I've been playing Genshin on almost every iPad Pro since the 2018 pro (2018, M1, M2).
The current M2 iPad can run Genshin smoothly at 60fps if you set medium or low resolution and everything else to high (though I always turn motion blur of as a personal preference). MetalFX is also available and makes a huge difference. High resolution is a no-no because the device will throttle quickly and the game will become laggy. However, the battery life of the M2 isn't as good as the M1 and can only last about 3 hours while playing Genshin non-stop (11 inch model).
Apple said the M4 can reach M2's performance at half the power consumption. I'm waiting for geekerwan to verify this claim. If true, it would guarantee an upgrade for me.
The new Air will have the M2 chip of the current pro so it should perform similarly to what I said above.
Daaang Naya, that flower is beautiful! Huge congrats to you! :DSo close to my first 50 CV
Awesome Navia build, she must output a LOT of damage. Good job! :DBehold my Serpent Spine Gladiator..... NAVIA!!!
She will be Triple Crowned in a few weeks/months...
Her alt build main art set I'll post soon.
She Umbrella Hammers with this one quite well.
Woo, congrats on your C6 Arle! What an achievement.
Damn, they changed WindTrace wining condition. Now you got to actively repair machine devices scatter around the map if not the Hunter wins.
No more having a good hiding spot and camp to observe until you're threatened. Well, being more proactive for the Rebels might not be a bad thing.
Grats on both sets! I think I'll go for her too on her rerun.
No more having a good hiding spot and camp to observe until you're threatened. Well, being more proactive for the Rebels might not be a bad thing.
Her Whispers set.
Grats on both sets! I think I'll go for her too on her rerun.
Lv.100 would be a W for Transformative Reaction and HP scaling characters ( Yelan, Neuvillette, Hu Tao, C1 Dehya ).
This was pre Dendro.
Bloom, Hyperbloom and Burgeon are Transformative Reactions.
I was at 71 pity and I got her exactly at 76. Took me 3 more Welkin purchases stacked lol.
This was pre Dendro.
Bloom, Hyperbloom and Burgeon are Transformative Reactions.
I was at 71 pity and I got her exactly at 76. Took me 3 more Welkin purchases stacked lol.
Lv100 could allow rebalancing of characters through new ascension talents, let's wait and see what they do. I am worried about xp books, mora and boss materials though. We just get too few.Lv.100 would be a W for Transformative Reaction and HP scaling characters ( Yelan, Neuvillette, Hu Tao, C1 Dehya ).
This was pre Dendro.
Bloom, Hyperbloom and Burgeon are Transformative Reactions.
I was at 71 pity and I got her exactly at 76. Took me 3 more Welkin purchases stacked lol.
Ooh how awesome, glad you got her on the last day! :D
I hope it isn't just a number increase. I hope they can tie something fun to making that investment.
This is great news because it allows me to invest in my favourites even more so. But it would be nice if there was some kind of reward for doing it.
This is great news because it allows me to invest in my favourites even more so. But it would be nice if there was some kind of reward for doing it.
I really doubt that leak tbh. Balancing it would be a nightmare, both in terms of meta and the game's resource economy. Plus gacha characters are what people pay for and changing their kits (new passives?) post-release is a big can of worms I don't see mihoyo wanting to open.
I personally think, being slightly cynical, the upcoming combat mode and a potential level cap increase are their ways of making people pull more and/or spend resources.
Mature accounts are slapping abyss every patch and don't feel the need to pull new characters - either because they already have everything they want or there's no incentive to do so.
And as a result of that, people are just sat on mountains of resources. In terms of mora and XP book resources, I'm probably sat on enough to take dozens characters from 0-90.
I don't necessarily hold this against the devs, they need to sell characters. It's the whole business model and they need to do things to gently encourage people to spend.
But that's why I said I hope a hypothetical level 100 means something more than higher stats. I doubt it will. But without an incentive, it's just a resource dump to get you back into the grind.
Mature accounts are slapping abyss every patch and don't feel the need to pull new characters - either because they already have everything they want or there's no incentive to do so.
And as a result of that, people are just sat on mountains of resources. In terms of mora and XP book resources, I'm probably sat on enough to take dozens characters from 0-90.
I don't necessarily hold this against the devs, they need to sell characters. It's the whole business model and they need to do things to gently encourage people to spend.
But that's why I said I hope a hypothetical level 100 means something more than higher stats. I doubt it will. But without an incentive, it's just a resource dump to get you back into the grind.
Good points Fletcher, definitely applies to old accounts.
The one issue I seeing for newer accounts like mine, is that with this change it actually deters you from pulling more characters since it will take months to build your existing ones. This could be a great change but it also has the potential for so many screw-ups, I am interested to see how they will solve it. Resin and rewards will definitely need to be adjusted since not every account has a stockpile of materials like day 1 players.
I hope a level increase is fake. That's usually the time for me to bow out of a game. If they're going to do that at least do it after the main story has wrapped up.
Do you have Arle? That Glad build also looked strong and would be good for her (baring the goblet ofc).
Edit: also out of curiosity what do you do with the previous iPad when you upgrade to the new one? Sell it?
Nice build. Good amount of ER too.
Her Whispers set.
Do you have Arle? That Glad build also looked strong and would be good for her (baring the goblet ofc).
Do you still play on the ROG? If so, it's interesting (to me) that you play on 2 portable devices. Is it just a case of using what you have on you at the time?
