Blue Archive - The south Korean Gacha game that almost died, is now being released on Steam this summer.

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I'm not sure how true/up-to-date this is, but Yuuka is also a free/default unit that can scale really good into the late game. Her main function is obviously to provide new players a Tank character with a simple EX skill, but when maxed out, she's good in (some of the?) endgame content. This includes raising her star rating, but her Eleph can be grinded out from missions.

There seems to be some kind of "sprout" system of bonus EXP (otherwise it seems to be 1:1 with AP spent) and I still get it at level 48. So possibly the most critical new player tip is to make sure you can increase your AP regeneration. I recently figured it out that I had neglected to manually upgrade my Café despite having resources to do so. (You manually collect AP and credits that the Café produces passively and stockpiles up to a certain limit.)
 
Overpriced Gaming Chair said:
I'm not sure how true/up-to-date this is, but Yuuka is also a free/default unit that can scale really good into the late game. Her main function is obviously to provide new players a Tank character with a simple EX skill, but when maxed out, she's good in (some of the?) endgame content. This includes raising her star rating, but her Eleph can be grinded out from missions.
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She totally is, a lot of 1* and 2* units and some welfares get overlooked once people get flashier units that do a similar, if not the same thing but many of those unflashy students are quite potent even with relatively low investment. Yuuka is a very decent yellow armor (notice I said armor not damage, that's what becomes more important to your tank in endgame) tank, fully upgraded she has still has the highest HP pool among yellow armor tanks, you may notice that she has relatively low defence and that's because she heavily leans on being an evasion-based tank, which are usually but not always more useful in PvP over defense-based tanks. Her low def but ridiculous HP pool also makes her useful in situations where a boss shreds your team's defense, as losing 30% of 100 isn't as devastating as losing 30% of 500 (not real numbers just using them to illustrate my point) and she can still take a ton of hits. It says a lot that she's still quite useful despite having one dead skill that you can completely ignore, that being her sub skill, the one where she restores her own HP when she takes or jumps over cover is useless in raids and is glitchy in regular content too as she often just ignores cover or goes around it rather than jump over it to proc it. She also has a unique bond gear, which as I've noted before is basically what Nexon thought of to counter power creep, and it's very good. First tier just supercharges her Defense, so she gains a decent defense stat for an evasion-based tank, while the second tier of the bond item upgrades her I.F.F. basic skill to buff her evasion even further whenever it procs.
 
Other tips: the "regular" or "item" shop (24 Angel Mart with that blonde forehead girl) has limited supply that restocks upon daily reset. Considering I have almost 60 million credits, I probably should just start using "buy everything" daily. Although it could be that somewhere in the 60-90 level range the credit cost of levelling up characters and upgrading equipment will start to actually matter and has to be rationed. So far I've had abundance of reports and enhancement stones.

Other daily "chores" include, if you're a new player, to check out "Guide Task" alongside the currently active events. There's basically a separate "challenge" or "goal" system that you need to not only claim manually, you can only do one step per daily reset. So I had presumably completed the Overtime version that gives Hina days ago, but I only noticed the whole thing recently and have been timegated.
 
Big Brown Schlub said:
This is sadly where most players end up dropping the game. However, I used to play this game at launch and honestly it seems like it's easier to progress now. I remember I abandoned the game originally when I was at level 45 because I felt like the game took too slow to progress and I felt like the game was too stingy with mats. It still doesn't hand them out like candy so you have to plan who you're gonna invest in (especially if it's a character from the big 3 schools as there's a lot of competition) but it doesn't feel as dreary as it did back then. Still, I wouldn't be surprised if you get bored and dip out.
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It's not so bad since the time spent on grinding is very low and there's a huge amount of content to go through, plus daily shards to get some 3 stars. It helps there's a fuck ton of VN to go through.

I'm a stone toss away from 51, the Cafe really helps in getting a metric fuckton of daily AP, otherwise grinding would have been several times worse. I feel like I'm a bit too miserly with Eleph's and would have an easier time in some content if I made some characters rank 5, but more pressing content like Kurokage I'm just locked due to low HP and defence (pretty bullshit his health quadtruples between difficulties since level 50 I finish almost immediately while 70 I just die some time after the second phase).

I wonder if it was smart using the free 3 star choice in Ako rather than Kisaki since that 80% damage buff for ex skills sounds bonkers.
 
I am never going to financially recover from this
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>Normal mission gives you twice the rewards
>during the time when pancake hazard exist were it gives you not only a fuck ton of awards but 150 pyros

The choice is clear. The problem now is that im lacking decent units i want to invest into. Im hording all my stuff and gonna go for new year event Fuuka and dress Aru that will come out soon.
 
Overpriced Gaming Chair said:
I probably should just start using "buy everything" daily.
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For the credits shop it's only worth buying the daily artifacts. If you need them, then the final 2 bundles of enhancement stones are worth it too.

wtfNeedSignUp said:
I wonder if it was smart using the free 3 star choice in Ako rather than Kisaki since that 80% damage buff for ex skills sounds bonkers.
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You didn't make a mistake, Ako is still one of the most commonly used students for hypercarry comps, it's just that there's too many students that are extremely strong so it's easy to get that "if only I had" grass is greener feeling.
 
