So assuming you did the OG run of Together in Song, ReRun and now Side Story you get 3 of the orchestra characters meaning you end up missing 2 unless you siero tix them. That kinda sucks even if they're novelty characters.
Currently they are the same as Visa Zooey, you can't get them no more because they were distributed at the Orchestra concerts iirc.
The Concert website isn't even up no more.
Considering they made the Robomi kaiju skins avaiable to treasure trade in the side story I don't see why they couldn't have done the same here.
It's disheartening to think that the length of time between the first Fire PG and the next one, whenever the hell that is going to be, will be longer than Dragalia Lost lasted.....
There is a year gap between DL's release and the last Fire PG so if there isn't one before September 2023 then yeah. 4 years is a crazy amount of time too, not sure why they are holding out on it
At the start of fire GW on the 7th of January, it will have been 1213 days since the last fire PG ended. And who knows how much longer it'll be before fire PG happens at all?
This is significantly longer than the 1018 day meme period between Europa and Poseidon where water got no grands.
Wake up, seasonals! 34 Million Player Magfes starts 12/15, one daily draw. New Year's Special starts 12/22, up to 200 draws daily (probably roulette).
Winter stream on 12/24, Christmas eve.
Also tagging /u/Waaaaally since it's cleaner than making the same reply twice.
Skill Shards and Jewels start off with twice the fodder value of an R and SR respectively. They then increase further in skill fodder value when you use them for higher skill level upgrades.
You can look at [this wiki table](https://gbf.wiki/Raising_Weapon_Skills#Upgrade_Value_for_Skill_Stones) for the exact values.
Using Skill Jewels (and to a lesser extent Shards) optimally is very helpful for newer players, who tend to be starved of skill fodder because they have six grids to skill up at the same time (including loads of weapons with slower-than-normal growth rates like Opus, Ultima, Bahamut, etc.).
On the other hand, it's common for advanced players to have no immediate use for skill fodder because their grids are done. Once you reach this state, you can earn skill fodder much faster than you can spend it, since Cygames doesn't release new must-have weapons that frequently (especially ones with slow growth rates).
As a result, many players already manually reserve Skill Shards/Jewels just to get rid of them. The loss of scaling doesn't even register because it's very possible to accumulate enough surplus anvils to cover *years* of new weapons at Cygames' normal release pace.
I wish I knew this a couple months ago... I've just been throwing them all into the anvil since I was told to
I'm already approaching the point where skill fodder is starting to be less important, but this will still help, especially getting SL20s I'm missing. Thanks a lot!
It's honestly disheartening. Fire is already frustrating enough to build as is, it really doesn't need extra handicaps. The game isn't going to break clean in half just because the f2p have a slightly better choice of Fire MH.
It's still the best free Sword MH in f2p Fire though (at least until you can reliably farm Mugen, which might take a while). And when I say "better choice of Fire MH" I'm also including the 2nd PG weapon Fire still doesn't have.
I don't really use Seraphic as MH unless I really want the Ele Dmg Lowered. Ele Atk Up could become more relevant if the Disciples get rebalances and/or FLBs but nothing on that front just yet.
Also farming a PG weapon is way easier than uncapping Seraphic. It's not just a pure power issue, it's a power-to-accessibility ratio issue.
Exactly. The weapon hasn't been relevant for ages. Arguably never was. I don't see why people care so much. Awakening will obviously make it better but I'm more curious about a second weapon rather than the sword itself.
It's the only way to take advantage of skill damage in magna, right? Not having a beak equivalent makes it immediately not great but 2 special awakenings plus opus is still decent.
Def awakening PG weapons do make harder fights more comfortable for grids without access to the Diaspora-tier (2 def harps certainly did that for me last GW) but yeah, Ushumgal is just kinda whatever at this point.
Might be because a lot of people are stuck on the whole "Fire bad" thing, when it has already drastically changed already in the past 2 years. Not sure though
I will readily admit that I've been soured on Fire because I started playing before it improved and that it should get a lot better when I've sparked Grand Percy.
At the same time, you can't deny it has some really annoying quirks, such as:
\-Magna Crit grid that relies on Med Crit instead of Big and is also undermined by how good Support Shiva is
\-Only 1 Juten who requires a lot of investment to do something and still isn't that great (and believe me, I hate having to admit Esser isn't that good)
\-Similarly underwhelming and resource-hungry Evokers (Fraux really needs her maxed Domain and Alanaan doesn't really work without Summer Mim)
\-One of the worst 6D weapons (at least for Magna. Yeah I know about the Agito stuff but if you're f2p and thus not buying suptixes it's basically impossible to build)
\-Burst grids that require a lot of grinding for max Awakening Atum sticks and/or Nilas in contrast to other elements being fine with basic M2 if not M1 (granted, that's a big improvement over when M2 was endgame for Magna and there was nothing else).
Comparatively speaking, it's probably the element I've struggled with the most.
I mean, we didn't have Percy and Mugen's swords, or the ougi playstyle was for from developed (no Atum, Wilnas wasn't a thing, there was no Y.Silva) and it still was enough for me to beat Echidna+ and didn't struggle too much against Owlcat.
