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Next Honkai Star Rail Banner schedule: Featured characters in Version 1.2 and beyondLearn all about the 1.2 and 1.3 Banners, including Kafka, Blade, and Imbibitor Lunae!
Learn all about the 1.2 and 1.3 Banners, including Kafka, Blade, and Imbibitor Lunae!
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Looking for details on the next Honkai: Star Rail Banner?Warp Banners are the key to expanding your character and weapon collection inHonkai: Star Rail. Banners act like loot boxes in some ways: you can spend your Star Pass currency to “Warp” forexclusive charactersandhigh-end Light Cone weapons.
Head to theWarpscreen inHonkai: Star Railand you’ll see a selection of Banners that you can use to “Warp” in new characters and items. The really important one is the limited-timeCharacter Event WarpBanner. Every 3 weeks, a new Character Event Banner appears to replace the old one, bringing with it a different selection of 5-Star and 4-Star characters that you can obtain. Some of these characters can only be obtained through these Character Event Banners, so if you want them, you’ll need to Warp them in before the current Banner disappears and the next Banner arrives!
Stay updated with thecurrent and next Banner in Honkai: Star Railwith this comprehensive guide on all past, present, and future Warp Banners in the game.
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Next Honkai Star Rail Banner schedule
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Honkai Star Rail 1.2 Banner details
Honkai: Star Rail Version 1.2 was released on July 19th, 2023, with Phase 1 featuring the banner debut of new 5-Star characterBlade, as well as drop rate boosts for Arlan, Sushang, andNatasha.
Phase 2, live sinceAugust 9th, introduces two new characters — 5-StarKafkaand 4-StarLuka— as part of the former’s debut Character Event Warp:Nessun Dorma. The other featured 4-Star characters are Sampo andServal.
1.2 Banner new characters:
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Honkai Star Rail 1.3 Banner details
No official release date has been given for Honkai: Star Rail 1.3, but given the usual six-week schedule we can expect it to release aroundAugust 30th 2023. The leaked information and rumours for Honkai Star Rail’s 1.3 Banner are similarly unconfirmed, but we have an idea of who we can expect to Warp thanks to a recent Banner schedule leak on theHonkaiStarRail_leakssubreddit.
According to this leak, the featured characters for the 1.3 Banner will beFu XuanandImbibitor Lunae- also known as Dan Heng IL, or Dragon Dan Heng. Imbibitor Lunae’s existence was later officially confirmed on theHonkai Star Rail twitter. Exciting stuff! Here are the details we have so far on these upcoming characters.
1.3 Banner characters:
Next Banner Light Cones
While new character Banners arrive every 3 weeks, theBrilliant FixationLight Cone Banner is permanent. However, whenever a new character Banner arrives, the pool of possible Light Cones that you can Warp in the Brilliant Fixation Banner will update to reflect the currently featured characters. And whenever a new character is introduced with a Banner, a new 5-star Light Cone is almost always added to the Brilliant Fixation pool.
It’s important to fit the right Light Cone with the right character. All Light Cones in Honkai: Star Rail have a special Light Cone ability which only works if you pair it with a character of the same Path. Put a Harmony Light Cone on a Destruction character, for example, and they won’t be able to benefit from that Light Cone’s special ability. They will, however, still gain the basic stat bonuses of having that Light Cone equipped.
Thanks to recent (albeit unconfirmed) leaks, we now know several of the Light Cones coming with the next Honkai: Star Rail Banners:
We hope to hear more soon with the 1.2 livestream on July 8th, but until then, this is all the information we have to go on. We’ll keep this page updated as more details arrive!
Current Honkai Star Rail Banner: Nessun Dorma
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Unlike Kafka, these 4-star characters won’t be exclusive to this Banner, although Luka is temporarily exclusive until the next version update. In the meantime, however, they all receive a drop-rate boost: any time you pull a 4-star item or character from this Banner, there’s a 50% chance that it will be one of the featured trio.
See below for full details on the characters with increased drop rates on the current character event Banner:
Current Banner Light Cones
As with the current Character Event Warp Banner, the current Brilliant Fixation Banner will finish onTuesday August 29th. The currently featured Light Cones in this Banner are as follows:
Honkai Star Rail Standard Banner: Stellar Warp
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Stellar Warpis the Standard Banner in Honkai: Star Rail. Unlike the other Banners which are replaced every three weeks or so, theStandard Banner is permanentand always available for your Warps.
Every10 Warpswith the Standard Banner gives you a guaranteed 4-star or 5-star character or Light Cone; and every90 Warpsgives you a guaranteed 5-star character or Light Cone.
Here are all the characters you can get from the Standard Banner:
Honkai Star Rail Departure Warp Banner
The final Banner worth talking about in Honkai: Star Rail is theDeparture Warp Banner, which is only available to new players anddisappears after you’ve made 50 Warpson it.
What’s special about the Departure Warp Banner is that you get a20% discounton the cost of a set of 10 Warps, and you’re guaranteed a5-star charactersomewhere in those 50 total Warps for that Banner.
The characters you can pull from the Departure Warp Banner are exactly the same as you can get from the Standard Banner, so you can view them using the table above.
All Honkai Star Rail Banners list
To help you keep track of when your desired character or Light Cone last appeared in the gacha, here is the full list of all past and current event Banners featured in Honkai: Star Rail:
Knowing what’s going on in Honkai: Star Rail’s gacha is all well and good, but knowing how to manage your currencies is equally important. Check out ourHonkai: Star Rail currenciesguide to help you learn your Stellar Jades from your Oneiric Shards. Happy Warping!
