In thisGenshin Impact GuideI’m showing you myInvulnerable Maid BuildforNoelle, for Abyss, and exploring Inazuma. This is a flexible build, that can be done in several ways, and it utilizes the Geo element to its maximum potential. We will build two Geo characters for Geo Resonance, which will give it a great level of synergy to start with. Then we aim to get a decent elemental reaction from the other two character slots, be it Electrocharged, Overload, or Freeze. But for the purpose of exploring the new region, Inazuma, we will go with Electrocharged in this guide.
In thisGuideI’ll explain just how to build theInvulnerable Maidto face a wide variety of content, deal potent damage, and counter all situationsGenshin Impacthas to throw at you. On top of that, it makes a perfect team to finish the Spiral Abyss. So it’s one wild card build if you’ve been looking for a Free to Play Geo build. With only one small obstacle that is needed, C6Noelle, which is more achievable for veteran players who have played Genshin Impact from the start. I’ll go through whatWeaponsto use, whatArtifactsto upgrade and which companions to pick up, so check this one out!
Genshin Impact Build: Noelle, The Invulnerable Maid
Noelleis a four star character that has been heavily featured in so many character banners. In one of these banners, she was paired with the best support character to wish for,Zhongli. That gave many people so many copies of her. She’s also one of the guaranteed characters you got by wishing on the beginners banner, back upon starting the game. These factors made it easier to haveNoelleat C6, even unintentionally, and it inspired this build, that rely on having all her constellations unlocked.Noelleplays a good Geo DPS, but more importantly, she’s both a healer and a shield source at the same time, so her team is flexible. On top of that, she scales with Def stat, so she doesn’t compete with many other characters for best artifacts.
We need a second Geo character for Geo resonance, and for generating Geo elemental particles to recharge Energy forNoelle. They play as a Geo battery, and the best characters to fulfil the role is eitherZhongli, orAlbedo. Both are five-star support characters, and both can be a sub-DPS or burst DPS in the team.Albedoprovides AOE and higher Energy regeneration, whileZhonglishreds Geo resistance and is able to be built for with a stronger shield. Geo Main characters work as well, but require constant switching to cast an Elemental Skill on cooldown.
Outside of the Abyss, you may opt to stack the team with Geo characters, and this will be perfectly fine for other content. So you can play three Geo characters or even four Geo characters. They all will provide higher Energy regeneration for each other, and making gameplay much smoother. However, in the Abyss, you will need to have additional elements to counter the Elemental shields of the Fatui, Abyss Mages, and Heralds. So we pick upXingqiu, and an Electro character likeBeidou,Fischl, or even an Electro Main character.
Noelle, The Invulnerable Maid Attributes
As we need to build a C6Noelle, she scales her damage in her own unique way. First, she converts all her normal and charged attacks into Geo damage, so we can scale her withGeo Damage Bonus.Then she adds another layer of damage that scales with theDefstat, which is easily done reaching heights that even the Attack stat can’t reach. Also, we go forCrit RateandCrit Damage.Finally, if there’s room in sub stats, you should addEnergy rechargeas much as you can without sacrificing other DPS stats.Attackstats are not wasted on Noelle as well, as they still increase her damage slightly.
Note thatDefaffect shield strength as well, so if you aim to build a true Invulnerable Maid, you should be generous with theDefstat. The ideal way is to use theDefmain stat on a Timepiece,Geo damageon Goblet, and Crit Rate/Damage on Headpiece. However, in some cases, you can useDefas the main stat overCritstat on Headpiece. This is especially useful if it’s impossible to balance your Crit Rate to Crit Damage on a 1:2 ratio.
Noelle, The Invulnerable Maid Weapons
Noelleis a Claymore user, a strong Melee weapon with slow but wide and impactful attacks. During her burst,Noelletakes the AOE of Claymore into a whole new territory. She has the widest AOE among all melee heroes in the game, and that’s whyNoelleexcels at floors with high mob density. Her starter weapon should be the craftable Claymore,Whiteblind. It has aDefsub stat, and its passive increases bothDefandAttackwith every hit, up to four times. However, you need to have these passive stacks active before activating Elemental Burst to benefit from them.
