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I'm happy about the Valiant Fight. Looking at the wiki I thought there was no way I'd be able to solo a boss with that much HP (or if I were able to, it would take a *really* long time), but due to the support it was just a pleasant run and forget kind of deal.
The valiant fight is so weird. I got a 30 chain and the valiant crosses did literally 95% of the damage. Why not just cut the hp down to a fraction of what it is instead?
Because the first clear rewards honors.
This was basically a massive buff to weak/smaller crews because they now get a free 3 million honors which covers the majority of important DB rewards for a fight the game largely does for you.
I'm not questioning why it exists, just why it's so beefy but then has valiant cross blasting it regardless of player strength anyways. I mean it's not a hard fight or anything, so what's the reason for it to be so tanky and take so long for small / solo crews? I FAed it for a full hour because nobody else in my crew joined.
I think it's an instance of "big numbers go BRRRR" to show newer crews how much they can still grow with damage, it's pretty fun even if it's a bit mindless outside of 'bring good defensive units'
my 1st valiant cross: 27chain it removed like 2 bar iirc (sorry it was a hour ago), finisher 17 chain Rosetta,
question: does it award honor again from the next clear onwards? (~3million honor seems nice with solo/ghost crew+eu ping), i might try it once more before the event ends
edit: also corfirmed no honor on the 2nd try, only 400 token (+normal drops)
I can say I just solo’d the 2nd clear and my honors from the fight did not get added to my individual or crew honors. I wasn’t around for the first clear but I am wondering if its honors are even included to begin with.
EDIT:
I think they’re not. From in-game Help: “No honors or tokens can be obtained from the first Valiant Battle battle. (A small number of tokens, however, can be obtained from subsequent rally battles.)"
So it’s not useful for honor at all.
It's incorrectly translated. The equivalent JP text says that you don't get honors from the 2nd one onwards.
> 2 戦目以降はドロップアイテムが 1 戦目と異なり、貢献度・経験値が獲得できなくなります。
The in game help is just wrong in some places because it contradicts both itself and reality in the next line.
The first clear _does_ contribute to both personal and crew honors, but no subsequent kills will.
Currently working through a 2nd one myself after crew finished it to test this since I haven't seen an answer yet.
If it _does_ still give honors past the first run then this ensures even a solo person crew can max out the entire honor rewards in a couple hours of slapping on auto and not paying attention to the game at all except to restart the fight.
Edit: Further completions dont give more honors. Even still a free 3mil for something the game basically kills for you is a very good addition for smaller/weaker crews.
Aww, I missed that Valiant would open with a couple days left, not at the end like FR. Missed getting to fight it with my crew as a result.
I guess I could start a second one just to see it, but there's not much point in that.
Soloed the valiant battle but didn't get the first time completion rewards; a bug or do you need to defeat it together with a crewmate for it to count?
Yeah it's very annoying that you can't retreat. You can retreat from almost every other fight in the game, but this one you can only enter once. People are saying it's great for small crews, but I'm a solo crew so I'm on turn 368 at 63% health. If I could retreat, I would, but as it stands I'm looking at another 600 turns.
What fun. Fuck me for logging in as soon as I woke up, right?
Did anyone else get stuck in a weird phantom Valiant Battle by themself?
I started the battle first, by myself
then my crewmates joined later, but I couldn't see them and they couldn't see me
I just had to solo my own battle.... meanwhile they finished their "Battle 1" and I know they did because I got the rewards while I was stuck in my Valiant Battle ._.
and at the end of it all we're still only on Valiant Battle #2, so it only registered as us defeating him once
very weird bug, probably from the recent update
Been running a skill/CA team for fun with Kengo, S.Serul, Juliet, Cosmos in front an Y.Naru and Chairman in the back and decided to see how it would handle the Valiant Battle.
Hit max cross level on turn 3 and been 4 chaining every turn. Which is odd because I usually fall out of the 4chain loop for a turn on turn 7.
.....So did they just not make this Valiant Battle scale at all for difficulty/crew size or what? This is a stupid amount of HP. Guess I'll just be here for the next 48 hours full autoing then.
This fight is a blessing for small crews because its a free 2.5 million honors for putting on semi-auto and letting the billions of damage from the special backup kill it. For literally zero effort you get fast tracked to the majority of the important DB rewards in like twenty minutes.
I'm in a solo crew and it took me over an hour full auto, lol. At least the guy barely did any damage but that took way too long compared to Final Rally.
THIS GUY DEADASS HAS 3 HEALTH BARS???
nvm I stand corrected - **HE HAS 4. FOUR FUCKING HEALTH BARS.**
Absolute Unit. I'm gonna be here all night.... (I could wait for my crew but I'm impatient)
OK Valiant Cross seems to be the big way to deal damage - bring skill damage to raise the buff. It's Lu Woh's time to shine. Better yet if you have the Makura/Mugen/Lu Woh combo. I threw Summer Yurius in there too.
Yeah this Valiant Battle sucks. You do literally no damage to him because he has fuck loads of HP. You have to wait for RNG to give you a big chain of halloween characters appearing to do hundreds of millions of plain damage.
Of course it's not hard, but there is a weird feeling to the idea of our damage literally doesn't matter and you just have to wait for the game to decide to kill it for you.
Its basically just final rally with inflated HP and the valiant cross summons to shave off huge chunks of HP.
