Glossary of Key Terms

  • Agnidus Agate: An Ascension Material required for Pyro characters like Xiangling and Yoimiya.
  • Anemo: An Elemental Type associated with wind. Venti is an Anemo character.
  • AoE: Area of Effect, referring to damage or effects that cover a certain area.
  • Artifacts: Equippable items that provide characters with stat bonuses and set effects. Examples include Viridescent Venerer and Noblesse Oblige.
  • Ascension: The process of increasing a character’s maximum level and stats, requiring specific materials.
  • ATK: Attack, a character stat that influences the damage dealt by most attacks.
  • Blooming Blessing: An effect granted by Xilonen’s C4, increasing Normal, Charged, and Plunging Attack DMG for party members based on her DEF.
  • Burgeon: An Elemental Reaction involving Dendro and Hydro, and Pyro.
  • Burning: An Elemental Reaction involving Dendro and Pyro.
  • Charged Attack: A character’s attack that consumes stamina for increased damage or unique effects.
  • Circlet: An artifact slot that typically offers main stats like CRIT Rate, CRIT DMG, or Elemental Mastery.
  • Claymore: A heavy, two-handed weapon type used by characters like Kinich.
  • Constellation: Permanent upgrades for characters unlocked by obtaining duplicates, providing significant buffs to their abilities.
  • CRIT DMG: Critical Damage, a stat that increases the damage dealt by critical hits.
  • CRIT Rate: Critical Rate, a stat that determines the chance of landing a critical hit.
  • Cryo: An Elemental Type associated with ice. Shenhe is a Cryo character.
  • Denial and Judgment: A Talent Level-Up Material required for Kinich.
  • Dendro: An Elemental Type associated with nature and plants. Kinich deals Dendro DMG.
  • DEF: Defense, a character stat that reduces incoming damage. Xilonen’s abilities scale with DEF.
  • Elemental Absorption: The process where Venti’s Elemental Burst infuses with a specific element (Hydro, Pyro, Cryo, or Electro) to deal additional elemental damage.
  • Elemental Burst: A character’s ultimate ability, typically requiring Energy to activate and having a cooldown. Examples include Kinich’s Hail to the Almighty Dragonlord and Venti’s Wind’s Grand Ode.
  • Elemental Mastery: A character stat that increases the damage of Elemental Reactions.
  • Elemental Skill: A character’s active ability, typically on a shorter cooldown than their Burst. Examples include Shenhe’s Spring Spirit Summoning and Mualani’s Surfshark Wavebreaker.
  • Electro: An Elemental Type associated with lightning.
  • Energy Recharge: A character stat that increases the rate at which they gain Energy for their Elemental Burst.
  • Equitable Judgment: The name of Neuvillette’s powerful Charged Attack after forming a Seal of Arbitration.
  • Everamber: An Ascension Material required for Neuvillette.
  • Fontemer Unihorn: An Ascension Material required for Neuvillette.
  • Freedom-Sworn: A 5-star Sword weapon recommended for Xilonen.
  • Geo: An Elemental Type associated with earth and stone. Xilonen deals Geo DMG.
  • Gemstone: A high-tier Ascension Material, such as Nagadus Emerald Gemstone.
  • Goblet: An artifact slot that typically offers an Elemental DMG Bonus or a physical DMG Bonus as a main stat.
  • Gold-Inscribed Secret Source Core: An Ascension Material required for Xilonen.
  • Guoba Attack: Xiangling’s Elemental Skill, which summons a fire-breathing panda.
  • Guide to Kindling: A Talent Level-Up Material required for Kinich.
  • Hurricane Seed: An Ascension Material required for Venti.
  • Hydro: An Elemental Type associated with water. Mualani and Neuvillette are Hydro characters.
  • Icy Quill: An effect granted by Shenhe’s Elemental Skill that buffs the Cryo DMG of party members.
  • Juvenile Fang: An Ascension and Talent Level-Up Material required for Kinich.
  • Kindling: A Talent Level-Up Book series required for Kinich.
  • K’uhul Ajaw: The Almighty Dragonlord unleashed by Kinich’s Elemental Burst.
