To farm dendro dragon boss you need nahida's second story q. for that we need to do the first quest for that we need to free NAHIDA... AND for that we need to complete quest in 3 other nations 💀
Dust of Azoth! You don't need to grind a boss just for the gems. I had to tell that to around half a dozen people at this point, this NEEDS to be said more often
Это не работает с синими и красными камнями, ведь только они делаются друг из друга. У меня сотни фиолетовых камней, но добыча красных и синих ад для меня.
Its not as helpful as one would think. You will, and I repeat, you WILL miss those "exchanged" gems someday. If u think about it, 6 gemstones for the last ascencion is a pain, as u most commonly only get 3shards from bosses. Besides from geo stones and mayyyybe cryo stones, all the elements are useful, as there are a lotta good characters to build out there, specially pyro, hydro and electro
If you feel like you want to take a break from the game, make it a 14 day break at least. That way you get the Stellar Reunion event, which gives you ~400 Primos and various goodies (including a Billet trove). If you already took a week of, you are almost losing out by not making it two.
To this day, not letting newbies access Inazuma materials is my biggest complaint on surveys. New players are excited to get Inazuma characters just to find they can’t properly use them until they do tons of content first
@@ceritaminit6696it takes like 24 hours of gameplay to get there as demonstrated by a RUclipsr if I remember correctly. It's not that hard if you know what you're doing. However most people don't have as much knowledge so it would take a week or so. It's not that bad.
Tbh, it's not that bad. If you are getting an Inazuma character, it's most likely from the event banner. And that also means that they have their trial run where you get the ressources for levelling them up to lvl 40. Now, I am not sure what the AR requirements for Inazuma are at this point (I know they changed those with later patches), but being able to get your character to lvl 40 should be enough until you reach Inazuma.
@@Modieas of right now, the current AR requirement it access Inazuma is AR30. So not too bad, so the hypothetical new player would have to stick with LV40 Inazuma characters for a while and rely on their other characters, like Mondstadt characters.
@@dojiz7242 What do you mean with "rely on them"? The game isn't hard outside of certain challenges. The outside monsters can be beaten very easily even with lvl 40 characters. When I reached Childe back in the day I was AR35 and I nearly beat pre-nerf Childe with only non-built lvl 40 characters that didn't really synergize well either. So if Inazuma is locked after AR30, you reach Childe (basically the final boss before Inazuma) at a time where lvl 40 should be way more than enough and you can use Inazuma characters pretty reliably.
1. DUST OF AZOTH in the shop. GET IT to change your gem colours. It’s cheap and worth it and the only way. 2. As people have pointed out and I forgot, the beginner banner is good because it has a limited pool of 4 stars: only the release ones. And the release ones are very good: xingqiu, sucrose, fischl, Bennet, etc all included. One could even argue that if you have bad pulls from your beginner banner it could be worth rerolling. Thanks for the correction guys!
You know, the other thing about the release characters is that all of their upgrade material is in Monstat or Liyue, so you don't have to worry about going to Inazuma for ascension mats.
Recurve bow is also a chest only weapon and is the only HP mainstat bow in the game, it's a very useful weapon for shieldbot Diona, a decent option for Yelan and any future HP scaling bow support
@@DefinitelyNotAFerretthey are going to be probably high base atk weapon with low atk% secondary stat that have a passive requiring to heal your hp (at least that relates to hp)
DO THE EVENTS!!! They give so many primogems, and some of them can give characters. I got my Layla from the Summer even this year. Also, a quick PSA: Bennett will be in the first event of 4.0, make sure you get him!
For AR35 players below, the one mistake Ive probably done was to not use my resin to farm for leylines. Make sure to farm them so you have lots of exp books and mora since when you reach AR45, your main priority for your resin is using it on artifacts domain.
I would advise against that, a leyline at ar35 would wield the equivalent to 3 purple exp books, that's like 3 chests on the open world. You're better off farming weapon and ascension materials. Just made a new account last month, AR 45, only did enough leylines to complete one of the earlier adventure books. And with the amount of quests and exploration there is right now, you won't need leylines for quite a while.
@@denki2558 bosses and weapon materials are the way to go, I was leveling both fischl and thighnari along with the stringless and slingshot, and just keeping them prepared for the next world level was enough to use all my resin. Edit: at later ARs I also farmed materials for kitain cross spear and prototype amber, since I knew I was gonna use kokomi and Thoma.
@@denki2558 I agree with @italomorais9424, and about resin - you can spend it for the weapon ascension materials or character talent materials instead~
Well for normal game progression your Inazuma characters will only be one ascension behind if you get them on rate up (while their trial is active) by the time Inazuma is unlocked. That early in the game being one ascension behind isn't really an issue. Shenhe and Yae do take longer to unlock their boss but you can get one ascension's worth of boss mats for one of them by doing the Jade Chamber rises quest (can be started before going to Inazuma). This will bridge the gap for one of them. Personally I would like for them to make an 'imports shop' in Lyiue that sells a limited number of every nations local specialties with a weekly restock (five per week). Couple that with a new rare boss drop that allows you to convert one bosses material into another. This would completely solve the issue of early Inazuma characters while also not making certain bosses pointless.
DON'T USE 3* WEAPONS AS XP. Many 3 stars can only be obtained through chests that don't respawn or a few npcs. Some 3*s are really amazing especially for f2p and once you use them to level another weapon you may not ever get that 3* again. Once you R5 your 3* or get better replacements then it might be worth using extra copies for xp.
I just want to add a bit to this. The Thrilling Tales of Dragon Slayers is one of the best buffing weapons, the Black and White Tassels are very good ftp options for characters that require the stats they give. Dark Iron Sword is a very good and powerful weapon that every account can get only one of and can be used on hyperbloom characters or Keqing as a ftp option that doesn't need to be crafted (lock this immediately after getting it from Chen the Sharp next to Chef Mao's restaurant and near the Liyue alchemy table).
@@spartantraveler7251 slingshot, both skyward swords and the recurve bow can also be used. Slingshot will even beat every 4 star weapon on tighnari. Edit: magic guide is also very useable.
@@spartantraveler7251 It's a Mondstadt Chest exclusive weapon. Back when Inazuma released, I thought they would make a 3-star weapon set for each regions chest, but they didn't. It would be a surprise if they make a new 3-star set for Fontaine though.
Do: Have a look at the specialty upgrade materials for upcoming characters that might interest you, like Starconches for Yelan/Tartaglia and get a head-start on farming them! But if you end up missing a few still, you can always ask other players if you can grab some in their world.
Great list, Jello! I would absolutely reiterate to not rush. The game is huge, and the world is beautiful. The music, the landscapes, and the themes make exploration so much fun. Take your time with it. If you're just running through Inazuma, Enkanomiya or the Chasm... that's like sprinting through the Louvre. Why would you miss all that art that you're here to see? :)
Since i already did inazuma when it released but lost my acc, now i have to go through everything again. Gonna rush the shit out of it, and by the looking of it i may as well rush through Sumeru because when i was unlocking teleport statues it was enough to made me hate that place.
I hear you on the inazuma mats lol. When I started playing my first 5 star was Itto, and needing to wait all the way up to chapter 2 to unlock Inazuma was a trial and a half. I remember the first thing I did after I could leave Ritou; I found myself a waverider and sailed all the way to Tsurumi, dodged the mist, and eventually made it to the southern tip to farm the doggo boss for ascension mats.
At least you waited like a reasonable person, the very first time I played genshin my first character was Heizou, and because I wanted to use him I tried to speedrun the archon quest 🤡 so of course I ended up with burnout that lasted months and it was so bad that when I decided to try the game again I just made a new account. To top it off, that new account got Gorou, Kuki and Sayu as the first 4stars, hyv was testing me lol
this is for the f2p xiao mains, if your xiao is stuck with a prototype starglitter or a white tassel, PLEASE get the blackcliff pole despite what this guy says.
1 of the most important thing before going for Fontaine is farming for Exp Books and Mora you simply can't have enough of them. So start grinding for them before you pull for your favorite character and realize that you don't have any exp books or mora to level them up. Do not skip out on them!
Agree. since, dont bother with Fontaine map on my genshin.exe ... i still have to pul the energy to delve more and more into Enkanomiya to unravel the non-evident secrets there, and Chasm, and weird spots of Sumeru, and those undergrounds of the Desert. xD
Regarding FPS, if you're trying to do some tech like archer aim canceling or the machine gun firing (which is just chaining aim canceling over and over for the Physical shots), lower FPS makes it easier to perform since the trick is frame perfect. But that's not gonna matter for most characters, so 60 FPS is fine for the vast majority of players.
Respect. Personally i just go the Standart Amber Main yes. Charged Shot gameplay, no problem. Physical damage i go fischl compound bow normal attacks and is all good.
1. Once it becomes accessible, do Reputation Quests for a region. High level reputations can give you blueprints to make dowsing rods for Oculi or chests. 2. Do Story Quests, and don't forget to claim keys from Daily Commissions 3. Dispatch characters out Expeditions via the Adventurer's Guild. It's free materials and the ones that collect ore will count towards the Battle Pass daily task of mining 10 ore 4. Pay attention to character Passive Talents. Some characters like Mona can help you keep more crafting materials, or let you cook extra dishes like Barbara or Xiangling, or decrease stamina consumption while in the party like in Kaeya. This can help with collecting materials or with exploring the world if you set things up correctly. It might actually be nice to do a tutorial video on how to utilize character Passive Talents and what situations to use them for.
In terms of the passive talents, 4-star characters such as Mika, Yanfei, and Gorou can make it easier to farm their respective region's unique materials. For now, the Sumeru mat finder is only Tighnari, but I bet there's gonna be a 4-star Forest Ranger character in the near future
Do not throw away artifacts just because they are 4 stars. Some of my best characters run on 4 star artifacts and they deal more damage than 5star holders. You can always use them as exp for your 5star artifacts but initially don't throw them away.
My Do's and Don'ts for beginners: DON'T neglect support characters. I know it's pretty natural to want to focus heavily on a strong DPS character you really enjoy, but even the best DPS needs wings to fly, and support characters provide those wings. If you acquire a character like Xingqiu, Bennett or Sucrose, build them. They are pretty universal supports that will give your account wings. Moreover, if your favorite DPS has a very specific character that you have, that supports them well, such as Gorou for Itto, Yun Jin for Yoimiya, et cetera, build them. DON'T refine Favonius weapons! These are some of the best 4-star weapons in the game. If you get Favonius weapons from your wishes, rejoice. Energy Recharge is one of the most valuable stats to have, especially early on, and with their ER mainstat and passive that gives energy to the team, these weapons help so, so much with making early gameplay smoother. And these weapons stay good; they're still highly valuable at level 90 with maximum world level. Having two fav swords at R1 is way more valuable than having one at R2. Only think of refining them once you have a good number. DO lock at least one instance of useful 3-star weapons you get out of chests or from quests/NPCs, and refine any locked weapons before feeding the rest of your fodder. Similarly, DON'T overlook 3-star weapons in general, from wishes. Some of these weapons are very solid especially for the early to mid-game, or they look really unique, or have hard to find mainstats on them. Some 3-star weapons are very usable even in the late game. Examples are: - Thrilling Tales of Dragon Slayers, obtainable from wishes. Save all of them, make as many R5s as you can. The objectively best support catalyst in the game. You don't even need to level them; they provide their optimum buff at level 1. Super low investment for high returns. If your catalyst user does not contribute much to team damage and has enough ER to fulfill their role, give them this. - Harbinger of Dawn, mainly from wishes but Kaeya's quest gives you one. Just a crit statstick, and one of the easiest ways to make a sword character slap despite having garbage artifacts early on. Probably one of the best 3-star weapons. R5 one if you can. - White Tassel, obtainable from Liyue chests. Excellent crit statstick for polearm users. - Black Tassel, obtainable from wishes. HP mainstat polearm, good for HP scaling polearm characters, like Thoma or Zhongli. Refines are unnecessary, just one is fine. - Slingshot, obtainable from wishes. Crit statstick bow with an amazing passive. Best 3-star bow for a lot of bow characters, that will beat a lot of 4-star bows. R5 one if you can. - Skyrider Greatsword, obtainable from Liyue chests. Solid physical damage claymore, and it's at least as good or even better than its 4-star counterpart, Snow-Tombed Starsilver, especially at full refines. - Recurve Bow, obtainable from chests. The only bow with a HP substat, good for HP-scaling bow users, like Diona and Yelan. Refines are unnecessary, just one is fine.
