or where can I claim the free log-in rolls for lantern rite? Has it not begun yet?

No. 353088

>>353081
It hasn't begun yet. When it begins it'll be in the Events window.

No. 353141

>>353081
EUfag here, it begun just today for me. So it should begin tomorrow for you

No. 353336

How do you get the free 4 star? Please forgive me im retarded

No. 353432

>>353336
In about 11-24 hours, depending on your server, you'll see this event in-game called Vibrant Harriers Aloft in Spring Breeze. You must be adventure rank 20 and have completed the third part of Mondstadt's Archon Quest. The game might prompt you about a couple other quests you should complete for "the best experience" but you won't be required to do them for the event.
Do enough of the mini-games and you'll eventually get enough event currency to claim both Xingqiu's skin and your choice of a Liyue 4*. Genshin's events are always set up so that you can claim everything in the event shop with the allotted event currency.
Check this page for the countdown and more details.
https://genshin-impact.fandom.com/wiki/Vibrant_Harriers_Aloft_in_Spring_Breeze

No. 353555

We need a female character without responsibilities. Make her a conwoman who only hangs out with Traveler to exploit their hero status.

No. 353556

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No. 353561

>>353555
Wouldn't that be Rosaria?

No. 353565

>>353561
No , rosaria fights people at night and that could be considered a responsibility lol

No. 353603

>>353565
Rosaria is weird, she hates overtime but she fights crime at night.

No. 353619

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>>353555
Fischl? I was going to say Furina but it's more that Furina's job is over now.

No. 353620

>>353555
I was going to say that the baby characters don't have jobs but they fucking have jobs and it's retarded but funny, not even the babies are safe from being hardworking.KEK.

No. 353637

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>>353555
Dori kek but I guess she has responsibilities (keeping an eye out for people to scam)

We should start to discuss the next thread pic, any ideas?

No. 353646

>>353637
Please make it this one anons

No. 353653

I serieously wished they would upgrade the old maps of Liyue and Mondtadt (and the npcs with it too). There is such a big difference between the quality of chenyu village and liyue harbor.

No. 353668

Why do the character designers for this game make a character have a nice full head of (short) hair, and then stick a random ass ponytail onto the bottom of it? Or whatever the fuck is going on with Furina's hair? I don't know why it bothers me so much, but it does kek.
>>353653
Fully agree. It's so jarring teleporting from Chenyu Vale into Liyue Harbor to clear the reputation quest notification.

No. 353685

>>353668
So that the backside has a lot of movement in it because that's the side we see 99% of the time we're playing them. They have capes open up in the middle and huge tail-like accessories for that reason too. Once you start to look at them considering this, it starts to be a bit more bearable.

No. 353711

>>353637
Cute Lyney!

No. 353756

>>353668
Furina's hair is a jellyfish. But as >>353685 said the devs try to spice up the back of the designs since we're looking at them constantly in gameplay. The rat tails were probably easier to model than full long hair too before the devs started picking up their stride with how hair on the models should work in-game. Notice in the early patches everyone had either short hair or ponytails but now we have some veiled characters and some long haired characters with loose hair like Yun Jin.

No. 353758

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>>353668
I find this funny because it reminds me of the sailor starlights treatment in the 90s. They were going to be made into dolls and demanded that they get long hair so Naoko gave them long ass ponytails.

No. 353761

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>>353668
>Why do the character designers for this game make a character have a nice full head of (short) hair, and then stick a random ass ponytail onto the bottom of it?
Have you seen how Chevreuse's hair looks in motion? It looks so bad to me. Very chunky and pretty stiff. I get why they tend to go for ponytails or no longer than mid-length loose hair. Still adds movement to the backs of the models without being time-consuming to accommodate for. It's fine for Yun Jin because her hair is on the thinner side, more like a veil.
There's also the issue of animations and clipping. They went through extra effort for Chevreuse's hair in regards to how her hair will split only when needed for her spear to not clip through it. Yun Jin has a built-in hair split but her spear still clips a little sometimes. Video showing that off:
https://youtu.be/RUmQbIL3gH4

No. 353762

>>353761
Honestly makes me wish we had more short haired characters. Hoyo could never give a female character a pixie cut though.

