Genshin Impact's Horrible New Player Experience

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[@Mr_Leech_HGC]

It sucks because Genshin is a cool game if you can get over that first hurdle, but a lot of new players wont get over that hurdle and now after playing the game again I can totally see why... also Dear God Please Like and Sub this shit took me 2 months to replay through the game again lmao

[@foxtaunt]

If you think Genshin has a hurdle, you should see what new Warframe players have to deal with haha

[@Ethonra]

@@foxtaunt Funny you say that. I literally re-download Warframe just yesterday.

[@foxtaunt]

@@Ethonra have fun ^^

[@barny541]

It's the exact opposite for me. I loved it at the beginning because it felt so immersive, and now that I've lost the immersion and realising this game's flaws, I'm only playing to save up for a flying character that's worth C6ing. Possibly Chasca or Mavuika.

[@danieltoth9742]

Considering that this is a gacha game with all the horrible bells and whistles it entails, it's probably for the best. Genshin is a game I would not recommend to anyone, even though I myself play it from time to time.

[@saraiknowsit]

I just started a few months ago, very sparingly at first, so, here’s another thing that this video didn’t touch on but has caused me massive pain: how impossible it can be to ascend some of your characters. Requiring boss materials from a region you haven’t been to is a huge hurdle- as is obtaining the flowers for it. I managed to pull Yelan while I was still in Mondstat- and her and Thoma were going to be my main team simply because I had fun playing them together. Issue is, I couldn’t ascend either of them due to not being able to access the resourced needed. So my cool new five star and my cool new four star just felt sad to play with. I also just pulled Chiori- and, while I was able to get her boss drops due to a teleport waypoint already being unlocked for me in Fontaine, before I had ever been there- I… cannot get her flowers yet, because it’s from somewhere I haven’t been. So, what am I really meant to… do, here? Not play the characters I love? Or play them while they’re struggling to do any damage due to being underleveled? Speedrun through the main story just to get my team up to a halfway decent standard?? I really wish there was a merchant or something in Mondstat that sold you flowers from around the world, or a system to exchange one kind of boss drop for another, like in hsr- but I have yet to find either of those things.

[@Stella-fk4jj]

I totally agree on this issue! And it's even completely possible to do, to make Flora the flower girl in Mondstadt, a flower merchant! It would fit her perfectly and be cute and helpful!

[@amandaslough125]

Yelan you can ascend right now. She just uses the liyue conch shells. They have long implemented a free teleport into the Chasm (it's on another map layer like the teapot), so you can fight the Onix for her. Thoma you need to do world quests in Inazuma to unlock his resource. And I do yell at them to implement a black market somewhere for his specialty since no living person should be able to get them (lore), but you really won't need to worry about ascending him until you naturally get over there. He was my first ever rolled character. You'd be surprised how much the artifact system actually gives for stats. Mine was off banner, locked at level 20. He was carry my butt while everyone else was easily 40-50+. Chiori just needs the first area of Inazuma unlocked and you're fine. If you do the character trials each banner, you're always able to ascend everyone to 40. After that point, you should be strong enough and comfortable enough to explore and naturally raise whomever afterwards.

[@overlordshiina]

That has been something people complained about for years and Genshin dev like always doesn't listen. One thing I also hate about this is how bad it is for the lore of the game. I get it you made a new boss and like all boss you want it's resources to be used for character ascension but how on earth is Yunjin supposed to even know of the existence of the ghost island and the otherworldly being that is the geo wolf king thing like bruh. We already have 2 Geo boss in Liyue and that's not counting the mecha serpent why she doesn't use any of those for ascension???

[@IDidntKnowWhatToPut403]

​@@Stella-fk4jjThe funny thing is, there IS already a plant seller in mondstadt; she wanders the hills and her name is Chloris. She sells Philanemo Mushrooms, Valberries, Wolfhooks, Mint, and Snapdragons. It would be SO EASY to have her sell the other regions' specialties too!

[@iforgetiamacat8348]

Heh, I remember when I first time started the game and got Dehya from standart wishes. Oh boy, I was running through all map on my 2 to get her materials 🤣

[@subchesters]

genshin has gotten to a point where it's better to enjoy the game at a slower pace and i always rec to new players to take their time and don't rush cause the burnout can happen a lot faster due to so much content. i'm one of those who actively enjoys the desert and didn't mind the desert expansions. i go back there from time to time to just run around, esp the khaenri'ah-related areas cause i'm khaenri'ah simp but i recognize that there was a lot of content that not everyone was thrilled to interact with that was released over the course of 3.x. it's better to just set aside time to make progress. my entire map of teyvat is 100% and while i go back to those areas to just run around (enkanomiya, my everything), it's not something everyone likes to do. and on the difficulty, i actively use co-op to seek out players in need of help. i don't really listen to people who call genshin an easy game, a game for kids with kid friendly difficulty as many have gotten into a position where they know the mechanics of the game and know how to cheese it. i've met many players, from ar26 up to ar58, who feel down on themselves and doubt their ability to get stronger. they grind hard to beat a boss or get through an area that's actively hostile (yashiori's perma thunderstorm party or the abundance of toaster bath water being just a great party) and they just feel hopeless. i do my best to give them encouragement and helpful pointers while keeping in mind their ar level and access to materials. i genuinely want to encourage them and get them through the material they're struggling with. many of those players are extremely grateful and really needed to hear some encouragement and knowing that someone has faith in them.

[@snailwhale6673]

Genshin is a game that gave me a therapeutic escape, Sumeru is still my favorite along withe desert too just seraching every nooks and crannies for lore bits. It reminds when i use to play a lot of Zelda when I was a kid.

[@dear_totheheart]

How sweet of you! And I feel like so many of have been there and without people like you may have quit or at least got so frustrated with the game and lost the joy. I don’t I would have quit but some co-ops with high lvls definitely made me feel like the game was more possible and achievable to push through what I found to be the hardest - AR 35-45 range because you are just really feeling like you’ve figured out the game yet that’s when the WL and challenges and content all try rise and at first it’s overwhelming but eventually you can get through it. I feel like this is such a great mentality to have to slow down and enjoy the journey and process where you’re at in the game instead of rushing or pushing yourself way too much and also give back and support where you can once you are at the peak of strength and with most of the game completed - almost an “end game” itself :) Wish there were more engagement and abilities to make co-op even more fun and worthwhile! Still, so glad there are players like you who make a difference!

[@inersdraco]

Even at release genshin was more about a slow approach. Sure, you can speedrun at the span of a weeks or a little more, but will it be enjoyable?

[@gardevoirmaster5743]

AGREED. It took me a year to finish the story. I started last October so it’s basically been exactly a year including the Nathan story. I enjoyed it so much better than wanting to rush through everything. I did that in Honkai star rail. But I got burnt out from the story so I took like 2 month off the story and just did character building.

[@dojiz7242]

Yep. In general, new players might feel like they HAVE to rush and catch up, depending on what kind of FOMO they're facing. Limited time event? Want to catch up on the story to avoid spoilers (especially if they use social media, so people will openly post spoilers without using filters)? Or hit up endgame ASAP? My account is decently invested enough for exploration and story, which is enough for me to chill.

[@ACatThatCantSing]

I'm a new player and I absolutely hate how they keep making up new bullshit for descriptions of mechanics and essentially gatekeep puzzles and basic game knowledge

[@GooseGirl1037]

Every game that’s been around for a while always adds too many new gimmick’s which irritates older players and confuses newer players

[@barny541]

I hate it when they make characters dogshit and add a lore copium to make it justified.

[@nataliejankovsky3392]

We are being given new mechanics that aren't intuitive, new terms for those mechanics that lend nothing to how it works, and then accused of being unable to read because of it. It's a losing game.

[@mettaursp309]

Don't forget the character talent & item descriptions that should really be contents of book items instead. Some characters' kits can be reworded in such simple and concise ways if they actually cared about communicating, but instead it feels like we're being forced to proof read someone's essay assignment with an absurd word count requirement.

