Can. Those packs at shop but one week can only buy once. And another way is top up your resins using real money and go farm those ley line clouds. But the price increase each top up and you can do 6 times a day.

But if you do that, that'll be more p2w than draw characters.

That's why people always tell new players to focus on 1 or 2 characters first. EXP books are scarce and not easy to get.

Ways to get EXP

1) Use resin on XP leylines. Personally I didn't do this until AR40. Not enough resin to prioritize on this. My resin was used to up weapons, talents and character ascension
2) Battlepass. If you willing to spend, BP gives quite abit XP books
3) Events that gives XP books. Most efficient way to get XP books using resins but events could take forever to come. Last event that let you farm XP was like 2 months ago. We had an event that gave XP book few weeks ago but you could only get a limited amount of XP books.
4) Farm boxes around the map. Limited but it's good enough at least for starting out.
5) Kill mobs for XP. Lol don't bother. This will take you forever to level even once.

Conclusion, no you can't really pay to level up your character. You can buy BP and refresh your resins daily to use on XP leylines to speed things up but you can't immediately max your characters.

As for interactive maps, if you don't want to use it it's still fine. I didn't use interactive map and I still managed to open 90% of the chests in Liyue and Mondstadt. I did use it for Geoculus/Anemoculus because the old version didn't have the compass to help out. I only really started using the map to find the final few chests that I missed out.

Dont worry too much about guides, just get used to the game first. Just focus on doing quests and leveling your Adventure Rank. There are quite alot of quest you shouldn't run out of things to do anytime soon. Unless you play like 20 hours a day la

As for the battlepass, I don't think you should buy it because you just started and you won't be able to max the battlepass level. maybe wait for the next battle pass in less than 2 weeks time.

For beginner tips,

1) Make sure to spend your resins and don't let it max out(open your map top right will show /160). Resin is used in domains and bosses. You might not have access to these early, you can just use it on Leylines that appear on the map
2) At Adventure Rank 12 (AR12), you will unlock daily quests. Do them everyday.
3) Just forget about the web interactive maps for now, just go around unlocking all waypoints and statues.

The most important thing you need to know is Adventure Rank. You need to level your AR to unlock better domains, more quests, character progression, better item drops etc. Basically game progression.

Only way to gain AR is using resin and doing quests. There's no way to fast track this other than refresh resin using primogems.

As long as you focus your resources on one DPS, you'll be fine. Apart from abyss, there isn't much min-maxing, so long your dps does enough damage to kill comfortably you can clear the story. The welkin moon (the monthly pass thing) is the greatest bang for buck deal in genshin. Followed by battle pass because of the tons of resources

i didnt spend money on the battle pass, but if u do, u get to a pick a 4 star weapon which i dont think u get in the gacha pool. ofc some bonus materials for upgrading.

whaling wont make you level faster. as the story/side quest unlock based on ur adventure rank (ar) level. but it helps make your waifus stronger by getting more constellations and higher tier weapons. both need huge amounts of mora and exp card investment. which is time.

imo take your time. do every puzzle, chest, seelie spirit, daily quest/battle pass quest. the reputation system helps u explore more for more rewards. i didn't finish the main quest till like ar46. oh there is the event quest as well. bonus primogems and materials. try to use up all your energy.

but do play the game however u like. if u stuck go do other stuff, and get stronger. farm doamins for artifacts n level. utubers are there as a guide, any waifu team can complete the game, some just easier. min maxing only useful for those challenging high level abyss floor or domain.

p/s

i did buy Blessing of the Welkin Moon to support the devs. i get primogems out of it. evry month like 20 bucks.

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wa u all type so fas

My newbie tips for you is

1. DO NOT UPGRADE EVERY SINGLE CHARACTER YOU HAVE. THE KEY HERE IS TO FIND YOUR 4 PERSON IN TEAM.
2. ONCE YOU GOT your 5 stars hero decide whether you like him/her and focus upgrade.
3 Collect every flower you see you need alot to upgrade your characters.
4. If you are not strong enough learn to CO OP because when CO OP you can be playing 1 or 2 characters than 4 characters.
5. DONT RUSH INTO THE GAME TOO FAST you end up bored like me nothing much to do after u complete daily quest or events.
6. DONT UP ASECENSION OR WORLD LEVEL TOO FAST because when you up the monster also will up level means its get harder. Make sure you are ready.
7. This game is about elemental reaction. In the party page you can see on top show you how elemental react like 2 FIRE members = Increase ATK, 2 Anemo character = Shorter cooldown and many more so this game is not about more damage
8. Artifact for starting try focus on ATK , CRI RATE & CRI DMG ITEMS for DPS
9. This game is for people that have some time daily not for alot of time because you need resin for domains and bosses for extra it cost primo or fragile resin
10. This game story is like your daily chinese drama on TV. When you finish the story you need to wait the developer to update the continue story and when you finish the story you need to wait for next update so end up its a very slow game

Yes battle pass does help because it gives mora = money, upgrade materials, talent books and etc.

At low Adventure Rank(AR) you can just spend on Ley Lines(Gold and Blue clouds that gives you Mora & Character EXP Books). After that, you can spend your resin to farm Element bosses like 'Electro Hypostasis' when you think you're up to it.

What you played are probably one-time story dungeon, the one without timer and characters like Kaeya and Lisa will join you as guest characters. The dungeon(domains) we talked about here are higher-level one with timer/rules that cost 20 Resin Energy each, unlocked at around AR 16, together with Co-op feature.

Not really.

Did you linked both email and phone number?

Try not to reuse your password, go generate a 15 unique random chars for your password. A lot of people reusing the same few set of password across their games, forums and other junk sites, then one day one of these sites will eventually have a security breach and the bots will brute force login to trending games/apps with this leaked credential. Happens to Zoom, Fortnite, and the same thing will happen to Genshin too.