5.0 Sets a New Standard for Genshin Versions 

The true 5.0 endgame is called "Duelist: Series I"

The amount of times I’ve accidentally condensed resin when I needed the resin for bosses is uhhh-more than I’d like to admit

I agree so much When I began, dailies felt like the world was alive, but after a couple of months it was such a chore. By the year I stopped doing them at all and it made me log in less, because I felt like I had to do chores before having fun. Recently like you say, I just stroll around doing nothing and it feels so fun. I have even built characters I dropped and leveled up weapons

6:09 For the full info in a short text, you basically get pity for losing 2 or more 50/50 in a row. After 2nd 50/50 lost in a row, next 50/50 is actually a 75/25, if you still lose, then next 2 5 star pulls are guaranteed to be the rate-up character

If it wasn't for the absurd amount of elixer needed for the goblets then I would like the system but the fact that they didn't make the separate costs clear during the livestream just rubbed me the wrong way. Edit: Since people are seeing this without seeing what I said in replies. I didn't realize they showed the cost in the livestream, I will admit I was wrong about that but my point about it costing an absurd amount still stands.

2:02 lil dude just watched a massacre and proceeds to get smacked by a shark

No joke, the 5.0 changes have renovated my want on playing on Genshin. I wasn't playing Fontaine even at release, but this? This made all the difference.

It's good that miHoYo is improving the QoL, but I hate how convoluted/backwards their solutions tend to be. People want artifact loadouts, Genshin makes suggested sets that also don't work consistently. People want some capacity of RNG bypassing for artifact rolls, we get the most restrictive system possible (that can still completely screw you over at pretty high odds, despite demanding ridiculously limited resources) instead of straightforward stat rerolls. We want better mobility, they keep shoehorning in region-specific gimmicks that don't work elsewhere and still feel slow and restrictive. I could go on, but I'm getting so goddamn tired of the Genshin devs and their "not like other girls" design mindset. Especially when their own other games do it significantly better RIGHT NOW!

10:27 I've been saying this to people that are wanting training dummies, genshin does have quick, retry-able, training dummies. There's one multi waves training dummy in the sea of bygone era map. There's also the new local legends in natlan, specifically the ones in the night kingdom for a high hp and tanky training dummy.

I def think the biggest "problem" with Chronicled wish right now is that Yelan ran in 4.8 instead of Shenhe 😭 I am SO confident that they're waiting for Shenhe to qualify so they can do the liyue chronicled instead of skipping it to do inazuma (assuming they want to keep the character numbers the same during each version, thus why they'd be waiting for shenhe). With Baizhu and Wanderer getting Wierdly Early reruns shortly after Chronicled first came out, I was so sure they were going to race to get as many characters as they could to qualify for the banners. Hell if they Had just Ran Shenhe in 4.8, we would've been able to do a liyue chronicled wish for Lantern rite! But they ran Yelan instead for some reason 😭 But now we're definitely not getting Shenhe until Citlali releases (assuming she's a 5star, idk why she wouldnt be one. And we saw her vision is cryo in the trailers) and if they REALLY are waiting to do a liyue chronicled and dont wanna skip regions, then we probably wont be seeing the next chronicled until 5.5 or later (assuming Citlali could be as early as 5.2)

Even tho I agree there is not enough 5 stars rerunning for everyone to get their favorite characters I'm surprised you didn't address the 4 star issue because its universally bad for any type of player and it currently is only going to get worse as more 4 stars get added throughout natlan and to add to that the standard banner needs a change too

On the topic of difficulty, pleasing whales and not fucking over f2p players is next to impossible someone who pulled for C6 Neuvillette looking for a challenge is just unreasonable if you have to account for the entire playerbase.

I think your comparison of genshin and hsr lacks a lot of context tbh, cus 1) hsr releases a lot of new characters, more then genshin (as of 2.5 in both games, genshin had 16 vs hsr has 25 (both not counting standard)) and 2) hsr said the 3 banner thing they had is not going to be every single patch either

At this point all they need to do is give us Reserve Resin and I'm golden! ZZZ is doing it next patch so come on Genshin you can too!

