u/lunachappell

First, before I start spoiler warning this is going to talk about a region that has literally just come

And to go along with that, remember everybody has the right to their own opinion. If you don't agree with me, that is okay. This is just from my own experience and my own opinion

So I first want to start out with I am afraid to play. That's why I have multiple accounts because that means more characters. But also I really enjoy exploration. It is how I relax after a day at work. I do quest. I do explanation get I do events and I enjoy it. That's how I play the game

Now let's get to the meat of this. I'm not going to sugarcoat it. I do not enjoy snezhnaya exploration

At first I did did the quests were really good and as a lore player as well it made me very happy. But then I got to start exploring and looking for a chest and I realized this just really isn't fun especially When you get down to the puzzles of this reason because I've seen multiple people including myself compare these to the level of Inazuma puzzles and just how annoying they are. Yes there are some that are easy but there's also ones that are really annoying to do and to figure out the mechanics for because they don't exp lain anything of what you're supposed to actually be doing

And I am sorry but I don't like the g*n function I don't play genshin For Fps For I put him for an amazing story in good exploration and it annoys me even more that there are a lot of places you just teleport to and you're automatically put into that that version of the traveler. I want to be able to use my own characters to explore, but instead we're forced to use this traveler that the controls on mobile are kind of janky. I wish what they would have done is give you the option. Do you want to use your own team for this or do you want to have the experience of using the traveler after you've done the quest cuz I understand during the quest there are reasons that they want to use that version of the track, but after the quest there is no point to force us into using that version

And I don't know if this is happening for anybody else but the amount of white that there is is giving me headaches because of just how bright it is and even when I turn down the brightness on my phone it is still so bright. It's like it doesn't really get cut off in it. Just so much hits you in the face

So what I just want eventually say and I'm truly disappointed with snezhnaya acceleration, as it is right now, we had possibly some of the best exploration nod krai Short but detailed world quest puzzles that were difficult but not too difficult and easy to understand what you were supposed to do, and the treasure compass that was introduced was a godsend so it truly disappoints me that it feels like we went 10-step backs after we had moved 20 step forward during nod krai

I understand to a lot of people this might just sound like a complaint and then I'm complaining. But I truly feel like this needs to be talked about and if you don't care or if you're just here to hate on me for that then just leave

So I recently started a genshin challenge where I'm only using sustained characters and I got extremely lucky last banner and got C4 Beidou So I've been using her as my DPS. I just got to the point that I can start farming artifacts to her. What would be the best team I could make and how should I build her if I'm wanting to use her just with sustained characters. At the moment I don't have a lot of characters so if you guys can also recommend the teams to try to go for in the future that would help a lot. Right now I'm playing a wacky team Layla,qiqi, Barbara and Beidou but shatter is shockingly. Very overpowered early game, especially considering it's supposed to be the weakest reaction also If you guys have like weapon suggestions I just have her on prototype right now. Also I should mention this account is f2p

Edit: so for those who need it sustains are those who heal,shield,parry, and revive and in my rule the only character that can use prototype Amber is Bina I call this Bina clause Because she is my all-time favorite character and she has a revive function which like I said I count as her being a sustain also putting prototype Amber on a character does not make them assisting putting a weapon on a character that gives a character that normally can't heal or shield. The ability to do so does not make them a sustain. The only reason Bina counts is because of that revive function and that is why she is the only character that gets prototype. Amber because like I also mentioned she is my all-time favorite character so the Bina clause so please do not mention characters that are not actual sustained characters and then just say put prototype Amber on them

So I had a situation the other day when it came to my sustain only challenge account

So I had asked for help in my bio because I had accidentally overleveled my world for this challenge account because it's fairly new and nowadays at the beginning of the game you can get a lot of AR exp through literally doing a lot just doing explorations

But anyways so someone offered to help me grinds and bosses so I could level my characters. I had asked if they could switch to sustained characters (I did have in my bio. Please use sustaining characters) But just in case they didn't, I explained that it's healers shielder Characters that Perry and characters that revive

They had said that me telling them what characters they can use is being ungrateful and rude and that I should be grateful that that they are spending their time helping me and then they left

Is it rude for me to ask this of people when they're willing to help me? Should I just let them use their characters and it go against the rules of my account or should I just kick them or ask them to leave if they're not going to follow my rules?

