Am I bricking my account by sticking to AR 35?

I'm currently in Inazuma with my characters at lv. 60. I want to do the story smoothly. The reason why I am hesitant about raising my world level is it would increase story difficulty significantly. Farming is pretty tedious and killing bosses is nigh impossible without build. I had my friend clear them to reach where I am.

Now this is the part I am worried about. I see the traveller's EXP keeps accumulating. So by the time I am ready to raise my world level, the enemies will become a lot stronger, making farming even more of a nightmare than it already is.

My team currently consists of Keqing, Xiangling, Columbina, and Barbara. Already regretting pulling Columbina because her matz are locked in the new region. By the time I reach there I am afraid she will become irrelevant.

I also noticed a lot of quests locked at AR 40 which were previously locked at AR 35. How should I progress?

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Frozenmagicaster2026-01-26 05:41

So build your characters?

Over_Shoulder48012026-01-26 05:48

That is the problem. The bosses do not play around. If I could then I wouldn't be in this dilemma.

MaeveOathrender2026-01-26 06:22

The bosses truly do play around. In the last couple of regions they've gotten *maybe* a little tougher with some stupid mechanical requirements, but the first four or so regions of the game are full of bosses and enemies that you should be able to take basically zero damage from.

It's like any action RPG: watch the animations, learn the tells, dodge or i-frame whatever you can't just walk out of. Most of the time when I've seen people make this complaint, you watch their gameplay and they're just running full tilt at the bosses and left clicking/spamming buttons until they die.

SecyaDenali2026-01-26 06:38

Disagree lunar enemies and wayobs in Natlan for a new player can be extremely tiresome and not worth it.

Also if youve never encountered the Dendro hypostasis mechanics youll be like wtf this boss is complete arse

MaeveOathrender2026-01-26 06:38

I want you to prove to me that you can count to four.

SecyaDenali2026-01-26 06:41

Wtf ru on about

MaeveOathrender2026-01-26 06:46

Do you wanna try reading my comment again? You might notice that you said 'disagree' then proceeded to repeat my exact words.

Go on, give it a whirl.

Over_Shoulder48012026-01-26 06:53

That is an engagement bot. Report and move ahead.

RaspberryLanky79052026-01-26 05:42

There is no reason to not rank up.

[Build Order Priority](https://www.reddit.com/r/GenshinImpactTips/comments/qkxdj6/infographic_of_build_order_priority_based_on_wlar/#lightbox)

it won't increase the story difficulty significantly.

Columbina mats are not locked you can skip ahead to farm them.

Over_Shoulder48012026-01-26 05:50

Thank you

what-the-helll2026-01-26 05:55

Get in Co-Op and ask people if you can farm a boss together. Maybe not everyone would help but I’d love to. If youre in NA, lmk

JiMyeong2026-01-26 05:42

Take time to build your units make sure your leveling their skills (talents) and weapons.

Also you can teleport to Nodkrai for Columbina mats iirc there is a waypoint that just brings you there.

Increasing world level doesn't affect the story only overworld enemies and bosses become higher levels but anything tied to the main quest stays as is.

Also dont be afraid to ask people online for help in coop woth fighting mobs or doing domains. I feel the Official discord is a great place for that if it isn't full still these days.

Goonders2026-01-26 09:16

For anyone trying to join the official Discord, people leave or get kicked all the time so just try joining it repeatedly until it lets you in.

Scyaniide2026-01-26 05:43

Level 90 Amber and a dream

magnidwarf19002026-01-26 05:50

Yes

HuTaosTwinTails2026-01-26 05:50

There is literally no reason to not be building your characters, AR35 is so painfully easy. You must have been ignoring even basic character building to get to the point it is hard. But yes, you will continue to struggle

turnup4wat2026-01-26 05:56

Bricking your account means rendering it useless.

Cormacolinde2026-01-26 05:58

Start by making a team that synergizes together to start with - your current team has no synergy. You’ll notice bosses becoming easier.

Ne7herstorm2026-01-26 06:00

Bina mats aren't locked, by AR35 there should be one TP in Nod-Krai that becomes active automatically - use it and go to wherever her mats/boss are.

At AR35 you don't really need "build", just acceptable mainstats of artifacts and literally any set (without is also fine, mainstats at that level is more important) + weapons/characters from previous world level.

Unless you haven't leveled your characters past 40 you should be fine. If you still struggle and you are on EU I can help with bosses.

Professional_Tea6372026-01-26 06:03

Get a good co-op friend and save yourself a lot of time.

cym1042026-01-26 06:04

quite the opposite.

you should try your best to unlock world lvl 7 as soon as possible, so that you can get 5\* artifacts from domains.

once you get to world lvl 7, change your ID/sig to "need help with XX boss/domain", then change your coop setting to "join directly". soon your world will get flooded with resinless players willing to carry you with the bosses and domains.

tip: if the player that carries you with bosses doesn't need the boss drop, then you both need to teleport away from the boss for it to respwan.

OriginCycle2026-01-26 06:06

You aren't, but you are going to waste a lot of valuable time. Higher difficulties mean you get more rewards from using your resin on things like bosses or domains, so restricting yourself to a lower AR means that you will be behind by quite a noticeable amount compared to other players who don't limit their AR. In truth, you'll actually find the game to be a bit harder if you choose to stick at AR 35, but then change your mind a long time in the future

To be honest, you don't need to be afraid at all. The game is designed around you moving through the world levels. At WL8, which is at AR 50, I found enemies to actually be really easy and not challenging at all.

