Brave Frontier (iOS/Android)

[BerenTebogo]

Fuck yeah. Got the 1.4 without having to actually level anyone else. Took the final battle set on round 2 and just UBBed with Libera on stage 4 and 5 for 2TK on both.

[Dimmauk]

Did they make it so the "auto battle record" option at the bottom stops resetting to on when you close the game?

Yes. Finally

[BerenTebogo]

So screwing around with battle simulator to test some of my Shusui group options and compare different ways of handling status negation + spark boosting, I got some interesting-ish results I figured I'd share with the class. I used 3 enemies, two fire type and one lightning type (a la Shusui). Mid DEF seemed to be more representative of his actual DEF than max DEF. Somewhere between the two is reality probably.

Avant Lead / 5* Jed friend / Zeruiah (Impiety + Beiorg) / Krantz (Heresy + Phantom Gizmo) / Reeze (Four Bonds + Reeze Armor) / Reud (Infidelity + Vorpal Chainblades)

Control: random 5* friend with no spark/atk/crit/stat+ LS + mid crit resist + mid ele resist + mid DEF

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Round 1:


Round 2:

Test 2: Chrome Friend (Infidelity + Beiorg) / + mid crit resist + mid ele resist + mid DEF
Round 1:

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Round 2:

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Test 3: Chrome Friend (Infidelity + Beiorg) / + max crit resist + mid ele resist + mid DEF
Round 1:

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Round 2:

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Test 4: Piany Friend (Fallacy + Frozen Fantasy) and Reeze swapped for Mahalu with Buffer Jewel + Heavenly Bud / + max crit resist + mid ele resist + mid DEF
Round 1:

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Round 2:

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Really relevant comparisons are between test 3 and 4. I'm going to keep testing stuff and getting more than 2 data points per setup but just wanted an initial idea. Initial things to take away: When Reeze can crit and she has party buffs + her own buffs, lol. But more importantly, the difference between using Reeze with a Chrome friend as spark + status negation and using Mahalu + Piany friend was much much smaller than I would've guessed. Given Piany's defensive LS benefits and effective burst healing via spark I'm very happy to see the damage difference is so minimal. Crit being turned off and ele resist at half is to more accurately reflect the stats of RC6 and similar stuff.

[Kachiko]

Brave New Channel #

• Frontier Gate: Earth Disscussion
• Quaid GQ -This Month
• Elza and co. 7*'s -This Month
• GLBL EXCLUSIVES: So these guys were real -This Month
• Fan art stuff - by /u/Realistella

Q&A:

Q: Are you going to revise 2x CA Points on weekends (2x Rainbow Coins, for example)?
A: Originally made for players who can't play on the weekdays. Will be considered (they already did 2x Rainbow Coins last week, though).
Q: Any plans on making CA exclusive Items/Units available outside of Challenge Arena?
A: lol no
Q: Any more plans for fan-made content?
A: Want to implement one to two winners per quarter (fan-made unit contest is already up). Will also feature fanart in BNC (ex: vayre's art in this episode).
Q: Any plans for more time-limited units like Zeruiah?
A: Yes. Time-limited tied to holidays, to maintain the exclusivity of the unit (gimu y).
Q: Will Global ever do their own collaboration dungeons with other franchises?
A: Yes. Two things: must be popular in the West (or else there isn't much point), and contracts/negotiations.
Q: Can Global match Japan's Legacy Unit Release schedule?
A: Short answer, no (insert usual Gumi answer. I think they interpreted this wrong, though. We want them to catch up to the same schedule JP had, it's not like we're demanding 7* Legacy units to come out on the same day in JP and Global or something. >_>).
Q: Can Global Exclusive dungeons (Leon's Deception, Unholy Tower, etc.) be re-released?
A: If there's enough demand, then sure.
Q: Will you re-work the Auto-Battle recording system?
A: Planning major revamp in the next 2-3 patches (oh god make it come faster, the newest version is awful).

[Meian]

Auto battle is working just fine for me.

I was referring more toward situations like if I am going through trash mobs I just have Zeruiah SBB and everyone else melees. Problem was after each round she'd stop doing SBB even though it says it would do it and she just melees instead.

So screwing around with battle simulator to test some of my Shusui group options and compare different ways of handling status negation + spark boosting,

I haven't gotten into this yet, though I would like to know a nice team using Avant lead.
So far I just stick to Tridon lead, Reeze, Noah, Zeruiah, Krantz, Reud friend.
Mostly dependent on Noah carrying for 2 stars with 1-2 of his procs.

Q: Any plans for more time-limited units like Zeruiah?
A: Yes. Time-limited tied to holidays, to maintain the exclusivity of the unit (gimu y).

gfg

[BerenTebogo]

I was referring more toward situations like if I am going through trash mobs I just have Zeruiah SBB and everyone else melees. Problem was after each round she'd stop doing SBB even though it says it would do it and she just melees instead.


