Starting Granblue Fantasy
New Players: Starting Granblue Fantasy | Creating an Account | Rerolling
Beginner Missions and Draws: Sierokarte's Knickknack Academy | Skyscope | New Skyfarer Step Up Special | Beginner's Draw Set
Wiki Resources: FAQ | Recurring Tasks | Basic Grids | Advanced Grids | Glossary | Guides | Town Items | Optimizing Performance
Granblue Fantasy ("GBF") is a turn-based, browser JRPG gacha game made by Cygames. You can play it through Steam or any Chromium-based browser, such as Chrome, Edge, Vivaldi, etc. GBF can be played on a computer or any mobile device that can run a browser, and you can be logged into the same account on multiple devices to sync progress.
Why Play Granblue Fantasy
Granblue Fantasy is an online JRPG, with a focus on long-term progression. The combat system is turn based with hybrid real-time synchronization when other players are involved in a raid. It follows the tried-and-true "kill boss to get stronger to kill stronger boss" design philosophy. Even though it's a gacha game, its gameplay formula is closer to traditional MMORPGs.
Despite its over 10 years of age, GBF maintains a consistent playerbase thanks to its unique blend of classic grindy JRPG gameplay with its fantastic storytelling and presentation. Hardcore players love the game for how replayable it is and how rewarding it is to achieve your own goals, whereas more casual players love the constant new story drops and hundreds of hours of fully voice acted visual-novel style storytelling. Most players fit into both camps to some extent.
Creating an Account
- Main article: Creating an Account
Granblue Fantasy accounts can be created through one of two ways:
Playing on Steam
The simplest way is to use the PC gaming service Steam and add Granblue Fantasy to your Steam account. Players can play the game through the Steam client or by visiting steam.granbluefantasy.com on any device. Payment methods and registration are automatically handled through Steam itself. Steam-based accounts have few limitations:
- Old collaboration characters and summons from events before March 10, 2026, are not visible on other players' public profiles. This has no effect on gameplay.
- Old collaboration characters and items from before an account was created are unavailable, regardless of which client was used to create the account.
- Collaboration event reruns are exceedingly rare and should be assumed not to happen unless officially announced.
- A select few of Collaboration Side Stories are currently unavailable to Steam players. Outside of collection purposes, these events do not provide any significant additions to an account.
List of Side Stories Unavailable on Steam
- Accounts are semi region locked and cannot be used in some countries (such as Japan).
- Accounts made through Steam use the same servers as accounts made using Japanese account providers. There is no "Global" server.
Playing on the Japanese Client
Alternatively, one of several Japanese mobile game account providers (such as Mobage) can be used to register an account with Granblue. The process to register with one of these providers is a little longer than using Steam, but accounts created with Mobage etc. have no past collaboration content restrictions.
For further details on the registration process using Japanese account providers, check Creating an Account.
New Player Checklist
Here's a quick and easy checklist for new players to follow. This should get you up and going quickly and ready to enjoy the game.
 Claim free pulls that are given to you upon starting your account. You can get 100 free pulls from the New Skyfarer Step Up Special.
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Open your Crate (the gift box icon in your Home Screen), and collect all items in the Other tab, and only that tab.
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| Read or skip the Main Story up to Chapter 8 to unlock Sierokarte's Knickknack Academy. (see below for more info)
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Congratulations, you're ready to game! From here on out, keep following the Knickknack Academy's missions and follow Sierokarte's advice to get your foot in the door. Welcome to GBF!
Sierokarte's Knickknack Academy
Sierokarte's Knickknack Academy is an extended tutorial that helps onboard new players. During the Academy, new players are provided with tasks to complete while explaining the process behind them.
Sierokarte's Knickknack Academy is unlocked by completing Chapter 8 Story: The Iron Titan. As a new player, this should be your utmost priority. The Academy will guide you through understanding everything the game is about, and will leave you off at a fantastic spot to progress further.
The Academy can be accessed from the Home Screen, in the Extras tab, or via the GBF Handbook, as shown below:
Story Content
Main Story
- Main article: Main Quest (Warning: May contain spoilers.)
