CN pulling opinions (for meta)
If you pull for who you like, this doesn't apply to you so don't get triggered. Also not my personal opinions these are other people's takes.
Quick summary of common consensus on hardcore CN forum Tieba (mainly whales and 0 cyclers)
-Skip 3.0 as long as you can clear content or need robin eidolons. Early version characters are jade traps designed to give the wave of new players a taste of power, but brick their account long term so they are forced to pull for better characters later or eidolons.
-The major push of the patch will come in 3.2+, because of how hard the developers are marketing castorice and how their dev team has favoritism towards the honkai impact characters (phanion). Very high chance that these characters are broken. Worst case scenario they will be equal in strength to the 3.0 characters but if powercreep reflects the pattern in 2.x they will nuke the meta and herta/aglaea will be out of meta by 3.4, like black swan.
-Absolutely riskless to simply wait for the shilled characters who will have likely stronger kits and catered content while allowing powercreep run its course. These current units are only for people who waifu them.
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