Genshin Impact Nefer – Your guide to the Dendro powerhouse

Nefer is a powerful 5-star DPS in Genshin Impact who relies on the Lunar Bloom reaction to deal heavy damage to enemies. In terms of power scaling, Nefer is amazing, and you’ll easily clear all endgame content with her. However, when it comes to flexibility, she falls behind quite a bit. 

Nefer is extremely dependent on Lauma to unlock the full potential of the former. Regardless of which team you go for, you must have Lauma, which definitely hurts for free-to-play players. If you have Lauma, you must get Nefer, as this duo will become one of the best options for the Spiral Abyss.

Nefer best build

Nefer is a DPS unit, which means you need to work on her weapon and stats to ensure optimal performance. Since she uses Lunar-Bloom, you’ll need Elemental Mastery and Crit stats to ensure her abilities scale appropriately. Here’s the Nefer best build in Genshin Impact. 

Build Elements	Requirements
Weapon	Reliquary of Truth
Best Artifact	Night of the Sky’s Unveiling
Sands	Elemental Mastery
Goblet	Elemental Mastery
Circlet	Crit Rate or Crit DMG

You might be wondering why the Goblet uses Elemental Mastery over Dendro DMG Bonus. The reason is that the Lunar-Bloom reaction reduces the effectiveness of Dendro DMG. This means that we’re better off going for Elemental Mastery, which increases the potency of Lunar-Bloom. 

You should maintain about 500 Elemental Mastery and about 50% Crit Rate without relying on the bonus stats from the Artifact set. Try to maintain about 220% Crit DMG and about 130% Energy Recharge. The Energy Recharge stat will ensure that Nerfer’s ultimate recharges quickly. 

Best Nefer weapons

The best weapon for Nefer in Genshin Impact is the Reliquary of Truth. This weapon features all the necessary stats that synergize well with Nefer. If you don’t want to pull for the signature weapon, Nightweaver’s Looking Glass, or Dawning Frost. 

Reliquary of Truth

This is the signature weapon for Nefer and comes with Crit DMG substats. This makes it very easy to balance out stats quite a bit. As part of the passive, you receive 8% Crit Rate. Additionally, you also receive 80 Elemental Mastery whenever the equipped character uses their Elemental Skill. 

If the equipped character deals Lunar-Bloom damage, their Crit DMG is increased by 24%. You can have both of these effects active at the same time, which increases the potency of both buffs by 50%. 

Nightweaver’s Looking Glass

This is Lauma’s signature weapon, but it works very well on Nefer in Genshin Impact. It comes with Elemental Mastery substats, which are extremely good for Nefer as they help her scale quite a bit. Additionally, upon dealing Dendro damage, the equipped character’s Elemental Mastery is increased by 60. 

If the equipped character deals Lunar-Bloom damage, their Elemental Mastery is further increased by 60. If these two effects are active at the same time, the equipped character has Bloom damage increased by 120%, Burgeon damage by 80%, and Lunar Bloom damage by 40%. 

The Burgeon damage doesn’t help much, but the Lunar Bloom buff is more than enough to keep things going. Additionally, the Elemental Mastery buffs will increase Nefer’s damage massively. 

Dawning Frost

This is a 4-star option for Nefer, and it works pretty well. This weapon comes with Crit Damage substats, which help out with stat balancing quite a bit. Additionally, if you use Charged Attack, your Elemental Mastery is increased by 72, and if you use Elemental Skill, your Elemental Mastery is increased by 42. 

Overall, you get a lot of Elemental Mastery boost when casting your abilities. The base attack on the weapon is a bit low, but since it’s 4-star, it helps you to get multiple copies easier and thereby go for a refinement five weapon. 

Best Nefer Artifacts

The best artifact for Nefer in Genshin Impact is Night of the Sky’s Unveiling. You need to complete the 4-pc set as it synergizes perfectly with the character. The two-piece bonus gives you 80 Elemental Mastery, which is massive. 

However, it’s the four-piece bonus that really makes the difference. Whenever a character uses a Lunar reaction, the equipped character receives 15% or 30% Crit Rate, depending on whether you are in the Nascent Gleam or Ascendant Gleam state. 

The Nascent Gleam and Ascendant Gleam states are exclusive to Nod-Krai characters. If you have only one Nod-Krai character, you get Nascent Gleam, and if you have two Nod-Krai characters, you gain Ascendant Gleam. 

This just means you need two Nod-Krai characters to trigger the 30% Crit Rate boost. We strongly recommend building your team around this constraint. 

