Difficulty V: Emotional Damage (Honkai Star Rail)

Today in Honkai Star Rail we're doing Difficulty V/5 in Swarm Disaster. It's hard.
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0:00 Intro
0:33 First Try on Difficulty V, Propagation Path
7:47 First Try on Hunt Path
11:03 Second Try on Hunt Path
14:52 Elation Path?
19:31 The Worst Thing That Ever Happened
21:38 Outro

[@thisisactuallyacownotalamm2080]

The elation path changing the final respite to a combat domain gotta be the most lore accurate thing, like Aha themselves personally decided to f*ck with you with that one

[@lividsama]

Yep, Aha be like "your tears are delicious"

[@midnightscara]

The pain i felt when your respite domain changed oh god

[@SillySkull]

I didn’t even know that could happen, that’s so depressing 💀

[@erebuskaslana1583]

I'm still laughing my ass off oh my god Aha

[@orein1880]

Aha you chaotic mf I hate you but god damn was it also funny that I despaired that hard for that one tile

[@Afrohawk512]

That ending man...Aha is a cruel, cruel Aeon

[@karimhegazy3866]

i feel so bad for laughing but aha is the best troll ever XDXD

[@tetept4]

@@karimhegazy3866 his name is literally laughing

[@melouch9895]

they're just a silly little guy :3

[@blanca4101]

How was it the Aeons fault? It was Mogas.

[@Tecco273]

​@@blanca4101yeah he didn't read That also happened to me LOL Now I pay attention to any random effect😂

[@kuukies]

I can't even imagine having to take on something so difficult lmao 😭😭

[@T7L6M_]

HUH

[@KazumaHayazaki]

@shootingsttarz I beat D - V with Pure DMG and 1 Defensive Blessing. And that is the 3* Upgraded Destruction Blessing that gives "15% Less DMG to all Allies on the Field".

[@SewloLOL]

Have you beat it

[@agentorder4604]

A tip for players struggling and dying in stupid ways. If you want do re do a battle all you have to do is close Star Rail (before the defeat icon shows up) and you can retry a battle! (The only thing you will lose is your technique points)

[@jaidyn259]

THANK YOU

[@saberwrld]

My friend told me this and it's saved me (if I do it in time)

[@DantalianN]

Yeah but 1 thats cheating 2 there is times where u said "if this thing can kill me i wouldn't get to the final boss anyways" and just restart

[@lanus6508]

​​@@DantalianNthen dont do it, its a single player game and diff 5 is very demanding, let people play the way they like

[@Gaeshiete]

@@DantalianN Restarting a fight aint cheating, and theres times where you can mess up certain things in a boss fight, lor RNG screws you over. also, a few elite enemies are actually harder than the final boss for me, just because they have shitty RNG patterns or apply too many debuffs, or they just have an extremley large HP pool

[@cloudmuffin2000]

Remembrance is the easiest path to win with because of Disassociation Edit: why I say remembrance is the easiest is because I beat swarm 5 with 3 free characters those being Natasha March and herta and I used pela which is basically free because she's already been on so many banners

[@user-5dr4wkc4b-ti-da3r-tsuj]

I thought of trying it.... I have March7, pela, trailblazer and luocha built, thinking of remembrance path resonance as main dps :( Will that work ? {SW, seele, clara} can use any of these characters

[@cloudmuffin2000]

@@user-5dr4wkc4b-ti-da3r-tsuj the team I used is March pela and healer of your choice bring your strongest main dps for the beginning but for the final fight grab herta, you want the blessing that applies Disassociation on hit and as much effect hit rate as possible

[@cloudmuffin2000]

@@user-5dr4wkc4b-ti-da3r-tsuj herta can be replaced with ice sword guy if you have him can't remember his name rn

[@rakeshparihar6444]

@@cloudmuffin2000 yangching

[@Raxxonius]

@@user-5dr4wkc4b-ti-da3r-tsuj You don't need to deal damage with Remembrance once you get Dissociation. Go for the Dissociation damage buffs (2 and 3 star buffs) and any freezing blessings. After you get that, go for shields to help you survive. For the bosses all you need to do is freeze them and poke them to trigger dissociation and they'll take massive damage while being permafrozen. You can use anyone at that point and all you need to do is attack to freeze the enemies. There are definitely videos you can check out on what blessings to go for. The best places for the 2 star remembrance blessings are adventure domains.

