Genshin Artifact Farming Guide 6.7: Resin Economy, Domains, Strongbox & Weekly Routine

Every artifact farming plan starts with Resin, not with wishful thinking. Three resin types to keep straight:

• Original Resin: regenerates 1 point every 8 minutes, which works out to 180 points a day, capping at 200 (a full refill from 0 takes about 26 hours 40 minutes). One Domain of Blessing run costs 20 resin.
• Condensed Resin: unlocks once you hit AR25 and Liyue Reputation Rank 3, crafted at an Alchemy Table for 40 Original Resin + 1 Crystal Core + 100 Mora. Using 1 flask deducts that 40 Original Resin but pays out double the rewards of a single Domain run (so one tap is worth 2 runs' worth of drops) — you can stockpile up to 5 flasks.
• Fragile Resin: earned from Adventure Rank-ups, Battle Pass missions, your in-game birthday, leveling the Sacred Sakura tree, etc. — use it to instantly restore 60 Original Resin, usable up to 20 at once.

Because Original Resin only banks up to 200 (about 1.1 days of neglect before you start bleeding regen), the survival rule is simple: never let it sit at the cap — every point stuck at 200 is wasted regen speed. The counter-move is stockpiling a few Condensed Resin flasks before you sleep or go to work, so overflow gets banked instead of wasted.

Domain of Blessing difficulty and rewards scale with your Adventure Rank, and the deciding threshold is AR45 — that's when the domain unlocks its highest difficulty tier, guaranteeing ≥1 5★ piece per 20 resin spent. Broken down by stage:

• Below AR30: skip entirely — the domain is too easy, rewards are weak, and resin spent here is close to a loss.
• AR30-44: worth entering just to LEARN the domain's combat mechanic (dodge patterns, elemental combos), but not worth committing serious resin since the 5★ rate is still low.
• AR45+: this is when resin actually 'pays off' — every 20 resin (1 run) guarantees at least one 5★ piece, so in theory the ~180 resin you naturally regen per day ≈ 9 runs ≈ ≥9 5★ pieces/day if every point went into the same domain (200 is just the hard CAP you can bank, not your daily regen rate — draining a fully stored bar on top gets you roughly 1 extra run) — in practice you'd split resin across multiple characters, not dump it all into one.

In other words: an account below AR45 rushing to farm artifacts is trading resin for worse odds — push AR to 45 first, then plan which set to chase for which character using our character tier list.

The Strongbox (Mystic Offering) unlocks alongside the hardest domain difficulty at AR45: feed in 3 same-set 5★ pieces, get back 1 random piece from that same set (the slot — Flower/Plume/Sands/Goblet/Circlet — is random across the 5 types). Since every Domain of Blessing always drops 2 fixed paired sets, the Strongbox is exactly the tool for 'converting' half your unwanted set's overflow into pieces of the set you actually want.

Using it right: keep feeding Strongbox output back into more Strongboxing (re-strongbox), and over a long enough run the efficiency approaches 2 5★ pieces → 1, noticeably better than the raw 3:1 on a single conversion. But don't Strongbox if you actually need BOTH sets from that domain — every piece has value then, and Strongboxing just burns the other set's supply. Also hold off if your 5★ stock is tight and a different character needs it more urgently — 3 junk pieces aren't automatically worth more than 3 separate chances at a naturally better roll.

The Artifact Transmuter (since v5.0, unlocked 28/08/2024) and Reshaping (since v5.7) are two RNG-fighting tools far more precise than the Strongbox, both unlocked through Adventurer's Handbook quests — but they launched in two different versions, so don't lump them under one date:

• Artifact Transmuter (v5.0): spend Sanctifying Elixir to directly 'call in' a piece with the set, piece type, main stat, and 2 substats YOU choose — the single most reliable way to get the exact main stat you need without relying on domain RNG. Elixir cost varies by piece type (Flower/Plume 1, Sands 2, Circlet 3, Goblet 4 — a full set costs 11 total), and Elixir itself is slow to extract and capped per cycle, so it's not meant for mass rolling — save it for the 1-2 slots that keep refusing to cooperate (say, a Sands that never rolls the right main).
• Reshaping (v5.7): applies only to a piece that's ALREADY maxed to +20 — pick 2 of its 4 substats, spend Dust of Enlightenment, and it redistributes the substat rolls the piece already has so they all concentrate on just those two lines (no new rolls are created, since the piece is already maxed — this isn't about future upgrades). This is where the real guarantee lives: a base Reshape guarantees ≥2 rolls land on your chosen lines, and repeated use ramps that up to ≥3 then ≥4 guaranteed (Advanced Reshape / Decreed Reshape) — the Artifact Transmuter has no such roll-count guarantee, it only lets you pick which substats appear in the first place.

