Blade in Honkai Star Rail: Detailed Guide and Best Build

Blade in HSR - an experienced swordsman whose rotation is based on burning your own health in favor of dealing increased damage. Capable of occupying the position of the main DPS representative, and the mechanics of bonus attacks contribute to playing as a secondary damage dealer. The main thing is to choose a suitable team that will allow the warrior to fully realize the features invested in the skills: attractive options will be an experienced healer and Harmony, who can advance actions/apply mass bonuses.

When using the skill, the character enters an enhanced state, increasing their combat effectiveness. The basic attack is improved to the level of "Sword Palisade", which allows you to inflict bоgreater damage to enemy targets. Talents, in turn, are aimed at ing the hunter's survivability, which allows the man to feel more comfortable within the framework of endgame content.

Rating	A-position in dash list
Rarity	⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Element [Damage Type]	Windmill 🌪️
Path	Destruction
when added to the game	July 19, 2023 [patch 1.2]
How to get a character	Invite Stars feature in Event Jump
Gender	Male
Home region	Home planet unknown, but lived for a long time Lofu Xianzhou
Role in the squad	Primary DPS character
Role in the game	Member of the organization "Stellaron Hunters"
Signature Light Cone	Light Cone Path of Destruction "Inaccessible Side"
Voice actors	Chinese voice actor - Liu Yijia; English voice actor - Daman Mills; Japanese voice actor: Miki Shinichiro; Korean Voice Actor - 곽윤상

Hero's story

Blade (real name: Insigne) is a member of the organization "Stellaron Hunters", suffering from immortality. He swore allegiance to the "Slave of Fate" Elio in exchange for the leader's promise that the young man would one day free his protégé from the cursed Mara. Currently, only Kafka is able to hold back the progression of this terrifying affliction, keeping her colleague constantly conscious with the "Whisper of the Spirit."

In the early years of his life, together with "Transcendental Quintet" along with Dan Feng, whose sins Dan Heng pays for in his incarnation as the Moon Eater. It is he whom the swordsman sincerely wishes to take revenge on.

How to get a character

As an early Legendary Hero, the unit has a personal "Jump" and is also included in the list of characters participating in the "Star Invitation" system.

Event Jump: Inviting the Stars

Since version 3.2, time-limited banners have new rule: When losing 50/50, you can randomly get one character from a list of your own. It can include both the usual standard heroes and former limited ones. Stellaron Hunter is among the latter.

Event Jump: Restless Soul

Event "Restless Soul" — personal limited "Jump" of an experienced swordsman, struck by Mara. Due to the fact that the character is included in the list of units of the mechanic "Invitation of the Stars", there are no plans to rerun him.

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Features

Upgrading gives an increase to such characteristics as health, attack power and defense.

Level of	Base HP	Basic Attack	Basic protection	base speed	Basic taunt
1	184	73	66	97	125
10	267	107	95	97	125
20	360	144	128	97	125
30	526	210	188	97	125
40	693	277	247	97	125
50	859	343	306	97	125
60	1025	410	366	97	125
70	1191	476	425	97	125
80	1358	543	485	97	125

Speed and basic taunt are constant indicators that do not change with leveling up the hero.

How Blade's Skills Work

The swordsman's skills allow him to take one of two possible roles:

• The main DPS representatives - from enhanced basic attack and super ability;
• Secondary power - mainly from bonus attacks.

In many ways, the Stellaron Hunter is similar to Arlan (Destruction: Electric), since the damage of both increases proportionally to the health spent. However, the overall relevance of each varies due to the buffs invested in the skill-sel. Including the former warrior from Lofu Xianzhou.

Active skills

ive skills

The order of leveling abilities

Skill/Basic Attack ≥ Superpower ≥ Talent

All skills are equally important for a character, therefore, pumping up his skills should take place in uniform key.

