WORLD RANK

After playing for a while you will find yourself in the situation where the main storyline is locked, because your Adventure Rank is too low. Well, there are no magic tricks to boost your AR. But these are some things you should't miss out on:

Most Important one: Find and open chests, each gives you 10-50 AR EXP depending on the quality. Wipe out the Enemy groups on the locked chests.

Do your Daily Comissions by the Adventurer's Guild. Each of the 4 quests gives you a good amount of AR EXP. Don't forget after doing all 4 commissions visit the Adventure Guild for additional rewards.

Use your keys for the shrines, you can grab high quality loot as well such as 4-star artifacts.

Explore the world and activate Teleport Waypoints. Each one gives you 30 AR EXP

Ley Line Blossom missions give 100 AR EXP per 20 Resin

ELEMENTAL OCULUS

As you explore the world of Teyvat you will sometimes see stars appear on your mini map. These stars represent Anemoculus or Geoculus depending on the region that you are in. Make sure whenever you see these stars appear on your map to look up and look around the location to find the hidden Anemoculus or Geoculus. These items are used to level up the Statues of the Seven. As you collect them and rank up the statues you will gain more stamina, AR exp, primogens, and etc.

Check out Snoopy's World Map App to get a overview

 

COMBAT

If you've played the previous game made by miHoYo, you already know this: The enemies are heavily pattern based and learning the pattern will save you alot of time. Special defense mechanisms are also important. Wooden Shield? Burn it! Stone Shield? Break it with a claymore/heavy attacks! Has a bubble where you can't deal high hits? Use a fast attacking character and keep the burst until the bubble is down! It is actually very simple once you give attention to these things.

Some other things to keep in mind is that any archer, such as Amber, is a good character to initiate fights to fight in between obstacles. But don't lure them too far off, or else they will run back and reset their HP!

Try to memorize the elemental reactions as soon as you can. Triggering combos can save you a lot of time. In case you did not know: You can insta-switch charaters in with an ultimate cast! Check your keyboard/controller binds for this. You can chain-combo multiple ultimates to pulverize large groups of enemies or a stunned/stagnant boss.

Beginner example: For a boss fight, switch to Kaeya and use his ultimate for aoe ice damage then immediately switch back to your hard dps character.

 

CHESTS

Chests are one of the mainsources to get artifacts, materials, AR EXP and CHAR EXP scrolls. You will find them all over the world on your adventure.

Be sure to spend some time to explore the starting city Mondstadt! You will find plenty of chests on roofs, walls or windmills...

Also note that during co-op, all chests are locked for non-world owners and cannot be opened.

COOKING

Different dishes have different stats that you can make as you unlock and find recipes throughout the game. 

These stats include: Stamina reduction cost, HP gain, DEF increase, and ATK increase.

Remember to select a character with specialization on every dish you cook. Some can trigger a custom version of the dish, which will have higher stats. So be sure to pull for different characters to potentially get cooking benefits.

You can take a closer look to the cooking mechanics

 

LEVELING

Adventure Rank EXP is given in everything you do in the game from unlocking Statues of the Seven opening chests and defeating enemies to completing side quests and main story quests.

A majority of Adventure Rank EXP is given either through Main Quests or Adventure Scrolls which comes in sizes of small/medium/large.

Choose your party setup wisely and try to have a main setup of 5-6 characters for the progress in case you run into a situation where your World Rank raises and the enemies have more health than before, thus taking you longer to defeat them. Try to keep the small EXP scrolls to hit the ascension cap of 20/40/60/70/80/90, so you don't waste any EXP by using the big ones.

If you happen to run into a situation where your new beloved damage dealer is too low on levels, don't panic. You can go to Ley Lines in the open world where you can farm EXP scrolls every day as long as you have Resin (stamina).

As we mentioned above, there are character evolution caps which you have to reach before you can advance further with a character to unlock new skill levels. You will need materials for every ascension, so keep your eyes open for materials around the world. 

 

STARTER CHARACTERS

Starting the game will grant you 3 free characters during the beginners story progress:

As you travel through the world, you can grab all sorts of things on your way to the next location. Your backpack is basically a "endless" storage (30000), so if you have the time, try to grab everything you can get. Almost every item can be used or converted into other items by crafting, cooking or processing at a NPC.

Every defeated enemy can drop items, from artifacts, crafting materials, character evolution items, and etc. Always try to pick up everything. You can craft or trade low level items at the alchemist to a higher grade replacement.

Ores, crystals and non-direct lootable flowers like dandelions or burning flowers, which you have to actively strike with a elemental skill to loot are very valuable. If you think you found a good spot, try to mark them on your map, it will become handy later. Note that some flowers need more than 24h to respawn.

The same goes for consumables like apples, meat, all sorts of vegetables, or cooking ingredients. One of the most useful items are healing, regenerating and buff food, which require your exotic cooking skills. By collecting as much as you can, you will never run out of food! 

General Farming Tips:

Hit ores with a claymore/two-hand wielder - they will destroy them a lot faster

Some flowers need a special elemental active before they can be picked up

Use large aoe spells to farm meat (chicken or boars)

Always check your bag and try not to waste crafting time for special materials

Set map markers on locations with alot of materials to come back regularly (or use this map)

Remember that you can loot materials in any other player's worlds. If you are missing out on some materials, try and ask a buddy of yours if you can drop by ;)

 

CHARACTER SELECTION

Starting the game will give you the option to select the male, Aether, or the female character, Lumine. As of version 1.0 this selection cannot be reverted or changed later in the game. If you are worried about the abilities, rest assured! Whatever your choice is, both characters have the same abilities.

The trope of a useless Main Character doesn't appear here. Your main character is a 5 star and the only one which can freely adapt a different element once you reach a new region back and forth. So keep leveling her/him and include your main character on your adventure. Currently there are only 2 regions so Anemo and Geo are the only elements you can choose for now.

Try to maintain at least one character of every element to be prepared for counter partys on certain missions like Domains, Abyss or other specific runs.

As of this version (1.0) you don't start with a claymore user nor do you get one through the storyline. Luckily the gacha has a guaranteed Noelle in the Beginner Banner so it is highy recommended to get at least her or one of the other greatsword users for farming and fighting armored enemies.

Greatsword Users as of version 1.0  Beidou, Ninguang, Noelle, and Razor.