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!

Best Characters for Magic Guide

Recommended Characters for Magic Guide

Recommended Characters
Klee	Nahida	Yae Miko
Lisa	Sucrose	Yanfei

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.

Character Tier List Guide

Magic Guide Stats and Information

Magic Guide Information

Magic Guide
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%.
Description	Version 12. A reprint featuring corrections to Version 11 and brand-new additions based on recent developments.
How to Obtain	Gacha

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

Magic Guide Refinement Levels

How to Get Magic Guide

Pull From Any Banner

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.

Best Wish to Pull

Magic Guide Ascension Materials

List of Materials Required

20 → 40	Tile of Decarabian's Tower ×2 Heavy Horn ×2 Slime Condensate ×1
40 → 50	Debris of Decarabian's City ×2 Heavy Horn ×8 Slime Condensate ×5
50 → 60	Debris of Decarabian's City ×4 Black Bronze Horn ×4 Slime Secretions ×4
60 → 70	Fragment of Decarabian's Epic ×2 Black Bronze Horn ×8 Slime Secretions ×6
70 → 80	Fragment of Decarabian's Epic ×4 Black Crystal Horn ×6 Slime Concentrate ×4
80 → 90	Scattered Piece of Decarabian's Dream ×3 Black Crystal Horn ×12 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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