First up: the GBF team's illustration of the quiz segment.
KMR: "Is that... me?"
First up: Home Sweet Moon updates.
Relic Buster full art, and the class will unlock for free if you finish all 4 parts of Home Sweet Moon. You will be able to unlock it without the event later.
New characters: Water Big Daddy Isaac, and Earth Beatrix
Dark Eustace will be the March 5* uncap!
The 5th character for #GBVS season 2 will be Eustace!
Eustace will come out in late April, and his slide describes him as a mid-range fighter who uses knives and grenades along with Flamek Thunder.
Beatrix will appear in RPG Mode. Dydroit Belt will be the new stage, and new lobby avatars include the Vyrn Ball and Joy.
Battle Pass Round 3, with new avatars, weapon skins, and character colors
The next Time Attack boss will be Proto Bahamut, and Blitz mode returns in early April.
An upcoming #GBVS artbook will include animation storyboards, models, and more!
7th anniversary news: The return of scratch cards, from March 10th to March 31st. Match 3 items and get them - if you don't match them you will still get an item guaranteed.
The last hint about scratch cards says that some scratch cards will make it easier to get the rarer items...
From 3/10 to 3/20, and 3/20 to 3/31, there will be 2 separate 7x XP/RP campaigns, up to 7,000,000 RP and XP each.
7th anniversary weapon ticket - it will include Epic Weapons, Proving Ground weapons, Malice weapons, etc.
All will come in at level 150/4*
Some of the weapons which are 5*able will still come in at 4 stars (including Xeno weapons)
7th anniversary skins: Yurius and Yuisis!
They go on sale at 19:00 JST on March 10th
The special 7th anniversary Draw Ticket will allow limited and seasonal characters up to a certain point - 2019 for limited characters, and Holiday 2020 for seasonal characters. similar to last year. Same price as always, 3,000 mobacoins
The special Star Premium Ticket for the anniversary will always draw a seasonal character from 2019 or 2020.
The second Star Premium ticket goes on sale March 29th, and is guaranteed to draw a Grand/Zodiac character.
All Zodiacs are in except for Vikala, who will return in 2022.
Login bonuses being updated - you will now gain points every day that can be used for the previously announced outfit gacha. Log in, build up points, and unlock new outfits with those points!
The points will also be usable on certain weapons.
The summer/winter special missions are being made a regular part of the game! There will be one-time missions, weekly missions, and plenty of rewards for them all.
Masquerade class goes live on 3/10 (we missed the screenshot for this)
New EMP Support skills for 20 SSRs and 3 SRs
Upcoming balance changes for Estarriola, Eahta, Percival, and Anila
Katou Emiri: "THANK YOU"
Balance updates (buffs) for Taisai Spirit Bow and Galilei's Insight
Coming 3/10, the ability to reduce Silver Relic weapons into Silver Weapon Shards
3/22: The rank cap will go up to 300
KMR says that the quest to uncap from 275 will be new and unique.
Also 3/22: Luminiera Malice with 2 new weapons
3/22: Dark Rapture (Hard) with Ascendant Prayer, works the same way as the Ultimate Bahamut Ascendant Prayer. Uses halos and urns for big big buffs
Special EMP types for the Evokers. Unlock 4 EMP nodes with treasure, and after all 4 the evoker learns their unique EMP skill
Maria Theresa and Caim EMPs shown off (we'll get to translating these soon we swear)
3/22: 5* Optimus series summons
The Demi Optimus versions will not get a 5*
QoL updates coming 3/10: the Bonus Stock, which is basically the craftsman's anvil for +1 bonuses.
On March 10th, All Weapon Mirages and Summon Mirages will be removed from your inventory and crate and be added to this new Bonus Stock automatically.
Updates to the Upgrade screen: you can pick between seeing upgrade items or weapons, AKA you don't have to scroll all the way down for cups anymore
Auto Guard coming to V2 - on Full Auto, all characters will Guard when an Omen is active.
3/22: you can add weapons to an individual basis to "automatically recycle this to chalice/anvil" if you never want to see them again.
Multiple uncaps will be available at once as long as you have the items and materials available to uncap more than one star at a time.
KMR: "It's March, the season of swimsuits"
Andira and Kumbhira both getting swimsuit versions this month
New Bonus Poses. Summer Izmir, Ayer, and Korwa
April's 5* character uncap: Water Societte!
DAILY LIMIT ON TREASURE TRADE LIFTED
WE'RE OUT OF FLAWED PRISM JAIL
Updates to items, prices. and monthly limits in the treasure trade and pendants shops (we'll get to these soon we swear)
Preview trailer for the new Main Story chapters, featuring Lejos
Titled "The Circus of Liars" and scheduled for June release
Seeds of Redemption rerun coming
Toward the end of the year, Replicard Sandbox will open a new area, offer a new star of uncap for the New World Foundation weapons, and add new Sephira Guidebooks.
