GameplayHelp FAQs: Difference between revisions

* The rates are 3% for a 3★, with 0.7% for the rate-up within that 3%. For full details, click the Rates Info button on any gacha page.

* BA uses the spark system; you can trade 200 recruitment points for a featured banner girl. That’s 200 pulls, or 24,000 pyroxene worth.

* There are only 2 guarantees; a 2★ or better in every multi pull (10 pulls at a time), and the spark.

* '''Recruitment points never carry over''', they convert to small crafting shards when banners rotate. To be safe, only pull if you can spark in case you get nothing (except when rerolling of course).

* Global follows JP’s schedule for the most part. They have smushed banners together or rarely swapped them around, but we have never skipped any.

* There are 6 servers, with a new one coming: Japan (JP), Korea (KR), North America (NA), Global (Europe), Taiwan (TW), Asia (AS), and later on, China (CN). You cannot pick your server unless you do VPN shenanigans. You can only add friends & join a club on your server.

* To find which server you’re on: homepage in-game -> Settings -> Account -> Version Info

* Depends on your definition, but generally yes. You can be as casual as you like, and you will eventually beat all missions by over-leveling & over-gearing it. You can farm a ton of great students to max. PvP is RNG, the reward differences are pretty small, and brackets are about a few hundred players. Raid rewards also don’t differ too much, and a max dps borrow will carry you through every hardcore raid.

* While F2P income is pretty good (1 spark every 2 months), you’d have to whale or be insanely lucky to collect all the gacha-only students. There’s about sixty in Global, more in JP, and that pool will just keep growing. On the bright side, most students are permanent, and they’re pretty good about rerunning limited and permanent banners.

** '''Himari is not available yet!''' You can see her estimated arrival on Midokuni’s “banner summary” tab.

* There are ''over sixty 3★s'' in the general pool. You can reroll to your heart’s desire, but keep in mind your chances of specific students outside their banner is crazy difficult.

* The tutorial multi pull guarantees one 3★ or more, but it’s limited to the seventeen 3★s at launch. They are: Iori, Hibiki, Aru, Hina, Haruna, Shun, Maki, Shiroko, Karin, Izumi, Saya, Hoshino, Eimi, Sumire, Neru, Tsurugi, and Hifumi. Your best chances at Hibiki, Iori and other good dps are there.

* If you’re missing a lot of [https://bluearchive.wiki/wiki/GameplayHelp_FAQs#Rerolling essential 2★s] (especially Tsubaki, Momoi, Mutsuki and Chise who take a long time to farm & summon), you can consider doing a few more multi pulls. There are twenty two 2★s in the pool.

* It helps secure useful units at the start, but it’s not required to succeed since you can farm a lot of great students. A decent compromise is grabbing any of the good dps in the tutorial multi pull.

** 0.3% for SHoshino

* The pool of 8 is small and offers a lot of great units. It also gives a rate-up for dupes (100 elephs instead of 30). However, 3 students are farmable (Koharu will join the raid shop in several months, and Hibiki will be in hard mode ch.22). You can see the whole pool via Rate Info button on its gacha page.

* Causew’s advice on [https://imgur.com/a/AadNkrZ TYuuka & sparking supports/dps].

* There are great dps students, but they need decently high investment to shine. Very generally, dps want 5★s for extreme raids. See [https://bit.ly/MidoStudentThoughts Midokuni’s guide] for ideal insane raid investments.

** You cannot summon limiteds from the expert shop even with 120 of their eleph.

* “Event” - AKA welfare. The character is a free from an event. You can only get them during that event.

** Nonomi is an exception; she comes from the beginner task event. She doesn’t drop in gacha, but she’ll join the expert shop soon.

## '''Save the rest of your eligma'''. You don’t need 5★ dps until extreme raids.

## Hardcore players can consider boosting Tsubaki to 3★ for a small stat boost ([https://schale.gg/?item=13009 farmable in ch. 15]).

