‘Genshin Impact’ 1.3 Trailer Promises Xiao, New Bosses And A Free Hero Of Your Choice

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Genshin Impact just dropped a brand new trailer for its 1.3 Update, which should be arriving soon enough here, early February, by most accounts.

There’s a lot shown off in this trailer, which is focused on the Lantern Rite event, which is made up of new arrivals plus a bunch of mini events during the same period.

It’s been confirmed that Xiao is going to be the next featured 5 star hero, and we get to see a little bit of his anemo kit in this trailer, where his ultimate looks like he curses enemies in some way. He’s the only new character featured, but there’s still a lot here.

A new type of battle arena is shown that seems to have a lot more enemies than normal and a bunch of elemental components to it. It’s not clear whether this is just for a limited time event or a permanent addition to the game.

A new type of boss is heavily featured, the Vishap, a sort of elemental dinosaur type enemy that seems like it will join the ranks of existing elemental bosses we’ve been fighting presently, and we’ll likely be farming them for materials.

From the trailer, the Lantern Rite event contains four main components:

Those last three are not defined yet. But what will be of interest to players is the next slide, which says players will be able to choose one of six different four star characters, presumably for free. They are:

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I assume the goal of this is to throw players a bone who may have been missing a specific four star for a while, and if you have them all, you can pick one to further increase their constellation, I’m guessing.

And yet, there’s still more. An event called the Five Flushes of Fortune is coming, with this descriptor: “Ji Tong seems to be puzzling over a seemingly faulty Kamera. He had hoped it would lend a distinctive tone to his photos, but all it seems to produce is colorful nonsense.”

Then a Vishap event, Vishaps and Where to Find Them: “The Adventurer’s Guild has collected much information on the dangerous Geovishaps in recent days. Katherin of Liyue Harbor is currently commissioning adventurers to investigate further.”

Ley Line Overflow might be the most interesting: “The flow of experience within the ley lines has been notably great as of late.” And the player is shown getting 28 blue XP books from a single Ley Line. Not bad.

There is still a lot we don’t know, like how much new land mass is being added with Update 1.3, as it does not appear to be an entire kingdom or anything. But it’s clearly a significant update, and it will be here soon. Stay tuned.

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