Here are some additional details based on common questions in the comments: 1. If type-disadvantaged, the gold number will not appear, however, you can still crit. 2. "Vulnerability" description - this is the exact same pool as common debuffs. So for example, Positron Blasters will add with Shuijing bottom. 3. Impair cannot stack, they replace each other. However, Herrscher of Sentience is a special case, her ultimate cannot be replaced by any impair. 4. Just re-iterating... There's no snapshotting in this game.
About Senti, many people use Gluttony T, Meipool M, Newton B as support. I find it really weird since Senti lineup doesn't do much rotation (her ulti duration is hella long). Is her ultimate can reapply stigmata's effect as long as her burst mode still on or something? Or did they made an oopsie? On that note, I use Tesla Band T Beethoven MB for supporting lineup for BKE support. Since BKE has burst mode, is Beeth 2-set effect from Senti can buff BKE burst attack? The description is melee not basic attack. I apologize for asking too many questions... it's just that I've been asking myself this question for so long and no other streamer ever brought this topic (it's always beta stuff and score testing with expensive gear)
Wait, so HoS impair can't stack with CH impair? then what happens if I use CH impair after HoS impair, will the CH debuff just fizzles out? Thanks for the lecture Keeby!
"Your crit rate is reduced a small amount though." is this still community speculation or do we know the details to this crit rate reduction? Also, you said retaliation is the same as UE, but it (should) also includes FT/BB EX ult parries. Overall a solid explanation. The only thing I think I would have added is more detail in the section about shield damage scaling. Example, all shields (aside from hit shields) take more damage from heavy attacks. The new elemental boss shields also gain shield damage multipliers like from DK field and VA skills. As well as added shield damage affixes etc. There is also the DMG against shields multi, I don't actually know much about it, but there are a few sources like Shui M and CH SS and SS.2 rank skills. I don't really know the difference and really don't want to be the one to test it. Shield damage will probably remain to be poorly understood. (rightfully so).
@@kutukan2219 yes to both And to add to the first one, some valk or weapon can reapply stigs from standby, like CH, SA, HoS, HB, danzai ulti. For weapon it's kikaku, briaeus pri arm, dark star and kometa's signature laser (forgot the name) actives
Honkai is by far and away the one game where I know exactly what I'm personally doing but if you ask me to explain HOW I'm doing it, I'll just end up staring at you blankly
Finally, a comprehensive explainer on honkai's meta. I was frustrated trying to teach the combat to a new player (coming from genshin), bec while they have these kinds of damage guides everywhere in the genshin community, it was hard for me to find ones for honkai. New and old players alike will benefit from this.
I think part of this is that Honkai’s community is so much small, but yeah, I played Honkai before Genshin and I still don’t completely understand Honkai’s damage system.
Yeah it’s because Honkai's community is smaller than Genshin's, that’s why there aren’t that many guides about it. It was still disheartening though. I came from Genshin as well and have been playing since the Honkai X Genshin collab, and I still don’t understand how to build up my team and which supports to use with the DPS, etc.
@@themustardman219 i could say the same about genshin, use shield and attack them until they die, genshin is that easy, and with reactions that have dmg multiplier makes it more easy
@@unknownrsn9122 well, in Genshin every character always has the equivalent of a weapon skill, and don't do that much damage, so it's harder to kill enemies.
FINALLY someone made this video, We really need this for new or even older player. I've been playing this game for about a year but still don't know how damage works
Genshin: big numbers, big dmg, monke brain activate Honkai: whatever this video just explained :v Edit: holy shit why are there 101 replies, I’m scared to read them 💀
@@masterace9543 genshin is more simple because it IS successor, kinda impossible to change something been built for years without completely rebuild it from ground up
genshin actually uses the same system down to the multiplier part, though honkai is older, therefore a lot more types get added and a lot more mechanics (basic/charged/ranged/melee) gets exploited. Genshin also doesn't have the true multiplier (those undiluted multiplier) yet afaik, but who knows if they decided to add, or already did that (these multipliers existed since GK, and we only recently discovered when lwh was released, to give a viewpoint).
i used to be a meta slave so i searched for these game knowledge. back then it was 3c explaining these thing but as time goes by, mihoyo add more mechanics and 3c quit the game. thank you for making the updated version of game knowledeg. for me, the hardest and challenging part of the game is execution of each valkyries skills. timing is the key to get high score.
Same here! Got interested playing this year and binged-watch all of 3c's videos. It was really hard to find resources on how things worked but Keeby here made a perfect summary of it, even the things I didn't know! God bless this man
I gave Honkai a shot recently but I stopped playing after two weeks, mostly due to information overload. There are too many curriencies and too many shops, too many weirdly placed missions with hard to find rewards for collection, too many game modes with too many different storylines... I just felt lost. Perhaps if i were playing since launch I'd understand more, but right now getting into this game seems like something my small brain can't handle.
that's fine, it took me around 3 tries before i finally got comfortable with honkai's ui and started at least somewhat understanding what the hell was going on. it definitely feels overwhelming as hell in the beginning though
this is very relatable. i abandoned the game in just few days after it was introduced to me by my brother. then now, more than 2 years later, i tried playing it again lol
Putting everything visually into little “pools” helped me understand it a lot better than the raw damage formula from the wiki. I finally understand damage now. Thanks!
This was really informative thanks, learned something new with the "after exit" affix. All this time I've been hard switching characters to get the buff lol, Thanks Keeb!
Thanks Keeb, that answers most of the questions a new player may (and hopefully does) have. The only thing missing imo (and the only thing that's still not always clear to me) is some comment about melee/ranged tags themselves. Usually it's pretty obvious, but as far as I remember there used to be some weird cases and some stuff counts neither as melee nor ranged.
