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Genshin Impact update 4.5 to add Training Guide feature for easy character-building

A step-by-step guide to upgrading your characters

Marco Wutz

Genshin Impact update 4.5 to add Training Guide feature for easy character-building
Genshin Impact update 4.5 to add Training Guide feature for easy character-building /

HoYoverse’s offensive in regards to Genshin Impact quality-of-life improvements continues in the upcoming update 4.5, as the developers have revealed. This new feature will be called “Training Guide” and essentially give players a step-by-step walkthrough to upgrade their characters.

The Training Guide will estimate how well you’ve built your characters and will highlight the areas that could be improved, such as their artifacts or talent levels. Each of these areas get their own help pages to assist you with upgrading them. For example, the character ascension category is going to list all the ascension materials required to level up the current character, providing you with their farming locations – if you just need a general pointer, this eliminates the need to look for material locations outside of the game. Detailed farming routes, of course, are still best found in external guides and can still save you a lot of time.

Genshin Impact screenshot of Yae Miko.
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In the tabs for weapons and artifacts, the game will recommend you picks commonly used by other players on the same character, even telling you how to get ahold of this gear. A system like this already exists for artifact set recommendations and it works pretty well, so this should be a great resource for new or more casual players who simply want to make their units effective for regular content. Hyper-optimization for endgame content will still require you to look up specialist guides outside of the game, but this is a fantastic system for the majority of users.

It’s a similar story for talent level-ups: The Training Guide will give you a priority list for which talents to upgrade first, directly listing the required materials and where to get them.

The Training Guide will be available in the Paimon Menu alongside the other important functions such as your Character Menu, Party Setup, and so on.

We’ll hear more about the new version in the Genshin Impact update 4.5 livestream.

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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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