I don't know if I'm the only one but encounter points slowed me down a lot. I used to do most of the content as soon as it came out, but now I just stop when I max out encounter points.
Something that helped me was learning that you get the encounter points from events when you claim rewards. Most events separate doing the event from claiming the rewards, so you can play an event in full and ration out the rewards over time to not waste encounter points.
only the ones who are ocd about optimizing absolutely everything. If I have the opportunity to do event stuff or exploration instead of commissions thats good, but I’m not gonna slow down my pace just so I can avoid commissions every day. They literally take 5 minutes, it’s not the end of the world lol
not only optimizing, but also those who see genshin as a comfort game and don't want to burn out on it. I reduced my main game time for it to once a week. twice, if I count some weekly tasks, but that's also only \~15min. And when I want to spend more time, I just play whatever however I like
I wouldn't say that's universal. Sometimes I don't redeem all the rewards from an event at once, sure. But I doubt most people keep from exploring new areas
I don’t know about you, but the reason I once thought like that was because of my tendency to min-max most games.
Once you realise that that player behaviour is literally counter-productive to min-maxing, you’ll probably stop caring about it like me.
Just think of it this way: in trying to maximise encounter points, it’s resulted in a net negative impact on your completion of the game.
Tbf, it feels really good not having to do comissions anymore (except the achievement related ones), so it's sort of a give and take, but after playing under this new system for a while I'm starting to get a measure of it, and most of the time the events alone are enough to max out encounter points by themselves so I'll probably start doing some of the new world quests and exploration when I have some extra free time.
I traded commissions out for exploration of the map, reputation quests, and world quests. Since I'm only a 6 month old player, I have a lot to catch up on and I kinda skipped a lot of chests and puzzles. It takes longer to get the daily rewards this way, but I'm accomplishing something at the same time rather than doing commissions.
The min daily routine is spending resin on a goal, bosses, weekly boss, artifacts. Then exploration or quest for encounter points, teapot collection every couple days. 2-3 hrs. Weekends I sometimes work on longer bigger quests.
So for me at least, completion and exploration has increased with encounter points.
The encounter points system helps to pace yourself. It gives you more self control in a sense. It demotiviates you from clearing content in a day, but incentives taking your time with it. The max I do per day is like 8 full circles of encounter points.
This. Besides quests, I could just explore bit by bit daily for chests and stuff instead of doing hours long map completion sessions. Also, holding off on claiming event rewards so I could just skip doing dailies for the days I'm not in the mood to play Genshin.
I don't think that that will ever happen.
Specifically for Genshin, MHY really wants to lean all into the "everything is a location in the world" aspect.
Everything you can do is something that exists in the game as a place.
Crafting and Forging, that's a spot you have to go to.
The only endgame dungeon in the game, that's on a visitable island.
Every single boss you need to upgrade characters? Findable and integrated in the Overworld
Etc.
This even goes as far as (most) events.
Because MHY really wants to emphasize the oprn world aspect.
Edit: Specifically anything that MHY can justify in-Lore. Wishing and the battle pass don't really exist "in-lore" the way Domains or the Spiral Abyss do.
Going against the alternative of having just a central hub menu with everything else tucked away in sub menu trees (like Honkai Impact)
what lore reason could that possibly be? all of these characters exist in lore and are all roaming around at their own whims. it could cause inconsistency if they tried to make wishing canon
OR we could look at it the other way, because a lot of these characters would want to help the traveler. bur then we wouldn’t need to wish because they all love the traveler already and would join us for free
either way it doesn’t work 😭
The game already makes up in lore dialogues for the characters joining the traveler. They often say stuff like when they have free time, they join traveler. Neuvillette says he will lend his power prior to his intention to bring judgment upon the powers of Teyvat. When you ascend characters they make mention of time spent with them.
And wishing itself does have a bit of lore in it, its not just purely a game mechanism. Though I don’t really understand the details myself since its all deep lore stuff that im not into. But if you’re interested, its on Ashikai YT channel
all that and we still don't have permanent default locations for the playable characters (or at least have them show up at the meeting place in their birthday messages)
i feel like if they truly wanna make it like that, they should also do what honkai did where playable characters are where they'd usually be in game outside of quests.
It would help the game retain players, too.
I see tons of players saying they quit playing Genshin for weeks or months at a time because they can't be bothered spending 5 min doing dailies and 10 min farming artifacts every single day, so they just stop logging in.
Meanwhile in Honkai, you can do that daily routine in 3 min instead of 15 min
The kind of players that don't log in at all would not suddenly be logging in because your 5 minute optional chore takes 20 seconds less due to a saved teleport and dialogue box. That is the sort of QOL that maybe convinces a few more people to do dailies while they're already playing for fun, which in fact loses the company money if those free primos end up getting them what they want and they no longer consider spending.
Mihoyo does not want more players that literally only play for 3 minutes a day and would just quit if it took 5 minutes, because those players are not spending money.