This is actually a very hard topic and it's extremely counter-intuitive at times, and its definitely not something you can intuitively define at all, but just know by case by case basis. For example Starlit Astrologos QTE and ultimate is treated as melee for some reason. Why is this Mihoyo? Not even I know.
Thanks for this incredibly detailed explanation! Coming from Genshin I was shocked learning that total damage multipliers use a different pool, and also that elemental damage can't crit (I don't have any elemental Valk yet so I didn't notice). This cleared up a lot of misconceptions ("on exit" *cough*) and grey areas.
It still gives me a smile to have so much complexity of mechanics in a gacha game. Go back a small pile of years, and "mobile game" was a nice way of saying "whale bait that'll drink you dry and give you nothing in return before shutting down in a year or so."
I think something that can easily be forgotten especially with those gear comparisons is that maximizing damage isn't everything, especially if stigmata have other benefits like the SP from Zhenyi Top.
It's mostly depend on the type of boss. If the boss can be quickly burst down without different phase and mechanic. Then max burst dps is better. But for boss that require a long fight. Then ulltility might work better
As a casual (Ranks up and down from Abyss / Red lotus) this is really appreciated, even if I'm already following it, just in case I mess up putting same multipliers (faster clears = more time Irl, on GI & AK) Same with Mobius guide, thanks; oh and nice editing, the memes were on point (Specially that intro... "Click this link to know it" while wasting 3 minutes dancing)
Video started. Show those iceberg thing. "Hmm i think i can understand a little bit. im used to play that other game, this is not really complicated" Keeby : CRT doesn't mean Crit rate/Cdmg "well shit, i think i know nothing" and also those explanation about debuff is what i needed the most. I mean, beside actual direct buff to dmg dealer valkyrie, those complicated debuff thing is somehow i need to understand for my progress, and maybe its like genshin, that specific buff like ice/fire/lightning dmg is similar to elemental dmg bonus on goblet?? Anyway, thanks to bring this content up. I used to play meta/minmaxing on genshin, then i feel bored because spiral abyss will reset every 2 weeks, usually learning some mobs pattern on F12 but then again get bored to have replaying the same content, with different team comp to experimenting on how my unit perform with new or existing meta team comp. Glad to be part of honkai player too, just playing about 2 weeks and hit lv 54 is like a long way from lv 1, and a long journey to conquer those lv 80 with bunch of "real hard content" and soon will getting understand on how those hundred of stigmata works and their combination between one and another to make bigger dmg output.
ive been wondering wtf is up with all these different types of damage/debuffs since I started playing and this helped me understand it a bit better, thanks keeb
Tysm for this, I just started about a month ago and although I'm familiar with similar mechanics of damage multipliers in other games like Path of Exile, you never know how things work in a new game 'til you go delve deep into it yourself. Saved me a bunch of time and explained/verified what I already felt intuitively from progressing in Elysian Realm, and why certain builds (especially when you get Kevin's Breach) made some bosses feel SO much better.
I just breakthrough and I never knew how DMG was calculated lol. There are some useless 3 pieces set effects and now I think I should replace them Really useful video , much appreciated ❤️
when u said it's gonna be disorganized video, turns out you explained it in a very well structured manner. Very nice job & thanks a lot for this guide! it really helps me as a new player!
Thank you so much for this! I feel like whenever I look up a guide, I see the same advice being rehashed but very few guide-makers give a mathematical justification for why exactly I need to forsake all my earthy possessions to eg. HoS. Seeing all the buffs and debuffs reflected in the damage formula is a lot more informative and convincing than "this valk with these gears gets top scores"
the Beethoven "Heavy weapon" thingy: Heavy is the weapon type for Bronya, since "Cannon" are the 3 rockets, and have the missile and laser variants. =V
It would have porbably been much easier for all of us if the "Retaliation" was simply called "Parry" because that is what it refers to. Most of the time at least; on-burst BKE kinda force the parry to happen but oh well.
Thank you. I love you. when I first started 4 months ago, I asked this exact question, and I was linked to the glossary of terms pae on the wiki. It did not help at all. I had to find most of this myself. Thank you, again.
This video should be essential learning in every school. Using full musician on a fire dps should be a crime. And the number of times I've seen FT with Dirac MB 🤢
Iirc half of the effect of dirac M still works because ult is ult, but it won't get the TDM increase/sec. So that kinda makes sense. But yes, Musician on dps is a crime.
@@Riku_nkmr Only the initial swing of her ult will benefit, not fervent mode, so Dirac M disappears. Assuming you got a dodge to proc the 2pc (FT sometimes doesn't get to dodge since shieldbreak = ez CC), all that is left is 55% physical and 31% TDM if we throw in a Jingwei T. Compare this to the classic Jingwei Marco Lier setup. Even without combo for Marco the damage after the big ult slash is lower on Dirac. Keep in mind the cost of both sets. Edit: I forgot to factor in the 13.5 % TDM over 9 seconds which does seem to work on non-burst characters based on the description. It still isn't enough even if you extend fervent mode past the default 6 seconds.
