Genshin Impact beginner guide Part 1: Waypoints, Statues, Oculi and Commissions

Key points

• Every Teleport Waypoint and every Statue of The Seven gives 50 Adventure EXP and 5 Primogems the first time you unlock it, and you can fast travel to both from the Map.
• You start with 100 base Stamina, and offering Oculi to Statues of The Seven raises Max Stamina up to 240. Oculi do not respawn.
• Commissions unlock at Adventure Rank 12 once you finish the World Quest Every Day a New Adventure. You can claim 4 commission rewards a day, then report to any Adventurers' Guild branch for a bonus.
• The Adventurer Handbook's Guide tab shows your next priority quests, and its Experience tab pays rewards for tasks across 9 chapters.

Why unlock every Teleport Waypoint you pass

Teleport Waypoints sit all over Teyvat, and each one you unlock pays out and saves you walking later.

• First-unlock rewards: the first time you unlock a Teleport Waypoint, you get 50 Adventure EXP and 5 Primogems. Most of them unlock as soon as you interact with them, so walk up and touch every one you see.
• Fast travel: open the Map and select any unlocked Teleport Waypoint to travel there. Selecting a waypoint also shows the name of its Area, which helps you check where you are heading.
• The direction pointer: when you are within 30 meters of a locked Teleport Waypoint, a pointer shows which way it is. The pointer goes away once you unlock the waypoint or move more than 40 meters from it.
• Hidden waypoints: some locked Teleport Waypoints stay off the Map until you meet an extra requirement, even when their area is already lit up. An area with a missing waypoint icon can still have a waypoint left to find.
• Respawn points: if every character in your party falls, an unlocked Teleport Waypoint can be where you come back.
• Co-Op respawns: in Co-Op Mode, you respawn at the nearest Teleport Waypoint unlocked in your own world, even if the host has not unlocked that one.

Which Statues of The Seven to unlock first and what they do

When the game starts, the only Statues of The Seven available are in Starfell Valley and Galesong Hill. The Starfell Valley statue unlocks for you during Bird's Eye View. Finishing the first Archon Quest in Prologue: Act I opens up the rest of the map, but some statues stay locked after that. The Windwail Highland statue at Dawn Winery is one of them: you have to defeat its Eye of the Storm guard before you can use it.

Finding a Statue of The Seven and resonating with it fills in its area of the Map. Touching it also reveals most of the locked Teleport Waypoints in that area, while before that the map shows only the waypoints you have already unlocked. When you enter a new area, go to its statue first, then use the revealed icons to collect the waypoints one by one.

The first time you unlock a statue, you get 50 Adventure EXP and 5 Primogems. Statues also work as Teleport Waypoints, so you can fast travel to them from the Map. Every statue starts at Level 1, and leveling one raises every statue in the same region, so you can make offerings at whichever statue of that region is closest.

How Stamina works and what drains it

Stamina limits how far you can run, climb and glide.

• Starting pool: you begin with 100 base Stamina.
• What uses it: Sprinting, Dodging, Climbing, Swimming, Gliding and Charged Attacks all cost Stamina.
• One pool for the party: the whole party shares a single Stamina pool, so swapping to another character does not refill it.
• Regeneration: Stamina starts coming back 1.5 seconds after your last Stamina-consuming action, at 25 Stamina per second. Stop sprinting or climbing for a moment to let it refill.
• Sprint cost: Sprinting costs 18 Stamina per second before cost modifiers.
• Gliding cost: moving while gliding costs 3 Stamina per second before cost modifiers, far less per second than Sprinting.
• Climbing threshold: you need at least 5 Stamina to start a climb.
• Reading the meter: a yellow Stamina bar appears to your character's right while Stamina is being used or restored, and it disappears once the bar is full. Each section of the meter stands for 100 Stamina.

How to find Oculi and raise your Max Stamina

Oculi are collectibles that appear only in the overworld, never in Chests. Their supply is limited and they do not respawn. Each one you pick up gives you 1 Oculus of its type and 60 Adventure EXP. Mondstadt has 66 Anemoculi and Liyue has 131 Geoculi.

An overworld Oculus near you makes a sound and shows an icon on the minimap, so listen while you explore. A matching Oculus Resonance Stone can mark an Oculus on the map. For Lunoculus, a Luna Treasure Compass at Ability Lv. 2 can mark one in the same way.

Offering Oculi to a Statue of The Seven raises your Max Stamina, up to a cap of 240. For each nation's statue, the first two upgrades add 7 maximum Stamina each and the next seven add 8 each, for 70 extra Stamina once that statue reaches Level 10. Offerings also give Adventure EXP and Primogems.

When you have collected every Oculus in a region and its Statues of The Seven are at maximum level, you are left with one Oculus of each element.

How to unlock and complete Daily Commissions

1. Reach Adventure Rank 12 and finish the World Quest Every Day a New Adventure. Commissions unlock once both are done.
2. Open your commissions from the Quest Menu or the Adventurer Handbook.
3. Pick your region. At first, commissions are available only in Mondstadt. As you unlock more regions, choose a preferred one in the top right of the Commissions tab in the Adventurer Handbook. The default setting, "Random", picks commission locations from your unlocked regions.
4. Finish them on the same day. Commissions you leave unfinished are replaced at the next daily reset and do not carry over.
5. Check your Encounter Points at the bottom of the Commissions tab. You spend these points to claim Daily Commission Rewards.
6. Claim your rewards, up to 4 commission rewards per day. A commission's rewards scale with your Adventure Rank at the time it was assigned. Some commissions, usually noncombat NPC ones, give reduced rewards.
7. Report to any Adventurers' Guild branch after claiming all 4 daily rewards to collect a bonus reward.

What the Adventurer Handbook tells you to do next

The Adventurer Handbook has several tabs that point you toward your next goal.

• Guide tab: it recommends priority Quests and shows up to five guide entries at a time. An entry can send you to an Archon Quest, an Adventure Rank Ascension Quest, a new area, or a new gameplay mode or function.
• Archon Quest dialogue: if you want Polish subtitles for the story scenes the Guide tab sends you to, see how to set up Kaption.
• Experience tab: completing its tasks gives rewards, and finishing a chapter adds extra rewards on top, across 9 chapters. Since Version 5.4, task Adventure EXP is 200 in Chapter 2, 300 in Chapter 3 and 400 in Chapters 4-9, up from 100.
• Domains tab: it lists the Domains you can enter and shows the rewards for the highest tier unlocked at your current Adventure Rank. If you meet a domain's required Adventure Rank but have not found it yet, the tab shows its first discover reward instead.
• Map pin button: the button on the right of the Domains tab shows a domain's location on the map, so you can travel to one you have not found yet.