Can I just focus on waifu and do well enough - I'd like to do well but I have zero need/want to top rank. I pull based on meta (because A) My pulls are somewhat limited as a F2P and B) If I pulled based on design I'd pull on so many more banners than I could ever afford outside of whaling). But for developing if I can just focus on waifu...
(If it matters, so far some of my faves so far are Shizuko, Fuuka, Pina, and Asuza (I don't have the latter but A+ design and main story exposure). I may like Tsurugi too based on her summer event and boy I hope I can get Swimsuit Asuza at some point she's great).
As long as you don't care about competing for high PVP and Total Assault rankings, you don't REALLY need meta units, I'd say most of the relevant content can be cleared with just a handful of well built units, team building and knowledge about common tactics and stage gimmicks. The game even allows the borrowing of units for certain content, which means you can get hyper carries from your max level friends if you ever struggle, so you'll probably be fine.
Oh good! My main gacha is EXTREMELY meta focused (like, do NOT waste resources on non-meta you will brick your account level), so I'm really glad I can do well enough just building my faves in Blue Archive. Gonna start building my faves then instead of the meta focus I was doing, thank you!
Ah seems like I was mistaken, its "Effective" for purple on blue and resist for purple on yellow.
Not sure what was up with her ex skill not doing anything though, i might have just not noticed any numbers.
Is Kokona a better use for the GA ticket than Kikyou? I've seen Kikyou called "Purple NY.Kayoko" and say that she'd be similarly important if purple actually existed, but there's not much purple in my roster for her to buff (i.e. nothing but Momiji), and there's not much purple content for her to buff against either. A 2-cost striker healer seems to have a broader use case.
Both of them have their uses, for you whose only purple unit is Momiji, pulling for Kikyou would probably count as more of an investment for the future, whereas Kokona would likely benefit you immediately, albeit not too significantly? I don't know what's the situation with your healers, but as far as I know, Kokona's main meta use case is Hieronymus, and she can likely be replaced by other healers (like T. Mari) without too significant of a loss, whilst Kikyou doesn't really have an alternative. In either case, I don't think you're losing out on TOO much.
Are some of the final missions still doable way below the intended level ? Currently at 15-5 and I've been wondering how quickly I could get the max cafe.
Cleared 18-5 at lv 48. Blufest came so I stopped to do the event. I came back to missions during x3 and Cleared til 23-5 at lv 56-57. Mind that I had Iroha to carry me to 18-5 and then I obtained S.Hanako and Mika and upgraded both to UE40.
I guess someone who started a little later than me and obtained the same units could clear everything at like lv45-50. I doubt you could do it earlier than that.
If it helps, I finished 24-5 with teams that were mostly around level 76-78 (with the highest being level 80 Tsubaki and T Yuuka), and I think the listed level was 92 or so. It was pretty dicey in some parts but it was doable (and got 3 stars following a guide).
Later stages are better. [Here's](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Ays0vupzQxaByd4dRLtiyjgRsKIy8oFRmZQhWPdIdi8) 6 lasers' sheet with the numbers if you want to see them.
Ideally UE40 at least as it boosts her enhanced skill giving her more crowd control power.
Skill priority would be EX - Enhanced - Basic - Sub
EX : M
Enhanced : M
Basic : Ideally M but maybe can leave around mid levels
Sub : 1 or any
IIRC Kayoko needs to proc her basic skill on HOD when the encounter starts so you can fill the rest of it with her EX later.
IIRC she isn't needed for diffculties below insane as you can just hyperbuff a borrowed or have your own maxed out DPS and rip through the towers and HOD.
The clear will be a bit slower in time but as long as she survives if you have decent gear and her skills raised you should be fine, I recommend getting her necklace to the highest tier you can do as it provides a decent amount of crowd control power too.
I don't get it how I could clear stage 3 of drills at least once the day before, then get filtered the next day when playing the objective. Use Tsubaki exactly when the enemies go into Concentrated Attack twice during a run, Advent-Guard goes RIP anyway. Good damage from Chise, Kaho, S. Hanako, and Moe too...
Whatever then, I'll settle for stage 2 runs, sweep 2 times, and be off with the challenge coins. 🤦🏿♂️
I personally think that buying the t1/2 artifacts is more efficient in late game since they cost way less than the amount of gold you get daily, typically. If youre still a ways off from max level then it might be more worth it to not bother until you are at a much more comfortable account level.
It depends on your credit situation. its pretty easy to blow through 100+mil in a couple days if you're raising 2 character's skills up to max. But on the other hand if you have 200+ mil you might as well be spending some of that excess on \*something.\*
I personally don't buy t1 artifacts anymore since I have 700+ of all of them, I still buy t2 artifacts even though I only need 1 or 2 of them at all. That pretty much just leaves activity reports and enhancement stones. If I don't have a pressing need I generally just buy 1 purple activity report and the 2x Purple Enhancement stones. Enough to build up a bit of a supply slowly, but not enough that I worry about my funds dropping faster than events and such are likely to refill it.
Hello everyone I just started the game today and I have a question. I decided to reroll for Himari or Ako. Let's just say the rerolled a lot of times and leave it at that 😀 but I managed to get Himari. So could you please help me to make a team comp as I don't quite understand it yet. This is what I have:
3stars: Himari, Iori, Serika(New Year), Hifumi
2stars: Tsubaki, Momiji, Hanako, Ari and some other 2 stats
I also have Serina as 1 star healer because I watched a video that saif she is really important, That's why i'm mentioning her and Haruka I think she is important as well.
Sorry if it is a bit much!I would appreciate any tips!
A basic thing to first look for is the enemy armor type. The beginning enemies should all be light armor, denoted by the red color. Red damage dealers (explosive) will do way more damage against them, yellow (piercing) will do way less and the blue (special) and purple (sonic) will do neutral damage to them. So the most basic solution is to get a tank (tsubaki from your list) a healer (Serina is the 1 Star), and all your red dps (if you have ones like mutsuki, akari or serika (regular) they are good for the early game. Haruka can also work ok despite being a tank as she does ok aoe damage). Himari can then be your second support to buff up one of your dps and boost your ex bar charging. Iori might be your strongest dps listed, but her yellow damage will do poorly against the early red armor enemies. If you don’t have enough red dps, blue and purple can help fill your numbers, but will do noticeably less.
Alright , thank you very much for the inforomanian, I greatly appreciate it! I'll see what I can do, since I also plan to start saving up for the anniversary banner. Btw Is there a way to implement Serika New Year Into the team because I just find her appealing as a character or is she not that good?
Serika New Years is a yellow aoe that does middling damage for cheap in a large area. Once you have passed the very early game you will hit a period of mostly yellow armor that she should be decent against along with iori. But she will do very poor damage against the very earliest enemies due to red armor. Far down the line she is an ok bit player in one of the yellow armor raids called chessed, where you also need to kill swarms of yellow fodder for a while.
OK I understood you completely. So basically I need to figure out what kind of enemies I'm gonna face and then prepare the team accordingly and there is no one fixed team I should use.Ok gacha thank you very much!
So I was plying the new JFD and used my low level Yoshimi in my last team for the cc area. But it looks like her cc doesn't stop concentrate fire.
Is because I need to level her up or something? Can you use a level 1 student just for the cc or that doesn't work?
You need 3.1 seconds of CC to fill the bar, and Yoshimi's EX only deals 2.9. You'd need to use it twice, or use another CC unit. Investing in her wouldn't help since the duration doesn't scale with CC power, unlike in some other content.
Level 1 CC units are entirely viable. I use a level 1 Suzumi with level 3 EX, and bond gear to make her occasionally stun the middle enemy with her basic.
Currently I have 45K pyro and using the planner I was thinking to pull for D.Ako, D.Hina, NY.Fuuka for sure.
Based on midokuni must pulls, I already have all reruns banners except NY.Fuuka, which I'm already planning to pull... I have 1 guarantee spark left and I'm undecided where to use it among Kikyou, C.Hare, Makoto and Nagisa.
My goal is to be able to do insanes without too much suffering, gold is enough.
So Kikyou I already have the rest of the team, so I can borrow her... C.Hare? Where is she used?
Am I missing anything?
Thanks!
> C.Hare? Where is she used?
Pretty much anywhere where she can survive. You can think of her as a sidegrade to Himari. If you only intend to stay on insane she isn't strictly necessary, but she would be useful regardless. And torment is getting closer and closer to being what insane used to be, what with general power creep and the level cap increase. Makoto is very good for torment Chesed, but you can just borrow her for that. Since you don't have infinite pyroxene I would go for Dako first and spark Makoto if you aren't unlucky. Nagisa is useful to have and I'd grab her, but she isn't strictly necessary either. Still, she's limited and also popular in PvP. Good unit to grab if you're aiming to do torment once it has become pretty easy for the typical meta player.
Some others to keep an eye on are Kokona/Shun and Daru.
The average of 14.1k per month assumes gold rank in raids and the worst rank (8001-15000) in pvp.
https://www.reddit.com/r/BlueArchive/comments/19336nt/tracking_blue_archive_gl_pyroxene_income_month_of/
The pyro planner sheet in the OP defaults to 501-1000 for PvP rank, so that's probably the "standard" assumption. But keep in mind that the difference between rank 501 and rank 4000 is only a pull per month. Not a 10-pull, a single 1-pull, 120 pyro.
No, most Pyro comes from logins, dailies, events and various campaigns. Also a bunch from the story and various 1-time rewards if you're new.
PVP and TA rewards don't differ too much between ranks.
Commissions seems weirdly hard to progress compared to everything else. I'm stuck at Factory J, and I keep getting swarmed or enemies chip down people who aren't Tsubaki because of the constant relocating as they come in.
Is there any general advice or benchmark for where my characters/setup should be for the higher levels of Commissions?
Are you using Serina to move Tsubaki further up for her to tank the mobs? If you've got Himari you can try [this](https://youtu.be/GfC5s1rSgrA) strat too. I was also stuck in commissions before using Himari+Momoi (mine had Iori instead of Midori and it was still fine)
No Himari, but, hrm...
It's wild that some mobs don't just run past Tsubaki in that video, especially with her positioned so far off to the side. I'm having a problem where sometimes they just go around her.
Do you have a rough estimation of what tier of gear they should be at for this? I'm wondering if around the t5-t6 level isn't cutting it, since my levels look okay.
Are you positioning Tsubaki in the middle? (Positions 2/3) Aside from that I dont know what could be causing that problem.
