Genshin Impact: All Character Ascension Material Locations and Farming Routes | Local Specialties, Boss Materials, Enemy Drops, and More

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There are a ton of Genshin Impact items, and it can be difficult to keep track of them all. Characters and weapons both require a whole host of item combinations to ascend, and characters also require particular items for their talent upgrades. These ascensions and upgrades require local specialty products, boss drops, enemy materials, trounce challenge rewards, and more.

To help players organize their game and find the items they’re looking for, we’ve created this directory for all the Genshin Impact ascension materials. You’ll find links to all our farming route guides, item location maps, and more, organized into four major categories: Local Specialties, Enemy Drops, Boss Materials, and Trounce Challenge Rewards. Clicking the above jump links will take you right to the listed section, so you can always find what you’re looking for, whether it be ascending a new shiny weapon or upgrading a character’s talents to beat the Spiral Abyss.

Bookmark this page for easy access to all the item guides you might need!

Local Specialties

Every region is home to items that can only be found there. Typically, these items are plants, but they can also be bugs, minerals, and more. Every character requires a local specialty from their home region, with a total of 168 of them needed for a full ascension.

This section will include our farming routes and maps for all local specialties.

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Mondstadt

Liyue

Inazuma

Sumeru

Fontaine

Mondstadt Local Specialties

Item

Used by:

Windwheel Aster

Traveler Sucrose Bennett

Calla Lily

Kaeya Diona

Valberry

Lisa Noelle Rosaria

Philanemo Mushroom

Barbara Mona Klee

Dandelion Seed

Jean Eula

Cecilia

Venti Albedo

Small Lamp Grass

Amber Diluc Fischl

Wolfhook

Razor Mika

Liyue Local Specialties

Item

Used by:

Cor Lapis

Keqing Chongyun Zhongli

Noctilucous Jade

Beidou Yanfei

Violetgrass

Qiqi Xinyan Baizhu

Jueyun Chili

Xiangling Yaoyao

Silk Flower

Xingqiu Hu Tao

Glaze Lily

Ningguang Yun Jin

Qingxin

Xiao Ganyu Shenhe

Starconch

Childe Yelan

Inazuma Local Specialties

Item

Used by:

Sakura Bloom

Ayaka Ayato

Sea Ganoderma

Kazuha Yae Miko

Naku Weed

Yoimiya Kuki Shinobu

Onikabuto

Itto Heizou

Dendrobium

Kujou Sara

Amakumo Fruit

Raiden Shogun Kirara

Fluorescent Fungus

Thoma

Sango Pearl

Kokomi Gorou

Crystal Marrow

Sayu Aloy

Sumeru Local Specialties

Item

Used by:

Rukkhashava Mushrooms

Collei Wanderer

Nilotpala Lotus

Tighnari Layla

Kalpalata Lotus

Dori Nahida

Padisarah

Nilou

Henna Berry

Candace Faruzan

Scarab

Cyno

Sand Grease Pupa

Alhaitham Dehya

Mourning Flower

Kaveh

Fontaine Local Specialties

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Used by:

Rainbow Rose

Lyney

Lumidouce Bell

Lynette

Romaritime Flower

Freminet (coming soon)

Genshin Impact Enemy Ascension Items

Genshin Impact enemies are sorted into two major categories: Common Enemies and Elite Enemies.

> Common Enemies drop materials of ★, ★★, and ★★★ qualities. These items are used for ascending characters and weapons and upgrading character talents.

> Elite Enemies drop materials of ★★, ★★★, and ★★★★ qualities. These items are used only for ascending weapons.

Common Enemies

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Elite Enemies

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Genshin Impact Boss Ascension Items

Regular bosses, which appear on the overworld and can be challenged as many times as the player would like, each drop a unique item needed for character ascension. It costs 40 Original Resin to obtain the rewards after the boss is defeated, so keep that in mind!

This section lists all of the regular bosses and their unique item drop, with links to our guides on finding and defeating them. These boss materials are always ★★★★.

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Trounce Domain Talent Materials

While normal bosses are the source of items needed for character ascension, Weekly Trounce Challenges (or Weekly Bosses) are the source of character talent upgrade materials.

This section outlines each trounce challenge and the three items it can drop. The guides linked will help you defeat the boss (and unlock them if necessary)!