This is the first time I've done a challenge account account so I don't know if this is normal or not

So I have to do this new main story quest on three accounts and I know my situation is not like everyone not everybody has multiple accounts for this game but still it is bizarre the amount of cutscenes and dialogue that you just can't skip in this quest and it makes no sense because some of it is the most random things. Yes, it's to bring emotions to said characters. But like I'm doing this quest three times I've already played through it on my main account I want to get through it as fast as possible so that I can get pulls and I can get the astrite and I can unlock events for the new map cuz I already personally feel like this quest is unnecessarily longer than it needed to be. There was so many sayings that they could have just cut out in my opinion or that they could have made part of the second phase quest like they normally do

So I have been watching challenge accounts for a while. Like some of them were the reasons why I finally actually started my main account after watching people play it for years and I thought it's been about 4 years since I started playing genshin I might as well start one Of my own

So I am doing sustains only (So it's healer's, shielder's, characters that can parry, Self-Sustainers and characters who can revive)

So anybody who has done challenge accounts before I would be very grateful like any advice you have

Also this account is going to be f2p Cuz all my gacha accounts are free to play Because I am a broke college student

And here is a list I have compiled of characters that I can get and use if I am missing anyone because I don't know every character's kit. Thank you in advance

Healers

● Baizhu

● Escoffer

● Furina

● Jean

● Koko

● Linnea

● Mizuki

● Qiqi

● Sigwinne

● Xianyun

● Xilonen

● Barbara

● Benny

● Charlotte

● Chevy

● Diona

● Dori

● Ifa

● Jahoda

● Mika

● Noelle

● Sayu

● Kuki

● Xingqiu

● yaoyao

Healers with cons

● Gorou C4

● Zhongli C6

● Hydro traveler c6

● Lauma C1

Shielder

● Candance

● Citlali

● Dalia

● Ineffa

● Kirara

● Lan yan

● Layla

● Nicole

● Thoma

● Xinyan

● zhongli

Shielders with cons

● Kaeya C4

● Yanfei c4

Parry

● Beidou

● Yun jin

Self sustainers

● Hu tao

● Neuvi

● Wrio

● arle

● Lynette

● Lyney

● clorinde

Revive (the bina Clause cuz she my fave)

● bina

Once again, thank you in advance to anybody who gives me any advice or tells me any characters I'm missing. It's very much appreciated

First of all remember everybody has the right to their own opinion. If you have a different thought than me or anybody else in the comment section don't get angry at them and maybe have a civil conversation about it any ways here are mine

For regrets

Mavuika- I told her cuz everybody said she was such an amazing DPS as well as I love her motorcycle and I love exploration and I was told she was like the perfect exploration character and then I got her and I'm like I don't know what I did wrong. I don't know if it's her build or the support I'm using, but she does no damage somehow. Also at 95 crit when she is in her nightsoul form. She still misses crits and it angers me

Kazuha- He was my first five star. I accidentally got him when I first started trying to pull for a Bennett because I was told Bennett was pretty much a necessary need for an account. I did not get a Bennett instead I got a very early Kazuha Who carried me through early game but nowadays I don't really use him especially cuz sucrose exists especially with her hexrei buffs Which is sad considering I have his sig weapon and it just keeps moving around the different people that need em

Yelan- I got her when I had just started alt account And I was worried because this was right when nod krai was about to start and like every reaction needed Hydro So I pulled her only did not use her either because I have Bina

Lauma and nahida- I'm putting them together because they were the consequences of what I call the Kuki incident so also when I had started alt account I made the bad decision of trying to pull a four-star but also this was the beginning of my account so I thought it would be okay. It was in fact not okay because now I pretty much only Lauma for If I'm going to do like a lunar all supports team and for Nahida I pretty much only use her to collect materials, but even I forget sometimes she has that ability

Cons for Aino- I was told that Aino Would pretty much be non-functional without C4 so I got her her c4 The problem is once again I have a bina on both my accounts

Dori- The consequences of the kuki incident because I did not have an electro character for hyperbloom so I pulled a dori only For her standard banner pools to give me kuki So now she's kind of just half build on my account because her gameplay is so weird to me

Okay now characters. I don't regret pulling

C2 Zhongli- He has become my safety net. I love the fact that whenever I feel like a DPS is too soft or too squishy I can kind of just drop them into the theme cuz his shield is so strong. I love my shield bot

