Once your main characters in Genshin Impact already have good Artifacts, deciding what to farm next can become surprisingly difficult.
Early on, the goal is usually obvious. A character needs the correct main stats, a useful Artifact set, or simply better pieces.
But what happens when your main team is already built?
Should you keep farming the same Domain for small upgrades? Start farming Artifacts for another character? Prepare sets for future characters? Or stop farming Artifacts and spend your Resin somewhere else?
The short answer is:
Once your main characters already have good Artifacts, you should usually prioritize farming that gives your account the most useful possible outcomes—not endlessly chase tiny upgrades for one already strong character.
That may mean farming a Domain useful for several characters, improving your weaker supports, preparing flexible Artifact sets, or temporarily spending your Resin on something other than Artifacts.
The right choice depends on how complete your account already is.
First, Are Your Main Characters Actually Finished?
Before deciding what to farm next, it helps to define what “built” means.
A character does not need perfect Artifacts to be considered well built.
Your character may already be in a good position if:
- They have the appropriate Artifact set or a strong alternative
- Their main stats fit the build
- Their important stat requirements are met
- Their substats are reasonably strong
- Their Energy Recharge is sufficient for their intended rotation
- Their current Artifacts perform well in the content you play
If all of those are true, chasing a slightly better Goblet or one additional CRIT roll may produce only a small improvement.
At that point, your Resin may create more overall account progress somewhere else.
Should You Keep Farming Artifacts for Your Strongest Character?
You can, but it is not always the most efficient choice.
Artifact upgrades become progressively harder to find as your build improves.
When a character has weak Artifacts, many drops can be upgrades.
Once that character already has strong pieces, a new Artifact may need:
- The correct slot
- The correct main stat
- Strong starting substats
- Favorable enhancement rolls
just to beat what you already own.
You could spend a large amount of Resin without producing a meaningful improvement.
This does not mean you should never optimize a favorite character further.
It simply means that the stronger the existing build becomes, the smaller the expected improvement from continued farming tends to be.
Build Your Other Important Characters
One of the most useful things you can do after finishing your main damage dealer is look at the rest of your teams.
A strong team is not made from one well-built character and three neglected ones.
Check your:
- Sub-DPS characters
- Supports
- Healers
- Shielders
- Reaction enablers
- Characters used on your second team
Improving one of these characters can sometimes produce a larger practical improvement than trying to squeeze slightly better substats onto your strongest character.
For example, a support that cannot consistently use their Burst may benefit significantly from better Energy Recharge.
That can improve the entire team’s rotation rather than only increasing one character’s personal damage.
Do Not Forget Your Second Team
Content that requires multiple teams gives you another reason to spread your Artifact investment.
If your first team is already strong but your second team is significantly weaker, continuing to optimize only the first team can create diminishing returns.
Instead, look for the biggest weakness across both teams.
Your next Artifact target might be:
- A main DPS for the second team
- A support missing an appropriate set
- A character using the wrong main stat
- A character struggling with Energy
- A flexible support used across multiple teams
Strengthening the weaker side of your roster can produce more noticeable account progress.
Farm Domains Where Both Artifact Sets Are Useful
Once you no longer have one urgent Artifact target, Domain efficiency becomes more important.
A Domain is especially attractive when both of its Artifact sets can benefit your account.
Suppose Set A is useful for one character and Set B is useful for another.
Now either set can potentially produce something valuable.
Compare that with a Domain where you desperately want Set A but have almost no use for Set B.
The second Domain may still be necessary in some situations, but it produces more drops that are difficult to use.
When you have flexibility in what to farm, Domains with multiple useful outcomes can provide better overall value.
Farm Artifacts That Can Be Used by Multiple Characters
Flexible Artifact pieces become increasingly valuable as your roster grows.
A highly specialized Artifact may only work on one character.
A strong piece from a broadly useful set may be transferable between several characters depending on your current teams.
