Grimlight Game Review, Characters Guide and Gacha Rates
2022-07-14
Have you ever heard of the Grimm brothers? Before Disney, Pixar and other famous movies, there were Grimm brothers. A very famous duo who invented most of the stories that we know as childhood stories, Pinocchio, Snow White, Cinderella, etc. Grimlight is all about those characters in a fantasy world, where you are the dreamer, and must help Aurora to stop the force of evil who wanna destroy Dreamland.
Content
What is Grimlight?
Grimlight is a Grid-Based Strategic Role Play Game. You will have to fight enemies with a party of 10 heroes (max party size) placed in a grid of 4 x 3 spots. Position and heroes / enemies elements is the key of the game . You will have different kinds of character archetype ( Knights, Warrior, Thief, Mages, Archers and Sages ) with different elements ( Fire, Earth, Water, Dark and Light ) to fight with, so countering the enemies element and knowing the best position for your heroes will lead you to victory.
Game Content
Story
The “Story” is the first game content you will experience in Grimlight when you start playing. Story content leads you to the plot of the game, while also letting you gather a lot of good resources ( Exp material, Gears, Upgrade Material etc. ) Every stage in the story has “stars objectives'. Completing the stars gives you additional rewards, and for completely unlocking a chapter, you will also need to complete “ Challenging Mode ” that will be unlocked after finishing the normal mode for every stage.
Resources Dungeon
The Resources Dungeons feature 5 different dungeons:
- The “ Gold Egg Hunt ” rewards you with golds. After you finish a stage difficulty you will be able to “ Swipe ” the stage, letting you consume more stamina (max x20 times) doing a single battle, but that will reward you as you played multiple times, saving your time.
- The “ Experience Manifestation ” helps you collect Experience materials to increase your character level. Same as Gold Egg Hunt, you will have different difficulty and monsters, and the same Swipe mechanic as well.
- The “ Grand Library '' lets you enter 3 times x day, with no stamina cost, and collect books for improving your characters. Remember to use all your entries daily!
- The “ Forgotten Forge ”. Let you five 5 waves of monsters and reward you with items that will increase the tier level of your gear.
- The “ Elemental Mastery ” dungeon rewards you with elemental fragments of different types, depending on the day of the week. It costs stamina, but with no entry restriction.
Path of Midnight Tears
The “Path of Midnight Tears” will be the first end game oriented content you will have in the game. Starting with level 10-20, it will grow up as you finish every previous difficulty. In this game mode, you will fight challenging ” rifts” to try to get gear equipment and materials . Each rifts start with a “low level” enemies waves, if you win, you will move to next one (5 stages at max) and you will fight the “Max level” for the tier you have choose (Ex: Tier 1 Rift have level 10-12-14-16-18 enemies for 1-2-3-4-5stages) If you fail a stage in between the start and the end of the rift, you will only receive the rewards for the actual stage, so aim to reach the end for a chance to drop best gear. If you don't feel confident about your power level, you can always use the “Practice” for Path of Midnight Tears with no stamina cost (but also with no rewards) and test your team. Every day, random buffs and challenges will be assigned to every rift, every battle within the rift will have those modifiers.
Arena of Souls
The only PvP content in the game is the “ Arena of Souls ” mode. In the Arena, you will choose a “ Siege Team ” and a “ Defence Team ” to fight with. Siege team can be always changed before every fight, while Defence Team is instead set and it will play automatically when someone will try to defeat you (so Arena is not in real time but vs AI).
Adventurer's Guild
Adventurer's Guild is a place with different function for this game:
- Rooms: Here you can use your furniture and your characters to decorate a room that will be evaluated by Manager Lynn once x day, giving you rewards based on the comfort level and characters.
- Lobby: Here you can click on Manager Lynn for your “Check in” that will reward you with ticket (adventure guild shop currency), Evaluate your room (rewards) and visit the Guild Shop
- Guild Shop: This shop let you buy Furnitures for your room, Memory puzzle and Element affinity fragment for your characters Story/Skins and Environments for your room
- Library: In the Library you can unlock Stories for some of your characters, that will reward you with various resources and also a shard of the character (at max level) and also unlock Skins for that character.
