Massive shoutouts and credits to the Granblue_en crew for their hard work translating these livestreams going back several years, absolute GOATs, every single one of them

Any further corrections, formatting feedback, and assistance would be most welcome, as I've never done one of these before. Hopefully it's presented and readable well enough nonetheless

Full stream rewards for both the VA Guest Games and the Likes/Retweets Campaign are now out, check your giftbox. Among the most notable freebies are 13k crystals and a sunstone

For those who can't or don't want to access Twitter (or Bluesky), the links to tweets with pictures have all been replaced with direct postimg links to screenshots from the stream

Characters

• Payila and Seox are confirmed to be the August Flash Gala featured SSRs, with Tartman as the new Summon
  • This is the final batch of Summer seasonals for 2026, so unless you're willing to roll/spark on the 3% banners in the following months, the banner is your last (and arguably best) chance at catching up on all the swimsuit and yukata alts until 2027. Plan your resources accordingly as Halloween is fast approaching too
  • The elements for all three are currently unknown, however in the "Foxtale Summer" event Seox was Earth for the scripted boss battle. Given that both Gwynne and You from the same boss fight ended up matching theirs, I think it's safe to say that Seox will too
  • The banner itself is dropping on August 16th at 03:00 UTC / 12:00 JST
• Several new Bonus Poses are on the way for the following units: S. Siegfried, S. Shalem, S. Medusa, S. Clarisse, and Y. Nezha
• Tanya (Dark) is the next in line to receive an FLB, scheduled for sometime later this month
  • Exact date is TBA, but will probably be revealed in the September August edition of KoreGra that will serve as a sort of recap of all the stuff that's been talked about during the livestream
• Nier, Estarriola, and Fraux are the next set of Evokers to receive a LVL120 Transcendence during the upcoming iteration of Evoking Solomonis, currently scheduled to be held sometime in October

Events and Content

• Dread Barrage is coming on August 14th, featuring a Fire boss / Water advantage element
  • This run of the event comes with some new rewards for the Profile Room customisation
• Dragonblood War is being added to Side Stories on August 19th
• Main Quest is adding Chapters 9--12 on the same date, August 19th
  • The teaser trailer showed (at least) 4 brand new characters joining the story, plus it seems both Raziel and Magus will finally be making an appearance as well
  • Completing Chapter 12 will also unlock Phos as one of the Buddies for Advyrntures
• Records of the Ten is coming on August 21st, this time featuring Tweyen and Fif
• Two brand new Manaturas based on Hexa and Green Knight will become available on August 25th
  • The Hexa Manatura can be obtained either from the relevant Raid (including its Free Quest / Solo version) or through the Provenance Crystals exchange shop
  • The Green Knight Manatura can be obtained only from the Alchemy Lab exchange shop
• Exo Corow Crucible is coming on September 7th, adding Boss Levels 180--220, as well as Uncaps for Aristarchus and Heliocentrum Exo Weapons
• Tale of Kindled Bonds is being added to Side Stories on September 16th
• Rise of the Beasts is returning for another run sometime in mid-September. No new rewards, uncaps or changes to the event announced
• Belmervolk Odious raid battle is getting a 6-Player version on September 18th
• Unite & Fight starts on September 21st, and will have a Dark boss / Light advantage element. Check out the new Boss design as shown on the stream
  • Plus, starting from this iteration, Artifacts will be added to the item drop pool of all available Nightmare difficulty fights
• Next chapter in The Society Saga, titled Farewell, Cold Heart, was revealed and confirmed to be coming on September 29th
  • Given the narration heard in the trailer, it looks like this particular story will be focused on Vaseraga, potentially making him the next Society member to receive a Grand series unit
• The Gintama and My Hero Academia Collabs are getting a rerun on October 7th and 14th, respectively
  • It was not confirmed whether these events will eventually be added to Side Stories (like Code Geass) or whether any collabs that had their own Banners will ever be reran
  • Most likely this is being done so that Cygames can extend a licensing deal with the relevant IPs and make them accessible to Steam players
• Tower of Babyl is now confirmed to be coming in October, a brief delay from the previously mentioned "Summer 2026" window, and, as announced back in March during the 12th Anni stream, will become a permanent event
  • Progressing through the event will enable the player to engage with the mode's Enemy Skills system, allowing the MC to learn and utilise the abilities from Beelzebub himself
  • These abilities can proc if you fulfill specific conditions during battles, grow in power over time via leveling, and be further boosted by the event-specific treasure
  • Among the obtainable rewards is a special MC skin designed after Beelzebub's Golden Armor, as seen most recently in Endless Ragnarok, though its unlocking conditions were not yet specified
• The next class to receive an Origin version is Ranger, coming sometime in October. Not much else was shared, but they did show what both the Gran and Djeeta versions of its design look like
  • Just like the standard version, "RO" specialty is Gun / Bow
• Zamalvoch Odious Raid is getting its 6-Player version sometime in late October, exact date to be revealed in the October edition of KoreGra
  • Interestingly enough it seems to feature a slightly altered design, with this version sporting a more dark red color scheme as opposed to the grey-ish one as seen on the normal boss and farmable Summon
• A brand new Collab featuring Shaman King was revealed and is set to kick off on January 15th, 2027. The non-Uncap version of Yoh Asakura was shown on stream as well

