Genshin Impact Beginner Guide - Powerful Free Account Tips & Mistakes to Avoid

This is a detailed beginner guide for Genshin Impact. This video explains some things that new players will miss, including tips that even some veteran players don’t know, as well as mistakes to avoid when you’re starting out. If you follow this guide you can have a strong account that won’t require you to spend anything on the game!
The guide is quite long (and was originally longer), so feel free to jump around!
00:00 Intro
00:53 The Most Important Tip to Understand
02:25 Manage Resin & Don't Use Resin on Blacksmith
03:56 Leveling Characters
04:42 Max Main DPS First
05:00 Raise Supports after Main DPS
06:20 Ask for Help!
07:31 Get Free 4-Star Characters
08:52 Spiral Abyss + Xiangling
10:31 Free 4 Star-Weapons
11:45 Events
13:15 Prototypes & Crafting Weapons
14:00 Weapons Worth Crafting?
16:06 Hoard Fragile Resin!
18:05 Leveling Weapons
19:17 World Level & Character Level
19:40 Keep Characters One Level Below Max
20:42 World Level Drops + Artifacts
21:24 Use Geo + Anemo Sigils
22:03 Increase Max Stamina
22:30 Map Pins
23:41 Serenitea Pot Free Items
23:51 Wishing
25:05 5-Star Rates
25:28 Character Banner & Rates
26:41 Banner Carries Over
28:03 Getting Guaranteed 5-Stars
29:21 Weapon Banner
30:14 Getting Guaranteed 5-Star Weapons
30:48 Standard Banner
32:19 Guaranteed 5-Star Standard Banner
32:41 Secret Guarantee on Standard Banner
34:20 5-Stars vs 4-Stars
36:37 In-game Shop Tips
39:06 Daily Check-In
40:21 Recap
42:16 Outro
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[@Ghost-uw2cy]

Just a quick tip for anyone struggling to beat bosses or domains, change your signature to something like “need help beating oceanid” and usually higher ar players that are bored will try to join your world to help you out. That’s how I was able to ascend some of my hydro characters because I struggle with that boss, plus I’ve actually made some in game friends from doing that.

[@sharkh3art]

Yeah good tip! I was thinking about that when I added the 'ask for help' section :)

[@sharkh3art]

@@mihchyu Also true :)

[@pr1m3vil3]

Thnx for the advice, usually there’s always a higher lvl that joins for boss fight or farm rare minerals

[@mohdumar4543]

Oceanid is the easiest boss 💀😭

[@alicia-hd2cs]

@@mohdumar4543 not if your main DPS and support are both Hydro.

[@fnxych3penicillin350]

This is the best and most easily digestible Genshin guide out there for beginners. A lot of "beginner" guides spout jargon terms from the game and you feel lost instead of being guided. Thanks for this guide.

[@sharkh3art]

Thank you for the kind words! I'm really glad it was helpful and I hope I can continue to help ppl :)

[@kontrolecavalry]

Was going to type the same thing...its hands down the best guide of the dozens I watched.

[@fnxych3penicillin350]

@@kontrolecavalry 4 months has passed since I began and I'm AR 55 now. Hahaha, I still come back to this guide from time to time.

[@fnxych3penicillin350]

Update. AR 56 and first time 36 starring the previous abyss. Consistently 36 starring the abyss now. I cannot reiterate enough how enjoyable the game became because of this guide.

[@dirkz.duggitz1567]

This is my 3rd beginner video and I'm still lost. Hopefully you're right.

[@skrepon13]

A tip my wife and I use for the exp books. Use the + button with the purple books until it says max, then minus one book. Then use the Blue and Green books to finish off the exp needed for the final level. This saves you from wasting nearly an entire Purple when a Blue or Green will suffice.

[@Greenfrom3]

I do this too 🙂

[@Light-vh9fe]

Been doing it since ar10 thought it's common sense

[@freeheaven5233]

​@@Light-vh9fe yes me too , and it is common sense

[@G4TS634]

@@Light-vh9fe damn I am ar 52 amd didn’t know that 😅

[@HolyInstinctt]

I still don’t understand why I should save purple books, if I want to level a character to let’s say 40 and need 100,000 xp, 4 purple books or however many blue books needed to level up doesn’t make a difference and wouldn’t in terms of “hoarding” them. Isn’t the tip he mentioned basically to conserve xp rather then saving the purple books?

[@John_II]

Great guide as always. These are some things I wish I knew.... DO use the characters you like. Lots of people will say who is "good" or "bad". In the overworld just about everything works, so don't sweat it. A properly levelled team of 4 is better than just making sure you have e.g., Hu Tao because she's "the best Pyro DPS in the game", especially if you don't like e.g., Hu Tao's play style. If you play characters whose style you like or personality you like, you'll enjoy the game a lot more. Do the quests first. Inazuma and Sumeru reward you for doing story first. In fact, some of the world is not unlocked until you do quests for example: Tsurumi island, Seirai island, Tatarigami Reactor, the desert in Sumeru, old varanara in Sumeru. Some areas are simly inaccessible or too dangerous without doing the quests first. DO take the time to find all the oculi and trade them into the statute. DO the reputation quests and bounties for each region. You get cool perks like the treasure compass for that region, or the oculus finder for that region. DO take your time and enjoy the scenery and the music. This game is huge and beautiful, and take some time to just admire the art and the music. "Every journey has it's final day. Don't rush". DO NOT just level everyone you have. I've been playing for a year, and it has taken a year of regular playing to get my like 40 characters to level 80, with a level 80 weapon each, with level 6 talents. I only have like 10 artefact sets and I just share them. If you never use a character, don't bother levelling them. Trust me, it's not a good use of your resources. DO NOT bother using primogems to wish on the permanent banner. Always wish on the featured banner IF it has a character you want. You have the best chance of getting 5* characters that way. Wish on the permanent banner with acquaint fates to your heart's delight. DO NOT use 4* or 5* weapons to level other 4* or 5* weapons, except for refinements. OMFG, I wish I hadn't because it's tedious to wish for weapons or build another. It's not HARD... just super tedious. It takes hours. DO NOT use 5* artefacts to level artefacts. Save them for the artefact strongbox. It beats grinding artefact domains. DO NOT just grind Adventure Rank. Let it happen naturally. It will push your world level higher and higher and you won't be able to keep up unless you keep your characters at the current level.

