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icharchivist · 3 months

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hey!! sorry if this is a tough question to answer (pls ignore it in that case), but if I really really loved relink's world, specially the characters and their stories found in the fate episodes, do you think it's a good idea to check out the mobage? or would it be better to watch the anime instead?

thank you in advance, I hope you've been doing well!

Aaah heyy <33

First of all, welcome in Granblue Fantasy! i'm so glad you enjoyed Relink as much as you did <33333 Granblue is a very special game for me and Relink really was a wonderful adaptation of it all, and i'm so thrilled that new people can get to discover Granblue thanks to it!

As for me, i've never watched the anime and i have been playing the mobage since 2019, still going strong now 💪 so as you can imagine, i would recommand the mobage more personally.

it depends however if you are comfortable with Visual Novels, since the main game is pretty much a Visual Novel with Turn-by-turn RPG mechanisms!

The anime has two seasons and cover the very begining of the main story, before doing its own thing, taking inspiration from the game but not straight up adapting it. I'd say, it's a good experience if you want to discover a bit more about the world. That said you'll only see in it the characters from the Main Plot of Relink (MC, Lyria, Vyrn, Katalina, Rackam, Eugen, Rosetta, Io, i call them the Core Crew personally), and it won't go as in deep into them as the mobage does. I think Zeta makes a small appearance in the anime, possibly Ferry too? but that will be about it.

but if you want to really know the characters, do feel free to play the Mobage.

it's actually a browser game that is optimized for chronium browsers. You can play it here:

(on the homepage you'll be able to switch to English and tadaa. after the prologue they'll ask you to bind your account, i recommand you make a Mobage account to connect to Granblue. The wiki can give you a step by step way to do it)

Most of the stories of the game are easily available as you progress through the main story. you don't need to get really deep into the gameplay (unless you want to) to really access to most of the story.

There are stories that are locked in Fate Episodes, which comes from units you get from Gacha most of the time. Those can give you a pretty good glance into granblue in general.

The Main Story Quest (MSQ) will introduce you to the Core Crew and will give you free units of them all. It's in the MSQ that you'll also meet Ferry, from the extended character list.

Once you progress into the MSQ, you'll unlock the Side Stories. those are basically parallels story of when the crew stops on others islands, not related to their search for Estalucia. It's in this tab that you will meet the rest of the cast.

For example, to meet Lancelot, Vane, Siegfried and Percival, you need to read up to chapter 16 of the Main Story, and the story "Defender's Oath" will unlock This was their first appearances. They have a lot of stories since they have a guaranted story event every year. In doubt if you want to find some reading list, the wiki is your friend, or you can also ask me, i'm happy to help!

For information, the side stories first start out as limited event stories. There is one new one every months on the mobage. Once the event is over, it will disappear from the game, unless you read through it (or skipped it) so it was saved in Lyria's journal for you to come back to whenever you want; Eventually, it will get a rerun (there's usually a rerun once a month or once every two months), and then down the line it will get added to the side stories.

so it means that there are some stories you won't find in the side story tab.

THAT SAID.

If all of this is complicated on its own, or you don't want to play the game but still read on the story, or if you don't want to get invested in the gacha to get the fate episodes: know that about all of the content of the game is available on youtube, and the script of each of them is also available on the wiki.

The game may be a little confusing to know what to read.

The wiki can help, but it's also confusing when you don't know what to look for.

at any rate, know that my inbox is always opened if you have questions, if you want to look for tips, for stories to read, for links, anything you may want. I'm always happy to help.

I think you can always watch the anime and it'll give you a little clearer of an idea of what those characters are, but if you want to KNOW them, the mobage is totally the way.

As a little warning, the writing improved a lot during the decade the game ran, and early content tends to be a little more simplistic or shorter. So if you don't get grabbed in right away, do consider that the further you'll go, the better the stories.

The valentine's day campain will be ongoing soon, so if you want to give vday chocolates to Katalina or Rackam or Rosetta, you can start the game and discover that for yourself ;D

The 10th anniversary event will also be underway in a couple of weeks, which will normally come with free pulls and rewards, which makes it a good season to start the game to get some footing, if you feel like it.

Hope it helps a little, i'm opened for any clarification!

and once again i'm so happy Relink made you this invested into this world <3333

Take care!

#my granblue influencer agenda grows stronger everyday #ichareply #ichafantalks gbf #anonymous #ichablogging gbftips

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icharchivist · 4 months

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@haru-desune submitted:

Hello my semi annual "wth is gbf" ask But in all seriousness y'all look you're having fun 😁

DFKJDFMLFD HEY!!! Tee hee!

we are having a tone of fun over here yeah!! this year is the 10th anniversary of the game with new Triple A game coming out, so it's going to be a busy year and we've all been buzzing quite a bit. Though the way i ended up attracting a hive of anons discussing gbf is a mystery -- in the end the main game itself remains pretty niche -- but we're having a lot of fun bouncing out of each others.

Though to answer "what is gbf".... *looks at my blog* you will have to be more specific about what you want to know, because we don't even talk about the main story on here all that much---

Ok so for the fast crash course:

Granblue Fantasy is a browser game which can be played on any Chromium based browser at http://game.granbluefantasy.jp/ . It has a Japanese and an English version, running at the same time (it's not different servers, we get content at the same time as the Japanese fandom does)

It also has a Fighting Game called Granblue Fantasy Versus Rising, and will soon have a Action RPG coming out in February called Granblue Fantasy Relink. Those games are set in the lore of Granblue, though gbvs is slightly in another timeline/universe -- still those stories are stand alones meant to be different steps on the characters journeys

The gameplay is mostly Turn-by-turn RPG for the gameplay, and Visual Novel for the story -- and gacha to get the characters you get to use and meet. (note that today we just got 200 free pulls, and the opportunity to use those pulls will disappear in less than 2 hours, so if you want to play the game today is a good day for that)

For a crashcourse on the basic lore to know about + some vague Main Story Characters and spoilers information, you can go there to learn more about it!

but the long story short is that the world of gbf is a world of floating islands and magic, ruled by the absent God of Rebirth and Destruction known as Bahamut. (all the homies hate Bahamut.) Once upon a time Bahamut split into two, splitting the world as we know, and overseeing two types of people: The People of the Skies (The Skydwellers) who are mortals, and the People of the Stars (the Astrals) who are immortal. The Astrals tried to invade the Skyrealms centuries ago, but where pushed back -- but behind them they left Primal Beasts, immortal creatures who works as semi gods, dedicated to a purpose programed inside of them.

