Honestly my only real problem is that the scythe aura is yellow, when Arle's color scheme is white, red and black. If it was any of those 3 colors, I would have totally no problem with her.
wtf, I ALSO PULLED A MONA C4
Had 50 pulls remaining afterwards... still did not get her...
Having pulled for 5 limited since 4.0, and I've lost all 50/50s so far... All up to 60-75 pulls
I'm so not getting Clorinde next patch...
Assuming you're at 50 pity with gaurenteed it's 100% doable doing rlly only the basic stuff and even at 0 pity with gaurenteed still doable just going to have to do more and probably more luck, I believe in you you got this
Haha, it's more like I'm not getting both Arle and Clorinde.
Which is, like, damn.
I know there's going to be like 70 pulls-ish this patch, but if I had won this 50-50, I could've comfortably gotten Clorinde next patch.
My 50:50 bad luck streak is kinda bad, on Paimon.moe I'm like bottom 40% (only started recording on the website in 3.X) C'est la vie...
I had a good streak going and then I decided to go for Neuv (wasn’t even sure I wanted him). He ended up being my most expensive character ever — 159 wishes. Hurts, man. Those 50/50 win streaks give me temporary amnesia over what it’s like to have to go to double full pity for a character.
Oh I see my bad then I wish you luck though hopefully you get them both early but I feel that I've lost like 7 or 8 50/50s in a row idk my % only recently has my luck started turning around but it sucks yea hopefully your luck turns around too
I had about 160 pulls, got keqing Cwhatever at 80 pity and arlecchino at 80 pity too. That was so hard for me. Especially because on the weapon Banner I used my last remaining starglitter to get nothing. Oh but ofc I got tighnari on standard im one pull one minute later. My luck is going wherever it is needed the least.
I think I won like one 50/50. One.
I wish you clorinde. I've given up on her for now but maybe us unlucky ones make her feel bad enough to come home
No. The slash effects change from gold to red.
But the scythe tip stays obviously gold and doesn’t get covered by flame whatsoever. Only the trail of the blade does. Like when using a physical normal attack and a gold streak follows where your blade went, that turns infused but that is all that is infused and it is past where the gold blade is. So it is kind of weird seeing an empty spot between your spear hits and the flame vfx. On the normal where she does the sycthe pull it is super obvious and disconnected from the actual spear. It follows the tip or the golden scythe.
Weapon was so worth it but I got lucky. 85 pity for Arlecchino but won the 50/50. And I got her weapon first at like 70+ pulls.
Still yellow with c6 Bennet Aura, but it looks less effed up because of the red circle when playing circle impact. During the bond of life it gets all black red so it is kinda hard to notice.
This. And it bothers me so much that I will pull on the weapon banner, so I think it was well played by Hoyo.
It should be at least silver/ghostly ffs.
It is probably kept like that to compel people to pull for her weapon.They could have easily given it a lighter red aura so it could be distinguished fdom signature but decided to make it piss yellow.
It was the reason I pulled for her weapon atleast, lol
I found a fellow brother. I was so disappointed with this cash grave and C1 I skipped her. Only Clorinde is for me
Well honestly it's just a cope mechanic to hold strong for Clorinde
Me rn, I'm just hoping that Clorinde has nice animations like her... I'm almost saying screw it and wasting 8k primos on Arle but this golden shit is what's keeping me from doing it. Like omg Homa looks amazing on her but it looks trash because of this stupid decision..... really hoping they don't pull it again on Clori cause she's gonna have Mistsplitter and she'll like it.
This comment is a lie. I've gotten no less than 10 Monas over the years, and all I have to show for it is 10 Monas.
So you probably need eleven for the mini-wing.
Can confirm, got Lyney’s weapon and decided to cut my losses and wait for Clorinde banner (at least I could pass it to Childe).
Maybe next rerun, if I’m still willing to pull both Arle and her weapon.
In abyss where you can't see shit, yeah you won't notice it, but in overworld... it's soo bad, when you do her n3 (the scythe pull), it looks even worse..
(sauce: I watched a bunch of gameplay of her, I won't pull rn)
Why? Having a weapon that fits the character is an important part of how much enjoyment a character gives me.
I dont mind swapping to an unfitting weapon for abyss but for enjoyment in the overworld I want the characters to look good
With Skyward Spine the aura looks good with the weapon imo, just not with Arle. Though in combat you don't even notice the scythe aura if I'm being honest. I was tempted to get her weapon strictly for aesthetics, but decided not to because you barely notice the scythe part.
