HoYoVerse to Rollback Neuvillette Nerf in Genshin Impact

In response to overwhelming negative feedback from the fans, HoYoVerse will roll back the nerf it gave Neuvillette in Genshin Impact. Players will also receive 1600 Primogems as an apology.

For reference, as of Version 4.8, HoYoVerse, “fixed” the “abnormal rotation speed” for Neuvillette’s Charged Attack. One of the reasons why Neuvillette is one of the best Hydro DPS characters in the game is due to this Charged Attack. Players can kind of spin him around, even when he’s only attacking a single target, in order to deal more damage due to the way the ticks work.

According to the Tweet, HoYoVerse had implemented the fix in order to standardize the Neuvillette Experience for all players. Some players, depending on the platform they played Genshin Impact on, could not achieve what some people could do through outer influence like mouse settings. Using Neuvillette to his full potential would also result in visual blurriness. However, once the fix went live, players reported that the Neuvillette nerf in Genshin Impact made him really clunky to use.

Chinese players in particular were livid due to the fact that Neuvillette is a limited 5-star. People likely used real-world money in order to get him, especially since he is one of the best DPS characters in the game. They did so specifically due to his insane Charged Attack. So nerfing him felt like HoYoVerse cheated people of their money. Like with the Ayaka situation, some Chinese players were even reporting HoYoVerse for consumer fraud.

HoYoVerse will roll back this fix in a later update. More information on when will come out soon and we will likely get the 1600 Primogems then. This is not the first time that HoYoVerse needed to fix a character or rollback a change. The same thing happened when it tried to fix Yae Miko’s Skill’s auto aim, as well as when Zhongli first came out. Granted, the Zhongli situation was a little different, as his kit was very weak compared to the way HoYoVerse advertised him.

Genshin Impact is readily available on the PS4, PS5, Windows PC, and mobile devices.