Perilous Expedition is an event in Genshin Impact 3.8 update. Guide includes release date, gameplay, challenges, buff effect, team comp, tips, rewards, how to unlock, requirements, and more!
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Perilous Expedition - Gameplay Guide & Tips
Perilous Expedition Game Difficulty Levels
In Perilous Expedition event challenge, you can choose from four (4) different difficulty levels such as: Normal, Hard, Crisis and Dire. Choose your team properly that will complement the buffs in every challenge.
Use Well-Built Characters For Dire Difficulty Level
In Dire difficulty, there will be a time limit per round, and also the enemies' HP will be very high so it is best to use your well-built characters to easily defeat the enemies and complete this challenge.
Perilous Expedition Challenge Tips
| Strategy Tips | |
|---|---|
| 1 | ▼ Check the monsters first before creating a team comp |
| 2 | ▼ Choose your characters wisely └ Choose a non-repeatable character per round to activate buffs |
| 3 | Start the challenge and defeat all the enemies. |
1. Check The Monsters Before Creating Your Team
Before you start the challenge, you need first to check the list of monsters per round so that you can decide what type of team comp or which character/s will be useful on every round.
2. Choose Your Character / Team Comp Wisely
Note: Remember that in the 2nd & 3rd rounds will be activated if you select a team that does not have overlapping characters.
A great tip as well for this challenge is to choose your character/team comps based on the list of monsters per round. Make sure that your characters/team comp will benefit from the buff given in this challenge in order to maximize their potential and give more damage.
Buff Effects
These Buff Effects will be different per challenge, and make sure that each team per round has no overlapping characters so you can activate these buffs.
| Buff | Details |
|---|---|
| Character ATK +30% |
| Character Normal, Charged, and Plunging Attacks will deal 18.75% more DMG, and their CRIT Rate will be increased by 12.5% after using Elemental Skills or Elemental Burst for 10s |
| When Characters' Normal Attacks hit opponents, these attacks will deal 1 extra instance of True DMG.mThis effect can be triggered once every second. When characters' Charged or Plunging Attacks hit opponents, a Steelshock Pulse will be unleashed that deals Physical DMG. This effect can be triggered once every 3.5s |
Perilous Expedition - Rewards
Reward List
Perilous Expedition - Release Date & How To Unlock
Released On July 27, 2023
Part Of The 3.8 Update
| Event Duration |
|---|
| 07/27/2023 - 08/07/2023 |
The Perilous Expedition is one of the events on the 3.8 Update and was released on July 27, 2023.
3.8 Update Release Date & Character BannersA Combat Challenge Event
Explore a new location that will be unlocked periodically and fight your way through it to complete the challenge! Each location will require players to survive against 3 rounds of battle at a time.
Perilous Expedition - How To Unlock
Conditions & Requirements
Talk to the NPC named Peixiu located in the southern area of Sumeru City to unlock the Perilous Expedition event.
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