Last Updated: 17th of September 2017

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Welcome to ​Granblue Fantasy​!

This is a guide to help you get a grip on the ​basics​. It is meant for:
● People who are interested in playing the game and would like to read about it
before trying
● People who have started playing recently and have literally no idea what they
should be doing.
● People who are progressing in the game but would also want some more guidance
so that they don’t make mistakes.

I’ll be guiding you through the ​interface​ of the game, ​how​ to play​, and ​what​ to play​. At
the end, if you want to get further into the topics I’ve touched upon, there will be ​additional
links​ for you to read up on. Feel free to​ jump between sections​ you want to read first via
the ​outline ​to the ​left​ (Use Tools > Document Outline, or Ctrl + Alt + A).

Granblue Fantasy​ (henceforth ​GBF​) is a ​mobile gacha​ (aka. mobage) game. It is a

turn-based role playing game​ with ​multiplayer ​elements. It’s surprisingly in-depth for its
genre. If you see X pages and think “Oh no!”, please ​don’t feel pressured to
immediately know what to do​. Things get ingrained and will become daily habits like all
games! I’ve also included a lot of picture guides to help you better visualise concepts, and
that contributes to document length. As an ​online game​, GBF is constantly updated.

Some things to remember

● What you own will be at the mercy of RNG
(random number generator). Pray.
● The bulk of your characters will be determined
by ​gacha​. However, GBF is unusual in its
genre for basing your power level from​ items
you can get in-game​ and ​without real
money​. You can still choose to ​spend money​,
however.
● ‘​Grind​blue Fantasy’ is its nickname. If you do
not enjoy ​farming​ (gathering lots of the same
item), unfortunately this may not be the game
 for you. You can play casually, but you’ll progress at a snail’s pace, so it is up to
you to decide if you are happy with that.
● Farming materials is meant to be easy​. If you cannot reasonably farm something,
it is out of your power range. ​Do not fret about abandoning an event to focus on
something else​. Events do repeat, it’s just a matter of waiting (usually months).
● This is a ​Japanese​ game with ​English​ translated menus and in-game text, but​ no
international app release​. If you see players using different terms to refer to
things, it is because the Japanese term has been adapted into the general lexicon. I
will be providing both terms like so: ​official translation in-game (aka. Japanese
term)​.
● There are ​daily ​and​ monthly limits ​to consider. The game counts ​a new day​ at
5am JST​,​ certain (e.g. gacha, events, daily quests) updates ​are at​ 10am JST​.
Japan does not observe Daylight Savings​- adjust according to your timezone.
● Who are the developers? ​Cygames​. ​HRT ​and ​KMR ​are abbreviations of Producers’
names and usually the people players vent their anger at.

There’s a lot to do and a lot to take in, but ​try and enjoy the game​! GBF is a game, after
all, and it’s meant to be fun. You can collect the pretty characters, just enjoy the story,
grind as much or as little as you like. Once you get the basics down, feel free to expand
your play style.

If there is any of the section that doesn’t provide enough details, make sure to make
a search on the ​GBF English Wiki​ as it will most likely cover anything that I’ve
purposely skipped to not make this already long guide any longer​.
This guide is too long, give
me a TL;DR!
Don’t forget to
● Buy Pots, Berries and Animas from the Casino daily.
● Do your normal/hard raids daily, preferably with R/SR characters.
● Do your Co-op missions daily for a Blue Sky Crystal
● Host your main element Magna raids daily (and other elements too if you can afford
the AP cost)
● Do the rotating special quest to stock up on every element materials
● Do the rotating showdowns to trade in the shop Summons of each element
● Do your Rupie gacha draws for easy R fodders and plus marks
● Use up your BP to leech Magna raids whenever possible
● Trade your story and event supplies daily in Sierro’s shop for pots and berries
● Try to do event missions whenever they are up for easy crystals/rewards
● Make sure to get all your weekly renown
● Remember to buy your monthly moons with renown
● Do Angel Halo whenever you need EXP Fodder
● Buy the Casino Steel Bricks / Moonstones monthly if you’re not allergic to Poker
● Do your ​Pinboards Missions​ to get one guaranteed new SSR unit from a fixed pool

Frequent mistakes to avoid

● Do not use a Gold bar to uncap a weapon
● Do not use a Damascus bar to uncap a weapon (yet)
● Do not reduce or sell SSR Rarity stuff in general (especially gacha)
● Make sure to favorite important weapons so that accidents don’t happen
● Do not use your crystals outside of Legend Festival / Premium Gala
● Do not use moons outside of pots, berries and the occasional CP
● Pick a GW Dagger as your first GW weapon, do not aim for an Eternal (yet)
● Do not spend pots needlessly, store them for an important event
● Do not pick a main element based on the weapons you own
● Do not use SR/SSR gacha weapons as fodder, reduce the SR gacha instead.
● Do not reduce SSR gacha weapons if you’re unsure of their value
● Do not try to get rupees in any other way than going into coop rooms / drawing
event gacha
● Do not uncap SR carbuncles with dupes, use a Moonstone instead (see casino)
● Try to not fodder / sell those specific story quest ​R weapons
● Try to not fodder / reduce the gacha SR weapon ​Purity Blade​ (SR Dark Lucius)
Before You Start
The Gacha System
Granblue is first and foremost a Gacha game,
where you spend either real money or in-game
currency to receive summons and weapons.
Characters in Granblue are tied to weapons, so
the first time you draw a specific weapon you will
also unlock the corresponding character.

The gacha isn’t the only way to get new

characters, but it will be your main one, so you’ll
have to get the blessing of RNJesus if there’s a
particular character you’d like.

There are two Gachas available:

● A “​Premium​” Gacha where you can get
items from R to SSR quality.
● A “​Free​” Gacha where you can get items
from N to R quality.

The free gacha isn’t extremely interesting, so we’ll

leave it aside for the moment. The premium gacha
can be pulled with either real money, or the
in-game equivalent currency called ​Crystals​.

When drawing from the gacha, each item has:

● A 82% chance to be a R item (Blue Crystal)
● A 15% chance to be a SR item (Yellow Crystal)
● A 3% chance to be a SSR item (Rainbow Crystal)
Note that some specific items within their rarity category might have an increased draw
rate (to the detriment of all others) depending on the various promotions. For example, you
can have summon rate up gacha which will make you more likely to draw a summon of
any rarity compared to a weapon.

Those items can either be Summons (R to SSR), weapons that unlock characters of the
same rarity (R to SSR), or character-less weapons (R to SR). While SSR items are
generally the most desirable (especially characters), they are not all equal in usability and
sometimes a good SR character will help you more than a bad SSR summon.

There are various events and promotions which will have more advantageous draw rates
than the standard ones, but often at the cost of having to use real money (and not in-game
currency):
● You can at anytime decide to roll a ​ten draw​ once you’ve reached/bought enough
currency to do so. This ten roll will ​guarantee ​that at least one item among the ten
will be of SR rarity or higher (note that this will not give you more chance to get a
 SSR item). As a result, it’s recommended to always choose ten draws over single
draws. A ten draw will cost you around $25 USD depending on the currency
exchange rate.
● Star Gacha ​(nicknamed “Scam gacha”) is a limited-time offer that comes back in
various forms around twice every month. It’s a real money only option, and it will
guarantee you ​one SSR ​in your ten draw at the same price. The SSR you’ll get will
be random, although it will be subject to the various rates up. Star Gacha can only
be bought once within its promotion period, even though it will generally have
multiple rates up.
● Surprise Tickets ​are one of the best deals proposed in Granblue. It’s a paid only
option that will grant you a SSR of your choice (Special Limited characters
excluded), plus a regular ten draw ticket that you can keep and use at any time.
Surprise tickets (often abbreviated Suptix) allow you to pick characters you
need/want without having to be reliant on RNG being kind to you. Its cost is the
same $25.
● Premium Gala ​(also known as Legend Festival or “Legfest”) is a special promotion
gacha that appears once every month, for a few days, temporarily ​doubling the
SSR draw rate​ (from 3% to 6%) and adding limited characters to the draw pool that
are not obtainable in other draw periods. It’s the best time to use your currencies to
roll and hope for more SSR quality items.

Rerolling
Should you reroll?
Just like any gacha game, there are some characters in Granblue that are staples to the
element you’re playing. While teams can function without them, their addition can turn a
‘decent’ team into a ‘powerful’ one.

Fortunately, Granblue offers the Beginner’s Draw Set (Start Dash) and Surprise Tickets​1​;
these give you a 10-Draw ticket and the choice of 1 SSR. Each of these cost $24.99USD,
so if you’re willing to spend a little bit of money rerolling won’t be necessary.

However, if you don’t plan on spending any money, then rerolling​2​ might be a better option
so that you can start with at least one (or a few) core units.

A rerolling guide can be found on the wiki:

https://gbf.wiki/Rerolling

The best times to reroll are:

● March Anniversary Event, Daily Free 10 Draws, Free Crystals

● Seasonal/Celebration Events, Daily Free Single Draw, Free Crystals
● Legfest/Premium Gala​3​, 6% SSR Draw Rates

Another alternative is to purchase an account from players who bulk reroll. However, this
is against Cygames’ Terms of Service and your account may be banned.
1​
Surprise Tickets occur randomly, but they’re usually six to eight weeks apart.

2​
Your first draw is rigged to give you 1 SSR from a selection of starter SSRs.
3​
Legfest usually occurs in the last 2 days of a month but has occasionally occurred during the start of the
next month as well.

When do I start?
If you don’t plan to spend any money, then waiting until a seasonal/celebration event will
be a good way of ensuring you start off with a few extra draws. These events usually give
players free daily draws and/or crystals.
If you are willing to spend money, you have the option of purchasing the Beginner’s Draw
Set (aka. Start Dash). Even if you are not, it can be a nice option to leave open should you
choose to spend money later down the line.
Contrary to what Cygames wants you to believe, this deal doesn’t entirely disappear after
48 hours if you did not buy it immediately. It will reappear every month on the day you
joined until you buy it.
The Beginner’s Draw Set is a ​one-time-only deal ​that allows you to ​pick a character of
your choice from a selection that is locked to whatever was available on your start
date​. It’s thus advisable for new players to create their account during ​Premium Gala
(aka. ​Legfest​), a campaign where gacha rates for SSRs are doubled, and limited
characters that are usually not in the gacha become available.
As the deal reappears until you buy it, it is also advised to ​buy it only when you are
certain who you want to pick​. ​Once you buy it​, you have a ​week to pick your
character or the ticket disappears​. However, the 10 Roll ticket that comes with it is not
perishable and can be kept indefinitely.

Where do I start?

● Play in your ​browser​: ​http://game.granbluefantasy.jp/​ It’s the easiest, most efficient

method.
● There is the Google App, but Google is discontinuing the service, so it’s best to use
the browser link to get used to it.
● There is ​no international app release​ (e.g. Shadowverse), only an English
translation. There ​are​ ways to bypass the region lock. There are lots of general
guides available if you search via Google on ‘how to access Japanese apps’. I
suggest looking up VPNs or QooApp.
What do I keep?
If you decide to reroll in order to give yourself a headstart, you should look out for those
specific characters summons that are generally difficult to acquire:

Summons
Highly sought after and immediately good, especially if you play their respective elements

Not useful for newbies, but godlike summons once you’ve progressed enough

Not useful for newbies, but can become great investments in the future

She improves your drop rates, what more to ask for?

Not as important as the above, but their active calls will be very helpful

The rest of the available Gacha SSR summons aren’t necessarily bad compared to those,
but they are probably not worth keeping an account only for them.

Characters
Non-limited characters
For characters, it’s generally a little more complex since there are a lot more of factors to
take into account (waifu / husbando preferences, character performances, availability of
the character…). Generally, a distinction is made between characters you can get with a
Surprise Ticket (Non-Limited), and those you can’t (Limiteds)
For non limited characters, I’d recommend to take a look at the characters in this ​Tier List​.
You probably won’t understand much of the descriptions in the write-ups, but if a character
is highly placed in the tier list there’s a good chance he’ll become a strong characters in
your current and future teams.
Rigged first free ten roll SSR​:

In your tutorial 10-roll you’ll be given one SSR for free out of 6 possible characters. Since
it’s extremely easy to reroll until you get one character over another in this ten roll, it’d be a
good idea to aim for the better ones, which are those four. If you’d like to aim for one in
particular, try to prioritize Charlotta (the water one) since she’s the best starting character.

Yodarha ​(more commonly referred as “Yoda”)

The babysitter of GBF : want to play the game in easy mode until rank 60-70? Literally ​one
shot every single fucking solo boss ​up​ ​until extreme level? Contribute in fights without
having a grid? That’s the character for you. Really, if you don’t get to have limited
characters among your choices, and you’d like to progress fast, this is the character to aim
for. Don’t hesitate to pick him even if you don’t intend to play Water, he can be used in any
element team (he will of course have more durability as a character if you do main Water).

