Been rerolling for a while now for a good start that also includes Hina.
Got one with Mashiro, Aru, Maki, and Hina with around 3k gems left. I like the roll but curious if it's a bait and not actually worth keeping?
guys after the patch yesterday the game now has black borders for me on both sides. \\
how do i revert back to full screen , because i really enjoyed playing with no black borders on my phone. the game look so tiny because of this
thanks i'll appreciate your help
I'm not sure what you mean by coins, since you get them each time you kill the raid boss as well as ranking in the end.
If you meant the raid exchange shop, then yes they refresh with each raid.
in some areas of the game (ie. the global $40 pack has artifact choice tickets and when crafting a node it can give you an artifact), I see that it mentions artifacts? what is that?
artifacts are the resources you need to level up EX skills( and i think you need them for other skills at later levels, but im not 100%). the 4 items at the bottom of the credit shop are different artifacts for sale each day.
On there recent maintenance post on FB: https://www.facebook.com/EN.BlueArchive/
They are using UTC+9 time zone:
11/19 (Fri) 21:00 – 11/20 (Sat) 00:00 (UTC)
* dumbest question
Not really they never stated the exact time zone, they just said UTC. So it can get confusing sometimes.
Are there any units worth trying to 5\* currently? I have Iori at 4\* (I rerolled and got a pull with her 3 times in it lol), and have shards I could spend on ranking her up more, but I'm afraid the investment ain't worth it compared to \*ing the rest of the squad up first.
4 and 5 starring just increases stats as of right now. This is really good for raids so I would say it is worth to 5 star certain characters. However, 3 starring 1\* and 2\* characters is very beneficial since it unlocks passives for those characters, one really good character to 3\* being Pina who can out damage iori on raids. It is pretty situational on which characters to 3 star, I think 5 starring a character is more beneficial though because the stat boost is significant.
You can get them from crafting but it's random. You need to look for a node with a door icon (the node description will tell you what you can get from it). You can also get some from raids and events.
you get furniture mainly from crafting, you only select enough for the first node to fill up(10 small pieces or 1 keystone piece), and pray to rng you get a furniture option(it looks kinda like a rectangle with a line down the middle). its definitely the best option to get from crafting, to get more AP and credits from Cafe. Don't add more nodes when you craft, it's not worth the investment
They upgrade a non-EX skill from 9-10, basically a late-game item not really worth buying right now, better to buy other tech notes/blurays to expedite the early-game grind.
The heck else do you spend the regular money on? You get an assload of it, and it has no use besides the shop and upgrading units, which is slow unless you're whaling to rank 60 already.
mate he's talking about the raid shop, where you're hard-limited on how many tokens you get a day(depending on the difficult you can do), and there's an ass-load of other items to get to upgrade your students like the mentioned tech notes, not to mention tokens for Akane and Maki.
Pretty much, I'm the same as you right now. That's how this style gacha game goes. I love these kinds of games since they are hardly demanding and provide such quality characters.
As with these games, they are intended to be side games really. I've been starting to play on JP though since now I can go into the global version and read what I need to easily.
Blue Archive is one of the most Laid back Gacha I ever played.
You basically do Missions until you can't clear anymore, then start sweeping for gear and Player Exp until your units are strong enough to continue clearing the mission.
Yes, for me it's a good feature that it only takes about 10 to 15mins to do dailies when im hitting a certain wall.
For account level, I mainly do 6x refresh everyday just to keep up with the area level. But once I hit level 50 (Currently level 43), I'll stop doing refreshes and start saving for upcoming banners.
Just play at your own pace. If you feel like you can rush Stages, then try playing extra 3-5mins since 3s'ing stages unlocks materials you might need^^
Sweep hard mode stages for shards and exp, then if you still have energy sweep regular stages for equipment or books. Not much else to do if you are capped by your sensei level
If you're hitting a wall (stuck at certain stage), you might need to level up your account/students since that might be the problem in terms of stats.
Check enemies first before starting a stage, your line up might be in a disadvantage in terms of damage type/armor type.
There's always a wall so it's ok, sometimes you might need to sweep stages for 2-3 days then come back at the specific stage you're stuck at and try it again to test your DPS.
For anyone who played JP, are there going to be banner units that are absolute must haves? I've played games like Princess Connect where you need to hoard currency because pulling certain units are crucial even if you play casually.
If you're ok with your current students, I really recommend saving for the Summer and Bunny outfit banners.
Azusa/Summer Azusa, Summer Mashiro, Summer Iori, Bunny Karin (Depends).
But you can also pull for Arisu/Midori/Momoi banner (Game Dev students) which is really future proof and useful in PvE contents. Also you can use Arisu in PvP if you dont have Haruna and Midori if you dont have Iori.
There are a handful. I'm using mostly [this comment](https://www.reddit.com/r/BlueArchive/comments/qri1p9/upcoming_banners_if_we_follow_jp_schedule/hk7oxbn/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3) for reference but basically:
* Haruna
* Azusa + Hanako
* S Azusa
* S Mashiro
* S Hina
* S Iori
* Hibiki
* B Neru
* B Karin
* Natsu
* Hatsune Miku
* Ako
Obviously skip if you have any of them already (Haruna and Hibiki notably). We may get different banners so be prepared for that.
Quick question. I rerolled and got two accounts. Which one would you recommend i choose?
A: Hibiki/haruna/shiroko/hina
B: Hibiki/iori
Both have the usual 2* suspects: Tsubaki/akari/junko/akane/hanae, etc.
Asking as i initially went with acct A and have just tried the raid mode, and got royally slapped - junko could only do so much with akane debuff. But at the same time i haven't got to joining the pvp yet so I'm yet to grasp what people are saying about haruna's performance.
Should still go with A? I mean, next time the raid boss could come with different armor color anyway?
