Dread Barrage
About Crews
Crew-related Events: Unite and Fight | Dread Barrage
Dread Barrage is a limited-time event where players defeat foes one after another as a crew. Loot can be obtained by clearing quests and gathering battle badges and honors.
Up to 
Valor Badge ×300 can be acquired per Dread Barrage run.
Battles
All battles are raid battles.
Your party begins every battle with 
Support Potion ×4, 
Clarity Herb ×4, and 
Revival Potion ×2.
Unlocking Quests
New quests will be unlocked as the total number of bosses your crew has defeated reaches certain set numbers.
Additional Quests:
Quests of higher difficulty will be added at 7 p.m. (JST) on day 3.
Notes:
The number of foes defeated by a member who joined the crew during the event period will be added to the crew's total.
Unparalleled Foes
An unparalleled foe appears after clearing a set number of quests. An unparalleled foe can appear up to twice a day per player during the event. Only crew members can join battles against unparalleled foes.
Additional Quests:
A lvl 175 unparalleled foe can appear from 7 p.m. (JST) on day 3.
Notes:
An attempt will be consumed when you fail or retreat from a battle against an unparalleled foe that you started.
Valiant Battles
A Valiant Battle is special raid battle that only crew members can join.
Once a Valiant Battle begins, all crew members will join the same battle.
Work together with your crew members to take down this powerful boss and get awesome loot!
Valiant Battle Requirements
A Valiant Battle will become playable from the 5th day of the event at 7:00 p.m. (JST), once 400,000 total crew honors have been obtained.
Valiant Battle Loot
Upon completing the battle, all crew members can obtain the following First-Time Completion Loot:
Damascus Crystal ×1
Dread Barrage SSR Ticket ×1
Half Elixir ×30
Soul Berry ×90
Earrings ×3
Quartz ×200
Intricacy Ring ×1
Token ×4,000
The earrings and quartz obtained will be the same element as the event's boss.
Valiant Cross
Valiant crosses, powerful attacks that deal a large amount of damage, can be triggered via special backup in Valiant Battles.
Triggering a Valiant Cross
A valiant cross can trigger whenever a participant in a Valiant Battle attacks. When a valiant cross is triggered, a crew member's star character will appear to deal huge damage to the foe. Multiple valiant crosses can be triggered from a single attack.
Cross Lvl
A foe's Cross lvl will increase by fulfilling special requirements in a Valiant Battle. The probability of triggering a valiant cross and the probability of a valiant cross chain will increase based on Cross lvl.
Honors from Valiant Crosses
Damage dealt by valiant crosses you trigger will count toward your honors, even for the honors ranking.
Other Notes
- No AP or EP will be consumed when playing a Valiant Battle, and it can be played any number of times before the event's conclusion.
- Item drops from the 2nd battle onward will vary from the 1st battle.
- Honors and EXP become unobtainable from the 2nd battle onward.
- The Valiant Battle foe's strength will stay the same as the first battle even on subsequent battles.
- Valiant Battles won't appear on the raid list. To rejoin a battle in progress, return to the event top screen.
- Up to 99 of each Dread Barrage item can be used in Valiant Battles.
- Battles that aren't completed before the time limit has expired will end in defeat.
Special Backup
There is a chance special backup may arrive when you launch an attack or send a special backup request in battle. Upon activating, a crew member's star character will come and defeat the foe.
Honors:
You will still obtain honors based on the foe's remaining HP when special backup arrives, but honors obtained by the backup character's attack will not count toward honors rankings.
Notes:
- The chances of special backup arriving differ depending on quest difficulty and the number of turns passed.
- One crew member's star character, excluding yours, will be selected at random to provide special backup.
- Katalina, Rackam, Io, or Eugen will appear if there are less than five star characters set by your crew members.
Event Missions
There are two types of missions in this event.
Individual Missions:
Missions that are completed by and give rewards to players as they satisfy the requirements individually.
Crew Missions:
Missions that are completed by the crew as a whole. All unparalleled foes defeated by the crew will count toward the requirements, and all members of the crew will get the rewards upon completion.
Notes:
- Players not in a crew are not eligible for crew missions.
- The number of unparalleled foes defeated by a member who joined the crew during the event period will be added to the crew's achievements.
- Missions completed after the event conclusion will not be considered achieved.
