This may not interest you at all, but for the sake of posterity, I’m going to detail what I’ve been obsessing over the past several days. The latest event in Granblue Fantasy is a collaboration with The Idolmaster Cinderella Girls. The last collab I tangled with was the Tales of Asteria event back in June. That didn’t work out for me because I wasn’t able to link accounts. I was expecting the same deal here. I prefer to play GBF as a Chome App on my laptop rather than on my phone for a variety of reasons. Cinderella Girls has a Chrome App too, but you can’t link accounts via the PC version. Well, here’s my genius at work. I loaded both games in my phone via their web apps (as opposed to installing the apps as my old Galaxy S2 can’t handle it) and succeeded in linking the accounts. Then I was able to play the PC version of both and still reap the benefits.

My main goal was just to get the characters that were collab rewards, but then I learned of another character who was previously a summon with some steep requirements for acquisition. That character is Ranko Kanzaki and the requirements are as follows:

1. Acquire all seven collab characters. Two are new and two were introduced in the rerun event from March. Here are their requirements:
a. Miria – attain 1000 trust points
b. Anastasia – clear the first panel mission in Cinderella Girls
c. Rin – attain 1000 trust points
d. Mio – reach Level 20 in Cinderella Girls
e. Uzuki – beat the event story chapters
f. Airi – reach Level 39 in Cinderella Girls
g. Sachiko – treasure exchange (one of the materials appearing only during a rare encounter)
2. Acquire the Brunnhilde summon.
3. Cast Brunnhilde 666 times in order to collect four copies of the Ranko Kanzaki summon. (The titles of each stage being a necessary component, so simply doing the treasure exchange to three-star a Ranko summon won’t cut it.) Raise the Ranko summon to Level 100.
4. Defeat Tiamat, Leviathan, Colossus, Yggdrasil, Chevalier, and Celeste with the Ranko summon (which means eyeballing an approximate 20K HP window for the deathblow).
5. Get a title for raising Rin and Anastasia to Level 50.
6. Get a title for raising Miria, Airi and Mio to Level 60.
7. Get a title for raising Miria, Sachiko and Uzuki to Level 70.
8. Get a title for the above three titles.
9. Clear the two new Fate Episodes that open up.
10. Fulfill the treasure requirements to four-star the Ranko summon.
11. Receive SR Ranko.

Getting to Level 39 in Cinderella Girls wasn’t that hard. I managed it in two sittings as there’s currently zero stamina cost up through Ikebukuro and half cost through Fukui. (You get XP by doing jobs in various cities.) Sachiko was the biggest pain to get because of the Purple Jewels that drop with the Jewel Mimic rare encounter. Happily, I’d already three-starred the Ranko summon, so that was one less thing, but leveling her was another story. I thought using her against the six main summons would be more of a pain than it was, particularly with the limited number of spawns per day, but I managed it without too much trouble. Leveling the girls appeared more daunting as it takes 227,550 XP to reach 70. Grinding the event monsters on Extreme nets about 2K XP with the Halloween event’s 50% bonus. Because I wanted to three-star Brunnhilde, I was going to be doing a lot of grinding anyway, so this was manageable, but recall my complaint about acquiring Sachiko, the last chara I got and one who needs to hit 70. I didn’t notice that I had to get the Ranko summon to 100 (which is difficult as summons are much more difficult to grind despite the lower XP requirement, about 72K to reach 100), and that was when I realized that only the acquisition of the seven girls has to be done before the event is over. Ha ha ha. Here I was all panicking and trying to crunch numbers to optimize my time and meet the milestones when there’s not any need for me to rush at all at this point. I’d still like to unlock SR Ranko before the week’s out, but if I have to wait while I’m leveling her summon version, that’s fine.

Now, you might find it silly to expend so much time energy and brainpower on a silly little mobile game and you’d be right, but we all need a vice or two to remind us that we’re human and gaming addiction is mine. This hardly excuses me falling short of any progress goals, but thankfully, I can’t play at work, so guess what I do during my breaks. By the by, don’t be surprised if reviews of the Cinderella Girls anime show up in the not so distant future. ^_^;

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  By James Carmack, Mon 24 Oct 2016 @ GMT+0000 17:53:10

  So, at the end of the event, I managed to meet all the above requirements save leveling the Ranko summon to 100. If I had been working on her instead of Millia (the guest summon from Lord of Vermillion, not Miria from CG or Millia from Tales), I’d already have SR Ranko unlocked. Now that we’ve got the monthly Kosenjou event, I should be able to farm enough to make things happen. Yes, yes, I know it’s not the most productive use of my time, but it is what it is.

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