The short version: Strongbox fixes the wrong SET, Transmuter fixes the wrong MAIN STAT, Reshaping fixes the wrong SUBSTATS on an already-close-to-perfect piece — use them in that order so you're not burning resin re-farming from zero over a single missing line. Still unsure which main stat is correct for each slot (Sands/Goblet/Circlet)? Check our artifact main stat guide before you hit Transmute.

The rarer the piece, the more EXP it needs to max out: a single 5★ piece needs a total of 270,475 EXP to hit level 20 (plus scaling Mora) — far more than 4★/3★. EXP comes from two sources: feeding other artifacts as fodder (higher rarity/level fodder gives more EXP), or buying Sanctifying Oil from the Realm Depot in your Serenitea Pot (requires Trust Rank 8 with Tubby):

• Sanctifying Essence: 10,000 EXP each, capped at 5 per week.
• Sanctifying Unction: 2,500 EXP each, capped at 20 per week.

Buying the max of both every week gives 100,000 EXP/week from that shop alone — enough to max out nearly half a 5★ piece per week from a purely stable source, on top of whatever EXP you naturally get from feeding farmed leftovers. Since Sanctifying Oil purchases are weekly and reset at the start of each week, buy consistently instead of forgetting and losing the allowance.

Domains aren't the only artifact source — clean out every free option before you spend resin:

• Investigation Points: fixed glowing markers scattered across the open world, doable daily for small item/chest drops that have a chance of dropping artifacts, refreshing every day.
• Spiral Abyss reward chests: the star-based rewards every 2-week cycle include random artifacts (often higher rarity than a standard domain run) — clearing the Abyss before it resets means this source is essentially free money.
• Elite enemies / Local Legends: some open-world elite monsters drop random artifacts on defeat, costing zero resin — just travel time and stamina.
• Quest/event rewards: certain story quest chains or time-limited events hand out specific artifacts outright — these don't repeat, so don't miss them while the event's still live.

The right order: clear out all four free sources daily/per Abyss cycle FIRST, and only pour resin into domains once the free stuff is exhausted — free sources aren't resin-limited, so skipping them is a permanent loss (they don't carry over to the next day).

Don't farm scattershot — order your targets by the most urgently needed role in your main team, not by whichever new character is generating hype. Suggested sequence:

• Step 1: identify your main DPS/carry using our Genshin teams page, and farm the domain for the SS/S-tier set that fits them first (Emblem of Severed Fate, Golden Troupe, Marechaussee Hunter, or the matching elemental set).
• Step 2: once the carry is 'good enough' (right main stats + roughly 1:2 CR:CD + enough ER for their rotation), REDIRECT resin toward support/sub-DPS instead of continuing to chase perfect CV on the carry — the marginal damage gain from one nearly-perfect piece is tiny compared to a support who's still missing basic Energy Recharge.
• Step 3: consolidate domains when two characters on your team need sets from the same one (saves splitting resin across too many locations).

Signs you should STOP farming a domain: correct main stats on all 5 slots, CR:CD near 1:2, and ER sufficient for a smooth rotation — at that point the odds of rolling a marginally better piece are extremely low compared to using that resin to open a different domain for a character who's still missing the basics. Getting one more character to 'good enough' almost always beats chasing a single character to 'perfect'.

Turn everything above into a short routine instead of recalculating from scratch each time:

• Every login: check whether resin is close to 200 — if it's about to overflow and you don't have time to farm right now, craft a few Condensed Resin flasks to 'lock in' the surplus.
• Every day: clear all of today's Investigation Points (they don't carry over), and spend resin on whichever domain your current carry still needs.
• Every week (before reset): buy the max Sanctifying Essence/Unction at your Serenitea Pot, clear the Spiral Abyss so you don't lose its star-based reward chests, and check whether your stockpiled Fragile Resin is worth burning during a weekend farming push.
• Whenever you have 5★ leftovers from a set you don't need: collect 3 and Strongbox them right away instead of letting them sit — inventory that just sits there earns nothing, it just takes up space.

Without a checklist, weekly resources like resin regen and Sanctifying Oil purchases are 'use it or lose it' — unlike Primogems, which you can just save — which is exactly why efficient artifact farming looks so different from ascension-material farming (which has no weekly cap).