Genshin Impact Beginner Guide - Powerful Free Account Tips & Mistakes to Avoid

This is a detailed beginner guide for Genshin Impact. This video explains some things that new players will miss, including tips that even some veteran players don’t know, as well as mistakes to avoid when you’re starting out. If you follow this guide you can have a strong account that won’t require you to spend anything on the game!

The guide is quite long (and was originally longer), so feel free to jump around!
00:00 Intro
00:53 The Most Important Tip to Understand
02:25 Manage Resin & Don't Use Resin on Blacksmith
03:56 Leveling Characters
04:42 Max Main DPS First
05:00 Raise Supports after Main DPS
06:20 Ask for Help!
07:31 Get Free 4-Star Characters
08:52 Spiral Abyss + Xiangling
10:31 Free 4 Star-Weapons
11:45 Events
13:15 Prototypes & Crafting Weapons
14:00 Weapons Worth Crafting?
16:06 Hoard Fragile Resin!
18:05 Leveling Weapons
19:17 World Level & Character Level
19:40 Keep Characters One Level Below Max
20:42 World Level Drops + Artifacts
21:24 Use Geo + Anemo Sigils
22:03 Increase Max Stamina
22:30 Map Pins
23:41 Serenitea Pot Free Items
23:51 Wishing
25:05 5-Star Rates
25:28 Character Banner & Rates
26:41 Banner Carries Over
28:03 Getting Guaranteed 5-Stars
29:21 Weapon Banner
30:14 Getting Guaranteed 5-Star Weapons
30:48 Standard Banner
32:19 Guaranteed 5-Star Standard Banner
32:41 Secret Guarantee on Standard Banner
34:20 5-Stars vs 4-Stars
36:37 In-game Shop Tips
39:06 Daily Check-In
40:21 Recap
42:16 Outro

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[Ghost-uwcy]

Just a quick tip for anyone struggling to beat bosses or domains, change your signature to something like “need help beating oceanid” and usually higher ar players that are bored will try to join your world to help you out. That’s how I was able to ascend some of my hydro characters because I struggle with that boss, plus I’ve actually made some in game friends from doing that.

[fnxychpenicillin]

This is the best and most easily digestible Genshin guide out there for beginners. A lot of "beginner" guides spout jargon terms from the game and you feel lost instead of being guided. Thanks for this guide.

[skrepon]

A tip my wife and I use for the exp books. Use the + button with the purple books until it says max, then minus one book. Then use the Blue and Green books to finish off the exp needed for the final level. This saves you from wasting nearly an entire Purple when a Blue or Green will suffice.

[John_II]

Great guide as always. These are some things I wish I knew....

DO use the characters you like. Lots of people will say who is "good" or "bad". In the overworld just about everything works, so don't sweat it. A properly levelled team of 4 is better than just making sure you have e.g., Hu Tao because she's "the best Pyro DPS in the game", especially if you don't like e.g., Hu Tao's play style. If you play characters whose style you like or personality you like, you'll enjoy the game a lot more.

Do the quests first. Inazuma and Sumeru reward you for doing story first. In fact, some of the world is not unlocked until you do quests for example: Tsurumi island, Seirai island, Tatarigami Reactor, the desert in Sumeru, old varanara in Sumeru. Some areas are simly inaccessible or too dangerous without doing the quests first.

DO take the time to find all the oculi and trade them into the statute.

DO the reputation quests and bounties for each region. You get cool perks like the treasure compass for that region, or the oculus finder for that region.

DO take your time and enjoy the scenery and the music. This game is huge and beautiful, and take some time to just admire the art and the music. "Every journey has it's final day. Don't rush".


DO NOT just level everyone you have. I've been playing for a year, and it has taken a year of regular playing to get my like 40 characters to level 80, with a level 80 weapon each, with level 6 talents. I only have like 10 artefact sets and I just share them. If you never use a character, don't bother levelling them. Trust me, it's not a good use of your resources.

DO NOT bother using primogems to wish on the permanent banner. Always wish on the featured banner IF it has a character you want. You have the best chance of getting 5* characters that way. Wish on the permanent banner with acquaint fates to your heart's delight.

DO NOT use 4* or 5* weapons to level other 4* or 5* weapons, except for refinements. OMFG, I wish I hadn't because it's tedious to wish for weapons or build another. It's not HARD... just super tedious. It takes hours.

DO NOT use 5* artefacts to level artefacts. Save them for the artefact strongbox. It beats grinding artefact domains.