No. 353763

>>353762
Eula and Rosaria have the shortest hair I think

No. 353764

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>>353762
me too. i'm pretty bummed they gave arlecchino that ugly DNA looking ponytail. she'd look so much better without it. still not a pixie cut but it'd be shorter than any of the other ladies' cuts.
>>353763
yeah people tend to forget rosaria because of the illusion her veil gives. eula has that longer bit off her one shoulder, so yelan and sara's cuts are shorter than hers on average.

No. 353770

>>353764
furina also has short hair

No. 353935

What is with the translation for these minigame NPC's?
>woot
>dudette
get with the times

No. 353955

>>353935
I think it's because they specifically want to convey the feeling of someone out of touch trying to be cool for them.

No. 353968

I don't understand the writing with the Traveler and the Fatui. We are friends with Childe, which honestly I kind of let slide because he is hot and the Traveler didn't know the extent of how much insane shit the Fatui has done/is doing (like in Inazuma and Sumeru.) But with everything the Traveler has seen now, why do we give Arlecchino the benefit of the doubt? Even Childe voiceline tells us she is a backstabber only interested in her own gain kek. The writing is really poor here imo. Arlecchino even tells us she attempted to kill Furina before she realized she didn't have the gnosis, and we are just like "wow Furina sure is suspicious" kek. It doesn't make sense to me. We completely distrust Lyney after we find out he is a fatui, and have to regain our friendship through his story quest. But Arlechinno? We just listen to her with no problem. It's weird.

No. 353969

>>353968
I think they wanted it to be a situation in which the traveller lets her do whatever because there's no way to actually stop her and their goals align somewhat. After the trust with Lyney and Lynette is rebuilt that extends to Arlecchino since she's family and then she also helps out Navia, which means she can at least be counted on if it's about saving Fontaine. I agree that it didn't make sense to distrust the siblings that much in the first place though, considering all the previous encounters with fatui.
But I found it funny how little the traveller cared for Childe, they barely talked during all the wild shit that happened and in the end they couldn't even let the traveller see him off or something, it was almost surprising that they even remembered to mention him. So I don't think there's a lot of trust or friendship there kek

No. 353982

>>353969
>But I found it funny how little the traveller cared for Childe, they barely talked during all the wild shit that happened and in the end they couldn't even let the traveller see him off or something, it was almost surprising that they even remembered to mention him.
Yes this is so weird to me kek, traveler is kind to all fatui at this point except Childe who traveler still gives a hard time or completely ignores

No. 353997

This dance minigame is pretty fun

No. 354010

>>353982
That’s not entirely true as we safekeep his vision for him. I think traveler cares a little bit.

No. 354023

>>354010
I think the traveller just does what they are told to do kek they don't seem to have a particular attachment to anyone, which makes sense because genshin isn't that type of game. I wish they wrote more about relationships though, not just between the traveller and others but also characters between each other

No. 354044

>>353968
The very first thing Furina did was challenge the Traveler to a duel then immediately back off of it. Everything she was doing was suspicious. The Traveler still tried to protect her from Arlecchino during their meeting at Neuvillette's request. It was only after Arlecchino was seemingly willing to do more for Fontaine than Furina was that the Traveler turned on her.
>>353969
A lot of the Fortress of Meropide arc was trying to figure out what happened to Childe, so I'm not sure I'd say the Traveler doesn't care about him at all. It was a little weird that we didn't see him off but I suspect they didn't want to bring his VAs back in for such a small thing. I'm guessing that's why the Traveler doesn't talk much too, they would rather have Paimon's VAs record lines once and not have to pay the Traveler's two VAs for each language when they can avoid it.