[@sharkh3art]

A very good list!

[@cajun1253]

Great list!

[@asshh]

Wow ty💚

[@fishbucket2462]

Ik I'm pretty late, but...idk what the hell I'm doing most of the time. I just go around finding those anemocolus/geocolus thingies and just run around like a headless chicken. What should I be doing? I just started 3 days ago and finished the mondstat storyline, but my friend tells me to just keep exploring, but idk what the heck that means...should I be searching for waypoints, follow those blue ghost thingies, fight hiluchurls or just keep doing story quests? I'm ar21 atm

[@user-tu3qh9mn3t]

@@fishbucket2462 how are you doing now cos im at that ar. you got any tips?

[@vincentbarraza1115]

Thank you, bro. I just started 2 weeks ago and messed up a little with my resources. All I can say is what you made here is not a guide but a gracious act of generosity for newbies in the game. You've explained game jargons in lay man's terms and are comprehensive. More power. :)

[@sharkh3art]

My pleasure! I'm glad I can help! ^_^

[@ashriel5438]

started 2 weeks ago and this really helped me as well.

[@bloodgain]

Be aware that -- at least according to some streamer testing -- leveled weapons will confer about 80% or 85% (can't remember which) of their EXP value into leveling another weapon. So if you realize you've leveled a weapon you don't want to use, it's not a complete loss. I'm not sure if they confer their EXP if they were used for duplicates to refine a weapon, though. I wouldn't refine a weapon unless you plan to use it and its bonus ability is valuable to your character/party.

[@sharkh3art]

Very true! Though typically in that case I'd just save the weapon for someone else to use unless it was a white, green, or blue weapon.

[@StrafeWasTaken]

Watching this as I'm downloading the game on my way to start this new adventure (hopefully) without spending any money This really helps, thank you so much!

[@sharkh3art]

My pleasure! I'm glad this helps :) Just remember you'll probably feel like you want to spend on the game, especially if you hit a wall around AR 30 or so--but you don't need to at all! Feel free to ask me questions if you're having any trouble

[@StrafeWasTaken]

@@sharkh3art Thank you so much 🙏

[@raify6381]

@@StrafeWasTaken Just curious, how far have you gotten to by now?

[@StrafeWasTaken]

@@raify6381 Great question! Unfortunately I quit the game pretty early on, trying to focus on a different kind of content for a bit, but will hopefully come back to it once I can do that on the channel!

[@toriwolf5978]

Hope you didn’t spend any money lol I never have not yet not planning on it either lol

[@akashsen357]

This is a great video! One thing I would recommend differently though is that once you have decided you do want to level a character (remember be careful about deciding which one to level), use the 3 star purple books first rather than saving them for last. And never use up all of your 2 star and especially 1 star level mats. But instead of using the 3 star last book to level cap, use books of smaller increment so you save xp. Each star book is worth a certain amount of xp and any over the cap gets wasted so you want to save your smaller books to fill in the gaps and waste less books. For weapons it doesn't really matter what you use first since unused xp gets refunded.

[@FelipeAntonioOnline]

That's what I realized as well. Saving the books don't really make a difference. You're just saving exp in different formats.

[@marcos5472]

This is so well made! It covers literally anything we need to know about competitive play.

[@sharkh3art]

Than you! I made it for a few of my viewers and I'm glad others found it helpful, too!

[@ilmatilan]

weird tip: don't level up your world level until you are ready! It's okay to stay at a lower world level until your characters are built well enough to take on the harder bosses. I made the huge mistake of levelling up my world level to 1 with a team that's level 8-12 and I struggled with every single enemy I encountered for a very very long time. My only source of exp books were from chests where you didn't have to fight enemies and I couldn't progress in any quest as long as it required some form of boss fight. It didn't help that I was completely unaware that you could level artifacts to boost stats and basically fed my characters food whenever I absolutely needed them to fight. It took me about a month to finally be able to handle the bosses at the world level and every day before then was pure misery. I bet my characters have developed digestion problems from being full all the time. (I also didn't pull on the beginner banner but I honestly should've since it will give me at least a 3 star weapon and make me realize you can level them up) Gosh how I wish I watched a video like this

[@studiesinflux1304]

"It depends" because if you hold the world level down far too long, you'll have the world level increase by two instead of one after ascension quests which can be equally unpleasant. If you know the world level increase of two will happen, you'll want to research your characters and weapons to stockpile all the materials and Mora needed to upgrade immediately after the adventure rank increases. (Recall you can up-convert materials at the crafting bench.) You can also claw your way out of a hole using the main character (who gets ascension and constellation materials from the story as well as the 4* Prototype Rancour sword from adventure rank rewards). I've thankfully followed guides like this one and others and the difficulty increase was minimal doing ascension quests the moment they're available. (I'm AR45/World level 6) ... except Oceanid will wipe my party with the birds because I'm 100% melee. I'm preparing Oz (which comes with a complementary Fischl) to deal with that later on.