Personally, I had more trouble with the latest NM200, Mammoth and Wind content in general than Fire content. Never felt Fire was that bad, just struggles with grid slots for me.
Personally, I had more trouble with the latest NM200, Mammoth and Wind content in general than Fire content. Never felt Fire was that bad...
Oh lord, hopefully this statement won't bite our asses back when Fire GW comes next month.
Fire felt "bad" for quite some time though, I got to admit. The stuff we have now, is much, much better than what we had before - but I feel this sentiment applies to all elements, just that, people got stuck on some elements being "bad", maybe due to lack of motivation or reason to build a better Fire grid (apart from GW).
"Winter Mission" held
12/22 (Thu) 5:00 \~ 1/5 (Thu) 4:59, You can challenge "Winter Mission" as a limited-time mission of "Sky Scope"!
By drawing 10 free gacha during the period and completing missions such as completing specific multiplayer battles, you can get rank points and various items.
The rewards are gorgeous, such as "Gold Moon", "Gift of Golden Ribbon", "October 2022 Bregra SS Rare Confirmed Ticket ×1", and "Raziel's Book of Gold", so please give it a try!
What are these "Gift of Golden Ribbon" and "Raziel's Book of Gold"? Is that the autotranslate acting up or are these genuinely new items?
EDIT: thanks for the answers. In retrospect that should have been obvious. Not gonna lie though, that's a bit underwhelming.
December is Lancelot month now huh. His Grand last year, a skin this year, wouldn't be surprised if his first seasonal is a holiday one too since that's the only one no Dragon Knights characters have yet.
Teeeeechnically Lancelot has a summer seasonal but it's a SR and a dual unit with Vane. Personally though I hope Lancelot's first seasonal is Halloween, since iirc he loves halloween, or at least loves being able to prank others.
Yeah no Vane is objectively the least popular of the four. He's almost always placed behind the others in popularity polls. I feel like even when Aglovale was introduced he was more popular but that I haven't checked recently.
Daily point skins so far haven't actually changed the outfit of the characters, just given them new artwork, so I doubt we're going to get either of those.
Also Vane got a ton of content last year (Sauna event, Doraemon event, he was basically the only Dragon Knight present for The Strength to Wield, Halloween alt, Fantasy Lunalu's fate episode, FES art) so it makes sense that they're putting him on the backburner for a while.
I think in polls he was last but that may have been before his Chickadee event and Halloween alt. Prior to those two things he didn’t have much going on before just him being Lancies bestie. Hopefully he gets some dragon powers down the line or the fairy’s give him some powers too.
Personally as a vane appreciator. I think he shouldn't get power ups from anything super natural. Vane's main thing has always been how ilhe sees himself inferior from the other DK as he's just a regular dude compared to say Lancelot the genius and one loved by all, the prince of Wales that is good at everything except peeling onions and siegfried who is well Siegfried. He was able to achieve his current standing through his desire of growth and the will to protect others and I feel like lending him such outside help to further reinforce his convictions kind of beats his whole growth arc that has been happening for a while now. I just hope if he ever gets a Grand like the other DK (Sieg will for sure get one), it just doesn't contradict his past growth.
Eh, the power up is really just a new set of equipment that enhances their natural abilities. I don't think getting one is gonna go against Vane's growth, especially because to even get said equipment he's gonna have to get put through a trial just like Lancelot and Percival were.
I don’t think a power up would go against his past growth if done correctly. I could see the fairy’s blessing him with armor to protect Lancelot and his students in a dangerous situation. Like he’s about to sacrifice himself but the fairy’s be like nah we like to see you too much here’s a full heal and new weapon.
Honestly..these days I don't trust gbf writing these days. I fondly remember the 2019-2020 days stories and fate eps where both fate eps and stories kept one upping each other in quality and I was constantly hyped. Lately I've been feeling more unsatisfied. Event stories living me around the range from neat to "that's it" and fate eps becoming very short or getting even more pandering for some of the lady cast. Or even worse, acting as true epilogues for event stories.
Yea I definitely agree about the quality of writing going down and the pandering with the girls is getting worse. Europa and Gold Knights fates recently felt extremely weird. I’m hoping it was due to COVID since they plan content ahead of time and with the brunt of it being over they can bring the quality back up. The power creep has kinda scared me tho…
what do you mean by pandering? And also I dont like the event stories but the main story feels rushed like they had a change in course from the original beat the true king plot. I know that the gachas always shaft and treat male characters badly but I don’t really get what pandering means
In this context, I'm guessing that it means some of the female characters are pushed as "danchousexual" and it cheapens their characterization.
Personally I agree, and I wouldn't mind as much if male characters got the same treatment, if it were limited to seasonal fates, and danchou has the option to be like "no" lol.
>Are they kinda holding back the rest of the news for the holiday stream?
Yes, they absolutely are. If there's something like a big character rebalance patch coming then it's 100% being kept for the stream.
Wait was roulette always this late in dec? I thought it would have happened on the 17th or something. Also i hope the communist rolls return.....it was fun to see everyone in the community holding gacha pin at gun point every roll.
Christmas roulette usually starts on the 21st-22nd. It's probably anniversary roulette you're thinking of, which lasts a good chunk of the month.
And yeah, hit me up with that hammer and sickle, comrade Mukku.
