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Albedo has his own special artifact set custom-made for him. It was released during the 2.3 update along with a specific five-star sword. Husk of Opulent Dreams is the only artifact set that has defense percent as the two-piece bonus. The four-piece set further boosts his defense and Geo damage by six perc

When building a team around Albedo, you should consider the Elemental Resonance and the Elemental Reactions of your party. You can use Albedo as a Sub-DPS in most situations, but he shines if you have a Main-DPS Ningguang build. Other slots can be filled with a healer and support character based on the enem

Genshin Impact’s Fischl, the self-proclaimed Prinzessin der Verurteilung, is surprisingly effective despite being a auto-add 4-Star artifacts character. Past her obsession with fantasy and her tendency to over-formalize her speech, she synergizes well with teammates and is a great catalyst for elemental reactions. She is a good DPS but an even better sub DPS, allowing her to deal consistent damage without even being on the field by using her raven, Oz. Her unique talents give her the potential to be an irreplaceable member of any team lin

While there have been plenty of excellent releases this year, it’s still Persona 5: Royal that I’m most thankful for. The changes and additions it made to an already-awesome game all felt natural, as if they were meant to be there all along. Getting to know Kasumi and Maruki was just as interesting as developing friendships with the other characters. The combat was wonderfully spiced-up and the extra endings let me play out a couple of “what-if” scenarios that’d been bouncing around in my head ever since I finished the original in 2017. It also helped that this came during a big move for me, so it was nice to have a good mix of old and new to help take my mind off it and ease the transition. There may be better games out there, but Persona 5: Royal is hands-down my highlight of 2020 thus far.

My normal taste in games leans towards arcade and action, but this year has been one where the extra focus to hone in on pinpoint-perfect reflexes just hasn’t been as available as I’d like. Instead I’ve been taking it easy, using gaming as a way to relax and escape into a more manageable world. The game that I’m thankful for this year is SnowRunner, which doesn’t have an enemy anywhere in the whole world but instead requires the player to use its tools to complete a huge series of jobs across hostile terrain. While sorting out the controls takes some effort, once learned there are a huge amount of tools available to tackle even the roughest wilderness. Mountain tracks carved by streams, muddy bogs, rivers frozen solid and snowdrifts that even the highest-traction tires can’t get a grip on all stand in the way of delivering Cargo to Place. You can tackle the challenges with brute force, careful plotting of the optimal route or relying on the winch to basically drag the truck to the goal, but there’s always a way if you’re patient enough. Few events are timed and just about everything is optional if you decide that a particular job feels like a bit much. There’s pressure in navigating the tougher areas, of course, but otherwise SnowRunner is a game of choosing a task and tackling it however you like, driving across the beauty of a wilderness that’s just barely been touched by humans. It’s challenging, sure, but also relaxing and satisfying, and I’m thankful there are games that let me unwind into a simpler, more-focused world.

With limited resources, you should prioritize Albedo’s Elemental Skill (Abiogenesis: Solar Isotoma) and level it up first. It has the lowest cooldown of four seconds and does consistent Geo damage. It is also considered a Geo construct and resonates with other Geo constructs like Zhongli’s Pillar and Ningguang’s shi

Once you have won, you will need to head to Seirei Island and then back to the shrine to finish the story of the island. Report back to Sumida one final time to get your reward and the achievement for completing the quest al

After that, you can focus on leveling up his Elemental Burst, Rite Of Progeniture: Tectonic Tide . His Elemental Burst does AoE Geo damage to the enemies in front of him. If you have his Solar Isotoma on the field, it will also boost Elemental Burst damage. So you should use his Elemental Skill before using his Elemental Bur

Any game that’s branded as a “free-to-play” title is almost immediately going to get inundated with any number of negative connotations and accusations alike. Long-winded, grind-inducing, predatory, a matter of luck over skill on the kind of content you’re granted outside of some voluntary, monetary investment. It may sound dismissive and pessimistic, but the number of such games whose priorities with maintaining a steady revenue stream doesn’t get in the way of the base game offered are few and far between. Enter Genshin Impact, developer miHoYo’s far from first rodeo on the F2P frontier — itself thrown many a condescending remark on being a clone of this or imitation of that. The similarities are there to see of course and while admittedly a touch obvious in parts, what I’m most thankful for with Genshin Impact is the genuine effort and design miHoYo have placed in crafting an enjoyable action RPG to start. A live service, continually-expanding release this may be, Genshin Impact’s starting world, its gameplay, its sheer breadth of exploration put many similar open-world efforts, let alone F2P attempts, to shame. To state with hand on heart I’ve now clocked near to 40 hours and still not spent a single penny — occasionally tempting it may be — I’m grateful that Genshin Impact has taken a more sensible approach to F2P games: satisfying base game first, additional monetization second as an option.