Trial Characters are available during specific Quests and Events, allowing players to try them out even if they have not acquired the character themselves.
Mechanics[]
Trial Characters are playable characters made available to all players during certain Quests, Domains, or Events, regardless of whether the player has personally acquired them. Their weapons, artifacts, Talent levels, and Constellations are fixed and cannot be altered by the player. Artifact details also cannot be viewed.
Quests[]
Party[]
A trial character can be added to the player's party as an additional fifth character, which is currently the only way to exceed the four-character party limit.
If the player's own version of the character is already in the party, either the trial character will replace the player's character or the player's character will replace the trial character; this varies from quest to quest. Either way, the player will be limited to a four-character party in these cases.
During Event Story Quest Tears Among the Leaves in Waterborne Poetry: Part II - Tears Among the Leaves, either a trial character or the player's own copy of the character is used. Whether the trial character is selected or not is likely based on the player's character's level, constellations, or other factors.
Some quests do not add the Trial Character as the fifth member, but rather allow the player to use only the trial character(s). Such quests include:
- Xiao in the Story Quest domain Karma-Heavy Cavern
- Raiden Shogun in the Story Quest Farewell to the Past
- Yanfei, Yelan, and Xiao in the Archon Quest End of the Line
- Kaedehara Kazuha in the Story Quest A Strange and Friendless Road
Attributes[]
Trial characters' stats, artifacts, and talent levels are scaled to the player's World Level. Normally, trial characters will have their first three constellation levels unlocked.
On occasion, trial characters' weapons will be retroactively adjusted to accommodate newer Event Wish weapons. Currently, there are no documented cases of trial characters' artifact sets being retroactively adjusted.
Events[]
During Test Run - Character Trial Events, players are given a fixed party with the featured character, usually paired with one or more "starting" characters (Amber, Xiangling, Barbara, Lisa, Kaeya, Noelle, Collei) or other 4★ characters.
Combat events such as Misty Dungeon and Hyakunin Ikki have provided multiple Trial Characters that can be used alongside the players' own characters. These Trial Characters are mutually exclusive with the players' versions of them, so having two versions of a character at once is not possible.
Domains[]
The only long-term domains with trial characters are the Elemental Trials in Temple of the Lion, Mondstadt. Only the trial characters can be used.
Trial Character List[]
Gallery[]
Change History[]
- Optimizes the trial character's Artifacts and Talent levels in some Story Quests, so that they change dynamically with the World Level.
- Upgrades the trial character's ability in some Story Quests at some World Levels.
- Character Trials were released.