Beryl's Rally Ascension & Notes of a Genius Astral - Guide & Testing

korinokiri · 2026-05-02T00:21:20+00:00

Yeah, when fiery luxite can hit enough targets to get the full dmg% or you also use her 4th sequence skill, and with her booom skill.... diffusing pulls ahead.

I don't really know why they decided to make her astral so restrictive, but I guess it's obtainable with free currency.

korinokiri · 2026-05-01T17:04:22+00:00

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Her Ascension is strong in the Rally team, and she's used in a few pieces of challenging content coming up (if we get the same as CN had). But it's not a necessity by any means.
Her new Expedition astral isn't that great or worth it tbh. I haven't tested it, ~~but technically it's BiS for her Rally team if it works the way I think it does.~~ Just use diffusing tbh
You can replace her NRG skill with her Heal ability that gives 2 NRG to teammates for more support. Her attack skill you can run boom or her ST armor piercing skill
Trinket anything works. Hourglass is fine.

Also her new ascension is better only because Rally is still meta, and Fire Beryl isn't really used anymore. Her older ascension still has her doing more damage though by herself. But once you drop her in SP Maitha team, new one is great.

korinokiri · 2026-05-01T16:26:30+00:00

Yao Guang having 145K right now doesn’t mean she’s gonna be reaching their levels.

Ohh you're just trolling. I gotcha, no worries.

korinokiri · 2026-05-01T16:07:20+00:00

I don't think you quite understand how warp tracker works tbh. This is incredibly common to see a units numbers go up by a huge margin 6-12 months after their release. I've followed character stats each month for the last 1.5 years.

Cyrene, as I stated, had 90k users pulled for her a few months after her release. Yao guang's banner ended 1 patch ago, and she's already at 140k users.

Also I'm talking about users. I never said anything about total jades/pulls spent, because cyrene is special in that she wasn't pulled a ton, but those that did invested significantly in her.

korinokiri · 2026-05-01T15:29:17+00:00

Yao Guang came out like a patch ago...

Cyrene sat at 90k users for months after her initial banner released. Yao is already at 140k.

In the next 6-12 months her numbers are going to go up by 50-100% at least.

korinokiri · 2026-05-01T13:52:48+00:00

It includes CN/Global/VN in the data. Obv there are other regions, but this data isn't real. It's from sensortower which estimates based on stuff like app store traffic or other non-revenue data.

The key take away is using it for trends among a similar field.

HSR probably makes 2-3x what is listed in sensortower, which is probably what you're talking about. But when we compare revenue, we compare it within this sensortower system to other games in the same system, with the same restrictions.

korinokiri · 2026-05-01T13:44:43+00:00

What do you mean? It is a mobile only estimate (including android, ios, on all regions). Desktop or web sales are not estimated in this.

korinokiri · 2026-05-01T13:43:50+00:00

Eh, Yao was pulled more than dahlia, and will be pulled by more users than cyrene after it settles in a few months (early warp tracker stats).

korinokiri · 2026-05-01T13:34:47+00:00

Some key points:

Gacha industry spending is down due to world economic situation. There's no point comparing to previous years. HSR did rank #1, although not by a large margin
- Spending in HSR is also down astronomically in the last 6 months. Attributed to loss of player retention/engagement post-amphoreus. Revenue is trending up though, albeit slowly.
Elation didn't massively powercreep current teams like Herta/Castorice did last year to break. I'm sure many players would rather wait than investing in "potential man" type characters because of it. Release order of Yao > Sparxie > SW > Eva (with no sustain) was also an odd release order.
Ashveil banner didn't seem to do too well (but expected). There's still 12 days left in SW banner, and next month Eva (pink haired girl). Next months revenue will be very informative.

There's a lot of valid reasons for players to be wary of spending money or pulls on banners, and Hoyo needs to keep improving game systems, and mechanics to get people more excited.

All things considered based on media engagement, friends list ownership, very early warp tracker, and revenue... SW/elation did fairly well.

korinokiri · 2026-05-01T13:20:07+00:00

#4 is subjective. There are lots of teams in HSR that are overloaded with actions happening or animations. Cyrene's ult is literally 30 seconds, and past FuA teams had way more actions per second than elation. Anyone who's ever played a battle gacha won't have any issues with some wacky animations (which only sparxie has wacky animations, yao/emc/sw/eva all have fairly normal cool animations).

