The much anticipated Dragonspine region finally arrived inGenshin Impactwith the game’s newest update, Version 1.2. Players have been enjoying new quests, playable characters, enemies, and even weapons, since earlier last week when the patch was released.
With regard to weapons, the latestGenshin Impactupdate introduced three new forgeable four-stars that have sent players scrambling in pursuit of Northlander Weapon Prototypes. In short, four-star weapons that can be crafted require Northlander Weapon Prototypes of the appropriate kind - for example, a four-star sword requires a Northlander Sword Prototype, and so on and so forth.
RELATED:Genshin Impact Needs More Polearm Characters
Considering that five-stars are the rarest possible, four-star weapons are rather powerful, and as such, the ingredients needed to forge them are accordingly difficult to obtain. In general, these weapons call for a bundle of White Iron Chunks and Crystal Chunks, and a single Northlander Weapon Prototype. While thenew Dragonspine weapons require Starsilverin place of some of the minerals, they’re still forged using Northlander Prototypes.
Fortunately, the special event-exclusive four-star weaponintroduced by Albedo’s eventisn’t actually crafted at all, so players can upgrade it without having to hunt down several Northlander Sword Prototypes. That said, any players hoping to bestow their powerful sword-users with either a Prototype Rancour or Iron Sting, will still need these valuable base materials. Northlander Sword Prototypes are dropped as rewards by the game’s Weekly Bosses. Otherwise, players must seek out and/or hope for special opportunities.
In addition to the Weekly Bosses, players also have aone-time shot at every Northlander Prototypefrom special in-game sites:
Once the Mondstadt Souvenir Shop’s Prototype has been purchased, players will simply have to rely on luck to find one. They are not only rarely received from Weekly Bosses, but also come in five distinct varieties.Weekly Bosses will very rarely drop a single Northlander Weapon Prototypeat all, and when they do, they will drop a random one of the five potential variants, making the hunt for a correct Prototype all the more frustrating.
That being said, players do have one task at hand that will improve their odds: powering through the main story. When hunting down Northlander Weapon Prototypes, players should make sure they’re at least exhausting all possible options. If a Traveler can only challenge 2 of the 3 possible Weekly Bosses, they’re missing out onanother precious opportunityto stock up on Prototypes. So at the very least, players should be sure to progress far enough into the story to challenge Dvalin, Andrius, and the quicksilver Tartaglia, if they’re really gunning for a quick Northlander Sword Prototype.
Genshin Impactis available now on the App Store, Google Play, PC, and PS4, and is currently in development for PS5 and Switch.
