#/bd2g/ BD2 Progression Checklist# ---- New to BD2? Overwhelmed by all the >content, at a loss how to progress? We got you! Best used in tandem with the [**Beginner's Quick Start Guide**](https://dotgg.gg/brown-dust-2/beginners-quick-start-guide/) and [**Other Guides**](https://dotgg.gg/brown-dust-2/guides/). [TOC2] --- ####**Getting Started: The Road to Diana** (SP1-10) The first port of call as a new player should be to work towards **clearing Main Story Pack 10** ("SP10"/Homunculus) so that we can recruit **Diana**. Diana is one of the game's core buffers. On top of making it a whole lot easier to reach higher level clears in Fiend Hunter (*the game's bi-weekly boss raid mode, your primary source of pulls/draw tickets*) she can also generate you cash shop currency or other useful goodies daily. The game's mechanics are explained as you go through the story, so just enjoy the ride. You'll get the hang of it. Probably. - [x] Download BD2 - [ ] Complete Story Packs 1 to 3. #####Intermezzo: The Path of Adventure (SP3) After clearing SP3 the **Path of Adventure** pack will open up. This is the hub for the game's resource stages. You can also access it by clicking on the sword icon on your minimap: ![Shortcut](https://files.catbox.moe/r73zjb.png) Each resource stage needs to be manually cleared out once (%green% **Green** %%) per difficulty level. After that you unlock the auto-clear (%cyan% **Quick Hunt** %%), which instantly gets you all rewards based on how many times you dispatch to it. BD2 isn't one of those "now watch the replays" games. ![Quick Hunt](https://i.imgur.com/0nIKtJ5.jpeg){700px:400px} For now, focus on clearing out the following stages once to unlock them for quick hunt: - [ ] **[Normal] #2 - Abandoned Mine** | Crafting materials - [ ] **[Normal] Slime Empire** | Character EXP - [ ] **[Normal] Magic Crystal Cave** (1x for each element) | Crystals (Potential) - [ ] (Optional) [Normal] Goblin Ruins | Gold Quick hunt to Slime Empire on days where it has a ^/2x rate-up boost, and the Hunting Grounds on others. Dispatch to Magic Crystal Cave every single day as it uses different tokens. --- **Return to the Story** After setting up our resource income we can go back to the story and just beeline SP10. If you get bored you can try out other content, like the Normal Mode Character Packs (puzzles with preset teams) or the Evil Castle. - [ ] Complete Story Pack 4 - [ ] (Recommended) Recruit Olstein from the SP4 Pub after clearing that story. His field ability (Dispatch) is your main gold generator as a newglutti, and his AoE silence skill can really help you survive fights. - [ ] (Optional) Setup any attack and defense formation in the **Mirror Wars** pack, and queue ~10 games. This will get you rank -> cash shop currency for free every Sunday. We'll optimize this later. - [ ] Complete Story Pack 5 - [ ] (Optional): Clear out Hunting Grounds #5: King's Grave [Normal] for slightly more crafting materials. You now dispatch to this instead of #2 Abandoned Mine. - [ ] Complete Story Packs 6 #####The First Wall (SP7-8) Around SP 7-8 you'll hit the game's first difficulty spike. This is just a small test to see if you have a basic understanding of the game's systems so far. You can usually clear it on the same day that you started the game, but if here is what you can do if you get stuck: !!! note Tips for clearing content - [ ] Craft better **gear**. A +9 blue (R) IV set for your main DPS is pretty easy to get, especially if you've been doing some Hunting Ground dispatches. Toss just a few refinements at the gear so that it is no longer C-C-C or similar. - [ ] **Level-up** your DPS units. Levels are a major source of damage early on! Give your Slime Island spoils to your strongest DPS - your team doesn't need to be equal in level, so push LV60/80 on your most powerful units first. - [ ] **Survival**: Click on enemies to see which of your units will be hit by skills, and position accordingly. Units like Rou and Andrew (dodge tanks) are great front-liners, and an AoE cc unit like Olstein (SP4) can help a lot too. - [ ] Use **Temporary Companions**: The game gives you temporary ("TEMP") characters to use on your first playthrough of a pack, designed to help in that chapter (e.g. Liatriss in SP8, Diana in SP10). You can swap to them using the companions tab. - [ ] **"Continue?"