Next Honkai Star Rail Banner schedule: Featured characters in Version 1.2 and beyond
Learn all about the 1.2 and 1.3 Banners, including Kafka, Blade, and Imbibitor Lunae!
Looking for details on the next Honkai: Star Rail Banner? Warp Banners are the key to expanding your character and weapon collection in Honkai: Star Rail. Banners act like loot boxes in some ways: you can spend your Star Pass currency to "Warp" for exclusive characters and high-end Light Cone weapons.
Head to the Warp screen in Honkai: Star Rail and you'll see a selection of Banners that you can use to "Warp" in new characters and items. The really important one is the limited-time Character Event Warp Banner. Every 3 weeks, a new Character Event Banner appears to replace the old one, bringing with it a different selection of 5-Star and 4-Star characters that you can obtain. Some of these characters can only be obtained through these Character Event Banners, so if you want them, you'll need to Warp them in before the current Banner disappears and the next Banner arrives!
Stay updated with the current and next Banner in Honkai: Star Rail with this comprehensive guide on all past, present, and future Warp Banners in the game.
In this guide:
- Next Honkai Star Rail Banner schedule
- Next Banner Light Cones
- Current Honkai Star Rail Banner
- Current Banner Light Cones
- Honkai Star Rail Standard Banner (Stellar Warp)
- Honkai Star Rail Departure Warp Banner
- All Honkai Star Rail Banners list
Next Honkai Star Rail Banner schedule
Honkai Star Rail 1.2 Banner details
Honkai: Star Rail Version 1.2 was released on July 19th, 2023, with Phase 1 featuring the banner debut of new 5-Star character Blade, as well as drop rate boosts for Arlan, Sushang, and Natasha.
Phase 2, live since August 9th, introduces two new characters — 5-Star Kafka and 4-Star Luka — as part of the former's debut Character Event Warp: Nessun Dorma. The other featured 4-Star characters are Sampo and Serval.
1.2 Banner new characters:
| Character | Rarity | Element | Path |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blade | 5-Star | Physical | Destruction |
| Kafka | 5-Star | Lightning | Nihility |
| Luka | 4-Star | Physical | Nihility |
Honkai Star Rail 1.3 Banner details
No official release date has been given for Honkai: Star Rail 1.3, but given the usual six-week schedule we can expect it to release around August 30th 2023. The leaked information and rumours for Honkai Star Rail's 1.3 Banner are similarly unconfirmed, but we have an idea of who we can expect to Warp thanks to a recent Banner schedule leak on the HonkaiStarRail_leaks subreddit.
According to this leak, the featured characters for the 1.3 Banner will be Fu Xuan and Imbibitor Lunae - also known as Dan Heng IL, or Dragon Dan Heng. Imbibitor Lunae's existence was later officially confirmed on the Honkai Star Rail twitter. Exciting stuff! Here are the details we have so far on these upcoming characters.
1.3 Banner characters:
| Character | Rarity | Element | Path |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fu Xuan | 5-Star | Quantum | Preservation |
| Imbibitor Lunae | 5-Star | Imaginary | Destruction |
Next Banner Light Cones
While new character Banners arrive every 3 weeks, the Brilliant Fixation Light Cone Banner is permanent. However, whenever a new character Banner arrives, the pool of possible Light Cones that you can Warp in the Brilliant Fixation Banner will update to reflect the currently featured characters. And whenever a new character is introduced with a Banner, a new 5-star Light Cone is almost always added to the Brilliant Fixation pool.
It's important to fit the right Light Cone with the right character. All Light Cones in Honkai: Star Rail have a special Light Cone ability which only works if you pair it with a character of the same Path. Put a Harmony Light Cone on a Destruction character, for example, and they won't be able to benefit from that Light Cone's special ability. They will, however, still gain the basic stat bonuses of having that Light Cone equipped.
Thanks to recent (albeit unconfirmed) leaks, we now know several of the Light Cones coming with the next Honkai: Star Rail Banners:
| Light Cone | Banner | Character | Path | Ability | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Unreachable Star | 1.2 | Blade | Destruction | Increases Max HP and Crit Rate by X%. When wearer takes damage or uses their own HP for an attack, increases DMG of next attack by X%. | Link |
| Patience Is All You Need | 1.2 | Kafka | Nihility | Increases the wearer's Break Effect by X%. Each time the wearer casts an attack, increases speed by X, up to X stacks. Additionally, target enemies have a 100% chance of sustaining damage over time. | Link |
| Light Brighter Than The Sun | 1.3 | Imbibitor Lunae | Destruction | Increase Crit Rate of the wearer by X%. When the wearer casts a Basic ATK, they will gain 1 stack of [Dragon's Chant], which lasts for X turns. Each stack of [Dragon's Chant] will increase the wearer's ATK by X%, and energy regeneration by X%. [Dragon's Chant] can only be stacked up to a maximum of X times. | Link |
| Already Closed Both Eyes | 1.3 | Fu Xuan | Preservation | Increases Max HP and increases Max HP of allies. The increase value is equal to X% of wearer's Max HP. When entering battle, restore HP equal to X% of lost HP to all allies, and increase effect hit resistance of all allies by X% for X turns. | Link |
We hope to hear more soon with the 1.2 livestream on July 8th, but until then, this is all the information we have to go on. We'll keep this page updated as more details arrive!
Current Honkai Star Rail Banner: Nessun Dorma
The current Honkai: Star Rail Banner features new 5-star character Kafka, a Lightning/Nihility character exclusive to the Nissun Dorma banner. She's joined by new 4-star Luka, as well as Sampo and Serval.
