Granblue Fantasy Ultimate Guide
Jan 13, 2015 14:12:01 GMT 8
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Post by risend on Jan 13, 2015 14:12:01 GMT 8
Extensive guide on game basics, mechanics, and end-game. Enjoy! This will be a work in progress where I will discuss certain aspects of the game and offer translations for this and that. I will update when I have free time aka waiting for ap or bp, heh. Feel free to correct me if you spot mistakes, a lot of information will be crammed into this. A lot of info here comes from the japanese wiki gbf-wiki.com/, 2ch, guildies, and personal experience.
If you have questions, feel free to ask here or join the facebook group or discord (chat).
Facebook group: www.facebook.com/groups/granbluefantasyinternational/
Discord: discord.gg/granbluefantasy
About 700-800 ppl online usually. You can join us for questions, discussions, or help. We usually just chat nonsense while playing the game. You can post raids and stuff... Theres also a music channel and even useful stuff likea defend order notice when your group is up. There is a bunch of knowledgeable people in the chat. We have a vampy bot to play with. I can usually be found in here.
***Update 1/2/2017***
Updated some changes that were made to the game.
***Update 11/28/2016***
Small edits here and there. Updated how to obtain rabbit after the nice changes...
***Update 8/9/2016***
Added a section for pendants, because suddenly not lazy...
***Update 8/8/2016***
Figure I update the casino section since poker is now too awesome. Also edited and updated some old texts.
***Update 7/26/2016***
Typos and small errors... getting slightly more correct and updated. Go me! Thanks to those who pointed them out.
***Update 7/21/2016***
Fixed some of the table of contents so they actually link to their sections. I know, it's taken ages... Also updated raids/casino. Put japanese names for raids to search for when using tweetdeck to find raids.
***Update 7/12/2016***
Added the ougis for gw weapons when they are awakened.
***Update 7/10/2016***
Fixed some more errors...
Added section for reduce. Something that should had been done ages ago, lol.... such slacker... Anyways, you guys should stop by discord, the community is growing there. Theres about 150+ online usually. Some fun GBF bots to play around with and a music channel, whaa so amazing. Ok, maybe I exaggerate. Use this link to join discord.gg/0wRMEQ8bpHsIWEED. More updates to come, maybe...
I. BEGINNING
REROLLING
Should I reroll?
As a preface, you don't have to reroll. It certainly does help give you a good start and you can reroll for chars/summons you can't purchase later. But you shouldn't feel required to do so. Sometimes rerolling just makes you hate the game before you start. I recommend giving it a try and settling for anything that makes you happy really.
How to reroll
Theres a really detailed guild on granblue-wiki.com so you should just read that. granblue-wiki.com/index.php/Rerolling.
What should I roll for?
I would aim for any char you like really. Limited characters are also nice since they are hard to obtain normally. If you want a specific character to roll for, yoda is super friendly for beginners and will carry you for a long time. Still useful at end game to farm easy dungeons.
Besides characters, the best summons to roll for would be lucifer (100% light), bahamut (100% dark), shiva (120%), or grande (200% if you have 3 chars of different elements). These you can't purchase with tickets later and have really low rates in gacha.
The primal summons (80% to normal weapons of x type) aren't bad either, but would take quite a bit of time and effort to get them really going. They are sought after end-game though and since they got super low rates you might want to keep them if you get one. Particular primals of interest would be Zeus, Hades, Titan, and Agnis.
Best time to roll
During legend festivals at the end of the month or when they give out a lot of free rolls during celebrations.
STARTING OUT
In the beginning, you pretty much want to just rank up, get some basic weapons/summons, work on getting tier 3 jobs (dark fencer especially since it helps you solo content), do as much as you can in the current events, and save up your crystals for gacha. Also use twitter reset, login to the other games campaign, and do the idols/knights/bahamut campaign for great rewards. When you get a break from events try to progress your main quests.
Summary of stuff to do in beginning
1. Do event, whatever difficulty you can and grab the free characters
2. Do main story quests
3. Do any quests in the chapters that give crystals
4. Save your crystals for 2x SSR event
5. Use twitter reset daily
6. Do idols/bahamut campaign when you have no ap/bp
7. Do a little casino everyday and redeem for ap/bp items
Levels 1-50
Koon has a nice guide on getting strong on the early game, you can check it out here www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOGCPWt4Pk0&feature=youtu.be
Some basic menu translations:
My page:
1. ATK POWER is your attack + hp + mastery bonuses
2. CURE POTS, ELEMENT UP, and DROP RATE UP are guild buffs that your guild master can put up. CURE POTS gives you extra potions, ELEMENT UP gives bonus damage for that element (up to 10% increase), DROP RATE UP gives you 20% more drop chance at max.
3. ORGANIZE is where you can edit your party, weapon pool, summons, jobs, and equip EX skills from other jobs.
4. COOP is a room where you can do quests with up to 3 other party members.
5. GACHA is where you can roll for weapons, characters, and summons with crystals or mobacoins.
6. PRESENT ICON is where your items from gacha and rewards end up when your inventory is full. Some items expire after 3 days so make sure you accept your gifts!
7. LETTER ICON is alerts for completed battles you have yet to receive rewards for, friends requests, messages on your profile, etc.
8. QUESTS is where your main story quests, extra quests, raids, and fate end episodes are.
9. MULTI-BATTLE is a raid list of raids you can join.
10. AP/BP. AP recovers at 1 AP per 5 minutes. BP recovers at 1 BP per 20 minutes.
Menu
1. ORGANIZE - edit party, weapons, summons, change jobs, and ex skills.
2. ENHANCE - upgrade weapons, skills, summons, and characters.
3. COOP - do quests together with other people.
4. GACHA - roll crystals/mobacoins gacha for weapons, chars, and summons. There is also a rupee one you can roll using rupee for R chars, weapons, and summons.
5. QUESTS - main story quests, raids, extras.
6. PROFILE - list of achievements, enhancement bonus levels, messages from other players, and you can set your summons here.
7. RURIA NOTES - stories, past events, a codex of items you have seen.
8. GUILD - upgrade ship, see member list, donate, list of assault times (2 1-hr periods where you start raids at 100% ougi)
9. ITEMS - list of stuff you have, different from weapons/storage inventory. There are items you can equip for small boosts (大事なもの)
10. SHOP - you can buy recovery pots, inventory expansion, and storages with crystals or mobacoins. You can also trade items here.
11. PRESENTS - takes you to your mailbox of items.
12. LIST - inventory of what you have in your main inventory, characters, and skins. You can move weapons and summons here to your storages.
13. STORAGE - extra storages purchasable in shop.
14. FRIENDS - list of your friends, friends requests, requests sent, and ability to search for new friends by id, rank, or suggestions.
15. WORLD MAP - overview of the islands.
16. SETTINGS - game speed, game quality, sound, etc.
17. CURRENT EVENT - quick way to access the current event from where ever you are.
VARIOUS BASIC TIPS
Battle mechanics
You should familiarize yourself with the elements diagram. Wind beats earth, earth beats water, water beats fire, and fire beats wind. Light and Dark beats each other. You get a 50% damage bonus added on with other elemental bonuses when you are fighting with the correct element against a weak one. If you are using a weaker element against a strong one, you will do less damage (-25%).
You also take less damage from weaker elements, except for light and dark. Debuffs are easier to land on weaker elements as well. So when you can, make sure you are using the correct element! When your team gets super strong, you can actually use it to destroy other elements.
Chain burst damage
When your ougi bar hits 100% you can turn the ougi on 
(when it is orange, it is on), it is located below your character's portraits. The more characters that ougi at the same time, the more damage you end up doing in your chain burst. When you use 4 characters' ougi, your chain burst damage will be 1/2 of the total ougi damage done. While it is only 1/4 when you use just two characters. 1/3 for 3 characters.
When a character uses their ougi, it raises the ougi of your other party members by 10%. So the minimum ougi bar you need filled would be, 1st player - 100%, 2nd - 90%, 3rd - 80%, 4th - 70% for a full chain burst damage.
Important items (大事なもの)
In menu > items, there is a tab for important items (大事なもの) that you can equip for bonuses. You can only equip 5 at a time. You get these as rewards for clearing each island.
1. Rank points is increased by 10%.
2. Enhance exp is increased by 5%.
3. Chance of great success when enhancing increased by 2%.
4. Exp increased by 5%.
5. Rupee gained from quests increased by 5%
6. When enhancing dark, exp is increased by 5%.
7. Increases custom points by 50% when feeding weapons to guild ships.
8. When enhancing wind, exp is increased by 5%.
9. When enhancing earth, exp is increased by 5%.
10. Chance of great success when enhancing increased by 1%.
11. Increases exp gained by 5% when upgrading your element enhance lvl.
Free blue potion in raids
When you use the chat button in raid to send an emote, you get a free blue pot. Works only once per raid.
