@@ilikeithere4268 there's not much about it other than inazuma has alot and I mean ALOT of thunder, which can cause you to fall off cliffs if the thunder hits the edge when you are still climbing, going afk leaves you vulnerable to thunder because you can't dodge it, and just obscuring your view and being loud.
i killed literally 2 hilichurls, got a precious chest, then went to kill a thunderhelm lawachurl and got a common chest. this is why i explore in liyue and mondstadt
A dude joined me one time and he wanted to help with that cube puzzle but he's lazy to think so he just put Zhongli's pillars and let it do the work lmao
Liyue: stop halfway "what a beautiful view, the mountains, the blu sky, the valley. What a nice and relaxing environment" Inazuma: THAT TREE IS SHOOTING US
mondstadt and liyue: oh you picked 4 carrot in order here you go a luxurious chest inazuma: you solved 10 layer puzzle and killed 4 machines with dozens of deadly samurais.... oh nice NOW KILL HUNDRED MORE
Now I just remembered Sumeru is the wisdom, knowledge type of nation. Imagine the puzzles... I have to pull out the youtube tutorials more often than I did in Inazuma.
Inazuma puzzles were more often then not complete bs. Like, a puzzle gives you clues. Either you had prior experience or the necessary wisdom instructed upon you in order to solve said puzzle. But some inazuma puzzles were just braindead
Thank god sumeru is fun to explore and the puzzles are actually fun to play. Inazuma enemies are still giving me PTSDs. Yes you can beat them but their damage is fuckin unbearable. Also the dogs is gotta be the worst enemy in this game.
IKR??!! The point I set foot on inazuma I already wanted to go back to liyue, like the common chests really were testing my patience, but yeah I had to farm them either way TT
This felt like a spike in difficulty compared to the other two maps. You know, Now I sort of realized why liyue's missions lasted for so long and why most of us tend to be AR 35 before we make it to inazuma. The island is pure hell without background combat experience and puzzle skills.
Inazuma is definitely harder, with fog island being even harder, and Enkanomiya being harder still. I hope Sumeru doesn't continue the trend, simply because I would rather see the game move outwards, not updwards... but level 90 is an odd level to leave maxed characters at, so it wouldn't surprise me to see level 100 added later. Ascension cost? Probably double what ascending past 80 costs. x.x
@@2-dsynctium773 this is why I prefer games that come out in a single release. They don’t have as many chances to fuck up the story in favor of capital.
I actually enjoyed doing the puzzles. Unlike with Liyue buttons that you had to place geo structures on which mostly meant switching a party member to the traveler, then changing to the geo form if you had them on something else, then going back and then finally pressing ONE button. In Inazuma you see cube, you punch cube, you happy. Unless it's on Watatsumi and you have to find a way to climb up. The way the islands are divided also allows for easy 100% clears, did Seirai in one sitting and got 100%
IKR, when I just strolling around in Liyue in low AR, I saw like Ruin Guards and Ruin Hunter and I'm scared to death. In Inazuma or precisely Enkanomiya, they are _everywhere_ .
@@aethernity8270 that's a flex actually. As a person that values their sanity I only completed the quests and maxed the tree. Exploration 74%. Not going there ever again! (that In The Mountains quest that I tried to do at ar 17 still haunts me till this very day)
The two things I agree with entirely are that Sign and the boat running into sandbars EVERYWHERE. All the rest of the issues eventually are so benign or are character play specific that you learn to work around them or solve the environmental issues causing trouble. I hate the sign issues in Inazuma though. The one near the cooking pot, the NPC too close along with sign at smith, the NPC too close to crafting spot, so on and so forth.
The electroranum one is so true. That's the whole reason why mondstadt and liyue statues of seven are at lvl 10 and inazuma, lvl 6.i really hate this system not because we need to upgrade it, but because it's a pain to explore every where and find sigils. But even after like 100℅ exploration, the shop in inazuma still needs electro sigils to buy stuff, that's like literal pain.
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When you’re talking to someone in a mission and a lightning throws you to the abyss killing you, and you have to read all the dialog again.
