Any company that has a product built on recurring payments will always tend towards becoming predatory in the money they need to extract because #1 they need to have pinch points to ensure they get money at regular, predictable intervals since they're a business and #2 because there is absolutely no reason for them not to turn the dial up on the micro-transactions -- up and up -- slowly until the profit gained is cancelled out by the quitting players.
I'm not very far in but I've seen lots of discussions about how you need to ration your XP items because late game it doesn't give you near enough of them. I think its around rank 30 or so when the crunch starts to hit bad from what I've read.
You definitely have to do the money/xp veins in the adventure journal a few times in the post-30 levels but it's not really bad or anything. You don't need that resin for domains much in those level ranges. At 40 and 45 this gets very significant but you quickly realise that you only need 2 characters intended as your dps characters, your other 6 characters (two 4 character teams) will essentially be various forms of elemental support.
I poured my xp items into 2 max levelled dps and have a bunch of different levels on other characters.
The real grind isn't in xp, which actually only provides very small benefits to your character in power, the real grind is for talent level up materials, artifacts and weapon level up materials. This essentially becomes a "do a little bit each day" task for you though. The intention here is obviously just to slow players down and give them something to do in the time between updates so they don't just stop playing the game because they have no more progression to pursue.
Gotcha that makes sense. I'm still figuring everything out. I haven't used hardly anything cause I'm afraid I'm gonna bone myself if I don't spend right.
If I can make one suggestion -- hold your resin replenishment items until level 40 or 45. You will get better drops for artifacts from dungeons later on (5* artifacts) and being able to replenish your resin will then allow you to go on a mega grind to farm them if you so wish. That's more or less the only major mistake I felt I made with my resources, I did have to go grind a bit for exp/gold but never felt like it significantly gated me. The only major gating that is sometimes a touch upsetting to me is having to wait a day or 2 from a domain in order to get that item you need to upgrade a weapon.
Trying not to bomb you with dumb questions but does gold ever become rare? I feel like I have so much gold and nothing to spend it on.
Yes you'll use absolutely all of it when you increase your world ranks and will probably need to do the veins on one or two days in order to get some more. At some point or another you will run out of just about every single resource you have and need to go and earn some more of it. The only resource I have never run out of are the upgrade crystals for weapons which the game seems to just liberally throw hundreds and hundreds of unnecessary ones at us.
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I have Xiangling as main dps on team 1 and Razor as main dps on team 2. Xiangling + Crescent Pike is absurd, that weapon is one of the best weapons in the game and craftable. After dropping her bear it procs an additional hit for every hit which can also crit and receive damage boosts. Barbara and Noelle are my healers for each team but honestly Noelle's healing is poor and I'm underperforming in Abyss because of her, when I get a new healer I will probably replace her. Later constellations might change that but that's going to be luck or a long time waiting.
I like Chongyun a lot as support. Also he's speeeedy to bunnyhop around with. Amber is basically essential for popping ice enemy elemental shields in Abyss so she's not to be underrated too much, I know a lot of people using her for that support role.
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