Increasing weapon/summon slots and storages
Weapon/summon slots can be increased by purchasing extra slots in the shop for 100 moba coins or 100 crystals. You start off at 50 slots and can increase to a maximum of 200. How much inventory space you need depends on how much inconvenience you are willing to deal with. It can be pretty annoying to keep going back and forth in order to clear space. I find having 50 free open slots a good number to work with.
Storages can also be purchased in shop for 500 moba coins or 500 crystals. They occasionally go on sale, usually moba only though. Each storage can hold 100 items. You can have a max of 3 storages each for weapons and summons. You can get by with 0 storages for a while, but when you start building up a collection, 1-2 storages will be very useful.
LEGEND GACHA (レジェンドガチャ)
You want to save 3k crystals in order to roll gacha, which basically lets you roll 10x at once and guarantees you one SR or better item. Save the crystals for legend fest when they have 2x SSR rate events. These usually takes place every 2 months at the end of the month. Last one was on December 31st, so next one is expected at end of February. But they might change their schedules so keep an eye out.
What 2x SSR rates look like
Normal gacha rates are:
SSR: 3% (super low!)
SR: 15%
R: 82%
Blue button is for using mobacoins, which is real money currency you can purchase. Red button is for using your hard earned crystals.
Below the 10x pulls are single pulls, which are not really recommended. But give it a whirl if you feel lucky.... You can use gacha tickets here too. Once a day you can pull the single gacha for 90moba coins only, which is pretty cheap and not bad if you are willing to spend some money on the game. The gacha rates will tell you exactly what rates are being boosted if you need to confirm.
RUPEE/OTHER GACHA (ルピ／他)
You can roll up to 10k rupee per day. You can get R characters this way occasionally. Its main use is to collect plusses (+) in order to add on to your weapons, characters, and summons. Each plus boosts your stats by 1 HP and 5 ATK. You can stack up to +99 on one item. In the beginning, you should just save your rupee to limit break your characters, summons, and weapons. Later on you can start farming for rupee and rolling 10k rupee everyday to build up your pluses. On average it will give you about 1 per day.
Occasionally there will be another special gacha below the rupee gacha. Character tickets from guild wars or special event tickets can be redeemed from here.
START DASH / SURPRISE TICKETS / BEGINNER GACHA
When you start the game, there is a campaign that gives you a ticket that allows you to exchange for any SSR (Bahamut and Lucifer are excluded from this deal) if you purchase it for 3k moba coins. It also comes with a ticket that lets you redeem 1 10x pull. From what I have gathered, the campaign disappears after reappearing for 2-3 times or after you purchase any surprise tickets. Surprise tickets are basically the same deal, but offered for a limited time during special events like landmark milestones (2 million downloads and anniversary of beta was the last two). I love these, they are pretty much the best money you can spend on the game.
Pick any character you like, some people pick based on what is cute. As long as you are happy with it, then that is a good choice. I picked Yueru, Lady Grey, and Gandalf with mine. Other common choices I see are Artyle, Le Fie, and whatever fills their last spot for a particular team they are working on. If you have bahamut or lucifer, I would focus on completing those teams.
*Remember the SSR exchange tickets expire about 7 days from the time you purchased it. So make sure you use it before then! The 10x pull ticket does not expire so you can save those.
Beginner Gacha
This is basically a cheap way to get you started. It guarantees a SR or better item at the end. 660 moba coins for 5 pulls.
LEVELING UP / EARNING RUPEE / GAINING JP
Leveling up to rank 30 is pretty straightforward. Just continue down the main story line in quests (クエスト). Finish whatever you can and collect your crystals. If you need to level up a rank, job, or characters you can always do the 10th story line quest おいしい珊瑚, it gives good returns for your ap. Even better is to do coop quests 共闘クエスト. You can join other people's room and help them with their quests for free exp. You can pretty much grind your way to rank 100 by doing coop. Coop is also a really good source for rupee if you need it for limit breaking or gacha.
Gaining JP is easy up to rank 40 since you gain 30 JP per level, but it starts to slow down around there. You can gain a lot of JP from doing events by either exchanging mats for them or through the event gacha.
CAMPAIGNS
On "My Page", there is a campaign tab in the middle. I'll go over them, but the most important campaigns are the twitter reset and the login one. Also it is a good idea to do the collabs since they give away a lot of legend tickets for gacha.
Twitter Reset
Once a day you can refill your AP/BP to full by sending a twitter message. You actually don't have to send one. You can just click on it and it will assume you sent one. Resets at 5am JST time.
Idol App
You get crystals for downloading the app, but you need a confirmed japanese phone so pretty much tough luck for us.
Invite Campaign
You need a confirmed phone for this too, so no luck here.
Bahamut Collab Rewards
3x AP pots - Clear tutorial
1x legend ticket - Reach lvl 15
2x legend tickets - Reach lvl 30
2x legend tickets - Reach lvl 40
Idols Collab Rewards
3x AP pots - Clear tutorial
1x legend ticket - Reach lvl 15
3x AP pots - Reach lvl 30
2x legend tickets - Reach lvl 40
Panel Campaign
Rewards for doing basic tasks in the game. Translations in the next section.
PANEL MISSIONS
These go from top left to right.
1st Panel
1. Clear Chapter 1 of main story
2. Enhance a character
3. Pull once using rupee gacha
4. Send a friend request
5. Check out ruria's notes
6. Login 2nd day
7. Set a greetings in your profile
8. Enhance a summon
9. Enhance a weapon
2nd Panel
1. Exchange an item in trader (menu > shop)
2. Clear the 1st island
3. Max limit break a character
4. Increase skill lvl of a weapon
5. Unlock a new job
6. Set an EX Ability
7. Do a 4-chain ougi
8. Join a guild
9. Request for help in multi raid
3rd Panel
1. Clear an Extra quest
2. Clear Chapter 8 of main story
3. Donate rupee to your guild
4. Defeat a Tiamat raid
5. Unlock a 2nd or higher job tier
6. Exchange for a summon in shop
7. Join a multi raid during your assault time (assault times can be found in menu > guild in JST of course)
8. Defeat 10 multi raids
9. Max limit break a weapon
4th Panel
1. Earn 1,000 Medals in casino
2. Do 1 coop quest
3. Set a support summon (menu > profile > set summons)
4. Clear chapter 16 in story
5. Sell items in trader (menu > shop)
6. Master 5 jobs
7. Set a title (menu > profile > achievements [2nd tab on the bottom] > 称号設定)
8. Read a comic
9. Change sex of your character (menu > profile > top left click "change")
UNCAP CHARACTERS / MATERIALS
A lot of lb mats drop from just playing the game, but sometimes you need something specific to lb something, especially in the beginning when you have nothing. So here you go! You can also trade for some of these in the shop or with mission points in coop.
A new Extreme dungeon was added to Extra quests, where you can farm gems, scrolls, genes, and dragon scales for a particular element. The element of the extreme dungeon rotates every 2 days. It is actually a bit challenging so if you have a weak team you might struggle with it. There is a rank 50 requirement too so not recommended for new players. If you are looking for dragon scales, about 1-2 drop per run.
Order of extreme dungeons, 2 days each one
Example drops of extreme dungeon.
Angel Halo dungeons (エンジェル・ヘイロー) in SPECIAL tab drop the lowest tier gems, highest tier whorls, low and mid tier crystals, rusty weapons, and weapon fodder. These are available 24/7 now. Once in a while we get 1/2 AP off for SPECIAL missions so those are the best time to stock up on what you need.
Example drops of angel halo dungeon during time marked with star, results may vary, I am using bunny and hawkeye coop gun.
GEMS
*Can be found in Tuesday EXTRA quests, as well as from various dungeons. Higher grade gems can be traded for with lower ones in shop.
SCROLLS/GENES
*Can be found in Wednesday EXTRA quests, as well as from various dungeons. Higher grade items can be traded for with lower ones in shop. Whorls can be traded for in coop with mission pts.
CRYSTALS
*Can be found in Thursday EXTRA quests, as well as from various dungeons. Higher grade items can be traded for with lower ones in shop. Rainbow crystals drop a lot in magna and extreme events.
DRAGON SCALES
*Can be found in Friday EXTRA quests, as well as from various dungeons. Particularly in magnas of the same element. You can trade up to 2 of these with mission pts in coop. Best place to farm them would be elemental dungeons in SPECIAL tab.
