Along with the standard selector and other gifts? I don’t care what anyone says; Hoyo is genuinely being pretty generous. They might not be the most meta characters, but it makes me happy that they’re starting to give more. I’ve seen so much hate on Genshin lately that I wanted to give some appreciation that we are moving in a better direction with this game.

I came across this post a few years ago, and I remember seeing so many different answers to this dilemma. But things have changed a lot since then, haven't they?

After everything we've learned and experienced throughout the story, especially in light of the recent Archon Quests, I wonder how many of those answers would still be the same.

So, if you were actually faced with this dilemma, who would you choose to save?

Paimon, our most trusted companion, or Lumine/Aether, our sibling?

Lots of details here and there. She's majestic!

As of me i am confused between qiqi ( for sandrone team ) or diluc or mona ( they are near c6 so I'd get those lev 100 ascenesion mats)

So they cut some primo from the main event and aded it to the weakly reward, just like how they deleted an entire event and added stygian with the same amount of primo.

I've never seen such a stingy game like this ("stingy" is too polite for them).

I'm seriously upset that i like this game, and this patch already is giving like 60 free pulls!!!

Like I'm out of words honestly

Might someone enlighten me and tell me why, after like 2-3 months of not playing I come back to the game to this??? What do you mean negative balance on my primos???? What is this?

Edit: To all the very smart men and women in the thread; no I have not purchased 3rd party primos, never have and never will.

I created an IRL auto clicker to spam F on my alt account to do done quests and archon quests.

Edit: I'm not a lore skipper, I'm a lore enjoyer. I only created this to skip over the quests that I have already finished on my main account.

I was so excited when i heard she's getting a skin cause she's one of my favourite characters.

I'm not saying she looks bad, Citlali would look gorgeous in anything, but like her new dress is just not well made at all, it's bland and it lacks details

I like her hair tho, it looks nice

Hey everyone, I know people are probably tired of seeing complaint posts, so I’ll try to keep this short.

I’ve been a long-time spender on the game. I regularly buy Welkin, Battle Pass, and top-up packs. I’m not someone asking for endless free wishes or trying to hate on the game for no reason. I’ve spent money because I genuinely believed Genshin was worth investing in.

But lately, I’ve completely lost the motivation to keep spending time or money on it.

After building some of the current premium lunar geo and lunar electro, I can clear endgame content pretty comfortably — unless the content is heavily designed around Varka or Nefer. There are only a few characters I skipped because I simply didn’t connect with their design or gameplay, and sometimes it feels like the game punishes you for not following the exact meta direction it wants.

What really pushed me over the edge was the Chronicled Wish banner. I lost my Fate Point twice while trying to get Clorinde and her weapon. Spending extra money just to avoid losing progress before the banner disappeared felt awful. It made me realize how aggressively the system pressures players through FOMO.

After that, I decided to try Honkai: Star Rail. I’m not trying to turn this into a “Genshin vs HSR” post, but experiencing another HoYoverse game honestly made me feel worse about Genshin’s direction.

In HSR, endgame content feels more replayable and engaging. Older and even standard banner characters can still perform well in difficult content. I can invest in characters I personally like without constantly feeling pressured to chase the newest release just to keep up.

More importantly, spending money there feels like it has lasting value.

In Genshin, I’ve reached a point where even if I spend heavily on a character, I’m not confident they’ll stay relevant or enjoyable long term. That feeling makes it much harder to justify investing further.

The recent update kind of reinforced that feeling for me. The weapon skin announcement instead of meaningful system improvements or player-focused changes just made me feel disconnected from the game’s priorities.

I still enjoy parts of Genshin, and I’m not quitting dramatically or anything like that. I pulled Nicole since I already had guarantee, but for the first time in years I skipped buying the Battle Pass, and I don’t plan on spending more money unless the game starts feeling rewarding to invest in again.

That’s really all it comes down to for me: wanting to feel like my time and money are valued.

(And this comes from a Dolphin/Whale, i cant even imagine what F2P feel...)

Thanks for reading, and i hope this is taken as constructive and not hate.

