Exploring is one of the main content in Genshin Impact. Having good party lineup would make your exploring experience better. I enjoy exploring in the new region. Currently i'm already 100% on every region (although i believe there are some chests still remain hidden). During my free time, sometimes i'm also helping new player exploring in coop.
Since i put lot of stuff in this guide, you can use Table of Contents to navigate faster.
Basic Information
Elemental Resonance : Impetuous Winds
When you bring 2 Anemo Characters on your party, you'll gain :
- Decrease Stamina Consumption by 15%
- Increase Movement SPD by 10%
- Shortens Skill CD by 5%
So, always try to bring 2 Anemo Character during exploring if you can.
I would recommend to have an Anemo DPS so you can always bring him during explore.
Character Size Comparison
This table only for helping you to compare each body type in general.
I did test them by myself, but since characters with same body type could have different height (Like Xiao and Cyno), maybe you want to test them by yourself if you want exact result.
The sample i use for this test are : Diluc, Lyney, Jean, Lynette, and Klee
Conclusion, Most of the time Tall Male is better than others.
Weapon Benefit Comparison
You might want to bring a Bow character during explore because there are lot of Puzzle and Challenge that require Bow.
Some enemies such as Ruin Guards usually have Weak Points and mostly can be attacked using Bow.
But it's depend on the Region too, i'm adding this just as bonus.
Exploration Progress
There are some factors that affect Exploration Progress :
- Shrine of Depths
- Chests
- Culus
- Challenges
- Seelies
- Puzzles
- Mora Boxes (Including Small Box which usually floating on water surfaces)
Tips
- Prioritize to upgrade your Mondstadt and Liyue Statue of Seven first for unlock maximum stamina (240).
- Don't forget to use Elemental Sight often, especially at open and dark area, setting time into Nighttime could help you detect object easier using Elemental Sight.
- When you already exploring most of the area but still missing some exploration %, try explore around the map borders.
- If you have some Culus left, try use Culus Resonance Stone and try explore on area around it.
- Try searching for Hidden Exploration Objectives on the wiki for extra chests.
- Using Stamina Reduction Food would make you run longer, always use them before you start exploring.
Exploring Gadget
Solo
- NRE (Menu 30)
If you didn't bring healer, you would need this.
- Portable Waypoint
You can put this Waypoint on the middle of highest area if there's no Teleport Waypoint (Best to use in Dragonspine at Celestia Nail Peak).
You can glide from the top while using Elemental Sight to find Chests, etc. Teleport back and try again toward different direction.
- Treasure Compass
If you have Treasure Compass, best to equip it all of the time during exploring when you can.
- Wind Catcher
If you didn't have Venti, you can use this as replacement to reach higher place.
- Red Feather Fan
If you're going to do long glide from a peak or something, this gadget could increase Gliding Speed by 30%.
- "The Boon of the Elder Tree"
You can use this if you want to gather wood for making furniture during exploring.
- "Wind Powered Wind Generator"
Create a short wind current during gliding, best combined with Kazuha's Skill to reach higher place.
- "Culus Resonance Stone"
Since making one require some Unique Region Resource, it's better to use it after you done exploring most of the area.
Co-op (For Helping Others)
- Fateometer
You can use this gadget to giving sign to your friend, but this gadget will disappear when you're too far or engaging battle.
- Launch Tube
You can use this gadget as flare so your friend could find you from long range.
- Wind Catcher
If you didn't have Venti, you can use this as replacement to reach higher place.
- Windblume Festival Commemorative Balloon
My favorite gadget for giving sign to other player nearby.
Weapon with Movement Speed Bonus
Lost Prayer to the Sacred Winds (5★ Catalyst) ⭐
Gain 10% Movement Speed when Equipped.
The First Great Magic (5★ Bow)
Gain 10%~18% Movement Speed when there are 3 character with different elemental types.
Skyrider Sword (3★ Sword)
Gain 12~24% Movement Speed for 15s after using Elemental Burst.
Skyward Blade (5★ Sword)
Gain 10% Movement Speed for 12s after using Elemental Burst.
Twin Nephrite (3★ Catalyst)
Gain 10%~20% Movement Speed for 20s after defeating an enemy.
Prototype Crescent (4★ Bow)
Gain 10% Movement Speed for 10s after doing Charged Attack on Weak Points.
