Saving progress and plans for the future
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incompleterulerI've been meaning to post something new for a while now, and while I've had a few ideas, I haven't really had the time to properly write them out as entries for this blog. So I figured I could just post a little about my current Genshin experience!
As I mentioned on the ask meme I did a few weeks ago, I'm currently AR 55, WL 7. I'm up to date with the AQ and I don't have much time to play these days so I haven't been progressing with the story lately. I do want to continue a few quests, though, namely the Yashiori island one (I saw that there's a boss fight at the very end and that's been making me avoid it just because it's Maguu Kenki and it's... so annoying. I can't believe I prefarmed that for Kazuha. I also want to continue some other Inazuma quests and the Narzissenkreuz one in Fontaine, which I accidentally unlocked a few days ago while playing with a friend, but I've heard it's good so I wanted to check it out.
But like I said, I don't play a lot these days so I don't really do quests... I've mostly been exploring. I can either be very lazy when it comes to exploring or very excited about it, lol. I used to avoid it when I started playing, but now I think it's one of my favourite things to do. I've been working on 100%ing a Mondstadt subregion, which I currently have at 96%! I'm excited to finally complete it. I'm also close to fully levelling up Mondstadt's Statue of the Seven.
This brings me to my next point... the character I'm currently saving for! I already have most of my favourites, but if there's anyone I really want and don't own yet, it's Venti!! I've always been fond of him, even before I started playing Genshin. I'm currently at 102 wishes with around 10-20 pity, so I'm confident I'll have enough to have him guaranteed by the time he re-runs again. I'm really excited for his banner... I also want to get Heizou because I read his story recently and he just appeals to me, lol, but pulling for 4 stars is a dangerous move and I'm not going to make that mistake again (pulled once in Hu Tao's banner after I got Nahida to see if I could get at least one Xingqiu constellation... I got nothing but C2 Sethos T_T). Once I get Venti, I'll probably save up for future banners I might be interested in, though the next two characters I'd love to get are Lyney and Navia.
Something I also want to do in Genshin is open the archive and start reading the books there. I prioritise character lore first and foremost, but I have to say that the more I play this game, the more I enjoy its worldbuilding and each region's background. I love analysing media, finding parallels, etc; and while Genshin has too many characters for me to do that with everyone, I do have some stuff thought up about my favourites (mainly Wanderer and Ei; I consider them to be more similar than people think and I'll definitely write a post about them someday because I have SO much to say!)
I'm not really sure if there's anything else left for me to mention, lol. Either way, writing this entry was definitely fun. I hope I can write more entries at a somewhat consistent rate sometime soon. See you next time!
As I mentioned on the ask meme I did a few weeks ago, I'm currently AR 55, WL 7. I'm up to date with the AQ and I don't have much time to play these days so I haven't been progressing with the story lately. I do want to continue a few quests, though, namely the Yashiori island one (I saw that there's a boss fight at the very end and that's been making me avoid it just because it's Maguu Kenki and it's... so annoying. I can't believe I prefarmed that for Kazuha. I also want to continue some other Inazuma quests and the Narzissenkreuz one in Fontaine, which I accidentally unlocked a few days ago while playing with a friend, but I've heard it's good so I wanted to check it out.
But like I said, I don't play a lot these days so I don't really do quests... I've mostly been exploring. I can either be very lazy when it comes to exploring or very excited about it, lol. I used to avoid it when I started playing, but now I think it's one of my favourite things to do. I've been working on 100%ing a Mondstadt subregion, which I currently have at 96%! I'm excited to finally complete it. I'm also close to fully levelling up Mondstadt's Statue of the Seven.
This brings me to my next point... the character I'm currently saving for! I already have most of my favourites, but if there's anyone I really want and don't own yet, it's Venti!! I've always been fond of him, even before I started playing Genshin. I'm currently at 102 wishes with around 10-20 pity, so I'm confident I'll have enough to have him guaranteed by the time he re-runs again. I'm really excited for his banner... I also want to get Heizou because I read his story recently and he just appeals to me, lol, but pulling for 4 stars is a dangerous move and I'm not going to make that mistake again (pulled once in Hu Tao's banner after I got Nahida to see if I could get at least one Xingqiu constellation... I got nothing but C2 Sethos T_T). Once I get Venti, I'll probably save up for future banners I might be interested in, though the next two characters I'd love to get are Lyney and Navia.