Unlike Kafka, these 4-star characters won't be exclusive to this Banner, although Luka is temporarily exclusive until the next version update. In the meantime, however, they all receive a drop-rate boost: any time you pull a 4-star item or character from this Banner, there's a 50% chance that it will be one of the featured trio.
The current Honkai: Star Rail Banner is the Phase 2 Banner for Version 1.2, and will end on Tuesday August 29th. It will be replaced by the Phase 1 Banner for Version 1.3, which is expected to launch the following day.
See below for full details on the characters with increased drop rates on the current character event Banner:
| Character | Rarity | Element | Path |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kafka | 5-Star | Lightning | Nihility |
| Luka | 4-Star | Physical | Nihility |
| Sampo | 4-Star | Wind | Nihility |
| Serval | 4-Star | Lightning | Erudition |
Current Banner Light Cones
As with the current Character Event Warp Banner, the current Brilliant Fixation Banner will finish on Tuesday August 29th. The currently featured Light Cones in this Banner are as follows:
| Light Cone | Signature Character | Path | Ability |
|---|---|---|---|
| Patience Is All You Need | Kafka | Nihility | Increases DMG dealt by the wearer by 24%. After every attack unleashed by the wearer, the wearer's SPD increases by 4.8%, stacking up to 3 times. If the wearer hits an enemy target that is not affected by Erode, there is a 100% base chance to inflict Erode on the target. Enemies afflicted with Erode are also considered to be Shocked and will receive Lightning DoT at the start of each turn equal to 60% of the wearer's ATK, lasting for 1 turn. |
| Resolution Shines As Pearls of Sweat | Luka | Nihility | When the wearer hits an enemy and if the hit enemy is not already Ensnared, then there is a 60% base chance to Ensnare the hit enemy. Ensnared enemies' DEF decreases by 12% for 1 turn(s). |
| Eyes of the Prey | Sampo | Nihility | Increases the wearer's Effect Hit Rate by 20% and increases DoT by 24%. |
| The Birth of the Self | Herta | Erudition | Increases DMG dealt by the wearer's follow-up attacks by 24%. If the current HP of the target enemy is below 50% of Max HP, increases DMG dealt by follow-up attacks by an extra 24%. |
Honkai Star Rail Standard Banner: Stellar Warp
Stellar Warp is the Standard Banner in Honkai: Star Rail. Unlike the other Banners which are replaced every three weeks or so, the Standard Banner is permanent and always available for your Warps.
Every 10 Warps with the Standard Banner gives you a guaranteed 4-star or 5-star character or Light Cone; and every 90 Warps gives you a guaranteed 5-star character or Light Cone.
Here are all the characters you can get from the Standard Banner:
| Character | Rarity | Element | Path |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bailu | 5-Star | Lightning | Abundance |
| Bronya | 5-Star | Wind | Harmony |
| Clara | 5-Star | Physical | Destruction |
| Gepard | 5-Star | Ice | Preservation |
| Himeko | 5-Star | Fire | Erudition |
| Welt | 5-Star | Imaginary | Nihility |
| Yanqing | 5-Star | Ice | Hunt |
| Arlan | 4-Star | Lightning | Destruction |
| Asta | 4-Star | Fire | Harmony |
| Dan Heng | 4-Star | Wind | Hunt |
| Herta | 4-Star | Ice | Erudition |
| Hook | 4-Star | Fire | Destruction |
| March 7th | 4-Star | Ice | Preservation |
| Natasha | 4-Star | Physical | Abundance |
| Pela | 4-Star | Ice | Nihility |
| Qingque | 4-Star | Quantum | Erudition |
| Sampo | 4-Star | Wind | Nihility |
| Serval | 4-Star | Lightning | Erudition |
| Sushang | 4-Star | Physical | Hunt |
| Tingyun | 4-Star | Lightning | Harmony |
| Yukong | 4-Star | Imaginary | Harmony |
Honkai Star Rail Departure Warp Banner
The final Banner worth talking about in Honkai: Star Rail is the Departure Warp Banner, which is only available to new players and disappears after you've made 50 Warps on it.
What's special about the Departure Warp Banner is that you get a 20% discount on the cost of a set of 10 Warps, and you're guaranteed a 5-star character somewhere in those 50 total Warps for that Banner.
The characters you can pull from the Departure Warp Banner are exactly the same as you can get from the Standard Banner, so you can view them using the table above.
All Honkai Star Rail Banners list
To help you keep track of when your desired character or Light Cone last appeared in the gacha, here is the full list of all past and current event Banners featured in Honkai: Star Rail:
| Banner | 5-Stars | 4-Stars | Version | Start Date | End Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nessun Dorma | Kafka | Luka, Sampo, Serval | 1.2 (2) | August 9th, 2023 | August 29th, 2023 |
| A Lost Soul | Blade | Arlan, Natasha, Sushang | 1.2 (1) | July 19th, 2023 | August 9th, 2023 |
| Laic Pursuit | Luocha | Pela, Qingque, Yukong | 1.1 (2) | June 28th, 2023 | July 18th, 2023 |
| Contract Zero | Silver Wolf | Asta, Dan Heng, Serval | 1.1 (1) | June 7th, 2023 | June 28th, 2023 |
| Swirl Of Heavenly Spear | Jing Yuan | March 7th, Sushang, Tingyun | 1.0 (2) | May 17th, 2023 | June 6th, 2023 |
| Butterfly On Swordtip | Seele | Hook, Natasha, Pela | 1.0 (1) | April 26th, 2023 | May 17th, 2023 |
Knowing what's going on in Honkai: Star Rail's gacha is all well and good, but knowing how to manage your currencies is equally important. Check out our Honkai: Star Rail currencies guide to help you learn your Stellar Jades from your Oneiric Shards. Happy Warping!