Linnea- I was not expecting a support who is also a healer to just do like a ton of damage and as somebody who mostly mains supports, I absolutely love it

Furina- I originally got her from my DPS Barbara and have not regretted since I love just how well she fits on so many teams and she can make so many characters that wouldn't normally be dps's dps's and the fact that she also herself. It's just like a ton of big numbers

Bina- I of course had to bring up my wife cuz as you can tell she's been somebody that replaces a lot of characters as well as I love just how much she has opened the world to team building cuz as somebody who really enjoys team building being able to be open to those new lunar reactions by having Bina made me so amazingly happy

Albedo- I got him because also husband and he's one of my favorite characters lore wise and then like his hex rei buff made him so good. I love hearing him in so many teams and I was able to finally actually use the free con on a limited character instead of a standard banner character

Lastly- durin truly one of the best choices I've made for a character cuz he can both do a ton of damage but also be an amazing support. Depending on which team you have him in, he pairs up beautifully albedo and I was so happy I got him because he's also really good with Lohen who is my current main on my alt

Anyways here are mine let me know what you guys thing and what are your Characters that you regret pulling or don't regret pulling

First of all remember everybody has the right to their own opinion. If you have a different thought than me or anybody else in the comment section don't get angry at them and maybe have a civil conversation about it any ways here are mine

For regrets

Mavuika- I told her cuz everybody said she was such an amazing DPS as well as I love her motorcycle and I love exploration and I was told she was like the perfect exploration character and then I got her and I'm like I don't know what I did wrong. I don't know if it's her build or the support I'm using, but she does no damage somehow. Also at 95 crit when she is in her nightsoul form. She still misses crits and it angers me

Kazuha- He was my first five star. I accidentally got him when I first started trying to pull for a Bennett because I was told Bennett was pretty much a necessary need for an account. I did not get a Bennett instead I got a very early Kazuha Who carried me through early game but nowadays I don't really use him especially cuz sucrose exists especially with her hexrei buffs Which is sad considering I have his sig weapon and it just keeps moving around the different people that need em

Yelan- I got her when I had just started alt account And I was worried because this was right when nod krai was about to start and like every reaction needed Hydro So I pulled her only did not use her either because I have Bina

Lauma and nahida- I'm putting them together because they were the consequences of what I call the Kuki incident so also when I had started alt account I made the bad decision of trying to pull a four-star but also this was the beginning of my account so I thought it would be okay. It was in fact not okay because now I pretty much only Lauma for If I'm going to do like a lunar all supports team and for Nahida I pretty much only use her to collect materials, but even I forget sometimes she has that ability

Cons for Aino- I was told that Aino Would pretty much be non-functional without C4 so I got her her c4 The problem is once again I have a bina on both my accounts

Dori- The consequences of the kuki incident because I did not have an electro character for hyperbloom so I pulled a dori only For her standard banner pools to give me kuki So now she's kind of just half build on my account because her gameplay is so weird to me

Okay now characters. I don't regret pulling

C2 Zhongli- He has become my safety net. I love the fact that whenever I feel like a DPS is too soft or too squishy I can kind of just drop them into the theme cuz his shield is so strong. I love my shield bot

Linnea- I was not expecting a support who is also a healer to just do like a ton of damage and as somebody who mostly mains supports, I absolutely love it

Furina- I originally got her from my DPS Barbara and have not regretted since I love just how well she fits on so many teams and she can make so many characters that wouldn't normally be dps's dps's and the fact that she also herself. It's just like a ton of big numbers

Bina- I of course had to bring up my wife cuz as you can tell she's been somebody that replaces a lot of characters as well as I love just how much she has opened the world to team building cuz as somebody who really enjoys team building being able to be open to those new lunar reactions by having Bina made me so amazingly happy

Albedo- I got him because also husband and he's one of my favorite characters lore wise and then like his hex rei buff made him so good. I love hearing him in so many teams and I was able to finally actually use the free con on a limited character instead of a standard banner character

Lastly- durin truly one of the best choices I've made for a character cuz he can both do a ton of damage but also be an amazing support. Depending on which team you have him in, he pairs up beautifully albedo and I was so happy I got him because he's also really good with Lohen who is my current main on my alt