Whiteblind’s a strong weapon, as well as an easy and simple powerhouse. If you plan to stick withWhiteblindthrough to endgame, you can craft 4 additional copies and refine it to refinement level 5, for a higherAttackandDefbonus. However, if you plan to make an upgrade, don’t waste your prototypes on it, as there are stronger options out there.
Battle Pass 4 Star Weapons
The next milestone forNoelleis the Battle Pass weapon,Serpent Spine. That weapon is not free to play, as you have to pay 10$ or equivalent for the Battlepass. But if you already do,Serpent Spineis the best in slot Four Star weapon for many Claymore users, and especially best forNoelle. The thing that makes this weapon shine over all others, is the damage bonus multiplier, which doesn’t add to attack nor Def, but multiplies them. The condition with this weapon is taking more damage, and removing one stack when you take damage. But if you build enoughDef,you’re able to counter all of this with the shield Noelle generates. It’s just what Noelle needs to compete with top DPS characters.
The Ultimate Weapon
If we saySerpent Spineis the king of DPS for Noelle, we wouldn’t be so wrong. It’s indeed better than every Five Star weapon with one single exception, that’sSkyward Pride. This weapon beatsSerpent Spine, not by a lot, but still better, because of the higher base stat, and unconditional damage multiplier. On top of that, it performs 8 additional physical hits after using the Elemental Burst. Use it if you are a heavy spender and have this weapon already, or if you are a free to play player who gotSkyward Pridefrom the either the standard banner, or from losing the 50:50 chance on the limited banner.
Noelle, The Invulnerable Maid Artifacts
Gladiator’s Finale Set
Gladiator is one easy pick for any character that relies on Normal Attacks to deal damage. While in the past we used to not have the best pieces for theGladiator’s FinaleSet because it only dropped from world bosses, and weekly bosses. However, with the introduction of version 2.0 Inazuma, there’s a new mechanic that allows you to get more pieces for theGladiator’s Finale. All you need is to sacrifice three of your five star artifacts with bad stats, for a guaranteed piece of the set you want.
The added attack from 2 pieces bonus is not the best forNoelle, but we still get the full benefit from 35% normal attack damage at four pieces. It’s the best pick if you have good pieces.
Retracing Bolide
This set is only good if you have 100% uptime of shield, which is hard without using Zhongli as a shield bot.Noellehas her own shield, which can be very strong, but against the new harder content in Inazuma, you will likely lose her shield before its duration ends. On top of that, she has a much longer cooldown on her shield than its duration. So when she loses her shield, you get a drastic drop in DPS. But if you manage to keep the shield up all the time, you’re able to enjoy a 40% damage multiplier for Normal and charged attacks.
Defender’s Will/Archaic Petra
This hybrid combination is quick to get, and it will not do much worse than the full 4 pieces of previous.Defender’s Willis a four star set, so only use it on Flower and Feather slot, otherwise it’s a huge stats loss. You get a 15%Geo damage bonusfromArchaic Petra, and a 30%Defbonus fromDefender’s Will, which is decent but suffers huge diminishing returns if you useWhiteblind.
It’s worth mentioning that the new set coming from Inazuma domains, Shimenawa’s Reminiscence is not ideal for Noelle. It’s an Artifact Set for burst characters, with a short cooldown for their Elemental Skill. Noelle has 24 seconds of cooldown and is reduced by 1 second every 4 Normal Attack, which needs at least 3 seconds to perform.
Noelle, The Invulnerable Maid Talents
Favonius Bladework - Maid
Noelle’s Normal Attacks consist of four time combos, which is slow and takes 3 seconds to execute. When it comes to numbers, she doesn’t have the best modifiers on her normal attack damage. That’s why we don’t build her as a physical DPS, nor focus on her before C6. After C6 however, she gets a whole new modifier from activating Elemental Burst. That modifier is very strong as it makes her a good DPS, and able to clear most content without much of an issue.
