So Close and Yet So Far / By Any Other Name

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Event duration: 19:00 JST, September 30, 2016 - 17:00 JST, October 8, 2016
03:00 PDT, September 30, 2016 - 01:00 PDT, October 8, 2016

So Close and Yet So Far and By Any Other Name is a combined story event. It features a rerun of the So Close and Yet So Far story event in addition to a brand new story event, By Any Other Name, that continues the first event's story. A loyalty character joins you at the start of each half of the story, and progressing through the story unlocks free quests and raid bosses.

For new players

Make sure you complete all the quests, since each chapter, free quest, and raid boss awards 50 Crystal square.jpg Crystals on first-time completion. There are also 2 loyalty characters to recruit, so it may be more efficient to get them both before seriously farming loyalty, if you don't mind rushing through the So Close and Yet So Far story, since By Any Other Name requires the first story event to be completed first. The challenge quest uses guest characters, plus it's free, so you should attempt to clear it even if you don't feel like you're strong enough.

On October 4, 2016, at 17:00 JST, a daily mission will be added to the event to assist others in their raids 5 times per day. This awards raid summoning items and crystals, so definitely make sure you remember to complete it each day.

None of the event rewards are particularly exciting, so, unless you have a personal attachment to any of them, it's not worth trying very hard to obtain multiple copies of anything. Aside from the crystals and characters, it's probably best to largely ignore this event.

Free Quests


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Duel with the Montague Royal Guard
10 AP 200 RP 240 XP
Rewards
White Tokens: 3 Honor: 1000
Chests
Bronze Silver Gold
Bronze Badge square.jpg Bronze Badge
Fire Orb square.jpg Fire Orb
Hellfire Scroll square.jpg Hellfire Scroll
Frozen Flame square.jpg Frozen Flame
-

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Ambushed by Capulets
15 AP 300 RP 416 XP
Rewards
White Tokens: 9 Honor: 3000 Loyalty: 16
Chests
Bronze Silver Gold
Bronze Badge square.jpg Bronze Badge
Silver Badge square.jpg Silver Badge
Inferno Orb square.jpg Inferno Orb
Hellfire Scroll square.jpg Hellfire Scroll
Frozen Flame square.jpg Frozen Flame
Summon s 2020021000.jpg Angel itemRandom R Angel weapon or Queen.
Infernal Whorl square.jpg Infernal Whorl

Duel with the Montague Royal Guard.jpg
Unavoidable Conflict
10 AP 180 RP 245 XP
Rewards
White Tokens: 3 Honor: 1000 Loyalty: 10
Chests
Bronze Silver Gold
Bronze Badge square.jpg Bronze Badge
Water Orb square.jpg Water Orb
Flood Scroll square.jpg Flood Scroll
Verona Wall Piece square.jpg Verona Wall Piece

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Slog of War
15 AP 300 RP 416 XP
Rewards
White Tokens: 9 Honor: 3000 Loyalty: 15
Chests
Bronze Silver Gold
Bronze Badge square.jpg Bronze Badge
Silver Badge square.jpg Silver Badge
Water Orb square.jpg Water Orb
Flood Scroll square.jpg Flood Scroll
Verona Wall Piece square.jpg Verona Wall Piece
Summon s 2020021000.jpg Angel itemRandom R Angel weapon or Queen.
Tidal Whorl square.jpg Tidal Whorl
Verona Rifle

Raid Bosses

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VERY HARD: Fire Elemental, Lvl 30 Fire/Water
HP Host Join MVP
~4,100,000 Frozen Flame x3 2 EP 474 RP
655 XP
138 loyalty
Rewards
Honor 5,000 1,500 -
White Tokens 12 4 6
Chests
Bronze Silver Gold Red
Silver Badge square.jpg Silver Badge
Gold Badge square.jpg Gold Badge
Summon s 2020021000.jpg Angel itemRandom R Angel weapon or Queen. Escalus Crest square.jpg Escalus Crest Silver Badge square.jpg Silver Badge
Gold Badge square.jpg Gold Badge
Escalus Crest square.jpg Escalus Crest
Summon s 2020021000.jpg Angel itemRandom R Angel weapon or Queen.
  • TweetDeck
    • Lv30 火のエレメンタル
  • Charge Attacks
    • Fire Elemental
      • Fire: Big Fire damage to one ally and inflict Defense Down.
    • Water Elemental
      • Freeze: Big Water damage to one ally and inflict Status SkillSeal.pngSkill SealedCan't use skills
        .
      • Captivate: Inflict Status Charm.pngCharmedAttacks are slightly limited
        on all allies.

