Genshin Impact Farming Guides

Usually, we refer to farming as the act of obtaining materials in a repetitive manner. In Genshin Impact, the rate at which you can farm materials is heavily gated by the daily and weekly resets as well as your available Original Resin (which repletes at a rate of 8 per minute and of which you can store a maximum of 160).

In the table below, we give an overview the categories of items you can farm, what they are used for, and what is limiting your ability to farm them.

Note that we have omitted things like Material or Cooking Ingredient from this list. They too are somewhat limited by the daily reset, but they are available in such large quantities that you do not really need to farm them.

Now, we are going to go through each of these categories in more detail.

There is a very large supply of Primogems in Genshin's open world, with Chests, World Quests, Statues of the Seven, and the offerings of Elemental Sigils. It takes such a long time to clear out everything that it does feel like Primogems can indeed be farmed by simply completing all that the game has to offer (with the exception of Genius Invocation TCG content).

With that said, you can obtain Primogems with some regularity through the following sources.

Very similarly to Primogems, there is an very large supply of Mora in Genshin's Impact open world, with it being dropped from Chests and rewarded from World Quests.

You can also obtain Mora with some regularity from the following sources.

Each desirable 5-star Artifact set drops from a specific Domain. Because of the randomness of the stats on each artifact that drops, you simply need to farm the same domain over and over again until you get Artifacts with the stats you desire. There is no real farming strategy to farm faster.

Because opening the rewards from a Domain costs you 20 Original Resin or 1 Condensed Resin (which gives you double the rewards but cost 40 Original Resin + 1 Crystal Core to make), you are limited to 4.5 runs per day in average (more if you obtain Fragile Resin or Transient Resin).

Local Specialties are items specific to one of the regions of Teyvat. They can be harvested from nodes with fixed locations and that respawn after 48 hours.

Farming a Local Specialty consists in visiting all the nodes using optimized routes to go as fast as possible. Please refer to the table below to find farming guides for the Local Specialties of Teyvat.

Character EXP Material are tomes that grant EXP to your characters and that can be found all over Teyvat through World Quests, Chests, Events, etc. This steady supply is usually enough for your needs. It is possible to farm for Character EXP Material by repeatedly doing Ley Line Outcrops, but this is not considered a very efficient use of Original Resin.

Character and Weapon Enhancement Material can be farmed from enemies all over Teyvat. These enemies usually exist in large numbers and reset after 12 or 24 hours, which makes Character and Weapon Enhancement Material items some of the most farmable items in Teyvat.

We will eventually have farming guides for all of the Character and Weapon Enhancement Material items. In the meantime, you can head to the official map and select the enemy you want to farm to make them appear on the map.

5-star Character Level-Up Material items drop from Weekly Bosses (60 Original Resin per run, discounted to 30 for the first 3 bosses done in a week) and are used to level up talents while 4-star ones drop from Normal Bosses (40 Original Resin per run) and are used to ascend characters.

Like most items that are gated by Resin, you will simply farm Character Level-Up Material items based on your needs and the Resin you have available.

Character Ascension Material are gems that you need to ascend your characters. They drop from Normal Bosses, just like the Character Level-Up Material items also used for Ascensions. Up until the 5th Ascension, farming for the Character Level-Up Material will also yield a sufficient number of gems that you do not need to farm them separately.

This changes with the 6th and last Ascension, where farming a Normal Boss will yield enough Character Level-Up Material, but not enough gems. We advise you to get the additional gems from doing Weekly Bosses. They give more gems per Original Resin spent (even after you have used up the 3 weekly discounted runs of 30 Original Resin) and they also give talent level up materials that you will always have use for.

Character Talent Material items are used for leveling up talents. Each item drops from a specific Domain, but only on 3 specific days of the week, either:

• Monday, Thursday, Sunday;
• Tuesday, Friday, Sunday;
• Wednesday, Saturday, Sunday.

Each run costs 20 Original Resin (or 1 Condensed Resin for double the rewards) and as most Resin-gated items, there really is not a strategy to farm these. Simply do the domain as many times as necessary.

Weapon Ascension Material items are used for ascending weapons. Each item drops from a specific Domain, but only on 3 specific days of the week, either:

• Monday, Thursday, Sunday;
• Tuesday, Friday, Sunday;
• Wednesday, Saturday, Sunday.

Each run costs 20 Original Resin (or 1 Condensed Resin for double the rewards) and as most Resin-gated items, there really is not a strategy to farm these. Simply do the domain as many times as necessary.

Ore nodes reset between 24 and 72 hours, depending on the node type. There are so many nodes of each type that the reset timer is generally not a problem. Simply head to the official map, toggle the nodes for the ore that you are interested in and start planning your farming routes.