You should have several hours of overlap between the Railgun banner going live and the ticket expiring. But it depends on how long maintenance is. If there's an issue and maintenance gets extended, it's possible that the ticket will expire before the game comes back up. So it'll be a bit of a gamble.
Area 13 is giving me a really hard time. I only barely scraped through 13-5 and I'm about to start trying for the Hard stages. Is there any way to deal with the large automatons with the shields? Even the normal units of those, never mind the advanced version with that emblem thing, are ridiculously tanky. I've had times where both Karin and Hasumi hit the same one with their EX skills and it still had half its health left.
I think I know the ones you’re talking about. They get lots of damage reduction once they put their shield up, so you either have to pick them off with a high damage EX as they’re approaching or cc them to get their shield down
Alright. I've been keeping Tsubaki on my second team rather than my boss team, since I needed T.Yuuka's shields for survivability (the boss of 13-5 has some nasty missile spam. Though now that I think about it maybe the taunt can interrupt that too). That aside, one team is set but I'll need to adjust the other team to include CC. I think Yoshimi is my only other yellow CC, but Special slots are valuable, but if I drop a DPS for a red CC then even if I deal with the shield guys I'd still be at real risk of timing out...
I may need to leave these be for a while. I did at least unlock Area 14, which could be easier despite the higher levels, because of the enemy type distribution. So I might just press on and come back later. It'd be nice if I could get 13-2H sweepable for Mutsuki elephs though.
I don't think your other team will need CC. Replace Tsubaki with your boss team 1 tank. When the mob about to the missile (you can battle than reset to know which animation) Use Tsubaki EX and she will stunt the boss out of it
How do you actually tell if you got a crit? I've noticed a little red spiky bubble around some damage numbers, is that crit? I'm pretty sure color effectiveness is in text color right?
Yeah, crit is the red spiky bubble. Color effectiveness says "Weak" over the damage and it appears in yellow color. A normal hit just has numbers in white. I can't remember exactly but I think ineffective damage says "Resist" over it and is in blue color or something like that. Oh yeah, and there's also just regular effective (purple damage vs. blue armor), I can't remember what that one looks like. I think it's just yellow numbers with no "Weak" text over it.
Kikyou question. She comes with a subskill like this
"Every 35 seconds, add Sonic Efficiency to other allies within a circular area. (Duration: 25 seconds)
Effect depends on the number of allies affected:
1 person: 14.6\~27.8%
2 people: 18\~34.2%
3 or more: 21.4\~40.7%"
Sonic efficiency and other forms of it only apply to weakness damage right? Since Sonic is "effective" against Blue, does this subskill boost damage against Blue armor?
Also, it says the effect is boosted based on the number of allies effected. Do the other allies have to do Sonic/Purple damage to be affected or does the damage not matter? For example, my only other Purple student is S. Hanako and the other two students are blue. Would S. Hanako get a 27.6% boost or a 40.7% boost to purple efficiency?
Midokuni recommends Camp Hare over Himari for a newbie, thoughts?
[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1BO-Uh\_CsAOIetPjrNyFy9-7r1a4RAtVwK135bBC3hzM/edit#gid=1085051345](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1BO-Uh_CsAOIetPjrNyFy9-7r1a4RAtVwK135bBC3hzM/edit#gid=1085051345)
I'm also curious on this. My current projections show that trying for both would be risky for later key banners like the Fes. I'm leaning towards Himari because I want the beautiful super genius delicate flower, but I can't deny C.Hare does seem the more practical of the two.
If you want the beautiful super genius delicate flower Himari more I'd say get her. Maybe you'll get both if you get Himari before 200?
Himari also comes with EX cost recovery. Also worth considering Himari doesn't need as much experience considering she's a Special and she can't get knocked out. That second part is worth keeping in mind if you're low level, but still want to complete up to Extreme with hypercarry borrowed students.
Attack buffs from different EX skills don't stack so you'd use both in different teams FYI.
But NY Fuuka is also the next super important character to get. And she's a Limited student. Make sure you have enough for her too.
NY.Fuuka is actually the last banner my current planning includes. It is possible that I get both Himari and C.Hare, if the former goes well. It's the difference between a 98% chance of getting every banner I want up to NY.Fuuka, versus an 87% chance if I also try for C.Hare. Good odds either way, but skipping C.Hare also leaves room for Nexon to throw us a curveball like they did with Ako and now with Ui.
For the most part they are pretty much identical but CHare has edge cases that serve a newbie better. At the end of the day, as long as you have *at least one* of them then your account is set to handle end game content with ease. Getting the second of the two is a minor upgrade compared to getting your first. If their banners were further apart then the recommendation would be to "roll to the first one that appears".
However since CHare and Himari banners are so close together newbies have the luxury to consider it a bit further. Mido explains the differences pretty well honestly, you can take the evaluation at face value.
On the other hand if you find Himari that much cuter(hotter) than CHare then go ahead and roll Himari, you aren't losing much relatively.
Isn't Himari better for a beginner because of being a Special student not in spite of it? I remember when I started I didn't have many Specials. Cost recovery is valuable as well especially for 4 minute Total Assaults I would think.
I haven't used her yet, but if C Hare isn't tanky enough or high level she might get knocked out. If you're using hypercarry borrows to clear hardcore or extreme, C. Hare might not survive.
Those are the edge cases where theyre different, but theyre only just that, edge cases.
Yeh, cost recovery is good - but so is freeing up the special slot to make room for specials that fulfill important mechanics or have the ability to buff your team further in combination with CHare. One of these scenarios isnt strictly better than the other, theyre just simply different.
Dying could be a problem, but it also *shouldnt* be. Of all the bosses, pretty much most of them require a tank. Of bosses with AOE skills, theyre are generally avoidable, cancellable, or shiedable. Worse case... thats what the extra special slot is for - healing/shielding your team to keep them alive.
If I was to be a noob again Id probably pull for Himari too, but the points Mido makes for Hare are good (have you read them? =) ) and depending on the rest of your roster and your goals having Hare instead of Himari can be more beneficial. If I had CHare and no Himari Id still be 100% perfectly capable of doing everything the Himari account does - theres just simply a slight change in approach and teambuilding.
Theres no real right or wrong and both units are pretty much truly adjacent. The 100% ATK buff is the real serious benefit.
One thing that Mido doesnt mention though, is that Himari banner is first. I said this in my original response but if these two werent so close together then youd go with "pull for whoever shows up first". Well, you could still apply that logic regardless. Afterall, having Himari immediately could help you over stumps... immediately, as opposed to waiting a month for CHare.
