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This is exactly what I was telling a friend of mine the other day, he was surprised that his 300 crit damage ayaka was doing less damage than my ayaka that only has 240 CD we both have c6 r1 mist. The only difference being that his ayaka only has 1.9k atk while mine has 2.3k he invested too much into cd and very little into atk% I even went into detail and explained to him that atk% is as valuable as CD but he didn't want to believe me 'cause I'm no theorycrafter so I'll send him this video and prove my point lol. Good video btw, you just got yourself a new subscriber.

the reason crit circlets are more popular though is because there is a lot of external attack buffing characters/sources and not a whole lot of crit buffing

This is so interesting. I wonder if the reason the Genshin community is so overly obsessed with Crit stats has to do with Bennett essentially defining the entire meta

ATK% is indeed valuable and, in fact, almost more valuable than crit. However, the current meta options yield diminishing returns. We have characters like Bennett, artifacts like Noblesse, and weapons like TToDS. It's understandable that the community gets frustrated when they can't roll that crit substat. If more characters started buffing Crit (e.g., Rosaria), then we'll likely see a shift in meta and substat distribution.

This is so comprehensive! Thank you for also including control setups because it really explains the value per stat addition. Amazing work as always, Sevy!!

Ok, these are the kinds of content creaters we need. Not only are your videos extremly detailed and helpful, but you consider ALL TYPES of gamers, not just elistist and whales. Thank you Sevy, you just saved me months of Emblem grinding. I wonder if you could do more comparsions with Artiact setrs, Like showing the difference with certain sets like 4-Piece Embles vs 2 glads+2 Shimenawa , and other things like having Energy recharge vs Atk% when having Raiden on the team.

Great explanation, it would be interesting to have a comparison between elemental and atk goblet as well

Literally the video I needed, I got from a single run 2 circlets one with crit dmg and the other one attk% The crit dmg circlet had crit rate, atk%, er and 16 flat def, so I instantly got it to lvl 20, and now it has everything the same but with 112 flat def. So i used the atk% circlet instead, and watching this doesn't make me feel so triggered anymore :,) My luck is sooooo gooood...

Genshin Optimizer is the go to for simpler results. You can especify the minimum stat values, play with passives and constallations. Also test the increase of damage for imaginary artifacts/constellations/weapons to make pulling decisions. You can predict before investing resources.

This is a good series, thanks Sevy for the good work! All of these delay is really a good time to cover this all about artifact guide!

I just started playing genshin a month ago and tbh this channel helped me a lot. Thanks for always bringing such informative content.

Sevy these last 3 videos have really levelled you up in my eyes. These are always the specific questions I've had regarding artifacts and stats that I could never find neatly, clearly and concisely anywhere else. Thank you for putting this together. I also like where you give us a moment to test ourselves and see if we understand what you're teaching. Loving your approach. Keep up the great work! 👏🏾😌

I agree that Atk% is one of the neglected stats in the game. As a low spender, I always have the problem of having relatively low attack for my DPS despite having very high crit stats (I think most whales use 2,000 atk as reference). In a sense, the high crit stats is offset by the low attack. Having low attack can be remedied by Bennett but you can only use him in one team for the spiral abyss. Since 5-star DPSs usually have crit ascension stats instead of Atk%, their signature weapons have high base attack to compensate. You just need to pray to RNGesus to get lucky XD

Thank you for making this, I’ve been using this quite heavily after self learning from my Ganyu vs other ones, and this has gone more in depth on it and has taught me much more about it❤️🔥👌

Thank you for this video, Sevy, as this is generally overlooked as most guides or reviews take it for granted ❤️

Amazing work, thanks!

problem is that getting circlet is already crazy difficult as it is, I use 160 resin daily for 2 weeks and haven't got a single crit damage circlet or atk

Thank you for this guide! It was very helpful and easy to understand :)

great video! I really liked how you formatted this video. it made the information really easy to digest. this deserves a sub

You're absolutely my favorite genshin creator, hands down. I'm loving your teachings!

Sevy, I just have to say your video making/editting skills have grown to multi-staff pro levels! The visuals being more than dizzying full speed combat scenes makes your videos so pleasant to watch!

This video is super helpful for those of us learning builds. Thanks for the great content!

THANK YOU FOR MAKING THIS VIDEO!!

What a way to enter the 100k sub arc!! This video is so helpful it's insane sevy, thanks for compiling all of this!!

Wow, I've discovered this channel just today and even if I'm quite good at building and minmaxing characters this series is really good for both veterans and new players, really good job I'm glad you did this

This is very helpful, thank youuuuu

Superb video, very informative as always, thank you

Very helpful. I'm gonna have to keep some of the attack percentage hats with desirable substats. Thanks!