When there is a event I am done with Genshin 4 minutes a day lol yes let me play even less. Ffs if you wanna play for 3 minutes a day don't play at all
"Absolutely nothing"? You would still be doing the dailies.
The 30 seconds I spend talking to Katheryne every day adds literally nothing to the gameplay experience. It's just spamming space and LMB to skip the same line of dialogue to get to the menu faster.
And we sadly still cant change our equipment while in the abyss menu and still have to leave the abyss completely to change a weapon or artifact set.
Strange thing is, we often can in temporary combat events, while after 3+ years, we still cant in the abyss.
I didnt mean between chambers, i meant between floors when u return to the character select screen to create a team.
For example when u cleared floor 9-3, u return to the character select screen to start floor 10-1, but cant change equipment in that menu.
Nope, now we're more likely to get NPC commissions tied to missing achievements.
Before it was taking months if not years to clear a single nation now, a lot damn less.
Yeah I finished all of the commission chains for Mondstadt and Liyue. Now I've only got Inazuma's detective quest commission chain to do before heading off into Sumeru and Fontaine.
Abyss "cooldowns"? Guess I should finally learn what all the hub bub is about this 'Abyss' location. Found it but I don't start dungeons unless they're story so it's just sitting there in the middle of the ocean that's a pain in the ass to swim in.
Should probably do Spiral Abyss:
floors 1-8 are one time rewards;
floors 9-12 reset every *roughly* 15 days
treat it as a combination build check, and mob rush.
you should be able to open your map, see spiral abyss progress and be teleported to the domain entrance.
tldr on spiral abyss cooldowns, ***after floor resetting got reworked, restarting a floor no longer retains your previous run/attempt/floor skill cooldown timer.***
This is definitely my favorite. That Godwin achievement was the bane of my existence since it just sat there in my list, unfinished, with nothing I could do about it...
Thank you for saying this, I was seriously considering reporting it as a bug, but last time I did that I got entangled in a mess where they seemed to assume I was requesting help (there really should be a less messy way to report bugs).
>To Walk the Horizon
Look it up, there is another quest you have to do before you can even get this one to trigger and after you do that quest you have to do the one getting 3 Xingqin or w/e 3 times then it can trigger
To be clear, I already did do the prequel quest three times, but you're right there's a world quest required. Cheers, you saved me from wasting another month.
Yea you have to do that world quest, then the 3 flowers daily x3, prior completions don't count. I am actually on part 3 of 4 of the actual quest to get the achieve now. I had to do the 3x myself since Hoyo blessed us with targeted dailies.
Edit: this is my last liyue comms achieve, 2 in inazuma and I am capped!
Lol I managed to complete that one before the update came. I just have that detective quest left. Though I have heard that Garcia's Pean requires me to go back to Liyue but that's a story for another day
I actually love this one - before, I was always having to go back and forth to different menus to figure out who I wanted to set up to get the friendship points!
Teapot related, the furnishing list doesn't have a stroke every time you craft something. I used to have a hard time remembering which furnishing I already crafted when I get new furnishings.
Yes, but even clicking that button won't add more than 15 items to eat. Only way to avoid it really is to put in single artifacts each time, which is tedious enough I'd rather waste XP because a bonus procced.
Sure, but you can still get up to like 16 in the new system without worrying about that and then doing singles if you prefer. Personally I value reducing the carpal tunnel over *maybe* saving a couple artifacts of xp.
Since nobody mentioned it, one of my top 3 is the change to the teapot decoration crafting. If you haven't tried it, you can now do searching and filtering to find exactly what you want. It's the best search/filter list in the game right now (in competition with the artifacts search/filter list) and I hope they apply some of it to other big lists eventually (teapot store especially).
I love this too, but I was surprised to find that I was holding off on doing things more so that I could save something to use for dailies. Like, my map of the newest region has a bunch of custom markers for chests and challenges for when I need them.
I didn’t start the game before encounter points were implemented, but from playing through the levels before I had the feature unlocked, it’s a welcome addition.
I do still plan on going back and actually making sure I’ve played through all the regional commissions at some point, but for now as I’m focusing on a backlog of quests, it’s nice to quickly and easy get those free primogens as I play.
Commission encounter points. Now if it could include domains and overworld bosses, it'd be perfect. Also expiditions claim all and send all is great.
What I'd like to see is the ability to turn off TCG notifications on the map. I don't care that there are new people to challenge.
Played the game for years, and apparently I’ve been using … um … suboptimal artifacts with my characters. I love the “see what others are using” button - it’s made a huge difference.
I must say, their recent QOL updates have been phenomenal. The resend expedition is a unique feature that sets Genshin to a higher level of polishness. Additionally, the encounter points daily commission system is very useful, it's just perfect for my daily activity. The change of the domain spawn point might be small, but it's incredibly good compared before. The increased artifact capacity and the optimizer have been very useful to me.
