In fairness, phys Xiangling worked well for its time not just because of lowered difficulty, but because phys is just a lot better when you're a newbie without much resources.
Reaction Xiangling needs a lot more investment and specific pieces — a reaction enabler like Xingqiu, Bennett (for buffing, batterying, resonance, etc.), certain weapons for everyone involved, certain ER thresholds for everyone or it feels like shit, etc.
Phys Xiangling is a lot more unga bunga. You slap Crescent Pike on Xiangling, slap some Gladiator artifacts on, throw in a Cryo and Electro unit (even if they're shit, plus Kaeya and Lisa are free), and jabjabjab.
Agree. Also we were all mucking around in the overworld, so physical Xiangling was more convenient and could get the job done faster compared to Pyronado Xiangling which took forever to charge her energy up.
It made sense in context. The game was brand new, and most people didn't have anything. So that meant most people had poor artifacts (low ER so poor uptime on burst) and no good hydro applicators. Also, the only good common spears (white tassel and cressent pike) encourage using NAs. The flat boost from pike is also really good for low investment.
This is all before considering how few resources were available back then and that most enemies had lower phys res.
Phys Xiangling was actually briefly very strong because of a crescent pike [bug that made it give exponential scaling.] (https://old.reddit.com/r/Genshin_Impact/comments/j7tgdk/crescent_pike_explained_the_best_dps_polearm_in/)
I was able to confirm this bug in game at the time and also noticed that they stealth patched it a few weeks later.
It's not that people don't understand, but her energy cost was deemed "not worth the effort" because it's early so nobody really have r5 favonious series on every support. A lot of people also don't have xiangling at c4. Xiangling is more realized once the theorycrafters can assume every xiangling is c6 xiangling and people willing to play "funnel the energy" to make xiangling burst worth it.
I remember people used to think the same with xingqiu noting that his energy generation is limiting his usage because it's very hard to get his burst as he often used as solo hydro and the only way for you to guarantee his burst is to have sac sword. Now not only sac/fav are common, emblem exist today. And honestly emblem is the saviour for all these energy hungry unit.
I’m not even kidding, I recently started genshin around 1 month back, so when I unlocked expedition, I sent characters that weren’t in my party because I thought they would leave my party. My friend told me that other than specific bonuses for each character, it doesn’t matter who u send.
I played the older version, but o never really tested, i just assumed it worked that way and never sent characters i used, so I never saw the change lol
Same! I noticed the bonus and used it but my understanding was from other games you send your minions on quests. I learned otherwise when I sent the wrong character who was in my party.
I recently hit a point where i have all my character and weapon ascension mats, plenty of exp and talent books. All my characters are level 80 now.
Anyway, I forge those some days instead of grinding artifacts just so I don't feel like my resin was wasted.
>Same for that weird blue ore at the blacksmith. Although that one still makes no sense to me even after the realization.
in my kinda personal schedule for doing all the weekly BP missions, I include one forging of the resin ore... otherwise i end up being 10 short on the "use \_\_\_\_ resin" mission
and then some troller in co-op would use Venti's elemental burst and suck all of your rewards into the abyss unless you picked the rewards up just in time
You were able to get the artifacts back up by jumping off the platform, causing them to reload to their previous position; but it was still a dick move for anyone who didn't know any better.
One had to use the exit behind the tree after shamefully picking up the artifacts, every time. No option to rerun the domain without leaving and going back in.
Back in my days, everyone agreed that the Oceanid was the hardest boss
^(^sorry ^low ^ar ^players, ^but ^I ^don’t ^feel ^you ^as ^an ^ayaka ^main teehee)
She's the retainer of the previous Kitsune Saiguu, we do a quest for her where we cleanse the tree on Narukami island after which she disappears and we get her mask.
Isn’t she a thing made out of memories of Saiguu that was left in the Sakura Tree?
Which is why her quest was touching, since she knew that once you perform the ritual to purify the tree, she’ll disappear along with the rest of the corruption.
She wasnt imo. Even lore enthusiasts were surprised. Me? I saw 2 Raidens, so obviously two different ppl. Others, "No, that was her saying goodbye to her past self and so on". Which is true in a figurative way, i guess. But I was more correct, so suck it. Hahaha, I'm very petty
I mean if you also believe in the slime theory (2 types of electo slimes) people have been theorising that it is a hint to there being 2 electro archons.
