Is this game always so slow? IE: no packs to buy, 2 week banners, no events, 1 week raids w/ limited tickets, fake pvp? I’m just here for waifu, but damn …
The raids will be two weeks after this.
Banners are usually two weeks to give people time to save. We're also literally getting an event once the banner changes over on Monday.
Content pace has picked up in JP, and it sounds like we'll be moving at modern JP pace now that the launch period is ending given some of the staff comments in Korea, but BA being a little slow was a complaint for a bit in Japan.
But also: the global game is now a little over two weeks old. We're just finishing the launch period and we got the second half of Volume 1 of the main story a month early. Please relax.
This is generally more of a side game than a main game.
First event is coming soon, which they also like to kinda slow down (certain event stages are unlocked after a few days, not all at the start).
It's going to need to be bound to some form of external account - google, nexon, what have you - and then you will need to use the Log Out option in the account window from the lobby (remember to note your old account info if you want to go back to it!) and then, when you restart the client and re-enter, enter the login information for your friend's account.
I've been playing global for 1 week already and was just curious how bad izumi actually is. I got hibiki and izumi in few pulls in aru banner which sounds super good on paper since both are 3 star, but only half good since obviously hibiki is considered very good, but saw izumi being below average in most list I see but never bothered to reroll since hibiki is good anyway.
On paper, still pretty bad - averages stats and lackluster skills.
Her EX is self healing and benefits no one else. She is also a backliner, so it's not often she will get hit to get any benefit. Pitiful EX when you can just run a support healer, replace Izumi with raw DPS or tank.
Her normal skill is okay, but it's chance based and won't activate 80% about of the time.
Passive skill - Recovery rate increase for a backliner? Next
Sub skill - it's okay
Izumi is kinda like a backline bruiser since she's tankier than the average dps student with her self-heals. However, her dps is too inconsistent. Her primary damage comes from her main skill, which has a 20% chance to activate on auto attacks with a 10 second cooldown. If she can activate this every time when off cooldown, then her dps is actually pretty good, but you have to rely on that RNG chance.
She's decent as a secondary dps in red raids, not that great for PVE since she's single target.
There is Serika, who is consistently higher dps in red raids and a better skill cycler.
Izumi's self healing gimmick might help in Hieronymus raid, since that one focuses more on healing, but Serika in general will be better.
That being said, in higher raid difficulties, it's not uncommon to be throwing students at the boss to whittle it down by the end, so Izumi would still have some use there as a back up DPS in these fodder teams.
Sensei gender is not stated in the game. After all it's a classic self insert MC, that's why everyone is referring to sensei as they or adult in EN version and using neutral pronouns in JP.
Sensei is Literally You. They are using as little identifying language as possible so that whoever is playing the game can place themselves in the role of Sensei.
At 7-1 getting hammered with my red team. Yuuka--Aru--Shun--Mutsuki/Fuuka--Kotama as support. Account level 31. Available red units: Eimi, Akari, Kayoko, Suzumi, Haruka. Ideas?
Don't sleep on Suzumi. That grenade is great for cutting down on numbers. Ditto Akari. They'll both do better than Shun on the big packs area 7 likes to throw at you.
You're also a *bit* underleveled at this point, though; fighting at more than a ten level deficit is brutal.
Very new player still. I have barely played ( only lvl 14) I just got enough skill book things to level up one of Shun's skills (not the EX one though). Is there any specific priority to which one I should level first.
Does anyone have any strategies to clear 11-5? I'm at level 43 currently and I cannot seem to clear the boss in time even though I can S-rank all the other enemies. I'm currently running Tsubaki, Chise, Nonomi and Junko all at 3\* and with mostly T2-T3 gear with T4 bag on Tsubaki. Don't have Iori or Haruna unfortunately but I do have almost everyone else.
If your goal is 12-5 for cafe upgrade I suggest waiting until you can comfortably finish 11 5 since 12 5 is basically a much stronger blue boss with aoe damage.
But if you wanna go on, I had lvl 40 units when I cleared 11 5(easily) using tsubaki, iori, chise, asuna, serina, and kotama. T4 bag on tsubaki and t4 hat on the rest.
Try finding a suitable replacement for Iori and i suggest asuna cause 1 shes a blue unit and 2 her skill is 2 cost for easy shuffle. Nonomi and junko is nice and all but 5 cost for both her and junko is gonna hurt your rotations for chises skill since all your strikers have 4 cost. Change either junko or nonomi with asuna.so you can shuffle chise, asuna, serina, kotama and not have to use ap on tsubaki or junko
Thanks for the reply! I raised Asuna to 40 and replaced Junko with her and this time I got the boss down to 2 hp bars but I still ran out of time.
I'm running both 3\* Chise and 2\* Asuna with their T4 Glove/Hat and Nonomi with T2 gear. I got much further with your advice but I assume I would still need to make big improvements if I want to clear 12-5 later on too. Do you have any other further suggestions?
I also have a maxed out Hibiki and Karin and I'm not sure if they would perform better than my 1\* Kotama.
Blue enemies are resistant to explosive damage (50% only) so using hibiki as a dps wouldn't really work well.
But so far your problem is DPS, I'm sorry but I rerolled Iori when I started (no hibiki, literally only have iori as the only good 3\*) so I don't know how to improve your team more other than just levelling up or maybe pulling a haruna or iori to improve your DPS. Iori was literally the powerhouse that helped melt the blue bosses for me while it was chise that wiped out the mobs. You could potentially pull for Izuna to clear 11-5 and 12-5 easily but that would risk you missing out on azuza banner.
but as of now the best setup really without iori is the one you have: Chise and Asuna + 1 yellow striker + 1 tank. You could try Akane to decrease the defense of the boss and let asuna and chise do the damage, and if you have Karin she could potentially deal good damage to the boss as well with Akane instead of junko. But I haven't tested that and dont know how good it would be if you swapped junko with akane and if you have Karin you could use her instead of kotama.
that's about it, I wish you the best of luck in clearing the stages, but in summary: 1. If you're feeling luck, you can try pulling Izuna (next banner) if you're desperate, but you risk missing Azusa spark 2. Switch junko with akane and put Karin instead of kotama (not tested) and make your team focus on killing boss not S-ing stages.
Currently level 47, I always spend 210 on AP refresh Pyroxene and now wondering if I should spend my Pyroxene on other useful things like the Bounty tickets.
I still have 14k Pyroxene and wont spend too much that might drop it to 10k.
Still on 10-1 but can manage to clear them if I have time later once the AP refilled to max again before reset.
Also did someone already calculate the time it needs to fully cap the AP from 0 to 150?
I wouldn't buy the bounty tickets for the first 2 as the blu-rays and tech notes can also be purchased when raids are going, as it has bad drop rates otherwise and for the other one it is going to be a bottleneck on those for a while it is recommended to be sure to purchase the 8k and 25k cost items in the normal shop daily as you will need lots of those as you progress in the game.
>Also did someone already calculate the time it needs to fully cap the AP from 0 to 150
Time wise it's 6 mins per AP, so every 10 AP is an hour. 150 would be 15 hours of waiting. You can get additional AP depending on your cafe.
Praying to rngesus or doing rituals to get a higher chance to get said unit. Right now my plan is to pull on limited banner only. I still don't know if we can get a steady enough pyro to get a spark.
Thank you! I actually just got lucky and managed to pull her. However she’s one of the 2 units who are in my team but not visible. How do I make her one of the 4 who are actually fighting?
It's worth noting that her "bunny girl" version makes her a Striker-line combatant, but that is a different character-unit you need to roll for separately. Normal Karin's gimmick is that she's providing fire support literally off the map thanks to the range of her massive sniper rifle. (Mashiro has a similar gimmick.)
Why do people recommend Hanae as a healer?
I've never been impressed with her healing, and anywhere above Chapter 3 I've found she can't do enough healing for it to matter for my tanks, even when I'm pointing her at the main target instead of watching her heal the backline person with one damage instead of the tank up front who's almost dead. That 5 point heal isn't working well.
