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** For a very long time since the game launch, the Battle Pass always contained the same weapons each time. With the release of Fontaine in version 4.0, five more new weapons will be added to the BP weapon pool, granting more options for players to choose from.

* CaptureBalls: During the mid game you gain access to the Omni-Ubiquity Net, which is a spherical device that you can throw at wild animals to capture their essence, and place them inside your [[AnInteriorDesignerIsYou Serenity Pot]].

** Defeating the Local Legends mentioned above. Local Legends are souped-up versions of normal mooks with either unique gimicks, stat values that eclipse those of even Trounce Domain bosses, or both. They also drop resources of the exact same quantity and rarity as their mook counterparts, so aside from the achievements you get for beating them the first time, the only incentive you have for fighting them is the sense of accomplishment that comes from beating some of the hardest content in the game.

** The Fontaine-style Visions have two distinct designs, meant to denote the holder's Pneuma or Ousia alignment, a stark contrast to the Visions seen prior, which only had one consistent design.

** At Adventure Rank 20, you gain access to a [[RewardsPass battle pass]], which grants you rewards after completing enough challenges listed on the pass. While you can get stuff with the free version, you can gain substantially more rewards if you splurge for a paid version. In particular, the paid battle pass grants substantial amounts of the latest two regions' talent level-up materials (which are otherwise quite annoying to grind) and ''exclusive'' 4★ weapons, including the extremely competitive Serpent Spine claymore.

** The Blessings of the Abyssal Moon, a changing set of buffs that apply to Spiral Abyss runs, are almost always tuned to favour a 5★ limited character on the latest character banner (with priority generally being given to new 5★ characters), giving those who have obtained the character a significant leg-up in finishing the endgame content with the full 36 stars.

** In version 3.2's Fabulous Fungi Frenzy event, all the available options to name the Floating Hydro Fungus that the Traveler catches read "Bongo-Head". The Traveler quickly called Paimon out on it. Justified out-of-universe, as Bongo-Head became the Traveler's signature Fungus, was referenced in the event's voiced dialogue and had a cameo in version 3.5's Fungus Mechanicus event.

** Each chapter of the Archon Quest has one that corresponds to the country and its god in the story. The Prologue in Mondstadt has "freedom", the Chapter 1 in Liyue has "contracts", Chapter 2 in Inazuma has "eternity", Chapter 3 in Sumeru has "wisdom" and "dreams". Dialogue hints that Fontaine is set up to use "justice".

** 500 years ago, every nation in Teyvat suffered a disastrous incursion of abyssal monstrosities and corruption, which still effects the setting to this day. This event is believed to be connected to [[spoiler:Khaenri'ah]], an ancient civilization in Teyvat, being [[spoiler: punished by Celestia]] for reasons that are still unclear. The [[spoiler:various ruin machines]] are the remnants of its technology, while [[spoiler:The Abyss Order and the Hilichurl]] are the remnants of its people.

** [[spoiler:Khaenri'ah]], an ancient civilization in Teyvat, collapsed 500 years ago. The [[spoiler:Ruin Guards and Ruin Hunters]] are its remnants within the current civilization.

** In Mondstadt, there are cat people named the Kätzlein. So far, three members of this race are present in the game: Draff, his daughter [[CatGirl Diona]], and their ancestor, Olaf.
** In Fontaine, Lynette has a cat tail and ears. Unlike in Mondstadt, her appearance is stated to be unusual in Fontaine.

** Similarly, the Dendro Hypostasis ''cannot be defeated'' without a Dendro character in the party. Its revival phase requires you to cleanse three Restorative Plinths with Dendro, with no Dendrograna available in any of its encounters.
** The Oceanid can summon Hydro Mimic Raptors, which fly out reach of melee characters. A non-Hydro character who can hit airborne enemies with their attacks is essential.
** To stop Shouki no Kami, the Prodigal's instant kill, the player must destroy four Nirvana Engines in time through elemental application. Three are flying entities, requiring a character whose element is not Hydro or Electro who can hit hovering enemies.
** Some Spiral Abyss variants of overworld bosses tend to invoke this even more strongly than their overworld variants, usually by alteration of their attack patterns to heavily prioritise the attack that requires specific characters to handle. For example, in the Spiral Abyss, the Aeonblight Drake will immediately enter its airborne state. An archer is thus needed in the team to hit its weak points.

