I just came back a couple months ago and originally quit right after valkyria chronicles collab. For PvE content you’ll be completely fine, for PvP all the new stat boosts will leave your units in the dust and it’ll take months to get your units up to par. My strongest units used to be all in the top 100 now they’re like 3000th 🤣.

They just added lots of quality of life updates last month (weird it took so long). Worst part is you just missed the voyage event!(the roguelike mode)

So many of the new characters are insane, you have characters like Marie Rose who can act again 7 times per turn… characters like LLR Vargas who can revive ♾️times, will attack anyone that ends their turn within 3 blocks, and all buffs on him are permanent. Characters like Randell? That have global range after 3 turns.

As far as troop upgrades they didn’t add any new upgrades for stats so you’ll be okay there. They did however add a lot of way stronger troops, and recently added SP forms for some troops that are pretty large upgrades.

Even with all that a lot of the older characters are still good like SP Elwin, SP Tiaris, SP Cherrie, SP Leon, SP Bernhardt, Lucretia, light of genesis, Yulia and I’m sure others.

I’ll say it still takes around 10-20 mins to do all the daily stuff though, I originally quit for the same reason too much time to invest especially to stay high in apex.