In Genshin Affect, the characters you utilize resolve the type of playstyle you utilize. Some talents allow them to shine on the sphere, whereas others don’t should be current to be useful. Growing your Genshin character depend provides you a wide range of kinds to combine and match, relying in your preferences. Nevertheless, the query stays, how do you get extra characters?
Genshin Affect Wishing Mechanics and Suggestions
The obvious option to get extra characters is to want for them. Click on on the star icon on the higher proper to go to the Want Menu within the recreation. You’ll see three to 4* banners out there to want on. These are:
- One or two Occasion Character Banner(s)
- A corresponding Occasion Weapon Banner (Epitome Invocation, one or each featured 5-star weapons are often the ‘signature weapon(s)’ of the featured 5-star character/s)
- The Commonplace Banner (Wanderlust Invocation), additionally known as perma-banner, has a set prize pool. Additions are everlasting, as within the case of Tighnari after the three.1 patch.
*There’s a particular banner (Novice Banner) out there for brand spanking new accounts, giving a assured Noelle (4* Geo Claymore) on the primary 10-pull. It has a 20-pull restrict, after which it disappears from the menu. One other attribute is a particular low cost on doing a 10-pull, distinctive solely on this banner. This one isn’t counted.
You’ll want ‘Destiny’ to want on any of those banners. There are two sorts: Intertwined Destiny (‘purple destiny’) and Acquaint Destiny (‘blue destiny’). Purples are for the Occasion Banners, irrespective of which sort, whereas the blues are for the Commonplace Banner. Be sure to don’t get them blended up!
Each Fates have the identical worth within the store: 160 Primogems. Alternatively, in change for five Starglitter and 75 Stardust (which has a 40% low cost), you will get them within the corresponding menus in Paimon’s Bargains. You solely get the latter two currencies while you want. Stardust Fates even have a restrict of 5 (for each sorts) each month, however they’re additionally the most affordable. (750 Stardust for five blues and 5 purples.)
As you play the sport, you’ll wish to save your Primogems for purples (Intertwined Fates). The Commonplace Banner will all the time be there, contrasting the Occasion Banners, which rotate with completely different featured characters/objects occasionally.
This manner, you’ll all the time have Primogems to spare every time an Occasion Character you need seems. As a result of mechanic of how pity works, you’re prone to get the Commonplace Banner Characters from the Occasion Banners anyway.
For a deeper clarification of pity, right here’s the way it works:
- In case you haven’t acquired a 5-star at 89 pulls, your ninetieth one will probably be a assured 5-star. It’s 80 on the Weapon Banner, so in the event you haven’t bought a 5-star weapon at 79 pulls, in your eightieth, one is assured.
- This counter resets when you’ve acquired a 5-star with out reaching pity.
- A ‘tender pity’ mechanic subtly will increase the possibilities of getting a 5-star beginning at 75 pulls on the Commonplace and Character Banners and 65 on Weapon.
- If the 5-star character you acquired isn’t the featured one, your subsequent 5-star (every time that’s) will probably be assured the featured character. That is known as shedding 50/50, as there’s a 50% probability of being both the featured character or one of many Commonplace Banner characters.
- On the Weapon Banner, 5-star weapons you may obtain have a 75% to be both of the featured ones. If it isn’t, the subsequent 5-star will probably be a featured one. Since there are two, the Epitomized Path ensures you’ll get your needed weapon in your third 5-star pull. (Be sure to select one to goal for beforehand!)
- The Commonplace Banner has a 90-pity counter for 5-stars. It doesn’t give a assure whether or not it’s a weapon or character. You will get the next 5-stars from this banner:
- Skyward Collection of weapons (Skyward Sword, Skyward Delight (claymore), Skyward Backbone (polearm), Skyward Atlas (catalyst), Skyward Harp (bow))
- Primordial Jade Winged-Spear
- Misplaced Prayer to the Sacred Winds
- There’s a 4-star (or above) assure each 10 pulls in all banners. Meaning each 10-pull has a assured one 4-star weapon or character. The possibilities of getting a 5-star on this method are minuscule however doable.
- Pity counters don’t cross over to different banner sorts. Meaning pulling in Occasion Character Banners doesn’t add to the pity counters of the Weapon or Commonplace Banners. The one exception is that if there are two featured characters, just like the (as of writing) present 3.1 banners, Cyno and Venti. They share their pity depend.
- Pity counters carry over to the next Occasion banner (for Character and Weapon). For instance, suppose you’ve pulled 50 instances for Cyno or Venti. In that case, you may get Nilou, Albedo, or a unique character sooner or later in your subsequent 40 pulls. The 50/50 assure additionally carries over on this method, irrespective of what number of banners you skipped within the meantime.
- Sadly, Epitomized Paths within the Weapon Banner don’t carry over. Deplete your Destiny Factors earlier than the subsequent banner comes!
- Newly launched 4-stars don’t get added into the pool of 4-stars on the Commonplace Banner till the subsequent patch. The 4-star characters beforehand featured has a hidden price up on the Commonplace Banner for a while afterward.
