Good morning/afternoon/evening! I don't know what is your current Adventure Rank up to this point, but clearly, your karma's out of balance, you get assigned to my lecture. I'm Professor Lynman Alpha, and this is Genshin Mechanic 101. Or, as I prefer to call it... "How to Get Away with Genshin."
Lesson 3 is regarding the Character Building. If you missed our first lesson, you can review our lecture here:
Today, we are going to discuss information about resin planning—the types of resin that you will encounter and how you will use it. This lesson will be helpful for new players who have just recently played the game. New players are encouraged to learn from it since you will learn more about this game mechanic and how to use your resin well and efficiently.
Lesson 4: Resin Planning
New players may often ask how we can get materials that our character and weapons need to level up and strengthen its capabilities. You're in luck since we are about to discuss Resin.
Resins are game consumables currency designed to be exchanged for valuable rewards, such as artifacts, ascension materials, EXP materials, and talent books. The rewards that you will be getting allow you to fully maximize your grind on building your characters and their weapon of choice without worrying about any overlaps on the items that you need to exchange.
The only overlaps that you need to know are the types of resin that you can get in this game, which are four of them.
- Original Resin
- Condensed Resin
- Fragile Resin
- Transient Resin
New players must understand the differences between each resin so they can plan how to use it effectively. It is true that they have overlapping uses, but each resin has a unique way of being used in the game. Let's get cracking!
Original Resin
Original Resin is the main currency to claim rewards on various domains, trounce blossoms, and ley line blossoms and they are available from the day you start playing the game. Players often use the words "resin" and "original resin" as one meaning, so you need to be wary of that.
Since Version 4.7, the Original Resin that you can use daily is now capped at 200 (old players still vividly know that Genshin Impact first capped their Original Resin at 120 on Version 1.0, then increased to 160 from Version 1.1 to Version 4.6), and it continuously regenerates once you used them every 8 minutes. Without any changes to the regeneration rate of the Original Resin, it will take 26 hours and 40 minutes before it fills up your Original Resin.
Oh, before I forget, the maximum Orginal Resin that you can put is 2,000, serving as a hard cap to the total amount of Resin that you can stock. The regeneration timer will not start until it falls under 200.
Resin Cost
As you claim rewards, they have different resin costs before you can claim your rewards. For the awareness of everyone, here is the current cost of resin.
- Claiming Rewards on Ley Line Outcrops (Blossom of Wealth or Blossom of Revelation): 20 Original Resin
- Claiming Rewards on Challenge Domains (Forgery, Blessing, Mastery): 20 Original Resin
- Claiming Rewards on Normal Bosses (excluding Andrius): 40 Original Resin
- Claiming Rewards on Trounce Domains / Weekly Bosses (including Andrius): 30 Original Resin until 3rd Rewards, 60 Original Resin afterward.
Since there are different original resin costs that you need to know, it is better to plan ahead on which rewards you think you need the most. We will discuss how to plan your resin grinding on this topic, so keep reading!
Ways to Obtain Resin
As mentioned earlier, the Original Resin can be regenerated over time, but it will take some time before you can use it again. That's why here are the possible ways to obtain Original Resin.
- Fragile Resin
- Primogems
- Transient Resin
Fragile and Transient Resin is the best way to obtain Original Resin since you can get it easily, and we will discuss in this article how to obtain the mentioned resins. However, it is not advisable to use Primogems to fill up your Original Resin, haiya. It's not efficient if you use it. Please reserve your Primogems on pulling characters and weapons. It is a rookie mistake to use Primogems to fill up your Original Resin and I think most of the old players (especially those who started on Version 1.0) already experienced it.
Condensed Resin
From the name itself, Condensed Resin is a type of resin that allows you to condense 40 Original Resin and 1 Crystal Core to create 1 Condensed Resin in the Alchemy. It is also a consumable currency that allows you to gain more rewards when claiming on Ley Line Outcrops and in Challenge Domains. You can craft up to five condensed resins, which is perfect for the current amount of Original Resin that you can use. Anything more than that will give you an error message.
Its instruction can be collected upon reaching Reputation Level 3 in Liyue. Currently, there are five Alchemy tables where you can craft Condensed Resin to your heart's content.
Fragile Resin
Fragile Resin is a type of resin that allows you to regenerate the Original Resin much faster by consuming it. For 1 Fragile Resin, you can recover 60 Original Resin, costing you around 4 Fragile Resin to get on the daily cap. This is usually the quickest way for players to fill up their Original Resin and the preferred way to get their Original Resins back.