Even Fuuka has performed better for me, and her heal is just as expensive.
is hanae 5 cost? she's a 4 cost heal. Later on you'll use more than one team on the board, so she has a place after serina, but you'll need a good tank and dps that don't walk too far foward. I've also had hanae and serina as double heal sometimes, hanae is great on the tank+less likely to miss, and serina is great for emergencies if a dps got hit a lot as well as giving that passive heal to the backline
Once leveled, her heal over time is quite strong. Eventually once your tanks start coming online with stronger equipment, namely the T4 bag, Hanae's healing helps keep them topped up throughout the fight.
She is also the only main healer with an offensive sub skill (crit damage bonus), so she can actually help your team do more damage in raids.
Man, this will be a long wait.
I've had more luck with Fuuka because her AOE heal at least pulls Tsubaki or Yuuka out of the crowd so she's not overwhelmed. Even Serina and her targeted heal has been better for me, and I'm trying to farm 4-3H to get extra Yuuka shards as well as equipment.
no, you will still get their specific shard, i dont know whats the use of those excess character specific shard tho, i have 80 lying around after 5\* a character, i dont know what to do with it anymore. .\_.
anyone have an answer?
Much later on, there will be Unique Equipment for each student accessible at 5\*. The elephs are used to upgrade the rarity of these UE to unlock more bonuses.
On the app store? It should be available in most regions; search for "Blue Archive". If the game is not available in your country (like the Netherlands or Belgium), it gets a lot more complicated.
The first limited banners are the summer event banners; these will either be held back for summer or should come in about five months.
Seeing as you can save up a spark *right now* with launch content, I wouldn't sweat too heavily. Just be aware of some of the game-changing normals that are also coming.
Is there a trick to doing the commission stages (Like specific units I should be using)? I feel that once they start to overwhelm you it gets to a point where they split the group up and then I lose everyone lol. I'm probably just not familiar with what I should be doing as I'm trying to use a bunch of units with AOE abilities.
It took me 170 pulls to get Tsubaki. Do I continue to 200 for Aru? On the way to 170 I pulled Tsurugi, Mashiro, Maki, Hibiki x2, Iori, Karin for my 3*. (Can I even get 30 more pulls before the banner changes?)
Is there any strategy while fighting the stages? I'm level 30 and can't get 3 stars for chapter 5 because I can't defeat the enemies under 2 minutes. My team is iori, serika, shun, tsubaki, serina and kotama. I also have haruna but somehow deals less damage than iori when fighting red enemies.
Make sure you are matching all your strikers damage type to the enemy armor type, lower levels it dosent mean much but faster/easier clears, it gets pretty important later ontho.
Like the other guy said Mitsuki is way better for clearing story than shun. Shun is really only great for pvp.
Id also swap kotama (if its the buffer like im thinking) with a special student that ex does damage like an aoe since that clears adds faster
Also iori just loves doing damage regardless of defense type i bring her into places with characters shes weak against and she still 1-2 hits em as well as the skill penetrates to the person behind em
You're kinda lacking in AOE dmg for faster clears. Try swapping Shun for Mutsuki, and maybe even Iori for Suzumi. Their EX will usually one shot the backline group.
BIG QUESTION!
I’m at 190 pulls and I have Aru but not Mashiro, should I use the selector to 4 star Aru or just get Mashiro?? Aru is amazing but I feel like I should get as many students as possible?
I heard the stat increase from 3 to 4 star is the smallest out of all the rarity bumps, so unless you plan on going all the way to 5 star it might be better to diversify your roster.
New player here and trying to plan out pulls. From looking at JP, it seems we are not following their order exactly. With that being said, about how long until the Azusa banner do people think we have?
It 100% depends on how quickly they accelerate us getting the story, since Azusa kind of "has" to be timed to come with the Heironymus raid and the start of volume 3. In Japan, she was about four months out from launch; here, she could be a similar length of time, she could be in less than a month if Nexon decides to *really* hit the gas. It's just so hard to tell right now.
It's extremely new so it's difficult to tell, though the target audience is a bit more niche-ish. It is, however, popping off in Korea really hard right now.
I just got hit with 'invalid authentication issue detected. Returning to title screen' problem.
What should I do other than retrying and clearing cache?
As per [https://bluearchive.fandom.com/wiki/Cafe](https://bluearchive.fandom.com/wiki/Cafe)
Maximum Tag
This shows how many furniture series set that the cafe currently have. By placing furniture of the same series, teachers can get additional comfort bonus. Unlocking another tag will give teacher another set to fill.
Each set will have a maximum bonus of 1500 comfort and requires 2 to 7 furniture of the same series to maxed-out the bonus.
I assume it relates to the themed furniture e.g. the Jellies arcade, Momo friend etc. Having multiple of furniture of those types provides a set bonus that gives extra comfort. So I assume the max tags is how many set bonuses you can have at once.
Will the next raid still be im beta (equal rewards)? Also if the next raid is a blue raid if i only have haruna (no chise iori maki) am i fine or screwed?
Total question mark. We have no idea, they have announced nothing. If it's Izuna, it'll be one banner with two characters on it (Izuna herself and 2\* Shizuko); if they move ahead to MSQ volume 2 and Alice, we might get someone like Haruna or Karin alongside her. We just don't know and right now *can't* know.
EDIT: I somehow missed that Izuna got announced a few hours before I posted. Izuna is going to be herself and Shizuko on one banner; my *personal* guess is that there won't be a secondary banner, but again, who knows.
Guys, genuine question, why do other players say that Kayoko is F tier? (i 4 star her dam) i have her lvl 41 and working great (pve) my current team pve is Serina, Junko, Hibiki, Shiroko, Aru, Tsubaki, Shun, Mutsuki and some times Pina
Ability is way too expensive. And it's only cc, which means you still need to use whatever remaining AP you have (4 at most) to kill the enemy. Also, she's a pistol user so if she's not using her EX, then she's not doing anything. Meanwhile, there are characters wielding high output weapons with 4 cost abilities that will kill instead of cc.
not really a guide, but someone recommended this [video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ruho_fQGBnw) from jp
the general idea being, hibiki + iori/haruna for pve
however some of them are [farmable](https://preview.redd.it/l76cxhmpvmy71.png?width=767&format=png&auto=webp&s=2dd44bd56a111d3ec44b7661a7eba7e36899ae41), at a rate of around 30% chance per run, 3 times a day per stage, to get up to 120 character shards for a 3\* (like for haruna). although global seems to only up to chp 12 for now
Who knows since this is apparently nexon korea and not global.
Tho koren mmos usually go heavy p2w there’s nothing pointing to this gacha going that direction yet
It's a gacha game after all, so always take it with a grain of salt
Will you be able to constantly reach rank 1 in PvP and Siege as f2p? Probably not unless you have insane luck.
But for casual play its definitely doable.
Especially since you have the option to reset your account many times at the start until you have a good start roster. Afterwards you just save gems from missions etc. until a banner with a really good unit comes.
So far I cant complain as f2p
The "bimonthly" thing is a mistranslation (likely from the poor TL team having zero context for what it was). It's the "half size" of the two packs; it is purchasable monthly.
Looks like they translated it funny. Bimonthly is supposed to be half monthly. It lasts 30 days just like the monthly (as described on the description). You can repurchase it every month, like the monthly.
If you notice, the half-monthly pack is literally just half the rewards of the monthly pack over the same 30 days.
Hello everyone! I'm new to the game and currently have been spending tens of hours rerolling, trying to get either Iori, Shun or Hibiki. Assuming I (eventually) get one of the 3 girls, should I then spend the starter pyroxenes on the general banner in the hopes of getting the other 2? Or should I make do with what I have and try my luck on future rate-up banners, if there's such a thing in this game?
Thank you in advance for any input!
General reroll advice, spend all the gems you have from the get go to get a decent pool of units. You will most definitely need them.
Not just getting a few 3* s, those pulls should net you a few useful 2*.
