Ultimate Tips for New Players (Honkai: Star Rail Beginner Guide) 

Gotta agree about grinding characters though... The game punishes you hard if you try raising all of your characters.

This was really a good overhaul for upcoming players. One tip I could give is to add high level players (strangers or friends doesn't matter) on your account so you could use their support unit on your farming runs. At early levels, their support unit literally one shots bosses saving you a lot of time on your runs.

Here's my important tip: if you like a character, please build and use them. Every character can be used well, and I say this as someone who uses characters like Hook, Herta and Arlan who are all considered low tier and even bottom tier characters. If you like a character, you should build them because you can absolutely find people who have also built them, can give you pointers on how to make them work, and it's gonna make you a lot happier than building the characters you're "supposed to" build

One thing to remember when building tingyun is that too much attack on her is useless because she is so squishy and gets targeted all the time so def or hp stats on her is a must

Just started a couple days ago. This is exactly what I needed. Thanks for taking the time and effort to help out new players. The community for this game seems very nice. I’ve already had a couple high levels add me as friends just to help low levels.

Currently at Trailblaze Level 68, and I can confirm that this is all great and useful information for new players.

I just started this game 3 days ago and man im loving the characters way more than Genshin, the snappy UI, the generous primogems they're giving out for free, the fact that i can just buy a 5 star weapon off the shop just at some point by making wishes is POG! i can also pick a standard 5 star character when i reach 300 wishes etc.. This game is great, best thing about it is it has MUCH less dialogue bloat than Genshin and i can skip it much faster thanks to their smooth UI, i got Carla off the departure banner and E4 pela from the current pink fox chick banner, game has been a blast! if anyone is burned out by Genshin i highly recommend yall play this game.

I just wanna say that it’s really great of you to make this updated guide!

With the Playstation version coming out in a week, this is really helpful. Thanks!

Thank you so much for this, so detailed, you helped me with everything I didn’t know yet :)

Best Beginner Guide ever! I can't stress the importance of these tips enough, and I've been playing the game since release. Thanks Mtashed.

The best characters to invest in especially for new players are Asta, Pela, Tingyun, and Natasha. They'll carry you so far until you get better units.

Good video, solid tips, hope this one makes some numbers Tashman. Glad to see you enjoying the game! Be safe, take care

Such a comprehensive guide good job

MTASHED BACK WITH A BANGER VID, LOVE YOU MAN

Downloaded last year on release, but never really played much. Just picking HSR for real lately and this video is a godsend. Watches you during the first year or two of Genshin's release and glad you're doing vids of HSR now.

Ty for the video. New to hsr and hard to get clarity from a lot of content creators.

Even as a day one player, I enjoyed this video very much. Also learned about different things I could’ve done by now. Thank you mr Mtashed.

I started plying 5 days ago and your tips will be helpful to my journey on this game.

As someone who just started a few weeks ago, this is really helpful. All other guides I see are 4 months ago😅

trace farming will be the most that takes time and resources. Remember to level only those that are useful. A good stopping point is level 6 for general skills, and level 8 for crucial ones on your DPS

i really wish i had watched this before starting this game. This was super helpful. Thank you

@Mtashed I was watching this video when I did my pity pull on the standard banner and I got Bronya! You're officially good luck!

Thanks for making this video as I just started playing ❤

My biggest tip is that sometimes you need to take the game slowly in order to grind up some materials or levels. It's better to slow down and power up, wait for your trailblaze power to come back for 3-4 or more days and just level up your characters. Just be patient and get stronger or you'll probably regret it when all the enemies take a looong time to kill.

Bro, I just started. There's SO MUCH to do!

Love your guides dude ❤

This was so useful for me thanks Tash man.

Just the video i asked for in the comment section of his last video 😂 thanks tash man!

Thank you, it was very informative!

this is perfect i wanted a guide before it came out on the ps5

Pretty Helpful, Thanks!

Tip: build up a strong support first, push them as far as you can, keep them upgraded with the best you got, and slot them into your profile top slot as support. This will generate a consistent trickle of credits per day as other people look for a 4th ringer for their team and they come across your max level and geared Bronya, Ting Yun, Asta, whoever. Showcase your best, because people pick the best, and you will get anywhere from 2k to 10k per day-ish. That adds up to a lot of credits over time, which is a huge help for late game growth.

Not me sitting here having done everything I shouldn't have done :')

this crazy man does some pretty decent guide for new players

Even tho I played this game upon release, I appreciate that you made a comprehensive and totally usefull beginners's guide. Keep doing god's work Mtashed!