DO NOT just grind Adventure Rank. Let it happen naturally. It will push your world level higher and higher and you won't be able to keep up unless you keep your characters at the current level.

[vincentbarraza]

Thank you, bro. I just started 2 weeks ago and messed up a little with my resources.
All I can say is what you made here is not a guide but a gracious act of generosity for newbies in the game. You've explained game jargons in lay man's terms and are comprehensive. More power. :)

[StrafeWasTaken]

Watching this as I'm downloading the game on my way to start this new adventure (hopefully) without spending any money
This really helps, thank you so much!

[akashsen]

This is a great video! One thing I would recommend differently though is that once you have decided you do want to level a character (remember be careful about deciding which one to level), use the 3 star purple books first rather than saving them for last. And never use up all of your 2 star and especially 1 star level mats. But instead of using the 3 star last book to level cap, use books of smaller increment so you save xp. Each star book is worth a certain amount of xp and any over the cap gets wasted so you want to save your smaller books to fill in the gaps and waste less books. For weapons it doesn't really matter what you use first since unused xp gets refunded.

[marcos]

This is so well made! It covers literally anything we need to know about competitive play.

[bloodgain]

Be aware that -- at least according to some streamer testing -- leveled weapons will confer about 80% or 85% (can't remember which) of their EXP value into leveling another weapon. So if you realize you've leveled a weapon you don't want to use, it's not a complete loss. I'm not sure if they confer their EXP if they were used for duplicates to refine a weapon, though. I wouldn't refine a weapon unless you plan to use it and its bonus ability is valuable to your character/party.

[jamescomstock]

Great guide. Just a single disagreement: you suggest holding back using the purple books and mystic ore to level up until later, but aside from general resource management, the order different levels of experience granting resources are applied doesn't matter because the amount of experience applied is a standard set value. From there it is simple math... The order the numbers are added together doesn't matter, you always end up with the same total in the end.

[blubebop]

okay im still deciding on whether to play genshin or not but man i love how you have replied to every comment and that too meaningful replies love the dedication!

[ilmatilan]

weird tip: don't level up your world level until you are ready!
It's okay to stay at a lower world level until your characters are built well enough to take on the harder bosses. I made the huge mistake of levelling up my world level to 1 with a team that's level 8-12 and I struggled with every single enemy I encountered for a very very long time. My only source of exp books were from chests where you didn't have to fight enemies and I couldn't progress in any quest as long as it required some form of boss fight. It didn't help that I was completely unaware that you could level artifacts to boost stats and basically fed my characters food whenever I absolutely needed them to fight. It took me about a month to finally be able to handle the bosses at the world level and every day before then was pure misery. I bet my characters have developed digestion problems from being full all the time. (I also didn't pull on the beginner banner but I honestly should've since it will give me at least a 3 star weapon and make me realize you can level them up)
Gosh how I wish I watched a video like this

[MathewHargreaves]

I want this man to read me to bedtime stories to help me sleep, his voice is so gentle 🥺

[sunkeeper]

Amazing guide! Can't even imagine how much effort and time you've put into this video!

[mihchyu]

this is the only guide that really helped me. thank you so much!

[piya]

really really helpful video, and so well structured too! thank you <3 i’m still a bit of a noob here (ar 25) so i may be wrong about this tip down the line, but i’ve realised that having versatile supports in your main team is important. it sounds obvious in hindsight but let me explain by example. my current team is kaeya (main dps), xiangling (support), anemo traveller (support), and noelle (healer, damage dealer, and shielder, she’s kind of a powerhouse lol). however, all four of these are close range attackers. i’ve found that some difficult bosses can be cleared much easier simply by dodging and using a ranged character such as ningguang, who’s a catalyst. now i’m trying to build her up to be at least a support dps so i have that option. however, i still have a lot to learn and advanced players feel free to correct me lol. thanks again for the video!

[JonasBecker]

Amazing guide which helped me a lot in the past few first days of the game. Thank you so much for not using the pro jargon, so we newbies can understand it! :)

[zvlspm]

Ah, I watched a couple of videos like this but I wish I found this sooner. Thanks for this! Really simple and helpful for a beginner.

[sillypotato]

Finally found a guide who actually shares every tips and slowly and now I understood especially pity system tysm.🙃

[loopingmoon]

Thank you. Although I knew most of this already, it was still a chill guide and I enjoyed doing this instead of being productive.