This can be particularly helpful when:
- Testing a new character
- Changing team compositions
- Building characters temporarily
- Preparing for different combat situations
- Moving equipment between characters you do not use simultaneously
Once your main build is complete, building a useful Artifact inventory can sometimes be more valuable than maximizing one fixed loadout.
Should You Farm for Future Characters?
Yes, but be careful about farming too specifically.
If you know you intend to build a character and their Artifact needs are already clear, preparing ahead can save time.
However, speculative farming has risks.
A future character may:
- Want a different set than you expected
- Need different main stats
- Work better with a newer Artifact set
- Fit a different team than you originally planned
For that reason, flexible pieces and generally useful sets are safer to prepare than extremely specific builds for characters you do not yet have or whose final needs are uncertain.
Do not sacrifice all of your current account progress for a hypothetical future build.
Should You Farm Better Artifacts for Supports?
Often, yes—but only where the improvement matters.
Support characters do not always need the same type of Artifact investment as a damage dealer.
For some supports, the important goals may be:
- Enough Energy Recharge
- The correct 4-piece set
- A particular scaling stat
- Elemental Mastery
- Healing or shielding strength
- Enough survivability to perform their role reliably
Once those requirements are met, chasing perfect CRIT substats may add very little.
On the other hand, some support or sub-DPS characters contribute substantial personal damage and can benefit considerably from stronger Artifacts.
Build according to the character’s actual role rather than applying the same standards to everyone.
Should You Farm for Better Main Stats or Better Substats?
If a character is still using an inappropriate main stat, fixing that is usually a much clearer target than chasing small substat improvements.
For example, a character might still need:
- The appropriate Energy Recharge Sands
- An Elemental Mastery piece
- A suitable Elemental DMG Bonus Goblet
- A CRIT Rate or CRIT DMG Circlet
- An HP% or DEF% piece for their scaling
Once the main stats and important build requirements are in place, substat optimization becomes the next layer.
This gives you a useful priority:
Fix major build problems before chasing minor improvements.
What If All of Your Regular Characters Already Have Good Artifacts?
At this point, Artifact farming becomes much more optional.
You can continue farming if:
- You enjoy optimizing characters
- You want stronger pieces for difficult content
- You want alternative builds
- You are preparing another character
- You want more flexible Artifacts
- You simply want to improve your favorite characters
But you should also ask whether your Resin would accomplish more elsewhere.
Artifacts are only one part of character progression.
If you still need other guaranteed upgrades, they may deserve priority.
Should You Stop Farming Artifacts?
Sometimes, yes.
There is nothing wrong with temporarily stopping Artifact farming.
Unlike Artifact drops, many other character upgrades provide predictable progress.
Depending on what your account needs, Resin may be better spent on things such as:
- Character Ascension materials
- Weapon Ascension materials
- Talent materials
- Mora
- Character EXP materials
If your Artifacts are already good while your Talents or weapons remain underdeveloped, continuing to chase tiny Artifact upgrades may not be the most useful investment.
You can always return to Artifact farming later.
Guaranteed Upgrades vs Artifact RNG
This is one of the most useful ways to decide what to farm.
Suppose you have two options.
You can spend Resin trying to replace an already strong Artifact.
Or you can spend Resin obtaining materials for a guaranteed Talent, weapon, or character progression upgrade.
The Artifact Domain might give you an upgrade.
It might also give you nothing better than what you already own.
The other investment may provide predictable progress.
As your Artifacts become stronger, guaranteed upgrades become increasingly attractive if you still have important ones remaining.
Should You Farm for Perfect Artifacts?
You can, but you do not need perfect Artifacts to have a strong account.
Artifact farming has layers of RNG.
Even after obtaining the correct:
- Set
- Slot
- Main stat
- Starting substats
you still need favorable enhancement rolls.
Because of this, the amount of farming required to move from a good Artifact to an exceptional Artifact can be much greater than the amount required to move from a weak Artifact to a good one.