@@amogusamogos - F2P Friendliest (Marco M mvp) Jingwei Marco Lier - Cheapest, decent, non-event exclusive option. Keep 100% hp, DK shield makes this easier, sub in Marco T for multi-target Rebel Blades TB Marco M - Event exclusive. Roughly same performance as above but isn't restricted to fighting one enemy Michelangelo TB Marco M - Slightly better than Jingwei Marco Lier. I used to use this then transmuted it into Dirac when I got Shuijing - The actually good stuff Elysia TB + your best M piece - Pretty much the best pick at this point. From what I've seen, the best M piece varies with the boss: Shuijing for shieldbreaking Kallen, Mei M for nuking but if you have everything else in order, the difference is marginal at best... Ellie stigs gears BB, Ellie and BKE to various extents as well. Fittingly, the most expensive build here. Shuijing - Use fullset most of the time. Competitive with Elysia. Still worth getting both if you want your SA to have her gear for SSS Jizo while FT can have gear for whatever else. Also gears SA and situationally CH and BB. Kafka TM Mich/Lier/Elysia B - Kafka will be craftable v5.2, however Elysia set > Kafka set. Columbus TM Mich/Elysia B - Potentially better Kafka. Equal TDM, trades 20% phys for 30% CDMG. That said I wouldn't actively hunt this, it's a luxury pick and might produce the same result. Respectable results that warrant at least mentioning the set. Dickens - Paired with Sleeping Beauty in gacha. Just exchange for SB or SL. Dickens 2pc doesn't buff ult, 3pc doesn't even buff damage. SP regen from B piece is only noticeable in extended fights like abyss but HoS evade makes it redundant. M piece can be used with Ellie TB at least. Ellie TB also replaced Dickens TB on BB.
Wow,this was super informative! I came from genshin and started playing back in May,and I had no idea there was this many different multipliers at work! Thank you for this video!
I started the game 2 days ago and it felt like all the gear descriptions had a lore to them as well... Thanks for this. I got AE twice and her weapon by just sheer luck and was thinking of going all elemental dmg but I think her kit becomes much more important with end-game enemies? Still, she's dealing more dmg than my dps rn lmao
Wow congrats dude, AE is one of the best if not the best elemental damage support and most valuablye valk for your account. Thats a very good start and welcome to honkai.
remeber when schrod T, planc M, and nweton B on miko is the best for reach 100k+ dmg in singgle hit and the player need to maually count the proc time of chrod T? yeah its a good old day. and judah OP
I've been playing this game for 4 years, with breaks in between, and I didn't know jackshit about any of these. Thanks for making this vid for educating me :D
Why did I just watch this, I button mash & use recommended stigs & gear, I don’t know wtf I’m doing but I’m having fun. I think I started off the video thinking “I’m going to start playing SMART!” and then there was an equation and the next thing I knew the video was over. I’m sure this video is very helpful to a lot of people though, so good on you for making it.
A good rule of thumb that I keep in mind for damage calculation is; Similar damage types are additive while different damage types are multiplicative. Kinda funny how I slowly learned most of the interactions and the game mechanics in honkai over the course of 3 years of play. But there is still a lot that I can learn. I'd be lying if I didn't think of great swords when heavy weapon is mentioned. I Also thought that breach worked differently, I thought 10% breach on a 90% resistant target would only shave 9%(10%of90). So its actually stronger than what I thought. With different attack types, one that really piques my interest is DP divine penalty. It's the only attack that doesn't trigger stig effects like newt B when it deals damage.
After all that explaining instead of feeling confused i feel excited is it my gamer instinct accelerating? Great video btw the iceberg was really easy to understand.
Personaly, Shujing & Dickens are the most suitable for Delta in both MA and Abyss. However, you can draft Top & bot Mich, mid Marco Polo for free. Kafka is also a good choice for you.
1:33 Ah yes the beauty of 3 Newton Still, some of the fact in this vid mind blown me out and i've been play this game since when people still say that 3rd sacred relic was top meta.
Genshin impact: get a artifact set some crit damage and crit rate a good weapon and do big damage Honkai impact: *has to get master degree of understanding damage in honkai*
😎teri, well honestly I'm having a hard time understanding it! but most of the part I did understand. thank you for this I'll be rewatching this again and probably again and again. thank you KEEBS. you really are god of F2P. I love ur vids,. and more power to your channel. 🙂👍
14:44 By "22%", you mean "1.02^10 - 1 ~= 21.9%", right? This is the most surprising infomation for me, I thought it would go with the trend and be additive to itself while being multiplied to the other group.
I have played honkai for weeks but I been playing genshin for a year I can see all these being so hard to get but as am familiar with everything in genshin and done a lot of one shot by playing with elemental mastery + support + artifact buffs resistance shred and more from all that knowledge it helps a lot to understand this video and i think i know enough to start building a character properly
Great guide! I started playing the game this week, so all the help is really apreciate. I was wondering, is there any video showing what to do and what not? Like for example expending primogems on the permanent banner in genshin impact. The game has so many events and currencies so i kind of confuse
I have a new player guide in my channel you can check out, I hope it answers most of your questions, if not you can leave another comment asking anything specific th-cam.com/video/RLYOgFf01V0/w-d-xo.html
The thing with this game is if you want to learn the meta you need to do tons of reading. Here you not only have stats, skills and effects for valkyries but also stats, skills and effects for weapons. And you have the ELFs who also have their own stats, skills and effects (well if you're F2P you will most likely only have two). Then of course the stigmatas with their own stats and effects and you can "refine" them to add even more stats. Even the stages and game modes have their own status effects. I've been playing for two and a half years now and I can definitely say it's not as simplistic as Genshin Impact is. Thankfully I'm happy being a casual
The fact that this has to be made makes me realize how needlessly complex some aspects of the game is. Especially all those lower iceberg stuff. Though still not as complex as Azur Lane's AA damage calculation.
i just started playing honkai, and i think i will come back to this video very often, i'm happy that someone toke their time to explain such complicated mechanics! So thank you so much!
thanks man, I started honkai about 2 weeks back and i was pretty confused about everything, well this vid was a bit confusing at first but , after i took a notebook and pen to note down each detail, it makes much more sense.