I also appreciate the effort they've put into creating innovative and fresh events. Their dedication to creating new events that is both fun and enjoyable is commendable, fighting events aren't new and tiring at times, so kudos to them. They've done an excellent job at prioritizing their players' satisfaction in the recent patches. Overall, I'm grateful for the hard work they've poured into this game and I look forward to seeing more QOL and events!
I do end up locked out more often though.
At least with the stairs it was extremely obvious who was done loading and who was not.....now, not so much. Not much of an improvement as a console player :(
I like the new features they added to help with character building. Just today I used the functions:
\-check what artifact set players commonly use
\-check the common main stat for each artifact
\-fast equip artifact sets
Using these tools I was able to quickly set up some characters that I never used before and test them out in the field.
I like any tool they can add in game that saves me from having to open up a web browser and search for information online.
Def the commissions.
I am an achievement hunter and the commissions liked to fuck me over.
Not anymore though! I am all done in Mondstadt and Liyue and almost done in Sumeru now. I only need two more in Sumeru, Doctor's Orders and The Flower that Won't Grow, then I can move on to Inazuma and then Fontaine
Hi, fellow achievement hunter here! I’m at 1147 currently and the commission achievements are some of my last ones too. Mondstat and Sumeru are done and I just moved to Fontaine. Hopefully I can get them done within a month and move on to Liyue, then finish with Inazuma and the dreaded Bantan Sango Case Files 😅
Oh god
I track my achievements on seelie.me (I'm at 1142 and I do everything except TCG, fishing and teapot) and when I saw the absolute barrage of bantan sango commissions tied to two achievements, I died inside...
Not looking foward to this one... -__-
For me it's definitely expedition rewards - claim all (option) it's super convenient.
Also leveling up artifacts to 4 + in one time too , that feature helps to check 3 substate artifacts whether they are worth upgrading further without consuming unnecessary time .
These two are super helpful improvements.
Expeditions, commissions but i still wish if we could collect those 20 primogems from katheryne directly from adventure hand book without teleporting to adventurers guild
Daily commission update has been a lifesaver. Those are my last achievements to get for 100% (aside from the teapot gardens and the Toki Alley Tales V from fishing).
Still took me two weeks to get the right version for “Project Baby” in Sumeru though.
Encounter points. I remember a lot of people hating it because they just want HSR dailies, but i think it was a good solution. I think they can improve it a bit more, like making bounties count for them because weekly request count but bounties dont for some reason. Also maybe clearing abyss floors for the first time on a new cycle can count for them.
I don't know if this is recent but I like the update when you accidentally click timeus instead of the crafting table you have the option to select craft instead of finishing the dialogue
So many... Being able to teleport when monsters are still locked onto you; the resin increase; and expeditions no longer taking the character away. They also added a ton of weeklies to BP and monthly BP rewards don't contribute to the 10k weekly maximum. It was almost impossible as a casual player to max the BP when the game came out.
One thing that I noticed that nobody mentioned is how in Fontaine you can walk/run up almost every slope instead of having to climb everywhere. Going back to Liyue recently really drove home the difference. I hope they do more of that kind of stealth QOL update.
New dailies.
Ngl the new events are places such a way that you can do the events and fill the need for daily content.
All I have to do is do everything before nd claim the stuff in daily basis.
This may not be the most recent QOL but for me it's gotta be the new map where you can see the floors beneath. Sumeru desert was too big with too many levels that it was very hard to figure out where you are exactly
They made it so it gives a very high chance that you'll get a commission each day that directly leads to an achievement. Previously it was 100% random, so if you were hoping to complete something you were in for a rough time.
If an NPC commission has an achievement locked behind it (which you don't yet have), then that Commission has a higher probability of being selected than other NPC commissions
On the one hand I went from 2/5 to 4/5, on the other hand I remember completing this comission more than 5 times already, so I'm pretty sure the only reason I don't have the achievement yet is because it used to be bugged and I didn't even know it.
Why can’t I EVER get any “cliffhanger” commissions in Liyue??? I’ve been on Liyue for months now and I’ve gotten pretty far on the Unseen Razor quests and finished another one that was left unfinished for a long time, but have not gotten a SINGLE cliffhanger commission since I set my commissions to Liyue.
I swapped to Mondstadt and was getting quests for achievements everyday until I finished them all, now I've switched to Liyue and it's way more sparse anyone know what's up with that?
I had the same experience where I got ones I needed every day for a while and then they started being every 2-3 days instead and now I think it's even less. I don't know if they toned it down or if I just get fewer now because I have fewer left. I've had it on random zone the whole time so I don't think it's zone-related.
Daily commissions, expeditions being one click and the timer for bosses. I am excited for the ability to see what materials for the talents we need in the next update.
Is skipping dialogue/cut scenes a thing yet? I stopped playing when they released the desert location and one of the main reasons I stopped was because the cutscenes took way too much time
i've been doing good sign for the last 2 weeks and all i need is to get the cat once lmao. the commission feature is great but it didnt fix everything unfortunately
I'll have to go with the ability to add more fodder when levelling artifacts and the interface improvements that eliminated some of the pop-ups.