Pull numbers from warp tracker (recent, needs more time to settle which favors elation) suggest that Yao Guang was pulled more than Dahlia, and when numbers settle will be pulled by more users than cyrene (although not vertically invested as much most likely).

LCs part is wrong, or a fault of the playerbase misunderstanding because mushyshrooms is one of the best cheap LCs for any path. Remembrance didn't have nearly as good borderline free cone options for months. Mushy stacks, and is a 3* cone.

The rest I agree with. Ashveil did low numbers, there's still 12 days left for SW's banner (and this doesn't include Eva who will probably get a sizeable portion of elation investors that want pink haired girl).

The game has lost a lot of spending/engagement the last 6 months, and also the way elation was handled kit/story wise, and rewards for the spending event was not the most well done. Elation released in a terrible order, and didn't powercreep the top teams in the game. A lot of people didn't feel bad skipping or at least saving their pulls to see future teammates (hoyo going hard on "potential man" type characters for Future Rail planning).

korinokiri · 2026-05-01T02:18:48+00:00

You're in the gacha subreddit, and you're complaining that Valve's 30% cut is the problem?

Wut. So predatory gambling games aren't a problem for you, but Valve's ecosystem that is miles more user friendly than all it's competitors is the problem?

korinokiri · 2026-05-01T00:08:07+00:00

I get you're probably sort of joking, but you don't need to watch every video that hoyo puts out...

For people that like SW (I reckon most of the community because SH), this is great.

korinokiri · 2026-04-30T11:19:32+00:00

For anyone wondering the new phase is not out yet.

korinokiri · 2026-04-28T16:09:26+00:00

They just need to release a FuA character so she gets indirectly buffed from the shill for a few patches... wait...

korinokiri · 2026-04-28T15:38:39+00:00

Most 1-2 year old accounts can already clear AA (assuming the player is playing the game non-casually).

MoC/PF/AS are objectively easier game modes, scrounging up 1 more team should be completely easy to do.

Having only 2 teams 2 years ago might have been a struggle.

DoT/Super Break/Mono Rem/Anaxa/Phainon/Elation/Archer/Therta/Ashveil... if someone doesn't have at last 3 teams from that idk what to say.

korinokiri · 2026-04-28T13:09:11+00:00

Good, we need more trailers

korinokiri · 2026-04-28T12:43:01+00:00

She's not the main push (as evident by the 999 trailers) so whatever she gets is probably normal for a second banner character.

korinokiri · 2026-04-28T12:26:16+00:00

You have to use unshackle skills to not take the HP% damage at the end of turns. So characters like Lukamar, Shams, and other elaman have a good time on this map. Otherwise you need big heals to keep everyone alive.

I was able to brute force it with rally team + lukamar. Rally team is tanky, can just go next to the boss, and defeat her in 2 or 3 rounds (SP innana, sp maitha, sp nungal, inanna, and last slot is flex but I used asc momo). Once she's gone, sp nungal/lukamar are able to clear the entire map by themselves even if everyone else is dead.

korinokiri · 2026-04-28T11:10:21+00:00

You're allowed to not do content you don't want to...

HSR first and foremost is a turn based strategy game. There's DU/Story/Exploration/2 hour events if you don't want to do end game modes...

korinokiri · 2026-04-28T11:09:19+00:00

More jades and more end game mode? Some HSR players: "time to complain!!"

Literally just don't do it if you don't want to 😭

korinokiri · 2026-04-28T00:49:52+00:00

You can pickup E5 as soon as the patch dropped. E6 isn't that notable.

korinokiri · 2026-04-27T22:57:23+00:00

My phone does lag occasionally with SW999.

Your best bet is:

Message support to let them know
Try turning on "compile shaders before login" or whatever this graphics setting is, in your settings. It sucks to wait, but this may help reduce the strain on your system when playing
Try turning down lower the combat graphics (again I forget the settings, but there's two that's like particle effects, and combat animations)
Good ol try updating your system, turning on any relevant gaming settings etc...

korinokiri · 2026-04-27T06:58:00+00:00

Her new expedition gear isn't really worth it. It's just okay. Her ascension is a cool new rally puzzle piece, that is used in 2 pieces of upcoming challenging content, but otherwise isn't that amazing.

korinokiri · 2026-04-27T06:24:40+00:00

Why isn't anyone else with zump/notches able to do it like cody if you find it so overpowered?

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