Genshin Impact Artifacts: What They Are, How They Work, And Where To Get Them

How you build your character in Genshin Impact is incredibly important for not only beating higher-level enemies and domains but also for team synergy. Some characters can be built for damage or defense, with plenty of options for your playstyle. The most important part of building characters in Genshin Impact is artifacts, which grant high boosts to different stats depending on the artifact. Here is everything you need to know about artifacts.

What are artifacts?

Artifacts are equipable items that give individual characters an increase to one specific attribute and up to four bonus attributes. These can include an increase in health, defense, attack, or other attributes, either in a base number increase or a percentage increase. Similar to weapons, artifacts are separated by rarity, going from one star to five -stars. Artifacts can also be leveled up, which will increase the artifact's main stat and either add an additional secondary stat or increase one of the current secondary stats.

All artifacts are also part of specific sets that offer bonus stats if you equip either two or four artifacts in the same set. There are five artifact types: Flower of Life, Plume of Death, Sands of Eon, Goblet of Eonothem, and Circlet of Logos. The Flower of Life artifacts always have HP as their main stat and the Plume of Death always have ATK. The rest of the artifacts can drop with different main attributes.

How to get artifacts

Artifacts can be found in a ton of places across Genshin Impact. Low-rarity artifacts can be found in chests across the map and in investigation spots, and can be dropped by elite enemies. While you can get artifacts from those places, there are more consistent ways to get three-star, four-star, and five-star artifacts.

The best way to get high-rarity artifacts is by completing Domains of Blessings (artifact), which will award a collection of artifacts upon completion. High-rarity artifacts can also come from completing weekly boss domains and from battling elite enemies for their treasure collection. All of these tasks are limited by original resin, which regenerates over time or can be refilled with consumables. The higher your world level or domain level, the better chance at high rarity artifacts. Players can hold up to 1,500 artifacts at once.

How to level up artifacts

Leveling artifacts in Genshin Impact can be done in one of two ways: feeding other artifacts to the one you want to level up or using Sanctifying Oils, which are artifact XP items and can be obtained from the Realm Depot store. One-star and two-star artifacts have a max level of 4. Three-star artifacts can be leveled to 12, four-star to 16, and five-star to 20. If you use an artifact that has already been leveled as enhancement material, the new artifact will receive 80% of the XP the old artifact had. Any unwanted artifacts four-stars or lower can also be destroyed in exchange for Mora.