I just reached level 38 today, but i skip all dialogue cause genshin burned me on that, although ive heard this is better. Just making progress in the planets through missions and opening chests/solving puzzles give you a ton of jades, plus the rewards of the 1st patch and the challenges like simulated universe and forgotten hall, its a lot, but also its the first patch so yeah. Its mainly the missions and simulated universe + calyx that give you the most exp by far i feel

I also did 50 pulls on beginner and 78 on standard banner, i swear i didnt farm for those they just hand them out like crazy, didnt even need to use jades for the normal tickets

Despite there only being a handful actual abilities (basic, skill, ult), there's follow up attacks, counters, taunts/aggro, etc., so it's definitely been more engaging than I originally thought it'd be.

Also, apparently the director for this game is a HUGE Kiseki fan, along with a lot of the people working on the game.

"In fact, I haven’t changed the icon on my QQ A Chinese social media website account in 10 years! he then excitedly shows his account photo, revealing to be Tio Plato"

noisypixel.net/honkai-star-rail-producer-love-trails-interview

But yeah, just about all of the characters are strong, which you can't really complain about in a gacha lol. Also a huge fan of the three party members. So much better than Paimon talking for the MC in Genshin lol.

Paimon not being in this game is the sole reason this is better than genshin to me. Dialogues in this game arent dragging, and the MC got some personality. While i skip most of the story, i at least read the text messages and those can be pretty fun

based tio enjoyer

do you need to actually beat the simulated universes to get trailblaze exp or can you just do the hardest one, fail it and still get exp?

You can use 40 stamina on like the 4th or 5th floor of World 3+ Simulated Universe to get some of the planetary relics (or w/e the names are; the two slots in the middle of the other relics) and Trailblazer xp.

F*** iirc its only the first time you get exp after completing a world, you'll have to get immersion rewards for the exp in subsequent runs. But i could be wrong idk why im blanking out rn about this lol

Simulated universe is top tier content and probably my favorite part about the game. Forgotten Hall is also great.

QOL features are leagues ahead of Genshin, I'm also glad that domains are available everyday and you don't have to wait which is very annoying. I'm finding myself enjoying this game so much more than Genshin, to the point where I think that only Fontaine being amazing can bring me back to it.

As for my account, I'm f2p and at AR35 right now. I finished the main story last night and I've done all side quests too (I think).

Plus, I've been very lucky with my wishes (Bronya from the beginner banner, Gepard and Clara's light cone from the standard banner, Himeko at 12 pity and Seele at 83 pity from the limited banner and Seele's light cone at 9 pity from the weapon banner) which always adds a lot of excitement in gacha games.

My main team for the time being is: Trailblazer (physical), Seele, Bronya and Natasha or Gepard.

I'm really excited for what's to come (and hopefully I won't have to whip out the wallet )

Really any type of run is viable if you aim to level up (including the mats dungeon). SU is just the most fun way to do once you caught up with the story and side quests

I'm lv 42 now and my time and stamina is all spent on ranking up my chars again since I hit 40/EQ3. Prepare for the grind 💀 I'm at it slowly though still have plenty stamina refills left

I can't talk to pom-pom 😭

def not missing with the ost but i guess thats expected from mihoyo atp

Just got done with SU4 that s*** was close

Him and the Frigid Prowler Elite are the hardest mfs in the game

Those hands he summons are insane, first time I got OHK in the game

Wasn't expecting he can pull out multiple too and then he grapples my only dps

I hit pity on Seele banner right after it

Pulled on the Jing Yuan banner to snag a single copy of Tingyun, but ended up getting Bailu 30 warps in lol (which is huge). Think I'm at 50 total rn with no Tingyun

I'd gladly take Jing Yuan early because Daisuke Ono is the goat VA, but I'm not trying to keep on summoning on this banner

I wanna summon but im stayin strong for Kafka

Bro forreal If I didn't get Bailu, I probably would've summoned for Luocha and/or Silver Wolf, depends on how she is. Also ended up getting Clara on my first standard banner 5 star, so I don't really need Jing Yuan.

I think Kafka's dropping in 1.2, so you've got some time to save and guarantee her. I genuinely can't get over how good the character designs are man. Like I said, in any gacha I've played, I really don't feel the need to summon on every banner, but the characters in this game are unreal

Tingyun is fun I been using the same team (Clara, Seele, Nat, Tingyun) to clear every SU even the difficulty 2 ones. No f given about matching the elements lmao

Now to focus on Memory of Chaos and I have to build second team

Saving my pulls for SW and Luocha. Really could use more Tingyun dupes and I did 20x earlier and got more Sushang smh

I already have Bronya and I know Tingyun is a crazy good buffer, so I really wanna get her so I have both of them plus she so bad

I gotta start working on another team now as well. Probably gonna be something like Clara, Tingyun (when I get her lol), Natasha, and maybe March. Now that I've gotten Bailu, that first team gonna be Seele, Bronya, Bailu, Fire MC.

How hard were the difficulty 2 SU stages? Currently rank 43 and been slacking on those. Think I started W3 Level 2 earlier.

Same deal more or less. Go for stacking the same path blessings. Destruction is my fav their runs are fairly quick, try to pick up some Abundance on the side to buff up healer cus the path skill is a nuke

The Hunt is great too especially with Seele and if you're lucky there's a hunt blessing that heals you. Without it things get shaky a bit

I don't have Sampo to test Nihility and folks hype him up so much