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 0. Combat Guide
 https://walkthrough.honkaiimpact3.com/article/show/48/6968	Essential
 https://walkthrough.honkaiimpact3.com/article/show/48/7310	Physical Damage
 https://walkthrough.honkaiimpact3.com/article/show/48/7711	Elemental Damage
 https://walkthrough.honkaiimpact3.com/article/show/48/6442	Total Damage
 
 1. The Game
 	1.i.	Versions
 	1.ii.	Rerolling
 	1.iii.	Characters
 	1.iv.	Gear
 	1.v.	Crystals
 	1.vi.	Spending
 	1.vii.	Endgame
 	1.viii.	Notes
 
 
 
 1. The Game
 	1.i. Versions
 	Pick whatever region is closest to your own for ping or active lobbies.  Simple option
 	is to install off of google play or the app store; if you want to play on computer,
 	NA/EU/SEA have native PC ports, or you can download the apk directly from the SEA site.
 
 		NA/EU:	https://honkaiimpact3.mihoyo.com/global/en-us
 		SEA:	https://honkaiimpact3.mihoyo.com/asia/en-us
 		*EU supposedly has the easiest PvE endgame due to low pop,
 		 but gl finding co-op lobbies.  Also, play SEA if you want to
 		 uncle-bad-touch the early valks.
 
 
 	1.ii. Rerolling
 	Don't.	With the first two dorm-gacha guarantees at 25 pulls, it really isn't worth it
 	anymore.  If you're a masochist, there are guides on youtube, it involves cycling guest
 	accounts and playing	the first chapter til you have 600-800 crystals.  If you really
 	want a powerful	start, buy an early game SN account.
 
 
 	1.iii. Characters
 	There are three different character rarities in the game: B, A, and S.  These are roughly
 	similar to other games R/SR/SSRs.  There is also a rock-paper-scissors type matchup, but
-		Characters (as of v4.5, ordered by base character)
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 	for fragments or by rolling the gacha.  Some S-rank characters can also be farmed by playing
 	the endgame boss time-attack known as memorial, but it's more of a marathon than a sprint.
 
 	Quick list follows - format is: Name (Abbreviation) / Base Character
 
 		Characters (as of v4.4, ordered by base character)
 		B-valks:
 			White Comet (WC) 				/ Kiana
 				Weak.  Like, really weak.  Mostly useless, but sees a little use
 				in higher level memorial due to her on-dodge SP battery and time
 				fracture.
 
 
 			Crimson Impulse (CI)				/ Mei
 				Useless.  First character you get from the tutorial gacha.
 				Isn't it sad, Mei?
 
 
 			Valkyrie Chariot (VC)				/ Bronya
 				Best of the B-ranks, solid single target damage dealer with a fast
 				dodge cooldown.  Ultimate has the big succ, great for gathering
 				wayward enemies for your dps to slaughter.
 
 
 			Battle Storm (BS)				/ Himeko
 				Abbreviation is apt.  Useless without specific gear, and then
 				only useful as a sword carrier, not a dps.
 
 
 		A-valks:
 
 			Valkyrie Ranger (VR/VD) 			/ Kiana
 				Weaker gatherer.  Semi-useless to start, then becomes one of the better
 				burst damage dealers with her augment, Void Drifter (hence the VR/VD)
 
 			Divine Prayer (DP)				/ Kiana
 				Healer/physical supporter.  While her ultimate heals, she's mostly
 				used for her off field "impair".  This condition applies every few
 				seconds when she's benched, letting a physical damage dealer do a
 				shitload more damage.  Very useful.
 
 
 			Valkyrie Bladestrike (VB/SFM)			/ Mei
 				Bad, but gets better with her augment, Striker Fulminata (SFM).  Base
 				VB sucks, since she knocks back enemies, but doesn't chase, roots while
-				augment later in 4.2 to Danzai Spectramancer, physical semi-support with
+
-				vastly improved dps.  Might be a good carrier for 70% impair Sky Breaker
+
-				as Danzai.
+
 
 			Shadow Dash (SD/DS)				/ Mei
 				Bad, but your only option for blue physical damage early on.  Will get an
 				augment later in 4.2 to Danzai Spectramancer, physical semi-support/dps.
 				Might be a good carrier for 70% impair Sky Breaker with augment.
 
