/bd2g/ FAQ

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I saw an L2D of a girl getting whipped/stripped/etc. How do I get that?

Get 1 copy of that girl's costume and check the Glupy Diner pack once you unlock it - chances are she'll be there as "Fated Guest". Start dating her, set her interaction as your homescreen once you've unlocked it, and go wild. JP voiceovers will be added later.

Who do I take from the Infinite Reroll?

The Infinite Reroll at the start isn't really a big deal. Celia and Eleaneer are popular options, but you can choose any 5★ you like the looks of since you get to recruit the girls you didn't chose (+a dupe for the girl you did choose) for free from the pub later anyway.

Celia (left) is a supporter for (endgame) PvE boss fights and raids. The main value in recruiting her now is that it lets you use her Field Skill (absorb all map finds) right away, which is a great QoL to have. Tip: Activate Lathel's Search first, that way she absorbs all hidden finds too.
Eleaneer is an 11/10 sexo alternative if you'd rather have an extra (Phys) DPS option or want all of her glorious boobage on your homescreen. She's also the only non-limited 2SP buff dispeller in the game (at +3), which makes her great in PvP later and can help you get some extra Dias every week.

For Equipment the value is Kry's UR Swords > Eleaneer's SR Bow (if you took her)/Wiggle's UR Bomb > Justia's SR Sword.
Don't waste hours on trying to get Celia + Kry's Swords or any such "perfect roll", it's all just minor stuff. Any of the above will help you.

How to "True Reroll"?

Play Story Pack 1 until you get your starter pulls, collect draw tickets from active events/codes, and pull on a banner you like.
✔️Got the rate-up girl or a double/triple 5★ hit in those starter pulls? KEEP (link account)
❌Didn't get the rate-up girl or any double/triple 5★ hits? Restart.

Only sorta worth it if you start during limited banners, rerun banners, or the banner of your wife.

Newglutti Tips

1. UREX/gear banners are for users who want to compete in ranked content, or if the unit is (you)r wife.
   UREX gear usually only offers a small dps increase (~10%) compared to your crafted URIVs (Free).
   You'll also get some UREX pieces for free every month, and some UREXs (like Teresse/Celia/Olstein) are even downright awful.
   Feel free to give UREX banners a shot if she's your wife/she's crazy good, but burning all your newglutti pulls on these is a good way to brick.
2. You get a daily free pull on every banner. Rather than +5ing a new unit on Day 1 you might want to wait and see what the free pulls give you first.
3. Usually you'll want to use the monthly enhancer from the Gold Thread Shop to raise owned supports (eg +5 Diana/B-Helena, +3 Zenith, +4 TLevia/GRafina/WDVenaka) before you use them on DPS units.
4. Tears of Goddess are RARE. Don't spend them on 3/4★ units that aren't Arines, Elpis or Student Samay (buffers), and definitely don't spend them on DPS increases for non-DPS units like Olstein or Celia.
5. Join a GUILD after clearing SP3. Checking in daily gives you 50.000 gold, which is a huge deal for a new player. Other major sources of gold are Olstein's daily ability and Last Night. You can also quickly sweep cleared packs for gold daily by using Teresse's Overpower field ability and touching the monsters.
6. Save Paid Dia for the newbie select banner (runs for 2 weeks after you start) or (.5) anniversary events - these come with special limited Paid Dia banners/packages.

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How to Teambuild/Clear Content?

BD2 meta is all about Buffers and Gear. Pair your 2 strongest DPS with Elpis 4★ (if magic) or Arines 3★ (if physical), and make sure that your buffers go first in the skill order.

The other units in your party are flex. They exist to either reposition enemies (make your AoEs hit more mobs), to mop up leftovers, or to give extra buffs. Tanks are rarely used outside of PvP; if you do need a tank in some PvE battles Andrew (4★ taunt/dodge tank) will usually suffice since you can just restart the turn if a key dodge fails.

Your First Team

The game kickstarts you with Physical, so until you obtain better buffers and (AoE) DPS units your first team will likely look something like this:

Arines buffs. Kry can damage or push (reposition) mobs as needed. Liatriss is an AoE mob clear.
Wiggle can be replaced by Eleaneer or another 5★ of choice, so you have 2 flex slots.