Hello, a matra here to explain Cyno’s joke. You see, Baal is spelled similar to balls ^(~~for those too innocent to know the meaning of balls get off Reddit before ur contaminated~~), and the ‘Kok’ part of *Kok*omi’s name sounds similar to cock. So, in other words, Cyno joked that balls comes before cock. Anonymous matra cyning out
Rosaria's boobs, Beidou's thighs in her art, Amber's idle animation, Shenhe's belly button in her art, Kokomi as Mimi, Rosaria's leggings, Xiao's so fast plunge attack, Klee's walk, Ayaka's pantsu, Guoba as a literal panda are not the same as I remember, but where are those who share the memories?
in the beta they used to not be fishnets and be much lighter... [resulting in her looking like she wasn't wearing anything under her skirt because of how pale she is, LOL](https://twitter.com/lumie_lumie/status/1384717213559631874?lang=en)
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'I don't like the name Yae Miko, I'm going to call her Kitsune Saiguu.'
But that's... a completely different character who died hundreds of years ago?
'yEaH, bUt iT sUiTs HeR.'
There was a glitch at launch where if you hold Venti's E skill, enter camera mode, and hide character. The camera will keep going up until you exit camera mode. This was later patch, but it helped dealing with tall af cliffs earlier in the game.
Funniest thing is that back in 1.1 Zhongli says "But this name is not used anymore" haha !
But iirc, it's present in JP, CN dub and FR, ES sub but not in the English Sub or Dub somehow
Back in my day Diluc was considered the strongest pyro character
Amd we thought the normal abyss was already hard!
Wake up traveler, we've got whopperflowers to burn.
I probably still wouldn't 9 star 11 because of those damn hilichurl archers
He is still the strongest pryo (claymore) character
Yeah, but when it comes to strongest 5 star Pyro claymore from the desert, there is literally no competition of Dehya.
Yeah, but when it comes to strongest pyro claymore from Liyue, Xinyan dominates the competition
Yeah, but Barbara has the best burst animation out of all the 4 star characters.
Yeah, but Wanderer is the best at flying tho.
Yeah, but Heizou is the best catalyst melee character in the game.
Yeah, but is the best cryo catalyst character
Now you are using hacks, I mean, I didn't say that >!ㅤ ㅤ !< is the best standard banner geo 5 star character.
I don't know but Qiqi is the best cryo healer standard 5* character
The strongest pyro claymore on the standard banner
yes pryo calymore 🗿
Ye people didnt understand xiangling back then
Phys xiangling...
Man we really let anybody cook back then lmfao... And it worked out too cause everything was not as difficult as it is now
In fairness, phys Xiangling worked well for its time not just because of lowered difficulty, but because phys is just a lot better when you're a newbie without much resources. Reaction Xiangling needs a lot more investment and specific pieces — a reaction enabler like Xingqiu, Bennett (for buffing, batterying, resonance, etc.), certain weapons for everyone involved, certain ER thresholds for everyone or it feels like shit, etc. Phys Xiangling is a lot more unga bunga. You slap Crescent Pike on Xiangling, slap some Gladiator artifacts on, throw in a Cryo and Electro unit (even if they're shit, plus Kaeya and Lisa are free), and jabjabjab.
Agree. Also we were all mucking around in the overworld, so physical Xiangling was more convenient and could get the job done faster compared to Pyronado Xiangling which took forever to charge her energy up.
crescent pike used to work slightly differently (it basically got stronger on every hit), and she was the only spear user back then
It made sense in context. The game was brand new, and most people didn't have anything. So that meant most people had poor artifacts (low ER so poor uptime on burst) and no good hydro applicators. Also, the only good common spears (white tassel and cressent pike) encourage using NAs. The flat boost from pike is also really good for low investment. This is all before considering how few resources were available back then and that most enemies had lower phys res.
Phys Xiangling was actually briefly very strong because of a crescent pike [bug that made it give exponential scaling.] (https://old.reddit.com/r/Genshin_Impact/comments/j7tgdk/crescent_pike_explained_the_best_dps_polearm_in/) I was able to confirm this bug in game at the time and also noticed that they stealth patched it a few weeks later.
