Morning friends. I am not entirely certain what to talk about because I had a fairly rough night after which my mind is largely blank. I do know that I spent a good deal of the weekend playing Genshin Impact and at least a chunk of yesterday was spent looking for things to do in it. Since I am struggling to get started, lets do an informational dump of some things I have come to realize. Special thanks to my friend Easha for setting me off in this direction. First off I’ve talked about this a bit, but in Genshin Impact there is Cross Play and Cross Save, and they represent two different things.
Cross Save – This allows you to share the same account effectively between multiple platforms. Right now this works for Android/iOS and PC players and they can shift freely between those platforms. PlayStation 4 players at this very moment are stuck to that specific platform, and when the Switch version releases we are uncertain how it will work. I have my hopes that given how many games on the Switch cross save with PC titles… that we will get to add it to the shared account block.
Cross Play – You can play with players on other platforms so long as they are within the same region. That means even though I am on the PC and that the PS4 is excluded from Cross Save… that I can friend someone with a PS4 account and run co-op content with them. Once again this is pending they are in the same region as me.
Regions – Right now the game has four regions that I am aware of, with one of those that I have next to no information about.
Mainland China – I have no clue at all how to get onto this server. Given that it is the first server I would imagine the numbering scheme would be very low.
America – This server is indicated by a UID that starts with the number 6, for example 600012345
Europe – This server is indicated by a UID that starts with the number 7, for example 700012345
Southeast Asia – This server is indicated by a UID that starts with the number 8, for example 800012345
You can play freely within your own regional block, but there appears to be no way to play across region which is unfortunate.
I spent a good chunk of yesterday afternoon, roaming around and trying to collect all of the “Air Doodads”, which is what I call them because I never can remember how to spell their real name. In the Game Tools menu there are a number of things that are useful related to Genshin Impact, but one of them is an interact map that folks have been using to collect the location of various data points. Slight problem that I did not realize at the time I made my run from point to point is that apparently you have to be near the elevation in order to get the Star icon to show up on your in game map. This means that while I travelled to the location of every doodad, I failed to get 4 of them… meaning I am going to have to reset the map and start over from scratch. One nice feature of the map though is it allows you to log in with a google account (because it is driven on google maps) and mark various items as “found”.
I’m in a phase of the game where I am needing to judiciously apply my Resin each day so that I can focus down specific materials that I need for weapon and character unlocks. This means that there are a certain number of times when I am just sorta looking for something to do. Last night I made it my mission to put the entire map of Mondstadt and Liyue on respawn for all of the mini bosses. There are a number of encounters that can drop useful bits and that don’t require Resin to earn rewards, and if you go into the bosses section of the adventure log you can even navigate to the nearest instance of that miniboss.
I did this until I put each and every one on cooldown, something that took me pretty much the entirety of two episodes of Fear the Walking Dead and the new Walking Dead World Beyond. This was worth a decent amount of cash, experience and a significant chunk of materials. Speaking of materials… another tidbit of information is that apparently the listed 30,000 inventory isn’t really just one big bag. There appears to be smaller sub containers for each TYPE of thing… and these seem to be somewhere around 1000 items or 150 rows in your inventory. So that would mean 1000 artifacts, 1000 weapons, 1000 collectable resources, etc… which doesn’t seem to actually add up to 30,000.
I would not be shocked if there is a per resource limit to the number of items you can have in a single stack as well. In theory you should be burning through your artifacts and weapons to help power whatever you are using up. However for other resources those might stockpile a bit, and currently the largest single stack I have of anything is Iron Chunks at 439. I will have to watch and see if I reach a point where I can no longer loot any more of these. As far as artifacts and weapons, I am in the part of the game where I need a constant supply of these to fuel into the few weapons that I actually care about keeping so I am no longer at a risk of ever having too many.
Starting today is an Elemental Crucible Co-Op event and I don’t know much about it. It apparently happened on the test servers during the various phases of closed beta and was a good source of resources. I expect tonight to poke my head in, and given that it takes resin I am going to let that stockpile throughout the day so that I can have plenty for whatever this event brings tonight. You can check out the official Mihoyo news post here, but it appears this will be limited to accounts that have hit AR20 and have completed all of the quests in Prologue: Act II.
In other news I managed to pull a 5 star weapon from the normal banner, which means my pity has been reset back to zero. I guess I will have to figure out what to do with this book, given it seems to be dps focused and I am not currently running any DPS casters. I would have far rather had a character, but you get what you get. Something that has come to my attention is that the Pity counter is apparently tied to each individual banner, so there is one for the featured character banner, the weapon banner and finally one tied to the normal banner. I had been spending the little bit of primagems each day on the normal banner, given that I already had venti and didn’t really want to get additional copies of him. However I also am not super interested in five star weapons so I might end up shifting up that lock at some point.
Towards the end of the week I was starting to run out of things to focus on… but with a new reset begins a new week of things to start plugging away at for the battle pass. I am probably going to hold off on doing either the Wolf or Stormterror because I am pretty close to 34, which means it is fairly likely that I will hit 35 before the next reset. I am not sure if this will increase my chance at getting 5 star artifacts but I feel like I should probably hold off regardless. Tuesday will distract me with the release of the World of Warcraft pre-patch so I will need to devote a certain chunk of time to Genshin or else I will probably be spending all of it doing the pre-events in WoW. We are entering a very busy time of the year for releases so we will see how well I keep up with things in Genshin.
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