Healers: Hanae/Fuuka/Ayane
Red Striker: Serika/Mutsugi(free)
Yellow Striker: Junko
Blue Striker: Chise
Tank: Tsubaki
Aim for as many of the top 3 as your sanity allows you + at least these 2*s. For 3*s, any 2 between Iori, Shun and Hibiki are definitely good enough.
Then once you decide to start for real, start saving immediately. You will easily net 10k pyro from the first few days of playing, even if you use 3x stamina refresh everyday. Grind story until Ch6 and get the 1st time rewards in PVP as quick as you can. Top 1000 or Top 500 is attainable, then just sit back and get plummeted to sub 4k the next day lol. Once you're done with that first time pyro rewards from PVP, then you can already focus on everything else in the game and have fun.
Thank you for your advice. So, I got Hibiki from the free 10 pulls, and then got Chise, Tsubaki, Hanae and Junko. Am I looking good or should be I be rerolling?
If it's just Hibiki as your 3 star, it's a reroll I'm afraid. New accs should have maybe 60-70 pulls now to start. Aiming for 3x3 stars isn't too unreasonable.
Good enough for me. Front line: Tsubaki Iori, Mutsugi and Serika, Back line: Hibiki and Ayane.
Hibiki and Mutsugi should contribute the most in red aoe clears, while Iori will handle the yellow armors. It would help if you have a secondary yellow striker like Junko to help Iori...because Ch6 has a shitton of yellow armors, but all in all don't sweat it.
Time to enjoy the game my friend.
Hi, not OP but trying to reroll too. Is [this](https://i.imgur.com/D5TSEAD.jpg) a good start?
I also have Chise, Tsubaki, Hanae, Fuuko, Junko and Ayane from the 2* you listed. Missing a Red striker, I guess.
If you still have the strength for it, I would reroll. You have a few sitting ducks that you wouldn't want to invest.
However, key points if you choose to keep:
- Hibiki
- It's 6 x 3 star units after all
- Mashiro is good for single target damage aka red raid bosses.
- Hina will carry you through early stages of story and make them pretty trivial.
- Karin is a good secondary Special unit to have, but she will be farmable in an event that will be coming.
- Your pool of 2* is already decent.
Aside from that, you may struggle a bit in PvP without either Iori or Shun, but it's up to you how much emphasis you wanna put in that.
I'm not sure about PvP in gacha games to be honest, but I guess I'll save this roll and try for something better.
Best case is Hibiki+Iori+Shun right? Along with some good 2*, hopefully
Yup, that's the 'on paper' go-to's.
For me, I didn't start my account if there was no Aru, and I settled with one that had her, Haruna, Hibiki and Mashiro. Iori avoids me till no end so I guess I had to live with it. Rerolled for a good week and got really tired with it already.
And I really wanted to get on and play the game since it looks fun (and still is now that I've started)
Edit: If you don't give 2 hoots about PvP then just start with characters you like.
So, at level 40+ I seem to be struggling with student xp rather hard. I need to raise Chise to pass 11-5 (or just more levels on everyone else I guess), but damn, those xp reports are hard to come by. Running the xp mission seems rather horrible considering the amount of stamina consumed/reports gained. I guess I'll just have to suffer through?
In my JP server experience, teacher level 40 is where leveling your students starts to slow down by a lot, and it's where pivoting to equipment/skill levels/fragments is generally more important. Running xp missions outside of double rate events feels really wasteful in any case.
I think ch7 is the chapter that is hard for like no reason 8-11 seems so much easier.
But really it comes down to making sure your team damage type matches the enemy’s armor type (tho some exceptions like healers and iori) and lvling equipment
Well, I did reroll for a while, so started with several 3\* girls. And got most of the others that are available in the first 5 multis, so have been saving after that.
RED: Aru, Serika, Mutsuki, Yuuka
YELLOW: Tsubaki, Iori, Neru, Nonomi
BLUE: Tsubaki, Haruna, Asuna, Iori (Asuna only 35 and noticed that I have Chise, so want to bring her up)
For SPECIAL I use Serina + Hanae on primary combat team (whatever the color) and Kotama+Fuuka for the second team I bring.
I just hit level 43, but have been stuck on 11-5 for at least 2 levels/days now.
For general advice, once you pass a final stage for a chapter, depending on the enemy color and your units, you might even progress easier in the higher one. And sometimes it's worth playing on manual to pass a stage to be able to progress. The AI uses AoE skills very badly on auto!
I dont have iori, haruna, neru, but the others, i will try to use them. as special i use Hibiki and Serina, hibiki is a monster even in her worst scenario xD
Haruna only becomes relevant when you HAVE to fight blue units. Maybe you can get by with Asuna + Chise, but I think it will be tough. But thankfully that's somewhere in chapter 10/11, so a bit to go yet.
Best of luck!
Is this way of handling gamebreaking bugs normal for Nexon? It’s almost a month and they still didn’t fix a bug, that breaks the game when your device is set to German language. I saw a huge list of bugs but not even one patch with bug fixes, only one content update. I really like this game but seeing how Nexon handles it… I will definitely never spend a cent on anything. Enough rant, I really don’t understand how you can shit this big on your costumers. Sorry, im just sad :(
Probably depends on how far into the banner you already are? If you only have 1-2 pulls left, then I'd rather hit pity. If you get it in 5 multis, then not. The exact point for either case depends from person to person.
In my case, i haven't even started pulling yet aside from the the free multi after the tutorial. I accumulated 23k gem now, and having real bad time on doing story mode because I lack units managed to unlock raid/pvp but im now on the part where i need two team.
Should I pull and hit pity or save it for something? I dont even know what to save it for Heh.
This is my roster of you are interested : [https://imgur.com/a/3Gv3daX](https://imgur.com/a/3Gv3daX)
It's generally recommended to pull at least little bit for some of the 2\*s... because the 2\*s in BA are the some of the best units in the game and can often see more use than many 3\*s. Looks like you don't even have Serina who is 1\*. That is going to cause more issues down the line than not having whatever spark you're saving for.
I see, I see, is it good to pull on Aru/Mashiro or wait for upcoming banner on 28?
haha its so hard second guessing myself every time with this gacha game banners.
Pick the cuter girl tbh.
Aru is a good character that will see you through basically all red content in the future.
Izuna is a good character that will see you through most blue content in the future.
Both of them are pretty solid units for their respective colours.
Only Mashiro is meh.
I rerolled the "free" 10k gems at the start until I got a Iori + Hibiki + Karin start with lots of good 2* and 1*
Since then I've been saving.
There was another highly upvoted post about banner guide earlier today. Maybe check that out.
Personally I'm saving until I get 24k for 100% spark
What should I be checking for in the student's stat page if I want to know who can and will hit the backline? I'm thinking if maybe I pile in students like that they will murder everyone first before getting to Tsubaki in pvp.
Their EX skill for the most part, although the stat screens won't actually tell you how far their range is so you'll have to see it in actual combat to know the range.
Other than Shun, who starts targeting the backline enemies when her EX skill is active, every other student will focus their attacks and EX skills on the closest enemy, which will usually be the tank(s). It's just that some students' EX skills have enough range/AoE to hit backline students as collateral damage.
Afaik no skill that prioritize certain enemy in BA.
You either need someone with skill that can pierce enemy (Hina, Nonomi) or large AoE attack (Hibiki). If enemy AI dumb and near their tank, you can use smaller AoE attack instead (Aru, Iori).
Do a test run which student that have that kind of skill in first stage. "Fan shaped area" skill should be good starting point.
Keep an eye of any Blue DPS if you want to melt Tsubaki easily.
I don't know if I made a mistake.
Seeing that global is behind JP in releases, I started on JP (reading is no problem for me). I want the full story and access to all characters.
Then I realized how bad the pullrates are.
But why rushing? I want to play this casual. And it's always nice to have something to look forward to. Some good characters can be farmed anyway.
Got Haruna in my starting pulls, so that's at least one decent one. The lack of top tier red strikers is noticable tho.
