Formerly, the Traveler's Sibling always appeared in x.7 versions of Genshin Impact, every time Dainsleif appeared, but this changed in Nod Krai. The Traveler's Sibling appeared in Nod Krai Archon Quest, sooner than Dainsleif.

Basically I've been playing genshin since late june. I've gotten through mondstadt and liyue but I haven't done any of the other regions. I've already explored a lot of snezhnaya and it's really fun- and I've started the archon quest, I just haven't done much of it. I want to play along with everyone and also get all the free stuff from doing it right now- but I know that I'll also get lots of spoilers on how the whole thing will end, as well as things that happened in earlier quests. Anyone who's played through it all, which should I do?

edit: ty for all the comments! That was really fast lol I'll play through it dww :3

Mihoyo knew exactly what they were doing! And I love it!

Don't get me wrong, I really love the artstyle and atmosphere of Snezhnaya. It's the most beautiful region in the game so far. Act 1 and Act 2 were amazing, I'm still exploring everything. But for me, all those TPS sections with the shadow realm feel so forced.

Since when did Genshin became a Third Person Shooter all of sudden? We can't even wear the new outfit outside of this mode! I wanted to explore Flamefeather Valley, only to be thrown into yet another TPS area. And as far as I know the Pale Crown Palace is the exact same thing!

Okay, I got it! You really love this stuff, right Mihoyo? And yes this is a totally you-problem. But am I really the only one here who heavily despises the TPS and everything around it? I also refuse to play Trial of the Bastion. Feel free to share your thoughts!

I've been seeing a huge rise of people being downright extremely toxic about other peoples builds and teams. To the point where these people dont even realize that theyre hate commenting and it can seriously affect someones mood, as well as love for playing this game.

The truth is, bad builds and nonsensical teams DO NOT MATTER to most players. I feel like people forget that games are supposed to be fun, teams do not matter when youre just having fun in the overworld, things like that only matter in endgame. Most players do not even take endgame seriously to that extent.

The toxicity is honestly ruining a big part of this fandom besides the insufferable and equally toxic stantwt humor. Please touch some grass! Do u guys even remember the last time y'all had fun playing this game? Probably not, and theres an easy solution to that. Though im not sure if some of these people wanna hear it.

So i started asking for tips about cryo traveler teams and ended up building an i think nice one. As you can see you can use alyosha, diona and sucrose. If you have it you can also put qiqi in the spot of diona. Alternatives require yae miko and odette. Alyosha need 180/220% energy recharge so keep it in mind. Sucrose is there due to her reduction if resistances ability. Diona shields you and gives crit since shes the second cryo in team. Favonius weapons helps here, but there are stronger alternatives as well. Inital dmg was around 20k when the others were lv40. At lv50 we got around 80k. Now at lv60 weapon 60 talents lv4 artifacts set lv1 we got 117k as top dmg. And its still goimg up. Happy genshin and look at your traveler with renewed interest.

I read before that the best archon saga of genshin is either Sumeru and Fontaine, so I was looking forward to see it for myself. After having finished Sumeru and is on act 3 of Fontaine, I think I'm gonna be on team Fontaine XD

Sumeru of course was brilliant compared to the first 3 regions. The story has this mysterious and serious tone. And a lot of Teyvat and Abyss lore was covered. Fontaine has this goofy yet serious tone, and I like it more. Furina with her awkwardness, Navia and her story, and funny bits like the picture attached maybe is my type of sht haha

Hopefully the ending is as good or better than what I'm eating so far

A lot of the time celestia are portrayed as a heartless ruler and are mostly negative but when I think of it we never really know their point of view. We only know them by story or book others tell about them

Rezero VA reference

Mitya ~ Subaru

Furina~ Rem

Hutao~ Emilia

Xilonen~ Shaula.

- Killing the Grand Thief offscreen.

- Managed to capture Andrius offscreen.

- Traveler's sibling defeats Dain offscreen.

- How they managed to make Asmoday follows them also offscreen.

- The Loom of Fate is finished offscreen.

SPOILER: this theory includes spoilers for the Snezhnaya archon quests.

According to my theory Snezhnaya is going to be placed under the curse of death in the same way as khaenri'ah.

Like the khaenrians were experimenting with the forbidden power of Abyss. Like the same things are happening again in Snezhnaya, they are experimenting with the power of the third descended via the gnosis through the project mistilteinn which is outside energy of the third descender.

There is symbolism too like the harbingers are in similarity the five sinners .

Traveller is similar to his twin .

Remember lumine tells aether that he will understand her at the end of our journey (ik Snezhnaya is not the end but it feels like the end)

It's like we're experiencing the experiences of lumine which she did during khaenriah from the perspective of Aether in Snezhnaya.

Minor theory in relation to it : Ronova is trying to prevent Snezhnaya from becoming khaenriah. Like during cataclysm HP was awake so he ordered her to place the curse of death upon the khaenrians.

IMO she is in kinda guilt and while the heavenly principles is asleep she is trying as much as possible to stop them from developing the new energy source .

As she is not bound by the same authority as she was 500 years ago .

Maybe it's to make the traveller understand the perspective of his sister as why she joined Abyss'order .

Note : this is just a theory and I would like to hear everyone's thoughts on it . Please correct any mistakes or lore gaps I missed .

