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Blue Protocol Season 2: Everything You Need to Know | Star Resonance
Everything you need to know about Blue Protocol Star Resonator Season 2 is summarized. Covers new systems, content changes, quality of life improvements, class modifications, balance updates, and more.
1. 📢 Season 2 Intro and Important Notices
- ✅ Thank you to the Comets team for giving us access to the test server to provide information on Season 2.
- ⚠️ The test server build reflects the future by about 40 days, so anything shown or mentioned in the video is subject to change.
- ✅ Season 2 includes new story quests, 3 new zones, new dungeons and raids, a new roguelike dungeon, quality of life improvements, class modifications, balance updates, and more.
- ✅ The game now offers language settings for Simplified Chinese, German, French, Spanish, and Portuguese.
00:00 - 00:51
1. 📢 Season 2 Intro and Important Notices
- ✅ Thank you to the Comets team for giving us access to the test server to provide information on Season 2.
- ⚠️ The test server build reflects the future by about 40 days, so anything shown or mentioned in the video is subject to change.
- ✅ Season 2 includes new story quests, 3 new zones, new dungeons and raids, a new roguelike dungeon, quality of life improvements, class modifications, balance updates, and more.
- ✅ The game now offers language settings for Simplified Chinese, German, French, Spanish, and Portuguese.
00:52 - 04:00
2. ✨ New Season Mechanic: Deep Slumber Psychoscope
- ✅ The Emblem system and Void Corruption system have been replaced with the Deep Slumber Psychoscope.
- ✅ This system consists of 8 different trees that focus on various aspects such as damage increase, specific stat increase, and providing buffs.
- ✅ Above the trees is a passive Imagine Bond system that provides passive effects based on the total Bond Points gained from slotting Imagines.
- ✅ Trees are unlocked based on season level, and there are slots for Phantom Factors.
- ✅ Phantom Factors are divided into four categories: General Attack, General Defense, Class-Specific Attack, and Class-Specific Defense.
| Phantom Factor Category | Description |
|---|---|
| General Attack | Includes elemental attack, main stat, sub stat boosts, proficiency multipliers, and special attack skill multipliers. |
| General Defense | Provides defense bonuses, max HP, etc. |
| Class-Specific Attack | Provides damage scaling and utility. |
| Class-Specific Defense | Is closer to a general multiplier. |
04:01 - 05:37
3. 🟤 Cocoons, Phantasm Intensity, and Season XP
- ✅ Throughout the world, there are cocoons that, when interacted with, send you to a drowning dreamscape dimension.
- ✅ Hunting monsters within the dimension grants season points, season XP, and Phantom Factors.
- ✅ Season experience levels up the Deep Slumber Psychoscope, increasing Phantasm Intensity and Durability, and unlocking additional nodes in the trees or additional slots in the Bond system.
- ✅ Seasonal enemies have Phantasm Intensity, and having a high enemy Phantasm Intensity greatly increases damage dealt and greatly reduces damage and healing received.
05:38 - 07:10
4. ⚔️ Dungeon and Raid Changes
- ✅ Season 1 dungeons have been removed, and 6 new dungeons are being released.
- ✅ Dungeons now guarantee at least one piece of gold gear and often drop purple pieces as well.
- ✅ Only the final dungeon drops weapons.
- ✅ Dungeons now drop materials for crafting cosmetic sets.
- ✅ 3 raids are scheduled to be released.
07:11 - 08:06
5. 🛡️ Role Skills and Balance Resets
- ✅ There are now 4 additional equippable skills in the third tab for archetypes.
- ✅ All tanks, healers, and DPS have an interrupt, damage reduction, and cleanse.
- ✅ Healers can now revive nearby players with a 90-second cooldown.
- ✅ Upon receiving the balance patch, there is a one-time reset event that can be activated at the Pioneer Bureau life skill exchange NPC.
- ✅ Choosing to reset skills returns all used Luna and all skill books as a selector book instead of class-specific, allowing you to completely change classes if desired.
