The Real Reason I don't Play Genshin Impact As Much...

[@prawtism]

Update on meds and how well they worked?

[@MTashed]

Sure! Tried Concerta first, and it didn't really work. Apparently that can happen. The type of stimulant just doesn't work with my brain. But currently on Vyvanse and it feels very good. It isn't a miracle change or anything but the best way to describe it is: Every day, I feel like I used to on my best days. My net focus / energy is just way way higher

[@AhmadShehanshah]

ADHD? @@MTashed

[@andony8237]

@@MTashed Great to hear youre doing better man!

[@lawfulgoodnun1646]

​@@AhmadShehanshahyes he made a video on it

[@VoltageGames321]

i actually took vyvanse a decent bit but havent ina while, but it helped me alot when i needed to focus on work etc hope it helping @@MTashed

[@Zap_09]

Hyperbloom feels like when you buy a game at full price but next week it goes on a 80% discount.

[@destructo3457]

Why do people complain about Hyperbloom when there's teams with no Dendro involved that do way more DPS than that? Why does no one complain about it?

[@mangoisatango]

@@destructo3457 and what are those teams that do more than hyperblooms if u dont mind my asking?

[@charroboo]

I mean. Having a game go 80% discount after you buy it, would just make me happy that more people get to play it too

[@notachillguy2872]

​@@mangoisatangoNuevillette furina kazuha zhongli. This team is so broken that hyperbloom is joke in front of it

[@mangoisatango]

@@notachillguy2872 damn

[@valk5041]

Whats even more overkill is a Neuvillete hyperbloom team. I've never seen the floor 12 thunder manifestation die so fast ever 😂

[@Xenoray1]

i hate myself so much for skipping him, gonna 100% pick him up o nrerun which hopefully will be soon this year :(

[@lighty2884]

So true. I thought he gonna fall on this abyss by the thunder bird. But my c0 Neuvillette destroyed it in a minute without removing his shield.

[@soumeekmishra5076]

@@Xenoray1hopefully 4.6 and in may hez great I am at c1 saving everything atm to c6 him

[@Gaeul-j3j]

Tbh Neuv doesn’t even need hyperbloom he can solo dem all .

[@Joemama-pt2ye]

That sounds broken af 💀

[@yowrange]

and this is why the term "meta slave" is termed/coined this way, its because even if you don't want to use the current meta your mind won't let you forget it even for a second, ultimately killing your fun. Just take a back seat away from the game mentally for now until the meta shifts, because there's no way hoyo lets just one elemental reaction rule over the game forever, they won't get profit out of doing that.

[@hollow.shadow]

This is why the best advice for the end game has always been to "pull who you like" rather than strictly following the meta. The design of gacha games is to market their new units through powercreep and new gameplay or visual designs. It is no surprise that every year we get a new "best dps" - ganyu, raiden, alhaitham, and now neuvillette. It is not even a hyperbloom or dendro specific problem. If you are fixated on the "strongest" or "god" account, its always gonna be vertical investment or chasing the new best thing. Its a lot like fashion trends, things come and go, you could be a trend follower or you can pick and choose what you like and stick with it.

[@arocomisgamusclademork1603]

For limited Time challenges events are different than Spiral Abyss, those are mode gather score each enemy kill or set score highest difficulty kill boss

[@remwastaken]

@@arocomisgamusclademork1603 i mean sure, but those are easy as hell. You can clear those with almost any team. It's not fun when a game where half of it is the battles, and the only battle content is just a choice between "grind hyperbloom for a month" or "grind a character you like and its team for half a year only to do at most a little more damage"

[@trxjustis7654]

Couldn't have said it better bro pull who u like and just play the game it's the end game do it for the hell of it what do u got to lose some of us got 50mil mora and thousands of leveling materials and just there picking up dust and there's like 20 characters sitting at level 2

[@SergeantArxelCone]

Games with actual good game design don’t force you to “pull who you like” if there’s a singular team that’s consistently beating every single content in the game. It’s an issue with the content. Not the characters. that being said, for Genshin SPECIFICALLY, yes you pull who you like. Because they’re trying to market the game to children to get more money. other games I wouldn’t adopt that mindset cause not every game is made terribly

[@f.b.l.9813]

@@SergeantArxelCone last I checked, Genshin's main source of income was whales and whales aren't children.

[@dogeisnotameme4296]

Dendro is an additional mechanic added to the game and should be considered as one. while I believe it's objectively better than other elements, it doesn't render other elements useless as the difficulty and the content of the game doesn't really change. the introduction of dendro as one of the new playable elements made the gameplay more varied and less repetitive, especially for older players like me. Personally, I feel like the addition of dendro made me really happy as an f2p player as the game now enables a lot of my otherwise suboptimal characters to be used in the highest abyss floor and still getting good results, without having to lose my sanity trying to get good crit artifacts.

[@BladeSerph]

The thing is if an entirely new system that demands perma-taking up some of your party slots, sometimes up to 2 or more for those `users` of multiple dendro users, placing shields for yourself to not get `sploded by your own seeds` or units like nilou who amplify dendro seeds to even more absurd value just creates reasons to NOT care about optimizing your gearing, then it kills off reasons to use teams that do NOT use dendro. Which doesnt help this falls under the same logic as how Another Eden took huge changes with the introductions of `Zones`, `Another Zones from Awakening Zones`, `Sidekicks` and the latest element, Star Awaken. GI`s Dendro being introduced later on means it has the advantage of using the `meta` of the game early on to be polished into something broken as fk to appeal it more. If mihoyo actually went back and REVAMPED its god damn previous elements to buff physical damage so it does not need to rely on cyro specific reactions to function at all and have Anemo & geo have some other reactions such as the latter could gain maybe attribute debuffs like reducing enemy defense values and the former could focus on giving self buffs like maybe amplifying buffs on units or give things like attack speed increase and stamina cost reduction to make combat drastically better, then maybe stuff could feel more on the same level as dendro just throws grenades and wins (just like many action game works, just barfing no-care for friendly fire nukes and EZ wipe stuff off the map without having to think much at all). Atleast with when i used to play warframe before i left during the 2nd open world region, i could play very differently with multiple units and actually had to make builds between speeding thru maps, locking down defense targets, mass stripping enemy hoardes to bombard with throwable nukes or even just having fun with weird builds while grinding if i had some space after putting the usual stuff up for durability. Maybe if i stayed around that latter game i would still be playing it today especially enoying the `really` crazy stuff you could do by taking an ability from one warframe and slapping it on another and more now, but it really goes to show when a game DRASTICALLY changes after a single year in its lifespan. If a game cant have a screen shot taken over a year or even a few month period and you can`t see anything sizable change to it, then clearly can you imagine it ever getting better WITHOUT the copium from thinking a few `additions` of gear or `playable units` that simply REPLACE existing stuff then actually add to it instead? Moral of the story: Unchecked explosives always ruin games, Tonkor in Warframe annilated many things with numerous explosives including 2 particular bomb shooting bows too, map sized nukes on Honkai impact 3rd made combat less interesting, genshin`s entire dendro element when you could produce a fuck ton of bombs and just `trigger` them with electricity to auto-home and blow shite up and so on and so on makes it just god damn boring when your just SENDING DA BOMB TO WINZ.

