In Genshin Impact, the Molten Fortress is a blessing dungeon, for passing which you will receive valuable legendary artifacts: Dream of the Nymph and Radiance of Vurukashi. In this guide, we will tell you where you can find this dungeon, which units are suitable for clearing it, and how to deal with all the enemies in it as quickly as possible.
How to find and open the Molten Fortress dungeon
You can find him in the southern part of the Gavireh Lajaward area, which was added to the game along with the release of patch 3.6. In fact, you can get here after completing the task of the archons “Song of Dragon Freedom”. However, we still advise you to first open the desert through the story by completing the quest “King Deshret and the Three Wise Men”.
Then just move to the nearest teleporter and move towards the dungeon. The entrance to it is not masked in any way and is located at the foot of the cliff, so you can easily see it. You don't need to go through any additional puzzles and tasks to open it. The main thing is to meet the required adventure rank. So just go to the door and interact with it. The list below provides general information about the Molten Fortress:
- Required Adventure Rank: at least 30.
- Dungeon type: Trials (artifacts).
- Reward collection cost: 20 primordial resin or one thick resin
- Co-op: available
Molten Fortress rewards and challenges
< p>This dungeon has four difficulty levels, the choice of which affects the monsters you encounter during the challenges, the requirements for the level and rank of the adventure, and the rewards given out. Next, we will look at each phase separately.
Abandoned Stronghold I
- Eligible character level: 59.
- Adventure Rank: At least 30
- Enemies: Hilichurls, Hilichurls Fighters, Hydro Shamachurls, and Fire Ax Mitachurls.
- Anomaly Effect: Elemental mastery of all when creating Dendro reactions team members increases by 150 units. The bonus can occur once per second and lasts 8 seconds.
- Reward: 100 adventure points, 1850 pestilence, 15 friendship points, Warrior set (3-4 stars), Scientist set (3-4 stars), set Dream of the Nymph (4 stars) and Set The Radiance of Vurukashi (4 stars).
Abandoned Stronghold II
- Eligible character level: 69
- Adventure rank: at least 35
- Enemies: hilichurls, hilichurls -fighters, Hydro Shamachurls, Helichurl Grenadiers and Anemo Helichurl Outcasts.
- Anomaly Effect: When creating Dendro reactions, the elemental mastery of all team members increases by 150 points. The bonus can appear once per second and lasts for 8 seconds.
- Rewards: 100 Adventure Points, 2025 Plague, 20 Amity Points, Warrior Set (3-4 Stars), Scientist Set (3-4 Stars), Nymph's Dream Set (4 Stars), and Wurukashi's Radiance Set (4 Stars).
Abandoned Stronghold III
- Eligible character level: 80.
- Adventure rank: at least 40.
- Opponents: Helichurl Fighters, Hydro Helichurl Outcasts, and Fire Ax Mitachurls.
- Anomaly Effect: When creating Dendro reactions, the elemental mastery of all team members increases by 150 points. The bonus can appear once per second and lasts for 8 seconds.
- Reward: 100 Adventure Points, 2200 Pestilence, 20 Amity Points, Warrior Set (3-4 stars), Scientist Set (3-4 stars), Nymph's Dream Set (4-5 stars), and Wurukashi's Radiance Set (4- 5 stars).
Abandoned Stronghold IV
- Eligible character level: 90.
- Adventurer rank: at least 45.
- Enemies: Hydro Helichurl Outcasts, Anemo Helichurl Outcasts, and Fire Ax Mitachurls.
- Anomaly effect: When creating Dendro reactions, the mastery of the elements of all team members increases by 150 points. The bonus can occur once per second and lasts 8 seconds.
- Reward: 100 adventure points, 2525 pestilence, 20 friendship points, Warrior set (3-4 stars), Scientist set (3-4 stars), set The Nymph's Dream (4-5 stars) and the Glow of Vurukashi set (4-5 stars).