The best way to execute her combos in an AOE situation is going for full four combos, no matter how slow it is. Then cancel the recovery animation after the fourth hit by a quick dash. In Single Target situations though, you might want to go two or three attacks, dash, and start a new combo.
Note that Noelle’s Normal Attack outside of Elemental Burst scales withAttackandPhysical damage.While added damage on her Normal Attacks during Burst scales withDefandGeo damage.
Breastplate
Noelle’s Elemental Skill is kind of a combination of a mini Zhongli, and mini Qiqi skill squeezed into one skill. Upon casting, Noelle gets a shield, and while the shield is active, hitting enemies heals herself and the entire team. Both healing, and shield strength scales withDef.It’s a fantastic kit for one skill, and can save two team slots to use however you like.
Only downside with Elemental Skill, is the long cooldown, which causes Noelle to struggle with energy regeneration on her own.
Sweeping Time
The name of the talent is one of the most expressive terms you can find in Genshin Impact. upon activation, Noelle literally turns into a sweeping machine, with huge AOE, and high impact Geo hits. With good positioning, Noelle can attack melee enemies on the front line, and archers at the backline at the same time. But that’s not the only good thing about her Elemental Burst as she adds a new damage modifier that scales purely withDef, making her entire kit scaling on one easy to get stat.
Damage fromSweeping Timeis calculated in a separate layer from Normal Attacks, even if it shows as a single number. So you have zero obligation to increase Noelle’sAttackstat to get the strongest DPS output.
The duration of the Burst is 15s, and the cooldown is 15 seconds. But on top of that, every enemy defeated during the skill’s duration adds 1s to the duration. So in theory, you may recharge her Elemental Burst long before it expires. However, as Noelle struggles to generate elemental particles on her own, she needs a very specific setup to recharge her energy. That’s whyERon sub stats is valuable, and another character playing as a Geo battery is highly recommended.
Noelle, The Invulnerable Maid Party Composition
Genshin Impact has a unique playstyle that is dependant on switching characters, and chaining combos across these characters. So a solid part ofNoelle’s build is knowing which characters will work best with her, and what roles they will play. In this section, I’ll fill you in on some of the best characters that synergises well with this build.
In the current game version 2.0, it’s universally recommended for you to use a five star support character such asZhongli,Venti, Kazuha,Jean, or sometimesAlbedo. Each of these offers a slightly different playstyle.
Zhongli/Albedo
Yes, both ofZhongliandAlbedoare limited five star characters, and yes you will use either or both of them to support a free four star character. That’s how MiHoYo designed the Geo characters so far, with Four stars being DPS, and Five Stars playing support. Especially inNoelle’s case, where she wants to stay on the field to deal sustained damage, and needed off the field for support with a turret. BothZhongliandAlbedoleave a turret, withAlbedohaving more AOE and energy generation, andZhongligiving better damage and protection.
For the purpose of Open world, we can use both together. But for an ideal Abyss team though, we will go withAlbedo, and leaveZhonglifor Abyss second team. That way, both teams have resistance shred and shield. But if you don’t haveAlbedo, just giveZhonglitoNoelle’s team as she gets a huge benefit from him.
Albedois the cheapest Five Star character to build, as he only needs a Three star weapon. He also relies onDefstat to deal damage. We useAlbedoto put his Elemental Skill down, and then switch out. His skill lasts for 30 seconds, and deals AOE Geo damage to all enemies in a huge radius every time they take damage (on 2 seconds cooldown). That’s the main source of Geo particles generation in the Noelle team. However, his skill requires you to deal damage to enemies to trigger, so it’s not effective against shields of the Abyss Heralds and Abyss mages. So we need to make sure Noelle’s team doesn’t go into the rooms with Abyss Heralds, but go to other one instead.