  • Lightless Mass: An Upgrade Material required for Mualani.
  • Lumitoile: An Ascension Material required for Neuvillette.
  • Main DPS: The character primarily responsible for dealing damage in a team composition. Examples include Kinich and Mualani.
  • Marked as Prey: A status applied by Mualani’s Elemental Skill to opponents.
  • Mark of the Binding Blessing: An Upgrade and Ascension Material required for Mualani.
  • Max HP: Maximum Health Points, a character stat. Some abilities, like Mualani’s Sharky’s Bites and Xilonen’s healing, scale with Max HP.
  • Mirror of Mushin: An Upgrade Material required for Xilonen.
  • Mora: The primary in-game currency required for leveling up characters, talents, and artifacts.
  • Nagadus Emerald: An Ascension Material required for Dendro characters like Kinich.
  • Naku Weed: An Ascension Material required for Yoimiya.
  • Neuvillette: A Catalyst Main DPS character with Hydro abilities.
  • Nightsoul’s Blessing: A state entered by Mualani, Kinich, and Xilonen after using their Elemental Skills, granting unique abilities and often consuming Nightsoul points.
  • Nightsoul points: A resource consumed during the Nightsoul’s Blessing state for some characters.
  • Noblesse Oblige: An artifact set that provides Elemental Burst DMG bonus and ATK buffs to the party.
  • Normal Attack: A character’s basic attack sequence.
  • Ocelotlicue Point!: Xilonen’s Elemental Burst.
  • Overripe Flamegranate: An Upgrade and Ascension Material required for Kinich.
  • Passive Talent: Abilities that provide constant effects or trigger under specific conditions, without requiring manual activation.
  • Past Draconic Glories: Stacks gained by Neuvillette from his Passive Talent “Heir to the Ancient Sea’s Authority.”
  • Peak Patrol Song: A 5-star Sword weapon recommended for Xilonen.
  • Philosophies of Ballad: A high-tier Talent Level-Up Book required for Venti.
  • Philosophies of Kindling: A high-tier Talent Level-Up Book required for Kinich.
  • Phlogiston: A resource mentioned in relation to Mualani and Xilonen’s abilities and the Nightsoul’s Blessing state.
  • Physical RES: Physical Resistance, a stat that reduces incoming Physical DMG.
  • Plunging Attack: An attack performed by plunging from mid-air.
  • Polearm: A weapon type used by characters like Shenhe and Xiangling.
  • Prithiva Topaz: An Ascension Material required for Geo characters like Xilonen.
  • Pyro: An Elemental Type associated with fire. Xiangling and Yoimiya are Pyro characters.
  • Pyro RES: Pyro Resistance, a stat that reduces incoming Pyro DMG.
  • Pyronado: Xiangling’s Elemental Burst, a circling Pyro spear that deals continuous AoE Pyro DMG.
  • Qingxin: An Ascension Material required for Shenhe.
  • Ryuukin Saxifrage: Yoimiya’s Elemental Burst.
  • Sacrificial Jade: A Catalyst weapon recommended for Mualani and Neuvillette.
  • Sands: An artifact slot that typically offers main stats like ATK%, DEF%, HP%, Elemental Mastery, or Energy Recharge.
  • Saurian Claw Succulent: An Upgrade and Ascension Material required for Kinich.
  • Saurian-Crowned Warrior’s Golden Whistle: A high-tier Ascension Material required for Mualani and Xilonen.
  • Scalespiker Cannon: An attack associated with Kinich’s Constellation 6.
  • Seasoned Fang: An Ascension and Talent Level-Up Material required for Kinich.
  • Sentry’s Wooden Whistle: An Upgrade and Ascension Material required for Mualani and Xilonen.
  • Shark Missiles: Attacks fired by Mualani during her Nightsoul’s Blessing state.
  • Sharky’s Bites: Mualani’s Normal Attacks during her Nightsoul’s Blessing state, dealing Hydro DMG based on her Max HP.
  • Sharky’s Surging Bite: A more powerful version of Mualani’s Sharky’s Bites when she has 3 Wave Momentum stacks.
  • Shenhe: A Polearm Support character with Cryo abilities.