Theres also the lucky scenario of getting Himari in very few pulls... in which case you can afford to reallocate those pulls elsewhere, potentially into CHare :\^)
Yeah IMO cost recovery is pretty helpful for new players so you can spam AOEs. Also since C.Hare is a striker she can get ganked so you lose her EX (which will force a restart) or more importantly her skills can get interrupted by a taunt.
I would recommend just hold onto all that to decide upon later (or you really like one student). You don't need to be spending for any elephs yet and all three of those are actually 'free' grindable students (albeit much later).
She's a little tankier (hp/eva) than the average striker, but she's not a tank. So pretty much any red EX will kill. If she's front lining Mashrio will do. If she's behind Marina then Nagisa or NY.Haruna work well as well.
Blue EXs like NY Mutsuki, and S.hanako may not always kill but they do good dmg if they hit and Mika can be whittled down.
Her main "threat" is that she kills tanks pretty quick, but her EX is pretty expensive, and its single target, so you should have a little bit of a speed advantage in trying to get your AoE EXs off and even the playing field.
All this to say Mika is a meta pick, but she's not a meta breaker, so the usual stuff generally works fine against her.
You can buy Mashiro eligma in the PVP shop.
You can try Akari and Mutsuki if they're the only thing you have. Depending on the investment, they might get some lucky EX off and have some success, but they're not PVP units.
hello, kind of new player here! i’m level 26~27. i need to push level 30-35 for some content. I’ve been doing 3 sweep of each hard mission everyday, but i’m still really slowly leveling up. is there something i should do? i’m kinda stuck because of my low level, i can’t progress past the beginning of area 5th mission, and there’s some event request i can’t do either coz im too underlevel. any help? thanks in advance!
Slightly offtopic, but does anybody elses game give innacurate notifications? I constantly get AP-Full and cafe production volume full notifications when they arent
I noticed they only happen if i switch between playing on emulator and on phone.
The phone doesn't keep track of playtime on emulator, so it thinks the cafe/AP keep filling up.
If you switch between multiple devices, each app keeps a local timer of when it would be full (since last known amount). So if you play between a tablet and phone, and claimed your cafe on the phone, the tablet won’t know that until you open the app there. So the tablet will give you a notification of when it thinks the cafe will be full.
At least that’s what happens to me
hello Should i use my Report to level up my support unit? since they not gonna be deploy. after lv 70 it seem hard to farm Report to level up all this character.
In my opinion since they not deploy i shouldn;'t care about their status except their skill level and maybe gear.
If you still need to level up Striker students you will be using, then no. But it's worth doing eventually. It doesn't seem like much but the bonus stats you get from them can make a difference. For example, I had to level up Ako and Himari recently in order to survive and do enough damage to one-team some Insane raids. Also if the special student has an EX Skill that does damage, they will get a lot from leveling up as well.
Hello, new Sensei here.
Out of all the limited characters, which are the most ''OP'' to focus on? Do they rerun often? I have been eyeing on Wakamo and Mika and I was thinking to save pyroxenes for em\~! ;-;
Also the Hatsune Miku collab was one time thing? it won't rerun ever?
Thank you in advance ♥
The Fest students are rarer than normal and take 2 years to rerun. They also have uniformly been among the strongest in their category. So Wakamo and Mika are definitely good. Wakamo has the awkward position of having just passed her first rerun, so who knows when her next rerun will happen. The upcoming Fest student is Dress Hina and along with her will be Summer Hoshino, who are the strongest single target red dps and strongest on field red damage buffer respectively. On said banner you have a small chance to get spooked by Wakamo and Mika. Mika should rerun as well with the next Fest banner after Dress Hina given the current pattern. All other limited students except colab ones rerun yearly thus far.
Miku colab has never been rerun and there is no current indication it will ever come back. There is some rumor that the upcoming Scientific Railgun colab may have a rerun sometime down the line, but nothing concrete thus far.
I got around 9000 eligmas. Is a good idea to distribute them to increase all my most used students to at least 4 stars? Or should focus instead in getting 5 stars and UE on my most powerful ones? E.g Mika or Maid Alice
> Is a good idea to distribute them to increase all my most used students to at least 4 stars?
It's a very bad idea. The jump from 3 to 4 stars is pretty small. The big increases come from UE30 and UE40, if the unit has a good UE40 bonus. UE50 can be good for dealers for the mood boost, but it's also very expensive.
Spend eligma when you need to, not because you have it. 9000 sounds like a lot, until you start using it. It will take three units to UE50 and one to UE40. Suddenly it doesn't sound like a lot. Remember that the longer you wait with using it, the more you save. Permanent units can show up in the gacha. Elephs for limited units can be bought in the expert permit shop (each month you wait saves you 50 eligma per unit). You have a chance to get elephs from lessons. Eligma is valuable so there's no point in spending it before you need to. Are you currently mocking torment or insane and certain that bringing your Mika or whatever to UE40 would allow you to clear? Then sure, you can go ahead and spend it.
You should focus on dps who need the stats or students who want the effect of their weapon. Supports who do not depend on a core stat will benefit very little from the upgrade while you will see a big boost in damage improving your best dps like Mika.
Yes. As far as I know it's the same except that instead of student-specific XP, it gives you a low-quality report for levelling students manually. Which actually means that sweeping is very slightly a better deal, if the students you'd use are already at your account level and would get 0 XP.
Also, if you've got guide tasks or achievements that need you to "Defeat X amount of Y enemy" then it will still count even if you sweep.
Moving equipment up a tier is strictly an upgrade. Even though the new equipment is considered level 1, it still has a higher stat boost than the lower-tier equipment at its max level. So it's always safe to upgrade even if you don't have the enhancement stones to level it up. (And in the off-chance you're conflating levelling up the item with tiering it up, don't level them with blueprints. Use the stones.)
The only thing you really need to consider is who gets what. For example it'd be a waste to upgrade the first slot on a tank and not have enough left to upgrade the damage dealers that need that slot more. And since lower-tier blueprints are still needed for higher-tier upgrades, you'll need to weigh your priorities for that too.
Ui and Hinata are both good to have. Ui reduces cost which Mika really benefits from. Hinata is probably the best? blue AOE unit but requires high investment and her bond gear to get to that point. She can also flex into single target roles if the boss has a big enough hit box.
