Warning. Read before reading: This post was made after the live version came out, but the intel used was taken from the beta version and kept as unaffected by the live version's data as possible. Therefore, this post may include outdated intel or details that differ from the real state of things. For the currently available content, please refer to in-game descriptions. For the unknown content, it's still fine to refer to this post.
Greetings, Captains~
The most colourful version comes and brings us new exciting things. Amongst them are new and old events, challenging challenges, refreshed animations and visuals, and more.
Let's see what awaits us in version 5.8. Following is a brief list of some of its content.
• New story chapter
• Rerun and new events
• New SP battlesuit
• New outfits
• New weapons
• New stigmata
• Challenge updates
• Quality updates
The last chapter left us on a cliffhanger with some concerning news. This version will take us further through the story in Chapter XXX, as well as through the miraculous fields of Elysium Everlasting. Accompany Mei on her long journey of getting to the bottom of things, get closer to finding the real culprit, and further expand your knowledge of the history of the Flame-Chasers.
Along with the story, the next Open World area is opened for exploration, two new card series are released, and upgraded versions of certain tools become available.
• We finally get to enter the gate in the upper part of Residential Area and see what hides behind it. Amusement Park features new Data Storms and Anomalous Beacons, and new monster species inhabit it together with familiar ones.
• Persona Cards and regular cards of Daybreak and Infinity, and new legendary Covenant cards will help us to overcome new challenges. Daybreak cards utilize a special stackable effect applied to enemies almost the same way as in Elysian Realm. Infinity cards utilize a special stackable global effect that increases with enemy kills. Covenant cards are rare cards that can only be installed in a specialized slot and have additional requirements to start working.
• Lay your paws on Lv 2 Multipurpose Glasses and Lv 2 Multipurpose Lantern, those gaining new useful functions that will surely be of help.
You can also refer to this article for a more detailed description of the new area's map exploration. For the most accurate info, please refer to in-game content.
This version introduces The Journey of Painting Stars - an event that brings totally new gaming experience and a lot of fun. Also, this version reintroduces Arc: Light Bound - an event that features another bubble universe.
The Journey of Painting Stars
This event takes us on a lovely adventure with a young Painter and her companions whose goal is to recover the stars and return the colours to the fading dreamland created by the legendary Depicter. Griseo is starring as the main character, and her friends are: Mr. Knight as himself, Lady Mercia as Charioteer, Girl with a Floppy Hat as Countess, and Wheatfield with a Harvester as Courtier. But they will meet more and more people on ther way and become friends with them too.
Aside from the charming story, the biggest part of this event's gameplay is related to Painting Cards - living paintings that can be collected, upgraded, and placed on the battlefield to fight your enemies, who are actually living paintings too. Fights are generally automatic and luck-dependant, but you can influence the outcome by tactically arranging the most suitable team of cards depending on your enemies and special stage effects.
• You will obtain some cards from certain story stages and can get more randomly from Mystery Boxes sold in the event shop.
• Your cards can be leveled up using Astral Keys obtained from story stages and The Fairytale Chapters.
• You can teach your Painting Cards techniques by consuming special tomes obtained from story stages and the event shop.
• The currency used in the event shop to buy Mystery Boxes and technique tomes is called Palette and can be obtained from most stages and missions in the event.
If you find trouble getting the idea at first glance, do not worry. Ai-Chan will give you a bunch of useful tips during your first steps in the event!
If you like comparing your results with those of your friends, there are ranking stages in this event as well. You can send your team of Painting Cards to Dragon Slaying or Deep in Dreamland stages after having completed certain story stages.
In Dragon Slaying, your cards will fight a mighty boss, and the more damage they manage to do to the boss the higher the reward, and the higher you climb in the ranks. But be careful, because the longer the battle lasts the more powerful the boss becomes.
In Deep in Dreamland, your cards will challenge numerous floors filled with all kinds of enemies and special effects, which can benefit your team or your opponents.
Another part of the event's gameplay lets you control Starry Impression to fight enemies, activate objects, and even dodge bombs! There aren't many of them, and they aren't hard.
Playing through this event will also reward you with Pigments that can be used in another tab of the event shop to buy Crystals, Coins, materials, Time Swirl Passes, and up to 40 Starry Impression Fragments.