Tracks

The total bonus to characteristics when the tree is fully upgraded will be:

Crete. chance	+ 12 %
Max. HP	+ 28 %
Resist. effects	+ 10 %

Eidolons

All consts:

1	Cuts in Hell burn harder	Using the super ability deals additional damage to the selected enemy equal to 150% of the amount of HP lost by the swordsman in the current battle.
2	A thousand regrets for one broken dream	When a unit is under the Hellscape status, its Critical Chance is increased by 15%.
3	Cold Shadow of a Tempered Blade	Superpower level is increased by 2. Max level is 15. Talent level is increased by 2. Max level is 15.
4	Rejected by death, cursed by life	When the hero's HP drops below 50%, his max HP increases by 20%. The effect can stack up to 2 times.
5	Death at the sight of ten Lords	Skill level increases by 2. Max level is 15. Basic attack level is increased by 1. Max level is 10.
6	Rebirth into an insensitive shell	Max charge levels are reduced to 4. Bonus attack damage is further increased by 50% of max HP.

Blade's best eidolons include:

• E1 directly affects the increase in damage from the ultimate ability.
• E2 Gives a noticeable increase to the critical chance under the status "Hellscape", under the influence of which the warrior is on a permanent basis.
• E4 increases the character's survivability, which is especially important if the squad does not have healers suitable for the hero, who spend a minimum number of skill points during combat.

How to play as Blade in HSR

The peculiarity of the swordsman's game is the constant control of the "Hellscape" status, and the main difficulty in mastering it is the mechanics of losing health for the sake of delivering crushing blows. At the initial stages of studying the hero, even his personal predisposition to self-healing may not save him from accidental death. In order to avoid unpleasant incidents, it is important to understand how to act during the battle.

Keep the following tips in mind when building a Blade rotation:

1. Before the battle, use the techniques of the Harmony, Abundance and/or Nothingness characters to apply positive effects to the party and/or spread negative statuses to the enemies. Afterwards, if the enemies are vulnerable to wind-type damage, use the hero's skill - "wind of karma».
2. When it's Blade's turn, activate the skill "Hell landscape”, thereby increasing the character’s damage, and also converting the basic attack “Splinter Sword” into “Palisade of Swords” for 3 turns. Apply "Palisade of swords».
3. Keep track of active positive statuses on the hero by updating buffs from characters in a timely manner.
4. Act in the same way with representatives of the Path of Nothingness: watch for active negative statuses on enemies, using the main skills of your s in a timely manner.
5. After accumulating enough energy, use the ultimate "The death sentence».
6. Be attentive to the character's HP and replenish the "bank" in time.

All about character leveling

Let's consider what is needed for full pumping and elevation.

Elevation materials

In total, you will need the following amount of resources:

• Credits ×308 000.
• Sprouts of Immortality ×15, Ethereal Flower of Immortality ×15, Branch of Immortal Glory ×15 — consumables that can be obtained after killing some opponents in the territory of Luofu Xianzhou, as well as in the Worlds of the Virtual Universe. Additionally can be purchased in the in-game "Pom-Pom Store" for unquenchable ash or exchange it at the Universal Fusion Machine.
• Ashes of the Ascended ×65 is a consumable that can be obtained by farming the Stagnant Shadow: Celestial Form activity.

Skills Improvement Materials

The following are added to the general list of resources for enhancing abilities:

• Credits ×2 197 500.
• Sprouts of Immortality ×33, Ethereal Flower of Immortality ×46, Branch of Immortal Glory ×28;
• Shattered Blade ×12, Lifeless Blade ×53, All-Destructive Blade ×101 - reward for completing the activity "Sepal (crimson): Bud of Destruction».
• Repentance of the Eternal False Body ×9 - reward for successful completion "Echoes of War: Seed of Immortality";
• Imprint of Fate ×6 - reward for successfully completing some temporary events, gaining points in the Virtual Universe, raising levels "Pom-Pom Store".

The order of pumping traces

List of resources for learning hidden skills and characteristics in the "Traces" tab:

• Credits ×802 500.
• Sprouts of Immortality ×8, Ethereal Flower of Immortality ×10, Branch of Immortal Glory ×30.
• Shattered Blade ×6, Lifeless Blade ×16, All-Destructive Blade ×38.
• Repentance of the Eternal False Body ×3.
• Imprint of Fate ×2.