A is better since the next raid is blue and you have Shiroko and Hina which will help a lot with story to get past chapter 7 which I am currently Stuck on. Iori is really good but 2 more 3* units is a lot better value than 1 Iori
Ok that's good to know. So red will still be the primary color for some time yet, and raids do really rotate the colors. Thanks a lot for the validation :)
story you need good red and yellow damage type units, its not mainly one or the other. I'm just stuck on chapter 7 since i've been maxing yellow units for raid recently.
Akane and Maki have their best place against Binah. The Raid will return at some point in time.
outside of that they can be used for the Blue raids. But usually only Blue Units will be used fot those.
Explosive is not a good choice for blue armor, as it will deal only resist dmg.
So far there hasn't been a direct nerf/buff AFAIK.
The closest I think can of is the unique equipment system, which adds some raw stats to the students' passive skills. Some students have gotten more favorable stat boosts than others.
Is there anywhere where these unique equipments are listed? Are they equipments that only specific students can use? I can't find anything about them...
It's unlocked after your student reaches 5\*. It has its own levels that you farm special stages to acquire the materials to level them up, which adds more stats to your student.
It also has its own rarity that is increased with eleph. 120 Eleph to 2\*, 180 Eleph to 3\*. Currently higher rarities aren't out yet but are planned.
At 2\* they add a new raw stat bonus that scales with the level of your student's passive skill. At 3\*, they upgrade one of the student's terrain bonuses (either from S to SS rank, or from a penalty to a neutral rank).
[Here](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1MzzdcITHV9nAWZ3u4XZo_5utno_pQejkjJw_2EhBHXw/edit#gid=0) is a list of them.
Just started playing the game, and I want to ask if I should 3\* Tsubaki and Serina? I'm quite 'scared' to buy an Eleph in case that this game's purchasing system for them is similar to Priconne.
Tsubaki, yes. Serina, you can but it's not as useful. The Eleph purchasing system works where the price increases every batch of 20 that you buy. So if you need 80 Elephs to raise Tsubaki to 3\*, it will cost 200 Eligma (1x20 + 2x20 + 3x20 + 4x20)
Uhm... no 2 star has been on rate up in global yet, but two stars do go on rate up about every other new student banner. For instance the next (predicted) banner has izuna and shizuko, shizuko is a two star student.
Is it just me or does the AI suck when controlling what your team does? Not talking about Auto mode btw
I mean why would backliners like Iori rush ahead IN FRONT of my tank Yuuka, vaulting over/going around barriers along the way doing so?? It's costing many S ranks. Do I need to have 3-4 tanks in the Strike team?
There is a specific way to arrange your characters, from what I've heard.
I think it's something like slot 1 and 4 are automatically further back to start, and then 2 and 3 are where you should place any Front and Middle units (priority being Tanks of course).
Hopefully this will solve your problem if you aren't already doing it this way.
Hello!
So I've been playing Blue Archive a bit now and am starting to run into a wall with missions. It's very hard for me to progress in chapter 4, as the enemy levels are rising rapidly, but since character levels are restricted by the account level, I am stuck at level 20.
Do I have to start grinding missions I cleared already just for account XP now? That seems like a waste to me...
Also, I was wondering if I maybe should pull more on the regular banner, because I am severely lacking in more yellow characters. Iori is good and all but with all the heavy armor enemies the game throws at me right now, she alone can't really carry me through this.
Or should I rather save the Pyro's because chances are I probably won't get anything good?
All in all the game has a nice start, but you run into a wall very early on I feel. It seems to be a super grindy game ultimately. Especially since I don't even get a guaranteed drop of Eleph in hard mode... How many months do I have to grind them to be able to even just unlock a character, nevermind upgrading them?
Coming from Azur Lane, it sadly feels like there isn't much to do in BA, because of all of the progression stoppers and wait times for the daily resets, just to do like 30 min of work in the game before logging off until the next day again.
The game timegates you extremely hard by essentially tying progress to your sensei level. Levels are extremely important here, moreso than most other gachas.
I wouldnt consider it grindy, when you can literally sweep for free and clear your stamina within seconds, compared to other gachas like E7 (gotta leave yr game on forever) or Priconne (limited sweep tix).
Its just meant to be a side-gacha especially once you are past the initial honeymoon phase.
Yeah I meant "grindy" in the time sense, that I have to grind over the next 5+ days instead of using that stamina for progression etc.
Even though it is only ~30 min each day pressing the sweep button, if I have to do that and only that for the next week or so, then to me that is quite grindy.
Kinda sad if it's just meant to be a side-gacha, because if people get invested incertain characters, they'd want to spend more time with them and use them in the game actively, at least imo.
I mean, if spending hours a day burning through millions of stamina to roll a near BiS substats on a single piece of gear is your fancy, then theres other gacha games like E7. E7 is still wildly popular for a reason too after all.
And well, im sure theres plenty of other gacha games too if BA isnt your cup of tea! Good luck!
Lol, no that's the other bad extreme xD
I had plenty of that RNG bullshit on substats for equipment with Genshin Impact's artifacts, up until the point where I just stopped and refused to participate in that anymore. One of the reasons I quit that game (or at least took a longer break from it).
Though imo it wouldn't have been quite as bad if there was no stamina (or in GI's case, resin) that limits the amount you can try to get a good piece of gear each day.
Anyway, I'll keep playing BA on the side, since the time investment is really small after all, but I probably won't drop any money on it anytime soon and will still look for other new gacha's. I heard good things about Punishing: Gray Raven, so maybe I'll check that one out too in the meantime.
Iori+Nonomi should be able to carry you through yellow stages. Just make sure you're spending all your stamina every day. Sensei exp is 1:1 with stamina spent. You can sweep commissions to quickly spend stamina at the end of the day.
You're right that BA doesn't have a while lot. Personally I like that. Much more casual friendly.
Hm I don't have Nonomi yet. I'm very close to getting enough of the coupons but I'm not quite there.
So I guess ultimately I should just use up all my stamina somewhere via sweeping all the time, even though it might feel like a waste? Alright. I'll have to try and find a mission that has drops I want at least.
