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Honkai: Star Rail 4.6's Pearl is a 5-star Ice Elation sustain unit whose healing and shielding both scale off DEF, so speed and DEF are her core stats; her relic choice comes down to the Fortress 4-piece versus the new Performer 4-piece depending on whether you want team damage or a faster ultimate loop . Version 4.6, "Dance with Beasts Before the Moon Rises," went live September 28. Pearl is the version's sustain answer for the Elation archetype, and this guide covers her stat logic, the trace and ascension material lists, how the two relic sets differ, the Silver Wolf Lv.999 Elation loop, and how to read the 4.6 banner.

Genshin Impact 7.1's Visna is a 5-star Anemo sword user who carries the Star Swirl reaction archetype, and her best artifact set is Bloodstained Oath 4-piece, which grants 16% crit rate and 40% Star Swirl reaction damage for 10 seconds after triggering the reaction Her core team is Visna plus Voyanisa, plus an off-field Cryo applier, plus an Anemo buffer. Visna arrived September 21, 2026 with the banner, and her real value is not her own multipliers, it is that she converts your team's Cryo Swirls into Star Swirl reactions . This guide covers how the reaction settles, her artifact and weapon criteria, the four-slot team logic, and why her Goblet should not default to Anemo DMG.

Wuthering Waves 3.6 "Lamplight in Mirage, Sword's Resolve in Heart" launched August 20, 2026 and runs a 42-day cycle, which puts its close around September 29 to 30. A free-to-play account can bank roughly 11,240 Astrites across the full version, about 70 pulls, so finish Tower of Adversity, the weekly boss, and your material gaps before the version flips. 3.6 is a two-new-character version: Qingxiao in the first phase and Jingran in the second, with the signature weapons Yunlang and Qianbandu. Two mistakes dominate the final week, spending Astrites on a banner you will not use long term, and farming the wrong materials so the next version starts stuck. This is the checklist version.

the ZZZ 3.2 Shiyu Defense cycle refreshed on September 18 and ends October 2. The final stage scores three separate teams, and 25,000 points per room is the S-rank floor, so three S-rank rooms is what actually pays out Polychromes. The 100,000-point aggregate target is a leaderboard number, not a reward threshold Shiyu Defense is the most predictable Polychrome income in every ZZZ version, and the difficulty is not the fight, it is splitting your account across three teams. This guide covers the 3.2 window, how scoring works, where the per-room floor sits, and how to choose stunners, support slots, and drive discs without farming extra materials.

Arknights Vector Break #3 "Mimetic Ecology" opens today at 16:00 server time and runs until October 20, 03:59, with only one entry requirement, clearing Main Story 2-10. The same-day Targeted Selection banner lets you pick three 6-star operators, and all of the 2% six-star rate is split between those three, so the banner pool is exactly the three you lock in. Vector Break #3 is the main non-story content sink between late September and mid-October. This guide lays out the official schedule, the "Watch Your Step" event currency, what the Breakthrough Milestone actually pays out, how the Targeted Selection probability split works, and how to spend sanity across the 17-day window without wasting the free all-day Resource Search opening.

Love and Deepspace's limited wish event runs from 22 September until 10 October 04:59. You pick three of five limited 5-star Memories, and the three you select share 75% of the 5-star drop rate. Advancing a limited Memory to rank 1 unlocks that LI's chroma outfit, and both the outfit and its ear accessory can be mixed and matched separately.

Reverse: 1999 version 4.0 "The Answerer" finished updating on 24 September with a carnival welfare package: 40 pulls from limited sign-in, a guaranteed new 6-star, a self-select 6-star Euphoria character and a Regulus outfit. The three new 6-star Psychubes arrive on different schedules, one is free during the Coastal Pickings event, one is exchanged during the King's Jubilee Banquet, and one cannot be obtained until 15 October 05:00.

Honkai: Star Rail 4.6 "Dance With Beasts Before the Moon Rises" went live on 28 September 2026 at 07:00 and runs to 11 November 07:00. Do three things first: claim the 10-pull login reward, spend the 24 free pulls in the new pet gacha, and only then decide whether Pearl, the Ice Elation sustain, is worth your Stellar Jade.