В Honkai: StarRail The powercreep problem has become especially noticeable when compared to other HoYoverse projects. Each new limited character becomes stronger than the previous one, and the power of opponents in the endgame content is also built on their basis. Because of this, many heroes released in earlier versions begin to significantly sag in strength and relevance - it is increasingly difficult for them to cope with the levels of updated activities even with good investments and pumping.
For this reason, the developers decided to strengthen certain units and, starting with update 3.4, they plan to do this on an ongoing basis. Below, we will look at the main changes that will affect the first "wave" of old characters.
Which characters will get a buff in patch 3.4
As part of the summer update, the heroes that will receive the upgrade will be of the faction Lofu Xianzhou.
As part of the CBT, based on tests, it became known that the effectiveness of DPS representatives in cooperation with top-tier will increase by:
- Blade - 20%
- Jingliu - 40-45%
- Kafka - 60%
Kafka
Kafka (Non-Being: Electric) will once again strengthen its position as the DoT queen:
| Ability | Changes |
| Talent | Removed binding to basic strikes allies: now the bonus attacks will be performed after any active skill is used by another squad member. The effect, in turn, can work up to 2 times. |
| Emboldening Salvo | Additionally: if the selected opponent or neighboring targets already have a status with periodic damage, then the skill deals damage immediatelyequal to 60-82.5% (main enemy) or 40-50% (adjacent enemies) from the initial DPS. |
| Superpower | "Twilight Trill" will be endowed with a feature that was previously only revealed by studying the trail "Torture": After activation, forces enemies to get damage immediately from all imposed DoT statuses. |
| Tracks | Complete rework of the hidden talents "Torment" and "Thorns":
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| Eidolons | The first eidolon has had its bonus attack binding removed, and the second has been completely reworked:
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Blade
Blade (Destruction: Wind) will be strengthened in the role of the main DPS unit, in addition, it will become an excellent secondary to other hyper-carries, getting the opportunity to fully play off bonus attacks:
| Ability | Changes |
| Common | Previously, DPS depended more on health and less on attack power. Now it depends only on HP. |
| Emboldening Salvo | Additional: after use, significantly increases the character's chance of being attacked. |
| Tracks | The effect embedded in the trail has been changed. "Storm of Destruction": The talent's bonus attack now not only deals increased damage, but also restores 15 units. energy. |
| Eidolons | E1 "Cuts in hell burn worse" Increases the damage of both the Death Sentence super ability and the enhanced basic attack Sword Palisade. |
Silver Wolf
Silver Wolf (Nonexistence: Quantum) will expand her personal potential as a character responsible for imposing negative statuses, and her AoE potential will also increase:
| Ability | Changes |
| Common | Increased the overall base chance of applying negative effects in skills and traces. |
| Talent | Additionally: after an enemy affected by one of the types of "Bugs" dies, a negative status carried over to another enemy target. |
| Emboldening Salvo | The ability still applies a new vulnerability to the enemy, but now the priority is given to the vulnerability corresponding to the damage type of the ally standing on it. first position (far left). |
| Superpower | " Banned" gains AoE potential: deals damage and reduces defense at once all opponents, and not just one chosen one. |
| Tracks | Complete rework of the hidden talents "Implementation" and "Note":
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| Eidolons | E2 "Botnet" reworked: when an enemy enters combat, increases the damage they take by 20%. When an enemy takes a hit from an ally, the heroine has a base 100% chance to place a buff on the attacked target. one random "Bug". |
jingliu
Jingliu (Destruction: Ice) will receive significant increases in its own combat effectiveness within the "Spectral Transmigration" state:
| Ability | Changes |
| Common | Previously, DPS depended on the attack power indicator. Now it only depends on HP. |
| Talent | Into the state of "Spectral transmigration" increases crit. damage from the absorbed health of all allies, not attack power. |
| Tracks | The effect embedded in the trail has been changed. "Sword master": after using the skill "Incomprehensible Lightning" restores 15 units. energy. |
| Eidolons | The first and sixth eidolons have been strengthened:
E4 has been changed "Raised Night Lamp": Each level of Moonlight increases Critical Damage by 20%. |
Future Hero Buffs
At the moment, according to preliminary information from an insider Sakura Haven, the units that will receive the buffs can be divided into four formed groups by Paths:
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It is unknown which characters will be included in the presented lists, but it is on their basis that some priority will be built, starting with version 3.5.
We hope that thanks to this article you learned about the strengthening of old heroes and their new capabilities in Honkai: Star Rail. comments Share your opinion on how the developers are trying to strengthen the characters that were released in earlier patches.