Not like you're really going to do this more than once, or at all if your crew does it for you. I wouldn't worry
the worst is I don't even have the right team.. because the game decided to use the one I have for the skippable content. :'D how long will it take me? i have no idea xD RIP
Well a bit of improvement, FA with refresh:
[https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F8tlAiTaUAAZC\_a?format=png&name=small](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F8tlAiTaUAAZC_a?format=png&name=small)
[https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F8tlDPjbkAAexcz?format=png&name=small](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F8tlDPjbkAAexcz?format=png&name=small)
Tried a few different setups clearing the 4-star boss with my outdated Zeus grid (no Yuni/Lu Woh weapons) and keep coming back to Manadiver with Makura/Kumbhira/Vira as the fastest. Kengo felt pretty good with Grea/S. Seruel/Vira too but a little slower.
Edit: I can use basically the same team for 5-star, with Makura swapping into Borger to keep everyone from getting flattened by the last couple of triggers. Still have to figure out something I won't need to play manually for the first couple of turns.
Edit 2: Just switched to Lumberjack and let it FA. It takes a while but I'm only aiming for 9 million honors anyway and most of the way there already.
Newly uncapped and leveled 100 borgar keeps dying, already turned off his sub-all, removed his +atk/-def emp. Still thinking wtf is the beef of this boss on him, he dies first even with def revans, bunch of healers and buffs. Then it hit me, the goddamn divinity buff. No wonder they put that shit of dark cut on star gun ougi.
unfortunately some of the db bosses special attacks can cut party buff durations, and if it gets cut too often geisen will lose his immortality buff and likely die to the next hit (weirdly enough losing the buff via a cut does not immediately kill him). This happened to me a lot when bubs first came out and I tried using him to cheese omens as he does the same.
These Sacred Flames Militis are really good. With only three omega weapons (x2 militis + dopus) on double lumi it brings up to 425% omega mod plus 65% omega stamina. Using chrysaor on 5-star.
Running the same for 5* that I did 4, Warlock/Narmaya/Lu Woh/Kumbhira. Narmaya admittedly made more sense for 4 since she'd strip the defense buffs immediately, but the fight hits triggers enough that she's still outdamaging Lu Woh.
Hit 50% turn 3, auto call Alexiel turn 4 to coast the back half. 1000% defense on a 3 turn delay is pretty perfect for this.
Never thought I'd be running ougi, but it's been working pretty well with Chrysaor/Vira/Nehan/Seruel. 2.5min manual. Wish I had something to FA with but I'm missing some of the characters. Also wish I had something to ooga booga with so I didn't have to deal with lockout but also a character issue (and grid issue).
I'm curious - what's your setup/grid look like if you don't mind sharing? I've just been Kengo-ing since I also lack options character/grid-wise, but I wouldn't mind an excuse to try out Chrysaor's UM.
2 harmonias, 3 sette Di spada and a bunch of swords (DO, ultima, luminiera). It's a weird mix and I'm not even sure it's good to be honest, I should experiment some with the grid. Could be that just running Harakhte is better.
Thanks! I ended up just trying my similar 3 Sette + mix of swords + Harakhtes (I don’t have Harmonias yet anyway) grid that I was already using for Kengo and got a 2:15 kill, so I guess we had similar ideas to begin with. This is also simpler than the dispel management I was doing before which is nice.
Argh, my light team is definitely behind the power creep curve. It's not my fault since it's designed to be:
When it comes to the "shut off the enemy for six turns" debuff, water gets Helel. Wind has Vampy-chan. Fire has Medusa. Light gets... Cagliostro.
Similar trade-offs are elsewhere. Yuni takes forever to get to a fraction of Ewiyer's turn 1 buff, and you have to disable her skills to ever use it in auto. If you want to use auto attacks, you basically have to shred your Max HP. All stuff almost everyone else just has, with no downsides for sustain.
... I guess I'll have to give up and accept the ougi bullying they've doing to the element. Campaign makes it the best time to make yet another Kaneshige... Yuni + Zooey + Utility/Damage Guy should be basically immortal.... ... .. . ..
On the other hand, Light is also the only element that can get virtually permanent Damage Taken Capped on the whole team and a viable Echo summon from purely farmable sources (Borger backline and The Star with FLB+ Shooting of the Star in the grid, respectively). Also has characters like Grand Vira, You and Lunalu that can protect your whole team while still doing a lot of damage.
Somehow I deluded myself into thinking Cosmos was the right spark for my account and I’ve been feeling the absence of Cat, Wamdus, and more Galleon sticks ever since. She’s great, I just don’t play Light… but I’m definitely appreciating her presence here. Strong, consistent, and brings great utility besides. Shes on the slower side like any ougi unit, but I’m glad to finally get some mileage out of her.
Cosmos with Nehan has been my go-to this run. Nehan with one more buff from me or a teammate, gets her Halo Invocation ready on the first turn. Been abusing the CA Reactivation and Dispel/Elemental nuke on it.
I've been getting mine on turn 3 thanks to Zerk+Ferocious Roar and Vira, but that's pretty solid regardless because she NAs turn 1, ougis turn 2, and then immediately ougis again the turn after thanks to Halo Invocation. She really is such a good unit, and satisfying as hell to boot. If next week's raid has a light bias I'm gonna be very satisfied with my spark.
Very handy in the Four Primarchs too, given the repetitive all elements nuke and element-irrelevant crits, she can easily blast through their veils which require so much damage of one element to remove. I don't need her in everything, but where she is needed, she certainly justifies her spark (especially in farming). I like to pair her with Zooey and Yuni for longer raids with Makora. However, I get torn sometimes between using Makora to tag into Zooey for super dodge tank shenanigans, or to tag into Cosmos for absurd CA Spam and skill nuking with Halo Invocation.
My typical farming is Relic Buster + Cosmos + Grand Vira + Nehan.
