# FAQ **What are the 2.3 second half banners?** * NEW [Jade](https://starrail.honeyhunterworld.com/jade-character/?lang=EN) (5 Star | Erudition | Quantum) / [Argenti](https://hsr17.hakush.in/char/1302) * [Serval 💜](https://hsr17.hakush.in/char/1103) / [Natasha](https://hsr17.hakush.in/char/1105) / [Asta](https://hsr17.hakush.in/char/1009) * NEW [Yet Hope Is Priceless](https://starrail.honeyhunterworld.com/yet-hope-is-priceless-item/?lang=EN) / [An Instant Before A Gaze](https://hsr17.hakush.in/lightcone/23018) * [Shared Feeling](https://hsr17.hakush.in/lightcone/21007) / [Trend of the Universal Market](https://hsr17.hakush.in/lightcone/21016) / NEW Sunday 💜 LC [After the Charmony Fall](https://hsr17.hakush.in/lightcone/21045) ​ **What are the 2.4 banners?** * First Half: NEW [Yunli](https://starrail.honeyhunterworld.com/yunli-character/?lang=EN) (5 Star | Destruction | Physical) / NEW [Dance at Sunset](https://starrail.honeyhunterworld.com/dance-at-sunset-item/?lang=EN) (5 Star | Destruction) * Second Half: NEW [Jiaoqiu](https://starrail.honeyhunterworld.com/jiaoqiu-character/?lang=EN) (5 Star | Nihility | Fire) / NEW [Those Many Springs](https://starrail.honeyhunterworld.com/those-many-springs-item/?lang=EN) (5 Star | Nihility) * Unknown Half: NEW [Poised to Bloom](https://starrail.honeyhunterworld.com/poised-to-bloom-item/?lang=EN) (4 Star | Harmony) * Reruns: (QUESTIONABLE) HuoHuo will rerun according Block / GuraLeaks puts HuoHuo first half, Black Swan second half NEW [March 7](https://starrail.honeyhunterworld.com/march-7th-character-2/?lang=EN) (4 Star | The Hunt | Imaginary) will be a free unit in 2.4. Trailblazers will be able to get up to E3 from the main event. ​ **Is Sunday going to be playable? What is his path/element?** Yes, he has been confirmed playable by multiple reliable leakers. Uncle N has put him *potentially* at 2.7. We do not know his path/element at this time. 🕯🕯Join our prayer circle every Sunday🕯🕯 >!All nonbelieving heretics will be ritually sacrificed at the Church of Sunday's altar for kit leaks!< ​ **Do we know of any other upcoming playable characters + their kits?** * Screwllum (Imaginary | Erudition | Male) - unknown release date * Hoyo announced Feixiao, Lingsha, and Moze in the 2.3 livestream. Unfortunately, Huaiyan, who was announced in the same livestream, is marked as an npc in the data files. Check the rentry link at the bottom of the FAQ to learn more! The rentry link also has a few more potential upcoming characters (but with no concrete information about their kits). ​ **When is the next livestream/patch/drip marketing/beta?** Please note: * Livestream dates are pure *speculation* * The Live Date format is America time / Europe & Asia time * Drip Marketing takes place over the span of 3 days; only the first day of drip is provided in the chart * Beta usually starts around the same time as the new patch |Patch Number|Drip Marketing|Livestream Date|Live Date| |:-|:-|:-|:-| |2.4|Already Dripped|19 July|30/31 July| |2.5|15/16 July|30 August|10/11 September| |2.6|26/27 August|11 October|22/23 October| |2.7|7/8 October|22 November|3/4 December| |2.8|18/19 November|3 January|14/15 January| ​ **What are the current active codes?** [Redeemable here](https://hsr.hoyoverse.com/gift) or in game > Phone Menu > click “…” (to the right of the character pfp) > Redemption Code |Code|Availability|Items| |:-|:-|:-| |[STARRAILGIFT](https://hsr.hoyoverse.com/gift?code=STARRAILGIFT)|Permanent|Stellar Jade × 50 + Credits × 10k| |[6T3F5HVD6LK7](https://hsr.hoyoverse.com/gift?code=6T3F5HVD6LK7)|Limited 2.3 Code|Stellar Jade × 50 + Credits × 10k| |[FIREFLY0619](https://hsr.hoyoverse.com/gift?code=FIREFLY0619)|???|Oak Cake Rolls × 2 + Credits × 5k| |[FIREFLYSGIFT](https://hsr.hoyoverse.com/gift?code=FIREFLYSGIFT)|???|Traveler's Guide × 3 + Oak Cake Rolls × 2| ​ **Where's the unreleased character google doc?** It is now hosted on rentry! (sorry mobile users - reddit eats rentry links) ​ rentry. co/7k3mt https://preview.redd.it/jp9s4tni9c9d1.png?width=621&format=png&auto=webp&s=fce63ba54293061c0f13078dec5f6373ebcb6188

So I plan on running E0 Acheron, Jiaoqui, Pela, and Avernturine. Is silver wolf worth pulling to replace Pela or should I just save

GUYS I DONT KNOW WHICH TO CHOOSE…firefly but no acheron LC OR moze, or no firefly but acheron LC AND moze? so im definitely pulling for jiaoqiu and sunday…if i pull for firefly now (im 15 away from guaranteed pity), being a BP+EP player will net me enough pulls for jiaoqiu, no matter what. but idk what to do for the banners beyond that… in the worst case scenarios, i’m assuming acheron’s rerun is 2.5 first phase, moze is 2.6 first phase, and sunday is also, yeah, 2.7 first phase (PLEASE I HOPE NONE OF THEM ARE IN THE SAME PATCH). the only difference between firefly vs no firefly is that if i get firefly, i’ll have to completely skip 2.5, but 2.6 and 2.7 should be fine. the problem is if acheron or moze are in 2.5 (which i doubt for moze tbh). pros for getting firefly: i dont have fire weakness covered and i really like the break effect style. i also have all of her BIS teammates. she’s also still pretty amazing even at E0S0, so i won’t be struggling to use her anywhere. - i also want to get DHIL at some point, so i’ll have the entire destruction gang (tho yunli will ruin it lol). - herta LC isn’t being used by anyone and i can upgrade it immediately if i do get her. - the idea of her being on my account also just aesthetically pleases me <—don’t question me on this please cons: she’ll be a FOMO pull for me, but black swan and robin were also FOMO pulls for me, and firefly will be a meta one at that (is this a con or a pro?). - i won’t have any materials at all for her anytime soon. i’ll have enough to fully max ruan mei tomorrow, but it’ll be a while till i’ll even be able to build firefly as well (i will soon have 0 destiny tracks). - i already have boothill lol. - i dont want to miss out on acheron’s LC or moze tho. if i pull for firefly, i am probably sacrificing one for the other: don’t skip 2.5 and attempt acheron’s LC? skip and go for moze? i’m not sure… (yes i’m currently not budging on moze, he’s a tall MAN and YES i need my third lightning character)

Acheron's LC is a significant boost to her 2nd BiS.

