Genshin Impact: Every Gadget Ranked By Usefulness And How To Get Them - TheGamer

For day-one players, the early days of Genshin Impact often felt like an extended beta test. Loading screens were long and ugly (that second part hasn't changed), menu options that should have read "on" and "off" said "open" and "close," and falling through the map was common. As severe as some of these issues were, miHoYo responded admirably with prompt hotfixes and patches.

Other missing essentials were outside of the "game-breaking bug" category, and more like overlooked quality-of-life features that didn't quite ship out the door on time, but even these were quickly added to the game. These quality-of-life add-ons come to you in the form of "gadgets," unlockable items that change the UI and streamline menus. Genshin Impact has always been an enjoyable experience, but these items elevate the gameplay even further, here's how you can unlock each one.

11 Kamera

This feature-expanding gadget is awarded for completing the "Snapshots" side quest, which begins and ends with the NPC Xu in Liyue Harbor. Find Xu near the lift that takes you to and from the Jade Chamber during the story questline, then take photos of Granny Shan and the Tea Master and return them to Xu.

This gadget is a nice add-on given the limitations of the default camera mode, which can only be used outside of battle and when the character is idle. Right now is a particularly good time to be out snapping pictures. Using the Kamera freezes the action regardless of what your character is doing and hides the UI. The Kamera can't be ranked any higher than dead last, however, considering the option to pause the game and hide the UI in or out of combat should have been built in from day one.

10 Wind Catcher

Like many of the gadgets that follow, the Wind Catcher is made available through reputation rewards, meaning that answering the call of the job board in Mondstadt on a regular basis is all you need to do to earn this one.

Genshin Impact strongly favors teams with highly mobile characters. Venti, Keqing, and Albedo are by far the most mobile units, but also fairly rare, so the game needed a way to make exploration less restrictive for those without teleporting or flying characters. Wind Catcher allows you to carry anemograna and summon updrafts outside of battle, making it easier to glide to high places. Rejoice, fellow Venti-less players.

9 Anemoculus Resonance Stone

Another Mondstadt reputation level reward, the Anemoculos Resonance Stone is among the easiest of these gadgets to obtain since it only requires you to reach reputation level two.

The majority of your anemoculi will be found by simply playing the game and exploring Mondstadt, but you'll undoubtedly miss a few in the seldom-traveled corners of the map. These stones help guide you to those lingering anemoculi but they don't do all the work for you, you'll have to craft a new stone for each anemoculi you want to track, so keep your materials in mind.

8 Anemo Treasure Finder

This reward is obtained at reputation level six in Mondstadt, so keep hustling through those chores. It also takes higher quality crafting items, such as gold treasure hoarder coins and philanemo mushrooms, but fortunately, this item isn't consumable.

Genshin is positively littered with treasure chests, and considering the paltry trickle of log-in rewards, every player eventually ends up chasing down some treasure chests for enhancement crystals or two more primogems to build a new weapon or character. This gadget could be ranked higher up, but it only tells you if a chest is in your immediate vicinity, and only if that chest isn't revealed by completing a puzzle, so its usefulness is limited.

7 Geo Treasure Finder

Like the Anemo Treasure Finder, this reward is earned by reaching reputation level six in Liyue. The Geo Treasure Finder works exactly the same way as its counterpart in Mondstadt, and for that reason, it can be called more or less useful than its sibling item.

6 Geoculus Resonance Stone

Just as the Geo Treasure finder is one-half of a pair, this gadget is the twin of the Anemoculus Resonance Stone and is also earned by your Liyue reputation to level two.

The geo stone works just the same as the anemo stone, so what's the reason for the gap in the usefulness ranking? Although collecting oculi has its own merits and rewards, most players will face a more urgent need to collect every geoculus before they feel the need to chase anemoculi. That's thanks to the Nine Pillars quest, which can't be completed before every statue of The Seven in Liyue is fully upgraded.

5 Warming Bottle

The warming bottle is the reward for raising the Frostbearing Tree at the base of Dragonspine to level four, which is done in much the same way that you raise your reputation in either city-state.

Though the usefulness of this gadget is limited, in the sense that it fixes a problem that only occurs while you explore the mountain, when you do need it, you'll be plenty glad to have it. The warming bottle allows you to generate heat in a pinch when you're stuck on the mountain without a campfire and can't risk losing party members to Sheer Cold.

4 Parametric Transformer

The Parametric Transformer is another side quest reward but its usefulness is significant, so go out and do the Tianqu Treasure Trail mission ASAP.

The Parametric Transformer is fueled by elemental energy and trash materials. That's right, whatever material you've inadvertently collected throughout the game, and have been carrying around by the thousands because you don't have a character that needs that item, the Parametric Transformer is how you make those materials useful again.

Throw in drops of any kind and the Transformer will throw out another material in exchange. The exchange is random, and it only gives two and three-star items, but that's alright because it will do so independently of what you feed to it, so toss in all of your undesirable loot.

3 Portable Waypoint

The Portable Waypoint is awarded for reaching reputation level six in Liyue.

Genshin's map is covered pretty generously with statues of The Seven, domains, and static waypoints to which you can teleport; however, who would turn their nose up at having one more...especially one that you can place for yourself?

2 Adepti Seeker's Stove

The Adepti Seeker's Stove is awarded for reaching reputation level five in Liyue.

Although this gadget is given to you before the Portable Waypoint, it's even more useful, even if only by a small margin. Campfires are strewn all across the Teyvat landscape...at least until you really need one, it seems. The portable stove keeps you from needing to mark down every fire on your map – just bring this one with you. Don't try to use it for healing in combat, however, doing so will break your stove and you'll need to forge another.

1 NRE

Similar to the portable stove in Liyue, the NRE – as it's officially called – or Nutrition-Ready-to-Eat, is made available by raising your Mondstadt reputation level to five.

The NRE is another gadget that actually adds functionality to your game and changes your UI, but thankfully in a more meaningful way than the Kamera. The NRE allows you to press Z (or whichever key/button you choose to bind) and use a food item of your choosing from your inventory – no more opening menus! The NRE can simultaneously be set to choose a revival item to restore the most recently downed party member.

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