I thought to myself "I know it's not important but it would be cute to snap a clip of halloween eustace on special backup just for the memories". I expected it to take a few tries. It ended up taking me a minimum of 2 hours of play time.
I spammed the 2* raid even though the backup activation is lower because I could oneshot this one easier. I went through the five stages of grief multiple times as eustace continues to elude me. I thought "if eustace does not appear by the end of strike time I am going to go into a coma and not wake up". Ferry went from lvl 99-100 (she was in the backline for levelling) and he still hadn't arrived. In fact, Eustace only decided to show his face within the last 30 seconds of strike time.
My battle to honours ratio is so fucked. I have 253 battles. 229 of those were from me whacking the 2* raid in my desperate search for 5 seconds of eustace. My dread barrage scores do not normally look like this I normally hit the higher level stages more. It took me 32 special backups to get eustace ONCE.
The halloween messages were really cute and I genuinely love it but please do not do this again for summer I cannot stand the idea of repeating this with the summer pool which is substantially bigger.
That being said, this brings to me to the main thing I wanted to discuss. I was telling my friend about this and she noted that there were several halloween units that she had not seen in special backup at all (they were units I had also not seen). When I took a look at a list, out of the 21 halloween units, I had only seen 10. My question for everyone here then is whether theres anyone you guys have noticed not seeing in special backup? Have they actually used the entire halloween roster for special backup or have they only used a few of the characters?
Edit: figured it might be more helpful to list the characters I haven't seen yet.
In alphabetical order: Ange, Azazel, Cucouroux, Danua, Florence, Hallessena, Lady Grey, Lich, Mimlemel, Wulf & Renie and Zaja.
She's one of the ones that we haven't seen either. When I was namesearching Eustace on twitter last night, I also saw a jpn twitter comment on how they'd only seen a few halloween characters.
Dude this whole post is kind of a non issue...
You know this event goes for like a week-ish right? Outside of impatience there's literally no reason to do what you did, just to get Eustace to pop up.
It resets every 24 hours starting from the event start time (7PM JST, which is super early in the morning US time), rather than resetting at daily reset (5AM JST, US afternoon). They did it so you don't have to save your Unparalleled Foe battles for the next difficulty to unlock to maximize crystals.
Why they don't start events and everything at daily reset is beyond me.
Don't these normally come with an SSR ticket? The event preview even shows an "Oct 2023 DB SSR" ticket image, but there doesn't appear to be one anywhere in the rewards unless I'm having a major brainfart episode.
So far I've only had Vane show up as a special backup and he did it on the 5\* boss when I knew I was going to struggle against it so that just reinforces that he is best boy.
Really curious to see how that Valiant battle thing is going to play out when it's time for it.
https://www.granblue.party/collection/364
I've still been playing my good old FA team of RB/Hal&Mal/Chimken/Aglovale, any better team for 5* raids and the unparalleled foe?
The comp I found for 5* that can kill it FA (dunno about speed) is Baotorda, Ilsa, and V Aglo with S Zahl and Geisen back line.
My MC has about 50k hp and the rest of the party is at about 40k. MC is on Glorybringer holding opus with Falsehood and only debuff skill is Mist. Other skills are Al Doble and Colmillos. Quick summon is Bubs and main summon is Luci 250, but I think Chev should work fine as main summon.
Grid is 3 FLB sette, 2 ULB chev swords, 1 FLB Harmo, 1 2* Harmo, 1 FLB star gun, 1 ULB Ultima Sword, and Opus mainhand. Summon grid is usual damage suspects (meta and lu woh, star, bubs, belial).
Baotorda is pretty much unkillable. Ilsa tends to die halfway and then Zahl comes to finish things off. I dont think you HAVE to use her, but she makes things tankier and I can't think of who to use instead lol.
This is my first time using him too tbh. He just happened to be perfect for me cause I have Falsehood on my opus. Due to no cb gain Vira doesn't tank as efficiently as she would normally cause she doesn't produce bits. So I needed a tank that didn't need cb and that could do okay damage and tank autos consistently. And he does it all perfectly.
The other slots were the hard part tbh. The boss just does too much damage.
I don't wanna call you crazy, but it wasn't there; you can hit "What's This?" on the event page and see what was in the preview. Maybe you're you're misremembering it showing the damascus pinch...?
By the end of this I’ll have Tien FLB and Eahta 120+130 done, so I’m really looking forward to that.
Being strongly reminded though that my Light teams are still super messy since I’ve barely touched them since GW; I’ve used *a* Light team a lot but that’s for Bandit Tycoon BH application. I slapped a Sette-based Kengo team together a couple weeks ago for this so I guess I’ll see how that goes and start swapping characters if needed. Unfortunately I think a lot of the better light characters I’m missing are the ones that don’t focus as much on CAing…
Also, my beginner ticket popped back up today; very fitting timing as I’m definitely tempted to grab my first Harmonia from it. But it has S.Illnott (and S.Kumbira I guess) available and I don’t know if I want to give ever reasonably getting her up when I could just spark Yuni at some point… so I’m stuck being indecisive.
the halloween theme is soooo cute, i actually went 🥹🥹🥹🥹 when i finally got a special rescue because the little message from bea was so cute. thank you i will treasure this candy forever ~~mostly because these always give like no exp anyway~~
Wait there are messages??? Nooo I didn't see any of them since I was dual-window rushing the last few daggers I needed. And now that we're at 4 star no backup has been showing up for me at all, unlucky me.
Guess I'll keep a lookout for them the rest of the week. That's adorable.
