Guide to building Honkai Star Rail Asta: Recommended Light Cones, Relics, and Traces

As an astronomer, Asta, the manager of Herta’s Space Station in Honkai Star Rail, has a variety of duties that occasionally go beyond researching celestial objects. She is well-known for being from a wealthy family and frequently rescues her guild and employees from financial difficulties while overpaying on items that are typically regarded as needless.

Supporting her allies is another aspect of Asta’s in-game function as a playable character. She is connected to the Harmony Path and uses the Fire element. Fortunately, this character may be acquired free of charge during the game’s early levels, immediately after Honkai Star Rail introduces the warping mechanic.

The best Light Cones, Relics, and Traces to choose for Asta are all included in the article that follows.

How to create Asta in Honkai Star Rail as a suitable buffing support

Skills and Traces to prioritize

Asta’s skills can aid her allies get damage and an SPD increase at the same time. Characters in Honkai Star Rail with high SPD stats can move or turn before the foe. Thus, a character with a higher SPD stat can act before any enemy, including the initial turn at the beginning of a conflict.

Asta casting her skill (Image via Honkai Star Rail)

Based on her total ATK to a single adversary, Asta’s talent deals fire damage to adversaries. She can, however, additionally attack a second random enemy and deal attack damage based on her complete ATK stat. This is directly related to her passive talent, which allows each hit from her skill to bestow a unique boost on all allies, stacking up to five times.

Last but not least, Asta’s ultimate can raise the SPD of all allies for two turns, including herself. Building Asta with SPD first is one of the finest tactics for her, as it will allow her to take the first turn when the battle begins. Her talent can thus damage numerous foes while initially granting all friends the damage bonus.

About Traces, you can first unlock ATK and fire damage, then crit rate and defense.

Light Cones

The “But the Fight Isn’t Over” Light Cone, which boosts the wearer’s energy regeneration rate after performing an ultimate on friends, should be the greatest one for Asta. The 30% damage increase for the following ally taking a turn after casting a talent, however, is Asta’s best perk.

Bui the Battle Isn't Over Light Cone (Image via Honkai Star Rail) — Bui the Battle Isn’t Over Light Cone (Image via Honkai Star Rail)

After Asta uses her skill, this will stack immediately with her damage buff. The “But the Fight Isn’t Over”Light Cone can be obtained for free in the Starlight Exchange Store for 600 Undying Starlight. “Past and Future” gives the wearer a similar boost with regard to 4-star Light Cones.

Past and Future Light Cone (Image via Honkai Star Rail)

The following ally taking a turn after using a talent deals 32% more damage for one turn at level 5. Moreover, the Forgotten Halls Shop offers this F2P Light Cone for 200 Lucent Afterglow.

Relics and Planar Ornaments

Asta’s finest relic set item is the Musketeer of the Wild Wheat, which has a 4-set bonus that can enhance SPD and direct attack damage. ATK or SPD should be given top priority while creating Asta. The former will raise Asta’s damage output, while the latter will enable her to initiate combat and provide her teammates a damage boost.

Cavern of Corrosion Musketeer Relic set (Image via Honkai Star Rail)

Given that their SPD is 120, the Sprightly Vonwacq 2-piece set of Planar Ornaments can boost the wearer’s energy regeneration and speed up their activities.