Genshin Impact: When should you stop levelling talents?

Last Updated on: 5th February 2022, 03:02 pm

Talents are one of the main ways of increasing your character’s power in Genshin Impact, but how far should you be levelling your talents?

What level should you stop levelling your talents at in Genshin Impact?

Talents are very useful things in Genshin Impact, given that you can enhance the power of both your skills and your auto-attacks permanently with a one-off cost, but those one-off costs can get pretty quick, and the power you’re gaining from increasing the talent might not always seem to be worth it.

With that said, when, then, is the best time to stop levelling talents in Genshin Impact? What level is the ideal one?

While there is a general consensus answer, you should also make sure to consider your own personal preferences, if you don’t use an “optimal” character, you’d be better off investing in the talents of a character you use all the time rather than boosting the power of the other one you never touch.

Similarly, if you use a character all the time, even if you don’t think they’re not the best, it’s probably worth increasing their talents as much as you can to get more value out of them.

When you first get started with talents in Genshin Impact, the costs are kept low. A little above 10k Mora, a few basic tier consumable talent materials, and some simple enemy materials. At this stage, it’s worth investing in the levels across the board for any character you use regularly because the consistent payout is definitely worth the very small costs you’re asked for.

If we take a look at the upper-end levels of talent scaling, however, this is what you can expect to see;

While the numbers shown here in terms of attribute changes are quite different, it’s worth bearing in mind what skills precisely we’re talking about. The Musou no Hitotachi base ability dmg from Raiden is a single hit nuke (the infusion effect scales separately), and increases by about 40%. Xianglings ability, Pyronado, increases by 8% at the first level, but will likely hit opponents at least a few times, so the boost is ultimately comparable.

This means that the power gained per level is at least approximately similar, if not the same in value in most cases, regardless of talent level. But as we can see, the Mora cost alone has scaled from barely over 10k to 700k, a truly massive sum in comparison to the original amount.

On top of the Mora, it also requires a far larger number of top tier talent books, top tier enemy materials, a few boss drop items and a crown, which are rare items that even long-term players have only limited stocks of.

The balance by and large agreed by the community seems to be that around talent level 8 is where you want to typically stop for most of your characters, as shown above using Diluc and his talents. The Mora cost is significant but hasn’t ballooned to obscene amounts just yet, and the enemy material plus talent book cost, while still requiring highest-level materials, isn’t anywhere near as high.

In short; it would seem the best point to stop levelling the talents of most of your characters is at about level 8 for each of their abilities – however, if you have characters you main and play constantly, you may wish to put in the effort of pushing them to level 10 for each, which is known as “Triple-crowned” by the Genshin Impact community.

Additionally, if you play a character in such a way that you never use their auto-attack – such as quick-swap elemental burst healing Barbara, or anything similar, there is naturally much less reason to rank their auto-attack to talent level 8.

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In any case, you’d usually want to reserve the triple-crowned treatment for your favourite characters, given that crowns are in a decidedly short supply, only rarely earned through things such as the electro sigil gathering tree, or one per large event as a buyable reward – this is likely intentional, to push the message to players that talent level 10 is meant to be a rare investment, not the end goal of all character builds.

Make your decisions of whose talents to crown on a personal basis, because there isn’t that much of a power gap between talent level 8/9 and talent level 10, and it’ll really be a pain if you don’t have any crowns left when you find your all-time favourite character in Genshin Impact.

Anyway, that’s about all I have to say regarding when to stop levelling your character talents, but you can find more Genshin Impact content such as news, guides and future content leaks in our dedicated Genshin Impact section, and you can find more general gaming content on our home page.