As a person who always looks for the small QoL features and watches the "new features in genshin X.X videos" I do notice stuff like it defaulting to crafting the amount of condensed resin you can create, or back in fontaine when it would auto select a person with a cooking or crafting passive. Stuff like that are great and make the game so much more enjoyable. Genshin sure has come a long way in this last year

i think HSR and later ZZZ has shown that dailies dont need to be actual timesinks, and gave the data Genshin needed to lay off on their boring daily stuff and let that just be a incentive to log in and then people actually have their own fun in the world

a big thing for me was you can get the regular iron chunks from a 12 hour expedition now, i used to have to send benny on a one hour trip to get like 2

Am I the only one who sits on 5 condensed rather than 0, and spends first before condensing, rather than the other way around?

0:46 No you didn't? Clicking on the Condensed Icon at the centre of the screen tells you how many you have. You never had to guess lol.

I feel like a third game mode is quite possible since there's a significant gap in the schedule between the Imaginary Theater and Spiral Abyss resets, but they'll probably wait until the Imaginary Theater is 100% calibrated before adding anything else, or maybe they'll add a sub-game mode to the Imaginary Theater similar to Simulated Universe and Hollow Zero where you get one-time rewards from playing multiple times.

Still asking for 4* fate system for the nth time

2:14 missing 2 in a row, the mulani experience

5.0 is so delightful. Natlan feels so fresh, I love it. HSR is still far ahead in QoL, if leaks are to be believed, but the improvements in Genshin are noticeable.

The Healing Bonus circlet at 10:14 looked incredible omg

I'm going to say this without giving archon quest spoilers (as i know some people still haven't done it yet) but in Act 2 there is a cutscene (yes that one near the beginning) and this cutscene has given me new hope for hoyo. Don't get me wrong when i say this but that Fontaine and Sumeru had the same flow when it the patches. they all have. it's felt like the same old song and dance being rehashed. as much as i love all the regions and their stories, they kinda felt similar though im not quite sure how to explain it. anyways, this one cutscene showed me that they are heavily upping their production value. Like i was expecting something releively short like when Childe unleased his dilusion in the opera epicles got a few hits and it ended shortly after with neuvilette knocking him unconscious. this one cutscene was expanded on so much so like if we saw childe vs neuvilette or even another cutscene before we faught the narwhale where child put up the last of his strength to fight or even in between. i'll say it again, amongst all the QoL changes, increased rewards etc. this one cutscene for me showed me that they are putting more value into the production of genshin and all i can say is i want to see more because i love it, they're doing an amazing job and in all honesty, has also made me want to pull for certain characters involved in the cutscene. if you've never seen it, PLEASE play the archon quest for this one cutscene. it has quickly became my favorite cutscene.

Lets not forget how fast it is now to farm world bosses, no more waiting for 3 mins for a boss to respawn

Lock that Healing Bonus artifact at 10:14 if you're pulling Xilonen!

7:38 Tbh there's another issue that's kind of big and I'm surprised you didn't mention this one Rath. The more a certain character reruns the more people have it thus the LESS money Hoyo gains in revenue, like for example say Zhongli from China IOS revenue his highest was his 3rd rerun alongside Tighnari's first and only exclusive banner with 19 million dollars, but what about his 4th rerun... 9 million dollars and that's huge especially for a a double banner with Tartaglia as well.

"You need to put lots of money to get all this character for IT" Me who only wasted 45 bucks on WM and 2 BPs since 1.0 and do all the way to act 10: "yeah, 45 bucks is a lot of money for a lot of people"