Our Protagonist, Gran if you play as a guy, Djeeta as a girl (you can switch gender anytime tho), was abandonned by their father when they were young as he went on a quest to find Eustalucia, the island of the Astrals -- and after years of radio silence, MC finally gets a letter about their father's whereabouts, and decides to go on a journey to find back their fathers -- travelling the skies and all of its perils.

accompanying them are Vyrn, the red dragon who raised us, who's memories have mysteriously been locked away, and Lyria, the Girl in Blue (well, with blue hair, but shh), a young girl who was held prisoner by the local Empire for her power to be able to control the Primal Beasts. As she attempted to escape thanks to Katalina, an ex soldier of the Empire who was so saddened by Lyria's situation she freed her and swore loyalty to her instead, she met our MC... and near death circumstances brought Lyria to connect her life to our own, connecting us together.

Both Lyria and Vyrn end up accompanying MC out of devotion and love, but also out of seeking answers about their own existence as well.

And on their way to Eustalucia, our MC becomes the Captain of a Crew, going from island to island, adding more and more people to their crew as it goes.

The Main Story follows mainly their struggle to go to Eustalucia, facing the Empire at the time, Primal Beasts going Bersek, and much more others problems.

But every months the game unleash an event story, which will pretty much be "a story on another island that isn't related to the main plot". Those events then disappear for a time before being added to the side stories.

And those events have their own casts. The overall lore builds to the main lore, of course, but each event stories will follow their own themes for instance. Sometimes the casts of those events crossover and spend time together.

On here we talk a lot about What Makes The Sky Blue: A Three Parter story about the first primal beast of creations and their quests to reexamine their purpose, their free will, and their connection with Bahamut as their creators turns out to be heavily linked to him.

wmtsb is also the doomed love story of Sandalphon and Lucifer, as Sandalphon was driven to madness and unleashed his anger on Lucifer, leading to strife when Lucifer tried to make things right no matter what. They're. so much.

youtube

(longer version with translation)

it's also the story that has Belial as a secondary antagonist, and it's the guy we talk about soooo fucking much on here because we're so unwise about him. the polar opposite of Lucifer, who yet was so dedicated to his creator he triggered various apocalypses and brought various issues to our protagonists to selfishly reunite with the man he loved.

Oh and, like, i'm not actually like, any type of hyperbolism about the LGBT+ stuff btw. Belial's feelings are explicitly romantic, and later Lucifer mirrors Belial's explicit words to address his feelings for Sandalphon for instance.

We also have various Trans rep (Ladiva and Cagliostro are openly trans women, Balurga is a trans man, Orologia is a genderfluid dragon who literally shift gender from one screen to the next and who use they/them, and the characters who, as a group, are named the 6 dragons, are openly nonbinary. There's also two others characters (Morilynn and Morgan) who use they/them pronouns. And also i'll include him but Lamorak who said he refused to be limitated to gender.)

We also have a lot of wlw and mlm, including a canon wlw kiss (but for that i direct you to my current pinned post, i love them so much they're so unwell) and a wlw engagement party. We're doing fine here.

Another story i'm particuliarly found of personally is the Dragon Knights saga, but it's a 10 parters so it's like. A Lot. But it's basically about four knights who once served the country of Feendrache together, working together to uncover the sins of Feendrache's past and make sure the current country is willing to atone for their crimes, as they're trying to rebuild a proper future, while avoiding the threat of Merlin, a victim of one of said crimes who have been planning Feendrache's destruction ever since.

Or the story Marionette Stars, about people suddenly getting wrapped into a conspiracy as they are being led to connect with powerful weapons connected to the Horoscope, leading them in the web of an organization who is making sure conditions are met for them to awaken their weapons to lead to nefarious intentions.... it's where the kissing lesbians are from for instance, but also fair warning this is the gorest of the saga so far and it has a lot of unsettling stuff going on in it.

And there's so much more characters and stories and anything for the eyes to see. All with gorgeous arts, and a lot of recent stories have very deep themes which really are interesting to sit through, though keeping in mind that the game has a lot of disturbing content and doesn't hesitate to have you sit through extremely disturbing and gore scenes. #SurvivorOfTikohFE

here's some arts samples of various saga to give you an overview of some goodies here and there

and if you want to get into it because of Seiyuu? you're in luck! there's so many characters in granblue that your favorite seiyuu can POSSIBLY be in it!

like i did a list of a3 seiyuus in it for example:

and some of them have songs! as pictured above with Sandalphon's (Suzumura Ken'ichi) song, but also like, the Dragon Knights (Seiyuu: Eguchi Takuya, Ono Yuuki, Ryota Osaka, Kazuhiko Inoue) or Grimnir's song (by legendary seiyuu Megumi Ogata)

or also absolutely bonkers songs as OST, like the infamous Parade's Lust, Paradise Lost, Zero, Existence, Peace and Quiet, The Watershed Moment, or a personal fav with For You.

So strap in, give it a shot, and if you want clarification on literally anything, don't hesitate ;D

#submitted #ichareply #submission #it sounds overwhelming. and it IS. but it's also so fucking good once you're in it #just focus on one saga or something and then you'll open up your mind #anyway there's a bnha collab in a week or so if you want to play for that??#it'll be a good introduction to the game #and the anniversary is in end February/begining March and it'll be the 10th anni so it'll be big #the more you know ;D #haru desune #ichafantalks gbf #ichablogging gbftips #Youtube

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icharchivist · 5 months

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Heey! Is there anything time sensitive going on in GBF right now/this month? I'm planning to give it a try as a beginner as soon as some big event drops haha

Oooh hello!! Welcome to the game if you end up trying it out!