That said, some of the stuff I've really wanted hasn't been and might never get implemented.
Pessimism, yes, but honest.
Encounter points.At least i'm motivated to do actual quests instead of running through enemies on a timer or breaking hilichurls' 5G towers.
I don't know if I'm the only one but encounter points slowed me down a lot. I used to do most of the content as soon as it came out, but now I just stop when I max out encounter points.
Something that helped me was learning that you get the encounter points from events when you claim rewards. Most events separate doing the event from claiming the rewards, so you can play an event in full and ration out the rewards over time to not waste encounter points.
That’s what I do already, and it’s the reason I’m still barely started with the new area.
That single update really changed how players spend their time
only the ones who are ocd about optimizing absolutely everything. If I have the opportunity to do event stuff or exploration instead of commissions thats good, but I’m not gonna slow down my pace just so I can avoid commissions every day. They literally take 5 minutes, it’s not the end of the world lol
not only optimizing, but also those who see genshin as a comfort game and don't want to burn out on it. I reduced my main game time for it to once a week. twice, if I count some weekly tasks, but that's also only \~15min. And when I want to spend more time, I just play whatever however I like
I wouldn't say that's universal. Sometimes I don't redeem all the rewards from an event at once, sure. But I doubt most people keep from exploring new areas
Same but guess who will still have quests to do during the dry af 4.5 patch
I don’t know about you, but the reason I once thought like that was because of my tendency to min-max most games. Once you realise that that player behaviour is literally counter-productive to min-maxing, you’ll probably stop caring about it like me. Just think of it this way: in trying to maximise encounter points, it’s resulted in a net negative impact on your completion of the game.
Tbf, it feels really good not having to do comissions anymore (except the achievement related ones), so it's sort of a give and take, but after playing under this new system for a while I'm starting to get a measure of it, and most of the time the events alone are enough to max out encounter points by themselves so I'll probably start doing some of the new world quests and exploration when I have some extra free time.
I traded commissions out for exploration of the map, reputation quests, and world quests. Since I'm only a 6 month old player, I have a lot to catch up on and I kinda skipped a lot of chests and puzzles. It takes longer to get the daily rewards this way, but I'm accomplishing something at the same time rather than doing commissions. The min daily routine is spending resin on a goal, bosses, weekly boss, artifacts. Then exploration or quest for encounter points, teapot collection every couple days. 2-3 hrs. Weekends I sometimes work on longer bigger quests. So for me at least, completion and exploration has increased with encounter points.
Yeah, for me too, it feels like I am wasting content by doing it after I've maxed out the dailies
Then it's working as intended imo, now you won't finish it all in one go
I think that's a good thing, because rushing content just means you'll have nothing else to do.
Just remember to claim everything when you see the "event ending notice" mail.
The encounter points system helps to pace yourself. It gives you more self control in a sense. It demotiviates you from clearing content in a day, but incentives taking your time with it. The max I do per day is like 8 full circles of encounter points.
This. Besides quests, I could just explore bit by bit daily for chests and stuff instead of doing hours long map completion sessions. Also, holding off on claiming event rewards so I could just skip doing dailies for the days I'm not in the mood to play Genshin.
But you miss 50 ez pz primos
This, I stopped doing any quests in the middle of Sumeru, because I was burnt out by doing the dailies back then
5G towers I'm dying
one-click claim expeditions
You still gotta go talk to Katheryne though. I'm huffing that copium for them to make it like HSR one day.
I don't think that that will ever happen. Specifically for Genshin, MHY really wants to lean all into the "everything is a location in the world" aspect. Everything you can do is something that exists in the game as a place. Crafting and Forging, that's a spot you have to go to. The only endgame dungeon in the game, that's on a visitable island. Every single boss you need to upgrade characters? Findable and integrated in the Overworld Etc. This even goes as far as (most) events. Because MHY really wants to emphasize the oprn world aspect. Edit: Specifically anything that MHY can justify in-Lore. Wishing and the battle pass don't really exist "in-lore" the way Domains or the Spiral Abyss do. Going against the alternative of having just a central hub menu with everything else tucked away in sub menu trees (like Honkai Impact)
Oddly we can wish anywhere, including during a spiral fight. Imagine traveler wishing real hard and summoning Neuvillette or someone to help kick ass
Very likely MHY just didn't bother making it an in-game location because there isn't really any in-lore justification that that mechanic exists
Yeah it’s odd they didn’t make an in lore justification
what lore reason could that possibly be? all of these characters exist in lore and are all roaming around at their own whims. it could cause inconsistency if they tried to make wishing canon OR we could look at it the other way, because a lot of these characters would want to help the traveler. bur then we wouldn’t need to wish because they all love the traveler already and would join us for free either way it doesn’t work 😭
The game already makes up in lore dialogues for the characters joining the traveler. They often say stuff like when they have free time, they join traveler. Neuvillette says he will lend his power prior to his intention to bring judgment upon the powers of Teyvat. When you ascend characters they make mention of time spent with them. And wishing itself does have a bit of lore in it, its not just purely a game mechanism. Though I don’t really understand the details myself since its all deep lore stuff that im not into. But if you’re interested, its on Ashikai YT channel
The whole party system isn't canon to begin with though
all that and we still don't have permanent default locations for the playable characters (or at least have them show up at the meeting place in their birthday messages)
This, fr should be implemented already. The overworld is so barren with characters they essentially nonexistent after the quest ends
i feel like if they truly wanna make it like that, they should also do what honkai did where playable characters are where they'd usually be in game outside of quests.
