Genshin Impact Sethos build—The best artifacts and weapons

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Genshin Impact Sethos build - Charging an aimed shot

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The bestSethos buildinGenshin Impactwill let you get some serious damage out of this four-star archer. Sethos has some pretty unique abilities for a bow-user, and though he’s cursed with lower stats since he’s a four-star, his interesting playstyle more than makes up for it.

Sethos is an electro unit who uses powerful charged shots that consume his energy normally, and then switches to normal attacks with electro infusion after using his burst. It’s the first time Genshin Impact has released an archer that actually wants to use both charged shots and normal shots, and he’s also in a great element, too. All that said, here’s our favorite Sethos build.

The best Sethos build

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Genshin Impact Sethos build - Cyno and Sethos

When playing Sethos, you’ll generally want to start off with his skill to generate some energy, and then use his charged shots to deal damage. The fully-charged shots deal electro damage to everything in their path, and can even pierce enemies. They also use his elemental energy to decrease the time it takes to charge up those shots, meaning they’re a lot faster. This makes his charged shots take around the same time as Tighnari’s after he uses his skill, so he’ll feel like burst-firing rifle.

His elemental burst puts him into the Twilight Meditation state, which changes his normal attacks into piercing dusk bolts. These also pierce enemies, and are considered to be charged attack damage. This allows you to switch playstyles at will, which makes Sethos feel pretty special.

The other main option is the newfour-starCloudforgedbow, which you’ll get from the Mutual Security Enhancing Simulation event in 4.7. This bow is practically built for Sethos, and not only has an elemental mastery sub-stat, but also boosts elemental mastery further when elemental energy is reduced. This will be an incredible option if you’re playing Sethos in hyperbloom teams.

Sethos’ best artifact set is theWanderer’s Troupe. This set boosts elemental mastery, but also substantially buffs charged attack damage for bow users. That’s incredibly hard to beat for Sethos. You can, however, also do well with theGilded Dreamsset, which boosts elemental mastery and attack, making it a solid second choice.

In terms of stats, you’ll want to go for all elemental mastery if you’re putting Sethos on a hyperbloom team because that’ll result in the highest damage. Otherwise, you’ll want elemental mastery on the sands, electro damage on the goblet, and a crit rate or crit damage circlet.

Swipe to scroll horizontallyArtifact stat prioritySands of EonElemental masteryGoblet of EonothemElemental mastery or electro damageCirclet of LogosElemental mastery, crit rate, or crit damage

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Artifact stat prioritySands of EonElemental masteryGoblet of EonothemElemental mastery or electro damageCirclet of LogosElemental mastery, crit rate, or crit damage

Sethos Abilities and Constellations

Here we have everything you need to know about Sethos’ abilities and constellations. Huge thanks toHoney Impactfor having all of this information up:

Swipe to scroll horizontallyNormal Attack: Royal Reed ArcheryNormal attackPerforms up to three consecutive shots with a bow.Charged attackPerforms a more precise aimed shot with increased damage. While aiming, the power of electro will accumulate on the arrowhead before the arrow is fired. Has different effects based on how long the energy has been charged. Charge Level one fires off an arrow carrying the power of lightning that deals electro damage. Charge level two fires off a Shadowpiercing Shot which can pierce enemies, dealing electro damage to enemies along its path. After the Shadowpiercing Shot is fully charged, Sethos cannot move around.Plunging attackFires off a shower of arrows in mid-air before falling and striking the ground, dealing AoE damage upon impact.

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Normal Attack: Royal Reed ArcheryNormal attackPerforms up to three consecutive shots with a bow.Charged attackPerforms a more precise aimed shot with increased damage. While aiming, the power of electro will accumulate on the arrowhead before the arrow is fired. Has different effects based on how long the energy has been charged. Charge Level one fires off an arrow carrying the power of lightning that deals electro damage. Charge level two fires off a Shadowpiercing Shot which can pierce enemies, dealing electro damage to enemies along its path. After the Shadowpiercing Shot is fully charged, Sethos cannot move around.Plunging attackFires off a shower of arrows in mid-air before falling and striking the ground, dealing AoE damage upon impact.

Swipe to scroll horizontallyElemental skillAncient Rite: The Thundering SandsGathers the might of thunder, dealing AoE electro damage and quickly retreating. If this attack triggers electro-charged, superconduct, overloaded, quicken, aggravate, hyperbloom, or electro swirl reactions, Sethos recovers a certain amount of elemental energy.

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Elemental skillAncient Rite: The Thundering SandsGathers the might of thunder, dealing AoE electro damage and quickly retreating. If this attack triggers electro-charged, superconduct, overloaded, quicken, aggravate, hyperbloom, or electro swirl reactions, Sethos recovers a certain amount of elemental energy.

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Sethos ascension materials

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Genshin Impact Sethos build - Holding a spear

Here are the ascension materials for Sethos:

Finally, you can grab the Trishiraite in the Girdle of Sands in Sumeru. It’s a rock, so make sure you bring a Geo character or someone with a claymore to farm it efficiently.

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