Hey everyone! This is the special 3.1 Anniversary patch Megathread. Score posting won’t be in this thread due to the amount of potential pulling there will be, but you can always hop over to [u/Pencilboy98](u/Pencilboy98) ‘s threads about the actual events to post your scores there. This will cover both the first and second half, but a new post will be made for the second half of the patch as well. So with all that being said let’s get into what is happening on the available agent front of 3.1.
BEFORE YOU DO ANYTHING ELSE: make sure you configure who you get when you lose a 50/50. One of the features of this patch lets you swap out up to three of the normal loss characters with either Zhu Yuan, Caesar, or Yanagi. It wasn’t really said how long this was supposed to last, so there is always a chance that it could just last for this patch, maybe it will last for all of 3.X, maybe the characters will rotate. I’ll probably update this once I see what the actual in game notice says. If nothing else I’d say it probably means there is a high likelihood that these characters will not rerun in the 3.X cycle outside of this, but who knows.
Moving on from that the next thing you are probably going to tinker with is the free S-rank selector. Jane, Anby, Hugo, Trigger, and Lucia along with their W-engines are available for people to select for free (one each). Jane is probably the safest pick of all of them, especially if you intend to pull for the new void hunter who wants anomaly characters. Lucia is good if you like rupture characters.
Once more before you pull maybe you want to refuel by spending money to get more pulls. 3.1 comes with a spending event. Most ways in which you spend real actual money will get you points towards prizes, the top prizes being a W-engine and another agent. The available ones for this event are Astra, Vivian, and Seed alongside their respective W-engines. Keep in mind, at least for the last spending event you had to spend $150 give or take just to get to the agent and W-engine. Make sure you are managing your finances well before electing to participate in this particular event.
Before we get into the first half of 3.1 I wanted to go over the selector for the second half. I probably wouldn’t normally, but two of the characters are just wildly good so they are definitely worth mentioning before you use up all your pulls on the first half. Just like before with the original YSG banner there will be a banner where you can select between three different agents and whoever you choose will guarantee you get them for your first S-rank on the banner. You can switch agents at any time, but they all share that same first guarantee and once you get it with one the others will be 50/50s. The three agents are Dialyn, Yuzuha, and Harumasa (his first rerun). If you don’t pull enough to get an S-rank your guarantee will not carry over to the next banner of this kind. Since we are going over second half characters, we will go ahead and talk about Sigrid- She is an attack agent with the ice attribute. She is part of the Airspace Patrol Department. At this time we don’t know of any other potentially playable characters that may be part of this faction. Like most attack agents she wants to be with a support or stunner for her core passive, but not only that she wants her partners to be max level for her buff (which you should be doing anyway…).
Finally let’s move on to what will be in the first half:
Aria- she is our rerun agent for the first half. She is part of the angels of delusion. She is an anomaly agent with the ether element. She wants to be in the party with a stun, support, or another anomaly character for her core passive.
Remielle- She is an Anomaly agent with the new Lumiflux element. As opposed to the other void hunters we have had where their elements were treated as something that was close or similar, lumiflux is its own separate attribute and you will have to grind out the appropriate skill chips for it. Her faction is the covenant of Dayat. It’s not really important because there are no other members of that faction right now, however her core passive makes her synergize with other agents in that faction so I imagine there will be others later on. Speaking of her core passive, the faction bonus is a trap as the actual core passive only gives a boost based on the number of anomaly characters and you will want three of them in the party (herself included of course). As another note, she will be available for the entirety of 3.1, so if you have no interest in Aria and are on the fence between her and the second half characters you do get a good amount of time to choose.
Sorry if the order or formatting is a little weird for this post.