Oh god please no. You mean the mission where you have to fight a scarab at the end? Been stuck on there for a long time. Ended up leaving it be
Yea that's the one. If you want to build out any new-ish characters you're gonna need to beat it eventually anyways. After you beat the story version it turns into a new Echo of War boss with Trace materials that you have to farm from it.
Me, as a Himeko main on that boss:
Yep, but we're stuck with it for a while methinks. At least we got Xianyun who can be built as a DPS. Have you made any progress on that front?
I still haven't finished the Lantern Rite quests yet, and I'm only about half done with exploring Chenyu/Fontaine, I've barely been able to play lately, so nothing yet. I did just get her to lv90 9/9/9 a few days ago. Gonna triple crown her but it'll be a few weeks to get drops from the narwhal to do it. I also got the Enka catalyst to 90 and I have a r5/90 Widsth ready to go when I piss with the DPS stuff.
I assume they'll attempt to fix this with her quest or other story content. We're still due another weekly boss in Fontaine. She might have something to do with that. But IMO that's too late.
Yea I still don't get why they always push so hard to finish the archon quests so quickly in each region. Why not flesh out the plot and characters and have it conclude in the .5 patch instead of squishing everything into the first 3? IMO they should have had a series of quests about Arle in the .2 version showing how tough/evil she is, then at the end when she chooses to help Fontaine, you get the dichotomy that she can also be caring/supportive and then it actually hits like its supposed to. Having her go from ominous to neutered puppy back to ominous feels stupid. Especially with how they leave her at the end of the archon quest.
From what I read, this is an existing Jean emoji, just redrawn with some of Murata's features as a prototype. It's not fully accurate. Leaks are saying her theme is Brazilian carnival and bullfighting. Not a terrible idea for a character, but not so much for an Archon. And folks seem to agree with me since Reddit and 4chan are pissed. That's supposed to be the goddess of war? Come on now. I see way too many similarities to Furina, so I hope this is fake but it probably won't be.
I'm alright with it honestly it's just draw over Jean's body. There's only so much you can gleam from a stylized head, so I'll wait to see the full design.
Also, lots of people angry that she's fair-skinned. I sorta agree because I wouldn't mind some more delicious chocolate in this game a la Candace and Dehya. Hopefully some other Natlan characters will be like that.
This was just never gonna happen. They serve CN market first and foremost and the darker skin characters just don't do as well there (and in east asia in general). They need the archons to hit big. Also from the lore we have, Murata was not a native of Natlan, she was an implant there, so in that aspect it makes sense.
I'm more surprised (from previous leaks) that they're leveraging their "strongest dps" as a dark skinned male character. You have a lot of the asian market that won't like that he's brown, and people like me that aren't happy it's another male hypercarry, so they stand to lose a lot on that one if they go through with it.
But yea, another cute brown waifu would be cool too, but between Dehya/Candace/Xinyan they haven't done right by them even once yet, designs aside. I always kinda hope that if we do the time travel "past Monstadt" arc like I think we will, they will make Vanessa (from the manga) playable.
I was also hoping that how Raiden Shogun was obviously based off of Raiden Mei from Honkai Impact, that they'd be making Murata based off of my favorite all time HoYo character (whose name is Himeko Murata):
I mean obviously she won't look like a mecha pilot in Genshin, but I was hoping for enough design elements to be the same, or at least the facial/hair features.
