Feast of the Departed Warriors is an occasion for the combat-minded in Genshin Affect. It options three world bosses: the Electro Manifestation, the Aeonblight Drake, and the Coral Defenders. Nonetheless, these differ from the same old variety you combat within the overworld. They’re souped-up bosses that you would be able to strengthen much more to problem your self.
After all, with the rewards being extra factors (and bragging rights), many will bounce into battle with these sturdy enemies.
Occasion Overview
You have to be a minimum of Journey Rank 30 and have accomplished the Archon Quest “Music of the Dragon and Freedom.”
The area is in Falcon Coast and may be immediately teleported to. Coming into it gives you the collection of bosses to combat on the left. On the time of writing, solely two can be found: Descaling: Thundering Grief and Piety: Calamity of Blazing Metal.
On the suitable facet, you’ll see your earlier document, your finest time, and the rewards you will get. On the underside proper, you possibly can set the problem degree and alter the enemy’s stats.
First, there’s a drop-down menu on the higher proper the place you possibly can alter the problem. This will increase the rating multiplier and the enemy’s degree.
Simple: x1, degree 40
Regular: x1.5, degree 70
Exhausting: x2.5, degree 90
Knowledgeable: x5, degree 100
Then, you possibly can select to spice up the enemy’s stats for extra factors while you defeat it inside the parameters. The final traits are:
Goal Time
Max HP Improve
ATK Improve
3 variable ingredient RES improve
3 assault enhancements
The tougher you make issues for your self, the upper the factors that you would be able to get. Make sure you’re well-prepared for these fights!
Afterward, you possibly can choose three buffs that will help you by way of the problem of those boss battles. From there, select your get together and go into fight. Defeat the boss, and also you get your rewards.
It’s attainable to go in with a buddy that will help you. It’s a wonderful emergency function, although it modifications the scale of the combat in numerous methods. In any case, you and your buddy can be restricted to 2 characters, although the potential DPS can also be doubled.
Descaling: Thundering Grief
The boss right here is the Crackling Thunder Manifestation. It could look regular, nevertheless it has variations of the same old assaults.
For one, it has a brand new close-range methodology of locking onto you. After releasing some probes, it’ll radiate a blast from itself. If you happen to get hit, you’ll get locked on, and it’ll be enraged. Often, Crackling Thunder Manifestation makes use of it after sending out Strike Probes (Enhanced).
Its Slicing Storm assault has duplicates doing the identical motion in numerous instructions, providing you with a tighter house to dodge. Its Partitions of Lightning has 4 partitions closing in on you, although there’s sufficient time to keep away from all of them. It could additionally use Livid Thunderbolts (Enhanced) even when not enraged. Lastly, it may possibly summon Thunder Cages (sure, plural) that journey in numerous instructions.
Getting hit by the above assaults will enrage Crackling Thunder Manifestation, altering its transfer set.
Torrential Rainfall sends radiating lightning throughout the sector, eradicating any Strike Probes and Thunder Cages. It could nonetheless do Partitions of Lightning and Slicing Storm (Enhanced) however add a Smack assault when in melee vary. For Sundering Plumes, CTM will summon two copies, and all three create 5 Electro projectiles to fireside. It shoots first, then each of the replicas do.
It additionally Dive Bombs, shoots Livid Thunderbolts and sends a Homing Thunder Cage at you. For these three assaults, you must keep away from their space of impact and the cage itself.
Ideas
Dodging is the way in which to go right here. If you wish to keep away from coping with particular strikes, you possibly can enrage it. In any other case, if you happen to’re okay with its typical transfer set, then dodge the assaults.
The fundamental RES you can provide it earlier than the battle is for Pyro, Cryo, and Dendro. Whilst you have the choice to not present that sort of power, you can even use a Geo or Anemo DPS.
As traditional, as an elemental being, it’s proof against its ingredient, Electro. Don’t be dumb and use Electro characters except you’re asking for extra punishment. In any other case, it may be a difficult run the place you solely use Bodily assaults.
The boss strikes erratically, making it troublesome to hit with melee. Homing assaults comparable to Tighnari’s totally charged aimed photographs and Burst work nicely in opposition to it. If you happen to can handle her charged photographs, Ganyu is a potent DPS for this battle.
Piety: Calamity of Blazing Metal
It doesn’t have a transfer set within the wiki but, nevertheless it works just like the boss, for essentially the most half. Nonetheless, it does have slight modifications. It features a protect and elemental RES when it takes off. Thankfully, its cores can be uncovered, and you have to shoot them to make the Drake weak.
