5-Star Weapons are good, but just how good? are they worth the primogems & the terrible weapon banner rates? In this video, we will find out through a showcase & calcs. Hope this helps!
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lack of videos recently, been busy and this one took a LONG time to make sure everything was accurate, especially because a lot of showcases tend to be misleading and I wanted to avoid that. Hope you enjoyed!
might make a wavebreaker fin vid maybe soon since a lot of people have been overrating it btw
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Initial Info/Intro (0:00)
How I will be testing 4 Stars vs 5 Stars (1:52)
Hu tao [Homa vs Deathmatch] (2:41)
Xiangling [The Catch vs Homa] (4:59)
Xiao [Deathmatch vs PJWS] (9:05)
Raiden Weapon Calcs (11:20)
Beidou test [Serpent Spine vs WGS] (12:00)
Testing Results [from this video] (14:05)
Calcs done/Weapon Rankings [IMPORTANT] (14:24)
Other Example [Childe] (15:13)
How Good are 5-Star Weapons Overall? (15:39)
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when your weapon gives you more crit than your circlet…
a LOT of calcs in this vid lmao hope it's helpful as it took very long to make
also i wanted to put a picture of the everlasting moonglow on screen while i talked about it but yeah anyways it's not great
pic of it: https://twitter.com/GenshinImpact/status/1439439103968247809?s=20
I thought you were going to include the new polearm Wavebreaker's Fin. Would love to see a damage comparison on this from an R1 vs to an R5 going against Engulfing for Raiden Shogun.
Xingqiu with sacrificial sword crushes all 5 stars
Seeing Xiao with Staff of Homa and Hu Tao with primordial jade cutter hurt me.
Hey i actually think dragon's bane is a better 4 star for hu tao
since I already had the jade spear, I didn't even bother upgrading dragon's bane for my hu tao… until I tried upgrading it for xiangling and tried out the damage with hu tao. a R2 dragon's bane dealt 28% more damage (with vaporize) than the jade spear, despite being a 4* weapon! (given, the dps increase is probably a little smaller than 28% since I lost a bit of crit rate, but still!)
I feel scammed as primordial spear has only 22 crit rate and primordial sword has 44 crit rate wtf
Tbh the game is ez enough so don't really need 5*weapons
Solar peark r5 beat r1 memory of dust on my ningguang so true 5star catalyst is not worth
You my inspo bruv! Keep it up!!!
Me getting 3 wgs on the first homa banner and getting the moon glow before homa now
Xiao rerun!!
So basically only Staff of Homa.
Probably I will be dead tired of the game before it's ever convenient for me to pull on a weapon banner, I just cannot spend the same amount of Primos for a new character, so moveset, team combs etc. on a mere stats upgrade
Would really love a video about optimizing rotations, funneling energy and having optimal Energy Recharge, it could also go into the difference in between running an ER Sands VS using artifacts with ER substats :O
4 star characters get less stats overall the same way 4 star weapons do vs 5 stars Someone more of a support like xinagling doesn't need it because her primary power comes from her applying pyro than her being the dps carry. Slamming bennet into the team with pyro buff and his ult is just an unfair comparison. Sure hu tao might not use bennet's buff, but comparing them that way doesn't seem that fair. Even with it her auto's aren't the damage it's xiangling's ultimate put that to hutao's ult with a mona ult the same way they use bennet and the damage is only a fraction of hutao's.
Wish we could get more copies of the catch .
Who knw when is Raiden ei's rerun so can't even try to engulfing . Thus can't use catch on Xiangling .
Refinement on 4star weapons are really hard to get though… except if theyre favonius lance
Also just got elegy and man… its such an upgrade from r3 stringless for my venti and by extension my entire team
Can somebody help me explain what does it mean "there's no real hard pity", thanks
What are all the weapons used in this video
nice its actually working
thanks bro
yes 5 stars weapons are absolutely better. if your attack is at like 1600-1800 with a 4 star. swapping to a 5 star takes that shit to over 2000 🤣
Me watching this after spending 150 wishes i a Polar Star which i didn't got, but i only got 2 catalizers i will ever use
u couldn’t pay me to fish
Great video, very well explained with good justifications. Props🙌
Stupid question, an non-enhanced 5* Weapon is more powerful than an Enhanced five times 4* Weapon?
Engulfing lightning on xianling is like 10% stronger than homa
this video was really good!
I needed a 5 star bow in weapon as F2P but I got skyward claymore 🥲
so 5 stars are the way to go, if you have the money….wow tell me more. o0
Honestly I think artifacts matter way more than weapons. Obviously you want a decent weapon but if your artifacts are cracked your characters are going to perform well. For example I finally rolled a decent viridescent piece for my Xiao. My previous one had def main stat – I had to use it to get the 2-piece bonus and the sub stats rolled decently. I finally got a attack % one that rolled attack %, flat attack, crit damage and crit rate. After switching to that piece my Xiao started hitting 14k crits with his Q up from 10k. That’s 4K more per plunge. During the entire Q window that’s a massive increase in dps.
Went for the Homa since the bow is also solid in terms of setting up big DPScreenshots. Got the Bow, Aquila, and then Homa. But in that final 10 pull I got a second Homa. Considering I basically run a ton of pole arm users, this was the best case scenario I could ask for a monthly spender.
I'm waiting patiently for a rerun of PJWS for my Xiao. I'm on about 97% CrR and 155% CrD with Deathmatch but I really want the damage boost. I've already built artifacts to switch and compensate for the loss in crit rate. I really want to see what 100% Crit Rate looks like with healthy damage.
Hah, joke's on you. My artifacts never roll into crit even when I have the substats, so I have low damage no matter what weapons I use
T-T
The fact that the catch give Xiangling Q extra 12% crit rate mean that it help her deal even more damage than the staff of homa.
Changing artifacts makes showcases worthless. What the point to change arts? I want to see difference between weapons and how i can see that when you change arts too? Even if difference in dps cant be showed properly in numbers onfield, so I dont need that showcase, just show sheets with calculations.
Or you can make showcases with 4*/5* I kill that boss in X/Y seconds to show difference
disappointed
generally speaking 5 star weapons have 20% more stats than an equal 4 star weapon with the same stats distribution, so by default its usually the better option, unless the substat doesnt match or the passive effect aint very good, sometimes though, the 4 star weapons have really powerfull passives which make up for the stat difference such as the bow Rust for example which becames really strong for any normal attacker especially with refines which are alot easier to get for 4 stars.
I hate fishing. With a passion.
THAT EOSF ER sands…i would trade 2 Mona's and 3 weeks of Resin for it!
What about the Wavebreaker's Fin? It is not included in the poleaarms ranking. I got it recently, and it looks great
Wonderful calculations, lots of insights here. Particularly we see that many 5 star weapons are actually not as substitutable compared to various 4 star alternatives. It does put into a new light the criticisms levelled against a weapon like Moonglow. You got to consider the average improvements of many variations between 5 star and 4 star weapons before calling a weapon trash.
Hello, Zy0x. Can you make a video where you discuss “future proof” characters? Consider c0 to c6 units like Xiao, Ganyu, Mona, Bennet, et al. I would love to hear your opinion about it.
Now just a video for c0 5 star characters please xD
Deathmatch is a 4 star weapon that is not a free to play friendly weapon
The current weapon banner is really good, all weapons except for Painslasher would significantly upgrade my account. Of course, 40 pulls in, I got 3 Painslashers.
How's the dragonspine spear?