I dont counter say against the T3 description. Since i agree and wanna boost such good comment. But "dont refine" favonius is a bit too extreme. The best use of it is with CRATE characters, and with low crit rate, the refinement will save you. Also; it is the lowest base attack, meaning will nerf your ATK% rolls on any character. You spawn bursts ok = ok... WEAK bursts. ... Go on and use Ayaka Favonius R5 with Blizzard Strayer then, to see her performance against Amenoma. (I was biased Favonius on Diona, until change for Sacrificial, ER will spawn in Substats rolls ) ...all you need to do is grab the damn particles after E, dont bogus the game. ... i dont kick off FAV... but to say " dont refine" a spawn of any banner wishes... urgh... (So why have those T3 if not gonna use, because will use a A R1 FAV + B R1 FAV + C R1 FAV + D R1 FAV + E R1 FAV ???)
@@vacuxamunita If you plan to stay f2p or close to it, smashing your fav weapons together can be a big mistake to make, trust me on that one, as someone that did just that. I don't mean you should never refine them; if you have a bunch of them, by all means. But if you have two or three of them, I'd strongly advise against it. My newer fully f2p account has acquired like 5 fav weapons total since April. Yes, their base ATK is low, but with all the energy they provide the party you don't need as much ER in your artifacts And yes, *obviously* you don't wanna run fav on a main DPS character, I don't think I said anything to that effect.
@@TengouX I lock 1 lvl 1 of a given weapon then i go refining the another. Example: 1 Stringless... ok... then second gacha, another stringless. R1 Lvl 60 + R1 Lvl 10. then Lvl 90 R1 becomes R2. And R1 Lvl 10 keep lvl 10. Meaning i save one copy. - kinda or less your tip? agree too here! :D Specially Forge ones. I did bad going so early to Refine R5 Whiteblind for Noelle, more even with Mappa Mare... Problem was the "Stellar Reunion"... thank this Survey i did! They changed, now you gain a BOX, not the Mappa Mare itself... meaning i have 1 Mappa Mare R5, and another 2. (I Refined). Was the main weapon i used on Sucrose, until come home a Skyward Atlas. oh boy, its a complicated personal maths... would be best one day, making videos out of it showing the process, but better wait the tables on Word OpenOffice get done. * That player that dont use Catch on Xiangling *
This is more of a mid-game advice than an early game thing but: one thing I wish more players knew about, and a problem I stumbled with early on, is that crit weapons aren't always necessary with DPSes, and that the 70/200 crit ratio builds are only realistically achievable with crit ascensions and weapons. If a character has neither of that, IMO somewhere around a 60/120 ratio is not really as bad as it sounds and is really just as much as you need most of the time, maybe a few more rolls than that for comfort
Well around 70:240 is the peak for 5 stars with crit ascension and crit weapon. 70:200 is for with a crit weapon but no crit ascension, 70:170 ish is for crit ascension and no crit weapon. 60:120 is fine if you have neither a crit ascension not a crit weapon though it’s kinda on the middle tier of what you’d expect to get with a 4 star with no crit and no crit weapon. Though still will get the job done depending on talent levels! I just wanted to clarify lol but for anyone new reading this keep in mind the ratios I gave for each situation are on the higher end. Also assuming you have sufficient non crit substats to have a more effective and balanced build. Crit is the cherry on top but for most characters ER is the most important, never underestimate how useful it is. It’s usually better to have quicker rotations with less damage than higher damage but 10-15 seconds between them restoring energy to begin again.
As a f2p omg ty for this, i thought my builds were bad bc most my characters are around 60-70 cr with 120-160 crit damage and i was wondering why if my artifacts feel like they're good enough but i still never get to 200
So I've watched a lot of your videos in the past couple days and one thing that might put you ahead of the curve is just including some gameplay in bg to support the claims you are making (which I and your viewers seem to agree with). You are doing a great job and its nice to hear someone still inspired to make genshin content post honkai
Shoutout to newer players! I took like an 8 month break and when I came back I felt overwhelmed with how many things there were to do. I can’t even begin to imagine newer players who might be starting when Fontaine is out 😅
Focus your daily expeditions on ores and mora. You can never have enough of either. Try to use characters who give a little more for a 20 hour expedition if you have them (example: Shenhe, Yelan, Kuki, Faruzan) or ones that reduce the time by 25% (example: Bennett, Fischl, Chongyun, Kujou Sara).
Another tip (that's kinda obvious): Play with the characters / weapons YOU like and can work with. Don't listen too much on character recommendations, if those characters don't fit your playstile. For example: I don't like bows in Genshin Impact. In my opinion, they are way too clunky to handle. Which is why I hardly use characters with bows. I use Diona in my Ayaka Freeze Team but only because of her skill and her burst. I didn't plan to wish for Yelan but people told me how strong and F2P - friendly she was. So I got her... and she spends most of the time on the bench. xD On the other hand, I really like Qiqi. She's been my first additional 5 star character (lost the 50 : 50 on the 3.3 Raiden Banner) and I'm so happy about it. I rellay like her character and her healing skills helped me a lot in the early game. I know many people don't like her but that doesn't stop me from liking and using her. ^^ What I'm trying to say is: Don't let other people influence your decisions that much. It's your account so use the characters you like!
Agree. The game is not difficult by any means so there's no real pressure to use *the best* (as defined by the meta) characters. Use what is fun, who makes you squee, whatever you want.
Speaking of gadgets, DO get the NRE bag for shortcut to food healing items by Mondstadt reputation. DO get blueprint for condensed resin by levelling Liyue reputation.
As a AR60 player, one thing I can advice too you guys (low AR player) every time you'll see a place with 1star artifact within it, collect it and mark it you don't need necessarily come everyday and get it you'll just need go get it every other week too get those (every Monday is the refresh of its location) it will save you a ton of resources for artifact leveling
@@YunawchanI would say when there is no more archon quests or major land expansions to explore. Usually there are just mini games and if you’re new new and need the 4* character or exclusive 4* weapon maybe just come back to get that specific reward, but then quit rest of the patch. I quit 2 patches back to back which was 2.2 and 2.3 which I missed cinnabar spindle but I don’t have albedo so it wasn’t too bad and I logged into second half of 2.2 just to lose 50/50 going for hu tao so I decided to wait for her next rerun (I got her now).
Farm high-efficiency artifact domains that are not in the strongbox, such as Gilded/Deepwood. Spend your trash 5* on the strongbox to get things like Viridescent Verener, which has a lackluster domain in terms of efficiency
Fishing tip: when ever you have caught all fish, if it’s night, change time to 07.01 and the day time fish spawns, and the same way if you caught at day time, switch time to 18.01 and night fish will spawn. And change fishing pole depending on which region you are fishing in. (I love fishing btw) 😂
4:24 ok Imma disagree with you on this one (politely) for two reasons. 1) It doesn't matter in the long run. Beginners banner = 16 acquaint fates, which really isn't that much. 2) Imo Noelle is a good unit for new players. Her shield and healing is nice but it doesn't have 100% uptime which still makes you want to learn how to dodge (unlike zhongli)
They should really put a disclaimer on the banners that tell you how far into the game you need to be in order to upgrade certain characters so people aren’t wasting primos
Dude, I am thankful for your channel. It is exactly what we need without cringy stuff and encouragement to gamble money. Thank you for common sense! Looking forward for next videos
Farm weekly bosses even when you dont immediately need the boss drops to level talents, getting Dream Solvents and weapon billets is valuable (but rare) and the artifacts you get are definitely not useless.
I know I'm late to this, but I'd like to add one important tip: *Do Not Rush to Catch Up to Higher AR Players!!!!* Everyone plays the game at their own pace, and you don't have to rush to ride the Fontaine bandwagon. Enjoy the game how you like, and don't worry about anything else!
A tip for when getting a character but you dont have access to their materials yet. Just jump into another player's world and ask them for those. This requires a bit of communication with strangers (If you don't have a genshin friend) but most people would let you have whatever you want and even help with bosses and domains. Abt how to get into another players world: Instead of trying out everyone thats available and see if anyone let you in. You can put on your bio sth like "Pls help with bosses and domains" and when ppl get into your world to help, you ask to come into their world instead cus u havent unlocked that part of the map yet.
I did the same and that little dude and Kaeya have carried me through most of the story. I joke about being an old lady gamer, but don't need to dodge if everything is frozen :)
It isn't a big deal in the long run and it does have a smaller pool of 4*s (slightly higher odds for one of the good launch 4*s) but it also doesn't count toward the standard banner pity so it is 20 pity wasted.
@@Nowaylarry Only 16 wishes. And the chances are much, much higher of getting a good 4 star, since there's only 10 possible. Fischl, Xingqiu, Bennet, sucrose and beidou are great. You can ascend them from the get go, and it is invaluable having a good character from the beginning so you don't spend resources on a character you will absolutely not use in the long run. Spending 20 wishers on the standard banner just to get a couple bad weapons or a character from Inazuma can really hamper a new player.
Personally I would prioritize Exploration, Comfort, and Fun over the Spiral Abyss. The Spiral Abyss is a teeny tiny portion of the game and as the game expands it becomes a smaller and smaller portion of the game. Comfort characters: Dmg - Ayato, Ganyu, Ayaka. Healers - Kokomi, Kuki, Baizhu. Supports - Nahida, Zhongli, Raiden, Xinghiu, Kazuha, Layla. Exploration. Wanderer(SSS tier), Ayaka, Sayu, Yelan, Kazuha, Venti, Lynette, Albedo, Mona, and to a lesser degree Keqing/Alhaitham Fun: Completely up to you. If you want strong teams with low investment. Consider Dendro/Electro/Hydro teams and/or Hydro/Electro/Anemo teams. They do a lot of damage early on and are easy to build. Other teams require more investment but may or may not perform better.
If you don't have a built shield character yet, learn i-frame dodging. It means if you dash the same moment an enemy attacks, you can dodge it. This requires learning your enemy's movements, but it's really helpful in the long run. It works on ascension bosses and weekly bosses too.
My 1st tip: if you're a casual gamer, prioritize getting the archons. They improve the Genshin QoL quite a bit. Venti's value drops quite a bit once you reach Inazuma however so be aware of that. 2nd tip: do your research on the characters that interest you. I can't stress this enough. Throughly investigate their playstyle, what characters they're good with, what materials you need to build them, etc. It will save the player much headache in the long run.
Wish on the noelle banner. more starglitter, which can be used to buy more wishes, 4 stars( potentially 5 star) for blue fates spent. Even if it doesnt count pity on the standard banner, you’ll get the 5 star there eventually anyway.
@@therealslimshady403 completely agree, totally worth the 16 wishes. Also Noelle might be invaluable if you don't get any other claymore user. I'm at AR 45, have 20 characters and I would be mining with baron bunny if it were not for Noelle.
Wow. Very very concise video on nearly everything on what NOT TO DO. There are so many ways to waste your time and do things the wrong way in this game. You covered all of them. I didn't know about the Parametric Transformer so I'm doing that quest to acquire it later after work. A few things that could probably be added to this video: -You can get more primogems by doing the daily quests in the Asase Shrine for the cat -give 3x "Mysterious Conch" to Takashi everyday to play his chest game. after doing this 7x (does not have to be consecutive), you will get the blueprint for Hamayumi bow -Go to the Outsider Shrine and pray to it three times per day. you will get a chest on the following day each day if you do so.
I wouldn't worry too much about Inazuma characters, you unlock Inazuma as early as AR30 at which point your Inazuma characters are only 10 levels behind max. The ones that require the most to unlock their boss materials are Yae, Shenhe, Raiden, and Sara, but also a shoutout to Yelan, Shinobu and Heizou who require the chasm which is slightly more than the other Inazuma characters. I also highly disagree with your beginner banner advice, but you already corrected yourself in the pinned comment
Do mine your ores in the Chasm (underground, so perhaps it's for midgame), the drop rate of chunks seems to be better there. Don't think you have to complete the abyss with one set of teams per floor. Leaving and going back with different teams makes the abyss way more fun (variety, less frustration, plus it's actually quicker than endless retries). It will reset you to chamber 1 of the floor, but if your goal is getting the primos and/or experimenting with teams, it honestly makes sense.
Dont farm for artifacts early, just focus on talents and weapons and character levels. A good set of artifacts for your character is ultimately the last thing you need to care about. And morr often than not a good primary stat as a place holder is way more valuable than trying to get the perfect artifact with the perfect rolls.