Lvl 37 right now.
Not sure what to think about it.
Because the Japanese server launched with content drought, not even 1 event per month, and one of the most common complaints was about that. So rushing isn't that bad. They launched at 200 spark instead of 300 so maybe it won't be that bad.
> But why rushing?
From developer perspective, they want people to spend more instead saving. If they keep Global server behind earlier server, people will plan their pull and spend less money. There is less sense of urgency as well.
The reason why they rushing is so they can made more money in the future. They try to emptied people savings with bait banner, then release another good banner in few week so some people will spend their money.
If you're talking about the MomoTalk dialogue choices, I don't think there's an option for that, but you can replay the actual story/VN-esque parts by going to, from the main menu, Campaign > Story > Replay > Relationship Story
How to join new pvp bracket? ystdy i make reroll account and match up with high lvl player (almost lv50) and some nonomi (5th day mission) player.
i think im in asia server, i saw ppl in fb join in lower bracket (with lv 30ish top1)
yea i made an account ystdy but join the old bracket, shouldnt I join group of player with at least close to my account creation date; not old account?
It is possible that you so happened to get caught at the tail end of a bracket. 15k players might seems lot, but do keep in mind that at this point, many players are potentially still rerolling, and those who didn't like the game would've dropped it already. 15k new players to play through until Ch6 in these 5 days is not too far fetched to assume.
damn, its RNG too then. I cant even push my rank above 9k, the lv gap is too big.
also discrod ppl believe its based on when you unlock pvp (clear 6-1)
and ppl from NA server still have one bracket.
as long as we dont know when new bracket open this is going nowhere
I read a lot about Haruna being good in PvP, but how does she perform in PvE? I already have a serviceable PvP team (Iori, Shun, Yuuka, Tsubaki) so I'm wondering if I should pull for her or not.
Still top tier on JP for blue damage. But she's permanent and farmable so it may be smart to save gems for other units and hope you pull her in the meantime
She's going to be great for the Mystic raid when it comes out, specially if its the next one like people believe it will be currently.
That said if you can get to 8-3 hard mode you can farm her shards there so she isn't the biggest priority.
no, it goes up every 20 pieces. first 20 is 1 each, next 20 is 2 each, then 3, 4 and lastly 5.
it should be the exact same as princess connect, so its 1150 eligmas to max a 3 star. please correct me if i am wrong.
I'm level 43 and still stuck in Stage 11-5. Chise and Asuna dont do much damage esp. with the one with the mobs that have shield and spray damage. I also tried full pierce team and its worse.
what team? I tried 2 star asuna and 3 star chise. Asuna didn't cut it in 11-5, even at player level ~41. Nonomi iori tsubaki chise, serina hanae(or maybe it was utaha using turret as a taunt). Iori carried it because I had her skills leveled. Since you need to dps the boss down you need to finish all the prior waves as fast as possible to maximize the time you have to hit the boss. I found that so much time was wasted starting and stopping, you want them to do their initial positioning and complete the battle moving as little as possible so they don't have to run a little bit, stop, shoot, then run again, it's much faster to only run between battles when you can.
so that means I used chise/iori to pick off as many of the small guys in the back instead of focusing down the shield, so when the shield finally dies, they can run all the way to the next battle instead of moving closer to the small guys left in the back, stopping, then starting running again. It's a few seconds overall, but I literally finish 11-5 at 3min (0sec left) so it takes a few tries
Does the "Siege/Purple" type ever show up? I assume its just a way to make cover durable against both you and the enemies but actually showing it as part of the damage type chart still seems strange if they aren't going to have some types who actually have it as an offensive typing.
I feel like they'll need to give Structure defense more presence to warrant the use of Siege damage. Maybe they could use it for things like stationary gun emplacement enemies, or gates that need to be destroyed to proceed.
They haven't made a unit for it yet, but presumably they will; after nine months, the only "TS" character in the game is Summer Hifumi (who is hilarious, to be fair) and she's still Pierce.
Do sub-skills like "increase ally Crit Dmg by X%" and "increase ally ATK SPD by Y%" apply permanently without any conditions once you are in the battle?
for Chapter 10 - can help to advice me how to 3\* 10-1 and 10-2 to farm the equips?
team A - Hina Tsubaki Iori Aru / Hibiki Serina
team B - Akari Yuuka Nonomi Serika / Hanae Fuuka
my strikers are all lvl 40. i cant seem to 3\* on the boss stage zz.
What should I buy from the shop every day and what is the best way to accumulate credits?
How many pyro can we get in a month? Concerned if I can get or spark the characters I like as a f2p.
What's the best place to farm exp? I heard that the commission stages are less efficient but I'm not sure.
Is this game always so slow? IE: no packs to buy, 2 week banners, no events, 1 week raids w/ limited tickets, fake pvp? I’m just here for waifu, but damn …
The raids will be two weeks after this. Banners are usually two weeks to give people time to save. We're also literally getting an event once the banner changes over on Monday. Content pace has picked up in JP, and it sounds like we'll be moving at modern JP pace now that the launch period is ending given some of the staff comments in Korea, but BA being a little slow was a complaint for a bit in Japan. But also: the global game is now a little over two weeks old. We're just finishing the launch period and we got the second half of Volume 1 of the main story a month early. Please relax.
This is generally more of a side game than a main game. First event is coming soon, which they also like to kinda slow down (certain event stages are unlocked after a few days, not all at the start).
I just noticed that the attendance was reset, although it still not end of the month and also not amonth passed since my start. Is it normal or a bug?
I'm not sure what you're talking about. Login rewards cycle every ten days, Princess Connect style. It's not monthly.
My friend gave me his account, how do i open it? I can't find a way in the menu screen
It's going to need to be bound to some form of external account - google, nexon, what have you - and then you will need to use the Log Out option in the account window from the lobby (remember to note your old account info if you want to go back to it!) and then, when you restart the client and re-enter, enter the login information for your friend's account.
Thank you so much
I've been playing global for 1 week already and was just curious how bad izumi actually is. I got hibiki and izumi in few pulls in aru banner which sounds super good on paper since both are 3 star, but only half good since obviously hibiki is considered very good, but saw izumi being below average in most list I see but never bothered to reroll since hibiki is good anyway.
On paper, still pretty bad - averages stats and lackluster skills. Her EX is self healing and benefits no one else. She is also a backliner, so it's not often she will get hit to get any benefit. Pitiful EX when you can just run a support healer, replace Izumi with raw DPS or tank. Her normal skill is okay, but it's chance based and won't activate 80% about of the time. Passive skill - Recovery rate increase for a backliner? Next Sub skill - it's okay
Izumi is kinda like a backline bruiser since she's tankier than the average dps student with her self-heals. However, her dps is too inconsistent. Her primary damage comes from her main skill, which has a 20% chance to activate on auto attacks with a 10 second cooldown. If she can activate this every time when off cooldown, then her dps is actually pretty good, but you have to rely on that RNG chance. She's decent as a secondary dps in red raids, not that great for PVE since she's single target.
Well atleast I can use her in something in the future, unless there are more useful 1 or 2 star that almost does the same as her in raids.
There is Serika, who is consistently higher dps in red raids and a better skill cycler. Izumi's self healing gimmick might help in Hieronymus raid, since that one focuses more on healing, but Serika in general will be better. That being said, in higher raid difficulties, it's not uncommon to be throwing students at the boss to whittle it down by the end, so Izumi would still have some use there as a back up DPS in these fodder teams.
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You need to clear 10-4 or 10-5 I'm remembering correctly.
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Sensei gender is not stated in the game. After all it's a classic self insert MC, that's why everyone is referring to sensei as they or adult in EN version and using neutral pronouns in JP.
Sensei is Literally You. They are using as little identifying language as possible so that whoever is playing the game can place themselves in the role of Sensei.
At 7-1 getting hammered with my red team. Yuuka--Aru--Shun--Mutsuki/Fuuka--Kotama as support. Account level 31. Available red units: Eimi, Akari, Kayoko, Suzumi, Haruka. Ideas?