CERTIFICATES
*Drops from event bosses and given out as rewards during events for meeting specific milestones. Also drops in proto bahamut, grande, and primal raids.
BLUE CRYSTAL
*Reward from hell mode bosses on first time clear, doing challenge quests, drops in special event r challenges, and daily after completing all 3 coop missions. Used for 5* characters, SSR weapon crafting, and GW characters. Drops quite a bit in Grande raids too.
Gold Brick
*Really rare drop in non-story hell/maniac dungeons. Can be traded for during Celestial Beasts that appear whenever they feel like giving us, lol. Used mainly for GW characters, but can be used to LB SSR weapons though that isn't recommended.
Damascus Ingot
*You can use these to uncap SSR weapons. It is good idea to save it on something really important like moon weapons. You can farm damascus crystals during certain events and trade 10 in for an ingot.
MAGNA RANDOM STUFF
*Drops from magnas and used for crafting or upgrading.
TRUE ANIMAS
*Drops from magnas and used for crafting, upgrading, and summoning.
SILVER ANIMAS
*Drops from NORMAL and HARD versions of their element's raid. Also trolls in red boxes of magnas, lol.
GOLD ANIMAS
*Drops from HARD versions of their element's raid. Also drops in magnas. Can be traded for in casino or with mission pts in coop. Now can also be exchanged in shop for 7 fragments and 3 silver animas.
REDUCE WEAPONS/SUMMONS
SR/SSR Weapons/Summons can be reduced for materials used in upgrading weapons/summons to 4* so save the ones you dont use. Gacha weapons/summons give significantly more materials compared to the ones obtained in the game. That means don’t use your gacha items for feeding and instead save them for reducing if you don’t plan to use them.
** This is for 0* items. If you have a 1* item than you would just multiply these numbers by 2 and so on.
*** +n depends on your level of element enhancement.
Things to note:
You can break Christina’s guns from casino if you need gun fragments. It is a bit costly at 7,777,777 for each one after paying the initial 77,777,777m for her, but it is worth it especially if you are going down the gun path or you need mats to 4* oliver class gun since it gives 200 gun fragments each. You can also break the swords in casino for 200 sword fragments each. They only cost 2.5m medals so that is very nice.
PENDANTS
You can trade pendants for items in shop. Most important items are Omega weapons, moons, and distinctions.
Best omega weapons to exchange for would be the following:
Wind: Guns
Fire: Staves
Water: Daggers
Earth: Swords
Light: Swords/Guns (swords limit to 4 total because too op)
Dark: Fists/Axes (fists are harder to drop, so better to exchange for than axe, but if you don’t care for fists, doesnt matter)
Bronze and silver moons are usually exchanged for pots. Gold moons you can exchange for CP if you need it or save it for a damascus ingot to lb a SSR weapon or go for the 150 gold moon siero’s ticket to get anything you want. Gold moon weapons are nice too, but only affordable by super whales.
Distinctions are for upgrading class weapons to get tier 4 classes and unlocking tier 4 classes. Need 40 of a particular distinction to upgrade class weapon up to element change for tier 4 classes. Unlocking tier 4 classes cost 20 distinctions each.
Obtaining pendants
You can get a max of 3k silver pendants per week. About 12k silver a month. It resets on mondays at 5am jst. Gold pendants can only be earned after you get to lvl 101 as they are only available in high level (impossible) raids. Gold is maxed out at 500 per week and is pretty easy to get.
The number of pendants you earn per raid depends on the number of honor points you earn in the raid. You need to hit a minimum amount of honor points to earn the maximum available points. Harder raids require more points.
Silver pendants can be earned by using R/SR characters. Since R characters earn twice as fast as SR characters, setting up your party to have 1 R and 2 SR in the main line helps keep them earning at the same speed. Having a R and SR in your support line helps in case your main line dies. Your pts for R/SR is calculated depending on who is alive at the end so don’t suicide the boss! Easiest raid to fight with your R/SR team would be the Hard omega raids. I use mine when fighting primals too.
Also hosting gives a lot of pendants and is an easy way to earn them when you are weak and can’t do that much honor points.
Points can earn:
HARD
Host: 2-12
Assist: 2-6
SR bonus: 3 (per char)
R bonus: 6 (per char)
Omega
Host: 2-40
Assist: 10
SR bonus: 4 (per char)
R bonus: 8 (per char)
Primal
Host: 2-50
Assist: 2-25
SR bonus: 4 (per char)
R bonus: 8 (per char)
Omega HL
Host: 2-40
Assist: 2-20
Primal HL
Host: 2-50
Assist: 2-35
**Primals are Macula, Nezha, Medusa, Dark Angel Olivia, Twinelements, Apollo
CLASSES
In general, it is a very good idea to work on getting the Dark Fencer class since this class allows you to tackle harder dungeons by yourself. From there you can pretty much get anything you want as it is personal preference. I would recommend hawkeye for the treasure hunt skill. It is useful for farming materials and items. Sidewinder is useful for damage. Sorcerer for blind skill which is great with dark fencer. Hermit for focus skill which works great with sidewinder for more damage. Weaponmaster for the awesome master bonus.
In the long run, if you play enough you can get all the classes, I just finished mine after 3-4 months of play. I would just focus on mastering a few advanced jobs in the beginning though.
Kingneet has a list with most of the classes so go there for the translation. (gbf-english.proboards.com/thread/44/job-skills-bonuses)
Since the last time the list has been updated there has been several new classes, which I will list below:
Harpist:
Type: Special
Weapons: Harp / Dagger
JP Cost: 100
Preqrequisite: None
Abilities
Overture: Increases healing effectiveness/upper limit for everyone. When you are using a harp, the skill effectiveness increases. From 10% to 20%.
Charm song (lvl 10) (EX): Casts charm on enemy. Enemies with charm have a chance of doing nothing on their turn.
Support Abilities
Cantabile: Decreases damage from enemy skills when they are in overdrive state.
Master Bonus
Defense +1%
Minstrel:
Type: Special
Weapons: Harp / Dagger
JP Cost: 200
Preqrequisite: Harpist / Enhancer
Abilities
Overture: Increases healing effectiveness/upper limit for everyone. When you are using a harp, the skill effectiveness increases. From 10% to 20%.
Charm song II (lvl 5) (EX): Casts charm on enemy. Enemies with charm have a chance of doing nothing on their turn.
Minstrel Song (lvl 15) (EX): Heals 300 hp with harp, 150 hp without per turn for 5 turns.
Support Abilities
Cantabile: Decreases damage from enemy skills when they are in overdrive state.
Master Bonus
Defense +2%
Superstar
Type: Special
Weapons: Harp / Dagger
JP Cost: 500
Preqrequisite: Minstrel / Arcana Sword
Abilities
Overture II: Increases healing effectiveness/upper limit for everyone. When you are using a harp, the skill effectiveness increases.
Soul Pilfer (lvl 5) (EX): Decreases enemy resistance to debuffs. Increases effectiveness when using a harp.
Song of Grande (lvl 15) (EX): Double attack rate up. When using harp, double attack up rate goes up to about 80%.
Support Abilities
Cantabile: Decreases damage from enemy skills when they are in overdrive state.
Appasionato: Double attack rate up increases when using Song of Grande. When using Overture II, attack and defense increases depending on number of people in raid.
Master Bonus
Defense +3%
***Skill effects of lancer, dragoon, and valkyrie classes changes depending on if you have axe or spear equipped.
Lancer (ランサー):
Type: Attack
Weapons: Spear / Axe
JP Cost: 100
Prerequisite: None
Abilities
Lead Drive: Damage to enemy. Spear - locks break state. Axe - decreases enemy gauge.
Dual Impulse (lvl 5) (EX): Double attack. Spear - party's double attack rate up. Axe - enemy's double attack rate down.
Support Abilities
Volitional: Spear - Attack up. Axe - Defense up.
Master Bonus
HP +1%
Dragoon (ドラグーン):
Type: Attack
Weapons: Spear / Axe
JP Cost: 300
Preqrequisite: Lancer / Knight
Abilities
Lead Drive: Damage to enemy. Spear - locks break state. Axe - decreases enemy gauge.
Dual Impulse II (lvl 5) (EX): Double attack. Spear - party's double attack rate up. *Effectiveness is increased depending on the number of buffs you have. Axe - enemy's double attack rate down. *Effectiveness is increased depeneding on number of debuffs enemy has.
Pile Revelation? パイルリベレーション (lvl 15) (EX): Damage, attack, defense increases depending on your ougi gauge.
