Alhaitham’s Elemental Skill creates Chisel-Light Mirrors. While he has Mirrors, his normal, charged, and plunging attacks deal Dendro damage and can trigger Projection Attacks. His burst consumes existing Mirrors for additional damage instances, then creates Mirrors based on how many it consumed.
ElementDendroWeaponSwordRarity5
Alhaitham GUIDE
Understand Alhaitham
Useful when…
Use his attacks to trigger Projection Attacks while Mirrors are present.
Use his burst as an area Dendro attack whose number of instances depends on Mirrors consumed.
Benefit from his passive’s Elemental Mastery bonus to Projection Attack and burst damage.
Mirrors and Projection Attacks
His skill rushes forward, deals Dendro damage, and creates one Mirror. If he has no Mirrors when he casts it, it creates one additional Mirror. While he has Mirrors, his normal, charged, and plunging attacks are converted to Dendro damage, and hits with those attacks trigger area Dendro Projection Attacks. Projection damage uses the listed multipliers for one, two, or three Mirrors. Mirrors are removed one after another at four-second intervals, and all disappear when Alhaitham leaves the field. A charged or plunging hit can generate one Mirror, once every 12 seconds.
Burst and Mirror count
Particular Field: Fetters of Phenomena deals area Dendro damage in multiple instances. It hits four times if no Mirrors are consumed, with six, eight, or ten instances when one, two, or three Mirrors are consumed, respectively. Two seconds after casting, it generates three, two, one, or zero Mirrors depending on whether it consumed zero, one, two, or three. The burst has a 70-energy cost and an 18-second cooldown. His normal attack has up to five strikes; his charged attack costs 20 stamina and performs two strikes.
Elemental Mastery passive and crafting
Mysteries Laid Bare increases Projection Attack and burst damage by 0.1% per point of Elemental Mastery, up to a 100% bonus to those damage sources. This cap applies to the passive’s bonus, not to total damage or to every possible effect of Elemental Mastery. His crafting passive gives a 10% chance to receive double the product when crafting Weapon Ascension Materials.
Upgrade tracks and materials
Alhaitham has separate ascension, normal-attack, Elemental Skill, and Elemental Burst upgrade tracks. Listed ascension materials include Sand Grease Pupa and Pseudo-Stamens. The level 9-to-10 example for each combat track includes Philosophies of Ingenuity, Rich Red Brocade, Mirror of Mushin, a Crown of Insight, and Mora.
Related Dendro characters
Kinich and Lauma are five-star Dendro characters; Yaoyao is a four-star Dendro character. Their listed weapons are claymore, catalyst, and polearm, respectively. These comparison details do not establish that they share Alhaitham’s role or mechanics.
Limitations and tradeoffs
Leaving the field removes all Mirrors.
Consuming more Mirrors increases the burst’s number of damage instances and reduces the number of Mirrors it generates afterward.
The passive’s Elemental Mastery bonus to Projection Attack and burst damage is capped at 100%.
Common mistakes to avoid
Expecting Mirrors to persist after Alhaitham leaves the field.
Assuming the burst always generates three Mirrors regardless of how many it consumed.
Treating the passive’s 100% bonus cap as a cap on total damage or on all Elemental Mastery effects.
Effects and reference details
Abductive Reasoning · Normal attack
Normal Attack Performs up to 5 rapid strikes.
Charged Attack Consumes a certain amount of Stamina to unleash 2 rapid sword strikes.
Plunging Attack Plunges from mid-air to strike the ground below, damaging opponents along the path and dealing AoE DMG upon impact.
Purchased talent coefficients at level 1 and 1. These are individual skill values; they do not represent total build damage.
Effect
Level 1
Level 1
1-Hit DMG
49.5%
49.5%
2-Hit DMG
50.7%
50.7%
3-Hit DMG
34.2%+34.2%
34.2%+34.2%
4-Hit DMG
66.8%
66.8%
5-Hit DMG
83.9%
83.9%
Charged Attack DMG
55.3%+55.3%
55.3%+55.3%
Charged Attack Stamina Cost
20.0
20.0
Plunge DMG
63.9%
63.9%
Low/High Plunge DMG
128%/160%
128%/160%
Universality: An Elaboration on Form · Elemental skill
Rushes forward, dealing Dendro DMG to nearby opponents when the rush ends, causing a Chisel-Light Mirror to form. Holding this skill will cause it to behave differently.
Hold Enters Aiming Mode to adjust the direction of Alhaitham's rush attack.
Chisel-Light Mirror When this skill is unleashed, Alhaitham will generate 1 Chisel-Light Mirror. If there are no Mirrors at this time, he will generate 1 additional Mirror. Chisel-Light Mirrors will have the following properties: ·When he possesses Chisel-Light Mirrors, Alhaitham's Normal, Charged, and Plunging Attacks will be converted to Dendro DMG. This cannot be overridden. ·When attacks of the aforementioned kind hit opponents, the Chisel-Light Mirrors will unleash a Projection Attack that deals AoE Dendro DMG based on the number of Mirrors on the field. ·A total of 3 Chisel-Light Mirrors can exist at once. ·The Chisel-Light Mirrors will disappear one after the other over time, and will all disappear when Alhaitham leaves the field.
Purchased talent coefficients at level 1 and 1. These are individual skill values; they do not represent total build damage.
Effect
Level 1
Level 1
Rush Attack DMG
193.6% ATK+154.9% Elemental Mastery
193.6% ATK+154.9% Elemental Mastery
Projection Attack Interval
1.6s
1.6s
1-Mirror Projection Attack DMG
67.2% ATK+134.4% Elemental Mastery
67.2% ATK+134.4% Elemental Mastery
2-Mirror Projection Attack DMG
(67.2% ATK+134.4% Elemental Mastery)×2
(67.2% ATK+134.4% Elemental Mastery)×2
3-Mirror Projection Attack DMG
(67.2% ATK+134.4% Elemental Mastery)×3
(67.2% ATK+134.4% Elemental Mastery)×3
Chisel-Light Mirror Removal Interval
4.0s
4.0s
CD
18.0s
18.0s
Particular Field: Fetters of Phenomena · Elemental burst
Creates a Particular Binding Field and deals multiple instances of AoE Dendro DMG. If Chisel-Light Mirrors exist when this ability is unleashed, all such Mirrors will be consumed and increase the number of DMG instances dealt. 2s after this ability is unleashed, if 0/1/2/3 Mirrors were consumed, Alhaitham will generate 3/2/1/0 new Mirrors in turn.
Purchased talent coefficients at level 1 and 1. These are individual skill values; they do not represent total build damage.
Effect
Level 1
Level 1
Single-Instance DMG
121.6% ATK+97.3% Elemental Mastery
121.6% ATK+97.3% Elemental Mastery
Basic Attack Instances
4
4
1-Mirror Attack Instances
6
6
2-Mirror Attack Instances
8
8
3-Mirror Attack Instances
10
10
CD
18.0s
18.0s
Energy Cost
70
70
Four-Causal Correction
When Alhaitham's Charged or Plunging Attacks hit opponents, they will generate 1 Chisel-Light Mirror. This effect can be triggered once every 12s.
Mysteries Laid Bare
Each point of Alhaitham's Elemental Mastery will increase the DMG dealt by Projection Attacks and Particular Field: Fetters of Phenomena by 0.1%. The DMG of both aforementioned abilities can be increased by a maximum of 100% this way.
Law of Reductive Overdetermination
When Alhaitham crafts Weapon Ascension Materials, he has a 10% chance to receive double the product.