Moreover, reaching level 30 of Deep in Dreamland awards a unique emblem that will show the highest level you've reached there!
Arc: Light Bound
This returning event tells us the story of Arc City and a young rebel who pursues the goal she's set for herself, which is hard to achieve in that messy and insecure place. Your mission is to help Bronie to overcome all the obstacles and reach the unreachable. Fighting, hiding, and making treaties with enemies.- this story has a lot to offer.
May it be that it's the Bronie we've read about in Shattered Dimensions? Let's see if we can shed light upon this mystery as well.
The main action of this event is set in an Open World-type stage, where you can freely explore available areas. As for making each certain area available, you'll have to do it yourself through completing the story and unlocking useful tools and bonuses by raising your Map Access level and Data Enhancement progress.
Amongst the possible rewards in the event shop are crystals, Starry Impression Fragments, and a gorgeous outfit for Twilight Paladin!
Another Flame-Chaser joins the Hyperion! She's the most delicate, innocent, susceptible, and one of the most mysterious pioneers of the Previous Era. Griseo, the Eleventh Flame-Chaser, debuts with her battlesuit Starry Impression. She's going to paint everything that's beautiful in the world, and you are not an exception.
Starry Impression is a PSY-type Physical DMG A-rank SP battlesuit that has melee attaks and wields Cross-type weapon.
Griseo has always been protected by Kosma and the others, but with the help of Mr. Knight, her devoted guardian, and the power of her art, she can protect herself too. Griseo uses her paintbrush to make your enemies blue, inside and outside.
While not being a full-time fighter, she usually plays the supporting role in a team. She has a special mechanic that features paints of three colours, which she can change during battle and the number and combination of which affect the damage and special effects of her Combo ATKs.
• Easy resource gain: Starry Impression gains a paint every time her Basic ATK hits enemies, and can gain more paints during Ultimate.
• Damaging debuff: She puts Bleed effect to good use and is able to inflict it with her Combo ATKs after learning SP skill.
• Self-defence: Ultimate Evasion and Combo ATK can grant a barrier that blocks an attack once and explodes when popped.
• Standby support: Starry Impression's Ultimate creates an area that empowers her allies and lets them inflict Bleed too, also increasing its maximum stacks.
• Time mastery: Ultimate Evasion and Ultimate apply Global Time Fracture, which is useful against quick enemies and can trigger many characters' QTE.
Starry Impression Chibi can be assigned in your Dormitory when you obtain the battlesuit. And you don't need to worry about running into Kosma or about your rooms getting painted from top to bottom.
Warning: Easel is not included and must be purchased separately.
Hey, I tell you, go get that easel.
Starry Impression Character Card and/or her fragments can be obtained from the special SP Supply.
Starry Impression Fragments can also be obtained from The Journey of Painting Stars and Arc: Light Bound events, occasional Open World tasks, or bought in Battle Arsenal.
This version introduces three new outfits that will make fighting more stylish. Sweet'n'Spicy, Luna Kindred and Herrscher of Thunder are in for a treat this time.
Let the Class End
This outfit for Sweet'n'Spicy uses the same model with different colours, a different badge, and extra glitter in the eyes.
Let the Class End can be obtained from the paid Battle Pass.
Before the Dawn
This outfit for Luna Kindred is a nice addition to the graffiti (or post-urban, or street art, whichever you please) series that matches Durandal's Gale Hunter. It has a respirator mask, a useful pocket or two, and some protective cloth layers. Distinctive hair dye included.
Before the Dawn can be obtained from The Journey of Painting Stars event.
Haunted Dusk
This outfit for Herrscher of Thunder is the most flashy, futuristic, and also the most closed of her outfits. It has some extra fluorescence and changes the look of every detail, from horns and boots to jacket and herrscher attributes, to look like a real cyberpunk fighter. On top of that, the outfit features altered visual and sound effects, including Kurikara's renewed extremely glowing appearance.
No, it:s not a reference to The Final Lesson.
Haunted Dusk can be obtained from a HOMU's Treasury.
Good Valkyries need good weapon. A new sword and a new cross are added to the arsenal together with their PRI-Arm forms.
