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Elysian Realm Stories

At account lvl 50, you will unlock Elysian Realm section.

Think of Elysian Realm as a journey to learn about the past, like trying to find out what happened during the Archon Wars from the memories of the people who fought in it. 

In this case, Elysian Realm is a story of the 13 Flame Chasers who fought in the previous Honkai era. 

How to access Elysian Realm story archives (after unlocking at lvl 50 and progressing through the story)

Go to “Attack” from home page.

Choose “Challenge” tab on the left, then “Elysian Realm”.

Click the “Remembrance Vessel” on the right. 

Choose the memories you want to view, eg. Youth’s Memory for the character Kosma. 

Click “Recollections” tab to see the stories. 

Elysian Realm also archives interactions with the character. 

Click “Expand” (last button on the right) > “Collection”

Expand the chapter sections, and scroll to the desired character / stories. 

Click on them to re-experience the conversation. 

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Weekly Activities (Spiral Abyss & Weekly Bosses)

> Home > Attack > Challenge

Memorial Arena

Similar to weekly trounce bosses in Genshin. 

Defeat the boss as quickly as possible, to exchange currencies for 5 star characters etc. 

Raids (Co-op)

Home > Attack > Raids

Similar to domains, here you must co-op with other players to complete 6 battles. 

Every week, there’ll be a different 5 star weapon as reward for completing all 6 stages. 

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Dorm (Serenitea Pot)

At certain captain level, you’ll unlock the dorm. 

The dorm will level up as you collect and upgrade more characters / stigmatas. Dorm bonuses can collect gold and excess stamina passively. 

You can renovate the dorm with building materials, obtained from activities or by buying from coin shop. 

When the character is happy (blue speech bubble), click the character for a chance at receiving building blocks. 

Building blocks can be obtained by crafting/obtaining and levelling up certain stigmatas, or by buying from coin shop.

They can be exchanged for normal or past event furnitures via 

> Home > Phone (bottom right) > Collections > Furniture

Errands are similar to expeditions, but they collect different materials and currencies for different shops.

If there are no suitable characters with the needed qualities, it will fail to assign and dispatch. 

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Activity & Starter’s Event (Adventure Book)

Home > Activity (top left) > Story 

Similar to adventure book chapters, they provide rewards for certain tasks done. Good for beginners. 

You can also click “Challenges” button on top right for more tasks. 

Home > Activity > Dailies

Gives Battlepass points and “Daily Duty” for additional rewards (see bottom of the pic). 

Home > Activity > Rewards 

Can receive battlepass currencies to spend at “Elite Works” shop (bottom of the pic). 

Home > Starter’s Event (bottom center of home) 

Another time limited version of Adventure Book. Provides great rewards such as free 5* character and weapon of choice after reaching a certain stage.

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Supply (Wishes)

You can access the supply banners via Home > Supply > Supply.

There are character banners, and equipment (weapon + stigmata) banners. 

S rank is roughly equivalent to Genshin 5 star.

A rank is roughly equivalent to Genshin 4 star. 

Dorm Supply (Permanent Banner)

You can obtain Dorm Supply Cards (Acquaint (blue) fates) via various in game activities. Don’t spend gems on this. 

Starter Supply (Beginner Banner, for 60 days only)

Event / Expansion Supply (Limited Banners)

Focused Supply (rotates old banners every now and then)

For characters, you can see Marisa’s guide for tier lists. However, these are more relevant to late game. If you’re only doing story mode etc., most of the time you can only play selected characters provided by the game anyway. 

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Crafting Equipments

You can craft weapons & stigmatas via Home > Equipment > Forge. 

You can select “sort by equipper” (bottom left) to see suggested items. 

Higher quality weapons and stigmatas need materials from Universal Mirage (Unlocked at higher captain level). 

Home > Attack > Challenge > Universal Mirage

You can farm the highest level you are able to unlock. 

For beginners, you can focus on those craftable from expedition materials first.

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Levelling up (Account, Character, Equipments)

Captain Level

(Similar to Adventurer Rank in Genshin)

You can view your captain exp by clicking your account name at the top right of home page. 

You can level up the account by spending stamina (similar to resin in Genshin).

