Iridescent Aspirations in Genshin Impact: How to Get and Who the Catalyst Is Suitable For

В Warriors of Varesa. The weapon has a high base attack, which is rare among this type of equipment. The ive ability gives additional attack power and increases the critical damage of the attack while falling after using Plunge Strike, Elemental Skill or Ultimate.

The weapon is a good fit for any catalyst that plays from attacks while falling, and, among other things, will give good additional stats to any other damage dealers. In this guide, we will tell you how to get the Shimmering Aspirations catalyst, which characters can have it, and also clarify the basic principles of its operation.

How to get the catalyst Shimmering Aspirations

Shimmering Aspirations is an event weapon that can only be obtained from the weapon banner alongside Varesa. The catalyst is expected to appear in prayers soon. March 26 2025 years, in the first half updates 5.5.

Follow banner schedule, so as not to miss the rerun of Shimmering Aspirations.

Characteristics of the catalyst

Basic stats

ive

Catalyst ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Basic attack: 48-674 Additional feature:  Crit. damage 9.6%-44.1%

Attack power is increased by 28/35/42/49/56%. When a character uses a falling attack, they gain the effect of First Flowers of Dawn: Critical damage of a falling attack increases by 28/35/42/49/56%When a character activates an elemental skill or elemental burst, they gain the effect of Twilight Glow: Critical Attack Damage while falling increases by 40/50/60/70/80%. Each of these effects lasts for 15 seconds and disappears 0,1 seconds after the shockwave from landing hits the target.

How to Elevate and Awaken Iridescent Aspirations

Resource	Rarity and total quantity
	The Mad Decadence of the Holy Sage ×5. Saint Sage's Mad Devastation ×14. Mad Form of the Holy Sage ×14. The Mad Spirituality of the Holy Sage ×6.
	Cold Shell Shard ×23. Warm shell ×27. Blazing Prismoshell ×41.
	Young Fang ×15. Adult fang ×23. Tyrant's Fang ×27.
	Mora x1
	Reinforcement ore ×908

All materials for leveling up Iridescent Aspirations can only be found in Natlan:

• Mad Decadence/Devastation/Sign/Spirituality of the Holy Sage - Dropped in Dungeon
• Cold Shell Shard, Warm Shell, Blazing Prismoshell - a resource that drops after defeating the enemy Thermo-Shelled Mountain Ferret, which lives mainly in the territory of the Ancient Sacred Mountain.
• Young fang, adult fang, tyrant fang - material from various saurians.

To awaken the catalyst to P5, you need to get four more copies of it from the banner.

Who is Iridescent Aspirations Good for in Genshin Impact

Shimmering Aspirations works best on characters that rely on attacks while falling. The wearer of the gear must be a primary damage dealer to realize the buff to this damage type, and also need crits and attack power.

Character	Features
Varesa	A signature wielder of Shimmering Aspirations that fully utilizes all of its buffs. Varesa constantly uses all of the attacks listed in the catalyst's ive skill, so she can keep all of the buffs active.
Xian Yun	Xian Yun in some builds acts as a good sub-DD in teams through attacks while falling, so to gain good stats, you can give her this weapon. She can also use plunge attacks herself, which are additionally strengthened by stacks from the catalyst. If Xian Yun plays the role of only a healer, there is no point in giving her Shimmering Aspirations.

As for other catalysts, they can be equipped with Shimmering Aspirations to get high base attack, good crit damage and attack power in the ive. They will be able to implement the attack boost in the fall only if they have Xian Yun in a team, but this option won't suit everyone, since most will suffer a significant drop in damage compared to their usual rotation.

Character	Features
Kli	A decent main Pyro damage dealer who needs the crit damage and attack power that this catalyst can provide. Can play through Xian Yun's attacks while falling if desired, as he can use his abilities to get two stacks from Shimmering Aspirations.
Yae Miko	In most teams, she is a sub-DD, but if necessary, she can also become the main damage dealer. In both types of builds, she needs good stats to increase her personal damage. As in the case of Klee, she can be put in the same team with Xian Yun.
Heizo	He primarily plays as a driver, using normal attacks and an elemental skill to trigger Dispersion. Iridescent Aspirations will give him useful stats, and his falling attacks under the Xian Yun buff will not prevent him from gaining stacks for the enhanced skill.

How the weapon works

Despite the fact that the catalyst ive requires a certain number of stacks to be used, the principle of Shimmering Aspirations is simple. The wearer can gain two different effects, each of which increases the damage of the attack while falling:

• First Flowers of Dawn - Need to perform a falling attack.
• Twilight Glow - requires using an elemental skill or elemental burst.

Both buffs last for 15 seconds and disappear after the first Plunge attack, after which the buffs must be gained again. Make sure the character has gained both buffs before performing a Plunge attack to maximize damage.

Rotation with catalyst:

1. Use the abilities of all s or sub-DDs to get buffs and switch to the main damage dealer who carries this weapon.
2. Press an elemental skill or ultimate to activate Twilight Glow.
3. Perform a Falling Attack to obtain First Flowers of Dawn.
4. If you are playing Varesa, use E or Elemental Burst again to re-buff Twilight Radiance. If the wielder is another character, continue to hit with one buff of First Flowers of Dawn, which will refresh itself.
5. Switch to s as needed and repeat the rotation.

We hope this guide helped you learn how to get the Iridescent Aspirations catalyst in Genshin Impact, how it works, and which characters it is suitable for. If you have any questions, feel free to ask them. in comments. Read more weapon guides in Genshin Impact on our website.