No. 354444

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Here’s cloud retainer’s concept art. Not sure how to feel about it.
Now that lantern rite is here who did you take home? I got Gaming at c1.

No. 354493

>>354444
the sock tits look retarded but everything else is an upgrade to what we got

No. 354495

>>354444
kek the bayonetta inspiration is way too obvious

No. 354521

>>354493
I would have to agree it looks better to what we got. I’m very underwhelmed with the final design. Like wow, another black body suit with some flappy things. We need a character with full on bellbottoms.

No. 354542

>>354444
Arlecchino better sell like crazy so the moid 3D modelers are forced to take some of the pant designs. I don't even hate Cloud Retainer's design apart from how much back she's showing but this is so much better than what we got.

No. 354698

According to this one YouTuber he alleges that hoyo is fudging the numbers of xianyun’s sales because they’re bleeding money and don’t want to scare off investors. He says there isn’t a lot of whales in the community (obviously because most are streamers) and they’re not fully keeping the game afloat.

No. 354702

>>354698
That's retarded

No. 354703

>>353555
Is there actually any male character without responsibilities? The overworked waifu thing is real but I feel like everyone in this game has some kind of job to do that takes up most of their free time. No one is just fucking around except maybe the Wanderer but even he's apparently busy studying now kek

No. 354707

>>354698
>scan through video
>genshinlabs sales chart
anyone who takes that chart seriously when it literally makes up the numbers is a major idiot. anyone trying to assert how much the game generates when the revenue is split across playstation, iOS, android, PC and several different major countries is making shit up.
>>354703
what is alhaitham doing now that he isn't grand sage anymore? did he go back to being the scribe? he's known for being hard to find in his office and does as little work as he can so he can pursue his own interests and leisure time. he has a number of voice lines about being as lazy as he can. I don't think razor does anything either which makes sense because he's basically a feral kid.

No. 354709

>>354707
(Same anon who posted the video) Especially since those numbers probably include the f2p rolls as well. It’s hard to determine how much people spend but I think they mostly rely on welkan moons /battle passes to stay afloat. I truly think Genshin is taking a hit from china’s playerbase though.

No. 354714

>>354707
That's true, but Alhaitham still does the necessary work in the end, especially because he's the one paying for himself and Kaveh kek. And that reminds me that Klee is also a child that only plays around so I guess that would be the female character without responsibilities

No. 354717

>>354714
Klee is part of the knights of favonius though, her name is spark knight and she studies and works for them.

No. 354718

>>354703
I think Itto may be the only character that actually just fucks around instead of having a real job, he's also the clown of the town and he's constantly getting thrown in jail.

No. 354719

>>354703
Itto, kind of? But he takes laborer jobs to keep the gang fed so even he's not sitting on his ass all day. Razor is feral so it's not the same as laziness, I don't think.
>>354698
>source: my ass
It could be true I suppose but I doubt it. There's more gacha addicts than people realize.

No. 354826

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Leaked Varka concept art. Still early so he could be changed, but expect something like this.

No. 354834

>>354826
I think this is concept art for the dude with facial hair from star rail. I want varka to be a pretty guy like wrio, fuck the dadfuckers

No. 354847


No. 354860

>>354826
>facial hair

Eeeeeeeeeewwww.

No. 354863

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>>354826
>>354834
other anon is right, that's Gallagher, upcoming 4-star in Star Rail

No. 354864

>>354863
Why, just why. Why would you give a bishie facial hair?! this looks horrible.

No. 354866

>>354863
Hideous old man

No. 354867

>>354863
We have Wriothesley at home lookin ass

No. 354868

>>354863
aww too bad, he's cute, but a little too 'flirty' for my idea of Varka.
He'll probably come with Natlan so probably a few months yet before we really get an idea of what he might look like.

