Genshin Co-Op and World Bosses

It has been a very Genshin Impact week, and to be truthful right now it has my full attention. At first it was in order to get to Adventure Rank 20 and get the free Barbara healer character. Now it is just because it is extremely freaking fun, and it happens to be the game that I want to play the most. I am sure the new will wear thin at some point, but for right now I am happiest when roaming the world and looking for interesting things to explore. There are still areas of Mondstadt that I have yet to see and I feel like I have barely scratched the surface of the much larger Liyue.

Last night Grace and I got in sync and decided to explore how exactly Co-Op works in this game. For starters you can in fact join the game of another player and wander around in the open world. This could serve very useful for helping your friends out when they are working on puzzles and such. It effectively splits the party so each player controls two characters. The weird part is that the joining player can’t really interact with the world, like opening chests or interacting with objects in dungeons. However everything that drops seems to spawn an instanced copy for both players. That means if you mine an ore node, both players get their own copies of whatever pops out of them. The same is true with any in world kills, and the one exception to the no interaction bit seems to be when you would need to spend resin to open something.

We spent some time trying to figure out something meaningful to do with our time. The domains that we had access to were completely trivialized with two players. We couldn’t quite figure out a way to may trails or the spiral abyss work co-op which was unfortunate. Eventually we settled into taking on some world bosses and this is absolutely the best use of time with other players. We started with probably the hardest, the Cryo Regisvine but after a couple of attempts we managed to down it. After that we moved on and took down the Electro Hypostasis which was pretty easy, and finally moved to the Anemo Hypostasis which gave us a bit more trouble but was doable as well. The negative is that these bosses cost 40 resin each… the positive however is they drop a bunch of stuff… most of it we have no clue how to use yet.

Opening up at 20 was the battle pass, and considering how much I have been enjoying this game I absolutely paid the $20 to unlock both tracks. All of the shenanigan’s we had been doing throughout the night seemingly counted towards the unlocking of ranks. It seems like the game is secretly crediting you for your activities before you reach Rank 20 and then letting you cash those in when you get access to the Battle Pass system. I’m currently level 12 and this also serves like the Adventure’s Journal in giving me something to focus on for the time when I am not doing structured content. For example I need to find more secrets in each of the two areas, but I am pretty close to unlocking another bunch of BP experience for Mondstadt.

Additionally at 20, I unlocked Barbara which had been the focus of my recent leveling push. Grace ran with her last night and I was able to see just how much passive healing she is capable of dishing out. I love Razor, but he is a bit squishier than I would like him to be so it might be nice to swap in Barbara in that last slot to swap over to periodically to passively heal up the party with her attacks. It is somewhat unfortunate however that you can’t really heal your characters without going into combat, but shredding a Hilichurl camp while paying Barbara effectively will top off the entire party and prepare for them for the next big engagement.

I find myself still having a blast with this game and I cannot wait to talk about it on AggroChat this weekend. It is just so surreal because this is absolutely a game that came from out of nowhere for me. I had heard about it but I largely filed this away as a mobile only experience, and since in general I don’t love playing games where I have to mimic a controller with on screen thumbsticks I ignored it. I hope that maybe just maybe something like this convinces other mobile games to give creating a PC client a shot. I’ve played a few of them with Android emulators like Nox Player or Blue Stacks and with Keyboard and Mouse they were a much more enjoyable experience.

I hope you have a glorious weekend. What do you have on your gaming schedule for the next few days? Are you also obsessed with Genshin Impact? Drop me a line in the comments.

1 thought on “Genshin Co-Op and World Bosses”

  1. It’s been a while, so I guess you have figured this out by now, but just in case…

    Barbara’s E ability can heal the party without any fighting going on just fine, just activate it and cycle through the characters that need healing. 🙂

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