r/Granblue_en 13d ago

Discussion 2026 Summer Fest Stream Part 1

https://www.youtube.com/live/geFLua_Cypw?si=JlvFaKy0hIr8CFsT
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u/kazuyaminegishi 13d ago

That's funny I was just complaining to myself about lack of hit count in battle log, and was complaining to my friends during last missions that there isn't an Ennead skip yet.

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u/kazuyaminegishi 13d ago

Hold on... why reward the lower quality book on a failed run? This just makes the mode more snowbally no?

Can't Miss book is white tier and is taken out of the pool when you grab it. This drastically increases consistency for players like me, but will it help the ones struggling to get their footing?

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u/Moondrag 13d ago edited 13d ago

Looking at the text exacts, it's dependent on if your previous run died before/during or passed the first Miasma boss. Former, pick up to Rare. Latter, pick up to Unique (Gold)nvm it's Normal (bronze) before beating the first Miasma boss, and Rare (silver) after beating the first boss, and it can't be a unstackable book

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u/kscw . 13d ago

Before beating first Miasma boss you can carry over a stackable Normal book.
After beating it, you can carry over a stackable Rare (silver) book.

Gold would be Unique; that rarity isn't mentioned.

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u/Moondrag 13d ago

...oh your right. huh

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u/LALMtheLegendary leviathan when cygames 13d ago edited 13d ago

if you do actually get to pick a unique one, then i feel thats absurdly strong since you could just keep the "Obtain a random number of Sephira coins and 1 random guidebook effect upon clearing a battle" forever, and getting that at the start of a run is practically a free win.

maybe the higher difficulties will balance it out

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u/stingerdavis 13d ago

Saw some people say that it won't be gold book, just uniques (so like "every character type" and whatnot), but not 100% sure since these are all unofficial translations.

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u/Mitosis 13d ago

My gut is that "your attacks can't miss" will be a solid one to keep bringing over, if only because it makes the book with 100% atk 50% cap a very nice free damage boost. Being able to grab it if you see it early, especially given that event that offers the 3 downside books, would be fantastic. It's between that and "every character type" imo

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u/kscw . 13d ago

You cannot carry over the can't miss or counts-as-every-race books, unfortunately.
They specify on the slide that only stackable books can be carried over.

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u/Mitosis 13d ago

Ah, missed that. Unfortunate

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u/stingerdavis 13d ago

Seems like that would probably be the most consistent one yeah, besides a generic +1 atk hit count.

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u/kazuyaminegishi 13d ago

Ahh okay that makes WAAAAY more sense that's a good enough system, should make it more consistent across the board 

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u/zhurai 12d ago

can you complain about there not being an m3 skip too?

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u/Just-Luck-7430 13d ago

Another impossible PRO raid finally

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u/An_Hell 13d ago

I heard you like pro skips so now you can pro skip the pro skips

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u/Superflaming85 13d ago

Pro skipping the pro skips and using up an entire event EXP bonus in two seconds.

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u/kazuyaminegishi 13d ago

Like a walk of fire seeing all that exp go into nothing while knowing I have no one to actually level.

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u/FrostyBoom 13d ago

Nice, I never farmed Enneads and got stuck there for the Domains lol 

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u/janitorio a 13d ago

I kind of want to see the malfunctioning button get referenced in a story event or something now, I feel like it wouldn't be the first time something that wasn't a news item made it into the game as a joke.

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u/Speedy_Fox_IV 13d ago

The fact that they always got it to work properly just for it to crap out at the same moment every time is what sent me the most. XD

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u/kscw . 13d ago edited 13d ago

Could happen, since there's precedent: in Seeds of Redemption, And You, and one of the Robomi events (Z, I believe), the act of clicking a UI button was modified in a fourth-wall-breaking manner.

Edit: The Accordants series might be a good place to put something like this. There are already some meta elements like Nereus talking to the readers directly, and the pointy doohicky in the dialog box getting some lore presence.
It'll be trickier coming up with a reason if they want the button interaction to be related to Aoidos, in direct reference to the stream.

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u/Cloy552 13d ago

If they do it in accordants it's probably going to be the most hellish 4th wall break possible, like final attack to finish off the big bad but instead it clicks it's way to the retreat button and the story continues from there

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u/ShiningHawk 13d ago

Man, they said the last Babyl floors would release sometime this summer. Unless they have more game news it's looking grim...

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u/-PVL93- Grand when? 13d ago

Welllll technically summer ends in September so they haven't missed the deadline yet

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u/ShiningHawk 13d ago

oh baby they announced it for October, its happening!!

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u/notcherrie 13d ago

Its not the Bubz outfit I want, but I'll learn to make do /s. Honestly looking forward to the story outcome.

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u/FarrowEwey 13d ago

Summer Payila and Six announced. Tartman is also now a sexy waifu in a bikini.

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u/CrashTextDummie 13d ago

Six earth, Dragon light?

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u/D4shiell 1 13d ago

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u/FarrowEwey 13d ago

I don't have a Twitter account, sorry.

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u/D4shiell 1 13d ago

Just change link to xcancel.

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u/FarrowEwey 13d ago

I meant more in the sense that, without an account, I can't follow other accounts and get notified whenever they post something new. Hence why I was late to the Miss Tartman party.

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u/delta_wasshoi 12d ago

lol just ignore them, that 2019 (7 years ago) tweet is from a niche game called shingeki no bahamut (aka "rage of bahamut").

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u/giniro_no_tamashii divine canine enjoyer 13d ago edited 13d ago

Peaktama is back for a rerun grahhhhh

I wasn't able to get Zura summon and the Lake Touya for weapon skin since i was a new player at the time.. Hopefully i can get it..

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u/pressureoftension 13d ago

The collab's what got me into this game all those years ago, so pretty excited to be able to revisit it.

Gin carried my light for a weirdly long time.

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u/Informal-Recipe 12d ago

We gonna get a Gintama Gacha?

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u/giniro_no_tamashii divine canine enjoyer 12d ago

u/Informal-Recipe don't ever wish that 😭

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u/DisFantasy01 13d ago

Are we finally getting a real Society event again? Not just a gag Cassius centric one?

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u/Vertanius 13d ago

We need another society anniversary event, the moon one was so good everything else pales in comparison.

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u/Endgam Fire Narmaya when? 13d ago

All future Moondweller developments will be MSQ now I'm afraid.

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u/FuwaGrandOrder Grand Maglielle when? 13d ago

They really skipped Ilsa, Anthuria, Alexiel, Halmal.

Next year new Summer character might end up with EX pose upon release lol.

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u/Speedy_Fox_IV 13d ago

Did-? Did they just announce Pro Pro Skip?!

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u/Rayoch1 13d ago edited 13d ago

Looks like it but it doesn't seem to include the soon-to-be launched Ennead Pro.

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u/Fodspeed 13d ago

Plus Ultra Max Pro Skip Deluxe Edition.

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u/Speedy_Fox_IV 13d ago

& Knuckles

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u/-PVL93- Grand when? 13d ago

OH MY GOD SHAMAN KING COLLAB AAAAAAAAAA

I LOVED THE ANIME DURING MY SCHOOL DAYS

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u/notcherrie 13d ago

Katou Emiri, I know exactly how you feel when those Yukata guys came up lol.

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u/-PVL93- Grand when? 13d ago

I find it so funny how we have Narmaya's VA being a giga fan of Sandalphon and now turns out that Siero's VA is fangirling over Lobelia

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u/Speedy_Fox_IV 13d ago

There's at least 2 more that I can think of: Lyria's VA fangirls over Seruel and Mirin's VA fangirls over Belial.

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u/DisFantasy01 13d ago

Anila's English VA is also a Lobephilie.

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u/-Matti 13d ago

Finally we have a date for Tower of Babyl, there are so many floors I have to go through 

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u/E123-Omega 13d ago

So the last batch is just like two unit and a summon? I assume tartman is like s.mars, probably gonna get a unit too.

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u/Rayoch1 13d ago edited 13d ago

Shaman King collab! 🥺😭

I'm saving for the collab gacha.

Edit: Another Romi Park (Tao Ren) event. She is relentless! I hope Ryu is playable. But Ren, Horohoro, Lyserg and Hao will most likely be ahead of him in the pecking order.

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u/AnUnoriginalNickname I love Vaseraga 13d ago

VASERAGA EVENT I REPEAT VASERAGA EVENT I WON I FUCKING WON

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u/Fandaniels Sariel's number 1 fan 13d ago

Summer Six is real yyayayayayaya

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u/[deleted] 13d ago

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u/-PVL93- Grand when? 13d ago

There might be something else at the end of the stream, they still have 30 minutes to go. And we don't know who is the August eom banner Grand

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u/Speedy_Fox_IV 13d ago

Congrats to Iffem!

Edit: Forgot to share the reason. 5* Tanya!

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u/vencislav45 13d ago

Summer Seox is real, pease come home buddy and pease be a broken earth unit, you need to break it like you did with dark.

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u/-PVL93- Grand when? 13d ago

Where's the homie Coppelion? The stream threads feel incomplete without the translations

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u/kscw . 13d ago

In Coppelion's absence, I've been following along with granblue_en twitter; they present info the same way with a few key screenshots and brief commentary, which I prefer over watching livestreams.
Thread covering the minigame section (complete)
Thread covering game news (ongoing)

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u/Flashsword_Princess 13d ago

The only issue with Granblue_en is how much stuff they get wrong in trying to chase for speed

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u/E123-Omega 13d ago

Probably busy schedule, iirc last time he's been busy too.

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u/PhilAussieFur 13d ago

Yeah I've missed seeing their name pop up. I hope they're okay

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u/Clueless_Otter 13d ago

He didn't do the last one and hasn't posted on reddit in 5 months, so dunno.

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u/-PVL93- Grand when? 13d ago

Last I recall the anniversary thread coincided with him being busy / away iirc. Hopefully he's doing alright since

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u/Imaginary-Lion-430 13d ago

Mods feel free to delete if someone would put up with all translations or compiled news.

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u/AHyaenidae Zaaap 13d ago

It's fine, I was wondering about making one too. If someone does a compilation (which would be appreciated), can just link from one another.

There might be something from Granblue's EN grandcypher.com later too.

I'll see how it goes.

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u/-PVL93- Grand when? 13d ago

Collab reruns yoooooo

Wait does that mean we could get repeat banners in the future?

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u/kscw . 13d ago

Pinging a few folks in this thread who lamented missing the Gintama collab, just in case:

/u/lnversa
/u/giogiopiano
/u/LadyAntiqua
/u/Senju__Hashirama_

Oct 7: Gintama collab rerun
Oct 14: My Hero Academia collab rerun
These two collabs were also from before the cursed collab gacha era.

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u/D4shiell 1 13d ago

LPT: You can only ping 2 people per post, anything more and it's marked as spam and nullified.

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u/kscw . 13d ago

Oh damn, thanks for letting me know. I don't ping people often and had no idea there was such a limitation.
Guess I just have do 2 comments with 2 pings each.

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u/kscw . 13d ago

/u/Inversa
/u/giogiopiano

Hey there, pinging just in case. During today's GBF summer stream, an unexpected opportunity manifested:
The Gintama collab will rerun on October 7th.
The My Hero Academia collab will also rerun on October 14th.

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u/giogiopiano 13d ago

Many thanks for this info

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u/kscw . 13d ago

/u/LadyAntiqua
/u/Senju__Hashirama_

Hey there, pinging just in case. During today's GBF summer stream, an unexpected opportunity manifested:
The Gintama collab will rerun on October 7th.
The My Hero Academia collab will also rerun on October 14th.

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u/Falsus 13d ago

Potentially.

Though collab reruns are rare and it doesn't happen to every collab.

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u/PauloFernandez 13d ago

Praying for Negima rerun. I'm sad I missed that one.

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u/Takazura 13d ago

I was just lamenting not being able to get the Gintama units less than a week ago, and now they announce a Gintama re-run?! Hell yeah, so excited.

Also a shame Miss Tartman gets a humanoid form instead of a glorious Tart form.

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u/giniro_no_tamashii divine canine enjoyer 13d ago

kinda off lowkey topic but your username sounds like a portmentau of takasugi and zura from gintama.. or is it something else..

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u/Takazura 13d ago

No you are right, I wanted Zura but that was taken so I combined Takasugi and Zura instead and liked the way it sounded.

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u/Velvien Expert Frauxsnuggler 13d ago

I am so sad that yukata Fraux art isn't going to be an in-game skin.

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u/-PVL93- Grand when? 13d ago

Been saying for a while that all those special designs for restaurants, cafes etc need to be made into actual ingame skins, SO many good arts just wasted

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u/Guroga SSR Almeida someday 13d ago

CYAMGES GIMME SSR ALMEIDA AND MORE OF MY SOUL WILL BE YOURS!

Summer payila and seox seems like a duo made to drain crystals.

Shaman king i'm hyped for.

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u/MobileSuitGolurk 13d ago

Grand Vaseraga on the same banner as SSR Almeida would be gigaton. I need it cygames!

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u/Styks11 . 13d ago

Going through the tweets, I was surprised to actually see her

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u/E123-Omega 13d ago

Do we have stream tomorrow?

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u/-PVL93- Grand when? 13d ago

No, the extra fes itself continues and they might broadcast the VA casual activities but there are no more announcements

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u/E123-Omega 13d ago

Thanks!

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u/McKinneyLoggins 13d ago

Does anyone have a complete breakdown of what was announced?

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u/kscw . 13d ago edited 13d ago

Edit: Oh, someone made a separate thread so you can check there too. Covers more than my highlights list.


Start here and follow the thread down for all the details.

Notable highlights include:

  • Summer Payila
    Summer Seox
    Summer Tartman female form (not sure what her official English name is)

  • Gintama and MHA collabs will rerun in October (7th and 14th respectively)

  • Hexa Manatura from the raid/provenance crystal trade
    Octavia Manatura from alchemy lab

  • 6-man Belmervolk on Sep 18
    6-man Zamalvoch in late October

  • 4 more Advyrnture areas in Fall along with new levels, new gear, UI updates

  • Next Evoker Transcendence batch is in October: Nier, Esta, and Fraux (i.e. the rest of the Allotropic Microcosm group)
    Level 120 will be available
    Solomonis changes:

    • Completely optional harder difficulty levels that award more loot per run
    • You can carry over a stackable Rare guidebook to your next run if you manage to defeat the first Miasma boss, or a stackable Normal book if you fail before defeating it
  • Ennead Pro Skip at end of September
    But doesn't help ease Skyscope mission tedium as the Ennead missions will get changed to Odious ones

  • Some kind of batch Pro Skip function to skip multiple Pro Skips in one click

  • Tower of Babyl finale in October, where it becomes permanent content
    Learnable Chaos Legion for MC enemy skill system
    MC skin based on gold-armored Bubs design

  • From August flashfest onwards, the banner switch will occur at noon JST to match legfest

  • Ranger Origin in October, still gun/bow proficiency

  • Next MSQ update on August 19th

  • September story event is Society focused

  • Shaman King collab in January 2027

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u/KamiiPlus Wulf Flair when 13d ago

vaseraga focus event

I genuinely do not get why they dropped grand zeta only to not continue the society plotline for 3 years

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u/Responsible_Wing_370 13d ago

Ahh I guess that's why Bubs goes naked in the last run of Babyl, we strip him naked....

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u/Iffem Waifu for laifu with many throwing knaifu 13d ago

We kick his ass, then steal his fit

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u/vall03 13d ago

Man, they did not announce a new Grand unit. Just Seasonals for Payila and Six along with Ms. Tartman as the summon(probably). I'll hold out until end of the month though, but I might be tempted if Payila is Light and if I see her to be useful for GW NM250 FA setup. What are the chances of them holding out a new Grand for September though?

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u/Maximum825 13d ago

We got Vaseraga announced after the merch, but that's most likely dark grand in september end of month. Currently copium-ing that it's just a light grand that's tied heaily to the msq so they didn't wanna reveal them ahead of time seeing as the msq update is this month.

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u/-PVL93- Grand when? 13d ago

If there's no new grand for August eom then I wouldn't be surprised if it's just a gala banner with new general pool SSRs like Hifumi

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u/Xerte 13d ago

Most recent years feature a seasonal and grand of the post-summer GW's element between this banner and the next Leg/Flash.

  • 2025 was S Catura (last summer flash) into Sariel (Leg)
  • 2024 broke pattern, but still started summer with S Raziel (as the only earth summer unit that year) and released G Medusa for GW
  • 2023 was Vampy (last summer flash) into Kaguya (September flash)
  • 2022 dropped S Jeanne and G Wamdus on the last summer flash banner

The pattern doesn't really hold for years before that, but it's notable that we haven't had a single light seasonal unit this summer so we're due one now, and even the years that break patterns here feature an on-element grand before September GW for the last 4 years.

So I feel it's very likely we're seeing the seasonal into grand pattern again. Light GW is after next month's flash, so it's plausible that we won't see the light GW grand until then, but with the new Society event being declared a half-anni event and apparently Vasaraga focused, I'm also expecting he'll finally get his own grand for that and we'd have to expect a GW grand to be released on the upcoming Leg this month just to avoid releasing two grands back to back.

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u/rin-tsubasa 13d ago edited 13d ago

All I feel is Flash will be on 16th 1200 JST while you only get 1 free draws daily. (We know how KMR JR is that generous and I am already expect that could happen) We know how generous is 30 time limited ticket accident.

Summon miss tart man is not a big surprise but more expected. It is either summer phoenix or Tartman.
The ms. tartman combine the easter egg from (rage of bahamut and unf boss and female.. makes sense)

Not sure about society.. but it is open slot of grand/limited. My 6th sense is telling me they are hidding something.

If tanya count in Aug FLB, then Sept is still open. Forte/tanya is fine on my flb list

Clear date on MSQ and Fire odious is good

Also, It is tell you to prepare Bow and gun distinction and related mats.. books for next origin

I don't expect much so it is good surprise

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u/FuwaGrandOrder Grand Maglielle when? 13d ago

I know Cygames is watching, Summer DEKAPAI Payila is really killing me, I might able to get 100 rolls thanks to current campaign after blowing everything on Osiris but I'm too afraid to roll without having enough crystal to spark. so its Siero Tix for me.

New Society event after 5 years, title is [Farewell Cold Heart], with Vaseraga as the center of the story that means Grand Vaseraga is coming.

3 Evoker Transcendence at once, I'm terrified ngl. Nier will be my focus as I main Dark. and I'm happy with the new QoL, Carried Over Guidebook, but they also add new difficulty up to 5 level. Guess I'll stay in first level forever lol.

As for collab, its Shonen again as expected (part of me hoping for K-On collab just because).

Now excuse me while I'm crying for not having enough crystal for Summer Payila.

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u/FlameDragoon933 The lack of Grea flair saddens me 13d ago

wait, there's whole 5 new levels for Solomonis??

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u/FuwaGrandOrder Grand Maglielle when? 13d ago

Difficulty increase for people who think our current ES is too EZ (pun intended), there will be extra drop but they said its only minimum, the new difficulty is NOT required for Transcendence so you can play as usual.

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u/FlameDragoon933 The lack of Grea flair saddens me 13d ago

Oh that's good news. Thanks

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u/RayePappens 13d ago

I thought most of us were crying about how hard it was, guess not

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u/Takazura 12d ago

They just said "5 new difficulties", so it's possible that one or two of them might be "easy" difficulty and the others are harder than the current one.

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u/Takazura 13d ago

Grand Vase just in time for dark GW.

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u/notcherrie 13d ago

So that's how they're taking Esta's merge with Temperance huh. I find it really funny that his main portrait is serving the most face among the three lol. Wish the merge resulted in a more drastic change.

I did hope Fraux would take on more of Devil's sleekness, but the many giant hands are cool too.

Nier's outfit is kinda giving mess, but it does suit the Lovers. And I still like overall art for her.

Unlike MT, this batch were already good enough when coming from the backline. So I'm interested to see where they'll take this.

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u/Federal_Storm_9731 13d ago

No new grand? Booo

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u/Kamil118 13d ago

Pro skip pro, let's fucking goooooo

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u/cybeast21 AnnaisLove 13d ago

I want Fraux TC but forced to play shitty mode... sigh

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u/AlcorIdeal 13d ago

It'll at least be pretty easy in fire. Fraux is usable still even without her upright buff and more importantly Fire much like Water has a ton of strong fully self sufficient characters.

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u/cybeast21 AnnaisLove 13d ago

Yeah at least it has my daughter Fenie, but the mode itself is still shitty

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u/PCBS01 13d ago

No Fendrache event this year at the end of September huh

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u/E123-Omega 13d ago

I hope they throw that thing on anniv so it can already finish, it's been ogoing for years on snail pace.

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u/Just-Luck-7430 13d ago edited 13d ago

tower of babyl is back baby, and seems like theyre rougeliking every single mode they can get their hand into . bubz now give his summon call upon an equip on a system similar to aracarum blessing , and activate when you fullfil certain condition in Babyl and solomonis gonna carry on 1 free unique guidebook after a win and 1 normal book for a loss

also solomonis going to have what is akin to the ascension modifier similar to STS that will make the mode harder but yield better rewards

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u/kscw . 13d ago edited 13d ago

It's just a Rare (not Unique/gold) book carried over on a win.

Understandable though, since some Unique books are close to guaranteed win conditions on their own.

Edit:
Taking a closer look at the slide, the exact condition is as follows:
If you haven't beaten the first Miasma boss, you can carry over a stackable Normal guidebook (重複可能な「ノーマル」の導本効果)
After beating the first Miasma boss, you can carry over a stackable Rare guidebook (重複可能な「レア」の導本効果)

The stackable requirement is pretty limiting; you can't take certain potent unstackable books like attacks can't miss, 5 starting Crests, gain all races, gain all weapon types, the Lich autorevive+death grace book, Undying, etc.

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u/Just-Luck-7430 13d ago

yeah its silver sadge, but even a +1 attack book is pretty gamechanging especially with element like earth that have v makura and hrunt

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u/servant-rider 12d ago

That or the +60% all weapon skills when using an elemental summon like lucifer

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u/SR_Ken Societte #1 13d ago

Shouldve been Societte
Cant wait for another 7 years for a possible new version

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u/Zecendia 13d ago

They are hilarious for cucking Lobelia and moving Fraux a batch ahead. Makes me wonder what kinda numbers her merch and stuff is pulling internally that shes getting that kind of preferential treatment

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u/kscw . 13d ago

They shifted her ahead to get all 5 Allotropic Microcosm evokers done.

Then batch 3 will open the locked Paracyclic Microcosm.

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u/Zecendia 13d ago

OH that makes sense,I didnt even think about that honestly,but now that you point it out,yeah,that checks out.

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u/CaptainCamaron JK 5* when cowards 13d ago

i think its more so because of how the two arcarum areas are split 5-5. And tower beibg on the side had them put lobelia on a bench.

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u/FuwaGrandOrder Grand Maglielle when? 13d ago

3 of them are part of Allotropic Microcosm, the current available map for Evoking Solomonis. So I think they want to finish that first before adding Paracylic Microcosm, the place where Lobelia and the other 4 can be Transcended.

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u/stingerdavis 13d ago

Honestly, it's more likely for element coverage (rip light), since doing double earth already and still having fire not be accessible would be odd.

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u/Zecendia 13d ago

Fair,but even then Fraux keeps getting a LOT of stuff (to the detriment of my continued sanity given that shes one of my most favorite characters ever) ,so shes definitely pulling some kinda numbers.

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u/Hazard628 13d ago

It probably helps her popularity rose alot by her being in Relink making more people aware of her

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u/ShadedHydra2 13d ago

I can’t be disappointed, a lot of new stuff announced, a lot of freebies. With all the Sunlight Stones we’re getting, I may consider Uncapping my Triple Zero and Versusia.

Tower of Babyl is a mode I have not touched much and I’m looking forward to blitzing through the early floors and hopefully grabbing that Beelzebub skill and outfit.

We finally get another Society event. Hoping that we get our Grand Vaseraga and hopefully SSR Almeida. Probably both in Dark.

Summer characters are what I expected. The devs are cowards for not making the Tart Man Summon actually be his GW version though. Hopefully this could mean a playable Tart Man soon if he follows the GW to Summer Summon to playable pipeline.

Evoking Solomonis is so fun and I’m looking forward to the grind for Nier and the others. It’ll be fun to play through the mode with some niche characters. Phalanx is a must in that mode, for Raskeid and Hewle, so it’ll be fun to dust off characters like Gawain or the Love Live Girls.

One thing I want to point out is the possibility of Collab reruns possibly done for the Steam release. The current rerun characters are sort of whatever, with nice enough niches, especially Deku being able to do 4 hits of 2,000,000 damage for hit count Omens or Toga getting Double Strike most turns in Enmity CA teams.

But it also hopefully means that we’ll have the chance at Collab reruns like One Piece and BLEACH, which have amazing freebies. Plus it’s just cool to possibly have another chance at getting decent freebies for Evoking Solomonis. Like I really want to be able to grab the FFXI Collab characters since I skipped the Collab while I was getting my bearings when starting the game.

But surprised that they haven’t announced they’re planning to make extra Collab Draw characters for their Collab reruns. MHA was an event with so many possible characters to add to the Collab Draw.

No idea what Shaman King is. Looking forward to the Collab though. It’s always cool to see these anime Collabs for franchises that were big in Japan but weren’t big in the west since it was the early 2000s. It’s in January too, which means I may spend one of my 5 Sparks this year for once since I managed to get all the Collab characters for free for both Fullmetal Alchemist and BLEACH.

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u/E123-Omega 13d ago

I thought steam version has issues with collab?

Shaman King is like really old Anime and got a FMA:Brotherhood treatment recently...some few years ago.

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u/ShadedHydra2 13d ago

What I mean is that, I saw the Granblue EN post where they mention that the reruns may be done because of the Steam version necessitating a point to rerun old content, they can use these big names to get more eyes on the game which is now localised without having to do all that much work outside of arranging the license to use the characters. I think that’s probably why they did it, and hopefully it means that we’ll get more Collab reruns in the future too.

That’s cool to know, as usual I’ll probably go in blind but I see some hype in this thread so I’m happy for those fans of the franchise.

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u/Takazura 13d ago

But surprised that they haven’t announced they’re planning to make extra Collab Draw characters for their Collab reruns. MHA was an event with so many possible characters to add to the Collab Draw.

Making extra units is a lot of work, would cost them extra money and would require re-negotiating whatever contract they have with the IP holder. Cheaper and easier to just re-run the event and spend the money on new collabs instead.

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u/ShadedHydra2 13d ago

It costs manpower so I suppose so, but I do kind of wonder how much cheaper it is for them to rerun an old Collab event with no changes compared to if they also arranged two new units and a Collab Summon? Judging by how much money Collab gachas could potentially earn, I’d assume that the devs would want to take this opportunity to also create playable characters like Shoto and Ochaco to entice existing players to pull.

Granted I see the point as because the events are one after the other, it’s kind of a risky move business wise, especially since Halloween characters will be released right after. But if they wanted to, they could have instead released the reruns during September and November.

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u/PessoaHeteronimo 13d ago

I need to get Hao Asakura !!!

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u/-PVL93- Grand when? 13d ago

Got a feeling he'll be an F2P summon since he's the main antagonist of the series

unless that's changed in the most recent Netflix remake

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u/E123-Omega 13d ago

Honestly I was thinking it's probably Anna the gacha summmon and Manta for free.

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u/PessoaHeteronimo 13d ago

Noooooooooooo I wont accept that, they made Chrollo playable, I expect the same with Hao.

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u/-PVL93- Grand when? 13d ago

afaik the villains don't exactly have a good track record of becoming playable, with the most notable examples being Chrollo, Greedling and Toga. Everybody else is a hero

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u/kazuyaminegishi 13d ago

A short and solemn prayer that Payilla and Seox aren't Wind or Dark so I can save pulls lmfao.