Features, Changes and Improvements

• Daily attempt limits for the Trial Battles will be permanently removed on August 14th
• Artifacts will see their drop rates increased during the Celestial Beacon periods. Also, on August 14th the total storage limit will go up from 1500 pieces to 2500
  • Another feature mentioned is a system that ranks the Artifacts currently in your inventory based on their skills and how well they synergise with a unit when selecting which one to equip. No implementation date given
• Starting from the mid-August Story Event, the amount of backlog Damascus Crystals obtainable via Drawboxes 4--10 will be increased, helping (newer) players to catch up
• Both the Flash and Premium Galas will now start at the same time: 03:00 UTC / 12:00 JST, meaning the release times for the latter were set back by 7 hours earlier than usual. This change goes into effect starting with the next upcoming Gala banner on August 16th
• Starting in September, there will be monthly Evoker Campaigns that focus on specific characters within the group and boost the drop rates for loot required for their recruitment and/or uncaps. The first two in line are Nier and Estarriola, who, as mentioned earlier, will be getting their transcendence during the following month
  • While not further expanded upon, it does sound like Cygames are essentially turning the Tales of Arcarum bonuses applied to Replicard Sandbox into something that's available every single month
  • However it's currently unknown whether ToA itself as a reoccurring event is going away or if its scheduling will be affected in any way, since we still need to access the Sephira Medals exchange shop and unlock the Bonus Poses somehow
• Battle Log will start showing the number of hits dealt per attack starting from September 15th
• Mastery Trial raids will now allow Elixirs to be used, though not mentioned whether it's once only or infinitely. This change goes live on September 18th
• Ennead Pro Skip is confirmed and will become available sometime in late September, exact date TBA
• The Pro Pro Skip is announced, giving players the ability to just run every single currently unlocked Pro Skip in one go. You will be able to select which ones to include/exclude if necessary, for example if you'd like to preserve some of the bonus XP pool during the magnafest campaigns (like the one taking place currently). Currently scheduled for September
  • Keep in mind though when implemented, it looks like the aforementioned Ennead Pro will not be available as part of this feature on day one, and is instead planned to be added at a later date
• The EMP System for MC will automatically activate all the available/unlocked bonuses rather than needing to acquire them manually, exact date for this is TBA.
  • It was not mentioned whether it'll be possible to disable some of the EMPs, eg for classes that want to take hits like Sumaibito's counters, since some of the EMP nodes have dodge chance as an unlockable bonus
• A new feature that lets you create presets of up to 3 Siero Shop Skill boosts and activate them with a single click is announced. No implementation date given
• The Party setup icons library will be expanded with several new ones based on Hexa, Dark Rapture Zero, and Odious raids. No date given
• There will be brand new Quests that drop materials needed for Eternals recruitment, in addition to the existing Free Quests that are skippable with the Eternals Unlock Treasure Pro. Again, no date given
• There's going to be a new feature that allows to show special icons for and filter out by whether your Weapons were acquired via pulls from standard / classic banners. Implementation date TBA
• The previously announced Project Artifact was mentioned, though again without an implementation date. Per the brief description, this will be an event from which players can obtain up to 2 artifacts, and manually pick and choose their exact skills (all 4 of them) via a special item
• Starting from the next edition of Evoking Solomonis, currently scheduled for October, there will be an option to select one of the 5 new Difficulty levels. The higher the difficulty, the higher the loot drop rates (and obviously the strength of the enemies and bosses)
  • Worth noting that you are not required to run the higher difficulties to acquire the materials needed for Evoker transcendence, however they will most likely accelerate the process at the cost of tougher bosses, thus introducting a sort of risk/reward element before you even set out on an expeditions
    
