5 Essential Damage-Boosting Strategies in Genshin Impact

Genshin Impact's immersive world is not just about exploration and story; mastering combat is crucial.

Whether you're strategizing against bosses or navigating challenging domains, amplifying your damage output can significantly improve your experience.

Here are crucial tips to instantly boost your damage in Genshin Impact, ensuring your team is equipped to tackle any challenge that Teyvat throws your way.

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5 Essential Damage-Boosting Strategies in Genshin Impact

Master Elemental Reactions

Understanding Elemental Reactions

Each element interacts with others in unique ways. For instance:

• Vaporize and Melt amplify damage, crucial for bursting down high-HP targets.
• Freeze temporarily immobilizes enemies, halting their actions and making them vulnerable to follow-up attacks.
• Overloaded, Superconduct, Electro-Charged, and Shattered deal AoE damage or reduce defenses, perfect for crowd control.
• Swirl extends the reach of your elemental effects, and Crystallize provides additional protection through shields.

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Dendro Reactions

• ‍Burning: When Dendro meets Pyro, it triggers the Burning reaction, dealing Pyro AoE damage over time. This is effective for decreasing the health of enemies over a larger area.
• Bloom: Combining Dendro with Hydro triggers Bloom, creating Dendro Cores that explode after a delay, dealing AoE Dendro damage. This is particularly useful for dealing burst damage to groups of enemies.
• Quicken: Dendro and Electro react to cause Quicken, which in itself does not deal damage but sets the stage for more potent reactions like Spread and Aggravate.
• Spread: Triggered by applying Electro to a target under the Quicken effect, Spread deals additional Electro damage, enhancing your team's Electro DPS output.
• Aggravate: When an Electro-attacked target is already affected by Quicken, Aggravate enhances the Electro damage dealt, making it a powerful tool for boosting damage from your Electro characters.
• Burgeon: Triggered by applying Pyro to a Bloom effect, Burgeon causes an explosion, dealing significant AoE Dendro damage, ideal for clearing groups of enemies quickly.

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Optimizing Your Team Composition

Ensure your team can trigger multiple elemental reactions.

Having a mix of Pyro, Hydro, Electro, Dendro and Cryo characters can cover most bases.

Pair your main DPS with supports that complement their element.

For example, pairing a Hydro DPS with an Electro support for consistent Electro-Charged reactions.

Include characters that allow you to adapt to different enemies and scenarios.

An Anemo character with the Viridescent Venerer artifact set can reduce elemental resistances, amplifying the damage from elemental reactions.

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Maximizing Reaction Efficiency

Elemental Mastery (EM): This stat boosts the damage of elemental reactions. Characters who primarily serve as reaction triggers should prioritize EM in their build.

Sequencing Attacks: The order of applying elements can affect the damage multiplier of reactions like Vaporize and Melt. Applying Pyro before Hydro results in a higher multiplier for Vaporize, and vice versa for Melt.

Cooldown Management: Manage the cooldowns of your abilities to ensure you can consistently trigger reactions. Use characters with short cooldowns or talents that reduce them.

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Optimize Your Artifacts

Understanding Artifact Sets

Each artifact set provides unique bonuses that can synergize with your character's abilities and role. Identifying the right set is crucial:

• DPS Characters: Look for sets that increase damage output, such as Gladiator's Finale (ATK%) or Crimson Witch of Flames (Pyro DMG).
• Support Characters: Sets like Noblesse Oblige (increases Elemental Burst DMG and provides team ATK% boost) or Tenacity of the Millelith (increases HP and buffs allies' ATK% when elemental skills hit enemies) are valuable.
• Healers: Maiden Beloved enhances healing effectiveness, crucial for keeping your team alive.

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Main Stats Priority

The main stats on your artifacts can significantly impact your character's effectiveness. Prioritize as follows:

• Sands: ATK% for DPS, HP% or Energy Recharge for supports/healers.
• Goblet: Elemental DMG Bonus for DPS (matches their primary element), HP% for supports/healers.
• Circlet: CRIT Rate/DMG for DPS (aim for a balanced ratio of 1:2), Healing Bonus for healers, or HP% for supports.

