Unlocking Genshin Impact Domains: Your Hilarious and Helpful Guide
Exploring Teyvat in Genshin Impact is like entering a beautiful playground. Amidst the beauty, you’ll notice mysterious places called Domains. Domains test your skills and offer sweet rewards. They are instanced dungeons. Use them to power up characters and defeat enemies.
What Exactly ARE These Domains Anyway?
Think of Domains as mini worlds made for treasure. They are temporary spots away from the main world map. Here, you complete challenges. These challenging experiences test your combat skills and puzzle-solving ability.
Chests in some temporary quest areas or Domains do not count for your chest collection. The game hints at doing the exploration instead. Don’t worry about this, as rewards remain valuable despite not adding to achievements.
Primogems and Domains: A Love Story?
Primogems are the exciting currency for players’ gacha pulls. Do Domains provide these gems? Not every Domain gives them, but some do toss a few your way.
Your first exploration of specific Domains may reward you with Primogems and Adventure EXP. Consider it a welcome gift. Unlocking some Domains may require puzzles or mini-quests. The game makes you work for those digital gems!
The Primogem Promised Land: Spiral Abyss
If you want Primogems badly, aim for the Spiral Abyss. This Domain serves as the endgame challenge. It tests your team’s skills in multi-level battles.
The early Spiral Abyss floors reward 100 Primogems per star, with three stars possible each floor. That totals 300 Primogems for easy floors! It’s the best place for farming rewards. Prepare to sweat as you go deeper.
Artifacts Ahoy! Domain Diving for Gear
Domains aren’t only for Primogems; they are key sources for Artifacts. Artifacts boost stats and affect character builds. Each Domain drops specific Artifact sets. Choose wisely based on Artifact needs.
Domains vary in difficulty. Higher difficulty means better loot. The highest Domain levels guarantee a 5-star Artifact drop. Yes, you can get top gear if you can complete tough challenges.
World Level Shenanigans and Domain Difficulties
Your World Level alters the open world’s difficulty in Genshin Impact. Enemies become stronger, and bosses drop better loot. However, World Level has no impact on Domain difficulty or rewards.
Domains have distinct difficulty settings, so select wisely before entry. Your Adventure Rank determines access to the highest difficulty and rewards, especially those 5-star Artifacts, at Rank 45.
Domain Spotlights: A Quick Tour
Time to explore some specific Domains!
- Peak of Vindagnyr: If you want to build a Cryo queen like Ayaka, this Domain is your go-to. It drops Blizzard Strayer Artifacts for optimal Cryo damage in a snowy atmosphere.
- Valley of Remembrance: Anemo fans rejoice! Home of the Viridescent Venerer set, this Domain boosts Anemo DMG by 15%. The 4-piece bonus boosts Swirl damage significantly!
- Taishan Mansion: For characters needing “Gold” talent books, this Domain is vital for skill leveling. Visit on specific days for talent material drops, as they rotate daily.
- Narukami Island: Tenshukaku: A Trounce Domain featuring weekly boss fights. Unlock this after progressing far into the story. Expect tough battles and unique rewards!
Domain Matching: Team Up Time!
You can tackle Domains alone, but bringing friends is more fun. Genshin Impact offers a Domain Matching system. At the Domain entrance, click “Matching” to find a group.
You may quickly see players joining your party or get suggestions to join another’s world. This makes finding partners easy and helps tackle challenges with more allies.
Domain Chests: Not What You Think
About those Domain chests we mentioned earlier — remember they don’t count toward achievements? These are bonus loot boxes that exist within the Domain instance.
In Minecraft, chests are special “block entities”, holding extra data as items inside. Domain chests in Genshin work similarly, offering rewards but not checking off exploration milestones shared with open-world chests.
So, while those Domain chests offer loot, don’t expect achievements to add up just for opening them. Enjoy that loot without worrying about your counters!