It nonetheless periodically features elemental resistance of the type that broken it essentially the most. You recognize, that bit the place it blasts bombs round it, and its tubes change coloration. It additionally makes its traditional assaults of bombardment from above, both with rockets or machine gun hearth.
There may very well be numerous results when it absorbs parts and does a bombardment. Hydro leaves behind puddles that may harm your characters, for instance. It’s additionally an assault you wish to keep away from getting caught in.
It doesn’t have direct weaknesses, however you can provide it elemental resistances for Cryo, Electro, and Hydro. This makes Pyro, Dendro, Geo, and Anemo DPS characters excellent. Even when It absorbs and begins to withstand a particular ingredient, you possibly can swap to a different one and proceed your onslaught.
Ideas
Deliver an archer character so you possibly can snipe the uncovered cores, destroy the protect, and make the Aeonblight Drake weak. Somebody like Tartaglia (Childe) can simply swap between the 2 modes, which makes him a wonderful option to deliver. Yoimiya, Ganyu, and even Fischl can do it in a pinch.
If you would like, deliver two with totally different parts to at all times have one which offers extra harm irrespective of which essence the Drake absorbed.
The actual problem is avoiding its assaults whereas aiming on the cores. Because the protect is Bodily, you possibly can’t use reactions to deplete it quicker. Archers and a gradual goal are a necessity.
Shadow: Twined Dragonheirs
These are the Coral Defenders. Like its common counterparts, you have to defeat the opposite as quickly as you beat one. In any other case, the one you defeated will revive. The remaining one may also be enraged on this battle, making it tougher.
At a particular level within the battle, a Geo pillar will spawn. The Vishap Herd will climb up it and unleash highly effective assaults. Destroying the submit will make them weak for a couple of moments. Additionally they use a ‘Cleaning Bathe,’ which depletes Vitality when the characters get hit. In the event that they don’t have sufficient Vitality, their HP decreases as a substitute.
They’ve round 3 mixture assaults:
A beam that sweeps throughout the sector
A mixture of Cryo and Electro assaults
They transfer to the sting of the sector and hearth projectiles geared toward your place.
Every one may be lethal, however they’re additionally simply dodge-able. Generally, that is the best boss as a result of they’re at all times weak and reachable with melee strikes. The primary two bosses have aerial phases, which make it laborious for melee-ranged characters to hit.
Extra Ideas
You should use Geo or Anemo as a substitute for Pyro, Hydro, and Dendro characters. You don’t need Cryo or Electro ones as a result of the opposite will resist them, making your time slower. Gorou is superb assist when utilizing Geo, whereas Faruzan is for Anemo.
Nonetheless, Geo or Claymore customers are advisable to destroy the pillar that seems within the enviornment. It gives a second of vulnerability to the bosses, so it’s price it.
That is extra of an easy slugfest than the opposite bosses within the occasion. Nonetheless, it might be finest if you happen to nonetheless tried to maintain the bosses’ HPs close to one another so that you don’t must meet up with defeating the rest. In any other case, the battle can lengthen as a result of the opposite would revive.
You may need bother charging up your Bursts because of the ‘Cleaning Bathe,’ so it’s best to use characters that aren’t too reliant on them.
Three-Realm Banquet of Stillness
With three bosses to battle, this requires setting 8 characters you possibly can swap amongst. After defeating one, you possibly can select to vary your get together or proceed. Nonetheless, you possibly can solely choose from these you set earlier than beginning fight.
That is the fruits of all you realized all through the occasion. Be sure to deliver those that can:
Chase down the Crackling Thunder Manifestation
Shoot the weak factors of the Aeonblight Drake (Heavy Assault Pack), and
Defeat each Bathysmal Vishaps consecutively.
Keep in mind, you should utilize meals gadgets on this occasion and revive characters in mid-combat. It has a couple of minutes’ cooldowns, so you possibly can’t resurrect your characters consecutively, nevertheless it’ll be an enormous assist. Additionally, you possibly can ask for assist by way of co-op, so you actually can get all of the rewards.
You don’t want meta characters; have them well-built and serviceable.
Have Enjoyable within the Feast of Departed Warriors!
This occasion exams how nicely the fight techniques and managers of Genshin Affect. Although their new assaults can take a while, being adaptable will make the battles simpler. The very best factor to do is benefit from the fight and have enjoyable! No matter challenges you encounter, issues gained’t change into a chore if you happen to do the latter.
