Well friends… it has been twelve days since Genshin Impact released for the North American audience and I feel like I have just now arrived at the “real game”. Last night I hit level 30 and with that opens the last of the story content currently available in the game. They are in theory working on a patch right now for a whole new area to open up roughly the size of Liyue. The reason why I say I am just now arriving at the “real game” is because up until this point I always seemed to have whatever resource I needed at any time I needed it. I could pretty comfortably keep a squad and a half worth of characters fully equipped and leveled without much issue.
At level 30 the World Level increases once again and with it comes the 3rd stage of ascensions for Characters, Weapons and a whole slew of talent levels that you can now train into. All of which require materials that I don’t quite have consistent access to as of yet, and are only really obtainable through the Alchemy table and crafting them. This is a VERY lossy method of obtaining these items and I am very rapidly whittling through whatever reserves that I had stockpiled for this point. I mean the answer to all of these woes is just to “play more of the game”. Thankfully that moment to moment gameplay is so damned good that I am not going to have a problem with this fact. However the relatively rapid ascent is going to grind to a halt for awhile as I slowly upgrade my core team.
I feel like I am probably lucky that I had enough resources banked to pour everything into a single character and kit Razor out completely. The theory being that this one character should be able to carry the rest of the team forward as I ultimately farm all of the resources and mora needed to drag up the rest. I can absolutely foresee that I will probably hit AR35 and the next break WELL before I have managed pulling up those characters, which probably begins a viscous cycle of always being out of resources and money.
I did make a call and ended up switching weapons. I had been using the Sacrificial Greatsword, which had the feature of ending the cooldown of one of my abilities. However since my Razor is built mostly for melee damage output, this wasn’t the best synergy in the world. I’ve now switched to the crafted Greatsword Prototype Aminus which has a 50% chance every 15 seconds of proccing an attack that deals an additional 300% attack damage and causes a small AOE. When this procs it is absolutely glorious and I have crafted two of them… and now am desperately on the hunt for additional Northlander Claymore Prototypes. If anyone has tips for farming these to drop given that they just state as coming from “Bosses”, I would be greatly appreciative.
As for artifacts I am rocking a full set of four stars and using the 2 piece Berserker and 2 piece Gladiator bonus. Once I get a few more pieces of Gladiator I will likely switch over to that set for 4 piece bonus. I think my lowest artifacts are +12 and my highest are +16… but this really comes down to a lack of mora to push them up much higher. That has rapidly become an issue for progression is that I just need so much raw money to pay for the upgrades needed. I guess I could start farming Gold Clouds but up until this point they have seemed like a poor use of Resin.
The most costly thing to level both in Mora costs and resources is absolutely the talents. Each one of these required a significant number of higher tier mob drops, which I had to create through crafting and a copious number of talent books. thankfully I was able to get most of the later through the Battle Pass, which continues to be a phenomenal boon. The positive is that the talent increases make a massive difference in damage throughput each time they are available. So in theory these should also allow me to push a little further into the Spiral Abyss.
Yesterday I lucked out on pulls and managed to get both Ningguang and Fischl, but unfortunately given the drought in resources they are both likely going to be relegated to running missions at the Adventurers guild for the time being. I know given that the content is essentially paused for the moment while additional releases are being worked on by Mihoyo, I should in theory have enough time to dig myself out of this hole. Largely I just wanted to prepare my readers for when the elevator stops going up quite so fast as you hit Adventure Rank 30.
Thankfully however my favorite part of the game is still as valid today as it was on the first day. I love wandering around and exploring. I can get lost in just roaming the map looking for monsters to kill and treasure to open. I still have a copious number of doodads to find out there in the world to finish unlocking the towers, and I have likely not even scratched the surface on all of the possible treasures available. I imagine I will continue finding areas that I have been near but never actually explored fully for a good while. Genshin Impact has an immensely dense world full of lots of tiny details that can be easily missed on the first viewing. I guess in some way I am happy that the ride is slowing down a bit so I can take more time to savor it.
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