5 Star Weapons Shop Tier List 

5 star weapons for starglitter? Sure, grandma. Let’s get you ready for bed.

I wish they make Hunter's Path and Beacon somehow accessible again.

You spend 100$ on the standard weapon. I get it for free from the standard banner. We are not the same.

I’m skeptical, but I hope they actually do this. I still don’t have Skyward Harp, which would be a nice stat stick. I would hope they include the homeless 5-stars, as well. Beacon, Hunter’s Path, and Jade Cutter are all great weapons.

After the patch, Spiral Abyss is definitely top tier

I wish they added old event weapons like Cinnabar Spindle / Festering Desire / etc.

They should make all the event weapons available in shop.

People are delusional if they think the 5 star weapon shop is gonna use starglitter instead of genesis crystals, hoyo will do anything in their power to prevent f2p players to have nice things.

5:12 the silence LMAO 😭😭😭

leakers 🤝 astrologers let's give information so vague it has to be applicable!

Skyward Spine being a side-grade of The Catch still means it's pretty decent. Sure everyone have The Catch, but we can only have 1 of it, and i can say there are more than 1 chara that want it, commonly mentioned Raiden and Xiangling. Thus idt a 2nd Catch is a bad deal.

Don't understand why people shit on Skyward Spine. It is as good or better than The Catch - which everyone loves. You get The Catch for free? BUT you can only have ONE of The Catch and many characters like to use it. I use both all the time and it is just about the best thing you can put on Shenhe. Of course, if you have other good 5-star polearms, you don't need it much - which he said for the high-ranked weapons on his list, so that shouldn't count against it.

“Spiral Abyss Buffed” has me hollering

Sure buy a 5 star sword for who knows how much starglitter just to have a weapon that is a little bit better on Bennett on than Sapwood Blade you can craft for free.

F for the spiral abyss, underrated character

i disagree about Skyward Spine. If you want to use both Xianling and Raiden then giving catch to XL and getting Spine for Raiden is a good idea.

I hate when he does character based weapon quality. It doesnt feel right for an experienced TC to do that. especially for purchasable weapons and comparisons to other options. for example. Aquila is BiS for 1-2 characters, while a weapon like JWS or Lost Prayer are great options on a large variety of characters. I as a somewhat experience F2P metaslave, believe that a 20% upgrade on 6 characters is better than a 30% upgrade on just one. Especially when I have a limited amount of currency and no other way to secure good upgrades for my characters. I would remake the list with just the basic S A B C D tiers and have PJW and Harp in S, Skyward blade, WGS and Lost prayer in A, Aquila, Skyward atlas. skyward spine in B Amos in C and Skyward Pride in D. This is because the spear and bow options are much larger universal upgrades than Aquila as it is only a marginal and unimportant upgrade to only one character, aswell as 5 star bow and spear options can often help characters get to their stat breakpoints while aquila only gives some healing and a slightly bigger atk buff. allot to read through but this has happened twice recently with aquila bias and it seems wrong to me. Would love if you would care to prove me wrong though. (hell the only reason I wouldnt put Aquila in the lowest tier is strictly because of bennett) (I wonder if sometimes in ur lists you forget that just because most other 5 star options are better. they arent always as accessible)

Take a shot every time zajef says “the reality is”

I agree on hating leakers, they always choose the weirdest phrasings.

Excellent start.

I just want wolf’s gravestone bc it looks cool 🧎🏽‍♂️

Been trying to make a really maxed Bennett for a while now and I just don't see the argument for aquila over skyward considering how much ER he really needs. It's literally his most important stat considering that base attack isn't really a true stat. Bennett really wants like 230-270 ER and if you can get enough from weapon and substats then you can also run noblesse which ought to be a larger buff than 70 extra base attack i'd think having not done the math

Bro really expects people to spend 10 whole billets on 2 different weapons for ganyu instead of just using harp

They are all bait and not worth giving up starglitter that can become characters or non terrible weapons. The shop is largely bait as a whole because even constellations for 4*s will eventually come to your account by playing long enough, the only exception are the standard 4*s Kaeya, Lisa, Amber if you really like them.

