Best Genshin Impact Baal Builds
The best Genshin Impact Baal builds talk about the weapons and artifacts that you can use on the five-star Electro user and Polearm wielder, Raiden Shogun, aka Baal - the Electro Archon around whom the second Act of Genshin Impact's main story is based around. With this best Genshin Impact Baal build, we do a complete breakdown of her abilities, Role, and Constellations while sharing the best weapons and artifacts that will help you in attaining a perfect build.
Best Genshin Impact Baal Build: Role And Playstyle
Baal is a DPS and an off-screen Support unit in Genshin Impact that players can use to tackle any content offered in the game. Her Elemental Skill, Transcendence: Baleful Omen, unveils a shard of Euthymia that deals Electro DMG while granting the party members Eye of Stormy Judgment. An effect that stays active for a long time even when Baal is not on the field. When party members have the Eye of Stormy Judgment active - attacking an enemy will have the Eye unleash coordinated attacks that deal AoE Electro DMG near the opponent's location.
Click to enlargeMoreover, Eye of Stormy Judgment also buffs party members Elemental Burst DMG based on the energy cost of the Elemental Burst during the Eye's duration. Thanks to the Elemental Skill, Transcendence: Baleful Omen, players can use Baal as an off-screen Support unit.
When it comes to Baal's Elemental Burst, Secret Art: Musou Shinsetsu, while active, Baal unleashes the Musou no Hitotachi that deals AoE Electro DMG. Furthermore, Baal enters the Musou Isshin state, where she wields Musou no Hitotachi while making her normal, charged, and plunged attacks get infused with Electro DMG.
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The Secret Art: Musou Shinsetsu's ability can deal millions in DMG at just the beginning of the attack. Past the first strike, when Baal enters Musou Isshin state, the DPS potential is immense as players can deal high damage continuously without getting interrupted by enemy attacks, Electro Charged reaction, or other things. You can maximize the Elemental Burst DMG by making use of the resolve stacks that you gain from the Chakra Desiderata. To do that, use Baal's Elemental Skill, Transcendence: Baleful Omen.
Once that is done, fill the resolve stacks using party members' Elemental Burst. The maximum resolve stacks you can gain is 60. Completing the Chakra Desiderata can take a few minutes of yours. But in return, you get a huge DMG gain buff to Baal's Secret Art: Musou Shinsetsu ability. You can build Baal around her Elemental Burst to use her as a pure DPS unit.
Best Genshin Impact Baal Build: Constellations
Click to enlargeBefore we share our thoughts, it is better you check out all six Constellations of Baal.
C1 - Ominous Inscription
Chakra Desiderata will gather Resolve even faster. When Electro characters use their Elemental Bursts, the Resolve gained is increased by 80%. When characters of other Elemental Types use their Elemental Burst, the Resolve gained is increased by 20%.
C2 - Steelbreaker
Secret Art: Musou Shinsetsu’s Mushou no Hitachi and Musou Isshin attacks will ignore 60% of opponents’ DEF.
C3 - Shinkage Bygones
Increases the Level of Secret Art: Musou Shinsetsu by 3. The maximum upgrade level is 15.
C4 - Pledge of Propriety
When the Mushou Isshin state applied by Secret Art: Musou Shinsetsu expires, all nearby party members (excluding the Raiden Shogun) gained a 30% bonus ATK for 10s.
C5 - Shogun’s Descent
Increases the Level of Transcendence: Baleful Omen by 3. The maximum upgrade level is 15.
C6 - Wishbearer
While in the Musou Isshin state applied by the Secret Art: Musou Shinsetsu, the Raiden Shogun’s Normal, Charged, and Plunging Attacks will decrease all nearby party members'(not including the Raiden Shogun herself) Elemental Burst cooldown by 1s when they hit opponents. This effect can trigger once every 1s and can trigger a total of five times during the state’s duration.
Click to enlargeAssuming you have gone through all six Constellations of Baal, we recommend players go for C2 Baal as doing so will highly improve her abilities and potential.
Best Genshin Impact Baal Builds: Support And Burst DPS
Attaining the best Support build for Baal is a relatively easy task as you don't have to do much. You can use some Elemental Mastery and Elemental Skill increasing artifacts and weapons to increase the DMG dealt by the Eye of Stormy Judgment's coordinated attacks. However, to attain the best Burst DPS build for Baal, you need the below-listed weapons and artifacts.
Best Genshin Impact Baal Builds: Weapons
Engulfing Lightning is the best weapon for Baal that you can use to attain the best possible Burst DPS build. The weapon's secondary stat increases Energy Recharge, helping players in getting the required energy to use the Elemental Burst.
Baal also gets an ATK DMG increase based on her Energy Recharge%. So overall, Engulfing Lightning is the best weapon choice for Baal. However, it is a five-star weapon that you can only obtain from the Epitome Invocation banner, granted the weapon is featured.
Click to enlargeThankfully, we have weapons like The Catch that are free to obtain and work well with Baal. You can get The Catch polearm and its Refinements from the Inazuma Fishing Association in exchange for some rare fish. The secondary stat of The Catch increases Energy Recharge%. While the weapon skill increases Elemental Burst DMG and its CRIT Rate by a great amount. At base Refinement, The Catch increases Elemental Burst DMG by 16% and Elemental Burst CRIT Rate by 6%. And since you can get all refinements for free, you can maximize the gain in Elemental Burst DMG and associated CRIT Rate.
Best Genshin Impact Baal Builds: Artifacts
Click to enlargeThe best artifact that will help you attain the best possible Burst DPS build is Emblem of Severed Fate. Two pieces of said artifact increase Energy Recharge by 20%. Meanwhile, four pieces increase Elemental Burst DMG by 25% of Energy Recharge. This scaling is limited as you can gain a maximum of 75% bonus DMG this way. However, a 75% Elemental Burst DMG increase is no joke. You get extra DMG in millions using this buff.
You can also use the Thundering Fury and Noblesse Oblige artifact set and their combination. Though bear in mind, you cannot attain Baal's full potential using those two artifact sets. They are fine for clearing the game content, but not for dealing immense DMG. Now talking about Attributes, you have to maintain a minimum of 1:3 CRIT Rate to CRIT DMG ratio. The secondary focus should be on the Electro DMG Bonus attribute.
That should be all you need to know to build the best Genshin Impact Baal builds - if you're fancying a different character, why not check out our guide on the best Genshin Impact Venti builds?