Topic: Honkai Star Rail

@z0d15g0d As far as I can see she can't act at all while in Concerto (but is buffing the whole team and adding additional Physical DMG). Her turn is added to the turn order like Lightning Lord or Abundance perk in SU. As far as I understand it can't be disrupted or sped up, and things like Sparkle and Bronya won't work with her during it, but we'll have to wait and see.

I'm sure she will work best with a select group of DPS characters, just as Sparkle, Bronya, Ruan Mei, Tingyun and even Asta all have their niches.

Eidolons like E6, Signature light cones (especially superimpositions) and even paying to run more domains just remind me that even though this is a single player game it is still Pay 2 Win. I've seen some crazy one/zero cycle MoC clears but then I see the builds, relics & fully 5-star team all with Signature light cones and know that they have had to dig deep in their pockets to get it.

@themightyant Yea it's defo pay to win. I recall in the early days when I first started playing all these utubers showing off on MoC with 0 cycle completions but never stating that they paid to get to that level. I grinded corrosion like an idiot hoping to get relics that could achieve that lol. I think at some point I'll have "enough" characters and just save my jades to max out characters on reruns.

Very happy as just 36 starred the MoC for the first time, mostly with Seele and Acheron.

My Pioneer relic farming hasn’t been great, only really have one really good piece with 3 good substats (hands - ATK%, CR, CD) most pieces only have just ONE good substat.

BUT like my 4-star luck I’ve been quite lucky in rolling into those 1 or 2 substats. So my Acheron now hits up to 450,000 in groups and Jingliu is 2700 ATK, 136 speed, 42% CR (92% in spectral state) & 193% CD. Relics could still be much stronger though. How is everyone’s relic farming going? Especially with this 3 x rate boost?

@Shigurui always nice to get a few pieces and EHR is the rarest of all in my book. Well done. (Edit: silly me, getting confused with ERR. Which almost doesn’t exist! Doh!)

Re: Fu Xuan. Do you have enough jades to guarantee her? I’m always cautious of pre-farming unless guaranteed. I’m almost at the point where I can guarantee her. I’ve saved almost 100 wishes and am about 30 pity in. But knowing my luck I’ll lose the 50:50 for the 5th time straight.

Talking of wishes I just used my 5 monthly shop wishes on the standard banner and got Himeko again… that’s third time, E2 now. On the one hand that’s annoying though on the other it was early only 29 wishes after my last Himeko. In frustration at not getting Bronya I used a few jades to wish a couple more times to get closer to guaranteed Bronya and literally pulled a 5-star 4 wishes later…

But it was Gepard who I don’t have. That leaves only Bronya as the only standard 5-star I don’t have. So both lucky (for the early pulls) and unlucky at the same time. I dared to dream for a moment… twice! lol.

265/300 wishes now.

As I said above I’m 265/300 now, so getting closer to guaranteeing Bronya, but still a few months away I think.

My history is: Beginner standard: Bailu (all 50 wishes)

Regular standard: Welt, Sleep like the dead, Himeko, Himeko, Gepard

Character banner: Seele, Himeko, Silver Wolf, Ruan Mei, Yanqing, Acheron, Clara, Jingliu… (manifesting Fu Xuan)

50:50: Won, lost, won, lost, lost. So it’s only 2 in a row I lost.

Light cone banner: never wished on it.

@Shigurui Nice to have the guarantee.

EDIT: as an aside I just got C5 Qiqi in Genshin… MiHoYo trolling me today… though I actually want C6 now as it’s OP and revives ALL allies once. Useful in Spiral Abyss for one hit kills

@themightyant @Shigurui I wasted my standard guarantee on Bailu a while back haven't got another 5* on standard since. I'm still missing Welt even though I have his LC at S3. I've got about 65 pulls so only a few more till another 5* drops.
Is anyone going for Robin? I'm pretty tempted as her kit suits my DPS heavy play style but don't want another harmony seeing as Fu Xuan is in the 2nd half.