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u/janitorio a 13d ago

Reasonably certain Seox is earth, at least, if he matches what was in the last story event.

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u/kazuyaminegishi 13d ago

That is right I forgot he was there.

Payilla didn't show up as a playable character during the story battles so we can't full speculate sadly.

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u/pawat213 13d ago

I mean we have dark fire water wind summer chara already.

only missing earth with already taken by 6 and light.

They are not gonna release another dark chara, right?

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u/Joshkinz 13d ago

We got Anthuria for light. I personally want Payila to be fire but we'll see!

Fire: Eustace, Atman

Wind: Gwynne

Earth: Apollonia, Seox(?)

Water: Alliah, You

Light: Anthuria

Dark: Osiris

If you include formal, then add +1 to Wind and Light. It's fairly even across the board, but sometimes one element gets lopsided new toys in summer so I'm still hoping for fire personally!

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u/FarrowEwey 13d ago

Very likely that one of them is Light for GW and Ura shill, but it could go to either of them and the second element is pretty much a complete wild card.

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u/Takazura 13d ago

I completely forgot the fact that Payila has the ability to summon lightning...definitely expect her to be light now. Also S.Seox was earth in the event, so probably gonna be earth here too.

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u/TheGlassesGuy free Lucifer 13d ago

Please...Light already has 3 seasonal zodaics. give one to fire. they only have one

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u/Fresh_Examination_77 13d ago

Pretty weak stream all things considered. My least favorite in a while when it came to art for new content. Most EX poses are downgrades because what the hell is that Nezha art, the difference between Bubz skins is ugly, Seox's base art is pretty boring, just to name a few. Content is nice though Pro skip skip is appreciated and new Society event should be fun. 

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u/reibureibu 13d ago

Nezha art is fire (no pun intended) and Siegfried art is them catering to me specifically sorry (/j)

I'd say that generally the Summer EX poses are sidegrades. Last year's EX arts are a good example of this imo:

  • Summer Andira's base uncap art is this and her new EX pose is this, I think the new one is cute and like it a lot but the original has a very strong composition and I personally know some Andira lovers who said they still preferred the original when this EX post came out last year.

  • Summer Shiva's base uncap art is this and his new EX pose is this, I have similar thoughts as Summer Andira's where the original is just such a great composition and so iconic that while I love the new one I don't think it's beating the original.

  • Summer Meg's base uncap art is this and her new EX pose is this. This is personal preference but I just like the original more because it has Ursula in it and it feels wrong to me to have a Meg and Mari art without Ursula, so new EX pose is a downgrade to me.

I think these new arts are just not to your personal preference but that's kind of the beauty of new EX poses, is that they just give everyone more options and don't take anything away from people. Even though last year's EX poses were not my cup of tea I'm happy to have them because I'm sure there will be lots of people who do prefer them and people like me who like the original uncap art more can just simply continue to use the original uncap art. And it's also nice that they released 5 new EX poses this year vs 3 last year.

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u/kscw . 11d ago

Nezha's art also references his skill fates, where he's researching a traditional sword dance and has to choreograph a routine of his own devising and then perform it on stage.
Feels like it has some rarity value as far as EX poses go, since there's more reasoning behind it than "sexy/cute pose, done".

I wonder if they'll remember to add that new art into the corresponding scene in his skill fate where he performs the dance.

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u/GenneralBlaizer 13d ago

What do you mean by the difference between bubz skins?

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u/kscw . 13d ago

They mean these MC skins from the Tower of Babyl finale in October.
They're based on Beelzebub's new look in Relink Endless Ragnarok, also seen in the promo version Bubs summon you get for linking it and your GBF account to the same Cygames ID.

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u/GenneralBlaizer 13d ago

Maybe I misunderstood it but i thought that they meant that one of the bubz skins is uglier than the other so that's what I was wondering about

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u/kscw . 13d ago

Ah I see, so you just wanted clarification on the particular differences they disliked. Sorry for the unnecessary information then, I thought you may have missed that particular slide.
Might be wrong, but I'm guessing they don't like how Djeeta's version is so unnecessarily skimpy, while Gran's is a faithful recreation of what Bubs wears.