[@dogeisnotameme4296]

@@BladeSerph Genshin can be played however you want, if you liked gearing and care about gear optimizing then do just that, i personally hate gearing it's a goddamn waste of time and I only do so to characters that I really liked and much prefer to waste my time on other content. I do understand though that it's frustrating to see your favorite non dendro teams do similar or even sometimes worse to dendro teams with considerably less investments. But honestly it doesn't mean anything, genshin is not a competitive game at all. it shouldn't be tied to any kind of meta and 100% can be played with any characters that you want, why play dendro if you don't like dendro? my old team still works just fine and I presume yours too. Not only that, this game use a frickin gacha system as it's foundation, ofc there'll be OP characters or elements down the line. Genshin is a casual game that focused more on characters, weapons, and artifact with gacha as its fundamental mechanic, place your expectation to the game accordingly.

[@BladeSerph]

@@dogeisnotameme4296 line break you wankers, learn to line break to make sense of your non sense posts. The rub is that because no END GAME exists, you have litterally no reason to gacha, so they made reasons, power creep thru traversal mechanics, power creep thru enemies becoming not only stat chonky but also doing giant fk you flips by not being able to be cc’d and more. As many have stated, Genshin ripped off a lot of breath of the wild aspects but did a lot of bad decisions too that most just do fire emblem engage logic and ignore that to call it a good game, when at the end of the day, it ain’t. I don’t play Genshin anymore because it’s tedious and boring and if I have to force myself to ‘not’ play it to enjoy it, then what’s the point of playing it in the first place? Because no means to achieve optimal gear in realistic fashion, I can never catch up to the increase in world levels and if I have to purposely stick to lower world levels then that means I gimp my ability to acquire resources more effectively to reach the ability todo any decent damage besides RNGSUS on artifacts. Because genshite can’t simply let you fuse artifacts to increase the ‘value’ of affixes instead of rerolling brand new ones, this means it’s just gacha on top of extra gacha. Because genshite has to try on a lot of fan made resources like resource trackers, because genshite is too lazy to put in simple trackers like a checklist of region’s treasure chests and collectibles, it’s a headache to clear out rewards and missing some means you gimped yourself on precious resources. Ultimately it’s a game that just requires you to be brain dead to ‘have fun’ by ignoring all the hassles that flips off people joining late and got to go thru all the hurdles of catch up because no real QoLs were put in to simplify earlier grind or simply ways to transfer affixes over to other artifacts then spend 1-20 months rerolling for up to 20 good roll affixes, by constantly getting bad rolls, farm for new copies, farm for resources to feed into that and rinse and repeat. Not everyone enjoys a hamster wheel, especially if they force you to run it constantly without ‘real’ periods to where you can take breaks and still get goodies that are actually helpful. Don’t think anyone would want that hamster wheel to also require to precisely walk at certain speeds due to spikes and taser mats being attached to the wheel also.

[@iarastreams]

​@@dogeisnotameme4296 "if you liked gearing and care about gear optimizing then do just that" that is what a lot of people did though, including mtashed. the issue is that gearing used to be ALL of the endgame, but for some reason around 3.0 they decided "nope our game is for the story!! we have no plans to do combat endgame! here's a tcg that you'll forget about in two months!" ... and so now, gearing longer worth it. however, genshin's daily routine is: commissions (or exploration now) and resin (aka gearing). so if 50% of daily activities is gearing, but there's no point to do it, then what's the point of playing the game? tbh the reality is that genshin kept saying they were an "action adventure rpg", but the second anyone asked for more difficult content, they decided to make it easier and throw the story in our faces. "Genshin is a casual game that focused more on characters, weapons, and artifact with gacha as its fundamental mechanic, place your expectation to the game accordingly." i agree! that's why imo people should just leave the game if they don't enjoy it. it's evident from the drop in revenue and monthly active users that people are doing that too. it's hoyo's job to retain players, not our job to worry about. i left a year ago and i am genuinely happier, but it's obvious a lot of people are just still attached to the game :)

[@Gaeul-j3j]

@@iarastreamsexactly. I am just here for story , do dailies and I am out. It hardly takes 15-20 minutes to complete the abyss . There is nothing left in the game except the story .

[@Lindy-nw9rd]

i understand the feeling but somw of yhe best advice my friend gave me was 'they had their time when they were useful/the most powerful. so in that sense, it was never a waste to get/build them'

[@Valsin]

8:10 - says he built diluc because he like him, even tho he knows diluc is "worse" than many other dps characters - completely forgets about that and says he now regrets building diluc because hyperbloom exists I fail to see how this makes sense

[@prime1773]

What's even crazier is Kuki was lackluster when she first came out but now everyone loves her for hyperbloom. She becomes damn good.

[@balusteidl1740]

For me it so much more enjoyable to have all the character in the game and have them built moderately well. This way i can play with any of them any time and also not spend time grinding artifact for weeks and spending a fortune for constelations and weapons. Even though i have modestly strong characters, i still have been able to clear everythin over the past 3 years.

[@ImagineCats9339]

I feel like hyperbloom is the reason why the abyss is getting harder and harder , and why they had to give neuvillette (and Navia too) such high numbers so they can compete with hyperbloom teams

[@edamb6044]

abyss getting harder?

[@ImagineCats9339]

@@edamb6044 it got harder compared to how it was before sumeru

[@TheGJustas]

No its not, its definitely been getting easier sine 4.0 i even noticed that on GI reddit there is been a lot more posts about people bragging about beating f12 for the first time which means its mostly noobs. I think the reason you think abyss been getting harder is because fontaine enemies are doing a lot more dmg but if you dodge them its not that bad. Also i think you forgot about sacred beasts and abyss heralds/frost

[@GustavoSilvaBM666]

You're not forced to play Hyperbloom if you don't want to. If you feel forced because Hyperbloom is a strong reaction, the problem is with you and not the game. You can still beat the Abyss without Hyperbloom and using only 4-star characters. I haven't played Hyperbloom since 3.4 because I thought it was a boring playstyle, and I can still clear the Abyss with no problem.

[@rajeshbarjatya496]

If you can beat abyss without using the strongest team comp, then don't you think that there should be more endgame content available for veterans at least? I don't even grind for artifacts nowadays because Ik that I can clear the hardest content with whatever I have. Or I just pull for a new character that I like but that's it

[@user-ng1lv5pr3n]

For me I think this game is way too grindy and as someone who has been playing on and off for 2 years I still couldn't clear the abyss 12. But thanks to you because next week i will get Nahida to complete my hyperbloom team with shinobu and I will clear that damn abyss for the first time!

