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Back from my camping vacation, so I'll try out the new update later tonight. I just did my dailies while I was camping, luckily I had cell reception, so I could update my phone and do them. Looking forward to getting into Sumeru.
 
Back from my camping vacation, so I'll try out the new update later tonight. I just did my dailies while I was camping, luckily I had cell reception, so I could update my phone and do them. Looking forward to getting into Sumeru.
Couple of little bits you may find useful since the game does not specifically cover them.

Domains can all be accessed without needing to progress the Archon quest so if you want to unlock those first you can just free wander into Sumeru and explore (unilike closed nation Inazuma)

Reputation Level: You have to complete Chapter II of Act 3 the main Archon story to access reputation level in Sumeru, there are two rewards instantly available of 100 XP but it will be a bit before you get to Level 2, at present it seems onnly exploration and doing the world quest stories will advance this so getting the Level 2 unlock feels like it will take awhile.

Once at Level 2 it should be no problem but getting there might take a while since most only give 20 points per world quest.

Daily Commissions: Again you have to have completed the main archon story quest, after this the next day you login Katheryine will unlock Sumerui Daily Comissions but they only take effect the following day at server reset so my first Sumeru comissions should be tomorrow. I'm gonna post videos of these for the first days so you can all see them.

Expeditions: At present there is no increase in the limit it's still 5/5 so I hope this will change in one of the coming updates as there's lots of good stuff to farm in Sumeru for the new materials!

One other thing I forgot to mention to you all in my last post was that my saving up of my artefacts did work!

I was able to build Yanfei, Noelle and the Traveller (still Anemo on my FTP) account.

On my main I was able to finish off Yanfei, Hu-Tao, Shenhe, Beiodu and one other character I forget so it was a good thing they include new item boxes in the reliqulariy.
 
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They really went there


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I finished the Aranyaka questline yesterday, and wow. That was honestly the best questline Genshin has added to the game to date. 15ish hours of content with a great story, likeable characters, epic music, and then the ending was extremely satisfying. Sorry Zhiqiong, Rana is my new favorite NPC.
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I finished the Aranyaka questline yesterday, and wow. That was honestly the best questline Genshin has added to the game to date. 15ish hours of content with a great story, likeable characters, epic music, and then the ending was extremely satisfying. Sorry Zhiqiong, Rana is my new favorite NPC.
I agree!

I'm only about a quarter of the way into that questline at the moment but she is defo the best NPC character that's appeared and storyline. It would be reallty nice if she became playable at some point, I mean if the rumours of Beizhou becoming a playable character in 3.4 come true it would be nice to have that happen for Rana.
 
I finished the Aranyaka questline yesterday, and wow. That was honestly the best questline Genshin has added to the game to date. 15ish hours of content with a great story, likeable characters, epic music, and then the ending was extremely satisfying. Sorry Zhiqiong, Rana is my new favorite NPC.
Just started this quest line tonight. From the sounds of it, sounds like this quest line will keep me busy for the week. Last night I finished the main quest where we kept repeating the festival over and over again. Today I had to do the archon quest because it wouldn't let me do the other quest to open up the daily commisions in sumeru.
 
New update, means new Spiral Abyss rotation. Thankfully, the entire abyss changed, as the first two floors started getting too stale.

First thing I noticed was there was quite a bit better variety it felt like for each floor. Definitely made 9 and 10 a tiny bit more enjoyable.

Floor 11 changed up 11-1’s enemies while keeping the leyline defense mechanic. It’s IMO harder now because the first half enemies are more aggressive towards the leyline, though it still shouldn’t be too difficult to 3 star for the average player with built up teams. 11-3 introduces the Electro Regisvine in the second half, and this boss doesn’t have much to worry about, as it’s HP felt similar to the one in the overworld.

Floor 12 is definitely a lot harder than previous update’s, and honestly, the last few updates. How you finish the first half determines how hard the second half will be time-wise for those 36* players.

12-2 is an add control check, as the first half utilizes enemies that, combined, can spam Hyperbloom and electro-charged, with a hydro cage from the mirror maiden. Your HP will drain rapidly if you aren’t careful. My advice is to kill the electro Cochin mage as quickly as possible, as you can cope with getting hit by bloom reactions should it come to that. Second half is a Primal Geovishap with Pyro, and be aware as he has a tanky amount of HP.

12-3 is a DPS check. The first half utilizes those vishaps from the enkanomiya area, but they have a tanky amount of HP, and if you aren’t careful, you’ll get frozen and bubbled often. After that is a wave of the bigger mushroom enemies, but those die fairly quickly. The second half is a Terrorshroom, but this didn’t feel anywhere near as bad as the primal geovishap from last chamber. Just be mindful of the adds that spawn as it might mess with the game’s lock on mechanic.