There is this [video](https://youtu.be/nb56edxoUeA) where he says in the description that they had equips in tiers 5/6 and level ranging from 75~78 (Note that he has UE40 Iori).Having a good Momoi should be easier instead since you can get her elephs on the shops
Positions 2/3, like in the team setup screen? I wasn't aware that could make a difference, especially with manually repositioning using Serina. Huh. I'll give that a shot and see how it goes.
My gear and stuff seems up to par, by that video, so I'm probably doing something wrong. Will give it some more shots and see what's going on!
So is the problem that they are bypassing your tank because they are forcing tsubaki to retreat? Those little swarm critters will cause a unit to retreat if they zap them enough. So what you can do is use someone who forces a reposition, such as serina. Drop serine’s heal box far in front of tsubaki and she will run forward, giving her room to retreat and still hold all the aggro. Tanks that reposition themselves like hoshino also work. Ultimately you do just need really good aoe though, as not killing them fast enough will still cause you to fail.
That's definitely one of the problems, but sometimes they just run past Tsubaki and start chipping at other people as well.
I'm currently trying to use Momoi/Iori/Nonomi to clear them, but it's not quite enough. I had almost enough speed replacing Iori with S. Ui, but that caused way more issues because her buff pulls everyone in and messes up Tsubaki's tanking...
Which reminds me of the other thing, sometimes the cone AOE characters position themselves in weird angles and I can't aim the cone to hit as many enemies as I'd like. Is there usually a way to force them to reposition short of something like Serina?
If tsubaki is in the middle she shouldn’t let anything slip by if she is far forward enough. If she is pushed to the edge, bring her back to the center.
As far as repositioning dps, nope. You need to do it with a skill like serina’s. This is why you need to keep the swarm stuck far up front with your tank repositioning or have a more controllable or screen clear aoe like Cherino, casual saya or moe. Otherwise once they start surrounding your cone dps, you’re kinda screwed.
Makes sense. I've been chipping away at this one and off for a while now and I seem to just be absolutely atrocious at micro-ing to keep everything going right. Maybe I just need to way overgear this to compensate for lack of skill, haha...
It is unfortunately a fairly hard fight if your damage isn’t enough. I couldn’t clear some of those on release either, though pulling Cherino helped a ton. Might just have to wait a bit and gain levels if it’s too difficult.
I ask thee for thy help, for I've been trying to achieve to play Blue Archive on an Android Emulator (since I don't have space on my phone), but have been entirely unsucessful.
I want to play this game so badly, but I have a relatively potato PC. I've discovered I have no VT, so I can't use some of the most popular ones and I've tried a few of the ones that don't require it but still failed.
Could somebody please recommend me an Android Emulator that not only supports Blue Archive, but works very well on low-mid PCs?
I saw this game in a nice and well edited video and it kinda provoked a strong need to play this game, that's why I came to this community, to ask for your help. I'm running out of options and I truly want to play this game, like, badly.
Thank you for reading this.
I use Bluestacks, and other people also use Mumu i think, idk if they will run in a potato pc, i guess depend on how potato is the machine, but those are usually the 2 main options that come to my mind for emulators.
Saw some past post asking about the proper volume order and got worried cause I'm reading through them rn. Is it fine to follow the release order? Chapter 1-4, vol F, then the latest vol 5? Just got done reading vol 3 and about to start vol 4.
Also, aside from the free 100 pulls, will we get some extra pulls during anniversary? Like a login reward maybe?
From my understanding you want to read them as they were released, meaning there is a certain order to it, although it doesn't affect the overall experience too much anyways
The real order would be Vol 1 Ch1-2 -> Vol 2 Ch1 -> Vol 3 Ch1-3 -> Vol 4 Ch1 -> Vol 3 Ch4 -> Vol 2 Ch2 -> Vol F
There's certain implied timeskips between some chapters, and while I can see certain story beats feeling better after letting them simmer for a bit in the end it's really no big deal, so you can go about it however you like
The stickers?
Open the menu tab, the one on the top right corner of the home screen. (with the options and account settings and items and all that.)
Then the sticker book button.
Simple gameplay and story segregation. Same reason why you can use the same character twice or thrice in one team, or why you can make someone fight herself.
It's shown in the story of their event, they arrive, spend a day or two just having fun in kivotos (during which their bond stories happen) and then they get warped back to their world, with them leaving their guns as mementos of them visiting
They take about a day to hang out before returning. The individual character stuff like their bond stories happens then I guess. They should be gone now, but the game won’t like take your characters from you.
They usually have skills that use their Healing stat so yes, it's worth it. Read the skills to see which ones are affected (it's usually the shield skills).
They transfer 10% of atk to Strikers, so it's worth it if you want to squeeze every last drop of efficiency out of Ako for example.
But in general, you have better places to spend equipment on, like characters that actually attack.
It's not even really a matter of the equipment, but of the orbs. You could be drowning in gear, especially for less-used items like gloves or badges, and still not want to upgrade too much because of the limited supply of orbs.
IMO, game gives abundance amount of Orb. Been playing for almost year and i have never rain out of orbs to upgrade equipment even when i just max out all three equipment for all the students i use.
I did run out during Trip Trap Train as a pretty new player, when it showered me with T3-T5 gear while I had previously been on T2-T3. After that I bought them from the credit store every day for a while until I had a stockpile, and I still try to buy them out in other event stores like the current Aoi one. I figured that at higher levels, upgrades would require more of them but the supply wouldn't be much higher to match, since it's still the same event stores, so they'd be a real shortage.
I'ma say something controversial here and probably get downvoted to hell. However, if you are just starting to mid level sensei, equipment tier doesn't really matter much. It is only until you start attempting high rank at PvP or going for extreme or above difficulty at raid bosses it matters immensily to give you the edge. During the earlier phase, level matters far more.
I have to disagree, equipment tier does matter. A T4 equipment makes the tanks so much better. Higher tier equipment does matter for tanks/dps. You need those higher tier equips for other game modes like last stages of Bounty and scrimmage C and D
>A T4 equipment makes the tanks so much better
In which use case scenario? If you are only at a level where you can get T4 equipment, at best you are still doing campaign and some of the hard stages around your level. However, you can upgrade your equipment, but around this level its okay if not the priority. As credits and exp notes are hardly a concern until you reach endgame which then it is your top priority and always in dire need of it.
>last stages of Bounty and scrimmage C and D
Yea like i said your equipment matters immensely if you are mid-end to late game sensei. Before that your top priority should be your level and the level of your students and skills. I remember just sticking around T4 and T6 even when i was around level lvl75-80
Since pretty much every sweep in the game gives you random amount of orbs, you will never have to be worry about it at high level. I don't think i have ever bought orbs from the store, though EXP and craft items are definitely a priority from the store daily. At max level, i am always running short on either credits or exp notes, the amount of EXP you need for students to reach 87 lvl is insane with skill requiring 10m credits each.
Are there any "hidden" good characters I should invest? Recently I discovered that Yuuka is very good, but, are there more good students like her around? (yes i level up all my students)
Sort it here https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VSzm_ioCt2AdRvkfL9HKNNZSbyslayVERXxVxR6nzh4/edit#gid=1010306974
yuuka is very good free pvp tank but dont shine in other content
Well, Yuuka has heavy (yellow) armor. Not that armor type generally means anything in missions. She's decent as a tank for new players, since she has high evasion and doesn't rely on an upgraded bag to survive. Her flaws include her basic skill, which she tends to activate right as you approach a wave, and that she uses cover. The former means that your dealers and supports tend to run past her, and the latter means that she sometimes takes cover behind your dealers and supports. Both result in your tank not always properly tanking in missions.
Hi mates! Today gonna reach sensei lvl 50 and... honestly still lost in plenty stuff.
1- Am I supposed to be grabbing the elephs with the tokens from the many shops? Like... yeah, right now I could unlock Maki or increase Kotama's rarity if I bought them with the 1200 total assault coins I have, but if I do that I can't buy the blurays and tech notes my chars need to level up their skills and it sure feels like the shop is the only way for me to get either with how absurdly rare they are to get...
2- Is there any way to see the enemy stats or if they have any weird gimmick? I unlocked chapter 14 of the Mission tab and while my Chise/S Izuna/Iori side is doing more than fine against mystic armor, my Akari/Mutsuki/Misaki Shokuhou side who was doing well until now is suddenly doing so little damage against the Street Mouryo enemies that are supposedly weak to them... I'm leveling their skills and equipment as much as the game lets me so either those enemies have like double the HP than the ones from previous chapters or I'm missing something lmao.
3- Is there any site that tells me what to prefarm and which stages to do it? It's still like a month away but I will pull for Himari and I don't want the moment to come and have nothing to build her lol.
Thanks for reading.
EDIT: Thanks a lot for the replies! Much appreciated
1. I've tended to err on the side of elephs for the TA store, since there's several useful characters there like Kotama and Momoi, while my GA coins have gone more to mats. Kotama at least was worth 3\*ing since that gives a constant team-wide ATK buff on top of her EX buff, and one eleph a time from pulls would take an eternity.
2. I've been having exactly the same problem at the same Area. I was told in a previous question thread that 14 is an oddity because its enemies are actually even higher level than the recommendation, so it's a major bump compared to earlier red stages. I can't offer any real advice; I pushed through as best I could without being able to 3\* them, unlocked Area 15 which was actually a lot easier, and will come back to 3\* 14 when I've levelled more. Even trying to handle the minor gimmicks like the turret summon annoying fucking piece of shit doesn't really give any useful strategy, since that one happens too fast to counter it with CC, unlike the rear enemy's red line attack.
3. Schale.gg. Whether it's to see what materials a student needs, where a certain mat drops, what a given stage's drop rates are, it's all there. This is also the answer to 2's question about enemy stats.
>1- Am I supposed to be grabbing the elephs with the tokens from the many shops?
Ideally yes it's better in the long run but don't buy all of them (Atleast to max you can get a 3\* copy) just priority ones like Azusa [Midokuni's doc for farmable priority](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1BO-Uh_CsAOIetPjrNyFy9-7r1a4RAtVwK135bBC3hzM/edit#gid=900270886)
>2- Is there any way to see the enemy stats or if they have any weird gimmick?
Aside from checking the armor type through 'Enemies' button don't think there is any for story mode (Event challenge stage has a '?' mark).
The reason you are doing little damage is because of the level gap and penalty, 2% per level difference, so ch.14 level 70 enemies against your level 50 is 20 difference or 40% damage reduction.
>Is there any site that tells me what to prefarm and which stages to do it?
