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Honkai: Star Rail

A Rare Anecdote Day 2 Guide

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Honkai Star Rail - A Rare Anecdote Day 2 Guide
A Rare Anecdote is Honkai: Star Rail's Enscrolled Crepusculum Day 2 challenge. See the best teams, how to beat Day 2, stage details, and all the rewards here!

Enscrolled Crepusculum Guides
Honkai Star Rail - Enscrolled Crepusculum Event GuideEvent Guide HSR Enscrolled Crepusculum Day 1 - A Deathward Negotiation Day 1 HSR Enscrolled Crepusculum Day 2 - A Rare Anecdote Day 2
HSR Enscrolled Crepusculum Day 3 - An Unexpected Exchange Day 3 HSR Enscrolled Crepusculum Day 4 - An Inescapable Fate Day 4 HSR Enscrolled Crepusculum Day 5 - A Bellow from the Brave Day 5

A Rare Anecdote Best Teams

Enscrolled Crepusculum Day 2 Best Team

Best Team for Day 2
The Herta The Herta Herta Herta Sparkle Sparkle Luocha Luocha

The Herta, Herta, Sparkle, and Luocha are all Day 2 Trial Characters.

For this Team, The Herta will be your main DPS while Herta is your Sub-DPS. Sparkle is the recommended support here as she's a Trial character and can provide your team with the necessary SP during the build-up phase.

For sustain, you can use Luocha as he's SP positive and can help during the build-up phase using his Ultimate against the Spirithief Bartholos.

Alternative Characters

Character Merits
Star Rail - ArgentiArgenti DPS Replacement
You can opt to replace The Herta with Argenti instead as his kit is easier to use during the build-up phase.
Star Rail - JadeJade Sub-DPS Replacement
You can use Jade instead of Herta as her constant FUA can help The Herta fill up her Ultimate but you might find ranking up during the build-up phase harder with Jade.
Star Rail - RobinRobin Support Replacement
Provides party-wide DMG boost and can advance forward your entire party.
Star Rail - TingyunTingyun Support Replacement
Tingyun is recommended if you're running with Argenti as she'll provide him with Energy.
Star Rail - HuohuoHuohuo Sustain Replacement
Huohuo can provide energy regen and can dispell debuffs.
Star Rail - LingshaLingsha Sustain Replacement
Lingsha's can help during the build-up phase as her skill can hit every enemy. She also has FUA that can help fill The Herta's Ultimate.
Star Rail - AventurineAventurine Sustain Replacement
Good sustain and provides Effect RES that can help during the Kafka fight.

Enscrolled Crepusculum Day 2 F2P Team

Best Free-to-Play Team for Day 2
The Herta The Herta Herta Herta Sparkle Sparkle Luocha Luocha

This team is from Day 2's available Trial Characters.

For the F2P players, there will be no difference between the best team as the Trial Characters are good enough to reach 40+ rank and clear the fight with more than 2 cycles left.

How to Beat A Rare Anecdote

Use Basic Attack to Change Between Modes

Honkai Star Rail - Use Basic Attack to Change Between Modes

Only Basic Attacks can switch the modes for the Spirithief Bartholos and attacks such as Follow-up Attacks, Ultimates, and Skills will not trigger it to change.

There is an exception where defeating a Gnaw Sting that spawns will change the mode of all the Spirithief Bartholos. Note that the Spirithief Bartholos will always resolve first before the Gnaw Sting explodes.

Switch All Spirithief to the Same Mode

Honkai Star Rail - Switch All Spirithief to the Same Mode
As much as possible, try to make sure that all Spirithief Bartholos are on the same mode before using a Skill or Ultimate. Always clear out the larger number of Spirithief of the same modes first. if there are different modes on the field.

If there's an equal amount of Spirithief Bartholos that are either in Skill and Ultimate mode, it's better that you can use your Skill first then either do an Ultimate or Skill to clear them out depending on the next wave.

Use Ultimate When Running out of SP

Honkai Star Rail - Use Ultimate When Running out of SP
Try to only use your Ultimates when you're running out of SP, especially if Sparkle doesn't have enough energy to use her Ultimate to refill your missing SP. Consider using your Ultimate only when you have 2 SP or less left.

Reach a Rank of 40 or More

Honkai Star Rail - Reach a Rank of 40 or More
It's recommended that you reach a Rank of 40 or more to easily clear Day 2's challenge and have an SS-Rank. It's also possible to clear this at Rank 30 but can be difficult depending on your team.

A Rare Anecdote Stage Details

Enscrolled Crepusculum Day 2 Trial Characters

Trial Character Build
The Herta The Herta
Sparkle Sparkle
Luocha Luocha
Herta Herta
Argenti Argenti

Enscrolled Crepusculum Day 2 Mutation Mechanic and Stage Buff

Day 2 Mutation Mechanic
Solved Departure
Correctly use Skill or Ultimate to attack this enemy to trigger Solved Departure, making them immediately leave the battlefield. After using Basic ATKs to attack this enemy, or after marking this enemy take DMG from other enemies, it will switch between Skill and Ultimate Mode.
Day 2 Stage Buff
Each time "Solved Departure" is triggered, upgrades the rank of Stage Buff by 1.
AoE ATK
Increase all allies' ATK (increases with rank). After attacking, for every 1 enemy hit, deals additional DMG and Toughness reduction to the enemy with the highest Max HP.

Enscrolled Crepusculum Day 2 Enemies

Enemies Weaknesses
ImaginaryLightningIce
PhysicalLightning
PhysicalIce
PhysicalLightningIce
ImaginaryIceFire
PhysicalIce
ImaginaryIceFire
IceFire
PhysicalIceFire
PhysicalIceFire
PhysicalIceFire
PhysicalWindIce
ImaginaryPhysicalIce
ImaginaryPhysicalIce
ImaginaryWind

A Rare Anecdote Rewards

Enscrolled Crepusculum Day 2 Rewards

Objectives Rewards
Trigger the "Solved Departure" mechanic and improve Stage Buff to rank 8.
Star Rail - Credit Item Credit x50,000
In the Final Showdown phase, reach 40,000 Points
In the Final Showdown phase, reach 60,000 Points
In the Final Showdown phase, reach 80,000 Points
Star Rail - Credit Item Credit x20,000

A Rare Anecdote Information

Part of Enscrolled Crepusculum

HSR - Enscrolled Crepusculum

A Rare Anecdote is the Day 2 stage of Enscrolled Crepusculum where Spirithief Bartholos is featured as the key enemy that triggers the Mutation Mechanic. In this stage, Ice will be the best elements to use.

Enscrolled Crepusculum Event Guide

Honkai: Star Related Guides

Honkai Star Rail - Enscrolled Crepusculum Slim

Enscrolled Crepusculum Event Guide

Enscrolled Crepusculum Day Guides

Stage Trial Characters
HSR Enscrolled Crepusculum Day 1 - A Deathward Negotiation Day 1
HSR Enscrolled Crepusculum Day 2 - A Rare Anecdote Day 2
HSR Enscrolled Crepusculum Day 3 - An Unexpected Exchange Day 3
HSR Enscrolled Crepusculum Day 4 - An Inescapable Fate Day 4
HSR Enscrolled Crepusculum Day 5 - A Bellow From the Brave Day 5 All Trial Characters from Previous Stages are Available

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3 Anonymous Anonymous 10 months

you are delusional, i got 51 with f2p roster

2 Anonymous Anonymous 10 months

Who cares if you cant get the SS rank, the rewards are garbage after 40k points and the auto battle gets you way more then that lmao

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