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* Only stages 3 and 4 have special gimmicks.
* Only stages 3 and 4 have special gimmicks.
* [https://bluearchive.wiki/wiki/GameplayHelp_FAQs#Clubs_&_friends Borrows] help immensely here, occasionally letting new players cheese stage 4.
* [https://bluearchive.wiki/wiki/GameplayHelp_FAQs#Clubs_&_friends Borrows] help immensely here, occasionally letting new players cheese stage 4.
* See the [https://bluearchive.wiki/wiki/GameplayHelp_FAQs#Shops shops section] for what to buy from JFD.
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Revision as of 18:59, 17 June 2023

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Yumie’s Beginner Guide

Beginner video by Yumie Tsuchinoko.


General Information

Gacha rules, sparks

A double spark with zero rate-ups pulled
  • The rates are 3% for a 3★. The rate-up student is 0.7% in that 3%. For full details: click the Rates Info button on the gacha page.
  • BA uses the spark system. A spark here is doing 200 pulls (24,000 pyroxene worth) and trading the recruitment points for a featured banner student.
  • 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 (rerolling is the exception).
  • For more info: gacha page.
  • Limited vs. permanent, and limited festival units.
  • Spark vs. pity.
Spark gang unite


Server differences

  • Japan (JP) is about 6 months ahead of Global. (Global is the name of Europe’s server, but we also use it for “all non-JP servers”).
  • Global follows JP’s schedule more or less; some banners are combined and rarely swapped around, but we have never skipped any.
  • There are 7 servers:
    • Japan (JP)
    • Korea (KR)
    • North America (NA)
    • Global (Europe)
    • Taiwan (TW)
    • Asia (AS)
    • China (CN, new)
  • You cannot pick your server unless you VPN. You can only add friends & join a club on your server.
  • To find your server: In-game homepage -> Settings -> Account -> Version Info.
  • Acceleration: Global started about 9 months behind JP, and have caught up to ~6 months behind. It’s unlikely they’ll close the gap further, unless they do drastic changes. You can compare banner dates here: JP banners vs Global.


Is Blue Archive F2P?

  • Depends on your definition, but generally yes.
    • Be as casual as you like; you’ll eventually beat all missions by over-leveling & over-gearing it.
    • A ton of great students are farmable, and you can eventually max them (this also makes rerolling not mandatory).
    • PvP is RNG, the reward differences are pretty small, and brackets are about a few hundred players.
    • Raid rewards don’t differ that much as well, and a max DPS borrow will carry you through every hardcore raid (and many extreme raids too).
  • 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 60+ three stars in Global, more in JP, and that pool will keep growing.
    • On the bright side, most students are permanent, and they’re pretty good about reruns.


Game Terminology


Rerolling

Reroll targets

Midokuni’s Reroll Guide
Midokuni’s Reroll Guide


  • Use Midokuni’s reroll guide and spend all the free pulls from your mail. You want the essential 1 & 2★s for easy progression.
    • Limited characters can only be summoned while their banner is active (festival chars on festival banners).
  • There are over sixty 3★s in the general pool. Pulling specific units outside their banner is very difficult.
The 17 three stars in the tutorial multi pull
  • 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 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.
  • The most important thing for your account isn’t a godly reroll; it’s the time and effort you put into it.


Is rerolling required?

Rerolling is not mandatory
Rerolling is not mandatory
  • 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 strong DPS in the tutorial multi pull.
  • Reroll if you don’t mind, just play the best account if you’re tired.
  • If there’s a meta banner up like Ako, Himari, Mika or Iroha, try to get them.


How to reroll

  • Play until the tutorial ends. Collect the mail and use all the free pulls you have. You want the essential 1 & 2★s for easier progression.
  • Reset the guest account by Settings -> Account -> Reset Account.
  • You can bind potentially good accounts to dummy emails, then compare and pick one at the end.
  • You cannot unlink an account and still save it. You have to “close account” and wait a week for it to delete (this action is reversible). Once it’s wiped, then you can bind your guest account to it.
  • If you’re hardcore rerolling, do it on an emulator. Google or YouTube how for your particular program. Bluestacks example. Install and patch the game in one instance. Make 4 clones of it. Sync them, reroll 4 at a time. Save any potential good accounts. Add more clones to replace them. (Your computer needs to be beefy enough to run multiple instances at once).