Restrictions
The following are restricted during the Dread Barrage event period:
- Leaving a crew
- Disbanding a crew
- Dismissing a crew member
Only players who are not in a crew at the start of the event can join a crew during the event period.
Individual honors obtained, number of foes and unparalleled foes defeated, and crew mission objectives completed by a member who joined the crew during the event period will all be added to the crew's achievements.
Loot
The following loot can be obtained in this event.
Quest Unlock Reward:
Can be obtained by unlocking quests of higher difficulty.
Battle Badge Loot:
Can be obtained by defeating foes and gathering battle badges.
Honors Loot:
Can be obtained when a crew's total honors reach certain amounts.
Notes:
- Players not in a crew can obtain loot when individual honors reach certain amounts.
- In order to get the crew honors loot for 1,500,000 honors and higher, the individual honors requirements listed must also be met.
- Quest unlock rewards, honors loot, and battle badge loot can't be picked up after the loot pickup period ends.
- Players with restricted accounts can't obtain honors loot.
Dread Barrage Draws
- The token draw will be available after selecting the Revenant weapon included in the drawboxes.
- Players who already have all ten Eternals can choose a Revenant weapon or damascus pinch as their drawbox reset item. (This excludes Eternals recruited from event stories.) If the tenth Eternal is unlocked during the event period, these items can be set from that point.
- You can change your chosen reset item any number of times. After drawing your reset item for the first time from the token draw, you can change your reset item when resetting a drawbox.
- Damascus pinch can be set as the reset item until drawbox #20.
- If damascus pinch is selected as the drawbox reset item for drawbox #20, a Revenant weapon must be set as the reset item for drawbox #21 and thereafter.
- It's possible to choose whether to draw 10, 50, or 100 items at once using tokens. The default is 100 items.
- The number of tokens required for the token draw varies among drawboxes.
- Drawbox #1–20: 2 tokens
- Drawbox #21–40: 4 tokens
- Drawbox #41 and beyond: 6 tokens
- The token draw animation will be skipped when doing multiple draws at once regardless of the skip settings. The animation will play, however, when drawing character weapons for the first time or when drawing a drawbox reset item.
- Items falling under the criteria set in the EXP reserve feature will automatically be reserved to a lazuline vessel (weapons) or a scarlet vessel (summons).
- The EXP reserve feature will be prioritized over the auto-sell and auto-upgrade features.
- When weapons with skills are auto-reserved, skill lvl points of the same rarity will be stored in the craftsman's anvil.
- Filtered items can be automatically sold or used to upgrade an airship when drawn from the token draw.
- You can't enable both auto-sell and auto-upgrade settings at the same time.
- Items set to be included in the auto-reserve feature that would surpass the lazuline vessel, scarlet vessel, or craftsman's anvil's skill lvl point limit, as well as those that would surpass the unused tuning point limit, will be sent to the Time Limit tab of your crate.
- If you have enough tokens to draw at least 101 times, but not enough to draw everything in the current box, a button will appear that allows you to spend all your remaining tokens at once.
- If you have enough tokens to draw all the remaining contents of the current box, a button will appear that allows you to do so.
Valor Badges
Valor badges obtainable in Unite and Fight can also be obtained in Dread Barrage. Valor badges can be obtained as quest unlock rewards and crew honors loot.
Valor badges can be traded for loot in the shop's Treasure Trade section. Under Quest Items, select Event/Other in the pull-down menu, and tap Valor Badges.
Valor badge loot in stock will be reset with either the next run of Unite and Fight or the next run of Dread Barrage depending on the loot.
- Reset Next Unite and Fight:
- 500-Badge Exchange Pack
- 450-Badge Exchange Pack
- 275-Badge Exchange Pack
- 200-Badge Exchange Pack
- 150-Badge Exchange Pack
- 100-Badge Exchange Pack
- 30-Badge Exchange Pack
- 10-Badge Exchange Pack
- Reset Next Dread Barrage:
- 550-Badge Exchange Pack
- 340-Badge Exchange Item
- 100-Badge Exchange Pack
- 90-Badge Exchange Item
- 80-Badge Exchange Item
Notes:
- Valor badges obtained will carry over.
Purchase Priority
Most players overwhelmingly prioritize packs containing progression items that are difficult or impossible to obtain from sources other than Valor Badges. Among these, priority varies based on each player's goals, account, and stock in other shops.
