The upcoming Frontier Rift slated for January is a continuation of the Raug Phantasm saga. Join the Resistance and revisit the Raug invasion to defeat Zael, Golvorg, and Jirayen. Bring your best Light, Water and Earth mono squads to obtain high scores and acquire Zelion to implement him in your squad!

Lastly, a new Rift format involving Guilds is currently in development. The new format aims to incentivize cooperative play with your Guild members. Together with the help of your fellow Guild members, you can obtain high scores to earn exclusive rewards!

Weekly Challenge missions are also going to be implemented to help Summoners acquire additional Rift Tokens. The challenges will task Summoners with defeating specific bosses in these Rift Quests.

For example, we are currently modifying the scoring parameters to decrease the amount of points awarded by overkill damage. We want to encourage players to explore other Squad setups and techniques to maximize their scores, promoting variety in challenging Frontier Rift and putting your skills, with all squad types, to the test! In addition, executing Sparks and multikills will provide a large amount of bonus points. We are also keeping the number of waves per Frontier Rift to a maximum of 10. This will help reduce frustration and improve replayability. Boss waves will also provide significantly more points than regular monster waves.

Thus, your feedback is of utmost importance to us. We are aware of the concerns that have been brought up and we will be addressing them individually.

This year, our development team will be focusing on improving and creating more content for Frontier Rift. We are emphasizing Frontier Rift as the core content to expand Global Exclusive lore and provide high level players with a variety of challenges and strategic gameplay.

This 2018, the Brave Frontier Global Team will continue to bring more content and feature updates for you! In this issue of Dev Diary, we will be providing you with the following updates:

2017 has been an exciting year for everyone with features such as Frontier Rift and the return of the ever-popular Vortex Arena! We also had numerous exciting collaborations as well! Thank you for your support in making them a success.

"I don't need your help. I don't need anyone's help.

Note: Above artwork is still Work-in-Progress.

Zelion will be available as a milestone reward following the release of Frontier Rift - Breaching the Nebula.

Global Exclusive Hunter Rank Expansion

Moving into 2018, we have plans to expand on the Frontier Hunter Rank reward brackets. Rewards will include new and existing Global Exclusive Spheres and Elgifs, Omni+ Materials and Fusion Materials. New Unit Rewards are also being considered at certain Hunter Rank milestones.

The purpose of increasing the Hunter Ranks is to provide more relevant and up-to-date rewards for players who have been diligently playing Frontier Hunter every month.

In addition to the expansion of Hunter Ranks, an element rotation will also be set for Frontier Hunter, where all the enemies will be changed to a single element type every season. This design is aligned with our direction of encouraging players to build mono-elemental Squads. We will like players to use different strategies and optimize their mono-elemental Squads to outplay each other and achieve the highest score.

Balancing PvP Contents

With the advent of high end Spheres and Elgifs with extreme healing and defensive capabilities, it has come to our attention that the current balance of PvP content has been negatively affected in the form of more consistent battle time-outs.

Some of the outstanding Spheres and Elgifs include:

Yggdrasil Edict

Heaven-Binder

Healer’s Lament

Icy Battle Record

To address this issue and improve the general user experience, our team is currently looking into exposing and/or adding specific passive and active damage reduction and healing per turn “caps,” which will be applied to Vortex Arena first. After that, the possibility to add that to Arena and Colosseum will be reviewed.



Challenge Arena Update

During 2016, our team made a tough decision to close the Challenge Arena because we wanted to properly address the frustration it brought to our players. Regrettably, after much deliberation and consideration, we have decided to focus our efforts on improving other global features of the game, such as Frontier Rift, Vortex Arena, and Guild Raid, rather than on Challenge Arena. We believe that it would be more beneficial for our players if we concentrate on these and on creating new content, and thus plan to pursue these goals further in its stead.

As a token of apology, we would like to send the following to all players:

6★ Brave Kurewa & Kuraginn (Omni evolvable!)

