9 Game-Changing Genshin Impact Tips for Beginners

Genshin Impact is a sprawling open-world RPG for mobile and Windows PCs that’s easy to get lost in. Although the game guides you through the basics, getting started in the world of Teyvat still isn’t necessarily entirely straightforward. This is a game that features a variety of character upgrade systems, elemental combat, different currencies, resource management, and other world mechanics for players to get to grips with. So, there are numerous interconnected systems for players to master in Genshin Impact. Here are some Genshin Impact tips that can be game-changing for beginners.

Get Cooking

Cooking is an essential ‘ingredient’ for combat survival in Genshin Impact. A few things will help you complete quests more than carrying a good supply of food for healing and reviving your characters, which is especially crucial in dungeons. So, make sure you stock up on cooking ingredients scattered throughout Teyvat. Although you can pick up many free ingredients, I also recommend purchasing food from city markets. Cooking pots are easy to find, and the best time to get cooking is before entering dungeons.

Character revival and healing foods are most essential. However, those foods that increase character attack and defence for a limited time can also come in handy for time challenges and bosses. Eating foods that increase your characters’ attack strength can help you complete time challenges and defeat bosses.

One thing to pay attention to when cooking is proficiency. Hitting the sweet proficiency spot on the cooking bar a certain number of times unlocks auto-cook for food. Then you can select to automatically cook a set quantity of food to save time.

Aim for Barrels

Barrels are among the most prevalent environmental hazards in Teyvat. A barrel will explode when you fire a barrel at it. So, try utilizing barrels to your advantage by firing at them with Amber when enemies are standing around them. A Pyro barrel explosion can inflict significant explosive damage on nearby enemies.

Activate the Teleports

Teyvat is filled with Teleport Waypoints that make it much quicker and easier to get around the map. However, you have to activate the Teleports to utilize them. So, make sure you set aside some time to activate the Teleport Waypoints to establish an extensive fast-travel network. Doing this will enable you to complete Daily Commissions somewhat faster. Activating those Teleports is also a good way to amass more Adventure Rank EXP for levelling up.

Master Elemental Combat

Genshin Impact combat is based on the seven elements of Pyro (fire), Hydro (water), Electro (lightning), Cryo (ice), Dendro (nature), Geo (earth), and Anemo (wind). Mastering the chemistry of elemental combat can considerably boost your combat proficiency in Genshin Impact. You can create damaging reactions by combining one elemental attack with another. These are some of the core reactions to create by combining elemental attacks:

• Overloaded: Electro + Pyro
• Freeze: Hydro + Cryo
• Vaporize: Hydro + Pyro
• Electro-Charged: Hydro + Electro
• Superconduct: Cryo + Electro
• Melt: Cryo + Pyro

To better exploit the elements, you need to form teams that include elemental characters that synergize. For example, you can trigger most of the more basic reactions above with a team of Hydro, Cryo, Electro, and Pyro characters. The Vaporize and Melt reactions are good ones for beginners to trigger to inflict high damage numbers on enemies.

Heal Your Characters at Statues of Seven

Statues of Seven are like Teleport Waypoints, but don’t forget you can also utilize them for healing your characters. First, make sure you activate any nearby Statues of Seven you see. Interact with the Statues of Seven to select the Statue’s Blessing option for reviving and healing characters. Utilizing Statues of Seven for healing characters will enable you to save your food items for dungeons and map bosses.

Get New Characters by Wishing

The best way to unlock new characters beyond playing through story questions is to wish for them. Wishes will usually get you more gear, but sometimes they’ll unlock new characters to play with. When you reach Adventure Rank 5 and finish the Archon Quest “Knights of Favonius” quest, you can select a Wish menu. Then select to make some wishes with Intertwined and Acquant Fate amassed.

If you don’t have much Intertwined Fate or Acquaint Fate, try exchanging Primogems for more Fates. To do so, select the Shop menu and Paimon’s Bargains in Genshin Impact. You can then select to exchange Primogems for Fates from there. Genshin Impact also prompts you to exchange Primogems for Fates when you don’t have enough for wishing.

Utilize Cryo in the Rain

Whenever it starts to rain, switch to the Cryo Kaeya character. The rain will soak all enemies around you, making Kaeya’s Cryo element all the more potent. Attacking all rain-soaked enemies with Kaeya’s elemental attack will freeze them, enabling you to control battlefield engagements.

Find Buried Chests

Teyvat is full of chests, including many that are buried. There are many buried chests that are much harder to find in Genshin Impact. To help you find them, check out this Genshin Impact interactive map that shows all the buried chest locations. Then head to their locations and select the Dig option to unearth those buried chests.

Don’t Forget About the Adventurer Handbook

The Adventurer Handbook includes a series of useful tabs that can help you find boss enemies and domains to complete and claim rewards. Competing investigations on the Experience tab in the Adventurer Handbook is a good way to amass Adventure Rank EXP and other bonuses. Plus, you can find bosses from whom you can obtain materials by viewing the Enemies tab in that handbook. Or select to start Spiral Abyss challenges from the Domains tab.

So, make sure you check out the Adventurer Handbook when playing Genshin Impact. Admittedly, I myself ignored this handbook too much when I started playing. Only when I looked at it did I realize how the Adventure Handbook can be a game-changer.

Those Genshin Impact tips can be game-changing in numerous ways. Such tips will enable you to collect more loot, combat enemies more efficiently, clear more domains, obtain new characters, and navigate the map better. Cooking, exploring for material and ingredient collection, mastering elemental combat, and levelling up characters are the crucial fundamentals for conquering whatever Teyvat throws at you.