People say it's complicated but I rather like the complexity. Makes it harder for normies to infiltrate. Look what's happening with Genshin which is super normie friendly. Also, if you're a gamer and you can't handle this level of complexity, you ain't really a gamer. 1:38 And wow, that build makes me feel pain.
dude i started to play this game at 2020 and i still need to see a lot of tips like this video, this game is so complicated lol. thx for the vid btw, very helpfull :D
Man i try to pay attention but i always lose focus at some point. I'll watch this one minute a day until i eventually get it. Thanks for this man, even just the stuff in the first 3 minutes already feels useful.
Whew, that was really helpful. Not sure I can get to figuring out my own builds yet (esp as I don't know what a lot of the stigmata do, which are best used in sets or as individual pieces, etc.) but that'll definitely help me understand why something is good in a particular scenario or not. Thanks a lot!
FINALLY! T.T) thank you, theres so much wording in honkai, but have similar effect.. now im almost starting to get it(EHE..) like breach, just hearing that word after elysian realm cause i dont have empryea and finally get it why she's so valuable
I expect this video will get tons of views since mostly this video will be shoved into newbie face whenever they ask about multipliers in honkai discord help channel =)) btw nice explanation Keebs
for newbies like me, everything is overwhelming, from the UID, Different currency, Materials, Damage, equipment but thanks for explaining now I know how to damage
Thanks for this! It's probably the only thing I understand about Honkai now, but I still love the game and really want to understand more about how to play it well/efficiently.
Here are some additional details based on common questions in the comments:
1. If type-disadvantaged, the gold number will not appear, however, you can still crit.
2. "Vulnerability" description - this is the exact same pool as common debuffs. So for example, Positron Blasters will add with Shuijing bottom.
3. Impair cannot stack, they replace each other. However, Herrscher of Sentience is a special case, her ultimate cannot be replaced by any impair.
4. Just re-iterating... There's no snapshotting in this game.
About Senti, many people use Gluttony T, Meipool M, Newton B as support. I find it really weird since Senti lineup doesn't do much rotation (her ulti duration is hella long). Is her ultimate can reapply stigmata's effect as long as her burst mode still on or something? Or did they made an oopsie?
On that note, I use Tesla Band T Beethoven MB for supporting lineup for BKE support. Since BKE has burst mode, is Beeth 2-set effect from Senti can buff BKE burst attack? The description is melee not basic attack.
I apologize for asking too many questions... it's just that I've been asking myself this question for so long and no other streamer ever brought this topic (it's always beta stuff and score testing with expensive gear)
Wait, so HoS impair can't stack with CH impair? then what happens if I use CH impair after HoS impair, will the CH debuff just fizzles out?
Thanks for the lecture Keeby!
"Your crit rate is reduced a small amount though." is this still community speculation or do we know the details to this crit rate reduction?
Also, you said retaliation is the same as UE, but it (should) also includes FT/BB EX ult parries.
Overall a solid explanation. The only thing I think I would have added is more detail in the section about shield damage scaling.
Example, all shields (aside from hit shields) take more damage from heavy attacks.
The new elemental boss shields also gain shield damage multipliers like from DK field and VA skills.
As well as added shield damage affixes etc.
There is also the DMG against shields multi, I don't actually know much about it, but there are a few sources like Shui M and CH SS and SS.2 rank skills.
I don't really know the difference and really don't want to be the one to test it. Shield damage will probably remain to be poorly understood. (rightfully so).
@@kutukan2219 yes to both
And to add to the first one, some valk or weapon can reapply stigs from standby, like CH, SA, HoS, HB, danzai ulti. For weapon it's kikaku, briaeus pri arm, dark star and kometa's signature laser (forgot the name) actives
@@alonestillalive BB/Delta parries does not included. Most notable difference is, their parry doesn't cost ultimate evasion skill. That much is clear
It feels like i understood everything, yet nothing at the same time. Thanks keeby!
Feel like school am I right
Same! I kinda got all he said, but it's way to much to actually remember and apply O.o Much less to actually calculate any of this.
Exactly lmao
@@tompossessed1729 Hahahahaha 😂😂😂.
Too many information to store inside my smol brain
Honkai is by far and away the one game where I know exactly what I'm personally doing but if you ask me to explain HOW I'm doing it, I'll just end up staring at you blankly
Ngl this is a mood
LOL too much information....
This is me and I'm scared because my friend might start Honkai soon and I told them they can ask me when they don't know stuff
Me with anything in life
So basically, to master this game, you have to remember every Stigma in the game
Lmao, exactly what I was thinking.
And trying to get those stigmas are a whole different can of worms.
Actually, just learn to read
except social stigma
@@lifdrazor actually yeah
@@lifdrazor Unfortunately yes
I’ve been playing Honkai for almost 3 years now, but this is the only time I fully understand what those terms mean, thanks Keeby, really helpful
wish i played earlier
I just copy lineup in top bracket and watch some yt, ez RL retain
@@shijou2867 don’t worry, just take your time and enjoy the game :)
@@heyking8583 yeah, I sometimes do that for MA, RL retain is now easier for me too :)
@@heyking8583 Same lol. I rarely do my own rotations, let alone lineup.
Finally, a comprehensive explainer on honkai's meta. I was frustrated trying to teach the combat to a new player (coming from genshin), bec while they have these kinds of damage guides everywhere in the genshin community, it was hard for me to find ones for honkai. New and old players alike will benefit from this.
I think part of this is that Honkai’s community is so much small, but yeah, I played Honkai before Genshin and I still don’t completely understand Honkai’s damage system.
Yeah it’s because Honkai's community is smaller than Genshin's, that’s why there aren’t that many guides about it. It was still disheartening though. I came from Genshin as well and have been playing since the Honkai X Genshin collab, and I still don’t understand how to build up my team and which supports to use with the DPS, etc.