Something I also want to do in Genshin is open the archive and start reading the books there. I prioritise character lore first and foremost, but I have to say that the more I play this game, the more I enjoy its worldbuilding and each region's background. I love analysing media, finding parallels, etc; and while Genshin has too many characters for me to do that with everyone, I do have some stuff thought up about my favourites (mainly Wanderer and Ei; I consider them to be more similar than people think and I'll definitely write a post about them someday because I have SO much to say!)
I'm not really sure if there's anything else left for me to mention, lol. Either way, writing this entry was definitely fun. I hope I can write more entries at a somewhat consistent rate sometime soon. See you next time!
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Date: 2024-12-15 12:33 am (UTC)anyway, i totally feel you with the maguu kenki putting you off finishing the yashiori island quest. i started playing just before the release of 1.6, so i'm sure you can imagine how much i struggled fighting against that thing as an ar20-something player for one of that patch's events… o(--( i still don't care to fight it tbh, but it's gotten easier with time
the narzissenkreuz quests are super good!!! (plus their leitmotif is a banger) it is true that it's best experienced all in one sitting though, so i hope you get some free time soon to settle in for their storytelling :3
genshin lore around teyvat's regional history is so so so much fun too. i remember a few years ago (like, pre-chasm release) i got really into studying liyue lore for smth i was writing and found it really interesting that liyue's history would mention rex lapis pretty much every time without fail, whereas there were a lot of books on mond's history that don't even mention barbatos.
which makes sense in-universe bc of the cultural differences in their societies, but at the same time, that's what makes it so cool!!! what these books talk about and gloss over can imply volumes abt the worldbuilding and it's just ugh!! super duper cool
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Date: 2024-12-15 09:55 pm (UTC)Yeahh that boss is just so annoying. I hate how it has two points where it's just immune to absolutely everything you throw at it; I've been putting off levelling Kazuha to level 90 because I don't want to farm that monstrosity again lol
ooo I love leitmotifs (plus I definitely want to make a post about Genshin music sooner or later, it's SO good). I hope I have some free time soon as well, uni has been keeping me super busy orz
And that's super fun!! I love how detailed the worldbuilding in Genshin is, down to the little things like books you find in the overworld. It's so fun. I've only read a few ones (mainly Mond ones because... it's not even my favourite nation, but I just like Mond a lot lol) but I can't wait to check more of them out. I do pick up every single book I see so I'm certain I have loads of content waiting for me!!
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Date: 2024-12-16 05:21 pm (UTC)I feel you so hard about the Maguu Kenki tho god... The only reason it doesn't bother me so much anymore is because they've put it in Spiral Abyss so often over the years that I got fighting it down to an art. Wouldn't recommend the experience to my worst enemies tho.
Narzissenkreuz is Such a good quest, the only downside is that you have to do somewhere between 5 and 10 separate quests to get the full story, but that's what Genshin does when it wants a quest to be really good. I wish you the best of luck on your pulls too! I'm also waiting around for them to rerun Venti and god I wish they would just put me out of my misery already. Or at least run Xiao so I have someone I actually want to spend my pulls on...
I also want to catch up on the archive and lore soon, I've just been driven into the ground by school and ended up falling behind during Sumeru and never quite caught up. It was actually a project idea of mine at one point to make audiobooks of all of Genshin's books to post on YouTube as a kind of resource for people. Who knows if I ever will now, but the books are still fun to read!
Looking forward to reading more of your posts in the future! I hope you have a nice day!
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Date: 2024-12-18 11:29 pm (UTC)Yeah I talked about Narzissenkreuz with my friend today and she told me that it consists of a LOT of really long quests... I'm cool with that though, because as you said, that's what Genshin does when it wants a quest to be good. Good luck with either Venti or Xiao to you as well!
The audiobooks are such a good idea! Personally I'm the kind of person who prefers reading to listening to something in the background, but I think people would appreciate it a lot. As I mentioned on my other comment I really haven't read that many, mostly Mond books because they're the first ones I got, but I can't wait to reread those and read every other one.
And thank you so much, same goes to you!! (✿^‿^)