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Being able to build new characters is one of the best parts of Genshin impact. Hoyoverse does a great job of making characters unique even after over 50 characters in the game, and Nilou is no different. She is a five star character with a sword that has some beautiful animations.


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Nilou has Hydro vision and she also plays a big part in the Archon Quest of Sumeru. The community fell in love with her personality and design since she was first introduced, getting people excited for her character release when they can finally play as her.


Nilou’s Ascension Materials

The ascension materials needed for Nilou fit her knowledge perfectly, and here’s all you need:

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Ascension phase Maximum level mora Crystal Regional Specialty Mob Drops World Boss Drops
1 40 20,000 1x Varunada Lazurite Sliver 3x Padisarah 3x Mold spores N/A
2 50 40,000 3x Varunada Lazurite Fragment 10x Padisarah 15x mold spores 2x Perpetual Caliber
3 60 60,000 6x Varunada Lazurite Fragment 20x Padisarah 12x Luminous Pollen 4x Perpetual Caliber
4 70 80,000 3x Varunada Lazurite Chunks 30x Padisarah 18x Luminous Pollen 8x Perpetual Caliber
5 80 100,000 6x Varunada Lazurite Chunks 45x Padisarah 12x crystalline cyst substance 12x Perpetual Caliber
6 90 120,000 6x Varunada Lazurite Gemstone 60x Padisarah 24x crystalline cyst substance 20x Perpetual Caliber

All the above mentioned materials are the requirements exclusively for the ascension of Nilou. You will need additional Mora and EXP materials to get her to max level for a given Ascension.

Besides, you can’t take off a sign until you reach the maximum drawing level for the previous ascension.

Where can you find Varunada Lazurite crystals?

Varunada Lazurite is one of the seven types of crystals you can find in Genshin impact. These are dropped by the world and weekly bossesand they can also be obtained through time-limited events or character trials. Here are all the bosses you can fight to get the needed crystals:

  • Oceanid (Liyue)
  • Primo Geovishap (Liyue)
  • Hydrohypostasis (Inazuma)
  • Aeonblight Drake (Sumeru)
  • Storm terror (Mondstadt)
  • Tartaglia (Liyue)
  • Azhdaha (Liyue)

Where to find Padisarah

If you have grown one regional specialty in Sumeru, you know they can be very annoying. Satisfying, Padisarah is one of the specialties that are easier to grow. These can be found exclusively in the rainforest area of ​​Sumeru.

These beautiful flowers can be found in some major cities such as Sumeru City, the Palace of Alcazarzaray, Pardis Dhyai and Vanarana. They are scattered all over these cities, so it can be quite difficult to find them. Further, they will reappear after 48 hours of being picked up.

Characters like Tighnari can help you a lot while growing this regional specialty. This is due to its passive dat marks the Padisarah on the map when you get close to them. Although he is a standard five star characterso he can be very hard to acquire.

How do you get fungal spores, luminescent pollen and crystalline cyst dust?

All three of these mafia items are: dropped exclusively by fungi spread across Sumeru. There are many elemental types for these enemies, but they are not immune to the element they belong to. This means that Hydro Fungi will not be immune to Hydro attacks and so on.

If you attack Fungi with an Electro or Pyro attack, they will: going into an activated or a scorched state respectively. Killing them in this state will make them drop different items with a rare opportunity to drop the items you need for Nilou.

If you’re breeding these enemies for her, it’s much better to attack them with other elements, or just use a physical DPS like Eula.

How to get perpetual caliber?

Perpetual Caliber is a world boss drop obtained exclusively after defeating the Aeonblight Drake. This boss was released in the Sumeru rainforest during the version 3.1 update. It can be quite difficult to find this boss for the first time.

This is an improved Drake that can attack both in the air and on the ground. Furthermore, he will develop elemental resistance to the elements from which he takes the most damage sometimes. He can be quite hard to beat with just one basic DPS.

While attacking, the Drake will reveal multiple vulnerabilities on his body. This one wants to attack immobilize him for a while and remove the elemental resistance he won. Of course you can too use Hutao and just destroy everything with that overpowered girl.

How to find Aeonblight Drake

To find this boss, you can just teleport to the Waypoint on the north side of Devantaka Mountain. These mountains are found in the southern region of the Sumeru Rainforest just above Port Ormos. Once you are teleported to the right place, you see a flower next to it as shown above.

Apply Dendro to this flower, and it will produce a bunch of grapples leading you straight to the ruins this Aeonblight Drake lives in. Once you’ve used four different Grapples, the ruin to enter will be right in front of you. Go through the path, and you will see the boss sleeping happy until you wake it up to destroy it.

you will have to spend 40 original resin every time you beat this boss to claim the rewards. Every time you do that, you have a chance of two or three perpetual calibers. You cannot use Condensed Resin on world bosses in the game.

Nilou’s talent materials

Talent level mora talent books Mob Drops Weekly Boss Drops
2 12,500 3x Praxis Teachings 6x Mold spores N/A
3 17,500 2x Practice Guide 3x luminous pollen N/A
4 25,000 4x Guide to Praxis 4x luminous pollen N/A
5 30,000 6x Guide to Praxis 6x Luminous Pollen N/A
6 37,500 9x Guide to Praxis 9x Luminous Pollen N/A
7 120,000 4x Philosophies of Practice 4x crystalline cyst substance 1x Tears of the Disastrous God
8 260,000 6x Philosophies of Practice 6x crystalline cyst substance 1x Tears of the Disastrous God
9 450,000 12x Philosophies of Practice 9x crystalline cyst substance 2x Tears of the Disastrous God
10 700,000 18x Philosophies of Practice 12x crystalline cyst substance 2x Tears of the Disastrous God

Practice is one of three types of talent books exclusive to Sumeru. These can be bred from the Steeple of Ignorance domain found on the north side of the Sumeru rainforest. They are only available on Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday based on your server time.

Furthermore, some temporary events exclusively for Sumeru can you also give these talent books. like you buy the premium level of Battle Passyou can unlock some of these books every five levels.

The talent materials listed in the table above are the requirements for one talent. There are a total of three talents that can be upgraded to level ten, and you need three times as many materials to make Nilou . fully upgradable. In addition, you need to reach certain ascension levels to upgrade your talents.

How do you get tears from the wretched God?

Tears of the Calamitous God is a weekly boss drop required to upgrade Nilou’s talents above level six. This article is dropped by Raiden Shogun found in the end of the Oneiric Euthymia domain which is unlocked after completing the second story quest for Raiden Shogun. You can claim rewards from this boss once a week.

Raiden is one of the few bosses who can be defeated in one stage as she has no HP barrier. So if you can hit hard enough, so can you defeat her before she enters the state where her resistance increases by many.

There are three different exclusive items dropped by this boss, and you have a chance to get two or three every time you claim the rewards. The drops from each weekly boss can be exchanged for another drop from the same boss using Dream Solvent.

You need in total 18 Tears Of The Calamitous God To Fully Enhance All Of Nilou’s Talentswhich means six for each talent.

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