** From version 4.0 onwards, upon completing the Mondstadt story arc, a few Teleport Waypoints will be automatically unlocked, granting players immediate access to Fontaine and Chenyu Vale after completing the prologue. This is done so that new players who pulled any Fontaine or Chenyu Vale characters early on can immediately enter the region and collect their level-up materials without needing to trek a long distance across Liyue [=and/or=] Sumeru.
** To mitigate newer released characters having their talent level up materials from weekly bosses being gated by loads of story content, version 4.2 introduces the ability to Quick Start the boss domains from the Adventurers Handbook, regardless of your own story progress. However, you cannot co-op with other players through this way, and accessing the weekly bosses far earlier than expected has the possibility of encountering heavy spoilers.

** A downplayed example; for artifacts, if their main stat is either DEF increase, HP increase or Healing Bonus, players tend to sideline them in favor of artifacts with more offensive stats. It is not that those stats are useless, as characters do gain from those stats - the catch is that those characters tend to be support ones. Players also consider artifacts that have two or more of these as their sub-stats lacking. This is inverted for Geo characters like Albedo or Itto, whose Elemental Skill damage scale off of DEF.

** If a teammate's Elemental Burst is ready, its icon will appear beside their portrait. Tapping that makes them swap out with the current character and instantly unleash their LimitBreak.

** From version 4.0 onwards, upon completing the Mondstadt story arc, a Teleport Waypoint located at the border between Sumeru and Fontaine (specifically the northeastern part of the Realm of Farakhkert) will be automatically unlocked, granting players immediate access to Fontaine after completing the prologue. This is done so that new players who pulled any Fontaine characters early on can immediately enter the region and collect their level-up materials without needing to trek a long distance across Sumeru.

** Noelle is guaranteed to come with your first 10 wishes in the Beginner's Wish. Although she'll lose viability early, she is very useful until then. Noelle is much more durable than the starting team and due to being a Claymore user, she hits harder but slower. Her Elemental skill blocks damage and heals, while her Burst is very accurate, deals plenty of damage, and lasts a decent time. Due to her durability, simple kit, and access to weapons with heavier damage, Noelle makes the early game easier until a better character is acquired or has more investment.

* BonusBoss: There are boss fights in the open-world map that do not appear in the main story and found in optional locations. Especially the Great Snowboar King in Dragonspine, whose location does not appear on the map.

** Noelle, the character granted by the Beginner's Wish banner, is a complicated example. Noelle can be made to hit hard, tank huge hits, generates a shield that protects all party members, and is capable of healing the party, but her Elemental Skill cooldown is a lengthy 27 seconds and her Elemental Burst has the second highest energy cost level at 80. Combine that with Geo's lack of offensive reactions and her weapon class that doesn't DPS well and attacks slowly, and you get a character who's good for much of the early game, but lags behind in crucial damage dealing, shielding, and debuffing that other characters can benefit from.

* BossInMookClothing: The terrestrial Local Legends, souped-up versions of regular overworld enemies. Normally, overworld bosses are threats, but are only a slight challenge at worst. Terrestrial Local Legends, on the other hand, have inflated HP pools in the ''millions'', more dangerous attack patterns (including one that uses an overworld boss' attack patterns), and souped-up damage values that make dodging essential. Oh, and unlike underwater Local Legends, there are no special mechanics that chew through their healthbar when correctly executed. To further illustrate their strength, some Local Legends have been featured in Spiral Abyss lineups, but only as severely ''nerfed'' "Veteran" versions of the regular enemies they are based on.

** Zig-zagged by Fontaine's Pneuma and Ousia system. Many Fontaine enemies and overworld puzzles have Pneuma or Ousia alignments, and hitting them with attacks of the opposite alignment disables the enemy or solves the puzzle. While most characters have to find Pneuma or Ousia Blocks in the overworld to apply Pneuma or Ousia with their attacks, most Fontaine characters have a Talent that applies an additional Pneuma or Ousia-aligned attack. In the overworld, this is less of an issue, since enemies can be brute-forced and puzzles supply all Pneuma and/or Ousia blocks required to solve them. However, in Domains and Spiral Abyss (where enemy health values are significantly higher) and when facing the Icewind Suite boss (whose ultimate attacks require Pneuma/Ousia to efficiently interrupt), Pneuma and Ousia Blocks are lacking and the forcing of Fontaine characters becomes much stronger. To compensate for this, players have access to one free character of each alignment (Hydro Traveler for Pneuma and Lynette for Ousia).

* BookedFullOfMooks: Huffman interrogates the patrons at the Angel's Share tavern to see whether Diluc left, and they all say that he stayed there the entire time. It's later revealed that Diluc had the entire tavern booked full of associates to cover for him.

