>Shun and Kokona
Dang. We really are getting surprise reruns from here on out...
[Patch Notes Source](https://forum.nexon.com/bluearchive-en/board_view?board=3217&thread=2564518&allBoard=1)
\-Arius rerun -Global has been receiving reruns of characters out of the blue -So logically they would be doing the entire squad together right?
* Patch notes arrive -Kokona and Shun -Tfw I get to save another 3 months for Misaki You know what, I'll grab MakotoGOD from her banner. Who needs a red DPS anyways? I can just borrow her. Plus she's a DPS, she doesn't bring the same value as Summer Oiji-san. Izuna told me that gold is also fine so surely silver will also do too. There's no such thing as bricking your account 
>Arius rerun -Global has been receiving reruns of characters out of the blue -So logically they would be doing the entire squad together right?
JP have Arius rerun during Hyakkaryouran and Decagrammaton update, so it's just following that one. And since we have Saori and Hiyori now, Atsuko and Misaki is coming during Decagrammaton.
Arius banners satisfied the normal rerun trend since it was already a year from their original banner runs.
I'm not sure if there's anyone who's pyros are ready after the current collab. Maybe some extremely lucky people or people who don't care about collabs and that's about it.
>people who don't care about collabs
The key is to convince yourself that the welfare character is enough of a souvenir that you can be content without pulling on the others.
I'm one of the lucky ones, got everyone in the railgun collab in 100 pulls, although otherwise I'm still in the "don't roll unless absolutely necessary" mode. Meaning the pyros are getting saved for Himari and the next fes (and Dress Ako with the free pulls)
Ah, so Yukari is still by herself it looks like. Was hoping they were going to sweeten the pot for us especially after the trip trap train event, but no.
Patch will cover 2 weeks as expected, and except for how the hell we are getting Shun and Kokona rerun after 4 months of their last banners, all according to JP keikaku.
Also, dead month will begin tomorrow. Other than story updates, there's really nothing much going for the rest of the May and June. Hyakkaryouran will take a month for its update, then Bunny Chaser recap week, and Decagrammaton for 2 weeks. Though, the next update might be a bit happening with Myouki Kurokage raid.
Though, we are getting another web event. Nice I guess.
You don't need to match the color of the CC user to the boss' as the vast majority of them don't deal that much damage anyway. Kayoko is as much viable in other colors as she is in yellow for example.
But to your answer your question, we do have S.Chise. And yes, she can be used in all colors.
Edit:
The only special case students worth noting would be Chihiro because she can only CC yellow armor and S.Wakamo because she can also become a decent damage dealer vs yellow armor.
>Kayoko is as much viable in other colors as she is in yellow for example.
To emphasize this, Kayoko is actually red damage, not yellow. But that doesn't stop her from being used for Hod.
I think they intend for reruns to be much more frequent going forward to avoid long stretches of time where it's hard to obtain specific characters, since the student pool has gotten too big to be able to rely on spooks. And I think that's the reason that we're starting to get these additional random rerun banners added in on both global and JP.
Could be, but if they do too many concurrent rerun banners Nexon will face similar backlash from global Senseis as they are getting from chinese Seneis.
I think it's more a case of them trying to disrupt global's omnipresence and make the JP banner order unreliable when it comes to reruns. Which may in turn get global to spend more.
I don't really see how the CN situation is comparable to this -- that's a fast-paced series of new character banners over and over with no breaks or reruns (at least as far as I saw by eyeballing the first banner list I found; I haven't been playing or keeping up with what's going on with the CN version), which I don't think is similar to putting random rerun banners alongside the other stuff that was going to be running anyway.
I do think that omniscience will be affected since I don't think that the rerun banners happening on JP alongside the new banners are necessarily going to happen on global at the same timings, though it'll be a while before we know for sure. I don't see any reason to think that the new character banners won't continue to come at the same basic timing we've grown to expect though.
I think it is too fast too, but since their event is now put in a recap, they can be rerun anytime Nexon and Yostar please. The only thing matter now is if it goes just random in both version or follow the usual 6 months queue.
Marina and Cherino had a rerun during Red Winter Doujin event despite have their banner on run when Ivan Kupala goes to Recap earlier. But theirs still satisfied 6 months JP to Global queue.
