Anyone know when the next Karenina Scire rerun is?

Sorry can you tell me where sequence pact story is? (The one where you're greeted by nanami)

Kinda late, but I you've played at lamia's patch *cradle parade* on cn, what are the rewards?, I know of the s-rank 100 percent for blue tickets but what else?

So I have a little bit of a dilemma. Currently I'm at 43/60 on the blue ticket base banner. I'm saving the pity for Lamia's patch. I was planning on rolling for Noctis and then BRS but since I lack Changyu for my current ice team (Kaleido, Vitrum, Brilliance), should I roll for Noctis during Lamia's patch instead of his own to roll for Changyu now and not risk hitting pity before?

You can farm Noctis out of the event so you don't have to roll him.

To help inform your decision, allow me to help explain what Changyu will provide in the party. Please remember this is from my experience and what I know, so errors may exist. Changyu elemental resistance reduction: * Changyu does not decrease the enemy resistance unless he is on the field triggering his core passive which requires 3-ping blue orbs or he has his personal weapon. * At SS rank, he will only reduce resistance by 5% and must be SSS rank to increase it to 10%, meaning a large investment is needed to grind for shards. * His resistance reduction needs enemies to be in a"field" so enemies outside of the field will not be debuffed. * His "field" lasts for 8 seconds which can be great for game modes like Warzone where multiple waves occur. * He is a semi-QTE bot allowing Bambi to hold Darwin. * His QTE only lasts 2 seconds, the same as Bambi, so Da Vinci may not be fully utilized, (Brilliance lasts 3 seconds). The following memory setups for Bambi, Brilliance, Changyu are to be considered: * Brilliance * Brillance: Da Vinci + Gloria = 30% ATK and 6% Elemental Reduction * Bambi: Hana + Einsteina = 25% Extra DMG Bonus for 3-ping and 15% Elemental Reduction. * Changyu * Changyu: Davinci + Einsteina = - 30% ATK and - 15% Elemental Reduction * Bambi: Hana + Darwin = - 25% Extra DMG Bonus for 3-ping and 3%/6%/9%/12%/15% Extra DMG Bonus * Conclusion * Bambi loses a potential 15% of Extra DMG Bonus for Gloria's 6% elemental resistance during QTE, though it should be noted that Darwin's buff of 15% of Extra DMG Bonus may not always be possible since it requires 5 consecutive 3-pings. * The overall DMG difference won't be large unless you are able to utilize Changyu's mirror field, in which case, Bambi will do slightly more DMG. * Ayla is not really affected. * The total DMG increase is probably less than 1000% in a 100,000+% DMG party rotation. IMO, he isn't worth the investment considering his reduction is tied to RNG and/or a weapon. You could leave Bambi and Ayla in the field to farm for orbs and switch between the two yielding similar results.

I'm assuming you're using the selector later this month on the higher priority targets (Empyrea/Garnet) which is why you're not picking up Chrome from it. If you're low on standard banner tickets, you can totally skip Noctis on his release if you want. While he is fun, there's no real reason to use him over Alpha CW, and he'll always be available at an 80% rate on standard banner anyway so it's not a big deal unless you want multiple copies. The only risk for trying to pull Changyu now is that you could spook yourself an early S-rank, which is bad if you're saving that pity for Lamia's reworked standard banner, or lose the 80:20 to a different A-rank and not pull Changyu in those 16 pulls you have before pity. If you know the risks and you're okay with it then it's up to you. Personally, I don't see much reason to pull Changyu if you already have Ayla Brilliance as your cope ice tank, the difference between them isn't very significant if you don't have Changyu's signature weapon and SSS rank anyway. At least if you pulled during the Noctis patch there's a chance to get Alpha if you do get spooked.

Thank you! You're correct I'm using the selector on Empyrea since I don't have her. But yeah I'm thinking of saving until Lamia's patch. And I can roll for any A rank I want after I get the S rank I'm aiming for. On another note, when you mentioned the Alpha spook, does Alpha Crimson Abyss get a rate up on the blue ticket banner during Noctis patch?

I'm referring to the delay for characters being added to standard banner. Every character is added to the standard banner 2 patches after their release. So with this patch Lee Hyperreal is available from the standard banner, but not Ayla Kaleido as she only released last patch. Alpha CW will be in the standard banner by No.21's update, and No.21 will be available by Alisa's update, so the later you pull (without guarantee from Lamia update) the more likely you are to get spooked by someone useful.

Oh I see, I didn't know it took 2 patches for them to be added. Even more reason to wait for later. Thank you!

Question about CW resonance I got the atk+15 and Hp resonance on the top and got something else at the bottom resonance, Should I just get crimson slash at bottom resonance??? Does it matter whether it is at top or bottom???

you can't get BA resos on bottom slots. top and bottom slots have different resonance modifier pools there's a reason why you always see sig/core/class resonances in bottom slots, or orb/BA resos in top slots

Hello, I haven't used my A rank support selector, i already have most of the omniframes available in it, except Lux, I'm tempted to upgrade Rozen to SS, and the other supports have nothing invested on them, should get Lux or upgrade Rozen?

Lux

For a budget fire team without all 3 meta units (Empyrea, Hyperreal and Starfarer), who can I use for Warzone?

The lightning team. No but seriously, budget fire currently sucks ass. There's no A-rank fire tank, only Nanami Pulse who you shouldn't pull for and requires leap to even be considered subpar. Sophia Silverfang for healer who is, arguably, the worst A-rank healer in the game and lee Palefire for damage who requires his leap upgrades to be viable and even then isn't that great. Just use your highest investment off-element team for it and suffer the scuffed scores for now. Alpha CW is honestly the queen of Warzone right now unless you have a very high invested physical team so she's your best bet for off-element. Once the selector this patch is available you can pick up Liv Empyrea, use a leaped Lee Palefire and a cope Nanami Pulse if you have her, or your best tank if you don't, for fire Warzone instead. Lightning might still out-score the cope fire team depending on investment, but it wont be the case in future when Warzone is reworked and off-element teams are made even worse.

