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The Final Gift || Harbinger Ladies' Tea Party

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i thought new event was combat and i got excited, esp bc it had my babygirl kazuha, but turns out hes not voiced and there's no plot and no combat

if i wanted to parry japanese dog with a sword in its mouth for 6 minutes in a row, i'd play elden ring:\\\\

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Aside from the comparison of Kaeya and Lohen treatment in fandom, do you think Kaeya is treated in other unfair ways (because of racism) in the narrative? I sometimes see people say that Kaeya is treated by traveler and others as being overly sus(picious), and I've heard that Kaeya has been somewhat sidelined in recent Mond content, though I haven't played most of these events in the recent patches.

mmm, while genshin is OBV colorist in presentation, i wouldn't say narrative treats characters of color worse. Like when they do exist, they get love, like Dehya and Cyno are absolutely pivotal for sumeru plotline, Xinyan got random summer pre-sumeru event with GORGEOUS domain for her deep psychological exploration when she has like 3 fans, but they still did it, etc. So I'd say the problem is that the design stage just doesn't let them make more characters of color, but when they get thru, writers don't treat them worse, at least I don't remember any cases of that

Kaeya specifically is the best written character in Mond, and one of the best written in the game. He is THE ONLY one who has both story quest and hangout, and his hangout is one the best written pieces in game period, competing mb only with scara who has ten thousand archon quests and simulanka. Like yes, paimon is shitty to him, but paimon is shitty to many likable characters, and traveler always has option to talk about him favourably and brings him up in random conversations fondly. He appears in Archon quest and traveler can tell him I miss u, baby <3

And like, even when fandom treats him horrible and casts him as handsome flirt, but shallow and evil, game goes against it all the time, showing that he cares, like in hangout or in summer klee event. Like I would say writers are biased towards Kaeya if anything

about latest Mond content, thats Paralogism, which is about Albedo and IS BAD, Kaeya still has big role as Albedo's advocate, and in Varka's SQ, which is about Varka and IS BAD, Kaeya again has big role as one of three pillars of Mond's future, EXPLICETELY. Like yes, he's not the main character, but it'd be weird to to demand him to be main character in every single mond related content?

overall Kaeya is Hamlet of geshin, he's heavily associated with theater, both in his hangout and in klee summer event where he gets his skin as part of theater performance, and through that, to 4th wall breaking meta commentary and also to the Khaenriah's theme of defying fate, which he brings up in his monologue where he also quotes Shakespeare. so tbh i don't see narrative being racist to him, even if fandom is NO DOUBT is

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omg i dont pay attention at all actually, yes i’m an idiot i keep forgetting menacing is before fearless idk why i just never look at the names of the stages 😭 i’ve never really cared to try dire more than once every reset (which usually ends in a fail after which i promptly leave that hell and never return until next reset), so stygian is usually a one and done for me. but i deffo need to look into skirk combos cause idk why i’ve never done that before when i know combs for my other fav chars

make sure to sort by the latest, bc skirk has several different combos, bc like ppl kept discovering better ones, and the latest best came out like a week ago i think

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btw actually it think dire is such an interesting situation, bc obviously it's meant to be just a reward for whales, but bc c0 teams CAN clear at the highest performance, its more prestigious to clear c0 then c6. like no one cares that you cleared dire at c6 bc DUH, but if you cleared c0, you're a chad. so like somehow dire is more prestigious for c0 tryhards then for whales lol

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for other ppl who don't pay attention, FEARLESS is 5th diffuclty of stygian, highest one on normal mode, and the last one that gives tangible rewards, i.e. artifacts bottle. like if you can clear it, realistically you're on top of endgame.

DIRE is 6th difficulty, its basically for whales so they can feel like they got smth for spending thousabnds of moneyes, it gives nothing, but cosmetic skins for weapons, but you sometimes can clear it with c0 teams, if they match the bosses and you're really good at them. if you clear it c0, its basically just for bragging rights to show that you're great at the game

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sorry there are skirk combos??? I mean everyone and their mom knows about mavu charged atk canceling but skirk?? shes so simple though

there were skirk combos ALSO since like beggining of nod krai, and its supposed to be like 20% dps increase. ppl are clearing dire with these combos on c0 skirk, its actually old news, sorry, you've been living under smaller rock then prev anon, but you're still under rock. if you're actually interested, there are like 100 videos for skirk combos on youtube

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my highest clear is fearless lmaoooo me and menacing do not go together despite the fact that realistically i’m fairly sure i should be able to clear it but beginning to think that not knowing they have actual combos might be the reason why i never go higher than fearless

bro\sis, idk how to break it to you, but fearless is HARDER then menacing. you don't even know the ranks, friend asdfghjk. menacing is 4th difficulty, fearless is 5th, dire is 6th.

and i said in that first ask that combos are only needed for dire, you can clear fearless without combos. so i think your problem is actually that you just don't fucking pay attention asdfghjkl

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btw, if you live under a rock, here is public announcement:

snezhnanya will shill stellar reactions in same way if not worse that nod krai shilled lunar reactions

