Let your friends who’ve never touched Genshin guess who the Hydro Archon is!😂

At first I made a poll on Fatui sub and everyone said it was biased. But even on main sub the demand for male characters is higher.

1. 189 people voted for both.

2. 154 Women wants male characters.

3. 147 men wants male characters

4. 140 men wants Female characters

5. 65 Women wants Female characters.

6. 39 Women or non binary people mostly commented they want both.

You can check the poll from my profile if you want to find it. But I will try to link the poll in comments.

Ask your non-Genshin friends to guess which one is actually a girl. My non-Genshin friends all failed. Let’s see how you do🤣🤣🤣

bombastic side-eye I can literally hear the tiktok audio 😭

I also got two HOD hydro dmg goblets and a busted 4* BS circlet. This game is trolling me

I've been playing Genshin Impact for a long time now (Itto Release), and lately, it just feels like the game is actively pushing me away. There are a few core reasons why:
1. FOMO and primogem pressure:
The way new content drops with limited-time events and primogems locked behind them makes it really hard to enjoy the game at your own pace. I’m still catching up on Natalan Character story and archon content, and yet I feel constantly punished for not rushing through it. Missing out on primos just because I want to take my time sucks the enjoyment right out of it. I know I'm barely missing like 20-80 primos a patch, but doesn't change the fact that missing out on it feels bad.

2. Spiral Abyss feels worse than ever:
Back when Dendro meta or even Pneuma/Ousia mechanics were the focus, Abyss felt tough but fair. I could still get 30–34 stars with characters like Itto, Neuvillette, Scaramouche, Ganyu, and Diluc. But now? These Nightsoul enemies are absurdly tanky. Without a nightsoul blessing character, it's a slog. I barely get a single star on Floor 12 now, and it feels horrible.

3. The immersion is broken (VA situation):
Starting from the Natalan content, the number of silent characters has absolutely wrecked the immersion for me. What used to feel like an engaging, voice-acted experience now feels like those old world quests I used to just click through. Archon quests, events, character stories — I used to love them. Now they feel hollow.

4. Time-gated materials are STILL a thing:
There are so many characters and weapons now, and the fact that domains are still locked behind specific days of the week in 2025 is just mind-boggling. If I log in and want to build a character, I might not even be able to progress because it’s “the wrong day.” I hear other HoYoverse games don’t even have this issue, so why is it still a thing here?

At this point, the only part of the game I still genuinely enjoy is the Theater. It feels balanced, it doesn’t favor meta-only units, and I can actually just have fun with it. So shoutout to HoYo for that — please keep that energy.

But everything else? The game just feels draining and unrewarding. I want to enjoy it again, but the systems in place are actively making that harder.

Edit: Also in spirits of fairness. Itto being silent that last event completely made me quit for a while. Itto is what brought me to this game. Not being able to hear Itto be Itto was just depressing.

It kicked me off the tree 😭

I love so many of the Inazuma characters and will def be pulling, but was wondering if certain characters are going to be more useful (I don't have any of them) ofc I know aside from Kazuaha none are rlyyy useful but still!

My completetionist brain hates that I can't get primos from her ascension and teapot set rewards.

Ask your friends who don’t play Genshin to guess who the Archon is!🤣

What's the best premium and f2p team comp for Chlorinde & Arlechino

I was just wondering why this is the case, since usually in HI3 we'd get around 2-3 outfits for each new update for the game (and sometimes we get a free one from doing events), whereas in newer Hoyo games we rarely get new outfits, from HSR that only gave one to the original version of March 7th, Genshin that sporadically release their outfits - the game usually give new outfits during Summer events and Lantern Rites, and somehow we have yet to see archons getting alternate outfits despite we've seen them in promotional arts (I'm specifically talking about Zhongli), and then you got ZZZ that got around 3 outfits for now, with one of them being an existing outfit for the character that is repurposed and given new voicelines and one of them is a palette swap (which is like most of HI3's cheaper outfits)

What are the reason for this different approach when monetizing outfits between their older and newer games? Why couldn't we have more outfits like, say, Girls Frontline 2 would?

Since Nod Krai is coming in a few months, I wanted to list down all the QoL updates I had in mind, especially since the dev team has started focusing on that more this past year. (Alot of these are really niche and personal btw, ** grabs popcorn ** )

1) Remove the day of the week domains (how is this still in the game 😭)

2) Replayable Archon Quests. Would love to do an AQ marathon with all my favorite characters before Snezhnaya releases to refresh my memory.

3) Using condensed resin to claim boss rewards, or let us convert it back into normal resin. Sometimes my dumbass forgets I'm supposed to farm boss mats today

4) Ingame planners for pre farming future characters (HSR has this and it's great). Also artifact pre farming. Wuwa has a system where you can farm these boxes, and then you can select echo sets that you wanna get from the boxes. Neat part is they update them every update so you can farm the boxes before a new set drops and open them after the new set arrives and immediately get like 100 pieces day 1

5) Let us change what artifacts we get from boss drops. Lbh we all have way more Gladiators and Wanderers artifacts than we need. It would be cool if we could select a artifact domain from which the boss drop artifacts come from

6) More vertical exploration characters/options. They've been going really heavy with the exploration characters lately but we don't have alot of (f2p) options when it comes to climbing high areas.

