Honkai: Star Rail’s Version 3.4, set to drop around July 2, 2025, is finally giving some much-needed love to four older characters—Blade, Jingliu, Silver Wolf, and Kafka. These buffs are way overdue, as power creep has been a real headache in the game. Newer characters like Castorice and Anaxa keep stealing the spotlight with their beefy stats and mechanics, leaving early-game favorites struggling to keep up. HoYoverse announced these changes during the Version 3.2 Special Program, aiming to bring these characters back into the fight for endgame modes like Memory of Chaos and make them hold their own against the game’s ever-growing power curve.

Blade

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  • Kit Changes: Blade’s getting a rework where his Basic Attack, Follow-up Attack, and Ultimate will now scale just with Max HP, ditching ATK entirely. This makes building him way easier. His Skill will boost Taunt Value by 100%, so enemies are more likely to target him, stacking up his "Shufu’s Gift" passive. Plus, his third Trace passive will throw in some Energy regeneration.
  • Impact: These tweaks turn Blade into a beefier HP-focused DPS, keeping him in line with newer HP-scaling characters like Castorice and Mydei. That said, leaks hint that Saber, a possible Wind Destruction character from the Fate/Stay Night collab, might steal his thunder by outclassing him.

Jingliu

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  • Kit Changes: Jingliu’s abilities—Basic Attack, Skill, Ultimate, and Eidolon 1—will now scale with Max HP instead of ATK, taking advantage of her high base HP (fourth highest in the game). She’ll get CRIT DMG boosts when allies lose HP, which works great with her HP-drain playstyle. Entering Spectral Transmigration will also give an extra "Syzygy" stack for more damage.
  • Impact: These changes make Jingliu a tankier Ice DPS, easier to gear up and stronger in HP-focused teams, especially with someone like Tribbie. F2P players might need to grab HP-scaling Light Cones like "Ninja Record - Sound Hunt" to get the most out of her.

Silver Wolf

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  • Kit Changes: Silver Wolf’s Skill will now slap on a Weakness based on the first ally’s element in your lineup, making team-building smoother. Her Ultimate goes AoE, adds DEF shred, and has a higher chance to land debuffs. She’ll also get Energy regeneration at the start of battles and each turn.
  • Impact: These buffs make Silver Wolf a go-to debuffer, possibly outshining Pela in Acheron teams with better Weakness implantation and RES shred. She’s set to be a solid support for hypercarry DPS, though some folks think these changes are just small quality-of-life fixes.

Kafka

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  • Kit Changes: Kafka’s Skill will now trigger all DoT effects on enemies right away. Her Follow-up Attacks will pop off more often, cause DoT explosions, and can trigger from teammates’ attacks. She’ll also give allies a boost to their DoT damage.
  • Impact: These upgrades make Kafka a beast for DoT teams, but some X posts suggest her buffs might not feel like a game-changer for everyone, depending on how you build her.

Additional Notes

Leaks say you might be able to switch between the original and buffed kits for these characters, giving you some flexibility.

These buffs should help them shine in tough content like Memory of Chaos. This info comes from leakers like Shiroha, Sakura Haven, and HomDGCat, with some Reddit posts marked as “Reliable.” Still, it’s beta stuff, so things could change before the Version 3.4 livestream.

The update’s also bringing Phainon (5-star Physical Destruction) and the Fate/Stay Night collab with Saber (Wind Destruction) and Archer (Hunt), which could shake up the meta even more.