Genshin Impact drops you into a vast open world built around elemental reactions, story-driven exploration, and a growing roster of characters. These guides cut through the noise so you can focus on playing.
Hand-picked guides to get you going. New ones added regularly.
Unlock steps and what changes for all 7 characters: Wriothesley, Yae Miko, Cyno, Qiqi, Diona, Beidou, Mizuki.
02Best Sandrone build: weapon, Disenchantment in Deep Shadow artifacts, stats, and the Electro teammates you need.
03How to unlock the card game, build a legal deck, and play a full duel.
04How the two-phase rotation works, the full 6.7 schedule with dates, and what's confirmed for version 7.0.
05Stop running out of mora: Ley Line Blossoms, Stardust exchange, Spiral Abyss rewards, and daily habits that keep mora flowing.
06Interactive resin calculator — enter your current resin to see when it hits 200, how much generates by any deadline, and how many Condensed Resin you can craft.
07All 6 ascension phases with exact material counts, which world bosses drop which elemental gems, and who to ascend first.
08Pick today's day to instantly see which talent books and weapon domains are open right now.
09Domain day-by-day schedule, total books per talent, weekly boss material drops, and F2P priority tips.
10How to claim free Primogems via codes, where to find them, and why codes sometimes fail.
11Best domains, main stat priorities, how to evaluate substats, and when to stop farming a set.
12Soft pity, hard pity, the 50/50 and Capturing Radiance — how every guarantee works.
13Vaporize, Melt, Bloom and more — multipliers and Elemental Mastery tips.
14The cap, regen math and the exact priority order for every drop of resin.
15Unlock, floors, star rewards and the two-team strategy for 36 stars.
16The best daily AR XP sources and a roadmap all the way to AR 45+.
17Unlock at AR 16, invite friends across platforms, and every co-op restriction.
✦Hidden things the community discovered — worth knowing.
19Genshin Impact beginner guide: Adventure Rank progression, exploring Teyvat, elemental combat an.
20Genshin Impact best characters overview: how to think about roles (main DPS / sub-DPS / support .
21Genshin Impact best team comps for beginners: the elemental reaction archetypes (Vaporize, Melt,.
22Genshin Impact artifacts explained: the 5 slots, main stats vs sub stats, key 4-piece sets, whic.
23Genshin Impact free-to-play guide: earning Primogems, the wish/banner pity system (soft pity ~75.
Every wish banner has a hard pity at 90 pulls, guaranteeing a 5-star character by that point. In practice, soft pity kicks in around pull 74, where your odds of hitting a 5-star jump sharply — most players land their 5-star somewhere between pulls 74 and 90. Your first 5-star on a limited banner has a 50/50 chance to be the featured character; if you lose that coin flip, your very next 5-star is guaranteed to be the featured one. Budget roughly 160 wishes (25,600 Primogems) to secure a limited character through a worst-case lost 50/50.
Focus on raising your Adventure Rank (AR), which unlocks story quests, new regions, and higher-level content. The fastest way to gain AR early is completing story and world quests, opening chests, and doing your four Daily Commissions every day — they award 60 Primogems each day and a steady stream of Adventure EXP. Avoid spending Resin on low-level domains; save it for the artifact and talent material domains that open up around AR 45.
Elemental reactions happen when you apply two compatible elements to the same enemy. The most damage-focused ones for beginners are Vaporize (Hydro + Pyro, 1.5–2× multiplier), Melt (Cryo + Pyro, 1.5–2× multiplier), and Bloom (Hydro + Dendro, which spawns explosive Dendro Cores). Superconduct (Cryo + Electro) shreds enemy physical resistance, making it ideal for physical DPS carries. Learning which reactions your team can reliably trigger is the single biggest damage upgrade available to new players.
Yes, with realistic expectations. Free players earn roughly 50 wishes per update patch through Daily Commissions, exploration rewards, Spiral Abyss, and event Primogems. The entire story, all regions, and all gameplay modes are available without spending a cent. The gacha only affects which characters and weapons you collect. Saving Primogems for limited character banners — and never spending them on the Standard or Weapon banners — is the key habit that keeps a free-to-play account competitive.
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