BUT they are buffing few characters to allow them to work with stellar conduct: wrio, cyno, yae, beidou, qiqi, diona

cyno and rizzler will be on-field dps. they will be worse then sandrone, but they are decent enough

if stellar will have similar situation to nod krai where sub dps are cracked, like ineffa, linnea, lauma, then if you already have cyno or rizzler, you might be okay with that them and stellar sub dps

sandrone is MAIN DPS, all calcs rn user her as dead 4th clot, but do not pull her for rizzler or cyno

wait, during sandrone banner there will most likely be leaks for stellar sub-dps beta. if that sub-dps is cracked like ineffa, and you already have rizzley or cyno, you better off using them, like i used neuvi as driver for lunar charged in nod krai and cleared all 5th stygian

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mava and skirk have combos omg i’m done i never knew that what. i just burst and/or hit skill on skirk and then just go crazy on the normals wtf

asdfghjkl what is the highest stygian difficulty u cleared with that approach, just curious

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btw i dont wanna HEAR IT about male characters being done bad in genshin, flins had one or TWO shilled bosses in every stygian, and he also has the most easily splitted lunar team bc he can function fine with fischl aino and like lan yan for sustain, with ineffa bina clearing other boss.

meanwhile nefer DIES without lauma, she dies with lauma too tbh bc she HAS NO SUSTAIN, you can't split her team, and zibai, oh let me start on zibai

zibai propaganda is that she's great on 3 star weapon, but you need to be over 90% health for the harbinger to work, and in a real fight you gonna get hit! i tried it! harbinger is not real unless you have some other crystalize! this is why all r0 gecko clears were on natlan def sword, not harbinger, but it requires INSANE crit value on artifacts to work

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it's so like funny to me when ppl complain about how genshin plotlines end up being about "power of friendship" as a solution. like yeah. genshin primarily examines oppressive and corrupted systems and ways to overthrow them, its historically accurate that the only way to do it is for oppressed ppl to come together. its like reading marx and going uggggh, its about power of friendship again?!

but also look at examples of same themes that don't come to the same conclusion, like arcane season 2. even the people furthest from socialist views realized it's garbage bc the status quo is protected in the end. it's actually so fun to watch videos trying to figure out why its bad and they are stumbling all over the place bc they don't know political theory, but there are like 3 videos going yeah, it was bad from season one bc it's centrist propaganda. like it's just inherentely obvious that that centrist preserve the status quo finale is bad even if ppl can't articulate it.

like inherentely there are aren't any plottwist solutions to oppression other then oppressed ppl uniting and overthrowing status quo, and it doesn't work even for centrists and conservatives, bc deep down they realize its not working. the interesting part is not that ppl should unite, its critique of specific systems that examinate of how these systems try to keep oppressed ppl apart from each other and how they can come to understanding, and thats interesting part of genshin's thesis

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Looks like Mondstadt has guns now, Inazuma has murder puppets, Sumeru has AI & I guess pyramid laser beam, Fontaine has dog & killing machine robots, Natlan has motorbike, Nod Krai is Nod Krai, Sneznaya prologue already has train

Is Liyue the least developed region technologically? What is Zhongli doing? All those mora for decades & his subjects are barely literate

well someone def didn't read my post on how fate works in teyvat, bc i explain in detail that mava's motorbike is not technological progress, its basically magic device only usable by her. you don't see any other motorbikes rolling around natlan.

so if you want to compare it to liyue, then its much closer to like cloud retainer's magic devices. it has different mechanics, so its not perfect comparison, but it's basically a magic device that exists in ONE exemplar and can be operated by one user. All of natlan "advanced" tech operates this way, its resricted to one person.

meanwhile liyue has guizhong's ballista and they explicetely iterated on it to make it mass-produced, we see several of them in battle against's osail's wife. these ballistas are also much more powerful then just guns, despite of our preconceptions. so while i wouldn't say its solely zhongli'scredit, he was ther one who brought attention to guizhong's ballista, but ning was ther one who evolved and mass-produced it. so liyue is actually fine weapons-wise, and better then natlan probably, if we discount like personally mava on a bike

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anyway, speaking about characters that feel fuckass to play, illuga fans, avert your eyes, but he is the worst. like oh my god. since i got zibai and linnea, i tried to clear dire gecko in prev stygian, and i found videos of c0r0 zibai clears. but for some fucking reason, illuga would just miss his fucking skill all the time. and like his skill is nothing complicated, its just a direct hit that generates particles. but he would miss it standing directly in front of a giant gecko for no reason, when other skills of similar nature like idk, kaeya's skill, never missed like that.

and then one time he was standing in front of the gecko and i pressed his skill and HE TURNED 180 AWAY AND SHOT IT INTO NOTHING. like i'm sorry illuga simps, but your man just pisses all over the floor instead of the urinal for no reason!

I quit trying after that bc I felt that I'm about to become the joker, but he's the reason i didn't clear dire last rotation, bc i already cleared pegasus with nefer and mava kinich can clear pappilla 100%