@Rakuyo, Maxing talents definitely counts as building! I'm so proud of you, I tend to just ignore them, though my main team all have at least level 5 talents, but bleh. It's pretty unimpressive, haha.
And lately I've been doing Guyun domain for Zhongli's artifacts, because yes, I've never bothered properly farming artifacts for anyone and just used what I had at hand. But now I'm doing it. A bit. :)
And I hate the mechanical creatures as regular enemies, forget fighting the Perpetual Mechanical Array for any reason. Poor Gorou's gonna stay at a low lever forever. (:
And Diluc is in my main team. I love him and his Pyro.

@PastelWitch, Whoah, triple crowning! I can't even bother getting one character to normal talent levels. ///Giggle
Good luck!!
And god I love Kazuha, he's in my core team at almost all times not just because he's cute! Which he is. But I also love his play-style, crowd control is just so good. Which is also why Venti is in my team. I love just ulting treasure hunter camps. :D
And I considered pulling on Kokomi's banner, just because of how lovely her design is, but I would literally never play her, unless I'm in desperate need of a healer. And I'm nearly at pity, soooo.... Yeah, not pulling.

@Moon Star
I mostly started bothering with talents because my luck wit weapons is just really bad and without compensating weak weapons in any way possible I was just unable to beat any boss or domain even with food.
But yeah, this is so boring to get enough books meh, especially when several characters need the same damn books lol.

@PastelWitch
This time I'm skipping Kokomi, but hopefully will try to get her in the next rerun.
Really like her design and as a character overall.
(Won't pull for Raiden probably ever for many reasons)

Are you pulling for any of them?

@Rakuyo

I have both Raiden and Kokomi from their first banner (got insanely lucky and actually wanted the 4* more lol). Kokomi is very cute design wise and a great healer, makes teams almost invincible.


@Moon Star

Oh yeah I've crowned Yanfei and Hutao! Pyro grils are clearly my favourite ahaha.
Kazuha is sooo good; the crowd control is perfect I really should get him to level 80...

@Rakuyo, I reeeeeeeally need a 5* claymore for my Diluc, but the banners are always catalysts, swords or polearms. ///rolls eyes
But I actually can't complain, since I've gotten very lucky with my weapon pulls with the Epitomized Path, getting my wanted 5* both times I pulled on the banner weapon (I had to reach pity once, yes, but I didn't have to do more than that). Got both Staff of (t)Homa (for Geo Daddy) and Primordial Jade Cutter (for Kazoo). And before the Epitomized Path came out, I got Skyward Spine in the Permanent Banner (rather than a 5* character ), which I gave to Xiao once I pulled him, and Skyward Harp (in the Weapon Banner) that I gave to precious Venti. :) (I used to run him with Windblume Ode before that, but now Childe uses it, lol.)

And I have to ask, but do you also just utterly despise Raiden? I pulled for her before finishing the main quest, deep regret [though I admit to still wanting all the Archons, so I'd probably have pulled for her eventually xD], and I hate her so damn much after going through her story-line.


@PastelWitch, I literally can't live without crowd control anymore, lolz. Farming for Viridescent Venerer, and I just spam Venti's ult like 5 times in a row.

@Moon Star
whoa! that's a really nice luck with weapons!
I'm still mad about getting bow instead of Itto's claymore, and overall lots of bows and the only bow user I use is Gorou lol. I've got close to second garanteed pity but was unable to farm enough primos in time.
Wishing for jade cutters was very seductive, but I could't bare even a thought of getting weapon I'd never use again and waste wishes.

About Raiden - yes, totally.
It's just that she is really popular (at least on hoyo lab and and other communities) so I don't talk about openly so much not to upset anyone.
But living for hell knows how many years and still being this way - omg, no words for it.
Also it's soooo damn lame how they tried to "explain" why she is this way in a new story quest with her. Yeah, I was so upset with my sister dying that I threw away my responsibilities as a leader of a nation and chilled for 500+ years. Just amazing!

@Moon Star
Oh you have Venti? Amazing! He's sooo good.
I love Kazuha and I know Sucrose is good but I've not levelled her lmao. I also have Jean who I'm hoping to level up soon - but I'm so out of resources for everything XD

@Rakuyo
Sometimes you just don't like characters and if they're mega popular it's annoying to talk about it. I don't like Ganyu really, and I don't like Qiqi. It's just the uwu-waifu thing on a lot of the characters that annoy me which is why some of my faves are the more spunky/attitude based ones like Beidou and Hutao ahaha.

@Both
How are you enjoying the new bartender event?

@PastelWitch
Yeah, true!
I was upset when I got Qiqi as a first 5* from standard banner, but now she's my best healer so far. But as a characher she's very plain.

Beidou is so cool! Like her too.
Their scene with Ningguang in a drinks event was so adorable.

And in the light of the news in the world the new event is so soothing.

@PastelWitch

I gave ocean set to all of them and it works pretty well!
I was kind of disappointed about investing in Diona (I don't enjoy playing her) but she is useful in some domains and teams where I can't put Zhongli or Noelle.

I struggle with getting sword billets and gacha gives me only good bows and spears lol.

Did you watch the livestream 2.6 teaser?

I was very upset that Kazuha is not back at the next patch, but pulling for Ayato is more and more appealing with every new piece of information about him.

I enjoyed Genshin I keep thinking I should go back and play it again, the characters are so cute.