November 3rd - Kingdom Hearts Union χ ENG Update
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- Published on November 3, 2017 @ 07:06 am
- Written by faemarch
★ Illustrated KH II Sora & Riku [EX] arrives in a new EX Medal Deal!
Get Illustrated Auron within 5 draws!
The latest in the powerful EX Medal series, Illustrated KH II Sora & Riku [EX], has arrived!
In addition, Illustrated Auron is guaranteed within 5 draws from this EX Medal Deal!
Illustrated KH II Sora & Riku [EX] also has unique Home Screen music when you share this Medal!
As a reminder, EX Medals can only be obtained for limited periods of time.
In other words, you won't be able to obtain Illustrated KH II Sora & Riku [EX] outside of this EX Medal Deal until we announce that it is available again!
Read on for more details!
■ EX Medal Deal Details
■Campaign Period:
Nov. 3, 2017 12:00 a.m. to Nov. 13, 2017 11:59 p.m. (PT)
Nov. 3, 2017 7:00 to Nov. 14, 2017 7:59 (UTC)
This 10-Medal EX Medal Deal guarantees the following:
・You are guaranteed to receive an Illustrated Auron within 5 draws from this EX Medal Deal!
・You will receive at least one Tier 4 or higher Medal pre-strengthened to 1, 2, or 3 Special Attack Dots in each draw!
・The remaining 9 Medals will be of 5★ or higher rarity!
・If you receive the following Medals from this deal, they will come with their Special Attack strengthened to 3 dots:
- Illustrated KH II Sora & Riku [EX]
NOTE: Illustrated KH II Sora & Riku [EX] can only be pulled from the 10-Medal EX Medal Deal during the specified period.
- Illustrated Auron
You also have a chance of getting Boosted versions of the new Medals!
・Boosted Illustrated KH II Sora & Riku [EX], Illustrated Auron: 1,000 more base Strength and Defense.
NOTES:
・The boosted base Strength and Defense stat will be highlighted in yellow instead of the usual white text on the Medal details screen.
・A Boosted Medal can have its Special Attack strengthened by fusing the normal version of the same Medal onto it.
・However, make sure that you don't fuse the Boosted version onto a normal version, or else you'll lose the stat boost!
■ New Medal Details
| Medal | Attribute | Reversed / Upright | Special Attack Bonus Tier | Special Attack | Target | Gauge Cost |
| Illustrated KH II Sora & Riku [EX] *Includes music. |
S | Upright | 7 | Lowers targets' DEF & S-DEF by 4 tiers for 1 turn. Inflicts more damage the higher your HP. | All | 1 |
| Illustrated Auron | P | Upright | 6 | Deals 2 hits. Inflicts a fixed amount of damage regardless of targets' defense. | All | 2 |
★ The Bonus Jewels Campaign is back!
■ Campaign Period:
Nov. 3, 2017 12:00 a.m. to Nov. 7, 2017 11:59 p.m. (PT)
Nov. 3, 2017 7:00 to Nov. 8, 2017 7:59 (UTC)
If you purchase Jewels during the campaign period listed above, you'll get an extra bonus on top of your purchase!
You'll also receive double the amount of Skip Tickets from your purchase! Use Skip Tickets to instantly earn rewards from Quests that you've already completed all three Objectives for!
| Jewel Package | Campaign Bonus Jewels | Campaign Bonus Skip Tickets (Normal Amount ⇛ Campaign Amount) |
| 100 Jewels | +10 Jewels | 0 ⇛ 0 |
| 540 Jewels | +10 Jewels | 2 ⇛ 4 |
| 1,700 Jewels | +50 Jewels | 7 ⇛ 14 |
| 2,400 Jewels | +100 Jewels | 10 ⇛ 20 |
| 6,600 Jewels | +400 Jewels | 25 ⇛ 50 |
| 14,700 Jewels | +1,300 Jewels | 50 ⇛ 100 |
・Customers that purchase the Weekly Jewels Extravaganza deal will receive 50 additional bonus Jewels (for a total of 3,050 Jewels).
