Hey y'all. I started playing Genshin last Sunday, and I'm legit in love with it. I'm a F2P player, and plan on continuing to be. So I'm searching for some guides, learning everything that I can about the game and its systems to make my life easier.
That said, one aspect is haunting me: waisting resources on a bad character. Since I'm F2P I don't have much choice rather than ask for advice. Which characters should I upgrade? Another thing is, I watched a video saying that a good strategy is to focus on 2 characters and let the others level up by doing missions. Does this holds true?
Right now my adventure rank is 22, I'm still in Mondstadt, and this is my current cast:
Traveler - 30
Amber - 20 (ascended)
Kaeya - 20 (ascended)
Lisa - 20 (ascended)
Barbara - 20 (not ascended)
Noelle - 1
Razor - 1
Xingqiu - 1
(I wished them after I got Barbara on lvl 20)
What I heard so far:
- Focus on the traveler since I'll get "free" upgrades during the gameplay, and that is a guarantee good enough character;
- Skip Lisa and Amber;
I heard other things as well, but it was mostly mixed (both good and bad things) about the other characters, so I'm kinda lost.
Any help is appreciated, thanks \o/
The tier list posted recently is pretty accurate. Razor is a top tier main DPS (seriously, he's a freaking monster for a 4*, no pun intended) and Xingqiu is a top tier sub DPS, so you can level both of them up without fear. The Traveller is sadly outclassed regardless of what element you switch them to, so it's up to you whether to level them or not. Amber is straight out useless.
Out of the characters you have, Barbara is the only dedicated healer (Noelle can also heal but not as consistently). The thing is once you get Bennett, Barbara becomes useless, while Noelle still has a lot of use through her shield and even as a DPS at high constellations, so I'm not sure what to advice you. Perhaps level up Noelle for as long as she can function as a healer, and hopefully switch to Bennett (or a 5* healer if you pull them) before you need to use Barbara?
In the end whatever choices you make now don't matter much in the long run, since at higher levels it becomes a lot easier to level up lower-level characters. I make a point to level every character I have to 40-50, for example. The really important choices are everything pertaining to the premium currency, Primogems, of which I would advice to hoard them and only ever use them for promotional character banners that have a character you really, really want (be it 4* por 5*). Don't pull on the permanent banner with primogems, you will get plenty of wishes for it normally; and absolutely don't pull on the weapon banner.
Besides Primogems, the other sort-of-premium currencies are Masterless Stardust and Masterless Starglitter, which you can only get through making wishes (gacha pulls). It's recommended you spend Stardust on more wishes, and Starglitter on either characters or weapons (although Intertwined Fate is also a decent choice if you're short on wishes for a specific banner). Again, you can do worse than hoarding them until you better understand what's valuable.
In short:
Intertwined Fate -> Used for promotional banner pulls (no other use).
Acquainted Fate -> Used for permanent banner pulls (no other use).
Primogems -> Recommended use is to buy Intertwined Fate.
Masterless Stardust -> Recommended use is to buy Intertwined Fate.
Masterless Starglitter -> Recommended use is to buy characters, 4* weapons, or Intertwined Fate.
(anyone feel free to correct me if I've forgotten anything).
