July 15th, 2025

Actual, properly new raid in Blue Archive today and I kinda don't like it. The two gimmicks with it are that striker (on-field) units deal almost no damage, while special (off-field) units deal more; and that there's a heater you need to keep powered with heals. The heater passively heals your units and can be overloaded to heal more and give an attack and EX charge rate buff. The smaller problem is that the heater kind of simplifies the boss too much, because it's really good at keeping people alive (usually), and while you do need to babysit it one properly invested healer is all you should need.

The bigger problem is needing special students to deal damage, a thing that special students are usually not supposed to do outside of burst damage. If you don't have a good option you're shit out of luck, and if that option doesn't have skill levels you're still shit out of luck. At least you can borrow units (one per attempt), so you still have a way to access nuke options. But if no one on your friends list has a nuke option on their support list, then you're stuck refreshing over and over, because you get to see so few special students each time from randos. I'm not sure if it's just because people usually put strikers on their support lists, or if the game is actually heavily biased towards giving you striker units when offering randos not on your friends list (or in your club), but it's still really fucking annoying if none of your friends or club members have a nuker on their support list.