[@itsame7491]

I have no idea wht you are taking abt, there is domain in Monsdat tht teaches you every elemental interaction bar demdro, and it's really not hard to figure out tht you need to hit fire pillar with fire arrows. The only way you'd get lost is if you can't read.

[@henriquefernandes3510]

Inazuma in 3 hours? Oh how I miss those days, not repeating the same day over and over in Sumeru or living the inmate life in Fontaine... Well, for new and old players we NEED a skip button for non-voiced quests. Or AT LEAST a fast-forward in them.

[@ohamatchhams]

At ;least X8 speed forward if not outright skip due to the amount of formality bloat dialogues that happens to even so many NPCs happening only to ended up with monster-clearing or fetch-questing, this on top of how some regions have needlessly complex puzzles only for the payoff being 2 or 10 primogems, 20 primogems if being more 'generous' And 50/50 banner are still painful, especially those at 70+ pulls with little-to-no chances of multiple 5 Stars characters in a 10 pull

[@Verxxsace]

Literally! I adore Fontaine (not really Sumeru) but it was so long and dialogue was so dense with only 20% of it being relevant. I feel like for storytelling wise, they should deflate some of the unnecessary and filled dialogue they have.

[@nathanielmorey2800]

They need to cut out a lot of text, help new people catch up

[@animationlover219]

I loved the Sabzeruz Festival storyline; I was up all night playing it through. The Fortress of Meropide, on the other hand… That was the worst slog since the Aranara quest.

[@xLuis89x]

there needs to be a skip button, end of story, even games that are 99% story have them, genshin is lazy for not having it and odd people justify it not existing...

[@MaybeGo_jover]

Me personally i liked it BECAUSE there was so much to do as i didn’t have that many responsibilities back then and stuff to do

[@davidxencaster6406]

Back during the Pandemic when Genshin was at its peak, people had a LOT of free time so that contributed.

[@MaybeGo_jover]

@@davidxencaster6406 yea i started genshin at around 2022 cuz my brother recommended it but i quit cuz of storage issues around the end of liyue but my friend got me back into it when arlecchino released so i got a new phone and now im addicted lmao

[@karantej6702]

But still millions of players play genshin impact.

[@cynicalmandate]

I liked it because I got to try out new characters I never would have used before AND I didn't ascend past WL3. So I basically just had fun exploring everything without the rat race.

[@doryu1004]

I dodged genshin for 4 years while my friends had been playing since the pandemic. I played for a week and completed the mondstat quest and this one adepti story in Liyue that took like 6 hours, I quit because it was all such a drag. That was 8 months ago. Friends convinced me to pick it up again. It's still a pain in the ass but the cool characters like Xilonen and Dehya are keeping me going. Obtaining Primos (premium currency) in this game is also like pulling teeth compared to other Gacha I've played. The new player experience is...yeah, it could be revamped but nothing is perfect.

[@RaffoPhantom]

Someone likes mommies. Great taste. At least we have treasure compasses now. When Genshin first launched we had no compasses. We had to jump in every nook and cranny (or more realistically watch a youtube video) to find all the chests (though I completed Mondstadt almost completely alone, only a few esoteric chests needed YT consultation) We also had no fancy movement abilities. Best we had was Kaeya/Chongyun ice bridge, Mona sprint I guess, Venti E for those who got him and the glider. Now you have Mualani, Kinich, Furina, Xilonen, Cloud Retainer (forgot her human name), Yelan, Sayu, Kazuha, even Xiao, Kirara and Kachina to make traversal more palatable (this list is probably not exhaustive, feel free to add more movement-expanding characters).

[@princemannic]

Bro has played thru the summer story twice before I did it once what a trooper

[@couchpotato1546]

I'd rather get waterboarded than play that ararara bs

[@katiethefandomgirl4412]

As someone who started over and made a new account let me tell you the parts where the game forces you to be at a certain adventure rank just to continue the story is one of if not the worst thing about starting over. Seriously I'm trying to get the story moving along so I can see the newer regions, I don't want to put a stop on that just to find chests in the overworld.

[@starxenoon8848]

It's called exploration and gameplay.

[@RaffoPhantom]

​@@starxenoon8848by this logic you should only be allowed to go to the next region when you have 100%ed the current region (which is bad reasoning)

[@IDidntKnowWhatToPut403]

It's so bad Mistahfeet made a guide for it bc he has to replay the game so often 😂

[@StargazerKite]

The garbage new player experience is literally the only reason why I've never recommended Genshin to any of my friends if they weren't already strongly interested in it and the reason why I always check no when the in-game surveys ask me if I would recommend it to them. It's just a slog man, and I say that as someone who really likes this game and has been playing since Day 1. I respect the people who are brave enough to make Alt accounts because I'm just not strong enough to sit through all that time grinding for Mora, EXP, and Artifacts again lol.

[@florentinoruiz3193]

I have been playing AAA games for like two decades sometimes playing the same game 6 or 7 times but with the wishing and resin systems and all the luck behind them I can't bring myself to make an alt account on Genshin

[@jcferido]

As someone who started a patch or two in Fonatine. I agree with a lot of points. And what adds to the difficulty is thay many players dont know what they should prioritize in the game which leads it to being hard. Thankfully, i found a great video with advice of what to focus on for each AR phase which made it way easier than if i had to figure it out on my own. The most crucuial advice looking back is ascending your WL way before you are actually ready. The sudden spike in enemy levels will really discourage you if you arent ready for the jump. And thats where most of my friends tend to drop the game. But thankfully, i made sure my main team was ready to ascend as soon as the WL increased so i could be more evenly matched with enemies. Now im fairly proficient in Genshin, been a little over a year now.

[@thaipankatima658]

I came in way WAY late to the game. Started playing it at 4.8 or 4.9. Roughly when Simulanka came along. Admitedly I can see why people would give up on the first week or so. As the game mechanics are way complex for first timers. The climbing was tedious, the domains were a little confusing at times, and exploring the vast world of Teyvat can be overwhelming. Not to mention collecting all the things to raise the statue of the seven. The whole experience can be... intimidating. I remember seeing Liyue for the first time, and crossing towards Wangshu inn, it was breathtaking, but also feels like i was getting pounded with more tedious stuff to do. But I managed to plough through that first week, and have been addicted to the game ever since. The trick is to find your pace in the game. Don't ever feel like you're being left out because eventually you'll catch up with most of the players. I made it my mission to hold Inazuma Archon quests and travel all the way to Sumeru, and then Fontaine. It was a gorgeous experience, reaching those statues, waypoints, and finding more enemies to fight. By the time i resumed, I was roughly AR 30 and stopped ascending from there. Just went on over and over with every little detail, doing my weeklies and dailies like a religion. Find out those world quests was also fun. Though I wished they were voice. It was only after i reached AR 45 did i resume the archon quests in inazuma. Never rush. This game requires patience, and a little bit of mental endurance. But in the end, it was a worth while experience. Wished i could experience all those wonderful moments and sights for the first time again. Except for Sumeru. That jungle was a nightmare.

[@mayzenharriz8083]

Hello, Semi-New player, joined during Version 4.4. My favorite things to do are the world quests cause they force exploration. I am one of the very few who enjoyed the Aranara Quest. But the slog to grind Just to Get to Inazuma was HARROWING. I like learning about the area I am currently in rather than main story stuff.

[@jetkirby3981]

Coming up on a year before any Cryo 5 star has been on banner

[@AnimeShortsContent1]

The simplest solution: Simple QOL updates and a SKIP BUTTON for Christ!!!!!

[@nhozdien5058]

Add a skip button plus a replay button so that people might revisit the quests later if needed. A brief summary of a quest will popup if you skip it, so you aren't missing out on the keypoints/events.

[@buttermanaws4693]

Oh YES really I like the games story at times but sometimes it's just a slog that takes 10 minutes to many

[@kizuki2650]

We don't do skip button - hoyo

[@ragnaxbloodedge]

@@kizuki2650 HI3 have skip button though, I wonder why Genshin dev team is reluctant to put it in Genshin

[@alexiluffy216]

don't talk about skip button, those nerds will come and defend genshin and talk the same ole nonsense "if you're not playing for the story, why play genshin?"