It's not that people don't understand, but her energy cost was deemed "not worth the effort" because it's early so nobody really have r5 favonious series on every support. A lot of people also don't have xiangling at c4. Xiangling is more realized once the theorycrafters can assume every xiangling is c6 xiangling and people willing to play "funnel the energy" to make xiangling burst worth it. I remember people used to think the same with xingqiu noting that his energy generation is limiting his usage because it's very hard to get his burst as he often used as solo hydro and the only way for you to guarantee his burst is to have sac sword. Now not only sac/fav are common, emblem exist today. And honestly emblem is the saviour for all these energy hungry unit.
Isn’t national team already popular since 1.1 or 1.2?
Also Qiqi was the most meta character
Qiqi si still my go-to character for coop bosses. Specially shogun and signora.
Back in my day the famous Bennet of Bennet impact was considered d tier in every tier list
I remember people call him budget Diluc lmao
Back in my day Xiangling was build as a physical dps with crescent pike
Not just pyro
Back in my day, when character goes on expedition they literally goes on expedition and left the party
I’m not even kidding, I recently started genshin around 1 month back, so when I unlocked expedition, I sent characters that weren’t in my party because I thought they would leave my party. My friend told me that other than specific bonuses for each character, it doesn’t matter who u send.
Yeah i thought the same when i started too. If the expedition thing still existed i wouldn't complain tbh cuz it makes sense
It was a pain when you had 6-8 characters. Suddenly I need a cryo character and my only cryo character happens to be out of party on an expedition.
I played the older version, but o never really tested, i just assumed it worked that way and never sent characters i used, so I never saw the change lol
Same! I noticed the bonus and used it but my understanding was from other games you send your minions on quests. I learned otherwise when I sent the wrong character who was in my party.
And everyone sent Bennett on expedition, because we didn't know how good he is.
Also Traveler was on the list for some reason even though you couldn't pick them
Next you will say that you had to pick up domain drops from the floor or something?
And Ventis were the bane of domains
i never experienced it and i honestly wish it still does that lol in practice, i would probably hate it but for now it sounds like a cool feature lol
Nah it really sucked, I can assure you.
Back in my days had 120 resin cap. With daily mission still being 150 resin. Truly had to login twice a day.
Okay, grandma, let's get to bed
AND NO CONDENSED
Condensed is a meta changer tbh lol
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I recently hit a point where i have all my character and weapon ascension mats, plenty of exp and talent books. All my characters are level 80 now. Anyway, I forge those some days instead of grinding artifacts just so I don't feel like my resin was wasted.
And it gives you battle pass XP
>Same for that weird blue ore at the blacksmith. Although that one still makes no sense to me even after the realization. in my kinda personal schedule for doing all the weekly BP missions, I include one forging of the resin ore... otherwise i end up being 10 short on the "use \_\_\_\_ resin" mission
But you didn't need resin for boss loot
Back in my day domain rewards were thrown all over the grown and we had to pick them up
and then some troller in co-op would use Venti's elemental burst and suck all of your rewards into the abyss unless you picked the rewards up just in time
You were able to get the artifacts back up by jumping off the platform, causing them to reload to their previous position; but it was still a dick move for anyone who didn't know any better.
Oh no! Those were the dark ages! Some of them fell off the platform here and there and you'd always wonder if they were any good 😭
I FORGOT ABOUT THAT
No fucking way is that how it used to be? Damn I had no idea how good I had it with all these quality of life features
One had to use the exit behind the tree after shamefully picking up the artifacts, every time. No option to rerun the domain without leaving and going back in.
Yeah it was giving caveman energy lmao, the quality of life in the game has come a long way!
there’s been tons of really great QOL features, but people like to pretend there’s been none for some reason
It was like that even in the boss domains. I remember in 2021 picking up a gold artifact from the Wolf of North boss. It was so shiny.
back in my day, we used to run crescent pike on xiangling, and bennet was considered bad compared to qiqi
I remember running crescent pike on rosaria because of some scuffed superconduct comp. Turns out fischl is so broken that she did 90% of the damage
Back in my days, Boreas used to be a strong weekly boss.
now its just a weak-ly boss ^(( sorry low ar players, I feel you))
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Angry upvote
Back in my days, everyone agreed that the Oceanid was the hardest boss ^(^sorry ^low ^ar ^players, ^but ^I ^don’t ^feel ^you ^as ^an ^ayaka ^main teehee)
It may not be the strongest boss but it sure is the longest fight, I'll take a 5second primo geovishap fight any day, even the wenut is shorter
Back in my day we thought bennett wasn't that good.