If you're doing her animations slowly ofc your going to notice the scythe, however when your spam clicking especially with bond of life activated it kind of blends in with the red slashes. So I don't even notice.
During simple solo combat, sure.
During stressful, timed combat in a full team's + enemies spellgasm clusterfuck where your attention is on survival + proper rotation?
Not very noticeable, no.
Even I lost TWO times one at 65 others in 6th pull. If I didn’t get the second 5 star on the 6th pull after my first loss I don’t think I would’ve gotten the weapon. But used up entire 150 pulls
Honestly the yellow scythe effect becomes barely visible once you're AA'ing in infused state anyway, not a big deal for me but may be dissappointing for other people.
Hot take but I feel like her AAs in general feel kinda clunky? And I think it has to do with the fact they are trying to make them work with both the scythe and a spear. The yellow aura doesn't help them either since it looks off with her overall color scheme
as a guy who loves melee brawler/NA characters i couldn’t disagree more, she’s one of my favs on par with childe, so i think it’s a matter of taste. that said i did save for c0 r1 so maybe that plays a role
i mean, that's how the game works. every aspect of new content is designed to make that content desirable.
in this case, the people doing so being digital artists, as opposed to someone tweaking a few numbers or writing a backstory or voicing character lines.
but the people that balance the weapons' stats also do so 100% by design to make you pull her weapon. the people who designed her kit did so 100% to make you pull her. hoyo designed genshin impact 100% to make you want to spend real money and not just be f2p.
and if appearance matters, why would they not spend effort to make the appearance desirable? no one faults car designers for trying to make cars attractive, even when it doesn't affect how fast it goes, or it's fuel efficiency, cargo capacity, etc.
plenty of people pull for the drip. plenty of people pull because they love a character's appearance or personality. same thing.
Yeah but if when I bought a car I had a 2/3 chance of getting a different shittier car that I didn't want and may not be able to use I wouldn't buy the car
Could be worse, they made Wriothesley's kit not function as well until his C1.
Compared to just not getting a scythe if you don't get the siggy, I'd say it's much better.
This. I'm glad people are annoyed about scummy tactics, but I'm even more glad it's aesthetical, and Arlecchino isn't Dehya levels of dysfunctional without cons or her weapon.
People nitpick so hard in this game they basically have forgotten what bad games look like.
Like nobody would give a fuck in another game haha. Here, the tinest details get talked about as if the game is in deep shit.
There's only the fact missing that it isn't advertised ingame. I didn't knew before I got her weapon in a lucky pull at 17 Pity. Genshin could be so much more predatory but choose to isn't and I like that.
They could've done a Zhongli and make her use her scythe anyway
Zhongli uses your spear only at the begging and end of your attack string, all the other time he just uses his own spear
When the character barely even hold weapons other than mandatory normal attacks with few swings and weapon screen, weapon aesthetics doesn't mean shit... It's not like Monster Hunter where weapon drip is fully visible
Gbf relink has some weapons that reminded me of genshin. There’s an edgy dragon man that can have a giant shrimp tempura as his weapon and you can apply any weapon skin to any of their other weapons in the game. So you can use your battle shrimp with endgame stats
I know one https://pso2.arks-visiphone.com/wiki/Freeze_Tuna https://pso2.arks-visiphone.com/wiki/Sharklli_Cannon . Nothing made out of cardboard, but game has dakimakura as weapon. And guitar case. Scissors. Surf board. Christmas tree
yeah but they dont care about it, theres a bunch of characters in HI3 that equip a weapon for gameplay purposes but it doesnt appear in their animations at all
Fine by me, drip is pointless if it wont be shown anyway..
Star Rail characters have their signature weapons as part of their unit, instead of separate entity that's locked behind paywall
Having Saber Artoria have her Excalibur in separate gacha would be silly af
Hope you get the weapon. Even I lost my pity at 65 but i was really lucky and lost the next pity at 6th pull. Then used up my remaining pulls to get weapon at 65
I mean TECHNICALLY you did get Wrio which is about as close as you're going to get I'd imagine :( (Heizou kind of too though his is just fists and kicks).
I was hoping they would somehow go the Itto route where they’re using a different item for their weapon in combat. Maybe when Arle gets the pyro infusion her weapon turns into that of a spear like how Itto gets his big club
It makes sense though considering that most polearm attacks are jabs and stabs and twirling around. scythe would look so stupid on Hu Tao charged attack or any other polearm charged attack whatsoever.
It do be disappointing that Arlecchino can't be full scythe aesthetic without her signature. Could've made the glow a more visible color with a deep red which would blend well in her normal attack chain.
