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Granblue Fantasy |OT| English Translation available as of 2016/04/11!

Xisiqomelir

Member
The rebalance patch is up!!!

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bigkrev

Member
The rebalance patch is up!!!

Agielba is still shit

My Cali is lvl 95, I'm really hoping to get her to 100 before the heat death of the universe. Of course, I have Maihara so I'm not sure how useful she is even going to be, but she's cute, so what else actually matters?
 

Gizuko

Member
I'm considering dropping Lancelot for Charlotta. I don't have a Coda Baha gun, so I'll probably give her a couple of test runs just in case,* but she seems interesting enough.

Societte seems good enough to have some niche uses. I definitely could use more healing, a delay and a small echo buff.

edit: *I forgot Primal Water doesn't use baha weapons. Duh.
 
I thought we couldn't get a suptix while summer characters are available, but looking at the "all available characters" list, aside from summer Helnar they seem to be in a separate draw pool so I guess it could still be possible... But in my experience surprise tickets are usually made available right at the end/beginning of a month, so I don't know.

edit: ignore me, there are many more summer characters available in the full list than just Helnar, Zeta, Narumeia and Sara are in there as well.. But then why wouldn't Lancelot, Heles, Lunalu and Camieux also be in there?

Right now it's not characters that I'm lacking, it's a grid that isn't lame and made of mismatched event weapons. No suptix can help with that I'm afraid.

On another note, I'm getting hella honours from the Slice of Summer redux, but since there isn't a honour-based reward pool this time around, that doesn't actually do anything, right?
 
I thought we couldn't get a suptix while summer characters are available, but looking at the "all available characters" list, aside from summer Helnar they seem to be in a separate draw pool so I guess it could still be possible... But in my experience surprise tickets are usually made available right at the end/beginning of a month, so I don't know.

edit: ignore me, there are many more summer characters available in the full list than just Helnar, Zeta, Narumeia and Sara are in there as well.. But then why wouldn't Lancelot, Heles, Lunalu and Camieux also be in there?

Right now it's not characters that I'm lacking, it's a grid that isn't lame and made of mismatched event weapons. No suptix can help with that I'm afraid.

On another note, I'm getting hella honours from the Slice of Summer redux, but since there isn't a honour-based reward pool this time around, that doesn't actually do anything, right?

It's for the honors related event trophies which might still be around I believe.
 
It's for the honors related event trophies which might still be around I believe.
So they are! Mmmh, I guess I could keep grinding the event for crystals, but I finished MLBing that sword I could only bring to 1* with difficulty last year. At least with Korwa and slightly better summons/weapons I can do the solo extreme fight pretty easily now so, progress! Damn that blindfold though. I should bring a Clear but I'm too bent on having the two Treasure Hunter debuffs (also known as the Placebo of Lies and Deceit).
 
So they are! Mmmh, I guess I could keep grinding the event for crystals, but I finished MLBing that sword I could only bring to 1* with difficulty last year. At least with Korwa and slightly better summons/weapons I can do the solo extreme fight pretty easily now so, progress! Damn that blindfold though. I should bring a Clear but I'm too bent on having the two Treasure Hunter debuffs (also known as the Placebo of Lies and Deceit).

i'm hoping i can autobattle the ex without too much trouble with my shitty wind grid. I might have to make some adjustments and see if i have a weapon that clears on ougi or something though
 
i'm hoping i can autobattle the ex without too much trouble with my shitty wind grid. I might have to make some adjustments and see if i have a weapon that clears on ougi or something though
You can also delay its 50%HP trigger that inflicts Blindfold with Paralysis if you can land it at the right time though that won't last long, but otherwise the simplest way to mitigate this would be to cast a barrier (Athena, Gawain etc.) before you go over the threshold then use a Bishop with Clarity or an off-Element healer with Clear like Sophia.

edit: Lennah, which is actually Wind, also has one.
 

Dragner

Member
This event is over for me, got all the damascus and the pots/berries, not much left, I will grab a weapon or 2 for fodder if I get enough mats but I dont really care.

