Welcome to the chat, Aya!

I'm an almost Day 1 player myself, and I've only missed login in when I was on my cruise vacation, lol. I still log on basically every day!!

After Genshin stopped working on my PC I only log in to pre-farm a few pulls after drip marketing for interesting character arrives. Las time I played when I pulled Chiori.
Will try to get some pulls during Sigewinne banner, but since I was away for so long and have like 5 pulls only luck will help haha.
Are you pulling anyone on upcoming banners? Wish you best luck in any case

Will you be trying for Sigewinne, then? I'm thinking of trying to pull for her myself, though it'll depend on how her skills work during trial, since I've enjoyed playing as Arlecchino but hate how long it takes to heal her life bond, LOL.

If her skills don't speak to me, though, I'll be skipping until either Wriothesley's or Kokomi's rerun!

Yeah, I'll pull her with all I have, since I like her character very much and melusines and Elynas are my fave things about Fontain.
I don't have any character that works with bond of life mechanic, but to b honest I don't really care at this point. Looking at the design and combat trend hoyo took there won't be appealing characters for me in a long time, so even if I'll be left with no pulls it won't matter much. Natlan from the teaser doesn't seem like a region I would enjoy, gives desert vibes all over again. (tho I might be totally wrong, who knows)

Natlan seems kinda confusing to me for the moment, since the trailers made it seem very colorful and such, for a nation of war, but hopefully we're just seeing the tip of the iceberg! Can't wait to find out, though.

I'm more excited for the summer event right now, though. I love the summer events. >w<

As much as I loved Golden Apple archipelago I disliked the last year's event.
Maybe because of the location, or the story didn't touch me at all... If I wasn't grinding pulls for Eula I won't even bother with it. But my friend on the contrary loved this version of summer event much better.
I'm just glad that Emilie is totally not my character and I won't have to sweep the location and quests if I will not like it.
Certain questionable information sources hint that the first 5.0 natlan character will be a tall male, so this drip marketing couple of days before the summer event I very much look forward too. Hope it won't be disappointing...

Only seeing this message two months later, after the Natlan reveals and all, but are you happy with the new upcoming characters? I absolutely must get my paws on Kinich, he's like a pixel version of Xiao, who's one of my favourites. Only a couple of guys were shown, but they're all hot. xDDD

Also glad Emilie is not my type; not because I won't be doing the Summer Event, but because it gives me more time to save for Kinich. >:D

Speaking of, do you like this year's Summer Event? I find it cute, though I haven't actually finished yet!

I'm so busy this summer, so I only had time to see the main event's story on YT during my commute hours in a train lol.
It's not my type of the story again, I didn't like fairy tales even when I was a kid.
BUT! there was something very precious in the end that I'll put in spoiler just in case you haven't seen it yet. It basically saved the story from being total disappointment for me. So far I really liked only Leopard lady from the trailer (also it's convenient that she's geo since I'm collection all geo characters anyway haha).
But that's in terms of design alone. When we'll see their personalities I might come to like more of them. As it happened with Navia and Wrio (still can't stand their designs, but they were too precious to skip)

Good luck with pixel boy! <3
I thought about Xiao too when I first saw him. Also about Dan Heng from Star Rail.

Also about Dan Heng from Star Rail.

I don't play Star Rail, but I can see it!!

And I knoooow, I've been wanting those two to meet forever, we need an event that revolves solely around puppet and homunculus shenanigans, pls Hoyo. And Baby Durin is the cutest, I'm glad Wanderer decided to change his fate because he saw himself in his past. CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT.

only Leopard lady from the trailer

Now that Xilonen has come and gone, what do you think of her? Were you able to pull her? I pulled her solely for her ability to roller-blade up mountains and walls, lmao.

and Wrio

WRIO. DAMMIT HOYO, LET HIM OUT OF THE BASEMENT ALREADY. I didn't have enough to pull him on his release (despite trying) and figured it was fine, I'd wait for his rerun, but it hasn't happened yet while characters released AFTER him have already gotten three.

I was lucky to get the leopard lady (seriously I can't spell their names) after losing 50\50 to another copy of Jean that I never use lol.
She turned out pretty much the character I expected her to be, similar vibe to Beidou and Dehya and Mavuika herself, I just love this kind of characters.
Though I didn't expect to bench my Yun Jin in favor of leopard lady's buffs, but she's too good (also massive heals is a lifesaver sometimes) in Ayato and Yanfei teams I use on a regular basis.

My Wrio is collecting dust, because his damage is incredibly underwhelming (idk what I do wrong) but I'm glad I didn't skip him, since I like him as a character and cryo is indeed a forgotten element. Feel really sorry for Shenhe and Wrio wanters. But as Albedo and Eula wanter I waited 13 patches once too lol.