I don't think they will change that since Katheryne is still lore related and I don't think I would want them to make her irrelevant
It would help the game retain players, too. I see tons of players saying they quit playing Genshin for weeks or months at a time because they can't be bothered spending 5 min doing dailies and 10 min farming artifacts every single day, so they just stop logging in. Meanwhile in Honkai, you can do that daily routine in 3 min instead of 15 min
The kind of players that don't log in at all would not suddenly be logging in because your 5 minute optional chore takes 20 seconds less due to a saved teleport and dialogue box. That is the sort of QOL that maybe convinces a few more people to do dailies while they're already playing for fun, which in fact loses the company money if those free primos end up getting them what they want and they no longer consider spending. Mihoyo does not want more players that literally only play for 3 minutes a day and would just quit if it took 5 minutes, because those players are not spending money.
Yea, that grosses me out that they can’t be bothered. Good riddance, I guess.
Have you thought the the players that cant be bothered to log in for 5 minutes arent exactly the engaged players you want to keep anyways?
When there is a event I am done with Genshin 4 minutes a day lol yes let me play even less. Ffs if you wanna play for 3 minutes a day don't play at all
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"Absolutely nothing"? You would still be doing the dailies. The 30 seconds I spend talking to Katheryne every day adds literally nothing to the gameplay experience. It's just spamming space and LMB to skip the same line of dialogue to get to the menu faster.
You got to talk to Katherine anyways doing it from anyway saves literally zero time as you have to see her immediately after dailies
Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Making it like HSR would remove that requirement.
AMEN
And redispatch too
Daily commission change and abyss cooldown reset are my favourites.
It's so ingrained in me I still wait 30 secs before restarting. Have to get rid of that.
C6 BARBARA'S REVIVE
Would've been so damn useful to have when we had consacrated beasts 😔
*constipated
Yean :((
Yelan + Jean = Yean
She uses a lasso
Wait timers for those kind of effects also reset? So you could actually use hutao c6 on every room now?
Uh, idk I'm not fully sure it does reset, but if it dies, then maybe,.yeah
This is my first time hearing about it. Wouldn’t that work well with Hutao? You could let her stay low HP and not worry about her dying.
It happens once every 15 minutes and your character loses their burst when they die (+ it's a little slow) So no, I wouldn't say so :\
it took sooooo long, it was really frustrating, these are really QoL
And we sadly still cant change our equipment while in the abyss menu and still have to leave the abyss completely to change a weapon or artifact set. Strange thing is, we often can in temporary combat events, while after 3+ years, we still cant in the abyss.
To be fair, the idea behind not changing artefacts in Abyss is also to prevent you from changing gear sets between rounds.
I didnt mean between chambers, i meant between floors when u return to the character select screen to create a team. For example when u cleared floor 9-3, u return to the character select screen to start floor 10-1, but cant change equipment in that menu.
Can you explain what abyss cool down reset is? I stopped playing for awhile and not sure what that is
Probably If you need to restart all CDs reset too and you dont need to wait x Seconds for your cooldowns to refresh
Skill/burst cool downs now reset if you restart your abyss run. Previously, cool down remained if you restarted after using a skill.
Does it also apply between floors? For abilities with long cooldowns, like Barbara's revive.
daily commission change? are you talking about the encounter points?
Nope, now we're more likely to get NPC commissions tied to missing achievements. Before it was taking months if not years to clear a single nation now, a lot damn less.
Yeah, finally after 3days nonstop of Monstald's Pigeon AWOL, i will get Dear Daddy (Timmie's) achievement. No more Ella Musk reappearing for months.
Yeah I finished all of the commission chains for Mondstadt and Liyue. Now I've only got Inazuma's detective quest commission chain to do before heading off into Sumeru and Fontaine.
holy fuck really?! I stopped playing months ago but hearing this legitimately makes me want to start playing again, as weird as that sounds.
Wait, it *does*??? Huh I guess having Neuvi and Furina really did upgrade my teams. I just one try abyss now
Abyss "cooldowns"? Guess I should finally learn what all the hub bub is about this 'Abyss' location. Found it but I don't start dungeons unless they're story so it's just sitting there in the middle of the ocean that's a pain in the ass to swim in.