Logged out in front of the abyss and when I came back I noticed Celestia was just right there. Thought it was neat and wanted to share (I’m probably late to the party)

Why does when I use the obsidian codex my atk is higher even tho it has lower atk% compared to disenchantment with higher atk%? Sorry I don’t know

I’ve been thinking about a theory regarding dead characters in Genshin Impact.
We all know that a character dying in the main story usually means a definitive "no" to them ever becoming playable. But what if HoYoverse did something clever that doesn't break the lore, but actually expands it? We know that the Ley Lines and Irminsul store all the souls, memories, and history of Teyvat. What if, in the future, the game introduces a new type of gacha banner alongside the Event, Chronicled, and Standard wishes? It could be called something like "Echoes of Irminsul", and the unique wishes (Intertwined Fates alternative) could be named "Lace of Eras" (or "Weave of Eras"). This banner could feature highly anticipated characters who are canonically deceased or from the distant past, such as Guizhong, Signora (Rosalyne), Madame Ping (in her young Adeptus form), the fallen Yakshas (Bosacius, Indarias, etc.), the Moon Sisters AND even previous Archons (maybe excluding Rukkhadevata, unless HoYo does a plotline involving Irminsul distortion where she can be recovered). To keep the main story's stakes high, these characters wouldn't actually be resurrected. Instead, they would be physical manifestations of memories. In their voicelines, they could explicitly mention that they are just "echoes" of deceased individuals rather than living copies. They could express confusion about how they ended up here, or even state that they have no desire to "be alive" again. This wouldn't ruin the impact of their deaths in the archon quests, but it would finally give us a chance to play as these amazing lore figures. HoYoverse has already done something similar in Honkai Impact 3rd with the Flame-Chasers, so the concept isn't entirely new to them.
What do you guys think? Would you roll on a banner like this?

Three years. I have played this game three years. I have looked up an interactive map in my early days to get every chest inside the cities, starting with Mondstadt. How the hell--

They didn't update or replace Lan with a new model. The OG is STILL in Liyue right now. They made a second Lan for this event.

Why can't people understand with Genshin's core engine, they CAN'T "just update" an old existing model? This isn't Fortnite or COD. If they could, you think they would, no?

The closest we got is the Alt Skin because it's a separate model. That's why Diluc remains in default gear in Prologue cutscenes even if you have him and equipped the Alt skin. It's set in stone for what the engine is.

The fact OG Lan still exists in Liyue simultaneously with "new" Lan in this event, doesn't that make it clear enough?

And at the end of the day, it was made first and foremost for MOBILE, which should make it obvious enough that "PC changes" can't exactly apply to Mobile. Try looking at Nuketown on COD mobile then on core console/PC COD. Yeah, big difference.

Same reason Minecraft Pocket Edition and regular Minecraft on PC are vastly different and separate instead of one overall Minecraft.

Same with Sandrone and Wanderer. They didn't "update" them to their current playable models. They made a second model for each. One as NPC Harbingers, one for playable character.

"Why not make second model and replac-" because current Diluc is an engraved Playable character, not an NPC that can come and go on demand based on what happens. You don't just "slap on" Playability. To make a new original Diluc, you'd have to basically delete the existing core Diluc, which means all rendered cutscenes featuring him would have to be completely remade to accommodate, etc.

Diluc is not an NPC. He is build as a playable character. Remember in Nod-Krai when we played as Pulonia and not Sandrone? Because Harbinger-Sandrone was not coded with playability function, unlike ghost-Columbina because, Columbina was to be playable. And then when Sandrone was playable, it was this new model.

Making an updated model and "putting it over" his in-game model, on Genshin's engine...

...basically would be like deleting the Playable Character from everyone's accounts all at once, which, as a live service game... well, that would just be a nuke, having a playable character you have ready just... cease.

NPC-model Diluc could have it work but core-gameplay playable characters can't just be tweaked like that, especially on a made-for-mobile live service engine. It might well just be an entire new playable character by this point. Again, it's the same reason his current Alt skin doesn't appear in cutscenes or the Prologue even if you have it equipped. He's not an NPC you can just remove and replace.

Now stop complaining about Diluc.

And before "Well ZZZ-"
ZZZ came out long later, it was already an updated and performance-improved start from the get-go.

EDIT: Someone legit reported me to Reddit's sXcide watch auto thing over this. Ya'll are lunatics.

The first one is supposed to be F. Second one is a V. The third one is what look like a heart.

(Note: Why does this song playing sounds like the one at the end of Chapter 6 Act 8? The moon scene?)

I have a question, why do people hate varflins and varcole so much??? What happened to shipping for fun?? Then I see ppl hating on muluani x kinich like guys we have bigger fish to fry (I don’t have anything against it I just wanna know why)

I’ve been playing since v1 with Lumine. Thinking of creating other account and playing it from zero with Aether in parallel. Anyone done it? is it fun or dreadful?

I thought it might be the rewards from the Shadow Realm Analyzer but it's not that. The only other thing there is the Adventure Guild communication thing, but I haven't done my dailies yet to claim any rewards. What is this?

We have all seen the coop challenges that people do for fun. I had a fun idea that I do not think I have seen before so just wanted to pen it. I don't know how fun it would be but here is how it goes.

1 person starts in a particular location, probably the main city of whatever nation is chosen. Then the other 3 people get a set amount of time to clear out all elite enemies in the area. The team gets points based on how long it took the other person to find any elite enemies.

If that is still too hard, then we can restrict it to a specific type of elite enemy.

Just an idea that I had. Please tell me what you think about this and how well it would work

Soooo I'm a new player and I was completely obsessed with opening up the map and one thing led to another and now I've screwed myself with being locked in this quest. I already know I'm cooked but any advice would help. It locked me out of co-op until I finish it so I gotta commit now 😭😭

I also don't have any fancy characters, I legit have your starter characters and Barbra