Let's get down to earth Hoyo would never give us a free labeled 5 star even if it's gated behind tons of starglitter thingys

We just had a massively spread incorrect leak with the 4* skin selection, i don't think anyone should put much stake in any leaks rn that are not character data from betas.

The ability to just *get* a Primordial Jade Winged Spear and Amos Bow for my Xiao and Ganyu would be amazing.

Zajef describes outgrowing XQ as “whaling but honestly there’s a reasonable level for f2P’s to either work towards Furina Yelan comps or simply have them earlier. I know a guy with Furina XQ Yelan all c0. I think Zajef is coping a little bit about WHEN you outgrow XQ. It can happen a lot earlier.

tbh a lot of late late late players cant be arsed for these changes, like, wow im gonna get another standard 5star, wow another standard 5star weapon, it's 3years, we get all we get already

R5 skyward spine on xiangling is the dream. I would have a 70/200 crit ratio on her with r5.

More than 2 years of playing, R3 PJWS, and still not a single 5* catalyst (from Standard). I hope they implement this and I REALLY hope they include Hunter’s Path and Beacon 🙈

11:16 you can use that argument even more on the weapons on the cat above, like quite literally sidegrades to a craftable weapon

Hmm, but do we really know for sure yet what 5 star weapons might be available in this potentially brand new shop? I'm just saying we shouldn't rule out hunters path or beacon since they've never had a single rerun since they first released

Harp is like 12-15% better in a lot of comps then Stringless R5 for Fischl if you are using Golden Troupe and even greater if Furina is there as well, its the nerdy type of math thing im surprised he forgot, not completely specific to harp just any of the 5* crit bows gained back their value with GT specifically, but Harp would be really easy way to get into this next tier damage if we could somehow purchase 5* weapons. 2pc 2pc its less a difference, where Stringless shines, but in the absolute best situation the difference is pretty huge, Stringless doesn't scale that well with GT, or worst case scenario would scale horribly in anything with Furina+GT, for instance Koko Taser or Neuve where you might want to use her.

as an f2p and someone who enjoys claymore characters (navia/beidou/eula/diluc) , wolf is S tier for me

Ps5 skin selector reveal has pretty much destroyed my faith in any of these things not being locked behind premium currency.

Man's really went ahead and rated Xiao's BiS and very strong options for Raiden hyper, Hu Tao as 'whatever characters' 💀(i think he forgot that Raiden can be played non-hyperbloom 💀💀) Also I'm pretty sure that Harp R1 always deals more damage for Fischl than Stringless R5 in both regular and aggravate teams. It's not by a much, but it's still better, and it provides harder to get crit stats.

Im on fielding yae whenever i play her so personally that lost prayer would be awesome, but if say, hunters path or beacon were added to the shop then im getting one of them for sure. Ultimately tho im not confident they'll actually do that but it'd be nice if they did

I love how the “Amos bow” section is literally just a bennett ramble

Im convinced zajef daily is a rage bait channel

If you use Raiden in Bennet less teams the Skyward value ump up a lot. Like in a Raiden/Furina/Yelan/Jean or a Raiden/Chevi/Kujou/Xiangling team. The higher base attak scale better in the first team because you don't have attack buffs and it is scale better in the second team with Chevi's buff and with Noblesse as well. Otherwise Skyward can be good on Shenhe if you have enough energy, it is pretty much a mddle ground between Favonius and Calamity. But otherwise true, it is one of the least valuble in the bunch.