[@jaredwhite200]

I’m actually glad I started playing Genshin at the beginning of 3.0 when I did cause if I had to start all over again I don’t think I would have as much fun playing Genshin as I do now

[@orangesoda330]

Sometimes I want to make a new account and redo some of the stories I remember really enjoying but haven't done in awhile, like Liyue and Inazuma, but then I remember that I would not only have to grind for like 100 hours but I would also have to redo the Sumeru archon quest. And then I sigh and scrap the entire idea and return to my main account where I've finished everything except for the backlog of side quests that have zero relevance that I also don't want to do, before doing my commissions and logging out.

[@aceleen_is_my_name_is_acel4995]

zero relevance yes F R E E P R I M O G E M S YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@arandomfish6523]

The only way I kept sane while doing the arenara and parts of the desert quests (I quit around half way through one of the desert quests) was by listening to a computer monotone voice reading The journey to the west. To give some time frame, I got through 30% of the book(s). That is around 30-50 hours of quest and exploration. I have literally spent so long on sumerue quests that I represent the voice with sumerue subconsciously. WTF genshin, I shouldn't have to spent that long on a quest that isnt even voiced or without a skip dialogue option.

[@starpeep5769]

I loved th aranara though... The desert though...? NOT so much

[@arandomfish6523]

@@starpeep5769 I like journey to the west. Great story and characters. I listened to it during that portion because I don’t like reading dialogue that isn’t voiced, more of a gameplay kinda guy and that’s why I really hated the desert area

[@UNKNOWNGallery]

I clicked for the Lisa Thumbnail. I got jump scared by Color Your Night again.

[@Mr_Leech_HGC]

Color your night is peak and I will not hear otherwise

[@LuckyLucifer25]

Didnt even mention the struggle, the embodiment of hell that is the fishing mechanic in genshin to obtain the catch. That could be a video all on its own.

[@logikx1325]

Not sure what you mean, I did it in a few hours one day clicking on random other peoples worlds to get the fish I needed once my world ran out. I guess if you hate fishing that much it would suck, but I just viewed it as another quest I had to do to get a reward I wanted...

[@danielhounshell2526]

Honestly the fishing mechanic in this game is pretty good. It's much more engaging than pretty much every other fishing mechanic I've seen in an RPG. The annoying part is how much of it you have to do to R5 the catch. It could be far worse if the game's fishing was actually bad. Imagine all of that fishing with RuneScape fishing mechanics.

[@mr.protagonist5639]

​@@logikx1325problem is i play on ps4, oftentimes no one will let you in so fishing became a chore. I STILL need pufferfish to refine the catch. Why not just make a ctaftable that attracts fish back to a location?

[@amandaslough125]

​@@mr.protagonist5639Or just don't try to fish it all in one day. Usually anything done in the sense of urgency isn't fun.

[@NotRealyInterested]

imagina saying the world quests do not matter for the main plot when >ANY< of the archon quests (except for natlan) are relevant at all. we got so much info due to main world quests to the point anything that happend in the boring fontaine's archon quest (or navia hangout, as i like to call) was a big reveal.

[@tokanada]

I also ran a similar challenge but with a big caveat. I was able to get Nahida pretty early (this was during her rerun in Fontaine). Her damage early on was mind-blowing. Dendro really is the element for new players. Though having game knowledge to know to run an electro unit with her would've probably been something I wouldn't have known if I wasn't a genshin player already. Not without some sort of assistance at least

[@lillyie]

i hate how they don't even give you a standard 5 star for starting out. you only get noelle, which is decent but falls off as you get a dedicated healer. meanwhile hsr and wuwa give you a guaranteed 5 star by playing around 1-2 hours

[@mr.protagonist5639]

That something I think is super weird. It's not even like it was something that was common when genshin released, most gacha even back then gave you a 5 star on the beginner banner.

[@Vintagestep]

@@mr.protagonist5639 I think it's because when it released there wasn't anything as.. let's say "polished", so to give you a sense of value they just gatekept 5*, but things have changed and they should have reworked a lot of things for new players.

[@ninny_alt]

as much as the free standard 5* every anniversary is cool, having a freebie on join or at ar10 would be nice

[@justacarrotcake]

I usually never comment, but as a rather new Player (started around late December 2023) I feel like I might be able to share some of my own experiences. First off, Story Quests. I came to Genshin without any Former knowledge, I'm not even a Gacha player. So I actually loved every Story quest, even Monstadt. The Exploration between Archon Quests also wasn't a huge issue for me. IDK if I did something different, but after Liyue I didn't feel like I had to explore between Archon Quests from what I remember. But to be fair, I also naturally like exploration. I never touched the Areas before the Archon Quest. As for the grinding part. Personally, I didn't have many problems with it. I kept my characters and weapons at the highest levels, and I didn't know anything about Artifacts until later on. It's honestly just the fact that some players level up their World before their Characters are ready, and then they obviously can't keep up. Mainly, I think your issue was that you went too fast and know too much. It's just now that I know Genshin, starting over will always be a grind. As a new player, there is no knowledge and no goal to get to unless you Set yourself one. That's why restarting feels way worse than actually starting as a new player.

[@AnArtistInAVoid]

I feel like the biggest issue here is definitely the adventure rank issue. To me, the biggest appeal in the game is story, and it also gets people invested in the game a good chunk of the time, so story being locked behind what is essentially just a really stupid way to make sure players are ready for harder content, is not exactly helpful at all to keeping new players around.

[@zukodude487987]

For me i probably would have not minded the grind now, but im also a person that only plays a handful of games so i hyper invest. I remember going through all the content before Sumeru and i didn't start using reactions properly until i beat most of the chasm. My teams were basically Beidou hypercarry with barbara for electro charged and noelle for heals. I was using claymore physical mostly.

[@20DX00]

Had a discussion with my friends about Genshin's story and I'll drop my two cents here: I personally think Genshin's main story is about *spectacle* , like the epic conclusions to the final arc of each region is actually well done (ie: ningguang drops the fking jade chamber, nahida timeloops scaramouche to defeat him, focalor's reveal). The finale is always the most memorable and well crafted part of each archon quest, but everything leading up to that is "eh" at best. And I think you described it best where: "the story is fun if you don't think about it for more than 5 seconds". In terms of storywriting, there's definitely other games that do it way better than Genshin, but Hoyo's games win in terms of *spectacle* and overall world building, that I won't deny. And then there's the world quests, yeah the world building is actually really good and interesting, but not having a skip button just burns me out and makes me not want to do anything in optional regions bcuz it's almost always the same routine of: go here > meet unique npc > watch npc solve some mystery > fight boss related to the problem > never see the npc again. As someone who thinks the world building in Genshin is cool, but don't care for non-voiced content, I just want to skip everything and explore at my own pace, then watch a lore video summarizing it.

[@javelinmaster2]

This is the fate of any long running game/series. The intimidation factor is quite nasty. Nit to forget that if you want to have the character on the banner, you are basically forced to explore the world and do quests especially if that character is from Inazuma. One-Piece has the same issue. A lot of cool stuff is down the line but you first have to go through the east blue Saga and that is like 50 episodes alone and it only really gets good at Arlong Park which is like after the 1st 30 episodes. Not to forget that the series already has over 1100 episodes (!!) To begin with! So long that there's already a readaption in the works!

