Honkai: Star Rail Review - A New Gold Standard In Live Service RPGs

What makes this 5-star Honkai: Star Rail character one of the best is her ability to chain extra attacks with every kill. She is a quick character, often striking first while also hitting very hard. Seele is a viable substitute for the Trailblazer themselves if they are not doing enough damage and the team lacks more firepo

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

Before Dawn increases the user’s CRIT, Skill, and Ultimate DMG. After they use a Skill or Ultimate, they get a buff called Somnus Corpus, which is consumed when the user triggers a follow-up attack, boosting the attack’s dam

Finally, the Trailblazer is Honkai: Star Rail 's main protagonist and pseudo-avatar for the player, similar to Genshin Impact 's Traveler. Uniquely among Star Rail 's playable characters, the Trailblazer essentially comes as a two-in-one package, being able to serve as either Physical Destruction or (after a certain point in the story) Fire Preservation. While the versatility is already a major plus, The Trailblazer is effective in either role, with Physical Destruction being especially valuable for exploiting common Physical weaknesses in the early game, and for its versatility in dealing single-target or multi-target dam

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

**Nowhere To Run is the best 4-star Light Cone for Honkai: Star Rail ’s Trailblazer (Destruction) build ** . It operates similarly to Something Irreplaceable in the sense that its boosts ATK significantly and even has HP-restoring properties. The second-best 4-star option for the protagonist is a tie between A Secret Vow and The Moles Welcome

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

Seeing how often Himeko should be using her follow-up Talent, it fits her quite well. It is also great because it makes building her CRIT stats much easier. Of course, 5-star Light Cones can be extremely difficult to obtain considering their tier, so the best 4-star options for Himeko’s build in Honkai: Star Rail are The Birth of Self, which pairs up with her follow-up attacks, or The Seriousness of Breakfast, which boosts her overall ATK and DMG out

Its simple and straightforward approach to damage lacks more depth, but it is quite effective to use. Of course, as Trailblazer unlocks more Paths in **Honkai: Star Rail ** , players will be tempted to change and experiment with more alternatives, but The Destruction version will always be there for when they need

**Honkai: Cerydra support Kit Star Rail ** is a video game built on years of experience in the limelight of live-service gaming. Developer HoYoverse certainly isn't a stranger to high-profile, ongoing titles - Genshin Impact remains one of the most popular and influential titles in its space. While Star Rail is a dramatically different experience overall, the similarities between the two games are almost entirely positives, with a polished cast of characters, intriguing story, and incredible depth of gameplay pushing the 1.0 launch into rarefied territ

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