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

Granblue's story so far is OK, but the fact they need to fit in sudden battle sequences every segment of the story makes for weird pacing occasionally.

It's not really the pacing so much as every conversation ends with "Hey! Here come more monsters!" or like a hundred other variations of this phrase.

And yeah I would have completely dropped this game after a day if it wasn't for the "story" content.
 

demidar

Member
It's not really the pacing so much as every conversation ends with "Hey! Here come more monsters!" or like a hundred other variations of this phrase.

And yeah I would have completely dropped this game after a day if it wasn't for the "story" content.

"Man I really need to hit the toilets. Oh great, monsters."

*Battle scene transition*
 

commish

Jason Kidd murdered my dog in cold blood!
Oh man, you've been missing out. One of Granblue's defining features that set it apart from many other mobages is that it's its own thing, not a gacha-based version of an existing IP like One Piece, Final Fantasy, or a cross-media project like Love Live, etc. It's also got a more familiar VN-style bust+dialogue presentation compared to, say, Terra Battle.

If you can take JRPG tropes, it's completely worth playing as a JRPG in a gacha framework.

Personally it reminds me a lot of Skies of Arcadia crossed with FFXII.

Ah, I'll have to pay more attention then going forward. Thx for the heads up.
 

Razmos

Member
My current Water team:
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And my Earth team:

Any thoughts? Ignoring the main character classes which I'm currently working on :p
What element would be best to shoot for next? I also have a Light SSR character but he's low tier apparently.
 

garath

Member
God how I hate the casino. Need anat so bad.

Have 450k. Grinding poker. Hit 4 of a kind. Up to 50k on double up and it shows Q. I've already seen two aces and a king. That means only 5 losing cards left in the deck. That's what, at least an 80% chance of a win? It flips a King.

I hate casino.
 

Uthred

Member
Any thoughts? Ignoring the main character classes which I'm currently working on :p What element would be best to shoot for next? I also have a Light SSR character but he's low tier apparently.

Wind is the easiest element to "gear up" and can serve as way into farming the other Magna's following the elemental weakness cycle. But as you have solid enough Earth and Water teams you could choose to skip it and just go for the element of whichever character you most like the look of.
 

ah_hia

Member
God how I hate the casino. Need anat so bad.

Have 450k. Grinding poker. Hit 4 of a kind. Up to 50k on double up and it shows Q. I've already seen two aces and a king. That means only 5 losing cards left in the deck. That's what, at least an 80% chance of a win? It flips a King.

I hate casino.
Time to switch to bingo buddy.it's where the money is.go do 10 man until you are confident with 20 man bingo. Just bet the initial amounts needed. Then start betting 100k to get a million chips reward.
 

Ambidex

Neo Member
Just won the Super bingo, 7,7 mill :)

Who should i pick for my dark team? Got Naru ssr, lucius sr, gonna suprise ticket a ssr.
 

Moonlight

Banned
Is it okay to just slot random element characters into a team? Other mobage have basically taught me that colour coding is almost always what you wanna do, and I'm not seeing anything to the contrary for this, but am I seriously missing something if I just put a random character into a predominantly Water team?
 
Is it okay to just slot random element characters into a team? Other mobage have basically taught me that colour coding is almost always what you wanna do, and I'm not seeing anything to the contrary for this, but am I seriously missing something if I just put a random character into a predominantly Water team?

in the beginning, no big deal, your weapon poll will be whatever you can get so just going with a strong character with high stats is fine

later on, probably not
a bulk of your strength comes from weapon skills for certain elements or race and summons which boost elements or weapon skills

of course some characters are silly good that you can splash them into almost any team like sara for tanking or altair/ petra for buffing
 

Quonny

Member
Time to switch to bingo buddy.it's where the money is.go do 10 man until you are confident with 20 man bingo. Just bet the initial amounts needed. Then start betting 100k to get a million chips reward.

Nah.

I've played 76 or 77 bingo games and haven't won once after winning like my third game ever. I forget if I started counting at 9 or 10. The only reason I keep playing it is stubbornness.
 

Gizuko

Member
Is it okay to just slot random element characters into a team? Other mobage have basically taught me that colour coding is almost always what you wanna do, and I'm not seeing anything to the contrary for this, but am I seriously missing something if I just put a random character into a predominantly Water team?

You have noticed weapons come with skills, right? SR and SSR weapons. Some skills affect any and all characters, but most don't. If you are starting out this is of no concern, but later on said skills will significantly increase the dmg output of the characters they affect.

You'll also be missing a 30~50% damage increase for the odd character, if you pick type-boosting summons.
 

chrono01

Member
Use Lady for solo and use Vira for multi raids
Vira has dispel mount which is very useful in HL raids.
My main dark members are Naru/Vira/Vampy or dark Cagliostro
Oh, nice to know that Narumeia/Narumaya will still be useful, even with Vira being released. I'm still planning on getting Vampy with the ST, since she seems to always be useful, but I might be tempted to choose Vira for the next one...

70 free rolls last month helped out.
They did indeed.

Unless you're MikeZhang. :(

Random question - is the story in this game any good and worth following? I usually smash on the "skip" button, but I read through the story in a few missions and it seems to be pretty substantial compared to other games of this type.
You monster.
 

arevin01

Member
Nah.

