Develop Your Serenitea Pot

The Serenitea Pot is a late-game gadget that spirits you away to a magical realm sealed within in a tea pot. This tea pot is Genshin Impact’s version of player housing, and it offers a robust selection of structures, furnishings, and ornaments to craft the fantasy getaway of your dreams. You’re fairly limited when you … Read more

Don’t Skip Events

Genshin Impact entices you to log in on a daily basis to complete commission quests for a handful of free Primogems. For low spenders, these gems go a long way toward spending Wishes on limited-time Event Banners(Opens in a new window). In addition to these daily chores, developer Mihoyo introduces special events on a bi-weekly … Read more

Some other things you should know

Always stop to collect any Amenoculus, Geoculus, or Electroculus you see floating nearby. These collectibles can be traded into the Statues of the Seven scattered around the world to upgrade them. Doing so gives you a bunch of rewards, including more stamina so you can climb higher or windglide for longer. These guides for Anemoculus … Read more

Cooking isn’t just for fun

Though cooking might seem like a bit of a novelty, food is very powerful in Genshin Impact. Eating meals is one of the only ways to revive characters, but food can also increase stats, grant immunity to status effects like the cold in Dragonspine, or just straight-up heal you. This is why it’s always useful … Read more

Remember you can lower World Level

In Genshin Impact, the difficulty of enemies, bosses, and the quality of the rewards they drop, is determined by world level. But as this scales with adventure rank, and not the actual level of your characters, difficulty can sometimes catch you off-guard. If you’re finding things tough, you can lower world level by one in … Read more

Spend all your damn sigils

It’s easy to forget Sigils even exist. They’re a type of regional currency earned from chests or sometimes found while exploring and, if you’re like me, you probably are hoarding them for some inexplicable reason. Stop that. The sigil store (there’s one in Mondstadt and Liyue) offers a finite selection of ascension materials, mora, weapon … Read more

Use the map to mark everything

The world of Teyvat is full of secrets, but occasionally you’ll run into one that doesn’t have a clear solution. You might need a certain elemental ability or better stats, or you’re just not smart enough to figure out the puzzle. Whatever the reason, make use of the pins on your map to mark that … Read more

Learn how to build characters and create a balanced party

This might sound obvious, but Genshin Impact’s combat centres heavily around elemental abilities, and how you combine them to create powerful reactions that can freeze, melt, or electrocute enemies. How you build and achieve these reactions depends on the combination of characters you have in your party, and how you use their elemental skill, burst, … Read more