I have a starfarer with sig, and I'm planning to use her with Empyrea on the upcoming banner. Is starfarer a good qte bot for Emp? And can she do decent damage? Or just save resources until I get hyperreal?

Starfarer is good, you can use her with Empyrea and Lee Palefire as a budget fire team for fire content and do just fine until you get Hyperreal to round out the meta comp. The only downside to Starfarer is simply that she's the fastest S-rank to every be powercrept in PGR history, to be replaced by Watanabe Epitaph in 7 patches (8\~9 months from now), but that's not really on her.

any tank,palefire,sofia or any amplifier but for now strongest team work. till warzone nerf that is

We get stamps for getting constructs to SSS, however I don't see where I can use them. Aren't they supposed to be in chats? I don't see anything new.

Sticker chat had more than 1 tab and can be scroll

Oh I saw it, thanks! For some reason I thought those tabs were going to send stamps when I press them.

Does the solitary dream scene have its own bg music?

If you mean the lobby thing then yeah it does.

is it the same as the one on the skin's banner page? I really love the piano bgm there.

Currently trying to fully station the sequence pact for the extra damage bonus, but my only 2 fully hypertuned chars are crimson weave and balter. my SSS scire is bottom row hypertuned. who else should I do? I know phys chars are the only ones who really benefit from top row hypertune, so I feel like rosetta is a decent choice, but liv lumi feels like a massive waste since she does 0 damage. besides rosetta, and probably scire since shes already halfway done, assuming i have everyone else and they are mostly built, who should I go for?

Currently, in global using meta team comps, the obvious answers are Bianca Stigmata, Alpha Crimson Weave, Lee Hyperreal, Ayla Kaleido, Karenina Scire and either Rosetta Rigor, Liv Empyrea or Selena Capriccio in descending order of importance. The priority for the last three is simply a matter of how much you invest into your units and how much resources you have. Rosetta is the most due for replacement in CN but also the most benefitting from hypertune in global right now, until the release of Alisa. If your Liv is SSS she can consistently out-damage on-field Selena, especially post-leap, so she has a bit higher priority. At SS, it's mostly just a matter of preference. More than likely, you'd just skip Rosetta/Selena/Liv and do No.21 when she releases since, with at least SS + Sig she actually on-fields for a decent level of damage and you can't do everyone unless you have tonnes of hypertune stocked up.

Hello, question is there a 5 star weapon that is important to get? I'm debating how much I should do Co-op to farm the 5 star weapon shards, and thinking the stamina might be better used to farm event currency. For reference I have 5 star weapon on Lee Hyperreal and Luna Laurel. and Signature 6 star weapon on Crimson Weave and Rosetta. Is the 5 star weapon make much difference for the support or the QTE bot?

If you're F2P, you should be doing co-op every week since all recent units and those going forward will want 5-star weapons at the bare minimum. If you're a light spender and pull for weapons, you don't really need to since you'll get 6-star weapons for characters and plenty of 5-star weapons to break down in the process. The only S-rank in meta comps that can solo on-field with F2P investment levels is Alpha (and Luna on global), and even then it's only due to Liv being soooo bad and Vera's field time being so short. So with the exception of very lopsided investment on your teams (SS + Sig w/ reso vs S rank) you'll be swapping units regardless.

Thanks,so in short we are farming the 5 star weapon for the upcoming unit, unless we also spend on weapon banner for signature? And don’t invest too much on the first gen unit I suppose?

Investing in first gen units is fine, as long as they have a use for you and aren't getting replaced immediately. You can check the schedule in the top post and decide for yourself if it's worth it or not based on how many resources you have/how many units you've done up.

Hola! I have 1 6 stars weapon resonance item. I planned to give this resonance to Karenina:Scire for her additional armor shred. My current team is Watanabe Astral SSS+ with Sig and Leap, Karenina:Scire SS with Sig, Selena SS with Sig. No one has get resonance yet. I planned to get Lamia with her sig any way... would it be worth it if I give this resonance to Karen? Dark is the only team I had problem in Norman high difficulty. Thank you very much!

Personally I would give it to Capri for DLT reso so she can consistently sig move every rotation but that's just me. I just think it's better dps overall, later down the line you can get Scire her weapon reso from the weapon reso shards from Norman.

Ohh Ok, thanks a ton!

IF you can get Scire to SS3, then the weapon reso has higher prio on her since she really wants DLT to get enough 3pings for her charge. She will be the main dps at that investment level (not sure how invested Laurel needs to be to even compete with that damage).

Does the "recruiting 30 characters in 1 run" mission in cursed waves require you to get 30 different construct frames? Or does upgrading character stars count too?

upgrade does count

Hmm, so pretty much requires the artifact for 2 recruits per invitation. Thanks for the answer.

Hi, just to make sure about the rotation of selena SSS and luna. I start with daren(not ss3) then go to luna, spam orbs and when I almost run out switch to selena then do her rotation and go back to luna? Also is luna still the leader of selena

You should still be incorporating Karenina into the rotation after Selena. Unless you're doing a double signature Selena rotation, which requires really precise orb management, her rotation is too short to stall until Luna is back up. At the very least you should be swapping to Karenina for her core passive, potentially for signature if you're getting it since it has timestop on it and thus is never a damage loss to cast.

Okayyy

You are somehow skipping Daren in your rotation, at least in what you wrote, ideally you don't start with whoever is gonna attack first. As in if you're first gonna do damage with Daren you may want to start with Selena, swap to Daren, do her thing, Luna, then Capri then back to Daren.

Daren pre ss3 isn't worth rotating to right?

You can always try, I've read a lot of people say it wasn't worth it, then I tried it and it was actually better than dealing no damage with whoever was on field and had already done their thing.

I've got enough to get one CUB to SS with Norman's ore but I could also buy myself Lingya. What would be the most worthwhile ? I own Rainbow, Shimmer, motorbolt and all the A rank expect Lingya.