[@513Blacklion]

Is worldmlevel something you level automatically or you use objects to level? Very new to the game, been playing about a week

[@studiesinflux1304]

​@@513Blacklion World level is governed by adventure rank (and adventure EXP) and completing Ascension Quests. Every ascension quest is the same: You go to a domain and complete what's basically a mini dungeon with different enemies to defeat. You need an ascension quest to go from world levels 1-2, 3-4, 5-6, and 6-7. All the other ones (e.g. 2 to 3, 4 to 5) will happen when your adventure EXP gets high enough, which is what catches players off-guard if they end up at the higher world level without having built up enough gear to survive the higher level enemies.

[@maevethefox5912]

I accidentally did my world rank quest at 26, by clicking the wrong thing in a domain. Now I just hit 30 and there's level 50 dudes coming after me during the main quest.. I can level to deal with them, but it definitely means putting more resources into characters I'm hoping to phase out.

[@darkerdaemon7794]

​@@maevethefox5912I just went into the lubua pool domain with a level 50 team, one was level 48, which ended up being a a 3 way fight with two ruin sentinels and one of the sentinels that flies all at once while being level 60. Those rewards sure looked nice but I wasted so much food before I realized I couldn't do it 😢

[@zvlspm9421]

Ah, I watched a couple of videos like this but I wish I found this sooner. Thanks for this! Really simple and helpful for a beginner.

[@frox2064]

A truly nice and helpful video, a really good summary with just the important tips (I played for more than a month and yet discovered countless interesting tips)! Keep what you are doing, you are doing it great :]

[@jamescomstock7299]

Great guide. Just a single disagreement: you suggest holding back using the purple books and mystic ore to level up until later, but aside from general resource management, the order different levels of experience granting resources are applied doesn't matter because the amount of experience applied is a standard set value. From there it is simple math... The order the numbers are added together doesn't matter, you always end up with the same total in the end.

[@HolyInstinctt]

Thank you, the tip didn’t make sense to me for this reason but didn’t know how to articulate it. Thank you

[@mihchyu]

this is the only guide that really helped me. thank you so much!

[@sharkh3art]

Glad to hear it! I'm happy you found it :)

[@sunkeeper6511]

Amazing guide! Can't even imagine how much effort and time you've put into this video!

[@sharkh3art]

Thank you! It was quite a lot lol

[@sillypotato9516]

Finally found a guide who actually shares every tips and slowly and now I understood especially pity system tysm.🙃

[@darthplaydo]

The spiral abyss is actually how I got my Xiangling up to C3

[@amymalone3995]

Yeah I got Xiangling as a random wish, so when I got her with the spiral abyss it added a constellation.

[@montizorm001]

I've just been playing GI for a month and it is overwhelming. Thanks for all the tips which really helped put me on the right track. Great video!

[@loopingmoon1444]

Thank you. Although I knew most of this already, it was still a chill guide and I enjoyed doing this instead of being productive.

[@sharkh3art]

Haha I'm glad you enjoyed it :)

[@loopingmoon1444]

@@sharkh3art after 15 rerolled accounts, I got Beidou, Bennett, favonius lance and eye of perception in first 16 rolls (along with the noelle you always get). Im finally ready to really start! (Please forgive typos, im new to the game)

[@sharkh3art]

@@loopingmoon1444 Ah great! I'm glad you got those!

[@blubebop]

okay im still deciding on whether to play genshin or not but man i love how you have replied to every comment and that too meaningful replies love the dedication!

[@sharkh3art]

Thanks! Well if you decide to play these videos will help you not make the same mistakes I did :)

[@freelikeatree]

earned a sub. this is a great beginner guide and something I wish I watched before I restarted my account! I'm only at Liyue story line tho so thank god. Will defo start saving my resources!

[@sharkh3art]

Thank you! I'm glad it helped :)

[@oh_meghann5777]

I blew it on the character exp books about an hour ago. I almost knew better but said “stop being a hoarder” oops

[@enriqueramos2426]

Me, being AR55 already : 👁️👄👁️ interesting

[@sharkh3art]

Haha. There's a surprising amount of depth to the game

[@aninjame]

Wow what a cute and clever shark!

[@sharkh3art]

Aww Thank You

[@zenaa96]

Thank you for this wonderful beginners guide and your Character guide as well!! 😊

[@ChrisMcGiggity]

Just started the game and already loving it! (Pulled an all nighter the first day I played and got to AR11 AND pulled kexing on the 10 free pulls I got so I'm blessed for sure!) And learned a LOT from this guide! Ty sir and keep up the great work!

[@cyryllrivera3390]

This is the only guide i understand, much love bro.

[@sharkh3art]

Thanks so much! I'm glad it's been helpful :)

[@piya5891]

really really helpful video, and so well structured too! thank you

[@toriwolf5978]

Sameeeee here ….

