Top 10 tips if you are just starting out - Genshin Impact

Genshin Impact is a vast game, which easily overwhelms you when you start playing it. To make you game experience more enjoyable and not to miss out on any things I compiled this list of tips for beginner players of this game

1. Anemoculus and Geoculus

Collect Anemoculus and Geoculus, they increase your stamina, allow you to explore faster and also provide some other benefits when upgrading statues.

To not lose track of what you have collected use this website: https://genshin-impact-map.appsample.com/#/

Try doing this as early as possible as you will tear out your hair later on when you will miss 5 or 6 of them

2. Elemental Resonance

There is a mechanic called Elemental resonance, seen in Party Setup screen:

What this means that if you use two characters with the same attribute you get additional bonuses. For a beginner the best one is “Impetuos Winds”, which is obtained by using two Swirl element characters. What this resonance does, it allows you to explore faster, by providing benefits to stamina consumption and movement speed:

3. Weapon upgrading

The main thing to know here is that you should be refining your weapons: means merging two of the same kind weapons. This gives bonus to weapon’s skills, like increased damage under specific element, or hitting weak spots

Now the second part is enhancement, which usually increases your base attack. This is increased by using up 1-3 star items that you have. Of course be careful not to use an item which you are keeping for later use.

You should not be upgrading 1 and 2 star weapons as 3 star weapons are really easy to obtain.

4. Wishes

Once you unlock item shop and wishes, use the banner which has increased drop rates. You can check for what are the increased drops in “Details” part.

This is especially useful if you are a player who is not spending any money, so this will maximize your rewards

5. Stamina Management

Now it is easy to use up your stamina fast, but you should be collecting Anemoculus, to increase it and use Elemental resonance to boost it even more. However, generally if you are doing physically intensive things like climbing + jumping stamina will exhaust much faster. And you will also climb less. So try to find a sweet spot between slow climbing and using jumps

6. One strong party member

You can concentrate on one party member, and level it as much as possible. You can use him to carry your party in tight fights as you level your other members. This will also allow you not to spread your resources thin.

7. Map markers

In this game you can use map markers to remind yourself of important parts to revisit. For example: iron ore or crystal deposits, puzzles which you cannot solve, like having a specific element character, etc.

At the start when I did not have lightning character I used this mechanic to come back to some of the places where this element was needed. So utilize this wonderful tool that game developers have provided you with.

8. Exploration

The interesting thing about this game is that there is so much content: opening chests, solving puzzles, doing quests. However, try to take this all in and do not rush doing the main story. Unfortunately you can only progress by increasing your Adventure Rank and this can mostly be increased by exploring.

it is normal to lose track of what you were doing and seeing yourself at the other side of the map opening some chest at the beach

9. Gathering

Important part of the – you should be gathering everything you see. Of course as you get many of the simple materials, like eggs, radish, etc. you can skip them. However, ores and flowers should be where you invest your time.

Also there are elemental special flowers, where you need to use specific element on them. These are important later in the game

10 Elemental reactions

The fighting mechanics on this game revolves around using character skills for elemental burst damage. For example you can use water + lightning + frost to deal tremendous amount of damage and also weaken the enemy. This can increase your damage output up to 3 times compared to normal attacking

Bonus tip

Do not forget to claim Primogems from Achievements: