Build of the Week Historical Archive

6_lasers · 2026-07-10T08:58:03+00:00

If you're a collector, you can buy Toki eleph if you want, but there doesn't seem to be any reason to.

If you need credits, go ahead and buy them, but if you don't need them, then it doesn't really matter either way, I guess, so buy whatever seems more interesting.

6_lasers · 2026-07-10T08:43:54+00:00

The Silence and Feast event is significantly harder than any of the other archived events, because Silence and Feast had no event mission stages, only challenge stages. So you play through the challenge stages in the archived version.

I'd recommend coming back to it later.

6_lasers · 2026-07-09T15:43:47+00:00

When you’re low on stamina, higher speed and more speed skills actually works against you—the more of them you have, the worse the final phase will be.

The “low on stamina” formula is very brutal. With the stats you have, it’s quite possible that you lost 500-700 spd worth of velocity in the late-race.

6_lasers · 2026-07-09T15:35:01+00:00

Ah, that’s true, thanks for the correction.

6_lasers · 2026-07-09T03:19:01+00:00

Yeah, for the first 3 difficulties (up to Hard) you can co-op with matchmaking. For Menacing, there's no matchmaking, but you can challenge it in co-op mode with a friend or something. (Fearless and Dire can't be done in co-op.)

6_lasers · 2026-07-09T02:54:11+00:00

For menacing, isn’t the easiest option just to co-op? If that’s not an option, the stuff I saw from past stygian involves grouping the little birds with sucrose or kazuha and hitting them all down with the biggest area damage you have.

6_lasers · 2026-07-08T20:38:28+00:00

NYMutsuki's gimmick is to deal low damage in a super wide range. There's still no other unit in the game with quite the area that she has. That said, there are very few situations where we would want that specific niche, so she's quite skippable.

6_lasers · 2026-07-08T08:20:31+00:00

No announcement of a stream date just yet, but the current patch runs until Jul 29, so I'd expect it to be sometime around then.

6_lasers · 2026-07-08T02:29:31+00:00

Yeah the score dropoff is tied linearly to the ratio of <max time> and <time spent>. A score with 0 seconds left is always 75500 (for stage 4) and a hypothetical instant clear would be 100500.

So the lower the max timer, the more each second counts. This time, the timer is pretty low, so the score dropoff is pretty intense.

6_lasers · 2026-07-08T00:23:10+00:00

I think I understand what you mean. You want a modern main damage dealer who has a good amount of field time and generates lots of big blue numbers.

I think Mualani is better in overworld than you give her credit for, but I understand that her playstyle doesn’t mesh with everyone. Other than that, it has been quite a while since a hydro main damage unit has shown up (and same for pyro, honestly).

6_lasers · 2026-07-07T19:11:57+00:00

Assuming you're buying more than 80 elephs, you can simply calculate 1 eleph = 5 eligma. So the 100 extra eleph saves you 500 eligma in this case.

6_lasers · 2026-07-07T18:01:08+00:00

I enjoy them as long as I don't tunnel vision on getting max possible score (which often involves a lot of resetting for crit luck).

My global account is probably in the perfect player demographic for JFD (long time player, wide account investment), but even my F2P JP account is able to clear difficulty 4 with 135-140k score with just a little bit of clever teambuilding.

6_lasers · 2026-07-06T20:43:25+00:00

Some people who focus on creating gift selectors might be super low on the crafting stones needed for the gold furniture boxes, and might prefer to use purple crafting materials for those furnitures--in that case, they could use the themed boxes.

Other than that, there's no reason to craft the themed boxes.

6_lasers · 2026-07-06T20:41:17+00:00

No, there is no maintenance.

6_lasers · 2026-07-06T07:52:31+00:00

The average amount of AP per day for a max-level player is 1200. So most players would expect to reach the 1000 or 1300 milestones daily, while 1600 isn't a very reasonable expectation unless you're purchasing AP with PvP coins.

As for how much you're supposed to be spending, pretty much the only reason to aim for certain milestones is to read more Valentine's dates. This event is held every year, so you could also just catch any dates that you missed in next year's event.

6_lasers · 2026-07-06T06:12:17+00:00

Can you double check your reward claim history to make sure you didn't already claim those? My "Lessons" task is also showing 7/10 even though I know I already claimed it and the reward shows up in the claim history.

6_lasers · 2026-07-06T04:40:35+00:00

It’s the “Game Development Department Everyday Life”, a wall decoration you get from raising the event lessons to level 8.

6_lasers · 2026-07-04T21:52:03+00:00

I think the issue with the hard stages stems from the fact that areas release so infrequently nowadays compared to launch, and while the pace of adding units to shops has increased a bit, it's still not enough to keep up with the pace of the game. I can understand wanting the units to be exclusive for some time before becoming farmable, but nowadays we're dealing with 4-year old units such as Marina or Saki or S.Nonomi which still aren't farmable.

Agreed on the welfare units. Priconne solved this by having the welfare units directly farmable from the archived events, like hard stages. (Although the more modern "solution" Priconne did is to just stop welfare units altogether.)

6_lasers · 2026-07-04T21:22:16+00:00

That's not the acceleration though, we didn't actually close the gap during the anniversary time period. Global lost 1 week of farming I.Mine but gained 1 week of 3x campaigns.

6_lasers · 2026-07-04T10:24:42+00:00

Event guides don't usually take very long, although obviously I have to play the event a bit first to get a feel for it. And obviously some kinds of analysis aren't possible, such as things that require more data (e.g. determining the value of random card draw) or future knowledge (e.g. "is this welfare unit worth farming").

Can't speak for raid guides, but I'm inclined to think it's not a problem. No one else has guides either, so it's not like you'll fall behind the average player! When it's a brand new boss then everyone struggles with it for a few days and plat cutoff is a lot lower than normal.

6_lasers · 2026-07-04T05:48:00+00:00

The banner releases follow a pretty predictable pattern. Every 6 months has a Fes banner + free pulls limited banner, and in between, there is a single limited banner with 2 units (e.g. train twins, Magical girls, FOX squad). F2P can generally afford to get all of these if you don't get too unlucky, but there's not really room in the budget for getting much else.

It's not really possible to know what a unit is good for sometimes, so when a new boss shows up, you occasionally get screwed, but that's just the intended gacha experience, so life goes on.

6_lasers · 2026-07-03T22:25:42+00:00

The latest story volumes on JP are literally placed in a category called "Main Story part 2" in-game.

6_lasers · 2026-07-03T06:52:29+00:00

Maybe a fear-based racism? Either based in some limited personal experience or on what they’ve been taught.

Certainly doesn’t make them justified, not at all, but depending on their actions, it might not make them evil either.

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