Elysian Astra
Elysian Astra is a new Cross-type weapon that better suits characters who deal Physical DMG. Its active can inflict Bleed Trauma and deal low AoE damage. Its second skill grants a decent Total DMG bonus to Combo ATKs and Ultimate and supports the team by another increase in Physical DMG, which makes it a great choice for Starry Impression and a less great choice for Infinite Ouroboros. When used by Starry Impression, its active also triggers her Ultimate Evasion Skill.
Elysian Astra: Heart's Color is the PRI-Arm form of this weapon that deals more damage, inflicts more Bleed Trauma with its active, and has higher bonuses for its wielder's Combo ATKs and the team's Physical DMG. Its active is also automatically used on Starry Impression's QTE entry. Another skill it gains increases Bleed DMG, allows its wielder to deal additional damage, and increases the Physical damage taken by enemies with no shields for a long duration after every weapon active cast.
• Elysian Astra can be obtained from the corresponding Supply.
• Elysian Astra: Heart's Color can be forged in the Foundry after obtaining the non-PRI version.
Seven Thunders of Retribution
Seven Thunders of Retribution: Rumble is a new Divine Key that takes the form of a Sword-type weapon. Its active can inflict Paralyze Trauma, and its second skill grants a decent bonus to Total damage dealt to enemies of countered types. This sword is quite universal in situational application and can be used by a variety of battlesuits, but it's still most suitable for Herrscher of Thunder, for it provides additional exclusive bonuses designed specially for her. She can cast its active in Burst Mode and trigger her Ultimate Evasion Skill along, and can immediately cast Finisher after. Moreover, if she casts Finisher after weapon active and before the Burst Mode ends, the dragon will remain on the field and bombard enemies. While the dragon is present, she remains in Herrscher form. The dragon will leave the field after lasting for a certain duration, if its resource is depleted, or if Ultimate is cast again.
Seven Thunders of Retribution: Narukami is the PRI-Arm form that further enhances the weapon's stats and bonuses. Its third skill gives its wielder an additioonal Lightning DMG bonus when not in Burst Mode. In addition, its exclusive bonus for Herrscher of Thunder allows the dragon to land the final hit when its duration reaches the limit or its resource is depleted, and the damage of that final hit can be increased twice with her special Combo ATK.
• Seven Thunders of Retribution: Rumble can be obtained from the respective Supply.
• Seven Thunders of Retribution: Narukami can be forged in the Foundry after obtaining the non-PRI version and tuning it in the Divine Concierge.
Four new 4-star stigmata are released with this version, including the Depicter Impression set and one piece of an event set.
Depicter Impression
Depicter Impression is a supportive set that consists of three Cezanne stgmata (T, M, B).
Top piece provides a slight Physical DMG bonus and increases the Physical DMG of Ultimate after triggering any team member's Ultimate.
Middle piece lets the bearer inflict Bleed more easily, as well as increases the damage of Bleed when enemies take it more than once.
Bottom piece features a special extendable effect Structure Outline, which can be applied to enemies when hitting them with Combo ATKs and increases Total DMG taken by them for a moderate duration.
2-piece bonus causes an explosion after dealing damage with Bleed to enemies a certain number of times and has an exclusive bonus for Starry Impression that applies Structure Outline with her Ultimate if she's equipped with the Bottom piece. After Structure Outline ends, enemies suffer from a similar debuff for a longer period, but the cooldown of the special effect also becomes longer.
3-piece bonus grants a decent increase in ATK Speed and increases Total DMG dealt to unshielded enemies after using Ultimate based on the number of Bleed stacks, which makes it most suitable for Starry Impression, whose Ultimate lets the team apply more than one Bleed stack.
• Cezanne (T, M, B) can be obtained from the corresponding Supply.
Aponia: Perdition (T)
This stigma is a piece of a special event set. It provides a Lightning DMG bonus and slightly increases Total DMG if combo hit count is higher than 30.
• Aponia: Perdition (T) will be obtainable in an event that goes on air during the version.
Memorial Arena
The Exalted division is being presented with a new difficulty of Bright Knight: Excelsis.
At SSS difficulty, her abilities are empowered, and she gains a mighty shield at the start of battle which can only be broken with Lightning DMG. She also gets a new mechanic that proportionally increases the rate of Execution Value gained by your characters if they get hit during Phase Change.