This is going to be the first time I play the Fenrir/Cerberus Showdown, the other times I couldnt put effort into it, are any of this weapons worth anything if I dont have Hades/Varuna/Baha/Bonito? I have a Macula Marius idk if FLB Macula +Varuna is viable or not. I really want hades/Bahamut since Im sitting on 2 copies of Dark Knight sword and Orchis dagger but after 2 sparks I doubt Ill ever get one :(.
 

Alucrid

Banned
completely forgot about this game until i learned you could play it in a browser so i decided to give it a shot. rolled a lady grey as the guaranteed SSR and got a Catherine from the tickets. i just learned about the premium galas though. is one going to happen at the end of this month and might it be worthwhile to sit on this account for a bit and reroll then?

also somewhat confused about upgrading weapons from what i read in the guide in the op. so there's leveling them up normally and then leveling up the skills as two different things? so leveling up whatever SR/SSR weapons i have at the moment is fine (since i'm approaching the 300 slot limit) as long as i'm not spending weapons to upgrade the skills?
 

TUSR

Banned
completely forgot about this game until i learned you could play it in a browser so i decided to give it a shot. rolled a lady grey as the guaranteed SSR and got a Catherine from the tickets. i just learned about the premium galas though. is one going to happen at the end of this month and might it be worthwhile to sit on this account for a bit and reroll then?

also somewhat confused about upgrading weapons from what i read in the guide in the op. so there's leveling them up normally and then leveling up the skills as two different things? so leveling up whatever SR/SSR weapons i have at the moment is fine (since i'm approaching the 300 slot limit) as long as i'm not spending weapons to upgrade the skills?
Depending what the Legfes is at the end of the month, it might be worth starting then.

If you can wait until the end of August, that's when we should be getting a swimsuit event that you should reroll multiple accounts on.
 

Alucrid

Banned
Depending what the Legfes is at the end of the month, it might be worth starting then.

If you can wait until the end of August, that's when we should be getting a swimsuit event that you should reroll multiple accounts on.

yeah i'm not terribly far in with my current account so i might just get familiarized with the game with it and see what i get then
 

wilstreak

Member
Hi, currently my crew is on massive recruitment (looking for 9 member) to join our semi-competitive crew (that means we focus on Tier A Prelim and drop the finals).
Currently we are seeded so the plan is to slack and drop out in next GW. Our main goal is to have more members for upcoming GW and new HL raid update :).

What we offer:
  • Usual Crew buffs
  • Strike Time at 22.00 - 00.00 JST
  • So far we have been in A Tier for 3 Consecutive GWs

Looking For :
  • Rank 101+ (or lower if the progression is good)
  • Have at least 1 decent grid (Half-full grid preferable)
  • Be active in game and chat
  • At least 2m quota at Prelim (The quota will increase later if we grows stronger).

Our Main communication language is English. We have facebook chat and discord. P.S: Our result in last 3 GW.
Fire : 2400
Light : 511
Dark : 116 (seeded)
 

Dragner

Member
Hi, currently my crew is on massive recruitment (looking for 9 member) to join our semi-competitive crew (that means we focus on Tier A Prelim and drop the finals).
Currently we are seeded so the plan is to slack and drop out in next GW. Our main goal is to have more members for upcoming GW and new HL raid update :).

What we offer:
  • Usual Crew buffs
  • Strike Time at 22.00 - 00.00 JST
  • So far we have been in A Tier for 3 Consecutive GWs

Looking For :
  • Rank 101+ (or lower if the progression is good)
  • Have at least 1 decent grid (Half-full grid preferable)
  • Be active in game and chat
  • At least 2m quota at Prelim (The quota will increase later if we grows stronger).