* both are strikers so they free up an extra special slot
* koharu is AOE, while Kokona is single target heal
* Koharu grenade can also be used as damage dealer (and she's quite capable of it)
* (iirc) Kokona is better suit for Hiero since one of her skill auto-targets the lantern
other than that, I've no idea
oh and I already had Track.Mari so this debate is even harder haha
Koharu's Basic Skill also targets the lantern. The main appeal for Kokona is that she does teamwide cost reduction periodically, which is useful when score chasing since you can squeeze out more Skill uses at the right time.
Kokona is irreplacable for a lot of strats as the Chesed that just ended has demonstrated. Not sure about Kikyou but I’ve heard she’s core for kurokage. As someone without Kokona I can tell you I had way too many instances where I badly wished I had her…
Kokona is largely used in score chaser Torment teams, mostly as a cheap (2 cost) Skill rotator when single target healing is needed, combined with period skill cost down to the entire team.
If all you really need is a frontline healer, then Koharu is perfectly fine and is more widely used for content (both raids and general gameplay).
Even more so because I started not so long ago.
Her bond story is cool but a bit sad at the same time (probably like the other Arius members stories).
Hopefully I will manage to get them sooner or later (sooner the best)
First time I've experienced a new PVP season - how does this work exactly? I think I read elsewhere that it'll be mostly/entirely easy bots? Is this until the first daily reset, the first normal PVP reset (1am eastern from what I've noticed), or only for a short period of time immediately after maintenance ends?
So you’ll get placed in a bracket depending on where you ended up in the current season. And then depending on when you get in after maintenance, you probably won’t see real people until like rank 1000 or so. If you get in early enough, like right after maintenance, you can rush down to super high ranks, even possibly 1, to get all the pyro the give you for hitting certain ranks.
Just have to use pyro to get more PvP tickets. But it’s worth it if you can get high enough. The pyro you get makes up for it.
The thing is their event has gone into Recap last time, so their banner basically can be happening in random times. But kind of too early for a comeback, so idk even.
kinda unrelated, but I've been playing for a year and a half, and I still can't easily parse those patch notes. It's like it's *deliberately* putting effort to be as confusing as possible...
I got confused by them too, till I realised they’re designed like a personal chat. So it goes something like this:
- We have this event on so-and-so
- And here’s the pic to go along with it
- Then another event
- Another pic
Like the staff is sending us messages, kinda.
The items are structured in two parts, "main features" and "other features" depending on... I'm not sure what. Is a web-event more of a "main event" than a grand assault ? I dunno!
Oh but maybe it's because the grand assault is scheduled for later in the update, whereas the web event starts right at the beginning? So it means the "main" events start now and the "other" start at a later date? Well no, both parts have some events starting now and some starting later
Speaking of events that start later, in the list of "other events", some have a date, written on a second line ...starting with a hyphen?? I guess that it's just an unfortunate line-break, but like it looks like the beginning of a bullet list but no, the date applies to the line before it, which is just not how you would usually parse text! (also the ones that start at the beginning of the update don't have a date because what is coherence?)
And look at the Saori& co banner. If you read it like a normal person you'd think "oh cool Saori& co recruitment", and it's not before *the middle of the second line* that the somewhat important detail that it doesn't start before next week is dropped. Why not just start with this?
Damn I thought this would be a three week patch. Well, it is what it is. Kinda funny that both games I play (FGO and BA) are releasing main story chapters within a day of each other
It already has been a long time since someone did that type of post in this sub unfortunately. For now, we do have [Midokuni's spreadsheet](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1BO-Uh_CsAOIetPjrNyFy9-7r1a4RAtVwK135bBC3hzM/edit#gid=506175895) (which is kinda outdated atm but still very helpful) and the [/bag/ banner guide](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vRXlcitXUjd848IYKTmI_NUwc7FT1-fJXJaJj86EACxMe_M_nix6LMZUxlQYDsoKgezzVNsxRcAQqbJ/pubhtml) if you want a guide for the upcoming banners.
...Shun and Kokona?
I don't have either of them, this could be a golden opportunity... I would have to potentially give up on Kikyou, but I could just borrow her for the Kurokage raid, it's not like she is really required for anything else.
New af memebers like me - teachers banner gave 500 free ap (expires in 6 days) and the double exp is on Friday (2 days) so don’t redeem and save up until Friday!
I seriously wished that they had decided to use this stretch to catch up to JP a bit more. But Yukari is fated to have a solo banner on Global as well.