Logging into a linked account

  • The game should prompt you which account to use on the title screen. If you’re stuck in guest mode somehow: Complete the tutorial on guest. Link the account to the email you want. It’ll say “this is already linked, do you want to login instead?” Say yes.


The Meta

Unit ratings & dates

Why a universal tier list can’t exist
Why a universal tier list can’t exist


Spark worthy

Stokkie’s banner guide
  • Midokuni’s “Banner Summary” tab and Stokkie’s banner picture guide.
  • Causew’s advice on 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 Midokuni’s guide for ideal insane raid investments.
  • Koharu joined the raid shop when JP got Torment difficulty (on Toki/Nagisa’s banners). It will take ~2.5 months to summon her if you buy her out every shop reset.


Limited & welfare

Example of filtering for limiteds
  • Go to schale.gg. Set to JP in settings. You can search students individually or the whole group via filters.
  • “Unique” - The character is limited. They do not join the general pool once their banner leaves.
    • 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.
    • JP is adding old events so everyone can see the stories & collect the welfare.
    • 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.
  • Permanent students won’t have a label. They are in the general pool and you can pull them anytime.
  • Students with bond gear.
  • Using filters: Hamburger icon top right in Schale.gg -> Students -> Student List -> filter top left -> unique (limited), permanent, event (welfare), or unique item (bond gear).


Spark plans

Pyro planner

Pyro planner example


F2P Income

  • See DashingFlame’s pyro report for each month’s breakdown.
  • Note the baselines are fairly casual; gold raid rank, half event challenges done, minimum PvP (which no one should have if you PvP at all…and you should!), and daily playing.


Can I pull my favorites instead?

  • Absolutely. Club & friend borrows help supplement your roster, but spark Ako and Himari too for a comfier gaming life.
  • Find good clubs & friends in discord recruitment & friend channels. You can filter for high lvl players in-game too and see who they’re lending via “i” button.


Beginner guides

How to play & team comps

The most important mechanic in the game; the damage triangle(s)
  1. Read Life’s beginner guide or watch this .
  2. Use Midokuni’s Teambuilding tab to build good teams.
    1. Basic team examples per chapter.
    2. See Midokuni’s “Glossary” tab for game terminology.
  3. Boost Serina to 2★. It’s cheap and improves her free heals & EX.
    1. Save the rest of your eligma. You don’t need 5★ DPS until extreme/insane raids.
    2. Hardcore players can consider boosting Tsubaki to 3★ for a small stat boost (farmable in ch. 15).
  4. Use Yuuka & Tsubaki or other SMG weapon tanks (evasion tanks) before tier 4 bags from ch. 10.
    1. Non-SMG weapon tanks (tanks who rely on defense) need their T4 bag to tank properly.
    2. After T4: Tsubaki is even stronger, Yuuka starts to struggle (still useable). She gets strong again with bond gear at bond 20.
    3. 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.


Gameplay tips

  • Don’t use auto team fill, auto fight, or auto skip battle (unless it’s safe). The AI is really bad.
  • Gear priority guide. Level up, gear up. Shotgun tanks will really struggle before T4 bags.
  • Balance your AOE between teams, check your EX totals aren’t too high. Double check your teams with Midokuni’s Teambuilding tab.
  • [New players] If you’re missing a lot of 2★ essentials (especially Tsubaki, Mutsuki, Chise & Momoi who take a while to farm), consider doing a few more multi pulls (22 two stars in the pool).
  • Stages become difficult 15 to 20+ lvls below enemies due to the level penalty.
  • Focus fire elite enemies (skull icons).
Example of a boss, elite mobs, and regular mobs
  • 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).
  • Tsubaki taunt for something dangerous, like Iori jumping back to EX, or the giant yellow robot charging up. This forces them to cancel and auto attack instead.