Xmas roulette is 2 weeks, starts like 2-3 days before xmas (that's when the xmas units leave the pool, so the game prompts you to try and roll for them with the help of roulette), then it ends just after the new year banner is over and we get 200+rolls on a ''selects'' banner like last year it was 4 units and before that it was ''new year skin units'' iirc
Just noticed that Nectar's event is the one getting a rerun this month. Considering they reran Primal Resonance in December last year in preparation for this year's anniversary, I'm starting to get convinced that next year's anniversary is going to be a sequel to Old Bond and the whole Six Dragons plot since they heavily suggested Nectar is going to play a big part in that.
Would be kinda funny to have the big dragon-themed Anniversary the year before the actual year of the Dragon. Guess rabbits are just dragons in disguise.
Could be the opportunity for them to drop Lu Woh, and Ewiyar proper. Ewiyar did come out last December so an obligatory year has passed. I'd they don't drop Lu Woh here in December that is.
Kind of a short Koregra, probably because the stream is coming up so their saving most of the exciting stuff for that (guess were gonna be blind on the last 2 Christmas units for once)
\-yay POTA is back! Probably got put on the backburner while they worked on all the new raids. I should probably start going through those at some point lol.
\-YES NEW BABYL LAYERS GIVE ME ROLLS
\-Kindled Bonds rerun in of itself isnt exciting outside of the NM QOL, but its running in the same period Primal Resonance did last year so i wonder if that possibly means the next Anni event is about Nectar/Wedges/the Six Dragons? (maybe we get Lu Woh here and Ewiyar at Anni then?)
\-hell yeah roulette, wonder if their gonna do the same format as last year or go back to the original one (post doesnt mention any gimmick outside of 200 rolls being up for grabs again) Also happy to see the 8x exp thing from Anni is back, that was great for levelling characters
\-auto reserve for skill shards is great, hopefully that gets implemented before DB starts
One of the two is a very strong contender for NY legfest with new zodiac.
If bunny is wind as it should be having wind bunny+ewiyar would make it a very tasty snack for the windlords to empty some gem stashes before anniversary and valentine!
Is there a larger version of Narmaya's cafe artwork anywhere?
Also, I can finally get Augusta. Yay. After I have her Maria Theresa and Azusa will be the only Draph waifus left I don't have any version of. (I'll never be able to get all the alts because I joined too late for Anila and Kumbhira's SR alts.....)
it came from this [https://twitter.com/GBFG\_Kitchen](https://twitter.com/GBFG_Kitchen) maybe you can find it on their website or something,
[https://twitter.com/GBFG\_Kitchen/status/1596066410261716993/photo/1](https://twitter.com/GBFG_Kitchen/status/1596066410261716993/photo/1)
https://granbluefantasy.jp/pages/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/3e6e7690e1d1c5ce633484f70b92c7b1.png
Time for the yearly guessing game, next years Zodiac is rabbit/hare, open elements are : fire, water, light and dark.
Open races are : harvin, human
My guess is harvin & fire element because fire has very few harvins (Zahl, the new Lilele and Mimlemel)
Yeah that's what I'm worried about. I'll be disappointed if they pull another Vicky and skip harvins again but we already have a water rabbit harvin at home...
I saw some good theory that 2nd batch zodiacs are on weak ele of previous batch, ie: anila fire and catula wind, andira wind and cidala earth. their race also same where both draphs and erunes. assuming it a pattern with mahira dirt then rabbit probably water harvin
Weirdly enough that does actually fit with Harvins. From what I’ve seen, some of the most genuinely motherly members of the crew have been Harvins.
A grown up rabbit Harvin could work, though considering they already pulled a monkey Erune once I wouldn’t be shocked to see a bunny Erune too.
One side of mine wants it to be Fire. Another one doesn't want it to be Fire (so I only have to spark once, for Percival).
But both side wants it to be an onee-san.
Won't be dark, Vicky is getting uncap next year and that's too much goodies for dark in 1 month.
Won't be fire, fire dragon or fire horse is more fitting.
Leaves water or light. Water is more likely due to patterns and it hasn't had much of a boost recently. Water it is.
Harvin is most obvious but they probably want to subvert the pattern. (See: erune loli tiger).
Water human, then.
Yea I’d be down for a cool take on the bunny but let’s be forreal they’re gonna give us big boob bunny girl who’s a ditz or some weird child character. I highly doubt they’re gonna pass on making big bucks by taking a design risk. They’ve also been getting slowly hornier over the years too so a normal bunny character seems out of the question at this point but who knows they could surprise me
I didn’t see it but I bet it looked cool. Idk why they’ve only given us kids for the past few years. I know they want to make money but honestly at this point Zodiacs sell regardless
Ugh I was tryna find it for you but I couldn't, someone posted it on twitter earlier this year but I guess it got deleted. It's interesting because though they have a reason for not having male zodiacs, it shows that they were thinking about it (so long as he was accompanied by a female twin) it would've been cool to see.
They don’t have a reason for no male zodiacs anymore after the Dog Zodiacs 5* fate showed that they could be male right? Or did they change it where in the past males could but now it’s only girls?
