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Xingqiu is a melee longsword-wielding Hydro character in Genshin Impact. You can build him using the traditional melee damage build, which consists of stacking ATK on your artifacts, with optional Hydro bonus damage stats on your Goblet. This guide will show you our version of the best build for Xingqiu in Genshin Impact. We’ll try to provide some viable build options for free-to-play players who got lucky enough to pull this character.

The character is naked, minus weapon and necklace -The weapon is +12 and has 3.2% piercing (1.6% x 2 for assassin) -The assassin has 1.6% boss damage on their offhand (for the sole reason that this is what I have on mine) -The assassin has an assumed 30% minimum critical rate (estimated fatal strikes uptime) -The Scion buff (4% piercing) is active -Wizard is using level 10 Flame Wave -Assassin is using level 10 Fragmented Star (only uses main hand damage and hits once, easy to test). The assassin makes two shortsword attacks. Melee Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target.Hit: 6 (1d6 + 3) piercing damage, and the target must make a DC 15 Constitution saving throw, taking 24 (7d6) poison damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.

Xingqiu is a straightforward easy-to-play character. Depending on how you want to fit him into your team composition, you will likely want to utilize him for his elemental abilities. Switch to Xingqiu and pop your abilities, and then swap to your main DPS that synergizes with Hydro. Let’s dive into some of the build details.

Best Build for Xingqiu in Genshin Impact

When attacking with Magic Skills, has a chance of Crit, causes 150% spell crit. Dmg, increases spell crit. Dmg by an extra 1% for each 6 LUK (LUK increase and spell crit. DMG effect cannnot be stacked) When refining is +8 and landing a M.ATK, increases Crit. When refining +12 and landing M.ATK, increases Crit. The damage is just not enough. Even a full 8 piece% hunter damage with 100% cc and 700% cd build the dmg is still not enough. FYI, i was annoyed that with adren on hit and adren on crit builds don't work for rapid fire, i wanted a minigun. If you crit and roll as much damage as possible on this attack, you deal 60 piercing or slashing damage + 60 radiant damage. So your average 1st attack crit does 76 damage, at most 120 damage. This is on one attack. If it is your second or third attack you deal 4d10+6d8+20 damage, an average of 69 damage, at most 108 damage. If you crit on your last minor attack, you deal 2d4+2d10+6d8+20 damage, an average of 63 damage, at most 98 damage.

Here are the bests weapons, artifacts, and stats to focus on for Xingqiu:

• Weapons: Fillet Blade, Prototype Rancour, Skyward Blade
• Stats: ATK%, CRIT%, CRIT, ATK, Elemental Mastery
• Artifacts: The Exile, Noblesse Oblige

Best Xingqiu Weapons

Ms2 Assassin Crit Dmg Or Piercing Aftercare

New players under Adventure Rank 30 who want to utilize Xingqiu can throw on the Fillet Blade. The three-star sword has a 50% chance to deal 240% ATK DMG to a single target once every fifteen seconds. It’s not a great weapon but will hold you over until you can craft something better.

Next up, the Prototype Rancour is a reliable option, and it’s craftable, which makes it a viable free-to-play weapon. The sword offers a Physical damage bonus and ATK stats. It also has the Smashed Stone passive, which causes regular or charged attacks to increase ATK and DEF by 4% for six seconds, stacking up to four times once every 0.3 seconds.

Finally, the Skyward Blade is likely best-in-slot for Xingqiu at the moment. The legendary five-star weapon has base ATK and Energy Recharge stats on it. The Sky-Piercing Fang passive increases CRIT rate by 4%. It also grants Skypiercing Might when using an Elemental Burst, increasing movement and attack speed by 10%, and damage of regular and charged attacks by 20% for 12 seconds.

Ms2 Assassin Crit Dmg Or Piercings

Best Xingqiu Stats

Ms2 Assassin Crit Dmg Or Piercing Gun

You can follow the traditional ATK and CRIT oriented stat builds on your artifacts for Xingqiu. Considering his elemental abilities, you can also try farming for a Hydro bonus damage Goblet to utilize.

Ms2 Assassin Crit Dmg Or Piercing Healing

For secondary stats outside of ATK and CRIT, Xingqiu benefits from both Elemental Mastery and Energy Recharge. Focusing on recharge lets you spam abilities quicker, and mastery will help pump the damage slightly.

Best Artifacts for Xingqiu

Here are some good Artifact set options for Xingqiu:

You can combine the two-piece bonuses from each of these sets, or go for a four-piece depending on your team composition. It comes down to which Artifacts you can find with the best stat rolls on them.