Limited characters
Zodiac characters

Those characters are exclusive characters featured each year, and that will disappear
from gacha for a whole year after their year ended before having a chance of coming back.
They aren’t exactly game breaking (although they are very good units), but they are pretty
exclusive characters, which makes them more desirable. Zodiacs are only featured during
Premium Gala / Legend Festival

Summer characters

Summer characters are generally the better seasonal characters, as they often tend to
have great kits (also they are in swimsuits) that can sometimes make them key to unlock
all the potential of an element. Especially true for the three above characters, and
especially true​ ​for the tanned one​ (Cygames’ biggest mistake to this day). For the ​other
summer characters​, you’re recommended to once again take a look at the tier list to
determine their worth. They are only available during their corresponding season
(summer) and whenever Cygames feel like getting money.
Other seasonal characters

Mainly Halloween and Christmas, the two characters above are pretty good, but ​other non
summer seasonal characters​ generally aren’t as good as swimsuit characters, but again
just them being limited characters give them a certain value.

Grand Series characters

Those limited characters have two advantages: not only do they ​all range from Great to
Extraordinary​ in terms of team usability, but the gacha weapon they come with have or
will receive an upgrade making them among the ​strongest late game weapons​ in the
game. Those characters are however less rare than the other mentioned limited, as they
are available to pull every month during Legend Festival / Premium Gala. They are still
limited though, so impossible to surprise ticket them.

If you don’t have any of the above mentioned SSR, don’t panic! It doesn’t mean your
account is trash, the game is completely playable and enjoyable without those units /
items. It’s mostly a matter of optimization / competition / min-maxing that a lot of Granblue
players tend to enjoy, but that doesn’t mean you have to force yourself to enjoy it as well.
How to Play
User Interface (UI)
Feel free to skip to the next section​ since
this is merely detailing what each button
means.

This is your ​Homepage​. It’ll be your starting

point most of the time. If you press Switch,
you can change which character (of your
current party) will be on screen! Tap them for
comments. They make cute ones on
holidays like Valentines or Christmas.

The ​Menu​ button is the same as the

Submenu​ button.

Have a click around, get a feel of things.

Most things match their labels, but here’s the
gist of what they mean:

Party​ Where you’ll mostly be arranging your

components for battle. Here you can
arrange​ your ​characters, weapons, and
summons​, as well as change your ​class​.
You are given ​42 ​free party slots; feel free to
mix up your party compositions for different
situations. [For more detail on team building]

Upgrade​ Where you can ​upgrade​ the ​levels​ of your characters, weapons and summons,
as well as ​uncap​ them. Uncapping requires duplicate copies of the same item: it’ll boost
the maximum stats of that item. There are ways of uncapping when you don’t have
another copy, however… [This is the place where you’ll be getting stronger.]

Co-Op​ While most gameplay is either done in solo or raid battles (i.e. multiple people in
one battle), co-op smushes the two concepts together so that ​4 people can play together
in one room​.

Draw​ Otherwise known as the ​gacha​. This is where you’ll acquire most of your weapons,
characters that come along with your weapons, and your summons.

Quest​ Your entrance to most of the ​gameplay​. [Here’s a more detailed look at what you
can play.]

Profile​ It’s you! This is where you can​ change your gender​, write a profile message, and
look at your ​stats​. It’s your public face to the world. You can change what you show
publicly via settings.
Journal​ Lyria’s helping out and keeping a record of everything you’re doing. Read up on
flavour text​ of weapons and characters you’ve met or have, or ​reread main or event
stories​.

Crew​ Players band together here to form one ​group​. Someone else can find you or you
can find your own crew/group to settle down with. If you leave a crew, you cannot join
another for 24 hours.

Supplies​ A list of your ​materials​, which are used for crafting and upgrading, and
wonders​, which are items you can collect via the main story that give you a little boost.

Shop​ ​Sierokarte wants your money.​ You’ll be seeing this screen a lot because this is
where you trade your​ ingame currency​ for items you actually want.

Crate​ This is where things go when your inventory is overflowing. Be sure to check the
time limit tab​! Items in this tab disappear after time’s up. Cygames also sends
compensation/apology items​ here for you to pick up.

Inventory​ A list of your ​characters, weapons, summons, and outfits​. This is where you
can sort and see items or characters you possess in detail. Outfits are merely cosmetic
items for your characters; a few are free in-game but most have to be purchased. ​Note
that outfits do not come with their characters.​ Make sure to use the ​Sort​ button at the top
right in order to filter your items, it makes life much easier.

Stash​ If your inventory is overflowing and you need somewhere to ​store​ things, this is
where they go. Stashes can be purchased from the shop with crystals.

Friends​ Where you’ll find your ​friends list​, ​friend requests​ you’ve sent, and friend
requests you have received.

World​ The ​world map​. Jump to each ​island​ through here.

Settings​ Where you can fiddle around with ​settings​ to suit your comfort level.
We strongly advise you to go in “Animation/Resolution” settings and set your version
settings to ​Beta ​to run the game more smoothly on newer devices.

Help​ Cygames provides its own ​help book​ and ​glossary​ here. This will always be the
most up-to-date and accurate information because it comes from within the game itself.

AP and EP/BP

AP ​(Action Points) is the equivalent of Stamina in other mobage; it’s the primary resource
used to start any kind of quest or raid battle. Your maximum natural amount of AP will
increase the more you rank up. You will need AP to start:
● Any main quest past chapter 63
● Any story side quest (called Free Quest)
 ● Any skill-unlocking fate episode.
● Any raid that you will host yourself
● Any in-game event (story, collaboration)
● Any coop fight that you will host yourself

You can refill your AP through several ways:

● By leveling up, you will automatically gain your new max amount as additional AP
● By using a half potion, you will regenerate 50 AP or half of your total AP, whichever
is the highest value.
● By using a full potion, you will regenerate 100 AP or your whole AP bar, whichever
is the highest value. Note that these are also used to revive yourself when you get
K.O’ed in fights.
● By using a Twitter Reset, you can refill your whole AP (and EP), to a limit of once
per day.
● Naturally over time, you will recover 1 AP every 5 minutes until full.

EP/BP ​(Encounter points)​ ​is a separate resource that will be used whenever you join a
multiplayer battle (aka Raids). Unlike AP, EP has a permanent natural limit of 10. It is
refilled through:
● Leveling up, you will automatically gain 10 additional BP
● Berries/Seeds, one berry refilling you 1 BP
● Balms, one balm refilling you 5 BP
● Twitter Reset
● Naturally over time, you will recover 1 BP every 10 minutes until full.

Note that both AP and BP can ​overflow​, meaning that you can go over the natural cap.
For example, using a twitter reset or leveling up while your AP/BP gauges aren’t empty will
make you go over the natural maximum amount. Overflow AP caps at 999, while overflow
EP caps at 99.

Also note that Cygames is generally ​very generous with AP and BP supplies​, as they
are extremely easy to get through in-game grinding (Shop trade, Casino, Coop), but
Cygames also often rewards their players with free potions (Daily login bonus, special
events).

As a result, it is actually ​extremely difficult to run out of Stamina​ and get time gated in
GBF, which explains partially why it feels more like an MMO than a regular mobage.
Crystals

Crystals are the substitute currency used for in-game purchases, and what allows
Granblue Fantasy to be bearable as a F2P (free-to-play) player. Crystals will allow you to:
● Draw from the premium gacha- 300 crystals for a single draw, 3000 Crystals for a
ten draw. Note that crystals ​cannot be used​ to buy anything else in the premium
gacha (no special gacha like Star Gacha, no daily promotional pull, no Surprise
Ticket), but they can be used for ​Premium Gala / Legend Festival​.
● Inventory Slots and Stashes​. While you start with a rather comfortable 300
inventory space, getting a few stashes can be a pretty good investment for the
future.
● A few special characters (known as Eternals / Guild War characters) will require
2000-3000 Crystals in order to be recruited (but that’s outside the scope of this
guide).
● There are other things you can buy with Crystals in Siero’s shop, but you shouldn’t
consider them at all as they are a waste of Crystals.

The main ways to acquire Crystals are:

● Finishing a story or event chapter
● Hosting and killing certain raids for the first time
● Hosting and killing any Co-op quest for the first time
● Playing through a character introductory fate episode
● Getting a trophy (= achievement for doing X or Y in game)
● Daily login and special rewards
● Guild Wars betting (more about that later on)

It is heavily recommended to ​save your Crystals​ until Legend Festival / Premium Gala
happens (at the end of the month), as you will have a higher chance at getting SSR and
limited units.

Another possibility is to save your crystals and free draws for a ​Spark​, which consists of
drawing 300 times all at once​ in order to get a ​guaranteed character​ of your choice so
long as it is featured in the current gacha (this includes limited). However, I heavily
recommend against doing this as a completely new player, and would wait until you have
at least a few good SSR units for each element. Saving for a spark when most of your
in-game Crystals are not farmed yet typically takes ​around 3-4 months​, and around twice
the time if you’re out of farmable Crystals from Story, Trophies, Coop...

Party
Alright! Time to get into the heart of the gameplay. You’ll mainly be fighting ​enemies​. In
order to fight enemies, you’ll need a ​party ​to do so. A party is comprised of ​3 things​:
Your Main Summon will boost your Weapons which will boost your Characters and You.

You play as the ​Main Character​ (MC), but you’ll be able to bring ​5 characters​ along with
you- 3 in the frontline, and 2 in the backline, who will replace any one in the frontline if they
die.

Each character has a ​Level, HP,

Attack, an Element, a Race, a Type,
and a Specialty/Proficiency Weapon​.
What matters mainly at this point for you
is the element and the level of your
character. The other attributes will come
in handy later in the game, but at this
point they aren’t extremely important.
You actually start off with​ 42 party slots​. Notice the ​6 circular nodes at the bottom​, as
well as the 7 icons at the top. You can change the icons through the “Change Party Icon”
button at the bottom of the party screen.

Characters need to be ​uncapped ​with various materials so they can get higher stats and
improve their abilities / unlock new abilities.

In order to gain levels, you will have to make your characters participate in battles in your
party, which will grant the experience required to level up the character.
Weapons
Raw Stats​:
The bulk of your power will come from your weapon grid. Your grid is a roster of weapons
located in your party screen; it is comprised of 1 main weapon slot which determines your
MC’s element and charge attack (often called a mainhand weapon) and 9 sub-weapon
slots that contribute stats and weapon skills to your party’s combined strength.

First of all, every weapon and summon in this game has two stats: ​Attack and HP

Those stats will be added directly to your characters’ stats and will increase your own
damage and HP. The amount of HP and attack they can grant will increase with the
weapon/summon ​level. ​Feeding any kind of weapon or summon to other weapons will
grant them experience that will increase their level. Angel weapons and summons labeled
“EXP Boost” are made for this purpose. Battle experience will ​not ​increase your weapon
or summon levels.

The maximum level a weapon/summon can get to is limited by the number of stars it has.
We call this “​uncap amount.​” In order to raise the level cap, done in the Uncap tab, you’ll
need to feed them a copy of the same weapon/summon. Each time you do, it will raise its
level cap by one star. We say the weapon/summon is​ 0*, 1*, 2*, 3* or MLB (Max Limit
Break), 4* or FLB (Final Limit Break)​.

Skills​:
Most of the weapons in this game also have ​skills​ that will provide various buffs to your
stats in battle. These buffs come in many forms (boost to HP, attack, multi-attack rate,
etc.), but your primary focus will be to work on getting ATK skills in your main element.
Many of those skills are also conditional: in most cases they will only affect characters of a
certain element, but they can also only affect characters of a certain race, type, or weapon
proficiency.

​Normal skill Omega/Magna skills Unknown skills Unique skills (many variants)

Skills are divided into 4 different categories: ​Omega/Magna​, ​Normal​, ​Unknown

and ​Unique​. You will mix these into your grid in healthy variants based on your summons.
It’s important to note a few things regarding skills:
● Normal weapons (as in weapons with normal skills) are both obtainable from the
gacha and farmable in game.
● Gacha weapons are exclusively normal type.
● Omega/Magna weapons are exclusively farmable in game, at any time.
● Unknown weapons are nearly exclusively farmable during events​ (There’s a
way to get them even outside of events, but that’s not until you’re at least rank 80).