Lapis Merit300-Badge Pack
- Cannot be obtained from any other in-gameOccasionally available through limited-time promotions such as with Granblue Fantasy Versus: Rising. source.
- It is advisable to hold off on purchasing this item until it is needed, as the Lapis Merit's stock accumulates rather than resets.
Sunlight Stone275-Badge Pack
- Cannot be farmed from any raid or quest.
- After depleting the stock in Arcarum, the availability of this item is limited by the Unite and Fight schedule, as the pack resets once per iteration.
Sephira Evolite500-Badge Pack
- Cannot be farmed from any raid.
- Can be obtained over time from Xeno Sephira BoxesGuaranteed drop requires up to
Doppelworld Sextant ×121..
Gold Brick450-Badge Pack
- Can be farmed from various raids.
- Farmed long-term by hosting Proto Bahamut (Impossible) and Ultimate Bahamut (Impossible) raids daily.
- Gated by playtime and EP when farmed by joining raids.
- A limited stock can be obtained from Rise of the Beasts.
- Can be obtained over time from Xeno Sephira BoxesGuaranteed drop requires up to Doppelworld Sextant ×121..
- Can be farmed from various raids.
Other packs are almost never recommended due to their opportunity cost in Valor Badges. See Item Rollback in case of a mistaken purchase.
- The items found in packs intended as a substitute for raid farming
Providence Globe
Apocalyptic Votum
Apocalyptic Spiritus
Astral Votum
Astral SpiritusRevans Weapons can be acquired more efficiently through the corresponding raids.
- Gold Brick450-Badge Pack can be considered over Apocalyptic Spiritus550-Badge Pack. The remaining materials can be farmed through raids and coop.
- The miscellaneous packs 1-Badge Pack
30-Badge Pack
100 Badge Pack are even less efficient and should be avoided.
Victory Certificates
Victory Certificates are treasure that can be obtained by gathering battle badges and honors.
They can be traded for Revenant weapons and quartz in the shop's Treasure Trade section. Under "Quest Items", select "Event/Other" in the pull-down menu, and tap "Dread Barrage".
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Notes:
- Victory certificates obtained will carry over to the next run of Dread Barrage.
- All items restock with each run of Dread Barrage.
- Element of the quartz available changes based on the bosses' element of the latest run.
- It is not recommended to trade Victory Certificate for anything other than Revenant Weapons.
- Silver Shards can easily be obtained from various readily available battles such as Dimension Halo and Akasha (Raid). The much less valuable Pendants can also be traded to obtain Silver Shards.
- Quartz can readily be obtained by reducing summon drops from Omega raids, and by trading Pendants each month.
- Due to the limited availability of Victory Certificates, Revenant Weapons are top priority.
Trophies
| English Title | Japanese Title | Step | Description | Reward | Notes | |
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 | The Dawn of Battle | 激戦の幕開け | ★☆☆☆☆☆ | Get 100,000 individual honors in Dread Barrage | Crystal ×10 |
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| Brave Survivor | ブレイブ・サバイバー | ★★☆☆☆☆ | Get 1,500,000 individual honors in Dread Barrage | Crystal ×10 |
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 | Daily Diligence | 日々是精進 | ★★★☆☆☆ | Get 3,000,000 individual honors in Dread Barrage | Crystal ×30 |
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| Winning Is Etched in My Body | 勝利が血となり肉となる | ★★★★☆☆ | Get 10,000,000 individual honors in Dread Barrage | Crystal ×30 |
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 | Dread Hunter | ドレッドハンター | ★★★★★☆ | Get 25,000,000 individual honors in Dread Barrage | Crystal ×50 |
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| Bow Before the Master of Dread | マスター・オブ・ドレッドバラージュ | ★★★★★★ | Get 40,000,000 individual honors in Dread Barrage | Crystal ×50 |
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| Show of Bravery | 己が武勇を示さん | ★☆☆☆☆☆ | Clear ★★★ or higher quests a total of 50 times in Dread Barrage | Crystal ×10 |
