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Granblue Fantasy Relink Helpful Pages

• Walkthrough: Check out a detailed guide to beating the main campaign of the game.
• Combat: Learn about the basic and advanced combat mechanics for Granblue Fantasy Relink.
• Controls: Features the layout of the default keys and controller for each platform the game is available on.
• FAQs: Discover various frequently asked questions on other aspects of the game that are raised by the community of the game.
• New Game +: Read about the NG+ information of the game, what happens after you beat the game once and what changes are applied.
• Bosses: Explore a compendium of all the Bosses encountered in the game, which includes boss information and guides on how to defeat each one.

New Combat Design in Granblue Fantasy Relink

Granblue Fantasy, a game once known for its traditional turn-based combat, has taken a new direction in its latest installment, Granblue Fantasy Relink, by shifting towards the Action Role-Playing genre. This new version is characterized by a combat system that offers fluid and intuitive controls, fusing responsiveness with depth. Players can perform basic attacks and string together combos, as well as unleash powerful skills and group combos called Link Attacks with well-timed button presses. The game's new combat system offers a lot of depth, allowing advanced players to explore intricate combos and masterful techniques while catering to casual gamers with accessibility options.

Adjusting to the new combat design can be a chore for turn-based design lovers, since in Action Role-Playing Games, players are required to manually dodge attacks in real-time and even engage and damage enemies between split seconds. However, the developer of Granblue Fantasy Relink, Cygames is aware that their player base is used to a turn-based combat system thus, made sure that fans who will engage in Granblue Fantasy Relink will surely have a good time. Their latest titles will surely introduce their combat mechanics with a regulated pace and the overall difficulty, especially when it comes to the main campaign progression will also have a good difficulty curve.

Granblue Fantasy Relink also offers an End Game experience that will challenge players furthers after they have completed the Main Campaign. This part of the game will introduce additional content, features, and rewards to those who seek more challenge.

Pay Attention to Your Party Members' HP

Healing stands as a fundamental element across Role-Playing games, and Granblue Fantasy Relink adheres to this principle. Players have multiple options to restore their party's health, including potions, special Skills, and occasionally, Skybound Arts. Monitoring the health of party members remains a crucial strategy to prevent them from reaching critical conditions during combat scenarios. Granblue Fantasy Relink Players will be introduced to a wide variety of mechanics that will affect their characters in Combat. These mechanics often deal damage to their characters and when not handled properly, party members may be incapacitated and not perform well in combat.

It is essential to learn about the Status Effects, Ailments, and Debuffs that enemies can inflict on your party members. Likewise, Granblue Fantasy Relink Characters can also inflict the same debuffs on Enemies, and will largely depend on their build, Skills that they have unlocked, and their equipped Weapon.

Dodge Mechanics in Granblue Fantasy Relink

In Granblue Fantasy Relink, players encounter various battle mechanics beyond standard enemy attacks. There are certain skills designed to inflict additional debuffs and can incapacitate party members. To navigate these challenges, players can execute a regular evade, offering a brief moment of invincibility to avoid incoming damage. Some characters like The Captain can also learn a skill called Dodge by unlocking it in their Masteries.

Focus on Good Party Synergy in Granblue Fantasy Relink

Granblue Fantasy Relink presents a diverse roster of Characters, encompassing powerful brawlers, agile fighters, and tactical supports and disruptors. This varied cast ensures a spectrum of playstyles, allowing every player to discover a character that resonates with their preferred approach to gameplay. If you're the type of player who seeks dynamic experience and welcomes change to their gameplay, toggling between characters is also an option. This gameplay allows players to explore different aspects of the game and promises immense satisfaction due to the array of abilities each character brings.

With a selection of over 20 characters, players have the opportunity to find a perfect match for their combat style and strategic preferences. Each Character possesses unique strengths that significantly contribute to the game's depth and combat playstyle.

Mastering the strengths and weaknesses of each character enables effective utilization, paving the way to conquer challenges and bosses within the game. This also ensures that your party members are in sync with each other. 

After knowing each of the character's strengths and weaknesses, it is now time to build your party. Finding the balance between DPS-oriented characters and Supportive Characters is the key. Going in guns and blazing with all your favorite Damage Oriented Characters can only make it so far. Of course, as you progress through the game, players will need healers to patch up the party, especially in hard encounters such as boss fights. Not only healers are key in combat, but also support-oriented characters that provide various helpful buffs that can drastically improve your party's prowess on many occasions.

Take Advantage of your A.I. controlled Party Members

Granblue Fantasy Relink delivers an exhilarating and vibrant combat system, ensuring players remain captivated and delighted during their gameplay journey. With its fast-paced ARPG combat, the game offers both Solo and AI co-op party gameplay, enabling players to join forces with their companions or allies. Together, they can tackle daunting quests and engaging battles, amplifying the thrill of the experience. It will be overwhelming if one is forced to control four characters simultaneously.

