Arknights Such Is The Joy Of Our Reunion Limited Side Story Event Guide

With Arknights global server approaching its 5.5 Anniversary period, providing players with amazing opportunities to obtain large amounts of event exclusive items, resources and currencies from the brand new limited Side Story celebrating the anniversary - Such Is The Joy Of Our Reunion, featuring the brand new Limited 6* Operator Yu and the 6* Operator Blaze The Igniting Spark.

In this guide, we will go over everything players need to know in order to best clear the different events stages in Arkight's special 5.5 anniversary Limited Time Side Story Event. Additionally, we will also help you have a better understanding and debate on whether or not you should roll for brand new Limited Rate Up Banner featuring the 2 operators.

Everything You Need To Know

Such Is The Joy Of Our Reunion is one of Arknights important special limited Side Story Events in the Sui Siblings saga and serves as the game’s 5.5 Anniversary Limited Event. The side story lasts for a total of 3 weeks and consist of 3 different phases that are unlocked with each passive week of the event.

• The first week of the event will consist of event story stages and normal battle stages where players will have the chance to farm for important materials and obtain event currencies.
• The second week of the event will consist of special Challenge Mode stages that only require players to clear the stages once, with 2 different difficulties in order to obtain Originium Primes (OPs).
• The last week of the event will consist of the most difficult stages, requiring players to complete them once in order to obtain even more OPs.

During the event, when clearing each event stage, players will be able to obtain a set amount of event currencies proportional to the amount of Sanity spent and use them to exchange for limited event items in the shop.

Stage Gimmicks & Enemies

The event stages and challenges of this special Limited Side Story will revolve around the special Stove , Sapidity and Vapidity mechanics, with various different enemies providing different effects when defeated.

The event stages are essentially a tug of war match that requires players to convert Vapidity into Sapidity in order to best clear the stages by activating the special Stove.

Explanation of the stove mechanism

• The event maps will always have 2 kinds of Stoves: the player Stove and the enemies’ Derelic Stove.
• With each enemy defeated, they will turn into Sapidity (Red) that will gradually move towards the player’s Stove.
• If during their movements, the Sapidity’s health drops to 0, they will be turned into Vapidity (White) and start heading towards the enemy’s Derelic Stove instead.
• Players can turn Vapidity into Sapidity by decreasing their HP to 0 while they move.
• Upon either of the stove being filled up with Sapidity or Vapidity, the players or the enemy can activate the stove to summon special dragons that will fly through the battlefield, dealing true damage to all enemies or operators in their way and decreasing their resistances.
• Various enemies will have special effects that turn Sapidity into Vapidity.
• Boss of the event will have special effects when consuming a set amount of Vapidity, making it extremely important that players pay attention to these special enemies.

Therefore, players should focus on activating the Stove in order to deal big damage to the enemies on the field.

Farming Stages & Important Resources

Like with other Side Story events, limited time farming stages will be available for players to clear and farm during the Event opening duration, with materials from these stages having an increased drop rate compared to normal farming nodes, making it the best possible time to farm these important materials.

For Such Is The Joy Of Our Reunion Limited Side Story Event, the 3 important materials players can farm in the event are Integrated Device, Incandescent Alloy and Transmuted Salt.

Generally speaking, players should farm the material that they have the least of among these 3 materials, however, if players want to maximize their farming, here are the general best stages to farm them during the event and the materials with the best drop rates:

Farming Nodes	Material	Drop Percentage
OR-7	Integrated Device	58% (36 Sanity/1)
OR-8	Incandescent Alloy	83% (25 Sanity/1)
OR-9	Transmuted Salt	62% (33 Sanity/1)

Important Limited Shop Exchange Items

Similar to other side story events, players will need to farm the Such Is The Joy Of Our Reunion Limited Side Story Event a set amount of time in order to obtain event currencies to exchange for limited time available items in the shop. The Amount of Event Currencies Is Proportional To the Amount of Sanity Spent Per Stage.