OmniOnly2026-01-26 06:07

A lot stronger 😂. Unless it’s unbearable now you won’t even notice. Just go forward and gear up. Co-p if you need,

FreeEstablishment8982026-01-26 06:10

If you level up, the enemies get stronger yes, BUT you also get get more mob drops so upgrading is faster. The only tip i can give you is stick to 1 team and use that, you dont need newer characters to best all mobs, I use diluc since launch and can kill any mob easy. Its only when you get to natlan and nod krai when it becomes easier with region specific characters.

You can always coop the big bosses too if you can't clear it solo. Columbina is a great support character and you should build her, as for the other 3 characters stick to more f2p characters, you dont need meta characters to play the game, I played with wrong synergy characters for over 4 years lol and I made it, so you should be good.

Pull for characters you want and slowly build them, dont rush have fun. I've pulled for characters that I haven't yet built as I'm focusing on others atm and come back to them once I'm satisfied with my builds for others, I'm currently working on building chasca but I pulled her in 5.8 and now its 6.3

Radiant_Ad_28552026-01-26 06:22

just join official genshin discord server, choose your coop channel and when u need to farm smth to lvl up your characters ask for help there, u will be helped in like minutes. when i was rly weak this saved me

Ke5_Jun2026-01-26 06:33

Later archon quests give you trial characters to use for the story. Ever since at least Natlan. The absolute hardest difficulty you will have to deal with is Fontaine, which… you can’t even access the AQ for until AR40.

So yes, you are bricking your account.

PS in Nod Krai >!one of the big bosses literally can be cleared without fighting; the quest automatically moves forward every 2 mins and you literally cannot die!<

Hojuma2026-01-26 06:35

Kind of. You're limiting yourself with AR35 rewards, meaning less rewards from leylines, enemies, and bosses. You also can't farm artifacts or weapon materials efficiently since minimum AR for guaranteed 5star artifacts is AR45 and highest tier weapon mat domains is at AR40. AR50 is required for the highest tier weekly boss domains which give 2 guaranteed boss mats +1 at 10% chance, plus higher chances for dream solvents and weapon billets. In short, AR45 is the lowest you can get without losing out much in rewards.

I think it would be smoother if you ascend your AR and build your characters to adapt to higher difficulty. You can just lower the world level by 1 until you think you can tackle the higher difficulty anyway.

zhonglisorder2026-01-26 07:04

I thought Nod Krai only needed AR28 to quick start, what quests require AR40?

Personally, I had an alt that stayed at AR35 for the longest time. 35 was the sweet spot where I didn't care about artifacts, but could do every quest/event (at the time). Imo pushing past 35 is a really awkward spot where everything takes 5x the time to kill, because you don't have any artifacts/talent levels. And then you've got people recommending you don't farm artifacts because 5 stars artifacts don't drop (or at least very rarely).

Imo if you decide to push past 35 look up 'hyperbloom'. You only have to stack character levels and elemental mastery and you can mostly ignore talents. I went from taking 3 minutes to solo clear domains (abusing Zhongli's shield) to 40 seconds with hyperbloom.

lgn5i20602026-01-26 07:40

Besides the build order priority, you prolly ain't taking advantage of elemental reactions.

Cheapest to build is a hyperbloom team (only cares about Electro trigger's Elemental Mastery) and most, besides dendro bosses, fall flat in their faces. I swapped to that team (Barbara, dendro MC, collei and Kuki) till I am able to farm domains that have Crit Rate/Damage artifacts but ended up sticking with it till this day.

Goonders2026-01-26 09:13

For one, there's no way Bina becomes irrelevant at least not for a couple years. Powercreep has gotten quite a bit worse in regards to bosses having mechanic shills but the DPS ceiling hasn't actually gone up all that much in comparison to a lot of other gacha games. Mavuika is the main outlier but she's also the pyro archon and it appears they're trying to keep her as the ceiling for now.

I highly recommend you level up your AR. One of the main ways you increase your DPS is by unlocking gold artifacts and higher talent levels. IIRC you unlock gold artifacts at AR40 where you have a chance to get one and then AR45 it's guaranteed.

tl;dr: Don't worry about getting gatekept, you need to upgrade your world level to improve your characters.

Also if anyone needs help doing stuff feel free to shoot me a message. If I'm on I can help with clearing bosses/domains or whatnot.

lostn2026-01-26 12:37

not bricking, but it's counter productive unless you're finding the game difficult for some reason.

If you're struggling you can always get help in coop.

AR35 prevents you from farming artifacts efficiently, so if you wait to accumulate enough AR XP to skip ahead and jump straight to AR50, you will be severely under geared because you won't have any gold artifacts and the game will be even harder for you.

Lucky-Oven54672026-01-26 14:11

I understand the fear but at AR45 you can get proper artifacts going. At AR40 the world truly opens up and becomes your oyster too. Yes world gets harder but you can lower it a level after ascension until you're ready. Just remember to dodge and you'll be fine, don't give up.