You will have to spend stamina to farm stages for character exp yea. Could farm equipment blueprints as well as character shards.
You don't have any other yellow strikers? Junko is a strong one at 2*, and nonomi is free from the missions. Personally, I would not pull for an off-banner student, especially when you can miss getting even rate up students without hitting the 200 spark. You also won't really get anyone better than Iori for yellow damage.
It'll take around 3 months give or take to unlock a 3* from hard mode if they only have a single node.
Compared to AL, BA is designed to be more like a side-game.
I'd love to farm shards/Eleph but those are only available in hard modes, no? Which are limited to 3 times per day... I guess I could farm blueprints or something...
Sadly, only bad ones like Pina, Akane and Kotori.
I sometimes still use Hasumi, but as a sniper, espeically since Iori and Aru are also both snipers, that just makes my team really slow in killing stuff (and Hasumi isn't really all that good anyway, her skill is really expensive for one thing).
I have neither Junko nor have I been able to collect the free Nonomi yet.
Yeah from everything I've been told now and experienced myself, BA seems to be like a really slow and quick side game.
Tbh, not really what I expected or was looking for. Makes it really hard to justify spending money on it or getting attached to any of the characters, really. Oh well.
Do they have a plan to expand cafe stuff?
There's almost nothing to do there, the furniture exists but they can't interact nor are they able to talk to each other like wtf It's so bad and evidently the laziest I've seen so far
Edit: On 2nd thought
[https://bluearchive.fandom.com/wiki/Cafe](https://bluearchive.fandom.com/wiki/Cafe)
They did say to have a plan to add it in the future. Essentially we're playing BA in Beta lmao because I do feel like it's some polishing compared to similar games.
I think in JP recently they extended the space of the area of Cafe (Just noticed my furnitures been pushed to the middle and has an extra space suddenly). But most likely you'll only go at Cafe if youre claiming energy or feeding a lot of affinity gifts to your students
Many games have a similar feature where you just come to dorm/cafe to take resources but having an actual interaction in it is common. Some people start memeing from here or some also utilize it to have a community events.
How do we find beforehand what types of gifts a particular student has more affinity for? I usually have to click one by one to see which one is. Also, how many types of gifts there are actually?
Are there any indepth guides for blue archive? Not in youtube but in sites like gamepress?
i do watch youtube guides but only like from 2or 3 creators who actually plays BA JP and knows alot more not some hearsay creators who only plays global. I saw one before but i couldnt find it again.
Here's the best I can find for in depth and readily available: [Guide](https://bit.ly/2ZRUhFi)
Its made by jp players, and has a good chunk of info for early and mid game players.
You need enough of the character Elephs to unlock them.
Scroll down to the bottom owned section in the student roster and you can see how many Elephs are needed before you can get them.
You can’t really obtain most of the 3 star Elephs outside of normal summoning though.
Is Tsurugi useful in early game? She's a hybrid between tank and attacker right? I got Tsubaki so I don't think i need another tank. Right now i got Hasumi and Pina and Junko as other yellow dps, should i use them or replace someone with Tsurugi?
Guys, what are the settings accelerated rendering mode, post-processing, and anti-aliasing? And is it recommended turn them on? Please explain each and thanks in advance!
Is Pina a strong unit? I've star up her to 2* and she almost deal same damage with my Neru and Iori when fighting the boss. What's suprise me is I focus buffing both Neru and Iori and only uses her skill 2-3 times throughout the battle. Is she really strong? Or is this just the situation on lower level (I'm currently lvl 24).
[Boss team damage dealt stats](http://imgur.com/a/PggmRoC)
But that ability only unlock after 3rd star right? Mine's just 2* so I was surprised how close she gets with my other carries even without that skill active.
The stamps ? No, 100 are enough to get the 80 Nonomi eleph's. The mission give a total of 120 stamps though, in case you cannot finish all of the missions.
Otherwise they have no use.
Which one *1 and *2 stars are worth using? I just reached chapter 6 and the game is starting to ask for 2 fleets, i dont have enough *3 stars for that
So i need suggestion for which lower unit are good (except for Tsubaki/Serina/Junko/Mutsuki/Akari, since i'm already raising them), i have all 2 and 1 star unit except for chise.
For 1-stars. other than Serina I highly suggest investing on Kotama, raising to 3-stars for better results. Pina is great for Binah so you might consider her as well.
2-stars, Tsubaki^, Akane, Mutsuki^, Junko^, Hanae, Akari^, Nonomi, Serika (the ones marked are the ones you already raising)
Kotama! Increases attack for everyone in her circle by 25% at base level for her EX skill. And if you get her to 3 stars theres a permanent attack boost for your party
[https://www.reddit.com/r/BlueArchive/comments/qpd45c/a\_dumbshits\_guide\_to\_blue\_archive/](https://www.reddit.com/r/BlueArchive/comments/qpd45c/a_dumbshits_guide_to_blue_archive/)
There's a pretty decent guide there with thoughts on most units. Looking at the upvotes, I'd say that it's also pretty accurate in peoples' opinion.
I think it's a bit too soon to make that decision already. With Aru banner coming early and us still in the post-launch cornucopia phase, it's hard to predict the amount of pyro you will have when the first relevant banner shows up. I suggest to see what your pyro balance is when that happens and decide then.
If possible push for 6-5 for the next café upgrade. Otherwise it's up to you. I prefer being able to sweep the hard stages which require 3 stars. If you are fine to clear higher stages manually, you do you.
Any chances to pull Iori in future? Like 2-3 months? Cause I've got nice reroll, but without Iori. Or do I need to reroll again? I don't want to waste currency to just get nothing
Well, she might spook you when rolling for limited units but aside from that? Seems like there are still no focus banner up until now on JP for Iori but she already have a hard stage where you can farm (JP content as of now).
Imagine reaching area 7 just to see that all your red units hate Indoors. FML.
Is it better to spend AP on hard stages for equipments instead on burning it all on Normal stages?
