Stingy-HoYo strikes again by combining a popular 5 star sword with a useless claymore on the upcoming weapon banner for Genshin Impact 2.6.

dude 💀 https://t.co/5jfwPVKq2A

— dish (@companiondish) April 13, 2022

A quick scroll through the quotes or replies to Genshin Impact‘s tweet announcing the upcoming weapon banner shows total, utter dissatisfaction. While the Mistsplitter is one of the most coveted weapons in the game, and is Ayaka’s signature weapon, The Unforged is the most useless 5 star claymore for most players.

The Mistsplitter reforged packs a ton of critical damage, and a high base attack of 674 at level 90. In addition to this, its passive gives an elemental damage bonus – one of the most coveted bonuses a weapon could have. It’s being rerun alongside Ayaka, who is arriving with her brother’s departure in mere days.

Critical rate and critical damage are pretty much the most valued stats when it comes to late game Genshin Impact, which is why 5 star weapons that don’t have a CRIT main stat are considered much less useful to players. There are, of course, some exceptions. There’s Eula’s weapon with its Physical DMG bonus, and Kazuha’s with Elemental Mastery. But for the most part, players would rather get their hands on something with that sweet, sweet critical boost.

The Unforged, on the other hand, has an Attack main stat. It’s still an offensive stat, but not as good as critical rate or damage for traditional DPS characters.

It’s not the worst weapon in the game, but it’s the best in slot weapon of precisely zero characters. The reason this weapon is so irksome is that its passive doesn’t really synergize with its stats. It has a 20% Shield Strength buff, but provides Attack. The only claymore character who can independently produce a shield is Noelle – and her shield scales with defence. Most only use her as a DPS at C6 also, at which state she is also dependent on defence scaling. You wouldn’t want to use this on Itto either – he also needs defence. You can use the claymore on any traditional DPS and benefit from the passive if you have a reliable shielder, such as Zhongli, in your party – which will make this weapon good, but not great.

The reason so many fans are irritated by this is that the Mistsplitter has been highly coveted for a long time, with many people desperate for it to get a rerun. But, for most people, the 50% chance of losing to The Unforged makes this weapon banner very unappealing.

I personally find the decision irritating because it makes it very clear that HoYoverse’s primary concern is milking whales for all their cash. They reran Venti instead of Ayaka alongside her brother Ayato, solely so they wouldn’t have to put their signature weapons – two very powerful swords – on one banner. No, that would provide too much good value to the players! And then they would only do 60-odd pulls instead of hundreds of pulls to reach the guaranteed Mistsplitter. But wouldn’t it make a lot of thematic sense to run Ayaka and her Ayato’s banners together? It would also have been a great promotion opportunity! Put the focus on the Kamisato siblings!

Deep down, all I want is a 5-star CRIT sword for my Bennett… wish me luck for this weapon banner –  heaven knows I’ll need it.

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Yelan and Kiki Shinobu have been revealed by Genshin Impact surprisingly early.

I must say, this drip marketing release caught me way off-guard. I’ve been happily saving my primogems for Kaedehara Kazuha, not even considering the characters on the horizons of 2.7. Yelan is a character that I’ve been looking forward to also, as she uses my favourite weapon – the bow.

Genshin Impact seems to be releasing drip marketing earlier and earlier these days, perhaps in an effort to beat the leakers to it. Anyhow, the two new characters look gorgeous.

Yelan appears to hail from Liyue, and works for the Ministry of Civil Affairs. Her design is really lovely, with blue details fitting of the hydro element.

Yelan ‧ Valley Orchid
A mysterious person who claims to work for the Ministry of Civil Affairs

Yelan's identity has always been a mystery.
Like a phantom, she often appears in various guises at the center of events, and disappears before the storm stops.#GenshinImpact pic.twitter.com/XVCffaDUpL

— Genshin Impact (@GenshinImpact) March 28, 2022

We’ll have to wait for more details on her kit, but she is meant to be a five star.

The other new character is Kuki Shinobu, the Deputy Leader of the Arataki gang. Yes – that’s Itto’s gang! People are suspecting that Itto may be getting a rerun soon, with Kuki featured as a four star on his banner. Kuki wields electro and apparently is the ‘mender’ of the Arataki gang. I can’t wait to meet her and see how she interacts with Arataki Itto, a favourite character of mine.