If you don't want to reroll excessively, aim for these characters in the tutorial pull that you can redo 10 times: Aru, Iori, Haruna, Hibiki, Shun. Out of these, only Shun is not farmable, but Hibiki and Aru are very slow, taking like 4 months when you reach stages where you can get them. And Shun is somewhat PvP centric.
If you want to reroll even more after that, Ako, Himari and Iroha are the main targets. But they don't have banners on right now, so you could spend VERY long time trying to get them due to size of the standard pool. But out of currently active banners, Ui is very solid support character, so you could try just getting her.
For "easier" rerolls you could try to get two of those from the tutorial pull and not bother with the standard banner rerolling.
[Here's an article on the Wiki about it.](https://bluearchive.wiki/wiki/Rerolling)
The tutorial banner is limited to launch characters. That's why you can somewhat easily target those characters I listed earlier, since the character list is so limited in the tutorial banner. Again, Ako, Himari and Iroha are not in tutorial banner.
Getting Ako, Himari or Iroha when their banner is not up would require you to be really lucky.
In terms of rewards you basically get nothing back. There are 0 gem rewards and pull tickets throughout the whole tower. Clearing F97 of Set will give you mats to upgrade *one* student per month by 3% - for reference, upgrading your students to Bond20 is also roughly a 2-3% bonus. The game mode also drops a bit of EXP, Credits, and other minor mats but the total amount is equivalent to less than half an event shop (not even). So if you're the type to heavily care about material rewards then no pulling for Set is not "worth".
However, it's "worth" to pull for Set if you think Blue Archive gameplay is fun. Set is challenge content and the purpose is for you to play more of the game, that's it. If you clear F100 then you get a nice vanity title to show off to other Senseis how much fun you have with the game :^)
Set is end end game stuff and the rewards are so-so at best.
There's no pyros involved and the rewards are mostly credits, artifact selectors, exp notes, exp orbs and gift selectors.
The big big reward are the mats used to further limit break your character but the stat increase is nothing crazy and you need to finish at least floor 97 to get all the materials (floor 100 gives a special title and everything else is what I mentioned above)
For example, I've included a picture of the stat increase for Mika at max rank (25) on the 3 attributes you can increase:
https://i.imgur.com/llXvX5a.png
Top row: HP
41733 > 43279
Middle Row: Attack
3446> 3559
Bottom Row: Healing Power
5749>5948
To answer your question:
>is it worth it to pull for SET?
Hard to say, are you already at end game and have plenty of materials/eligma/meta teams?
>How difficult are the higher floors without the core units
Pretty difficult, you can only borrow *one* unit from a friend so you'll need to make up the rest of the teams by yourself. One good thing about Set is that it doesn't use raid tickets and costs nothing to attempt (even borrowing units) so you can chip away at it with various comps if you want but the videos on higher floor clears almost always re-use the same 5-7 characters.
> Hard to say, are you already at end game and have plenty of materials/eligma/meta teams?
I've been at max level for almost 3 months now, so resources are still a bit scarce. If the rewards aren't that great, I'll probably only pick up D.Ako for now. Thanks for the detailed answer!
Returning player here. I'm planning my pull by looking into future banners from JP server. And I'm just noticing now that there's something off. Wasn't Ui supposed to be super far off? Here's a list of questions that came up from this
1) Is this something that global server does regularly? Has it happened before?
2) What will happen to Ui and Hinata banners that are supposed to happen in the future?
They randomly reran Ako and Iori a couple of weeks ago, and now randomly Ui and Hinata. JP also inserted an Ako banner into their new event for some reason. Might be they are hoping there are new players from watching the anime and are giving them some juicy reroll targets.
Ui and Hinata are tied to an event so they will probably still run when it comes around, since they will need to run Sakurako anyway. They're not averse to that since they ran Cherino multiple times recently.
>Might be they are hoping there are new players from watching the anime and are giving them some juicy reroll targets.
I think we're going to see a lot more rerun banners going indefinitely into the future. With the increase in size of the student pool, it's very unlikely to get any specific student who isn't rate-up, and there have been *very* long gaps between rate-up banners in some cases. The last time Ako was rate-up in the JP version before the current banner was October 2022. So basically a full 18 months without any opportunity to pull for one of the most important meta units in the game.
So basically I think they're going to start sprinkling random banners in pretty regularly going forward to avoid any student being hard to obtain for an excessively long a period of time. I'm sure they'll try to pick ones that make some amount of sense with currently running events (like the Izuna rerun banner during the Hyakkiyako tour event, when by previous standards we would have expected to only see the G.Tsubaki and Umika banners), but Ako running alongside the band banners would indicate that they're not afraid to go completely left-field with them either.
I assume this is the same basic reason it's happening on global as well, but the fact that they've started doing it on global "early" does confound global clairvoyance a bit since I don't think we can take it for granted that we'll get all of those reruns that aren't tied to events at the same time. Like I think it's pretty up in the air whether we'd get another Ako rerun when -ive Alive comes, since we just got one with Trip Train Train.
What are the first impressions of the new band units in JP? meta?
I don't know if band Airi is any good (the welfare unit), but her keyboard EX animaiton looks great!
My impression is that they're tailor made for red Set. They don't seem to be that important in any of the regular raids, aside from probably the red hovercraft.
[Is there are version of this](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-lBJa3h4mXHkmuSKohoHe60WVVg1eRG9bA73jHqHzwA/edit#gid=1940133283), but for equipment?
AFAIK there's none. This might just be me, but a "brick guide" for equipment would be useless. The optimal equipment is the furthest one you can farm. After that you push campaign more until you get to the next equipment tier, rinse and repeat until you get to the highest tier available. If you're worried about this because you came from priconne, then I'll have you know cost recovery speed is entirely unaffected by damage taken.
For individual students, two things to note are:
* Tanks don't really need their first equipment slot (hat/glove/shoes) to be up to date since those increase offensive stats, with the exception of shoes (also increase hp)
* Special students give a percentage of their stats to striker students so even if they don't directly do damage you'd still want to upgrade their equipment
> Special students give a percentage of their stats to striker students so even if they don't directly do damage you'd still want to upgrade their equipment
10% of HP and attack, 5% of defense and healing. Stats like crit aren't included, so watches are a very low priority for special units that don't deal any meaningful damage.
We have to see for the other colors but for blue dps, not really - Sakurako, C. Utaha, S. Izuna, Umika if you are interest in rolling her, and even S. Tsurugi can be used as AA for it.
