/bd2g/ BD2 Progression Checklist

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New to BD2? Overwhelmed by all the >content, at a loss how to progress? We got you!
Best used in tandem with the Beginner's Quick Start Guide and Other Guides.
You can alternatively just follow the Newbie Pass missions in-game. This is for players who want to go about things more efficiently.

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Getting Started: The Road to Diana (SP1-10)

Your first goal as a new player should be to work towards clearing Story Pack 10 ("SP10"/Homunculus) so that we can recruit our free Diana.

Diana is one of the game's core buffers. On top of making it a whole lot easier to reach higher level clears in any content where the game's elemental system is important (which also happens to be the content most of your free pulls come from), she will also generate you free cash shop currency or other useful goodies daily. Along the way you'll also pick up some other important free units, like our Alchemist and a Gear Crafter.

The game's mechanics are explained as you go through the story, so just enjoy the ride. You'll get the hang of it. Probably.

• Download BD2
• Complete Story Packs 1 to 3

Intermezzo: The Path of Adventure (SP3)

After clearing SP3 the Path of Adventure pack will open up. This is the hub for the game's resource stages.
You can also access it by clicking on the sword icon on your minimap:

Resource stages in this game only need to be manually cleared out once (Green) per difficulty level. After that you unlock their auto-clear function (Quick Hunt), which instantly gets you all rewards based on the # of times you dispatch to it. BD2 isn't one of those "now watch the replays" games. Better yet, you only have to clear a select few of these stages to get everything you'll ever need.

For now, focus on clearing out the following stages once to unlock their Quick Hunt function:

• [Normal] #2 - Abandoned Mine | Extra Gear crafting materials
• [Normal] Slime Empire | Character EXP
• [Normal] Magic Crystal Cave (1x for each element) | Crystals (Potential System)
• (Optional) [Normal] Goblin Ruins | Gold

Especially early on you'll want to quick hunt Slime Empire on days where it has a ^/2x rate-up boost, and the Hunting Grounds on others.
Dispatch to Magic Crystal Cave every single day as it uses different tokens.

Joining a Guild

Clearing Story Pack 3 also unlocks another major feature: Guilds. Joining a guild gives you a daily 50.000 gold, which is a huge deal for a new player, and some guild shop currency just for checking in. Participate in the daily mob/boss battles during the monthly raid week for yet more gold and tokens to spend on the guild shop. Don't miss out! Here are the /bd2g/ guilds.

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Return to the Story
After setting up our resource income (and ideally, joining a guild) we can go back to the story and just beeline SP10.
If you get bored or want to do more banner pulls you can try out some other content, like the Normal Mode Character Packs (puzzles with preset teams) or the Evil Castle.

• Complete Story Pack 4
  • (Recommended) Recruit Olstein from the SP4 Pub after finishing the pack. His field ability (Dispatch) is another major gold generator for new players, and his AoE silence skill can really help you survive fights.
  • (Optional) Setup any attack and defense formation in the Mirror Wars pack, and queue ~10 games.
    This will get you rank -> cash shop currency for free every Sunday. We'll optimize this later.
• Complete Story Pack 5
  • (Optional) Clear out Hunting Grounds #5: King's Grave [Normal] for slightly more crafting materials. If you do you can now dispatch to this instead of #2 Abandoned Mine.
• Complete Story Packs 6

The First Wall (SP7-8)

Around SP 7-8 you'll hit the game's first difficulty spike. This is just a small test to see if you have a basic understanding of the game's systems so far.
You can usually clear it on the same day that you started the game, but if here is what you can do if you're stuck:

• Complete Story Packs 7-10
  • (Recommended) After clearing SP8, recruit Liatriss from the SP8 Pub. She's a great AoE unit, and increases your walking speed with her field ability. She replaces Wiggle in your old setup.

After completing SP10 you have officially cleared the early game. Congratulations! Collect your reward by recruit Diana from the SP10 Pub and use her field ability daily.