Kuki Shinobu ‧ Mender of Tribulations

Deputy Leader of the Arataki Gang#GenshinImpact pic.twitter.com/2TtwpiDo8T

— Genshin Impact (@GenshinImpact) March 28, 2022

I think her design is also gorgeous, though it’s received mixed reception. I personally really like it, she has a cool vibe. Her mask especially. I’ve actually been asking for ages to see playable members of Itto’s gang – particularly a female character. Needless to say, I’m very excited for Kuki’s release.

Who are you most looking forward to? Or are you still set on obtaining Kamisato Ayato?

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Dear Genshiners,

Today I heard that Kazuha would not be joining us in Genshin Impact 2.6. The result was me caving and pulling for our Divine Priestess, Kokomi. Not that I regret it. Now, let’s go over her updated build guide together.

This guide will be fully focused on SUPPORT Kokomi. While you can build her as a DPS, and have a lot of fun doing so and get some good damage out of her too, her support build can make a massive contribution to your team’s damage – and healing. It is generally considered her strongest role, so that’s what this guide will focus on.

As a support, Kokomi can provide consistent off-field hydro application and healing. You want to aim for 100% uptime on her skill, which you can maintain with enough energy recharge and using her ultimate to reset the timer on her skill.

Weapon

In short: Thrilling Tales of Dragon Slayers at R5, which you should be able to obtain easily from gacha as a 3 star weapon. Yes, this is even better for your overall team damage than kitting out Kokomi with her signature 5 star weapon, Everlasting Moonglow. Though that would buff her personal damage and healing, she already heals plenty and the 48% attack bonus for your team should give you better overall damage in the right team compositions.

Artefacts

The best set for support Kokomi is the 4 piece Tenacity of Millelith set. I too was surprised that it wasn’t the Clam set, but again that works best for a damage oriented Kokomi. She will benefit from the Millelith 2 piece bonus for healing and damage, and the 4 piece bonus can be maintained 100% of the time if you correctly manage her skill – providing your team with an excellent buff.

For her circlet, you definitely want to go with a healing bonus. Her other pieces should then prioritise HP, but if you don’t have enough energy recharge you can use a timepiece with ER. Ideally you want quite a lot of ER, around 180 percent. Your substat priorities should, of course, be HP and ER.

For the moment though, I’m using a 2 piece Maiden Beloved and 2 piece Ocean-Hued Clam set. Gets the job done and I’m too lazy to farm Millelith right now.

Team compositions

As a healer, Kokomi is quite useful for the open world and can be slotted into most casual compositions. Kokomi shines best as a hydro enabler though, providing vaporises for pyro dps characters and freeze for cryo dps characters. She doesn’t provide quite as much hydro application as Xingqiu, though, bear in mind. Nor will she do as much off-field damage.

You’ll generally want to use Kokomi, a pyro/cryo DPS, a pyro/cryo support (matching their DPS counterpart), and an anemo unit with the viridescent set. For example, I am currently using Kokomi, Yoimiya, Bennett, and Venti, or sometimes Ayaka, Chongyun, Kokomi, and Sucrose.

While there are other, equally viable ways to build Kokomi, hopefully this F2P friendly support build guide has helped you out!

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FIRST THINGS FIRST: GO AND REDEEM THE FOLLOWING PRIMOGEM CODES!!!

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Sorry for yelling, but these things expire faster and faster each up date I SWEAR.

Anyway, the 2.6 livestream just aired, and confirmed my deepest fear: No Kazuha in Genshin Impact 2.6. There will, instead, be the arrival of Kamisato Ayato alongside the rerun of the Anemo Archon, AKA Venti! Who I do love dearly, but already have. Following Ayato’s banner will be his little sister Ayaka’s banner.

There are going to be 4 events during 2.6, as well as a new Archon Quest bringing the return of Dainsleif. Perhaps the most exciting news for me is the confirmation of two new artefact sets, leaks of which I have discussed previously.

