Excited to get your 20th Qiqi? Here’s how you can get the free Genshin Impact 5-star unit.
Here's a short guide on how you can choose and claim your free 5-star character in Genshin Impact and more details about this giveaway.
Genshin Impact free 5-star selector
To celebrate Genshin Impact's 4th anniversary, everyone gets a free 5-star character! Players can claim this reward during the entirety of Genshin Impact version 5.0 on October 8, 2024.
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- Open the in-game Events Overview menu.
- Click or tap "A Quest to Kindle Ancient Flames."
- Click or tap "Invite Character."
- Choose between the seven characters. Clicking or tapping on each one will display whether you have the unit or not and what Constellation they are in.
- Click or tap "Invite Character" when you have made your decision.
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Genshin Impact developers HoYoverse previously announced that this will be an annual occurrence.
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Who are the free 5-star choices?
Currently, you can choose between the following characters:
- Jean
- Mona
- Diluc
- Qiqi
- Keqing
- Tighnari
- Dehya
HoYoverse reassured players that the pool of Standard characters will expand past the current seven. This means that the choices for free 5-star units in the future will grow, too.
Genshin Impact 4th anniversary
There are more rewards for Genshin Impact's 4th anniversary besides the free 5-star character. Three of the new craftable 4-star weapons can be claimed via the in-game mail thanks to the "Off we Go to the Nation of Pyro!" web event.
Players can claim many Primogems and other rewards from the in-game mail as well. A total of 10 Intertwined Fates are being given out through a log-in event during version 5.0.
The experience for new and early players has also been optimized, with various systems allowing them to enjoy the latest content sooner. Returning players also get something, as the reworked Stellar Reunion event now offers more rewards.
Stay tuned on esports.gg for more Genshin Impact updates.