Topic: Honkai Star Rail

@Pizzamorg I think you are misunderstanding. If you are wishing on ANY featured character banner and lose the 50:50, so you didn't get the featured banner character, then you will ALWAYS get the featured banner character the next time you get a 5-star whether it is 1 wish later or all 90. This ALSO applies whether it is on this same featured character banner (e.g. Feixiao) or another featured character banner (e.g. Robin). That's how the system always works.

Something isn't right here. Either you were wishing on the wrong banner (e.g. perhaps the standard banner with all the standard 5-stars, the one with Silver tickets) or something has gone very wrong with HSRs wish system, which I think is highly unlikely.

Oh then I dunno what happened then. But either way, it kinda sucks since the ice guy I will never use. But it is what it is I guess. I guess I can't really complain as they are still new for my account, but it would have been nice to get at least one banner character or a Moze lol

I think you may have used your wishes on the basic banner that's the only explanation I can think of. You should have one of the premium characters at least.

@themightyant I tried FeiXiao, Clara, Robin/Tingyun and Aventurine during the story missions and it was a follow up party lol.

Been looking at the game tools and there's a player on there who 0 cycled MoC 12 with only 2 relics equipped for Bronya E1 and RuanMei E0 other 2 characters are Feixiao E0 and MarchHunt E6. I would very much like to know how he pulled this off. Maybe I don't need to be maxing every character I get.

Finally managed to pull a Moze. Also got March 7th Hunt up up to E06 through that Wardance mode thing. Pairing those two with Yunli and Lynx feels pretty nice. My Yunli is 10 levels behind everybody though as I haven't gotten far enough in the story to unlock the Shadow where you can get her ascension materials. Now I just gotta hope I can pull at least one of the S-Rank characters from the banners before the month is over.

I actually didn't no. I just shrugged it off as weirdness and went about my day. If it is anything like other mobile games I've played, actually getting a customer service ticket raised is almost impossible and the fact I did get some other S-Ranks I figure they'd just ignore me.

I did manage to pull Robin though, so not everything is wrong in the world. Although I have to say, after getting Sparkle in the last banner and building so many teams around Sparkle's ult, I am having a harder time than I probably want to admit without her.

I trust the people who say that Robin is better for damage etc, but I kinda miss being able to spam skills with no care in the world, popping Sparkle's ult and then carrying on. I could probably run Sparkle and Robin, but then that leaves me with just one sustain and one DPS and I dunno if that is enough.

@Shigurui I'm really enjoying Natlan. The story is great and the land is fun to explore. New X.0 versions with new lands are Genshin at it's best.

I haven't quite decided which free 5-star i'm going to get. I am close to pity on the standard banner and will wait till the start of the months free wishes to see who I pull naturally before deciding. I have all of them already so it's more about which constellation I want. Jean C2 (team 15% Spd + 15% Atk boost), Mona C3 (+3 Ult) or Tighnari C2 (20% dendro dmg boost) all are good. Diluc C2 or Keqing C1 would be OK. I'm not interested in Dehya C1 and I don't need Qiqi as I have her C6. lol

Can I talk about Zenless in here as well? My priorities with ZZZ banners are a bit different than HSR, as HSR requires you to have specific pieces, whereas ZZZ is more casual at least right now, so just pull who you enjoy.

I skipped Ellen for this reason as her playstyle isn't for me, although in hindsight I basically have no ice character I enjoy using, so if they ever do become more strict about this I am in trouble.

I did pull on Qingyi's banner but not with any real seriousness cause there are a lot of electric agents in the game already, maybe not of her class, but felt I could live without her. Especially as she is like a carpal tunnel simulator, so I didn't get her. I think its cause I was part pity dipped, I ended up getting Jane despite not really being all that interested and Seth (the new 4*).

Surprisingly out of the three new banner characters I pulled, Zhu Yuan, Seth and Jane. I think I ended up enjoying Jane the most, despite being the one I was least interested in. She has a very different playstyle than the others, with it having a high ceiling for skill mastery and expression. When you nail her counters, manage her meter and overwhelm your opponent for massive damage it feels so good. Seth is fine, he fits a niche as only the second defence class character we have and the first electric type in that class too. I pulled Zhu Yuan cause she was only the second character of her element, but I have to be honest, I don't like her playstyle. I kinda liked it in the story, the way she has a dodge built into her combos seems cool, but pulling it off is harder than just dodging with the dedicated button and I find myself just defaulting back to Nicole. She isn't an offensive class, but her playstyle is just easier (put down bubble and switch).

@Pizzamorg I don't mind if you chat a little ZZZ occasionally, though we only chat about Genshin in passing every now and again. I'd suggest if it's going to be a big part of your, or anyone's posts going forward it would be better in the ZZZ forum page instead.

