Switched over to Japanese voicelines now. Barbara no longer tells me she's fine with the new English voicelines anymore when she is hit. At least now I don't have to hear that abrasive "cheap and tasty chop suey" voiceline from that loud foodstand woman everytime I go to wanmin restaurant to cook food. Wtf is chop suey anyways? Apparently an American Chinese dish which is clearly not what is being depicted. Picture and description in the game is of something else entirely. Also the weirdness that Monstadtians apparently don't eat animal innards, even though they eat sausages, and gibbets and tripe was a completely normal European food. Everything about it is wrong. Genshin Impact clearly has no problems with giving English language users strange and wonderful fantasy Chinese dishes so why the heck is it called that?

Been doing co-op domains to try to get friends to swop the event photos around just in case I don't have the right photos at the end. Seems like the event photo colours are loaded so fewer of the brown ones appear. Might as well finally do the co-op achievement primogems.

I swear most of the people doing these domains are dumb as hell. They don't want to switch from their favourite characters. Tired of seeing 2 Diluc users not shifting. In my case I usually let them use their characters, which end up seeing them doing half as much damage as mine do. They have no idea that auras exist and that maybe they should target the ones with the giant glowing circle underneath them first.

They stand in the DoT AoE explosion of the pyro aura homing rocket. They have no idea that you can just run to the top right of the bloodstained/noblesse domain to essentially solo the pyro abyss mage if done correctly, instead prefering to run to the bottom right so they get hit by both. Apparently I get kicked for not collecting the artifacts at the end, or using a healer so they don't die when they stand in the explosions. I got laughed at for using a lv 60 Barbara so their sorry characters which they don't know how to dodge with, don't die. Like really? I can solo all these domains foodless no problem, they are the ones who need help, not me. Why is it a problem if I don't need the artifacts? And I've seen them kick other people for using certain characters.

Spazer

Canada8036 Posts

February 06 2021 20:07 GMT

#585

Remember my post about the playerbase? I don't have a lot of faith in the average player. Back when I had to coop to do the crimson witch domain, I think the chance of success was about 50%. Finding a solid stack is rough.

Southlight

United States11768 Posts

February 07 2021 03:34 GMT

#586

Remember that that's also the playerbase they have to account for with difficulty :'(

Firebolt145

Lalalaland34504 Posts

February 07 2021 08:03 GMT

#587

How do you reliably dodge the pyro homing rocket anyway? Do you just have to move each time it lands on you? Just wondering if there's a trick to it.

Harris1st

Germany7325 Posts

February 07 2021 09:19 GMT

#588

Haha yes my coop experience is pretty similar. Sometimes you get groups that just smash face in under a minute and sometimes it is a cluster fuck.

Recently it got worse probably because the more casual players caught up and don't know shit.

Dangermousecatdog

United Kingdom7084 Posts

February 07 2021 15:36 GMT

#589

You can't dodge the pyro homing rocket. Or at least I have never been able to. I just move out of the way afterwards. It hits 3 times and explodes 3 times and after that you should have plenty of time to do damage to the pyro aura monster. I know you can block it with geo constructs. Now that I think about it, that's probably why nobody goes for the pyro aura monster, since they have no idea how to deal with it except to hope someone else get targetted.

Edit: So I just did a test and you can just simply dodge the pyro homing rocket. It just doesn't look like it. You can even stand in the explosion afterwards without damage.

I took a look and I'm at 62 completed co-op domains now and I've only ever failed 3 of them, which is a 95% success chance so clearly I am having a better experience than you guys. It might just be that people now are geared up and better players, or it might just be the difference in our play. Quite a few of those successes were because I just kept going after people died and quit the domain. I just keep going until everybody has left. No point carrying on with nobody left, I can't get the achievement if I am alone. All of the failures were because as soon as one person died the rest quit the domain, as if they beleive they need all 4 people to complete the domain.

I just discovered that there is a superconduct bug with co-op Midsummer Courtyard domain. it doesn't proc at all. I saw a co-op with 3 healers and wanted to see if I could die, only to not take any damage at all.

