by ” The Past and the Future ” is a Cone of Light belonging to the Harmony Track on Honkai Star Rail . We can get it by exchanging 200 Luminous Radiance in the Express courier shop and it can also be obtained as a random reward by participating in any Echoes of War combat.
This F2P Cone of Light has an effect similar to the five-star cone called « The Battle Is Not Over », since both have a passive that allows them to increase the damage of the next character that acts after their turn when using the Basic Ability (what What happens is that obviously the five-star one provides other additional bonuses that this one does not give you).
It is not very compatible with those characters who use their Basic Ability infrequently, such as Tingyun , for example , since in his specific case it generates a bonus that lasts three turns and can only be applied to a single character and to be able to To take advantage of the damage increase that this cone provides, we will have to use the Basic Ability quite frequently.
ATTRIBUTES OR STATISTICS OF “THE PAST AND THE FUTURE”
Let’s start looking at its basic attributes, keep in mind that we will give you the data it has at level 80 (the maximum):
- HP : 952
- ATK : 423
- DEF : 396
Now we go with the passive that is what really interests us:
- S1 : Increases the damage inflicted by the next attacking character (except the character with this cone equipped) by 16% when the bearer of this Cone of Light executes their Basic Ability.
- S5 : Increases the damage dealt by the next attacking character (except the character with this cone equipped) by 32% when the user of this Cone of Light executes their Basic Ability.
It is not much of a mystery, once we execute the Basic Ability of the bearer of this Cone of Light we will increase the damage of the next ally to act by 16% during that turn.
With certain characters that can give additional turns it will be very easy to take advantage of the passive of this cone; but if the character to whom we want to equip this weapon does not have a Basic Ability that allows it, we will need to give him a slightly higher amount of SPD than the character we want to increase the damage.
This is because if we equip “The Past and Future” to any character without taking this into account, we can give a character from the Path of Abundance or the Path of Conservation a damage bonus and we will have wasted it. completely.
WHICH CHARACTER TO EQUIP IT TO?
“Past and Future” has a pretty interesting passive, but there aren’t many characters whose kit skills go well with this Cone of Light; if we still want to take it, we will have to adjust the SPD of the characters on our team to give the right character the bonus:
Bronya is one of the characters that best fits this Cone of Light, since her Basic Ability allows us to choose the character we want to give her an extra turn, an ATK % bonus and if she has negative effects, she removes them along the way. .
Therefore, it will be one of the characters that it is easier to take advantage of this cone by being able to control which character will act after using its Basic Ability. Of course, the damage increase of the passive is not too high, so if you are interested in equipping it with it, it would be best to spend all the Luminous Radiance to improve it so that the bonus provided is more significant.
These are other characters that can take advantage of the bonuses of this Cone of Light:
- Asta : It’s not the best Cone of Light for Asta, but it can work with her because her Basic Ability is very good both to boost the whole team at once and to create Weakness Breaks on enemies. Asta’s problem is that he can’t give an additional action to a specific character, instead he raises the SPD of the entire party. Therefore, it will be necessary to build Asta with a little more SPD than the character we want to give the bonus of this cone’s passive.
