Every time a gacha game gets a big update, the biggest news is almost always the new characters. Honkai: Star Rail‘s 3.0 patch was no different. The Herta and Aglaea are the featured characters for the debut of Amphoreus, and both are demigods in their own right, with The Herta acting as a pinnacle Erudition character and Aglaea taking her place as the first limited five-star Remembrance unit.
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Both characters look incredibly powerful, but who should you spend your precious Stellar Jades on? We’ll go over why you should (or shouldn’t) pull for The Herta and Aglaea today.
Why You Should Pull For The Herta
The first limited five-star character available during the 3.0 period, The Herta, is the true form of the tiny spinning puppet girl you meet early in the Honkai: Star Rail tutorial.
She’s the Emanator of Erudition, and is as powerful in-game as she is in the story. The Herta is an Ice-type Erudition character, meaning she won’t come with any of the memosprite summon abilities released with the 3.0 update and the Amphoreus-specific Remembrance characters.
In their place is a massive expansion and evolution of established damage mechanics, starting with the core of her kit: Interpretation stacks.
The Herta and her teammates apply Interpretation when attacking enemies, up to a maximum of 42 stacks per enemy. If an allied unit hits multiple enemies, each enemy will receive a stack of Interpretation.
The damage The Herta deals depends on how many Interpretation stacks an enemy has, and as a main damage dealer, The Herta will be using her Skill as often as possible. Whichever target you attack with her Enhanced Skill will have their stacks reset, but all other enemies will maintain theirs. It’s good practice to keep as many stacks as possible on the main threat and allow the rank and file to build stacks naturally.
In the event your stack distribution gets mixed up, don’t worry. The Herta’s Ultimate distributes Interpretation “intelligently,” meaning Ultimate damage will prioritize stacks based on the relative power of each enemy.
You should pull The Herta if:
- You want a powerful damage dealer with easy-to-access team building.
- You want a character who makes exploration more comfortable.
- You want a character who functions almost entirely differently from anyone else who came before her.
- You like her design and her wizard hat. Preferably both.
Why You Should Pull For Aglaea
Aglaea is also Chrysos Heir, a demigod empowered by a Titan of Amphoreus, and is the first limited five-star Remembrance Path character in Honkai: Star Rail. She brings a ton of new mechanics and potential team-building options to the table and kickstarts a new DPS meta with the introduction of summons.
All Remembrance characters add a twist to the Star Rail combat loop thanks to the addition of summons, or memosprites.
Aglaea’s memosprite is one of her mannequins, Garmentmaker, which can act independently or in tandem with its master. That interplay is at the core of Aglaea’s gameplay, and there are two parts to it.
First, Agalaea marks any enemy she attacks, and the Garmentmaker will only attack the marked target, with weaker blows hitting the two enemies beside them. Attacking marked enemies increases Garmentmaker’s Speed.
While Aglaea and Garmentmaker have separate health pools, damage to either provides Aglaea with Ultimate Energy.
Activating her Ultimate increases Aglaea’s Speed and gives her an Enhanced Basic Attack where she and Garmentmaker act in unison. Garmentmaker’s Speed continues to increase with each attack.
The higher the two characters’ combined Speeds, the more damage they can deal.
Summons like The Garmentmaker takes up a fifth unit slot on the field and can be the target of buffs, action-forward effects, and other enhancements. Summons aren’t permanent units, however, and leave the field after a duration.
Aglaea’s best teams are much more limited than The Herta’s. She relies more heavily on Sunday and Remembrance Trailblazer to get the most out of her kit. Sunday is the only one who can grant 100 percent action-forward and large damage buffs to a unit and their memosprite, making him a near requirement for Aglaea teams.
You also need to consider memosprite progression. The Garmentmaker requires upgrading to maximize its potential, just like its master, but you won’t need to farm separate Relic sets for a character and their summon.
All that in mind, you should pull for Aglaea if:
- You want a powerful damage dealer using a new, exciting gameplay system.
- You pulled for Sunday and want a character who can make full use of his abilities.
Both Aglaea and The Herta are worthy pickups, and which you choose will depend on what kinds of teams you want to build and which character’s aesthetic and gameplay speaks to you most.
They’re also more mechanically diverse and complex than many earlier members of the Star Rail roster, so they’re both fantastic if you like your game mechanics to have more going on.
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