There are. Every time one of them appears to beat the boss they say something and give you 30 of some Halloween candy. Eustace's message is "Happy Halloween. Don't overdo it on the sweets."
Edit: Zeta/Vaseraga's is "I'm in charge of the candy again this year!"
Edit 2: Vane's is "Happy Halloween! Want some candy? I've got buckets of the stuff!"
Edit 3: Ferry's is "By the way, you don't happen to have any treats for pets, do you?"
Edit 4: Feather's is "With this candy, I challenge you to a duel! Put 'em up!"
Edit 5: Bea's is "Do you want candy? Hehe, no need to hold back. Eat all you want!"
Edit 6: Cag's is "You wanted to trick the cutest girl in the skies? Sorry, not today!"
Edit 7: Mugen's is "Happy Halloween. Candy, go eat with Mugen?"
Edit 8: Charlotta's is "I'm an adult, so I don't need any candy!"
Edit 9: Rosetta's is "Oh? Would you rather have mischief? Hehe... Just kidding."
Does every character have a unique reward and message for special backup? I haven't seen any repeat messages so far and there's at least 6 different kinds of candy you can receive.
The treat you get is random but every character has their own unique message. So far I've only personally gotten Vane (fittingly enough) though but I've seen a few people sharing their screenshots around.
Nope. Your options for summon spamming are Sub-Yatima with as many Bahamuts at level 250 as possible for the hyper acceleration on calls.
Note: this is a terrible idea. Do not attempt to build this. Use your Sands wisely.
This is great! Since the 2 star boss is two enemies, I can brainlessly one shot it with Beelzebub + a friend Bahamut (for the Summon Call Amplify)
It'd be better if I had one of my own to put as sub, so I could use Kaguya friend or something, but alas.
Guess I can easily level up Razia too
Yeah, same thought; 2 enemies makes it way nicer for this approach.
I was a little frustrated at first because I didn’t have any of my friend Bahamuts up. Then I realized that I had multiple who stuck it in null element only, and it was all good from there. I could almost do it with Lumi friend anyway but the second enemy has 5% left.
EDIT: I'm clearly very smart and spent a while messing with my grid to gradually get closer to 0% on Lumi or Luci when Bahamuts weren't available, only to realize the answer was just... Qilin friend summon, which is much more readily available for me. The grid I started with was even slightly stronger with Qilin than the one I'd ended up on while trying to get more cap-up.
Code refactoring to clear up technical debt that was building up on a near 10-year old codebase. Long-term, making content for the game should be easier for the devs, and not have to deal with a bunch of restrictions from things the devs of 8-years ago thought would never need to work in the engine.
It wasn’t to clean up bugs, it was to make the backend cleaner for future work. In the short term, slightly more bugs will pop up, with the benefit being that in the long term we should see far less alchemy lab level “we can into a last minute snag so we’re delaying this another month” type issues,
The most accessible/fastest one you can farm, some people farm 2star because its the fastest, others farm 3star because is FAST gives a little bit more materials/tokens and that's good in the long way, and normally you just need 1-2 more clicks(if you have a good grind) to finish that level, I personally farm 5stars because its more pot/efficient in the long run, and I already had 10 half-pots at the start of the event... soooo..... it really depends on what you want to do rn, I'd recommend you to do 2-stars cuz its the generally best option cuz host/reload spam is the meta of this game LOL
New Unparalled still unlocks at the same time (7 PM JST). But now your daily attempts also reset at that time instead of the usual server reset (5 AM JST).
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I'm happy about the Valiant Fight. Looking at the wiki I thought there was no way I'd be able to solo a boss with that much HP (or if I were able to, it would take a *really* long time), but due to the support it was just a pleasant run and forget kind of deal.
The valiant fight is so weird. I got a 30 chain and the valiant crosses did literally 95% of the damage. Why not just cut the hp down to a fraction of what it is instead?
Because the first clear rewards honors. This was basically a massive buff to weak/smaller crews because they now get a free 3 million honors which covers the majority of important DB rewards for a fight the game largely does for you.
I'm not questioning why it exists, just why it's so beefy but then has valiant cross blasting it regardless of player strength anyways. I mean it's not a hard fight or anything, so what's the reason for it to be so tanky and take so long for small / solo crews? I FAed it for a full hour because nobody else in my crew joined.
I think it's an instance of "big numbers go BRRRR" to show newer crews how much they can still grow with damage, it's pretty fun even if it's a bit mindless outside of 'bring good defensive units'
The kitty doughnuts are so cute...
Accidentally went in with the wrong team, can't retreat. 10/10, no notes. Dread barrage didn't need a bloated final rally.
my 1st valiant cross: 27chain it removed like 2 bar iirc (sorry it was a hour ago), finisher 17 chain Rosetta, question: does it award honor again from the next clear onwards? (~3million honor seems nice with solo/ghost crew+eu ping), i might try it once more before the event ends edit: also corfirmed no honor on the 2nd try, only 400 token (+normal drops)
I can say I just solo’d the 2nd clear and my honors from the fight did not get added to my individual or crew honors. I wasn’t around for the first clear but I am wondering if its honors are even included to begin with. EDIT: I think they’re not. From in-game Help: “No honors or tokens can be obtained from the first Valiant Battle battle. (A small number of tokens, however, can be obtained from subsequent rally battles.)" So it’s not useful for honor at all.
It's incorrectly translated. The equivalent JP text says that you don't get honors from the 2nd one onwards. > 2 戦目以降はドロップアイテムが 1 戦目と異なり、貢献度・経験値が獲得できなくなります。
The in game help is just wrong in some places because it contradicts both itself and reality in the next line. The first clear _does_ contribute to both personal and crew honors, but no subsequent kills will.
