[News] Genshin Impact's 1.3 Update Drops This Week: Patch Notes

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Genshin Impact's 1.3 Update Drops This Week: Patch Notes

 

Genshin Impact's next big update is almost here, with a new event set to bring heaps of new content to the game. Most anticipated among the game's fanbase is the arrival of Xiao as a playable character, an anemo polearm-wielding character first introduced in Liyue's archon quests.

The update will take place on February 2 at 5 PM ET, with the servers anticipated to go down for around 5 hours for the update. Most of the new content, including Xiao's banner, the new weapon banner, Xiao's story quest, and the Lantern Rite festival will be live as soon as the maintenance is over.

The 4-star rate-up characters included on Xiao's banner have also been announced, including cryo archer Diona, electro claymore-wielder Beidou, and pyro claymore character Xinyan. The banner will be shorter than most of Genshin Impact's event banners have been so far, running only two weeks until February 17.

After that, a new banner with 5-star electro sword character Keqing will be released, marking the first time a standard 5-star character will have been featured on a rate-up event banner. The 4-star rate up characters on Keqing's banner will be geo catalyst user Ningguang, hydro catalyst healer Barbara, and pyro sword user Bennett--one of the game's most po[CENSORED]r 4-star characters.

With Xiao acting as one of the pivotal characters in the Lantern Rite event, players will have to complete his story quest before participating in any of the event's many quests and challenges. Accordingly, the "Alatus Chapter" story quest will be accessible to players over AR 23 for the duration of the event, and will not require a story key to unlock. After the event the quest will require a key, and the minimum level will be raised to AR 40. You can check out more details about the Lantern Rite event here.

The new update comes with a heap of new rewards spread out over the next month and a bit, including generous amounts of wishes and primogems for players looking to snag a new 5-star character or two, as well as a new source of fragile resin in the battle pass.

The update notice also make note of more content to come, including "more character event wishes to follow during Version 1.3." With the currently announced character banners only accounting for four weeks of the game's usual six-week update cycle, it's likely Mihoyo will release another banner for the final two weeks that may feature as-yet unannounced characters.