You could just say "attack them and dodge right when you're about to get attacked". That's the most basic thing and it works.
@@themustardman219 i could say the same about genshin, use shield and attack them until they die, genshin is that easy, and with reactions that have dmg multiplier makes it more easy
@@unknownrsn9122 well, in Genshin every character always has the equivalent of a weapon skill, and don't do that much damage, so it's harder to kill enemies.
Been playing Honkai for close to 300+ days now and wow I still didn’t understand most of these terms. thanks for your hard work again keeby! :)
Wow hi zKodle 😅👍
wow. zkodla actually study the mechanism of honkai
Heh, that's cute. I've been playing for 1182 days and I still know even less. ;-;
So, you ready for some ex abyss/Ma now?
FINALLY someone made this video, We really need this for new or even older player. I've been playing this game for about a year but still don't know how damage works
Noob numbers, I've been playing for 3 years and I didn't know more than half of the stuff in the vid! XD
@@animejuggernaut2553 yo same 😂
@@masterace9543 Fellow vet who's mostly in it for the story and cute waifus? ^.^
Genshin: big numbers, big dmg, monke brain activate
Honkai: whatever this video just explained :v
Edit: holy shit why are there 101 replies, I’m scared to read them 💀
Kinda sucks the made it simple for genshin but not it's predecessor
@@masterace9543 genshin is more simple because it IS successor, kinda impossible to change something been built for years without completely rebuild it from ground up
@AndryCraft 98 *laughs nervously*
genshin actually uses the same system down to the multiplier part, though honkai is older, therefore a lot more types get added and a lot more mechanics (basic/charged/ranged/melee) gets exploited. Genshin also doesn't have the true multiplier (those undiluted multiplier) yet afaik, but who knows if they decided to add, or already did that (these multipliers existed since GK, and we only recently discovered when lwh was released, to give a viewpoint).
i just throw random bullshit in both game until the enemy dies
i used to be a meta slave so i searched for these game knowledge. back then it was 3c explaining these thing but as time goes by, mihoyo add more mechanics and 3c quit the game.
thank you for making the updated version of game knowledeg.
for me, the hardest and challenging part of the game is execution of each valkyries skills. timing is the key to get high score.
Same here! Got interested playing this year and binged-watch all of 3c's videos. It was really hard to find resources on how things worked but Keeby here made a perfect summary of it, even the things I didn't know!
God bless this man
3C succesor
I miss him.... His battlesuit guide is very comprehensive
i wonder if 3c just quit making honkai content or also quit playing the game itself
@@satyayana1399 he says he still follow the story
I gave Honkai a shot recently but I stopped playing after two weeks, mostly due to information overload. There are too many curriencies and too many shops, too many weirdly placed missions with hard to find rewards for collection, too many game modes with too many different storylines... I just felt lost. Perhaps if i were playing since launch I'd understand more, but right now getting into this game seems like something my small brain can't handle.
That's okay
Every new Honkai players ever xD
that's fine, it took me around 3 tries before i finally got comfortable with honkai's ui and started at least somewhat understanding what the hell was going on. it definitely feels overwhelming as hell in the beginning though
this is very relatable. i abandoned the game in just few days after it was introduced to me by my brother. then now, more than 2 years later, i tried playing it again lol
Yeah they really need to rework the whole system, way too much going on
Putting everything visually into little “pools” helped me understand it a lot better than the raw damage formula from the wiki. I finally understand damage now. Thanks!
This was really informative thanks, learned something new with the "after exit" affix. All this time I've been hard switching characters to get the buff lol, Thanks Keeb!
Lol, me too
Same same lol
Thanks Keeb, that answers most of the questions a new player may (and hopefully does) have. The only thing missing imo (and the only thing that's still not always clear to me) is some comment about melee/ranged tags themselves. Usually it's pretty obvious, but as far as I remember there used to be some weird cases and some stuff counts neither as melee nor ranged.
This is actually a very hard topic and it's extremely counter-intuitive at times, and its definitely not something you can intuitively define at all, but just know by case by case basis. For example Starlit Astrologos QTE and ultimate is treated as melee for some reason. Why is this Mihoyo? Not even I know.
@@TheKeebster does HoF counts as melee or range...?
@@zzaaarr Yes.
@@zzaaarr black hole attack is ranged, sword attack is melee.
Thanks for this incredibly detailed explanation! Coming from Genshin I was shocked learning that total damage multipliers use a different pool, and also that elemental damage can't crit (I don't have any elemental Valk yet so I didn't notice). This cleared up a lot of misconceptions ("on exit" *cough*) and grey areas.
Since just3c, this is the only basic mechanic guide in honkai iirc. Nice job man
It still gives me a smile to have so much complexity of mechanics in a gacha game. Go back a small pile of years, and "mobile game" was a nice way of saying "whale bait that'll drink you dry and give you nothing in return before shutting down in a year or so."
I think something that can easily be forgotten especially with those gear comparisons is that maximizing damage isn't everything, especially if stigmata have other benefits like the SP from Zhenyi Top.
It's mostly depend on the type of boss. If the boss can be quickly burst down without different phase and mechanic. Then max burst dps is better. But for boss that require a long fight. Then ulltility might work better
ye, having some def seems fine to go easy on the fingers/have fun
As a casual (Ranks up and down from Abyss / Red lotus) this is really appreciated, even if I'm already following it, just in case I mess up putting same multipliers (faster clears = more time Irl, on GI & AK)
Same with Mobius guide, thanks; oh and nice editing, the memes were on point (Specially that intro... "Click this link to know it" while wasting 3 minutes dancing)
Video started.
Show those iceberg thing.
