Honkai Star Rail offers tons of different ways to customize characters and prepare your party for battles. One of the most important aspects that play a role in that are different Light Cones. One such cone is Before Dawn, a 5-star Erudition Path Light Cone featuring Jing Yuan that brings tons of buffs to the table.
These buffs are a great way to make some of your characters powerful, but which characters are those? To use this cone effectively, it's important to know what characters will work best with it, what effects this cone will have, and how you can ascend it. In this guide, we'll walk you through everything you need to know about the Before Dawn Cone.
What Is Before Dawn?
The Before Dawn Light Cone is a wearable item for your characters in the game. When you use this cone, your character gets 36% Critical DMG, 16% Skill and Ultimate Damage, gains Somnus Corpus after using skill or ultimate, and a follow-up attack will do +48% damage by consuming Somnus Corpus. All of these effects make this cone a great choice. Here's how you can get it for yourself.
How To Get Before Dawn
There is only one way to get the Before Dawn: participating in the Brilliant Fixation Warp. Once a special event featuring this cone comes, you'll need to prioritize trying to get it before the event ends.
How To Ascend Before Dawn
If you are lucky enough to get this 5-star cone, here are the materials needed to upgrade it at each stage.
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Stage |
Materials Needed To Upgrade |
|---|---|
|
0 - 1 |
8x Immortal Scionette, 5000x Credit |
|
1 - 2 |
4x Key of Inspiration, 12x Immortal Scionette, 10000x Credit |
|
2 - 3 |
4x Key of Knowledge, 8x Immortal Aeroblossom, 20000x Credit |
|
3 - 4 |
8x Key of Knowledge, 12x Immortal Aeroblossom, 50000x Credit |
|
4 - 5 |
5x Key of Wisdom, 6x Immortal Lumintwig, 100000x Credit |
|
5 - 6 |
10x Key of Wisdom, 8x Immortal Lumintwig, 200000x Credit |
Best Characters For Before Dawn
If you are figuring out the best characters to use with Before Dawn Light Cone, here are the top picks to help you. All of these characters will work great with the cone, so if you have any of them, you will be good to go. The effects of this cone increase your damage and encourage using skills and ultimates, which is where someone like Jing Yuan shines. But as mentioned, the rest of the listed characters also work great with this cone.