Honkai: Star Rail 2.3: Firefly Drip Marketing Finally Arrives

Honkai: Star Rail just dropped a nuclear drip marketing post revealing Firefl as the first playable character of patch 2.3. Firefly's backstory is shrouded in mystery. She was created as a weapon and suffers from a condition called Entropy Loss Syndrome, which is a result of her genetic modifications. She fights relentlessly to find a cure and defy her predetermined fate and we are likely to get more details about her backstory in patch 2.2 leading up to her release in 2.3.

Honkai: Star Rail 2.3 Firefly Official Drip Marketing

"Fireflies are such magical creatures, aren't they? They may throw themselves at a flame or suddenly grow old, but every night before that, they will shine brighter than the stars." A member of the Stellaron Hunters and a young girl clad in a mechanical armor "SAM."

Born as a weapon, Firefly is afflicted with the agony of Entropy Loss Syndrome due to genetic modification. She joined the Stellaron Hunters in search of the meaning of life, relentlessly pursuing ways to defy fate.

Honkai: Star Rail 2.3: Firefly Leaks

Sam (Combat Form)

Basic ATK
Deals Fire DMG to a single target.

Enhanced Basic ATK: Smoldering Wasteland
Heals a percentage of own Max HP, and deals Fire DMG to a single target.

Skill
Consumes a percentage of own Max HP, and deals Fire DMG to a single target. If HP is insufficient, will drain to 1 HP.
After the attack, if the target is Weakness Broken, regenerate some Energy.

Enhanced Skill: Devouring Conflagration
Heals a percentage of own Max HP, and deals Fire DMG to a single target and adjacent targets.
After the attack, if at least 1 attacked target is Weakness Broken, advances own action and deals extra Fire DMG to all attacked targets.
All DMG dealt by this skill are considered as Ultimate DMG, instead of Skill DMG.

Ultimate: Burning Starlight
Dispels all debuffs on self, and enters the Primary Combustion state, and advances own action by 100%.
Summons a Cooldown Kernel on the action bar. When the Cooldown Kernel takes action, exits the Primary Combustion state.

Talent: Primary Combustion
When under the Primary Combustion state, increases SPD by a fixed value, and increases DMG dealt by a percentage of (convertible) Break Effect.
Also, Basic ATK and Skill will be switched to their Enhanced version

Talent: Scorched Barrier
Reduces DMG taken by a percentage of lost HP. When under the Primary Combustion state, this DMG reduction is further increased by a fixed amount.

Talent: Luminous Fireflies
When not under the Primary Combustion state, every time Current HP changes, will regenerate Energy based on the ratio of the HP change to Max HP.

Trace #2
Increases resistance to Crowd Control debuffs.

Trace #3
When under the Primary Combustion state, gains Fire DMG Boost.

Eidolon #1
When casting Enhanced Skill: Devouring Conflagration, before the DMG is dealt, inserts a Fire Weakness to the central single target, lasting for some turns. This effect ignores RES.

Eidolon #2
When receiving a buff, the duration of this buff is increased by 1 turn.

Eidolon #4
When under the Primary Combustion state, upon defeating an enemy, the action of Cooldown Kernel will be delayed. This effect can be triggered at most a certain number of times during each Primary Combustion.

Eidolon #6
When under the Primary Combustion state, when own turn ends, gains 1 stack of Heavenly Fire, increasing DMG dealt by Ultimates, max some stacks.
When Primary Combustion ends, removes all stacks of Heavenly Fire.

Technique
Upon entering combat this way, has a fixed chance to insert a Fire Weakness to all enemies without Fire Weakness and reduce their Fire RES, lasting for some turns. Then, deals Fire DMG to all enemies.

Honkai: Star Rail 2.3 Firefly Release Date

Honkai: Star Rail patch 2.3 is expected to release around 19th June. Going by previous drip marketing patterns, Firefly will be the first character to debut and we will get a second character revealed tomorrow. Leaks suggest that Jade will be the second new character of the patch but we need to wait for an official confirmation by Hoyoverse.