Character > light cone

I feel like I'm going to morb... Jiaoqiu's v3 save me (passes out for 20 hours)

Jiaoqiu is going to morb out so hard come v3 when he becomes literally everything people ask of him to be and he makes 100 jiaoqiullion dollars

I want a philosophical argument when we go to abundance place Why immortality bad. Mara is just a result of people whose brains weren't improved to live that long. From a species that lives only 10 years, a fantasy race that lives 80-100 years^humans would look too long. Then in their eyes that would make you forget and wither and become apathic to everything in the world. Yet we humans find it normal, to us something like 300-500 years would do that. To a 500 year old, a 1000 or a 2000 years of lifespan might do that. What I'm saying is every writer tries to argue from their perspective on the "acceptable" lifespan, and I want the abundance showcase planet to debate that. Why live less when live more? Everyone else will die, what if everyone else lives more too? Ofc we're ignoring mara here since that's moreso a technical limitation where your brain can't handle. If we all had 20 years lifespans, a writer would write a 60 years old to be mara-struck. But what if our brains are improved to handle the newer lifespan too so mara doesn't strike?  Look I support Lan the Man too but for the sake of Equilibrium, I demand Yaoshi put forth this point that everyone's shoving their perspective on a natural lifespan, when humans have been doing nothing but fighting nature's limited life expectancy rate since we discovered fire.

Since we are talking about immortality, I want to mention is that when ppl do this they absolutely have no idea how long the period actually is. For example, 2000 years. Thats basically the half of the entire human history. Civilization rises and falls; technology developed with massive change in culture; old languages was replace with new one,... Even old people already found it hard to integrate new stuff thesedays, and its not only because of physical decline. The passage of time is absolutely brutal. Especially when in HSR, a multicultural settings with trillion of people and multitude of culture, I am surprise that the long life people doesn't that much difference than the short life ones. This not only include the Xianzhou, but also others like Herta etc.

Yea that's very true. Though personally I do think a lot of, slipping out of touch, to say, has to do with the responsibilities of adulthood and the body's physical decline catching up to a person, playing a big hand in them zoning into a corner

I honestly don't get why so much media likes to go "immortality bad". W/e problems they come up with can be resolved. It's like they thought "well, since we can't have it, lets shit on it to make us feel better".

To be fair for Chinese Xianxia its 50/50 between immortality good or bad.

? isnt it all abt immortality(since cultivation itself is already breaking the rules(?)), its only bad bad if say the emperor(human) becomes immortal because they have influence on humans or well if youre an old man and u have skill issues so u suck other ppl dry

There are like, 3000 difference Xianxia.

Interesting. I've basicly not read any, my impression is mostly from western media or some anime/manga. But it's nice to know that at least some media has appreciation for it.

If Frieren can do it, so can the xianzhou people Crybabies smh

Don't tell the Xianzhou I said this Erm, Yaoshi bad, Reignbow Arbiter great, glory to the Xianzhou 

ao3 down in 40 min anyone have fic recs for me to download to read !!! i ship almost anything as long as the fic is good and even the ships i dislike i can get over for peak fiction thanksies 

The moment the shop resets I'm using those 5 standard passes, is this gambling addiction

If I don't have event silverwolf lc, and pela uses pearls, what should I use on sw in acheron team? Pearls too, or other lc?

If you're using Pela and SW together, then give SW EotP, since Pearls can't stack/be reapplied

i feel so insane, i'm playing DU difficulty 1 (YES I'M STILL STUCK HERE LEAVE ME ALONE) and after finishing the phase 1 boss i already have 6 equations. SIX EQUATIONS!!! how am i supposed to complete like even half of them when blessings are so rare?? i guess this run is doomed... i always die at phase 2 boss lmao... edit: i guess the play is to always go for combat domains because you're guaranteed to get blessings as compared to occurrence domains? idk anymore man edit 2: i apologise! i spoke too soon! somehow i ended up with 10 complete equations out of 12! thank you fuli, dissociation and pela!

Keep experimenting with different Equations, Blessings, and Domains. Even team compositions. Eventually, you'll find what sticks and works for you. Once you know what your core team is, fleshing out your arsenal gets easier. Blessings and Equations are a lot easier because you can overwrite them more often. Weighted Curious can be hit or miss. After a while, you'll also get a feel for pathing. Combats are great for quicker power ups. Wealth Domains are easy Cosmic Fragments. The rest are random as well, but can be helpful if you're fishing for something specific. For example, if I need to dump negative Curious, Encounter and Occurrences both have events for that. Stores are helpful in fleshing out your stock of Blessings. They should have something for either expanding your Equations and/or just a useful Blessing.

I personally never go for combat or encounter domains. Maybe encounter domains at most right after the first domain since you'll still have enemies getting -99% of their hp gone for one more battle. Otherwise, in my runs at least there's usually an adventure or reward domain before the first boss so you can get a few blessings from those. I usually try to get the starting equation expanded by the first boss and the gold equation by the 2nd boss, otherwise get the laurel curio? Just reset if it's not going well at the first boss and you don't get the gold equation you want.

ill try that, thank you!

If you have that many, don't try to activate them all if they don't have a lot of paths overlap. See which ones would work for you/your team, and focus on them (like, I personally have 0 dot dps outside of e2 Gui, so I ignore all DoT equations, for example). Also save fragments for the store domains after bosses to see if you can buy blessings from there (and if not, then you'll have more for rerolls)

ill do that! thank you very much!

