Board 8 > Honkai Star Rail Topic 8: Welcome to Penacony

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Think I've got like 5-6 pulls left + whatever I can scrape together to try for Fu Xuan if she really is the next rerun.

Gonna skip Acheron probably. She's cool but not that interested in her.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/4/4bb931d8.jpg

Sparkle/Xueyi/Silver Wolf/Ruan Mei

idk what that's even a screenshot of, new event?

Yep, extremely break focused.

I did it with the trial Xueyi, Himeko, Ruan Mei, Huohuo (literally only needed a healer because Cocolia is a bitch)

Really it's just a Ruan Mei advertisement

Useful info I got from the event is that the Bronya Come is fine but probably not worth using over Dance Dance Dance for Sparkle. There's already so much damage up there to begin with, and Sparkle never once had "almost" max energy when I was playing.

Not to mention she gets the same energy from her Basic as she does her Skill.

Also did it with Himeko replacing Silver Wolf....I really wish Himeko's talent could roll over like Xueyi's.

I used my Ratio, and the trial Ruan Mei, Himeko, and Lynx (Himeko and Lynx were better than mine slightly)

Beat it fairly easily.

Oh I used my own Himeko but despite two patches in the Duke mines the trial one might still be better. Or at least had more crit, I suppose S5 Breakfast and 200-300 more attack could give mine the edge.

UshiromiyaEva posted...

Hmmm actually don't know if I'm gonna go with Battle isn't over or Dance! for Sparkle....

Harmony cones are too good.

For slow sparkle (i.e. DPS at 135, Sparkle at 134), DDD is actually worse than running no light cone at all, per Guoba. Ignoring her signature (which wins out by quite a bit), Planetary Rendezvous S5 >> Past and Future S5 > Battle Isn't Over S1, but there's no huge difference between them.

For fast sparkle (Sparkle at 160, DPS at base speed), Dance Dance Dance is not only best besides her signature, it's actually only 0.16% off of it.

I've finally caught my Black Swan up in levels and put a jank bunch of relics on her (which tbf is 98% of my relics so far on everyone anyway) but still need to do her traces.

Once those are acceptable (like 6s maybe) I'll level Sparkle, then its gonna be to the relic grind. Probably for Kafka first.

Got Sparkle and e6 QQ

tcaz2 posted...

I've finally caught my Black Swan up in levels and put a jank bunch of relics on her (which tbf is 98% of my relics so far on everyone anyway) but still need to do her traces.

Once those are acceptable (like 6s maybe) I'll level Sparkle, then its gonna be to the relic grind. Probably for Kafka first.

You really want her talent to 8, ideally 10. It's super important for DoT units because dots scale harder than normal, especially for BS where it's a buff per stack. 8 is usually my stopping point outside that.

truly is anything in the world less valuable than light cone EXP materials

The healing items since teleports heal you more than enough?

also look out for jing yuan with sparkle, hits like a truck

swordz9 posted...

The healing items since teleports heal you more than enough?

You can use these in SU now, so they're actually useful if you're not running certain sustains!

I keep forgetting that. Couldve saved myself some SU currency using an item to revive

Lost the 50/50 to Yanqing for the third time. End me.

I now have more Welt Eidolons than Dan Heng ones.

Ran through my entire stock, but I got Sparkle. 150 pulls. =\

Got Sparkle in like 80 pulls, which is not great considering I'd already lost the 50/50 last time. Still have to decide if I want to get her light cone. I do have a ton of jades still, but I also want to get Acheron, probably her light cone, and Sam--and I don't know if I have quite this many jades. And I absolutely cannot risk missing Sam.

Bleh, decided to take a crack at Sparkle. 78 pulls and ended up with Gepard. It sure would be nice to hit a 5* before pity eventually.

Guess Ill just save the guarantee for Archeron now.

Oh hey, the relic scorer works for Sparkle now.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/1/13cb2bc2.jpg

Oh hey, that's some nice relics.

whoops no self control, 80 more pulls later and now I have sparkle

still fine for Acheron, just wont be able to go for E2 now, which doesnt seem that big a deal given her ideal comps anyway

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1IjCqWhi-E

The idea of a Gordon Ramsay dinosaur that yells IT'S RAW and breathes fire at the audience to cook them got me real good.