[@ronaldoribeiro4306]

I helping a player, he has almost every map at 100% but most of his characters are lv50, he has a ton of mora exp books and fragile resign, an casual player, got to AR50+ and idk how cuz he struggles to do everything beyond slimes and Hilichurls, I'm guiding him into spending his resources wisely and prioritize basic stuff, that reminded my this game is not that easy and that everyone has a different experience with the game

[@SodiumWage]

I started playing last November. I knew going in that the game was huge and there was a ton of content, so I decided to just play the game as if I were playing as each new expansion came out. I played through Mondstadt and did every quest there, then went to Liyue and did every quest there, too. And I didn't move onto Inazuma until I was max reputation in both starting zones and was 90% explored and as many quests completed as possible. And instead of just moving ahead to the next zone, I just spent my time leveling the few characters I had, farming materials, doing dailies, and events as they came up. I repeated this process for all the other zones - never leaving a zone until I was "done" with a zone (mainly max reputation). Was this the most "efficient" way to play? Probably not, but I don't care about FOMO at all (obviously), instead I just enjoy playing the game and taking my time with it. And now I'm in Natlan and (mostly) caught up - Fontaine is the one zone I still have a considerable amount of stuff left to do, but Fontaine just has so much to do anyway. And so it took about a year of playing for a couple of hours per day to get that far (though there were plenty of days I'd play for FAR more than a few hours). And for me it was totally worth it to take my time and just enjoy the game, enjoy exploring, enjoy the long side-quests. And there were times I barely played at all because I had other stuff going on (I dealt with a house fire in that time; not fun), but since I wasn't obsessed with getting to the latest content, I never was in any hurry. As a former World of Warcraft player, I know when burnout is creeping up on me, so taking breaks and not being caught up in a game's grind is key to always having fun and not getting bored with it. But yeah, if you really take your time and just do the content as it released (as best you can), it takes upwards of, I'd say somewhere around 1000+ hours? I don't know exactly how many hours I have, but at 1.5 hours per day (average) for (basically) 365 days, that's about 700(ish) hours - but it's likely to be past 1000.

[@doctorezio]

Got into Genshin not a long time ago and, on part, where it was hard to exist in the overworld can say that it was an interesting expirience. Tedious, yes, hard, sometimes almost impossible, but i feel lucky to have that memories since this challenge was gone after i got my very first limited 5* after 2 months and 50 smth ranks of playing. I now, not everyone would enjoy that, but i do. :D

[@foxtaunt]

....jesus christ, 400 summons in a week? Where do you get that free time!?

[@Mr_Leech_HGC]

I had covid all that week, I was able to grind that shit out bruv 💯💯

[@aceleen_is_my_name_is_acel4995]

@@Mr_Leech_HGC why u still alive?

[@xLuis89x]

like seriously, bro was waking up, eating and sleeping to genshin, lmfao

[@silverhetch3383]

@@xLuis89xBro was inhaling copium 😂

[@denzel4341]

I asked 5 of my friends/family to play the game and everyone got bored after the Liyue arc and quit the game entirely and I asked them why they didn't play anymore. (This was around Inazuma release) 1.) They are so intimidated by the amount of areas to explore 2.) They couldn't care about any of the characters because we were placed into the nation's problems when we get in the region and were trying to help it already despite not having any ties to the characters 3.) The elemental system and the lack of knowledge for the Energy Regen system made the game boring for them since they're just spamming normal attacks and because of the enemy hp scaling, enhancing your 2-3 star rarity artifacts literally does nothing 4.) Paimon 5.) The lack of the interactive MAP in game is a detriment to mobile users 6.) So that's the endgame? doing time gated events and dps check? 7.) Gacha System I could go on, but the new player experience is so bad. The lack of a skip button also makes it unbearable for players who only cared about exploration and combat. Soul only had a decent experience because he already knows genshin and what to do. But if you saw the amount of sidequests, pins on the map, the stupid tutorial for puzzles that doesn't make sense because of the game's jargons, which questline to take, which characters to build and which areas to go, you're in for a whole lot of disaster. BTW, none of them replayed during Natlan came out because there was still no skip button and the same end game loop since 4 years ago.

[@ChromaToneMusic]

Paimon VA does a good job but ffks she is like mixed twice as loud with such a thrill cutting voice 😢

[@pedrobrito4461]

​@@ChromaToneMusic I hate paimon, but not because of the VA, the character writing is so obnoxious. She talks way too much, re-explains everything that is going on constantly and she is very stupid. I don't get how some people find her endearing, the game's story would be a lot better if she didn't exist.

[@ShinyJarachi]

The english version one? If so yeah, I agree.​@ChromaToneMusic

[@ChromaToneMusic]

@@ShinyJarachi yea I sometimes switch to Japanese, she much easier there. My wife and friend just couldn't get into the story because of her. 😥

[@scaler7812]

​@@ChromaToneMusicI switch to Chinese, because she's more insufferable in Japanese, at least to me.

[@andywu6702]

Great video, keep up the great work! As someone who recently became invested into the game, it's uncanny how much I agree with everything u just said.

[@icecell]

The best people to probably recommend this are those that are already into open world exploration and are used to grinding. Maybe a bit of a maso too. I used to diss gacha anime games in general, but my friend knew me, and insisted I play it. I caved in since it was free anyway, and it's available on PC. I started in 3.8, and I got sucked in once I climbed up to Liyue and saw Qingce Village for the first time. I already loved the way they spaced out the rocks for climbing while I was still coming in fresh from Mondstat with a tiny stamina bar, then the beautifully terraced landscape of Qingce welcomes me. I couldn't believe I was actually playing a free mobile gacha game. So yeah, that's how the game ate my soul. Fun combat's just a plus, and the story opened up in Liyue for me too. Best region fr fr.

[@dear_totheheart]

Amazing overview and I relate to many of the issues you raised, I was overwhelmed but at the same time it was such a joy to be emerged and cast into the whole new world and adventure The issue encountered most when I joined in 4.8 (so not too long ago yet I’m already AR 55) was the limits to participate in events or being unable to move on due to AR rank or if a quest chain suddenly got locked by others - oh my gosh I felt mortified by the one in Liyue that blocks co-op until you complete it and it took me days, I honestly almost gave up because of how impossible it felt. Anyway, I understand the need for the game to scale up character power levels for harder content and to not make activities so simple but it made my experience as a new player immediately feel like I was excluded or tempted to rush through things before I was ready just to try to not miss out on rewards or the experience. Thankfully I’m beyond that but I recall it being very frustrating as a new player. Additionally their tutorials for game mechanics aren’t that useful and it’s not like I need every aspect spelled out but when it’s so confusing to the point you just move on (I.e., just now starting to explore Sumeru and still can’t figure out basic puzzles apparently haha) or give up. Thank goodness there are online resources but I feel like everything should be “in game” and not pull you away from the immersed experience to the point I need to seek outside resources to complete what likely is simple tasks. I do like and think things should have a learning curve and not be too simple but maybe it’s an issue of execution? Not sure but many new players are lost and left to somehow figure it out and maybe many just feel trapped or unable to move on and then drop the game I also really dislike the over emphasis on NPCs instead of better and greater character development and interactions, at least for goodness sake in character stories/quests. Thankfully I care about lore and try not to skip anything because I want to learn more and be engaged with the process and each quest but as a new player and even now, you eventually are basically taught not to care and especially when new to the world, you need ties to the characters and reasons to be invested and for many it becomes tedious or you don’t have an attachment. It really is an area that they need to focus and expand on and with so much potential Artifacts is a complete mess and wish there was a better way for players to know what to look for, what’s valuable/needed per character, and that it wasn’t so needlessly difficult to gain/build at least decent options. It’s a very difficult aspect of the game and the lack of upgrade resources certainly does make it more difficult and punishes those who want to play the game longer or invest more effort into it, strangely a disincentive instead of motivating Anyways really empathized and appreciated so many of the points you raised and you provided such a thoughtful analysis and I think your effort to create this was amazing and evident, thanks a bunch and hope the game can keep improving!

[@kitdyson9468]

I had a similar experience when I recently started a second game. I just wanted to redo the stories to relearn the lore, but you are right, the story can be run through quickly.

[@marqkc]

The grind! That was exactly my complaint back in 1.3! My UID starts with a 619, but the time spent is closer to a 630 because I didn't pick the game back up until the end of 1.6 I dropped genshin because I had to explore before getting to the next story. The only character I cared about was Venti, so after Mondstadt ended and I was faced this huge EXP requirement... I didn't bother. When I came back to the game, I spent upwards of 6-8 hours daily trying to play catch up so I didn't miss stuff like the GAA Quest, which I was sad about. I haven't dropped a single day in the game since I came back, I started an alt acc and my only issue is the artifact system. It's hostile to the old players, it's 100000% detrimental to newer players.