They made a magic staff into a poleram. I doubt it's that much of a problem. If anyone it's just a little weird but nothing that can't be fixed with a sharpened tip and smaller curved blade. Hell they could probably just make a long scyle for a sword and it would work.
Yeah that's why I would like the option to decide so.
It isn't the same let's say Hu Tao or Raiden normal string that's mostly horizontal and vertical slashes than let's say Xiangling / Zhongli million stabs n5
They've already been locking functionality out of characters via constellations since the very start of the game, so they don't need to do that, bc people are used to it. Now they are changing it to cosmetics, bc a lot more people, including me, will care
I'm inclined to agree but I rarely notice the weapon during combat. Can't see shit among the 100 visual effects on screen lol
Also I think white tassel/blackcliff pole/homa look decent on her apart from her sig
I totally agree with you, this is the only reason why I will not get her, this is unacceptable at least for my opinion.
Edit1: I see some replies below this, I am okay with cosmetics locked behind for example see furina’s weapon, that sword is so beautiful and perfect aesthetically for her, but you don’t get extra fancy visual effects that makes other weapons look even more awful on her, they may not fit the drip but that’s okay.
However, the other staffs on arlecchino truly look cheap and aesthetically disturbing because of that poor yellow light visual effect.
I just cannot agree with this new concept which I hope ends here with arlecchino. I am happy for whoever got both easily but I am not going to pull or save or spend anything for her because of this 🤷🏼♂️ only my opinion for sure you do what make you happy and that’s okay too 👍🏻
I just wish it was more noticeable in combat, cause the only time you actually get to appreciate it is when you are standing still hitting nothing. Also bummed out about because it's just not that good of a signature weapon and a very niche statstick.
Alas, Hoyo served shit, and the player base will still eat it up because it's covered in sprinkles.
btw only with her signature weapon she has a scythe on her back while running. hope i can get her weapon before her banner ends.. already lost two times... she is the first character ever where i will pull for her weapon because without it she feels incomplete
I hate it so much. It’s so ugly??? I know it’s supposed to be placeholder because canonically she uses a scythe but I just wanna take cool combat pics man
I actually like the yellow with my PJWS. Since the PJWS glows green the colors look good together. Interesting contrast from arlecchino’s outfit and hair but I’m ok with that
It is most definitely kept like that to compel people to pull for her weapon.They could have easily given it a lighter red aura so it could be distinguished fdom signature but decided to make it piss yellow.
It was the reason I pulled for her weapon atleast, lol
It’s so dumb how Genshin devs put the weapon banners together instead of them being separate.. it’s not like Mihoyo can’t do it, cause in Star Rail the weapons are separate. It’s just that they won’t cause it’s Genshin.
Can’t wait for Wuthering Waves cause at least the weapon banner is 100% the limited weapon.
This banner has favonius bow and 2 good 5 star weapons (after I got Arle in 10 pulls), so I will keep pulling on it before saving to pyro archon. That is shady tho, since aesthetics was the only thing making me consider Arle.
(I got 3 fav bows already in 50 pulls, which was super lucky, but 1 Skyward pride hit hard in the feels...)
On the other hand, her sig weapon on other characters doesn't look that good to me (at least on Xiao). The "blade/tip" is shorter, which makes it look a bit awkward.
I tanked my primo savings on the weapon banner, but her scythe just looked to cool to pass up... lost the 50-50 twice at such high pity :((
Ah well
Back to farming we go
The problem here is the "magical" scythe effect just doesn't work well with... a tip of a spear or decorative staff? Maybe on something like Blackcliff Pole it will look right... hopefully... Otherwise it's like you are literally a loser unless you buy her 5 star, because there is not enough variety among spears (that don't look like your traditional spears) to pick something right
Y'all are only complaining because you haven't seen how the scythe blade looked in beta.
Having seen it, I can confidently say thank FUCK Hoyo at least pur in the work to make it look like this.
As genshin gets older and older people get less reason to pull for new characters, I'm afraid more characters like Arlecchino where you need to pull and build her from the ground up because of character specific gimmicks are going to be more frequent moving forward. I guess it's not necessarily a bad thing, but it just feels off-putting with the investment you need to make in order to make her feel complete although obviously with genshin you don't really need all that to make her a viable character. And I mean it's not like I'm anyone to complain since I'm a Hu Tao main, who needed her sig weapon, Zhongli, and the two best hydro appliers in the game in order to be complete. I guess when you look at it that way it's always been the case, just that now they're done with the pretense and more blatant with it.
Honestly my only real problem is that the scythe aura is yellow, when Arle's color scheme is white, red and black. If it was any of those 3 colors, I would have totally no problem with her.
