Granblue Fantasy: Relink – Useful Tips

Tips and Things I Have Learned after 70hrs and Clearing Proud Mode

The game as amazing and I’ve been hooked since the second it came out. There are however a few things that the game fails to mention or explain which can be a huge deal breaker as you make your way into Proud difficulty.

Players who have been long term players of the GBF gacha game however have an idea to some of the keywords used in the game and how to build around it to work their way into cheesing certain fights.

The game however, does one major mistake and that is doing a semi terrible job in explaining certain major mechanics to players, one major in particular being damage cap mechanic which can ruin your experience online.

Lets just say a lot of the mistakes I’ve made have been from trial and error and reading up to get better.

• Starting off. Damage Cap. This is the most crucial part of your build. Nowhere does it state by any indicator or color scheme what your damage is and if you’ve capped. The only notable way is obviously the training dummy.
• AI/CPU is your best friend. Solely because the AI is actually better than most players you’d meet online, and you can configure them exactly the way that works against the difficulty you are going for. Online experience can make or break your experience as you’ll run into players not knowing how DMG Cap works and would be stacking 5-8 ATK sigils. Or the dreaded 3 man narmaya lobby. Narmaya is waifu but good lord some stages, especially in proud cannot be cleared without a tank or vaynes bubble taking away aggro in bullet hell stages.
• YouTube guides are an amazing place to start and understand the foundation of the game, but majority of the content creators have not made it far into Proud. While guides will show you how to min-max your damage, being glass cannon only works if you have someone who knows what they’re doing in your lobby or can time your dodges and blocks to negate it. Proud mode takes no prisoners and the most bs things can and will OHKO you. (I’m looking at you Gallanza & Maglielle)
• Linked Together/Supplemental Damage/Stamina and Enmity sigils + DMG Cap are amazing combos. Do not sleep on them. You won’t be able to level up your Rank V sigils easily due to mats required, so to farm harder bosses you need to be able to survive long enough to benefit from farming the materials. Linked together is OP. Period. The faster you can get into Linked time or pull off your team ultimate can easily turn a hard boss fight around.
• You can buy unique character sigils from Sigil Trade & the other one from gold medals trade. This is the fastest way to get character unique sigils than rely on RNG.
• Don’t be shy to use Bronze/Silver/Gold books. These books are pretty helpful to get your characters up to speed. Assault Formation is amazing to get characters boosted quickly too as the materials needed (High Scrap & Machine Parts) can be traded off for Siero tickets to roll on sigils.
• Status effects are key to winning harder fights. Slow/Paralyze/DefDown these help massively with harder fights to turn things around. In proud mode this can easily help you skip certain phases if you deal enough damage with a combination of linked together.
• Lastly, ignore tier lists. Tier lists are made in mind with the highest damage dealing heroes but these mean nothing if you can’t stay alive in harder fights long enough to benefit from it. All characters are pretty balanced in their own mechanics and can easily net you MVP if you build them right. Focus on 4 characters as you are going to be grinding materials a LOT. Personally, Eugene and Rosetta have so much crowd control that the last 2 slots can be anything you want but these 2 can easily keep a boss locked in place for you to get that sweet S++.