@@tonykowalski4189 absolutely a fucking pain in the ass to pull for Inazuma units that require handguards, mfs barely drop shit and they have more damn HP than a flower regisvine and that's not everything, with their charged attack they can even one shot you if your HP is around half, insane
@@doomslayer8985 Luckily I got Ayato and Ayaka by pure luck though, so they just standing there frozen while they're being drilled by Ayaka's burst and slashed my Ayato's skill
i had this one friend who is Ar 17 and she said," Inazuma is gonna be so easyyyy, it's just enemys that are a bit more powerful! It doesn't matter!" And I was like, "Bitch NO."
I haven't experience the pain yet but I am probably not gonna ascend my world level until I finish the archon quest, level up my characters into level 70 and explore liyue(I hadn't explore liyue that much, I just collect acension/talent materials, tried to defeat liyue bosses, unlock waypoints and domain)
I once met a super mecha friend who liked challenges and somehow explored the entire inazuma (completionist-style) within two weeks. Now this friend is bored b/c sumeru and liyue leftovers are easy and attempts to get me to explore inazuma with my flimsy no-shield no-heal team everytime we're online at the same time Bro, I'm here for the scenery (and my waifus)
on an island with lots of lightning, I forgot the name, I can't even talk to an npc for just a second. It feels dizzy and nauseous with the sound of lightning
I dont know why mihoyo has to make the new map so complicated though. Like few of my friends with ar 55 and 60 just sold out their accounts bcs they are so annoyed with just that 😂
SAME. I literally everywhere you turn in inazuma is some type of puzzle that the majority of the time only gives you a common chest. I don't mind puzzles every now and then but putting like 8 different puzzles or complicated stuff in 1 section of an island in inazuma is way to much. It's not even fun exploring like liyue and sumeru were
i think this is the most inazuma pain when u are doin the task u talk to somebody the thunder just shoooot on u then the thunder shooooooooot u again when u finish the conversation u died
Pov: you want Ayaka but you remembered that you Have "accidentally" pulled Raiden and you know you dont have enough hanguards and mora (I wanted to try get Kokomi in 2.5 when I was still in liyue but she did not come home so I pulled on Raiden and I got her-)
I've already unlock inazuma for quite a while now but still inazuma is hard af, wtf did mihoyo even do that and the fact that I dont like going to inazuma was because my characters levels are just average
I hate the fact that you mostly get common chests for fighting annoying enemies, but makes sense since you need sigils for sakura so you gotta work for em.
Freakin' inazuma and its motherload layers of caves and underground pathways.. also the goddamn electro particles collecting challenges where u have to use the electrogranum .. UGHHHHHH so stressful istg
Inazuma is a whole ass pain. Land of Eternity more Land of Pain. I regret going there especially when I was a criminal against the Tenryou Commission and the Shogun
Inazuma logic in a nutshell:
If you kill 3 hillichurl you will get a precious / luxurious chest
If you kill 3 kairagis you will get a common chest
if u kill a thunderhelm lawachurl and a electro abyss mage you will get a common chest
@@adeptusganyu8449 or an artifact
@@adeptusganyu8449 might*
@@adeptusganyu8449 You will most likely get nothing
I guess they're saying 'its not worth it(literally)' or 'youre not that guy pal'
AR 15 mondstadt : i like Thunder its cool! . AR 35-56 : I hate Thunder
Can you give me heads up about the thunder? I'm ar 25 as of now. Does the thunders hit you more often or it just targets you and you can't avoid it?
There a little blue spot where thunder will hit you can avoid it
@@ilikeithere4268 sometimes if you afk its will kills your characters and its anoyying
@@ilikeithere4268 there's not much about it other than inazuma has alot and I mean ALOT of thunder, which can cause you to fall off cliffs if the thunder hits the edge when you are still climbing, going afk leaves you vulnerable to thunder because you can't dodge it, and just obscuring your view and being loud.
It's definitely true. Now I hate thunder 🤣
i killed literally 2 hilichurls, got a precious chest, then went to kill a thunderhelm lawachurl and got a common chest. this is why i explore in liyue and mondstadt
THIS IS SO TRUE, I FAUGHT A RUIN HUNTER FOR A COMMON CHEST AND 3 HILLICHURLS FOR A PRECIOUS CHEST
I fought one samurai for a luxurious chest and then 5 big boy samurai with syncronized elemental moves for a common chest.
inazuma is so clapped
@Misty-Chan in inazuma you get better chests from fighting lower leveled enemies lul
@@zuck_aep ikr
Ar 16: I wanna go to inazuma!
