Let’s face it. Your Relics suck.
But you can change that. Kind of.
Honkai: Star Rail has been out for a little while now, and players began farming for strong relics for their characters long ago. But despite all of that time and Trailblaze power, many Trailblazers STILL don’t have great relics. RNG often isn’t on our side. What ARE the odds of getting a good Crit Rate or Crit Damage body piece? Or Energy Regen Rope?
Being as Honkai: Star Rail is a game dependent on RNG, it can be really hard to decide what relics to level and how many resources need to be put into them before giving up. However, a large community project recently revealed what the odds of rolling good stats in Honkai: Star Rail are, and now you can accurately decide where you should allocate your resources.
Here’s what we learned!
Some of the rarest relics are body pieces with Crit Rate, Crit Damage, Healing Bonus, or Effect Hit Rate as the main stat, and ropes with Energy Regen. The odds of obtaining any of those pieces are roughly equal. Equally bad. At least, that’s what I’m telling myself. In fact, when you go for relics of a specific set, your odds of getting your desired stat can be as low as 1.38%!
Additionally, we learned for substats that minimum rolls have a much higher chance of being rolled than max rolls. You ARE EQUALLY likely to get a Crit Rate roll as a DEF% roll in a relic’s substats, but how high or low they actually roll is skewed. This can make it incredibly challenging to get the perfect piece for your favorite character, and even harder to get it to roll well after.
So what can we do about it?
Thankfully, players are provided with Self-modeling Resin every blue moon. Use your Self-modeling Resin wisely though, because obtaining one is harder than getting a goth gamer girlfriend. Most players will end up spending more time farming caverns of corrosion instead of Simulated Universe, so using Self-modeling Resin on an Energy Regen rope is generally a safe choice. Alternatively though, If you have a nearly perfect set for your waifu or husbando, it’s never a bad choice to get that last piece for them, instead.
Alternatively, just swipe. Surely if you pour enough money in you’ll get a good set eventually, right?
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Right?
The other thing you have control over is what relic sets you ACTUALLY farm for.
Most caverns (except for Path of Holy Hymn with the lightning and preservation sets) only have one good set and another less-than-ideal one. Choose what set you farm wisely, and prepare to see all your good stats wasted on the set you’ll never use. I find the Wild Wheat and Hackerspace sets to be most efficient overall and can be used as 2 piece sets on many characters to at least some degree of success. There is no right or wrong answer for which sets to farm, it’s entirely dependent on your account and the characters you want to focus on.
Here’s what you should actually level up.
At first, it’s best to level whatever relics you have just to get you through to the point where farming better relics is legitimately possible. To be truly efficient, though, try to focus on only leveling up pieces with good substats. “Good substats” depends on the character, but for DPS characters like Dan Heng and Seele, they want Crit Rate, Crit Damage, ATK%, Speed, and Break Effect substats. For supports, usually focus on Speed, Effect Hit Rate, sometimes HP% and DEF% depending on the character, and Effect Resistance. Most of the time, stats are more important than the sets, so don’t be afraid to mix two-piece sets until you get better rolls on the set you actually like.
If a piece has 3 ‘good’ substats, it’s a great option to roll on.
Sometimes it’s also worth it to use a relic that starts with 4 substats even if only 2 of those substats are good, as you get an extra chance to increase one of those good stats as you level the relic, compared to if you started with only 3 substats.
An amazing piece will get 5 good stat rolls, a great piece will get 4, and a good piece will get the majority good rolls, which is at least 3. I always settle for 3, because lady luck abandoned me when I chose to play gacha games as a career.
I bring my relics to level 9 before deciding if they’re worth the full investment or scrapping them. If by that level you’ve got all three rolls into a good substat, congrats! You’re the lucky elite. If only two went into good substats, then you have to decide if you want to play with your RNG luck, even more, today and go for level 12 and a 4th substat roll. Any less than 3 at +12 isn’t worth your time. I, personally, only max relics if they get 3 good rolls.
Obviously there’s not a whole lot anyone can do to combat the RNG of a gacha game, but by being patient and choosing to spend your resources wisely you can at least kid yourself into believing it isn’t gambling. Who knows, you might even pick up a few decent relics along the way!
If you want to learn more, check out my video, or take a look at the data yourself!
Community Project Data: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1qO-uey5TZpex4-WPVJptPbC-lXvIx6j5ffescwS0lQs/edit#gid=0