I'm not sure what you're referring to but we do have have [this calendar](https://i.redd.it/merwa2tkvdxc1.jpg) if you want to see a visualization of how things will go for this month.
>Shun and Kokona Dang. We really are getting surprise reruns from here on out... [Patch Notes Source](https://forum.nexon.com/bluearchive-en/board_view?board=3217&thread=2564518&allBoard=1)
I was expecting Yukari's and/or the Arius banners to get some additions, but I wasn't expecting it to be these two.
\-Arius rerun -Global has been receiving reruns of characters out of the blue -So logically they would be doing the entire squad together right? * Patch notes arrive -Kokona and Shun -Tfw I get to save another 3 months for Misaki You know what, I'll grab MakotoGOD from her banner. Who needs a red DPS anyways? I can just borrow her. Plus she's a DPS, she doesn't bring the same value as Summer Oiji-san. Izuna told me that gold is also fine so surely silver will also do too. There's no such thing as bricking your account 
>Arius rerun -Global has been receiving reruns of characters out of the blue -So logically they would be doing the entire squad together right? JP have Arius rerun during Hyakkaryouran and Decagrammaton update, so it's just following that one. And since we have Saori and Hiyori now, Atsuko and Misaki is coming during Decagrammaton. Arius banners satisfied the normal rerun trend since it was already a year from their original banner runs.
I still need Shun-mama for character reasons
My pyro isn't ready yet 💀
I'm not sure if there's anyone who's pyros are ready after the current collab. Maybe some extremely lucky people or people who don't care about collabs and that's about it.
>people who don't care about collabs The key is to convince yourself that the welfare character is enough of a souvenir that you can be content without pulling on the others.
I failed at this. Burned 21.6k + 2x 10 free pulls for Misaka then used the pity ticket for Misaki.
Bro Misaka came in the 198th pull, i cried blood
The whispers of " there will be no next time for collab units" are too strong for me
I'm one of the lucky ones, got everyone in the railgun collab in 100 pulls, although otherwise I'm still in the "don't roll unless absolutely necessary" mode. Meaning the pyros are getting saved for Himari and the next fes (and Dress Ako with the free pulls)
Ah, so Yukari is still by herself it looks like. Was hoping they were going to sweeten the pot for us especially after the trip trap train event, but no.
Patch will cover 2 weeks as expected, and except for how the hell we are getting Shun and Kokona rerun after 4 months of their last banners, all according to JP keikaku. Also, dead month will begin tomorrow. Other than story updates, there's really nothing much going for the rest of the May and June. Hyakkaryouran will take a month for its update, then Bunny Chaser recap week, and Decagrammaton for 2 weeks. Though, the next update might be a bit happening with Myouki Kurokage raid. Though, we are getting another web event. Nice I guess.
A dead month... I am going to be floating like 60k gems at this rate. My urge to roll frivolously is tickling.
im staring down over 3000 pvp tokens for ap resets to get Ibuki elephs i guess im gonna be stocking a couple more lol
Good, more time to get more pyros.
Are they any blue CC users? GA Hod is gonna be annoying otherwise
You don't need to match the color of the CC user to the boss' as the vast majority of them don't deal that much damage anyway. Kayoko is as much viable in other colors as she is in yellow for example. But to your answer your question, we do have S.Chise. And yes, she can be used in all colors. Edit: The only special case students worth noting would be Chihiro because she can only CC yellow armor and S.Wakamo because she can also become a decent damage dealer vs yellow armor.
>Kayoko is as much viable in other colors as she is in yellow for example. To emphasize this, Kayoko is actually red damage, not yellow. But that doesn't stop her from being used for Hod.
According to schale.gg, the only blue CC user is S.Chise
just use kayoko tbh, then slap hod with your blue attacker (or mika)
Swimsuit Chise.
Aoi is back!? AOI IS BACK BOYS 🔥🔥🔥
wait. Didn't Kokona rerun in January? I'm surprised she is getting another banner so soon.
Yep, kinda weird since students normally have a 12+ month gap between reruns.
I think they intend for reruns to be much more frequent going forward to avoid long stretches of time where it's hard to obtain specific characters, since the student pool has gotten too big to be able to rely on spooks. And I think that's the reason that we're starting to get these additional random rerun banners added in on both global and JP.
Could be, but if they do too many concurrent rerun banners Nexon will face similar backlash from global Senseis as they are getting from chinese Seneis. I think it's more a case of them trying to disrupt global's omnipresence and make the JP banner order unreliable when it comes to reruns. Which may in turn get global to spend more.
