Current event: Sangonomiya Kokomi and Wanderer reruns! Up next: Version 4.0!
Who is featured on the Genshin Impact banners in Version 4.0, and when will it go live?Genshin Impactworks on a gacha system, where players can spend various in-game and real-worldcurrenciestoWishon a character’s banner in the hopes of obtaining a playable version of them.
While many characters are permanently available as potential pulls from the gacha, others — usually 5-star characters — are only available during limited periods as part of Character Event Wish banners. Every Character Event Wish banner features one 5-star character and three 4-star characters with a massively increased drop rate, and the 5-star character is often unique to the banner and unobtainable in any other way.
On this page, we’ve compiled everything we know aboutGenshin Impact’s current and upcoming banners, including release dates and times for the next banner changeover. Further down the page, we’ve included some information about characters who are available to purchase from the current and upcoming stock in Paimon’s Bargains.
Genshin Impact: current event banners
The concurrent Character Event Wish banners in Genshin Impact for Version 3.8 (Phase 2) areDrifting LuminescenceandFrom Ashes Reborn: respectively, the fourth appearance ofSangonomiya Kokomiand the first ever rerun forWanderer. These banners have been available to wish starting from July 25th and are due to end onAugust 15th at 3pm BST / 4pm EDT / 1pm PDT.
In addition to the two featured characters, both banners include a boosted drop rate for 4-starsYanfei,Rosaria, and Faruzan.
See below for full details on the characters with increased drop rates on the current banners:
Genshin Impact’s next patch will be the annual version update, bringing us up toVersion 4.0! The update will be available to play onAugust 16th at 4am BST, which for our readers in the US isAugust 15th at 11pm EDT / 8pm PDT.
Version 4.0 will bring with it a new region — Fontaine — and, naturally, there are plenty of new characters to be found there, many of whom will become playable over the next year. Version 4.0 will introduce the following:
The version will also see reruns for three returning 5-star characters:Yelanin Phase 1 alongside Lyney’s debut, andZhongliandTartagliaduring Phase 2.
Wishes and banners aren’t quite the only way to increase your party roster in Genshin Impact. There is another corner of the in-game store where you can potentially get your hands on some new playables. Check out Paimon’s Bargains for a regularly rotated stock of common 4-star characters you can purchase outright in exchange forMasterless Starglitter, a currency generated from pulling duplicate characters and high-end weapons from the gacha.
Paimon’s Bargains seem to work on a regular half-yearly rotation, so here’s who we can likely expect to see on offer in the Starglitter Exchange over the next few months:
Genshin Impact gets a new event banner every three weeks, so be sure to check back for news about upcoming banners! To get to grips with your odds of actually pulling that elusive 5-star character, check out our page explainingGenshin Impact’s pity system. In the meantime, if you’re eager to get wishing but have made the commendable choice not to put your real money into a gacha, our guide ongetting more Primogems in Genshin Impactcan help you to maximise your in-game earnings.