Our Main communication language is English. We have facebook chat and discord. P.S: Our result in last 3 GW.
Fire : 2400
Light : 511
Dark : 116 (seeded)

I am interested in joining, Rank 107 with almost full FLB wind grid and on my way of finishing my earth grid for next GW (one 1* sword, 5 3* sword looking for getting an extra harp on xeno vohu and geting the mats that are left for FLB the swords, gated mostly by whorls and fodder). Also working on a base grid for the rest of the elements but Im still far from most, will try to get a base fire at least for wind GW in september.

one thing is that Im European so I wont be discord active during GW matches because work but I can still meet the 2M quota playing on my lunch break for prelims. Idk if thats a problem, Im fairly active the rest of the day for Raids or whatever.

If you are interested tell me so I can drop from my current crew.
 

Xisiqomelir

Member
This is going to be the first time I play the Fenrir/Cerberus Showdown, the other times I couldnt put effort into it, are any of this weapons worth anything if I dont have Hades/Varuna/Baha/Bonito?

You never know what you'll pull in a spark! At the least get your 0* fimbuls and cerbs ready for transcendence.
 

firehawk12

Subete no aware
Why are they overlapping events again. It makes getting the daily mission done impossible since it seems like everyone just moved on to the showdows.
 
That stupid screenshot I took is so small I can't even tell which sort of characters they're ripping o- I mean, paying homage to. Still, it was pretty funny to see this as I was grinding out another unsuspecting Fenrir.

Glad to know I'm not the only one who can never get into raids. My grid will forever consist of event weapons and a baha dagger I didn't earn. Bleh.
 

wilstreak

Member
I am interested in joining, Rank 107 with almost full FLB wind grid and on my way of finishing my earth grid for next GW (one 1* sword, 5 3* sword looking for getting an extra harp on xeno vohu and geting the mats that are left for FLB the swords, gated mostly by whorls and fodder). Also working on a base grid for the rest of the elements but Im still far from most, will try to get a base fire at least for wind GW in september.

one thing is that Im European so I wont be discord active during GW matches because work but I can still meet the 2M quota playing on my lunch break for prelims. Idk if thats a problem, Im fairly active the rest of the day for Raids or whatever.

If you are interested tell me so I can drop from my current crew.

oops sorry for the late reply, sent you a PM.
 

Xisiqomelir

Member
Ok Vohu, the last time I was rank 8 with 5 elements of weapons in my grid.

This time I have a whole 7 tia bolts!
and 9k estimated since I didn't even L40 them
 

Dragner

Member
The Xeno farming begins, last time I only could get 1 harp (a 0* one..) Now I need 2 FLB ones...the grind is real. But now I have 5 4* Tia guns while last time I had 5 0* ones ^^.
 

bigkrev

Member
So I can fairly reliably beat the Maniac Vohu Manrah, but I just wasted 3 Elixers before realizing I needed to cut my losses on the Extreme Xeno clash (I just couldn't keep Korwa alive at all). Saying I don't have a Wind Grid is a massive understatement (I have 1 lvl 40 gun, and a couple of draw SSRs).

Should I just keep joining raids and hoping for good drops, or should I just ignore this event?
 

Draxal

Member
So I can fairly reliably beat the Maniac Vohu Manrah, but I just wasted 3 Elixers before realizing I needed to cut my losses on the Extreme Xeno clash (I just couldn't keep Korwa alive at all). Saying I don't have a Wind Grid is a massive understatement (I have 1 lvl 40 gun, and a couple of draw SSRs).

Should I just keep joining raids and hoping for good drops, or should I just ignore this event?

I leeched about 80 berries worth of ep, and got 1 harp and 1/3 of the way to the second.
 
Yeah I... still can't do Xeno Vohu Solo. Even with Korwa, even with Gawain watching our collective bacon, even with Birdman dealing out sweet damage with Korwa bufffs... I manage to stay alive until about 50% and then it just OVERDRIVE and it's time to die.

But, it's progress nonetheless. In Granblue, the numbers just go up, little. by. very. little.

Stupid question, probably: Xeno raids, who starts them, how? Do they just sprout out of thin air and people join them?
 

Draxal

Member
Yeah I... still can't do Xeno Vohu Solo. Even with Korwa, even with Gawain watching our collective bacon, even with Birdman dealing out sweet damage with Korwa bufffs... I manage to stay alive until about 50% and then it just OVERDRIVE and it's time to die.

