"Lend me your blade!"
"The world... has rejected me."
The Pyro Traveler's first battle ended with him being cut down by a single blade.
"I'm so stupid, I forgot to give the Pyro Traveler an artifact set." Xiao Mu's expression was a bit awkward.
He was so focused on testing the Pyro Traveler's mechanics that he forgot to equip artifacts, and as a result, he was killed in one hit by The Arbitrator.
"The Arbitrator's damage is way too high, shouldn't they nerf this?" Xiao Mu complained.
Every time he pulls a new character, he finds The Arbitrator to practice, and then inevitably, the new character gets killed by The Arbitrator.
It's gotten to the point where he now wants The Arbitrator to enter the gacha pool, so he can pull him out of it.
After equipping the artifacts, Xiao Mu tested the Pyro Traveler's mechanics again and felt it wasn't very good.
"The numbers are still too low," Xiao Mu said with some regret.
Although the Pyro Traveler gains an attack buff from their Elemental Skill and has the Super Nightsoul mechanic,
the attack bonus is only 300, and the Super Nightsoul can only be used by people from Natlan.
When paired with characters from previous nations, the synergy isn't particularly good.
However, the Pyro Traveler can use the artifact set. Once Xiao Mu grinds out the artifact set later, the Pyro Traveler's support capability will increase.
"Next, let's test the strength of the Natlan characters." Xiao Mu opened the team interface, added a new empty party, and then put the newly pulled Natlan characters in.
[These characters are only level 1, what's the point of testing them now?]
[You haven't even farmed artifacts for them yet.]
Xiao Mu's three Natlan characters were all just pulled; they were all currently level 1 and had no Natlan artifacts to equip.
Upon seeing this, the fans complained one after another, feeling that Xiao Mu had gone crazy from playing the game.
"You guys really don't know how to be flexible," Xiao Mu said with a smile.
"If Kinich doesn't have the Nightsoul set, he can use the Burning set as a substitute."
"If Kachina doesn't have the artifact set, she can make do with the Archaic Petra set."
Xiao Mu was a veteran farmer; he could pull out decent artifacts for the new characters on the spot.
However, because the characters were still level 1, their combat talents hadn't been unlocked yet, which would also affect the character evaluation.
[Can't you just go into character trials?]
[The Pyro Traveler doesn't have a trial, which is why you used The Arbitrator to practice, but Kachina and the others can use max-level characters directly in the trials.]
[You can even use signature weapons in the trials.]
"That's true."
Reminded by the fans, Xiao Mu entered the trial interface. Among the three new trial characters, he chose to use Kachina.
In the revised, or rather official server version, Kachina gained a new ability to convert Pyro shards into "Magma Crystals." The explosion damage of "Magma Crystals" depends on Kachina's Defense.
Kachina's trial teammate was Yanfei.
Xiao Mu took one look at the lineup and knew how the team should output damage.
First, Yanfei would use Normal Attacks to apply the Pyro Element to the monsters, then call out Kachina to release Skyward Drill to trigger the Crystallize reaction.
Kachina was wearing the artifact set this time. After triggering the reaction, it would provide Geo and Pyro DMG Bonuses to the two in the team.
In addition, Skyward Drill would continuously absorb "Magma Crystals" converted from Pyro shards, dealing massive damage to surrounding monsters.
"Eh, this Yanfei's artifact set is Archaic Petra?"
Seeing that the Yanfei in the trial was wearing the Archaic Petra set instead of the Wanderer's Troupe set, Xiao Mu was a bit confused but quickly realized why.
"I bet HoYoverse must want to tell us that absorbing 'Magma Crystals' is equivalent to absorbing Pyro shards, which is why it's built this way."
Otherwise, with HoYoverse's habits, they would have just brushed it off with a Noblesse Oblige set.
"'Magma Crystals' also provide a shield after being absorbed? Not bad."
After playing the trial, Xiao Mu discovered that the character Kachina actually had a surprise: absorbing "Magma Crystals" also provided a shield.
"In that case, besides applying Geo from off-field and using the artifact set to buff damage, Kachina can also supplement damage through 'Magma Crystals' and provide shields for teammates," Xiao Mu analyzed calmly.
With damage, support capabilities, and survival utility, she was much stronger than what the previous leaker reports suggested.
"However, there are still drawbacks. 'Magma Crystals' are only triggered when Pyro shards are triggered. If other elements are added, it might mess up the reactions. It can probably only supplement damage in teams where a Pyro or Geo character is the main DPS."
For example, The Servant or Navia would really need Kachina.
"Next is Mualani."
The trial stages for Natlan characters were different from other nations; you had to fight monsters while traversing the map.
Xiao Mu controlled the trial Mualani, running through the map while fighting monsters.
"Missed."
"Missed again."
"Watch my Elemental Burst... missed again!"
The monsters in the character trial also knew how to dodge.
Coupled with Mualani's somewhat long attack wind-up and a smaller-than-expected hitbox, he actually missed several times in a row.
However, after successfully triggering a Vaporize reaction, it directly dealt tens of thousands of damage.
[She's this hard to use even in the trial.]
[This character Mualani is no good.]
Seeing Xiao Mu's gameplay, the fans complained about Mualani's feel.
Seeing this, Xiao Mu said, "Although Mualani is hard to use, her damage is actually quite good."
Mualani's Constellations are all about increasing damage.
If you get her to max Constellation, she might not necessarily be weaker than a C0 limited five-star.
With damage this high, what's wrong with the feel being a bit off? This is balance.
Attacks not hitting enemies wasn't Mualani's problem; it was that Xiao Mu didn't know how to play the character yet.
After trying a few more times, Xiao Mu finally learned how to play Mualani and began to frequently hit large blue numbers.
[Is Mualani's damage really this insane?]
[It's normal. In the hands of someone who knows how to play, the damage of Genshin's four-stars is really not low.]
[Especially Gaming and Sethos. Their damage is definitely enough; it just has high skill requirements.]
[Kuki Shinobu can hit 40k per explosion with Dendro Cores without even trying. Compared to Kuki Shinobu, many four-star characters aren't actually that insane.]
"I suggest, just a suggestion, that players in urgent need of a main DPS can pull on this banner," Xiao Mu said. "Even if you pull a four-star character, their strength is definitely enough. I won't say they'll guarantee a clear of Floor 12 of the Spiral Abyss, but they'll certainly make the Overworld easy to clear."
"I strongly recommend pulling for Mualani."
[The streamer spent over two hundred pulls to get Mualani, and now he's trying to drag other players down with him.]
[We saw through your little scheme long ago.]
"Don't think so poorly of people. I'm genuinely recommending Mualani to everyone."
After finishing Mualani's trial, Xiao Mu moved on to the last Natlan character trial, which was Kinich's trial.
Even though he changed from Dendro Element to the Pyro Element, Kinich's attack style was still spinning.
Kinich's trial teammate was Xingqiu. After the latter used his Elemental Burst to apply Hydro to the monsters, Kinich's Elemental Skill was also ready.
One shot... 200,000!
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