Bosses in the Arena also receive a cosmetic treatment! It should be more apparent now whether you hit a boss, because most of them will flash upon being hit, and the colours of flashing depend on the type of the damage they take. More that that, Yang Beast: Huodou will have advanced animations upon being hit in the second phase.
Superstring Dimension
New stages are added in Superstring Dimension, including stages with some new enemies and a new BIO-type boss Nocturnal Knight!
The new regular enemies require you to make good use of various debuffs, and the boss's mechanics suggest for using characters that can inflict Bleed specifically.
Elysian Realm
Elysian Realm gets a bunch of updates including more playable battlesuits, visual changes, new signets, and more.
• Starry Impression and Fervent Tempo join the roster and have increased experience gain.
Note: Fervent Tempo is Molotov Cherry's Augmented version.
Starry Impression's exclusive signets greatly boost her Combo ATKs and resource recovery capabilities, increase the damage dealt to enemies inflicted with Bleed and provide beneficial effects for Ultimate. They also allow her to chain attacks more quickly and reduce weapon active's, Ultimate's and Ultimate Evasion Skill's cooldown upon consuming colours.
Fervent Tempo's exclusive signets can empower her Basic and Charged ATKs in and out of Fervent Mode, make her Ultimate deal more damage and recover faster, and increase the Total DMG taken by enemies hit with Charged ATKs or Ultimate. Another useful effect for Fervent Mode is as an increase in Physical DMG enemies take at the cost of more Fervent Juice.
• Second sets of Nexus and Enhanced Signets of Stars and Discipline are added.
New Signets of Stars let you mix colours applied to enemies and therefore taint them with more colours, as well as increases damage depending on the number of taint layers and further increases damage dealt to enemies of coutered types. Also, tainting enemies with more than one basic coour triggers a special effect that deals moderate AoE damage. These signets are better used together, because Enhanced signets are required to apply new colours, which, in their turn, trigger other useful effects. Among those are Time Fracture, reducing enemies' protection, and dealing additional damage to enemies. Moreover, mixing certain base colours taints your character too, but instead of weakening her, grants bonuses, such as increased damage based on the number of complex colours and increasing the effect of base colour taints.
New Signets of Discipline allow you to gain Exhortation more quickly, boost your character's and decrease your enemies' combat capabilities, and deal AoE damage. The Nexus signet also increases your damage depending on the number of enemies hit by its AoE explosion.
• Another Flame-Chaser boss comes to test your mettle on Floor 18. Meet the ever-surprising, omniproficient and extremely charming Jack-of-all-trades Vill-V!
This boss has two phases that significantly differ by the objective, and you will have to pay close attention to the situation to overcome her. During the first phase, Vill-V will try to take you down using various types of turrets, and will be invincible herself. Find a way to break her toys to proceed to the second phase. During the second phase, you will be overwhelmed with all kinds of attacks from a huge machine. Survive the onslaught and defeat the goliath to win the battle.
• A new function is added to Elysian Shop that allows you to browse through more of Felis's wares by refreshing the list. The first time refreshing is free, but every consecutive refreshing will increase in cost.
• Shallow Sequence menu's visuals are updated, and it will be easier for you to navigate through it now. The new interface features every unlocked character and shows the number of rounds cleared (out of the three difficulties) and the remaining unclaimed rewards.
• Returnee system update:
Returning players should feel more comfortable with this version's updated interface. Not only does it include daily login bonuses, special missions and the shop that you may be familiar with, but also the latest news where you can check on the things you may've missed. In addition, Returnees will be able to invest in additional rewards that include Supply Cards, Crystals, battlesuit fragments, and more.
• Base cosmetic changes:
The colour scheme of the icons of some rare or highly valuable items is changed to orange, so that you could better feel their epicness.
• Story Menu update:
Story Chapters are now divided into bigger sections, each of those containing the chapters united by the same arc. There are also less requirements to unlock certain story stages. Moreover, most of the arcs now have a The Story Before button that opens a window where you should be able to see a brief summary of the previous arc, and some of them even have a Manga button that serves as a link to a collection of relevant manga volumes.
• Crystallum rotation continues:
Dark Jade Crystallums replace the current ones in the Battle Pass. It's time to start stacking them up to your height.
This overview is being posted very late due to various reasons, but it can still hopefully be useful for those missing something or keeping track of the content updates.
Have fun in the game and stay safe, Captains!
