The Ultimate Pre-Farming Guide! (Save Time & Resources) ✦ | Genshin Impact

0:00 If you clicked on this video, you are probably looking to pre-form a character. Now, there's a lot of things that come into consideration when pre-forming, and one of them is saving your time and your resources. I have done a lot of pre-forming in the past, so I have compiled all my tips into one mega guide for you to follow. This video will be divided into chapters, so feel free to reference the chapter that coincides with you most. And of course, if you have any questions, please feel free to leave it in the comments. So, let's get started. The first step to pre-forming is obviously choosing your character and labeling them with a priority. There are three main priority categories that I always like to sort them into. The first one being highest priority, the second one being medium priority, and the third one being low priority. High priority

0:45 characters are characters you really want to get and you will definitely plan on getting them. These are characters that you typically save up many patches for. You have plenty of primo gems and you're almost guaranteed to win. and you're also willing to invest a ton of resources in building them. The key thing for these characters is to be reasonable and not delusional because obviously if you only have 160 primo gems and you're at zero pity, it's highly unlikely that you will get the character you want. So then don't put them at your highest priority if you're not guaranteed on getting them. The next category is medium priority. And these are characters that are important to your account and you would like to have them built, but they're not necessarily on the same level as that main character in your highest priority. think more fivestar support characters that would be really helpful on your account, but they're really not an immediate need. They're simply really good to have overall. As for the last tier, which are

1:32 low priority characters, these are characters that you really don't need to be built right away. For example, if you pull them on the banner, you don't really think of building them. You might wait a few weeks or months before you actually get to building them, and you feel like your account will still function fine even if you don't build them. Usually in this category, there's four star supports or DPS's, just characters that are not as crucial as the upper tier five stars. This first chapter is dedicated to highest priority characters. An example of a highest priority character might be Zai or someone upcoming in the future patches. We don't also know who's going to be on the next banners unless Genjin releases them formally. But maybe it might be an upcoming fivestar that you never got a chance to pull before. For example, someone like Ryden Shogun or Huttow or again it could be the character on the current banner. In this example, I'm going to use Skirk because she is a character I really want in the future and I am really looking forward to

2:17 getting her. First things first are boss materials. These are materials that require resin to collect and are generally found in the world with no time limit. For boss materials, I always suggest waiting until you actually own the characters to start farming them since boss materials are always guaranteed every time you go into the boss arena. If that character is an upcoming character that has a story quest related to it, typically you will get their boss materials for free along with the story quest. So, if that is the case, always make sure you do the quest first before you start farming for their boss materials so that you don't have to do as many boss rounds and use as much resin. Unless you are 100% guaranteed on getting the character, don't form boss materials because sometimes you don't always have a character that can use those materials in case you change your mind, especially if it's a very specialized material and you know that other characters can't really use it. But I like to do my boss materials on

3:02 days where I can't form talent domains just so that my resin is being put to use if I can't condense it. For their weapon materials and weapons in general, feel free to raise these ahead of time and you can pre-form them. Since weapons are easily transferable and you can give their weapon to someone else, it's okay to invest a little bit in the weapon because there's always going to be another character that will use it fine. Unless it is a specialized fivestar weapon, assuming you guys are free to play, most four-star weapons can be used for several other characters. I also find it really useful to raise their weapon ahead of time because once you actually have the character, you're going to be balancing doing boss runs, talent domains, and artifacts. And I know you really don't want to have to think about the weapon while you're farming for these other things. for artifacts. Now, this is a little bit more important. If you are planning to get a character, do not spend resin on their artifacts until you already

3:48 possess them. If it is applicable, use the strong box for their artifacts. This might be especially helpful if you are getting a character that's already been on a banner before. It's most likely that their artifact set is already going to be in the strong box. It is quite convenient so you don't have to farm the older domains. But another big tip that I really want you guys to take in is to avoid farming artifacts on speculated characters or if you don't know what the character's best artifact set is going to be until their full kit has been released and you actually get to use them. Don't start farming artifacts until you know 100% which artifacts you're going to be farming. Because as we know, artifact domains take a really long time. And I don't want you guys to waste your precious time and resin farming the wrong artifact set. If you do have fragile resin to spend, I recommend to only spend it on artifacts since artifacts are the most RNG thing

4:33 you can farm in Genchin. For things like boss materials, talent domains, and weapon domains, those ones are pretty much guaranteed what item you're going to get. So, you want to save your fragile resin only for farming artifacts where you require a ton of domain runs to get the set that you want. If you are using the strong box, meaning that their artifacts are available to be caught in the strong box, I always recommend just locking the artifact ahead of time as opposed to rolling it just in case you end up getting better rolls later on. But typically, I don't like to roll artifacts until I have the character and can put their entire artifact set on just so I can see what the balance looks like. Also, you might have a bunch of different options that you can use. And you don't want to let go of a piece that might actually be good. So, I like to be safe and just have the artifacts and I can get rid of them later once my character's build is already finished. One last thing about artifacts. I always like to use Stigian Onslaught for

