The game needs new end-game content. There must be rewards and challenges for a reason to push forward and build your characters. Breath of the Wild allowed you to fight the final boss without leveling, gear, or late-game abilities. No one said that new players having the option of doing that diminishes the experience of those who took the time to play the game normally. " If all you have is Mondstadt and one or two 5 stars like me 8 months ago yeah this isn't for you. but the game has been out 4+ years a lot of people need a challenge for a reason to keep playing, especially with Neuvillette and Arlecchino power creep.

i think the team building part of it isn’t a huge deal. For new/newer players it’s probably a bit tough, but genshin desperately needs content for long-time players. Not saying the gamemode is without flaws, just giving my perspective as someone who’s been playing since version 1.0

i mean it was known that it would an true endgame activity, even more so than abyss, so unless youve either been playing for a long time, i.e. longer than just a year, you would struggle. theres nothing wrong with the gamemode and not everything can always tailor to the entire playerbase. plus its not going anywhere, theres no shame in not trying it until you feel youre better prepared

Very good assessment, I agree on basically everything. The most annoying thing for me was not knowing which characters would be available to invite to the pool each round, so even with limited choices it's more random than it needs to be. I'm a day 1 low spender (with a couple short breaks), but I can't imagine how frustrating it would be if I started in the past year and didn't spend a bunch of money.

AR 60 dolphin here who have been playing since launch. this endgame literally made me uninstalled the game again since it forces you to have a 4 slot of team for the sake of it. while the timer for dps check was still there. some level forces you to have venti and the 2x usage of each character on each stages is very poorly designed. i wish it was just a cooldown instead for the next floor so it would feel better and not forcing me to play characters like wanderer since i suck at playing him.

I suppose it doesn't take away from anything, for the fact that it does add a few extra primos every season, which is good. As much as I see the problem, it is exactly an endgame for endgame players, even if it forces them to build more characters only to accomodate for the brutal amount of characters required for it. And that's because we're in a electro, pyro and anemo season, just imagine what it'll be like on a geo and cryo only season.

I can 36 star abyss every version because my teams are broken, however I still can’t clear stage 8 on theater. I’ve been playing since release but I’ve always only invested in characters I care about in my favorite elements. As such, I mostly have hydro, electro, and dendro characters built. The only pyro characters I have built are Arlecchino, Hu Tao and Bennett. The only anemo characters I have built are Kazuha and Wanderer. I have almost every popular electro character built to high heaven, a few I even have multiple kits saved for (kuki and Ei I have 2 artifact sets for diff builds), but the fact that I don’t have access to any other pyro or anemo characters that are built in order to buff my electro units I’m kind of screwed. I’ve had to resort to using Alhaitham and Baizhu to augment my gameplay to even make it to stage 7. I don’t have Sigewinne or Wriothesley so I can’t even use them for help either.

to me, this game mode is not about using your best teams with the best reactions because the stellas (or stars) are just for show and you could get all the rewards just by making it to the final boss and finishing it. this mode, like any roguelike simulator, is about making the best of your situation. How you improvise with your current boons and picking your primary and alternate cast will determine your results. The game mode does still need major improvements though, I feel they have too few of trial characters to use and the lending/borrowing of friend's characters is too restrictive.

Remember, you don’t have to do it. It’s not a requirement just pretend 2:17 like it doesn’t exist or build the four stars ones you want 🤷

We just got a leak that theatre is going to be 10 lvls, good luck to everyone with no characters xD

Yeah this has bias towards longtime players. I have about 60 characters built and it’s perfect for this event. But newer/f2p players will struggle here unless they got friends with lots of built characters

it was so hard for me, my first run wasn't too good. one of my friends has a c6 r5 hu tao but since i couldn't vape or do a proper team with her i could hardly beat a boss with it!!

Honestly even coming from me who's about to hit AR 60 😭😭 I could barely finish the medium stage 😭😭😭

kinda sad when other's say "cause it's an endgame for endgame player" or "atleast we have a new endgame" or "it's your fault focusing on 2 team comps" no it's not, it's just a whale/older players bias event, even an account with more or less a year is an endgame player (after you finish the current quest available you're an endgame player) but with less than enough character to access those higher stage because they character gated it. So much restriction, it's not once not twice but trice restriction, from how many characters you'll need, only 3 elements and leveling of those said characters. It's but a facade, to let those casual and new players feel left out (like the chalk event where it's a main story but they gated it as an event and every new player after that event left out). That's just Genshin does for the player to be left out and have this urge to pull cause pull = possible revenue, and don't give me this "BUT IMAGINARIUM GIVES MORE PRIMO THAN TWICE ABYSS RUN" yeah more like 1 AND HALF PULL THAT IS. Anyways i like the vid, speak more for them to wake up and see that genshin is giving us less content that's really an endgame..

I am a f2p and already play this game from 1.0 till now, in my opinion this new end game content is too ez 😂