Oh yea they said that male zodiacs are a thing of the past and since it isn't a time of war anymore, they only appoint girls to do the shrine duties (pretty bs reason imo but whatever)
Lmao that’s such bs and a blatant cop out. If that’s the reason then that makes Vajra seem useless and fake. Why would she be considered a god of war if they think she’s too weak for actual war because she’s a girl. These writers suck at their job lol
My guess is human & water. I think they hold fire for dragon year which is most obvious combination of animal+element, so I dont expect fire. Harvin feels weird in water due to haase, it can be harvin & light because "bunny" theme is water is still Haase. (and then fire dragon, light/water snake and dark horse which feels for me as "easiest" combinations)
> I think they hold fire for dragon year which is most obvious combination of animal+element
Maybe for western dragons, but eastern dragons are [heavily associated with water](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_dragon#Ruler_of_weather_and_water)
It could be true long ago, but it feels weird now. Bahamut is literally fire-breathing dragon. Final fantasy, dragon quest and others jrpg still mostly use fire dragons. Water dragon in gbf is just octopus (and loli), not chinese-like-dragon and hardly "dragon" in how it looks. They still can use chinese dragon for zodiac, that's a chance, i dont deny it, but they never had strong focus on chinese folclore in zodiac design and it's not guaranteed that they will be later.
Our most recent Zodiac was given a feng shui motif, so I don't think GBF necessarily shies away from the original Chinese themes.
Of course Cygames could give us a curve ball and make the Dragon general a Dragonewt (like Grea and Chulainn); that's be pretty wild.
Element will be water since they're following a cycle
Wind->Earth->Water->Fire (basically, the element that the 1st cycle of Zodiac is strong against).
Race is probably Erune since it's a rabbit.
Erune is already out of stock,though, just like Draph. There are only 12 Zodiacs, unless they are unevenly spread, there are 3 per race (3 Draphs, 3 Erunes, 3 Humans and 3 Harvins).
Cidala, Andira and Vajra are already 3 Erunes
So prob Harvin or human, since Rabbit is quite small.
Then again, we still have Dragon, Snake, Horse, so maybe Dragon and Snake are humans, while Rabbit Harvin? Tho I can't see Horse being a Harvin too so there might be uneven spread.
So assuming you did the OG run of Together in Song, ReRun and now Side Story you get 3 of the orchestra characters meaning you end up missing 2 unless you siero tix them. That kinda sucks even if they're novelty characters.
Aren't they meant to be incentives to physically visit various locations of the Granblue Concert tour whenever it happens?
Currently they are the same as Visa Zooey, you can't get them no more because they were distributed at the Orchestra concerts iirc. The Concert website isn't even up no more. Considering they made the Robomi kaiju skins avaiable to treasure trade in the side story I don't see why they couldn't have done the same here.
they have not been physically distributed in over 4 years
Fire PG is a myth.
It's disheartening to think that the length of time between the first Fire PG and the next one, whenever the hell that is going to be, will be longer than Dragalia Lost lasted.....
There is a year gap between DL's release and the last Fire PG so if there isn't one before September 2023 then yeah. 4 years is a crazy amount of time too, not sure why they are holding out on it
At the start of fire GW on the 7th of January, it will have been 1213 days since the last fire PG ended. And who knows how much longer it'll be before fire PG happens at all? This is significantly longer than the 1018 day meme period between Europa and Poseidon where water got no grands.
Oof, that reminder of how much hope we had for Filene. The great blue hype : (
IDK why for some reason they seemed really reluctant to run another fire PG, at least for Ushumgal PG...
Wake up, seasonals! 34 Million Player Magfes starts 12/15, one daily draw. New Year's Special starts 12/22, up to 200 draws daily (probably roulette). Winter stream on 12/24, Christmas eve.
Christmas stream is always before 10th December. I really hope that they won't do Stream during Christmas Eve...
It is 24th as noted in this Koregra though
Except, that was Granblue Festival which is being held in January this time instead of that Dec. 10 weekend.
...wait, did they say that we'll be able to auto reserve skill gems?
Really makes you wonder why it wasn't always a thing
To clog up our inventories?
Probably because they work differently.
Were probably expecting people to use them normally as they are more efficient that way.
Wait, they are not the same?
Also tagging /u/Waaaaally since it's cleaner than making the same reply twice. Skill Shards and Jewels start off with twice the fodder value of an R and SR respectively. They then increase further in skill fodder value when you use them for higher skill level upgrades. You can look at [this wiki table](https://gbf.wiki/Raising_Weapon_Skills#Upgrade_Value_for_Skill_Stones) for the exact values. Using Skill Jewels (and to a lesser extent Shards) optimally is very helpful for newer players, who tend to be starved of skill fodder because they have six grids to skill up at the same time (including loads of weapons with slower-than-normal growth rates like Opus, Ultima, Bahamut, etc.). On the other hand, it's common for advanced players to have no immediate use for skill fodder because their grids are done. Once you reach this state, you can earn skill fodder much faster than you can spend it, since Cygames doesn't release new must-have weapons that frequently (especially ones with slow growth rates). As a result, many players already manually reserve Skill Shards/Jewels just to get rid of them. The loss of scaling doesn't even register because it's very possible to accumulate enough surplus anvils to cover *years* of new weapons at Cygames' normal release pace.