Fun abyss though, and Collei for being C0 and not 90 still put in great work!
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I finished the Aranyaka questline yesterday, and wow. That was honestly the best questline Genshin has added to the game to date. 15ish hours of content with a great story, likeable characters, epic music, and then the ending was extremely satisfying. Sorry Zhiqiong, Rana is my new favorite NPC.
Just finished this quest line today too. I really enjoyed this quest, can be a little confusing on what I need to do, because of the side quests. But I just find it funny how, while we were doing all these quests and side quests. Rana is just sleeping away in a bubble:lol: But I do wish there was something special, like a cutscene, where
she got her vision.
Also, 20 reputation points seems kind of low for a quest of this length. Could have been 100. But with this quest and another quest I was able to reach Level 2 for reputation for Sumeru. So bring on all the bounties and requests again.
 
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Just finished this quest line today too. I really enjoyed this quest, can be a little confusing on what I need to do, because of the side quests. But I just find it funny how, while we were doing all these quests and side quests. Rana is just sleeping away in a bubble:lol: But I do wish there was something special, like a cutscene, where
she got her vision.
Also, 20 reputation points seems kind of low for a quest of this length. Could have been 100. But with this quest and another quest I was able to reach Level 2 for reputation for Sumeru. So bring on all the bounties and requests again.
Just wait until you hear the dream version of Vanaruna now. It hits differently after completing that quest. It’s a shame that the radiant spin crystal located there is the non-dream version without the “la-la-la” lyrics. I’d have instantly put that dream version w/ lyrics as my teapot song in a heartbeat.



New banners for 3.0 revealed:
Ganyu / Kokomi with Dori, Xingqiu, and Sucrose.

Weapons is the Amos Bow and Everlasting Moonglow. I don’t remember the weapons, but I’m pretty sure the flavonius claymore and Rust are there. Missed opportunity to put The Bell there since Dori’s kit scales off HP completely.
 
So, I got Mona C1. And then Kokomi on the next roll. And then Dori. Can't believe my luck. And that was like between 30-40 wishes after I got Klee last time. Also really wanted Sucrose, since I don't have her, so I did another 10 pulls and got Sucrose as well. Awesome day.
 
Well I had no luck with my 40 pulls but hopefully can get something good over next 2 weeks, if I don't get a 5 star I'll be happy to take Dori.

So now that I have completed the longest quest ever and saved Rana I have to ask the question, given the end of her story do you think she might become a playable character at some point in the future when she returns from her adventures?

I certainly hope so, I think she would be an awesome character to learn/use.

EDIT: I just pulled on my main account (|FTP above) and I pulled two Dori's so I guess I got something after all, now I have to have a look at her build requirements...
 
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There’s a rumor going around by SYP (an accurate leaker) that Dori is a free character in 3.2, similar to Collei in this update. Obviously subject to change, but if true, that means I can skip without worrying about missing out on her or losing my guaranteed pity.

Speaking of Collei, I got her to 90 and it’s as if her damage went up by a lot it feels like. Definitely a good investment, and now to finish leveling dendro traveler, since apparently he/she applies dendro at a better rate, making bloom/hyper loom/burgeon teams more useful.

Even managed to snag this from the artifact domain while farming for Cyno. That’s the best Crit rate item I’ve ever gotten. Shame I still can’t seem to get the elusive god-tier Crit DMG circlet with like 17%+ Crit rate. Maybe one day.
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There’s a rumor going around by SYP (an accurate leaker) that Dori is a free character in 3.2, similar to Collei in this update. Obviously subject to change, but if true, that means I can skip without worrying about missing out on her or losing my guaranteed pity.

Speaking of Collei, I got her to 90 and it’s as if her damage went up by a lot it feels like. Definitely a good investment, and now to finish leveling dendro traveler, since apparently he/she applies dendro at a better rate, making bloom/hyper loom/burgeon teams more useful.

Even managed to snag this from the artifact domain while farming for Cyno. That’s the best Crit rate item I’ve ever gotten. Shame I still can’t seem to get the elusive god-tier Crit DMG circlet with like 17%+ Crit rate. Maybe one day.
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Nice, I don't think I have ever got a Crit Rate above 12%, I am gonna check that later!

It's kinda weird that this update and 3.1's involving so many characters needing Tenacity artefact set, I shudder to think how long it's gonna take me to get for Nilou, Dori and Kuki Shinobu, I mean I just finally finished an HP set for Zhongli and I have had him waiting since January...goodness knows how many runs I have done but that took forever!
 
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I'll just leave this here.


Yes I saw that, I think it's fair to say the live stream chat of the 3.1 stream went fairly insane when that part of the program started b yesterday!

I'm certaihnly looking forward to watching it when it comes out, it will be interesting to see the cast on screen and the story and not be actually controlling them!
 
I'm so excited for the anime, it looks beautiful. Already love the landscapes, without gameplay limitations it goes to another level.