 
 			Snowy Sniper (SS)				/ Bronya
 				Was once a meta damage dealer, but no longer.  Now, she's only used for
 				the damage malus on her ultimate.
 
 			Yamabuki Armor (YA/DK)				/ Bronya
 				Very useful, was meta before for her shield, and her augment, Drive
 				Kometa (DK) is still meta for her massive melee physical damage buffs
 				and gathering ultimate.  Team SP on shield block.  Get her to SS-rank
 				minimum.
 
 			Wolf's Dawn (WD)				/ Bronya
 				Awakened form of YA, shares some skills, but needs an increased number of
 				fragments to unlock.  Shield provides off-field elemental damage boost.  OK,
 				but a bitch to farm, and has lost a lot of ground in endgame.  SS-rank min
 				for any serious use, possible pass.
 
 
 			Valkyrie Triumph (VT)				/ Himeko
 				Bad.  Was meant to be a hybrid healer/physical supporter with her ultimate,
 				but lags behind badly these days.  Ultimate also costs way too damn much.
 
 			Scarlet Fusion (SF)				/ Himeko
 				Rhythm games, ahoy.  Mixed electric/physical damage, but still bad.
 
 			Arctic Kriegmesser (AK)				/ Himeko
 				Alt name: Polar Warblade.  Ice melee, subpar.  Has some use as a filler
 				character to carry debuffing greatswords.  Passive skill can add some
 				damage vs frozen/slowed enemies - bosses are usually immune.  Disable
 				her QTE and learn to dodge-cancel the switch skill.
 
 
 			Gyakushinn Miko (Miko)				/ Yae
 				Decent early physical damage dealer.  Awakened-type character, but you'll
 				be flush with her frags by playing Open World.  Falls off hard endgame.
 
 			Flame Sakitama (FS)				/ Yae
 				Only fire-type creature unit, so get used to her.  Awakened, can only be
 				acquired through open world missions or by spending asterite.  Needs SS
 				to be useful.  Only free valk that has type/elemental advantage vs Rimestar.
 
 			Darkbolt Jounin (DJ)				/ Yae (Kasumi)
 				Middling creature lightning elemental - needs SS, double Typhoons and LE - with
 				everything, she's p. good.  Excellent at killing Clocc Boi with a paralyze
 				nuke build.
 
 
 			Valkyrie Pledge (VP)				/ Theresa
 				Worlds Cutest.  Primarily a Judah carrier (5* lightning cross), demoted to
 				supporter endgame with specific gear.  All Theresa's are very cross reliant.
 
 			Sakuno Rondo (SR)				/ Theresa
 				SP-hungry fire damager, unfortunately weak, even with endgame equipment.
 
 			Luna Kindred (LK)				/ Theresa
 				Smashes enemies with a giant axe.  Unfortunately in a competitive niche, decent
 				but not	fantastic.  Easy to rank up, though, the second open world drowns you
 				in her frags.
 
 			Starlight Astrologos (SA)			/ Theresa (Zhuge)
 				Cannon wife.  First off-field QTE unit, super useful with varied on-hit support
 				stigs (JST/Newt B, etc.)  At a minimum, get her zither.  Mandatory support if you
 				have BKE.
 
 
 			Valkyrie Accipiter (VA/HotF)			/ Fu Hua
 				Shield debuff support base, when augmented becomes the second best lightning
 				damager in the game as Hawk of the Fog (HotF).  Full upgrade recommended.
 
 			Night Squire (NS)				/ Fu Hua
 				China numba-wan.  Best ST-creature physical damage dealer, works well with F2P
 				gear.  Fully upgrade.
 
 
 			Imayoh Ritual (IR)				/ Kallen
 				Awakened unit, mecha ST-melee physical with some I-frames.  Falls behind quickly.
 
 			Sundenjaeger (SJ)				/ Kallen
 				Another awakened mecha kallen, ranged physical this time.  Not too useful, since
 				she's a	field-hog, and most of the damage in this game comes from switching and
 				applying your supporter's debuffs - better now with SA's off-field support and the
 				changes to her sustained impair.
 