Most skills have a “level” that can ​increase once you start to feed those weapons other
weapons​ ​that have any kind of skill​. For each level gained, the strength of the skill will
increase by a certain percent (for example, from 5% HP at level 1 to 6% HP at level 2). A
weapon’s skill level has a maximum of either 10 or 15 depending on the weapon, although
lvl 15 is rarely accessible before you reach High Level (rank 101+).
Two other things to note:
● Weapon rarity will influence the strength of the skill, so SSR weapons will have a
higher total boost than SR weapons (obviously)
● A weapon that has been skill leveled is harder to further level. For anything
regarding skill leveling in general, I’ll recommend reading ​the wiki page​ as it gets a
bit more technical.

As you’ve probably noticed, you can have different categories of skills that will do the
same thing. For example, “Magna attack increase” skills and “Normal attack increase”
skills both increase your damage in a very similar way; the main difference is that ​their
“multipliers”​ (i.e the percentage increase they grant to your damage) ​are multiplicative
with each other​.

As a result, like Charlotta tells us, it’s more beneficial to our damage to mix different types
of skills in our grids. Unfortunately, things aren’t as simple as getting an equal amount of
each type of skill in your weapon grid because of summon aura considerations. To be
perfectly exact, your damage will also increase depending on your ​raw attack ​(increased
by the ATK value of your weapons and summons) and your ​elemental multiplier​ (more
about that later).

Summons

You’ve probably noticed that summons have two components in their descriptions, an
active​ one that will ​have an effect when called during the battle, ​and a ​passive​ one
that will ​boost your characters for the whole duration of the fight ​regardless of if the
summon has been used or not (we call it an “aura”). It’s important to note that only your
“main” (see left screenshot) and “support” (see right screenshot) summons will have their
aura be active.

While at lower ranks, the damage brought by high level summons will be extremely useful
to kill bosses, it will eventually become negligible. The key point is to pick relevant auras
that can boost your team. ​Support and main summon choices must be done
according to your team​, as the different auras and bonus provided are often conditional
(most of the time, you’ll need the characters to be of a certain element / same element as
the summon).

It’s important to understand that​ for any fight you’ll start, you’ll have to pick a support
summon​ from a list of random people, so you won’t be able to constantly use the same
set of support summon all the time. That’s when the friend system comes into play, but
we’ll get back to this later.

Grids
Baby Setups
Your early game grid will be one comprised of “stat sticks,” or your weapons with the
highest ATK and HP stats. At this point in the game, you most likely will not have a team of
one element and you’ll be lacking useful weapons, so you’ll be using gacha weapons you
pulled as filler.
If you happen to have a full team of a single element, slotting same element weapons with
attack skills will be beneficial to your damage, but if you don’t, simply ​trying to raise your
raw attack stat as much as possible is a valid strategy​. As a result, make sure to level
your weapons and summons whenever possible to increase your damage.

At this level, when most players won’t be able to form a party with same element
characters, one of the go-to summons to pick as a support summon is ​Grand Order, ​since
it provides a large boost in damage if your party has characters of ​at least 3 different
elements in the front line.

If you can’t find her, using summons that will benefit only certain characters in your team is
also a valid choice. Don’t forget that you can use the summon call to do a good amount of
damage at your level as well, so try to pick up high level summons if possible.

Early-Mid Game Setups

From this point onward, you should have mainly mono-elemental teams, which means
you’ll have to specialize your grid and pick only weapons that boost the same element, but
you’ll also have to choose your summon auras more carefully so that you can start to
optimize your damage.
While we won’t go into the details of how to optimize a weapon grid and what each
weapon in those grids is, you’ll generally want something that looks like:
● 5-6 Magna/Omega weapons
● 1 Bahamut weapon
● 1-2 Unknown weapon(s)
● 1-2 other normal type weapon(s) (generally celestials, obtained from the Rise of the
Beasts event)
● Various main hands with good Charge attack/Ougi effects.

You’ll be starting to slot in weapons that will stay permanently in your grid, and as such
you’ll have to consider ​uncapping​ and ​skill leveling​ those weapons as much as possible.

Despite suggesting an even distribution of weapon multipliers, you’ll notice that my

recommended grid includes more Omega/Magna weapons. Why is that? The answer is:
Magna/Omega Summons​.

As you can see, those summons will increase the

efficiency of their respective Magna weapons skills by
100%, tipping the balance in favor of Magna weapons in
your grid. Note that you should only consider switching to
an Magna summon (main or friend) once you have a
sufficient amount of corresponding weapons in your grid
and if those weapons are sufficiently skill leveled.

However, much like Charlotta

explains to us, that doesn’t
mean you should use double Magna as a combination of Main and Support summon.
Remember that in the damage formula, there is also an “Elemental Multiplier” number?

This boost means that all your characters that share the said element will get increased
damage. This boost end up being multiplicative with the other multiplier, hence why it is
important to have it on at least one of your summon aura slots.
Finally, do not confuse auras that give “Boost to X element ​allies​ attack” and “Boost to X
element attack”. The first one will grant you a ​Normal​ type of damage boost, while the
second will grant you an ​Elemental​ type of damage boost. It’s important to differentiate
them since an Elemental boost is generally more valuable since it is not possible to get
them through your weapon grid (unlike Normal boosts)

Normal Aura Elemental Aura

Elements

There are ​6 elements​ in this game: fire, water, wind, earth, light, and dark.

As you can see, they interact with each other, just like your basic ​rock, paper, scissors
triangle. Fire is superior against wind, which is superior against earth, which is superior
against water, which is superior against fire. Light and dark are separate from this quartet,
and are only superior against each other, ​and do not have an elemental weakness​ (if
you are dark and attack light, you will have the advantage, and if light attacks you, you will
still have the advantage).

Superior elements will have increased damage, while inferior elements will deal weakened
damage. Attacking with the superior element also has the advantage of potentially dealing
critical hits against the enemy.

I’ll provide an example. WIth a water team, remember that water > fire.

This is water against fire. As fire is weak to water, my damage

output is increased.
Now, how will the same team fare against its inferior element?
Remember that earth > water.

The numbers appear much smaller against earth. My damage output has
been weakened because water is the inferior element to earth.

We won’t go into the details of what element you should focus on yet. Just know that what
element you’ll start with is ​highly dependant ​on what the gacha will give you as SSR
characters, and you should wait until you have used some crystals to draw (typically during
Premium Gala/Legfest) before committing to an element.
It’s still important to note, however, that while Dark and Light do not have an elemental
weakness, they are both plagued by ​much worse drop rates​ (in addition to no good SR
drops usable to increase your damage), which makes progression extremely painful early
on. It is estimated to be about ​two or three times harder to get SSR drops ​from Light
and Dark main raids (Chevalier/Luminiera Magna and Celeste Magna).

Here is a short list of the pros and cons of starting with each element:

Element Pros Cons

Has great attackers, one of the Main Raid difficult to farm, only one
best elemental summon call SSR attack weapon (cane), has
Fire
(Shiva), has some of the best SR quite a few outdated SSR
characters characters

Jack of all trades, very good to

solo raids, has Yoda, has Main Raid difficult to farm, only one
Water Charlotta as a SSR starter, has SSR attack weapon (dagger), some
one of the best character of its best characters are limited
selection

Easy to kill Main Raid, two SSR

Attackers with more complex
attack weapons, best defensive
Earth mechanics that only truly shine later
unit in the game (Sara) and great
on, gets the worst starting SSR
defensive summon call (Alex)

Best buffers in the game, best

magna weapon in the game Most of its best buffers are limited
Wind (bolt), two SSR starting weapons, characters, characters often have a
easy to kill Main Raid, Elemental lot of complex mechanics
summon for free in Casino

Best healers in the game, has One of the most difficult Main Raid
access to paralyze, good amount to farm, horrible drop rates, no
of HP once you reach HL, attack skill SR, Chevalier swords
Light
best nukers in the game (Lucio), drop rate will make you go crazy,
Good Strike Time burst, No Chevalier swords only become great
elemental weakness post HL

Best attackers in the game, One of the most difficult Main Raid
extremely high burst and DPS to farm, horrible drop rates, no
Dark with Summer Zooey (limited) and attack skill SR, Summer Zooey is
base claw grid, No elemental limited,, overall very squishy
weakness characters
Battles

Battle System:

Battles in Granblue fantasy are similar to your typical JRPG settings: they are ​turn based,
with actions divided between ​auto-attacking, using a character ability, using a
summon, and using a healing potion.​ You can use any number of abilities in a turn as
long as they’re available, however you can only use one summon per turn.
Auto-attacking will automatically end the turn ​(and make the enemy take its turn).
Healing potions can be used like skills, but their number is limited.
Instead of Mana or MP, all the above actions (except for auto attacking) are gated by
cooldowns. ​The total amount of damage you will be dealing upon attacking an enemy is
decided by several factors:

● The character’s innate strength​. Unsurprisingly, the higher the character rarity, the
more damage they will be able to dish out. Please do note, however, that the
difference in rarity is by no means a huge gap, and that ​character rarity only has a
medium influence on your final damage output​. This is one of the particularities
of Granblue; even SR characters have their uses and can be extremely good
placeholders until you get more SSRs.

● Your main summon and friend summon aura​: Refer to the sections about summons
and grids for more details. ​Summons’ auras have a high impact on your team’s
damage​, and the fact that you don’t need to own a summon to benefit from its
effect plays a lot in favor of non-spenders.

● Your weapon grid:​ Even though we kind of glossed over it earlier, ​your weapon
grid is actually what will have the highest impact on your damage.​ Like in most
RPG games, your weapons have stats and skills, and those directly increase the
damage of all your characters. Do note that weapon skills only boost damage for
one element, which is the main reason why mono-element teams are the norm
once you’ve started to progress.

Charge Attack:

You might have noticed that under each character’s HP bar, there is a percentage number.
It’s what we call a “C.A gauge”, or “Meter gauge.” Normally, an auto attack increases this
gauge by 10%, and receiving damage will also increase it. Certain skills can increase or
decrease the rate of charge attack gauge gain.

Once this gauge reaches 100%, it means that instead of an auto attack, your character will
perform a ​Charge Attack​ (also called “​Ougi​”), which is basically a special move that will
deal very high damage, and sometimes have additional effects. Every time a character
uses their C.A., all the other characters will receive 10% meter at the end of the attack.
Therefore, if your MC and characters’ meters read 100%/90%/80%/70%, each character
will perform their charge attack, even though none but the MC has 100% at the start of the
turn. This is pretty handy when you want to get several charge attacks going in the same
turn. Note that if you do manage to get more than one Ougi / C.A. going in the same turn,
you’ll be rewarded by what is called a ​chain burst​: additional damage scaling higher the
more characters you got to use their C.A.
Skills:

Character skills have 5 different types of effects:

Nukes​, ​basically​ ​damage-focused skills. Skills that only deal damage with no effect added
tend to have a stronger “multiplier” (= will deal more damage).

Offensive buffs​, their aim is to increase the damage of your characters. Those buffs can be
team wide, or only self-targeted. Their effects are:
- Attack buff: ​Will apply to any character in the team regardless of their element.
- Element buff​: Will only increase damage of characters from said element.
- Multi-attack buff​: Instead of single attacking with their auto attack, characters will
be more likely to hit a second and/or third time on the same turn (abbreviated DA
and TA : Double Attack and Triple Attack). The amount of meter generated will be
higher as well as a result.
- Ignition: ​Fills the meter gauge of the character
- C.A. Damage​: increases the damage of your C.A. (and sometimes also the
damage of the Chain Burst).
- Critical: ​Chance to deal higher damage against enemies when you are the superior
element.

Defensive buffs​, which aim to make your characters sturdier, sometimes even invincible
for the turn. The different effects are:
- Defense buff​: Reduces the incoming damage, but can’t ever completely negate it.
- Damage cut: ​Negate received damage by a certain percentage, can potentially
reach 100%.
- Veil:​ Immunity to debuffs for one turn (more about debuffs in the next section).
- Substitute​: Enemies attacks will be directed to this character for the turn.
- Dodge: ​All enemy damage will be avoided for the next turn.
- Shield: ​Will absorb a fixed amount of damage until the shield expires or is
consumed.
Heals​, pretty self-explanatory, they will allow your team to regain HP.
- Flat Heal: ​Will regen your team HP by a flat amount of HP.
- Refresh​: Will regen your team a certain amount of HP every turn for a certain
duration.
- Resurrection​: Will resurrect a dead ally.
- Revitalize: ​Refresh or Meter gain each turn if target ally is at full HP.
- Drain​: Gain HP if you deal damage against the enemy.
- Clear​: Will remove one debuff from your team.

Finally, skills can also inflict debuffs against enemies, but this topic deserves a section of
its own. Do note that skills are not restricted to one category- most skills will have several
effects at the same time (for example a nuke + a debuff). ​Buff durations are always
counted in turns​.

