Sakura Samsara

For the other Open World maps, see Schicksal HQ and A Post-Honkai Odyssey.

Sakura Samsara
Debut
May 9th, 2018
Notable Rewards
LV.1 LV.1 LV.1

Sakura Samsara, also known as Open World, is a special area where Captains can fight Honkai Beasts and accomplish missions in an open world setting. Similar to a typical adventure game, there is no loading after entering, as the entire map is seamless. Enemies and collection nodes will spawn randomly and main storyline quests (as well as side Adventure Tasks) can be accomplished.
Monsters encountered in the storyline and roaming the open world use Dynamic Difficulty.

Overview

Welcome to the Sakura Samsara!
You may try your hand at different game modes in the Sakura Samsara, including:

• Higokumaru Training
• Storyline Missions which include the touching backstory to Yae Sakura and Kallen's relationship. View a playlist of all cutscenes here!
• Adventure Tasks
• Gourmet Festival
• Shrine Exchange
• Adventure Rating (including Elite Monsters, Secret Events, and Wild Collection)

The hub screen of Samsara, after unlocking all modes. Clockwise from center: Higokumaru, Adventure Tasks, Gourmet Festival, Shrine Exchange, Reset timer, Adventure Rating, Storyline Progress, Storyline Rewards, and the Start Button.

About Adventure Map Reset

The Adventure Map will reset at 4 a.m. every Monday, Thursday, and Saturday. Collection points in the wild will be reset and refreshed on Monday only, and a new round of Adventure Tasks will become available, and you will be given an Adventure Rating based on your performance.
If you've already cleared the storyline for one round, the collection points in the wild will be refreshed only after the next time the Adventure Map is reset. During the one hour before the Adventure Map is reset (03:00-04:00), you will not be able to enter the Sakura Samsara map.

Adventure Rating

Every time the Adventure Map resets, an Adventure Rating will be given to you based on all the actions you have completed including Adventure Tasks, Wild Collection, Elite Monsters, and Secret Events. Once Adventure has reset, the next time you enter the Open World, you will be given your Rating Rewards.

Higokumaru Training

Yae Sakura found this strange creature in a barrel. She claims to be a human, but has ears and tails. She is a glutton and loves inari-age. She's got to be a fox.

Higokumaru is the adorable partner that unlocks after unlocking Samsara EX. Higokumaru serves Captains by attacking enemies in Open World and utilizing helpful Partner skills. Higokumaru only appears in Samsara.

Partner Skills

Higokumaru learns a number of useful skills to assist Captains while they traverse the Open World. Skills are learned upon reaching certain levels, and Sakura Echo are used to level up Higokumaru. Sakura Echo can be gained from Storyline Stage rewards and Adventure Task rewards.

