Honkai: Star Rail Trailblaze Power Efficiency Guide
Reaching the endgame in Honkai: Star Rail (HSR) can feel daunting, especially when managing your precious Trailblaze Power (TB). This guide provides efficient strategies for allocating TB power, saving you both time and resources. While focused on TB efficiency, these tips will also help you save millions of credits.
This guide is geared towards players at or approaching endgame (Trailblaze Level 60+). Whether you’re a free-to-play player or light spender, these principles apply.
Character Ascension, Levels, and Traces
Prioritize Ascensions for Key Traces:
- Ascend most characters to level 70/80 to unlock their Ascension 6 (A6) Trace. A6 Traces often provide significant benefits.
- If a character’s A6 Trace isn’t impactful, leaving them at 70/70 is acceptable.
Support Character Considerations:
- Supports generally don’t need Light Cones (LCs) leveled past 70 unless survivability is an issue.
- If a support scales with ATK/DEF/HP, maxing those stats can be beneficial long-term.
- Prioritize HP and defensive stats over offensive stats for supports. A support that stays alive is more valuable than slightly increased damage. Aim for around 3.5k HP or higher for Memory of Chaos (MoC) 10.
Carry Character Considerations:
- Only prioritize leveling your main damage dealers (carries) to level 80. The cost from 70 to 80 is significant.
- Level your carries’ LCs to 80.
Trace Optimization:
- Prioritize significant Traces on supports to 8/10. Going past 8/10 offers less value, especially early on. 9/10 is a good long-term goal.
- Avoid investing in Traces for basic attacks, supports’ offensive nodes (e.g., Bronya’s wind damage), or support skills that scale damage without utility (e.g., Gepard’s skill, Pela’s skill).
- Stat-boosting Traces are situational. For example, Pela benefits from Effect Hit Rate Traces, but her Ice Damage Traces are less useful.
Relic Farming and Enhancement
Relic Focus:
- After leveling, ascending, and optimizing Traces, focus your farming efforts on Relics.
- Prioritize main stat upgrades on 5-star Relics.
Understanding Relic Substats:
- 5-star Relics can have 3 or 4 initial substats.
- 4-substat Relics (4-liners) are rarer and can be upgraded 5 times (+3/6/9/12/15).
- 3-substat Relics (3-liners) gain their 4th substat at +3 and have one less upgrade opportunity.
Upgrading Relics:
- Upgrade promising 3-liners to +3 to check the 4th substat. This only costs 4 blue and 4 green upgrade materials.
- Consider upgrading Relics with good substats to +9. This is relatively cheap (35 blue materials from +0) and gives you a better idea of its potential.
- Most supports’ Relics can be left at +12 (approximately 75 blue materials from +0).
- Only upgrade Relics to +15 if the main stat provides significant value, such as Energy Recharge Link Ropes or pieces with stats your support scales with (e.g., Crit Damage chest for Bronya).
- Prioritize +15 upgrades for your carry’s Relics. However, don’t neglect your other characters’ gear.
- Remember, you can feed leveled Relics into others, retaining 80% of the invested XP. This allows you to replace Relics as you find better ones.
General Tips and Conclusion
- These are general guidelines. Always research a character’s kit and understand their stat priorities.
- Don’t be afraid to invest in characters you enjoy, even if they aren’t considered "meta."
- This guide aims to ease the resource grind, not dictate your playstyle. Enjoy the journey!
