Highlights

  • Granblue Fantasy: Relink expands the franchise into the JRPG genre, offering an exciting story and excellent combat with a wide variety of playable characters.
  • Players can level up their favorite characters and enjoy extensive endgame content that becomes available after completing the campaign.
  • Equipping specific Sigils, such as Exploiter Sigils or Health Sigils, can enhance characters' abilities, improve survivability, and take advantage of game mechanics like linked attacks and critical hits.

Granblue Fantasy is a name most known for being a fresh anime fighter that has recently been re-released with a massive title update. However, the Granblue Fantasy franchise has expanded into the JRPG genre with Granblue Fantasy: Relink, which brings a breath of fresh air into the early gaming year. Players take on an exciting story with excellent combat and are able to build a team of four with an expansive roster of available characters, allowing for a wide variety of play styles.

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In typical RPG fashion, players can level up their favorite characters and, once they've completed the game's campaign, may dive into the extensive endgame content that makes itself available in stages from early- to late-game. As players become more powerful, they will have to precisely craft and gear their characters in order to take on stronger enemies. One way of going about this is by equipping Sigils, which boost specific traits of characters, making them more effective. There are dozens of Sigils in Granblue Fantasy: Relink; here are some of the best starting Sigils to look out for in the early-game.

8 Exploiter Sigils

Great For Ranged Characters

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Doing more damage is a must in Granblue Fantasy: Relink, and there are many ways of going about this, especially with the variety of characters available. The Exploiter Sigils improve the damage dealt to enemy weak points, such as when attacking enemies from behind.

Flanking an enemy can be great for slow-attacking characters with charge moves or ranged characters who never want to be the center of attention and can continuously pelt enemies' squishy areas from afar.

7 Health Sigils

Increased Survivability Is Always Needed

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The damage numbers can get very out of hand very quickly in Granblue Fantasy: Relink on both sides of the controller, so survivability is something all players should think about depending on the role they play when starting out.

Health Sigils are a cut-and-dry way to increase base health and survivability while tackling challenging content. Theseh Sigils drop reasonably often and don't take too much grinding to acquire.

6 Linked Together Sigils

Takes Advantage Of The Game's Mechanics

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Linked Together Sigils are an excellent tack-on to most characters in Granblue Fantasy: Relink, but especially for combo-heavy characters like Lancelot and Zeta.

Linked Together provides a prominent boost to the amount of Link level gained while attacking enemies, but also improves Skybound Art damage, Chain Burst damage, as well as attacks triggered during a link. Link Attacks can be incredibly powerful, turning a tanky enemy into a pin cushion.

5 Attack Power Sigils

More Damage Is Always A Good Thing

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The surest way to increase a character's raw attack power is by equipping Attack Power Sigils, which provide a solid boost to overall attack stats and character power, which is essential in later stages of the game.

Upgrading and stacking Attack Power Sigils is a great way to improve overall damage to targets, whether it be basic attacks or skills, and will be necessary when players start to take on the game's tougher enemies.

4 Critical Hit Rate Sigils

Great For Fast Attackers

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There are characters who are well-suited for different types of Sigils and get more of a benefit than others when outfitted correctly. Some characters excel at fast attacks, making them well suited for Critical Hit Rate Sigils, which boost the percentage chance of a character to hit a critical strike.

These Sigils show up reasonably early in the game and are a great tack-on with a stacking bonus. Multiple critical strikes can shred a boss's health bar and make the content that much easier.

3 Stun Power Sigils

Makes For Powerful Anti-Boss Builds

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Every enemy in Granblue Fantasy: Relink has a stun gauge that, when filled, will hinder the target, placing them in a vulnerable state. Some stun gages are more challenging to fill than others due to gameplay mechanics.

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However, Stun Power Sigils make a world of difference when equipped, and can have a big impact on challenging content. Stacking Stun Power Sigils will vastly increase how fast a stun gauge can fill, and is a perfect support Sigil for a multiplayer or single player playthrough.

2 Low Profile Sigils

Protects Low Health Units

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Granblue Fantasy: Relink has a wide variety of play styles, from up close and personal to complete back-line support. Thanks to the Sigil system, all of these play styles are viable in a number of situations.

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For players who prefer to attack from a distance with spellcasters or overall ranged characters, the Low Profile Sigils are a must-have. Low Profile makes it less likely for an equipped character to be attacked, which is a great bonus for a squishy back-line to have.

1 Fast Learner Sigils

Vastly Increases Progression Rate

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The grind in Granblue Fantasy: Relink is a steep incline like in most JRPGs. It is a very straight and narrow goal. Players must raise their characters' level to the cap to take on the final level of challenging content the game has to offer.

One of the fastest ways to do this is by farming missions on repeat for experience points with the same characters for max effect. The Fast Learner Sigils make this process even faster by increasing the amount of experience an equipped character can receive.

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Granblue Fantasy: Relink

Platform(s)
PC , PS4 , PS5
Released
February 1, 2024
Developer(s)
Cygames
Publisher(s)
Cygames
Genre(s)
Action , JRPG