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The Second Wall: Account Setup & Free Pulls (SP11+)

Story Pack 11+ (Fake Game) is another difficulty spike, and is considered the start of endgame.
To tackle that and other content we'll need better gear and more units, so this is a good time to truly setup our account.

Optimize your Resource Flow

First, open up the Path of Adventure/dispatch menu and clear out the following new Hunting Grounds:

• [Normal] #7 - Lizard Man Altar | Crafting Materials (Ores)
• [Normal] #9 - Mountain Keeper's Shelter | Crafting Materials (Wood)
  These are the BiS hunting grounds for their respective material types, and will be your new hunting grounds for the rest of the game.

Next, clean out the following on Hard (H) and Very Hard (VH) difficulty.

• H & VH Slime Empire (EXP)
• H & VH Magic Crystal Cave (All 5 elements) (Crystals)
• (Optional) H & VH Goblin Ruins (Gold)
  Despite the prefix, the (Very) Hard difficulties of the resource maps are actually super easy. Complete them for a massive boost in income.

Your final goal is to clear out Hunting Grounds #7 and #9 once on H/VH Difficulty.
This is no immediate priority, as to do this you need to clear those story packs on H>VH difficulty first. If you can do it nice, if not you can do it later.
(You can change the difficulty by interacting with the sign outside)

• Clear Story Pack 7 [Fury Angel] & Story Pack 9 [Iron Mask] on [Hard] > [Very Hard] difficulty.
• Clear Hunting Ground 7: Lizard Man Alter on [Hard] > [Very Hard] difficulty -> best source for ore
• Clear Hunting Ground 9: Mountain Keeper's Shelter on [Hard] > [Very Hard] difficulty -> best source for wood

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Ancient Crystals: Evil Castle & Last Night

Ancient Crystals (ACs) are a rare endgame material, used to craft the strongest gear in the game (UR). UR III and especially UR IV gear will be massive boons to your account; even just 1 or 2 pieces can make the difference between clearing previously inaccessible content. As a crit-based game, you'll find that Venomous Touch IVs (double C.DMG) offer the biggest increase in strength, followed by Weapons (generally C.DMG sword/staff) and Gloves. Gloves with Crit. Rate are mostly used in PvP and Tower of Desire/Jealousy.

• Last Night: Load up the Last Night pack, follow the instructions to setup a team, and give it ~5 replays. You can skip the battle after starting it.
  Load Order (1>20): 5x Buffers > Chain builders (Zenith,Celia etc) > Multi-Hit DPS costumes > single-hit dps costumes (aka nukers).
  The best score is recorded, and you will get daily free Ancient Crystals and Gold based on that score. You can come back and try to improve this anytime you want, but for now aim for the 2-3AC threshold. More Last Night Tips
• Evil Castle: Evil Castle is the hub for the game's challenge content (Towers)
  • Complete as many floors of the Tower of Pride as you can for 10 ACs per floor every 2 weeks.
    Most floors can be cleared with a 3x3 AoE unit (like the free Liatriss from SP8 Pub) + buffers + usually a wide range DPS.
    If you can't bruteforce a floor, use the Diana you recruited from SP10 + 1~2 DPS of a stronger element than the mobs of that floor!

More ACs are obtained as one-time clear rewards from the other towers (Salvation,Desire,Envy) and from the in-game events!
TIP: Try to get full CDMG rolls on your Venomous Touch IVs - that way any DPS character, physical or magic, can use them!

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Your 700+ Starter Pulls

On top of the monthly ~300 free pulls you'll accumulate as a f2p player from events and the like, BD2 has an additional ~700+ one-time pulls for you to collect from various in-game sources. Start collecting these to pull on banners that you like/are good to truly start building you roster:

• Evil Castle: Start clearing the one-time towers (Desire, Wrath, Jealousy) for a truckload of Draw Tickets, Diamonds, ACs, and other goodies.
• Clear the Character Packs (CP1-6) on every difficulty for 10x3=30 Draw Tickets each - 180 in total!
  [Normal] difficulty uses preset teams, they're basically just puzzles. Look up guides on Youtube if you're stuck, especially for the Exodus pack!
• Investigate every building/area in Story & Character Pack Safe Zones (Towns + the buildings in them like Inns, Pubs).
• Every battle map has multiple Treasure Chests hidden throughout them, each awarding Diamonds.