No. 354895

>>354834
>>354863
>>354868
According to the leaker Varka is taking inspiration from Gallagher and this concept sheet wasn't for HSR. So this is Varka apparently.

No. 354907

>>354895
The white haired design then?
Still feel he's a bit too lanky and sly looking. And I was thinking darker hair.

No. 355132

File: 1707672958161.jpeg (2.33 MB, 2500x2500, GGBxmzxaoAAdimn.jpeg)

>I wouldn't have guessed I'd bump into you two in a Sumeru tavern.
>Here to give me your wishes? Thank you, it is indeed my birthday. I just hope that today will be as relaxing and enjoyable as any other.
>The signature dish here at Lambad's Tavern is fish rolls. You should give them a try if you're interested.
>If you stay a little longer, you'll see a couple of other familiar faces too. They're coming over from Avidya Forest, so they should be arriving any moment. When there's something that calls for a celebration, we meet at the tavern — that's how it's always been with us four.
Love him. Happy birthday.

No. 355137

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>>355132
I love all 4 of them

No. 355222

>>355137
The way Kaveh is sitting as gayly as possible… I hope we'll get more fujobait in Natlan, and (not immediately related to yaoi) new and interesting dark skinned characters, too. I'm hoping to see a wide range of personalities, and not just violent/rowdy types. I wonder if they'll chicken out and give the playable characters light skin… I know it's a ways away, but what are everyone's wishes for the new region? Things you want to see improved since the last? I hope this new desert is more fun than Sumeru's.

No. 355863

So why did they give Xingqiu a costume when he didn't show up in the event story.
Hate how they didn't have Neuvi and Zhongli meet while still mentioning how similar they are.

No. 355918

>if gacha games wanna write m/f ships involving PLAYABLE characters they have to hide it not bc of censorship, but to prevent the gacha incel gooners from committing domestic terrorism bc their fictional waifu cucked them with an equally fictional man
these people love to act like they're fucking oppressed. even if i don't like incels, why the fuck are self-inserters constantly threated as the garbage of the fandom?? oh no those evil self-inserters are cockblocking my ship like fuck off shiptrannies ruined SO MANY fandoms with their autism and obsession to prove just how CANON their ship is and when other players retaliate they cry oppression. if you want your corny underdeveloped m/f ships just go watch a random romcom

No. 355919

>>355918
also yeah the person who wrote that rant was obviously a seething neuvifuri fag because mihoyo won't make that ship (that doesn't even have any basis) canon

No. 355941

>>355918
>implying there are people who unironically like nuvifuri and don't just use furina as a 1% less boring self insert

No. 355955

>>355222
I also want to see more characters with different skin tones, it's crazy that there's so little visual variety. There are already quite a few characters that I think would look better if they weren't as pale as they are. I also don't want everyone to shit on Genshin again when they inevitably make more than half of the new cast pale for no reason.
>more fujobait
There will be two tall male characters interacting and that will be enough for fujos kek I think they've realized how to get the response they want. But I hope Varka/Capitano won't be as big of a nothingburger as Neuvillette/Wriothesley turned out to be

No. 356271

>>355222
>I know it's a ways away, but what are everyone's wishes for the new region?
not a cringe pyro archon waifu mommy but we already know it's coming anyways. she's just going to be another coomer cumsock just like raiden with a "muh sister died so now i am a stoic retard" type of story so we feel bad for her. i wish we had more than 2 male archons in this retarded incel game but even asking for more than 2 playable male characters in an entire region is too much

>>354863
he looks like a wriothesley ripoff, especially the clothes

No. 356324

>>356271
>even asking for more than 2 playable characters in a region is too much
Are you retarded? We got five in Sumeru. If anything it's likely Natlan will be more male-focused like Sumeru was, they seem to release a bunch of men then a bunch of women to try to get people to drain all their primos.
>>355222
I'd like some dark-skinned characters too.

