It’s been 9 months since I did my level 175 post. Initially I was doing these update posts mainly to track my progress, but also encourage myself about how far I’d come and remind myself how far I had to go. On some level, I guess I’m also trying to leave a record for myself when Granblue Fantasy eventually goes down.

For the first two points, they don’t really apply any more because I think I’ve come far enough. There’s still a ton of things I can do to improve my grids, but as I mentioned before, as you go along, it takes more and more effort to make a small blip in your strength levels. For example my Earth party is definitely not crap any more, but it’s taken months and years of trading prestige pendants and beating Alexiel (who never, I repeat, never gave me an axe) to get to that point.

And after all the time I spent sparking and grinding up my Varuna grid, I recently learned that the Varuna meta is no longer Fimbuls but rather some other weapon I hadn’t thought about. Doesn’t matter, my current grid is good enough. And in fact, all my current grids are good enough. I don’t intend to put much effort into improving them from now on, so there’s no need to post grid updates either.

Does that mean I’m stopping Granblue Fantasy? Of course not. And I’ll thank you kindly not to bring up my dark history of trying and failing to quit this game in the past. It just means I’m going into coasting mode – in fact I’ve already been in coasting mode since the year started – where I focus on doing events as best as I can but don’t grind or actively try to get stronger. I’m also super-idly working on FLBing the eternals and unlocking new classes, but veeeery idly because I’m not going to do anything with them. Still I’m leaving the door open for Cygames to bring out some wonderful new content that sends me running back to computer day and night etc etc not holding my breath etc etc. You never know.

Achievements since my last post

-FLB’d Eahta. I mentioned I was working on Niyon earlier, but my Earth party needed more help at the time. Through the triple combo of FLB Eahta, Mahira and a better grid, I can finally do good damage to Europa and other useless Water enemies of her sort. Let’s see if I can OHKO Leviathan Omega at strike time before I brag… eh, can’t be bothered to check. Just take my word for it.

I’m working on getting Seofon as well. Wind has fallen behind a bit in my party rankings… but that’s not the reason why I want him. The real reason is because he’s my first Eternal and I’m actually very fond of him. FLB’ing Eternals is a tedious process so I might as well do it for a character I care about.

-Unlocked the Doctor and Soldier class. And maybe some other classes, but I can’t remember them. Maybe Monk? I should really level them up for the mastery bonuses but I’ll save that for the next magnafest, which should be around the corner now that Summer characters are starting to appear.

Actually, come to think of it, I have so many elixirs and berries that I don’t need to wait for magfest to grind anything. But somehow grinding at full cost feels like a rip off, and besides my mind is already attuned to playing seriously during magfest so… yeah.

-Raised total number of level 100 characters to 29. Black Knight, idolmaster water girls, Rackham, Ayer, Percival, Zeta, Tiamat, Lennah, Eahta, Io, Katalina, Mahira, De la Fille and Anila are all between 91 and 99.

-Uncapped all Seraphic weapons like I said I would. I can’t even remember if they made any difference to my strength, but I guess more stats are always welcome.

…That’s it. I may have done some other stuff but I don’t remember so that’s okay. I still need to unlock the Lumberjack, Cavalier, Monk, Nekomancer, Tormentor and Rising Force classes, but I’m too lazy to rack up Prestige pendants these days. Next magnafest, maybe. As for Arcarum, it’s too much work lately so I’ve been sitting on a full 90 tickets for a while. Meh.

Grids, grids~ Get your grids here!

Earth

It’s peforming much better now that I’ve replaced some Yggdrasil swords with Alexiel’s axes. I believe I’m also supposed to add some Alexiel swords to the mix at some point, but no rush.

Trying to get some cuties up to level 100. They have good skills…? I think? Most of the time I just auto-away.

I only recently found out that the Xeno harp can go up to level 200. That means I missed out on getting the fire Xeno scythe to level 200 as well? It looks like lv. 150 is becoming the new standard, 100 is obsolete and 200 should be aspired to.

Wind

Same as last year. I haven’t used this year’s Anniversary Ticket yet, so I idly considered getting a second Grimnir harp. Still idly considering it, maybe I will, maybe I won’t.

Still testing out different party combinations and trying to get everyone’s levels maxed out for the lulz. I have so many characters, I don’t even remember their skillsets half the time.

Bullying Vohu Manah out of revenge for all the times she bullied me. But not really because I don’t really care.

Fire

FLB’d the Ancient Ecke Sachs but haven’t gotten them up to level 150 yet. What is that gun supposed to be? Huh, I don’t remember getting that… let me check… [Beast Weapon] Summer’s Mirage? Umm, can’t remember where I got that from but it has to be good because I put it in my grid. Yeah.

Raising characters to level 100 and I believe I have Magisa for the veil? And the blind debuff, yeah. She’s a handy gS

Same old summons as always. Both Lucifer and Bahamut are almost level 200 but not quite.

Water

Old Faithful. Now with more plus marks! I do at least one 10-roll every time there’s an “all plus marks” banner. It’s an easy way of adding more stats to your party. Eventually I might start to add them to my characters as well.

No need to show my frontline party because it hasn’t changed in ages. Same with the summons.

Dark

I think I said something about changing my main weapon? Never got round to it, but I did FLB a Hermanubis for Berserker shenanigans which I also haven’t gotten round to.

The mouse, the knight and the armpit.

Light

Same as last time. I don’t have any intentions of changing it either.

My latest pulls.

They get the job done. What more do you want?

Summary

Yeah, I’m pretty done with Granblue Fantasy. But not done done, just done. I’ve accomplished enough, now it’s time to just coast and enjoy what I’ve achieved.

Other games?

As I explained in the post before this one, I’m still playing games very actively. It’s just that they’re all mobile or casual games, so I don’t have much to say about them. I have a lot of “proper” games I want to play as well – for example I recently pulled Suelle in Atelier Online and she’s cute, so I kinda want to play Atelier Lydie & Suelle – but I’m really lazy. I need to force myself to just start something, but the will is not there. So if this blog is silent, it’s for lack of new games to play, not because I’ve gone anywhere.