Debuffs:

Debuffs are the equivalent of Status effects in any other RPG. Them landing is not
guaranteed, and is ​dependant on your job​ and added bonus chance to land debuffs your
class will offer, and also ​dependant on the element of the enemy​. Chance to land a
debuff against an off-element enemy (i.e the enemy is neither weak against your element,
is of the same element, or strong against your element) is reduced by 40%, while fighting
the same element or the element you are weak to will reduce your chances to land them
by 70%.

There are a lot of debuffs in the game, some being unique and exclusive to some
characters/bosses, some others being more generic and shared by most characters. We
will only go over the most commonly seen debuffs; you can refer to the wiki if you want a
more detailed list.

● Stats reduction debuffs​ ​are the most commonly seen. The most important ones are
Attack down and Defense down. ​Their use is simple: if you land attack down,
incoming damage will be reduced. If you land defense down, your damage will be
increased. Stats reduction debuffs have different categories and can stack with
each other if chosen right, allowing you to reach up to a 50% stats reduction.
Basically, you can reduce incoming damage by 50% at best, and multiply your
damage output by two.

● Crowd Control debuffs​, the most commonly known being ​Blind​ and ​Charm​. Blind
creates a chance for the boss to miss their auto attacks. Charm can potentially
cause the boss to not act at all during a turn, including a turn when it might perform
a special attack. The difference might seem subtle, but it is more important than it
seems.

● Damage over time debuffs​ (aka DoT), most of the time Poison and Burn. Their
effect is generally very negligible as they rarely tick for a high amount of damage.
 ● Tempo debuffs​, such as ​Delay, Gravity, ​and ​Break Lock​. These debuffs are
meant to slow down the occurrence of special attacks from enemies (more about
that below).

Debuff effect duration is always counted in seconds. ​Using a debuff while its effect is
still active will simply refresh the duration. Using the same type of debuff that has lower
value/efficiency than the one active on the boss will result in a “no effect” message.

Enemy Mechanics

● Diamonds​: It’s the equivalent to your character meter gauge for the boss. It will fill
by one every passing turn, and when it’s full, the boss will unleash a special attack
on your team.

● Overdrive bar: ​It’s a gauge that has three states: ​Normal, ​increases into
Overdrive, ​decreases into​ Break.​ Depending on the state of this gauge, the
behavior of the enemy will change. If Normal is the default starting state, pushing
the boss in Overdrive will make it ​use different types of special attacks​ once it
has full diamonds (and most of the time deadlier ones). When in Break, the enemy
will not be able to gain diamonds and won’t use any special attack​ for a certain
amount of time. After break is finished, the enemy will return into normal state. The
overdrive gauge increases or decreases depending on the damage the boss
receives.

● Triggers​: These are scripted boss behaviors (charge attack, full diamonds) that will
happen automatically regardless of the state of the boss (even if it’s in break or if it
has full diamonds), generally once the boss has reached a certain HP threshold.
The majority of debuffs will not prevent triggers either (save for rare debuffs like
Paralysis).

Note that enemy triggers can also debuff you similarly to how you are able to debuff them.
Those debuffs are sometimes even worse than receiving damage as they can prevent you
from attacking for several turns in a row or lower your damage a lot.
Raids
A particularity of GBF is that it actually has
real-time multiplayer battles​ for most of its
relevant content. Much like in MMORPGs, those
are called “Raids.” Up to 30 players can join
those fights and battle together to defeat a boss.
Player contribution is judged based on a
“​Honour​” system, which is directly proportional
to the amount of damage you deal and the
number of buffs/debuffs you cast. ​The host and
the 3 (or sometimes 6) players in the raid
with the highest amount of honour​ will all have more chance to get loot than the others.

Players in a raid aren’t only competing for honour through damage- there is also a
cooperation aspect that is crucial the more you progress in the game. The debuff system is
shared among the raid, for example, which means that​ one person debuffing the raid
benefits all the other players​, allowing for more flexibility in terms of character and class
use in a multiplayer battle.

Likewise, a good amount of MC buffs are raid buffs, which allows the ​whole raid to
benefit from the effects of a single buff​. Coordination and finding people who can
complement what you bring in a raid can help a lot when tackling strong boss you can’t
deal with alone.

And if you’re not able to kill a boss by yourself, people will gladly come to help you if you
share your raid (and sometimes will destroy your raid in the blink of an eye). Remember to
tweet your raids as most people join/camp raids through twitter.
Main Character Class
Most of the time, your MC will be the strongest member of your party and also one of the
most flexible. Similarly to most JRPG games, your ​MC can change class/job​ according to
your preferences and needs. There is a vast array of class to choose from, which allows
your MC to fit in any of the common roles you’d want in a party (Buffer, Debuffer, Tank,
DPS, Assassin, Healer, etc).

Before HL, you’ll have access to 4 different rows of classes, Row I, Row II, Row III, and
the EX Row. For the three first rows, each line of class creates a “category” where all of
the classes have the same kind of skillset and where each subsequent row becomes an
upgrade of the previous one. For example, Knight (Row I) will upgrade into Sentinel (Row
II) which will upgrade into Holy Saber (Row III).

Unlocking a new class will most of the time require:

● A certain amount of CP (class points). You can get CP through leveling up, event
gachas, and moon exchange.
● Mastering a combination of classes in the previous row
● Drops and trophies from coop (mainly for ex classes)

It’s important to note that at lower ranks, the amount of CP you can get through leveling is
limited, and thus you’ll have to choose which Row 3 job you’ll want to unlock first. Here is a
requirement picture taken from the wiki:
Unlocking and mastering Jobs will allow you to get ​Ex skills​ that you can use on any other
class, which makes MC extremely flexible in what it can do.

Notable Ex Skill
Row III Job Role Priority
unlocked

Ignition, burster (used for

Weapon Master Defense breach Medium
Strike Time)

Tank, protects the raid

Holy Saber Substitute High
and your team

Healer, clears and Clarity (Cleric), Veil,

Bishop Medium
prevent debuffs Dispel

Hermit Damaging skills (nukes) Blind (Sorcerer) Low

Assassin, drop chance

Hawkeye Treasure Hunter High
increase

Debuffs that makes your

life much, much easier, Miserable Mist,
Dark Fencer Highest
prevents enemy from Gravity Wave
using their special attacks

Ogre Attacker None Low

Sidewinder Burster, debuffer Arrow Rain III High

Buffer, debuffer, one of

Superstar the best class to increase Charm (Bard) High
team damage

Valkyrie Buffer, attacker Double Trouble III Medium

Eventually, you’ll want to master all the classes, as they grant your ​MC permanent
bonuses upon mastering them​.

Ex classes​ are generally extremely niche, and not used or rarely used outside of certain
situations (like Swordmaster being essentially only used to slime), and their ex skills are
not used as much either, but you should eventually unlock them all to get their bonuses.

Dark Fencer ​is the recommended go to class since it is able to do several things other
jobs are unable to do:
● It has a debuff allowing you to reduce damage from enemies while increasing your
own damage output.
● It has ways to stall the enemy from using their special attacks, which are often
deadly in raids.
● It has innate debuff success bonus which will allow you to land all of the above
mentioned more easily even when not fighting as the superior element.
● It’s a dagger class that can wield the ​Guild War Dagger​, one of the best main hand
weapon in the game.
Battle Rewards

Upon winning a battle, you’ll get certain rewards:

● Chests of various rarities
● Rank points
● Experience Points
● Various currencies (Rupees, Renown)

Chests divide in several categories:

● Wooden​ chests will generally have ​normal weapons or low tier materials
● Silver​ chests will generally have ​R rarity items or middle tier materials
● Gold​ chests will generally have ​SR rarity items or high tier materials
● Flip chests​ (= gold chests flipping with a rainbow and harp sound at the end of a
raid) will generally have ​SSR rarity items or rare materials​.
● Red chests​ are special chests that only appear in multiplayer battles. One is
attributed to the host, while MVP, Vice MVP, and third place in raid contribution are
also attributed one (with decreasing chance to get one). Red chests (and
particularly host chests) have a​ much higher chance at dropping rarer items​.

Getting various drop buffs (from Treasure Hunt, Journey Drops, and certain summon
auras) will increase your chances of getting more reward chests, and thus also increase
your chances to get rare items.

Experience ​and ​Rank points ​are two separate things. Rank points will solely influence
your Main Character’s rank, while Experience will increase the level of your characters and
also serve as “Job Experience Points” meaning that experience will increase your mastery
class/job level.
Crew and Strike Time
Quite early in the game, you’re asked to join/make your own crew in order to complete the
pinboard missions. Joining a crew is probably one of the most “social” aspects of Granblue
Fantasy, especially once you start to take an interest to things like Guild Wars, but at our
level we will just want to focus on a few things: the ​Crew Bonuses and Strike Time.

When joining a crew, you can get “permanent” bonuses that will help you during battles.
The most important ones you want your crew to have are:
● Green pots lvl2: Gives you two green pots at the start of a battle
● Drop rate boost lvl3: Gives you 20% additional drop rate boost
● Charge Bar 30%: You’ll start any battle with 30% meter gauge.

Make sure to join a crew that has at least those three bonus, since they are the best ones.
If you are in a crew that doesn’t have those bonus, or that doesn’t constantly refresh them,
feel free to leave and look for a better crew, it’s easy to do.

The second thing to consider is ​Strike Time.

Strike Time is a special period that happens twice every day, during which if you join a
raid, you will instantly get ​full gauge meter on your whole party​. This is an extremely
important time as it allows you to deal high damage with a full chain burst directly on turn
1. It will make your life much easier to farm all the various things you have to do daily, so
joining a crew that has convenient Strike Times for you is very important.

Strike Time is always shared in JST, so make sure to do the conversion in your own time
zone. Also, Strike Time will only affect multiplayer content (i.e raids), and will not grant you
full meter on solo battles.

Finally, note that Strike time will also grant you a 1.2x Bonus Rupies and Exp on every
battle fought, which is not of much use at our level, but can end up being useful later on as
you become a slime addict.
Friends and Support Summons

At the end of each successful raid, the game will ask you if you’d like to send a friend
request to the player you’ve borrowed a summon from. While from time to time, some
people will accept your requests regardless of what your own support summons are, it
becomes less the case for higher rank players who can’t really afford having friends with
junk summons.

A few things to know about the friend system:

● You start with 20 friend slots in your friendlist, which can increase to a maximum of
75 depending on your rank.
● Friend summons will show up in priority and regularly over random players’
summons.
● The frequency of appearance of your friend summons in your support list will
depend on ​how much your friends play Granblue​. So it’s not worth it to friend
people with great summons but who play only once every month.

In order to maximize your chances at getting your friend requests accepted, here’s what
you can do:
● Set up your Support Summons in your profile page​. Seriously, no one wants to
friend someone who still has a Proto Bahamut in every slot!
● Farm Magna MLB summons of each element​, and slot them in your support
slots. Having those will increase your chances of people accepting your requests by
a lot, especially since Elemental summons owners might want Magna friends.
● Put your better elemental summons​ as support. As a rule of thumb, if the
summon grants 80% or more elemental attack, it will be more valuable than a
Magna summon.
● Farming a White Rabbit ​to put in your Misc tab will also increase a lot your
chances of being accepted. You can farm it in the “Sharp Ears” Erune only free
quest, Chapter 29/42 in Amalthea Island.
● Send messages / stickers on someone’s wall when friend requesting. It doesn’t
seem like much, but people (and especially Japanese players) are pretty receptive
to that sort of thing.
In-game trade and currencies
Rupies

Rupies are what you could call the “base currency” of GBF. They are used to perform all
sort of actions, such as ​Uncapping characters / weapons / summons, Reducing items,
using the rupee draw, buying casino chips…

The best way to gather rupees is to play in coop mode and sell the various drops you get
there in Sierokarte’s shop (in the “Sell Treasure” tab). Otherwise, event gacha can drop
quite a lot of rupies. It is not advised to sell any high rarity items to get rupies as it is a
currency very easy to obtain in the game.

Treasure Trade

The treasure trade tab is a bit of a dump where you can exchange various things. It will
mainly ask from you item drops from different quests in order to trade them for items or
consumables. At our level, it’s important to note that ​any weapon that is sold in the
Quest Items tab is either worthless or not affordable yet​. However, feel free to trade
your drops for potions and berries, as it is pretty much the only use of those materials.

The Treasure tab should be mainly used to ​trade for higher tier materials​ (higher tier
orbs, scrolls, higher tier prisms), so that you can get materials to uncap your characters.