 
 			Umbral Rose (UR)				/ Rita
 				Solid psychic melee physical dps.  All Ritas need their gacha weapons.
 
 			Phantom Iron (PI)				/ Rita
 				Attempt at a mixed dps/supporter.  Needs all her gacha gear or she sucks, so,
 				generally not worth the crystal investment.  Can be used with WD to support an
 				elemental solo team.
 
 
 			Blueberry Blitz (BB)				/ Lilya
 				Perfect guard.  Fun, but Void Drifter steps on her toes.  Sometimes misses her
 				perfect ultimate due to knockback/low posture.  Needs Swan Lake to support MC/can
 				sort-of substitute with Aural Judgement and DXY [M] on qte rotation.  Can nuke AKA
 				in Memorial with Uriel PRI.
 
 
 			Swallowtail Phantasm (SP)			/ Seele
 				Only A-rank physical quantum type in the game, get used to playing her.  Usability
 				maxes out at SS-rank.  Can use SN's scythe.
 
 
 			Valkyrie Gloria (VG)				/ Durandal
 				First elemental quantum type, middling DPS and shockingly has good gear in the foundry.
-			Blazing Hope (BH)				/ Asuka Shikinami (Soryu is better)
+
-				Bio Phys with extra shield crack, similar to NS, but with added lance control skills.
+
-				Available only during 4.5, no frags will be available after the Evangellion collab, so
+
-				get her to SS minimum or be btfo forever - like Reifags.
+
 
 
 		S-valks:
 			Knight Moonbeam (KMB)				/ Kiana	/ Farmable / Egg 1
 				Useful for her on-demand timefracture and leader skill.  Gets an OP endgame support
 				pistol that can be farmed.  Can be picked from the first valkyrie egg.
 
 			Herrscher of the Void (HoV)			/ Kiana / Dorm Gacha (as of v3.7)
 				Original bullshit imba powercreep, hard countered by crabs in endgame abyss.  Needs
 				all her gacha gear or is seriously gimped.
 
 
 			Lighting Empress (LE)				/ Mei / Farmable / Egg 1
 				Great leader skill, mandatory lightning supporter, needs SS for secondary damage dealer
 				use.  Had a moment as a primo dps unit with her endgame PRI sword, but was quickly replaced
 				by HotF.  Isn't it sad, Mei?
 
 			Herrscher of Thunder (HoT)			/ Mei / Limited
 				Finally a Mei suit that isn't a bit of a joke or relegated to support.  Deals shitloads
 				of damage to mech units, but lacks the type mitigation that HoV and HoR have.  Really
 				wants the KoC.
 
 
 			Dimension Breaker (DB)				/ Bronya / Farmable / Egg 1
 				Was a mandatory supporter...2 years ago.  Can be fun, but isn't too critical to have
 				these days.
 
 			Black Nucleus (BN)				/ Bronya / Dorm Gacha
 				Also known as Xenodark Bronya.  First real whale-only character that was added to the
 				game, was used for single-shotting Memorial bosses at SS-SSS rank.  For fun only at
 				S-rank, even with her endgame PRI cannon.
 
 			Herrscher of Reason (HoR)			/ Bronya / Limited
 				Most recent do-all imba power-creep.  Needs her cannon at minimum, but will need 2pc
 				Welt in	endgame.  Slightly less imba due to current abyss boss selections.
 
 
 			Blood Rose (BR)					/ Himeko / Farmable / Egg 2
 				Strong single target fire DPS masochist.  Needs SS-rank, but has fallen off alot
 				lately.  Learn to turn off her ult after two/three windmill sequences.  Got a strong
 				buff with the release of Surtr PRI - might be worth it now.
 
 			Vermilion Knight (VK)				/ Himeko / Dorm Gacha (as of v4.2)
 				Fire AOE with lots of I-frames.  Has an abyss weather all her own - expect to demote
 				without her.  Semi-meta due to Mihoyo constantly spamming ice/bio weather.
 
