Genshin Impact: Abyssal Domains guide — Artifacts, weapon ascension, and talent leveling materials

The basics of dungeon farming

You can check for Abyssal Domain locations in Genshin Impact simply by opening the Adventurer’s Handbook and checking the “Domains” tab. This will show you additional tabs for the Spiral Abyss and Stormterror boss fight (Trounce Domain). Furthermore, while the Wolf of the North challenge/Andrius boss fight is considered a weekly encounter just like Stormterror, it’s not part of this tab.

Anyway, the first tab is what you should be looking at. This lists down all the Abyssal Domains in the game, as well as their rewards (some of which can change daily) and their location on the map once you click on the icon. Simply travel to that area and interact with the dungeon’s entrance to unlock it as a fast travel point. In some cases, there are those that require you to solve a quick puzzle or reach a higher Adventure Rank (AR) first.

Note: You may also open the world map and click on “Domains only” so that these locations are shown.

Ley Line Disorders and enemies

Ley Line Disorders are modifiers that each Abyssal Domain has. They correspond to an elemental status effect, a debuff that remains throughout the encounter.

It’s possible that, as you increase your Adventure Rank as well as the dungeon’s difficulty, the Ley Line Disorder gains additional effects. For instance, the lowest difficulty of a dungeon might simply have an Electro effect that drains your elemental burst’s energy. Later, higher ranks will have lightning strikes and orbs floating around.

Likewise, you should take note of the enemies. The status effect usually coincides with the types of mobs you’ll encounter. In that example with the Electro debuff, that means enemies tend to be Electro-powered slime or Fatui mages.

Characters to bring

With that in mind, make sure you bring the best characters for the job. Take into account their skills, bursts, and the elemental combos that can be triggered. Like in the previous example, if you’ve got Electro opponents, you’ll want Pyro (overload), Cryo (Superconduct), or Hydro (electro-charged) combatants.

Ideally, though, you’ll want to have someone like Venti as he’s Genshin Impact‘s best support character. Venti’s elemental burst pulls in numerous foes, allowing you to nuke them with other skills and elemental combos. Because Abyssal Domains have a timer, clearing entire crowds of hostiles faster is always a plus. Sadly, his banner was previously available as a limited-time Wish microtransaction, so he’s a lot harder to get now.

If you don’t have Venti or stronger characters from Wishes, then you should at least have a couple of unlockable characters such as Xiangling (melee DPS) and Barbara (healer). The former can be obtained by clearing floor 3 – chamber 3 of the Spiral Abyss dungeon. The latter, meanwhile, is obtained if you’ve reached Adventure Rank 20 before patch 1.1 hits.

Farming rewards

As cited earlier, it’s important to remember the drops you’ll get from each Abyssal Domain. The places that give weapon ascension and talent leveling materials have their drops changing each day. As such, take note of the characters and weapons you want to boost. Moreover, Sunday will have all varieties included in the loot pool.

Here’s an example:

• If you have Diluc and Wolf’s Gravestone – Prioritize Forsaken Rift on Tuesdays and Fridays for his talent leveling material. Then, do Cecilia Garden on Wednesdays and Saturdays for the weapon ascension material.
• If you have Xiangling and Primordial Jade Winged-Spear or Crescent Pike – Do Taishan Mansion on Tuesday/Friday and Hidden Palace of Lianshan on Monday/Thursday.
• If you have Venti and Favonius Warbow – Farm Forsaken Rift and Cecilia Garden on Wednesdays and Saturdays. The items that’ll help him and his loadout drop from those dungeons on those days.

Note: For those providing artifacts, the rewards remain static regardless of the day. However, much like other Abyssal Domain types in Genshin Impact, you’ll get rarer versions of certain items as long as you’ve been boosting your Adventure Rank and unlocking more difficult tiers.

All right, we’re done discussing the basics. Let’s talk about the possible rewards from Genshin Impact‘s Abyssal Domains.