Genshin Impact Reveals New Event Wish and Banner Type in Version 4.5 Livestream

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Genshin Impact

By Christine Miller

Published Mar 1, 2024

Highlights

Version 4.5 in Genshin Impact introduces a new Chronicled Wish Banner that allows players to choose specific characters or weapons.
Chiori, a 5-star Geo Sword character, will be the star of Version 4.5's Special Program livestream, benefiting from a team of Geo characters.
Players can spend Intertwined Fates on the Chronicled Wish Banner for a 50:50 chance of obtaining their chosen 5-star character or weapon.

On top of teasing Chiori and its upcoming events, Genshin Impact has also revealed a new type of banner for Version 4.5 that will use a Chronicled Path, allowing players to pull for a designated character or weapon. Though rumors of a third banner type have long been whispered in the Genshin Impact community, the official reveal promises to bring players a generous way to obtain older characters such as Albedo or Eula, guarantee standard characters such as Jean or Diluc, and even pull for previously-unobtainable weapons such as Beacon of the Reed Sea and Hunter's Path.

Details on the new Event Banner and its Chronicled Path will be revealed at a later date, as the star of Version 4.5's Special Program livestream is none other than Chiori, who first made her debut in Version 4.3's Flagship Event. In terms of gameplay, Genshin Impact's Chiori will be a 5-Star Geo Sword character, whose damage will scale with both ATK and DEF. Unlike Navia, who prefers teammates from other elements, Chiori benefits from being in a team with other Geo characters, especially those who can create constructs (such as Zhongli). Furthermore, her signature weapon is expected to be the best-in-slot pick for both Chiori and Albedo, making it a desirable weapon for fans of Mono Geo teams.

Genshin Impact Reveals 4.5 Quality-Of-Life Feature

Genshin Impact confirms that version 4.5 will add a new quality-of-life feature that can help newcomers build their respective teams.

Though it will use Intertwined Fates in practice, the new banner type in Genshin Impact can set players on a Chronicled Path, allowing them to select from a list of 5-Star characters and weapons that haven't recently had an appearance on the Limited Event Banner. For Version 4.5, it will feature characters from Mondstadt: Eula, Mona, Albedo, Klee, Diluc, and Jean. In terms of 5-Star weapons, players will be able to choose from the Skyward series, Lost Prayer to the Sacred Winds, Wolf's Gravestone, as well as Tighnari and Dehya's signature weapons.

Once a Chronicled Path is chosen, players can spend their Intertwined Fates on the banner. Upon pulling a 5-Star character or weapon in Genshin Impact on the new banner, it will give players a 50:50 chance of obtaining the chosen character or weapon outright. When failing to win the 50:50, players will only receive something from the same category; so, if they charted course for a character, losing the 50:50 will only result in another character from the pool, and if they charted course for a weapon, losing the 50:50 will only result in another weapon from the pool. Charting course for a character will not reward a weapon upon losing the 50:50 and vice-versa. However, players only need one Fate Point to guarantee their chosen 5-Star – thus making the system more generous than the Epitomized Path used on the Weapon Banner.

In addition to the Chronicled Wish Banner, players will be able to spend their pulls on the featured Event Banners of Genshin Impact Version 4.5. Chiori will be accompanied by Itto in the first half, while the second half will have Neuvillette and Kazuha. Lastly, the Flagship Event in Version 4.5 will be set in Mondstadt, and will revolve around alchemy, with appearances from Sucrose and Diona.