Why You Shouldn’t Pull Zhezhi’s Weapon
ZheZhi’s banner is live with the Wuthering Waves 1.2 update. And if you’ve decided to pull for Zhezhi’s banner, you shouldn’t go all in with pulling for her weapon.
Honestly, at level 90, the numbers are pretty crazy! It has a starting attack of 500 and a huge 72% boost to critical damage.
This weapon has a really special mix of stats that we haven’t seen before in Weathering Waves. It’s also a rectifier. But does this mean you should pull for her weapon?
Probably No.
I get it, you’ve probably got a bunch of questions after reading my take. Well, let me lay out some reasons why you might want to think twice about pulling for Zhezhi’s weapon. Here we go –
Is This Weapon Worth Pulling?
Some questions have clear answers, while others depend on the status of your account.
The value of a weapon, especially in a game like Weathering Waves, is tied to your roster of characters and their ability to share weapons in crucial endgame content.
One of the best strategies is to pull for weapons you can use with other characters on your account. Usually, DPS characters benefit the most from the increased base attack and critical stats of five-star weapons.
The Stats Breakdown
Our analysis of Zhezhi’s weapon Rime-Draped Sprouts begins with its raw stat profile:
- Base Attack: 500
- Critical Damage: 72%
This weapon has similar stats to the Yinlin’s weapon, with higher critical stats but a significantly lower base attack compared to other five-star weapons like Jinhsi.
Meaning characters using this weapon will have lower attack numbers vs those using other five-star weapons, in exchange for a big boost to critical stats.
Building around this weapon can be tough. Characters using this weapon will need a lot of crit rate in their Echoes and substats to make the critical damage effective.
If you plan on using this weapon on characters you’ve already built, you might need to rework your Echoes to make sure your crit rate is 70% or higher to benefit from this weapon.
Weapon Skill and Its Limitations
The base stats of a weapon aren’t the whole story. Often, a weapon’s skill can be a major factor in its impact, and Zhezhi’s weapon has one of the most unique skills we’ve seen:
- Weapon Skill: Increases attack by a certain percentage and adds a stacking bonus to basic attack damage for 6 seconds every time a resonance skill is used. If the wielder swaps off-field with three stacks, they consume those stacks to boost their off-field basic attacks for a long duration.
This weapon skill tells us a few things:
- This weapon is great for basic attackers.
- Zhezhi is the only one who can fully use this skill since no other character deals basic attack damage while off-field.
This makes a large part of Zhezhi’s weapon skill useless for other characters. If you’re planning to use this weapon for any rectifier user, even Verina or Baizhi, you won’t be able to make use of its off-field passive effect.
Alternatives and General Usability
When comparing Zhezhi’s weapon to five-star weapons of other 5-star characters like Yinlin’s Signature String Master, which provides general attack buffs and is easier to build around, Zhezhi’s weapon doesn’t measure up.
Yinlin’s weapon offers a 12% all-attribute damage boost and a general attack buff just by dealing resonance skill damage, with no conditions for its off-field damage boost.
Given this, if you already have Yinlin’s Signature String Master, Zhezhi’s weapon might not be as valuable as you think. String Master is generally better than Zhezhi’s weapon for most characters.
Conclusion
In conclusion, the potential value of Zhezhi’s signature weapon is quite limited:
- If you don’t have String Master but want to build Zhezhi or Encore, this weapon could be a decent pick, but keep in mind that Yinlin’s weapon will rerun one day.
- If you have String Master, hold off on pulling Zhezhi’s weapon.
- If you like Zhezhi and are not concerned about resource efficiency, go ahead and pull her weapon.
Hopefully, I was able to convince you not to pull for Zhezhi’s weapon. Moreover, if you play Genshin Impact you should check the rewards Hoyo is offering on their 4th anniversary.