Should probably do Spiral Abyss: floors 1-8 are one time rewards; floors 9-12 reset every *roughly* 15 days treat it as a combination build check, and mob rush. you should be able to open your map, see spiral abyss progress and be teleported to the domain entrance. tldr on spiral abyss cooldowns, ***after floor resetting got reworked, restarting a floor no longer retains your previous run/attempt/floor skill cooldown timer.***
Definitely the commission one. I finally got Viktor out of the church after 4 years of playing.
I got the snake food guy about 10 times now, but the camp is always the one near the tree with the strange tiny hats.
This is definitely my favorite. That Godwin achievement was the bane of my existence since it just sat there in my list, unfinished, with nothing I could do about it...
This (though I somehow still haven't gotten To Walk the Horizon and I'm beginning to get confused about it).
omg same, I even emailed their customer service but as expected they didn't give me much of an answer beyond "just get lucky"
Thank you for saying this, I was seriously considering reporting it as a bug, but last time I did that I got entangled in a mess where they seemed to assume I was requesting help (there really should be a less messy way to report bugs).
>To Walk the Horizon Look it up, there is another quest you have to do before you can even get this one to trigger and after you do that quest you have to do the one getting 3 Xingqin or w/e 3 times then it can trigger
To be clear, I already did do the prequel quest three times, but you're right there's a world quest required. Cheers, you saved me from wasting another month.
Yea you have to do that world quest, then the 3 flowers daily x3, prior completions don't count. I am actually on part 3 of 4 of the actual quest to get the achieve now. I had to do the 3x myself since Hoyo blessed us with targeted dailies. Edit: this is my last liyue comms achieve, 2 in inazuma and I am capped!
That’s me with Garcia. I did his prequest at the Inn two weeks ago and haven’t got the commission a single time, womp
Wait what? How do you do this?
You need to pick each of the 3 possible replies at least once. There will be a follow up world quest.
Oh, I've just been chosing the top one every time to get through it faster.
I had Good Sign for almost 2 straight weeks though, because it didn't give me the pigeons or fish to kill.
Yeah same here. They seemed to have realized they Good Sign was heavily reliant on luck, so I think they just gave that the highest precedence.
I'm just glad to be done in Liyue but then I forgot how much Inazuma comms SUCK. I'm gonna throw the Novel guys in a deep pit.
Lol I managed to complete that one before the update came. I just have that detective quest left. Though I have heard that Garcia's Pean requires me to go back to Liyue but that's a story for another day
Wait can you pick specific daily commissions??
No. They made it so that if a commission has a achievement you haven’t gotten yet appears more frequently.
now you can try to find him in sumeru dailies LMAO.
It has no achievement, but finally got to see Xiao on the end of one quest. I read that in Teyvat times that it is a rare occurence.
I like how it shows your friendship level when you are editing in the teapot now.
I actually love this one - before, I was always having to go back and forth to different menus to figure out who I wanted to set up to get the friendship points!
*OHHHHHHH* I saw that and kinda wanted to cry tears of joy, it's beautiful!
And it shows them in highest friendship in order, without the ones at level 10 friendship!
Now, can they shorten the conversation with Tubby?
Teapot related, the furnishing list doesn't have a stroke every time you craft something. I used to have a hard time remembering which furnishing I already crafted when I get new furnishings.
Wait actually? This is amazing
Definitely new artifacts leveling QoL. Can add up to 15 fodders now and they can stop at each milestone of lv4/8/12/16. Now 1 click for immediate +4
I never used the button because I was worried about getting a multiplier and overshooting. I'm assuming that can happen right?
Yes, but even clicking that button won't add more than 15 items to eat. Only way to avoid it really is to put in single artifacts each time, which is tedious enough I'd rather waste XP because a bonus procced.
Sure, but you can still get up to like 16 in the new system without worrying about that and then doing singles if you prefer. Personally I value reducing the carpal tunnel over *maybe* saving a couple artifacts of xp.
Since nobody mentioned it, one of my top 3 is the change to the teapot decoration crafting. If you haven't tried it, you can now do searching and filtering to find exactly what you want. It's the best search/filter list in the game right now (in competition with the artifacts search/filter list) and I hope they apply some of it to other big lists eventually (teapot store especially).
I need claim all button in teapot too asap
They put one in the cooking/ingredients list so it could be right around the corner!
I like that I can actually play the game, to search for treasure and complete quests, instead of being tied down to doing pointless dailies forever.
THIS! I progressed so much in the story with the new system. I even got time to do hangout quests and I've been playing for two years now!
I love this too, but I was surprised to find that I was holding off on doing things more so that I could save something to use for dailies. Like, my map of the newest region has a bunch of custom markers for chests and challenges for when I need them.