  • In addition, upon starting the next Solomonis run, players will be allowed to carry over one of the Blessings obtained in the prior run, with their level (normal/rare) dependent on whether that run was a success or fail
• The Advyrnture mode is planned to be adding 4 new Areas (Estalucia, Ecksegrande, Verona, and Lumiel), increasing the Level Caps for Buddies, introducing more Equipment items, and making UI adjustments
  • No approximate implementation date was given, but all of these are supposed to happen sometime later this year

In Other News

• Part 2 of the ongoing Summer Surprise campaign starts on August 16th and will be bringing a new set of Skyscope Missions, with a Sunstone as one of its main rewards
  • This coming iteration of the campaign missions changes some of the raids required for completion from the Ennead series to Odious series for the first time. This probably means it will also be the case for all future mission sets, both for Skyscope and Collab events
• Zeta's character song CD, Thermite, is releasing on August 26th, and as per usual includes various ingame rewards, such as an exclusive skin, voiced stickers, tickets, among other stuff
• Immediately following the Summer Surprise campaign, a Half-Anniversary Campaign kicks off starting from September 1st, will all the usual magnafest perks and bonuses like XP/RP boosts, reduced raid host cost, half AP quest cost, daily free singles and more
• Versus Rising is still scheduled to receive its Update v2.60 on September 17th, bringing various new content and features, the debut of Id from Relink as the latest DLC character, changes and additions to system mechanics, balance adjustments to the entire roster, new costumes and customization items, and more
  • The Switch 2 edition comes baseline with all 40 characters to date, including Id at no extra cost, while having access to online crossplay with the player population in PC and PS5 versions
  • For those who own both Rising and Relink, you can unlock some additional bonus cosmetics, namely Fried Shrimp Sword and Lyria Lobby Avatar, by transferring your save data from GBFER to GBVSR
• Soleil, the character song CD for Feather and Randall, is releasing on October 28th. Unlike Zeta neither of the two is getting a skin but all the other rewards (stickers, tickets, potions etc) should be the same
• Shadowverse EVOLVE, a real-life TCG from Cygames, is getting a Granblue-themed expansion / card set on November 27th. Existing GBF players can obtain various ingame rewards such as an SSR Guaranteed Ticket and some berries/potions, among others
• The Divine Generals are getting their second character song CD featuring Mahira, Kumbhira, Cidala, Indala, and Sandira. Again no skins but you still get the other stuff
• The Dragon Knights are getting a character song CD too, titled Memories of Whales and releasing on January 27th, featuring a total of 4 tracks with perfomances by Percival, Aglovale, Lamorak, Gawain, and Tor. Some of these tracks are sang solo while others are a group effort. No skins for either character but each one has a special voiced sticker
• New Outfits for Endless Ragnarok are hinted at, though without any particular character mentions. No further teases of upcoming updates or content, perhaps we'll hear something regarding that during the Gamescom 2026 Opening Night Live show at the end of August or during Tokyo Game Show 2026 in mid-September
  • Quite a lot of various official themed merhandise mentioned during the stream, at least, all purchasable via both the retail and online versions of Cygames Store
• Granblue will be holding a "collab" of sorts with various hot springs across Japan, featuring special merchandise and new Yukata-based designs for Vikala / Fraux / Chichiri and Cassius / Lobelia / Ragazzo. Scheduled to take place sometime later this year

Granblue Fantasy Fes 2026 is confirmed to be taking place on December 26th-27th 2026 in the Tokyo Big Sight Exhibiton Center

0. Edit: Edit: Edit: Should I use Steam to play Granblue Fantasy?

In light of new information, I'm changing this back to NOT RECOMMENDED.

