The third trial to challenge Genshin Impact players in the Misty Dungeon event is the Melee Trial. While the name of the trial may sound simple, Genshin Impact players will have to adjust their playstyle accordingly in order to complete all of the dungeon's challenges.

In the Melee Trial, there are a total of 5 challenges that players must complete in order to unlock the available rewards. The challenges unique to the Melee Trial include; 1) Destroying a total of 6 hilichurl shields during the trial and 2) Using normal and charged attacks to defeat 12 opponents during the trial.

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These challenges are complemented by the trial's level-specific Ley Line disorder which increases damage by 75% for sword, claymore and polearm charged and normal attacks. Additionally, in the trial, an AOE shockwave is unleashed for each normal or charge attack hit with any of the aforementioned weapons.

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The ideal party composition for the trial would include; Keqing, Xinyan, Barbara, and Sucrose. As the character with arguably the strongest charged attack in the game, Keqing is the ideal character for completing the challenge of defeating enemies through only normal and charged attacks. However, when attempting the challenge, players should refrain from using any additional party members' skills or bursts as the majority of them deal damage over time, and can result in the enemy kills not counting towards the challenge.

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The second obstacle that players will face when attempting to unlock all challenges in the trial is to successfully destroy 6 hilichurl shields. When progressing through the trial, players will encounter only 3 enemies in the main and final challenge that possess shields, making it a requirement for players to complete several benediction challenges in order to destroy 6 or more.

xinyan shield

To successfully destroy enemy shields the ideal character that players should be using is Xinyan. When facing enemies that possess wooden shields, Xinyan's elemental skill will cause the shields to burn over time before they are destroyed. Xinyan's claymore can also be used to make quick work of any rock shields that enemies may possess.

If players are unsuccessful in destroying 6 enemy shields in a single run, they can easily return to the dungeon and farm any of the benediction challenges to obtain the amount they require. It is also worth noting that when repeating the run to farm for a specific challenge, players do not have to fully complete the challenge in order for the challenge trackers to update.

pyro trap

Players should also be aware that the Melee Trial has a significantly varied amount of traps which includes; electro, hydro, cryo, and pyro totems. With the recommended setup, players will be able to disable hydro totems with Keqing, Pyro totems with Barbara, and Cryo Totems with Xinyan. This leaves Electro totems as the only trap type that players will be unable to disable in their run.

In total, after fully completing all of the trial's challenges, players will receive; 70 primogems, 4 hero's wit, 4 guide to ballad, 30,000 mora, and 6 mystic enhancement ore.

Genshin Impact is available for Mobile, PC, PS4, and PS5, with a Switch version in development.

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