6:43 Yes bruh the entire subreddit was spamming “where’s Kevin” memes for months straight 😭 Genshin lives and dies by their characters more than most other Gacha games. In lots of other gachas, units can just be created in a vacuum and that’s it. But in Genshin, every single character needs to be literally written into the world of Teyvat. They need a presence, a name, a backstory, an effect on the world around them, birthday art, birthday letters, and so on. EVERY. SINGLE. CHARACTER. This issue was basically inevitable from the start once more and more characters come out. Now is probably the best time for Hoyo to do some kinda multi-banner like HSR currently is. But the characters won’t stop coming, so Hoyo has to swallow and fix this Alright that’s my comment, now for my insane schizo theory: Will Mavuika fall off harder than Venti? Since Phlogiston is limited to Natlan and all 🤔🤔🤔 Or will she be the only Natlan unit that keeps Phlogiston??? I’m intrigued to see how she’ll manage. But she could POTENTIALLY have the hardest fall-off in all of Genshin history just hear me out bro hear me out

ill say its the first time after a long time that ive actually felt optimisic about genshins future, and it's the reason i ended up sticking around after being lured in by 1600 apologems.

I’ve been playing a lot of ZZZ and HSR. Genshin REALLY needs weekly end game content. Not content that rewards primos like abyss and not insane RNG like bosses that never drop billets and solvents (that take away from your resin that you could be better spending for actual guaranteed rewards). I’m reaching that point again where I’m burning out after doing everything in a patch and all I have to do is log in and spend 5 minutes spending resin on artifacts that never drop with decent rolls and then log off. This gameplay cycle makes me quit for months on end sometimes. With ZZZ and HSR I’m excited every weekly reset to do all of the weekly content and I just don’t have that in Genshin. On top of this it’s made even worse that resin doesn’t accumulate like in HSR (and soon ZZZ) so I’m forced to log in every day and play for that disappointing 5 minutes. I would at least rather log in once a week with a stockpile for enough for a decent hour or two long gameplay session

Any CC who said theres no challenging content, play the damn game. Natlan Local Legends aren't easy. Casuals wouldnt dream of finishing the Duelist Series. Instead of parroting the sentiment "we want more challenging content", actually play the game for once, will ya.

After taking a break for 3 months from Genshin and playing Wuthering Waves exclusively due to Genshin burn out, I'm so glad that I took those break. Returning to 5.0 is a massive improvement but I wish that those Natlan mechanics are not region locked improvement. Since, I play exclusively on mobile, I appreciate Genshin more on how friendly their UI is to mobile devices. The menu layout, the fonts and it's sizes are just perfection for mobile players. The problem I have with Kuro developed is always with their fonts, it seems like developers never play or test their games on mobile, I'm pretty sure they use tablet exclusively for their mobile testing device. I can't read anything on PGR, even though there is small improvement on WuWa, it's still atrocious to read anything beyond small description on the game.

6:57 bro woke up and chose violence against xiao mains

These have all been reasons in one way or another that i slowed down in my play, i would still log in maybe every 2 weeks to check events but finally all changes in total have made me want to play again

Now I only do 1 commissions a day for the achievements. It's a huge time saver.

Congrats to genshin, tho if they did this in like 3.0 they probably could've prevent a lot of players from quitting the game completely, cus not many people can handle 2 gacha games at once. Once they're comfortable with one gacha, that's it. But it is what it is. I'm still curious on how the story of teyvat ends, but I'm just not curious enough to play it anymore.

who’s pulling for Xilonen? If anyone else lmk in the comments 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

Finally someone that appreciates these small but important things

All rerun banners should offer two options for 5-star characters to try to pull. Not like the 4 stars on a banner or the fate system. Just give a choice of which wish to be pulling. If there's one new character and one rerun, then it's technically 3 banners. If it's two reruns, then it's technically 4 banners.

I want the domains not tied to a day.

Nah Mondstadt still feels like home. I still do my dailies and stuff there after all these years.

They need to put interactive map feature INSIDE the game so we can easily 100% of the game

I still want player made domains and combat encounters. I would love to be able to make and play scenarios made by players Super Mario Maker style. I don't even care if it's as simple as "here's a box, you can choose what enemies go in it, kill they ass" and has no rewards. I just want something that will let me test out different teams and playstyles without being pressured by tight timers or forced to play with weird modifiers. It also sucks that current domains last for less than 30 seconds because it's just 3-5 enemies. Hell sometimes it's literally just 1 single enemy I nuke and it's done. The wolf domain from Inazuma is still my favorite domain because there's no gimmick, no tight timer, and no 5 second fight then it's over. Its just some waves on enemies in a box. The game literally just says "here are some enemies, kill they ass"

