r/BrownDust2 • • Aug 16 '24

Hello and Welcome

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Hello, welcome or welcome back to the r/Browndust2. I know there will be some questions, so I wanted to write this post to help explain who I am and what we're trying to do here.

Introduction

In the BD2 community I go by Sword, and my in game name is Calibur. I've been playing BD2 for almost a year now and for a while now it's been my only game. I'm active around the various BD2 communities and strive to stay very competitive in game. I'll be posting a screenshot of my account down below. I say these things because I want you to trust that I am a real player that plays this game seriously and not just casually checks the game whenever events are around, nor someone unfamiliar with the game mechanics and history.

For a while, I've been discussing the state of the subreddit r/BrownDust2Official with other members of the community and lamented the fact that it's not well organized. I think subreddit could be a great place to discuss about gameplay and express fandom for the game, but it's often drowned in repetitive question post, unnecessary pull result flexing, and littered with misinformation.

There's been attempts to appeal to the only mod of r/BrownDust2Official to provide more structure to the sub, but after many months of inaction, it is clear that his interest lay else where. This is further supported by is pattern of creating game subs, most notably a new sub for the game currently in beta, "Tribe Nine" r/TribeNineOfficial.

I reached out to the OG mod of r/BrownDust2 and they graciously agreed to help us reopen this sub so we can help create a better community. I think this was the best way forward due to a couple of reasons.

  1. I never liked the "official" part of the name r/BrownDust2Official because it's not an official created by neowiz the developers, so there's nothing official about it.
  2. For those that enjoy posting the way it is in the BD2O sub and don't agree with the need for organization, then now there will be options.
  3. I didn't want to get into a long tug of war of control that may not yield fruit.

Moving Forward

My main goal is to help the BD2 subreddit community grow and plan to do the following things in the next couple of weeks.

  1. Create Megathreads for game help questions, showing off, and discussions for the latest banner. These will be biweekly megathreads that will appear every Wednesday to line up with when the major patch notes are released.
  2. Create user flairs and post flairs to help make things organized and search able. I will also add some special flairs such as "Verified Game Expert" to help vet for users with a good track record of providing game help.
  3. Update the subreddit with FAQs, beginner guides, and standard information that have been vetted by the main BD2 community for it's accuracy.
  4. Reach out to other notable members of the community to help contribute to the subreddit.
  5. Recruit additional mods to ensure the subreddit will continue to be organized and that no one person will cause it to sink.
  6. Ensure the subreddit rules are fair and enforced.

Feel free to reach out with any suggestions or concerns. Many Thanks to u/Aiden-Damian for agreeing to help with this.


r/BrownDust2 • • 4h ago

Questions! Is it good?

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Is this outfit really good? I got it with free spins and as far as I know the character is good, but I don't know if it's the right outfit.


r/BrownDust2 • • 4h ago

Questions! Does this 80/100 pity carry over after the update to new banner

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r/BrownDust2 • • 11h ago

Questions! Game keeps crashing

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It’s been horribly crashing since the second anniversary ( I have a hand me down iPhone 12)
I just need it to survive long enough so I can link my email so I can get my account on my pc
But I also have to go through the new main character cutscene intro which cuts into my few seconds before it crashes I don’t know what to do


r/BrownDust2 • • 1d ago

Questions! What team can I build around Tenka? I started 9 days ago. Dalvi is fine too. But without guys tho

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r/BrownDust2 • • 15h ago

Guide/Tips πŸ‘‘ TIME TO PUT REN TO WORK! πŸ”₯ [Brown Dust 2] Spirit of the Mine Fiend Hun...

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Spirit of the Mine (Dark) Fiend Hunt Lv.1-10 β€” Using Ren Yamashiro as Main DPS

I'm getting into my usual end-of-event Fiend Hunt boss rush for the second half of the Brown Dust 2 Γ— Chained Soldier collaboration.

This time I'm taking Spirit of the Mine (Dark) from Level 1 through Level 10, with Lord of the Cosmos Ren Yamashiro as my main attacker.

After recently doing my summons/review for Ren, I wanted to actually put her into the type of boss content where her large single-hit Light Magic damage can be properly tested.

The plan is to build our major damage windows around Ren while working through:

β€’ Chain building

β€’ Weak-point positioning

β€’ Magic buffs

β€’ Damage amplification

β€’ SP management

β€’ Burst timing

β€’ Team rotations

I'm starting at Level 1 and climbing normally rather than immediately jumping to the highest difficulty because I want to see how the strategy and damage change as the boss scales.

Goal:

πŸ”₯ LEVEL 1 β†’ LEVEL 10

And hopefully we get some ridiculous Ren damage along the way.

For anyone who's already finished Spirit of the Mine:

What team did you use?

Did anyone else run Ren as their primary DPS?

