Greetings adventurers, and welcome back! Did any of you take a break during the Flames of Reflection event to knock out Chapter 9: The Princess’s Party yet? If you haven’t you definitely should, because it’s the only way to unlock the new Augments feature that will let you power up your adventurers, dragons, weapons, and wyrmprints to even higher levels.

Princess Chelle of Chanzelia has invited you to a party!

And speaking of Flames of Reflection, the event will be ending soon (7/21 at 11:00 pm PDT) so get your mettle while you can, and roll for the sisters if you’ve been saving for them! For my own efforts I have gotten both Ramona and Renee, but Rena it seems has eluded me. However, if you decided to pass on this adventurer-focused banner, then perhaps the next summoning showcase starting tonight will be up your alley?

A #DragaliaLost Summon Showcase: Dragon Special will start 7/19 at 11 PM PT（7/20 at 6 AM UTC). Featured 4★ and 5★ dragons will have increased appearance rates!https://t.co/mpKwwc1vcr pic.twitter.com/xXGParlbPq — Dragalia Lost (@DragaliaLostApp) July 18, 2019

A Dragon-focused showcase is a great follow-up to this blacksmith bonanza, and while it does mention featured adventurers on rate up as well, I would skip this one if you are all set on dragons (but who would ever be tired of collecting dragons?!)

And what will you be fighting with all those new dragons you’ll be summoning? Well, this bad boy is dropping this weekend in the inaugural Astral Raids, starting tonight. Adventurers should be capped out on Astral Pieces if you have been farming the event quests or the story campaign, but if not you may want to go and gather a few more since they will not drop while the raids are live.

The first featured boss of the Astral Raids: Hypno!

When Astral Raids were first announced, Okada stated that the idea was to farm for Astral Pieces during the week by playing the campaign and events, then spend them all on co-op Astral Raids during the weekend to strengthen your units and play with others. Hopefully if the Alliances feature gets added soon, players will be able to coordinate Astral Raid runs together!

Finally, higher difficulty levels were added to the Mercurial Gauntlet Wind and Flame categories, and were swiftly cleared by the playerbase. Wonderful job, everyone!

Let us know what you think of the Astral Raids, where the story is headed, or if you get any cool new dragons from the summoning showcase! You can download Dragalia Lost here, and I hope to see you next week!

All images courtesy of Nintendo and Cygames via the official Dragalia Lost website and Twitter account.