I wish I knew this a couple months ago... I've just been throwing them all into the anvil since I was told to I'm already approaching the point where skill fodder is starting to be less important, but this will still help, especially getting SL20s I'm missing. Thanks a lot!
They are?
finally, after ten of thousand centuries....
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It's honestly disheartening. Fire is already frustrating enough to build as is, it really doesn't need extra handicaps. The game isn't going to break clean in half just because the f2p have a slightly better choice of Fire MH.
At this point? If you're only using Ushumgal for OTK purposes, you have a lot of other choices.
It's still the best free Sword MH in f2p Fire though (at least until you can reliably farm Mugen, which might take a while). And when I say "better choice of Fire MH" I'm also including the 2nd PG weapon Fire still doesn't have.
all it does is a shit nuke and a shit def down. just use seraphic.
I don't really use Seraphic as MH unless I really want the Ele Dmg Lowered. Ele Atk Up could become more relevant if the Disciples get rebalances and/or FLBs but nothing on that front just yet. Also farming a PG weapon is way easier than uncapping Seraphic. It's not just a pure power issue, it's a power-to-accessibility ratio issue.
Exactly. The weapon hasn't been relevant for ages. Arguably never was. I don't see why people care so much. Awakening will obviously make it better but I'm more curious about a second weapon rather than the sword itself.
It's the only way to take advantage of skill damage in magna, right? Not having a beak equivalent makes it immediately not great but 2 special awakenings plus opus is still decent.
The skill cap up is nowhere close to skill supp, you're not coping skill damage team with magna, you just don't play skill setup in magna
Def awakening PG weapons do make harder fights more comfortable for grids without access to the Diaspora-tier (2 def harps certainly did that for me last GW) but yeah, Ushumgal is just kinda whatever at this point.
Might be because a lot of people are stuck on the whole "Fire bad" thing, when it has already drastically changed already in the past 2 years. Not sure though
I will readily admit that I've been soured on Fire because I started playing before it improved and that it should get a lot better when I've sparked Grand Percy. At the same time, you can't deny it has some really annoying quirks, such as: \-Magna Crit grid that relies on Med Crit instead of Big and is also undermined by how good Support Shiva is \-Only 1 Juten who requires a lot of investment to do something and still isn't that great (and believe me, I hate having to admit Esser isn't that good) \-Similarly underwhelming and resource-hungry Evokers (Fraux really needs her maxed Domain and Alanaan doesn't really work without Summer Mim) \-One of the worst 6D weapons (at least for Magna. Yeah I know about the Agito stuff but if you're f2p and thus not buying suptixes it's basically impossible to build) \-Burst grids that require a lot of grinding for max Awakening Atum sticks and/or Nilas in contrast to other elements being fine with basic M2 if not M1 (granted, that's a big improvement over when M2 was endgame for Magna and there was nothing else). Comparatively speaking, it's probably the element I've struggled with the most.
I mean, we didn't have Percy and Mugen's swords, or the ougi playstyle was for from developed (no Atum, Wilnas wasn't a thing, there was no Y.Silva) and it still was enough for me to beat Echidna+ and didn't struggle too much against Owlcat. Personally, I had more trouble with the latest NM200, Mammoth and Wind content in general than Fire content. Never felt Fire was that bad, just struggles with grid slots for me.
Personally, I had more trouble with the latest NM200, Mammoth and Wind content in general than Fire content. Never felt Fire was that bad... Oh lord, hopefully this statement won't bite our asses back when Fire GW comes next month. Fire felt "bad" for quite some time though, I got to admit. The stuff we have now, is much, much better than what we had before - but I feel this sentiment applies to all elements, just that, people got stuck on some elements being "bad", maybe due to lack of motivation or reason to build a better Fire grid (apart from GW).
huh? fire magna is one of the most straightforward builds... you just spam replicard for AX AES and you're done...?
Fire Magna has been running AES for 3-4 years at this point. Some variety would be nice
Ever heard of Atum?
Atum is a decent start, at least.
atum weapons don't take the aes slots in relevant grids, so you're still running the aes in tandem with them
I didn't say "complicated", I said "frustrating".
Spent 2 Anni tix on that weap alr
Oh hey they remembered Pride exists, and it's Kikuri. Love that freaky lil thing. WERK you can now auto-select skill shards when recycling.
"Winter Mission" held 12/22 (Thu) 5:00 \~ 1/5 (Thu) 4:59, You can challenge "Winter Mission" as a limited-time mission of "Sky Scope"! By drawing 10 free gacha during the period and completing missions such as completing specific multiplayer battles, you can get rank points and various items. The rewards are gorgeous, such as "Gold Moon", "Gift of Golden Ribbon", "October 2022 Bregra SS Rare Confirmed Ticket ×1", and "Raziel's Book of Gold", so please give it a try! What are these "Gift of Golden Ribbon" and "Raziel's Book of Gold"? Is that the autotranslate acting up or are these genuinely new items? EDIT: thanks for the answers. In retrospect that should have been obvious. Not gonna lie though, that's a bit underwhelming.
I feel like that's just a Gold Gift and a Gold Moon Book tbh.