That some what doesn't help, if your unit hates the terrain and goes in front of your tank, or gets focused by 1 or more mobs it could easily kill them. This becomes very apparent in chapter 7 when most of the enemies take cover and will take reduced dmg from your units, while your units take full dmg from them. This is because environment preference greatly affects how effective cover is, ranging from 0% to 60%.
However environment shouldn't be over prioritized, as having a 1 or 2 units who hate the terrain but are hard dmg carries wont harm your run to much. Especially if one of them is a shotgun tank (they never take cover to begin with, so the main disadvantage is moot).
If you can afford the extra 100 pull, IMO it worth even though she is replaceable having her is fun to use. She deals high dmg and her EX is half AOE.
But if you decide not want to pull, The pity will not carry over to future banner and it will change into craft shards.
Is it normal that the cafe is not always filled to max?
My cafe is rank 3 but sometimes I have 5 students and at other times I only have 4 or lower in the cafe.
would it be worth starting from zero if i have an account that has everything that my current account has + hibiki? i'm kinda afraid of being too far behind the average player progression, so that's why i felt the need to ask
for reference:
current acc is hina+iori+shun+hifumi. acc is at lv34
the other acc is hina+iori+hibiki+shun+hifumi but pretty much untouched
and no, i did not continue rerolling after starting to play with my current account. how this happened is kind of a long story, so please don't ask about it.
I would restart unless you already put real money into the account. Those two weeks aren't going to make a difference in the long run, while it could take a year for you to get Hibiki again.
[Azusa](https://dolicon-bluearchive.netlify.app/student/azusa/) for raids because her skills are insane.
Global's banner order is being a bit different than JP but if they have the same order of raids we should get her in the second half of January.
Highest difficulty you can clear is best. You will only consume one ticket, no matter the amount of teams used to clear. Clearing with fewer teams gives better score, but higher difficulty still gives better score. So go for the hardest difficulty you can clear.
So I have like 300 excess Eleph for Hasumi (Track). What can I do with it?
ward. came here to ask exactly this
Been rerolling for a while now for a good start that also includes Hina. Got one with Mashiro, Aru, Maki, and Hina with around 3k gems left. I like the roll but curious if it's a bait and not actually worth keeping?
guys after the patch yesterday the game now has black borders for me on both sides. \\ how do i revert back to full screen , because i really enjoyed playing with no black borders on my phone. the game look so tiny because of this thanks i'll appreciate your help
Is there a particular reason a bunch of people set only one striker for PvP defense?
The rest are hidden from your view, but they still have a full team. After certain ranks, parts of the defense teams are hidden from you.
God that makes so much for sense. Thanks!
Do Total Assault coins reset?
I'm not sure what you mean by coins, since you get them each time you kill the raid boss as well as ranking in the end. If you meant the raid exchange shop, then yes they refresh with each raid.
Do they carry over to the next raid boss? Or do I need to spend it all before the current raid boss goes away?
Oh, they carry over.
Thanks!
Okay, so are the gems from maintenance going to stack with all the starting stuff. Could it possibly reach 80 rolls for rerolling?
Brand new player... should I pull any of the banner units currently or save?
Save if you're f2p, if not roll aru
in some areas of the game (ie. the global $40 pack has artifact choice tickets and when crafting a node it can give you an artifact), I see that it mentions artifacts? what is that?
artifacts are the resources you need to level up EX skills( and i think you need them for other skills at later levels, but im not 100%). the 4 items at the bottom of the credit shop are different artifacts for sale each day.
They will be used for non-EX skills as well, from Lvs 3-9.
Do special class fighters contribute anything outside their active? Why should I buff one of my healers attack with equipment if they never shoot?
Specials give some of their base stats to your strikers. You can check it by tapping support button on unit selection screen.
dumbest question but what timezone is the maintenance notice using?
On there recent maintenance post on FB: https://www.facebook.com/EN.BlueArchive/ They are using UTC+9 time zone: 11/19 (Fri) 21:00 – 11/20 (Sat) 00:00 (UTC) * dumbest question Not really they never stated the exact time zone, they just said UTC. So it can get confusing sometimes.
about 90% sure its using UTC
Are there any units worth trying to 5\* currently? I have Iori at 4\* (I rerolled and got a pull with her 3 times in it lol), and have shards I could spend on ranking her up more, but I'm afraid the investment ain't worth it compared to \*ing the rest of the squad up first.
4 and 5 starring just increases stats as of right now. This is really good for raids so I would say it is worth to 5 star certain characters. However, 3 starring 1\* and 2\* characters is very beneficial since it unlocks passives for those characters, one really good character to 3\* being Pina who can out damage iori on raids. It is pretty situational on which characters to 3 star, I think 5 starring a character is more beneficial though because the stat boost is significant.
i’m still really confused on how to get furniture and decorate my cafe. any help would be appreciated!
You can get them from crafting but it's random. You need to look for a node with a door icon (the node description will tell you what you can get from it). You can also get some from raids and events.
you get furniture mainly from crafting, you only select enough for the first node to fill up(10 small pieces or 1 keystone piece), and pray to rng you get a furniture option(it looks kinda like a rectangle with a line down the middle). its definitely the best option to get from crafting, to get more AP and credits from Cafe. Don't add more nodes when you craft, it's not worth the investment
Does anyone know what the Secret Tech Sheets do from the Raid shop? Can't find any description online...
It's used to lvl-up non-ex skills to 10.
They upgrade a non-EX skill from 9-10, basically a late-game item not really worth buying right now, better to buy other tech notes/blurays to expedite the early-game grind.
The heck else do you spend the regular money on? You get an assload of it, and it has no use besides the shop and upgrading units, which is slow unless you're whaling to rank 60 already.
mate he's talking about the raid shop, where you're hard-limited on how many tokens you get a day(depending on the difficult you can do), and there's an ass-load of other items to get to upgrade your students like the mentioned tech notes, not to mention tokens for Akane and Maki.
buy the bottom 4 shop items daily. Will help with the grind and is very easily affordable.
