I wished for Rosaria. I was half-satisfied, half-disappointed.

TL;DR summary: I got 0 Rosarias, 1 Diluc, 2 Barbaras, 4 Fischls, and 4 weapons. Yay, Diluc. Yay, C6 Fischl. RIP Rosaria.

I got a 3rd off-screen Barbara 'cause I forgot I could still buy Intertwined Fates for Masterless Stardust. (When I started wishing, I didn't have enough Stardust.)

Ah, the Tartaglia banner re-run. Man, they really like slapping these three free characters (Barbara on this one, Noelle on Venti, Xiangling on Hu Tao) on these enticing banners, don't they? As if the Wallet's Gravestone wasn't enough mind torture (especially on Tectone).

I think, early on in Genshin Impact's lifespan, there wasn't much rage on getting unwanted 4-stars and/or failing to get desired 4-stars. I ALMOST lost the opportunity to get Diona on Tartaglia's first run and I panicked, not gonna lie.

The unwanted item rage started a little when Zhongli was ongoing; people (including me) were getting Monas left and right. The rage got fueled when Albedo came out; some people wanted Bennett instead of Albedo. Of course, it reached its height after the Wolf's Gravestone/Staff of Homa banner came out; Hu Tao was a highly anticipated character and the Staff of Homa was proven to be extremely strong for Xiangling and Zhongli (not as much for Xiao who benefits the most from Primordial Jade Winged-Spear), yet most players seemed to be getting the Wolf's Gravestone, leading to the nicknames Wallet's Gravestone and Staff of Homeless.

After all, in theory, not counting failures to get featured characters/weapons, your chance of getting one of the featured 4-star characters is 33.3% and the chance for a specific featured 5-star is 50%...right? Yeah...let our many Barbaras and R5 Wallet's Gravestones speak for us.

Ritual

Of course, I brought my KFC utensils because of the Genshin Impact collaboration.

I brought my green jacket even though none of the featured characters were associated with the color green. I just think Tectone is cool. Also, my Author Avatar wears a green jacket so I might as well establish a persona like CaptainSparklez's green shorts and black shirt.

I didn't shower because I got lazy.

Throughout the video, I repeatedly said only positive (and exaggerated) things about Barbara to be ironic, considering that, when I was younger, in the Philippines, if Mom and I look for a bus, for example, all we see are taxis. The idea was, if I pretend to hate Rosaria and like Barbara. the game will give me the character I hate. (For Fischl, I said she was OK.)

But I made it clear before praising Barbara that my REAL goal was to get Rosaria just in case some people take my pro-Barbara statements seriously and get the wrong idea.

My team was Tartaglia, Barbara, Noelle, and Xiangling, with Barbara as the active character.

I chose Tartaglia because Hackoru did a video where he was wishing for Tartaglia on his first banner run which didn't have Barbara. Although it's obviously staged, he got 10 Barbaras. The current Tartaglia banner actually has Barbara.

Barbara was chosen for obvious reasons.

Noelle and Xiangling were chosen because they are the other free characters featured in the banners.

I chose Stormterror's Lair because of the depressing music.

The Church of Favonius is overrated because Rosaria also works there...kind of.

I wanted to use a magazine with a female celebrity, but I forgot we had one, so I assumed we didn't have any.

Our Reactions

I'm not yet good at commentary, so, not gonna lie, I used NachoPizza as filler, so I interviewed him a little like how Zach Aguilar (voice of Aether) does it with the other Genshin Impact voice actors.

I started with the question, "What do you think will be my first 4-star pull?"

He answered, "Favonius Warbow."

I was honestly surprised. In fact, later, I pulled 2 Favonius Codexes. Though he wasn't 100% accurate, he was satisfied with his prediction and I'm cool with it.

Not gonna lie, I obviously fake-smiled every time I got Barbara. Normally, if I get a character I want, I would fist-pump and shout, just like I did with Diluc and Venti.

I didn't expect to pull a whopping 4 Fischls in this session. Before wishing, I had a C4 Fischl, so 2 Fischls were wasted.

NachoPizza was extremely envious of my luck. Fischl is his waifu and, to be honest, I would've been happy to trade away my extra Fischls in exchange for consuming Primogems (like how trading Pokémon in Pokémon GO costs Stardust)...but nooo, we can't! His Fischl is stuck at a boring C0.

(I wonder what Nacho would think of me trading away 6 Fischls for his one Rosaria? I'm serious. C2 Fischl is fine with me. SHUT UP AND TAKE MY PRIMOGEMS!)

