After years of waiting and ever-building anticipation within the Genshin Impact community, Scaramouche finally arrived as a playable character reborn as the Wanderer in the Version 3.3 update that launched on Dec. 7, 2022.
The Anemo character is now officially back for his first rerun in the second half of the Version 3.8 update, so you might be searching for the best artifacts for him.
What are the best artifacts for Wanderer in Genshin Impact?
Wanderer primarily relied on his Delusion’s Electro abilities while he was Scaramouche, but the reborn version of the Fatui Harbinger instead wields an Anemo Vision. He has moved away from his wicked ways and now fights alongside the Traveler as a playable ally, so you can add him to your team and build his abilities starting with filling his artifact slots.
Generally, you should be seeking artifacts that will help to bolster Wanderer’s overall damage output. This means increasing the various statistics by which he can deal damage and how much damage is dealt through each specific damage type.
For the statistics of each artifact, players will primarily want:
- Critical rate
- Critical damage
- Anemo damage
Attack, energy recharge, and elemental mastery are also important for Wanderer, but the priority should primarily be placed on the other three statistics.
Choosing the best artifacts for any Genshin character is always a rather tricky task due to how many options there are and how many different factors there are to take into consideration. Ultimately, there will never be one best set for any Genshin character, since it depends entirely on what weapon they are equipped with, what the team they are placed on looks like, what role you are building them for, and the entirety of their fellow teammates builds.
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While choosing the best artifact set for Wanderer is quite difficult due to these conditions, there is certainly a solid group of artifacts that players should be selecting from when building the Anemo character.
Desert Pavilion Chronicle
Alongside Wanderer’s official release in Version 3.3, so too did a new artifact set built specifically for his release. This set is called Desert Pavilion Chronicle and can be obtained from the City of Gold Domain in Great Red Sand, Sumeru.
The two-piece set functions the same as the Viridescent Venerer set and will grant a 15 percent Anemo damage bonus, which is always a great choice for any Anemo character but especially for those like Wanderer who is focused on dishing out heavy damage.
The four-piece set focuses on charged attacks and causes a charged attack that successfully hits an enemy to then increase normal attack speed by 10 percent. This same effect will also raise the damage of normal, charged, and plunging attack damage by 40 percent and will be active for 15 seconds.
The four-piece set is a great choice for Wanderer alongside another two-piece set such as Viridescent Venerer or Gladiator’s Finale. Players should only use the full four-piece set if they plan to activate Wanderer’s charged attack frequently, otherwise, they will find that it does nothing for them and that the two-piece version of this set should be paired with a different set instead.
Viridescent Venerer
You can obtain the Viridescent Venerer set from the Valley of Remembrance Domain in Windwail Highland, Mondstadt. The two-piece version of this set grants an Anemo damage increase of 15 percent and is interchangeable or stackable with the Desert Pavilion Chronicle set.
The four-piece set increases the damage of the Swirl elemental reaction by 60 percent. It also lowers all opponent’s elemental resistance to whichever element is mixed in with Swirl by 40 percent for 10 seconds.
Shimenawa’s Reminiscence
The Shimenawa’s Reminiscence set can be obtained from the Momiji-Dyed Court Domain in Yashiori Island, Inazuma. Players looking to raise Wanderer’s attack may like the two-piece version of this set which grants a simple but powerful attack increase of 18 percent.
The four-piece Shimenawa’s Reminiscence increases normal, charged, and plunging attack damage by 50 percent for 10 seconds when the character that this set is equipped to have 15 or more energy and consumes that 15 energy to perform this action.
Although the full four-piece set of Shimenawa’s Reminiscence can be quite useful for players who are seeking a damage increase on Wanderer’s basic attacks, it is generally a better choice to instead only equip the two-piece set of Shimenawa’s Reminiscence alongside another two-piece set.
Echoes Of An Offering
You can visit The Lost Valley Domain in The Chasm, Liyue to obtain the Echoes Of An Offering set for Wanderer. The two-piece Echoes Of An Offering set functions the same as the two-piece Shimenawa’s Reminiscence set and also offers an attack increase of 18 percent.
The four-piece Echoes Of An Offering artifact set grants normal attacks that hit enemies a 36 percent chance of activating a Valley Rite, which will then increase normal attack damage by 70 percent of attack if it is activated. If a normal attack does not activate Valley Rite, then the chances of it being triggered upon the next normal attack will be raised by 20 percent.
The Valley Rite effect will come to an end 0.05 seconds after a normal attack has dealt damage.
Gladiator’s Finale
Another option for increasing Wanderer’s attack is the two-piece Gladiator’s Finale set which grants an attack increase of 18 percent. Travelers may obtain this set by taking on weekly or normal bosses, acquiring a Domain Reliquary: Tier I box from the Spiral Abyss, or by creating an Artifact Strongbox at any crafting bench.
While both Shimenawa’s Reminiscence and Echoes Of An Offering are solid options as full four-piece sets for the Wanderer, the full four-piece Gladiator’s Finale set only applies to characters who wield a claymore, polearm, or sword and should not be equipped on Wanderer since he is a catalyst character.
Instead, the Gladiator’s Finale set can be equipped alongside another two-piece attack bonus set like Shimenawa’s Reminiscence or Echoes Of An Offering for a total attack increase of 36 or alongside a set like Desert Pavilion Chronicle or Viridescent Venerer to attain both an attack and Anemo damage increase.
Noblesse Oblige
The Noblesse Oblige artifact set is one of Genshin’s best and will work well for increasing Wanderer’s elemental burst damage. You can obtain this set from the Clear Pool and Mountain Cavern Domain in Minlin, Liyue.
The two-piece version of this set grants an elemental burst damage increase of 20 percent. The full four-piece set will raise all party members’ attack by 20 percent for 12 seconds when an elemental burst is cast. This ability will not stack.
Because Wanderer should be focused on dishing out damage, players will likely only want to equip the two-piece version of this artifact set on him. The two-piece set increasing elemental burst will pair quite well with any of the other previously mentioned sets but especially with either the Desert Pavilion Chronicle set or the Viridescent Venerer set for a powerful Anemo damage increase.
Wanderer will be available as a featured five-star on his appropriately titled “From Ashen Reborn” banner throughout the second half of the Version 3.8 update in Genshin. His banner will run for three weeks from around July 25 or July 26 to Aug. 15 or Aug. 16 depending on your timezone.
Once Wanderer’s featured banner run comes to an end, players can expect they won’t be able to recruit him for at least six months as is generally the case with Genshin’s rerun patterns. It may be even longer as characters sometimes don’t get a rerun for far longer than expected, sometimes even well over a year as players have previously seen with five-star recruits Hu Tao and Eula.
Because of this, anyone hoping to attain Wanderer in Genshin should wish on his banner in the second half of Version 3.8 before it comes to an end.
We gathered this information by playing Genshin Impact Version 3.8 “Secret Summer Paradise” on PC.