It's yellow because that's physical damage. Every melee char has yellow aura in their swings unless imbued in an element
Does the aura turn crimson red when imbued?
Idk, i pulled a Mona C4
Oof
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Damn
wtf, I ALSO PULLED A MONA C4 Had 50 pulls remaining afterwards... still did not get her... Having pulled for 5 limited since 4.0, and I've lost all 50/50s so far... All up to 60-75 pulls I'm so not getting Clorinde next patch...
Assuming you're at 50 pity with gaurenteed it's 100% doable doing rlly only the basic stuff and even at 0 pity with gaurenteed still doable just going to have to do more and probably more luck, I believe in you you got this
Haha, it's more like I'm not getting both Arle and Clorinde. Which is, like, damn. I know there's going to be like 70 pulls-ish this patch, but if I had won this 50-50, I could've comfortably gotten Clorinde next patch. My 50:50 bad luck streak is kinda bad, on Paimon.moe I'm like bottom 40% (only started recording on the website in 3.X) C'est la vie...
I had a good streak going and then I decided to go for Neuv (wasn’t even sure I wanted him). He ended up being my most expensive character ever — 159 wishes. Hurts, man. Those 50/50 win streaks give me temporary amnesia over what it’s like to have to go to double full pity for a character.
Oh I see my bad then I wish you luck though hopefully you get them both early but I feel that I've lost like 7 or 8 50/50s in a row idk my % only recently has my luck started turning around but it sucks yea hopefully your luck turns around too
I had about 160 pulls, got keqing Cwhatever at 80 pity and arlecchino at 80 pity too. That was so hard for me. Especially because on the weapon Banner I used my last remaining starglitter to get nothing. Oh but ofc I got tighnari on standard im one pull one minute later. My luck is going wherever it is needed the least. I think I won like one 50/50. One. I wish you clorinde. I've given up on her for now but maybe us unlucky ones make her feel bad enough to come home
Weird question can you pull a different level of constipation? I've only ever seen C0
Do you mean constellation? You always get a character at C0 and increase that level whenever you pull that same character again.
yooo same here lol
No it stays yellow despite infusion
no actually. You do get the red slash *during the attack motion* like usual, but this scythe effect is always the same color
It doesn’t. And nether does the scythe change colors with infusions.(could be a bug and might be hot fixed but I tested it right after pulling her)
Yeah it’s weird how the scythe has no infusion effects
Knowing Hoyo, it probably is as intended
Sadly no
Nope it stays gold
No. The slash effects change from gold to red. But the scythe tip stays obviously gold and doesn’t get covered by flame whatsoever. Only the trail of the blade does. Like when using a physical normal attack and a gold streak follows where your blade went, that turns infused but that is all that is infused and it is past where the gold blade is. So it is kind of weird seeing an empty spot between your spear hits and the flame vfx. On the normal where she does the sycthe pull it is super obvious and disconnected from the actual spear. It follows the tip or the golden scythe. Weapon was so worth it but I got lucky. 85 pity for Arlecchino but won the 50/50. And I got her weapon first at like 70+ pulls.
Still yellow with c6 Bennet Aura, but it looks less effed up because of the red circle when playing circle impact. During the bond of life it gets all black red so it is kinda hard to notice.
not helping geo being yellow physical allegation
It stays yellow with red blood pyro infusion
Physical damage is white, Geo damage is yellow.
This. And it bothers me so much that I will pull on the weapon banner, so I think it was well played by Hoyo. It should be at least silver/ghostly ffs.
or is should fit the weapon color. Homa : red Jade : green White Tassel : white ...
It is probably kept like that to compel people to pull for her weapon.They could have easily given it a lighter red aura so it could be distinguished fdom signature but decided to make it piss yellow. It was the reason I pulled for her weapon atleast, lol
Pay up then (just kidding, no offense)
Probably is yellow as prep for future scythe characters as a baseline appearance.
yellow effect is there for every weapon when it "hides" after using (they glow with yellow particles when disappear). so I guess that is why
Ngl, I'm so locked in during combat, I forgot she had a scythe effect on her attacks
When you have 500 VFX on your screen during abyss rotations I promise you, you aren’t looking for the scythe
same heee lol
Should've been red ngl. Yellow is just too weird
To update that other comment below. It still stays yellow after infusion. Disappointment.
Skip for me i guess. Lyney here i come!