[@rileysie]

i was feeling the same thing and im also ar25! did you find that it continued to help you to keep at least one long-ranged leveled? rn i only have amber and im desperately trying to avoid using my stuff on her lmao

[@piya5891]

@@rileysie omg this comment haha. i’m at 56 now. and yes, one of my favourite characters is yoimiya, who has great range as an archer. range can be incredibly valuable when you’re dealing with bosses such as the thunder manifestation on seirai island, but you’re currently ar 25 so that will take a while. i’d say it’s useful to build someone like ningguang or yanfei when you get them, because they can do good damage and provide you with easier ways of dealing with annoying bosses. the game becomes a lot easier over time, so don’t worry and enjoy the ride! genshin is incredibly fun

[@The_Jakermeister]

Started at the end of 3.3 and having a blast. Been wanting to play this game for years but never had a way to (got a PS5 around Black Friday). I'm AR 46 now and got my team of Hu Tao, Noelle, Layla and Xingqiu. They're damn near unstoppable. I've been watching your vids in passing, but as I'm watching this, I see I still need to break the habit of wishing on the standard banner 😅 either way, this is a really helpful vid my dude. Thank you

[@XiaosChannel]

I feel many of these tips are theoretically optimal, but practically leads to burnout, such as conserving mats/resin, not using stardust on drops, and chores like daily checkin. It's not that you're wrong to talk about these, and it's nice to know the more efficient options that are out there, but it's just, as players we all need to gauge how much are we willing to sacrifice in terms of real life time or short-term/earlygame fun for in-game/long-term benefits. After all, this is a game, and it's ultimately about how much fun you're having out of it. Thus the worst mistake a player could make IMO -- maybe except from blowing all your gems on the standard banner -- would be getting intimadated, stressed, or burnt out and quit before you finish the story and see how truly great a game genshin is. Because then you miss out on all the fun you could've had. So if I could add just one tip on top of all this, it would be to manage your stress at an level you can take, and don't feel too bad about the mistakes you made or things you've missed, as new content and events are frequently released, you will get more resins to progress, and gems and banner reruns to pull that character you've missed. drop some of the chores if it starts to feel too much. Oh and you forgot to mention for every new character you get a fate when you upgrade them to their first star, which is pretty cheap to do after you're like AR30 and worth it IMO.

[@anna6221]

Thank you a lot for taking the time to do videos like this !! I just discovered your channel and i regret not watching your content sooner :') i'm really new to genshin (i've been playing for like 2-3 weeks) but also to video games in general, and i had the pleasure to discover that i suck at fighting. i find it reaally stressful and so i end up punching everything without thinking which well doesn't really work. i really like the story and open world, but i definitely could do without the fighting, so so far i've been focusing on doing quests and discovering the world, but my AR and the level of the monsters leveled up and now i struggle to level my characters :'))) i definitely could use advices, especially regarding team composition. I mostly use Kaeya, Beidou and Noelle (my lord and savior) but well it's a struggling team, especially since i don't have super artifacts. So far i also have Sucrose, Kaveh, Candace, Chongyun, Dori and the free characters (not Xiangling and Collei bc the Abyss scares me but i definitely plan to get them. one day). I feel like they're all great characters and i just don't play them right tbh. I apologize for rambling so much, initially i just wanted to thank you for the video but welp

[@JonasBecker]

Amazing guide which helped me a lot in the past few first days of the game. Thank you so much for not using the pro jargon, so we newbies can understand it! :)

[@sharkh3art]

My pleasure and glad it helped!

[@fireflieer2422]

awesome video! I think this will be very helpful further on since I just started out

[@sharkh3art]

I'm really glad to hear that!

[@Milattina]

Thanks for the video. I'm glad I didn't upgrade much or wished like crazy (got Noelle). I just started the game a couple days ago and now that I've explored a bit and got used to the world (rank 8, lvl 15), I'm ready to start managing properly. I plan to remain F2P. I'm playing on a PS4, so how do I claim the daily log in rewards? If I try to claim it from a browser it says I don't own any characters. Did I miss a step? Do I need to bind an e-mail in-game?

[@sharkh3art]

I think you have to log into the hoyolab directly and possibly link your PS$ account. The login spot should be on in the upper right (it will be a grayed-out silhouette if you aren't logged in). Here's the link: www.hoyolab.com/article/217256

[@pvpwarlord9012]

Youre gauranteed to get noelle reroll lol

[@didemaydin-bf4ck]

You definetly deserve far more likes than 6.4K. A lot of effort, time aand energy. Thank you.

[@Bearpvnxxx]

just starting the game, really helpful and you have a calming voice ngl

[@sharkh3art]

Thank you!

[@hokageeq]

Thank you so much for this Guide. I really appreciate the time you’ve invested into this and thank for helping the Genshin community ☺️

[@gabrielmarquez4390]

1 year later and this guide is very helpfull. Thank youu!!

[@pencilonpaper1026]

I messed up on my main and tried to build up too many characters at a time. You honestly helped me get back on track back then and this helps with my side accounts as well so I don't do the same thing xD 💙💙💙

[@MxHQAZTEK]

I'm leveling up all like 12 I'm taking the game super slow. I don't want to finish the game quickly because all veterans of the game regret not taking their time and enjoying the gameplay

[@atomotron]

This guide is very detailed and accurately put together. When I started to play, I knew nothing about these kind of games. No previous JRPG or gacha experience. I've learned the game extensively for a few months to get to the point where I could say I knew most of the things I need to know. However, if I'd stumble upon the guide like this I'd probably quit back then. Because what I really need is to lean how to have fun in the game. This guide, while being helpful and everything, makes the game seem like another labor instead of fun way to spend your time.