Anyways here are mine let me know what you guys thing and what are your Characters that you regret pulling or don't regret pulling

I don't like the thought that they're now blocking primos by a game mode that they said would not be required to play it has its own gotcha system and it has its own whole thing. I've always felt uncomfortable about that game mode especially cuz I can't really play it. My tablet literally cannot handle most the mini games that people make on there and the fact that this is the patch that they want to introduce Milastra events And have primo's blocked behind this game mode when they already do not give us enough in the actual game to even get to soft. Pity just does not feel right to me. Ever since they released this game mode. They have been giving us less and less pulls and now they're blocking more primos behind a game mode that so many people just don't want to play or can't play

Something I've kind of realized recently is events are becoming less and less interesting. I guess you could say it less and less interactions and things that you have to do yourself rather than it just being an autoplay we haven't even had a fighting event since before planatarcaidia And all of the other events as well have just been kind of bland like the devs put no effort into all of them have just been Auto players or second parts to events that have already happened as well as the story for a majority of them are just boring. I guess you could put it in kind of bland cuz all of them just kind of feel like they're the same like the only exception probably to that is the to advance, we've had related to the dice game but Even that it's just an exception instead of it being the standards and Gloria's had some of the most funnest events. Even the past planets had interesting events that had interesting stories that are even brought up now in the game. So what happened to this planet?

So I did the quest on my main account and the part with the puppets absolutely terrified me to the point that it almost gave me an anxiety attack and I was shaking after doing it. You might think I'm being overdramatic but I have a dreadful fear of dolls and puppets like that

But now I have a a problem on my alt So I have made a post about this on a couple of my social medias and I was told there was now a way to skip it so I started the quest because I need the astrites I found out very quickly that was a lie and now I am stuck because even if you quit the challenge it will just take you to the beginning. I tried to run away in hopes that it would give me back my team instead of like a trial character. No it teleports you back. I am stuck

So like if anybody would be willing to help me out here that'd be appreciated like I can DM somebody my login or I'm also just willing for any tips to how to get through this without having a panic attack pretty much because I can't do anything I've tried exiting out. I've tried leaving the area and just keeps resetting the same place and the same cutscene and I just can't get through it. I've tried. I tried the advice of just don't have the sound on but those dolls just creep me out by the look of them

So most of the time when it comes to doing Co-op of some sort either it being like domains or boss fights or even events. I end up normally playing sustain cuz some of my favorite characters are all sustained

But recently especially when it came to like certain boss fights when I play sustain and people end up dying because they have done something that was not the smartest like Not taking cover behind pillars during the Dettore fight I get blamed for them dying

Like I can't heal you if you are dead and even though I have a C2 Zhongli I can't shield you if you are dead

I used to love doing Co-op and helping people during weekly boss fights but now it is kind of frustrates me because it always ends up with people being angry at me and the one time I didn't play a sustained somebody else did. It was still the same thing where one guy got angry because he ended up dying

How long with that? Can we also normalize not getting angry at people for the characters they choose when it comes to us sustain cuz the amount of times people have gotten Ingram at me for bringing in my Barbara who is C6 is also very annoying

So basically what I'm trying to say is be a little bit more grateful to those who play sustain cuz most of the time without us nobody's going to choose to play sustain and then everybody dies. Not just the one person doing something not very smart

So most of the time when it comes to doing Co-op of some sort either it being like domains or boss fights or even events. I end up normally playing sustain cuz some of my favorite characters are all sustained

But recently especially when it came to like certain boss fights when I play sustain and people end up dying because they have done something that was not the smartest like Not taking cover behind pillars during the Dettore fight I get blamed for them dying

Like I can't heal you if you are dead and even though I have a C2 Zhongli I can't shield you if you are dead

I used to love doing Co-op and helping people during weekly boss fights but now it is kind of frustrates me because it always ends up with people being angry at me and the one time I didn't play a sustained somebody else did. It was still the same thing where one guy got angry because he ended up dying

How long with that? Can we also normalize not getting angry at people for the characters they choose when it comes to us sustain cuz the amount of times people have gotten Ingram at me for bringing in my Barbara who is C6 is also very annoying

So basically what I'm trying to say is be a little bit more grateful to those who play sustain cuz most of the time without us nobody's going to choose to play sustain and then everybody dies. Not just the one person doing something not very smart