Just when you thought Forgotten Hall: Memory of Chaos was going to be the late Honkai: Star Rail player’s endgame, the Swarm Disaster Simulated Universe update gets added. After intense weeks of gameplay, I’ll go over some of the things I’ve learned.
Best Swarm Disaster teams to bring to Simulated Universe - Honkai Star Rail
First off, I need to preface this section with this:there is no single “best” team to bring into Swarm Disaster. The mobs, sans the bees, are random; the bosses are random; the nodes are random. You’re always better offbringing a team that can win every fight, regardless of the enemies’ weaknesses.
Best characters to bring for Swarm Disaster
Of course, just because I had to settle with a patchwork of a team doesn’t mean you all have to. I do have a list of characters I wish I had—and some that I’ve personally used to clear my runs. Here’s a list.
If you have your own recommendations, let me know! I’m a firm believer that Swarm Disaster hinges more onproper team synergyagainst the right enemiesthan a “best character.”
Preservation
Propagation
The Propagation Path only unlocks after you’ve completed the Swarm Univer story (ergo, the last Difficulty). It’s a Path that encourages you to enter Swarm domains, granting you Basic ATK% when you go. Unless you have a main Imaginary DPS or two Erudition characters that can carry damage dealing for the team, this Path will be a difficult one to tread.
Best Domains to enter in Swarm Disaster Simulated Universe
Now that you’ve learned all about the Paths you may take and the domains you’re encouraged to enter with them equipped, let’s talk about generally good domains to dive into whenever you see them. There are two I like:Reward(marked with a chest) andAdventure(marked with a controller). My third would be the Occurrences, if only because they’re usually good.
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Reward ensures that whatever you’re getting, it’s good. It could be a Curio, a good Occurrence, and more.
Adventure’s my personal favorite. It makes you play a game where you either have to attack trotters or destroy barrels in a given timeframe. You can get a Curio, Blessing, and Fragments for getting the best score possible. The rewards decrease if you don’t meet the goals, but even just the Blessing and the Fragments are good to have.If you have characters that attack fast and from afar, like Bronya, Asta, and March 7th, they can clear these pretty well. This is also the only domain that has aDownloader, allowing you to bring more characters with you.
If you have a ton of Fragments, always enter aTransactiondomain when you see it. I highly recommendpurchasing a Curio from Herta, as those are the real MVP of the stage.
Best Curios in Swarm Disaster Simulated Universe
While there are a ton of really good, Swarm-exclusive Curios in Honkai: Star Rail, my personal favorite to use isPunklorde Mentality. If you missed my Silver Wolf section above, the reason why this Curio is good is because you never have to adjust your teams based on the enemies you fight (sans the Phase boss—but they’re another story). Punklorde Mentality will give your enemies a weakness to an element your team has for three turns. That’s more than enough to blast through most domains!
How to defeat the True Sting - HSR Swarm Disaster final boss
So, how does one go about defeating this Propagation Monster? The first step is to ensure you don’t die. Never mind it taking eons to beat;just have a team whose survivability you’re sure about.
Next, and I can’t emphasize this enough: make sureeach member of your team has a base HP of at least above 4,200, including your DPSes. This is without the blessing boosts. They will perish otherwise; I can testify to that.
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Actually, beating True Sting is a test of patience… with maybe a little luck involved. You have to be able to whittle down its gigantic HP bar while protecting yourself from its and its mobs’ attacks. There is no one way to beat it, and even if I beat it once, there is no guarantee I will beat it again with the same team.The key is the right blessings and Curios, which, as you know, are randomized.
The only thing you have control over is the Path you choose. As such,provide yourself every opportunity to get stronger with whatever Path you choose(a more complete guide for that is in my Path subheading above). For example, if you choose Destruction, grit your teeth and blaze through combat domains whenever you’re given the opportunity to enter one. Also, verify that your team has good synergy with the Path that you are on.
Here’s the team I used to clear Difficulty 4. True Sting was weak to Lightning in this round. My Path was Destruction.
In this setup, I made sure everybody had high HP and a Regression Inequality of Annihilation blessing with me. Even then, it was a very close call a couple of times. My Bronya was there to either boost Jing Yuan (for DMG) or Luocha (for emergency healing). I ran into a lot of Propagation rooms before I got here.
However, you may not have all these characters, and your run will never look exactly like mine. Thus, it’s difficult for me to recommend this setup to you. The best way, really, is to look at what you have and start a build from there. There isn’t a one-fits-all solution; there might even be better heroes I haven’t considered just because I don’t have them yet.
If you can’t clear all these stages now, be patient. Max your traces; grind for better Relics. You’ll clear it eventually!
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