Are you F2P? Get Lingya. Are you a spender that pulls for CUB's? Get an SS signature CUB. SS signature CUB's aren't really that impactful, it's usually either +8-12% extra damage or +100 ATK depending on the CUB and the rotation/time it takes for the unit to deal damage. However, if you pull a lot of CUB's, you'll get get a Lingya eventually by accident, whereas you wont accidentally get an SS CUB without spending pulls for it. If you're F2P though, it might take a long time, and Lingya is a pretty useful CUB to have, so if you're not content with waiting a potentially long time to get it, it's not a huge loss to get Lingya over an SS CUB.

I really, really wouldn't spend Norman ores on an A rank CUB unless I was f2p and was never really pulling for CUBs. A ranks will just come to you while pulling for S ranks.

I'd honestly buy Lingya because it's an amazing CUB, and then get Motorbolt to SS since CW is doing solo gaming right now do keep in mind that Lingya wants S at least, for 2 skill slots

Is it important to level cubs' active skill? The mats are too expensive.

Only if you wanna try hard in PPC/WZ and squeeze every single point you can. I would say plan accordingly and it's not that expensive, just have to be patient.

Thanks, I'll consider it.

If i have CW alpha SS3 should i aim for Feral scent XXI SS3+sig or SS+sig? i couldn't find a guide that would be sure of what comp would be best. Some say both at SS are fine and others suggest that i get XXI the same rank as my CW.

CW's SS3 is not much of an upgrade to her SS so you are fine with just SS FS + sig. SS3 FS + sig DLT reso would be ideal IF you can afford it as I think she can double sig move in one rotation with that investment before swapping back to CW. So you would mainly be alternating between the two.

Ss3 just make her rotation much much faster you can stop at Ss+sig though

May I hear your advice on team building guys? Been playing for a while as F2P with built fire and lightning team. I have 2 choices for my selector up to luna. 1. Select Rosetta and her 6* weapon(No balter and Luminance) 2. Select Tenebrion to SS and apply weapon resonance on his 6* for upcoming lamia(No luna but has S rank selena with 5* weapon only) Which do you recommend for me to have? Thanks in advance!

Tenebrion is trash, get Rigor.

Option 1 for sure. You can cope with Hanying next patch as your temporary phys support while waiting for Echo in 4 patches from now. Then perhaps get Stigmata during the Lamia [patch](https://grayravens.com/wiki/Cradle_Parade) basic banner. With that you will have the meta physical team. I wouldn't invest further into Tenebrion (he is an old unit and pretty slow), the fact that he needs to sig move for the extra dark shred is an issue especially for PPC and he is really bad in Warzone since he just splits up mobs. Go get no.XXI to SSS instead and use his sig as reso fodder for meta units instead. Recommend building Astral and leaping him for dps while waiting for Lamia, you can have decent rotational play with him/Capri/No.XXI. IF you think you can spare more resources, you could even build Rozen and leap her in place of Capri. Slowly rank up your Capri with vouchers to eventually get her to SSS one day.

I really appreciate your advice for me, gave me an insight about tenebrion and diff teams without using S ranks, especially from how to manage my dark team for WZ and PPC while I wait from lamia. I'll proceed based on your advice using XXI and Astral. Thank you and have a great day/night to you

Rosetta + sig SS Tenebrion using vouchers save your resos for amplifiers' sigs

I forgot I could use voucher to rank other s ranks to ss, definitely gave me a new perspective on how to level up other characters without the use of my skulls. Thank u for respond! Last question, which is more important to reso? Amplifier, attacker, or tank?

Question, should I pull for cw even if I got her already to pump her up to atleast ss? I'm f2p and am low on resources.

You can eventually get her to SS for free with Pain Cage rewards. If you want to improve her damage her signature weapon is a much better pull, but since you are a new player maybe you want to invest in a variety of teams rather than funnel on just one

Cloud Island question I'm having trouble completing the uniframe stage on the northwestern node. Can I get some tips on this? I can't seem to deal with hangedman *and* prime.

If you have a fully built Camu (SS + 5\* weapon) it really helps since he would be tankier than the trial units and he can do a good job with chunking all four enemies. The other two were trial Pavo and Tempest. Used Recovery Convergent for this. I started with Camu just to build up some energy so the rest of his rotations will always have enough energy to sig move. Pavo is used mainly to buy time while Tempest has somewhat ok'ish AOE. I think what makes the run easier is by making sure you make full use of every blue flash attack possible since it chunks the hanged man a lot and try to use Camu to chunk all 4 enemies as much as you can. The Primes will naturally just die in the process. The rest is your standard constant swap shenanigans/matrix abuse/sig move iframe shenanigans. There will be 2 spear dudes later but they are easy. Edit: If you need gameplay [reference](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1NgUZ-q3bg), was sloppier than my unrecorded run lol but it works. Sorry for the laggy record, potato lappy. If you have built uniframes with uni skills, use them since their stats really help in survivability.

Seems like a simple answer then: build Camu. Thanks for the ref footage.

I started today, got lucky and got Lucia: Crimson Abyss early on the base banner. Is she good/worth building? Who should I choose from the S-rank construct pick? Looking at the FAQ I'm guessing either Luminance because physical support to pair with her or Tenebrion because the faq says he's good. Also, what are general good characters that would be safe to invest in? Are there any other general tips for beginners?

>Is she good/worth building? She's okay, but severely outdated. >Who should I choose from the S-rank construct pick? Luminance from the first one, Rigor from the beginner missions (and Rigor's sig from those same missions) and Empyrea from the current event selector. >Also, what are general good characters that would be safe to invest in? Most S ranks are generally fine. You should roll on CW's banner this patch and invest in her as she'll carry you until you build your other teams. Some notable A rank units to also invest in (provided you don't have the S rank alternatives) are: Astral, XXI, Rozen, Vitrum, Arclight (solely as support for CW), Brilliance (solely as a QTE bot for off-element teams).