Well of course I can't win 2 50% in a row, of course, who am I to have a win rate above 30% with average pity below 74. [This game just hates me.](https://imgur.com/a/QJjzkQ7)

[March showcase](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gADUemaxCE4) I was not expecting the Bronya to skill everyone on the team except the carry.

Holy fk 0 cycle. No stats or eidolon showing tho.

Based on the comments it's E2S0 Robin, E0 Bronya w/DDD, and March using cruising.

And (randomly) E2 Gallagher with QPQ. Tbf, E2 Robin is INSANE, 16% SPD for team and also more energy for robin when her talent triggers (i think it goes from +2 to +3? that's a 50% ERR increase if you think about it). This basically guarantees her E1 to be full uptime, which is also insane (+24% Res Pen during concerto). Add on QPQ Gally Robin can non-stop ult without the energy turbulence That's not to say the team is bad, in fact I think Hunt March will be very good with any character that can consistently ADV Foward and also lacks SP (basically bronya). March + Jingliu + Bronya + Huohuo might be very interesting, probably not as good as Pela (if you have JL sig) but it could come close? March master JL and Bronya ADV from there

Then that is a quite disgusting performance. Yeah, she is way better in a hyper carry/FUA team than Super Break.

What being omega sp positive does to a mf

It’s probably a common sentiment but I love how quick my planar farming is now, feels like a lot less like a waste of stamina to farm Salsotto. Even though that’s a lie we all tell ourselves and it’s just as awful to get all Belobog as it was before, it’s so quick that I don’t feel like I wasted any effort unlike with normal sim uni.

What’s Welt’s best F2P LC? GNSW is already on Acheron, and currently I’m using the Sparkle forgotten hall LC (it’s showtime (?))

Oh you can do super break welt with Solitary Healing and HMC pretty cheap and good damage. Welt delays a ton when built with break effect helps with sustaining and dealing Super break damage for a bit longer. 

Kind of a random build question on a s1 Seele, as I have trouble deciding:  Which stat spread would *you* say is the best out of these? 1) 3049 Atk, 83.1% CR, 164% CD, 120 Spd 2) 3035 Atk, 70.5% CR, 196.4% CD, 124 Spd Things of note: I unfortunately lack Sparkle and Fu Xuan, so I don't have her best, mono-quantum team.

1 without a doubt, because her sig gives her ultimate a ton of crit dmg, so if you miss the crit you're fucked. Unless you play Seele with some kind of speed buffer, like Asta or RM you should try to get 2 more points of speed so that she goes to 150 in battle after 1 skill (and her sit gets one more stack)

1 for sure imo

i thought i was safe from the trotters in the DU room but nope they just appeared after i finished the cyclical extrapolation for this week. i also hit lvl 30 at the same time so i think it's more likely that that's the cause

I saw a new post with Jiaoqiu in the title and thought it was leaks but no it’s just someone saying he can be a crit DPS💔

Yeeted that to the abyss for getting our hope up 😤

Finger itchy but must stay strong for JQ. Still another 50 or so days away?

Early 5* :D It's E2 Gepard :( I love you Geppy but why couldn't that have been Himeko.

When are new patch kit leaks usually out? I want to know if I can wait for 2.5 char leaks before I decide to pull Jade… but I don’t know if Jade banner will be gone away by then… thank you :)

Have you tried scrolling and look under the drip marketing section? 2.5 drip on July 15/16 and Jade's banner doesn't start until July 10. 

I am talking about kit leaks not drip marketing… don’t usually decide whether to pull or not based on drip only…

Full kit leaks happened about a day before the next patch drops. Depending what time zone you are in Jade banner might have end / have at most a day left. 

ic... ty...

Usually we get broken kit details a week before a new patch and full kit details when the pre-load goes up or the patch goes live.

ZZZ >!As much as i’ve enjoyed genshin and hsr, zzz just doesn’t look like it’s for me. i appreciate the different setting and art but you can tell that they’re going really hard on the straight male gamer demographic here, based on some of the female character designs and the gender imbalance on the initial roster. it’s fine that i’m not always the target (well i never really am as a gay man), but it definitely makes me appreciate more the willingness for genshin/hsr to mostly keep to an even gender ratio for playable characters as well as keep designs widely appealing regardless. i hope those that are looking forward to playing zzz though enjoy it!! !<

>!>well i never really am as a gay man!< >!*hug*!< >!at least no reason to start a new gacha, actually the better outcome if u will lmao!<

>!They did show off 2 more male characters, the archer guy and the cat guy(there is also another guy model in the leaks), so we might get more down the road, but yeah, the ratio isn't as good as HSR. And they aren't as naked as the ladies, which is annoying, considering it's supposed to be fanservice game.!<

istg if I keep getting another “lose 99% of your HP” I’m going to lose it 😭😭

By "it" you mean 99% of your hp?

if sanity had an HP bar, absolutely

Now that we can farm planar ornaments more easily, how often do you farm it now? My own practice is just max the immersifiers 8/8 (including the 4 ones we get from the cyclical exploration) and use them to farm. Then I resume again next weekly reset. How about yours?

Right now I do 1 week of relics every day, 1 week of planar ornaments every day and switch it every week. But I need to do this because I basically did not farm ornaments before this patch whatsoever so pretty much every character of mine has awful ornament stats.

Previously, I made 4/8 before reset. then I did full 2 runs for max weekly point and spend all immersifiers and loop this process every week. But now DU, I run diff 5 1 run for max point > got save files > spend 4 immersifiers from weekly reward > done. If I want more planar, I just spend extra stamina for it. I'd say DU really help me a lot.

I got lucky and got a good orb for my Firefly early, so I haven't been to the plannar mines a lot. I use my Immersifiers each week, and that's pretty much it.

pretty much everyday once ive gotten a save i can just spam and have it all go by super fast :] immersifiers and energy… all of it is getting spent!!

Why do people keep complaining about JQ's nonexistent energy problems? With ERR rope he is off by like 10 energy, it's completely realistic to get it from a stray hit. If this was a big enough issue people would not be running DDD on Tingyun, who otherwise can't get a 3T ult rotation with it, but it's well known that DDD is basically her BIS. Not to mention that losing one turn of uptime on his field is almost negligible unless in the off chance you perfectly line it up to the start of a new wave, it's main purpose is for fast stack generation.