Edit: also out of curiosity what do you do with the previous iPad when you upgrade to the new one? Sell it?
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Level 90 was always a weird number, especially when enemies can be lvl 100. Hopefully it's real. It's a chance to change / buff some characters.
Stat increases would only serve to further the gap between the top units and the ones beneath. The content will be scaled accordingly, so it's not a buff to the weaker characters. If anything it would be pushing the powercreep further.
If you actually want to buff units or make the gameplay more interesting then it's as Fletcher said, you need new mechanics rather than artificial gains.
If you actually want to buff units or make the gameplay more interesting then it's as Fletcher said, you need new mechanics rather than artificial gains.
I keep the iPad Pro M2, the Ally and a Steam Deck OLED. Of all of them, I played Genshin (and Star Rail) on the iPad the most.
The iPad is my main mobile game device. It's the device I played Genshin the second-most, only behind my desktop. It loads the game faster than most of my devices (like 2-3x faster than the Ally), can maintain 60fps at high graphic setting while having the best battery life of all of them. I don't explore new region (due to bad LOD and drawing distance on mobile) or do Archon Quest/story quest on it (those are reserved for my desktop) but for dailies, events and abyss, it's great.
As for the Ally, I mainly use it as a portable desktop when I don't want to carry my laptop while traveling. I recently came back to my parents' house for 2 weeks during the Golden Week and the Ally is a great desktop (and media server) to use there. I sometimes play Genshin on it but only while connecting to a dock because its battery life sucks, especially while playing Genshin. Besides the above use case, I only used the Ally to play games (mostly indie and visual novels) that don't play nice with the Deck.
As for the Deck, it's my JRPG and visual novel machine. It can play Genshin quite well while having decent battery life (45fps at 9W TDP). However, it loads the game much more slowly than the iPad (2-3x slower) and can't maintain 60fps unless I want to kill the battery (set max TDP).
Yes, I usually sell my old devices when I upgrade. Sometimes I do hand-me-down to my little sisters too.
Well turns out that leak was fake. Dendro mains in shambles.
Oh really, not sure if I am relieved or disappointed lol. Potential rebalancing would have been awesome.
I do have Arlechinno, and it is a good build for her that I have used and is a nice fall back if I need to turn to it for the Abyss, or for more NA power, but I have her running a "Black Mage" Whimsy 4pc set where her Sands is an EM piece and her other artifacts have EM substats, which gives her 256 EM.
256 EM makes her reactions very high, at the expense of her non-reactive Normals not doing as much damage. But one of her Arts has 22% Atk, which kind of softens the lack of Atk that she would normally get from a 46.6% Atk Sands; which ends up giving her almost 1900 Atk anyway, and about 2200 in a 2 Pyro resonance team too!
She still, by herself against all Dailies Mobs, generally obliterates each enemy after collecting her powered up blood debts in about 2-3 hits; or for the more tanky enemies in 5-10 hits. Really makes me kinda want to leave her this way since it's unorthodox and still just works. lol.
But I will return to the Whimsy domain and farm it until I have 100 Whimsies and 100 Burning sets over the next few months, to see if I can get a set that functions as a traditional Attack based build with bonus EM if I can get lucky.
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Oooh level 100 sounds intriguing...
And now into the sea with him! D:
Poor Kaveh will finally have his home for himself.
I find it wild at this point that Hoyoverse has not seen any recognition in the games industry for their absolutely fantastic music work (not just Genshin but now also Star Rail and I have a feeling soon ZZZ as well). What other develeper puts out as much music content, this variety of music content, and additionally in that unfailingly high quality?
Yet at the end of every year when the games industry deliberates the best music in games... Hoyoverse?
And now into the sea with him! D:
Poor Kaveh will finally have his home for himself.
I find it wild at this point that Hoyoverse has not seen any recognition in the games industry for their absolutely fantastic music work (not just Genshin but now also Star Rail and I have a feeling soon ZZZ as well). What other develeper puts out as much music content, this variety of music content, and additionally in that unfailingly high quality?
Yet at the end of every year when the games industry deliberates the best music in games... Hoyoverse?
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When does his quest unlock? With the banner?
Can someone remind me what time banners change again in Continental Europe?
or maybe not, seems like the thread calling it fake has been labeled as misleading. So back to being a sus leak.
What a nice little event. I love Paimon and Itto's little rivalry so much, and getting to hear them sing was such a treat.
Speaking of leaks, gimme Natlan leaks already, i want the story cast lineup like with Sumeru.
The lv100 leak is fake? Thank the heavens, the grind would become impossible. Mora and EXP books are already a constant pain in the ass getting units to lv90.
We would need like 350 purple books to get from level 90 to 100 if they ever implemented that lol
Sorry but the leak that said it was fake was labeled misleading and deleted. Doesn't mean its real just that the evidence that said its fake was . . well fake.
And you'd need a good number of units on lv100 since Abyss would probably start scaling its content to them.
Unless you're skilled enough and has zero lag switching characters (which bugs out frequently for me with yellow ping).
LOL, I did not think of that. How will the two of us ever balance our playtime with two major expansions lol. @.@
Is Windtrace that hide and seek thing I have been waiting to experience?! Yay
As a Cyno main I am beyond excited! :D
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Well. . . damn Itto, or more specfically Max Mittelman can sing. Its a real real real shame Xinyan wasn't in this event. I love watching Itto and Paimon share one braincell and constantly fighting.