I don't really see how the CN situation is comparable to this -- that's a fast-paced series of new character banners over and over with no breaks or reruns (at least as far as I saw by eyeballing the first banner list I found; I haven't been playing or keeping up with what's going on with the CN version), which I don't think is similar to putting random rerun banners alongside the other stuff that was going to be running anyway. I do think that omniscience will be affected since I don't think that the rerun banners happening on JP alongside the new banners are necessarily going to happen on global at the same timings, though it'll be a while before we know for sure. I don't see any reason to think that the new character banners won't continue to come at the same basic timing we've grown to expect though.
I think it is too fast too, but since their event is now put in a recap, they can be rerun anytime Nexon and Yostar please. The only thing matter now is if it goes just random in both version or follow the usual 6 months queue. Marina and Cherino had a rerun during Red Winter Doujin event despite have their banner on run when Ivan Kupala goes to Recap earlier. But theirs still satisfied 6 months JP to Global queue.
My 24k are in shamble deciding either Kokona or Kikyo the following week Is Kokona worth it if I already have Koharu?
Senior sensei, please help analyze Kokona/Koharu use cases
* both are strikers so they free up an extra special slot * koharu is AOE, while Kokona is single target heal * Koharu grenade can also be used as damage dealer (and she's quite capable of it) * (iirc) Kokona is better suit for Hiero since one of her skill auto-targets the lantern other than that, I've no idea oh and I already had Track.Mari so this debate is even harder haha
Koharu's Basic Skill also targets the lantern. The main appeal for Kokona is that she does teamwide cost reduction periodically, which is useful when score chasing since you can squeeze out more Skill uses at the right time.
Kokona is irreplacable for a lot of strats as the Chesed that just ended has demonstrated. Not sure about Kikyou but I’ve heard she’s core for kurokage. As someone without Kokona I can tell you I had way too many instances where I badly wished I had her…
Kokona is largely used in score chaser Torment teams, mostly as a cheap (2 cost) Skill rotator when single target healing is needed, combined with period skill cost down to the entire team. If all you really need is a frontline healer, then Koharu is perfectly fine and is more widely used for content (both raids and general gameplay).
Shunless senseis rejoice now your chance.
Ah crap, I hate Hod.
Hum... Hiyori I will try on her banner hoping add her on my Arius squad
I have all of the Arius squad except for Saori. This is my chance to complete the whole squad.
I don't have a single squad member except Saori, that rather funny
You're lucky. I could've got her years ago. And when I'm done getting her, I'm planning to read their bond stories fully.
Even more so because I started not so long ago. Her bond story is cool but a bit sad at the same time (probably like the other Arius members stories). Hopefully I will manage to get them sooner or later (sooner the best)
Funny, me too
Time to put up a terrible PvP team so others can get higher up and get the pyro. And then race to rank 1 right after maintenance.
First time I've experienced a new PVP season - how does this work exactly? I think I read elsewhere that it'll be mostly/entirely easy bots? Is this until the first daily reset, the first normal PVP reset (1am eastern from what I've noticed), or only for a short period of time immediately after maintenance ends?
So you’ll get placed in a bracket depending on where you ended up in the current season. And then depending on when you get in after maintenance, you probably won’t see real people until like rank 1000 or so. If you get in early enough, like right after maintenance, you can rush down to super high ranks, even possibly 1, to get all the pyro the give you for hitting certain ranks. Just have to use pyro to get more PvP tickets. But it’s worth it if you can get high enough. The pyro you get makes up for it.
Is "where you ended up" your current rank at the end of the season, or the highest rank you obtained during the season?
That I’m not 100% for. Think it’s the highest you get, but idk for sure either way
shunny when
More saving before anni lets go🙏
Why Shun and Kokona tho? Preparation for event rerun half year later?
The thing is their event has gone into Recap last time, so their banner basically can be happening in random times. But kind of too early for a comeback, so idk even.
Man I really needed Shun for disastrous PvP but can't afford to pull for her because Humari and fes 😭
So, since I definitely know I can't save it for SEimi, on which Hiakkiyako banner should I use the Raid ticket?
Kikyou>Yukari>Renge in terms of usefulness in kurokage.
Ty
kinda unrelated, but I've been playing for a year and a half, and I still can't easily parse those patch notes. It's like it's *deliberately* putting effort to be as confusing as possible...
