Genshin Impact players call for Paimon’s Bargains changes amidst 4-star banner woes

Genshin Impact players want HoYoverse to adjust Paimon’s Bargains 4-star character rotation, to help alleviate “frustrating” unlock issues. 

While Genshin Impact banners enable players to spend their Primogems to get a chance to unlock 5-star characters like Raiden Shogun, they also feature plenty of unique 4-stars. While these common characters aren’t as rare or as powerful as their 5-star counterparts, they are integral to certain team comps. 

The likes of Bennett, Xingqiu, and Xiangling have remained staple picks amongst the game’s meta, but unlocking Constellation buffs for 4-stars can prove incredibly difficult. This is especially true for 4-stars that don’t have special rate-ups on current banners or those not featured on Paimon’s Bargains. 

Genshin Impact players demand changes to Paimon’s Bargains

“I just ran out of Primos and have Sara now at C5 (I was looking to get Raiden C2, got C1), but that C6 is SO important to her. And even if I fork over some money right now, that won’t guarantee that I won’t just keep rolling Bennett copies,” wrote one player on the official Genshin Impact Reddit page.

“Paimon’s Bargains feel like they should be the answer to that sort of problem, but for some reason, Hoyo refuses to update the roster of available 4-stars from that. It’s frankly bizarre that they don’t update it to include all 4-stars prior to 3.0 (at the very least).”

So far, Paimon’s Bargains have featured 12 of the 38 playable 4-stars that have been released since Genshin Impact’s launch. This severely limits the 4-star characters that can be unlocked, making it extremely difficult for players to unlock Constellation buffs. 

Instead, Travelers have to try their luck at pulling the 4-star they want via the game’s banners – an area that many believe needs to change. The Genshin Impact community recently called upon the devs to add 4-star banners to help alleviate this issue. 

Meanwhile, veteran players have also noted how newer Travelers are the ones who get hit the hardest by the lack of 4-star character rotations. “I feel bad for new players, imagine starting up doing two ten pulls and getting Candace and Kaveh lmao, you’re screwed.”

The community has even come up with ways to how HoYoverse could improve upon Paimon’s Bargains, explaining how they’d implement changes to make it more useful. 

“The best case scenario for Paimon’s Bargains would be the following: Add 2 more slots for characters to be available each month, remove Amber, Kaeya, and Lisa from the rotation, and make them always available each month, add the current banner’s featured 4 stars into the shop for the duration of the banner,” noted one player.

The above scenario would certainly help improve the game’s “frustrating” 4-star issue, but whether HoYoverse will make any changes to Paimon’s Bargains remains to be seen.