Level penalty

  • The higher level unit gets a damage reduction buff against the attacker. Your units’ and the enemies’ stats do not change. It’s 2% damage reduction per level, capped at 60%. Basically, your student does less damage when they are below an enemy’s level, and vice versa.
  • The recommended level and your account level doesn’t matter. The latter just limits your characters’ max lvl.

Examples:

  • Level 30 Iroha vs lvl 70 boss. The boss takes 60% less damage from Iroha (she’s at the maximum lvl penalty).
  • Lvl 60 Iroha vs lvl 70 boss. The boss takes 20% less damage from Iroha.
  • Both same level: no effect.
  • Lvl 80 Iroha vs lvl 70 boss. Iroha takes 20% less damage from the boss.
  • Neither Iroha nor the boss’ stats change. Her stats given to strikers as a Special remains the same.
  • Enemies in missions chapters 13-15, bounties, commissions, and some events are higher lvl than the recommended (check with schale.gg).
  • Story 3-24 has level 67 enemies, so it’s difficult until you’re lvl 50+. Video guide.


Maps & challenges


Leveling & AP

Spending AP

Repositioning to AOE better is one comms strategy
  • Try to avoid commissions unless there’s a 2x or better event. Do it if you must for a raid clear. Commissions efficiency chart.
  • A commissions strategy; reposition your tank to group up enemies for more efficient aoe.
  • Don’t farm BDs (Blu-ray discs) from normal mode unless you’re an end game player who doesn’t need gear, and you want to gamble. The drop rates are 1-4%. Example.
  • Gear Priority Guide for farming gear.
  • You can also use Justin’s resource planner. Set up chars -> click Gear -> click AP icon.


Leveling faster

  • You gain 1:1 account experience for APAP spent.
    • Your AP does not regen when capped; don’t let it for long periods of time.
  • If you care about optimizing, refresh 3x daily (buy AP 3 times a day via pyro). Applies to F2P too.
    • Do it as much as you can afford. The sooner you get higher & max lvl, the more benefits you gain over time.
  • You can use PvP coins for AP, but events usually offer rare items, so hoard enough for those.
  • Free AP per week & expert permit shop info.
  • Max your cafe comfort when possible for more free AP per hour. Cafe upgrades are in every third chapter (3-5, 6-5, 9-5, etc.)


Level estimates

  • Account exp calculator by Futotta-kakka.
    • This is a rough estimate. Your actual time may be +/- 5 to 10 days, and assumes you play daily.
  • Estimates.
  • Account exp chart.
  • Student exp chart.
  • The max level at launch was 70, and the game has been out for almost a year and a half. They slowly increased it to 83, which is why it feels daunting to new players.


Gear, skills, Specials, eligma

Gear

  • Gear priority guide.
  • Higher tier gear can drop all the parts used to make it. It’s best to farm this first until you get stuck, then farm the lower tier directly.
  • The leftmost blueprint has the highest drop %, with the other two lesser and equal. Example.
  • Can also use Justin’s planner to calculate the most optimal runs.


Skills

  • The Bricc Skill Leveling guide.
  • 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.
  • Try to stick to the breakpoints; EX: 3, 5. Other skills: 4, 7, 10. These give the most “bang for your buck” since it gets very expensive.
  • Be very picky with Gehenna, Millennium, and Trinity students. These 3 schools have tons of great students.
  • You can use this wiki or Justin’s planner to figure out total resources needed for leveling.
  • Schale.gg has a quick overview of who uses what. Example.


Specials

How to view the stats your Specials give

Stat transfer

  • Specials give 10% ATK/HP and 5% DEF/HEALING to strikers, so you’ll want to level & gear everyone eventually for difficult raids.
    • Click “Unit Info” on the team page to see the stats given.
    • 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).

Gear and levels

  • If a Special needs attack/healing stats to do their job properly, then they need levels and gear. If not, you can skip them until difficult raids.
    • DPS Specials need levels and 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 slot 3 gear. E.g. Serina, Hanae, Ako (for raids), SShizuko, Mari, Sena (to stay alive and do sad amounts of healing).
    • Specials who just buff or can do their job without stats, do not need levels and gear. E.g. Kotama, Himari, Airi, Yoshimi, Shimiko (doesn’t need investment until torment Shirokuro).
  • Some Specials have unique situations. For example: Shizuko needs a minimum HP of X to reflect both balls on Shirokuro. So you’d hit that threshold via mix of stars, levels, gear, and EX lvls.