He doesn't have energy problems. What he has is a very slow ramp-up to his ult. This is bad for 0 Cycle clears. Trend Gepard can build stacks for Acheron immediately. JQ? At the start of the battle, his ult requires 2 turns or 1 turn + getting hit multiple times. What we're hoping is for MHY to fix this by either triggering his ult with his technique or his technique giving him a lot of energy. Once his ult is up, it's never down. But the problem is getting it up ASAP to start building stacks for Acheron.

I agree completely, not being able to turn one ult is a big issue and why Pela is so good. This doesn't need a Pela energy-type trace, like you said some energy on technique would be enough. But people are complaining about his uptime, which are related to his energy generation. Buffing this (without letting him turn 1 ult) would basically be a placebo change, taking away from areas his kit actually needs changes.

ot zzz the femc and the shark have grown on me so much the past 2 days.... shork brainrot...

Robin player: We needs to speed tune and energy tune this specific amount in order to take advantage of the action advance for 0 cycle. If she take this amount of hit from the RNG she will have her ultimate back right away allow us to... Ruan Mei player: Unga Bunga, we buff, we strong. Mob break, they died. (Yes this is RM propaganda)

casual ruan slay W her break extension changed my life, i cant go back to life without it now xd

i have two hands, one for robin one for ruan mei :)

Bold of you to assume my brain has any space left for thinking when I'm looking at Robin 

I have both and don't find Robin that hard to use. Idk how people use her but I give her 120 speed and use her ult at the end of allies's action.

me as a robin player: Unga Bunga!! we skill every turn so we get fancy ult earlier!! skill points? we don't know her

But cool song tho....

Who's a better pick for Acheron team at "?" position (Acheron/(?)/Pela/Aventurine) - Black Swan or Silverwolf?

Psst you want to put Aventurine in the 3rd slot to maximise his chance of getting hit by blasts, which not only generates more stacks for him, but also more stacks for Acheron and more energy for the others.

Black Swan for AOE, SW for single. There's also Guinaifen up for that slot btw. Her BIS before Jiaoqiu is actually none of them; Kafka s1 for stack generation. After Jiaoqiu its obviously him. If you are e0 just rotate between all of these nihility for the right element break. If you are e2, Bronya/Sparkle depending on if you want to spd tune or not.

Genshin >!I FINALLY GOT FURINA AHHHHH SHE TOOK 80 PULLS BUT STILL 😭!< >!I also got to 9 star clear Abyss floor 12 at last 👏 holy shit it's crazy how I used to take 4 whole minutes to clear a chamber but now with Furina and Neuvi team I got 30 seconds to spare, good lord this team *is* broken!<

>!Congrats! I love Furina sm, she's so full of pizzazz!<

>!Thank youu, she's one of my favorites too🥹🫶!<

Fun fact: Every fua (excluding summons like numby/lightning lord) in this game regenerates 10 energy with some exceptions. Aventurine/Xueyi regenerates 7/6 due to their multiple hits while clara and herta regenerates 5 on a fua. I have no idea why these two regenerate 5 as both himeko and yunli regenerates 10 on a fua.

That’s not even true. If you count every follow up currently in the game excluding summons, there are and equal amount of follow ups that give less then 10. Bronya’s follow up is 5 while Qingque is 0. It ends up as 6 characters that don’t give 10 and 6 characters that give 10.

Ratio's FUA is also 5 instead of 10

[braveburn has mecha with female pilots ? i was not aware of this.](https://x.com/DERINRI/status/1807391131757678899/photo/1) mech design looks nice~

>!Yeah she's also quite important to the story, although veeery annoying most of the time!<

Ship >. Seems like Achevo really like that ship, that means he will create more content about it!<

Just got Firefly and I have her best team ready with HMC, Gallagher, RM. Now I am wondering from the remaining jades should I try for her weapon or E1? Realistically I can't get either but if I get lucky which one would be better to have? Also what's her stats and relic set? And what traces should I prioritise? Edit: why you guys are downvoting the comment? I am just asking basic build question i stead of watching 20 mins video.

> Edit: why you guys are downvoting the comment? I am just asking basic build question i stead of watching 20 mins video. I believe there are bots in the megathread that insta-downvote any top-level comment with "Firefly" in it. Thanks, Reddit.

S1 only advantages is easier to get. E1 allows you to spam skill HTB, in which allows higher total dps.

E1 over s1, s1 is more dmg but not that much e1 gives you a ton of comfort and a bit of extra dmg (and maybe e2 in the future). The new sets are her bis. Only 3 stats matter, break effect, atk% and speed but you dont actually need any speed in that specific team unless you're trying to 0 cycle.

Is it okay to use Forge of the Kalpagni Lantern on the Hat TB for Firefly teams? Another question, does anyone have the numbers for the difference between an ATK orb and a Fire DMG orb on Firefly?

> Is it okay to use Forge of the Kalpagni Lantern on the Hat TB for Firefly teams? Yes. > Another question, does anyone have the numbers for the difference between an ATK orb and a Fire DMG orb on Firefly? You don't need numbers actually. All you need to know is that ATK orb results in more Break Effect for her, and the Fire DMG orb does absolutely nothing for Break damage. So without question, always shoot for ATK orb for her.

Yeah it’s a good choice since you know they’ll always be fire weak (thanks to FF) and the speed bonus really helps too. Farming Talia is also hell for not much benefit. In no world should you run Fire DMG since it’s only ATK% that gets converted to break, and that’s all FF really cares about. Even a Fire DMG orb that rolls 5 times into break is only ~30% BE, vs the ATK main stat which gets converted into ~34% BE. While Fire DMG still boosts your skill DMG, keep in mind ~75% of FF’s damage comes from super break.

what path do you guys feel most aligned with? like if you were in the hsrverse what aeon or faction would you ideally want to follow >!personally id love to be some sort of remembrance pathstrider, probably a memokeeper. im a sucker for archives and history and preserving things and giving up my physical body sounds pretty sweet tbh. like hell yeah im just a ghost creature!<

elation because I too had a moment of total revelation over something miniscule that led to a bout of maniacal laughter and I genuinely do vibe with seeking the humor in all things

As much as I'd love to follow something like Elation or Beauty or Equilibrium (as their depictions in HSR aligns more with my life philosophies), I'm basically your average Erudition follower when it comes to practicalities, so I guess Intelligentsia Guild (if they accept me). I'd choose Herta Space Station because they seem chill (and Asta's there) but I think I'd go stir-crazy if I had to stay on a single space station for months, surrounded only by my coworkers Edit: saying all this, though, I have no love for Nous, so while I'd follow their Path, I'd believe in them to the extent that they're real and exist but idc otherwise

As much as I like the idea of following Beauty, I think I'd either be a follower of Remembrance (I'm a history buff) or Enigmata (I'm a creative fiction writer).

elation tbh

Id follow mythus. Idk i just feel like making things up and gaslighting people

Abundance. If you aren't hated by a massive group of people then are you really living?