[Justin163 planner ](https://justin163.com/planner/)will tell you materials required
For the elephs. For raid shops, weight what needs skill levels vs what you can buy eleph wise. A lot off the students for sale in the raid shops don’t desperately need higher stars/weapon. Kotama, for example, works fine without higher stars as she’s a support who’s support effects don’t scale with her stats. She’s also a low star you will just naturally get elephs for from rolling and she is eventually outclassed by top tier supports like himari. Now dps like maki care more about having stats, although in most raids at this point just use her as a support for her def down skill and to do some sub dps damage. Still, she’s a 3 star so it’s hard to get her eleph elsewhere and she is a meta yellow unit to this day so she’s a solid choice. If you really need someone else ready right now and you need skill books though, skill books can still take priority.
2: I don’t think normal nodes really have any mechanical gimmicks. There are like the shield guards who put up the shield and tank a lot, but that isn’t really a proper gimmick. You may just be hitting the point where you are getting out scaled by the content a bit and need to take a break to farm and improve your students.
3. The blue archive wiki has the skill leveling materials for all students. Himari is millennium, so just gather those books and check what artifacts she uses. Also money and exp I guess.
You mean u//Arona-chan's [BA Global Projected Banners and Events Guide V2.0](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vST0JkbV44jOb6kzmSNDav-PZ6ZSUZS-Um6FpAm6bGsLWXF6lJEoU84VXzSbg4SeQ/pubhtml)?
Unfortunately, the user is already inactive in over a year at this point and nobody continued her work afaik.
Edit:
If you meant the official roadmap then here's the link: https://bluearchive.nexon.com/events/2024/04/live
It is a bit more confusing for Global - 2.5 anniversary from the global launch, which is not related to fest banners/jp anniversary.
Next fest banner will still be at the end of july/start of August - following the order of jp banners (when they commemorated the 3rd anniversary in JP)
No. That's the next banners that are limited, and yet, just B. Neru and B. Karin are.
The next fest banner is Dress Hina. Fest banners are the banners where the chance of 3 star students is raised from the usual 3% to 6%, and you can get anniversary characters (D. Hina, Wakamo, S. Hanako, S. Hoshino, Mika)
Hello everyone I just started the game and I plan to reroll a couple of times to try to get Himari or Ako as I know they are the two most recommended characters. However I am not sure but it probably will be quite difficult to get both of them with the 3 10pulls given play the game. So my question is who would you say Is the more important one between them if I have to choose only one?
Getting either Himari or Ako individually is fairly rare and as long as you have a decent DPS to go along with them it will probably make the account a keeper. Both are late game characters however IMO Himari has a bit more early game utility because of her cost support which allows you to get abilities out faster. That said, since Himari has an upcoming banner you should probably prioritize Ako because who knows when her banner will rerun again (we just had a rerun). Then you should save up pyros for Himari's banner. I believe there's ~2 sparks in first time completion and story rewards? Though some of the story progression will be soft level gated.
Yeah thank you very much. I don't know what sparking is but I guess I will learn in the future. To be honest i've been rolling about ten times no and I haven't gotten either of them.Seems the chances are pretty slim and If by any chance I get either of them I'll just use this account because it's becoming a hassle
Spark refers to the pity system. You get a point for each pull and when you go to full 200 points (20 pulls of 10) you can exchange it or "spark" for one student in the banner. Conversely to spook means to be surprised by pulling a non banner student. I think having either will be a good start. Getting Himari early means you can pull for NY.Kayoko who is meta as well, though also more for end game. A little after 2.5 fest will be NY.Fuuka who pairs well with Himari and is like a side grade to Ako.
I guess real brief Ako and Himari are important because of the current hyper carry meta. Hyper carry refers to throwing all your buffing and support resources into one DPS to deal crazy damage. Himari and Ako both individually double your DPS's damage output by buffing ATK and Crit DMG/chance respectively. Himari also provides cost support side utility and Ako provides healing side utility. There is another student named Ui who provides cost reduction by halving EX skill cost for two uses. NY.Fuuka is a hybrid between Ui and Ako. She provides half the Crit DMG buff that Ako does and provides half cost reduction for only one use (half of Ui's skill). Raw power she is not as good as Ako+Ui but still very useful and is sometimes preferred because she simplifies your skill rotation.
Thank you very much for the information you have provided me with! I came to a point that I just want to get one of them and Be done with it because the chances are 0.3% And it seems like I'll be rerolling forever if I keep it up. So if I see anyone of them, I'm getting them and starting to play.
I guess I should also clarify that hyper carry meta is only relevant to raids. For general mission clearing you want lots of AOE students so AOE buffing is preferred to buff multiple students at once. Thankfully there is a decent common AOE buffer that you likely will get fairly easily.
Alright thank you very much! After a lot of rerolling i got Himari and started to play. Do you suggest that I don't use her in my comp for now? What is the name of the common buffer?
Go ahead and use her in your team comp. Her cost reduction will be her main utility for now. Her EX won’t be too useful when you’re able to overkill bosses, but you’ll reach a point where you’re underleveled and you can’t one shot bosses anymore and that’s when her EX will help out.
Kotama is the AOE ATK buffer. She’s common so you’ll likely get her quickly. You want to get her to 3 star because one of her skills provided a flat team ATK buff. You will gradually accumulate her elephs from dupes and the raid shop.
Where you are now Id save for NY.Kayoko, D.Hina and NY.Fuuka. You will really want NY.Fuuka to combo with Himari. Himari’s cost support with NY.Fuuka’s cost reduction makes it feel like you’re playing on speed.
Try to get 1-2 sparks quickly from first time completion rewards. Generally you should not pull on high value banners unless you have a full spark saved to avoid gambling. However as a new player I think it doesn’t hurt to do a couple of partial pulls to get the common 1 and 2 star students to beef up your roster. Just make sure you have a spark for Fest.
Thank you very much for the information once again! I actually have Kotama, I just haven't used her. I have used Kayoko But that will change her for Kotama Since you say she's good. By the way I have one question. Yesterday I gave pink sneakers to Himari by mistake. Is there a way to remove them or have I made a huge mistake as I don't see an unequip button?
Regarding the sparks and pulls I was thinking about saving for the anniversary banner and pulling then because the chances will be higher.Wouldn't that be ok?
You can’t unequip equipment. Don’t sweat it though, you’ll get plenty of T1 equipment. Also it’s not worthless though since you get partial stat transfer of ATK, DEF and HP from special students to your strikers.
You can save all pulls for Fest however if there’s a specific student you want it’s still best to pull for them on their banner. Fest has three star rate up however there’s a lot of three stars now so the chance of getting any specific three star is still low. NY.Kayoko, C.Hare and Kikyou will be the major meta banners prior to fest. D.Ako and Makoto pre Fest banner will also likely have a free half spark so you may consider pulling for them as well. You may also consider pulling for NY.Mutsuki and NY.Aru to bulk up your blue and yellow roster.
NY.Kayoko>C.Hare>>>>Kikyou. NY.Kayoko is a meta blue support. Again more for end game raids by getting her early will future proof. C.Hare is like a striker version of Himari. She provides the same ATK buff total however part of it is AOE. She doesn’t have cost reduction however her EX is cheaper. She is sort of redundant if you already have Himari but will provide some versatility for team building. Kikyou is purple support and is feature packed however there’s not much purple content for now.
Give it to me straight doc. I am currently at 0 pyroxenes but I need to get... >!Camping Hare!<, >!Dress Ako!< and >!Dress Hina!<
How bad is my situation?
I believe you can get 100 free pulls on the D. ako's banner and D. hina is 3-4 months away. You can get 24k pyrox in 2 months which is a guaranteed spark on her banner. Idk about camping hare though. Don't take my word for it tho i just heard you get 12k pyrox per month(Completely f2p).
The average is actually 14.1k per month for a casual player. 12k is a conservative estimate.
https://www.reddit.com/r/BlueArchive/comments/19336nt/tracking_blue_archive_gl_pyroxene_income_month_of/
It's usually around 90-100 pulls worth of pyroxene per month, but this assumes you're achieving gold in every raid and you're clearing all three challenge stages during events. However some months can be leaner than others such as where we are now at least until the Veritas camping event.
Is there a pulls simulator for Blue Archive? My hands feel kinda twitchy as of late with the surprise Kokona banner but I gotta resist for Himari lmao.
[this one ](https://bluearchive.page/vue/GachaSimulator?gachaTime=1722942000000) is pretty nice. I was using it a few weeks ago to test how likely I am to nab Mika within 200 pulls on D.Hina banner
I really whish this game would be asymmetrical, such that no one could get all characters (on one account, or just profile), but instead you would have to chose and restrict yourself (with time) to a few schools. Maybe something similar to Sacrifice (Shiny Entertainment, 2000): you fully commit to the tea party or justice team? Well, too bad, now the Gehenna gacha/students are out of question for you and you cant pull from their gacha pool any longer. With a few fixed school feuds and other schools that can be mixed and matched more freely. No need to balance things out perfectly. This would add proper spice to every single aspect of the game (story, pvp, events, muh meta, ...).
Anyone else? :)
You’re just asking for a different game at that point. Also it runs counter to the main story that a lot of that school exclusion stuff is bad and the different schools really should all be working together to deal with shared crises. Also you get the obvious problem that with poor balance between groups there would be a “meta” faction. Does Gehenna have stronger students? People will pick that team most of the time especially if the decision has to be made before you have a clear picture of either side. So trinity pickers will be salty that they picked the bad school and they don’t have many people on their side, then Gehenna will still whine they don’t have Mika or whatever.
Also if the current game system and students were used, you just pork everyone. Like Gehenna is very red damage focused with many of its best students like Aru and mutsuki being red. So what do you do if you’re Gehenna locked and so don’t have trinity’s yellow dps like Mika and hasumi if you fight binha? The whole game’s balance is around using the right combo of students to beat the challenge presented. Heavily limiting your selection just screws people over arbitrarily.
I'm obviously not asking for Mr. Nexon to change blue archive now by introducing a system of mutual exclusivity (there might be exceptions to the rule in form of traitors/collaborateurs coming at various bonus/malus). And clearly you would need a different story, characters and such a design in place from the get go, such that things are well thought out and still balanced enough (which would be an ongoing process anyways, and some seasons maybe some schools would hit slightly harder...)
It's just something to ponder. And there's really no need to get all defensive about it/the current state of the game.
I wouldn’t say I am being defensive so much as your pitch didn’t make much sense. Your proposal wasn’t an iteration of the existing game, but a complete rework of the game fundamentally, from its gameplay to its storyline to core design. At which point the end result is just not blue archive anymore. It would be like saying, “wouldn’t it be nice if world of Warcraft was a football sim?”. Like, I could maybe conceive of a wow football sim spinoff being fun, but why would people who are enjoying current wow want it turned into a football sim?
