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

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UshiromiyaEva posted...

Adventurine Kit

https://ibb.co/album/7bp9jG

daily reminder there's no D in this man's name

.......HUH??

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/d/d6be2d3d.jpg

https://youtu.be/exaQGzsh2wU?si=Mt-Z74BWhA0w-GrR

......OK.

Anyways I guess Ill just focus on ascending and traces for now. Thats about all Ive been doing anyways. I dont even know when I last advanced the plot or anything oops

Would be interested in getting some of your relic score sheets swords, just for reference.

Ive never used the relic scoring thing

The mobilemeta one is just like enka.network where all you do is put your UID and it pulls the builds from the favorites from your in-game profile.

Thank you Black Swan. Got 36 stars on the new pure fiction finally.

Still stuck at 30 stars in MoC. I really don't know for floors 11 or 12 which sustain to use for the non Huohuo side. I don't have Fu Xuan and Luocha, but everyone else. The status effects are really the issue. Is Lynx the best option for that?

I dont think I even know what the mobile meta one is. Has that been linked to before in here?

Lynx is the best option, yeah. Bronya helps in emergencies if you have her too. 11 shouldn't be too bad to brute force one side without a cleanser because Black Swan (and Kafka if you've got her) should eat the robot side for lunch.

Yeah I ended up rolling one more 10 roll and got Black Swan after all lol

Having no imaginary set pieces and no pioneer pieces, which one do I start to farm for DHIL?

Right now best DHIL set is 2 pc imaginary and then 2 piece of any Attack or Damage boost set. Could also do 4 piece imaginary, higher ceiling but less consistent.

Acheron Kit

https://ibb.co/album/5YdFxw

Lol that Technique

She really wants E2. Curious to know what the damage boost % for each Nihility character is.

We should have full in game translations starting to hit tomorrow night.

Problems with the beta. Delayed another week.

Suffering lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fShcesI3iw

They going to be doing a whole series of these?
I'm legit kinda into it if they do haha

UshiromiyaEva posted...

Problems with the beta. Delayed another week.

Suffering lol

more time for Acheron to cook

Planar Fissure event next week so spend or save your Immersifiers accordingly.

I'm itching for this one because I've realized now that I have Black Swan I can put Penacony planars on Huohuo to get some bonus damage and speed up her ult.

Ah I'm just now looking at Aventurine's kit in more detail and realizing he applies 1 or 2 debuffs, which is very good with Ratio because currently no sustains have debuffs unless you use that stupid burn chance Preservation cone. If that's true it decides which sustain I'm going for. Very important addition to the "IPC members who suck" comp.

Which Planar to farm depends on which set Sparkle wants, Penacony or Keel.

Leaning Keel for DHIL team

Not going to farm the Bonus Planars until the beta hits and I know what Acheron wants.

Salsotto seems like a safe pick, but I want the math nerds to take it home.

Regarding Sparkle, is the expectation that Bronya is the closest existing example of how you'll want to build her or is she something completely different to what we currently have?

She's basically 1 to 1 with Bronya, I don't think there's a single difference in what they want.

I know this is mostly a strategy topic but JFC at the side mission Envision a Rose Forthcoming. That's some Yoko Taro level misery.

this should totally also be a story/quest discussion topic

MHY sidequests basically come in two varieties: bloated nothing stories that you mostly skip through the text or stabbing you in the chest with the most depressing shit you've ever seen

Finally finished the plot and can join the convo~

That was... incredible. I already thought Jarilo IV and the space station combined for the best Trails-esque experience in a decade. And while they certainly lost their way in Space China, 2.0 manages to blow 1.0 out of the water. The Golden Hour might be one of the best town hubs... ever? Like Crossbell exists obviously but that had two full games to get built up; The Golden Hour has had a single patch and already feels just as complete. The puzzles were a bit simple for my taste, but they were so creative and fun that I don't even care. I just want more. And the plot introduced characters with brilliant pacing, given the scope of everything -- I was worried that "all the factions are convening ooooh" was going to leave me overwhelmed, but the plot showed a really deft hand. I'm just impressed all around. (vague but real spoilers) My only worry is that they'll chicken out of deaths, as that's one of my biggest pet peeves in stories. But we'll certainly see. That said, I see other spoilers saying they're afraid Sparkle's going to be too villainous, and meanwhile I'm over here thinking "Did Black Swan just wipe Sparkle and Sampos' memories without even blinking holy shit do not cross this woman >_>"

I did not care for the walking around puzzles, but I like the other 2. I could play a whole game of the echochrome one.....