Jingliu is being made UNPLAYABLE!!! All damage increases are in the talent! Changing skill damage from ATK to damage from HP is being done only to make ideal s for Jingliu USELESS. The third version of the beta patch 3.4 has been released. Skill damage from HP has been left. Jingliu's talent has been supplemented, the damage will increase even more only due to the talent, which with skill damage from ATK would give a much greater increase in damage.
On B3, Kafka and Jingliu were even more strengthened. The first one, in addition to her abilities in the form of undermining strong dots, also became a Zaryanka for the squad. Now there is even less doubt that harmony is not needed for dots, Gisilens, Lebed and Kafka will tear. Maybe some sustain doter will appear. Well, and grandma is now in an eternal stance in the right pack. True, because of this, they need to change the new trace, which regenerates energy outside the stance, it is now meaningless. And Blaidinho now takes damage from healing. True, it is revealed only on e1, but on e0 in ult is also not bad
Thanks for the info. And what is the correct pack for Granny?
At the moment - Granny, Tribby, Sunday and Hyacin with signa. Lolek can, in principle, be replaced by Mei. But Hyacin and her signa are super necessary. HP buff - one, 5 team - for Granny's crit damage trace - two, Hyacin's signa spends HP every turn for the whole squad, which, coupled with the new addition of Granny's talent, where for every 20 HP spent by characters in a pack, a stack of syzygy is given - three. In principle, the MC can wear her signa and it will also work, but Hyacin is still better. There are also rumors that Keridra works well with old people like Granny. Maybe she will replace Sunday, who knows.
Proper Jingliu packs make her unplayable, forcing her to be shoved where she is not needed. The latest talent rework only proves that the developers screwed up by changing the scale from ATK to HP.
Such juicy buffs can roll back, after all, it's v3.
Why roll back? Granny clearly hasn't become stronger than Kastoria or Gerta. And such buffs warm up well on the Hyacinus spins with the signal, because for many she is only under Kas. So it's unlikely. But even if they roll back the infinite stance, then okay, the old one has become much stronger anyway. Kafka can be sold well to newcomers before Gisilense with such buffs. Many have all sorts of Zaryanka, Tribby and May, but Kafka was mostly only spun by first-year veterans, and a large layer of players who came to Penakonia and Amphoreus either didn't spin her at the 2nd rerun, there were Feixiao and Acheron nearby, or they hadn't seen her at all. Rolling back Kafka is completely unreasonable, you already need to sell a pack of Faenon there, then a pack of dark Marth... Maybe a SAP for Gisilense will squeeze in. And so the old Kafka under the new DD will bring its money on rerun)
Jingliu's juicy NERF in the form of HP scale will be rolled back if not yet in testing, then after the release of 3.4 we will force it to be rolled back. Additionally, having entered part of her E3 (when entering an enhanced state, receive 6 out of 3 stacks for skill enhancement) into Jingliu's talent on v4, we showed all the juiciness. Only the naive will believe the leaked videos from testing that Jingliu deals more damage because Hyacin buffs her with 30% max HP.
something is not clear. it says blade will be played from bonus attacks and not a single buff related to bonus attack)) indirect, that from skill will aggro, well, that's it, now only lazy people don't AoE. in fact, they just tweaked the numbers. against its background, Kafka's rework and Wolf are good. sad. in fact, blade is still dead and it's not for nothing that it shares 50/50 with standards.
Wolf Cub is the main star of this buff)
Waiting for the rework, waiting for the guide. Acheron and Lis are waiting and can't wait for her.
Do you think the Rusalka planar will fit well on Volchik 2.0? On quantum UR and restoration (under Acheron)? Or is there something cooler?
Finally, my she-wolf will sparkle with new colors together with Acheron. Now the skill will not add vulnerability to the healer's element, but to the element of Acheron itself. Hurray!
«"Hidden Talents Complete Rework" is this a complete rework of the tracks or will they just add another property?
Wait a second... Did I understand correctly that Memory characters only started coming out with 3.0, but already, according to the insider, they will be buffed? We only have 4 memories in the game now, if I'm not mistaken: Kas, Giacina, GG, and Aglaya... Which of them can already be an outsider?
Right from the release, Aglaya. The second one I suspect will be either GG or Giatsina. If of course the info about the rework is generally correct.
GG is now almost a top replacement for any pack, if there is no bis . Maybe he is, but I think that it will be too fat for a free character.
But in general, if you look at the supposed groups as a whole, it looks more like some kind of crap. 3/4 of the characters of memory are being processed, this is extremely doubtful.
The main character is less likely to get buffed than Hyacin, I think so myself, I just listed more/less possible options.
Overall, I'm glad they're deciding to raise the characters, although I'm not sure it will change the picture much.