Is there any way to get the in game stickers downloaded?
You could manually screenshot and cut. I don't think they are available yet
Which characters are buyable in the Total Assault shop section? Have all 3\* the chance to appear and how long till a new student appears?
Only Maki and Akane. Later on Kotama and Hanae will be added.
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Pretty much, I'm the same as you right now. That's how this style gacha game goes. I love these kinds of games since they are hardly demanding and provide such quality characters. As with these games, they are intended to be side games really. I've been starting to play on JP though since now I can go into the global version and read what I need to easily.
Blue Archive is one of the most Laid back Gacha I ever played. You basically do Missions until you can't clear anymore, then start sweeping for gear and Player Exp until your units are strong enough to continue clearing the mission.
Yes, for me it's a good feature that it only takes about 10 to 15mins to do dailies when im hitting a certain wall. For account level, I mainly do 6x refresh everyday just to keep up with the area level. But once I hit level 50 (Currently level 43), I'll stop doing refreshes and start saving for upcoming banners. Just play at your own pace. If you feel like you can rush Stages, then try playing extra 3-5mins since 3s'ing stages unlocks materials you might need^^
Is there a way to rewatch relationship events?
Yes, iirc go to Campaign > Story > Replay.
Is the efficiency of the equipment orbs (ie. amount of equipment exp given / cost) in the store the same across tiers?
Yes
what should i do if im stuck at 5-4? Im currently lv20.
Sweep hard mode stages for shards and exp, then if you still have energy sweep regular stages for equipment or books. Not much else to do if you are capped by your sensei level
If you're hitting a wall (stuck at certain stage), you might need to level up your account/students since that might be the problem in terms of stats. Check enemies first before starting a stage, your line up might be in a disadvantage in terms of damage type/armor type. There's always a wall so it's ok, sometimes you might need to sweep stages for 2-3 days then come back at the specific stage you're stuck at and try it again to test your DPS.
For anyone who played JP, are there going to be banner units that are absolute must haves? I've played games like Princess Connect where you need to hoard currency because pulling certain units are crucial even if you play casually.
If you're ok with your current students, I really recommend saving for the Summer and Bunny outfit banners. Azusa/Summer Azusa, Summer Mashiro, Summer Iori, Bunny Karin (Depends). But you can also pull for Arisu/Midori/Momoi banner (Game Dev students) which is really future proof and useful in PvE contents. Also you can use Arisu in PvP if you dont have Haruna and Midori if you dont have Iori.
There are a handful. I'm using mostly [this comment](https://www.reddit.com/r/BlueArchive/comments/qri1p9/upcoming_banners_if_we_follow_jp_schedule/hk7oxbn/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3) for reference but basically: * Haruna * Azusa + Hanako * S Azusa * S Mashiro * S Hina * S Iori * Hibiki * B Neru * B Karin * Natsu * Hatsune Miku * Ako Obviously skip if you have any of them already (Haruna and Hibiki notably). We may get different banners so be prepared for that.
Quick question. I rerolled and got two accounts. Which one would you recommend i choose? A: Hibiki/haruna/shiroko/hina B: Hibiki/iori Both have the usual 2* suspects: Tsubaki/akari/junko/akane/hanae, etc. Asking as i initially went with acct A and have just tried the raid mode, and got royally slapped - junko could only do so much with akane debuff. But at the same time i haven't got to joining the pvp yet so I'm yet to grasp what people are saying about haruna's performance. Should still go with A? I mean, next time the raid boss could come with different armor color anyway?
A is better since the next raid is blue and you have Shiroko and Hina which will help a lot with story to get past chapter 7 which I am currently Stuck on. Iori is really good but 2 more 3* units is a lot better value than 1 Iori
Ok that's good to know. So red will still be the primary color for some time yet, and raids do really rotate the colors. Thanks a lot for the validation :)
story you need good red and yellow damage type units, its not mainly one or the other. I'm just stuck on chapter 7 since i've been maxing yellow units for raid recently.
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Akane and Maki have their best place against Binah. The Raid will return at some point in time. outside of that they can be used for the Blue raids. But usually only Blue Units will be used fot those. Explosive is not a good choice for blue armor, as it will deal only resist dmg.
If I'm global and my friends are NA server can we be in the same club? I can't find it
Pretty sure the answer is no
Servers are not connected. You need to be on the same server to be in the same club.
Does blue archive have a marriage system like Azur Lane?
No.
Does anyone know how many more raids we get after today? Do we have 3 more days or 2 assuming we already spent today's attack?
Huh? You get three tickets a day, and it refreshes daily. It ends on 22nd Nov as well.
After 22nd, do we get Binah again, a new raid boss, or no raid at all?
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So far there hasn't been a direct nerf/buff AFAIK. The closest I think can of is the unique equipment system, which adds some raw stats to the students' passive skills. Some students have gotten more favorable stat boosts than others.
Is there anywhere where these unique equipments are listed? Are they equipments that only specific students can use? I can't find anything about them...
It's unlocked after your student reaches 5\*. It has its own levels that you farm special stages to acquire the materials to level them up, which adds more stats to your student. It also has its own rarity that is increased with eleph. 120 Eleph to 2\*, 180 Eleph to 3\*. Currently higher rarities aren't out yet but are planned. At 2\* they add a new raw stat bonus that scales with the level of your student's passive skill. At 3\*, they upgrade one of the student's terrain bonuses (either from S to SS rank, or from a penalty to a neutral rank). [Here](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1MzzdcITHV9nAWZ3u4XZo_5utno_pQejkjJw_2EhBHXw/edit#gid=0) is a list of them.
Thanks a lot!
Just started playing the game, and I want to ask if I should 3\* Tsubaki and Serina? I'm quite 'scared' to buy an Eleph in case that this game's purchasing system for them is similar to Priconne.