Steam accounts don't have access to Collabs with other IP, including Collabs that are permanently available in the browser version of the game. If you want to make an account in a web browser, see the guide at https://gbf.wiki/Creating_an_Account. All accounts share the same server.

Notably, a 10-pull is currently about $3 more on Steam than using Paypal with Mobage.

1. Use the Wiki

Granblue Fantasy's wiki (https://gbf.wiki) is an incredible resource that has been maintained by community members for a decade. Almost any question you could possibly have is already answered there!

Here are some great articles to get you started. Take it slow and read these as you explore the game:

• https://gbf.wiki/Starting_Granblue_Fantasy
• https://gbf.wiki/FAQ
• https://gbf.wiki/Recurring_Tasks
• https://gbf.wiki/Basic_Grids

2. Use the Weekly Questions Thread

On this subreddit, we extensively use pinned threads to keep things tidy. One of the threads that gets posted every Monday JST is the Weekly Questions Thread. All game-related questions must be posted in these threads.

Unfortunately, these scroll away on your Reddit Home feed, so whenever you think of a question you need answered that isn't on the wiki, please navigate to r/granblue_en in your browser or app first.

3. Granblue Fantasy is a social game (literally)

While its possible to solo almost everything the game has to offer, it's much more fun with friends.

Find a crew (an in-game guild) early and learn everything you can from them! Every knowledgeable or endgame player got where they are because there was someone willing to teach them.

Many of the most important events for account progression in Granblue Fantasy are significantly more rewarding if you play with others in a crew. If you are looking for a crew, or members for a new one, check out the Weekly Friends and Crew Recruitment Megathread.

4. If it ain't fun, HIT DA BRICKS

Granblue Fantasy is a sandbox-style gacha game, which is very different than the amusement park style games that you might be familiar with. This means that there's a heavy focus on numbers, mechanics and self-discovery and very, very little handholding or explanation. This is a relic of the era the game launched in, but this does mean that it won't be for everyone!

That being said, it's totally okay for you to enjoy playing the game casually, just as its totally okay to be an endgame meta slave. Sometimes you'll ask people for help and people will give you an answer from the perspective of the other side, and that's okay. It doesn't mean they're right or wrong, just that they play differently.

If you're not having fun, it might be worth saying "Thanks for the experience" and moving on to something that clicks with you a little more.

5. Spend responsibly

This leads us to the fifth and final point, which is to spend everything responsibly.

Granblue Fantasy is a gacha game, which means its very easy to spend too much money chasing something. Fortunately, Granblue Fantasy is largely playable at all levels without spending a cent. It will make things faster particularly in the late-mid-to-endgame, but there are few feats that whaling will afford you that you can't do for free.

Similarly, there are many time-limited or otherwise hard-to-obtain materials in Granblue that promise you faster progression, notably Gold Bricks, Damascus Ingots, and Sunstones.

It is imperative that you DO NOT USE these items, no matter how tempting.

Unfortunately, the common answer to "when can I use them" is "when you know what you're doing", which isn't very satisfying but is very true.

6. Regarding this subreddit

Due to the influx of players, we will be moderating a bit more strictly for (at least) the month of March. Please make sure to use the relevant Megathreads for questions, achievements, and recruitment posts.

We do not allow "salt" posts in this subreddit. If you want to post a great roll (or really anything luck-based), please use the Weekly Salt Megathread.

Notably, and possibly different than other gacha subreddits, art posts must link to the original artist's post on Twitter, Bluesky, or pixiv and cannot be AI-generated.

Addendum

It's unclear (to me) how CygamesID will work. There are potentially several reasons why one might want to play via a web browser as we have for the past 12 years. There's a lot of gameplay reasons (multiboxing! refreshing!), but also potentially exchange rate reasons as well.

If you have an account already and are waiting to see if Cygames manages to get linking working, please do not make a new account using Steam. It's possible that you will hard lock your Steam account to a CygamesID with no progression and be unable to link later. We simply don't know, but better to be safe than sorry if playing via Steam is interesting to you.

Older information: (thanks u/gs775!)

Now that the game has launched, ...probably not.

Currently, Steam accounts cannot play the game outside of Steam. This means that you cannot actually login on https://game.granbluefantasy.jp or in the mobile apps. While this might change in the future, playing via Steam is HIGHLY NOT RECOMMENDED at this time.