The events tab is where you can see the different shops for current or past events/collabs.
We’ll get to it later.
Renown Pendants

Collecting these is a guaranteed way to get the magna

weapon you want. Normally, the ​pendant​ ​cap​ (the maximum
number of pendants you can earn per week) is at ​2000​, with
an additional ​500​ if you include ​R characters​ in your
frontline​, and another ​500​ if you include ​SR characters ​in
your ​frontline​. If you include these characters, they ​must
survive the battle​.
The best way to know who will earn you pendants is to see
who is in the victory animation​ at the end. See these two?
They’re happy they survived the battle and now I get pendants
according to their rarity (R, in this case). Yodarha is a SSR,
too high a rarity to award you pendants, and the MC does not
count.
You can earn up to ​3000​ pendants per week. If you cap every
week, that’s ​12000 ​a month! Omega weapons cost ​5000
pendants and are limited to ​2​ purchases per month per weapon ​except​ Luminiera Omega
Swords (limited to ​7​ lifetime purchases).

These are the ways to earn them:

● Defeat your ​6​ ​Hard​ island ​Showdowns​ ​every day​, because they’re worth ​12
pendants ​each. They’re easily found under the ​Featured Quests​. You’re limited to
3 a day per Showdown​. Doing this will earn you ​1512​ pendants weekly [12 x (6 x
3) x 7]. The remaining ​500​ should be gained via leeching other people’s raids.
Remember to bring your R/SR characters to get that extra ​1000​ for their survival!
● If a raid battle ​ends within 3 minutes​ of your joining, or barring that, and you
manage to gain at least ​1800 honours​, you earn pendants! If not, sorry…
● For the exact amount of how many pendants you can get, use this:
https://gbf.wiki/Pendants
For extra pendants at the end of the month, you can buy ​Moons​. The gold moon is
especially interesting to get as cumulating them can allow you to buy rare items later in the
game.
An important thing to note is that Renown resets ​weekly​, so make sure you’ve maxed out
your pendants before the end of the week!
Moons

Moons are mainly obtainable through gacha: you’ll get​ one moon every time you draw a
character you already own​. The moon received will correspond to the rarity of the
character (R => Bronze, SR => Silver, SSR => Gold).

Bronze and Silver moons are extremely valuable to new players as they are one of the
best source of potions and berries in the game. You can trade ​5 Bronze moons​ or ​2
Silver Moons​ for ​30 pots or 60 berries​. You shouldn’t consider trading your
Bronze/Silver moons for anything else other than those at this stage of the game.

Gold moons are rarer, and as a result can be traded for P2W items (they can’t be traded
for potions or berries unfortunately). For you beginners, there will be two options:
● Either save your gold moons for later (the good trade options start at 20 gold
moons)
● Either trade one or two gold moons for 2500 CP, which will help you a lot to unlock
your Row III classes.
Either way, try to not waste your moons for anything that isn’t potions, berries, or
damascus ingots. Especially since Rupees and Experience books can be tempting, but
they would be wasted moons.

Journey Drops

Journey Drops are a special currency that allow you to ​buy special time limited bonus​ in
the shop. Those bonus are mainly QoL / Comfort ones, but are still very valuable to reduce
the amount of grinding you’ll have to do.
Journey Drops are acquired through using AP during the day, for ​every 50 AP used you
will receive 1 drop​ at the end of the day. Accumulating drops throughout the month will
increase the next month’s “stage” (Regular, Silver, Gold, Platinum). ​The better the stage,
the stronger the drop buffs​ will be. You’ll also receive crystals at the end of the month
depending on what stage you reach (and even for the luckiest a free 10 draw ticket).

Cerulean Stones

Cerulean Stones are created from ​Cerulean Sparks​, which are obtained every time you
draw from the gacha (one draw = one spark). Upon reaching 300 sparks before the gacha
period ends, you can trade for a character of your choice (called “Sparking”). But if you
can’t reach that amount, your Cerulean Sparks will transform into ​Cerulean Stones​.

Those stones are used mainly to buy materials used for various weapon / character
upgrades and uncaps. The rate on the trade is pretty bad for most of the materials, the
exception being for ​Tomes, Scrolls, ​and ​Dragon Scales,​ which have pretty decent
exchange rates. There’s not much else to do with Cerulean Stones, so spend them
however you feel like it.
What to Play
Always Available to Farm:
The bulk of the game, and what you will grind mainly.

Content Frequency

Normal, Hard, & Magna raids 3 times daily

Main Quest Anytime

Angel Halo Anytime

Rotating Quests Rotates every day or every two days

Rotating Showdown Rotates every 72 hours

Primarch Trial Twice a day

Other Raids Variable

Casino Daily or Monthly shop reset

Side Stories Anytime

Coop Daily missions reset

Time Limited :
Those events generally last between 5 and 10 days, and never overlap. They often have
rewards you won’t be able to get outside of those events.

Content Frequency

Story Event At the very end of every month

Collab/Story rerun First half of the month

Guild War Second half of every month

Rise of the Beasts Every two or three months

Showdowns and Xeno Clashes Variable

Always Available to farm
Magnas/Omegas
Get used to seeing these faces, because you’ll be seeing them a loooooooooooooooooot.

From left to right: ​Tiamat Omega​, ​Colossus Omega​, ​Leviathan Omega​, ​Yggdrasil
Omega​, ​Luminiera (aka. Chevalier) Omega​, ​Celeste Omega​.
Depending on your mono-element focus, you will want to fight these raids over and over
(don’t worry though, these fights, when open to the public, usually end within minutes).
Respectively, they are the ​wind​, ​fire​, ​water​, ​earth​, ​light​, and ​dark ​raids. You gain access to
them upon reaching ​Rank 30 and will be seeing them into Rank 101 and beyond​.
Magnas provide the​ bulk of your weapon grid​. At low level, you can do these things:
● Leeching​, the majority of what you’ll be doing as a newbie. Essentially, ​you’re just
there to get the loot​. Unfortunately, when you first begin, you will have no working
grid and you’ll barely see the HP bar budge when you attack. Luckily, with a 30 man
limit to raids and enough high level players about, raids have enough room for you
and can still finish even if you can’t personally contribute much. For extra brownie
points, bring in useful skills or classes. ​Bounty Hunter/Treasure Hunt ​is always
appreciated because you’ll be helping everyone's drop rates increase! Make sure to
also use a support White Rabbit/Kaguya, and also journey drops!
● Wanpan​ (one punch), essentially ​punch and go​. Use 1 skill, or just hit the auto
attack button once, and you’ve guaranteed you’ll get some loot in that raid when it
ends. (If you just enter and stare at the boss, it won’t count as anything and you’ll
get nothing…) You can ​enter up to 3 raids in a row​, and have ​up to 5 pending
raids ​before you’re forced to collect loot. For ​raids with share chests​ like Grand
Order,​ you can only do one at a time​.

While MVPing will be beyond your reach, take these tips into account:
● Luminiera Omega​: When her health is above 50%, ​do not auto attack​! ​DO NOT
attack​! ​Use a skill, any skill​! This is because for every new person in the raid, her
first attack will be ​Aegis Merge ​which will​ ​to ​re-activate her shield​ – that’s right,
 she’ll be immune to status effects and 90% of anyone’s damage. It’s incredibly
annoying, please do not attack! This can potentially cause the raid to last beyond
the minutes it would normally take to finish the fight.
● Celeste Omega​: The Celeste Omega fight was recently changed, rather than
keeping her old annoying Bizarre Fog triggers, they made it so it triggers only
AFTER zombie has been applied. It now skill seals you and zombies the party.
Aublade of Oblivion, her overdrive ougi and 50% trigger now applies zombie so be
sure to clear it before proceeding to the next turn or else she casts Bizarre Fog. She
also heals, blinds, and poisons you at her 25% trigger so be sure to have a Veil or
clear for zombie to ensure she doesn’t kill you with the heal or annoy you with the
blind.

Where to fight them?

● You can ​host​ your own raids! You need to have ​hosted and defeated ​their
Normal​, and then ​Hard​ versions first to unlock the ​Omega​ showdowns. You will
also need to get Anima drops from their Hard raid versions to host them regularly.
As a reminder (I recommend to bookmark the fight urls):
◦ Tiamat normal / hard is on Port Breeze Archipelago, Chapter 4
◦ Colossus normal / hard is on Valtz Duchy, Chapter 8
◦ Leviathan normal / hard is on Auguste Isles, Chapter 12
◦ Yggdrasil normal / hard is on Lumacie Archipelago, Chapter
◦ Luminiera normal / hard is Adversa for story reasons, she is on Albion Citadel,
Chapter 20
◦ Celeste normal / hard is on Mist-Shrouded Isle, Chapter 24
◦ You will then unlock the Omega showdowns of each respective island boss.
They will be located on your first island, ​Zinkenstill​. The Tiamat, Colossus
Leviathan and Yggdrasil raids are located on the 2​nd​ node, while Luminiera and
Celeste are on the 3​rd​ node.
● You can join other people’s raids and leech! You don’t need to have done any other
pre-requisites, just reach Rank 30 and you’ll be able to see them in the Raid tab.
● Don’t hesitate to host your raid and let the twitter masses kill it for you, as I said
earlier the host chest is really precious and has a high chance of dropping a SSR
rarity item!

Tip!
I mentioned ​Yodarha (SSR)​ above. He’s an absolute blessing for your
time ​because his charge attack hits for ​999,999 damage if he has all 3
of his shrouds up​. That is the entire HP bar of most island bosses
(except Leviathan and Celeste). You are essentially able to one-shot a
lot of easy bosses early on and it will shave off lots of farming time for
you. If you’re unsure on who to pick if you buy a character ticket,
Yodarha is recommended for newbies, just to help your progression curve be smoother.

Yoda also exists as a R character, so make sure you pick the SSR one...

What weapon drops to keep?

SR Weapons

These SR Omega weapons with a medium attack skill can be used in baby grids when you
don’t have any other attack skill weapons or not enough SSR weapons yet. It can be worth
it to fully uncap some of those weapons and skill level them to 2 or 3 until you get to find
SSR drops to replace them. Unfortunately, Light and Dark don’t have any SR drops with
an attack skill, so their weapons will only serve as fodder. Once you’ve filled your grid with
SSR weapons, just use those weapons as regular skill fodder.
SSR Weapons

Those are the weapons you’ll want to keep, feel free to use the rest as fodder. Note that
Dark and Light drop rates are much lower, with the Dark Claw and Light Sword drop rates
being even lower among their respective element weapons.

Placeholder SSR Special SSR

​ Base SSR

● Placeholders​: Those weapons have an attack skill, but either it’s only a medium
attack skill or either they have a better option to replace them with (generally a
weapon with more raw attack). They will still be able to fit in your grid for a very long
time until you start to uncap all your weapons, so don’t hesitate to keep them. Note
that Yggdrasil sticks are also used in the very, very late game, so avoid reducing
them if you can help it.

● Base SSR ​: Those weapons will constitute the core of your Magna grids, as they
are the best choice you’ll have to slot in your grid, unless special circumstances.

● Special SSR ​: Those weapons are actually better than their Base SSR
counterparts, for the simple reason that despite bringing inferior to “Big” attack
skills, they also have an additional offensive skill. Both the Tiamat Bolt and the
Celeste Claw bring “​Enmity”​, which increases tremendously your damage the
lower your HP. The Chevalier Sword brings both a Normal and Magna multiplier, as
well as HP, making it a weapon with higher damage than average, but only once
you’ve reached HL.

Main Quest
The current Main Quest goes up to ​Chapter 9X​, with 4 new chapters being added every 2
months. As a new player it is recommended to get to ​Chapter 24​ as fast as you can to
unlock all the core raids of the game (up to Celeste). If you want to continue going, keep in
mind all Main Quests ​are free up ‘till Chapter 63​.

On your path through the Main Quest you’ll quickly get some free Story SR units along the
way. These might fill up empty slots in your teams.
 - SR Katalina​ (Requirement: Clear Chapter 1): SR Katalina will
probably be your most useful SR unit for the early game. She heals,
she prevents debuffs, and protects your team. During early game
you’ll most likely slot her in most of your teams if you need the
sustain. You can uncap her a 4th time after beating Chapter 36.

- SR Rackam​ ​(Requirement: Clear Chapter 2):

Mostly known for being the most iconic character in the GrandBlues
comic, overall a rather weak unit. You can uncap him a 4th time after
beating Chapter 28.

- SR Io​ (Requirement: Clear Chapter 6): She’s a weaker version of

Katalina providing heals and clear. You most likely won’t use her
though. You can uncap her a 4th time after beating Chapter 42.

- SR Eugen​ (Requirement: Beat Chapter 10): Eugen is a potent

attacker for early Earth teams, being able to tank some single target
attacks through his counters and providing decent bursts with his
instant charge bars. You can uncap him a 4th time after beating
Chapter 32.

