For some reason, Trailblazer has decided to put their hat on and start farming aura in the form of the Harmony Trailblazer. Yes, 3 fifths of their kit is basically useless, but you'll be glad to know that the other 2 fifths of their kit is absolutely incredible, and today we're going to teach you how to build and play them. Let's talk about Harmony Trailblazer!
Character Overview: Why Harmony Trailblazer is Insane
Remember early Honkai: Star Rail? Everything is so tough nowadays. A simple enemy can take like 10 billion of damage before even flinching. Good thing we have now Super Break! It's like normal Break except it's Super and actually not like normal break at all.
Super Break is the newest, hottest form of damage that takes the Toughness Gauge you would normally break and dishes out damage proportionate to that Toughness with added multipliers based on your level and Break effects.
Super Break basically makes it so you don't have to focus on standard DPS stats to dish out a ton of damage; even your supports can add damage this way, making Harmony Trailblazer open up the door for free-to-play players to break the game regardless of elements. That's right, Harmony Trailblazer literally breaks the game.
Their Ultimate Harmony Trailblazer, which lasts for three turns, causes allies to be able to deal Super Break damage after enemies have been broken. It also gives allies some added Break Effect to further increase that damage with the teams you'll build.
The major downside to Harmony Trailblazer's ultimate is that it costs 140 energy to use, but that mostly gets fixed by E6 and by their talent, where they gain energy when an enemy has their Weakness broken.
Lastly, Harmony Trailblazer's technique gives your allies Break Effect for two turns, meaning you basically always want to use it. The rest of Harmony Trailblazer's kit is pretty insignificant.
Harmony Trailblazer Trace Priority
You want to level Harmony MC's ultimate and talent, and you can basically ignore everything else. They're a super unique unit, and you're going to get a ton of value out of them. That said, let us show you how they're built just so you can get right to using them.
| Trace | Priority |
| Ultimate | ★★★★★ (Maximum) |
| Talent | ★★★★☆ (Top) |
| Skill | ★★★☆☆ (Standard) |
| Basic | ★☆☆☆☆ (Low) |
Best Light Cones for Harmony Trailblazer
 | Memories of the Past |
| Works when you're a bit short on skill points but still want to have decent energy generation, especially since Harmony MC stats are very barebones. | |
 | Meshing Cogs (S5) |
| Works when you're a bit short on skill points but still want to have decent energy generation especially since Harmony MC stats are very barebones. | |
 | Past Self in Mirror (S1) |
| Pretty powerful if you have an extra one to spare on the Trailblazer. Enables SP restoration thanks to Ultimate Spam | |
 | Dance! Dance! Dance! (S5) |
| Super useful if you're trying to do funny cycle Shenanigans to get fast clears. | |
 | In Pursuit of the Wind (S5) |
| Could be an option if no other character is occupying it. | |
Most Harmony Light Cones will be fine, but what you'll look for from now into the future are Light Cones that give Break Effect and or Energy Regen, since you want to try and have 100% uptime on their Ultimate. Without it, they do lose most of their value.
Relics, Ornaments, and Stats Priority for Harmony Trailblazer
Relics
 | Watchmaker, Master of Dream Machinations |
| The full set could be great for Break-scaling characters. The additional Energy granted when breaking enemies is huge for the party members who can benefit from it. | |
 | Thief of Shooting Meteor with Messenger Traversing Hackerspace |
| If it is too hard to find a decent status this combination will allow you to have some decent speed in combat. | |
 | Thief of Shooting Meteor |
| The full set could be great for Break-scaling characters. The additional Energy granted when breaking enemies is huge for the party members that can benefit from it. | |
Ornaments
Talia: Kingdom of Banditry
Use Talia to get a ton of breaks. The speed requirement is pretty high, but it doesn't really matter because that's the only sub stats you need on Trailblazer aside from Break Effect.
Penacony, Land of the Dreams
Incredible option if you have teams with shared elements, coupled with Energy Regen.
Sprightly Vonwacq
Another great option for their versatility and Energy Regen.
Best Stats
| Body HP > DEF | Feet Speed | Sphere HP > DEF | Rope Break > Energy |
| Substats SPEED = Break Effect% > HP% = DEF% | |||
Once we have E6 Harmony TrailBlazer, you'll want to run Break Effect on Link Rope basically 100% of the time, especially because the damage is huge.
The only other important thing here is speed boots, just so that you can try to get your energy up faster and also to activate Talia, but outside of that, it's not that important. Without E6, we'd recommend going to the ER on Link rope for full up time, which ends up being the most important part of their kit.
Although even without E6, a lot of the time you have pretty good uptime anyway, so you might not even need ER rope in general for those of you looking to get in and out.
Best Teams for Harmony Trailblazer
Harmony Trailblazer is one of the coolest additions to the support roster just because they enable a different play style from anything we've ever had before. Obviously, you could have tried to run break before, but it just didn't really feel that good; now it feels incredible.
The first thing we want to talk about is the team blueprint, which looks like this: you have your support 1, the Harmony Trailblazer sustainer, and your main DPS character that's going to be breaking.
Every single team for break looks like this: the only thing you're going to be switching is the character that's actually doing the breaking, and sometimes a sustainer. The reason is that Ruan Mei gives Break Efficiency, which increases the amount of damage that you're doing with Super Breaks.
Because Super Breaks are based on how much Toughness gauge you would actually destroy, Ruan Mei ends up being the best partner for Harmony Trailblazer 99.9% of the time. However, with that said, if you don't have access to Ruan Mei, you can also play characters that would go with hyper carry units.
Since you're only playing one main DPS character, you could play Sparkle, you could play Bronya, or you could even play Robin, who has the Action Forward. You're not necessarily playing these characters for all the other Buffs they give you; you're just playing them for the Action Forward and to get more attacks, which is more Super break damage overall, and Ruan Mei is going to be the best partner for this, but Robin, Bronya, and Sparkle can also be okay.
Who are other characters you can play in Break Teams? If you don't have an Action Forward character, Silver Wolf ends up being pretty good because she can apply weaknesses, which will help you with whatever your main character is, just applying that weakness, but also, she gives defense shred, which is just universally good across the team.
Eidolons
| Eidolon | Justification |
| E1 Best Seat in the House | This is going to get Harmony Trailblazer skill points back after their very first skill, which is nice for the first cycle, since it can guarantee Max Energy gains and Buffs. |
| E2 Jailbreaking Rainbowwalk | E2 is going to increase Harmony Trailblazers energy regen by 25%, though for the first three turns, which helps you get their ultimate up quickly for the first two uses. This is one of the Eidolon that majorly helps. |
| E4 Dove in Tophat | E4 is going to be one of their best since it gives your allies 15% of the Harmony Trailblazer Break effects which affects every single character when Super Breaks can be triggered. |
| E6 Tomorrow, Rest in Spotlight | E2 is going to increase Harmony Trailblazers energy regen by 25%, though for the first three turns, which helps you get their ultimate up quickly for the first two uses. This is one of the Eidolons that majorly helps. |
Conclusion
The Trailblazer Harmony has a powerful kit that anyone can use. Thanks to the Super Break mechanics, players can change the tide of the battle in no time with a break-focused kit. You don't even need Honkai Star Rail top up to obtain it because the kit is free-to-play (although you may need some pieces in the form of other characters).
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