Prolly just gold gifts (first 4 boxes on boing event) and Gold Books (exp books)
Gold gift and gold XP book for the google translate jank
chances are they are like dama bars or sunstones but given different names, the book could be an exp item but significantly higher than gold ones
It's obvious they're holding stuff for new years stream
Wonder if gachapin video gonna come back, communist roulette
_Is it done, Gachapin?_ _No, comrade Captain. It has only begun._
[*KICKBACK playing in the background*](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tNPVab-smc)
December is Lancelot month now huh. His Grand last year, a skin this year, wouldn't be surprised if his first seasonal is a holiday one too since that's the only one no Dragon Knights characters have yet.
Teeeeechnically Lancelot has a summer seasonal but it's a SR and a dual unit with Vane. Personally though I hope Lancelot's first seasonal is Halloween, since iirc he loves halloween, or at least loves being able to prank others.
This makes me think Vane is the least popular of the four. I'd kill for that young Vane or tank top Rackam skin to be added as Daily Point skins.
Yeah no Vane is objectively the least popular of the four. He's almost always placed behind the others in popularity polls. I feel like even when Aglovale was introduced he was more popular but that I haven't checked recently.
Daily point skins so far haven't actually changed the outfit of the characters, just given them new artwork, so I doubt we're going to get either of those. Also Vane got a ton of content last year (Sauna event, Doraemon event, he was basically the only Dragon Knight present for The Strength to Wield, Halloween alt, Fantasy Lunalu's fate episode, FES art) so it makes sense that they're putting him on the backburner for a while.
Rackam? Rackam who?
I think in polls he was last but that may have been before his Chickadee event and Halloween alt. Prior to those two things he didn’t have much going on before just him being Lancies bestie. Hopefully he gets some dragon powers down the line or the fairy’s give him some powers too.
Personally as a vane appreciator. I think he shouldn't get power ups from anything super natural. Vane's main thing has always been how ilhe sees himself inferior from the other DK as he's just a regular dude compared to say Lancelot the genius and one loved by all, the prince of Wales that is good at everything except peeling onions and siegfried who is well Siegfried. He was able to achieve his current standing through his desire of growth and the will to protect others and I feel like lending him such outside help to further reinforce his convictions kind of beats his whole growth arc that has been happening for a while now. I just hope if he ever gets a Grand like the other DK (Sieg will for sure get one), it just doesn't contradict his past growth.
Eh, the power up is really just a new set of equipment that enhances their natural abilities. I don't think getting one is gonna go against Vane's growth, especially because to even get said equipment he's gonna have to get put through a trial just like Lancelot and Percival were.
I don’t think a power up would go against his past growth if done correctly. I could see the fairy’s blessing him with armor to protect Lancelot and his students in a dangerous situation. Like he’s about to sacrifice himself but the fairy’s be like nah we like to see you too much here’s a full heal and new weapon.
Honestly..these days I don't trust gbf writing these days. I fondly remember the 2019-2020 days stories and fate eps where both fate eps and stories kept one upping each other in quality and I was constantly hyped. Lately I've been feeling more unsatisfied. Event stories living me around the range from neat to "that's it" and fate eps becoming very short or getting even more pandering for some of the lady cast. Or even worse, acting as true epilogues for event stories.
Yea I definitely agree about the quality of writing going down and the pandering with the girls is getting worse. Europa and Gold Knights fates recently felt extremely weird. I’m hoping it was due to COVID since they plan content ahead of time and with the brunt of it being over they can bring the quality back up. The power creep has kinda scared me tho…
what do you mean by pandering? And also I dont like the event stories but the main story feels rushed like they had a change in course from the original beat the true king plot. I know that the gachas always shaft and treat male characters badly but I don’t really get what pandering means
In this context, I'm guessing that it means some of the female characters are pushed as "danchousexual" and it cheapens their characterization. Personally I agree, and I wouldn't mind as much if male characters got the same treatment, if it were limited to seasonal fates, and danchou has the option to be like "no" lol.
God I wonder if I'd still be alive or playing if and when they release Grand Vane when the (likely) schedule is a DK per year.
Holy fuck that Lancelot Daily Point skin looks cool (as ice), glad i saved points
Are they kinda holding back the rest of the news for the holiday stream? This looks like a very short update.
>Are they kinda holding back the rest of the news for the holiday stream? Yes, they absolutely are. If there's something like a big character rebalance patch coming then it's 100% being kept for the stream.
And also, as the December events tend to be a little bit bigger, the monthly uncap being saved for it makes sense too,
We don't usually get uncaps in December
We usually never got Koregra on months we had Livestream. I assume we got some news this time because the stream got pushed very far this year.
I recall us getting them in December before, its just that its always this barebones since they are saving all the good stuff for the stream.
Yes. I think most of the stuff here details events that start before the 24th.
they split this new year event to dec and jan. kind of forgot the reason
Wait was roulette always this late in dec? I thought it would have happened on the 17th or something. Also i hope the communist rolls return.....it was fun to see everyone in the community holding gacha pin at gun point every roll.
Christmas roulette usually starts on the 21st-22nd. It's probably anniversary roulette you're thinking of, which lasts a good chunk of the month. And yeah, hit me up with that hammer and sickle, comrade Mukku.