* BossInMookClothing: The terrestrial Local Legends, souped-up versions of regular overworld enemies. Normally, overworld bosses are threats, but are only a slight challenge at worst. Terrestrial Local Legends, on the other hand, have inflated HP pools in the ''millions'', more dangerous attack patterns (including one that uses an overworld boss' attack patterns), and souped-up damage values that make dodging essential. Oh, and unlike underwater Local Legends, there are no special mechanics that chew through their healthbar when correctly executed. To further illustrate their strength, the Local Legends "Ninianne of the Lake" and "Vivianne of the Lake" are the first overworld enemies whose Spiral Abyss versions are ''severely nerfed'' compared to their overworld versions.

** "Adventure Encounters" points, which can be redeemed in lieu of Daily Commissions, are reliant on ''non-repeatable'' region exploration, quest and event activities. A player who speedruns region exploration and the version's active events may thus find themselves forced to do Daily Commissions, potentially including a time-consuming NPC Commission. On the other hand, pacing out exploration allows the "Adventure Encounter" points from region exploration to be used in lieu of Daily Commissions on more days.

** The Perpetual Mechanical Array is located inside underwater ruins that can only be accessed during the "Sakura Cleansing Ritual" World Quest. However, since the boss is required to fight in order to obtain Ayaka's ascension materials, for the time being until the ruins are unlocked, a temporary shortcut portal is open to warp players to the boss directly. At the same time, the boss room pre-unlock will have transparent barriers to prevent players from cheesing the ruins that way.

* AmbiguousSituation:
** The Battle Pass plays a cutscene each time it reset, telling a story of a princess who tries to purify a corrupted kingdom before being corrupted herself and becoming its queen. Her father then sends her brother to try to save her. On the one hand, this can been seen as an allegory for the Traveler and their sibling in the main plot[[labelnote:Spoilers]]That is, it could be an interpretation of how the Traveler is not part of the Irminsul's AkashicRecords, but their sibling is as well as being the Prince[=/=]Princess of the Abyss Order.[[/labelnote]]. On the other, it could also be one of their prior adventures that are only hinted at by the Traveler.
** How are Visions granted, exactly? No new Electro Visions have been granted for a while now, and Beelzebul confirms that she, and the Archons by extension, have nothing to do with granting Vision. Meanwhile, Visions are said to be granted when someone catches the attention of the gods, so that leaves Celestia... [[spoiler:But the conclusion of Fontaine Act and Furina's Story Quest means Celestia couldn't be involved either, as the people of Fontaine defied Celestia and restored one of their most ancient enemies to full power, and yet Furina gets a Hydro Vision. If Celestia were involved, the only explanation is they grant it out of respect for Focalors' gambit, but that's an EpilepticTrees[[invoked]] at best.]]

* AIIsACrapshoot: [[spoiler:Trials are decided in Fontaine by the Oratrice, a device that converts the people's belief in justice into energy. However, though its verdicts are usually sound, the Oratrice deems Childe guilty of being behind the serial disappearances, despite it having already convicted the culprit and Neuvillette coming to the opposite conclusion, with Childe being sentenced regardless of the truth]]. [[spoiler:It's later revealed the Oratrice was actually controlled by Focalors the entire time, and she convicted either Childe due to his tangential connection to the Primordial Sea, or because she hoped he would delay the All-Devouring Narwhal's arrival]].
* AirplaneArms: "Little girl"-type characters[[note]]Klee, Diona, Qiqi, Sayu, Dori, and Nahida[[/note]] sprint with their arms spread out.

** How are Visions granted, exactly? No new Electro Visions have been granted for a while now, and Beelzebul confirms that she, and the Archons by extension, have nothing to do with granting Vision. Meanwhile, Visions are said to be granted when someone catches the attention of the gods, so that leaves Celestia... [[spoiler:But the conclusion of Fontaine Act and Furina's Story Quest means Celestia couldn't be involved either, as the people of Fontaine defied Celestia and restored one of their most ancient enemies to full power, and yet Furina gets a Hydro Vision. If Celestia were involved, the only explanation is they grant it out of respect for Focalors' gambit, but that's an EpilepticTrees at best.]]

** How are Visions granted, exactly? No new Electro Visions have been granted for a while now, and Beelzebul confirms that she, and the Archons by extension, have nothing to do with granting Vision. Meanwhile, Visions are said to be granted when someone catches the attention of the gods, so that leaves Celestia... [[spoiler:But the conclusion of Fontaine Act and Furina's Story Quest means Celestia couldn't be involved either, as the people of Fontaine defied Celestia and revived one of their most ancient enemies, and yet Furina gets a Hydro Vision. If Celestia were involved, the only explanation is they grant it out of respect for Focalors' gambit, but that's an EpilepticTrees at best.]]

* DividedDeity: Folcalor divided her divine self and her mortal body into two separate entities.