Category: Game Guides

  • The Contract of Rock, Destiny Reignited

     

    When the first rays of dawn fell on the Fontaine Land, a storm was quietly brewing.

    It was a call from the deep rock, the oldest contract between the earth and the elements. In the Ver4.5 version, the girl named “Qianzhi” finally stepped onto the stage of destiny.

    She is the chosen one of the rocks, the tuner of the balance of elements, and the core of the harmony of all things!

    ✦ New Character Implementation Information ✦
    After this Ver4.5 version, four new five-star characters will be implemented in succession, each of which has the potential to subvert the situation:

    1. **Qianzhi** (five-star | Rock | One-handed Sword)

    2. **Sigwen** (five-star | Water | Bow)

    3. **Summoner** (five-star | Fire | Long-handled Weapon)

    4. **Claulinde** (five-star | Thunder | One-handed Sword)

    They are the representatives of power and the banner of the new era.
    But among them, the most anticipated one is “Qianzhi”!

    ✦ Qianzhi – Element Resonator ✦

    She is not an ordinary warrior. She is the medium between elements and the controller of variables on the battlefield!

    Qianzhi’s skill mechanism is like a dream-

    When she contacts the ** elements of other characters in the team, different strengthening effects will be triggered:

    * Contact with water element: Instantly restore life, like spring water infusing meridians.

    * Contact with fire element: Attack is improved, like a flame burning the fighting spirit.

    * Contact with ice element: Critical strike increases, and murderous intent is hidden in calmness.

    * Contact with thunder element: Restore energy, activate the fighting spirit like thunder.

    * Contact with rock element: Double the gain effect, and completely liberate the power of the earth!

    **She is the carrier of the fusion of all things, and the dual master of comprehensive support and offense! **

    ✦ Elemental Burst ✦

    Her burst skill is a display of precise control and art.

    Phantom Silk Entanglement, like the thread of fate, once activated, will significantly reduce the enemy’s rock resistance, while providing our team with a more indestructible shield bonus.

    Even more shocking is that her [Phantom Butterfly Suit] – like an evolved armor, continuously releases energy on the battlefield, pushing the whole team forward!

    ✦ Constellation Ability ✦

    Qianzhi’s constellation is like opening the Five Elements Divine Vein, and each level means a breakthrough:

    * 1st Constellation: Improved energy recovery efficiency, greatly increased sustained combat power!

    * 2nd Constellation: Increased the number of crystal creation and the frequency of butterfly suits, and even caused range splash damage, a true full-area strike!

    * 4th Constellation: Critical damage increased by up to 40%, like a sharp blade breaking through the air, unstoppable!

    * 6th life: Directly **ignore 45% of the enemy’s defense**, and then stack the shield effect – this is no longer a support, but a semi-main C positioning!

    ✦ Exclusive weapon ✦

    Her magic weapon is called [Ranqi Kuoba’s Eye], and the name alone makes people’s blood boil.

    * Basic attack power: 542
    * Secondary attribute: 82.7% defense bonus
    * Refining effect: elemental damage is comprehensively improved!

    This is a sword born for battle, and it is a proof of her resonance with the earth!

    ✦ Evaluation ✦

    From full element triggering to shield, energy recovery, and damage increase, she has almost covered all the functions that a support should have.
    Although each enhancement seems not high, combined, she is the **most stable backing and the most versatile hub** in the team!

    In the future environment, she will become the new core of the team combination, and even bring about tactical subversion!

    ✦ Conclusion ✦

    When the new version comes, when the bell of fate rings, the eyes of countless travelers will be focused on her. This time, it is no longer just waiting, but preparing for the real awakening!

    “She will crush the rocks and embark on a legend.”

    ### Suggested title:

    ** “Blade of Rock Contract: The Full Awakening of Chizhi”**

  • Games are not escape, but a rehearsal for training emotions

     

    On the day of the 5.1 version update, I just had insomnia. At two o’clock in the morning, a cat jumped from the windowsill to the balcony, making a soft sound of landing. The phone screen suddenly lit up, it was the update push of Genshin Impact. I clicked on it, wondering whether I really love playing games, or just don’t want to face the blankness in the dark.

    The new character is called Xinoning, rock attribute, one-handed sword. The official description is that she can reduce the enemy’s elemental resistance and give different gains according to the attributes of teammates. To put it more bluntly, she is the kind of silent cooperative character, a typical “silent” existence in the team.

    I was silent for a long time when I saw her portrait. That kind of design is a kind of gentle hardness, like a polished stone, not dazzling, but tactile. The setting says that she will enter a state of “leopard hunting rhythm” when she is in the skill state. I suddenly thought of a sentence my teacher said when I was a ballet student when I was a child: “True strength is the elegance that oozes from the depths of the muscles.” At that moment, I realized that this is not a character, but an extension of a personality that I have suppressed for too long.

    I began to study her constellation carefully. The first constellation allows her to maintain her state longer, and the second constellation can give different bonuses according to the team elements. For example, the fire attribute can increase attack power, the water attribute increases health, and the electric attribute can even reduce CD. These settings remind me of the way we do things in the workplace: if a person knows how to judge the situation, knows what to say to whom, and what emotions to show at what time, it may be more important than “output”.

