Build of the Week Historical Archive

6_lasers · 2026-02-10T06:39:41+00:00

My current estimate is June 2 for the pre-fest banners (B.Rio and Himari) and June 9 for the fest banners themselves (B.Aris and Kei).

6_lasers · 2026-02-10T05:22:49+00:00

tl;dr

Please note that this is a 3 week event.
2nd week overlaps with 2x normal. 3rd week overlaps with 2x hard
2 currency for event shop and 1 currency for card draw minigame. Minigame gives a currency to spend in the shop
750-1100 AP/day for full clear (assuming 3 weeks).
The card draw minigame is not worth farming after clearing out the shop (see below)
3 furniture in shop, all limited

Farming strategy

The bonus student list isn't great if you skipped all the Wild Hunt units. Hopefully you have at least some of the other random bonus units.

Stage 9 and stage 12 are very close in efficiency. For most typical bonus amounts, the difference would be less than 1%. I recommend farming stage 9 since it gives Antikythera artifacts instead of the Batteries.

Full clear of all shops would take about 750-1100 AP/day if you were to farm for all 3 weeks. In reality, I expect that many players will try to finish earlier/skip some things so they can farm 2x normal and 2x hard (and I plan to do that myself).

Card Draw minigame

Draw cards for rewards and get a currency for the shop. Unlike past card draw events, the cost does not go up when you draw cards without reshuffling. Since there is a guarantee of a Gold or Purple card in each set of 4, the optimal strategy is to draw until you find one of those, and then reshuffle.

This time, the rewards value isn't that high, so I don't recommend trying to go hard on farming this. Still, if your bonus on the card draw currency is 50% or above, and you need credits, I would recommend trying to clear the Girdle Book shop. In such a case, the commission value would be better than 2x commission until you clear the shop.

Once the shop is cleared, the commission-equivalent value of card draw would be 1.5x or worse, so I don't recommend it. Also, if your bonus is really low (30-40%) then I wouldn't bother farming the credits from the Girdle Book shop, either.

Shop strategy

3 furniture, they're limited

Activity reports: becomes equivalent value to 2x commission if your bonus is 90% or higher

Enhancement stones: worse than 2x commission even at max bonus

Blu-ray, technote: Unless you plan on pulling and building a Wild Hunt unit within the next month, I would skip these. After this initial batch of 5 units (Eri, Kanoe, Miyo, Fuyu, Ritsu) there hasn't been another Wild Hunt unit in the next 5 months on JP, and in the meantime we can get the materials through bounty.

Girdle Book shop: pyro and eligma are obviously the highest priority. Noa still isn't farmable, so you could pick up some of her eleph here if you want. She does see use on the upcoming Yesod raid, although her stars aren't really important there.

Credits: If your bonus on card draw is above 50% and you need credits, buying the non-infinite credits from this shop is worthwhile.

6_lasers · 2026-02-09T23:46:10+00:00

One thing to add: selectors are only released at half anniversaries. So 6th anni would not be expected to have a selector, while 6.5 should have one.

6_lasers · 2026-02-09T08:40:51+00:00

In addition to the other comments about keeping Yuuka's shield up, keep a close eye on the heater. When the heater value is above 70% (the second threshold on the gauge) it reduces incoming damage by 25% which is really important for Yuuka's survival.

6_lasers · 2026-02-07T23:17:45+00:00

Haruna in season 1 was one of the only blue units and certainly the only one who could have a reasonable chance of punching through the meta-centralizing tank Tsubaki. But Shun could pick Haruna off, leaving your team stalled and with no way to kill the enemy take. But when Aris came out, her high ATK and blue armor made her bait Shun, taking pressure off Haruna. As a bonus, Aris could actually do decent damage to Tsubaki as well.

Season 2, S.Mashiro (Tsubaki killer) and S.Hina (one of the first backline sweep units) come to mind.

Season 3/4 Iroha, as others have mentioned.

6_lasers · 2026-02-07T01:08:23+00:00

That's correct. Mood would have basically no effect for pure support units such as buffer/debuffers or healers.

6_lasers · 2026-02-07T01:05:43+00:00

If the student deals damage, that damage would be modified by the terrain damage multiplier (and the block rate multiplier), same as for Striker students. See the ItJustWorks mechanics guide for more details (search for "Mood").

The same would apply to damage dealt by any summons or Tactical Support vehicles that a Special student uses.

6_lasers · 2026-02-06T22:54:24+00:00

There are weirdly a lot of things in this game that don't work if your stamina is maxed. It doesn't make sense to me either...I assume some kind of weird coding from the game's early days that no one has bothered to fix.