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| Prelude to Eternal Battle | 終わりなき戦いの序曲 | ★★☆☆☆☆ | Clear ★★★ or higher quests a total of 100 times in Dread Barrage | ||
| Proud to Be a Winner | 積み重ねた勝利は誇り | ★★★☆☆☆ | Clear ★★★ or higher quests a total of 150 times in Dread Barrage | Crystal ×30 |
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| Endless March | エンドレス・マーチ | ★★★★☆☆ | Clear ★★★ or higher quests a total of 250 times in Dread Barrage | Crystal ×30 |
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| Keep Fighting the Good Fight! | まだ終わりじゃないぞ！ | ★★★★★☆ | Clear ★★★ or higher quests a total of 500 times in Dread Barrage | Crystal ×50 |
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| The Valiant One | 勇敢なる一人の行進者 | ★★★★★★ | Clear ★★★ or higher quests a total of 1,000 times in Dread Barrage | Crystal ×50 |
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| Have No Fear, the Crew Is Here! | みんなで倒せば怖くない！ | ★☆☆☆☆☆ | Clear quests against an unparalleled foe a total of 5 times in Dread Barrage | Crystal ×10 |
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| All Hands on Deck! | 総力を結集せよ | ★★☆☆☆☆ | Clear quests against an unparalleled foe a total of 50 times in Dread Barrage | Crystal ×10 |
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| We Fight as One! | 一致団結！！ | ★★★☆☆☆ | Clear quests against an unparalleled foe a total of 100 times in Dread Barrage | Crystal ×30 |
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| Victory, Thy Name Is Us | 最後に勝つのは我々だ | ★★★★☆☆ | Clear quests against an unparalleled foe a total of 200 times in Dread Barrage | Crystal ×30 |
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| A Crew for the Ages | 最高の騎空団 | ★★★★★☆ | Clear quests against an unparalleled foe a total of 300 times in Dread Barrage | ||
| One for All, All for One | One for all, All for one | ★★★★★★ | Clear quests against an unparalleled foe a total of 500 times in Dread Barrage | Crystal ×50 |
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| Phew, Took You Long Enough | フッ……待たせたな | ★☆☆☆☆☆ | Receive special backup 1 time in Dread Barrage | Crystal ×10 |
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| The Cavalry Has Arrived | 最強の援軍、現る | ★★☆☆☆☆ | Receive special backup 10 times in Dread Barrage | ||
| This Is Our Last Stand! | この一撃に、全てを懸ける！ | ★★★☆☆☆ | Receive special backup 50 times in Dread Barrage | Crystal ×30 |
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| Bonds of Friendship | 強固な絆で結ばれし者 | ★★★★☆☆ | Receive special backup 100 times in Dread Barrage | Crystal ×30 |
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| Saviors of the Battlefield | 戦場の救世主 | ★★★★★☆ | Receive special backup 300 times in Dread Barrage | Crystal ×50 |
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| ELIMINATED! | ELIMINATED! | ★★★★★★ | Receive special backup 500 times in Dread Barrage | ||
| Boo! | Boo！ | ★☆☆☆☆ | Defeat Pumpkin Arch Knight 1 time | ||
| Intruder of the Ghostly Banquet | 幽宴の闖入者 | ★★☆☆☆ | Defeat Pumpkin Arch Knight 3 times | ||
| Dread or Treat | ドレッド・オア・トリート | ★★★☆☆ | Defeat Pumpkin Arch Knight 5 times | ||
| Pumpkin Busters | パンプキンバスターズ | ★★★★☆ | Defeat Pumpkin Arch Knight 7 times | ||
| Guardian of the Mad Night | マッド・ナイト・ガーディアン | ★★★★★ | Defeat Pumpkin Arch Knight 10 times | Crystal ×50 |
Event History
- Summon stones and any other pages linked in the table below are for visual representation purposes only. They do not necessarily represent Dread Barrage rewards.
| # | Dates | Boss Element |
Favored Element |
Notes |
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| 1 | October 2020 | Fire | Water | |
| 2 | February 2021 | Water | Earth | |
| 3 | June 2021 | Wind | Fire | |
| 4 | March 2022 | Earth | Wind | |
| 5 | July 2022 | Dark | Light | |
| 6 | December 2022 | Light | Dark | |
| 7 | March 2023 | Earth | Wind | |
| 8 | October 2023 | Dark | Light | |
| 9 | February 2024 | Water | Earth | |
| 10 | July 2024 | Dark | Light |