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Other Ascension and Upgrade Items

Aside from the items listed above, there are a few more things a character will need to ascend and upgrade their talents. These include elemental gems, Mora, Crowns of Insight, and more. This section will list and outline each of these items, with guides on where to find them.

Ascension Gems

First up is ascension gems. These precious stones are each aligned with a particular element, and each character will need the corresponding gem to ascend. They come in four quality levels: Slivers, Fragments, Chunks, and Gemstones. On top of these, the Traveler needs a special set called Brilliant Diamonds.

This table shows each elemental gemstone and a link to our guide on where to find them.

Vayuda Turquoise

Prithiva Topaz

Vajrada Amethyst

Nagadus Emerald

Anemo

Geo

Electro

Dendro

Varunada Lazurite

Agnidus Agate

Shivada Jade

Brilliant Diamond

Hydro

Pyro

Cryo

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Every character needs the same quantity of each quality level, with the only difference from one character to the next is which elemental gem they use, based on their corresponding element. This table outlines how many are needed to completely ascend a character:

Name

Quality Level

Total Number Needed Per Character

Sliver

★★

1

Fragment

★★★

9

Chunk

★★★★

9

Gemstone

★★★★★

6

Other Items

There are a handful of other items that characters need to ascend and upgrade their talents, shown in this table here. Click the included links for guides on where to find these items.

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Crown of Insight (coming soon)

Upgrading character talents

Talent Books

Upgrading character talents

EXP Materials (coming soon)

Leveling up characters

Mora (coming soon)

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Crown of Insight

Crowns of Insight are extremely rare items. They are used for the final talent upgrade from level 9 to 10, for every character. This means that, if the player wants to completely upgrade a character’s talents, they’ll need three Crowns of Insight per character. This is referred to as triple-crowning a character.

These super-rare items are found in a few ways, with the primary source being participation on flagship events (usually one per event). Making offerings to the sacred trees of Teyvat (the Sacred Sakura in Inazuma, the Frostbearing Tree in Mondstadt, and the Tree of Dreams in Sumeru) will also reward a few Crowns of Insight, as will leveling up the Lumenstone Adjuvant in the Chasm.

Talent Books

Talent Books are special items that are used to upgrade a character’s talents. Each nation of Teyvat has three “series” of books, and each character uses one of the series, except for the Traveler, who uses a combination of each region’s books for each elemental alignment. For example, Mondstadt has three series — Freedom, Ballad, and Resistance. Jean uses Resistance, Venti uses Ballad, and Sucrose uses Freedom, but an Anemo-aligned Traveler will use some of each.

These books come in three levels: Teachings (★★), Guides (★★★), and Philosophies (★★★★). As a talent is upgraded, higher-quality talent books are needed.

Here are all the talent books, which region they are from, and which days of the week they can be obtained. A complete domain schedule and guide is linked in the table above.

Region

Monday and Thursday

Tuesday and Friday

Wednesday and Saturday

Sunday

Mondstadt

Freedom

Resistance

Ballad

All three

Liyue

Prosperity

Diligence

Gold

All three

Inazuma

Transience

Elegance

Light

All three

Sumeru

Admonition

Ingenuity

Praxis

All three

Fontaine

Equity

Justice

Order

All three

Like with the ascension gems above, here’s a table showing how many of each book quality level a character will need. Note that this is for one talent, so these numbers must be tripled for all three talents.

Name

Quality Level

Total Number Needed Per Talent

Total for All Three Talents

Teachings

★★

3

9

Guide

★★★

21

63

Philosophies

★★★★

38

114

EXP Materials

These special books are used to level up a character and are known as EXP Materials or Level Materials. They can be found in many, many different ways, including from chests, as quest rewards, and much more.

Here’s how much EXP each will grant a character when used:

Name

Quality Level

EXP Granted

Wanderer’s Advice

★★

1,000 EXP

Adventurer’s Experience

★★★

5,000 EXP

Hero’s Wit

★★★★

20,000 EXP

Since a character needs a whopping total of 8,362,650 EXP to reach level 90, it takes quite a few of these books. There are various combinations of the three types suggested by different people, but briefly, this total works out to just over 419 Hero’s Wit!