Genshin | 4.8 Update Banners & Characters

4.8 Update Banners & Release Date for Genshin Impact. See 4.8 Banners, date, map, weekly boss, release date, 4.8 wish gacha banners, 4.8 contents, & events for 4.8 Update.

4.8 Update Release Date

4.8 Update Was Released On July 17, 2024

Based on the 20-day update schedule of Genshin, 4.8 update will likely be released on July 17, 2024. Although its details were released in the 4.8 Update livestream, the exact date is not yet officially announced.

Compensation Details

4.8 Update Summary

Summary Of 4.8 Version Contents

New Banners (Which Banner Should You Pull?)
Twirling Lotus 1st Phase 7/17/2024 - 8/6/2024
Nilou	Kaveh	Ningguang	Kirara
In The Name Of The Rosula 1st Phase 7/17/2024 - 8/6/2024
Navia	Kaveh	Ningguang	Kirara
Ambrosial Essencee 2nd Phase 8/6/2024 - 8/27/2024
Emilie	Xiangling	Yanfei	Razor
Discerner Of Enigmas 2nd Phase 8/6/2024 - 8/27/2024
Yelan	Xiangling	Yanfei	Razor
New Quest
■ New Story Quest └ Pomum de Ambra Chapter: Act 1
New Weapons & Artifacts
■ 5 Star Limited Weapons └ Lumidouce Elegy
New Contents & Skins
■ Envisaged Echoes └ New Combat End-game Content. ■ New Skin └ Phantom In Boots for Kirara (Free) └ Breeze Of Sabaa for Nilou (Premium)
Events
■ Summertide Scales And Tales └ Flagship event for Version 4.8 featuring ■ Bing-Bang Finchball └ A rerun of the Finchball Event. ■ Outside the Canvas, Inside the Lens: Dew-Kissed Chapter └ A photo taking event. ■ Energy Amplifier: Lemma └ A high difficulty battle event.
New Area: Simulanka
■ Simulanka Guide └ Origami Animals ■ Simulanka Collectibles └ Jubilant Feather └ Excerpts Of Bliss └ Fairytale Troves ■ Simulanka World Quests └ The Answer Of The Lotus Leaves And Forest └ The Forest And The Princess └ The Lotus Leaf And The Champion └ Towards The Lighthouse, Or Far Away └ Text's Coda └ Narration Footnotes └ An Odd Textual Mystery

4.8 Update - New Characters

New Playable Character

Emilie - 5-Star Dendro Polearm

4.8 Update Character Wish Banners

First Phase Banner Characters: Navia & Nilou

Featured 5-Star Characters
Navia In The Name Of The Rosula			Nilou Twirling Lotus
Featured 4-Star Characters
Kirara		Kaveh		Ningguang

Second Phase Banner Characters: Emilie & Yelan

Featured 5-Star Characters
Emilie Ambrosial Essence			Yelan Discerner Of Enigmas
Featured 4-Star Characters
TBA		TBA		TBA

4.8 Update - New Weapon

Wish Weapon - Epitome Invocation
5-Star Weapon
Lumidouce Elegy (Polearm) - ATK increased by 15%. When the equipping character triggers Burning on an opponent or deals Dendro DMG to Burning opponents, the DMG dealt is increased by 18%. This effect lasts for 8s, max 2 stacks. When 2 stacks are reached or when the duration is refreshed at 2 stacks, restore 12 Energy. Energy can be restored this way once every 12s. The 2 aforementioned effects can be triggered even when the character is off-field.

4.8 Update - Area

Simulanka - New Limited Time Area

Simulanka is a new area that's based on a storybook and will include Origami creatures all around. However, it's only a limited time area, meaning it will only be available to explore during the 4.8 Update.

How To Unlock Simulanka

4.8 Update New Quests

New Story Quests

New Story Quests
Pomum de Ambra Chapter: Act 1

Emilie will have her own story quest! It's likely that the quest will be available in the second phase of the 4.8 Update, just in time for her banner launch.

New Limited-Time World Quests

• The Lotus Leaf and the Champion
• The Forest and the Princess
• The Answer of the Lotus Leaves and Forest
• Narration Footnotes
• Text's Coda
• Towerds the Lighthouse, or Far Away

4.8 Update Events

Summertide Scales And Tales

Get A Free Kirara & Her Skin During The Event

During the event, players get a chance to unlocking a free Kirara. Additionally, you can also get her new skin for free when you meet the requirements!