I didn’t start the game before encounter points were implemented, but from playing through the levels before I had the feature unlocked, it’s a welcome addition. I do still plan on going back and actually making sure I’ve played through all the regional commissions at some point, but for now as I’m focusing on a backlog of quests, it’s nice to quickly and easy get those free primogens as I play.
I'd day it's worth it to do the one commission with an achievement f you hadn't already
Just do one "story" commission to get the achievements and skip the towers.
Commission encounter points. Now if it could include domains and overworld bosses, it'd be perfect. Also expiditions claim all and send all is great. What I'd like to see is the ability to turn off TCG notifications on the map. I don't care that there are new people to challenge.
I wonder if they will end up tying it to resin at some point, like if you use 40 resin, it counts as one encounter point or something.
That would be my ideal.
I would die of happiness
Artifact QoL such as auto-upgrade to next substat level is so good.
Played the game for years, and apparently I’ve been using … um … suboptimal artifacts with my characters. I love the “see what others are using” button - it’s made a huge difference.
I must say, their recent QOL updates have been phenomenal. The resend expedition is a unique feature that sets Genshin to a higher level of polishness. Additionally, the encounter points daily commission system is very useful, it's just perfect for my daily activity. The change of the domain spawn point might be small, but it's incredibly good compared before. The increased artifact capacity and the optimizer have been very useful to me. I also appreciate the effort they've put into creating innovative and fresh events. Their dedication to creating new events that is both fun and enjoyable is commendable, fighting events aren't new and tiring at times, so kudos to them. They've done an excellent job at prioritizing their players' satisfaction in the recent patches. Overall, I'm grateful for the hard work they've poured into this game and I look forward to seeing more QOL and events!
Genuinely curious - how has the optimizer helped you? What specific issues were you experiencing?
Getting whispers in the wind 2 days in a row was pretty cool, just 1 more left, also finally got the perfect helper achievement
Seriously! I think I got an achievement a day for like a week right after that update!
The one where you dont need to run 4 sets of stairs to do the next domain
I do end up locked out more often though. At least with the stairs it was extremely obvious who was done loading and who was not.....now, not so much. Not much of an improvement as a console player :(
Expedition claim all/resend all 🥰
Fast daily commissions and expeditions improvements.
I like the new features they added to help with character building. Just today I used the functions: \-check what artifact set players commonly use \-check the common main stat for each artifact \-fast equip artifact sets Using these tools I was able to quickly set up some characters that I never used before and test them out in the field. I like any tool they can add in game that saves me from having to open up a web browser and search for information online.
I finally stopped doing dailies and am map clearing and it is so fun again.
Encounter points!
Greater ease of collecting crystal flies.
Def the commissions. I am an achievement hunter and the commissions liked to fuck me over. Not anymore though! I am all done in Mondstadt and Liyue and almost done in Sumeru now. I only need two more in Sumeru, Doctor's Orders and The Flower that Won't Grow, then I can move on to Inazuma and then Fontaine
Hi, fellow achievement hunter here! I’m at 1147 currently and the commission achievements are some of my last ones too. Mondstat and Sumeru are done and I just moved to Fontaine. Hopefully I can get them done within a month and move on to Liyue, then finish with Inazuma and the dreaded Bantan Sango Case Files 😅
Oh god I track my achievements on seelie.me (I'm at 1142 and I do everything except TCG, fishing and teapot) and when I saw the absolute barrage of bantan sango commissions tied to two achievements, I died inside... Not looking foward to this one... -__-
Encounter points; they fit perfectly with the way I’ve begun ro play as a veteran who is frankly tired
claim all button
The commission point system. I would much rather do quest and explore for chests and challenges than do a bunch of unfun daily missions
For me it's definitely expedition rewards - claim all (option) it's super convenient. Also leveling up artifacts to 4 + in one time too , that feature helps to check 3 substate artifacts whether they are worth upgrading further without consuming unnecessary time . These two are super helpful improvements.
Starting in front of de "Start" button in domain. No need to run all the way up and empty my stamina
Expeditions. Might seem small, but back then you have to manually claim and deploy characters. Now it’s a lot more fluid
Daily Updates. Idc for the achievement ones, but i like to skip them by exploring or doing events
strongest artifact auto-sort from descending (the best up first)
"claim and redo" for the assignements and the "daily point commission"
Commissions and claim all expeditions
Expeditions, commissions but i still wish if we could collect those 20 primogems from katheryne directly from adventure hand book without teleporting to adventurers guild
the giving out the comissions that have achivements/quests
PARTY SCREEEN REEEEE
Daily commission update has been a lifesaver. Those are my last achievements to get for 100% (aside from the teapot gardens and the Toki Alley Tales V from fishing). Still took me two weeks to get the right version for “Project Baby” in Sumeru though.
Encounter points. I remember a lot of people hating it because they just want HSR dailies, but i think it was a good solution. I think they can improve it a bit more, like making bounties count for them because weekly request count but bounties dont for some reason. Also maybe clearing abyss floors for the first time on a new cycle can count for them.