Fortunately, players can only focus on playing one character in Combat and let the competitive AI do its work. This will help players strategize, since the said A.I. will let the players experience a unified crew when tackling quests, especially in Combat.

Engage Bosses Effectively in Granblue Fantasy Relink

Within the realm of Japanese Role-Playing Games, Bosses are characterized by their unique designs. Beyond their visually striking appearance, these formidable enemies commonly impede player progress and pose significant threats. Granblue Fantasy Relink adheres to this tradition, boasting a diverse assortment of intriguing designs, spanning from colossal behemoths and oversized goblins to dragons and humanoid entities.

Each boss in this iteration presents a distinct challenge, employing unique combat mechanics that players must decipher to evade their devastating attacks. Bosses also have their signature moves, which can usually inflict a fatal attack in just one hit. This is the type of attack that would catch players off-guard and is part of the learning process as they experience the game. Usually, signature moves have a window (or duration) that lets players avoid getting damaged by this attack, either through dodges or a Skill, liky Lyria's barrier.

Judging by the scale of Granblue Fantasy Relink, it will host intriguing and engaging boss fights. Each of these bosses has their unique weaknesses for players to figure out and exploit. Such as Elemental Weaknesses, Body Part Weaknesses, and more. In the recent demos, large bosses such as dragons behave strikingly the same compared to the Monster Hunter Series. Thus it is expected that these fights will be engaging and visually pleasing simultaneously.

Exploit the Stun Gauge in GBF Relink

In Granblue Fantasy Relink, the Stun Gauge represents an enemy's specialized meter that builds up when subjected to continuous attacks. Once this gauge reaches its limit, foes become vulnerable to Link Attacks, causing them to flinch. Consequently, it's recommended to concentrate efforts on a single target, capitalizing on this mechanic to inflict increased damage on the enemy over time.

Perform Link Attacks in Granblue Fantasy Relink

After filling the Stun Gauge, players gain access to execute Link Attacks against the targeted enemy. These unique attacks require coordinated group actions. Engaging in collective maneuvers via Link Attacks gradually raises the Link Level. Upon reaching 100% Link Level and executing a Link Attack with all members, the system triggers a temporary enhancement known as Link Time. Within this specific time frame, enemies experience reduced speed, while significantly boosting the entire party's statistics, enabling them to unleash substantial damage upon their targets.

Take Advantage of Skills in Combat

Granblue Fantasy Relink showcases characters with captivating designs that not only catch the eye with their visual allure but also possess distinctive skills that intricately shape their playstyles. Each character offers a diverse set of skills, featuring distinct effects and animations. In combat, players have the flexibility to equip up to four skills, allowing for strategic customization and varied gameplay experiences. Thus it is a must to master the skills of all your party members. Knowing their effects and advantages will provide anyone a good leverage in Combat. Knowing when to use certain skills is the key to overcoming the hardest of adversaries.

Take Advantage of Skybound Arts

To trigger potent attacks or unique abilities, characters need to charge their SBA Gauge, allowing them to access and execute their Skybound Arts. These powerful maneuvers are frequently depicted cinematically, intensifying their dramatic effect upon activation. Skybound Arts not only delivers impactful damage and hinders enemy actions but also consistently offers an immersive and satisfying experience, thanks to its exceptional execution and meticulous design.

Do Chainburst For Additional Damage

In Granblue Fantasy Relink, when Skybound Arts leaves players craving more action, Chain Burst steps in to heighten the excitement. This collective maneuver involves all party members, activated after each member executes successive Skybound Arts, topping in a follow-up blast that inflicts additional damage on targets. Similar to Skybound Arts, Chain Burst boasts distinctive variations and is often portrayed cinematically, adding to its allure.

Finding Help in End-game Content

Players can anticipate extended gameplay through challenging endgame content, primarily centered around intense combat scenarios. The game offers an excess of 100 hours of gameplay in its most challenging difficulty mode, ensuring a gratifying and fulfilling experience for those in search of heightened difficulty. Consequently, it is recommended to adeptly master combat mechanics and enable effective party synergy to overcome the game's most formidable challenges. If the content is simply too hard to tackle, one can always find aid by playing with other players online.

Recent insights from developer interviews and live streams emphasize the necessity for proper communication within the party to conquer these challenges. As an Action Role-playing title, honed skills are imperative. The end-game trials promise an immersive and rewarding experience, especially for hardcore players, given the developers' assurance that these battles are meticulously designed and unlikely to be conquered without precise communication and skillful execution.

Pay Attention to Character Progression

Every character available for play undergoes their progression journey. As characters level up through numerous encounters, they gain the opportunity to advance their Masteries. This unique advancement system permits players to unlock specific nodes, granting additional stats, talents, new skills, and various upgrades that collectively enhance the character's abilities.

Updating Gear and Stats Customization

The equipment serves as a distinct avenue for experimentation. In Granblue Fantasy Relink, equipment introduces another layer of complexity to gameplay, particularly when refining character builds. Each character possesses their specialty weapon, spanning a diverse array of types such as short and long swords, greatswords, staves, katanas, double swords, knuckles, spears, whips, guns, axes, scythes, and other unique armaments.

