Wanderer is the long-awaited playable model of Scaramouche in Genshin Affect. Regardless of everyone predicting he’ll have/has had an Electro Imaginative and prescient, his gaining an Anemo one is a shock. Nonetheless, it doesn’t make him much less harmful than his Fatui counterpart.
Wanderer’s E, Hanega: Track of the Wind, lets him hover within the air. Utilizing the talent places him within the Windfavored state. Whereas it’s lively, he features Kuugoryoku Factors, the ‘stamina bar’ for the state. Actions he makes price factors, and even hovering will drain it.
Within the Windfavored state, Regular and Charged assaults flip into Kuugo: Fushoudan and Kuugo: Toufukai. These improved variations have extra important harm and AoE whereas remaining Regular and Charged assaults, respectively. The latter gained’t use stamina, as properly.
Additional, within the Windfavored state, Wanderer can speed up when ‘sprinting’ at the price of draining Kuugoryoku Factors quicker. He also can enhance his hovering peak on the identical price.
Together with his first ascension passive, Jade-Claimed Flower, coming into contact with particular components when activating Hanega: Track of the Wind will give him buffs:
Hydro: +20 Kuugoryoku Factors to the cap
Pyro: +30% ATK
Cyro: +20% Crit Fee
Electro: When Regular and Charged assaults hit an enemy, 0.8 Vitality is restored (0.2-sec delay between successive triggers)
You’ll see this within the ‘halo’ behind Wanderer. One in every of its factors will glow the factor’s colour when it occurs, although solely two could be lively at each use. It goes as much as three with a constellation improve.
His different ascension passive additionally entails this assault. Gales of Reverie causes each Kuugo: Fushoudan and Kuugo: Toufukai to have an opportunity to set off the Descent impact. The latter will trigger 4 wind arrows to assault the enemy the subsequent time Wanderer accelerates through the Windfavored state. Descent should be regained to set off that impact once more.
Wanderer’s Burst, Kyougen: 5 Ceremonial Performs, compresses the air right into a vacuum, dealing a number of cases of Anemo DMG. It additionally has a gentle suction impact, inflicting small enemies to be grouped up. When used through the Windfavored state, the flexibility’s period ends regardless of what number of factors are left.
A constellation improve turns it into a bonus. With it, Wanderer’s Burst will get stronger the upper the distinction between the utmost Kuugoryoku Factors and the quantity left upon use. A most of 200% enhance in harm is feasible in that means.
From the descriptions, your precedence should be growing his AA and Elemental Ability (E), along with his Burst because the least prioritized. Nonetheless, it’s okay if you wish to triple-crown him.
Genshin Affect Wanderer Builds
Wanderer’s best-in-slot set is the Desert Pavilion Chronicles. The Viridescent Venerer is an efficient substitute, particularly in case you benefit from elemental reactions. A mixture of VV, Desert Pavilion, or Gladiator’s Finale is your final resort.
In the event you’re utilizing VV, give him some Elemental Mastery. In any other case, the standard DPS stats of Crit Fee/Crit DMG and ATK are what it’s essential construct. He isn’t made for help, so he’s an on-field DPS.
His Ascension stat is Crit Fee, so you’ll be able to construct it lower than Crit DMG.
Greatest: Desert Pavilion Chronicles (4-set)
Okay: Viridescent Venerer (4-set)
Final resort: DP/VV and Gladiator’s Finale or each of the previous two
Important Stats: ATK, Anemo DMG Bonus, Crit DMG
Substats: Crit DMG/Fee, ATK, EM
Weapons
He has a signature weapon known as Tulaytullah’s Memory. Nonetheless, another catalysts can even do:
Skyward Atlas
Misplaced Prayer to the Sacred Winds
The Widsith
Mappa Mare
Blackcliff Agate
Wandering Evenstar
Photo voltaic Pearl
Make certain your weapon matches the construct you need for him!
