Regular Star Rail pass And Special Passes are the coveted currencies you use to Warp on banners in Honkai: Stellar Rail.
Banners are the main way to get more characters, so knowing how to get Passes in Honkai: Star Rail is important for your different team compositions, especially because some methods of getting them actually have a time limit.
To help you get as many characters as possible, we’ve detailed how to get special passes and Star Rail below.
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How to Get Special and Star Rail Passes at Honkai Star Rail
Regular Star Rail Passes are the white-colored tickets you can use on Departure Warp and Stellar Warp banners to get characters available in the standard pool – like 5-star Bronya and Gepard, or 4-star Tinyun and Sushang.
The rarest are the gold-colored special passes, as they are used on limited-time character banners for 5 stars like Seele, or the Brilliant Fixation Light Cone banner for weapons. You also have the option of consistently earning 5 stars or 4 stars on these limited-time banners.
We’ve gone into more detail below, but at a glance, here’s how to get special passes and Star Rail to Honkai: Star Rail:
- Pom Pom’s Trailblazer Rank Rewards
- Permanent Event Pioneer Will
- Login Event Rewards
- Operation Briefing Rewards
- Starlight Exchange
- Ember Exchange
- Stellar Trade
- Complete certain missions
We can help you on your first Astral Express journey with our character tier list, redemption codes, how to retreat, how to use Findie, Stagnant Shadow explainer, and Seele build pages. For side quests, we also have puzzle solutions for ‘Sentient Beings’, ‘Vessel of Mediocrity’ and ‘Night on the Great Mine’. Elsewhere, you can get more information on the next banner, as well as the current 1.0 banner and calendar of events.
Trailblazer rewards and operation briefing
The best way to get regular Star Rail Passes is to increase your Trailblazer rank to claim rewards from Pom Pom and the Trailblazing Will event, redeemable from the “Travel Log” menu. Completing Operation Briefing objectives also helps, but isn’t as lucrative.
Exchange embers and starlight
When you warp on banners and receive weapons, you get emberswhich can be used in the “Embers Exchange” section of the store to redeem both Regular Passes and Special Passes.
For every character you get from Warping, you will also get Starlightand similarly to Embers, you can redeem Starlight in the “Starlight Exchange” section of the store for regular and special passes.
Always make sure you spend your Embers in “Ember Exchange” on Passes before the timer resets, as you can only buy five of each type of Pass at a time before they run out. When the timer resets, five more from each Pass will spawn with a new timer. This does not apply to the Starlight Exchange, as Starlight is harder to obtain.
Stellar Trade
The main way to get special passes in Honkai: Star Rail is to trade Stellar Jade in the “Stellar Trade” section of the store. It costs x160 Stellar Jade per regular or special pass, but we only recommend getting the special variety here
Getting special passes will work better for you in the long run, as all regular 5-star and 4-star characters are included in the limited-time character banners anyway.
Connection events
Finally, keep an eye on your travel journal for special login events that can reward regular and special passes! You must manually claim them each day from the Trip Log if a login event is in progress.
Good luck with Banner Warping!
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