This is the official community for Genshin Impact (原神), the latest open-world action RPG from HoYoverse. The game features a massive, gorgeous map, an elaborate elemental combat system, engaging storyline & characters, co-op game mode, soothing soundtrack, and much more for you to explore!
The year is 2036. Genshin Impact has just celebrated its 16th anniversary, rewarding its players with 160 primogems and a Sweet Madame as a thank-you (10 primogems for each year). There are 346 characters. Honkai: Star Rail just gave all its players their per-update free 5-Star character voucher. Google Classroom's rating on the app store is 0.2.
I load into my game to do my dailies and spend my resin. I begin at the newest area, Liyue expansion #251. First, I close the 7 birthday mails I've received today. I still don't get why the characters gift *us* on *their* birthdays, but whatever. Today's dailies are to press the button located in the middle of nowhere, kill the hilichurl rogue that's just minding its own business by the river, tell the kid his parents are dead, and water the flowers. Pretty easy, although it turns out the flowers were actually a whopperflower—what a surprise! I go on to spend my resin. I'm currently building Elliot (the new character from the sea of stars; he's actually the Otto Apocalypse expy this time guys I swear he's the real one this time) and need boss materials for him. I teleport to the nearest waypoint and go through the 20-minute parkour course to reach the boss: The Beast of Enigma of Starlight Fortune and Abyss Reverberance Feedback. I wait for its 3 minute flying-invulnerability phase to end before it reaches its 8-second vulnerability window. It dies instantly to C2 Raiden.
The current abyss phase is almost over, so I check a tierlist to see which characters are best. It appears to me that the best team to use for first half would be Meng Yao, the newest geo character (released 8 years ago). Her best team uses Bennett and Xiangling. For second half, I use my Hu Tao team that still somehow clears any and all content without issue. I've had Arknights playing on auto-deploy in the background for the past 6 hours. Life is good.