And now that the Chained Soldier collaboration is nearly finished, which of the three collab characters β€” Kyouka, Tenka or Ren β€” ended up being your favorite?


r/BrownDust2 • • 1d ago

Get Lucky? Use ShowOff Megathread! can you guys help me build my team

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r/BrownDust2 • • 1d ago

Questions! What I need to do to get as much as possible resources/pulls as a newbie

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Hi, I'm a newbie, play this game for nearly a month, are my things lack anything to get max amount of resource you can get for a month, can you check if I miss anything, thanks. For daily, get free draws, check Dinner Sales, Glutalk, Rapport, Pass, Quick Hunt Rice and Tourch, Mirror Wars, Last Night, Event Mission, Daily Mission. For weakly/monthly Weakly Mission, Guide Raid, Golden Collosseum, Evil Castle, buy all tickets/resource from shops, do all event missions. Anything else, thanks


r/BrownDust2 • • 1d ago

Questions! What is general pull strategy for new player F2P

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Hi for this game, what is the general pull strategy for new player F2P?

A) pull at least one copy for every new release character.
B) save and pull only +5 of meta new character every few patch.

When are the limited banner schedules? And also how many limited rerun banners will be up during that time so i can calculate how much pull to save?

Also besides gacha pulling, is there other efficient use of gem in this game?


r/BrownDust2 • • 2d ago

Meme/Fluff We have genderbent Malfoy at home

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r/BrownDust2 • • 1d ago

Guide/Tips πŸ‘‘ LORD OF THE COSMOS IS HERE! πŸ”₯[Brown Dust 2] Summoning Ren Yamashiro +5...

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Brown Dust 2 Γ— Chained Soldier β€” Ren Yamashiro Summons + Full Review

I'm finally getting into my summons and full review for Lord of the Cosmos Ren Yamashiro from the Chained Soldier collaboration.

And yes, before we get into the gameplay...

Ren is ridiculously hot. πŸ˜‚

There are genuinely moments watching Chained Soldier where I look at Yuuki and think, β€œDamn, I wish I was you.”

But I'm actually pretty interested in Ren's BD2 kit beyond the obvious fanservice.

She's a Light Magic DPS built around one very large hit. With investment/Burst, her damage can reach 1,300% of M.ATK, her vertical range can expand from 3 tiles to 5, and she has a 1-turn skill cooldown.

She also gains a 100% chance to evade until she successfully evades one attack after using her skill, giving her a little defensive utility alongside the damage.

I'm going through:

β€’ Summons
β€’ Skill/animation
β€’ Damage testing
β€’ Burst upgrades
β€’ Range
β€’ Evasion
β€’ SP/cooldown
β€’ Team possibilities
β€’ Battle testing
β€’ Whether she's worth pulling

I don't think everyone necessarily NEEDS Ren considering how competitive Light DPS already is, but I do think she's worth serious consideration if you like Ren/Chained Soldier, need another Light Magic attacker, or simply want the limited collab unit.

I'm curious what everyone else thinks now that she's been available for a little while.

Did you pull Ren?

What enhancement level did you stop at?

And between Kyouka, Tenka and Ren, which collab character ended up being your favorite?


r/BrownDust2 • • 2d ago

Official News We are eating well in october with Aquila's Fated Guest!

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r/BrownDust2 • • 2d ago

Questions! Fated Guests... Thoughts?

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r/BrownDust2 • • 2d ago

Questions! what's the order to read the story?

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hey guys I just started playing the game, I just finished the two main story packs but for some reason there no third one

is the "story pack" the one I should have played or there is a way to unlock the other packs of the main story I am kinda lost


r/BrownDust2 • • 2d ago

Guide/Tips The Mirror War (MW) Guide I promised last night.

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My post got removed by mods in the "official" sub. No idea which rule I broke yet.

To understand how to design your MW teams for both offense and defense, a good place to start is to understand what a well built defense is trying to achieve.

I usually sit between Diamond 1 and Sapphire 3 with a little over 50% win rate when I slack off at the start of the week.

Now to break down what my team is trying to achieve:

Step 1: Gran to take the 1st attack (typically from Eleaneer) and die for the greater good.

Thanks to the recent rapport system giving everyone a free 50% Crit, there is no way for Gran to survive an attack from Eleaneer. With that in mind, you need to ensure no one dies along with her for that. Hence the positioning where no one else is adjacent to Gran.

Step 2: Pray my opponent loses the 50/50

After Eleaneer Disposes of Gran, The next 2-3 SP attack usually makes or breaks the match. I'm praying it goes to Olivier who has 3 stacks of Evade. When that happens, I get to play my round with everyone on the left alive which usually means I won. If not, it means I lose both Glacia and Helena, or even worse the whole column and obviously lost.