5:19 getting my artifacts. During the early periods of it, you can get artifacts and I always find it much easier to do this than the domain itself. I recommend this if you are farming a domain where you can get both artifact sets from. As we know, Stigian Onslaught is just like farming an artifact domain. So, if you're only getting one set and the others are not really that important to you, especially if they're already older ones, then I don't recommend getting your older artifacts from Stigian Onslaught. Personally, I prefer getting the newest artifact set there on slot just because you usually use both of the sets there. Now, for the last thing, which are your character's talents, if you're pre-forming your guaranteed character, you can farm their talent domains on days that they are available. Just don't use your fragile resin on them. And typically, it takes about a week or two to farm the right amount of talent books. So, it might take you a little bit more time. So, you might want to pre-armm your talent books earlier. Again, just don't spend your fragile resin. And you can also condense your

6:06 resin from previous days just so you can speed up the process for when your books are available. And as always for the trance domains, you want to get on doing those as early as possible. My goal is to always do three Chance domains. Even if they aren't characters I'm currently thinking of building, I just like to restock on the lowest one that I have just in case I need to build those particular characters. And obviously, if you have other materials like dream solvents, you're also going to want to save up those. The main thing to remember for high priority characters is make sure you only start farming things if you are guaranteed to get that character. If you're not 100% sure on getting them, it's best not to waste your resin. So yeah, that's all for highest priority characters. Now, moving on to characters of medium priority. For your boss materials is a similar message. Only farm them once you already have the character. It's just an easy way to make sure that you're not wasting your resin, especially since boss

6:51 materials are not really transferable and you can't convert them unlike other things. So yeah, just be sure of that. Now, for things like weapons, if they are medium priority character, things are a little bit different. If their best weapon is a general weapon that you can get from the gacha or is an event weapon, then you can raise it. But if their weapon is very character specific and not a lot of other characters can utilize it, then you might want to hold off until you own the character. An example that I like to use is Linn's bow, Song of Stillness. This weapon is a craftable weapon, which is mostly used on Linny. I personally don't recommend crafting a weapon if you don't have the character yet, because sometimes when they release a character, they also like to release weapons for that character, usually during the events or during story quests. So, don't pre-craft the weapon just in case you might want to use that forging bullet for something else. And also, I don't recommend R5ing your weapon right away. Most of my

7:37 weapons, even if they are from the gacha, are not R5. The only R5 ones I have are from events because they do give you refinements. The reason I don't do this is usually because there are weapons that can be exchanged later on. And also simply, I don't really have a lot of copies of weapons. But if you are provided with the refinements, like in the fishing weapons or the event weapons, then you should R5 them right away. As for other things like gotcha and craftables, I don't R5 them until I know for sure that this is their best weapon. Now, on to artifacts. If your character is only medium priority, I don't really recommend doing the domain. And if you aren't in a hurry to build them, utilize only the strong box because usually for your second priority characters, you don't really want the other artifact within the domain. Obviously, there are circumstances where you might be building a character from the same domain. But typically, you're not, such as if I'm farming for an animal character, they usually want

8:22 veridescent artifacts, but I do not need maiden's beloved. Just use the strong box because it's the easiest way to get that singular set. And chances are if you are farming for a priority character at the same time, you have a bunch of spare artifact pieces that you can use inside the strong box to get better ones. Typically, if I'm pre-arming for a character that's not super high in my priority list, I always like to utilize artifacts that I already have in my inventory because yes, I do have quite a few artifacts. And I have a feeling that some of them are pretty usable. So, don't neglect the artifacts you already have. You might be able to put them on either a temporary build or something of similar power until you get the artifact set that you want. But the one takeaway for this is I don't recommend spending fragile resin or really any resin at all, especially if it's only a character of medium priority until this character becomes your top priority. Spending

9:08 resin is a little bit redundant, especially when there's other things you can farm. So, for the sake of your time and resources, just use the strong box instead. Now, for talents, the first thing you need to know is which nation this character came from. For example, if I'm talking about Farazan, she's from Sumero. Now, in Samario, if you do explore, you are actually able to get Sumera talent materials in the chests that you open. So, in this case, I would be able to get Farazan's talent materials without having to do the domain as much as I thought I would. If you already explored the nation which your character is from, then you can go ahead and do the domain. But, for example, Colombina, which I recently got, I haven't yet explored this area of Ncry, and I haven't finished exploring here either, which means that there are still talent books out to be collected. So, I don't want to use my resin for that yet because if I can get them naturally and they're already in my world, I might as well collect them. And

