@Moon Star
yup, it's a pure pain with artifacts. people complain about substats but I'll be happy to get at least suitable main stats so far LOL!
I love them all together and they can smash pretty much anything to pieces.

The reactions-based team that I have is sooo much weaker and slower in comparison. (though it's 4* only there)

50 now, piled up a lot of exp. but just not ready for the ascension quest yet.

Noice. Strong teams are the best!

And I could definitely manage a 5* reaction-based team with Diluc, Keqing, Childe and probably a random fourth, but I honestly can't live without my Kazuha/Venti combo for exquisite crowd control. So I just, don't have reactions. xD

And I did my final ascension quest about a week ago (regret) so now I'm at 56 and just slowly gaining more exp. xD

@Moon Star

why do you regret doing ascension quest?

I can't wait for Kazuha's rerun! He's one of my top-3 fav characters. Even though I have no idea how people even play anemo at all.

I'm strong enough to deal with regular monsters with little trouble, but now once easy bosses are tough and just annoying to fight. Not to mention that every area is now marked as "Highly Dangerous" for no damn reason, lmao.

And Kazuha is so precious, I love him.

As for how to play Anemo, I just use Venti and Kazuha as crowd control (and Venti as damage dealer, he so stronk!).

Basically, I use Kazuha's elemental skill to move enemies within range and interrupt their attack, and Venti's as damage and to keep them in the air (skill) or just massacre them (blackhole Burst).

@Moon Star

yeah, understandable! especially bosses for character's ascension.

Cool! Thanks for the tips!
I saw several times Kazuha in electro teams. Since I enjoy playing Beidou and got Keqing a couple of days ago maybe he'll be a good companion to them.

Just as a warning, my Anemo play-style might not suit you, so you just need to find out what works for you!

And though I personally don't play Electro much at all, it is fun to use Kazuha's Burst to create a field of damage, switch to Electro (and use a corresponding elemental skill) to put Electro status on every enemy, and then switch to something like Pyro for Overload, or whichever reaction you prefer!

@Moon Star

I understand, no worries!
Also, I don't have Venti anyway and don't plan to pull for him.

It's so nice not to worry about reactions playing mostly geo, but I need to start practicing and adjusting other team compositions still. (since abyss requires two teams and they both better be good lol)
I used to mainly focus on freeze\melt on earlier ranks, but since I can't get any good cryo artifact I am using cryo less and less, which is sad.

Noooo, you need to get Venti, he's so precious! xD

And yeah, that's the beauty of a Geo team, but at the same time it's kinda boring??? At least, the lack of reactions is boring to me, lmao.

And you can still use artifacts with good stats and sub-stats, if not necessarily Cryo-relevant ones.

Venti is cute, I totally agree.
But according to all the speculations his rerun will be at the same patch with Kazuha, so in this case, it's out of the question for me personally.

I'm not bored with geo at least yet. Since only after I got Zhongli who completed the team I finally got the feeling that I can manage any boss/content without help or decreasing the world lvl for the first time.
Before most of the stuff was such a drag. If not for the beautiful world and interesting characters I would've given up long ago lol.

Btw, are you excited about new characters in 2.5 and 2.6?

Ah, it's still often a drag when it comes to some monsters and bosses. But the husbandos, waifus, scenery and storyline all make up for it. xD

And I don't really follow leaks or speculations or anything of the sort, so I can't pronounce myself on that, but yeah, I get why you want to skip him if you're gunning for Kazuha. Precious Canadian Aether. :)

As for new characters. Kamisato Ayato's design is so disappointing. All the fanart I've seen of him look 20x better, and now I'm mad. Or rather, smad. xD
Also annoyed that the Raiden Shogun + Kokomi are getting a rerun so soon (because I want new characters, dammit!). Yae looks hot tho.

How do you feel about the reveals?