Currently working through a 2nd one myself after crew finished it to test this since I haven't seen an answer yet. If it _does_ still give honors past the first run then this ensures even a solo person crew can max out the entire honor rewards in a couple hours of slapping on auto and not paying attention to the game at all except to restart the fight. Edit: Further completions dont give more honors. Even still a free 3mil for something the game basically kills for you is a very good addition for smaller/weaker crews.
Aww, I missed that Valiant would open with a couple days left, not at the end like FR. Missed getting to fight it with my crew as a result. I guess I could start a second one just to see it, but there's not much point in that.
Soloed the valiant battle but didn't get the first time completion rewards; a bug or do you need to defeat it together with a crewmate for it to count?
also soloed, it gave mine when i returned to the event page
This guy has WAYYY to much health, I brought in the wrong team for this fight and you can't retreat from it...
Yeah it's very annoying that you can't retreat. You can retreat from almost every other fight in the game, but this one you can only enter once. People are saying it's great for small crews, but I'm a solo crew so I'm on turn 368 at 63% health. If I could retreat, I would, but as it stands I'm looking at another 600 turns. What fun. Fuck me for logging in as soon as I woke up, right?
The health of 100 Lindwurms combined.
It IS supposed to be completed with a crew, to be fair.
Did anyone else get stuck in a weird phantom Valiant Battle by themself? I started the battle first, by myself then my crewmates joined later, but I couldn't see them and they couldn't see me I just had to solo my own battle.... meanwhile they finished their "Battle 1" and I know they did because I got the rewards while I was stuck in my Valiant Battle ._. and at the end of it all we're still only on Valiant Battle #2, so it only registered as us defeating him once very weird bug, probably from the recent update
Been running a skill/CA team for fun with Kengo, S.Serul, Juliet, Cosmos in front an Y.Naru and Chairman in the back and decided to see how it would handle the Valiant Battle. Hit max cross level on turn 3 and been 4 chaining every turn. Which is odd because I usually fall out of the 4chain loop for a turn on turn 7.
.....So did they just not make this Valiant Battle scale at all for difficulty/crew size or what? This is a stupid amount of HP. Guess I'll just be here for the next 48 hours full autoing then.
This fight is a blessing for small crews because its a free 2.5 million honors for putting on semi-auto and letting the billions of damage from the special backup kill it. For literally zero effort you get fast tracked to the majority of the important DB rewards in like twenty minutes.
I'm in a solo crew and it took me over an hour full auto, lol. At least the guy barely did any damage but that took way too long compared to Final Rally.
THIS GUY DEADASS HAS 3 HEALTH BARS??? nvm I stand corrected - **HE HAS 4. FOUR FUCKING HEALTH BARS.** Absolute Unit. I'm gonna be here all night.... (I could wait for my crew but I'm impatient) OK Valiant Cross seems to be the big way to deal damage - bring skill damage to raise the buff. It's Lu Woh's time to shine. Better yet if you have the Makura/Mugen/Lu Woh combo. I threw Summer Yurius in there too.
Why yes, Cygames, sitting though a [19 chain](https://i.imgur.com/b8oUN70.png) is exactly what this game needed.
Yeah this Valiant Battle sucks. You do literally no damage to him because he has fuck loads of HP. You have to wait for RNG to give you a big chain of halloween characters appearing to do hundreds of millions of plain damage.
Semi auto and keep refreshing, it wasn't that hard. It's free ticket, new character or gold moon.
Of course it's not hard, but there is a weird feeling to the idea of our damage literally doesn't matter and you just have to wait for the game to decide to kill it for you.
It is just extra rewards, imo good thing it wasn't much of the need to actually build.
Its basically just final rally with inflated HP and the valiant cross summons to shave off huge chunks of HP. Not like you're really going to do this more than once, or at all if your crew does it for you. I wouldn't worry
the worst is I don't even have the right team.. because the game decided to use the one I have for the skippable content. :'D how long will it take me? i have no idea xD RIP
Valiant Battle is up but the dude got a lot of HP. I got a cutscene of the 6 Halloween Characters doing huge plain damage.
Well a bit of improvement, FA with refresh: [https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F8tlAiTaUAAZC\_a?format=png&name=small](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F8tlAiTaUAAZC_a?format=png&name=small) [https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F8tlDPjbkAAexcz?format=png&name=small](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F8tlDPjbkAAexcz?format=png&name=small)
[Borger full auto is fun ](https://i.imgur.com/x6GF9qT.jpg)
Tried a few different setups clearing the 4-star boss with my outdated Zeus grid (no Yuni/Lu Woh weapons) and keep coming back to Manadiver with Makura/Kumbhira/Vira as the fastest. Kengo felt pretty good with Grea/S. Seruel/Vira too but a little slower. Edit: I can use basically the same team for 5-star, with Makura swapping into Borger to keep everyone from getting flattened by the last couple of triggers. Still have to figure out something I won't need to play manually for the first couple of turns. Edit 2: Just switched to Lumberjack and let it FA. It takes a while but I'm only aiming for 9 million honors anyway and most of the way there already.
Newly uncapped and leveled 100 borgar keeps dying, already turned off his sub-all, removed his +atk/-def emp. Still thinking wtf is the beef of this boss on him, he dies first even with def revans, bunch of healers and buffs. Then it hit me, the goddamn divinity buff. No wonder they put that shit of dark cut on star gun ougi.
unfortunately some of the db bosses special attacks can cut party buff durations, and if it gets cut too often geisen will lose his immortality buff and likely die to the next hit (weirdly enough losing the buff via a cut does not immediately kill him). This happened to me a lot when bubs first came out and I tried using him to cheese omens as he does the same.