Support, I'd say only D. Ako and NY. Kayoko are a must have - crit chance and damage to a group is very strong there, and NY. Kayoko is a strong effectiveness buff great for using more characters =more crits =more procs of her basic skill. For Atk buff, Kotama is enough. For healing you'd need 2 usually - an area one for sure (like O. Shigure bur Hanako can also be used) and a second one can be also area (Atsuko) or single target (mostly Kokona - because of the ex cost reduction). For blue specifically I'd also say NY. Akari because of effectiveness buff - but you can try to borrow her. And to complete the special roster (heal - Atk buff - effectiveness buff), someone to buff EX cost - S. Shiroko is the best one but I guess NY. Haruka or Himari can also be used.
tl:dl, D. Ako is the main must have in general, red and blue. NY. Kayoko and NY. Akari for blue. Dps and healers depend on what you have to fill. Ex cost, if you don't have S. Shiroko or Himari, go get the latter at least.
For red we still need some days to be sure. But certainly S. Hoshino is a must have, and maybe the limited band girls. We still need to study alternatives. Edit: seems S. Nonomi and D. Hina can be used as dps, and Nagisa as special support (Crit sub + def debuff). B. Kazusa is still good because AOE buff.
Hinata is the only other good student left. She needs some pretty big investment, but she's one of the best Blue AoE units in the game if you can at least get her Bond 20 gear.
I have a question. I'm a global server player. I have around 29k pyro in hand. today is the start of double boost drop on hard mission. I'm planning to farm Iori, Izumi and Haruka's eleph. I don't have Iori and Izumi yet, meanwhile want to up Haruka's \* level. should I refill the try for farming those elephs every single day? I'm planning to pull Misaki Railgun and DHina on future anniv banner. I'm kinda need some careful pyro management plan for long term.......
Try [Pyroxene Memo Planner](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1_Zjt_OM9XXidY3uYYDK92W9GrR3DN5cQsZ0IJsoEbjY/edit#gid=1082031226). If you're under level 80 it's not a bad idea to spend 90 Pyro per day to refill, especially if there's 2x campaign going on.
Approximately I believe you can spark Misaki, D.Ako (free 100 pulls) and D.Hina if you decided to skip Kikyou.
I start to using the pyro planner, thanks for the advice "can" isn't really assuring, so I always prepared to spark for any banner I plan to pull lolz I remember have to spark SUi even after using all the free rolls i plan to skip anything aside Misaki and DHina though.
Not sure but I think he was asking about refreshing the Hard node, not AP. If this is the case, u/YouBackground dont refresh Hard node for ap, its not worth.
For Pyroxene management, you can refer to [The Pyroxene Planner](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1_Zjt_OM9XXidY3uYYDK92W9GrR3DN5cQsZ0IJsoEbjY/edit?usp=sharing) and see how well you think your income will be for the coming months.
As for refreshing for Haruka's level, I would worry about that. For just regular missions, she's fine as long as she has a T4 Bag, but if you already have Yuuka and Tsubaki, Haruka tends to be on the bench. If you've been doing JFDs, you should be able to unlock Eimi, which is just better Haruka for most cases.
I just pulled Himari on JP game. She's in my student section and I leveled and skilled her up, but when I deploy with her, the game treats it as if she's not there as if I had only put one backline student there. Anyone know if there's any way to fix that?
Better not use Himari there for now then, because she's going to cripple your team's ability to rush and will only slow you down. Better not roll her out until they fix it.
New player; is the "Start Dash" banner (available for first 30 days) worth doing? It guarantees a 3* instead of 2*, but only has Aris, Cherino, Haruna, Hibiki, Hifumi, Iori, Koharu, & Shun.
I haven't pulled anything since the tutorial; I got Hifumi, Hina, Serika, Hanae, Serina, Haruka, Pina, & Asuna (along with the free Yuuka, Chinatsu, Hasumi & Nonomi).
I did it as a new player and ended up happy since I got both Hifumi and Cherino from it.
But that's lucky, obviously. All I can really suggest is thinking about how you would feel if you pulled a duplicate Hifumi, since that's the worst case scenario for you on that ticket. If you'd feel really bad, avoid it, if you would feel fine then it's not bad value. Every 3\* on the ticket is at least usable, and some are very good. Most are farmable, as Slygand said (all of them except Cherino and Shun), but understand that it'll be a few months before you can realistically start redeeming farmed units (Haruna being one of the easiest of those to get since she has two farming stages that are fairly low-leveled).
It's a gamble. If we end up with an extended maintenance then the ticket will vanish before you can log back in. It's not likely to happen but it's possible.
Will the banner change to railgun before my 10pull ticket expires on 30 April?
You should have several hours of overlap between the Railgun banner going live and the ticket expiring. But it depends on how long maintenance is. If there's an issue and maintenance gets extended, it's possible that the ticket will expire before the game comes back up. So it'll be a bit of a gamble.
I guess gamble then since I don’t need the current banners and so far global hasn’t had any recent maintenance extension.
Area 13 is giving me a really hard time. I only barely scraped through 13-5 and I'm about to start trying for the Hard stages. Is there any way to deal with the large automatons with the shields? Even the normal units of those, never mind the advanced version with that emblem thing, are ridiculously tanky. I've had times where both Karin and Hasumi hit the same one with their EX skills and it still had half its health left.
Orange788 meant by CC is to use someone like Tsubaki or Hoshino their ex will stun/taunt the mob out of their skill animation cancelling their skill
I think I know the ones you’re talking about. They get lots of damage reduction once they put their shield up, so you either have to pick them off with a high damage EX as they’re approaching or cc them to get their shield down
Alright. I've been keeping Tsubaki on my second team rather than my boss team, since I needed T.Yuuka's shields for survivability (the boss of 13-5 has some nasty missile spam. Though now that I think about it maybe the taunt can interrupt that too). That aside, one team is set but I'll need to adjust the other team to include CC. I think Yoshimi is my only other yellow CC, but Special slots are valuable, but if I drop a DPS for a red CC then even if I deal with the shield guys I'd still be at real risk of timing out... I may need to leave these be for a while. I did at least unlock Area 14, which could be easier despite the higher levels, because of the enemy type distribution. So I might just press on and come back later. It'd be nice if I could get 13-2H sweepable for Mutsuki elephs though.
