Genshin Impact: Sethos cultivation and team recommendation

Talent Point Allocation

The talent “Sand King’s Blessing” increases Sethos’s Piercing Arrow damage by 700% Mastery, effective 4 times, reset after 15 seconds.
At this point, we can only use Piercing Arrow (second-stage charged attack), keeping all skills at level 1:

1. Normal Attack Level 1: 134.6% Elemental Mastery, at Level 10: 242.2% Elemental Mastery, an increase of 12.8%. As a first experience, this resource can be saved.
2. Elemental Skill’s energy restoration remains constant at 12 points for all levels, upgrading only adds attack power ratio, but Sethos primarily stacks Elemental Mastery, so this ratio increase is basically negligible.
   ※ Only consumes experience books and character ascension materials, which means the cultivation pressure is basically zero for the vast majority of players. It is only recommended to upgrade normal attacks and elemental bursts when you are sure you particularly enjoy the experience.

Weapons and Artifacts

Currently, Sethos has two playstyles: charging Piercing Arrow or Elemental Burst, both of which are considered “charged attack damage” mechanically. Therefore, there are not many dilemmas in choosing weapons and artifacts!
【Weapons】The Hunter’s Path (5-star) > The Slingshot (3-star) > Others. If you have three-star or higher Rust, Amos’ Bow, or The Stringless, you can replace The Slingshot~
【Artifacts】Wanderer’s Troupe (80 Mastery, 35% charged attack damage). Main attributes: Mastery Sands, Electro DMG Goblet, Crit Rate Circlet; Additional attributes: Crit Rate = Crit DMG > Mastery > Energy Recharge > Others.
※ If you don’t have a high-score Troupe, you can also consider the Dream of the Dandelion Gladiator, Meteoric Tide, or a combination of “Mastery, charged attack, and Electro DMG.”

Team Recommendations

【High-end】Sethos + Fischl + Nansyda + Bennett.
【Low-end】Sethos + Xiangling + Sucrose / Kazuha + Barbara.
For players without Nansyda, Barbara is actually a good substitute choice. Directly drive the cat car to hit enemies, stack shields, and at the same time hang grass, this elemental quantity is enough for Sethos to use.
※ If you only play charged attacks, Sethos can consume 20 energy to reduce its time to 0.3 seconds, with low demand for anti-interruption; if you want to play elemental bursts, every interruption within these 8 seconds is actual damage loss, requiring a shield character.

Conclusion

Although Sethos has two output methods, in my opinion, his design of consuming energy to accelerate charging is the highlight. This is reflected in both his constellation and talents. This also fits the direction of ‘resource-saving’ cultivation in this issue. I hope everyone won’t get too excited and only consider increasing resource investment when it feels appropriate.