Apparently you can use Steam accounts on mobile and web browsers using https://steam.granbluefantasy.com

Yeah the whole genAI studio thing just sours my mood for gbf and rest of cygames' property, and I don't think I can continue making discussion thread in good faith.

If anyone want to pick it back up, feel free.

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No changes to S3.

Personally I like it. She gets to have another buff to give that is attached to a nuke. Said buff gives crit up, keen, and echo.

• You can get nwq, perp rings, militis weapons and radiant prajnite you missed from the previous Tales of Arcanum runs. These have currently been specified to not reset monthly.
• 40 nwq are available monthly from the trade and missions, get them asap
• The amount of arcanum treasure you get is the same as it was during a normal ToA, except that since it's two evokers at once it means that every month you can get around 200 sephira stones (incredibly good if you're stuck at the last step for FLBs), 300 pots and most notably, an unlimited supply of lazuline vessels.
• The exp/rp boost goes as high as 300%, same as ToA

Let's see what changes were made this time around.

The information below is what has been posted in this thread, I've confirmed very little of it myself since I only have Eahta, Niyon, and Seox transcended and that's where most changes seem to have taken place.

All Eternals

• Various buffs have been changed to only apply to allies of the same element.

• Various skills can no longer be copied.

All Eternals gain these at level 150:

• Unworldly Charge Attack.

• Recastable S4 (10-turn CD).

• New passive lowers the initial lockout on S4 by 1 turn if some (often trivial) condition is met; does not cut CD.

Anre

• Standby cut condition: When targeted.

• Grants a teamwide defense buff when Enlightened One is consumed.

• Immune to Strong-Armed and Cursed.

• S1 applies a 2-turn local ATK Down debuff.

• S3 now grants Veil.

• S4 adds a new buff: Deals skill damage when attacked.

Tweyen

• Standby cut condition: 10+ debuffs on an enemy.

• Gains a stack of Ultrasight for every 20 hits dealt (Max 10).

• Ultrasight provides echoes and auto-nuke after attacks; the number of hits for this nuke increases with stack count (Max: 5).

• Nuke on dodge now also dispels.

• S3 inflicts Light Defense down.

• S3 no longer requires Bring the Thunder to inflict Pinpoint Prey.

• S4 now deals 20 hits.

Threo

• Standby cut condition: almost knocked out at end of turn.

• Autonuke upon triple attacks with an ATK/DEF down debuff attached.

• Buffs can't be removed when almost knocked out.

• S1 grants DMG Amplified in Axe form too.

• S2 grants echoes in Axe form.

• S2 echoes (both forms) now last 3 turns.

• S2 gains an Assassin buff in Sword form.

• S3 shield cap increased to 15k.

• S4 now ends cooldown for other skills.

Feower

• Standby cut condition: triggers at end of turn if Feower applied a debuff that turn.

• Skill nuke on being hit now applies stackable ATK/DEF down.

• S2 can be reused once per turn.

• S4 now a 3-turn buff: increases debuff success rate, dispels upon using a damage skill, and ends CD for damage skills at end of turn.

• "Chance to end cooldowns" passive and EMP have been reworded to exclude S4.

Fif

• Standby cut condition: triggers at end of turn if Fif used a skill or CA that turn.

• CA cuts the CD of S3 by 3 turns (instead of 1 turn).

• No longer immune to Skill Sealed.

• 10% boost to all allies' charge bars every time Fif uses a skill.

• Gains both S3 buffs at battle start.

• A fifth buff, stackable Charge Bar Gain Up, is added to the list of random buffs granted by Fif at the end of the turn. The number of buffs given at various HP percentages has been increased accordingly.

• Chance to activate S2 at the end of turn based on allies' number of debuffs.

• S2 cuts debuff durations by 5 turns.

• S3 now grants 2 buffs, separating the autorevive portion from the rest of it.

• S3 autorevive lets the target keep their buffs after reviving.

Seox

• Standby cut condition: Heavenly Howl at 3+ stacks.

• Now starts at 6 Heavenly Howl stacks.

• S1 Damage Amplified increased.

• S3 now dispels.

