@Rakuyo:
Yeah, getting stronger in the beginning is really painful, also because your character roster is very limited. There are more ways to make your characters stronger than just leveling up and ascending - you can:
- give them better weapon (the bigger star rating, the better - they just get better stats), level it up and ascend it
- level up their talents (but they are locked in the beggining, before one of the ascensions, I don't remember which one)
- give them better artifacts and level them (though there are barely any artifacts at the start of the game... )
There is also food to temporarily boost your characters. Moreover, you can unlock character constellations if you get another copy of the character - which is hard, because you need to use wishes and get lucky... But the traveler gets constellations to unlock as you level up through a story (you can also get one in Mondstadt and Liyue by exchanging anemo and geo sigils in this shop with the gem icon on the map).
There is also a trick to finish all elemental bosses. You always need at least one character with element that interacts effectively with element of the boss (for example hydro reacts with electro, but it just gives more electro damage, so it is bad for electro hypostasis, because it is immune to electro
)
If you still have trouble, you may always try to do it in coop. It really drastically speeds up things. My sister started to play few months ago. She also had trouble at the beginning, so I helped her out with bosses and now she's strong enough to help me with some challanges
Anyway, even I could help you, if you want of course (there are people who prefer to do things at their own pace
). Though it depends also on the timezone, I guess... I usually play in the evenings and I'm in gmt+1.
@Moon Star:
No, actually I've never died because of grass on fire. Or I just don't remeber it. Well, I got Xianling pretty late and afterwards I quickly got Zhongli... I'm not even sure if I didn't get Zhongli before Xianling (yes, I was this late in the Abyss
). Which I think would explain why I've never died this way
Oh, Golden Apple Archipelago Islands! Yes, they were so nice! And I was on holidays for half of the event, so I struggled a lot to explore it. I'm also really sad they vanished. I cleared most of it, but not whole. What a waste of effort on their part. I complained a lot in the survey afterwards.
Though I really did dislike how high everything was...
Oh, another Xiao fan, I see
My favorite still is Zhongli, but Xiao is nice. And strong
Though I've heard they are rerunning Albedo and Eula in 2.3. I have no idea why Eula, she was available not so long ago
I'm not a fan of Geo characters in general (except Zhongli) and both Gorou and Itto did not catch my attention yet. Though it may change when they get their videos or during the test run...
I really love that they make videos for almost all characters. They are often sooo nice