Consumable
Decrease Gliding and Sprinting Stamina Consumption by 25% for 900s
- Tulumba
3 Bird Egg | 1 Coffee Beans | 2 Flour | 2 Sugar
- Crepes Suzette ⭐
2 Bulle Fruit | 1 Flour | 1 Cream | 1 Jam
- Minty Meat Rolls
3 Raw Meat | 4 Mint | 1 Jueyun Chili
- Barbatos Ratatouille ⭐
4 Carrot | 4 Potato | 4 Onion
Best to cook only if you have Venti for getting :
A Buoyant Breeze (Decrease Gliding and Stamina Consumption by 25% for 1800s)
Decrease Climbing and Sprinting Stamina Consumption by 25% for 900s
- Sticky Honey Roast
3 Raw Meat | 2 Carrot | 2 Sugar
- Fruity Trio ⭐
1 Bird Egg | 2 Marcotte | 1 Bulle Fruit | 1 Jam
- Zhongyuan Chop Suey
3 Raw Meat | 3 Fish | 2 Salt | 3 Flour
- Rainbow Macarons
3 Bird Egg | 1 Bulle Fruit | 1 Almond | 2 Sugar
Best to cook only when you have Navia for chance to obtain :
"Pick What You Like!" (Decrease climbing and sprinting stamina consumption by 25% for 1500s)
- Omelette Rice
4 Bird Egg | 2 Tomato | 3 Rice | 1 Sugar
Best to cook only when you have Kuki Shinobu for chance to obtain :
Omurice Waltz (Decrease climbing and sprinting stamina consumption by 25% for 1500s)
Decrease Sprinting Stamina Consumption by 25% for 900s
- Lotus Seed and Bird Egg Soup ⭐
1 Bird Egg | 1 Lotus Head | 1 Sugar
Best to cook with Yun Jin for chance to obtain :
Cloud-Shrouded Jade (Decrease sprinting stamina consumption by 25% for 1500s)
Instantly Restore 100 Stamina
- Fish And Chips ⭐
3 Fish | 3 Potato | 1 Salt | 3 Flour
Best to cook only when you have Charlotte for chance to obtain :
Exclusive Scoop: Gourmet Column (Restores 130 Stamina)
- Five Pickled Treasures
2 Carrot | 2 Radish | 2 Lavender Melon | 2 Seagrass
There are some foods that require recipe from event and Unique Region Specialty that i didn't include in here.
Special Abilities
Alternate Sprint
Sprint faster but also consume more stamina, can also be used to across surface of water.
Good for crossing small rivers.
- Kamisato Ayaka (Medium Female / Sword)
- Mona (Medium Female / Catalyst)
Deployable Summon
Summoning skills that used for yourself and other people during exploring.
- Albedo (Medium Male / Sword)
Create a Solar Isotoma, an elevator that can be used to reach higher places, can also be used for Pressure Plate Mechanism.
- Venti (Medium Male / Bow)
Create a Wind Domain, a wind current that can be used to reach higher place.
- Zhongli (Tall Male / Polearm)
Create a Stone Stele, can be climbed to reach higher places, can also be used for Pressure Plate Mechanism.
Directional Blink
Aimed Blink, can be used to reach higher object or higher place.
- Alhaitham (Tall Male / Sword)
- Chiori (Medium Female / Sword)
Chiori's Ability can be combined with character with mid-air movement ability (Kazuha / Xiao).
- Keqing (Medium Female / Sword)
Movement Skill
Active skills that can be used for exploring purpose.
- Diona (Short Female / Bow)
Increase 10% Movement Speed with shield, and also gives 10% Stamina Consumption Reduction.
- Furina (Medium Female / Sword) PNEUMA/OUSIA ⭐
Enable walking on water's surface, also summon Salon Solitaire member to provide healing or attack.
- Kaedehara Kazuha (Medium Male / Sword) ⭐
Can jump higher (Can be used during mid air). Can also be combined with "Wind-Powered Wind Generator" for extra high boost.
- Kirara (Medium Female / Sword)
Switch into Urgent Neko Parcel state, gain higher jump, movement and climbing speed increase, and also gives shield.
- Lynette (Medium Female / Sword) OUSIA
Automatically running forward swiftly.
- Sayu (Short Female / Claymore) ⭐
Automatically rolling forward.