The only thing I hate in 5.0 is the regional materials are lacking, especially those embered flower bulb things, you still need the interactive map for it

All that and we still can’t skip dialogues, crazy

In my opinion there should be a proper line in QoL updates. Between just convenience updates and the ones that straight up encourage laziness. All sort of sorting options (like ability to see only the recipies that I didn't mastered yet), ability to check preferred weapon and artifacts for a character, preferred stats and talent priorities, anything that helps with directions, but not right up shows player exact location are good in my book. But anything that helps to trivialize exploitation in adventure game is not. I understand players who wanted a repeat expedition button, but not the ones who stopped caring for expedition all together because it's a "chore" to do. Teleporting to Katheryne and clicking a few times IS a chore?! I swear, these type of people prefer to hold their bladder as much as possible because going to toilet is a chore for them. Or skip a dinner because it's a chore to cook. Few examples. Treasure compass. It used to show just a direction towards nearby chest in certain radius from player. You still needed to open your eyes and look for it. Would take 5 - 40 seconds to find and open it, depending on the distance and how well hidden the chest is. Now the chest's location just shown on mini map, reducing searching to zero. Know what compass still doesn't do? Showing the direction towards hidden chests that show up after completing a local "puzzle". And I'd rather have that, instead of exact chest location. What next QoL updates for it? Show where nearby chest location is regardless the distance? I heard there's gonna be QoL update that will help with finding resources by showing their general location on mini map. Description wasn't enough? You know, to run around, finding things yourself, placing marks on the map to ease a future search. Some may say that those are QoL that reduce chore part of exploitation. But is it even an exploration when the game hold your hand in that regard. And if people find that huge aspect of the game as a chore then what's the point? 70-80% of this game is exploration. It is an essence of this game - a journey, adventure. When you up to date with archon quest, waiting for the next patch, side quests and exploration is what keeps players busy. I'm sort of on a fence when it comes to encounter points system too. On one hand most of the dailies are the same repetitive tasks with no challenge. On other hand they still make you go places, and sometimes I get distracted by other things, like collecting resources or taking screenshot worthy photos when scenery and time of the day align perfectly. There's also some small story chain dailies that eventually conclude. Encounter system will make those meaningless from devs perspective, making chances for us to one day get an actually good daily quests almost zero. I guess for people who only care for a main story and treat all other aspects of the game as boring but necessary job all those time saving QoL updates are good. But from perspective of exploration, what Genshin supposed to be, the game turns to move from point to point, get what you need as quickly, as easy and convenient as possible gameplay, facilitating lazy mindset for average, non lazy from begin with player. Those types of QoL updates would be perfect for, say, mmo game where there always something to do. In gacha game where you eventually reach a current content's dead end, you'll have to keep yourself busy with something while waiting for next update. So in this case the solution for a gacha game is either make itself almost completely trivial (like those menu clickers with auto clear 3 starred stages function to get rewards instantly with the cost of stamina) or actually do a proper side activities (like exploration) without overly trivializing it. It is one or another, imo. Middle ground when you still have to do things but game constantly holds your hand making things easy just ain't it. P.S.: I hope devs won't add skip dialogue option for as long as possible. Way too many times I heard players saying that Genshin story is bad and when pressed with question on what they didn't liked they say: "Dialogues were long and boring so I fast clicked through them" and "I don't care about non voiced quests". 🤦‍♂️

I've been playing for almost 2 years, and you don't NEED to spend money to do well at the game, that's just oversimplying and overlooking things. If I built characters at a more rapid rate (rather than focus on constantly improving my current ones), I wouldn't struggle to hit the 22 character mark at the Imaginarium Theatre.

I'm actually kinda struggling in IT as an OG player. My account is really strong, able to crush the spiral abyss with ease, but as a result, I simply don't enough built chars for IT lmao.

