Talk:Awakening/@comment-70.51.0.152-20160709022243/@comment-25435121-20160711140418

Long term, the answer is no, it's not worth it to waste materials awakening an HSR card. However, short term may make it easier to get UR cards later. It really depends on what cards you have now and how well they work together as a team. If you are looking to play this game for a few years and maybe even get 2 copies of ranking rewards (finishing an even @r300 or better), then you may just want to save the materials and arcana to use for awakening GUR cards down the road.

I must say though, that having awoken some HSR myself early on when awakening first came out, it was very helpful to get the soldier recovery from Awakened Burst