 
 			Goushinnso Memento (GM)				/ Yae / Farmable / Egg 2
 				Ice bunny.  Great when the game came out, got worse, got buffed, got an endgame weapon,
 				still generally worse than HoR.  Still good with her PRI ice-stick against certain bosses
 				with a multi Newton [B] switch comp.  Needs SS-rank or you'll never have enough burst
 				charges.  All her endgame gear is now "farmable" if you're willing to suffer for 3pc Ana.
 
 
 			Violet Executer (VE/TP)				/ Theresa / Farmable
 				Cutest eviscerator.  Sucked for the longest time, got a core augment (Twilight Paladin).
 				Excellent ST-mecha physical dps.  Needs SS-rank, core 5.  Eats Jizo and DXY alive in
 				memorial/abyss.
 
 			Celestial Hymn (CH)				/ Theresa / Dorm Gacha
 				Critical physical supporter, especially with her endgame PRI weapon.  Impair and succ
 				on ultimate, impair on switch, and a number of damage passives.  Mandatory if you use
 				physical damage dealers (can replace with SA+DK w/Bri PRI^2).
 
 
 			Phoenix (PX)					/ Fu Hua / Farmable / Egg 2
 				Critical elemental supporter (supplanted in 3.7 by AE, but still the only good farmable
 				ele support.)  Good leader skill and provides sp pack support.  Needs SS-rank.  Get her
 				from Egg 2 (if she wasn't your dorm guarantee) and farm her.
 
 			Shadow Knight (SK)				/ Fu Hua / Dorm Gacha
 				Ora ora that used to solo Red Lotus abyss.  Has endgame gloves, but isn't super critical
 				to have.  Nice lead skill, though.  Murders AKA in Memorial.
 
 			Azure Empyrea (AE)				/ Fu Hua / Limited
 				Ink Fu Hua.  Gathers and applies a new damage multiplier, the power-creep version of
 				Phoenix for big dick elemental damage.  No SP pack drops though, so PX still has her
 				uses.  Needs Nebs at minimum for self SP gain.  Mandatory endgame due to bullshit
 				mob+boss stages fucking over PX due to lack of gather/root.
 
 
 			Sixth Seranade (6S)				/ Kallen / Farmable
 				Painful to rank up, but only good against mobs of enemies.  Tranquil PRI didn't save
 				her from the dustbin (the gather is nice tho.)
 
 
 			Argent Knight Artemis (AKA)			/ Rita / Limited
 				Ara ara and tits.  Solid damage output and constantly freezes enemies, but has no time-
 				fracture, so falls behind in time-attack stages like memorial.  Must have her scythe -
 				doubly so now, since Skadi PRI covers most of her weaknesses, and she's actually good now.
 
 			Fallen Rosemary (FR)				/ Rita / Battle Pass / Farmable
 				Quantum lightning semi-support type.  Similar function to BD+JST, but better for more
 				drawn out fights.  Made for the whale trifecta of HoT/AE/FR.  Gear and frags are currently
 				readily available through battlepass or	by spending resonators.  Get the scythe.
 
 
 			Molotov Cherry (MC/FTD)				/ Rozaliya / Dorm Gacha / Farmable
 				Was bad, did the fusion dance with Lilya, is now one of the strongest physical DPS units
 				as Fervent Tempo Delta (FTD.)  Can do quick, high damage rotations, and Michel [T+B] /
 				Ekat [M] work well and are farmable.  Really wants her PRI for forced activation of her
 				ult.  QTE still has succ, so she can still be used as a Blood Dance carrier without having
 				to switch off the core skills.
 
 
 			Stygian Nymph (SN)				/ Seele / Limited
 				Do-all semi-powercreep character.  AOE as light seele, ST as dark seele.  Released just
 				after Twilight Paladin (do you see a pattern here?)  Needs her scythe and full Allan Poe,
 				but is neutral to all enemies, so can brute force almost any abyss weather with proper
 				team composition.
 
 
 			Bright Knight Excelcius (BKE)			/ Durandal / Limited
 				Big goose.  AOE Physical mecha DPS, but hogs the field, so needs SA and full Dante/Dirac/
 				Zorro for the 3pc impair effect to be comparable to TP/SN.  Can skip boss phases by spiking
 				them.  Dem jiggle physics.
 
