Board 8 > Honkai Star Rail Topic 5: Gotta Warp 'Em All

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If you're looking to maximize your grinding, remember that the new content should go live sometime between 10 and 11 eastern tomorrow night.

Oh...Simulated Universe Propagation path is really good huh?

What are these Light Cones

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/b/b0e869f7.jpg
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Updated Kits.

https://imgur.io/a/QncmI6C

https://imgur.io/a/1uDP80j

https://imgur.io/a/k709Jvw

Updated LCs.

https://imgur.io/a/kpAElAN

https://imgur.io/a/Ko9FN7p

Still all subject to change.

https://youtu.be/ZK8qfeSOUv4?si=ivIWH3qKs1blQB-r

1.6 Rerun is Kafka.

UshiromiyaEva posted...

What are these Light Cones

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/b/b0e869f7.jpg
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/b/b2b86a0c.jpg

the thirst traps extend to light cone art now? all is lost

Also Ruan Mei's kit sounds ridiculous, she has resistance penetration too? Wow

Xueyi is also an absolutely disgusting combo with Ruan Mei. That synergy is insane. Shame they aren't on the same banner. Makes me feel more justified in grinding more QQ pieces to move over to her.

I had no intention of going for Dr Ratio, but he's another big Follow-Up Attack character! Hmmmmmmmmmm.

I mean that's cool to me but it's wierd that there's 2 follow up attack based Hunt Characters in a row.

Oh Blade also reruns I'm 1.6, so I guess we're moving to consistent reruns.

1.6 units look sweet. Heres hoping I can get Huohuo early and save some for the next banners.

Im getting Xueyi no matter what. Short hair supremacy

Also what stats do I want for Topaz on the upcoming set tonight?

Inert Salsotto will still be her best planar set, so you'll need at least 50% crit rate to activate its effect (although that can come from sources other than substats like traces, light cone and party buffs, you can generally get away with not having to run a crit rate main stat body piece). Other than that, crit damage, attack % and speed - in that order. She's generally less reliant on speed than most other DPS but you'll still ideally aim for at least the mid-130's.

Gonna need a good Fire DMG orb with Crit stuff on it then I guess. God this fucking deer is a chore to fight though since it just feels like it takes forever to finally die.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/8/8d0509d7.png

This is the worst possible scenario.

Since stuff isnt entirely the same as predicted Im still waiting to see where Xueyi is placed. Wouldnt exactly mind having E1 Kafka if thats where she ends up

Full artifact sets seem really bad in this game. Like you could be better off just going 2pc 2pc on most characters. I really don't like how specific the 4pc bonuses are. Zero reason to even do the new cavern for me.

Given how awful substats RNG is in this game, being able to go 2pc/2pc without losing too much on most characters is pretty nice.

There are some pretty good 4pc sets out there but it's really all or nothing most of the time, either a 4pc effect is great or it's unnecessary

I feel like I don't believe in the 2pc/2pc sets nearly as much as the rest of this community does.

There's some 4pc bonuses that obviously aren't great like Healing or the HP set for some characters, but I think basically all of my offensive characters have a 4pc set.

Some 4 piece sets are very good for specific characters. The new DoT set 4 piece in particular is so good that in certain comps it my be BiS even for some non dot characters, just like the Quantum 4 piece is so good that even non Quantum characters may want it against Quantum weak enemies. So of course for actual DoT and Quantum characters those sets are absolutely the best possible.

Kafka is a wierd one because 4 piece lightning is actually specifically good for her playstyle. 4 piece DoT is better but it's not severe. Other dot units all def want 4 piece DoT.

Nobody wants 4 piece fire. Hook is the only argument here but she REALLY needs some speed.

4 piece wind is viable but it's super niche and pretty much only Dan Heng wants it, and he'd probably be better off with 2 pc attack.

4 piece Ice is actually very good for the current Ice DPS. Both Yanqing and especially Jing Liu thrive with it.