Higokamaru's Skills

		Red Jade Bakudan		Lvl. 0
	Higokumaru's normal ranged attack
	Description
	Higokumaru hurls a small fireball towards the enemy, dealing (100% of ATK) elemental fire damage
		Diagonal Slash		Lvl. 0
	Higokumaru's normal melee attack
	Description
	Higokumaru raises her right paw and claws at the enemy in front, dealing (200% of ATK) elemental fire damage
		Expose Instinct		Lvl. 2
	Higokumaru's Expose Instinct has awakened
	Description
	Casting Expose Instinct (SP cost: 10) allows Higokumaru to enter Expose Instinct. In this form, she is more likely to discover hidden chests and
		Decisive Attack		Lvl. 4
	Higokumaru's Expose Instinct has awakened
	Description
	Casting Expose Instinct (SP cost: 10) allows Higokumaru to enter Expose Instinct. In this form, she can assassinate the monsters
		Fox Night		Lvl. 6
	Higokumaru takes her master to swiftly travel between map zones
	Description
	Higokumaru shuttles through the Stigmata Dimension in spiritual form to achieve fast
		Material Collection		Lvl. 8
	Higokumaru will explore the Stigmata Dimension when her master is not around
	Description
	Higokumaru will have new discoveries every 23 hours
		Flame Cannon		Lvl. 10
	Higokumaru's ranged ultimate attack
	Description
	Higokumaru breathes fires to the front continuously, dealing damage up to 16 times to enemies, each time dealing (100% of ATK)
		Spirited Away		Lvl. 12
	Higokumaru's Expose Instinct has awakened
	Description
	All monster have reduced detect radius
		Parade of the Spirits		Lvl. 14
	Higokumaru takes her master to swiftly travel between Exorcism Request Points
	Description
	Higokumaru shuttles though the Stigmata Dimension in spiritual form to achieve fast
		Crimson Blossom		Lvl. 16
	Higokumaru's melee ultimate attack
	Description
	Higokumaru unleashes all her energy, dealing (500% of ATK) elemental fire damage to all nearby enemies
		Fox Possession		Lvl. 18
	Higokumaru casts her blessings on her master
	Description
	Master's attacks will deal 50 additional elemental fire damage
		Ignite		Lvl. 20
	Higokumaru's passive skill
	Description
	Higokumaru's attacks have a change of igniting the enemy for 3 seconds. Enemy will take 80 elemental fire damage every 0.5 seconds
		Fox Shield		Lvl. 23
	Higokumaru casts the Fox God's blessings on her master
	Description
	Gain Fox Shield upon entering the battle, this shield will block damage once. While the
		Burst		Lvl. 26
	Higokumaru's passive skill
	Description
	Attacks have a chance of dealing explosive AOE damage, dealing (80% of ATK) elemental fire damage to enemies

Storyline Missions

Storyline missions can only be cleared once. After all Storyline mission are cleared for a Samsara, the next Samsara will be unlocked.

Depending on which storyline Samsara you're on, new gameplay elements will be unlocked in the Adventure Map.

• First Samsara: Captains Lv. 18 and above may enter.
• Second Samsara: Captains Lv. 30 and above may enter. Adventure Tasks and Wild Collection unlock.
• Third Samsara: Captains Lv. 35 and above may enter.
• Extra Story: Captains Lv. 42 and above may enter, the new Celestial Castle Map will be unlocked along with the Extra Story stages and Sakura Samsara's exclusive partner.
  

Open World area: Only after completing the Extra Story stages will the new area be unlocked, you must first assign 2 Valkyries to infiltrate the Village Area and the Celestial Castle, and will be unable to go into another area once they are in battle.

Adventure Tasks

The Adventure Task screen, with all 5 available Adventure Task slots filled.

Adventure Tasks can be taken and cleared once every Sakura Samsara reset period. Captains can take up to 4 adventure tasks at once. 5 if they have cleared Side Samsara at level 42. Each time a new task is chosen, players will be given an option between 3 different tasks to choose. If they wish, Captains can refresh these options up to 7 times for free every reset. This will cost 5 additional crystals each time after all free attempts are depleted. After choosing their adventure tasks, Captains can go into Sakura Samsara and complete the tasks chosen. They will be marked and tracked on the ground via a line of arrows.

Adventure tasks can be any range of activities such as defeating enemies, securing stealth kills, finding lost spirits, using bombs or spirit cannons, or fighting previous urgent mission bosses.

Urgent Missions

Urgent Missions unlock after earning a certain number of from clearing Adventure Tasks (in the screenshot above, only 4 of the required 5 are filled). The bosses are typically much more difficult than typical enemies, and come with enhanced abilities, may run away when dropping below a certain amount of health, and will enrage after 90 seconds of battle. Once enraged, urgent mission bosses will be immune to all crowd control, gain enhanced attack speed and damage, and eventually begin to do extreme amounts of fire damage to surrounding enemies. Ensure that you're ready to take them on before your first strike!

