Honkai: Star Rail – Dan Heng build and ascension guide

Check out the best Light Cones and Relics for Dan Heng in Honkai: Star Rail

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Unleash the power of your mysterious past with the best Honkai: Star Rail Dan Heng build and take down your enemies with superior speed. The serious Astral Express crew member is on the Path of the Hunt and deals Wind Damage, wielding a mighty polearm with great precision.

Table of Contents

1. Honkai: Star Rail – Dan Heng: best Light Cones
2. Honkai: Star Rail – Dan Heng: best Relics
3. Honkai: Star Rail – Dan Heng: best teams
4. Honkai: Star Rail – Dan Heng: ascension materials

Dan Heng’s Skill, Knight Spear Technique: Torrent, deals Wind DMG to a single target. On a critical hit, Dan Heng will reduce the target’s SPD for two turns.

His Ultimate, Ethereal Dream, is another single-target attack causing Wind DMG. A slowed enemy takes more damage from this attack, synergizing well with his Skill.

Dan Heng’s Talent, Superiority of Reach, boosts his Wind RES PEN when he’s been targeted by an ally’s ability, be it a buff, a heal, or a shield.

His Eidolon levels, gained when you get duplicates of the character, provide additional CRIT Rate, Talent utility, and buffs to his slow. The most important one is Eidolon 4, which advances Dan Heng’s next action by 100% after he defeats an enemy with his Ultimate, allowing you to mount another attack immediately.

Honkai: Star Rail – Dan Heng: best Light Cones

Since the goal is to debuff enemies and then hit them with the Ultimate, stacking CRIT Rate on Dan Heng is imperative. Seele’s signature Light Cone, In the Night, is a great way of doing that, especially if you can build up some DPS on Dan Heng as well to boost his ATK.

Best Light Cones for Dan Heng:

• In the Night (5-Star)
• Sleep Like the Dead (5-Star)
• Cruising in the Stellar Sea (5-Star)
• Only Silence Remains (4-Star)
• Return to Darkness (4-Star)

Dan Heng is a sincere guy with a complicated past. / HoYoverse

Honkai: Star Rail – Dan Heng: best Relics

ATK, CRIT DMG, and CRIT Rate are the important stats you want to boost on Dan Heng. SPD is great to have as well, allowing you to get into the action earlier. Break Effect % is a good stat for filling any gaps, maximizing the damage Dan Heng deals when inflicting Weakness Break.

Best Relic Sets for Dan Heng:

• Pioneer Diver of Dead Waters (4) – +12% DMG against enemies with a debuff, +4% CRIT Rate, +8%/12% CRIT DMG against enemies with at least 2/3 debuffs; effects increase by 100% for one turn after the wearer inflicts a debuff on the target.
• Scholar Lost in Erudition (4) – +8% CRIT Rate, +20% Skill and Ultimate DMG, +25% additional DMG for the next Skull activation after an Ultimate.
• Eagle of Twilight Line (4) – +10% Wind DMG, wearer’s next action is advanced forward by 25% after Ultimate usage.

Best Planar Ornaments for Dan Heng:

• Firmament Frontline: Glamoth (2) – +12% ATK, +12%/18% DMG if the wearer’s SPD surpasses 135/160.
• Rutilant Arena (2) – +8% CRIT Rate, +20% Basic Attack and Skill DMG if the wearer’s CRIT Rate surpasses 70%.

Prioritize the following Relic and Planar Ornament stats for Dan Heng:

• Head – HP (Primary), CRIT Rate, CRIT DMG, SPD, ATK %
• Hands – Attack (Primary), CRIT Rate, CRIT DMG, SPD, ATK %
• Body – CRIT Rate (Primary), CRIT DMG, SPD, ATK %, Break Effect %
• Feet – SPD (Primary), CRIT Rate, CRIT DMG, ATK %, Break Effect %
• Planar Sphere – Wind DMG (Primary), CRIT Rate, CRIT DMG, SPD, ATK %
• Link Rope – ATK % (Primary), CRIT Rate, CRIT DMG, SPD, Break Effect %

Dan Heng is not the ideal endgame DPS, but he'll serve beginners well in the story. / HoYoverse

Honkai: Star Rail – Dan Heng: best teams

Dan Heng is not exactly the greatest DPS character available in the game, but he’ll be a reliable companion when you’re first starting out – especially if you team him up with some good allies.

• Dan Heng (Main DPS), Bronya (Support), Welt (Support), Huohuo (Support)

Welt is a pretty great Support character for a Dan Heng team, as he’s all about slowing down enemies, which allows Dan Heng to deal maximum damage with his Ultimate. Huohuo is an excellent healer with some added buff utility to trigger Dan Heng’s Talent – plus, she acts as a battery, helping with Energy Regeneration. Having a buffer like Bronya, Asta, Sunday, or Tingyun on board is fantastic as well, as they can improve Dan Heng’s SPD and ATK further.

Honkai: Star Rail – Dan Heng: ascension materials

Here’s everything you need to know to get Dan Heng ascended to the maximum level and upgrade all of his talents.

Dan Heng requires the following ascension materials to get to level 80 in addition to the necessary XP:

• Credits x246,000
• Extinguished Core x12
• Glimmering Core x13
• Squirming Core x12
• Storm Eye x50

You can farm the Cores from Flamespawns and other enemies in Rivet Town and Backwater Pass as well as the Simulated Universe. You can create or exchange them through the Omni-Synthesizer on the Astral Express, too. Extinguished Cores are one of the base materials you can easily generate through the Daily Assignments to your characters, making for a steady income of the material. 

Storm Eyes are dropped by the Stagnant Shadow (Rivet Town) or gained through the exchange of similarly rare materials. The best source of Credits are the Golden Calyxes found on many worlds.

Dan Heng requires the following materials to upgrade her combat abilities and Traces:

• Credits x2,400,000
• Extinguished Core x28
• Glimmering Core x42
• Squirming Core x42
• Arrow of the Beast Hunter x12
• Arrow of the Demon Slayer x54
• Arrow of the Starchaser x105
• Destroyer’s Final Road x12
• Tracks of Destiny x5

For the materials already mentioned, check above. Arrow of the Beast Hunter, Arrow of the Demon Slayer, and Arrow of the Starchaser are available from the Crimson Calyx (Outlying Snow Plains). As usual, you can create the high-level materials by using lower-level materials in the Omni-Synthesizer on the Astral Express.

Destroyer’s Final Road is a rarer material only gained from the Echo of War (Supply Zone) domain, while Tracks of Destiny can be obtained during time-limited events, the Embers Exchange, the Nameless Honor, or as a Simulated Universe Points Reward.

For Dan Heng's 5-Star variant, check our Imbibitor Lunae guide.