Honkai Star Rail

Lynx/Aventurine/Mei sounds like a good core to beat the Swarm King. Ratio is probably decent although this team is not very debuff-heavy so you might not always trigger his follow-up attack. Physical TB is actually quite decent here as all enemies are weak to physical and s/he can pick whether to hit single-target or AOE depending on the situation.

Overall, if you want to go the slow and steady route, you should look for a DPS that's not too SP-hungry (unlike Ratio who basically wants to always use his skill). This way you should always have SP to refresh Aventurine's shields or heal with Lynx.

I don't know whether you have her, but with this team of 3, Clara as 4th will 100% murder the boss. Especially since Lynx makes it even more likely she'll be targeted, increasing the number of Svarog counterattacks. When I do my weeklies and want to run this fight, my core of 3 is always Ruan Mei/Clara/Lynx (and I usually grab a friend's Jingliu as 4th for DPS).

Edited by Bexlerfu on Apr 24th 2024 at 7:54:27 PM

Looks like using Physical TB instead of Ratio did it. Yay now that's hurdles over I can level these traces.

Edited by knowmenot101 on Apr 24th 2024 at 1:36:28 AM

These summoning rituals between VAs are always fun.

Mhh no drip today, 2.3 might not have a 4* again.

At least that means I can safely skip that patch and replenish my savings

No Sunday, no Screwllum. It's over, guys.

TBF Screwllum deserves to be a 5*.

No new 4* in nearly 5 months does not bode well for the game's economic friendliness in the future.

2 patches is about 3 months. Unless you know something about 2.4 that the rest of us don't

But, uh, yeah, 2.3 apparently not having a 4* is weird and somewhat concerning. Maybe they're just trying to avoid spoilers?

I think Screwllum is being reserved for when the team has to explore Emperor Rupert’s ruins and is likely a 5 star.

Sunday though, I think he’s going to get Cocolia’d by the end of the story. And it would make sense to kill him off from a story and worldbuilding perspective. I do feel sorry for Sunday fans though because that would be the second character that is permanently killed in the Penacony storyline.

Last I heard people were expecting Screwllum to be 5*. But they're also expecting Sunday to be playable

There has been a Screwllum kit floating around since 1.0 and some remnant data was on I think 1.5's beta client were it was mostly the same. He was an Imaginary Erudition character who's gimmick is implanting a "bomb" whenever a target was afflicted with a Debuff, his ult then would trigger these bombs in a chain reaction.

Isn’t that more of a Nihility kit?

The last 4* was Gallagher, released on March 26th.

The next 4* will appear in 2.4 theoretically, which should be released on July 31st. So that's more than 4 months without a new 4*.

There isn’t really much of a point spoiler tagging speculation. All that said unless proven otherwise Sunday has been datamined as playable so there’s no point doom posting or offering unnecessary pity until leakers bring any new info

Edited by Mami on Apr 25th 2024 at 6:23:12 PM

Well, there's still Siobhan if they want to add a new 4 star for 2.3, she already got her model and focus event after all, and said event is also kind of lore important.

I was honestly not aware of that.

Yeah but she would have been drip-marketed if she were to be added. Maybe she'll come later (I hope so), but as it stands I doubt we'll get anything before long.

Siobhan has an NPC model with a few extra details. I don't think they're intending for her to be playable

Yeah, she's like Oleg in that the NPC model is unique, but not to the point of being a playable character.

Got Aventurine with today's anni 10-roll hell yeah!

I almost managed to clear G&G 10 Preservation with a level 70 Aventurine with unfinished relics, and with pretty abysmal luck when it comes to events, curios, or plain "who are the enemies targeting this time".

So once he's built, getting all the conundrum achievements should very much be on the table.

2.2's Banners are

Robin + Topaz (March, Hanya, Xueyi)

Boothill + Fu Xuan (Pela, Luka Hook)

• CODE 1: VSKTGNPMNBRB
• CODE 2: BT3BG67LPS9X
• CODE 3: RSKSYP646TR3

Edited by Kiefen on Apr 26th 2024 at 2:40:19 PM

Got to say it’s good for me, I was planning on pulling in Robin’s banner and I could use some March copies.

Oof. I need Topaz purely for those stupid achievements that require you pull her, but that would eat into Fu Xuan resources, who I actually want.

Sorry IPC team, I need to save for Boothill