That out of the way I got Ellen, Zhu Yuan, Qingyi and Seth all F2P but missed the 50:50 on Jane, instead I got a second 'The Brimstone' W-engine... which I don't mind too much, weapons are strong in this game and both my main DPS's Ellen & Zhu Yuan can both use it.

I think the casualness of it is mostly because it's early game and no one has larger teams to choose from yet. HSR and Genshin were similar at the beginning. But I have no doubt they will make it harder and you'll have to optimise many characters team archetypes if you want to succeed further down the line.

I've played ZZZ almost every day since it launched but to be honest i'm possibly thinking of dropping it, or at least only coming back for bigger content. I like the combat but I don't like the 'hollow' / TV mechanic at all; and all the to-do list, especially WEEKLY (Notorious Hunt x3, Hollow Zero several times and more) seems to take too long compared to others. I just don't need another time consuming live service on top of what i'm already playing.

To be honest since I finished the story and moved over to HSR. I probably play ZZZ less than an hour a day, and some days I don't log in at all. I love jumping into a quick mission just for the feel of ZZZ as it has one of the best combat systems I've ever experienced, but I don't much care for gaming when there is no goal to what I am doing and right now, the events added to ZZZ have been much smaller than HSRs and its sorta on life support until the big update comes with the new location etc

To be honest though, with HSR and ZZZ, I am only putting the time into them like I am cause this year has been dry for gaming releases, at least for my tastes. Seems like a lot is coming out all at once over the next three or so months, so I dunno if I am gonna have the time to really dedicate much of me to these games, beyond setting aside ten minutes to log in and collect my daily currencies.

@Shigurui AMAZING!!! Very happy about this, thanks for the heads up.

I assume you will only be allowed one and not be able to double up if you already had the event one.

@Shigurui Yes 100%. I wanted it since I got Silver Wolf early on, very annoying as we never even had a chance to get it on PlayStation.

@Shigurui I think I've only missed one Genshin event weapon the recent Desert Polearm for healers. I don't think it's a BiS for anyone though so i'm not as fussed.

Meanwhile my WuWa luck continues to be insane, I just got Shorekeeper after 30 wishes. I have every 5-star except Zhezhi and still have 40 wishes and 37 weapon wishes left. All my HSR bad luck has been funnelled into that game for now

@Shigurui Haha, fair enough. It's VERY similar to Genshin in terms of... well almost everything... it's an unashamed clone in terms of structure and open world. But does have a few ideas of it's own and combat is fun. It's not as polished as Hoyo games but it's decent. Genshin-lite.

I remember trying WuWa to try and satisfy my ZZZ itch when I was between patches. WuWa also uses the "swap character to do a cool move and parry" thing ZZZ does, but it just felt so much clunkier. Really couldn't get on with it.

@Shigurui That mode in WuWa is a LOT of fun, probably my favourite end-game across all these games as it's a bit of a power fantasy (a bit like the Galactic Baseballer event) but it makes building your teams a bit worthless due to all the buffs you get. Hopefully WuWa is coming to PS5 soon... and with good performance as it runs like ass on both my iphone and tablet.

Back to HSR I just got Robin to support Feixiao. I usually save my Undying Starlight (shop currency you get from pulling characters, duplicates and cones) for if I want a 5-star Light cone. But I spent a bit as I was about 5-10 wishes short, even after competing the new event as well as speed running Simulated Universe / Pure Fiction / Swarm Disaster / etc. and everything I could to get another 15 or so wishes. That's my second 50:50 win of the year... is my luck finally turning? Lol.

The only downside was I had been pulling for Moze Eidolons before (got to E4) but now I have Robin I have a decision on whether to play Moze or March 7th, I currently don't need either in other teams. I guess it's a situational thing. Moze is a little more 'target this one guy' and March is more SP positive. Will have to try both.

Now i'm skint again and saving for Adventurine rerun.

@Shigurui Appreciate the advice. But I think Adventurine will fit into more team comps for me, more flexible. Fu Xuan has been a mainstay in almost every team except Super-break since I got her. Could do with another for end-game content.

@Shigurui thanks mate, appreciate the codes.

And getting an early 5-star loss and guaranteeing the next is often a nice win. Happy days.

@Shigurui Thanks for the codes dude. Yea got Welt finally also while trying to pull for Feixiao. Is there any point building him right now? maybe for the free basic passes but I don't see him on any teams these days.
Is Aventurine next for rerun? If so I'm gonna need his LC. Guy is OP as is but with that he'll be a nightmare. Even Yangqin doesn't suck as much when paired with him as shields always up and his skill remains active.