08:07 - 09:12
6. ⚙️ Gear Presets and Refinements
- ✅ A gear preset system has been released, with 3 different presets unlocked immediately and up to 7 more purchasable.
- ✅ These presets save gear, skills, talents, Imagines, and modules, allowing you to instantly switch between different classes or subclasses.
- ✅ Refinements can now drop up to level 30.
- ✅ 21 and above now require level 3 Star Forge Crystals.
- ✅ Lower-tier Star Forge Crystals can now be exchanged for higher tiers at the Pioneer Bureau's life skill exchange shop.
09:13 - 10:14
7. ✨ Imagine Updates
- ✅ Season 2 has introduced another Willwishes for several new world boss, elite, and human Imagines.
- ✅ The two Willwishes do not share pity and run concurrently, allowing you to choose whether to continue chasing Season 1 Imagines or chase the new Season 2 Imagines.
- ✅ Season 2 Imagines require materials from Season 1 to craft upgrades.
- ✅ The material selection patch in the shop has now been updated with Season 1 and Season 2 materials.
- ✅ All Season 1 Imagine recipes have not been changed, so they still only require base materials.
10:15 - 11:34
8. 💎 Sigil System
- ✅ Gems can no longer be socketed into new gear; instead, they have been replaced with the Sigil system.
- ✅ Sigils drop from open-world monsters and can be obtained by consuming TE on Season 2 elites and bosses.
- ✅ There are 4 types of gear for Sigil embedding: weapon, armor, earrings, necklace, ring, bracelet, and charm.
- ✅ Weapons can use gold sigils for all elemental attacks and purple sigils for 80 durability and 25 main stats.
- ✅ Armor can be embedded with gold quality +500 sub stats or blue quality +200 sub stats.
- ✅ Earrings, necklaces, and rings can be embedded with purple quality +80 durability +25 main stats or blue quality +50 durability +15 main stats.
- ✅ Bracelets and charms can be embedded with purple +300 sub stats or blue +12 main stats and 140 sub stats.
- ✅ These embeds can all be advanced embedded.
- ✅ The Sigil Exchange near the Imagine Wish allows you to purchase blue sigils, weekly purple selects, or weekly purple randoms.
11:35 - 12:33
9. 🧑🍳 Life Skills and Bureau Commissions
- ✅ Crafting gear from life skills is now equivalent to gear dropped from dungeons.
- ✅ Life skill exchange now connects all life skill shops, allowing you to purchase materials without going to specific shops.
- ✅ Lifestyle weekly quests have been removed.
- ✅ Bureau Commissions now allow you to choose to do either Asteria or Bahamar missions.
12:34 - 14:35
10. 🏡 Homestead Improvements
- ✅ Homesteads have a lot of quality of life upgrades for Season 2.
- ✅ You can now set your homestead to be accessible to friends or everyone.
- ✅ Roommates can now have the same number of fields allowed in the homestead.
- ✅ Walking over flowers now provides detailed information on the properties of the seeds and fully grown flowers.
- ✅ Seeds can be cleared without recycling the field after planting.
- ✅ The placeable object limit in homesteads should also be increased.
14:36 - 15:37
11. 🎭 Leisure Events, Emote Changes, and Cosmetic Slots
- ✅ Several new leisure events have been added.
- ✅ Emotes can be previewed in the emote menu.
- ✅ Custom emote actions can be set to be used in the advanced chat menu or bound to the Twitch wheel.
- ✅ Body types can be changed in the beauty menu.
- ✅ An additional head slot has been added in this update, allowing you to equip two head items at once.
- ✅ Animal ears have been added that can be purchased with unbound rose gems from the fashion shop.
- ✅ A tail slot has also been added.
15:38 - 16:21
12. 📅 Future Content
- ✅ Moonshadow Wilds is scheduled to be released on February 9th, 26 days after the Season 2 launch.
- ✅ Stray Stareways is scheduled to be released on February 23rd, 40 days after the Season 2 launch.
- ✅ The roguelike dungeon, Valley of Slumbering Dreams, is also being released on day 40.