The first thing you'll do as a new player is starting the Main Quest (MSQMain Story Questline).
It's recommended to give the story a try without skipping first, but if you find it too boring or poorly paced, the Swiftly Sail feature can be used. Swiftly Sail will skip large chunks of the MSQ and provide an abbreviated version of what happens in those chapters.
If the main thing that bothers you is the overabundance of random story fights, you're not alone. This was the game's early way of simulating JRPG random encounters and it will stop happening around Chapter 54.
If at any point you wish to read story you skipped or simply want to revisit a chapter without fights, you can do so from the Journal. (Menu > Journal > Story).
Side Stories
- Main article: Side Stories
Side Stories are permanent versions of past story events that explore Granblue Fantasy's universe beyond the Main Story. There is a huge amount of content available in Side Stories with many unique storylines.
At the bottom of the Side Stories screen, you can find a link to the GBF Handbook's Character Map. This page shows all the available freely recruitable characters you can earn from reading stories and progressing in the game. If there's a character you like, this is a great way to find out where you can obtain them.
If you're interested in following a specific character's story, you can click the button below to see some notable events featuring the characters from Granblue Fantasy spinoffs.
| Storyline | Notable Characters Featured |
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 Main Quest: Estalucia Arc |
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 Main Quest: New Arc |
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 Archangel Saga starting with What Makes the Sky Blue |
among many others as supporting roles |
 Society Series starting with Footprints on Sacred Ground |
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 Dragon Knights Series starting with Defender's Oath |
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 Lowain Bros Series starting with L.E.T.S. H.A.N.G. |
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 Primal Resonance Series starting with Primal Resonance |
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 Alchemist Series starting with Alchemist Astray |
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 Eternals' Stories starting with Seeds of Redemption |
Additional stories can be read by unlocking the Eternals through gameplay. |
 Wedges of the Sky Series starting with Old Bond |
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 A Thousand Reasons |
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 No Rain, No Rainbow |
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 Summer Events starting with My Beloved Auguste |
among many others as supporting roles |
 Auld Lanxiety |
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 Divine Generals Series starting with Elegy for Auld Lang Syne |
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 Little Skyfarer a la Sacre Blumiel! |
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 Yesterday's Scars and Tomorrow's Hope |
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 Thousand-Year Succession Series starting with Forgiveness and Gratitude |
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 Arcarum: The World Beyond Storyline |
Stories can be read by uncapping the respective summons and recruiting the characters. |
| Note: Side Stories are just old story events made permanent. Not all events are available in Side Stories yet, and some characters only appear in more recent events. (e.g.  If you want to learn which events a playable character appears in, you can use the Lore tab in their character page, and then watch the event story on YouTube. | |
Gacha Draw System
- Main article: Draw
Granblue's gacha system is relatively simple. The following are the main things you should know:
Different Draw Banners
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| Standard 3% Banner | Flash Gala 6% Banner Mid-Month |
Premium Gala 6% Banner End-Month |
Granblue primarily runs only one main rotating banner at a time—the Premium Draw banner. This is the main banner you'll be pulling from.
This banner rotates between different promotions several times a month. New characters are released usually twice a month on Gala banners.
- Flash Gala (or "flashfest") usually around the middle of the month.
- Premium Gala (or "legfest") at the end of the month.
Both types of Gala banners have a different set of Gala-exclusive Grand Characters that can only be pulled during their respective Gala. The list of available Grands is the same every month, so you don't have to worry about characters going away indefinitely. Click the banners above to see who's available when.
An additional set of "Classic" banners are also available to be pulled from. These only contain old items from specific timeframes and are always 3% SSR rate. For this reason, it is recommended to avoid Classic banners for now. See Draw#Classic for more information.
While Granblue technically lacks "Limited" characters outside of Collaboration Events, it does have Seasonal characters—units only obtainable during certain times of the year, such as Summer or Holiday periods. These characters will release on a Gala banner, and are often the most sought after characters due to their limited availability, leading many players to to save their resources to "spark" during these banners.