Daily Login & Event
There's also Daily mission, Battle pass and Event log in for the game:
- Daydreaming Week: Log in for 7 days for receiving various goodies
- Phantasia Daily Login: 28 day total for tons of rewards
- Daily/Weekly Missions: Complete Daily and Weekly mission for rewards such a stamina (keys), Crystal (Gacha Currency) and much more
- Battle pass: Both Normal and Paid battle pass have similar rewards, the only difference is the quantity of them while also for the last level, you will receive a Legendary Weapon for the Paid version. The battle cost 9.99$
Characters & Battle Guide
Info
On the first page of character you can check this important info:
- Your Character Name, the Rarity (Stars) and level (upgradable)
- Your Character Cost for deployment
- Your Character Class (Warrior) Element (Fire) Dmg Type (Physical)
- Your Character Active and Passive Skill description
- Your Character Traits (Passive effects)
Note: “Add Exp” on the left part is only for adding Exp on the character, self explanatory :)
Equipment
Equipment is one of the most important parts for increasing your character power. There's 3 Rarity for equipment, and different equipment bonus based on rarity:
Common:
- Pierce: 2 / 3 Piece = Grant 5% / 10% Crit Rate
- Brave: 2 / 3 Piece = Grant 10% / 25% Crit Rate
- Ruinous: 2 / 3 Piece = Grant 10% / 15% Crit Rate
- Vigor: 2 / 3 Piece = Grant 10% / 15% Crit Rate
- Nimble: 2 / 3 Piece = Grant 5% / 10% Crit Rate
Unique:
- "All Common Set Gear Bonus"
- Negation: 2 / 3 Piece = Grant 5% / 10% Magic Resistance
- Rage: 2 / 3 Piece = Grant 10% / 20% Crit Damage
- Agile: 2 / 3 Piece = Grant 5% / 15% Evasion
- Adept: 2 / 3 Piece = Grant 5% / 15% Energy Recharge
- Steel: 2 / 3 Piece = Grant 5% / 10% Physical Resistance
- Resilient: 2 / 3 Piece = Grant 20% / 40% Resilience
Legendary:
- Vigor Bonus
- Guardian Angel: 1 Piece = Grand 7% Dmg Reduction
- Sage Touch: 1 Piece = Grant 20% Healing Bonus
- Piercing Edge: 1 Piece = Grant 6% Crit Rate
- Flurry: 1 Piece = Grant 8% Attack Speed
- Eclipse: 1 Piece = Grant 10% Evasion
- Devastating: 1 Piece = Grant 13% Attack
- Vampiric: 1 Piece = Grant 7% Life Steal
- Exuberant Spirit: 1 Piece = Grant 10% Energy Recharge
- Executioner: 1 Piece = Grant 15% Crit Damage
The gear in the game can be both level up (With Hammer or unused pieces) and also refined (with Dupes)
Potential
In the “Potential” tab you can use Tomes to increase your character passive Attack, Defence and Hp. The more the level increases, the more the required book and gold.
Awaken
With the “Awaken” function you can use character dupes ( Shards ) with gold to unlock a maximum of 9 random Nodes that will increase your stats ( Atk, Hp, Def, Crit etc. ) at random. Every node requires the character shard, some levels and golds. If you get 3 of the same kind of nodes ( Red for attack oriented nodes, Blue for defensive and Green for survivability) you will unlock a further bonus passive, and this passive reaches maximum power unlocking 9 nodes of the same colour. If you get a node that does not match your desire, you can reroll them with golds, until you get what you want.
Battle Guide
This is the battle grid in Grimlight. On the left you have your squad, on the right the enemy side. Character and monster will move automatically until they meet, respecting the lines where they are, so it's important to have Guardian and/or Warriors on first columns, Sages and Mages on the back lines, and Archers and / or Thievies when you need to kill target from afar or ambushing backlines. Always check the cost of the unit ( mid crystal ) and find out the best comp for every stage .
Gacha Rates
Maiden of Madness
“Maiden of Madness” is the commonly known “Rate up Banner” in any other gacha, but with a difference. Featuring Alice as 5 Star Character, it also has a 4 Star character in rate up, White Rabbit. This banner will prolly be changed with another character duo when it ends (usually 2 weeks). The pity for the banner is 100 pull but it's not guaranteed you the character in rate up, instead you will receive a random legendary character. Here's the rates:
- Alice (Rate Up 5 Star Character) 1.5%
- 5-Star Heroes 1.5% (0.150% for each)
- Boosted (Rate up 4 Star Character) 5%
- 4-Star Heroes 20% (0.86957% for each)
- 3 -Star Heroes 72% (8% for each)
Vindicated Spirits
The “Normal” banner for this game. This banner features any hero in the game for now, and it's the only banner you can summon with a Memory Shard (aka tickets). Here's the rates:
- 5-Star Heroes 3% (0.3% for each)
- 4-Star Heroes 25% (1.08969% for each)
- 3-Star Heroes 72% (8% for each)
Unearthed Remembrance
This banner only features Weapons, from Legendary (5 Stars) to common (3 Stars) but with no rate up for them. You also have a pity that guarantees you at least 1 Legendary Weapon every 100 pulls. Here's the rates:
- Legendary Weapon: 5% ( 0.41667% for each)
- Unique Weapon: 25% ( 1.38889% for each)
- 3-Star Weapon: 70% ( 14% for each)
Should I play it? Pro & Cons
Pro:
- Beautiful animated 2D models
- Nice Music
- 50 Pulls at the start! (Cause problems on launch!)
- Variety of Characters and Gears bonus
Cons:
- Gameplay can be boring after some time
- Currency for F2P is very poor after initial honeymoon
- No real pity (No guaranteed rate up character)
- Need dupes for weapon refine