"Hmm i think i can understand a little bit. im used to play that other game, this is not really complicated"
Keeby : CRT doesn't mean Crit rate/Cdmg
"well shit, i think i know nothing"
and also those explanation about debuff is what i needed the most. I mean, beside actual direct buff to dmg dealer valkyrie, those complicated debuff thing is somehow i need to understand for my progress, and maybe its like genshin, that specific buff like ice/fire/lightning dmg is similar to elemental dmg bonus on goblet??
Anyway, thanks to bring this content up. I used to play meta/minmaxing on genshin, then i feel bored because spiral abyss will reset every 2 weeks, usually learning some mobs pattern on F12 but then again get bored to have replaying the same content, with different team comp to experimenting on how my unit perform with new or existing meta team comp.
Glad to be part of honkai player too, just playing about 2 weeks and hit lv 54 is like a long way from lv 1, and a long journey to conquer those lv 80 with bunch of "real hard content" and soon will getting understand on how those hundred of stigmata works and their combination between one and another to make bigger dmg output.
ive been wondering wtf is up with all these different types of damage/debuffs since I started playing and this helped me understand it a bit better, thanks keeb
Tysm for this, I just started about a month ago and although I'm familiar with similar mechanics of damage multipliers in other games like Path of Exile, you never know how things work in a new game 'til you go delve deep into it yourself. Saved me a bunch of time and explained/verified what I already felt intuitively from progressing in Elysian Realm, and why certain builds (especially when you get Kevin's Breach) made some bosses feel SO much better.
me before this vid:
unga bunga AE is my main dps
me after this vid:
i now know that i unga, therefore i bunga
He's speaking god's language
Thanks keebster!
I've always wondered why a lot of community Honkai guides don't really explain these terms. This guide is great
I just breakthrough and I never knew how DMG was calculated lol. There are some useless 3 pieces set effects and now I think I should replace them
Really useful video , much appreciated ❤️
Why am I watching this😐
yo, my fav hi3 guide youtuber back then before keebs taken your place
you both helped me alot.
I was just thinking that I learned this from you years ago
Omg just3c sama🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
Oh god, the legend just3c here, thanks for all your guide sir.
Feeling nostalgic?
i started playing this march and currently level 74 and I have been looking for THIS exact type of video. Thank you so much.
when u said it's gonna be disorganized video, turns out you explained it in a very well structured manner. Very nice job & thanks a lot for this guide! it really helps me as a new player!
Thank you so much for this! I feel like whenever I look up a guide, I see the same advice being rehashed but very few guide-makers give a mathematical justification for why exactly I need to forsake all my earthy possessions to eg. HoS. Seeing all the buffs and debuffs reflected in the damage formula is a lot more informative and convincing than "this valk with these gears gets top scores"
Loved this really interesting. Like how you structured it. Could probably listen to your voice all day lol.
Does it comes from here *points Atk Stat** ?
Does it come from there *points at crystal Topup**
the Beethoven "Heavy weapon" thingy: Heavy is the weapon type for Bronya, since "Cannon" are the 3 rockets, and have the missile and laser variants. =V
man, what a retarded bullshit I was using it on Liliya all this time. Bronya does not even do damage who thought of that
i have been spaced out through half of this, i’m gonna have to watch it a few times 😭😭😭
Playing this game for 4 years now and i STILL learned stuff from this video, thanks Keebo, doing god's work.
Been looking for this video this is what I ultimately was looking for when it comes to guides
It would have porbably been much easier for all of us if the "Retaliation" was simply called "Parry" because that is what it refers to.
Most of the time at least; on-burst BKE kinda force the parry to happen but oh well.
she retaliates againts the meta that old valks will get overpowered, by getting more overpowered on every update :v
As a beginner, I've learned a lot from this video. All these new information are overwhelming, so your video cleared up a lot for me thank you.
This legitimately cleared up some real struggles I had with planning damage in Honkai, and I cannot thank you enough!
Thank you. I love you. when I first started 4 months ago, I asked this exact question, and I was linked to the glossary of terms pae on the wiki. It did not help at all. I had to find most of this myself. Thank you, again.
you've been uploading like hell lately, i love it, keeb it up ^^
This video is so jam-packed with information that I feel like I learned a lot but at the same time understood not a single thing from it.
This video should be essential learning in every school. Using full musician on a fire dps should be a crime.
And the number of times I've seen FT with Dirac MB 🤢
Iirc half of the effect of dirac M still works because ult is ult, but it won't get the TDM increase/sec. So that kinda makes sense. But yes, Musician on dps is a crime.
@@Riku_nkmr Only the initial swing of her ult will benefit, not fervent mode, so Dirac M disappears. Assuming you got a dodge to proc the 2pc (FT sometimes doesn't get to dodge since shieldbreak = ez CC), all that is left is 55% physical and 31% TDM if we throw in a Jingwei T.
Compare this to the classic Jingwei Marco Lier setup. Even without combo for Marco the damage after the big ult slash is lower on Dirac. Keep in mind the cost of both sets.
Edit: I forgot to factor in the 13.5 % TDM over 9 seconds which does seem to work on non-burst characters based on the description. It still isn't enough even if you extend fervent mode past the default 6 seconds.
what should we use instead
@@amogusamogos
- F2P Friendliest (Marco M mvp)
Jingwei Marco Lier - Cheapest, decent, non-event exclusive option. Keep 100% hp, DK shield makes this easier, sub in Marco T for multi-target
Rebel Blades TB Marco M - Event exclusive. Roughly same performance as above but isn't restricted to fighting one enemy
Michelangelo TB Marco M - Slightly better than Jingwei Marco Lier. I used to use this then transmuted it into Dirac when I got Shuijing
- The actually good stuff
Elysia TB + your best M piece - Pretty much the best pick at this point. From what I've seen, the best M piece varies with the boss: Shuijing for shieldbreaking Kallen, Mei M for nuking but if you have everything else in order, the difference is marginal at best... Ellie stigs gears BB, Ellie and BKE to various extents as well. Fittingly, the most expensive build here.