 			Dea Anchora (DA)				/ Durandal / Limited
 				<insert Saint Seiya reference here>  New memorial/abyss stomper for rimestar.  Fire Bio, so
 				no real meta alternatives, since FS's kit is so old.  Whalebait, like BKE - really wants her
 				full gear, everything else is a 25-40% drop off.
 
 
 		*Note: Just because a character isn't a do-all or fantastic dps, doesn't mean they have no uses.  Except
 		 CI Mei.
 
 
 
 	1.iv. Gear
 	Too much to list, but to be brief, all characters can be equipped with four types of gear: 1 weapon,
 	and 3 stigmata pieces ([T]op, [M]iddle, [B]ottom)  When a character is released, they generally get a
 	bespoke set of equipment designed for them.  Until later releases powercreep them, this gear is usually
 	the absolute best choice for them - at the very least, their motif weapons are nearly mandatory.  You
 	can mix and match if you don't have a character's full set, but you lose out on the set-completion synergy
 	bonuses.  Essentially, read the stigmata texts in the ingame encyclopedia, and look for similar effects on
 	farmable gear.  Cross-link to a quick overview of the gear you can grind for: https://pastebin.com/UWgvPnZs
 
 
 	1.v. Crystals
 	The jewish lifeblood of the game.  General income breakdown is as follows:
 
 		F2P:
 		Dalies:				    40/day					280/wk
 		Weekly Login:			    						100/wk
 		Armada Member:				    					25/wk
 		Memorial Bosses:				    				100/wk
 		Abyss (pre-lv81, bi-weekly, more if you promote, less if you relegate)
 			Forbidden		    80/cycle					160/wk
 			Sinful			    180/cycle					360/wk
 			Agony			    260/cycle					520/wk
 			Red Lotus		    420/cycle					840/wk
 		Battle Pass:		    480/patch(45d avg)					~74/wk
 
 		Paid Options:
 		Monthly Crystal Card:		60/day+1330/mo					~730/wk
 		Battle Pass:		    680/patch (45d avg)					~105/wk
 		Top Up:			As much as you can spend, baby
 
 	So, assuming Agony retention and buying the monthly card and battle pass,
 	average income is ~8000/4wk.  This isn't counting events or first clear
 	stage bonuses.  F2Pers get about ~4500/4wk with agony retention.
 
 	If you can swing the ~11.5usd/month, it might be worth it to get the monthly card and/or
 	battle pass (imo, knight pass is best.)  Assuming you login every day (do NOT miss a day,)
 	monthly card gives 3130 total crystals (330 on purchase, 60/day for 30 days, 500/15
 	days login- if you miss a day, you WILL lose the second 500)  Passes can stack, so you
 	can buy multiple for the 330 crystal bonus if you need it RIGHT THE FUCK NOW - the
 	length of active time will be increased by 30 days with each purchase, you still get
 	only 60 crystal/day.
 
 	Battle Pass comes in three flavors, F2P, Knight (Minnow), and Paladin (Dumb Whale).
 	These passes give assorted items, crystals, and a special currency (Lucion,)
 	that can be used to purchase specific older gacha gear.  This currency doesn't
 	expire, so you can save it up until something you want is in the shop.
 
 		Notable Battle Pass Rewards:
 			F2P:
 				480 Crystals
 				2 Purple Lucion + 2 Purple Lucion/patch from Dormitory Shop
 			Knight (in addition to above):
 				680 Crystals
 				520 Stigmata Resonators
 				8 Purple Lucion (12/patch total, so 1.5 gacha stigmatas)
 				Shit-tons of A-rank frags
 				Fallen Rosemary Frags (v4.2-4.6)
 				2.5 lv of pass/0.5 lv of bravo points per week
 			Paladin (in addition to above):
 				+20lv worth of pass EXP
 				+10lv worth of bravo EXP
 				3.5 lv of pass/0.7 lv of bravo points per week
 
 	Note: If you want to buy the pass post v4.2, make certain to buy it early in the season.
 	MiHoJew removed the overflow rewards post lv50 and added a 4 patch point ladder (bravo points)
 	- knight+ gets bonus points per week towards this - this new system also serves to fuck you
 	over if you don't play and have to buy the Paladin upgrade to finish the pass.
 