Starting December 15 is Free Pull Season! for now it will be one solo free pull a day, but usually Free Pull Seasons morph into "one 10 pull a day" and then we get a roulette (which is "randomly between 10 to 100 pulls per day" (though higher pulls are obviously harder to get), and it should be until the end of December

so, if you want to start playing the game, definitely take advantage of the Free Pull Seasons!

(the end-of-year Granblue Festival will also happen soonish, during Christmas iirc, and it usually means getting a lot of major rewards in game right after the event - so you probably want to have an account before the Festival happens)

in term of events this is the planning this month:

(follow @granblue_en to really be up to date with everything)

Currently ongoing is a story event. It's a nice whodunit if you want to give it a try, otherwise you can skip it to save it into your journal and still get ~600 crystals from it at least (storyevents are limited and will no longer be accessible once the event is over unless you went through it, either by reading or skipping it. Until it gets added to the side stories in a few years at least. thus the advice.)

Exo Ifrit and Proving Grounds are usually for more experienced players, i wouldn't call those really beginner friendly, so you don't really have to worry about those events and can focus on other in-game stuff (though as you can see, free pull season start right in the middle of Proving Grounds)

Note that what i call "Free Pull season" mostly bc it's when we get the Free Pulls is actually "Half Off Campaign": it comes with daily rewards, a boost in xp gain, half-off from AP/EP/quest mats for hosting/starting quests, drops boost, & some more miscellaneous things that mostly matters for experienced players.

(also Holiday season is starting meaning new Holiday limited units are dropping as well if you want to try your luck at those)

Divine Generals Assembly rerun is a story event that already happened in the past but is getting, well, a rerun. Like any story event, if you don't intend to read it just yet, it's good to skip it so you have it in your journal later and still get the rewards from it. It's a laidback/Slice of Life event event about a group of character called the Divine General going to a holiday ressorts to relax.

Last is the Story Event, still a mystery for everyone.

Not announced yet but there should also be a New Year event around New Year when we get there.

Else, the Festival is incoming, which will be a massive stream on a few days, including seiyuu shows and games, news, unit reveals, concert, cosplay shows, and so on. Always worth a watch if invested!

so basically: if you want to start playing granblue as a beginner/casual i'd say, at least make an account before December 15th and log in every day to start getting the daily rewards that will come with the campaign, as well as the free pulls.

There's 3 story events this month, one currently ongoing, if you don't want to miss them.

And two Challenge events that you can skip on as a beginner for now.

hope it helps! ;D

#ichareply #ichafantalks gbf #anonymous #ichablogging gbfnews #ichablogging gbftips

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icharchivist · 7 months

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hii! if someone is interested in getting into the original granblue fantasy (mostly because I'm curious about the characters, specially belial he's so pretty omg) are there any tips/things you'd recommend keeping in mind?

I hope you have a great day/evening/night/what other times of the day exist!

oh hi!!! another victim to how pretty Belial is...... welcome abord!

I have a lot of various level of tips depending on what angle of the game you want to explore, but it might be a little overwhelming. I'll start just by "making the game work well for you" and "how to advance in the Visual Novel (especially to get to Belial)" as the starter guideline.

My inbox is also always opened for any type of clarification: no question is too dumb, i'm here to help, whatever level you're at (.... except if you're on super High Level but i don't think that's going to be the case for a while)

I usually use the tag ichablogging gbftips if you need to look through some things

First of all, how the game works:

Granblue Fantasy is a browser game. It means you don't need an app to play it. however it is chromium based so you will need a google chrome tab or the likes (if like me you're on firefox, i genuinely run chrome only for Granblue at this point)

it is accessible on this address:

the page will be Japanese upon arrival, but just scroll a little and you'll find the "set language" settings

There all you need to do is press new game and start on your journey.

Note that the English and Japanese server are the same. Unlike most gacha we play, it means there is no delay between the stories-- both language get games and stories update at the same time.

Word of advice: when the game asks you to link your account, like here:

select Mobage. the page is in Japanese but it will be the most efficient way to save your progress. this page should help if it's not instinctive to you.

Once your mobage account done, tadaa, you can log in onto the game on whatever browser you would have, and you can be logged on multiple place at once! i'm currently playing on my phone while also taking screenshots on my computer! hell yeah!

On there the game will mostly hold your hand through the gameplay and the beginning of the main story, as well as your first gacha.

Slight information about the gacha:

-On your homepage, when the "Draw" button is blue, it means the rate up for SSR is really low. when the "Draw" button is golden, it means the rate up is at least doubled, and some rarer, limited units, are also in the pool. It is highly recommended that if you want to pull, you should pull when the Draw button is Golden (it's called "Gala" in general)

-there is a pity system called a Spark. After 300 pulls (or 30x10 pulls), you are allowed to choose one of any of the characters featured on this specific banner. Most people tend to wait until they have 300 pulls saved for when their fav is in the banner too pull as a result (or, as we say, we "save a spark"). This website can help you taking track of your spark.

-There ARE free pulls seasons: if you intend to be a seasonal (ie, not play for a time) it's good to come back in December, in March (it's the anniversary month, and next year is the tenth anni, so it might be even more of a celebration), and sometimes in Summer, in order to take advantage of the Free Pulls. Usually, in December and March, we get one free ten pulls a day at least, and then further into the month, we get "a roulette" that can double or triple that number. It's really worth keeping an eye on Free pulls seasons.

Others information:

-You will want to follow or keep an eye on the Granblue_en twitter account. It's a fan account that is always updating any information needed. It's a life savior gem.

-if you have any doubt gameplay wise, rely heavily on the gbf.wiki. It is EXTREMELY throughout gameplay wise. Genuinely a must-be-aware-of to play the game.

Important gameplay thing:

-If A Story Event is ongoing (it's not the case right now), and you don't want to read it for whatever reasons, do yourself a favor and actually go to the event page and manually skip every episodes of the event. It will save the event in your Journal, meaning it can be accessed later on when the event is no longer live.

