Heart of Depth

Every artifact set has two bonus tiers: wearing 2 of 4 pieces from the same set unlocks the 2-piece bonus (usually a flat % stat boost), while wearing all 4 of 4 unlocks a stronger 4-piece bonus that almost always comes with its own trigger condition (tied to an element, an attack type, or a stat threshold). Always read the exact wording shown above before committing pieces — two sets can both be described as having a "4-piece bonus" while working on completely different mechanics.

No. Running 2+2 — 2 pieces of this set plus 2 pieces from another set — is often stronger than forcing a full 4-piece set built from weak substats, especially when a character only needs the flat 2-piece bonus and does not rely on the 4-piece effect. An "off-piece 4+1" setup — 4 pieces of your main set plus 1 loose piece from another set purely for a better main stat — is also valid when the fifth slot keeps rolling the wrong main stat.

Flower of Life and Plume of Death always carry fixed flat stats (HP and ATK) — there is nothing to choose there. Only the remaining 3 slots roll a random main stat, and for any set, the correct main stat matters more than the set bonus or perfect substats:

For substats, CR and CD are usually the most valuable since they raise average damage on every hit; a quick way to grade a piece is Crit Value = Crit DMG + Crit Rate × 2, since the ideal CR:CD ratio is 1:2.

Artifacts mostly drop from Domains of Blessing — each domain always drops a fixed pair of 2 sets and costs Original Resin per run; the specific domain for the set on this page, if known, is shown in the data block above. Skip domains before AR30 since rewards are still low, use AR30-44 only to learn the mechanic, and farm seriously from AR45 onward, since the domain opens its highest difficulty and guarantees at least 1 5-star piece per 20 Resin. If a domain drops 2 sets and you only need one, the Strongbox lets you combine 3 5-star pieces from that domain into 1 piece targeted at the set you want — feeding results back in pushes the odds toward roughly 2:1 over time. Some low-rarity sets have no domain of their own and drop from chests, common enemies, or quests instead.

The character list shown above is not a hand-typed list — it is generated by reverse-checking the Best-in-Slot (BiS) build data of each character, split between characters who need the full 4-piece bonus and those who only need the 2-piece bonus. That means the list updates itself every patch: new characters that adopt this set appear automatically, and characters that get upgraded to a better set disappear automatically. An empty list simply means no character in the current build data treats this set as BiS right now — not that the set is useless.

Every artifact set in Genshin Impact is made of exactly 5 pieces, one per equipment slot: Flower of Life, Plume of Death, Sands of Eon, Goblet of Eonothem, and Circlet of Logos — the unique names and flavor text for the pieces of this specific set are shown in the block above where available. What counts toward the 2/4-piece bonus is the set itself, not the piece individual name; swapping one piece for a different set immediately counts it toward that other set instead.

Genshin Impact currently has roughly 62 artifact sets (46 5-star, 13 4-star, 3 3-star — the exact split can vary slightly by source depending on how low-rarity sets are counted); the set on this page may be available at one or both of the higher rarities, shown in the data block above if known. The rule that applies across every rarity: the correct main stat beats a higher rarity with the wrong one — a correctly-rolled 4-star piece already reaches near-5-star max stats at high level, only missing a bit of starting substat range.

There is no single "best" set for every character — the strength of a set is always tied to the specific character wearing it and the team around them. When weighing a switch to another set, compare three things: (1) whether the 4-piece condition actually matches how this character deals damage (a Burst-DMG bonus is only useful if Burst is the main damage source), (2) whether the alternative set domain is more convenient to farm, and (3) whether the substats already invested in the current set are worth abandoning. Check each character build page to see which set is currently BiS instead of guessing.