- Wanderer (Medium Male / Catalyst) ⭐
Switch into Windfavored state, gains flying and use different stamina bar, can be used for floating, flying horizontally / vertically.
- Xianyun (Tall Female / Catalyst)
Can use air jump forward up to 3 times.
- Xiao (Medium Male / Polearm)
Can use air dash (Can be used during mid air).
- Yelan (Tall Female / Bow) ⭐
Automatically running forward swiftly.
Mining Skill
Active skills that can be used for mining ore effectively
- Razor (Medium Male / Claymore)
- Zhongli (Tall Male / Polearm)
Stamina Reduction Buff
Buff that can be used for reducing stamina consumption.
- Barbara (Medium Female / Catalyst)
Decrease 12% Stamina Consumption with healing, but also apply Wet Status to your active character.
- Diona (Short Female / Bow)
Decrease 10% Stamina Consumption with shield, and also gives 10% Movement Speed Up.
Others
- Jean (Tall Female / Sword)
Constellation 2 : Gain Movement and Attack Speed when Jean receive Elemental Orb/Particle.
- Kaeya (Tall Male / Sword)
Skill : Turn water surface into ice, much longer duration than other ice.
- Nahida (Short Female / Catalyst)
Skill : Aiming mode to gather up to 5 resources, best used to pickup flowers on cliff such as Violetgrass or Kalpalata Lotus
Utility Passive
10% Movement Speed Bonus (Swift Stride)
Wearing Non-Default Outfit / Wind Glider
- Chiori (Medium Female / Sword) ⭐
Daytime Boost (06:00-18:00 In-Game Time)
- Dehya (Tall Female / Claymore)
- Gaming (Medium Male / Claymore)
Nighttime Boost (18:00-06:00 In-Game Time)
- Rosaria (Tall Female / Polearm)
15% Gliding Speed Bonus
Xianyun (Tall Female / Catalyst)
20% Stamina Reduction
Climbing
- Candace (Tall Female / Polearm)
- Xiao (Medium Male / Polearm)
Gliding
- Amber (Medium Female / Bow)
- Collei (Medium Female / Bow)
- Venti (Medium Male / Bow)
Sprinting
- Chevreuse (Medium Female / Polearm)
- Kaedehara Kazuha (Medium Male / Sword) ⭐
- Kaeya (Tall Male / Sword)
- Razor (Medium Male / Claymore)
- Shikanoin Heizou (Medium Male / Catalyst)
Swimming
- Beidou (Tall Female / Claymore)
- Sangonomiya Kokomi (Medium Female / Catalyst)
Underwater Utilities
15% Diving Speed Bonus
- Neuvillette (Tall Male / Catalyst) PNEUMA ⭐
35% Aquatic Stamina Reduction
- Freminet (Medium Male / Claymore) PNEUMA
Recovery Orb Minimap Indicator | +25% HP & Aquatic Stamina Restore
- Lynette (Medium Female / Sword) OUSIA
30% Xenochromatic Fontemer Aberrant Cooldown Reduction
- Furina (Medium Female / Sword) PNEUMA/OUSIA
Unique Region Resource Minimap Indicator
Mondstadt
- Klee (Short Female / Catalyst)
- Mika (Medium Male / Polearm)
Liyue
- Qiqi (Short Female / Sword)
- Yanfei (Medium Female / Catalyst)
Inazuma
- Gorou (Medium Male / Bow)
Sumeru
- Tighnari (Medium Male / Bow)
Fontaine
- Lyney (Medium Male / Bow) PNEUMA
Ore Veins Minimap Indicator
- Ningguang (Tall Female / Catalyst)
Wildlife Talents
Not Startle Living Beings in "Other" Category
- Sayu (Short Female / Claymore)
- Yaoyao (Short Female / Polearm)
Not Startle Animals who produce Fowl, Raw Meat, and Chilled Meat
- Aloy (Medium Female / Bow)
- Kirara (Medium Female / Sword)
25% Chance Extra Wood During Woodcutting
- Arataki Itto (Tall Male / Claymore)
Region Exploring Tips
Each region have different terrain and puzzles, in this part i'll giving some of the tips.
Liyue
- There are some Geo Totem and Pressure Plate Mechanics here, i recommend you bring character with Geo Construct ability or Geo Traveller on standby.