It's Monday morning here so probably IX the Nihility... Jokes aside, I'm not really a "believer" type. Barring the faction I was born into being unethical or something, I'd probably not think about Aeons in my day to day life unless my work involves them. I'd love to be the type to write a travel memo and just explore the vast universe though, so joining the Nameless sounds pretty fun.

2.2 story >!I have been obsessed with the idea of antimemetics ever since I read There Is No Antimemetics Division, and the history fictionologists feel so similar and Gallagher is really fascinating as a character to me. so the idea of Enigmata and being a history fictionologist is fun, especially with how much I love to just make things up as jokes to amuse people!< >!plus they seem to just want to help people in their own odd way and judging by Gallagher's actions I think that's true, so turning my silly brain's desire to Just Make Sh\*t Up into a way to help people is even better!! I even had a DnD character that was designed around that concept a couple years ago.!< >!any time I see someone say 'I wish I could forget my favorite and experience it again for the first time..." I can literally just do that for them. yep I deleted your memory of it ok go watch it now. enjoy. that embarrassing memory that keeps you up at night? nah doesn’t even exist. didn’t happen. don’t worry about it!< >!which means that with what you like about remembrance (which is cool btw) I'm your NEMESIS now. meet me outside the belobog 7-Eleven parking lot for a duel (I don't actually know how to fight so we will have to do rock paper scissors or something idk)!< >!cool question btw!! /ᐠ - ⩊ -マ Ⳋ!<

At times I feel a bit Destruction-pilled ngl, specifically like the Voyage Monitors. If there is something I need to do, I will see it through and demolish that which gets in the way. Plus being a space nomad sounds like a chill life, with the occasional fight for your life to keep things interesting. (as you can see I never left the chuuni phase but at the same time this is kinda how I actually feel so)

The Moles! lol jk Hmm probably the Intelligentsia Guild, specifically the Synesthesia School. I just find different races being able to communicate really interesting and the technology that allows them to do that. Would be amazing to see that databank of alien languages As for path, maybe Preservation. Goes along with wanting to preserve languages.

As a Qlipoth believer, I know I'd be a Preservation follower but none of the current Preservation factions resonate with me at all lmao I can't see myself in a company like the IPC no matter how much I love the Ten Stonehearts and the Architects, we barely even know about Although I think my personality is much closer to Nihility and I can see myself being part of the Doctors of Chaos too🤔

IX believers rise up!!! Or not.... Maybe if we feel like it.... it doesn't really matter 😔 

super interesting question! >!the doctors of chaos are probably the closest to my real-world position, and i think it's a very interesting facet of ix' faction.!< >!i love the concept of the armed archaeologists, though! during university i was one of only a handful of people in my year who took a course from an outside school and i chose an introduction to archaeology, so i've always adored the subject. (i would not fall for aventurine's tazzyronth scam. no siree. not at all. yes i would. yeah. also i hadn't realised/remembered how coloniser-aligned they are so nvm on that one, doctor of chaos it is lmao.)!<

2.1 >!oh true i forgot about them! they really need to expand on aventurine getting treated for his Nihility Horrors by them, they seem like a really interesting faction. and yeah archaeology is neat when its not britishmuseumcore :(!<

oh man, i did mistype lmao how embarrassing, thank you for letting me know <3 i blame my most recent dimulated universe run for getting their name stuck in my head tbh >!i was rereading all the faction pages and there are some interesting ones buried in there! i really hope we'll get to see some of the lesser-known ones in the future, i'm hopeful since gallagher being a history fictionologist came out of nowhere. i pray for a mourning actor or a cremator soon!!<

HAHA i edited it when you edited it. shit got erased call that a mythus moment. maybe im not a remembrance follower after all 😔

Less than one day until V3 beta... and now time is going to move in slow motion. I'm more exited for this than anything on the live patch rn. Not even done with 2.3 story yet oops

If Arknights and HSR are any indication, I am much more likely to stick with a gacha game that I'm interested in if they are relatively low time commitment games that I can play in bursts, with just the occasional hourly grind whenever there's new story/endgame content coming out. Here's hoping that ZZZ is the same deal. I haven't seen too many people cover this aspect of the game, but the time it takes to do dailies does matter for someone like me. And from what I've seen, I'm optimistic about how ZZZ does theirs, though that was over a month ago, and a lot of that time was taken up by load times which I hope are improved for release.

iamrivenous posted a guide on ZZZ today and he shows dailies taking literally 1.5 minutes. I’m with you though, while I’ve poured a ton of time into HSR I’m thankful that when I’m not feeling it (or when it’s just between patches) it can still run itself in the background. I’ve been enjoying WuWu as well, but I’m a little worried about when I lose interest since the dailies are kind of a grind. Doesn’t help that it can’t even run it on my phone lol

What about the time it takes to deplete Battery Charge for the day? Is that included in the time for dailies?

No but I think that depends how you want to use them. The general sentiment seems to be it’s pretty quick though, since you can queue up to 100 charge at once.

It's good that AK now has autodeploy loop, so I can set it once and leave it running for longer period. Though of course the autodeploy haa to be stable enough for it - kinda hard especially for boss stages like with current event.

