I feel like, although we've probably all done dumb decisions in the early game, learning from them and becoming better is what makes you feel like you're actually playing the game. Could you imagine, if you started playing Genshin with all the characters you wanted, all built to perfection, would you be enjoying playing the game the same way? I think that, even though it can be very grindy, farming resources for your favourite character and then actually trying them out is the most enjoyable part of the process, in my opinion.

ahh yes Lisa the librarian teaching us about genshin😌

i just reached ar 60 a few days ago and this takes me back to the earlier days 😭 also finally someone who also got confused with the artifact domain thing i was like; "huhhh how are we supposed to get all these other artifacts i only see the flower" 😂

Good advice. As much as I love big numbers and calculations, I prefer learning how to optimally use the characters I like rather than strictly follow meta for an auto-win button. (I always bring Qiqi to Spiral Abyss). Thankfully there are lots of helpful guides and tools from the community, and all characters work with the right investment and team comp.

It's okay Ms. Kat, every one of us started noob and eventually learn the ins and outs of the game and it is a good thing to learn new things. Congrats on your first year in Genshin!

Now that i am kinda in the endgame(but not really), i look back to the time i was full of doubts and was a little newbie, and see the path i took and all the things i did, and it is indeed the journey of learning and going along w/ the game that i think makes the game be so fun. And last but not least, as always Ms. Kato, awesome video from you! 💙

When I first started playing I was fully aware of the rewards for adventure ranks but I didn't know you had to do the domain to unlock certain ones, so for months I was a low rank and when I finally figured it out I got to rank 42 💀💀💀

I remember joining this game due to hu Tao, Barbara and Yae miko. I liked Barbara due to an instagram edit and that was her summer skin one and i just like games with magic/superpowers in general, I was kind of dissatisfied that her skin wasn’t actually her normal outfit. I started downloading Genshin once I saw a Yae miko edit and edited her her aesthetic is just so pretty and I liked her weapon. Hu Tao is the main reason along with Yae, because I love her character design its so gothic-ish. But this game is just a pure grinding machine which stresses ur mental health and makes u distracted but it is chill if you want characters for aesthetics only. But it is hard to get them

I accidentally stumbled upon meta characters. I C6'd Sucrose in the first month I started playing and I was so mad because I didn't care for her. (I still don't use her. Or Bennett. But I use Fischl and Xingqiu a lot now that I learned how to build them.) I pull characters I want (when I just started, I obsessively wanted Ayaka so I didn't stop until I got her. I was doing Inazuma Archin Quest so I wanted heeeer.). I was also in the mind of "collecting as much as possible". For the past few months, I have been mostly investing in characters I already have and pulling on event banner of the character I really want. I have to thank your series where you perfect your account to give me inspiration!!!

i honestly think theres something a player should also do at the beggining, when you unlock co-op, dont worry about it and when someone wants to join their gonna help you! also do all your archon quests because it gives you primos and the new update gives limited wishes if you complete them too! and do story quests because they give lots of primos.

thank you kato, for making this video 😍 im inspired to play genshin again :D

Personally, I was watching videos on genshin impact (like Tuonto's, Dish's or Atsu's) before I could download genshin. So I never made a ''big mistake'' in genshin 😂 I have only one regret and that is to have started using my resin only from level 45. My characters were therefore around levels 50-60 and I had trouble advancing in the game 🥲 Besides, I had less resin to farm artifacts for a while 🤷🏻‍♀️

when i first found out artifacts, I actually equiped them based off of color scheme and sets... I gave my DPS Itto (i got him rly early game so i was still VERY new) a hydro flower thingie that gave him hydro damage

