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If you’ve been enjoying the lore ofHonkai: Star Railfrom the beginning, you likely already know about the presence of high-powered beings known as the Emanators. This title belongs to the people who’ve acquired the permission to draw power from their path by the Aeon themselves.
One such Emanator was released as a playable character during the Version 3.0 update in the form of The Herta. This is a character that you’ve known from the very beginning, but her new form comes with some overpowered abilities to help you beat all the content out there.
The information in this article is based on Honkai: Star Rail early access, and it’s subject to change.
Best The Herta Relics And Planar Ornaments
One of the most important things you have to work on when you get a new character, even if it’s an Emanator like The Herta, is their relics and planar ornaments.These are the source of most of the buffs your characters need, which come from the stats on each piece along with the set bonus for two and four pieces of the same set.
Relics
Scholar Lost in Erudition
This serves as the best in slot set for The Herta as it not only provides her with some Crit Rate,but also increases her Skill and Ultimate DMG. It increases her Skill DMG further after using her Ultimate.
Hunter of Glacial Forest
If you’re still early in the game, you’re able to use this set as a replacement until you get her best one as itgives you Crit DMG after using the Ultimate, which works with her buffed Skill.
Planar Ornaments
Izumo Gensei and Takama Divine Realm
You have to use another Erudition character with The Herta, which works perfectly for this set asyou’ll get some extra ATK and Crit Rate.
Sigonia, the Unclaimed Desolation
Since The Herta is made for defeating multiple enemies at the same time in the Pure Fiction mode, you can also use this set on her. The best part is thatboth these sets can be farmed in the same domain.
The Herta Relic Stat Priority
Apart from the bonuses above, here are the relic stats you’ll be looking for as you farm for The Herta:
Crit Rate/DMG > SPD
Best The Herta Light Cones
Thankfully, you have quite a lot of choices when it comes to The Herta light cones:
Into the Unreachable Vein
Her signature light cone is unsurprisingly tailor-made for her,giving her even more free Crit Rate that stacks with her relic set bonuses. Other than that, it also gives you some massive Skill and Ultimate DMG while consistently regenerating Skill Points.
Eternal Calculus
This will be yoursecond-best choice on The Herta, and it’s also the F2P-friendly one. It gives you up to 52 percent ATK bonus and 16 percent SPDas long as you’re fighting multiple enemies.
Before Dawn
You can also use this light cone to get adecent bit of Crit DMG and Ultimate/Skill DMG, but you won’t be able to make use of its follow-up damage bonus.
Geniuses' Repose
Since you’ll consistently defeat smaller enemies with The Herta, this one can give you amassive ATK and Crit DMG boost with it.
The Day The Cosmos Fell
Finally, if you don’t have any of the above light cones,you can use this F2P onefor some free ATK and Crit DMG on her.
Best The Herta Team Compositions
Once you’ve fully built The Herta with her best light cones and relics available to you,the next step is to choose the right team. Thankfully, one of The Herta’s best teams involves a bunch of F2P-friendly characters:
Best Herta Team
If you want to get the most value from The Herta’s kit, this team is just for you as long as you can manage to get all the characters in it. Jade was the one Erudition character that brought the rest of the units from this path into the meta, and she also complements The Herta quite well as the constant AoE attacks let her launch a ton of follow-ups.
Jade’s follow-up attacks also target all the enemies on the field,which in turn helps Herta regenerate extra Energy. Apart from that, Sunday can consistently boost The Herta’s turn while also giving her a massive Crit DMG boost, which works well with all the free Crit Rate she gets from her relics and light cones.
Finally, apart from being a great sustainer, Huohuo can also help Herta bygiving her some free ATK and much-needed Energy Regeneration.
Herta F2P Team
While this might be called the F2P team, it isn’t any less powerful than her main team. In fact, this team might bestronger than the one above in some caseslike if you’re fighting in the Pure Fiction game mode. You’ll consistently take enemies below 50 percent HP in this mode, which letsfour-star Herta perform a ton of follow-up attacks.
Each one of these extra attacksregenerates Energy for The Herta and Robin while also getting extra charges to Mem. Finally, Aventurine’s job here is to not only shield his allies but also allow Robin to get her Ultimate back more easily. This team can easily destroy any type of endgame mode once you have all the characters built in it.
The Herta Traces Overview And Priority
The last important bit after you get a new character is understanding how they work. You canequip them with the best relics, light cones, and team members, but if you don’t know how to use them, you won’t get very far. Thankfully, The Herta isn’t particularly hard to understand:
With the right build and team, you can easily see The Herta dealing over a million damage to the enemies even with an F2P light cone. If you want to see this damage,you’d want to upgrade her Skill first, followed by the Ultimate and then the Talent. You don’t have to upgrade her Basic Attack since you’ll never use it.
Of course, you’ll also have tounlock all her bonus abilitiesand smaller nodes of stats whenever possible.