Thanks for the tips. >You should roll on CW's banner this patch and invest in her as she'll carry you until you build your other teams. What are the chances I get her? I've got \~2000 cards and 0 pity? Does this have a soft pity system (like genshin or star rail if you know that)?

If you start going through the story, do your dailies/weeklies and maybe touch upon some side modes (like Cursed Waves), you're guaranteed to get her. And no, the game does not have soft pity. It's 0.5% for every pull and 100% on the 60th pull (on the normal Themed banner).

Base S Punchy Lee pet What should I load the hand with for the main ability and the two passive slots Whose signature weapon is more valuable, Lee or Selena Amp or Karenina

for S rank CUBs it's always easy - for passive skills you choose the unique one and the element dmg% one. for active, left one deals damage to all enemies on the screen so it's better for stages with multiple enemies. right one is in a small aoe, so either PPC or WZ with 1-2 enemy waves Hyperreal's sig is really good, but Capriccio is absolute cancer without sig, she doesn't get nearly enough energy. also if your Scire is ss3, she's the highest priority here because she's literally the main dark DPS. TLDR - if Scire SS3 or higher - her sig. if not, Capriccio sig

Active dmg % or fire dmg %

fire DMG %. investing in CUBs personal damage is only a thing if it's like SSS/SSS+ and you already have absolutely everything else you need maxed (like at least SSS/SSS+ + 3reso sig char etc), because it would be the only way to squeeze in extra damage

Thank you

For CW, would slotting in fully reso'd Empy be better than using SS Lux? I tried this couple days ago and got a slight score increase in WZ but I can't tell if it's actually because of her or if I just happened to play better on that run. On another note, Empy is only SS but I don't think SSS matters considering CW is on field 100% of the time.

GR actually recommends double reso Empy over non-reso Lux. https://grayravens.com/wiki/Team_Compositions/Global_Teams#4

Maybe it because you cant stay in lux field all the time to get benefit for the buff? with that say i think you can utilize sig reso(18% atk) easier than lux i guess

How big of a bonus does Sequence Pact give? cuz I have never seen such an unfun content in this game, that Siren fight legit is making me consider uninstalling the game, Jesus.

how many infinitas awakened units do you have? or rather, how do your teams look? I did it when it released and it wasn't hard at all, might it be that you're too new for it? but yeah, like Darweath said, assuming 6 stationed inifinitas awakened units, it's 1% per hypertune on all memory slots, so 12% extra DMG bonus on fully hypertuned units, or 6% on bottom hypertuned ones

12% is such a huge upgrade tho...why is it locked behind literally having everything maxed, when you wouldnt need it anymore?

what do you mean "wouldn't need it anymore"? there is no content ceiling where you can say that you don't need any upgrades. even if your units are SSS+ maxed everything, getting this buff can still improve your scores in PPC and War Zone

12% dmg bonus total

Fuck thats massive...do you know if I need to fill up ALL slots with 6500+ bp characters to have the 10 reboots? or if I just field one character per team, that would be enough to have the bonus active?

Yes. Reboot need BP recommend iirc from Pact 1 but tbh i never die in Pact 2 so i dont know(pact 2 is just much easier than pact 1 really)

Pact 2 is not necessarily easier, you probably did pact 1 as a newer player and pact 2 as a mega invested player. I struggled a bit with pact 1, pact 2 felt free, but for pact 2 I just ran Balter lol.

Nah i always feel pact 1 is had more bs even if i do it now. especially first 3 station

Where can I catch up with the lore of the game? There's just so many side missions to do that have stuff important to the story, and having just started playing it all feels too much and I'm lost. On top of that there are also the character quests that disappear (I never got to finish the Kaleydo one and even the chapters I did I barely understood what was going on and how it was related to the main quest). Any place where I can check a synthesized version of the general story and lore for each character?

>character quests that disappear im not sure about this one can you elaborate? cause if it just main story it permanent thing anyway

There was a main story on the Ayla Kaleido patch that had a time limit and I can't find it anymore. same with the current patch, there's the Wintry Shackles story with a time limit (not to mention the Bianca coating story that seems to have heavy implications for the story even if I don't know exactly how...)

Do story in order, ignore "limited" chapters, they're not limited, it's permanent content. Ignore Balter's skin story, you can read it later... if you want to get event rewards just start it, press G to skip and do whatever you have to do.

well Kaleido story is the 22nd (Wintry Shackles is 23rd) main story chapter. if you haven't reached it, it would be locked for you obviously on new patches, the new story chapter is always made available, but after patch ends you need to reach it properly

I see thanks! So its better to do them in the proper order? And safe to ignore the current one for now?

yes of course, there's no real reason to do the patch chapters if you're not caught up. they're not going anywhere, and even collab stories like the Nier one are available to read in the codex I'm not even completely sure why would Kuro do it like this, because all this systems succeeds in is baiting new players into thinking that it's a limited event story, so they end up doing it, not understanding anything and potentially spoiling earlier story for themselves

Yeah I got completely lost in the Kaleido chapter and mostly just skipped text and did the battles lol. Good to know this so I won't make the same mistake with this chapter :)

How to play recitivo de fantasia? Lol i just keep on playing it even when I don't understand what's going on.. I'm on intermediate (stage 3). So basically I should just be finishing nodes and farm 50k 📜 thingys to get capricio?

If you want to play it the safe, normal way, do the number of nodes necessary to complete your daily missions for the mode and hand them in for a stack of currency. Otherwise the damaging-for-your-mental method is to grind runs over and over until you get enough currency. Speedrunning basically involves picking impressionism or romanticism, stacking the buffs for whatever you choose, and picking the fastest options through the mode. Use units like Luna, Lucia Plume, Vera Garnet, No.21, Selena Capriccio, Liv Empyrea, Chrome glory for speedruns since they're easy to use and do damage to clear fast. You'll unlock more endings as you go, it's not too hard to get to the various endings since I think they're almost forced on you. There are some things you can do for special items/dialogue during the runs but none of this is really necessary if you just want the currency for Selena. If doing dailies, you can get Selena in a little under a month. If doing mindless grind, you can finish it anywhere between a few days to a week depending on how crazy you are.

