Arknights What The Firelight Casts Side Story Guide
2023-07-16
With the upcoming 3.5 anniversary event coming to the Arknights Global server in addition to special events and campaigns, a special limited time available 3 weeks side story event - What The Firelight Casts Side Story have been released for players in order for the players to be able to farm materials, EXPs and other limited time available items to prepare for the upcoming 3.5 anniversary celebration. In addition, a brand new 6* Operator have been introduced into the game and have became one of the most highly anticipated operator to be released - the 6* Medic Operator Reed The Flame Shadow.
In this guide, we will go over the details and rewards that the special limited time Side Story Event - What The Firelight Casts have entailed for all the Arknights’ players in addition to showing players how they can best obtain all of the rewards from the event in the fastest way possible. Furthermore, we will debate on whether or not players should spend their hard earned premium currencies to roll for the newly released Operator - Reed The Flame Shadow.
Contents：
- Arknights Event Side Story- What The Firelight Casts
- What The Firelight Casts Special Rate Up Banner - Should You Roll
- LDPlayer 9.0 - The Perfect Engine to Experience Arknights
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Arknights Event Side Story- What The Firelight Casts
What The Firelight Casts is one of the Arknights major big events with various rewards made available for all players during the event period. With the Event Rerun, players will be able to claim event exclusive rewards such as the free welfare 5* Vanguard Operator - Puzzle, special furniture and 3 Headhunting Tickets.
What The Firelight Casts - Main Event Battle Stages
During the event period, special event stages will be available for a limited time and players need to clear through all the stages in order to experience the full story of the event. Players also need to clear all of the event stages in order to clear all of the event’s missions and to gain originiums for stage first-clears.
After the first-clears, players will need to spend their stamina (or “sanity”) in order to farm event currencies to exchange for special rewards in the event shop. The event currencies will be rewarded on a 1:1 scale between sanity spent and amount of currencies gained, so players should focus on clearing high sanity stages and farm on those in order to gain the most amount of event currencies in the fastest way possible.
What The Firelight Casts - Main Missions
Special Missions will also be available for all players to clear in order to gain special event currencies. In addition, these missions will also reward players with special furniture and a free Welfare - Puzzle.
In order to clear the missions, players will need to finish all of the event battle stages in addition to the challenge stages. All of the missions will only counts the first clear of each stage so for any players who have finished the event before, they will
need to clear the stages once again in order to claim the mission reward.
What The Firelight Casts - Special Challenge Stages
In addition to the main story stages, special challenge stages will also be available for all players to attempt to clear.
For these special Challenge Stages, there’s 2 modes players need to clear - the normal stages and challenge mode stages. Each of the modes will reward players with 1 Originites for each first-clears of the stages, rewarding up to 16 Originites in total for players to gain from these stages.
It is important to note that these stages are extremely difficult in nature, so players should prepare their squads properly before attempting these stages.
What The Firelight Casts - Event Shop
This time special rewards will be available for all players in the event shop, including special Tokens for Puzzle which are needed to be used to up his potential level and upgrade his power, special headhunting tickets (up to 3 tickets), LMDs, EXP cards and special furnitures to complete the event specific furniture set.
Players should prioritize the special event exclusive rewards on the first tab of the event shop and exchange all of them before moving on to the second event tab. It is also important to note that the event only provides a certain amount of event currencies, therefore, players should consider before exchanging for items in the event shop.
What The Firelight Casts - Special Event Welfare - Puzzle
Puzzle is the 5* Welfare Operator for the What the Firelight Casts limited time Side Story Event and players will have the chance to obtain him and all of his tokens to max his potentials. Puzzle is a 5* Vanguard Operator of the Agent branch and archetype, with the ability to constantly generate DP for players whenever his skills hit enemies and deal damage.
Puzzle is one of the more powerful characters to have at full potential thanks to his tokens in the event as once he is at full potential, the cost for deploying him will decrease immensely and his talent will be upgraded, allowing him to be a useful early game operator to deploy. Puzzle’s power also lies in his talent, which recovers SP for him to use his skill and grants him special effect when attacking enemies with full HP, allowing him to recycle his skills faster and generate for DP for players at the beginning of the battle.
What The Firelight Casts Special Rate Up Banner - Should You Roll
Along with the What The Firelight Casts Side Story Event comes one of the best banners in the game history featuring one of the most highly anticipated and versatile operator ever for players to have a chance to get - the 6* Medic Reed The Flame Shadow.
Reed The Flame Shadow
Reed The Flame Shadow is a 6* Medic Operator of the Incantation Medic Branch that specializes in dealing massive amounts of Arts damage to large groups of enemies, debuffing them in addition to healing herself and allies proportional to the damage she deals to the enemies.
Reed The Flame Shadow is the definition of a battle Medic and a Caster Operator in disguise as her damage output is extremely powerful and useful when facing stages with large amounts of enemies in her way. Reed Alter’s main strong point lies in her debuff, which applies a special “Cinder” debuff on enemies, reducing their attack stat, their arts damage resistance and constantly dealing Arts damage to them during its duration. In addition, when Reed applies this debuff on enemies using her skill 3, when an enemy with Cinder is defeated, an explosion will occur and apply the Cinder debuff onto enemies hit with the explosion, allowing Reed to create a special chain explosion with her debuff, destroying groups of enemies instantly.
In addition to her very interesting powerful arts damage potential and the ability to essentially destroy enemies map wide if players set it up right is Reed’s ability to heal allies as a medic.
Should You Pull?
Absolutely Yes. The current rate up banner is the single best time for players to attempt to roll and get Reed The Flame Shadow to add to their roster as the current banner is the last time Passenger will ever have a solo rate up banner. As mentioned, Reed is an extremely versatile Operator and is one of the most interesting Operators in the game skill wised with her ability to not only heal other allies but also deal massive amounts of Arts damage and debuff enemies to reduce their damage output and their Arts damage resistance, improving all allies’ offensive and defensive capabilities greatly simply by having her on the battlefield.
LDPlayer 9.0 - The Perfect Engine to Experience Arknights
Recently introduced, LDPlayer 9.0 not only allows players to easily download and play Arknights on PC, it is also designed and specialized so that players can have the best experience playing Arknights on the highest FPS and highest graphics.
Furthermore, with LDPlayer’s keyboard-mapping function, players can clear Arknights stages more effectively using only keyboard buttons, allowing players to be able to do the most famous Arknights trick - the Pause deployment trick, making the stages easier to deal with.
