it might be a skill issue. I came back to the game around a month ago and I’ve been facing difficulties. I’m f2p and these are my characters (yes a lot of older powercreeped units, I play since 1.0)

In your opinion, what 5* or 4* are "must pulls" in terms of value? Think about your answer for a bit before commenting; even if Nefer is a great DPS, she heavily relies on Lauma and Columbina to do most of her damage.

I was wondering about this the other day. Funnily enough, I pulled Furina because I always saw her in dchwsp's showcase videos -- I don't regret it at all, but as I was getting ready to pull for Citali for the same reason, I had to stop and do some more research to see a lot of her value was locked behind her weapon and constellations (of which they had c6r5, obviously). I decided to just save for Durin and Nicole after that (also because I had already c6'ed all the 4* eheh).

I'm not really a meta player in that I would never pull a character just for their value; I like Furina a lot, I enjoy Barbara's playstyle, and Durin is super cute. However, I think it would be interesting to see what characters the community values the most, especially since I'm mentally still living in the Sumeru meta with Alhaitham and the newly buffed Cyno.

If you have extra time, rank who you think the rough top 5 characters are -- not just in terms of DPS. I personally refer to game8's tierlist a lot, comparing Main DPS versus Sub DPS versus support value. Still, I would argue Nahida (game8's S-Tier) is better than Nefer (game8's SS-Tier) because of her versatility and value that isn't necessarily locked behind a BiS team.

I quit the game a while ago and left almost all of my characters with barely any builds. Would it be better to start from scratch?

I’ve already explored a lot of the map, and I think from Fontaine onward I still have plenty of resources left to collect. What do you think?

I also have Arlecchino with her signature weapon.