But, it's progress nonetheless. In Granblue, the numbers just go up, little. by. very. little.

Stupid question, probably: Xeno raids, who starts them, how? Do they just sprout out of thin air and people join them?

Xeno Raids require 3 evil judge crystals to start (You get them from doing Coop Vohu - and they're more famously used for class champions weapons).

You need to clear extreme once to be able to start them (and you're allowed to elixer to do so).

People start them because red chests have a chance of giving a harp.
 

vall03

Member
Never joined Xeno Vohu the first time since my Wind grid back then was non-existent. With Row IV classes+Grid+SSRs, I currently found my setup to farm with Luchador/Mellissabelle/Arriet/S.Zooey to just blast through EX and NM70. I'm still joining raids, but I find it really slow and despite getting MVP/ViceMVP, I've got shit drops on those god forsaken red chests. Those Sutras just won't drop for me, and the two flips that I got were fucking Vohu summons. RNGesus pls! I just hope I can get 50 more Sutras before the 24th.

Xeno farming is suffering...
 

TUSR

Banned
Never joined Xeno Vohu the first time since my Wind grid back then was non-existent. With Row IV classes+Grid+SSRs, I currently found my setup to farm with Luchador/Mellissabelle/Arriet/S.Zooey to just blast through EX and NM70. I'm still joining raids, but I find it really slow and despite getting MVP/ViceMVP, I've got shit drops on those god forsaken red chests. Those Sutras just won't drop for me, and the two flips that I got were fucking Vohu summons. RNGesus pls! I just hope I can get 50 more Sutras before the 24th.

Xeno farming is suffering...

voho is suffering
 

Dragner

Member
I got an harp drop yesterday on extreme. 2 to go. Im noticing the increased book drop on raids, its not amazing but is clearly better than before. (I got like 1 each 4 or so that is okish for leeching porpuses). I still have 2 harps in the shop so Im doing NM 120 instead of 70 so the farm is rather slow, but I preffer to no do raids, Ive MVP a couple and got niet. Not worth my time outside of getting xeno animas.
 
Bonus question: is there a reason people might want to branch towards just final uncap the harp over forging the "true" one? I mean, do they offer different benefits depending on what you'd rather do, or is it just two ways of reaching the same result?
 

Dragner

Member
Bonus question: is there a reason people might want to branch towards just final uncap the harp over forging the "true" one? I mean, do they offer different benefits depending on what you'd rather do, or is it just two ways of reaching the same result?

uncapping the normal way is strictly worse since you miss access to the final skill on the weapon and the mats are more valuable. You could uncap one to true to use of mainhand and the other the regular way if you find yourself swimming on stones and the other mats for regular uncap and prefer to not waste more silver bricks or champion certs I guess.

The other reason to uncap the normal way may be that you miss some of the event exclusive mats after it ends so your only choice is the regular way or just wait for a rerun.
 
uncapping the normal way is strictly worse since you miss access to the final skill on the weapon and the mats are more valuable. You could uncap one to true to use of mainhand and the other the regular way if you find yourself swimming on stones and the other mats for regular uncap and prefer to not waste more silver bricks or champion certs I guess.

The other reason to uncap the normal way may be that you miss some of the event exclusive mats after it ends so your only choice is the regular way or just wait for a rerun.

Thanks for the info! I don't see Cygames phasing out Xeno events completely, clearly they're a sort of new version of Fenrir/Cerberus showdowns, so we should see them a few times a year. Taking this into account, despite the abysmal drop rate so dear to GBF I'll stick with the true unlock route. Xeno Cocytus/Sagittarius/Diabolos/Corow when
 

Dragner

Member
Cyka claims one of these will not be dropping this year.

Logic suggests the no-show 2k17 will be Diablos.

Lulz suggest it will be Cocy.

or wind, because 'wind is so powerful'. Anyway I expect xeno saggitarius to be the most useless weapon to avoid using it as mainhand...a katana probably.
 
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