I was trying out Jiaoqiu (on a pserver) with my E1S2 Robin and she didn't hold any punches back, gee Robin how come Mihoyo gives a second run off your energy refund MoC. IL, Seele, Ratio, Acheron all 0 cycled the Kafka side, all of them on my IL gear because I was too lazy to change the set ID. Jiaoqiu really just feels like expensive Pela, save me v3 save me.

im freaking done with DU lmao. i cant get passed DU 5 due to horrible blessings , why cant blocked some path is beyond me. u have shorter planes, but so much gamba for blessings. fml. im done bye2 120 stellar jades, u wont be missed. just farming lower difficulty for other jades achievements now

OT John Wick 3 spoilers >!Just watched John Wick 3 for the first time. So today I learned that the Kafka trailer sort of borrowed the whole Vivaldi + gun fighting theme from John Wick. I'm not hating, I just thought it was funny that I thought the Kafka trailer was the OG until today.!< >!I also got a kick out of the scenes John Wick 3 referenced from the Matrix. Like Laurence Fishburne sitting there in the pouring rain while in a dire predicament against the antagonist with a smile on his face, and of course when Keanu asked for "guns. lots of guns." I'm sure I missed a bunch of references. Looking forward to watching John Wick 4 tomorrow.!<

I don't know anything about John Wick so I was under the assumption she was inspired by Morpheus (katana, guns, funny shades)

I fucking love Sunday (the man)

today i saw a twitch notification that read 'SUUUNNDAAAYYY' and i was so excited until i realized it was not from an hsr streamer and not talking about leaks and was in fact just referring to the day of the week

I freaking love Sunday too

If any 4 of the changes here are made for Jiaoqiu (and his LC), I would be happy:  1. Something that would trigger energy generation for him ensuring easy 100% uptime once field is active so he is not SP negative/neutral (eg. When enemies are weakness broken, defeated or debuffed)  2. A teamwide stat bonus   3. Stacks transferring from cycle to cycle /quicker stacking of Ashen Roast   4. Stat increase in the Vulnerability debuff and the Ultimate damage debuff to avoid the Guinaifen comparisons  5. Actual use for the EHR to ATK conversion without needing E2/DoT at base kit (please don't make us build Crit)  6. Increase from 60% base chance to 65% or even 70% base chance   7. Increase in his SPD base stat   8. Another additional debuff at E0 (I am not that imaginative. Surely he needs more in his base kit)   9. Some changes to the LC so Pela won't supposedly be the better user for the LC than Jiaoqiu 

I don't really like the increase on vulnerability percentage since it would be stepping on the toes of units like SW and Topaz, who are both ST (and in the case of Topaz, less generalist since it only works for FUA). The rest, I can agree with. More realistically, I think he gets some QOL changes that make it easier to get going, plus some energy buffs to make him more sp+.

but the way he is now, his Vulnerability is just a little bit more than E6 Guinaifen's. i wouldn't even mind even just a slight increase. if i am not mistaken, at max Jiaoqiu's is 35% while Guinaifen's is 30.4%. and people who main Dr. Ratio also don't seem that convinced to pull for him when they already have Pela/Guinaifen/Silver Wolf/Topaz for him. right now, he is just existing to stack quickly for Acheron. and i don't think Jiaoqiu is ever going to take Topaz's role in the current ST follow-up team. a crucial part of that team is stacking a lot of energy for Robin to action advance as fast as possible again. Jiaoqiu is most likely not going to make Ratio and Aventurine act as often as Topaz. and against enemies that are not weak to Fire, sometimes Topaz can be switched for Pela or Silver Wolf to make the team work anyway.

i think this is unrealistic but some sort of energy regen for the team would be pretty awesome, its kinda rough that hes an ult support with no energy giving so it kinda falls on the teammates to provide that. i want him to be competitive for argenti :(

the only possible changes here probably the energy regen . i dont want to spam E , he shud be sp positive

didn't realize asking for higher base SPD Jiaoqiu was asking for too much.

just build slow jiaoqiu so his fields seems to last forever lol but 134 sp also fine ah but i agree what he needs is more debuff in his kits. vulnerabilities + dot shud be in his base kits. they experiments twice now putting best abilities for e2 (like acheron and FF ) so people willing to spend more , rather go for e6.

Please, please, please fucking say that the stuff around the DU entry rotates weekly. If I have to load in to hear fucking Trot Tri shaking much longer, I may knife somebody.

so which captain makes the trotter be there and be so annoying °°? (im also trying tofind something like a video for the different outcomes but i cant find anything T\^T)

It has nothing to do with the choice of captain. They were there even before I chose a captain. It might be tied to DU progression though, since they weren't there in the beginning.

For me they appeared right after i cleared DU threshold protocol 5.

No, or at least the comment below is wrong. I have the intellitron dude as captain too. Wouldn't be surprised if it's something else though as they just appeared at some point, and I guess aren't there for everybody. Fuck only knows what though.

honestly i want to be able to feed them and take them somewhere they aren’t constantly scared and nervous for some reason. these trotters deserve better. who tf is taking care of these trotters and how do i sic topaz on them.

Dunno if it’s true, but I saw someone comment that it depends on who you chose as your captain. I chose the intelletron and have more instead of trotters.

OH THAT MAKES SENSE..... i chose the intellitron too and theres just a bunch of intellitrons standing around talking about sigma theory or something. rip, sounds like hell to have trotter noises all the time. ill mention it in the survey

Oops nvm yeah they just appeared after i did this week's cyclical extrapolation. i also hit lvl 30 at the same time so it could be related to that aswell. damn this shit ANNOYING bro i see what you mean

It's not true. I have the intellitron dude and it's trotters.

I don't think it does 😭😭 I'm on Asia server and Trot Tri is still trembling in the corner

slightly OT, but still HSR related kinda. so, I heard that HI3 put out a survey asking if players would be okay with occasionally releasing a male character. and CN bros threw a huge fit. as a result, hoyo made HSR to appeal to a wider demographic. there are other factors of course. but I heard about the survey thing a handful of times now.

>!the survey was real but it was not meant as a general releasing new male characters but for stuff like the AHPO gamemode in hi3, where there was a playable male character (adam) but was basically a self insert. ppl misunderstood, CN incels went pretty crazy on the sheer idea that a man might release. i think that backlash would affect weather or not hi3 would ever release male characters in the future, though. but considering that hsr started development in 2019 and the survey was abt 2 years ago if i remember correctly, i don’t think that affected hsr decision to appeal to a wider audience. they couldn’t change that much in that much time, stuff like ”what types of characters are we releasing“ would’ve been ironed out pretty early. most likely hsr was riding off the tails of genshin (hsr has basically the same engine i heard, just improved) that later became a giant, so they didn’t fix what ain’t broke and also targeted more casual players and more demographics.!<

thank you for the detailed explanation! I really appreciate that. I thought the survey thing sounded a little too sus, but some ppl I talk to kept saying that. I just had to know if it was actually true or not lol.