Ar 55: .
AR 20ish: ugh I want inazuma!
AR 35: no you don't
So true
Why?
@@sanaiverfi inazuma is rushed so it makes me depressed there
Any ar above 30: please… don’t make me go
i swear tsurumi island is testing my patients
Monstadt/Liyue/Inazuma/Watatsumi Island & Tsurumi Island All 100% Completed Buddy Haha 😂🤣👊
Are you a doctor?
@@zerothefaceless4888 I think they are
I stopped visiting the island long ago, it just feels so dead plus the ikea chests are annoying like we cant even get sigils
@@xingqiusthighsmhmmm2175 have you finished the boatman's quests? You can get so many good chests.
Everybody: *can't wait for Inazuma*
Inazuma: are you sure about that
Me:Not wanting to even go there and liyue just to deliver a letter
I just got here and I hate it
*Here's a fun fact*
*I'm surviving inazuma with no 5 stars*
@@c3cilia_ same
Well…Each chest there does give 2 primogems
If that’s not a blessing from mihoyo idk what is
A dude joined me one time and he wanted to help with that cube puzzle but he's lazy to think so he just put Zhongli's pillars and let it do the work lmao
Modern problems require modern solutions
That's not lazy. It's simply just efficient lol
We always solve them randomly anyways even if we don't care to admit it. We just hit them until they work.
A guy of work smart not hard join your world
that’s exactly what i do for every puzzle, pull out fischl, kokomi,mona and zhong and let them do all the work lol
Liyue: stop halfway "what a beautiful view, the mountains, the blu sky, the valley. What a nice and relaxing environment"
Inazuma: THAT TREE IS SHOOTING US
THAT'S WHAT HAPPENED WHEN I TRIED TO GET NAKU WEED
Why is this so funny and relatable LOL
mondstadt and liyue: oh you picked 4 carrot in order here you go a luxurious chest
inazuma: you solved 10 layer puzzle and killed 4 machines with dozens of deadly samurais.... oh nice NOW KILL HUNDRED MORE
For a common chest lul
everything for eternity !
Just for a stupid common chest
Mondstadt & Liyue: you picked symmetrical flowers in the wild, you got a chest
Inazuma: spawn whoopflower
@@09Galvin Wait flowers?
The most annoying thing is that you can't pass the barrier because your electrogranum level is low, even if it was upgraded minutes ago 💀
Now i realize that they closed that off because it's part of the Shogun's story quest
@@adec.881 not really you can open it just upgrading the tree
@@eg-draw tree of sakura on yae lair
That pisses me off lol like GIVE ME MY DAMN REWARD and I need to level it up to like 12 or something 🤦🏻♀️
@@eg-draw in some places even if i upgraded my tree, the barrier still didn't let me pass
you forgot to add that they give a common chest for a f’ in ruin hunter and ruin grader, one time even a thunder manifestation
there was also a time trial in tsurumi island that gives out a common chest...
Now I just remembered Sumeru is the wisdom, knowledge type of nation. Imagine the puzzles...
I have to pull out the youtube tutorials more often than I did in Inazuma.
me waiting 3 days for youtube tutorial since it was newly released
@@hirumaiya yeah when you're on asia server and the youtuber u watch from tutorial havent upload yet cuz theyre in america server
Inazuma puzzles were more often then not complete bs. Like, a puzzle gives you clues. Either you had prior experience or the necessary wisdom instructed upon you in order to solve said puzzle.
But some inazuma puzzles were just braindead
they better not
Thank god sumeru is fun to explore and the puzzles are actually fun to play. Inazuma enemies are still giving me PTSDs. Yes you can beat them but their damage is fuckin unbearable. Also the dogs is gotta be the worst enemy in this game.
Me be like after see i nazuma.
Why is just coomonn chest for a big enemies ???
Because agony. :’)
How about when we can go to Sumeru? Hardass puzzle for just some Mora??!
They're probably broke after the decree came in. So even common chest is a luxury lol. But at lest they give 2 primos and a sigil
Buuttt its sometime hard when fight whit thunder >:(
IKR??!! The point I set foot on inazuma I already wanted to go back to liyue, like the common chests really were testing my patience, but yeah I had to farm them either way TT
This felt like a spike in difficulty compared to the other two maps. You know, Now I sort of realized why liyue's missions lasted for so long and why most of us tend to be AR 35 before we make it to inazuma. The island is pure hell without background combat experience and puzzle skills.
