Best Artifacts for Characters in Genshin Impact

In Genshin Impact artifacts endow characters additional bonuses, so it is very important to choose the right items for them to maximize their combat potential. In this guide, we will tell you how to choose these items and indicate the best builds (sets) of artifacts for specific heroes.

How to choose the best artifacts

Below we will talk about a few basic rules for selecting artifacts. By following them, you will be able to choose the equipment for your characters on your own if our sets become outdated or seem unbalanced to you.

Use artifacts with the most stars

Unlike characters and weapons, artifacts cannot be elevated. Therefore, the more stars an artifact has, the stronger it becomes.

Use weaker artifacts for enchantment

Enchanting artifacts increases their base stats and also grants new secondary stats. This greatly enhances the relic and makes it suitable for later game content.

Base your choice on the character's role and talent

Some characters start to perform better in their core functions and become stronger when you focus on increasing their specific stat other than Attack Power (ATK). Check the hero's talents and decide which artifact suits him.

Let's take Noel as an example. This heroine's healing is based on defense, not attack, so she starts to perform better on the battlefield after increasing her defense parameter, and not attack.

Here are some more tips for selecting artifacts for character roles:

For damage dealers (DPS, deals maximum damage in a team), choose artifacts aimed at increasing attack power and the chance to land a critical hit.
For healers (healers), choose artifacts aimed at increasing health and defense points, since the effectiveness of healing abilities often depends on these parameters.
For support (supports), choose artifacts aimed at increasing the speed of energy recovery and improving the mastery of the elements. These characters use their skills to spread elemental effects or gather enemies in one place. To increase their effectiveness, it is necessary to give them the opportunity to use skills faster.

Best Artifact Sets for Characters

Melee damage dealers

Heroes who fill this role in the group should use the Gladiator’s Finale Artifact Pack. It maximizes the damage a character can deal in melee combat. You can exchange one part of the set for any other artifact (from 4 stars and above) that increases attack power and crit chance or gives an elemental buff.

2-Piece Set Bonus: Increases attack power by 18%.
4-Piece Set Bonus: When using a sword, claymore, or polearm, damage from simple hits is increased by 35%.
Acquisition method: dropped from world bosses.
Recommended characters: Diluc, Zhong Yun, Razor, Beidou, Keqing and Xiao.

Ranged damage dealers

Heroes who fill this role in the group should use the Wanderer’s Troupe Artifact Set. When using it, special attention is paid to charged attacks, which will allow you to carry out powerful attacks on the area.

2-Piece Set Bonus: Increases Elemental Mastery by 80 points.
4-Piece Bonus: When using a Catalyst or a Bow, the damage of Charged Hits is increased by 35%.
How to obtain: world bosses (for example, Celebration: Hypostasis and Oceanid)
Recommended characters: Venti, Mona, Amber, Fischl, Ningguang, Ganyu and Tartaglia.

Fire Damage

Heroes who fill this role in the group should use the Crimson Witch of Flames Artifact Set. This set is aimed at increasing fire damage, which contributes to the rapid destruction of enemies. We highly recommend equipping such characters as Diluc and Xiangling with this set.

2-Piece Set Bonus: Increases Pyro damage by 15%.
4-Piece Set Bonus: Increases damage from Burning and Overload statuses by 40% and from Melting and Vapor statuses by 15%. When using an elemental skill, the effects of 2-piece sets are increased by 50 percent for 10 seconds. Stacks up to 3 times.
How to receive: dungeon.
Recommended characters: Diluc, Xiangling, Bennett, Xinyan and Klee.

Electrical Damage

Heroes who fulfill this role in the group should use the Fierce Strike Artifact Set. This set is focused on increasing electrical damage, which contributes to the rapid activation of the elemental explosion (Q).

2-Piece Set Bonus: Increases Electro Damage by 15%.
4-Piece Set Bonus: Increases damage from Arc Charge, Superconductive Damage, and Overload by 40%. When such effects appear, the cooldown time of skills is reduced by 1 second. It only fires once every 0.8 seconds.
How to receive: dungeon.
Recommended characters: Keqing, Razor, Fischl and Beidou.

Tank Traveling Doctor

Heroes who fulfill this role in the group should use the Spirit of the Protector artifact set. This set provides the user with the ability to heal party members who are out of the battlefield, while sustaining massive attacks from enemies.

2-Piece Set Bonus: Increases base defense by 30%.
4-Piece Set Bonus: Increases resistance to elements that differ from the elements of each team member by 30%.
How to receive: dungeon.
Recommended characters: Noelle and Xingqiu.

Elemental Traveling Doctor

Heroes who fulfill this role in the group should use the Beloved Maiden Artifact Set. This set enhances the effect of healing, so it is suitable for characters whose main goal is to heal allies.

2-Piece Set Bonus: Increases the hero's healing by 15%.
4-Piece Bonus: Increases the healing effect of all party members by 20% for 10 seconds after an elemental skill or explosion.
How to receive: dungeon.
Recommended characters: Qiqi, Barbara, Jean and Xingqiu.

Elemental Support

Heroes who fill this role in the group should use the Noblesse Oblige artifact set. With this set, you can strengthen your allies by using elemental explosion more often.

2-Piece Set Bonus: Increases elemental explosion damage by 20%.
4-Piece Set Bonus: Increases the attack power of all team members by 20% for 12 seconds after activating an elemental blast.
How to receive: dungeon.
Recommended characters: Mona, Lisa, Kaeya, Sucrose, Bennett, Zhongli and Venti.

Anemo support

Heroes who fill this role in the group should use the Viridescent Venerer artifact set. This set is aimed at spreading elemental effects and dealing increased damage to Anemo.

2-Piece Set Bonus: Increases Anemo's damage by 15%.
4-Piece Set Bonus: Increases Dispel damage by 60%. When Elemental Reaction: Swirl interacts with another element, the enemy's resistance to the corresponding element is reduced by 40 percent (effect lasts 10 seconds).
How to receive: dungeon.
Recommended characters: Venti, Sucrose and Jean.

These are all of the best character artifact sets in Genshin Impact that we know of so far.