Genshin Affect Wanderer Lore (Backstory)
The vast majority of his background has been revealed already. He’s a failed prototype for the Raiden Shogun, a puppet to carry the ability of the Gnosis. Alongside the way in which, Raiden Ei determined that he was too mild for her functions, as he had cried upon his creation. She didn’t need to management him, so she left him to resolve. The shogun even left him an decoration signifying his standing to assist him. The puppet believed this made him a failure, which wasn’t Ei’s intention.
This was the primary betrayal he felt.
After waking up, he wandered close to Tatarasuna and met the managers of the furnace. He met:
Niwa, the Armory Officer, and chief
Miyazaki, the Vice Armory Officer
Kinjiro
Nozomu
Katsuragi
Mikoshi Nagamasa the Inspector
All of them grew to become shut pals with the puppet. Nonetheless, a specific occasion triggered bother for all the Tatarasuna. Niwa went lacking, and Nagamasa lower down Katsuragi for particular misconduct. Harm by the circumstances, the puppet left.
This was the second betrayal.
Someday afterward, he befriended a sick little one who lived close to Tatarasuna. The latter’s dad and mom have been affected by the plague that unfold as a result of proximity to the furnace. The puppet and little one had promised one thing collectively, however the child succumbed to the illness earlier than it might be fulfilled.
This was the third betrayal. The puppet thought of it the final one and began wandering throughout Inazuma. At that time, he adopted the title Kunikuzushi.
Throughout his time as Kunikuzushi, he step by step dismantled the bladesmithing arts, culminating within the fall of the Raiden Gokaden. It was doubtless an act of revenge towards the bladesmith, the one which triggered his second betrayal.
It’s unknown whether or not the above occurred earlier than or after he joined the Fatui and have become Scaramouche the Balladeer, sixth of the Harbingers.
The remainder is as gamers know and expertise. He first appeared on the Unreconciled Stars occasion, introducing himself as a wandering vagrant from Inazuma. He later seems within the Inazuma Archon quests as a part of the Fatui overseeing the creation of Delusions. Afterward, he grew to become the Everlasting Lord of Arcane Knowledge or Shouki no Kami, the Prodigal.
(From right here, spoilers for the interlude chapter start.)
Following these occasions, he entered the Irminsul on an errand for Nahida. He discovered the reality within the coronary heart of the good tree of data. The Physician had orchestrated every thing to destabilize Inazuma sooner or later. Additionally, the puppet grew to become a prized lab rat for the guy Harbinger. The Balladeer resolved to atone for the errors. Like Rukkadevata, he erased himself from the tree, altering the course of historical past.
In fact, the individuals he beloved nonetheless died, solely in several circumstances. He hadn’t saved anyone, though he didn’t expertise the identical pains on this new life. He was solely a Wanderer and at all times felt one thing was lacking from him.
The Traveler discovered him and was capable of return his recollections with Nahida’s assist. It was his option to atone and bear the sins of his ‘previous.’ Afterward, the Dendro Archon suggests selecting a brand new title, which he defers to the Traveler’s selection.
Genshin Affect: About Wanderer’s Imaginative and prescient
Wanderer will get his Imaginative and prescient within the Interlude chapter. In that second of hazard, he realized that he was nonetheless himself, even in a brand new incarnation. Wanderer would stroll the identical path and share the identical destiny. He achieved nothing with what he did and acted like a coward. But, he had accepted his previous and have become who he was.
That selection granted him a Imaginative and prescient that blocked the deadly assault. Taking a look at it at that second, it appeared to ask, “Are you able to, who’ve needs of such depth, nonetheless be thought of a being with no coronary heart?”
In a meta sense, he had already misplaced many individuals all through his lengthy life, making him very eligible for an Anemo Imaginative and prescient. The Tatarasuna group, particularly Niwa (a descendant of Kazuha) and the sick little one, are essentially the most outstanding examples. The Celestial gods deem one thing about tragedy match for that boon. Though some don’t match that criterion, it occurs usually sufficient for it to be a sample.
That’s all for Wanderer! Hope you discover his redemption arc satisfying, and will you might have good luck pulling him. Get pleasure from Genshin Affect!