Inazuma is definitely harder, with fog island being even harder, and Enkanomiya being harder still. I hope Sumeru doesn't continue the trend, simply because I would rather see the game move outwards, not updwards... but level 90 is an odd level to leave maxed characters at, so it wouldn't surprise me to see level 100 added later. Ascension cost? Probably double what ascending past 80 costs. x.x
@@2-dsynctium773 this is why I prefer games that come out in a single release. They don’t have as many chances to fuck up the story in favor of capital.
As Long As You Have Xiao Or Hu Tao Everything Is Fine
Wrong
@@callmelily161 Average F2P Player
@@Gol.D.Kaiju. im am a f2p person
@@callmelily161 Exactly
@@callmelily161 Exactly
I take back everything I said about Dragonspine.
i just got to inazuma, and it's terrifying. literally what do they expect my builds to be? good? pfft, you wish
Considering this is what inazuma has to offer. I can imagine what sumeru's problems have to offer 🤗💙🤡🌻💚💚
i love how some of this is just normal painful stuff that can happen anywhere but bc its in inazuma its the worst thing ever
Then there's the times when u have a limit to kill a big enemy, but as soon as its almost dead, time runs out 😤🦵🦵🦵🦵🙏
That happened to me, it was like one hit from death but time ran outt
@Sn Js Same
the emojis killed me 💀
Dragonspine Entombed Frozen City challenge
masanori has a time limit and the mf regenerates his whole health before you get to kill him
the words "black" and "tassel" put together now manage to make me want to give up on life and become a monk
I actually enjoyed doing the puzzles. Unlike with Liyue buttons that you had to place geo structures on which mostly meant switching a party member to the traveler, then changing to the geo form if you had them on something else, then going back and then finally pressing ONE button. In Inazuma you see cube, you punch cube, you happy. Unless it's on Watatsumi and you have to find a way to climb up. The way the islands are divided also allows for easy 100% clears, did Seirai in one sitting and got 100%
LAWD THE MOBS IN INAZUMA ARE A MILLION TIMES MORE RIDICULOUSLY HARD THAN THOSE IN MONDSTADT AND LIYUE COMBINED AND FOR WHAT😭😭
balethunder is the bane of my existence
That advertisement board is even more painful than the sign that I always press when I try to talk to Chef Mao
as much as inazuma was tedious, i will miss it with all my heart
1:11 is the most greatest pain ive ever feel in almost every domain
Can someone mourn with me?🥺
oh god yes, the buffering is so annoying. I relate so much to that
And back in the day I thought liyue was the most dangerous 😅 but once I ventured in inazuma for the first time I can tell you that thought is gone lol
Liyue is perfect. I do the comitions there, I stay there all the time, it's like my home
IKR, when I just strolling around in Liyue in low AR, I saw like Ruin Guards and Ruin Hunter and I'm scared to death.
In Inazuma or precisely Enkanomiya, they are _everywhere_ .
Ayaka’s burst missing the target hit way too hard-
my biggest flex is that I have every single Island in Inazuma on 100% exploration progress
edit: I've maxed out the whole map not just Inazuma ;-;
I am ar 27 and i only have most exploration in dragonspine 97
Same, I have maxed out the exploration rate for everywhere, I need more updates😔
@@aethernity8270 that's a flex actually. As a person that values their sanity I only completed the quests and maxed the tree. Exploration 74%. Not going there ever again!
(that In The Mountains quest that I tried to do at ar 17 still haunts me till this very day)
@@hanawithouth omg same, it was really traumatising
@@hanawithouth i think its better to explore dragonspine than inazuma since dragonspine brings generous rewards than inazuma
After one year and two three months into sumeru, I maxed out the sakura tree and sacrificed my soul and now inazuma feels like home 💜
The two things I agree with entirely are that Sign and the boat running into sandbars EVERYWHERE. All the rest of the issues eventually are so benign or are character play specific that you learn to work around them or solve the environmental issues causing trouble. I hate the sign issues in Inazuma though. The one near the cooking pot, the NPC too close along with sign at smith, the NPC too close to crafting spot, so on and so forth.