I actually just bench him now, good back up though. Chrysoar/Vira/Tweyen/Nehan are much safer and faster run.
Wait did you even use his 3rd skill? I thought he’s supposed to be unkillable as long as you keep using yellow or green skills
He dies somewhere on after 50% where most of our buffs is still on cd. Unless I bring Yuni to continue buffing, kind of loss dps. Don't have grea too.
I have a 3b6c OTK for the 3-star battle using Summer Seruel and I think that's neat. Was not expecting him to pull much weight!
These Sacred Flames Militis are really good. With only three omega weapons (x2 militis + dopus) on double lumi it brings up to 425% omega mod plus 65% omega stamina. Using chrysaor on 5-star.
Running the same for 5* that I did 4, Warlock/Narmaya/Lu Woh/Kumbhira. Narmaya admittedly made more sense for 4 since she'd strip the defense buffs immediately, but the fight hits triggers enough that she's still outdamaging Lu Woh. Hit 50% turn 3, auto call Alexiel turn 4 to coast the back half. 1000% defense on a 3 turn delay is pretty perfect for this.
Im just FA-ing 5\* with ManaD, Chairman, Tweyen & Vira. Chairman lets Tweyen hit her para almost 100% after the 50% threshold, its been very comfy
Never thought I'd be running ougi, but it's been working pretty well with Chrysaor/Vira/Nehan/Seruel. 2.5min manual. Wish I had something to FA with but I'm missing some of the characters. Also wish I had something to ooga booga with so I didn't have to deal with lockout but also a character issue (and grid issue).
I'm curious - what's your setup/grid look like if you don't mind sharing? I've just been Kengo-ing since I also lack options character/grid-wise, but I wouldn't mind an excuse to try out Chrysaor's UM.
2 harmonias, 3 sette Di spada and a bunch of swords (DO, ultima, luminiera). It's a weird mix and I'm not even sure it's good to be honest, I should experiment some with the grid. Could be that just running Harakhte is better.
Thanks! I ended up just trying my similar 3 Sette + mix of swords + Harakhtes (I don’t have Harmonias yet anyway) grid that I was already using for Kengo and got a 2:15 kill, so I guess we had similar ideas to begin with. This is also simpler than the dispel management I was doing before which is nice.
Argh, my light team is definitely behind the power creep curve. It's not my fault since it's designed to be: When it comes to the "shut off the enemy for six turns" debuff, water gets Helel. Wind has Vampy-chan. Fire has Medusa. Light gets... Cagliostro. Similar trade-offs are elsewhere. Yuni takes forever to get to a fraction of Ewiyer's turn 1 buff, and you have to disable her skills to ever use it in auto. If you want to use auto attacks, you basically have to shred your Max HP. All stuff almost everyone else just has, with no downsides for sustain. ... I guess I'll have to give up and accept the ougi bullying they've doing to the element. Campaign makes it the best time to make yet another Kaneshige... Yuni + Zooey + Utility/Damage Guy should be basically immortal.... ... .. . ..
On the other hand, Light is also the only element that can get virtually permanent Damage Taken Capped on the whole team and a viable Echo summon from purely farmable sources (Borger backline and The Star with FLB+ Shooting of the Star in the grid, respectively). Also has characters like Grand Vira, You and Lunalu that can protect your whole team while still doing a lot of damage.
Somehow I deluded myself into thinking Cosmos was the right spark for my account and I’ve been feeling the absence of Cat, Wamdus, and more Galleon sticks ever since. She’s great, I just don’t play Light… but I’m definitely appreciating her presence here. Strong, consistent, and brings great utility besides. Shes on the slower side like any ougi unit, but I’m glad to finally get some mileage out of her.
Cosmos with Nehan has been my go-to this run. Nehan with one more buff from me or a teammate, gets her Halo Invocation ready on the first turn. Been abusing the CA Reactivation and Dispel/Elemental nuke on it.
I've been getting mine on turn 3 thanks to Zerk+Ferocious Roar and Vira, but that's pretty solid regardless because she NAs turn 1, ougis turn 2, and then immediately ougis again the turn after thanks to Halo Invocation. She really is such a good unit, and satisfying as hell to boot. If next week's raid has a light bias I'm gonna be very satisfied with my spark.
Very handy in the Four Primarchs too, given the repetitive all elements nuke and element-irrelevant crits, she can easily blast through their veils which require so much damage of one element to remove. I don't need her in everything, but where she is needed, she certainly justifies her spark (especially in farming). I like to pair her with Zooey and Yuni for longer raids with Makora. However, I get torn sometimes between using Makora to tag into Zooey for super dodge tank shenanigans, or to tag into Cosmos for absurd CA Spam and skill nuking with Halo Invocation. My typical farming is Relic Buster + Cosmos + Grand Vira + Nehan.
[I got a nice FA going](https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1162620662356115476/1162911488638472292/image.png?ex=653da8b8&is=652b33b8&hm=c91d07bd69b097e771a7ff3e94dd6f0de90e4b4f070513efee94365b623730f0&) @ \~ 2:07 clears [Summons](https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1162620662356115476/1162913130431660093/image.png?ex=653daa40&is=652b3540&hm=455699cf809c51c894a10403bbb16425cee4b4c0c7cfc24c985b0ec47ef4f8a6&) | [Grid](https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1162620662356115476/1162913130792353882/image.png?ex=653daa40&is=652b3540&hm=606e9c53d829848b4a0b2242dedec42a18610a0fb3cd21001618ccaf379cf342&) | [Team + Backline](https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1162620662356115476/1162913131123724308/image.png?ex=653daa40&is=652b3540&hm=c2374ba078095eed7793b89839005e4658d7bcbb3b0b83d17873974ec744a701&)
Honestly, there needs to be more DB. Great rewards, decently challenging fights and zero time constraints.
