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Weapons & Artifacts System

How to upgrade weapon. How to refine. Enhancement Ores. Artifacts. Substats. Set bonuses.
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Weapon Upgrades

levelling up a weapon

Weapons can be upgraded in 2 ways: Leveling them up, or refine them. Leveling them will simply increase their current stats, and also the substat at every 5 weapon levels, while refining them is to increase their weapon effect.

Refine

refining a weapon

Equipments that are at least 3 star rarity have extra effects on them. This effect can be enhanced further if you Refine them, and you do this by feeding them duplicates of the same weapon. The maximum refine rank is 5, so you need 4 other duplicates of the same weapon to max it out.

Enhance

weapon stat comparison

Similar to character progression, you can level up and ascend your weapons. The main difference is that you can feed it any weapon if you want exp, so you don't have to strictly use weapon exp materials, which are the enhancement ores. Once you level them out to their current max, you will need to ascend them.

Enhancement ore
Blacksmith

You can get enhancement ores from various things, but the easiest way is to find mining rocks out in the world, then go to the blacksmith in town, and craft some. Just keep in mind that some of the later rock chunks can be used to craft some weapons, so you might want to consider that before using them all up for enhancement ores. It's also not recommended to over invest in 3 star weapons, since you can get 4 star weapons from gacha, exploration, or crafting.

Artifacts

genshin impact artifact screen

You can simply think of Artifacts as "gears", and there are 5 different pieces that you can equip: Flower, Feather, Hourglass, Cup, and Crown.

Artifact details

Artifacts have a main stat, which is the main number at the top, and substats, the ones below the stars. Flower artifacts will always have flat HP as the main stat, and feather will always have flat ATK, but the other pieces can have different main stats which will be explained more below. Equipping artifact sets can get you extra bonuses as well.

levelling up artifacts

Every 4 levels of an artifact, you can gain a substat, up to a maximum of 4. If you already have 4, then every 4 levels you get will upgrade one of the existing substat instead.

different artifact substats

Artifact substats are kind of random in terms of the number of substats, and also the value of each of them, and so the same gear can have different substats.

artifact filters

You can easily view your available equipment sets by using the filter at the bottom left of the screen. This can make it a lot easier to know what to go for using what you have.

Early on it might be confusing to know what to go for, but you will start to understand it the more you play the game. If you're unsure of what to use, then you can't go wrong with just raising HP and ATK, unless your character is a tank/healer, then you'll want to equip artifacts and sets that increase HP and DEF instead.

Artifacts substats

RarityMax levelBase # of Sub Stats
140
240~1
3121~2
4162~3
5203~4

Generally recommended to start with rarity 3 since it's guaranteed at least 1 substat(s). Early on, you don't really need to get the best possible rolls on them before levelling since it can be difficult to get a "perfect" roll. You will start to get better ones later when you want to farm them from domains.

Artifact TypePossible Primary Attribute
FlowerHP
FeatherATK
HourglassBase HP % / Base ATK % / Base DEF % / Elemental Mastery / Energy Recharge %
CupBase HP % / Base ATK % / Base DEF % / Elemental Mastery / (Anemo/Pyro/Cryo/Electro/Hydro/Geo) DMG Bonus % / Physical DMG Bonus %
CrownBase HP % / Base ATK % / Base DEF % / Elemental Mastery / CRIT DMG % / CRIT Rate % / Healing Bonus %

Percentage substats are only based on a character's base stats + character's weapon atk, which you can view by going to your character screen and tap the "details" button on the right, not on the artifacts section. This means that at early levels, it's better to go for flat numbers instead of percentage increasing stats since your base stats are low.

character base stats

Viewing the details of your characters, the number shown in white is your base stat. For the attack stat, this is already added with the currently equipped weapon, so it's the character's own attack + currently equipped weapon = base attack. The number on the right, with the "+", are the ones that you get from artifacts.

What stat to go for?

At early levels, you will get the most benefit by getting flat attack instead of attack% for the substats. This is because your base stats is pretty low, so getting a percentage off of your base stats won't give you much in return. For the hourglass, cup, and crown, you can simply just go with attack% mainstats.

At later levels, or if you managed to get a good 4/5 star weapon. You can start to consider building for character specific setups. This means elemental damage up on the crown piece, and crit rate/damage depending on the secondary stat of your weapon. If the secondary stat of your weapon gives crit rate, then go crit damage on your crown piece and vice-versa.

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