Fr.. I cant even cook in piece
my biggest pain in inazuma is still that one cutscene where ayaka steps inside a brook with her socks on
The electroranum one is so true. That's the whole reason why mondstadt and liyue statues of seven are at lvl 10 and inazuma, lvl 6.i really hate this system not because we need to upgrade it, but because it's a pain to explore every where and find sigils. But even after like 100℅ exploration, the shop in inazuma still needs electro sigils to buy stuff, that's like literal pain.
When you’re talking to someone in a mission and a lightning throws you to the abyss killing you, and you have to read all the dialog again.
The handguards pain is too relatable as a Ayaka main
Imagine having Ayaka, Ayato, and Raiden with pure luck
@@tonykowalski4189 absolutely a fucking pain in the ass to pull for Inazuma units that require handguards, mfs barely drop shit and they have more damn HP than a flower regisvine and that's not everything, with their charged attack they can even one shot you if your HP is around half, insane
@@doomslayer8985 Luckily I got Ayato and Ayaka by pure luck though, so they just standing there frozen while they're being drilled by Ayaka's burst and slashed my Ayato's skill
i had this one friend who is Ar 17 and she said," Inazuma is gonna be so easyyyy, it's just enemys that are a bit more powerful! It doesn't matter!"
And I was like, "Bitch NO."
As someone who spends time in Inazuma, I can really confirm this
1:22 the chest always gets me 🥲
Before Inzauma: I can't wait to go to Inazuma
During Inazuma: I can't wait to get out of Inazuma
After Inazuma: I'M FREE! FINALLY FREE!
Can't believe I beat Inazuma with Barbara and Qiqi on the same team, I didn't know it was THAT hard
I hope Sumeru is easier…
I bet it will only get harder
puzzles are going to be so hard in Sumeru 😭😭😭
The harder the better for me tbh. I like games that test my limits.
Watch them put that heat stroke effect in La Signora's fight to Sumeru, if not Sumeru than probably Natlan
sumeru is land of knowledge definitely it gonna crack our brain
0:18
Everyone: Pain.
Me: *hides NRE* yes... Pain.
I haven't experience the pain yet but I am probably not gonna ascend my world level until I finish the archon quest, level up my characters into level 70 and explore liyue(I hadn't explore liyue that much, I just collect acension/talent materials, tried to defeat liyue bosses, unlock waypoints and domain)
But the higher the world rank, the higher the rewards. It's deff a struggle to survive in inazuma but you'll beat it eventually
🤷♀️I always wonder how I got 100% on every island when each of them makes me cry
This video gives me so much comfort lmao atleast i know I'm not alone in suffering
LMAOO SAMEE
I once met a super mecha friend who liked challenges and somehow explored the entire inazuma (completionist-style) within two weeks. Now this friend is bored b/c sumeru and liyue leftovers are easy and attempts to get me to explore inazuma with my flimsy no-shield no-heal team everytime we're online at the same time
Bro, I'm here for the scenery (and my waifus)
Me watching this while my inazuma exploration is 100%
.Why. Thats why i put my commissions to monstadt lol
Wait you can actually do that? Pls tell me how
@@Satella_witch_of_dreams Go to the adventurer's book then daily commission. you'll see at the top, where you want to set your commissions
The only reason I set mine to Liyue is because I have everywhere unlocked, but not any waypoints-
@@sayaka.98 shes right
i am now kind of scared to go there
on an island with lots of lightning, I forgot the name, I can't even talk to an npc for just a second. It feels dizzy and nauseous with the sound of lightning
I wish for every new player the inazuma experiece. This video made me chuckle in memories of horror
Sumeru can change mind 💀💀
NOOOOOO NOT THE ADVERTISEMENT BOARD!! IT'S SUCH A PAIN SINCE IT'S SO LONG AND YOU CAN'T SAY LEAVE
The part where you finally charged up the ult and dished it out but the monster freaking teleported 30meter away and ult is wasted 💩
0:02 Those Shimura banner, annoy me a lot than fighting 3 abyss mage in bloodstain arte domain.
From that, I always avoiding to cook there
I dont know why mihoyo has to make the new map so complicated though. Like few of my friends with ar 55 and 60 just sold out their accounts bcs they are so annoyed with just that 😂
Thats why i stayed with ar 45 for months till now.. Lv 56 ruin guards fighting lv 80 raiden.. Dang so satisfying
Ar19: I heard Inazuma's pretty!