Spazer

Canada8036 Posts

February 08 2021 00:06 GMT

#590

Pretty sure the homing fireball only it hits you only if you stand in the center. The explosion animation doesn't seem to have an active hitbox, which is weird, but whatever.

I think I have 15 coop clears in domains? I haven't bothered since WL5 or 6.

Edit: Tried some coop in noblesse domain out of curiosity. It's still hell.

I had one team that successfully completed back to back runs because they were competent. The others... not so much. One team would've died multiple times over were I not running Qiqi. The other three teams just died instantly.

Nobody focused the pyro mage or used the isolation strats. Domains are just waaaay easier solo.

Harris1st

Germany7325 Posts

February 08 2021 10:11 GMT

#591

I never had trouble in the Noblesse domain in coop. Most fails were in the hydro artifact domain cause the big guy hits like a truck and since most support were playing Bennett there, everyone was just at 70% health and some Bennetts even ulted just were they stood and not where the truck was.

Harris1st

Germany7325 Posts

February 08 2021 17:00 GMT

#592

Anyone need photos? Got a bunch of leftovers with at least one complete set on EU

kyarisan

United States347 Posts

February 08 2021 21:01 GMT

#593

Can you play with people in NA or is this game region locked? Could use some brown and maybe purple

Spazer

Canada8036 Posts

February 08 2021 21:14 GMT

#594

The game's region locked. I think there's NA/EU/Asia.

Harris1st

Germany7325 Posts

February 09 2021 09:40 GMT

#595

On February 09 2021 06:01 kyarisan wrote:
Can you play with people in NA or is this game region locked? Could use some brown and maybe purple

Only EU :/

It's a pity you can't trade more stuff in this game. I'm in desperate need of a decent hydro goblet. Hope they'll add trading or an auction house at some point

Harris1st

Germany7325 Posts

February 09 2021 10:57 GMT

#596

Banner leaks (unconfirmed)

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Also info on Lantern festival and theatre mechanics are on Mihoyos News site

Latham

9588 Posts

February 09 2021 12:11 GMT

#597

No way is that character banner legit. Xingqui was just on rate up with Cocogoat so we won't be seeing him for like 3-5 banners again. Chongus and FurryBoy might be correct.
Weapon banner I think is legit, I also heard rumors that Wolf's Gravestone will be on rate up along with Staff of Homa... 4-stars I have no idea nor really care in the weapon banner.

Southlight

United States11768 Posts

February 09 2021 13:38 GMT

#598

In fairness that is the third banner given that Keqing would be in between...

Latham

9588 Posts

February 10 2021 16:35 GMT

#599

The Tower Defense mini-game at Liyue's Lantern Festival is actually pretty fun. Played it like 6-7 times and maxed out my towers for now (day1 max is level 4 for offensive towers and level 3 for the gathering nexus).

Geo MC actually useful here, he can block creature pathing with his giant fatass nuts of rock he makes with E.
Ganyu as expected is top tier CCer here with her E being a timed mine and Tier 2 focused shot being an AoE freeze.
Venti or Sucrose are great for swirl for big damage on those pesky shield hilichurls
Apparently Jean is top tier as well, being able to push creatures off the map or into pits aside from gathering them up.
Fishl's E is actually 1 extra turret every round. Although it doesnt do damage per se, it applies electro to enemies constantly.

Dangermousecatdog

United Kingdom7084 Posts

February 10 2021 18:32 GMT

#600

I hate the tower defence event. Such a big waste of time. If I wanted to play a mobile or tablet tower defence game, I'll go and choose to play any of thousands of available tower defence games on my phone or tablet. I enjoyed collecting the materials for the lanterns more than playing the tower defence itself.

As for the third 1.3 banner, the most likely candidates of the 4 star characters would be Xiangling, Xingqiu and Chongyun, since they are featured as available in "both stand by me" event and talk about her in their profile voiceover. That banner picture is strange though, as if the ghost is new character.