Joint Firing Drills are probably the least fun content in Blue Archive, but out of all of them Breakthrough Drills are the most tolerable. Players will need a diverse roster of students to clear all three battles in their set since Breakthrough Drills require healing, defense, and offense.
With a new set of random debuffs at higher difficulties, we’ve got some ideas on how to “breakthrough” some of the tougher fights.
Unlike Total Assaults (Raids), which only requires you to defeat the boss in three tries or less; a Joint Firing Drill requires you to have three semi-competent teams that can finish the mission in order to place on the scoreboard. Harder difficulty fights reward more points, and players receive tokens based on their score.
Breakthrough Drills require a well-rounded team that can do damage, but more importantly a team that can heal. Scarecrows will spawn with each wave that debuff the defense of your enemies when it’s healed up. This debuff is stronger than any defense debuff or attack buff that you can do directly so healing is vital here.
The enemies will also be dealing damage so balancing healing the Scarecrow and your frontline is the basic key to victory here.
There’s four different levels of fights for Joint Firing Drills. Not only does the difficulty get harder, but new rules and modifiers are added on levels 3 and 4.
The highest level of Breakthrough Drill rewards players that have a diverse array of students. At higher difficulties you’ll either need to protect your tanks or go all in on healing and damage to just clear waves before your students die.
Level matters a lot, so if you can only clear one high end run, just throw whatever students are just good enough into your second and third teams to clear lower end content.
Clearing a single level 4 fight and two level 3 fights should get you into the 183,100+ points bracket.
If you’re new to the game just do what you can and don’t worry about high end fights.
Blue Archive is available now on mobile devices! You can check out our review here! (as far as mobile games go, we still recommend it!)
