Genshin Impact character Yae Miko got a fix for her targeting mechanics in version 2.6, but the sudden change has aggravated some of the character's biggest fans.
Yae Miko is the overseer of Inazuma's Grand Narukami Shrine, the owner of Yae Publishing House, and Genshin Impact's newest electro character. Her release last month caused quite a clamor, but that quickly died down as players discovered some issues with her abilities. Developer HoYoVerse released a blog post on HoYoLab addressing Yae Miko's targeting mechanics and the adjustments made to the system after listening to player feedback.
Yae Miko's elemental skill, Sesshou Sakura, places totems which target enemies with electro attacks. Previously, these totems would randomly target anything in their effective range, but after this change, they will only hit the enemy closest to them. HoYoverse says Yae Miko's totem attacks were never meant to be random, and attributes the issue to "a combination of issues with both enemy and character targeting logic" that also "affected other enemies and characters besides Yae Miko."
The latest update made it less likely for Yae Miko and other characters with similar abilities, like Fischl and her Oz turret, to unintentionally target non-enemy entities such as miscellaneous collectibles, but many players have reported encountering the same issue after the update. And while Yae Miko's targeting behavior has been tweaked, some of the character's biggest fans feel that the end result is essentially a nerf – one which was abruptly announced weeks after the character's release.
Much of the frustration seems to be tied to Yae Miko's second constellation, which you can access by pulling two duplicate copies of the character. This
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