Genshin Impact Beginner Guide for Your First Weeks

If you are starting Genshin Impact today, three things matter most in your first weeks: follow the main story, unlock every Teleport Waypoint and Statue of The Seven you pass, and put your materials into one team of four instead of every character you own. This Genshin Impact beginner guide takes those first steps in order, from the server you pick to your first wishes.

Before you start: server, account and UID

The game first asks you to choose a server: America, Europe, Asia or TW, HK, MO. Progress is saved on that server and cannot be moved later, so choose the one your friends play on. If you play alone, take the closest one for a lower ping.

Next you pick one of the twins as your Traveler. Only the look and the voice change. The skills are the same.

Link an email address to your account on the first day. The same account then opens your save on both PC and phone, and it lets you recover your progress if you lose a device. Your UID is the number in the bottom right corner of the screen. Friends use it to add you, and a top-up needs it.

A beginner's guide to your first hours in Genshin Impact

The opening hours give a lot if you take them in this order.

1. Follow the Archon Quests, the main story. They raise your Adventure Rank (AR), and AR unlocks almost everything else: daily commissions at AR 12, co-op at AR 16.
2. Activate every Teleport Waypoint and Statue of The Seven you see. Waypoints save long walks later. A Statue reveals its part of the map and heals your party.
3. Open chests and collect the floating Anemoculus orbs. Offer them at a Statue to raise your stamina, which means longer climbs and glides.
4. Pick up what you walk past: flowers, ores, fruit. Every character needs some local plant or ore to level up.
5. Cook. Until you own a healer, food is your healing.

At AR 25 your rank stops rising until you clear a short Ascension Quest. Do it when it appears. The experience you earn in the meantime is stored, not lost.

Elements first, then one team of four

Combat is built on seven elements: Pyro, Hydro, Electro, Cryo, Anemo, Geo and Dendro. Hit an enemy with two of them and you trigger a reaction that does more than both hits alone. A wet enemy freezes under Cryo. Fire on a wet or frozen enemy hits much harder.

You can test this in your first hour. Kaeya's Cryo freezes an enemy standing in water or rain, Lisa's Electro jumps between wet enemies, and Amber's burning arrows destroy wooden shields.

The story gives you these three beside the Traveler, and the Beginners' Wish adds Noelle, who shields and heals. Clear Floor 3 of the Spiral Abyss, which opens at AR 20, and you receive Xiangling for free. She is one of the strongest four-star characters in the game.

Experience books, Mora and ascension materials run short for every new player. Spend them on four characters only: one who deals damage on the field, two who support, and one who heals or shields. Raise the damage dealer and their weapon first. The Genshin team building guide explains the roles and reactions in detail.

Artifacts can wait. Equip what drops and give your damage dealer attack and critical stats. Serious artifact farming starts at AR 45, when the highest Domain level opens and every run drops a five-star piece.

Daily commissions, Resin and your first wishes

From AR 12 you get four daily commissions. With the extra reward from Katheryne at the Adventurers' Guild, they pay 60 Primogems a day for about a quarter of an hour of play.

Original Resin is the energy you pay to claim rewards from bosses, Domains and Ley Lines. It refills by itself and stops at its cap, so spend it once a day. Early on, use it on Ley Lines for Mora and experience books, and on the bosses your team needs to ascend.

One wish costs 160 Primogems. Start with the Beginners' Wish: it gives ten wishes for the cost of eight, twice, and the first set always includes Noelle.

After that, keep your Primogems for the limited character banners. A five-star character arrives within 90 wishes at the latest, and your count carries over to the next banner of the same kind. The Primogems guide shows how to plan for a banner.

Genshin Impact beginner tips: mistakes to avoid

• Leveling every new character. Four strong characters do more than ten weak ones.
• Spending Primogems on the standard banner or on Resin refills. The game gives you standard wishes for free as you ascend characters.
• Skipping exploration. Chests, quests and Statues are where most early Primogems come from.
• Trusting "free Primogems" sites. Real codes come from HoYoverse and are entered in the game under Settings, Account, Redeem Code, from AR 10. Generators are scams made to steal accounts.

Questions new players ask

Is Genshin Impact free to play?

Yes. The whole story, the open world and every event are free. Paying only speeds up collecting characters and weapons.

What is a good Genshin Impact beginner team?

The Traveler, Kaeya and Noelle with Amber or Lisa are enough for the first chapters. When Xiangling arrives, she takes Amber's place.

When does co-op unlock?

At AR 16. Up to four players share one world. Bosses and Domains go faster together, while most story quests stay solo.

Genesis Crystals on Mas4Games

Everything in this guide is free, and that is most of Genshin Impact for beginners: story first, one team, patience with Primogems. If a banner you care about is ending and you are a few wishes short, Genesis Crystals are the paid currency, and they convert to Primogems one for one.

You can get Genshin Impact Genesis Crystals on Mas4Games as a top-up by ID. You enter your UID and choose your server, nothing else: no password is asked. If you have a question about an order, the help center has live support.