No. 356345

I have no idea what is gonna be the stylistic choice for natlan, I'm aware it's based on latin america but it's difficult for me to imagine how the characters are gonna be dressed because that's not a setting I ever see in anime. For sumeru yeah you could go for anime like magi, other gacha games with egyptian characters or some fantasy RPG with elves but for natlan nothing comes to mind… do you guys have any ideas?

No. 356353

>>356345
I want it to be like emperor’s new groove.

No. 356354

File: 1708022399250.jpg (39.12 KB, 1280x720, WYwxmjd.jpg)

>>356353
Pull the lever, Paimon!

No. 356366

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>>356345
It's partly Spain, partly West Africa, and partly Latam. So there's going to be a huge mess of different ideas and probably some cultural divides like Sumeru with the Rainforest vs Desert.
On that note, an early emote of a beta design for the Pyro archon got leaked (using one of Jean's emotes as a base model). It's looking pretty bleak.

The bowtie bit is apparently not going to be in the final design but she's going to be based off a Matador with Carnivale theming. Spain Twitter is already reeing about how racist that is and how Spaniards hate that part of their culture and the usual meltdowns Twitter has.

No. 356367

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>>356366
Some additional context for this leak.

No. 356375

>>356366
So there's tribal stuff but the Archon is based off Spanish stuff, oh China.

No. 356393

>>356375
I mean the primordial one and his creations (gods, archons, humans) are the literal invaders of Teyvat, so maybe that’s what they are going for? And pyro sovereign and other dragons will have more of a tribalistic aesthetic?

No. 356413

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Jeht got Valentine's Day art. This is notable in that it's the first time we've gotten NPC art for a holiday. Now do Enjou for White Day, Hoyoverse.

No. 356515

Im sorry but what in the goddamn fuck does Latin America have to do with goddamn fucking Africa? The cultures couldnt be anymore different. What do the Mande have in common with the fucking Aztecs? What do the Hausa have in common with the Mapuche? At least the cultural mishmash in Sumeru made sense in a retarded way due to the proximity but Latin America and Africa are a fucking ocean apart? This is so retarded

No. 356542

>>356515
Chinese people are racist as shit and seem to think any culture that doesn't have lily white skin are uneducated cavemen which makes them all the same to them.
It's telling that Liyue gets an annual blowjob with Lantern Rite, Fontaine and Mondstadt are mostly French/German mixed with a bit of English, Inazuma is accurate to milk weeb bux but dead in the water content wise, and Sumeru and now apparently Natlan will be weird mishmashes of 50 different cultures that have nothing to do with each other.
I understand the favoritism HYV has towards Liyue but it's still annoying how every other region only gets breadcrumbs.

No. 356556

>>356515
Sumeru was Middle East and India which are also very different but they did it well anyway. If anything the inspired cultures having more history to work with is better because there's no culture in Mondstadt or Fontaine, they both feel so empty compared to Sumeru. Liyue and Inazuma lack a lot too but not as bad as the nations that are inspired by only two countries with no culture

No. 356557

>>356556
>europe has no culture
are you retarded or just pretending to be retarded? fountaine is more interesting than sumeru's shitty desert area and annoying and bloated world quests

No. 356569

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>>356324
oh wow we got five playable male characters in sumeru. mhy is so generous, cease your complaining anons

>>356556
>there's no culture in Mondstadt or Fontaine
tfw the only culture in sumeru is mhy throwing middle eastern/indian cultures together and slapping stereotypical arab music on top. they even gave us a white loli as the goddess of the brown people, it's like they're taking the piss

No. 356570

>>356557
They do, Mondstadt is full of drunk people. But they couldn't just make those two colonize other lands. They could add in Greek mythology but that's still not at wide as Middle East AND India combined are. When you put in multiple cultures you can't run out of stuff to reference

No. 356571

>>356569
now make a tierlist of which characters are 4* and/or so garbage they're unusable. spoiler: it's mostly the waifus. I'd rather have less male characters that are good instead of a bloated roster that is shit

No. 356591

>>356569
Your complaining and dooming that there will never be men in Genshin again is what's stupid when Sumeru was mostly male 5 stars and Ga Ming just released. Do you really want to have to roll for crappy 4 stars? There will be more hot men. Just save your primos to guarantee the next male or take a break, it's not that complicated.