[@Flowrtie]

Hyperbloom came to balance the hard content for F2p players.. the only people complaining are whales that spent tons of money on the game

[@ErisNoir]

EXACTLY!!! It just sounds so damn obnoxious of them,they already made abyss hell for us,and now they want to nerf dendro,like wtf 😀 The whales and hardcore sweaty players are gonna ruin genshin so badly,it was supposed to be a casual open world game,but now it's becoming harder and harder. They're literally trying to make this a hardcore game at this point,and the annoying part is,that hoyoverse hasn't even added a difficulty option for abyss,like not all of us want/can 36 star abyss so easily/casually,we just want to claim the primogems as fast as possible,so putting an easy or normal mode for us,will rlly help us new f2p players and even some whales,bc not all of them have skills,and basically half of the genshin players are tired,so having to stress Abt doing the perfect rotations in abyss,is just not cool. Constantly having to spend hours on abyss just for 600 primogems. Whales basically just wanna test their crazy damage,so they should put a separate difficulty/level for those types of crazy players,they basically like to feel powerful,so that should at least satisfy them. Anyways I just want some damn equality in this mf game,bc the content is not every f2p friendly to us new players,and abyss is just such a mf problem,mostly bc we can't claim the extra primogems from floor 12,like seeing it go to waste is just not fun yk?? It basically feels like hoyoverse doesn't even wanna give us the primogems easily. Even events are so damn tedious,like if y'all like getting primogems the hardcore way,than that's on you,keep your kinks to yourself but don't try to force everyone to go through your disgusting degrading kinks. Cause I used to play genshin for fun,but now nothing is fun Abt it anymore. The only fun thing for me rn,is getting the five star or four star characters I wanted/needed. I'm currently rlly mad and upset that I still don't have Tighnari. I started playing this game just bc I wanted to play as Tighnari,but now I don't even have him. Still playing this game hoping to get him soon,hopefully I can get him soon,bc I literally have perfect artifacts for him too,like the dendro goblets I have are insane😭😭😭 So far I've lost all my 50/50's on every banners,so rn I HAVE to win 50/50 and get double five stars in a 10 pull,back to back is welcome too, I'm ar56 btw,and hopefully something like that happens,cause I want Raiden,Nahida and hopefully Tighnari appears with them in the same 10 pull. Cause I hate going to hard pity only to get one measly five star Character I don't even want/need. Like it's not fun yk??

[@badapkuparkhongsngi]

Just playing what you want to play. Pull who you want to pull. Doesn't matter if hyperbloom does this does that. Doesn't matter if you just play characters you love.

[@thechazz8080]

The problem is, that should have always been the point. People thought for 3 years that you did have to worry about that or well wanted to do the best for their characters. If they planned to never balance the elements, then why make it hard to get artifacts and harder to get the perfect stats? Does the game even have a form of getting artifacts with the stats you want?

[@MiraPloy]

@@thechazz8080 But why do you need "perfect" stats, it's some kind of mental illness. The content in the game is beatable with any fun comp. Just have fun with that.

[@KuroLionheart]

Sorry but this is pretty funny because the other day Mtashed insisted that Raiden was still top tier and now he's complaining that his C2 Raiden feels like its not stacking up to hyperbloom sometimes. I got a chuckle out of that. :P

[@Sergmanny46]

Crazy that you literally have to destroy her entire kit and build her for hyperbloom just to make her viable.

[@hessaa1712]

its actually sad i feel annoyed to even imagine touching my perfectly built raiden to build her completely different than how she was designed

[@ex0duzz]

Who cares who hits hardest. I play for fun, not for numbers. I still use Diluc and venti and ayato currently with kuki, no dendro. I am regretting i missed out on neuvi since I just got venti the month before.

[@veemon9009]

Mtashed when he remembers that genshin is easy and casual (Walter white falling down)

[@Boukensha123]

I feel you. Dendro is extremely strong and tbh I kinda like it because it opens so many doors for a bunch of characters... but I would be lying if I said it felt good to see my 83% crit rate/242% crit damage hu tao being matched or even outperformed sometimes by burgeon/hyperbloom/bloom teams that require way less stats.

[@ghhlx9863]

not even just way less stats, its three mainstats and level 90 1 1 1 talents. its absolutely mindboggling that this was allowed into the game

[@mangshu21]

@@ghhlx9863 well you are free to go play dogshit gacha games that wont let you progress until you pay. You are dense as hell.

[@pierrotzzz]

I don't think a hu tao like yours (with homa presumably) should be outperformed by any hyperbloom team on boss chambers tbh

[@mel_101]

I’m sick of hyperbloom too. Ever since I got nahida and kuki, none of my other characters could outperform their damage. Which sucks because I can’t play my favorite characters anymore. Any time I try a new team I just think “wow this damage sucks compared to hyperbloom”

[@ghhlx9863]

@@pierrotzzz damage wise its probably about 80-90% of the hu tao’s damage but thats not even mentioning how much easier and safer hyperbloom is

[@kyto4801]

I just try and have fun I don’t think about numbers…

[@madmaxtravax]

So u rather pay to win then

[@inqyr4707]

​@@madmaxtravax??

[@Aeris_Asano]

Glad I pull for aesthetics never have to deal with this

[@kazukiph.6976]

bro underestimated how hard to get a 3 EM main stat on 3 Different pieces... been playing for 3years i only have 2 EM time piece.

[@jastcaz7398]

So TLDR you basically took it personally the fact your godroll crit artifacts essentially tantamounts to basically not being able to flex on other people and say your luckier or more blessed than they are, and as well as the game not respecting the grind in the first place which leads back to the first part of this post of not being able to lord or dunk on over everybody else in a non-pvp game to say you are better?

[@markedwint.jasmin4857]

This is so sad for me as an genshin player whom played the game for over 3 years and still nothing changes that's why i moved on to play hsr and what an excitement it was. Keep it up tashman! Hopefully we get more exciting content to cover for the game.

[@smallBrainsPeckersEgos]

It's turn based though, can't fix that

[@ne_ytuber5296]

​@@smallBrainsPeckersEgosturn based is pretty fun

[@luskonhooficial]

@@smallBrainsPeckersEgos If you use Welt it's just your turn lol

[@Kastienburg]

​@@smallBrainsPeckersEgos what's wrong with the genre?

[@zerozgaming5770]

​@@Kastienburgwhat makes HSR has less players is because of the genre, I know a lot of people don't like turn base, and if you don't have much time even HSR can give you a difficult time and make you lose interest in it

[@noVa-oq4pe]

The lack of endgame content in Genshin is hitting hard now 🥲 miss those days when i was still AR 10

[@MuhammadKharismawan]

I don't have this problem, i feel like the last time I beat Abyss with hyperbloom is on Sumeru's Abyss. I haven't felt the need to use them since 4. 0 started, and I just enjoy swapping around teams to suit the content.

[@thehighlander8322]

“It was faster to clear the content in the game”, you mean it actually speeds up the quest dialogue? Wow what a good tip, after clearing the spiral abyss each week I always end up getting stuck in those endless world quest dialogues.

[@SweetoDoggo]

Tbh im fine with the dendro element and all its reactions with different elements. i think it adds more to what teams u can use and ofc some of those teams will be better than the others. the only thing i dislike about this game is the lack of permanent content that we can do weekly or something that makes us use our built characters, not to mention events that doesnt even makes us use our characters most of the time. It sucks that all we really got was the tcg.

[@HolySl0w]

bro has been saying abyss is too easy for 3 years... i've been farming for 3 years, I started 36star-ing only around first itto banner and still can't 36 star consistently to this day. I don't have any of those god rolls pieces, just shit. (also boomer skill issues i guess) Dendro helped me quite a bit, i'm really happy i don't have to chase the 1000th fukkin crit piece that i hate when it rolls in def. that's why i love def, em and atk scaling units. they are different and easier. said this... fuck that game. i don't play anymore i just follow the story.