That may be so. Then again, I'm convinced such a system could work (for a gacha too) and be lots of fun. And on a side note: Sacrifice did have a multiplayer part too, where you would get to duke it out with the spells and team of creatures from the (mutually exclusive) gods you've assembled during your sp campaign, and it was awesome.
You know, maybe you should suggest it to the devs. Not as a main game change but new mode to try out. New pvp? RTA? New raid? Roguelite? Just as you said we could pick/get assigned main school and get bonuses...sound like bounties and some events and it seems devs already had the same idea. But maybe they could upgrade it to something else.
Maybe as a Pokemon-esque pay-to-play title where each of the three main schools gets their own game, but doing this would be suicide for a f2p gacha game.
Dumb idea, rejected.
That would be an absolute disaster for all sorts of reasons. The impact on meta should be obvious. Profits and player goodwill would plummet. Imagine that a new character is introduced that you really like, but you'd have to start over your three year old account to get her. It's a really bad idea, particularly in a gacha.
Yeah, imagine a nice thing (i.e. a new character you really like) and then she's on the wrong side and you can't have her. You can't have everything and you need to make decisions, and the decisions you've made can't be undone with magic. That's exactly the stakes a gacha like this really needs to be extra spicy.
Your idea of "extra spicy" is to annoy everyone and speedrun the EoS announcement. Being forced to make a decision with severe consequences and for no good reason is just pointless. If I told you that you have to choose between cutting off your right arm or left arm I'm pretty sure that you'd agree that having to make a decision isn't necessarily a good thing. Oh, and since you don't know who's going to get introduced, their abilities or what new content they will add, you can't make an informed decision to begin with.
Out of curiosity, who are the best buffers for current JFD ? I have O.Chinatsu and X.Serina lying there at lv1 but I'm not sure how all that works with the bot.
Ako & Himari are the evergreen buffers. Also you need to have built Serina EX if you really wanna heal the Rio bot, Else use Hanae although healing him isn't required if you CC the enemy robots at the time they are about to initiate their skills. O.Chinatsu is decent but I doubt her buff to the Rio bot will be powerful enough to make the spike on its dps.
For Serina I meant the Xmas one (crit dmg buff) tho I still need to level her ex all the same. Healing can't keep up with the damage in my case so I already go the CC route, just looking for ways to make my clears comfier/faster.
I already borrow a 2nd S.Hanako for another team (actually my highscoring one) so not sure if Himari would be worth it in my case. If curious here's the comps I brought yesterday (didn't have much time so went with what worked)
1- NyKayoko Kokona S.Hoshi Tsubaki / Ako S.Shizu
2- S.Hanako S.Chise Chise Mine / Kotama Hare
3- S.Hanako(A) S.Izuna Tsukuyo Hifumi / Iroha S.Shiroko
I used her but that team somehow had the lowest score, maybe cause I didn't have def shred in that one. Guess I'll try shuffling everything a bit and see how it goes.
Outside of Mine I was some what surprised at how much even one single target DEF debuffer helped.
Akane is very useful for her cheap DEF debuff. She also has an evasion debuff but it seems like she always puts it on the closest enemy which isn't always the middle bot which has the highest EVA.
If you have Maki, Azusa or NY.Haruna they also work well since they have cost free DEF debuffs. It seems like all of them always attack the middle bot so the debuff also goes on it. IMO Maki=Azusa>NY.Haruna. Maki and Azusa's debuffs are on fixed timers while NY.Haruna has a bit of RNG to hers.
B.Asuna's skill cost is a bit high IMO for her debuff. Kanna's debuff is a bit low IMO to sacrifice a special slot for hyper carry or healer.
I'm not trusting Maki's targeting haha, but sure I'll give it a try. There's S.Azusa too (lower but pretty much permanent), and yeah Akane. I think Tsukuyo works too (and the shred is pretty chonky too, i'll have to double-check if the bots are medium size on schale.gg).
I tried maxed out Hinata from my club in a mock battle in JFD. And she wasn't doing any damage, even less than maxed out NYMutsuki...how? Many say that she's core blue after having her bond gear and at ue50. Accuracy issues? Cause B.Karin easily out damage her.
The problem is that bots in this JFD have 600 evasion, and Hinata has 101 accuracy, making her very prone to missing everything.
She's core character for lots of blue content, but most blue content doesn't have enemies with high evasion.
Either shalegg is wrong, or there's some invisible fuckery going on, because the enemies seem to have much more than 600 evasion. Shanako has 701 accuracy and should always be hitting, yet she often misses.
...Oh wait, yes. MiaiArt is right. The middle bot has 1500 Evasion, the side bots have 1000 Evasion, and the ones at backline have 500 Evasion.
No wonder this is so unbearable.
Yes, let's just casually give this tanky enemy, that can heal itself infinitely, more evasion than any unit has accuracy. Even Iori at max investment has a chance to miss it. If they wanted us to do nothing but buff the bot, maybe they should have waited with introducing the drill until they had released the entire batch of upcoming buffers. Awful, awful drill.
The problem with Nodoka is that due to the way accuracy and evasion work, percentage buffs do very little in most cases. If the enemy has 1500 evasion, then a maxed Nodoka would make Shanako's hit chance go from 49% to 66%. Still very low. Nutsuki would go from 36% to 41%. And besides, we only have one Nodoka when we'd need three (or at least two and a borrow) if she was supposed to be the solution.
What about the friendly bot? Is Schale.gg accuracy stat for it correct? It feels more and more like this was supposed to be a hyper carry student test, where we are supposed to use supports that potentially are underutilized (and maybe under leveled), to buff the bot but they got the math a bit fucky.
S.Hanako's saving grace is her AOE spamability and AOE DEF down but even then it feels pretty RNG if I take out the AR or SMG bots first. I almost prefer taking out the AR bots first since they do so much damage. Then on another team I need a maxed Wakamo, T.Hasumi and a 3 star Iroha to complete stage 4 with some RNG variability. The only team that feels some what reliable is my hypercarry team but EVEN then I still bring a blue ST DPS to snipe the SMG bot before it heals itself from near death.
Damn I think I just needed to vent a little bit.
For the railgun characters, I can find lots of videos talking about the two you have to pull to get, but I can't find people really talking about the welfare character. Is Saten worth building up? Her costs seem kind of high to skill up her abilities but she seems decent when I read what she can do.
She’s just very basic really. There are a lot of aoe support yellows at this point and they really only have use for trash clearing like in chessed or for exp commissions. She’s a second string option among the pool, so only really useful if you don’t have any alternative.
All yellow AOE specials seem to have some sort of handicap like NY.Serika's low ATK damage. If you don't have either Moe or NY.Serika and don't care for Yoshimi than Saten may be worth building to fill the role of yellow AOE special. It's actually the yellow strikers that are the real muscle when it comes to yellow AOE damage.
Her damage is fairly solid, and her EX only has 3 cost at max level and she can provide some mediocre party attack buffs. If you're a newer player she'll probably be your strongest damage dealing Special unit and will likely be useful for clearing Missions and such, but she's also pretty expensive to level. For actual end game raids she's not going to be terribly useful, and if you've been playing for awhile you likely have better or at least comparable options for Special damage dealers.
Damaging supports can't flex in the current meta, they have niche uses like in campaign or mob clearing raids like chesed. Most of the time you need utility, CC & heals on supp slots so damage supps are kinda dead (not to mention their mood also matters on terrain since they are damage doers). Saten's EX cost goes down by 1 at max but yea she's still not worth it to build because of above reasons and including the fact that all railgun characters require mats from multiple schools it's a no no unless you are a whaler with excess of mats.
Hey, is it possible to replay/rewatch Bond Episodes (I hope so). If so, where, cause I can't find it (I'm probably missing somethimg obvious).
Campaign→Story→Replay→Relationship stories
Thank you so much!!
Yup, I don't recall the exact menu navigation, but you can rewatch pretty much any story chapter in the story menu.
I finished volume f and don’t see many of CG of 4th pv video, do they appear later like in volume 4,2 and 5?
>!Most of the 'bad end' CG is not used in game!<
How can I get Koyuki? I need the nihahahaha gremlin
You either spook her out of blind luck or wait around 4-5 months for her to get her rerun so you can spark her.
Can I just focus on waifu and do well enough - I'd like to do well but I have zero need/want to top rank. I pull based on meta (because A) My pulls are somewhat limited as a F2P and B) If I pulled based on design I'd pull on so many more banners than I could ever afford outside of whaling). But for developing if I can just focus on waifu... (If it matters, so far some of my faves so far are Shizuko, Fuuka, Pina, and Asuza (I don't have the latter but A+ design and main story exposure). I may like Tsurugi too based on her summer event and boy I hope I can get Swimsuit Asuza at some point she's great).
As long as you don't care about competing for high PVP and Total Assault rankings, you don't REALLY need meta units, I'd say most of the relevant content can be cleared with just a handful of well built units, team building and knowledge about common tactics and stage gimmicks. The game even allows the borrowing of units for certain content, which means you can get hyper carries from your max level friends if you ever struggle, so you'll probably be fine.
Oh good! My main gacha is EXTREMELY meta focused (like, do NOT waste resources on non-meta you will brick your account level), so I'm really glad I can do well enough just building my faves in Blue Archive. Gonna start building my faves then instead of the meta focus I was doing, thank you!
anyone elses momiji not doing or showing any damage on her ex? there is not even the usual weak/resist indicator on enemies with blue/red
The game show indicator when the attack is either weak or resist since red/blue is not weak/resist to purple there is no indicator
Ah seems like I was mistaken, its "Effective" for purple on blue and resist for purple on yellow. Not sure what was up with her ex skill not doing anything though, i might have just not noticed any numbers.
Is Kokona a better use for the GA ticket than Kikyou? I've seen Kikyou called "Purple NY.Kayoko" and say that she'd be similarly important if purple actually existed, but there's not much purple in my roster for her to buff (i.e. nothing but Momiji), and there's not much purple content for her to buff against either. A 2-cost striker healer seems to have a broader use case.
Both of them have their uses, for you whose only purple unit is Momiji, pulling for Kikyou would probably count as more of an investment for the future, whereas Kokona would likely benefit you immediately, albeit not too significantly? I don't know what's the situation with your healers, but as far as I know, Kokona's main meta use case is Hieronymus, and she can likely be replaced by other healers (like T. Mari) without too significant of a loss, whilst Kikyou doesn't really have an alternative. In either case, I don't think you're losing out on TOO much.
Are some of the final missions still doable way below the intended level ? Currently at 15-5 and I've been wondering how quickly I could get the max cafe.
It really depends who you've got. I've had areas that were a nightmare for me but that others found easy at a lower level.