## SHoshino is a tanky support, not a true tank. Wait until she can solo the frontlines (usually with a T4 bag).

* Avoid Izuna, SIzuna, Michiru and other frontline dps for general content. They’re too annoying to keep alive. Substitute with aoe yellows instead. If you insist, add Hanae or Koharu.

* Balance your aoe between teams, check your EX totals aren’t too high. Double check your teams with [https://bit.ly/MidoTeamBuilding Midokuni’s Teambuilding tab].

* Prep the last wave: cycle through cheap EX skills to your dps and pool your energy to max/near max.

* Nuke the boss immediately with 2+ dps EX skills. Place overlapping aoe to multi hit enemies (e.g. 3 with Hibiki, 2+ with Mutsuki).

* Enemies in missions chapters 13-15, bounties, commissions, and some events are higher lvl than the recommended (check with [https://schale.gg/?stage=1131101 schale.gg]).

* Story 3-24 has level 67 enemies, so it’s difficult until you’re lvl 50+. [https://youtu.be/J92bYS0c8As Video guide].

* For hardmode farming, see [https://bit.ly/MidoFarmSummary Midokuni’s “Farmable Summary” tab].

* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7edl2g0zGn4 A commissions strategy]; reposition your tank to group up enemies for more efficient aoe.

* The leftmost blueprint has the highest drop %, with the other two lesser and equal. [https://schale.gg/?stage=1131101 Example].

* Focus your main aoe dps for story, then prep for raids. You can boost healers, but EX3 at most (if you even need that). Tanks don’t have much stats to scale with. You can ignore scaling skills for now.

* Be very picky with Ghenna, Millenium, and Trinity students. There’s just too many good students from these 3 schools.

** Some Specials are great stat sticks (units with very high attack). E.g. Karin, Saki, UE30 NY Fuuka (she helped Mika perform a lot more consistently in torment raids).

** Dps Specials need levels and [https://j163.au/#GearPriorityGuide slot 1 & 3 gear]. E.g. Karin, Hibiki, Iroha, SHifumi. For slot 3 gear, prioritize your Striker dps over your Specials (unless they are the main carry like Iroha in Peroro raid).

** Healer & shielding Specials need levels and [https://j163.au/#GearPriorityGuide slot 3 gear]. E.g. Serina, Hanae, Ako (for raids), SShizuko, Mari, Sena (to stay alive and do sad amounts of healing).

* Get feedback from experienced raiders, mock it with a strong borrow from your club/friends before you use a real ticket. Boost with eligma as a last resort (preferably on unfarmable important dps).

* Extreme is tuned to level 70, 5★ dps, no UE. Very generally, you want:

** Level 70, UE30 dps with 5777 skills and T6 gear.

** Level 80, UE40+ for dps with 5777 and some max skills.

* Shirokuro Indoors: SAzusa, SIzuna, and Wakamo are good targets (“unfarmable”, important dps).

* Hod: Kazusa (meta dps, best borrowed).

* Hiero urban: ONodoka, Koharu, SNonomi (meta dps). SHoshino can survive at 3★s.

* Kaiten: Most units are farmable, and you bring another tanky frontliner with SHoshino.

* Peroro: BKarin, Iroha, Aris, NY Mutsuki for aoe. Wakamo, SAzusa for shiny hunting (insane).

* Binah: Kazusa for urban. Most others are farmable.

* For the whole farmables list, see [https://bit.ly/MidoStudentThoughts Midokuni’s “Farmable Summary” tab]. Avoid using eligma on them unless the breakpoint is huge, you need it for a raid clear ''now'', and it’s cheap.

* Competitive players can refresh the hard carries; [https://schale.gg/?item=10000 Aru], [https://schale.gg/?item=10014 Izuna], [https://schale.gg/?item=10004 Hina], [https://schale.gg/?item=10006 Iori] (Iori has a 2nd stage now in ch. 20). The eleph drop rate is 40%.

* If you’re inexperienced, use the safe strategies, not the maldy wanpan (hair-pulling one team speed runs).

