When I did my annual Granblue Fantasy “state of the grid” post the other day, I realized I’ve been saying I’ll replace my Dark mainhand for ages but haven’t gotten round to it. Actually my existing Rise of the Beasts dark sword is also plenty useful, but since I have a ton of crystals and tickets to waste, I’m going to spark a Parazonium to use for dagger classes and get Orchid in the mix.
I may also spark again at the end of summer to get Silva’s swimsuit skin as well. She’s my game-long MVP so she deserves some new clothes once in a while.
No need to waste time on long intros, since this is my 4th or 5th spark and I have a ton of SSRs already. IIRC I have all the R characters and almost all the SR characters released to date as well. Thus apart from my spark target, I’m very likely to pull a ton of bronze, silver and gold moons (for non-players: in Granblue Fantasy, if you pull a character that you have already, the game gives you an item called a “moon” that you can trade for items in the shop. It’s not like most other gacha games where you need to pull duplicates to uncap characters).
TBH I was looking forward to racking up some Gold moons because I was going to exchange them for a Siero Pick Ticket and get Shiva, but I checked just now and it turns out I’ve had more than enough gold moons all along. Huh. Btw, for any new Granblue Fantasy players reading this post, DO NOT buy a Siero Pick Ticket with 150 gold moons. By far the best use of your gold moons is for damascus ingots to uncap weapons. If you’re running a Hades grid, you can also trade for a Gisla or two, if that’s still meta.
If you must buy a Siero Pick ticket, use it for characters you cannot get through the game, like Visa Zooey or Bluray characters. Wasting a Siero Pick on Shiva is for lazy and jaded players like me who don’t care about the optimum way to play the game. But really, you won’t be a newbie any more by the time you get 150 gold moons, so I don’t know why I bother lecturing you.
On with the spark! I already pulled 14 times, 4 from the daily draws and 10 single-pull tickets. Didn’t get anything good, of course. I have another 94 single pull tickets so I’ll pull them all for now.
Summer Cassius get:
Summer Alexiel. Lol, what are those ridiculous glasses?
108 sparks get. Used 600 crystals, now I have 110 sparks. I also have 3 10-pull tickets, might as well waste them here. Unlike crystals, draw tickets only have one use, so there’s no need to save them when sparking.
Ooh, Summer Silva. End-of-summer spark is cancelled then, unless something great is released.
Naoise. Have I ever had a Naoise in my party? Maybe a free SR or something? Can’t remember.
140 sparks get. The rest is crystals.
Summer Teena get.
Also pulled a Freyr dupe. I thought he was new, but turns out I have two already. I have sunlight stones to spare so I might fully uncap him later.
SR Aster get.
The rest were all dupes or gold moons. Time to get what I came for.
Total tally
SSR: Summer Alexiel, Summer Silva, Naoise, Summer Teena, Orchid (spark target)
SR: Summer Cassius, Aster
Gold moons and SSR dupes: Yggdrasil, Summer Alexiel dupe, Selfira, Levin sisters, Romeo, Selfira (again), Summer Silva dupe, Freyr, Summer Danua, Drang
Okay, I got what I wanted, including Summer Silva. Processing the Parazonium and adding it to my grid will take a little longer due to laziness, but I’ll get round to it in the end. And now I’ll have to find other ways to waste my remaining crystals. 90,000 are reserved for a New Years’ spark. The rest, eh, I’ll figure something out.
Much more importantly, we must solve the question of how Silva looks in her new swimsuit. If it’s too ugly or tacky, I won’t let her wear it. Let’s just use the Earth unit and see. And I’ll throw Summer Alexiel in while I’m at it…
Well it’s nice enough. Kind of ordinary, but nice. I’m not really a fan of bikinis so IMO a yukata look would have been better for Silva. It would also stop her from looking so much like Summer Heles. Still a free skin is a free skin so no complaints. I should have picked a better enemy and not Leviathan, because that dark watery background makes them look cold. Ever been to the pool or the beach on a freezing cold day? Brrr.
Also in the process of sorting out my new stuff, I realized I can use Sunlight Stones to uncap the omega summons to level 200. Grinding for mats? Hell no. This means I won’t have any Sunlight Stones to spare for uncapping Shiva, so I will hold off on getting that Siero Pick Ticket for now.
Okay, that’s enough Granblue Fantasy for one day. Adieu~
Thanks for the updates on GBF, Kina! I love your GBF-related posts and your blog in general.
I stopped playing the game a few months ago. I felt like this game became more and more a chore to deal with as I progressed deeper and deeper into high rank and endgame content. I really love Granblue for what it offers. But I think in the end, I couldn´t justify the time investment anymore. If it gets to you, GBF is probably very dangerous for your other hobbies and it doesn´t help with your personal development once you sit hours and hours in front of your smartphone or pc, reloading the game because that´s called “grinding”.
Also, GW became unbearable for me once i participated a few times. I was at my friend´s place, playing GBF “together” for the last fire GW. We were in his room and everyone just hit reload for hours. I questioned this behavior and took the decision to leave GBF behind. While it was never some sort of addicition or caused me problems, I always felt like wasting time once I got into the high rank and endgame stuff. These days, i feel better, because I have more time for other things and can play games again that doesn´t demand like 95% of my freetime.
Still, i will always come back to your blog, reading about your newest adventures. Because your posts are always very entertaining. 🙂 Keep the good work up! And take care.
You more or less summarized the reason why I don’t play as much these days as I used to. I gave up on GW within a few months of starting the game, but the problem with the combat extends throughout the game. You spend all your time trying to acquire powerful attacks, weapons and characters only so you can hitting Attack+F5 the whole time. Or, my preferred method, hit the Semi-Auto button in the corner and tab out. I can’t complain too much because I played it that way for years and heck, I still play, but it’s really boring.
Congratulations on getting out and thanks for reading!
I always assumed that you played GF on your laptop for some reason; however, a sliver of doubt wormed its way into my mind after seeing the smartphone-sized screen captures. So: laptop, tablet or smartphone? 😜
Apart from that, your GF posts are still as entertaining as ever — and the Dragon Ball reference in that report’s title is the cherry on the cake. Keep them coming! 😆
Desktop, actually. Bzzzt, no prize for you. If the screenshots are small, it’s because I resized them that way.
Cool, you picked Orchid. Nice choice.
I haven’t used her even once, but yeah I have her.
I have 160 gold moons now, I want to gold moon doggo zodiac general. Should I?
If you really want her, follow your heart. I hoarded gold moons for so long that I lost interest in the game without ever spending them. Better to use it early on something that will give you pleasure.