For the exploration players: Always keep a few Portable Waypoints in your inventory. If you spent a while climbing a mountain or to the highest point in a city, plop down a portable waypoint so you can repeatedly glide around to explore more quickly. The same thing goes for spots in Inazuma and now Fontaine that have a lot of puzzles that teleport you all over the place: you may not like where the puzzle teleports you to, so it’s great to have a way back.
If you're not saving for any character in particular, try wishing to get certain characters. Incorporating new skills and gameplay in your battles and exploration will lessen the game burnout while waiting for new content. Unlocking the treasure compass is also an efficient way to find chests and hidden locations.
this wrong the blackcliff series is one of the best f2p weapon options and is way better than grinding to purchase a unit also do wish on the beginners wish as Its only 16 standard wish and most of the wish for it are provided to you completely for free and it essentially just a limited time version of the standard banner also pity on the standard banner doesn't matter as unless you intently spend on it u wont get five star from it for at least 6-7 months it doesnt matter at all
My only 'do's are... take things at your own pace. It's okay if things take a bit longer, the game isn't too difficult anyway. The other? It's never a bad idea to gather materials you need for character/weapon ascension ahead of reaching the adventure rank associated with reaching the next milestone. It'll save you time, since you can just hop back and forth, do a world boss every now and then and it's a good way to not make it too grindy, if you do it sporadically
You forgot the most important: Don't expect challenging gameplay and/or endgame, it's a casual game and you should treat it as such. There's no need to follow a Meta or whatever piss water theorycrafters want you to think, build whatever you want however you want because the damage required to go through the game is so low (I'm doing fountaine with an Artifactless wanderer and it's easy as pie)
Oh, best tip ahead of time, try the interactive map. It serves as a check list of the chests in the world and saved a lot of time when you start using it early.
My most important do not mentioned specifically would be: Kaeya, Lisa, and Amber constellations are very hard to get, as they are found only on the standard banner, and the odds of getting them get worse all the time as new four stars keep getting added to said banner. If you are at all interested in using any of these characters, get the ones that interest you from the shop every time they are available. As things currently stand, they'll each pop up 2x per year, so it almost certainly will take you multiple years to get them to C6, even with getting them from the shop every time they are available. Even being a whale is unlikely to help much, since you'll be unlikely to toss your money at the standard banner. For the rest: When you can access the teapot, it is worthwhile to level it up. Doing so will give you access to the ability to purchase some resin, character xp, and maybe mora every week. Essentially, free resources, and some of the most important ones. And if you want, you can make a pretty home as well. Also, free friendship points for your characters, which will unlock nameplates at friendship 10, if that interests you. As far as the beginner banner goes, yeah, I'd skip it. It does have the perk of being a guaranteed four star character, rather than the possibility of a weapon that goes with the standard banner, but there are a lot of suboptimal four stars now, and you're guaranteed to get Noelle as one of the two. Personally, I don't recommend her for a new player, due to her slow attack speed and poor energy generation. She's fun at C6, though. You can also always use the banner later, to get a key constellations without dealing with RNG. Useful to get her C6, for example. I don't think some of the Blackcliff weapons are bad to pick up. Crit stats on weapons are hard to come by for a F2P, and many of the alternative choices are event ones, of which exactly 0 have been re-run or otherwise made available. If you get an early Diluc and you want him to be your main DPS, yeah, by all means, get him a Blackcliff. Same deal if you want to use Kaeya as your first main DPS. But do be aware of the alternatives you can get, and decide wisely. So basically, claymore, sword, and maybe still the polearm (for Xiao) ;) And it most likely isn't worth picking up multiple copies for the refinements. That said, making sure you have Xingqiu and Benny will help your account and, especially in the case of the latter, whatever character you want to power up, more.
Oh, and to add one more big tip: When you first hit AR45, you'll likely find the AR45 artifact domains to be pretty tough. This is because you'll likely have limited built characters, with lower talents, less optimal weapons, and, of course, weak artifacts. You'll also wind up in situations where the domain you want is resistant to the character you want it for. Using Diluc as an example, Crimson Witch has enemies that resist pyro. So that main DPS you've been focusing on has a decent chance of being less effective on top of all that. The easy way to get around that: go co-op. This will likely put you in a team with players who have more powerful accounts, and consequently, make it easier to do the domain. Once you do have a few characters geared up, then you'll likely find those artifact domains pretty easy. Co-op can also be used if you're having trouble with other domains, like weekly boss ones, as well.
I would avise any beginner to wish on the beginner banner and even reroll, since you can get 2-3 characters that can be ascended early on, and you have a very high chance of getting a sucrose, fischl, Bennet and Xingqiu since the poll is very limited. Also, get a Noelle, I'm already at AR 45, I have 20 characters, and not a single claymore user besides her, I would have been mining with baron bunny for a month if it weren't for Noelle.
Yes! I have a c3 Kaeya. I have only seen someone pull a Kaeya once in a video. I thought Diluc would be impossible to get, I have c1 Diluc from "lost" 50/50. He is easier to get than quite a few of the 4* characters, since pulling for 4* runs the risk of possibly getting some 5* you don't want. I got Ayato accidentally trying for someone(I can't remember who) I recently missed out on getting c1 Thoma because I wasn't interested in the 5*. I can't wait for December for my c4 Kaeya.
First one is so important! I don't even know where I heard it before but I'm glad I did. I love Kaeya and I always save to get him from the shop but I've only been playing for like a year so he's only been there twice for me + one from standard banner (C3) and it'll still take me a whole year and a half to C6 if I don't get lucky again. Had I not known early on I'd probably get the tsaritsa before C6 Kaeya 💀
Yeah, I hear so many folks dunking on the Blackcliff weapons when they're not bad stat sticks and have at least semi-useable if conditional passives. The Royal weapons are terrible, but I think it's questionable advice to say the Blackcliff weapons are "a waste", because it might be what someone needs to balance a crit ratio.
Here's mine: 1. Collect your character story keys and unlock them. If you don't you'll be capped at 3 keys and can't binge character story quests until you get more. 2. Learn what every stat does and what characters need what stat and why. You can figure out your own builds by having good stat knowledge and looking at the description of a character's skills 3. Look up builds online to easily see what stats to generally go for and what artifact sets and weapons to use. Sometimes 4 star weapons outperform anything but the signature weapon. 4. Look up the most important world quests and do them asap. It literally improves and changes how much of the content in the open world is available to you. Things like the aranara quest and the golden slumber quest are REQUIRED to get all the dendroculi and access entire regions of the game. These are the quests you want to prioritize and you may not even know how to start the questline. The game doesn't really make a point to tell you "this quest is really important" 5. Character quests can unlock weekly bosses. You must do a few of these in order to be able to level characters. For example, you can't get get characters like baizhu and upcoming ones like Lyney's talents over a certain level without doing Nahida's second quest. Same goes for raiden shogun's second quest.
Barbara / Mona / Klee. the most quintessential and adorable character in this damned game, use this godforbidden material: Philameno Mushrrom, damn thing on top of roofs of Mondstad houses only... you'll never get enough, and is so demanding to farm it. You should grab 5 per day. ... You can stack around 400 while you advance. 10 per day is good enough. - Bad thing is have the character blocked. Another thing... goddman SPECTER DROPS... reach Inazuma is headache, enjoy beautiful and pure Liyue+Mondstad, better gameplay and characters ever.
Don't max your city trust level to max with only bounties and requests because most world quest give those exp too. Level it up until you get oculi and/or treasure compas and then just go on to the next to save some time because the required exp will increase with each level and city. The oculi is a consumable so one's you use it you'll have to make a new one so use interactive map first and then use is for the last ones that way you'll save some resources 😊
That doesn't matter. You want to do the bounties and requests for mora anyway so if you max it out before doing the quests it doesn't make a difference at all
Building on to your comment about picking up everything given that local specialities respawn every 48 hours and with a single exception are used for character ascensions getting an early start on gathering them saves you from pulling for a character you like and finding that you have none of the ascension materials. Not only are there plenty of maps of where the materials if people are interested but even finding 10-20 per cycle or week starts to add up and leaves you in a much better position in the future. Every little bit helps.
Do: get characters you like playing. There are powerful character who will not fit your playstyle. I love Ganyu (look, lore, everything), and if I was even halfway decent with the aimed shot mechanic, I would run her non-stop. I'm not, so she's not someone I play with. Parts of the game are a bit hard, but nothing mandatory in the game is especially difficult. Enjoying your gameplay is vastly more important than chasing the meta. (Unless chasing the meta is itself what you enjoy, in which case go crazy.)
This so much!!! It took me way too long to realize Playstyle/Fun Kit is WAY more important than look/lore/etc. I've been having more fun lately since I started focusing on interesting character kits.
I disagree with avoiding the starter banner. The five stars on the standard banner is pretty diluted and not particularly useful. On the starter banner, you have amazing 1.0 4 stars that immediately unlock great teams. Bennett -> National Core. Fischl -> Lisa Aggravate. Xingqiu -> Lisa hyperbloom. Sucrose -> doesn't go in shop, don't wait a year for national team to complete. Beidou -> faster getting to C2 by months for taser/aggravate. Seriously, 50% chance of massively improving early game teams for 8 wishs is great, far better than getting a gorou or dori or bell from standard banner. In this era of massive 4* pools, having a banner that limits itself to great 4 stars is amazing.
TLDR: I was too impulsive. (Also congrats Jello for very soon to be 8k subscribers considering your current growth rate!) I spent money too soon. Literally spent for Ayaka, lost to the weird grown up (according to Klee) and then got her right after her story quest. Got Mistsplitter too but it's not that worth it. If i was more patient I would have gotten her regardless and just use the extremely extremely good ftp option the Amenoma Kageuchi (which I have at R5). Now I don't even use Diluc. I've also spread myself too thin by being too curious about other playstyles and not sticking to the best ones for my account like which team type do I have the most characters for.
Imho Mistsplitter is one of the better 5* to get...but especially for Ayaka it is a substantial dmg buff (if i remember correctly it was around ~35%) compared to the next best F2P option. If someone really wants to play her and got the gems lying around (with no upcoming stuff of interest) the only thing i would recommend to get instead would be Shenhe.. as she buffs Ayaka's dmg even more (~40%) especially for a deep freeze team with Kokomi and another cryo support like Rosaria.
My ass took a break from version 3.1 to 3.8 and I missed all the good new meta characters. I'm only just now getting back into Genshin, seeing everyone with Nahida makes me so sad 😭😭 But your channel has been a really big help for getting me back into Genshin, so thank u sm ♥
Good stuff agreed as a veteran!!! :3 My tip even if not taking a break, Don't stress at all about your resin capping at all as I have found that is the quickest route to a burnt out from so many CC's talking about being burnt out. I usually find that to be one of the biggest factors in that. Even if it might be more efficient it's not worth it in the long run considering the games rng nature. Also do not use your Fragile resin on artifacts, if you want to you can but considering Artifact RNG is a thing in 100+ artifact resin you still might not get the perfect artifact. So they are better used on overworld boss materials/gems and talent books because those are guaranteed materials. As an example Nahida only just got her overworld in her patch and the same will be said of Focalors, so if you want to use them/new characters coming with new boss materials in the over world on the fly this is worth using fragile resin on. Are usually my top tips tbh
Do your weekly Bounty and Request from the Reputation vendor even AFTER you maxed all the reputation on every nation. These still give quite a bit of free Mora that doesn't cost resin.
As an AR60 player, every time I watch your videos I just think how helpful it would've been to have videos like this when I started. You're doing the Lord's work Jello, thank you for giving new players actually useful advice
I was so glad that I immediately locked Dark Iron Sword when I got it way back when I started since it perfectly matches Kuki aesthetically, the passive is not that important but the EM mainstat is great in hyperbloom teams
Hi Jello, amazing content, as usual, the quality of your recent videos is really amazing, hope you're doing great! 1. You're mentioning "do not level characters more than lvl 40", while in an earlier guide you made regarding characters, you mentioned lvl 50. 2. The beginner banner. Skipping it makes the early game more difficult (if you're not lucky), I almost regret not pulling on it. I started 2 weeks ago and didn't pull on the beginner banner, after 58 pull on standard banner, I still only have 2 4-stars character pulled (chongyun and rosaria, I'm going reverse melt with XL and 4.0 free Bennet :p). The beginner banner gives much more characters per wishes (in 18 wishes, 2 characters + 2 pulls at a 9 pity which is high chance). Also, needless to say if you don't get lucky (like I've been) by pulling a claymore user, you can forget about farming crystals until your decide to pull for real. In comparison, with 20 wishes, the standard banner gives you 1 character for sure. To give you my perspective, one of the issue I faced due to the lack of 4-star characters early is past AR 30, in the transition zone when you need to commit to certain characters and weapons to keep up with the world level increase. I know which characters I'd like to plan my roster for in the future (ayaka, shen-he and raiden) so I'm carefully planning with the characters I currently have and enjoy and imagine team compositions with the character I wanna wish for in the future. Having a pool of more characters during that transition would've helped me more to plan for the future as I would've had more choice and more chance to test different party compositions. The beginner banner will give you more characters (including a claymore user), which, imho, is statistically worth more than 19 pity for a 5-star, at least during early game. Of course, long-term the value of these 19 pity exceed the initial 4-stars you can get, but during the early game, these characters would've made this process easier. Thanks for the content, good sir.