Support Abilities
Volitional: Spear - Attack up. Axe - Defense up.
Master Bonus
HP +2%
Valkyrie (ヴァルキュリア):
Type: Attack
Weapons: Spear / Axe
JP Cost: 500
Prerequisite: Dragoon / Fortress
Abilities
Lead Drive II: Damage to enemy. Spear - locks break state. Axe - decreases enemy gauge.
Dual Impulse III (lvl 5) (EX): Gives 100% triple attack to self for 1 turn (regardless of weapon). Spear - raid's consecutive attack rate up. Axe - enemy's consecutive attack rate down.
Resonance Surge (lvl 15) (EX): More damage depending on enemy's turn gauge.
Support Abilities
Volitional: Spear - Attack up. Axe - Defense up.
Crisis Blow: Resonance Surge damage up.
Master Bonus
HP +3%
Alchemist
Type: Healer
Weapons: Dagger / Gun
JP Cost: 500
Prerequisite: 魔導士の信念 / Title (怪異を暴きし者)
Alchemist has special requirements. One is to get the title 怪異を暴きし者, which you receive when you complete all of Coop Extra stage 1. 魔導士の信念 is an item that drops in Extra mode of coop. I am pretty sure it drops in any of those stages. I have 10 of them -.-
Abilities
Transmute Cure Potion: Creates a cure potion.
Medic (lvl 5) (EX): Heals party members for up to 1500 hp.
Raise Morale (lvl 15) (EX): Increases ougi gauge of whole raid by 10% if used by an alchemist. Only 5% if used by other jobs.
Support abilities:
Alchemist Expertise: Increase potions effectiveness.
Knowledge's inspiration: Increase Raise morale effectiveness.
Master Bonus:
Healing +5%
Ninja
Type: Special
Weapons: Katana / Fist
JP Cost: 500
Prerequisite: 戦士の信念 / Title (輪光を封ぜし者)
Ninja has special requirements. One is to get the title 輪光を封ぜし者, which you receive when you complete all of Coop Extra stage 2. Second is 戦士の信念, which is an item that mainly drops in Extra mode of coop, but can drop outside of it at a much lower rate.
Abilities
Ninjutsu: Form a seal and use ninjutsu.
Fuma Shuriken (lvl 5) (EX): Deals damage to enemy and depending on the seal an effect will be added. Sets mark counter to 2. Katana - Reduces cooldown on ninjutsu by 2 turns. Fists - Double attack rate and attack up.
Cloudy (lvl 15) (EX): Deals damage to enemy. Katana - Blinds self and increases double attack rate. Fists - Increases own attack, decreases defense, and increases ougi gauge.
Support abilities:
Hidden Secret: Rare chance to dodge damage from enemy.
打剣: Increases effectiveness of Fuma Shuriken.
Master Bonus:
Ability Damage +5%
NINJUTSU SKILL LIST
*Thanks to Takurannyan and vacillating for the info.
闘 + 闘 = fire damage + fire mark
闘 + 気 = chance to crit for 1 turn
闘 + 龍 = light damage + light mark
闘 + 虎 = triple attack up for 2 turns
気 + 闘 = dodge for 1 turn
気 + 気 = water damage + water mark
気 + 龍 = dark damage + dark mark
気 + 虎 = damage + poison
龍 + 闘 = multi attack down
龍 + 気 = overdrive gauge reduction
龍 + 龍 = wind damage + wind mark
龍 + 虎 = avoid being targeted by enemy for 1 turn
虎 + 闘 = attack power up during blind for 2 turns (+50%)
虎 + 気 = remove own debuffs + heal -50% ougi for self
虎 + 龍 = remove 1 debuff from party
虎 + 虎 = earth damage + earth mark
Additional Effects from Marks *
3x Fire marks = Attack down
3x Water marks = Defense down
3x Earth marks = Delay
3x Wind marks = DA probability Down
3x Light marks = Paralysis (lasts for 30 seconds)
3x Dark marks = Darkness(blind)
* Marks last for 180 seconds
Samurai
Type: Attack
Weapons: Katana / Bow
JP Cost: 500
Prerequisite: 戦士の信念 / Title (幻魔を斬り伏せし者)
Samurai has special requirements. One is to get the title 幻魔を斬り伏せし者, which you receive when you complete all of Coop Extra stage 3. Second is 戦士の信念, which is an item that mainly drops in Extra mode of coop, but can drop outside of it at a much lower rate.
Abilities
Finishing Touch: Consecutive attack rate is increased depending on the amount of ougi gauge. * Lasts until 200% ougi gauge is filled or character is hit.
Meditation (lvl 5) (EX): Increases own attack. Rare chance to deal increased damage when attacking against a weak point. Consumes 30% ougi gauge.
鴉雀無声 (lvl 15) (EX): Increases own defense. Katana - Chance to dodge attacks. Decreases own attack. Bow - Increases own attack, decreases consecutive attacks, and decreases ougi gauge by 35%.
Support abilities:
Bushido: Increases maximum ougi gauge.
Without reserve: Increases effectiveness of 鴉雀無声.
Master Bonus:
Attack +5%
CHARACTERS
SSR Playable Characters list was done by kingneet in the beginning, you can access it here gbf-english.proboards.com/thread/52/playable-characters-ssr. I am continuing the list in another thread since that list is not updated anymore, it is accessible here gbf-english.proboards.com/thread/245/playable-characters-ssr-2. I started on the SR character list here gbf-english.proboards.com/thread/262/playable-characters-sr
MORE TRANSLATIONS
-- in progress --
SETTINGS
Play around with different settings if you are running into lag problems. Turning off real time notices in raids can help a bit as well as turning down quality.
STORAGE
Storage is purchasable in the shop for 500 crystals or 500 mobacoins. Occasionally it goes on sale for moba. You can have up to 3 storages for weapons and 3 for summons. Each storage can hold up to 100 items. These are great to store fodder or items you aren't using now. You can definitely get by without them though, it is just a bit more of a hassle. You pay for convenience and honestly 500 crystals usually get you a rare in gacha anyways. A worthy investment indeed.
Moving stuff into storage
In order to move stuff into the storage you need to access the menu and then go to list. At the bottom of the list you will see this box. Sell allows you to get some rupee for your weapons, but isn't worth it. You want to click on move to storage in order to move stuff from your main box.
When you click on move to storage you will get this pop up in order to choose which storage you want to move your items to.
Managing storage
If you want to manage your storage, you can access storage from the menu at anytime by clicking on the top right menu button. When you go to storage you can then select which storage you want to manage.
Once you go into the actual storage you can choose to move items back into your main inventory, move to other storages, or sell them. By choosing select you can select more than one at a time. If you want to just manage one item, then you can click it directly.
You can change the name of the storage at the bottom.
FREE CRYSTALS AND GACHA TICKETS
Thanks to tofuman for this tip. Redeem your free gifts in his thread click here.
If you have questions, feel free to ask here or join the facebook group or discord (chat).
Facebook group: www.facebook.com/groups/granbluefantasyinternational/
Discord: discord.gg/granbluefantasy
About 700-800 ppl online usually. You can join us for questions, discussions, or help. We usually just chat nonsense while playing the game. You can post raids and stuff... Theres also a music channel and even useful stuff like
***Update 1/2/2017***
Updated some changes that were made to the game.
***Update 11/28/2016***
Small edits here and there. Updated how to obtain rabbit after the nice changes...
***Update 8/9/2016***
Added a section for pendants, because suddenly not lazy...
***Update 8/8/2016***
Figure I update the casino section since poker is now too awesome. Also edited and updated some old texts.
***Update 7/26/2016***
Typos and small errors... getting slightly more correct and updated. Go me! Thanks to those who pointed them out.
***Update 7/21/2016***
Fixed some of the table of contents so they actually link to their sections. I know, it's taken ages... Also updated raids/casino. Put japanese names for raids to search for when using tweetdeck to find raids.
***Update 7/12/2016***
Added the ougis for gw weapons when they are awakened.
***Update 7/10/2016***
Fixed some more errors...
Added section for reduce. Something that should had been done ages ago, lol.... such slacker... Anyways, you guys should stop by discord, the community is growing there. Theres about 150+ online usually. Some fun GBF bots to play around with and a music channel, whaa so amazing. Ok, maybe I exaggerate. Use this link to join discord.gg/0wRMEQ8bpHsIWEED. More updates to come, maybe...