No. 356639

>>356571
this, the 5 star roster is pretty evened out, we just have more female 4 star and most of them are basically just filler. it's not a fair comparison, characters like kirara, lynette, collei, layla, candace might look cute but they're completely useless…

No. 356641

another thing to consider, it's easier to churn out waifu of the month rather than husbandos. they take longer time with husbandos because they're trying to make them appealing to the female demographic, we tend to be more picky. coomers don't give a fuck

No. 356678

>>356570
…Greek mythology/inspiration was already added as Enkanomiya?

No. 356736

>>356639
Kirara is a great shielder and so is Layla. Kirara also has her place in Nilou teams and using her box form for exploration.
Collei is also fantastic for Nilou teams, particularly for speedrunning, and she's a good pick for spread too. She gets forgotten about because of dendro traveler's existence but I like that you don't have to worry about Collei's burst randomly exploding from coming into contact with pyro.
Lynette is underrated because she's only been on one banner so basically no one has, let alone her c6 which adds her anemo infusion and turns her into a great driver for the team. She's also always going to get overshadowed by Kazuha's existence. Her taunt is pretty handy.
Candace is really the only truly trash one in that list, with her singular niche of hydro-infusing Yaoyao in Nilou teams.
I'd say percentage-wise that it's pretty even when it comes to kinda shit or nearly useless characters, it's just more noticeable with the ladies because there's more of them total. Like who the fuck is actually using Mika? The 1% of Eula owners that still use her and don't mind having a guy in the team? Kaveh and Freminet can both work if you put a lot of investment into them but they take so much work as a 4 on-field character. They'll always get outshone by 5 on-field characters.
>>356641
I really hope they take their time to make a good batch of guys for Natlan because Fontaine has been very lackluster for me in that regard. The Sumeru guys were much more preferable to me.

No. 356743

>>356393
People were pissed that Nahida was white but don't realize the archons are colonizers kek.

No. 356752

>>356736
>kirara
Kek, use DMC or Yaoyao
>collei
See the above but even worse
>layla
Genuinely good to be fair but niche because cryo isn't in a great spot right now
>dori
Dogshit, you don't even want to run her with Furina because you can electro-charged and/or overload yourself accidentally and she needs 250+ energy without C6
>candace
Actually dogshit as you said
>lynette
Kek Sucrose is better in every way, much less Venti or Kazuha, there's no situation in which you wouldn't want Sucrose over her. Lynette can't even snapshot
>kaveh
Unfortunately he's worse Nilou, typical 4 star vs 5 star gacha problem
>mika
Sees use in Furina teams for cryo resonance, but see point about Layla
>freminet
Kek physical, his kit had neat ideas but kek physical
Plus there's never been a male 5 star that was simply plain unusable. Even Albedo whose kit and constellations are a mess is still fringe used. Look at poor Dehya or Eula (and Chiori soon).

No. 356757

>>356752
Isn't Freminet better as cryo?
Anyway the reality of gacha games is they can't keep making better characters especially for 4 stars. Characters only have 2 skills and 2 passives, they just can't be unique enough to not overlap. The fontaine blue/yellow light mechanic (not playing in EN orz) was as far as new mechanics can go unfortunately. Unless Natlan surprises us with something new that's exciting but won't break the game or the previous characters entirely.

