Character kits

The Traveler's first kit is built on combat: its five strikes, charged attack and plunges land their hits on the enemies in reach, its skill and burst are placeholders, and every character on the roster without a module of its own fights with that kit until the kits run gives it one. This page is the framework those are written on. The skill sets each character's table holds, and the targeting a kit's action turns to, are built, as character kits records. The talent multipliers, Diluc's, Bennett's, Mona's, Amber's, Kaeya's, Lisa's, Noelle's, Kamisato Ayaka's, Jean's, Barbara's, Razor's, Venti's, Xiangling's, Beidou's, Xingqiu's, Xiao's, Ningguang's, Klee's and Zhongli's modules, and every shared effect are built too: a hit, a hit's own element, a heal, a field, a summon, a buff, an infusion and a shield. What is left is the element a statue gives the Traveler, the other characters' modules, and the passives. It comes before the rest of the game's systems that act through a kit, such as talents, constellations, weapons' and artifacts' effects, and every challenge after them. It builds on character attributes, whose sums price a hit, and on the character controller, whose body a kit acts from.

Decisions

• A kit is data plus one module. Every kit has the same shape: a normal attack's string of hits, a charged attack, a plunge, an Elemental Skill, an Elemental Burst and the passives. What a character alone does, such as Bennett's field that heals and raises ATK or a summon that strikes on a timer, is a small module per character over shared effects: a hit, a field, a summon, a buff, an infusion, a heal and a shield. A new character is a run of the reader and one module, never a change to the framework. The game keeps that behaviour in its ability configs (BinOutput/Ability/Temp/AvatarAbilities in the community's dump), but every key and type name in them is scrambled, so reading them would mean decompiling a scripting system rather than reading a table. Each module is written instead from the talent's own description and the wiki's notes on it.
• The tables' numbers are read, never typed. The skill sets are read: AvatarSkillDepotExcelConfigData gives each character's sets, and AvatarSkillExcelConfigData each skill's cooldown, energy cost and charges, as character kits records. ProudSkillExcelConfigData, which gives each talent level's multipliers (paramList) with their labels by text id (paramDescList), is read beside the dump from the repository's revision the dump matches, as talents reads its costs, so the multipliers wait only on a kit reading them. The Traveler's kit reads them now, from the table the stats run writes, and each other module reads its own from the same table.
• The measured numbers are the wiki's, gcsim's, or a recording's. The client holds a hit's element gauge, its internal cooldown tag and group, its poise damage and a skill's particles only in the scrambled configs. The gauge, the tag and group and the particles are taken from the wiki's tables of them (Elemental Gauge Theory's character data, Internal Cooldown's data, and each skill page's particle note) and written beside the character's module, each value citing its page. Poise is gcsim v2.47.2's where gcsim gives it: the plunges' 100 low and 150 high, and no poise on the Traveler's Anemo skill or burst, which hit with none. Each strike's poise, the charged attack's and the plunge collision's are in no source yet, so each stays provisional until one is found.
• The Traveler's skill and burst take the element its statue gives. Once the Traveler resonates with a Statue of The Seven, its skill and burst deal that element at 1U, which the placeholders do not yet do. The table has one set per element form, so the statue's element picks the set and its cooldowns and energy cost; that picking waits for the statues page, which holds the resonance. Until then the Traveler has no element, and its placeholders deal none. The skill's particles are the wiki's, not the table's, as above.
• Catalysts and bows as the game deals them. A catalyst's every attack deals its element, a bow's only its charged shot, and every other weapon physical damage unless an infusion changes it. A bow's R aims instead of targeting, as the controls already bind it.
• Targeting's further coefficients wait. The wiki's score is the distance, the angle and the altitude, as built. Its view, current-target and priority coefficients wait for a camera's frustum, a kept target and a boss.
• Passives are one shape too. Each passive is written with its character's module and opened by the ascension phase its table names, so a character's passives add to its kit without a change to the framework.
• A shared effect is built by the first module that needs it, never before. The Traveler's kit uses a hit, and a heal and a hit's element sit with the party's damage; Diluc's infusion, Bennett's field and buff, Mona's summon and Noelle's shield were each built with their module.

How it works

flowchart TD
  TABLES["The kits run: multipliers from the game's tables, skill sets already read"] --> KIT["A kit: its data and one character's module"]
  MODULE["A character's module, written from its talent's description and the wiki's notes"] --> KIT
  KIT -->|"its actions' hits"| HITS["Hits priced by combat, as the Traveler's are"]
  KIT -->|"a field, summon, buff, infusion, heal or shield"| EFFECTS["The shared effects, each on the framework"]
  EFFECTS -->|"its own hits, on its timer"| HITS
  PASSIVE["A passive, opened by its ascension phase"] --> KIT

Scope and order

Today: the Traveler's normal attack, charged attack and plunges, and its placeholder skill and burst, run on the framework's action state machine and land their hits on combat. The Traveler's kit reads its multipliers from the generated talent table, and its hits can deal their own element. Diluc, Bennett, Mona, Amber, Kaeya, Lisa, Noelle, Kamisato Ayaka, Jean, Barbara, Razor, Venti, Xiangling, Beidou, Xingqiu, Xiao, Ningguang, Klee and Zhongli fight with their own modules, and every other character on the roster with the Traveler's kit until its own module is written. Each character's skill sets and talent multipliers are read beside the stats.