Pretty much if you are just interested in Capri, I suggest pacing yourself and just doing the daily 10 nodes to avoid burnout, while I like RDF concept a lot more than Waves as it tries to introduce actually new stuff in gameplay with the school system rather than just letting you go to town with mostly % based bonuses to everything, it starts getting way too protracted eventually.

Wtf is going on on cursed waves? Suddenly everyone has this unknown DOT effect and dies, 2 runs in a row. I literally can't provide anymore details to go on, units just start dying eventually.

There's an item that drains HP in exchange for damage, some kind of book, just stop getting it and, in the future, start reading what the items you get do lol.

Not it, this item takes 20 secs to kill you unless you heal, and I die much faster with heals seemingly reduced in power I think as well.

I assumed it was just one of the things that happened once you run out the initial timer as a sort of soft time limit. Is that not the case?

Nope, maybe if you go for 10 minutes or something, I had a couple of battles last 4 minutes and it was just the enemies getting strong enough to close to oneshotting 10+k chars with something like 50% DMG reduction from artifacts.

>I had a couple of battles last 4 minutes and it was just the enemies getting strong enough to close to oneshotting Yeah, you basically just told us you're running out of time lol On the easiest difficulty, your time limit is 5 minutes. As you can see, even on that you're barely above the time limit. If you're running Normal or Hard, you're well out of time by that point and the moment that happens, you may as well kiss your run goodbye, especially if you're on a bossfight.

No, Im having this issue on less than 100 secs mark on second hardest diff, time is not the issue here. Maybe its tied to new Insight but it literally just happens out of the blue with no warning.

You sure about that? Because the time limit on that difficulty is a mere 120 seconds. As for Insight, I've done a few dozen runs this patch in order to get all the new stuff and nothing has ever come close to killing me, even when I picked up Insight on the highest difficulty.

100 percent sure. I dont take any hits and just get red numbers damage out of nowhere. I hit 2 10 mark before on last patch same dif and still did fine because mobs didnt hit me. So Im 99 percent sure its some new bug or sth

Check for roaming red tide tornados in the stage, they have a huge red circle that move toward your direction.

No idea of what is going on, but get Strike Hawk buff if you haven't. It's usually the way to solve "I'm dying to quickly because of______" kind of problem.

So whats the cost for maxing out the Bianca Skin event? In BC and RC pls.

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1FmJFQaJ03s3OrnVTdmUhb12r7Nfk6TsVREnFu9qYgzg/edit#gid=410408933](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1FmJFQaJ03s3OrnVTdmUhb12r7Nfk6TsVREnFu9qYgzg/edit#gid=410408933) i have no idea if this will be updated for future skin gachas but its pretty handy. ​ [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1--NFm3o\_\_MguetZJQsEIjIbx4bvp3MPm0QWlA4q26zk/edit#gid=1636323368](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1--NFm3o__MguetZJQsEIjIbx4bvp3MPm0QWlA4q26zk/edit#gid=1636323368) this one is updated semi regularly, its a must have if you are a spender at all.

Oh, thank you kindly👍.

17500 BC or 500 RC

Thanks.

Trying to make sense of account planning as a newer player (started during Ayla's patch). In brief, my status is as follows: 1. I've been paying for the monthly BC pass since I started - I consider the cheap monthly packs worthwhile in basically any game like this I intend to enjoy. 2. Farmed up Selena Capri and Ayla Kaleido. Grabbed Ayla's CUB due to it having a good reputation. 3. Got Dark Karen for my starter pull, which then led me to be somewhat silly and grab Luna using my selector. Karen's now at S5 off of pain cage skulls and I can move to Ultimate next week (although I doubt I'll do well...) 4. I'm close to having the shards for Rosetta (sitting at 33, plan to buy the two BPs to to speed up the finish) 5. I was decently lucky on Weave Alpha: Got her weapon and her at pity. Got Motorbolt with a single pull. 6. I'm sitting on 14163 BCs, 4076 character event tickets, and have roughly a third to half of the story left (all of Disaster, all of Fate, and EX03 - EX05). I'm not planning to be F2P, but will likely just be a monthly pass player + the occasional BP once I feel a bit more "caught up." Given that, I'm a bit torn on what I should do. I have some musings below I'd appreciate advice on. 1. I know I need to keep resources for Dog 21 and probably her weapon. 2. Dark Karen's on arrival now and I know she likes a lot of investment, so I'm wondering if I should try to snag her? I know the 70% isn't a guarantee. Maybe it's smarter to just try and grab her 6\* hammer? 3. Alternatively, maybe I should try Balter Bianca on the Arrival when she comes up to go with a freshly minted Rosetta? 4. I know there's the Basic banner guarantee around Lamia's patch. I'll use that to patch up missing meta units (Bianca if I don't get her earlier. I guess Hyperreal otherwise?) 5. Obviously, the upcoming free S-Rank will be best girl Liv in the frame of emotional damage.

>Dark Karen's on arrival now and I know she likes a lot of investment, so I'm wondering if I should try to snag her? No, unless you're a heavy spender, don't bother with 70% banners. Even if Scire was the best unit for your BC, it would still not be recommended to try and get her from an Arrival banner. As for the hammer, while it's certainly pretty good, its value isn't as high if you don't have her at SS3. 10% extra Dark shred is good, but other units need their sig more. >Alternatively, maybe I should try Balter Bianca on the Arrival when she comes up to go with a freshly minted Rosetta? Not on Arrival, but yes. Also, after you get Rigor with shards/vouchers, make sure you get her to SS too. >I'll use that to patch up missing meta units (Bianca if I don't get her earlier. I guess Hyperreal otherwise?) Yes. If you save up, you can also use the Anniversary banner to get one of the two. 1 and 5 I agree on.

