Genshin Impact Tips and Tricks: 5 things new players need to know

Last Updated on: 4th January 2022, 05:14 am

Genshin Impact is a huge game with a similarly sized playerbase, but if you’re just joining the game now, we’ve got some new player tips to help you out.

New Player Tips for Genshin Impact

Conserve your Primogems

Primogems are the games primary shop currency, and while earned through gameplay with stunning regularity, you’ll be burning these by the literal thousands while trying to get a character you really want later.

This means that you should really avoid wasting them on some of the other uses the game presents to you… like recharging your resin.

Gather everything, trust me

This is a game much like other large world titles similar to Skyrim or the Witcher 3, where it might feel like you don’t need to grab every resource you see due to the sheer scope, as most of it will probably be useless anyway, right?

Well in Genshin Impact, basically all of it turns out to actually be useful. There are a ridiculous number of food recipes that make use of a huge number of items alone, as food is both very useful combat buffs and an easy-access source of healing and revives, with higher quality meals giving better options at the cost of more varied ingredients and more in sheer number used.

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Domain items, enemy drops, boss items? You might think surely you won’t need all of these, given you won’t play every single character, right? Well most of them are general purpose and tend to affect at least three characters, but even in the case of recently added areas and characters where we’re not quite at that stage yet, lower-tier versions of these farmable materials can be used in alchemy to make them the more useful higher tier versions.

It means that that the heavy farming you do in other games of a similar style doesn’t occur anywhere near as bad here, because if you get the lower tier item you can just combine them into the better version you actually need. With upgrade materials specifically, the rule is usually three of a lower-tier can be combined into one of the next tier up.

Repeat Characters aren’t actually a bad thing

In Gacha type games, rolling a new character is a significant moment. It’s slightly less so if it’s a character you’ve already obtained once, as that often means you just get a small refund on your input but that’s all it is.

In Genshin Impact, however, you’ll get a character-specific upgrade up to 6 total times, known as Constellations, as well as a small bit of rarer currency.

If you continue getting this character until you’ve maxed the 6 bonuses, the rare currency bonus is increased by over double, to an amount that allows you to buy another wish, and thus roll on the Gacha for another character again immediately.

Make use of the Interactive Map

An interactive map is an online tool supplied by the devs of the game that features the locations of literally everything in the game. While it can be boring to rely on it heavily, it’s a great way to find items when you need them for a specific character, or when you’re trying to finish off a specific collectable item type and the like.

We already wrote more about that tool here, and I’d highly recommend taking a look at it when you get into the game, it’s incredibly useful.

Don’t let optimal ruin good

This last one is a bit of a more general point, but being a game that you can grind in, some players will always take the grinding bit too far.

Don’t chase perfect builds, or building characters to the absolute best possible you’ve seen on Reddit or the like because that will suffer heavily to RNG. Making a great build is fairly possible quite easily with a bit of work, but if you set yourself to chasing a specific perfect build you’ve seen in highlights it’ll drain the fun out of the game.

A similar message can be given for chasing specific characters – you’ll have an easier time if you simply work with what you get and then try to use more wishes on specific character banners than deadset yourself on getting a specific character no matter what. Just take things as they come.

That’s it for this set of New player tips for Genshin Impact, here’s hoping it’ll make your first few journeys into Teyvat much simpler, Traveller, good luck out there.

If you’d be interested in more content like our new player tips here, you can find it in our Genshin Impact section here, and you can find more articles written by me specifically on my author page.

Finally, if you’ve decided you want to try the game after reading this, you can play the game for free on mobile devices including Android and iOS alongside consoles such as Playstation 4, Playstation 5 and Pc on both miHoYo’s official launcher and Epic Games Store. A Nintendo Switch version is stated to be in development.