#the gacha giveth and it taketh away

[egophiliac]

Hello!! I'm in love with your artstyle (especially the way you did the signature spells??? I've been looking at them for a while adsgfdfsf, they look like movie posters tbh and that's fricking cool to me. anyway!! I'm a player on the NA server (btw, I've already seen spoilers of chap 7 due to tumblr/reddit/pinterest, so yeah it's not the most spoiled I've ever been so yea) and yeah. I'm getting through the story okay but do you have any advice for people trying to get through certain events with a more limited life schedule??? Also, what are some of the differences that you notice between the english (if you see a lot of it??) and Japanese versions of the game? sorry if this was a longer ask, i tried to be simple but i wanted to tell you that I loved your art and everything just spiraled AAAAAAH

thank you! ❤️❤️❤️ I've been surprised by how many people really like my posters -- it's kind of a weird style to do fanart in, I guess, but I'm glad other people think it's cool too! :D

(gonna answer out of order because the event stuff turned into a huge block of text, sorry!)

I've seen a few of the localizations, but I don't know a lot about the Eng version, so I can't speak too much about differences. (I do think "housewarden" has a better sound to it than "dorm leader" though...they need a fancy little word to match their fancy little outfits.) I did look up the unique magic/signature spells to see if they were able to somehow work in the glossing -- I'm not even sure how you would localize that without it being super weird, so I don't blame them, but I was a little sad anyway! :( in Japanese, they're all written as Japanese phrases with the English as ruby text, and sometimes they're given a little extra meaning. like -- this is where the episode 7 spoilers I'm tagging are) the words that Mal says are "Fae of Maleficence":

but the meaning of the Japanese is "Blessing", which is a nice little "ooooh" moment given the context of it!

there isn't always an extra meaning, sometimes it's just. super literal. but my other favorite is Jack's, where what he means is "✨howl that pierces the moonlit night✨", but what he actually yells is "UNLEASH BEAST" before turning into a giant dog. what a good boy.

as for event advice (under the cut, because this was already getting long)...

speaking as someone who is 100% F2P and therefore also tends to get kind of burnt by some of these events -- the #1 most important thing is to just...make peace with not getting everyone. :') I am a collector-type person, so it definitely gets grating when I can't have all the fancy PNGs my little packrat heart desires. generally though: never do random pulls, always be saving your keys and gems between events. (once a month you can buy a 10-set from Sam for a 50 gem discount, and logging in on a character's birthday will give you a 10-set for free, so make sure to do those!). when the event info starts coming out, pick one or two cards that you really want and work specifically towards those, focusing on grinding out the items and/or using your saved-up pulls on their specific banner. and in the end, accept that it might just not be meant to be, even if you hit the 100-pull pity SSR no I'm not still bitter over fairy gala Ortho why do you ask. if the event doesn't have any cards that you really want, take it as an opportunity to save for the next one!

hoard your star fragments (the things that restore AP) -- if you're going for a card that requires grinding event items to permanently unlock, and the item is one you get from lessons, you can use star fragments to bump your AP up to 30 at a time (10 is the limit that will restore over time, but 30 is the max you can have at once). that makes for a looong lesson loop, but I usually get about 50-60 items per 30 lessons, and I just let it run in the background while doing other stuff. (usually these items are what also unlock the event story, so I'll do a huge amount of lessons first thing and then have enough to get the whole story at once. 👍) it can get really grindy, but events go on for a while so it's not usually that bad if you space it out a bit, instead of waiting until the last minute to try and get those last 600 items (cough) (cough).

if it's one of the ones where you get the item from doing a rhythmic, you get the same amount of items no matter how well you do, even if you miss every note. so you can just...tap occasionally to restart it and get the same effect. if it's a battle one, you do have to actually win to get the item, but once you figure out the sweet spot of a team setup + highest battle level where you win every time, it becomes basically the same deal.

so...yeah, tl;dr you can get away with a lot just by setting things up to run in the background and paying just enough attention to tap through some of the menus. it does require a certain amount of time to just leave your phone while still sorta-kinda paying attention to it, so it might not work for everyone, but that's the best way I've found to get through most events!

[yeah-yeah-beebiss-1]

well, the gssr was a bust, but i ended up pulling a bunch of 4*s, so i’ll take what i can get

[julio-claudian-saberface]

"Magical Girl of Sapphire CE, please?”

“Magical Girl of Sapphire coming right up!”

“Would you like an SSR with that?”

[salt-volk]

adds a recipe shop, but for the sake of "balance" all the new items are obtainable only through gacha and adventuring. anji giveth and she taketh away

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[homie-koyomi]

A little salted over my Fujino rolls, I got her to NP 2, but she'd be NP5 if I hadn't been spooked by Astolfo (NP2) Nitocris (NP4) and Lobo (NP2).

Also managed to pull a saber shiki too, which is nice, but with the amount for quartz I've put in I'm due for another SSR. Reeee~

Ah well, the gacha giveth, the gacha taketh away. Zehi mo nai ne

Second account is saving for Skadi, nothing new to report.

[icharchivist]

Icha I bought the dark opus upgrade set instead of the upcap set by mistake....... though I guess I can't really complain bc I got 100 rolls two days in a row during the flash gala so I ended up getting to spark for only like 60 rolls. Gbf giveth and gbf taketh away.......

OH NO.... that's so sad...

Gacha luck but gameplay mishaps..... that or the opposite... or both lack of luck..... the real enemy while playing granblue :(

i'm so sorry to hear that

Take care tho nonny!

[dailylancelot]

The gacha giveth

The gacha taketh away...

[coolyo294]

I didn't get mama raikou, but I did get two punch monks and sca-san, so I'm pretty happy with this month's gatcha luck

the gacha giveth and soon the gacha will taketh away 

[otoroll]

The return of my LoS! account was excellent because this time’s event gacha starred best SideM man Yamashita Jiro.

LoS giveth and LoS taketh away, because all 5000 of those M-Stars went straight into event gacha. Twice. I didn’t get an event card, but my first Jiro card is an SR and that’s still pretty good. SSR Hayato came along to play even though I didn’t even touch the non-event gacha, and SR Kyosuke and SR Shiki showed up shortly after.

If I manage to get 2500 M-Stars again it’s going right back into this gacha still because fluffy New Year’s idol outfit Jiro...!!

[julio-claudian-saberface]

To the Fou spa with you, sir!

Now to see if I can MLB Trojan Bar on FP.

[julio-claudian-saberface]

And I had no intention of dipping any further into my Izo fund before all that interlude quartz fell into my lap, but here we are.

[julio-claudian-saberface]

Holy squiff. Maybe he's tuckered out from fleeing the last whaling expedition and it's Ash's turn to shove SSRs at me to cover his escape.

Fou spa will have to wait until shop restocks, and Kagetora's eaten all my Lancer embers. Good problems to have!

[julio-claudian-saberface]

17 tickets and 2 10-rolls! Rest is in reserve for a shot at Hokusai. 

I think Skadi and Beni are my first two Servants to be raised solely on gold embers.

[julio-claudian-saberface]

Well, hello!

[julio-claudian-saberface]

First ticket dropped on the banner and Godoka took a flying leap into my arms.

Maybe she agrees with me that the pricing for the Guaranteed 4* is bullshit.

[julio-claudian-saberface]

Summer Sniper Biker Gothic Lolita Maid Waitress Alter, kicking in the door on the first 10-roll: When was the last time you dusted under your bed? Or shelved those books you’ll “get to any day now”? I see you are in dire need of my services.