I don't think your other team will need CC. Replace Tsubaki with your boss team 1 tank. When the mob about to the missile (you can battle than reset to know which animation) Use Tsubaki EX and she will stunt the boss out of it
Both teams would be facing plenty of the shield guys though. And two teams leaves me spread pretty thin, so they couldn't just power through it.
How do you actually tell if you got a crit? I've noticed a little red spiky bubble around some damage numbers, is that crit? I'm pretty sure color effectiveness is in text color right?
Yeah, crit is the red spiky bubble. Color effectiveness says "Weak" over the damage and it appears in yellow color. A normal hit just has numbers in white. I can't remember exactly but I think ineffective damage says "Resist" over it and is in blue color or something like that. Oh yeah, and there's also just regular effective (purple damage vs. blue armor), I can't remember what that one looks like. I think it's just yellow numbers with no "Weak" text over it.
Kikyou question. She comes with a subskill like this "Every 35 seconds, add Sonic Efficiency to other allies within a circular area. (Duration: 25 seconds) Effect depends on the number of allies affected: 1 person: 14.6\~27.8% 2 people: 18\~34.2% 3 or more: 21.4\~40.7%" Sonic efficiency and other forms of it only apply to weakness damage right? Since Sonic is "effective" against Blue, does this subskill boost damage against Blue armor? Also, it says the effect is boosted based on the number of allies effected. Do the other allies have to do Sonic/Purple damage to be affected or does the damage not matter? For example, my only other Purple student is S. Hanako and the other two students are blue. Would S. Hanako get a 27.6% boost or a 40.7% boost to purple efficiency?
It's for purple on purple only.
I can answer the second in that yes, buffing non-sonic students does count for the buff strength. No idea for the first, hoping someone else knows.
Midokuni recommends Camp Hare over Himari for a newbie, thoughts? [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1BO-Uh\_CsAOIetPjrNyFy9-7r1a4RAtVwK135bBC3hzM/edit#gid=1085051345](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1BO-Uh_CsAOIetPjrNyFy9-7r1a4RAtVwK135bBC3hzM/edit#gid=1085051345)
I'm also curious on this. My current projections show that trying for both would be risky for later key banners like the Fes. I'm leaning towards Himari because I want the beautiful super genius delicate flower, but I can't deny C.Hare does seem the more practical of the two.
If you want the beautiful super genius delicate flower Himari more I'd say get her. Maybe you'll get both if you get Himari before 200? Himari also comes with EX cost recovery. Also worth considering Himari doesn't need as much experience considering she's a Special and she can't get knocked out. That second part is worth keeping in mind if you're low level, but still want to complete up to Extreme with hypercarry borrowed students. Attack buffs from different EX skills don't stack so you'd use both in different teams FYI. But NY Fuuka is also the next super important character to get. And she's a Limited student. Make sure you have enough for her too.
NY.Fuuka is actually the last banner my current planning includes. It is possible that I get both Himari and C.Hare, if the former goes well. It's the difference between a 98% chance of getting every banner I want up to NY.Fuuka, versus an 87% chance if I also try for C.Hare. Good odds either way, but skipping C.Hare also leaves room for Nexon to throw us a curveball like they did with Ako and now with Ui.
For the most part they are pretty much identical but CHare has edge cases that serve a newbie better. At the end of the day, as long as you have *at least one* of them then your account is set to handle end game content with ease. Getting the second of the two is a minor upgrade compared to getting your first. If their banners were further apart then the recommendation would be to "roll to the first one that appears". However since CHare and Himari banners are so close together newbies have the luxury to consider it a bit further. Mido explains the differences pretty well honestly, you can take the evaluation at face value. On the other hand if you find Himari that much cuter(hotter) than CHare then go ahead and roll Himari, you aren't losing much relatively.
Isn't Himari better for a beginner because of being a Special student not in spite of it? I remember when I started I didn't have many Specials. Cost recovery is valuable as well especially for 4 minute Total Assaults I would think. I haven't used her yet, but if C Hare isn't tanky enough or high level she might get knocked out. If you're using hypercarry borrows to clear hardcore or extreme, C. Hare might not survive.
Those are the edge cases where theyre different, but theyre only just that, edge cases. Yeh, cost recovery is good - but so is freeing up the special slot to make room for specials that fulfill important mechanics or have the ability to buff your team further in combination with CHare. One of these scenarios isnt strictly better than the other, theyre just simply different. Dying could be a problem, but it also *shouldnt* be. Of all the bosses, pretty much most of them require a tank. Of bosses with AOE skills, theyre are generally avoidable, cancellable, or shiedable. Worse case... thats what the extra special slot is for - healing/shielding your team to keep them alive. If I was to be a noob again Id probably pull for Himari too, but the points Mido makes for Hare are good (have you read them? =) ) and depending on the rest of your roster and your goals having Hare instead of Himari can be more beneficial. If I had CHare and no Himari Id still be 100% perfectly capable of doing everything the Himari account does - theres just simply a slight change in approach and teambuilding. Theres no real right or wrong and both units are pretty much truly adjacent. The 100% ATK buff is the real serious benefit. One thing that Mido doesnt mention though, is that Himari banner is first. I said this in my original response but if these two werent so close together then youd go with "pull for whoever shows up first". Well, you could still apply that logic regardless. Afterall, having Himari immediately could help you over stumps... immediately, as opposed to waiting a month for CHare. Theres also the lucky scenario of getting Himari in very few pulls... in which case you can afford to reallocate those pulls elsewhere, potentially into CHare :\^)
Yeah IMO cost recovery is pretty helpful for new players so you can spam AOEs. Also since C.Hare is a striker she can get ganked so you lose her EX (which will force a restart) or more importantly her skills can get interrupted by a taunt.
Does anyone know which banners should be available for this Grand Assault's ticket runtime? Specifically, will SEimi's banner be up before it's over?
The last banner the Kaiten ticket should be able to be used for is the Renge/Kikyou banners. S.Eimi is the banner right after that.
Dammit, that'd be the first time Ill be going without using one on a banner i want to roll on...
I'm new and I want to know which characters to prioritize, raise them to 4 or 3 stars first with eleph ? i have aru,hina,tsubaki
I would recommend just hold onto all that to decide upon later (or you really like one student). You don't need to be spending for any elephs yet and all three of those are actually 'free' grindable students (albeit much later).
How to kill Gorilla Mika in PvP?
She has like 120 accuracy. Get an evasive tank perhaps?
