Genshin | Beginner's Guide & Tips

This is a Beginner's Guide for Genshin Impact. This guide includes early game tips & tricks, how to play, character & weapon leveling, gacha, adventure rank, combat, and elements.

Starting An Account

Account Linking (Cross Save)

Genshin Impact can be played on multiple platforms including PC, Mobile, and PS4. It is recommended to create a Mihoyo account so you can access your game files on different devices.

Rerolling For The Characters You Want

Just like any other gacha game, you can reroll by creating another account and wish for the characters you want to get.

It Is Not Recommended To Reroll

It takes around 30-40 minutes to re-roll. 5★ Characters have a very low rate (0.6%). You only get 40 Wishes at the start as well so it isn't really worth the time.

What To Do As A Beginner

Increase Adventure Rank

Aim to finish the main story (Archon Quests) to get Adventure EXP fast. Your Adventure Rank will increase as you acquire more Adventure EXP.

Complete The Challenges In The Adventurer's Handbook

Under the Experience tab, you can see challenges that you can complete that gives really good rewards and Adventure EXP!

Explore The Region For Adventure Rank EXP

Activating teleport waypoints, opening chests, unlocking domains & shrines, and upgrading Statues of the Seven all give Adventure Rank EXP so don't be afraid to explore to your heart's content!

Benefits Of Increasing Adventure Rank

Aim To Reach Adventure Rank 12 First

▲Daily-resetting quests that will provide a lot of Adventure EXP when completed.

As you increase your Adventure Rank, new functions will unlock. We recommend aiming for Adventure Rank 12 to unlock Daily Commissions.

Next, Aim For AR40

AR40 should be your next goal since this is when you unlock guaranteed high rarity drops in Domains and higher levels for both characters and weapons! Reaching it will also significantly increase the difficulty of the game so make sure to prepare for it properly.

Adventure Rank Unlock Features

Upgrade Statues Of The Seven

Hidden items called Anemoculus are scattered across the map. If you find them and bring them to the Statue of The Seven, you'll get added benefits like an increased Stamina cap, Adventure EXP, or even precious loot!

Try To Get Anemoculus Immediately

Anemoculus won't show up on the map unless you get close, and they may be a pain to get back to if not collected when found, so grab them ASAP

Use This Helpful Anemoculus Map & Checker!

Anemoculus can be difficult to track down, so we made this helpful map tool you can use to track their locations! Do give it a try!

Activate Teleport Waypoints For Fast Travel

If you interact with Statues of The Seven, Teleport Waypoints, Domains etc, they will open up that location to be used for fast travel. It is advised you try to activate any Teleport Waypoint you come across for easier travel.

Farm Materials

Materials are required to strengthen your characters. Be sure to pick up any materials you come across in Teyvat. You can also check our material farming guide!

Elements & Elemental Reactions

Elements

Pyro			Hydro	Anemo
Electro			Cryo	Geo
Dendro			-	-

Elements are the very essence of Genshin Impact's combat system. Each character has a vision that grants them elemental powers which vary for each character.

Elements Are Needed When Exploring

There are certain puzzles in the field, which for example, need you to use Fire to open Vine-covered chests, or freeze the surface of rivers so they can be traversed easier.

Elemental Reactions

Source: this post on the Official Forums..

An Elemental Reaction occurs when an enemy is afflicted with two or more elemental statuses simultaneously. Depending on the reaction, enemies will take additional damage, have their defense lowered, and more.

Character Roles & Priority

Character Roles

Role	Description
Main DPS	Main damage dealers of your team who were built to maximize damage output. They are usually who you should invest in first since they stay on the field most of the time. Notable Characters:
Sub DPS	The team's secondary source of damage who cause elemental reactions. Sub DPS units can also serve as batteries, who provide more energy recharge and apply elemental statuses. They usually leave the field after unleashing their abilities. Notable Characters:
Support	Provides character buffs, debuffs, healing, shielding, crowd control and even energy recharge. They are responsible for keeping your team alive and giving them more firepower. Notable Characters:

Characters have different roles and are classified into three groups: Main DPS, Sub DPS, and Support. You can check the character list to see what role each character fits into.

Which Characters To Prioritize

Every character can be powerful when built right, so it's best to use the characters you enjoy playing the most!

Recommended Characters

If you want to know which characters excel the most or plan to follow the meta for high level content, you can check out our tier list to know more details about them.

Combat System & Party Setup

Team Composition

A party mostly consists of 1 Main DPS, 2 Sub DPS, and 1 Support. This setup focuses on providing elemental reactions for your Main DPS while having a support character that can heal or buff.

Create What Your Team Needs

You don't always have to follow this since it can depend on what you need for your team. For instance, you can have 2 supports instead if you're having trouble keeping your team alive and want a more defensive approach.

Example Of A Balanced Party

Main DPS	Sub-DPS	Sub-DPS	Support
Diluc	Xiangling	Kaeya	Barbara
Details
- Similar to the previous build, Diluc will be the main DPS of this team comp - Xiangling will provide additional ATK through her skill and Pyro Resonance while dealing off field Pyro Damage. - Kaeya will work as the Cryo application of the team to further increase the Damage of the team through Melt reactions. - Barbara's main purpose is to heal and keep the team's health as much as possible. She can also enable Vaporize reaction.

Elemental Resonance

Elemental Resonance is a unique passive that can only be unlocked by having at least 2 types of the same element characters or having 4 unique element characters in a party.

Character Rotations & Combos

Rotations are combinations done by switching characters to unleash elemental skills / bursts and create elemental reactions for maximum damage output.

How To Do Rotations & Combos?

Rotations are done usually by unleashing all the abilities of one character then switching to another to boost or provide more damage output. This can be done in many ways as it can depend on what reactions you want to create.