[@zetsubo2838]

i feel like this is a typical mihoyo game pre star rail where the beginner experience is kinda bad (even star rail has a bit of a hurdle in the beginning)

[@Sam-je2xj]

I was literally malding so hard in HI3rd beginning experience 😭😭😭

[@yourlocalyanfei]

I remember talking with my uncle once and he had played genshin for a time but he said he had stopped after struggling at Dragonspine which he was doing in the first place to grind AR exp so he could even progress to the next area. I can understand why he did quit since dragon spine at that low of a level (AR 20’s about) is absolute hell if your only healing is Barbara who will cause your team to freeze if you’re even grazed by a cryo attack

[@junguwu3908]

FONTAINE BEST STORY QUEST, ARGUE WITH YO MAMA

[@pedroaugusto-hh5kd]

please keep the videos coming. ilove your style and your voice and everything about your channel. i'll eat up all your vids as soon as they come out. keep up the good work

[@calamondiin]

I started genshin at the end of sumeru (3.7). The beginning was really really hard. A lot of characters I got in the beginning, I couldn't level up because their local specialities were in regions I couldn't access until I did the story. I actually got heizou on standard my first day and went to inazuma using cheats my 2nd day just to level him up, and he carried me through most of the early game content. What kept me playing was sumeru. I spent a lot of time levelling up in the desert area because I enjoyed exploring the temples. Sumeru was good, because it wasn't locked behind a story quest, and I could walk there even when I was low AR. So I explored it and did quests that I actually wanted to. Early game would suck a lot if u didn't have a specific goal like I did (grinding for heizou)

[@xYamakaze]

As a day 1 player that logs in every day, unless it's a time limited event or the time limited Summer content areas, I have not done ANY level of exploration or questing beyond getting every statue, waypoint, and domain after Liyue (or Dragonspine if you want to get technical), because there is no incentive to. By the time Inazuma rolled around, my AR was high enough to not be gated by anything, so I didn't need to hunt chests for that purpose. I actually did a decent amount of exploration during the first Inazuma patch, but after finding out that upgrading the statue of the seven (and all subsequent nation's ones) does not give you any more max stamina, I didn't bother. For chests, I don't need the 3 star weapons, I don't need the measly amount of artifact EXP (considering I already constantly tiptoe the line of the 1800 cap and have next to nothing worth upgrading outside of yolo cope pieces given how good my current artifacts already are and how rare a piece with good substats worth rolling is and I just can't be bothered to sort through and upgrade them all or strongbox them), I don't need the EXP or Mora, and the paltry amount of primogems in every chest isn't worth my time or effort to hunt to EVENTUALLY get a pull worth. Considering I can still pull for every character I like having essentially been F2P after the first five battlepass weapons, lack of exploration primogems isn't an issue. If the quest isn't voiced, I'm not reading any of it because, as you point out, it doesn't matter in the slightest to the overarching storyline. I have perfected the dialogue mashing technique. I actually haven't done the Aranara questline because I don't care or need to, the weapon blueprints aren't worthwhile to me or my characters. Haven't done anything in Enkanomiya or the Sea of Bygone eras either because is there anything worthwhile for me to get there? No! The only reason I did all of the Chasm was to upgrade my Lumenstone because of the Dain quest! My normal quest backlog is INSANE. Can't forget I haven't hooked a single fish since getting The Catch! Exploring and questing in Genshin is fun and I enjoy it, but only when it's worthwhile to do so and it has a limited time sticker on it. Speaking of which, there's a decent limited time primogem bonus for exploring Natlan, so I'm actually going to do it! It's that easy to make it appealing enough for me to do. I was essentially on burnout for the entirety of Sumeru and Fontaine for all of these reasons + life in general, and I only just did every archon quest from Caribert all the way to the last Natlan archon quest before 5.0 ended because of the primogem bonus. I was sitting on the ABSOLUTE PEAK that was Fontaine for a YEAR. I'm actually enjoying my time playing Genshin again thanks to getting to play these fun new characters as well as my renewed interest in the story and exploration because I'm being pushed to do so by the game itself. I'm really happy with these changes and Genshin in general feeling like it's more rewarding to play and that it's respecting my time compared to the past. No longer am I logging in just to do my daily resin and mess around with the abyss.

[@RaffoPhantom]

A friend of mine started Genshin a couple of months ago, streamed it for a few times and then put ut down again. However, she said it was very relaxing and she wants to return some day so I see this as an absolute win because I really enhoyed watching her play. I do hope she finishes at least Inazuma.

[@laser5543]

I absolutely love all your content, please keep it up :) For me as a new player the 2 most annoying things in the game have to be the lack of availability of characters and teams i want to try alongside the time gated wall of progression with resin. I hit AR51 in about 19 days but now im out of fragile resin with 2 half assed built teams being stuck on abyss floor 11 (3 starred 10) with literally nothing i can possibly do about it except for wait or pay. That being said - i am not here for exploration, it really is just a chore for me. i am here for the intricate elemental reactions, team building and counter stratting different enemies with different characters. But as a new player I just simply dont have access to enough characters to even have a chance at experiencing that which has to be the biggest frustration in this game for me.

[@Cyrs-137]

So I guess we can divide Genshin community into 2 groups. The one who gives a sh!+ about Teppei and the one who doesn't

[@some1else947]

And Mr.HGC here has been converted

[@BodaciousBovine]

As a newer player who went through the entire Inazuma quest at once while focused on the story... I still don't give a sh*t about Teppei tbh. He wasn't well written, and the interactions with him felt forced. If we'd had more time with him, to get to know him and the archon quest in Inzauma weren't so rushed, I might've cared. But... nope. I like the stories in Genshin, but the story in Inazuma was not handled well by any means. I'm not against Teppei, I just wish they'd given us more time to care about him/get to know him/flesh him out as a character before he died.

[@NoWastedPotential]

who was he again i forgor

[@shamsielshahar120]

@@BodaciousBovine I remember those rumors that they made Inazuma's story meh because it involves overthrowing the authority and miHoYo don't want to mess with the CCP. But I'm more inclined to believe in the other rumor that their more talented writing team went to HSR so the resources split up.

[@amandaslough125]

​@@shamsielshahar120Inazuma more so suffered from them switching writers, because the original crew were asked to start working on the next game.

[@Charmed_For_Sure]

I'm not sure if this has been said yet, but I also firmly dislike the rate at which characters are rerun. It's an absolute nightmare for new players, who have their sights set on a specific character only for that specific character to never come back, so you end up sitting on your wishes while waiting for the character you so desperately want. Us day one players don't really struggle with keeping up with character pulls, our accounts are stacked to the point we've been wishing for the signature weapons. But I also remember those newer players who couldn't even get Eula when she wasn't being rerun for over a whole year, again, sitting upon a mountain of currency and even when they finally get their hands on that character (including several cons because why not) the experience becomes lackluster and unfulfilling, because there's nothing left to do with that character anymore.

[@iNovak-HSR]

I started playing about 2 months ago and I totally agree that locking parts of the map behind quests is terrible. I hated The Chasm and the quests to open certain parts of Inazuma (it's like 3 or 4 different areas locked); however, the combat, so far, has not been difficult at all. I'm AR 45, I was lucky to get Yelan on her latest rerun in only 30 wishes and I've been building her along Bennett, Xiangling and Jean (I got her on the selector). Combat only becomes difficult if a player does not invest properly in their characters or ascends the world level too quickly, both of which, I'd say, are the player's fault, not the game's. Having said that, I'm also someone who likes to check a lot of content online (like this video) to help me make the best decisions because in the end Genshin Impact is a resource management game.