For pure elemental skill scaling, we only need theDefstat.Albedois amazing at this because he can do off field damage that without having to worry too much about him. After that, we need theGeo Damage Bonus,Critical Rate, andCritical Damage. He doesn’t even needEnergy Recharge, because his Elemental burst is less important and deals less damage. It scales withAttack, but we don’t scale for attack in this build.
It has been long ago established that best in slot weapon forAlbedois the three star weapon,Harbinger of Dawn. It’s excellent for him, because it provides a massiveCritical RateandCritical Damagebonus while HP is over 90%. The thing isAlbedowill not be losing HP if he’s off the field, and for the time he’s in play, he has some good invulnerability frames. If players mess up and he takes damage, he can be easily healed while off field by Noelle.
This weapon needs to be refined to max level of 5, but that’s very easy to do, as three stars weapons are abundant.
Alternative Five Star
The only five star worth mentioning here isMistsplitter Reforged, known as Ayaka’s signature weapon. The weapon has the highest Base Attack stat in the game, which encourages the Attack build for Albedo that focuses on Elemental Burst. But it also provides pure Elemental damage bonus relevant to character elemental affinity, which in Albedo’s case is Geo.
It’s also the only one handed sword that gives Crit damage similar to theHarbinger of Dawn, so you get overall better stats, even in a Full Def build. That’s especially true if you have optimized artifacts with very high sub stats, which you should have if you are going out of your way to wish on weapons banner to getMistsplitter Reforged.
We use theDefmain stat on Timepiece,Geo Damage Bonuson Goblet, andCritical RateorCritical Damageon Headpiece. For a set bonus, the ideal setup is 2 pieces ofArchaic Petrafor Geo damage and either 2 pieces ofGamblerfor Elemental Skill damage, or 2 pieces of theDefender’s Willfor Def bonus. But note that using four-star artifacts is only good if you restrict it to Flower and Feather pieces.
If you would like to play full support, and don’t care about Albedo’s DPS at all, you’re able to go with 4 pieces of Tenacity of the Millelith Set. It provides an Attack bonus to the whole party, and can buff the other two characters besides Noelle and Albedo. But it also increases shield strength to ensure Noelle’s shield endures.
The good thing aboutXingqiuas a support is the multi-role he can play, as well as the diversity he brings to the team. He can heal, reduce incoming damage, and apply a good Hydro element while off-field. He can also deal some decent damage with his Elemental Skill. But we mainly use him for an Electro Charged reaction in this build. Electro Charged have been buffed before Inazuma update, and it have become good reaction to go if you ahve spare two slots. It stuns enemies, and can proc twice if procced by Hydro.XingqiuwithSacrificial Swordcan generate very nice elemental particles, which helps with Noelle’s hunger for energy.
His Elemental Burst will shoot down rain swords on targets alongside normal attacks of any character on the field. His Elemental Skill reduces incoming damage, so it will allow shields to stay up longer.
We don’t need any healing fromXingqiu, so we build him for a full burst DPS. We go withEnergy Rechargeon Sands,Hydro damageon Goblet, andCrit RateorCrit Damageon headpiece. These are the main stats, and for sub stats, we go withEnergy Recharge,Attack, andCrit.
For Energy regeneration, we need to use theSacrificial Swordfor Xingqui. TheSacrificial Sword‘s major benefit is that it can reset the cooldown ofXingqiu‘sElemental Skill. A 21 seconds cooldown is a really long time in this rotation, and reducing that is great for DPS and defense increase. If theSacrificial Swordallows the use of one more Elemental Skill, it’s doubling the effect ofXingqiu. But also, doubling the energy generated for Noelle.
It gets better with a higher refinement level, so make sure to get more copies of this weapon if you have a chance.
The newly introduced artifact set, Emblem of Severed Fate, is good forXingqiu’s DPS and battery role. It gives him moreEnergy Recharge, and scales his damage with the eEnergy Rechargestat, which we will build anyway. It’s a great pick for him but requires some time to farm.
If you don’t have good Emblem of Severed Fate set,Xingqiustill scales well with good oldNoblesse Oblige.