"Condense resin" not if it's capped

There are things that are needed and it's been long overdue. Honestly I don't care anymore about HSR because the community are REALLY toxic and they are hating on Genshin in many ways possible for these quality of life (I'm so tired of these "gEnShIn could nEvEr" opinions) like the banner reruns for example and sure it is beneficial for players who want to get their favorite character. Hell if I played this game as soon as Eula's first rerun ended and I happened to like Eula, I would've start driving myself crazy. If people think that HSR is the "most generous" gacha, that's the biggest cap. I lost way too many 50/50s on that game and to make things worse, I even lost the lightcone banner Also, where is event archives? I've been asking for it so I can experience the past events like come on.

I'm a f2p and even though I know it's annoying, I didn't realize how annoying it was for others the imaginarium theater

There IS a training dummy. A whole lot of em actually LOL. Go fight the local legends.

Same for me this is the first time in 2 years that i really really like to explore again sumeru at the start was alr but after the dessert it was meh and the whole of fountain was meh

While I agree that quality of life in genshin did improve significantly, unfortunately the Natlan update failed at what genshin used to do awesomely: Exploration and characters. Exploration in Natlan is objectively more barebones and has more corners cut than that of Fontaine's. The only new mechanic in exploration this update is indwelling, and everything that isn't indwelling is just a literal Fontaine puzzle reusing the same assets of the Fontaine blue lamp and platforms (painted red in Natlan, yet still has the bubble effects!) and *gasp* they got 1.0 torch puzzles?! The empty procedurally generated identical mountains in the people of the spring area stand out particularly as well. Which is extremely sad, since you rarely see them putting so little effort into the environment and new region exploration. I have 100% Natlan, and this was the least innovative and diverse region when it came to exploration so far, I felt really exhausted, especially after Fontaine adding 5 new types of puzzles every expansion, Natlan only brought indwelling on release. Characters. Nothing to discuss. Design-wise they look like white women cosplaying for the "Discover Africa" event at their college campus. Impossible to take them seriously. Personality-wise, only Mualani actually matches the depth of the Fontaine and Sumeru cast, Ianasan does nothing, and Chasca is so bad her NPC sister is a highlight. The least memorable cast since like Inazuma. Many NPC casts in world quests were more interesting. Characters and exploration are the main highlight for me, so no quality of life can compensate that for me. Therefore, unfortunately I was disappointed by 5.0. Feels more like an expansion than a whole new region in quality.

I’m REALLY liking WL9. I actually die sometimes 😂

That 33 Millions of mora really scares me

I am 100% ing every map before I move on to the next Im currently at Liyue cant wait to finish to suffer in Inazuma. I did get unlucky and get c2 Kazuha early meaning I have to play the game now

5.0 is like the real 1.0 (i hope so)

My problem with the Elixer is that if you level it up, all the rolls could still go to shitty substata and not the ones you selected at all. As evident by my Arlecchino artifact that I set for Crit Damage Main, ATK% and Crit Rate Substats and all of them to level 16 rolled into the random substats you get. Thankfully, the ones I did get aren't entirely useless on Arlecchino but they weren't stats I wanted still.

2:11 average Mualani experience

God damn it hoyo Just put a 150 level boss for super old players Make the boss to have 40milion hp Or more

Next video Ratheil killing genshin 💀

I managed to beat up to act 8 of imaginarium in this recent one and ive only been playing for 3 months totally f2p. Visionary mode is kinda mad i mean 22 characters and all but still. If i can pull off hard mode most people can unless ur super new.

I just need a skip button for those annoying world quest then I’m good. Like literally all they need to do is add that and I’ll never complain about Genshin again.

Couldn't agree Natlan is awesome

3:20 why...just why

....i always do my dailys by actually doing them ........u might miss some achivements just cos u lazy and dont take 5 min to do them ? . worth the effort ? probably not but still ...i have 100% on everything so if i have to log in just to log off in 20 sec whats the point of playing anymore. thats why i started a secondary account . thats how much i love the game .

Phisical : when...?

Can you skip quest dialogue yet?