Ensure to upgrade your repertoire to be able to handle higher-difficulty challenges. Moreover, characters can utilize sigils to further enhance their build. These weapons and sigils can undergo upgrades, each expected to offer diverse effects and stats that synergize with different character builds. This feature significantly bolsters Granblue Fantasy Relink's replayability and deepens its customization options.

Blacksmith Services GBF Relink

Upgrade Weapons in GBF Relink

• The Blacksmith offers various Upgrade services that will improve the Stats and damage output of your weapons in exchange for Upgrade Materials and Rupies.
• Weapons have Traits, that grant certain bonuses and passives. Some Weapons have more Traits than other weapon rarity.

Uncap Max Level of Weapons

• Uncap Max Level is another service from the Blacksmith that raises the current level cap of Weapons.
• Weapon Level Cap starts at 10, followed by 30, 50, 75, 100, and 120.
• To Uncap the Max Level, you first need to upgrade the Weapon to its maximum level and a Refinium- a special material needed for the process.

Forging Weapons in GBF Relink

• A Blacksmith service that lets you craft new weapons with various materials.
• Forge Weapons is a service unlocked after Chapter 4: Skies Forever Blue
• You need boss drop items like a Bizzare Wing, a Chieftain's Braid, and other boss resources, together with a Champion Merit.

Imbue Wrightstones and Mirage Munitions in GBF Relink

• Both of these services are unlocked in the post-story of the game. 
• This is unlocked in Chapter 0: Skybound Heart.
• Imbue Wrightstones and Mirage Munitions offer additional stats and augments that will increase the Weapons' stats, even after reaching the maximum level cap. 

Siero's Knickknack Shack Services GBF Relink

Trade: Treasure, Wrightstones, Dalia Badges in GBF Relink

Sierokarte's specialty is trading. By visiting her in Folca Town, you can trade various Treasures with her for various Upgrade materials, Sigils, spellbooks, and others. Wrightstones and Dalia Badges are unlocked in the post-game, specifically in Chapter 0: Skybound Heart.

• Wrightstones are items that can be imbued weapons to gain stats, effects, and augments.
• Dalia Badges can be traded with Sierokarte for Tier 3 - Tier 5 Sigils.

Crewmate Card: Recruit an Ally in GBF Relink

• Crewmate Card is an item rewarded by Sierokarte for progressing Chapters 4, 6, and 8.
• This item lets you recruit an ally to join you in your journey.
• Using a Crewmate Card also rewards you with bonus Mastery Points (MSP).
• An unlocked Ally scales to a degree with your highest Character.

Transmute and Transmarvel Sigils in GBF Relink

• Gacha service: You earn a random Sigil by trading Knickknack Vouchers.
• Level 1 Transmutation costs 1 Knickknack Voucher
• Level 2 Transmutation costs 5 Knickknack Vouchers
• Level 3 Transmutation costs 15 Knickknack Vouchers
• This is unlocked in Chapter 0: Skybound Heart. (Transmarvel is another feature that is unlocked after reaching Proud quests in End Game)

Knickknack Vouchers in GBF Relink

• A special currency that is used to trade items/treasures with Siero's Knickknack Shack.
• This is unlocked in Chapter 0: Skybound Heart.

Offense and Defense Masteries 

Offense and Defense nodes largely differ in the type of Skills, Effects, and Buffs that they offer. Offense focuses on increasing your character's ability to inflict damage while in combat, while Defense gives your character various effects that increase their survivability. The one thing they have in common is the mechanics of Mastery Progression. For both Offense and Defense nodes, these progressions are initially locked behind the Main Story, where certain nodes are limited until certain chapters are cleared. They also follow a node system where unlocked nodes will trickle into new and more powerful nodes.

• Offense and Defense Masteries are unlocked in Chapter 1: The Western Frontier. 
• Masteries have an independent progression from other characters.
• Mastery Points are shared across all Allies.

Collections Mastery

Weapon Collections Mastery grants a combination of Offense and Defense stats that gives characters an edge in combat. Nodes under Collections are locked behind Weapon Levels, and require players to upgrade their Weapons. The stats earned by characters are permanent, even if Characters stop using that specific weapon. Each Weapon Collection Node upgrade requires the weapon to reach a certain level found below:

• Weapon Level 20
• Weapon Level 50
• Weapon Level 75
• Weapon Level 100
• Weapon Level 125
• Weapon Level 150

Over Mastery

Over Mastery is a new category of Masteries unlocked in End Game of Granblue Fantasy Relink. This allows characters to purchase a node using Mastery Points to earn 4 random bonus stats. Players can purchase one node of Over Mastery in the following levels:

• Level 80
• Level 90
• Level 100 (max level)

While this is an End Game feature, we decided to add this here so new players will have an idea what things are going to look like after they have completed the Main Story of Granblue Fantasy Relink.