This is why perfection can become extremely expensive in Resin.
If you enjoy min-maxing a favorite character, that may be worth it to you.
But it should be a choice—not something you assume every character requires.
Look for the Weakest Part of Your Account
When you are unsure what to farm, stop asking:
“How can I make my strongest character stronger?”
Instead ask:
“What is currently limiting my account the most?”
It might be:
- A poorly built second team
- A support with insufficient Energy Recharge
- Missing Artifact sets
- Underleveled weapons
- Low Talent levels
- A character missing the correct main stat
- A lack of flexible Artifact pieces
The answer gives you a much more useful farming target.
Improving your weakest important area can provide more noticeable progress than polishing something that is already strong.
Should You Farm Another Artifact Set for Your Main Character?
Potentially—but do not assume a higher-ranked set is automatically an upgrade.
A character may have one Artifact set commonly recommended as their strongest option, while another set is considered a strong alternative.
If your current alternative set has excellent main stats and substats, replacing it with mediocre pieces from the theoretically stronger set can reduce the character’s actual performance.
The name or ranking of the set does not determine the quality of the individual Artifacts you own.
If you decide to farm a stronger theoretical set, treat it as a long-term upgrade project.
Do not replace your current build until the new combination actually performs well enough to justify the switch.
Use the Artifact Strongbox Alongside Your Farming
If a set you need is available through the Artifact Strongbox, unwanted 5-star Artifacts can provide additional opportunities without requiring you to farm that set’s Domain exclusively.
This can be particularly useful once your account has multiple Artifact goals.
For example, you might:
- Farm a Domain where both sets are useful.
- Keep promising pieces.
- Use appropriate unwanted 5-star Artifacts in the Strongbox.
- Target another available set that you also need.
This allows one farming process to contribute toward multiple builds.
What Should You Farm If You Have No Specific Character to Build?
If there is no urgent character target, prioritize flexibility.
Look for:
- Domains where both sets are useful
- Sets that work on multiple characters
- Missing main-stat combinations
- Strong off-set Goblets or Circlets
- Pieces that could improve several possible builds
- Artifact sets you know you regularly use
You do not need to farm randomly just because your Resin exists.
If Artifact farming currently offers very little value, spending Resin on guaranteed progression resources is also a valid choice.
A Simple Farming Priority After Your Main Characters Are Built
You can use this order as a general decision guide:
1. Fix major weaknesses in your active teams
Correct main stats, missing sets, Energy problems, and obviously weak pieces come first.
2. Build important characters you actually use
Improve supports, sub-DPS characters, and your second team.
3. Farm efficient Domains
Prefer Domains where multiple possible drops can benefit your account.
4. Build flexible Artifact options
Strong reusable pieces can help multiple current and future characters.
5. Finish guaranteed upgrades
Weapons, Talents, Ascensions, and other predictable improvements may be more valuable than tiny Artifact gains.
6. Optimize already strong characters
Once the rest of the account is in good shape, return to chasing higher-quality Artifacts if you want further optimization.
Quick Answer: What Artifacts Should You Farm After Your Main Characters Are Built?
Once your main characters already have good Artifacts, you usually do not need to keep farming the same Domain indefinitely for tiny upgrades.
Instead, look for the next place where your Resin can create meaningful progress.
That may mean:
- Improving your second team
- Building supports and sub-DPS characters
- Farming Domains where both sets are useful
- Collecting flexible Artifacts for multiple characters
- Preparing for a character you genuinely plan to build
- Using the Artifact Strongbox to pursue additional sets
- Temporarily stopping Artifact farming to finish guaranteed upgrades
If your entire active roster is already well built, you can return to optimizing your favorite characters—but understand that improvements become harder to find as your existing Artifacts get stronger.
The simplest rule is:
Once your main characters are built, stop farming based only on who is already strongest. Farm whatever gives your account the greatest useful improvement next.
