Explaining the True Value of the Weapon Banner || Genshin Impact Universal Guide

to help you maximize your attention account this video will break down everything about the weapon Banner its unique pity system expected 4 and 5 Star rates how much of an improvement weapons give relative to their cost and more by the end of this guide you will be able to make a definitive conclusion on whether you should be Wishing on the weapon Banner or not soft pity for the weapon manner begins on wish number 63 with each following wish increasing the odds of a five star by 7 percent the odds of getting a 5 star before soft pity is approximately 35 percent five-star weapons obtained appear most frequently on wish 66. at a baseline each rate of weapon has a 3-8 chance of appearing and a random weapon has a two and eight chance of appearing getting a random weapon means the next five-star weapon you'll get will be one of the two raidups the epitomize path's purpose is to guarantee that the selected five-star weapon appears by the third five star obtained at the latest effectively it prevents you from missing a desired weapon more than twice in a row unfortunately it resets between banners unlike the guarantee from losing the 75-25 which carries over between banners the epitomize path is not as important as it may seem without it two in five weapons will be the desired rate up on average factoring it in the rate increases to approximately one in two It's Made mainly there at the ploy to get players to continue Wishing on the weapon Banner due to sunk cost so be mindful of this fallacy if you're on a primogen budget knowing that it takes two five stars until the desired one is obtained on average a reasonable estimate for the number of wishes needed to obtain a five-star weapon is 132 the true average is 106 but this only applies to players going for multiple copies of a weapon if both rate of weapons are desired then you will spend 66 wishes on average 4 star soft pity for the weapon manner begins on wish number eight going up to a 66 chance then becoming guaranteed on wish number nine it takes a bit less than seven wishes on average per four star however just like the 5 Stars a rated up 4 star has a 75 chance of appearing with the remaining 25 percent being a random character as usual getting an operator makes it so the next four star drop is one of the five on raid up in total eighty percent of all four star drops are the ones on raid up since all five have an equal chance of appearing 16 of all four stars will be a specific rate of 4 star weapon you can expect it to take 42 wishes on average per specific 4 star weapon committing to a specific visor weapon is expected to yield R3 of each raid up four star going for a single five-star weapon is likely to yield R1 of each four star which is an excellent segue into discussing the misplaced value of the weapon Banner [Music] when looking at the weapon manner it's easy to focus on the 5 stars and mostly disregard the 4 stars if you are someone looking to make their account stronger or just have an easier time with the game than overlooking force or weapons is a huge mistake additionally most five-star weapons tend to be overrated allow me to explain why let's imagine a hutau double Hydro team where hutau is dealing 500 000 damage and sincho and yilan also deal 500 000 damage for a total of 1 million damage per rotation suppose that giving hutau a staff of Homeland gives her a 25 boost to her damage overall which is a somewhat generous assumption but within reason this would result in an increase to her personal damage to 625 000 but it would only increase the team's DPS by 12.5 percent this percentage increase is still quite significant of course this example is just to show how a more selfish weapon like coma while still being one of the most powerful upgrades can get its value artificially inflated when when just looking at hutao's numbers instead of considering the bigger picture in terms of Team DPS for some other teams and characters this can be less of an issue Xiao and Wanderer both possess meta teams where they contribute above 75 percent of the team's damage output and ayaka teams can also come close resulting in their weapons mattering quite a bit more however the majority of genshin's top teams involve more even splits of personal damage contribution weapons that can increase every team member's damage typically provide better value currently only a handful of weapons can provide stats to the whole team floating dreams key elegy both gravestone and freedom torn are the five-star options the zypho series and favonia series are the gotcha four-star team weapons and hakushen ring is the only free weapon that provides team-wide value it's also worth noting weapons that provide stats to a different team member not just the wearer of the weapon these craftable sumero weapons all drop leaves that another character can pick up for a decent stat boost and thrilling Tales gives a different character a significant amount of attack because all of these weapons are more or less free to obtain they won't be a focus of this video the short version of these weapons is that it essentially lets a low damage support give their weapon stats to the main carry of the team what you'll notice from the team DPS list is that a bunch of these weapons are obtained through four star gotcha because of the greater quantity alone a weapon Banner with subpar 4 stars is significantly worse than one with many support oriented options or other 4 star weapons that outpace free options such as the sacrificial series wavebreaker series the width and a few others refinements often provide significant value and have an argument for going after additionally four-star team support weapons have a strong argument for getting multiple copies of them either for refinements or to equip them on multiple characters at the same time all of this is to say 4 star weapons have a bigger impact on a given account than what one may realize a common conception for determining which weapons are good is by looking at