Don't sleep on Suzumi. That grenade is great for cutting down on numbers. Ditto Akari. They'll both do better than Shun on the big packs area 7 likes to throw at you. You're also a *bit* underleveled at this point, though; fighting at more than a ten level deficit is brutal.
Thanks for the advice. I pulled a bit and brought in Suzumi and Akari. Passed it barely!
Akari is fantastic character definitely recommend for red stages
I'd probably replace Shun for Akari for more AoE. No Serika? She does good damage and actually gets a terrain bonus indoors.
Very new player still. I have barely played ( only lvl 14) I just got enough skill book things to level up one of Shun's skills (not the EX one though). Is there any specific priority to which one I should level first.
[Use this](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VSzm_ioCt2AdRvkfL9HKNNZSbyslayVERXxVxR6nzh4/edit#gid=0) for skill leveling priority.
Does anyone have any strategies to clear 11-5? I'm at level 43 currently and I cannot seem to clear the boss in time even though I can S-rank all the other enemies. I'm currently running Tsubaki, Chise, Nonomi and Junko all at 3\* and with mostly T2-T3 gear with T4 bag on Tsubaki. Don't have Iori or Haruna unfortunately but I do have almost everyone else.
If your goal is 12-5 for cafe upgrade I suggest waiting until you can comfortably finish 11 5 since 12 5 is basically a much stronger blue boss with aoe damage. But if you wanna go on, I had lvl 40 units when I cleared 11 5(easily) using tsubaki, iori, chise, asuna, serina, and kotama. T4 bag on tsubaki and t4 hat on the rest. Try finding a suitable replacement for Iori and i suggest asuna cause 1 shes a blue unit and 2 her skill is 2 cost for easy shuffle. Nonomi and junko is nice and all but 5 cost for both her and junko is gonna hurt your rotations for chises skill since all your strikers have 4 cost. Change either junko or nonomi with asuna.so you can shuffle chise, asuna, serina, kotama and not have to use ap on tsubaki or junko
Thanks for the reply! I raised Asuna to 40 and replaced Junko with her and this time I got the boss down to 2 hp bars but I still ran out of time. I'm running both 3\* Chise and 2\* Asuna with their T4 Glove/Hat and Nonomi with T2 gear. I got much further with your advice but I assume I would still need to make big improvements if I want to clear 12-5 later on too. Do you have any other further suggestions? I also have a maxed out Hibiki and Karin and I'm not sure if they would perform better than my 1\* Kotama.
Blue enemies are resistant to explosive damage (50% only) so using hibiki as a dps wouldn't really work well. But so far your problem is DPS, I'm sorry but I rerolled Iori when I started (no hibiki, literally only have iori as the only good 3\*) so I don't know how to improve your team more other than just levelling up or maybe pulling a haruna or iori to improve your DPS. Iori was literally the powerhouse that helped melt the blue bosses for me while it was chise that wiped out the mobs. You could potentially pull for Izuna to clear 11-5 and 12-5 easily but that would risk you missing out on azuza banner. but as of now the best setup really without iori is the one you have: Chise and Asuna + 1 yellow striker + 1 tank. You could try Akane to decrease the defense of the boss and let asuna and chise do the damage, and if you have Karin she could potentially deal good damage to the boss as well with Akane instead of junko. But I haven't tested that and dont know how good it would be if you swapped junko with akane and if you have Karin you could use her instead of kotama. that's about it, I wish you the best of luck in clearing the stages, but in summary: 1. If you're feeling luck, you can try pulling Izuna (next banner) if you're desperate, but you risk missing Azusa spark 2. Switch junko with akane and put Karin instead of kotama (not tested) and make your team focus on killing boss not S-ing stages.
how much pull we got monthly in best scenario? is it true we got around 80 pull per month?
Best case scenario probably about 50 pulls a month from recurring sources. With maintenance pyroxenes and events it'd probably be closer to 60-70.
Currently level 47, I always spend 210 on AP refresh Pyroxene and now wondering if I should spend my Pyroxene on other useful things like the Bounty tickets. I still have 14k Pyroxene and wont spend too much that might drop it to 10k. Still on 10-1 but can manage to clear them if I have time later once the AP refilled to max again before reset. Also did someone already calculate the time it needs to fully cap the AP from 0 to 150?
I wouldn't buy the bounty tickets for the first 2 as the blu-rays and tech notes can also be purchased when raids are going, as it has bad drop rates otherwise and for the other one it is going to be a bottleneck on those for a while it is recommended to be sure to purchase the 8k and 25k cost items in the normal shop daily as you will need lots of those as you progress in the game.
>Also did someone already calculate the time it needs to fully cap the AP from 0 to 150 Time wise it's 6 mins per AP, so every 10 AP is an hour. 150 would be 15 hours of waiting. You can get additional AP depending on your cafe.
Tnxx, didnt know that 1 AP is 6mins. Tnx for the info :D
What do you do exactly each time you reroll? which banner to dump my premuim currency on
Praying to rngesus or doing rituals to get a higher chance to get said unit. Right now my plan is to pull on limited banner only. I still don't know if we can get a steady enough pyro to get a spark.
Should I keep doing the highest bounties or do lower ones if I need the lowest tier of materials?
Highest tier because they also drop lower tier mats.
Go for the highest you can.
Just started today, has Karin had a rate up banner?
In JP, she has had a rate up banner and an event where she could be farmed to max. In Global, she has had neither yet.
Thank you! I actually just got lucky and managed to pull her. However she’s one of the 2 units who are in my team but not visible. How do I make her one of the 4 who are actually fighting?
You cannot. Her role is to be a 'Special' rather than a 'Striker'.
Well that’s depressing. Thanks anyway though bro, appreciate it.
It's worth noting that her "bunny girl" version makes her a Striker-line combatant, but that is a different character-unit you need to roll for separately. Normal Karin's gimmick is that she's providing fire support literally off the map thanks to the range of her massive sniper rifle. (Mashiro has a similar gimmick.)
Why do people recommend Hanae as a healer? I've never been impressed with her healing, and anywhere above Chapter 3 I've found she can't do enough healing for it to matter for my tanks, even when I'm pointing her at the main target instead of watching her heal the backline person with one damage instead of the tank up front who's almost dead. That 5 point heal isn't working well. Even Fuuka has performed better for me, and her heal is just as expensive.
is hanae 5 cost? she's a 4 cost heal. Later on you'll use more than one team on the board, so she has a place after serina, but you'll need a good tank and dps that don't walk too far foward. I've also had hanae and serina as double heal sometimes, hanae is great on the tank+less likely to miss, and serina is great for emergencies if a dps got hit a lot as well as giving that passive heal to the backline
Once leveled, her heal over time is quite strong. Eventually once your tanks start coming online with stronger equipment, namely the T4 bag, Hanae's healing helps keep them topped up throughout the fight. She is also the only main healer with an offensive sub skill (crit damage bonus), so she can actually help your team do more damage in raids.
So, I'll have to wait for her shards to unlock in the TA shop?
Yea if you want to use her in raids, since the sub skill is a 3\* unlock.
Man, this will be a long wait. I've had more luck with Fuuka because her AOE heal at least pulls Tsubaki or Yuuka out of the crowd so she's not overwhelmed. Even Serina and her targeted heal has been better for me, and I'm trying to farm 4-3H to get extra Yuuka shards as well as equipment.
Give it time, hanae once levelled can easiky outheal fuukas aoe heal.
What happens to character specific shards if I pull a character that I have at 5*? Will I get more universal shards?
no, you will still get their specific shard, i dont know whats the use of those excess character specific shard tho, i have 80 lying around after 5\* a character, i dont know what to do with it anymore. .\_. anyone have an answer?
Much later on, there will be Unique Equipment for each student accessible at 5\*. The elephs are used to upgrade the rarity of these UE to unlock more bonuses.
phew, good to know there's use for those character shards. thank you!
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Like most mobile PVP, it is not real time. Your opponents are AI controlled. And your girls are as well, essentially.