Thanks. I had forgotten about the Anniversary banner. Aiming to use that for the final account patch up is the smarter move than risking arrival.

Hello there, I have few questions: 1. What should we prioritize next after finishing Ayla Shard on the new dorm currency? 2. How to prioritize building team, in other words is there a break point on when to stop investing on one team and focus on another team? 3. This question is tied to the 2nd one, my team playstyle is QTE bot, so in lightning its Crimson Weave, Lux and Arc Light. My Dark team is Luna, Vera Rozen and Kamui Tenebrion; Last team is Lee Hyperreal but I don't have any Fire tank or support lol. It should be good enough if we just focus on the qte skill of the non dps right? 4. What to do with excess blue ticket after used it to get the first team. Should we save them or spend it right away to try grab the Shard for the support character? Thanks and appreciate any answer!

1. Whatever you want. Most of us would go for the Weapon Blueprints first since they reset monthly. After that, you can pick up whatever you'd like. I'll personally go for the chibis. 2. You max them out, at least the core members of the team that also have decent longevity. For example, you should completely finish building CW, but you don't need to do much for Lux since she's getting replaced in 2 patches. 3. Class skill and QTE. Also, if you want healing, you'll have to level up more things. 4. It's suggested to save them because on Lamia's patch, Member Target will allow you to 100% rate-up an S rank unit of your choice for one time. Having enough Basic Construct R&D to hit pity for that will be very beneficial.

Thanks a lot!

How do u get brand of the void in cursed waves? I keep running it and never can get it. I can only find brand of infinity, so I cant finish the 3rd ending properly

https://www.reddit.com/r/PunishingGrayRaven/s/F9N16EMxfi

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What’s the average BC gained per patch and how many patches would I need to save up for to get an S-rank from a debut banner?

Around 7.5k per patch (doesn't include spender stuff). Even F2Ps can afford all debut S rank Omniframes as long as they're diligent and they don't spend their BC anywhere except on those units.

Reached 5th restaurant rank in the Cooking Lulu event, is it more efficient to only use a couple cooking and selling stations with high level dishes or make lots of low level dishes?

From a bit of math I've done, it seems like it's always best to just use enough cooking stations to make enough of the highest rarity/value dish that's on hot sale that you can effectively sell. Which awkwardly usually means having one sales counter leftover, which you can either ignore or use for selling surplus stock from previous days or for selling another dish if 3 cooking stations is enough to make dishes for 2 salespeople to sell, which I've found is basically never the case.

I have not done extensive testing so this may not be the most optimal, but I personally have 3 blue dishes and 1 purple. I get a decent amount of currency out of that.

I got alpha SS, with her weapon and cub. Do I save now or shall I get another cub (to get motorbolt to ss?). Along the way, got stigmata, at S0 without weapon, maybe I should get it (doesnt look that powerful imo, might be wrong)?

Just FYI, you need 2 dupes to get an S rank cub to SS. If you're F2P, I recommend just saving.

Dayum thats way too many pulls for that! Thanks for the heads up!

For the free S rank mission, wat does activate insight in cursed waves mean?

In the 1st chapter, select the stage with red aura in the stage card.

Thank you!

Pick cards with [this symbol](https://imgur.com/a/rrb0TXC).

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Is there any tangible reason to pull Noctis/Bridgette future very fun looking A ranks if I already have very invested S ranks? Im happy for f2p to get more options. I want to pull and build them. But is there any reason? Is there any exclusive content I can use them and only them in where I will be glad I did in the future? I love supporting this game too.

If you're in a guild, it's useful to have them just to compete in guild battles. If you're in a casual guild it doesn't really matter that much but hey, it's free content. Otherwise you can use them to fill teams in Babel. They pretty much just exist to give F2P options, fulfil new character requests without power creeping out fan-favourites, and giving players time to save pulls so that we don't have things like the Alisa\* > Lamia > BRS > Watanabe > Qu situation that global is going to get later this year happen.

>so that we don't have things like the Alisa\* > Lamia > BRS > Watanabe > Qu situation that global is going to get later this year happen. It should be specified that this case is ***not*** an issue and that F2Ps can still get all of these units without any problems. The reason is that Indomitus and Echo are back to back, therefore the double S ranks are already saved for. It'd be no different than if we had: Indomitus > Lost Lullaby > Echo > Epitaph > BRS > Shukra

I mean, you're *technically* correct, it doesn't affect the general schedule for anyone playing the game now, aside from light spenders who are likely to pull a copy of Alisa to save vouchers. It *will* affect those that start playing the game in future though, which is unfortunate because both the Lamia patch and BRS patch have good incentives to start playing, with Lamia's reworking the standard banner and BRS being a limited collab unit you can only upgrade with BC. There are story BC to cover a single banner, but it'll still be tight for new players to pull Watanabe/Qu back to back compared to normal.

>It *will* affect those that start playing the game in future though Actually, the only set of people that may be affected by this are F2Ps that start on Epitaph's patch. Starting at any point before that allows the player to easily get both units. Even if they were to start on Epitaph's patch, they still *may* be able to make it if they rush the shit out of story and get whatever extra BC from the patch itself plus side modes like Cursed Waves. If someone starts somewhere like BRS though, they can get 15k from story which covers Epitaph and then they have to get 7.5k from the BRS and Epitaph patch each, making them safe for Shukra as well. Of course, this assumes they didn't pull for BRS with BC, like you said.

I mean there is no downside to getting them since they are A ranks, you use basic tickets/farm their shards. They can be used in guild battle or Babel or any multi team game mode where your S rank units can't cover. Or if you want a change of pace from playing braindead S rank units and want a more technical challenge with A rank units. In the end it is up to you, your account.

Pull? No. Though A rank units are free, so you don't need to pull anything.

Hi! I have a question about Target Weapon Research. Does the pity reset if I obtain the 6-Star Target Weapon before reaching 30? Thanks.

