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Just checking, have you got your monthly 5 of each out of the dust shop?
He seems interesting but awkwardly designed, such that I’m not sure I understand his intended use or strengths.
Kaveh might turn out to have some good uses though. He has the ability to cause every Dendro core in range to blow up instantly, which in turn allows more cores to be generated faster.
Actually I think I can armchair the math, but it'll be in CND prices. 10 wishes is 1600 gems. $20 only gets you 980 gems buying direct (ignoring the one time bonus for a first purchase). $7 for the Welkin gets you 2700 drip fed over a month, plus an instant 300 on purchase. And $14 for the BP gets you ~1320 gems.
So fuck, round the numbers down a tiny bit just to make them more presentable. $20 for Welkin/BP is 4320 gems or 27 wishes. Or $20 direct for... fuck it lets actually include the bonus, 1960 gems or 12 wishes. The obvious caveat here is that while your money goes further with the welkin/bp, it's also a slow gain. When there's only 1 day left on the banner and you just need that character, your only option is buying direct, and you're going to pay for it.
As much as I love Genshin. As much as I love its production values. It's still a fucking hardcore gatcha game at heard. And fundamentally... fuck gatcha games. That being said, it's almost hilarious how this is one of the "better" gatcha games. Apparently a "thing" other games have started to do is differentiate between currency earned in game, and actual paid currency. Fuckin' ew.
the weapon banner pity system is still criminally sadistic ;p
its kind of annoying just how hard they push welkin since there just really isnt any other decent source of gems. the system also actively discourages long-term subscriptions/payments as once you start getting more c6 4*'s, the token single wish you get for pulling a useless dupe is just.. so lame when there's SO many 4*'s that are quite hard to get cons for.
The main thing you're going to want him for is his Burst because on-field characters that get healed by his Burst gain damage bonuses to Dendro Reactions (the Bloom suite and Aggravate/Quicken and also Burning I guess) based on his HP which is the stat every other part of his kit scales off of. So you are basically incentivized to only focus on building HP and Energy Recharge on him which is just...really really good. Obviously you'll need some Crit Rate too if you run Favonius on him but that's a given and if you run him in Double Dendro teams, you can generally get away with a max Refine Prototype Amber because that's HP scaling, healing focused and gives him energy. So that part of him is just honestly really good. It's really easy to knock his shield because it's made of paper but the main reason you apply it is so you can take a hit (and you will get damaged) without getting flung across the map. It's basically like the 'shield' you get from Thoma's Burst; it's not really preventing damage by itself but it's reapplying fairly quickly, it's saving you some stamina/letting you keep attacking and, in the case of Baizhu, it's healing you and dealing damage/applying Dendro when a unit breaks it (only for it to reapply again while his Burst is up).
That said, in general you are going to want to run him on Double Dendro teams which basically means an Aggravate team with Nahida or DMC and Electro on-fielders (So Keqing or Cyno for your main DPS and then like Yae Miko or Fischl. Cases could be made for other Electro units, like I could see a Beidou Aggravate team being pretty good if you're also using DMC or Nahida for AoE Dendro) or you can run him in a Spread team alongside Alhaitham or probably Tighnari. It will just make his energy generation better, as well as your other Dendro unit's, you'll get some extra Elemental Mastery out of Dendro resonance and it just works. He is a very solid unit for these kinds of teams and honestly, just overall.
The reason people will be bothered by him is that he's around as good as Yaoyao which is not completely unreasonable. Yaoyao will do better in AoE situations almost universally and because of how Dendro works, multiple applications are just incredibly valuable, so with Baizhu being primarily a single-target unit, that is a bit of a drawback. But this is a sort of situation where, like, you say "Yelan is around as good as Xingqiu" in that it sounds bad because 5-star versus 4-star but Yaoyao is a very good unit, so saying Baizhu is around as good as her - better in some scenarios, worse in others - means that he is also very good. Still, it's the perception, not to mention we've been waiting for him to be playable for the entire run of the game, plus he's a Liyue character, so 'only' being very good will not be enough for some people. And I'm not really going to argue that point, honestly, because his kit feels fairly restricted in parts (I'm personally so goddamn tired of characters having 80 cost Bursts and bad/low particle generation) purely to sell his Signature/Constellations as per usual, but the sting is somewhat lessened for me because his Constellations are kind of a joke despite having QoL increases and you can completely ignore his Signature in favor of a craftable weapon or Favonius Codex. And in general he's just...fine. In a game where characters tend to come out absolutely terrible or massively OP, a character that comes out and just works can feel underwhelming. That's not fair, of course, but it's how it goes and I would kind of expect a character that's had this long of a wind-up to be like....more notable.
Quinnipiac's trapping garbage vs. Minnesota the for sure best team for the title on Saturday.
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There are only a couple things left to see if he can achieve.
First is goals. He is at 64 goals. since the lost season in 2004, the highest number has been Ovechkin with 65.
The highest point total from anyone not named Gretzky or Lemieux is 155 by Steve Yzerman. McDavid is at 151.
2 goals and/or 5 points in the last 2 games are needed to pass one or both of those numbers.
Also my favorite thing on the Oilers broadcast was them talking about how Zach Hyman has a career season at 83 points, over a point per game. Great season. He's 4th on the team in scoring and the top scorer on the team has 68 more points than he does.
His 18th consecutive season going over 1 ppg, 1 behind gretzky who did it 19 times.
If the Capitals or Flyers manage to win today, there's a good chance the penguins will make the playoffs for the 17th consecutive season as well.
Worst two teams for a penguins fan to root for, but it's the playoffs
Fucking caps
Edit:
From what I remember it's a Chinese animated series/webcomic that I guess is somewhat popular in China?
Colab events are weird, so I dunno
Also Minnesota had a 2-0 lead and then turtled for 35 minutes handing all initiative to Quinnipiac. Naturally they blew it and lost 10 seconds into overtime.
So this again but this time it’s Detroit and Chicago.
OT wins don't help the penguins cause we don't have the tie breaker, so Toronto failed, but the Capitals did a good job!
If the Pens win their last two games they are in.
Edit: if sports betting was legal in my state without me having to drive to a tribal casino, I would put money on #lumbus beating us
Frankly I think had they known they would be in this position at the beginning of the season they might have done something besides roll with Anderson. Then again, they might have done something meaningful at the deadline too.
But a win tonight keeps us very much alive and a FLA loss in their next game would be huge.