Controversial take but I already have 3 Lost Prayers and I'd buy a 4th one because I love that catalyst so much.

classic zajeff praising skyward blade and aquila for no reason

good to see that all the standard 5* wepaons i got were dont category kekw

I feel like the middle tier makes more sense as “whatever on a good character”

I feel like he forgot that if theyre in the shop it becomes alot more reasonable to compare R5 versions of the standard 5* weapons to R1 signature or 4* weapons i also just dont agree that wgs is cope bc it works on every claymore character except itto whereas redhorn and Broken pine are stuck to Def/Phys characters id rather use wgs than fish or prototype and itd be easier to get wgs from shop than pay for bacon or verdict if you have too much atk% from wgs just use a EM sands or an ER sands or look for different substats

With regards to the first section of the video, I never look at Questionable leaks, ever. They range from vague to absolutely debunked a few days later. Just stick to the Reliable tag and view them as they come before they get DMCA struck

I mean, a the catch sidegrade is pretty good when you want to run both raiden and xiangling. and I mean... raiden has very popular team comps with xiangling, not to mention you might wanna just run them on other sides. so in that regard, I'd say skyward spine is a bit better than he gives it credit for.

It's always funny to me how Zajef talks about "This weapon sucks because The Catch exists" even though this mf is too lazy to fish to get it himself lmao.

Isn't skyward spine pretty decent for raiden? That would free up the catch for xiang. Skyward pride is good on eula and possibly gaming?

I need that skyward harp

they obviously meant that the spiral abyss rewards would be buffed to give you more :D

Aquila: oh no it's only used in a character that doesn't exist. It's a Don't for me. I might use if it for Physical Qiqi.

Yass spiral abyss buff Ive been waiting

Will this finally be patch I manage to get a Gravestone? I don't care if its for crystals only. It's been 3 years.. (cope)

Ganyu as a "whatever character" is so crazy lmao She's not turbo broken or anything but it's just insane to say that she doesn't qualify as a good/tier 2 character

Aquilla fuvonia would be so hype for me, finally id have best in slot for. My qiqi dps! Also if hunters path became available again 👀

I have only ever gotten 5 5 star weapons on standard and it’s 2 lost prayers and 3 skyward spines. The odds of getting 3 skyward spines out of 5 from a pool of 10 weapons is 4.86% and I somehow got that. The reason I know that is because I calculated it after the 3rd skyward spine because I just couldn’t believe getting another skyward spine.

Zajef's twitch chat certainly has....... some of the takes of all time...

lol we cant even get a skin selector without buying a 500$ ps5. Genshin would literally never. ps: I want the future to prove me wrong.

Hopefully they would add some of the non standard 5 star weapons that's never going to rerun again, like the Primordial Jade Cutter. It's the Staff of Homa of swords.

Abyss buffed? Is it time for Ruin serpent on one side, and Setekh wenut on the other? And we also get Golden Wolflord? Pog :)

i think skyward harp fischl won the war against stringless with the release of the golden troupe set, the stringless passive is now significantly weaker than it used to be when fischl is on her bis set. and if you're using golden troupe fischl with furina for whatever reason (which i do lol) then the stringless passive is completely useless since you're stacking like 150 dmg% without an electro goblet lol. so pls lemme buy a skyward harp from the starglitter shop

If your getting glitter anyway. R5 skyward harp for an additional 40 crit damage could be tempting. That's just over 80 CV from your weapon. With its high base attack that kinda makes it better than a low refinement Aqua Simulacra.

What would you use in place of gravestone as a free to play then on characters like Beidou, Freminet, Dehya, Gaming (if you don’t have Xianyun), Eula, Chongyun, Diluc that would make “buying” gravestone cope?

Imo, Jade Spear deserves a higher ranking, since any spear dps that doesn't use the catch would love it. That translates to just Xiao and Hutao, but Hutao is a pretty great character. For an F2P player, their next best (guaranteed) option is blackcliff, which is uh

if the 5 star weapons stuff is via starglitter I better prep now cuz WGS has been avoiding me

The new banner design is actually nice, no need to wait an entire year just to pull one character

I've wanted a Harp for 3 years until I gave up and pulled from Lyney's weapon banner. No regrets though, I'm happy to be past needing the perma weapons I don't have. Hopefully they don't scam us too bad with the prices so everyone here can get their weapons too!

HUNTERS PATH IS COMING BACK WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

You know a game is dying when this types of videos start beign released.

nice music btw

I recently pulled jade spear on random multi which annoyed me cause I probably wouldn’t use it with Homa being available and maxed for Xiangling and others and I really want to finally get wolf gravestone hopefully soon just for fun builds like Sayu or Xinyan.