- SR Rosetta​ ​(Requirement: Beat Chapter 14): Rosetta, also

nicknamed as JK (for Joshi kōsei = High School girl, a recurring joke
in Grand Blues about how she pretends to be forever young) will
make for a decent wind unit until you can find better. Her fourth uncap
happens after chapter 52. She also has the ​lewdest​ best Casino outfit.

- SR Lecia​ ​(Requirement: Beat Chapter 44): Needing quite the jump in

Chapters, Lecia is a jack of all trades, providing damage repel, dodge
rate, team attack up and a simple nuke. Her usefulness may be
negligible considering how late she joins in the story.
As of today Lecia does not have a 4th uncap.

- SR Cain​ ​(Requirements: Beat Chapter 89): Another huge jump in

Chapter requirements, Cain is actually a really potent Earth support
and attacker. He has an 8-hit nuke, a potent team buff, and a unique
self-buff that boosts his attack at the cost of defense.

You may have some characters in your teams that require a certain Chapter from the Main
Quest to be passed in order to do their Fate. Rushing through the story can be crucial for
some of them (in particular SSR Lecia) and is in most cases recommended. If you get
walled off by a boss (a particular mention being ​Chapter 62-4​), feel free to use and abuse
the rebound bonus given by the game after being defeated (up to 100% additional HP and
attack). If even with the rebound bonus you’re still stuck, don’t be afraid to step back and
work on becoming more powerful.
Angel Halo

Angel Halo is a special set of

quests with the main purpose of
providing EXP fodder for
weapons and summons to level
them​. It also drops some useful
materials such as ​whorls, orbs,
high orbs​, and light-related
materials such as scales or scrolls. It also has a chance to drop important items known as
Rusted Weapons​. These are used for Revenant weapons for elemental changes and for
other weapons in the game such as the Bahamut and Ultima weapon series.

It is always accessible through the “Special” tab in the Quest screen. It comes in three
difficulties and the amount, along of rarity, of drops goes up with how difficult it is.

Though Angel Halo’s importance grows as a player progresses through content, it goes
beyond what the scope of the guide is meant to be covering. For now, it is a good source
of experience and EXP fodder to help level your summons and weapons.

Rotating Quests: Elemental Trials and Showdowns

There are two rotating sets of quests in Granblue
Fantasy that change every two days at reset; the
elemental trials and the showdowns. These can be
found at the ​“Special” tab​ on the quest screen.

The elemental trials are special quests that drop

materials related to the element of that said trial. They
drop ​tomes, prisms, orbs, whorls, and dragon
scales​; all are useful for upgrades and uncapping
weapons and characters. Do keep in mind, this is
quite difficult for a newcomer to clear but if you can
manage it, it will be your best source for
element-specific materials. The Water/Earth/Fire/Wind
trials also drop a special item known as an elemental
fragment. These are used for the Seraphic and Ultima weapon upgrades and forging, but
that goes beyond what a newcomer needs to know for now.

The showdowns are a special set of quests that drop animas/items/weapons.The items
and animas can be exchanged for items and weapons. The summons, in particular Diablo,
are ​useful as stat sticks with decent to good calls​. Don’t hesitate to use those
summons as ​temporary Main Summons for their aura​ as well if you don’t have any
magna weapon yet in your grid.
Other Raids

Starting from ​Rank 50​, you’ll be able to join ​Proto​ ​Bahamut​ and ​Grand Order​ raids. You
cannot host these two yourself until you reach ​Rank 80, ​but joining them – if you can,
they’re popular and hard to get into – results in some great drops for you. [However​ ​be
aware that leeching or not contributing can go wrong because ​these raids do have a
higher chance to fail than Omega showdowns​, though the chance of failure is usually
quite low. As a newbie, try not to stress about not contributing, but it’s good etiquette to
pull your weight a bit more for these raids once you’ve unlocked these harder ones.

Proto Bahamut​: You’ll want ​Horns of Bahamut​ and ​Rusted Weapons​. These items are
necessary to craft ​various powerful weapons​. Bahamut can also be a source of
Champion Merits​, an item you’ll need a lot​.

At ​25%​ and ​5%​, he casts ​Skyfall​, which is a horrible attack designed to absolutely wipe
out your characters. Ideally, someone in the raid (or it can be you!) will cast ​Phalanx II/III
to create a ​70% damage cut shield for the entire raid​. It is ​up to you to bring the other
30%​: this can be your own fully uncapped Onyx Carbuncle (for dark resistance) or other
ways as detailed at the bottom of this page: ​https://gbf.wiki/Proto_Bahamut_(Raid)

Grand Order​: you’ll want ​Azure Feathers​, which can be traded 5 per 1 ​Heavenly Horn
(these can also drop themselves). Heavenly Horns can be traded for either ​Silver
Centrums​ (​1 per month​) or a ​Cosmos Weapon​ of your choice. You can also get
Champion Merits. ​Pay special attention to ​Blue Sky Crystals​, as they are a rare material
you can only really farm from doing Co-Op’s daily missions.

At ​90%​ and​ 80%​, Grand Order will cast ​Mirror Image​ for every person who reaches that
HP threshold and attacks. Send out a Lyria​ OK! sticker​ to indicate you’ve triggered her
Mirror Image and someone will know how to dispel it (using a summon or similar
technique). At ​50%​, make sure you’ve read the above ways to achieve 100% damage cut
because she will cast ​Gamma Ray, ​which is also designed to wipe your party. After ​45%
she will change form again and will not cast it, so you will be safe from that particular
method of wiping.

Less important raids at our level​:

● Tier 1 Raids ​are ​Twin Elements​, ​Macula Marius​, ​Medusa​, ​Nezha​, ​Apollo​, ​Dark
Angel Olivia​. Unfortunately, the weapon drops from these raids would go beyond
the expanse of a beginner’s guide. Though they do drop Omega weapons, their
drop pool is diluted by their own unique weapons too. Their anima are items you’ll
need to host your own Grand Order one day however.
● Tier 2 Raids​ are ​Athena​, ​Grani​, ​Baal​, ​Garuda​, ​Odin​, ​Lich​. Again, unfortunately
beyond the scope of a beginner’s guide. Some of their weapons and all of their
animas will however be useful in the future. They are also a great source of
Rainbow Prisms since it’s a guaranteed drop in those raids.
● Primarch Raids​: They don’t drop anything really interesting outside of damascus
grains, silver centrums, and their animas, which can be also found in Ultimate
Bahamut raid.
● Huanglong/Qilin​: Now that Qilin doesn’t drop crystals anymore, you can safely
ignore those until you reach at least level 80.
● Ultimate Bahamut​: The most difficult pre-HL (and still one of the most difficult post
HL) raid in existence, completely outside of the scope of this guide.
● Griffin, Zarchnal Flame, Imperial Guard, Will-o'-Wisp, Ancient Dragon, Evil Eye
are… rather pointless honestly. If you absolutely must squeeze everything out of
everything, you can get some useful drops, but you really could spend that AP/BP
elsewhere. They should be cleared once for the crystals at least though.
Casino

The Jewel Resort Casino opens up once you clear Chapter 8 of the story. You can play
Poker/Bingo/Slots from here and win chips. Chips are used to purchase useful items such
as ½ AP Potions, Omega Summon Animas, along with a very useful summon called Anat.

Casino is also extremely rage inducing

What should I play?

The general consensus is that Poker is the most stable way of generating chips in the
casino. You will lose a lot, but you will win a lot more so it will still be a profit in the end,
especially in comparison to Bingo and Slots. Bingo is a sort of “win big or go home” type of
scenario and Slots is chip inefficient versus the other two methods of collecting chips.

You can also trade in rupees for chips if you’re desperate.

Casino Cage

The Casino Cage is basically the rewards

shop where you can exchange chips for a
variety of goods. Goods range from character
skins to summons, ½ AP Potions to Omega
Animas. Some items in the shop restock at the
beginning of each month as well so don’t
forget to buy them daily!

Do note that the Jewel Modele is unlocked

after collecting 1m in chips from winnings.

The weapons in the Casino Cage are

generally reduced since they break down into
the same number of resources as weapons
obtained from the Premium Draws.

In order to buy out all the items that restock at

the end of the month, it takes approximately
11m chips. Most players just buy out Fury Stones/Pebbles/1/2 AP Potions/Soul
Berries/Omega Animas, however, at the total of 4.5m a month.

High Priority Items for Beginners

·​ ​½ AP Potions (100 per month, 5 daily) – 1500 chips each.
·​ ​Soul Berries (200 per month, 10 daily) – 500 chips each.
·​ ​Anat (Summon) – 2.5 million x 4 copies, totals 10 million chips
·​ ​Peridot Carbuncle- 150k chips x 2 copies *very important for wind beginners
·​ ​Omega Anima – 1 daily per type, 5000 to 10000 chips

Anat and You

The casino offers a very good summon

called Anat. She has very high stats for a
free summon and close to the gacha
summons obtained through the Premium
Draw. Her call is also decent as it provides a
high attack buff. She’s also used as a
support summon for Wind grids when paired
with the main summon, Tiamat Omega.

Now that you know what goodies are in store

for you, let’s get to the mini-games that await
you.
Poker – Double Up or Nothing

Prepare yourself; you will be spending a good amount of

time in here throughout your Granblue Fantasy
experience. This game comes in four varieties:
1/10/100/1000 bet amounts.

Select the 2 cards version of double up; though the 1 card

version may seem tempting, the 2 card version will
guarantee a stable income of chips overtime. You can only
win 10 rounds if you pick the 2 card version of it.

You start from whatever bet amount you can afford till you
can play the 1000 chip poker without worrying over losses.

How to Poker 101

Goal: To get double ups to maximize chip profits.

How does one achieve double up? Anything except “One

Pair” will enable you to play Higher or Lower AKA doubling
up. You can double your wins every time you win a round
at Higher or Lower. The 2 card version will only let you play 10 rounds but that’s enough to
make profit.

The idea is to find pairs and pray you get a double up every time a new set of cards is
dealt. It may seem mundane but it is profitable at the end.

Do note that the “Joker” counts for any card value, so always pick it if you see it!

Now that you know the first part to Poker, now to explain Higher or Lower to increase chip
profit further.

Higher and Lower: The Bane of Granblue Fantasy

You are dealt two cards of different values; you are to guess
what the face down card value is by either pressing that it is
higher or lower than the face up card.

By guessing correctly, you move onto the next round- up to

10 times for this version of Higher or Lower. Do not fear loss,
GO big.

Tips and Tricks

·​ ​General rule of thumb is that if it’s 9 and higher, you pick

“Low”, 7 or lower is “High”

·​ ​8 is a problematic card thus pick either since it can go

either way
·​ ​You can count cards in this as well though it’s not

suggested
Side Stories

Side stories are ​old past events that Cygames decided to add permanently to the
game​, making them accessible and playable at any time. They have an ​extremely low
difficulty​, and are clearable even with the weakest grids, all the while being a good source
of early crystals.

Their trade shops also have some old summons and weapons that are not always good,
but can be interesting to have for new players, although farming them can take a bit of
time. Those events are also a good source of ​free SR event characters​, so make sure to
read through them!
Co-op

Co-op is a special game mode where you can team up with up to 4 players in order to
clear quests of increasing difficulty. It is the main way to get Rupies and Experience, as
joining co-op hosted quests ​will not cost you any resource​. Only the host of a quest will
have to pay AP to start it.

When entering co-op, you can either decide to join a room (a friend or a random room), or
create your own room. When sharing your room into the room board, it is expected of you
that you will host the battles. Finally, coop battles have a ​high chance to drop Elixirs and
Half Pots​, so don’t hesitate to leech rooms if you’re short in AP supplies!

Daily Missions
Co-op has a system of ​Daily Missions​ where you need to clear quests or get certain
drops in order to get a ​Blue Sky Crystal​ as reward, as well as Co-op Shop points. Each
mission completed will grant you one mission point, which are tradeable in the coop shop
(by clicking on the “view rewards” button).

You’ll be able to buy a single draw ticket, CP, full elixirs, balms, gold animas, whorls,
scales and sr angel experience fodder in this shop. Once the shop is emptied, it will
automatically restock, which allows you to cycle through the rewards ​every 21 days​ if you
never miss your daily missions.

There are 4 types of missions:

● Win 5 co-op quests​ : This one is a permanent mission that remains the same
every day. You can either join or host battles in order to clear it.
● Defeat a certain enemy​ : Pretty standard, don’t hesitate to join a room if you’re not
strong enough to defeat it by yourself.
● Get a certain drop​ : This one can sometimes take time because of RNG. You can
click on the mission to know in which stages the material drops.
● Use a certain item in the room​ : When in a co-op room, you can find an “Item” tab
on the right. Click on the “Treasure” button, and you will be able to trade your co-op
materials for various buffs that will grant you bonuses for the duration of the co-op
room.