Great video! You covered all the bases! I think a follow up video is req.? For when someone is transitioning from early- mid to late game? ( Transitioning from doing the regular stuff to updating their account to handle all the late game stuff)

Thanks. Resource-management-oriented games like this really need at least one person to share with others how to really make the best out of players.

Just so you know your shorts got me and my gf rolling on the floor all day keep up the good energy

Thanks Tashman, so pumped for PS5 release in a few days!

Thank you for this video!

Starting a new account when the game is being introduced to PS5 players is so big brain of Mtashed. Not only is it free content it's also good forgetting him new subs and followers because honestly thus is an amazing beginner's guide.

Thanks for the tips!

Mtashed I’m so proud of you for having 577 jades

It's great to see Mtashed just having fun. God bless you man

I picked the game back up after leaving for a couple weeks almost a month and i've been taking it slow, just farming my units and collecting chests and it's been really fun seeing my Blade and Jingliu E1 just destroy things with the help of Bronya i'm LVl 45 and I have so many thing to do and the game has been way more fun now than it was before when I started, these advices were a godsend since I was kind of lost on what to do besides farming materials and clearing areas

This guide is just amazing following it like a bible.

Just started this game today, still have only the main character and the first 2 characters so still super early on at the minute but loving it so far, need to decide what my team will be at some point though and hope my luck is with me for pulls

I wished I watched this when I started the game. I thought I needed one or two of every element and now I am struggling with passing content and having enough resources since I am spread too thin. I'm definitely going to try and find a main team and stick with it throughout instead so I can actually complete the story. Thanks for the video! It's really helpful since I am trying to jump back into the game after leaving at 1.2 update with lvl 40 characters, haha.

I just started the game in preparation for the PlayStation release, planning on getting jing liu and hoping to get Kafka later on her rerun, I love dot so it’s too bad I missed her

Awe Right..... 😂😂😂 finally a guide video. ... will watch it every day from. Now on 😅😅😅

I just started the game this evening so I'm kinda lost atm as to what to do. There's alot to learn for sure

Disclaimer: a lot of characters dont really care/benefit from Vonwacq (ERR set). It does not give enough ERR to make a difference in how fast you get your ult for most characters. Get ERR ropes because they are insanely rare, but don’t focus only on that, fleet of the ageless and broken keel are much better options for a LOT of characters.

Great vid 🎉

This changes Everything!

Just in time for me to start playing next week since it's dropping on PS5. My man.

Best Begginers guide Tip-dont be delusional and treat these fictional characters like real people, they are fictional chars and not ur IRL girlfreinds

Within the first three mins of this video, it was more informative then like the whole day I have spent looking up stuff to just be prepared for this. Im a gacha Vet and this is just how these games are sometimes and this was the info most brand new players need. Thanks man. Also do a vid a f2p summon chances over time what can a new player realistically look forward to for summons? I play a lot DBZ Dokkan battle, and tbh that game just throws Summon items (Dragon stones) at you constantly. Epic 7 was ok... Genshin from what I remember was kinda stingy. So on and so forth. What is the best outlook for free summon chances? as a new player I have no idea how common summon tickets/stones/whatever is over time?

When i started Genshin i watched Mtashed beginner guide and it was 100% helpful and still i follow it after 3 years and now i do the same for star rail

Great vid thank you

My biggest tip is not focusing your DPS too much 80% of content in this game Is about can you out live your Enemy. Which means you can go at 2 Mindset The best offence is the best defence Or just turtle up. In the Early game since you can't outscale the DPS as fast I would recommend Turtle up more So basically run a tank and healer Everywhere. It doesn't matter if you kill the enemy in 5 More cycles Since unless it's MOC that really Isn't any sentive to go fast. (Note that These are the situations where the cleanses are best. In offence Strategy So when you re only running one Defensive option You much prefer to face tank debuffs to murder the enemy faster because of the squishness of your team)

this is great i am new to the game and these are great tips ... i know you from genshin videos ❤

Great video

I don’t understand half the things you said in this video. I’m just gonna play the game and see how it goes

