The time has finally come: Sumeru, new banners, and much more fresh content will arrive as part of update 3.0 for Genshin Impact. But that’s not all: the brand new region introduces the final missing element of the game world, the Dendro element. The developer takes its introduction as an opportunity to make changes to some Elemental Resonances.
If you have two characters of the same element or four characters with different elements each in your party of four, Elemental Resonance is created. This gives your group passive bonuses based on the present elements.
The new Dendro Resonance, for example, increases the party’s Elemental Mastery by 50 points. After triggering Dendro reactions, the bonus even increases further by up to 30 points for a short time.
Genshin Impact 3.0: Buffs for Hu Tao and Yelan
However, there are also adjustments to existing resonances – and one of them packs quite a punch. The Hydro Resonance no longer boosts the party’s healing abilities in addition to alleviating Pyro effects. Instead of the healing bonus, Hydro Resonance will increase characters’ maximum health by 25 percent starting in update 3.0.
For all characters whose abilities are based on their HP, this is a powerful buff. The biggest beneficiaries are likely to be Pyro DPS character Hu Tao and Hydro off-field DPS character Yelan. Hu Tao does maximum damage when her health is below 50 percent, which leaves her somewhat vulnerable – but such a huge buff to her total health makes her much more stable, enabling you to make more use of her damage abilities.
Yelan’s abilities are also all about health, so you’ll get much more damage out of her with Hydro Resonance now.
The third and final change to Resonances is Electro: this is guaranteed to create elemental particles when triggering Electro reactions, which as of update 3.0 also includes reactions with the Dendro element.
Written by Marco Wutz on behalf of GLHF.