Table of Contents
I. Beginning
1. Rerolling
2. Starting out (menu translations)
3. Various basic tips
4. Gacha
5. Start Dash / Surprise Tickets / Beginner Gacha
6. Leveling up / Earning Rupee / Gaining JP
7. Campaigns
8. Panel Missions
9. Limit Breaking Characters / Materials
10. Reduce Weapons/Summons
11. Renown/Prestige Pendants
12. Job Classes
13. Characters
14. More translations -- in progress --
a) shop
b) settings
c) storage
d) guild
15. Free crystals and gacha tickets (courtesy of tofuman)
II. Intermediate
1. Weapon upgrading
2. Summons
3. Friends
4. Raids
1. Basics
2. Finding raids (tweetdeck)
2. Getting help from twitter
5. Buffs / Debuffs
6. Events
7. Casino
1. Poker
2. Bingo
3. Slots
8. Coop
III. End Game
1. Magnas
2. Other Raids
3. Coop weapons
4. Guild war weapons (how to obtain guild war characters)
5. Bahamut weapons
6. Cosmos weapons
7. Zenith Perks System
8. Weapon Optimization
9. Theorycrafting
I. Beginning
1. Rerolling
2. Starting out (menu translations)
3. Various basic tips
4. Gacha
5. Start Dash / Surprise Tickets / Beginner Gacha
6. Leveling up / Earning Rupee / Gaining JP
7. Campaigns
8. Panel Missions
9. Limit Breaking Characters / Materials
10. Reduce Weapons/Summons
11. Renown/Prestige Pendants
12. Job Classes
13. Characters
14. More translations -- in progress --
a) shop
b) settings
c) storage
d) guild
15. Free crystals and gacha tickets (courtesy of tofuman)
II. Intermediate
1. Weapon upgrading
2. Summons
3. Friends
4. Raids
1. Basics
2. Finding raids (tweetdeck)
2. Getting help from twitter
5. Buffs / Debuffs
6. Events
7. Casino
1. Poker
2. Bingo
3. Slots
8. Coop
III. End Game
1. Magnas
2. Other Raids
3. Coop weapons
4. Guild war weapons (how to obtain guild war characters)
5. Bahamut weapons
6. Cosmos weapons
7. Zenith Perks System
8. Weapon Optimization
9. Theorycrafting
I. BEGINNING
REROLLING
Should I reroll?
As a preface, you don't have to reroll. It certainly does help give you a good start and you can reroll for chars/summons you can't purchase later. But you shouldn't feel required to do so. Sometimes rerolling just makes you hate the game before you start. I recommend giving it a try and settling for anything that makes you happy really.
How to reroll
Theres a really detailed guild on granblue-wiki.com so you should just read that. granblue-wiki.com/index.php/Rerolling.
What should I roll for?
I would aim for any char you like really. Limited characters are also nice since they are hard to obtain normally. If you want a specific character to roll for, yoda is super friendly for beginners and will carry you for a long time. Still useful at end game to farm easy dungeons.
Besides characters, the best summons to roll for would be lucifer (100% light), bahamut (100% dark), shiva (120%), or grande (200% if you have 3 chars of different elements). These you can't purchase with tickets later and have really low rates in gacha.
The primal summons (80% to normal weapons of x type) aren't bad either, but would take quite a bit of time and effort to get them really going. They are sought after end-game though and since they got super low rates you might want to keep them if you get one. Particular primals of interest would be Zeus, Hades, Titan, and Agnis.
Best time to roll
During legend festivals at the end of the month or when they give out a lot of free rolls during celebrations.
STARTING OUT
In the beginning, you pretty much want to just rank up, get some basic weapons/summons, work on getting tier 3 jobs (dark fencer especially since it helps you solo content), do as much as you can in the current events, and save up your crystals for gacha. Also use twitter reset, login to the other games campaign, and do the idols/knights/bahamut campaign for great rewards. When you get a break from events try to progress your main quests.
Summary of stuff to do in beginning
1. Do event, whatever difficulty you can and grab the free characters
2. Do main story quests
3. Do any quests in the chapters that give crystals
4. Save your crystals for 2x SSR event
5. Use twitter reset daily
6. Do idols/bahamut campaign when you have no ap/bp
7. Do a little casino everyday and redeem for ap/bp items
Levels 1-50
Koon has a nice guide on getting strong on the early game, you can check it out here www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOGCPWt4Pk0&feature=youtu.be
Some basic menu translations:
My page:
1. ATK POWER is your attack + hp + mastery bonuses2. CURE POTS, ELEMENT UP, and DROP RATE UP are guild buffs that your guild master can put up. CURE POTS gives you extra potions, ELEMENT UP gives bonus damage for that element (up to 10% increase), DROP RATE UP gives you 20% more drop chance at max.
3. ORGANIZE is where you can edit your party, weapon pool, summons, jobs, and equip EX skills from other jobs.
4. COOP is a room where you can do quests with up to 3 other party members.
5. GACHA is where you can roll for weapons, characters, and summons with crystals or mobacoins.
6. PRESENT ICON is where your items from gacha and rewards end up when your inventory is full. Some items expire after 3 days so make sure you accept your gifts!
7. LETTER ICON is alerts for completed battles you have yet to receive rewards for, friends requests, messages on your profile, etc.
8. QUESTS is where your main story quests, extra quests, raids, and fate end episodes are.
9. MULTI-BATTLE is a raid list of raids you can join.
10. AP/BP. AP recovers at 1 AP per 5 minutes. BP recovers at 1 BP per 20 minutes.
Menu
1. ORGANIZE - edit party, weapons, summons, change jobs, and ex skills.2. ENHANCE - upgrade weapons, skills, summons, and characters.
3. COOP - do quests together with other people.
4. GACHA - roll crystals/mobacoins gacha for weapons, chars, and summons. There is also a rupee one you can roll using rupee for R chars, weapons, and summons.
5. QUESTS - main story quests, raids, extras.
6. PROFILE - list of achievements, enhancement bonus levels, messages from other players, and you can set your summons here.
7. RURIA NOTES - stories, past events, a codex of items you have seen.
8. GUILD - upgrade ship, see member list, donate, list of assault times (2 1-hr periods where you start raids at 100% ougi)
9. ITEMS - list of stuff you have, different from weapons/storage inventory. There are items you can equip for small boosts (大事なもの)
10. SHOP - you can buy recovery pots, inventory expansion, and storages with crystals or mobacoins. You can also trade items here.
11. PRESENTS - takes you to your mailbox of items.
12. LIST - inventory of what you have in your main inventory, characters, and skins. You can move weapons and summons here to your storages.
13. STORAGE - extra storages purchasable in shop.
14. FRIENDS - list of your friends, friends requests, requests sent, and ability to search for new friends by id, rank, or suggestions.
15. WORLD MAP - overview of the islands.
16. SETTINGS - game speed, game quality, sound, etc.
17. CURRENT EVENT - quick way to access the current event from where ever you are.
VARIOUS BASIC TIPS
Battle mechanics
You should familiarize yourself with the elements diagram. Wind beats earth, earth beats water, water beats fire, and fire beats wind. Light and Dark beats each other. You get a 50% damage bonus added on with other elemental bonuses when you are fighting with the correct element against a weak one. If you are using a weaker element against a strong one, you will do less damage (-25%).You also take less damage from weaker elements, except for light and dark. Debuffs are easier to land on weaker elements as well. So when you can, make sure you are using the correct element! When your team gets super strong, you can actually use it to destroy other elements.
Chain burst damage
When your ougi bar hits 100% you can turn the ougi on (when it is orange, it is on), it is located below your character's portraits. The more characters that ougi at the same time, the more damage you end up doing in your chain burst. When you use 4 characters' ougi, your chain burst damage will be 1/2 of the total ougi damage done. While it is only 1/4 when you use just two characters. 1/3 for 3 characters.When a character uses their ougi, it raises the ougi of your other party members by 10%. So the minimum ougi bar you need filled would be, 1st player - 100%, 2nd - 90%, 3rd - 80%, 4th - 70% for a full chain burst damage.
Important items (大事なもの)
In menu > items, there is a tab for important items (大事なもの) that you can equip for bonuses. You can only equip 5 at a time. You get these as rewards for clearing each island.
1. Rank points is increased by 10%.
2. Enhance exp is increased by 5%.
3. Chance of great success when enhancing increased by 2%.
4. Exp increased by 5%.
5. Rupee gained from quests increased by 5%
6. When enhancing dark, exp is increased by 5%.
7. Increases custom points by 50% when feeding weapons to guild ships.
8. When enhancing wind, exp is increased by 5%.
9. When enhancing earth, exp is increased by 5%.
10. Chance of great success when enhancing increased by 1%.
11. Increases exp gained by 5% when upgrading your element enhance lvl.
Free blue potion in raids
When you use the chat button in raid to send an emote, you get a free blue pot. Works only once per raid.