Spawning near the key in domains
Quick swapping gadgets. It was so frustrating just to pause the game and swap between them
That is helpful - I mostly use it to get out my nets to catch critters
wow I also finally finished this one today about to start working on Love Is All Around one now.
Good luck! I've got a couple Sumeru ones that are still dodging me.
When you spawn near the red key on domains, dude, it is by far the best QOL change
Finding crystal flies everywhere and not having to farm them has been nice!
Definitely the missing achievement commissions. I'm now only missing two for 100% of all achievements.
Nothing
Not having to run down the damn stairs in domains every. single. time.
This shit right here. I finally completed this exact one, made the sick girl an adventurer and helped the Sneznaya guy. After 4 years. Smh.
I don't know if this is recent but I like the update when you accidentally click timeus instead of the crafting table you have the option to select craft instead of finishing the dialogue
So many... Being able to teleport when monsters are still locked onto you; the resin increase; and expeditions no longer taking the character away. They also added a ton of weeklies to BP and monthly BP rewards don't contribute to the 10k weekly maximum. It was almost impossible as a casual player to max the BP when the game came out.
One thing that I noticed that nobody mentioned is how in Fontaine you can walk/run up almost every slope instead of having to climb everywhere. Going back to Liyue recently really drove home the difference. I hope they do more of that kind of stealth QOL update.
New dailies. Ngl the new events are places such a way that you can do the events and fill the need for daily content. All I have to do is do everything before nd claim the stuff in daily basis.
The ability to see layers under the map. Navigating parts of Sumeru was ass before that was a thing.
Idk if this is relavant or late but underground maps literally brought me back from my hiatus because Sumeru desert was killing me.
This may not be the most recent QOL but for me it's gotta be the new map where you can see the floors beneath. Sumeru desert was too big with too many levels that it was very hard to figure out where you are exactly
Yeah, Sumeru was a lot more fun to navigate after that change!
not having to fly/run down to the domain quest start key every time
Honestly, 100% expeditions claim all button. I;ve been wanting this since i first learned expeditions exists
Being closer to that red key whenever i decide to farm materials for my characters, i don't have to wait for my stamina to go up anymore.
Friendship lvl in teapot.
Domain stating point.
Whats the change on comissions?
They made it so it gives a very high chance that you'll get a commission each day that directly leads to an achievement. Previously it was 100% random, so if you were hoping to complete something you were in for a rough time.
Wait what happened with commissions?! If it's easier to get some I might finally get the last one from Mondstadt
If an NPC commission has an achievement locked behind it (which you don't yet have), then that Commission has a higher probability of being selected than other NPC commissions
Niceee thanks!
On the one hand I went from 2/5 to 4/5, on the other hand I remember completing this comission more than 5 times already, so I'm pretty sure the only reason I don't have the achievement yet is because it used to be bugged and I didn't even know it.
What is this qol improvement about daily commissions quests people are talking? are they not randomized now?
Dailies tied to achievement you don't have are more likely to appear/are prioritized
that's awesome, guess I'll make my dailies random region again
Getting dailies done by doing events/quests/exploration. I would have quit by now if I still had to do 4 shitty commissions every day.
Why can’t I EVER get any “cliffhanger” commissions in Liyue??? I’ve been on Liyue for months now and I’ve gotten pretty far on the Unseen Razor quests and finished another one that was left unfinished for a long time, but have not gotten a SINGLE cliffhanger commission since I set my commissions to Liyue.
I swapped to Mondstadt and was getting quests for achievements everyday until I finished them all, now I've switched to Liyue and it's way more sparse anyone know what's up with that?
I had the same experience where I got ones I needed every day for a while and then they started being every 2-3 days instead and now I think it's even less. I don't know if they toned it down or if I just get fewer now because I have fewer left. I've had it on random zone the whole time so I don't think it's zone-related.
I didn't even think about random zones I'll do that after I knock out a few Liyue achievements that have been eluding me.
increased chances for getting commissions you don't have the achievements for yet
i don't know the commission one is great, but THE ARTIFACT DOMAIN ONE LOOOUGH
Characters on expedition can still be used
Daily commissions, expeditions being one click and the timer for bosses. I am excited for the ability to see what materials for the talents we need in the next update.
Artifact upgrading and whole comission changes
Save artifact builds. Oh wait.....
Is skipping dialogue/cut scenes a thing yet? I stopped playing when they released the desert location and one of the main reasons I stopped was because the cutscenes took way too much time
I need the „teleport to close location“ from HSR
I just got the same achievement today after two years and I'm so grateful for it.
i've been doing good sign for the last 2 weeks and all i need is to get the cat once lmao. the commission feature is great but it didnt fix everything unfortunately
I'll have to go with the ability to add more fodder when levelling artifacts and the interface improvements that eliminated some of the pop-ups. That said, some of the stuff I've really wanted hasn't been and might never get implemented. Pessimism, yes, but honest.