Ar35: Why are my characters dead😡
As long as u have Dehya for exploration then everything is fine.
inazuma is the bane of my existence. i just want max rep so my shogun gets cool wings. but even second there. is suffering
SAME. I literally everywhere you turn in inazuma is some type of puzzle that the majority of the time only gives you a common chest. I don't mind puzzles every now and then but putting like 8 different puzzles or complicated stuff in 1 section of an island in inazuma is way to much.
It's not even fun exploring like liyue and sumeru were
Inazuma is hell, change my mind
Rip,, I haven’t made it inazuma yet LOL thank you for sharing what I have to expect… pain and misery
Me who have zhongli : 👁👄👁✌
i think this is the most inazuma pain
when u are doin the task
u talk to somebody
the thunder just shoooot on u
then the thunder shooooooooot u again
when u finish the conversation
u died
This bring me back… how do you call it? …Nostalgia
1:49 is the most pain for everyone
So true. I was like starting dragonspine the first time
Those dog things on tutsurumi island or whatever are gonna be the end of me one of these days
Can't wait for a Sumeru version of this
This time in this video is for the worst: interacting the signboard and getting dead in electro or getting this Server loading when in combat
Oh a chest what am I gonna get?
Hoyo: a cabbage 🥬
In the end we can see the pain and suffering Ayaka's been through in her eyes 👀
Pov: you want Ayaka but you remembered that you Have "accidentally" pulled Raiden and you know you dont have enough hanguards and mora
(I wanted to try get Kokomi in 2.5 when I was still in liyue but she did not come home so I pulled on Raiden and I got her-)
This is so nostalgic to watch after i finished the whole inazuma exploration.
That zoom on Ayaka at the end... I guess she has 200 years design after all XD
I've already unlock inazuma for quite a while now but still inazuma is hard af, wtf did mihoyo even do that
and the fact that I dont like going to inazuma was because my characters levels are just average
Im always trying to get quests on EVERY MAP but Inazuma, dude that place its like a purple hell
You think the first one is a mistake? *No* Venti just really wants to drink
I hate the fact that you mostly get common chests for fighting annoying enemies, but makes sense since you need sigils for sakura so you gotta work for em.
2 minutes and 14 seconds watching all your pain on inazuma wow i’m impressed
Freakin' inazuma and its motherload layers of caves and underground pathways.. also the goddamn electro particles collecting challenges where u have to use the electrogranum .. UGHHHHHH so stressful istg
Hate it when I try to cook and I read that notice. Now I Always keep a distance than cook
Perfect summary.
Inazuma is a whole ass pain.
Land of Eternity more Land of Pain.
I regret going there especially when I was a criminal against the Tenryou Commission and the Shogun
Inazuma: killed a ruin guard to get a common chest, oh wait, the common chest is inside the barrier
😵💫
I'm upgrading my cherry blossom tree to Lv. 40 to get the Inazuma themed teapot. I'm at 12. Wish me luck
Edit: after a day I'm at level 21
I actually refuse to explore inazuma but I need primos
That challenge at 0:40 needs to boat...
The puzzles are pretty easy once you figure them out. And once you complete Tatara Tales, the only Balethunder area is Musoujin Gorge.
The fact there is a puzzle on an quest just makes me go dizzy
If you think Inazuma is stressful enough, Imagine what would Sumeru be like.
Is Sumeru an also island nation like Inazuma or in continential area like Liyue and Mondstat?
@@mr.rubycarnation8325 Continental
i can't believe how easy sumeru is in comparison to inazuma omg at least i have time to catch my breath
the only good thing is common chest gives 2 primo instead of 0
I was so excited when I got to Inazuma but then suddenly I was a fucking criminal and couldn’t even leave ritou or whatever it was such a pain
this is inazuma...
wait until you get to sumeru 🤣
and to think i've speedrunned all islands twice..
to %100.
that's why i have no sanity left tbh
then 4 months later that cave became a location for the raiden shogun boss
When your venti but it says drinks *gimmie gimmie*
These are not pain. These are what made Inazuma more fun..
Yeah basically all that is is PAIN and don’t even get me started on the quest we have to do to get there ;-;
this is what happens when you put too many samurai, then give them shitty drops to balance it out.