Great video for people who gave Genshin a chance now or who came back after long 😊 I generally think current patch is not even bad to begin playing due to the summer event, which gives you free tp to Sumeru with magic invitation. I began catalyst only account, because I think current 2 banners been great for it. 100% Agree, people should generally pull for who they like esthetically or gameplay wise over meta. I think my biggest advice would be enjoy the game for what it Is, rather then being upset for what it isn't.
A tip I would have for new players. Is don’t stress constellations. Your early in the game. They won’t matter as much, and you can save until a rerun happens and you can realistically get a few constellations if you saved up all the beginning gems and rewards you will get naturally. In general you can beat the game easily at C0. Artifacts and weapons lvl’d up are way more important on your journey to endgame
DONT use 3 star’s weapons as exp until you check them many are pretty great especially Thrilling tales for Sucrose, Kokomi, and even Barbara as well black tassel for Zhongli if you have him or want him, also pot is low key great for literally farming plants especially mint and sweet flowers for healing food, prioritize characters LV, weapon and talents cause they give guaranteed boosts and more importantly crowns are ONLY events limited so save them for favorite characters and check guides on which talents worth crowning.
Kokomi came home and I am really happy about with just 10wishes and Keqing came with her I don't care what other people think of Kokomi I have her and no one is to tell me how to wish on my Ginshin Impact adventure I am going to anyway I don't answer to other people. I don't care what they think 😅
For the weapons, the 3-star weapons from gambling and from the overworld (chests or talking to NPCs) are distinct. Make sure to lock at least the first copy of an overworld weapon, as you can’t get them back if you accidentally let them get auto-foddered.
As for the side games only the teapot is actually important as it scales up with level iirc and you need a certain level to unlock some things. Absolutely recommended to rush. The other two (fishing and TCG) only offer one-time rewards, go for those once you have time, they shouldn't be neglected, but are low priority because you won't lose any rewards. I'd also definitely worry about the abyss once past floor 8 and able to do something on f9 and f10 (no idea when that's the case, but I'd estimate in the AR40-50 range). After all the f9+ rewards expire when abyss resets and are therefore time critical. I'd not force it at any cost, just regularly check (e.g. each abyss reset), if you maybe can beat one or two (or even more) of the resetting floors. If it's absolutely impossible, don't lose your sanity, but don't just let the rewards go to waste, because you think "I can't do it anyway". I see enough AR50-55 players profiles, who could easily beat up to f10 or f11 but are still at 3-3, because they straight up quit the abyss after getting Xiangling.
There are around 100 low level artifacts you can find each day. Find a farming route and use them to upgrade and artifacts you want or destroy them for mora.
Two of your tips contradict one another. Telling people to go for a copy of sucrose, xingqiu, fischl, and bennett, while simultaneously telling them not to wish on the noelle banner. The noelle banner has a limited pool of 4 stars you can get that contains all 4 of those units. On my noelle banner I got 2 xingqius, fischl, and sucrose. Even if you aren’t rerolling, the banner is discounted on top of the limited pool. You can also get beidou and xiangling.
for mid game: 1. dont stressed out too much about crit stats, as long as you have the balance 1:2 ratio with a decent main stat-scaling that those chars need (A.K.A atk/hp/def/em/er, depends), you're good to go 2. DONT FORGET ER REQUIREMENT (it really depends on what teams, situation, rotation are u gonna use that char for) 3. doing a small dmg but consistently is waaay better for the long run than doing one big hit once in a while (for example a taser team) 4. mainstat > substat > artifact sets. AND some characters doesnt even need to use their BiS artifact (like xiao, fischl, yae, haitham, childe, etc)
Personally, I recommend friends with low AR to farm weekly bosses from AR 35, asking for help of course, That gives them some early 5 stars artifacts (to build just one character with those), talent materials, billets and things like that, that increases a little their probability of surviving the AR40-45 wall, At least, maybe I'm biased but the friends I've helped carrying them, haven't had any problem after AR45 when it comes to farming artifacts from domains
my first 5 star was actually keqing! everyone says shes a bad character and cry for losing 50-50 but i actually see her as a win win situation! it was when i took over my boyfriends account as he was lucky enough to get my favourite 4 stars that i wanted on mine and didnt get and he didnt really enjoy the game - then i got her and immediately started using her as my main dps - until now i literally just cant play without her on my team! i couldnt even get back to my own account until i got her finally from losing 50-50 on the latest yoimiya rerun - then i went full on maxing all i could on there as well :D
Another tip: save your 3* weapons! What I like to do is get two copies of each weapon and refine both of them to R5 overtime as you keep getting them from wishing. So you have two R5 Raven Bow, two R5 Black Tassel, etc. This way you have a bunch of solid weapons for several characters. For example you could give Kaeya an R5 Harbinger of Dawn but then you still have another R5 Harbinger of Dawn for the Traveler or whoever else you wanna give it to, so you don't feel as limited / restricted with who gets what weapon. 4* weapons can be hard to come by so saving and refining those 3*s will definitely pay off. After getting two R5 copies, if you get that weapon again, you can just use it to level other weapons.
My number one, get all your quests done, clear them out, ESPECIALLY STORY QUESTS. I've had so many archon quest blocks because of stray quests I unlocked and never did, oml, it was painful to do parts of the story quest just enough to unlock the archon quest only to get blocked by another one when I finished a part. Please, before Fontaine, get literally all your quests done or don't talk to anyone with new quests once you clear all the ones on your quest log. (Yes the story quests do lock things like weekly bosses behind them (if they are archon story quests like nahida, zhongli, and ei for their second story quest) and other archon quests behind them since I think you have to do them to unlock stuff (Itto, Kokomi (they lock the Chasm final questline))) And don't underestimate the importance of mora and exp books, while at first, mora seems plentiful and you have so much at first, all upgrades to your stuff cost so much mora, from leveling your artifacts, talents, your characters, and weapons, it all costs so much. Especially the first 3, oml they cost so much even when I do ley lines for the day with 160 resin stocked up. ;-;
My tips are: 1 - Fight everything you encounter and loot the items. You never know when you'll need those items for an ascention. 2 - Save your wishes for 5 star characters you really want. If you have at least 200 wishes saved, you'll sure get that char. You can farm EXP and boss items before you get him / her. It will save a lot of time. 3 - Think a lot before leveling up a character. What chars do you have? Can they make a good team? What is it lacking off? DPS? Hydro? Dendro? 4 - Farm cristal cores. You'll soon notice you get double of everything in domains and layline quests for the half of the time. You can store 5 Condensed Resins, which is good if you don't have enough time to spend your resins daily. 5 - And most important. Wait. Yes, wait. Don't use all your resources unless you have what you really want. Farm mora and EXP, they are too important in the late game.
The only weapon i've ever bought in Paimon's shop was the polearm with crit dmg for Xiao when I was a beginner, because it's hard to find good 4* options for him, but I totally agree with you, the weapons there in general are really not worth it, there are much better craftable options.
I remember when I started last year, I got a double Itto like 30 wishes in ( have never had that kind of luck since lol) and let me tell you...trying to level him up was a *pain*. Even when I got to Inazuma, I had to take so many boats to get to Tsurumi island....where I found out its basically the Lost Woods from Zelda. In the end I ended up taking my boat as far out as I could to not get caught in the fog and went around to the other side of the island to fight that stupid wolf
5:35 Yes A lot of people should follow this tip As a player who only like and pull a very few characters When i'm no longer hyped for any futur characters i just gather something like 20k primos and then take a break So when i'll come back i'll be able to pull anyone i want I did that 2 times recently When Sumeru was out, i wasn't hyped so i took a break with a bunch of primos The i loged again when Alaitham was coming, i did a lot of exploration and i was able to gather 40k primos! When i pulled him and his weapon i've got lucky and still had ~20k primos left I continued to play a bit and was able to accumulate a little more than 30k primos before taking a break again Now i got back to the game at the end of 3.7 while I didn't wanted to pull anyone I just wanted to enjoy the story and exploration i missed Then the "Final feast" came out... Right now I have over 60k primos ready to use for Wriothesley and Furina With this amount I even think about looking for constellations After them i'm probably gonna take a break again unless there is other charcaters that hyped me and repeat All that to say that it is quite possible to have a lot of primos, to enjoy the game without burn out just by taking breaks when you no longer feel like playing/nothing hype you/nothing to do
the new fishing sword is pretty boss too. i'm putting it on bennet for now personally. only been really playing a couple months but i'm damn near ready for floor 12, just need to flush out a good second team
I reached AR 57 today. I also found out that Black Iron Sword is a thing that exists today. And I actually needed an EM stat stick. Good stuff all around.
uhh not sure if you missed it or perhaps I missed it 🤣but-- always do your weekly bosses, they are the only ones that drop talent upgrade materials, and ask for help to kill them if you're having a hard time! easiest way to learn what you should be doing on a daily/weekly basis is to complete the battle pass missions.
Thanks for the video I’m gonna send this to some people who are just starting off genshin, I wish I had this as a guide in 1.0 when I first started playing lol, another tip to add is find a group of friends or friend (whether irl or on discord or through genshin) to play with you to help with exploring, domains and bosses especially if let’s say you need boss materials for a certain character early on
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What is worse than Inazuma is that you need Nahidas second quest to start farming the current weekly boss which is behind a mountain of quests.
I still haven't touched any quest past 3.2 and most likely won't. Let's hope fontaine bosses is more easily accessible.
@@SauravKumar-ki4bn At best they might make a billet that converts material, but its not like we can gets hoards of em.
To be fair atleast characters who need those are still playable with talent 6/6/6. Shenhe will be stuck at level 40.
To farm dendro dragon boss you need nahida's second story q. for that we need to do the first quest for that we need to free NAHIDA... AND for that we need to complete quest in 3 other nations 💀
@@shoutingstar1337you also need to complete the entire chasm questline as well
Dust of Azoth! You don't need to grind a boss just for the gems.
I had to tell that to around half a dozen people at this point, this NEEDS to be said more often
Yes, I knew about to late. I have 50 of those anemo butterfly boss drop and I dont know what to do with it. 🥲🥲
Commenting to get this more attention.
Major thumbs up!! Just don't spend it all on DoA, save some for the monthly wishes
Это не работает с синими и красными камнями, ведь только они делаются друг из друга.
У меня сотни фиолетовых камней, но добыча красных и синих ад для меня.
Its not as helpful as one would think. You will, and I repeat, you WILL miss those "exchanged" gems someday. If u think about it, 6 gemstones for the last ascencion is a pain, as u most commonly only get 3shards from bosses. Besides from geo stones and mayyyybe cryo stones, all the elements are useful, as there are a lotta good characters to build out there, specially pyro, hydro and electro
If you feel like you want to take a break from the game, make it a 14 day break at least. That way you get the Stellar Reunion event, which gives you ~400 Primos and various goodies (including a Billet trove). If you already took a week of, you are almost losing out by not making it two.
Remember this can only be done once per 45 days
To this day, not letting newbies access Inazuma materials is my biggest complaint on surveys. New players are excited to get Inazuma characters just to find they can’t properly use them until they do tons of content first
Well then just do the content I guess??
Would that kill them?😬
@@ceritaminit6696it takes like 24 hours of gameplay to get there as demonstrated by a RUclipsr if I remember correctly. It's not that hard if you know what you're doing. However most people don't have as much knowledge so it would take a week or so. It's not that bad.
Tbh, it's not that bad. If you are getting an Inazuma character, it's most likely from the event banner. And that also means that they have their trial run where you get the ressources for levelling them up to lvl 40. Now, I am not sure what the AR requirements for Inazuma are at this point (I know they changed those with later patches), but being able to get your character to lvl 40 should be enough until you reach Inazuma.