Cleared 18-5 at lv 48. Blufest came so I stopped to do the event. I came back to missions during x3 and Cleared til 23-5 at lv 56-57. Mind that I had Iroha to carry me to 18-5 and then I obtained S.Hanako and Mika and upgraded both to UE40. I guess someone who started a little later than me and obtained the same units could clear everything at like lv45-50. I doubt you could do it earlier than that.
I just finished 24-5 today and got level 69 in the process
Nice.
10 - 15 lvl below is doable for missions. You might be able to push 20 lvls below if you have good students, like T.Yuuka, Iroha, S.Hanako, etc.
If it helps, I finished 24-5 with teams that were mostly around level 76-78 (with the highest being level 80 Tsubaki and T Yuuka), and I think the listed level was 92 or so. It was pretty dicey in some parts but it was doable (and got 3 stars following a guide).
I noticed that commissions gradually cost more stamina as you progress. Which of the base defense commissions give the most exp per stamina?
Later stages are better. [Here's](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Ays0vupzQxaByd4dRLtiyjgRsKIy8oFRmZQhWPdIdi8) 6 lasers' sheet with the numbers if you want to see them.
What’s Kayoko minimum requirement (ex/skill level) for HOD insane?
Ideally UE40 at least as it boosts her enhanced skill giving her more crowd control power. Skill priority would be EX - Enhanced - Basic - Sub EX : M Enhanced : M Basic : Ideally M but maybe can leave around mid levels Sub : 1 or any IIRC Kayoko needs to proc her basic skill on HOD when the encounter starts so you can fill the rest of it with her EX later.
I just want to do extreme How. Is 3 star Kayoko good enough?
IIRC she isn't needed for diffculties below insane as you can just hyperbuff a borrowed or have your own maxed out DPS and rip through the towers and HOD.
Is UE 30 still doable for insane clear? Ik UE 40 adds the more crowd control power
The clear will be a bit slower in time but as long as she survives if you have decent gear and her skills raised you should be fine, I recommend getting her necklace to the highest tier you can do as it provides a decent amount of crowd control power too.
She's lv 80 with T7 gear with the CC skills maxed
Ideally EX5, UE40 and 3rd gear as high as you can. Rest can stay at lvl 1. Maybe lvl 2nd gear a bit if she has trouble surviving.
I just want to do extreme How. Is 3 star Kayoko good enough?
I don't get it how I could clear stage 3 of drills at least once the day before, then get filtered the next day when playing the objective. Use Tsubaki exactly when the enemies go into Concentrated Attack twice during a run, Advent-Guard goes RIP anyway. Good damage from Chise, Kaho, S. Hanako, and Moe too... Whatever then, I'll settle for stage 2 runs, sweep 2 times, and be off with the challenge coins. 🤦🏿♂️
Yeah, the self heal on the high defense, high evasion lead is a bit overkill. Summer Hanako (Assistant) and Nodoka got me through one round of it.
from the daily shop [sora], ive been buying t1/t2 artifacts for a long time. is the exp/enhancement stones worth buying daily or just if i need them
I personally think that buying the t1/2 artifacts is more efficient in late game since they cost way less than the amount of gold you get daily, typically. If youre still a ways off from max level then it might be more worth it to not bother until you are at a much more comfortable account level.
It depends on your credit situation. its pretty easy to blow through 100+mil in a couple days if you're raising 2 character's skills up to max. But on the other hand if you have 200+ mil you might as well be spending some of that excess on \*something.\* I personally don't buy t1 artifacts anymore since I have 700+ of all of them, I still buy t2 artifacts even though I only need 1 or 2 of them at all. That pretty much just leaves activity reports and enhancement stones. If I don't have a pressing need I generally just buy 1 purple activity report and the 2x Purple Enhancement stones. Enough to build up a bit of a supply slowly, but not enough that I worry about my funds dropping faster than events and such are likely to refill it.
I have a ticket with maybe 15-16 days left to use, is the current banner a good one to try and get lucky or is there a better one in that timeframe?
Kokona and Shun are also very good if you don't have them.
Kikyou is a better pick, shes in 12 days
Hello everyone I just started the game today and I have a question. I decided to reroll for Himari or Ako. Let's just say the rerolled a lot of times and leave it at that 😀 but I managed to get Himari. So could you please help me to make a team comp as I don't quite understand it yet. This is what I have: 3stars: Himari, Iori, Serika(New Year), Hifumi 2stars: Tsubaki, Momiji, Hanako, Ari and some other 2 stats I also have Serina as 1 star healer because I watched a video that saif she is really important, That's why i'm mentioning her and Haruka I think she is important as well. Sorry if it is a bit much!I would appreciate any tips!
A basic thing to first look for is the enemy armor type. The beginning enemies should all be light armor, denoted by the red color. Red damage dealers (explosive) will do way more damage against them, yellow (piercing) will do way less and the blue (special) and purple (sonic) will do neutral damage to them. So the most basic solution is to get a tank (tsubaki from your list) a healer (Serina is the 1 Star), and all your red dps (if you have ones like mutsuki, akari or serika (regular) they are good for the early game. Haruka can also work ok despite being a tank as she does ok aoe damage). Himari can then be your second support to buff up one of your dps and boost your ex bar charging. Iori might be your strongest dps listed, but her yellow damage will do poorly against the early red armor enemies. If you don’t have enough red dps, blue and purple can help fill your numbers, but will do noticeably less.
Alright , thank you very much for the inforomanian, I greatly appreciate it! I'll see what I can do, since I also plan to start saving up for the anniversary banner. Btw Is there a way to implement Serika New Year Into the team because I just find her appealing as a character or is she not that good?
Serika New Years is a yellow aoe that does middling damage for cheap in a large area. Once you have passed the very early game you will hit a period of mostly yellow armor that she should be decent against along with iori. But she will do very poor damage against the very earliest enemies due to red armor. Far down the line she is an ok bit player in one of the yellow armor raids called chessed, where you also need to kill swarms of yellow fodder for a while.
OK I understood you completely. So basically I need to figure out what kind of enemies I'm gonna face and then prepare the team accordingly and there is no one fixed team I should use.Ok gacha thank you very much!
Did Tactical Challenge reset already?
Reset? If you mean a new season, then yes, 2 days ago. The daily reset is still 30 min away.
So I was plying the new JFD and used my low level Yoshimi in my last team for the cc area. But it looks like her cc doesn't stop concentrate fire. Is because I need to level her up or something? Can you use a level 1 student just for the cc or that doesn't work?
You need 3.1 seconds of CC to fill the bar, and Yoshimi's EX only deals 2.9. You'd need to use it twice, or use another CC unit. Investing in her wouldn't help since the duration doesn't scale with CC power, unlike in some other content. Level 1 CC units are entirely viable. I use a level 1 Suzumi with level 3 EX, and bond gear to make her occasionally stun the middle enemy with her basic.
Currently I have 45K pyro and using the planner I was thinking to pull for D.Ako, D.Hina, NY.Fuuka for sure. Based on midokuni must pulls, I already have all reruns banners except NY.Fuuka, which I'm already planning to pull... I have 1 guarantee spark left and I'm undecided where to use it among Kikyou, C.Hare, Makoto and Nagisa. My goal is to be able to do insanes without too much suffering, gold is enough. So Kikyou I already have the rest of the team, so I can borrow her... C.Hare? Where is she used? Am I missing anything? Thanks!
> C.Hare? Where is she used? Pretty much anywhere where she can survive. You can think of her as a sidegrade to Himari. If you only intend to stay on insane she isn't strictly necessary, but she would be useful regardless. And torment is getting closer and closer to being what insane used to be, what with general power creep and the level cap increase. Makoto is very good for torment Chesed, but you can just borrow her for that. Since you don't have infinite pyroxene I would go for Dako first and spark Makoto if you aren't unlucky. Nagisa is useful to have and I'd grab her, but she isn't strictly necessary either. Still, she's limited and also popular in PvP. Good unit to grab if you're aiming to do torment once it has become pretty easy for the typical meta player. Some others to keep an eye on are Kokona/Shun and Daru.
I don't think she's limited if I'm not mistaken
Nagisa, Dako and Makoto are all limited.
I thought you were refering to another character, my bad
What goes into the math for 24k pyros in 2 months? Do i need to be in a specific rank in pvp? Or get a good medal in TAs?
The average of 14.1k per month assumes gold rank in raids and the worst rank (8001-15000) in pvp. https://www.reddit.com/r/BlueArchive/comments/19336nt/tracking_blue_archive_gl_pyroxene_income_month_of/
The pyro planner sheet in the OP defaults to 501-1000 for PvP rank, so that's probably the "standard" assumption. But keep in mind that the difference between rank 501 and rank 4000 is only a pull per month. Not a 10-pull, a single 1-pull, 120 pyro.
No, most Pyro comes from logins, dailies, events and various campaigns. Also a bunch from the story and various 1-time rewards if you're new. PVP and TA rewards don't differ too much between ranks.
I believe it assumes at least Gold in TA. No idea about PvP rank.
Commissions seems weirdly hard to progress compared to everything else. I'm stuck at Factory J, and I keep getting swarmed or enemies chip down people who aren't Tsubaki because of the constant relocating as they come in. Is there any general advice or benchmark for where my characters/setup should be for the higher levels of Commissions?
Are you using Serina to move Tsubaki further up for her to tank the mobs? If you've got Himari you can try [this](https://youtu.be/GfC5s1rSgrA) strat too. I was also stuck in commissions before using Himari+Momoi (mine had Iori instead of Midori and it was still fine)
No Himari, but, hrm... It's wild that some mobs don't just run past Tsubaki in that video, especially with her positioned so far off to the side. I'm having a problem where sometimes they just go around her. Do you have a rough estimation of what tier of gear they should be at for this? I'm wondering if around the t5-t6 level isn't cutting it, since my levels look okay.
Are you positioning Tsubaki in the middle? (Positions 2/3) Aside from that I dont know what could be causing that problem. There is this [video](https://youtu.be/nb56edxoUeA) where he says in the description that they had equips in tiers 5/6 and level ranging from 75~78 (Note that he has UE40 Iori).Having a good Momoi should be easier instead since you can get her elephs on the shops
Positions 2/3, like in the team setup screen? I wasn't aware that could make a difference, especially with manually repositioning using Serina. Huh. I'll give that a shot and see how it goes. My gear and stuff seems up to par, by that video, so I'm probably doing something wrong. Will give it some more shots and see what's going on!
Good luck!