Eligma

  • Eligma/Eleph chart.
  • You do not need 5★s until extreme/insane raids. Prioritize well if you want comfy enough clears in every raid.
  • The eligma cost increases every 20 eleph bought, up to 5 cost.
  • This never resets back to 1 cost.


Raids

How to raid

Raid battle screen for Chesed
  • How raids work.
  • Causew’s general raid guides.
  • Causew’s video guides (insane and Goz).
  • Double check your gear & skills are up to par:
  • Make team comps, check videos in that guide & the raid channel’s thread for an idea of unit investment & execution.
  • 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).
  • For the raid schedule, see the pins in your discord’s raid channel.


Extreme & Insane

  • Extreme is tuned to level 70, 5★ DPS, no UE. Very generally, you want:
    • Level 70, UE30 DPS with 5777 skills and T6 gear.
    • 3★ supports work if they don’t need higher stats to do their job.
  • For insane (very generally):
    • Level 80, UE40+ for DPS with 5777 and some max skills.
    • Most supports can stay 3★, but others may need more (e.g. healers in Hiero to one-shot the lantern or heal it in a timely fashion).
  • Higher investment is comfier, but since boosting is expensive, do it until the raid is comfy enough & reproducible. Then save for the next few raids. See the raid channel’s pins or BA’s Twitter for the latest raid schedule.
  • Ask the raid channel (or Reddit’s daily megathread) for good enough char specific UE. Research, mock it, practice it, boost as needed.


Some examples of good EligmaEligma targets. This does NOT mean to blindly 5★ these students!

  • Shirokuro Indoors: SAzusa, SIzuna, and Wakamo are good targets (“unfarmable”, important DPS).
  • Hod: Kazusa (meta DPS, best borrowed).
  • Hiero urban: ONodoka, SNonomi (meta DPS). SHoshino can survive at 3★s. Koharu will join the raid shop (when they add torment raids on Toki’s banner).
  • Kaiten: Most units are farmable, and you bring another tanky frontliner with SHoshino.
  • Peroro: BKarin, Iroha, NY Mutsuki. Aris will be farmable in ch. 23.
  • Binah: Kazusa, Mika, and Yuzu. Most others are farmable.
  • For the whole farmables list, see 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; Aru, Izuna, Hina, Iori (Iori has a 2nd stage now in ch. 20). The eleph drop rate is 40%.


Raid progression

Example of how easily a good borrow can carry you through hardcore raids
  • If you’re inexperienced, use the safe strategies, not the maldy wanpan (hair-pulling one team speed runs).
  • All the previous tactics still work, you just have more options now (except rare bugs that’ve been fixed since).
  • Wanpans are not even the fastest option sometimes. Depends on the boss, terrain, and available units.
  • Raid process:
  1. Get carried in hardcore raids with a max DPS borrow. (Build for the next raid).
  2. Safe, slow extreme clears.
  3. Get stronger and start “speed running”, aka brute forcing extreme.
  4. Safe, slow clears on insane.
  5. Get stronger and brute force again.
  6. Cry in torment because you didn’t farm everyone to UE50 lol.
  • 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 Causew’s General Raid guide for more info.


Clubs & friends

$$$ Why vets and clubs will always welcome newbies
  • Clubs & friends are very important. You can borrow units for raids, JFD and conquest mode (only 2 story events use conquest mode). Even at end game, they save you from sparking & maxing 1 unit per raid/JFD. Sometimes it’s ideal to use two of that character per ticket.
  • A club also gives 10 AP a day which adds up.
  • You can use the friends & club recruitment channels in discord. You can also filter for high lvl players in-game. Click the “i“ to see who they’re lending for raids/JFD.
  • Clubs and friends want newer players for more credits from borrowing.
  • Make sure you set 6 units in your borrow slots. You earn for 172.8k credits per day with zero borrows. Do it through the club or settings -> friends -> assistant settings.