**: Died in battle, but the boss is within killing range? Just need 2 more turns? You'll have the option to press **"Continue"** after a wipe and get your units revived to continue the fight. Keep in mind this costs an increasing amount of gold per attempt, though! - [ ] **Knockbacks, Kicks & Angelica**: Units like **Emma, Rou** can smash enemies into each other, breaking formations making the enemies' bloated HP values work against them. **Pool Party Angelica**'s damage also scales with enemy HP, meaning she'll pop about anything if you just stack Crit.DMG on her + bring a crit.rate buffer. - [ ] Complete Story Packs 7-10 - [ ] (Recommended) After clearing SP8, recruit **Liatriss** from the SP8 Pub. She's a great AoE unit, and increases your walking speed with her field ability. She replaces Wiggle in your old setup. Recruit Diana from the SP10 Pub after you cleared that pack and use her field ability daily. Congratulations, you've cleared the early game! --- #### The Second Wall: Account Setup & Free Pulls (SP11+) Story Pack 11+ (Fake Game) is another difficulty spike, and is considered the start of endgame. To tackle that and other content we'll need better gear and more units, so this is a good time to finalize our resource flow, start building our roster, and truly setup our account. ##### Optimize your Resource Flow First, open up the Path of Adventure/dispatch menu and clear out the following new Hunting Grounds: - [ ] **[Normal] #7 - Lizard Man Altar** | Crafting Materials (Ores) - [ ] **[Normal] #9 - Mountain Keeper's Shelter** | Crafting Materials (Wood) These are the BiS hunting grounds for their respective material types, and replace #2 Abandoned Mine / #5 King's Grave as your new hunting grounds for the rest of the game. Next, clean out the following on Hard **(H)** and Very Hard **(VH)** difficulty. - [ ] H & VH Slime Empire (EXP) - [ ] H & VH Magic Crystal Cave (All 5 elements) (Crystals) - [ ] (Optional) H & VH Goblin Ruins (Gold) Despite the prefix, the (Very) Hard difficulties of the resource maps are actually super easy. Complete them for a massive boost in income. Your final goal is to clear out Hunting Grounds #7 and #9 once on H/VH Difficulty. This is no immediate priority, as to do this you need to clear those story packs on H>VH difficulty first. If you can do it nice, if not you can do it later. (You can change the difficulty by interacting with the sign outside) - [ ] Clear Story Pack 7 [Fury Angel] & Story Pack 9 [Iron Mask] on [Hard] > [Very Hard] difficulty. - [ ] Clear Hunting Ground 7: Lizard Man Alter on [Hard] > [Very Hard] difficulty -> best source for ore - [ ] Clear Hunting Ground 9: Mountain Keeper's Shelter on [Hard] > [Very Hard] difficulty -> best source for wood --- ##### Ancient Crystals: Evil Castle & Last Night Ancient Crystals (ACs) are a rare endgame crafting material, used to craft the strongest gear in the game (UR). UR III and especially UR IV gear will be **massive** boosts to a character's combat strength. Even just 1 or 2 pieces can be make the difference between clearing previously inaccessibly content. A good few of them come from in-game events, but to get more we'll need to load up some Content Packs. - [ ] **Last Night**: Load up the Last Night pack, follow the instructions to setup a team of 20, and give it ~5 replays. You can skip the battle after starting it. Load Order (1>20): 5x Buffers > Chain builders (Zenith,Celia etc) > Multi-Hit DPS costumes > single-hit dps costumes (aka nukes). Your best score is recorded, and will give you free Ancient Crystals and Gold every day based on that score. You can come back and try to get better at this anytime you want. For now, your goal should be to try and hit the 2AC threshold. - [ ] **Evil Castle**: Evil Castle is the hub for the game's challenge content (towers). - [ ] Complete as many floors of the **Tower of Pride** as you can for 10 ACs per floor every 2 weeks. Most floors can be cleared with a 3x3 AoE unit (Liatriss from SP8 Pub/S.Dalvi/S.Justia