This is so great, thank you so much for this :)

congrats on 100k sevy!! amazing vid as always too!

I am so very impressed by the quality of your videos! Keep up the good work!

these are the type of analyses we need to see 👏

I know this concept are important but till now, no video was simple and good enough to make me care. Always so complicated. Your videos (this one, CV, ER and Artifacts) made the whole guide really simple and totally understandable. GREAT VIDEOS! You make all this tricky things so easy. Thanks for taking your time to help us all Sevy!

Discovered your videos a few weeks ago and your voice is refreshing, smooth and your content is so well done. You’re doing such a great job 👏

Great video! Well explained!

The guides we needed Sevy!!

Love this series, we need more

Congrats on 100k subs :) love your content vm. Keep growing

Great vid!

Amazing video! I love it so much and the way you went over this experiment is so simple and easy to understand. It's fun to see testing stats and damage from other people even if the results shows very small increase in numbers. Hoping to see a video where you could test on Elemental Mastery because I've been trying to scale my Hu Tao better since I'm currently stuck with an R5 Dragon's Bane + Sucrose. I end up getting like 500+ EM and I don't know whether that's too much.

The best damage comparison video I've ever seen. Awesome job picking comparible artifacts

Thank you soo much for the videos

Great video! to this day, I have been overlooking atk% circlets in favor of Crit ones, I might have some pieces that are better than I thought and I now feel its worth taking a closer look!

Hello! I've been watching you for a while now, but only recently subscribed. I really love the way you talk! Looking forward to your future videos! ♥️

You present really well.

I have been playing with stats for a long time and I must say that it is really good to consider artifacts with lower crit damage but substantial atk% rolls especially for non-bennet buffed teams. Same goes for EM wherein you need to find the balance and make sure not to invest solely on crit damage.

Wait.. I didn't see this video before writing that comment the other day! Thank you for mentioning opportunity cost! 😁

this!!! and ER too. these two stats need to be appreciated more. you’re spreading the good word hehe

Very technical video. It was super well made as usual! I guess I have to re-evaluate some artifacts to see how ATK% pieces I thought were bad maybe still a win.

I had no idea the difference could be so small, given the way people talked about it. Thanks for the information!

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THESE VIDEOS!!! I returned to genshin recently (sumeru update) after not playing since right before inazuma came out (started playing in 1.2) and was ar56 at the time. I'm so out of the loop on building characters and which artifacts are best for who and which stats are important and it was getting so confusing watching the guides because there's so much that has been added to the game. My old builds from pre-inazuma are garbage and I'm going to have to rebuild literally every character on my account, so this is extremely helpful. Your character guides and pretty much any video you make are the first I go to and are amazingly helpful 💕💕

congrats for 100k subs!

new player here, super helpful thank you

I've been saying this exact same thing to people all the time on twitch finally glad to see it catch on

Congrats on getting 100k subs

Friggin love Migo

What a wiz. Thnx for doing the math for us as always 🙏 I've always been so confused when character skills says "based on atk" and the community preaches 1:4 crit ratio over everything. Now ik the difference is not worth another month of grinding artifacts and I can settle for builds less than min/max status. Sevy u rock!

Amazing Job 😀

Thanks for the guide. Now I will find my atk circlet more useful. Though, I'm still looking forward to 'watching Genshin trailer' vid. It's fun.

Amazing video. A LOT of people need this information. Also, maybe you’re gonna talk about this in another video, but maybe you could cover how a weapon’s base attack works. The higher the base attack, in can make building more critical damage “easier”.

This was such an important video to discuss. CRIT Stacking has become so overrated that people forget that in teams that don't use a Bennett ATK pieces have a minimal difference to the point of just picking which will make your character more well rounded.

*Another great guide! Very thoughtful!* ( Transformative reactions meme-guide when? Dendro is supposed to be all about it~)

That ayaka section is precisely the question I was thinking when I searched this up. Thanks Sevy!

The reason I'm not going hardcore on crit stats is that they're harder to stack up due to RNG and I better off invest in ATK% ER and especially EM. When I started focusing on EM, enemies die drastically faster it surprised me.

people ALSO NEED to take into account not everyone has bennett and also some people just dont like using him, I KNOW i dont.

anways love ur vids

Ive noticed this way back ago with my artifacts roughly having the same attack% and crit damage. So it made me less upset getting attack% at times. As long as the characters can use the stats I'm going for and the crit ratios (if they need it) are good I'll always be pretty happy with it. P.S I love your videos Sevy ❤️😁