・Skip Tickets will not be given from purchasing the Weekly Jewels Extravaganza.
・Please note that while the confirmation message that appears when purchasing Jewels will not include the bonus amount, the bonus amountwill be added to your account upon purchase.
●November's Weekend-only Raid Event!
■ Event Periods:
Nov. 4, 2017 12:00 a.m. to Nov. 5, 2017 11:59 p.m. (PT)
Nov. 4, 2017 7:00 to Nov. 6, 2017 7:59 (UTC)
Nov. 11, 2017 12:00 a.m. to Nov. 12, 2017 11:59 p.m. (PT)
Nov. 11, 2017 8:00 to Nov. 13, 2017 7:59 (UTC)
Nov. 18, 2017 12:00 a.m. to Nov. 19, 2017 11:59 p.m. (PT)
Nov. 18, 2017 8:00 to Nov. 20, 2017 7:59 (UTC)
■ Event Details:
November's weekend-only raid event is here!
During the three weekends listed above, you'll have an opportunity to work with your party to take down the vile Jewel Princess Raid Boss to earn Lux and other rewards!
Raid Bosses are especially powerful Heartless, which will appear for a limited amount of time before disappearing. You'll need to coordinate with your party to take them down before they leave -- but if you can, you'll be greatly rewarded for your efforts!
Additionally, you can obtain bonus Medals by taking down Raid Boss at certain levels!
Bonus Medals for Defeating Level 10 Raid Boss:
When you defeat the level 10 raid boss, you'll earn 6★ Chip and 6★ Dale Medals!
*Only applies to defeating the level 10 raid boss.
■ Raid Boss Bonus Time
Every day for the duration of the event between the following times you'll be able to get the following bonuses!
| Pacific Time | UTC |
| 2:00 a.m. to 3:00 a.m. 8:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. 2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. 8:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. |
9:00 to 10:00 15:00 to 16:00 21:00 to 22:00 3:00 to 4:00 |
NOTE: Daylight saving time ends on Nov. 5, 2017 2:00 a.m. (PT) / 9:00 (UTC).
Adjusted Bonus Times are as follows:
| Pacific Time | UTC |
| 2:00 a.m. to 3:00 a.m. 8:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. 2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. 8:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. |
10:00 to 11:00 16:00 to 17:00 22:00 to 23:00 4:00 to 5:00 |
・Spawn rate of raid bosses doubles!
・Lux received from raid bosses doubles!
Follow us on Twitter for the latest news! @Daybreak_Town
COMMENTS
Re: November 3rd - Kingdom Hearts Union ? ENG Update
Yeah there's no way they should have expected people to go for both with how important Kairi is. It's a shame and quite unfortunate because KH2 Sora & Riku EX seems like a really good medal. Still haven't even had luck with Kairi though myself even with the lower cost pulls and jewels they've distributed so far.
Some have speculated or theorized that all this weird scheduling has to do with the end of the fiscal year coming up or them just trying to milk this for all its worth right before the holidays and what not.
Seems odd because you think they'd earn more later because of that.
I really do like that new artwork they did for KH2 Sora & Riku though. Good stuff.
Re: November 3rd - Kingdom Hearts Union ? ENG Update
Might consider this one but I'm keeping my jewels for the foretellers at this point.
Re: November 3rd - Kingdom Hearts Union ? ENG Update
Yeah, I'm agreed. It was like... use the jewels from the campaign on one attempt only at the new one, or get two more pulls on the Kairi deal. Sure I didn't need to, since I'd already got one, but it guaranteed me like... three or four more high-tier medals, which were useful, compared to one or two, and no guarantee of getting the EX.
The art is amazing, though, and I've loved it since it first came out in Japan. Which does make it a shame I couldn't try, but. No hard feelings about it.