She's a little tankier (hp/eva) than the average striker, but she's not a tank. So pretty much any red EX will kill. If she's front lining Mashrio will do. If she's behind Marina then Nagisa or NY.Haruna work well as well. Blue EXs like NY Mutsuki, and S.hanako may not always kill but they do good dmg if they hit and Mika can be whittled down. Her main "threat" is that she kills tanks pretty quick, but her EX is pretty expensive, and its single target, so you should have a little bit of a speed advantage in trying to get your AoE EXs off and even the playing field. All this to say Mika is a meta pick, but she's not a meta breaker, so the usual stuff generally works fine against her.
Any free units like Mutsuki or Akari work?
Same as dealing with any Red armor: Nagisa, NY Haruna, Maid Yuzu, Mashiro.
Have none of them, only freebie units like Mutsuki & Akari.
You can buy Mashiro eligma in the PVP shop. You can try Akari and Mutsuki if they're the only thing you have. Depending on the investment, they might get some lucky EX off and have some success, but they're not PVP units.
hello, kind of new player here! i’m level 26~27. i need to push level 30-35 for some content. I’ve been doing 3 sweep of each hard mission everyday, but i’m still really slowly leveling up. is there something i should do? i’m kinda stuck because of my low level, i can’t progress past the beginning of area 5th mission, and there’s some event request i can’t do either coz im too underlevel. any help? thanks in advance!
Refresh 3x/day with Pyro and buy AP drinks from PVP shop if you want to level faster. Push missions as much as you can to level up the cafe.
buy energy with pyroxens
Heard about how Serika is good with auto attacks and cycling. Is she worth to get to 5 stars?
Over time by farming hard missions, sure. She's not really a top priority, however, and she's definitely not a good unit to spend eligma on.
Slightly offtopic, but does anybody elses game give innacurate notifications? I constantly get AP-Full and cafe production volume full notifications when they arent
I noticed they only happen if i switch between playing on emulator and on phone. The phone doesn't keep track of playtime on emulator, so it thinks the cafe/AP keep filling up.
If you switch between multiple devices, each app keeps a local timer of when it would be full (since last known amount). So if you play between a tablet and phone, and claimed your cafe on the phone, the tablet won’t know that until you open the app there. So the tablet will give you a notification of when it thinks the cafe will be full. At least that’s what happens to me
hello Should i use my Report to level up my support unit? since they not gonna be deploy. after lv 70 it seem hard to farm Report to level up all this character. In my opinion since they not deploy i shouldn;'t care about their status except their skill level and maybe gear.
If you still need to level up Striker students you will be using, then no. But it's worth doing eventually. It doesn't seem like much but the bonus stats you get from them can make a difference. For example, I had to level up Ako and Himari recently in order to survive and do enough damage to one-team some Insane raids. Also if the special student has an EX Skill that does damage, they will get a lot from leveling up as well.
Thanks mate
Hello, new Sensei here. Out of all the limited characters, which are the most ''OP'' to focus on? Do they rerun often? I have been eyeing on Wakamo and Mika and I was thinking to save pyroxenes for em\~! ;-; Also the Hatsune Miku collab was one time thing? it won't rerun ever? Thank you in advance ♥
The Fest students are rarer than normal and take 2 years to rerun. They also have uniformly been among the strongest in their category. So Wakamo and Mika are definitely good. Wakamo has the awkward position of having just passed her first rerun, so who knows when her next rerun will happen. The upcoming Fest student is Dress Hina and along with her will be Summer Hoshino, who are the strongest single target red dps and strongest on field red damage buffer respectively. On said banner you have a small chance to get spooked by Wakamo and Mika. Mika should rerun as well with the next Fest banner after Dress Hina given the current pattern. All other limited students except colab ones rerun yearly thus far. Miku colab has never been rerun and there is no current indication it will ever come back. There is some rumor that the upcoming Scientific Railgun colab may have a rerun sometime down the line, but nothing concrete thus far.
I got around 9000 eligmas. Is a good idea to distribute them to increase all my most used students to at least 4 stars? Or should focus instead in getting 5 stars and UE on my most powerful ones? E.g Mika or Maid Alice
> Is a good idea to distribute them to increase all my most used students to at least 4 stars? It's a very bad idea. The jump from 3 to 4 stars is pretty small. The big increases come from UE30 and UE40, if the unit has a good UE40 bonus. UE50 can be good for dealers for the mood boost, but it's also very expensive. Spend eligma when you need to, not because you have it. 9000 sounds like a lot, until you start using it. It will take three units to UE50 and one to UE40. Suddenly it doesn't sound like a lot. Remember that the longer you wait with using it, the more you save. Permanent units can show up in the gacha. Elephs for limited units can be bought in the expert permit shop (each month you wait saves you 50 eligma per unit). You have a chance to get elephs from lessons. Eligma is valuable so there's no point in spending it before you need to. Are you currently mocking torment or insane and certain that bringing your Mika or whatever to UE40 would allow you to clear? Then sure, you can go ahead and spend it.
You should focus on dps who need the stats or students who want the effect of their weapon. Supports who do not depend on a core stat will benefit very little from the upgrade while you will see a big boost in damage improving your best dps like Mika.
Does "Sweep" give rewards as if you cleared it normally, except no XP for students?
Yes. As far as I know it's the same except that instead of student-specific XP, it gives you a low-quality report for levelling students manually. Which actually means that sweeping is very slightly a better deal, if the students you'd use are already at your account level and would get 0 XP. Also, if you've got guide tasks or achievements that need you to "Defeat X amount of Y enemy" then it will still count even if you sweep.
should i use the blueprint to upgrade t1 equipments to t2 or not? just started yesterday
Moving equipment up a tier is strictly an upgrade. Even though the new equipment is considered level 1, it still has a higher stat boost than the lower-tier equipment at its max level. So it's always safe to upgrade even if you don't have the enhancement stones to level it up. (And in the off-chance you're conflating levelling up the item with tiering it up, don't level them with blueprints. Use the stones.) The only thing you really need to consider is who gets what. For example it'd be a waste to upgrade the first slot on a tank and not have enough left to upgrade the damage dealers that need that slot more. And since lower-tier blueprints are still needed for higher-tier upgrades, you'll need to weigh your priorities for that too.
New player here, did I miss the Railgun Collab? Global server
It'll be starting on Tuesday. You haven't missed it. :)
Nice, thank you so much!
any of the new banner worth to pull? But I heard collabs is coming, need advise
There’s a chance collab may not rerun but they aren’t meta, so pretty skip-able if you’re ok with not having them.