New artifacts in 2.6#原神 #Genshin pic.twitter.com/plMCsl16BL

— Genshin Mains – Your Guide to Teyvat (@genshinmains) March 18, 2022

The Vermillion Hereafter set seems perfect for Xiao, while the Echoes of an Offering set is apparently tailored to Ayato.

What are you most looking forward to in Genshin Impact 2.6? I for one can’t wait to see Venti again!

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Notable leaker Ubatcha1 has shared new official artwork featuring Kamisato Ayato and Albedo.

Alongside our beloved traveller (pictured here as Aether) and Paimon, pictured are upcoming character, Kamisato Ayato, and the Knights of Favonius alchemist, Albedo. This artwork is promo material for Genshin Impact 2.6.

Albedo had a rerun very recently, so this was confusing to some players. It usually takes at least five or six updates for a character to be viable for rerun, but usually the characters featured in promotion and story are rerun that same update. There seems to be no claims of an Albedo rerun, however, and at the moment leakers are claiming Ayaka and Venti will be the characters getting reruns this update.

The 2.6 Genshin Impact stream is beginning shortly – so all will be revealed soon!

Dear Travelers, the Version 2.6 Special Program is about to begin!

Click here >>>>https://t.co/iSfDaDRH9w#Genshin

— Genshin Impact (@GenshinImpact) March 18, 2022

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Two long-awaited reruns could be coming in Genshin Impact 2.6, alongside new 5-star Kamisato Ayato

By March 2022, over a year and a half since Genshin Impact‘s initial release, there is a total of 17 limited 5 stars – soon to be 18 with the release of Kamisato Ayato. Since Ayato is currently the only new character announced for Genshin Impact 2.6, players are speculating that the other banner slots will be filled with reruns.

A recent leak shared by Genshinmrx suggested that Kamisato Ayaka and Venti would be the reruns of 2.6 – notedly no Kazuha.

Oh, no, it's wrong
He still doesn't know whether it is double rerun or single rerun in the first. But ayato is still at first. Rerun's people are still venti / Ayaka pic.twitter.com/9PEV1sM18j

— Mrx (@Genshinmrx) March 13, 2022

While I can’t verify the reliability of this leaker, this information does seem sensical as Venti has been confirmed to appear in Inazuma in Genshin 2.6. As funny as it is to see the Anemo archon looking extremely out of place among the Inazumans.

genshin leaks
venti looks so goofy pic.twitter.com/VOnc3E1aXY

— daily archons (@archondaily) March 2, 2022

It’s also unsurprising that Ayaka would be run in close succession to her brother’s banner – especially as they may have good synergy for a freeze setup.

It’s almost been a whole year since Venti’s last rerun, and he is still considered to be one of the best supports in the game – as well as a beloved character. Undoubtedly, many people are holding out for his rerun. Ayaka is very much highly-anticipated too, being one of the strongest DPS characters in the game among the ranks of Hu Tao and Ganyu.

But if you’re (like me) desperately waiting for Kazuha, there’s, unfortunately, no news on his rerun.

https://twitter.com/SaveYourPrimos/status/1495141749777305602?s=20&t=gcm9ZHco3JpJhly3VE_pjg

There’s a lot of characters on the rerun waiting list now, and its only going to get more dense as more 5 stars are introduced.

Who are you currently waiting on?

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The new advert for the iPad Air features Genshin heavily in its marketing. However, fans were quick to pick up on a fatal mistake.

If you were wondering how Genshin Impact will run on the iPad Air, Apple seem set on assuring you that it’ll work just fine. Unless you’re facing an electro-immune boss with an all electro team, which for some reason outrageous Apple player has decided to do.

About 15 seconds into the ad, you can see the player attacking a level 93 (AKA endgame world level) Thunder Manifestation – a powerful electro boss immune to all electro attacks – with the Raiden Shogun/Electro Archon. She’s in her ultimate state, which normally would have her doing tons of damage.

But instead she is doing NO damage because this boss is immune to electro. The other characters on the team include Keqing and Yae Miko, who are also electro attackers. There’s also the traveller, who could potentially be using electro as well, as the traveller is able to wield any of the elements by resonating with local archon statues.