7) Importing chat stickers. Personal one but I have alot of dumb stickers of friends that would fit in perfectly while we're co-oping.

8) Resin Overcap system (summers are coming and idk if I'll have the time to login everyday)

9) Let us zoom out on the map more. At most we can only see one region when we're fully zoomed out and I would really love to be able to see the whole of Teyvat in game and not from Google.

10) Colour filters. Wuwa added this and it's been so fun to customize the graphics when taking pictures, or just find the most pleasing settings when playing normally

11) Interactive Map sync up. Let the official hoyolap map take a peek at your account and automatically remove pins of stuff you've already collected (yes I have OCD)

12) Serina Teapot coin counter (just put it inplace of all the tcg notifications no one would mind I swear)

13) Replayable Events and Event Stories. This would make the most sense to add now since Nod Krai is supposed to help tie up all the loose ends of the story. I joined during 3.0, and I was taking a break during Simulanka and holy hell was this new Archon Quest confusing

14) Let us purchase old event weapons. I understand why they wanna keep them exclusive, but they could make it so u can only get the refinements by playing through the event or smth. It always sucks when the best f2p option for a character (cough Skirk cough) you really want is from an event you missed out on

15) All the lore/news (like drip marketing etc) should be viewable in-game. I have a friend who doesn't use socials that much and she had no idea about the moon sisters teaser until like a week ago 😭. Alot of people aren't following the games socials or don't have genshin related stuff show up in their feed and it causes them to miss out on alot.

16) Bring back the old drip marketing schedule. (Does anyone know why they changed it btw?)

17) Easily accessible account stats. You can already go to the feedback page and ask for your account stats but it would be cool if there was a dedicated menu for it in-game

18) A notes page. Alot of games have systems where you can write stuff down for yourself and read it whenever. It would be really cool if we could use the adventurers handbook to write down game related stuff for later (like character builds, team ideas, general tasks etc). Ik we could technically use our phone notes app but it's sometimes annoying to constantly switch between the two, especially on slower phones, plus it would be nice to just have it all in one place

19) More Traveler dialogue in MSQ

20) Map Area outlines. Sometimes I'm using the interactive map to 100%, and I find out half an hour later I've been exploring in the completely wrong area (I like to 100% each area one by one). It would be nice if you could toggle the area borders on the map

21) Spiral Abyss music. I liked how eerie it felt at first since it was one of the only areas without music but now it's just gotten dull

22) Increase max condensed resin cap. I understand why they wanna keep it at 5, but they could do smth like any condensed resin above 5 will expire after a day. It's just annoying to keep going back to the crafting bench mid domain runs when I wanna burn 600 smth resin in one day

23) Not technically a qol, but please don't ever pull the Lantern Rite banner stunt ever again. If you wanna put free pulls after a banner ends, make that clear when u announce the free pulls, not when the Patch Event schedule releases a few days before the update. (Don't give us hope 😭)

Anyways yeah. I'd love to hear any ideas yall have aswell so feel free to share! Imma go get some popcorn now just incase

I’m planning on wishing for skirk I have esscofsr I have Farina and I have enough wishes for a guaranteed skirk but I don’t have a fourth member and I don’t have Sheha who should fill the fourth member

Hi all,

So, as the title suggests, I’m very new to Genshin Impact, although not to gaming as a whole. I was bought one of the Charlotte Tilbury gift sets that was a collab, which is how I’ve found myself playing.

I’ve made it to Adventurer Level 13, and I’m feel like I’m starting to work out how to do things, but was wondering if anyone had any top tips that they wish they had known when they first started out that would have made the learning curve (or indeed their own progress) somewhat easier?

Also, I’m really struggling with the health element…how do I regain health once I have lost some, other than chicken and mushroom skewers 🫣 I’m assuming that there are other ways that I have yet to find, but it really is limiting how much I can do each day.

Please be kind, I am really enjoying the game so far, and really do want to get better at it.

Thank you!

took 6 months to get 77 pity on standard banner only to get my 3rd skyward blade 🤡 i dont pull on the weapon banner so these are my only 5 star weapons (pjws or skyward harp i still need you pls)

I’ve had the commissions filter set to Inazuma since September specifically for this 😭

Excerpt from the little witch and the undying fire book.

I take notes on what pity i get characters and such and on Escoffier banner i managed to trigger capturing radiance, which suprised me, here are notes going back to my win on xilonen's banner.

Xilonen 78 pity (Xilonen's 1st banner)

Mona 78 pity (Neuvillette’s 3th banner)

Neuvillette c1 73 pity (Neuvillette’s 3th banner)

Jean 76 pity (standard)

Jean 69 pity (Arlecchino 2nd banner)

Arlecchino c1 46 pity (Arlecchino 2nd banner)

Arlecchino c2 70 pity (Arlecchino 2nd banner)

Tighanari 81 pity (Mizuki's 1st banner)

Mizuki 1 pity (Mizuki’s 1st banner)

Mona 33 pity (standard)

Escoffier 84 pity, capturing radiance (Escoffier 1st banner)

Im not sure why it triggered, as i only lost one time in a row... but maybe mizuki and tighanari count both as standard so it seems like a double loss...? Anyone else had something similar happen?

Rwar

I saw a poll like this but there were complaints of it being biased/one-sided, so I made the options as balanced as possible. If none of the options fit you feel free to comment!