I actually did end up doing some of the event "last minute", waaaaaay too much dialogue. I was farming on one screen while mashing on Genshin on the other. It was BAD. It was legit like 40 minutes of one cutscene on part 3.
I did all this crap for a Layla con, because I'm a simp. The extra primos are nice too.
The map itself was actually decent, nothing new or exciting, but decent. I would say it was better than archipelago 2, but worse than archipelago 1.
Tomorrow we're getting the usual half a day maintenance, so make any last minute rolls/farm before that...I mean, I still barely use my stamina, but that's besides the point!
I specially love Focalor, but, swimming isn't enough of a novelty to keep players happy, they need to improve in the game mechanics or fights too.
Tower of Fantasy, a Genshin clone, dropped Fontaine like half a year ago with swimming and everything ToF is still way grindier and more boring tho. The novelty isn't new, Genshin needs huge QoL updates like at least some of the crap HSR has, because we're never getting free substats rerolls like in HI3.
I would ignore "leaks", as usual. Buuut we have seen archons drop at around *.1 and *.2 so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