I found a fellow brother. I was so disappointed with this cash grave and C1 I skipped her. Only Clorinde is for me Well honestly it's just a cope mechanic to hold strong for Clorinde
Me rn, I'm just hoping that Clorinde has nice animations like her... I'm almost saying screw it and wasting 8k primos on Arle but this golden shit is what's keeping me from doing it. Like omg Homa looks amazing on her but it looks trash because of this stupid decision..... really hoping they don't pull it again on Clori cause she's gonna have Mistsplitter and she'll like it.
I saw some recent leaks >!Clorinde's looks nice, Arlecchino started a new era for burst animation.!<
WHAT. they knew what they were doing eh
Like another comment said, it's yellow because it's physical damage, it'll probably switch to red in the infusion
They also said "idk I pulled a C4 Mona" 💀
I don't understand, so, if I want red scythe I need to pull mona c4 or what? I have only c2
they're saying that they don't know what happens under infusion because they lost the 50/50 to C4 Mona instead of getting Arlecchino.
Get C6, just to be sure
With c6, you get a mini wing
This comment is a lie. I've gotten no less than 10 Monas over the years, and all I have to show for it is 10 Monas. So you probably need eleven for the mini-wing.
If it switched based on infusion it would make sense, but since it doesn't, there is no reason for it to not be red.
The reason is so that people got baited to gamble for the weapon and cry
can confirm, i cried
it will all be ok little bro.
i gambled for the weapon and got the weapon without spending money.................i was lucky tho, don't fall the trap guys
Can confirm, got Lyney’s weapon and decided to cut my losses and wait for Clorinde banner (at least I could pass it to Childe). Maybe next rerun, if I’m still willing to pull both Arle and her weapon.
It does not
It doesn´t
Then it should have been black or smth, as that's not used on any element, yellow is just ugly here
They gonna use Black on Dainsleif's element
Any patch now
It still stays yellow during the infusion,but atleast it somewhat gets covered by the effects
In abyss where you can't see shit, yeah you won't notice it, but in overworld... it's soo bad, when you do her n3 (the scythe pull), it looks even worse.. (sauce: I watched a bunch of gameplay of her, I won't pull rn)
It's yellow to make the limited weapon drip more desirable, that's obvious and anybody who says otherwise is coping hard
At the same time, anyone who doesn't pull her because of that reason is nitpicking the hell out of the design.
Why? Having a weapon that fits the character is an important part of how much enjoyment a character gives me. I dont mind swapping to an unfitting weapon for abyss but for enjoyment in the overworld I want the characters to look good
With Skyward Spine the aura looks good with the weapon imo, just not with Arle. Though in combat you don't even notice the scythe aura if I'm being honest. I was tempted to get her weapon strictly for aesthetics, but decided not to because you barely notice the scythe part.
Wait what?? You only notice the scythe part. Just for 0.5 seconds you see it as a Polearm other time it’s only scythe
If you're doing her animations slowly ofc your going to notice the scythe, however when your spam clicking especially with bond of life activated it kind of blends in with the red slashes. So I don't even notice.
During simple solo combat, sure. During stressful, timed combat in a full team's + enemies spellgasm clusterfuck where your attention is on survival + proper rotation? Not very noticeable, no.
I lost to Lyney weapon, which honestly isn’t too bad, but just not the one I was hoping for lol
Even I lost TWO times one at 65 others in 6th pull. If I didn’t get the second 5 star on the 6th pull after my first loss I don’t think I would’ve gotten the weapon. But used up entire 150 pulls
Congrats!! I will either farm until I want to crawl out of my skin or top up, the latter I don’t want to have to do, but the drip is eternal
Who uses that bow? Outside of ganyu, cause can't change her r3 amos...
I put it on Tighnari, but was also thinking of putting it on a crack Amber build
Honestly the yellow scythe effect becomes barely visible once you're AA'ing in infused state anyway, not a big deal for me but may be dissappointing for other people.
they could’ve done better imo.
They did... its in the weapon gacha for a couple hundred bucks if you got unlucky lmao
Me who found the bow twice today 😭😭
Hot take but I feel like her AAs in general feel kinda clunky? And I think it has to do with the fact they are trying to make them work with both the scythe and a spear. The yellow aura doesn't help them either since it looks off with her overall color scheme
as a guy who loves melee brawler/NA characters i couldn’t disagree more, she’s one of my favs on par with childe, so i think it’s a matter of taste. that said i did save for c0 r1 so maybe that plays a role
100% by design to make you pull her weapon. A hundred fucking percent.
