Princess Connect! Re:Dive Story Event: Dragon Explorers

Welcome back to another edition of our Princess Connect! Re: Dive story event guides! We're here with the Guild, Dragons' Nest. Get ready for some flames as it's about to get hot in here. All the information is from the JP server when they first ran the event, and if past events are anything to go by, we should be following the same reward chart. Let's get the exploring started.

Luna Focus Gacha

Normally, you can look at a standard non-limited banner and ignore it as you'll likely get it at some point. Luna is not one of those characters. People will argue whether they are a must-pull. However, she is a very strong mage and support character. She will enable loops later and power up NY Karyl teams like no other. Trust us, if you can afford to pull for her, she's worth it.

Dragon Explorers Story Event

This is the twentieth story event in the EN/WW server. Events generally give a generous amount of items, mana, jewels, and character memory shards. The memory shards featured in this event are for Matsuri and Tomo. On top of the rewards, it also adds event story chapters which can be viewed as you complete the event stages.

Boss Battle

As with the previous Very Hard boss, this one is much easier just due to our wider variety of characters and increased levels and rank. Completing it in one hit is entirely possible. You get quite a bit more rewards from it and you can only complete it once a day. Don't worry, we've got you covered and will post some sample teams below.

To fight the boss you'll need to obtain enough boss tickets. Each of the stages you clear from the event will provide boss tickets. The boss will come in normal, hard, and very hard. The normal boss should be easily cleared with any team while hard may pose a bit more of a challenge. Very Hard, as previously stated will be a tougher one. Clearing bosses will also provide tokens to be used on the event treasure box. This is the real reason you'll be farming the event. We'll touch on this later on in the article.

The Hard boss can be done using skip tickets after clearing the boss 3 times. This will help speed up the process once you've done your daily Very Hard stage.

There is also another stage known as Special which you will unlock once you have beaten the Very Hard boss. This stage is where the majority of the difficulty for the event is. Clearing out missions related to this special stage will give a plethora of rewards. It'll just take a lot of boss tickets. We'll go more into it later on in the article.

The hard, very hard, and special boss will have a larger pool of HP and also additional skills. Of course, with a more difficult boss, the rewards will also be greater. We will recommend some potential parties below for those struggling to clear the hard and very hard versions of the boss.

Difficulty	HP	Union Burst	Skill 1	Skill 2
Normal Lvl. 25	42,000	Deals physical damage to all enemies equal to the number of fire fruits held by the boss. Fire fruits are then reduced by 60.	Deal physical damage and stun the front three enemies.	Reduces physical and magical defense and then eats up to 60 fire fruits. If they take 30,000 damage, stop the fire fruits gain and reduce it by 30.
Hard Lvl. 50	300,000	Deals physical damage to all enemies equal to the number of fire fruits held by the boss. Fire fruits are then reduced by 60.	Deal physical damage and stun the front three enemies.	Reduces physical and magical defense and then eats up to 60 fire fruits. If they take 30,000 damage, stop the fire fruits gain and reduce it by 30.
Very Hard Lvl. 90	1,500,000	Deals physical damage to all enemies equal to the number of fire fruits held by the boss. Fire fruits are then reduced by 60.	Deal physical damage and stun the front three enemies.	Reduces physical and magical defense and then eats up to 60 fire fruits. If they take 200,000 damage, stop the fire fruits gain and reduce it by 30.
Special Lvl. 90	3,750,000	Deals physical damage to all enemies equal to the number of fire fruits held by the boss. Fire fruits are then reduced by 60.	Deal physical damage and stun the front three enemies.	Reduces physical and magical defense and then eats up to 60 fire fruits. If they take 150,000 damage, stop the fire fruits gain and reduce it by 30.

This boss is another annoying one. The combination of stunning your front units and a stacking mechanic makes it a pain. The boss also starts with 70 fire fruit stacks, so it does get pretty out of hand if you can't stop the stacking mechanic. We'll have some teams to help you clear out this boss.

Suggested Teams

Hard Boss

Honestly, you can throw just about any of your units at this and beat the Hard version of this boss. Let's just use about the easiest to farm units for this. This worked in JP assuming your characters are rank 9 and above and around level 90 or so. You may need to level up your characters or try different combinations to get a decent clear. The boss move set for Hard is the same as the normal boss with a higher health bar and more damage.

Yui	Shiori	Kokkoro	Kaori	Miyako

This is about a F2P composition that gets used a lot. Miyako will be able to tank the frontal damage while Kaori and Shiori should provide enough damage to kill the boss. If your Kaori is not strong enough to tank the boss, you might want to switch her out with a second tank and place different units behind for DPS.

Very Hard Boss

The Very Hard boss is where it gets a bit complicated. Dealing with the stun and the stacking fire fruits can get out of hand. The nice thing is the boss does mostly physical damage so you don't need to worry about lots of magic damage like with the last event.

Djeeta (w/ UE)	Makoto (w/ UE)	Muimi	Ruka (w/ UE)	Jun (w/ UE)

This team is probably the strongest for this boss as it features two tanks up front that can also debuff the physical resistance of the boss. Not to mention, since the boss stuns the front three units, Ruka will help by taking it. Muimi, Makoto (w/ UE), and Djeeta (w/ UE) will be able to do more than enough damage to get through the boss.

Shinobu (w/ UE)	Djeeta (w/ UE)	Makoto (w/ UE)	Kaori (w/ UE)	Jun (w/ UE)

If you're lacking Ruka and Muimi, you can use this team. We can replace Muimi with Kaori (w/ UE) and Ruka with Shinobu (w/ UE). Jun alone should be enough tanking as long as you don't allow the boss to gain too many fire fruit stacks.

