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Morning friends. World of Warcraft appears to be on fire right now, so I am giving it some distance so it can improve itself. Tuesday night I managed to do some makeovers and last night I was going to log in and spend some time roaming around with the freshly redesigned characters. Unfortunately this is what I kept encountering when attempting to log any of them in. It seems that the servers are still struggling, and as a result I am going to I guess give it another attempt tonight. I guess it is a good thing that the expansion was delayed and that the pre-launch event has yet to start. I am just hoping that the fires have died down by the 18th so I can farm the Hallows End event for another round of tries on the mount.

Instead of playing World of Warcraft I ventured back into Genshin Impact and made another attempt at a decent re-rolled alt account. You can create a seemingly infinite number of Genshin Impact accounts because they don’t actually require you to use an email address for any of them. If you can get to level 7 you will have earned a significant number of free wishes and should have a decent shot of pulling something reasonable. As a result my third attempt at an alt account seemed to have born fruit, or at least something that I consider completely functional when it comes to playing with it.

Xingqiu is a character that you encounter in the Liyue storyline and is not a character that I have on my main account. On this account I also managed to pick up Ningguang, 1 constellation Noelle, and a 1 constellation Xiangling. Of the characters on this account, I feel like Xingqiu is the strongest carry that I can build into a DPS Carry. I would have rather had Razor, Diluc, Chongyun or Beidou as a two handed beater but I can make this character work for leveling. To be honest this is a pretty great champion that I am happy I at least have access to now, even though it is on the wrong account.

So for my party right now I am using Xingqiu as carry, Xiangling and Kaeya as support dps and Noelle as a healer. Have Noelle bubble before going into a fight and then use either a pyro to hydro reaction or a cryo to hydro reaction for dps boosting depending on what I am fighting. However all of this said I think I glazed over WHY I would want a secondary account. Essentially if you have alt accounts and can get them to level 16, you can then abuse them for farming world resources… which you start to need in higher quantities as you progress through levels. So in theory I can log this account on… and then have my main join it to run around and collect ore, flora and kill mini bosses that are on a 24 hour respawn timer.

On the main account I have managed to push my Battle Pass up to rank 34 and I should be able to get higher this week pending I can finish a few achievements. The most annoying of these is the farm 20 clouds. Sure you can start and finish a cloud event without taking the rewards… but the cloud sits there with rewards waiting even if you log out and back into the game. I am not exactly sure how long I need to wait before attempting the cloud again… or if I need to wait for reset each day and in essence do two a day until I have gotten that twenty.

This morning with my free primagems I managed to pull yet another Barbara, which means I am one constellation away from having her maxed out. That last constellation is pretty damned sweet because it means she auto resurrects your characters when they fall in battle. The game itself has slowed down considerably because I realistically have only a few things that I can really do to make progress each day. Essentially I get in and do my daily quests and then farm whatever dungeons are up that day for resources with my resin. Now that I have moved to world 4 I need to spend one of the days farming the world bosses for attempts at either a 5 star artifact or even better a claymore pattern.

The core challenge of Genshin Impact is that it is still a Gacha/Energy game at its core and while it feels very open and very free… once you have completed the story content there are a very limited number of ways you can move that needle forward on a daily basis. There is apparently some discussion within Mihoyo about tweaking this, because apparently they had no idea that the game was going to blow up on the level of a “phenomena” like it did. So hopefully they ease some of the restrictions and lean into the whole big open world free to play thing, and shift around to some alternate ways of play. You can still have a really fun time without “whaling out” but from AR35 onwards it slows down again… and I imagine from AR40 onwards it is a very painful slog.