Electro MC/Raiden Shogun In Electrocharged teams, we usually need aFischlto exploit the Electro reaction to proc her Ascension passive off field. However, since our DPS here is the Geo element, Fischl is fine, but her potential goes down slightly, allowing other Electro characters to come close. If you are building Electro withFischl, you better have her in an Overload team with Yanfei, typically with ourSmoky Scarlet Witchbuild. So in a Noelle team, we use either the new Electro Main Character, orBeidou. Both having a turret with their Elemental Burst, with the MC able to regenerate a lot of energy for Noelle, andBeidoudoing a lot of AOE damage. Both have 80 Energy cost for their Burst. I’ll not go into much details about building an Electro MC in this guide, as it requires a lot of testing and optimizing. But I’ll say it goes well with mostly the same build asBeidou.
Raiden Shogun share similar build, but more suitable for Noelle teams, since she gives more energy recharge. If built right right, she can do great burst dps as well.
Beidouis usually is built around her perfect counter. But with Noelle taking up most field time, you might not useBeidouElemental Skill on cooldown. So we instead focus on an Energy Recharge build for her, and get most out of the Elemental Burst. It also goes well withXingqiu’s hydro application, for a constant Electrocharged reaction. The Elemental Burst ofBeidouallows her to attack with Electro with each Normal Attack, and this persists after switching. The Additional attack jumps between two enemies, and with her Second Constellation, it jumps up to 4 enemies. This creates an effective AOE at a range with just Normal Attacks for Noelle.
We need anElectro Damageon Goblet,Energy rechargeon Sands, andCrit Rate or Damageon Headpiece. Then we aim for more Energy Recharge and offensive stats on sub stats. The Sands can change to Attack bonus if you may getBeidou’s Elemental Burst up to 100% of the time without Energy Recharge from Sands. It’s hard to obtain, unless you have the perfect sub stats, but it’s possible.
We don’t use a crafted weapon onBeidouas to not compete with Noelle over the Northlander Claymore Prototype crafting material, which is necessary to refine the Whiteblind Claymore as well. What we do instead is pick up either theSacrificial Greatsword, or the new Inazuma claymore,Katsuragikiri Nagamasa. The Katsuragikiri Nagamasa comes from a quest in Inazuma, and brings one Northlander Claymore Prototype with it, so we will be able to craft one copy for free. This sword is great for generating Energy forBeidouherself, which is very important to keep the Electrocharged combo going.
At the base refinement level, it consumes 3 energy on Elemental skill use, but generates 9 energy on the next 6 seconds. It also has a higher Energy Recharge thanSacrificial Greatsword,but has a lower base attack. Though it gives a straight damage multiplier to elemental Skill, so it’s not a bad trade off. If you use it, ensure to collect Electro particles onBeidoubefore switching, you will likely recharge energy fast enough.
Another four-star weapon choice forBeidouis theSacrificial Greatsword,which plays as a battery for self and for party as well. That’s especially noticeable at high refinement level, as you get near guaranteed chance to use Elemental Skill twice. Each use generates particles, whichBeidoucan collect. It also has a higher base attack, and allows a perfect counter twice, for decent damage.
Beidoucan make perfect use of the new Emblem of Severed Fate artifact set, because of the Energy Recharge bonus. But you can also give her the good oldNoblesse Obligeset. But since Noelle doesn’t benefit a lot from attack bonus fromNoblesse Oblige, we can buildBeidoufor more DPS with 2xThundering Fury, and 2x Shimenawa’s Reminiscence or 2xGladiator’s Finale.
We hope you found this build useful, and hopefully it gives you a good idea of how to maximizeNoellepotential.
Genshin Impact2.0update is now available to play on PC, iOS, Android and PS4 and PS5. If you enjoyed thisGenshin Impact Guidebe sure to check out more even more info on ourGenshin Impact Wiki.You can also keep an eye out for more guides for upcoming 2.0 and be sure to not miss ourYanfei The Smoky Scarlet Witch build. As well as, ourGenshin Impact Character Tier List: Crystallize (Geo)