Increasing weapon/summon slots and storages
Weapon/summon slots can be increased by purchasing extra slots in the shop for 100 moba coins or 100 crystals. You start off at 50 slots and can increase to a maximum of 200. How much inventory space you need depends on how much inconvenience you are willing to deal with. It can be pretty annoying to keep going back and forth in order to clear space. I find having 50 free open slots a good number to work with.
Storages can also be purchased in shop for 500 moba coins or 500 crystals. They occasionally go on sale, usually moba only though. Each storage can hold 100 items. You can have a max of 3 storages each for weapons and summons. You can get by with 0 storages for a while, but when you start building up a collection, 1-2 storages will be very useful.
LEGEND GACHA (レジェンドガチャ)
You want to save 3k crystals in order to roll gacha, which basically lets you roll 10x at once and guarantees you one SR or better item. Save the crystals for legend fest when they have 2x SSR rate events. These usually takes place every 2 months at the end of the month. Last one was on December 31st, so next one is expected at end of February. But they might change their schedules so keep an eye out.
What 2x SSR rates look like
Normal gacha rates are:
SSR: 3% (super low!)
SR: 15%
R: 82%
Blue button is for using mobacoins, which is real money currency you can purchase. Red button is for using your hard earned crystals.Below the 10x pulls are single pulls, which are not really recommended. But give it a whirl if you feel lucky.... You can use gacha tickets here too. Once a day you can pull the single gacha for 90moba coins only, which is pretty cheap and not bad if you are willing to spend some money on the game. The gacha rates will tell you exactly what rates are being boosted if you need to confirm.RUPEE/OTHER GACHA (ルピ／他)
You can roll up to 10k rupee per day. You can get R characters this way occasionally. Its main use is to collect plusses (+) in order to add on to your weapons, characters, and summons. Each plus boosts your stats by 1 HP and 5 ATK. You can stack up to +99 on one item. In the beginning, you should just save your rupee to limit break your characters, summons, and weapons. Later on you can start farming for rupee and rolling 10k rupee everyday to build up your pluses. On average it will give you about 1 per day.
Occasionally there will be another special gacha below the rupee gacha. Character tickets from guild wars or special event tickets can be redeemed from here.
START DASH / SURPRISE TICKETS / BEGINNER GACHA
When you start the game, there is a campaign that gives you a ticket that allows you to exchange for any SSR (Bahamut and Lucifer are excluded from this deal) if you purchase it for 3k moba coins. It also comes with a ticket that lets you redeem 1 10x pull. From what I have gathered, the campaign disappears after reappearing for 2-3 times or after you purchase any surprise tickets. Surprise tickets are basically the same deal, but offered for a limited time during special events like landmark milestones (2 million downloads and anniversary of beta was the last two). I love these, they are pretty much the best money you can spend on the game.
Pick any character you like, some people pick based on what is cute. As long as you are happy with it, then that is a good choice. I picked Yueru, Lady Grey, and Gandalf with mine. Other common choices I see are Artyle, Le Fie, and whatever fills their last spot for a particular team they are working on. If you have bahamut or lucifer, I would focus on completing those teams.
*Remember the SSR exchange tickets expire about 7 days from the time you purchased it. So make sure you use it before then! The 10x pull ticket does not expire so you can save those.
Beginner Gacha
This is basically a cheap way to get you started. It guarantees a SR or better item at the end. 660 moba coins for 5 pulls.
LEVELING UP / EARNING RUPEE / GAINING JP
Leveling up to rank 30 is pretty straightforward. Just continue down the main story line in quests (クエスト). Finish whatever you can and collect your crystals. If you need to level up a rank, job, or characters you can always do the 10th story line quest おいしい珊瑚, it gives good returns for your ap. Even better is to do coop quests 共闘クエスト. You can join other people's room and help them with their quests for free exp. You can pretty much grind your way to rank 100 by doing coop. Coop is also a really good source for rupee if you need it for limit breaking or gacha.
Gaining JP is easy up to rank 40 since you gain 30 JP per level, but it starts to slow down around there. You can gain a lot of JP from doing events by either exchanging mats for them or through the event gacha.
CAMPAIGNS
On "My Page", there is a campaign tab in the middle. I'll go over them, but the most important campaigns are the twitter reset and the login one. Also it is a good idea to do the collabs since they give away a lot of legend tickets for gacha.
Twitter Reset
Once a day you can refill your AP/BP to full by sending a twitter message. You actually don't have to send one. You can just click on it and it will assume you sent one. Resets at 5am JST time.
Idol App
You get crystals for downloading the app, but you need a confirmed japanese phone so pretty much tough luck for us.
Invite Campaign
You need a confirmed phone for this too, so no luck here.
Bahamut Collab Rewards
3x AP pots - Clear tutorial
1x legend ticket - Reach lvl 15
2x legend tickets - Reach lvl 30
2x legend tickets - Reach lvl 40
Idols Collab Rewards
3x AP pots - Clear tutorial
1x legend ticket - Reach lvl 15
3x AP pots - Reach lvl 30
2x legend tickets - Reach lvl 40
Panel Campaign
Rewards for doing basic tasks in the game. Translations in the next section.
PANEL MISSIONS
These go from top left to right.
1st Panel
1. Clear Chapter 1 of main story
2. Enhance a character
3. Pull once using rupee gacha
4. Send a friend request
5. Check out ruria's notes
6. Login 2nd day
7. Set a greetings in your profile
8. Enhance a summon
9. Enhance a weapon
2nd Panel
1. Exchange an item in trader (menu > shop)
2. Clear the 1st island
3. Max limit break a character
4. Increase skill lvl of a weapon
5. Unlock a new job
6. Set an EX Ability
7. Do a 4-chain ougi
8. Join a guild
9. Request for help in multi raid
3rd Panel
1. Clear an Extra quest
2. Clear Chapter 8 of main story
3. Donate rupee to your guild
4. Defeat a Tiamat raid
5. Unlock a 2nd or higher job tier
6. Exchange for a summon in shop
7. Join a multi raid during your assault time (assault times can be found in menu > guild in JST of course)
8. Defeat 10 multi raids
9. Max limit break a weapon
4th Panel
1. Earn 1,000 Medals in casino
2. Do 1 coop quest
3. Set a support summon (menu > profile > set summons)
4. Clear chapter 16 in story
5. Sell items in trader (menu > shop)
6. Master 5 jobs
7. Set a title (menu > profile > achievements [2nd tab on the bottom] > 称号設定)
8. Read a comic
9. Change sex of your character (menu > profile > top left click "change")
UNCAP CHARACTERS / MATERIALS
A lot of lb mats drop from just playing the game, but sometimes you need something specific to lb something, especially in the beginning when you have nothing. So here you go! You can also trade for some of these in the shop or with mission points in coop.
A new Extreme dungeon was added to Extra quests, where you can farm gems, scrolls, genes, and dragon scales for a particular element. The element of the extreme dungeon rotates every 2 days. It is actually a bit challenging so if you have a weak team you might struggle with it. There is a rank 50 requirement too so not recommended for new players. If you are looking for dragon scales, about 1-2 drop per run.
Order of extreme dungeons, 2 days each one
Example drops of extreme dungeon.
Angel Halo dungeons (エンジェル・ヘイロー) in SPECIAL tab drop the lowest tier gems, highest tier whorls, low and mid tier crystals, rusty weapons, and weapon fodder. These are available 24/7 now. Once in a while we get 1/2 AP off for SPECIAL missions so those are the best time to stock up on what you need.
Example drops of angel halo dungeon during time marked with star, results may vary, I am using bunny and hawkeye coop gun.
GEMS
*Can be found in Tuesday EXTRA quests, as well as from various dungeons. Higher grade gems can be traded for with lower ones in shop.
SCROLLS/GENES
*Can be found in Wednesday EXTRA quests, as well as from various dungeons. Higher grade items can be traded for with lower ones in shop. Whorls can be traded for in coop with mission pts.
CRYSTALS
*Can be found in Thursday EXTRA quests, as well as from various dungeons. Higher grade items can be traded for with lower ones in shop. Rainbow crystals drop a lot in magna and extreme events.
DRAGON SCALES
*Can be found in Friday EXTRA quests, as well as from various dungeons. Particularly in magnas of the same element. You can trade up to 2 of these with mission pts in coop. Best place to farm them would be elemental dungeons in SPECIAL tab.
CERTIFICATES
*Drops from event bosses and given out as rewards during events for meeting specific milestones. Also drops in proto bahamut, grande, and primal raids.