[@robertoarbizu]

Hyper is a great reaction. But I still love my og reactions. I really cant complaint. Navia, neuvi and furina have really been a breath of fresh air! Even charlotte has been in my abbyss teams lately.

[@darmansbar7900]

I stopped used Hyperbloom in 4.0 Now I use Nilou Bloom with Nahida and Raiden-Bennet-Xinanling-Chevruse God I love specific elements buffs

[@KiraMira577]

I'm at the same situation lol. I even stopped spending my Resin for anything. And sometimes I dont do my dailys because I just feel bored. I can beat any abyss with my Hyperbloom and my Noelle Hypercarry team. There's no need to build something else.

[@inqyr4707]

Then try something new. very simple solution

[@KiraMira577]

@@inqyr4707 I mean, thats why I play Hsr more, if you ment that.

[@Yoshihiro788]

@@KiraMira577he meant you should try some new teams.

[@heyoitsbrando]

@@inqyr4707For real, some of these people make no sense. They have 2 built teams and complain that they are bored, as if team building isn’t one of the more enticing part of these games. It’s the biggest reason why i was excited for furina + healer core and now cloud retainer. My built teams are spread/aggravate, hyperbloom, quickbloom, freeze, international, mono pyro, mono hydro, mono anemo, hypercarry teams, burgeon teams. There’s so much you can build in this game, and i alternate each abyss. Now i will have a plunge team soon

[@KiraMira577]

@@Yoshihiro788 I planned to build my Beidou but I just got bored lol.

[@coreytsosie190]

Im one of the weird guys that was rolling EM because CR/CD was not in my cards. Worked out for me

[@Osorio-tv6wq]

I would like to see a series of you making “bad characters” clear the abyss, i do main bad characters and i find more rewarding to see my team being especial, like you always see a raiden and bennet or hyperbloom

[@zerozgaming5770]

It will be fun to see use aloy to clear it

[@Gilgamesh-em6ru]

it would be him constantly complaining about how other characters would clear the content faster. just like he's complaining how hyper bloom makes the game easier. and don't say he won't that's literally all he does. he quit one of his alts that was suppose to do that because he wasn't having fun playing "non-meta" units.

[@jerromejardin7887]

Exactly 💯 the point is the devs are also considering people who are not yet that strong. Now for strong players we can also Try to enjoy it using different methods "like solo run Neuvi" 4 star characters with 4 star weapons. Tons of reason to enjoy but mtashed always looking for the sad side

[@warewareno]

@@jerromejardin7887yeah, but like getting strong only takes like a month and a half or so. After that, all the monsters die with a single hit or two.

[@Gilgamesh-em6ru]

@@warewareno that's not true. You wish it only took 1 month to farm artifacts.

[@spiderdude2099]

8:42 Bruh. It NEVER mattered. It never was that kind of game. You could clear everything with the power 5 (bennet, xiangling, Xingqiu, sucrose, and fischl) and one dps, that could even be a 4 star rarity.

[@daviematcha]

A few things: 1. I can see how this puts you in a difficult position as a content creator and I feel for you. 2. The way you mentioned you would have played differently if you knew earlier is probably how like 90% of people play the game. 3. I remember like a year or two ago when you mentioned how you wanted to make more guides where you'd do things like have to go into a secret cave to find a cool sword. I think Genshin will only start doing more stuff like The Sword of Narzissenkreuz, which is literally a cool sword that you find in a secret cave. I thought of you saying that when I unlocked it, so it might be worth exploring.

[@amandathetford5490]

I was using EM pieces before dendro existed and my characters were slapping. I've said it since I started this game, you don't need amazing crit pieces to have strong units

[@nazirhussain2156]

Maybe you can do more damage with Hyperbloom. but it doesn't feel as satisfying as doing big damage with for example Raiden's ult or Diluc's Dawn etc

[@f.b.l.9813]

fr, Diluc is just really satisfying to play despite his lackluster damage.

[@f.b.l.9813]

I do feel like Hyperbloom is broken, basically a win button, because in the past META teams used to have their niches, like Ayaka was cracked but only on enemies that can be frozen, Hu Tao was cracked but only on single target enemies, etc. there used to be always a niche that teams would fit, not a one size fits all cracked team, then Hyperbloom came and it's cracked for everything! whether single target, multi target, freezable, non-freezable bosses, hyperbloom beats them all and you just need 3 characters, 2 of them 4*. which is why I rarely use Hyperbloom, I still run Mono pyro Diluc, I still run Ayaka because I just find myself having more fun running these teams, Hyperbloom is just so broken.

[@calebwoolman9445]

yeah after grinding every single day since 4.1 when i first joined i feel very burnt out with the whole system of artifacts and resin i like the idea someone came up with when you'd enter a domain you'd get to focus on main stat artifacts that u want something that doesnt take weeks or months

[@aragorn1432]

You always have to think of new players, they could clear the game more easily, now that we have 5 regions and people wanted to catch up with the story, when i started it was difficult for me, but now when i looked at neuvi,furina i feel angry, that how easy things are rn.

[@impostorsyndrome1350]

Hsr is like 4-5 patches in and already has big powercreep, in Genshin, we had 3 years, and still see only a glimpse of powercreep

[@cartoonvideos5]

Only noobs say it has powercreep. 4 stars still work just fine.

[@impostorsyndrome1350]

@@cartoonvideos5 yeah, noobs like you

[@vaughnventers9700]

A well-built Seele hypercarry team (Seele, Bronya, Tingyun, healer) still bodies most of the fights in the game.

[@salteecoffee1347]

hyperbloom has higher base damage and but lower damage ceiling, and specifically deals dendro, and needs multiple elements to trigger, if its anymore harder to do, people will complain dendro is the next geo

[@yomama4759]

Mtashed u really need to get the thing about "does this character do more dmg than the other" gone bcz u cant have fun with being like this just build characters u like or u think is fun and enjoy the game u may not beat the game But i want u to have fun bcz i feel like u would be then again trap urself in characters that only do dmg and wont have any fun

[@plsguidemethroughtheabyssmona]

6:56 what do you mean weeks 🤕 that kind of piece took me months to a year i was done with genshin after fontaine dropped, i already built my hyperbloom team before it. but one of the main reasons that made me let go genshin emotionally is because of hyperbloom. hyperbloom would never be boring to me, dont get me wrong, but its just too strong that it turned out to be a subconscious factor that made new characters/content bland to me-- bland in the sense clearing chambers under a minute is a dopamine hit that made *everything* pale in comparison to seeing a quick clear challenge, that made me fear of committing to long hours of farming artifacts again for the new characters that i like than i did with FoPL wearers. i hope i would get the feeling of genuine, wide eye joy again in the future that i get back

[@namelessunnamed6544]

Me with no kuki or raiden struggling to even complete 12-3 : yeah sure 💀

[@yepnope2927]

Lol

[@ItzRonyB]

honestly i think this guy here concerns that he can beat the game easily with hyperbloom, which is a big meta right now obvio, but he should also know that everyone does not get the same artifacts like those stats which he's showing. especially when they're F2P. they would die to get these pieces or would pay atleast something in amount the least! so it's like people who are rich, they does not know the poor thing! i hope many players agrees to this!!!