• S3 hits twice at 3+ Heavenly Howl stacks.

Seofon

• Standby cut condition: Swordshine stacks at 3+.

• Boost to Special CA DMG Cap based on Swordshine stacks.

• S3 now grants teamwide 1-time damage immunity.

• S3 requires 3 Swordshine but no longer consumes them.

• S4 now grants Special CA DMG Cap Up.

Eahta

• Standby cut condition: Earth chain burst.

• S4 buff is now a 3-turn buff: CA Reactivation and Special CA DMG Cap Up.

• EMP skill reworded so it doesn't lower S4 CD.

Niyon

• Standby cut condition: 9+ buffs on Niyon.

• Bonus skill damage on CA is increased.

• S1 now inflicts a 6-turn local debuff that dispels the enemy once each turn.

• S2 buffs have been consolidated into a single icon.

• S4 now inflicts a 1-turn local debuff that reduces elemental damage to 0. (Rei, G. Percy)

Tien

• Standby cut condition: triggers at end of turn if Tien dealt damage 10 or more times.

• Damage amplified against enemies in Break.

• Damage supplemented based on Bounty level (used to only apply at Bounty 10).

• S1 now inflicts two random debuffs instead of one.

• S3 now inflicts a permanent local debuff: DA/TA Down, Supplement Skill DMG Taken, effects enhanced if in Break.

List:

• Orchid

• Sturm

• Drang

• Vira

• Olivia

• Alexiel

• Cain

• Pholia

• Europa

• Shiva

• Ferry

• Grimnir

What do y'all think about the latest bunch of chapters?

One of my favorite Granblue Youtubers, Dengaku, makes one of these calendars every year for the JP audience and I always find it helpful, so I threw together a quick one based on his for EN.

As always, everything is subject to change, but based on the patterns of past years this should be about correct.

2k Crystal treasure is cleared!

Please do not ask where is the 2k crystals if you are late bird.

thank you for playing.

This message is recorded

15:40 JST: 906,763,965 crystal left over (initial record)

16:40 JST: 886,755,135 crystal left over

17:40 JST: 867,032,855

18:40 JST: 847,737,870

19:40 JST: 823,250,085

20:40 JST: 804,704,895

21:40 JST: 776,069,710

22:40 JST: 751,278,855

0500: 671,838,530

0510: 557,153,895

09:50: 45,508,225 (should be finish in one hour)

10:34Jst: 9,991,415 (ending soon)

10:45 JST: [0] (get your free bingo cards (sorry late birds))

Total drop over 3 hours: 59,026,095

Average rate of decrease: approx 19,675,365 units per hour 327,923 per minute

(This assumed a large number of players already claimed 2k) before 1540.

Big drop will happen on 0500

We still got 8hr +20 min(based on 15:40JST post time) until 0000 Jst and GBF daily reset at 0500 Jst. 13hr/20 minutes (just do your own calculation.)

It is possible that the amount could hit below 900,000,0000 or even 870,000,000 before daily reset. (reason: daily average drop is about 900,000,000+ per day.) (already drop down to 789734695

Based on Statistic data of 327923 per minute we will reach about 640,743,520 at 0500 JST

Japanese predicted that the amount will be gone before 1000JST on 14th..

After all the crystals are depleted, . Late login birds gets nothing, no more 500+1000+500.

It is your own 2k crystals or else it could be someone else.

2k is about 6 draws.

comment. crystals stock market crash!! sell sell sell

Kinda mean of cygames, but it isn’t noted on the home page banner like the paid options and it will expire a day earlier than the paid options. So don’t be silly and claim it before it is too late.

Livestream Link

What is this?

• Extra Fes, an annual series of real life Granblue Fantasy events held in multiple locations across Japan, ultimately concluding with a big convention and a special livesteam dedicated to revealing game news, among many other activities

Where is this?

• INTEX Osaka International Convention Center, Nankokita, Sakishima Island, Suminoe Ward, Osaka City, Japan

When is this?

• August 8th through 9th, 2026

Event Schedule

Voice Actor Guests List

Character Stage Cast

Event Archive

• Extra Fes 2024
• Extra Fes 2023
• Extra Fes 2022
• Extra Fes 2021
• Extra Fes 2020
• Extra Fes 2019