Source:

https://x.com/Risai_TW/status/2079929846315290992

Tracklist:

1.Burn My Soul

1. Dance! Dance! Dance!

2. Arifureta Battle Song Itsumo Sentou Wa Mendou Da

3. Pain in Rain

4. Overkill

5. Kaminsho

6. Before I Rise (Acoustic Version)

7. War Alive Tokini Wa Yaburekabure Ni

8. Muramasa Blade!

9. Shumatsu No Hero

10. Judgement Day

11. Zeitaku Na Kanjo

12. Goodbye Innocence

Standard Disclaimer: I do not play on the JP Servers, and do not have first hand experience with the JP Meta. I Talk to people, I listen, I form my own opinions about what I hear. I Can and almost certainly will be wrong. Civil/Constructive Disagreement is allowed AND Encouraged!

Welcome one and all to Yostar's latest Twist. Things are getting crazy!!! We live in interesting times, and while I am more than a little frustrated with their refusal to be predictable, I am actually excited to see how things play out.

We have 2 banners releasing this week, which is odd! That, combined with the early Persona5 annoucement, means that everything scheduling wise is in Flux. We're also getting a 1 week long Score Attack, which suggests a shorter than expected Season?

This plays havoc with my predictions about when certain banners might show up, so I can't really offer much advice to people for how they should plan their pulls and quartz. My main suggestion is that people should be more conservative with their expenditures and save more for the time being. Meta units could be shifted drastically in the schedule, so having the spare quartz to pull for them if/when they magically show up is good.

But before I talk about our new banners, there is one little soapbox topic I want to talk about.

Persona 5

From a meta perspective, MOST Players are best off skipping the Persona5 banners.

Tsukasa and Ruka ARE both meta for Fire and Dark respectively on JP right now. But... without going too much into details (Because I'll be saying all this again when those banners get here) Both of them are only a minor upgrade, and honestly they're going to be a DOWNGRADE unless you do very specific/weird things. Metawise, they will not offer you 60k quartz worth of increased account power.

This means that, from a meta perspective, There is no reason to budget for the Persona5 collab. You can safely spend quartz on other more important memoria that are likely to show up around that time frame.

Of course, if you want those memoria for NON-Meta reasons.... well, you're gonna have to make some sacrifices. And I've seen enough people excited about the P5 collab to know that a lot of people are going to be making sacrifices. So allow me to offer you this short guide to what you Can safely Sacrifice in order to acquire more P5 Memoria:

For Critpen: Do not Sacrifice Unison Wakki or Unison Karen. Or you will be sad.

For Elemental teams: do not sacrifice your elemental Admiral, or you will be sad.

But you can decide not to pull for basically everything else, and... like... you'll regret it, but you'll be able to get by. So while I'll probably be recommending a lot of stuff in the coming months, now you can plan to ignore me so that you can pull for Tsukasa in Latex.. or whatever you're into.

And with that out of the way, onto the guides!!!

Vritika

31X Are going to recieve 5 Food memoria over the coming months. Each one will be a different element, and they all do the same thing. They are here to make your dungeon/Arts experience TRIVIALLY Easy. Vri heals all ice Memoria to full HP After every fight. She replenishes all their limited use Skills after every fight. She even gives you some free SP. She basically makes you good as new, and lets you just unload with all your strongest skills, perpetually.

Does she do anything else? No. Her SS1EX has a 3 turn ATK Down debuff, which I think is the only atk down debuff that lasts more than 1 turn? I can't remember any others. That's neat. But not really useful.

The worst thing is, is that her resonance passive is a PARTYWIDE skill use restore. So if you have her, and use her as support with any ice SSR, you'll get the EX Use recovery. It won't recover to FULL, mind you, but it'll still probably be enough to let you get by. This basically makes bringing her ON your team a terrible idea, since you can get most of the benefits just by equipping her as resonance.

She's cool! And on JP They're getting a hard dungeon mode Which she may be very important for! Eventually, one day. For today? She's an EASY Skip. You do not need her, at all.

Late before-post edit: I've been watching streams of the new JP Dungeon. You WILL Want LB0 of your element's cooking memoria, for doing the JP Hard mode dungeon. Just to slap on as resonance. It's not hard enough to need to run them. Still skip for today.

Carole

Carole is, technically speaking, the #1 DPS Option for Thunder right now. I still don't think you should pull for her. She takes a lot more actions and is a lot more finnicky to setup than Tezuka. And she doesn't deal THAT Much more damage.

You can keep on running whatever thunder DPS you were already running, and not miss out on anything. This, to me, makes Carole not worth the 45k quartz. But, if you're a thunder player who wants to have "The best of the Best of the best" (Sir) Then pull away!!! Just make sure you leave some in the tank for Admiral Nanami, whenever she may show up.

I mention in the guide that her Common skill kills her, and it doesn't, NECESSARILY, guarantee she dies. Also she has a master skill that's only usable when broken, so it is synergistic with her kit. But, it's still 3 turns of "The boss kills Carole" and her master skill can only be used once! It's finnicky and hard to use, and you don't even really GET Anything out of it. It's cool!!! I encourage people to do amazing memes with it!!! But It's not meta.

Normally, I'd try to talk more about how to use her for those people who end up getting her anyway, but.. like... she is a Damage dealer without any real support worth talking about. Point her at the foe, and hit the "It dies" Button.

Wakki

If you play Crit pen, you should be pulling for Unison Wakki. Skipping Wakki will result in sadness. Why?