Artifacts in the Molten Fortress
The table below shows the sets of artifacts, drops in this dungeon, and their bonuses.
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| Artifact | Bonuses |
|---|---|
Warrior | 2 pieces: Increase damage from normal and charged hits by 15%. 4 pieces: Increases the damage of your charged and normal strikes by 25% for 8 seconds after you cast an elemental skill. |
Scientist | 2 parts: increase energy recovery by 20% . 4 pieces: Gaining Elemental Orbs or Particles restores 3 Energy, but only to team members equipped with a Bow or Catalyst. The effect occurs every three seconds. |
< /p> Nymph's Dream | 2 pieces: You will gain a 15% Hydro damage bonus. 4 pieces: Successfully hitting an enemy with a normal attack, a charged attack, a falling attack, an elemental explosion, and an elemental skill will generate 1 level of Nymph's Reflection lasting 8 seconds. With 1, 2, 3 or more levels of Nymph's Reflection, Hydro damage bonus increases by 4%, 9% and 15%, and attack power – by 7%, 16% and 25% respectively. |
Radiance of Vurukashi | 2 pieces: Increases the character's maximum HP by 20%. 4 Pieces: Elemental Skill and Elemental Explosion damage increased by 10%. If the hero wearing this set takes damage, the damage boost bonus is increased by 80% for 5 seconds. This effect can stack up to five times. Time for each level is counted separately. The bonus is given even if the character is not on the battlefield. |
Recommended Commands for the Molten Fortress
Suitable characters
Given the anomaly of the earth's arteries, we strongly recommend that you take Dendro characters. Thus, you can increase the mastery of the elements of the fighters, increasing the damage from reactions. It is recommended to supplement them with Electro and Hydro heroes to create Stimulation and Budding, respectively.
We do not advise you to take too many Hydro characters, and Anemo heroes can be completely abandoned. The fact is that in the level IV dungeon you will mainly fight with outcast hilichurls, which have 50% resistance to Hydro and Anemo elements. Plus, Anemo doesn't interact with Dendro.
Of course, you also need good supports. As a shielder, you can take Tom, Zhong Li, Bai Zhu or Kirara. A good healer might be Barbara, Kuki Shinobu, Kokomi, Dory, or Yao Yao. The screenshot below shows the characters from which you can easily assemble a good squad for this dungeon.
Optimal teams
The table below shows several builds of heroes with which you can easily complete this dungeon, provided that your characters are good pumped.
| Main DPS | Sub-DD | Sub-DD/Support | Support |
|---|---|---|---|
Al-Haytham (Tignari) | < p> Yae Miko |
Nahida |
Zhong Li |
Al-Haytham |
Xing Qiu |
Raiden |
Yao Yao |
Tignari |
Fischl |
Yae Miko |
Zhong Li |
Tignari |
Nahida |
Fischl |
Kuki Shinobu |
Tignari |
Ayato |
Nahida |
Kuki Shinobu |
Nahida |
Raiden |
Shinobu Cookies |
Tomas |
Nahida |
Yae Miko |
Fischl |
Zhong Li |
Saino |
Nahida |
Fischl |
Jung Li < /td> |
How to beat the Molten Fortress
The essence of this dungeon is to destroy a certain number of enemies in a specified period of time (usually given 5 minutes). Thus, all your efforts should be aimed at inflicting maximum damage on the largest number of enemies, so be sure to take your strongest Dendro or Electro damage dealers.
It should be remembered that the most damage will increase on those characters whose build is based on elemental mastery. On the first levels of the dungeon, you will have to fight with large groups of enemies, but on the last level, you will have to fight against strong single enemies, so it is not necessary to take damage dealers with a large damage radius.
If you don't use heroes that deal mostly Hydro and Anemo damage, you can quickly deal with outcast Hilichurls and Mitachurls. In general, this dungeon cannot be called difficult, so you should pass it without any problems even at the last stage.