Re: November 3rd - Kingdom Hearts Union ? ENG Update
Yeah this sucks, I was exciting for this new art, but they had to release it at such a garbage time....I really can't tell what they are doing lol.
I'm just gonna use my free jewels to desperately draw for Kairi more so...
Re: November 3rd - Kingdom Hearts Union ? ENG Update
These were my last two pulls. I did not get her.
UGH.
Re: November 3rd - Kingdom Hearts Union ? ENG Update
SENA really doesn't get that no one will pull on anything that isn't the Kairi EX Banner while she's up, do they? I thought the shotgunning in August was bad, but nope! They better not be skipping over Marluxia EX though. His banner is the only one my Jewels will go to since I pulled EX Kairi.
Re: November 3rd - Kingdom Hearts Union ? ENG Update
Well, on the bright side this is a very easy skip for me. I saw the max multiplier and what it totals out to with guilt. It really doesn't do much more damage than my HD Master Form Sora. lol
Re: November 3rd - Kingdom Hearts Union ? ENG Update
I think it's pretty clear what they're doing here. They want to catch up to JP, so that we won't know what is coming anymore and can't save up jewels for specific medals and will have to pull blind like they do. Will make them more money if people have to buy jewels instead of being able to save them for what they want.
Re: November 3rd - Kingdom Hearts Union ? ENG Update
Not even tempting. It just gives me more time to save for the Foretellers (or less time because they're releasing new deals twice a week..) so this has no hold over me.
Re: November 3rd - Kingdom Hearts Union ? ENG Update
While I could use an extra upright Power hard hitter tier 6, and I love Auron and he is a 5 mercy pull, I just simply do not have enough jewels for five pulls. I don't. Hope they put him in future pulls though.
The big problem with this game is that we don't get a good amount of steady jewels. The daily jewels aren't enough when we have to space out our limited jewels for the purchase of medals, gems and avatar boards. Impossible unless you drop some massive amount of real life cash in the game. And that is the whole reason for gacha games. So, just skip what you can't afford, and wait to get something that you can afford.
Re: November 3rd - Kingdom Hearts Union ? ENG Update
As for me, I ain't pulling. Got Kairi, so I'm happy.
I hope they come out with more steady jewels soon tho.
Re: November 3rd - Kingdom Hearts Union ? ENG Update
I think it's pretty clear what they're doing here. They want to catch up to JP, so that we won't know what is coming anymore and can't save up jewels for specific medals and will have to pull blind like they do. Will make them more money if people have to buy jewels instead of being able to save them for what they want.
Wouldn't surprise me, but they're putting that focus in the wrong area IMO. Also it wouldn't work as well as they think. JP will still be ahead for a good while, we're still behind in terms of other features and updates, and JP updates the day before we do due to timezones and the games being on separate servers. There is literally no possible way they can keep the playerbase completely blind to what's coming as long as the two versions are so far out of sync. Also, they already put out EX Kairi. So in terms of buffers and even VIP Medals people who have her are going to make comparisons and probably not draw unless it's worth it to them. Really, SENA are just shooting themselves in the foot here. They should've at least waited until the Kairi EX banner was gone, they might've gotten something from the non-whales.
Re: November 3rd - Kingdom Hearts Union ? ENG Update
Wouldn't surprise me, but they're putting that focus in the wrong area IMO. Also it wouldn't work as well as they think. JP will still be ahead for a good while, we're still behind in terms of other features and updates, and JP updates the day before we do due to timezones and the games being on separate servers. There is literally no possible way they can keep the playerbase completely blind to what's coming as long as the two versions are so far out of sync. Also, they already put out EX Kairi. So in terms of buffers and even VIP Medals people who have her are going to make comparisons and probably not draw unless it's worth it to them. Really, SENA are just shooting themselves in the foot here. They should've at least waited until the Kairi EX banner was gone, they might've gotten something from the non-whales.
True, but having 15 hours (or even like one or two weeks) to save for a banner doesn't let you save up the dozens of thousands of jewels people are able to save up currently. Of course you can still save, but fewer people will do that if we catch up to JP a little.