Bing-Bang Finchball

Outside The Canvas, Inside The Lens: Dew-Kissed Chapter

Energy Amplifier: Lemma

4.8 Update - Other Updates

Imaginarium Theater Update - Envisaged Echoes

The Envisaged Echoes is a permanent update for the Imaginarium Theater. In this update, travelers can play through the challenges and end up unlocking Echoes for their characters!

How To Unlock Envisaged Echoes

New Cosmetics: Echoes

Echoes are a new type of cosmetics that can only be unlocked through the Envisaged Echoes challenges. These Echoes are limited per character and can only be equipped on them.

New Skins

Nilou - Breeze Of Sabaa

Kirara - Phantom In Boots

Imaginariun Theatre

Opening Characters
Furina	Barbara	Ayaka	Diona
Xiao	Faruzan	-	-
Special Guest Stars
Emilie	Dehya	Nahida	Xiangling

TCG Update

QoL Changes

• Encounter points can now be stored and used at a later date
• Cooldown for boses will be 10 seconds
• One click Hide UI option
• Dialogue transcripts
• Change your World Level
• Update to the Glider challenges

New Recipes

• Fricassee de Poulet
• A Fragrant Feast of Flavors

Dialogue Update

Adjustments & Optimizations

Open World

• Now, after defeating the boss "Lupus Boreas, Dominator of Wolves," Trounce Blossom rewards not collected will only disappear after he respawns.
• Adjusts the respawn time for boss enemies in the open world, with the exception of "Lupus Boreas, Dominator of Wolves," from 5 minutes to 10 seconds (After the respawn timer ends, Travelers need to teleport to another area and return, and the relevant enemies will respawn).
• Adjusts the respawn time for certain harvestables from 48 hours to 46 hours.
• Adjusts the unlock condition for the "Lower World Level" function from World Level 5 to World Level 3 (you can choose to lower the World Level upon reaching World Level 3).
• Adds an option at World Level 3 to 6 to lower the World Level on the relevant prompt interface when all party members are defeated by enemies during exploration in the open world.

Quests

• Reduces the difficulty of the "Anti-Raiden Shogun Training"-related quest objective in the Archon Quest "The Familiar's Path."
• Reduces the difficulty of the challenge gameplay related to the Story Quest "License to Glide" and "Mondstadt Glider."
• Optimizes the refresh logic for Commission Quests: Commission Quests that have their scenes occupied by other quests will not refresh and appear. However, Commission Quests with unfinished achievements are not affected by this refresh rule and will still appear.
• Certain quests that can unlock systems will have a new special icon on the Quest Menu.

Domains

• Adjusts the enemy placements and certain Ley Line Disorders in the Domains "Forsaken Rift," "Cecilia Garden," "Peak of Vindagnyr," "Hidden Palace of Zhou Formula," "Clear Pool and Mountain Cavern," "Hidden Palace of Lianshan Formula," "Domain of Guyun," and "Taishan Mansion" to reduce the challenge difficulty of these domains.
• Unlocked Domains can be used as Teleport Waypoints even if Travelers have yet to reach the Adventure Rank required to challenge the Domain.
• After Travelers reach Adventure Rank 10 or have completed the quest "Knights of Favonius" of the Archon Quest Prologue: Act I "The Outlander Who Caught the Wind," you can unlock all Domains of Blessing, Domains of Mastery, and Domains of Forgery, with the exception of Midsummer Courtyard (There are no specific unlock criteria for Domain of Blessing "Midsummer Courtyard").
• After defeating the "Enemy of Note" in the "Trounce Domain," if Travelers leave without claiming the reward, the game will display a second confirmation pop-up.

Adventure Encounters

• Once you have reached your daily Encounter Point limit, any further Points gained will be converted to Long-Term Encounter Points. Long-Term Encounter Points will not be cleared the next day and can be stored until the next Version x.0.
• Travelers can convert accumulated Long-Term Encounter Points into usable Encounter Points through consuming Original Resin.
• a. The number of Encounter Points obtained from completing Archon Quests, Character Story Quests, and Hangout Events has been increased.
• b The number of Encounter Points obtained from completing World Quests, Story Quests from Limited-Time Events, and collecting event rewards has been decreased.
• c. Completing World Quests that begin Limited-Time Events, the Afterword World Quests from Limited-Time Events, and City Reputation: Requests will no longer give Encounter Points.