There are important limited time items in the event shop that players should prioritize, so here are a list of shop items that players should pay attention to and the priority order that you should spend your event currencies on in order to get them:

Priority	Shop Item	Price
Highest Priority (Event Exclusive)	5 Xingzhu’s Tokens	1400
	3 Headhunting Tickets	450
	Event Exclusive Furnitures	300
Total		2150
High Priority (Important Upgrading Materials)	5 Nucleic Crystal Sinters	500
	10 Crystalline Circuits	400
	10 Oriron Blocks	400
	10 Manganese Trihydrates	350
	10 Cutting Fluid Solutions	350
	3 Module Data Blocks	225
	10 Data Supplement Instruments	150
	60 Data Supplement Sticks	300
	LMD	840
	EXP	420
Total		3935

In order to obtain all of the important event limited items and materials that players can obtain from the event shop, players will need to farm at least 5000 Event Currencies during the 3 weeks event period.

 

Exclusive 5* Welfare Operator - Xingzhu

While going through the event and completing missions, players will be able to obtain the event exclusive 5* Welfare Operator - the 5* Specialist Xingzhu.

Xingzhu is a Abjurer branch Specialist operator that can alternate between attacking enemies and healing operators in her large range depending on whether or not her skills are active.

Xingzhu’s skills help her become a instant healing operator.

• 1st skill: allowing her to instantly heal all Operators in her range, regardless of how many operators there are.
• 2nd skill: allowing her to heal up to 2 operators at the same time for a long continuous period of time
• Talent: providing extra protective effect.

Players can obtain and increase her Potential to make her even more powerful by exchanging for her Tokens in the event shop.

**Please keep in mind that you can only obtain Xingzhu and her tokens during the event period and she will not be available outside of the event.

 

Limited Banner - Should You Pull?

Alongside the release of the special Limited Side Story Such Is the Joy Of Our Reunion, a special limited Rate Up banner will also be accompany the event to mark the 5.5 Anniversary of Arknights, featuring 2 brand new 6* Operators:

The 6* Limited Defender Operator Yu and the 6* Caster Operator Blaze The Igniting Spark (or Blaze Alter).

Limited 6* Operator Yu

Yu is an extremely powerful defender operator that has the ability to enable the special elemental damage type - Burn. His class and talent allows him to block large amounts of enemies, dealing burning elemental damage to all enemies he blocks and have amazing skills that enable other operators.

Skills:

• 2nd skill allows him to teleport enemies to his point to deal massive amounts of Burn elemental damage.
• 3rd skill (most important skill) set up a burning threshold on the field and any arts damage going past the threshold will be able to inflict additional burn elemental damage to enemies, allowing him to turn almost all arts DPS operators into burn elemental damage DPS and massively boost their damage output.

6* Operator Blaze The Igniting Spark

Blaze the Igniting Spark or Blaze alter is a Primal Caster operator that operates on Burn Elemental damage, with the ability to clear large waves of enemies. She focuses on using her different skills to set up Burning zones on the field, allowing her to inflict the Burn Elemental Damage on enemies whenever she attacks them. Depending on which skill you use, Blaze Alter will specialize in dealing with a single enemy or large group of enemies.

Among 6* Operators, Blaze Alter’s Talents are among the most interesting effects ever in the game. Her First talent allows Blaze Alter to deal a big instance of damage whenever an enemy is inflicted fully with the Burn Elemental Effect, helping to boost her damage. Her 2nd talent triggers when Blaze Alter is defeated by an enemy, granting her a massive shield buff and for short period of time, she will not retreat but will regenerate her HP every second until she regains all of her HP and become active again on the field, making her an immortal operator on the field as long as her shield isn’t broken by enemies.

Should You Pull

The answer is definite. This is one of the Limited banners coming up in Arknights and Yu is one of the best operators in the game in terms of utility, so rolling for him is extremely crucial as he is a limited operator.

Additionally, Blaze Alter works amazingly with Yu enabling her damage, so getting both of them in the team together will allow you to play the Burn Elemental team to the fullest.

 

Conclusion

With the release of Arknights’s 5.5 Anniversary Event Such Is The Joy Of Our Reunion, we hope that this guide will help players have a better understanding of how the event works and what players should focus on during the event in order to best obtain all of the event rewards as efficiently as possible.

Additionally, we hope that players will have the best time rolling on the Special Limited Rate Up banner with Yu and Blaze the Igniting Spark and will have the best time using them in Arknights.