Unlocking Xueyi's Potential: A Unique DPS Build Guide to Overcome Elemental Barriers in Honkai: Star Rail

Upon examining Xueyi's skill set, it's evident she's a unique DPS character, seemingly designed by miHoYo as a precursor to future 5-star characters breaking through elemental barriers. Let's delve deeper with Mytour!

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What Can Xueyi Do?

Understanding Xueyi: A Damage-Dealing Dynamo with Endurance-Defying Abilities

Xueyi, akin to Ruan Mei, favors attack stats as they directly and indirectly enhance her prowess. However, gamers will notice various limitations that a 4-star character like Xueyi faces, including team composition constraints, resource demands, or significant damage reduction when lacking supportive allies.

Xueyi serves as an ideal addition when lacking DPS to exploit enemy weaknesses or facing Quantum-fearing foes. The more characters matching enemy weaknesses, the stronger Xueyi becomes. Her talent stacks Annihilation when enemies' endurance decreases, delivering potent subsequent blows at 8 stacks. This talent significantly contributes to Xueyi's overall damage output.

Lastly, let's discuss why building Xueyi focuses on attack stats in Honkai: Star Rail. Xueyi's Mark of Ominous Threads boosts damage according to this stat, up to 240%. This implies that when building Xueyi, players aim for as close to 240% attack as possible, making the Star Looter set unexpectedly hot. Achieving this level is challenging, but Xueyi's marks provide 37.3%, and coupling with the ATK stat line will easily push this figure over 100%.

How to Build Xueyi?

Xueyi, being a 4-star character, doesn't warrant risky gacha pulls on unwanted 5-star banners. Her spirits are decent but unnecessary, reaching maximum sooner or later.

Key milestones include Spirit 2 transforming Xueyi's talent into a 'mini ultimate,' Spirit 4 boosting damage by 40%, and Spirit 6 increasing subsequent strikes' frequency.

With Xueyi's skill set, prioritize upgrading talents and abilities, followed by ultimates, and finally basic attacks. Focus on acquiring marks that enhance ATK stats as they equate to damage.

Artifact Build for Xueyi

When building Xueyi, note that due to her substantial damage bonus derived from ATK stats, there's no need for Quantum damage bonuses. Opt for crit rate armor, speed boots, ATK circlet, and crit damage goblet. For sub-stats, prioritize ATK%, followed by crit rate and ATK.

Options for Xueyi's Artifacts:

• 4x Exceptional Genius: Its 20% defense penetration effect is overwhelmingly potent, even enticing non-Quantum DPS.
• 4x Starlight Bandit: A solid choice for Xueyi in any situation, whether facing Quantum-weak enemies or not. Offers rapid weakness break and damage increase.
• 4x Flourishing Blossom: A decent temporary option if you don't have the above sets, especially if speed is needed for accessory sets.
• 4x Duke's Gravestone: Since Xueyi's subsequent strikes significantly contribute to her damage, this artifact set is also quite powerful. The higher the spirit, the more useful it becomes.

Accessory Set:

• Talia: Indirectly boosts Xueyi's damage through 36% ATK increase. To achieve this figure, you need to build Xueyi with 145 speed.
• Station of the Sealed Ancestry: Gamers likely have a surplus of these accessories from farming for other DPS characters. Provides a significant ATK boost for Xueyi.
• Salsotto's Spinning Stop: Provides much-needed crit rate for DPS like Xueyi. Particularly buffs ultimates and subsequent strikes, Xueyi's primary sources of damage.
• Glamoth: Increases attack and damage for Xueyi. This character is harder to reach 160 speed without assistance, but 135 is much more achievable.

Light Helm Build for Xueyi

We're not lacking light helms for Xueyi, especially since the best option is often free-to-play. 5-star Fate-Destroying destiny light helms aren't particularly good for Xueyi due to conditions she struggles to meet.

• Aeon's Collapse: Thanks to its consistent enemy weakness breaking ability, this is the best choice for Xueyi. At tier 5, it provides 64% attack and 24% damage. You just need to diligently farm VTMP to get the ticket to exchange for this helm.
• Welcoming Rat's Band: Simply 36% attack for Xueyi at tier 1. When using this helm, you need to ensure Xueyi lands a normal attack as soon as possible.
• Beneath the Azure Sky: Increases attack. Its crit rate bonus effect takes time to activate, and Xueyi must defeat an enemy every 3 rounds to achieve maximum effectiveness.

Conclusion

With the information shared by Mytour above, Honkai: Star Rail gamers surely know how to effectively build Xueyi. She proves to be a highly efficient DPS with very high damage stats through accumulating attack damage, needing only free-to-play helms plus artifacts no one used before patch 1.6. Wishing you quickly achieve graduation-level stats, and see you again in the next articles!