(the current ongoing event, Dread Barrage, is a fighting event, i think you can kinda ignore it for now because it is when things start to be complicated, so don't mind it as of now)

Storywise:

There are three sorts of stories in Granblue:

-The Main Story Quest, which you will have to progress into in order to unlock the rest of the stories. It's the core of the Main Character's journey with Lyria and Vyrn as they travel the skies to reach their destination.

-Events and Side Stories, which are basically stories that happen when they dilly dally on their journey and go to new islands. Events and Side Stories often have their own casts that will not appear in the Main Story, but are still equally important to the game.

This type of story starts out as limited events: they run for ten days in Granblue. Then, they disappear for a while. Usually in the years that follow, this story gets a "rerun". It means the event goes back live, still limited for 10 days. And then, after a while, the event is ultimately added to the Side Stories tab, where it will always be accessible in game.

The Side Stories tab unlock after you finish Chapter 6 or 8 of the Main Story i'm not really sure. Some Side Stories will have requirements to be unlocked (like reading up to x chapter of the main story, or reading x over events before unlocking it) (it will be featured in the Gameplay Extras tab on the homescreen)

Some Side Stories are linked together. I personally call those "sagas". For example the Dragon Knights Saga (one of my favorite stories my icon and header are from) has about 10 events stories that have to be read in their publication order to be understood. It means you can expect the same cast, and a continuation to a previous story. Some Side Stories can also have casts from multiple sagas all together, so, have fun, explore the tab!

-Fate Episodes are the last type of stories you will have. They are linked to the characters units you will play with during the game, that you get by gacha or by completing events. Those are short stories that will be character driven. The characters can be Main Story Characters or Event Characters. Therefore they might further stories from their respective origins here and there. There is usually one starter episode unlockable as soon as you get the character, then one episode when you reach a certain level. SR and SSR characters who have a 5th star instead of only 4 also have another episode when you reach level 80, and then when you reach level 100. (the Fate episodes are available in the Quest tab and a shortcut to your list is also in the envelop menu on your homescreen)

SO THAT'S For the basic run down of some of the beginner things you want to keep an eye out storywise.

(Note that about every events are also available on youtube, so while missing an event sucks and all, if you wish to read an event which isn't in the side stories, or a fate episode of a character you can't get, youtube is here for you. also the transcript of every single stories are available on the wikipedia, though it's not as ideal.)

Gameplay wise, for the beginning, you'll get your hand held by the game. when it starts to get tricky, you're free to come and ask more precisions on here.

Now one last thing: how to get to Belial.

Belial is part of the side story saga known as "What Makes The Sky Blue".

The main story is a trilogy, respectively, "what makes the sky blue", "what makes the sky blue part 2: paradise lost" and "what makes the sky blue part 3: 000" After the trilogy, the summer event "The Maydays" is a sort of light hearted event following the events of 000 that involves the same cast. it is in the side stories. Last year, they also released another event including wmtsb characters, called The Mole Troupe. It has not been added to the side stories as of now.

To unlock the first part of wmtsb: you need to: -Reach Chapter 54 of the Main Story -Complete the side stories "Festival of Falling Flame", "The Cowardly Hero and the Captive Princess", and "Blade of the Young Champion" -(no one will blame you if you skip the side stories to read later, as it's mostly recommended because characters who appear in those events appear in wmtsb p1. But do read the Main Story though because the events rely a lot on the lore developed by the Main Story at this point.)

(and if you ever want to try out the Dragon Knights saga, it unlocks after Chapter 16 of the Main Story, and the first event is called Defender's Oath. Just to meet The Boyz.)

Also as a fair warning: early Granblue events tended to be shorter and perhaps a little less complex. After 2017 (wmtsb pt2), events started to grow longer and more complex. It might be jarring if you ever end up reading an early event and a more recent event back to back.

This would be my beginner outline at least.

One last warning: the gameplay will look intimidating at some point. don't let it intimidate you and just yolo. My ultimate beginner tip is that you should focus on stories and characters you like first. Discover the story, discover the characters. Don't let "trying to be good at the game" cloud you from just having fun with those characters. You can go far into the game without being hardcore into the gameplay, so take it easy and don't let it stresses you out.

Most importantly: have fun! take your time and enjoy yourself!

And if you have anything to ask - any tips, any recommandation, anything - my inbox is always opened ;D

Take care!

#even there it sounds large and intimidating but i just tried to break down things that could help #hope it does!!#take care!!#ichareply #anonymous #ichafantalks gbf #ichablogging gbftips

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icharchivist · 1 year

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Thank you, you are so nice!:) If I may ask one last thing (and then I promise I won't bother you anymore)...is there an easy way to get rainbow prisms? Trying tu unlock Seox (first eternal) but I don't really know how to get 250 of them

:) <3 i'm glad to be of help though, so do feel free to ask away!

And, for the rainbow prisms, grinding them in any of the mats quests is one way to go. If you have SR Richard, slot him in the back of your teams to grind, he gives some items boost drops which are always handy. (Tien of the Eternals also does that and boosts it even more, but considering you're griding for your first Eternal rn she's not exactly an option)

but on easier ways to get them:

In the shop > treasure trade > treasure > Prisms

those are Monthly Trades, if you can try to do those monthly for the prisms you need at the moment (here, Rainbow Prism), it's going to really help you out.

The other easier way is by reducing summons.

-Reducing Dropped SSR Summons (like any of the Omega ones) will give you 1 Rainbow Prism and 10 Flawless Prisms -Reducing Gacha SSR Summons will give you 10 Rainbow Prisms and 20 Flawless Prisms

SR summons have the same logic except it is only Flawless Prisms and Flawed Prisms. Basically, you'll get more from reducing Gacha stuff.

Important note: when you reduce Summons (or weapons), always do it by reducing multiple at once. You get supplementary drops depending on how many you're reducing. Ex: if you reduce 1 SSR Summon, you'll get 1 Bonus Prism, but if you reduce 10 SSR Summons, you'll get 10 Bonus Prism, on top of the ones you get from the reducing itself.