We are aware that our players have remaining Rainbow Coins, Silver Coins and Gold Coins due to their previous participations in Challenge Arena. Therefore, in addition to the Units above, we will also be converting these 3 types of coins to useful items that are relevant to the current content:

Rainbow Coins balance will be converted to Summon Tickets (Max: 10)

Silver Coins balance will be converted to Geminus Tomes (Max: 20)

Gold Coins balance will be converted to Duel Tokens (Max: 2000)

The 6★ Kurewa & Kuraginn can be evolved directly to Omni Rarity. Players will need to have Rainbow, Silver or Gold Coins to be eligible for the respective rewards mentioned above. The unit and and the other items will be sent to players' Present Boxes by end of January 2018.

Quality of Life Improvements

In the upcoming months of early 2018, our developers will be working to bring you these QoL improvements that the community has long awaited for:

Enabling 3x Speed in Arena, Colosseum and selected Vortex Dungeons.

Summoner Avatar Reinforcement STP Filter

In addition, we will also start working on the next most wanted QoL feature from our community. Vote HERE now from this list below:

Auto-sell all Units and Items gathered from Quest for Quest Repeat mode

Increase Item stack limit

Omni+ Option in Filter Menu

Honor Summon Slider Function to allow >10 summons per time

Lastly, from your feedback, we have made adjustments to our event calendar. In 2018, we are having:

Permanent Super Fusion Rates Up

Permanently Availability of All RC6 Raids

Monthly Summoner Half STP Event

Brave Insignia Token and Event Bazaar Updates

Brave Insignia Tokens are intended as a form of appreciation, a way for us to give back to the community. Our objective is to allow all players to eventually be able to exchange for every reward in the Event Bazaar. Brave Insignia Tokens are obtainable from every Summon Gate with the step-up mechanic.

In addition, the Brave Insignia campaign will be extended permanently for our loyal Summoners. The Brave Insignia Event Bazaar will be permanently opened, and to top it off, we are adding an exclusive reward Unit, Svalin, for Insignia exchange!

Omni Unit Updates

Note: Above artwork is still Work-in-Progress.

Both Randolph and Ravenna 7★ will be able to evolve to the same Omni Unit.

In February, expect Randolph & Ravenna to return with an Omni Update and an alternate twist to their original grim fate! Furthermore, Allanon is expected to receive an Omni upgrade this coming March.

We are dedicated on expanding on Global Exclusive lore and units, including giving Omni Updates to some of our old time favourites such as the two units mentioned above!



Now, we would like to give players a chance to choose their preferred Unit to receive an Omni Update! We will be polling for your pick on just who the next Omni Unit should be, so make sure to choose from any of the Units listed below:



Lucia Avani Haile Korzan Mikael Andaria Aurelia Hadaron Zedus

Vote for your favourite unit from the list HERE now!

Language Support Update

To support the above changes and improvements for our game, we will need to reshuffle and optimize our team. As such, we will be phasing out language support for the Bahasa Indonesia and Thai languages.

Until February 2018, players who are using these languages can still continue to use them but they will be receiving new content in the English language instead. In February, language settings for the above 2 languages will be disabled and all players currently using them will be switched to using one default language: English.

We advise all applicable players to change their language setting to English as soon as possible to have a consistent experience while playing the game.

Premium Currency Management Update

In addition, to improve the management of our premium currency, starting from Jan 10, we will be showing “Bonus Gems” and “Paid Gems” under player’s Gems Summary.

You can access your Gem Balance Summary via the Summary button from Shop > Purchase Gems screen, or by tapping on the Gem Balance interface located at the top right corner of the game screen.

For more information, please refer to our Official News and FAQ on this matter.

Finally, we would like to give away some gifts of appreciation to all players in this new year! Log in anytime until Jan. 28, 23:59 PST and get the following 20-1-8 appreciation gifts in your Present Box!

20 Elemental Tomes, 1 Summon Ticket, 8 Omni Frogs

Once again, we would like to wish all players a Happy 2018! We thank you for all your support and we look forward to adventuring with you in Grand Gaia! And as always:

召喚師の冒険は終わらない ！

A Summoner's Adventure is Never Over!