Genshin Impact
HoYoverse's open-world action RPG. Character builds, artifact and weapon guides, team comps, elemental reactions, Spiral Abyss clears, and version update coverage.
August 2026
7 posts
Genshin Shadow Realm Guide — Firearms, Ammo, Rewards
Version 7.0 dropped a third-person shooter inside Genshin Impact. Your roster, artifacts, food and jump button do not come with you — the Traveler enters on base stats of 3,000 HP and 1,000 ATK carrying two guns and a grenade. Here are the three firearms and their numbers, the four frag crystals, where ammo comes from, and every unlock gate between you and the Edge of Survival scoreboard.
Genshin Weekly Boss Guide — Which Boss Drops What
Fourteen weekly bosses, three discounted claims a week, and one rule worth checking before you spend: below boss level 70 a Trounce Blossom pays zero talent materials. Here is the full drop map, the level thresholds, and which boss the character you are building actually needs.
Genshin Lunar Reactions Guide — Moonsign, Triggers, Scaling
Genshin has quietly added five reactions since Version 5.8, and they break the oldest rules in the combat system: they CRIT, they ignore DMG Bonus and enemy DEF, and they refuse to fire at all unless the right character is standing in your party.
Genshin Stygian Onslaught Guide — The Primogems Stop at Difficulty Three
Genshin has three permanent endgames. The third one hands you its entire Primogem payout at difficulty three of six, then spends the top half of the ladder paying you in artifact currency and weapon skins instead. The reward table is the whole strategy.
Genshin Genius Invokation TCG Guide — Rules That Win
Melt does +2 damage in the card game. Not double. Not scaled off Elemental Mastery. Two. Every classic reaction you memorized for the open world is now a flat +1 or +2 with a rider — except Lunar-Charged, which adds no bonus damage at all. Unlearn that before you sit down at The Cat's Tail.
Genshin Imaginarium Theater Guide — The Endgame That Out-Pays the Abyss
The Spiral Abyss pays 800 Primogems a month. A full Imaginarium Theater season pays 1,000. One of them asks for eight built characters and one asks for twenty-eight, and most accounts are still only collecting the smaller cheque.
Genshin Impact Serenitea Pot Guide — Your Teapot Should Be Paying You Rent
Most players unlock the teapot at Adventure Rank 28, place three chairs, and never come back. That is a mistake with a number attached: a maxed-out Serenitea Pot generates 30 Realm Currency an hour, sells you a 60-resin refill every week, and grows ascension materials while you sleep.
July 2026
10 posts
Genshin Damage Formula Guide — Which Multiplier Your Build Is Missing
A level 90 character hitting a level 90 enemy loses exactly half its damage before resistance, before crits, before anything you can see. That 0.5 is not difficulty tuning — it falls straight out of one line of arithmetic, and it is the reason your next upgrade probably is not another CRIT DMG roll.
Genshin Weapon Guide — Base ATK, Secondary Stats and When to Pull
The 5-star weapon with the highest base ATK in the game and the 5-star with the highest secondary stat are 200 base ATK apart, and picking the wrong one for your character quietly costs you more damage than a constellation would give you.
Genshin Energy Recharge Guide — How Much ER You Actually Need
Xingqiu drops exactly five Hydro particles per skill cast. Standing on him when they land is worth 15 Energy. Swapping away first is worth 9. Same cooldown, same rotation, six Energy gone — and that is before you touch the Energy Recharge stat at all.
Genshin Impact Talent and Ascension Material Guide — The 7 Million Mora Character
Taking a single character to level 90 with all three talents at 10 costs 7,050,900 Mora. Not per team. Per character. Once you see the real bill, you stop leveling everyone a little and start leveling someone all the way.
Genshin Impact Resin Management Guide — Stop Wasting Your Cap
Original Resin regenerates at exactly one unit every eight minutes, which means a full 200 cap takes 26 hours and 40 minutes to refill. If you sleep on it, you are quietly throwing away progression every single day.
Best F2P Teams in Genshin Impact — Four-Star Squads That Clear
Xiangling costs one Spiral Abyss clear. Xingqiu costs nothing but a Beginners' Wish. Bennett is on the standard banner forever. Put those three together and you have a team that has been clearing endgame content since 2020 and still does.
Genshin Spiral Abyss Guide — Floors 9-12, Two Teams and 800 Primogems a Month
A full 36-star Spiral Abyss clear pays 800 Primogems, once a month, for the cost of zero resin. What stands between you and that payout usually is not skill — it is the two-team tax.
Genshin Elemental Reactions Guide — Every Multiplier Explained
Most players know Hydro plus Pyro equals Vaporize. Far fewer know that swapping which element lands first is the difference between a 2x multiplier and a 1.5x one — the same rotation, a third of the damage gone.
Genshin Artifact Guide — Stats, Rolls and Resin Math
A five-star artifact can roll the exact same substat four times and give you anywhere from 10.88 percent to 15.54 percent CRIT DMG. Understanding that spread is the difference between a functional account and a museum of half-built characters.
Genshin Wish Guide — Pity, Rates and Real Primogem Costs
The base five-star rate is 0.6 percent, which sounds brutal until you learn that almost nobody actually pulls at 0.6 percent. The rate ramps hard starting at wish 74, and that single fact should change how you save.