Honkai: Star Rail frequently asked questions, answered

Honkai: Star Rail is a brand new sport by Hoyoverse, the parents behind Genshin Impact and Honkai Impact third. The sport incorporates a fantasy house odyssey story with turn-based fight, and you may play it with out spending a single cent on gacha.

If you’re unfamiliar with cellular gacha video games or are simply confused by the phrases Honkai: Star Rail makes use of, we’re right here to assist. We compiled among the questions Polygon staffers had whereas taking part in and reply them under.

What’s the gameplay loop for Honkai: Star Rail?

Using a celebration of 4 characters, you combat enemies utilizing turn-based fight and progress by means of most important story quests and aspect quests. To power-up your characters and light-weight cones (weapons), you’ll must combat particular enemies that devour your Trailblaze Power (stamina that refills over time). It turns into a cycle of logging on, doing a little dailies, and grinding to strengthen your characters and provides them higher equips.

What’s the plot of Honkai: Star Rail?

The Trailblazer (you) mysteriously wakes up after being created with a Stellaron. Stellarons are highly effective vitality sources that may trigger catastrophe, however the Trailblazer is ready to talk with it and harness its energy with out doing something tremendous terrible (or so we’ve seen up to now). You be a part of the Astral Express crew, who flies across the stars on their prepare, stopping any disasters about to happen on account of Stellarons on totally different planets.

Do I must spend cash in Honkai: Star Rail to achieve success?

No. All of the story can be clearable with four-star characters, so that you received’t should spend cash to play.

However, superior content material like Simulated Universe and Forgotten Hall can be simpler with five-star characters. This doesn’t imply you possibly can’t beat it utilizing lower-rarity characters, although. There are already movies of beta gamers doing Forgotten Hall with solely four-star characters, so it’s not inconceivable. It can be tougher, although.

Is Honkai: Star Rail like Genshin Impact or Honkai Impact third?

Quite a lot of the similarities between Honkai: Star Rail, Genshin Impact and Honkai Impact third are there due to the cellular RPG style greater than some other cause. Honkai: Star Rail shares quite a lot of traits with cellular video games (together with Genshin Impact), corresponding to stamina-based farming and unlocking characters by way of gacha.

There are some things that do look nearly precisely like Genshin Impact, just like the character display and different UI parts. If you’re conversant in Genshin already, it is possible for you to to rapidly adapt to Honkai: Star Rail because of the UI structure alone.

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The gameplay loop (as talked about above) is similar to each Hoyoverse titles, nevertheless it must be famous that Honkai: Star Rail is just not an open-world sport and it doesn’t have lively multiplayer like how Genshin Impact does.

How do I discover Calyx/Stagnant Shadow/Cavern of Corrosion/Echo of War?

You can discover these marked in your map and teleport to them, however since Honkai: Star Rail doesn’t use an open world map, it may be a ache within the butt to search out what precisely you’re searching for rapidly. We advocate simply utilizing the “survival index” tab of the Insterastral Guide, which you’ll entry by way of the primary menu or by tapping the rectangle with a hoop round it within the prime proper nook.

How do I replenish Trailblaze Power?

Just be affected person. It takes six minutes to recharge one and 18 hours to recharge the complete set of 180.

You may also use Stellar Jade to replenish your resin as much as eight instances per day. 50 Stellar Jade replenishes 60 Trailblaze Power. You may also use Fuel, a reward for finishing battle cross missions and different bonuses, to recharge 60 Trailblaze Power.

How do I recharge a method in Honkai: Star Rail?

You’ll need to hit these glowing purple canisters you see round maps to refuel your method factors. Each one will restore two method factors.

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How do increase my equilibrium stage?

At sure Trailblaze ranges (your account stage), you may be prompted with a quest to extend your equilibrium stage. Doing this may make the enemies round you a bit tougher, however it is going to additionally let you energy up your characters extra. Just preserve leveling up your trailblaze stage and take note of your quest log to unlock greater equilibrium ranges.

Notably, you will have to be at equilibrium stage three to begin farming any five-star relics.

How do I cook dinner in Honkai: Star Rail?

As you progress by means of the early sport, Pom-Pom will educate you learn how to Synthesize, which is Honkai: Star Rail’s model of cooking. After he teaches you ways, you possibly can entry the Synthesize characteristic from the in-game menu to cook dinner everytime you need, so long as you will have the substances.

What does the assist character within the profile do?

Instead of utilizing 4 of your personal characters, you possibly can borrow different folks’s characters, so long as they’re set as their assist character. Whoever you set as your assist character is who different folks can borrow from you.

For instance, if I’ve a completely constructed Bronya, I can set that as my assist character, and different gamers can borrow her to make use of in their very own battles.

You can not use assist characters in Forgotten Hall or Simulated Universe.

Do your personal characters have weaknesses to sure fight sorts?

Nope. Enemies have weaknesses, however your characters don’t, so don’t fear about being countered.

How do I lookup a monster’s weak point?

All enemies have their weaknesses displayed above their heads. You may also examine enemy weaknesses within the information financial institution, which is accessible from the primary menu.

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Which character ought to I stage up first?

It’s as much as you, however many of the characters in your staff must be leveled up equally. The starter characters given to you might be truly fairly helpful. The solely factor we strongly advocate when beginning out is to be sure to both have a shielder or healer in your staff. March seventh and Natasha are each given to you totally free and match these roles respectively.

Should I roll on the newbie gacha warp banner?

The consensus is type of break up on whether or not or not it’s best to do that. The newbie banner is discounted (costing eight Star Rail Passes as a substitute of 10 for 10 pulls). After 50 pulls (40 Star Rail Passes), you’re assured a random five-star character from the common banner. The common warp banner lets you choose an ordinary five-star character one time, when you do a whopping 300 pulls.

Based on private expertise with regard to Hoyoverse video games alone, I’d advocate simply pulling on the newbie warp utilizing any Star Rail Passes rewarded to you. Do not flip your Stellar Jade into further passes — solely use the passes the sport truly fingers to you. You can use any further Star Rail Passes on the usual warp after.

300 pulls is lots, and when you don’t plan on spending cash on this sport, it may well take some time to amass the Star Rail Passes to hit this objective, even with the bountiful beginning rewards Hoyoverse fingers out.

Ultimately, primarily based on Genshin Impact, energy creep can be plentiful in Honkai: Star Rail. Whatever characters you get from the the newbie or customary warp can be helpful at first, nevertheless it’s a toss up in the event that they’ll be helpful in six months or past that. That stated, when you don’t get the strongest character round at first, possibly the meta will shift and so they’ll be extra helpful down the road.

Whether or not it’s best to use the 40 passes that may go in the direction of the usual warp on the newbie warp is as much as you and the way a lot you worth particular five-star characters over others. That brings us to the following query…

What Honkai: Star Rail characters are the strongest at launch?

Most gamers are pointing in the direction of Welt and Bronya being one of the best customary warp characters as a result of their debuffs and buffs are extraordinarily helpful. However, this will change as extra characters launch over time and the meta shifts.

As of penning this, DPS calculators have Seele and Jing Yuan on the prime of the single-target and multi-target charts, respectively. That stated, you don’t want to tug for these characters, as there are four-star characters, like Sushang and Serval, who can nonetheless dish out large numbers when constructed accurately. These calculators additionally depend on particular builds and conditions that you could be not use.

That all stated, this may all change as patches roll out, so we don’t advocate going all-in on a personality this early until you actually like them.

If you will have extra questions, drop them under, and we are able to do our greatest to reply primarily based on what we all know from the sport’s beta.