[@Maeda_Toshiie]

Xiangling on her own isn't really that broken on her own (nor XQ). What makes her broken is putting her in the same team as Bennett and XQ. Snapshot + constant hydro application + Pyronado = Big numbers (and Bennett to help in recharge). And her BiS weapon is completely farmable for free... by fishing! Add in a properly equipped Sucrose and you get bonkers DPS. Oh and XL @ C4 too. It's such that I benched Diluc (my first 5*) right away after I drew him; I have no reason to build him at all. Ok, maybe at a later date for another team. Meanwhile Bennett is broken in any team you put him in.

[@aa-tx7th]

...pyronado is broken with ANY character that can thrown an element with their normal attack, wtf are you talking about? i can kill the two mondstat weekly elite world bosses in seconds at ar29 with just lisa and barbara at lv 40-50 with jank lv 30 4 star weapons just trading normal attacks... and then throw xingling's pyronado into the rotation and all my resin is gone in less than five minutes and in DROWNING in ascention items and artifacts ive snapped the blue dragon's claws in 5 seconds and killed it in under a minute lmao this game is insanely easy. all it is is just a way to chill, explore a gorgeous world, watch digital t!ts and a$$ bounce around, and for mihoyo to seperate whales' money from their wallets.

[@akbar8427]

@@aa-tx7th wow dude. Calm down. At ar29 you haven't seen anything yet. The game only starts to get hard at world level 5. And if you go to 6 at ar45 you'll probably want to cry. Best advice, don't do the world level upgrade quest and play on world lvl 5 untill it becomes too easy for you.

[@MathewHargreaves]

I want this man to read me to bedtime stories to help me sleep, his voice is so gentle 🥺

[@sharkh3art]

This can be arranged. Someone actually donated for me to do this already xD You can listen to it here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/qpTOd3uIYq2omM0

[@MathewHargreaves]

@@sharkh3art I have my new bedtime routine🤣

[@sharkh3art]

@@MathewHargreaves Hehe nice I hope you sleep well ^_^

[@muhammadaaqil9164]

Thank you so much Sensei! You are a blessing!

[@sharkh3art]

Aww! My pleasure

[@jellybeannzz]

this is a great guide and with that soothing voice im all in

[@sharkh3art]

Thank you!

[@n3vulaa]

I started a week ago- for some reason, I don't know why- but it is definitely a confusing game. I do have a couple of friends that play the game though, thankfully :D I managed to roll for beidou, xianling, bennet and a few others on the beginners banner.

[@finn9729]

Dang, this is a long video... I'm creating an account tomorrow so this will probably help me a lot. Thank you.

[@sharkh3art]

Glad to hear it! It was WAY longer initially...this is the cut down version. Please use the timestamps to find specific things! If you have questions don't hesitate to ask as well :)

[@brandonmohan9452]

Just built my first pc and can finally play your guide will be a great help

[@sharkh3art]

Oh nice! Congrats!

[@kevintoretto9356]

Built my Prototype Archaic for Beidou. Absolutely worth it. Quickly upgraded it to 3* deals pretty good damage.

[@sharkh3art]

Nice!

[@user-cn4mx9sw9b]

This is a really good and informative video.

[@sharkh3art]

Thank you! There was a lot more but it was already too long lol.

[@unik9018]

really great video , i pretty much followed as main guide to build my own accounts thanks alot

[@sharkh3art]

I'm glad you liked it!

[@zen9842]

This is amazing thank you SO MUCH

[@user-or3cj1ci6d]

Ik I'm super late here but I've basically been focusing on leveling up swords and weapons mainly so I can ascend them. That's pretty much my no. 1 priority besides getting some of the better characters. I'm not sure if I'm doing anything really wrong yet, since the only bosses I've really come across that are hard are the higher-level ruin guards or the huge geo monster thing in the ruins. Currently, I'm AR 20 so I'm trying to clear Spiral Abyss floor 4 to get one of the characters you can get from there. I main Noelle rn but I'm starting to lean towards Rosaria because she attacks way faster than Noelle does.

[@masumasyeda5405]

Thanks for giving a lot of information in a simple way without screaming & irritating...😆...I've downloaded this game a week ago & I'm at ar 25....so I needed some info & I've got alot from your video...thank you ☺...but just to make sure I wanna ask u which banner is good...character event or standard ? Coz I did not get any character from any banner so plz suggest...

[@sharkh3art]

The Limited Character event banner is the best for anyone who is starting out--however this current banner may not be the best as you have to go to Inazuma to get Itto's materials. I'd suggest saving you primogems for patch 2.4 in a few weeks and going for Xiao (first half of 2.4) or Ganyu (Second half of 2.4). Ganyu was in another vid I made about the 4 most OP characters in Genshin. You don't want to use primogems on the Standard banner b/c it will always be around, and you will slowly but surely acquire the Acquiant fates used to wish on the banner as you play the game. The standard Banner also only has the "Standard" 5 star characters and weapons, and unlike the Limited Banners, there is no way to guarantee getting a Specific 5 Star or special limited character.

[@CaniBee]

This video helped a lot. Thank you sOOoo muchh!

[@sharkh3art]

My pleasurer! I'm glad it helped ^_^

[@wegypt9612]

Really great video I had to subscribe ☺️

[@sharkh3art]

Thanks so much!

