4 Stars Only | I Hate Pure Fiction | Honkai: Star Rail 

Lmao I get the struggle too with Herta lol. I run her with Jade this PF, and for the entire run I be like "For the love of god how did I lose 50/50 kururin this much with Herta?!?". I mean I also lose 50/50 so much in banners 💀 so it's not too far off.

Herta fua cannot trigger if pf buff damage vines to half hp makes it hard

Genius's Repose lc is better on Herta than Birth of the Self, I tried it, unless Herta is performing FUA now and then, Genius takes the lead, of she is performing FUA (with smn like Topaz, Himeko or Argenti) then Birth of the Self wins.

@@R_a_i_n_C_l_o_u_d I see, yes I think I lost a lot of skill and ult dmg in the process

@@WeiForever yeah, if it triggers much, ERR rope might just become a lil bit too helpful 😉🙂🙃

even my Xueyi's ult can't drop it to below 50% 😂

Are really*

Well, they aren't abundance for nothing

Kuru kuru it lmao

Eagle Starbucks it is

Thanks as always! I should say I don't like too much RNG factors ;)

i writhe in pain every time they re-release the nihility-themed pf

I fail to get 12 stars because my gallagher got stun 😂 his effect res are too low... I hate outrage

Eh it's technically the easiest of the 3 current endgame modes. I got 69k on my first attempt of this one and then pulled Argenti cause I wanted a real aoe character and got 80k with him. The issue with PF is mostly a 4 star thing, Herta is the only good aoe 4 star character lmao. And she needs someone to activate her.

​@@StephenTheZ dude how I can literally clear completely both MoC as well as the new game mode but PF just doesn't work for me in any way

Thanks! It's all worth it at the end of the tunnel 😌

@@RuriGoko thanks Ruri! Yes, action value is the king. I tried other sets on Serval but performed worse. Good to know about Herta lc! I feel like PF buff is doing half the work which made Herta’s dmg not as important

Thanks! My teams have high investment so this is a factor as well

@@soup4266 Thanks! I did struggle a lot for this one, but it’s worth it to finally clear it :)

@@Mocchi- Thanks Mocchi! I tried to copy your side 2 but not sure what made the difference, the score goes up and down quite a lot. Yes every PF feels like a new endgame, the strategy from last one doesn’t apply to current one, as the devs can change hp, toughness bar (bugs), mobs allow on the field etc. For eagle set, I got them with about 2 months farming with crafting once a while

Yes, let me fix it real quick :)

Thanks! 🥰 They did Clara dirty this PF for sure, maybe not using her ult and play her with March 7th to get through 2nd wave

I think devs know people are lacking aoe physical and quantum character. Qq is more of a burst type, you are right she is not good in this mode. I mean they can change the element and toughness in APOC already. Is it really easy for them to make small change in PF, I really like your idea of share hp mechanic, it’s better that way to remove some RNG

Thanks! I agree, this PF hits diff, need to watch the mobs carefully

@@WeiForever yeah the deer is always annoying because the plant cc and counters (if you dont break/kill). Theres always a few bosses i hate seeing and that Cocolia, Deer, and Aventurine 🙃

@@MikeymaruArt Totally agree! 😂

@@yukiy556 yes, a lot of RNG factors in this one. For 5 stars, it gets done to how you build your team and relics investment. They generally hit harder which bypass many mechanics. With 4 stars, I have to optimize every bit of dmg and watch closely what enemies are doing, in order to reduce the RNG as much as possible

Gallagher outside of PF: 5 star sustain who? Gallagher in PF: what's a sustain?

Agree! so many new character to build to so little resource

Yes, Asta is really good if used correctly

Thanks! 🥰 I was going to use it on Herta, and really good on Serval as it turns out

@@preguicadetu yes, Xueyi is really fun and powerful at the same time

@@naturesmistake1419 good for you, I will build Himeko for the next PF

Xueyi and March 7th are great perhaps, not sure if new March 7th can do FUA

​@@WeiForevershe can

she performs a fua at e2

It is best for Yunli, Clara with Topaz.

@@AFlowerInGray yes, I tried the same team without dancex3 lc. The best I can do it 26k with planetary rendezvous. Also a lot more RNG involved

not bad to invest/focus on 1-2 game mode. With Herta and Himeko it should be an easy 10 or 11 stars, really good imo

@@WeiForever I usually slot them together and my other side tends to struggle 🤕

​@@monbebehere1607try them separately if you haven't before, sometimes it makes all the difference! Personally helped me this time, despite both performing ideally on the second team, putting Herta in first made all the difference (although I STILL don't understand how buffs work and she sometimes just doesn't trigger...sigh, PF is difficult for no reason)

@@NoirArgentviBritannia that’s right and Argenti

@@almightynoob1631 I am thinking yes, especially for pure fiction where there are usually 4-5 enemies. Speed buff also came in handy

Same bro

@@jean-thomato it depends on what character you have ig. For AS, it counts action value which made it hard to get huge improvement, breaking is really important for get good score

@@WeiForever yeah, I feel like I did not struggle as much in PF probably bcz of argenti ..while in AS , all my main teams consists of either physical and imaginary dps...the only one that can breaks cocolia side is my dot dps, black swan lol ..hence leading me to build xueyi

haha, that's me exactly, trying different team and builds for every new Pure Fiction. All my characters share their relics and LC. You know why first half is harder? Because only 4 mobs allow on the field, and the bugs are so fast and can CC the whole team without Cleanse/resist. Hopefully they release more character like Herta and Himeko. Also PF is harder because they only give 8 cycles instead of 10 in MoC. And people can cheat on action value in MoC but not in PF.