Finding your server

  • Settings -> Account -> Version Info.
  • You can only add friends and join clubs on the same server.


UE, scrimmage, bond gear, affection

Unique Equipment (UE)

File:Weapon Icon 10000.png
Aru’s unique weapon
  • UE is short for Unique equipment. It’s a special weapon 5★ units can equip. The # stands for the weapon level (e.g. UE40 = lvl 40 weapon).
  • Save your eligma. You don’t need 5★ DPS until extreme/insane raids.
  • You level UE by doing scrimmage and buying pins from the expert shop.


Scrimmage & when to farm

  • 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.
  • Farm stage C or D if you need, don’t bother with lower levels if it costs AP. Most buy UE pins from the expert shop and only farm during 2x events.


Scrimmage A-D

Rainstorm’s video for strategies to tackle scrimmage


Bond gear

Aru’s treasured wallet (her bond gear)
  • Bond gear is 4th slot gear unique to certain chars. Here’s the whole Unique_gear_list. You can also filter for “unique item” in Schale.gg.
  • To see the requirements, go to the Item tab on a character with bond gear.
  • Turn off bulk upgrade to upgrade T1 -> T2 bond gear.
  • Bond gear releases:
    • 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.
  • For estimated dates, see Midokuni’s “Banner Summary” tab.
  • 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.
  • The T2 bond gear is a bit of a grind, but gift selectors & the crafting revamp helps with that.


Affection & Momo talk rewards


Shops, crafting, lessons

Shops

JFD shop
Bounty shop predictions
  • Each shop has a refresh timer at the bottom. When they refresh, the items stay the same, but the purchase count will reset (except the Bounty shop that rotates what it sells). It’s better to buy things you need than hoard way too much and be limited on shop resets.
  • You cannot summon units from the expert shop! Do not buy their elephs unless you have them, or plan on sparking them.
    • Exceptions: Fes units like Wakamo and SHoshino because it’s possible to get them on any 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.


Crafting

Stop at the 1st node if you lack thousands of fodder. It’s very expensive & generally only gifts are worth it past here.
Nodes If Gift Hunting If Not Gift Hunting
Node 1-2 Furniture (Until Max Comfort) > Gift > Shiny > Radiant > Else Furniture (Until Max Comfort) > Radiant > Shiny > Gift > Else
Node 3 Gift > Radiant > Shiny > Elephs > Secret Tech Note
(You shouldn't be here if you're new enough to still need Comfort) 		Elephs = Secret Tech Note > Radiant > Gift > Shiny
(You shouldn't be here if you're new enough to still need Comfort)
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  • Don’t go past the first node (big circle) if you’re unsure what’s safe to fodder. The last node is very expensive, and generally only gifts there are worth it.
  • Small crafting nodes are random! Pick whichever you want most.
  • Crafting drop tables and rates:
  • You can skip crafting animations by clicking the screen each time.


Lessons

Requirements for the daily maximum tickets
  • Overview: schedule.
  • Leveling the schools more evenly unlocks the daily max tickets faster. Click the ticket button on the lessons homepage to see the requirements.
  • Get whatever you need the most. If you can’t decide, more Gehenna, 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).
  • Lesson Drop Rates “schedule tab”.


PvP, Joint Firing Drill

PvP

Why you don’t need to sweat PvP
Why you don’t need to sweat PvP
  • How PvP works:

Causew’s General PvP guide.

  • Who you should use:

Causew’s PvP Usage Tier List.

    • These guides include links to his JP PvP reports too.
  • RS Rainstorm’s S4 defense guide
    • Small correction from Midokuni: 1:50 - It’s not due to Iori having 650 range, it’s due to the exact formations being slightly different. On a different formation, Iori can target the barrier (but get blocked anyway).
Ouch
  • PvP is very RNG and expensive to stay at the top. Just do what you can and hoard coins for AP refreshing on good events.
  • 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.
  • Battles are determined once you start. Skipping/watching has no impact.
  • Hop in the discord PvP channels for more guides, strategies & meta discussions.
  • If you’re new and want an easier PvP experience, reach level 31 before clearing 6-1 normal (which unlocks pvp).
    • Players level 31+ have the highest chance to land in newer bracket with other new players.
    • Players level 30 and below have a greater chance landing in an older bracket with higher level players.
    • If you read this too late, don’t worry (see the first picture of this section). When seasons change, brackets get shuffled. It’s possible to get sorted in an older bracket every time.


