{"id":541,"date":"2025-07-02T11:28:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T11:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.declareitspiritwear.com\/?p=541"},"modified":"2025-07-02T15:09:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T15:09:15","slug":"honkai-star-rails-new-buffs-mean-our-old-friends-are-back-in-the-top-tier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.declareitspiritwear.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/02\/honkai-star-rails-new-buffs-mean-our-old-friends-are-back-in-the-top-tier\/","title":{"rendered":"Honkai Star Rail&#039;s new buffs mean our old friends are back in the top tier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s always a good day when a Hoyo game updates, but the new <strong>Honkai Star Rail buffs<\/strong> for older characters are proving to be better than we thought. Take a look at any tier list, and you\u2019ll see our old friends have shot back up in the rankings. The relevant subreddits for each character are filling with showcases of their new, much higher damage numbers, too.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, here\u2019s our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pockettactics.com\/honkai-star-rail\/tier-list\">Honkai Star Rail tier list<\/a> for you to see exactly how we rate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pockettactics.com\/honkai-star-rail\/blade\">Honkai Star Rail\u2019s Blade<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pockettactics.com\/honkai-star-rail\/jingliu\">Jingliu<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pockettactics.com\/honkai-star-rail\/kafka\">Kafka<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pockettactics.com\/honkai-star-rail\/silver-wolf\">Silver Wolf<\/a> now that they\u2019ve received changes. The featured characters all get a new trial under the \u2018Novaburst\u2019 tab in the events menu, where you can see what\u2019s changed and test them all out. This gives you some stellar jades for your trouble, too.<\/p>\n<p>Blade\u2019s damage now calculates based on his maximum HP, and he has a higher chance of attracting aggro from enemies. You can see a full breakdown of numbers in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/BladeMains\/comments\/1lpr0cf\/revised_calctulations_for_buffed_blade_all_in_one\/\">this Reddit post<\/a>. Similarly, Jingliu\u2019s damage also comes from her maximum HP, and her crit rate goes up when teammates take damage.<\/p>\n<div>\n\t\t\t\tContinue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pockettactics.com\/honkai-star-rail\/old-character-buffs\">Honkai Star Rail&#039;s new buffs mean our old friends are back in the top tier<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\tMORE FROM POCKET TACTICS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pockettactics.com\/honkai-star-rail\/codes\">Honkai Star Rail codes<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pockettactics.com\/honkai-star-rail\/tier-list\">Honkai Star Rail tier list<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pockettactics.com\/honkai-star-rail\/banner\">Honkai Star Rail banners<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s always a good day when a Hoyo game updates, but the new Honkai Star Rail buffs for older characters are proving to be better than we thought. Take a look at any tier list, and you\u2019ll see our old friends have shot back up in the rankings. The relevant subreddits for each character are filling with showcases of their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":543,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.declareitspiritwear.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.declareitspiritwear.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.declareitspiritwear.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.declareitspiritwear.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.declareitspiritwear.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=541"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.declareitspiritwear.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":542,"href":"http:\/\/www.declareitspiritwear.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541\/revisions\/542"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.declareitspiritwear.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.declareitspiritwear.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.declareitspiritwear.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.declareitspiritwear.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}