When Are Your Artifacts Good Enough? | Optimize Artifact Farming in Genshin Impact (Universal Guide)

Which Genshin characters you should farm artifacts for first? When is your artifact quality good enough? By the end of this Genshin Impact guide video, I will teach you the optimal ways to build any genshin character, the breakpoints for artifact substat rolls, when to use the artifact strongbox, and more! You will have no more troubles optimizing your artifacts main stats and substats in Genshin.

Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
0:23 (v3.8) Efficient Artifact Farming Route
0:54 Artifact Main Stat Probability
1:55 Artifact Substats - Mechanics & Probability
4:18 Damage Optimization with Artifact Stats
7:27 Valuable Substats
8:50 Predicting Artifact Substat Rolls - When are artifacts worth rolling?
11:17 Substat Breakpoints and Efficient Substat Farming
12:25 Artifact Strongbox Value
13:33 Perfecting Artifacts
14:44 How long does it take to get optimal artifacts?
16:25 Outro

Music credit:
The rest of the music featured in the video can be found in HOYO-MiX's album, Forest of Jnana and Vidya.

Video assets credit:
Game footage from Genshin Impact.

Artifact optimizer:

Random binomial distribution calculator:

Special thanks to:
BB63, for assistance in video formatting and fact checking!
Patrick, for assistance with methodology in calculating initial valuable substat probability!
And, of course, everyone who has supported my YouTube endeavors :)

This Genshin Impact video was produced by Vidmilo. Consider checking out my other Genshin guides / tutorials / deep dives to expand your game knowledge and hopefully learn something new!

#genshinimpact #genshin #artifacts

[Vidmiloo]

4.0 Artifact details have been revealed on Genshin's official website!
Golden Troupe: 2p: 20% Skill damage bonus, 4p: 25% skill damage bonus, another 25% if off field (up to 70% including 2p)
Marechausee Hunter: 2p: 15% NA/CA DMG bonus, 4p: 12% Crit rate for every HP change, max 3 stacks (36%), stacks last 5s.

All artifacts released before update 3.0 have been added to the strongbox. Tenacity is a really nice one, since pale flame is an underwhelming set. Include that in the list with Noblesse and VV strongbox. Also, I do want to mention Crimson witch and Thundering fury strongboxes, since they allow you to avoid thundersoother and lavawalker, which aren't BiS for anyone currently. Crimson also has heavy emphasis on substats, so the strongbox helps out in that department slightly. Emblem strongbox also lets you avoid Shimenawa, which isn't always a good set to farm for if you don't have the on fielders that make good use of it, or farmed a different set for them already.

Overall, the new artifacts are very strong, but we currently don't have too many characters that can really capitalize on these sets where it's their definite BiS, apart from Fischl and Lyney. Not sure about Lynette.

The skill set is also decent on Yae and Albedo, but not their definite BiS. Most characters for now don't pack a lot of power in their skill, nor do most change/drain HP frequently enough to keep up Hunter stacks. I'm sure this will change as more Fontaine characters get added. For now, the new domain is not general enough for me to recommend it for everyone. 4p Hunter might end up being a nice casual set since it gives a rarer stat innately, even if the stat isn't stronger than what other sets can give.

If you're playing Lyney or Fischl teams, you can farm the new artifact domain and potentially strongbox emblem pieces for a better chance at improving your existing set. You should no longer farm the Emblem domain for too long, since it's going to save you a lot of trouble if you instead strongbox for higher quality pieces. Deepwood and Gilded is now arguably the most efficient domain to farm for, especially for lower investment accounts.

Going to add some extra stuff about the video that I missed / cut out. Also, there is a follow up on my second channel overviewing the calculations I did (finally)

First: I accidentally said that +20 artifacts is the "most efficient improvement" you can make. A more accurate statement would be that it's much more efficient than grinding for substats, and about as efficient as talents, weapons, character level. I did say that +20 artifacts followed those things, i.e. came after, but the "most efficient" statement definitely detracted some of the value there.

Second: Some characters have built in dual scaling, meaning increasing one stat boosts another (Nahida's EM boosing crit rate and damage bonus, Alhaitham, etc). This can skew individual characters' damage gain charts in different ways compared to the example I showed with only vaporize and melt for Xiangling. Basically, not all sources of EM have the same form or any real form of true diminishing returns.

Third: I left this out of the video, but you will get off piece artifacts from 2 and 4 piece sets that you can use to make your build stronger. In general, choose the one that gives the largest net increase.