@@Modieas of right now, the current AR requirement it access Inazuma is AR30. So not too bad, so the hypothetical new player would have to stick with LV40 Inazuma characters for a while and rely on their other characters, like Mondstadt characters.
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What do you mean with "rely on them"? The game isn't hard outside of certain challenges. The outside monsters can be beaten very easily even with lvl 40 characters. When I reached Childe back in the day I was AR35 and I nearly beat pre-nerf Childe with only non-built lvl 40 characters that didn't really synergize well either. So if Inazuma is locked after AR30, you reach Childe (basically the final boss before Inazuma) at a time where lvl 40 should be way more than enough and you can use Inazuma characters pretty reliably.
1. DUST OF AZOTH in the shop. GET IT to change your gem colours. It’s cheap and worth it and the only way.
2. As people have pointed out and I forgot, the beginner banner is good because it has a limited pool of 4 stars: only the release ones. And the release ones are very good: xingqiu, sucrose, fischl, Bennet, etc all included. One could even argue that if you have bad pulls from your beginner banner it could be worth rerolling. Thanks for the correction guys!
My first 20 pulls on the beginner banner I got 4 Bennetts lol.
Back then ppl said Bennett was bad so I was rlly sad abt that.
@@cleanerwhite9470that’s wild
You know, the other thing about the release characters is that all of their upgrade material is in Monstat or Liyue, so you don't have to worry about going to Inazuma for ascension mats.
I got sucrose and xingqiu from the beginner banner, it is super worth it, if you get nothing you should reroll!
"Don't build too many characters"
Hoyo putting triple/quadra team hardcore events: *Laugh of violence*
i mean you'd only miss out on 1 world quest's worth of exp materials
42 characters. 38 are 80+ ... * me laughing with triple/quadra teams events *
Wdym? In the new event you could use exact same characters, you just lose the buffs
@@bloddrinkeraka It's not about the rewards...It's about message
Nobody is stressing out for 3 purple books when you get 20 a week from the teapot
Recurve bow is also a chest only weapon and is the only HP mainstat bow in the game, it's a very useful weapon for shieldbot Diona, a decent option for Yelan and any future HP scaling bow support
I’m going to be SO disappointed if the Fontaine craftables don’t feature all new HP% mains
@@DefinitelyNotAFerretwell i have some bad news for you
@@DefinitelyNotAFerret Well, about that
True but you do get one free Fav bow at least which is the better and arguably best option for both of them.
@@DefinitelyNotAFerretthey are going to be probably high base atk weapon with low atk% secondary stat that have a passive requiring to heal your hp (at least that relates to hp)
DO THE EVENTS!!!
They give so many primogems, and some of them can give characters. I got my Layla from the Summer even this year.
Also, a quick PSA: Bennett will be in the first event of 4.0, make sure you get him!
For AR35 players below, the one mistake Ive probably done was to not use my resin to farm for leylines. Make sure to farm them so you have lots of exp books and mora since when you reach AR45, your main priority for your resin is using it on artifacts domain.
I would advise against that, a leyline at ar35 would wield the equivalent to 3 purple exp books, that's like 3 chests on the open world. You're better off farming weapon and ascension materials.
Just made a new account last month, AR 45, only did enough leylines to complete one of the earlier adventure books. And with the amount of quests and exploration there is right now, you won't need leylines for quite a while.
@@italomorais9424But you have to spend resin somehow instead of keeping it capped. Leylines are a perfect way to spend your resin pre AR45.
@@denki2558 bosses and weapon materials are the way to go, I was leveling both fischl and thighnari along with the stringless and slingshot, and just keeping them prepared for the next world level was enough to use all my resin.
Edit: at later ARs I also farmed materials for kitain cross spear and prototype amber, since I knew I was gonna use kokomi and Thoma.
@@denki2558 I agree with @italomorais9424, and about resin - you can spend it for the weapon ascension materials or character talent materials instead~
@@denki2558you can farm ascension material even at world level 8 they drop like 2 item 😭
Well for normal game progression your Inazuma characters will only be one ascension behind if you get them on rate up (while their trial is active) by the time Inazuma is unlocked. That early in the game being one ascension behind isn't really an issue. Shenhe and Yae do take longer to unlock their boss but you can get one ascension's worth of boss mats for one of them by doing the Jade Chamber rises quest (can be started before going to Inazuma). This will bridge the gap for one of them.
Personally I would like for them to make an 'imports shop' in Lyiue that sells a limited number of every nations local specialties with a weekly restock (five per week). Couple that with a new rare boss drop that allows you to convert one bosses material into another. This would completely solve the issue of early Inazuma characters while also not making certain bosses pointless.
After ar30 or so my bro would often visit co op worlds with inazuma unlocked to farm samurais for scara 💀
DON'T USE 3* WEAPONS AS XP.
Many 3 stars can only be obtained through chests that don't respawn or a few npcs. Some 3*s are really amazing especially for f2p and once you use them to level another weapon you may not ever get that 3* again.
Once you R5 your 3* or get better replacements then it might be worth using extra copies for xp.
I just want to add a bit to this. The Thrilling Tales of Dragon Slayers is one of the best buffing weapons, the Black and White Tassels are very good ftp options for characters that require the stats they give. Dark Iron Sword is a very good and powerful weapon that every account can get only one of and can be used on hyperbloom characters or Keqing as a ftp option that doesn't need to be crafted (lock this immediately after getting it from Chen the Sharp next to Chef Mao's restaurant and near the Liyue alchemy table).
Me who have no and will no longer have Otherworldly Story 😭. Praying they put that on chests when Dornman Port gets released.
@@denki2558 Fontaine is coming. It is inevitable. You will have more chests.
@@spartantraveler7251 slingshot, both skyward swords and the recurve bow can also be used. Slingshot will even beat every 4 star weapon on tighnari.
Edit: magic guide is also very useable.
@@spartantraveler7251 It's a Mondstadt Chest exclusive weapon.
Back when Inazuma released, I thought they would make a 3-star weapon set for each regions chest, but they didn't. It would be a surprise if they make a new 3-star set for Fontaine though.
I also want to add a tip to mid game players : don't build too many dps and make sure your supports have their final ascension unlocked
Nah dude. Nahida DPS is necessary
Do: Have a look at the specialty upgrade materials for upcoming characters that might interest you, like Starconches for Yelan/Tartaglia and get a head-start on farming them! But if you end up missing a few still, you can always ask other players if you can grab some in their world.
Very good advice, I'm already hoarding cor lapis.
good one i have already cover yelan Material to get her to level 90 🤣 i still don't have enough mats to triple crown her cause yoimiya is my priority
Great list, Jello!
I would absolutely reiterate to not rush. The game is huge, and the world is beautiful. The music, the landscapes, and the themes make exploration so much fun. Take your time with it. If you're just running through Inazuma, Enkanomiya or the Chasm... that's like sprinting through the Louvre. Why would you miss all that art that you're here to see? :)
I already 100 all inazuma znd chasm in 2
week ☹️🤕
Since i already did inazuma when it released but lost my acc, now i have to go through everything again. Gonna rush the shit out of it, and by the looking of it i may as well rush through Sumeru because when i was unlocking teleport statues it was enough to made me hate that place.
I hear you on the inazuma mats lol. When I started playing my first 5 star was Itto, and needing to wait all the way up to chapter 2 to unlock Inazuma was a trial and a half.
I remember the first thing I did after I could leave Ritou; I found myself a waverider and sailed all the way to Tsurumi, dodged the mist, and eventually made it to the southern tip to farm the doggo boss for ascension mats.
At least you waited like a reasonable person, the very first time I played genshin my first character was Heizou, and because I wanted to use him I tried to speedrun the archon quest 🤡 so of course I ended up with burnout that lasted months and it was so bad that when I decided to try the game again I just made a new account. To top it off, that new account got Gorou, Kuki and Sayu as the first 4stars, hyv was testing me lol
this is for the f2p xiao mains, if your xiao is stuck with a prototype starglitter or a white tassel, PLEASE get the blackcliff pole despite what this guy says.
Fav lance is better than blackcliff being able to consistently battery him without a problem increases dps by a lot
1 of the most important thing before going for Fontaine is farming for Exp Books and Mora you simply can't have enough of them. So start grinding for them before you pull for your favorite character and realize that you don't have any exp books or mora to level them up. Do not skip out on them!
Agree. since, dont bother with Fontaine map on my genshin.exe ... i still have to pul the energy to delve more and more into Enkanomiya to unravel the non-evident secrets there, and Chasm, and weird spots of Sumeru, and those undergrounds of the Desert. xD
Regarding FPS, if you're trying to do some tech like archer aim canceling or the machine gun firing (which is just chaining aim canceling over and over for the Physical shots), lower FPS makes it easier to perform since the trick is frame perfect. But that's not gonna matter for most characters, so 60 FPS is fine for the vast majority of players.
Phone player crying in the corner
Me using 30 on my phone: 😂
Respect. Personally i just go the Standart Amber Main yes. Charged Shot gameplay, no problem. Physical damage i go fischl compound bow normal attacks and is all good.
1. Once it becomes accessible, do Reputation Quests for a region. High level reputations can give you blueprints to make dowsing rods for Oculi or chests.
2. Do Story Quests, and don't forget to claim keys from Daily Commissions
3. Dispatch characters out Expeditions via the Adventurer's Guild. It's free materials and the ones that collect ore will count towards the Battle Pass daily task of mining 10 ore
4. Pay attention to character Passive Talents. Some characters like Mona can help you keep more crafting materials, or let you cook extra dishes like Barbara or Xiangling, or decrease stamina consumption while in the party like in Kaeya. This can help with collecting materials or with exploring the world if you set things up correctly. It might actually be nice to do a tutorial video on how to utilize character Passive Talents and what situations to use them for.
In terms of the passive talents, 4-star characters such as Mika, Yanfei, and Gorou can make it easier to farm their respective region's unique materials. For now, the Sumeru mat finder is only Tighnari, but I bet there's gonna be a 4-star Forest Ranger character in the near future
Do not throw away artifacts just because they are 4 stars. Some of my best characters run on 4 star artifacts and they deal more damage than 5star holders. You can always use them as exp for your 5star artifacts but initially don't throw them away.
My Do's and Don'ts for beginners:
DON'T neglect support characters. I know it's pretty natural to want to focus heavily on a strong DPS character you really enjoy, but even the best DPS needs wings to fly, and support characters provide those wings. If you acquire a character like Xingqiu, Bennett or Sucrose, build them. They are pretty universal supports that will give your account wings. Moreover, if your favorite DPS has a very specific character that you have, that supports them well, such as Gorou for Itto, Yun Jin for Yoimiya, et cetera, build them.
DON'T refine Favonius weapons! These are some of the best 4-star weapons in the game. If you get Favonius weapons from your wishes, rejoice. Energy Recharge is one of the most valuable stats to have, especially early on, and with their ER mainstat and passive that gives energy to the team, these weapons help so, so much with making early gameplay smoother. And these weapons stay good; they're still highly valuable at level 90 with maximum world level. Having two fav swords at R1 is way more valuable than having one at R2. Only think of refining them once you have a good number.
DO lock at least one instance of useful 3-star weapons you get out of chests or from quests/NPCs, and refine any locked weapons before feeding the rest of your fodder. Similarly, DON'T overlook 3-star weapons in general, from wishes.
Some of these weapons are very solid especially for the early to mid-game, or they look really unique, or have hard to find mainstats on them. Some 3-star weapons are very usable even in the late game. Examples are:
- Thrilling Tales of Dragon Slayers, obtainable from wishes. Save all of them, make as many R5s as you can. The objectively best support catalyst in the game. You don't even need to level them; they provide their optimum buff at level 1. Super low investment for high returns. If your catalyst user does not contribute much to team damage and has enough ER to fulfill their role, give them this.
- Harbinger of Dawn, mainly from wishes but Kaeya's quest gives you one. Just a crit statstick, and one of the easiest ways to make a sword character slap despite having garbage artifacts early on. Probably one of the best 3-star weapons. R5 one if you can.
- White Tassel, obtainable from Liyue chests. Excellent crit statstick for polearm users.
- Black Tassel, obtainable from wishes. HP mainstat polearm, good for HP scaling polearm characters, like Thoma or Zhongli. Refines are unnecessary, just one is fine.
- Slingshot, obtainable from wishes. Crit statstick bow with an amazing passive. Best 3-star bow for a lot of bow characters, that will beat a lot of 4-star bows. R5 one if you can.