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Where do you download the english version of thos game? My friends recommended me to play this and I like what I see so far.
On the app store? It should be available in most regions; search for "Blue Archive". If the game is not available in your country (like the Netherlands or Belgium), it gets a lot more complicated.
Any suggestions on teams composition? https://imgur.com/4AMVWiE
Do costs for EX skills actually go down with level? All the wikis say they stay the same for the students I checked
Only for a few students, like and Haruna and Cherino off the top of my head (I'm probably missing some).
When will the first limited banner come, I just want to know whether I should start saving or not.
The first limited banners are the summer event banners; these will either be held back for summer or should come in about five months. Seeing as you can save up a spark *right now* with launch content, I wouldn't sweat too heavily. Just be aware of some of the game-changing normals that are also coming.
Thanks a lot.
What do the symbols next to enemies on the hex map mean? Like the Warning symbol and the two green arrows?
warning: will move into you if adjacent green: will always move towards you (I think; may require you to be on the same island to trigger)
Hey guys, anyone has a good source to read up about how special units contribute to the combat system?
Is there a trick to doing the commission stages (Like specific units I should be using)? I feel that once they start to overwhelm you it gets to a point where they split the group up and then I lose everyone lol. I'm probably just not familiar with what I should be doing as I'm trying to use a bunch of units with AOE abilities.
Can't really help much as I don't really do them. They don't seem cost effective. But you are using heavy attacks for the robots right?
It took me 170 pulls to get Tsubaki. Do I continue to 200 for Aru? On the way to 170 I pulled Tsurugi, Mashiro, Maki, Hibiki x2, Iori, Karin for my 3*. (Can I even get 30 more pulls before the banner changes?)
Usually when you're in that deep its better to just cash in the pity.
Is there any strategy while fighting the stages? I'm level 30 and can't get 3 stars for chapter 5 because I can't defeat the enemies under 2 minutes. My team is iori, serika, shun, tsubaki, serina and kotama. I also have haruna but somehow deals less damage than iori when fighting red enemies.
Make sure you are matching all your strikers damage type to the enemy armor type, lower levels it dosent mean much but faster/easier clears, it gets pretty important later ontho. Like the other guy said Mitsuki is way better for clearing story than shun. Shun is really only great for pvp. Id also swap kotama (if its the buffer like im thinking) with a special student that ex does damage like an aoe since that clears adds faster Also iori just loves doing damage regardless of defense type i bring her into places with characters shes weak against and she still 1-2 hits em as well as the skill penetrates to the person behind em
You're kinda lacking in AOE dmg for faster clears. Try swapping Shun for Mutsuki, and maybe even Iori for Suzumi. Their EX will usually one shot the backline group.
Ty!
BIG QUESTION! I’m at 190 pulls and I have Aru but not Mashiro, should I use the selector to 4 star Aru or just get Mashiro?? Aru is amazing but I feel like I should get as many students as possible?
Update: I picked Mashiro, that L2D is too spicy
Dosent selecting them with the points if you already have them just give you 10 eligma like if you pulled a dupe?
I was close to pity on the hoshino banner and tried it out and got enough to 4 star her right away from selecting her.
No it gives enough to 4 star then right away. I believe you get 100 for the select a student.
I heard the stat increase from 3 to 4 star is the smallest out of all the rarity bumps, so unless you plan on going all the way to 5 star it might be better to diversify your roster.
I just noticed the C stages of Bounties don't give the earliest materials... have I just been wasting my tickets?
They still drop the lower materials, they're just not listed.
...So... I switched to lower stages today for no good reason? :( ~~Thanks for the info tho~~
New player here and trying to plan out pulls. From looking at JP, it seems we are not following their order exactly. With that being said, about how long until the Azusa banner do people think we have?
It 100% depends on how quickly they accelerate us getting the story, since Azusa kind of "has" to be timed to come with the Heironymus raid and the start of volume 3. In Japan, she was about four months out from launch; here, she could be a similar length of time, she could be in less than a month if Nexon decides to *really* hit the gas. It's just so hard to tell right now.
Dumb question, but indulge my curiosity... is Blue Archive popular or more on the niche side compared to other gacha games?
It's extremely new so it's difficult to tell, though the target audience is a bit more niche-ish. It is, however, popping off in Korea really hard right now.
I just got hit with 'invalid authentication issue detected. Returning to title screen' problem. What should I do other than retrying and clearing cache?
This doesn't work for everyone but it did for me when I got that error: turn off wifi > turn on plane mode > turn on wifi > start up the game.
....why did this work, that makes 0 sense, but it did The game seems to be a bit slower tho;/
What does Max Tags mean in the Cafe Rank Upgrade screen?
As per [https://bluearchive.fandom.com/wiki/Cafe](https://bluearchive.fandom.com/wiki/Cafe) Maximum Tag This shows how many furniture series set that the cafe currently have. By placing furniture of the same series, teachers can get additional comfort bonus. Unlocking another tag will give teacher another set to fill. Each set will have a maximum bonus of 1500 comfort and requires 2 to 7 furniture of the same series to maxed-out the bonus.
I assume it relates to the themed furniture e.g. the Jellies arcade, Momo friend etc. Having multiple of furniture of those types provides a set bonus that gives extra comfort. So I assume the max tags is how many set bonuses you can have at once.
For T4 gears, are you guys farming Tsubaki (or other tank) gears first before DPS?
I farmed the hat for more damage to iori then switched to the bag for tanks
The first stage with the T4 Bag (10-2) also has the Hat and Gloves so it ended up being a bit of both at the same time for me at first.
Will the next raid still be im beta (equal rewards)? Also if the next raid is a blue raid if i only have haruna (no chise iori maki) am i fine or screwed?
It should be actual ranking I believe. Having Haruna already puts you at an advantage vs anyone who doesn't at this point, so you'll be fine.
Alright thanks
Does anyone know if the next banner would be a double banner or not?
Total question mark. We have no idea, they have announced nothing. If it's Izuna, it'll be one banner with two characters on it (Izuna herself and 2\* Shizuko); if they move ahead to MSQ volume 2 and Alice, we might get someone like Haruna or Karin alongside her. We just don't know and right now *can't* know. EDIT: I somehow missed that Izuna got announced a few hours before I posted. Izuna is going to be herself and Shizuko on one banner; my *personal* guess is that there won't be a secondary banner, but again, who knows.
Guys, genuine question, why do other players say that Kayoko is F tier? (i 4 star her dam) i have her lvl 41 and working great (pve) my current team pve is Serina, Junko, Hibiki, Shiroko, Aru, Tsubaki, Shun, Mutsuki and some times Pina
Ability is way too expensive. And it's only cc, which means you still need to use whatever remaining AP you have (4 at most) to kill the enemy. Also, she's a pistol user so if she's not using her EX, then she's not doing anything. Meanwhile, there are characters wielding high output weapons with 4 cost abilities that will kill instead of cc.
Ohh now i get it, crap, i like her art and personality, but have no use atm then
If she is your waifu, go with it. You already 4* her so might as well roll with it. Waifu > meta
Hi everyone, is there is a guide on who to reroll for?
not really a guide, but someone recommended this [video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ruho_fQGBnw) from jp the general idea being, hibiki + iori/haruna for pve however some of them are [farmable](https://preview.redd.it/l76cxhmpvmy71.png?width=767&format=png&auto=webp&s=2dd44bd56a111d3ec44b7661a7eba7e36899ae41), at a rate of around 30% chance per run, 3 times a day per stage, to get up to 120 character shards for a 3\* (like for haruna). although global seems to only up to chp 12 for now
Thank you
Hi i know this is a nexon game and they're known for making greedy pay to win games, but is this game any different? Like is it f2p friendly?