Great (free) units for the flex slot include Olstein (3x3 AoE Silence, from SP5 Pub), Lucrezia (4★ Silencer/Battery) and Rou (5★ dodge tank/knockback killer, from SP5 Pub). These can all help you clear content you'd otherwise be stuck on.

Q: Can I play Magic instead?
You can also go for a magic team with Elpis, but since the 3/4★ mages are shit you'll need to obtain some actual, proper 5★ Magic DPS first. There is one in the pub (WDVenaka), but outside of that you'll have to pull on magic banners, get lucky with off-banner hits, or start the game during a time where good welfare mages (like Summer Dalvi) are available.

How to Clear Content?
Most of the regular PvE content can be oneshot with a buffed 3x3 AoE DPS. When you can't (eg when you run into HP Bloat) you need to improve your gear/characters and/or play by the elements system. This means using the Diana you recruit from SP10 with 1-2 DPS of a stronger element than the mobs you're facing.
For example, a solid team to tackle Firechip Hard+ (Wind enemies) with is Arines/Diana/Liatriss/Lucrezia/flex (other fire unit, buffer, or reposition).

Recommended combat power suggestions are meaningless. As you play you'll find that a lot of (harder) content can be cheesed by playing Elements, using a silencer like Olstein/Lucrezia, stalling for death time (BVMorpeah summons), buffing up Apostle Blade (grid-wide counters) or using the Continue function. There's always solutions if you can't bruteforce something.

Gearing

Start by having Fred/Layla craft a Blue (R) IV set for your main DPS. Upgrade the pieces to +9 and refine them a couple times so that they are no longer CCC grade or similar. Likewise, do your Slime Island dispatches and feed the slimes to your strongest DPS - your team doesn't need to be equal in level.

Q: Where do I get more crafting materials?
Open the boxes obtained from completing the daily missions, and sweep up the "finds" on maps, especially the ones in SP7, 8 , 9 and 17.
TIP: Use Lathel Search into Liberta or Celia absorb to instantly succ up both the hidden and regular daily finds.
You can also dispatch to resource stages on days where Slime Island doesn't have a 2x Rate-up bonus active.

The next major upgrade is UR Gear. Craft (and dismantle) N-grade Merc Swords/Armor to quickly level up your crafter. Don't forget to upgrade Fred's/Layla's skill with a skillbook every time the crafting XP bar is full. The Ability Pills you need come from the event shops.

Once you've unlocked UR Crafting the priority is Venomous Touch > Weapon/Gloves > double DEF/MRES Armor/Helmets (as needed to survive).
Below are the most commonly crafted pieces; the others are situational (for specific characters or PvP):

TIP: Try to get 3x Crit.DMG rolls on your first few URIV Venomous Touch and double DEF/MRES Armors/Helmets!.
This allows them to be used by any DPS, melee and mages alike, which will really help you in for example Fiend Hunt. If a boss is physical, your mages can equip full CDMG DEF gears to survive and still do their damage!

You may also acquire some good UR gear pieces from the Event Shops or through other means:

• Use the code WAITING4LEGEND on the BD2 Code Redemption Portal for a Free URIII Venomous Touch.
• Contract Wars Pack: Exit the office using the left door and explore to find a helpful surprise.

Potential/Bond Priorities

Anything that enhances a skill's cooldown, SP cost, range or buff/vulnerability takes priority over raw DPS increases.
Start with your owned Buffers, followed by any owned good DPS units (S.Justia, BVEclipse, BLoen, Venaka/Nebris etc).

• +Skill Range: Diana, Bride Refi, MCTeresse etc (Buffers) | B.Loen, S.Justia, Maid Liatriss etc (Good DPS)
• -Skill Cooldown: Diana, Curse Celia, OLSeir (Buffers) | DJVenaka, Maid Lia, PPAngelica etc (Good DPS)
• +Buff Value: B-Helena, Diana, H-Lathel, Teresse, OLSeir, OLNebris etc
• +Vulnerability+: TnFLevia, GRafina, WDVenaka etc
• -SP Cost: B-Helena, Zenith etc > Celia > DPS.

Q: What Costume Bonds do I use?
Elemental Damage+ costumes Fiend Hunt/Guild Raids, and in Tower, H/VH Packs as needed (if you can't one-shot).
In general PvE you use C.DMG bond costumes.

For more tips and guidance check out the /bd2g/ Progression Checklist.