Sparking
Every time you pull in the Premium Draw, you will receive a 
"Sparking" is the term for trading in 300
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It is highly recommended to have a full spark whenever you pull. Since sparks do not carry over between banners, any pulls done without 300 pulls can be be wasted entirely.
Acquiring Pulls
When you get started in the game, most content will award
As is standard for gacha games, the longer you play, the further these wells dry up. Over time, you'll mainly be accumulating them by participating in recurring events each month and on average, this will reward you with around 4 ~ 5 sparks a year.
Pulling Duplicates
The first time you pull a Character Weapon from the gacha, you'll also unlock the respective character:
When obtained, characters come with everything unlockable through standard in-game leveling. You do not need multiple copies of the same character to use them to their full potential, nor do you need to level up their weapon at all.
- This raises the question—what happens to dupes?
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Dupes are valuable too!
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Free Draw Promotions
Granblue is known for regularly rewarding its players with free pulls. These are a great way to get lots of goodies for your collection, especially if you're newer.
The Roulette is the annual highlight, running twice a year in December and March—for the Holidays and the game's Anniversary respectively.
During Roulette, players can spin a wheel to receive a random number of free 10-pulls per day, up to 100 or even 200 in some cases. Roulette is a great time to spark, as even free pulls award
Tips and Tricks
 You can get some free pulls by claiming Town Items as you go through the story. Doing this, you can get over 20 pulls by the time you're caught up.
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You should join an active crew! GBF is designed for crew play, and while the tutorial might have you make one for yourself, the game is much more fun if you have like-minded friends to play with. Not only that, but the most important events are crew focused, meaning you'll want to be in one no matter what.
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| Try out different kinds of teams for different fights. The game gives you a bunch of slots to put teams, so there's no reason to limit yourself to one per element. There's a lot of different niches in GBF, so try out your characters and figure out where each one shines. Remember that if you make teams that can stomp specific fights, you can get each fight's rewards even faster.
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| Take it one raid at a time, and join a lot of that raid. It can be overwhelming to have so many raids to choose from and so much to farm. It's often easier to pick one lane at a time, and use the Raid Finder to join mass fellow players' raids rather than hosting everything all the time.
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| Check out Basic Grids for more general tips and help for early gameplay, and Recurring Tasks for dailies, weeklies, and monthlies.
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Limited Items
 Sunlight Stone |
 Gold Brick |
 Damascus Ingot |
 New World Quartz |
 Gold Moon |
Elemental Cage |
- These items are required for progression later on, such as recruiting Eternals and Evokers, uncapping Dark Opus Weapons, or uncapping Arcarum Summons.
- Powerful weapons such as the Illustrious Weapons.
- Other trades can be made, but should only be done with caution—or not at all. Be sure to read each item's page on the wiki to make sure that it cannot be obtained from another source before purchasing.
- Elemental Cages are extremely valuable and limited items obtained by drawing a duplicate Grand Weapon from the Premium Draw. (There is also a very limited supply available by trading
Next Steps
After graduating from Sierokarte's Knickknack Academy, you should be over Rank 150 and with baseline grids to take on future challenges.
At this point, the game really opens up and where you go is up to you. If you want to keep getting stronger, you should be trying out the new raids you just unlocked, such as the Six-Dragon Raids or Omega Rebirth Raids, or just finishing up loose ends from prior tiers like Ennead or Regalia. Either way, the world's your oyster, and how you get stronger (and how fast you do so!) is fully up to you.
The Advanced Grids pages are the Wiki's main resource for players Rank 151 and higher. There, you can find grid templates, breakdowns of which weapons see use, and example teams for all the game's content. Please be aware that the grids shown are just that — examples — and never mean you need the characters or weapons shown. Use them as inspiration to build your own setups and have fun along the way!
You can also check out the Wiki's Guide Index, which contains a ton of user-made guides for GBF, covering many different parts of the game. If you are to read only one page, make it Advanced Grids, but if you want to consume all the knowledge available, peruse what's available in the Guide Index from time to time for sure.
Still have questions? Need advice from veteran players on what you should do? Try the questions channel on the GBF Wiki Discord Server! Remember we were all newbies at one point, so don't be shy to ask!