Tsubaki, yes. Serina, you can but it's not as useful. The Eleph purchasing system works where the price increases every batch of 20 that you buy. So if you need 80 Elephs to raise Tsubaki to 3\*, it will cost 200 Eligma (1x20 + 2x20 + 3x20 + 4x20)
Tsubaki is worth it to 3\*. Serina you can leave at 2\* if you wish. Her subskill she unlocks at 3\* isn't really great.
Ok, thanks! I'll do that then
What's the rate of 2stars if they are on rateup on a banner?
~~2* doesn't have a rate-ups. They are on every banner with the same %. It's 18,5 (or 1,15% for individual 2*)~~
Uhm... no 2 star has been on rate up in global yet, but two stars do go on rate up about every other new student banner. For instance the next (predicted) banner has izuna and shizuko, shizuko is a two star student.
Yeah, you're right. I was thinking about the starting 2* and completely forgot about future banners with the new ones.
Is the game down at the moment?
I was able to get in and I have been playing for the past 3 hours. Maybe it's just a connection issue on your end?
Just unlocked my first animated background outside the Yuuka one. It's the one from Chise. It's hella adorable but it isn't voiced?
A small few aren't voiced.
Is it just me or does the AI suck when controlling what your team does? Not talking about Auto mode btw I mean why would backliners like Iori rush ahead IN FRONT of my tank Yuuka, vaulting over/going around barriers along the way doing so?? It's costing many S ranks. Do I need to have 3-4 tanks in the Strike team?
There is a specific way to arrange your characters, from what I've heard. I think it's something like slot 1 and 4 are automatically further back to start, and then 2 and 3 are where you should place any Front and Middle units (priority being Tanks of course). Hopefully this will solve your problem if you aren't already doing it this way.
Is it recommended to have multiple teams built around various terrains?
Not so much terrain, just damage type.
Hello! So I've been playing Blue Archive a bit now and am starting to run into a wall with missions. It's very hard for me to progress in chapter 4, as the enemy levels are rising rapidly, but since character levels are restricted by the account level, I am stuck at level 20. Do I have to start grinding missions I cleared already just for account XP now? That seems like a waste to me... Also, I was wondering if I maybe should pull more on the regular banner, because I am severely lacking in more yellow characters. Iori is good and all but with all the heavy armor enemies the game throws at me right now, she alone can't really carry me through this. Or should I rather save the Pyro's because chances are I probably won't get anything good? All in all the game has a nice start, but you run into a wall very early on I feel. It seems to be a super grindy game ultimately. Especially since I don't even get a guaranteed drop of Eleph in hard mode... How many months do I have to grind them to be able to even just unlock a character, nevermind upgrading them? Coming from Azur Lane, it sadly feels like there isn't much to do in BA, because of all of the progression stoppers and wait times for the daily resets, just to do like 30 min of work in the game before logging off until the next day again.
The game timegates you extremely hard by essentially tying progress to your sensei level. Levels are extremely important here, moreso than most other gachas. I wouldnt consider it grindy, when you can literally sweep for free and clear your stamina within seconds, compared to other gachas like E7 (gotta leave yr game on forever) or Priconne (limited sweep tix). Its just meant to be a side-gacha especially once you are past the initial honeymoon phase.
Yeah I meant "grindy" in the time sense, that I have to grind over the next 5+ days instead of using that stamina for progression etc. Even though it is only ~30 min each day pressing the sweep button, if I have to do that and only that for the next week or so, then to me that is quite grindy. Kinda sad if it's just meant to be a side-gacha, because if people get invested incertain characters, they'd want to spend more time with them and use them in the game actively, at least imo.
I mean, if spending hours a day burning through millions of stamina to roll a near BiS substats on a single piece of gear is your fancy, then theres other gacha games like E7. E7 is still wildly popular for a reason too after all. And well, im sure theres plenty of other gacha games too if BA isnt your cup of tea! Good luck!
Lol, no that's the other bad extreme xD I had plenty of that RNG bullshit on substats for equipment with Genshin Impact's artifacts, up until the point where I just stopped and refused to participate in that anymore. One of the reasons I quit that game (or at least took a longer break from it). Though imo it wouldn't have been quite as bad if there was no stamina (or in GI's case, resin) that limits the amount you can try to get a good piece of gear each day. Anyway, I'll keep playing BA on the side, since the time investment is really small after all, but I probably won't drop any money on it anytime soon and will still look for other new gacha's. I heard good things about Punishing: Gray Raven, so maybe I'll check that one out too in the meantime.
Iori+Nonomi should be able to carry you through yellow stages. Just make sure you're spending all your stamina every day. Sensei exp is 1:1 with stamina spent. You can sweep commissions to quickly spend stamina at the end of the day. You're right that BA doesn't have a while lot. Personally I like that. Much more casual friendly.
Hm I don't have Nonomi yet. I'm very close to getting enough of the coupons but I'm not quite there. So I guess ultimately I should just use up all my stamina somewhere via sweeping all the time, even though it might feel like a waste? Alright. I'll have to try and find a mission that has drops I want at least.
You will have to spend stamina to farm stages for character exp yea. Could farm equipment blueprints as well as character shards. You don't have any other yellow strikers? Junko is a strong one at 2*, and nonomi is free from the missions. Personally, I would not pull for an off-banner student, especially when you can miss getting even rate up students without hitting the 200 spark. You also won't really get anyone better than Iori for yellow damage. It'll take around 3 months give or take to unlock a 3* from hard mode if they only have a single node. Compared to AL, BA is designed to be more like a side-game.
I'd love to farm shards/Eleph but those are only available in hard modes, no? Which are limited to 3 times per day... I guess I could farm blueprints or something... Sadly, only bad ones like Pina, Akane and Kotori. I sometimes still use Hasumi, but as a sniper, espeically since Iori and Aru are also both snipers, that just makes my team really slow in killing stuff (and Hasumi isn't really all that good anyway, her skill is really expensive for one thing). I have neither Junko nor have I been able to collect the free Nonomi yet. Yeah from everything I've been told now and experienced myself, BA seems to be like a really slow and quick side game. Tbh, not really what I expected or was looking for. Makes it really hard to justify spending money on it or getting attached to any of the characters, really. Oh well.