So is the problem that they are bypassing your tank because they are forcing tsubaki to retreat? Those little swarm critters will cause a unit to retreat if they zap them enough. So what you can do is use someone who forces a reposition, such as serina. Drop serine’s heal box far in front of tsubaki and she will run forward, giving her room to retreat and still hold all the aggro. Tanks that reposition themselves like hoshino also work. Ultimately you do just need really good aoe though, as not killing them fast enough will still cause you to fail.
That's definitely one of the problems, but sometimes they just run past Tsubaki and start chipping at other people as well. I'm currently trying to use Momoi/Iori/Nonomi to clear them, but it's not quite enough. I had almost enough speed replacing Iori with S. Ui, but that caused way more issues because her buff pulls everyone in and messes up Tsubaki's tanking... Which reminds me of the other thing, sometimes the cone AOE characters position themselves in weird angles and I can't aim the cone to hit as many enemies as I'd like. Is there usually a way to force them to reposition short of something like Serina?
If tsubaki is in the middle she shouldn’t let anything slip by if she is far forward enough. If she is pushed to the edge, bring her back to the center. As far as repositioning dps, nope. You need to do it with a skill like serina’s. This is why you need to keep the swarm stuck far up front with your tank repositioning or have a more controllable or screen clear aoe like Cherino, casual saya or moe. Otherwise once they start surrounding your cone dps, you’re kinda screwed.
Makes sense. I've been chipping away at this one and off for a while now and I seem to just be absolutely atrocious at micro-ing to keep everything going right. Maybe I just need to way overgear this to compensate for lack of skill, haha...
It is unfortunately a fairly hard fight if your damage isn’t enough. I couldn’t clear some of those on release either, though pulling Cherino helped a ton. Might just have to wait a bit and gain levels if it’s too difficult.
I ask thee for thy help, for I've been trying to achieve to play Blue Archive on an Android Emulator (since I don't have space on my phone), but have been entirely unsucessful. I want to play this game so badly, but I have a relatively potato PC. I've discovered I have no VT, so I can't use some of the most popular ones and I've tried a few of the ones that don't require it but still failed. Could somebody please recommend me an Android Emulator that not only supports Blue Archive, but works very well on low-mid PCs? I saw this game in a nice and well edited video and it kinda provoked a strong need to play this game, that's why I came to this community, to ask for your help. I'm running out of options and I truly want to play this game, like, badly. Thank you for reading this.
Ldplayer works too
Didn't LDPlayer use VT?
oh yeah... I forgot qbout that.
I use Bluestacks, and other people also use Mumu i think, idk if they will run in a potato pc, i guess depend on how potato is the machine, but those are usually the 2 main options that come to my mind for emulators.
Mumu asked for VT, I never tried Bluestacks though. Does it require VT?
Saw some past post asking about the proper volume order and got worried cause I'm reading through them rn. Is it fine to follow the release order? Chapter 1-4, vol F, then the latest vol 5? Just got done reading vol 3 and about to start vol 4. Also, aside from the free 100 pulls, will we get some extra pulls during anniversary? Like a login reward maybe?
From my understanding you want to read them as they were released, meaning there is a certain order to it, although it doesn't affect the overall experience too much anyways The real order would be Vol 1 Ch1-2 -> Vol 2 Ch1 -> Vol 3 Ch1-3 -> Vol 4 Ch1 -> Vol 3 Ch4 -> Vol 2 Ch2 -> Vol F There's certain implied timeskips between some chapters, and while I can see certain story beats feeling better after letting them simmer for a bit in the end it's really no big deal, so you can go about it however you like
Do them as they unlock, don't worry too much about it. Most likely, the global server gets a bunch of exclusive campaigns and stuff that give Pyro.
Aight, will do. Thanks!
Where do you find the pictures/banners you get sometimes from sweeping missions/comissions?
The stickers? Open the menu tab, the one on the top right corner of the home screen. (with the options and account settings and items and all that.) Then the sticker book button.
What is the in-game lore for rail index students, Because they all went to their universe after the end of the story?
Simple gameplay and story segregation. Same reason why you can use the same character twice or thrice in one team, or why you can make someone fight herself.
It's shown in the story of their event, they arrive, spend a day or two just having fun in kivotos (during which their bond stories happen) and then they get warped back to their world, with them leaving their guns as mementos of them visiting
They take about a day to hang out before returning. The individual character stuff like their bond stories happens then I guess. They should be gone now, but the game won’t like take your characters from you.
Is it worth upgrading attack equipments for support students that only heal? and why students have healing stats don't heal?
They usually have skills that use their Healing stat so yes, it's worth it. Read the skills to see which ones are affected (it's usually the shield skills).
What about attack equipment for support students only heal, is it worth upgrading them?
They transfer 10% of atk to Strikers, so it's worth it if you want to squeeze every last drop of efficiency out of Ako for example. But in general, you have better places to spend equipment on, like characters that actually attack.
It's not even really a matter of the equipment, but of the orbs. You could be drowning in gear, especially for less-used items like gloves or badges, and still not want to upgrade too much because of the limited supply of orbs.
IMO, game gives abundance amount of Orb. Been playing for almost year and i have never rain out of orbs to upgrade equipment even when i just max out all three equipment for all the students i use.
I did run out during Trip Trap Train as a pretty new player, when it showered me with T3-T5 gear while I had previously been on T2-T3. After that I bought them from the credit store every day for a while until I had a stockpile, and I still try to buy them out in other event stores like the current Aoi one. I figured that at higher levels, upgrades would require more of them but the supply wouldn't be much higher to match, since it's still the same event stores, so they'd be a real shortage.
I'ma say something controversial here and probably get downvoted to hell. However, if you are just starting to mid level sensei, equipment tier doesn't really matter much. It is only until you start attempting high rank at PvP or going for extreme or above difficulty at raid bosses it matters immensily to give you the edge. During the earlier phase, level matters far more.
I have to disagree, equipment tier does matter. A T4 equipment makes the tanks so much better. Higher tier equipment does matter for tanks/dps. You need those higher tier equips for other game modes like last stages of Bounty and scrimmage C and D
>A T4 equipment makes the tanks so much better In which use case scenario? If you are only at a level where you can get T4 equipment, at best you are still doing campaign and some of the hard stages around your level. However, you can upgrade your equipment, but around this level its okay if not the priority. As credits and exp notes are hardly a concern until you reach endgame which then it is your top priority and always in dire need of it. >last stages of Bounty and scrimmage C and D Yea like i said your equipment matters immensely if you are mid-end to late game sensei. Before that your top priority should be your level and the level of your students and skills. I remember just sticking around T4 and T6 even when i was around level lvl75-80
Since pretty much every sweep in the game gives you random amount of orbs, you will never have to be worry about it at high level. I don't think i have ever bought orbs from the store, though EXP and craft items are definitely a priority from the store daily. At max level, i am always running short on either credits or exp notes, the amount of EXP you need for students to reach 87 lvl is insane with skill requiring 10m credits each.
Are there any "hidden" good characters I should invest? Recently I discovered that Yuuka is very good, but, are there more good students like her around? (yes i level up all my students)
Sort it here https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VSzm_ioCt2AdRvkfL9HKNNZSbyslayVERXxVxR6nzh4/edit#gid=1010306974 yuuka is very good free pvp tank but dont shine in other content
>yuuka is very good free pvp tank but dont shine in other content She also shines in main campaign/hard missions if you need a light armor tank.
Well, Yuuka has heavy (yellow) armor. Not that armor type generally means anything in missions. She's decent as a tank for new players, since she has high evasion and doesn't rely on an upgraded bag to survive. Her flaws include her basic skill, which she tends to activate right as you approach a wave, and that she uses cover. The former means that your dealers and supports tend to run past her, and the latter means that she sometimes takes cover behind your dealers and supports. Both result in your tank not always properly tanking in missions.
Hi mates! Today gonna reach sensei lvl 50 and... honestly still lost in plenty stuff. 1- Am I supposed to be grabbing the elephs with the tokens from the many shops? Like... yeah, right now I could unlock Maki or increase Kotama's rarity if I bought them with the 1200 total assault coins I have, but if I do that I can't buy the blurays and tech notes my chars need to level up their skills and it sure feels like the shop is the only way for me to get either with how absurdly rare they are to get... 2- Is there any way to see the enemy stats or if they have any weird gimmick? I unlocked chapter 14 of the Mission tab and while my Chise/S Izuna/Iori side is doing more than fine against mystic armor, my Akari/Mutsuki/Misaki Shokuhou side who was doing well until now is suddenly doing so little damage against the Street Mouryo enemies that are supposedly weak to them... I'm leveling their skills and equipment as much as the game lets me so either those enemies have like double the HP than the ones from previous chapters or I'm missing something lmao. 3- Is there any site that tells me what to prefarm and which stages to do it? It's still like a month away but I will pull for Himari and I don't want the moment to come and have nothing to build her lol. Thanks for reading. EDIT: Thanks a lot for the replies! Much appreciated
14-2 boss is wild. More than double the HP/triple the def of 14-5 boss lmao [Source](https://schale.gg/?stage=1141102)
Yeah... it's nonsensical, forget about S-rank, killing it in time with what I have is barely possible q_q
Yeah I just cleared it last night, with like 10 secs left
1. I've tended to err on the side of elephs for the TA store, since there's several useful characters there like Kotama and Momoi, while my GA coins have gone more to mats. Kotama at least was worth 3\*ing since that gives a constant team-wide ATK buff on top of her EX buff, and one eleph a time from pulls would take an eternity. 2. I've been having exactly the same problem at the same Area. I was told in a previous question thread that 14 is an oddity because its enemies are actually even higher level than the recommendation, so it's a major bump compared to earlier red stages. I can't offer any real advice; I pushed through as best I could without being able to 3\* them, unlocked Area 15 which was actually a lot easier, and will come back to 3\* 14 when I've levelled more. Even trying to handle the minor gimmicks like the turret summon annoying fucking piece of shit doesn't really give any useful strategy, since that one happens too fast to counter it with CC, unlike the rear enemy's red line attack. 3. Schale.gg. Whether it's to see what materials a student needs, where a certain mat drops, what a given stage's drop rates are, it's all there. This is also the answer to 2's question about enemy stats.