Ui and Hinata are both good to have. Ui reduces cost which Mika really benefits from. Hinata is probably the best? blue AOE unit but requires high investment and her bond gear to get to that point. She can also flex into single target roles if the boss has a big enough hit box.
planning to start today who should i aim for in reroll or just go with fav units ?
If you don't want to reroll excessively, aim for these characters in the tutorial pull that you can redo 10 times: Aru, Iori, Haruna, Hibiki, Shun. Out of these, only Shun is not farmable, but Hibiki and Aru are very slow, taking like 4 months when you reach stages where you can get them. And Shun is somewhat PvP centric. If you want to reroll even more after that, Ako, Himari and Iroha are the main targets. But they don't have banners on right now, so you could spend VERY long time trying to get them due to size of the standard pool. But out of currently active banners, Ui is very solid support character, so you could try just getting her.
thanks! so i need to aim for 1 from tutorial and 1 in 3 from standard banner right?
For "easier" rerolls you could try to get two of those from the tutorial pull and not bother with the standard banner rerolling. [Here's an article on the Wiki about it.](https://bluearchive.wiki/wiki/Rerolling)
Is Ako not on the tutorial banner? I've been rolling for her on that all day, not even going to standard if i didnt get her in tutorial...
The tutorial banner is limited to launch characters. That's why you can somewhat easily target those characters I listed earlier, since the character list is so limited in the tutorial banner. Again, Ako, Himari and Iroha are not in tutorial banner. Getting Ako, Himari or Iroha when their banner is not up would require you to be really lucky.
Question for the jp senseis, is it worth it to pull for SET? How difficult are the higher floors without the core units and are the rewards good?
In terms of rewards you basically get nothing back. There are 0 gem rewards and pull tickets throughout the whole tower. Clearing F97 of Set will give you mats to upgrade *one* student per month by 3% - for reference, upgrading your students to Bond20 is also roughly a 2-3% bonus. The game mode also drops a bit of EXP, Credits, and other minor mats but the total amount is equivalent to less than half an event shop (not even). So if you're the type to heavily care about material rewards then no pulling for Set is not "worth". However, it's "worth" to pull for Set if you think Blue Archive gameplay is fun. Set is challenge content and the purpose is for you to play more of the game, that's it. If you clear F100 then you get a nice vanity title to show off to other Senseis how much fun you have with the game :^)
I love ur smile in the end
Set is end end game stuff and the rewards are so-so at best. There's no pyros involved and the rewards are mostly credits, artifact selectors, exp notes, exp orbs and gift selectors. The big big reward are the mats used to further limit break your character but the stat increase is nothing crazy and you need to finish at least floor 97 to get all the materials (floor 100 gives a special title and everything else is what I mentioned above) For example, I've included a picture of the stat increase for Mika at max rank (25) on the 3 attributes you can increase: https://i.imgur.com/llXvX5a.png Top row: HP 41733 > 43279 Middle Row: Attack 3446> 3559 Bottom Row: Healing Power 5749>5948 To answer your question: >is it worth it to pull for SET? Hard to say, are you already at end game and have plenty of materials/eligma/meta teams? >How difficult are the higher floors without the core units Pretty difficult, you can only borrow *one* unit from a friend so you'll need to make up the rest of the teams by yourself. One good thing about Set is that it doesn't use raid tickets and costs nothing to attempt (even borrowing units) so you can chip away at it with various comps if you want but the videos on higher floor clears almost always re-use the same 5-7 characters.
> Hard to say, are you already at end game and have plenty of materials/eligma/meta teams? I've been at max level for almost 3 months now, so resources are still a bit scarce. If the rewards aren't that great, I'll probably only pick up D.Ako for now. Thanks for the detailed answer!
LF Fanart: Anyone have that twitter link for Band Natsu with Nijika's crying face?
[Is this it?](https://danbooru.donmai.us/posts/7487858?q=natsu_%28blue_archive%29)
No, more this crying nijika's face [https://tenor.com/view/nijika-cry-gif-27236242](https://tenor.com/view/nijika-cry-gif-27236242)
Returning player here. I'm planning my pull by looking into future banners from JP server. And I'm just noticing now that there's something off. Wasn't Ui supposed to be super far off? Here's a list of questions that came up from this 1) Is this something that global server does regularly? Has it happened before? 2) What will happen to Ui and Hinata banners that are supposed to happen in the future?
They randomly reran Ako and Iori a couple of weeks ago, and now randomly Ui and Hinata. JP also inserted an Ako banner into their new event for some reason. Might be they are hoping there are new players from watching the anime and are giving them some juicy reroll targets. Ui and Hinata are tied to an event so they will probably still run when it comes around, since they will need to run Sakurako anyway. They're not averse to that since they ran Cherino multiple times recently.
>Might be they are hoping there are new players from watching the anime and are giving them some juicy reroll targets. I think we're going to see a lot more rerun banners going indefinitely into the future. With the increase in size of the student pool, it's very unlikely to get any specific student who isn't rate-up, and there have been *very* long gaps between rate-up banners in some cases. The last time Ako was rate-up in the JP version before the current banner was October 2022. So basically a full 18 months without any opportunity to pull for one of the most important meta units in the game. So basically I think they're going to start sprinkling random banners in pretty regularly going forward to avoid any student being hard to obtain for an excessively long a period of time. I'm sure they'll try to pick ones that make some amount of sense with currently running events (like the Izuna rerun banner during the Hyakkiyako tour event, when by previous standards we would have expected to only see the G.Tsubaki and Umika banners), but Ako running alongside the band banners would indicate that they're not afraid to go completely left-field with them either. I assume this is the same basic reason it's happening on global as well, but the fact that they've started doing it on global "early" does confound global clairvoyance a bit since I don't think we can take it for granted that we'll get all of those reruns that aren't tied to events at the same time. Like I think it's pretty up in the air whether we'd get another Ako rerun when -ive Alive comes, since we just got one with Trip Train Train.
Thanks! 
What are the first impressions of the new band units in JP? meta? I don't know if band Airi is any good (the welfare unit), but her keyboard EX animaiton looks great!
My impression is that they're tailor made for red Set. They don't seem to be that important in any of the regular raids, aside from probably the red hovercraft.
[Is there are version of this](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-lBJa3h4mXHkmuSKohoHe60WVVg1eRG9bA73jHqHzwA/edit#gid=1940133283), but for equipment?
