First Month: One Team, Weapons Before Artifact Grinding
Spend the first month on Adventure Rank, one damage dealer, and the three teammates who make that person work. Fragile Resin stays in the bag until you can walk into a level-90 domain.
The first week is the map
Follow the Archon quest until it stops you. Unlock the Statues of the Seven you walk past and take the waypoints, because every later domain run starts from a teleport. Do not clear every chest in a nation before the quest moves. Chests will still be there at AR45. A locked domain will not.
The beginner wish is the one discounted banner, and you stop when it ends. After that, wish on a character whose skill you have read, not on every gold glow. Xiangling comes from clearing Abyss floor three. Barbara or Noelle can keep you alive while you do not have Bennett. A free healer who casts their skill is better than a five-star who is level 20 in the bag.
Four people, and the talent that matters
Pick the on-field character and read which button deals the damage. Neuvillette's beam is the normal-attack talent. Xiangling's wheel is the burst. Hu Tao's infusion is the skill, and her charge is the normal attack. Level that talent. Leave the other two at a low rank until the main one is past six. Then level the teammate's relevant skill: Bennett's burst, Xingqiu's burst, Nahida's skill, Zhongli's skill if you are dying.
Weapons go to the highest rank your Adventure Rank allows, on those same characters, before you touch a five-star artifact. A level-20 weapon on a level-70 character is the gap you can feel in a story boss. A single crit roll on a flower is not. Use the adventurer and instructor sets the game gives you. They are enough while the talents are still low.
Resin, and the domain you are not ready for
Original Resin goes into boss materials for the character you are ascending, then talent books, then weapon materials. Ley lines are for when a book or a mora cost is the only thing stopping an ascension today. Fragile Resin is the same list, saved until the highest domain tier. Spending it at AR25 on a domain that drops four-star artifacts buys gear you will delete.
At AR45 the artifact domains guarantee a five-star drop. That is the first day a four-piece set is worth a week of resin. Before that, if you are stuck, it is almost always a talent, a weapon level, or a missing teammate skill, not the flower. Go back to the character page and press the button the table names.
Order of spending
| When | Spend resin on |
|---|---|
| Before AR45 | Boss, talent books, weapon materials |
| AR45 and after | The artifact set named on that character's page |