Slightly off-topic, but wanted to show this Nendoroid of Lumine I got this week, it's so cute!

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Very nice, I have her and Aether in my collection but I have not got round to unboxing/displaying them yet, spending too much time in game.

My FTP account won it's 50/50 so now I have Ganyu on that account so now I shouldn't have any bother with a certain weekly boss so hopefully over the coming weeks I can finish off my talents for Sayu and Yelan to get them both to level 8 then I can get back to farming artefacts!

It has been a marathon slog of ore grind/weapon/talent books these past couple of weeks as 20 weapons levelled to 90 (having previously been on 80) and talents for 16 characters now at Level 8 so hopefully I will see some results for Floor 12 of Spiral Abyss on that account this time round!

After this slog I don't really wanna see the weapons/talent book domains for a few weeks!

EDIT: I realised after I typed that of course I can't break just yet as need to farm prep for Nilou!
 
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Meanwhile, I got all my farming for Cyno, minus his ascension item, done, and now I have to refarm the Tenacity Millelith domain for a few EM pieces on Kuki Shinobu. That, and the mondstadt weapon domain for the final Freedom Sworn ascension. I just need Raiden to give me more of the hand material so I can level up my dendro traveler.
 
I’m looking at a guide from the Nilou mains server, and it’s showing 2 hydro 2 Millelith or 4 gilded, but she reportedly has a high variety of options.
Alright, thank u. Damn, I was farming HP arts for Diona, then for Kokomi, and now for Nilou too! For some reason, when you want something as simple as HP%, game knows it and doesn't give u that.
 
Alright, thank u. Damn, I was farming HP arts for Diona, then for Kokomi, and now for Nilou too! For some reason, when you want something as simple as HP%, game knows it and doesn't give u that.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: The Desire Sensor is real. Whatever it is you want, is about as rare a drop as two 5 stars in the same 10-roll.
 
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: The Desire Sensor is real. Whatever it is you want, is about as rare a drop as two 5 stars in the same 10-roll.
Oh, it is definitely real :lol:
Though, I did get a two 5 stars drop in my latest 10-roll. But that was the first time out of hundreds of rolls.
 
Oh, it is definitely real :lol:
Though, I did get a two 5 stars drop in my latest 10-roll. But that was the first time out of hundreds of rolls.
Yup I've had one 5 star back to back in ther same 10 pull when I was able to C6 Yae Miko back in February as got Jean first then followed by Yae Miko.

Since thern though i t's always been to about 75-80 pulls for a five star but no loss of 50/50's so I guess lucky there.

I have a video to add later but I finally got the 'achievement' for Good Sign yesterday, it has only taken near enough 2 years to get it...LOL!
 
Technically I’ve had two (early game Jean then Klee in 7 rolls, and then two Jade Cutters), however both have not been on the same 10-roll.
 
Version 3.1 is around the corner, and with this comes the new characters for Version 3.2!

This time around is just two characters, starting with the more known one, Nahida, otherwise known as Lesser Lord Kusanali.
Nahida, 5* Dendro Catalyst
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Next up we have a student in the Akademiya, suffering from lack of sleep.

Layla - 4* Cryo Sword
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I wish everyone rolling on the Cyno/Venti Banner, or the Scarlet Sands/Elegy banner good luck. Got 230+ saved up, hoping for C2R1.
 
Hopefully Nahida will be in the second phase, will have to save for her first after Nilou. Hopefully Layla will be in the same banner, kinda lame Candace is not with Nilou.
I'm hoping as well. Hoping Candace will come before soft pity unlike Collie and Dori.
 
Pulls so far we’re chaotic, with character banner screwing me slightly.
Weapons gave me R4 Amos and then this beautiful 10-roll, so I’ll take it.
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Meanwhile Cyno’s banner gave me loads of useless Sayus and only two Kukis, no Candace yet.
At least Cyno at level 40 so far is as good as I was expecting. Looking forward to getting his C2 from 0 later today.
 
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Ah the age old day of the update pulls but that was insanely good luck with the Weapon banner @TetsuKobura, I have never had anty good luck with weapons like that yet!

The new banners and characters both seem pretty good, I like the playstyles from the test run but I don't see the need for them in my assemble of characters at this time, Candace I will just get at some point from Standard banner or when she appears as a support again.

The new desert region though is fantastic as always, did a lot of waypoint unlocking today so not looked at any of the questlines yet but I can see me possibly not progressing that on one account due to that lovely weather effect around the big desert temple as I have a feeling it will go at some point.

One unmentioned addition they've made on arftefacts screen is it now tells you how you can obtain them and if you press L stick on PlayStation it opens up the map and allows you to teleport to the domain so that's kinda neat addition.

Also Collei is free again as we've already cleared Floor 4 of hte Spiral Abyss so on the event page you just need to press X to claim her and get a constellation.
 
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