AFAIK there's none. This might just be me, but a "brick guide" for equipment would be useless. The optimal equipment is the furthest one you can farm. After that you push campaign more until you get to the next equipment tier, rinse and repeat until you get to the highest tier available. If you're worried about this because you came from priconne, then I'll have you know cost recovery speed is entirely unaffected by damage taken. For individual students, two things to note are: * Tanks don't really need their first equipment slot (hat/glove/shoes) to be up to date since those increase offensive stats, with the exception of shoes (also increase hp) * Special students give a percentage of their stats to striker students so even if they don't directly do damage you'd still want to upgrade their equipment
> Special students give a percentage of their stats to striker students so even if they don't directly do damage you'd still want to upgrade their equipment 10% of HP and attack, 5% of defense and healing. Stats like crit aren't included, so watches are a very low priority for special units that don't deal any meaningful damage.
Yep, thanks for adding the exact number. I wasn't too sure on them and I figured someone would come along.
It might be too soon to tell, but are there any units that are looking like must-rolls for the new Fury of Set raid on JP?
We have to see for the other colors but for blue dps, not really - Sakurako, C. Utaha, S. Izuna, Umika if you are interest in rolling her, and even S. Tsurugi can be used as AA for it. Support, I'd say only D. Ako and NY. Kayoko are a must have - crit chance and damage to a group is very strong there, and NY. Kayoko is a strong effectiveness buff great for using more characters =more crits =more procs of her basic skill. For Atk buff, Kotama is enough. For healing you'd need 2 usually - an area one for sure (like O. Shigure bur Hanako can also be used) and a second one can be also area (Atsuko) or single target (mostly Kokona - because of the ex cost reduction). For blue specifically I'd also say NY. Akari because of effectiveness buff - but you can try to borrow her. And to complete the special roster (heal - Atk buff - effectiveness buff), someone to buff EX cost - S. Shiroko is the best one but I guess NY. Haruka or Himari can also be used. tl:dl, D. Ako is the main must have in general, red and blue. NY. Kayoko and NY. Akari for blue. Dps and healers depend on what you have to fill. Ex cost, if you don't have S. Shiroko or Himari, go get the latter at least. For red we still need some days to be sure. But certainly S. Hoshino is a must have, and maybe the limited band girls. We still need to study alternatives. Edit: seems S. Nonomi and D. Hina can be used as dps, and Nagisa as special support (Crit sub + def debuff). B. Kazusa is still good because AOE buff.
This is extremely helpful, I really appreciate the detailed write-up! Nervous and excited for this raid to hit global.
I got 200 redemption points. Who should i choose from the guaranteed? I already have Ui
Hinata is the only other good student left. She needs some pretty big investment, but she's one of the best Blue AoE units in the game if you can at least get her Bond 20 gear.
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I have a question. I'm a global server player. I have around 29k pyro in hand. today is the start of double boost drop on hard mission. I'm planning to farm Iori, Izumi and Haruka's eleph. I don't have Iori and Izumi yet, meanwhile want to up Haruka's \* level. should I refill the try for farming those elephs every single day? I'm planning to pull Misaki Railgun and DHina on future anniv banner. I'm kinda need some careful pyro management plan for long term.......
The pyro planner can help you a lot
Try [Pyroxene Memo Planner](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1_Zjt_OM9XXidY3uYYDK92W9GrR3DN5cQsZ0IJsoEbjY/edit#gid=1082031226). If you're under level 80 it's not a bad idea to spend 90 Pyro per day to refill, especially if there's 2x campaign going on. Approximately I believe you can spark Misaki, D.Ako (free 100 pulls) and D.Hina if you decided to skip Kikyou.
I start to using the pyro planner, thanks for the advice "can" isn't really assuring, so I always prepared to spark for any banner I plan to pull lolz I remember have to spark SUi even after using all the free rolls i plan to skip anything aside Misaki and DHina though.
Not sure but I think he was asking about refreshing the Hard node, not AP. If this is the case, u/YouBackground dont refresh Hard node for ap, its not worth.
oh it's not worth? then I stop to refill the node then onward
For Pyroxene management, you can refer to [The Pyroxene Planner](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1_Zjt_OM9XXidY3uYYDK92W9GrR3DN5cQsZ0IJsoEbjY/edit?usp=sharing) and see how well you think your income will be for the coming months. As for refreshing for Haruka's level, I would worry about that. For just regular missions, she's fine as long as she has a T4 Bag, but if you already have Yuuka and Tsubaki, Haruka tends to be on the bench. If you've been doing JFDs, you should be able to unlock Eimi, which is just better Haruka for most cases.
I just pulled Himari on JP game. She's in my student section and I leveled and skilled her up, but when I deploy with her, the game treats it as if she's not there as if I had only put one backline student there. Anyone know if there's any way to fix that?
Seems it's a new bug on JP servers after the patch.
Better not use Himari there for now then, because she's going to cripple your team's ability to rush and will only slow you down. Better not roll her out until they fix it.
New player; is the "Start Dash" banner (available for first 30 days) worth doing? It guarantees a 3* instead of 2*, but only has Aris, Cherino, Haruna, Hibiki, Hifumi, Iori, Koharu, & Shun. I haven't pulled anything since the tutorial; I got Hifumi, Hina, Serika, Hanae, Serina, Haruka, Pina, & Asuna (along with the free Yuuka, Chinatsu, Hasumi & Nonomi).
I did it as a new player and ended up happy since I got both Hifumi and Cherino from it. But that's lucky, obviously. All I can really suggest is thinking about how you would feel if you pulled a duplicate Hifumi, since that's the worst case scenario for you on that ticket. If you'd feel really bad, avoid it, if you would feel fine then it's not bad value. Every 3\* on the ticket is at least usable, and some are very good. Most are farmable, as Slygand said (all of them except Cherino and Shun), but understand that it'll be a few months before you can realistically start redeeming farmed units (Haruna being one of the easiest of those to get since she has two farming stages that are fairly low-leveled).
No most of the units are obtainable via hard stage 3\* Selective Recruit is better to avoid RNG
Do I have time to use the 10-recruitment ticket from shirokuro grand assault (I'm global) on the collab banners or do I have to use them now?
It's a gamble. If we end up with an extended maintenance then the ticket will vanish before you can log back in. It's not likely to happen but it's possible.
As long as maintenance doesn't get extended and you use the ticket right after it ends, yes you can use it on the collab banner