Honkai: Star Rail Beginner's Guide - 13 Tips to Progress Smoothly!

Honkai Star Rail is finally out! Here are 13 key tips from beginner to advanced to help make your Honkai Star Rail playthrough a much smoother experience. I also talk about how to get more Stellar Jade and Star Rail passes for those that want more summons!

0:00 | Guide Content
0:51 | Fast Trailblaze Levels
2:31 | Equilibrium
3:13 | Trailblaze Power
4:17 | Stored Immersifiers
5:00 | Messages
5:41 | Teambuilding Character 1
6:41 | Teambuilding Character 2
7:13 | Teambuilding Character 3
7:39 | The Gacha
8:56 | Get More Stellar Jade
10:58 | Get More Basic Summons
12:07 | 5 Star Relics
13:13 | Patience
14:27 | Thanks for Watching!

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[lemonc]

Whoever did the script for this game, please give them a raise, its alot more entertaining now given all the choices we had and some funny references 🤣

[frishter]

I think a lot of us genshin players forgot about when we searched hard for random treasure chests in order to get enough adventure rank to progress.

[sugizaki]

The "Patience" advice is by far the best advice to give new players. Ofc everything is shiny and new right now but rushing through the game will just make you burn out faster from the game because it will feel more like a grind - it's best to enjoy the game as much as possible, especially since H:SR has so many excellent quality-of-life changes in comparison to Genshin

[robertocortes]

The best thing about the standard banner is that you get to pick the 5 star you want at 300 pulls. I don't see people talking about this tho.

[sleeplessknight]

Also, one big piece of advice for new players who might come from genshin, this is a heavily story based game with an actually good story. So please don't go skipping all the text and dialogue, that'll remove a huge portion of the game which will make it feel rather unsatisfying.


Edit: I noticed a decent number of replies saying "the story isn't better than Genshin at all". But I'm just curious, what part of Genshin are you comparing it to, cause you need to remember that this is the VERY START of Star rail. Are you properly comparing the start of the game with the start of Genshin or are you comparing it to modern Genshin.

Cause if you're saying "the start of star rail is just as good as current Genshin" then that should already show that the story is actually a lot better since it achieved the same results in much less time.
Hoyo game's stories always get much better and more interesting over time, so start of star rail being comparable to Genshin after over two years means that star rail will probably be much better than current Genshin is 2 years.

[shier_it]

i can finally put a face to one of the game content creators I watch regularly. Thank you for your videos. they are really helpful.

[kosmos]

I would SELL MY SOUL to have an artifact creation system like that in Genshin!

[lucidragon]

I'm actually planning on not increasing my trailblazer level unless it's required by the story. In Genshin, I learned that I'm more of a casual player who likes playing multiple characters, and I regret raising my adventure (world) level so much. I'm going to keep my level as low as possible so it's easy to raise new characters to a playable level

[shutdahellup]

i like how you get resin quicker in this game and can also condense more of it. very nice.

[okayanythingwhatever]

Just wanted to say your delivery was so calm, concise & altogether pleasant to listen to and learn from. Thank you so much 😊

[ChristopherAngeles]

Thanks for the tips ( basically transfered my genshin knowledge to HKR). Cool seeing your face in these videos and the comedy edits along with it :D

[k.r]

I'm cap lvl80 in 3rd so i know the story will be incredible (and depressing) and gameplay is always good with hoyoverse 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

[Dechral]

glad to see you making videos for h:sr. I quit genshin over a year ago and just picked this game up yesterday and your vids were always so reliable in the past, and it's cool to put a face to the voice I remember. Thx for sharing <3

[jackedlantern]

It’s practically like genshin but newer + more strategic

[JohnDoe-pdjo]

This guys good. Very articulate, organized and straight to the point. Plus you aren’t telling, thank god lol. New subscriber

[notean]

Very valuable advice, I wish I had seen it when i started. Unlike most of other streamers, you do not give you text at breakneck speed which make it lot nicer to hear. Thank you.

[randomstuff-qush]

I agree that patience is key. There is a lot of content available between story missions, side quests, and the ones that require stamina. I'm yet to see any mechanics that would force a player to rush (such as trying to get to a certain level to join a guild or to compete against other players). That may be an endgame thing, but for now, the game feels a lot like a turn based RPG with a gatcha to unlock characters instead of unlocking them through story progression. That said, I seem to have either encountered a bug or somehow missed the mission that unlocks Simulated Universe. Its supposed to unlock with a mission around trailblaze 7 timeframe and I'm at trailblaze 28 and the game still claims I haven't unlocked it.
I find Asta is a very useful character to have built up for early game. There are a lot of enemies that break with fire attacks, and she's one of the F2P characters that is given to you with story progression. Additionally, her skill puts a stacking buff on the team. That aspect gets much better if you're able to unlock her Eidonons, but she's still very good for breaking a lot of early game enemies. Can't speak for later in the game since I haven't gotten there yet.

[nickix]

The differences for the gacha is just that the character is still 50-50 but not the weapon
The Light cone has a pity of 80 MAX and the rate of the featured weapon is 75-25, so basically you have a higher chance to get the Light cone of the featured banner.
for the standart it's the same as the limited, just at the 300 draw you can chose 1 5 star character

[Arashcosaurus]

I have conquered the world of genshin as f2p, time to conquer another gatcha world.

[WolfmanXD]

"and barraged by a collection of husbandos and waifus"
-shows only himeko

A fellow man of culture I see. Himeko was definitely my favorite from impact 3.