This adds, in order:

1. The Traveler's skill and burst for the element a statue gives them, once the statues page holds the resonance, then one module per character as the characters page draws each.
2. Passives, each written with its character's module and opened by the phase its table names.
3. The other characters' modules, in the dump's order, each over the same effects and its multipliers from the table. Built so far: the Traveler's, Diluc's, Bennett's, Mona's, Amber's, Kaeya's, Lisa's, Noelle's, Kamisato Ayaka's, Jean's, Barbara's, Razor's, Venti's, Xiangling's, Beidou's, Xingqiu's, Xiao's, Ningguang's, Klee's and Zhongli's, as character kits records. Xiao's opens the second batch, and the next modules are the remaining characters in the dump's order, from Fischl's. A skill's charges are spent by the kit, and their count is written beside each module until a kit reads its skill set.

Data and measures

• Read from the game's tables: the skill sets and their skills, as built, and each talent's multipliers with their labels' text ids from ProudSkillExcelConfigData. Still to read: each talent's name and description by their text ids.
• Checked against the dump's paramList (level 1), the Traveler's Anemo form is in groups 730 and 731 (strikes, plunges and collision the same on both forms, the charged attack's first hit too), 732 (Palm Vortex, paramList[2] 1.76) and 739 (Gust Surge, paramList[0] 0.808). The strikes' 0.44462, 0.4343, 0.52976, 0.58308 and 0.70778 match TRAVELER_KIT to the wiki's rounding, as do the charged attack's 0.559 ([5]), the collision's 0.639324 ([8]), and the plunges' 1.278377 and 1.596762 ([9] and [10]). The charged attack's second hit, 0.722, is 0.7224 in group 731 and 0.60716 in group 730, so it is read from 731's form. The kits' talent table names this form for the Traveler: characterTalentKits.json takes the Anemo set by default (TRAVELER_DEFAULT_ELEMENT), groups 730 or 731 by the avatar, 732 and 739. Choosing another set by the element a statue gives is still to build, and waits on the statues page.
• Read from the wiki: each hit's gauge, internal cooldown tag and group, and each skill's particles, per character. Diluc's, Bennett's, Mona's, Amber's, Kaeya's, Lisa's, Noelle's, Kamisato Ayaka's, Jean's, Barbara's, Razor's, Venti's, Xiangling's, Beidou's, Xingqiu's, Xiao's, Ningguang's, Klee's and Zhongli's are read, as the character kits page records; the rest wait on their modules.
• Read from gcsim v2.47.2 (MIT): the Traveler's plunge poise, in its pyro plunge file, and the Anemo skill and burst's, which gcsim sets to none.
• Still to find: a source for each strike's, the charged attack's and the plunge collision's poise damage. gcsim's Anemo attack file has none.
• Measured: when each hit lands in its action (its hitmark) and when the next action may cancel it. The extracted Traveler attack clips carry no events, so the hitmarks come off the Recordings owed list's world-attacks.mkv and world-skill-burst.mkv. The least height a plunge starts from is what the wiki does not give, so it waits on world-attacks.mkv too. Until then each is a provisional constant with its character's module.

What this does not propose

• Talent levels and constellations. The kit reads its talent levels and constellations; raising them is the talents and constellations pages'.
• The effects drawn. A slash's trail, a field's circle and a burst's animation are the character's motion and the world's effects, matched in the recreation passes.

Key files

New files, as the modules come:

packages/genshin-world/src/services/kit/characters/

Sources

• Talent, Genshin Impact Wiki: the three combat talents, the ascension and passive talents, their buttons, the selected enemy's arrow, and the talent level multipliers.
• Normal Attack, Genshin Impact Wiki: which weapons deal their element, and a catalyst's and a bow's attacks.
• Elemental Skill and Elemental Burst, Genshin Impact Wiki: the skill's cooldown, charges and press or hold, and the burst's energy cost and cooldown.
• Elemental Gauge Theory: Character Data, Genshin Impact Wiki: each ability's gauge, and each attack's tag and group.
• gcsim v2.47.2, MIT: the Traveler's plunge poise and its Anemo skill and burst's frames.
• AnimeGameData, the community's per-patch dump: the skill and skill depot tables the sets are read from, the proud skill table the multipliers wait for, and the ability configs whose scrambled names rule out reading behaviour from them.