Level 10

	Urgent Mission Boss: Wind	Lv.10
Recommended Lv. 56
Hunt: Target has appeared! Please defeat it as soon as possible!
Monster Weakness - Dual-Gun Vulnerability The monster receives 50% increased DMG from dual-gun character attacks (Kiana)
Reward:       ⨯35 ⨯7200 ⨯60

Level 11

	Urgent Mission Boss: Titan	Lv.11
Recommended Lv. 57
Hunt: Target has appeared! Please defeat it as soon as possible!
Monster Weakness - Greatsword Vulnerability The monster receives 50% increased DMG from greatsword character attacks (Himeko)
Reward:       ⨯35 ⨯8600 ⨯60

Level 12

	Urgent Mission Boss: Big Universe	Lv.12
Recommended Lv. 58
Hunt: Target has appeared! Please defeat it as soon as possible!
Monster Weakness - Katana Vulnerability The monster receives 50% increased DMG from katana character attacks (Mei, Yae Sakura)
Reward:       ⨯35 ⨯10200 ⨯60

Level 13

	Urgent Mission Boss: Crossbow	Lv.13
Recommended Lv. 59
Hunt: Target has appeared! Please defeat it as soon as possible!
Monster Weakness - Cannon Vulnerability The monster receives 50% increased DMG from cannon character attacks (Bronya)
Reward:       ⨯35 ⨯12100 ⨯60

Level 14

	Urgent Mission Boss: Polar Circle	Lv.14
Recommended Lv. 59
Hunt: Target has appeared! Please defeat it as soon as possible!
Monster Weakness - Floating Vulnerability The monster receives 50% increased DMG when floating
Reward:       ⨯35 ⨯14100 ⨯60

Level 15

	Urgent Mission Boss: Death Horn	Lv.15
Recommended Lv. 67
Hunt: Target has appeared! Please defeat it as soon as possible!
Monster Weakness - Time Fracture Vulnerability The monster receives 200% increased DMG when in a Time Fracture
Reward:       ⨯35 ⨯16600 ⨯60

Level 16

	Urgent Mission Boss: FFF Leader	Lv.16
Recommended Lv. 69
Hunt: Target will temporarily retreat somewhere else if HP goes below 50%
Monster Weakness - Charge Vulnerability The monster receives 75% increased DMG when hit by a charged attack
Reward:       ⨯34 ⨯19400 ⨯60

Level 17

	Urgent Mission Boss: Glacier	Lv.17
Recommended Lv. 72
Hunt: Target will temporarily retreat somewhere else if HP goes below 50%
Monster Weakness - Melee Vulnerability The monster receives 50% increased DMG when being hit by a melee attack
Reward:       ⨯33 ⨯21400 ⨯60

Level 18

	Urgent Mission Boss: Big Universe	Lv.18
Recommended Lv. 73
Hunt: Target will temporarily retreat somewhere else if HP goes below 50%
Monster Weakness - Long-Range Vulnerability The monster receives 50% increased DMG when hit by a long-range attack
Reward:       ⨯31 ⨯23900 ⨯60

Level 19

	Urgent Mission Boss: Jonin	Lv.19
Recommended Lv. 78
Hunt: Target will temporarily retreat somewhere else if HP goes below 50%
Monster Weakness - Cross Vulnerability The monster receives 50% increased DMG from cross character attacks (Theresa)
Reward:       ⨯30 ⨯26400 ⨯60

Level 20

	Urgent Mission Boss: Magstorm	Lv.20
Recommended Lv. 80
Hunt: Target will temporarily retreat somewhere else if HP goes below 50%
Monster Weakness - Branch Vulnerability The monster receives 75% increased DMG when hit by a combo attack
Reward:       ⨯30 ⨯60 ⨯240

Level 21

	Urgent Mission Boss: Frosthell	Lv.21
Recommended Lv. 80
Hunt: Target will temporarily retreat somewhere else if HP goes below 50%
Monster Weakness - Fire Vulnerability The monster receives 75% increased DMG when hit by a fire elemental attack
Reward:       ⨯32 ⨯29300 ⨯70

