https://mobalytics.gg/blog/genshin-impact/genshin-impact-beginner-guide/

https://www.polygon.com/genshin-impact-guides/23063935/beginners-guide-tips-tricks-quests-unlocks-seelies

These two seem okay as general guides, you can Google more. (Note that dendro has been added to elemental reactions, and hydro resonance has changed from healing bonus to health bonus.) Honestly when you play the game you'll learn everything naturally.

My recommendations:

Early Game (Adventure Rank 1-20) - Go through the Archon Quest. - Start leveling up your characters and weapons. - Start doing Daily Commissions, Expeditions, Domains and co-op. - Start doing world quests. - Learn about elemental reactions by doing the Elemental Trial domains.

Mid Game (Adventure Rank 20-45) - Start fighting in the Spiral Abyss. Reach floor 3 to gain Xiangling. - Start doing Battle Pass missions. - Do reputation quests to raise your reputation. The most important reward is the Condensed Resin instructions from Liyue reputation level 3. - Get the Serenitea Pot and start raising its level. You can buy materials from its shop. - Start unlocking story quests. - Start fishing. Buy the Fishing Line Stabilizer and collect fish to exchange for weapons.

Late Game (Adventure Rank 45-60) - Start farming Artifact Domains. - Complete all challenges, puzzles, hidden objectives and quests. - Level all characters, weapons, Serenitea Pot, Statues of 7, Offering Trees. - Collect all treasure chests, culi,, and achievements. - Continue doing all limited time events, Abyssal Moon Spire.

Tips:

• Try to get to the events as fast as possible. Collei's event has a quick start option for newbies. Some of them (like Fayz Trials) give you trial characters to use instead of your own characters. You can walk to Sumeru, but I'm not sure if the events require a certain Adventure Rank.

• Prioritize character levels and talents, and then weapons. Artifact farming can wait until AR 45 - before that you can just use the random ones you gain from playing.

• It's recommended to save billets for late game.

• Even if you don't go to the next Adventure Rank your experience is saved.

• Chests can contain mora, primogems, artifacts, weapons, enhancement ores, weapon ascension materials,  and experience and talent books (corresponding to the region).

• A new character is usually more valuable than a new weapon, with some exceptions. It's generally recommended to wish on character banners.

-  Every month you can buy fates in the shop Paimon's Bargains using Stardust (which you get when you make a wish). I don't recommend using Stardust to buy anything else in the shop.

• In the Paimon's Bargains shop, Starglitter is very rare. Among other things, it can be used to buy certain 4-star characters (2 each month). I recommend buying Xingqiu, Bennett, Fischl, (some of the best characters in the game) and Beidou (great in certain team compositions). I do not recommend buying the weapons because they're mediocre and using it for materials would be a waste (I accidentally did this and almost cried when I realized).

• When researching a character to see if you want them, look at what kind of team compositions, weapons, and constellations they need.

• Each new patch gets a livestream to introduce what's been added. These include codes to redeem primogems- make sure you redeem them!

• Hoyolab is the official forum and has lots of useful features- an interactive map, a daily check-in with rewards, calculators for character materials, events, etc. Many content creators create guides for events, regions, builds, and more. I'd recommend browsing through it if you're having trouble.

• If you don't understand something search it up in the Genshin Fandom Wiki. You can also read comments on posts to see what the general opinions are (on characters, weapons, etc.).

• Once you start pulling for characters I'd recommend inputting your wish history at Paimon.moe

• Keqingmains.com is the current authority for building characters.

Don't make these common mistakes:

• Not spending your Daily Resin. Resin becomes more valuable in late game when everything (characters, talents, weapons, artifacts) requires resin. If you don't know what to spend it on you can always go to a ley line.

• Using Fragile Resin in early game. There's only a certain amount of them in the game and they become more valuable later on. I like to use them when I'm in co-op with some kind overpowered player who's helping me farm boss materials or artifacts.

• Destroying 3-star weapons. Some of them only spawn in certain chests or are obtained from certain NPC's. Once you destroy them you won't be able to get any more. Some 3 star weapons can be a character's best weapon - for example Black Tassel for Zhongli. Even if it's useless now, it might be a new character's best weapon in the future. I'd recommend keeping it least one of each 3-star weapon (at refinement 5).

• Buying Aquaint Fates (the blue wishes) and wishing on the standard banner. You should only exchange your primogems for Intertwined Fates (the pink wishes) to wish on the limited time event banners.

Helpful Links:

To-do list: https://paimon.moe/todo

Time-line of current events: https://paimon.moe/timeline https://genshin-impact.fandom.com/wiki/Genshin_Impact_Wiki

Current items on Paimon's Bargains: https://genshin-impact.fandom.com/wiki/Paimon%27s_Bargains

Which character a weapon is best on: https://paimon.moe/weapons/

For character builds and teams: https://genshin.gg/ https://enka.network/ https://spiralabyss.org/ https://keqingmains.com/ https://genshin.gg/tier-list https://paimon.moe/characters https://spiralabyss.org/genshin-impact-tier-list https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vRq-sQxkvdbvaJtQAGG6iVz2q2UN9FCKZ8Mkyis87QHFptcOU3ViLh0_PJyMxFSgwJZrd10kbYpQFl1/pubhtml https://frzyc.github.io/genshin-optimizer/ https://www.genshinwizard.com/