- Since there are lot of high mountains and hills, climbing and gliding would be needed more.
Dragonspine
- Always use "Goulash" during explore in this area, you can get the recipe from a short world quest titled "Ah, Fresh Meat!" in the camp near Dragonspine entrance.
- There are lot of frozen objects, it's best to always bring a Pyro character.
- When you done Dragonspine quest, you can put Portable Waypoint above Celestia Nails so you can glide and searching chests from above.
Inazuma (Tsurumi Island)
- Tsurumi Island have 3 days cycle with different monsters and chests during each days, it's better for exploring for 3 days straight to avoid missing chests.
- Since there are Stormstones to remove fog, during quest and explore it's better if you bring an Electro character.
- Since Tsurumi have Remarkable Chest, don't register the furniture blueprints yet, keep a track and compare which furniture blueprints you're missing in wiki.
Sumeru (Rainforest Area)
- There are a lot of Dendro related mechanics and puzzles in here, Always bring a Dendro Character, Dendro Bow is the best choice to bring during exploring (Tighnari / Collei).
- Some of the Dendro related mechanics also require Electro and Pyro to use, but usually Electro is used more than Pyro.
- If you're confused with the caves, you can use Map Pin to Pin some of the Cave Entrances.
- You might want to put "Vintage Lyre" in one of your Gadget Slot during exploring.
- During searching 76 Aranaras, it's better if you pin each time you find an Aranara, that would help you to find which Aranara you haven't met yet later on instead of re-checking them 1-1.
- It's better if you done Aranara Quest first before start exploring Rainforest to unlock all the caves first.
Sumeru (Desert Area)
- Since there are lot of Primal Construct enemies inside the ruins, bringing Dendro + Electro characters would helpful to defeat them.
- There are also many pile of sands both in the desert and in the ruins, you best bring Anemo character if you haven't.
- Exploring inside the ruins can be confusing. For me, i was doing both questing and exploring at the same time. For example "Golden Slumber Quest" When i enter a room, i just explore around first using the Quest as anchor point. After you done exploring, you can continue the quest to proceed to the next area, and repeat.
- When you find a locked door that require higher level of "Scarlet Sand Slate", you can put a Pin on your Map to re-explore them later after you fully upgrade your Slate.
- It's better if you done Jeht's Quest Chain first before start exploring Desert to unlock all the ruins first. It also apply for Sorush.
Fontaine
- Fontaine have lot Arkhe related mechanics, from the puzzles and also enemies, Bring a character with Pneuma or Ousia would be good, or bring both of them instead.
- Characters with Underwater Utilities would be helpful in underwater area, i suggest you make another party for exploring underwater area while you exploring in Fontaine.
- During underwater, if you're using Arkhe character, your normal attack also have Pneuma or Ousia applied as well, so you didn't need to pickup Arkhe Block for some puzzle or enemies.
- There are some Water Volume Detection Crystals at some places, bringing Hydro Catalyst character would be good.
- It's better if you done Narzissenkreuz Ordo chain quest first before start exploring to unlock some locked areas.
Extra
This is my current Main Party Lineup for Exploring :
- Wanderer (Lost Prayer of Sacred Wind) using 4 Marechausse Hunter Set
(The one who usually on-field)
- Furina
(Usually as healer, also for walking across water, Pneuma/Ousia during Fontaine exploration, also underwater passive)
- Chiori
(Anytime Swift Stride Bonus, Off-field DPS, Combined with Kazuha for Quick Climb)
- Kaedehara Kazuha
(For Anemo Resonance, Gathering enemies)
I could replace Furina with Diona for another +10% Movement Speed (+40% from +30%) also provide Shield for Wanderer
If i have Jean C2 it could be +55% (Diona Skill and Jean receive the Particle), i wish to try, it seems amazing.
I could replace Furina with Yelan, but i didn't have Yelan yet.
Wanderer + Yelan would able to keep switching and their skill could be uptime
I could also replace Furina with Albedo, but i also didn't have Albedo yet.
Albedo + Chiori + Kazuha + Wind Generator combo could make you move from the Street below up to the Windmill Platform above within seconds.
This post is quite long, it took me a whole day to finish it, but i hope this could be helpful for you.
If you have any questions or something to add, feel free to comment below.
And i'm sorry if my english isn't that good.
Thank you for reading~!
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