Fourth: A small error, at about 7:11, I wrote crit multiplier instead of crit value for the catch's 12% crit rate increase. A 24% crit value increase translates into a bigger crit multiplier that varies depending on the amount of crit value the character starts with.

Lastly, I accidentally forgot to emphasize the importance of getting specific 4 piece sets, like viridescent venerer, from the strongbox, simply for how strong the 4p effect is.

Remember, having many "subpar" substats (flat stats included!) can still make those pieces stronger than an alternative with fewer, but more valuable substats.

I would also like to mention a tool that you can use to discover what your optimal artifact setup is for specific characters in teams. - this provides pretty much everything you need to get accurate optimizations once you import your artifacts and characters.

Best of luck with your artifacts journey!

Take them with a grain of salt, these are estimates and won't be completely accurate.

[arlbu]

id be sobbing if not for the last two minutes of the video. added a layer of humanity to the monstrosity that is artifact farming.

[MrWorldOfQuests]

Just wanted to point out that if you use characters which main DPS or Support is from their burst, always focus on ER it makes game so much more fun and just after you have enough ER then you can think about DPS main or substats. For example Xiangling with 70/140 CR/CD but with low ER feels way worse than 50/100 CR/CD and enough ER.

[EclipticRaisin]

This is everything a player needs to know in one nicely packed video. You’re one of the only people who mentions the fact that you can only get certain stats on certain types of pieces, and the low-high rolls. Awesome work!

[Idkyolo]

This video made me feel better about lacking double crit pyro and hydro goblets for the 2 years I’ve been playing

[typeguard]

This is why the least MiHoYo could do is implement some sort of artifact reset feature. Nothing is more frustrating than getting a great artifact and every single fucking roll goes into flat

[gandalfbutfancier]

I'm trying to build xiangling these days and yes, it DOES feel like it's been 530 million years

[kawizy]

The presentation of the information is absolutely stellar! ✨ Can't believe you've only made three videos as the quality is fantastic. Thank you so much for your work, I have learned a lot. 😊

[kaliflowers]

extremely well presented! you've expressed and communicated these concepts that I've intuited after playing for nearly 3 years, but struggled to put to words myself. especially just how absurd it is to chase quality substats at high investment after already having arts with a high quantity of usable substats

[CodeZMFR]

*Me getting ready for a 500 million year grind*

"And that's why you shouldn't bother with getting perfect artifacts with all crit rolls"

oh..

[sleepyheartss]

I've only been playing Genshin for about 4 months and I finally understand wtf I'm doing now that I'm in the artifact farming stage thanks to this video. They say if you can teach a beginner a complex topic and they come away with more understand than they started with, you're an amazing teacher.

Bravo!

[hiimapop]

Even as a 1.0 player, this an extremely handy guide to have. Just the sheer amount of information and data packed here is useful as hell. Great job on the video!

[aungmyat]

He is so kind, he even caculated the time to grind perfectly.
I don't know how people achieved 54.4 crit-value artifacts.

[TP_ERK]

this is pure perfection. thanks for giving what I was looking for keep it up

[hiro_]

This is the best video I've seen on genshin in a while, I've been fed up with mindless entertainment for a ehile that something as well made and informative as this is nice change of pace. I hope you keep making more videos like this. And wishing you good luck on your journey in life

[angelodecock]

Wow, this has to be the best artifact video here on youtube, I mean, through the data on the genshin wiki and from playing I figured out a decent way to farm artifacts so far. But this video goes above and beyond on setting expectations for your artifacts. Thank you very much, this will definitely help me and a ton of others grind out artifacts more efficiently. Instant sub.

[kalodawg]

seriously, your videos are so interesting. Really makes me have another completely different perspective to artifact farming. A big thank you for the great content

[italomorais]

Subscribed yesterday, was really sad to see there were only 2 videos. Just to have another drop the next day. Ty for your work!

[cassiel]

As a long-time Genshin player, this video was a great in-depth look at artifact math and I really appreciated it! You must have put a lot of work into it. However, I'd love to see in the future shorter, more simplified version of this video aimed at casuals. I'd love to link this to some of my more casual Genshin friends who'd love to know how to optimize better, but I know they won't watch it, because as soon as you start talking about math and charts, their eyes glaze over.

[gamalielmartinez]

Dude I love your probability content it really shows your work with your graphs keep up