Even more free pulls come from the Newbie Pass, Character Pass, Event Shops & other seasonal-based content like Fiend Hunter (every 2 weeks), Guild Raids, and Tower of Salvation. Be sure to participate in all the game has to offer!

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The Endgame

Diana is recruited, your account is efficiently generating resources, and you are swimming in pulls. From here on out you can do whatever you like.
The rest of the game is about finishing the story and clearing the other one-time contents/challenges below. Besides that you'll be building your roster to do better in Fiend Hunts/Guild Raids, and optionally compete for rank in Tower of Salvation or other content.

tl;dr Pull units, build them (EXP, gear, dupes, potential, awakening), and get stronger to clear the challenges below. Doing so will award you with yet more pulls and crafting materials, allowing you to build yet more characters and clear more content, rinse repeat. Good luck!

One-Time Content/Challenge/Milestone Checklist

Sorted by difficulty, from easiest (top) to hardest (bottom):

• Clear SP 1-9 on [Hard] > [Very Hard] difficulty.
• Complete all green (NPC) Quests in SP 1-4 and CP1-2 (Jayden's Gate,Firechip)
• Clear the remaining Story Packs (SP11+) on [Normal] difficulty.
• Clear CP 1-6 (Character Packs) on [Hard] > [Very Hard] difficulty.
• Clear SP11+ on [Hard] > [Very Hard] difficulty.
• Check that you found all Investigations in the Story & Character Pack Safe Zones (Town maps + buildings like Inns, Pubs, etc).
• Check that you found all Treasure Chests in all battle maps.
• Clear a lv10 Fiend Hunt for the first time.
• Reach the 5AC damage threshold (52mil) in Last Night.
• Reach Achievement Level 40.
• Clear Tower of Pride (EC1-6) with max score at least once.
• Reach 110mil score in Last Night.
• Clear Tower of Desire F150.
• Reach 80% (max) Collection Buff Physical, Magic & HP.
• Clear a lv10 Guild Raid boss for the first time.
• Clear Tower of Wrath/Envy F50.

Daily/Weekly Routine Checklist

Daily Routine Guide

• (DAILY) Do your dailies, character/battle pass missions (if up), and work on your weekly quests.
• (DAILY) Do your Invasion/Boss Battles (during Guild Raid week)
• (DAILY) Bulk queue your daily 40 PvP matches (4x a set of 10) on Monday-Saturday for medals (=5* costume+UR Ticket).
  On Sunday, you'll ideally want to just que ~60 matches normally (no bulk) in the last 20~40mins of the season for rank.
• (DAILY) Quick Battle your free Tower of Salvation keys if you don't plan on running it that day.
• (BI-WEEKLY) Do your Fiend Hunter runs. You can quick battle the rest of that current level after playing it once.
• (MONTHLY) Clear Tower of Pride Floor 1 to 6 once.
• (MONTHLY) Aim for a Tower of Salvation Level 5-6 clear (or higher)
• Login in frequently to claim surprise gifts, maintenance compensations, guild login rewards, and other giveaways.
• Participate in in-game events (Battles, Challenge Battles, Fiend Hunter, Minigames etc).
• Aim for consistent Level 10 Fiend Hunter clears.
• Pull on banners that you like & build your roster.
• (Infinite) Craft for UR IV gear with CSB/BBS+ refinements.
• Optimize your Mirror Wars (pvp) Offense/Defense teams for more weekly Dias & pvp tokens.
  TIP: Do not rage pull on pvp units! pvp rewards never pay back the investment required!
  TIP: Removing gear from a unit also means that it is also unequipped from them in PvP.
• Work on the Potential of characters that you use/like
• Send in weekly customer tickets asking for more Zenith, Loen, Eclipse, Diana, Teresse and Beatrice costumes.
• Join Paizuri

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