- Skyrider Greatsword, obtainable from Liyue chests. Solid physical damage claymore, and it's at least as good or even better than its 4-star counterpart, Snow-Tombed Starsilver, especially at full refines.
- Recurve Bow, obtainable from chests. The only bow with a HP substat, good for HP-scaling bow users, like Diona and Yelan. Refines are unnecessary, just one is fine.
I dont counter say against the T3 description. Since i agree and wanna boost such good comment.
But "dont refine" favonius is a bit too extreme.
The best use of it is with CRATE characters, and with low crit rate, the refinement will save you. Also; it is the lowest base attack, meaning will nerf your ATK% rolls on any character. You spawn bursts ok = ok... WEAK bursts. ... Go on and use Ayaka Favonius R5 with Blizzard Strayer then, to see her performance against Amenoma. (I was biased Favonius on Diona, until change for Sacrificial, ER will spawn in Substats rolls ) ...all you need to do is grab the damn particles after E, dont bogus the game.
... i dont kick off FAV... but to say " dont refine" a spawn of any banner wishes... urgh... (So why have those T3 if not gonna use, because will use a A R1 FAV + B R1 FAV + C R1 FAV + D R1 FAV + E R1 FAV ???)
@@vacuxamunita If you plan to stay f2p or close to it, smashing your fav weapons together can be a big mistake to make, trust me on that one, as someone that did just that. I don't mean you should never refine them; if you have a bunch of them, by all means. But if you have two or three of them, I'd strongly advise against it. My newer fully f2p account has acquired like 5 fav weapons total since April.
Yes, their base ATK is low, but with all the energy they provide the party you don't need as much ER in your artifacts
And yes, *obviously* you don't wanna run fav on a main DPS character, I don't think I said anything to that effect.
@@TengouX I lock 1 lvl 1 of a given weapon then i go refining the another.
Example: 1 Stringless... ok... then second gacha, another stringless. R1 Lvl 60 + R1 Lvl 10. then Lvl 90 R1 becomes R2. And R1 Lvl 10 keep lvl 10. Meaning i save one copy.
- kinda or less your tip? agree too here! :D
Specially Forge ones. I did bad going so early to Refine R5 Whiteblind for Noelle, more even with Mappa Mare... Problem was the "Stellar Reunion"... thank this Survey i did! They changed, now you gain a BOX, not the Mappa Mare itself... meaning i have 1 Mappa Mare R5, and another 2. (I Refined). Was the main weapon i used on Sucrose, until come home a Skyward Atlas.
oh boy, its a complicated personal maths... would be best one day, making videos out of it showing the process, but better wait the tables on Word OpenOffice get done.
* That player that dont use Catch on Xiangling *
This is more of a mid-game advice than an early game thing but: one thing I wish more players knew about, and a problem I stumbled with early on, is that crit weapons aren't always necessary with DPSes, and that the 70/200 crit ratio builds are only realistically achievable with crit ascensions and weapons. If a character has neither of that, IMO somewhere around a 60/120 ratio is not really as bad as it sounds and is really just as much as you need most of the time, maybe a few more rolls than that for comfort
Well around 70:240 is the peak for 5 stars with crit ascension and crit weapon. 70:200 is for with a crit weapon but no crit ascension, 70:170 ish is for crit ascension and no crit weapon. 60:120 is fine if you have neither a crit ascension not a crit weapon though it’s kinda on the middle tier of what you’d expect to get with a 4 star with no crit and no crit weapon. Though still will get the job done depending on talent levels! I just wanted to clarify lol but for anyone new reading this keep in mind the ratios I gave for each situation are on the higher end. Also assuming you have sufficient non crit substats to have a more effective and balanced build.
Crit is the cherry on top but for most characters ER is the most important, never underestimate how useful it is. It’s usually better to have quicker rotations with less damage than higher damage but 10-15 seconds between them restoring energy to begin again.
As a f2p omg ty for this, i thought my builds were bad bc most my characters are around 60-70 cr with 120-160 crit damage and i was wondering why if my artifacts feel like they're good enough but i still never get to 200
As long as you aim for that 1:2 ratio you should be good
So I've watched a lot of your videos in the past couple days and one thing that might put you ahead of the curve is just including some gameplay in bg to support the claims you are making (which I and your viewers seem to agree with). You are doing a great job and its nice to hear someone still inspired to make genshin content post honkai
Shoutout to newer players! I took like an 8 month break and when I came back I felt overwhelmed with how many things there were to do. I can’t even begin to imagine newer players who might be starting when Fontaine is out 😅
Focus your daily expeditions on ores and mora. You can never have enough of either. Try to use characters who give a little more for a 20 hour expedition if you have them (example: Shenhe, Yelan, Kuki, Faruzan) or ones that reduce the time by 25% (example: Bennett, Fischl, Chongyun, Kujou Sara).
Another tip (that's kinda obvious):
Play with the characters / weapons YOU like and can work with.
Don't listen too much on character recommendations, if those characters don't fit your playstile.
For example: I don't like bows in Genshin Impact. In my opinion, they are way too clunky to handle.
Which is why I hardly use characters with bows. I use Diona in my Ayaka Freeze Team but only because of her skill and her burst.
I didn't plan to wish for Yelan but people told me how strong and F2P - friendly she was.
So I got her... and she spends most of the time on the bench. xD
On the other hand, I really like Qiqi. She's been my first additional 5 star character (lost the 50 : 50 on the 3.3 Raiden Banner) and I'm so happy about it. I rellay like her character and her healing skills helped me a lot in the early game.
I know many people don't like her but that doesn't stop me from liking and using her. ^^
What I'm trying to say is: Don't let other people influence your decisions that much. It's your account so use the characters you like!
Agree. The game is not difficult by any means so there's no real pressure to use *the best* (as defined by the meta) characters. Use what is fun, who makes you squee, whatever you want.
Yelan is not clunky.
Speaking of gadgets, DO get the NRE bag for shortcut to food healing items by Mondstadt reputation. DO get blueprint for condensed resin by levelling Liyue reputation.
As a AR60 player, one thing I can advice too you guys (low AR player) every time you'll see a place with 1star artifact within it, collect it and mark it you don't need necessarily come everyday and get it you'll just need go get it every other week too get those (every Monday is the refresh of its location) it will save you a ton of resources for artifact leveling
Taking a break is definitely recommended, but more so towards a filler patch. Usually near the beginning because new new characters usually rerun.
what's a filler patch
@@YunawchanI would say when there is no more archon quests or major land expansions to explore. Usually there are just mini games and if you’re new new and need the 4* character or exclusive 4* weapon maybe just come back to get that specific reward, but then quit rest of the patch. I quit 2 patches back to back which was 2.2 and 2.3 which I missed cinnabar spindle but I don’t have albedo so it wasn’t too bad and I logged into second half of 2.2 just to lose 50/50 going for hu tao so I decided to wait for her next rerun (I got her now).
Farm high-efficiency artifact domains that are not in the strongbox, such as Gilded/Deepwood. Spend your trash 5* on the strongbox to get things like Viridescent Verener, which has a lackluster domain in terms of efficiency
Fishing tip: when ever you have caught all fish, if it’s night, change time to 07.01 and the day time fish spawns, and the same way if you caught at day time, switch time to 18.01 and night fish will spawn. And change fishing pole depending on which region you are fishing in.
(I love fishing btw) 😂
4:24 ok Imma disagree with you on this one (politely) for two reasons. 1) It doesn't matter in the long run. Beginners banner = 16 acquaint fates, which really isn't that much. 2) Imo Noelle is a good unit for new players. Her shield and healing is nice but it doesn't have 100% uptime which still makes you want to learn how to dodge (unlike zhongli)
This is still good stuff to hear even after playing since day. Just came back after taking a break when sumeru hit. Keep up the good work.
They should really put a disclaimer on the banners that tell you how far into the game you need to be in order to upgrade certain characters so people aren’t wasting primos
Dude, I am thankful for your channel. It is exactly what we need without cringy stuff and encouragement to gamble money. Thank you for common sense! Looking forward for next videos
They need to make it so that the fate points carry over on the weapon banner!
Farm weekly bosses even when you dont immediately need the boss drops to level talents, getting Dream Solvents and weapon billets is valuable (but rare) and the artifacts you get are definitely not useless.
I know I'm late to this, but I'd like to add one important tip: *Do Not Rush to Catch Up to Higher AR Players!!!!*
Everyone plays the game at their own pace, and you don't have to rush to ride the Fontaine bandwagon. Enjoy the game how you like, and don't worry about anything else!
A tip for when getting a character but you dont have access to their materials yet.
Just jump into another player's world and ask them for those.
This requires a bit of communication with strangers (If you don't have a genshin friend) but most people would let you have whatever you want and even help with bosses and domains.
Abt how to get into another players world:
Instead of trying out everyone thats available and see if anyone let you in.
You can put on your bio sth like "Pls help with bosses and domains" and when ppl get into your world to help, you ask to come into their world instead cus u havent unlocked that part of the map yet.
My bro on the up n up 🗣 Great advice for new players! You're killing it
Really awesome advice for new players jello, a lot of this is better than a lot of other advice videos out there for newbies. Well done.
The more people say no to the beginner banner, the more I realize how lucky I was for getting a Xingqiu from it. :p
I did the same and that little dude and Kaeya have carried me through most of the story. I joke about being an old lady gamer, but don't need to dodge if everything is frozen :)
It isn't a big deal in the long run and it does have a smaller pool of 4*s (slightly higher odds for one of the good launch 4*s) but it also doesn't count toward the standard banner pity so it is 20 pity wasted.
I got bennet fischl xangling razor noelle on beginners banner. On my free to play, then first wish on a diff banner was xingqui😂 full team right there
@@Nowaylarry Only 16 wishes. And the chances are much, much higher of getting a good 4 star, since there's only 10 possible. Fischl, Xingqiu, Bennet, sucrose and beidou are great. You can ascend them from the get go, and it is invaluable having a good character from the beginning so you don't spend resources on a character you will absolutely not use in the long run. Spending 20 wishers on the standard banner just to get a couple bad weapons or a character from Inazuma can really hamper a new player.
@@DamonsMistrisVampire I got fischl and Sucrose. And my second wish on the standard was a Stringless, I was so happy!
Personally I would prioritize Exploration, Comfort, and Fun over the Spiral Abyss. The Spiral Abyss is a teeny tiny portion of the game and as the game expands it becomes a smaller and smaller portion of the game.
Comfort characters: Dmg - Ayato, Ganyu, Ayaka. Healers - Kokomi, Kuki, Baizhu. Supports - Nahida, Zhongli, Raiden, Xinghiu, Kazuha, Layla.
Exploration. Wanderer(SSS tier), Ayaka, Sayu, Yelan, Kazuha, Venti, Lynette, Albedo, Mona, and to a lesser degree Keqing/Alhaitham
Fun: Completely up to you.
If you want strong teams with low investment. Consider Dendro/Electro/Hydro teams and/or Hydro/Electro/Anemo teams. They do a lot of damage early on and are easy to build. Other teams require more investment but may or may not perform better.
If you don't have a built shield character yet, learn i-frame dodging. It means if you dash the same moment an enemy attacks, you can dodge it. This requires learning your enemy's movements, but it's really helpful in the long run. It works on ascension bosses and weekly bosses too.
My 1st tip: if you're a casual gamer, prioritize getting the archons. They improve the Genshin QoL quite a bit. Venti's value drops quite a bit once you reach Inazuma however so be aware of that.
2nd tip: do your research on the characters that interest you. I can't stress this enough. Throughly investigate their playstyle, what characters they're good with, what materials you need to build them, etc. It will save the player much headache in the long run.
as an ar58 player, thanks for reminding me about the parametric transformer
Wish on the noelle banner. more starglitter, which can be used to buy more wishes, 4 stars( potentially 5 star) for blue fates spent. Even if it doesnt count pity on the standard banner, you’ll get the 5 star there eventually anyway.
Actually the biggest advantage on noelles banner is the increased chance to get strong old 4* as bennet, xingqiu, xiangling, fischl and sucrose
@@therealslimshady403 completely agree, totally worth the 16 wishes. Also Noelle might be invaluable if you don't get any other claymore user. I'm at AR 45, have 20 characters and I would be mining with baron bunny if it were not for Noelle.
Noelle is also a good shielder. Died every time to Primo Geovishap for ascension mats before trying to use her. Then it was a walk in the park.
