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    Couple tips I've figured out:

    You can farm SSR summons and weapons without TOO much time investment (especially given how easy to get AP reset pots are). On the quest map, the bright red rectangle that takes you to BP fights, click on the grey rectangle to the left of it. One of the selectable options will have Hard/V.Hard/Extreme/Maniac and a gem reward offering (picture will look like one of the available summons you may have seen). Hard is doable pretty early, V. Hard is doable around R35ish or maybe earlier if you have a strong full element party. The drops can be redeemed in the item shop under the tab that kinda looks like a FFXI garuda. Dark Fencer for DEF/ATK down and slow is king here, and characters can debuff help a lot. 20 runs of V. Hard will get you a SSR summon, 15 runs for SSR weapon.

    I saw at least 1-2 people pulled a Metera, here's some advice: Build a fire squad and go to town on wind stuff to build up your wind team (BP fights / farming / etc). Dark Fencer DEF- with Ability Damage+ II set as extra skill lets Metera do around 120-150k in one turn with her abilities (in comparison my slow ability on DF does 20k with same buffs). It is incredibly silly. There's a fire SR girl in a plaid skirt who gives fire damage+ to full party, she's really useful too if you have her. The default story fire guy is at least usable.

    Use your BP. Even if you don't have time to really play, just enter a Magna (2 BP required) and summon as soon as you enter and then just go AFK. You'll still most likely get 4 gold chests which will give you SR/SSR items, items needed to buy/upgrade stuff, and weapons that give 500-1000 exp per use for upgrading weapons. (I just got Leviathan SSR dagger from hosting Magna despite contributing almost nothing to the fight).

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    alright just so I have this right:


    - I have one main weapon and nine sub-weapons?


    and what criteria do I use for picking my main/sub-weapons other than "SSR gud, N bad"? I'm running mono-fire so I guess pick fire weapons...? And pick weapons that my characters favor?


    so much confusion. I'm researching what I can but any guidance is appreciated.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Yuri-G View Post
    alright just so I have this right:


    - I have one main weapon and nine sub-weapons?


    and what criteria do I use for picking my main/sub-weapons other than "SSR gud, N bad"? I'm running mono-fire so I guess pick fire weapons...? And pick weapons that my characters favor?


    so much confusion. I'm researching what I can but any guidance is appreciated.
    So all 10 contribute to your Attack/HP, but your main weapon has to be one that is compatible to the job you are on. That means say you wanna be on Dark Fencer in an Earth squad, you need an Earth knife or sword as your main weapon. As far as weapon pool goes my understanding is this: weapons of same element as main weapon and summon get a +% boost (20%?), weapons of type your job and the party members job give boosts to you or that party member (you have gun user in party, you put a gun in pool, they get small boost). Weapons and summons have skills that I don't fully understand because I don't read moonspeak, but essentially you want Earth squad you pick Earth weapon and fill pool with Earth weapons / weapon types with high ATK that you have affinity for and set an Earth summon as your main (other 4 don't matter, just stat sticks and ones you want to use).

    Weapons and summons dropped by the BP fights boost each other even more. So if you are doing Earth squad and you have Ygg's Earth sword and you set Ygg as your main summon, you get even more of a boost to stats. This boost goes up as you raise the skill level of the weapon and summon. Boost from SSR and from 3* summons is greater than 1* summons and I'm not 100% sure that SR summons give the bonus but I have been assuming they do. With Magna summon as main, you can also fill pool with more Magna weapons of the same element and receive a similar higher boost to ATK/HP, which is why farming for them even if you do zero damage is good.

    So final decision for choosing main / sub weapons: prioritize Magna SSR/SR of the same element if you have a Magna summon equipped as main, then prioritize element and then prioritize affinity for main and sub characters.

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    Awesome. That clears up a lot. Thank you!

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    Np!

    Does anyone know how to set friend summon? Just nabbed Leviathan SSR off of a 30 second fight, figured I'd attempt to be semi-useful.

    Edit: Immediately followed by this from event
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    Just went from vaguely interested once the NA version launches to staying as far the fuck away from this as possible.

    Spoiler: show

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    Collaboration/Character credit cards are fairly common in Japan, and their credit usually works on revolving credit, vs line of credit.

    http://grancypher.com/2016/04/06/smb...asy-visa-card/

    The link explains the deal a bit more.

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    Common or not, I want nothing to do with a game that locks ANYTHING behind getting their specific credit card.

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    Quote Originally Posted by TheDirtyHobo View Post
    Common or not, I want nothing to do with a game that locks ANYTHING behind getting their specific credit card.
    Then you're gonna want to stay away from pretty much every japanese-only gacha game.

    Really, there is zero reason to spend even a single cent on this game (or any gacha) so unless you have a gambling problem this really shouldn't affect you.

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    Nice article about what to keep and how to identify it.

    http://xiei.moe/games/granblue-fanta...-i-keep-guide/

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    Can anyone confirm for me the gacha going on right now? Looks like 3% chance to pull a SSR and 97% chance to pull a SR with 0% chance for R? Is that the case?

    If so it might be worth 3k crystals to round out some elemental teams with SRs.

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    Are the hard magna fights on a time restriction now that the 1/2 AP/BP campaign is over? I was trying to run Leviathan hard today to get more of the silver and gold anima and something popped up and the only thing I could read on it was 5:00 AM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Rysa View Post
    Are the hard magna fights on a time restriction now that the 1/2 AP/BP campaign is over? I was trying to run Leviathan hard today to get more of the silver and gold anima and something popped up and the only thing I could read on it was 5:00 AM.
    How many hard/magna runs YOU can start per day is based on your rank. I think it is seriously limited below rank 30. Rank 40 it gets better and then at rank 50 I haven't seen the message pop up yet.

    You can trade items that you probably have tons of by this point in the item shop for silver / gold animas if you want/need something specific.

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    I think you can run those magnas a max of 3 times a day normally, regardless of rank. During the event, the limit was raised to 5. The 5:00 AM (JST) thing is just telling you when it resets

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    Quote Originally Posted by Anakron View Post
    I think you can run those magnas a max of 3 times a day normally, regardless of rank. During the event, the limit was raised to 5. The 5:00 AM (JST) thing is just telling you when it resets
    Oh, really? Lame.

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    It's not too bad, 75 stamina is over a fourth of your daily stamina anyway (not counting level up and Twitter reset) .

    New event coming up in a few hours:
    http://gbf-english.proboards.com/thr...current-suzaku

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    Quote Originally Posted by Anakron View Post
    It's not too bad, 75 stamina is over a fourth of your daily stamina anyway (not counting level up and Twitter reset) .

    New event coming up in a few hours:
    http://gbf-english.proboards.com/thr...current-suzaku
    Nice. I'm trying to spam a few more runs worth of the Extreme fight for this event to see if I can get LB the SSR summon some more / get more AP/BP reset items. Spamming event stuff has been REALLY good as a source of fodder for leveling summons / weapons and I think I've gotten around 30k gold from it as well. Not to mention 2 3 star SR weapons and a 1 star SSR summon.

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    Sheesh, I don't think I'll have the time for this even when it gets it's English push, and unfortunately, Suzuka is first, and fire is probably what I'd pick out of my starting rolls.

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    friends made a guild

    > requires chapter 4 completion to accept invite

    decide to check out casino (how much story can I miss there?)

    > requires chapter 8 completion to enter casino

    dammit 4/11 needs to come faster

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    Love to see another event for the English users, but probably won't happen.

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