Genshin Impact is a free-to-play title for Android, iOS, PC, and PS4. It's an open-world action RPG game developed by miHoYo, which is also the creator of Honkai Impact 3rd. The game is heavily based on The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, so you'll see similarities. In this newbie guide, beginners will know important information to get started in the game.
You can collect characters in Genshin Impact and fill a party with four members. Out of combat, you play one character at a time, but you can instantly swap to other party members in the middle of battle. It's based on an elemental system. It is recommended to combine elements and character types to create a balanced party. Each character possesses an elemental ability and an ultimate ability that will charge up as they battle.
Overview
Your typical encounter will entail quick swapping between characters mid-combat to mix up their effects and abilities. Note that most buffs and abilities persist when you swap characters. That being the case, when your characters change elements, they will be one element, and there are many combinations of elements in the game. For example, using a water type to implement wet status and then hitting a target with an ice type will freeze them. Character movement includes gliding, climbing, and swimming, which is a thrill.
Genshin Impact is also a Gacha game that encourages players to collect characters and items. Having one maxed-out character is rather impractical. Equally enhancing all your characters is what matters, as it is the strength of your party.
By wishing, you'll collect characters, which is just a loot system. You usually want to save for the ten wish bundles for max benefit. You will receive weapons, characters, and you will be given valuable currencies by earning duplicates. You can upgrade each of these to their level cap and ascend them to unlock a higher level cap. Artifacts are character-wide, and when you equip many of the same kind, they have gear set bonuses. Constellations and talents can further strengthen characters.
The constellations are unlocked as you wish more character duplicates, and they add more powerful modifiers. Ascending your characters unlocks talents that modify your character's abilities and passives in meaningful ways.
Traveling the open world of Genshin Impact, you can find loads of cooking materials. To begin cooking, locate a cooking cauldron with a lit fire underneath. Cooked foods can heal, buff, and revive your characters. But note that the characters can get full and will refuse food if you overfeed them. There are many puzzles you'll encounter that require specific elements to overcome, like burning away vines. This scenario again encourages you to keep varied parties, but you can swap them at any time if you need a specific element.
The overall adventure rank will increase over time, and you can power yourself up by giving oculus items to statues of the seven scattered around the world. It is recommended to hunt Oculus (like a floating orb) every time you see them. Each elemental statue brings a different oculus item to collect. Until adventure rank 16, the game is played solo. When you unlock co-op, you'll grind your way through daily quests, story campaigns, world events, and dungeons to climb to the top.
Genshin Impact Tips and Tricks
Below are seven helpful tips that will make your experience in Genshin Impact much better.
1. Use 3-Star Weapons
Although having your first 4-star weapon is very exciting and will prove invaluable in the future, once they reach max refinement, you are losing out on a lot of 3-star weapons with many potentials. You will notice that you can refine weapons by sacrificing an identical copy and increasing the weapon's special power, which can be done up to 4 times. You can see for yourself just how powerful a max refined 3-star weapon is against a twice refined 4-star weapon, and obtaining two copies of the same 4-star weapon is already challenging enough.
2. Cooldowns To Take Note Of
You can hunt for various world bosses once you unlock the adventurer's handbook. Some of the common enemies you will fight to include Electro Cicin Mages who drop precious resources needed to upgrade your weapons. You can only hunt down a limited number of times before these pesky mages disappear and only show up again after more than 18 hours. If that's not enough, various mushrooms, oars, and flowers have different sets of cooldowns before they refresh. If there's a rare item such as crystal or Philanemo Mushrooms and many more, make sure you pick them up. These items are needed for character ascension and weapon leveling.
3. Use 4-Star Artifacts
It takes sacrificing other artifacts as well as Mora to level up artifacts, so the more you advance through the game, the more artifacts you can gain. One of the key aspects of artifacts is that they offer a huge stat boost, and the difference between a 3-star and 4-star artifact in terms of stats is quite staggering. It is only recommended to increase 3-star artifacts up to plus 4 because they can still give a decent boost when you're starting and won't eat up too many resources. Once you start acquiring more four-star artifacts, start switching them out with 3-star artifacts.
4. Spend Original Resin Wisely
Original Resin in Genshin Impact is the energy system of the game. It is required for completing domains, fighting world bosses, and opening Ley Line deposits. It is recommended to never keep your Original Resin at max 120 cap because you're losing out on your valuable adventure rank experience. The best way to spend all of your Original Resin would be by opening Ley Line deposits when early in the game. There are two types of deposits one provides Mora, and the other one provides experience books to train your character levels. Mora is better since almost everything in the game requires money. Each fight on Ley Line Deposit takes only a few minutes and grants a hundred adventure rank experience points. When you start the game by logging in and spending all 120 Original Resin, you will finish with six completed Ley Line deposits, 20 Original Resin each, and 600 adventure rank experience points. There's a very simple calculation in Genshin Impact where every 20 original resin gives you a hundred adventure rank experience points no matter what type of activity you do. Making the fastest Ley Line deposit for Mora will give you a lot of adventure rank experience quickly.
5. Survive Fall Damage
In Genshin Impact, climbing mountains is going to be part of your everyday life. You can find that stamina can run out pretty quickly, and your death becomes inevitable when you fall. If you notice that you're about to run out of stamina while climbing, disengage from climbing and instantly make a downward attack to protect yourself from imminent death. You will not take any damage when you fall.
6. Always Have Food
Once you start unlocking higher world levels, which increase every monster's strength, including how much damage they inflict. Having access to food becomes especially crucial if you lack one of the few healers available in the game. Most importantly, eating food allows you to make mistakes, and it can still beat challenges. There will be plenty of demands and trials where monsters just hit for too much damage, and food will be the only way for you to survive unless you're very good at dodging attacks.
7. Invest in One Character
Gacha means the wish system that the game uses for so many new characters. But the more important emphasis is on the progression system; every Gacha game always starts quickly gives you lots of free rewards. Then, slowly your progression starts to stagger, and resources become harder to obtain. When you get into Genshin Impact, you need to decide who will be your main damage dealer and then put the resources in raising that character. You will not be able to raise everyone together without spending actual money. Your other characters will be behind, which is normal if you're a free-to-play player.
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