Honkai: Star Rail is a role-playing gacha game. They offer various characters with different abilities, backstories, equipment (light cones), weapons, etc. It also has its own premium in-game currency called the Honkai: Star Rail Oneiric Shard which you can easily get from TOPUPlive, the most reputed and trusted platform to buy in-game currency. The shards help you make faster progress in the game.
Characters and light cones in this game have rarities varying from 4 to 5 stars. Light Cones are the most important equipment in this game. They enhance the wearer's stats and grant increased abilities like a weapon. Light cones are really useful in battles. To get the latest and best characters or light cones, you need to get them through Banner Warps, which are pretty much like Lucky Draws. You have to do a pull in these warps, possibly get the prize you want. Usually a single or ten pulls are available in each warp.
However, in Honkai Star Rail, the chances of you getting exactly what you want through these pulls are very low. Therefore, the pity system makes sure not to let that happen. It aids in increasing the chances of getting the desired characters or light cones after certain thresholds of these pulls.
Types of Pity
There are two types of pity in this game. Hard pity, and the mysterious soft pity.
Hard pity is a guaranteed light cone or character on a specific pull. For example, on the limited character warp, you'll get a guaranteed 5-star character after 80 pulls.
Soft pity: Honkai: Star Rail players generally believe that soft pity exists, although it's not officially confirmed by creators. It supposedly increases your chances of getting the desired character or light cone. It is estimated that the chance of you getting the character or light cone you want increases between your 75th and 90th pull.
How to Get These Pulls?
One pull required 169 Stellar Jades. You can earn Stellar Jades by progressing through the game, completing quests and events, and by daily check-ins on the Hoyolab app. You can also trade Stellar Jades with Oneiric Shards. Players can do HSR top up to get enough shards for the trade. Oneiric Shards and Stellar Jades trade on a 1:1 ratio.
How pity applies to each type of warp
Departure Warp
It is a special warp that amateur players get in the game. The pity system here is that every set of 10 pulls will guarantee you at least one 4-star item. By the 50th pull, you will be guaranteed a random 5-star character. The Departure Warp will no longer appear once the guaranteed 5-star character is obtained.
Stellar Warp
Whenever you visit the warp section in this game, you will notice a regular banner called the Stellar Warp. This banner is permanent. It features all non-event and non-exclusive characters and light cones. While you won't be able to obtain any of the brand-new characters or light cones here, you do have the opportunity to acquire some classic ones.
The rate of pulling anything in this warp is relatively low. You have a 5.1% chance of getting a 4-star. A 0.6% chance of getting a 5-star. However, because of the pity system, the probability increases over time. Therefore, players get an average 13% chance of getting a 4-star character or light cone, or a 1.6% chance of getting a 5-star character or light cone.
Probability gets even better with the guaranteed hard pity
Every 10 pulls will guarantee at least a 4-star character or light cone, with a 0.6% chance of getting a 5-star character or light cone. On the 90th warp in the Stellar Warp banner, which is just 9-10 pulls, you'll be guaranteed a 5-star character or light cone. On the 300th warp, you get to choose a guaranteed 5-star character to join your team.
Light cone vent warps (Regular light cone warp banners)
These banners are available for a limited time and often coincide with the limited-character banners mentioned below. Light cone banners increase the chances of obtaining 4- and 5-star light cones instead of characters.
There is a 6.6% chance of getting a 4-star character or light cone and a 0.8% chance of getting a 5-star light cone. With the pity system, you get approximately a 14.8% chance of getting a 4-star character or light cone, and a 1.87% chance of getting a 5-star light cone. However, because of hard pity, there is a guarantee of a 4-star light cone every 10 pulls. A guaranteed 4-star feature light cone after 20 pulls and a 5-star light cone after every 80 pulls. This guaranteed 5-star gives you a 75% chance of getting the featured light cone (the one advertised in the banner).
Limited event character warp banners:
Limited-time-character-event-warp banners are believed to be the most popular banners in the game. This is because, through these warps, players can get the most hyped and latest characters.
In these warps, without any pity, you get a 5.1% chance of getting a 4-star character or light cone, and a 0.6% chance of getting a 5-star character. With pity, players can get around a 13% chance of getting a light cone, and an average 1.6% chance of getting a 5-star character. However, soft pity is when the probability possibly increases between the 70th and 90th pulls. Players don't get the increased rates right away.
With the help of hard pity
Your 10th pull in the Limited Character Event Warps is guaranteed to be a 4-star or higher item. As there is a 99.6% chance of getting a 4-star character and a 0.4% chance of getting a 5-star one. You will obtain a guaranteed 4-star featured character by your 20th pull. By the 90th pull, there is a guarantee of obtaining a 5-star character. There is a 50-50 probability that the obtained 5-star character will be a featured one or not. However, due to the pity system, if the first 5-star character you get is not the promotional character, the next 5-star will be. This means that by the 180th pull, the 5-star featured character is guaranteed.
Conclusion
Players have to do multiple pulls to obtain their desired characters and light cones. Monthly reset grants 5 pulls every month. Character ascension at a certain level gives pulls as rewards. Additionally, completing daily tasks and missions may also grant Star Rail passes.