Genshin Impact Nefer kit

Nefer’s kit is pretty simple to understand by Genshin Impact standards. She is especially straightforward to play when you compare her to someone like Flins. Her kit primarily revolves around the Verdant Dew stacks. Whenever you deal Lunar damage to enemies, you gain Verdant Dew, and you can have a maximum of three stacks. More on these below. 

When Nefer uses her Elemental Skill, she enters the Shadow Dance state. In this state, your charged attack is upgraded, where you generate four clones that deal massive Lunar Bloom damage. The clones are what deal the Lunar Bloom damage, as Nefer herself simply deals Dendro damage, which doesn’t hit as hard. However, the Lunar-Bloom damage scales off Elemental Mastery, making this state crucial to your overall rotation. 

Now, in order to use the special charged attacks, you need Verdant Dew stacks. Each charged attack consumes one stack, which leads you to deal Lunar-Bloom damage, and that in turn recharges the Verdant Dew stacks. This is a cyclic process, sustainable as long as you keep dealing Lunar Bloom damage. 

The second part of Nefer’s kit revolves around Seeds of Deceit. When there are two or more Nod-Krai characters in the party, any Dendro Core on the battlefield or the ones that are made within 15 seconds of activating Elemental Skill are converted to Seeds of Deceit. 

When Nefer uses her special charged attack, she consumes these stacks, thereby triggering a buff called Veil of Falsehood. This buff increases the damage of Nefer’s special charged attack, and at three stacks, it grants Nefer 100 Elemental Mastery. However, unlike normal Dendro Cores, these Seeds of Deceit deal no damage. 

Nefer also boasts a powerful Elemental Burst that deals high Dendro damage to enemies. You need three stacks of Veil of Falsehood so that you can deal the maximum possible damage. This damage scales off Nefer’s ATK and Elemental Mastery. 

Finally, Nefer has a passive ability that increases the regeneration time of Verdant Dew by 10% for every 100 Elemental Mastery past 500. This can go up to a maximum of 50%. 

In normal circumstances, you regenerate one Verdant Dew every 2.5 seconds, but at 1000 Elemental Mastery, you regenerate 1.5 Verdant Dew every 3.7 seconds. In short, you regenerate more Verdant Dew if you take steps to boost your Elemental Mastery stat. 

Best Nefer team comps

Nefer is a bit restrictive with her team comps in Genshin Impact, as she needs Lauma as a must. Apart from that, you can have any character you want, which ideally includes a Hydro unit and a healer. 

Nefer Nilou team

This is the best team for Nefer, comprising Lauma, Nilou, and Nahida. The reason why you need Lauma is that she buffs the damage of Bloom, Hyperbloom, and Burgeon by allowing those reactions to Crit. In addition to that, she also increases the damage output of the Lunar-Bloom reaction. 

Nilou is a very good Hydro unit who can generate a lot of Bloom cores. This allows Nefer to create Seeds of Deceit, which in turn allows her to gain Veil of Falsehood stacks. Finally, Nahida simply provides Dendro application, and she can use her ultimate to increase the Elemental Mastery of the party. 

Every party member in this buffs up Nefer, who simply walks into the field and uses her special charged attacks to deal heavy damage. This team lacks a healer, but you don’t need it as much, since you can wipe out enemies very quickly. 

Nefer Aino Team

This team functions similarly to the previous team, except it has Aino in place of Nilou. The team members will comprise Nefer, Lauma, Aino, and Nahida. Aino has a high Hydro application, and if you get her to Constellation six, she is a better choice over Constellation zero Nilou. 

The rest of the team functions similarly to the previous one, where Lauma will provide buffs, Nahida will provide buffs, and Nefer will deal damage. Aino also has very short rotations, which makes it easy to use her. Your DPS as a whole increases a lot since Nefer will get more time on the field due to short rotations from Aino. 

Is Nefer worth pulling?

This is a difficult question to answer, as Nefer is quite nuanced as a character compared to everyone else. However, the simplest answer will be that if you have Lauma pull for Nefer, otherwise we recommend against it. 

This is because Lauma makes Nefer perform significantly better than when the former is absent from your Genshin Impact team. 

Lauma lets all the key Dendro reactions Crit and increases the damage of Lunar-Bloom. No other character in the game can provide these buffs, which makes her a staple for Nefer. Without Lauma, Nefer is no different than someone like Alhaitham, who can also deal a lot of damage to enemies with much less setup. 

That said, if you really like Nefer and are willing to use her in a setup without Lauma, then go for her. This is because you can still use Aino, who is free-to-play, to trigger the Ascendant Gleam buff from the Moonsign mechanic in Nod-Krai. You will struggle a bit to clear Spiral Abyss, but nothing else will pose a threat to you. 

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