- A Commonplace Banner character having an occasion banner (as within the case of Keqing) will probably be unavailable on the Commonplace Banner within the meantime.
In brief, in the event you hold wishing, your character assortment will naturally construct up. Wishing additionally enables you to earn Masterless Starglitter, which you need to use to purchase extra Fates or the rotating characters out there within the retailer.
Farming Primogems
That is your major method of getting Fates. There are numerous methods to get them:
- Day by day Commissions (60 on daily basis)
- Opening Chests (variable on the kind of chest opened)
- Particular quests award the forex for completion.
- Bug fixes or upkeep compensation
- Occasion rewards
- Redemption Codes
- In case you’ve purchased the Gnostic Hymn/Refrain, reaching particular ranges within the Battle Go will reward Primogems.
- Achievements reward 5-20 Primogems relying on their issue.
- Reaching endings in Hangouts will reward you with some.
- The Spiral Abyss flooring 1-8 will reward 100 Primogems per star you get on every flooring. That’s 300 per flooring, for a complete of two,400. You solely get this as soon as, and you may’t repeat to get one other 300. You’ll be able to, nevertheless, do it on flooring 9-12. For each three stars on these flooring, you get 50 Primogems, for 150 per flooring. That’s 600 in the event you get 36 stars, and in the event you do it twice a month, that’s 1,200 Primos! Flooring 9-12 are reset each 1st and sixteenth of every month.
- The Day by day Verify-In promotion provides Primogems after some consecutive log-ins
Some gamers maintain off on claiming Hangout or achievement rewards till they want the forex. Others get them instantly and convert the gems to the Fates they want as quickly as doable. It relies on your preferences.
The Spiral Abyss flooring 9-12 is a problem for the extra superior gamers. It’s doable with solely 4-star characters, however you’ll have to put money into getting them one of the best artifacts, weapons, and constellation upgrades. The decrease flooring are simpler to do, although you’ll want two groups of characters you’ve invested in.
Day by day Commissions might look small at 60 per day, however you may collect 10 pulls in a month in the event you do it day by day. At a median of 30 days a month, that’s 1800 Primogems, sufficient for 11 Fates with 40 of the forex left over.
Additionally, the above methods imply that in the event you play the sport, you’ll be getting Primogems no matter you do. The one query is how a lot you earn, which relies on your chosen actions.
Occasions That Reward Characters
Each from time to time, the sport may have an occasion that allows you to invite a 4-star character. Listed here are some examples:
- Unreconciled Stars (Fischl)
- Liyue Lantern Ceremony 2021 (your alternative of a Liyue 4-star)
- Power Amplifier Initiation (Diona)
- Thunder Sojourn (Beidou)
- Labyrinth Warriors (Xinyan)
- Liyue Lantern Ceremony 2022 (your alternative of Liyue 4-star)
- Hues of the Violet Backyard (Xingqiu)
There are additionally everlasting occasions that can reward 4-star characters:
- Folks’s Selection (Spiral Abyss occasion): Full Ground 3 Chamber 3 to get Xiangling
- Baptism of Music: Attain 18 AR and full the hunt ‘A Lengthy Shot’ to ask Barbara to your crew!
- Curtain of Leaves (Spiral Abyss occasion): Full Ground 4 Chamber 3 to get Collei
Aloy was made out there to all gamers who logged in throughout an occasion as a promotion with Horizon Forbidden West. She is technically a 5-star however with out constellation upgrades, which may imply there isn’t any hope for a rerun of the occasion.
Actions That Reward Fates
By providing Electro Sigils to the Sacred Sakura in Narukami Shrine, you will get each Intertwined and Acquaint Fates when reaching particular ranges. The identical goes for the Tree of Goals in Vanarana (Dendro Sigils), the Frostbearing Tree in Dragonspine (Crimson Agate), and upgrading the Lumenstone Adjuvant (Lumenspar). Some strategies might solely give Acquaint Fates.
The anniversary Verify-In occasions often give 10 Intertwined Fates over a couple of days. Some mail occasions may even present fates in keeping with the whims of the builders.
One final supply of Fates (sadly, solely blues can be found this manner) is to ascend characters. You will get three in the event you’ve reached ascension 5 (degree 70-80) on them. With 53 presently out there characters, that’s a complete of 159 Acquaint Fates. You get the Fates on the first, third, and fifth phases.
Go and Want for Extra Characters
An increasing number of characters will probably be added to the sport. Mika, Dehya, Nahida, and Alhaitham have appeared within the recreation and are clearly playable. With the discharge of Dendro, Baizhu can be confirmed to be playable (hopefully quickly). That’s not even mentioning thriller leaked characters floating round (although take these with a grain of salt).
You’ll want luck to get the characters you need, particularly if going free-to-play. In any other case, reaching ensures is straightforward while you pay for extra needs. Nonetheless, it’s the one option to get extra characters in Genshin Affect. Have enjoyable wishing, and don’t thoughts in the event you can’t get the one you need. Their banner will come round once more.