etc) + buffers, and/or Pool Party Angelica (if you have her) If you can't clear a floor, use the Diana you recruited from SP10 + 1~2 DPS of a stronger element than the mobs of that floor! - [ ] **More ACs** can be obtained as one-time rewards from the other towers (Salvation, Desire) and from in-game events! --- ##### Your 600+ Free Pulls Excluding events, BD2 has about ~600+ rolls for you to collect from various in-game sources. Start collecting these to pull on banners of units that you like/are good, and start to build you roster: - [ ] **Evil Tower**: Start clearing the one-time towers (Desire, Wrath, Jealousy) for a truckload of Draw Tickets, Diamonds, ACs, and other goodies. - [ ] Clear the **Character Packs** (CP1-6) on [Normal] difficulty for 10 Draw Tickets each. [Normal] difficulty uses preset teams, so they're basically just puzzles. Look up guides on Youtube if you're stuck, especially for the Exodus pack! - [ ] **Investigate** every building/area in Story & Character Pack Safe Zones (Towns + the buildings in them like Inns, Pubs). - [ ] Every battle map has multiple **Treasure Chests** hidden throughout them, each awarding Diamonds. - [ ] Even more free pulls come from the Newbie Pass, Character Pass, Event Shops & other events like Fiend Hunter (every 2 weeks). Be sure to participate! --- #### The Endgame Diana is recruited, your account is efficiently generating resources, and you are swimming in pulls. In other words, my job is done: from here on out you can do whatever you like. The rest of the game will be about you pulling and then building units (EXP, gear, potential, dupes). Get stronger to clear the challenges below, which in turn will reward you with yet more pulls and crafting items to build yet more characters. Have fun, and good luck with your pulls! ##### One-Time Content/Challenge Checklist *In order of difficulty, from easiest (top) to hardest (bottom)*: - [ ] Clear SP 1-9 on [Hard] > [Very Hard] difficulty. - [ ] Complete all green (NPC) Quests in SP 1-4 and CP1-2 (Jayden's Gate,Firechip) - [ ] Clear the remaining Story Packs (SP11+) on [Normal] difficulty. - [ ] Clear CP 1-6 (Character Packs) on [Hard] > [Very Hard] difficulty. - [ ] Clear SP11+ on [Hard] > [Very Hard] difficulty. - [ ] Check that you found all Investigations in the Story & Character Pack Safe Zones (Town maps + buildings like Inns, Pubs, etc). - [ ] Check that you found all Treasure Chests in all battle maps. - [ ] Clear a lv10 Fiend Hunt for the first time. - [ ] Reach the 5AC damage threshold (52mil) in Last Night. - [ ] Reach Achievement Level 40. - [ ] Clear Tower of Pride (EC1-6) with max score at least once. - [ ] Reach 80% (max) Collection Buff on all three stats: Physical, Magic & HP. - [ ] Clear Tower of Desire F150. - [ ] Clear Tower of Wrath/Envy F50. ##### Daily Routine Checklist [**Daily Routine Guide**](https://dotgg.gg/brown-dust-2/beginners-guide-daily-routines-guide/) - [x] (DAILY) Do your dailies, weeklies, and character/battle pass missions. - [x] (DAILY) Afk queue your daily 40 PvP matches for medals (=5* costume+UR Ticket) - [x] (DAILY) Quick Battle your free Tower of Salvation keys if you don't plan on running it that day. - [x] (MONTHLY) Clear Tower of Pride Floor 1 to 6. - [x] (MONTHLY) Aim for a Tower of Salvation Level 5-6 clear (or higher) - [x] Login in frequently to be eligible for surprise gifts, maintenance compensations, guild login rewards, and other giveaways. - [x] Participate in in-game events (Battles, Challenge Battles, Fiend Hunter, Minigames etc). - [x] Aim for consistent Level 10 Fiend Hunter clears. - [x] Pull on banners that you like & build your roster. - [x] Craft for UR IV gear with CSB/BBS+ refinements. - [x] Optimize your Mirror Wars (pvp) Offense/Defense teams for more weekly Dias & pvp tokens. TIP: Do not rage pull on pvp units! pvp rewards are never worth the investment required! TIP: Removing gear from a unit also means that it is also unequipped from them in PvP. - [x] Work on the Potential of characters that you use/like - [x] Send in weekly customer tickets asking for more Zenith, Loen, Eclipse, Diana, Teresse and Beatrice costumes. - [ ] Join Paizuri