Originally uploaded to Bilibili.tv
Durin is a pickle. His story was totally screwed up by the new devs because they wanted to have this filler era of the game to delay Snezhnaya because after Snezhnaya ends we're supposed to enter a brand new chapter of this game. Khaenri'ah is meant to be incredibly untested waters. We barely know anything specific about the region, the people there used powers that don't fit with the game's combat system at all and it was ground zero for one of the game's most important historical events. So right now we were just supposed to get through this introductory stuff by traveling through all the modern regions, picking up hints about Khaenri'ah along the way. Durin's story was supposed to progress into this part of the story because he is also directly related to Khaenri'ah. He was created by the very Khaenri'ahn that caused that very important historical event. But they wrapped up his story early to throw us into this Nod-Krai extra arc that doesn't have anything to do with what we were playing through.
Anyway because of this, they even turned him from an individual character with his own motivations and development into something like a supporting character in order to provide buffs for the super old characters that were powercrept by newer characters. Chief among them is the other rare character on this banner, Venti. Venti is one of the 7 god characters and these guys were meant to be irreplaceable powerhouses. The others so far are still irreplaceable. For example the next god that released only a patch after Venti, Zhongli is still the game's best shield character and somebody I've been relying on to keep my team alive ever since I got him back then. (made even more valuable because of Lauma who completes the passive Hyperbloom team, the most damage dealing effect in the game but with splash damage) I've seen guides about Durin where it's pretty much all about how he really works on teams with these old characters. (you need to have 1 of these included characters on the team with Durin to trigger a major damage boost effect from Durin)
Also it was pointed out by a few people immediately but they didn't give this guy the ability to fly or something aerial despite the fact that he's got wings, is a dragon and could fly in both his previous forms. We got a girl in this game, in this current story in fact who is just a normal person but they randomly gave her the One-Winged Angel design and let her fly at a fixed altitude by holding down the attack button. Why do that but not allow the actual dragon with wings to fly? There's a youtuber called IWinToLose who pointed out that they could have just designed it so that when he's gliding he uses his wings instead of the standard wing glider accessory. In this way he's not even getting an additional ability to fly, just a design change to show off his unique dragon attribute. Why couldn't they have even done that?
Anyway then you have the other new character Jahoda and she's fine. She has the same skill attack as Lynette who shares her element. Her Burst attack heals. It's pretty standard stuff. Her major trait for me now though is that after doing the gacha and getting 2 Durins, I still couldn't get a single Jahoda. Durin is a rare character. Jahoda isn't yet that's not what the video makes it look like.
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