Honkai Star Rail: Clash of Prosperity vs Guardian Shield, which destiny dominates survival in VTMP

Eternal Prosperity - Blood Ritual

• Recommended Characters: Blade, Luocha, Natasha

• Fate Priority (in order): Complete Annihilation, Immutable Mastery, Lawless Doctrine

Eternal Prosperity is an Aeon belonging to Yaoshi, the 'Pharmacist' who bestows immortality upon its people but is also the perpetrator of Xianzhou's plight. In Honkai: Star Rail, Eternal Prosperity is associated with regular Healing and Excessive Overhealing. This translates to two specific playstyles: Pure Healer or Semi-Healer.

To excel with Eternal Prosperity, players only need characters with high HP, such as Blade, Natasha, or Bailu, to maximize the healing capabilities of fate's resonance and blessings. This leads to a Pure Healer approach, resembling a 'doctor' playstyle, where overall damage might be minimal, even reaching zero, but compensates with the fastest healing in Honkai: Star Rail.

Conversely, if players opt for a playstyle that deals damage while excelling in healing (Semi-Healer), they need to incorporate the Chalice Effect and charge up Overheal to inflict standard damage to enemies.

Guardian - Crushing foes with shields

• Recommended Characters: Fire Explorer, Gepard

• Fate Priority (in order): Mirror Reaction - Reinforce Degree 0 - Eutectic Reaction or Euteric Reaction - Reinforce Degree 0 - Mirror Reaction.

Guardian is a fate dedicated to creating shields, enhancing shield thickness, and related buffs for players. Therefore, the more shields you have during the gameplay, the greater the strength that Qlipoth bestows.

The Guardian's playstyle is quite diverse, often encompassing: increasing the amount of shields a character can generate, buffing stats based on the shields a character possesses, creating Counter Shock, and triggering resonance damage. In general, as long as your lineup includes at least one character capable of creating sturdy shields, that team can perform well with Guardian, potentially surpassing all other fates in Honkai: Star Rail's Virtual Simulation.

The Grand Distinction

It can be said that in Honkai: Star Rail, if players have a high-damage lineup but lack survivability, these two fates can provide some support during the world traversal. Although both fall under the category of 'life-preserving' fates, Mytour will analyze the specific standout advantages of each Aeon. 

Defensive Prowess & Stat Dependency

The Guardian fate grants characters the ability to create shields, helping mitigate a large amount of incoming damage from enemies. While playing, Defense stats and the overall shield-creating ability of the character are two crucial aspects for Guardian players to focus on. Moreover, Qlipoth's blessings provide various buffs such as dispels, increased critical rate, critical damage, DEF,... thereby enhancing the combat capabilities of the team.

For instance, if you main Fire with around 1500-2000 DEF, having good damage output and the ability to maintain the blessings effect is crucial. However, Fire mains cannot create shields as robust as Gepard, ranging from 5k-10k per instance, making it vulnerable to piercing attacks without the Amber State.

Meanwhile, Eternal Prosperity can heal characters from near death to over 100% HP with just one button press. To achieve such massive healing, the total HP of the entire team should reach the threshold of 15k-20k health, and players need to embrace Eternal Prosperity. According to Mytour's evaluation, players can transition from a Pure Healer combo to Semi-Healer if they can effectively control the character's health. This might reduce survivability slightly, but your DPS will bear much less burden in the gameplay.

Compatibility of Blessings & Characters

The path of Eternal Prosperity is compatible with many current lineups in Honkai: Star Rail, especially those requiring health control like Blade or Arlan. When players choose Yaoshi as the 'pillar,' your team won't need a healer since the resonance from this fate fulfills its role exceptionally well. Instead, you can replace the healer slot with another role like debuffer, buffer, shielder, etc. However, if not following Yaoshi, players should avoid risking Eternal Prosperity as the blessings' buffs are truly poor and do not align with any path other than Eternal Prosperity itself.

On the flip side, Guardian relies entirely on the shield-bearing characters in your lineup. This renders Qlipoth's blessings ineffective if the player's defensive option is a healer. Blessings from other fates like Excess Radiance (Annihilation), Golden Age (Joyful), Disaster Prevention (Eternal Prosperity),... generally synergize well with Guardian as they can enhance DEF and create shields, two essential stats as mentioned by Mytour earlier. Furthermore, Guardian's blessings can buff external stats like critical damage, critical rate, and reduce damage by around 30% more than other fates. The only requirement is that the character must have at least 1 shield point.

Map Navigation Capability

According to Honkai: Star Rail players' evaluations, Guardian's map navigation ability seems superior because Qlipoth can easily 'burst the shield' up to 6-7 digits if the shield amount generated by characters is good enough. Particularly, players only need a moderately powerful DPS character in the first 3-4 stages to overcome small and quickly-defeated monsters, then transition entirely to a shield-only lineup and wait for damage bursts from various sources.

Meanwhile, Yaoshi is widely regarded as weak by many players due to the limited effectiveness of blessings and fate resonance in defense. Characters can be easily one-shot when encountering large or boss monsters. Damage output is also lackluster because obtaining the Chalice Effect for Eternal Prosperity is expensive, and even with a long charge time, it can only deal 20-30k damage. This amount is minimal compared to monsters with over 100-200k health, especially in World 2.

Which Fate Brings Better Results?

In the overall assessment, Mytour recommends readers to opt for Guardian. It fulfills various needs for your lineup, including survival, damage dealing, buffs, etc. Additionally, Qlipoth is the first Aeon introduced in Honkai: Star Rail's Virtual Simulation, making players potentially more familiar with this fate. On the other hand, players who choose Eternal Prosperity may have their primary goal of witnessing how their Blade reaches maximum HP or simply... obtaining 320 Stardusts.