BLUE CRYSTAL
*Reward from hell mode bosses on first time clear, doing challenge quests, drops in special event r challenges, and daily after completing all 3 coop missions. Used for 5* characters, SSR weapon crafting, and GW characters. Drops quite a bit in Grande raids too.
Gold Brick
*Really rare drop in non-story hell/maniac dungeons. Can be traded for during Celestial Beasts that appear whenever they feel like giving us, lol. Used mainly for GW characters, but can be used to LB SSR weapons though that isn't recommended.
Damascus Ingot
*You can use these to uncap SSR weapons. It is good idea to save it on something really important like moon weapons. You can farm damascus crystals during certain events and trade 10 in for an ingot.
MAGNA RANDOM STUFF
*Drops from magnas and used for crafting or upgrading.
TRUE ANIMAS
*Drops from magnas and used for crafting, upgrading, and summoning.
SILVER ANIMAS
*Drops from NORMAL and HARD versions of their element's raid. Also trolls in red boxes of magnas, lol.
GOLD ANIMAS
*Drops from HARD versions of their element's raid. Also drops in magnas. Can be traded for in casino or with mission pts in coop. Now can also be exchanged in shop for 7 fragments and 3 silver animas.
REDUCE WEAPONS/SUMMONS
SR/SSR Weapons/Summons can be reduced for materials used in upgrading weapons/summons to 4* so save the ones you dont use. Gacha weapons/summons give significantly more materials compared to the ones obtained in the game. That means don’t use your gacha items for feeding and instead save them for reducing if you don’t plan to use them.
** This is for 0* items. If you have a 1* item than you would just multiply these numbers by 2 and so on.
*** +n depends on your level of element enhancement.
Things to note:
You can break Christina’s guns from casino if you need gun fragments. It is a bit costly at 7,777,777 for each one after paying the initial 77,777,777m for her, but it is worth it especially if you are going down the gun path or you need mats to 4* oliver class gun since it gives 200 gun fragments each. You can also break the swords in casino for 200 sword fragments each. They only cost 2.5m medals so that is very nice.
PENDANTS
You can trade pendants for items in shop. Most important items are Omega weapons, moons, and distinctions.
Best omega weapons to exchange for would be the following:
Wind: Guns
Fire: Staves
Water: Daggers
Earth: Swords
Light: Swords/Guns (swords limit to 4 total because too op)
Dark: Fists/Axes (fists are harder to drop, so better to exchange for than axe, but if you don’t care for fists, doesnt matter)
Bronze and silver moons are usually exchanged for pots. Gold moons you can exchange for CP if you need it or save it for a damascus ingot to lb a SSR weapon or go for the 150 gold moon siero’s ticket to get anything you want. Gold moon weapons are nice too, but only affordable by super whales.
Distinctions are for upgrading class weapons to get tier 4 classes and unlocking tier 4 classes. Need 40 of a particular distinction to upgrade class weapon up to element change for tier 4 classes. Unlocking tier 4 classes cost 20 distinctions each.
Obtaining pendants
You can get a max of 3k silver pendants per week. About 12k silver a month. It resets on mondays at 5am jst. Gold pendants can only be earned after you get to lvl 101 as they are only available in high level (impossible) raids. Gold is maxed out at 500 per week and is pretty easy to get.
The number of pendants you earn per raid depends on the number of honor points you earn in the raid. You need to hit a minimum amount of honor points to earn the maximum available points. Harder raids require more points.
Silver pendants can be earned by using R/SR characters. Since R characters earn twice as fast as SR characters, setting up your party to have 1 R and 2 SR in the main line helps keep them earning at the same speed. Having a R and SR in your support line helps in case your main line dies. Your pts for R/SR is calculated depending on who is alive at the end so don’t suicide the boss! Easiest raid to fight with your R/SR team would be the Hard omega raids. I use mine when fighting primals too.
Also hosting gives a lot of pendants and is an easy way to earn them when you are weak and can’t do that much honor points.
Points can earn:
HARD
Host: 2-12
Assist: 2-6
SR bonus: 3 (per char)
R bonus: 6 (per char)
Omega
Host: 2-40
Assist: 10
SR bonus: 4 (per char)
R bonus: 8 (per char)
Primal
Host: 2-50
Assist: 2-25
SR bonus: 4 (per char)
R bonus: 8 (per char)
Omega HL
Host: 2-40
Assist: 2-20
Primal HL
Host: 2-50
Assist: 2-35
**Primals are Macula, Nezha, Medusa, Dark Angel Olivia, Twinelements, Apollo
CLASSES
In general, it is a very good idea to work on getting the Dark Fencer class since this class allows you to tackle harder dungeons by yourself. From there you can pretty much get anything you want as it is personal preference. I would recommend hawkeye for the treasure hunt skill. It is useful for farming materials and items. Sidewinder is useful for damage. Sorcerer for blind skill which is great with dark fencer. Hermit for focus skill which works great with sidewinder for more damage. Weaponmaster for the awesome master bonus.
In the long run, if you play enough you can get all the classes, I just finished mine after 3-4 months of play. I would just focus on mastering a few advanced jobs in the beginning though.
Kingneet has a list with most of the classes so go there for the translation. (gbf-english.proboards.com/thread/44/job-skills-bonuses)
Since the last time the list has been updated there has been several new classes, which I will list below:
Harpist:
Type: Special
Weapons: Harp / Dagger
JP Cost: 100
Preqrequisite: None
Abilities
Overture: Increases healing effectiveness/upper limit for everyone. When you are using a harp, the skill effectiveness increases. From 10% to 20%.
Charm song (lvl 10) (EX): Casts charm on enemy. Enemies with charm have a chance of doing nothing on their turn.
Support Abilities
Cantabile: Decreases damage from enemy skills when they are in overdrive state.
Master Bonus
Defense +1%
Minstrel:
Type: Special
Weapons: Harp / Dagger
JP Cost: 200
Preqrequisite: Harpist / Enhancer
Abilities
Overture: Increases healing effectiveness/upper limit for everyone. When you are using a harp, the skill effectiveness increases. From 10% to 20%.
Charm song II (lvl 5) (EX): Casts charm on enemy. Enemies with charm have a chance of doing nothing on their turn.
Minstrel Song (lvl 15) (EX): Heals 300 hp with harp, 150 hp without per turn for 5 turns.
Support Abilities
Cantabile: Decreases damage from enemy skills when they are in overdrive state.
Master Bonus
Defense +2%
Superstar
Type: Special
Weapons: Harp / Dagger
JP Cost: 500
Preqrequisite: Minstrel / Arcana Sword
Abilities
Overture II: Increases healing effectiveness/upper limit for everyone. When you are using a harp, the skill effectiveness increases.
Soul Pilfer (lvl 5) (EX): Decreases enemy resistance to debuffs. Increases effectiveness when using a harp.
Song of Grande (lvl 15) (EX): Double attack rate up. When using harp, double attack up rate goes up to about 80%.
Support Abilities
Cantabile: Decreases damage from enemy skills when they are in overdrive state.
Appasionato: Double attack rate up increases when using Song of Grande. When using Overture II, attack and defense increases depending on number of people in raid.
Master Bonus
Defense +3%
***Skill effects of lancer, dragoon, and valkyrie classes changes depending on if you have axe or spear equipped.
Lancer (ランサー):
Type: Attack
Weapons: Spear / Axe
JP Cost: 100
Prerequisite: None
Abilities
Lead Drive: Damage to enemy. Spear - locks break state. Axe - decreases enemy gauge.
Dual Impulse (lvl 5) (EX): Double attack. Spear - party's double attack rate up. Axe - enemy's double attack rate down.
Support Abilities
Volitional: Spear - Attack up. Axe - Defense up.
Master Bonus
HP +1%
Dragoon (ドラグーン):
Type: Attack
Weapons: Spear / Axe
JP Cost: 300
Preqrequisite: Lancer / Knight
Abilities
Lead Drive: Damage to enemy. Spear - locks break state. Axe - decreases enemy gauge.
Dual Impulse II (lvl 5) (EX): Double attack. Spear - party's double attack rate up. *Effectiveness is increased depending on the number of buffs you have. Axe - enemy's double attack rate down. *Effectiveness is increased depeneding on number of debuffs enemy has.
Pile Revelation? パイルリベレーション (lvl 15) (EX): Damage, attack, defense increases depending on your ougi gauge.
Support Abilities
Volitional: Spear - Attack up. Axe - Defense up.