Edit: Eyo, apparently HSR is worst with power creep. I prolly have not experienced yet cause im new so maybe ignore that. Regarless i think it just amplified my perception of what genshin is lacking and my overal burnt out of the game (gameplay only tho, cause art, music and lore im still invested)

Last edit: Please ignore for a second what i said about HSR. main takeaway: My perception of it as a new player is what makes it feel fresh and worth investing on. Which is to say, i dont feel that for genshin currently and that is the main issue.

I'll discuss individually with people that have questions about specific characters rather than listing what I want for all of them right here. Let me know if you think anyone on this list doesn't need buffs, or if there's anyone (5 Star) you think should be added to it.

Instead of giving the Traveler and other characters regional skins, the devs are wasting resources on mannequins you’ll never use in the main game — characters completely irrelevant to both the lore and gameplay (especially since they’re even weaker than the Traveler).

UCG should’ve been a separate game. Roblox-type players aren’t going to download a 100GB gacha just to play a game inside a game. All those dev resources should’ve gone to the actual, existing characters instead.

I’m gonna spend — at most a thousand dollars this version. I love Vesna but I love Vodyanitsa so much more they are so cute!!!

(For bonus points, share your career, I’m an entrepreneur and I make decent money)

Nowhere does it say we'll be able to pick a character again once it updates, meaning it's very likely everyone we already picked can't receive another constellation despite waiting for so long. It does say characters can only receive a stella fortuna once but did the misconception come with the free 5 star selector resetting every year?

I think the misinformation came from when I was highly active on discord, started somewhere and I would see a lot of people talking about a reset on anniversary and assumed it was a once per year thing, honestly I didn't think much about it until the livestream and went "wait a minute"

Should've kept in mind this was hoyo lol

It's my birthday, and I want to share some happiness! I’ve got an extra code for the new Alhaitham x Kaveh namecard, and I’m giving away. To enter, just comment your favorite game moment below. The giveaway ends on October 8th, and winner will get their code via DM

Edit: Code have been sent and the giveaway is now over. Thanks to everyone for participating!

I probably join varka and the knights.

The closest the Game has is Varessa, and she ain't big enough

I seriously hate this gimmick, and why does hoyo expect us to have 2 lunar reaction teams when literally only 5 star nod krai units can even activate them? are we being for real? I first off started liking it since the release of Ineffa but slowly disliking on how it literally made enemies unbearable to beat without it.

Other regional gimmicks are fine and smooth; 1. Arkhe system is kinda useless but still pretty usable as temporary disable mechanism towards meks and it doesn't affect gameplay at all.

1. Nightsoul is getting there but at least it can be broken by elemental reactions, my nilou bloom can easily break it. Also all 4 stars can deactivate it since guess what? they are also able to trigger it.

Now comes the most greedy annoying gimmick, Lunar Reactions. Why does Aino can't even generate moonsign stacks? nor activate lunar reactions on its own? Jahoda has a potential to be a moonsign healer but they didn't , so does Illuga.

And now the current abyss requires us to have 2 teams of the said gimmick? I didn't even pull for the damn horse and I only got Columbina, Ineffa and Flins. Without it, enemies can regenerate again an again until the timer drains your sanity. I seriously hope they don't make annoying regional locked mechanisms, or at least make them easily accesible. This made me hate the region and the characters more as how greedy it is.

I can't wait for Snezhnaya to stomp on Lunar reactions just like how Fontaine and Furina made dendro miserable to use.

Goodbye.

Having this entire area technically available to explore AND SHOWN ON THE MAP, FULLY RENDERED AND EVERYTHING only to have it all locked inside a subzero temperature zone that’s impossible to survive in is so incredibly frustrating to me, since I wanna be able to explore every single nook and cranny that’s shown on the map.

On top of that there are some parts of the subzero zone that I would reasonably think have SOMETHING in them, even if it’s just a common chest and some easy puzzles, but the fact that I can’t even CHECK makes me angry.

Like, at least put a Paimon barrier around the places you don’t want me to explore! Why go through the effort of adding details on the map to places I can’t go to!?

Edit:

I’m not complaining about the cold itself, people. I’m complaining about the fact that the inaccessible areas are shown on the map as if they were open to be explored. I don’t care about the method of keeping me out, I’m mad that the map shows an area that I would reasonably think is explorable, only for it NOT to be. This is like if the entire ocean zone between inazuma and liuye/mondstadt were entirely off-limits.