In term of what Summons are safe to reduce: -Once you fully uncapped One Omega Summon per element, you can reduce anything else you get from drops -From gacha, it really depends the summons, you should mostly be safe reducing anything from the Epic Series because those aren't exactly used. In case of doubt, go check the wiki for each summons you'd consider reducing, there's generally a note on the wiki about whenever those summons should be reduced or not. -You can reduce every single SR Summons eXCEPT Carbuncle summons (they're specific shields summons that have some interesting uses. You want to have 4 copies, fully uncapped, per element. Once you get more than that you can reduce those), and the Arcarum ones but i think the game doesn't even let you reduce those.

I hope it works out this way! for info, too, upon completing the side story "Seeds of Redemption", you get a free eternal (without the grinding). If you're well advanced into Seox rn i would say don't use it on him and finish him the regular way, but consider it if there's another Eternal you're considering that you haven't started to work on yet.

hope it helps up!!

Good luck and take care! o7

#ichareply #ichafantalks gbf #anonymous #ichablogging gbftips

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icharchivist · 1 year

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Sorry to ask this, but do you know how to access this new "My Villa" feature in Gbf I see all over the english Twitter? Do I need to level my crew's island to a certain point to access it or is there a rank requirement or something?

it's all okay to ask, if there's anything i can ever help with you're free to ask, no matter how bothersome it seems like, esp in term of gameplay things.

From what i understand, you need to have leveled up your specific part of the island to level 3 before accessing the Room

this is what it says in the help tab at least

so in the Crew>Island tab

Before, when i clicked Details, it would bring me to the page showing off the mats requirement. Even once i had completed it, it showed me the mats, all greyed out with a "completed" on it

Now, when i click details, it brings me directly to my room.

so i would assume that if you click details and it still shows you Mats requirement, it means you can't access your room yet.

The mats for this specific area are really annoying since they're co-op only mats (or, grinding a lot of Rose Queen to get them and it'll be random and not even certain), and no one play co-op anymore (except for Astaroth)

But you should look out for the rerun events when they happen, ever since the rerun of Savior of Dalmore, there's been sets in the co-op rooms to buy those mats with those events's items

The Robomi store is still available (under Shop > Treasure Trade > Quest Items > Event/Others > Redux/Tie-in > Robomi), and while you can no longer grind for it if you still have mats you will find them here:

those are the two sets you will need to level up your island, takes the full stock when you can

From my experience i think you can count like, 2/3 Reruns events of the sort in order to fully upgrade your Villa (bc god knows i'm not touching Co-op lmao)

If you don't have remaining mats for Robomi, it'll be for next rerun event. If you can't buy all the sets, focus on the Co-op Treasure Set especially, since the Wispy Spirits are far more accessible to the general grind (Wispy Spirits are found in Shop>Treasures, and 2 of them are found in the Peacemaker's Wings tab, and the 2 others are in Empyreal Ascension. They require omega anima from basic and accessible raids, that are easier to farm by raid hopping - while Co-op is harder to organize and the drop rate suck ass.)

So that'd be my advice on this one, and once those requirements are filled you should access your Room without problem, i think

Sorry for the overexplaination, just making sure to make things clear just in case, but if i'm sharing infos you already know, well, that's the risk but i hope it'll be helpful!

Hope it helps o7

Take care!

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icharchivist · 24 days

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Wait, when did I unlock Dark Rapture?

...Not today, Satan

oh yeah :) i think you unlocked the regular Dark Rapture around level 130.

Welcome to hell, you can't escape for ever.

But more seriously if you want more power in your grids it's good to at least poke this raid. (my tip is bring your Light Team and do dmg targetting his wings, better if you do a CA Full Burst, it'll give you at least some honors that can count on getting a good chest)

it's the 30 people raid so people will come and save you and you don't have to worry about his 6people raid nonsense.

Meanwhile he'll drop his blood there (don't worry about it) which you'll be able to trade for his Opus weapons.

the Opus are among the core weapons from any grids once you get into HL (along with Seraphic and Astral weapons -- don't worry about Astrals yet though it's a Bubs/Arcarum problem for later. When you don't have an Astral you can get a Xeno weapon to basically replace it -- and with how much you've been hitting up Sagittarius you may have a lot of mats to work on Xeno Sagittarius' weapons too)

(there's also a weapontype called Draconic you can only unlock from playing Lindwurm and 6 dragons, which functions in similar way to the Opus but on different skillsets -- as a result you can only have one Opus OR one Draconic per grid, you can't have both of them. But usually grids are mostly built around Opus because Draconic still are pretty specific)

The Opus comes into two forms by elements: Renunciation when you have an Omega grid, and Repudiation when you have a primal grid

(in case i have to say it: Omega grid is a grid built with weapons that drop in game and are boosted by the summons from Tiamat/Colossus/Leviathan/Yggdrasil/Luminera/Celeste. Primal grids are prenium grids built from gacha weapons and boosted with summons like Zephyrus/Agni/Varuna/Titan/Zeus/Hades)

So to get stronger you will want the Renunciations weapons:

you'll find them in Siero's shop, in Treasure Trade > Weapons > High Difficulty. They cost 500 Elemental Quartz (of the element you're trying to get), 255 Weapon stones (of the weapon type the weapon you're trying to get is), and 5 Shadow Substance.

Shadow Substance either drops from Lucilius' main raid, or gets traded in the shop against 5 Dark Residue each, which also drops from Lucilius' main raid with more frequency than the Shadow Substance.

it's honestly actually not too hard, because even just poking the raid can get you guarantee Dark Residue.

The weapon will come at 3* when you get it, and it's going to be uncap that's challenging. 4* is gotten easily with Lucilius' main raid's mats, but 5* will require his HL raid and other HL materials from Gold Brick, Hollow key, and even Co-op's Astaroth.

It also has a newly implanted Transcendence but the mats are all HL nightmare (just the first Transcendence demands 30 of each of the big mats dropped by Lucilius HL, Beelzebub and Belial. We don't touch those).

BUT FOR YOU: getting your Renunciation weapon to 4* shouldn't be too hard and would actually improve your grids greatly.