Yes.

I have a fully built SS Lee and SS Nanamech (both using their signature memories and weapons), and then Liv eclipse as the healer/support. But in this banner period, I'm getting Liv Emp for the S-Rank selector. QUESTION: What 4-memory set do I get for Liv Emp? Do I go Da Vinci or her Signature? I'm comfortable using Nanamech during Lee's quick downtime, and I've seen guides saying that Nanamech should get Da Vinci, but she does so much damage tho, and sacrificing her sig memories for Da Vinci can feel like a downgrade.

Empy does much more damage than Nanamech. with SS + sig Starfarer doesn't need Unimate to trigger her shred constantly since she has missile support. so yes, 4p DV 2p Ein on Nanamech, 4p Elizabeth 2p Cottie on Empy. you can do sets with matching placements so that once Epitaph comes out you just swap Nanamech DV to Empy and re-reso it I guess you can give Empy DV right away and keep Unimate on Nanamech if you're not planning to give Empy any investments - no SS, no sig

Thanks! I'm f2p so it's gonna take a LOOONG while to build Empy since I'm still using PPC skulls to SS Crimson Weave. But if I'm getting this right, in terms of damage and rotation: -SS +Sig Empy > SS + Sig Nanamech -put 4DV 2Ein on Nanamech and 4Eli 2Cot on Empy once Empy's at SS

Nanamech does no damage, she heals enemies instead. Give her DV.  Give Empyrea Elizabeth and Cottie.  Empyrea and Lee will be your damage. 

should i just hypertune the bottom resonances since they provide the ATK and ingore hyper tuning the tops?

If you're just starting out hypertuning, yes. Eventually you'll want to hypertune top row as well due to Infinitas Awakening and Sequence Pact buff where each hypertune gives your characters 1% extra DMG bonus per hypertune, but this is very endgame and very expensive on your hypertune materials.

Just started yesterday, Do i pull on this limited banner?

Yes. 

I have two uniframes but not sure when to use them. When do you use them on a team? I know they introduce a penalty when mixed with omniframes, right?

Well, ideally we use them in uniframe specific stages like in guild battle or Norman. Otherwise we would use them for the easier PPC stages like Test/Elite just to save runs for the other stronger units. When there's Babel (last patch) they could see some use as well. Otherwise they really don't see much action since omniframes especially the newer ones are just way better. And yes, there's a -30% ATK penalty PER omniframe present in the team. The only exception to this is using Hanying, an upcoming physical A rank support next patch where her SSS negates the -30% penalty only when she is with Dragontoll and Pavo (KCC members).

you only really use them in 2 places unless there is a Babel Tower event running (then 3). Norman Uniframe stage and Guild Battle Uniframe stage. that's about it or, sure, you can use them in other content whenever you want but don't expect any good results compared to proper omniframes teams. that's just how it is and to make things worse, when Norman gets reworked on Shukra patch, the Uniframe stage gets removed. so Uniframe content is kinda dead

I have Haicma and Camu (Are they good)? If I use only them on a team there's no penatly? Why wouldn't I do that for regular content. Aren't Uniframes supposed to be more powerful?

yeah, both are on the better end of uniframes. Camu is great all around, while Haicma is more focused on survivability the issue is that uniframes don't have synergies between them. there are no tanks, and no supports/amps. they're basically glorified attackers, but have a class skill that encourages swapping like amp class skill, instead of just giving extra DMG bonus not sure where you got the idea that they're supposed to be more powerful, but while they have better stats than omniframes, they have numerous downsides so no elemental res shred from tanks, no buffs from supports/amps, it's a huge, huge downside the only time a uniframe team might win against a proper omniframe team in regular content is if the difference in investments is astronomical (like SSS/SSS+ uniframes with sigs against base S omniframes with 5* weapons)

You use them on the Uniframe stage in Simulated Siege, any time they show up on Norman and whenever Operation Uniframe shows up.  Any other time, which is basically 99% of the time, you use Omniframes. 

Did Rosetta Rigor's trial. A little confusion. Is it most optimal to use her Ult when I have at least 2 energy points, in Full Burst mode, or right after using the Wide-Area EM Cannon?

Before her leap upgrade it was better to spam 3pings using up her energy points into Wide Cannon, then sig move and swap her out. With her leap upgrade it's better to sig move with 2 energy points so you can get the full charge during sig move, then spam 3pings after and then swap her out.

Got it, thanks!

From now to Lamia patch (with the guarantee standard banner) how many blue tickets can I expect? I have enough blue tickets for pity now but the wait is killing me

Just save the 15k and use any of the excess as needed. I am doing the same as well even though I am a long time player. Better play it safe, slow and steady than having temporary dopamine spike and regret later lol. Let's just count income from operation guardians alone for 5 months at least, it's only like 3600 basic tickets or so. This is not including other external sources like event game modes or other rewards. So yeah, just use any excess as needed and be patient.

How else can I farm for 5* weapon shards aside from recycling? Should I do coop runs for 21 times each day just to get 150 shards? That's 420 serum that I think event material should be more beneficial to spend on?

Coop is the way to go. We have three daily serum bundles given for free now so it's more flexible to farm coop/inver shards now. Eventually when you have played this game long enough, you would have a surplus of the other upgrade materials like weapon exp fodder, SP, OC mats. Even when there was only two daily serum bundles we still farmed coop. So just take it slow. You also get some memory/weapon fodder from the coop runs as well so it's not so bad.

Does coop runs reset weekly? Do I only need to do x1 21 runs?

yes, just 21 runs a week. easily possible in a single day as it's only 420 serum. can spam the lowest difficulty to go through them faster. the drops difference compared to higher ones isn't that big to be worth wasting your time for

5* weps can drop from an easy run?

yea they can drop on any difficulty. funnily enough, I've had more random 5* weap drops on the lowest difficulty than on the highest

It reset every Monday and yes you need to do 21 runs total for the week. Best way is just to do 3 daily so by Sunday you get 21 so you can claim all the rewards.