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Units, Banners & Pulling

BD2 has costume and gear banners, both with their separate pity trackers. You can't get gear from costume banners and vice versa. Costumes can be enhanced with dupes; gear cannot.
You get a free daily pull on every banner, and get 10 pulls cashback the first 5 times you obtain the rate-up costume (not gear).
Pity is 10 pulls for a random 4★ (or better) and 100 pulls for a 5★ (50/50 between banner target or random 5★).

You also get a Draw Point every time you pull on that banner. 200 Draw Points exchange to the banner target.
Unused draw points are collected at the end of a banner and converted into a global currency ("Powders") that can be exchange for costumes in the Powder Shop. You can also manually exchange draw points for powders before then.

Q: Do I PULL or SAVE?
Pull (in moderation), and PULL when good units are up, like during the game's (.5) Anniversaries, or when you see a banner you like.
May~June (Collab into anniversary) and December~January (half anniversary/winter event) are the most stacked months in the game. The game has lots of events around that time, but if you really want play it safe start saving up at least a month in advance.

What banners do I pull on?

Banners for units you like most, since that is what gacha games are about.
Meta-wise: Team Buffers, AoE (3x3+) Nukers/Chainers and Limited units are usually always safe investments.

The game showers you with free monthly pulls so it isn't hard to get at least one copy of every released unit. This gives you access to her skill, bio, dating content (if any) and L2D+Cutscene.
As a dupe reliant game, most (recent) costumes become usable in PvE at +1 (SP reduction). But typically want to push good buffers and DPS to +4 or +5.

Your ultimate goal is to build your roster, ie. get all buffers you can + have at least 2 DPS options per element (1 physical and 1 magical).

Pulling Strategy & Limiteds

Since you get a free daily pull on every banner, a popular strategy is to stop at +3 and see what the free pulls give you first. On the final day of a banner you can then push her to +4 and finish the costume (+5) with the copy that will be available in the Powder Shop afterwards.
LIMITED units will need to be pushed to the desired dupe level while the banner is active.

• The game's strongest units are the SUMMER & WINTER Limiteds, which go live in tandem with the game's (half) anniversary events in June/August & December. Aside from new limiteds, limiteds from previous years and core buffers are rerun during this time as well.
  Limited units cannot be obtained or elevated outside of their banners in any way.
• Collab events feature 'true' limited units. The developers have however begun to release permanent units with equal performance to take away from the fomo aspect, so any collab units that appear in 2025 and beyond are purely preference pulls.
  Some pre-2025 collab units (Cat Eris, Hikage, Yumi) have an unusually strong combat performance; the developers said they will try to rerun these.
• Core buffers (Diana, B-Helena, HLathel etc) are rerun at 3 to 5 month intervals and at anniversary events (June~Aug/Dec~Jan).
• 5★ base (Main Story) costumes, like Archbishop Michaela, NoJLevia and WDVenaka, get added to the pub with their release. Recruit that costume from the pub within 2 weeks after its launch (with a 5★ Recruitment Contract) for 10 free Draw Tickets.

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SHOPS: What do I buy?

Event Shops

The UR piece is great for newer accounts, as its guaranteed SSS rolls puts it on par with a URIII+ piece.
Especially Weapons, Gloves or Double Crit.DMG accessories will be massive boons to your account.
When buying the UR, remember that you also need 27 tokens to +9 it (+2700 event currency).
If you came in too late to clean the shop out (or if the UR is shit) focus on the Tears and Ancient Crystals first.

Regular Priority:

1. 3x Tears of Goddess → Ancient Crystals → Draw Tickets
2. Newglutti growth materials (4★ Rank-Up Stars, Red Slimes, Gold) and Ability Pills as needed.
3. Essences/Refining Crystals
4. Dump the rest into Refining Powders until the event ends. You'll thank me later.
   

Powder Shop (aka Mileage)

This is where you can get 1 copy of any recently finished non-limited banner unit. The other units are selected to be useful in the upcoming Fiend Hunt.
Most players stop pulling on a permanent units at +4 since the final copy doesn't give any tickets back. They then +5 her with this powder shop copy after that banner has ended.