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EXTREME: Oxymoron, Lvl 50 Fire
HP Host Join MVP
??? 30 AP
Escalus Crest square.jpg Escalus Crest x3
3 EP ??? RP
??? EXP
??? loyalty
Rewards
Honor 10,000 3,000 -
White Tokens 24 8 12
Chests
Bronze Silver Gold Red
Gold Badge square.jpg Gold Badge Summon s 2020021000.jpg Angel itemRandom R Angel weapon or Queen. Summon s 2030017000.jpg Archangel itemRandom SR Archangel weapon or Queen. Gold Badge square.jpg Gold Badge
Champion Merit square.jpg Champion Merit
Rainbow Prism square.jpg Rainbow Prism
Summon s 2030017000.jpg Archangel itemRandom SR Archangel weapon or Queen.
  • TweetDeck
    • Lv50 オクシモロン
  • Skills
  • Charge Attacks

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VERY HARD: Montague Guard, Lvl 30 Water
HP Host Join MVP
~3,500,000 20 AP
Verona Wall Piece square.jpg Verona Wall Piece x3
2 EP 474 RP
595 XP
127 loyalty
Rewards
Honor 5,000 1,500 -
White Tokens 12 4 6
Chests
Bronze Silver Gold Red
Silver Badge square.jpg Silver Badge
Gold Badge square.jpg Gold Badge
Summon s 2020021000.jpg Angel itemRandom R Angel weapon or Queen. Verona Flower square.jpg Verona Flower Silver Badge square.jpg Silver Badge
Gold Badge square.jpg Gold Badge
Verona Flower square.jpg Verona Flower
Summon s 2020021000.jpg Angel itemRandom R Angel weapon or Queen.
  • TweetDeck
    • Lv30 モンタギューガード
  • Skills
  • Charge Attacks
    • Maser Pain - medium Water damage to all allies. Can be used in Overdrive.
    • Shield Breaker Ray - medium Water damage to all allies and inflict Status DefenseDown.pngDEF DownDEF is lowered
      .

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EXTREME: Lord Montague, Lvl 50 Water
HP Host Join MVP
~9,000,000 30 AP
Verona Flower square.jpg Verona Flower x3
3 EP 674 RP
780 EXP
??? loyalty
Rewards
Honor 10,000 3,000 -
White Tokens 24 8 12
Chests
Bronze Silver Gold Red
Gold Badge square.jpg Gold Badge Summon s 2020021000.jpg Angel itemRandom R Angel weapon or Queen. Summon s 2030017000.jpg Archangel itemRandom SR Archangel weapon or Queen.
Champion Merit square.jpg Champion Merit
Verona Bow (flip)
Gold Badge square.jpg Gold Badge
Champion Merit square.jpg Champion Merit
Supreme Merit square.jpg Supreme Merit
Rainbow Prism square.jpg Rainbow Prism
Summon s 2030017000.jpg Archangel itemRandom SR Archangel weapon or Queen.
Verona Heart
  • TweetDeck
    • Lv50 神王モンタギュー
  • Skills
  • Charge Attacks
    • Palisade
    • Pflug - big Water damage to 2 random allies. Can be used in Overdrive.
    • Todesstoss - medium Water damage to all allies, inflict Status WaterResDown.pngWater DEF DownDEF is lowered for water DMG
      , and lowers charge bar by 20%. Used as a trigger under 50% HP.

After defeating a Yin and Yang or Oxymoron that you summon, there is a low chance to unlock a one-chance, Nightmare-difficulty, solo quest.