Level 22

	Urgent Mission Boss: Villain	Lv.22
Recommended Lv. 80
Hunt: Target will temporarily retreat somewhere else if its HP goes below 50%
Monster Weakness - Lightning Vulnerability The monster receives 75% increased DMG when when hit by a lightning elemental attack
Reward:       ⨯31 ⨯32600 ⨯70

Level 23

	Urgent Mission Boss: A OMEGA	Lv.23
Recommended Lv. 80
Hunt: Target will temporarily retreat somewhere else if its HP goes below 50%
Monster Weakness - Ice Vulnerability The monster receives 75% increased DMG when when hit by an ice elemental attack
Reward:       ⨯29 ⨯35700 ⨯70

Level 24

	Urgent Mission Boss: Hunter	Lv.24
Recommended Lv. 80
Hunt: Target will temporarily retreat somewhere else if its HP goes below 50%
Monster Weakness - QTE Vulnerability The monster receives 500% increased DMG when when hit by a QTE attack
Reward:       ⨯28 ⨯39500 ⨯70

Level 25

	Urgent Mission Boss: Serval	Lv.25
Recommended Lv. 80
Hunt: Target will temporarily retreat somewhere else when its HP reaches 66% and 33%
Monster Weakness - Ice Vulnerability The monster receives 500% increased DMG when when hit by an ice elemental attack
Reward:       ⨯28 ⨯70 ⨯370

Level 26

	Urgent Mission Boss: Padrino	Lv.26
Recommended Lv. 80
Hunt: Target will temporarily retreat somewhere else when its HP reaches 66% and 33%
Monster Weakness - Lightning Vulnerability The monster receives 75% increased DMG when when hit by a lightning elemental attack
Reward:       ⨯28 ⨯70 ⨯10

Level 27

	Urgent Mission Boss: Kallen	Lv.27
Recommended Lv. 80
Hunt: Target will temporarily retreat somewhere else when its HP reaches 66% and 33%
Monster Weakness - Time Fracture Vulnerability The monster receives 200% increased DMG when in a Time Fracture
Reward:       ⨯28 ⨯70 ⨯7
Level 27 is quite a large difficulty spike compared to the previous Urgent Missions. If you're having trouble, take a look at the clear below for some tips, or check the official discord for help!

Level 28

	Urgent Mission Boss: Quick-Handed	Lv.28
Recommended Lv. 80
Hunt: Target will temporarily retreat somewhere else when its HP reaches 66% and 33%
Monster Weakness - Branch Vulnerability The monster receives 75% increased DMG when hit by a combo attack
Reward:       ⨯30 ⨯43100 ⨯80

Level 29

	Urgent Mission Boss: Gemini	Lv.29
Recommended Lv. 80
Hunt: Target will temporarily retreat somewhere else when its HP reaches 66% and 33%
Monster Weakness - Long-range Vulnerability The monster receives 50% increased DMG when hit by a long-range attack
Reward:       ⨯30 ⨯43100 ⨯80

Gourmet Festival

Hungry, Captains? I bet your lovely Valkyries are... Use the Gourmet Festival to craft special dishes that power-up stats, recovery dishes that provide a nice relief from the trials of Samsara, and the explorer's dish to help with Wild Collection!
Need some juicy details? Just click on the picture of the food for effects and recipe details. *drool*...

Power Puffs				Healing Bites			Function Food
⨯1	⨯1	⨯1	⨯1	⨯1	⨯1	⨯1	⨯1
x 2 x 300	x 2 x 300	x 2 x 420	x 2 x 420	x 1 x 30	x 1 x 30	x 10	x 4 x 300
1 per day				30 per day		10 per day	1 per day
Req. Lvl. 7+	Req Lvl. 5+	Req Lvl. 14+	Req Lvl. 18+	Req Lvl. 1+	Req Lvl. 1+	Req Lvl. 5+	Req Lvl. 1+

Shrine Exchange

The Shrine Exchange is a shop to create materials from items collected in Open World (Fusion) and to create fragments, jars, and stigmata from those materials (Forge).
The Shrine resets every Monday, Thursday, and Saturday with the Open World.

