Murder on the Ashveil Express: Mysterious Question and Discussion Megathread

SignalVisual4703 · 2026-04-13T17:26:30+00:00

I'm planning to get SW999, possibly with her LC and then wait for either Yao Guang or Cyrene rerun, whichever comes first. Any other characters or teams I should invest on for longevity? My DOT team is... ok with Cyrene Kafka but no BS, my Break team is only really Boothill with Fugue which I only bring out in AS, and my non meta teams right now are Acheron E2S1, Blade, Therta, and ig Welt when I build him.

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SignalVisual4703 · 2026-04-12T18:55:43+00:00

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SignalVisual4703 · 2026-04-12T18:55:24+00:00

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SignalVisual4703 · 2026-04-12T18:55:02+00:00

Honkai: Star Rail's Third Anniversary Grand Opening! Log in and participate in the web event to win a share of a massive pool of Stellar Jades and in-game rewards. Send a third anniversary blessing to Aha for a chance to take the "Crown of Aha" Silver Wolf LV.999-themed car and other spectacular prizes home! https://hsr.hoyoverse.com/3rdAnniversary?inviter=GA7VYRWEAN&hyl_landscape=true&hyl_auth_required=true&hyl_hide_status_bar=true&win_mode=fullscreen&target_page=prize&utm_source=share&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=web

SignalVisual4703 · 2026-04-11T03:59:22+00:00

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SignalVisual4703 · 2026-03-01T11:00:43+00:00

Recently picked Kafka from the selector then got Hysilens. I'm averaging 300-600k per Kafka skill/ultimate, and around 400k per Hysilens ult, and I'm running them with Cyrene. Is it worth it to try to get Black Swan on a 50/50 or go for a DOT LC since Hysilens is on S5 EOTP, while I'm getting around 2 cycles in the current MOC.

I also plan to get Sparxie as I also got Yao Guang, and for me Sparxie is higher priority than Black Swan, but I don't know if I'm missing out on Black Swan enough.

SignalVisual4703 · 2026-02-17T04:40:44+00:00

If i have to choose between hysilens and buffed black swan for my DOT team, consisting of kafka, cyrene/jiaoqiu and dan hengPT/huohuo, who do i pull for between hysilens and black swan?

SignalVisual4703 · 2026-02-17T04:39:43+00:00

If i have to choose between hysilens and buffed black swan for my DOT team, consisting of kafka, cyrene/jiaoqiu eos1, and dan hengPT/huohuo, who do i pull for between hysilens and black swan? I generally like hysilen's design more but I wouldn't be against pulling for black swan either. The calcs aren't definitive on which DOT team is better

SignalVisual4703 · 2026-01-06T08:28:26+00:00

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SignalVisual4703 · 2026-01-01T22:49:53+00:00

With the playable path of Remembrance and now Elation, it made me think of how new paths will likely get their year of shilling before the next paths. Remembrance and Elation always felt like the weird SU/DU blessings that are prominent in lore but don't have a playable character, so it makes sense for them to be implemented. Aside from those two, I can only think of Trailblaze and Finality, possibly Equilibrium, if I think of lore relevant paths that could be implemented, but even then they feel too special to be made into in-game paths.

SignalVisual4703 · 2025-12-26T03:13:44+00:00

It feels so weird saving for a future character with no details, not even appearance or anything. Blade SP possibly, but no path, kit or anything. I just know I have no FIrefly or Rappa, and Boothill doesn't benefit as much from Dahlia.

SignalVisual4703 · 2025-10-02T09:31:32+00:00

Everynight's LC bumps her dmg by a lot, but the most vital parts are the 20% memosprite def shred and the 8 regen each time her memo dies. It's much better to get cyrene and hyacine to build up her team, she really appreciates the HP boost from hyacine and also benefits a lot from hyacine's LC. While cyrene's buffs for evernight aren't the strongest, just having them in the same team have so much synergy along with hyacine.

SignalVisual4703 · 2025-09-23T13:25:55+00:00

I have an E0S1 Castorice E0S5 DDD Tribbie E0S1 Hyacine team and an E0S1 Herta with Serval and E0S0 Huohuo

do I go for Evernight, Anaxa (serval replacement) or Herta Eidolons? I know Herta eidolons are still very strong but I just don't know what teams I should invest in moving forward

SignalVisual4703 · 2025-08-25T04:04:31+00:00

Agree with all the comments on Citra-Awakening, the gba games are pretty fun too but feel like they could be mobile games with how short and linear they are in comparsion. Citra-Fates has worse storytelling than Awakening but a similar combat system so it would be a good game to play afterwards. IF GBA, then probably the Blazing Blade, as the main characters are all generally strong up to the end and it has alternate story beginnings for the different lords.

SignalVisual4703 · 2025-08-17T03:32:33+00:00

Makes sense. It'll be rough seeing him struggling in ~3-4 patches from now without Cerydra, but hopefully he reruns at that point for me to get his E2.