No. 356763

>>356752
Mona, Klee and arguably CR and Shenhe are also all awful. The latter two are so incredibly niche they're not even worse running unless you own either Xiao or Ayaka respectively. But yeah, the other anon is on giga copium if she actually thinks any of the 4 stars she listed are usable unless you're a noob who doesn't own anything else.
Why the fuck would anyone use characters like Collei when Nahida, Yaoyao, Baizhu, DMC, etc exist? It's like that with all 4 stars that have been released in recent history. The only good ones that aren't just a complete downgrade from any 5* that serves the same role are Faruzan and Yaoyao, and maybe Charlotte in Furina/Ayaka teams.

No. 356884

>>356757
Freminet is probably better as cryo, but cryo has so many good options already. I like the idea of him being able to be either cryo or physical but his numbers just aren't good enough.
I want Natlan to give some more burgeon support of some kind, because right now there isn't really a great option aside from Thoma for it. A good Melter would be great too.
>>356763
I didn't put Mona down because she's standard banner but you're right. Keqing is worse Alhaitham as well. Klee is borderline unplayable, only masochists pick her up. Cloud Retainer is peak "for fun" character, I only tolerate her because Ga Ming is fun. Shenhe is a for whales character, she enables stupid shit if you have Wriothesley but is otherwise unnecessary and probably should have been a 4 star like Faruzan.
Again, the most poorly-designed male character is probably Albedo. The others have a lot of thought put into their kits. So yeah, it's better to have quality male characters over a bunch of garbage ones that aren't worth building.

No. 356972

Why was Zhongli avoiding meeting Nuevi in that new quest? I'm still in Sumeru so idk Fontaine lore

No. 356973

>>356972
It's a huge spoiler so play the Fontaine archon quest and you'll know.

No. 357618

Fucking worthless shitty Mona spook while going for Xiao. I hope Al Haitham is soon, I’ll use my guarantee on him at least

No. 357645

>>357618
I got Dehya.
I probably have enough primos for full pity, but maybe I'll wait.

No. 357648

>>356743
I don’t get how that would mean she has to be white…?
I’m pretty convinced the Natlan archon will be white-skinned too. It sucks. There was some weird stuff sprinkled in Sumeru so I have a feeling they might have a full-blown racist line somewhere like in honkai 3rd.

No. 357658

>>357648
>a full-blown racist line somewhere like in honkai 3rd
What's that about? Do you mean there was in-universe racism or did they make a character say something that showed that the creators are racist?

No. 357660

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>>357658
Iirc there was a whole character whose identity was being ashamed of being half black / having a black mother and that it makes her ugly. Said mother is basically a hypermasculine racist caricature called “Lewis” btw. Never played the game though.

No. 357661

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>>357660
Ew wtf. They can get away with it in HI3 because their only international fanbase is incels that don't give a fuck but if they put even a little bit of passive aggressive racist shit in Genshin like some other games do they'll have fucked up irreversibly. They better have some of the EN team check up on their shit.

Also we need a new thread pic before someone sneaks in a coomer image again. I don't have many fanart saved so any ideas?

No. 357666

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>>357661
I doubt they'll go hyperaggressive with the racism in Genshin even if the devs believe in it. They know Genshin is their big overseas seller, they won't want to risk that. It'll stick around in their less popular games. The worst they'll do is gimp the dark-skinned characters' kits and make them unessential pulls like they did to Dehya. The Pyro Archon will 100% be white to pander to the Asian incel market who can't handle a drop of melanin in their waifus without having autistic meltdowns.At least Cyno is good even if he demands all your resources to reach his best potential

No. 357912

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>>357661
Thoughts on this for the thread pic?

No. 357944

>>357912
I like it! Especially if Arlecchino gets released soon

No. 357951

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>>357912
It's very pretty, but Arlecchino looks way too moe for my liking

No. 357952

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No. 357964

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>>357951
ayrt. I prefer my Arlecchinos on the more badass side too, but I thought a thread pic with multiple characters would go over more easily than a solo. Have an offering for good taste though!

No. 357978

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