[@silverhetch3383]

I still remember going to Dragonspine for a few minutes and deciding NAH I can’t do this shit, and that was in 2021 😂

[@overlordshiina]

One of my biggest pet peeve of genshin is those time when you're doing a quest and the npc says something but not during a dialogue. You'll be fighting mobs and stuff and the npc or paimon says something, the text for some unknown reason doesn't even have a darker background so you can't even see what the npc said, in voiced quest it's not too bad because you can hear it (unless you play the game in a different language) but since the overwhelming majority of quest are non voiced yeah it gets really annoying. The only time they didn't do that was during that natlan archon quest

[@Ulquiorra_Cifer]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="525">8:45</a> i have never felt so called out like now, i literally shivered in my whole body hearing the word aranara, i still haven't finished and i will never finish it, sumeru is still my lowest explored region even compared to Fontaine and natlan

[@unifluff7836]

I started in 4.6. Finally done with all Archon quests. Happy to have collected all Anemo, Geo and Electro-culus atleast. I really hated in the beginning how the story kept getting paused by my AR being too low.

[@malvoleus]

Finding the last aranara to unlock the final 3 chests was a major PITA, months went by & purely by chance I spotted the little bugger behind one of those pixie houses. Maybe I should use the inerractive map to log cleared items? Nah, what would be the point when blindly quartering the map is such fun, if you have sado masochistic tendencies...

[@GrimlyVeiled]

I remember trying to beat La Signora for the first time with a team of Dehya, Beidou, Collei, and Qiqi. My Collei and Qiqi died very early on in the fight and my Beidou was damn near almost dead. I didn't understand the weather mechanic and I was in the pyro phase. I basically used Dehya to survive, because with her healing mechanic and the cooling pods in the corner she ha the best odds and my Beidou was down to like 300 health. Which meant I was sitting there biding my time waiting for Beidou's skill to get off cooldown so I could use it to slowly chip away at Signora since it did the most damage. It was no wonder that it took me about 2 hours to finally beat Signora.

[@nathandrummond5020]

Started in 4.0 because all the Fontaine characters piqued my interest. I knew I was going to be overwhelmed and it was going to be difficult going in and it kind of softened the blow. I treated it like a marathon rather than a sprint and it helped a ton. Now I co-op as much as possible because I know what the new player experience is like and don't want people to struggle like I did.

[@lunaredelvour2972]

joined right as fontaine released. still struggling to get by a year later but I didn't hate it, personally. enjoyed it enough to even make an alt challenge account. I'm used to being really dogshit at video games so finding that I was having a tough time with genshin was NOTHING new for me (this was around the time I started my second playthrough of dark souls because I was stuck on my first playthrough and wanted a fresh start - so, yeah, feeling like I'm constantly struggling is normal for me) even now that I know how the game works, the beginning is rough so I don't recommend it to new players unless there's at least a handful of characters that they REALLY like and want to play for. it may not be too much for me, but I think it's because I'm a weird case - I can't imagine it's a pleasant experience for most people

[@ethanthompson1111]

So, I actually started playing this year; April to be exact. Honestly, this game won me over before I had even stepped foot into it. The characters, the voice actors, the stunning views, ect. But, like you said in the video: (along the lines of the enemy health scaling post Sumeru as well as post Neuvilette) I got BUTCHERED by almost every single enemy in the game once I hit level 45+ Even now, I still am consistently dying to the Asdaha and Arlecchino world bosses, as well as in artifact domains, mostly because I have little to no sustain as well as no efficient shielders (Being a low spender I cant roll for every character after all). I'm just glad at least one other person in this world gets to experience the "Just started playing Genshin in 2024" feeling for once, and I thank you for that.

[@danielhounshell2526]

Noelle works just fine for Azhdaha. Pretty much any shield makes his boss fight relatively straightforward. Arlecchino is the most difficult boss they've released by a pretty significant margin, so no shame there.

[@CrossXaberS]

Zhongli's line remain true: "Don't rush" Later regions are not place for the fainted heart. Keep butting your head against the wall like when you play Soulborne games may allow you to eventually progress but we know it's not a pleasant experience.

[@kpvrahul2689]

The good old days of genshin. I still remember when I used to fight anemo hypostatis with anemo traveller and wondered why my skill is not doing any dmg lol. And also the horror of fighting ocenoid for the 1st few times and dying horribly. That's why I have a very special spot for Ganyu. I remember when I got her and did a charge atk and one shotted a hilichurl. I was like "Damn she's busted. How can she do so much dmg" But nowadays I do 50k with nuvilette and doesn't feel that excitement anymore.

[@sallysullivan1034]

I've been playing for at least three years and something I want genshin to do so badly is to add old five star into the standard banner. I recently started a new account and I wanted to play the game the way I did previously, which means I play Mondstadt, Liyue, Inazuma, Sumeru and than Natlan. Though the characters they have on the banners right now are all from Natlan meaning I can't level them up because I need materials from Natlan, but I haven't got to Natlan yet. Also this will be beneficial to day one players as well. Some of these characters have not been on a banner in more than a year and there are people who desperately want them. Though they can't get them because they are locked behind specific banners. I remember when I first started I thought they were going to do this but they haven't

[@starknight1244]

As a 1 player I telling you genshin was hard since the beginning, especially imazuma, I spend almost a week trying to defeat raiden shogun in the story when fight her the second time after yae miko training and that time the biggest problem we had was er and dps was heavily dependent on Burst

[@midasbadtouche]

I started way in 1.0 on Klee banner and dropped it in less that 2 weeks despite having some fun. I didnt understood team-building and reactions so I had no fun from fighting. All my characters were weak etc... I returned in 4.3 after Furinas first banner, and played ever since. I had a blast and my acc is really well built coz I cleared 85% content on map I think (i use interactive map) and have a lot of guides online. Monstad is personally still my fav region, archon quest wasn't best that's true, but I love the theme. Good vid and I'm impressed u managed to do inazuma explo for second time xD

[@SageRuffin]

I've hit a conundrum recently regarding Genshin's gameplay loop: I don't enjoy the game unless I'm building characters, but building characters is a huge pain in the ass. I recently got Xilonen and her weapon and as I was farming materials, I was having a good (enough) time. But once that wraps up, I'm just like "...Oh. That's the end of that, I guess." And yes - I frequently do Spiral Abyss and Imaginarium. They just don't do it for me. I also thought about making a new account to replay the game from the beginning, but that would also mean having to go through shit like the Aranara questline or other such nonsense like the Tatarasumi(sp?) quest that literally takes a week to get through because you can only do one part per day, not to mention not having some of my favorite characters immediately on-hand like Dehya or Candace, and that just completely deflates any potential enthusiasm I had for the idea. It sucked the first time, I doubt it's gonna suck any less the second.

[@hectorlackless]

And this is after the best change in genshin, the daily commision change

[@HeLiam295]

You're totally right. I started as a mobile player, and did not like how you had to grind to a specific AR to continue the story. I got over this hurdle eventually (after a 6-month hiatus) but that initial AR grind was frustrating, especially on mobile.

[@RareAngelz]

My biggest recommendation is to take your time. Genshin shines when you do a quest a day or spend the day exploring an area. The AR lock for the AQ and characters is actually what made me stop at AR12 years ago. I'm heavy into the game now though.

[@NaethanAster]

So I started genshin back in January of 2024, and struggled so much with Kaeya as my DPS I stopped playing for like a month to play star rail. But by lantern rite I pulled Xiao and finally figured out the mechanics. I didn’t have a meta team by any means but I was fine in the overworld. I think it was when I got to Sumeru that I officially fell in love with Genshin. I did restart during the anniversary though because I wanted to take advantage of the free five star. Let me just say, early genshin was SO much easier with tighnari XD it was a little annoying to have to unlock Sumeru’s map so early to ascend him, but not terrible.