Advantages and disadvantages

After getting acquainted with the principle of work of skills, traces and eidolons, you can draw conclusions about the "pros" and "cons" of the Destruction hero:

Advantages	Disadvantages
High survivability coupled with personal talents that allow you to restore health without resorting to constant help from healers make the unit a hero who can comfortably farm most of the activities in the game.	Does not restore skill points after using a basic attack infused with Hellscape, therefore, will conflict with other DPS characters who also need skill points. actions for effective combat. Blade is the backbone of the group and he won't share that position with anyone else.
Specializes in dealing damage to single targets and an area, which puts the character in the position of the main DPS hero, who can "close" the damage needs of the squad.	We depend on representatives of the Path of Abundance or the Path of Conservation during the age of high-level content. Due to the fact that he constantly loses HP, he can miss a fatal blow before self-healing from a superpower or bonus attack.
Easy to build, as it only needs one stat - HP. Crit. Damage and Crit. Chance are important, but in a less sought-after way.	Among other things, he has a need for characters of the Path of Harmony, who can provide increases in indicators that directly affect his damage.

Best Blade Builds in Honkai: Star Rail

Blade's build in XSR focuses on developing stats such as: HP (the basis), Crete. damage и Crete. chance (additional) These are the stats that can affect the character's final numbers when he uses a basic attack imbued with a positive effect from a skill, a super ability, and/or a bonus attack.

Recommended Specs

The main characteristics that are recommended to look for in artifacts:

Relic	Main characteristic
Head	HP (constant)
Arms	Attack power (constant)
Body	Crete. chance or crit. damage
Legs	Speed ​​(priority) or HP (temporary option)
planar sphere	Wind damage (priority) or HP (temporary option)
Connecting rope	HP

Additional features include:

• health in %;
• Crete. damage/crit. chance;
• speed.

Due to the fact that the increase in HP is gained by pumping up traces, as well as the main characteristics in artifacts, in the process of pumping up relics, you can focus on searching for such minor stats as Crete. damage и Crete. chance. The ratio of these indicators is 2:1, that is, for example, for 50% of the KS, a 100% increase in the KU is required.

The optimal totals that are recommended to have on the character:

• health — from 6 units and above;
• speed — from 120 units and above;
• Crete. chance — from 70% and above;
• Crete. damage — from 150% and above.

Light Cone Rating

When choosing a weapon, it is important to focus on light cones. Paths of Destruction, since only they will offer the character an active additional effect. Other directions will not work, since they will only give increases to the main characteristics - attack power, defense, health.

What relics and decorations are needed

When choosing relics, it is recommended to focus on finding such a basic characteristic as HP. As additional, in turn, are wind damage, Crete. damage и Crete. chance.

cave relics

planar decorations

Blade Squad Guide in XSR

In the team, Blade plays the role of the group's backbone. Given the hunter's special abilities, healer characters are important to him. Harmony heroes are also important, as they will provide a significant boost to the immortal swordsman's stats.

Which characters are suitable?

Allies in the battle with the spawn of Stellaron can be:

Examples of the best teams

With the considered characters, you can make the following units:

Is it worth knocking out the hero?

Blade is a representative of the Path of Destruction, who takes the position of the main DPS character or secondary. The immortal swordsman's abilities are focused on inflicting wind-type damage, during their use he spends his health, which forces the player to assemble a squad based on this feature.

Overall, he is a great damage dealer, especially in HP groups, as he is able to cover most of the content, including the later floors. Hyacinth (Memory: Windy), which is an encore for damage dealers who burn their own health.

As a result, it can be a good purchase for the , but the overall relevance drops if there are already such characters as Kastoria (Memory: Quantum).

Achievements with character

There are 2 achievements associated with Blade:

• Unfulfilled wish - Don't interfere. Restore the hero's HP to 2% or higher when it is below 30% 5 times in one battle.
• Go ahead, Bladick - Use the swordsman in the fight against Kafka and get the Submission status.

We hope our guide helped you put together the best build for Blade in Honkai: Star Rail. IN comments Ask questions related to the article material so that the author or other s can help.

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