System

• Adds an interaction using the spacebar on the "Cooking" interface (when using a keyboard and mouse as control devices).
• In the "Spiral Abyss" character selection interface, you can now drag characters to adjust their position within the party lineup.
• Adds the filter option for "Astral Mark Status" in certain characters' interface.
• When you have sufficient offerings to level up offering-related systems (such as the "Statue of The Seven" or "Fountain of Lucine"), clicking on the icon of the relevant system on the map will display an offering prompt.
• Adds a new setting in the "General Settings" of the "Artifact Auto-Lock" function. When enabled, for Artifacts with 3 Minor Affixes, the locked plan will consider conditions like "Includes any 2/3/4 of the following Minor Affixes" will be treated as "Includes any 1/2/3 of the following Minor Affixes."

Genius Invokation TCG

• Optimizes the descriptions and previews of related effects for certain cards.
• Shortens the display time of some card effects.
• Optimizes the description of the Support Card "Kusava": In the description "Discard a maximum of 2 cards with the highest Elemental Dice Cost in your Hand," "cards with the highest Elemental Dice Cost in your Hand" will be adjusted to "cards with the highest original Elemental Dice Cost in your Hand."
• Optimizes the Action Phase time calculation logic in Co-Op matches: The Action Phase time limit will no longer be a fixed amount and will be extended depending on how many card effects Travelers trigger.

Other

• Optimizes the text descriptions for certain effects and events in "Imaginarium Theater."
• When characters are in the Theater Lobby of "Imaginarium Theater," the Paimon Menu can now be accessed.
• After the Version 4.8 update, users who have not used the "Past Quest Resource Management" feature and have mobile devices that have resources that can be deleted will receive a one-time red dot notification.
• For some discrete graphics cards that do not support the "Dynamic Character Resolution" visual effect, the "Dynamic Character Resolution" option will no longer appear in the "Settings > Graphics" of the game.
• Adds a "Compatibility Mode" option to the "Settings > Graphics" tab on the game login screen.
• Adjusts the order of certain quests in "Adventurer Handbook" > "Experience."
• Adds a shortcut button to navigate to the Adventurer Handbook on the "Adventure EXP and Adventure Rank" interface.
• In the "Battle Pass/Gnostic Hymn" interface, the slider at the bottom of the interface now supports the click-to-position function.
• Optimizes the user experience of each list interface:
• a. When switching or refreshing lists, the previously selected or scrolled position will be retained.
• b. Optimizes the scrolling speed of lists.
• c. Optimizes the rules for displaying red dots in lists.

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Current Wish (Gacha) Banners

Banner	Boosted Character / Weapon
Gentry Of Hermitage 12/10/2024 - 12/31/2024	Zhongli Shikanoin HeizouFischlYaoyao
Decree Of The Deeps 12/10/2024 - 12/31/2024	Neuvillette Shikanoin HeizouFischlYaoyao
12/10/2024 - 12/31/2024	Tome Of The Eternal FlowVortex Vanquisher Mitternachts WaltzFavonius SwordFavonius GreatswordDragon's BaneSacrificial Fragments
Beginners' Wish Permanent	Noelle
Wanderlust Invocation Permanent	-

5.2 Events

Current Events

5.2 Current Events
Adventurer's Trials: Metamorphosis 12/11/2024 - 12/23/2024	A domain challenge with different obstacles, where you can also use free trial characters to help you clear each stage.
Exercise Surging Storm 12/18/2024 - 12/30/2024	A new combat domain challenge for 5.2 update.

Upcoming 5.3 Events

5.2 Upcoming Events
Springtime Charms TBA	This event will be the Lantern Rite (main event) for the 5.3 update.
Emblem Of Steadfast Valor TBA	A trial challenge event using Saurians and Trial Characters.
Shuyu's Baffling Beetle Battle Bowl TBA	A Beettle Battle Brawl rerun for 5.3 Update.
On The Trail Of Behemoths TBA	A new combat domain challenge for 5.3 update.
Repertoire Of Myriad Melodies TBA	A new permanent Rhythm game that will be released on 5.3 Update.

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