    There are also reprints of Nashida and Hu Tao in the second half of the card pool. I already have Hu Tao, and I was experiencing a low point in my relationship when I drew her. Now that she is back, I have no desire to draw her again, but when I see her, I still feel a familiar, no-language comfort. Our feelings for virtual characters are sometimes more stable than in reality, because they will never suddenly disappear or change their hearts.

    Many people ask me, isn’t playing games a waste of time? I always feel that the answer to this question is as ridiculous as asking someone why they want to fall in love. Games are not reality, but they are not fake. They are more like a sandbox for us to practice emotions and relationships. We play decision makers, sacrifices, redeemers, and losers in them, and we experience collaboration, betrayal, achievement, and debt. You pour your emotions into a character, sometimes more purely than in reality – because you know she doesn’t belong to you, she won’t change for you, and she can’t be responsible for you.

    And in reality, aren’t we constantly playing the role of “希诺篧”? Faced with family pressure, friends’ expectations, and colleagues’ cold eyes, sometimes you want to charge forward, but more often you just stand there quietly, using the least noticeable way to keep everything from collapsing.

    Games are a kind of practice. Drawing a character in Genshin Impact is equivalent to gaining a new perspective. By operating her, I seem to be able to re-examine myself, the one who doubts the meaning while being persistently invested.

    Version 5.1 is online. The card pool is like life, always pushing new choices when you are most confused. I don’t know if there will be a miracle in the next ten draws, but I know that being able to look forward to it again is the way to fight against nothingness.

    We are all people who are looking for some kind of connection in front of the screen and behind the keyboard, not just to escape reality. We learn the weight of relationships in the game, and understand the complexity of support in the silence of the characters.

  • The Book of Fontaine: Underwater Echoes of Daily Life – Genshin Impact

    It was cloudy the day I arrived at Fontaine. The damp and cold feeling of water vapor and fog in the air was very similar to the scene she described. The water flowed through the edge of the city, brushing against the metal pontoon and stone steps. The tower in the distance had transparent glass windows, flashing dim light under the gray-blue sky. This city is so quiet and almost indifferent, but it hides countless travelers like me who have nowhere to go. I came here to accomplish a certain goal. This idea is so clear, but also so empty. You know, those goals – upgrades, rewards, values, reputation – are all visible reasons. But the real driving force is often those things you can’t say. Like loss, like a blank. Some people say that to activate the daily commission system of Fontaine, you must first complete two main plots. Their names sound like poems: “Prologue to White Dew and Black Tide” and “Light Rain Falling Like No Reason”. I completed them. In the process, I have seen death, judgment and forgiveness. I have also seen the boundless blue deep in the sea, like the deepest hidden place in a person’s heart. This water country is not just a map to me. It is like a mirror that reflects some parts that I have long forgotten. That silence, that waiting. Then, I walked into the branch of the Adventurer’s Association. The woman named Catherine stood behind the counter. Her tone was always calm and emotionless. “You have completed the conditions, and now you can start the world quest of “Adventure Towards the Distance.” I heard my own voice say, “Okay.” After that, daily commissions fell into my daily life like drops of water. Four small things, scattered in various corners of the city and the suburbs. Sometimes it is to find scattered mechanical devices, and sometimes it is to deliver letters for an unknown researcher. They are repetitive and regular, just like my life over the years. Quiet, mechanical, but can’t stop. I began to get used to these tasks. Began to get familiar with the breathing rhythm of this city. The reputation value gradually increased, and I could feel the system’s acceptance of me, a stranger. It was not a warm hug, but a slow and forbearing temperature, like a not-so-bright lamp at night, silently keeping the light for you. Rewards began to appear. Props, drawings, and usage rights. They are exquisite and useful, but they can’t really fill the invisible holes in my heart. You know, there are always some things that cannot be replaced by material things-memories, someone’s voice, and silence after a failure. I was often distracted when performing tasks in Fontaine. I would stop to look at the reflection of a tower in the distance, or a girl sitting alone on a street corner. They don’t talk to me, maybe they are just NPCs in the game, but their quiet existence is very similar to people I once knew. Those who once stood on the edge of my life quietly left when no one noticed. I always think that the so-called reputation is just a way for the city to encode your memory. The more you help it and complete its tasks, the more it remembers you. But such memory is based on function, not emotion. It can be replaced, refreshed and reset. But I still come back every day. Daily commissions are like a kind of ritual for me – establishing order for life and drawing a controllable boundary for the chaos in my heart. It makes me feel that I still have choices and am actively participating in something. Even if it is just to complete a task list. You asked me: “Is it worth it?” I have no way to answer such a question as yours. The word worth is too rational, it tries to measure the reward of an experience. But what I want to say is that I have truly existed in this process. I once heard my heartbeat underwater. After completing a mission, I once stood alone on a stone bridge in the mist, silently watching the light fall into the water. In those moments, I remembered who I was. And that may be the whole reason.