Wow. Very very concise video on nearly everything on what NOT TO DO. There are so many ways to waste your time and do things the wrong way in this game. You covered all of them. I didn't know about the Parametric Transformer so I'm doing that quest to acquire it later after work. A few things that could probably be added to this video:
-You can get more primogems by doing the daily quests in the Asase Shrine for the cat
-give 3x "Mysterious Conch" to Takashi everyday to play his chest game. after doing this 7x (does not have to be consecutive), you will get the blueprint for Hamayumi bow
-Go to the Outsider Shrine and pray to it three times per day. you will get a chest on the following day each day if you do so.
I wouldn't worry too much about Inazuma characters, you unlock Inazuma as early as AR30 at which point your Inazuma characters are only 10 levels behind max. The ones that require the most to unlock their boss materials are Yae, Shenhe, Raiden, and Sara, but also a shoutout to Yelan, Shinobu and Heizou who require the chasm which is slightly more than the other Inazuma characters.
I also highly disagree with your beginner banner advice, but you already corrected yourself in the pinned comment
Do mine your ores in the Chasm (underground, so perhaps it's for midgame), the drop rate of chunks seems to be better there.
Don't think you have to complete the abyss with one set of teams per floor. Leaving and going back with different teams makes the abyss way more fun (variety, less frustration, plus it's actually quicker than endless retries). It will reset you to chamber 1 of the floor, but if your goal is getting the primos and/or experimenting with teams, it honestly makes sense.
Dont farm for artifacts early, just focus on talents and weapons and character levels. A good set of artifacts for your character is ultimately the last thing you need to care about. And morr often than not a good primary stat as a place holder is way more valuable than trying to get the perfect artifact with the perfect rolls.
I've been playing for about 7 months now and I still learned new things from this video lol, thank you!
I'm a 1.0 veteran, and all I can say these are great tips for new players. You're doing a great job.
For the exploration players: Always keep a few Portable Waypoints in your inventory.
If you spent a while climbing a mountain or to the highest point in a city, plop down a portable waypoint so you can repeatedly glide around to explore more quickly. The same thing goes for spots in Inazuma and now Fontaine that have a lot of puzzles that teleport you all over the place: you may not like where the puzzle teleports you to, so it’s great to have a way back.
If you're not saving for any character in particular, try wishing to get certain characters. Incorporating new skills and gameplay in your battles and exploration will lessen the game burnout while waiting for new content.
Unlocking the treasure compass is also an efficient way to find chests and hidden locations.
The Electro Compass can really help out with farming the Sacred Sakura tree in Inazuma, which has a bevy of rewards available for Travelers
this wrong the blackcliff series is one of the best f2p weapon options and is way better than grinding to purchase a unit
also do wish on the beginners wish as Its only 16 standard wish and most of the wish for it are provided to you completely for free and it essentially just a limited time version of the standard banner also pity on the standard banner doesn't matter as unless you intently spend on it u wont get five star from it for at least 6-7 months it doesnt matter at all
My only 'do's are... take things at your own pace. It's okay if things take a bit longer, the game isn't too difficult anyway. The other? It's never a bad idea to gather materials you need for character/weapon ascension ahead of reaching the adventure rank associated with reaching the next milestone. It'll save you time, since you can just hop back and forth, do a world boss every now and then and it's a good way to not make it too grindy, if you do it sporadically
You forgot the most important: Don't expect challenging gameplay and/or endgame, it's a casual game and you should treat it as such. There's no need to follow a Meta or whatever piss water theorycrafters want you to think, build whatever you want however you want because the damage required to go through the game is so low (I'm doing fountaine with an Artifactless wanderer and it's easy as pie)
Oh, best tip ahead of time, try the interactive map. It serves as a check list of the chests in the world and saved a lot of time when you start using it early.
My most important do not mentioned specifically would be:
Kaeya, Lisa, and Amber constellations are very hard to get, as they are found only on the standard banner, and the odds of getting them get worse all the time as new four stars keep getting added to said banner. If you are at all interested in using any of these characters, get the ones that interest you from the shop every time they are available. As things currently stand, they'll each pop up 2x per year, so it almost certainly will take you multiple years to get them to C6, even with getting them from the shop every time they are available. Even being a whale is unlikely to help much, since you'll be unlikely to toss your money at the standard banner.
For the rest:
When you can access the teapot, it is worthwhile to level it up. Doing so will give you access to the ability to purchase some resin, character xp, and maybe mora every week. Essentially, free resources, and some of the most important ones. And if you want, you can make a pretty home as well. Also, free friendship points for your characters, which will unlock nameplates at friendship 10, if that interests you.
As far as the beginner banner goes, yeah, I'd skip it. It does have the perk of being a guaranteed four star character, rather than the possibility of a weapon that goes with the standard banner, but there are a lot of suboptimal four stars now, and you're guaranteed to get Noelle as one of the two. Personally, I don't recommend her for a new player, due to her slow attack speed and poor energy generation. She's fun at C6, though. You can also always use the banner later, to get a key constellations without dealing with RNG. Useful to get her C6, for example.
I don't think some of the Blackcliff weapons are bad to pick up. Crit stats on weapons are hard to come by for a F2P, and many of the alternative choices are event ones, of which exactly 0 have been re-run or otherwise made available. If you get an early Diluc and you want him to be your main DPS, yeah, by all means, get him a Blackcliff. Same deal if you want to use Kaeya as your first main DPS. But do be aware of the alternatives you can get, and decide wisely. So basically, claymore, sword, and maybe still the polearm (for Xiao) ;) And it most likely isn't worth picking up multiple copies for the refinements. That said, making sure you have Xingqiu and Benny will help your account and, especially in the case of the latter, whatever character you want to power up, more.
Oh, and to add one more big tip:
When you first hit AR45, you'll likely find the AR45 artifact domains to be pretty tough. This is because you'll likely have limited built characters, with lower talents, less optimal weapons, and, of course, weak artifacts. You'll also wind up in situations where the domain you want is resistant to the character you want it for. Using Diluc as an example, Crimson Witch has enemies that resist pyro. So that main DPS you've been focusing on has a decent chance of being less effective on top of all that.
The easy way to get around that: go co-op. This will likely put you in a team with players who have more powerful accounts, and consequently, make it easier to do the domain. Once you do have a few characters geared up, then you'll likely find those artifact domains pretty easy.
Co-op can also be used if you're having trouble with other domains, like weekly boss ones, as well.
I would avise any beginner to wish on the beginner banner and even reroll, since you can get 2-3 characters that can be ascended early on, and you have a very high chance of getting a sucrose, fischl, Bennet and Xingqiu since the poll is very limited. Also, get a Noelle, I'm already at AR 45, I have 20 characters, and not a single claymore user besides her, I would have been mining with baron bunny for a month if it weren't for Noelle.
Yes! I have a c3 Kaeya. I have only seen someone pull a Kaeya once in a video. I thought Diluc would be impossible to get, I have c1 Diluc from "lost" 50/50. He is easier to get than quite a few of the 4* characters, since pulling for 4* runs the risk of possibly getting some 5* you don't want. I got Ayato accidentally trying for someone(I can't remember who) I recently missed out on getting c1 Thoma because I wasn't interested in the 5*. I can't wait for December for my c4 Kaeya.
First one is so important! I don't even know where I heard it before but I'm glad I did. I love Kaeya and I always save to get him from the shop but I've only been playing for like a year so he's only been there twice for me + one from standard banner (C3) and it'll still take me a whole year and a half to C6 if I don't get lucky again. Had I not known early on I'd probably get the tsaritsa before C6 Kaeya 💀
Yeah, I hear so many folks dunking on the Blackcliff weapons when they're not bad stat sticks and have at least semi-useable if conditional passives. The Royal weapons are terrible, but I think it's questionable advice to say the Blackcliff weapons are "a waste", because it might be what someone needs to balance a crit ratio.
Here's mine:
1. Collect your character story keys and unlock them. If you don't you'll be capped at 3 keys and can't binge character story quests until you get more.
2. Learn what every stat does and what characters need what stat and why. You can figure out your own builds by having good stat knowledge and looking at the description of a character's skills
3. Look up builds online to easily see what stats to generally go for and what artifact sets and weapons to use. Sometimes 4 star weapons outperform anything but the signature weapon.
4. Look up the most important world quests and do them asap. It literally improves and changes how much of the content in the open world is available to you. Things like the aranara quest and the golden slumber quest are REQUIRED to get all the dendroculi and access entire regions of the game. These are the quests you want to prioritize and you may not even know how to start the questline. The game doesn't really make a point to tell you "this quest is really important"
5. Character quests can unlock weekly bosses. You must do a few of these in order to be able to level characters. For example, you can't get get characters like baizhu and upcoming ones like Lyney's talents over a certain level without doing Nahida's second quest. Same goes for raiden shogun's second quest.
Barbara / Mona / Klee. the most quintessential and adorable character in this damned game, use this godforbidden material: Philameno Mushrrom, damn thing on top of roofs of Mondstad houses only... you'll never get enough, and is so demanding to farm it. You should grab 5 per day. ... You can stack around 400 while you advance. 10 per day is good enough. - Bad thing is have the character blocked.
Another thing... goddman SPECTER DROPS... reach Inazuma is headache, enjoy beautiful and pure Liyue+Mondstad, better gameplay and characters ever.
Don't max your city trust level to max with only bounties and requests because most world quest give those exp too. Level it up until you get oculi and/or treasure compas and then just go on to the next to save some time because the required exp will increase with each level and city.
The oculi is a consumable so one's you use it you'll have to make a new one so use interactive map first and then use is for the last ones that way you'll save some resources 😊
That doesn't matter. You want to do the bounties and requests for mora anyway so if you max it out before doing the quests it doesn't make a difference at all
I still remember starting the game the very first day it came out. First wish on the venti banner and i got him. Will never forget that.
Building on to your comment about picking up everything given that local specialities respawn every 48 hours and with a single exception are used for character ascensions getting an early start on gathering them saves you from pulling for a character you like and finding that you have none of the ascension materials. Not only are there plenty of maps of where the materials if people are interested but even finding 10-20 per cycle or week starts to add up and leaves you in a much better position in the future. Every little bit helps.
Do: get characters you like playing. There are powerful character who will not fit your playstyle.
I love Ganyu (look, lore, everything), and if I was even halfway decent with the aimed shot mechanic, I would run her non-stop. I'm not, so she's not someone I play with.
Parts of the game are a bit hard, but nothing mandatory in the game is especially difficult. Enjoying your gameplay is vastly more important than chasing the meta. (Unless chasing the meta is itself what you enjoy, in which case go crazy.)
This so much!!! It took me way too long to realize Playstyle/Fun Kit is WAY more important than look/lore/etc. I've been having more fun lately since I started focusing on interesting character kits.
I disagree with avoiding the starter banner. The five stars on the standard banner is pretty diluted and not particularly useful. On the starter banner, you have amazing 1.0 4 stars that immediately unlock great teams. Bennett -> National Core. Fischl -> Lisa Aggravate. Xingqiu -> Lisa hyperbloom. Sucrose -> doesn't go in shop, don't wait a year for national team to complete. Beidou -> faster getting to C2 by months for taser/aggravate. Seriously, 50% chance of massively improving early game teams for 8 wishs is great, far better than getting a gorou or dori or bell from standard banner. In this era of massive 4* pools, having a banner that limits itself to great 4 stars is amazing.
TLDR: I was too impulsive. (Also congrats Jello for very soon to be 8k subscribers considering your current growth rate!)
I spent money too soon. Literally spent for Ayaka, lost to the weird grown up (according to Klee) and then got her right after her story quest. Got Mistsplitter too but it's not that worth it. If i was more patient I would have gotten her regardless and just use the extremely extremely good ftp option the Amenoma Kageuchi (which I have at R5). Now I don't even use Diluc. I've also spread myself too thin by being too curious about other playstyles and not sticking to the best ones for my account like which team type do I have the most characters for.
Imho Mistsplitter is one of the better 5* to get...but especially for Ayaka it is a substantial dmg buff (if i remember correctly it was around ~35%) compared to the next best F2P option.
If someone really wants to play her and got the gems lying around (with no upcoming stuff of interest) the only thing i would recommend to get instead would be Shenhe.. as she buffs Ayaka's dmg even more (~40%) especially for a deep freeze team with Kokomi and another cryo support like Rosaria.
