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The Honkai series has been one of the most popular from Hoyoverse, and Honkai: Star Rail is its latest edition. Though you might not see too many similarities between this game and the previous ones in the series apart from a few characters. The world of Star Rail consists of various planets.
Honkai: Star Rail - FAQ Guide
All your questions about Honkai: Star Rail's release date, free rewards, and its relation with the previous games will be answered here.You will be using the Astral Express to go to these planets alongside March 7th and Dan Heng. Not only does this game give you an immersive open-world RPG experience, but it also has a Gacha system where you can get plenty of featured characters.
Updated on October 10, 2023, by Sanyam Jain: A few more tips have been added to make your early journey of Honkai: Star Rail much smoother.
Explore Everywhere
One of the most important tips for any open-world game is to pay attention to your surrounding and interact with everything you can. This is the same for Honkai: Star Rail since you can find plenty of chests, destructible objects, and readable in each area that you go to during the main or side quests.
The open world of this game works a little differently since the areas are divided into multiple segments, and it's not exactly an open world completely. You'll also be able to see the total number of chests in each area including the ones you've opened on your map. This can be significantly helpful in exploration.
Each chest in Star Rail gives you at least five Stellar Jades, with some of them giving even more.
If you try to explore every area, it can significantly help you get new characters faster.
Upgrade Selective Characters
Whenever you acquire a new character in the game, you'll be able to upgrade them and their Light Cone in the character section. This section can be accessed from the options on the top right of your screen. It takes special Character EXP materials to upgrade a character, and some more materials to ascend them.
These materials are quite scarce, especially if you're a free-to-play gamer. If you're not buying the battle pass or special boxes for these items, it's important to ration them. A good rule is to upgrade a maximum of four characters at the start so that you can make a party with them, and save the leftover materials.
Thankfully, the main character is quite a decent DPS in the game, so every player can invest resources into them.
Eventually, you'll have to build eight or more characters if you want to beat the endgame content like the Memory of Chaos. It's important to build at least one DPS character from each combat type unless you have Silver Wolf.
Use Your Stellar Jades Carefully
The wide variety of characters in Honkai: Star Rail is one of its main attractions because of their design and abilities. To get most of these characters, you'll have to use the Stellar Jades in the Gacha System. If you play Genshin Impact, the Jades in this game are essentially the same as Primogems.
If you're an F2P or low-spending player, one of the worst things you can do is refill your Trailblaze Power using the Stellar Jades. This dialog box pops up when you don't have enough power for a run, and it'll ask for about 60 Jades for the first refill. The price keeps increasing the more you do it.
You can only refill the power up to eight times a day, but both the price and refill amount reset every day.
You should always refrain from refilling your power because you can eventually farm more items when it refills automatically. If you do want to make a small refill, it's better to refill once every day than doing it eight times in one day and then not doing it for the entire week. Overall, refilling power is only for whales (players who spend a lot of money).
It's also important to decide which character you want to go for. There can be multiple factors that can affect this decision:
- Do you think the character is fun to play?
- Will the character help your account move forward?
- Is the character better than the other characters you have from the same combat type or path?
At the end of the day, you should pull for the characters that'll keep you entertained so that you don't get burnt out of the game.
Time Management Is Important
Honkai: Star Rail is a type of game that requires you to log in every day and perform various daily tasks. However, you might not always have the time to finish every time-limited aspect of the game. In these scenarios, it's important to know how to prioritize the content:
- Your Daily Training takes priority since you only have to spend ten minutes or less to get 60 Stellar Jades from it.
- If you have any limited-time events ending soon, you should try to finish them after your Daily Training.
- If you're close to the week's end, it's recommended to finish your Simulated Universe to get some extra Jades.
- You can then focus on spending your Power. The only reason for this being so low on the priority list is because it doesn't give any Jades and Reserved Trailblaze Power exists.
- Finally, you can continue the main story or side quests once you're done with all the time-limited aspects.
Don't Skip The Dialogue
The wide range of quests are at the core of Honkai: Star Rail and you'll easily get bored of the game if you try to rush the story or skip the dialogue. Much like other games from Hoyoverse, there will be a point when Star Rail won't have a lot of content apart from daily tasks. You'll reach this point quicker if you try to rush.
Moreover, some quests will give you hints of the location of the desired items, and they won't be marked for you on the map. You'll also feel much closer to the game's lore and the characters you use if you know the part that they play in the story.
Don't Let Your Trailblaze Power Cap
Once you've progressed into the game for a little bit, you'll see a special currency on the top right side of your screen when you open the map. This currency is called Trailblaze Power, and it can be used to farm a variety of things. When it's not capped, you'll regenerate one power every few minutes.
The most important thing in Honkai: Star Rail is to not let this currency cap if you want to make the most out of it. At the start, you'll only have some Golden Calyx that you can spend them on, but this is also the time when you can horde character and Light Cone EXP materials. Use every bit of your power on them.
You'll eventually unlock different domains where you can get Relics and other items, and you won't have spare power for Calyx.
Do Your Daily Training
As you progress in the main story, you'll eventually land on Jarilo-VI planet. Go through the main story on this planet to reach the underground part of Belobog. Down here, you'll get to meet Seele as she makes a beautiful appearance, and your Daily Training will unlock after the first dialogue with her.
This area can be accessed through the options on the top right side of your screen, and a bar will show the current amount of points you have here. This bar resets every day, and you can get up to 60 Stellar Jades from this. Below the bar, you'll see a few tasks and the points they'll provide after you finish them.
You don't have to finish all these tasks every day, just enough to reach the 500-point mark.
The tasks in Nameless Honor are another thing you'll want to pay attention to every day.
Space Anchors Can Heal You
In the main story, you can only use the Astral Express to go from one planet to another. Though this is quite tedious if you want to go to different planets repeatedly. This problem is solved by the Space Anchors in the game. You can see these Anchors marked with blue color on your map, and you can teleport to them at any point.
Apart from instant teleportation, these Anchors also serve the purpose of regenerating your team's health. If you try to fight a strong opponent, some of your characters might end up being defeated. These characters will be revived automatically after the battle, but they'll also be on very low HP.
Space Anchor's energy goes down when you recharge your characters' health, but you won't feel this at the start.
Read The Characters' Abilities
On the screen where you can see all your characters, you'll also see some options on the left. One of these options will be called "Traces", and you can see and upgrade all your character abilities in this section. Every character in the game has six types of abilities:
- Basic Attack
- Skill
- Ultimate
- Technique
- Talent
- Bonus Abilities
Bonus abilities can only be unlocked by upgrading the skill tree, while the rest are unlocked whenever you get the character.
It's extremely important to read and understand all your character abilities as this will give you an idea of how to make your team. The better your team members synchronize with each other, the more effective they'll be in battle.