#Get carried in hardcore raids with a max dps borrow. (Build for the next raid).

* For example: 2 team Kaiten had an aoe team for phase 1, and a single target & shield breaking team for phase 2. ''If you’re strong enough'', you can brute force it and crit mald with one team. If you’re not, do it the old, safe way. See [https://j163.au/#CausewsGeneralRaidGuide Causew’s General Raid guide] for more info.

[[File:Weapon Icon 10000.png|thumb|180px|Aru’s unique weapon]]

* UE is short for [[Unique weapons|Unique equipment]]. It’s a special weapon 5★ units can equip. The # stands for the weapon level (e.g. UE40 = lvl 40 weapon).

* Scrimmage is a mode to farm UE materials, tuned for higher level players with multiple 5★ dps. You can skip it until you’re at that point.

* [http://bit.ly/3ydrF7d Valiant’s No Iori/Azusa/SAzusa].

* Ahri’s [https://youtu.be/YMharTOA3GA Trinity], [https://youtu.be/r1tCIxLV2uQ Ghenna], and [https://youtu.be/v1SpZExfS3w Millenium].

** 1st batch on SHoshino: Aru, Tsurugi, Shun (young), Asuna (Bunny), Yuuka & Hare.

** 2nd batch on BAkane: Utaha, Hinata, Cherino (Hot Spring). (A little earlier than JP which was on TYuuka).

** 3rd batch on Mika (unavailable): Neru, Shiroko, Junko, Suzumi.

** 4th batch on BToki, MAris (unavailable): Izumi, Eimi, SHina, SHifumi.

* Generally Aru and Yuuka > others. Whoever you like really, just equipping it is basically free and a char buff. You might as well do them all eventually.

* Checking liked gifts: Pick any char and go to the Profile tab.

[https://schale.gg/?chara=Yuuka Yuuka example]. You can also search for the gift.

* [http://bit.ly/3EWf38h Ahri’s Momo Talk Rewards] lists how much pyro you get, and what bond level you need to unlock each char’s l2d and their stories. Note: some l2ds are not available in Global yet.

** Exceptions: Fes units like Wakamo and SHoshino because it’s possible to get them on any [https://bluearchive.wiki/wiki/GameplayHelp_FAQs#Festival_banners fes banner]. ''You still have to summon them from gacha.'' If you’re a max lvl player, you’ll have lots of leftover permits, so you might as well buy them (low priority). Newer players can’t afford it.

* [https://imgur.com/a/1bzF6J7 Crafting priorities].

* Get whatever you need the most. If you can’t decide, more Ghenna, Millennium (and Trinity) is always good.

* Generally purple mats > gold > blue, since the first two are harder to farm, you’ll have plenty of blue and grays mats, and you won’t have to worry about skill levels until extreme raids (since a max dps borrow can carry you in all hardcore raids).

* How PvP works:

[https://j163.au/#CausewsGeneralPvPGuide Causew’s General PvP guide].

* Who you should use:

[https://j163.au/#CausewsPvPUsageTierList Causew’s PvP Usage Tier List].

* Your daily pvp reward is based on your current rank. Climb ranks before you claim. The reward reset time is on the pvp page in-game.

* [http://bit.ly/41Jkgdl ItJustWorks stats doc]. What game stats do, how to calculate them.

Example of a team with [https://schale.gg/?chara=Akane_Bunny BAkane] and another attack sub skill:

* BAkane’s sub skill: Increases the ATK of all allies who use Mystic type attacks by 12.7%.

* If BAkane is on the left slot, all students will receive a buff equal to the regular attack sub.

* If BAkane is on the right slot. All the non-mystic students will receive the regular attack sub, and all the mystic students will get BAkanes specialised sub.

* Bricking is more of a meme you’ve done terrible, irreversible things and permanently ruined your account. It comes from an old Princess Connect issue, where investing too much in your units made them take less damage, and therefore gain less energy for important skills.