What Is Ascension in Genshin Impact: The 6 Tiers for Characters & Weapons, and How They Differ

This is the table we already published and self-verified in What Is a Character [1], repeated here in full because this is the article actually about "Ascension":

Total 420,000 Mora for Ascension alone (Talents not included) [1] — the exact same number repeats for every character in our database.

Weapons also ascend across the exact same 6-tier framework (level cap 20→40→50→60→70→80→90, same as characters) [2], but with a COMPLETELY different material set: (1) a weapon ascension material from a Domain — only available on certain fixed days of the week, (2) an elite enemy drop, (3) a common enemy drop, plus its own Mora cost [2]. The total Mora to max one weapon varies by rarity: a 5★ weapon costs roughly 1,132,000 Mora (907,000 regular leveling + 225,000 Ascension), a 4★ weapon roughly 755,000 Mora [3] — entirely separate from the character Mora in the table above.

⚠ We deliberately did NOT publish a "which tier needs which Adventure Rank" table for weapons the way we did for characters above: our internal data has no such table, and the Mora figures above are currently confirmed by only one source, not yet cross-checked against a second independent one [3]. Publishing a table that hasn't cleared two independent sources is a bigger risk than leaving it out — a missing table beats a wrong one.

What Is a Character already added up 5,377,500 Mora total for one character's Ascension + Talents combined (420,000 Ascension + 4,957,500 Talents), plus the counts for local specialty/enemy drops/talent books/Crowns of Insight [1], and that table deliberately dropped two rows: character EXP books and the Mora spent leveling with EXP.

We (worker #28, 2026-08-07) searched a SECOND time before writing this article: (a) re-scanned our entire internal data (genshin-char-mats.php, genshin-mechanic.php, genshin-hoyowiki.php — 546 tutorials + 52 definitions) for a per-level EXP cost table, (b) checked genshin.hoyoverse.com/support.hoyoverse.com for an official publication of per-level EXP cost. Neither turned one up: (a) it doesn't exist in our data, (b) HoYoverse has never officially published a per-level EXP cost table — the "8,362,650 EXP" total figure some other sites circulate traces back to community self-calculation, not an official publication, so we refuse to copy it [4]. ⇒ We are keeping the same decision to omit those 2 rows — a missing number beats copying one we can't verify.

4 sources map to the exact 4 citation numbers used in this article — no other reference source do this consistently across every article:

This is different from the single "Sources: ...domains..." line lumped at the bottom that every other wiki article currently shows — here, EACH claim points to exactly one number, instead of the whole article sharing one vague basket of sources.

This is article #13, grouped under "foundational concepts" alongside the first 8 — every article in both groups links to every other, not a one-way path.