Master Bonus
HP +2%
Valkyrie (ヴァルキュリア):
Type: Attack
Weapons: Spear / Axe
JP Cost: 500
Prerequisite: Dragoon / Fortress
Abilities
Lead Drive II: Damage to enemy. Spear - locks break state. Axe - decreases enemy gauge.
Dual Impulse III (lvl 5) (EX): Gives 100% triple attack to self for 1 turn (regardless of weapon). Spear - raid's consecutive attack rate up. Axe - enemy's consecutive attack rate down.
Resonance Surge (lvl 15) (EX): More damage depending on enemy's turn gauge.
Support Abilities
Volitional: Spear - Attack up. Axe - Defense up.
Crisis Blow: Resonance Surge damage up.
Master Bonus
HP +3%
Alchemist
Type: Healer
Weapons: Dagger / Gun
JP Cost: 500
Prerequisite: 魔導士の信念 / Title (怪異を暴きし者)
Alchemist has special requirements. One is to get the title 怪異を暴きし者, which you receive when you complete all of Coop Extra stage 1. 魔導士の信念 is an item that drops in Extra mode of coop. I am pretty sure it drops in any of those stages. I have 10 of them -.-Abilities
Transmute Cure Potion: Creates a cure potion.
Medic (lvl 5) (EX): Heals party members for up to 1500 hp.
Raise Morale (lvl 15) (EX): Increases ougi gauge of whole raid by 10% if used by an alchemist. Only 5% if used by other jobs.
Support abilities:
Alchemist Expertise: Increase potions effectiveness.
Knowledge's inspiration: Increase Raise morale effectiveness.
Master Bonus:
Healing +5%
Ninja
Type: Special
Weapons: Katana / Fist
JP Cost: 500
Prerequisite: 戦士の信念 / Title (輪光を封ぜし者)
Ninja has special requirements. One is to get the title 輪光を封ぜし者, which you receive when you complete all of Coop Extra stage 2. Second is 戦士の信念, which is an item that mainly drops in Extra mode of coop, but can drop outside of it at a much lower rate.Abilities
Ninjutsu: Form a seal and use ninjutsu.
Fuma Shuriken (lvl 5) (EX): Deals damage to enemy and depending on the seal an effect will be added. Sets mark counter to 2. Katana - Reduces cooldown on ninjutsu by 2 turns. Fists - Double attack rate and attack up.
Cloudy (lvl 15) (EX): Deals damage to enemy. Katana - Blinds self and increases double attack rate. Fists - Increases own attack, decreases defense, and increases ougi gauge.
Support abilities:
Hidden Secret: Rare chance to dodge damage from enemy.
打剣: Increases effectiveness of Fuma Shuriken.
Master Bonus:
Ability Damage +5%
NINJUTSU SKILL LIST
*Thanks to Takurannyan and vacillating for the info.
闘 + 闘 = fire damage + fire mark
闘 + 気 = chance to crit for 1 turn
闘 + 龍 = light damage + light mark
闘 + 虎 = triple attack up for 2 turns
気 + 闘 = dodge for 1 turn
気 + 気 = water damage + water mark
気 + 龍 = dark damage + dark mark
気 + 虎 = damage + poison
龍 + 闘 = multi attack down
龍 + 気 = overdrive gauge reduction
龍 + 龍 = wind damage + wind mark
龍 + 虎 = avoid being targeted by enemy for 1 turn
虎 + 闘 = attack power up during blind for 2 turns (+50%)
虎 + 気 = remove own debuffs + heal -50% ougi for self
虎 + 龍 = remove 1 debuff from party
虎 + 虎 = earth damage + earth mark
Additional Effects from Marks *
3x Fire marks = Attack down
3x Water marks = Defense down
3x Earth marks = Delay
3x Wind marks = DA probability Down
3x Light marks = Paralysis (lasts for 30 seconds)
3x Dark marks = Darkness(blind)
* Marks last for 180 seconds
Samurai
Type: Attack
Weapons: Katana / Bow
JP Cost: 500
Prerequisite: 戦士の信念 / Title (幻魔を斬り伏せし者)
Samurai has special requirements. One is to get the title 幻魔を斬り伏せし者, which you receive when you complete all of Coop Extra stage 3. Second is 戦士の信念, which is an item that mainly drops in Extra mode of coop, but can drop outside of it at a much lower rate.Abilities
Finishing Touch: Consecutive attack rate is increased depending on the amount of ougi gauge. * Lasts until 200% ougi gauge is filled or character is hit.
Meditation (lvl 5) (EX): Increases own attack. Rare chance to deal increased damage when attacking against a weak point. Consumes 30% ougi gauge.
鴉雀無声 (lvl 15) (EX): Increases own defense. Katana - Chance to dodge attacks. Decreases own attack. Bow - Increases own attack, decreases consecutive attacks, and decreases ougi gauge by 35%.
Support abilities:
Bushido: Increases maximum ougi gauge.
Without reserve: Increases effectiveness of 鴉雀無声.
Master Bonus:
Attack +5%
CHARACTERS
SSR Playable Characters list was done by kingneet in the beginning, you can access it here gbf-english.proboards.com/thread/52/playable-characters-ssr. I am continuing the list in another thread since that list is not updated anymore, it is accessible here gbf-english.proboards.com/thread/245/playable-characters-ssr-2. I started on the SR character list here gbf-english.proboards.com/thread/262/playable-characters-sr
MORE TRANSLATIONS
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SETTINGS
Play around with different settings if you are running into lag problems. Turning off real time notices in raids can help a bit as well as turning down quality.
STORAGE
Storage is purchasable in the shop for 500 crystals or 500 mobacoins. Occasionally it goes on sale for moba. You can have up to 3 storages for weapons and 3 for summons. Each storage can hold up to 100 items. These are great to store fodder or items you aren't using now. You can definitely get by without them though, it is just a bit more of a hassle. You pay for convenience and honestly 500 crystals usually get you a rare in gacha anyways. A worthy investment indeed.
Moving stuff into storage
In order to move stuff into the storage you need to access the menu and then go to list. At the bottom of the list you will see this box. Sell allows you to get some rupee for your weapons, but isn't worth it. You want to click on move to storage in order to move stuff from your main box.When you click on move to storage you will get this pop up in order to choose which storage you want to move your items to.Managing storage
If you want to manage your storage, you can access storage from the menu at anytime by clicking on the top right menu button. When you go to storage you can then select which storage you want to manage.Once you go into the actual storage you can choose to move items back into your main inventory, move to other storages, or sell them. By choosing select you can select more than one at a time. If you want to just manage one item, then you can click it directly.You can change the name of the storage at the bottom.
FREE CRYSTALS AND GACHA TICKETS
Thanks to tofuman for this tip. Redeem your free gifts in his thread click here.
Angel weapons (100 base exp.)
Arcangel weapon fodder (500 base exp). 
Small Devil Element (プチデビルエレメント): 2 pts (events and in casino 20k ea)
Devil Element (デビルエレメント): 4.8 pts (events and in casino 100k ea)
R lb item (casino 30k)
SR lb item (casino 500k and drops in hell mode rarely)
1. ENHANCE - From this page you can level up your characters and weapons by feeding them weapons. Summons can only be fed with other summons.
1. EXP - Amount of exp items are worth.
SSR Summon lb item (Guild Wars)
SR Summon lb item (1m medals)
R Summon lb item (30k medals)
ATK UP. Chevalier Magna casts this.
Defense up or dodge. COOP H6-5 casts the dodge variety, and it is annoying lol.
Double or triple attack rate up. Chevalier Magna casts this.
HP regen. Heals for X per turn. Examples: Chevalier Magna, Colossus Magna, COOP EX1-1, H8-4
Seal Ougi. Can't use ougi. Examples: Yggdrasil Magna.
ATK DOWN. Pinya.
Curse. Can't heal. Examples: Pinya.
Undead. Heals do damage. Examples: Celeste.
Burn. Damage over time. Examples: Colossus, COOP H6-3
Poison. Damage over time. Examples: Celeste.
Blind. Chance to miss with normal attacks. 
Overdrive suppression. Slows down ougi accumulation during normal gauge and speeds up rate at which gauge decreases during overdrive state.
Treasure Hunt. Increase drop chance. (9 is max)
Reflect. Sends back some damage to your face when you attack. Example: Leviathan.
Gravity. One more charging dot before ougi.
Fire resistance or Fire Attack UP.
Water resistance or Water Attack UP.
Earth resistance or Earth Attack UP.
Wind resistance or Wind Attack UP.
Light resistance or Light Attack UP.
Dark resistance or Dark Attack UP.
wind dagger - chapter 1 家出したみぃちゃん (Mindy runs away) rabbit
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