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Sub-Stats Optimization

Sub-stats can further refine your character's capabilities. Key tips include:

• Focus on CRIT Rate and CRIT DMG: These are crucial for DPS characters. Aim for a ratio of 1:2 for optimal performance.
• Elemental Mastery for Reaction-Based Characters: If your character frequently triggers elemental reactions, prioritize Elemental Mastery.
• Energy Recharge for Characters with Powerful Bursts: Ensure they can use their Elemental Burst frequently.

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Artifact Farming Strategies

Once you've identified the artifact sets you need, focus on domains that drop those sets.

This is more resin-efficient than spreading your efforts across multiple domains.

This maximizes your rewards per domain run, helping you gather artifacts more efficiently.

RNG plays a significant role in obtaining artifacts with the desired main stats and sub-stats. Be prepared to farm a domain multiple times.

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Managing Artifacts

Use lower-star artifacts as fodder to level up your higher-star, more valuable artifacts.

Focus on leveling artifacts for your main DPS first, as they benefit the most from the increased stats.

While your DPS should be prioritized, don't neglect your support and healer artifacts.

A well-rounded team is crucial for tackling Genshin Impact's varied content.

As you acquire better artifacts, don't hesitate to rotate older ones down to your support characters or use them as enhancement fodder.

This continuous improvement cycle ensures your team remains competitive.

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Prioritize Talent Upgrades

DPS Characters

For main DPS characters, the priority should typically be:

• ‍Normal Attack: Since DPS characters rely heavily on their normal attack for consistent damage, upgrading this talent first ensures a steady damage output.‍
• Elemental Skill and Burst: Depending on the character, some may rely more on their Elemental Skill or Burst for damage. Observe your usage pattern and upgrade accordingly. If your character's Elemental Burst is a significant source of damage (e.g., Diluc, Ganyu), prioritize it second. For characters who rely more on Elemental Skills for damage (e.g., Keqing), prioritize that instead.

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Support Characters

Support characters enhance the team's overall effectiveness through buffs, debuffs, or healing. Their talent upgrade priority often depends on their role:

• ‍Elemental Skill: For supports whose main role is to apply elemental reactions or provide utility (e.g., Venti, Xingqiu), prioritize their Elemental Skill to ensure more frequent and potent applications.‍
• Elemental Burst: If the character's support comes primarily from their Elemental Burst through healing, shields, or area-of-effect damage (e.g., Qiqi, Zhongli), this talent should be prioritized.‍
• Normal Attack: Typically the lowest priority for support characters, unless their basic attacks are integral to their support mechanism.

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Healers

The effectiveness of healers hinges on their ability to sustain the team through challenging encounters. For healers:

• ‍Elemental Burst or Skill: Prioritize whichever talent directly impacts their healing output. For many healers, their Elemental Burst is the primary source of healing (e.g., Barbara’s and Jean's Elemental Burst), making it the top priority.‍
• Elemental Skill: If the Elemental Skill also contributes to healing or provides significant utility (e.g., Diona's shield), prioritize upgrading it next.‍
• Normal Attack: Generally the lowest priority for healers, unless their healing scales with normal attack damage.

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Utility Characters

Characters that serve specialized roles (e.g., crowd control, elemental mastery buff) require a tailored approach:

• ‍Key Talent for Role Fulfillment: Prioritize the talent that most directly enhances their utility. For example, for Sucrose, who excels in boosting the team's Elemental Mastery, upgrading her Elemental Skill and Burst for better crowd control and elemental reaction setup is crucial.
• ‍Supporting Talents: Upgrade other talents that complement their primary role or provide additional benefits to the team.

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Choose the Right Weapon

Here are our 4-star weapon tier list and 5-star weapon tier list. Said that, you need to take into consideration the weapon stats and what characters you have:

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Understanding Weapon Stats and Passives

Base ATK: The foundation of a weapon's damage output. Higher base ATK benefits all characters but is particularly vital for DPS roles.

Secondary Stat: Can include CRIT Rate, CRIT DMG, ATK%, Elemental Mastery, Energy Recharge, etc. Choose weapons whose secondary stats align with your character's needs.