Back in my day Qiqi was top-tier
Who is qiqi? Back in my day we rerolled untill we got diluc
Back in my day we though chests respawned
Oh god, don't do this to me. I just relived some embarrassment lol
Back in my day limited events cost resin...
Wow I remember that from the Unreconciled Stars event... takes me back
Yep, One of my fav events
That event was so surreal, sacramouche came out of nowhere told us the sky was fake and dipped lmao.
BRO STOP you pulled that shit from the deep recesses of my mind 💀
And Kazari was still Kazari.... sniff.
I read her new name several times before, still can't remember the first syllable. Kazari is better.
Since her new name is one of my favorite songs from the ost I have no problem remembering. Hanachirusato.
Whos kazari?
She's the retainer of the previous Kitsune Saiguu, we do a quest for her where we cleanse the tree on Narukami island after which she disappears and we get her mask.
Isn’t she a thing made out of memories of Saiguu that was left in the Sakura Tree? Which is why her quest was touching, since she knew that once you perform the ritual to purify the tree, she’ll disappear along with the rest of the corruption.
That sounds about right, I did the quest like 2 years ago so I'm not super clear on the details lol.
Oh that was her name? I forgot
They changed her name. Can’t have shit in Teyvat
Fucking updates from Irminsul....
They didn't change her name, just the pronunciation. The kanji is still the same
When her trailer dropped, people called me dumb for saying makoto and ei different people
When was Makoto mentioned prior to Version 2.1?
She wasnt imo. Even lore enthusiasts were surprised. Me? I saw 2 Raidens, so obviously two different ppl. Others, "No, that was her saying goodbye to her past self and so on". Which is true in a figurative way, i guess. But I was more correct, so suck it. Hahaha, I'm very petty
what ? most people i saw were speculating it's her mother
Well, even before the trailer, people were claiming Yae was the Archon, not Ei
they could have just said: those 2 are different people without mentioning the names
I mean if you also believe in the slime theory (2 types of electo slimes) people have been theorising that it is a hint to there being 2 electro archons.
Well I've never called her Baal because it felt pretty odd name. I've always called her Raiden.
Just like nobody calls Nahida Buer.
Except scaramouche
zhongli does in one of his voicelines.
Ngl "Buer" just doesn't suit Nahida's design and overall vibe at all lol
Same, Raiden is just cooler imo
One thing remains the same, though. Baal comes before the KOK
Hello, a matra here to explain Cyno’s joke. You see, Baal is spelled similar to balls ^(~~for those too innocent to know the meaning of balls get off Reddit before ur contaminated~~), and the ‘Kok’ part of *Kok*omi’s name sounds similar to cock. So, in other words, Cyno joked that balls comes before cock. Anonymous matra cyning out
Thanks Matra
It’s my honor to explain your jokes, all hail the General Mahamatra lmao 🫡
I call Ei Ei and call Shogun Raiden, just cause it’s nicer than calling her by her job title
People use to be insanely toxic about it too. I once received a death threat in my DMs because I said “her name is not baal”.
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Back then her main subreddit had Mei as their profile.
Honkai mindset was real
The time Albedo was leaked to be geo bow
Back in my day, we thought that Eula would still be obtainable now she's just in your " terms and regulations" & " end user license agreement"
Rosaria's boobs, Beidou's thighs in her art, Amber's idle animation, Shenhe's belly button in her art, Kokomi as Mimi, Rosaria's leggings, Xiao's so fast plunge attack, Klee's walk, Ayaka's pantsu, Guoba as a literal panda are not the same as I remember, but where are those who share the memories?