In general, this information from the sliver was specifically about the release of all characters, including reworks. So no, we will not see memory character buffs anytime soon.
And it seems like Sliver also wrote that all characters of the 1st group have already come out/were announced. Destruction - Phaenon, Memory - Kastoria and Hyacin. Non-existence - Cipher
top news for the latest updates, Kafka and the hacker will be especially good (Pele can be pressed F, she served and will retire) Blade and Granny IMHO will still be weak overall, especially when Phaenon and the collab come out
Volchik has been brought back into the game, and this is the best news in the last year in HSR.
Well, such high-quality buffs with a complete rework of some mechanics that are almost non-working/worked poorly from the very beginning are really pleasing. I honestly didn't expect that they would decide to change the skill sets of already released characters. Maybe they will get to Zele someday, completely rework her most non-working talent, or at least its condition. Or Loche will reduce the rollback of auto-Eshka, so that the gap in his zone does not appear regularly in endgame content.
The news is really good, it means that now in all their games, they will probably gradually balance the old characters, and change their outdated, less thought-out skills to something more thought-out. Maybe they will bring this to Genshin, since it started in both XSR and ZZZ at the same time
I love Kafka. Seriously, since the prologue. I'm so glad they're beefing it up.
I just have Blade and Kafka (actually my first event legions), I'll see how they fix/buff them in battle.
It is important that Gisilensa works with Kafka. Kafka is a now, but there is no point in if there is no one to , certainly not a half DD, half ancient in the person of Lebed. But her buff itself is great. Blade was not pressed, the main thing is that his traces associated with the heal were not reworked, there is no point in them, considering that he will play with Hyacinth. Granny is debatable. On the one hand, she became stronger, on the other - the concept of the character completely changed, from an ATK character she became a demo version of Kastoria without a dragon. I don't know, they could have strengthened her without completely changing everything, leaving ATK, but Hyacinth and Tribby need to be sold additionally. In any case, Granny became stronger, the first consta from one of the most wretched in the game became excellent. Well, the wolf is just imba now, I'm happy for the wolf)
Waiting for the Swan buff now😄
Why is Kafka a ? Maybe I didn't understand you, but initially Kafka was a DD, the core of any DoT pack. Even with Lebed, her position in the team didn't change, she was also the core.
As for working with Gisilensa: there is no reason why they shouldn't play with each other. One supposedly buffs DoTs a lot, the other, as she does now, activates them.
Kafka was a DD that had a slight boost to other DOTers.
Now Kafka will become a DD, which has a big boost to other DOTers.
In my case, she runs with Jiaoqiu. 🙂
The new Kafka is not a DD. She is required to do 3 things - buff stronger Dota players (there are none yet, Lebed clearly does not hit with damage, but even so, Lebed currently deals more damage with Arcana than Kafka in a pack), give Dotas to activate a Dota set (you need 3 Dotas, Kafka with a signal gives 2) and most importantly - often activate stronger Dotas. Not her own, but others. Her own damage is clearly visible now - it is not there. But at the moment, Kafka, except for e1, does not give accurate buffs. And the activation of Dotas is very limited. After 3.4, Kafka will no longer be a DD, the damage from her is completely unnecessary, these pennies can be inflicted by a hypothetical Hyacinth. Kafka will become a full-fledged for Dotas, like Zaryanka for bonuses or Ruan for Break. They are not required to deal damage, but they do not cease to be the core of the pack. Gisilens will be responsible for damage, maybe in a pair with Lebed, maybe Lebed will fall off in favor of Harmony. Kafka will remain the core of the pack, but will give way to the main star
Jingliu is my first love, finally it will be strengthened
I was expecting Kafka (I like it and it plays with Jiaoqiu), I was expecting Tsilu (it's ok, I wanted more, but I don't have it anyway). But the one that made me the happiest was, unexpectedly, Volchik. I stopped playing her with Acheron precisely because of her single attack, even Pela seems better, and now they fixed that and piled on another one, if you put her together with Jiaoqiu (instead of the accordionist, who on E2 gave Acheron many times more than any other non-existence in a pair with Jiaoqiu), it should be just hellishly fun!
The main thing now is to understand how to reassemble them all, because the old characters were assembled a long time ago and poorly. 🙂 And most importantly, maybe there are new relevant relics and planars? Especially for Kafka, Volchik and Tsili?
Will you rework the builds? Or launch a new page with 2.0 characters?
Seriously, I'm looking forward to these improvements more than any further Amphoreus characters (except for Memory Harmony)!
Closer to the release of 3.4, and also after a full update of builds for new characters of the update, we plan to update builds of Kafka, Silver Wolf, Blade and Jingliu. with: