High Priority Items for Beginners

·    ½ AP Potions (100 per month, 5 daily) – 1500 chips each.

·    Soul Berries (200 per month, 10 daily) – 500 chips each.

·    Anat (Summon) – 2.5 million x 4 copies, totals 10 million chips

·    Peridot Carbuncle- 150k chips x 2 copies *very important for wind beginners

·    Omega Anima – 1 daily per type, 5000 to 10000 chips

 

Anat and You

The casino offers a very good summon called Anat. She has very high stats for a free summon and close to the gacha summons obtained through the Premium Draw. Her call is also decent as it provides a high attack buff. She’s also used as a support summon for Wind grids when paired with the main summon, Tiamat Omega.

 

Now that you know what goodies are in store for you, let’s get to the mini-games that await you.

 

Poker – Double Up or Nothing

Prepare yourself; you will be spending a good amount of time in here throughout your Granblue Fantasy experience. This game comes in four varieties: 1/10/100/1000 bet amounts.

 

Select the 2 cards version of double up; though the 1 card version may seem tempting, the 2 card version will guarantee a stable income of chips overtime. You can only win 10 rounds if you pick the 2 card version of it.

 

You start from whatever bet amount you can afford till you can play the 1000 chip poker without worrying over losses. 

 

How to Poker 101

 

Goal: To get double ups to maximize chip profits.

 

How does one achieve double up? Anything except “One Pair” will enable you to play Higher or Lower AKA doubling up. You can double your wins every time you win a round at Higher or Lower. The 2 card version will only let you play 10 rounds but that’s enough to make profit.

 

The idea is to find pairs and pray you get a double up every time a new set of cards is dealt. It may seem mundane but it is profitable at the end.

 

Do note that the “Joker” counts for any card value, so always pick it if you see it!

 

Now that you know the first part to Poker, now to explain Higher or Lower to increase chip profit further.

 

Higher and Lower: The Bane of Granblue Fantasy

You are dealt two cards of different values; you are to guess what the face down card value is by either pressing that it is higher or lower than the face up card.

 

By guessing correctly, you move onto the next round- up to 10 times for this version of Higher or Lower. Do not fear loss, GO big.

 

Tips and Tricks

 

·    General rule of thumb is that if it’s 9 and higher, you pick “Low”, 7 or lower is “High”

·    8 is a problematic card thus pick either since it can go either way

·    You can count cards in this as well though it’s not suggested

Side Stories

Side stories are old past events that Cygames decided to add permanently to the game, making them accessible and playable at any time. They have an extremely low difficulty, and are clearable even with the weakest grids, all the while being a good source of early crystals.

 

 

Their trade shops also have some old summons and weapons that are not always good, but can be interesting to have for new players, although farming them can take a bit of time. Those events are also a good source of free SR event characters, so make sure to read through them!

 

Co-op

 

Co-op is a special game mode where you can team up with up to 4 players in order to clear quests of increasing difficulty. It is the main way to get Rupies and Experience, as joining co-op hosted quests will not cost you any resource. Only the host of a quest will have to pay AP to start it.

 

When entering co-op, you can either decide to join a room (a friend or a random room), or create your own room. When sharing your room into the room board, it is expected of you that you will host the battles. Finally, coop battles have a high chance to drop Elixirs and Half Pots, so don’t hesitate to leech rooms if you’re short in AP supplies!

 

Daily Missions

 

Co-op has a system of Daily Missions where you need to clear quests or get certain drops in order to get a Blue Sky Crystal as reward, as well as Co-op Shop points. Each mission completed will grant you one mission point, which are tradeable in the coop shop (by clicking on the “view rewards” button).

 

You’ll be able to buy a single draw ticket, CP, full elixirs, balms, gold animas, whorls, scales and sr angel experience fodder in this shop. Once the shop is emptied, it will automatically restock, which allows you to cycle through the rewards every 21 days if you never miss your daily missions.

 

There are 4 types of missions:

● Win 5 co-op quests : This one is a permanent mission that remains the same every day. You can either join or host battles in order to clear it.

● Defeat a certain enemy : Pretty standard, don’t hesitate to join a room if you’re not strong enough to defeat it by yourself.

● Get a certain drop : This one can sometimes take time because of RNG. You can click on the mission to know in which stages the material drops.

● Use a certain item in the room : When in a co-op room, you can find an “Item” tab on the right. Click on the “Treasure” button, and you will be able to trade your co-op materials for various buffs that will grant you bonuses for the duration of the co-op room.

 

It’s important to note that everyone shares the same daily missions, making it very easy to find rooms or people to clear your own dailies. You can simply click on the “Join Quest” button of the corresponding daily quest you have to clear.

 

This is one of the best way to accumulate Blue Sky Crystals, and you’ll need a lot of them later on so try to do your daily regularly!

 

When hosting or joining rooms, you can precise which type of fights you’ll host (if you know moonrunes, you can be more precise), which is useful if you plan to make a room in order to farm a certain type of material and not simply clear your dailies.

 

In order to unlock Ex Jobs, you’ll have to clear the hardest difficulty of co-op (called Pandemonium), which is outside of the scope of this guide, but at least you know it’s there.

 

Time Limited Events

 

Story Events

 

Story events are events in which your crew interacts with inhabitants of the Granblue’s world, often featuring a Gacha character as its main protagonist. The stories are pretty nice and will make you care for the characters, so take the time to read them!

In events, you will gather that event’s treasure items to call forth a boss battle. Treasure items are unique to events.

Remember: if you are not at a power level to comfortably farm the event, aim for the essentials and focus on something else. 

Generally you will want to try and grab:

● Free quest crystals. You read a story (or skip it) and collect them in your crate at the end. Usually they cost 0 AP.

● Free boss crystals. Fight bosses as you can. If it’s a raid boss, someone else will usually come in and fight it with you.

● The loyalty character. Place them in your party and bring them with you to quests. They will gain loyalty according to the AP you spent. At the end you get both a free character and 50 crystals from their fate episode. There are variations on gaining loyalty characters, please refer to that event page if they’re unique.

● Damascus crystals. Obtained through honours at 1, then 2, then 3 million thresholds. It is unlikely as a new player you will get as far as 3 million honours. These are endgame items that can be traded in for a Damascus Bar, a rare item that can uncap a weapon without possessing a duplicate copy of it. Do what you can to collect them during events.

● Weapons/Summons. These vary in importance, but unknown weapons (weapons with EX skills) are the most important, because they are unique to event periods and thus only farmable for its duration or until the event repeats (usually months away). With the weapon grid in mind, event weapons with normal skills and summons can be placeholders, but note they often lose out when you get your magna weapons. Consult the wiki or use your best judgement.

Now to collect all that loot, you have 3 options:

● Tokens: These allow you to draw in the token box of that event, 2 per draw. You gain them at the end of your battle alongside honours. The number you get will vary depending on the difficulty, whether you hosted or merely joined another person’s raid, or if you were the MVP. The token box is random, so when you get your loot depends entirely on your luck.

● Badges: These are item drops you earn at the end of the battle. The higher the difficulty, the more badges that will drop. You mainly want to aim for gold badges. The bronze badges’ rewards can be safely ignored. These are simple click and collect prizes on the event page.

● Honours: Along with tokens, you earn honours in proportion to how you contributed in the raid. As contribution is marked by your damage dealt or assistance provided: at an early level, try and bring buffs or debuffs instead because your power level will be too low to outdo higher level players. Essentially, you earn more honours the more you do in the raid, so eventually you will solo the raid for the maximum amount.

Nearing the event’s end, you will get access to the event’s daily missions. Make sure to complete them for easy Crystals.

Trophies are also easy sources of Crystals, usually requiring you to defeat a boss an x amount of times. Do not stress about reaching 200 kills, it’s a pretty high number. Other requirements include just clearing the story event boss. Defeating the nightmare version will probably be out of your power range. Look forward to being stronger if/when the event repeats!

 

Story Reruns

Reruns (also called Redux) are past events which are featured again in a new format that is more geared toward solo play. Unlike Story events, you will not depend on material drops to host your battles, as they will simply cost AP. The counterpart is that the bulk of those battles will has to be fought solo, meaning you won’t be able to get help from other people.

 

Instead of getting tokens so that you can draw in the event gacha, the battles will drop material that you will have to trade in the event shop for weapons, potions, damascus Crystals, summons, etc…

Raids still exist in this format, but they are mainly here to drop a certain type of material over the others so that there isn’t an unbalance in dropped materials.

 

If you can, try to always grab at least the Damascus Crystals from the shop.

 

 

Collaboration Events

Essentially the same format as Story Reruns, except GBF does a crossover story with other games. These events are not guaranteed to repeat like story events. Added to that is that their weapons are generally of the unknown skill type, which are unique to events.

Unlike story events however, Collabs tend to have good or great free characters, and the unknown weapons you can get in them also tend to be stronger than average, so try to grab what you can!

Unite and Fight

(Aka Guild Wars/GW). This is the competitive PvP event of the game where your crew competes with other crews for points. Contrary to the name, you can do this event solo. It is ideal to join a crew anyway (if not just for the crew benefits). You’ll learn to hate this event as well soon enough, don’t worry. Similarly to Story events, battling raids will reward you with tokens that you’ll have to use in order to get rewards from a special event gacha.

The event is comprised of two parts: the preliminaries, which decide which crews move onto the finals, and the actual finals where those crews are pitted against one another. If your crew does not pass preliminaries, your crew is locked out of finals, but you are still able to fight raids.

Unlike other events, there are down periods where all battles are inaccessible to allow players to actually sleep. Don’t freak out if you haven’t gotten all your loot, take note of the actual end date and whether or not it’s the last Final. Battles will resume, just wait a few hours. There are several battle difficulties, but at our level we won’t consider fighting anything over the Ex+ difficulty.

You want two things:

Revenant Weapons are accessible through the event gacha, and can be quite frustrating to get since you will always need at least 4 copies (to get a MLB weapon) from it for the weapon to be worth. It is advised to get the GW Dagger first, for its powerful charge attack that will increase your double and triple attack rate. Note that you can change the element of your GW weapons to what suits you the best.

Later on you’ll be able to consider starting the process to recruit the associated Eternal with their Revenant Weapon (e.g. fully upgrading the sword will allow you to recruit Seofon) – be aware it’s a long path of farming and a difficult battle to recruit them at the end of it all.

Valour Badges. This is where it gets difficult if you’re solo or in a casual crew. Valour badges are gained through qualifying into the finals and winning rounds in a “Who can farm most” battle against another random crew. At your level, it’s not likely you’ll compete seriously in GW yet, so we won’t go into details, but know that trading valor is the only way to get Sunlight Stones, which are used to uncap SSR Summons.

During the finals, you can bet, because this game loves gambling. You can earn betting cards through visiting the event page daily, and earning a certain amount of honours alongside your crew earning a certain amount honours (there’s a mistranslation on the game page, it’s AND, not OR!) and then visiting the betting page. Betting closes at 7pm JST, and you don’t get anything out of betting earlier as bet payouts are locked to what they are at closing time and not whenever you placed your bet. Bet just before closing time to ensure you won’t have wasted a ticket.

Know that betting is often subject to what you’d call “rigging”, and despite all the charts and stats done by various people each GW to try to predict the outcome, results sometimes end up “Yakuza’d” which allow a small portion of the players to benefit from unbelievably high crystals outcome because they themselves tipped the balance purposely for it to happen. So betting on an unlikely outcome isn’t a completely stupid strategy (even without rigging, bet results are always subject to RNG as well).

 

Rise of the Beasts

Rise of the Beasts (abbreviated RotB) is a special event during which you need to battle rotating raids and score honors in order to gain a special Pendants currency. Raids have two main difficulties: Ex and Ex+, and hosting / joining Ex repeatedly is necessary to unlock an Ex+ difficulty raid.

During this event, the whole day is split in periods of two hours that will grant you Cardinal Bonus. For two hours, each element boss will get a 1.5x increase of received pendants. The elements rotate every two hours and for the whole day (you can generally find the exact schedule in game)

 

Note that you can only host the Ex+ difficulty raid of the corresponding cardinal hour element (it’ll switch automatically after two hours as well).

Because of the nature of RotB, it’s difficult for newer players to perform well without burning intensively their BP resources, since the amount of pendants they will earn is proportional to the amount of damage they can contribute to the raid. Getting a small group of people to help you through Ex+ raids can help greatly (that’s when a crew can come in handy) especially since pubbing Ex+ often ends up in the boss getting obliterated instantly.

However, you should try to get by all costs the daily gold nugget given as a daily reward. To accomplish this, you will simply have to join or host each of the Extreme raids 5 times.

In the advent you’d manage to get enough gold nuggets to trade for a gold bar, DO NOT USE THE BAR ON A WEAPON. I can’t stress this enough, you’ll regret it bitterly if you were to not listen to me. Yes, I know, the in game guide recommends you to use gold bars on weapons, but it’s a trap.

 

Special Showdowns and Xeno Clashes

 

Those events drop some of the best F2P weapons in the game, but are unfortunately out of the scope of this guide. For Xeno Clashes, you are heavily suggested to leech event raids as much as possible until you’re able to buy at least one 0* shop copy of the weapon.

 

 

 

Those events also tend to have very, very low drop rates...

 

 

Special Campaigns

Who doesn’t like special events for milestones or important holidays? Granblue Fantasy is no exception! There are a variety of special campaigns that they like to throw on as a celebration.

 

Magnafest

 

Also referred as “Magna Festival” or magfest for short. Raid costs are halved and the amount of EP is halved to enter raids as well; the only exceptions to this are the The Dark Sunrise and Dusk of Nightfall raids since they are special cases. Normal and Hard raids are also free during this period as well; use this opportunity to get as much done as possible!

Magnafest also comes with its own issues...

 

All the quests in the “Special” tab only cost half of the AP usually required. Players particularly like to farm Angel Halo during this time since it only costs 10 AP to run the highest difficulty, along with the Elemental Trials since it’s much less ½ AP Potion intensive if it was to be farmed during regular times. It’s the best time to finally level those weapons and summons.

 

All Co-op quests are half off as well! This is the best time to finish up the majority of the Co-op quests that are available as well. People typically “slimeblast” during this period of time but that is not something a newcomer should worry over and should instead look into once they are able to. It’s the fastest way to gain ranks/EMP/level your characters.

 

These three are most most common campaigns that Granblue typically holds when a celebration is happening. There are other types of campaigns as well but are typically uncommon such as double Journey Drop effects, daily free Premium Draws/10 Part Draws, and ½ Free Quest.

 

 

Seasonal events

 

Summer, Halloween, Christmas, Valentine's, April fools… Very often those periods get to have some special events tied to them. The bigger events will get Magnafest, free gacha draws (or even free 10 draws), daily crystals, and special themed story events, while others will get special characters interactions or special short duration events. Even if you don’t intend to play GBF regularly, try to at least login during those times! Those periods also often have special gacha with seasonal limited characters!

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