[@imdani4997]

Elation really is elationing so hard with the transaction domain troll I can hear Aha laughing 😭

[@doodoo4956]

That "spider thing" in kafka's fight is psychological suggestion, which dominates many of you team mates but you can cleanse it off with abilities that allow that like bronya skill, luocha skill, natasha skill, etc.

[@cxrindgo]

for anyone wondering the other f2p character that can cleanse (beyond natasha) is march with her skill! (correct me if there are any more) i sometimes bring both march & bronya because once it effects 3 or more characters around it’s terrible to try and clear with only one cleanser :’)

[@TheWeeklyweek]

@@cxrindgo Yea, recently March has been a staple on my teams. Her cleanse and HUGE shield just makes Kafka so easy. (Also I don't have Gepard, so she is my most reliable tank)

[@doodoo4956]

@@cxrindgo My bad, I forgot March had a cleanse with her skill but that's why i put Et cetera, as in there are more, I just can't remember all of them. Thank you though!

[@amarilistheodore9156]

Lynx can clean as aoe😂😂

[@doodoo4956]

@@amarilistheodore9156 I made the comment before Lynx came out. Thanks though. 😂😂❤

[@meriwidget3474]

Weirdly... Bailu has been on every one of my successful level 5 teams.. her rez is SO handy, I think Fu Xuan might help, because I guess she helps with "one shot" mechanics, but for now.. Bailu is the best defense against that lol, even when I managed to do it on Hunt path with Gepard AND Bailu with the Destruction card that splits damage.. my Ting STILL went down.. but Bailu saved the day lol. Giving her lots of secondary Abundance cards helps of course lol.

[@aceofpurity]

Who be asking tho

[@josephcaesar6634]

I have a 50/50 so i cant get Fu Xuan ;-;

[@x_Psyduck_x]

I honestly don't know why people are so hyped for a single rez. Like, if your character is dying you're probably screwed anyways and one rez won't save you, I have a difficult time imagining the fight in 4-5 swarm difficulty where just one of your characters dies accidentaly. Bailu is great healer but for me Luocha is way more useful in every team and path resonance I choose.

[@joelo8673]

19:47 aha is most definitely laughing his ass off at moga lmaoo

[@sashasychov7589]

He just did a little trolling

[@HandIer]

19:44 That happened to me once on a destruction run, i had the die which turns a domain into a combat one, and i accidentally used it in a respite domain because I wasn't paying attention 😭

[@prawnactor1278]

19:44 The exact moment when Moga became one of the Mourning Actors.

[@hungerdanceofkaa]

Aha was CACKLING when happiness triggered that respite

[@seraf8520]

the respite domain disappearing was heartbreaking

[@blacksiopao]

the fact that you used the two paths that have the lowest clear rate

[@DarkFrozenDepths]

Also 19:45 My guy was really hurting for Herta at that moment.

[@aquaforge8744]

the hidden paths can be unlocked whenever you make choices for a specific path, if you make 20 choices for each path it will unlock

[@hello_mr.yomi6627]

Torturous difficulty literally makes whales cry

[@rebchizelbeak5392]

Yeah. Because they are used to just brute forcing through and don’t have to worry about balancing defense and attack. Meanwhile, I was able to 100% it by running fire MC and M7 together, WITH a healer and my DPS (that I swapped off per path). All paths done at 20, including the “hidden” path achievements. No Geopard.

[@DenjiSora]

​@@rebchizelbeak5392this guy casually has all 20 paths already ☠️ like do you do anything outside of playing this game?

[@DenjiSora]

Nah I think whales are actually having a easy time especially if they got E2 Dan Heng. This is ez for them

[@rebchizelbeak5392]

@@DenjiSora no. I just play smart. Once you unlock propagation, and you know what stories have the unlocks, you can finish the remaining in a few hours. The propagation path allows you to skip the entire level. You can run the propagation path at level 1 and finish it in less than 5 minutes. If you know what stories have the paths on them, you can end a run in less than a minute and restart on a story that does have what you need. Play smart.

[@nxku1747]

Hell nah it's easy af

[@komaruu-]

For anyone struggling i recommend remembrance path with march, disassociation damage is too good plus theyll be mostly frozen

[@x_Psyduck_x]

the final boss has so much resistance though, I had almost every blessing for buffing my EHR and they still dodged my freezes like 2 times out of 3, that was so unfortunate

[@kikisatya18]

Yea as soon they unfrozen they will one shot u right away

[@Roihclem871]

​@@x_Psyduck_xya at the end of w5 boss I can't even proc disco on shield break

[@astra8815]

As a clara main, the revenge trotters are my favorite because they're the only ones Clara can do anything against...

