The Black Sword Best Characters and How to Get

The Black Sword is a 4-star Sword from the Battle Pass in Genshin Impact. See the Black Sword best characters, its ascension materials, passive skills, and more info here!

The Black Sword Best Characters

Who is The Black Sword Good For?

All Recommended Characters
Kaeya	Keqing	Ayaka
Ayato	Alhaitham

Good for Main DPS Characters

The Black Sword is a good weapon for Normal and Charged Attack-based characters. Its HP Regeneration is especially useful in team comps where healing is substituted for a Sub-DPS character.

Best 4-Star Weapon for Ayato

The Black Sword is Ayato's best 4-Star weapon in the game. It provides a much needed Normal Attack DMG boost, which is his primary source of DMG. This holds true for other Normal or Charged Attack-based characters like Keqing or Alhaitham!

Is The Black Sword a Good Weapon?

The Black Sword is a good weapon for Main DPS Characters whose primary source of DMG is their Normal Attacks. However, It can still serve as a good weapon to raise the CRIT Rate of characters!

The Black Sword Stats and Info

The Black Sword Information

The Black Sword
Type	Sword
Base ATK	42
Rarity	★★★★
Bonus Effect	CRIT Rate + 6.0%
Skill	Justice ・Increases DMG dealt by Normal and Charged Attacks by 20%. Additionally, regenerates 60% of ATK as HP when Normal and Charged Attacks score a CRIT Hit. This effect can occur once every 5s.
Description	A pitch-black longsword that thirsts for violence and conflict. It is said that this weapon can casue its user to become drunk on the red wine of slaughter.
How to Obtain	Battle Pass Reward

The Black Sword Stats

The Black Sword Refinement Levels

The Black Sword Passive Skill

Justice Explanation

The weapon passive of the Black Sword is very straightforward. If you want to get the most out of the healing effect, you will need to use your Charged Attacks. This effect works for Charged Attacks that have multiple hits.

The Black Sword Ascension Materials

Ascension Materials for Each Level

20 → 40	Boreal Wolf's Milk Tooth ×3 Dead Ley Line Branch ×3 Slime Condensate ×2
40 → 50	Boreal Wolf's Cracked Tooth ×3 Dead Ley Line Branch ×12 Slime Condensate ×8
50 → 60	Boreal Wolf's Cracked Tooth ×6 Dead Ley Line Leaves ×6 Slime Secretions ×6
60 → 70	Boreal Wolf's Broken Fang ×3 Dead Ley Line Leaves ×12 Slime Secretions ×9
70 → 80	Boreal Wolf's Broken Fang ×6 Ley Line Sprout ×9 Slime Concentrate ×6
80 → 90	Boreal Wolf's Nostalgia ×4 Ley Line Sprout ×18 Slime Concentrate ×12

How to Get The Black Sword

Purchase the Gnostic Hymn

You can get The Black Sword by purchasing the Gnostic Hymn in the Battle Pass and reaching Battle Pass Level 30.

What is the Battle Pass?

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