Genshin Impact: How to Upgrade and Manage Weapons Guide

Here's a quick guide on how to upgrade and manage Weapons in Genshin Impact.

Weapons are crucial for leveling up your characters in Genshin Impact. Upgrading the right weapons can greatly improve a character's performance, and good resource management will help you to stop wasting valuable enhancement materials. A little planning can go a long way in terms of beefing up your main team or even figuring out which weapons to hang onto.

Choose Weapons Carefully

Before you waste resources, see which weapons pair well with the characters you use. Search for the weapon type, Base ATK, secondary stat, and passive. A weapon with good synergy for a character can be far more valuable than a weapon with higher stats but poor synergy.

Enhance Your Weapons

Enhancement Ores and unwanted weapons are used to level up weapons. Higher levels of the weapon increase its Base ATK and can make a significant difference in combat. When you find yourself spreading materials all over your inventory, upgrade the weapons used by your main characters instead.

Ascend Your Weapons

When a weapon hits the current cap of its level, you can ascend it using the required materials and Mora. You can go up and get the weapon to a higher level, which will improve its stats.

Farm Weapon Materials

You can obtain Weapon Ascension Materials from some Domains on specific days. Gather the necessary materials for the major weapons you want to build and time your resin use to fall on days when those materials are available. If you’re ready to upgrade a weapon, there’s no need to wait.

Use Weapon Refinement

Some weapons can be used for Refinement, which enhances the passive abilities of the weapon. Before upgrading a weapon, see if you need the duplicate on another character. This is especially true for useful 4-star weapons that can perform well on multiple characters.

Lock Valuable Weapons

Use the lock feature to secure weapons you want to retain. It also helps to avoid the accidental use of valuable or rare weapons as enhancement materials. Lock important weapons as soon as you get them, especially if you have several similar copies.

Don't Upgrade Everything

Don’t upgrade every weapon you find. Many of the weapons will go unused, and spending resources on them can make it harder to beef up the weapons your main team actually needs.

Summary Points

First get your main characters their weapons and upgrade them before you spend on secondary characters. Check the Ascension Material requirements, check the needed Domains to farm, lock valuable weapons to prevent accidents, and refine duplicate weapons where it makes sense, but hold on to extra copies of useful options when they might benefit other characters down the road.

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