[@johanliebert9247]

My ar14 account has Kamisato Ayaka,Sangonomiya Kokomi,Nahida,Razor,Xiangling c1,Xingqiu,Fischl c3 ,Bennett,Noelle c1,Diona,Sucrose,Rosaria,Yanfei,Thoma,Sayu c2 and Dori c1. Please recommend me some team comps and also recommend me the characters i should pull for next.

[@Yoysoysos]

his voice so relaxing

[@shoal.2328]

I did not even know there was a puzzle that you need to solve to go to the musk reef i just glide all the way there because i dont know the orb teleport you to musk reef

[@amymalone3995]

I actually like the daily log in being separate from the game. With my work schedule I dont have time to log into the game on my PC but I do have 2 minutes to check in on my phone to get free items!

[@harrygohr]

thank you started last week this helped alot!

[@DWicked420]

You make it very easy to get back into GI, logged in for the first time in 2 years and seen my FTP account still had C5 XianLing and C3 Fischl 😅

[@vxtsxr2425]

I'm AR 38 and just got inazuma so i'd say I'm pretty in the middle of the game. but these tips are stuff I never knew! great video

[@sharkh3art]

Thank you! I'm glad they are still helpful

[@YunaTakeuchi]

Excellent guide !!

[@sharkh3art]

Thank you!

[@alimafi8561]

Thank you for your help

[@BellaGem]

Love your vids. Thank you 😊

[@sharkh3art]

And thank you!

[@chevalier5691]

This is a very immaculate dub of a guide.

[@sharkh3art]

Thank you :)

[@MB-em9ek]

Thanks a lot for the "Daily Check-in" feature. I had no idea it existed and as a F2P player the 60 extra primogems per month are always good to take.

[@MW-cx3sb]

Cheers man for the guide

[@sharkh3art]

My pleasure

[@l7767]

Great guide. I started because I wanted Ganyu and Zhongli. I'm AR15 atm and can't argue with Ganyu, Mona and Qiqi so far. 8 more days to get Zhongli!

[@sharkh3art]

That's a great start! Good luck on Zhongli! I use him all over haha

[@l7767]

@@sharkh3art I lost the 50/50. Still got all my 5* crazy early but lost both my 50/50s and sad now 😂

[@l7767]

@@n.8224 Mona summon 2, Ganyu summon 4. I ended with a C1 Mona, Jean and a Zhongli, still without spending before I gave up and quit lol

[@l7767]

@@n.8224 Yes I got Qiqi in the beginner banner. Then on the second summon on Ganyu banner I got Mona, then on the fourth summon I got Ganyu. On the Zhongli banner I lost the 50/50 and got Jean, then got Zhongli in another 12 summons. The second Mona came on the standard banner, at my pity I believe I was unlucky but also very lucky at the same time

[@l7767]

@@n.8224 Just grinding the game early, you get so much to wish with. Plus I got all my 5* before pity which was the lucky part

[@Mikey-go7yo]

I have a specific question; I am currently at world level 25 and have been using razor as my main DPS, but I was more so waiting until a better character came around to switch him out (which didn`t happen) he is currently at lvl 40 and I am hesitant to put more ressources into him but at the same time I am getting really slow because I stopped leveling. Do you have any suggestions?

[@Pughhead]

4:00 You have to though, you can't progress with 1 high level character and 3 low level supports.

[@Yotes_]

I just found you and damn, I like your voice. the whole video looks wholesome! I'm rerolling until I get Diluc

[@sharkh3art]

Aww thank you!

[@Yotes_]

@@sharkh3art thank you for making a awesome video!

[@sharkh3art]

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[@Yotes_]

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[@jyeonsx]

my tip is: dont mind opening chests. lots of people say its better to open them and explore when youre already world lvl8, but honestly, most of what you get there wont be too useful in late game. its way more useful when youre early gaming, needing artifacts and talent books im f2p, ar58 and i never regretted getting some chests in my early game

[@jbeezy922]

Great video.. I just started the game, yeah I am late but I am liking It so far.

[@piya5891]

i appreciate the tip about saving experience books, but i’m finding it difficult to implement. i’m adventure rank 25 and due to get a 5 star character soon (about to hit soft pity). since that new character is very likely to be a better dps or support than my existing characters, i’ll have to work on levelling them up to almost my current ascension level, which will use up a ton of exp. the problem is that since the game is getting harder, i’m also having to keep levelling up my current four star team to match their ability. it feels like a waste to level up my current four star team knowing i’ll abandon them eventually. is this something most players go through? and is there any way around it?

[@TheKnightOfBuquicious]

It's not a waste to level any character, even if you stop using them you can always decide you wanna use them later on for something when you know more about the game and stuff, but you should always be leveling up a core of few characters until you get to the max rank and the endgame at which point you can branch out more (you can do it before too) so yeah, besides it's not just about leveling your characters, a large part of their total power comes from also leveling their weapon and talents and artifacts that have the correct main stats and set, so don't ignore any of those aspects

[@Maeda_Toshiie]

In some sense, yes. However, you can look at the versatile characters that you have and focus on them, since they can feature in multiple team compositions.

[@starrykuns]

the way i just started the game recently and am at rank 23 feeling the exact same way like i don’t wanna level up my characters if i know i’m not gonna use them but i NEED them to be higher levels so that i can progress..

