There are also boss fights, Anaxa X Castorice advanced material elite encounters, and the Simulated Universe for players looking for more to do. The Simulated Universe in particular is an addictive addition to play options that plays like a roguelite with progression - and rewards for players who engage with it. Equipment and crafting materials drop from enemies within, and players will be able to accumulate a collection of boons from deities in the Star Rail universe, like those who lord over the Path of Destruction or Path of Remembrance. While levels and character builds still matter, the Simulated Universe puts an emphasis on clever team building and the luck of a key boon as players progress. It's easily going to be one of the most enjoyable facets of Honkai: Star Ra

Serving as one of the game's starting characters, Dan Heng is surprisingly capable when it comes to his role as a single-target damage dealer, with his Wind element and Hunt Path targeting a common early-game weakness and allowing him to easily break enemies. Complementing his damage dealing prowess, Dan Heng's talent gives him a hefty Wind resistance penetration buff after he's targeted by any ally's ability, boosting his already-impressive damage even further and giving him an easily usable synergy with many Harmony and Preservation characters - including fellow starter character March

Honkai: Star Rail follows the Trailblazer, a player-controlled character who awakes under mysterious circumstances. They're quickly burdened with a power that is either highly sought-after or vilified by denizens of the game's universe, and rescued by the Astral Express - a group of world-jumping heroes who chase after Stellarons, the protagonist's power that also functions as a cancerous presence on any planet it's fo

Like many other live-service games, Honkai: Star Rail _ provides a number of free characters, some as in-game starter characters and others as rewards for the game's launch, providing a good foundation for new players to supplement with characters pulled from the game's gacha system. Diverging from the real-time action combat of previous HoYoverse games, like _Genshin Impact , Star Rail instead takes the form of a turn-based RPG - although, despite the drastic change in gameplay, many of the game's features and characters will be familiar to players moving over from other games by the same develo

There's also simply more to do at launch in Honkai: Star Rail than expected. Aside from main story progression, there are a multitude of side quests, dailies, and character-specific story quests. Daily text messages from characters serve to add a bit of the mundane to an otherwise grand scope, with discussions about coffee helping ground the budding relationships as the Astral Express seeks to unseat sinister powers. Options to gather experience & crafting materials opens up early, and there's a familiar Trailblazer Level system that serves to gate content getting harder as players begin to complete more and more adventu

This ability depletes Arlan's HP by 15 percent of his maximum health. By doing this, he augments his lightning attack from the skill by 130 percent of his ATK stat. Arlan's skill is unique at the moment in Star Rail since it is the only one that doesn't cost a skill po

Sadly, all the other Preservation Light Cones available in Honkar: Star Rail at launch do not apply to March 7th's kit. Some involve healing the wearer or allies, while others include directing attacks toward the wearer. Since March 7th wants to attract enemy fire to other characters, this would actually be detrimental to any of her builds. If players don't have one of March 7th's preferred Light Cones, they should make do with one of the 3-Star Light Cones like Defe

As the final free Erudition character, Serval's Lightning element and potent attacking skills manage to set her apart as a good general option - which is especially good because she can be claimed for free early in the game as part of Star Rail 's pre-registration campaign. Being the only Lightning attacker out of the free characters already gives Serval a solid niche, but her skills also leave potent lightning DoTs on enemies that are effective at racking up residual damage, further supported by her ultimate and basic attacks. As a slight downside, however, her skill can only target three enemies, meaning her damage can suffer in fights with larger gro

As a character, Sampo specialises in area-of-effect (AoE) and damage-over-time debuffs (DoTs). Due to this, his skill is considerably powerful if you invest enough time into him. Ricochet Love targets one enemy and then bounces between all of them, randomly hitting several of them. As it does, it has a chance to inflict Wind Shear debuff, which will periodically cause wind damage over t

The entire concept of the game, from the way it tackles content variety to its battle system, also feels significantly more mobile-friendly. Whereas Genshin Impact can sometimes feel difficult to navigate during time-intensive ability swapping and movement-based boss fights, Honkai: Star Rail doesn't run into this issue. It's a bit of a battery drainer to be sure, but it's well-suited to mobile in a way that makes it feel significantly better to play on the