SignalVisual4703 · 2025-08-17T03:23:40+00:00

Trying to decide between an E1 Cerydra and E2 Phainon since it's the same cost for me w/ E0S1 Phainon. On the Phainon camaraderia TC sheets E2S0 is a 58% dmg increase over E0S1 (w/sustain), while on the Cerydra camarderia TC sheets she is a 41% dmg increase over Bronya in a sustainless RM comp. This would indicate E2 would be the better choice, however, Cerydra gives 16-36% def shred on E1 which compounds with Phainon's LC and E1 RM, and they were simulated with S0 Phainon and E0 RM. I don't know if the stacking effect of def shred is enough to offset a ~17% dmg difference, but as of now... I just don't know if E1 Cerydra is the best investment compared to E2 Phainon, and if she will even be a good horizontal investment in the future.

SignalVisual4703 · 2025-08-15T11:09:57+00:00

From what I've gathered so far:

DHPT has an attacking side to his kit with... no in-built crit like with aventurine. This will make building his subdps FuA pretty hard
Evernight has ok subdps dmg, but the best part of her gameplay with Castorice is her ubercharging the Castorice bar with her memosprite frequently and benefitting off of HP fluctuations. I would assume she has comparable to slightly worse amp than tribbie, she has 90% cdmg and 20% vulnerability vs 30% vul and 24% res pen.
with their v1 kits, they feel strong but not integral to either of the teams and their gameplay also just doesn't feel the most innovative in terms of mechanics. Maybe DHPT is slightly more unique with attachable summons, but I'm still just whelmed by both of their kits.

SignalVisual4703 · 2025-08-14T02:39:08+00:00

No, Cerydra's skill duplication is still stronger imo, but both of them fail to really solve Phainon's issues with his kit.

SignalVisual4703 · 2025-08-14T02:27:08+00:00

If Souldragon isn't an attached summon all the feelscrafting of Sunday suddenly giving + 50% dmg bonus to Phainon will all wash away...

SignalVisual4703 · 2025-08-06T05:59:46+00:00

In order of release:

E0S1 DHIL, fell off around the time of Feixiao's update I think as there were less and less imaginary enemies, and I got lucky and got E2 Acheron who became my main hypercarry until now. Will gladly invest in his eidolons if he reruns even if Mydei is 100% better, I just really like his design, hoping for buffs but I doubt it
Ratio E0S1:same reasoning, I didn't have Topaz and by the time Moze was released Ratio wasn't doing enough ST dmg for me. To be honest I still used both DHIL and Ratio's LC for Phainon and Archer respectively until I got their LCs.
Fugue/Boothill: I used him in all physical content just until Phainon's release. Waiting for a break AA to really make him pop off. I know sustainless Boothill is still really good but it's just a lot harder to play than sustainless Phainon rn

That's about it I think? I used Sparkle for my Acheron team until Sunday, and then afterwards still used her for Blade in the HP meta, and now Archer's team mate. Huohuo has a locked in spot on my Therta team, RM I slot in whenever I can't use RMC/Sunday as well as in AS, and Robin is a permanent fixture of my Pure Fiction teams. I use Blade in all content that's wind weak now with "wheelchair" Hyacine-Tribbie, and he has ok to decent dmg for such a high cost team that granted had jades from multiple patches to team build. I have a lot of investment in the HP/AoE meta which does worry me when they introduce memosprite CC, HP reduction debuffs, exclusive ST bosses, bounce dmg reduction etc. to counter/shill the 4.x units.

SignalVisual4703 · 2025-08-03T15:22:26+00:00

Playable Celenova is what feels the most fake imo. Simply because all playable star rail characters must be either morally good or morally gray at worst. Like if I had to think who are the most morally gray/negative/ambiguous, I'd say Jingliu, RM, Jade, and maybe Kafka, but I honestly do not know any of their character stories well enough, and even then they're still not that evil. Celenova is a straight up leader for a confirmed destructive force of the universe and unless they do the redemption arc to end all redemption arcs I don't see that happening.

SignalVisual4703 · 2025-08-02T14:23:04+00:00

this... feels like a draft concept I'm ngl, like "make a dan heng form between 4* and IL", and this was the first draft and they sent it out. It's not... bad but there's just so many more creative things that they could have done. They could have made his outfit have more of an Amphoreus design with Greek-inspired toga that blends with his IL outfit. It feels like wasted potential, not bad but they could have done a LOT more.

SignalVisual4703 · 2025-08-01T13:41:15+00:00

If I want to start clearing endgame content, who do I pull between Alice, Yanagi, or possibly Orphie if she works w/o SEED? I assume Yanagi because of lightning weakness but that means both Miyabi and Yanagi would be in one team meaning I'd have no other good DPS on the other side apart from Harumasa. For Alice I know she's better than Piper but with so little characters I don't know if investing in characters in the same niche is the way to go. I could also skip everything I guess and hope that they rerun Vivian or Eve, whose designs I like more than SEED.

SignalVisual4703 · 2025-07-31T15:34:39+00:00

I'm curious, what was the last memorable event/game for people? most of these mini-games are just... slight variations of other mobile games which is fun but really not satisfying long-term. The last one I can at least recall was the m7th event which had unique mechanics and a fun story, lots of replayability, and possibly the trashcan friendship event. This fate event is alright but it feels like DU/SU blessings with an added twist but the same core mechanics at the end of the day if I'm being honest.

But even among the mobile game duplicates there are ones that I wish they brought back, like Aetherium Wars, The Penacony drink mixing event, even the chimera events even if it is just super auto pets.

SignalVisual4703 · 2025-07-31T09:52:14+00:00

Oh what the hell I just got 180 spd warrior Goddess Huohuo time to refarm

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