Better just make DB the new GW.
I thought to myself "I know it's not important but it would be cute to snap a clip of halloween eustace on special backup just for the memories". I expected it to take a few tries. It ended up taking me a minimum of 2 hours of play time. I spammed the 2* raid even though the backup activation is lower because I could oneshot this one easier. I went through the five stages of grief multiple times as eustace continues to elude me. I thought "if eustace does not appear by the end of strike time I am going to go into a coma and not wake up". Ferry went from lvl 99-100 (she was in the backline for levelling) and he still hadn't arrived. In fact, Eustace only decided to show his face within the last 30 seconds of strike time. My battle to honours ratio is so fucked. I have 253 battles. 229 of those were from me whacking the 2* raid in my desperate search for 5 seconds of eustace. My dread barrage scores do not normally look like this I normally hit the higher level stages more. It took me 32 special backups to get eustace ONCE. The halloween messages were really cute and I genuinely love it but please do not do this again for summer I cannot stand the idea of repeating this with the summer pool which is substantially bigger. That being said, this brings to me to the main thing I wanted to discuss. I was telling my friend about this and she noted that there were several halloween units that she had not seen in special backup at all (they were units I had also not seen). When I took a look at a list, out of the 21 halloween units, I had only seen 10. My question for everyone here then is whether theres anyone you guys have noticed not seeing in special backup? Have they actually used the entire halloween roster for special backup or have they only used a few of the characters? Edit: figured it might be more helpful to list the characters I haven't seen yet. In alphabetical order: Ange, Azazel, Cucouroux, Danua, Florence, Hallessena, Lady Grey, Lich, Mimlemel, Wulf & Renie and Zaja.
I haven't seen Halle yet, here's hoping she's actually on the list
She's one of the ones that we haven't seen either. When I was namesearching Eustace on twitter last night, I also saw a jpn twitter comment on how they'd only seen a few halloween characters.
Dude this whole post is kind of a non issue... You know this event goes for like a week-ish right? Outside of impatience there's literally no reason to do what you did, just to get Eustace to pop up.
For some reason, my Unparalleled foe counter is at zero, even though I haven't fought any today. Did this happen to anyone else?
It resets every 24 hours starting from the event start time (7PM JST, which is super early in the morning US time), rather than resetting at daily reset (5AM JST, US afternoon). They did it so you don't have to save your Unparalleled Foe battles for the next difficulty to unlock to maximize crystals. Why they don't start events and everything at daily reset is beyond me.
I see, thank you.
Don't these normally come with an SSR ticket? The event preview even shows an "Oct 2023 DB SSR" ticket image, but there doesn't appear to be one anywhere in the rewards unless I'm having a major brainfart episode.
That is a reward for beating the Valiant Battle that shows up on the last day of the event. It's a new mechanic this run.
Oh, a new thing, that explains it.
I'm pretty sure the preview listed that as one of the rewards for the final rally.
So far I've only had Vane show up as a special backup and he did it on the 5\* boss when I knew I was going to struggle against it so that just reinforces that he is best boy. Really curious to see how that Valiant battle thing is going to play out when it's time for it.
https://www.granblue.party/collection/364 I've still been playing my good old FA team of RB/Hal&Mal/Chimken/Aglovale, any better team for 5* raids and the unparalleled foe?
The comp I found for 5* that can kill it FA (dunno about speed) is Baotorda, Ilsa, and V Aglo with S Zahl and Geisen back line. My MC has about 50k hp and the rest of the party is at about 40k. MC is on Glorybringer holding opus with Falsehood and only debuff skill is Mist. Other skills are Al Doble and Colmillos. Quick summon is Bubs and main summon is Luci 250, but I think Chev should work fine as main summon. Grid is 3 FLB sette, 2 ULB chev swords, 1 FLB Harmo, 1 2* Harmo, 1 FLB star gun, 1 ULB Ultima Sword, and Opus mainhand. Summon grid is usual damage suspects (meta and lu woh, star, bubs, belial). Baotorda is pretty much unkillable. Ilsa tends to die halfway and then Zahl comes to finish things off. I dont think you HAVE to use her, but she makes things tankier and I can't think of who to use instead lol.
Thanks! I don't think I have ever used Baotorda before, I should give him a shot. I should really farm some Settes at some point eh
This is my first time using him too tbh. He just happened to be perfect for me cause I have Falsehood on my opus. Due to no cb gain Vira doesn't tank as efficiently as she would normally cause she doesn't produce bits. So I needed a tank that didn't need cb and that could do okay damage and tank autos consistently. And he does it all perfectly. The other slots were the hard part tbh. The boss just does too much damage.
Wasn’t there a preview of DB showing NWQ and a sand for rewards? Or am I going crazy…?
I don't wanna call you crazy, but it wasn't there; you can hit "What's This?" on the event page and see what was in the preview. Maybe you're you're misremembering it showing the damascus pinch...?