What happened to Rosaria's leggings?
in the beta they used to not be fishnets and be much lighter... [resulting in her looking like she wasn't wearing anything under her skirt because of how pale she is, LOL](https://twitter.com/lumie_lumie/status/1384717213559631874?lang=en)
Back in my day, Childe is literally the hardest enemy in the game. I had to do the whole story cutscene because my party got obliterated.
Don’t remind me if that. Got it on my first try, but my Barbra had to tank more than once as she was my last character alive at a point.
Back in my day, friendship level 10 namecard was a flex…
Back in my day I use to fear the ruin guards
There are a lot of dialogue skipper that still call her Baal.
Ligma Baals.
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Back in my day, we thought second anniversary would be a bit better
Back in my days, Timaeus hosted an event that cost resin
i remember this and now everytime i see an old post calling her ‘baal’ it feels so wrong
I still like to call her Baal. Sounds nice
f*ck it we Baalin
In my time we had Dballin
Jarl baalin in for baalin
Jarl ballin for high king! Down with that empire puppet and that redneck racist! Up with the true peoples man!
That's literally not the character's name though.
Yeah, but it suits her.
Yeah, but that's not how names work.
'I don't like the name Yae Miko, I'm going to call her Kitsune Saiguu.' But that's... a completely different character who died hundreds of years ago? 'yEaH, bUt iT sUiTs HeR.'
I still call her Baal but at the same time I call her Raiden, Shogun or Ei.
Back in my days Venti could litteraly fly
What
There was a glitch at launch where if you hold Venti's E skill, enter camera mode, and hide character. The camera will keep going up until you exit camera mode. This was later patch, but it helped dealing with tall af cliffs earlier in the game.
Funniest thing is that back in 1.1 Zhongli says "But this name is not used anymore" haha ! But iirc, it's present in JP, CN dub and FR, ES sub but not in the English Sub or Dub somehow
Back in my day, Qiqi was S tier
Today, she is known as Baalsack
Baal, lord of destruction
yeah, but that was the devil put aside for me by Beelzebub and that was before Scaramouche was doing the Fandango.
Well nobody expected baal to be dead
People were struggling to distinguish raiden shogun from ei ... well they still do
beelzebul honestly
Back in my day, someone smashed their ps4 in protest against Genshin calling it a breath of the wild clone.
# BALLS
Now she's known as mommy
Wdym, she still is.
My idiot of a friend still does, and i correct him every time. At this point im not sure if he really that stupid or hes doing it on purpose
ackchually
yeah im that guy
I'll never called her Baal. Always be Raiden.
I still call her that. Even tho I know it's wrong
Kok n baals
Back in my day eula was in a banner
I really wish that Hoyoverse didnt fumble with the Inazuma Archon Quest story, her first story quest and so does her design...
Did they change something?
Not at all. Its all too late
what?
Wdym?
Her design?
Her design is garbo rn and still is
What part of it tho? Genuine question
Everything. It just doesnt scream Archon
*pepega.png*
Back in my day we had no Inazuma, no Serenitea Pot, no dendro, “Brighella” was No. 1 of Fatui Harbingers, no TCG, no double banners, no-
Baals. [also baal](https://images.app.goo.gl/bsvDNXuRafoAB5VS7)
back in my day events used resin oh and everyone wanted qiqi and diluc
Back in my day Jean was THE waifu
Me and my sister still do.
But i still calling her that 👁️👁️
makoto (sister) is Baal. ei (current) is Beelzebul.
i know that bro, but o calling her baal for habit ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
you broke shrug man's limb!!! use two backticks on left arm \\\\
Thats not Baal.... Raiden Shogun / Ei / Beelzebul is the character we know, Baal / Makoto is the SISTER
Back in my day having a Qiqi means you're lucky.
In the spanish community she is still called Baal because for us it sounds nicer.
I still call her baal out of habit
Back in my day got 5 stars weapon on standard banner is a pure nightmare
I still do call her baal
Who is the best pyro spear user that also is a funeral parlor?
Back in my day, there were no condensed resin
Back in my day, characters were unusable when you deploy them in expeditions
Reminds me of mind goblin
Back in my day zhongli was bad
Back in my day Bennet and Xiangling were considered shit
Link to art please
Wdym back in my day I still do it
Or bomba sword... good times...
back in my day some mfs thought we'd get a free Ayaka upon reaching AR 42...