Also once you get your Opus, you can custom which skills your Opus will get via the Pendulum menu (Shop > Treasure Trade > Power Ups > Skill Items > Pendulums) (it can also be upgraded with Chains, from the same menu, but those are Belial's mats only and we don't do those.) Pendulum will give you customs skills like "boost to skill dmg" or "boost to CA dmg". The first Custom Skills available costs 5 Shadow Substance (Regular Lucilius Raid) and the Second Custom skills costs 5 Tears of the Apocalypse (Lucilius HL raid, so don't worry about it)

just getting A Renunciation weapon to 4* with The First Pendulum would help you a lot.

see it in the way of this is how you can have Seofon do huge dmg.

if anything i explained isn't clear you can check the wiki page about it.

🫡 congratz on getting there Champion. You'll get even stronger, you'll see.

Take care!

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icharchivist · 28 days

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I could take him to ProtoBaha, but I can't solo that

And I do have Empyreal Ascension, but I can definitely not survive more than two rounds in that one either

It's fine though

I'm currently trying to do the annoying part in the Revenant weapon process where you need to gather a bunch of R weapons and it's my personal hell

you'll get there, someday!!! someday.

OH! the R weapons are all in the token boxes for each gw. just make sure you exclude them from your auto reserve

if you empty one full box during GW you should be able to get all of the R weapons you need for Siero's shop

and the good news is that she'll never ask for this step again once you did it once!

so o7 good luck!

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icharchivist · 3 months

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Soooo... If I wanted to uncap Seofon for the 5th time, how would I do that?

I got him from Seeds of Redemption, so I didn't actually finish upgrading the sword, if that's important

Sorry for asking, I'm just a bit lost

Oh man.

it's okay you can ask, it's just not going to be easy to explain.

It's actually good you didn't finish upgrading the sword in your situation, but the rest will likely make you cry

one way to keep track of how much mats you need is to use this website, if it can help you.

Here's the mats you'll need:

Before moving on please note that you need 64 Rusted Weapons in total, or more precisely, 16 fully uncapped Rusted Weapons.

They drop in Angel Halo and in Proto Bahamut (Normal), and you can trade for 8 of each a month.

While you can use dupes to uncap them (hence the 64 of them), you can also uncap them with Silver Brick, which can be bought with casino coins in the Casino, and i think also with Bronze Moon in Siero's shop. If you have the means to invest in Silver Brick (3 per weapons) you can aim for 16 of them.

Note also that it requires 40 Revenant Weapons, or 10 once you uncapped them with dupes. In your case, you already has 4 of them/1 of them, so you need 36 more weapons.

You can get them out of Dread Barrage or Unite and Fight. A DreaBarra is coming this month, and U&F will be in April. You can divide your load over those two events if it helps. DreaBarra is also slightly easier to grind for Revenant Weapons for.

NOTE also that there should be a Fate Episode in your FE tab which will require you to Fight the Eternal with the Revenant Weapon as main hand. You can use the one you started to forge for that. For your sake it's best if the weapon has been upgraded to the Element Change's step and changed to Fire before going into the fight against Seofon.

Then another FE will be available, which will require a Weapon Soul. The mats above are all included in how to get a weapon soul. This is how we get them. it's going to be annoying:

First Step: Optain and uncap a Silver Relic.

To uncap Siete, your first step is going to be running Angel Halo 10 times, until you get a Hard quest pop up --this is also the hard quest that pops up when you run Pro Angel Halo as well (once daily, it allows you to skip the 10x times quest run to get straight to the hard one)

To run the hard one, have Seofon in your party, no matter where, he can be in the back if it doesn't help your set up.

This Hard quest will drop a regular Sword Weapon Shard, or, if you're lucky, a silver relic of a sword.

To uncap Any Eternal you will first need a fully uncapped Silver Relic. A Silver Relic is tradable in Siero's shop for 10 Shards of their associated weapons.

So, first work on gathering 40 Shards, praying for some Silver relic drop to cut you some work, and trade them in Siero's shop to get a fully uncapped Silver Relic.

(note that anything that affects the drop rate can boost your chances of getting a Silver Relic. Going in the quest with a Kaguya support summon from the Null tab, and using SR Richard in the background of your team if you have him, can help you a little.)

To Uncap the Silver Relic to 5*, you will need 300× Sword Stone, and 300x Quartz of each elements.

To get those, some of them will be available in various treasure shops (like the Showdown ones), but the best plan is to reduce Swords, and reduce summons.

Gacha weapons/summons will give you more fragment than anything that drops in the game, and in there i recommend you to check the wiki to see if the weapons/summons you could sacrifice for it are ok to reduce. The wiki should make it clear to you.

Otherwise, reducing Omega summons you would have in dupes after you max uncapped your own is also one way to do it. Be more careful about reducing Omega swords depending of if you're still building your grid.

Note: reducing stuff in bunk will give you a bonus amount of mats, so it's good to just reduce everything you intend to reduce at once.

Even if you can't finish this step yet, take a look at step 2 for others mats you should gather in the meantime.

Step Two: Forge your Silver Relic into a Gold Relic

To do that, go to the Revenant Weapons tab and go back to the Sword tab. The Silver Relic will be there and will show you what you need.

the page will look like this:

but for sword, obviously.

To forge the elemental SR swords you're recommended, you go back in the Revenant Weapon Sword tab and sort out a Rusted Weapons that is max uncapped, and you charge it with an element change.

-Gold Bricks are hard mats to get. You can get them from rare drops on Impossible Raids such as Proto Bahamut or Akasha. Your best bet will be however to either wait for Rise of the Beasts, which will allow you to get gold nuggets, which you'll be able to trade for a Gold Brick OR playing Dread Barrage and Unite and Fight to get Valor Badges to get the Gold Brick pack in the shop.

-Silver Centrum are obtainable from Grand Order (Normal), Ultimate Bahamut (Normal), and various others Impossible raids. Your best bet is to grind Grand Order. Hosting it will get you 2 Silver Centrum for sure, and else you can trade for them in Grand Order's shop with the others drops from the raid.