1. Buy whichever COSTUME(s) you like or are good. Prioritize buffers. When in doubt ask in /bd2g/.
   

Gold Thread Shop

1. Monthly Selective Enhancement (1600).
   Typically used to elevate owned supports or buffers (+5Diana/B-Helena, +3Zenith, +4GRafina/TFLevia)
2. The random costume (1600) may sometimes also be worth it, or be worth it even more than the selector in some cases. Ask in /bd2g/ if not sure.
3. Start saving for next month's selector.

Spenders only:

• The Property Draw Ticket (1200) is good if you're still missing certain supports/buffers.
  Value is WIND (Diana, Zenith, Venaka)/LIGHT (Refi,Helena,Bustia) > DARK (BVEclipse, OLSeir, Celia) > the rest.
  Fire is tempting but the chance to get DSLiberta or a good costume is low due to it being an overcrowded element.
• Tears are never a bad option.
  

Guild Shop

1. Tear → Elixers → Draw Tickets.
2. Essences
3. Scrolls (if needed)
4. Refining Powders or save for next month's items.
   

Mirror War (PvP Shop)

1. Monthly Costume (18000) → Monthly UR Ticket (6000).
2. Leftovers can go into Refining Crystals or be saved for next month's costume/ticket.

You can easily afford both the costume and the ticket if you bulk queue your daily 40 PvP matches (set consumption to "10" and queue 4 games). It's no big deal if you miss the UR Ticket, that's just a bonus.
Tip: PVP rank is determined in the final 40minutes of the season on every Sunday (14:20-15:00 UTC)

Evil Castle Shop

1. 4★ Ability Books as needed, this is the only place in the game to get them.
2. Monthly Essences & Scrolls.
3. 4★ Rank-up stars and 3★ Contracts are given out a lot via Events and the Newbie Pass, but the option is there if you're in a hurry for just a couple more.
   

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Pub Recruitment Priority

You can recruit a pool of 3-5★ costumes in-game via the Pub system (Recruitment Contracts). The Newbie Pass gives you a lot of them, but outside of that they are a rare resource.
Most people trade their 3★ and 4★ Contracts into 5★ ones (Shop>Items) since you'll automatically max out your 3★ and 4★ units from pulling on banners. If there's specific units that you really want you can always choose to clear out at least the 3★ characters to increase the chance of the desired 5★ appearing. Clearing out the 4★ as well offers less value.

Q : Which Pub 5★ do I recruit first?

Some units are fixed (will always be in the pub of that Story Pack after you clear it, until you recruit them). Others are chance encounters. Each unit can only be recruited once.
The game cycles through all remaining Chance% pub recruits, and these guests change every 2h.

1. Diana (SP10 pub)
2. Liatris (Physical, SP8 pub) / Venaka (Magic, Chance %)
   -Your first 3x3 AoE carry. Lower priority if you already got a 3x3 AoE unit, be it from pulls or from a collab/anni event welfare unit (eg Summer Dalvi)
3. Olstein (SP4 pub)
   -Major gold generator for newgluttis via daily dispatch ability. Also offers good survival in PvE with his 3x3 Silence.
4. Celia (Chance %)
   -Lower priority if you took her from the Infinite Reroll.

Other good recruits are Refi (skip pull+glutti absorb,Chance %), Rou (SP4 dodge tank/formation breaker) and Dark Saintess Liberta (SP14 Celia absorb+Buffer). Blade (SP15) can cheese all packs and tower content, but will need good defensive gears and later also a source of damage mitigation (ADDiana/RRH Rou or Refi) to do so. The rest is whoever you like.

• Try to keep a spare 5★ Contract on you after recruiting Diana. That way if a new Story 5★ drops you can recruit her from the new pack & get 10 Draw Tickets during her banner.

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The Select Draw

The regular Select Draw (available all the time) is pretty bad, and is NOT recommended. The 6 costumes you slot into it only get a rate-up (not guaranteed), and there are no cashback tickets. However, the developers will be releasing a reworked version with the 2.0 anniversary in June. This one will feature 12 costume slots, and any obtained 5★ will be one of those 12 costumes guaranteed. This makes it pretty good.

The Newbie Select Draw (available for 2 weeks after account creation) is also solid, as it gives one of three selected character guaranteed.

Special Infinite Draw

This is basically a paid version of the Infinite Reroll, which is available only 1-2 times per year during special events.
The pool contains every (non-limited) unit released before the current patch, and there is no limit on the amount of rerolls you can do. You can even quit and continue rolling on another day if you like, until you see a roll that makes you want to press the button.