[@piya5891]

@@starrykuns oh it’s been a while since i posted that comment. i’m ar 56 now so maybe i can offer some advice. the four star team i was using back then (xiangling, xingqiu, kaeya etc) are still characters i use today, and are still worth levelling up even if they’re not going to be your priority in the future. it’s not worth hoarding exp for a future character and then struggling to fight bosses because your current characters aren’t invested enough. i used kaeya as a main dps until i got to ar 45, and he was perfectly functional since i invested in him. just choose from the characters you have now that feel fun and strong and you’ll never go wrong investing in them. most characters are pretty decent, after all, and a lot of four stars are very busted (benny, xingqiu, fischl, beidou, etc)

[@starrykuns]

@@piya5891 thank you for this!

[@amouramarie]

Great guide! (I took notes lol) I'm just downloading the game now (though it's not my first gacha game) and this will help a ton. :)

[@TheIdleCrow]

Helpful video. I am a semi new player & I learnt a little from your video! I've mostly been doing things right. Besides this one time where I increased my world level by accident when I wasn't ready. Long story short is I was high doing random things and ended up accidently going to the place you had to clear to increase the world level. I was trying to avoid that. I even made warning marks on my map to remind my stoned self NOT to do it.... But I did... lol But I am Adventure rank 5 & world level 45, with multiple 5 stars & my main team averages around level 75 with some 5 star items leveled to at least 8 some 16. a few max. Also most of my weapons are level 70 One 5 star, everything else 4 star. I mostly use Diluc & Lisa with Qiqi & the next character I swap pending situation.

[@MythicHuskii]

Ok so I’m in a dilemma. So I started playing Genshin not too long ago. I didn’t know what team I wanted to go with I I just kinda kept keeping everyone on the same level. Then few days ago, I got Yae Miko on my first pull, and she was the only five star I REALLY wanted. Now I pretty much know what team I’m going to go with. However, almost every character I want takes forever to level, and until then I’m stuck with the base cast. So… what do I do? Incest in my starting cast or save to invest in my much more long term team?

[@sharkh3art]

Don't spread your resources too thin! Just invest in ONE character that can help you clear most of the content. Typically that's a DPS, and if you like Yae I'd recommend her, but you need to unlock Inazuma for that so you may be a ways off. But as long as you have one main character who can carry you you'll be fine. Just slowly build your team and save your resources!

[@andrewpaul8732]

AR 16. Noticed pretty quickly the main character won't be my main. Shooting fire arrows at enemies at a distance and weak spots is great. And popping that fire with frost does heavy damage and doesn't throw enemies around as lightning does. Got qiqi in my first beginner wish I have her on my boss kill team so I don't have to waste food and I get the elemental bonus for having 2 frost players on my team. So far having a blast with the game. Doesn't feel PTW just yet.

[@eugenehardy5298]

I just started this game. Thank you, very useful video, but im feeling im stepping into the abyss with no return...

[@sharkh3art]

Don't worry, you'll make it out alive

[@SirKnasher]

idk If you (or anyone) will see this but I'm constantly switching my team out because I can't decide on who I want. As of right now my entire roster consists of: Yanfei, Fischl, Barbera, Noelle, Xiangling, Diona, Amber, Jean, Ningguang, Rosaria, Kaeya, Lisa, Beidou, Kirara, Bennett and Xinyan. Any time I look up any sort of guide or help it's always geared towards late/end game stuff and whenever I look up leveling guides I get contradicting info, saying play whoever you want but then I need to only focus on one or two characters yet doing so will mean I'm potentially wasting resources if I've leveled up a generally poor character. Out of the characters I have, who would you focus on, I'm using Yanfei as my main and using Fischl to get procs, Barb for healing and Noelle for shield.

[@tacournaco]

Gotta say as relatively new player, just reaching adventure rank 26, I definitely messed up with dumping all my heros wit into characters I don't use or need "cough" Barbara "cough" but I was lucky enough to get kequing. Being a free to play player I know it's gonna be a insane grind to get more/better characters but I love the game and I'm here for it

[@sharkh3art]

Nice! At least you found out relatively early and didn't get to like AR 40 before realizing the mistakes xD

[@bleuemoone8710]

If I already have unlocked Xiangling, do I get a constellation if I play the spiral abyss? Also can I use Jean as my main dps even though she does support stuff?

[@sharkh3art]

If you already have Xiangling you should get a free constellation when you unlock her in the spiral abyss. Jean will definitely work as a main DPS for a good portion of the game :) Plan to eventually build her with the VV 4 pc set, since she'll eventually transition to more of a supporting role once you get other character who are meant to be carries.

[@themoetzilla]

You have a really soothing voice, almost like a not too cheeky Kaeya

[@sharkh3art]

Ahaha thank you!

[@kaylay65]

I've been playing this game for months and I'm just finding out about some of the thing you've mentioned. A daily check-in??? Excuse me?! So yea, I'm definitely joining the discord when I get the chance

[@poorvasinghal3967]

Finally a fool proof guide. Thank you fo making this

[@sharkh3art]

My Pleasure!

[@teogheorghiuc]

05:30 I didn’t know about that but my team contain DPS/Aether Off field -Xianling support -Fischl and Xinxqu

[@sharkh3art]

Cool! I made the vid to help spread info the game doesn't tell you, so I'm to help

[@angellynette8258]

I really wish we could reset characters but I know that would never happen in this type of game. I made the mistake of trying to level way to many characters and wasted resources.