NIGHTMARE: Oxymoron, Lvl 70 Fire
HP Cost
??? 0 AP (first time)
Rewards
Honor 25,000
Light Tokens 24
Chests
Bronze Silver Gold
Gold Badge square.jpg Gold Badge Summon s 2020021000.jpg Angel itemRandom R Angel weapon or Queen. ???

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After defeating a Montague Guard or Lord Montague that you summon, there is a low chance to unlock a one-chance, Nightmare-difficulty, solo quest. The first time this quest is completed, you earn one Verona Heart Rarity SSR.png summon.

NIGHTMARE: Lord Montague, Lvl 70 Water
HP Cost
??? 0 AP (first time)
Rewards
Honor 25,000
Light Tokens 24
Chests
Bronze Silver Gold
Gold Badge square.jpg Gold Badge Summon s 2020021000.jpg Angel itemRandom R Angel weapon or Queen.
Verona Wall Piece square.jpg Verona Wall Piece
???

Daily Missions

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Beginning on 17:00 JST (01:00 PDT), October 4, 2016, players have a daily event mission. Supporting 5 event raids earns the following rewards:

  • Frozen Flame square.jpg Frozen Flame x3 & Verona Wall Piece square.jpg Verona Wall Piece x3 (until 04:59 JST, October 6, 2016)
  • Escalus Crest square.jpg Escalus Crest x3 & Verona Flower square.jpg Verona Flower x3 (starting 05:00 JST, October 6, 2016)
  • 50 Crystal square.jpg Crystals

This mission resets at 05:00 JST (13:00 PDT).

Event Rewards

New Character

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Romeo (Event), a SR water character, requires 750 loyalty to permanently join you after the event ends.

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Paris, a SR earth character, requires 750 loyalty to permanently join you after the event ends.

Event Limited Items

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  • Oxymoron, Rarity SSR.png Fire summon
    • 25% boost to Fire and Water Elemental attack.
    • Fully uncapped: 40% boost to Fire and Water Elemental attack.
    • Call: Massive Fire damage and bonus Water damage to all enemies.

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  • Verona Heart, Rarity SSR.png Water summon
    • 40% boost to Water Elemental attack.
    • Fully uncapped: 40% boost Water Elemental attack, 10% boost to defense, 10% boost to Water allies' charge bars when battle starts.
    • Call: All allies gain Shield.
  • Escalus Harp, Rarity SSR.png Fire Harp
  • Verona Bow, Rarity SSR.png Water Bow
    • Normal big boost to Water HP
    • Water allies gain Shield when battle starts
  • Contrary Sword, Rarity SR.png Fire Sabre
    • Normal medium boost to Fire HP
  • Contrary Bow, Rarity SR.png Fire Bow
    • Normal medium boost to Fire attack
  • Verona Kukri, Rarity SR.png Water Dagger
    • Normal slight chance for Water ally counterattack, medium boost to Water counter damage
  • Verona Rifle, Rarity SR.png Water Gun
    • Normal medium boost to Water critical hit rate

Token Draw Box

Collect tokens by completing quests and defeating raid bosses. Spend 2 tokens to draw from the fixed-content reward box. Once Oxymoron is drawn, you may reset the box. Starting with the fourth drawbox, you can only reset the box once it is completely empty.

Draw Box Rewards
Item Box 1 Box 2 Box 3 Box 4
Oxymoron 1 1 1 1
Escalus Harp 1 0 0 0
Verona Bow 0 1 0 0
Contrary Sword 1 1 1 1
Contrary Bow 1 1 1 1
Verona Kukri 1 1 1 1
Verona Rifle 1 1 1 1
Fury Stone 1 1 1 1
Fury Pebble 3 3 3 3
Archangel weapon 5 5 5 5
Angel weapon 50 120 150 150
Rare weapon (no skill) 30 80 80 120
Normal weapon 100 120 200 200
Angel Queen 30 50 60 60
Rare summon 30 50 60 60
Normal summon 100 120 200 200
Soul Berry 20 20 20 20
Random treasure 20 50 100 100
Crystal x10 5 10 10 10
Rupie x100 80 100 200 250
Honor x1000 80 120 230 0
CP x10 40 40 60 0
Total number of items 600 895 1384 1184

