Genshin Impact 5.3 Enhancing Farming World Boss Materials May Be Even Better News Than You Thought

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5.3 will enhance the way players farm world boss materials and the update to the system may be even better news than what it initially conveys. Version 5.3 is the next big patch for HoYoverse’s action RPG as it will be the one that will add the final main quests in the Natlan story arc. Furthermore, Version 5.3 will also introduce four new playable characters. Among them is the Pyro Traveler, as well as the Pyro Archon Mavuika in , who has long been known as an NPC but will now be fully playable.

In addition to the Natlan-focused content, which is expected to compose a large portion of the update, Version 5.3 will also bring forth the annual Lantern Rite Festival set in Liyue, and this should be accompanied by several activities and story quests. The release of Lan Yan as a playable 4-star unit is also meant to coincide with the attention to the Nation of Contracts. While new playable content tends to be in the spotlight, several optimizations, such as the update to character builds in 5.3, will also be implemented, and one of them revolves around world bosses.

In the Developers Discussion that occurred before the Version 5.3 livestream, HoYoverse detailed a series of system optimizations, including a new filtering system for Artifacts that confirms the previous leaks about character build optimization. Among the new updates arriving with Version 5.3 is an exciting tweak to world bosses. As confirmed by the developer in a post on HoYoLAB, world boss respawn timers will be removed completely in Version 5.3, and these bosses will immediately respawn. This means that players no longer have to teleport away and wait for a short time before challenging world bosses in again.

The Spiral Abyss may see a buff to player damage in Genshin Impact 5.4, but that may come accompanied by a troubling update to enemies.

At the moment, world bosses have a short respawn timer that triggers once players leave the arena. To farm materials from world bosses, players have to defeat the