An Instant Before A Gaze is a 5-Star Light Cone from The Erudition Path in Honkai: Star Rail. Check out this guide for An Instant Before A Gaze's best characters, stats, ascension materials, and how to get it!

An Instant Before A Gaze Stats and Ability

An Instant Before A Gaze Effects and Overview

An Instant Before A Gaze
Rarity	★★★★★
Path	The Erudition
Ability	A Knight's Pilgrimage Increases the wearer's CRIT DMG by 36%/42%/48%/54%/60%. When the wearer uses Ultimate, increases the wearer's Ultimate DMG based on their Max Energy. Each point of Energy increases the Ultimate DMG by 0.36%/0.42%/0.48%/0.54%/0.60%, up to 180 points of Energy.
Rating	The Erudition

Rating is based on Superimposition 1.

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An Instant Before A Gaze Stats

An Instant Before A Gaze Superimpose Levels

How to Superimpose An Instant Before A Gaze

Superimposing An Instant Before A Gaze requires a copy of the same Light Cone to upgrade its ability.

An Instant Before A Gaze Best Characters

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Recommended Characters for An Instant Before A Gaze
Herta	Qingque	Serval
Argenti

Explanation

An Instant Before A Gaze is a Light Cone for Erudition characters who use their Ultimate frequently and use it as their main source of damage. The CRIT DMG and Ultimate DMG increase it provides based on Max Energy are great boosts for DPS characters like Argenti.

Is An Instant Before A Gaze Worth It?

Great For Argenti

An Instant Before A Gaze increases CRIT DMG and increases Ultimate DMG based on the wearer's Max Energy. This Light Cone is amazing for Argenti since his Ultimate has high multipliers and is his bread and butter.

This allows Argenti to have even more burst damage when using his Ultimate. Having this Light Cone also allows you to build more ATK on Argenti, which is easier to get on Relic sub-stats compared to CRIT DMG.

Should You Pull?

An Instant Before A Gaze is a good choice if you want to boost purely the DMG of a character. Compared to Before Dawn, this Light Cone provides more CRIT DMG and the Ultimate DMG increase can be used by any character who has a damaging Ultimate.

However, only characters who mainly use their Ultimate as their source of DMG can effectively use it. Characters like Jing Yuan or Himeko can still use this Light Cone, but since they use Follow-Up Attacks as their main source of DMG, this gives less value to them.

An Instant Before A Gaze Ascension Materials

Total Ascension Materials

Ascension Material	Total
Extinguished Core	20
Key of Inspiration	4
Key of Knowledge	12
Glimmering Core	20
Key of Wisdom	15
Squirming Core	14
Credit	385000

Materials Per Ascension Level

Lvl.	Light Cone Ascension Materials
20 ➔ 30	Extinguished Core x8 Credit x5000
30 ➔ 40	Key of Inspiration x4 Extinguished Core x12 Credit x10000
40 ➔ 50	Key of Knowledge x4 Glimmering Core x8 Credit x20000
50 ➔ 60	Key of Knowledge x8 Glimmering Core x12 Credit x50000
60 ➔ 70	Key of Wisdom x5 Squirming Core x6 Credit x100000
70 ➔ 80	Key of Wisdom x10 Squirming Core x8 Credit x200000

How to Get An Instant Before A Gaze

Featured Light Cone in Bygone Reminiscence

Duration	July 10 - July 30, 2024

An Instant Before A Gaze was the featured Light Cone in the Bygone Reminiscence Warp Banner from July 10 to July 30, 2024 (UTC-5).

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An Instant Before A Gaze Release Date

Released on December 6, 2023

Honkai: Star Rail 1.5 Phase 2 Release Date
Release Date	December 06, 2023

An Instant Before A Gaze was released in the second half of Honkai Star Rail's Version 1.5 along with Argenti!

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