Best Build for Castorice in Honkai: Star Rail (Relics, Full Stats & Full Traces + Light Cones)

When building Castorice in Honkai: Star Rail, you really need to check some marks or you can ruin the whole setup. For that reason we have here ideal build blueprints that are easy to apply to your Castorice for the best performance.

Important! If you want to check how well Castorice does in the current meta of all characters in Honkai Star Rail, please check out our current tier list of all characters here.

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Castorice’s Light Cone Setup

Here are the Light Cones that make sense to use, please select the best one you have for the best result:

Castorice’s Relic Setup

There are different relic sets depending on the slot and also different stats possible on them. You have the Cavern Relics which are head, chest, feet and hands slot that form 2-set and 4-set bonus and the Planar Ornaments which are the middle slots of link rope and sphere that form 2-set bonus. Please select the slot to see the ideal set bonus to go for:

Castorice’s Substats + Relic Setup

The relic sets are important, no doubt, but as much important is having the correct stats on them and honestly do not compromise on that when it comes to level up your relics unless they show promise to have the ideal stats! This is our recommendation:

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Please make sure to check the priority marks! If a stat has  the high priority flag next to it, this stat absolutely needs to be on the item, no exception. You will not hit your goal stat without. Stats flagged with medium priority  are mandatory if you use the character for PvP or you’re looking for a core character. Low priority flags are good and should be on your list but if the other priority stats in place I would neglect that in most cases.

Trace Build For Castorice

Often underestimated but in reality one of the biggest traps when building your characters in Honkai: Star Rail and the biggest mistake many players make is spending TOO MUCH in the traces for either stats they don’t need or for skills that don’t scale well and then they end up without resources and stuck.

We have below the ideal path of investment and trace levels that make sense (for PvP and for PvE) that give you the sweetspots of investments, also called biggest bang for your buck. Here’s the reason:

• Diminshing Returns: the vost for every level raises exponentially but gives the same increase for a skill in terms of scaling. As a broad example Upgrading a skill trace from Level 8 to Level 10 costs the same as Upgrading that trace from Level 1 to Level 8 but only gives the same improvement as the upgrade from Level 1 to Level 3. This is why seetspots are the key for progress here!
• How important are the trace nodes: Some skills make the majority of a characters kit and effect while others are barely leaving a mark or impact while the upgrade costs are the same. This is why the importance and recommended level or each trace node is different for each character. Most sources give you a Do this skill over that skill as recommendation which is laughable little advice. Our builds give you exact recommendations which nodes to pick and which not for faster progress.

For that reason we have here full Traces setups that show you what nodes are a priority and what level you should upgrade them for depednign if you use your character for PvE modes only or also in PvP where the upgrade threshold needed often times is different!

Conclusion

We hope this guide helped you building your characters better and faster in Honkai Star Rail. We want to provide builds that don’t just tell you to use this Light Cone, have that stat on all gear and level that skill’s traces and call it a day and if you appreciate our work or have a question, we love reading comments so drop one and we will be happy to reply.