My ass took a break from version 3.1 to 3.8 and I missed all the good new meta characters. I'm only just now getting back into Genshin, seeing everyone with Nahida makes me so sad 😭😭
But your channel has been a really big help for getting me back into Genshin, so thank u sm ♥
Good stuff agreed as a veteran!!! :3 My tip even if not taking a break, Don't stress at all about your resin capping at all as I have found that is the quickest route to a burnt out from so many CC's talking about being burnt out. I usually find that to be one of the biggest factors in that. Even if it might be more efficient it's not worth it in the long run considering the games rng nature.
Also do not use your Fragile resin on artifacts, if you want to you can but considering Artifact RNG is a thing in 100+ artifact resin you still might not get the perfect artifact. So they are better used on overworld boss materials/gems and talent books because those are guaranteed materials. As an example Nahida only just got her overworld in her patch and the same will be said of Focalors, so if you want to use them/new characters coming with new boss materials in the over world on the fly this is worth using fragile resin on.
Are usually my top tips tbh
I am new to you and genshin, i do most of what you have mentioned, there was a few things that I haven't done thank you so much 😊
Do your weekly Bounty and Request from the Reputation vendor even AFTER you maxed all the reputation on every nation. These still give quite a bit of free Mora that doesn't cost resin.
As an AR60 player, every time I watch your videos I just think how helpful it would've been to have videos like this when I started. You're doing the Lord's work Jello, thank you for giving new players actually useful advice
I was so glad that I immediately locked Dark Iron Sword when I got it way back when I started since it perfectly matches Kuki aesthetically, the passive is not that important but the EM mainstat is great in hyperbloom teams
Hi Jello, amazing content, as usual, the quality of your recent videos is really amazing, hope you're doing great!
1. You're mentioning "do not level characters more than lvl 40", while in an earlier guide you made regarding characters, you mentioned lvl 50.
2. The beginner banner. Skipping it makes the early game more difficult (if you're not lucky), I almost regret not pulling on it. I started 2 weeks ago and didn't pull on the beginner banner, after 58 pull on standard banner, I still only have 2 4-stars character pulled (chongyun and rosaria, I'm going reverse melt with XL and 4.0 free Bennet :p).
The beginner banner gives much more characters per wishes (in 18 wishes, 2 characters + 2 pulls at a 9 pity which is high chance). Also, needless to say if you don't get lucky (like I've been) by pulling a claymore user, you can forget about farming crystals until your decide to pull for real. In comparison, with 20 wishes, the standard banner gives you 1 character for sure.
To give you my perspective, one of the issue I faced due to the lack of 4-star characters early is past AR 30, in the transition zone when you need to commit to certain characters and weapons to keep up with the world level increase. I know which characters I'd like to plan my roster for in the future (ayaka, shen-he and raiden) so I'm carefully planning with the characters I currently have and enjoy and imagine team compositions with the character I wanna wish for in the future. Having a pool of more characters during that transition would've helped me more to plan for the future as I would've had more choice and more chance to test different party compositions. The beginner banner will give you more characters (including a claymore user), which, imho, is statistically worth more than 19 pity for a 5-star, at least during early game. Of course, long-term the value of these 19 pity exceed the initial 4-stars you can get, but during the early game, these characters would've made this process easier.
Thanks for the content, good sir.
Great video for people who gave Genshin a chance now or who came back after long 😊 I generally think current patch is not even bad to begin playing due to the summer event, which gives you free tp to Sumeru with magic invitation. I began catalyst only account, because I think current 2 banners been great for it. 100% Agree, people should generally pull for who they like esthetically or gameplay wise over meta. I think my biggest advice would be enjoy the game for what it Is, rather then being upset for what it isn't.
A tip I would have for new players. Is don’t stress constellations. Your early in the game. They won’t matter as much, and you can save until a rerun happens and you can realistically get a few constellations if you saved up all the beginning gems and rewards you will get naturally. In general you can beat the game easily at C0. Artifacts and weapons lvl’d up are way more important on your journey to endgame
DONT use 3 star’s weapons as exp until you check them many are pretty great especially Thrilling tales for Sucrose, Kokomi, and even Barbara as well black tassel for Zhongli if you have him or want him, also pot is low key great for literally farming plants especially mint and sweet flowers for healing food, prioritize characters LV, weapon and talents cause they give guaranteed boosts and more importantly crowns are ONLY events limited so save them for favorite characters and check guides on which talents worth crowning.
Kokomi came home and I am really happy about with just 10wishes and Keqing came with her I don't care what other people think of Kokomi I have her and no one is to tell me how to wish on my Ginshin Impact adventure I am going to anyway I don't answer to other people. I don't care what they think 😅
For the weapons, the 3-star weapons from gambling and from the overworld (chests or talking to NPCs) are distinct. Make sure to lock at least the first copy of an overworld weapon, as you can’t get them back if you accidentally let them get auto-foddered.
As for the side games only the teapot is actually important as it scales up with level iirc and you need a certain level to unlock some things. Absolutely recommended to rush. The other two (fishing and TCG) only offer one-time rewards, go for those once you have time, they shouldn't be neglected, but are low priority because you won't lose any rewards.
I'd also definitely worry about the abyss once past floor 8 and able to do something on f9 and f10 (no idea when that's the case, but I'd estimate in the AR40-50 range). After all the f9+ rewards expire when abyss resets and are therefore time critical. I'd not force it at any cost, just regularly check (e.g. each abyss reset), if you maybe can beat one or two (or even more) of the resetting floors. If it's absolutely impossible, don't lose your sanity, but don't just let the rewards go to waste, because you think "I can't do it anyway". I see enough AR50-55 players profiles, who could easily beat up to f10 or f11 but are still at 3-3, because they straight up quit the abyss after getting Xiangling.
There are around 100 low level artifacts you can find each day. Find a farming route and use them to upgrade and artifacts you want or destroy them for mora.
Yezh you’re right, I probably should do Tighnari
Two of your tips contradict one another. Telling people to go for a copy of sucrose, xingqiu, fischl, and bennett, while simultaneously telling them not to wish on the noelle banner. The noelle banner has a limited pool of 4 stars you can get that contains all 4 of those units. On my noelle banner I got 2 xingqius, fischl, and sucrose. Even if you aren’t rerolling, the banner is discounted on top of the limited pool. You can also get beidou and xiangling.
I always forget to use the parametric transformer
for mid game:
1. dont stressed out too much about crit stats, as long as you have the balance 1:2 ratio with a decent main stat-scaling that those chars need (A.K.A atk/hp/def/em/er, depends), you're good to go
2. DONT FORGET ER REQUIREMENT (it really depends on what teams, situation, rotation are u gonna use that char for)
3. doing a small dmg but consistently is waaay better for the long run than doing one big hit once in a while (for example a taser team)
4. mainstat > substat > artifact sets. AND some characters doesnt even need to use their BiS artifact (like xiao, fischl, yae, haitham, childe, etc)
Personally, I recommend friends with low AR to farm weekly bosses from AR 35, asking for help of course,
That gives them some early 5 stars artifacts (to build just one character with those), talent materials, billets and things like that,
that increases a little their probability of surviving the AR40-45 wall,
At least, maybe I'm biased but the friends I've helped carrying them, haven't had any problem after AR45 when it comes to farming artifacts from domains
my first 5 star was actually keqing! everyone says shes a bad character and cry for losing 50-50 but i actually see her as a win win situation! it was when i took over my boyfriends account as he was lucky enough to get my favourite 4 stars that i wanted on mine and didnt get and he didnt really enjoy the game - then i got her and immediately started using her as my main dps - until now i literally just cant play without her on my team! i couldnt even get back to my own account until i got her finally from losing 50-50 on the latest yoimiya rerun - then i went full on maxing all i could on there as well :D
It always fascinates me that I didn't make any of these mistakes except for the Noelle banner and wasting some of my primos on the standard banner.
Another tip: save your 3* weapons! What I like to do is get two copies of each weapon and refine both of them to R5 overtime as you keep getting them from wishing. So you have two R5 Raven Bow, two R5 Black Tassel, etc. This way you have a bunch of solid weapons for several characters. For example you could give Kaeya an R5 Harbinger of Dawn but then you still have another R5 Harbinger of Dawn for the Traveler or whoever else you wanna give it to, so you don't feel as limited / restricted with who gets what weapon. 4* weapons can be hard to come by so saving and refining those 3*s will definitely pay off. After getting two R5 copies, if you get that weapon again, you can just use it to level other weapons.
My number one, get all your quests done, clear them out, ESPECIALLY STORY QUESTS.
I've had so many archon quest blocks because of stray quests I unlocked and never did, oml, it was painful to do parts of the story quest just enough to unlock the archon quest only to get blocked by another one when I finished a part. Please, before Fontaine, get literally all your quests done or don't talk to anyone with new quests once you clear all the ones on your quest log.
(Yes the story quests do lock things like weekly bosses behind them (if they are archon story quests like nahida, zhongli, and ei for their second story quest) and other archon quests behind them since I think you have to do them to unlock stuff (Itto, Kokomi (they lock the Chasm final questline)))
And don't underestimate the importance of mora and exp books, while at first, mora seems plentiful and you have so much at first, all upgrades to your stuff cost so much mora, from leveling your artifacts, talents, your characters, and weapons, it all costs so much. Especially the first 3, oml they cost so much even when I do ley lines for the day with 160 resin stocked up. ;-;
My tips are: 1 - Fight everything you encounter and loot the items. You never know when you'll need those items for an ascention.
2 - Save your wishes for 5 star characters you really want. If you have at least 200 wishes saved, you'll sure get that char. You can farm EXP and boss items before you get him / her. It will save a lot of time.
3 - Think a lot before leveling up a character. What chars do you have? Can they make a good team? What is it lacking off? DPS? Hydro? Dendro?
4 - Farm cristal cores. You'll soon notice you get double of everything in domains and layline quests for the half of the time. You can store 5 Condensed Resins, which is good if you don't have enough time to spend your resins daily.
5 - And most important. Wait. Yes, wait. Don't use all your resources unless you have what you really want. Farm mora and EXP, they are too important in the late game.
The only weapon i've ever bought in Paimon's shop was the polearm with crit dmg for Xiao when I was a beginner, because it's hard to find good 4* options for him, but I totally agree with you, the weapons there in general are really not worth it, there are much better craftable options.
Yeah... Xiao is the one exception to that one imo
I remember when I started last year, I got a double Itto like 30 wishes in ( have never had that kind of luck since lol) and let me tell you...trying to level him up was a *pain*. Even when I got to Inazuma, I had to take so many boats to get to Tsurumi island....where I found out its basically the Lost Woods from Zelda. In the end I ended up taking my boat as far out as I could to not get caught in the fog and went around to the other side of the island to fight that stupid wolf
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Yes
A lot of people should follow this tip
As a player who only like and pull a very few characters
When i'm no longer hyped for any futur characters i just gather something like 20k primos and then take a break
So when i'll come back i'll be able to pull anyone i want
I did that 2 times recently
When Sumeru was out, i wasn't hyped so i took a break with a bunch of primos
The i loged again when Alaitham was coming, i did a lot of exploration and i was able to gather 40k primos!
When i pulled him and his weapon i've got lucky and still had ~20k primos left
I continued to play a bit and was able to accumulate a little more than 30k primos before taking a break again
Now i got back to the game at the end of 3.7 while I didn't wanted to pull anyone
I just wanted to enjoy the story and exploration i missed
Then the "Final feast" came out...
Right now I have over 60k primos ready to use for Wriothesley and Furina
With this amount I even think about looking for constellations
After them i'm probably gonna take a break again unless there is other charcaters that hyped me and repeat
All that to say that it is quite possible to have a lot of primos, to enjoy the game without burn out just by taking breaks when you no longer feel like playing/nothing hype you/nothing to do
blackliff weapons offer free to play options for most dps builds and work on almost any character, what do you mean don't spend starglitter on weapons
the new fishing sword is pretty boss too. i'm putting it on bennet for now personally. only been really playing a couple months but i'm damn near ready for floor 12, just need to flush out a good second team
I reached AR 57 today. I also found out that Black Iron Sword is a thing that exists today. And I actually needed an EM stat stick. Good stuff all around.
uhh not sure if you missed it or perhaps I missed it 🤣but--
always do your weekly bosses, they are the only ones that drop talent upgrade materials, and ask for help to kill them if you're having a hard time!
easiest way to learn what you should be doing on a daily/weekly basis is to complete the battle pass missions.
Thanks for the video I’m gonna send this to some people who are just starting off genshin, I wish I had this as a guide in 1.0 when I first started playing lol, another tip to add is find a group of friends or friend (whether irl or on discord or through genshin) to play with you to help with exploring, domains and bosses especially if let’s say you need boss materials for a certain character early on