[@oyasimakram6080]

As someone who was a newbie and had no idea about anything about genshin , started playing from version 4.6 ( I wanted to play a anime type game and it was my first gacha game) , everything being told in this video is 100% accurate and relatable,.. I literally uninstalled genshin after 1 week of playing , then after touching some grass for 1 week I decided to gave genshin 1 more chance ....and here I am now , ar56 , love the story and fuck aranara quest ( I still haven't done full aranara quest) , for some reason I liked exploring in sumeru desert temples

[@oyasimakram6080]

To hoyoverse When Father is going to get her 1st rerun ? Huh.. don't tell me you are gonna put her with Pyro archon banner

[@quackquackx]

I started playing Genshin two months ago, in the midst of the hype for the upcoming nation Natlan . fortunately, it didn’t take too long for me to get the hang of it and understand stuff . i had a lot of free time and literally two days before natlan came out, i was just finishing Fontaine (my favourite nation, btw.) currently i’m AR55 and have Kazuha & Kinich as my first two proper five stars . As much as i’ve thoroughly enjoyed my experience i relate to a lot of the problems you said here. But it’s also a relief to know that my struggles weren’t really a skill issue like i assumed . One thing i do like is how relatively easy it is to still wish for the five stars even if you don’t pay. i was concerned being f2p would mean i can’t get anyone cool, but as long as you spend adequate time earning primos it’s very within possibility to get five stars before their banners end and i appreciate that a lot

[@Axterix13]

Well... you're going to have to skip banners as a F2P, that much I can tell you. Right now, you have all those one time rewards, like exploration chests, quest rewards, the book thing, and so on. But eventually, you'll catch up to the now, and then you'll be left with dailies, events, and, currently, every other patch, a new area to explore. Basically, you'll be looking at one five feature banner five star per 3-4 banners. Mind you, you can get plenty of decent characters that way over time. Just try to avoid the impulse pull.

[@quackquackx]

@@Axterix13 I know that, i’ve already skipped most of the banners so far the reason why i have only two limited five stars is because those are the only two i have even attempted to pull for- im very selective and only get the ones i really really like , and spend the rest of the time saving. i’m skipping this banner AND the next one, too i’m not stupid ^^; i can’t possibly pull every banner, but i like that it’s possible at to pull any at all… that’s what i was trying to say So far, the only banners i have put everything i had in was Kazuha’s, where i came out with a c1 kazuha, and I just about managed to get kinich, sadly failed to get his weapon . (i was so close though….)

[@NorthWolf97]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="655">10:55</a> this was my experience as a new player last year with Fatui enemies. Especially the Electro hammer ones. It took several minutes to kill them with my team at the time while having little knowledge of elemental reactions.

[@gianlucagiusti6174]

I absolutely love Genshin with all my heart, but God if I would never be able to start over again from the start.

[@ldcgfx8710]

with Kinich, you may want to summon Ajaw immediately at the beginning of your NS state to extend the period of time you can use the Spike Cannon

[@danielvandeputte7588]

Hey buddy! I started a few months ago and I LIKED Mondstadt and Liyre! I'm not sure where you're getting getting the Isekai stuff from (Personally don't remember the traveler getting hit by a truck) but for the starter quests it was entertaining. Inazuma sucks though, or like 85% of the middle of it does. Sorry Teppei was horribly handled no way you look at it. Maybe they should of made a actual character model and have them in the quest for longer than basecamp introductions. You're pretty spot on on everything else. Hell screw getting a 5 star infielder, Just getting a team of 4 stars with any sort of synergy was a crapshoot. I remember my first few pulls where Gaming, Freminet, Chungyun. I'm pretty sure the the game was going give me every four star male claymore user at one point. After getting pity Mualani (won the 50/50 by some grace of god), getting the (Genshin could never) free five star (Jean is bae btw), and getting my welfare Xiangling the games actually palpable.

[@markeeecmarkoni2855]

Wooooooow I didn't think of this game that way at all. I'm not much of a gamer but 1st game the one that won me over at first was genshin back than at 1.2.....and since i play the game as f2p I also haven't finished half the map yet,a lot primos still waiting 😂 I didnt finish some map around 60/100% there's a lot to do but I'm Max AR and I have a bunch of 5* characters and 5* weapons and all the gear so abyiss is a joke for me . Thank you for this video, interesting how you explained to us what this game is for new players

[@GomerJ]

That last bit hit true for me. Just came back to the game after 3 years (was halfway through Inazuma when I stopped), and the only 5 star DPS on my account was Eula and yeah physical damage does not cut it like it did at earlier world levels. I got some better damage dealers since but the big hurdle is that I KNOW that I need better artifacts, but it's incredibly hard to get them, yet the best way to make even the lv 90 artifact domains easier is to, oh, get better artifacts. Shit. It took some time for the game to get comfortable again, that's for sure. I'm still playing on a reverted world level just so domains and bosses for materials and artifacts don't take 20 minutes to clear for 2 mats or 1 5 star artifact. Everything in Genshin is a much bigger time investment than say HSR or ZZZ where drop rates are similar but a single run takes 2 minutes or less.

[@Axterix13]

Domains aren't impacted by world level. They have a level all their own. That said, easiest way to deal with them, to get those initial artifacts is coop. That should get you your first DPS geared, and from that point on, you should be good to go.

[@larryloser22]

I’ve been babysitting my cousins and buddies since they picked up the game last year cuz of the absurd enemy scaling it’s fucking brutal I watched the pyro cube fucking one tap em

[@PsychoticMute]

My mindset when it comes to the world quests is I try to engage with them and understand what’s going on since mashing through them could potentially mean missing out on a good story, which I don’t want to end up regretting later on. Oftentimes I find myself actually getting invested in the plot and wanting to read the dialog even if I wasn’t really in the mood or expecting to enjoy it, and I ended up actually liking the aranara quest despite the infamy. That being said though, I still wish the big, multi-hour long world quests were voiced.

[@hahayayak3620]

Honestly, players who started early (version 1-2), are gonna have the best experience. Playing the updates chronologically is SO much better than being rushed and facing issues with having regions locked behind hours of quests.

[@ACatThatCantSing]

Also I want to be able to move WHILE LISTENING TO DIALOGUE!! Hello???? Isn't this an OPEN WORLD game??? Why do we need to spam space bar while the npc goes through generic body language 1 through 3 and the Traveler, the MAIN CHARACTER, stands around without any personality

[@JoaoMagc1998]

Locking stuff behind world quests SUCK! 100% agree!

[@kawaiimika7974]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="678">11:18</a> Actually no. What you should be doing as a new player is getting Hyperbloom. Because Hyperbloom will help you out to get through the majority of the content and help you farm faster. When you're at the point of dealing enough damage you can start building raw damage characters

[@markeeecmarkoni2855]

That True

[@beat.p5212]

Been there and tried it but good hyperbloom teams aren’t available until Sumeru. All dendro characters require something from sumeru to fully level up and all need the Scaramouche drop for talents. The other characters that also work towards hyperbloom are not available until Inazuma for most of them and the worst thing is getting characters from banners. And because of resin being time gated you can’t just speedrun trough character farming effectively to get a viable DPS that will get you trough the content. I just recently swapped out my Lumine for a Keqing cause of the 5 star selector because even has a new player farming for primos is just that painful that i 100% Mondstadt and Natlan and only pulled for two 5 stars. And guess what with the new endgame content basically being filler for old players and the spiral abyss requiring 2 built teams the farming won’t get better for a while. And don’t get me started on the combat events where the difficulty is so high no matter the world level that you might as well not even play cause you won’t get any primos anyway. With that you must prioritize the characters you actually want but if you want Furina and did not do Sumeru you have to take into account that she won’t be fully built and that means completely useless for a while. And well just knowing that Sumeru will take you hours to get done doesn’t really help. They just recently added solutions for farming as a new player with the quick combat against bosses you haven’t unlocked and the unlocked teleport points but even that isn’t enough for new players to catch up to old ones. You either play for only the story or you spend the next year just trying to catch up enough to appreciate the rest.