how many different characters can make use of said weapon while this can be relevant it's still worth considering how much of an improvement the weapon actually is on each character that you plan to use it with sticking with Homa as an example Xiang Ling can use the weapon but it is nowhere near the same magnitude of an upgrade as it is for hutau due to not having any HP scaling having access to the catch and needing a hefty amount of energy recharge of course Homa is not the only five-star weapon that is considered for General use most five-star weapons with crit sub stats can be used by most damage shielding characters to good effect with the exception of weapons that either have a very Niche condition to proc their passive or the passive just boosting a very Niche stat without being able to make full use of the passive the general these choices often end up being marginally better than the best 4 star options so a weapon being Universal shouldn't be the driving force behind wishing for it but having the quality is certainly a nice upside the obvious drawback to Wishing on the weapon Banner is that those wishes are being taken away from the character Banner in terms of raids alone the weapon Banner typically requires more wishes per specific desired item either 4 star or 5 Star despite having higher Baseline rates when accounting for multiple good outcomes the expected cost significantly reduces we can simplify this relation as a ratio on average it's about one to one character to specific weapon and two to three character to rate up weapon when looking at the worst case scenario for both the ratio ends up favoring characters more at a four to three character to weapon ratio essentially the weapon Banner ends up being more efficient the less you wish on it even in the better cases the weapon manner doesn't end up much ahead of the character Banner in terms of cost per 5 Star despite weapons like elegy giving nine offensive substance to every teammate freedoms weren't giving up to six per teammate and most Graves him conditionally giving about 8 sub stats of attack none of them realistically outpaced the value of a 5 Star support oriented character the other two weapons floating dreams and key function more as a typical hyper carry weapon with key being noticeably stronger than most signatures as newly team's main source of damage is via Bloom which is independent of characters personal damage contributions therefore current 5 Star support weapons shouldn't be the target but rather they should be considered as a nice byproduct of Wishing on the weapon Banner for a different reason we'll get more into selfish signature weapons shortly for now let's focus back on 4 stars 42 wishes per desired 4 star weapon is the expected average on the weapon Banner 488 is expected for a specific weapon on the character Banner meaning that the character Banner is approximately 11 times more expensive to get weapons this does give valid reason to go on the weapon Banner Over always choosing the character Banner in situations where fevonious weapons end up being one of if not the most significant upgrade to a team a weapon Banner with several fevonious weapons and at least one desirable 5 Star Choice can be worth considering for free to play players being able to budget your premium gems is crucial for figuring out situations where Primo gems can be spent if you allocate your budget to the characters you desire to obtain you will be able to find situations in which going for the weapon Banner will not cause a loss in a desired 5 Star the bigger cost of going on the weapon Manor is missing out on four star characters we're trying to get a specific one on the weapon Banner is roughly 30 times more expensive because four star characters have more valuable constellations or are borderline necessary for creating meta team compositions they end up with a higher priority if you are missing any of the very high importance characters then it is not worthwhile to wish on the weapon Banner yet additionally there are certain four star characters that can provide valuable team support or damage such as yaoyao bado kuki and Shang Ling's third and fourth constellations which are all good but not necessary to the same degree as the aforementioned characters as soon as your account picks up the top priority characters a degree of flexibility is reached where four star weapon value goes up considerably in terms of 5 Star characters only a handful possess value comparable to the top 4 star characters it is generally worth considering these characters before looking at 5 star weapons none of them are strictly necessary but can all enable various team compositions just like the best 4 Stars once the desired amount of horizontal investment is reached when you don't want to build any more teams that's when you start going for weapons to make those teams stronger because of how the probabilities are distributed it's not worth attempting to snipe something specific off the weapon Banner in a couple of pulls I say that more than half of the available 4 star option should be a relevant upgrade tier in order for wishes to be considered efficient furthermore I say the weapon Banner is something reserved for the late game if your account already has the necessary characters to form sufficient teams you lack team support or character enabling weapons namely fevonius weapons and their Alternatives and there is one or more desirable five-star on raidup then the weapon Banner is worth considering if it is within your premium budget bonus points of the weapon Raider if you own a hyper carry character that has an available signature weapon that provides the standard 15 to 20 damage increase and if there are forced or weapons on the banner that are refinement hungry such as the sacrificial weapons and the wavebreaker series if you want to learn more about budgeting Improvement gems with respect to the character Banner watch this guide next

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Length: 11min 1sec (661 seconds)

Published: Mon May 29 2023