I returned to genshin because i feel like its better

180 CV artifact is good enough for me

IMO genshin is “better” but still not even good enough to bring me back. The new stuff sounded hype, but now that I seen my friends play, and content creators play, and check out the new rates and the sanctifying elixir things. I seen that it’s just only ok. And dude characters taking forever to rerun is such a major issue. Where the heck is Shenhe. I saved up for her. Like 8 mo this ago. And ended up spending that on Furina because Shenhe just never showed again

You still need the Interactive map if you want to 100% it so it is still feels like a checklist that is why I dont do it

Erm... Your daily commission achievements though?!

Nah I stopped playing because my phone storage couldn't handle it

Daily commissions were/are truly my nightmare. I didn’t want to play daily and then when we got daily points for exploring I literally stopped exploring at one point so I’m so happy we can stockpile those Now I love the game again because I can explore to my hearts content without feeling like I’m losing points I just farm a bit which I like doing and than just run around

How to use the Long Term Encounter Points?

The change to the condensed resin is one of the most idiotic things to boast as a QOL improvement.

The only thing I want is a skip button.

QOL finally came to Genshin. :) I want to spend more time on the actual story, quests and exploration and now I can.

Ok so first of all, you thought you could sneak in the RBO Amatsu theme on there and me not notice? Not on my watch. Second, what you consider 90% of your experience in Genshin is version 2 for me. The entirety of version to has got to be Genshin's lowest point. Insulting and standoffish NPCs, horrible exploration puzzles, wonky movement mechanics, annoying enemies, a tyrannical and xenophobic archon and last but not least... a completely worthless archon quest where the Traveler achieves close to jack squat. They were almost murdered by that psychopath everyone seems to love so much. Sumeru was a HUGE step up and Fontaine kept the quality going. Natlan is peak Genshin right now and I am happy they learned from their mistakes in version 2

This is all good, but please god genshin give me a skip all button for the dialogue, all of my quests have been backed up since inazuma. I just don’t have time for the long story quests anymore

am I crazy or like count changed while I was watching?

I always love qol updates because I play genshin daily it is part of my life. Now I just wish they would stop with crappy events used just to fill a patch like simulakra and such making an entire map just to put a 8 bit looking NPCs i would rather they put that effort elsewhere and just put like a combat event or something simple. Not to mention I have a backlog of quests to get thru and map to explore that I could be doing in those dead patchs

The first thing i see is to many requests try again later lol i can get on my main fine but my 2 alts its nope guess i was switching between them too much

Imaginarium sucks

Two things really don't really make much sense to me: 1- why doesn't hoyo add more banners? don't they realize that better banners=more money?? 2- where are the Collab skins? why don't they add them? Because of "lore" you say. why add KFC and McDonald's glider then? Things that should be reworked/added: (contains opinions) 1-Geo MC C6 2-Amber's C2 should be base kit 3-add Klee to standard banner ;) 4-Anemo MC's burst should work like Ayaka's 5-Diona shouldn't ascend with Cryo! Why was that even a thing! 🤦‍♂ 6-Mika rerun when ;(? Also we want these 4-stars on more banners: Cheveruse, candace, Kaveh, Diona, Layla, Heizou, Sucrose 7-(Personal opinion) Remove the RNG element from Itto! 8-Togglable constellations! 9-Artifact presets 10-Please rework artifact transmuter and give players more elixir! the artifacts outputted are still mostly a waste of time and effort, because elixir is insanely hard to get. +Put your suggestions in the comments!

Need skip dialogue button

The imaginarium was their perfect opportunity to remove resin entirely because of the number of characters required.

i quit the game cause i hated the dailies, it was such a chore and it didnt help me progress at all, i'd have to dedicate even more time just for that and it made no sense to me. but now with the change i play even more than before and i havent thought of quitting again since, i love it.

🧢

Cough cough horrible artifact system cough cough. Also improvements happened due to wuwa. Oh and wuwa daily still takes less time than genshin :P

: / meh

Sets a new standard 😂 what for smallest expansion

Daily commissions were/are truly my nightmare. I didn’t want to play daily and then when we got daily points for exploring I literally stopped exploring at one point so I’m so happy we can stockpile those Now I love the game again because I can explore to my hearts content without feeling like I’m losing points I just farm a bit which I like doing and than just run around