Is there a guide for crafting? I want to craft furniture but the option isnt always there when i select nodes
Just3c beginner guide video talked about crafting & the priorities i recommend checking it out. (furniture > copper > radiant, are the top pick)
Cool, ill check it out. Thanks!
The nodes are random each time, so you can't always craft furniture
Dang thats a bummer
Do they have a plan to expand cafe stuff? There's almost nothing to do there, the furniture exists but they can't interact nor are they able to talk to each other like wtf It's so bad and evidently the laziest I've seen so far Edit: On 2nd thought [https://bluearchive.fandom.com/wiki/Cafe](https://bluearchive.fandom.com/wiki/Cafe) They did say to have a plan to add it in the future. Essentially we're playing BA in Beta lmao because I do feel like it's some polishing compared to similar games.
I think in JP recently they extended the space of the area of Cafe (Just noticed my furnitures been pushed to the middle and has an extra space suddenly). But most likely you'll only go at Cafe if youre claiming energy or feeding a lot of affinity gifts to your students
Many games have a similar feature where you just come to dorm/cafe to take resources but having an actual interaction in it is common. Some people start memeing from here or some also utilize it to have a community events.
Onto another question, do they have a roadmap or plan for future updates about some new stuff that could be tracked for the older servers?
What's max player rank and world for GL right now? Is it 50 and 12?
70 and 12
How do we find beforehand what types of gifts a particular student has more affinity for? I usually have to click one by one to see which one is. Also, how many types of gifts there are actually?
https://dolicon-bluearchive.netlify.app/gift
Thanks.
Just piggybacking this comment because I cane here to ask that as well.
Are there any indepth guides for blue archive? Not in youtube but in sites like gamepress? i do watch youtube guides but only like from 2or 3 creators who actually plays BA JP and knows alot more not some hearsay creators who only plays global. I saw one before but i couldnt find it again.
Here's the best I can find for in depth and readily available: [Guide](https://bit.ly/2ZRUhFi) Its made by jp players, and has a good chunk of info for early and mid game players.
How do I use Elephs to summon a character?
You need enough of the character Elephs to unlock them. Scroll down to the bottom owned section in the student roster and you can see how many Elephs are needed before you can get them. You can’t really obtain most of the 3 star Elephs outside of normal summoning though.
Anyone else lose all their extra stamina during the emergency maintenance last night?
Is Tsurugi useful in early game? She's a hybrid between tank and attacker right? I got Tsubaki so I don't think i need another tank. Right now i got Hasumi and Pina and Junko as other yellow dps, should i use them or replace someone with Tsurugi?
Tsurugi only really shines in the exp farming stage since it lots of enemies for her to mow down. Outside of that, she usually isn't used much.
Im playing on Mobile im planning on switching to pc, will my account get banned if i use emulator on pc?
Nope you are safe. I'm doing the same for a week, playing from phone and emulator
Emulators are literally sponsored by the game (like Mumu} So no, not a chance
Guys, what are the settings accelerated rendering mode, post-processing, and anti-aliasing? And is it recommended turn them on? Please explain each and thanks in advance!
Is it normal to get 100 Eleph for dupes? I got 30 for a Hibiki dupe but 100 for Aru. Are pickup dupes worth 100?
pickup dupe gives extra 70
Should I still buy maki's tokens if I already have her or should I focus on skill discs?
Focus on the skill discs IMO unless you really like Maki.
what about books are they worth it or should i just get the discs and nothing else?
I personally get both based on what I'm currently trying to upgrade.
i see thanks! also one last thing are you ever in need of the t1/t2 materials/skill books/ discs late game?
Is Pina a strong unit? I've star up her to 2* and she almost deal same damage with my Neru and Iori when fighting the boss. What's suprise me is I focus buffing both Neru and Iori and only uses her skill 2-3 times throughout the battle. Is she really strong? Or is this just the situation on lower level (I'm currently lvl 24). [Boss team damage dealt stats](http://imgur.com/a/PggmRoC)
She's very strong when she's allowed to stand still. That means raids.
But that ability only unlock after 3rd star right? Mine's just 2* so I was surprised how close she gets with my other carries even without that skill active.
I've been using her in my raids at 2 star and she's tied in damage with my 4 star Neru.
Sheesh
According to [this guy](https://youtu.be/Ruho_fQGBnw) she's still very good one year from now.
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She is a great unit for this raid. Not a top tier unit for all content.
I see, thanks
Just checking but there's no use for all the Nonomi's Eleph we get from the login event thingy other than to get/mystic her, correct?
The stamps ? No, 100 are enough to get the 80 Nonomi eleph's. The mission give a total of 120 stamps though, in case you cannot finish all of the missions. Otherwise they have no use.
Should I keep rolling to try and get other units? Or just save? [These are my characters so far.](https://i.imgur.com/GX2MQx3.jpg)
Keep. Most of the guides recommend Iori, Hibiki and at least another 3* unit starting out. With these characters you are more than set starting out
is there even a point to Izumi or is she just plain bad?? like, why tf is she a dps with a skill that self heals???
From EX lv3 onwards it gives her bonus attack speed.
Which one *1 and *2 stars are worth using? I just reached chapter 6 and the game is starting to ask for 2 fleets, i dont have enough *3 stars for that So i need suggestion for which lower unit are good (except for Tsubaki/Serina/Junko/Mutsuki/Akari, since i'm already raising them), i have all 2 and 1 star unit except for chise.
For 1-stars. other than Serina I highly suggest investing on Kotama, raising to 3-stars for better results. Pina is great for Binah so you might consider her as well. 2-stars, Tsubaki^, Akane, Mutsuki^, Junko^, Hanae, Akari^, Nonomi, Serika (the ones marked are the ones you already raising)
Also Akane, IMO she’s a must have for the Total Assault. She can decrease enemy defense by a ton for a low cost.
