It has taken two years for Genshin Impact to give us a sword that’s main stat is HP, and it’s a five-star. Its passive is also pretty exclusive, while it does add a bit more HP once equipped to the character, it also increases the character’s elemental mastery based on their Max HP. It’s a great weapon for Nilou and Shinobu but it’s not for everyone yet remains the only weapon in the game that is based on HP, and that has got to change.
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The Types of Swords That Exist in Genshin
There are many kinds of swords that are on the roster for you to pick up, whether it’s by crafting them at your weapon smith, gaining them for free during events, or wishing and getting them clustered in your inventory. But it’s funny that despite the game being around for so long and the swords being very diverse, they do not have a free-to-play sword that is based on HP.Free-to-play is used loosely because while Primordial Jade Cutter and the Key of Khaj-Nisut can be wished through the gacha system, it’s still up to a game of chance.This makes them quite difficult unless you’ve saved a lot of primogems or planned around the banners in order to wish for them.
The swords of Genshin Impact have many different effects, the majority of which being of Energy Recharge and Elemental Mastery. Often enough, their passives make them tailored for certain characters such as how Sacrificial is excellent on Xingqui, allowing for him to use his skill twice and constantly deal Hydro damage to enemies. Until Yelan arrived on the scene, Xingqui was and continues to be a powerful Sub-DPS and Support. Albedo, a five-star, has a variety of weapons that are all free-to-play and provided by the game being some of the ones that are his best-in-slot.Cinnabar Spindle is an excellent weapon that’s main stat is based on what Albedo excels at, Defense.This boosts his damage and durability alone on its main stat while providing increased Skill Damage based on that defense.Even the three-star weapon Harbinger of Dawn has proved to be an excellent weapon for Albedo, Keqing, and has been a good weapon for Layla too.It’s based on Crit damage while increasing Crit Rate as long as the character’s HP remains above 90 percent, an excellent trait for Layla at the least given that her stats should be focused on HP and will always be quite high.
So on one hand, we have a four-star weapon for a five-star character that can excel in his damage because it’s made for him. And a half-decent weapon for Layla, that has actually been the staple for Albedo and Keqing before Mistsplitter and Cinnabar was released. But that weapon is a three-star. It’d be far easier to just release an HP sword that’s free-to-play or perhaps Layla shouldn’t have been a sword user at all.
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Who Would it Benefit? Who Would it Break?
If Hoyoverse were to release an HP four-star sword, it wouldn’t be beneficial to only Layla. So to implement it, they would need to be careful about how much HP it would give to the character as well as the passives that went along with it.
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Genshin Impact could do with a sword that is based on HP, it doesn’t need to be overpowered or a five-star. Not only for players who can’t afford to get a five-star character and have little option but to try for her signature but for characters that are releasing likeLayla that benefit from HP and yet are still requiring five-star weapons to be her best-in-slot.For a four-star, this is unexpectable while to expect this from a five-star is to be expected. It isn’t ticking off the boxes of what Genshin Impact still has yet to do like give us a Cryo Catalyst or a Hydro Claymore, but providing players the proper equipment to make the most of the joy that results in a good build.
What do you think? Let us know your thoughts, asking for better gameplay is never a bad thing when you are the consumer.
Jordan Lemons
Jordan is a college student jumping into the world of gaming journalism. Some of her favorite games would include but are most certainly not limited to Genshin Impact, Final Fantasy, Ace Attorney, and Danganronpa.