-Legendary Merits drop from various Impossible Raids, or can be traded in shop for 3 Supreme Merits + 10 Champions Merits

-Damascus Crystal don't drop, but they tend to be rewards in Story Events, tradable in Event Shops in general. In regular new story events you can get 3 out of honors rewards and 7 from the Token Boxes (as long as you empty 10 Token Boxes). Another way to get them is via trading Damascus Grain for it, but those drops only in Impossible Raids.

-Sword Distinctions drop from Co-Op quests, but they're also tradable in the Pendant shop. Just take them there, it's less annoying.

What will be annoying is the Revenant Weapons Fragment.

Step 2.5: How To Get The Revenant Weapons Fragment.

From getting Seofon from Seeds of Redemption, you should have got 50 of them.

There are two ways to get 50 Fragments:

-either you reduce a fully forged Revenant Weapon (usually, it's the one you forged to unlock them -- but it's never recommended to forge a fully Revenant Weapons if it's not to unlock an Eternal, as you will need another Gold Brick further down the line and it will be extremely pricey) (and it's why they gave you 50 weapons fragment with Siete)

-Or reduce 10 Elementally charged Revenant Weapons. this is the recommended step.

To get there you need to uncap 10 Revenant Weapons (thus, needing 40 of them), and then forge them in the Revenant Tab, up until the 3rd step, where you're asked to change the element of the weapon.

this is where you'll need those mats:

Back to the rusted weapons, it's what i was talking about earlier: you need 40 of them, because you will need to have 10 max uncapped ones. If you want to use the Silver Brick trick here too.

The Element you forge the Revenant Weapons as don't matter. Just forge one in Fire so you can do Seofon's earlier Fate Episode where you have to fight him, but the rest is up to you. My recommandation is to priviligize elements you have a surplus of mats of.

Once you have 10 Revenant Weapons which have had their elements changed, you can reduce all of them. It will give you 50 Revenant Weapons Fragment.

You should have 100 of them then.

Once you have all of the mats listed above, you can forge the Gold Relic.

Step 3: Reduce the Gold Relic.

It will give you The Soul Weapon that you need to play the new Eternal FE you have.

The new Eternal FE will be a fight against the Revenant Weapon. For Seofon, the only tactic for this fight is "Press first two skills whenever they are up."

Step 4: Uncap the Eternal

It will require those mats to proceed:

There will be a new fate episode at lvl 100 in which you will have to fight the Eternals in order to unlock the 4th skill.

This should be the jist of it. It looks overwhelming. and it is. but if you follow this guide closely it should (?) help.

For now, focus on gathering the various mats you need. Use the website i linked to keep track of them, and use the wiki to figure out where to find those mats.

But i hope at least the rest is a bit clearer?

if not, feel free to ask precision, but also just point me to what you need precision about so i know exactly how to approach it next time.

Hope it helps! Take care!

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icharchivist · 3 months

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I am getting gbf relink tomorrow (hopefully) but i am kinda split on what sets to choose, what would you recommend the eternals one or evokers one?

WOOOOH HAVE FUN WITH THE GAME HOPE YOU LIKE IT!!

and, honestly, depends on what are your goals and where you're at in your recruiting/uncapping process, as well as which characters you like.

If i don't misread the bonus pack, the Eternal pack is only for uncapping and transcending (so you still need to have them recruited first) while the Evokers' pack is to recruit them and advance on their uncapping process (but not uncapping them to their 5*)

If not out of love but out of gameplays, here's are some priorities:

Eternalwise

Transcendance:

-Seox is a murder machine once you start transcending him and he's often brought to max transcendance level as a result, so he's always a good bet, as he's often found in dark set up. -Seofon also gets more and more use as he takes level, though his use is a little more niche. He's also a good bet for transcendance to the max. -Niyon starts to really shine at level 130 (which the item pack will bring you to) so it's always a good call.

Uncapwise, Tien and Fif also gets some more use out of level 100 without needing to transcend them.

Imo the priority gameplaywise for the Eternals should be Seox.

Evokerwise:

on the same level of priority:

-Geisenborger can be your Light Dark Savior which you should consider if you intend to play the next Light GW. When in sub ally, he caps the dark DMG taken by Light allies by 10k per hit. It means some attacks that are guaranteed to wipe out your whole party (like Avatar's 10% trigger) will be capped and you will live.

-Caim is essential for some early Earth Grid Builds as he has an unique subskill modificator that influences the ATK and HP of your whole party depending on your grid. That said it's preferable to have him once you have the weapon Scales of Dominion as this skill modificator is also present on SoD and this will stack. He's a big assets for building up party. his 5*, if you get to work on it, is also pretty decent.

Anything else after that is pure raw power and depends on what you need.

-Lobelia is often used on high level raids for his powerful attacks -Fraux also has some bigger uses -Nier used to be extremely meta in Dark but her use faded a little -Haaselia becomes a major powerhouse after her 5* and is currently the best of the Evokers, but only once uncapped, which you will have to work on.

Personally, if you don't have a fav to priviligize or something, and assuming you have the Eternals recruited and none of the Evokers recruited?

I'd say it'd be between Seox, Caim and Geisenborger.

Seox is in term of pure attacks, but only if you have him recruited first. Caim is in term just of working on your grid and gameplay. Geisenborger meanwhile is extremely helpful in term of defense and survivability on HL.

If you're not a hardcore player, then my choice would be on Geisenborger because you don't need to wack your brain into thinking about grids like Caim, and his survivability is really no joke and will change the way you approach dark raids in general.

in which case, the Evoker set would be pretty useful to you.

Hope it helps!

Take care!

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icharchivist · 4 months

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This is a very dumb question, I'm afraid, but what event is Shinsha from? I want to know more about her

This is absolutely NOT a dumb question anon. There are so much content in Granblue that it is so easy to get lost and overwhelmed, and there's really no shame in wanting to discover more. Things are already not clear in Granblue so there's no shame with that, but even so, you're free to ask any clarification no matter how dumb it sounds. You're not here passing a test, and i'm happy to help.