[@natanaelperez1042]

the secret paths you finish after the dialogue options after a bossfight you gotta choose the same path 20 times

[@preyrez8138]

If anyone is curious. The spider thingy during kafka boss fight mind controls all character with the crosshair on them. You can get rid of it with cleansing skills.

[@tiesvandongen6647]

Im so happy this uploaded it gives me peace for going to sleep

[@ReaNaga]

For the trotter heard I always use Kafka with her large technique aoe

[@zerozero5073]

For those ???, after each boss fight you get dialoge choices with paths attached to them. You need to choose 20 dialoges for each of the paths, so like 20 hunt choices to unlock the ??? hunt, etc

[@st613]

elation path with replacing respite was so canon Aha

[@Sunhwk]

For anyone struggling with difficulty 5 I def recommend abundance path as you can take your sweet time to get all the blessings you can w/o any penalty. Specially if you have Blade. Make sure to grab as many survivability buffs along the way too - it helps a lot. Also, feeling your pain as the same thing happened to me when doing a remembrance run, I had the most perfect blessings and completely forgot to check my dice and ended up not being able to upgrade any of my blessings in the end.

[@saberwrld]

Props to moga for somehow pushing through that. I would've given up probably right away 😂

[@esttaxatty]

have you noticed that glitch were when imbibitor dies in sim uni the other characters have his special outline for their skills.

[@am80ma]

I hope you were able to clear after getting Fu Xuan, cuz i certainly did, she made it so easy and I wasn't nearly as far with the communing trails like you were

[@astra8815]

OMG i ve been using elation as my only path for swarm disaster and i didnt even know the effect at 19:43 existed 😭

[@spiderdude2099]

Swarm disaster really said "if you're not able to zero diff memory of chaos, you're gonna have a BAD TIME"

[@amarilistheodore9156]

This😭😭😭

[@scarletregen1265]

Moga, you should do Remembrenca path or abundance for the last one

[@anyacad021]

Auspicious star is easily tied for best blessing with disciplinary flicker for me, 2 star blessings always seem to be the most broken

[@leppard9959]

Moga, did you know, March 7th with preservation is so op, you have to godmode her soon.

[@Emily_Linka]

March is so underrated. Shield with good taunt + healing at E6 + follow up attack?! She’s amazing.

[@kuyarence]

​@@Emily_Linkadon't forget ult freeze if with high EHR

[@Emily_Linka]

@@kuyarence yes!! She’s so good

[@leppard9959]

@@Emily_Linka Ikr? Shes still e0 for ma, and yet shes so good.

[@chillhour6155]

That sht at the end was rough, but it's happened to all of us at this point

[@iamspeedwoof]

The resets I did to finish dificulty 5 is just crazy.

[@bubbles000]

I started when blade came out so I can only finish challenge three, which I could farm more but mannn everything seems so difficult. (Everyone on my team is level 70 except IL who’s at level 78)

[@tokimebestgirl8197]

In Difficulty V, not only they're tougher but they now have smarter AI and they have a lot of options like kiliing the dmg dealer first, party foul before it gets destroyed, even auto doesnt work anymore

[@biggiehl]

the ??? Trialpaths in yellow are after each plane you get a question from an aoen and answers representing a different path (destr. nihility and so on). After picking the same Type of answer e.g. nihility answers 20 times, you unlock the hidden trial for it to get more points for that specific passive points, same goes for every other one too, but its totally rng while passing the plane 1 to 2 and 2 to 3 With DHIL/gepard/luocha i would suggest going destruction+preservation if you get all right things works very well. And remember to focus small adds in boss room since they buff the dmg of his aoe.