[@andreascalera8393]

Every patch theres a new reason for mtashed to cry about genshin. Literally crying and saying you’re quitting or close to since first days of release. Imagine QQing about powercreep or changing of meta in an rpg..

[@Kunoichi4ever4]

THiS is why I quit Genshin Impact, not the lack of endgame, not Paimon repeating everything, not Qiqi haunting my pulls..but THIS. The fact that for 9/10 comps the answer was the same team was insane to me. The game really doesnt push any versatility,if you dont like dendro you honesty are better off quiting the game than slaving away in relic farming, which is why I left. And the fact that geo and physical is basically half-dead for years now is even more insane and honestly sad. Why create elements and playstyles that have no real reason of being used? And many time I d have defended the game and said - its a casual game...but lets be real, it is not. It is a game with around 80GB, and 620 hours required for 100% completion...its casualness slowly died with each extra hour of Paimon talking.

[@CyrilCommando]

Interestingly I feel like some of this is moot. With the new geo weakness boss, Kachina a great support for geo units, xilonen coming up, I think the game is still decently balanced.

[@Furina1457]

I honestly think that is a positive change. My hutao can hit over 100K per charged attack but sometimes I still fail to 36star abyss, similarly I have to switch to the hutao team when my hyperbloom doesn't work. It is true that dendro teams have better scaling but I appreciate the way new team comps can be made. As far as exploration I wish there were more mobs and domains with new mechanics to make the open world aspect of the game fun again. Underwater is indeed a breath of fresh air and the quality of lore drops per region is better than ever. So I've still not given up on the exploration side of the game.

[@highwaytoheaven99]

Gone are the days you must spend hundreds upon hundreds of resin, over weeks on end, to get the best possible crit rolls on your artifacts for hypercarries, to even have the CHANCE of beating abyss. How is that a bad thing???

[@Mathaiascn]

I mean, being a meta slave is probably the worst way to play any game

[@smappes1558]

Well, it was fun while it lasted. I'll still be using my queen Ayaka through all the content, just because I love her. No amount of high number will take her away from me.

[@trashbuilds8351]

I think it is great for newer players to not have to wait 3 years for cracked artifacts and cons to make their teams work well HOWEVER there should be modes that favor and reward veteran builds or just a bunch of endgame modes that favor every kind of team so that nothing feels irrelevant or wasted. Balancing this many characters must be really hard, but you can offset any discrepancies by creating endgame that still incentivizes using characters/teams that are no longer meta. I just really can't wrap my head around there only being Spiral Abyss when they invest so much into some of the minigames.....those minigame fights could be such good endgame content with the unique buffs and how many you can fight within the time limit rather Spiral time limits. Even the story quest dungeons could be a cool endgame mode, just reuse the dungeons and have mobs in each chamber you have to plow through, each with different buffs/handicaps

[@exploreevery]

Exactly we need floor 13 with over Lv 110 enemies

[@banjoowo4001]

They'll buff older characters, just wait a bit fontaine already gigabuffed noelle and jean, cloud retainer is bringing back diluc, maybe Natlan will bring back Melt Ganyu in the meta?

[@trashbuilds8351]

@@banjoowo4001 That's true and I love how just as ppl talking about Zhongli as a DPS loss, Navia justifies using him. She's my first Geo DPS and she's awesome. I am really excited about Natlan, I need a good pyro based team. I do have C2 Dehya and with enough energy regen, her burst is actually quite powerful (at C2 lol). Still not meta by any means. I hope they introduce a new mechanic with pyro

[@f.b.l.9813]

when one playstyle or team build is just easier and more powerful then another, that's called bad game design.

[@trashbuilds8351]

@@f.b.l.9813 exactly, and it nullifies all the cool kits and team comps. I like how they are starting to make healers, shielders and powercrept elemental reactions better - but it doesn't incentivize using them if the endgame is still the same.

[@CaptainCollection]

I reached the point where I just don't care anymore. I took a long break (about patch 3.5 or 3.6 until 4.3) and came back to just have fun playing with the units I want to use. Like you said yourself, unless they make a drastic change to shift the "meta", a few specific units are going to be stronger than anyone else. However, playing for meta in gacha games gets boring real fast and you just gotta do what you enjoy. It's not dumb and you shouldn't feel that way. You built a character YOU liked. Just because they're not "the best" or got power-crept hard shouldn't take away from your enjoyment of them. It's a casual story game. Don't beat yourself up over it.

[@glennsotelo]

This guy is completely unaware of Alhaitham's power.

[@adnanoxo]

You are right it's very relatable when the character u put so much effort in gets powercreep by some new character.

[@audreywilliams1658]

Personally One of the reasons I stopped playing was that it felt like a chore everytime I wanted to play

[@Theunluckiest5437]

Exactly. Every time I open the game, I just feel like I'm being forced to play it and it's not because I want to play it. So I eventually gave up and quit

[@averagecommander]

At least in Star Rail, You can just cap your energy stamina at 240 and save the reserves of 2400 for later to farm.

[@Theunluckiest5437]

@@averagecommander Ye and there's no specific day for farming shit. Play when you want and don't play if you don't want to. Also, I have pulled for 5 characters consecutively in star rail without spending a single dollar and I only got 1 character at early pity. Let's see someone try and do the same in Genshin.

[@novac1923]

This sounds like a classic case of “if everyone is a superhero no one is a superhero” and honestly it cracks me up how people have taken it so damn personally because they can’t laud over having the “strongest account” or being a “god” at genshin cause they got lucky at gambling artefact rolls

[@Extroditastic]

rolling again and again for god roll artifacts is unfortunately the only impactful end game content Genshin offers at the moment.

[@nickemilbarbas9106]

i completely agree. also, theyve been asking this for years (electro buff, high expectations for dendro as a new element, etc) and now that its performing well, theyre sad abt it. i dont get it, nobody is forcing u to build hyperbloom teams, dont use it if u dont want to. who are u competing with anyway?? if u want the good feeling of farming for crit stats, then go for it! i js dont like it when people start to hate something "easier" or one thats supposed to make the life of someone better js because they feel like their personal efforts are wasted or wtvr, it sounds selfish to me. everyone generally benefits from this (old to new platers), so i dont get what they are so sad abt.

[@novac1923]

@@Extroditastic but hyperbloom hasn’t taken that away, one can still partake in artefact rolls if they want but the fact that it bothers them that another character can provide just as much damage with lesser investment is the real issue. Genshin hasn’t taken away artefact rolling from everyone just given an alternative to people who don’t want to spend years gambling on artifacts and lauding it that they have the strongest account just because they got lucky

[@novac1923]

@@nickemilbarbas9106 I absolutely agree hyperbloom has just given an alternative rather than a total replacement and people who only got the fun out of hitting bigger numbers than others are the one crying about it

[@bingliang1189]

Ngl bro you made me remember why I fell in love with this game 3 years ago and why I quit about 1 years ago… but ig that’s what happens if you go for meta and clear speed :(

[@nistrega]

WHY does damage matter when any of the characters can stomp the game anyway???? Wanting to min max just ruins the fun in games period. ESPECIALLY in a single player game.