My humble corrections from a guy with two accounts who beat MoC10 in two months on the new account with 20 bucks into BP/MP: 1. Departure warp is worth the 40 pulls, I got literally 3 5 stars out of it on my alt and I have friends who got multiple, and even if you only get the one you won't die for having a bit less pulls on standard versus the possibility at a discounted rate of more resources to get your started. So that advice is the equivalent of hampering yourself for some copium "savings" 2. Erudition is a cracked class if you know where to look, QQ powercreeps seele with eidolons, serval is cracked and has your back for both the early and late game if you want to go the mile and OUR GENERAL works so well it's not even funny and mine does more single target than either of his seeles probably ever will fullstop, Argenti is probably going to be a good pickup if you got nothing to deal with the excess physical in the game. Also Himeko > Yanqing deadass to the point my friend has Silver Wolf, Pela and Gepard just for him and the carry is actually his E0S0 Silver Wolf instead of his Yanqing. It's just THAT sad. 3. I used 50 jades for 60 tp a day, no more, no less until I cleared MoC and then I stopped because I PERSONALLY care for progress and I believe the faster you clear MoC10 the faster you make those jades back and start cashing in from there onwards as an investment, and I still have Kafka with her sig, Fu Xuan with her sig, Himeko, Bailu and I can keep going, my account is very lucky and you have every right to never touch this, but don't mistake of blaming that as the reason for your fuck ups like trying to back to back pull with no resources whatsoever from Dan Heng to Fu Xuan and acting like you got "cursed". There's a large difference between making stupid choices with how you use your resources and picking your battles.

I started playing a week before fu xuan banner and I grinded nonstop cause I wanted both dan heng and fu xuan and thankfully I did get both (although I lost my 50/50 on fu xuan banner) so now I can finally take a step back and slow down a bit

Thought about playing this game. Its just that Genshin while a great game turned into a job and I didn't want to get sucked into anything like that again. I heard it wasn't like that but I tend to shy away from most live service games nowadays that have no end. It looks like a really fun game though and l've heard mostly good things. I might try it out someday.

Even after all this time, that video is still useful.

I'm not a new player, but I like to hear Mtashed talking about something so passionately

*is a TL 68 Day one player* “Ah yes, just the video I was looking for.”

Dont rush through the companion missions just for the trailblaze exp, those are 1 time quests that expand usually quite a bit on a character and is almost always a cool experience but its a big shame if u just skip thru it for trailblaze exp

tyvm!

idk how old is honkai star rail now but i just started after i stop playing genshin XD. but this could save me some time and made me able to progress as it should. i ended up leveling up 8-9 characters XD.

Nice guide

New players should certainly try and obtain Fu Xuan and Lynx. Keeping your team alive is the challenge early game.

There is one mistake, don't use self modeling resin for the vonwaq set, almost no one uses that set, it's only good in very specific situations, so much so that you need to know exactly what you are doing. Self-modeling resin, as far as I've heard, is better to be saved and later used when you are building your teams for the end game, its important to know that there are certain main stats that are rarer than others, mainly ERR in ropes, speed in boots, and crit rate/crit damage in bodies, so for example, let's say you have a tingyun, you're building her with the hacker space 4 set and the broken keel 2 piece, and let's say, no matter how many runs you do, you can't get a speed boots, or an energy regeneration link rope, in this case you could use a self modeling resin, use them in characters whose sub stats arent the most important thing, what I have noticed is that its better to use them on supports, for exmaple, I used one for my Jing yuan and I dont even use that piece because it didnt get good offensive sub stats , so that was a waste but then I used 3 of them on ERR pieces for ting yun, asta and pela, they dont care much about offensive stats

I would say, the best lightcone to prioritize if you don't have it, is Gepard's lightcone. It works amazingly well on Fire MC. It makes Fire MC very skill point efficient, because of the extra taunt and defense. Bronya'a lightcone, is great but is more situational as you have to speed tune around it if you don't have Bronya. Clara's lightcone is really good on Clara, but kinda mid on any other destruction unit.

As someone who is returning after a year of not playing, thank you 🙏

Wow bro I use to see your Destiny video back in the days .thats was up u still making in pop.

invest on your support and sustain. saved for Luocha and Fu Xuan, now easily full-star MoC stages with just 4* dps and. now i can start summoning for any dps i want because my supports are all well-built.

Havent watched your vidsin a long time. Seems like TashMan's transition from Destiny to a Gacha Content Creator went well

If you have enough energy recharge ropes, I would recommend using the self modeling resin on dmg bonus spheres instead, while crit and speed are rare main stats to get it’s rarer to get the right dmg bonus type on the right planar set for a specific character.