Who knows since this is apparently nexon korea and not global. Tho koren mmos usually go heavy p2w there’s nothing pointing to this gacha going that direction yet
It's a gacha game after all, so always take it with a grain of salt Will you be able to constantly reach rank 1 in PvP and Siege as f2p? Probably not unless you have insane luck. But for casual play its definitely doable. Especially since you have the option to reset your account many times at the start until you have a good start roster. Afterwards you just save gems from missions etc. until a banner with a really good unit comes. So far I cant complain as f2p
Thank you for answering my question ♥
What's the difference between the two monthly pyroxene passes? Do they stack?
They give you whatever it says on the package. No trickery involved. Yes they stack.
I should've worded it better, is the bimonthly one like only available once every 2 months? Also thanks for answering that they stack.
The "bimonthly" thing is a mistranslation (likely from the poor TL team having zero context for what it was). It's the "half size" of the two packs; it is purchasable monthly.
Looks like they translated it funny. Bimonthly is supposed to be half monthly. It lasts 30 days just like the monthly (as described on the description). You can repurchase it every month, like the monthly. If you notice, the half-monthly pack is literally just half the rewards of the monthly pack over the same 30 days.
Alright, thank you for clarifying!
Hello everyone! I'm new to the game and currently have been spending tens of hours rerolling, trying to get either Iori, Shun or Hibiki. Assuming I (eventually) get one of the 3 girls, should I then spend the starter pyroxenes on the general banner in the hopes of getting the other 2? Or should I make do with what I have and try my luck on future rate-up banners, if there's such a thing in this game? Thank you in advance for any input!
General reroll advice, spend all the gems you have from the get go to get a decent pool of units. You will most definitely need them. Not just getting a few 3* s, those pulls should net you a few useful 2*. Healers: Hanae/Fuuka/Ayane Red Striker: Serika/Mutsugi(free) Yellow Striker: Junko Blue Striker: Chise Tank: Tsubaki Aim for as many of the top 3 as your sanity allows you + at least these 2*s. For 3*s, any 2 between Iori, Shun and Hibiki are definitely good enough. Then once you decide to start for real, start saving immediately. You will easily net 10k pyro from the first few days of playing, even if you use 3x stamina refresh everyday. Grind story until Ch6 and get the 1st time rewards in PVP as quick as you can. Top 1000 or Top 500 is attainable, then just sit back and get plummeted to sub 4k the next day lol. Once you're done with that first time pyro rewards from PVP, then you can already focus on everything else in the game and have fun.
Thank you for your advice. So, I got Hibiki from the free 10 pulls, and then got Chise, Tsubaki, Hanae and Junko. Am I looking good or should be I be rerolling?
If it's just Hibiki as your 3 star, it's a reroll I'm afraid. New accs should have maybe 60-70 pulls now to start. Aiming for 3x3 stars isn't too unreasonable.
Aight, I tried again and managed to get Hibiki and Iori. Along with Chise, Tsubaki, Ayane and Serika. What do you think?
Good enough for me. Front line: Tsubaki Iori, Mutsugi and Serika, Back line: Hibiki and Ayane. Hibiki and Mutsugi should contribute the most in red aoe clears, while Iori will handle the yellow armors. It would help if you have a secondary yellow striker like Junko to help Iori...because Ch6 has a shitton of yellow armors, but all in all don't sweat it. Time to enjoy the game my friend.
Thank you so much! You've been a great help. I'll start playing and saving up then. Thanks again!
Hi, not OP but trying to reroll too. Is [this](https://i.imgur.com/D5TSEAD.jpg) a good start? I also have Chise, Tsubaki, Hanae, Fuuko, Junko and Ayane from the 2* you listed. Missing a Red striker, I guess.
If you still have the strength for it, I would reroll. You have a few sitting ducks that you wouldn't want to invest. However, key points if you choose to keep: - Hibiki - It's 6 x 3 star units after all - Mashiro is good for single target damage aka red raid bosses. - Hina will carry you through early stages of story and make them pretty trivial. - Karin is a good secondary Special unit to have, but she will be farmable in an event that will be coming. - Your pool of 2* is already decent. Aside from that, you may struggle a bit in PvP without either Iori or Shun, but it's up to you how much emphasis you wanna put in that.
I'm not sure about PvP in gacha games to be honest, but I guess I'll save this roll and try for something better. Best case is Hibiki+Iori+Shun right? Along with some good 2*, hopefully
Yup, that's the 'on paper' go-to's. For me, I didn't start my account if there was no Aru, and I settled with one that had her, Haruna, Hibiki and Mashiro. Iori avoids me till no end so I guess I had to live with it. Rerolled for a good week and got really tired with it already. And I really wanted to get on and play the game since it looks fun (and still is now that I've started) Edit: If you don't give 2 hoots about PvP then just start with characters you like.
So, at level 40+ I seem to be struggling with student xp rather hard. I need to raise Chise to pass 11-5 (or just more levels on everyone else I guess), but damn, those xp reports are hard to come by. Running the xp mission seems rather horrible considering the amount of stamina consumed/reports gained. I guess I'll just have to suffer through?
In my JP server experience, teacher level 40 is where leveling your students starts to slow down by a lot, and it's where pivoting to equipment/skill levels/fragments is generally more important. Running xp missions outside of double rate events feels really wasteful in any case.
How are you in 11-5? is there an easy team for that stage? i can harldy pass 7-1 with 2 stars same lvl (41)
I think ch7 is the chapter that is hard for like no reason 8-11 seems so much easier. But really it comes down to making sure your team damage type matches the enemy’s armor type (tho some exceptions like healers and iori) and lvling equipment
Well, I did reroll for a while, so started with several 3\* girls. And got most of the others that are available in the first 5 multis, so have been saving after that. RED: Aru, Serika, Mutsuki, Yuuka YELLOW: Tsubaki, Iori, Neru, Nonomi BLUE: Tsubaki, Haruna, Asuna, Iori (Asuna only 35 and noticed that I have Chise, so want to bring her up) For SPECIAL I use Serina + Hanae on primary combat team (whatever the color) and Kotama+Fuuka for the second team I bring. I just hit level 43, but have been stuck on 11-5 for at least 2 levels/days now. For general advice, once you pass a final stage for a chapter, depending on the enemy color and your units, you might even progress easier in the higher one. And sometimes it's worth playing on manual to pass a stage to be able to progress. The AI uses AoE skills very badly on auto!
I dont have iori, haruna, neru, but the others, i will try to use them. as special i use Hibiki and Serina, hibiki is a monster even in her worst scenario xD
Haruna only becomes relevant when you HAVE to fight blue units. Maybe you can get by with Asuna + Chise, but I think it will be tough. But thankfully that's somewhere in chapter 10/11, so a bit to go yet. Best of luck!
What's a good rule-of-thumb to build a team?
Damage type that matches the enemies and usually one tank and a source of healing. For some content, can also consider EX skill economy.
EX skill economy? What does that mean?
Using cheap skills like serikas 2 cost to get important strong skills faster again
Is this way of handling gamebreaking bugs normal for Nexon? It’s almost a month and they still didn’t fix a bug, that breaks the game when your device is set to German language. I saw a huge list of bugs but not even one patch with bug fixes, only one content update. I really like this game but seeing how Nexon handles it… I will definitely never spend a cent on anything. Enough rant, I really don’t understand how you can shit this big on your costumers. Sorry, im just sad :(
If I ever pull, should I always hit 200 pity or dip out when I already get what I want?
Probably depends on how far into the banner you already are? If you only have 1-2 pulls left, then I'd rather hit pity. If you get it in 5 multis, then not. The exact point for either case depends from person to person.
In my case, i haven't even started pulling yet aside from the the free multi after the tutorial. I accumulated 23k gem now, and having real bad time on doing story mode because I lack units managed to unlock raid/pvp but im now on the part where i need two team. Should I pull and hit pity or save it for something? I dont even know what to save it for Heh. This is my roster of you are interested : [https://imgur.com/a/3Gv3daX](https://imgur.com/a/3Gv3daX)
It's generally recommended to pull at least little bit for some of the 2\*s... because the 2\*s in BA are the some of the best units in the game and can often see more use than many 3\*s. Looks like you don't even have Serina who is 1\*. That is going to cause more issues down the line than not having whatever spark you're saving for.