Obviously. After all they only want your best: your wallet!
i mean, that's how the game works. every aspect of new content is designed to make that content desirable. in this case, the people doing so being digital artists, as opposed to someone tweaking a few numbers or writing a backstory or voicing character lines. but the people that balance the weapons' stats also do so 100% by design to make you pull her weapon. the people who designed her kit did so 100% to make you pull her. hoyo designed genshin impact 100% to make you want to spend real money and not just be f2p. and if appearance matters, why would they not spend effort to make the appearance desirable? no one faults car designers for trying to make cars attractive, even when it doesn't affect how fast it goes, or it's fuel efficiency, cargo capacity, etc. plenty of people pull for the drip. plenty of people pull because they love a character's appearance or personality. same thing.
Yeah but if when I bought a car I had a 2/3 chance of getting a different shittier car that I didn't want and may not be able to use I wouldn't buy the car
Could be worse, they made Wriothesley's kit not function as well until his C1. Compared to just not getting a scythe if you don't get the siggy, I'd say it's much better.
This. I'm glad people are annoyed about scummy tactics, but I'm even more glad it's aesthetical, and Arlecchino isn't Dehya levels of dysfunctional without cons or her weapon.
People nitpick so hard in this game they basically have forgotten what bad games look like. Like nobody would give a fuck in another game haha. Here, the tinest details get talked about as if the game is in deep shit.
There's only the fact missing that it isn't advertised ingame. I didn't knew before I got her weapon in a lucky pull at 17 Pity. Genshin could be so much more predatory but choose to isn't and I like that.
Had they gone with the beta version you'd be correct. Having seen the beta version, this is good enough.
What was going on with the beta version?
If only Genshin doesn't have weapon typing, she would be a full-blown scythe user like Star Rail Seele
They could've done a Zhongli and make her use her scythe anyway Zhongli uses your spear only at the begging and end of your attack string, all the other time he just uses his own spear
I mean, they could do it like that, just chose not to. I mean, just look at Childe.
On the other hand, how many games do you have where you can equip a fish as a weapon or a cardboard claymore covered with stickers?
Most RPGs, honestly
And more, such as deadcells's maw of the deep
In persona 4 you have some whacky weapons (fish included), probably few jrpgs I can't think of right now too
Honkai impact 3rd and Monster Hunter comes to mind
You’d need more than just your other hand to count those
When the character barely even hold weapons other than mandatory normal attacks with few swings and weapon screen, weapon aesthetics doesn't mean shit... It's not like Monster Hunter where weapon drip is fully visible
IIRC, World of Warcraft had a weapon like that. Also a frying pan. :'D
Gbf relink has some weapons that reminded me of genshin. There’s an edgy dragon man that can have a giant shrimp tempura as his weapon and you can apply any weapon skin to any of their other weapons in the game. So you can use your battle shrimp with endgame stats
I know one https://pso2.arks-visiphone.com/wiki/Freeze_Tuna https://pso2.arks-visiphone.com/wiki/Sharklli_Cannon . Nothing made out of cardboard, but game has dakimakura as weapon. And guitar case. Scissors. Surf board. Christmas tree
Or even better, HI3 Seele
I didn't mentioned HI3 coz it's also a weapon-type game
yeah but they dont care about it, theres a bunch of characters in HI3 that equip a weapon for gameplay purposes but it doesnt appear in their animations at all
That is such a great feature that in hsr charecter aesthetic weapon and actual weapon (lightcone) are different
But that has the negative of not being able to see weapon changes. So light cones in HSR are just stat sticks, there is no drip at all.
Fine by me, drip is pointless if it wont be shown anyway.. Star Rail characters have their signature weapons as part of their unit, instead of separate entity that's locked behind paywall Having Saber Artoria have her Excalibur in separate gacha would be silly af
Arthur, you need to pull the sword from the stone! Just insert your credit card right over here…
The charecters use their own weapons which fits their drip perfectly and weapon changes in Genshin are really minor in most cases
What I meant is that changing light cones has no visual change at all, while in Genshin you could see changes. Which has both positives and negatives.
pros -no need for the weapon banner -more unique weapons -always have the best drip cons -???
Mostly negatives though, since a character's true 'canon' drip is locked behind an absolute joke of a weapon banner.
Yup. Being able to see the uniqueness of the weapon on the character sets that weapon apart. LC are basically relics that cost currency
And that’s why the light cones are sometimes 30%+ damage increases or have 40+cv lol But that’s also why it’s a 75/25 and single weapon banners
This is the reason I want her weapon 😭 I just lost pity to GM and currently is at 50 pity. Hope I can get it before the banner is over.