Joint Firing Drill (JFD)

JFD gimmick example
  • JFD is a bit like raid, but you need 3 teams.
  • The type of exercise and enemies’ armor will heavily influence your team comps. Go to your respective discord #joint-firing-drill channel for help.
  • Only stages 3 and 4 have special gimmicks.
  • Borrows help immensely here, occasionally letting new players cheese stage 4.
  • See the shops section for what to buy from JFD.


Game stats, buffs/debuffs, bricking

Game stats

  • ItJustWorks stats doc. What game stats do, how to calculate them.
  • You can also use the damage/healing calculator in Schale.gg via magnifying glass icon on any character page.


Buff & debuff stacking

Example of a team with BAkane and another attack sub skill:

  • BAkane’s sub skill: Increases the ATK of all allies who use Mystic type attacks by 12.7%.
  • Kotama’s sub skill: Increases all allies' ATK by 9.1%.
  • 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.
  • They do not stack. The buff of the right slot overwrites the buff of the left one.


Bricking

  • 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.
  • For a majority of players, you can’t really brick yourself.
  • (Not) example.
  • Another (not) example:
    • Kuro’s attack speed affects the times at which it summons carts. If you leveled Airi’s EX/Basic skills too far, Kuro’s attack speed lowers to the point where the delay between cart summoning is long enough to prevent self-hitting the typical 6 times.
    • Demo of this with EX3 Basic 7 Airi.
    • It only affects those who are barely clearing ShiroKuro insane and above, relying on Airi as they need all the damage they can get. If you’re already far into bodythrowing, missing an extra 600k can be quite significant.
    • To work around this, you would have to throw another team to make up for the lost damage.
    • This is actually more of a trade off, because it means you take less attacks from the boss. If you put dps students in the Airi team, they will live longer, which means they deal more damage.
  • More game terminology here.


Festivals, free pulls, paid items

Festival banners

Mika is the next festival banner
  • Festival (or fes) banners are JP’s anniversary banners with double the 3★ rate, from 3% to 6%. They only last about 4-5 days.
  • After a fes banner, we get 100 free pulls. The banners rotate, so you cannot use the free pulls on the fes banner.
  • Previous fes units are in the fes banner, but you can only spark the featured banner student. The next one is Mika.
  • Rates on Mika’s banner:
    • 6% total for a 3★.
    • 0.7% for Mika
    • 0.3% for Wakamo
    • 0.3% for SHoshino
  • See Midokuni’s “banner summary” tab for estimated dates.


100 free pulls

  • After a fes banner ends, we get 100 free pulls on the next set of banners.
    • These pulls expire if you don’t use them.
    • They accumulate; you can wait until the last day to do all 100. See JP’s banners for who’s after a fes banner.
    • They typically give 10 pulls a day and 20 on the last day.
    • These aren’t “physical” tickets. They’re counters on the banners.


Worth buying

  • “Worth” is subjective, but the cheapest decent things are: New teacher packs x3, both monthly subscriptions, and the AP pack during good events. The Serika package is alright, but she’s easy to farm.
  • Big spenders may want to buy the school packs. They save you about 3 months of normal farming.


Start Dash ticket

Students in the Start Dash ticket
  • 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.
  • I probably wouldn’t buy it unless you’re already buying the 2 monthly subs and AP packs during good events.
  • For more info on these units:


3★ selector

  • BA only sold one selector ticket. None in the future yet.
  • The closest thing was an RNG ticket on Mika’s fes banner; choose an attack type (red/yellow/blue), and get a random permanent 3★ from that pool.
  • Always read the fine print in case our ticket is different from JP’s.


Events


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References

  1. ↑ Blue Archive Official(GL) Discord, Midokuni#0001, https://imgur.com/a/1bzF6J7
  2. ↑ Blue Archive Official(GL) Discord, Kelfran#0178, https://imgur.com/a/WvpmCeD
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