1 stamina = 1 captain exp. 

Character Level

Home Page > Valkyrja

Click the character level below the character name to reach here. 

Levelling characters consumes xp chips. 

Levelling skills consumes gold.

Evolving characters to higher rank (eg. A rank to S rank) require fragments, which can be obtained from duplicate pulls in gacha, or expeditions. 

Characters who begin at S rank (similar to five star characters in Genshin) are usually sufficient at S rank. Higher ranks act similar to constellations in Genshin. 

A rank characters are similar to 4 star characters in Genshin. 

Weapon/Stigmata Levelling

You can view all weapons and stigmatas via Home > Equipment. 

You can also find and use coin packs / supply packs you obtained from gacha/activities under Home > Equipment > Materials > Supplies. 

Enhancing (levelling): All weapons and stigmata consume these materials for enhancing. 

Upgrading (ascending): All 4 star weapons and stigmatas consume these materials for upgrading.

Upgrading (ascending) 5 star weapons and stigmatas: Uses different materials from 4 star upgrades. All 5 star weapons/stigmatas are upgraded with the same materials.

These materials are mostly obtainable only from Asterite shop, or rarely, gacha pulls.

Home > Supply > Shop

You can google Asterite farming for more information. 

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Expedition (Obtaining Characters & Materials)

Expeditions can provide materials to obtain/upgrade characters/equipments. 

To unlock expeditions, you need to clear certain stages first. 

Home > Attack > Story

> Expedition

After clearing the stages (some require you to clear the main story up to a certain point first), you can access the expeditions via dorm. 

Home > Dorm (bottom right)

> Expeditions (bottom bar) 

> Fragments or Materials > Start

Expeditions consume stamina. You can use a total of 100 stamina (as seen in the “Stamina Use” bar above) each day for expeditions. 

Materials

SS Imaginon and Honkai Pieces are used to craft stigmatas. 

AE Imaginon are used to craft weapons or buy Honkai Cores to upgrade (ascend) 5* weapons. 

Manifest Weapon Option gives a free 5* weapon of choice

Certain characters can also unlock new skills via upgrading their “cores”, which can also be obtained via expeditions.

Click the yellow box button on the character page (next to the outfit button) to view the core upgrade interface.

Fragments

Fragments can be gathered to unlock characters or evolve existing characters to higher rank (eg. A rank to S rank).

You can view your fragment count via Home > Valkyrie, then scroll right at the bottom bar. 

For existing characters, click the character level below the name to see how many fragments you already have, and how many more you need to evolve the character.

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Chronicles (Story Quests)

Home Page > Attack > Chronicles

> Chapters 

> Stages

Similar to main story, but you need to complete all story mode and challenge mode stages to unlock the next story quest.

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Main Story (Archon Quests)

Home Page > Attack > Story 

> Chapter

> Stages

Prepare for battle. For some chapters, you can only choose specific characters. Change the character by clicking on the character in this screen. 

Some chapters have special mechanics, such as requiring you to use the currencies gained in the chapter, to pull for/enhance characters/weapons that are only usable within the chapter. 

You can play unlocked story cutscenes via 

Home Page > Phone (bottom right) > Collections > Cutscenes

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Combat

The four combat buttons are:

Top left: Weapon special effects Similar to skill in Genshin, but tied to weapon and consumes SP (energy)

Top right: Ultimate Similar to burst in Genshin

Bottom left: Evade  Similar to sprint in Genshin, but each character have different effects.

Bottom right: Normal attack (NA) Hold gives Charged attack (CA). Each character have different NA/CA combo. 

The blue bar is HP

The yellow bar is SP (similar to energy in Genshin)

For more detailed walkthrough, Honkai has a dedicated combat tutorial section.

Combat Tutorial

Home > Attack 

> Event > Tactics Class

Mechanics: Step by step explanation of all you need to know about Honkai combat. Very useful. 

Type Countering, Ultimate Evasion, and QTE will be important to deal damage in combat. 

For type countering, I try to remember this way: 

Psych short circuits Mech, Mech crushes Bio, Bio whacks Psych

Character tutorial: Contains walkthrough of specific characters skillsets, and how to play them.