My guess is they're throwing Kairi out now because on Christmas, there will be enough players who spend money anyway. Same with Black Friday. Here and now though, people don't spend cause they have some spare money, but because the medal is very strong and useful.
Re: November 3rd - Kingdom Hearts Union ? ENG Update
Yeah, there's really no difference if we get to know what kind of deal we get like... next week. The whole point with JP being ahead is that we've had A LOT of time to prepare, and know which medals are going to come out in the next several months. People were able to start saving for the NA anniversary when JP had theirs. Or so we thought, of course SENA now ruined that by bringing all that content this early. I'm not saying it's necessarily bad if we don't have to wait for the JP medals so long anymore and get the deals around same time, but of course it does take that advantage away from us as well. I just really feel like that's what they're doing here. "Oh you think you can save until the anniversary and get a foreteller mercy or tons and tons of pulls for Kairi without spending any money? Guess again".
If it was just Kairi I could believe it's something else, but now with the Sora&Riku medal too they're skipping a lot of content here. If we get the foretellers soon too it's pretty much clear that's what they're going for.
Re: November 3rd - Kingdom Hearts Union ? ENG Update
Yeah, there's really no difference if we get to know what kind of deal we get like... next week. The whole point with JP being ahead is that we've had A LOT of time to prepare, and know which medals are going to come out in the next several months. People were able to start saving for the NA anniversary when JP had theirs. Or so we thought, of course SENA now ruined that by bringing all that content this early. I'm not saying it's necessarily bad if we don't have to wait for the JP medals so long anymore and get the deals around same time, but of course it does take that advantage away from us as well. I just really feel like that's what they're doing here. "Oh you think you can save until the anniversary and get a foreteller mercy or tons and tons of pulls for Kairi without spending any money? Guess again".
If it was just Kairi I could believe it's something else, but now with the Sora&Riku medal too they're skipping a lot of content here. If we get the foretellers soon too it's pretty much clear that's what they're going for.
To be honest it also makes sense.
They raised the daily jewels, and I'm pretty sure we're also going to get the daily missions sometime soon, which would result in us getting roughly the same amount of jewels that JP does. Our VIP is still hella inferior, considering we pay 30$ for seven VIP medals instead of 10$ like they do, but the F2P-jewels will be about the same. So of course giving us so much time to save would result in less people having to spend money to get the medals they want.
I guess I'm okay with that, though. Sure, saving up was nice, but I'd rather have daily jewel missions and the raised daily jewels than not having those and having to save up what little we got before.
Re: November 3rd - Kingdom Hearts Union ? ENG Update
Yeah, and not having to wait is always nice. At this point I hope they just do it fast then, better give us the remaining anniversary deals and FF Sora and Roxas ex soon. I wonder if we're still getting toon medals? They'll be useless to those who have Kairi but not everyone does. And I guess there's also Marly ex at least? Also keyart 14, it's halloween themed so I wonder if we're getting that one at all.
Re: November 3rd - Kingdom Hearts Union ? ENG Update
Yeah, and not having to wait is always nice. At this point I hope they just do it fast then, better give us the remaining anniversary deals and FF Sora and Roxas ex soon. I wonder if we're still getting toon medals? They'll be useless to those who have Kairi but not everyone does. And I guess there's also Marly ex at least? Also keyart 14, it's halloween themed so I wonder if we're getting that one at all.
Tbh even with Kairi, the toons can make sense, especially if you don't get any (or many) of the medals that ignore counters. For some enemies it can be really useful to be able to keep their counter up at all times, and the toons also have a quite good multiplier, even though they are single target, so they can be used as a counter-buffer AND attack medal at once.
Re: November 3rd - Kingdom Hearts Union ? ENG Update
Tbh even with Kairi, the toons can make sense, especially if you don't get any (or many) of the medals that ignore counters. For some enemies it can be really useful to be able to keep their counter up at all times, and the toons also have a quite good multiplier, even though they are single target, so they can be used as a counter-buffer AND attack medal at once.