Fusion Recipes
⨯1	⨯1	⨯1	⨯1	⨯1	⨯1	⨯1	⨯5
x 3 x 3 x 100	x 3 x 2 x 100	x 5 x 4 x 180	x 15 x 15	x 15 x 15	x 15 x 15	x 10 x 15	x 10 x 10 x 40
10 per reset		20 per reset	10 per reset

Forge Recipes
⨯1	⨯3	⨯3	⨯3	⨯3	⨯1	⨯1	⨯1	⨯1	⨯1
x 1 x 1 x 7	x 1 x 1000 x 9	x 1 x 800 x 10	x 1 x 1 x 8	x 1 x 1100 x 9	x 1 x 1 x 9	x 1 x 1 x 1	x 2 x 3 x 2000	x 2 x 3 x 30	x 2 x 3 x 30
1 per reset							1 per event	1 total
⨯1	⨯1	⨯1	⨯1	⨯1	⨯1	⨯1	⨯1	⨯1	⨯1
x 2 x 3 x 30	x 40 x 35 x 200	x 30 x 28 x 130	x 30 x 28 x 130	x 27 x 25 x 120	x 10 x 20 x 20	x 27 x 25 x 120	x 27 x 25 x 120	x 27 x 25 x 120	x 27 x 25 x 120
1 total	1 per reset	1 total			1 per event	1 total	1 per event

Adventure Rating

The Adventure Rating summary from the home Samsara screen.

Each reset Captains have a change to gain rewards by increasing their Adventure Rating. A Captain's Adventure Rating is decided from 4 factors:

• Adventure Tasks
• Elite Monsters
• Secret Events
• Wild Collection

Rewards are distributed on a D -> S scale, with increasingly better rewards. Try to complete as many objectives as possible to reach S rank each Samsara reset!

Progress can be checked from the main Samsara screen, but also from the pause menu while playing the Open World.

The Adventure Map shown when pausing in Open World. Overall progress is shown on the lower left of the map, Adventure Tasks are shown on the lower right.

Elite Monsters

The scythe-wielding Honkai to the left of Sakuno Rondo is an Elite Monster. Note the pink petal ring.

Oh! Look at that pretty ring of glowing sakura petals. So pretty...wait! That's an Elite monster!
Elite monsters lurk randomly around the Open World, but are easy to identify by the glowing pink ring of petals that swirl around them. While they are more difficult than the normal monsters that roam the Open World (and are harder to kill with a stealth assassination), they aren't a bigger threat than Urgent Mission bosses.

Secret Events

Notice the purple glyph on the ground just to the right of Violet Executer. Higokumaru also warns the player of the nearby glyph.

Secret Events are randomly placed enemy battles in the Open World. Before gaining Higokumaru's Expose Instinct partner skill, the trigger for Secret Events appears random, but after unlocking the skill the glyph to initiate is shown while stealthed. Higokumaru will also provide a warning by saying "Something is hidden around here...". The enemies that come out of a Secret Event glyph are similar to normal wandering enemies, but they cannot be stealth assassinated nor avoided once the Secret Event has been triggered.

Wild Collection

Note the mushrooms and the bush on the left and right of Violet Executer with the Collection icon (hand) above them.

The most popular feature of any open world RPG is the ability to rob the local population/scenery blind! Samsara is no different with Wild Collection that allows you to collect the materials needed for creating Shrine Exchange and Gourmet Festival recipes. Collection nodes are scattered all over the map and are relocated and replenished with every reset every Monday. Some nodes appear during daytime or nighttime specifically, while other nodes (commonly Lost Fire nodes) only appear while stealthed with Higokumaru's Expose Instinct partner skill. There are also rare boxes that contain rare materials that only reveal themselves when very close, however Higokumaru will notify that they're nearby with the phrase, "Something is hidden around here...". Some items are also in the Celestial Castle, so be sure to check there if a few are missing!