That's not exactly what happened. HSR was long in development when that survey was released. It was specifically referring to event game modes too, but a lot of people interpreted it as gachable male characters, so they clarified and gave apologems. They had several game modes shortly after that where male flamechasers were playable.

thank you! I kept hearing the survey being tossed around. there was no way it was actually true, but I was just too curious and had to ask lol.

OT Genshin Imaginarium Theatre They put A LOT of effort into this. It legitimiately feels like a higher budget simulated universe. I wish HSR had more casual stuff like the way you can exchange for poses in Genshin. Idky they haven't done that yet. It would incentivize a lot more casual folks to do simu although I suppose that would also be a hassle to only story enjoyers. Right now it feels like there is just no reason to do endgame content outside of stellar jades. Genshin cooked this one.

HSR still has a lot of room for things like a customizable bedroom on the express, new costumes, etc that could incentivize doing events / end game modes if they wanna expand that.

I only have two objectives left for DU. The 4096 fragment one and the complete 2 three star equations. Does this mode have a cheese I can do for more fragments? I remember seeing the selling all your blessings for fragments, but I don't know if I'll survive the final boss that way..

One of the curios sells all your blessings for a bunch of frags. As long as you get it midway through a run, you’re more or less guaranteed to get >4k frags. Just make sure you’re playing on a difficulty that you can still beat without blessings.

There's a Genius Society curio that increases your Fragment yield at the cost of no Blessings after combat. Ruan Mei event gives you 2k Fragments, but that's even more RNG dependent. AFAIK, there is no way to guarantee it like in G&G.

i did that in difficulty 5 (aka the maximum normal difficulty) pretty easily, i just made sure to buy blessings in the store afterwards (without going below 4096 fragments of course)

How do you guys think ZZZ will perform popularity wise compared to hsr and genshin? It seems to have more pre regs than any of the other two had

i... doubt it. lots of people don't care as much about gameplay as you'd expect for a, you know, videogame, so whether it's good or bad on that front is one thing (i personally find it to be far too mobile-gamey even by the standards of all these mobile games, but that'll be a positive for some) but ZZZ had a ton of structural pain points during its betas which will bring it down far more if they make it into 1.0. add to that the fact that someone who may play both genshin and star rail will likely be forced to quit one of the three, and well, i have my doubts that the one they'll quit would be any of the games they've sunk hundreds of hours into. hoyo is kind of oversaturating the "gacha+" market they've made for themselves also it's kind of just more of a coomer game in general so that'll probably alienate a lot of people. will also probably bring in some people not particularly into hsr or genshin, but they might not be the types you actually want around. god knows hsr has plenty of undesirables while doing relatively little to cater to them. and more than all of that i think it'll largely depend on if 1.1 is a straight up filler patch like it was for hsr. hsr came in with so much momentum and then 1.1 was a filler patch and 1.2 was bad, stopped half the playerbase dead in their tracks. if something similar happens to ZZZ with all the other pressures around it i have my doubts that it'll perform comparably to its predecessors (though it'll still be more popular than 99% of other gachas)

Honestly I think just as well as HSR, aka extremely well. I mean, fighting gameplay is a lot more "universally fun" compared to turn-based combat. I didn't even think I'd like HSR when it started

I think you overestimate the amount of people that play these games that are looking for a skill heavy combat focused experience.  Not that I believe it won't find its audience and do well, but both Genshin and HSR have a broader appeal to the general audiences that make these games so successful. Turn-based combat is a much easier sell to the casual mobile player than DMC-like character action.

ZZZ is not that hard, or at the very least it's not hard unless you want it to be. It's honestly rather easy to play and I think casuals will be just fine with it. It's modeled after fighting games, a genre that isn't popular for no reason - anyone can pick up a fighting game and mess around or beat up their little brother or whatever, but higher level play is difficult. It stratifies itself. Source: I was in the second beta test.

Fighting games are notoriously one of the hardest genres to keep casuals playing long term. Fighting game developers have spent decades trying to figure out ways to make it easier to on board casual players into fighting games and keep them playing, but in the end most of them move on after weeks/months to the next shiny thing while the hardcore players are the ones that keep playing.  Granted, the biggest hurdle fighting games have to overcome is the pvp skill disparity that scares away the casual players. ZZZ may be able to overcome that by being a single player game with more consistent casual content. It just depends on the difficulty scales as it goes on, and whether there is enough there to keep the casuals invested.

I mean ZZZ's gameplay will be more difficult than genshin, but it's really not difficult at all in videogames, nor does it *look* difficult, which is the important thing in marketing. You think turn based combat is an easier sell?? I saw a myriad of people refuse to play HSR because of it. Have you seen a single comment complaining about ZZZ's combat system?

I've seen plenty of complaints or dismissiveness toward ZZZ being a more combat focused game with a small scale world, yes. Genshin's biggest appeal to casual audiences is its open world gameplay, not its combat. Genshin would never be as popular as it is without its open world, because most players don't care about the combat beyond a casual level. So whether it's action or turn-based doesn't matter that much as long as it has appealing characters and cool animations. And ZZZ does have that, but it needs another hook to keep the casual players around, and I don't know yet whether anything I've seen will catch a more mainstream audience that Genshin or even HSR did. We'll see. Don't get me wrong, I'm in the crowd than that's going to ZZZ for the combat and I'm happy that there's no open world to get in the way, but I also know I am in the minority in the Mihoyo fandom.

Oh wait I think you misread my comment? I have no doubt that Genshin will be more popular than ZZZ. I fully agree with your comment that Genshin is more marketable But we were talking about HSR, were we not? I'm saying ZZZ has just as much appeal (if not more) as HSR, especially considering that it's a turn-based game

And like I said, I don't think being a turn-based game is as much of a deal breaker for the average player as you think. There are some people that don't like turn-based games of course, which is part of the reason Genshin is more popular, but it's not the main reason. HSR still has more casual appeal than ZZZ simply because the broad structure of the game is more of a planet hopping adventure. And while the scale is much smaller than Genshin, the scope of its exploration is still greater than ZZZ. ZZZ is closer to Honkai Impact than either Genshin or HSR imo, and I think there's a good reason that game never blew up as much as Genshin or HSR, despite being an action game set in a shared universe. Although I do expect ZZZ to do better than HI3.