It’s important to note that everyone shares the same daily missions, making it very easy to
find rooms or people to clear your own dailies. You can simply click on the “Join Quest”
button of the corresponding daily quest you have to clear.

This is one of the best way to accumulate Blue Sky Crystals, and you’ll need a lot of them
later on so try to do your daily regularly!

When hosting or joining rooms, you can precise which type of fights you’ll host (if you
know moonrunes, you can be more precise), which is useful if you plan to make a room in
order to farm a certain type of material and not simply clear your dailies.

In order to unlock Ex Jobs, you’ll have to clear the hardest difficulty of co-op (called
Pandemonium), which is outside of the scope of this guide, but at least you know it’s there.
Time Limited Events

Story Events

Story events are events in which your crew interacts with inhabitants of the Granblue’s
world, often featuring a Gacha character as its main protagonist. The stories are pretty
nice and will make you care for the characters, so take the time to read them!
In events, you will gather that event’s ​treasure items ​to call forth a boss battle. Treasure
items are unique to events.
Remember: if you are not at a power level to comfortably farm the event, aim for the
essentials and focus on something else.
Generally you will want to try and grab:
● Free quest crystals​. You read a story (or skip it) and collect them in your crate at
the end. Usually they cost 0 AP.
● Free boss crystals​. Fight bosses as you can. If it’s a raid boss, someone else will
usually come in and fight it with you.
● The ​loyalty​ ​character​. Place them in your party and bring them with you to quests.
They will gain loyalty according to the AP you spent. At the end you get both a ​free
character​ and ​50 crystals​ from their fate episode. There are variations on gaining
loyalty characters, please refer to that event page if they’re unique.
● Damascus crystals​. Obtained through honours at 1, then 2, then 3 million
thresholds. It is unlikely as a new player you will get as far as 3 million honours.
These are ​endgame​ items that can be traded in for a ​Damascus Bar​, a rare item
that can uncap a weapon without possessing a duplicate copy of it. Do what you
can to collect them during events.
● Weapons​/​Summons​. These vary in importance, but ​unknown weapons​ (weapons
with EX skills) are the most important, because they are unique to event periods
and thus only farmable for its duration or until the event repeats (usually months
away). With the weapon grid in mind, event weapons with normal skills and
summons can be placeholders, but note they often lose out when you get your
magna weapons. Consult the wiki or use your best judgement.
Now to collect all that loot, you have 3 options:
● Tokens​: These allow you to draw in the token box of that event, ​2 per draw​. You
gain them at the end of your battle alongside honours. The number you get will vary
depending on the ​difficulty​, whether you ​hosted​ or merely ​joined​ another person’s
raid, or if you were the ​MVP​. The token box is random, so when you get your loot
depends entirely on your luck.
● Badges​: These are item drops you earn at the end of the battle. The higher the
difficulty, the more badges that will drop. You mainly want to aim for gold badges.
The bronze badges’ rewards can be safely ignored. These are simple click and
collect prizes on the event page.
● Honours​: Along with tokens, you earn honours in proportion to how you contributed
in the raid. As contribution is marked by your damage dealt or assistance provided:
at an early level, try and bring buffs or debuffs instead because your power level will
be too low to outdo higher level players. Essentially, you earn more honours the
more you do in the raid, so eventually you will solo the raid for the maximum
amount.
Nearing the event’s end, you will get access to the event’s ​daily missions​. Make sure to
complete them for easy ​Crystals​.
Trophies ​are also easy sources of ​Crystals​, usually requiring you to defeat a boss an x
amount of times. Do not stress about reaching 200 kills, it’s a pretty high number. Other
requirements include just clearing the story event boss. Defeating the nightmare version
will probably be out of your power range. Look forward to being stronger if/when the event
repeats!
Story Reruns
Reruns (also called Redux) are past events which are featured again in a new format that
is more geared toward solo play. Unlike Story events, you will not depend on material
drops to host your battles, as they will simply cost AP. The counterpart is that the bulk of
those battles will has to be fought solo, meaning you won’t be able to get help from other
people.

Instead of getting tokens so that you can draw in the event gacha, the battles will drop
material that you will have to trade in the event shop for ​weapons, potions, damascus
Crystals, summons, etc…

Raids still exist in this format, but they are mainly here to drop a certain type of material
over the others so that there isn’t an unbalance in dropped materials.

If you can, try to always grab at least the Damascus Crystals from the shop.

Collaboration Events

Essentially the same format as Story Reruns, except GBF does a crossover story with
other games. These events are ​not guaranteed to repeat​ like story events. Added to that
is that their ​weapons​ are generally of the ​unknown​ skill type, which are unique to events.

Unlike story events however, Collabs tend to have good or ​great free characters​, and the
unknown weapons you can get in them also tend to be ​stronger than average​, so try to
grab what you can!
Unite and Fight

(Aka Guild Wars/GW). This is the ​competitive PvP event​ of the game where your crew
competes with other crews for points. Contrary to the name, you can do this event solo. It
is ideal to join a crew anyway (if not just for the crew benefits). You’ll learn to hate this
event as well soon enough, don’t worry. Similarly to Story events, battling raids will reward
you with ​tokens​ that you’ll have to use in order to get rewards from a special event gacha.

The event is comprised of two parts: the ​preliminaries​, which decide which crews move
onto the finals, and the actual ​finals​ where those crews are pitted against one another. If
your crew​ does not pass preliminaries​, your crew is ​locked out of finals,​ but you are
still able to fight raids​.
Unlike other events, there are ​down periods where all battles are inaccessible​ to allow
players to actually sleep. Don’t freak out if you haven’t gotten all your loot, take note of the
actual end date and whether or not it’s the last Final. Battles will resume, just wait a few
hours. There are several battle difficulties, but at our level we won’t consider fighting
anything over the Ex+ difficulty.
You want two things:

Revenant Weapons ​are accessible through the event gacha, and can be quite frustrating
to get since you will always need at least​ 4 copies ​(to get a MLB weapon) from it for the
weapon to be worth. It is advised to get the ​GW Dagger first​, for its powerful charge
attack that will increase your double and triple attack rate. Note that you can ​change the
element​ of your GW weapons to what suits you the best.
Later on you’ll be able to consider starting the process to recruit the associated ​Eternal
with their Revenant Weapon (e.g. fully upgrading the sword will allow you to recruit
Seofon) – be aware it’s a long path of farming and a difficult battle to recruit them at the
end of it all.

Valour Badges​. This is where it gets difficult if you’re solo or in a casual crew. Valour
badges are gained through qualifying into the finals and winning rounds in a “Who can
farm most” battle against another random crew. At your level, it’s not likely you’ll compete
seriously in GW yet, so we won’t go into details, but know that trading valor is the only way
to get ​Sunlight Stones​, which are used to ​uncap SSR Summons​.
During the finals, you can ​bet​, because this game loves gambling. You can earn betting
cards through visiting the event page daily, and earning a certain amount of honours
alongside your crew earning a certain amount honours (there’s a mistranslation on the
game page, it’s AND, not OR!) and then visiting the betting page. ​Betting closes at 7pm
JST​, and ​you don’t get anything out of betting earlier ​as bet payouts are locked to
what they are at closing time and ​not​ whenever you placed your bet. ​Bet just before
closing time​ to ensure you won’t have wasted a ticket.

Know that betting is often subject to what you’d call “rigging”, and despite all the charts
and stats done by​ various people each GW to try to predict the outcome​, results
sometimes end up “Yakuza’d” which allow a small portion of the players to benefit from
unbelievably high crystals outcome because they themselves tipped the balance purposely
for it to happen. So betting on an unlikely outcome isn’t a completely stupid strategy (even
without rigging, bet results are always subject to RNG as well).
Rise of the Beasts

Rise of the Beasts (abbreviated RotB) is a special event during which you need to battle
rotating raids and score honors in order to gain a special Pendants currency. Raids have
two main difficulties: Ex and Ex+, and hosting / joining Ex repeatedly is necessary to
unlock an Ex+ difficulty raid.

During this event, the whole day is split in periods

of two hours that will grant you ​Cardinal Bonus​.
For two hours, each element boss will get a 1.5x
increase of received pendants. The elements rotate
every two hours and for the whole day (you can
generally find the exact schedule in game)

Note that you can only host the Ex+ difficulty raid of
the corresponding cardinal hour element (it’ll switch
automatically after two hours as well).
Because of the nature of RotB, it’s difficult for newer players to perform well without
burning intensively their BP resources, since ​the amount of pendants they will earn is
proportional to the amount of damage​ they can contribute to the raid. Getting a ​small
group of people​ to help you through Ex+ raids can help greatly (that’s when a crew can
come in handy) especially since pubbing Ex+ often ends up in the boss getting obliterated
instantly.

However, you should try to get by all costs the daily gold nugget given as a daily reward.
To accomplish this, you will simply have to join or host each of the Extreme raids 5 times.
In the advent you’d manage to get enough gold nuggets to trade for a gold bar, ​DO NOT
USE THE BAR ON A WEAPON​. I can’t stress this enough, you’ll regret it bitterly if you
were to not listen to me. Yes, I know, the in game guide recommends you to use gold bars
on weapons, ​but it’s a trap​.
Special Showdowns and Xeno Clashes

Those events drop some of the ​best F2P weapons​ in the game, but are unfortunately out
of the scope of this guide. For Xeno Clashes, you are heavily suggested to leech event
raids as much as possible until you’re able to ​buy at least one 0* shop copy of the
weapon​.

Those events also tend to have very, very low drop rates...
Special Campaigns
Who doesn’t like special events for milestones or important holidays? Granblue Fantasy is
no exception! There are a variety of special campaigns that they like to throw on as a
celebration.

Magnafest

Also referred as “Magna Festival” or magfest for short. Raid​ costs are halved ​and the
amount of ​EP is halved​ to enter raids as well; the only exceptions to this are the The Dark
Sunrise and Dusk of Nightfall raids since they are special cases. ​Normal and Hard​ raids
are also ​free​ during this period as well; use this opportunity to get as much done as
possible!

Magnafest also comes with its own issues...

All the quests in the “Special” tab only cost half of the AP usually required. ​Players
particularly like to farm Angel Halo during this time since it only costs 10 AP​ to run the
highest difficulty, along with the Elemental Trials since it’s much less ½ AP Potion
intensive if it was to be farmed during regular times. It’s the best time to finally level those
weapons and summons.

All Co-op quests are half off as well! This is the best time to finish up the majority of the
Co-op quests that are available as well. People typically “slimeblast” during this period of
time but that is not something a newcomer should worry over and should instead look into
once they are able to. It’s the fastest way to gain ranks/EMP/level your characters.

These three are most most common campaigns that Granblue typically holds when a
celebration is happening. There are other types of campaigns as well but are typically
uncommon such as double Journey Drop effects, daily free Premium Draws/10 Part
Draws, and ½ Free Quest.

Seasonal events

Summer, Halloween, Christmas, Valentine's, April fools… Very often those periods get to
have some special events tied to them. The bigger events will get ​Magnafest, free gacha
draws​ (or even free 10 draws),​ daily crystals, and special themed​ story events, while
others will get special characters interactions or special short duration events. Even if you
don’t intend to play GBF regularly, try to at least login during those times! Those periods
also often have special gacha with ​seasonal limited characters​!
FAQ
Sempoi, is character X good? Who should I ticket / Start Dash?
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1lo-r5oP5PVDBjDtN8SlJBpFCqCcYnZmvy1d0mI
Qsriw/
Above is the link to the GBF Discord Tier List or what is jokingly called the GBF Gaijin Tier
List. It gives a fairly comprehensive view on each character and can give newcomers a
better idea on who is good and what character is worth the Start Dash/Ticket. Please be
aware, the consensus is that if you have limiteds on your Start Dash, it’s better to pick
them up. (Limiteds only appear in your Start Dash if you started during Legfest/Premium
Gala.) Though, it can be argued that you can ticket characters you like or enjoy because
afterall, it is a game and you should be able to have characters you love.

Sempoi, I have a lot of Damascus Bars, should I use them on my

weapons?
Short answer is: No.
Long answer is: if you’re not sure about whether using a Damascus Bar is a good idea or
not, chances are you are not at a level where you should be considering using a
Damascus. Those bars should be ​solely​ used on ​Gold Moon weapons​ and ​Limited
Gacha weapons​. If you’re not sure, once again try to ask around or simply save them for
later. Using those bars on anything that can be farmed/dropped in game (even chev
sword) is a bad idea as well.

Sempoi, what are those plus marks on my weapons?