I haven't gotten into this yet, though I would like to know a nice team using Avant lead.
So far I just stick to Tridon lead, Reeze, Noah, Zeruiah, Krantz, Reud friend.
Mostly dependent on Noah carrying for 2 stars with 1-2 of his procs.


gfg

Squad I picked from battle sim has gotten me 3* 6/6 times along with highest contribution total in group every time I've used it, with a high of 48m points in RC6. I'm not gonna say it's easy, I usually end with 1 life left and have to run away 2-6x per raid to go heal, but it never seems to effect the points. I'm out of smoke bombs so I've had to bring a ton of healing items / angel idols to pop before running away, lol. Military stance is p. much an instant run away and go back in and hope for supreme/godly stance.

Piany lead / Avant friend (they have WDB on theirs and I dont) + Mahalu / Reud / Krantz / Zeruiah.

[Hushigoshi]

They released info about the Chinese New Year event and the special gate is lulz worthy. Not worth the gems at all. One thing that I hope makes a return is the Prosperity Pack though; that was legit. It was $4.99 for 5 Gems... But also 1 Gem a day for thirty days. So 35 gems total for 5 bucks was an incredible deal and I know a lot of F2P people dropped the cash for it last year.

[Tyrath]

Hushi y u no give details on said gate

[Hushigoshi]

Because it's shit and full of outdated 6* units like Felenus and Behemoth? But if you really want to know...

Febros, Reviora, Kiravel, Iidor, Eldora, Zerafalgar, Magnazorda, Ragshelm, Leviathan, Duelmex, God Phoenix, Leorone, Kagutsuchi, Behemoth, Esna

[Kachiko]

Because it's shit and full of outdated 6* units like Felenus and Behemoth? But if you really want to know...

Ya, I saw that and I get what they are trying to do, but it's pretty sad actually. If anything, those should have been some bonus unit, on a much better summon gate or something, if they wanted to do a mythical beast theme.

They do seem to be doing another Divine Summon, with daily rate ups again: http://imgur.com/a/nsRKD

[Dimmauk]

I finally ended my 7 pull dupe streak with a Quartz.

[Kachiko]

Ugh, Grand Quest 10 is a pain in the ass, but I did finally complete one run....

Suppose I'll wait for Libera to be leveled, before trying it again. Krantz + Charla did it but it's really a pain without BB on Hit.

[BerenTebogo]

Thanks to battle simulator I was able to work out some positioning stuff. 6.32m FG full autobattle and no attack boost (only 50% spark for 5-10). Fuck yeah.

[Kachiko]

Orz, that was more difficult, then it needed to be...

Upgraded to Bluestacks 2, and initially couldn't get Brave Frontier to connect. It seemed to fix itself (for now) and I was able to re-connect my FB account and keep going. First Arena battle was a 1TKO against a Lucius team, so, ya....

Oh, and, just because you'll get a kick out of this, I still had to do my first summon, on the guest account, before I could connect to my FB account. Guess who showed up...again?

Who's that Rare Summon? It's Tinkerer Elulu! The exact same summon I got on my main account, from that accounts free summon.

[BerenTebogo]

Orz, that was more difficult, then it needed to be...

Upgraded to Bluestacks 2, and initially couldn't get Brave Frontier to connect. It seemed to fix itself (for now) and I was able to re-connect my FB account and keep going. First Arena battle was a 1TKO against a Lucius team, so, ya....

Oh, and, just because you'll get a kick out of this, I still had to do my first summon, on the guest account, before I could connect to my FB account. Guess who showed up...again?

Who's that Rare Summon? It's Tinkerer Elulu! The exact same summon I got on my main account, from that accounts free summon.

What is bluestacks and why is it such a pain in the ass?

[Hushigoshi]

It's an emulator for android apps for PC.

Using an emulator (like Bluestacks or Andyroid) is the best way to play on PC and have access to the Amazon version of Brave Frontier (which has the cheapest prices on gems and bundles). Plus, you save money with Amazon coins and get coins back on purchases.

I decide to grind some Challenge Arena, went from like 10k rank and ended up at rank 76 today during the last hour before CA closed.

[Rizil]

Trying to play catch up in raid battles to get my vorpal chainblades. I neglect way too much in this game. Time to keep not doing anything.

[BerenTebogo]

It's an emulator for android apps for PC.

Using an emulator (like Bluestacks or Andyroid) is the best way to play on PC and have access to the Amazon version of Brave Frontier (which has the cheapest prices on gems and bundles). Plus, you save money with Amazon coins and get coins back on purchases.

I decide to grind some Challenge Arena, went from like 10k rank and ended up at rank 76 today during the last hour before CA closed.

Nice! CA is worth grinding imo to at least get to summoner rank. Once at summoner you can press buttons while watching tv np every day and almost 100% get a free gem. I should be finishing around rank 7 for the week so free summon ticket + gem + rank up for me.

[Meian]

This gate, 9 pulls got Dolk and Laberd yay

[Dimmauk]

Did a couple more pulls and got 2 more water units. Dupe ice fort and a savia