[@Tectrashdumb]

He sounds like a child when he sees a new toy that everyone uses and that he still plays his old toys

[@Best_grass]

Im sorry but I really fail to see why this is a problem. New players/casuals can do good with less effort, they won't feel at disadvantage or left behind and quit. And us tryhards can still do higher dmg than them by minimaxing crit and doing more vertical investment since dendro has lower ceiling. It's like kinda like DOT or Break Effect in hsr really.

[@cresentj]

dont play hyperbloom if you dont like it, not hard. What we have here is someone (and the people with the same sentiments) mad that the way they want to play the game isn't the ONLY way or that there are simpler methods that yield similar results. Think bloom based comps are too easy and take no skill/effort, fine, go ahead and farm for 5 months to get your ganyu 300% critdmg and stop whining. No ones forcing you to play a certain way and the game HAS and will ALWAYS be catered to casual players. If you cant handle that, leave the game and play something else that takes more 'skill'. though I'm sure most of these types of players would get mauled in actual competitive/difficult games lol. No need to reply, i already know some of you tryhard cry babies are going to be offended and lash out and i don't need to read it so this threads notifications are muted for me, though I'm sure the wailing will still occur

[@tejendrachettri5970]

Even if you're late on this im so glad you made a video on this. I can really feel the old non-depressed(lol) Mtashed energy now. So i guess your meds are working well! Take care of yourself brother.

[@ErisNoir]

Hyperbloom is literally the best thing to have ever happened to f2p players. I hate it when ppl hate on hyperbloom or burgeon,like stop giving the developers the idea of nerfing things,cause it'll be rlly unfair for us players who don't have good enough artifacts for our dps characters. So dendro is literally a life-saver for us unfortunate players. So complaining abt hyperbloom,is such an annoying thing to do,like that's the least thing you should complain abt. Ppl forget that the dendro core is already a lil nerfed,bc enemies can cause your dendro cores that you created to become burgeon or hyperbloom,they basically can interact and steal your dendro cores. When i first started playing,i didn't wanna built a hyperbloom team bc i thought that it was just over hyped,but now i understand the hype. It rlly helped me with a few abyss runs,but not all abyss runs are easy,bc the enemies are just so dang annoying/tanky to the point that even hyperbloom can't kill them in time, especially when you have bad ping 😭 Anywayssss,stop trying to get rid of hyperbloom just bc you don't have an actual good creative video idea. It's just not right.

[@ErisNoir]

As an f2p player who still struggles to get better artifacts,my biggest fear is when they nerfe dendro reaction. So y'all shouldn't be giving hoyoverse the idea that it's too OVERPOWERED,cause it's literally not. Y'all are making it sound like it broke the game and that will cause the company to worry if they made a mistake. Bc rn hyperbloom is capped at 32k+ or higher,so it basically already has multiple nerfes. I don't know if hyperbloom can go higher than 32k,bc that's the highest damage I've seen so far

[@k-ram9]

You must've missed the time the seahorse was in abyss. That boss hyperblooms your cores and one shots you

[@shadowpriest2574]

No he does not. Without EM, HB does not deal that much and NPC's have no EM.

[@TheScavv]

The addition of hyperbloom after farming artifacts for years feels like slaving away at a 9-to-5 for decades and then seeing your lazy neighbor win the lottery. It's just a little gut punch that makes you feel like you wasted your time. I wish they would just do small balance patches, buffing characters that have fallen off. Buffing weak characters and making harder endgame content is better than nerfing anyone obviously.

[@BluecoreG]

Except you can just as easily win the lottery too? And playing hyperbloom all day gets boring so it's not like you are going to trash the characters you actually like and slaved away to farm for? And genshin isn't a competition, I'm sorry your 10,000 resin sink ganyu does the same dmg as three weeks of hyperbloom farming, but who cares this isn't a contest? Honestly people complaining and quiting genshin over hyperbloom, I am glad they are gone, goodbye! Don't let the bloom core hit you on the way out-

[@BluecoreG]

Also, let me just add that I am a Noelle main, and I farmed Husk of Opulent Dreams for months! But then Furina came out and now Marechaussee Hunter is Noelle's best set, so yeah, I understand how it can feel to waste your time, but guess what. I'm in the Marechaussee Hunter domain now, and I'd do it all again! No amount of time wasted or 'easy path' teams would make me quit. That is absolutely silly.

[@chrysio7]

​@@BluecoreGI can fart

[@rakuun8986]

​@@BluecoreGno offense bro, some guy just love, kuro game more.

[@matthewcarroll2533]

@@BluecoreG I agree with you on almost all points. Where I don't agree with you is about how to treat people whom levy valid criticism towards our shared hobby - GI isn't perfect, nowhere close. So the faster we can both agree to that and talk to others equally instead of wishing them to outright leave the community like a gatekeeping bigot, the better and the faster we'd be able to move onto perhaps coming up with solutions to problems or new and more interesting ways to evolve the in-game meta.

[@MohShadicre]

all i hear is WAWA i spent money now F2p can do more damage than me WAWA

[@lakow21]

this is why i hate using "meta" units because it just makes the game boring i find it more fun to play with my favorite characters even if i could clear the content faster with the meta teams

[@Eidolon777]

I know I’m not speaking for everyone but to me this game isn’t about meta. I just like building my favorite characters. If they make abyss any harder, playing your favorite non-meta characters will be ridiculously challenging and force players to play what they don’t want to play. Hyperbloom made it so you can play your non meta characters with a pretty strong core that allows you to clear abyss easier, it’s not even close to well invested dps’s but its damage floor is so high it allows you to clear hard content without much investment.

[@razergarcia6323]

Since hyperbloom released, i only pull for archons now. Didn't even pull for Neuvilette. Loginto genshin once for spiral abyss and another for story events and srchon quest. And then dip. Never farmed artifacts again. Such is life

[@rayoviii5173]

Totally the opposite for me. When I tried hyperbloom I felt freed from artifacts which is a terrible system, ever since I don't care as much when a really good looking piece ends up being garbage. I still farm artifacts to perfect my favorite characters but it doesn't feel as terrible as it used to when I ruin pieces. Also even mid artifacts can clear every abyss with the right composition and playing good. This made realize that artifacts were never that important to begin with. Perfect artifacts are nothing more than devotion for the characters you like the most, but not necessary at all. Just as constellations.

[@mastercrython2151]

For that exact reason I just ignore Dendro completly and only play the other elements and characters. Feels way to bad for my artifacts and invested time in building otherwise.

[@TrulySen]

i can understand the frustration of putting time into characters that may not hit hard in comparison to new meta comps, but thats just the game. every team is eventually power crept with the new meta introduced by different regions. by the time natlan drops, diluc and other pyro units may find their way into much more meta teams. same applies to future regions with their corresponding element. its simply a game of developing meta, and you as the single player in your world has the freedom to choose whether or not you enjoy a playstyle for this very reason

[@supercoalmcgath6248]

I love the comparison to league as it really sticks how you feel on the matter. I didn't understand fully why Genshin was feeling stale and didn't find any fun anymore. It's very similar to when Mercy in Overwatch got changed

[@zukodude487987]

One of the biggest issues imo is how geo does not cause any reactions, its basically physical with extra steps. I swear if geo reacted with at least 3 elements it would spice up the game so much.