4 piece Imaginary is basically just the Welt set.

4 piece physical is basically just the Sushang set now, though Clara can still do just fine with it, very comparable to 2 piece followup.

4 piece followup is absolutely BiS for Jing Yuan, Topaz, and Himeko, straight up.

4 piece HP is just for Blade.

4 piece Speed is just the default support set.

4 piece Healing isn't worth. 4 piece break set is NEVER worth even on Break Effect builds.

The only unit who you could possibly argue 4 piece Musketeer for is DHIL, and 2 piece with Imaginary is better.

The 2pc hackerspace is also a great budget option because if you aren't hitting the 134 speed threshold, you are most likely going to get a bigger benefit from hitting that than whatever marginal damage% bonus you get from a 4set without it, and those speed substats are a pain.

Next SU path is Erudition, based on Ultimate Buffing.

https://imgur.io/a/V0tPimr

Meh

Oh no they're adding MoC 11 and 12? Yikes...

Whoops, forgot about maintenance. Was in the middle of a Swarm run. RIP

Get it while it's hot!

https://streamable.com/kekhcq?src=player-page-share

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Xueyi looking so cool

Some animations that were missing from the previous uploads: Dr Ratio and Xueyi follow-ups and Ruan Mei Technique.

https://imgur.io/a/OvWqhRO

swordz9 posted...

Xueyi looking so cool

Looks better than Ruan Mei imo

1.6 content up on Project Yatta

Ruan Mei is going to want every single bit of Break Effect she can get. Even the set may get involved!

.....Also that E1 is uh.............very very good.

I need Ruan Mei

Xueyi also wants tons of Break Effect.

Break Effect is finally in STYLE baybeeeeee.

Id have guessed the follow-up one for Xueyi since she seems to have one.

Ironic that Ruan Mei is so Break Effect oriented when Ice is close to the last element you'd associate with BE synergy.

swordz9 posted...

Id have guessed the follow-up one for Xueyi since she seems to have one.

Naw her followup isn't common enough for that. And the Quantum set is just too powerful, it would take a LOT for a Quantum DPS to not want 4 piece Quantum.

Dr Ratio....MIGHT want 2 Piece Imaginary and 2 Piece Followup? Will need to wait for the math on that.

LuisSera posted...

Ironic that Ruan Mei is so Break Effect oriented when Ice is close to the last element you'd associate with BE synergy.

That may be part of the reason, don't want the Harmony themselves dishing out too much damage.

I'll be stacking Break Effect hard on Hanya though!

Game is up.

The new cavern does require advancing the story to the new area.

is nice to win the 50/50

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/f/f418be4c.jpg

All 3 of these are Outgoing Healing Boost.

Well I went to pity but won the Huohuo 50/50 so that's good at least

I like that her evil spirit gets battle voice clips, that's really funny

Well that's 55 runs of the new Cavern. Time to sort through it!

I did about 20 runs. Didn't get a single fucking useful thing.

I did one pull and got 2 Arlans

But I really scraped together all my resources just to get Jingliu, over the course of most of that banner's runtime. The only resources left are whatever new ones appear. Pulling at this point is incidental to my game plan.

UshiromiyaEva posted...

Game is up.

The new cavern does require advancing the story to the new area.

Breaking my balls here Hoyoverse

Took 62 summons and won the 50/50 on Huohuo. Not bad, might actually be able to save up enough for Ruan Mei now.

Did a ten pull, got E4 Dan Heng which is exactly what I wanted. Now we're cookin'.

MrSmartGuy posted...

I did about 20 runs. Didn't get a single fucking useful thing.

Same. I have 40ish fuel saved up, might be time to cash out.

UshiromiyaEva posted...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/f/f418be4c.jpg

All 3 of these are Outgoing Healing Boost.

the 1m8s clear speed here intrigues me the most

who have i missed out on building

It's a Dan Heng Hypercarry. DHIL/Bronya/Tingyun/Fu Xuan.