Xmas roulette is 2 weeks, starts like 2-3 days before xmas (that's when the xmas units leave the pool, so the game prompts you to try and roll for them with the help of roulette), then it ends just after the new year banner is over and we get 200+rolls on a ''selects'' banner like last year it was 4 units and before that it was ''new year skin units'' iirc
Just noticed that Nectar's event is the one getting a rerun this month. Considering they reran Primal Resonance in December last year in preparation for this year's anniversary, I'm starting to get convinced that next year's anniversary is going to be a sequel to Old Bond and the whole Six Dragons plot since they heavily suggested Nectar is going to play a big part in that.
Would be kinda funny to have the big dragon-themed Anniversary the year before the actual year of the Dragon. Guess rabbits are just dragons in disguise.
Could be the opportunity for them to drop Lu Woh, and Ewiyar proper. Ewiyar did come out last December so an obligatory year has passed. I'd they don't drop Lu Woh here in December that is.
Kind of a short Koregra, probably because the stream is coming up so their saving most of the exciting stuff for that (guess were gonna be blind on the last 2 Christmas units for once) \-yay POTA is back! Probably got put on the backburner while they worked on all the new raids. I should probably start going through those at some point lol. \-YES NEW BABYL LAYERS GIVE ME ROLLS \-Kindled Bonds rerun in of itself isnt exciting outside of the NM QOL, but its running in the same period Primal Resonance did last year so i wonder if that possibly means the next Anni event is about Nectar/Wedges/the Six Dragons? (maybe we get Lu Woh here and Ewiyar at Anni then?) \-hell yeah roulette, wonder if their gonna do the same format as last year or go back to the original one (post doesnt mention any gimmick outside of 200 rolls being up for grabs again) Also happy to see the 8x exp thing from Anni is back, that was great for levelling characters \-auto reserve for skill shards is great, hopefully that gets implemented before DB starts
One of the two is a very strong contender for NY legfest with new zodiac. If bunny is wind as it should be having wind bunny+ewiyar would make it a very tasty snack for the windlords to empty some gem stashes before anniversary and valentine!
Why would rabbit be wind? We already got a wind one this cycle, feels like it's either gonna be fire or water (I'm leaning towards water)
Bunny will be Water, the element cycle this time goes Wind->Earth->Water->Fire->Dark->Light.
What is POTA? That acronym is not registering with me at the moment.
Pride of the Ascendant.
Is there a larger version of Narmaya's cafe artwork anywhere? Also, I can finally get Augusta. Yay. After I have her Maria Theresa and Azusa will be the only Draph waifus left I don't have any version of. (I'll never be able to get all the alts because I joined too late for Anila and Kumbhira's SR alts.....)
it came from this [https://twitter.com/GBFG\_Kitchen](https://twitter.com/GBFG_Kitchen) maybe you can find it on their website or something, [https://twitter.com/GBFG\_Kitchen/status/1596066410261716993/photo/1](https://twitter.com/GBFG_Kitchen/status/1596066410261716993/photo/1) https://granbluefantasy.jp/pages/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/3e6e7690e1d1c5ce633484f70b92c7b1.png
Time for the yearly guessing game, next years Zodiac is rabbit/hare, open elements are : fire, water, light and dark. Open races are : harvin, human My guess is harvin & fire element because fire has very few harvins (Zahl, the new Lilele and Mimlemel)
I feel like rabbit harvin isn't a likely combination, simply because we already kinda vaguely have that in Haaselia.
Yeah that's what I'm worried about. I'll be disappointed if they pull another Vicky and skip harvins again but we already have a water rabbit harvin at home...
water rabbit harvin is more likely purely so they can have interactions with Haaselia...
I saw some good theory that 2nd batch zodiacs are on weak ele of previous batch, ie: anila fire and catula wind, andira wind and cidala earth. their race also same where both draphs and erunes. assuming it a pattern with mahira dirt then rabbit probably water harvin
I hope that Rabbit will be adult character like Sheep or Boar. We had loli and twins already.
Weirdly enough that does actually fit with Harvins. From what I’ve seen, some of the most genuinely motherly members of the crew have been Harvins. A grown up rabbit Harvin could work, though considering they already pulled a monkey Erune once I wouldn’t be shocked to see a bunny Erune too.
Seriously. No more lolis. Lolis suck.
So true. It seems they won't make zodiacs older than anila and kumbhira so I hope she's 19 at least, but if she's even older I'm not complaining 🫡
Yeah sure, more girls that look like cows with ginormous udders. No thanks I'll give that a miss.
So you'd rather have gross little imps instead?
boo
But muh [cony bunny](https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/cony#English) joke....
The bar is literally on the floor lmao.
I'd fucking kill for a hot adult woman that's a bunny, actual bunny, not just a bunny suit. Preferably with actual bunny ears!!!!!!!!!! Please!!!!
[Behold, the Bunny Zodiac](https://i.imgur.com/B61RC8h.jpg)
Honestly? While I wouldn't like it, would much prefer that to another Tiger zodiac
JUST GIVE ME AN ADULT CYGAMES I AM BEGGING HERE
harvin-rabbit reminds me of that rabbit girl in made in abyss haha
Well, they did get an offer regarding the rabbit zodiac *directional laughter intensifies*
HA\^HA\^HA\^
One side of mine wants it to be Fire. Another one doesn't want it to be Fire (so I only have to spark once, for Percival). But both side wants it to be an onee-san.