New beta update gave Gallagher a cleanse, boy went up a full tier.

https://twitter.com/mrpokke/status/1763909405932941534

Gah the boss drops I need the most for traces right now are all the bug boss and he kicks my ass on-level.

If I do the difficulty before I barely stand a chance unless I grab a support Clara who just utterly wrecks that fight. Even Jingliu and DHIL supports sometimes struggle carrying me enough.

I think my Lynx just isn't built enough to put out enough healing (or live) and Bailu doesn't cleanse which causes issues.

Well hopefully having better relics will help soon. Even mediocre ones will be an upgrade to most of my characters- most are still just using whatever cowboy/break basic sets I've found. Black Swan is almost done being trace'd up (I'm going to get her talent to 9- 10 is a bit much for me right now). I think I'll do a bit of relic farming before leveling Sparkle heavily, I kinda need them right now.

I always look for busted 5* support characters from whales for those because why would I not do that

Yeah I might try and find a Huohuo next week or something and see if that helps.

Sparkle and Bronya don't fix any of my problems I have with the fight.

At least the game is nice enough to not use you TP if you lose so you can experiment some.

Yeah, Huohuos passive cleanse sounds like what you need for that one.

All right 12 stars on Pure Fiction with no Black Swan, no Sampo, and no Kafka. Take that whoever at Hoyo is trying to push DoT teams onto me.

https://i.imgur.com/kdOVuB8.png
https://i.imgur.com/SYaIwdG.png

Mono Quantum team? More like the 1 Belobog Heater Tall team.

in a similar vein....
https://twitter.com/Adventzx1/status/1763886722562290028

Just found out about Star Rail Station and took a look at my Warp history

https://i.imgur.com/v5KMBCH.png

Not the greatest luck so far though I have only lost 1 50/50 across 3 characters at least.

Think we'll get anything special tomorrow from our trailblazing friend?

When we find out more about March I want them to eventually reveal March 7th is her real birthday entirely by coincidence,

It seems like the kind of silly thing the game would do.

This is so sick.
https://twitter.com/dailysparkle_/status/1765965606015132117

Lost the 50/50 again, this time to Himeko. This patch has not been good for my pulls

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/9/93437b82.jpg

https://twitter.com/honkaistarrail/status/1767400589942456484?t=1ILFazsn88B4V_lZVhzC4A&s=19

Big skip. Last thing I need at this point is more Harmony characters.

Im guessing the other 5* for 2.2 has gotta be Sam.

Oh yeah time for Sa-

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/f/f12f292b.jpg

https://twitter.com/honkaistarrail/status/1767762835495440773?t=01lqEpwVMpknzv9ADhUmQg&s=19

Oh OK.

Didn't see that coming!

On the one hand I want Sam but on the other hand maybe if 2.2 is a complete dud for me then I can just go all-out on Acheron and/or pick up Aventurine.

No idea who the fuck that is, but I love the energy he's bringing to the table.

Apparently the 4* revealed tomorrow is likely Screwllum. Guess they finally settled on that back and forth.

Yeah honestly Im okay with a cooldown patch.

Of course this just mean that FX and Luocha will be the reruns in 2.2 now.

I'm fairly relieved as well that we're getting a few banners consecutively that I feel comfortable passing on, especially given how 2.0 started with BS/Sparkle/Acheron back-to-back-to-back.

Clearly not everyone agrees though since some of the reaction to this guy's reveal (or rather the fact that he is neither Sam nor Firefly) has been borderline hysterical.

more like boo thill am I right

I hope his translator is permanently in The Good Place mode

UshiromiyaEva posted...

Apparently the 4* revealed tomorrow is likely Screwllum. Guess they finally settled on that back and forth.

Boooo

Well if Screwllum is 4* then Aventurine is the last 5* I'll want for a while. Maybe I can finally focus on getting Kafka and Topaz LCs.

Genius Society more like 4 star Society

I have no interest in Boothill and Robin only marginally so Ill likely skip both. Maybe Ill toss 1-2 10 pulls at Robin and see if I get lucky.

Current plan is to roll on Fu Xuan if she gets a rerun and then Firefly if we get her.

its a bit weird theyve done so many Harmony units so close to each other, especially since the most likely scenario is we are getting a Harmony Trailblazer form as well on top of all of them.