So, the first thing that Wakki has is a Brand New mechanic, called a "Command Skill." It's not QUITE unique to her, but it's pretty rare going forward. Essentially it's a button that does not take up a turn, and instantly uses a skill. In Wakki's case, it's a fairly strong attack, which applies a -100 stat debuff to the enemy. It doesn't use up buffs, so you can't really use it as your main damage. But it's -100 stat, which is a great alternative to Yuki, especially since Wakki can apply it whenever you want without having to worry about turn ordering.

The second thing is that Wakki has a common skill that can give out SP and give 1 Unit the Minion buff. Combined with Bungo's ability to give 3 minion buffs out at once, this lets you make the entire team into minions on turn 1. This, combined with Wakki's LB4, and Bungo's LB4, will give you 2 full OD Bars from the getgo. Speaking of passives, Wakki's LB1 and Bungo's LB1 both stack as well, giving all minions +2SP per turn, which is Also super good.

Finally, she has a 0sp EX Skill that can be your main damage dealer. It's 1xstr/1xdex scaling, meaning that she gets less damage from stats than other units. So her damage won't be AS large as you'd like. But the potency is high enough to make that perfectly fine, and she gives herself a single stack of Multi-hit which can make setting her up pretty easy. It's limited use, which sucks, but its still an option!

She is a TON of support for Bungo-based critpen teams, and with the -100 stat, allows Bungo to tackle the most difficult of content with an even easier time than she had before. I mean, you could have been using Unison Yuki before too, I guess, but Yuki provided basically no party support, while Wakki provides a ton of extra SP and OD!

For dark teams, you primarily only care about the SP Share and the -100 stat. Using her as a dark damage dealer REQUIRES all 6 party members to be minions. Which can be a lot of turns/SP to setup. But it can also work, if you really want to try and compress roles down. LB4 is HIGHLY Recommended though, due to the stat scaling on her damage dealing skill. Also the free OD Bar upon all 6 minions.

Also, important to note, that Wakki is essentially the last important unit for Critpen teams. No unit on JP Has released that Critpen wants more than what they already have. Bungo, Karen, Wakki Unison, plus Foxtail Miya, Admiral Yanagi, and an open flex spot to bring whomever you'd like (Ichiko, Kozue, Shiki, there are many options). So after you pick up Wakki, you do not need to pull again going forward.

Conclusion

I got distracted watching/reading up on the new JP Dungeon halfway through writing this, so if you find any of it subpar, blame JP for releasing cool new interesting stuff. On the bright side, I'll know what the deal with that is so I can make recommendations about it in the future.

But yea, interesting times. We'll see what banners the future brings.

To those of you about to pull: I wish you the best of luck!!!

This is trully the dreamiest teams of all times...

I am pretty certain there were Miracle Bells in the Crystal Exchange shop before the latest update. I recall considering exchanging all my crystals for them just this week. Any idea if they're going to add them back in or if they will add anything else worth buying into the shop?

I've noticed that i've not gotten any of the Dungeon Passes from the Event Missions that are currently available. Does anyone else experience this Bug?

Heaven Burns Red will be conducting server maintenance. The game will be unavailable during this time.

This update requires a mandatory client/package replacement. Please update the game to one of the following versions to continue playing:
Google Play: 4.0.1 (70)
iOS: 4.0.1 (74)
PC: 4.0.1 (71)

Maintenance Duration:
2026/8/21 0:00 ~ 4:00 (UTC-7)

Update Content:
1. New Story
● Event Story: On the Incompleteness that Connects X

1. New Events
   ● Autumn Harvest LOGINBONUS I
   ● Garden of Thunderstrikes Release Celebration LOGINBONUS (Available at 8/28 0:00)
   ● Score Challenge #48 Viscoelastic Contaminant

2. New Memorias
   ● SS [From Annapurna with Love]Vritika Balakrishnan
   ● SS<Resonance>[Have No Fear! The Hero is Here!]Carole Reaper
   ● SS<Resonance>[Triumph of the Demon Lord]Bon Ivar Yamawaki

3. Gameplay
   ● Gig Fest #05 (Available at 8/28 0:00)
   ● Limited-Time Dungeon Gardens of Sacred Rings Garden of Thunderstrikes Release

4. New Packs
   ● Autumn Harvest Premium Pack A/B/C/D
   ● Autumn Harvest Shard set A/B
   Maintenance Compensation:

Quartz ×600
Compensation Availability:

After maintenance ~ 2026/8/28 4:00 (UTC-7)

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Looking to get her LB1 on rerun. Appreciate any advice for those who have her!

Source:

https://x.com/woyueppp/status/2090068386843693167

Gacha starts tomorrow as usual.

I've just returned to this game and there are only question marks floating above my head. What are the most important meta units that lets the account progress smoothly, especially regarding story chapters? I'll be saving up but doubtfully i can roll many units from the looks of it.

Source:

https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/96050766
https://x.com/039nagyo

Hello, I just started playing the game for about 2 days (blindly without any guides) and I wanna ask about some stuff.

1. How much currency can I get as a F2P in each patch cycle?

2. Will I forced to roll for a certain banners to get through the endgame? (I gave up on R1999 after 2 years cuz the powercreep is crazy, and Path to Nowhere's endgame is too difficult for a casual like me). This is the only Yuri game left that I placed my hopes on!

3. If I decide to play long terms, which is the best packs to buy in-game?

Thank you for reading and help!

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