Funny, this came out right as I had gotten the final Crit Damage circlet piece for my Ayaka! Honestly, I'm still happy getting that circlet, even though it didn't have any Atk% subs, but it allows my Ayaka to hit frozen enemies with 100% CR with the subs! I would have been fine with an ATK% circlet too, as it would in my case bump my damage a bit but that one just came to me first, and I don't wish to grind a domain longer than I would need to, and I favor consistency most if anything. With the teammates that I use with her (Noblesse Shenhe, TToDS Mona, and Kazuha) it's only a 4% difference in damage anyways compared to a well-rolled ATK% circlet. An important takeaway for this is, there isn't a point to min-maxing in Genshin Impact, as that 1-4% difference in damage isn't gonna make a big difference to your DPS, and you shouldn't go out of your way to seek it, because farming artifacts is WAY too RNG heavy to effectively even try to min-max, and there isn't any content that necessitates those small gains anyways. You're likely to spend months doing the same domain just to get that perfect artifact for that small increase. Instead, the time is better spent maximizing on character EXP, Weapon and Talent levels, with artifact optimization coming last in priority if you have the rest straightened out. Also best to not compare your damage to damage showcases you see from whale players or the like, cause its likely if your character has good enough damage carry you through the abyss fine enough, (Doesn't necessarily have to be a full 36*) then it's built well~

I know I'm late but congrats on 100k+ subs Sevy❤️

So this only really applies if you have crazy artifacts that rolled many crit stats. If you're not hitting a good CV, which is very difficult to begin with, you'll most likely be looking for a crit circlet in the end.

Me waiting for a specific total ATK & crit value to appear on screen: 🙃

Thank you. This would save me a lot of time and resin. Now I kinda regret throwing away my atk% goblet. also, I think you're one of the best guide maker out there, i haven't seen so many people talking about this.

thank you for this sevy! my ayaka has an on set cryo goblet with only 15.5% crit damage, but it also has 14.6% (i think) attack and i think its pretty good even though it isnt one of those shiny pieces with 40+ cv. attack is still a very important and powerful stat and people shouldnt neglect it

🌸😹It certainly is underrated but only by those who cannot see beyond the meta and are absolutely terrified to experiment.😹🌸

Interesante lo probaré cuando llegue a casa , gracias por el video

Hooray for 100k!!! Sevys famous now (btw also live in ph)❤❤❤😁😁😁

I mean, the reason why people prefer crit over ATK% on artifacts is that there are way less weapons that have a crit stat compared to ATK% stat. Especially on damage dealers, most F2P options are weapons that scale your ATK% in some way or another. You had a weapon with Crit% which is available from the Battle Pass only (apart from some 3 star weapons). That's why crit stats are usually preferred on artifacts, because most players already account for the ATK% on their weapon. You accounted for the Crit rate on your weapon, so of course ATK% is something that is more valuable.

I was thinking of switching Shenhe off from her atk/atk artifacts to noblesse but now that I think about it, doesnt seem like it'll be a worthwhile upgrade and I'll have to farm for a new set 4 piece as well.

Mahusay!! It's great to see good fundamentals being explained in a nice straightforward manner. I've loved your recent series on artifact optimizations! the easiest advice really for artifact optimization is to just value getting a lot of good stats rather than focusing on just optimizing one stat. I love how you were able to flesh out on the basic concept and I hope you're having a great day

I recently pulled Ayaka and I have been trying to figure out how to build her in the best way, so your little example of building Atk% over Crit Damage was so helpful! Thank you so much!

Sevy!! I'm furious with you right now...! You're making me love Genshin again!!😋 Thanks for the info, these videos made me look at artifacts in a different way.

very helpfull tyvm

Im surprised about the result. Thanks

thank you sevy

I'd like to add to this that the 5% difference was with a 510 base damage weapon. As soon as you raise base damage atk% gains a lot more value. If you had swapped to jade cutter in the difference would have been even smaller....swap haran atk% probably wins.

Thanks to you i regretted throwing away my eosf atk circ with a low critr and highish cd roll but its fine but trying out an atk circlet raising my ayato to 2.2 gave me 17k e’s.

This was great

Hi, im here to bring 2 key points to this idea. The first is, the best way to get damage (outside the assured way that is to get crit), is to get a balance between stats. That is already studied and specified, you can search it on internet, its something called "golden ratio", that is basically an average point on each equipment, assuming good main stat and good 4-5 rolls, you can reach that easily. So if you are disbalancing one side, you will get less value because diminishing returns, pretty easy unless you count EVERY source of buffs outside consumables, that is a lot, so the norm usually is: you EVER will have more attack than crit in a optimized team comp, and that explains why with no buffs attack give more damage than crit. And second point, and the more relevant for me: Trying to think by yourself the balance is nearly to useless, i like to minmaxing too not to deeply, and try to aim good sets with good substats and all that, but that is basically trash because you cant think the same as a calculator (talking about an average person that isnt a math pro). So my second point is resumed in, please, i extremely encourage you to try to use an equipment calculator(Im using genshin optimizer, but there is a lot more examples over internet), i promise it will give you A LOT MORE results than any other video, general tip, or pros, because all that is based on you having every piece of every set with every good substat, thats literally nothing for your personal account, can be even considered misleading info. I know is a little hard to configure at the beggining, but once you have it done, you have the best possible damage for your character, i promise you it works wonders. Now thanks to this for example, i have my hutao with 2wand/2mille having 4 average to bad crimson pieces, before calculator i would use that 4 crimson, now the program is telling me with real numbers how different are the average genshin recomendation vs what is my best possible damage from my actual artifacts. TLDR: please use a calculator if you want a trustworthy source of info about damage.

