Since I had the astrites to spare after getting Luuk and his signature weapon, I decided to pull for Galbrena... Honestly, wasn't really expecting to win my 50/50 but I'm glad I did :P 

...and I also went for her signature weapon. 75th pull, but can't really be mad with that especially after getting 3 greens before :D

Meanwhile, the Luuk luck(?) continues in my backup-speedrun account:

Had major problems (it was so hard to move around in WuWa) with their latest driver update (the 595.x ones) and had to go back to 591.71. I actually even went far to get the hotfix but that didn't help. This is the first time ever I'm using DDU to remove the installed problematic update so that I can re-install an older version. Fortunately, it all went smoothly without problems.

I love Qiuyuan's segue arc so I was expecting something similar but what I got was a bit different. Still fun to play though. Unfortunately not so Rover-lore heavy as I wished (well, we get something about their friendship though so it's fine) but I'm happy for those Fractsidus lore. I feel like there are a lot of foreshadowing for future patches: The mention of New Federation and Mengzhou... and some new [code] names from the Fractsidus side...?

Also, I love that we get to see what he sees around him:

Anyway... so Court of Savantae and Mengzhou... can I wish for a Xiangli Yao cameo please????? It's so sad to see new players not knowing about him because his story is a limited-time event. I half suspect that they are reluctant to bring back that event because they might be expected to give another free copy of him/or another character. But they really don't have to do that, those who chose to stay got rewarded so I think it's fair... they do have to revive that event though, I don't mind doing it again if given the option... (gah, I love him!) And I guess it doesn't hurt to rerun his banner too if they ever revive/rerun the event again.

So... what to expect in the next patch...? Hmmm.. I think it would be similar to 1.2 where there's an ongoing event (school cultural festival or something? If I remember correctly, I see something similar mentioned around the academy) and we'll get some mini quests like before. Maybe Sigrika's story will be a companion quest that is tied to the event like Zhezhi's...? Or it could just be like Phoebe's where we do the fishing event with her after doing that exploration quest (which also featured her).

I have a favourable first impression for Sigrika but I'm not sure if I'll be pulling for her... the short scenes I saw of her don't really make me want to lol. And I'm out of astrites really. And when is collaboration happening? I need to save for that (I want one copy for the character(s) because they probably won't rerun ever again).