Well even more reason to give us them then. So far there haven't been many medals that got completely skipped so I suppose it'll happen eventually.
Re: November 3rd - Kingdom Hearts Union ? ENG Update
NOOOOOOOOOO, I'm missing this!?
I want internet back!!!!!!! DDDDDD:
Re: November 3rd - Kingdom Hearts Union ? ENG Update
The one saving grace of the Sora & Riku EX medal is that it does 1 hit so it's good for HSC and, unlike FBX, Axel EX and Sephiroth EX is upright so it benefits from Kairi EX buff.... However, 3 of the foretellers are also 1 hit so I'll wait for those and pull for whichever has a better mercy medal attached to them
Re: November 3rd - Kingdom Hearts Union ? ENG Update
I got it on the first pull!
Re: November 3rd - Kingdom Hearts Union ? ENG Update
Catching up to JP is a reasonable thought, but they should start elsewhere than just rushing the banners.
We still have to get VIP coins and if they're making out pay thrice the money than JP, they could as well include previous VIPs in the weekly VIP deal as JP does. We should get a steady amount of brooms (coliseum boards, raid boards, TWO union cross boards) and steady income by daily jewels - or daily missions, whatever. The coliseum should be made more comfortable, as in JP, the way it is now it's incredibly tedious at higher levels. And, most important of all, give us back event medals like Trickmaster, Arielle, Hercules...
What they are trying to do at the moment is trying to gloss over all those flaws (in comparison to JP) by giving us several huge amounts of jewels. This is a short-term thought.
Re: November 3rd - Kingdom Hearts Union ? ENG Update
Catching up to JP is a reasonable thought, but they should start elsewhere than just rushing the banners.
We still have to get VIP coins and if they're making out pay thrice the money than JP, they could as well include previous VIPs in the weekly VIP deal as JP does. We should get a steady amount of brooms (coliseum boards, raid boards, TWO union cross boards) and steady income by daily jewels - or daily missions, whatever. The coliseum should be made more comfortable, as in JP, the way it is now it's incredibly tedious at higher levels. And, most important of all, give us back event medals like Trickmaster, Arielle, Hercules...
What they are trying to do at the moment is trying to gloss over all those flaws (in comparison to JP) by giving us several huge amounts of jewels. This is a short-term thought.
Ariel and Hercules B are HSC reward medals, FYI. There are, however, a number of event medals that have never made it over here. I don't really understand why, but there isn't a wealth of them in JP these days, either.
The most ridiculous stunt is their new idea of gauntlet challenges, which give us so little jewels now. People all over the place are saying that the gauntlet challenge is for the gems and they're justifying the drop in jewels for that reason, but I don't buy it for even one second. The gauntlet challenge was previously always one method of giving us our daily jewel quests and previously it always gave us the standard 1400 jewels that we get from the other daily jewel quests types.
It's great that we get three gems, but it is NOT justification for snubbing of us of all of those jewels.
People are just so blinded by the daily login jewels being like in JP that they're now excusing this. We already only get daily jewel quests three weeks of the month, and now one of those weeks is giving us like only 300 jewels. It's pathetic, absolutely pathetic.
The fact that they really implemented a systematic daily jewel objective feature in JP makes me wonder if that system will now have to come over to global because it is an actual feature. That would be nice. But if it does I wouldn't be shocked for one second if the jewels we get are knocked down from the standard month long jewels they're getting in JP to account for the week of jewel quests we've never gotten plus the low amount they've been giving us in the gauntlet challenges.
OH and you have to love how they gave us the short end of the stick with daily jewel quests on the week that Kairi EX is available. People should really be more mad about this. 1400 jewels this week would have helped a lot of people.