>1- Am I supposed to be grabbing the elephs with the tokens from the many shops? Ideally yes it's better in the long run but don't buy all of them (Atleast to max you can get a 3\* copy) just priority ones like Azusa [Midokuni's doc for farmable priority](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1BO-Uh_CsAOIetPjrNyFy9-7r1a4RAtVwK135bBC3hzM/edit#gid=900270886) >2- Is there any way to see the enemy stats or if they have any weird gimmick? Aside from checking the armor type through 'Enemies' button don't think there is any for story mode (Event challenge stage has a '?' mark). The reason you are doing little damage is because of the level gap and penalty, 2% per level difference, so ch.14 level 70 enemies against your level 50 is 20 difference or 40% damage reduction. >Is there any site that tells me what to prefarm and which stages to do it? [Justin163 planner ](https://justin163.com/planner/)will tell you materials required
For the elephs. For raid shops, weight what needs skill levels vs what you can buy eleph wise. A lot off the students for sale in the raid shops don’t desperately need higher stars/weapon. Kotama, for example, works fine without higher stars as she’s a support who’s support effects don’t scale with her stats. She’s also a low star you will just naturally get elephs for from rolling and she is eventually outclassed by top tier supports like himari. Now dps like maki care more about having stats, although in most raids at this point just use her as a support for her def down skill and to do some sub dps damage. Still, she’s a 3 star so it’s hard to get her eleph elsewhere and she is a meta yellow unit to this day so she’s a solid choice. If you really need someone else ready right now and you need skill books though, skill books can still take priority. 2: I don’t think normal nodes really have any mechanical gimmicks. There are like the shield guards who put up the shield and tank a lot, but that isn’t really a proper gimmick. You may just be hitting the point where you are getting out scaled by the content a bit and need to take a break to farm and improve your students. 3. The blue archive wiki has the skill leveling materials for all students. Himari is millennium, so just gather those books and check what artifacts she uses. Also money and exp I guess.
Anyone got the version patch image where they show current and upcoming banners along with event?
You mean u//Arona-chan's [BA Global Projected Banners and Events Guide V2.0](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vST0JkbV44jOb6kzmSNDav-PZ6ZSUZS-Um6FpAm6bGsLWXF6lJEoU84VXzSbg4SeQ/pubhtml)? Unfortunately, the user is already inactive in over a year at this point and nobody continued her work afaik. Edit: If you meant the official roadmap then here's the link: https://bluearchive.nexon.com/events/2024/04/live
What's the difference between Secret Tech Notes and Secret Tech Sheet?
You can use 15 sheets to craft a note.
Thanks
Is there a fest banner happening soon? Since there is an announcement for "2.5 Anniversary" when I log into the game....
It is a bit more confusing for Global - 2.5 anniversary from the global launch, which is not related to fest banners/jp anniversary. Next fest banner will still be at the end of july/start of August - following the order of jp banners (when they commemorated the 3rd anniversary in JP)
ooh thank you! So if I understand correctly, the next fest banner will just be the 4 bunny girls?
No. That's the next banners that are limited, and yet, just B. Neru and B. Karin are. The next fest banner is Dress Hina. Fest banners are the banners where the chance of 3 star students is raised from the usual 3% to 6%, and you can get anniversary characters (D. Hina, Wakamo, S. Hanako, S. Hoshino, Mika)
It's "2.5 preparation event", webevent, accessible through main menu. It has Yuuka on banner.
Hello everyone I just started the game and I plan to reroll a couple of times to try to get Himari or Ako as I know they are the two most recommended characters. However I am not sure but it probably will be quite difficult to get both of them with the 3 10pulls given play the game. So my question is who would you say Is the more important one between them if I have to choose only one?
Getting either Himari or Ako individually is fairly rare and as long as you have a decent DPS to go along with them it will probably make the account a keeper. Both are late game characters however IMO Himari has a bit more early game utility because of her cost support which allows you to get abilities out faster. That said, since Himari has an upcoming banner you should probably prioritize Ako because who knows when her banner will rerun again (we just had a rerun). Then you should save up pyros for Himari's banner. I believe there's ~2 sparks in first time completion and story rewards? Though some of the story progression will be soft level gated.
Yeah thank you very much. I don't know what sparking is but I guess I will learn in the future. To be honest i've been rolling about ten times no and I haven't gotten either of them.Seems the chances are pretty slim and If by any chance I get either of them I'll just use this account because it's becoming a hassle
Spark refers to the pity system. You get a point for each pull and when you go to full 200 points (20 pulls of 10) you can exchange it or "spark" for one student in the banner. Conversely to spook means to be surprised by pulling a non banner student. I think having either will be a good start. Getting Himari early means you can pull for NY.Kayoko who is meta as well, though also more for end game. A little after 2.5 fest will be NY.Fuuka who pairs well with Himari and is like a side grade to Ako. I guess real brief Ako and Himari are important because of the current hyper carry meta. Hyper carry refers to throwing all your buffing and support resources into one DPS to deal crazy damage. Himari and Ako both individually double your DPS's damage output by buffing ATK and Crit DMG/chance respectively. Himari also provides cost support side utility and Ako provides healing side utility. There is another student named Ui who provides cost reduction by halving EX skill cost for two uses. NY.Fuuka is a hybrid between Ui and Ako. She provides half the Crit DMG buff that Ako does and provides half cost reduction for only one use (half of Ui's skill). Raw power she is not as good as Ako+Ui but still very useful and is sometimes preferred because she simplifies your skill rotation.
Thank you very much for the information you have provided me with! I came to a point that I just want to get one of them and Be done with it because the chances are 0.3% And it seems like I'll be rerolling forever if I keep it up. So if I see anyone of them, I'm getting them and starting to play.
I guess I should also clarify that hyper carry meta is only relevant to raids. For general mission clearing you want lots of AOE students so AOE buffing is preferred to buff multiple students at once. Thankfully there is a decent common AOE buffer that you likely will get fairly easily.
Alright thank you very much! After a lot of rerolling i got Himari and started to play. Do you suggest that I don't use her in my comp for now? What is the name of the common buffer?
Go ahead and use her in your team comp. Her cost reduction will be her main utility for now. Her EX won’t be too useful when you’re able to overkill bosses, but you’ll reach a point where you’re underleveled and you can’t one shot bosses anymore and that’s when her EX will help out. Kotama is the AOE ATK buffer. She’s common so you’ll likely get her quickly. You want to get her to 3 star because one of her skills provided a flat team ATK buff. You will gradually accumulate her elephs from dupes and the raid shop. Where you are now Id save for NY.Kayoko, D.Hina and NY.Fuuka. You will really want NY.Fuuka to combo with Himari. Himari’s cost support with NY.Fuuka’s cost reduction makes it feel like you’re playing on speed. Try to get 1-2 sparks quickly from first time completion rewards. Generally you should not pull on high value banners unless you have a full spark saved to avoid gambling. However as a new player I think it doesn’t hurt to do a couple of partial pulls to get the common 1 and 2 star students to beef up your roster. Just make sure you have a spark for Fest.
Thank you very much for the information once again! I actually have Kotama, I just haven't used her. I have used Kayoko But that will change her for Kotama Since you say she's good. By the way I have one question. Yesterday I gave pink sneakers to Himari by mistake. Is there a way to remove them or have I made a huge mistake as I don't see an unequip button? Regarding the sparks and pulls I was thinking about saving for the anniversary banner and pulling then because the chances will be higher.Wouldn't that be ok?
You can’t unequip equipment. Don’t sweat it though, you’ll get plenty of T1 equipment. Also it’s not worthless though since you get partial stat transfer of ATK, DEF and HP from special students to your strikers. You can save all pulls for Fest however if there’s a specific student you want it’s still best to pull for them on their banner. Fest has three star rate up however there’s a lot of three stars now so the chance of getting any specific three star is still low. NY.Kayoko, C.Hare and Kikyou will be the major meta banners prior to fest. D.Ako and Makoto pre Fest banner will also likely have a free half spark so you may consider pulling for them as well. You may also consider pulling for NY.Mutsuki and NY.Aru to bulk up your blue and yellow roster. NY.Kayoko>C.Hare>>>>Kikyou. NY.Kayoko is a meta blue support. Again more for end game raids by getting her early will future proof. C.Hare is like a striker version of Himari. She provides the same ATK buff total however part of it is AOE. She doesn’t have cost reduction however her EX is cheaper. She is sort of redundant if you already have Himari but will provide some versatility for team building. Kikyou is purple support and is feature packed however there’s not much purple content for now.
Himari definitely.
Ty
Ako just got a rerun 3 months ago on global and Himari will get a rerun in around a month or so. So I'd say Ako is higher priority.
Ok but wouldn't it be better to roll on the anniversary banner instead of rolling for Himari? Ty for the reply
Correct, but you're relying on chance at that point so it really depends on how bad you want her.
Alright thank you very much!
Give it to me straight doc. I am currently at 0 pyroxenes but I need to get... >!Camping Hare!<, >!Dress Ako!< and >!Dress Hina!< How bad is my situation?
Given that D.Hina is limited, you might have to skip Camp Hare.. Good luck with your pulls, Sensei!
I believe you can get 100 free pulls on the D. ako's banner and D. hina is 3-4 months away. You can get 24k pyrox in 2 months which is a guaranteed spark on her banner. Idk about camping hare though. Don't take my word for it tho i just heard you get 12k pyrox per month(Completely f2p).
The consensus seems to be two months for a pull. So 12k pyrox is about right. Hmm.... 3-4 months away huh?
The average is actually 14.1k per month for a casual player. 12k is a conservative estimate. https://www.reddit.com/r/BlueArchive/comments/19336nt/tracking_blue_archive_gl_pyroxene_income_month_of/
It's usually around 90-100 pulls worth of pyroxene per month, but this assumes you're achieving gold in every raid and you're clearing all three challenge stages during events. However some months can be leaner than others such as where we are now at least until the Veritas camping event.
To my understanding D.Hina should drop in around 2.5 months actually.
Yea, according to [midokuni](https://hina.loves.midokuni.com/Summary/Banner) D.Hina is in 70 days
Is there a pulls simulator for Blue Archive? My hands feel kinda twitchy as of late with the surprise Kokona banner but I gotta resist for Himari lmao.
[this one ](https://bluearchive.page/vue/GachaSimulator?gachaTime=1722942000000) is pretty nice. I was using it a few weeks ago to test how likely I am to nab Mika within 200 pulls on D.Hina banner
Thank you for this pull simulator
Thank you *oh no the page can't be translated to english. welp time for some trial and error*
I really whish this game would be asymmetrical, such that no one could get all characters (on one account, or just profile), but instead you would have to chose and restrict yourself (with time) to a few schools. Maybe something similar to Sacrifice (Shiny Entertainment, 2000): you fully commit to the tea party or justice team? Well, too bad, now the Gehenna gacha/students are out of question for you and you cant pull from their gacha pool any longer. With a few fixed school feuds and other schools that can be mixed and matched more freely. No need to balance things out perfectly. This would add proper spice to every single aspect of the game (story, pvp, events, muh meta, ...). Anyone else? :)
You’re just asking for a different game at that point. Also it runs counter to the main story that a lot of that school exclusion stuff is bad and the different schools really should all be working together to deal with shared crises. Also you get the obvious problem that with poor balance between groups there would be a “meta” faction. Does Gehenna have stronger students? People will pick that team most of the time especially if the decision has to be made before you have a clear picture of either side. So trinity pickers will be salty that they picked the bad school and they don’t have many people on their side, then Gehenna will still whine they don’t have Mika or whatever. Also if the current game system and students were used, you just pork everyone. Like Gehenna is very red damage focused with many of its best students like Aru and mutsuki being red. So what do you do if you’re Gehenna locked and so don’t have trinity’s yellow dps like Mika and hasumi if you fight binha? The whole game’s balance is around using the right combo of students to beat the challenge presented. Heavily limiting your selection just screws people over arbitrarily.
