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Magic Guide Best Characters and How to Get

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Genshin Impact - Magic Guide Catalyst

The Magic Guide is a 3-star Catalyst, best used by Elemental Mastery characters in Genshin Impact. See the Magic Guide's stats, best characters, and ascension materials here!

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Best Characters for Magic Guide

Recommended Characters for Magic Guide

Recommended Characters
Klee ImageKlee Nahida ImageNahida Yae Miko ImageYae Miko
Lisa ImageLisa Sucrose ImageSucrose Yanfei ImageYanfei

Who is the Magic Guide Good For?

Good for Elemental Reaction Characters

The Magic guide is a decent weapon for increasing a character's Elemental Mastery in order to deal more Overloaded, Superconduct, Electro-Charged, Shattered, Swirl, Bloom, Hyperbloom, or Burgeon damage.

These reactions only scale based on a Character's Elemental Mastery and their level, stats like a weapon's base ATK would not affect it.

This weapon provides the second highest Elemental Mastery stat out of all the Catalysts in the game, just behind the Sacrificial Fragments.

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Magic Guide Stats and Information

Magic Guide Information

Magic Guide
Magic Guide Image
Type Catalyst
Base ATK 38
Rarity ★★★
Bonus Effect
 Elemental Mastery + 41
Skill
 Bane of Storm and Tide
Increases DMG against enemies affected by Hydro or Electro by 12%.

Is the Magic Guide Worth it?

The Magic Guide is a decent weapon to level up if you only need a weapon that increases your Elemental Mastery. For most DPS characters, however, a weapon's base ATK and passive play an important role in also increasing their damage. That is why similar weapons like the Mappa Mare are usually the better F2P alternative since it has good stats and a great passive just at the small cost of lower Elemental Mastery.

Weapon Tier List

Magic Guide Stats

Lvl. Base ATK Elemental Mastery
1/20 38 41
20/20 86 72
40/40 151 105
50/50 193 122
60/60 234 138
70/70 274 154
80/80 314 171
90/90 354 187

Magic Guide Refinement Levels

Bane of Storm and Tide
R1 Increases DMG against enemies affected by Hydro or Electro by 12%.
R2 Increases DMG against enemies affected by Hydro or Electro by 15%.
R3 Increases DMG against enemies affected by Hydro or Electro by 18%.
R4 Increases DMG against enemies affected by Hydro or Electro by 21%.
R5 Increases DMG against enemies affected by Hydro or Electro by 24%.

How to Get Magic Guide

Pull From Any Banner

Genshin - Permanent Banner - Wanderlust Invocation
The Magic Guide 3-star catalyst can be collected from any Wish Banner. As a 3-Star Weapon, it can be easily obtained compared to any 4 or 5-star weapons.

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Magic Guide Ascension Materials

List of Materials Required

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Genshin - Tile of Decarabian Tile of Decarabian's Tower ×2
Genshin - Heavy Horn Image Heavy Horn ×2
Genshin - Slime Condensate Image Slime Condensate ×1
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50
Genshin - Debris of Decarabian Debris of Decarabian's City ×2
Genshin - Heavy Horn Image Heavy Horn ×8
Genshin - Slime Condensate Image Slime Condensate ×5
50
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60
Genshin - Debris of Decarabian Debris of Decarabian's City ×4
Genshin - Black Bronze Horn Image Black Bronze Horn ×4
Genshin - Slime Secretions Image Slime Secretions ×4
60
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70
Genshin - Fragment of Decarabian Fragment of Decarabian's Epic ×2
Genshin - Black Bronze Horn Image Black Bronze Horn ×8
Genshin - Slime Secretions Image Slime Secretions ×6
70
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80
Genshin - Fragment of Decarabian Fragment of Decarabian's Epic ×4
Genshin - Black Crystal Horn Image Black Crystal Horn ×6
Genshin - Slime Concentrate Image Slime Concentrate ×4
80
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90
Genshin - Scattered Piece of Decarabian Scattered Piece of Decarabian's Dream ×3
Genshin - Black Crystal Horn Image Black Crystal Horn ×12
Genshin - Slime Concentrate Image Slime Concentrate ×8

Magic Guide Weapon Lore

Weapon Description

Version 12. A reprint featuring corrections to Version 11 and brand-new additions based on recent developments.

Archive Description

This version of the Magic Guide generated much controversy when published.
In addition to the defiance of basic common sense seen in Chapter VII: Principles of the Anemo Element,
errors can also be observed even concerning the basic principles of the Hydro and Electro elements.
Evidently, the book was not peer-reviewed before publishing.
Nevertheless, the book is still the most authoritative guide to magic in existence.

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2 Anonymous Anonymous over 1 year

you sure blud?

1 Anonymous Anonymous over 1 year

The substats are better than sacrificial fragments for Nahida if you're running an aggravate/hyper bloom team

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