I have have skyward sword, harp, blade, wgs, pjws, atlas. The only 2 i actually use are harp and blade (on xingqui very rarely). People are saying hes coping with aquila but oh what I would give for a weapon that is actually an increase for lyney and navia lol.

i pulled navia because a friend of mine said "if you get WGS in the future, you can put it on her"

I love how the very first weapon he tiers is Spine into Garbage tier, Spine was my first 5* weapon icant At least i could make it my Raiden's weapon, the Catch is glued to XL she won't let it go >:(

They better make that new currency retro active. aint no way that is going to go over well if we are starting from scratch,

I feel like im in the minority here, but I have 5 good teams and none of them use bennett😂 (taser, hyperbloom, keqing aggravate, hu tao and ayaka)

Skyward Harp would be good for me. Despite playing for 3 years, my Stringless is still R2.

Put Beacon and Hunter’s path in the shop damnit. Also, after getting almost every signature weapon in the game somehow I still don’t have Skyward Atlas.

I can see the reasoning of Aquila being on top since the only thing you care about Bennett is giving him as much ER as possible so it doesn't matter if the weapon doesn't have ER substat. As for Skyward Sword... It's whatever on Bennett but for Jean Amenoma is way better. I don't agree about Skyward Atlas cuz Zajef's argument is a very hypothetical situation of having too much crit that you need to balance it with ATK. Wolf's Gravestone has truly fallen off mainly because Tidal Shadow is basically a 4-star copy of WGS that can potentially be better as you can have 100% uptime on it.

i don't think zajaf noticed that "good on a whatever character" is better than "good on a great/good character". because a great character already caries the weapon to be good, but a whatever character can't carry the weapon as much, so if it's good on them it means it's overall better than whatever weapon being "good" on a great character.

We didn't even have rotation with new 4 stars on the Paimon's shop, imagine 5 stars hahahaha

idk why he rates aquilla so high it’s so weird he’s the only person that would put it there like it’s mid dawg

pretty reasonable tier list, if theres 1 thing i want to disagreed, it would be wolfgs, id put it on gud on gud character and atlas down to cope

Why is Zajef's genshin on windowed mode?

Harp is also a good weapon for Aloy in general!

I use harp on ganyu as the stats r mid maxed of it. But recentg i got the yoimia bow when pulling for engulfing. But ganyu doesn't NA but child does.

I got my 3rd copy of skyward pride today at 80 pity on standard, i'm coping

If skyward spine is bad then wtf are you using for Xiangling and Raiden? Can't use the Catch on both.

Can someone explain his take about acquaint Fate? Is he right?

I still dont get the aquila take, but thats that IG

Is Lost Prayer R1 better than Amber R5 on Neuvillette? I use him mostly with C3 Furina in hyperbloom and sometimes in different teams where he's only hydro unit also I'll go for his C1 at his rerun.

the only time i got 5 stars weapons in the standard banner was a double weapon and both were the claymors which i don't use. lucky/unlucky.

10:25 when he said "amber" it hit a little too close to home

Skyward Harp is a whole lot better than R1 stringless. R5 might be equal but I don't have R5 Stringless on any of my accounts after playing for 3 years because too many character needs it so at best I end up with like, 3 copies of r2 or r3 or something. Skyward Harp is also a CRIT RATE weapon. Those enable using Crit Damage circlets which are mostly unusuable even if they roll well without a CR weapon because it's extremely unlikely to roll over 65 Crit Rate from substats only. Most of those circlets are collecting dust for me because there are barely any f2P accessible CR weapons in the game. Harp is easily the best standard weapon in the game.

Zajef's completely negating the existence of Beidou and WGS is like... om

If that is from a Chinese forum then it means abyss is going to be harder.

The bias against eula is painful. Skyward pride might as well be her bis. She's the perfect user for it

Ah yes spiral abyys,my favourite charechter from harey poter