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V_exe1 posted...

3-4 drops from 5.0 on at max WL.

SR is turn-based, meaning repetition becomes a much bigger problem, unlike action games. That's why.

A new feature coming, letting you craft an artifact of the set, mainstat, substat and substat2 you want.
It's a fairly recent leak, so wait and see, but it's implied you destroy artifacts for the resources that enable this.

They massively gimped all Mondstadt / Liyue domain difficulty, too.
They greatly increased various fodder enemy droprates (like samurai and spectres).
And possibly increased leyline rewards, enemy droprates (on top of what I wrote earlier).

1 - That's nice and all, great even, if so, but it's looking like too little too late at this stage. And why would it still be rng? We'll just be seeing more 21/20's, 22/20's, or now 23/20's going forward...

Also, I realize I misremembered earlier (and can no longer edit, thanks GameFAQs), it's 46 boss materials, not 68. I must've mixed it up with the 168 regional specialties you need for max ascension. Oops. That puts it at 16-23 bosses, at 40 resin each, being 640 resin to 920 resin being max needed. With the 3-4 drops change, that could reduce it to 12-16, with a new minimum of 480 resin, which is much better than initially thought. At that point, the main differences are with resin regen rates... and rng.

2 - I'd be surprised if there were any people still that don't just set to Auto and tune things out while doing something else for the grinds. One step away from just bypassing the battle entirely, but I can understand if it's like that so "just barely getting by" isn't enough to justify the skip. I know Pokemon Mastersex has stuff to skip battles you completed with no losses, maybe they can implement that in the future (not just Star Rail, mind you; any of their games).

3 - I'll believe it when I see it actually happen. I will never put my faith in a leak, no matter how credible it is. Every leak with the Dead Sea's concentration on a moon sized grain of salt, until it is actually, factually, in the game. Because they have no obligation to keep things the way they are before then, but they are liable to lawsuits if they try to change it after the fact. See: Neuvillette's change and IMMEDIATE rollback with massive (for Genshin) amount of apologems.

4 - I already mentioned the changes to the domains of Mondstadt and Liyue. Mob droprates, sure, cool, good on them for the buff if you haven't already finished those grinds already by now. But they're mostly whatever when my main point of the post is resin-locked drops, i.e. bosses and domains, which is what actually will time-gate you, since you can always just farm mob drops in other players' worlds.

I love Genshin to death, don't get me wrong; I've gotten 100% in everything and finished pretty much all available content as it comes out, even have almost all the characters now. I just know it can do better, and Hoyo's other games prove it. It just feels like they're taking their sweet time to implement any meaningful changes because they're basically like, "It still prints money, why bother changing anything? No matter how much they complain, they still give us their money hand over fist, lol."

Basically, more people need to be using the feedback and suggestions forms to try and get the point across to them. They are obligated to read and respond to each of them. Not like you can really expect random people to just not spend on the game until the changes they want are implemented.

Okay, rant over. I feel a great weight has been lifted after getting that off my chest now. I'm just gonna go back to mostly-lurking for now...