No Rest For The Weary

Hello fellow Megucas! Welcome to Grief Seeds: your weekly update on all things Magia Record! Following immediately after the conclusion of last week’s event, this week begins Reaching a Happier Height, a new Tower style event where Masara and Kokoro go hiking! We also see the release of Chapter 5 of the main story, and a New Chapter Celebration campaign alongside it! Among all this excitement, this helps us to better understand the future event schedule. Were we following the JP schedule exactly, this week’s event would have been Halloween themed, but it seems that EN will not be celebrating holidays out of season. Make sure to stay hydrated, we have a long hike ahead of us this week!

Kamihama Public Service Announcements

There are no apology stones to be seen this week, but we still have a couple of important things to cover.

Firstly, coinciding with the New Chapter Celebration this week, 5 Fate Weave tickets are available for purchase in the support shop for a hefty 5000 support points each. These tickets will remain available until Tuesday, August 13th.

Secondly, there has been a major change in the structure of Daily Missions. In addition to the normally available Daily Missions, 3 have been added, and 2 already existing missions have been altered.

Players will now have the following missions:

Clear 1 Episode: 10,000 Curse Coins

Clear 3 Episodes: 1 50 AP Potion

Clear 5 Episodes: 1 Master Gem++

Clear 7 Episodes: 1 50 AP Potion

Clear 10 Episodes: 1 Magia Chip

Clear 12 Episodes: 1 50 AP Potion

Clear 15 Episodes: 10 Magia Stones

Battle 1 time in Mirrors: 5 Mirror Coins

Battle 3 times in Mirrors: 1 Master Gem++

Battle 5 times in Mirrors: 1 Magia Chip

Enhance 1 Memoria: 200 Support Points

This is a massive improvement to the quality of life as the addition of 3 daily 50 AP potions will alleviate the stamina issue that plagues newer players, and the inclusion of 5 extra Mirror Coins each day will make clearing the Mirror Shop a little bit easier.

Ongoing Events

This week marks the launch of our second Tower style event, Reaching a Happier Height, but before we get to that let’s discuss the New Chapter Celebration!

The New Chapter Celebration is exactly the same as the last that ran alongside Chapter 4’s launch. For the players who may have started the game since then, here is a recap:

Quest: Double Player EXP: Players will be awarded double the amount of EXP from Main Story, Another Story, Magical Girl Story, and Labyrinth Quests. Note that this excludes the ongoing story event, Reaching a Happier Height.

Quest: Double Support Points: Players will be awarded double the amount of Support Points from Main Story, Another Story, Magical Girl Story, and Labyrinth Quests. This also excludes Reaching a Happier Height, and also does not affect Support Points gained through Login Bonuses.

Magical Girl Enhancement: Double Great Success/Super Success Rate: The chance for a “Great Success” or “Super Success” is double when enhancing Magical Girls. This does not apply to upgrading Memoria.

Support Point Fate Weave: Increased Enhancement Gem Rate: Enhancement Gems are more likely to appear in the Support Point Fate Weave. This is advertised as a benefit, but I strongly believe it is not. I recommend against spending Support Points for the Gacha during this promotion.

The New Chapter Celebration also brings with it a set of missions that reward players completing the newly released Chapter 5 quests. Players who clear up to Battle 5 in the Main Story Chapter 5 Episode 2 will earn a total of 50 gems.

This campaign will run until Tuesday, August 13th at server reset.

In contrast to the harrowing And So, The Azaleas Bloom event, this week brings Reaching a Happier Height, a light-hearted “Slice of Life” story about Kokoro and Masara going on a hike! This will be our second Tower style event, similar to My Diary with You from a few weeks ago.

Players will receive a unique event item called “Mitama’s Special Energy Drinks” as they complete non-event quests (Main Story, Another Story, Magical Girl Story, Labyrinth). These Energy Drinks can then be used to play event quests instead of traditional AP!

As players use Mitama’s gamer fuel to play through the event they will receive a second unique currency called “Premium Rice”, and these can be used to buy items from the event shop.

The event shop this time around is full to the brim with exciting items to earn! Firstly, this event introduces a new item known as “Destiny Bottles”! These Destiny Bottles function similarly to Magia Chips, as they are exchanged for Magical Girls’ Destiny Gems. 1 Destiny Bottle can be exchanged for any base 2-star Magical Girl, while 5 bottles can be exchanged for a base 3-star. For players who were fortunate enough to obtain Kokoro from this week’s Fate Weave, all 25 Destiny Bottles from the event can be exchanged for a Kokoro Destiny Gem! This shop also includes an exclusive home screen background, 10 Fate Weave Tickets, 5 Rainbow Orbs, awakening materials and more.

In terms of priority, I recommend to first always buy the event Memoria. The 3-star event Memoria provides an increase in Energy Drink drops by 2 (3 when Max limit broken), and the 4-star provides an increase in Energy Drink drops by 3 (7 when max limit broken). Once you have obtained your desired amount of event Memoria I suggest purchasing the 25 Destiny Bottles, 10 Fate Weave Tickets, 5 Rainbow Orbs, AP Potions, and bundles of 100,000 Curse Coins. Everything after that should be up to each player’s individual needs.

In Reaching a Happier Height there are two different kinds of quests – Story quests, and Challenge quests. By playing story quests players can experience Kokoro and Masara’s adventure without much trouble. For players who want more of a challenge, after completing all 10 Story quests the Challenge quest section will be unlocked. This set of 10 quests will prove to be much more difficult, but also will yield better rewards.

Additionally, there is a set of missions for completing each quest that will reward the player with Magia Stones. Completing all 10 Story quests, and all 10 Challenge quests will reward players with a total of 225 Magia Stones, as well as two event-exclusive outfits!

Fate Weave

A slew of new Magical Girls is added to the pool this week! From Chapter 5, Sana Futaba, and Aimi Eri have arrived!

Sana is a 2-star Forest type Magical Girl armed with a large tower shield. She’s here to protect herself and her friends!

Aimi is a 3-star Fire-type magical Girl, with her western-style attire, and trusty six-shooter she’s sure to blast her way into your heart!

On our featured banner this week from Reaching a Happier Height, Kokoro enters the fray, with Masara featured as well!

Masara has been available since launch, but now finally gets her first rate-up! She is a 3-star Light type Magical Girl, boasting high offensive capabilities. She holds a very high attack stat for her rarity, and her personal Memoria can be equipped to guarantee critical hits making her a force to be reckoned with. Unfortunately, her very low defense means she won’t last long on the battlefield; Masara is the epitome of a “Glass Cannon”.

Kokoro is our new 4-star Magical Girl! Kokoro is Light-type and boasts a disc spread of Accele, Accele, Blast, Charge, Charge. She is designed to function as a tank; her defense and HP pool are extremely high, but due to her fairly average ATK, and lack of Blast discs, she can’t really function as a damage dealer. Her connect skill is strong, providing damage reduction, and guaranteed counter to her target, but this contradicts the rest of her kit, as she prefers to do the tanking for her party. If you need a wall for the rest of your party to hide behind, Kokoro is your girl, just don’t expect her to be doing much else.

Mokyu~!

Magia record EN continues to barrel forward. The amount of weekly content is startling, to the point where I haven’t had much time to play basically anything else. Personally, this isn’t a problem, but I understand the frustrations within the community regarding this non-stop pace. How do you feel about our current trajectory? Now that we can assume Holidays will not be out of season, that means that a certain medieval French girl may be closer than we thought, but until then… That’s all your Grief Seeds for the week! Remember to keep those Soul Gems clean!

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All photos in this article were taken directly from Magia Record on my own personal device and account.