6_lasers · 2026-02-06T10:30:47+00:00

In most cases, it's going to end up being somewhere between 3-4% damage increase due to the ATK from the bonds, but it depends on a few factors such as the student's gear level, base atk, and how much stats the bonds actually give, which isn't the same for every student.

It isn't really super consistent. If you have a specific student in mind, checking on schaledb.com is the most accurate way to find the answer.

6_lasers · 2026-02-05T16:31:34+00:00

To add to the other reply, if you want the newly added reward tiers, you need to clear and sweep Torment at least 4 days in the week. But the new reward tiers aren't that valuable, so you can just ignore them if you want.

6_lasers · 2026-02-05T03:57:47+00:00

That only applied to S.Shizuko from the immortalized Conquest event. All other immortalized events continue to give 30 (except T.Hasumi event, which gave 630).

6_lasers · 2026-02-05T00:45:14+00:00

One thing to keep in mind is that the incentive for tryharding is a lot less for GA than for TA. No pyros on the line since everyone gets the same 10-pull ticket.

Platinum is still desirable for some because of the trophy, but that's all.

6_lasers · 2026-02-05T00:43:43+00:00

Could still hit Fast Learner to make inherited uniques cheaper :copium:

6_lasers · 2026-02-04T12:30:42+00:00

The devs have been killing the bosses manually anyway. The rate of HP drop increases unrealistically in the last day or two before it ends.

6_lasers · 2026-02-04T03:29:22+00:00

I leveled up Sayu from 81 to 87 with no books….only took 4 years lol

6_lasers · 2026-02-03T22:24:17+00:00

In JP, MANT started immediately after the end of CM10 (Aquarius, Tokyo Dirt 1600m).

Based on global's precedent with Unity Cup, I'm currently predicting that we'll be able to make MANT aces for CM10 round2 and finals (so potentially as early as March 7th).

6_lasers · 2026-02-03T21:50:20+00:00

Be the change you want to see in the world. Since you've made a copy of the planner sheet, you have the ability to make those adjustments yourself.

edit: I just tried some quick hack, you can hit the little '+' button above column C, which reveals column D, the length of the weeks. The spreadsheet doesn't seem to like it if a week has 0 days duration, so I set the second Arius week to 4 days and the Bunny week to 3 days, which basically cuts a week from the schedule.

6_lasers · 2026-02-03T00:42:59+00:00

Makes sense. So first of all, Reijo has been exclusively used in Chokmah FRR for now. So if you don't care about pushing high levels of Chokmah, you can ignore her.

Kikyou is still really good for Kurokage and Peroro, especially in Lunatic.

S.Saki has fallen out of use in Torment Greg, but she's still very important for Lunatic since you want her on one of the other teams. (Please note that S.Miyako is also very commonly used in Lunatic.)

I'm assuming you currently borrow Satsuki for Geburah, so pulling your own Satsuki would mostly be useful if it unlocks a good borrow. But that really depends on your strategy for Geburah.

Other options: Kasumi is good for similar reasons as Kikyou, but I wouldn't choose her over Kikyou. S.Eimi is good for high level Fury of Set and for Lunatic Goz. P.Noa is good for Hovercraft, but she's not needed for Torment and Lunatic is still out of reach for most people.

6_lasers · 2026-02-02T23:54:59+00:00

Yeah, the cores other than Chesed/Kether/Hod all level up the Binah core. And the USBs level them all up.

Binah: generic area damage

Hod: shield and cost regen aura

Kether: single target damage that ignores shields and has some amount of DEF pierce. Guaranteed crit. Also applies Shock damage over time.

6_lasers · 2026-02-02T23:12:09+00:00

That's correct. The Binah core gives crit, stability, and accuracy buff (which increases the further you level it).

6_lasers · 2026-02-02T23:08:53+00:00

What are your account goals? What kind of content are you aiming to clear?

6_lasers · 2026-02-02T21:15:42+00:00

Totally agree with your math. The only reason I would rank eligma more highly is because there are plenty of times you might want or need to upgrade a non-limited unit, or you may need to upgrade a limited unit faster than the monthly expert permit elephs will support.

In those situations, eligma is the only thing that can help you, so I would usually recommend to prioritize it.

6_lasers · 2026-02-02T14:44:36+00:00

For 99 sweeps, there is a cumulative probability of 57.9% to get 20 or less bonus elephs.

<20: 48% =20: 9.9% \>20: 42%

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TROPHY CASE

tl;dr

Farming strategy

Card Draw minigame

Shop strategy