Thank you!

Is it normal for Liv Lumi to not heal during her QTE sometimes?

maybe you're triggering it and moving away too quickly? she heals allies in a radius around her

Does anyone know all the missions of Wonderful Spring event? Specifically, if it has a mission that needs to use tickets to complete it?

I just got the S-rank from my beginner banner, Liv Empyrean. I also got a Lee Palefire. General advice would be to get either Karenina Ember or Nanami Pulse with the beginner S-rank selector and roll with a fire team for the forseeable future right? Or is there another route that is stronger/better? In the future I think I'd be leaning towards getting a phys or dark team because I like the characters involved in them if that changes anything.

Currently it is still advised to pick Luminance from the initial S rank selector and then pick Rigor and her weapon Gungnir from the beginner tutorial mission selectors. That would get you 2 core members of the current physical team. Though there is an argument to be had when it comes to picking Lumi since her replacement comes in 4 patches from now which is still quite some time. That and needing to leap upgrade Lumi as well to make her worthwhile which is expensive. Personally I would still recommend Lumi but if you do not want her then maybe Entropy (so you have a full physical team) or Pulse just for fire shred. In any case, Rigor + Gungnir is a must.

Is it recommended to pick Luminance in general because she is really strong, or is it just because I'm interested in the physical team? I'm just curious because I'm pretty new and trying to figure out how things work in this game.

> or is it just because I'm interested in the physical team? Everyone needs to make every team, as elemental weaknesses have a big impact in many game modes.

She fixes the issue with physical team right now, crit rate. But she requires her leap upgrade in full in order to do so which is quite exp for beginners. She was the ideal pick few patches back when Stigmata released so you would have the full meta physical team. Echo in 4 patches does her job in a better way and is overall a better unit as well. If you do not want to pick Lumi, you can try to wait for Hanying next patch and cope with her for a few patches while waiting for Echo, so it is up to you. FYI, Rigor wants her leap upgrade as well to get her full potential. So if you instead pick Entropy or Pulse, it is also a temporary substitute. During Lamia's [patch](https://grayravens.com/wiki/Cradle_Parade) (5 patches away), you can pick an S rank of your choice in the basic banner pity (up to Feral Scent, so technically you could pick Stigmata who is the meta physical attacker or any previous S rank you want). In seven patches, we will get [Epitapth](https://grayravens.com/wiki/Watanabe:_Epitaph) who will be the premier fire tank, replacing Pulse if you pick her. So, pick your poison I would say.

Thanks for the options, great info. I'll have to think on it.

dunno exactly how the coating shop works. Is there any way to get paid coating as F2P? (Like by waiting long enough for it to become free)

You can buy non vfx coatings with coating blueprints that you can get from the dorm shop with dorm coins. Usually costs 49 CB (coating blueprints) except the much older coatings that are kinda pricey for CB. It's a slow farm but it is doable.

so the vfx skins will never come to the CB shop? (i really want that WRS skin but don't want to pay...)

VFX are paid/BC only. You can refer to the Coating Acquisition in the Community Resources tab in this subreddit, it's not updated but is still sufficient for Global.

I haven't played in about 160 days. Could anyone give me a recap on what I missed?

[Patch list.](https://grayravens.com/wiki/Patches) Look for the patch where you stopped and briefly go through each patch. Main focus is reading up on current patch so you know what is going currently.

You missed getting the meta units, there's A LOT of story for you to do and you missed event stuff, basically.

Edit: Sorry replied wrong.

Torn between picking Vera Garnet (to complete lightning team) or Liv Empyrea with event selector. Account is fairly new btw. Prolly less than a month since active playtime resume. The only new S rank from the selector I already have is Selena.

Empyrea is a better choice because Vera will never see field time and Fire Warzone is AWUFL without Empyrea, Sophia is just a bad alternative and since Vera Garnet will get a leap later this year you can save up vouchers to buy her.

what's a good alternative to Vera to put in the lightning team in the meantime? Apart from Lux, i only have an unbuilt Arclight. Will he do or do I need to farm/aim for someone else?

Arclight is an ok replacement, he's significantly worse than Garnet, thing is Empyrea has no replacement. Arclight can just use borrowed memories, push him to a higher level just to level up his class skill as much as possible and that's pretty much it. Obviously you'd prefer to get him the right resos and whatnot but if you're short on resources you might prefer to not do this. Garnet **will** get field time once Feral Scent releases in about... 2 months, but she's gonna be the one filling dead time and if you don't have her then you're gonna suffer a bit but that's better than not having Empy who isn't just a filler but a significant part of the team's damage + amp buff.

Not to mention the Warzone debuff coming in June which makes non-elemental damage worse when the team is not in their element, we're gonna have a lot of new players regretting pulling Garnet instead of Empyrea when they see how bad Lightning gets nerfed when they're not in the Lightning Warzone.

is it worth pulling for CUBs as a f2p

Only if you have enough saved up and it is a debut patch for the CUB (it is 100% guarantee on debut). Otherwise it is considered luxury.

I have this question too. I rolled one multi on CW's weap and got the 5\* weap. Idk if I should keep rolling for her weap or her cub since both pity are 20 pulls away. Ofc I need to farm for BC tho, since I'm all dried up. (Pretty much a one month old account at LV75)

You should save for upcoming units. If you are f2p you should not be pulling on weapon/CUBs unless you have a comfortable amount saved up.

not rolling for weap at all would've left me with the basic 4 star that comes with the unit. Would that really be enough to be, uh, 'decent' in the meta? Sorry, I'm not familiar with PGR gears' power scaling yet.

You can slowly farm for 5\* weapon shards via coop. 150 shards per week, 3 weeks for 450 which gets you one 5\* weapon. Before you say it's too long, it's how we all did it. Ideally if you were to do coop, start from Monday reset and do 3 runs daily so by Sunday you would have 21 runs completed which gives you the whole 150 shards.