I started thinking that maybe I should keep a Genshin Impact diary for the sake of world peace.
Most of the older memories had already been written down anyway, so this is where I’m gathering them.
February 23, 2021 — Onward to World Level 8
It wasn’t until I hit Adventure Rank 55, when the game had fully entered that “nothing but weeds growing” phase, that I realized my daily Genshin experience might actually be worth turning into a diary.
Fortunately, I’m pretty used to writing this kind of retrospective filler. I’ll just keep updating it slowly.
February 27, 2021 — Hu Tao, I’m Coming
At long last, Hu Tao’s character PV was released. By the usual pattern it should have gone up at noon on Wednesday, but apparently it got delayed until Saturday because it didn’t pass YouTube review in time.
She’s adorable, but I had a terrible feeling I wasn’t going to pull her.
March 2, 2021 — Eat Well, Drink Well, Rest in Peace
March 4, 2021 — Xingqiu, Please Stop Coming Home
Few things feel worse than pulling a character who’s already at full constellation.
March 7, 2021 — A Chance Encounter in Another World, Savoring Every Bite
March 8, 2021 — A Chance Encounter in Another World, Savoring Every Bite 2
March 15, 2021 — The Unluckiest of the Unlucky
There’s a wish history export tool on GitHub that can read your Genshin wish records and turn them into charts for analysis. Looking at my own pull rates, I honestly felt like smashing my head into a block of tofu.
Then I exported the data to Excel and ran it through this analyzer for a more complete breakdown: https://genshin-gacha-analyzer.vercel.app/
Gacha overview (622 pulls total)
And of course, there were the achievements too. So the unlucky one was me all along.
March 17, 2021 — Invitation of Windblume
Since I was writing as I played through Version 1.4, there ended up being a lot more to say, and a lot more images too. To keep this page from getting too heavy, my thoughts on the new version’s main story were moved into a separate Windblume diary entry.
March 18, 2021 — The Oceanid Talks?!
I logged in, opened the check-in event, and claimed two recipes.
After clearing my daily commissions, I went to collect a Story Key.
Wait a second—one key for every eight commissions? That meant my earlier assumptions were completely wrong.
One key every two days, two keys in four days, three keys in six days… at that pace, unlocking every Hangout Event would take two full weeks. Really impressive work there.
Then I went to fight the Oceanid. That was when I found out the boss had voice lines now, and the voice was surprisingly nice. Even with Ganyu on the team, I got the bird summon twice in one run and got thoroughly beaten up.
After that I farmed the Hydro artifact domain and, for the first time ever, got three gold drops in one run.
Once my resin was gone, I logged off. Noelle’s Hangout could wait for another day.
March 20, 2021 — Typical Drought-Season Routine
I finished the usual dull daily commissions.
Then I unlocked a hidden achievement.
Spent all my resin and logged out.
March 21, 2021 — Happy Birthday, Noelle
It was Noelle’s birthday today, so of course: happy birthday.
As for commissions, I got another request involving Chang the Ninth.
I had already spoiled it for myself before, so this time I didn’t bother reading through it.
March 22, 2021 — Longing for Someone Gone
One of today’s commissions was a rather unusual one: “Longing for an Old Acquaintance.” Judging from the quest description, it was an important story-related commission tied to Chang the Ninth.
Together with A Little Book in the Woods, This Novel Is Amazing!, and the dialogue from the NPCs involved, it was possible to piece together Chang the Ninth’s story. I later organized that material separately, though my writing really wasn’t doing it any favors.
March 24, 2021 — A Full-Con Fischl Is Within Reach
I pulled on the weapon banner and ended up just short of a full ten-pull, so I bought a Welkin Moon.
But why did a character show up instead?
March 27, 2021 — Finally, QAQ
Seventy pulls for pity…
April 2, 2021 — Dragonspine OST
This was the track I’d been waiting for.
April 7, 2021 — Max Constellation at Last...
April 17, 2021 — A Butterfly for You
It was Xiao’s birthday today, and first thing in the morning I saw that he’d caught ten Crystalflies for me.
That said, can you really stick Crystalflies in your hair like that…?
April 20, 2021 — Childe Boss Domain
Recently, while fighting Childe, I noticed that after dying you respawn on the first floor of the Golden House. If you jump down from there, the game forcibly reloads the area.
April 28, 2021 — Yanfei Is So Cute
Too bad she wasn’t in the pool.
May 10, 2021 — For Snezhnaya!
Apparently this commission only gives the achievement if you choose a different option each time. I keep forgetting.
Anyway, this time I picked the Fatui.