This video is super great!! I totally agree with everything you said, and it’s good to know I wasn’t the only clueless person when starting Genshin 😂 I’m currently ar 55 and my luck has been insane, getting every one of my 5 stars under at around 20 pity! It makes me laugh whenever I think back to when I was only just starting my Genshin journey, and all those silly things I did and thought. I remember I used to spend my primos on the standard banner, and when I got my first 5 star (qiqi) I remember being so happy I nearly threw my iPad across the room. Unfortunately, I also fell down that trap of ‘bad’ and ‘good’ characters, but it’s so great that you also think any character can be super good if you put time and effort into building them! Anyway, thanks so much for sharing this video with us, It really put a smile on my face and would love some more videos like this! ❤❤ Take Care -Evie ❤❤

The prefarming tip helps so much, also great video :)

this is so good!!

youve done more progress than me hehe i joined only a month after you:DDDD

Okay okay i just want to say that Kazuha's normal attack matters, because plunge damage that he deals with Chihayaburu (E) conciders as plunge attack damage (normal attack variation) so if you lvl E you want to lvl normals as well 😅

omg i remember when i first started playing, i would just farm the viridecent domain not knowing it was for anemo characters and just put those artifacts on all of my characters. and then i saw my characters were doing no dmg so i asked random players to help me and they were very scared of my characters..... i then started looking at guides. now my characters are amazing. (i as like ar 43 r smthg...) i also saw ppl talking abt meta and it really annoys me. i ONLY get characters tht i like lore wise. even if i dont like their playstyle. like Wanderer, albedo and qiqi. i LOVEE qiqi smm. i also love lore and i mainly play for lore and i agree, the genshin community wants the game to be things tht its not. enjoy the game for the game :) anyways, nice video some of these were relatable lol and happy 1 yr of playing genshin anniversity

So true about building the characters you like!! If i want to triple crown diluc, it's only cus i am a huge simp for him and nothing else 😋 (amazing video as always kato :DD!!)

your editing has improved so much, good vid! keep it up

oh, what a relief that not only me at the beginning was thinking that those artefacts domains are only for flowers (happy first year anniversary :D)

Happy Genshin Anniversary Katodeling!

Enjoyed the video. When I started I didn't know what leylines were for lol, wasnt til late that I started doing them. but those lvl 20 Noelle and Xinyan kill me lol. I just love playing games with my brain switched off, Noelle is so fun for this, so I lvl 90 Double Crowned, got BP twice for R2 Serpent Spine, I just love my maid.

the normal atk being leveled up on supports is very me when i first started playing Genshin😭

Yes the Flowers! i am not alone! i thought the same thing! and I doesnt know talent books existed for half a year 🙌 it's been a long time and good memories - thanks

Very nice video. Absolutely 100 percent agreed with you.

I started watching you bcs that Wanderer’s pull vid and now I ended up watching all your vids lmaooo

I just wanna add in. Meta matters. It matters in the sense that the information is useful. Like self damage, and how to protect yourself from it. If not for meta, I wouldn’t have known the starter characters are secretly good when used correctly.

I love Genshin Impact. I first started on my birthday in 2021 when I first got my 1st gaming PC. I also did some of the things since I was a beginner

I remember being low ar and doing so many stupid things 😭 it’s really funny to me but I wish I knew before. But we learn from mistakes and it’s important to make them even if I really wish I didn’t spend resin at low ar on stuff I didn’t need…

love this vid

respect fellow kokonut main

Truuu! After playing for 1 year now (started in 28 jan) i realized people focus too way much on spiral abyss. I remember 1 year ago i had to farm primogems for raiden bcuz people keep saying shes one of the best unit. So when i lost the 5050 after reaching soft pity, i had to force myself to farm primogems till i reach 84 pity. I basically 100% almost all regions bcuz of raiden. but after 3 months of playing her i benched her. Fast forward one year later and shes basically a hyperbloom trigger for my team, and even then replaceable by kuki, a 4star unit. Nowadays i consider characters i want if i would use them often, with most of them being support since they're flexible, like yelan and kazuzu. They're best in both exploring in overworld and doing spiral abyss.

