Genshin Impact's combat system is fairly easy to get the hang of. The game lets both casual and experienced players alike enjoy its battles, having only two skills per character. However, under the surface, the artifact sets that characters use to deal damage can be quite nuanced.
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Posts 23With all the different effects that these sets can provide for your team, as well as how much grinding you need to do for a single good piece, it's easy to waste hours upon hours without improving your team. As such, it's best you understand which are Genshin Impact's best Artifact sets for whatever team you're aiming to build.
10 Emblem Of Severed Fate / Golden Troupe
Best For Off-Field DPS Characters
Characters that can deal high amounts of damage without ever taking the field are some of the strongest in the game. For most of these, such as Xiangling, Yelan, Xingqiu, and many more, Emblem of the Severed Fate is beyond just a good fit. Its ability to buff Elemental Burst DMG based on how much Energy Recharge you have gives characters enough Energy to Burst every rotation, without sacrificing any damage.
For characters that use their skills instead of their Bursts, the Golden Troupe also works splendidly. It buffs your Elemental Skill DMG, with the buff increasing if you stay off-field. This plays into Fischl, Albedo, and many other strong support DPS characters' kits, making them rival your on-fielder's damage.
9 Noblesse Oblige / Tenacity of the Millelith
Best For General Supports
Noblesse Oblige is one of the most used sets in Genshin Impact, being the best-in-slot under most circumstances for any support that uses their Elemental Burst, such as Bennett. While its ability to buff ATK might not be useful for HP-scalers, it's still an amazing supportive set for most of the cast.
Tenacity of the Millelith works in a similar way, buffing your team's ATK when certain conditions are met. However, instead of it being locked behind an Elemental Burst, it requires you to consistently deal damage with your Elemental Skill, something that supports like Zhongli can do with ease.
8 Gladiator's Finale / Shimenawa's Reminiscense
Best For Normal Or Charged Attack Users
Gladiator is one of Genshin Impact's original sets. Its simple ability lets sword, claymore, and polearm users deal increased Normal Attack DMG, making it a strong pick for characters like Diluc.
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Posts 1 By Sean MurrayShimenawa's Reminiscence is perhaps a better version of Gladiator, buffing Charged Attack DMG as well. However, the drawback of it only being usable by certain weapon users is removed, and replaced with one that takes away your character's Energy to activate the effect.
7 Viridescent Venerer
Best For Anemo Characters
Anemo characters are some of the most widely sought after from a meta standpoint. This is due to their ability to utilize the Viridescent Venerer's Shred effect, something that greatly decreases enemy RES to any Swirled elements.
Viridescent Venerer only takes effect when the equipping character is on the field. Long-lasting abilities such as Venti or Kazuha's Elemental Bursts don't trigger it while not on the field.
What makes this set essential is how universal its buff is. It aids both HP and ATK scalers, and buffs nearly all elements. As long as you're not playing a Geo, Dendro, or Mono Anemo team, equiping someone with a full Viridescent Venerer set is bound to increase your team's overall DPS significantly.
6 The Exile / Instructor
Best Three-Star Artifacts
Three-Star artifacts are generally better to discard when you find better options. This is due to them only leveling up to level 16, which gives them significantly lower stats than proper four-star artifacts. They also have one less roll per each of the four pieces you equip, giving you less of a chance to get useful substats.
However, certain sets can still be worthwhile, especially on characters that don't need a ton of HP or ATK to scale off of. The Exile set gives your entire team energy when the equipped character uses their Burst, making it the perfect pick for supports like Gorou in energy hungry teams. The instructor, on the other hand, grants your team Elemental Mastery, making it an excellent choice for any teams that utilize Elemental Reactions.
5 Gilded Dreams / Paradise Lost
Best For Bloom, Hyperbloom, and Burgeon
The Gilded Dreams set came along with Dendro and Deepwood Memories. Since Deepwood's RES shred didn't stack, you'd only want one party member to carry it usually. As such, the Gilded Dream's ability to significantly increase your Elemental Mastery is what you put on every other member in a Dendro team.
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Posts By Asad KashifFlower of Paradise Lost is technically a better set for Bloom, Hyperbloom, and Burgeon teams specifically, but the actual difference isn't that significant. Flower of Paradise Lost also doesn't work in Aggravate or Quicken teams, another disadvantage over its alternative.
4 Marechaussee Hunter
Best For Fontaine DPS Characters, or If You Have Furina
Marachaussee Hunter is Fontaine's signature set. As such, it's no surprise it's the best set to put on pretty much any Fontaine DPS. Its effect increases your CRIT Rate by 12 percent each time you take damage or are healed, up to a maximum of 36 percent.
If you're using Marechaussee on a non-Fontaine character with Furina, you need a healer on your team to get Furina's Fanfare stacks.
Not only is such a high CRIT Stat impossible to gain in any other way, but Fontaine characters all have ways to change their HP, making it very easy to get all stacks instantly. Furthermore, if you have Furina, even non-Fontaine characters like Hutao can make use of it due to Furina's HP-drain mechanics.
3 The Scroll Of The Hero Of Cinder City / Obsidian Codex
Best For Natlan Characters
Natlan's first sets are undoubtedly some of the strongest in the game. The Obsidian Codex, much like Marechaussee, grants your active character an absolutely unprecedented 40 percent CRIT Rate, even higher than a fully stacked Marechaussee Hunter. However, since this can only work on Natlan characters, the power creep is somewhat understandable.
The Scroll of the Hero of Cinder City, or Hero of Cinder City for short, is the support version of Obsidian Codex. The set's effect grants your team a DMG Bonus for any Elemental Reactions triggered by the equipping character. While the normal 12 percent bonus is already quite useful, if you're using this set on a Natlan character, this is increased to a whopping 40 percent, making it rival Viridescent Venerer for the best support set in the game.
2 Deepwood Memories
Best For Dendro Teams
The Viridescent Venerer set is so absurdly strong that Dendro not having access to it would've made them useless. Fortunately, the element came with Deepwood Memories, a set that reduces Dendro RES upon hitting enemies.
In a Kinich team, putting Deepwood Memories on a defensive option like Dehya, or even an off-field DPS such as Xiangling, can greatly increase Kinich's personal damage.
The set is not only one of the best options for Dendro units, but can also be put on a support like Xingqiu to increase the damage your on-fielder deals, letting you put a better DPS set, such as Maracehusse's Hunter, on your DPS.
1 Archaic Petra
Best Underrated Set
Archaic Petra was the signature set for Geo units before Geo's identity was completely changed to scaling off of DEF. Ever since Husk of Oppulent Dreams came out, Archaic Petra has seemingly disappeared from players' radars.
However, the set's effect is still extremely strong, just not for Geo teams. Archaic Petra's effect grants a huge 35 percent DMG Bonus to your entire team for a single Element upon picking up an Elemental Shard created through Crystalize. This is a bigger buff than Noblesse Oblige, and almost as good as Hero of Cinder City.
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