Plus, his ult cleanses the debuff in that domain that inhibits your stamina recharge.
Other reasons why Bennett is good - he does decent damage, he has high ult uptime, great healing, best support (fully built with a good weapon he can give your other characters ~1k flat ATK) and he generates a lot of energy, which pairs him well with Xiang Ling, who is energy thirsty. Plus if you run her ult while in his buff, she’ll retain that buff through her entire burst duration even after his buff runs out.
I understand Bennett’s buff scales off flat attack from weapon plus his level base. The level base from 80-90 is not huge. Better to throw your best base attack weapon on him.
So for the snowman-building event, first I carefully built a traditional one:
Then I went a little off the wall:
Then I’m like, screw it, just throw stuff out there:
So, you can know in theory how much Genshin Impact is a gacha game where the best characters are on another level. But until you get a couple 5 stars and kit them out, you don’t really feel it. Well, now that I have Mona and Zhongli rolling at pretty high efficiency, man, do I feel it. Xiangling/Razor (depending on whether you want fire or electro more), Zhongli, Aloy, Mona is a steamroll group that demolishes basically anything in seconds. I know there’s still yet more powerful stuff out there but this is enough to really drive home the point that it’s a very different game with the good characters.
Yeah, that’s certainly my experience. The shields Zhongli generates are just insane, and with Mona pumping up damage with her burst the enemies just melt. Literally, when running Xiangling and Aloy as the damage dealers. Not that Zhongli’s burst is any slouch in the damage department, either.
This weekend, the Genshin folks are running out another concert. The last one of these I watched was really good. It’s at midnight Eastern so I likely won’t see it live, but it’ll be on their YouTube channel after.
Version 3.1 has just dropped and across the next few weeks or so they are handing out premium currency like candy. I believe it’s the Genshin anniversary as well.
I believe it’s at least 3,500 primogems (at least 20-odd pulls). Some of these expire over the next few days.
The concert is up now, and it’s good, if not quite as impressive (IMHO) as the first one. Here it is, and I’ve queued it up for you to the best bit, the Raiden Shogun theme.
I was a little surprised they didn’t do more Sumeru, just a couple short themes at the end, but I guess they figure there’s plenty of time for that in future shows.
They might be saving the big Sumeru scores till later? We are early into Sumeru so perhaps Mihoyo is holding back. We still haven’t had the full main quest line run.
So I’ve been playing version 4.0 in Fontaine, and largely enjoying it, though there’s certainly some bits I could do without. The underwater scenery is generally beautiful, and at first I largely just swam around aimlessly looking at everything. And the area above ground is done well also, as I’ve come to expect from all the other areas.
Once you start trying to actually fight stuff underwater, though, it’s a lot less enjoyable. The mechanic of “find a fish, steal its power” doesn’t do much for me, and it’s way too easy to get turned around and miss your target. One of the best things about Genshin combat is auto-targeting and that doesn’t seem to work nearly as well in the water.
The story is…ok, I guess. Lyney as a character doesn’t do much for me and the hydro archon seems like a complete ditz. Some of the mystery stuff is fun, though I wish they didn’t lock you into the opera house for hours - don’t start that quest unless you have plenty of time to finish it! Navia’s story was the best part of Fontaine thus far. The Phantom Weasel thing, though, was just terrible.
a) OMG these people I thought were friends work for the bad guys, I must cut all ties IMMEDIATELY!
b) OMG the guy from a couple countries ago that we’ve always known works for the same bad guys is in trouble WE MUST HELP HIM!
That I don’t like Tortellini at all probably doesn’t help!
Also weird how many people online are omg finally a real steampunk aesthetic in a game! Dudes and dudettes, occasional gears in the decor does not steampunk make.