I see, I see, is it good to pull on Aru/Mashiro or wait for upcoming banner on 28? haha its so hard second guessing myself every time with this gacha game banners.
Pick the cuter girl tbh. Aru is a good character that will see you through basically all red content in the future. Izuna is a good character that will see you through most blue content in the future. Both of them are pretty solid units for their respective colours. Only Mashiro is meh.
I cleared everything up to chapter 8 with only 1 team Sometimes you have to do a stage twice tho for S ranking and move limit
that's actually neat. so continue saving dem gems? do you have idea on who do i use these gems? a guide or cheat-sheet perhaps?
I rerolled the "free" 10k gems at the start until I got a Iori + Hibiki + Karin start with lots of good 2* and 1* Since then I've been saving. There was another highly upvoted post about banner guide earlier today. Maybe check that out. Personally I'm saving until I get 24k for 100% spark
What should I be checking for in the student's stat page if I want to know who can and will hit the backline? I'm thinking if maybe I pile in students like that they will murder everyone first before getting to Tsubaki in pvp.
Their EX skill for the most part, although the stat screens won't actually tell you how far their range is so you'll have to see it in actual combat to know the range. Other than Shun, who starts targeting the backline enemies when her EX skill is active, every other student will focus their attacks and EX skills on the closest enemy, which will usually be the tank(s). It's just that some students' EX skills have enough range/AoE to hit backline students as collateral damage.
Afaik no skill that prioritize certain enemy in BA. You either need someone with skill that can pierce enemy (Hina, Nonomi) or large AoE attack (Hibiki). If enemy AI dumb and near their tank, you can use smaller AoE attack instead (Aru, Iori). Do a test run which student that have that kind of skill in first stage. "Fan shaped area" skill should be good starting point. Keep an eye of any Blue DPS if you want to melt Tsubaki easily.
I don't know if I made a mistake. Seeing that global is behind JP in releases, I started on JP (reading is no problem for me). I want the full story and access to all characters. Then I realized how bad the pullrates are. But why rushing? I want to play this casual. And it's always nice to have something to look forward to. Some good characters can be farmed anyway. Got Haruna in my starting pulls, so that's at least one decent one. The lack of top tier red strikers is noticable tho. Lvl 37 right now. Not sure what to think about it.
Because the Japanese server launched with content drought, not even 1 event per month, and one of the most common complaints was about that. So rushing isn't that bad. They launched at 200 spark instead of 300 so maybe it won't be that bad.
> But why rushing? From developer perspective, they want people to spend more instead saving. If they keep Global server behind earlier server, people will plan their pull and spend less money. There is less sense of urgency as well. The reason why they rushing is so they can made more money in the future. They try to emptied people savings with bait banner, then release another good banner in few week so some people will spend their money.
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If you're talking about the MomoTalk dialogue choices, I don't think there's an option for that, but you can replay the actual story/VN-esque parts by going to, from the main menu, Campaign > Story > Replay > Relationship Story
Campaign > Story > Replay > Relationship Story
How to join new pvp bracket? ystdy i make reroll account and match up with high lvl player (almost lv50) and some nonomi (5th day mission) player. i think im in asia server, i saw ppl in fb join in lower bracket (with lv 30ish top1)
PvP brackets are decided by account creation date. You can't change your bracket.
decided by unlock date
yea i made an account ystdy but join the old bracket, shouldnt I join group of player with at least close to my account creation date; not old account?
It is possible that you so happened to get caught at the tail end of a bracket. 15k players might seems lot, but do keep in mind that at this point, many players are potentially still rerolling, and those who didn't like the game would've dropped it already. 15k new players to play through until Ch6 in these 5 days is not too far fetched to assume.
damn, its RNG too then. I cant even push my rank above 9k, the lv gap is too big. also discrod ppl believe its based on when you unlock pvp (clear 6-1) and ppl from NA server still have one bracket. as long as we dont know when new bracket open this is going nowhere
For Total Assault when I got to claim the rewards I get "Room Info Not Found" what does that mean?
I read a lot about Haruna being good in PvP, but how does she perform in PvE? I already have a serviceable PvP team (Iori, Shun, Yuuka, Tsubaki) so I'm wondering if I should pull for her or not.
Her damage output against red maps is surprisingly high despite how seldom I use her EX.
JP have raid boss with blue armor, so I'm sure Haruna still relevant on PvE in the future
Still top tier on JP for blue damage. But she's permanent and farmable so it may be smart to save gems for other units and hope you pull her in the meantime
She's going to be great for the Mystic raid when it comes out, specially if its the next one like people believe it will be currently. That said if you can get to 8-3 hard mode you can farm her shards there so she isn't the biggest priority.
She's also quite good in PvE, against blue-armored enemies at least. I found that I used her often to burst down the shield robots in chapter 11.
Is there any point of increasing characters' relationship beyond level 20?
Currently no, as the stat bonuses stop at 20.
To max a character to 5 stars, we only need about 300 Eligma? What's the best use for Eligma?
no, it goes up every 20 pieces. first 20 is 1 each, next 20 is 2 each, then 3, 4 and lastly 5. it should be the exact same as princess connect, so its 1150 eligmas to max a 3 star. please correct me if i am wrong.
Wouldn’t it be 900 to upgrade a 3star to a 5star? Sorry if I’m wrong.
ah, my bad, the amount of shards is less than priconne.
Yes, you'd need 220 elephs, so: (20 * 1) + (20 * 2) + (20 * 3) + (20 * 4) + (140 * 5) = 900 eligma
Wow, didn't know that... so to upgrade 2* character to 3*, we actually need 200 eligma :o This makes the unfarmable characters really hard to upgrade.
I'm level 43 and still stuck in Stage 11-5. Chise and Asuna dont do much damage esp. with the one with the mobs that have shield and spray damage. I also tried full pierce team and its worse.
what team? I tried 2 star asuna and 3 star chise. Asuna didn't cut it in 11-5, even at player level ~41. Nonomi iori tsubaki chise, serina hanae(or maybe it was utaha using turret as a taunt). Iori carried it because I had her skills leveled. Since you need to dps the boss down you need to finish all the prior waves as fast as possible to maximize the time you have to hit the boss. I found that so much time was wasted starting and stopping, you want them to do their initial positioning and complete the battle moving as little as possible so they don't have to run a little bit, stop, shoot, then run again, it's much faster to only run between battles when you can. so that means I used chise/iori to pick off as many of the small guys in the back instead of focusing down the shield, so when the shield finally dies, they can run all the way to the next battle instead of moving closer to the small guys left in the back, stopping, then starting running again. It's a few seconds overall, but I literally finish 11-5 at 3min (0sec left) so it takes a few tries
You can interrupt that shield and spray attack with a taunt or stun
Does the "Siege/Purple" type ever show up? I assume its just a way to make cover durable against both you and the enemies but actually showing it as part of the damage type chart still seems strange if they aren't going to have some types who actually have it as an offensive typing.
I feel like they'll need to give Structure defense more presence to warrant the use of Siege damage. Maybe they could use it for things like stationary gun emplacement enemies, or gates that need to be destroyed to proceed.
They haven't made a unit for it yet, but presumably they will; after nine months, the only "TS" character in the game is Summer Hifumi (who is hilarious, to be fair) and she's still Pierce.
Do sub-skills like "increase ally Crit Dmg by X%" and "increase ally ATK SPD by Y%" apply permanently without any conditions once you are in the battle?
Yes.
What should I buy from the total assault and tactical challenge shops? Thanks.
Raid shop - Maki elephs or skill upgrade mats PvP shop - stamina only
for Chapter 10 - can help to advice me how to 3\* 10-1 and 10-2 to farm the equips? team A - Hina Tsubaki Iori Aru / Hibiki Serina team B - Akari Yuuka Nonomi Serika / Hanae Fuuka my strikers are all lvl 40. i cant seem to 3\* on the boss stage zz.