I remember asking my friend where to get all the other artifacts because I also thought that you can only get the flowers in the domains 😭

omg hii katooo, i love this

The high ms because you’re in the NA server 😭 I picked the wrong server also being NA I at the time I just picked whatever. Now I’m AR 57 and have just decided to make a second account on the right server the ping being like 40 on there 😭 but ya gotta start over so now I’m working on a second account

sorry I'm late I went to a place, anyways great vid kato, and I feel horrible I'm going to take a shower and sleep ( it's 10:30 pm here ) bye see you guys later. also, great advice to grind on mats and to have fun

I started playing in the Shadow Amidst Snowstorms Albedo event in 2.3, and I couldn't complete the event at the time because my computer was trash so I completely missed one of the coolest cutscenes (the fight scene with Albedo), and I also missed out on Cinnabar Spindle, and I missed out on Ningguang's outfit for the same reason, my computer was just such a potato that I struggled hard to complete the objectives. I fed the Dark Iron Sword and it's so annoying because there's only one copy you can get and I'm such a completionist so it really bothers me. I'd say my biggest regret though is not joining the game sooner. I had heard of it, but didn't join and it just annoys me because I missed out on a lot of events, especially a lot of events that are really important for the lore.

This is really late but I never knew how to wish and I would change my main character over and over making new accounts thinks “why am I not given them” and I thought I wasn’t playing right

For my dream and current characters, i only need to farm 2 domains for all of their artifacts. Its a coincidence of course - but it's so much easier. Of course I want other characters a lot like Yelan or Nahida, but I'm saving for my dream characters and for now, ONLY them. Once I've got them all built - then I'll focus on getting the others

im so early! great video kato 💕

Hi Katodeling,I love your videos ❤❤❤❤

(( as a ar 35 player)) i usually build someone like as soon as i get them bc they become my main, right now ive actually managed to stick to xinyan (( my fav character

i played many gacha type games, so i was no stranger to the artifact system or the fragile resin or the skill set limitations. and also i like to play games for fun, so i dont follow the meta,(i main Yoimiya and rosaria as dps, so .......) i enjoy it as i go along and pull for characters not expecting anything (mostly)

Wow I downloaded Genshin at the end Feburary too 😭😭

Before i started consuming genshin content on KZfaq i had already played for like 2 months. I had no idea about so many things like how even atk works or crit rate, crit dmg, artifacts, em, dmg bonuses. Biggest frustration i had was how to actually know the damages number that pops up

I used to think giving a character a traveling doctor 2 piece set would make them a healer so I gave to bennett and thought he healed because of the set not because he has healing abilities in his kit 😭

The only thing i didn't follow on this video, is only farming artifacts at ar 45. I farm artifacts for my characters despite only being ar 42

I love your videos so much, my account really sucks and it's been stuck at AR 35 for like a year because i suck so much PLEASE HELP MEEEEEEEE :(

I joined during Ganyu and Kokomi's banner (i took a break from the archon quest because of the eye of the storm and now im AR 35)

This video was so relatable 😐 since I made every mistake on my first account.

Feb 2022? I joined then as well! I stopped playing until aug after i got amber tho I need to play my na acc but my chars on my euro are just good :’ )

I also never did any domains xd I legit started farming artifacts, talent books and weekly bosses when I was AR 50. I have no idea how I managed to kill anything before that ngl

The meta advice :- Have fun

I remember wanting to play yanfei in early game and Watching videos saying things like "build hu tao instead" or so on. Yes I use hu tao now, but yanfei will never leave my side 😭

I know darn well when you say "KZfaq saying these characters are meta" you were watching tectone.

I'm a simple simp. I hear your voice, I upvote. 👍 I especially agree with the "meta" thing.