Passive Ability: Often the deciding factor. Weapons come with unique abilities that can range from increasing damage under certain conditions, improving energy regeneration, enhancing elemental reactions, etc. Align the weapon's passive with your character's role and abilities.

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DPS Characters

DPS characters benefit most from weapons that directly boost their damage output.

• Physical DPS: Look for weapons with high base ATK and passives that increase physical damage (e.g., Prototype Archaic for Claymore users).
• Elemental DPS: Weapons that boost elemental damage or CRIT stats are preferable. For instance, characters like Diluc or Klee excel with weapons that enhance Pyro DMG Bonus or CRIT DMG/Rate.
• Sub-DPS: These characters might switch in and out for their abilities. Weapons that enhance their elemental skill/burst damage or reduce cooldowns can be ideal (e.g., The Widsith for Catalyst users).

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Support Characters

Support roles require weapons that boost their utility rather than direct damage.

• Elemental Reaction Enablers: Elemental Mastery is a key stat for supports focusing on setting up reactions. Favonius weapons are excellent for their Energy Recharge, ensuring your supports can use their Elemental Bursts more frequently.
• Buffers/Debuffers: Weapons that offer team buffs or enemy debuffs on skill/burst usage can significantly enhance a support's utility. Sacrificial series weapons, which potentially reset skill cooldowns, allow for more frequent use of supportive abilities.

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Healers

For healers, weapon choice often revolves around maximizing healing output and ensuring skill availability.

• Healing Output: Weapons that increase Healing Bonus% or have healing-related passives are ideal. For example, Prototype Amber provides both HP% increase and Energy Recharge, beneficial for characters like Barbara.
• Energy Recharge: Ensuring your healer can frequently use their Elemental Burst for group healing is crucial. Look for weapons with high Energy Recharge secondary stats.

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Use Food and Potions

Know Your Buffs

• Attack & CRIT Boosts: Consumables like Adeptus' Temptation or Delicious Jade Parcels significantly increase your DPS characters' attack or CRIT rates, making them essential for boss fights or domains.
• Defense & Healing: For tankier builds or to survive in tough battles, dishes like Matsutake Meat Rolls provide a boost in defense, while Sweet Madame offers instant healing.
• Stamina Reduction: Useful during exploration, dishes like Barbatos Ratatouille reduce stamina consumption for sprinting and climbing, allowing for extended travel without the need for constant stops.
• Elemental & Physical RES: Potions such as Windbarrier Potion or Unmoving Essential Oil enhance your resistance against elemental damage, critical for encounters with high elemental damage output.

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Strategic Consumption

Always consume relevant buffs before engaging in high-stakes combat, such as Spiral Abyss floors, weekly bosses, or challenging domains.

Use stamina-reducing food when exploring new areas, especially in regions like Dragonspine or Inazuma, where terrain can be more demanding.

For teams built around specific elemental reactions, using potions that boost elemental mastery or specific elemental damage can significantly enhance your team's output.

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Crafting and Stockpiling

Keep a healthy stock of essential dishes and potions by regularly crafting them at any cooking pot or alchemy bench.

Ingredients can be found in the wild, purchased from vendors, or farmed from specific locations.

Certain characters have bonuses that give a chance to double the output of crafted items.

Use characters like Sucrose for alchemy and Xiangling for cooking to maximize your resources.

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Timely Renewal

Keep an eye on the duration of your buffs.

For long battles or extended exploration, you might need to reapply your consumables to maintain your advantage.

Have quick access to healing dishes in your inventory for unexpected situations, ensuring you can quickly recover without needing to rely solely on healer cooldowns.

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Special Dishes

Certain characters can cook a special dish version of a recipe, providing enhanced effects.

Experiment with different characters to discover and utilize these special dishes.

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Final Thoughts on Maximizing Damage

Boosting your damage in Genshin Impact involves strategic planning, understanding game mechanics, and making the most of the resources at your disposal.

By focusing on elemental reactions, optimizing artifacts, upgrading talents, selecting the right weapons, and using consumables, you can ensure your team is always ready to face the challenges of Teyvat with confidence.

Remember, the key to mastering Genshin Impact lies not only in power but in the strategy and synergy of your team.