Obviously, they wanted to match the game to the purple aesthetic of this part of the commercial, but the IMMUNE tags instead of big damage numbers that endgame players are used to just look ridiculous. Also, this team composition has no healers or shielders, so not only will it not do damage to the boss but it will probably get dusted unless our Apple player is an expert dodger.

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Ubatcha1 shares that Heizou will likely be the last character from Inazuma for the foreseeable future.

Heizou might be released in Genshin Impact 2.8 which, according to HoYoverse’s usual update schedule should arrive this summer.

We still don’t know much about Heizou, other than that he is a detective and has a mischievous personality. He will apparently have the male teen model, and be even shorter than Xiao.

Heizou smaller then Xiao from Genshin_Impact_Leaks

We love short kings in this household.

Originally, Heizou was suspected to be released alongside Ayato in Genshin Impact 2.6. However, Ayato is now well on the way – and Heizou is nowhere in sight. It’s now expected that Heizou won’t be seen until Genshin Impact 2.8, and it’s unclear whether he will be a 5 star, 4 star, or what his kit will be like.

Leaks will surely be on the way when later beta tests drop, but for not we’re mostly in the dark about this troublemaker.

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Credible leaker Ubatcha1 shares info on Yelan and Shinobu in recent leaks.

Yelan will supposedly be released in Genshin Impact 2.7, alongside a four star called Shinobu. Yelan is currently expected to be a 5 star Hydro bow user.

[Questionable]

The chars in 2.7 will be Yelan and Shinobu

Yelan – 5⭐
Shinobu – 4⭐

— UBatcha (@Ubatcha1) February 18, 2022

So far there have been a few leaks of her model as well. I must say, she looks pretty amazing.

Genshin Impact: Yelan Model Leaked

I’m curious as to what her playstyle will be like. Will she be charged-shot-focused like Ganyu, or a rapid attacker like Yoimiya? Or something else entirely?

With Ayato, another hydro character, arriving soon, HoYoverse may finally be addressing the disparity of hydro characters compared to other units like pyro.

Genshin Impact 2.7 should arrive around the end of March.

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Trusted leaker Ubatcha1 has revealed the particle regeneration for Ayato’s skill

It’s been a while since the official Genshin Impact Twitter shared Ayato’s drip marketing, meaning he will be joining us in Genshin 2.6.

"The game of politics is fraught with peril. My Lord does not take any joy in these 'battles.' For him, it's just… a matter of duty" — Thoma

◆ Kamisato Ayato ‧ Pillar of Fortitude
◆ Head of the Kamisato Clan
◆ Hydro
◆ Cypressus Custos#GenshinImpact pic.twitter.com/IFLNmM7PHl

— Genshin Impact (@GenshinImpact) February 4, 2022

Since then, the Ayato hype has ramped up even more. Leaks of his model and animations drummed up excitement as well, and now everyone wants to know the details of his kit.

Each of Ayato’s skill attacks will produce an elemental particle every 1.6 seconds.

[2.6 Beta] Ayato Energy Regen Update

As of .51 (the most recent update)

His Shunsuiken attacks are guaranteed to generate 1 hydro energy particle (1.9s cooldown). On top of this, they have a 50% chance of generating a second hydro energy particle (also 1.9s cooldown) (1/2) https://t.co/UQkcNy1Ytj

— UBatcha (@Ubatcha1) February 22, 2022

This has been disappointing to many players, who feel that every Inazuman character has energy issues and needs to be paired with the Raiden Shogun. It’s a little frustrating, especially if you’re not really interested in the character and don’t want to be forced to use her in order to make characters you like work.

However, Ayato’s passive has since been switched to one supporting energy regeneration.

[2.6 Beta] Ayato Passive Change

Changed from
Kamisato Art: Suiyuu's DMG is increased based on 3% of Ayato's Max HP.

To
If Ayato is not on the field and his Energy is less than 40, he will regenerate 2 energy for himself every second. pic.twitter.com/RwSP2QjQnY

— UBatcha (@Ubatcha1) February 28, 2022

This may alleviate some energy problems. You may also want to use another hydro battery, or the electro traveller to provide energy.

We won’t know for sure until he’s released, but hopefully he won’t be another botched kit situation, completely dependent on other units.

I’ll still probably pull for him tho. Did you see his bubble tea animation?

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