Will the new update be the conclusion to the Penacony story? I hope so and hopefully we get a TB 3rd path as their destruction path is pretty much useless now.

@themightyant I got 2 5* on a 10 pull for Jingliu. My Himeko is also at S2 now. I'm thinking of saving my undying starlights from now so I can get Bronya or Clara's LC. I suspect I will end up getting another Welt LC if I leave it to rng.

@Shigurui I'm around 253 rn. I got gepard from beginner. My first ever 5*. And in standard iirc, I got: 2 Something Irreplaceable, either gepard e1 or yanKING, and 2 bailus

Out of the standards, I really just wanted himeko. Would be ok with bronya for meta reasons but the desire sensor will never give me them. So yea... as soon as I hit 300 I'm snagging himeko lol. And apparently Robin gives a boost to fua teams so could be a fun team

I'm ignoring the guaranteed and only mentioning the ones that were in fact 50:50 not 100% guaranteed in which case i've lost 3 and won 2 so far. (You can't "win" a 100% guaranteed event)

@z0d15g0d Also saving my undying starlight's for light cones, I have enough for Bronya's already which I will probably get as soon as I get her guaranteed. But i'm kinda hoping they add some more lightcones to both this and the Herta shop. Been saving my herta tokens there too.

All in all I can't complain too much about my luck. My 5-star 50:50 luck is awful, but my 4 star character and light cone luck is pretty great. At the end of the day you can guarantee the 5-stars with enough wishes and I have all the standard 5-star's except Bronya who will be guaranteed soon enough and I want for my new Jingliu team.

@themightyant Yea the pure fiction and MoC stores have loads of 4* LC's I haven't tried and quite a few I've not even looked at. There's just not enough mats to experiment with LC's. They will probably add 5* LC's to those and Herta. I think the Undying store might stay as it is for the standard banner characters.

@Shigurui I got Aventurine and even at lv 50 with lv2 traces on ult and skill he seems to be doing much much better than TB fire.

I've put Aventurine on support if you guys want to try him out using TotUM as I don't have his LC but this works great with Acheron. Down to my last 5k credits so can't go any further with his traces for now.

@z0d15g0d @Shigurui you guys feel like your Avent does good enough dmg without his lc? I thought he was pretty amazing in the story sections

I just pulled him myself. I'm kinda hyped but at the same time i feel like he really wants his lc. Also I just lowered my chances of getting robin 😭

Saw a few more preview vids of Robin. What I hadn’t realised was quite how much damage she adds onto every single one of your characters attacks. Looks kinda busted tbh especially with FUA.

But I don’t really need another Harmony character right now and don’t have too many FUAs so will likely skip for the time being. Fu Xuan is my next pull.

@Shigurui Nice! Did you manage to get him up to 4k DEF? Yea he does some sweet defending and doesn't even require technique point before a fight to give team shields. Thanks for the creds lol

@Judal27 Yea he's doing better than I expected without his LC. Although looking at his LC stats makes one start to drool. In story they tend not to give the LC just a suitable one. They didn't allow us to check his equipped LC in story mode but they always do in Aptitude Showcase event.

@themightyant That's the one thing holding me back. I have many harmony characters. I'll wait and see.

@z0d15g0d iirc people said he wasn't activating his lc's abilities in the story so you're right he didn't have his cone. And he was still amazing there

And that was literally me when I saw his lc lol. Seriously 40% def and crit dmg is insane. I hope his rerun comes at a time where I don't want any of the new characters and I have jades to spare cause I really want his lc

@Judal27 Lol yea I'm gonna have to wait for rerun to get his LC. At the moment Boothill is the only character I'm not interested in acquiring so gotta spread them jades.

@Shigurui I hope so. Every update I'm always trying to upgrade a character that's been gathering dust and run out of creds when I need them. Thanks for the support. Sweet that you got him over 4k. Are you using Purity? I never thought I'd be back to farming that so soon. I might have to get Topaz as that teamup sounds fun. I'm using Clara with him at the moment as her counter increases his blind bet count.