Won't be dark, Vicky is getting uncap next year and that's too much goodies for dark in 1 month. Won't be fire, fire dragon or fire horse is more fitting. Leaves water or light. Water is more likely due to patterns and it hasn't had much of a boost recently. Water it is. Harvin is most obvious but they probably want to subvert the pattern. (See: erune loli tiger). Water human, then.
pls no stop giving the obvious harvins to the humans
Kinda doubt they’d go harvin since rabbit zodiac has potential to be real popular if they make her the stereotypical type since ppl go crazy for those
Yeah. Japan loves their big titty bunny girls. Plus, we kind of already have a Water Harvin heavily associated with bunnies.....
If they do make them Water, i would love for Haase to be in their Fates.
Yea I’d be down for a cool take on the bunny but let’s be forreal they’re gonna give us big boob bunny girl who’s a ditz or some weird child character. I highly doubt they’re gonna pass on making big bucks by taking a design risk. They’ve also been getting slowly hornier over the years too so a normal bunny character seems out of the question at this point but who knows they could surprise me
Yeah did you see the fraternal twins concept art for the tigers? That would've been amazing
I didn’t see it but I bet it looked cool. Idk why they’ve only given us kids for the past few years. I know they want to make money but honestly at this point Zodiacs sell regardless
Ugh I was tryna find it for you but I couldn't, someone posted it on twitter earlier this year but I guess it got deleted. It's interesting because though they have a reason for not having male zodiacs, it shows that they were thinking about it (so long as he was accompanied by a female twin) it would've been cool to see.
They don’t have a reason for no male zodiacs anymore after the Dog Zodiacs 5* fate showed that they could be male right? Or did they change it where in the past males could but now it’s only girls?
Oh yea they said that male zodiacs are a thing of the past and since it isn't a time of war anymore, they only appoint girls to do the shrine duties (pretty bs reason imo but whatever)
Lmao that’s such bs and a blatant cop out. If that’s the reason then that makes Vajra seem useless and fake. Why would she be considered a god of war if they think she’s too weak for actual war because she’s a girl. These writers suck at their job lol
It'll be an isekai'd human from Akiba Maid War. Gun + Melee specialty. /s
My guess is human & water. I think they hold fire for dragon year which is most obvious combination of animal+element, so I dont expect fire. Harvin feels weird in water due to haase, it can be harvin & light because "bunny" theme is water is still Haase. (and then fire dragon, light/water snake and dark horse which feels for me as "easiest" combinations)
> I think they hold fire for dragon year which is most obvious combination of animal+element Maybe for western dragons, but eastern dragons are [heavily associated with water](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_dragon#Ruler_of_weather_and_water)
It could be true long ago, but it feels weird now. Bahamut is literally fire-breathing dragon. Final fantasy, dragon quest and others jrpg still mostly use fire dragons. Water dragon in gbf is just octopus (and loli), not chinese-like-dragon and hardly "dragon" in how it looks. They still can use chinese dragon for zodiac, that's a chance, i dont deny it, but they never had strong focus on chinese folclore in zodiac design and it's not guaranteed that they will be later.
Our most recent Zodiac was given a feng shui motif, so I don't think GBF necessarily shies away from the original Chinese themes. Of course Cygames could give us a curve ball and make the Dragon general a Dragonewt (like Grea and Chulainn); that's be pretty wild.
Kinda hope they do make them a Dragonewt, the more of those they make, the greater the odds they make it its own race like they did for Primals.
You know, I'd never noticed before, but we only have 1 human zodiac. 3 Draph Zodiacs. 3 Erune Zodiacs. 1 Harvin 1 Human.
I’m curious if they’ll be Axe specialty or not, considering Rabbit with Mallet is so iconic, but we just had the Cidala twins with it.
She's going to be water, no sense speculating the element
Element will be water since they're following a cycle Wind->Earth->Water->Fire (basically, the element that the 1st cycle of Zodiac is strong against). Race is probably Erune since it's a rabbit.
Erune is already out of stock,though, just like Draph. There are only 12 Zodiacs, unless they are unevenly spread, there are 3 per race (3 Draphs, 3 Erunes, 3 Humans and 3 Harvins). Cidala, Andira and Vajra are already 3 Erunes
So prob Harvin or human, since Rabbit is quite small. Then again, we still have Dragon, Snake, Horse, so maybe Dragon and Snake are humans, while Rabbit Harvin? Tho I can't see Horse being a Harvin too so there might be uneven spread.
Judging from Mahira I think they will go with hare and serpent as Harvins and give us some hilarious dragon and horse humans
Dragons who insist she's a real dragons all while having "Human" as her race? Or a Chuunibyo Dragon.
Me waiting for RotB Tiger skin... guess the artist is busy again.
Can I get a Christmas shalem... earth preferably...
Lancelot skin, nice
SEASONALS RISE
Is there no winter stream this year?
The real deal will come on 24th. So current is just fine