Coming soon, ways to use rupees, treasures, etc to provide permanent bonuses to your crew.
Many raids are becoming single player battles in order to avoid spreading the player base too much in raids (this includes the Nezha tier)
6 new raids, one for each element, will be added one at a time. They will be around the difficulty of Twin Elements.
Belial Impossible coming. He will drop treasures that unlock new Pendulums for the Dark Opus
KMR: Yes, he will be very difficult.
3 stages of upgrades to Tier 4 and EX2 classes.
Summer 2021: New EMP skills for Class 4/EX2, and class-specific EXP
Winter 2021: New Class Champion Weapons for Tier IV
Spring 2022: New Class Champion weapons for EX2
April 1st collab:
SAY WHAT?
BO-BOBO?
Opening this summer, a permanent GBF-themed cafe in Akihabara: the Grandcypher Kitchen.
Zeta and Beatrix figures will go on sale in 1 hour, via Bandai Spirits
Q-Pot collab merchandise
Q-Pot accessories shaped like snacks and candies being shown off by the cast
(Note: the Zeta/Bea figures are preorders. They are scheduled for release in September 2021)
Even more Q-Pot accessories being shown off by the cast
Q-Pot Cafe collab menu, this time in Omote Sando in Tokyo
Anime info:
Grand Blues blu-ray goes on sale on March 26th, with a code for either a gold brick, sunlight stone, sephira evolite, or damascus crystals
Cygames currently looking into how to be able to run Granblue Fantasy Extra Fes 2021 safely during the Coronavirus pandemic
Granblue Fantasy Fes 2021 will be going on, though depending on how the pandemic is going it may be online-only again
giant mobacoin giveaway campaign (requires a verified account with a Japanese phone number)
Skyleap 200 crystals/day campaign (does not require a verified account)
Starting 3/10, the Gachapin Roulette returns!
The new wrinkle to the roulette: Double Mukku Mode, a chance to get Mukku Frenzy right after a Mukku Frenzy.
3/30: guaranteed 100 rolls, it will be during Premium Gala. All Zodiacs (besides Vikala) will be available in that Premium Gala.
Fine print in the gacha:
0.6% chance of a Grand character
0.24% chance of a Zodiac
Vikala will return in 2022
On March 20th, you will also receive 100 free rolls during Flash Gala!
Flash Gala will go from 3/16 to 3/21 this year. 3/16-3/19: rate up on new characters
3/19-3/21: Flash Gala with no special rate up. 0.748% chance of a Limited character
It's time for the ending, and there's one final illustration from the art team, depicting Lyria, Vira, and Tyre making their gorilla noises
Status update on the GBF Speedrun: They're rank 45 and need to uncap a character to 5*, but we're at 7 missions cleared!
Inuyama Inuko is blasting slimes with Huanglong and Yodarha as fast as she can.
Rewards for 7 cleared missions:
3 water earrings
2 lineage rings
5 damascus crystals
10 of each astra
Inuyama is rank 46.5 now
Wind Mirin is at 3 stars but they need to grab some merits to uncap her
Kawahara begs KMR to have mercy on the speedrunners' efforts, and his pleas fall on willing ears - KMR says that we will also get the 5 New World Quartz!
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The next segment of the Comfy Stream: a Comfy version of the stats and slides! Katou Emiri and Osaka Ryouta join the comfy stream to present some comfy stats and chat about them.
Current GBF status: Osaka has 6 evokers and is working on 7 but is blocked by astras.
Katou is working on Transcending the Edge but finds the Six Dragon Advent fights to take so long...
First stat: players with each number of Eternals unlocked (top graph), and 5*ed ) bottom graph).
30k players have 5*ed all 10 Eternals since December, and Tachibana 5*ed her 1st
For the comfy stream, the GBF illustration team will be depicting events with the actors as their characters in real-time, showing the pieces as soon as they're done.
Tachibana: "Oh I guess we can't do anything stupid"
It's 7 hours 'til the 7th anniversary stream starts!
As usual, we will be translating the content live on Twitch while posting to this account.
Join us at twitch.tv/vibratingsheep when the Comfy Stream begins, we'll be hanging out all comfy-like until news starts at 17:30 JST
The first 2 hours of the 7th anniversary stream will be taken up by what we call the "Comfy Stream", a relaxed talk show and hangout featuring the voice actors talking about themselves and the game. It usually contains no news, but offers some light fun.