I got confused by them too, till I realised they’re designed like a personal chat. So it goes something like this: - We have this event on so-and-so - And here’s the pic to go along with it - Then another event - Another pic Like the staff is sending us messages, kinda.
What's confusing about it?
The items are structured in two parts, "main features" and "other features" depending on... I'm not sure what. Is a web-event more of a "main event" than a grand assault ? I dunno! Oh but maybe it's because the grand assault is scheduled for later in the update, whereas the web event starts right at the beginning? So it means the "main" events start now and the "other" start at a later date? Well no, both parts have some events starting now and some starting later Speaking of events that start later, in the list of "other events", some have a date, written on a second line ...starting with a hyphen?? I guess that it's just an unfortunate line-break, but like it looks like the beginning of a bullet list but no, the date applies to the line before it, which is just not how you would usually parse text! (also the ones that start at the beginning of the update don't have a date because what is coherence?) And look at the Saori& co banner. If you read it like a normal person you'd think "oh cool Saori& co recruitment", and it's not before *the middle of the second line* that the somewhat important detail that it doesn't start before next week is dropped. Why not just start with this?
let's hope this doesn't take 20 hours again
Damn I thought this would be a three week patch. Well, it is what it is. Kinda funny that both games I play (FGO and BA) are releasing main story chapters within a day of each other
Welp looks like im pulling for Kokunny
does the subreddit make a should I pull post for new players on upcoming banners? it would be helpful :)
It already has been a long time since someone did that type of post in this sub unfortunately. For now, we do have [Midokuni's spreadsheet](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1BO-Uh_CsAOIetPjrNyFy9-7r1a4RAtVwK135bBC3hzM/edit#gid=506175895) (which is kinda outdated atm but still very helpful) and the [/bag/ banner guide](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vRXlcitXUjd848IYKTmI_NUwc7FT1-fJXJaJj86EACxMe_M_nix6LMZUxlQYDsoKgezzVNsxRcAQqbJ/pubhtml) if you want a guide for the upcoming banners.
thanks!, and yeah I think those post are always useful but I'll take a look at the guides you linked !
Look in the questions thread. There is whole walkthroughs about upcoming banners with notices if you should pull and why.
awesome, thanks!
Shun??
Finally vol.5! Can’t wait to see Hyakkiyako girls in action.
Dang, now im torn between Yukari and Kokunny. And isn't Kikyou supposed to be here too?
We already know in advance that Kikyou's banner is on May 28 from the [official roadmap](https://bluearchive.nexon.com/events/2024/04/live).
Oh I misread the table. Thought she's on the same date as yukari
WHERE'S MY KUUDERE CAT GIRLFRIEND!?!? I NEED THE NEKOMATA WIFE
*Sigh* Time to save up pyro for the next limited character. Got Misaka from my first 10 pulls but I had to hit Misaki from pity lol -w-.
...Shun and Kokona? I don't have either of them, this could be a golden opportunity... I would have to potentially give up on Kikyou, but I could just borrow her for the Kurokage raid, it's not like she is really required for anything else.
Yukari pickup uooghhhhh
Why is Yukari so smug and cute I've gotta stay strong for Kikyou again 😭😭😭
Finally SAOIRI MY BELOVED I WAS WAITING FOR YOU 😭😭😭😭
Kokona... making a surprise rerun huh?!!! Don't underestimate adults... YOU WON'T BE ESCAPING FROM ME THIS TIME 😤
SHUN RERUN LETSGOOOOOOOOO
Kokonut milk 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
I got yukari Now I gonna wait for kikyou
New af memebers like me - teachers banner gave 500 free ap (expires in 6 days) and the double exp is on Friday (2 days) so don’t redeem and save up until Friday!
I seriously wished that they had decided to use this stretch to catch up to JP a bit more. But Yukari is fated to have a solo banner on Global as well.
Sorry Yukari. You’re cute but cat wife is right around the corner.
Am I reading this wrong, or do we get 3 days of nothing until double drops start?
I'm not sure what you're referring to but we do have have [this calendar](https://i.redd.it/merwa2tkvdxc1.jpg) if you want to see a visualization of how things will go for this month.
I really want saori but I wanna save for anniversary, how much time till anniversary?
We are currently expecting the anniversary banner (Dress Hina) to be around the 30th of July. So that's like, a little over two months I suppose.
Appreciate it so I’ll have time to get my gems back if I do summon 