I've played 76 or 77 bingo games and haven't won once after winning like my third game ever. I forget if I started counting at 9 or 10. The only reason I keep playing it is stubbornness.

Weird, why does the other guy say he wins once out of every 10...
 

Ranmo

Member
Do Main slotted Summon Auras take place for the entire duration of battle? Or is it for the turn in which the Summon was summoned?
 

garath

Member
Sometimes the drops do go your way. Summoned my own tiamat magna and got 5 gold chests plus the red chest. Ended up with the SSR gun and another SSR summon. The summon is whatever but the gum was very welcome!
 

draw4wild

Member
Picked up Amira with surprise ticket, i can't believe they did that whole translation yet didn't make it any easier for English iOS users to spend money

My light team is now Jeanne, Amira, and SR Feather with Lucifer summon. I'll have to decide in 2 weeks if I want to start work for Song or Funf for feather's spot
 

Noi

Member
Blow almost all my chips on poker. 100k bet. 50k bet. 30k bet. So many lost 2 and 3 row one-ways I round up all my remaining chips for a last 1k min bet in the 10 man room... and get a Bingo on the wildball draw.

I hate the casino.
 

Vamphuntr

Member
I'm just gonna keep grinding and be jelly over everyone else's awesome cards.

A lot of people were playing for a while. And new players like me started during the free pull week where we got 70 free pulls from the legend/premium draw with X2 rate to pull a SSR so of course you will see many SSR in this thread. Don't give up!


I don't get why they are offering both the surprise ticket and the star premium. I prefer to pick what I want instead of praying to the RNG that the SSR boosted pool grant me something good.
 
I don't get why they are offering both the surprise ticket and the star premium. I prefer to pick what I want instead of praying to the RNG that the SSR boosted pool grant me something good.

$$$

both are super tempting pulls and while the star legend is more luck based, a SSR is still better than no SSR even if it is a dupe or unwanted
 

arevin01

Member
I noticed you can load multiple instances of the game, so you can do story while playing bingo at the same time, is this allowed?
 

Vamphuntr

Member
$$$

both are super tempting pulls and while the star legend is more luck based, a SSR is still better than no SSR even if it is a dupe or unwanted

I think they are hoping you pick both like you said. I mean you can get stuff from the star premium you cannot in the surprise ticket but the odds are low. I mean I really want Kaguya but the rate is like 0,4%. I bought the surprise ticket and will pick something I can have with a 100% chance instead.
 

ah_hia

Member
Can someone explain to me the difference between casino anima and the anima needed for evolving tier 2 ssr characters. I bought the casino anima for 2 days now so I have six of them but I can't evolve my ssr characters.
 
Can someone explain to me the difference between casino anima and the anima needed for evolving tier 2 ssr characters. I bought the casino anima for 2 days now so I have six of them but I can't evolve my ssr characters.

Check the boarder of the picture, gold vs silver. Silvers are commonly from hard mode. Golds can be gotten from casino and sometimes from hard mode.
 

chrono01

Member
Can someone explain to me the difference between casino anima and the anima needed for evolving tier 2 ssr characters. I bought the casino anima for 2 days now so I have six of them but I can't evolve my ssr characters.
From what I know:

silver border = character evolution material
gold border = summon material

I could be wrong on that, I've only been playing for around a month or so.
 

Talaysen

Member
Regarding bingo, I ran some simulations on it trying to see how good it is on average (and what strategy is best). Here's some statistics:

Chance of bingo: ~18%
Chance of 1st bingo: ~10% at 10-person table, ~7% at 20-person table
Chance of super bingo: about 1 in 2500
Expected gain (per game): ~7k at 10-person table, ~40k at 20-person table
* Note that a significant amount of this comes from that slim chance at a super bingo, so it is highly variable. Without taking it into account, the expected gain is only around 10k at the 20-person table, a mere 10% of the starting bet.
* Another note: The chance of 1st bingo and expected gains would be higher if the room isn't full. I'm not sure if that's possible, does the game force the room to be full before starting?

Best strategy I could find is getting the bonus ball as soon as you're one away. Delaying to the last ball to reduce chance of a duplicate number is worse because someone else can get bingo before you, lowering your win amount anyway.

Anecdotally, I started doing 20-person bingo after reaching 1m medals (poker to 50k, 10-person bingo to 1m), dropping down to 10-person when I got below that threshhold. That happened a few times but I'm up to 6m now (and was in the 7m range yesterday). It is statistically worthwhile to do the 20-person bingo to get your medals, you just have to be patient and wary about not blowing all your medals at 20-person, because if you have to go back to poker to get your medals back you might end up wasting too much time.
 

Gizuko

Member
From what I know:

silver border = character evolution material
gold border = summon material

I could be wrong on that, I've only been playing for around a month or so.

Gold animas are evo materials as well! Just so you don't go mindlessly summoning omegas lol
 
If I purchase a surprise ticket now before the event expires, can I save it and the 10 pull for the legend fest? Assuming we have one this month?
 
If I purchase a surprise ticket now before the event expires, can I save it and the 10 pull for the legend fest? Assuming we have one this month?

you have to use the surprise ticket (the choose your character) before the end of the event
the 10 pull you can save for whenever you choose to
 
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