What is Abyss?

What is Abyss/Superstring Dimension?

There are two types of abyss in Honkai Impact 3rd, one is Q-Manifold, accessible after level 25, and Superstring Dimension, after level 81. Basically it’s a bunch of stages you have to clear (4 stages for Exalted - Superstring Dimension). The faster you clear the boss stage, the higher your score. For the other 3 stages, just a clear is sufficient, doesn’t matter how fast or slow you are. Clear = 6000 score. Only the boss stage matters how fast you clear.

This is your main source of crystal income in the game there are 2 cycles weekly, Monday-Wednesday and Friday-Sunday. The official discord has a handy notifications channel to remind you when abyss opens and closes.

Superstring Dimension Tier System

Unlike Memorial Arena, in Superstring Dimension you don’t compete against the whole server players, instead you are placed in a bracket with 20 players maximum. The end goal is to accumulate as much trophy as possible so you rank up and maintain top tiers in your server. There is tier system tied to this trophy, and you don’t always rank up or fall of a tier directly every cycle. Whether you fall of or rank up a tier, it depends on your trophy accumulation. When a cycle finalize, your trophy will increase, stays the same, or decrease. The change of remaining trophies will promote them to higher rank if they have high enough trophies, or vice versa. In other words, players will not be promoted or relegated directly. When you level up to 81 and enter Superstring Dimension for the first time, you will also start with 180 Virtual Trophies, which will be reduced instead of the actual trophies in case of their rank is low during finalization. Virtual trophies can be increased by 100 if promoted to Red Lotus for the first time, and once reduced to 0, it can’t be gained again.

Tiered Rewards

This is the list of rewards you will obtain after finalization each cycle. When you are promoted or demoted to a tier, you get the rewards of the tier you are promoting/demoting.

Disturbances

Superstring Dimensions has disturbances system, where each disturbance number increase means higher enemies HP and resistances. Disturbances are decided during cycle finalization, its change only takes place after next cycle starts, and will not change until the next cycle. The lower a Superstring Dimension tier is (see Tiered Rewards section), the lower the disturbance is, so the easier the enemies are to defeat. Disturbance also varies across servers, even in the exact same tiers (like Red Lotus or Agony 3), since players performance contribute directly to disturbance number.

Caution

Since we are able to peek into the future (CN server), it might be a good idea to check out what weather is coming up before try-harding to promote… sometimes, you might have a weather that favors you but if you mald and promote… you might not be able to clear the next weather boss first stage and be unable to even get stage rewards… (me in 2021 promoting to Nirvana lightning weather without HoT…)