NOW that it's said:

Shinsha's stories are a bit tricky since none of them have joined the side stories just yet. I'll link to Youtube videos recalling the events, but if you have them in your Journal, i definitely encourage you to go check them.

-Shinsha was introduced in A Tale Of Kindled Bond.

Note that this story follows up on some threads that were set up in Seeds of Redemption (mainly because the antagonists are vaguely linked to the clan Seox and Nehan are from), and it involves old companions from our crew like Lucius and Teena, so their stories are referred into a bit.

But i believe A Tale of Kindled Bond can be read on its own as a new start to a "saga".

And it focuses HEAVILY on Shinsha and Nectar. It will be your source for anything regarding them.

-You'll see a follow up on her story in Nectar's Fate Episode.

-Shinsha and Nectar appears again in Old Bonds.

They are rather secondary to this plot but they will always be there and the mystery around Nectar's past and Shinsha's power starts to thicken.

-They appear again in ... And You. (though it's difficult to link since this event branches both depending on MC's gender and on some choices made during the second part of the event)

More reveal about their past and about the origin of Shinsha's power get unveiled here.

BONUS (those aren't important but it's if you want to go into the deep end)

-Shinsha has a very small role in base!Ewiyar's Fate Episode

This is all i can think of.

Have fun <3

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icharchivist · 4 months

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What are prestige pendants even for because apparently I've reached the limit

the pendant shops allows you to get some useful drops you'd usually get into raids and the likes.

Renown Pendants (silver ones) are best used on Rusted weapons and on Weapon Shards, as you will need an ungodly amount of those for the Eternals' uncaps -- but they also can be used if you're in need of the Warrior or Mage Creeds. Just make sure to grab the moons in this shop every month.

Prestige Pendant (golden ones) have you access to rarer materials and it depends what you may be in need of.

if you're still working on your grids, consider the weapon shop. For your grids you will need to pick weapons such as: -Ancient Ecke Sachs -Ancient Auberon -Nilakantha -Tyros Zither -Nibelung Horn -Nibelung Klinge -Godsworn Edge -Last Storm Harp -Abyss Spine

other weapons can have some misc uses but those would be your priorities if you're still building your grids.

If you're working on your specific weapons such as your opus, astral, or ultima, check the last page of the item shop. -if you still haven't worked on your opus, stock on Astaroth Anima, because grinding for them is really annoying otherwise

-Tears of the Apocalypse are needed to further uncap the opus, to add skills to it, and to further levels of the transcending process -Abyssal Wing are essential to uncap an Astral weapon, and also trasncending an opus.

They're expensive, but really useful if you don't feel confident going into FaaHL and Beelzebub's raids.

-If you intend to force more Class Weapons, consider investing in Otherworldly Darkblade -Primeval Horns are needed at various stages of various uncapping process so if you can't farm them in the Proto Bahamut (Impossible) raid, they're a good source there. -Ultima Unit are useful if you want to make an Ultimate Weapon or some others miscellaneous uses -- useful if you can't farm Ultimate Bahamut (Normal)

Finally the Prestige Pendants Shop is a good place to get Co-Op treasure if you don't feel like farming for them. Stuff like Distinction in particular which is handy to unlock Class, forge Class Weapons, Unlock Ultimate Mastery, or recruiting and uncapping the Eternals.

if you're also struggling, you can still pick the Stones and Quartz you may need for specific weapons uncap and forging.

So it really depends what you're aiming for.

Personally i'd say,

-if you don't have working grids, priviligize weapons for the elements you need to improve your grids with. -if you don't have a working Opus per element, think about investing in Astaroth Anima -If you aren't working on anything specific, just make sure your pendants are never capped and then buy what you might need in the shop, such as distinction or stones.

Hope it helps a little!

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icharchivist · 4 months

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Hey um. Since we got a class weapon coupon or sth, which class weapon do you think it would be wise to trade for? I don't have any of the higher tier classes, so if you could give me a pointer, that'd be really nice

weep i was leaving this ask for once i was done with the event to look through the game but now the game crashed... i'll try to answer though.

So, it depends how far you are in your ranks, but i would recommend taking a weapon from Extra Rank II.

-Extra Rank II are the only classes that asks of you to forge at least 3/4 of a weapon to unlock it, while every others class weapons are optional -If you still haven't unlocked Rank IV Class, unlocking a Extra Rank II class will unlock the full Row later once you can access it.

(for point two, the long story short, is that Rank IV unlocks only once you reach rank 100. And either you have to forge a weapon for each class there, or you can forge a weapon from Extra Rank II to unlock the full row. So it's better to priviligize the second one for cost efficiency.)

Do not bother using the ticket for Rank V Class, as those will be unaccessible even with a weapon as long as you haven't mastered Rank IV classes.

SO i'm redirecting you to Extra Rank II classes.

There it will depend on what you want to play in particular. Notice also that some of those classes only reach their full potential once Mastery Level is unlocked. Assuming you're early in game, however, i will not focus on that and instead would focus on class that are useful outside of the Mastery.

i'd narrow it down to:

-Doctor is a healing class that specialize in buff, and making potions you can use during fights. it's good if you are very scared about your health in general.

-Kengo is core to a lot of CA based team and survival teams (it's especially recommanded for Water teams for instance). Kengo charges the CA of everyone easily while also dodging regularly and attacking a lot, which makes it one of the most useful class in that rank

-Glorybringer is a little more on the complex side, but it's a fair one to consider as it unlocks very specific gimmicks. Glorybringer's whole thing is that it "awakens" any of the swords it has in hand in order to unleash a whole different power. It is however a bit useless if you don't know what those powers are, so only consider it if you're ready to go wiki diving.

Personally i'd say go for Kengo. This is probably the most flexible and useful of the classes in that row without requiring you to unlock the Mastery or dive into the wiki constantly.

So imo Kengo should be the one you should go for.

However i don't know if the ticket is limited to a specific row of Class, and with the game in mantenance i can't check rn...

let me know if you want more info or if Kengo doesn't interest you and i'll give you more pointers, and if Row IV is to be priviligized i'll give you others pointers

Take care and good luck! Hero on!

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