Is Topaz worth pulling in Honkai: Star Rail ?

In Honkai: Star Rail Topaz is a senior employee of KMM's strategic investment department, who became playable character after the start of the second phase of update 1.4. In this guide, you will find out whether Topaz is worth spinning after launching her banner. We will tell you about the main features of the heroine, indicating who exactly should knock her out, and who can skip her Jump with peace of mind.

Key features of Topaz

Pros and cons of Topaz

First of all, we will briefly tell you what this lovely young lady is - she is a 5-star Fire character belonging to the path of Hunting. Her set of abilities and attacks are aimed at strengthening and performing powerful bonus attacks. Next, we will briefly consider the main advantages and disadvantages of the heroine. The first include:

• Gives a buff to bonus attacks not only to herself, but to all allies in the squad, which brings her a little closer to the role of a support character.
• Pairs well with some free characters, such as Asta, who can increase the attack power, speed and fire damage of allies.
• The Counter is able to deal several hits at once in one turn, and all of them will be considered bonus attacks.
• Relatively easy to use when you need to quickly destroy one enemy.
• Significantly strengthens teams playing through bonus attacks. Breathes new life into Joy's path Virtual universe.
• The Accountant is able to restore Topaz's energy, which reduces the need to increase the heroine's energy recovery.
• Critical damage is increased by superpowers, and the chance of inflicting crit. impact - traces. All this simplifies character assembly.
• The KMM employee's technique makes it much easier to find ordinary chests and piggy banks, since the Accountant not only shows the location of the nearest treasures, but also does not allow the pigs to run away at the sight of the player.
• Has significant potential in the long run when more characters using bonus attacks are introduced into the game. Therefore, it is a good investment in the future of the account.
• It has a beautiful design and bright character. Many people would like to have in their squad a strict and luxurious businesswoman who, although she puts the interests of the company first, is not devoid of compassion and empathy.

However, this business girl should not be considered an ideal character, since she has a number of disadvantages, and some may find them quite significant:

• The lack of AoE attacks makes her less attractive when you need to quickly deal with a large number of enemies or fight a boss that can summon minions.
• Topaz lacks synergy with the damage over time from Burn, so it is not very suitable for creating fire mono-packs. In addition, Fire itself is currently not a very popular element due to its mediocre buffs.
• She will be able to fully reveal her combat potential only with other characters aimed at delivering bonus attacks, for example, with Himeko, Clara, March 7, and so on. This imposes certain restrictions on configuring commands.
• The Accountant stops his attacks if Topaz is affected by debuffs that take control of the character away from the player. As a result, the squad's overall DPS will decrease significantly.
• Among the light cones of the “Hunt” path, there are very few options aimed specifically at enhancing bonus attacks.

More detailed information about Topaz’s parameters, abilities and eidolons, as well as tactics for playing her, can be found in our separate manual.

Reasons to rock Topaz

Now that it is more or less clear to you what this heroine is capable of, you can answer the question of who should knock her out. If you have accumulated enough characters with bonus attacks (Clara, Blade, Kafka, Jing Yuan, etc.), then you can finally assemble a powerful team focused on delivering this type of attack, since Topaz will be able to significantly strengthen them.

However, even alone, this KMM employee is capable of inflicting great fire damage if she is sufficiently buffed, increasing her attack power, speed and chance of delivering critical hits. If Topaz walks and ults more often, then with her regular attacks she will be able to promote the effect of the Accountant, and with her superpower she will be able to strengthen it. All this turns her into an excellent fire damage dealer.

Here are some more reasons why you might want to pull this character:

• You liked its gameplay and/or appearance. Still, don't look at just the numbers - if you like the way the heroine looks and are comfortable playing as her, then you can ignore the statistics (use a test run to evaluate them).
• You urgently need a good main DD to create a second powerful team for the passage Halls of Oblivion.
• You're not only exploring the present, but also looking far into the future, where there will likely be more characters with bonus attacks in the game, which will expand the number of teams that Topaz can fit into.

Reasons not to spin Topaz

If you do not have powerful damage dealers with bonus attacks that should be strengthened, and you do not like this kind of gameplay, since you prefer heroes that deal direct damage immediately and without any additional conditions, then we do not recommend that you draw Topaz, since you will probably be disappointed in it later.

The benefit of it can be significantly reduced if your account already has well-leveled fire damage dealers, for example, Hook and/or Guinaifen, which cover your needs for attacking characters of this element.

Be sure to also consider banners other heroes. In the second half of update 1.4, for example, a rerun will be held together with Topaz Seele, which is also an excellent damage dealer, and, under certain conditions, capable of single-handedly destroying an entire squad of enemies. Perhaps, in your particular case, she will bring you more benefit than a KMM employee.

In patch 1.5, with an increased probability it will be possible to get Hoho, who is a good healer and support. If you have a shortage of healers, then saving star jades for a trainee judge may be a good solution.

conclusions

To summarize the above, it is difficult to call Topaz an imba-heroine suitable for all players. So it’s definitely not worth spending all your star jades on it urgently - first weigh all the pros and cons, and only then make the final decision.