9:55 of course, if this character is not a priority for your account, then you should be fine waiting until you explore naturally. But if you don't have time to explore, that's okay. You can resort to using the domains. However, I highly recommend utilizing your map first since there actually are a lot of resources you can get, especially from later regions like Natan and Nudry. Third chest have a lot of resources that you can use for ascensions. And also, you get to fight a lot of enemies, which means you don't have to collect things, but more on that later. The same goes for talent boss materials. Just farm these as early as possible and have some in your inventory in case you ever need to use them. It's always good to have, especially if your luck is not that good in the domains. And now for our last category, which are low priority characters. For boss materials, it's the same notion. Just wait until you already own the character. As for their weapon, just raise what's necessary. If the

10:40 character has already been out for a while, I'm sure they do have a build guide somewhere. If the character is new, usually the patch they're associated with will have some sort of four-star weapon that you can use. I wouldn't recommend forging anything if you are unsure, as well as raising anything, too. If there is nothing confirmed about the character, then you don't need to raise weapons just yet. Just wait until you own the character. Sometimes, if the character is really low priority, I tend to wait a few patches because usually they come out with more weapons that I can use or even better builds. So keep an eye out because they might be releasing more buffs for the character and you don't want to invest everything too early, especially since you know they could change. Now, if your character is low priority, utilize what you already have in your artifact inventory because chances are if you are farming for your main character and then your second priority, your low priority character might have a lot of extra artifacts that

11:25 they could potentially use. You can use a bunch of off pieces on your low priority character for a time. Or what I like to do is use all my bad artifacts and put them in the strong box. It's definitely more efficient than farming another artifact domain. In fact, I don't recommend you farm artifact domains at all, especially if they're low priority character. And typically, in terms of the build order for my low priority characters, I always do their artifacts last because I like to prioritize things like their weapon, level, and talents before I get into doing their artifacts. For talent books, these ones I like to collect really naturally for characters that I'm leveling up if they're low priority. Because a lot of the time every single patch has a new nation specific event and usually that event comes with rewards like talent books which you might be able to use for a character. I don't tend to go into domains for my low priority characters. This is just

12:11 because there are so many ways I can get my talent books without having to spend resin. You can even use the parametric transformer as well as explore the map. And you could even just submit your sigils. Again, there's so many ways you can get these items without having to use resin. And I always like to use those first, especially if my character is only low priority. And then for your boss materials, I still like to farm these in the domain every week. If your highest, medium, and lowest priority characters are all in three different domains, then you can just farm those three every week until you have the right amount that you need. This section now is just for general tips and advice that I have since this really applies to any character that you're trying to build. And these are things that I found helpful during my building progress. For enemy drops, try to farm these as frequently as possible. If you have time in your day to farm, just go out and search for these items. Genchin has really optimized the experience tracking

12:57 enemies. For example, if I'm looking for the cis mages, I just go out and farm this route. It's really easy to do and it's also one of those mindless activities because typically these enemies are not that hard to find. No matter the priority of your character, it's always helpful to get these materials because chances are these materials are not only going to be used for the character you're currently building, but also for characters you may build in the future. These materials are also kind of a pain to collect last minute, so you want to collect them as early as possible. The same goes for any local specialties. No matter the priority of the character, you always want to go out and collect these, mainly because you can't farm all of them in one day when you get the character finally. So, you might want to farm these a few weeks in advance. They also do have a cool down, so you aren't able to collect them every single day. So, it is best to get on as early as possible into farming these. And you might want to check out if there are any vendors in

13:42 that nation where you can actually buy the material from. I know that particular materials used to be really difficult to collect, like nakued. So, you might want to check out if there is a vendor that sells that thing. And you might want to make sure that you buy from them every single week or however long it takes for them to refresh just so that you're slowly collecting things over time and you're not rushing on the day you eventually get your character. As for expa, if you aren't particularly farming for anybody at the moment, you can spend your resin on farming Mora or exp. But I don't tend to intentionally farm more or exp because you can also get these things from exploring and doing quests and really anything in the game. I don't make farming these things a part of my routine. They're just something that naturally builds up over time. So basically what I mean to say is that if you are farming for a character, don't include farming for Mora and exp as a part of the routine. Instead, go

14:28 and find these things from exploration or if you're really running low, you might have to submit some sigils. I always forget that I have sigils in my backpack that I can go and submit and you can get lots of moa or whatever the nation specific rewards are. It's usually really helpful and sometimes you even forget that you have them. So try to make sure you do that before going and farming for lelay lines and instead make them a last resort thing as opposed to your go-to method. That will be all for today's video. Thank you so much for watching. Let me know what kind of tips you guys want next and I'll see you all in our next video. Good luck on your polls and have a wonderful day everyone. Bye.