Thank you! My friends has been saying that I need bennett in my team (i havent got him until recently). I was so confused as to why i need a bennett at that time because my damage is just as much as theirs w bennett in their team. I then understood that bennett buffs your team's attack and I was wondering why i made big dmg even w/o him. Turns out that my keqing has almost 3k dmg with 180:60 cdmg:crate. Thank you! I will further use this vid to build my other char Edit: i was a f2p until eula banner came out 😂 so i main keqing as hybrid (phys & electro). I used prototype rancour r5 on her. Still love my keqing till this day!

I slightly noticed that when I was testing artifacts for my Ganyu. I first gave her one with high Crit. DMG and some EM, but then I had one with around 15% ATK and some CD/CR, and the latter ended up performing better. Now, with this video, I will keep the ATK circlets I get on Domains and see how they do!

Man... This is just too complicated for me to care that much. I build my characters the way I want and with what the RNG gods bless me with good/decent artifacts. Last time, with my imperfect builds I managed to 33 star the abyss having 2 stars on every chamber of floor 12. So I say, I just want to have some fun, and trying hard to calculate every last damage point to every character I have, will suck the fun out of the game for me real fast. No wonder so many players burn themselves out after AR 50.

I actually figured this out while building my ayaka on Blizzard set with a PJC weapon. Since i had so much free crit rate i had 0 need for crit rate both in main and sub stats. This lead me to cater my build to be more Atk%, Crit Damage, and ER. I was theorizing and found out that since i will be primarily looking for er and crit DMG subs, and that freeze teams really are lacking in the attack buff department, i wanted to try an attack hat. After testing the differences i found that the attack hat actually led to around a pretty decent damage diffrence from the crit DMG. With crit DMG hat i had 180% crit DMG ( work in progress build since rngsus doesn't love me :'C ) and 2.1k attack. Meanwhile with attack hat i had 2.5k attack and 125% crit damage. Since i was using Ayala in a freeze team i had more damage with the attack hat than with the crit damage hat by around 40%+. If i were to have been on a melt team then the crit DMG would definitely be better.

This was rather interesting, but since I have played a lot of JRPGs, I am raised on ATK numbers that are higher=bigger damage. I almost always never paid attention to crit rates, due to past RPG knowledge of being dead ass random or in Genshin, I either almost never get artifacts with a lot of crit rate or when I do get some, the increase is so pathetic why would I bother. Again, this was a thoughtful video Sevy as always!

thanks for this!! my ganyu does 1.9k more damage when i took her from a crit dmg circlet to an atk circlet (cd went from 255 to 200, while atk went from 1800 to 2200)

I really hope one of the next videos will help me account set bonuses and elemental goblets in my builds. Like I was able to stack 80/200 crit and 2k1 ATK on my Rosaria but without an Atk% goblet and set bonus.

Hi! Nice video. It made me want to check whether or not there are times where building crit is suboptimal. And indeed, it seems that there is a certain threshold under which it is better to build only atk, and above it is better to build a lot of crits. For lowly invested character in atk+crit it is better to build only atk% until an equivalent of +230% atk. Then it is better to have around 125% atk and to put everything else onto crit. I would say, the difference between full atk% and lots of crit become significative for an equivalent of +125% atk 60% crit 120% crit damage. To do so, I assumed that we can attribute the roll value as we want, and in particular achieve perfect 1:2 crit ratio. However, those are quite bad assumptions in practice as it there are many times where it is better to favor artifact overall value then to go for the theoretic best ratio. (Also, I could have been more precise by doing proper math but wasn't fun.)

ESPECIALLY on Ayaka, because of the Blizzard sets 40% Crit Rate (+15% cry resonance), people should consider ATK%/CD% just as good as CR%/CD% substats rolls. If you have a CD circlet with +25% ATK and no crit rate, you've hit jackbot.

It seems that a lot of people stil don't understand that there is "nothing" to crit in rate or dmg when you have low ATK.

Good video. I came to the same conclusion after I ran some MATLAB simulations about an year ago.