@themightyant - Skip everything, the Gallagher moments are quite interesting but that's about it. Plenty of jades during and after so let those help you power through the tedium.
Edit: There's a couple of conversations in cutscenes with Acheron and an old man you probably won't want to skip, you progress the dialogue yourself so keep an eye out for those.
@z0d15g0d Not sure, will have to see how good they are. Neither currently grab me from the very little I’ve seen in terms of design, and I haven’t researched their kit.
Meanwhile while my HSR 5-star luck could almost not be worse my WuWa luck has been utterly fantastic… yes I’m still playing. I got Jiyan on my very second pull and then got his signature weapon, got Calcharo, Verina R1 (and her best 4 star weapon to S5) Mortefi R4 and now I literally got Yinlin on my very first pull on her banner. It’s ridiculous, my account already feels cracked and i haven’t spent a penny. lol
@themightyant Yea it looks like the game is moving towards super breaks with Ruan mei and TB Harmony. Plus with a lot of the new characters implanting a weakness into the enemy it's like Silver Wolf is being edged out. I might go for Firefly but honestly I want RM more.
You're right about WuWa my Jiyan is S2 in 10 pulls and his sig weapon in 20 I got Yinlin in 20 but not gonna bother with her weapon though as they don't give character specific buffs that I know of so will save for other characters instead. The moment I started focusing on the pokemon upgrades my characters HP have all broken the 10k barrier. CR is almost impossible to find in this game.
I take it the Holograms are the end game cause their difficulty is no joke lol.
@z0d15g0d Yes re: WuWa I said I liked the Echo/Hologram system being linked to the open world. But farming them actually sucks as the rates are so ridiculously low and upgrading them costs so much resources. I don't currently like the system. But thankfully I can obliterate all the content in the game with what I do have. E.g. I just did another 10 pull on Jiyan's banner and got 2x more Mortefi to take him to S6 and a 20% party wide ATK buff.
I'm almost done with the story. Will likely finish tonight or tomorrow. Gotta say I think it's been awful. The worst part is when you start to realise all the things they are doing to artificially extend the play time and drag it out. It just isn't good content imho. And listening to Sunday drone on worse than The Architect in The Matrix was a low point. Hopefully they finish well here and in 2.3. and then move onto something with a more coherent storyline and much better pacing. But I should finish and get my event Jades in time.
@themightyant Lol that's who Sunday reminded me of. He even has the white suit to boot. I expected Penacony to take a much darker turn when they introduced "death" at the end of 2.1. They dashed all my hopes with this update. Now with Jade arriving in 2.3 it might just go all political and a lot more drivel.
I didn't enjoy Penacony very much overall and find introducing a new mechanic like Super-break a bit annoying as it mostly just nerfs our existing characters, we spent a lot of time building, for newer content. It hasn't really enabled older less used characters, like Pure Fiction did or Dendro did in Genshin, it mostly seems to be a tactic to get us to spend, or keep playing daily, to be relevant in some newer content.
This on top of other power-creeping I feel is going on. I finally got Bronya after 300 wishes and she's been superseded by many better buffing/debuffing units so there's likely only one team I would run her in now.
I think the biggest thing is how much of a timesink it all is and the opportunity cost of playing. E.g. I could play HSR or in the same time I could probably play all of Xenoblade Chronicles 3, Baldurs Gate 3 and Elden Ring... or dozens of smaller games.
Not giving up yet, but hoping the next world is better and more engaging, else I might tap out for everything except the story like I have done in Genshin.
@themightyant - I'm not seeing it. SB doesn't nerf anything, my FuA and DoT teams still wreck hard.
Its made characters like Gallagher and Xueyi more useful and Ruan Mei even more so but I'm not feeling the need to build Harmony MC and respec my Kafka into break Kafka all of a sudden.
SB is certainly flavour of the month but that's all it is. Definitely not making anything else obsolete.