Rin (w/ UE)	Eriko (w/ UE)	Makoto (w/ UE)	Muimi	Jun (w/ UE)

This team will also work with Rin providing some additional healing and support. Eriko (w/ UE) also presents more damage and will help you shred through the boss much faster.

Special Mode

Once you clear the Very Hard boss, you will unlock the Special difficulty. This difficulty is geared toward end-game players and is very difficult. It will likely take 3+ teams to properly clear. It is broken into 3 sections/modes.

Mode 1

Difficulty	HP	Union Burst	Skill 1	Skill 2	Skill 3
Special Lvl. 90	3,750,000 to 2,250,000	Deals physical damage to all enemies equal to the number of fire fruits held by the boss. Fire fruits are then reduced by 60.	Deal physical damage and stun the front three enemies.	Reduces physical and magical defense and then eats up to 60 fire fruits. If they take 150,000 damage, stop the fire fruits gain and reduce it by 30.	Summons 4 monsters and knockbacks all enemies.

Mode 1 of the boss is pretty similar to the Very Hard boss. It just summons monsters as well which ends up making it harder to stop the fire fruits stacking.

Mode 2

Stone Golem (Lvl. 90) 630,000 HP	Treant (Lvl. 90) 480,000 HP	Plant (Lvl. 90) 280,000 HP	Boss (Lvl. 90) 2,250,000 HP	Bug (Lvl. 90) 130,000 HP

This is basically a monsters section. Once you kill all the enemies, it moves on to Mode 3. The hardest enemy to kill is the bug in the back.

Mode 3

Difficulty	HP	Union Burst	Skill 1	Skill 2
Special Lvl. 90	2,250,000	Deals physical damage to all enemies equal to the number of fire fruits held by the boss. Fire fruits are then reduced by 60.	Deal physical damage and stun the front three enemies.	Reduces physical and magical defense and then eats up to 60 fire fruits. If they take 250,000 damage, stop the fire fruits gain and reduce it by 30.

This is basically the Very Hard boss all over again. The threshold for this one is much higher as you need to do over 250,000 damage to stop the fire fruits gain.

Suggested Teams

Mode 1:

Shinobu (w/ UE)	Djeeta (w/ UE)	Eriko (w/ UE)	Muimi	Jun (w/ UE)

This is again a standard team to deal with this boss. This team removes Makoto as she is less effective than before as the boss will keep summoning enemies. Having Eriko (w/ UE) is stronger since she will deal more damage through her UB.

Shinobu (w/ UE)	Eriko (w/ UE)	Tomo (w/ UE)	Muimi	Ruka (w/ UE)

If your Ruka is strong enough, you can get away with just running her upfront. Tomo slots into this team as she can help you with her AOE damage due to the enemy summons.

Djeeta (w/ UE)	Makoto (w/ UE)	Muimi	Ruka (w/ UE)	Jun (w/ UE)

This Very Hard team will also work and it is a bit more defensive. The damage in the back three slots should make it through the first mode.

Mode 2:

Djeeta (w/ UE)	Misogi (Halloween)	Makoto (w/ UE)	Muimi	Jun (w/ UE)

This might seem weird given that Misogi (Halloween) is a mostly arena character. Well, she's exceptionally strong here as you just need to kill the mobs. She also does a lot of AOE damage which is boosted by the number of enemies.

Miyako (Halloween) (w/ UE)	Djeeta (w/ UE)	Makoto (w/ UE)	Muimi	Jun (w/ UE)

Another team that uses a Halloween character. If you don't have Misogi (Halloween) ready to go, you can use Miyako (Halloween). She does a good job of hitting the back enemy which you need to kill to move on to Mode 3.

Djeeta (w/ UE)	Tamaki (w/ UE)	Makoto (w/ UE)	Muimi	Jun (w/ UE)

Tamaki also works here as she will target the back bug. Overall, Mode 2 is pretty simple.

Mode 3:

Djeeta (w/ UE)	Eriko (w/ UE)	Makoto (w/ UE)	Muimi	Jun (w/ UE)

You can essentially use any of the Very Hard or Mode 1 teams here. You no longer need to worry about summons so Makoto (Summer) will also work very well here if you want to replace Makoto. You can essentially use any combination of 4 DPS characters in the back with Jun or Ruka up front.

Rewards

We're finally onto the main point of each of these events: the rewards that come along with it. In addition to the first clear bonuses, there are also a set number of event treasure boxes. Think of it as a mini gacha machine but each one has a set number of items. To roll this treasure gacha box, you get pulls from defeating the event boss and completing daily missions. You do not need to clear out every single item in each box to move on to the next one. However, you will need to obtain the main items in the box. In this case, the main items are the memory shards for the characters. (You would want to collect these anyway.) The contents of each of the boxes are listed below.

Total Memory Shards

A breakdown of all the possible memory shards gained from missions, story, and the boxes are listed here:

Location	Matsuri	Tomo
Story Reward	4	4
Normal Quests	2	2
Hard Quests	6	9
Treasure Box	50	65
Event Missions	N/A	26
Total	62	106

Note: This does not include memory shards from hard mission drops. These only include the ones you are guaranteed to get assuming you complete the tasks.

It's hard to believe we're already through our guide for Dragon Explorers. Best of luck if you're planning to Luna. :) She's definitely worth it, trust us. See you in the next guide!

Last Update: October 2, 2022