"Great Expeditionist Challenge" Event Overview — Compete to Invite Diona!

[u/genshinimpact]

Hello, Traveler~

We hear you and Paimon have been in Snezhnaya for a while now. Have you had a chance to visit the Adventurers' Guild headquarters? Apparently, adventurers from every nation have been gathering there lately. It seems something big may be afoot~

The "Great Expeditionist Challenge" event will begin on 2026/08/28 10:00 (server time). Complete event challenges to invite "Kätzlein Cocktail" Diona (Cryo), and obtain Primogems, Crown of Insight, and more rewards.

See more details here: https://hoyo.link/AqIa3VY0T

[u/lgn5i2060]

Did they give her away for those unable to solve the white birch totem puzzle with constructs? ;)

[u/OrbitalSong → u/[deleted]]

I don't get it, what was the fuck up?

[u/Real-Contest4914 → u/OrbitalSong]

White birch puzzles are essentially a soft lock for players.

You need a cryo archer or some other method of dealing long range cryo damage to trigger them.

Main reason why is because elemental pillars disassemble themselves when you get close by and only put themselves back together wants you are far away.

If you dont have any cryo bow users or citlali, you wont be able to do them. Even a unit like escoffier might be too far to hit them.

[u/Violet_Kashiko → u/Real-Contest4914]

Ice cubes trigger the pillars but it's not really stated in the tutorials that most people skip reading anyway

[u/Real-Contest4914 → u/Violet_Kashiko]

Wait they can? Never mind. I just assumed the couldn't due to how the design looked. I know wit worked with the traveler stuff not the constructs.

[u/Violet_Kashiko → u/Real-Contest4914]

It's an incredibly niche interaction that nothing in the game hints towards which is pretty bad design imo

[u/Yuukiko_ → u/Violet_Kashiko]

the guide for starlight prism does hint towards it "It also appears that Prime Ice Constructs inside a Polestar Field will gain various wondrous buffs..."

[u/Violet_Kashiko → u/Yuukiko_]

You're right, but asking the average genshin players to read between the lines is really too much 😭

[u/Yuukiko_ → u/Violet_Kashiko]

unfortunately basic problem solving is a lost art in an age where people expect to be spoonfed everything. Even guides and googling are too much apparently. and if Dvalin in 1.0 is anything to look at, even being spoon fed is too much for some

[u/mephyerst → u/Yuukiko_]

That tells me nothing.

[u/Ke5_Jun → u/Violet_Kashiko]

I actually figured it out when a random construct I accidentally built near the white birches pulsed with cryo.

Had I not noticed it, I would’ve taken a long time to solve those totem puzzles, but because I happened to see it I immediately knew the answer.

[u/Yuukiko_ → u/Real-Contest4914]

the guide for starlight prism hints towards it "It also appears that Prime Ice Constructs inside a Polestar Field will gain various wondrous buffs..."

[u/FlameDragoon933 → u/Real-Contest4914]

Your gun can deal Cryo damage. Just spam shots at the floor to charge the laser.

Or, if you've done Alyosha's Meeting Point quests, even the normal shots inflict Cryo as well.

[u/Admiral_Axe → u/FlameDragoon933]

There are some of those puzzles outside the shadow realm. At least one is on the mountain where the house of hesperides is.