As a player with 11 max characters it really is time consuming and inefficient for most players i recommend only farming books and lightcones and trace materials until 60+ and even 65+ purple relics can still be used up till 60-65 and most of the important stats come from levels and traces(took me a whole week for a “god” tier relic i genuinely wished I had spent that time on exp and traces farming)

Dear Mtashed , thanks for the content but please put multiple sections on these kinds of videos so we can jump right on them and find the part better

new player here, the guide is valid, only 5 days in but I'll stop wasting time on relics

Also, clearing out all the worlds every single day. If you can because those give really good rewards over time for upgrading. And not running out of credits.

Wish there were time stamps or section that. Gotta really sit down and digest alot of this.

Mike, do you see the future or something? I literally started the game yesterday and you put this on. What the hell is that timing? THANKS AS ALWAYS MAN.

As a Tl68 player why am i still watching this and feeling like a new player

too late just spent all my trailblazing power on relics

You found the aurum alley event boring? I quite enjoyed all the little tasks and games. It was a nice change up from the normal game.

Hi everyone, one thing not mentioned that I think is important is to value your interest in a character over the meta viability of the character. I have way more fun playing with the characters that I think are cool then if I force myself to save for meta.

Another tip: If you absolutely must farm relic domains early on (ie your characters are on life support and you somehow messed up and burned all the 4* relics that you picked up while doing quests) , then there are 2 which provide best value: 1. The musketeer domain which is universally good on all supports and good for most destruction/hunt dpses . You also pick up healer set as byproduct making this highly resin efficient early on 2. The longevous/messenger domain : good universal 2 pc bonuses which all your support characters can use.. very resin efficient 3. The quantum domain if you dont have a 5*main dps and you are like me using The free QQ as main dps as the quantum set is really cracked and the guard set 2pc bonus is universally good on most if not all tanks Similarly the lightening set ais another good one if you are maining a lightening dps early game

stupid tip: use a controller....with a controller you can pause the game in battle so if your next attack triggers the ultimate, you can pause the game before the animation is over and launch the ultimate within your character's turn, so if an enemy is coming next, you can launch your ult before the enemy's turn...the same goes for path of resonance and all that stuff ;)

I have 3 light cones 80 and 4 at 70. 2 character 80 3 at 75. 10 characters have their own relics and majority has them their traces level to 8. This game gives more credits and resources. So feel free to uses them. But I recommend leveling up 2 healers 2 tanks . 2 hormony and pela.

I wouldn’t recommend getting the solitary healing/ nihility herta lc, s5 fermata/nihilty moc lc will be better for the dot characters out rn. Only reason you should is if you don’t have a good night sleep well or eyes of the prey and need to build a dot team

Another tip is to raise level 1 characters to level 20 and ascending them. The resource cost for doing this is very small and will give you 1 free regular pull you can use to build towards the 300 standard pull req for choosing a 5 star of your choice.

one little advice regarding the self modeling resin... don't use them unless you are really desperate to get that one gear piece you need to finish your build, yes, you can manipulate the main stat, bu you can't manipulate the sub stats rolls, meaning you can get a piece with a good main stat but with dog water sub stats.

YO so a tip i could have used : your Main character can do fire later so dont invest in fire characters!!! Go as far as you can in the simulated universe play it 24/7 if you can as you can level up your abilities for that universe. 90 pulls will get you the 5star. use codes to get more jade. invest mainly in the main character, march 7th, dan hang, and your healer/damage booster. only raise your extra characters to lv40 for the free silver pass. DONT superimpose light cones unless your using them as they are worth less when your recycle them. the helmet is for health, the gloves are for attack, the body armor is for defense, the boots are for speed. complete the time limited events first. Go to the "forgotten hall" complete that as much as you can before gong to the next equilibrium level. You get lots of free characters as you progress in the story so check out that list so you don't double dip. check out the monthly starlight characters and see if you need to get them or can wait again so you dont double dip. auto equip is not the best for relics for bosses. find out what teams synergies best for what characters you do have as all the guides expect you to have all of them for some reason. find out where to get the free light cones and hunt them down ASAP. Like from the birds and missions from the story. YOU can run past the enemies to get to the red chest if your agile. stay away from the calix and focus on the bosses that help you ascend your main charaters. add 50 friends so you can use thier maxed charaters. simulated univers give you materials to ascend your main charaters in the form of a white box. The soda magazine vendors as good to but from early in game as they have supplies to help you win. if you pull for a 5star and invest those 90 tickets also get the light cone they are designed to go together and max out that 5stars stats even if they are both E1. Learn what the advanced stats do as and how they work together on enemies and bosses and the team. use the recommend section for relics and traces

A month later he's posting a video stating how sick he is of the game n feels burned out after playing on 2 separate accounts aside from rerolling... no hate but we'd seen it happen before