The Raid system (or Total War, Total Assault) has you challenge bosses of different difficulties using tickets and is unlocked after clearing world 4-1.
You get three tickets a day and can only hold 3 at a time so it is important to do your daily raids whenever this event is around.
The available boss varies depending on season and event but they will always come with seven difficulties being NORMAL, HARD, VERY HARD, HARDCORE, EXTREME, INSANE and TORMENT.
You start out with the first difficulty NORMAL, and access to higher raid difficulties requires a clear of the previous difficulty, as reflected from the ingame raid menu when a raid is active.
This means with 3 tickets you get everyday, you can only do NORMAL, HARD, VERY HARD on the first day, HARDCORE, EXTREME, INSANE on the second day, and TORMENT from the third day onward, in order. The leaderboard also reflects this, with only up to VERY HARD clears on the first day, INSANE clears on the second day, and so on.
For example, if you want to do TORMENT raid difficulty, you have to do all other raid difficulties at least once, from NORMAL to INSANE.
In this mode, you can use several teams to defeat the raid boss but you will be scored based on total time spent in combat across all your teams.
Teams you use will be locked with all the units in that team being unavailable for use after their timer runs out or they die in battle so you will have to use different characters for each team.
You can choose to start a practice battle to fight the boss and get used to the fight by selecting a difficulty and then pressing the blue button to not consume a ticket, or you can use the other button to consume a ticket and start a battle.
Every raid battle is limited to 60 minutes of real time. Once ticket is used and the timer starts, the boss must be defeated within an hour, otherwise the raid is considered to have been a failure.
Once you have started a battle, you will be prompted to select a team. A timer of 60 minutes will start once first team enters combat.
In the event of game crash, forced client closure, or connection loss the fight is considered to have never happened and you can reuse that team, but the overall 60-minute realtime timer will still be counting down.
Forfeiting the battle via menu will count as a defeat and count as if that team died in battle, making it unusable. Locked characters can not be used again until the next raid attempt.
Aforementioned mechanics had historically lead to players force-closing the game if they wanted to change team composition without locking out characters. JP version of the game has introduced a "Retry from team formation" button, which allows to reform team and reenter combat without forfeiting.
Raid Shop is a store where players can spend Raid Coins they've earned to purchase items, including a selection of character fragments. Raid coins are awarded based on difficulty every time player successfully defeats the raid boss, as well as after raid season conclusion — based on total player ranking in the ladder.
Amount of items that can be purchased from the store is limited, but the shop gets restocked whenever a new raid begins. With the addition of Insane difficulty tier, Rare Raid Coins and a set of items sold for that currency exclusively, are added.
Raid completion rewards
Difficulty
Raid Coins
Rare Raid Coins
NORMAL
40
HARD
60
VERY HARD
80
HARDCORE
100
10
EXTREME
120
20
INSANE
140
40
TORMENT
160
60
Ladder ranking rewards
Rank bracket
Raid Coins
Rare Raid Coins
Pyroxene
1~20000
575
300
1200
20001~120000
500
250
1000
120001~240000
425
200
800
Below 240000
325
150
600
Note that bracket sizes differ for various regions of the global game version.
Bracket sizes were increased in JP version along with introduction of the Torment difficulty.