[@timgravelle3253]

yeah revenge trotters can be brutal, especially if they spawn without your dps damage type as a weakness

[@Dad_404]

19:46 that's the happiness effect for you😌

[@dan_chen]

I got both the lotto cards twice when I was finishing up the elation path. It was probably scripted that way too, legit headed into battle with 1% health and no skill point no energy, and somehow I made it out alive because of the remembrance freezing and nihility healing

[@lasarith2]

I preordered the game for PS5, since it’s now 22-24 days before it out (ish) is there any chance you could do a video on what we need to know - to get the best Start ( I haven’t been following it since it took so long for them to give us a date ) thanks in advance if/ when you do 🙂

[@gamingwkyo3159]

use abundance and get the 1 star blessing, blessing, if ur using luocha and dan heng'll. it'll help with the sp consumption

[@imdani4997]

I have tried the difficulty 3 for days and just managed to actually made it to the last boss but even tho I got a lot of great blessings that helped me through previous bosses, I still couldn't beat the damn swarm 💀 I used luocha, fire mc, qingque and tingyun on abundance path with propagation and even unlocked all the path resonance. I got like 26 blessings that helped me through boss kafka with ease including split dmg AND dissociation blessings. I have to admit 3/4 of my characters are a little underbuilt because relics is a pain but at first they're doing well against the swarm. But it keep buffing itself and just one shotted everyone at the third phase 😔 I guess I need to either kill it before it buff itself way too much or use shields (I wish I have gepard) idk if I should change to preservation path because abundance worked very well with cleansing and adding the countdown in the communing device so that I can get as many blessings I can Also swarm combat is better than swarm occurrence because it for sure will gives at least one blessings while there are chances for the occurrence to just take one of my blessings and gives absolutely nothing in return 💀 knight of beauty in reward domain is the best thing ever tho I can't thank them enough

[@synfejla405]

Honestly finish building your Kafka and go with Nihility path, I did it with bailu and fire mc as sustain so path is super good

[@hagia7006]

I got a broken control combo for the bug 1. use march 7 2. find and enhance nihility blessing applied weakness break effect to adjacent enemy 3. find remembrance blessing applied ice weakness when use ultimate (enhance if can) not guarantee to win you your difficulty 5 but will help tremendously bonus extra weakness break from nihility will help.

[@Treeko13]

Moga finally understanding the power of remembrance????

[@sampc1767]

Bronya (however it’s spelled) is the best for the trotter mini game, her shots doesn’t alarm the rest of the trotters and you can spam it easily, i have Dang il and did both, just shoot from afar

[@TheDrunkSamachurl]

OMG that cuadrakill was amazing XD

[@HozDHearts]

4:55 IT CAN, glad you didn't take the risk.

[@kidsIIIII009]

Revenge trotter became Svarog mixed with Blade 😨😨

[@matttpickkles]

got every limited 5 star besides blade & kafka wishing I had a gepard or bronya tho cause they do make a massive difference if you have them you are one lucky cookie

[@jeanmickelanthonymanalo4526]

That trotter is basically reverse clara but aoe and a luocha counter lol

[@corvus5014]

Another tip for march 7th enjoyer You can also use destruction path for the damage reduction Notes: needs healer and damage dealer

[@SomeDumbSpider]

Yeah, I hate facing the spicy pigs too.

[@MegaGreenkirby]

the "???" nodes can be open since the start...I can point out how if you want to, there's videos about it already.

[@zofifthbatchgaming3009]

manage to complete the 3 paths D5 with QQ and Blade.... Did Abundace, Destruction and Propagation

[@ejmarbella213]

As much as it's nice to see you succeed, I enjoy watching you fail :)

[@Dad_404]

if you unlock all pathstriders you can do diff 5 easy peasy like i did with my dan heng IL who has 0 piece set. i was also able to do it kafka nahility. the best part is i don't have either gepard or loucha or bronya

[@waffle1.]

torturous difficulty was easy as hell for me ngl completed it first try i used blade, luocha, sw and tingyun. I got to disruption 5 and i got really lucky with my blessings, hunt + elation + destruction + abundance, i love it

[@skyreaper1994]

Lucky!

[@ramencat7700]

Hey Moga, u should use the path of Destruction. And use the dual path with Elation and Preservation. Do the run really slowly, get 20 Destruction blessing with at least 2 Golden Blessing and the rest is Elation and a few Preservations, get as many elations as possible. Bring Blade, Dan Heng IL, Luocha and Gelpard. As You get the Destruction Resonance from Na'Nuk, get the one that trade HP for Shield, it would really save your characters from getting destroyed. Yea... So many keys are to do the Domain as Slowly as possible and get as many blessings as possible of Destruction/Elation for the Damage to show!

[@fadelity4444]

that elation path broke my spirit, felt so unfair lmaooo

[@sahibsingh7358]

I did this diff5 with prop once and nihility and i balled it 🧐

[@ezekiel4725]

Idk if you're gonna read this BUT, for the trotters that run away just use Bronya and shoot them from far away without alerting them. you should get fully clear this way.