.....Wait I could just play echochrome I guess.

If you mean the Hamu puzzles, yeah those were a bit weaker. But if you mean the perspective-shift walking around puzzles, nah I loved those.

I don't like any puzzle that's annoying on my phone, lol. Despite having the console version now, it's still where I'm usually playing. This goes for a lot of the Simulates Universe puzzles too, if the puzzle involves walking I'm not a fan.

Had a really bizarre run of G&G conundrum 4 that ended with the dual robot boss. I was running Kafka/Swan/Ruan Mei/Gepard on Preservation blessing. First two phases went down fairly easy but in the third phase their speed was boosted so high the enemies would take like 8 actions in a row and delete all my shields and kill my guys. There wasn't really anything I could do about that, I didn't have the DPS or speed or whatever to prevent it. But...they couldn't kill Gepard. He'd get hit enough to get his ult back every turn and charge up the Path Resonance in the process. I left it on auto for like 20 minutes but it was a stalemate because of how you have to kill both bosses simultaneously or they revive.

I guess C3 is my limit for now, but also I'm only like 60% through the upgrade tree so I can just grind that out on lower difficulties and get through all these crappy dice challenges too.

That happened to me on just stage 2 with 0 conundrum. They got 8 turns in a row and just destroyed me while I couldnt act

Huh does Swarm Disaster not give SU points for the week? Just did the first run of non-tutorial mode (which I've been doing after the cap so far) and noticed it.

It should be, that's all I did in SU for a few weeks while getting the trophy tasks done.

I found the double robot boss to be the hardest by a fair margin and would never pick it. Though my setup was very strong against the Swarm boss so idk if that's harder for others.

The dot team usually mercs the robots but without Nihility path the damage wasn't there. I usually do not have the weaknesses for Argenti or Swarm, though my aoe was pretty good this run so I maybe could have handled swarm...

I also didn't get enough Preservation blessings for the final resonance because I was going for the interplays for collection. Probably a mistake. I feel like a lot more of the interplays in G&G are traps. The destruction one here sucks.

I almost exclusively try to fight the robots in G&G. The rest scare me.

Current rumor is Acheron+FX for phase 1, Aventurine+Topaz for phase 2.

Fu Xuan higher priority than Acheron tbh.

Fu Xuan one of my most wanted characters so far so I will be rolling on her for sure.

Fu Xuan best unit gameplay-wise and probably top 5 story-wise.

Any indication on which side Gallagher is in?

Nothing yet.

I finally got around to finishing all the Companion Quests and boy I feel like I need a chart of exactly what happened and who was involved in the Imbibitor Lunae stuff because I still don't feel like I understand what happened lol

i went back and did the march+fu xuan companion quest before progressing the plot past the point where we meet black swan

because remembrance blah blah maybe it will be related or relevant

and the quest revealed basically nothing, good stuff

catesdb posted...

i went back and did the march+fu xuan companion quest before progressing the plot past the point where we meet black swan

because remembrance blah blah maybe it will be related or relevant

and the quest revealed basically nothing, good stuff

I was really amazed at how much of a nothing this entire companion quest was

all will be revealed when they finally release 5* March 8th

That companion quest was worth it solely for the line where you can interact with the Trailblazer as March and tell her to say something. (I am assuming the dialogue is unchanged for the male trailblazer but if not sucks for Caelus fans I guess.)

I mean I also enjoyed the quest overall but that one specific part was gold.