All of Yae Miko’s four-star Catalyst options have distinct benefits. The Widsith is likely to be your best choice if you have it, especially with higher Refinement levels. All of its passive effects are exceptional on Yae Miko; this even includes the Elemental Mastery bonus that is typically the worst effect, since Yae Miko’s Fourth Ascension Passive – Enlightened Blessing – grants her Sesshou Sakura extra damage relative to her

Though the complexity of physical combat isn’t entirely deep, it’s the tactical side of things where most of the focus is placed. The continuous push for elemental buffs and certain status ailments on your enemies, made possible when you combine two or more elements in a given situation. Come across foes that are comprised of ice? Best to rid their armor with a character specializing in fire abilities, but not before having that interact with wind and topping it off with a clash of an electric super move that causes you to chain together damage to nearby enemies. While you can mostly get by simply throwing everything but the kitchen sink at things, later on the game does require players to think more strategically about the kind of elemental properties they want to wield. More importantly, when it might be best to use specific abilities — some running on a cool-down, others requiring a slightly lengthier charge up. But even at its most basic level, when taking out the elemental mechanics and the desire to multiply one’s damage output, there’s a simple pleasure in seeing your character hack-and-slash away. A more satisfying sight when such encounters have you surrounded on all fronts — some enemies even trying to stay back so as to unleash their own area-of-effect or elemental-based ailments.

The best pairings with Diona in this composition are Pyro teammates who can battle reliably inside the AOE of Diona’s Burst so that enemies stay within it, and you can benefit from the passive healing. Diona’s entrepreneurial rival, Diluc , serves this role particularly well; or you can opt for more of a wine-and-dine experience with master chef Xiangling on your team. Either way, combo-ing their Pyro abilities with Diona’s Cryo application, healing, and shielding will form a potent core for your t

Maxed out, the Engulfing Lightning gives Thoma 110 percent Attack boost, which again reinforces his strength in battle, and helps make him effective as either a support role on the team , or the main source of

Although this trait will rarely be useful in combat scenarios, it can be useful during exploration. If there’s treasure on an island you’re not quite sure you can swim all the way to, activate Kokomi’s Burst and walk to gain some distance first. Once it runs out, remember that she also has a passive talent that reduces your Stamina consumption while swimming . Between these two abilities you should be able to conquer the sea and reach your destinat

There’s no greater a highlight than a moment around fifteen-ish hours into wandering the world. Having already established the omnipresent “the world is one big environmental puzzle” motif at the heart of Genshin Impact 4.6 Updates Impact and successfully completing a near two kilometre trek to a new region, to activate another beacon filling in more of the map, only to spot one of thousands of optional collectibles atop an incline of rocks; a few seconds of climbing later and off in the distance, another beacon. A subtle indicator — of which the game does a great job at allowing players to organically discover parts for themselves — that hinted not only towards another environmental conundrum, but also of what may lie beyond. Even then: what other little moments will distract me. It’s a truly great, out-of-the-blue moment but another point in Genshin Impact’s favor. How, indeed like Breath of the Wild before it, the journey becomes as pivotal and as fulfilling as the destination. Ultimately, the marvel of seeing yet another perspective on the vast world before you. Before long, you’re ready to plot another course and begin that journey all over again.

Of the many screen captures and countless hours of recorded footage during one’s playtime in Genshin Impact, it’s been a difficult task finding the ideal visuals to best sum up the current racking up of 25-or-so hours. In a way that’s both accurately representative, but also that which offers an insight into some of the more emergent and thus personal highlights. If you’ve been keeping tabs on this latest free-to-play title by China-based miHoYo, you may well have come across (or perhaps knowingly used) some of its more dismissive or undermining labels. A Breath of the Wild clone has been the more “popular” descriptor being thrown about, but even the premise of a game whose model falls more in line with the current Gacha format may already be enough to turn anyone away.

During her Burst, Kokomi’s attacks will gain bonus scaling relative to her HP and Healing Bonus , upgrading their damage from shrimp-status to whale-sized-wallops. Combine this with damage sources from other characters like Beidou ’s Burst or Fischl ’s Oz and soon enough you’ll have a whirlpool of destruction by Kokomi’s ha