Nah you know it will hit top 5 minimum next month from new planet and sparkle and yaoguang especially with the new class shenanigan whale swiping left and right for the LC
I have zero expectations for it. It already looks like the next Path will be implemented as poorly as Remembrance does, and I don't expect the story and dialogue to be streamlined in a way that makes even a tiny amount of sense. Also from what I've seen in leaks, many many of the upcoming characters will all be new versions of existing characters (like the Sparkle we already have confirmed). That's just not fun, like how Dan Heng has like three forms already.
I've stopped playing HSR but mind explaining whats the new path gimmick do? For remembrance it was basically summon units like JY topaz but plays the same like all existing paths, is elation doing the same thing now?
The main problem with Remembrance was that it encompassed every other path. Tribbie was Harmony, Hyacine was Abundance, Castorice was Destruction. And yet they didn't account for this by providing players with diverse enough light cones. Castorice and Aglaea are both DPS, but they scale off different stats. Tribble scales off HP, but Trailblazer doesn't. It really emphasized spending all your resources on rolling for signature light cones. And it also really limited team options by making sure Remembrance effects worked better the more of that path was on the field.
From what we've seen, Elation is going to do many of the same things. Bonuses based on how many elation characters you have (and don't forget, no four star characters). Light cones will be limited. We don't fully know yet if Elation will pull the same thing and let it replace other paths. But it just seems like they haven't learned yet how to improve from last time.
Meanwhile, with Genshin, when Sumeru introduced the Dendro element, they overloaded us (pun intended) with dendro characters. Weapons aren't tied to paths/element, and there are plenty of available four star weapons for free to play, as well as better options for five star weapons from the standard banner (Star Rail didn't add new ones for Remembrance). Yes, Star Rail has purchasable five star light cones with in-game currency, but they are limited to one each.
As soon as I saw that the very first Elation character has kit bonuses based on the number of Elation path characters on the team, I tapped out. They couldn't even wait for 2-3 Elation characters to come out before trying that garbage teammate path clause design again, they instantly made an Acheron/Herta path-locked type character to get people to commit to pulling multiple Elation characters as soon as the path releases. Also there's no Elation MC in sight either, at least Remembrance had the decency to give us RMC on the first patch.
Just thinking about that is so exhausting. Amphoreus somehow managed to suck out all the fun with all the absolutely-must-pull+lightcone-or-your-account-is-fucked banners.
And then the gameplay didn't really improve, the events were so so, the story was so painfully long winded even though they ended up cutting down on time. Then the Penacony rewrite to fit in the newest gacha waifu (you must pull her btw, or your break team is shit)...
It's so painfully obvious the game is stagnating in place in the cash cow phase being milked.
Elation is just like remembrance but WORSE. They have the kit all over the places, the only unique about them is Aha (in the action bar) which is like a summon but for the whole team. They are gonna do the Remembrance shit again with even more limited because the summon does not depend on your character, it depends on YOUR WHOLE ELATION TEAM. The fact that Sparkxie as 4.0 character has a passive that need 3 Elation while you only have 2 Elation (both 5*) in the game at that time is just DISGUSTING.
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u/walker-of-the-wheel Feb 01 '26
Oh god, please let it hit rock bottom so it has a chance to finally improve. Please.