Monthly Genshin Impact Build Workbook

Why You Should Track Your Builds Outside the Game

Genshin Impact stores your artifact stats in-game, but the in-game interface makes it agonizing to compare two pieces across characters. I built my first monthly workbook two years ago after realizing I was keeping duplicate stat lines in my head and re-rolling the same sands of time for the third time. The spreadsheet approach forces you to actually look at your numbers instead of trusting your memory. The main benefit isn't record-keeping. It's the ability to sort. When you dump all your artifacts into a single sheet and filter by substat priority, you see your actual inventory. You'll notice things immediately. Like how you have zero flat HP percentage artifacts despite running 4-piece Husk of Opulent Dreams on Arlecchino. That kind of pattern recognition is invisible inside the game client.

Monthly Genshin Impact Build Workbook

Here's how the actual workflow looks. Create columns for Character, Slot, Main Stat, Substat 1 through Substat 5, Percentage Value for each substat, and a Priority Score column. The Priority Score is where most people skip steps and regret it later. Assign weights based on what your team actually needs. For Hu Tao, ATK% Sands is priority one. For Nahida, Elemental Mastery is priority one. For someone like Yelan, HP% main stat with ER on substats matters more than raw attack numbers. Weight it accordingly. I use a simple formula. Take the percentage value of each substat, multiply by its weight, sum the results, and rank from highest to lowest. A 4.68% CRIT Rate row gets multiplied by your CRIT weight. It produces a number you can sort by. Nothing fancy. Just math that tells you which artifact to slot in when you're standing in the game world and need to make a decision fast. The workbook lives on Google Sheets. Shared link, accessible from phone while farming domains. That part alone saves maybe ten minutes per session compared to scrolling through the inventory and mentally comparing numbers. Over a month, that adds up to actual time you can spend doing something else instead of reorganizing the same forty-five artifacts for the fifth time.

I hit a wall recently trying to track my Raiden Shogun build alongside Yae Miko. Both use Electro charge reactions in my team comp, but their substat priorities diverge so sharply that the sorting got noisy. What I ended up doing was creating a separate tab for each character, keeping the main sheet as a master index with links to individual tabs. It took me about twenty minutes to restructure, but now filtering is instant and I'm not accidentally equipping ER flowers on Raiden because I mixed up the tabs. That workaround exists now. I didn't plan it at the start. There's a trap people fall into with these workbooks. They treat every substat as equally valuable. It's not. A 3.1% CRIT DMG line is worth roughly the same as a 12.4% ATK line in most cases, but beginners will rank the raw percentage higher and assume the ATK line is better because 12.4 looks bigger than 3.1. Normalize your values. Convert everything to equivalent CRIT or equivalent ATK depending on your build focus, then rank. That normalization step is what separates a useful sheet from one that just looks organized. Another thing nobody warns you about. Artifact upgrade RNG doesn't improve any of your existing rows. When you level up a piece, its substats shift randomly. Your spreadsheet becomes outdated the moment you spend primogems on an upgrade. The workaround I use is taking a screenshot of the pre-upgrade stats and pasting them into a separate "upgrade log" column. Then I update the main row afterward with the final result. It's two extra minutes per upgrade, but it means I can look back months later and see exactly which upgrade path led to which outcome. That data gets useful when you're hunting for a specific stat distribution on a domain run.

The workbook doesn't replace understanding your character's scaling. It works alongside that knowledge. If you don't know whether your character benefits more from EM or ER, no spreadsheet will tell you. But once you decide, the sheet becomes a sorting engine that removes guesswork from the actual equip moment. A complete build workbook for one main DPS character plus supports usually takes about forty-five minutes to set up properly. After that, each monthly refresh takes roughly fifteen to twenty minutes. You're adding new artifacts, removing sold or downgraded pieces, and adjusting priority weights if your team composition shifts. That's the rhythm most people settle into. I keep my current version here: Monthly Genshin Impact Build Workbook Template. It's empty and structured. No preset characters. You fill in your own roster and adjust the weight columns to match your teams. If you're building for a hypercarry setup, the CRIT and ATK columns get heavier. If you're playing support-heavy, ER and EM get weighted up. The template has both tabs and a sorting script already attached, so you don't have to build that part from scratch.

The main limitation is honest about upfront investment. If you only play casually and swap characters every few weeks, the time cost of maintaining a detailed spreadsheet outweighs the benefit. This system rewards consistency. You need to actually keep a team together long enough for the data to become meaningful. If your lineup changes monthly, you're duplicating effort across tabs and gaining less insight per hour spent organizing. In that case, a simple in-game notes app or even a phone photo album with artifacts photographed in order works fine. The workbook shines when you're committed to a specific roster for several months. I've found that the real value comes after three or four months of consistent logging. That's when patterns emerge that the game never shows you. Like noticing your CRIT rate on Hu Tao has been sitting at 62% for two months because you keep upgrading pieces that roll ER instead of CR. Or realizing you have six pieces of Tenacity of the Millelith main stat that you've never actually equipped because you kept rolling HP% on the substats and assuming they were worth keeping. The numbers tell the truth even when your memory doesn't.