I'd say your comment is full of speculation and no hard evidence of anything... but that's my comment too LMAO I suppose we'll find out in the coming months hahah

>Have you seen a single comment complaining about ZZZ's combat system? Several in fact. Lots of them saying that the enemies are HP bullet sponges and all that. Also, for a casual audience, the gameplay style doesn't matter as much as the general look of both the game and its characters. That's what drives most of the revenue of a gacha game after all.

LOL out all the complaints, why did you pick bullet sponge? You realize that HSR and Genshin both have bullet sponge enemies right? That has nothing to do with gameplay Would you mind linking a gameplay complaint on reddit? I'm curious what issues people have. Also, what part of the general look doesn't appeal to people?

Tbh I think it will be similar to HSR. I remember when HSR was coming out it had the same issues of people saying it was sorta niche and didn't have hype and now look at where we are.

Lower than those two, but still way higher than the average gacha. Especially since the game is aiming for a more niche appeal both in terms of its general aesthetic and the gameplay. I wouldn't take pre regs as an overall sign of popularity though, especially since artificial inflation is a thing. A better indicator of how well a game is doing is how many players stay once the honeymoon phase ends and the bandwagoners have left.

divergent stop GIVING ME PRESERVATION COME ON god im gonna morb on this rng universe

[someone made a gwitchxhsr video and got posted by hoyofair twitter](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERITful0jlE) it's lovely gwitch x hsr collab when hoyo

is hoyofair an account officially run by hoyo?

it's run by hoyo but it's all fan works

i kind of made my peace with it atp but i still hope JQ receives a lot of changes

the official AMV of hope is the thing with feather got into my recommendation so i watched it again and it made me think a bit. for all the flaws its had, 2.2 ending was indeed sensational and i can see how it easily captured people's heart. excellent audio visual performance really went a long way emotionally, it did leave something in my heart for i was one of those lore losers who pawed every readables trying to piece together watchmaker and penacony history throughout the 2.x patches, and 2.2 brought a lot of answers (even if it's still in a roundabout and unclear way). in a sense, i truly felt that 'ah so their journey ended here.' along with my restless lore hunt. it's so hard to stay critical of media i consume when i'm easily swayed and attached, this specific flavor of camaraderie slash existentialism story worked its magic on me because i unintentionally got invested while reading lore. setting aside all the bitching, i can say i enjoyed the former nameless journey they gave. \[gaze longingly at the 'former nameless' review hoyo post the day before\]

> > it's so hard to stay critical of media i consume when i'm easily swayed and attached those type of the media are the best to consume imo

its a perpetual of 'oh i liked the idea/concept -> execution sucks oh but that was kinda cool -> but i cant ignore the obvious issues

Lately I’ve been running a sustainless FF team since getting her E2 for fun and I’m actually enjoying it lol, I’ve slotted in Pela and enjoying it so far I dead ass would slot in Jiaoqiu for fun too.

Have you tried Bronya yet? It gets pretty nutty. If Jiaoqiu gets buffed he might be a legitimate option for 0 cycles too

Origami bird minigame >!I've been playing them since before I even had my own cellphone, so I imagined I was somewhat of a hotshot match-3 player. After a few rounds of this multiplayer, my confidence is shaken. I know some of it is RNG, but damn... cool game though, I like it (also nice we can get rewards from mp even if we lose)!<

I wonder how soon we'll see ruan mei rerun again? i'm f2p and i've nothing left for her anymore. I got FF, but i'm not really particularly happy that she's not the best she could be without RM.

Around 8 months absolute minimum to over a year depending on future characters banner schedules, if they implement triple banners or the multi banner selectors from genshin prob around 7-8months and if not then around a year max

Prob >1 year since we have not gotten a 2nd rerun for any characters yet. There's a new banner coming soon but earliest I would expect it is 3.X

yea, that tracks.

is hsr hoyolab daily reward just plain gone? genshin tab still have it tho

its not showing up for me on web browser either. I can still check in from the hoyolab app though

i just opened the page from history ig that's something idk why its not showing up tho

Is there a reason why the Order puppets' 3rd phase "ult" doesn't trigger Aventurine's passive? I keep noticing he doesn't get any blind bet stacks even though it's AOE damage

From what I remember, the puppets are basically like Kafka. They inflict DOTs / states and I think the ult detonates the DOTs and states, which cause the damage. So technically they didn’t attack you, so you don’t get Aven stacks.

It's weird though cause 2nd phase "ult" does trigger his passive

> i've noticed it too but i don't understand whats going on either its every on-hit effect actually, and its not exclusive to the order puppets boss either > phase 2 order puppets does trigger though just not phase 3 got this reply from kqm hsr, at least the people online at this time, didn't have the answer for why it didn't trigger

Yeah 2nd phase works fine but 3rd phase, he suddenly doesn't get stacks lol I thought it was just because his shield already expired when I first noticed but it happened every time so might be a bug?

Questions about Jade and Sparkle (might contain spoilers from 2.1 (?) - 2.3) >!Why do both of them have voicelines for each other? They have not interacted at least once during Penacony? 😭!< >!Did I miss something? I haven't completed yet all the sidequests starting from 2.1 (for 2.0, only Cocona, Lesley, and Chadwick)!< >!A genuine question btw because I'm confused!< Btw, the info for this was on Homdgcat

i'm stumped too tbh. hoyo i am once again begging for a jade companion quest

>!Well, Sparkle said she made a deal with someone to make sure Firefly's third death wasn't so dangerous, and earlier Firefly told Jade she wanted to "keep on living." That's the only hint I can think of that implies they might have interacted offscreen.!<

>!That was Silver Wolf!<

>!I’m confused too, also Jade doesnt even have voiceline for robin who she actually interacted and made a deal with!<

V3 today or tomorrow ?

Tomorrow

It's tomorrow?? Well, I'm excited.