Battle Badge

Battle Badge Rewards
Reward
Number Bronze Silver Gold
1 Angel Harp x3 Soul Berry x3 White Token x20
3 White Token x10 White Token x10 Soul Berry x3
6 Rupie x2000 Rupie x3000 White Token x20
9 CP x20 White Token x10 Rupie x5000
12 Angel Sword x3 Rupie x3000 White Token x20
15 Verona Wall Piece x4 White Token x10 Half Elixir
18 CP x20 Soul Berry x3 White Token x20
21 Rupie x2000 White Token x10 Verona Flower x3
24 Angel Bow x3 Verona Wall Piece x4 White Token x20
27 White Token x10 White Token x10 Angel Harp x3
30 Contrary Sword Contrary Bow Contrary Sword
33 Angel Harp x3 Angel Harp x3 Soul Berry x3
36 White Token x10 White Token x10 Rupie x5000
39 Rupie x2000 Soul Berry x3 White Token x20
42 Verona Wall Piece x4 Rupie x3000 Verona Flower x3
45 White Token x10 White Token x10 Half Elixir
48 Rupie x2000 Rupie x3000 White Token x20
50 White Token x20 CP x20 CP x20
55 White Token x10 White Token x20
60 Verona Wall Piece x4 Angel Bow x3
65 White Token x10 White Token x20
70 Soul Berry x3 Verona Flower x3
75 White Token x10 White Token x20
80 Half Elixir Half Elixir
85 White Token x10 White Token x20
90 Angel Bow x3 Soul Berry x3
95 White Token x10 White Token x20
100 Rupie x3000 CP x20
110 White Token x20 Angel Sword x3
120 Half Elixir Soul Berry x3
130 White Token x20 White Token x25
140 Angel Sword x3 Half Elixir
150 CP x20 CP x20
160 White Token x20 Angel Harp x3
170 Rupie x3000 Contrary Bow
180 Soul Berry x3 Soul Balm
190 White Token x20 White Token x25
200 CP x20 CP x20
220 Angel Bow x3 Verona Flower x3
240 Half Elixir Half Elixir
260 White Token x20 White Token x25
280 Rupie x3000 Angel Sword x3
300 CP x20 Escalus Harp

Honor Collection

Collect honor by completing quests and defeating raid bosses. When certain amounts of honor is accumulated, earn rewards. The number used to gauge each player's contribution to a raid boss is also called honor; the amount of event honor earned per raid boss is equal to the amount of contribution honor accumulated plus a static bonus amount based on whether you started the raid or joined as support.

Notable Honor Rewards
Item Honor
200,000 Verona Kukri
300,000 Verona Rifle
400,000 Supreme Merit
600,000 Verona Kukri
900,000 Supreme Merit
1,000,000 Verona Bow
1,100,000 Verona Rifle
1,200,000 Oxymoron
1,500,000 Supreme Merit
2,000,000 Escalus Harp
2,100,000 Supreme Merit
2,500,000 Supreme Merit
3,000,000 Verona Bow

Challenge Battle: "A Moment Eternal"

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Party: Main Character and Guests Silva, Romeo, Sahli Lao
Completion reward: Blue Sky Crystal square.jpg Blue Sky Crystal

This challenge is fairly straightforward. Given a full team of Water guests, it would behoove you to make your main character Water as well, and make your main and support summons Water too. The first battle is against Fire Elemental and Water Elemental, but they have very low HP so just auto attack to kill them quick. The second battle is against Oxymoron, and your allies will give you some tips, although the fight is pretty much the same as the raid battle from the story. It uses Contradiction every 25%, which deals more damage the higher your HP is. Leaving it low means that, below a certain threshold, a character can take 0 damage from Contradiction. Anyway, nothing really happens during this fight, so just nuke away. At low HP, you can pop Sahli Lao's counterattack to draw some fire, or it will just go down quietly anyway, so feel free to experiment with your guest characters' skills.

Challenge Battle: "A King's Determination"

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Party: Guests Juliet, Paris (Event)
Completion reward: Blue Sky Crystal square.jpg Blue Sky Crystal

Trailer

Click the image below to play the trailer.

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