[@kawaiimika7974]

​​@@beat.p5212 ...Girl, just go to Sumeru, get the Dendro traveler, go to the Abyss, get Xiangling, get Collei, build your Barbara, cope with some Electro unit till you get Kuki. If you get Gaming by any chance, CONGRATULATIONS, you just got your second team, because Gaming is the easiest 4 Star character to build. Just give him Marechoussee Hunters set. You can just pick him and Xingqiu during Lantern Rite actually. Edit: two things. Hyperbloom doesn't require TALENT leveling, you just need to level your Electro unit as much as possible. Next, THANK YOU FOR REMINDING ME OF THE 5 STAR SELECTOR! Girl, you can literally pick up Keqing and build ger full EM on instructors set and she'll probably get you all the way to floor 11. You might not 9* it but you'll be close to it.

[@kawaiimika7974]

​@@beat.p5212...Girl, just go to Sumeru, get the Dendro traveler, go to the Abyss, get Xiangling, get Collei, build your Barbara, use some Electro unit till you get Kuki. If you get Gaming by any chance, CONGRATULATIONS, you just got your second team, because Gaming is the easiest 4 Star character to build. Just give him Marechoussee Hunters set. You can just pick him and Xingqiu during Lantern Rite actually. Edit: two things. Hyperbloom doesn't require TALENT leveling, you just need to level your Electro unit as much as possible. Next, THANK YOU FOR REMINDING ME OF THE 5 STAR SELECTOR! Girl, you can literally pick up Keqing and build ger full EM on instructors set and she'll probably get you all the way to floor 11. You might not 9* it but you'll be close to it.

[@kawaiimika7974]

...Girl, just go to Sumeru, get the Dendro traveler, go to the Abyss, get Xiangling, get Collei, build your Barbara, use some Electro unit till you get Kuki. If you get Gaming by any chance, CONGRATULATIONS, you just got your second team, because Gaming is the easiest 4 Star character to build. Just give him Marechoussee Hunters set. You can just pick him and Xingqiu during Lantern Rite actually. Edit: two things. Hyperbloom doesn't require TALENT leveling, you just need to level your Electro unit as much as possible. Next, THANK YOU FOR REMINDING ME OF THE 5 STAR SELECTOR! Girl, you can literally pick up Keqing and build ger full EM on instructors set and she'll probably get you all the way to floor 11. You might not 9* it but you'll be close to it.

[@trinixjin8039]

A day of work nets you more primo purchasing power than completing the Aranara quest. Ive only completed that quest due to being bedridden from dengue otherwise i wasnt touching that garbage questline

[@maneuverxz3290]

we can’t make evryone happy..this is the best response I can give

[@CuriusGorg]

To give anyone reading this comment a reference, I started playing in the second half of 3.3 and I still have to catch up on A LOT of content

[@AysDoStuff]

I just started playing this game last month. I actually create my account back during Inazuma hype, but got bored at the end of prologue act 1, quitting at just AR 7. I got back because of the natlan hype and oh boy I just realized how fun this game is actually is, exploration wise. Though after finishing Inazuma, I've lost interest on the main story. Partly because how the story feel lackluster in the archon quest, especially after the rebellion act and how they decided to end the Inazuma archon story. Not to mention how Genshin story always seems to tell but not show, like how they use simple to no animation at all when a character supposedly do something (they just stand there), or how they just pop a text with a black background saying things like "You tell them about ...", "You and Paimon do ...", or "NPC goes to do ...". It felt really lazy and boring for a game at this size to have a "Visual Novel" kind of interaction during a character conversation.

[@34587yui]

The amount of grinding makes me crazy not only because of exploration/chests/puzzles. There is another thing that is much heavier, namely the characters' ascending materials. When you are a new player, you need to build 6-8 characters at once, meaning you need resources for all of them. Blocking the main story behind the adventure rank doesn`t bother you much, cause you simply don`t have time for quests. When farming takes so much time, it is hard to enjoy the game. As for quest backlog - I see it in a better perspective. The more quests means you can enjoy your time in the game longer. Now, with AR59 and all map 100% closed, I have nothing more to do in Genshin, and this is sad. I get new characters but can`t even use them. In general, it seems almost all new player problems caused by the 4-year gap since the game release. The content is too easy for long-time players, but too hard for newcomers. It is really hard to balance even with world-levels.

[@eszterfodor1136]

I came back before 4.0, I quit a few weeks after the release. I did the Inazuma archon quest in a few days. IT WAS BAD. I didn't care about Teppei, I remembered who he was, but I didn't understand why the story is pushing him. His death was a bit confusing and surprising.

[@schlafesbruder7625]

It's good you mention how difficult this game is for newbies. I would know I started in 3.4. They always say "Oh it's so easy". Yes, it is. As soon as you know everything and have everything... My advice for newbies would be: Stay away from the ascension quest until combat in your world feels trivial.

[@gardevoirmaster5743]

I understand where your coming from with the story being locked behind exploration. I mean it makes sense that they want you to explore in an open world game. Sometimes I wouldn’t want to explore cause I wanted to get the satisfaction of finishing the archon quest but it was good because I wouldn’t of explored otherwise lol.

[@Orio_o]

Me who always trying to max exploration before starting the story, in every region you just start the quest and start exploring. I think only in sumeru that was a problem

[@herrnarr3577]

True privilege of old players: they don't remember Inazuma. I started at inazuma (2.2, still not much to do) and story quests took me 4 months (very relaxed pace) before I even touched gacha. Granted, I didn't have a problem with gameplay and could rely on my friends (because they were interested and I was interested myself). I didn't have FOMO and that's possibly the important part. But not having FOMO going into gacha game is hella difficult, and when someone near me says something along the lines of "man i might get into genshin in the future" (for story or character-related reasons) I remember those aranaras who I quite frankly didn't care for anymore, and reply "yeah, there's many silent walkthroughs on yt, included time-gated content". Sad. But hey, genshin doesn't have a stellar reputation among gamers and other ppl, so maybe it's cool.

[@ukaszszczurek7642]

Ngl, Aranara questline is a real test of patience when it comes to genshin, i honestly couldn't finish it(i did almost every quest in the game), because it's litterally too much! For me it's good that hoyo changed this trend and new fontaine and natlan quest were "regional"(small and focused around one smaller region(not the entire fricking sumeru forrest, which is bigger than fuckin monstad and lyiue combined)). Sumeru forrest is just too big to do in one go, and grinding through this region at once is just a waste of time, its whole better wexperience to progress throught it slowly. And unpopular opinion: in comparison to sumeru forest, sumeru desert was actually goated, especially when it comes to world quests. They are really interesting(especially jett's questline) and exploration isn't that bad, except places like mausoleum. Desert is also unexpectedly varied in comparison to forrest that is almost the same everywhere(apart from some locations).

[@RapDog62]

Took me three attempts to finally get into the game lol (Oct 2020, July 2021, and finally Nov 2023). Monstadt bored me to tears and I deleted the game when I had to grind AR.

[@TheIndoraptor]

Its issues like this that motivate me to drop in on other worlds to assist them. Is it fun? Sometimes. Do I keep doing it? Yes. Why? Well, it all started in the summer of '23, back in Dragonspine, or as I prefer to call it, Frosty Hell.

[@RoseSiames]

I started playing at the start of fomtaine and I’ll say that the game really got going by around the time I reach Sumeru at around AR40, and I had been playing for well over 2-3 months by that point So yeah really rough start but super worth it (would be worth it just for the PEAK that is Fontaine alone)

[@theodore_the_minecraftplayer]

Being yelled at to play the Fontaine quests was… well, I wanna, but I’m just stuck on Sumeru (I’ve been playing for like, 2.5 years…) 😭

[@triggerchamcham3311]

Teppei T_T why? Why did you have to bring back that poor fella with the heart of a champion. His death hit harder than that ship in the 2nd golden archipelago event.

[@logathor69]

I started Genshin when it came out but quit due to lack of time to play it. And now i start playing it for almost a year by now, I'll say it's a massive headache just to progress some of story and the world quest just to open up some area but nothing to do with story it's sucks... Sure powercreep is one thing but the mountain of quest is taunting for new player.

[@asboll]

The coop system locking players out of coop is pretty sad, they can get stuck in the 30 second hydro mage and ice slime clear requisite and never get out of it