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  • MirkelMirkel FinlandRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    I've spent something like that as well, but all in Welkins and BPs as those are way more cost effective ways to get a few more primos.

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  • GlaziusGlazius Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Magic Pink wrote: »
    well

    i did it

    i broke down and gave Genshin 50$. I feel bad about it and I worry I'm going to get addicted to gambling and get on heroin and sell my cats for that sweet horse

    worst part is i only ended up with a c3 Miku and 1 starlight short of Razor

    edit: ah fuck totp my shame on display for all noooooooo

    Just checking, have you got your monthly 5 of each out of the dust shop?

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  • metaghostmetaghost An intriguing odor A delicate touchRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    Is there any preliminary scuttlebutt about Dendro Snakeman?

    He seems interesting but awkwardly designed, such that I’m not sure I understand his intended use or strengths.

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  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    He's a Catalyst healer, already a knock against him because Genshin doesn't have a need for a focused healer even in Abyss compared to a need for more damage, and has a shield that periodically refreshes and is also incredibly weak. I don't see the point of him compared to someone like Nahida who can be slotted into any Dendro team to beef it up.

    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.

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  • The WolfmanThe Wolfman Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    I don't know the detailed money-per-unit math or anything. But basically the welkin and BP are just better returns. Welkin, when combined with doing 4 commissions a day, effectively gives you 1 wish a day (well 150 gems vs the needed 160, but that missing 10 is actually given to you with the 300 genesis gems you also get). Welkin is actually really annoying because I feel like that should be the damn baseline over the otherwise 60 daily gems, or little more than 1/3rd of a wish a day. As for the BP, assuming you only buy it when you max it, that's 8 wishes (8.25 technically).

    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.

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  • XantusXantus Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    the numbers on genshin's gachas are pretty rough compared to some of the better games out there. the freemogems are pretty stingy when there isn't a major event on.
    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.

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  • TofystedethTofystedeth Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    If any of y'all are the twin cities area, next weekend is VGM Con. There will be a bunch of great musicians and cool people there. And me.

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  • Darth_MogsDarth_Mogs Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Baizhu's main points are basically having Dendro Application, good amounts of off-field healing (which still can be useful for QoL if nothing else), Interruption resistance and some extra Dendro reaction damage. (This is not in order of usefulness specifically) His main weaknesses are that he's very single-target focused -which isn't always a weakness- and he's very Energy hungry because he's a character in Genshin Impact after 3.0.

    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.

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  • AshtonDragonAshtonDragon AKA The Nix Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    I agree that Baizhu seems fine, possibly depending on how his energy issues shape up. Should be useful for people who roll for him, but he's not hugely tempting for people who don't care about him. Honestly, the biggest strike against him is just the existence of Yaoyao, which I personally would rather frame as "It's cool that a 4-star character gets the job done" rather than "It sucks that this 5-star character isn't massively better than alternatives". Of course, it's a problem when the 5-star character is too bad, but Baizhu definitely is not Dehya.

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  • enlightenedbumenlightenedbum Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Michigan did their usual thing where they just laid a fucking egg in the national semifinal (seriously, they're 3-11 since '94). Three atrocious goals by the goalie, who also stopped like 6/7 clean breakaways because nobody wanted to play defense.

    Quinnipiac's trapping garbage vs. Minnesota the for sure best team for the title on Saturday.

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  • RMS OceanicRMS Oceanic Registered User regular
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  • JayrichoJayricho Ontario, CanadaRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    Mikko Rantanen joined Jari Kurri and Teemu Selanne as the only Finns to score 50 goals. Pretty good company.

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  • WotanAnubisWotanAnubis Registered User regular
    edited April 14
  • Fighting MongooseFighting Mongoose I don't think you realize just how rich he is. In fact, I should put on a monocle.Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    And 51 and 52.

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  • wunderbarwunderbar What Have I Done? Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    McDavid got to 150. 6th player ever to do so. Gretzky, Lemieux, Yzerman, Esposito, and Bernie Nichols.

    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.

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  • shoeboxjeddyshoeboxjeddy Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    So, does anyone have any background information on this current crossover? I'm lacking all of the context for this and why there's a transforming cat person as an Operator now. And also why these story records won't be retained after the event ends?

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  • BurtletoyBurtletoy Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Sid got 2 goals and an assist to get to 1500 points today as well. Including this crazy backhander off a brutal turnover with 1.5seconds left in the first period

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WyHvbd1w2K0

    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

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  • BurtletoyBurtletoy Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    And under a minute after I post, the Capitals blow their 1 goal lead.

    Fucking caps

    Edit:

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  • JarsJars Registered User regular
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  • ph blakeph blake Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    So, does anyone have any background information on this current crossover? I'm lacking all of the context for this and why there's a transforming cat person as an Operator now. And also why these story records won't be retained after the event ends?

    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

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  • JayrichoJayricho Ontario, CanadaRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    That tweet is exactly how I feel except replace Caps and Flyers with Vegas and Blues.

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  • enlightenedbumenlightenedbum Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Quinnipiac eliminates the entire Big Ten despite having less talent. Hooray for playoff officiating! Quinnipiac's first national title.

    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.

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  • Warlock82Warlock82 Never pet a burning dog Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    I didn't even realize it was a crossover...

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  • JayrichoJayricho Ontario, CanadaRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    Jayricho wrote: »
    That tweet is exactly how I feel except replace Caps and Flyers with Vegas and Blues.

    So this again but this time it’s Detroit and Chicago.

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  • BurtletoyBurtletoy Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Toronto and... The Capitals again!

    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!

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  • wunderbarwunderbar What Have I Done? Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Burtletoy wrote: »
    Toronto and... The Capitals again!

    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.

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  • BurtletoyBurtletoy Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Yes, I am aware and closely following the results of all the games.

    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

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    good ff14 boss song cover
    https://youtu.be/RQSvATgnXLc

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  • YallYall Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    It's nice to be in April with 3 games remaining and seeing my Sabres still have a slight chance.

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  • BurtletoyBurtletoy Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    If they get a goal tender for next season, they'll be right in the thick of the playoff picture I think

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  • YallYall Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Yeah Levi seems legit, and UPL is a serviceable #2.

    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.

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  • JayrichoJayricho Ontario, CanadaRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    It’s crazy to me that the playoffs start in a week. It feels like yesterday that I went to work on like 2-3 hours sleep after Game 6 of the Final.

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