  • Shivada Jade: An Ascension Material required for Cryo characters like Shenhe.
  • Sigil of Rebellion: A stack gained by the wielder of Freedom-Sworn.
  • Skyward Sonnet: Venti’s Elemental Skill.
  • Slime Concentrate: A high-tier Ascension and Talent Level-Up Material required for Venti and Xiangling.
  • Slime Condensate: An Upgrade, Ascension, and Talent Level-Up Material required for Venti and Xiangling.
  • Slime Secretions: An Ascension and Talent Level-Up Material required for Venti and Xiangling.
  • Smoldering Pearl: An Upgrade and Ascension Material required for Yoimiya.
  • Sourcewater Droplets: Orbs absorbed by Neuvillette during his Charged Attack Empowerment, increasing formation speed and healing him.
  • Source Samples: Devices used by Xilonen to generate Soundscapes based on party members’ elements, decreasing enemy Elemental RES.
  • Sprayfeather Gill: An Upgrade and Ascension Material required for Mualani.
  • Spring Spirit Summoning: Shenhe’s Elemental Skill.
  • Stamina: A resource consumed by actions like Charged Attacks, sprinting, and climbing.
  • Stormeye: The name of Venti’s Ascension 4 Passive Talent and the area created by his Elemental Burst.
  • Sub-DPS: A character who provides consistent off-field damage or supplements the Main DPS. Xiangling can function as a Sub-DPS.
  • Succulent Juvenile Fang: An Upgrade and Ascension Material required for Kinich.
  • Support: A character whose primary role is to buff allies, debuff enemies, heal, or provide utility. Shenhe, Venti, and Xilonen are examples of Support characters.
  • Surfshark Wavebreaker: Mualani’s Elemental Skill.
  • Surf’s Up: A Catalyst weapon recommended for Mualani.
  • Swirl: An Elemental Reaction triggered when Anemo interacts with Hydro, Pyro, Cryo, or Electro, dealing elemental damage and spreading the effect.
  • Tail of Boreas: A Talent Level-Up Material required for Venti.
  • Teachings of Ballad: A Talent Level-Up Book required for Venti.
  • Teachings of Kindling: A Talent Level-Up Book required for Kinich.
  • Tome of the Eternal Flow: A Catalyst weapon recommended for Mualani and Neuvillette.
  • Talent: A character’s active or passive abilities. Talent levels can be upgraded using specific materials.
  • Transoceanic Chunk: An Ascension Material required for Neuvillette.
  • Transoceanic Pearl: An Upgrade and Ascension Material required for Neuvillette.
  • Tyrant’s Fang: A high-tier Ascension and Talent Level-Up Material required for Kinich.
  • Varunada Lazurite: An Ascension Material required for Hydro characters like Mualani and Neuvillette.
  • Vaporize: An Elemental Reaction involving Pyro and Hydro, dealing increased damage.
  • Vayuda Turquoise: An Ascension Material required for Anemo characters like Venti.
  • Venti: A Bow Support character with Anemo abilities.
  • Viridescent Venerer: An artifact set highly recommended for Anemo Support characters, enhancing Swirl damage and reducing enemy elemental resistance.
  • Warrior’s Metal Whistle: An Ascension Material required for Mualani and Xilonen.
  • Wave Momentum: Stacks gained by Mualani during her Nightsoul’s Blessing state, increasing her damage.
  • Weapons: Equippable items that provide characters with base ATK and passive abilities. Examples include Swords, Claymores, Polearms, Catalysts, and Bows.
  • Whopperflower Nectar: An Upgrade and Ascension Material required for Shenhe.
  • Wind Domain: An area created by Venti’s Elemental Skill, launching enemies into the air.
  • Wind’s Grand Ode: Venti’s Elemental Burst.
  • Xenochromatic Crystal: A high-tier Ascension Material required for Neuvillette.
  • Xiangling: A Polearm character with Pyro abilities, capable of being a Main DPS or Sub-DPS.
  • Xilonen: A Sword Support character with Geo abilities.
  • Yoimiya: A Bow Main DPS character with Pyro abilities.
  • Yohual’s Scratch: Xilonen’s Elemental Skill.