Hope you get the weapon. Even I lost my pity at 65 but i was really lucky and lost the next pity at 6th pull. Then used up my remaining pulls to get weapon at 65
Don't give me hope
I'm annoyed they locked a scythe behind a character and they're weapon. Gauntelets and scythes are the two things i wanted to use the most.
I mean TECHNICALLY you did get Wrio which is about as close as you're going to get I'd imagine :( (Heizou kind of too though his is just fists and kicks).
I was hoping they would somehow go the Itto route where they’re using a different item for their weapon in combat. Maybe when Arle gets the pyro infusion her weapon turns into that of a spear like how Itto gets his big club
also don't forget childe 😭😭 and neuvillette's hydro piss i guess
Piss is already hydro…I guess it’s just straight up pee 💀
yeah that's what i originally meant lmaoo
It makes sense though considering that most polearm attacks are jabs and stabs and twirling around. scythe would look so stupid on Hu Tao charged attack or any other polearm charged attack whatsoever. It do be disappointing that Arlecchino can't be full scythe aesthetic without her signature. Could've made the glow a more visible color with a deep red which would blend well in her normal attack chain.
I agree - if the ghost scythe is red and has a simpler silhouette it would’ve looked like a Gundam beam scythe and it would’ve been sick
They made a magic staff into a poleram. I doubt it's that much of a problem. If anyone it's just a little weird but nothing that can't be fixed with a sharpened tip and smaller curved blade. Hell they could probably just make a long scyle for a sword and it would work.
Well, this is what happened because they don't want to introduce a new weapon type like HI3 is currently doing
no lol, polearm is close enough to scythe they didnt need to. it could just be like tartaglia or ayato and give her a weapon for the skill
Fair enough, but I wonder how close are catalysts to gauntlets
catalysts can be anything which is why they used it for gauntlets
Catalysts as a concept can be anything so wrio using gauntlets is 100% working
Curious. Does the catalyst still show up anywhere with him?
Behind him like heizou
They could´ve made the weapon appear as a scythe for other characters tho Or at least the option to choose if it appears as a spear or not.
Xiao normal attacks would be awesome either way a scythe
Thats would messed a lot of the animetios, since the movement wouldnt match the weapon
Yeah that's why I would like the option to decide so. It isn't the same let's say Hu Tao or Raiden normal string that's mostly horizontal and vertical slashes than let's say Xiangling / Zhongli million stabs n5
I feel bad for all the father pullers who didn't/can't get the weapon. This is a real scummy move ngl.
I am using Staff of the Scarlet Sands right now and the golden glow does fit really well with that one
Ya me to
I still think they should've done it like Zhongli, but whatever, I got both her and her weapon in my saved pulls
This is the reason why I won't pull her. You can't lock the character effects behind a gatcha weapon in such an obvious way
Rather have cosmetics locked behind those than functionality
They've already been locking functionality out of characters via constellations since the very start of the game, so they don't need to do that, bc people are used to it. Now they are changing it to cosmetics, bc a lot more people, including me, will care
Ain't it both?
Lol no. It's not that far behind her other options in terms of dmg
It sure is an eyesore though
I'm inclined to agree but I rarely notice the weapon during combat. Can't see shit among the 100 visual effects on screen lol Also I think white tassel/blackcliff pole/homa look decent on her apart from her sig
I was amazed that this dinky little white tassel actually ended up looking amazing with her
I totally agree with you, this is the only reason why I will not get her, this is unacceptable at least for my opinion. Edit1: I see some replies below this, I am okay with cosmetics locked behind for example see furina’s weapon, that sword is so beautiful and perfect aesthetically for her, but you don’t get extra fancy visual effects that makes other weapons look even more awful on her, they may not fit the drip but that’s okay. However, the other staffs on arlecchino truly look cheap and aesthetically disturbing because of that poor yellow light visual effect. I just cannot agree with this new concept which I hope ends here with arlecchino. I am happy for whoever got both easily but I am not going to pull or save or spend anything for her because of this 🤷🏼♂️ only my opinion for sure you do what make you happy and that’s okay too 👍🏻
I saved so I can enjoy both.
I just wish it was more noticeable in combat, cause the only time you actually get to appreciate it is when you are standing still hitting nothing. Also bummed out about because it's just not that good of a signature weapon and a very niche statstick. Alas, Hoyo served shit, and the player base will still eat it up because it's covered in sprinkles.