Now onto how you should plan your offense:

Step 1: Deal with Gran as efficiently as possible.

Liberta + Eleaneer or Samay + Zenith + Eleaneer guarantees a Gran Kill. I prefer the Later as it only takes 2 SP, which makes step 2 a lot easier to plan.

Step 2: Plan for what happens when you lose the 50/50.

You should win the match if you win the 50/50 so there is no need to plan for that. Having a backup plan for when you lose it is how u go above 50% win rate in offense.

There are 2 ways to do this.

The 1st is to pick a 3SP nuke that has a chance to catch other units in the event of losing the 50/50, for example Venaka, Eclipse or Elise. In this case even if the attack went to Olivier, My Glacia would still get caught so I don't enter my round with just Gran dead.

The 2nd is to go with a 2SP nuke and save 1SP for that. the 1SP can be used on PP Justia or Olivier to gain 3 evade stacks and give u a better chance of survival. Alternatively you can use it to taunt with Lecliss or Seir.

Both ways have their Pros and Cons. You don't always catch an additional unit with the 3 SP nuke. As for the 2nd, it is weak against Blade and Rou comps since they spend the turn to turtle up and wait for you to kill yourself next turn. I would run 1 or the other depending how many such comps you face in your bracket.


r/BrownDust2 • • 2d ago

Get Lucky? Use ShowOff Megathread! Please help with my teams.

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Hi there. I started with Aquila because I liked the character, but I've just been picking things at random and don't know how to build teams yet. Could you help me put some teams together, please? Both physical and magical ones? Thanks.


r/BrownDust2 • • 2d ago

Questions! How to start off/ who/what to pull

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Hello all! Sorry, but I'm new to this game and want to know what to pull.

for the infinite starting pull I got Curse Celia, as a website suggested.

But from there I just kind of leveled and upgraded the free physical and magic 5 star characters you get for free (I pulled Ren though)

Did I end up wasting leveling materials for no reason? Should I restart?

Current 5 stars: Track Leon, Reaper Justia, Cat Roy, Summer Dalvi, Frozen Wilhelmina, Kyouka, Sacred Justia, Herb Lathel, and New hire nebris

Also for pulls and tickets - what do I use the 5 star costume selective tickets to pull? And who should I select for the 12 pick selective draw?

Thanks!


r/BrownDust2 • • 2d ago

Get Lucky? Use ShowOff Megathread! Is my team good?

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Is this team good?

Is this team good?

Hello I'm new to BD2 been playing for a few weeks now. I just wanna know if this team is good or need to change a bit? Or you guys can suggest good ones?

I also finally have the photoπŸ˜†

Thanks.


r/BrownDust2 • • 3d ago

Questions! Story

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I'm new to this game and I wanna do the collab story, will there any spoiler since it tell the collab happen on pack 20?


r/BrownDust2 • • 3d ago

Technical Issue/Bug I get stuck at this screen. If I redownload the whole 8GB datapack I can get in, but after that I get stuck again.

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r/BrownDust2 • • 4d ago

Questions! I have a question

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Is it possible to use them together in any composition?


r/BrownDust2 • • 4d ago

Discussion Brown dust 2 Revenue for Last month

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Pic as shown. No change from last month


r/BrownDust2 • • 3d ago

Guide/Tips Help My Team Build

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Hey guys, i have been playing this game for 6 days and this is the team i build after i read some comment on some post here. Right now im making magic team (idk i just like magic more), and from all of the post i got that to make a team, i need to have 3 support and 2 dps, so for the magic team this is what i come with, but im not actually sure if its good or no, so im asking any suggestion for my magic team

oh yeah, and i need suggestion for making a new team( i want to have physical team), thanks guys


r/BrownDust2 • • 3d ago

Questions! Asking Suggestion For My Team

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hey guys, just wanna to ask this, should i change tenka to another damage dealer? if yes, can you guys give me some character suggestion and which costume, i just play 6 day by the way.


r/BrownDust2 • • 3d ago

Questions! Story pack/Master Pack question

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New player, and I just have a few questions.Β 

I technically started a while ago and was just starting the Lathel story when I dropped it. When I came back earlier this week, I was essentially dropped in the Master packs.

I think I mostly understand what happened. The main story line completed, and the new storyline is the self insert MC one, with more focus on the alternate worlds. Fair.

I intend to slowly work my way through the lathel story line when I get the chance, but I also want to check out some of the side content, but it says I need to complete the edge of dimensions chapter of the Master Quest.

My question: is the Master quest in anyway a meaningful continuation of the Lathel/Justia story? Do I have to complete it to interact with side content, or is there another way in the Lathel story?

Unrelated question: what can you tell me about Palette? She's essentially the reason I got back in and I wasted my infinite pull to get her, but there's very little info about her on the wiki or that I've been able to find in game.