[@kaizhikhor3773]

play with aha's path and wild stuff are bound to happen

[@TheWeeklyweek]

Last night I got Knight of Beauty and one of the option was to recieve ALL the preservation blessings. The Swarm boss literally killed themselves by attacking my team. It's fun

[@Alessiajaja]

Torturous seems like a pain I can’t even beat swarm II

[@ulyssesmontoya6305]

Glad I cleared it in the first try. Cuz I got massacred in Diff. 4, so I was surpised when I passed diff. 5

[@user-wf5jm2nc1h]

I took almost a month break from the game, so most of my chars are still lvl 70. And I haven’t farmed relics yet. I struggle even on difficulty 3. I can’t imagine myself doing diff 5. Without considering their ultimate, wind sheer stacks that they apply just two shot my units. I barely managed to clear diff 3 with March, Bailu and abundance path. Maybe I’m just dumb and don’t see a possible way to make it easier…

[@ollienap]

lmfao its crazy that i saw this vid after it was uploaded a min ago

[@slottoma8782]

im not crazy, but in 2:05 didnt the shield of the boss regenerate?

[@Schione.]

I won twice at diff 5 and i can tell you how : - the 1st i did it with nihility. The 2 star blessing that reduces enemies atk is necessary. My team is Luka, SW, Nat, and Gepard - the 2nd i did it with preservation. I pretty much got every blessing that reduces enemies' dmg. My team is Luka, fire MC, Gepard, and March 7th. Tl:dr everytime i won i used Luka and Gepard

[@noice9193]

Oh I had even worse done to me imagine having a god run with every 3 star blessing from 3 paths then finishing the mission for elation that gives you both lotto tickets right before a barrel breaking mini game and the final boss

[@111111hakar]

As the resident League degen that incident reminds me of ever time a draven loses 400 stacks+ forever in our heats

[@AnaHernandez-ge1mi]

I just beat it with preservation + Gepard I don't think I'm doing with any other path soon

[@skykeeper7711]

Destruction with Preservation interplay is the easiest thing ever

[@noelrakman9641]

the ending broke my heart 💔

[@Voidgloomz]

Estruction trotters are madness

[@secretsecret299]

Imagine being able to complete any difficulty on this thing i cant even beat 1

[@komaru1097]

I feel the pain When the herta shop is gone in the last part 😂😂😂

[@ulyssesmontoya6305]

Should definetly use rememberance, cuz freeze is so broken especially with interplay mecanics

[@jepeman]

Haven't even tried difficulty 5 yet, have finished the path otherwise, except the ??? ones and last one obviously. Each run just take such a ridiculous amount of time and it simply isn't fun because one random bad RNG can waste so much time.

[@usmansubhani7482]

You need a Clara if you’re fighting Destruction Trotters. She counters every.single.time!

[@good-cl6pt]

HSR endgame content is so fun bro😂

[@el.gato.]

hi moga!!

[@HiaQi]

The music soo sadd😢😢😢😢 i hold my tear 🥺🥺🥺🥺

[@goatcatofchaos]

Moga: man this is the worse trotter, the revenge trotter Me: boi the shield one is ridiculous cuz he escapes before i can even hurt him (although I've learned hunt path hits like several times so thats a solution if YOU HAVE IT)

[@zoorc9001]

19:45 Emotional Damage

[@darkeye7024]

Aha is so mischievous lmao

[@Satchiidesu]

elation really is just the randomizer, sometimes it trolls you

[@ray6149]

Kafka spider? Moga that was her domination ability 😂

[@reflecsion2551]

Twice, twice I have just lost a run because of the destruction trotter.

[@snowee3873]

Clara loves Destruction Trotter

[@daughterofgorgias7235]

As a f2p I finally did it with abundance path. It is mostly rng on blessings

[@mirwanmuzani6632]

😂 coco combo with bronya last phase totally destroy my team, she keep frozen my team

[@bombdememo]

I’m struggling with getting that third path done for the final pillar. I feel you 🫡

[@ilEagle3696]

Remembrance path is actually cracked. It's my go to

[@-Kaiden-]

Man I can't even beat difficulty 3 I'll never understand how people do this so easily 😭

[@sumeristhefox1258]

you can try going with rememberance path and invest in march, dissasociation does 30% damage on any mob once it bursts., you can further increase it too. I once two shot the final propagation boss on difficulty 4.