One way to strengthen your favorite characters in Honkai Star Rail are Light Cones! It actually can be quite crucial to choose the right weapon for your team and will sometimes even make the difference between victory and loss. This tier list will help you to figure out which Light Cone is worth investing in!
Since there are so many Light Cones to choose from, it is not always easy to take them all into consideration when equipping your characters. The following tier list will help you by providing an overview of the existing weapons and explaining which one you should definitely invest in!
The list is divided into the seven paths in order to be more manageable and clear to read. So if you are just interested in one path, you can skip the other ones, although you should always have several paths in your team constellation!
Without further ado, let's get straight into the list!
Honkai Star Rail: Light Cone Tier List Guide
In Honkai Star Rail, Light Cones are a type of equipment which are very similar to weapons in other gacha games. In total, there are 99 available Light Cones right now. A fitting Light Cone is an absolute necessity to make your build as perfect as possible to be able to clear the end game content.
Each Path has its own Light Cones, which are divided in three rarities (3-Star / 4-Star / 5-Star), just like characters are. You can obtain Light Cones either through completing quests, get them as rewards, or by pulling them from a banner in the gacha system.
You will get way more Light Cones than you will ever need to equip all of your characters, and some of them are rather bad compared to even lower rarity ones.
Let's take a look at the first few Light Cones, shall we?
Destruction Light Cone Tier List
In total, there are fifteen Light Cones in the path of Destruction.
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Something Irreplaceable is completely broken if you use it on Clara, however, every other Destruction character can make good use of its stats and effect. Consider yourself lucky if you were able to get it! One of the best all-rounders in this category is probably Jingliu's “I Shall Be My Own Sword”.
The Hunt Light Cone Tier List
At the moment, there are fourteen The Hunt Light Cones.
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In the Night is still the most interesting, The Hunt Light Cone. Its synergy with Seele is one of the best in the game. On every other character, however, In the Night performs as good as the other 5-Stars in the S-Tier. Other picks like Worrisome, Blissful are pretty niche and work best on the characters they were made for in the first place, while In the Night stays the best all-rounder.
Erudition Light Cone Tier List
There are twelve Light Cones for the Erudition path at the moment.
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Before Dawn actually deserves its own category named “super broken”. Get this weapon if you have some spare Stellar Jades and use it on every Erudition character you want to play. Before Dawn provides every stat a character could ever ask for.
Harmony Light Cone Tier List
Right now, there are fourteen Harmony Light Cones in the Game.
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But the Battle Isn't Over, is probably still the best Light Cones for supportive characters like Bronya or Ruan Mei. However, every 4-Star Light Cone is excellent as well in the Harmony category, just be careful with Planetary Rendezvous's passive effect. Earthly Escapade is also an amazing weapon, however it is quite unique and is best to be used on Sparkle!
Nihility Light Cone Tier List
There are seventeen Nihility Light Cones at the moment.
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Good news: They are all work quite well and are very usable! With quite a lot of Nihility characters added over the course of the game, we have a bunch of Light Cones to choose from as well! Especially the new Herta's Shop Light Cone “Solitary Healing” looks super valuable and is a great F2P option, since you can upgrade it to R5 pretty easily.
Preservation Light Cone Tier List
There are fourteen Light Cones for the Preservation path right now.
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This may be controversial BUT in my opinion, Day One of My New Life is just the best overall Preservation Light Cone, especially if you are on a budget! If you have Moment of Victory, use it on Gepard, other than that, ALWAYS use Day One of My New Life if you happen to get it. And let's not talk about Texture of Memories …
Abundance Light Cone Tier List
At the moment, there are thirteen Abundance Light Cones in the game.
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SharedFeelings and Post-Op Conversationare exceptional Light Cones for all your healers. But if you have Luocha, Echoes of the Coffin is a mandatory Light Cone, as his healing scales with his ATK. Otherwise, could Warmth Shortens Cold Nights also do the trick. If you struggle with your energy regeneration, consider pulling for Huohuo's signature Light Cone Night of Fight!
Did you get a good overview? Then get into the game and equip your characters with the appropriate weapons, they will thank you for it.