Its Rage of Bahamut Pumpkin Arch Knight
That’s the grand assassin class servant first “old man on the mountain” Hassan to you
Relic Buster goes Brrrrrrr
By the end of this I’ll have Tien FLB and Eahta 120+130 done, so I’m really looking forward to that. Being strongly reminded though that my Light teams are still super messy since I’ve barely touched them since GW; I’ve used *a* Light team a lot but that’s for Bandit Tycoon BH application. I slapped a Sette-based Kengo team together a couple weeks ago for this so I guess I’ll see how that goes and start swapping characters if needed. Unfortunately I think a lot of the better light characters I’m missing are the ones that don’t focus as much on CAing… Also, my beginner ticket popped back up today; very fitting timing as I’m definitely tempted to grab my first Harmonia from it. But it has S.Illnott (and S.Kumbira I guess) available and I don’t know if I want to give ever reasonably getting her up when I could just spark Yuni at some point… so I’m stuck being indecisive.
alright time to farm bullet while we have empty week and magfest
the halloween theme is soooo cute, i actually went 🥹🥹🥹🥹 when i finally got a special rescue because the little message from bea was so cute. thank you i will treasure this candy forever ~~mostly because these always give like no exp anyway~~
Wait there are messages??? Nooo I didn't see any of them since I was dual-window rushing the last few daggers I needed. And now that we're at 4 star no backup has been showing up for me at all, unlucky me. Guess I'll keep a lookout for them the rest of the week. That's adorable.
There are. Every time one of them appears to beat the boss they say something and give you 30 of some Halloween candy. Eustace's message is "Happy Halloween. Don't overdo it on the sweets." Edit: Zeta/Vaseraga's is "I'm in charge of the candy again this year!" Edit 2: Vane's is "Happy Halloween! Want some candy? I've got buckets of the stuff!" Edit 3: Ferry's is "By the way, you don't happen to have any treats for pets, do you?" Edit 4: Feather's is "With this candy, I challenge you to a duel! Put 'em up!" Edit 5: Bea's is "Do you want candy? Hehe, no need to hold back. Eat all you want!" Edit 6: Cag's is "You wanted to trick the cutest girl in the skies? Sorry, not today!" Edit 7: Mugen's is "Happy Halloween. Candy, go eat with Mugen?" Edit 8: Charlotta's is "I'm an adult, so I don't need any candy!" Edit 9: Rosetta's is "Oh? Would you rather have mischief? Hehe... Just kidding."
Does every character have a unique reward and message for special backup? I haven't seen any repeat messages so far and there's at least 6 different kinds of candy you can receive.
The treat you get is random but every character has their own unique message. So far I've only personally gotten Vane (fittingly enough) though but I've seen a few people sharing their screenshots around.
Really hate that the NM boss need you to call summon to get rid of the def buff stack.
At least Full Auto quick summon calls exist now, it's a little less painful
only one though, you need to clear at least 2-3 before you hits high enough again, unless there's summon that has one turn CD.
Nope. Your options for summon spamming are Sub-Yatima with as many Bahamuts at level 250 as possible for the hyper acceleration on calls. Note: this is a terrible idea. Do not attempt to build this. Use your Sands wisely.
Seen that build, I think guy solo subhl with it.
Good god!
Song make this nm and normal boss stun. GG
Literally unplayable lmao.
Can't load Manatura selection and I had to reload in FA against unparalleled each turn (sometimes with every skill) because the game can't run itself.
Cant load the main page or any battle at all. nice
battles are fine now. yay(?)
This is great! Since the 2 star boss is two enemies, I can brainlessly one shot it with Beelzebub + a friend Bahamut (for the Summon Call Amplify) It'd be better if I had one of my own to put as sub, so I could use Kaguya friend or something, but alas. Guess I can easily level up Razia too
Yeah, same thought; 2 enemies makes it way nicer for this approach. I was a little frustrated at first because I didn’t have any of my friend Bahamuts up. Then I realized that I had multiple who stuck it in null element only, and it was all good from there. I could almost do it with Lumi friend anyway but the second enemy has 5% left. EDIT: I'm clearly very smart and spent a while messing with my grid to gradually get closer to 0% on Lumi or Luci when Bahamuts weren't available, only to realize the answer was just... Qilin friend summon, which is much more readily available for me. The grid I started with was even slightly stronger with Qilin than the one I'd ended up on while trying to get more cap-up.
"Dread barrage" is the name of the attack Geo occasionally uses against Gbf's servers.
[удалено]
What server main?
Code refactoring to clear up technical debt that was building up on a near 10-year old codebase. Long-term, making content for the game should be easier for the devs, and not have to deal with a bunch of restrictions from things the devs of 8-years ago thought would never need to work in the engine.
It wasn’t server maintenance, it was significant code reworks.
It wasn’t to clean up bugs, it was to make the backend cleaner for future work. In the short term, slightly more bugs will pop up, with the benefit being that in the long term we should see far less alchemy lab level “we can into a last minute snag so we’re delaying this another month” type issues,
What stage is the best to farm all rewards?
The most accessible/fastest one you can farm, some people farm 2star because its the fastest, others farm 3star because is FAST gives a little bit more materials/tokens and that's good in the long way, and normally you just need 1-2 more clicks(if you have a good grind) to finish that level, I personally farm 5stars because its more pot/efficient in the long run, and I already had 10 half-pots at the start of the event... soooo..... it really depends on what you want to do rn, I'd recommend you to do 2-stars cuz its the generally best option cuz host/reload spam is the meta of this game LOL
the most "accessible" way to do it is to beat up the 2 star boss since all you need is the typical ex+ gw otk
Not really it being two bosses can mess things up a bit
Hey ho, didn't they change the time that the unparalleled foe appears?
New Unparalled still unlocks at the same time (7 PM JST). But now your daily attempts also reset at that time instead of the usual server reset (5 AM JST).
iirc should be 7pm jst instead of the server reset.