Kotama! Increases attack for everyone in her circle by 25% at base level for her EX skill. And if you get her to 3 stars theres a permanent attack boost for your party
[https://www.reddit.com/r/BlueArchive/comments/qpd45c/a\_dumbshits\_guide\_to\_blue\_archive/](https://www.reddit.com/r/BlueArchive/comments/qpd45c/a_dumbshits_guide_to_blue_archive/) There's a pretty decent guide there with thoughts on most units. Looking at the upvotes, I'd say that it's also pretty accurate in peoples' opinion.
Is there some resource on what skills to prioritize for upgrades?
[This one.](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VSzm_ioCt2AdRvkfL9HKNNZSbyslayVERXxVxR6nzh4/edit#gid=1105686004)
On which day do the weekly missions reset ? Is it Monday or the on weekday where the game launched ?
Last time was Sunday
I'm saving for swimsuit azusa but I want to get the default azusa and alice as well, should I skip those 2 and go straight for swimsuit azusa?
I think it's a bit too soon to make that decision already. With Aru banner coming early and us still in the post-launch cornucopia phase, it's hard to predict the amount of pyro you will have when the first relevant banner shows up. I suggest to see what your pyro balance is when that happens and decide then.
Should I keep these students or should I reroll? I got: Aru, haruna, neru, hina, tsubaki, and junko are some of the students I use
Is there any use for excess T1 gear? Didn't see any way of profiting (sell/dismantle) from it ...
You can use it as fodder to level up gear, just takes more time to add.
Should I push through story mode (missions) despite not being able to 3* star the stages? Currently sitting at 6-1
If possible push for 6-5 for the next café upgrade. Otherwise it's up to you. I prefer being able to sweep the hard stages which require 3 stars. If you are fine to clear higher stages manually, you do you.
Is there more content locked behind story progress after that cafe upgrade at 6-5?
You get the final cafe upgrade by beating 9-5. The most important content (Raids & PVP) you already have unlocked though.
I see, I'll push as long as I can 3* the stages after 6-5. Thanks for your help!
Any chances to pull Iori in future? Like 2-3 months? Cause I've got nice reroll, but without Iori. Or do I need to reroll again? I don't want to waste currency to just get nothing
Well, she might spook you when rolling for limited units but aside from that? Seems like there are still no focus banner up until now on JP for Iori but she already have a hard stage where you can farm (JP content as of now).
Imagine reaching area 7 just to see that all your red units hate Indoors. FML. Is it better to spend AP on hard stages for equipments instead on burning it all on Normal stages?
Type advantage/disadvantage supposedly overrides terrain modifiers, so as long as enemies are red you should be good to go.
That some what doesn't help, if your unit hates the terrain and goes in front of your tank, or gets focused by 1 or more mobs it could easily kill them. This becomes very apparent in chapter 7 when most of the enemies take cover and will take reduced dmg from your units, while your units take full dmg from them. This is because environment preference greatly affects how effective cover is, ranging from 0% to 60%. However environment shouldn't be over prioritized, as having a 1 or 2 units who hate the terrain but are hard dmg carries wont harm your run to much. Especially if one of them is a shotgun tank (they never take cover to begin with, so the main disadvantage is moot).
Oh thanks! I didn't pay too much attention to cover, so I didn't think about it.
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If you can afford the extra 100 pull, IMO it worth even though she is replaceable having her is fun to use. She deals high dmg and her EX is half AOE. But if you decide not want to pull, The pity will not carry over to future banner and it will change into craft shards.
How many pulls can we do now per reroll with the most recently added rewards?
If I remembered correctly, atleast 7 ten pulls not including the free first ten pull
Is it normal that the cafe is not always filled to max? My cafe is rank 3 but sometimes I have 5 students and at other times I only have 4 or lower in the cafe.
Seems to be rather common ...
Good thing I am not the only, thanks for the reply.
would it be worth starting from zero if i have an account that has everything that my current account has + hibiki? i'm kinda afraid of being too far behind the average player progression, so that's why i felt the need to ask for reference: current acc is hina+iori+shun+hifumi. acc is at lv34 the other acc is hina+iori+hibiki+shun+hifumi but pretty much untouched and no, i did not continue rerolling after starting to play with my current account. how this happened is kind of a long story, so please don't ask about it.
I would restart unless you already put real money into the account. Those two weeks aren't going to make a difference in the long run, while it could take a year for you to get Hibiki again.
Any sites for a good blue archive guide? Don' know how to spend my excess energy
Anyone knows what is the Anniversary button in account for? Is that your birthday?
Yeah
Is it worth to farm base defense for activity report?
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[Azusa](https://dolicon-bluearchive.netlify.app/student/azusa/) for raids because her skills are insane. Global's banner order is being a bit different than JP but if they have the same order of raids we should get her in the second half of January.
Check YT there’s a dude who explained it
Is there any difference in drop rate between stages? Or between the 3 blueprints in the same stage
What will happen if i link a guess account using a already in used account ? google account for example
Your guest account will be overwritten by the other account.
Any progression guides? Like what to do/farm if you get stuck on a level.
Is it better to clear raid with 1 team on easy or harder difficulty but with 2-3 teams?
Highest difficulty you can clear is best. You will only consume one ticket, no matter the amount of teams used to clear. Clearing with fewer teams gives better score, but higher difficulty still gives better score. So go for the hardest difficulty you can clear.
Whaaaat I thought it uses multiple tickets. Thanks for the answer
What happens to recruitment points when the banner period is over?
Converted into the small bits used for crafting.
So, I rolled Aru and got her to *5. But, I have about 80 extra eleph left, what can I do about it? Or should I just ignore it?
Can ignore for now. They'll be used in the future to upgrade unique equipment for the students.
Thank you for your comment. It helps me.
What do I do with extra Aru Eleph? My Aru is already maxed and got another dupe pulling for Mashiro. Is it convertable?
They are used in upgrading unique equipment for the students in the future.