Tips for getting started in Heaven Burns Red

Par for the course for JRPGs, the characters are categorised into multiple classes. Among them are Attacker, Breaker, Blaster, Defender, Buffer, Debuffer and Healer. While initially, the system will have you believe that every class matters, the truth, however, is far from that. In reality, Debuffer and Buffer contribute the most weight to a team. Thus ideally, the future-proof setup includes one Attacker/Blaster and one Healer, with the rest of the slots housing debuffers and buffers. You are set for modes where bigger numbers take precedence such as that of Score Attack and Skirmishes. Cornered by a nasty boss during your Dungeon or Clock Tower run? One of the slots can be swapped out for a Defender should the situation call for it.

For certain days in a chapter, there's a period of free time where you roam around campus and partake in activities. Should you miss it, rewinding to the latest free time is a matter of a simple click in the main menu. The RPG normally bombards you with notifications to call you up for toiling in the fields of GP Arena and the sort. Here is where you need to dedicate this portion in one of the few facilities to up your personality traits (it can be checked in the main menu as well). Once a certain threshold of a trait (e.g. Eccentricity) is achieved, interactions with other characters dotted around the campus can be accessible, which is good for bonding and farming their shards.

Screen-saver offline farming is a godsend that spices up the mundane grind too, so make use of that during your downtime. Early on, once you think you have done enough for the day, devote eight hours of offline farming at GP Arena.

As the difficulty spikes linearly moving forward, it is essential to toughen up your girls. "Flashback battle" is an early mode and uses Life Stones which you're given an abundance of. For starters, you will want to focus on min-maxing earrings as those provide DP and INT increments. The former will make your girls more resilient while the latter increases the potency of their skills. For overall output, rings deserve your attention as they raise STR and DEX, with STR being a stat paramount to attackers. However, the best of the best (6-star earrings) is only available from crafting. But that's not to downplay the importance of farming for the lower-tier ones. Once you've acquired them, don't skimp on fully upgrading them. Likewise, Booster and Chips are paramount to a character's performance. Aside from Mari's shop, they can be looted from dungeons in the main story. Don't splurge too much until after you are past Chapter 4 as by then, you will have access to the top-tier gear.

The element affinity triangle is there, alright. Each of your girls is grouped into one of five elements, namely Fire, Thunder, Ice, Light, Dark, and Null. Down the road, you will also notice some fights that are easier to clear if you have the right team. Keep a neutral team that's generally applicable everywhere from clearing story content and low-level farming.

On the side, build two or three teams of different elements (for example: a mono-Ice team). As of the current state of the JP version, working around Fire and Dark teams gives you the best return on investment as they can function well outside their domain due to their prowess.

Mastering the art of Overdrive can make or break a game, which in essence is a time stop whose accumulation corresponds to the number of successful hits your party dealt to the enemy (Level 1 being denoted as pink, Level 2 as cyan and Level 3 as yellow). Upon activation, it will instantly grant you SP, amps up-skill damage, and provides upward of three free turns scaling on gauge percentage.

Here's where the element effectiveness comes into play, as any hit resisted by enemies won't contribute to the bar. Normally, in important battles such as Score Attack or Skirmishes, you will want to throw all your eggs into one decisive basket. Once you’ve rendered the enemy stunned by completely downing their DP, this is the cue to unload all sorts of debuffs on the enemy, with your party fully armed with buffs to mow them down.

The dynamic of debuff and buff gives the most weight in battles. Contrary to what this narrative-driven adventure intends you to believe, it is only debuff that lasts one turn irrespective of its nature. Buffs, on the other hand, are consumable and stackable.

Upgrading characters is key to success. Chief among them is the introjection feature. This function lets you make an SS Memoria’s skill inheritable. So, let’s say you performed an Introjection on Yuka’s free SS Memoria - Shining Circuit Burst. If you’re equipping Cardinal Reverberations, you retain access to Shining Circuit Burst’s EX skill in your rotation. You acquire resources for this function from an endgame mode called Score Attack. Bonus: attempting Score Attack can give you recruitment tickets!

With how frequently banners come and go, naturally, the impulse to pull does too. Sadly, quartz income is not commensurate with that desire. Hence, foresight and frugality are your best friends here. The salt that intensifies the wound is that the pity count does not carry over to the next banner. Fortunately for us, there are a lot of bait banners that are pitfalls that can be avoided, unless your favourite is on there. As for the SS selector ticket bestowed upon you after the tutorial battle, refer to our tier list for clarity. Tentatively, a collaboration event with one of Jun's masterpieces, Angel Beats, is set to launch in the foreseeable future. Set aside some funds if you're on this ride. However, in the future, they won't tip the scale of balance anytime soon in the metagame.

Take it easy and tune into its tracks. Remember, be diligent to log in whenever they’re giving out tickets. Otherwise, you’ll be like me, stuck in limbo where I am forever short of a few tickets.

These are all of the Heaven Burns Red tips that we have at the moment. In case you want to expand your knowledge about each character, take a look at the tier list for Heaven Burns Red where each character is ranked according to their worth.

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