Example Of A Rotation

Here is an example of Xiao's combat rotation.

Leveling & Ascension - Beginner's Guide

Leveling Characters

Leveling up characters is needed to strengthen your characters. It increases their main stats such as Max HP, ATK, Def, as well as bonus stats.

Focus On Leveling Main Party Characters

Focus on raising up your main characters instead of trying to level multiple characters you don't usually use at the same time. This is because enemies will have higher levels and resources will be hard to farm later on.

How To Level Up Fast?

The best way to level up your characters is through the use of Character EXP Materials. You can get them from quests, defeating elite enemies, and from chests around the world.

Ascending Characters

Ascension increases your Character Level Cap. It also requires you to reach a certain Adventure Rank Level as well as consume ascension materials to do so.

Character Talents & Constellations - Beginner's Guide

Talents

Talent materials are needed to increase the abilities of characters. Each character has a specific type of talent materials they need to use so take note of that when building characters.

When To Increase?

You'll want to increase your talents as soon as possible or at least when you want your abilities to become more potent.

What To Increase?

Talent priority can differ for each character since it can depend on what they rely on or use the most, so be sure to check our character guides to know which talents to upgrade first!

Where To Find Talent Materials?

Talent materials can be found in domains. Check our domains list to find their locations!

Constellations

Constellations are passive abilities that either increase the potency of your talents, increase stats, and add new skill effects that can benefit your character.

How To Get Constellations

When you get a duplicate character when pulling for gacha, that character will automatically be converted to Stella Fortuna. Take note however that the converted Stella Fortuna can only be used to the duplicate character.

Weapons & Artifacts - Beginner's Guide

Weapons

There are five different types of weapons in the game which are Swords, Claymores, Bows, Polearms, and Catalysts.

How To Power-Up Weapons

There are 3 methods to power-up your weapons. There isn't much benefit to enhancing different weapons of the same class early on the game, so focus on powering-up only 1 weapon that your main character uses effectively.

How To Get Weapons

You can get weapons from Wishing and through crafting weapons from the blacksmith with the required materials.

Weapons Have Secondary Stats & Effects

Each weapon has different secondary stats and effects. Be sure to use the right weapon with the stat your character needs and refine it each time you get a duplicate to increase their effect.

Artifacts

Artifacts are like accessories that you can equip for stat bonuses. You have 5 different slots, in which you can equip 1 Artifact per slot. Check out the Artifact Guide to see how they work!

Enhancing Artifacts

Unlike weapons & characters, Artifact level can only be increased by using other Artifacts as materials. Although, Sanctifying Uction & Sanctifying Essence are items that can be used to upgrade them as well.

No Need To Level Up Artifacts in Early Game

As artifacts are powered up through using other artifacts as materials, its not cost effective to level up the weaker early-game Artifacts. Save your resources for Artifacts with ★3 or above.

5 Artifact Slots Explained

Each slot can only equip an Artifact designated for that slot. For example, you can only equip Flower of Life artifacts in the Flower of Life slot, and not in other slots such as Plume of Death.

What Are Set Bonuses?

While its crucial to select Set bonuses for certain playstyles in the mid-late game, for the early game just grab whatever reasonable set bonus you can get.

Wishing & Primogem Management - Beginner's Guide

Wish Function - Gacha

Genshin Impact is a gacha game which means that you will get most of your weapons and characters from the Wish Banners.

Time-Limited Banners usually last up to 3-4 weeks.

Who To Wish For?

Since Genshin Impact employs a Gacha system where the characters you get are random, it's inevitable that recommendations will differ depending on a given player's current character lineup and preference.

Primogem Management

Primogem is the currency used for Wishing or replenishing resin. It can be acquired through various ways such as completing quests, events,spiral abyss, unlocking chests and more!

How To Use

It is recommended to save your Primogems for the wish banners instead of spending it on resin since it replenishes every 8 minutes. Check out the primogem farming guide if you're looking for ways to get more of them!

Paimon's Bargains

You can also acquire them with the Stardust and Starglitter you obtained from wishing to acquire more Primogems.

Tips & Tricks - Beginner's Guide

Don't Forget To Use Up Your Resin

Original Resin replenishes every 8 minutes, so it is best to use them everyday to farm more efficiently.

Try To Save Your Fragile Resin For Artifact Farming

Fragile Resins that you get from doing quests and leveling adventure rank can be used to restore Original Resins. One Fragile Resin can restore 60 Original Resin. Try to save them up for late game.

Ley Lines Are Your Friends!

Whenever you find yourself lacking resources, remember that blue ley lines give EXP Books while gold ley lines give Mora.

Use The Adventurer's Handbook For Farming Enemy Drops

You can easily track enemies from the handbook. It will show you their location and possible drops. After killing a certain number of an enemy, you will have to wait for it to respawn again.

Take note that respawn timers can vary. Either it resets on server time or resets randomly

Raising Friendship Level

Growing 1 character will not only help you boost your level, but it will also increase your friendship level which will unlock more rewards like facial expressions.

Have At Least A Claymore & Bow User When Exploring

Not only elements, but also weapon types affect exploration & gathering. We recommend you to bring Claymore & Bow Users.

Claymores

Bows

Don't Forget To Spend Your Sigils!

In order to purchase the items from the Souvenir Shop, you will need to collect and use Anemo Sigils as this is the main currency.

Try To Cook Food Whenever You Can!

Cooking can really be useful as it can create food that can heal, buff, and revive your characters! Be sure to use characters that give a special bonus when cooking.

Do Not Level Multiple Characters

As said before, only level up characters that you mostly use because resources can be hard to get later on. Also, most support characters are already effective around level 70-80, so you can omit to level them up all the way to 90.

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