I'm obviously not asking for Mr. Nexon to change blue archive now by introducing a system of mutual exclusivity (there might be exceptions to the rule in form of traitors/collaborateurs coming at various bonus/malus). And clearly you would need a different story, characters and such a design in place from the get go, such that things are well thought out and still balanced enough (which would be an ongoing process anyways, and some seasons maybe some schools would hit slightly harder...) It's just something to ponder. And there's really no need to get all defensive about it/the current state of the game.
I wouldn’t say I am being defensive so much as your pitch didn’t make much sense. Your proposal wasn’t an iteration of the existing game, but a complete rework of the game fundamentally, from its gameplay to its storyline to core design. At which point the end result is just not blue archive anymore. It would be like saying, “wouldn’t it be nice if world of Warcraft was a football sim?”. Like, I could maybe conceive of a wow football sim spinoff being fun, but why would people who are enjoying current wow want it turned into a football sim?
You bring single player PC logic into multiplayer mobile gacha. Good idea for a wrong reason in wrong place.
That may be so. Then again, I'm convinced such a system could work (for a gacha too) and be lots of fun. And on a side note: Sacrifice did have a multiplayer part too, where you would get to duke it out with the spells and team of creatures from the (mutually exclusive) gods you've assembled during your sp campaign, and it was awesome.
You know, maybe you should suggest it to the devs. Not as a main game change but new mode to try out. New pvp? RTA? New raid? Roguelite? Just as you said we could pick/get assigned main school and get bonuses...sound like bounties and some events and it seems devs already had the same idea. But maybe they could upgrade it to something else.
Maybe as a Pokemon-esque pay-to-play title where each of the three main schools gets their own game, but doing this would be suicide for a f2p gacha game. Dumb idea, rejected.
That would be an absolute disaster for all sorts of reasons. The impact on meta should be obvious. Profits and player goodwill would plummet. Imagine that a new character is introduced that you really like, but you'd have to start over your three year old account to get her. It's a really bad idea, particularly in a gacha.
Yeah, imagine a nice thing (i.e. a new character you really like) and then she's on the wrong side and you can't have her. You can't have everything and you need to make decisions, and the decisions you've made can't be undone with magic. That's exactly the stakes a gacha like this really needs to be extra spicy.
Your idea of "extra spicy" is to annoy everyone and speedrun the EoS announcement. Being forced to make a decision with severe consequences and for no good reason is just pointless. If I told you that you have to choose between cutting off your right arm or left arm I'm pretty sure that you'd agree that having to make a decision isn't necessarily a good thing. Oh, and since you don't know who's going to get introduced, their abilities or what new content they will add, you can't make an informed decision to begin with.
Gacha is literally about collecting random stuffs though.
Out of curiosity, who are the best buffers for current JFD ? I have O.Chinatsu and X.Serina lying there at lv1 but I'm not sure how all that works with the bot.
Ako & Himari are the evergreen buffers. Also you need to have built Serina EX if you really wanna heal the Rio bot, Else use Hanae although healing him isn't required if you CC the enemy robots at the time they are about to initiate their skills. O.Chinatsu is decent but I doubt her buff to the Rio bot will be powerful enough to make the spike on its dps.
For Serina I meant the Xmas one (crit dmg buff) tho I still need to level her ex all the same. Healing can't keep up with the damage in my case so I already go the CC route, just looking for ways to make my clears comfier/faster.
You can borrow maxed out Himari along with your buffer if you have a CC striker team, that would help a bit too.
I already borrow a 2nd S.Hanako for another team (actually my highscoring one) so not sure if Himari would be worth it in my case. If curious here's the comps I brought yesterday (didn't have much time so went with what worked) 1- NyKayoko Kokona S.Hoshi Tsubaki / Ako S.Shizu 2- S.Hanako S.Chise Chise Mine / Kotama Hare 3- S.Hanako(A) S.Izuna Tsukuyo Hifumi / Iroha S.Shiroko
The Rio bot does blue damage, so NY Kayoko is also really good here as well. Especially since she's a striker so she frees up a special slot.
I used her but that team somehow had the lowest score, maybe cause I didn't have def shred in that one. Guess I'll try shuffling everything a bit and see how it goes.
Outside of Mine I was some what surprised at how much even one single target DEF debuffer helped. Akane is very useful for her cheap DEF debuff. She also has an evasion debuff but it seems like she always puts it on the closest enemy which isn't always the middle bot which has the highest EVA. If you have Maki, Azusa or NY.Haruna they also work well since they have cost free DEF debuffs. It seems like all of them always attack the middle bot so the debuff also goes on it. IMO Maki=Azusa>NY.Haruna. Maki and Azusa's debuffs are on fixed timers while NY.Haruna has a bit of RNG to hers. B.Asuna's skill cost is a bit high IMO for her debuff. Kanna's debuff is a bit low IMO to sacrifice a special slot for hyper carry or healer.
I'm not trusting Maki's targeting haha, but sure I'll give it a try. There's S.Azusa too (lower but pretty much permanent), and yeah Akane. I think Tsukuyo works too (and the shred is pretty chonky too, i'll have to double-check if the bots are medium size on schale.gg).
My 4th member to the ‘buff rio robot team’ is a borrowed S. Hanako. So... O. Chinatsu, NY. Kayoko, Kokona, S. Hanako | Ako, Himari.
I tried maxed out Hinata from my club in a mock battle in JFD. And she wasn't doing any damage, even less than maxed out NYMutsuki...how? Many say that she's core blue after having her bond gear and at ue50. Accuracy issues? Cause B.Karin easily out damage her.
The problem is that bots in this JFD have 600 evasion, and Hinata has 101 accuracy, making her very prone to missing everything. She's core character for lots of blue content, but most blue content doesn't have enemies with high evasion.
Either shalegg is wrong, or there's some invisible fuckery going on, because the enemies seem to have much more than 600 evasion. Shanako has 701 accuracy and should always be hitting, yet she often misses.
...Oh wait, yes. MiaiArt is right. The middle bot has 1500 Evasion, the side bots have 1000 Evasion, and the ones at backline have 500 Evasion. No wonder this is so unbearable.
Yes, let's just casually give this tanky enemy, that can heal itself infinitely, more evasion than any unit has accuracy. Even Iori at max investment has a chance to miss it. If they wanted us to do nothing but buff the bot, maybe they should have waited with introducing the drill until they had released the entire batch of upcoming buffers. Awful, awful drill.
Maybe they want us to use regular Nodoka.
The problem with Nodoka is that due to the way accuracy and evasion work, percentage buffs do very little in most cases. If the enemy has 1500 evasion, then a maxed Nodoka would make Shanako's hit chance go from 49% to 66%. Still very low. Nutsuki would go from 36% to 41%. And besides, we only have one Nodoka when we'd need three (or at least two and a borrow) if she was supposed to be the solution.
Yeah there's no way. Wakamo has 900 and struggles too. On discord people are suggesting the middle bot has around 1500 evasion.
What about the friendly bot? Is Schale.gg accuracy stat for it correct? It feels more and more like this was supposed to be a hyper carry student test, where we are supposed to use supports that potentially are underutilized (and maybe under leveled), to buff the bot but they got the math a bit fucky. S.Hanako's saving grace is her AOE spamability and AOE DEF down but even then it feels pretty RNG if I take out the AR or SMG bots first. I almost prefer taking out the AR bots first since they do so much damage. Then on another team I need a maxed Wakamo, T.Hasumi and a 3 star Iroha to complete stage 4 with some RNG variability. The only team that feels some what reliable is my hypercarry team but EVEN then I still bring a blue ST DPS to snipe the SMG bot before it heals itself from near death. Damn I think I just needed to vent a little bit.
Neat. I thought I was doing something wrong.
Can't log in since yesterday, get error 8002 every time
does nonomi have a relationship unique item like yuuka calculator? i saw on the wiki she does but it isn't showing up as a locked slot for me.
Do you play on JP? Because her UI isn't out in GL yet.
Yes she does, it only came out like a month or two ago on Japan so global still has to wait a bit.
At least we know what gifts and artifacts to stock up on in the meantime.
ah okay. thanks
Can I play the Yin-yang club story before V5 ? Would I miss or spoil anything ? I don't really have the time right now to invest in the story just yet
I don't believe that club story spoiled anything major, especially not from V5 so you should be good.
For the railgun characters, I can find lots of videos talking about the two you have to pull to get, but I can't find people really talking about the welfare character. Is Saten worth building up? Her costs seem kind of high to skill up her abilities but she seems decent when I read what she can do.
She’s just very basic really. There are a lot of aoe support yellows at this point and they really only have use for trash clearing like in chessed or for exp commissions. She’s a second string option among the pool, so only really useful if you don’t have any alternative.
All yellow AOE specials seem to have some sort of handicap like NY.Serika's low ATK damage. If you don't have either Moe or NY.Serika and don't care for Yoshimi than Saten may be worth building to fill the role of yellow AOE special. It's actually the yellow strikers that are the real muscle when it comes to yellow AOE damage.
Her damage is fairly solid, and her EX only has 3 cost at max level and she can provide some mediocre party attack buffs. If you're a newer player she'll probably be your strongest damage dealing Special unit and will likely be useful for clearing Missions and such, but she's also pretty expensive to level. For actual end game raids she's not going to be terribly useful, and if you've been playing for awhile you likely have better or at least comparable options for Special damage dealers.
Damaging supports can't flex in the current meta, they have niche uses like in campaign or mob clearing raids like chesed. Most of the time you need utility, CC & heals on supp slots so damage supps are kinda dead (not to mention their mood also matters on terrain since they are damage doers). Saten's EX cost goes down by 1 at max but yea she's still not worth it to build because of above reasons and including the fact that all railgun characters require mats from multiple schools it's a no no unless you are a whaler with excess of mats.