[@GummyDinosaursify]

Geo has caused reactions with most of the elements since the start of the game. What you want is damage reactions, not defensive.

[@zukodude487987]

@@GummyDinosaursify We dont talk about that.

[@djmindcrasher]

Everything is a matter of perspective. As someone who never 36*ed Abyss, at least hyperbloom lets me get 33-34* reliably.

[@djmindcrasher]

I'm happy to announce, as of yesterday, that comment is no longer true :)

[@pbramantio136]

Casual player, lore enjoyer, and gambling addicts are laughing at meta players.

[@rajeshbarjatya496]

There has been no dainslief quest as of yet and what do you mean by that gambling addicts take? I'd rather go to a casino and bet everything rather than spend money on genshin and f2p players have to struggle so much collecting pulls And for a player to be casual, they shouldn't be worried about resin, commissions, sprial abyss reset etc and just open the game occasionally. This isn't going to help those who really enjoy the game and play it to refresh their mind rather than solving those puzzles while exploring and hearing to those long unskipable dialogues in world quests And when we compare it to hsr, some people start having problems and vent on twitter about why genshin is doing fine and why the players who have left playing for hsr shouldn't compare both of their gaming experiences. Man, see genshin is nothing without it's playerbase and this take is very toxic that casual players should laugh on those concerned with combat system and the future of this game. You are just neglecting that community and there is no fun in using dehya to kill an enemy after an hour just because you say that you don't follow meta. Sorry, this is just pure copium and the rest depends on you.

[@Getsuga_Tenshou2025]

​@@rajeshbarjatya496im a casual player, i play 30 min a day and if a new story comes, i complete it in one go.. In 10 min only i complete my grind of events, if i do events, commissions are done already sot hats 5 min grind and i can do a quick 5 min artifact grind

[@Getsuga_Tenshou2025]

​@@rajeshbarjatya496as for quests which seems lung and unskippable dialogues, they are now making quests short and they dont make us run here and there after 4.7 quests will be more short and well lored plus no shit talking like they did in dain 4.7 quest

[@switcher3545]

you can play diluc again once Xianyun is available, you can dragonstrike your heart out. Also, you don't need to get stressed about this. Imagine what the whales with c6 characters feel, they probly beat the game like a breeze. Instead of feeling this way, maybe you can try and speed run the game instead :)

[@Indian_gae_boii]

hpw many times can one guy quit like omg 💀💀💀💀

[@CVGTigz]

I started playing actively in Jan 2023. When I got Alhaitham my hyperbloom team was my strongest team and I was able to clear everything so easily...but then the game got boring. So I've now been just having fun trying to build NON-META teams. It feels rewarding and more fun to play characters because I like them vs just having to run something because its the strongest. This is also why I think they should let us turn on/off our constellations because the game gets boring if it becomes too easy. Like, are you really playing the game when everything dies instantly? Sure its fun to feel powerful but it gets boring after a while, especially when you find yourself with no resin and nothing to do. 😅 But also, I'm glad you still play Genshin. You were the first streamer that I watched when it came to Genshin content. 😁

[@GentleIceZ]

I mean, this was my problem with Bennett and Xiangling since the beginning of the game. Which is why I never use them. Instrumental play, or play geared toward optimization as the be all end all, is poisonous. It's better to play characters you enjoy. That's how I figured out on my own that Dehya is a really good partner for Neuvillette. That's how I figured out I prefer Freminet as an ice character rather than physical. Who cares if Freminet is a low tier character either way? Who cares if C1 Neuvillette is better than Neuvillette with Dehya? I'm playing the game on my own terms, and that's why I'm still having fun

[@ErisNoir]

If y'all crazy power hungry hardcore players want more harder content,than hoyoverse should add difficulty options to pick from,like easy mode to hell mode,easy mode is obviously for us new weak players that have bad ping,so even if we have the skills,its still impossible for us to 36 star abyss. And the hard,extreme,hell mode are for players who have characters that are already well built and complete,hell mode is basically for the whales or lucky f2p players who have strong characters built,if they add this than there won't be anything to complain abt abyss anymore,us f2p weak players will be happy that we can FINALLY claim all the primogems from abyss and the whales with overpowered characters will also be happy too,since they'll get the extreme hellish hardcore mode that they want. Anywayssss,when y'all ask for things to be harder,just think abt all players,dont only think abt the old players who basically have all characters maxed out and well built. Y'all should also be asking for an abyss that's easier for us f2p players,wether old or new. It's just nlt fair that we constantly have to watch the abyss primogems go to waste when it resets,like why tf does hoyoverse think that every f2p players are strong enough to easily 36 star abyss,when the enemies are just so unfair too,like it's just such a sad/painful moment for us when we can't claim the 600 primogems yk?? They already added a similar feature in events where you can basically pick the difficulty,so i don't see a problem if they add it to abyss. Bc not all of us wanna spend hours in abyss just to get some measly 600 primogems that we can't even claim all of them,bc me and most players can only clear floor11 chamber 3. And sometimes we can't bc of the enemies being too tanky there too. So seeing a whale player or an old player with basically C6,Signature weapons brag abt abyss being easy.....just sounds hella cocky yk?? They're bragging/flexing as if it's impressive that they wasted money on such a game.

[@Lopunny428]

The thing with League though is even though everything changed over time and people quit, it was a necessary change that made the game healthier in the long run. While it doesn't always seem like it they at least try to make old characters relevant in some way when they don't work. Genshin has literally only done that once. For Zhongli. They refuse to make old characters feel good to play. It is stagnant in a lot of ways and appeals to the most casual of casuals. It's one of the few games where stats truly don't matter. I played with Kokomi on my team and forgot she had no artifacts for so long. It's a just have fun game you can drop whenever. I play during events with free weapons cuz those will never come back. RIP Festering Desire wanters.

[@zerozgaming5770]

Nah, bro changing irelia is not fun :))

[@riotangel4701]

To this day I still don't have a single 5-star GD circlet. Weeks? More like years.

[@zkooha]

Hyperbloom raised the damage floor but not the damage ceiling. My top 1% itto melts his side of the abyss in 30 seconds, something I could not pull off with hyperbloom, since there is sort of a damage cap.

[@shadowpriest2574]

That's not a good thing. Why are there people like you who see that traditional carries can outdps HB while equiped with 5* weapons and 2+ other 5* units and think this is a good thing? If a traditional Hypercarry needs that much to just about outdps it in certain scenarios, then it is overpowered.

[@zkooha]

@@shadowpriest2574 lol why are you attacking me personally, I never said if it was good or bad lol. Hyperbloom made endgame more accessible, but doesn't replace vertically invested teams. That's my point. It's good for many casuals, doesn't bother hardcore players like me, but I guess people like you and mtashed find it troublesome. Swirl shredding 40% with VV is fine I guess in your mind? Bennett, Kazuha, furina significantly amplifying your teams damage is fine? Neuvilette solo clearing every abyss is fine? Why even build 4 characters for a hyperbloom team when 1 Neuville does the same work all by himself. I guess that should be the worst offender of powercreep then by your logic.