May as well write up a short guide for the other shops:

Eligma 1 - try not to waste your Eligma on units that can easily be farmed in the raid/JFD shops or hard difficulty stage students or students that have niche usefulness. However, exceptions apply, you may do it for hard difficulty farmable students if you really quickly need to boost them up to 4* or 5* and even then I would only do it for the really strong DPSers - Iori, Aru and Haruna. Even then, do it sparingly. Same goes for Koharu and Azusa as it can take quite a while to get enough T2 GA currency but don't overdo it. NEVER do it for any other raid farmable students, especially not Eimi, Tsurugi and Sumire as you get a ton of JTF coins and they're the only 3 students to spend it on.

Eligma 2 - Scam. Avoid. Eligma is way too scarce to waste it on even the admittedly good things that the shop provides.

Raid/JFD shops - get all the girls' Elephs that are on offer and exchange them when you get to 120 of their Elephs, then if needed get them to 3* (like Kotama, Momoi, Hanako). You may see somewhere that Eleph exchange is a bad deal, and yeah it is, if you roll a duplicate after claiming a student you effectively waste 90 Elephs, but raid coins are plentiful and that advice is like 3 years outdated, there's way too many units now for that to be an effective use of your Eleph. After you do what I said, you're pretty much free to spend it on whatever - get the mats, more Elephs for your favorites to get them to 4* and beyond, whatever you want. For JFD after you get Eimi, Tsurugi and Sumire, if their kits don't fit into your playstyle you can immediately shift onto getting the crafting fusion keystones. These are a godsend later on, as they allow you to do things like transform skill books/blu-rays of schools that have low competition for these items due to the small number of playable students (so Arius, Red Winter, Valkyrie) and turn them into upgrade items for schools with shitton of competition for them (Trinity, Gehenna, Millennium).

PvP shop - use it to charge your AP, if you have 50 coins left over after a single charge (so 95 coins at the beginning of the day minimum) you may spend it on the Elephs of a girl on offer, but I only recommend doing that if you like her. Thus you may consider the students whose Elephs are in the PvP shop effectively unfarmable. The rest of the shop is a scam.

Expert shop - believe it or not, but the best way to spend them early on is on exchanging them for 5 mil. credits. Then maybe the pink reports. Once you hit level 90 you stop gaining XP and start gaining Expert permits instead, you want to prioritize the credits, then the limited elephs, then the firing pins, then the rest. However after a few months of being at level 90 you'll get so many fucking Expert Permits that you can literally buy out the entire shop before it resets and still have a bunch left over. You should expect to hit lvl 90 after half a year of playing or so.
 
Is there a way to grind Blu Rays? Not the high level ones, I ran out of the lower levels ones and trying to grind them doesn't give me anything.
 
wtfNeedSignUp said:
Is there a way to grind Blu Rays? Not the high level ones, I ran out of the lower levels ones and trying to grind them doesn't give me anything.
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1. Go to a student level-up menu that requires the Blu Ray in question
2. Click the image of Blu Ray above the X/Y counter
3. Not only an "Acquisition Method" window will appear, it will have direct links to relevant shops/activities (note: list can be scrolled down)
Hope I don't come off as condescending, the game has lot of stuff like this that can easily be missed. Generally I recommend trying to click on everything that won't obviously do something you don't want to happen. Key thing to keep in mind is that (assuming you play on PC) is that this was originally a mobile game so there are no tooltips that appear when hovering over the cursor. Instead there's plenty of info pop up things.
 
Overpriced Gaming Chair said:
1. Go to a student level-up menu that requires the Blu Ray in question
2. Click the image of Blu Ray above the X/Y counter
3. Not only an "Acquisition Method" window will appear, it will have direct links to relevant shops/activities (note: list can be scrolled down)
Hope I don't come off as condescending, the game has lot of stuff like this that can easily be missed. Generally I recommend trying to click on everything that won't obviously do something you don't want to happen. Key thing to keep in mind is that (assuming you play on PC) is that this was originally a mobile game so there are no tooltips that appear when hovering over the cursor. Instead there's plenty of info pop up things.
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I knew that tidbit, but the drop rates either suck or I'm just unlucky. Maybe it will be a good idea to grind the event for tech notes.
 
wtfNeedSignUp said:
I knew that tidbit, but the drop rates either suck or I'm just unlucky. Maybe it will be a good idea to grind the event for tech notes.
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Yeah the book/blu-ray drop rates are terrible in regular missions, it's not even worth wasting your energy when there's a 2x/3x drop up event for normal or hard missions on trying to farm them. It's much less painless to get them from events, bounties/bounty shop and the raid coin shops.
 
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I know this news may be extremely disappointing to some of you and also quite late, but Blue Archive is in fact not blocked in the UK. I'm still able to play it fine without a VPN at least.
 
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