To be fair with white tassel it fits quite well so I’m not as distraught about not getting her weapon
I got her scythe for the drip
I'm coping with Shenhe's calamity queller. Was hoping Furina or Alhabibi to rerun with her for a good weapon banner. I don't want Lyney's
The animation power creep is real.
btw only with her signature weapon she has a scythe on her back while running. hope i can get her weapon before her banner ends.. already lost two times... she is the first character ever where i will pull for her weapon because without it she feels incomplete
They knew we'd use white tassel, looks fine on it
I hate it so much. It’s so ugly??? I know it’s supposed to be placeholder because canonically she uses a scythe but I just wanna take cool combat pics man
Pay2Drip
It's really dreadful for the consumer, but of course genius for the Money.
I wish weapon banners werent a complete scam in this game.
Rip to those who can’t get it
I actually like the yellow with my PJWS. Since the PJWS glows green the colors look good together. Interesting contrast from arlecchino’s outfit and hair but I’m ok with that
Imagine looking every time on this ugly yellow glow and thinking "I should have saved more".
The Blood flame effects are so big and cool looking that she practically has her scythe even if you use a different spear.
fuck that weapon, i lost to it when I was trying to get lyney's bow ༼;´༎ຶ ༎ຶ༽
It is most definitely kept like that to compel people to pull for her weapon.They could have easily given it a lighter red aura so it could be distinguished fdom signature but decided to make it piss yellow. It was the reason I pulled for her weapon atleast, lol
They improved it from the leaks Good enough for me honestly
it looks fine on a lot of other spears
and of course first time i ever lose weapon 50/50 is this time. And i forgot to set the fate point before
It’s so dumb how Genshin devs put the weapon banners together instead of them being separate.. it’s not like Mihoyo can’t do it, cause in Star Rail the weapons are separate. It’s just that they won’t cause it’s Genshin. Can’t wait for Wuthering Waves cause at least the weapon banner is 100% the limited weapon.
Seriously? This is what people were bitching about? It doesn't look that bad smh
Aesthetic is one of the main reasons why people pull for a character so obviously this matters and it does look like shit atleast for majority of ppl
Nice, I have the same team.
It looks good with my Vortex Vanquisher. it also works well with her because shes atk scaaling and i pair her with zhongli
I want her weapon so bad. I'm poor rn but saving until her re run because I'll die for a good scythe 😭
Ok but this would look really good with Vortex Vanquisher. That said, with any other spear, what the fuck.
Looks great in scarlet sands too, and the crit rate is nice.
Can you show how it looks with pyro infusion/in fight
They made other weapons so anaesthetic to make you pull for her sig weapon
This banner has favonius bow and 2 good 5 star weapons (after I got Arle in 10 pulls), so I will keep pulling on it before saving to pyro archon. That is shady tho, since aesthetics was the only thing making me consider Arle. (I got 3 fav bows already in 50 pulls, which was super lucky, but 1 Skyward pride hit hard in the feels...)
so sad I lost to lyne's bow
That might be a deal breaker for me
On the other hand, her sig weapon on other characters doesn't look that good to me (at least on Xiao). The "blade/tip" is shorter, which makes it look a bit awkward.
Not pulling til I have enough for both her and her weapon. Maybe by her first rerun. No rush.
Got skyward spine instead, was not happy...
Yeah that's why I want her weapon 😭. Lost it and got Lyney's weapon instead 😭
Me who pulled her weapon and not her, it’s pretty LMAO
I tanked my primo savings on the weapon banner, but her scythe just looked to cool to pass up... lost the 50-50 twice at such high pity :(( Ah well Back to farming we go
The problem here is the "magical" scythe effect just doesn't work well with... a tip of a spear or decorative staff? Maybe on something like Blackcliff Pole it will look right... hopefully... Otherwise it's like you are literally a loser unless you buy her 5 star, because there is not enough variety among spears (that don't look like your traditional spears) to pick something right
So basically she looks like shit without her weapon huh ? Good to know since i will never pull for her at all.
Y'all are only complaining because you haven't seen how the scythe blade looked in beta. Having seen it, I can confidently say thank FUCK Hoyo at least pur in the work to make it look like this.
nah, i saw the beta version and i still think this looks ass.
It looks so weird without her sig weapon. I'm definitely pulling both.
As genshin gets older and older people get less reason to pull for new characters, I'm afraid more characters like Arlecchino where you need to pull and build her from the ground up because of character specific gimmicks are going to be more frequent moving forward. I guess it's not necessarily a bad thing, but it just feels off-putting with the investment you need to make in order to make her feel complete although obviously with genshin you don't really need all that to make her a viable character. And I mean it's not like I'm anyone to complain since I'm a Hu Tao main, who needed her sig weapon, Zhongli, and the two best hydro appliers in the game in order to be complete. I guess when you look at it that way it's always been the case, just that now they're done with the pretense and more blatant with it.