Of course Bronya has been superseded, she's a standard character but absolutely has a place in almost any team still. As for the opportunity cost, you already sunk the time, spending 240 TP per day takes under 5 minutes. Not sure why that time is now keeping you away from any other game.
@themightyant@Shigurui - The Penacony story has been a letdown this time. Part 1 was filled with so much intrigue whilst Part 2 was filled with endless rambling. Walking back on Aventurine's fate was a cop out and ruined any emotional props they earned. The last part best be filled with more battles than conversations (I hope).
With regards to SB It does look like that's the "In" mechanic at the moment but we all know that will not last forever so we're probably in a "ride it out" phase. I'm going to stick with my current characters and keep farming for better relics. I'll build TB Harmony as I've built the other 2 and having the MC maxed is my usual RPG playstyle even WuWa MC is built even though I barely use them anymore lol.
Bronya has definitely taken a back seat to my Sparkle but only until I get an E1 for her. Robin has pretty much replaced my Tingyun as she seems to be better overall for my DPS heavy teams.
Is the next Arc going back to the Xianzhou? As the 2 new 5 stars for version 2.4 are from there.
Anyone tried the new story yet? Is it long winded as before or an improvement? So far only been doing the events for Jades and got FF on first 10 pulls. Now trying to pull for her LC as Only Fall of Aeon seems to be universal destruction LC. No one can use Blade or DHIL's LC properly They should refresh those 5* LC's in Herta's store.
@z0d15g0d - Yeah mate, I've finished it. It does waffle on a bit but it's pretty short so bearable. Congrats on getting Firefly! What was your pity on? I was at 59 but had to do 30 pulls to get Ruan Mei and she came in on pull 82. Was a 50/50 though so just glad I got her.
@Shigurui Yea just finished it. I must admit I hammered the "next" button again. Thanks man it was 0 pity. I couldn't believe it. My last pull was Fu Xuan. I spent most of my pulls trying to get Fu Xuans LC afterwards so that's on about 60 pity now. I hope I win the 50/50. If I get another Welt LC I'll probably rage lol.
@z0d15g0d - Oh, sweet. Got to love those earlies. I've had a few good runs with getting Kafka then Blade + LC in 40 pulls and E2 Acheron + LC in 80. Hope your luck holds up for that FF LC!
@Shigurui Looks like her LC is being elusive. At 67 pity now. Also how the hell is my TB Harmony 1 shotting Lv 82 Elites with his skill and my Acheron isn't with her ult. They still have some HP left. This Super Break business will probably get nerfed.
@Shigurui@z0d15g0d Yes finished it too. The quest itself was pretty lame, but I liked the end of it, both the fireworks video and saying goodbye. I haven't tried the new end-game content yet, but actually have some of the day off today so might give it a go. I'm trying to get on top of my gacha-game content and play it when it first comes out going forward rather than leaving it to the end.
Meanwhile it FINALLY happened... for the first time in 2024... I won the bloody 50:50 and got Firefly. I wasn't going to but I realised I already had her best team (Ruan Mei, Harmony Trailblazer & Gallagher E2+) and if you can't beat them (Super- Break) then join them. So that's a win. Which I honestly wasn't expecting having lost so many back to back, losing has become my default in this game. lol.
It's going to take me a long time to level up all those characters though, including weapons, traces, relics and more. My Gallagher was only Lv20 unlevelled and i'd only just started levelling Harmony TB nd I've realised my Ruan Mei's relics and the best.
What Lightcone are you running on Firefly? I realise I don't have any great light cones for her. I don't have indelible promise, so it's either Flames Afar or Secret Vow, currently looking for a good source for DMG numbers. I suppose I could take On the Fall of an Aeon off Jingliu but i'm not usually a fan of swapping equipment as I ALWAYS forget to change it back!
Forums
Topic: Honkai Star Rail
Posts 441 to 460 of 682
Please login or sign up to reply to this topic