[@sharkh3art]

I did the same. Luckily if you take some time you can build things right. It might slow your overall progress but it will be worth it :)

[@asimgupta2322]

Thank you so much

[@sharkh3art]

My pleasure

[@queenta1812]

Thanks for the tips it's very helpful, I'm a new player and I'm at AR24 almost 25. I wanna ask for team building tips, I have Bennet and Chongyun both at lv39 and lv40 weapon and I also use lv19 Barbara and lv20 Lisa for trigger the elemental reaction. Since I don't have any 5★ or any main DPS character yet, what character should I get for my main DPS? note : I want to keep Bennet and Chongyun for my team And for leveling the statue... should i give the anemoculus/geoculus to the same statue or should I give them to the statue in another place?

[@Rage-_-Quit]

Been a year since I played and maybe she got nerfed, but I remember Jean was pretty OP as an early main if you got lucky to pull her, DPS + CC + Healing in one was completely broken lol

[@aa-tx7th]

kept rerolling for either jean or diluc, got insanely ridiculously lucky and got jean during reset 4 or 5. she's my only non traveller 5 star and i have LEISURE CRUISED to AR 30 and at least 8 charcaters between lv40 and 50 with her as an all around dps burst and healer with lisa and barbara trading normal attack for the constant and extreme elemental reaction damage and whoever else has the element that would make whatever im doing easier, usually rosaria or the fire panda girl from the people's choice perma event im about to try to pull for ayaka and if i get her im literally set for the rest of the game lmao it's isane how easy this gamr is to ftp. even easier if you spend for the welkin moon like i have. you could cruise without pulling any wishes just as long as you plan carefully, use your resin wisely, and keep your character and equipment levels up. thats literally it lmao.

[@CoyotePark]

Tons of useful tips for newcomer!!

[@sharkh3art]

Glad to hear that!

[@tacournaco]

Also gotta say great video, I learned an incredible amount! Blows my mind this game is free lol

[@sharkh3art]

:D

[@johnroces9006]

im newbie and owned hutao on her first run im planning to up sucrose and xiangling now didn't know they were good

[@sharkh3art]

Yep! Xianling is a really good pyro dps becuase of her elemental burst. You can run her on the opposite side of your Hu Tao team in the abyss and generally get very good results. Sucrose is really good because of the Viridescent Veneerer Set and because she can swirl with her auto attacks to enable the VV Set bonus very frequently.

[@hikigayahachiman1735]

Hello! I am a new player, and you mentioned in the video that players should just focus on building one main dps character at early stages of the game. I actually want the traveler to become my main DPS (cause he's the MC lol). is it good? or should I choose other characters? I'm in AR 8 btw, still new, but I think that I already need to make good decisions while it is still early XD.

[@sharkh3art]

MC is better as a support but you can make them an on field DPS ^_^ Just make sure to have some strong supporting characters.

[@andresetiadi3787]

Thank you so much for the advice! very helpful! Beginner here. Currently at AR24. Have kaeya lv40 Traveler lvl 35 xiangling lvl40 Barbara lvl 20 amber lvl 21 lisa lvl 20 I don't have main DPS right now. do you have any advice how to get main DPS character? because we got random hero at gatcha (wishes), right?

[@sharkh3art]

Kaeya actually makes a great main dps, I recommend using him :) Basically wishing is the only way to get new character outside of some events every few months that will give you a free 4 star. I recommend focusing on Kaeya as a main dps and Xiangling as a sub dps then look for characters like Bennett & Xingqiu on the limited character banners.

[@Camothor10]

I used to play at launch and quit because my console broke and now that I am coming back I am insanely lost. There are double the characters now than when I played last

[@sharkh3art]

Yeah there's a lot more now than around launch that's for sure :) But most of the best characters like Bennett, Xiangling, and Xingqiu have yet to be powercrept.

[@gamingwithpriyanshu2.047]

Nice video good job

[@sharkh3art]

Thank you!

[@cheken4326]

I started playing Genshin day 1, but only got around 30ish days played and stopped playing around the end of the initial release of Childe or end of second regions story. I spent a bit of money on the game back then, got myself a WGS and Skyward Blade as well as C0 Diluc and C1 Mona for 5 stars and was AR 44 when I stopped playing. Felt like getting back into things to try out the new areas and boy am I struggling because I did everything you shouldn't do when I first started back then... I have no levels on a lot of my weapons, and no spares to throw in for exp currently, I have no books to level characters as most of them are 50+ and I seem to struggle to do any real damage at WL5. Would it be worth dropping the world level down to 4 temporarily until I get used to things again? Since the focus would be to improve things like my main weapons on the two dps and their talents, most of the materials I need are from domains anyway and the rest are low tier mats that can still be farmed off WL4 mobs (greys and greens) or should I be able to deal with WL5 when most characters outside the two main dps ones are level 1-40?

[@drakefoxphyre]

I'm mostly new to the game(rank25). I wanted to main Raiden, and I have Sara, Bennett, and Xiangling to support. But since I don't get access to Inazuma until later, I'm stuck at level 40. I haven't upgraded my world level, so I'm stuck at level 25 AR. Will I be able to beat the content to get to Inazuma with a level 40 team?

[@sharkh3art]

The enemy level will scale with your world level, so you should be okay once you unlock Inazuma. However, the monsters will probably be harder because they're generally a lot tankier. I'd focus on your building Bennett and Xiangling as those are some of the best units in the game---and they can carry you until you can raise Raiden more :)

[@titushill9862]

Fantastic😊