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Genshin Impact 5.0 anniversary rewards include free 5-Star character

It won’t be the last

Marco Wutz

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HoYoverse has announced the Genshin Impact update 5.0 anniversary rewards to celebrate the release of Natlan and the game’s upcoming fourth birthday. The highlight of this year’s reward package is that players can choose one 5-Star character from the game’s standard banner for free.

What’s more, this reward will not be unique to version 5.0 – the developers promised to make this feature a staple for upcoming anniversaries as well, allowing players to plug gaps in their character rosters.

For update 5.0, players will be able to choose one of the following 5-Star characters for free:

  • Dehya
  • Keqing
  • Mona
  • Qiqi
  • Jean
  • Tighnari
  • Diluc

Version 5.0’s anniversary rewards include ten free pulls for the limited banners, which will be delivered through a login event during the update.

In addition, players can expect to find an in-game mail with an assortment of rewards. Among these will be an entirely new type of item introduced with update 5.0 – Sanctifying Elixir. This is an extremely valuable material that will allow players to craft any artifact and determine not only its main stat, but also two of its sub stats.

Here is the full list of anniversary rewards players will find in their mail:

  • Primogem x1,600
  • Sanctifying Elixir x1
  • Fragile Resin x2
  • Firstborn Firesprite x1
  • Kaboom Box x1

Finally, the developer will once again reset the top-up bonus, allowing players to gain additional currency when purchasing a bundle through the in-game store.

The Genshin Impact 5.0 banners will come with three exciting characters in Mualani, Kinich, and Kachina, so better grab what freebies you can. Version 5.0 will launch on August 28, 2024.

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Marco Wutz
MARCO WUTZ

Marco Wutz is a writer from Parkstetten, Germany. He has a degree in Ancient History and a particular love for real-time and turn-based strategy games like StarCraft, Age of Empires, Total War, Age of Wonders, Crusader Kings, and Civilization as well as a soft spot for Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail. He began covering StarCraft 2 as a writer in 2011 for the largest German community around the game and hosted a live tournament on a stage at gamescom 2014 before he went on to work for Bonjwa, one of the country's biggest Twitch channels. He branched out to write in English in 2015 by joining tl.net, the global center of the StarCraft scene run by Team Liquid, which was nominated as the Best Coverage Website of the Year at the Esports Industry Awards in 2017. He worked as a translator on The Crusader Stands Watch, a biography in memory of Dennis "INTERNETHULK" Hawelka, and provided live coverage of many StarCraft 2 events on the social channels of tl.net as well as DreamHack, the world's largest gaming festival. From there, he transitioned into writing about the games industry in general after his graduation, joining GLHF, a content agency specializing in video games coverage for media partners across the globe, in 2021. He has also written for NGL.ONE, kicker, ComputerBild, USA Today's ForTheWin, The Sun, Men's Journal, and Parade. Email: marco.wutz@glhf.gg

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