Genshin's NEW ENDGAME makes players MAD!

Genshin Impact has a PROBLEM with its new ENDGAME Mode, the "Imaginarium Theater" and the community is MAD about it!
So in this video, I will go over what has happened, why this is a problem in the first place and also what you can do for your personal account to adapt to the new META.

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[GIBlacky]

What do you say? Imaginarium Theater "Yay" or "Nay"?

[Shunnamon]

Veterans hate it because its not hard enough, casuals hate it because it's too restrictive.

[Artwithpurpose]

So what I’m hearing is, they introduced a new end game that forces you to build multiple characters. And are doing absolutely nothing to increase loot rewards?

[Just_Games]

0:30 What is the actual problem of Imaginarium Theater is?
Me: "Party must contain 4 members"

[littlecatz]

My only issue is that they should've added more trial characters for the people who don't have enough characters 🤷‍♀

[StankHouse-wbfz]

If you want us to build more characters, provide the tools to do so. Remove some of the barriers and limitations of grinding. Give more resin and/or reduce resin cost for bosses, domains, and ley lines. There are so many characters now, the severe time gates and limitations are not as needed.

[thangnguyen]

For me, as a F2P player (for 3 months), is literally hell. This event is non-friendly for F2P players and needs many characters, exp, and materials.

If you run out of or don't have all these things, you are 100% unplayable.

In the next month, the elements change to other elements, If you don't have any characters (Geo, Dendro, Cryo, ...), you can't play any mode (Expect easy mode)

[althetutor]

I didn't have any expectations for it, and I was still disappointed. The issues I've identified thus far are:

1. The elemental restrictions force you to play teams that you're not used to with characters that aren't built for those types of teams, which results in an uncomfortable experience.
2. The vigor system is too limiting. I would've made it 2 vigor for 5-stars and 3 vigor for 4-stars.
3. The time restrictions for a lot of stages are unreasonable. Most stages felt like the 12th floor of the Abyss with how long enemies were taking to go down. You'd think they'd give some leniency to compensate for the awkward teams you can get railroaded into running.
4. Despite so many characters being available in the game at this point, they still don't have enough variety in roles to give you flexibility in team-building. For example, we still don't have any electro shielders aside from Beidou and her shield is locked behind her burst (and a constellation).
5. They expect me to shift around my artifacts, and I simply refuse to do that. The artifact menu has always been too much of a mess to deal with, and I, for one, am not changing my burgeon Thoma build to a shield build just to be stuck having to find his old set after the fact. They have the ability to save your characters' gear for your whole run of Imaginarium, even after you change it outside of there, but they somehow can't figure out how to let us save our loadouts? Not buying it.
6. Building a single character takes forever. Talent books alone take several weeks, and artifacts can take months depending on the build. And they expect you to have 6 characters per element (on average) built for this?!
7. Being forced to make a party of 4 each time can potentially lock you out of later stages if you don't unlock enough of your alternate characters.
8. They only let you borrow 1 character from friends, which I wouldn't have a problem with if they didn't sell it in the 4.7 livestream as "Don't worry! If you don't have enough characters built, you can borrow from friends!", acting like it would make such a huge difference when you can go through a whole run without ever seeing that character if RNG doesn't favor you. I think the limit should be increased to 3 total characters, one per friend.
9. Retries! I suppose you could retry over and over again until you clear, but I have better things to do with my time. The fact that there isn't a "quick retry" that allows you to skip the team-building screen if you want to re-use the same team can also be aggravating.
10. Stage effects! These were really unnecessary! Especially the one I encountered in stage 7 where your whole team starts losing HP until they're dead if you take too long.
11. The interface had me confused for a while. Like all of their tutorials, explaining things clearly is still an area of weakness for the devs.
12. A lot of the options for buffs seemed limited to a select few characters, which doesn't help much when they run out of vigor.

Overall, it's excessive. Between elemental restrictions, requiring a dozen characters to even start the run, forcing a party of 4, strict time limits, stage hazards, and enemies with inflated HP... Calm down, Hoyoverse! Pick 3 of these, not all of them at once!

As for me, I'm going to treat it like the Abyss. I'll do the stages that I can do comfortably and skip whatever looks like it'll take more than 30 minutes of my time. Between Imaginarium and the Abyss, you can get a maximum of 106.5 wishes over the course of a year, so if you're feeling the urge to pull more than one 5-star per year solely for this game mode (because you feel like you need them even though you don't like them), you'd actually be better off ignoring these and just doing events/dailies while playing the characters you actually like.

[EvanM-koym]

Every time a new event or something like this releases, i just think about how the environment models, art, etc. Have infinitely more effort put into them than the actual gameplay.

[dragonlordleda]

Very nice video.

Easily the worst part of Imaginarium Theater is the insane barrier of entry (the character amount requirement). I agree it feels worse because we’ve been conditioned to not need horizontal investment for so long & being held back by the resin system does not leave a good impression. It’s a shame cause the gameplay itself is kinda fun.

[Scultronic]

The real issue here is the resine, for the new end game content you will need to have many if not all you characters leveled up and build up but how are you gonna do it when you only have 200 resine with an almost 27 hours cooldown! (26 hours 37 minutes) and you need to invest in ascension materials, talents, weapons, accessories, tons of gold, etc. See? The real issue is the resine, too little to build up soo many characters.

[enutrofdude]

I logged in and gave it a try.
I thought, "This is like Spiral Abyss but with team restrictions and Paimon."
Then I logged back out.

[vladys]

my biggest issue now is that I am forced to use 18 characters, but I have only 13 total available.
Additionally, I have to use all 4 slots, which consequentially leads to having 18 characters at level 70

[Voyager]

My only problem with Imaginarium Theatre pretty much is that It's just another Spiral Abyss, It will get tedious and repetitive very quickly.

[guest_zzroman]

Letting us farm however much we want and having the resin only be there to speed up the process would get rid of this problem pretty much instantly.

[redrs]

They need a couple of events with 5 to 10 times the amount of rewards they usually give, I’m talking extra mora, hero wits and crystals so that we can at least have a chance to level up a couple of characters, even if we have to grind for all the ascension materials.

[noelvermillionshilling]

Genshin players: " the game is so easy i can't use all the characters that i have, there's no reason to pull and no incentive to build more characters lol i can nuke everything and have shieldz, release end game lol"

*easy end game is released*

Genshin players; "omg what's this?! why can't i beat everything with 2 characters? what sorta of psycho made this?! it sucks make it easy please i can't beat it!!!! abyss please come back"

[lambykin]

a big problem is that it replaces an entire abyss reset (so you get roughly the same rewards) so people who cannot complete it are losing out on quite alot of primo that they would’ve had. you need primos to pull characters- we already don’t get many. so now theyre taking a decent chunk away from players, leaving them with less than before. and you need more primos to pull for more characters so that you can actually do Imaginarium theater ☠️ they did not cook as usual

[The_Black_Swordmen.]

- Cant even attempt hard mode if you dont have 12-18 characters build level 70+ of specific elements
-you can only use a character 2 times
-you have to play full team (4 character)
-character you get in different stage are random, so no team building

This mode is just so bad it's beyond imagination

[MrMonklad]

well, as a WISHLESS player I can say I legitimately can't complete the hardest difficulty because I actually DONT have enough characters of the necessary elements this time around to even start it haha.