I don't know why I didn't feel so much emotion when I saw the 5-star on-screen at 70 pulls. Normally, I would be nervous, even though I wanted someone except for Tartaglia so that I'm guaranteed a Cocogoat on her re-run.

Maybe it's because, at the same time, I wanted a C1 Tartaglia. C0 requires heavy investment for F2P players to be able to end fights quickly without going on cooldown, especially in the Spiral Abyss.

Another funny thing is that I didn't even prepare my brain for a Mona which is my least desired 5-star character in the 5-star pool.

(How would I have felt after the summoning session if I got Jean instead of Diluc?)

Anyway, in our first few weeks of playing Genshin Impact, my old friends Aby and YoSquid got Venti and Diluc, respectively. Thankfully, I was never super envious of them, but I honestly feel bad for them for quitting the game despite their ridiculously good pulls.

Now I feel even worse for them because I have both of those characters.

Overall, it was bittersweet. I give it a 6/10.

Diluc is somewhere in the middle in terms of consistency with hitting 3 elements (Cryo, Dendro, and Geo) super effectively, though leaning more on the Klee side than the Xinyan side. I don't plan to seriously raise him for now just in case I get Rosaria who I had originally prepared for; plus, I'm just used to Xinyan.

C6 Fischl makes it much easier to spread and spam Electro simply by attacking with any character while Oz is deployed. The 2-second extension is always nice.

I actually predicted a C6 Barbara considering other YouTubers were getting Barbara the most often, but I ended with a C4 (C5 off-screen).

The worst part was I expected to get a C1 Rosaria and walk away with about 30 wishes remaining. I ended with no wishes or Rosaria.

Yeah, I've been irony'd. I thought Fischl would be the rarest of the 4-stars.

Unfortunately, that was the case for NachoPizza who got 0 Fischls.

NachoPizza's Summoning

Nacho confirmed to me that he doesn't do any rituals.

He wasted 40 wishes and got 2 weapons, 1 Barbara, and 1 Rosaria.

Thankfully, he didn't pull any 5-stars. We're both saving for the Cocogoat...kind of. He's planning to pull for Eula for now then the Cocogoat later.

There's this weird "luck aura" around NachoPizza where his friends get the characters he wants sooner than him.

Fischl was merely an OK for me, but I got 4 Fischls vs. 3 Barbaras.

His other friends also got Keqing sooner than him.

He told me this also happens to him in Pokémon GO.

Oddly, he also told me that one of his friends got Jean.

Do I have a mini luck aura or something?

Nacho has Qiqi who I like. I need someone who can help me hunt those Liyue specialties.

He's not even using Rosaria a lot--he's fully committed to the Cocogoat and Eula.

Aby and YoSquid, if you want a taste of my luck aura, just come back to Genshin Impact. lololol

Future Plans

Nope, I'm not giving up. Not while Tartaglia's re-run is ongoing. I'll keep pushing for Rosaria until I get her. After all, as a Pokéfan, I follow the rule of "gotta catch 'em all!"

I need to remind myself to do x10 wishes this time. This way, I will always know I'm getting at least 1 4-star and I can record my Rosaria reaction, even if the video will be less than a minute long.

I don't trust my luck on the Standard Wish, after all. I keep getting freakin' weapons.

We still have the Oceanid and Liben events, after all, so we have more opportunities to pull before Thanos snaps away Tartaglia for the 2nd time.

As for potentially pulling Tartaglia outside of pity...I don't think it'll happen. After all, as a Fire Emblem unit, my Luck growth rate is 37%...so it shouldn't be too bad, right? (This is about average in Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones.)

I want to make a "4 Horsemen of Difficult-to-Pull Stuff" meme with Bennett, Rosaria, and the Staff of Homeless, but I don't know what the 4th horseman would be. Maybe we should wait for another banner.

What we probably CAN make right now is a list of "4 Horsemen of 'I Don't Want to Pull You'" with Albedo, Barbara, Keqing, and the Wallet's Gravestone.

Just wait for a Rosaria re-run that doesn't have Barbara, Noelle, or Xiangling!

No thanks. I don't care if it's a pitfall; the sooner I get Rosaria, the better.

Edit, April 24, 2021: Nah, screw it. I give up. I used my last 10-pull for 1.4 on Tartaglia...and believe it or not, I got 1 Tartaglia, 1 Mona, and 1 Fischl. Seriously, my luck is getting weird.

At least I still have a 100% Cocogoat chance.

NachoPizza is convincing me to get Eula just because she's hot, but sorry, man. I already have Xinyan as a physical DPS and I've raised Kaeya as a Cryo DPS.