[@shadowpriest2574]

@@zkooha "lol why are you attacking me personally" I did not, I attacked your line of reasoning. "I never said if it was good or bad lol. " Then why did you made the comment in the first place? Ow and BTW , you did say its bad, or rather you implied it. How? Well, by saying this: "My top 1% itto melts his side of the abyss in 30 seconds, something I could not pull off with hyperbloom, since there is sort of a damage cap." By saying this you imply some sort of balance , some sort of equality between the 2 approaches when such thing does not exist. That being said, i think you will fund it absurd that just because you implied equallity, then you said by logic that HB is bad. Let me put it this way: If a guy came and tried to do something similar where the comparrison was between Lord of the Rings and , idk The Room where he said that LOTR might be amazing, but "hey, the room is pretty funny". Its this insinuation that if x is true and y is true, then x being true and y being true is equally true or of the same value when they are not. Another example of the same kind is someone saying that grape juice is rly good, but bananas are also yellow so....... In our case the problem is "Is HB broken and ruins the game"? To which you reply by saying that at high end investment HB is not better than other teams, which is very much a strawman. "Hyperbloom made endgame more accessible, but doesn't replace vertically invested teams." Yes it does, or rather it makes them feel rly shitty. HB gets insane damage that is rly easy to do with 1 five* unit while all other teams need several to just about edge it out while being significantly less consistent since Hb just requires you to press left click while the other teams require sound setup and execution. "Why even build 4 characters for a hyperbloom team when 1 Neuville does the same work all by himself." Because...he doesn't ..... What you seem to forget is the skill element at play, an element that is required for all other teams but not HB. HB is not as good as it is because it only does a shit ton of damage, but also because its stupidly easy and stupidly easy to put in practice. Someone has been soloing the abyss with Ganyu since her inception without fail, yet nobody would say that she is the best unit in the game despite this putting her on the same lvl as Neuvillete. The reason is because Ganyu is rly rly hard to play. My brother is rly shit at the game but even he can clear at least 1 half of the abyss with HB, which he can't do with Freeze Ayaka or any other team.

[@ronnyrdr6553]

1:20 dude i had been farming for like 5 months, and i still didnt have any great artifacts. Barely any good ones. let alone excellent/top tier ones. When i got one of those excellent artifacts for my account i couldnt even be happy. I only felt the feeling/thought of: I deserve this. After all that i deserve this luck on my rolls. About 4-5 weeks later i quit genshin for like 8 months. Same with honkai starrail. I just couldnt do it anymore. The artifact grinding is just So SO bad; that it ruined other gatcha games for me aswell. It wasnt until Antman's video about Diablo that i bought it and remembered how fun the grind can be. i've began my journey into fontaine 2 days ago. Still not grinding artifacts. But at least found some fun into playing it again. Let's see how long it lasts

[@jadenkochan7424]

All I’m hearing is “I didn’t use dendro until recently and I only pull for meta”. We all have come to know that you should just pull for characters when you like them and build the ones you like. Any team with enough investment can clear abyss it just depends how much you want to invest into farming artifacts, talents etc

[@kakarottosupersayin8]

welp buddy chevy is about to make ur raiden and lots of other out of touch characters happy, overload will be legit

[@PurelyPistachio]

This comes across extremely weird to me. I don't like Hyperbloom either because I find the playstyle boring but I just simply don't use it. Just don't use it if you don't like it, problem solved. You act like the game is forcing you, it just comes across as meta gaming brainrot. This is why being a meta player for a casual phone game made for Chinese teenagers is just dumb.

[@thebergerbros]

diluc can slap with like yelan, furina and jean, same as raiden hyper carry, those 3 plus an elemental carry is WILD damage. you dont gotta play hyperbloom my dude. if ya dont like kuki, dont play kuki, ez claps. natlan is probably gonna give us a nuts pyro dps too. mono geo is fun still. itto is my main team lol just cause hyperbloom is good and inherently extremely powerful, there are just as many fun and interesting teams. the abyss isnt so hard that ya need the absolute strongest teams to clear it. take pride in your work you put in, play how you wanna play, have fun with it. take a break from genshin if youre tired of it. i took a couple year break and came back and am excited again. but honestly, thats all on your perspective, friend. keep your head up and just do what ya enjoy. focusing on what you cant control hurts you in the long run. when you focus on what you can control, you can lean into that in a more mentally healthy way. just play what ya enjoy, who cares if it isnt the strongest thing? its probably still WAY more than enough to do whatever it is you wanna do lol

[@Psusanoo]

QOL like Freaking Artifact storage or builds for specific characters so you can just toggle and swap them to one of your preselected build is something that I feel like is mandatory now. It was already tiring having to use unused characters as Artifact holders for my main characters I use. As for Hyperbloom being op, once Pyro and Cryo Archons come, I'm sure things will change for the better. (Too optimistic)

[@shadowpriest2574]

Too optimisitic and also too far away when it comes to time , no?

[@dmar3651]

This is still better than how the average HSR player feels when they spend weeks to build up Welt, Yangqing, Himeko and/or Clara, only be told by people with DHIL and JL how 'ez' content is. "How are you not zero cycling this? I just leave it on auto with my JL and come back to 3 stars." Powercreep is never a good thing. It leads to Fomo and divisiveness in the community.

[@MASTER_AL]

On the contrary i think dendro/em meta was an amazing addition for this game. It creates variety and reduce the need to chase crit stats (good thing since rng is bad). It also allow the player to feel less fomo about latest units. Basically what you want is powercreep and players having to pull more strategically to keep up, that's basically Honkai, personally im glad Gi is different.

[@thuaners]

yeah i think its a great addition.

[@LittleSparklingStars]

yea honestly, you should just play what you want. While building your favorite character and getting their perfect stats, you can clear abyss with a simple hyperbloom team and get those juicy primo's.

[@johnribon2207]

Yeah one thing I like about Genshin is that they never make you feel like you need to pull for a character. Other gacha games have this problem where they introduce a new unit that power creeps everything and makes pulling older units pointless.

[@crimsonmoon123]

Here's a crazy idea- if you have an issue with hyperbloom or for that matter any reaction/team comp, don't play that specific comp. I don't like freeze so I don't have any cryo dps(ayaya/ganyu/wrio/shenhe). Don't get me wrong they all are great but I just don't like it. No one really cares and people are gonna play what they like regardless.

[@JesuslovesuBtw]

Yeah no I don't agree. A game built around elements and reactions is in a good place right now, especially for new players, if they follow the current meta. If I want a better combat game with more weight to it, I'll go back to play MH world. Btw, it's when I first found you

[@VVNB-dr9pf]

thats why i just choose my favorite units and make them the best. idc abt damage if its not from my fav and its a lot less stressful

[@PBoyOnYT]

ive been GRINDING honkai: star rail been having way more fun than Genshin lately as well. You are not the only one😂

[@OmegaRpg953]

Hope you hit 1million sub this year you 100% deserve what anyone els thinks