Shuijing - Use fullset most of the time. Competitive with Elysia. Still worth getting both if you want your SA to have her gear for SSS Jizo while FT can have gear for whatever else. Also gears SA and situationally CH and BB.
Kafka TM Mich/Lier/Elysia B - Kafka will be craftable v5.2, however Elysia set > Kafka set.
Columbus TM Mich/Elysia B - Potentially better Kafka. Equal TDM, trades 20% phys for 30% CDMG. That said I wouldn't actively hunt this, it's a luxury pick and might produce the same result. Respectable results that warrant at least mentioning the set.
Dickens - Paired with Sleeping Beauty in gacha. Just exchange for SB or SL. Dickens 2pc doesn't buff ult, 3pc doesn't even buff damage. SP regen from B piece is only noticeable in extended fights like abyss but HoS evade makes it redundant. M piece can be used with Ellie TB at least. Ellie TB also replaced Dickens TB on BB.
@@CoherenceAmogus hmm. I see. that does make sense.
Wow,this was super informative! I came from genshin and started playing back in May,and I had no idea there was this many different multipliers at work! Thank you for this video!
I started the game 2 days ago and it felt like all the gear descriptions had a lore to them as well... Thanks for this.
I got AE twice and her weapon by just sheer luck and was thinking of going all elemental dmg but I think her kit becomes much more important with end-game enemies? Still, she's dealing more dmg than my dps rn lmao
Wow congrats dude, AE is one of the best if not the best elemental damage support and most valuablye valk for your account. Thats a very good start and welcome to honkai.
Congrats my man. I still don’t have her weapon But I do have her stigs. She’s probably the best Valk you could’ve gotten for elemental damage!
Great guide! Been playing this game for a year and a half now and just learned so many things haha
Great video, can you also explain the priority of farmable gear for some dps valks and most efficient team synergies?
This was super helpful and well explained. Thanks for your hard work!
remeber when schrod T, planc M, and nweton B on miko is the best for reach 100k+ dmg in singgle hit and the player need to maually count the proc time of chrod T?
yeah its a good old day. and judah OP
I actually really want them to put Miko in Elysian Realm, she's one of the valks I think would be super fun to play in there.
@@TheKeebster yeah maybe in the future or mihoyo just forgor her entierly just like crimson mei and VR kiana
I've been playing this game for 4 years, with breaks in between, and I didn't know jackshit about any of these. Thanks for making this vid for educating me :D
When I first play Genshin as a Honkai player, I immediately seek for support or something that has TDM : v
Why did I just watch this, I button mash & use recommended stigs & gear, I don’t know wtf I’m doing but I’m having fun. I think I started off the video thinking “I’m going to start playing SMART!” and then there was an equation and the next thing I knew the video was over. I’m sure this video is very helpful to a lot of people though, so good on you for making it.
A good rule of thumb that I keep in mind for damage calculation is;
Similar damage types are additive while different damage types are multiplicative.
Kinda funny how I slowly learned most of the interactions and the game mechanics in honkai over the course of 3 years of play. But there is still a lot that I can learn.
I'd be lying if I didn't think of great swords when heavy weapon is mentioned.
I Also thought that breach worked differently, I thought 10% breach on a 90% resistant target would only shave 9%(10%of90). So its actually stronger than what I thought.
With different attack types, one that really piques my interest is DP divine penalty. It's the only attack that doesn't trigger stig effects like newt B when it deals damage.
After all that explaining instead of feeling confused i feel excited is it my gamer instinct accelerating? Great video btw the iceberg was really easy to understand.
I'm new to the game, lvl 40 actually. I have a Ft delta. I'm looking forward to building her.
Same here, just started 3 days ago then reached lvl 44
welcome to the game of depression 😎
Personaly, Shujing & Dickens are the most suitable for Delta in both MA and Abyss. However, you can draft Top & bot Mich, mid Marco Polo for free. Kafka is also a good choice for you.
How do you get FTdelta so early? I’m lvl 55 and still far away from farming rozaliya
@@skall95 You can get her from Dorm Supply.
And Mihoyo gives a lot of Asterite for new players so you can get her cores right away.
You are a godsend. Thanks man.
1:33 Ah yes the beauty of 3 Newton
Still, some of the fact in this vid mind blown me out and i've been play this game since when people still say
that 3rd sacred relic was top meta.
The most used stigma for support and dps
@@fikriramadan2398 all stigmatas come and go but even after 4 years and about to reach 5 newt b is still the goat stigma ingame
It's been 1 year and I still come here to check for stuffs
Thank you for the clearance. Honestly, honkai things is quite overwhelmed for me compared to genshin 😅
Genshin impact: get a artifact set some crit damage and crit rate a good weapon and do big damage
Honkai impact: *has to get master degree of understanding damage in honkai*
The best way I can describe how I play honkai is: I don't know what I'm doing but I'm doing damage so I'll keep doing it
Never undermine the importance of this video. You did us a service bro thank you!
😎teri, well honestly I'm having a hard time understanding it! but most of the part I did understand. thank you for this I'll be rewatching this again and probably again and again. thank you KEEBS. you really are god of F2P. I love ur vids,. and more power to your channel. 🙂👍
Man, I just love how much Teriri you put into your vid. Much appreciate it.
14:44 By "22%", you mean "1.02^10 - 1 ~= 21.9%", right? This is the most surprising infomation for me, I thought it would go with the trend and be additive to itself while being multiplied to the other group.