Plus marks are bonus stats that you can add on your weapons, summons or characters.
The bonus can be transferred by either using it directly as upgrade fodder, or by resetting
bonuses, to a limit of +99. Each plus bonus will grant +5 Attack and + 1 HP to summon
and weapons, while characters will get +3 Attack and + 1 HP. It’s heavily recommended to
gather those plus marks on weapons/summons that will be used in multiple grids (for
example a Bahamut weapon, or Anat). Plus marks can be obtained randomly in the
premium gacha, but also on the rupie gacha (around one plus every 100 draws).

Sempoi, what is reducing?

Reducing refers to breaking down weapons and summons into components such as
whorls, elemental quartz, orbs, and weapon stones. Quartz and weapon stones are used
for content around mid-late game and for final upgrades to weapons and summons. For
now, it is expensive for a newcomer to reduce so don’t worry! In doubt, avoid reducing an
SSR item without asking more experienced players beforehand, you might regret it later
down the road.
Sempoi, my inventory is full, should I sell stuff?
Yes but be sure to do this before to make selling items a breeze. Go to your inventory,
scroll down till you see “Unload Loot” then select it. It will open a window that will allow you
to mass sell items based on rarity, type, element, etc. Be sure to keep all your
SR/SSR/Gacha weapons safe by ​favoriting ​them to ensure that they cannot be sold by
accident.

Sempoi, Dark Fencer outfit is really ugly and I really like Ogre Djeeta, do
I have to unlock Dark Fencer still?
Sadly, you do have to unlock Dark Fencer (Sorry!) because of its usefulness for a
beginner. HOWEVER, once you master a class, you can change your outfit into a previous
class’ outfit within the class line. You can unlock whatever class you want afterwards but
do note that some of them aren’t very useful until their T4 versions. TL;DR yes you need to
unlock Dark Fencer.

Sempoi, what should I be unlocking after Dark Fencer?

Typical progression after Dark Fencer is Sidewinder for the Rain of Arrow 3 skill to allow
max attack down. Some people go to Valkyrie to unlock Double Trouble 3 for raid wide
DATA buffs, some go to Holy Saber, others to Super Star if they happen to have a harp to
mainhand. Overall, a player will master all the classes due to the cumulative mastery
bonuses but there isn’t a set path.

Sempoi, I was told that X element was the best to start, should I work on
that first no matter what?
No. You should work on an element based on your character roster. Just because it’s the
best to start on doesn’t mean you have the tools to use it. For example, if someone told
you that Dark was the best but you only had Water characters, you wouldn’t start Dark
because you have no one to benefit from farming the weapons.
Sempoi, show me what an end game grid looks like!
There are a lot of different variations of “End Game grids” for each element since they
depend on which characters and which summons you own, but here is a sample of
possible end-game Magna grids:

Sempoi, I have a lot of SSR weapons of X element, shouldn’t I focus on

this element first?
You should be deciding on what element to main based on your character pool, and not
based on your weapons. Remember that weapons are farmable in game, characters are
not.

Sempoi, I haven’t pulled any SSR outside of the pity guaranteed ones,
do I need to harakiri?
Put that tantou away, you don’t ​need ​to have SSRs to progress through the game. There
are SR units that are just as good or even better than some SSRs. And Granblue Fantasy
gives tons of event SRs, (SRs that are obtained through events) and they’re as useful as
the normal gacha SRs. So, no. You don’t need to harakiri for now.
Sempoi, I have some weird Gacha SSR summon with auras that boost
weapon skills, what do I do with them?
Keep it. It’s known as a Primal summon and it’s used for grids called Primal grids. It’s more
of a late game goal. It’s beyond what you need to know now. Just make sure to Favorite
them and to not reduce / sell them.
Sempoi, should I use a ten draw outside of Legfest/Premium Gala?
No, unless you’re some God-tier Lucksack who happens to be RNJesus himself. Legfest
has a 6% SSR rate versus the usual 3% rate. You will ‘typically” see better results at that
time.

But Sempoi, I reaaaaally want to pull and I see my lucksack friends

getting 11 SSR in a ten draw!
If you really want this to happen, go ahead:
Sempoi, what is a whale?
Whales are people who have a lot of incomes to spend on the gacha, allowing them to
have more chances to get rare summons, sparking limited characters with real money, and
using P2W gold moon weapons in their grids. They are, as a result, significantly stronger
than your average player, although there is no content in granblue that will ever require
you to whale in order to beat it.

Sempoi, how do I buy Mobacoins/Granblue Coins to buy my surprise

ticket / scam gacha / start the whale life?
If you own an Android Device, you can make purchases directly in game through Google.
If you don’t, there is an excellent guide that about how to buy Mobacoins ​here​.

Sempoi, how can I find raid codes outside of the in-game list?
Try to use ​Raidfinder​ or ​GBF Raiders

Sempoi, I’ve seen this streamer / video where you could click skills
directly, what is it?
This person must have been using ​Viramate​, a Chrome extension that brings various QoL
features to the UI. Please note that this extension is against Granblue ToS, and can result
in you getting suspended for it, although Cygames has been so far very lenient regarding
Viramate users.
Sempoi, when should I start to use Magna/Omega summons as a Main
Summon?
While your grid is underdeveloped and still has no Magna weapon, it’s better to always use
Elemental summons for both your main and support slots. But as you start to progress and
get skilled up Magna weapons in your grid, you should consider using a 3* (MLB) magna
summon as your main. Here is a chart taken from the wiki to help you decide:

Note that a skill level 10 SSR Magna weapon grants you 15% omega skill if it’s a “Big
attack” weapon, and 12% Omega skill of it’s a “Medium attack”.

Sempoi, what do I do with non attack skills weapons?

It depends on what the non-attack skill is but in general, it’s considered “fodder” but please
check with experienced players or refer to the GBF wiki to ensure that it is safe to get rid of
it. Some non-attack skill weapons are fairly useful for gimmick grids or certain fights.

Sempoi, I have 40k attack and yet I do shit damage, why?

In Granblue, raw attack is an extremely misleading representation of your damage
potential, mainly because raw attack doesn’t take into consideration the boost granted by
weapon skills, and weapon skills are actually the bulk of your characters damage.
Sempoi, what’s the use of a Character Type, Proficiency and Race?
Character race is used for Bahamut weapons; it gives bonuses to their stats based on
what race a character is. Character Type will be influenced by Cosmos weapon bonus,
although that’s out of the scope of this guide. Proficiency means that your character will
gain 20% additional ATK + HP from each of the corresponding weapon in your grid (So a
sword user will gain 20% more stats from an Yggdrasil sword).

Sempoi, should I uncap my weapon or fill my grid with the dupe?

It depends on what the grid is and how far you’ve progressed, along with what the weapon
is. Magna weapons, once you filled your grid out with a “base” it is okay to begin
uncapping them with dupes. Be warned, there are special gacha weapons that are dubbed
as Grand Series, ​DO NOT UNCAP THEM WITH DUPES. ​They are weapons that belong
to the limiteds that appear during Premium Galas or Legfest; they may have a very
powerful skill after their FLB.

Sempoi, what is this “Elemental Skill” I get when I level weapons?

Elemental skill gives you the ability to gain additional materials when reducing weapons or
summons. The maximum level for an elemental skill is 75 for the time being. You also get
trophies for hitting milestones when you level them to a certain point as well.

Sempoi, what is that “Sliming” that I hear of everywhere?

Sliming refers to Slime Blasting. It refers to a Co-op mission in the Hard section, 2-1 or,
Hard Co-op, section two, mission one. It’s where players kill Slimes to farm for experience,
½ AP Potions, and Extended Mastery Points. There are detailed guides on how to “Slime
Blast” but this is for much later. A newcomer doesn’t need to worry about this stuff. For
now. Sliming uses as main weapons ​Disparia​ (Dark Jeanne’s gacha weapons) and ​Purity
Blade​ (Dark Lucius’ gacha weapon). If you’ve played through the TKRB event, Honebami
Toushirou​ is an equivalent to Purity Blade. Avoid reducing those weapons by all costs.

Sempoi, are there any other special weapons that I should keep?
Yes, you should save this precise set of R weapons which are important in order to unlock
your first eternal character later on:

Those weapons are mostly obtained on Rare monsters during Story quest, and one of
them is also obtainable through event gachas.

Sempoi, what about gacha SR summons?

Some of the SR summons are extremely important to keep as they are used at every
stage of the game thanks to their extremely strong call effects, they are called ​Carbuncles
(also called “Buncles”)
Available in each element, summoning them will provide an extremely s​trong elemental
damage buff and elemental damage reduction​ of their corresponding elements to your
team at 3* (for example a 3* fire carbuncle call will grant 50% fire attack up and 50%
damage cut against fire to your team), so they cover both offense and defense.

Because they are so potent, people will often slot two MLB carbuncles of their same
element as offensive summon actives, and also potentially slot up to two MLB defensive
carbuncles of the element you’re fighting against to reduce incoming damage (sometimes
completely negating them!)

That’s why it’s recommended to actually ​not uncap carbuncles by using dupes​ of each
others, but instead use Moonlight Stones from the Casino. It’s especially true for wind
carbuncles since they are not obtainable through the gacha, and the game only gives you
4 copies.

Sempoi, how do I get more drops?

First get this fucker and equip him as main summon whenever you leech:

You can get him on the chapter 25/49 free quest “Sharp Ears” (get carrot
drops to trade for a selfie or directly a selfie drop). Don’t forget to
Moonstone it to MLB as well.

Next, remember to get into a crew that has constant drop buffs on, as well as using
journey drops drop rate bonus. Make sure to also equip a friend Kaguya / Rabbit
when leeching. And finally, try to contribute to Treasure Hunter / Bounty stacks,
which will increase drop rate as well. You can find Treasure Hunter on the ​Hawkeye
class line.

Sempoi, Casino will be the death of me, what can I do?

First of all, even though it’s technically against Cygames ToS, you should spare yourself
the torture and open casino on a second window, and play it while you’re doing other stuff.
If you’re really scared of getting banned, there’s no helping it, but know that there’s never
been bans for multiboxing the Casino.

Secondly, if you still truly hate Casino and won’t touch it with a ten foot pole, you can
consider surprise ticketing Earth De La Fille, who has a passive that gives her a chance to
give you Casino Chips at the end of each battle. She can typically ransack between 0 and
20k chips, and occasionally much more if you’re lucky.

And in case you’re wondering: No, Christina is not worth the effort.
Additional Resources
Useful links
The Unofficial English Granblue Fantasy Wiki​. Please, ​bookmark it and use it​, it is one of
the best and most up to date english resource for everything that concerns Granblue.
While we’ve mostly glossed over the different concepts and mechanics of the game, if
you’d like to get some deeper knowledge about the various topics we’ve talked about in
this guide you should be using the wiki first and foremost.

Official Twitter​. You can’t get news any more recent than here!

The Ultimate Guide​: Outdated but still very useful.

GBF-Gaijins​ : Updated translated GBF news from Granblue Radio to Live Streams!

The GBF Gaijin Tier List​ : comprehensive overview of SSR/notable SR GBF characters.

Japanese GBF Wiki​ :detailed information on character skills can be found here.

GBF Gamewith site​ : similar to JP GBF Wiki but with character reviews and data.

Comics / Manga
Gran’s miserable life 4-koma:
https://imgur.com/a/wvGPM

Granblue School ☆ Springtime of life (Doujin - SFW)

http://www.mangahere.co/manga/granblue_fantasy_dj_shiritsu_grablu_jogakuen/c001/

This is Granblue Fantasy!

(In game comic strips teaching the basics of the game)
http://game.granbluefantasy.jp/#beginnercomic

Grand Blues
(In game comics meant to be comical and provide some additional game lore)
http://game.granbluefantasy.jp/#comic/1

Various GBF Communities

Granblue Subreddit
Reddit Discord
Radiance Discord
GBFI Discord
English Wiki Discord
Afterword
I hope you’ve all found this guide instructive or useful! I can’t guarantee that we’ll be able
to update this guide in a timely fashion in the future, so it might get outdated after some
time, we’ll try our best to incorporate important new things in this guide though!

While it might look like a huge information dump, know that with this guide we’ve barely
scratched the surface regarding GBF and its mechanics. No need to panic though, with all
what I’ve presented to you, you should be able to progress safely through all of the early
game. Once you become more experienced, you’ll start to have more specific questions
about the game, and I encourage you to join any GBF community where more
experienced players will be able to guide you and answer you.

Finally, a big thanks to Chiffy and Psychicfire who wrote a consequent amount of pages on
this guide, and a big thanks to all the people who contributed to the guide in one way or
another!

And to you, young Skyfarer who came across this guide, have fun playing Granblue!
This is only the beginning…