You can get multiple 5★ in a 10pull, so with enough patience you can roll until you get 3 good 5★ costumes for $17 - a true "Golden Hand" for new and veteran players alike.

Unit Recommendations

If you're new, try to get some buffers and at least 1-2 Carry DPS/Nukers. Anything more is bonus or who you want.
Getting one copy of the costumes below will allow you to start elevating it with the monthly selector. However, the best way to elevate a unit will always be through its rerun banner+the powder shop after.

• Once you've obtained at least one copy of Bride Refi and Summer Morpeah you can replace them with other units of choice.

There's a general unit value /bd2g/ tier list here.
Some of the lower tier placements are up for debate, but buffers and S tier or above units will do the most for your account.

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Other FAQ

Q: Is there any content in BD2 that is unobtainable as a free player?
A : No. A F2P has access to the exact same costumes and content as a spender. There is no $$ walled content here, even the interactable L2Ds are completely free.
Q : Do I buy the Premium Pass (Battle Pass) for 1000 Dia?
A : Always. You can buy it with your FREE Dias, and always yields 16 pulls profit.
Try to wait with buying it until you reached LV17, that way you'll finish the pass in one go and skip the increased EXP reqs for lv17-20.
Q: What is the BEST VALUE if I want to spend?
A : Anniversary Event Packages > Monthly Dia Packages (1&2) > Relay Packages/Story Clear Packages >> the rest.
If you want to swipe, do it on the (half) anniversary packages. Most players use these to stock up for the rest of the year. Check here for the exact values per pack
Q: What are good units?
A: Buffers, Nukers (3x3+ AoE), Chainers and Limited units are usually always save investments. Limiteds appear during the Anniversary events (June/December) and during collab events.
Q: When are the Resets?
A: Daily reset is 00:00 UTC. On patch days the maintenance starts 10mins prior (23:50 UTC)
Seasonal events end at 15:00 UTC: PvP at that time every Sunday, Fiend Hunt/Towers at that time on maintenance/patch day.
Q: Can I buy an account?
A: Up to you. The devs are aware that some people do it (mainly those who really want past collab units), and while they encourage people to make new accounts they don't actively crack down on bought accounts. However, if it is an account that has illegally generated currency on it chances are you'll be looking at negative draw ticket and Diamond values after a sweep. Google may also decide to remove that account (and thus its access to the game) if it finds it has violated the ToS in any way. If a deal seems too good to be true it probably is.
Q: How many Pulls do I get per month?
A: A decently fresh F2P generates upwards of 200 free pulls per month, excluding the daily free banner pulls (+~112). If you include these you're looking at well over 300 pulls a month, and even more (400~500+) during anniversary/collab events.
You also get 2 monthly UREX Gear Tickets (PvP Shop,ToS), 3x 5★ Costumes (PvP Shop,ToS,Char.Pass) and 8 Tears (Event Shop,ToS,Guild).
Q: Where do I get more Refining Powders?
A : Bulk craft N Mercenary Swords/Armors, 1000 at a time. Set the upgrade to +6 or +7. Don't tick the "auto-dismantle box"; you get an option to salvage all gears you just crafted in one go once the crafting ends. This will get you ~10k powders for ~290k gold + 3000 Ability Pills.
N Mercenary Circlets are an option too, but these take 2000 more Ability Pills (5000 per 1000).
Upgrade duplicate UREX, SREX and crafted UR gears you don't need to +7 before you dismantle them. You can hold onto them until you have the gold to do so.
Q: What Refinement Grade should I aim for?
A: Any Rank18 Refinement (BBS) on URIV gear is a good budget stopping point. From there you can aim for higher over time. Unless you care for PvP (in which case you push armor/helm beyond R18), the priority is always Venom Touch > Weapons/Gloves.
Q: How can I get a higher Last Night score?
A: Give a full SRIII+ set to every unit you own and isn't among the 20 units you use. This is a great way to get lots of support bonus for cheap.
Q: Why is the game named "Brown Dust"?
A: Koreans love to use cool sounding English names and terms for their games.
The idea was that it refers to the dust that is kicked up by armies marching to battle, but it played out a bit different.
Q: I asked a question and now people are trying to lick me. Is this normal?
A:

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