Re: November 3rd - Kingdom Hearts Union ? ENG Update
Yeah, getting a single Gem of each color does not justify a reduction from 1400 to 320. That's 1080 Jewels we're not getting. And this is the 3rd or 4th time since it first changed. Meaning we are short a full pull at least. That's not kosher.
Speaking of challenges though, I am now defeating Lv2000+ foes in the Coliseum. Tweaked my Fenrir setup and it is just as effective as my SL setup, maybe even more effective as long as the foe isn't Magic, and incredibly effective on Single Targets because Illustrated Goofy has the highest multiplier I have ever seen in this game. And copying him with HD Xion still nets the Upright Boost from EX Kairi. Man I need an ABIVMax skill or something for Xion, got ABIV&Lux+ on her since I had 2 from the Coli a while ago. Not very consisten, but when it goes off...dang. Just dang.
Re: November 3rd - Kingdom Hearts Union ? ENG Update
Ariel and Hercules B are HSC reward medals, FYI. There are, however, a number of event medals that have never made it over here. I don't really understand why, but there isn't a wealth of them in JP these days, either.
The most ridiculous stunt is their new idea of gauntlet challenges, which give us so little jewels now. People all over the place are saying that the gauntlet challenge is for the gems and they're justifying the drop in jewels for that reason, but I don't buy it for even one second. The gauntlet challenge was previously always one method of giving us our daily jewel quests and previously it always gave us the standard 1400 jewels that we get from the other daily jewel quests types.
It's great that we get three gems, but it is NOT justification for snubbing of us of all of those jewels.
People are just so blinded by the daily login jewels being like in JP that they're now excusing this. We already only get daily jewel quests three weeks of the month, and now one of those weeks is giving us like only 300 jewels. It's pathetic, absolutely pathetic.
The fact that they really implemented a systematic daily jewel objective feature in JP makes me wonder if that system will now have to come over to global because it is an actual feature. That would be nice. But if it does I wouldn't be shocked for one second if the jewels we get are knocked down from the standard month long jewels they're getting in JP to account for the week of jewel quests we've never gotten plus the low amount they've been giving us in the gauntlet challenges.
OH and you have to love how they gave us the short end of the stick with daily jewel quests on the week that Kairi EX is available. People should really be more mad about this. 1400 jewels this week would have helped a lot of people.
Ah, okay, thanks for the info, I just checked the wiki where it only said "event medals".
Yes, I'm not too happy with the gauntlet either. It'd be totally okay with it if it was only one gem but 1400 jewels, but no. I still need gems so gems are nice, but I hate this "either this or that" mentality.
I'm pretty sure Sena will find a way to screw over those daily missions. Maybe we get less missions or less jewels.
I've read quite a few complaints of people about pulls being the only content we have. While I don't think that a mobile game has to provide us with tons of content every week, I don't see any reasons why NA doesn't get the content JP already produced. I would also love to have a new kind of content once in a while, e.g. the quizzes. What we usually have is a change between gauntlet and HSC, both is not too overwhelming.
Well, I still believe in you Sena, please don't disappoint me further.
Re: November 3rd - Kingdom Hearts Union ? ENG Update
I think it's pretty clear what they're doing here. They want to catch up to JP, so that we won't know what is coming anymore and can't save up jewels for specific medals and will have to pull blind like they do. Will make them more money if people have to buy jewels instead of being able to save them for what they want.
Yeppers, they realized global players aren't going to take every single banner they throw at us, as long as we know what's coming up now. So for once, them not releasing khux at the same time as jp is finally biting them in the rear, and they're scrambling to catch up to jp so we have no idea of what's coming next. I just wish they'd do the same with the storyline and such too, but obviously that's not where the money is at.
Well even more reason to give us them then. So far there haven't been many medals that got completely skipped so I suppose it'll happen eventually.
To be honest, they might increase the guilt to make the Marluxia Ex a seventh tier etc, to make it more enticing. They've done that already with vip medals... I don't see why they wouldn't do that here too.
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November 3, 2017 @ 10:37 amOffline