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The Simulated Universe has been a part ofHonkai: Star Railever since its launch, and you can start taking part in this mode after getting past the main story of the Herta Space Station. With the launch of the Version 1.5 update, World Eight was added to this mode, and you’ll have to battle Yanqing in this one.
However, you’ll still have to get past quite a bit of the main story before you can unlock this World in the first place. After unlocking, you can get through all four of its difficulties to get a bunch of rewards, but you’ll need to keep a few things in mind.
Elite Enemies Encountered In World Eight
Just like most of the worlds in the Simulated Universe, World Eight also consists of a total of 13 floors. The rooms you’ll enter on these floors are randomized, but you’re guaranteed to fight anElite boss on the fourth and eighth floors with the final boss on the thirteenth.
Unlike the previous World, there are only five Elite bosses that you can encounter in this one. However, the bosses you encounter are randomized andtheir weaknesses are quite variable in World Eight. To counter this, it’s important to learn their mechanics so that you can defeat them even without the perfect characters:
Aurumaton Gatekeeper
Lightning, Wind, Quantum
This boss' weaknesses don’t matter much since it constantly hides them whenever the Sanction Rate is achieved. It’s also known for calling in enemies that canreduce your party-wide DEF and let the boss deal increased damage.
The best way to deal with this boss is by bringing acharacter that can deal a ton of single-target damageand just focusing on it as much as possible.
Decaying Shadow
Fire, Lightning, Wind
This is another boss where you’d want to bring a single-target DPS since she doesn’t spawn any extra enemies. However, she doesdeal a ton of damage and has a chance of applying Imprisonon your characters.
To counter this, you can bring characters that caneither prevent or cleanse these debuffs. Nihility characters are better than Harmony for this boss since you’d want to attack the boss a lot.
Senior Staff: Team Leader
Fire, Ice, Imaginary
Out of all the bosses, this one has the highest chance of defeating your team sinceit spawns more enemies while also dealing massive AoE damage. It’s highly recommended to have the right weaknesses for this boss.
If you aren’t able to defeat its spawns or break their Toughness soon enough, it canunleash heavy AoE damage that can kill your entire team in one sweep.
Aurumaton Spectral Envoy
Physical, Lightning, Imaginary
This boss was released in the same update as World Eight, and she excels in applying a certain debuff to your characters. If this debuff is successfully applied,your character can’t take a turn and gets locked on by the enemy.
If you don’t get rid of this debuff before her next attack,she deals massive damage to this character.
Voidranger: Trampler
Physical, Wind, Imaginary
You can only encounter this boss on floor eight in this World,but it’s still the easiest boss to go against. Its constant attacks can put your characters in danger, but you should be able to defeat it easily as long as you have good sustainers.
You get Respite rooms just after the Elite battles, whichallows you to download extra characters to have a variety of combat types.
Complete Yanqing Boss Battle Guide
If you’ve successfully beaten two Elites and reached the thirteenth floor of World Eight, the final test lies ahead of you in the form of Yanqing. You might already be used to a few of his attacks from fighting him in the main story, but theSimulated Universe Yanqing features some new exclusive attacks as well.
You’ll have to get past three of his phases, but thankfully,he doesn’t spawn the swords until you reach the second phase. Other than that, here are all the attacks you can expect from this boss in different phases:
Rapturous Wind
One, Two, Three
One ally takes Ice DMG while Yanqing and his swordsget one stack of extra DMG.
Ironthorn
Deals Ice DMG to one ally and has ahigh chance to apply Freeze on them.
Ballad of Formation Breaker
Deals quite a bit of Ice DMG to three adjacent allies.
Qi Advance
Enters a charging state tounleash the Cascading LacerationUltimate in the next turn.
Cascading Laceration
Deals massive Ice DMG to all allies. You’ll see this attackmuch less in the third phase.
Swallow Return
Two, Three
Summons four Swords around Yanqing, increases his SPD, andtransfers his Weaknesses to the Swords. If a Sword gets its Toughness broken, it instantly disappears.
Qi Converge
Three
Instantly locks on one of the four allies and launches theAethereal Dreamflux attack on them after two turns.
Aethereal Dreamflux
Deals massive Ice DMG to the locked-on target whiledealing extra damage for the number of Swords on the field. All the Swords disappear after this attack.
The Aethereal Dreamflux attack is exclusive to the Simulated Universe Yanqing, and it’s also the deadliest attack you’ll witness asit can easily one-shot any character if there are Swords on the field. It’s important to play around these attacks if you want to win this battle at higher difficulties.
Best Characters And Paths For World Eight
Destruction has been one of the most dominant paths for clearing higher difficulties in the Simulated Universe, andthis will still be your best bet here if you don’t have proper sustainers. However, you’re able to also go for Remembrance or The Hunt path if you want to clear this fast and have trust in your sustainers.
The Destruction path has a blessing that splits all the incoming damage between allies. This can bevery useful against Yanqing’s one-shot, even if you aren’t on this path. you may also use other paths depending on the characters on your team. And talking about characters, here are some of the most valuable units for World Eight:
Reason
Fu Xuan
Fu Xuan is arguably the best character you may use in World Eight since she can simplytake more than half of Yanqing’s one-shot damageand protect the targeted ally. This will prevent any of your teammates from getting knocked out.
You can also think about usingpaths other than Destruction or Preservationif you have her.
Dan Heng: Imbibitor Lunae
Works as a great AoE Imaginary DMG dealer that can be used toget rid of the Imaginary Weakness Swordsapart from dealing a ton of damage.
Huohuo
If you’re using Imbibitor Lunae as the main DPS, this character’s Wind combat typecan be used to find and break the Wind weakness Swords. Moreover, she’s a phenomenal healer who can keep your team alive against Yanqing.
Kafka
Apart from being an AoE Lightning applier, she can also deal a ton of damage to Yanqingjust because he gets an extra turn with his SPD increase.
You can also use The Hunt Path in World Eight if youhave a single-target Wind character like Huohuo.
The Path Resonance from this pathreveals the Swords that have Wind weakness, and you don’t have to try your luck at finding them.
World Eight Rewards
Much like every other World in the Simulated Universe, you’ll get some activity points by taking part in World Eight and getting to higher floors. At the highest difficulty,you can get up to 7,500 points by beating Yanqing. These points count towards the weekly rewards that can give you Stellar Jades, Herta Token, and Standard passes.
Other than that, you can also get some rewards by beating a certain difficulty for the first time. These rewardsinclude Stellar Jades, Credits, Exclusive World Eight Planar Ornaments, Herta Tokens, and Star Rail Passes. Finally, you can also get some Credits and mob drops after defeating Elites in this World.
