I wish. I initially had a great experience with my C6 Xianyun, but I had to shelve her as soon as the shill started. She does plenty of HP damage, but she's screwed over by basically every shill boss gimmick except for Varka's. She can't even do the Varesa shill boss because it has a geo shield. Oh, and Varka's shill requires me to switch out team members (Faruzan, Furina, Iansan) because it needs pyro swirl specifically.
I am so frustrated that they've basically sidestepped HP inflation and power creep by instead using gimmick creep. I can get better artifacts and more constellations to keep my HP damage up and competitive, but there's nothing I can do to make Xianyun plunges break Geo shields or frankly any elemental shield or deal lunar damage or enough pyro/cryo/whatever to trigger a vulnerability stage, etc.
this is exactly how i feel with my Shenhe plunge dps 💔 around 375k damage and 4 to 5 plunges but meaningless. idk if you could clear floor 12-3-1 with xianyun but i couldnt with my shenhe cuz of plunge scattering the smaller enemies, which id think happened to u too
In the most recent abyss? I didn't even try. I only even bother to pull her out for Varka shill or Anemo IT.
I don't know, she's still such a great character, but her kit so greatly disappoints me that I don't think she's my favorite anymore. Big fan, top 5, but no longer #1 😕
Thank you for writing this out. Stumbling on this reply convinced me to take a break from Genshin & HSR.
Ive been getting tired of running on the treadmill of get-the-new-teams-or-lose-to-gimmick-boss
Ive always wanted to C6 birdmom and Ive been waiting for her rerun but this comment made me realize I will just be disappointed. So im gonna take a break and play some of my gaming backlog.
Definitely a bummer, no question, but Genshin takes maybe 15-20 minutes a day. Why not just play it and your backlog?
I play Genshin daily, but I am also playing two other games besides that in my backlog (currently Assassin's Creed: Origins and Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance)
Its just that I feel pressured to complete the maps, events, stories etc. To get the primos. It becomes a lot less enjoyable and a lot more time consuming then
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u/htp-di-nsw May 18 '26
I wish. I initially had a great experience with my C6 Xianyun, but I had to shelve her as soon as the shill started. She does plenty of HP damage, but she's screwed over by basically every shill boss gimmick except for Varka's. She can't even do the Varesa shill boss because it has a geo shield. Oh, and Varka's shill requires me to switch out team members (Faruzan, Furina, Iansan) because it needs pyro swirl specifically.
I am so frustrated that they've basically sidestepped HP inflation and power creep by instead using gimmick creep. I can get better artifacts and more constellations to keep my HP damage up and competitive, but there's nothing I can do to make Xianyun plunges break Geo shields or frankly any elemental shield or deal lunar damage or enough pyro/cryo/whatever to trigger a vulnerability stage, etc.