Genshin Impact 2.4 Spiral Abyss is even harder - Get2Gaming

Beta leakers say the new Spiral Abyss is the toughest yet.

Each update of Genshin Impact brings new characters, events, and (of course) a new challenge in the Spiral Abyss. Players have struggled with the latest Abyss, which functions as a colossal DPS check. While the rest of the game is straightforward, the Spiral Abyss is on another level. For an average endgame player like me, I’m usually able to all-clear floors 9 through 11, but floor 12 is a real challenge to all-star.

A leaker claimed that you will need some very high investment, well-built teams if you aren’t a ‘whale’ player with multiple high-constellation 5 stars. Reminder: a 5-star character with maxed out cons can run you for a few thousand.

I’m really not a fan of this – what’s the fun in paying to win? The Abyss was clearable with even all 4-star teams back in the day. But now it’s getting harder and harder, at a rate faster than the average player can improve their account.

Not only that, but the rewards are still sitting at a measly 150 primos for a 9 star clear. Really, people are only clearing it for the street cred, if you will. But honestly, what’s impressive about brute forcing a challenge with expensive DPS?

There are numerous protests in the comment section, but most agreed that the new Rifthound enemies are a huge pain and are one of the worst types of enemies miHoYo has ever added to the game. If your team composition is melee-based, it makes these enemies even more challenging. There are only two ranged weapon types in the game – Bow and Catalyst. Even fewer of these characters are strong DPS units. The constant jumping around makes it almost impossible for players to land their DPS rotation. Not only that, but the corrosion effect forces you into bringing a healer to your party, taking a valuable spot that could be used for more DPS.

The Spiral Abyss had been relatively consistent in its difficulty until Genshin 2.0 when Inazuma was introduced. Ever since then, the difficulty has been ramping up with each update. The biggest issue is that new players won’t be able to catch up and have missed the runs/reruns of many of the strongest characters for the Abyss. If you don’t have the legend of crowd control, Venti, some floors with tons of smaller enemies are near impossible. While Sucrose might be able to help you out, we haven’t seen her on a banner in a while either. If you’re stuck, you’re stuck. One tip: the anemo traveller does have some crowd control capabilities and may be worth investing in if you’re struggling with these floors.

It’s not that Genshin players don’t want more challenging game content – we absolutely do. But making existing content harder instead of creating new, harder content with more rewards to incentivise challengers is the way to go. Instead, casual and free to play players – and perhaps even mid-spenders, are slowly getting locked out of existing content.

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