 	Also, new colored Lucion is designed to fuck over F2Ps, since you can only get 16 of them without
 	buying a pass before they rotate out in 4 patches.
 
 	Essentially, get monthly card to save for limited valkyries, and/or the battle pass
 	to fill out your gear collection.
 
 
 
 	1.vii. Spending
 
 	Save your fucking gems starting out.  It costs 28,000 to guarantee a new S-rank,
 	and while the guarantee carries over to the next banner, you'll have a far better
 	time if you have the newest powercreep.  Later in the game (lv 80+,) you can be a
 	bit profligate, but without a solid base, it's going to suck.
 
 	This does not apply to the first 25-pulls in dorm gacha, though.  Get your 2x guaranteed
 	S-ranks from that (either by gems or by the dorm cards they throw at you as a new player,)
 	then consider buying one or both Land of Wishes Eggs from the bonus tab.  Do NOT do land
 	of wishes first - duplicate S-ranks only give a fraction of their value back, make sure
 	you know what your guaranteed dorm S-ranks are before buying those eggs.
 
 		Valks Available in Land of Wishes
 		LoW 1 Egg:
 			Knight Moonbeam / KMB:	On call dodge, which is nice.  Super useful with
 						PRI Railguns, but you'll probably have time to
 						farm her before lv. 80+
 
 			Lightning Empress / LE:	Mandatory for HotF usage, big starting battery,
 						best choice early-on.
 
 			Dimension Breaker / DB:	Avoid, unless you magic both KMB and LE from the
 						dorm gacha.
 
 		LoW 2 Egg:
 			Blood Rose / BR: 	Single target fire dps, but needs SS-rank and
 						PRI Surtr.  Avoid unless you get PX from dorm.
 
 			Goshinnso Memento / GM:	Good with her ice stick, shit without it.  Needs
 						SS-rank/Schro T to do damage.  Avoid early game.
 
 			Phoenix / PX:		No Brainer.  Get her here, then farm 100-frags from
 						memorial.  Best all-purpose elemental supporter til
 						3.7, and still the only farmable one.
 
 	After getting your S-ranks, never spend on the dorm gacha again.  You get 2 dorm tickets
 	per month as an armada member/3 per patch from errands, be satisfied with that.  Focus on
 	getting your DPS good gear instead - don't bother trying for support
 	gear until you have a perfect dps setup, it isn't worth it.
 
 	NOTE: Above is slightly off now - with the rise of dual use sets like Shuijing and the addition
 	of competitive damage stigs to bounty as G2-G3 items, your new focus should be on the motif weapon
 	for your DPS (to unlock the new OP PRI arms MiHoYo is shilling each patch, and since most bounty
 	weapons currently suck, barring PRI arm precursors,) and T1 support valks like AE, CH, YA/DK, SA, etc.
 	Lv81+ abyss is mechanically designed to punish you, (e.g. spreading mobs on elemental boost floors that
 	need AE to gather,) if you don't have a rounded roster of support units.
 
 
 
 	1.vii. Endgame
 	Abyss and Memorial are the two PvE endgame modes - most of your crystals will come from Abyss
 	after you deplete the story stages, and all of your S-rank farming is done in memorial.  Learn
 	to cruise Youtube/Bilibili for whales flexing on Memorial bosses and try to mimic with what you
 	have.  Search for "崩坏3" to find chinese tryhards - you can infer alot by watching their
 	memorial/abyss runs.
 
 	Don't get sucked in to the idea that you need one more piece of equipment to be good.  This game
 	needs a deep roster of gear for the endgame, blowing out for one piece of gear is moronic.  Except
 	Newton [B] - buy at least two/three from the resonator shop when you have enough currency - never
 	roll for it.
 
 
 
 	1.viii. Notes
 	Links are in the thread header - use them.
 	EXP boosters are a trap - never use them.
 	Join an armada (Play the Sim Battle, you lazy faggots.)
 	Do your fucking cadet missions.
 	You Lost, see line 1.