Exactly correct
This has helped me SO MUCH in Elysian realm I actually had no idea what elemental breach was before this
Me when people say Honkai's combat is just rock paper scissors
I have played honkai for weeks but I been playing genshin for a year I can see all these being so hard to get but as am familiar with everything in genshin and done a lot of one shot by playing with elemental mastery + support + artifact buffs resistance shred and more from all that knowledge it helps a lot to understand this video and i think i know enough to start building a character properly
Great guide! I started playing the game this week, so all the help is really apreciate. I was wondering, is there any video showing what to do and what not? Like for example expending primogems on the permanent banner in genshin impact. The game has so many events and currencies so i kind of confuse
I have a new player guide in my channel you can check out, I hope it answers most of your questions, if not you can leave another comment asking anything specific th-cam.com/video/RLYOgFf01V0/w-d-xo.html
@@TheKeebster Thank you!!!
It's impressive how you unveiled all of this
I think I understand more now and mostly I have to remember stigma and valkyrie skills to apply these
Let's just admit that we normies don't care about calculation
We just want to enjoy the game
But I like big pp dmg
big pp dmg go brrrr
The thing with this game is if you want to learn the meta you need to do tons of reading. Here you not only have stats, skills and effects for valkyries but also stats, skills and effects for weapons. And you have the ELFs who also have their own stats, skills and effects (well if you're F2P you will most likely only have two). Then of course the stigmatas with their own stats and effects and you can "refine" them to add even more stats. Even the stages and game modes have their own status effects.
I've been playing for two and a half years now and I can definitely say it's not as simplistic as Genshin Impact is. Thankfully I'm happy being a casual
The fact that this has to be made makes me realize how needlessly complex some aspects of the game is. Especially all those lower iceberg stuff.
Though still not as complex as Azur Lane's AA damage calculation.
Wait... Hiw complex is Azur Lane damage calculation?
@@itsarin2166 my bad. Seems i confused it with something else. Nvm
@@itsarin2166around 20 marks worth of math test question.
Keep up the good work and help other kanchous around the world
Can almost guarantee that if Kirito were watch this tutorial, he will always he top 10 ranked players after this
i just started playing honkai, and i think i will come back to this video very often, i'm happy that someone toke their time to explain such complicated mechanics! So thank you so much!
What about Charge/Combo attack dmg multipliers? Are they also in a separate pools?
no it's just the condition to activate the bonus.
Charge/Combo are taken as Normal attack mostly. They are a type of normal attack. But If you are in burst mode they maybe viewed as burst damage
@@tncson8941 So it's just TDM, but with condition?
@@Kim2400 Yes if it say TDM, it's added to TDM pool.
thanks man, I started honkai about 2 weeks back and i was pretty confused about everything, well this vid was a bit confusing at first but , after i took a notebook and pen to note down each detail, it makes much more sense.
People say it's complicated but I rather like the complexity. Makes it harder for normies to infiltrate. Look what's happening with Genshin which is super normie friendly. Also, if you're a gamer and you can't handle this level of complexity, you ain't really a gamer.
1:38 And wow, that build makes me feel pain.
true
On point
I love the iceberg analogy lol
Very cool video, nothing to add great job
So basically, you need to have braincells to play honkai.
Welp, I'm out of here.
Amazing video as always, have been seeing your vids since I started a long time ago and they are always helpful! Praise be Thales M
dude i started to play this game at 2020 and i still need to see a lot of tips like this video, this game is so complicated lol. thx for the vid btw, very helpfull :D
Man i try to pay attention but i always lose focus at some point. I'll watch this one minute a day until i eventually get it. Thanks for this man, even just the stuff in the first 3 minutes already feels useful.
This explanation is what iam looking for, Thank you Keeby
I first clicked when I saw a simple preview because I thought it was a short, simple video to have fun. I play for 2 weeks, now my brain is boiling
Whew, that was really helpful. Not sure I can get to figuring out my own builds yet (esp as I don't know what a lot of the stigmata do, which are best used in sets or as individual pieces, etc.) but that'll definitely help me understand why something is good in a particular scenario or not. Thanks a lot!
How and why did it take 5 years before a vid like this is made? Good job on this Keeby
This video will probably become outdated again in about 1 or 2 years.
This info is all in the official discord server
@@lifdrazor yeah but at least there's a comprehensive video too more sources means better for the game
Long time ago there were some channels made this similar vid ald, these days updated ver maybe demanded (although mostly same, with few addition)
Got to this video at Captain lvl 82 and I still learned something. very well done
genshin has been getting boring for me lately so ive been getting into honkai recently and your channel has been a huge help! thanks a lot :D
FINALLY! T.T)
thank you, theres so much wording in honkai, but have similar effect..
now im almost starting to get it(EHE..)
like breach, just hearing that word after elysian realm cause i dont have empryea and finally get it why she's so valuable
mihohoho show me "please, dont die, i begging you" advertisement before the video starting
Been a While since i stumbled upon a Honkai guide. But this sure is helpful.
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Decide to take a look
Forgot to watch the main video
Search thru history to find this video
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I've been playing this game for more than 3 years and I still don't know what I'm doing.
I expect this video will get tons of views since mostly this video will be shoved into newbie face whenever they ask about multipliers in honkai discord help channel =))
btw nice explanation Keebs
for newbies like me, everything is overwhelming, from the UID, Different currency, Materials, Damage, equipment but thanks for explaining now I know how to damage
Finally! keeby did the video on damage calculation. The only other video on damage explanation I can think of was just3c's video which was 3 years ago
After watching this i realize that i use "Fu Hua Musician" wrong
Thanks for this! It's probably the only thing I understand about Honkai now, but I still love the game and really want to understand more about how to play it well/efficiently.