Resupplying Fragile Resin
There are a lot of ways to get your Fragile Resin. Here are the current and active ways for you to get one. Remember that you can get your Fragile Resin for free or using real money.
- Adventure Rank Rewards on achieving AR 12, 14, 16, 18, 20 - 24, 26, and 28 (x1), and AR 25, 27, 29 - 60 (x2)
- Using Cake for Traveler (x1)
- Sojourner's Battle Pass Rewards (x5 per Battle Pass Period)
- Gnostic Hymn Reward (x5 per Battle Pass Period)
- Gnostic Chorus Reward (x5 per Battle Pass period)
- Wayfaerer's Supply Bundle (x1 per week)
- Sacred Sakura (x5)
- Enhance the Lumenstone Adjuvant (x1)
- Vanarana's Favor (x5)
- Fountain of Lucine's Accolades (x5)
- Stellar Reunion (x1 from Reunion Rewards, x2 from Passage of Time, x2 from Homeward Path)
Transient Resin
Transient Resin works similarly to Fragile Resin but with a catch - it decomposes with time, allowing you to quickly use it once you get it. It was released in Version 1.5 to provide players with another way to replenish their Original Resin. Its description is a bit difficult to understand but in simple terms:
7 Days + (remaining days from Monday after you get your Transient Resin).
for example
You get your Transient Resin on Wednesday. The calculation will be:
7 days (the guaranteed time before it disappears) + 5 days (the day between the day you get the Transient and Monday of the following week) = 12 Days
therefore:
The Transient Resin, which was bought in Realm Depot for 1,200 Realm Currency (at Trust Rank 6) on Wednesday, will expire in 12 Days.
Still didn't get it? I don't blame you. I'm also having a hard time following its calculation. However, the simplest way is to buy the Transient Resin on Tubby every Monday, since it will give you 14 Days of expiration.
Daily Resin Planning
I think you mastered all of the types of Resins and how to use them. Let's prepare you to plan your resin grind schedule.
Now, when planning to grind out your resin, it is better to plan weekly, since you need to balance out the artifact sets that you need to grind, the schedule of the domains (for books and weapon ascension materials), and the day where you are going to fight Normal and Weekly Bosses. This is why Weekly Farming Schedules are handy!
Weekly Farming Schedules
Weekly Farming Schedules are schedules that are tailored to the needs of the players that they will need to prepare to gather materials for their character or weapons. It is done independently by HoyoCreators and Genshin Impact Content Creators to help everyone, mostly new players, on planning how to use their Original Resin effectively and efficiently. Content creators have their own way of presenting weekly farming schedules to the players.
I do have a Farming Schedule Checklist, which is embedded in every single character guide I've published since Version 4.5. You may check some of the examples of the farming schedule checklist below, or check my Genshin Impact Character Guide Collection (also found below) for everyone to be guided on their next grinding session.
Tips on Daily Resin Grind
- It is often recommended to stock up on Fragile Resin after you get it since it is a very limited source to get to. You can use it if you have ample time to grind for your character and/or weapon,
- More often than not, it is recommended to condense your Original Resin to grind up to your artifact set/ascension materials faster. Since most of your time will be spent on grinding artifact sets, it is wise to condense it (and be sure to get Crystal Cores every time you see them),
- As mentioned already, it is always recommended to buy Transient Resin every Monday to maximize its expiration time to two weeks. It gives players breathing room when to use it,
- Whenever there is an upcoming version update that will feature a new Trounce Domain, it is best not to use your resin in any Trounce Domain. It will save your resin to try out new domains and gather new ascension materials for your characters (especially when you plan to get a new character that needs that material),
- Weekly Farming Schedules are a valuable tool for new and old players. Make sure to use them and follow any content creators that you offer those tools at your disposal; and lastly
- Always use your Original Resin.
Resin Flow Chart
Remember, Original Resin is best used to claim rewards on Normal and Weekly Bosses (under Trounce Domains). If you have extra resin or have no plans to fight the two bosses, craft it into Condensed Resin to claim the materials and artifacts that you need. If you need more Original Resin to consume, you can use Fragile Resin or Transient Resin, which continues the cycle of how you are going to use your Original Resin.
Class Dismissed
To everyone who is still reading up until the end, thank you so much for your time in reading our fourth lesson. I hope everyone learned something new for today. If you have any suggestions or questions, don't hesitate to use the comment section below. See you in our next class!
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