@@WeiForever Very true. In my case, I play Star Rail along with Genshin, Honkai impact 3rd and now Zenless Zone Zero, so I don't really have the time or patience to invest in things like Relics/Artifacts, unless there is a character that needs a specific set. So when farming for them, if it looks good at the time, I'll lock it and save it for when I have a character that might need it, and when a character needs a Relic I don't have, I generally just have to farm for one or two from that set, occasionally manufacturing when farming falls through, but the substats are usually where where I run into the problems, because I don't level up any of the Relics on standby. While it is good that modes like Pure Fiction and Forgotten Hall are difficult, they have a tendency to cater to very specific characters and builds, either forcing us to build characters we might not use, might not have, or in some cases rebuild a character that worked before, so I think that both modes could definitely use some reworking, and as said earlier, if they let us take one trial character from a friend's lineup, it would make these modes far more balanced, as forming team is easy, but the other team always ends up lacking in someway. In Pure Fiction's case, I feel they need to add more options for perks that take different builds into account, always having something with speed in mind, cause not everyone has a team that can clear at top speed. Personally, as a universal feature, I think they should add an option where a character has their default setup (Relics, Light Cones), but then when forming a particular party, there could be an option to 'borrow' from another character, as long as that other character is not in the active party. For an example, let's say you have a really good pair of speed boots on a particular character, but that character is not in the active party, a character that is could borrow those boots, as long as that particular party is loaded, no reconfiguring would be necessary, as when you switch it would be back to the default setup, or the custom setup that the party you're switching to uses. Another reason why I think this would make a great feature, imagine having to switch Relics and Light Cones for one of these modes, but you forget to switch everything back afterwards, and then enter combat with the character who now has the dud set. lol Btw, for some weird reason, I can attempt Pure Fiction over and over again for weeks on end, but somehow always manages to complete on the last day. ^_^;

@@Palsa-Achilleus Very nice on your Pure fiction clear, probably the hardest mode to master out of the three. You got some great suggestions! Yes it would be really nice to have one character from friends at e0 or something. It's not easy to have every character built. Saving relics as a team is very cool as this is a team building game, hopefully they can add something like this in the future patches. I can only play 2-3 games at a time, respect to you that able to play all of them. That's a good change in genshin for artifact system, I think people would have an easier time building their characters

@@WeiForever Genshin's recent live stream went over a lot on the player feedback, particularly about the artifact situation, so hopefully good things will happen all around. As for the party relic sharing feature I mentioned, I did actually send that to the devs as a suggestion, while that doesn't necessarily mean it will get implemented, it at least should make it to the table for consideration, so I'll keep my fingers crossed on that one. I remember sending the devs of HI3 a suggestion to make a mermaid themed costume for Mobius as a summer outfit, 6 months later they released Mobius' Daughter of Pearls skin, which is almost identical to my suggestion, they just changed her dress color from green to blue, and used a jellyfish instead of a clam shell, even having her monster form that appears during her ultimate replaced with the god of the sea was in my suggestion, so player feedback does occasionally bring results. lol

@@Palsa-Achilleus I guess the feedback actually work!! Keep it up!! 🤩 I should start doing that as well to make the games better 😊

@@ahhdibfrjf Natasha can work potentially, she can help with breaking and with lower energy cost for eagle set. But for the bugs, you need to be very careful, it outrages 2-3 targets which is really hard for her to do the cleanse.

Lynx's healing is not better than Natasha @-@ They almost the same. The different is one can clean whole team and one can only clean one member

that's the power of abundance as other people said 😏

@@WeiForever Or the miracles of Abundance in Phantylias words

this mode is very hard ngl

@@yamazakisagaru1838 yes, maybe you can try energy rope with how much atk% it provides. Not so good if you play him with Sparkle, spd buff is kind of wasted

2 star is not bad in PF, you need specific characters for this mode

Also pure fiction is hell... 🥲 5/6 stars is enough for me. I dont have enough time or resources to build himeko or herta for now so i guess i cant really complain

@@Wiserwords25 yes, focus on 1-2 game mode is better. Not worth it for the resources you put in. About the bugs, yes it counts as diff debuff. Try to avoid multiple bugs exploded. Or just let both debuff expired at the same time

@@WeiForever i see, thank you!

I did 🥺 you caught me 😔

I wish I can use him, just a suffer pic that came to mind. We need a game mode for hunt character

@@WeiForever I knew it was over for him when Ruan Mei came out and I couldn't 2 cycle even with her. Not being able to get to reset with the E4 reliabily was a big setback.

@@Mariengrad1648 I missed your 0 cycle back then with Dan Heng, Hook, and Arlan. Especially with 4 star supports

@@WeiForever Yeah, that's over, Hoyo killed that with MOC12. You need E1/E2 supports without a sustain for that now. Check out Velleity, they're doing those.

@@naikturun6944 I just got them for this pure fiction ;)

because I am running her with hmc with provide 100+ BE. Also Xueyi's e4 gives another 40 or 50 BE, she can also use Misha's lc

@@WeiForever is there a stop point for the amount of break effect she needs?

@@therubylordgaming1855 yes, 240 is the max for her talent

you got me 🙌

@@Weji514 very close, good luck on that! I think some upgrades on the traces and relics can make up the diff

@@WeiForever prob just speed (don't have dance dance dance) .Maybe instead of mei I got robin but I still gotta try.