I can relate 😭also this isn’t important but on march 6th it’s my one year anniversary playing genshin :)

congratulations! ive been playing for 2 years

i downloaded around then too, but my laptop's charging cable broke so i couldn't play for like 60 days, so looked stuck at ar7 lmao

Love From Nepal❣❣❣❣

The artifacts domain was same as me. Lol

Kat's videos>>>

Speaking of talents , u do realize kazuha’s skill plunge multipliers are based on his normal attack talent not his skill so if u want higher plunge from his skill u do need to level his normal attack as well 😂

It took me the longest time to realize you could level up talents I skipped past reading the talent button lol

my only problem as a beginner rn is yea upgrading talents, its an incredibly tedious job that doesn’t really give much so you have to spend so much time farming the books and whatnot💀, itll be good if they could add an auto run so i can go waste my time farming other mats instead

indeed a zyox fan right there

Thank you for this, also if you know, what teams would you recommend surrounding Yae miko? I’m currently building her and I’m curious of what units I need for spiral abyss

i remember when i spent 28 fragile resin at AR40 because i was bored. i want to go back in time and choke myself

you at least were awarethat you can update talents, i found out about that only after half a year of playing (or sometime like that) TwT

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I had people carried me in artifact domains a few times but they all left the domain once we finished killing the mobs. I DIDN'T KNOW THAT YOU CLAIM THE BOUNTIES ON THE TREE AFTER CLEARING DOMAIN. I just left the domain with them😭 That's why I never really understood why you farm domains when you get like, nothing. (later I realised my mistake after watching people farming artifacts on KZfaq💀)

I’ve been playing 3 years and farming 80% artifacts 👁️👄👁️

2:56 same😭😭

Idk how, but I'm lucky and my fav characters happen to be the strongest characters. Raiden, Kazu, Ayaka, Hu Tao, Yelan, Nahida. Idk how, but somehow Ig

I spent 20 resin when i was ar 19

Woah

I played genshin for almost a year without artifacts and level 1 talents

me: does not have 8 caracters

I literally didn’t realise talents were a thing you could upgrade until like AR 45 or smth… No wonder my characters were so weak LOL

So um i once used 23 fragile resin.. The thing is i was ar 30 and i didn’t know what to do

"you may like characters because of how they look" as she switches to kaeya me, feeling called out to an absolute normal amount: :__:

Honestly I switched two accounts these 2 years AND DIDNT KNOW SOME FACTS THAT ARE IN THIS VID😭😭😭

I once capped all my resin on 900 at ar 31 and left it like that ;-;

I had the guarenteed i Wanted 1 bennet to get him c1 and farming for Kazuha but i got cyno at 12 Pity. Im still crying so hard 🦆

FIRST

I literally thought this was like a fvcking game where you can unlock characters with just in game currencies ( technically is ) BUT I NEVER KNEW WHAT A GACHA GAME WAS SO I WAS LEFT WIYH CONFUSION wishing on the standard banner and the event one and thinking they had the same pity

I want to thank my aunt thats like a 2 year genshin player for theaching me 90% of my genshin knowledge

This was some solid advice. I accidentally forgot to do an ascension quest for months and when I finally got around to do it I could barely even kill a hilichurl. I remember feeling so bad because I saw other people who had really well built accounts and I didn't have one. Since then I've slowly started building my favorite characters step by step and I'm not even bothered by the difficulty. I'm really just having fun.

OMG IM NOT LYING ALL OF THIS IS THE SAME FOR ME 😭😭😭😭😭

Are you gonna play honkai star rail when it comes out?

I started on November 25th 2022.

yeah like Qiqi and sango they suck meta wise but my Qiqi burst can hit 20K like build anyone you like all the you like

How do you unlock Sumeru reputation?

I did lots of dumb mistakes 😔

it sounds like youre saying "i know that i can start farting artifacts" at 5:09

i always grind 4 star artifacts and ascension materials at ar 25 and above with help of others because its so hard for me to do ascension quests and do open world stuff so i end up wasting fragile resinss 😞😞 any tips ? hehe

The spending fragiles on artifact domains till AR 45 hurt me on a personal lvl

Waitttt I just realized ur wanderer is called kokoro? Howw