A reddit user has presented a concept for a new feature of Genshin Impact. Fans agree that this is exactly what the popular action game needs.
This is the issue at hand: In Genshin Impact, artifacts are important equipment items that every player needs for their characters: you improve stats such as damage, critical hits, and ability recharge rate with them.
The artifacts provide you with a strong bonus, such as additional healing or additional fire damage, starting from a certain number of equipped set items of the same kind.
However, if you want to quickly swap your items or try out a different tactic, you have to clumsily switch your artifacts through the menu. A user on reddit recently presented an exciting concept that could solve this problem with the artifacts.
What does the concept propose? The user m00npr1nc3 has shown in a self-created graphic on reddit how it could look if you could save artifact sets (via reddit.com).
Instead of having to switch your sets every time, you could directly select a saved set in the menu. If you want to play cooperatively with friends, you could switch to Bennett’s Support Build and later switch back to the Damage Build. And all this with two clicks.
Meanwhile, the post on reddit has received over 12,000 upvotes and over 250 comments. Many users agree that such a feature is exactly what Genshin Impact currently lacks.
Saveable artifact sets could significantly improve the game
This would be an improvement because: For many players, it’s about saving time and resources:
- Currently, you have to level each artifact set individually in Genshin Impact. Such presets would likely save many resources since you wouldn’t have to farm the same set three times.
- If you use the same set with two characters like Beidou and Fishl or Xiangling and Diluc, you either have to level both sets or switch clumsily. With such a system, you could switch the set with one click.
- For coop players, it would also make the game easier. Users could quickly switch to a Support Build if others do not want to play a healer.
Is such a function new? No, because other games have also offered similar systems so far. For example, you can save multiple PvP sets or multiple skill sets in MMORPGs. This way, you can switch faster and not have to reset your systems every time.
The game Honkai Impact, which also comes from mihoyo, allows you to save Stigmata sets and weapons for specific game modes. Characters equip Stigmata in Honkai Impact to enhance their abilities and stats. If you want to play in competitive mode, you can quickly switch between sets.
Some players wish for fewer events and more improvements
The big Update 2.1 brings plenty of content like new areas, characters, and also the new activity fishing. But many would prefer improvements to the game, known as quality-of-life updates (QoL), that are meant to make gameplay more enjoyable.
And such artifact presets, meaning saveable sets, are considered exactly those quality improvements by many players. As one user writes on reddit (via reddit.com)
This is the feature I wish for the most, and I keep requesting it in surveys. I hope they add it soon.
Another user writes (via reddit.com)
We need this. It’s exhausting to switch artifacts. Many characters have the same artifacts as Mona-Xingqiu, Beidou-Fishl.
Will such a function come? There are indeed doubts in the comments that much could change in Genshin Impact at this point in the future.
It could well be a strategy for players to collect many artifact sets. As a user writes (via reddit.com): “The only reason I see them against it is that they want you to build more sets.”
Because artifacts are collected by players in dungeons, and for these places, you need resin. This is a currency that is only available in limited amounts and gradually refills after consumption. Nevertheless, some gamers see much more potential in this feature than in other community wishes, such as the abolishment of resin.
What do you think? Do you also wish for such a function, or are there other things that are currently more important to you? Let us know in the comments!
By the way, Genshin Impact will soon celebrate its first anniversary. However, the rewards for the anniversary are hotly debated in the community:
Players consider Genshin Impact’s anniversary rewards to be a bad joke
