01-29-2021, 07:47:19 AM
I don't remember bosses being especially frustrating in Azur Lane or GFL (the only gachas I've regularly played events in enough to comment on, but they're definitely not the only ones lol looking at you Honkai and Granblue), it's more of that they were tedious in terms of grinding enough to get rewards and/or my schedule baulked at inconvenient server reset times. Current Hyperfixation(TM): Genshin Impact, on the other hand... hoo boy. I thought it wouldn't be so bad, but Hypostatic Symphony right now is like that to a T, but with an infinitely worse payoff. (Just EXP mats and a profile card for completing every boss on max difficulty? Really?)
Surprisingly enough, that isn't actually the worst Genshin event I went through the trouble of clearing—that award goes to Frostborn Miracle. Easily. Co-op trivialised the majority of the challenges, sure (shoutout to that tricked-out Amber who carried me for the last half dozen runs I needed), but the "hit the Regisvine 10 times with Scarlet Quartzes" one was an entirely different story; I was party wiped at least six times and burned through my entire food inventory twice just trying to last it out solo.
And I had a Qiqi with like 12k heals.
And a Bennett with 300% energy recharge.
Hooray for Jade Parcels, I guess. Pyro mains keep winning. It would've been fine if the requirement was "just" hitting the damn thing 10 times, but you had to kill the boss in the same run on top of that. (By the time I finished hitting with the quartzes, there was usually only a minute or two left on the timer.) I did complete the whole Dragonspine event in the end... but holy tapdancing fuck what was Mi-hoe-yo thinking when they made a boss that effectively AOE instakills the entire arena in four seconds unless you're standing in one specific little spot. That can take just a little more than four seconds to run to. On top of regular stamina consumption. Siiigh.
Anyhow, somewhat offtopic, but I've found myself interested in Food Fantasy and Sinoalice lately. That's a couple more levels of hell to add to the ever-growing pile, if I ever do get around to them. :P
Surprisingly enough, that isn't actually the worst Genshin event I went through the trouble of clearing—that award goes to Frostborn Miracle. Easily. Co-op trivialised the majority of the challenges, sure (shoutout to that tricked-out Amber who carried me for the last half dozen runs I needed), but the "hit the Regisvine 10 times with Scarlet Quartzes" one was an entirely different story; I was party wiped at least six times and burned through my entire food inventory twice just trying to last it out solo.
And I had a Qiqi with like 12k heals.
And a Bennett with 300% energy recharge.
Hooray for Jade Parcels, I guess. Pyro mains keep winning. It would've been fine if the requirement was "just" hitting the damn thing 10 times, but you had to kill the boss in the same run on top of that. (By the time I finished hitting with the quartzes, there was usually only a minute or two left on the timer.) I did complete the whole Dragonspine event in the end... but holy tapdancing fuck what was Mi-hoe-yo thinking when they made a boss that effectively AOE instakills the entire arena in four seconds unless you're standing in one specific little spot. That can take just a little more than four seconds to run to. On top of regular stamina consumption. Siiigh.
Anyhow, somewhat offtopic, but I've found myself interested in Food Fantasy and Sinoalice lately. That's a couple more levels of hell to add to the ever-growing pile, if I ever do get around to them. :P
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